Command Performance
Sunny opened her eyes, then blinked and rubbed them.
It was still dark out, but from the pale blue coloring of the sky to the East, it felt close to sunrise-time. Summoning her horn and wings, she raised the Sun. And its warmth and light quickly roused the others, too.
"Wow," Hitch said, as he yawned and stretched. "That's one heck of a wake-up call. Thanks, Sunny!"
"No problem," Sunny replied. She squinted cautiously up at the sky, double-checking her work. "You know, it's funny? I used to hit the snooze button like three times every morning. And now? I'm up at the crack of dawn... because I'm the pony running it."
Pipp smiled. "And we think you're doing a fantastic job. Right, Zipp?"
"Little early for schmoozing, isn't it?"
"Pro tip," Pipp warned her, "always be complimentary to a pony with the power to move the Sun."
"Yeah, point taken." Zipp nodded. "So, what's first on the agenda?" Then she looked over her shoulder, up towards the peak of the hill. "Oh yeah. Right. Tree."
It stood there, stolid and wooden as always, wreathed in early-morning mist that glowed softly and pearlescently in the dawn light.
"Where's Trixie?" Izzy asked, looking around.
They saw the door to Trixie's wagon was open. There was assorted muffled muttering and cursing coming from inside. With the others close behind her, Sunny mounted the steps and peered in.
The wagon's interior was spare and neat, apart from a disheveled hammock strung against a side window. And the numerous trunks and boxes of books and scrolls, stacked everywhere. Trixie was in the midst of these, rummaging in one of them. Bringing out a heavy tome with her magic, she thunked down on the floor, paging through it with rising agitation.
"You'd think," she grumbled, "with something as important as a magical Tree underpinning the powers of the entire realm, they'd have, I don't know, a how-to guide?" She slammed the volume shut. "Unhappily, I don't seem to have anything with me."
"It's okay," Sunny said. "We'll just have to figure it out. Together, right?"
"I suppose," Trixie said, looking doubtful. Nevertheless she willingly set the book aside and followed Sunny and the others, out of the wagon and up the hill, where they all stood looking up at the tree.
"So, what do we try first?" Zipp said. "Thinking happy thoughts? Or singing a song? Or both at once?" Despite all their brainstorming the previous evening, they hadn't come up with anything much more concrete.
"Maybe there's some kind of spell? Or ritual?" Sunny trotted around the base of the tree, looking for a sign, a sigil, markings of any kind. Even a convenient weathered stone marker in the ground with Instructions for Waking The Tree. But there was nothing of the sort. Nothing but the meadow and the daisies and the tree itself.
Trixie was sitting off to the side, frowning and thumping her head with a hoof. "C'mon, Trixie. Think! Think, think, think! What would Starlight do in a situation like this? What would Twilight do?"
And then she looked up. "Which are your Elements?"
The others looked at her.
"Our... elements?" Pipp asked.
Trixie nodded. "Twilight and the others, each of them had some kind of Element, something special about them. It was the same for Star Swirl and his bunch. Starlight explained it to me once. You figure out which element each pony represents, you put them together and..." She gestured vaguely with her hooves. "Hang onto your hat I guess. 'Cause it gets weird from there."
Sunny was nodding. "The Elements of Harmony," she whispered. "Dad mentioned them. They were all aspects of Friendship, somehow."
"One was Kindness," Trixie said, nodding. "I'm pretty sure of that. Another was Loyalty. I think. And, er... sorry, that's all I've got."
Sunny looked around at her friends. "Well, if any of us was Kindness," she said. "It'd be you, Hitch."
"Me?"
"Uh huh." Sunny nodded. "The way you're so patient and understanding. Particularly with the critters when they follow you around."
"Well, what else can I do?" Hitch said, amused. "It's not like I can yell at them or anything. They don't know any better. And I'm the Sheriff, so I have to set an example... critters included."
