Chapter Thirty Eight: Trixie's Revenge
Galloping through an empty, and supposedly abandoned marketplace, a cloaked pony searched around for a certain shop. It was raining pretty hard but the pony didn't care in the slightest. The pony was moving quickly as to not be seen by anypony who may have been out that night, although the chances of anypony being around was low they didn't want to take any chances. After a while they found the shop they were looking for, which was pretty well hidden.
They entered the shop and began searching around. There was something specific at this shop that they wanted to get. The pony had heard rumors of it being sold at this place, and they were hoping that it wasn't just rumors. Unfortunately it seemed that it was just rumors after all as everything they came across was junk.
Just then a light came on, making the room only slightly less dark. Suddenly a grey pony with blue ponytail walked out of the back. He was wearing brown and yellow clothes, as well as glasses and a hat. "May I help you, traveler?" He then led his customer to the counter. "Hmm, something drew you to my shop... something powerful."
The cloaked pony pointed up towards a black and red amulet resting in a glass case. It had the head and wings of an alicorn, and they were attached to a grey triangle. Inside the triangle was a red diamond.
"Ah, you have a keen eye. The Alicorn Amulet is one of the most mysterious and powerful of all the known magical charms."
They pointed at it again, signaling that they wanted to purchase it.
"Uh, ah— I'm afraid this is... far too dangerous." He warned. But when his customer threw a big bag of bits onto the counter he gave in. Of course, he knew just what kind of damage somepony could do with the Amulet... but if they wanted it that badly than why not sell it. "Would you like that gift-wrapped?" Besides, once it left his possession it wouldn't really be his problem.
The pony stared at their Amulet for a few moments before starting to chuckle, and soon enough their chuckling escalated into full blown laughter. It became so bad that the shop keeper had to back away slowly. But the pony didn't care, all that mattered was that they got what they wanted. 'Now nothing will stop me from getting my revenge!'
"Come on Rainbow keep going!"
Rainbow Dash and Vegito were currently in the gravity chamber. They had just finished mediation, which the mare was very glad for, and now they were doing some actual training. Recently Rainbow had been training under the effects of high gravity, although 'high gravity' was an overstatement as the machine had been set to five. Still, it was more gravity weighing her down than ever before. And it was quite a workout.
The Saiyan wasn't doing any kind of training, as not only was five times way too weak for him, but also because he was acting as a supervisor. He wanted to make sure that his pupil was doing her exercises properly, otherwise there wouldn't be a point to her doing so in the first place.
"Ninety seven... ninety eight... ninety nine... one hundred!" After finishing her one hundredth wing-up she collapsed onto the floor. Her breathing became heavy as sweat dripped down her face and body.
"Nicely done Rainbow." The fused warrior praised as he switched off the gravity.
She glanced over to him and smirked weakly. "W-what did you expect, I-I'm the strongest pony in P-ponyville." A weak chuckle escaped her mouth.
Shaking his head lightly he tore a senzu bean in half and gave it to her. "Just remember what I said about your ego."
After eating the bean she felt her strength return to her, and she was instantly back to her hooves. "Yeah yeah." She waved off his comment dismissively as she took a moment to stretch her body. "You were right about training under high gravity, I feel stronger and faster already." She noted.
"The more you train under those conditions the better results you'll get. And once you have no problems in five times gravity you can move on up to a higher setting." He explained with a grin.
The cyan pegasus nodded. While she was eager to really train hard she knew that she shouldn't rush into it, and everything her teacher had told her about 'slow and steady' was starting to make sense.
Suddenly there was a loud banging on the door. The Saiyan already knew who it was and went over to open the door.
Once the door was open Pinkie Pie came rushing into the ship. "Vegito you have to come quick!"
"What is it?" Rainbow Dash questioned.
"It's an emergency!" She yelled before taking off for Ponyville.
Annoyed that she didn't specify what the problem was Vegito ran off after her, and his student wasn't too far behind. It barely took any time to reach Ponyville and upon doing so they noticed everypony was gathered around a cloaked pony.
Said pony slowly started chuckling before bursting out with laughter. They continued to laugh for several moments before calming down. "It looks like we finally meet again Vegito!"
He sensed their ki but didn't recognize them at first, after a few moments he realized who it was. "Trixie?"
Pulling her hood back revealed that it was indeed Trixie, but she was different. On her forehead was a stylized black M, almost like a tattoo. There were protruding veins on each side of her head, as well as on each of her hooves. Around her eyes were thick black outlines, appearing as if she had put on way too much eyeliner. Clasped around the front of her cloak was a dark amulet. To complete her new look was a big evil grin.
Just then Twilight and Spike joined the crowd, and upon seeing Trixie they both gasped. "Trixie!"
"What's she doing here?" Spike asked in anger.
Ignoring the dragon's comment she looked towards the purple unicorn. "Twilight Sparkle. I was wondering when you'd show up." She stated before laughing. "I've been waiting a long time for this, and now its finally going to happen!"
"What's going to happen?" The purple unicorn questioned with slight uneasiness.
"I'm going to finally get my revenge on you two, that's what's going to happen!" She grinned.
Twilight raised an eyebrow. "What are you talking about?"
Trixie's grin quickly turned into a scowl. "You know what I'm talking about! You humiliated me and turned me into a laughing stock! I was making a living putting on shows for townsponies, leaving them awestruck with my magical feats!"
"Pfft, magical feats." The cyan pegasus scoffed.
In response to that comment the evil unicorn shot a magical bolt at her, launching her backwards. "Don't interrupt!" She yelled before returning her attention to her rival. "I had a good thing going, and then you ruined it all. Once everypony found I couldn't even defeat an ursa minor they wanted nothing to do with me!" She then turned towards the Saiyan. "And you gave me the ultimate humiliation, by saving me from those aliens and making me look like a weakling."
Vegito narrowed his eyes at her. "First of all, if I hadn't saved you you wouldn't even be here today. Second, there was no possible way you could've beaten Bojack and his henchmen."
