While I was on my way to Canterlot, I saw a pile of rubble on the road. I flew down to check it out.
"Help!" I heard.
"Where are you?" I called.
"Under the cart!" she said.
I found the cart and levitated it off of her. "You ok... Trixie?" I asked, surprised.
"Yes, thank you. You seem to already know who I am, so who are you?" she asked.
"Name's Phil. What are you doing so close to Ponyville, learn any new spells that you want to trump Twilight with?"
"Yes, how did you know?"
"Doesn't matter, it prolly won't work."
"How do you know that?" she asked angrily.
"I'm a tad magic with a hint of psychic."
"Well how exactly do you know?"
"You wanna test your spells, try them on me, Twilight taught me, and if you can't beat me, you won't beat her."
"If you say so." she said. Then she charged up a spell, and everything went black.
"Wake up!" she yelled.
"Yo, what up?" I asked her.
"Are you ok?" she asked.
"Aw damn it! Am I a pony?" I asked, looking at my hand. "Yup."
"But how is this possible?"
"Did you happen to just shoot lightning at me?"
"Um..."
"That's too dangerous, you can't do that again."
"I'm sorry about that, but why did it happen?"
"Magic. Hit me again."
"What?"
"Zap me with lightning again."
"Why?"
"I'll turn back into a human, now do it."
"Um... Ok."
When I woke up, I was still a pony. "Oh well, that didn't work." I said, standing up on my back legs.
"Why are you standing like that?" she asked.
"I am different." I replied.
"I can see that."
"Don't bother going to Ponyville, you're just gonna hurt somepony and be shunned in all towns within a 98 mile radius." I said.
"Well where should I go?" she asked.
"Come with me, might as well."
"Where are you going?"
"Canterlot, wanna talk to a Princess, got a bit of a problem."
"What's the problem, maybe I could help." she asked.
"You can't help me with this, I sensed that something bad is going to happen earlier today, and had to give a bad excuse to my friend so I could leave. Although the excuse wasn't a lie, it was still bad." I said, starting to walk, "Coming?"
"Yes, wait up." she said.
"So how did your cart break?"
"I was practicing my spell, It didn't work."
"I noticed." I said with a laugh.
Trixie gave a chuckle and said, "Thanks for helping me."
"No problem." I said.
"I mean it, you saved my life, thank you."
"That's enough, Trixie, I got it." I said, patting her head.
"Did you just pet me?"
"Probably, let's go." I said, walking down the road.
"Alright then."
It took us 2 hours to get there, and I asked Trixie, "You got something to do here, or you gonna keep following me?"
"Well I didn't have anything planned, but..."
"Wanna talk to the Princess?" I asked.
"Yes, please. Can you do that?"
"I don't know, might as well try. We're already at Canterlot." I said.
I walked to a random pony and asked them where the princess was. They pointed to the palace on the mountain. I walked back to Trixie and asked her, "You ok with me flying you up there to see her?"
"I guess that's ok."
"Cool." I said, grabbing her and putting her on my back. "Hold on, Trixie!" I said to her, opening my wings. She tightened her grip and I leaped into the air, flying normally.
When we got to the palace, I landed on the balcony and was approached by a guard.
"Halt! Who goes there?"
"Cliché as hell." I said.
"It may be cliché, but it gets the point across just fine. Why are you here?" he said.
"Me and my friend here want to talk to the Princess." I said, looking back at Trixie, who was still holding on for dear life, eyes wide. "You freaked out." I laughed.
"Shut up, Phil." she said, getting off.
"Hey Trixie, is your talk with the Princess informal?" I asked her.
"Yes, you could say that."
"As I was saying, I request an audience with the Princess, and my friend would just like to chat with her, if that's alright."
"Princess Celestia is busy."
"Can I talk to Luna?" I asked.
"She's sleeping right now."
"Damn it!" I said. "Yo Trixie, got anything to do to kill time?"
"We can get some lunch."
"Cool." I said, "Where to?"
"There's a diner near the bottom of the mountain."
"Can you teleport?"
"Yes."
"Meet ya there!" I said, diving off of the balcony. I opened my wings at the last second and drifted to the ground. "That was fun."
"Hi Phil!" said Trixie.
"Hey, how's it goin'?" I said without expecting an answer.
"Here it is, Phil." she said, pointing to the diner.
"Let's get some food, I'm buying." I said, walking in.
"That's nice of you." she said.
"I needed a minor distraction." I said.
"Huh?"
"Luna wasn't sleeping, she was wide awake."
"How did you know that?" she asked.