"And that's why everypony in town looks up to you," Sunny went on. "You're a pillar of strength. They know they can rely on you." Sunny considered it. "Hmm. Strength and Kindness... Authority, perhaps?"
Hitch shrugged. "Works for me."
"And Zipp," Sunny said, "you'd be Loyalty, I think. The way you never give up, and stick by your friends."
"Sure. I've got anypony's back who's got mine." Zipp smirked. "But I don't trust just anypony. I choose my friends carefully. As you can tell from this crowd." She gestured with a wing.
"Right," Sunny nodded. "You're cautious, always seeking the truth..."
"A bit of a skeptic?" Pipp added, smiling. "Maybe more than a bit?"
Zipp shrugged. "Hey, I'll put my hoof up to that. If I'm gonna believe in something, I want to be sure it's the real deal."
"So... Loyalty, plus a healthy dose of Skepticism," Sunny summed up. "Trust, maybe?"
"Suits me," Zipp agreed.
"Oooh! Oooh! Me next!" Izzy beamed. "Uhh... I'm really creative... and have loads of inspiration... and I make friendship bracelets!"
"Plus you can't sit still for more than five seconds," Zipp murmured. She exchanged a smile with Pipp.
"Right," Sunny agreed. "Loads of Energy, and Creativity too. But it's more than that, Izzy. You can always find the bright side to any situation. So... Optimism, I guess?"
"Sold!" Izzy grinned. "Don't bother wrapping it, I'll wear it with pride!"
"And Pipp," Sunny said. "You've got name-brand recognition, and an incredible following. Ponies listen to you and believe in you, because you make them feel better about themselves."
Pipp nodded. "Early on, I learned a very important rule: take care of your fans and they'll take care of you. I've never forgotten it, and it's never steered me wrong."
Sunny nodded. "Okay, so Fame and... I don't know..."
"Networking?" Pipp quickly suggested, with a smile.
"That works." Sunny nodded. "So, uh... Influence?"
"Ding!" Pipp replied. She held up her phone. "And look at that, it's got five plus-hooves already!"
"What about you, Sunny?" said Hitch. "You get one of these elements too, right?" He looked around at the group. "Me, I'd say it's Empathy. Because you always listen to what ponies are saying and feeling. You're always reaching out. You always want to make things right."
"But she also knows," said Zipp, "when to put her hoof down. There's times when you've set us all straight, Sunny, just by being loud and determined about the right way to go."
"Decisiveness," Pipp agreed. "Whenever we're fighting with each other, and can't make up our minds, you lead the way."
"Okay, so... Leadership?" Izzy suggested.
The others nodded.
"Leadership," Hitch said. "Says it all."
"Works for me," Zipp said.
"And me," Pipp agreed.
Sunny smiled at them. "Thanks, everypony. Okay, so we each have an Element, of sorts. But what do we do with them?"
Trixie looked doubtful. "Maybe you gather in a circle around the Tree? And name your elements? I seem to remember Starlight mentioning something like that being part of it."
Sunny and her friends did so. Feeling just a little foolish, they called out the elements they'd settled on:
"Optimism!"
"Authority!"
"Trust!"
"Influence!"
"... and Leadership," Sunny called out, self-consciously.
And then they waited. And waited some more. Nothing happened.
"Anypony got a Plan B?" Zipp said.
"Maybe we didn't pick the right ones?" Hitch suggested. "Or maybe it's something silly, like we didn't say them in the right order."
"No, they seem right to me..." Sunny said. And thought about it. She thought back to the Friendship gem: the three crystals, one for each of the tribes. And how in the end, it wasn't the crystals that were important. It was the ponies they were trying to bring back together.
Then she thought back to Twilight and her friends. And realized...
"There were six of them! Twilight and the others: six elements, six ponies." Sunny looked around at the others. "And there were two of each: two earth ponies, two pegasi... and two unicorns."
"Well, we've got two unicorns," Pipp said.
