The day started just like any other day in Ponyville. The sun rose slowly while the moon set. The animals singing their own song. All was calm and peaceful. That is until...

"Come one, Come all! Witness the greatest unicorn in all of Equestria, the Great and Powerful Trixie!"

Speed slowly began to open his eyes as rays of sunshine poured through the window. He sat up only to feel an immense amount of pain.

"You shouldn't try to get up yet. You haven't fully recovered after yesterday." a voice said. Speed looked over to the side and saw Twilight there looking concerned. Speed tried to move again but once again felt a great pain in his back.

"Ah yeah, that's right. I almost forgot about yesterday." Speed says as he recounts the events involving him and Gilda. He also remembers using the red emerald that Gilda had to turn into Asura and finally defeat her. I guess growing four more arms can do a number on your back.

"Well, since you're up and probably not going to listen to me anyways, how about you join me and Spike at the table for breakfast?" Twilight offered.

"Sure! Thanks a lot Twi." Speed accepted.

"Breakfast is ready!" Spike yelled from the kitchen. Immediately launched from the couch to the table. Twilight shook her head in amusement as she trotted over to the kitchen.

"Woooww! These look delicious!" Speed exclaimed as he drooled while staring at the golden brown pancakes. He reached for one only to have his wrist slapped by a wooden spoon.

"Not yet Speed! Twilight gets first dibs ok?" Spike scolded. Speed gained a dejected look as Twilight chuckled. After everyone got settled they were about to dig in until

THUMP THUMP THUMP!

"*sigh* I'll get it." Spike said annoyedly. As he reached for the doorknob, it suddenly opened and in walked Pinkie Pie who expression brightened up as soon as she saw Speed.

"Hiya everyone! How are your mornings so far?" Pinkie asked.

"Oh well-"

"Good for you Twilight! How about you Speedy?" Pinkie asked ignoring and annoying Twilight.

"Pts pwerrty gmmd." Speed said with his mouth full, earning a glare from Twilight. He swallowed his food with a sheepish grin. "I mean, it's pretty good."

"Great! And where's Spike?" Pinkie asked. They then heard the door close revealing a rather flat Spike. Speed went over to him and laid him on the floor. Then he put his finger in Spike's mouth. In seconds he was reinflated to his normal self.

"Thanks Speed." Spike said. Speed simply gave him a thumbs up.

"Well Pinkie, what brings you here?" Twilight asked.

"Oh right! Rainbow wanted to get you so you can "teach somepony a lesson". Haha, silly Rainbow, doesn't she know that's what school is for?" Pinkie joked. But right now Twilight was making her way outside. As she walked out, she heard a loud cheer in the distance.

"Well I'm not sure what Rainbow needs but I should go investigate. Spike, Speed, come on." Twilight said. The two looked at each other before nodding. Then all of them went towards the source of the noise.

- "TRIXIE! TRIXIE! TRIXIE!"

"What's going on here?" Speed asked.

"Guys! Over here!" Rainbow yelled at them. They slowly but surely made their way through the large crowd. When they finally got to the front, they noticed that something was off. Rainbow's mane was slightly frizzled and her flank had a black patch. Applejack was hog tied and had an apple stuffed up her mouth. And Rarity, well he didn't even see Rarity which means something bad must've happened to her as well.

"What the...who did this to you?" Speed asked.

"Hahahahaha!" a voice laughed. Speed turned to the source of the voice and saw a light blue unicorn with a lighter shade of blue mane. She also had purple eyes and a purple hat and cape with stars on it. Her cutie mark was a wand with a star tip with a blue fabric wrapping around it.

"Who are you? Did you do this to my friends?" Speed asked.

" I am the most powerful unicorn in all of Equestria! A unicorn whose magic cannot be matched by anypony! I am the Great and Powerful TRIXIE!" she said as fireworks flashed behind her.

"We get it! You only said it like five times already!" Rainbow said in a sour tone.

"Girls what happened to you and where's Rarity?" Speed asked as he untied Applejack and took the apple out of her mouth.

"We got tired of er' bragging and decided to do something about it and...it didn't work out so well." Applejack said embarrassed

"So that's why we called Twilight over. Now show her what real magic is Twi!" Rainbow yelled catching Trixie's attention.

"Well well well. It seems we have another challenger. So is it true? You think You can best the Great and Powerful Trixie?" she questioned. Twilight was shocked from this.

" What me? Nononono, I'm not-I don't think I'm better than you. I'm not better than anypony!" Twilight stuttered.

