Doctor and Ditzy’s Science Theater

by Rixizu

Episode 23 - Part 2

Oddly, Trixie didn’t feel nervous about the fact that, with the sun directly overhead, it was essentially midday.

All: (Gasp)

Ditzy: The horror! The horror!

Perhaps that superstition was keyed more to the time of day than the position of the sun;

Doctor: The superstition starts at exactly 11:99 AM.

either that or she was so terrified right now that mere nervousness over the unnatural midday wasn’t capable of registering beyond abstractly noting its absence.

Ditzy: She can run back and forth screaming later.

Trixie opened the door to her house, closed it, and let the invisibility spell she had wrapped around her and Ditzy Doo, whom she was carrying on her back, slide off of them. On seeing Ditzy Doo, she almost wished she hadn’t.

Doctor: Her eyes promised a reckoning.

The pegasus mare’s eyes were wide with panic, and she was holding onto Trixie tightly, sobbing without shame into the unicorn’s mane.

Doctor: Poor thing. I know how that can feel.

“Dinky Daisy!” Ditzy cried out as Trixie made her way into her living room, suddenly finding life in her limbs as her wings began beating frantically, lifting herself off of Trixie’s back and straight up. She was stopped only by the room’s ceiling, and came crashing down to the floor again.

Ditzy: (Ditzy) Where did that come from?

Trixie leapt on top of her before the mare could get her hooves under her and go racing outside.

Ditzy: (Trixie) You have to, uh, stay for tea! It would be rude to not accept my hospitality! That’s it!

“Ditzy!” Trixie cried as she held the pegasus down. “Ditzy! Stop! You can’t – ”

“Get off!” Ditzy Doo interrupted, foreleg lashing out and hitting Trixie squarely in her jaw. The unicorn stumbled backwards, and Ditzy began running, but Trixie was faster and was once again atop her.

Doctor: And not even fazed from the kick.

Ditzy: She just rolled really well.

“Get off of me! I have to save her!” Ditzy cried out.

“You can’t!”

“Yes I can!” Ditzy shouted, rolling over onto her back in order to buck Trixie.

Doctor: She shouldn’t be too worried considering what little damage the last kick did.

The unicorn’s horn pulsed with magic and stopped the blow, then Trixie once again threw herself atop Ditzy Doo, holding her down. She did not stop struggling in the slightest. “She’s my daughter! I have to save her! I have – ”

“You can’t!” Trixie repeated.

Doctor: (Trixie) She’s probably dead already! No, wait. That didn’t come out right.

She stopped holding Ditzy Doo down, and instead switched to embracing the pegasus. Unsurprisingly, Ditzy latched onto Trixie, once again crying her eyes out – she wasn’t going to run out of tears any time soon, it seemed.

Trixie felt her own eyes watering as well.

Ditzy: (Sniff) Don’t do that. I’ll start crying too.

“I’m sorry…” Trixie begged. “I’m sorry. I didn’t know Corona would do that. I didn’t know, I was just trying to save the mayor, I thought I was going to die but then I thought I found a way to make it out and then nopony would be hurt and I didn’t know…”

The two ponies remained on the floor of Trixie’s living room for several minutes, just holding each other, one wracked with feelings of failure and the other with guilt.

Ditzy: Which way? It could be either.

At length, Trixie forced herself to pull away from Ditzy Doo, and got onto her shaking hooves, her expression dark.

Doctor: (Trixie) By Luna’s starry mane Corona will pay for this!

“She’ll be fine if – ” Trixie began, when the window to her living room exploded inwards in a shower of wood and glass.

Ditzy: Dear Celestia! The mob is hurling bombs at Trixie’s house!

Trixie’s horn flared, but she didn’t have time to react as a jasmine-and-blue blur slammed into her and forcing her back against her wall.

Ditzy: (Trixie) Ah my spine!

Doctor: And Trixie was never able to walk again. The end.

Trixie’s eyes widened as they locked onto Raindrops’ own. “W-wait, I – ” the unicorn started.

“There’s maybe fifteen seconds before half of Ponyville arrives here,” Raindrops interrupted as she pulled away from Trixie.

Doctor: Maybe it was a bad idea to hide in the most obvious place possible.

Trixie began to speak, but the weather pony’s hoof was near-instantly in her mouth,

Ditzy: (Trixie) Bleh, did you roll around in sewage before you got here?

shutting her up. “You. Carrot Top’s. Run.”

Ditzy: Oh course! Go to the house of the pony most ponies barely remember even exists! Perfect plan!

