There was not much I could change when Gilda came to town. I was able to stop her from making Fluttershy cry, but that was as much as I could do. I doubt she wanted to talk after storming out of that party.
But I had a higher priority, this time with one of the great and powerful unicorns: Trixie. In the show, she claimed that she could stop an Ursa Major. Snips and Snails wanted to prove that, so they went and woke up an Ursa Minor. It took Twilight’s magic to calm it down. Trixie hit an all time low after that. Her career was stained, and she resorted to buying an amulet from the black market which corrupted her mind. She then ended up kicking Twilight out of town. It wasn’t until the rest of us were able to trick Trixie into giving up the amulet. While Trixie was reformed in the end, she still left a dark mark. Hopefully, I could change that.
Twilight was practicing spells in the library while I watched closely.
“Come on Twilight, you can do it,” I said.
Twilight’s horn started glowing. And just like that, a mustache grew on my lips. I doubt dragons even had hair, but since it was magic, I didn’t question it.
“He-ha! You did it!” I said. “Growing magic, that's number twenty-five. Twenty-five different types of tricks and counting. And I think this is the best trick so far.” I looked at myself in the mirror. I did look good with a mustache.
“Sorry, Romeo. As attractive and enticing as you look, it's just for practice, and it's gotta go.” Twilight’s horn glowed again, and the mustache was gone. I was a bit disappointed.
Twilight and I decided to take a stroll around Ponyville.
“You’re really good with magic, Twilight,” I said. “All those spells you can cast. Heck, if you keep this up, you may end up being as powerful as an alicorn some day.”
“Oh, stop,” Twilight giggled. “I'm sure there are lots of ponies right here in Ponyville that know just as much magic as me.”
There will be soon.
“Gangway!”
Almost on cue, I quickly dodged past Snips and Snails. The blue and orange colts had barely even given us a warning as they galloped towards the center of town.
“Wonder where are those two going?” Twilight coughed from the dust cloud kicked up from the colts.
“We better go check it out,” I said.
We headed to the center of town. There was such a huge crowd, all standing in front of a stage on wheels. Twilight and I pushed our way to the front, where the rest of our friends were.
“Come one, come all!” a voice shouted. “Come and witness the amazing magic of the Great and Powerful Trixie!”
A large puff of smoke and shimmering dust filled the stage. Almost as soon as it appeared, it began to disperse as I managed to make out the trademark purple cap and cape of the blue unicorn known as Trixie.
“Watch in awe as the Great and Powerful Trixie performs the most spectacular feats of magic ever witnessed by pony eyes!” Fireworks and flares filled the sky.
“My! My! My! What boasting,” said Rarity.
“Relax, Rarity,” I said. “It’s all part of the act. No need to be rude. She’s just a unicorn with magic, like you and Twilight. There’s nothing wrong with that, right?”
“Nothin' at all,” said Applejack. “Except when someone goes around showing it off like a school filly with fancy new ribbons.”
“What is wrong with you girls?” I asked. “Trixie is a performer. She’s supposed to exaggerate about her skills. Why can’t you enjoy the show like normal ponies? You act like she stole your lunch money.”
“Spike is right,” Twilight said. “You girls don’t need to heckle somepony who’s just doing her job. How would you like it if somepony chewed you out for bucking apples or sewing clothes?”
The girls stayed silent after that. The rest of Trixie’s show went pretty well without any interruptions from the audience. I even got to volunteer for one of her tricks, which was unexpected. I was a bit nervous standing in front of a large crowd, but Trixie managed to calm me down.
The trick went something like this:
“Pick a card! Any card!” Trixie held up a bunch of cards.
I picked the ace of spades.
“Now, put it back!” Trixie covered her eyes as I placed the card back into the pile. She quickly shuffled them, and flashed a card in front of me. “Is this your card?”
It was the seven of hearts.
“No,” I replied.
“Are you sure about that?” She rubbed her hoof on the card, and it turned into the ace of spades.
“That’s my card!” I said. The crowd applauded.
After the show ended, the crowd of ponies left. The girls were still sour about Trixie’s attitude, but at least they didn’t try to prove they were better than her.
