//------------------------------// // the Microwave Monster // Story: Trixike and Starlight // by Silver Butcher //------------------------------// Trixie was looking down at the money from their latest show "This is bad," She said as she looked at what little they had made "If this keeps up I'll be broke in a month" she added it to her slowly shrinking pile in her safe "Durring our first show a month or so ago we made so much, and now we're dangerously close to my usual earnings" "Guess we do use that Hula hoop a lot," Spike said as he looked at the pitiful gem they had been given and added it to the 9 others in Trixie's safe "You're gonna need it more than me" Trixie took it out "You've given me your share the last 3 show's Spike, at least keep this" Spike shook his head "I don't have bills, I don't have to pay for food, I don't have to buy new clothes, and I don't have to pay for maintenance on my home every 6 months" Trixie shook her head "I thought after Trixike I wouldn't have to worry about this kind of thing" She shook her head "But here I am again." she put on her hat and walked out with Spike "How about lunch?" He asked "I'm sure Twilight won't mind a kitchen raid" Trixie shrugged "Who am I to reject a Kind dragons offer of free food," She asked as she threw her arm around his shoulder and Spike did the same "So we making two lunches, or one big one?" Trixie thought for a moment "let's make two, Not in the mood to fuse" Spike nodded "Sweet" Spike said "I'm gonna eat so many gems, it's gonna...ow!" He complained when Trixie smacked him over the head, "No Gems, you need to eat healthily," she said "What? Gems are healthy!" He defended, Trixie simply produced, and then proceeded to smack him in the face with, a letter, "That's not what Ember told me" "Ah darn," He said with a snap "I was hoping nopony would ever think to ask her" "I didn't, but this was sent through you fire breath a few days ago during your nap, she wanted to know why you were so fat." "I'm not fat, I'm big-boned!" Trixie poked him "No that's fat" She laughed as the two continued to bicker back and forth until they got to the castle, A quick check informed them that both Starlight and Twilight were at the very least not on the first floor, and a quick shout from Spike informed that they couldn't hear them if they where home. "Alright, so what's on the menu?" Spike said as the duo looked through the cabinets, it didn't take long for the duo to find what to make. "Mini Microwave Pizza bites," They cheered as Spike pulled the bag out of the freezer and showed it to Trixie, the two very quickly grabbed a plate and overloaded it with their food, disregarding the instructions as they did so. Trixie shoved it into the Microwave and pressed the 2 button. The two sat back and watched as the Microwave began heating their food. "Maybe we should travel?" Spike sujested, to the visible shock of Trixie "Ponyville's kind of becoming a dry market," "Wrong," Trixie shot back with such gusto Spike phisicly pulled away from her for a second "No market is dry, not so long as at least a few ponies show up, we just need to expand out repatwar...we do use that hoop a lot," "Free waffles?" Spike suguested. "No, free food does draw a crowed, but they're typicaly to focused on enjoying their meal and tend to undertip when food is provided," "Maybe we should hand out popcorn or something?" Spike pondered before a sparkle shone in his eye "Or maybe we should sell popcorn!" "I tried that once," Trixie muttered "It wasn't lucrative enough to make up for the matanence and restocking fees," "Have no fear, this well conected Dragon is here to abuse what tiny amount of power he has," Spike cheered proudly as the microwave beeped "Pinkie owes me a few solids, the Sugar Cube Corner ovens burt out once and I was used as a living furnace for like a week to keep the place running until the new oven came in, Popcorn machine and kernals won't even cover half of the favor owed," Before Trixie could respond to the idea she let out an irritated mumble as she notced some of the Pizza poppers where half cooked and others where frozen. "You know what Spike, I'm suddenly in the mood, lets fuse and just make these suckered eddible I'm not waiting ten minutes for half frozen and half burnt food," Spike required no persuasion of anykind and snaped the earning onto his ear as Trixie set the place back in the Microwave and snapped her on. The Two where pulled into each other and Trixike looked at the problem with fresh eyes. "A simple problem," She cheered "Trixike shall simply improve the microwave, her flames are to might to roast food upon after all, but her magic is leagus above almost all, save maybe Discord," Trixike charged her horn and shot a magic blast at the Microwave. As she did so however aspects of both Spike and Trixie's brains intruded in her spell to make it better. The Trixie side of her brain just being hungry, while the Spike side let through a memory of a comic book about a evil Robot monster made out of a misfired spell at a microwave. WIth her split brain distracted for half a second while weilding ulitmate power Trixike proceded to let all three ideas come forth from her spell. "Oh Crap," Trixike noted as the Microwave proceded to explode in her face and sent her into the kitchen cabnets. Trixike was firmly implanted into the crysal wall, scraps of wood and the tainted remainds of caned goods littered the floor as a large figure pulled itself out of the small crater that was now in the kitchen floor. Completly unharmed Trixike was chilling in her snug wall hole and watched with crossed arms as a metalic monster pulled it self up to it's full hight, being about 4 foot in height and six in length it was simply a Microwwave with long spindly legs, it no longer had a door and button but had multile square button shaped eyes and it opened it's maw and proceded to vomit out more Pizza pockets than it had original been filled with. Trixike pulled herself out of the wall and picked them up, and after taste testing a few dedused a tragic fact. "They're all frozen at the center," She sobbed out "Truly I am a failure at creation," As Trixike took the L and at the undercooked Pizza popers dejectely she fialed to notice her little monster skitter towards a chair until she hear the sound of it devoring it and watched with intrest as it proceded to vomit out more Pizza poppers, she hoped they might be an improvment but upon picking one up found it was filled with splinters and they poked into her hands. "A True failure," She sighed, she turned to her monster with the intent of destorying it, and found it was long gone, the sound of shattering glass and it's direction informed her it had just found it's way to the outside world. "Ponyville is definetly gonna become a dry market if I let that thing run lose," Trixike realized as she runed to the kitchen door, only to be meet with the unfortinate tragety of Starlight opening the door. The Two stared at one another for a few moments and Starlgiht slowly turned to the comepely and utter destrouction that had once been a kitchen and looked back at Trixike only to see the fusion shrink to her tiniest size yet, mathcing her monster in size at four feet she followed it's example and bailed out the broken window. "You idiots get back here and explain youself," Starlight called out. "Can't hear you my evil Microwave Monster is on the loose," Trixike called back as she used the fact that shrinking didn't change her strenght to run at high speeds, following the ripped up bits of lawn to her monster, said monster was already making itself known as a problem as it ate it's way through the Ponyville market place, eatting random bits of produce and parts of the stand and pucking up poorly prepared Pizza popers. "Oh tartarous no," Trixike skid to a stop and turned tail from the problem she had creatred "I am no where near liked enough to get away with not having to pay for all that," Trixike chose instead to bail and rushed to Trixie's cart, already halway through how her opening act in Applelossa would go when she was caught in a bubble. Trixike was running at such speed that as soon as she struck the bubble her breath was stoeln from her and she poped out of existence, leaving an exausted Spike and Trixie in her wake. "We're dead," Spike noted as he spotted Pinkie Pie and Rainbow detain the Microwave monster with ease, "No way I'm getting that favor now," Trixie pulled herself up to a sitting position and looked up at Starlight, who was just frowning at the duo. "We can explain," Trixie swore to her.