//------------------------------// // Trixie's Hat // Story: Sweetie Belle Can't Find Her Socks. // by Super Trampoline //------------------------------// THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE was in the middle of another massive ego trip entertaining some foals gathered around the stage she had set up in the market square, when a preteen filly with swirly hair trotted up to accompany her. "Foul fool, you dare interrupt THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE's amazing performance? How dare you!" The calm cool and collected Sweetie Belle hardly batted an eye. Rather, she trotted right up to THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE and plucked her hat right off her head. THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE gasped: "Wait! If you take off Trixie's hat--" But it was too late. A charm bracelet. seven sticks of chewing gum, nine blocks of C4, a half-eaten watercress sandwich, three sparrow eggs, a banana peel, a crumpled up "Wanted" poster, eleven bags of various dyes and powders, a pet rock (from Maud), seventy-three cheese cracker packets, and a tennis racket came rattling out. But no socks. Sweetie stood at the center of this mess while THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE fumed: "How dare you! Don't you know better than to mess with another pony's enchanted hat?!?"