Trixie blinked once in shock, before survival instinct kicked in. She cast her familiar invisibility-and-silence-spell combo –

Doctor: Ah, but the mob will be expecting that so they are spreading flour around to uncover you!

eliciting a slightly raised eyebrow from Raindrops at the sight of her being erased from the visible spectrum – before dashing off as fast as her hooves could take her. On her way out of her home, through the same hole that Raindrops had made while entering,

Doctor: I really hope she’s planning on paying for that.

she saw the mob of ponies approaching her house, cries of traitor and monster on their lips. The mob was surprisingly small; then again, she supposed that a large number of ponies would still be paralyzed with fear and terror over what had just happened.

Doctor: Actually, they were at Pitchforks, Torches, and Pet Food stocking up on mob supplies.

Despite nopony being able to see her, and so being supposedly perfectly safe, Trixie ran for her life from Ponyville.

Ditzy: Until a can of paint comically fell on her.

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Carrot Top jumped as her door opened and closed of its own accord not long after she had arrived home herself with Lyra and Cheerilee,

Ditzy: (Carrot) I knew I should’ve never bought a house build over a buffalo burial ground!

and was startled again when a blue-coated, white-maned, purple-clad unicorn appeared from nowhere only a few feet away from her, barrel heaving.

Ditzy: (Trixie) Running *huff* should be outlawed! *huff*

She looked to Carrot Top. “Hi – ” Trixie began, when she found herself seized in a golden magical aura and hurled upwards, into the ceiling of Carrot Top’s living room.

Ditzy: (Trixie) Ahhhh! Hey, Carrot Top really needs to clean her ceiling fan. It’s disgusting!

“You!” Lyra – still wearing her white-and-gold dress – exclaimed, charging forward despite a magenta earth pony’s attempts to stop her. “It’s your fault! BonBon’s been kidnapped, I’ll never see her again, and it’s your fault!”

Ditzy: (Lyra) We’ve only been through 20 positions of the Lesbian Pony Sutra! We were planning a wild night tonight involving…

Doctor: (Trixie) That’s more than enough information thank you.

Trixie grunted, her own horn flashing and shoving Lyra’s telekinesis off of her. She managed to fall from the ceiling and land on her hooves without problem,

Ditzy: Trixie was part cat on her mother’s side.

and both Carrot Top and Cheerilee managed to stop Lyra’s attempts to abandon telekinesis and use her bare hooves on Trixie.

All: Fight fight fight!

The blue unicorn nevertheless began backing away, but then the door opened again, and Raindrops entered, half-carrying a still-distraught Ditzy Doo with her. The jasmine-coated pegasi

Doctor: I see this fic is developing a strong case in Lavender Unicorn Syndrome.

glared at Trixie as she did, closing the door behind her firmly before taking in a few deep breaths and letting them out slowly.

Trixie looked around at the situation. Lyra had stopped trying to cause grievous harm to Trixie, instead falling to her knees and crying, with Cheerilee beside her and holding her. Ditzy Doo was at least as distraught;

Doctor: Okay Trixie, now’s the time to say something encouraging and get everyone out of this rut.

Trixie made her way over to the gray pegasus took up a similar role as Cheerilee’s for Lyra, before looking to Raindrops and Carrot Top.

“Okay,” she said, “why are you helping me?”

Doctor: Or not.

Ditzy: (Trixie) Ah, of course! The tax extension! Don’t worry, for this I will give you eighty tax extensions!

“You were trying to save the mayor,” Raindrops observed. “Just about everypony in Ponyville’s too angry and too scared to see that right now, but I know that’s what you were trying to do.” Her eyes narrowed, then, and she leaned in close to Trixie. “Right? Because if Corona was right – if you really were just kissing her flank to save your behind – “

Ditzy: (Raindrops) I really hope you know a good dentist.

“No!” Trixie interrupted, though she paused. “Not – I was trying to save the mayor. I was ready to die.

Doctor: (Lyra) Oh please. She hasn’t shown a redeeming characteristic this entire story! And one nice thing doesn’t undo every horrible, selfish things she’s done so far!

But then Corona asked me about my noble title and I realized that she wanted me alive because she’s going to need to keep the government intact in order to actually run Equestria, and I thought I saw a way out, a way for me to survive and the mayor to survive and everypony to just make it out okay! I didn’t know she’d kidnap ponies!” Trixie hugged Ditzy Doo tighter at that, as the mare’s tears resumed with even greater vigor. She glared at Raindrops. “But why are you helping me? You and Carrot Top? You two hate me! Princess Luna told me so!”

