Episode 2: All Bottled Up

One morning in Princess Twilight's Kitchen, Starlight and Tiger Lily are helping Trixie with her magic. Starlight lifts a small bag with a tip end with her magic to ice some desert. Tiger Lily is at the stove making food. Trixie is trying to work on magic

"Come on, come on! Turn into a teacup!" Trixie says in frustration.

She taps the salt shaker, but nothing happens.

Trixie says, "No! Teacup!"

Then tries again, again, nothing happens

"No! Teacup!" Trixie says, more frustrated.

Then tries it for the third time. Still nothing happens.

No!" Trixie screeches with more frustration.

Then turns to Starlight, "Oh, Starlight! I can't put a trick that's not working into my act! How come it's not working?"

"It could be because you're just yelling "teacup!" and not picturing it in your mind," Starlight says.

"She's right. In order for the spell to work, you need to picture the object you want it to be with your mind. Magic is connected to your thoughts and feelings," Tiger Lily says.

"Oh. Yeah, that could be it," Trixie replies.

"What does your teacup look like? What shape is it? What color?" Starlight questions, as she frost the cakes

Trixie then takes a deep breath and zaps the salt shaker. This time, the salt shaker turns into a purple and pink color teacup.

Seeing the result, she happily says, "Whoo! Starlight, I did it!"

Then hugs Starlight making spurt out the frosting on her caked.

She continues to cheer happily "Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo! I did it, I did it, I did it! Woo-hoo-hoo!

Starlight pushes Trixie away from her, "Hey!"

"Teacup!" Trixie says, turning one object into a tea cup.

Then she continues to say transforming other objects, "Teacup! Teacup, teacup, teacup! Tea-cup! Teacup, teacup, tea-cup!"

Tiger Lily continues to cook when she notices the transformation of the silverware.

She turns to see Trixie's excitement, "Trixie, you should be careful."

But Trixie goes to Starlight, "You know what you need? A teacup!""

Then transforms her icing bag into a teacup, but also a poodle. The little teacup poodle yaps as it runs around Starlight's treats. Starlight groans.

Trixie sheepishly says, "Whoops! I guess I pictured a teacup poodle? Heh".

"Trixie! You ruined my teacakes!" Starlight says, who isn't happy.

"I just got excited! This is the first time I did a transfiguration spell! Real magic! Come on! Be impressed by me!" Trixie says, and not noticing Starlight's anger.

Trixie imitates Starlight, "Yay, Trixie! You're so great at magic and having good hair!"

Starlight chuckles, "Good job, Trix. But I was baking these to give to Twilight and the girls for their friendship retreat. Pinkie Pie gave me a recipe and everything."

"Oh! You need some snacks to give to Twilight? I've got you covered," Trixie says, walking away.

Then comes back as she places a bag of pretzels on Starlight's splattered teacakes.

"Problem solved," Trixie says.

Then Trixie walks away. Starlight becomes angry with her, that her horn begins to admit a red mist. She takes a deep breath to calm herself.

And bluntly says, "Not exactly."

Tiger Lily walks up, "I can help you make more before they leave."

"Thanks Tiger Lily," Starlight says, showing a calm smile.

Sometime later, Starlight, Tiger Lily, Trixie, and Spike are at the train to see the Mane Six leave for their trip

"I am so excited for this friendship retreat! I can't remember the last time we all got to hang out without having to save Equestria," Twilight happily says.

"Well, we are awesome. But technically, we weren't the last ponies to save Equestria," Rainbow says, as the others go on the train.

The three ponies and Spike smile.

"I was speaking in a broader sense," Twilight replies.

Then asks the others, "Are you sure you don't want to come with us?"

"Yeah, I have three new comics to get through," Spike says.

"And I promised Trixie we'd practice more magic. It might be better if the castle was empty, if you know what I mean," Starlight says.

"Yeah. Trixie's magic is a little messy. If you know what we mean," Tiger Lily says, and giggles in reply.

Trixie groans, "Relax. If anything breaks, Starlight will just go back in time and fix it!"

