Trixie and Starlight travel to Las Pegasus

It was a relatively normal day in Twilight's castle. Twilight was reading a book in the castle's library and Starlight was in her room, wearing headphones and listening to soviet music through them. Then suddenly, Starlight's cutie mark began to glow. She immediately knew what was on, the cutie map was calling her to a mission. She quickly walked down to the library, where Twilight was reading the new Daring Do book, that came out recently.

"Twilight, my cutie mark is glowing," Starlight said to her in anticipation, "Seems like the cutie map wants to send on to a mission."

Twilight was slightly annoyed at first about Starlight's interruption, but quickly calmed down when she saw her glowing cutie mark.

"That's great!" She happily replied, "Mine isn't glowing unfortunately. But let's see if any other pony will come with you and of course, where the map wants you to go to."

They both walked to the throne room of the castle, where the cutie map is located. Twilight's jaw immediately dropped as soon as she saw the second cutie mark that got displayed by the map.

"Wait, isn't that Trixie's cutie mark?" She asked in surprise, "I never expected her to get called by the cutie map."

"Oh my Celestia! THIS IS GREAT!" Starlight jumped up in joy and excitement when she saw the map, "I never thought the cutie map would send Trixie on to a mission. How awesome is this, that I get to go on a mission with my best friend! And not only that, our mission is in Las Pegasus! I always wanted to go there!"

"Wow Starlight, this must be like your dream mission it seems like," Twilight replied to happily, but with a slightly awkward undertone.

"It really is!" Starlight joyfully replied, "Either way, I'm going to go get Trixie. I don't think she knows yet what it means when her cutie mark glows."

Afterwards, Starlight went to Trixie's trailer. When she arrived there, she immediately heard music that was coming from her friend's trailer. The music was very loud and aggressive, sounded quite repetitive, had a very industrial and retro feel to it and eerie sounding vocals that were in a foreign language. Starlight knocked on the door of her trailer, but Trixie didn't respond to it. The music was far too loud to even remotely hear the knocking. Because of this, Starlight proceeded to knock on the door louder and more aggressive, however, it still wasn't loud enough for her friend to hear it over her noisy music. Afterwards, Starlight began to brutally kick on the door with her back hoofs. As soon as she did that the music stopped and the door opened.

"STOP DESTROYING MY PRECIOUS TRAILER YOU STUPID PIECES OF SHI... oh Starlight, it's just you!" Trixie shouted furiously at first, but immediately calmed down once she saw that it was her best friend.

"Hey Trixie, did you notice that your cutie mark is glowing?" Starlight curiously asked her.

"Of course I noticed that!" She replied in an arrogant but also excited tone, "It truly shows how great and powerful Trixie really is! I can't wait to do a performance tonight and show all of Ponyville my spectacular glowing cutie mark! I have even been celebrating it, which you probably heard."

"I definitely heard that," Starlight replied and somewhat questioned her friends weird behavior, "And you celebrated it by being alone in your trailer, while listening to some of the creepiest and most aggressive music imaginable?"

"Starlight, the Great and Powerful Trixie is an intellectual who celebrates things differently than all of you neurotypical extroverted normies," She replied, still having a very arrogant tone to her.

"Either way," Starlight replied, trying not to get distracted by Trixie's weirdness, "Your cutie mark is not glowing because of you being great and powerful, which you certainly are, but it's not what makes you cutie mark glow. It's glowing because you have been called onto a mission by the cutie map. You know, that thing you accidentally teleported away once."

"Oh yeah, I remember. It sure was funny how you bottled up your anger because you didn't want to get angry at me," Trixie responded, sounding smug and slightly amused.

"Yes, that," Starlight replied, "And the best part, we are doing this mission together! Look, my cutie mark is glowing too!" while sounding increasingly happier and more exited.

"Now that's what I call great and powerful! Where is this mission that the map want's us to do?" Trixie replied, sounding eager and exited.

"Let's go to Twilight's castle. There you will see where the map is sending us to." Starlight responded, also sounding eager and exited about the mission.

"I don't know. I think we should wait until tomorrow. The Great and Powerful Trixie wants to do a magic show where she shows off her amazing glowing cutie mark!" Trixie replied in a boastful manner.

"Sorry Trixie," Starlight responded to her apologetically, "But when the cutie map calls you to a mission, you need to that mission immediately. If not, we might not be able to complete the mission at all, because we would arrive too late."

"Eh, I guess you are right," Trixie replied, sounding somewhat disappointed at first, "But I can still do a performance in the place where our mission is."

"Sure you can do that," Starlight replied eagerly, "Come on Trix, let's go to the map and you will see where we are going to."

