A Problem That Involves Flim Flam
The following day, Trixie and her new friend, Mirage were both spending their time together at the local pool of Furry Town. "Well," Mirage said, "Do you like it?"
"Yeah," Trixie answered, "This is a nice pool you got here." "I'm glad that you like it here," Mirage said. "Thanks," Trixie replied. The two unicorns relaxed together for the moment.
A few minutes later, they were both walking through town, on their way to do something else together. "So, Trixie, are you enjoying your stay?" Mirage asked Trixie. "Yes," Trixie answered in a happy tone of voice. "That's good to hear," Mirage said.
But then, they noticed a large machine, accompanied by two unicorns. The machine looked like a giant mechanical fox. "What on Equestria?" Mirage said. The two unicorns ran towards the strange thing to get a better view.
"What's this?" Trixie asked. All of the other ponies wanted to know, too. The two unicorns who were near the thing jumped into view. "Who are they?" Trixie asked.
"I have never met them before," Mirage answered. "Let us introduce each other," one of the two unicorns said. "He's Flam," one said. "He's Flim," the other said. "We're the world famous Flim Flam Brothers! We're traveling salesponies!"
All of the other ponies were impressed. "Oh brother," groaned Mirage, "Salesponies! I've never met these two. But I can sense trouble." "What do you mean?" Trixie asked.
"One time," Mirage explained, "I bought a new merry-go-round for Skya. The next thing that had happened, it had given her the worst time of her life! It turned into a rocket engine!" "Oh," Trixie replied.
"We've brought this fox here to represent your town!" one of the salesponies, Flim to be exact, said, "We thought you deserve something as wonderful as this!" "Right there, brother of mine!" Flam said, "We hope you enjoy the view!" While the other ponies admired the mechanical fox, both Trixie and Mirage had decided to just go on their own way.
"Well, I will admit they were trying to be generous," Mirage told Trixie. "I guess so," Trixie said. She didn't admit that she could sense that something will go wrong and she hasn't told Mirage that for a split second, she saw that the robotic fox's mechanical eyes glowed bright red.
"Maybe I'd better keep it to myself," Trixie said at last. The two unicorns had decided to go visit a nearby river.
Later that they, the Flim Flam Brothers kept showing off their robotic fox to the citizens of Furry Town. Until they decided to move on their way, taking their robotic fox with them.
"Do you think it's time to go, brother?" Flam asked Flim. "Why yes it is," Flim answered his brother. "We'll be going now," both Flim and Flam said together. "Ok," said a pony.
But suddenly, before somepony could say 'Flutter Pony', the robotic fox changed position. "Uh oh," Flam said, "I think I made a mistake with my magic." "What is it?" Flim asked. The robotic fox started jumping all over the place.
Instantly, one house was destroyed. Luckily, no pony or pet was inside. Nonetheless, this caused everypony in town to start running around screaming.
"Uh, brother?" Flim asked, "Did you programmed it to do that?" "No," Flam replied, "I think I messed up."
At the same time, both Trixie and Mirage heard the sounds of destruction as they were walking back home.
"What's going on?" asked Mirage. "Wait a minute," Trixie said, "Maybe." Both unicorns turned to see a house being thrown by the robotic fox. "I knew it!" Trixie said out loud. "Look out!" yelled Mirage as the house came towards them.
Luckily, they got out of the way before the ruined house crashed to the ground. "What on?!" Mirage burst out. "We have to do something!" Trixie shouted.
Both ponies ran towards the Flim Flam brothers, who were both watching in dismay. "Brother," Flam said, "I think we have a problem." "Yes, brother," Flim replied. "What are you two idiots doing?" Mirage shouted at the top of his voice just as he and Trixie ran into view. "We've might have unleashed a mechanical beast," Flam said.
"No dumb way!" Trixie shouted, "What happened in the first place?!" "We've might have programmed a faulty system into the fox," Flam answered in a weak tone of voice.
"Well, deactivate it!" Mirage demanded. "Too late," Flam answered, "It's gone on a rampage. There's nothing we can do about it!" I knew there would be trouble!" Trixie said out loud. "Trixie," Mirage said sternly, "We have got to stop that monster from-" Mirage saw the mechanical fox demolish another house instantly.
Luckily, all of the ponies, and their pets who were inside escaped before destruction.
"Destroying the town!" Mirage finished his sentence. "Right!" Trixie answered. With that said, the two unicorns raced off to the rescue just as the robotic fox stomped towards the zoo that Trixie and Mirage visited yesterday.
It approached the tank where the giant snorkel clam is kept. It extended its robotic arm into the water, grabbed the snorkel clam took it out of the water and threw it far away like a dodge ball. "Holy cowfish!" Mirage exclaimed. "I can't believe it!" Trixie said. Both unicorns watched in horror.