Starlight nervously laughs

"Kidding," Trixie replies.

"We'll take good care of the castle while you're gone," Starlight says.

"Have fun on your friendship retreat!" Trixie says.

Tiger Lily waves goodbye, "Bye."

Twilight then goes on the train with her friends to the special retreat.

Trixie whispers to Starlight, "What in Equestria is a friendship retreat, anyway?"

"They're gonna bond, share laughs, and if I know them, they're gonna sing a song," Starlight whispers back.

"We are gonna have so much more fun than them!"

The two girls giggles

And Starlight whispers, "Shhh!"

Just then, Tiger Lily remembers, Oh yeah, Starlight and I made you some tea cakes for your trip. And Trixie got you some pretzels"

Tiger Lily then levitates the box of tea cakes with the bag of pretzels on it.

Twilight takes it, and says, "Thank you. I guess we won't end up getting hungry on the train. We'll see you when we get back."

"Bye," The girls reply.

Twilight gets on the train and it leaves for the retreat.

After returning to the castle, the girls are looking at a book of spells while Spike is reading a comic book.

Starlight turns the pages of the book, and asks, "Okay, Trixie, what kinds of spells did you want to work on next?

"Well, every self-respecting magician has a disappearing act, so maybe we could start with that?" Trixie suggests.

Starlight thinks about it, "Hmmm. Nothing just disappears, so that's technically a teleportation spell, and those are pretty hard."

"It might be hard since you're learning, maybe you should start with something smaller," Tiger Lily says.

But Trixie says, "No-no-no-no. The Great and Powerful Trrrrrixie goes big or not at all! Just tell me how you do it".

"Well, I've always found magic is tied to my emotions. Whatever I'm feeling fuels whatever I'm doing, and the stronger I'm feeling, the stronger the magic," Starlight says.

"Right. Like when you were so upset that cutie marks took away your friend, your magic was strong enough to enslave an entire village," Trixie says.

Tiger Lily flinches to hear this, "That's not very nice."

Starlight becomes angry that red mist admits from her horn again. Unknown to Starlight, tiger Lily begins to notice.

Bot manages to calm down, "Yep. Thanks for bringing that up."

"See? I'm already learning. If anypony is gonna teach me how to do a disappearing spell," Trixie says.

"Teleportation spell," Starlight clarifies.

"Whatever. I'm complimenting you. And me. We can do this, 'cause we're amazing, and magic is friendship and stuff," Trixie happily says.

Starlight giggles, "I guess we can give it a whirl. Now, we just need to find you something to teleport."

Starlight looks around for something to teleport.

And an idea hits Trixie, "Spike! How about it?

Spike nervously laughs in reply.

But Starlight says, "Uh, let's pick something, I don't know, not living?"

"I mean it won't be as impressive, but okay. Teach away, mini-Twilight," tirixe says with a joke.

Making Starlight groans. Tiger Lily actually giggle with the 'mini-Twilight comment.

Tiger Lily places a small apple on the table, "Let's start with this. It's good to start with an animate object. At least, that's what my mom told me when I was little."

"If you master this spell before the girls get back, you'd be setting some kind of record!" Starlight says.

"Challenge accepted!" Trixie says.

Then Starlight instruct Trixie, "Okay. What you want to do is concentrate on the object that you want to teleport…"

"Yeah, I'm gonna go... all the way over here," spike says, zooming out of the throne room and down the hall

"Concentrate on teleporting. Got it," Trixie says.

She admits her horn, and says, "Doin' the spell!"

"No, Trix, wait, not just," Starlight panics, but Trixie performs the spell.

Sadly, she ends up teleporting the Friendship map and the apple falls on the floor. Starlight groans and falls to the floor.

"Ta-da," Trixie sheepishly says.

Tiger Lily calmly says, "And here's another lesson, make sure you aim at the right object while doing the spell."

"Oops," Trixie says, showing a sheepish grin.

