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// Chapter 4 - More Than Meets The Eye... 
// Story: The Great and Powerful Failure 
// by Sarizon 
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Rainbow dash made it to Sweet Apple Acre's and saw that Applejack was bucking some apples, as always.

"Hey Applejack!" Yelled Rainbow Dash.

Applejack, hearing her name being called out caught her off guard, causing her to buck too hard, making a set of apples fall onto her in a pile. Rainbow Dash completely ignored the mound of apples covering Applejack and began to talk to her.

"Applejack, it was so funny! Trixie tried to make cupcakes, and ended up flooding the kitchen with cupcake mix! My gut was killing me!"

Applejack popped her head out of the top of the mound and responded.

"Well, that's fine and all, but did Trixie do anything suspicious?"
Rainbow Dash replied, "Yea-.....Well... Not really."

Applejack shook her head and said, "Well then what are you doin' here? She could be doin' somethin' suspicious right now, and you're flappin' your wings telling me she messed up some cupcakes?"

Rainbow Dash got annoyed by Applejack's tone

"Hey, I just thought you might get a good laugh out of it. Don't need to be so bossy!"
"Are we here to laugh, or are we here to catch that no good pony red hooved?" asked Applejack.

Rainbow Dash sighed and shook her head.

"Fine, whatever. I'll find her on her way to Rarity's. She couldn't gone that far yet."

With that last sentence, Rainbow Dash flew back to Ponyville, not before she heard Applejack say one last thing to her.

"Don't come back unless you know for sure that she is doing sumthin' suspicious!" yelled Applejack.

Rainbow Dash continued to fly.



Rainbow Dash made it back to Ponyville, looking for the blue furred pony on her way to Rarity's. She didn't have luck at first, until she caught a glimpse of Trixie in the corner of her eye, standing in front of a young filly next to a tree. Rainbow Dash noticed the Filly was crying. Thinking that Trixie did something mean to the poor Filly, Rainbow Dash began to fly towards Trixie. 

"Ha! I got you Trixie!" Rainbow Dash thought to herself.
As she was flying, she noticed Trixie using her magic on something in the tree. Rainbow Dash wasn't sure, but she felt Trixie was about to break one of the branches off to do, Celestia knows, what to the little Filly. this only made Rainbow Dash fly faster. Just as she was about to tackle Trixie to the ground, Rainbow Dash noticed that the thing Trixie was grabbing from the tree, was a kite. Rainbow Dash instantly hit the breaks and stopped as fast as she could before hitting Trixie.
Rainbow Dash, after opening her eyes from the thought of slamming into Trixie, she was eye to eye with Trixie. The filly was staring at Rainbow Dash as well.

"Rainbow Dash? Is that you?" asked Trixie?
Rainbow Dash quickly replied,"U-Uh, yeah! hehe...it's me!"
Trixie replied,"Okay...Is something... The matter?"
"Huh? Oh no, just flying by.....hehe. Coincidence right?"

Trixie looked at RD oddly.

"Uh, yeah I guess," said a confused Trixie.

Trixie turned back to the Filly

"Here you go little Filly, try not to fly it so close to the trees next time, okay? Infact..."

Trixie applied a spell that she learned over her time learning tricks onto the kite. The trick would make any object act like a magnet, and push away from other objects. Applying this trick onto the kite would make sure it would never get stuck on anything again. 

After Trixie told the little filly what the trick did, the little filly said, "Thank you so much, Great and Powerful Trixie! I knew you weren't as bad as my mom said you were!"

Trixie gave a slight smile and said "Well thank you, but I'm no longer The Grea-"

Before Trixie could finish her sentence, the little Filly hugged her left hoof as tight as she could, which made Trixie feel happy that she could help. 

Trixie then hugged back and said, "...You're Welcome."

Trixie waved goodbye to the Filly, and the Filly began flying her kite again, now that it was stuck-resistant.Trixie was all smiles before she realized that she had to continue to Rarity's dress shop.

Trixie turned to Rainbow Dash and said, "I-I'm sorry Rainbow Dash, but if I don't hurry, I'll be late to Rarity's. It was nice seeing you!"

Before Rainbow Dash could say anything, Trixie took off, and RD was there to ponder.

Rainbow Dash took in what she just saw. It certainly was a very nice thing for Trixie to do. Rainbow Dash thought to herself,"Hmm, maybe Trixie has changed...," but then Rainbow Dash reminded herself that this was Trixie. Known to be a trickster. She shook her head and said to herself, "No way, I can't take any chances. I got to keep following her."

Rainbow Dash began flying towards Rarity's to see what Trixie would do there.