Meanwhile, at the same time, an earth pony, far away from Furry town wandered around, not having a single idea about what to do. "I don't know where this are," the earth pony, whose name is Mountain Moron said. He is right.
He has no idea what he's doing there. He then looked up and did not pay any attention to what is approaching him. "A bird," Mountain Moron said, "A tree. A bird."
Actually, it was the giant snorkel clam that had been thrown into the air by the now out of control mechanical fox. Mountain Moron did not take any notice when the clam opened its shell and clamped onto the dim-witted pony upon landing.
Back in Furry Town. "We must do something now!" Trixie shouted just as the robotic fox turned to see the owner of the petting zoo, and was about to smash him out of existence.
"Never!" Trixie shouted as she teleported the owner and all of the animals still in the zoo away. She got them all out just as the robotic fox trashed the place.
"Unbelievable!" Trixie said in dismay. Just then, Mirage's pet ferret, Skya ran into Mirage's sight. "Skya!" Mirage said, "Are you all right?" Skya responded.
"Good," Mirage said, "Trixie, we need to do something about this now!" "Anything you say!" Trixie replied, "There's no time left!" "I'll save everypony and their pets!" Mirage shouted as he turned away. "And I am going to stop that metal dog!" Trixie shouted. The two unicorns worked together.
Mirage managed to evacuate all of the ponies while Trixie faced the mechanical fox. She blasted it with her magic multiple times, but only did minor damage to it. "You're going to pay, you savage beast!" Trixie shouted. The mechanical fox, still functioning, attempted to attack Trixie.
But Trixie managed to dodge the robot fox's slashing claws. "Trixie!" Mirage shouted, still trying to get everypony to safety. "All right," Trixie mumbled, "Enough is enough! This nonsense ends now!" Every other pony watched just as the mechanical fox lunged towards Trixie.
"It's time for the Great And Powerful Trixie!" Trixie said out loud, "To do the right thing!" With that said, just as the fox jumped onto Trixie, she gave off a full magic blast and stopped the mechanical fox completely in a force field.
Trapped in Trixie's magic aura, as the fox struggled to break free, all of its circuits overheated and the fox began to break down from the inside. All of the other ponies, even Mirage and Skya watched in amazement.
"Fire away!" Trixie shouted and she sent the dysfunctional fox up into the sky, past the clouds and stratosphere and into outer space where it exploded in a fireball. It was destroyed
Everypony watched the whole thing. "Whew!" Trixie exclaimed, feeling tired, "That was a blast!" Soon, all of the ponies cheered Trixie and Mirage. "Wow," Mirage said. They thanked Mirage for saving them and they thanked Trixie for destroying the robot monster. "Its no problem," Trixie smiled, "I can't let that beast destroy the town. It's your home."
"Trixie," Mirage said, "That was great and powerful of you." "Thanks," Trixie smiled, "Now I know I don't need to show off. I just did the right thing." She felt proud of herself.
"This time," she thought, "I did the right thing instead of just showing off my magic." Mirage agreed.
Just then, Flim and Flam walked into view. "Thank you," Flam said. But everypony stared at the two. "What do you want?" Mirage asked angrily. "We wanted to thank you for getting rid of the prized fox," Flam said. "We've might have made a teeny tiny mistake," Flim said.
Still, everypony gave the two brothers an angry stare. Some more ponies faced the Flim Flam brothers. All had rocks. "Why hello there," Flam said in a insincere tone voice.
"You menace!" one pony shouted and threw a rock at the two. Flam used his magic to protect themselves from the rock. "I think we've overstayed our welcome," Flam said. "Run away?" Flim suggested. "Yes," Flam answered.
Both Flim and Flam ran away with all of the ponies chasing after them. "And stay out!" one pony shouted as Flim and Flam ran far away. "Good riddance," Mirage said, "Lesson learned, never trust a phony salepony ever again."
But Trixie then took a look at the ruined town. "I'm so sorry that this had to happen," Trixie said sympathetically. "Well," Mirage said, "At least no pony got hurt."
"Mirage," Trixie said suddenly, "I can't leave the town in this condition! I am going to help rebuild it!" Mirage looked at Trixie. "Well," he said at last, "All right. We'll start tomorrow morning." "Good," Trixie said, "I have to do it!"
"Deal," Mirage said. Just then, Mountain Moron, with the giant snorkel clam still clamped onto him walked into view. "What is princess doing?" Mountain Moron called from inside the clam.
"It's the snorkel clam from the petting zoo!" Trixie said. "Am I in space?" Mountain Moron asked again. "That pony has zero idea of what is going on," Mirage said. "Yep," Trixie agreed.