What took over an hour to prepare lasted less than a minute, and soon the first empty plate clattered besides the empty cocoa mugs on the table. Rainbow Dash had finished first. Trixie was not entirely sure if she was racing them, but it was definitely something she would do. Trixie had happily indulged in challenging her on it, but was two bites behind.
With her mouth no longer full of pancakes, Rainbow Dash was finally free to talk while Trixie and Fluttershy were still finishing their own. “Whoa, I was sure you were just bluffing, Trixie. Who knew you could actually cook? I loved them!”
Trixie felt her heart skip a beat, the praise was sweet music to her hears, but not so much so that she choose to ignore the implied insult. She swallowed her last bite, and smirked. “So, you only let Trixie try to see if she’d burn the kitchen down? Hah, shows what you get for underestimating The Great and Powerful Trixie! That makes what? Three times that Trixie has come out on top over you? Trixie wonders if you will ever learn your place: below Trixie.” Winking at the oblivious Rainbow Dash, Trixie noticed Fluttershy nearly choke on her bite.
“Hah, as if! I am always on top! I’ll prove it right now!” Rainbow Dash grinned and prepared to pounce. Even though she started it, Trixie couldn’t stop the heat spreading through her cheeks. However, A swift tug on Rainbow Dash’s tail by Fluttershy made Rainbow Dash look back.
The brief exchanged look apparently was quickly understood as Rainbow Dash turned back to Trixie. “Oh right, my bad. I mean once you are better, wouldn’t want to be too rough with you till then.”
Compared to the others, Fluttershy had taken her sweet time with her meal. Though it was easy to tell she approved of it, she was just not as messy an eater. With what Trixie assumed must have been great willpower, Fluttershy resisted taking another bite immediately, after recovering from her coughing fit, asked, “They are really good Trixie, is that why you needed a minute?”
Although she was a bit disappointed, Trixie smiled at Fluttershy. She was always so caring and cautious. “Yes, yes that is it exactly! You cannot rush perfection, and Trixie is nothing if not perfection itself.” She swept her mane back with her hoof while she struck a pose to go with her boast, doing her best to show off for the pair.
Rainbow Dash burst into laughter while Fluttershy just smiled.
“You dare question The Great and Powerful Trixie?” She reached up for the brim of her hat to pull down to cover her eyes in shade for effect, only to find it was not there and faltered for a moment as she remembered it was gone. Her face fell while she stroked her hoof across her unhatted scalp.
Still laughing, Rainbow Dash pointed a hoof toward Trixie while she took a breath, readying her retort. But before she could do so, she felt a nudge from Fluttershy and looked towards her. Fluttershy stared up at Rainbow Dash, then briefly to Trixie before meeting her eyes again.
Taking a brief moment to look Trixie over more carefully, Rainbow Dash nodded to Fluttershy. Letting out another burst of laughter, Rainbow Dash called out. “Hey, Trixie! That’s cheating, you can’t just start right out daring a pony, you have to at least ask if they want to do truth first!”
Shaken from her thoughts by Rainbow Dash’s distraction, Trixie blinked confused at her. “Huh? What are you even talking about?” She looked toward Fluttershy for elaboration or a hint of some sort, but found her looking almost as surprised.
“Uh, Rainbow Dash, are you sure about this? I don’t think Trixie wants to play.” Fluttershy looked back to Trixie.
Rainbow Dash just grinned. “Oh, maybe you are right, Fluttershy. She is trying to back out, isn’t she? I guess she knows better than to challenge the champion!”
Puffing up her chest, Trixie huffed. “Hah! Champion of what? Anything you can do Trixie can do better, name your game.”
“Truth or dare! It is on!” Rainbow Dash called out with enthusiasm, taking Trixie by complete surprise. But before she could object Rainbow Dash followed up. “The losers must obey the winner for a whole day. Are you still sure you dare take up the challenge, Trixie? Pick one, Truth or Dare?”
Trixie opened her mouth to call a stop to this, but then quickly closed it again. Wait! Losers? That’s plural! She quickly looked towards Fluttershy who gulped and shifted in her place while she alternated between her two friends. Trixie let her eyes swap between Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy for a moment before she settled back on Rainbow Dash with a grin. “Obey for a whole day huh? Don’t come crying to Trixie when you… actually do come crying, it will amuse Trixie. Truth!”
For some reason, Fluttershy gasped as Trixie picked truth, and turned to Rainbow Dash, reaching out one hoof to her shoulder. “Uhm, Rainbow Dash, go easy on her. She doesn’t know yet.”
Grinning widely with Trixie’s answer, Rainbow Dash tilted her head when she was addressed, and she looked to Fluttershy. “What? But it’s perfect! I’d totally win”
What on Equestria? Do they know something Trixie does not? Trixie racked her mind, trying to figure out how a truth question could end the game so quickly. Huh, maybe she’d ask something impossible? Like to recount all decimals behind pi? But Trixie could just say she does not know and that would be true…
“Rainbow Dash, you don’t want an easy win do you? I uhm, I’m sure you would rather have a challenge… wouldn’t you?” Fluttershy smiled at Rainbow Dash while she appealed to her competitive side.
