//------------------------------// // Chapter 6 // Story: Trixie's New Big Red Life // by Captain-Brony //------------------------------// "We're going to settle this right here and now!!" Trixie did her best to remember Big Macintosh's words. "There is no need…" Trixie said with a strained voice. "The Great and Powerful Trixie is trying to put her past behind her and is sooor-soooo-sorrrrrr…" Rainbow Dash gave Trixie her weirded out face, a look she usually kept in reserve for Pinkie Pie. "What's wrong with you?" "Give Trixie a break!" she stomped her hoof on the ground. "Trixie is still getting used to this 'apology' thing!" Rainbow Dash literally got in Trixie's face, pushing her head against her forehead. "Too bad, because even if you did I wouldn't accept it!" "Oh yeah?!" Trixie pushed back. "Yeah!! There's only one way we can call this whole thing, and that's a stunt off!!" Trixie paused for a moment. "What's that?!" she said, trying to keep the tough pony tone she just recently acquired. Rainbow Dash stepped making Trixie almost lose her step. "That where we have a competition to see who can pull off the more amazing stunt. My wings, versus your 'great and powerful' magic. We both try to one-up the last stunt the other did, the first one to fail to do so, loses!" There was a part of Trixie that told her that she should just walk away and find Big Macintosh…however, Trixie was a show pony who enjoyed having her ego inflated. And nothing inflated her ego like showing somepony that was she better then them. Trixie gave her the same cocky smile she used to wear before her first visit to Ponyville. "You're on!" -- Pinkie Pie bounced up to the door of Fluttershy's cottage and knocked three times. When she got no answer she peered in through the window. At first it looked like nopony was home but then she saw a pair of eyes peeking out from the shadows underneath her bed. "Fluttershy, it's me Pinkie Pie!" After a short wait Fluttershy creaked open the door to peek her face out. "Oh. It is you." "Why are you hiding, Silly? We got to get to town right away!!" "W-Why, what's going on?" "Rainbow Dash is having some kind of show off with this new unicorn!" Fluttershy's ears flopped down. "The blue one?" she said in a quiet voice. "Yeah! So I rushed over here because you gotta see it, you just gotta!!" Fluttershy shrunk a little "I-I-I don't know…I heard she was pretty mean." "Well silly, she's going to be too busy having a showdown to do anything mean to you." She poked her head out of the door a little more but still looked unsure. "Oh…well…um…" "Come on, you don't want to miss this!! It's going to be amazing!!" Pinkie Pie's beaming smile made Fluttershy feel a little more bold. Her door was fully open now and Fluttershy had a small smile on now. "Well, I suppose maybe…" Fluttershy's sentence remained unfinished as Pinkie Pie grabbed her without warning. "GREAT! I knew you'd say 'yes', but we've got to hurry! They've already started!" With that Pinkie Pie was off like a shot dragging poor Fluttershy along for the ride. -- Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy arrived in the town square and joined the other ponies in the audience who were seated between two parallel stages. On one stage was Rainbow Dash and on the other across from it was Trixie. They had already started but it was Rainbow Dash's turn now. She started off by climbing to an impressive height and then performed her Fantastic Filly Flash, which was basically a nose dive upon the audience, pulling up right at the last second. She made a sharp turn in mid air and did a Super Speed Strut across her own stage. When she finally stopped, she gave Trixie a cocky smirk. "Let's see you top that, Miss Magic Pants!" "Tis but a trifle for the Great and Powerful Trixie!" Trixie's horn lit up it's usual color and spread a wave of magic over the audience that was Trixie's specific shade of blue with some tiny sparkles inside which would remind anypony of Trixie's hair. The ponies basked in this wave in awe and wonder. "If that's the best you got than this'll be over sooner than I thought!" boasted Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash snapped on some goggles and started to swirl around the wave of magic Trixie had created. Faster and faster she went until she created an actual tornado that sucked up Trixie's wave of magic, turning it into a spiraling blue magic tornado. "You poor little foal, Trixie is only just starting!" A beam shot out from Trixie's horn hitting the tornado. The tail of the tornado shot up inside turning itself inside out, resulting in a firework like explosion which took the shape of Trixie's face as it rained down upon the audience. Rainbow Dash furrowed her brow. "Alright, time to bring out the trump card! The Sonic-Rainboom!" She shot up into the sky to get to the appropriate height. She remembered a time when she struggled trying to do just one Sonic-Rainboom, but ever since her performance at Cloudsdale they came to her as easy as breathing. She did another nose dive towards the audience hurtling at even greater speeds than before. A few feet above the audience she made a sharp turn upwards breaking the sound barrier, causing a Sound Wave ripple with every color in the rainbow inside it. Rainbow Dash had