Trixie has been down on her luck since "the incident" in Ponyville about half a year ago. After being shown up by the upstart Twilight Sparkle, who stopped the Ursa Minor attack on Ponyville instead of her, she has become the laughingstock of magicians, and her shows have suffered for it. She has barely made ends meet, and it has not been helped by recent events with her family. Now, on Hearth's Warming Eve, she is back in the blasted village and awaiting when she can strike at the most-hated Twilight Sparkle to exact some petty amount of vengeance.
That is if another societal outcast didn't come along and spoil her plans.
Written for Lula-Crystal for Jinglemas 2022!
Edited once again by the amazing Everfree Pony.
Cover art provided by my wonderful friend, Avrameow.
To be fair, she does have a point about that--nothing she did ever made Snips and Snails go looking for the Ursa Minor or even personally encourage them to do so. Heck, she wasn't even aware of it happening until the critter was already pretty much on her doorstep, so to say she was in any way complicit with bringing the creature into town or in any meaningful way responsible for the damages that ensued is a bit of a stretch, enough that it'd probably need to be settled in a court of law at least, and even then I'd personally see that as a waste of the court's time and money. So making Trixie have to pay for the damages really does seem unfair (particularly when she did actually try to stop the Ursa Minor...she just failed epicly doing so).
The rest of the incident though was definitely still mostly Trixie's fault, so the social ramifications are still hers to deal with, naturally.
The real shameful part of this is that those two agents actually fell for that.
Don't forget the gobbling up in big tasty stews!
And of course, Trixie fails to learn the lesson when she should've. But one can't ever say she doesn't still help to make Twilight's life more...interesting that way.
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Let it never be said that Trixie accepted the consequences of her actions, at least before she really met Starlight.
And Trixie did learn a lesson. Not only could she still try to enact revenge on Twilight, she must be patient, earn more money doing some work at a certain rock farm, and then find an even better way to humiliate Twilight. There's no possible way that it could go too far, could it?
That was a good story.
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Thanks!