Daybreak made his way towards the outskirts of Ponyville in good time, he ended his quick paced run by a lake and took a moment to rest. Although he knew why he had decided to chase down this mare, he still couldn’t rationalize it to himself.

“She tries to rape my special somepony, badly attempts to tare us apart, and now I’m going to offer her friendship and a job…I swear I think I’m turning into a fuzzy forgiving softy instead of a fierce, magical, claw slashing, awesome, whatever- I-am right now…Dashies ego is rubbing off on me”.

He knew he could easily track down Trixie in a matter of hours, all he was worried about was the distance that separated them and how much magical energy he should save in case…things didn’t go peacefully. He considered the fact that, him throwing a fireball at her the last time they had met maaaaay have left a lasting impression on her.

“oh well” he thought “time to snap to it”

With that, Daybreak held out his hand and surrounded it in his magical aura. Within seconds he gave a strong grunt and a shape started to form magically in his palm. The shape became that of a blue wizard hat, an exact recreation of Trixie’s old one, minus the sex photos of Twilight hidden inside.Daybreak had added some perks of his own to the hat, but he would get to those later.

For now he needed to use the surviving magic Trixie had left in her hat to track her down. Daybreak had only ever done this spell once, and he'd been a small colt at the time, and with the aid of the Princess, and it was done in reverse. Although he was much stronger than before, and there was no building with stone elements in them to accidentally destroy, Daybreak still had his worries. If done correctly, this spell would allow him to track Trixie’s magic even if it was thousands of miles away, but that was the easy part. The hard part was after that, he could then continue the spell to allow him to look across the distance that separated them and see exactly where she was, and then teleport directly to her, and if he was lucky, bring them back again.

He sighed and sat down cross legs, in the grass, setting the hat gently on his outstretched hand. He had to extend his claws to steady the hat fully. Once he was situated, he shut his eyes and began to slow worm his magic around the hat. He let his aura prod and poke the hat, sniffing out a trace of mare magic. He wormed his aura through every pore of the hat, feeling for anything his mind might touch. Suddenly a flash of light was in his mind and he saw a vision of Trixie on stage, fireworks exploding beside her as her crowd cheered. He had it, a trace of her magic. He pulled it from the hat and surrounded himself in her field, and surrounded her field in his own so he drowned in her aura. He only then realized that this could actually be considered an intimacy in its own way, he chuckled, but did not lose focus.

As he drowned in her aura, he let his mind fly, feeling the air for more traces of her power. Although it took a few moments, his mind’s eye was suddenly lurched on a rollercoaster as it catapulted across Equestria. His ride came to a sudden halt in front of a pub, he expanded his sight for a sign, and found one that read Las Pegasus. He had a location, now he narrowed his focus on the mare herself. His sight was thrown through the walls of the pub and allowed him access to close sight inside. He could see Trixie easily, she was so close, he could see the brand of drink she was drinking, and it was strong stuff.

Now he had an exact location, the hardest part was now, he had bring his body, to where his mind was, in the empty seat next to Trixie. He was sure nopony, even her would notice, her head was down and the other ponies seemed enthralled by drink or a pool game they were watching. Daybreak focused hard, willing his body to follow his mind. He strained his brain, beginning to feel his body all the way back at the lake, his face was obviously strained as his magical field began to shiver. He willed himself a deep breath and with a tremendous surge of power, suddenly felt the rest of him surge through the invisible portal. He felt his body shoot through the portal at an uncomfortable speed, and he knew all too late, it would not be comfortable to feel the reconnection of his mind and body when he stopped!

Daybreak and his mind reconverged as he was spat into the seat next to Trixie, he shot forward and knocked the air out of himself against the counter top. He was both surprised and winded, but he had done it, and he still felt like he had some good amounts of magic left in him. He smiled and looked over at Trixie, he looked down at his lap, and saw he still held her hat. He decided it was better sooner than later to return it.

Daybreak was about to shake Trixie by the shoulder to wake her, when there was a loud yell towards him from the entrance of the bar

“Hey you! Blue bitch! Trixie!”

Trixie lifted her head at hearing her name and swiveled around in the rusty stool to face her caller. She had turned in the opposite direction Daybreak had been and so did not notice him. He kept his back toward the door, awaiting what would occur. Two rather built stallions and three smaller ones walked through the bar doors. Daybreak could see out of the corner of his eyes, they were not happy, he wondered what they wanted with Trixie.

