The Assistant
By VGMaster78
Chapter 1
On a hot summer night, a sky blue unicorn with short silvery hair galloped away from the town that caused her so much humiliation, tears in her eyes. She stopped to look backat the hick town once more and cursed the name of Twilight Sparkle.She had not only lost her wardrobe, she lost her home in the UrsaMinor’s attack. The showmare, Trixie,looked up to the night sky and wondered where she would go now. She didn’t know how to navigate via the guiding stars and her maps were still in the wreckage of her once-great carriage. Turning to survey the forest edge, she spied a cabin that wasstill lit at this hour. She would ask if she could borrow a map of Equestria and scope out her next destination; she only hoped the pony who occupied the home wouldn’t recognize her from the show she had performed earlier that day.
She brought her hoof to the door and gave it a gentle knock. The only response from the other side, however, was a light squeak . After a few minutes of listening to an odd rustling on the other side of the door it cracked openjust a little. On the other side she caught the slight glimpse of a pony with butter yellow fur and eyes of a beautiful ocean blue. The unicorn was lost in them for a second but she shook her head and got back to the question she wanted to ask.“Um, hello? Can I help you?” the mare asked quite timidly.
“Yes, the Great and Powerful Trixie would like to borrow a map if you have one,” Trixie declared suddenly, not waiting for other mare’s name to be given.
“Um, sure, I guess you can. Hold on a second please,” the mare replied as she closed the door and went back inside to fetch the map.
Hmph, why do I have to wait out here while that beautiful hick gets me a map? Wait… what? She could have at least invited me in for bit.
The door reopened all the way thistime, revealing a pegasus mare with a smooth pink mane and most peaceful eyes that Trixie had ever seen. She was blushing slightly at the sight of the figure before her. Trixie herself looked off to the side slightly, her cheeks reddened from the burning feeling that was affecting them. She saw the map in between the other mare’s teeth and was about to grab it with her own mouth when she belated remembered that she was a unicorn. The night’s events had shaken her a bit. To not only be beaten at her own act but completely outdone by a superior unicorn had left her somewhat speechless, or in this case magicless. She quickly got over it and grabbed the rolled-up map in her aura. She was about to turn and leave when she heard the mare speak up again.
“Wait, don’t go. I remember you from the magic act you performed earlier.”
Oh great, here it comes.She’s going to chase me off her property and take back the map.
“I thought it was amazing,” she said in hushed voice.
Trixie just stood there with her eyes wide open. She had been certain that everypony in Ponyville had hated her performance. To find a pony that had actually enjoyed her act was interesting to say the least, and left her was smiling slightly.
“Where did your hat and cape go?” the other pony asked curiously.
“It was lost in an Ursa Minor attack, along with my carriage.” Trixie was getting uncomfortable with answering this random pegasus’ questions.
“Oh my, what was a Usra Minor doing so close to Ponyville? I hope it’s not hurt at all.”
“You hope it was okay?!” Trixie couldn’t believe this mare was more worried about that monster than everypony else.
“Oh, an Ursa Minor is just a big cuddly baby bear. I don’t think it would mean to hurt anypony on purpose.” Fluttershy spoke with hope in her voice.
“Well, nopony was hurt and that purple loser returned the beast back to its cave. What a showoff.” Trixie scoffed the last part under her breath.
“Purple loser? Oh! Do you mean Twilight? She is so talented with magic, but I guess that’s a given what with her being the student of Princess Celestia.”
What?! That unicorn is a student of Princess Celestia? It wasn’t fair. Trixie had to have the bad luck to visit the town with the only unicorn able to out-do her at her own game. All she wanted to do now was get to the next big town and perform a show before word got around that she wasn’t able to get rid of an Ursa Minor, let alone an UrsaMajor.
“Well, it’s been nice chatting with you…” Trixie started, trailing off at the end of her sentence as she hadn’t caught her benefactor’s name.
“Oh, I’m sorry. My name’s Fluttershy.”
“It was nice meeting you Fluttershy, but I really must go.” Trixie was about to leave whenshe was stopped yet again by soft exclamation from the mare.
