It had been nearly a week since Trixie had been driven out of ponyville after the Ursa Minor incident. Determined to continue her career she travelled all the way to Hoofingston to put on a new act. She would become famous, she would become a star!
Even if half of Equestria knew about her flop of a performance at the hooves of Twilight Sparkle, the show would go on!
That’s what she kept telling herself anyway.
She was preparing for her next performance in the small dinged up caravan the town had given her to get ready in before the show. She was wondering whether to do a light show or try the 'rabbit out of a hat' trick again when...
Pop!
"Surpri- Hey! This isn't the Grand Galloping Gala!"
Trixie blinked and stared at the filly that was looking around in disappointment.
"Where am I?" Surprise asked.
"This is my..um..trailer" Trixie replied, but soon regained her composure. "You are in the presence of The Great and powerful Trixie!"
Surprise tilted her head to one side in confusion.
"...Who?"
Cue face hoof.
“You have never heard of the great and powerful Trixie? I am one of the greatest performers in all of Equestrian”
“Oh that Trixie, the pony that got scared off by a silly little Ursa minor”
Trixie’s eye twitched.
“You know if you really want to be famous you should stop trying so hard and just have fun, like me!” Surprise bounced a little as she spoke. “All ponies do better if they have fun!”.
“Trixie finds that really hard to believe...” the show pony dead panned.
“Oh it’s easy, here I’ll show you”
Pop!
In an instant the small trailer was decorated to look like a foal's birthday party, balloons tied down to table legs, streamers dangling from the ceiling and a record player playing a simple upbeat tune.
"Nothing says 'fun' like party!" the foal giggled, and grabbed Trixie over to the small pile of presents in the corner.
"These cannot possibly be for Trixie..can they?" Trixie asked, a small hint of hope in her voice.
"Well of course they are silly! Didn't you read the banner?" Surprise replied, pointing a hoof at the banner above their heads.
It read The 'You Can Do it Trixie' Party'
"I felt like you needed the confidence boost" the small foal admitted with a shrug.
Trixie, the laughing stock of equestria, was being given a pep talk (sort of) by a foal, this one pony didn't care that her lies had put Ponyville in danger in the past, or that since then she hardly gotten any more chances to perform, all this pony cared about was...was.
Making her happy.
Pop!
Surprise had summoned two slices of cake, and offered one plate of the dessert to Trixie. Wordlessly the illusionist took the offered treat and ate it silently, all the while watching the young Alicorn happily devour her own slice of the sweet baked treat.
It wasn't long before a question sprung into the older pony's head.
"Why?" Trixie asked. "Why do all of this for Tri-me?"
"I just wanted to have fun, who says you get let others enjoy themselves as well?" Surprise replied.
Somehow, even though it came from the mouth of a foal, that one sentence still sounded incredibly wise.