Trixike

The Ultra Flowers approach to Ponyville was almost comically slow compared to its size, even though Trixike had gone out of her way to clear the way by using most of the trees between the spot her castle once stood and Ponyvile as the ingredients in the Ultra Flower she was still having a hard time getting it to move properly while also making it keep up straight so as to not send the remains of her castle and her monsters tumbling to the earth, It had been three hours since she had crafter it and they where only a little ways past halfway.

Trixike was lazily laying on her new Flower throne, looking at the pages of a book while Her Monsters all stood around the bottom of her vine, nervously watching the edges of their small island as it slowly began shrinking with every step of the Ultra Flower, even the Mega Flower was shaking a little with each step. As the Ultra Flower slowly moved Starlight and Applejack were running towards it, trying to buy them some time Cadance and Luna were both flying towards the island Trixike had made.

"Trixike," Cadance called as she landed, Trixike looked at the voice and Cadance could see her face lit up as she closed the book she had been looking at.

"Cadance," She cheered "You've finally come to join me, and you brought Luna, oh happy days!" Trixike pranced in place and Luna bit her tongue "Reliable relationships are so hard to forge, oh but fair warning if I find out you two are changelings I will murder you,"

"I see," Luna said awkwardly "Well glad to know you won't stand for the same trick twice,"

"Trixike hates tricks," She said angrily as she put her hoof over the book she had been looking at.

"You still trying to read?" Luna asked when she saw it.

"Something like that," Trixike said with a smile as she watched one of her monsters come out from behind the rubble of the tower and silently make its way toward Luna and Cadance. "So, you wanna hear something interesting?" she looked over to Cadance and Luna with a smug look, "I Got you," Before Luna or Cadance could react to her words black vines shot out from behind them and began wrapping them both up. Luna attempted to blast them away, only for a Snakehead to materialize. "That won't work on the Chimangodines," the snake hissed.

"You guys like her?" Trixike asked as she swung her tail over the edge, "I made her using the Black vines Discord once used to trap you and your Sister," Luna and Cadance both blinked as the lower half of the Chimangodines stretched out and proudly presented them both to Trixike, who lifted up the book she had been reading, revealing it to be Twilight's Friendship journal.

"I've been learning," She said with a grin "I snagged this a long while ago, but I've only recently figured out how to read, I've spent the last few hours reading it, and I've learned a lot about you two," Trixike put the book down and looked into Cadences eyes, "I'm not the same creature you managed to tame back in the Empire Princess, Chrysalis may have tried to use me, but you're no better, you stuck me in a cage and treated me like a child, I don't know what you were planning to use me for and I don't care, you and Luna can spend some time getting to know Chimangodines, usualt I'd just kill you but I happen to be too fond of both of you to end your lives so you'll just have to sit around while we wait for Applejack and Starlight to climb up here, I want to show my Mothers what I've become," As Luna and Cadance were dragged away Cadance called back.

"Trixike, listen to me, you don't have to do..." a Vine wrapped around Cadence's muzzle, and Luna was given the same treatment.

"Shut up," Trixike snapped back angrily "Your right I don't have to, but I will, I am Trixike, and I'm not going to be locked in another cage and hidden away, I'm alive, I'm free, I'm me!" Cadance and Luna were dragged to the Tower for safekeeping and Trixike looked out at the burning smolders of Ponyville. "Come and see Mothers," She whispered "Come see what your little monster has become,"

Starlight was using her magic to carry herself and Applejack up the side of the Ultra Flower, they were moving at a paced speed, taking their time to make sure the Ultra Flower didn't have any hidden eyes as they climbed up its massive flower steam.

"So, this is starting to get mental right?" Applejack asked "This entire thing started out tragically don't get me wrong, but it has devolved into utter madness right?"

"Ponyville has been turned to ash," Starlight replied with a sigh "This is all our fault, what do we even do at this point AJ? What can we even do now? Trixike has gone full supervillain after being turned on by Chrysalis, who knows what'll happen when we get up there, what...what if we can't help her?" Starlight stopped fully in her tracks "What are we going to do if she won't stand down?" She begged Applejack to have an answer for her and AJ simply shook her head.