"Uh huh!" Izzy nodded. "Me and my brilliant study-buddy: Counselor Trixie!"
Sunny looked at Trixie. "How about it, Trixie?"
The showmare looked stunned. "You want me?"
"Yeah, I think we need you." Sunny nodded encouragingly. "To make this work."
"Um. Okay..." Trixie said, trotting forwards. "If you think so..."
"Wait, wait, wait!" Izzy said. "What's Trixie's Element? Trixie gets one too, right?"
The ponies looked at each other. And Trixie looked at them.
"Well..." Trixie said hesitantly, "you did so great choosing your own. What do you think it should be?"
"How about Experience?" Pipp said. "From the way you handle yourself live-streaming, Trixie, I'd say you've been around."
"Plus the way you know how to rough it out here," Zipp added. "I'm proud I can even light a fire. But you know how to live on the road."
"Experience," Sunny agreed, nodding. "That's something you have, Trixie, that none of us have. You know things we don't, because you've been there. You lived in a time when there was magic like this. You remember how things were. We're gonna need that."
"She sure knows a lot about magic!" Izzy said proudly.
Trixie shrugged. "At least, for spells I've practiced."
"And that's something else," Sunny said. "Throughout all this, you've been honest and up-front with us, about what you know and what you can do. Plus you don't sugar-coat things, Trixie. You tell it like it is. We're going to need that kind of plain truth, that kind of tough love. So... Experience and Truth... uh, Wisdom, maybe?"
"Wisdom," Pipp said, nodding.
"Sounds right to me," Hitch agreed.
"Wisdom!" Izzy crowed.
And Trixie gave them all a look.
"If I'm Wisdom," she muttered, "you're all in trouble..."
Nevertheless she stepped forward to join the circle of ponies. Again they named their elements, with Trixie chiming in last: "Uh... Wisdom?"
Again, nothing happened.
Zipp looked miffed. "Okay," she said dryly, "anypony got a Plan C?"
Trixie slumped miserably. "I guess I'm not really the unicorn you need."
"No..." Sunny said, drawing surprised looks from her friends. Then she went on. "We do need you, Trixie. But more than that, we need the real you..."
She glanced around at the others, then looked at Trixie again.
"... we need the Great and Powerful Trixie."
Trixie froze. She looked horrified. "Are you sure?"
Sunny nodded encouragingly. So did her friends.
"The Great and Powerful Trixie," Hitch agreed.
"The Great and Powerful Trixie!" Izzy cheered excitedly.
"Heh. Time to step up to the big leagues," Zipp said.
But to Trixie it was no joke. She swallowed nervously.
"Okay, but... just give me one minute, will you?"
Turning, she hared away down the hill to her wagon, and disappeared inside.
"What happened?" Pipp asked. "Did we say something wrong?"
"I'm not sure," Sunny said. "Wait here." Motioning for the others to stay put, she followed after Trixie.
On reaching the wagon's doorway, she looked in. And found Trixie sitting inside, facing a mirror hanging on the side wall. Trixie had already put on the star-spangled magician's cloak, and was nervously settling the peaked hat onto her mane.
"Trixie never turns down a performance," she said. "But I gotta look the part. Hmph. A little threadbare, but it'll have to do." She gave the brim of the hat a stroke with a forehoof.
And smiled, as if in recognition.
"Ya know..." she said softly, "for the first time in a really long while... I feel like myself again."
She turned to look at Sunny. "Thanks."
Sunny smiled encouragingly. "I know you can do this, Trixie."
"But of course!" Trixie replied archly. "If Trrrixie can't do it, nopony can..." For a moment, she looked uncertain again. "... right?"
Sunny nodded. Together she and Trixie turned back up the hill, towards the tree.
And they quickly met the others, coming back down it.
"Sunny!" Hitch shouted, "something's going on up there!"
Sunny stared. "Trixie, what're you doing?"