Ditzy: (Trixie) She told me that you said that you wanted me publicly flogged and executed!

Doctor: (Raindrops) Some things may have been said in anger, but I didn’t mean it! (Mostly)

Raindrops jabbed a hoof at Cheerilee. The magenta earth pony blinked a few times, looking between the five other ponies.

Doctor: (Cheerilee) Why me?

Ditzy: Raindrops really hates public speaking.

“I saw what you were doing,” she said. “With the mayor, trying to save her.

Doctor: (Sighs) Yes, I think that point has been firmly established already.

I heard what you were saying, and I know you were just trying to make it out okay, but everypony was getting so mad. I’d heard from Princess Luna that you and Raindrops knew each other, so I got her, and got Lyra, and Lyra suggested Carrot Top’s, and we were going to help you hide since the residency wouldn’t be safe for you,

Doctor: (Cheerilee) We were planning on smuggling you out of the country to Yakyakistan.

but then Corona took the foals…”

“But I thought you hated me. I thought you all hated me.”

Doctor: (Trixie) Compassion and generosity are traits few ponies possess.

“That doesn’t mean we want to see you mobbed.”

Ditzy: (Trixie) Not even a little?

“Not even Raindrops?”

The jasmine pegasus whickered. “No. You’re mine.”

Doctor: (Raindrops) Only I’m allowed to kill you!

“Besides,” Cheerilee said, “I know you were just trying your best to make the festival a good – ”

Doctor: (Trixie) Yep! That’s totally it!

“What do we do?” Carrot Top interrupted suddenly, as the situation became too much for her. She began to pace in place. “Corona’s free and Princess Luna is gone and I’m harboring a traitor to Equestria – ”

Ditzy: (Carrot) Anypony else think we should just throw in with Corona? I could need a career change.

“I’m not a traitor!” Trixie shouted.

“You look like one!” Carrot Top countered.

Doctor: (Carrot) I say we just throw the filthy traitor to the mob and be done with her.

“Even though you’re not you look like one and they’re going to search all the houses in Ponyville

Ditzy: (Carrot) And when they discover you are here they are going to burn my house down to smoke you out!

and they’ll find you and lynch you and lynch me for harboring you and then Corona is going to get mad and kill all the – ”

Doctor: (Carrot) I’ve got it! We compromise. We let the mob lynch Trixie, but not enough to kill her. The mob goes away happy, order is restored, and the hostages are returned! It’s the perfect plan!

Carrot Top’s ranting was stopped by Raindrops shoving a hoof in her mouth. A long silence began, interrupted only by the gasping sobs of Ditzy Doo and Lyra.

Ditzy: And Raindrops kept her hoof in Carrot Top’s mouth the entire time.

Doctor: She really likes to do that for some reason.

“That’s not going to happen,” Trixie intoned after awhile. “Corona won’t kill anypony. I’ll…I’ll just hide for as long as it takes for Ponyville to calm down.

Doctor: (Trixie) I’ll wear a pair of glasses and nopony will be able to recognize me.

Corona said she’d return everypony she took as long as Ponyville obeyed all her commands. All that needs to happen is that and for me to not be stupid and run into the Everfree.”

Ditzy: (Cheerilee) No don’t do that! Don’t give up hope! We can do this! Where there is life there is hope!

“Why would you go there?” Cheerilee asked.

Ditzy: (Cheerilee) You want to be torn to shreds by timberwolves?

Trixie grimaced, looking down. “I thought I could get the…nevermind. Nothing. Forget I said anything.”

“No,” Raindrops said, stomping forward. “Get what? What are you talking about?”

Trixie looked up. Raindrops’ eyes were narrow as she regarded Trixie. The unicorn stared for a long moment before letting out a sigh. “Okay,” she said. “Technically this is a state secret. But it’s not in any law books or official orders or anything, it’s just something that only me and Princess Luna and maybe a few others know. Okay?”

Raindrops nodded.

Doctor: (Raindrops) I get it. If we talk, the princess will send the Shadowbolts to silence us!

Trixie looked to each of the remaining four ponies; Lyra and Ditzy Doo were still mostly lost in their sadness, while Carrot Top and Cheerilee also nodded in understanding. Sighing, Trixie pressed on. “While I was talking to Corona, but before she took the foals, I thought I knew some way to get rid of her. I thought I’d go get the Elements of Harmony.”

Carrot Top blinked a few times. “You wanted to go to Canterlot?” she exclaimed. “Where there’s a good chance Corona is going to be setting everything on fire?”

Ditzy: So everypony thinks the Elements are real too… Does Luna keep anything secret?

