Magical Girl Trixie: Revival

The place that Summer Breeze lived in was definitely not made for six people to live together, but with the magical girl hunt becoming as heated as it was, none of us could afford to be alone any longer. Once Iron Maiden had been revived, Discord then transported us all back to our home in Canterlot, where we would all be staying until the hunt was over and we could all return to our lives. Night Seam and Mind Games had both been kind enough to put their lives on the line to help us fight the other girls, despite the fact that they were being given a second chance at having a normal life again. Now all we needed was for Iron Maiden to join us, and if we were going to stay alive, need was probably putting it lightly.

“Alright, everyone!” Dreamdrop announced, standing in the middle of our bedroom (which I had forgotten to clean). “I think if we’re all going to be going through this hunt together, we should probably use my place as a homebase. Well, mine and Trixie’s place, and that’s considering Iron Maiden decides to join us.”

“Right, about that,” Iron Maiden said, rubbing the back of her head. “It would be nice if you could tell me what all this entails before I sign up for it.”

“It’s probably exactly what you think it is,” Night Seam added. “We’re killing magical girls, just like we were doing back when you were killed in the first place. The only difference is that now, rather than killing girls you’ve been friends with for months, you’re killing magical girls you don’t know who have been doing this for years.”

Palette shivered. “And who are much stronger. You should also take zat into consideration.”

Iron Maiden raised an eyebrow as Palette spoke. “Have you always had that accent?”

“I vas one of ze survivors of Discord’s death game. I zen vent abroad for ze next several years.”

“Wait. Really? You were one of the survivors? Who else made it out alive?” Dreamdrop and I raised our hands, making Iron Maiden chuckle with amazement. “No way! You two beat out Marrow and Night Seam? Who was the game changer?” I then immediately put my hand down, leaving Dreamdrop as the only one with her hand raised, giving Iron Maiden an annoyed stare. “You, Dreamdrop?! Oh, man! Discord really had us going with that one!”

As Iron Maiden finished speaking, however, Night Seam groaned in aggravation. “Is that really necessary right now?! Are you in or not?!”

Iron Maiden flinched, holding up her hands in defense. “OK! Fine! I’m in! I’m in!”

“Now hold on,” Dreamdrop began with concern in her voice. “I don’t want you jumping into anything just because you felt pressured into it! Remember, your life is going to be on the line here, and you have every right to go back to living a normal life again.”

Iron Maiden looked into Dreamdrop’s eyes for several moments until finally, she began to crack up, chuckling wildly while the rest of us looked at her in confusion. “Sorry, Dreamdrop,” she said, wiping a tear from her eye, “but I don’t think I’ll ever really have that option again. I knew what I was getting into when I became a magical girl, and I don’t think I’d give that up when my friends needed me most. Besides, I bet I could get some serious brownie points for this!”

“I must admit,” Palette added, “I have been craving sweets from Sugar Cube Corner ever since I left Platinum City.”

“Oh, did you not realize we have one of those in Canterlot?” Dreamdrop chimed in. “It’s like the exact same thing. Discord must have modeled the one in Platinum City after the one downtown.”

“Ze exact same zing? Here in Canterlot?”

“Yeah, we should go there sometim--”

Just as the girls were finally beginning to smile again, however, Night Seam cut them off with another loud groan. “Are you two finished? Or are we not going to discuss what we’re going to do next?”

Everyone then went quiet, turning their attention towards Dreamdrop. “Wow. Rude. Anyway, I do think that we should come up with a plan of attack, but before that…” Dreamdrop paused to take in a deep breath. “...I think that we should reveal our identities to each other.”

Once we all heard Dreamdrop’s prerequisite, we all turned towards Night Seam, who we were sure would be angry at her just for suggesting it, but to our absolute surprise, she tossed her hair behind her shoulder and transformed back into her regular form. We were all in complete shock, not just by her breath-taking beauty, but also by the fact she was the last person we expected to give herself away like that, making herself that much more vulnerable.

“I think that’s a good idea,” she said in her new, enchanting voice. “By knowing each other's true identities, it gives us the opportunity to go undercover if need be. This is my real form. My name is Fleur de Lis, and I am sixteen years old. Is there anything else you would like to know about me?”

“Uhhhh, nope! How about we all change back and we can go down the line and reintroduce ourselves? Does that work for everyone?”

As we all looked at each other for a common consensus, we nodded silently and changed back into our human appearances, making the experience that much more intimate, especially since I was seeing faces that I hadn’t seen in a long time.

“I guess I’ll go first, then! My name is Summer Breeze, and I’m twenty-two years old.”

“Photo Finish. Sixteen years old.”