The azure mare grit her teeth before continuing. "After your heroic display I tried to help the ponies of Fillydelphia, but they told me to get lost. I left the city shunned, and in my darkest thoughts I contemplated working at a rock farm. But it was then, as I was leaving, that he spoke to me."
The Saiyan and his friends already knew who she was referring to, but everypony else in town had no idea. "Babidi." He said aloud.
"Yes, the great wizard Babidi. He promised me power, and in exchange all I had to do was pledge my undying loyalty to him. And now I have power, more power than I ever could've dreamed of!" She exclaimed.
In response to that he yawned. "Sorry if I'm not impressed, but I've seen this kind of thing before." He then chuckled lightly. "You can forget about getting revenge, there's no way you can stop me."
A big grin came onto the evil unicorn's face. "Oh we'll just see about that." Her eyes and horn then started glowing a blood red. The aura around her horn was massive, much larger than anypony thought possible. And the red electricity sparking around it was also new.
Vegito watched curiously as the mare built up her magical energy. Even as she fired a huge beam at him he wasn't fazed. As the beam struck him though he realized that it wasn't an ordinary attack. His whole body felt like it was changing, and the sensation caused him to scream out in slight pain.
A big cloud of smoke appeared right where the Saiyan had been, and everypony stared at it intently. Once the smoke cleared they all gasped really loudly.
The first thing Vegito noticed was that everything looked smaller, almost as if he had shrunk. Looking down revealed that he had hooves now. Looking himself over, he realized that he had been turned into an earth pony. His coat was the same color as his skin, and his mane and tail were just as spiky as his hair was. His clothes were still on his body, having changed along with his body. He continued looking himself over for a few moments before looking towards Trixie.
Said mare started laughing loudly. "Hahahaha! How do you like your new body?" She kept on laughing before calming down slightly. "Thanks to master Babidi I've learned I can do more than mere illusions. In fact I've spent these last few months learning new spells, and through my training I've become the most powerful unicorn in all of Equestria!"
Everypony was still in awe at what they had just seen. Sure, they all knew that a changing spell wasn't uncommon, but they didn't think just anypony could do it. Aside from the princesses, Twilight was one of the few unicorns who could've done something like that.
A small blush appeared on Rainbow's face as she looked at her now ponyfied friend. It lasted for a few seconds before she shook her head, all the while hoping that nopony saw it.
The spiky maned earth pony's shock quickly turned into a smirk. "You really are a fool."
"What are you talking... about..." To the surprise of her, as well as everypony watching, Vegito started rising off the ground. "How?"
His grin increased upon seeing all of the shocked faces. "Did you really think that because you changed my form I would lose my power as well?" He didn't receive an answer, not that he expected her to answer. In order to further prove his points he began throwing his hooves rapidly in the air, as if he were battling an opponent. His hooves moved so fast that they appeared to be blurs to the crowd. After a few moments he ceased that display and then transformed into a Super Saiyan, further shocking everpony.
"Ah guess he was tellin' the truth about being turned into candy." Applejack whispered to Rarity.
Trixie's jaw nearly hit the floor. She still couldn't believe that her spell didn't work as intended. By turning him into an earth pony she figured that she had rendered him weak and helpless... instead all she accomplished was very mildly inconveniencing him.
He remained a Super Saiyan for a few moments before returning to normal. "I've been turned into a small piece of candy and was still able to fight. So it doesn't matter what you turn me into Trixie, I'll always be better than you!"
The evil unicorn continued staring for a few moments before her whole body tensed up. Painful yells escaped her mouth as she grasped the sides of her head in pain. It was as if some unseen force was attacking her. The pain became so great that she fell to the ground, all the while still screaming in agony. Moments later the M on her forehead began glowing red, it flashed between red and black several times.
Everypony was looking on in total fear, having no idea what was happening. They wanted to go approach her and try and help, but at the same time they didn't want to. They were afraid that she would attack them.
Deep breaths escaped Trixie's mouth as she continued her struggling. She felt this way whenever her master contacted her/gave her an order. And right now he was commanding her to kill Vegito. Her struggling soon stopped, the M stopped flickering, and her screams ceased. She then started slowly chuckling, and that chuckling turned into laughter. The unicorn slowly rose to her hooves, all the while laughing like a madpony. "My master... he speaks to me."
At this point everypony was beyond terrified, and they were sure that Trixie was beyond the point of insanity.
"He-he's telling me to kill you!" Without warning she unleashed a huge red beam(which had electricity dancing around it) at the powerful pony.
Vegito simply moved out of the way, right before the beam could reach him. "You'll have to try harder than that." He grinned.
"Oh I will!" She once again fired a magical blast at her target, and just like last time he vanished. Right as he landed she fired another beam, but once again it was easily avoided. Gritting her teeth she began firing blasts like a madpony, almost like she was a turret. Unfortunately no matter how hard she tried she couldn't hit her foe. Just when it seemed like she would hit him he would move out of the way. "Stand still!"
"Hey it's not my fault you're slow." He joked as he moved his body slightly to the side, avoiding another bolt.
Realizing that that wasn't working Trixie stopped firing. She then smiled wickedly as her horn began to glow once again. Soon after all the clouds in the sky began to converge, making one huge mass.
"She can control clouds?!" Twilight exclaimed, unsure of how that was possible. Only the very highest level unicorns could do that.
Once she had a sufficient amount of clouds she was ready. "Dodge this!" Using her magic she changed the regular clouds to storm clouds. Then, without warning, she made a massive thunderbolt strike down upon her enemy. To her horror he had once again dodged out of the way. Shaking her head she tried once again, but it didn't work. And the next several attempts failed also.
Meanwhile everypony was looking on with even wider eyes. Never before had they heard of anypony being fast enough to dodge lightning. They weren't even sure Rainbow Dash could do it.
The fused Saiyan couldn't help but grin as he avoided her attacks, it reminded him of his days training with Mr. Popo. And while he admired her effort it just wasn't enough. "Hey this is kind of fun... well it would be if you could make these lightning bolts appear faster." He told her while fazing out right as a bolt struck the ground where he previously stood.
