//------------------------------// // All Bottled Up // Story: A Satisfactory Surplus Of Sense // by Starlight Fan //------------------------------// Today was not an easy day for Starlight Glimmer. Okay, let’s be real, when has Starlight ever had an easy day? To be more specific, Starlight was trying to teach her best friend Trixie a teleportation spell with the latter’s great insistence but when Trixie ended up doing it, she wasn’t paying enough attention and teleported the map table. This was really worrying for Starlight given the severity of the situation and the power the map table holds, but for some reason, Trixie didn’t seem to care much about what was going on and was more excited at the fact she finally did a teleportation spell. If that wasn’t bad enough, while she was lecturing Trixie, she realized that a red cloud of smoky magic was enveloping from her horn. She quickly excused herself from the room and immediately barged into the kitchen frantically searching the supplies, much to Spike’s concern. “Hey, are you okay?” Spike decided to ask his roommate. “I will be, once I use this bottle to contain my anger so I can look for the map table Trixie teleported without much issue.” Starlight told the dragon much to his confusion, especially at seeing the red cloud above her head. “Do you see this storm cloud? This has never happened before! All this magical energy has to go somewhere, and if I'm not using it to fight a magical duel or something like that then I don’t know what is going to do.” Starlight explained as she levitated a bottle nearby, “So I'm hoping if I bottle up my anger, I won't do who-knows-what to Trixie.” “Are you sure that’s a good idea?” Spike asked. “What choice do I have? I've got to get that map back, and I don't wanna lose Trixie. If she knew what I was thinking right now, she'd probably never talk to me again.“ Starlight answered sadly. Spike did have to admit, he could understand where Starlight is coming from but given how severe this problem was, he didn’t really think that Starlight should be alone with Trixie right now, especially if something bad were to happen. “Okay, I’ll tag along with you. You might need an extra pair of eyes.” Spike smiled reassuringly at Starlight who smiled back as she finished putting the anger magic into her bottle. The two then walked back to the throne room(with Starlight putting her bottle into her saddle bags) where Trixie was levitating an apple core without a care in the world considering what she just did when she saw that Starlight and Spike came in. “Oh there you are.” Trixie smiled at her friend, “For a minute, I didn't think you were coming back, and that you might be upset with me for some weird reason. But then I remembered, you never get mad at me.” Spike was absolutely appalled by what he just heard and considering Starlight had to direct more anger magic into her bottle, he wasn’t the only one that had a problem with what Trixie said. “Nope, not mad at all.” Starlight chuckled nervously before saying, “So, the map is probably in the last place you were thinking of. Where was that?” “Ooh, great question. I wish you'd asked it, like, right after I did the spell. I don't remember anymore.” Trixie giggled nervously before using a napkin to wipe her lips so she ended up missing Starlight putting more anger magic into her bottle. “No worries, how about we take a walk around town, maybe that’ll jog your memory.” Starlight forced a smile. “Okay, that sounds like fun.” Trixie smiled back before brightening up more. “Did you remember?” Spike asked hopefully. “No, but I was thinking we could get some cinnamon nuts on our way out.” Trixie said excitedly. “Cinnamon nuts.” Spike heard Starlight grit her teeth angrily before she took a breath and spoke brightly, “That’s a good idea.” “Yes!” Trixie smiled enthusiastically, “I was craving something sweet since you tried making those tea cakes.” Trixie then began walking off and before Starlight could follow, Spike immediately yanked Starlight’s tail to stop her. “Look, I get you’re trying to be nice and all but maybe you should tell Trixie how you feel.” Spike advised. “I’m not so sure Spike, for all I know if I do end up letting it out, my magic will do something disastrous.” Starlight sighed sadly, “Maybe if I wait it out, the magic will eventually pass and I’ll be able to let Trixie know what I’m feeling.” Spike had to admit, he couldn’t really fault Starlight’s logic there so he shrugged with acceptance, “If that’s what you want, I won’t stop you.” There’s not really much that I need to change about the scenes with the jeweler and Granny Smith, really the only additions I have are that Spike is showing more and more concern