"Me?" Trixie squeaked. "I was hoping it was you!"
All round the base of the tree, seemingly out of the sunlit mist itself, walls were steadily materializing. Broken walls, a staircase, doors... a ghostly ruins in fact, which seemed to become more substantial the closer they got to it.
Cautiously approaching the doors, they climbed the stairs leading up to them. Glancing at each other, Sunny and Trixie reached out together and, finding the doors solid to the touch, pushed them open.
In the mist-wreathed courtyard beyond stood the tree, surrounded by the shattered ruins of the ancient palace.
Trixie nodded. "This is how I remember things," she whispered. "So this must be the place. This must be the Tree."
"Why is it all wispy and see-through?" Izzy asked. "Are the ruins really here, or is it just illusion?"
Trixie looked puzzled. For all of a brief moment. Then she lofted her snout proudly.
"Trixie has no idea what's going on," she said. "But that's never stopped Trixie. In fact," she added, "the All-Wise and Thoroughly Experienced Trixie has always played the cards she's dealt. Except the ones she keeps up her sleeves, of course." She mischievously fanned a deck of cards from nowhere, then made them disappear again. "All right," she called out. "If we're gonna do this, let's do it right. Time to put on a show!"
Striding forwards, she turned to face them, lofting her forehooves dramatically.
"Mares and stallions! Fillies and colts of all ages! The Grrreat and Powerful Trrrixie will now attempt the awesomely difficult, and technically unexplainable Waking the Tree spell! With, of course, the kind help of her capable assistants from the audience." She gestured to them all. "Now -- places, everypony! Sunny, you're fine where you are. Hitch, you're over that side, that's right. Zipp and Pipp, over that way, that's fine, but spread out a little. And Izzy, right over there. Perfect!"
Glancing around, Trixie adjusted her hat, then gestured like a conductor.
"Let's make this one count, everypony. Nice and loud, like ya mean it! On the count of three... one, two..."
Once again, the ponies named their elements in order, with Trixie adding hers at the end, firmly and grandly:
"Wisdom!"
And she clapped her forehooves together, setting off a fountain of glittering fireworks.
And... again nothing happened.
In the distance, a bird chirped. Otherwise, all was silent.
"Well, it was a good try anyway." Hitch said, sounding disappointed. The others looked similarly downcast. Sunny in particular, who stared at the tree in bafflement.
"I was sure we had it there. I was sure we'd figured it out..."
Trixie stared as well. Then she frowned. And growled angrily.
Storming over to the base of the Tree, she glared up at it. "Now you listen here!" she snarled. "Tree of Harmony, or whatever it is you are. You've got five ponies here who could really use some help with the magic that's been dropped on them. Plus you've got the Great and Powerful Trixie, who doesn't need help, thanks, but that's beside the point. And these are good ponies, all of them, Trixie can tell. They're pouring their hearts out here, trying to do the thing right, trying to be the ponies this age needs them to be. And you just sit there, like a... like a big freaking tree!"
Trixie was furious. Trixie was livid. And all the more so because the Tree was utterly failing to respond to her tirade.
"Well, Trixie isn't going to stand for it!"
Whirling about, Trixie struck out with a hind hoof, smacking the gnarled bark. "There! Ha! That should wake you up!"
For a moment, all was shocked stillness.
And then, right where Trixie's hoof had struck the bark, a crack formed. It spread, snaking up the trunk and feathering out to the sides. There was a building thrum, a rumbling of tension in the air.
"Aaah!" Trixie bolted, and ended up crouching behind Sunny. "Oh! What the hay have I done now, Sunny?"
"I'm not sure..." Sunny whispered. But she almost was, sort of. Summoning her horn and wings, she waited, watching in awe. Taking their cue from her, her friends stayed put, watching in wide-eyed amazement.
