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// Mischief in Ponyville 
// Story: Double Trouble 
// by StormLuna 
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The following morning had arrived and Trixie and Sunburst woke up, full of energy.  The previous day they had done something that at one time they thought would never happen, they cast both duplication spells and transfiguration spells.  While Sunburst was simply thinking that their show would suddenly be perfect, Trixie had other plans, much more mischievous plans.  She suggested, "Sunburst, what do you say we go out for breakfast and then have some fun?"

Sunburst wasn't sure what she meant by have some fun but he was hungry.  He replied, "That sounds good." 

The two headed out and given that they didn't have a ton of money they realized that they would likely be hungry for a great part of the day.  When they arrived at the cafe and began to look over the menu, the cheapest thing on there was a salad, which sounded downright nasty to the two.  Trixie sighed, "Ugh, salad sounds downright nasty to The Great and Powerful Trixie!"

Sunburst gave her a smile, "You know, we can use our transfiguration spells to turn it into something delicious, not to mention filling." 

Trixie replied, "Sunburst, you're a genius." 

Sunburst boasted, "Well I'm not known as The Brilliant and Amazing Sunburst for nothing!"

Just as he had finished saying that, the waiter arrived and took their order.  The waiter looked kind of shocked that the two would order salads and water for breakfast given that most ponies order eggs, oats and cider that time of day.  While they were waiting for their meals, the two began to discuss what their plans for the day were. 

Sunburst asked, "So Trixie, what are our plans for the day before the show this evening." 

Trixie began to look around and snicker, "The Great and Powerful Trixie was thinking we could have some fun."  

Sunburst asked, "Oh, and what sort of fun?"

Trixie laughed, "Well Trixie was thinking that since this is where Starlight and her friends live, that we could cause a little mischief with the spells we learned!"

Sunburst nervously replied, "Are you sure that's a good idea?  Who......"

Trixie interrupted, "Sunburst, don't you remember how Starlight didn't tutor us well enough for us to pass our exam?  Don't you remember how she thought she was better than us?  Don't you remember how her friends, especially the unicorn with the glasses, was laughing at our show?"

Sunburst replied, "Yes, I do."  He then got a sly grin on his face and continued, "Alright Trixie, let's do it."  He began to look around at how calm things were and added, "Besides, I think this town could be a little more lively." 

Trixie laughed, "That's what The Great and Powerful Trixie was hoping to hear!  Besides, using our abilities is so much fun!"

Sunburst laughed in return, "That it is!" 

After talking for a few more minutes their meals arrived.  The two looked down at their salads not in disdain but with huge smiles on their faces.  Sunburst would be the first to change his meal into something else, something more filling and something that would cost quite a bit more.  He grabbed it in his aura, concentrated on it and said, "Eggs, hay bacon, hash browns!"  He fired energy at it and suddenly he had a much more filling and appetizing meal.  He then did the same with his water and said, "Orange juice!"  

Once he had changed it as well he gave Trixie a smile and snickered, "You know, we are going to save a ton of money doing this!" 

Trixie replied, "Yeah we will!" 

Trixie looked down at her meal and decided that what Sunburst had transformed his into looked good so she did the same.  While they were eating, the wheels began to turn in Sunburst's head, he began to snicker realizing that they could get out of losing money on their meal entirely.

Trixie heard him and asked, "Sunburst, what are you laughing over?"

Sunburst pulled some bits out of his saddlebag, placed them on the table and boasted, "Watch this!  The Brilliant and Amazing Sunburst is about to save us even more money!"  He grabbed the bits in his aura, concentrated on them intently and then fired energy at them, causing there to be twice as many of them.  He again boasted, "Yet another feat pulled of by The Brilliant and Amazing Sunburst." 

Trixie wasn't overly fond of his boasting but realized that she was likely the one responsible for it.  She laughed, "That's nothing!  Just wait until we go to have some fun, The Great and Powerful Trixie will accomplish even bigger feats!" 

Sunburst suggested, "Another magic competition after we're through eating?"

Trixie replied, "You're on!" 





After paying for their meals with the bits they duplicated, the two decided to take a walk through town and make decisions on what they would do.  Trixie saw the local florists out selling flowers and couldn't help but think about how funny it would be to ruin their flowers.  She nudged Sunburst and pointed towards their flower stand and laughed, "Watch this, The Great and Powerful Trixie is about to anger those florists!" 

Trixie grabbed their flowers in her aura, concentrated intently and said, "Cactus!"  

As soon as the energy she fired hit them, they turned into a cactus.  Both of them were laughing at the reaction of the three, particularly Roseluck when she yelled, "The horror, oh the horror!" 

The two couldn't help but laugh over how melodramatic she was and how the other two were in a state of panic.  They took off to the other end of town in the event they calmed down and took off after them.  Sunburst began to think about something that would be truly amazing, something that would top what Trixie did.  He then looked across the street and saw a yellow pegasus taking a rabbit to the vet.  Sunburst nudged Trixie and snickered, "Watch this and be amazed." 

Sunburst grabbed the rabbit in his aura and froze it in its tracks.  When the rabbit couldn't move the pegasus yelled, "Angel, what's wrong?  Are you ok?"

Sunburst lit up his horn, said "angry wolverine" and fired energy at it.  They both broke down laughing when the rabbit became a wolverine and began to chase after the pegasus.  She flew into a tree and was shrieking in terror as the wolverine began clawing on the tree in an attempt to tear it down. 

Trixie saw this and snickered, "Just wait, that pegasus is about to have double the trouble!" 

Trixie lit up her horn, grabbed the wolverine in her aura, focused intently before firing a bolt at the wolverine, causing one to turn into two.  They broke down laughing as they saw them both trying to tear the tree down so they could get to the pegasus.  Trixie couldn't help but yell, "Get her boys, get her!" 

The pegasus finally flew out of the tree and rushed back into her cottage in tears.  The two gave one another a hoof bumped and laughed in unison, "Oh this is too much fun!" 

Trixie began to think of something else they could transform and then it hit her, the library.  She started laughing hysterically, "Hey, you know what we should transform?"

Sunburst asked, "What?"

Trixie got to laughing so hard she snorted, "The library because a terrible tutor lives there!" 

Sunburst gasped, "Wait a minute, Starlight lives in the library?"

Trixie replied, "Yes and The Great and Powerful Trixie thinks that we should punish a terrible tutor by completely ruining her home!  We should ruin it because she purposely didn't help us enough to pass our exams!"  

At first Sunburst wasn't overly sure as to whether they should do something to her home but then he remembered how Starlight couldn't get them to improve their skills and more importantly, how it seemed that she thought she was better than them, especially Trixie.  He replied, "Alright, let's do this!" 

The two began to walk through town, towards the library.  Given that it was not right in the vicinity of the market, they figured that transforming it into something else and then getting back to the other end of town would be easy.  Both of them had huge smiles on their faces, not only over what they were going to do but also thinking about how upset Starlight would get over it.