They all walked up to where Daybreak and Trixie sat, the biggest one, the one who had called Trixie came to the front. On his hind legs he would have been Daybreaks size and much more built, possibly even rivaling Big Mac. His coat was a darkish silver, he resembled a Pegasus named Snowflake Daybreak had met with Rainbow Dash once, but with a darker shade and he lacked wings, his back legs were also just as built as his front legs, and he had a rough look about him, he lacked a shirt and wore jeans with holes in them, Rarity would have seen him as a fashion nightmare. He spoke with a rugged voice, mild anger and arrogance about it that made Daybreaks blood boil

“hey you, Weak and Pathetic Trixie, that show was an absolute joke, I’ve seen better magic tricks from my two year old filly and we demand a refund for that waste!”

Trixie, although she knew she was outnumbered by quite a bit, still retained some of her arrogant attitude despite being, clearly intoxicated

“There are no refunds for the Great and Powerful Trixie’s show, you should be honored she felt the need to grace you with that performance, and at a discount for all of your fillies and colts. And while we are on the topic, I doubt you could have seen better magic from your two year old philly, because no woman in their right mind would lie down with a ragged brute such as yourself, at least not willingly”

She gave a triumphant laugh as the smirk on the stallions face dropped. Daybreak had to give Trixie some credit, for a mare, she had balls, but he could tell by the stallions look that things were going to escalate quickly. The stallion gave a glare at Trixie

“Well, if you don’t wanna refund us, maybe you could give us something else to repay us, and we’ll leave in peace” he slid his hoof up along Trixie’s cutie mark as his friends chuckled.

Trixie smacked his hoof away “How dare you touch a mare of my standards, I wouldn’t have sex with you if I was starved, drugged, horny and begging for it on a deserted island you ink brained brute”.

Daybreak nearly snorted, he heard Twilight say ink brained once before too, they really were very similar.

The stallion did not seem to like that at all, and it was only then that Daybreak noticed the bar was now completely empty except for them and the group of stallions, even the bar tender had been in the back room for a very long time. The stallion moved in between Daybreak and Trixie then and said

“Listen lady, if you don’t repay in some way, I’m afraid we are just gonna have to take our payment”

Trixie huffed “Not a chance”.

Daybreak was livid, there were at least eight of them and one of her. A fact she either didn’t notice or didn’t care about. Daybreak knew he would have to intervene soon, but he decided to let this go a little longer.

Without warning, the big stallion grabbed Trixie around the waste and threw her to the floor, tearing off her cape. His friends held her down on her belly as he got behind her. Trixie’s horn began to glow, but it diminished immediately when one of them grabbed it hard with their hoof and kicked it. Trixie gave a painful yell at that! The big stallion behind her had dropped his pants, along with most of his comrades, and took a hold of Trixie’s flank, lining his dick, which also may have rivaled Big Macs, up against her booty hole. His comrades spread her cheeks for him and he began to insert himself into her rear.

Meanwhile Trixie was yelling all the while “HOW DARE YOU, REALEASE THE GREAT TRIXIE AT ONC- AAHHHHH!”

The stallion had pushed the head of his engorged member in her rear and his comrades were lining up her other holes.

Although Daybreak felt Trixie deserved punishment for what she had done, he could not allow this to happen to anypony. He decided he needed to act now, he quickly turned, was out of his chair and behind the big stallion before the others had moved. He put his claw on the stallions shoulder

“The lady said no!”

With a surge of strength (that may have possibly been backed by magic) he tossed the big one out and away from Trixie. Her bottom hit the ground as he crashed into a nearby table. The others rushed Daybreak without thinking, and unfortunately for them, he reacted without thinking. A large Pegasus jumped at him, but Daybreak side stepped him and slashed across his chest with his claws. He then caught a back kick aimed at him and tossed that stallion into the oncoming two. Another Pegasus grabbed him from behind, pinning his arms behind his back while another lined up a backwards buck. Daybreaks grabbed the pegasus’ hooves while they held him and back flipped over him as his friend bucked him in the gut. As Daybreak landed he kicked the one who had been bucked into a group of runts. The last remaining three he grabbed with magic and threw into the biggest one who had just recovered from his table. Daybreak then crossed the room with record speed and placed his foot on the biggest ones chest and pinned him against the broken table with his friends. He held out his palm and let a magical force build threateningly in it. He stared into the stallions eyes and let loose a low growl

“Don’t ever let me catch you bothering this mare again, or I’ll make sure you spend the rest of your life as a sea sponge with its genitals shoved in its head”.

