Trixike Rebooted

Trixike took a step back from the Guardian, still trying to figure out how she had been merged into one. “Listen,” she said, her voice sounding like an off pitched version of Trixie’s own. “I feel like we and you, or me and you, I don’t know how to call us, got off on the wrong foot and-”

The monster’s barbwire like tail shot out and wrapped itself around Trixike’s ankle, this was followed by it pulling them towards it, Trixike reacted in panic and in pain as its tail cut into her ankle. She charged both a blast of magic and an accidental blast of fire, both of which were nothing like she expected. Her magic attack shot out and blasted the creature down the stairs, while her fire breath came out like a geyser as it spewed over their adversary.

Trixike didn’t really have time to take that in, as its tail loosened, and in a last effort pulled them off balance and sent them spiraling down the stairs with the creature in tow. Their monster ‘friend’ recovered halfway down the stairs and caught itself as Trixike fell to the bottom of the stairs.

“Everything hurts,” Trixike said as she pulled herself up while the monster made its way to her “Come on…guy, can’t we just talk this out?”

“I am the Guardian of this ancient hall!” it replied, “You have intruded upon these sacred grounds-”

“We were just looking for a lost wheel!” Trixike cut him off as she got back to her hooves. “We didn’t mean to intrude in your scary ass forest of darkness and use any… weird fusion earrings!” The Guardian stared at them for a moment before pulling out the rock Spike had kicked earlier.

“This rock is the key to entering this sacred place. You expect me to believe you using it was an accident?”

“Why would you make a rock the key!? And why would you leave it just lying around!?” Trixike was getting a little agatized asking that.

“It was the emergency key!” The Guardian shot back “It’s there in case I lock myself out, and it’s just disguised as a rock, you nitwits!” the Guardian began approaching faster. Trixike decided now was the time to turn and run. “Even if your coming here was an accident, you have stolen a sacred artifact. And for that alone, you shall pay with blood!”

“What’s with you and blood!?” Trixike screamed as she hightailed it out of the room, “It’s weird!" The Guardian bend down and quickly began walking on all six of his appendages, running full speed after the intruder, Trixkie saw this as she turned the corner and jumped over the rushing monster in the last second. “Ha ha-oh shit!”

Trixike flew over her foe and proceeded to hit her head on the ceiling and fall to the ground. She pulled herself up and rubbed her head. “Why do I have to be so fucking tall?" she asked. Before she could get to her hooves the Guardian grabbed her tail and swung her over its head in an attempt to slam her into the ground.

Instead she once again hit the ceiling with her head, bounced off and landed on top of him, the Guardian’s spiky shell cut into Trixike who reacted once again on a newfound instinct shot a blast of dragon fire and magic at the ceiling. It gave way and Trixike saw daylight flooding inside. She grabbed the back of the Guardian’s head and slammed it back into the floor as she jumped up through the hole that was already rapidly repairing itself.

She only just managed to drag herself out before the hole closed completely, and was taking a deep breath to regain her strength. She had never felt so hopeless in any situation and got out without needing anyone’s outside help. Still, there was no way she’d be able to get home on her own after she’d lost her sense of direction in the halls below the earth.

“I hope somepony sees this,” she said, before once again blasting a torrent of flames and unicorn magic straight upwards. The green fire lit up the sky, with light pink magic crackling through it. After a moment the magic and fire swirled together and exploded leaving the letters “S.O.S” sparkling in the sky. It stayed up long enough for the forest to re-grow itself before she could see it fading from sight, or revel in the fact that she had done it herself, the ground below her began breaking up.

Trixike lit her horn for light, and booked it through the trees, away from the Guardian as it rose from the ground. “Run as fast as you like, your time is nearly up, and when it runs out you will have no hope of escaping my wrath!" the Guardian called out, as it lumbered through the pitch-black forest, following after her.

---Meanwhile---

“Well, that was a mess and a half,” Starlight muttered as she and Rainbow Dash looked at the area of disaster in front of them.

“So, you set a few things on fire,” Rainbow said calmly, “That’s just what happens when you put too much pressure on rain clouds, try making your magic squeeze them softer next time, and that should solve the-” she stopped talking since she needed her mouth to gape open, as a pillar of green fire appeared in the distance. Starlight and Rainbow Dash watched as it sparkled with magic and a huge “S.O.S.” formed in the sky. “…I think we should probably go check on that,” she bluntly noted.

“You think?” Starlight asked, a tinge of sarcasm in her voice, as she encased herself in magic and levitated into the air. She was very quickly outflown by Rainbow Dash. “See you there,” the Pegasus called back with a wave.