Starlight ends up coming to a panic. Walking back and forth taking deep breaths. Trixie is sitting on Twilight's throne whileTiger Lily sits on Applejack. Tiger Lily grows worried while Trixie doesn't seem like she cares.

"No-no-no-no-no-no-no! You made Twilight's friendship map disappear!" Starlight panics.

Trixie clears her throat, "Teleport."

"Really?!" Starlight panics.

"Well, it was behind the apple. It was bound to happen. On the plus side, my magic is getting better! I made a whole table go poof! That was pretty impressive!" Trixie says.

"Trixie. I know you're excited, but now isn't the time to worry about it. We have to get that map back," Tiger Lily says.

"We'll find it. No big deal," Trixie says.

"Twilight's never gonna trust me to be alone in this castle again! What were you thinking?! Starlight panics.

"Teleport, like you told me to," Trixie says.

Starlight begins to get upset and the red mist admits from her horn again, "No! You're supposed to concentrate on the object, not just teleporting!"

Trixie scoffs, "Well, gee, you probably should have told me all the steps before you let me do the spell.

"I tried," Starlight says.

But gasps to notice the cloud, "I... need a minute."

Starlight quickly leaves the room and into the kitchen. There Spike is washing all the teacups Trixie has created. Spike turns to see Starlight looking for something. Then Tiger Lily enters the room

"Hey, are you okay?" Spike asks.

"I will be once I cast a spell to contain my anger in this bottle," Starlight says, having the red cloud over her head and holding a bottle with her magic.

"Wait, what?" Spike asks.

"Do you see this storm cloud? This has never happened before! All this magical energy has to go somewhere, and if I'm not using it to fight a magical duel or bend my friends' wills to obey my every command…" Starlight panics.

"Hah. I remember that," Spike replies.

"The point is, I don't know what my magic's going to do. So I'm hoping if I bottle up my anger, I won't do who-knows-what to Trixie," Starlight says.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Spike asks.

"What choice do I have? I've got to get that map back, and I don't wanna lose Trixie. If she knew what I was thinking right now, she'd probably never talk to me again," Starlight worriedly says.

"Okay... You do what you need to do. I'll see if I can find the map somewhere in the castle," Spike says, then leaves the room.

"Starlight, are you sure you want to do this? Remember the last time you decide to use magic to solve your problems. That didn't work so well," Tiger Lily says.

"I know, but what else I can do?" Starlight says.

Starlight then puts her red misty anger in the bottle and plugs it up. Then puts it in her saddle bag. Then puts her saddle bag on.

Meanwhile, Trixie is levitating an apple that has been eaten.

Starlight comes in the throne room with Tiger Lily, saying, "Trixie!"

Trixie happily says, Oh, there you are! For a minute, I didn't think you were coming back, and that you might be upset with me for some weird reason. But then I remembered – you never get mad at me."

Starlight lets out a groan and seal her anger in the bottle

She exhales, and says, Nope!"

Then nervously laughs, "Not mad at all! So, the map is probably in the last place you were thinking of. Where was that?"

"Ooh, great question. I wish you'd asked it, like, right after I did the spell," Trixie says.

But then says, "I don't remember anymore."

Starlight becomes angry and seals up her anger.

Tiger Lily thinks, "I'm sure we can find it. Maybe we can look around Ponyville and ask around."

"Okay, that sounds fun," Trixie says, hopping off the throne.

Then Trixie says, "Ooh!"

"Did you remember?" Starlight asks.

"Nope! But I did think we could stop for cinnamon nuts while we're out!" Trixie says, walking past Starlight

"Cinnamon... nuts?" Starlight says in anger and sucks her anger again.

Then says in a chipper tone, "That's a good idea!"

"Yes! I've been craving something sweet since I couldn't have any teacakes this morning," Trixie happily says.

Starlight exhales, "You got this, Starlight…"

Tiger Lily whispers, "Starlight, maybe you should tell Trixie how you feel."

"Why?" Starlight asks.

"I think that's why your magic is acting funny," Tiger Lily whispers.