I actually wanted to talk to Trixie. As I was heading in her direction, I saw Snips and Snails backing up.
“What are you two doing?” I asked.
“Just bringing the GNPT (the Great and Powerful Trixie) a smoothie,” Snips replied.
“You guys sure are big fans of her,” I said. “Do you really believe she’s that talented?”
“Of course she is! She claimed she could vanquish an Ursa Major!”
“She can do that? Amazing.” I knew that she couldn’t, but I didn’t want Snips and Snails try to find one to prove it.
“See? Even you admit she’s a powerful pony!”
“Well, unless somepony else comes along and proves that they can defeat an Ursa as well, I’d say Trixie has my full respect.”
As Snips and Snails left, I was glad that they didn’t come up with the idea of waking up an Ursa Major. That was one weight off my shoulder.
I walked up to Trixie. “Hi, there. My name is Spike.”
“Trixie does not want to sign autographs, now begone!” She then looked at me. “Wait, aren’t you that dragon who volunteered in one of my tricks?”
“That’s me. I just came by to say that I really liked your show. That card trick you pulled really got me.”
“It’s what I do best.”
“I heard that you were able to defeat an Ursa Major, is that true?” I knew it wasn’t, but I didn’t want to get her angry.
Trixie explained her story. She didn’t do it during her show because the girls didn’t call her bluff.
“It all started in Hoofington. An Ursa Major was threatening to obliterate the town. Just when all hope was lost, the Great and Powerful Trixie came in and vanquished it into its cave of Everfree Forest!” Never had I seen a pony’s eyes more lit up than hers.
“Wow! That’s amazing! Twilight would be jealous of you,” I lied.
“Who is this Twilight?”
“Oh...uh...She’s just some unicorn I know. She’s really into magic, and was really fond of your tricks.”
“Maybe she can convince me to teach her a few things.”
“I'm sure she will. Well, I better get going. See you later, Trixie.”
“You too, Spike.”
Later that night, I saw Twilight reading a book, as always.
“So, did you like the show?” I asked.
“I thought it was entertaining,” Twilight replied.
“If only the others could agree.”
“I’m sure they were just annoyed by her boasting.”
“It’s not as if Trixie could speak in a quiet tone, though. Could you imagine how boring she would be if she spoke like Fluttershy? If you ask me, the girls were just being mean.”
“The girls don’t know what it’s like to perform in front of an audience. It’s not everyday somepony comes to visit Ponyville.”
As fate would have it, the floor started to vibrate.
“W-What’s going on?!” I asked. The floor shook harder. Before long the entire tree was shaking. “What’s happening?!”
“Nothing good, I’m sure,” Twilight replied.
As we headed outside, my worst fear came true. An Ursa Minor was roaring and stomping around town.
What the hay?! But I thought…
I scrunched my eyebrows. I knew who was behind all this.
“I’ll be right back, Twilight.”
I dashed for Trixie’s cart, and sure enough Snips and Snails were approaching.
“Stop, you two!” I shouted.
“This isn’t the time, Spike!” Snips said. “We’re in big trouble!”
“You’re right about that! I know you two were responsible for bringing that Ursa here!”
“Yeah right. And we were responsible for Nightmare Moon’s return as well.”
“Quit joking and tell me the truth!”
“Neither of us were responsible for that Ursa! We didn’t even think about finding one at all!”
“Are you sure about that?”
“Spike, leave those kids alone!” Twilight called out. “We’ve gotta take care of that Ursa!”
“We’ll talk later,” I said to Snips and Snails.
The Ursa Minor was right before us. I had to admit, it was a scary creature. Its nightly fur did nothing to hide the fangs and claws of the vicious beast. Given how it’s capable of breaking somepony’s horn off, you’d best hope it wasn’t coming for you.
I knew what Twilight was going to do. In all seriousness, I was thinking Fluttershy should’ve calmed it down with her stare, but she wasn’t here right now, and it would take a while to get her.
“Twilight, use your magic!” I cried out.