"I didn't want to tell you," Applejack sighed "Twi and the girls are standing by with the Elements of Harmony, none of us wants to do it, but if Trixike won't stand down, then we're going to have to...make sure she can't do to anypony else what was done to her," Starlight didn't respond to the backup plan made without her knowledge and proceeded to keep climbing the flower.

"I'll talk her down," She decided "This won't be like with Chrysalis, I will talk her down," Starlight suddenly realized her and AJ's talk had taken too much of their attention as the Flower's eye spotted them and a large Tendril grabbed them both.

"Hey Starlight," Applejack called out "If we get turned into one pony, I wanna be called Applelight, Starjack just doesn't sound right," Starlight and Applejack were lifted up to where the broken remains of what had once been a Castle stood, with a hord of monster sitting around her Trixike rose up on her Flowery throne and had the Flower stop walking so she could get a good look at her guests.

"Well, well, well, Look who it is, old Trigger horn and Hat," Trixike chuckled "Oh no, wait I'm so sorry that's not right let me just double check," Trixike made a show of opening up the Friendship journal and flipping a page before closing it "Starlight and Applejack, my how embarrassing, to think I wasn't mentally capable enough to figure out your names, my I was quite the pathetic little monster wasn't I,"

"How...how much do you remember?" Starlight asked.

"Oh, about Spike and Trixie, I know all about them," Trixike replied casually "Must have broken your heart to kill them and turn them into this monstrosity,"

"We didn't mean to-" Applejack cut in only for Trixike's throne to shoot forward and cut Applejack off harshly.

"Oh no, you didn't mean to kill them and turn them into me, oh Then it's all fine and dandy then, happy accident, I guess I should just let you go and apologize," Trixike chuckled "Oh no wait you tried to kill me to!" Trixike lit her horn and pulled in an apple before tossing it in the air and shooting it with the disassembling spell, The Apple was turned to ash and Trixike laughed "Oh but let me guess, that was an accident too so I can't get mad at it, all you did was kill two ponies and then try to cover your ass by killing me too,"

"I...we thought it would turn you back into them," Starlight called back.

"Oh really? And you didn't...oh I don't know, think to test it one or anything else first? No just shoot it at me and hope It worked right hu?" Trixike leaned into Starlight and patted her head. "It's ok Mother dearest, I understand I am one hell of an ugly baby," Trixike laughed "Anyway It would be karmic justice to pay you back with your own medicine, but then you'll be free of your guilt, no I think I'll just turn every other creature in Equestria into my monsters, I'll spare you two, along with Luna, and that whole Empire, Chrysalis to actually, I'm gonna make her watch as I turn all her Children into one horrible monster and then blast it with the disassembly spell, oh I bet the look on her face will be priceless," Trixike howled with laugher at the thought. "Chimagodines tie them up with Cadance and Luna," Trixike turned to leave them to their fate, only to be blasted in the back of the head by a spell, Trixike quickly regained her composure and Starlight freed herself and Applejack.

"Corporal punishment, you really are the worst kind of mother," Trixike blasted magic at Starlight and Applejack and flew after them as she commanded her monsters to attack, Starlight quickly took advantage of the fact that Trixike seemed to care greatly for her creations and lit her horn, listening them into the air and over the side, Trixike quickly took command of the Ultra flower and plucked them all out of the air before sending them to the ground to avoid Starlight just throwing them off again, in the end, it was just the Chimangodines and the Mega Flower standing between them.

"I always hated you," Starlight decided as she blasted the Mega Flower with a spell, The Flower tanked it and rushed to grab at Starlight, only for its tendrils to start falling apart, The flower let out a screech as it began falling to piece and Trixike tushed to it's side and tired to keep it together.

"No, no, no," Trixike cried out "It's ok, you're okay," The Mega Flower blinked at Trixike and proceeded to pop off all it's eyes, letting them jump to the ground before the spell fully spread and Trixike's oldest monster withered to dust. "Trixike held the dust in her claws as the little eyes skittered around her, Trixike took them in her magic and attached the baby Mega flowers to her cape before lighting her horn, Starlight was picked up and slammed into the ground.