The evil unicorn once again grit her teeth before her horn started glowing once again. Instead of making more thunderbolts she began charging a different spell. Pouring more magic into her horn she pointed it at a far away tree, and then she unleashed another magical bolt at it.
Once the beam struck the tree it started to come alive. Slowly it uprooted itself, and the roots beneath it turned into legs. The branches on the side became arms. Pieces of wood fell off the front end of tree, forming eyes and a mouth. With a mighty roar it started to slowly make its way over to its target.
Vegito merely yawned as he pointed his right front hoof at the moving tree. Concentrating his ki he fired a small blast at the tree, and upon touching it the tree exploded in a huge burst of flames. With that taken care of he returned his focus to the silver maned mare. "What was that supposed to do, give me a splinter?"
"It was supposed to kill you!" She shrieked. Already she was getting fed up with the cocky pony, but she wasn't about to let that frustration get to her. The mare then smirked as she prepared another spell.
He raised an eyebrow as he wondered what she would try next. His answer came in the form of his opponent shooting a beam at the clouds. At first he figured she was going to try and zap him again, but to his surprise she turned the clouds into stone. The fused warrior continued to stare up at the now falling stone before moving out of the way, just as it hit the ground. The spot he moved was also underneath a stone cloud, but again he avoided it.
Trixie grinned as she watched him dodge the falling objects. Her plan was working perfectly. While her target was busy dodging she fired another beam at the ground, and once it touched the the ground it started becoming encased in ice. Soon enough the entire area in front of her was frozen solid.
As Vegito avoided another falling cloud he quickly lost his balance, and ended up falling onto his flank. He laid there for a few moments before one of the stone clouds fell on him, but to him it felt like a feather had landed on him. He then looked up at the evil mare with a smirk. "You'll have to do better than tha-" His words were cut off by him being frozen in ice.
Majin Trixie snickered to herself before charging up a magical blast, and she was determined to make it the most powerful blast ever unleashed. The already intense aura around her horn became even bigger, and just by looking at her one could tell she really was giving it all she had. After a few moments of charge she fired a gigantic beam aimed straight for the Saiyan. Upon impact it created a huge explosion.
Everypony had to shield their eyes due to the intense light, as well as the smoke and dust that came after. They were unsure what exactly happened, and if Vegito had survived the blast. Only seven among the crowd knew if he was alive or not.
"How did you like that 'Super Vegito'?" She asked sarcastically while laughing heartily. "I hope you realize now just... how... powerful..." Her words escaped her when she saw that her target was still there. The most powerful blast she could create, and it didn't even scratch him.
"Hey that was nice try, I thought for sure you had me." He joked, much to her infruiation. "Hey, you wouldn't know any kind gravity or weight spells would you?"
Trixie was caught slightly off guard by his strange request, but then she smirked devilishly. She had just the spell for him. "If it's weight you want than weight is what you'll get!" Yet another beam shot from her horn and it hit her target dead on.
Vegito simply raised an eyebrow before he was suddenly brought to the ground. One moment he felt normal(as normal as he could in a pony body), and the next he felt like he entered hundreds of gravity chambers at the same time.
Seeing her opponent lying helpless on the ground made the evil mare laugh. "Oh I'm sorry is that too heavy for you? Well it should be, because I made your clothes weigh over a million pounds!"
"A million pounds?!" Applejack exclaimed.
"No way!" The purple unicorn never heard of anypony being able to increase the weight of something before... at least not like that.
Suddenly, to the surprise of everypony, the potara fused warrior got back onto all hooves. "Now this is what I'm talking about!" He exclaimed while doing some stretches.
The azure unicorn's jaw felt like it was going to fall off. There wasn't any kind of mistake or fluke on her part, no she definitely made his clothes way over a million pounds. "H-how?"
Before answering her question he continued his small workout. Feeling satisfied with the results he stopped and looked towards the pony. "Did you seriously think a million pounds would be enough to stop me?" He scoffed before smiling. "But I really should thank you, all of this weight will be great for my training."
Trixie was at a loss for words. When she made his clothes heavier she expected his body to be crushed, and for him to be broken. Instead he was just fine, in fact he was apparently grateful for what she had done. To say this angered her was an understatement. Her best attempts at killing him were easily brushed aside. She was being made a complete fool of!
Vegito could see her anger rising, having seen that look dozens of times in the past. "Aw, what's the matter, are you angry? Yeah, I'd be angry too if my special talent was being a complete and utter failure." He smirked.
Everypony gasped at his statement. Making fun of a pony's special talent was a pretty harsh insult.
The rage inside of the silver maned mare was about to boil over. Several more veins were present on her face, and they were all about to burst. Everything up until this point had been infuriating, and that last remark was the final straw. With a yell of pure agony and pain she unleashed a gigantic fireball from her horn, much bigger than even she thought possible.
The fused pony merely waited as the flaming projectile neared him. Once in range he swung his right front hoof, deflecting the fireball into the air harmlessly. He could see the shocked looks of the townsponies, and that just made his already big smirk even bigger.
"Why won't you just die?!" Majin Trixie screamed as she continued to bombard him with fireballs. At a certain point she realized how hopeless her efforts were, but in the moment all she cared about was seeing the charred corpse of her arrogant foe. She kept up her assault before eventually stopping to catch her breath.
"I think all of your attacks are doing more damage to you than they are to me."
She let out another frustrated yell before her horn started glowing once more. Using her magic she surrounded her enemy in the same aura. The unicorn tried lifting him off the ground, but found it impossible to do so. She then remembered that his clothes weighed way more than she could lift, even with magic.
As the red aura around him faded the pony looked at his opponent with a grin. "At this point you might as well give up, there's nothing you can do to hurt me."
Trixie glared daggers at the arrogant pony. Give up? There was no way in Tartarus that she would surrender, especially to him. Yet even she had to admit that he was right, none of her spells worked against him. And as much as she hated to admit it there was no way she could win... well, at least not yet. Perhaps if she were to gain more power she could crush him. Suddenly she received a brilliant idea, one that just might work.