“… Oh alright, fine” She grumbled and scratched the back of her head while she put some more significant effort into her question. “Mhn… no, no….no…. Ahah!” Rainbow dash stared at Trixie with a wicked grin that sent a chill down her spine. ”Trixie, can you really defeat an Ursa Major?”
Blinking, Trixie was starting to get a feel for why truth questions were a bad idea. She glared at Rainbow Dash for a moment. “Trixie cannot…” She saw Rainbow Dash’s grin grow wider, but returned a smirk of her own. “…However, The Great and Powerful Trixie can!”
“Hey no fair, Trixie! You are not allowed to lie!” Rainbow Dash scolded with an insulted look on her face. “I even gave you an easy question.”
“Trixie does not lie, she told you the truth.” Trixie folded her hooves over her chest in a huff.
“Then prove it!” Rainbow Dash jabbed a hoof accusingly toward Trixie.
Trixie rolled her eyes. “How is Trixie going to prove it while she is her in her current state? Trixie is too weak. There are you happy? Trixie cannot do it now!” She snapped at Rainbow Dash, entering into a staring context with her while they each glared at the other.
Finally, Fluttershy’s voice broke through. “W-well, question answered. My turn. Truth or dare, Rainbow Dash?” Fluttershy squeaked as she suddenly had both of her friends stare at her. “I-if that’s okay with you?”
“Mhm, well okay I guess. I’ll let you off easy since this was your first time, Trixie.” Rainbow Dash stretched her limbs while she answered Fluttershy. “Dare!”
“I thought so. Okay, I dare you to… Let Trixie touch your hooves for a minute.” She said with a perfectly innocent voice.
Giggling, Trixie rolled her eyes. Of course Fluttershy would pick something completely harmless, Trixie should hav—Wait what the? Trixie froze when she noticed that Rainbow Dash had paled like a ghost after hearing the dare. Fluttershy smiled, yet Trixie could swear she saw an evil glint in the mare's eyes for just a second.
“N-no fair!” Rainbow Dash tucked her hooves below her body, wedging them between her fur and the couch. “We were supposed to take it easy the first round. Pick something else, Fluttershy!”
Trixie looked from one to the other in complete confusion. Either Rainbow Dash was a much better actor than Trixie had given her credit for, or this was really something she completely dreaded. “Oh, Rainbow Dash?” Trixie called out with a voice sweet like honey, and a bone-chilling grin on her lips. “Fluttershy only said to take it easy on Trixie’s first question, not the round. So will you give Trixie your hooves? Or will you submit?”
Fluttershy nodded in agreement with Trixie’s explanation. “She’s right you know. So… uhm, just say I win? If you don’t mind that is.”
Rainbow Dash was trapped on the couch with an mare on either side of her, each hell-bent on trying to break her. She closed her eyes tightly and shook. “No, no, you two are evil! This is cheating! Gah, fine!” She suddenly rose up and shifted so she half laid across the couch. Rainbow Dash’s back leaned against Fluttershy and her hind hooves extended towards Trixie, resting on the couch cushions. “I am not giving in, do your worst!”
Fluttershy and Trixie were both taken by surprise as Rainbow Dash agreed to the dare. By Trixie’s estimation she had gotten the raw end of the deal, staring down at Rainbow Dash’s hooves not quite sure what she was meant to do with them. While when she lifted her gaze she found Rainbow Dash practically cuddled up against a blushing Fluttershy who wrapped her hooves around the suddenly squeamish mare, supposedly to keep her still.
Well it was her dare, makes sense she would make sure she gets the best job. Trixie brought her attention back to the pair of hooves before her. Trixie reached out towards the hooves, but found Rainbow Dash pulled them away at just the last second, keeping a little distance between them no matter how often she tried. Finally Trixie looked up at Rainbow Dash’s eyes. “Rainbow Dash, they’re only hooves! Stay still already! Or you lose.”
“S-shut up, I’m preparing.” Rainbow Dash retorted, but she did not sound particularly confident about it.
By this point, it was no longer an option to just let Rainbow Dash chicken out, as Trixie was much too curious about just what was up with her hooves that made her act like this. Trixie looked on for a moment longer, then stood up. “You want to do this the hard way? Fine, don’t think Trixie needs magic to restrain you.”
Trixie trotted over the laying Rainbow Dash till she was straddling her legs and dropped down, trapping the toasty mare beneath her. The sudden warmth against her stomach was pleasant, invoking just a moment’s pause in Trixie to appreciate the feeling before she focused on her goal. Rainbow Dash’s hooves had nowhere to go now.
Trixie looked over her shoulder at a very nervous looking Rainbow Dash, and a positively glowing Fluttershy that held onto her torso. Upon meeting Fluttershy's eyes, she grabbed Rainbow Dash a little tighter. Trixie smiled, assured Rainbow Dash was properly held down. “Don’t worry Rainbow Dash, Trixie will make sure you won’t lose your dare, she will to tend to your hooves a whole two minutes to make sure.”
Trixie smirked while she turned back and reached down towards the shaking hooves that tried to wiggle out from under her. “After all, nopony wants an easy win do they?”
“Don’t you dare!”