about Starlight’s anger magic. Currently Starlight was walking in front of both Spike and Trixie, feeling more and more drained as Trixie was further angering her. Her mane was even drooping. “Darn. I could've sworn it'd be at the ice cream parlor, because it was warm in the castle and I thought I wanted ice cream, and— Ooh! Maybe we should check out the Crystal Empire, 'cause Twilight's castle is made out of crystals, so I totally had crystals on my mind.” Trixie told Spike who just glared in annoyance at the magician. “Okay… maybe I didn’t.” Trixie said nervously before taking a look to see Starlight’s drained state. “Is Starlight doing okay, she looks a little, oh how do I put it… uck-la-la.” Trixie asked the drake who was unsure how to answer that before he settled on a half-truth. “She’s just a little stressed about finding the map table is all. She doesn’t want Twilight to lose trust in her.” Spike explained to the showmare. “But… she didn’t do anything wrong.” Trixie raised an eyebrow, “I’m the one who teleported the map table, Twilight’s not gonna blame her for this.” “Maybe she saw you as her responsibility and is upset that she couldn’t keep this from happening.” Spike guessed before giving a sheepish smile, “Uh… no offense.” “None taken.” Trixie shrugged it off before gaining a serious look, “I should probably talk to her about this.” Suddenly the bottle of red smoke rolled beneath Trixie’s hooves much to her confusion, once she saw that Starlight’s bags were sort of open, she realized that Starlight dropped it. “Hey Starlight, you dropped your bottle of…” Trixie began calling out before looking confused at the contents of the bottle, “What is this?” Trixie began using her horn to open the bottle but Starlight was quick to react, “Trixie, don’t touch that!” Starlight immediately swiped the bottle and closed it up before any of the smoke could escape but all that did was increase Trixie’s suspicion. “What’s in the bottle?” Trixie asked pointedly. “It’s-It’s…” Starlight began before sighing, knowing that lying to Trixie would only make the situation worse. “It’s my anger.” Starlight answered solemnly. “Anger? How would you-“ Trixie began before Starlight interrupted. “I don’t know. My magic is tied to my emotions so I guess when my anger was out of control it turned into that. And… I was really upset with you today.” Starlight explained nervously. “You were? Why?” Trixie asked in concern. “Simply put, you lost Twilight's map table, and you make passive aggressive remarks about it like it's no big deal. It's like you don't even care you could get me in a lot of trouble. If we can't find that table, Twilight's never going to trust me again, and the worst part is YOU DIDN’T EVEN SAY YOU WERE SORRY!” Starlight ranted which surprised Trixie but she couldn’t say it was a complete surprise. “I’m-I’m sorry. I honestly should’ve known that you’d be upset over this.” Trixie said remorsefully. “It’s not completely your fault, I was bottling it up.” Starlight began calming down. “No, but you clearly were stressed out about this and in all honesty, I was acting insensitive about it. There’s just one thing I need to know, why did you feel the need to bottle up your anger anyway?” Trixie spoke softly. “Other than potentially having something bad happen with my magic, I didn’t want to lose you.” Starlight explained before Trixie immediately bumped Starlight on the shoulder playfully. “Pfft! Come on! It'd take a lot more than that to lose me. Our friendship is stronger than a few angry words and besides, I’d take that over how drained you were becoming anyday. The Starlight I love is passionate, lively, and yeah, sometimes angry. Those are my favorite parts of you. That and the fact that you forgive me every time.“ Trixie smiled at her friend. “I’ll forgive you, if you forgive me.” Starlight smiled back before the two moved for an embrace. “Deal.” Trixie accepted as she continued hugging Starlight. Meanwhile Spike looked at the bottle Starlight and Trixie seemed to forget about, he smiled at the sight, the bottle was completely empty. In the end, Trixie remembered where she had teleported the map and it was to the Ponyville Spa, she was thinking about it due to it being the first place she met Starlight. She tried to teleport it back but Starlight and Spike were quick to stop her, they’d take the long way back anytime. They even ended up getting the map table back in place before Twilight and her friends found out. What? Did you expect there to be a liar-reveal story? That’s way too predictable and considering how everything worked out, Twilight really didn’t need to know about this one mistake. Then again, what would stop the Spa Ponies from blabbing?