"It's up to you, do you want to continue or not?"
A big wicked smile appeared on the silver maned pony's face as she once again laughed manically. Her horn became bathed in a red glow as she concentrated her magic. She only had one shot at this, so she needed to get this right. Another beam shot out of her horn and to her luck her foolish enemy didn't try to dodge.
Once the beam made contact with the Saiyan turned pony there was a big flash of light and smoke, blinding everpony watching. After a few moments, when everything faded, there was nopony there. Vegito was gone. The ponies looked around for him but didn't see him.
There was a pause before Majin Trixie unleashed a victorious shout. "HA!" A series of laughs and chuckles escaped her lips. "Take that you fool! Ahahahahahahahaha!" She then threw several obscene gestures into the air, and while she knew Vegito couldn't see them she didn't care.
Rainbow Dash was the first to snap out of her shock. "What did you do to him?!" She yelled while flying straight towards the evil unicorn, only to find herself trapped within a magical force field.
"I simply teleported him some place far away, but don't worry, he'll be back... well, hopefully not." Majin Trixie grinned as she tossed the pegasus away.
Twilight walked over to where her friend had crashed, and luckily her friend appeared fine. She then looked towards the evil mare. "What now Trixie?" She questioned. Part of her suspected what would happen next, but she was hoping she was wrong.
"Now?" The azure mare chuckled lightly. "Now you and I are going to duel. And we're going to prove once and for all who the most powerful unicorn is!"
Twilight gulped. Sure, her magical abilities had slowly been increasing over time, but after watching the fight she realized just how weak she was. There was no way she compared to Trixie, and victory seemed pretty much impossible. And if Vegito couldn't stop her, than what chance did she have? Yet there wasn't any way out of it. So all the purple unicorn could do was go in and hope for the best.
With a deep breath she moved closer to her opponent. It's times like these she wished she knew more offensive spells. Once in range she called upon her magic, and then fired a concussive blast at her target.
In response to that pathetic attack Trixie created a barrier around herself, and it successfully protected herself. "You'll have to do better than that Sparkle." The evil pony chastised.
Focusing all of her power the blue maned pony fired another blast, but to her disappointment it did nothing against the shield.
"Aw, is that all you can do?" Majin Trixie joked before laughing. "My turn." In an instant she dropped her barrier and unleashed her own beam, and it struck her foe right in the face.
The impact sent Twilight flying backwards and she ended up crashing into the side of the library. The mare fell to the ground and couldn't help but notice just how much pain her back was in. She stood up in spite of the pain and steeled herself; if she was going to win she needed to focus.
Growing tired of waiting the evil unicorn fired off another beam, hitting her opponent in the face yet again. As her foe hit the ground she unleashed another bolt, and then another, and then another. As she fired she could see all the pain she was inflicting onto her enemy, and it made her grin evilly.
Unable to move or defend the purple mare was stuck against the side of the library. The constant barrage of magic blasts left her pretty weak, and she wasn't sure how much longer she would last. She did catch a break when the barrage stopped, but the unicorn wasn't given a moment to breath. Shortly after she was trapped in a magical aura and flung over towards her foe.
"Hmph, to think you once seemed so powerful, and yet here you are at groveling at my hooves." Majin Trixie laughed. "How does it feel Sparkle, to be completely helpless?"
Twilight tried to move but didn't have the strength, so all she could do was listen to the evil unicorn's words.
"I could end your pathetic existence right now... but, I'm in a rare good mood, so I'll let you live." She told her rival before lifting her up with her magic. "You'd better enjoy your life while you can, because pretty soon you'll be nothing but a corpse." After that chilling message she threw the unicorn clear across Ponyville, all the way into the Everfree Forest.
Everypony looked on with wide eyes as their second line of defense had been so easily disposed of. Vegito and Twilight were the most powerful beings in Ponyville, and now they were both gone.
"We're alone... Twilight no, Vegito come back!" Pinkie cried to the heavens.
Trixie gave a triumphant laugh before creating a gigantic force field, which looked kind of like a fishbowl. She lowered it onto the ground, and now Ponyville was blocked off from the rest of Equestria. With that done she faced the crowd. "Anypony else feeling brave?" Her answer came in the form of lots of shaking and worried expressions.
Rainbow Dash glared at the evil mare. "You aren't going to get away with this Trixie!"
Beside her Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie, and Spike all nodded in agreement. Fluttershy was hiding behind them quivering with fear.
"Really? Because I think I already did." She smirked. "Now unless you want to challenge me I suggest you all leave while you have the chance."
Not a moment later Snips and Snails approached their hero. Sure, they were heartbroken to learn that Trixie was a fraud... but that was the old Trixie. The new Trixie truly was Great and Powerful. "That was awesome Trixie!" Snips exclaimed.
"Yeah." The other unicorn nodded.
"YOU TWO!" Trixie yelled as she grabbed the duo with her magic. "Do you two have any idea what you did to me?! If it wasn't for you stupidity I wouldn't have been made a fool of!"
"W-we're sorry Trixie." Snails stated.
"Sorry?!" The mare then grunted. "I really should just kill you both right now... but again, I'm in a good mood, so I'll give you one last chance. And if you fail me again you'll both regret it! Is that clear?!"
They both nodded rapidly.
"Good, now then, we have work to do!"
Vegito appeared within some kind mountain, although to him it seemed more like an inactive volcano. The last thing he remembered was giving Trixie a chance to surrender, and then there was a bright flash of light. Despite the surprise it didn't take him long to figure out what happened. "She teleported me, but where?"
"Well well well, what do we have here?"
Glancing around the Saiyan saw several dragons approaching him, and he recognized them. They were the same dragons that Spike tried so hard to impress. It wasn't just the energy signatures that gave it away, he could also see that Garble's arm was still broken. 'The dragons must not have any kind of medicine or doctors.'
"It looks like a pony got lost." Fume noted with a sinister smirk.