"Because I can see her right now."
"What?" asked Trixie, looking around.
"Order me some pancakes, I'll eat them later, gonna talk to Luna first." I said, handing her my bag o' bits.
"Sure you wanna trust me with this?" she asked jokingly.
"Run off with my money and I'll make sure you won't run again." I said. Then I laughed.
"Alright, see ya." she said, getting a table.
I walked to the table that Luna was at. "Great disguise, Luna." I said.
"How did you know? Who are you?" she asked.
"My name is Phil. I need to talk to you, something dangerous is going to happen in this world and I needed to talk to a ruler of Equestria before it did."
"What is it?" she asked.
"I need you to keep your voice down when I tell you." She nodded, "Discord will return, and the Elements will be useless against him this time."
"What?" she shrieked quietly.
I looked around the diner, nopony had heard her. "We have 3 months. Tell your sister. I'll be at Ponyville, staying with Twilight, if you need me." I said, walking away.
"Where are you going?"
"Food."
"What took ya, Phil?" asked Trixie.
"It was indeed Luna. I seem to have cut off any chance of you talking to her right now, sorry about that."
"Don't worry about it, it was a childish idea."
"If you say so. Them's my pancakes?"
"Yup! Get eating!"
"Pancakes..." I said, mouth watering. I sat down and devoured the pancakes. "They were good pancakes."
"Wow, you like pancakes almost as much as I like pie!" said a stallion behind me.
"Hey Soarin'." I said.
"Hey, how ya doing?"
"Quite good."
"Alright, see ya around." he said, walking away.
"Say hi to Spitfire for me."
He looked at me and his eyes narrowed, "Why didn't you mention any other members?" he asked. Looks like Soarin' and Spitfire are in a relationship.
"Didn't mean it like that, if you don't want to say hi to her for me then don't."
"Be careful, Phil. Others are watching." said Trixie.
"Gotta wrap this up then." I said back.
Soarin' didn't look away, that probably wasn't what he wanted to hear.
"Er... Gotta go!" I said, flying out the door.
"Get back here!" he yelled, flying after me.
He chased me through the air, slowly catching up. "That was probably a bad idea. Oh well, outrunning a Wonderbolt will do wonders for me, and Dash if I mention her at the right time. She trained me after all."
I waited until Soarin' was almost on me, "Think fast!" I said, putting on a full stop. Soarin' zoomed way ahead of me, trying to stop, or turn around, whichever.
"What's going on here!" asked an angry voice.
"Hey Spitfire!" I said. Then Soarin' tackled me and knocked me out of the air. We fought in a mess of hooves and heads on our way to the ground, exchanging blows. I got a lucky punch in, knocking him out cold, and grabbed his body before he could hit the ground.
"What the hell was that?" asked Spitfire.
"I kicked his ass, that's what it was." I said.
The next thing I knew was a hoof coming for my face, and me flying a solid four feet away. I didn't get up, but instead found a comfy position on the grass and tried to fall asleep.
"Get up!" she yelled.
"I don't wanna, it's comfy down here." I said.
She walked over to me and picked me up, then punched me again.
"Alright, that's enough." I said, getting up.
"So you'll fight back?" she asked.
"What is it with you and wanting to beat the shit out of me?"
"Soarin's out cold because of you, I'm not going to let you do that to my boy... Er, fellow member." she said, blushing.
"I get what's going on here."
"Please don't tell anypony." she said.
"Don't attack me again and I won't have to." I said.
"Fine." she said unhappily, walking back to Soarin'.
"Spitfire, we got a crowd from that little outburst, want me to make them clueless to you and Soarin'?" I asked her quietly.
"Please." she said.
My horn glowed and I released the spell. Some of the ponies that looked like they were thinking got a look of frustration on their face.
"What exactly did you do?" she asked.
"They can't put two and two together, so to speak. You're safe until somepony screws up again." I said, gesturing to Soarin', "He's got a temper."
"I know."
"Be seeing you then!" I said, flying back to the diner that I left Trixie at.
"Stop right there, criminal scum!" yelled a pegasus in royal armor.
"Ha! Oblivion reference." I said. "What do you need from me?"
"Princess Celestia and Princess Luna would both like to see you, immediately."
"Alright, just let me get my friend first." I said. "She's got my money."
"Alright, but we will follow you." he said.
"We?" I asked.
Three more guards appeared from behind some buildings and joined up with the first guard.
"Oh." I said, flying to the diner.
"Fly normally, son!" said a guard about me flying upside down.
"Never gonna happen." I replied.
"That's an order!"