Before them, the cracking of the bark was spreading all over the tree, up its numerous branches. From within, a warm, blinding radiance was leaking out. And before Sunny and her friends could do anything, even just look away, the radiance ramped up into a huge outrush of energy. It atomized the bark and leaves of the tree, whirling them away to nothingness.
In their place, the true Tree was revealed: tall and stately, and utterly ethereal. No longer bound by physical form, it spread branches of sheer magic into the air, and dug roots of power deep into the ground, reconnecting with the restored power of the realm.
A nimbus of gleaming magic formed around Sunny, and around each of her friends -- Trixie included. They were lifted into the air and swept into a proper circle around the Tree. And they could feel the unleashed magic connecting them, linking them all together, in a bond that the realm had known only twice before.
At last, a voice said. Whether it was spoken aloud or just in their heads, it was difficult to tell. The link has been reforged. And not merely amongst your three tribes. But with the past. You begin to remember, as do I...
"Sunny..." Hitch said nervously, "why is the Tree speaking in your voice?"
"Seriously?" Zipp asked. "A tree talking at all isn't weird enough for you?"
This is the voice you listen to, the Tree said. The voice you believe in. The voice you respect... There was a slight but unmistakable edge in its tone.
"Um..." Trixie offered nervously, "Sorry I kicked you. I was a little fed up, that's all."
They felt a gentle warmth, a sparkling in the Tree's magic. It was like laughter, but without the physical expression of it.
Tough love indeed, the Tree said. And just when it was needed. You are true to your Aspect, Trixie Luna Moon. As are each of you. That is well. This will be needed, in times ahead.
"That's why we're here," Sunny said. "We want to be sure we're ready, that we know what to do. That I know what to do," she added with a nervous smile.
Get used to uncertainty, the Tree advised. But trust in yourself and your friends. You all have an unusual destiny. Others before have sought what was already there. But you must now seek what was, reunite the present and the past. Yet you have what you need: ancient magic, and modern technology, and the friendships that you will reawaken, all across this land.
"No pressure, huh?" Hitch whispered, making Sunny smile.
Be on guard though, the Tree warned. Not every creature, not every force you awaken will be friendly. Not everyone who claims friendship will be true. It will be up to you to decide which is which. You are the Aspects of Friendship now. And you will know what must be done...
The power gently released them, and Sunny and her friends settled back to the ground. Before them, the glowing Tree's magic flowed away, outwards and downwards, along otherwise invisible channels in the fabric of magic itself. It slipped away entirely, leaving behind only the creeper-tangled stone ruins, now fully solid once again.
And six utterly amazed ponies.
Sunny and the others crossed to the doors of the ruins, and looked out through them, down the stairs. Beyond they saw only the empty, daisy-strewn meadow. Plus Trixie's wagon, and the two pegasi guards who'd been cowering behind it the entire time.
Sunny and her friends looked at each other, astonished and speechless.
Then Trixie proudly gestured with her hooves.
"Ta daaaa! Now, who's for ice cream to celebrate, huh?"
Sunny and the others laughed.
"Sure," Sunny said. "Soon as we get back to town. And I'm buying."
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Late the following morning, they were back in Maretime Bay. The entire group was sitting around a table next to the ice-cream stand on Shore Street, looking out on the bay. And each of them had a dish or cone of his or her favorite flavor.
Trixie had just taken a large chomp out of her cone, and was squinting at the resulting brain-freeze.
"Er, excuse me?" said a nervous voice behind them. "Are you Sunny Starscout?"
Sunny and her friends turned to look, and saw a trio of nervous-looking unicorns, dressed in star-spangled robes, their carryalls loaded down with quills and scrolls and other research gear.
"Yep." Sunny smiled. "Sunny Starscout, that's me."