Twilight’s horn glowed. The rest of the events played out like in the show: a wind spell for the lullaby, the water tower and milk for a bottle, and a levitation spell to get the Ursa Minor back into its cave.
When all that was done, Twilight was practically out of breath. The entire town cheered for her. Even Trixie was impressed (Snips and Snails had woken her up).
“That was amazing!” I said.
“Heavens to Betsy!” said Applejack. “We knew you had ability, but not that much!”
“I’m sorry,” Twilight said.
“Don’t be sorry, Twilight,” I said. “You’re magic spells are amazing! It’s nothing to be ashamed of.”
“It’s just that, the other girls weren’t fond of Trixie’s show...”
“We didn’t hate the show,” Rainbow Dash said. “It was just the host that we couldn’t stand.”
“Hey!” Trixie called out.
“Face the facts.”
Applejack walked up to Twilight. “Your magic is a part of who you are, sugarcube, and we like who you are. We're proud to have such a powerful, talented unicorn as our friend. Even more after saving us from that Ursa Major.”
“That was an Ursa Minor,” I replied.
“Spike’s right,” Twilight said. “It was only a baby, and it was acting all scared and confused, like it woke up from a bad dream. I was reading a book about it a while back, so I had an idea about what to do.”
"That was a baby?" Trixie quickly covered her mouth after asking that.
“If that’s what an Ursa Minor looks like,” Rarity asked, “what does a Major look like?”
“You...don’t want to know,” Twilight replied.
“Guess you don’t need me to teach you!” Trixie called out. “You may have vanquished an Ursa Minor, but you will never have the amazing, show-stopping ability of the Great and Powerful Trixie!” She disappeared in a puff of smoke, and by “disappeared” I meant she ran away after throwing a smoke bomb.
“That mare sure is full of herself,” Rainbow Dash said.
“Just leave the black kettle be, pot,” I said.
“What?” She gave me a confused look.
“Nothing.”
Later on, I sent Twilight’s lesson over to Princess Celestia. I was happy that Trixie didn’t humiliate herself, but I didn’t know how or why the Ursa Minor still came to Ponyville. Twilight and I interrogated Snips and Snails, but they claimed they didn’t even go near the Everfree Forest. We decided to take their word for it. Twilight did say that the Ursa Minor was acting all scared, so it might have had a bad dream.
Hmmm..... interesting.
I wonder if there will be some wibbly-wobbly timey wimey shenanigans because of 'Spike's' meddling.
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that just makes things more interesting
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No, Spike has metaknowledge, not foreknowledge.
He couldn't have just mentioned Starlight Glimmer?
This is good
This is a really good story, but there is one thing you should check up. Either remove that 'b' word in the ticket chapter or change the 'e' to the 't'.
Odd, if those two didn't bring it, I wonder who did.
nice chapter
I can't wait for "spike's birthday"
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Probably whoever got Fluttershy to act so out of character during the pilot.
Look at Dragonshy. Fluttershy should have
Wet herself
Ran home
Hid under her bed
Died of fright
(not necessarily in that order)
She should NOT have charged into the scariest forest in EQ without even being asked
Who could have done this? It's a mystery
Hhmmm. There might be some outside forces at play here, making sure things happen. Maybe dusty pages will still have her breakdown and learn her lesson? Now, is it the tree of harmony? Or something else?
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Aren’t they synonymous in this instance?
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No, because Spike's actions based on what he knows will cause events in the future to be changed from their current course, rendering his knowledge useless. If he truly had foreknowledge, it would indicate that he had made changes, but it doesn't. Spike's knowledge will stay the same.
this is snips and snails we are talking about. they do stupid stuff
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He put a glitch in matrix! TIME IS NOT HAPPY!
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I mean...Discord exists. All bets are off when he's released.
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to quote...well some on "Life is a fickle thing. Its not meant for meddling."
Hopefully it wasn't Trixie bringing the Ursa into the town just to make her the bad guy, especially after everyone ptetty much learned their lesson.
You could have pointed out that Gilda, while rude, had reason to be mad. Pinkie harassed her, and when the pranks happened at the party Gilda thought it was Pinkie trying to humiliate her. When it was revealed to be RD, instead of apologizing she sided with and defended Pinkie, leaving Gilda feeling that her only friend had betrayed and replaced her with someone who hated her.