"You're a long way from home little guy." Another dragon stated.
Garble couldn't help but feel like he had seen that pony before, but he didn't know where. His mane and clothes looked familiar, but he just couldn't think of anyone. The weird part was he hadn't seen many ponies in his life, so why he recognized this one was a mystery.
Vegito glanced around at all of the dragons who were no doubt planning on either eating or killing him. It was actually funny to think that they thought they had a chance. In fact it was so funny he actually started laughing.
"Oh look, he's gone mad with fear." A drake laughed.
"No I'm not laughing out of fear, I'm laughing because of how easy this is going to be." He stated as he slowly started rising off the ground, shocking his foes.
And in that moment, as he watched the pony rise off the ground, Garble recognized him. That pony was Vegito, the man who had accompanied Spike to their home. The very same man who made the entire mountain shake, and the same man who broke his arm. His eyes quickly widened and his whole body began trembling. "Oh no..."
Twilight's eyes slowly fluttered open as she awoke from her slumber. The unicorn groaned as she got to her hooves. Her mind was a little foggy, and she had no idea where she was. The last thing she remembered was fighting Trixie and loosing, and then she was flung out of Ponyville. Anything after that wasn't clear.
"You have awoken my friend, I'm glad to see that your slumber is at an end."
Looking around the mare noticed that she was inside Zecora's house, and sure enough the zebra was there. "Zecora? What happened, what am I doing here?"
"I found you out in the forest looking like a mess, so I took you to my place to get some rest." She smiled.
Twilight checked herself and noticed that all of her injuries were gone. She even felt better too, as if she didn't get her flank handed to her by Trixie. "Did you heal me?"
Zecora nodded. "One look at you, and I knew I had to give you a bean of senzu."
It shouldn't have surprised the unicorn that her friend had done that, especially since the zebra was the one making all of the senzu beans. She smiled for a moment before her face settled into a frown.
That didn't go unnoticed by the zebra. "Something troubling is on your mind, something that is unkind."
"It's Trixie..." The blue maned pony began. "She's been taken under control by one of Vegito's enemies, and that's made her even more powerful than before. She's changed from high and mighty to pure evil... and a little crazy, okay very crazy." The mare also had a feeling that strange amulet was also helping Trixie, but she wasn't entirely sure. "She challenged Vegito and managed to teleport him away from Ponyville. I was up next and Trixie defeated me, and that's why you found me in the Everfree Forest." She explained.
Zecora didn't respond at first, she was too busy taking all of that information in. Whoever this Trixie was must have been really powerful to dispose of Vegito so easily. "I see," She began as she took a sip of her tea. "so now we must figure out a way to stop Trixie."
A sigh escaped Twilight's lips. "I don't think it'll be so simple. My magic is nothing compared to hers, and I have no idea where Vegito is." Although she figured that wherever he was didn't matter as he could easily locate her... unless he was teleported off the planet, but there was no way Trixie thought of that.
"Hm, perhaps we should wait for Vegito's return, so a weakness we can discern."
Inside the Golden Oaks Library Applejack, Rainbow, Rarity, Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Spike were gathered. Ponyville had quickly been turned into a place of darkness and despair, and that was before all of the statues and banners of Trixie were put up. And due to Ponyville being under the watchful eyes of Trixie the library was the only safe place they could talk.
The six of them were trying to come up with some sort of plan of attack. Obviously there wasn't much the six of them could do, but any ideas at all were better than nothing. "Just what are we going to do?" Rarity asked the group.
"I don't know, it's not like any of us can take on Trixie." The shy mare lamented.
"Yeah, without Vegito and Twilight we can't beat her!" Pinkie exclaimed.
The farmpony scoffed. "Well maybe if Vegito fought seriously we wouldn't be in this mess."
"Hey! It's not Vegito's fault!" Rainbow defended.
Applejack blinked twice before narrowing her eyes. "It's entirely his fault!"
"Why, because Trixie was weak enough to be taken under control?!"
"No, because he should've just taken her down instead of showin' off!" The orange earth pony yelled.
"I have to agree with Applejack." The generous unicorn stated.
Rainbow Dash turned her angered gaze towards Rarity. "You're taking her side?!"
"Well, you can't really blame me. Vegito had ample opportunities to end the fight, but he didn't."
"And all of those insults weren't helping anything either." Fluttershy added, receiving nods from her friends.
Just when it looked like her rainbow maned friend was about to keep arguing Pinkie Pie placed herself between them. "Come on girls, we're all friends. We shouldn't be fighting against ourselves, not when two friends of ours are missing."
And just like that all of the tension in the room vanished, and everypony had apologetic looks on their faces. "Yer right Pinkie Pie." The earth pony then sighed deeply. "Ah just don't get why he wasn't fightin' seriously."
"Yeah he could've easily whoped Trixie's flank!" Spike exclaimed.
Not a moment later the door burst open, and standing there was none other than Trixie. "Well well well, if it isn't Sparkle's friends." She stated with a sly smile as she looked between all of them. "Strange to find all of you in the library isn't it?"
Rainbow approached her with a glare. "What are you doing here Trixie?!"
"They say libraries are a great place to learn." The unicorn answered with a grin. "But I think the real question is what are you doing in here?"
Everypony looked around nervously. "Oh uh, ya know, just... readin'." Applejack answered with a nervous smile.
"Yeah we're totally not plotting against you or anything." Pinkie blurted out, only to realize her mistake a few seconds later.
In response to that statement the evil mare laughed. "It's cute that you think you can stop me." She continued laughing before calming down. "Now then, I have important work to do and unless any of you are feeling brave I suggest you leave."
As much as they wanted to stay and take on Trixie they knew it was futile, and would probably just make things worse. So they begrudgingly left one by one.
Spike was the last one to go out but the door was forcibly shut before he could leave.
"You're Sparkle's assistant correct?"
The drake nodded hesitantly.
"Good, because I'm going to need your help locating a few books."