The ginger-haired unicorn who'd spoken touched a forelock of his mane courteously. "We're a delegation from the Archivists," he said. "It's a group dedicated to carrying on the tradition of scholarship established by the Royal Archives of Old Equestria. Up to now, we've had to remain in hiding, but with the return of magic, well... we thought we'd ask if you're considering maybe re-establishing the Archives? We'd be more than willing to offer our services as scribes and researchers. And maybe one day, with diligence and study, we might be able to recover some small amount of the knowledge ponies once had about magic and spellwork."
Sunny exchanged an amused glance with her friends. "Well," she said. "I think you ought to take that up with the current Head of the Archives." She gestured with a hoof. "Which would be Trixie here."
"Oooh..." Izzy warned, "but it's not just Trixie, remember..."
Trixie herself gestured with a forehoof, invoking an ethereal mirror in midair. She used it to make sure her hat and robe were on straight. Then she dismissed the mirror with another wave of her hoof.
And finally turned round, to eye the nervous scholars loftily and scornfully. She smirked.
"How may the Grrreat and Powerful Trrrixie... be of service?"
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In another place -- a shimmering, placid realm as distant as a sunset, yet as inescapably encroaching as one's own shadow -- a Princess looked down on the scene.
And smiled, reminiscently.
Behind her, there was a darkly smug chuckle. And Twilight rolled her eyes.
"You are having way too much fun."
She turned her head to look at the flame-eyed, night-dark shape looming behind her, wreathed in coruscating fire. The other Princess shrugged indifferently.
"The little fraud always wanted to be powerful... and great. Who are we not to oblige, hmm?"
Twilight shook her head reprovingly, but didn't object outright. She just kept smiling as she returned her attention to the six ponies -- the Aspects of Friendship -- celebrating that friendship together.
She sighed. The sight made her feel just a little bit better.
It was so like old times...
The End
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I hope that Trixie gets to appear on future stories, because she's just perfect for the group. Slowly and Surely, you're building the world of G5 up, but still let it be its own thing.
This whole story, as per usual for you, is just *chef's kiss* perfection. And do I spy a Sunset at the end?
As I said before that's always been a very good theory about hitch can represent kindness he has like the same ability as Fluttershy
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Hey, Eroraf86! Thanks so much!
(And regarding the ending, see The Once and Future Princess for a hint.)
Wow that was a pretty good story and adding Trixie to the Mix so they try to figure out how to bring out the tree of Harmony to life but somehow nothing is working Trixie remembers about the Elements of Harmony as in who they represent so once they named the elements it didn't work because unfortunately there's supposed to be six ponies but it looks like Trixie is the sixth Pony yes she was pretty worried that her Persona will come out but sunny and her friends reassure her that she can do this back to bring back the great and powerful Trixie so they went to the tree of Harmony once again but again it didn't work Trixie got really upset about it but somehow her tough love bring out the tree of Harmony and the spirits talk to them about what lies in the future despite the magic coming back there will always will be dark Forces around but they will never be alone so once with that they went back to Maretime Bay and having a celebration together until a couple of ponies who worked at the archive wanted to help Sunny and teaching all the ponies about the magic and Trixie is the pony they can ask and the outskirts it looks like Twilight was amazed this was happening and she's not alone Sunset is there as well I guess she came back from the human world to stay in Equestria that was pretty surprisingly and I guess that was that pony we saw back in the earlier story from what you said but still pretty awesome to see her again and whatever happened that will be another story this was a pretty awesome one here keep up the good work
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Ohh to be honest I thought it was fizzlepop berrytwist I guess I was wrong but still cool
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Were you? Look again...
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I did I just didn't put two to two together when I first read it
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Thanks much! I was hoping those references would pay off for readers with a coding frame of mind.
The best part of it was that it wasn't hard to come up with them -- I just checked my bookshelves!
Thats entirely on brand for Trixie
~Reggie
This was adorable, and great i love it.
'the archivist' hmmm....is this a jab at 'the librarian' which itself was a deconstruction of the heroic adventurer genre.
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“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”(Sir Terry Pratchett)
Trixie is perfect for the job, I think.