They both made their way to Twilight's castle afterwards. Twilight was waiting for them in the throne room. She didn't feel quite comfortable with sending Trixie onto a friendship mission, due to her egotistical and chaotic behavior.

"Alright, where are we going to?" asked Trixie upon entering the throne room.

"To Las Pegasus!" Starlight answered her question, sounding highly exited and joyful about it, while pointing towards the map.

However, Trixie's first reaction to this was quite different than Starlight expected. She reacted somewhat shocked to it, but in calm, subtle, yet also slightly awkward way. It felt quite out of character for the usually very confident and boastful performer.

"Is everything alright Trix?" Starlight asked to her, sounding somewhat concerned, "I though you would be more exited about this?"

Twilight tho interrupted their conversation to give Trixie a little heads up about her first friendship mission.

"Anyway, Trixie, just please take this friendship mission seriously. This is your first time and I don't want you to mess this up," She pleaded to her.

"Oh come on Twilight," Starlight replied to her, in a slightly upset tone, "The friendship map always knows which ponies to call on a mission and who not to. Do you seriously think the map would call Trixie, if she only ends up screwing up things? That is just stupid. I know Trixie and I know that she will be able to this, even if she has her flaws."

Twilight sighed and replied, "You are Starlight. I might really be underestimating her. She is your best friend and did improve a lot since our rivalry after all. If the cutie maps things she is ready for a mission, she is indeed ready for it."

"I don't know Starlight," Trixie interrupted, sounding shockingly doubtful of herself, especially for her usual standards, "Twilight does have a point. I don't feel quite ready for this whole friendship mission thing. I mean, I didn't even any friends all at before I first met you. My knowledge on friendship is pretty lackluster."

"What?" Starlight was somewhat shocked and confused by Trixie's unusually doubtful and insecure behavior, "You too were pretty exited about this before we came here. Trust me Trixie, there is no need to doubt in yourself when it comes to a friendship mission. As said, the map always knows which ponies are best for solving a friendship problem. Or is there something wrong about Las Pegasus?"

Trixie began act more and more nervously after Starlight asked her this question. Sweat was running down on her face and it took her an unusually long time to answer her question.

"I just... had some bad experiences over there in the past, that's all," She replied, trying to sound confident, yet still having a nervous undertone in her voice.

"Bad experiences?" Starlight questioned Trixie's response, "You have made a lot of bad experiences here in Ponyville too, yet you still came back and now even live here. What's so much worse about Las Pegasus?"

"It's just... I will explain it to you later," Trixie replied, still sounding somewhat nervous.

"Are you really sure you're ready for this mission, Trixie?" Twilight asked her, sounding somewhat concerned.

"Of course I'm ready for a friendship mission, Twilight," Trixie replied arrogantly, "It's just not mentally easy to return to a place where you had some bad experiences in the past."

Afterwards, Starlight and Trixie left the castle, but before they began to make themselves ready for the mission, Starlight wanted to know about Trixie's past experiences in Las Pegasus, so they had a talk under four eyes.

"Your behavior about your bad experiences in Las Pegasus was pretty weird, Trixie. Can you please tell me what happened back then? I just don't want you to feel bad when we do our friendship mission, that's all," Starlight asked her, being somewhat concerned about her friend.

Again, it took Trixie an unusually long time to reply, but eventually she told her friend, "It's that... there is just so much competition in Las Pegasus when it comes to stage magic and the ponies there were not kind to me back then. The standards there are just so high, that everypony that isn't like a second Hoofdini gets booed off stage," still having a slight nervous undertone in her voice.

"Really, that's the reason why you are so nervous about this?" Starlight was somewhat confused, as she thought Trixie's reason for avoiding Las Pegasus would be more severe, "You came back to Ponyville, after your entire career got destroyed and got turned evil by the alicorn amulet here, but you have been avoiding Las Pegasus because of this?"

"Starlight, as a humble and patient pony, I needed to apologize to Ponyville for the alicorn amulet incident and thus, I came back. I never needed to apologize to Las Pegasus, so I never came back, simple as that," Trixie replied, sounding a lot more confident and less nervous than before.

"This does make sense, although I still don't get why you are so nervous about this?" Starlight still didn't fully understand Trixie's behavior and began motivate her, "Come on Trix, your magic skills has improved so much since we first met and even then, you still have me as your best friend on your side. Together we can do this!"

"Yes Starlight, you are right. When we are together, nopony can stop us!" Trixie replied to her, sounding highly confident.

Starlight's motivation did help Trixie to feel better about coming back to Las Pegasus, but only a little bit. She still had lots of nervous and anxious feelings in her, because she didn't told her friend the real reason on why she is so nervous about their friendship mission in Las Pegasus.