“Wait! Oops, sorry if I was loud but didn’t you say you lost your carriage during the attack?” Fluttershy asked.
“Yeah, so?” Trixie responded.
“Um, do want to stay the night? I know it’s summer but the nights can still get pretty cold at times.”
Trixie sighed at this. She was going to be wasting time by just staying the night - she didn’t even know that much about this Fluttershy other than that she’d liked Trixie’s performance and knew a bit about the insufferable Twilight Sparkle. Reluctantly she agreed to stay only for tonight, before hightailing it out of there.
Inside the cabin there were bird houses and plants everywhere; it was simultaneously somewhat relaxing and mildly creepy . She looked over into the corner of the room and saw a rabbit staring at her with a very serious expression.Trixiemoved around a bit and watched as the mammal kept its eyes on her the whole time. It freaked her out a little. Fluttershy had gone into the kitchen to make some tea for them to drink, so Trixie took a spot on the couchwhile she waited.
Inspecting the ornaments that Fluttershy had placed on a small table beside the sofa, Trixie took in a picture in which her hostess was posing with the other ponies she had humiliated on stage: the rainbow one, the tacky one, the redneck, that accursed Twilight Sparkle and oneother friend who looked like a total air head. Was this Fluttershy character just letting her stay a bit so she could get some revenge while she slept? Yeah, that was it!She would wake up in the morning locked up and bound in a basement or with a knife in her stomach. Trixie wasn’t that foolish though; she was a powerful unicorn and with endless amounts of magical energy she could get out of almost any mess. Her thoughts came to a head as Fluttershy came in with two teacups on a tray balanced on her back. It was placed on the table and Trixie was about to pick up a cup when she realized that her tea could be poisoned - she quickly spun the tray a bit so that Fluttershy would take the other cup. Fluttershy blinked at her,not understanding what was going on. Trixie just smirked at her victory, but stopped when she saw the pegasus smile as well and extend a hoof towards her new cup. That devious little fink! Trixie knew what she was up to. Fluttershy had anticipated that Trixie would switch the beverages and had planned it so she would get Trixie’s cup. Again she spun the tray before Fluttershy took her drink. Fluttershy frowned a bit by all of this.
“Um, what’s wrong Trixie?” Fluttershy said, veryconfusedas to why Trixie was acting like this.
“Trixie knows you did something to this tea!You added something to it!” Trixie wanted answers right this second but much to Trixie’s dismay Fluttershy merely giggled a bit. The showmare couldn’t take much more of this torture, that was for sure.
“You’re right, I did add something into it,” Fluttershy confessed.
“Ahah! Trixie knew all along!” Trixie smirked with triumph. She wasn’t getting poisoned tonight. One plan foiled!
“I put some bee honey in it. The bees were so generous today and gave me some after I helped their Queen. The poor dearhad gotten stuck in the hive’s own honey,” Fluttershy explained.
“Wh- What?No you didn’t! You’re lying, you put some kind of poison or sleeping powder in this. I know it.” Trixie stated her suspicion as if it were fact.
“Sleeping powder? Would you like some? I can put some in your tea and stir it up a bit if want. Are you having insomnia problems, you poor dear?” Fluttershy worried over the unicorn mare in her care.
“No! Ugh, can I just get a blanket? I want to go to sleep already!” Trixie was starting to get furious at all this questioning and disliked her privacy being invaded by some random pony.
“Oh, alright. Come along - I’ll let you sleep in my bed tonight if you want,” Fluttershy said with the kindest smile on her face.
“What? You’re just going to give Trixie your bed? I don’t understand, why would you do such a silly thing?”
“Oh, it’s fine. You’re the guest and deserve better than just the couch.” Fluttershy finished by taking a quick sip of her tea before taking Trixie’s hoof in her own.
Fluttershy led the showmare to her bed and tucked her in ever so gently.When it was done she gave Trixie a quick embrace before heading back down the stairs for the rest of the night.
Trixie was just left there blushing furiously.She turned onto her side, facing away from the door and scoffed,”Whatever! You don’t like that mare, Trixie! You got that!” before falling into an uneasy slumber.