Looks like there's an element (lower case) of destiny to the story. Some things are fated to happen.
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Well, you know what they say, hindsight is 20/20. Even for brony-dragons trying to fix what they can with metaknowledge. I know different fans have had various reactions and perspectives on the events of episodes, and even this brony (whether you're talking about the protagonist or the author) came with his own on matters. He may not have thought of that, even if you did.
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That, or kept Pinkie occupied for the duration of Gilda's visit. After all, it's obvious that Gilda either needed or simply wanted some alone time with Rainbow Dash. I, for one, am more a fan of the theory of her having needed some alone time with Rainbow Dash.
I get the feeling that Trixie here, while no longer in a position of being allegedly humiliated by Twilight in a career-wrecking way this time, may still see her as a rival. Combine that with her character, her past (whatever it entailed), and how all that may influence her future actions, and you have a recipe for a more-or-less intact timeline----just as Discord indicated later on----complete with Amulet shenanigans and Glim-glam connections.
Least he acknowledges the problems with people’s reaction to the show.
Magic duel. . . averted.
This. This right here. I agree COMPLETELY.
Pot, calling the Kettle, Black
Dude... That alone is worth a civil medal of Honor.
Way to make us proud of you
Wait... THAT IT? . . . . . . . . . . .
How is Luna by the way? DID you prank Celestia with Luna yet?
(^.^)/)'(\(^-~)
They didnt get eaten? . . . BOOO! That poor Minor needs its vitamins and they are
' first grade Darwin Award winners '
Captain Obvious called. Chuck Norris seem to have droped his hat from sheer dissapointness and now his hat cleaned the Sahara from all it Sand... What do you know... There was a Holy Grail barried after all... Scientists discovered it hold Chuck Norris sweat at one point in time and that why everyone drinking from it become badass... Huh... What do you know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Trixie might be a good teacher for Luna ego... To bad a certain David-Spike didnt befriend this poor mare...
I need a cookie now
Is the Seadragon in the Evertree a joke to you?
That mean... His actualy really nice when he dont try to eat you...
Carnivore serial killer... Next time i kick your ass from the inside instead of running out of your mouth ones you fall asleep you overgrown lizard...
Twilight just destroyed your chances to wooo
Marshmallow buttRarity.Make her paaay
Cut of the Purple part of her tail next she sleeps but keep the different colored part alone to make it look fashionable...
Marshmallow WaifuRarity might kill you otherwise Plus Spike get a color fitting moustageHopefully into the next Darwin Award with a one way ticket to the other side... Free Candy
Im so confused right now...
Uuuu Rainbowdash must be reeeally good looking in that 'see trough cloud house... '
Perhaps hire her with one or two of your gems to go to Canterlot for a private show for your pen pal Luna. She will be smiling im sure.
*imagen Wona smile aaannnddd falls to the ground, do to HHGGGNNNN overload*
I KNOW IT ALL ALONG!
BANISH EM TO THE PINKIE ZONE!
Here is Husden... We landed on the Dark side of the Moon... Who write in white letters:
'Celestia is a bitch' ?
Dddduuuuuddddeeessss... Really? I can see your dirty laundry from out here... Buy some wall papers before you go to the... toilet... O DEAR LUNA ! Your dropping em trough the clouds AAAAAA
David-Spike is my hero
Fantastic chapter. Well done!
You come a long-long way... Even if i didnt watch you from your very first day~
How is Luna
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And who plays pranks at a getting to know you party? All it does is distract from the whole getting to know someone.
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Rainbow has shown herself not to be a good judge of when not to do pranks, so it's in character.
If it grew on your lips, I'd be telling Twilight her aim was off.
Spike was awesome that day
You made Boast Busters, one of my least favorite episode, into one of my favorites.
also based 'spike'
Just kiss the Cat-Birb
So is the Nightmare still around?
Wastes opportunities, no cat-birb friend for Dave-Spike
Trixie would have been a neat friend to have.