Quick question I wanna ask before i continue to read chapter 1. "Why would Sunny even NEED to move the Sun and Moon they seemed fine on their own"
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A quote from this story, which you'll come across:
Basically, with great power comes great responsibility. Magic gives ponies control over nature and its elements, including the cycles of day and night, but it also means they need to take greater responsibility for them. This was a nice, subtly ecological message from the canon FiM series, which I liked, and hope they retain in the G5 world.
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I just feel Sunny should have just left em be, one of those "If it ain't broken don't fix it" situations. Still all and all a good story.
with no disrespect intended though, I do not understand why the Sun and Moon NEEDED to change, they seemed perfectly fine on their own. I am on chapter 3 by the way
PS: Personally I think the Sun and Moon and G5 will continue to do their own things. Also from all I have heard Sunny cannonly isnt a full Alicorn yet
Just finished the story. All and all not bad, and a very fun read. Heh Trixie kicking the tree was pretty funny! Like I said before my only real gripe is I see no reason to have to take control of the Sun and Moon. On the other hand Pegasi learning to control the weather, could be useful for emergencies like Droughts needed fixed, or if a VERY bad storm needed dispersed, otherwise I could see em letting things be.
Do you have any plans for a sequel?
Kinda want to see more someday. Soon I hope.
Most un-magical unicorn was logical choice.
Thogh I suspected that Sunburst would be one...
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What, no love for SRO, the pony version of GEB? I was particularly pleased with how ponifying the full title fell neatly into place, including reusing the initial letters from the ponies' names in the subtitle.
Plus the use of Starlight's name here is a callback to an earlier story, Starlight Breaks Magic, in which Starlight gives a thesis defense of her Incompleteness Theorem...
Trixie is awesome...lets have more Trixie.
Hmm...well Trixie is the unicorn that leaves an Earth Pony and Pegasus who could possibly be brought to G5. I would say how about Marble Pie and Lightning Dust.
Marble Pie crush on Big Mac aside...and most likely heartbreak is super shy...quiet and would blend well with Izzy. She could use the spotlight.
And Lightning Dust while rash, blunt and impulsive got a bad rap...who could predict a hot air balloon suddenly appearing in the middle of a training drill exercise? And having her lead pony badge not only ripped off her uniform but then promptly given to Rainbow Dash? That was cruel.
Ironically while reckless Lightning Dust has created far less damage then Rainbow Dash yet she's the one whose always punished while Rainbow is always praised. I would like to see her get a true redemption plus you know she would create something stunt awesome in that world...
Right umm...aspects...Determination and Reliability?
Lulamoon
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Actually, that's intentional. See the story Trixie Luna Moon, in particular the chapter Examination Day, to see how Trixie comes by that name.
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Ah, makes sense, I thought you were going off of the show, and misspelled it. My bad.
Before I start...
Having to switch back to "Mature" just so you can read "Fallout: Equestria" again is a torture of exposure to dreck...
Then I see you've been busy...
Exploration of the duality of pony...as of man...
(Luna's lovely flanks; do I love it when an author makes me think...!!!)
And there it is: "Trixie Luna Moon...
When an author inadvertently works the same field as the incomparable Estee, you are on to reading something great...
Luna; claiming Trixie as one of her own...
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/487419/pony-go-boom
It's all of you that keep Fimfiction from degenerating into a morass of self-insert crackfic sex fetish violence...
Y'all deserve medals...
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Yoshifan30 mentioned Captain America as one architypal "future refugee", similar to Trixie, which is cool, because I hadn't even thought of the Cap while writing this, and it is a really good parallel.
But I think for me, the prototypical version would be Buck Rodgers (whether the original comic version, or the Gil Gerard remake), an experienced astronaut from 1987 who winds up in an "on the rebound" future Earth where his unconventional practical experience makes him an unlikely leader/hero for a modern squadron who are a little too reliant on their flight computers and protocols.