He stared at her confused. "Really?" Of course, being the number one assistant to the librarian he would have no problem helping her. But he wasn't sure why she wanted to read some books. Especially after everything he witnessed today.
"Yes, in order for my plans to succeed I'm going to need to learn a few new spells."
"A-and if I refuse?" He asked hesitantly.
"Then I'll simply kill you where you stand and do it myself." She told him plainly.
If the dragon was scared before, he was absolutely terrified now. His life had just literally been threatened, and he knew that the unicorn was serious in her threat. And as much as he hated to admit it it would have been real easy for her to do it. "...Okay, I'll help you."
Majin Trixie smiled wickedly.
Twilight had been inside Zecora's house for what felt like hours. Due to their plan being to wait for Vegito the two of them did just that. Her zebra friend made some tea and the two had a discussion about magic. The unicorn told her friend what kind of spells her rival was pulling off, and after doing so the zebra described the magic she was capable of.
"So you're saying that I could learn the kind of spells Trixie was doing?"
"To learn such advanced magic takes time, but not necessarily a lifetime." Zecora explained.
"But Trixie mastered magic so easily, going from simple tricks to incredible feats."
"Does that really surprise you?"
Both turned and saw Vegito standing in the doorway. Zecora's jaw nearly hit the floor upon seeing him as a pony. "Vegito, is that really you, just what did that Trixie do?"
"She turned me into a pony." He told her plainly.
Twilight ran over to her friend and gave him a hug, and due to the circumstances it was a proper one. "I'm glad you're alright." After breaking off the embrace the unicorn took a good look at him. The view from far away was nothing compared to the view up close. His body was big, not quite as big as Bulk Biceps, but still bigger than the average pony. A small blush appeared on her face as she continued staring at him. 'He looks kind of cute as a pony.' She then shook her head, having no idea where that came from. "So where did she send you?"
"She sent me to the Dragon Kingdom. She probably hoped that the dragons would've killed me."
"You didn't... kill... any dragons did you?"
He chuckled in response to that. "Of course not, but they're all going to be in pain for a while." He smirked as he thought about just how many broken limbs he gave the dragons. "I think the real question is what are you doing here?"
"Trixie challenged me next and I didn't stand a chance, and then she launched me into the Everfree Forest. That's when Zecora found me, and we've just been waiting for you to return." The mare explained.
Zecora approached the duo. "It is truly great that you are here, maybe now a plan for defeating Trixie will become clear."
"It's funny you should mention that, because I have a plan." The fused warrior stated with a smirk.
Spike sat on top of a stool, with his body tied up with chains. He was in that state because his captor didn't want him trying anything funny, or escaping, but the drake knew both options were futile on his part. He was now watching as the evil unicorn tore through the shelves, glancing over each book as quickly as she could. "Uh, you know I'm gonna have to re-organize those right?"
"SHUT UP!" The unicorn yelled.
That instantly shut the drake up. The last thing he wanted was to incur the wrath of his captor, because that certainly wouldn't end well.
As Majin Trixie was looking through her book she paused when she felt the pain from before. The book fell to the ground and so did she. Her master was speaking to her, and she still wasn't used to it.
'You must find a way to free us from this place Trixie, I command you!'
Her screams echoed throughout the library, and her head was starting to hurt. After a few seconds it stopped, and she started breathing slowly.
"Are you alright Trixie?" Spike questioned, only to be hit with a magical bolt, right in the face.
"I said shut up!" She snapped as she picked her book back up. After flipping through a few more pages she found the spell she was looking for. "Ah, finally!" She cheered as she read over everything about the spell; how it worked, what she needed to do to preform it etc.. A triumphant laugh escaped her lips as she turned towards the door. "SNIPS, SNAILS!"
Instantly the door burst open and the two unicorns ran in. They had been outside acting as guards, keeping anypony from disturbing the Great and Powerful Trixie. "Y-yes Trixie?" The taller unicorn questioned.
"Hold still while I test something."
"Okay." They said in unison.
After taking a deep breath she fired a beam from her horn, and it encompassed both of their horns. As she channeled the spell she could see their eyes going blank, and overall they seemed to be getting weaker. After a few moments her test subjects fell to the ground, unable to move. As for the evil unicorn she felt stronger, not much stronger, but more so than before. "Hehehe... HAHAHAHAHA!" She laughed. "It worked!"
"What did you do to them?" The drake questioned.
"I siphoned their magic, adding what little power they had to my own."
Spike took a good look at them and noticed just how weary they looked. "Are they going to be alright?"
Majin Trixie scoffed, not at all concerned about their well being. "Oh I'm sure they'll be fine, but now I can finally put my plan into..." She paused upon feeling a disturbance. Somepony was trying to either get in or out of her magical force field. The mare grit her teeth as she ran out of the library.
Once outside she looked around and noticed Princess Luna relentlessly assaulting her barrier. A big evil grin was plastered on her face as she dispelled the giant shield. She then watched as the princess flew down and landed on the ground in front of her. "Princess Luna. I'm a little surprised to see you outside of the castle."
"You must be the Great and Powerful Trixie." Luna noted. The thought of a pony holding themselves in such high esteem made the alicorn a little angry, especially because the unicorn didn't seem like anything special.
"The Great and Powerful Trixie can't begin to describe me." The evil pony stated. "I think, from now on, I'll be called Princess Trixie."
The alicorn scoffed. "You're not befitting of the title of princess."
Ignoring the comment Princess Trixie raised an eyebrow at the princess. "So what are you doing here 'princess'?"
"I heard there was quite a bit of commotion in Ponyville, so I decided to check it out. I'm a little surprised to find a possessed unicorn wearing a cursed amulet." The princess of the night admitted.
Trixie chuckled lightly. "You must be referring to the mark on my head, the mark of the great wizard Babidi. He didn't posses me, he blessed me with his power." She stated.
"It seems more like slavery to me." Luna noted.
"Well let me ask you something Luna, is it slavery to get the things you want?" She questioned. "I used to be a laughing stock, but now I'm the most powerful unicorn in all of Equestria! You know, I thought you would understand, after all, you used to be Nightmare Moon."