"And what was that?" Trixike demanded, "You talk about wanting to help me, and then Kill my Flower!?" Trixike threw Starlight to the side "I didn't want to kill you, but now that I think about it, you're the only one who can kill me," Trixike forced Starlight to look at her "Come on then, do it, Kill me Glimmer, put your ugly mongaloid child in the grave after I die, you can hunt down my children and kill them too," Trixike picked up Starlgith and tossed her aside in rage.

"That thing was a dangerous monster," Starlight shot back "It would have and already has tried to kill you,"

"It was still mine!" Trixike screamed back as she tackled Starlight and tried to blast her with fire "I've changed my mind, Applejack's good enough to keep around, I'm killing you and your dammed trigger horn here and now," Starlight punched Trixike out of desperation, while Applejack easily took out the Chimangodines with the same drugged cheese trick she had before, although this time she was smart enough to give some to the snake.

"That thing is not very smart," Applejack noted as she helped free Cadance and Luna.

"What now," Cadnace asked as Luna walked forward and blasted Trixike over the edge of the Flower.

"Starlight," Luna called out "Could you dispose of Trixike's mobile fortress,"

"Honestly I only shot the Mega flower cause I thought the two where connected," Starlight admitted "Maybe I am a Trigger horn," Starlight lit her horn, knowing Trixike was already far past the point where she would forgive her, and fired it into the Ultra Flower.

Trixike shook her head "Dammit it all," Ultra squash her," Trixike commanded, the Flower began moving before seething up "Ultra," Trixike called out before noticing the cracking in the flower as it began losing body mass "Wha..." Trixike watched in disbelief as her ultimate creation turned to dust before her "No...no I...No," Trixike fluttered down the the ground and watched as her castle came crashing down, and held her arms up as she realized the Tower was going to hit her. Trixike didn't try to move and was ready to end it, when Applejack was thrown as her at high Speeds.

"I'm sorry," Applejack said as she held onto Trixike as the Castle hit the ground and they where covered in a metric ton of atomized Spider Tree Flower "I'm so sorry," Applejack waited for Trixike to do anything to her and realized she was just lying limp.

"Please," Trixike begged as she started crying "If I give up will you make her stop killing them?" Applejack simply held onto Trixike.

"I promise Sugar Cube, Mama Apple won't let the mean old Starlight take any more of them away from you,"

Applejack sat on a dusty tree log as Celestia made sure Trixike and all her monsters were properly contained in Anti Magical Barriered, Trixike was once again in a cage, several flower pots had been provided for her and she was planting the Crawling eyes the Mega Flower had left her so she could grow more.

"So," Starlight said as she walked up to Applejack "The Plan worked,"

"What plan?" Applejack demanded of her friend "We were supposed to talk her down and we failed miserably,"

"That...wasn't the plan," Starlight informed AJ simply "The plan was to destroy the Ultra Flower and destroy as many of her creations as necessary until she gave in,"

"Who's plan was that?" Applejack demanded, Starlight just stared at her friend for a moment before Applejack frowned "It was your plan," She realized "Starlight..." Applejack took a deep breath "She is never going to forgive you,"

"I know," Starlight agreed "But...now I don't have to think about one day walking into the Canterlot gardens, and seeing a statue the friends I turned into a monster,"

"You think this is the end of it then?" Applejack asked Starlight.

"The terms of her surrender were clean, we let her monsters live and return her to that cell in the Empire, and she'll stay there. If she willingly escapes then she won't be guaranteed protection from me," Starlight watched Palrabtus being locked up in comically large handcuffs by Discord and shook her head "She was right," Starlight decided "I did kill them,"

"I didn't lock the door," Applejack defended.

"Applejack," Starlight sighed "I was supposed to lock the door,"

"Oh," Applejack forward "What did I do then?" She asked.

"I asked you to bring Apples to test the spell on," Starlight replied "Technically speaking AJ, this is entirely my fault I...just didn't want to take the blame alone,"

"Hmm," Applejack nodded as she got to her hooves "Welp if anypony askes...I forgot to lock the door," Applejack tipped her hat to Starlight and parted ways with her friend.

"As if you could ever tell a convincing lie," Starlight chuckled back.