Similarly, Trixie might find herself in the unusual position of being the "senior mare" in the group, advising Sunny and her friends, sort of their version of Star Swirl the Bearded. Which has some amusing potential consequences since normally the GaPT can barely manage to stay out of trouble on her own...
Would be interesting to see this continue with Discord reappearing and trying to figure out this new world.
Y'know, I don't know who I should have expected to see first outside of Twilight, Spike, and Discord, but it definitely wasn't Trixie. Though, with how well this was written, maybe that's who I should've hoped to see coming. I know I'm supposed to feel bad for Trixie in this story, because she accidently trapped herself in limbo and lost all of her friends, but I feel worse for Starlight here. Accidently driving your best friend to literally disappear just so you would pay attention to her can't have been a great feeling for Starlight to live with the rest of her life.
p.s. I miss the advanced projects group, will we be getting more of them ever? Or are you done with that story line?
That was a wonderful read. Thank you for writing this.
A fanqtastic story, I loved the birthname Patricia Pot as a nod to Jack Pot.
Wonderful story. Enjoyed reading it.
Good job at writing Trixie as the prefect bridge between the old and the new. She might not be the best pony at magic, or the best pony at explaining the past. But she's certainly framed as the right mare in the right place for what needs to be done.
Hmmmmmmm… it’s fun but it doesn’t mesh well.
I occurs to me that Trixie brings their numbers to six... If so, I can almost see Trixie as Magic since she really is more expert than any pony else now, and her power boost might not just be "more magic to go around because it isn't being used for much, and/or has had time to 'rest up'".
My hypothesis of her at least being a bearer seems more likely... Random thought: Pipp actually might be a better choice for Loyalty than Zipp in the unlikely event that Hitch ends up with Honesty instead of Loyalty. I could see a slightly redefined Kindness (remembering about the Pillars had a different take on the Elements than the mane Six) with her desire to make her Pippster's get the most out of life?? She certainly has the resources for Generosity, but we never see her especially keen on sharing them? The again spending her time on championing worthy causes could be more effective than using material or financial resources, given her political clout (especially if they never got all their perks back after the coup when the Pegasus discovered the Royals couldn't fly).
Good redefinition. Makes Emperor Sprout his Evil Counterpart.
Well, she DID abandon Pipp that one time... competing virtues, but she choose... " Hope" or "Heroism" over Loyalty I would say.
Practical ability, compared to Twilight who arrived at real world skills mostly through her devotion to theory (as opposed to Sunburst who lacked the raw power to make a good jump into practice)?
Who is this supposed to be?
Sequel???????????
Amazing! I also felt Trixie kinda fit with them too, but that could just be her being my favourite but it’s amazing to see someone else put Trixie with the M5!
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Best guess, Sunset.
I enjoyed this, although I think more for the study of Trixie than for the Mane-5. I would love to see this universe continue with additional stories.
And if I was adding someone from the G4 universe into G5, I'd pick Starlight Glimmer. She has her character flaws, but she also successfully went head-to-head with Alicorn Twilight. Starlight would make a great teacher and powerful ally for the Mane-5.
Sunny... Sunny? Sunset Shimmer!
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Dear Princess Twilight,
I tested our theory about the portal's time dilation, and how foraging a link to limbo from this side of the portal might help reverse the negative interactions. Unfortunately, there seems to have been an incident.
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Nice and fun read. Even just having heard of G5, I could follow the story without any problem, and I really liked how you wrote Trixie. The way you brought her into the future, the inner conflicts, it all makes a lot of sense, is believable and sets a nice set-up for how Trixie is during the story.
At the end, the only thing missing for me was how the first dream seems to have build up something, but wasn't further explored, but maybe this fic is a base for future fics etc.
Overall, I enjoyed reading it, and how you let the G5 characters "bring back" the Great and Powerful Trixie Lulamoon
So did Tempest give Trixy her power?