Princess Luna glanced down towards the ground, feeling a little ashamed. "You're right, I used to be." She then looked towards Trixie. "But I was weak back then, and I was foolish enough to let the darkness overcome me. Trust me Trixie, that kind of power will bring you nothing but misery." Although she had a strong feeling the unicorn wasn't listening/didn't care, Luna was still trying to reach the real Trixie.
In response to that sentiment Majin Trixie laughed even harder. "That's where you're wrong. I feel no remorse, no sorrow, no agony. I only feel powerful, and it's truly a great feeling. You were just too weak to handle Nightmare Moon's power, but if you were to pledge your allegiance to Babidi you could feel as alive as I do."
"No, I would never let myself be taken under control again!"
The azure mare scoffed. "You know I used to respect you Luna, more so than that foolish sun-butted softie that calls herself princess."
The anger inside Luna was quickly rising. "I should thank you not to refer to my sister that way!"
"Oh, and what are you going to do about?"
A heavy sigh escaped the lunar alicorn's mouth. She then flew high into the air, all the while her eyes were glowing pure white. "THOU SHALT FEEL THE WRATH OF THE PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT!" Her Royal Canterlot Voice came out before she fired a huge magical blast at the mare.
Trixie brought up a barrier, protecting herself from the blast. "That's it, I was hoping for a good fight." She grinned as he fired a beam of her own at the princess.
Flying to the side the princess avoided the blast. She then fired another beam, but this time her opponent countered with a beam of her own. The two beams collided making a giant purplish sphere. The size of the sphere increased as the two ponies put more and more into their respective blasts. As time went on Luna found her blast getting pushed back, and eventually she was hit right in the face. That caused her to fall to the ground.
Majin Trixie wasted no time in blasting her opponent again, and then once again. "Is that really the best you can do Luna?" She taunted as she continued to barrage the helpless alicorn.
After a few moments the alicorn called upon her magic and teleported away. She then took control of the clouds and brought down a lightning strike. Unfortunately her lightning bolt did nothing against the shield of her opponent.
"Nice try." The unicorn smirked as she fired an icy blast from her horn, catching the princess off guard. As a result she froze the alicorn solid. The mare then started moving towards the block of ice. "First I'll take your magic, then Celestia's, and soon after I'll have taken all magic in Equestria!" She gave a triumphant laugh.
Seconds later Luna broke out of her ice prison but she didn't have time to react to the blast that hit her in the face, which knocked her down to the ground.
"Say goodbye Luna!" Her eyes and horn began glowing as she prepared the spell.
Just then, coming out of nowhere, Vegito charged towards the unicorn. Faster than she could see he punched the Alicorn Amulet, shattering it into tiny pieces.
Trixie stood there in complete shock that not only was Vegito still alive, but also because he destroyed her amulet. Before she could comprehend what happened she found herself trapped in a magical aura, courtesy of the princess.
"Twilight now!"
Also nearby were Twilight and her friends, and they were each wearing their Element of Harmony. In an instant they channeled their inner power and activated the Elements. As soon as the power reached Twilight's crown a rainbow colored beam shot out of it, and it was heading straight for the evil mare.
Unable to move Majin Trixie was helpless to defend herself from the oncoming beam. Her whole body was engulfed by the Harmony Beam, and she could feel the raw power surging through her. She screamed in agony as she felt all the darkness and evil leave her. As time went on she could no longer hear her master's voice in her head, or any other voices for that matter. And when the beam finally faded the mare was lying face down on the ground.
Vegito smirked as his friends walked over to him. "Nice job girls."
They all smiled at his compliment.
"Yes, well done." Luna praised.
A few moments later Trixie began stirring. She slowly stood up while rubbing her aching head. "Ugh, what happened?" It was then that she felt normal again, like she had regained control of her body again. "The voices... they're gone..." This realization made her laugh, it wasn't evil like before, instead it was a happy laugh. "I'm free!"
"You've been freed from Babidi's control, all thanks to the Elements of Harmony." The Saiyan explained, all the while noting the M on her forehead had vanished.
The azure pony continued her joyous laugh before running over and hugging the fused warrior. "Oh thank you Vegito!" She cried out as she continued hugging him.
Everypony could tell that the Elements of Harmony had done more than just break the curse on Trixie. It seemed as though she was a whole new pony.
After a few more seconds the silver maned unicorn broke off the embrace. A question then came to her mind. "Was this all some sort of plan?"
He nodded and flashed her a smirk. "I knew I needed some way to remove the curse, but wasn't exactly sure how to do it. And after you sent me to the Dragon Kingdom something struck me. The Elements of Harmony had the best chance of doing so, but we needed some way to keep you distracted. So once I found Twilight in the Everfree Forest we went to Luna so she could help us."
"When Vegito told me you had Ponyville locked up I knew I had to do something. It also turned out that you were wearing the Alicorn Amulet, which make the user more and more evil the more they use it. It should have been locked up, but I guess we don't have to worry about that now." She noted while looking at the remains of the former amulet.
"And once you opened the shield it was simply a matter of finding the others and collecting the Elements."
Trixie couldn't help but think how brilliant that plan was, and she only now realized that she really did have zero chance against the Saiyan. "Well... thank you for freeing me." She then turned towards the ponies. "I would like to thank all of you as well. You've freed me from the evil wizard's control and now I'm me again." She smiled.
"You're welcome, but I can't help but notice how different you're acting." Twilight pointed out.
"Before I was brought under control I only cared about myself, and then once Babidi had me I wanted nothing more than to make everypony suffer. But now I feel... happy. I've been given a second chance, and I want to do some good with it. You all showed me the way, and I want to help everypony as you've helped me!"
The Element Bearers all smiled at that. It was always great when they helped ponies turn over a new leaf.
Princess Luna approached the unicorn. "Well I think that's wonderful... and you can start right after your trial."
"Trial?!" Everypony gasped.
"Yes, trial. She assaulted a princess and made several threats against Equestria, I certainly can't just let her go."
