One day, there was a pony named the Great and Powerful Trixie. She had come to Ponyville a few times before, and each time, she had been very rude. She bragged about her accomplishments and talents, embarrassed ponies in front of crowds (such as one certain pony named Applejack who got trussed up like a turkey for standing up for herself), and even enslaved the whole town. She even tortured that pony Applejack for no reason by tickling her until she could barely breathe, and if she knew how ticklish Applejack was, she would have realized that that just ain't right. But she didn't, because she was too obsessed with herself to think about that.
But Applejack's family had always taught her that doing a couple of bad things don't necessarily make a pony bad, and that the best way to help a pony who ain't nice is to be nice to them and try to turn things around, especially when that pony is real down on her luck. Applejack just didn't realize that at first, until her friends reminded her of it. So Applejack decided that maybe she could make nice and make things right by bringing her a wheel to replace the broken one on her cart. After all, everypony needs a friend, even if they don't know it yet.
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One day, there was a pony named the Great and. Powerful Trixie. She was an absolutely boorish sort who seemed to hold no concern for anypony but herself. She liked to tell people how great she was all the time and enjoyed making lovely ponies like Rarity look foolish by turning their manes into truly detestable colors and styles. She allowed herself to become consumed with revenge after being shown up by Twilight, and she brought dark days upon Ponyville in this pursuit. Even worse, she dared to use an awful brown as the primary color for an ensemble, even though said brown is clearly meant for accents. Even after she had apologized for these atrocities, she continued to show her troublesome ways by invading a picnic and complaining that she had not been invited. Even when Rarity generously offered to take time out of her busy schedule to fix Trixie's torn attire, or even make an entirely new outfit for her, she remained callous and ungrateful, and only accepted it (without so much as a thank you, mind you) when Fluttershy asked her to. She was certainly an unlike able sort.
But at the same time, it is important for ponies to remember not to judge a pony too harshly. Everypony has their bad days, everypony makes mistakes and says things they do not mean, and everypony deserves to be forgiven for these things. Even a pony who does these things to other ponies deserves a kindness here and there, and perhaps when a pony is feeling her worst, a well-timed kindness could turn a fiend into a friend. Rarity knew this to be true, and made sure to put her best efforts into a new wardrobe for Trixie that would compliment her coat and mane properly and radiate beauty even on a pony whose previous behavior had been so ugly. It was the least she could do.
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One day, there was a pony named the Great and Powerful Trixie. She always acted like a jerk to ponies. She was always talking about how great she was. She tied Applejack up (which was kind of funny, even though I did feel bad for her) and she gave Rarity green hair (which was also sorta funny, though Rainbow Dash would never tell her that). But then she zapped Rainbow Dash with lightning, which was totally uncool. Then she left for a while after she looked bad by not being able to stop an Ursa Minor, but then she came back and was worse than ever. She kicked Twilight out of Ponyville and did a whole lot of really rude things to ponies. She even made one of Rainbow Dash's wings really huge. That would have been cool if she did it to both, even though it would have been kinda strange looking, but she only did it to one, which, again, was totally uncool. Rainbow Dash was glad when she apologized and left, but then she came back and didn't seem to learn a thing, and kept bragging about herself. And who does that?
Rainbow Dash does that. And thinking about it that way, maybe that's not the worst thing in the world. Sure, the enslaving Ponyville thing was pretty bad, but a pony as awesome and talented as Rainbow Dash couldn't stay mad forever at a pony just cause they also bragged about themselves. And even though she was a jerk, she didn't deserve to be as sad as Rainbow Dash heard she was. And hey, Rainbow Dash always liked making new friends. So when Rainbow Dash heard that Trixie needed some cheering up, she knew just what to do. She didn't have any stuff that Trixie could use like a new wheel or a new outfit, but she did have Wonderbolt connections. Maybe the Wonderbolts could benefit from an opening magic act at their new show? It couldn't hurt, and she really hoped that Trixie would appreciate the effort.
