“Wait! Wait! The Great and Powerful Trixie commands you to wait! Gah!” Whether Trixie tripped, or was tripped by one of the many critters swarming her from all sides, she did not know, but she suspected the latter. The large sack of treats, nuts and bread she’d been carrying cushioned her fall, but it also spilled the contents out all over the garden.
After her talk with Fluttershy, and the, in hindsight, embarrassing aftermath, Rainbow Dash had disappeared. Trixie had her suspicions that the open window might have had something to do with that, but she could not exactly accuse her of spying without inviting mockery.
The animals wasted no time in climbing and trampling their replacement caretaker to snatch up the food, and some even ate it while still seated on her back. Trixie could barely see a hoof before her eyes with all the feathers and fur bouncing around, but even through all the racket, she could still hear laughing from above her. “It is not funny! These animals are monsters!”
Trixie rolled away from the turmoil; the animals were more than nimble enough to get out of her way. She stopped only once she could see the sky again: mostly blue with the occasional cloud. One of those clouds housed the familiar demon. “You said Trixie would be done sooner if Trixie put all the food in one bag! You knew this would happen didn’t you, Rainbow? The Great and Powerful Trixie will not forget this!”
Rainbow Dash grinned widely. “Hey you said I could do whatever I wanted to you. I picked pranking. Besides I thought you were so great and powerful, but you can’t handle a few animals without your magic?”
For whatever reason though, the cursed mare’s visits were far more numerous now, and most of them involved messing with Trixie while she was trying to do chores for Fluttershy. She had since discovered the arrogant pony’s ego was as large as her's, though unlike her own, it was undeserved, of course.
Trixie scrambled onto her hooves and pointed one at the animals assaulting the sack. “Trixie thinks it is quite clear she successfully fed these beasts, despite your best efforts at sabotage. Trixie wins again! Why are you even here? Don’t you have a job?”
“Hey, do these skies look in need of clearing to you? That’s what I thought. Besides I need to wind down in between inventing the most awesome moves.” She stood up on her cloud, striking a pose.
A skeptical eyebrow rose up as Trixie listened. “What could you possibly do that would strike awe into anypony? You’re not even a unicorn. You practically start out handicapped.”
Rainbow Dash ignored the remark however. “Oh don’t you even pretend you have never heard of the Wonderbolts! They are only the second most awesome fliers in all of Equestria!”
Of course Trixie had heard of them. Even if she was not in the business of entertainment it was impossible to walk through a town without at least walking into a poster, but she had not heard they had been outshined. “The second? What team beat them?”
A wide grin on Rainbow Dash’s face made Trixie realize she had walked straight into it. “Why, me of course! Equestria’s number one flier, Rainbow Dash!” As though to prove her point, Rainbow Dash launched off the cloud fast enough to make it poof into vapor.
She flew three circles around Fluttershy’s house, shot up into the sky then dived straight down till Trixie was sure she would crash into the ground. At the last moment, a sharp turn rocketed the winged mare just inches above the group, through the pile of animals and coming to a complete stop right in front of Trixie. She tossed her the empty sack. “I hope you didn't blink; I would hate for you to miss out on what real awesome looks like.”
Trixie did her absolute best not to let on that she was impressed even a little bit, catching the sack with her teeth. “Oh good you’re back, Trixie was getting bored waiting. Maybe one should spend less time ‘resting’ and more time flying, preferably away from here.”
“Hey, at least I can prove I’m the best, unlike you. You just keep claiming you are so great and never put your bits where your mouth is.”
A smirk crossed Trixie’s lips. “You want Trixie to perform magic while she is recovering? That is almost as pathetic as challenging one to fly. You know what, fine if it will shut you up for one second… Trixie will show you a small taste of her power.”
Rainbow Dash skipped a beat on this, clearly not expecting to get Trixie to actually try her magic. “Wait, what? No, I got to go anyway. I don’t have time to watch you hurt yourself, hah. Maybe in the weekend.” She spread her wings, preparing for lift off.
“Don’t you dare run away from Trixie on this one. This won’t even be hard. All The Great and Power Trixie has to do is read your mind, and since it’s so simple, Trixie does not even need her concentration. ” She scraped her hoof along the dirt road briefly, then tossed the sack over it. “Think of a number, Rainbow Dash. Tell Trixie.”
Rainbow Dash hovered in midair while she watched the little act. “Think of a number, huh?” She looked down at Trixie unsure for a moment, but then shrugged. “Alright fine, number one!”
With a dramatic flourish, Trixie pulled the sack off the ground to reveal a single line drawn in the dirt, staring up at Rainbow Dash with the smuggest look any pony had ever managed. “Behold! Your one-track mind is an open book to The Great and Powerful Trixie!”
“What!? How did you? That makes no sense at all. You can’t do magic like that… Can you?” Rainbow Dash started, but she recovered quickly. “Meh, it’s alright, not nearly as awesome as me, but I’ll give you a pass this time.”
With that, both ponies took their leave, one taking to the skies, and the other heading back inside the cottage. Although Trixie had been assured she could safely go outside without fear of being recognized from the town, she still preferred to take as little risk as possible, but would not reject any chore that took her outside.
As much as she resented Rainbow Dash for her constant pestering, there was something satisfying about it. She had noticed however that Rainbow Dash kept a respectable distance between them, something she was grateful for, though she’d phrased it as not having to smell the sweaty pegasus at the time.
Inside, she found Fluttershy tending to the critters that seemed to prefer to be indoors near their kind host, a sentiment that Trixie understood well. She had found that the animals were much better behaved when Fluttershy was around, with the exception of the one that glared at Trixie the moment she came in, a white grouchy rabbit. “Hello, Angel, and you too, rabbit.”