The bartender had reentered as the fight started, Daybreak went to him first, after he dismounted the pegasus and said “I’m sorry for the mess, if you wish to bill me for the damage, I’ll give you my address”

The bartender just shook his head smiling “that’s quite alright sir, those brutes always cause trouble around here, it is about time they got theirs”

Daybreak gave a respectful bow to the stallion and returned to help Trixie. Trixie was already back on her feet and and had retied her cape when Daybreak came over to her. She seemed to have a mixed expression when she recognized him, It lingered between relief, annoyance and embarrassment. She walked out of the bar and motioned for him to follow. Daybreak rolled his eyes, he knew that this would not be as easy as he had hoped. Once they had exited the bar and moved a considerable distance away, Trixie turned to him

“So why is Twilight Sparkles’ mate coming to rescue Trixie”

She put a mix of sarcasm on the word rescue. Daybreak responded with some flare in his voice

“Why did you let that go so far, you could have teleported away at any moment, even if your horn hurt from that kick? Is getting gangbanged your new hobby Trixie?”.

She gave a cocky grunt “Yes Trixie could have escaped whenever she wanted, although, she has had a considerable amount to drink and maybe she forgot…”

Daybreak found that hard to believe, but then she continued

“…or maybe she was waiting to see what you would do, let Trixie get attacked or save her? Maybe you had just come to watch me get humiliated? Clearly though that is not it. However next time do step in quicker, that stallion had no business violating a mare such as me, any longer and I would have had to react myself”.

Daybreak felt a twinge of irritation at the blue mare, of course she had faked it and known he was there, just to see how he would react. Daybreak gave a sigh of annoyance, she had played him for a foal.

Trixie could see the look of realization and annoyance on Daybreaks face, it gave her a bit of joy to see that he was not completely without fault, despite how powerful he might be, magical or otherwise. She gave a laugh and smirk

“So what do you want with Trixie?”.

Daybreak was seriously considering just giving her the hat and leaving, but he knew that under that overconfidence, she wanted a friend too. Daybreak, had managed to hide the hat with his magic until this point, where he reached around behind his back and made it reappear in his hands. He walked over and presented it to Trixie, then set it on her head, adjusted it properly, and smiled

“That’s much better, now you look like The Great and Powerful Trixie”.

Trixie was, in all honestly, completely speechless. Her overconfident smile and vanished and she now wore a face mingled with shock and joy. She held back tears of happiness, she missed her hat so much! She knew to others it would seem like just a hat, but many of her shows tricks encompassed her hat and it was part of who she was, she was not herself without it. And, truthfully, her show had been suffering since she had lost her hat to Daybreak’s magic, (which had also kept her from remaking the hat herself), the flare she had for performing had nearly ceased, and she could barely perform well enough to make the money needed to eat. She had finally been good enough to land a performance here in Las Pegasus, but then she had gone to seek revenge on Twilight again, her obsession had resurfaced overnight, and ever since then she had been dreading tonight’s show. She knew she would do poorly without her love for the act, but she had gone anyways and done better than she had thought, but not by much. However she knew that with only one more show left, there was no way she could do good enough to make up for it, or hope to be invited back again.

Trixie explained all this to Daybreak, she was so flustered with emotion, she had even stopped speaking in third person, a fact which Daybreak was grateful for. As she explained her recent life to him, Daybreak began to understand, he had made the right decision in coming back for Trixie. After she said everything, and thanked him again for her hat, Daybreak said something even he couldn’t believe at first

“Trixie, if your last show isn’t until tomorrow, then…I’ll stay and help you perform. We can be a onetime team, I’ll be your assistant and with both of our skills I know we could make more than enough for you, maybe even get you invited back”

His eyes mirrored the shock on Trixie’s face. She looked as though he had proposed marriage, that is to say, shocked into stutters

“I-I don’t know w-what to say…I-...I mean..Trixie is..oh buck..”

Daybreak smirked and patted her on the hat, ruffling her mane slightly. For a split second she looked up at him with a playfulish smile that reminded him so very much of Twilight’s. He couldn’t help but smile back

“sooooooo, yes?”.

Trixie nodded “thank you, no pony has ever shown such kindness to Trix- I mean to me”.

Daybreak smiled in spite of himself, he was definitely getting to her, she seemed like a new mare already. He had no doubt he could reform her by the time her concert was over tomorrow, then he could take her back to Ponyville with him and give her a life there instead of in that cart she always used. Plus, who knows, by the time he was through, she might even become friends with him and Twilight.

Daybreak knew it was getting late, and had not considered where he was going to sleep yet, he turned back to Trixie and smiled as he started to walk

“Well, I’ll see you tomorrow Trixie, I look forward to working with you”.

Trixie could tell just by his walk, he had no idea where he was going, she smiled and rolled her eyes

“Hey dork, if you wish, you could spend the night in my cart, there’s plenty of room, and it’ll be better than the grass. Plus it will give us time to discuss some routines for tomorrow”.

