Title: Trixie Versus Asphyxia
Premise: MLP: FIM. The changelings are attacking, and the ponies are quickly being overpowered. Trixie, now one of the good guys, tries to stop them by making a volcano erupt (the light will lure the insectoid changelings into the fire). But first, she'll have to get passed the monstrous sister of Queen Chrysalis: Princess Asphyxia! Based on the final showdown scene from Wreck-it Ralph.
Personal Comments: To my shame, I haven't seen the Magic Duel episode yet. I know Sleepless in Ponyville is coming soon.
Wreck-it Ralph was an awesome movie! There are some really gripping, emotional, dramatic moments too. And I loved the villain, Turbo, and the final battle between him and Ralph. I imagined a ponified version of it. This is one of the scenarios I came up with.
I also thought of instead of using an OC, maybe use King Sombra, merged with Chrysalis.
For those who are wondering what a changeling stone is, it's a gemstone that absorbs magic from unicorns and turns it into cells for your body. In other words, the more magic one absorbs with this stone, the more build they get for their body.
Rainbow Dash, Trixie held in her forelegs, zoomed faster towards the volcano. The changelings were swarming all of the place. Many were still converging on Ponyville. Twilight and many of the others were there still fighting off the creatrures as best as they could.
"You sure this will work, Trixie?" Rainbow asked, shouting over the wind.
"It better," Trixie replied. She remembered Zecora saying that changelings were attracted to bright lights, aside from the sun, and would mindlessly migrate toward such a beacon. Given that, this volcano idea should work.
At last, they arrived at the volcano, and Rainbow dropped Trixie down on top. The whole top of the mountain was a barren crater of dried, black lava rock.
"Alright, you good?"
"Yeah. Go back and help the others!"
"On it!" Rainbow salute. "You be careful!"
"Right! You too!"
And with that, Rainbow zipped off back towards Ponyville.
Trixie focused on the volcano. Luckily, she knew just the spell to help here. She focused her magic on the earth down below, and charged energy through it. She could feel the earth start to rumble as the magma was swirled and brewed and mixed. She started to channel it towards the volcano.
The magma flow here was weak. This volcano had been inactive for so long, it seemed.
She would need to break open the lava rock opening herself.
She shot a blast of magic at the center, making a crack. She then pushed harder as the cracks started to widen. Poisonous gas started leaking from one crack as the air started to smell more foul.
This should do it, Trixie thought. One good bash now should loosen it up enough. She focused more magic on herself, letting the magic flow through her own body. Energized my the magic, she lifted herself up straight into the air until she was high enough, and then shot down towards the crack...
...only to be swatted by something hard and rough. The sharp blow sent her tumbling back across the covering until she hit a rock, and then fell on her stomach, clutching herself. She could feel a bone or two definitely broke, most likely in her ribs.
"Welcome to the final showdown!" A voice shouted, "Mare-o y mare-o!" Even though it was not as hoarse as she remembered, Trixie recognized the voice easily. She got to her hooves and looked ahead, and her mouth dropped in horror.
"Asphyxia,"she gasped. The changeling leader was even bigger and more monstrous than she remembered. her arms and upper body were more muscular, more flesh covering her chest, her boney claws still stuck, the legs on her abdomen more scaly and beetle-like. Her face still only consisted of a mouth lined with sharp teeth on an otherwise blank, round, bald, egg-like face. The changeling stone necklace still hung around her neck.
"How do you like my new look?" Asphyxia cackled, as if she knew what the blue mare was thinking. "Because of you, Trixie, I am now the strongest beast in Equestria! I will lead my changelings as we ravage and devour this land! I may even consider overthrowing my sister! And the best part?" She inhaled a big breath. "I can breathe again!
"I should thank you... but, still, it would be far more fun to kill you!" And with that, the monster lurched toward Trixie.
Acting fast, Trixie rolled to the side as a claw of sharp bones came down on the rocks with a hard clank!
Trixie dashed past Asphyxia's legs. She knew fighting this monster would be fruitless. She had to break open this surface and make the volcano erupt.
"Get back here, my little pony!" Asphyxia giggled. She charged again at Trixie, trying to crush her with her many legs, and even tried to jab her with her stinger. Trixie managed to dodge most of them. She barely dodged another claw from Asphyxia, which did catch her back, drawing a slight bit of blood, and tearing the edge of her mane.
Trixie levitated a rock quick and made it fly towards Asphyxia's head. The flow landed, but it seemed like nothing more than a bee sting to her.
Trixie ran toward the crack again, Asphyxia hot on her heals, and still laughing like a maniac.
Trixie charged her magic again as she approached the crack, and flew up to deliver the final blow, but with snake-like speed, Asphyxia swooped around Trixie, and slugged her in the stomach, again sending her tumbling back. She turned the rocks into pillows quick to cushion her landing, which worked.
Again trying to ignore the pain, Trixie got back up. She had to try something. She thought of maybe using the shrinking spell, or maybe the teleportation spell on Asphyxia, or maybe send her to the phantom zone.