Not wanting to worry, Starlight decides to follow Trixie. Tiger Lily follows her as well.

Tiger Lily worriedly says in thought, "I got a bad feeling about this.

The first place the girls head to is a Jewelry shop. Starlight glares at Trixie to see her eating a bag of cinnamon nuts.

The vender Clarity Cut asks, "Ah, hello, fillies. Uh, how can I help you?"

Then notices Trixie's snack, "Oh, are those cinnamon nuts?"

"Mmm, yes. I got them from the cart outside. They're delicious," Triixe says, showing the cart outside with Bulk working there.

Trixie asks, "Do you want some?"

But Starlight asks, "Have you seen a big table? Magical map on it, sometimes glowing cutie marks shoot out?

"A big ta— Uh, no! Uh, why in Equestria would something like that be in here? Ha," Clarity Cut answers

"Well, I cast a pretty amazing spell that transported it to the last place I was thinking of, but I might have been thinking about how I'd treat myself to a nice brooch instead," Trixie says, looking at the white and blue color brooch.

Clarity Cut asks, "Ah, well, no huge table here. Uh, are you still interested in that brooch?"

"Sure!" Trixie happily answers.

"No!" Starlight quickly says.

Then drags Trixie away, "We don't have time for this! Twilight and the girls are gonna be back soon!"

Then her anger begin to fuse again. Then Starlight sucks it up as Trixie is eating and not paying attention. Tiger Lily is and growing concern. She can see that everytime she uses it, Starlight becomes weak and tired.

"But I'm not upset. What's our next stop?" Starlight lies.

Tiger Lily gulps in concern.

Their next stop is Sweet Apple Acres and are talking to Granny Smith

"Nope, I ain't seen it," Granny says.

"Are you sure? It's really, really important that we find it. And it might be here because somepony…" Starlight says.

" ...was craving apples," Starlight adds, glaring at Trixie.

Then bottles up her anger and magic again.

Trixie continues to tear the cinnamon nuts and says, "I'm still craving them. They'd go so well with cinnamon nuts!"

Granny sniff them, "Oh, them nuts sure do smell good! Heh-heh."

Starlight quickly asks sending the nuts away, "Granny Smith, please. The table?"

Granny becomes confused, and answers, "Well, my eyes ain't what they used to be, but I'd know for sure if a big ol' table done appeared out of thin air."

Starlight sighs in reply.

Tiger Lily says, "Thanks okay, if you know anyone who has seen it, let me know?"

"Sure thing. I'll see you and your friends later," Granny says.

Then they head off back to Ponyville. Starlight is still weakened by it while Trixie is happy and Tiger Lily is concern.

"Darn. I could've sworn it'd be at the ice cream parlor, because it was warm in the castle and I thought I wanted ice cream, and—" Trixie says.

Then has an idea, "Ooh! Maybe we should check out the Crystal Empire, 'cause Twilight's castle is made out of crystals, so I totally had crystals on my mind."

Starlight is still angry and again sucks up her anger.

Starlight becomes very weak, and tiredly says, "Okay, we better start moving if we want to make it to the Crystal Empire."

"Are you okay, Starlight? Because you seem a little, uh, what's the word... "lch-bh-ba"," Trixie answers.

Unknown to Starlight, Trixie sees Starlight horn turn red and Starlight puts the anger in her bad.

Starlight tiredly says, "Nope. I am great."

"Did your saddlebag just glow?" Trixie asks.

Starlight answers "No."

Soon the girls begin to fight over the bag. As the girls fight, Bulk is selling cinnamon nuts.

Bulk calls out, "Cinnamon nuts!"

Granny Smith and Clarity Cut walk over to the cart.

"Ooh, I have had a hankerin' for these all day!" Granny says.

"Uh, me, too! Ever since that Trixie came by with 'em," Clarity adds.

At the same time, Trixie continues to pull the bag as Starlight refuse to let go. The bag then flies out of Starlight's back making Trixie fall back. The bottle containing Starlight's anger flies out and crashes to the ground. Then the bottle is breaks. All of Starlight's anger escape and possesses Bulk Biceps, Clarity Cut, and Granny Smith. The three eyes grow red and full of rage.