Doctor: Luna makes the necroponicon required reading for school foals.

Trixie shook her head. “The Elements aren’t in Canterlot.”

Doctor: They’re in a warehouse full of the various artifacts Princess Luna has come across over the years. Like the Ark of the Covhoovant.

“Yes they are,” Cheerilee objected, standing, though she remained close to Lyra. “They’re on display in the palace.

Doctor: (Cheerilee) You can get keychain versions of them at the palace gift shop.

I’ve seen them, we went there on a field trip when I was a filly, Lyra and all the other unicorns kept going on about how much magic was coming off of them – “

“Those aren’t the Elements,” Trixie explained. “They’re fakes. Just six random gemstones that Princess Luna pours tons of magic into every year to make them seem like they’re the Elements.

Ditzy: (Trixie) She got them a flea market apparently.

I only know because my special talent is magic,

Doctor: Which isn’t that rare an ability. So why has no one else figured this out?

and I’ve got a really good feel for magic too, and after I started my apprenticeship with Luna and she taught me the detect magic spell I used to cast it on everything.

Ditzy: (Trixie) Did you know the toilet paper dispensers in the castle are magically enchanted to never run out of paper?

I cast it on Luna once when she raised the moon and I went blind for three days from how much magic she lets out while doing that.

Ditzy: Basically the equivalent of a scouter exploding happened to her.

But when I cast it on the Elements, I didn’t even get a headache.

Doctor: (Trixie) Why I actually thought that was a good idea, I don’t know. Maybe I wanted to get out of a test or something.

I thought that was weird – y’know, they’re the Elements and all –

Ditzy: (Trixie) I should have been in horrible agony.

and I asked Princess Luna about it, so she showed me the real Elements.”

Cheerilee blinked. “Why would Princess Luna lie about that?”

Doctor: Because it’s a stupid idea to display objects of such power where anyone can get them?

“Because the real Elements are petrified rocks,” Trixie said. “They’re in the Everfree Forest, in the ruins of the Palace of the Royal Pony Sisters. After Luna banished Corona to the sun, they just went inert and kind of froze in place. No force – not even Luna herself – could move them.

Ditzy: Didn’t Twilight lift them easily?

Doctor: Is another one of those ‘It’s an alternate universe don’t question it’ matters?

Luna didn’t want everypony to know that, though. So she made the fakes.”

Doctor: Otherwise she would kept them out on display no problem.

Ditzy: Again, why didn’t she just make them a secret and forget this decoy business.

“And she just left the real ones unguarded?” Carrot Top asked. “Why?”

Trixie grimaced. “Not exactly ungaurded. There’s traps, and of course they’re in the middle of the Everfree and all its monsters.

Ditzy: And there is a sign that says ‘These are totally not the Elements of Harmony’.

As for why, Princess Luna didn’t say, but at a guess I’d say she just didn’t want to ever have to go back to where she’d fought the Tyrant Sun.”

Ditzy: Didn’t you just say the princess brought you on field trip there?

Trixie shook her mane. “I thought that if I could get to the Elements of Harmony, I might find some way of getting them free and using them on Corona.

Doctor: (Lyra) Hold on a second. If the princess in her millennia of knowledge, experience, and wisdom couldn’t get them free, that makes you think you can?

But not now, not while she has those hostages…”

“No,” Raindrops said. She wasn’t looking at Trixie, but rather down at the ground, eyes moving a little as though reading. “No, we have to go now. Now’s the perfect time.”

“What?” the five other ponies in the room demanded, with Trixie appending a “and where’s this we coming from?” to her objection.

Raindrops looked between them. “Corona has her hooves full right now,” she pointed out. “That’s why she took all those mares and stallions with her, remember? To keep an eye on the foals. She has a government to overthrow and bring over to her side, and she’ll probably have to do a repeat of what she did with Trixie in most other towns and cities in Equestria,

Ditzy: It’s called the Corona Equestrian Tour.

at least until she forces everypony else to bow to her. Plus, there’s the Royal Guard.”

All: (Burst out laughing)

Ditzy: Right, like how they were so useful protecting Luna from Corona.

“They can’t win,” Carrot Top objected, shaking her head morosely at the thought.

“But they’ll fight anyway,” Raindrops pointed out. “They’ll be buying us time without even knowing. If the Elements can work at all, then now is our best chance to get them.”

Doctor: (Raindrops) Sure, hundreds of them will die in horrible burning agony, but they died for a worthy cause.

“But Corona…” Lyra objected, as she and Ditzy stood. “Corona will kill BonBon and all those foals if she finds out what we’re doing!”