Once we got to Iron Maiden’s real identity, however, half of the girls in the room gasped, shocked to see that her real appearance was a six-foot-six giant with greasy brown hair. “My name’s Basket Case. I guess with the four year difference, that makes me… let’s see… twenty-seven?! Holy crap…”

We then skipped Fluer de Lis and went onto Mind Games’s real appearance, which I had only ever seen with her head cut off. She looked a little bit younger than myself, maybe around the same age as Applejack’s little sister, and she was wearing a bright red shirt that contrasted with her deep black hair. She was the only girl in the room whom I hadn’t met personally. “I’m Checkers. Fourteen years old now, I guess.”

Everyone gasped at how young she was before finally turning their heads towards me, although by this point, all of them had already seen my real identity, considering the fact that they were all there when I became a magical girl in the first place. Still, though, I had changed significantly since they first met me after getting my ass kicked by Lulu Lemon, and breathing in through my nose, I announced, “Trixie Lulamoon. Sixteen years old.”

“Good,” Fleur said, bringing the attention back to her. “Now that we all know each other’s identities, we need to come up with a plan on how we can beat the remaining magical girls.”

“OK, but first,” Basket Case interrupted, raising her hand, “can you tell me who these girls are that we’re supposed to be fighting?”

“Yeah, I’m kinda out of the loop myself,” Checkers added. “That last battle was kinda scary, especially since I had to figure out the hard way what that girl’s power was.”

“Take out your magical phones,” Fluer said, pulling out her own as well. “There should be a new update waiting for you where you’ll be able to get the same list that we have. It contains all the details about all the magical girls except for Divinity, but we’re going to try to avoid her at all costs.”

“Whoa, is she really that scary?” Basket Case asked, eliciting a violent nod from the girls who had actually seen her as she pulled her phone out of her pocket. “What can she do?”

“Everyzing.” Basket Case and Checkers tilted their heads to the side, waiting for Photo Finish to go on further, but when she didn’t, their eyes started to grow wide.

“You don’t mean…?” Basket Case asked, unable to finish her thought.

Fleur, however, answered her with a nod. “She has literally every power she can imagine. She could cause an ice age just by sneezing. She could turn the planets of the galaxy into her own personal pool table.”

“She could make dogs really big and elephants really small!” Everyone then turned to face Summer Breeze, who was now cringing at herself. “She… probably wouldn’t make dogs really big and elephants really small… but she could…”

“And how are we going to survive with someone like that on their team?” Checkers asked.

“By not fighting her,” I answered. “Trixie believes that there is a possibility that if we stay out of her way, then she might spare our lives at the end, although the chances of that happening are becoming smaller and smaller.”

“Vut do you mean ‘becoming smaller and smaller’?”

“Why don’t I answer that for you?”

Suddenly, everyone flinched in fear as a girl who wasn’t there before suddenly appeared on the other side of the room, spreading her wings out (and causing the room to expand to fit her wingspan) while looking down on us with a fierce scowl. The first time I had met Divinity, she may not have had too many emotions on her face, but I could tell in my heart that she was legitimately happy to be meeting the girls and I. This time, though, when she looked down at all of us, there were no emotions in her face except for total anger, like an angel descending down to give her own righteous judgement.

“Girls, it’s nice to officially meet all of you, but I have a special announcement for the three of you.” As Divinity spoke, she pointed at Photo Finish, Summer Breeze and myself, the three girls who had actually met her face to face. “I only allowed you to live because I felt that you were just as much a part of Everfree City as myself. You introduced yourselves to us. You gave us the possibility that you would join our family, and even though Discord persuaded the three of you to stay on his side, I still commended you for giving us a chance. These other girls, however,” she continued, pointing towards Basket Case, Fleur and Checkers, “have nothing to do with my friends and have no right to take their lives. I allowed Sonic Boom, Lucky Star and Trickster to give you their lives, but not for you three to take away anyone else’s life.”

“But Trixie told us that the reason we’re fighting in the first place was because your friends were going to attack Canterlot High School,” Summer Breeze said, making all of us shocked that she could be so blunt with a literal deity. “All we’re trying to do is protect innocent lives! That’s what magical girls are supposed to do!”

“I cannot speak for my friends. I, personally, have come to respect all life on this planet and will not attack the school, but I understand their viewpoints and will stand with them to the end.”

“Wait, I’m confused,” Basket Case said, looking around to make sure she wasn’t saying anything rude. “Why are your friends trying to attack a high school?”

Divinity took in a deep sigh, the kind that could silence even the fiercest storm. “They’re doing it as a power move. They’re doing it out of revenge.”

“Revenge on who?” Checkers asked, leading the angel to point right in my direction.

Of course it was me. It was always me. As my teacher Mr. Fairweather from middle school taught me, I was a narcissist, which meant that I needed all the attention on myself all the time. It was almost as if the world would stop moving completely if everyone started paying attention to something other than me. It just so happened that this time, because everyone was paying so much attention to me, an entire school’s worth of kids was at risk of losing their lives.

