I was in the middle of working on a way to get love back to the hive without having to drag crystals there constantly when Twilight burst into zecora’s hut.
“Hey DJ, I need your help!”
Stashing the crystal I was working with into my pocket, I turned to her. “What’s wrong?”
“There’s a unicorn in town, she’s claiming that she’s the best at magic.”
“That’s ridiculous. You’re the best at magic, you literally embody it.”
“I know, and I want to take her down a notch, but everyone hated the way she was bragging. If I go there and show her up, won’t everyone hate me?”
I laughed. “How about this, i’ll go take her down a notch. If she takes me down, you have full permission to take her down. Is that good?”
She bit the bottom of her lip. “I guess… but if she beats you it will only make it worse if I beat her.”
“That’s the point, she won’t beat me.” Twilight thought about it for a moment before accepting.
“Ok, if she beats you i’ll go up there. If she doesn’t, then I don’t have to risk anything.”
“Exactly, no where is she?”
“Main square. i’ ll take you there.” she left the hut and led the way. When we got to the square, the pony was there performing rather mediocre magic tricks that any human magician could do, all while flaunting about being the best.
“The Great and Powerful Trixie will beat any and all challengers!” she shouted
“Care to put that to the test?” I asked while climbing onto the stage.
Without turning around, she shot back. “Ha! Do your best. There is no possible way you could beat The Great and Powerful Trixie!” I grinned and clapped my hands while crouching down. When I put my hand on the ground my eyes flashed green as I felt a wave of flames flash over me.
“Done.” I said calmly. Trixie turned around and her smile dropped instantly.
“What the?! How?! Wha-” she took a moment to regain her composure. “Is that all you can do? Imitate one greater than you?! Try this!” she threw a beam at me that I easily absorbed, only causing a small beurn mark on my fur.
“Is that all you can do?” I asked dropping her form. She stared in shock. “Wh-What are you?”
“A creature that absorbs magic. A creature that can take on the forms of others. A creature called a human.” her eyes shrank.
“You don’t exist! Humans are creatures of legend! You’re not real!”
I poked her on her forehead. “Do I feel fake?”
She turned her head to Twilight. “You brought this creature here!” she fired a bolt at Twilight who managed to block it at the last second. “Defeat the caster, destroy the summon!” she cried before sending another bolt at Twilight. The townsponies ran away in terror, and I dashed towards Trixie. She somehow teleported away. I then ran over to Twilight.
“You ok?”
“You mean other than the crazed unicorn trying to kill me? Yeah, I can hold my own.”
“I hope so.” a much stronger magical bolt hit me in the head. I was sent flying from the hit even though I absorbed most of it. Twilight rushed over.
“You ok?”
“Deja vu, but yeah.” I saw Trixie standing on top of town hall. “There!” Twilight popped out of existence, and reappeared on top of the roof. Trixie then jumped off. I panicked and started casting my transformation spell while running towards her.
“Nonononononono NO!” I planted my hands on the ground and before I was even fully transformed I was a rainbow colored bolt flying towards Trixie. Right before she hit the ground, I caught her. After I grabbed her I dropped my rainbow dash form and put her down.
“Why did you save me?”
“Nobody deserves to get hurt, even if they tried to hurt me. Just for good measure though.” I placed my finger on her horn and started to drain her magic. I got about halfway before I couldn’t hold any more.
She smirked at me. “Trixie has the biggest magic reserves that anypony has ever seen. Not even you can hold it all!” she was a little woozy from losing so much magic at one time.
“Got me there. Now, please go with the kind guard ponies over there.” her mouth dropped as she saw the royal soldiers behind her. They quickly grabbed her and placed an inhibitor on her and took her to the jail. Twilight teleported over to me with a flash.
“That was… interesting to say the least.” I said.
“Yeah… about that, how did you change into Trixie and rd?”
I blinked before realising this must not be normal for ponies to do. I mentally facepalmed for not researching shapeshifting spells before showing off.
“There’s some creatures in the everfree that can shapeshift. They’re really deep in, so we only occasionally see them. I used up most of the magic I had stored from them with that little show there. It’s starting to get dark though, I should go home.” I lied. She nodded her head.
“Interesting. I’ll do some research into these cre-” a loud roar cut her off. “What was that?!”
We ran in the direction of it and found a large shimmering bear. Actually, large would be an understatement. This thing was huge! The houses to it’s side were dwarfed in comparison. It roared again towards tome of the townsponies. I clapped my hands and started to channel a basic beam to distract it but cried out in agony when the magic hit my hand. The spell fizzled out instantly and I looked down. A large gash was in my hand. I cursed before addressing Twilight.
“This is what I get for casting and running. I can’t do anything to stop this, my hand’s cut too badly. It wont let me channel. You’re gonna have to do this Twilight.” she grimaced.
“But, this is the same thing as showing off! I can't do that after Trixie just got put in jail!”
I glared at her. “Twilight, you need to do this. If you’re concerned about them thinking that you’re bragging, ignore them. If you don’t, a lot of ponies could get hurt. NOW GO!” with that I shoved her forwards.
She took a deep breath before she started casting her spells. The first one started wind blowing over a nearby pond. I was about to tell Twilight to actually try when I noticed that the creature was starting to bob back and forth. Twilight then ripped the water tower from its… tower, and sent it through a barn. When it emerged, it was full of milk and she levitated it over to the creature. It started to drink the milk and it’s eyes half closed. Twilight wrapped it in her magic. When she tried to lift if, she faltered and lost the spell playing music. I placed my good hand on her back and pumped some of Trixie’s magic into her. Her spells picked back up immediately. Somehow, she managed to levitate the star bear thing back to wherever it came from. She dropped her spells and I stopped putting more magic into her. She dropped to the ground in exhaustion.
“C'mon, let’s get you to bed.” I picked her up and put her over my shoulder. She groaned and I walked her back to her treehouse. Handing her off to spike, I managed to get back to zecora’s house before passing out.