an actual rainbow streaming behind her, using this to her advantage she created an arc over the audience, but she wasn't done yet. She still had a lot of momentum which she used to swirl around area creating a rainbow dome around the two stages and the audience. The audience ooohed and awed as the colors glowed down at them. Trixie meanwhile had her jaw dropped during the entire performance, she had always thought that the Sonic-Rainboom was just an old mare's tale. Yet this pegasus pony had not only managed to pull it off without breaking a sweat, but she also added a flare that Trixie wasn't sure she could top. As soon as the ponies were done admiring the dome they turned their attention back to Trixie, waiting patiently for the next surprisingly amazing trick. Her ears flopped down nervously, for once Trixie wasn't sure how she could possibly come out on top in a show off. She didn't know what to do but she couldn't lose face. She shut her eyes tight, focusing on the lingering rainbow dome, trying to coat it with her magic. The rainbow dome, twitched and stretched but still maintained it's shape. She tried to shape it in to something, anything, but if felt different from the small little rainbow she had made last time, almost like it was denser somehow. Finally the dome snapped back to normal sending Trixie's magic back at her. Trixie fell off the stage from the backlash she received from the rainbow. She winced as she stood up and opened her eyes to see the audience walking away from her. The show was over, and she had lost. She picked herself up and dusted herself down, resisting her urge to have a small cry. Humiliated again, it was bad enough when Twilight Sparkle up showed her, but this time…her opponent didn't have magic. Just when she had thought life had kicked her to the bottom, it hands her a shovel. "Oh yeah!! I am the BOAST BUSTER!!!" cheered Rainbow Dash above Trixie. Trixie said nothing but continued her sad walk. When she didn't give a response Rainbow Dash landed next to her and started to walk next to her. "Aint so Great and Powerful now are you?" "No…" Trixie quietly said. Rainbow Dash stopped to scratch her head in confusion, something wasn't adding up. Trixie still had her head hung low, to Rainbow Dash it looked like she was kicking herself and in all honesty that bugged her. "Well?!" snapped Rainbow Dash. "Aren't you gonna start boasting about how you'll get me next time?!" "What do you want from me?!" Trixie snapped back. "You won okay?!" Her sudden temper seemed to quickly die down. "There is nothing…that Trixie can do that can top a fabled Sonic-Rainboom." "Well…yeah. But don't be sad about it!" Trixie tried her best to hide a sniffle…didn't work. "What do you mean?" "Come with me!" without warning, Rainbow Dash picked Trixie up and shot in to the air. Not that she enjoyed it, her voice literally spoke volumes. "EEEEEEK!!!" Thankfully Rainbow Dash slowed down but still stayed in the air holding Trixie. "Look at them!" The blue Pegasus was now hovering over their former audience. They still appeared to be chatting rather excitedly with one another about the show between Rainbow Dash and Trixie. "They're STILL talking about it." Trixie again, said nothing as she took this in. "And they're going to keep talking about it! And do you know why? Because we put on one hay of a show!!" Rainbow Dash glided down and let go of Trixie. "So you didn't win, big deal. Point is you put on an awesome performance. You know…not everypony can keep up with my stunts, maybe there's a chance that you are 'Great and Powerful'." Trixie smiled slightly. "You really mean that?" "Yeah, just don't let it go to your head. But that's why you shouldn't be down either, because I know that the next time we clash it will be even more awesome!" "I…thank you." A cocky smirk was Rainbow Dash's reaction to Trixie's quiet compliment. "Hey don't go all Fluttershy on me now, doesn't suit you." Trixie's smile got a little bigger. "Very well, but you should know that everything Trixie did in our performance she learned on her own through ability alone. But now, she's going to be reading up on spells so she can become even more amazing!" "Then I guess the next time we butt heads Trixie'll have a few new tricks." Trixie's smile was now mirroring Rainbow Dash's. "You can count on it." Rainbow Dash spat in her hoof and held it out. "Then till next time." Trixie also spat her in her hoof and clopped it with Rainbow Dash. "Yes, but you should know that the Great and Powerful Trixie doesn't plan on losing twice." Rainbow Dash actually seemed to enjoy hearing this from Trixie. "Bring it on!" They waved each other goodbye as they went their separate ways. "Maybe there is something to this love and tolerance stuff." Trixie mused to herself. She was all set to head back to the farm and tell Big Macintosh about the new friend/rival she had made when she spotted that yellow pegasus again directly in her path. "YOU!" She seemed to cower and give a soft whimper before dashing off. Trixie chased after, but it was starting to get very old very fast. "Oh come on! It's not like Trixie's going to hurt you or anything, I just want to talk!" The chase didn't stop but it did lead them to a small cottage on the outskirts of some kind of wild forest.