Trixie could see that the other ponies were still worried. "It's alright, I'll gladly stand trial." She stated, shocking everyone. "I did some awful things, and now I have to pay for them."
"And don't worry, I'm sure she'll get off easy, with the right testimony." She winked towards her sisters student.
Twilight got what the princess was doing, and smiled brightly at her.
Just then Spike came running out of the library, sporting a bruise on his face. "TWILIGHT!" He didn't stop moving until he was hugging her leg tightly. "Thank goodness you're here. Trixie tied me up in the library and threatened to kill me and then she made a big mess and stole Snips and Snails' magic! It was so scary!" He told her while crying lightly.
All eyes fell on Trixie, who merely chuckled nervously.
Trixie was now at Ponyville's train station, being accompanied by Luna, Twilight, Vegito, and the rest of their friends. Her trial had gone rather well, although hearing about the awful things she had done wasn't easy. Luckily Twilight and her friends vouched for the formerly evil unicorn, saying that she had changed. And in the end she was sentenced to a lot of community service, which was great for Trixie because her plan was to help ponies anyway. And now she was on her way to other towns and cities, to offer her hoof in help. "Well this is goodbye. I want to thank all of you once again, you really helped me out."
"No problem Trixie." The purple mare smiled.
"Don't be a stranger now." Applejack said.
The azure pony nodded before being wrapped in a bone shattering hug from Pinkie Pie.
"I'll miss you Trixie!"
"There there Pinkie." She replied weakly while patting the emotional pony on the back.
Vegito then pulled Pinkie away before turning towards the mare. "Not many villains are given a second chance, and those that do often waste it." He frowned before smiling. "Try and do some good for this world."
His words impacted Trixie more than she knew, and she felt a few tears come to her eyes. She nodded just as the train arrived. She boarded it and then turned around and waved goodbye to them all. "Bye."
Everyone waved her off as the train left the station.
Once the train was gone Vegito looked towards the princess. "Can you change me back now?"
Luna's horn began to glow and the same glow appeared around the fused pony. She hadn't really done too many form changing spells, but she was sure she could do it. The aura increased in size before there was a big puff of smoke.
The smoke cleared and Vegito had been returned to normal. He looked himself over before sighing in relief. "Phew, it's me again." It wasn't that bad being a pony, at least compared to being a piece of candy, but he obviously preferred his normal body.
"Well I should be getting back to Canterlot now." Luna waved goodbye to everypony before flying back towards her home.
"So if you needed to think of a way to return Trixie to normal why didn't you just knock her out?" Twilight questioned.
"Please, that wouldn't have been nearly as much fun."
"FUN?!" Applejack, Rarity, Twilight, and Spike yelled in unison.
"Trixie enslaved us!" The farmpony yelled.
"She relentlessly attacked me!"
"She tied me up and threatened my life!"
The fused Saiyan flinched slightly from their shouting. "Well, its not like she could've done any harm to me."
"Did ya ever stop ta think that not everypony is a powerful space alien who can defeat evil unicorns?"
Vegito glanced down to the ground, now realizing what he had done. Sure, he had proven that he was superior to Trixie, but his friends obviously weren't. Any of her attacks could have easily done some damage to them, and if he hadn't shown up when he did... "You're right, I'm sorry."
Everypony was caught off guard by what he had said. They didn't think he would apologize so easily. "You're sorry?" Rainbow questioned.
"Yeah. You all could've gotten hurt or worse, and that thought never crossed my mind while I was humiliating Trixie. So if this ever happens again I'll end it quickly." He told them.
They were all still a little surprised, but were happy that he would be taking them into consideration next time. It seemed like they were slowly but surely getting through to him.
Babidi was having another one of his outbursts again. It had been so long since he brought that pony under his control that he almost forgot about her, but then his crystal ball reminded him of that fact. So he had been keeping an eye on her in the hopes that she could prove useful to his plans. And who would've thought that she would stumble across his sworn enemy.
After giving the command he watched as she struggled against the Saiyan, unable to do any kind of damage. Just when all hope seemed lost she used her magic and did something to the Saiyan, what that something was was a mystery, but all that mattered was he was gone. And after beating that other pony Trixie was in control.
It was then that the wizard realized that she could potentially be a means of escape. If she could create a portal to Hell then he and his minions would be free! He gave the command but she didn't exactly jump right into it, instead she was busy siphoning the magic of those two smaller ponies, which was genius.
And then once she started fighting that new pony it seemed like she was going to take her magic as well... and then Vegito came along and ruined everything. First he shattered the power boosting amulet, and then she was hit by that rainbow colored beam. He could slowly feel his influence over her vanishing, and after several moments she was free from his control.
Now he was back to square one, but this time with no spy on Vegito's planet of residence. He continued fuming for a few moments before calming down. "Well, at least I still have a backup plan." He grinned before laughing like a madman.
And done. Whew, this was a long one, one of the longest one yet. I'm sorry you all had to wait so long, but there was some stuff goin' on. Hopefully this chapter was worth the wait. This chapter was one I've been waiting to write for a while, ever since the first move arc, so it feels great to finally post it. This episode is great, but I kind of hoped that there would've been actual fighting instead of just out-spelling the other, but it's a kids show so what can you do. But since this is fanfiction I was able to do what I wanted/ Majin Trixie with the Alicorn Amulet proved to be very powerful, but still no match for the Saiyan. I do feel like Trixie being hit the with Elements of Harmony would have changed her personality, at least a little bit. Also in case you're wondering, Vegito's cutie mark is a closed white fist surrounded by energy(I was going to have a scene of Trixie removing Vegito's pants and then being shocked that he had a cutie mark).
And, one last thing, I was going to add a bonus scene of the beginning segment, where it plays out like the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 3(when Homer buys the Krusty doll from the creepy shop), because the scene in this episode always makes me think of that. The reason I didn't add it was because I wasn't sure how many of you would have gotten the reference. That's all for now, be sure to R&R and have a wonderful day!
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