When Trixie comes to, she sees the three are angrily staring at her.

Trixie nervously asks, "Um, why are they looking at me like that...?"

Tiger Lily worriedly says, "This is not good. This is not good, at all."

"Whoa!" Trixie panics.

"You ruined my teacakes!" Granny angrily says.

Trixie is pushed back

"What?!" Trixie turns around, reacting to see Clarity cut.

Clarity angrily says, "You just had to give Twilight those smelly pretzels!"

"Were they your pretzels? I don't understand," Trixie asks, getting a little scared.

"You don't pay attention when I'm trying to teach you!" Bulk shouts in anger.

Trixie scaredly asks, "Starlight, can you help me, please?!"

"You're the worst!" Granny angrily says.

"That seems harsh," Trixie replies.

"Hiyaaa!" Granny shouts, about to pounce her.

"Whoa! Starlight!" Trixie shouts, quickly running away.

Trixie runs past Starlight as she screams, "I don't know what's happening! Starlight, help!"

Starlight tries to use your magic, but it's not working.

"I'm glad Twilight isn't here to see this," Starlight says.

Tiger Lilly worriedly says, "Starlight, we need to do something."

"But what? My magic is too weak and they're possessed by my magic," Starlight says.

"I don't think it's just your magic, it's your anger," Tiger Lily says.

"What?" Starlight asks.

"The three are reflecting your anger and it turns into a dark cloud. The more you bottle up your magical anger the more weak you got. You can't use magic to solve this problem," Tiger Lily says.

"But what else can we do?" Starlight sighs.

Tiger Lily sighs, "Applejack sometimes tell me that being honest with your feelings is very important. The truth seems hurtful, but it's better than a well meant lie. At least that's what she told me. Trixie might be hurt from you being honest, but this is something she needs to hear."

"You're right. I shouldn't be doing this. I shouldn't bottle up my anger," Starlight says.

"Trixie may be a bit oblivious and sometimes self centered, but she is still your friend. She won't know what's wrong if you don't tell her," Tiger Lily says.

Starlight sighs, "It might be hard, but you're right, I have to tellTrixie the truth."

Suddenly, they hear Bulk screams in rage, and turn around to see Bulk throwing the cinnamon nut cart at Trixie

"Nuts!" Trixie screams and runs away.

But the cart crashes to where she is.

Trixie feels dizzy, but Bulk comes over in anger, "You just do whatever you want to do!"

Trixie screams, "Starlight! Tiger Lily! Help!"

Then granny comes over, "And you don't always… have to bring up my dark past!"

"I didn't know you had one, Granny Smith!" Trixie panics.

Then Granny takes out a bag and tris to throw it at her, but it's a short distance.

Then Clarity says, "Oh! I just can't believe you sometimes! You make me so mad!"

"I barely even know you! I don't understand why you're all so mad at me!" Trixie says.

Finally Starlight steps forward with Tiger Lily by her side.

Then Starlight weakly admits, "They're not. I am."

Starlight then uses her magic to gather up her anger and bring them over her head, making the ponies change back to normal.

"You are?" Trixie asks, looking surprised.

Starlight sighs, and admits as the cloud gets bigger and her rage grows, "I'm really... mad at you. You lost Twilight's map table. You make jokes like it's no big deal. It's like you don't even care you could get me in a lot of trouble. If we can't find that table, Twilight's never going to trust me again, and the worst part is you didn't even say you were sorry!"

"I... I-I'm sorry. I had no idea you felt that way," Trixie says, feels remorse.

"Yeah! I do!" Starlight shouts in anger.

Then the cloud disappears as she calms herself down.

Starlight also admits, "But to be fair, I don't know how you could have known. I did a spell and bottled up my anger, but when the bottle broke, it infected these three."

She then apologizes, "I'm really sorry. I used magic so I wouldn't use magic. I should have guessed that would backfire."