"What are you doing Twi? You know you're better than her!" Rainbow asked.

"Yeah, yer' the most powerful unicorn I've met thus far. You got nothing to worry about." Applejack encouraged.

"What's wrong Twilight? You know you can do way better than her at magic!" Spike asked. Twilight slowly started to back away as her friends got closer to Her and she began to breathe quickly as her heart beat faster and faster. Then she yelped when a hand was placed on her shoulder.

"Twilight what's wrong?" Speed asked. Twilight stood there silent until she suddenly took off towards her home as she ignored the stares everypony was giving her. Her friends stood there in shock at what just happened. Then they heard laughter coming from Trixie.

"Well, it seems that she abandoned you. At least she recognised that she is not anywhere close to matching my greatness. Once again it still is true that Trixie is the greatest unicorn in all of Equestria!" she yelled causing the fireworks to go off. The crowd cheered as the others looked down in dismay.

"Twilight..." Speed said silently as he looked off in her direction. Then with a glare he turned back to Trixie. His quills flashed black and his eyes went red for a second before he took off towards Twilight.

When he arrived at her home, he saw that she was sitting there picking at her unfinished pancakes. After readying himself, he knocked on the door.

"We're closed sorry. Come back tomorrow." she said dejectedly.

"Twilight it's me. Speed." he said. There was a moment of silence before the door slowly opened. Speed walked in to where she was sitting.

"Hey Speed." she greeted morbidly.

"Twilight, what was that back there? That wasn't like you. And you know you're better than Trixie so why did you run?" Speed questioned. She was silent for a moment before answering.

" It was because I, was afraid." She answered.

"Twilight, you know you should not be afraid to get on stag-"

" Not like that!" she yelled, startling him slightly. Then she sighed. " I ran because I thought that if I do show off my power, that every pony would think I was trying to show off like Trixie and then they wouldn't want to be my friends anymore." she explained.

Speed sat there looking at her before he started to chuckle before it erupted in outright laughter. Twilight looked at him strangely for a while. Speed saw this and stopped laughing but kept his smile.

"Twilight, you shouldn't be scared of that!" Speed stated.

"But-"

"Listen. I understand where you're coming from. You don't want them to think differently of you I get it. But trust me, that will never happen." Speed assured her.

"But how can you be so sure?" she asked.

"Simple. Because I know them and I know you. And I know that they all care about you and know you would never want to be a show off like Trixie. They're your friends Twilight, I'm sure if you explain to them that everything will be ok." Speed answered. Twilight thought about this for a little while and realized that Speed was right. When she became an element of harmony, they sti treated her as one of their own and not some sort of princess.

"Speed...you know what? You're right! They are my friends! And I'm their friend! I'm sure they would understand if I just explained it to them." Twilight exclaimed. I just said that. Speed thought.

"Well now what are you gonna do now?" Speed asked.

"When I see my friends I'm going to apologize to them because I should've known better. And then I'm going to right my wrongs by showing Trixie just what I can I do!" Twilight said confidently.

"Sounds good to me." Speed replied.

"But first, I'm going to re-organize all of these books and you're going to help me Speed!" She declared.

"Hehehe...wait WHAT!?" Speed said in surprise. I think you may have encouraged her a bit too much don't you think? said Spark in Speed's mind. Ya' think? Aww man... Speed sighed.

Many, Many books later...

"Uggg...my back..." Speed complained while lying face down.

"I think that's all! Great job Speed!" Twilight exclaimed.

"Woo..." he said. He then picked himself up off the floor.

"Well Speed, I think we deserve some cake!" Twilight declared.

"Woohoo!" Speed actually exclaimed happily. He was about to run to Sugar Cube Corner until...

AN: so many interuptions

Growwwar!

"Dang it! What now?" Speed asked. He opened the door to see two colts running towards something. Then he saw Spike run in his direction.

"Twilight, Speed! Help!" Spike yelled as he ran inside. Speed watched Spike run inside and turned around to see stars in his face. Then the stars bowled past him towards those two Colts. He rubbed his eyes and looked again and saw that he was not on drugs. He made the beast out to be some sort of bear that looked like it had the universe on its fur.

"Ok, obviously that's not good. Better check it out up close." Speed said before chasing the beast. When he found it again, he saw it stalking towards Trixie's stage where the two colts were. He saw them bang on the door until she came out without her cloak and hat. She looked up and saw the bear and squealed in fright.