Daybreak turned around with cheerful but surprised grin

“that’s very…kind of you Trixie, thanks” Daybreak came to her side and let her lead the way.

Once they made it to Trixie’s cart, she opened the lock magically and allowed him to enter first. Once inside it was clear to Daybreak that magic was everywhere in here. The inside of the cart was like a small hotel room, with a living room, bed room, shower, everything. Daybreak knew Trixie was good, but this was a complicated spell, it would make Twilight proud. Trixie went over to the couch and plopped down, she motioned him over and he came. As he sat next to her, she removed her hat and cape and let them float to their spots in her room, which was barely open enough for him to see inside.

Several moments of what seemed like endless silence passed between them, until Trixie finally turned to him

“Why did you really come here? It could not have been just to give my hat back?”

Daybreak had expected that question at some point, unfortunately it was not so expected that he had an answer ready. He wondered how she would react to the truth, so he took a leap of faith for Honesty

“Hmmm...” he hummed “The truth, I came back for you because I thought you deserved...no that’s not the right words…hmmm. I came for you because I could see that you needed a friend, all that you tried to put me and Twilight through, there was no real gain in it for you, somepony doesn’t just do that for no reason unless it’s for their own pleasure. I could see the look on your face when I came for Twilight, how you reacted to knowing…that she had found love and somepony who would protect her. You were jealous...”

Trixie opened her muzzle to deny, but Daybreak just placed a finger on her lips

“Let me finish. I could see the jealousy, and the fact that you traveled alone, implied that you had no real friends. All that combined with meeting a mare who could best you at the one thing you always had over others, I can see how that could push a mare over the edge. I didn’t want that to happen to you, you seem like you and Twilight could be really good friends if you can move past the past”.

Trixie looked as though she was in deep thought, she had not tried to deny what Daybreak had said a second time, but she was clearly mulling something over. After a few moments Trixie took a breath and said

“I don’t deny that many of the things, if not all of them are true…”

Daybreak felt a smile form on his lips, but he could feel the 'but' coming in her statement

“…but I cannot just waltz back into Ponyville as though all of my disdain is gone, I am not so easy so defuse”. Daybreak sighed “Figures” he thought.

Trixie got up from the couch and walked over to a nearby cabinet, she opened it, inside were an assortment of items that he could not place. She took one out and hovered it over to him. Inside a glass pedestal, was a red and black amulet, Daybreak could see what looked like an alicorn carved around a gemstone that was clearly mystical. Trixie pointed to it with her free hoof

“This is the Alicorn Amulet, I recently acquired it from a shop keeper near here, for a considerable price I might add. It has the power to make any unicorn, or magical being that wears it, more powerful than anypony could imagine. With this Amulet, a normal unicorn would be stronger than me or Twilight, but if a unicorn such as myself, Twilight Sparkle, or you, were to wear it, we would become more powerful than Princess Celestia, or possibly rival the famed Elements of Harmony”.

Daybreak stared at the Amulet, Trixie had no idea about his true power, if this Amulet was for real, he could never wear it. He would be the most powerful, unstable, magical being in Equestria. That Amulet could not possibly be good news.

Trixie, after giving him a moment, continued “I had planned on taking this amulet to Ponyville with me after tomorrows show and using it to take my final revenge against Twilight Sparkle…”

Daybreaks eyes widened, that was not good

“…but, you have made me feel differently, no pony has ever shown me such compassion before, so I will make you a deal”. She shook the glass case for extra emphasis “If we perform extraordinarily tomorrow and win the chance to come back, I will renounce my hatred and revenge against Twilight Sparkle forever and never bother her again. But if tomorrow does not go well, then I shall use the Alicorn Amulet, go to Ponyville, and exact my revenge”.

Daybreak weighed the odds, they were indeed steep, but he would prove that she did not need the Amulet and give her the first friend she’s ever had, in the process. Daybreak slowly nodded, but then he quickly added

“Trixie, you realize if you turn towards revenge after tomorrow and come to Ponyville as an enemy…I will not show you mercy if you intend Twilight any harm”

Trixie let out a barely concealed chuckle “I admire your ferocity Daybreak, you certainly earned your Cutie Mark I must say”

Daybreak raised an eyebrow at Trixie but she waved her hoof as though to ignore the matter.

“So now we must prepare for the show tomorrow”

Daybreak, deciding that pursuing the subject of his Cutie Mark with yet another mare was not his idea of fun, conceded to a change of subject.

He smirked “actually Trixie I think I already have a few good ideas for tomorrow”.

He leaned in and they began talking of tomorrow. Eventually sleep called to them and as Trixie headed to her room, Daybreak stretched out on her couch and was quickly asleep.