She shot a beam of her magic at the creature. But to her horror, the medallion around her neck started to absorb it, and Trixie watched as the Princess became even bigger and more grizzly, if that were possible. Bug-like wings suddenly sprouted out from her back. That was when Trixie stopped shooting.
"Some ponies never learn!" Asphyxia chuckled as she flexed her claws.
Giving a determined look, Trixie thought of something. She raked the ground with her hoof, and charged again. She would have to time this just right.
"Where do you think YOU'RE going?" Asphyxia snapped as she charged at the little pony herself.
NOW! Trixie focused on the gas below, and used her magic to force it up. A massive geyser of poison gas forced up through the rock under Asphyxia, pushing her up and over Trixie, who ran around the geyser. Before she could cast her other spell, she levitated two more boulders and hurled them back behind her at Asphyxia.
Asphyxia scrambled to her 'feet', just in time to swat the rocks like snowballs with her massive claws before she tucked in, and rolled toward Trixie.
Just before Trixie could hit the surface, Asphyxia grabbed her hind legs, stopping her.
"Oh, no you don't!" She grinned. "I'm not through with you yet! Going UP!"
Still holding to Trixie's legs, she flapped her wings quickly, and they leapt up into the sky.
Two of her deformed changeling minions sat on the rim of the crater watching, sharing a bag of popcorn.
"Wow," One of them whispered to the other, "I haven't seen Asphyxia this happy in years!"
"No!" Trixie screamed as she was helplessly pulled higher into the air, the volcano shrinking below them. She tried to squirm and break free of Asphyxia's grip, but it was no use.
"Oh, come now, dear," Asphyxia said calmly, "We'll get a great view of the show from up here!"
Trixie looked around and saw all the changelings running free, ravaging the land. They were still converging on Ponyville, Chrysalis in the lead. Trixie could see Twilight and many of their friends, including the rest of the mane six, still fighting, but clearly their strenght was failing all of them. They were weak, injured, tired. They were just about to fall.
"Girls!" Trixie could only gasp in horror. She wanted to help her friends so badly, but she was stuck here.
One deformed changeling struck Twilight with his sythe-like claw, knocking her to the ground.
"Twilight!" Trixie cried, nearly on the verge of tears.
"Oh, look," Asphyxia chuckled as she pulled Trixie up closer to her. "It's your so-called friends." She grabbed Trixie's head with one claw and forced her to look down in their direction. "Let's watch them all die together, shall we?"
"No!" Trixie's tears were flowing freely now. She finally had some real friends, and just like this, barely a month after knowing them all, they were about to be snatched away from her. She noticed even the wonderbolts, the royal guards, the earth ponies still fighting themselves, all of them were about to fall.
"Don't worry now," Aphyxia added. "I'll snap your neck as soon as they're all dead! Put you out of your misery!" She laughed again.
Trixie could not keep letting this happen. She glanced back down at the volcano. There was only one way to break it now. She was scared of what would happen after it, but if it meant saving all her dear new friends, it would be worth it. She stopped her crying, and let her determination show, bracing herself.
"It's the end of the line for all of you!" Asphyxia laughed mockingly.
"No!" Trixie snapped back, turning back to her. "Just for me!"
Doing just what Twilight had once taught her, she teleported herself just out of Asphyxia's grasp, and before she could be grabbed again, she cast her energizing spell again, and plummeted like a rocket down toward the volcano.
Down in Ponyville, the mane six glanced up at the sky at the bright pink light that shot down towards the volcano, and they quickly figured out who it was.
"Trixie!" Twilight screamed in horror. She ran off ahead to try and save her, teleporting with lightning reflexes to get passed all the changelings. Rainbow bolted after her likewise.
"Twilight! Rainbow!" Applejack shouted after them. Too late. They were off.
Trixie continued to fall towards the volcano surface, watching as it became bigger as she got closer. She was terrified, tears were still flowing freely, being lifted by the force of the fall. She resisted every screaming instinct in her body that demanded her to cancel out the spell and save herself.
With one hoof, the one she was not holding out before her like Supermare or Rainbow do when they fly, she felt the necklace that Rarity had given her, the one with the amethyst.
And suddenly, her life began to reply in her mind. Not necessarily flashing before her eyes, just thinking. How she had always had a hard time making friends as a filly. No one really paying attention to her other than her parents. Working menial jobs for a living, her love for magic, eventually becoming a street performer when she felt like she learned enough magic.
And then Twilight; Twilight being the first pony outside her parents to believe in her; the first true, real friend she had made in a long time, and soon all her other friends did likewise.
So, this is what it's like to have friends? Trixie though.
Twilight, thank you. It is because of you that I was able to know the magic of friendship. It's made me greater and more powerful than I ever could have hoped to be. You've all come to mean so much to me. I don't know what I would do if anything were to happen to any of you. That's why I'm doing this. Because you're all my friends.
As her mind replayed those last words in her mind, Trixie let all her fear slide away, no matter how hard it tried to claw and bite at her. She closed her eyes, and awaited the hard thud and the rush of heat. She was smiling.
Author's Note: You determine if Trixie died or not. Rainbow or Twilight might have saved her. Didn't feel like writing that part in.