"Aw, that's all right. It was a slow day," Clarity says.

"Yeah, I was gonna get my dentures cleaned before y'all showed up," Granny replies.

"Ah! Oh, no! My nut cart!" Bulk quickly screams runs over, and brings the cart to them.

Luckily, Starlight uses her magic to fix it.

Bulk hugs the cart and cheers, "Yay! My nut cart!"

"Uh, hang on. Don't you work at the spa?" Clarity asks.

Bulk gasps and panic, "I'm late for my other job!"

Everyone look at Bulk looking confused.

"What? I wear many hats," Bulk replies. Then leaves to his next job.

After that, the ponies leave the scene giving the girls some time to talk

Trixie says, "Not gonna lie. Hearing you and those random ponies say all those terrible things about me wasn't easy. But I needed to hear it. Why didn't you just tell me how you felt?"

"I didn't want to lose you as a friend," Starlight sadly admits.

"Pfft! Come on! It'd take a lot more than that to lose me. Our friendship is stronger than a few angry words," Trixie says otherwise.

"And a magical temper tantrum?" Starlight adds.

"Listen, I'd take that over the boring pony you were becoming any day. The Starlight I love is passionate, lively, and yeah, sometimes angry. Those are my favorite parts of you. That and the fact that you forgive me every time," Trixie says.

Starlight giggles, "I'll forgive you if you forgive me."

"Deal," Trixie says.

Then two ponies join a hug.

Tiger Lily smiles, "I'm happy you both were able to solve this problem. Maybe after finding the map we can head to the spa."

"That's a good idea. And Tiger Lily, thanks for getting me to realise my mistake," Starlight says.

"It's no trouble. That's what cousins are for," Tiger Lily says with a smile.

Just then, Trixie gasps with glee, "I remembered what I was thinking about!"

Trixie, Starlight, and Tiger Lily go through the door to find see the map at the last place hey haven't looked. The Ponyville Spa. They see the map in the lobby and Bulk is massaging a mare on the table.

"You're kidding me," Starlight says, dumbfounded.

"There's more to it than that. I was thinking about how glad I am to have met you, and I remembered our first meeting – here at the Ponyville spa," Trixie says

Tiger Lily smiles, "Aww, that is so sweet."

"And now I just have to teleport it back!" Trixie says, lighting up her horn

But Starlight panics, "No-no-no-no-no-no-no!"

Then pounces on Trixie with a thud.

Tiger Lily lens down, and says, "How about we let Starlight deal with it, okay?"

Trixie sighs, "Fine."

After getting the map to the castle, Starlight and Tiger Lily are adjusting it back in its place.

Spike is helping, "A little to the left. Oh, now rotate it just a hair…"

Just then, the door opens to see Twilight and the others returning from their trip.

"Hey, girls! How'd it go?" Twilight asks.

The three gasps and Starlight lets the map fall with a low thud.

"Nothing!" The two unicorns and alicorn answers.

Twilight becomes confused, "...What?"

"Let's just say I learned a friendship lesson while you were gone," Starlight quickly says.

"You've barely graduated, and you're already taking initiative!" Twilight says amazement.

Then sheds a few tears with glee, "Oh... So proud…"

"We learned about team building and problem solving…" Fluttershy says.

"And when not to sing songs!" Pinkie says.

Then Rarity says, "We certainly had a good time, but I really was looking forward to a spa day, and the Ponyville spa's still open. Anyone?"

The girls agree to the idea

"Sounds good to me!" Twilight says.

Rainbow says, "I have a coupon!"

The three girls show smiles on their faces as the others leave for the spa.

"We'll meet you there!" Trixie says.

When the girls leave, Trixie quickly asks, "Quick! Do you have a spell that will make the spa ponies forget that the map table was there?"

"Haven't you learned anything about using magic to solve your problems?" Trixie bluntly asks.

"No. If we learned that lesson, how will we ever have fun?" Trixie answers with a grin.

Soon the three girls giggle with glee.