"You know what they say," Twilight Sparkle said to her friends around their shared lunchroom table. "You can't put the coffee back in the bean, and you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube."
Sunset pursed her lips. "So your world has that saying too, does it?"
Twilight shrugged. "My dad says it a lot."
"Hmm." The redhead's mouth screwed up slightly in an off-kilter grin. "I wonder if I could? Of course, the last time I did it, I was a unicorn, in a world full of Equestrian magic."
Twilight hefted her paper cup of sad, cold brew, and took a sip. It was every bit as disappointing as she'd expected. "If you could what? Put the coffee back in the bean?"
"Nah. I'd save that one for another day." Sunset put her carryall bag on the table, and pulled out a tube of toothpaste and a toothbrush. "I brought these for our sleepover tonight. But maybe now I have ANOTHER use for them." She grabbed the tube in one hand, and...looked across the lunchroom. "Hey, Trixie!"
On the other side of the room, a pale-haired girl wearing a wizard hat shouted back, "What?"
"I want to show you something."
"Does Trixie care?"
"It'll be something good, I promise you!"
Trixie came over. "So what is it?"
Sunset's elbow nudged Twilight. "Tell Trixie I think her magic sucks," she whispered.
"It's like this," Twilight said. "Sunset Shimmer doesn't believe your magic tricks are any good."
"Hmmph!" Trixie put her hands on her hips for extra scoffing power. "What does SHE know?"
"Well...you know she came from Equestria originally, right? The magic pony land in another dimension?"
"So what?"
"Equestria has an entirely separate magical tradition from our world. They can do tricks no one here has ever heard of! Split-second teleportation from one place to another, without any boxes or curtains. Princess Celestia's magic day-and-night trick. She literally makes the sun rise and set anytime she wants, for an entire continent."
Trixie put her hand on her chin, thinking. "The first one sounds like a trick Trixie could do using smoke bombs. But that last one sounds pretty good. Trixie applauds this Princess Celestia's ingenuity...that is, if she can really do it."
Sunset said, "She really can! Of course, I'm not nearly as good at magic as she is. But I can still do an earth pony style magic trick that you've probably never seen. I won't even use any special Equestrian MAGIC magic, like ponying up. Just common, everyday props from this world."
"Big talk," Trixie replied. "But the Grrreat and Amaaazing Trixie knows more about magic tricks than any other teenager alive. So if you can show Trixie something she's never seen before, Trixie might be impressed."
"Fine. But if you want to see this trick, you'll have to make a little wager."
Trixie's eyes narrowed. "What do you want to bet?"
"If you don't know this trick...you have to let me teach you how to do it."
Trixie gave Sunset a calculating smile. "Trixie sees no downside to this wager. Show Canterlot's greatest magician what you've got."
Sunset pointed the tube of toothpaste at her lunch tray and squeezed, squirting toothpaste all over the tray.
Trixie laughed. "Anyone can do that."
"Of course," Sunset admitted. "But what was that saying, Twilight?"
Twilight sighed. "You can't just put the toothpaste back in the tube."
Sunset smiled. "But of course, I can." With one hand, she slowly waved the half-squished and wrinkly tube of toothpaste back and forth in front of everyone, turning her hand over a few times to show the front and back. "I could promise no tricks...but of course, I would be lying."
"How do you put it back?" Rainbow asked.
Sunset held the tube up high. "In Health class last week, we learned about mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. With one simple technique, we can bring a dead person back to life. Maybe the same thing would work on a tube of toothpaste?"
Rainbow, Applejack, and Trixie started laughing. Trixie asked, "THIS is your trick?"
Sunset answered, "Well...no harm in trying?" She showed that her other hand was empty, wrapped the toothpaste tube in both hands, held the tube's opening to her lips, and blew.
Pinkie Pie giggled.
After a minute, Sunset's hands separated. She displayed the full-looking tube in the palm of her hand.
Trixie guffawed. "Just like I thought. You ARE full of hot air." She snatched the tube out of Sunset's hand, and squeezed. Toothpaste oozed out, falling on the table.
"Oh," Trixie said. She squeezed again, and more toothpaste squirted out.
Sunset grabbed the tube back. "Do you USUALLY just take other people's things away from them without asking?"
Trixie looked down at the mess on the table. She remarked, "Trixie is ready to declare her verdict, as a master magician speaking to a mere student of magic tricks. Your toothpaste trick isn't bad. Of course, Trixie herself knows better tricks. But Trixie hasn't ever seen this exact one before. Trixie might say..." She grinned. "You showed off a new WRINKLE there. Or you found a way to take some wrinkles out."
Rainbow groaned. "Do you expect me to sit here and LISTEN to language like that?"
"So," Rarity asked, "Are you going to tell us how you did it?"
"But...all these people are watching! I can't tell everyone how to do that trick."
Trixie nodded. "True. A magician NEVER reveals her secrets to the hoi polloi."
"You're a magician, Trixie." Sunset smiled knowingly. "You can see into the depths of magic's hidden secrets. So, let me teach it to you here and now, in public, without enlightening all these looky-loos."
Trixie asked, "What do you--"
Sunset grabbed Trixie's head with both hands. The redhead touched her lips to Trixie's. To the onlookers, Sunset seemed to be stealing a kiss.
Trixie felt a tube--a drinking straw or coffee stirrer--press between her lips, all the way into the back of her mouth. Sunset's lips sealed themselves to Trixie's, and the redhead slowly blew air through the straw.
Sunset held the kiss for nearly half a minute.
After she released the magician, Sunset whispered into Trixie's ear, "Now do you know how it works?"
Trixie slowly put her own lips to Sunset's ear, and whispered almost silently. "You use the straw to blow air into the back of the toothpaste tube, so the pressure swells the tube and pushes any leftover toothpaste up to the front. It seems a little tricky to do, but with practice...Trixie is sure Trixie could make it work. But just in case..."
Trixie grabbed Sunset's ears. "Show me again." Trixie returned the kiss, making it long and leisurely, lasting nearly a minute until she broke it off.
"Yes," Trixie said loudly enough for everyone to hear. "Trixie thinks she's got it. Trixie thanks you very much. Trixie would also like to point out that just now, the second-hottest girl in the room kissed Trixie right on the lips, twice."
"What?" Sunset said. "SECOND hottest? Who's the hottest girl in the room?"
Trixie smirked, but said nothing.
"Well, you know what? Your mouth tastes like EGO!"
"Sorry, but Trixie knows she's the best. And you worked so hard to get Trixie to kiss you, Trixie thinks YOU know who's the best too." The magician blew a kiss towards Sunset.
Sunset turned towards the other girls. "Hey, Rainbow!"
"What? Are you going to tell everyone about what you and I did earlier? The thing you said was supposed to be secret?"
"Of course I will. You and I made a bet earlier, and just now I won it. Because I proved you were wrong. It IS possible to get Trixie to kiss someone other than herself!"
Rainbow dug in a pocket, and handed over a few wrinkled bills. "Congratulations, Sunset. Someone just paid you to kiss Trixie. I just want to know one thing."
"Oh?"
"Was it worth it, kissing Trixie TWICE for only twenty bucks?"
"Hmmph!" Sunset snorted. "Dash, you're just jealous."
Author's Note
T-Rated: If you think Trixie's principles mean only ever kissing herself, this is a story about INFIDELITY and BETRAYAL.
That would also make this a story about the Trixie x Trixie ship...specifically, about that romance encountering trouble when Trixie cheats on it.
People who've read a lot of stories by me might recognize at least one theme or idea I've used before. If you want to know what that theme is...just read all my stories, and find out!
Hint: k i s s i n g ?