"Oh boy...this cannot end well can it?" Speed asked rhetorically to himself. Trixie then created a small cloud over the bear and made it rain. The bear simply ignored it and kept walking forward. Then,she used the cloud and zapped the bear's behind. It obviously felt that and did not like it. Not one bit. The beast roared in rage and charged forward.

"Crap!" Speed yelled before he flew ahead of the bear. He landed in front of the two colts and Trixie.

"What the...get out of the way you rat!" Trixie yelled.

"Hey! I'm not a rat!" he yelled before he stopped the bear with his hands," I'm a hedgehog!" he then pushed the bear back using his wind power." So you wanna tussle?" He asked before He pulled out his red emerald and transformed into Asura." Lets tussle."

Play-Light em up- Fallout boys

The beast charged again before being stopped again by Asura. Then he grew four arms from his back and grabbed the beast snout and picked him up and threw him back a few feet. The beast roared and grabbed some chunks of stone from beneath him and threw it at Asura. He easily smashed the stones and charged. He pulled back his entire right side and punched the bear in the face three times. The force of it was so powerful that it actually went airborne. Asura followed up by flying up with it and flew straight into its stomach and sent it back to the ground. He landed shortly after.

"Ha! Is that really all you-"suddenly, Asura reverted back into Speed."got?"

Stop playing music

While Speed was confused, the bear charged again and swiped him into a building causing the building to collapse on him.

"But how?" Speed asked. Because you idiot! You just got my power yesterday! And in case you haven't noticed, you're still injured! Asura yelled from his mind. The bear stomped down him but luckily he was able to back away from being squashed.

"Speed!" Twilight's voice rang out from behind him. He turned towards her to see that her horn was charged. " Watch out, I got this." she said confidently.

She began to let her magic flow from her horn and go towards the bear. As it drew closer, Speed swore he saw music notes in it. The magic closed around the bear and circled him. Speed noticed that the bear started to get drowsy, but it still wasn't falling. Then, at the same time Twilight cast her magic on a jug shaped object filled with water. After dumping the water, she brung the jug over to the barn and ran it through. After many cos noises, she brought the now full jug with milk over to the bear. Once more she amplified her magic to pick up the bear. Suddenly, the bear fell but was suspended in mid-air again. Twilight looked over to Speed to see him using his wind power to hold the bear. Twilight flashed him a smile as he gave her a thumbs up. Then with their powers combined, they floated the bear all the way into the deep parts of the Everfree Forest.

Then, as soon as the bear was gone, the two of them heard cheering from behind them as the crowd came towards them. Cheers were spread all around the two.

"Twilight!" a voice called. Twilight and Speed turned and saw the mane 6 along with Spike rushing towards them. They all gathered in a group hug but part away shortly.

"That was amazing Twilight! I never knew you were this good at magic!" Spike complemented.

"And Speed, when you held your own against that Ursa Minor was simply amazing!" Rarity exclaimed. Speed sweat dropped at this statement. That was an Ursa Minor? I hate to see what an Ursa Major would look like! Speed thought.

"Well I had to in order to save Trixie, Spike,and those two Colts. Speaking of which, where is Trixie?" Speed asked.

"This is not over!" she called out from behind them. "This is not the last you'll see of the Great and Powerful TRIXIE!" she yelled before dropping a smoke bomb and running off, not without an embearassing trip along the way.

AN: I'm so sorry...

" You know, that may not be the last we'll see of her, but I have a feeling she'll learn know when not to open her fat mouth next time eh?" Speed laughed. The others laughed along with him.

" Well this calls for a celebration! How about we all eat at Sugar Cube Corner on me!" Pinkie offered. As soon as Pinkie said that, Speed took off at a breakneck pace towards the bakery.

"Finally fooooddd!" he yelled on his way there. The others followed behind at a slower pace.

"I hope he doesn't eat as fast as he runs. Otherwise Pinkie, he'll put you out of business." Twilight pointed out.

"Oh no! You're right!" Then she took off as well." Speed wait for me!" The others laughed at their friends crazy antics as they followed the speedy duo.

I am so sorry. To all of those who actually still read this, I am truly sorry for taking so long. I have no excuses for being this tardy. I am truly ashamed.

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But on happier notes I'm not dead at least! But seriously I will see to it that I am never this slow again and if I go silent to give you a little update on my whereabouts. For now I hoped you enjoyed this chapter of Element of Freedom and as always,

This is Speed the Hedgehog

SIGNING OFF!