“How does everyone know where Trixie goes to school?” I asked with gritted teeth.

“You can thank Sonic Boom for that. Apparently she went to see one of your musical performances at your high school one day when she was first starting out as a musician in Canterlot. I suppose she’s known who you were ever since you showed up that first time in Everfree City. It also helped that you seem to name everything by your given name: ‘Trixie and the Illusions’, ‘the Great and Powerful Trixie’. It isn’t difficult to put two and two together.”

I then looked over at Summer Breeze, who gave me the most sympathetic frown possible. She had tried to convince me not to go by my real name when I first decided to become a magical girl, but for some reason, I decided to go against her wishes. Now an entire school was in danger because of my vanity, because I needed to show the entire world how great and powerful I really was.

“Now, consider this your final warning,” Divinity continued. “If anyone else in your party is involved in the murder of any of my sisters, I will no longer stand back and watch it happen. If anyone dies by their hands, I will intervene. I’m not going to warn you again.”

Finally, with her body shining a brilliant light, causing all of us to shield our eyes with our arms, Divinity vanished, leaving the six of us alone again, only this time feeling much less confident. It was obvious in everyone’s faces that Fleur, Checkers and Basket Case could no longer compete, knowing that if they did try to help us, they would just become part of Divinity’s wrath. I had never seen Divinity fight, and quite honestly, I didn’t want to. I had to be the one to tell them that they were no longer allowed to join us in our magical girl hun--

“What was she talking about?” Basket Case asked uncouthly. “Like, does she honestly believe that we’re going to turn our backs on our friends just because she’ll fight us too? Marrow was way scarier than her… and you too, Night Seam--I mean, Fluer de Lis.”

“Tch.”

“Hold on, Basket Case,” Summer Breeze said, holding her hands up urgently. “We can’t just ask you to put your life on the line if Divinity wants to fight us!”

“Then don’t ask. We’ll do it anyway.”

Summer Breeze then furrowed her eyebrows, looking over at Checkers and Fleur de Lis, urging them with her face to talk some sense into their friend. “We’re honestly lucky to be alive,” Checkers added. “Even though we were fighting each other, Discord was really the one who tried to kill us all, and you saved us from him.”

“Besides,” Fleur continued, “I would like to see more of the girls from Platinum City come back to life, which I doubt would happen without my help.”

As I was standing there, trying to find a way to convince them of how dangerous things were going to get from then on out, the three of them smiled at me, making it that much harder for me to tell them no. I honestly couldn’t figure out why they were all being so supportive, especially since I had killed two of them already. They were given a second chance at life where they could see their families again and shape their lives how they wanted to this time, but here they were, risking everything to keep people they didn’t even know safe. Fleur at least gave us an excuse as to why she was helping us, though I still believed that she was doing this just to be a good magical girl.

“Then let’s not waste any time!” Summer Breeze announced, clapping her hands together. “What’s the plan?”

“Trixie, Photo Finish and I have come up with a plan that may work,” Fleur began, “but it would be pretty intricate. Basically, we would need to get Sun Shadow, Catastrophe and X Genesis Volume 9 in a room together, which would be easy enough for two of the three of them. At this point, we really just need to find a way to get X Genesis in the same place without interference from Divinity or La Proxy.”

“I say we attack tonight and forget about X Genesis,” Basket Case said. “We can’t just wait around for the perfect opportunity.”

“But we can still be smart about this rather than charging in without a plan.”

“Sorry, Fleur, but I’m with Basket Case on this one,” Checkers chimed in. “I think we can catch them off guard if we act now, especially since Divinity hasn’t gotten involved yet. If we wait to lure the three of them together, they’ll know for sure that we’re up to something.”

“So you’re suggesting we just ambush them and play it by ear?”

“Uhh… girls?” Summer Breeze said, looking down at her phone. “I don’t think we can wait much longer.”

The five of us waited for Summer Breeze to continue, but rather than stand there forever, we all took out our own phones, immediately seeing one new message. Then, upon opening the new notification, I could feel my heart freeze, and based on the reactions around the room, everyone else was feeling the same way. The message was from Divinity, and it was a group message to us as well as the girls in Everfree City which simply read, “The attack begins tomorrow.”

Suddenly, we all looked at each other with urgency in our faces but nothing coming out of our voices. “What do we do?” Checkers asked, finally breaking the silence.

“Change of plans,” Fleur said, transforming herself into the magical girl Night Seam as the rest of us followed her lead. “We need to eliminate both Sun Shadow and Catastrophe tonight, before they get backup.”

There was no disagreement, no complaining, and no second-guessing Night Seam’s strategy. Then, with all of us transformed into our magical girl forms once again, we opened up the bedroom window and jumped into the air, racing across rooftops as we made our way towards the home of Candycorn and Sweet Tooth.