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One day, there was a pony named the Great and Powerful Trixie! She was blue and had purple eyes and really liked magic, and she liked herself even more than magic! She was kinda good with her magic, though she was no Twilight, but I mean come on, who is Twilight? Twilight is! But she was still good at magic even though she wasn't Twilight. She was also a bit of a meanie-pants, which wasn't nice. She went on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on-
Oh! Sorry, Twilight told me that was enough ons! But what I was trying to say was that she talked a loooooooot about how amazing she was! And that's not really so bad because Dashie does that all the time and everypony likes Dashie so I'm not really sure why we were so upset about it in the first place. I guess it was cause she did it in a kinda rude way? So then she came back to town again and she was even meaner! She talked bad about rock farms and when I told her that she was lucky to work on a rock farm, she cast a spell that took my mouth away! I mean come on! Who does that? I had so many things I wanted to say that I couldn't! And don't even ask how I managed to breathe since she took my nose away too! I'm not even sure how to answer that! It just kinda worked I guess! But it was still really really mean! Almost as mean as when she kicked Twilight out of town!
But then she apologized. And that's really important because I know she was even acting kinda rude when she came back the third time, but just the fact that she apologized means that she's really a good pony at heart! So when I heard that she was really really sad, I knew that I had to cheer her up! And that worked out great cause the rest of the girls thought the same thing! I know Fluttershy didn't mean to make her sad because Fluttershy would never ever make somepony sad on purpose, but we're gonna make it right as rain! Though hopefully not too much like rain, cause the party I'm gonna throw her is gonna be really really big and if there's too much rain the streamers will get all wet and then they'll be more like wet paper blobs instead of streamers. But I guess those can be fun too! There's no way Trixie will be able to stay sad after we all surprise her!
Oh wait! I forgot that I was supposed to refer to myself in the third person! Ouh, I mean "Pinkie forgot that Pinkie was supposed to refer to Pinkie's self in the third. Pinkie!" Can we start over?
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One day, there was a pony named the Great and Powerful Trixie. Many ponies thought that she was a bit rude and insufferable, but that simply wasn't the case at all. Sometimes she did or said things that made ponies upset or unhappy, but that didn't mean that she was a bad pony. She was actually a very sweet pony when you got to know her, but too many ponies just didn't give her the chance. If we judged ponies to be bad based on just a couple of not-so-nice things they did, then most ponies would be seen as bad. Even the kindest ponies, whether they mean to or not, do things that hurt other ponies' feelings.
Fluttershy was one of those ponies. Fluttershy accidentally said something to Trixie that made her very, very sad. She had misinterpreted a situation and hurt Trixie's feelings terribly. Fluttershy wasn't used to making ponies so sad, and when she realized what she'd done, she had a good little cry herself. She hoped and hoped that Trixie would forgive her, because finding out how badly she'd hurt her feelings was one of the worst feelings in the world.
There are some ponies that think Trixie is a bad pony because she says and does things that hurt ponies' feelings. Well, if that makes her a bad pony, then that would make Fluttershy a bad pony too, and Fluttershy liked to think that wasn't the case. Trixie really was a nice pony, and Fluttershy wanted more than anything to make her happy again. She promised to herself that she would make it up to Trixie, and hopefully, with a little help from a special somepony, she could.
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One day, there was a pony named the Great and Powerful Trixie. Trixie was a rather good magician, but she liked to believe that she was better than she really was. When ponies saw through her braggadocios ways, she tended to lash out at them and try to get revenge when such a thing wasn't necessary. She held grudges like one wouldn't believe, and even on the rare occasions that she would realize her mistakes and apologize for them, she would just go right back to being upset at that pony for no good reason. She would even make up terrible, insulting nicknames for ponies that she didn't like, no matter how hard they tried to make nice with her. Ponies who were neither stupid nor a jerk, and while they did possess a posterior like all ponies, it was not at all prominent enough to receive featured status in a nickname.
The fact remained, though, that it wasn't right to hold grudges, even against a pony who holds a grudge against you. A pony who is often angry and irrational is still a pony like the rest of us, and deserves fair treatment. Twilight knew that Trixie was a good pony, and she knew very well that Fluttershy never wanted to hurt her. She might have been a little...apprehensive of Fluttershy's idea to make things right, but in the long run, all she wanted was to make ponies happy, and if this would make Fluttershy and Trixie happy, then she was willing to at least give it a try.