---within the forest---

Trixike was lost in every sense of the word. It was equally dark in every direction. The only sound she could hear was the sound of her own heartbeat, meaning that her new ‘friend’ could be anywhere. She wasn’t sure if she was going in a more or less straight line, or ran round and round in circles, since no matter how fast she ran or which direction she looked, nothing changed. She was surrounded by evenly spaced trees.

It took her a while to think of any ways of escaping, but in the end, she found one. “I’m a fucking dumbass,” she muttered, as she stuck her sharpened fingers into the trees and began climbing her way up. She’d bet that it would probably have taken way longer, if she hadn’t been so tall. It was a bit of a struggle to get through the leaves at the top, but with one final push she broke through and was blinded by natural light.

After a second of letting her eyes adjust, she found she had been running at an angle with the wall. It was a bit far, but she could easily make it in five minutes at most. She smiled and was about to climb down again when a hand grabbed her tail and pulled her back through the leaves and down the tree. She couldn’t stop crashing into the next tree over, before she got swung into another one. Everything was spinning and she had to concentrate to get free.

Looking down, she blasted the Guardian in the face with a current of flames. He let out a howl as his head was engulfed, dropping her to cover his face with his hands. Trixike quickly grabbed onto the trees on either side and she used them to hold herself in place so she could hoof the Guardian square in the muzzle. As he fell down, she dropped to the ground and ran with full speed towards the wall. “Yes, I’m gonna make it!” she cheered.

Just as the wall came into view, her earrings began glowing. There was a bright flash and Spike found himself running with Trixie riding on his back. The two had one second of confusion before they were overtaken by pain, Spike had kept the chest cuts from the Guardians back, Trixie could see the leg cuts from the monster’s tail on her legs, and they both got a fair number of bruises from both their tumble down the stairs and the tree slams.

Spike proceeded to trip over his own feet and the two tumbled over each other and hit the wall, Trixie lay on her side and Spike had his feet up the wall and his head on the ground. "Everything hurts," they said in unison. Trixie managed to pull herself up and Spike just lay on his back as the Guardian entered the spot that was enlightened by Trixie’s horn. Both of them reacted differently as he arrived. Spike attempted to blow fire at the Guardian and proceeded to set one of the Trees on fire, missing the creature by a mile. Trixie levitated rocks and began pelting the Guardian, screaming at it, trying to keep the terror out of her voice.

“Go away! Go away! Go away!” The Guardian ignored her and picked Spike up by his tail. “I fucking hate you,” Spike declared, as the Guardian prepared to squash the dragon’s head like a grape. Luckily, before he could, all the trees around them where suddenly covered in a magic aura, and were pulled from their roots and tossed to the side, causing the small area to be filled with light. Trixie and the Guardian looked up at the ponies above, as Starlight and Rainbow looked down at them for a moment. Taking his moment Spike, not being able to see exactly what was happening, blew fire at the Guardian who yowled and swung him into a nearby bush, much to Spike’s dismay he found it was a rose bush, with thorns scraping his scales as he sunk into it. Spike let out a pained yelp, and the Guardian turned, just to get a solid kick in the muzzle, courtesy of Rainbow Dash.

“Spike, you ok?” she asked.

“I am not, thanks for asking,” he replied bluntly as Starlight levitated Trixie to freedom, Rainbow turned to the Guardian as he began standing back up, and gave him another kick for good measure before turning to Spike who had a look of shock on his face. He’d sunken even farther into the roses and his hand already grazed the ground beneath.

“I’ll be dammed,” he said as he pulled something out of the bush, not caring about the pointy thorns surrounding him. After a moment his hand emerged with a prize that would make their adventure worth it. A thorn-covered wheel.

Before Rainbow could ask, she and Spike where levitated out of the way, just as the Guardian’s fists slammed down, right where Rainbow had been a moment before. Starlight pulled the two of them out and looked down at the monster as it made its way to the wall and began to ascend, all the while screaming the word thieves at them, Starlight frowned at it, as she charged her horn to perform a powerful spell, the monster already being halfway up.

“No,” she said simply, before blasting it off the wall and down into the ground. The bottom cracked and the Guardian fell back into the Hall of Relics, with a few tree’s following after him. Starlight hadn’t even fully turned, as she saw that the forest had begun fixing itself, trees regrowing fast in the places where Starlight had pulled fully grown ones out of the ground. The hole they’d created was about to close again. “I’m gonna have to bring Twilight up here.”

She turned to Check on Spike and Trixie, and found them staring in awe and delight at a wheel, covered in thorns. "We found it!" They practically sang before Spike dropped it and they fell to the ground in exhaustion, the rush of adrenaline finally dying down. Starlight sighed as she picked the two up. Rainbow only took the wheel and shook her head.

“Once you two are patched up, I want here the story of what the hell just happened.”