"I will never fly normally." I said.
"You fly right or I'll make you!" he threatened.
I stopped in midair and looked him straight in the eyes, "Try it and see what happens." I said angrily.
He flew to me and raised his hoof.
"Touch me and you'll see if there's life after death." I threatened.
The guard thought about it a moment, then lowered his hoof, heeding the death threat.
I smiled and said, " Thank you."
The leader of the guards flew up to me and asked, "Would you really have attacked him if he did that?"
"Absolutely not, but I'm not just going to let him hit me." I said.
"Alright then." he said.
"We're here." I said, diving to the diner.
"Did that really need to take that long?" asked Trixie.
"Probably not, but hey, I got a meeting with the Princesses." I said.
"You did? How did you manage that?" she asked.
"Guards told me that they wanted to see me, maybe we can squeeze you in as well." I said.
"Thank you. Here's your money." she said, handing me my bag o' bits.
"Sweet." I said, then I turned to the guards, "Were ready."
"Good, now come with us." the leader said, flying away.
"Hey Trixie, wanna fly?" I asked.
"Yes, I think that I'm ready for it this time." she said.
"Alright then, hop on." I said, lowering my back. She got on and I said, "Hold on tight."
"Alright Phil."
I leaped from the ground and flew like a regular pegasus.
"How come you're flying correctly now?" asked the guard from before.
"Passenger." I said, gesturing to Trixie.
"This is wonderful." she said, lifting her head.
"I know." I said. "You feeling better now?"
"Yes I am, the last time I wasn't prepared."
"I saw that, you freaked out."
"Shut up." she said.
"You sure that's safe?" asked a guard.
"No, but it's too late now, were hundreds of feet in the air."
When we arrived, Trixie got off and we were taken to a private room with the Princesses. We both bowed, Trixie by lowering her head and me by crossing my arm over my chest and kneeling, and Trixie said, "It's an honor to meet you two."
"Yes." I agreed.
"Hello you two, was the flight ok?"
"It was wonderful!" said Trixie.
"It was fine." I said.
"She flew?" asked Celestia.
"I flew her myself." I said.
"Haven't heard of that in a while." she said.
"Why so?" I asked.
"For one, it's dangerous, and for two, usually when a pegasus flies another it is a symbol of love." she replied.
"Huh, did you know this, Trixie." I looked over my shoulder at her and she blushed. "Oh well, that aside, what's up with calling me here so soon, I told Luna that if you needed me that I would be at Twilight's."
"I wanted to make sure your information was correct." she said.
"Yeah, it was correct. Wouldn't really have a reason to lie to you. I guess. I can't think of one, at least."
"How can you be sure of this?"
"A touch of magic and a hint of psychic."
"Psychic?"
"Just a little. I mean it's not like I can predict the end of the world or anything."
"And you're sure of this?"
"Yeah, I thought we just went over that."
"Yes, we did. Now, how can we deal with this threat to Equestria?"
"I got two ideas. One, we could prevent him from escaping, which would only be temporary and difficult. Two, we let him escape and destroy his physical form."
"Why can't we destroy him as he is now?"
"I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't work. Also it would be more challenging than diamond compression with your bare hoofs."
"Why?"
"You'd have to defeat the Elements of Harmony in terms of magicivity. From what I've seen, not even Discord can do that. Going on the fact that you needed the Elements to defeat him, you won't manage to do it."
"Your logic is sound. You are smarter than you look." said Celestia.
"Gee, thanks." I said.
"Sorry."
"So... That was it. Trixie, if you wanna speak, do so now."
"Um... Ok, thanks."
I left the room and was approached by some guards again. "What's up this time?" I asked.
"We have been told to look after you for the time being."
"That's boring."
I left the castle, and they didn't follow me. "Wait, that doesn't make sense."
I felt myself falling, but I was still flying around.
"What... What's going on?"
"Kid, stop what you're doing and go home." I heard. It sounded a little like Discord, but wasn't him.
"Who's there? Show yourself!"
"You're gonna wanna stop."
"Or what?"
I felt the magic power in my body start to decrease.
"Kid, you have a lot of magic."
"Stop it!" I said.
My magic was near zero. I didn't know what happened at zero, but I didn't want to find out. I tried to sever the connection, but I didn't sense any of the sort. I tried to fly away, but couldn't move.
As a last resort move that I learned from Twilight, I compacted the rest of my magic into a sphere and transferred it to my chest, where it was unreachable for a while from inner or outer forces.
"You got lucky today, boy. You just weren't lucky enough. Goodbye."