Ditzy: (Lyra) And if Bon Bon dies I will be forever alone!

Raindrops fixed Lyra with a sad look, then turned to Ditzy as well. “If we wait,” she said, “then we’ll never get this opportunity again. One of the first things Corona is going to do, when she gets a chance, is check out where everypony thinks the Elements are. If she realizes they’re fakes,

Doctor: (Corona) It's a faaaaaake!

she’ll start hunting for the real ones.

Ditzy: (Corona) Shhh. Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting Elements!

And the first place you look for something is the last place you saw it.”

Ditzy: After checking the local lost and found.

She looked between the five other ponies. “Come on,” she said. “We all know the stories about Corona. The legends. What she’s like. We’ve seen what she’s capable of. We saw what she did to Princess Luna.

Doctor: (Carrot) How easily she could crush us into dust with a thought if we opposed her?

Those ponies she kidnapped won’t be safe until Corona is back in the sun where she belongs.”

Ditzy: Have you ever considered talking her down and getting her therapy? That would work too, and she won’t inevitably escape to wreak havoc again.

“But where’s this we coming from?” Trixie repeated, stepping forward. “It’s too dangerous. I wasn’t even thinking of asking anypony to come with me – ”

Doctor: (Trixie) You think I want to share my experience points with you?

Raindrops snorted. “Like you’d last five minutes in the Everfree by yourself.”

Ditzy: Yeah, you might be attacked by assaulted by tentacles or something!

“Not the point.”

“I know. I also know that now that I know there’s a chance of stopping Corona, I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t at least try.”

Trixie searched the pegasus’ face.

Doctor: (Trixie) Oh please, I bet she’s just doing this to get a movie made about her or something.

Despite her words and tone, her expression remained surprisingly neutral. “Fine,” she said. “I guess I could use a set of wings, anyway. The rest of you – ”

“I’m coming too,” Cheerilee said, stepping forward. “Those foals are my students, or a lot of them are, anyway. I have to try and save them.”

Ditzy: (Cheerilee) And I didn’t grade all those paper for nothing.

Trixie began to object, when Carrot Top stepped forwards. “Me too,” she said. “I know a lot about the flora of the Everfree Forest. I might be able to help you.”

Doctor: How convenient.

Ditzy: You could have at least hinted about this before bring this up. This character trait came out of nowhere. And, come to think of it, doesn’t really match her character.

Trixie looked between the three ponies. “Okay…” she acquiesced. “Okay. So the four of us – ”

“I’m coming too,” Lyra interrupted, wiping her tears from her eyes.

Doctor: (Trixie) Oh for, this isn’t a camping trip! It’s ripe with danger and most of us probably won’t come back alive!

“Raindrops…Raindrops is right. BonBon won’t be safe unless Corona is sealed away again. Plus, Trixie, your special talent might be magic, but I actually went to the magic academy. I might be able to help with freeing the Elements.”

Ditzy: (Lyra) And, unlike you, I actually learned something.

“Fine,” Trixie said, shaking her head. “Fine. Ditzy Doo, I guess you should go home and – ”

“I’m already at the door,” Ditzy Doo’s voice said. Everypony turned to look at her. Her wings were no longer sagging with sorrow, but instead were held at the ready, and her face, though her eyes were still red from tears and walled, was set with a look of determination.

Doctor: If you think Ditzy is ever going to just sit on the sidelines, you are sorely mistaken. I’ve never once convinced her to stay behind for any reason.

Ditzy: Come on Doctor. Do you think I would leave you to fight some horrible monster alone?

“I’m coming too. Dinky Daisy Doo would want me to try and save her.”

Ditzy: (Ditzy) Well, actually she would prefer Batpony, but the costume is at the cleaners.

Doctor: Should she be saved though? It would save quite a few ponies from type 2 diabetes.

Trixie blinked, looking between the five ponies. “No,” she said in a small voice, though it was louder for her next proclamation. For some reason, she felt she had to try and stop them, stop this madness. “No! This is stupid! We’re going to get everypony killed!”

“Fine,” Raindrops said. “We’ve still got Lyra for unicorn magic. The five of us will go into the Everfree. You can stay behind.”

Doctor: (Raindrops) I’m sure she’ll make a better bearer of the Element of Magic anyway.

Trixie blinked. “Are you trying reverse psychology on me?”

Ditzy: (Raindrops) Yes.

Doctor: (Trixie) Ah ha! So you are aren’t! Phew, that’s a relief.

Raindrops’ expression clearly asked do I look like the kind of pony who’d try that, even though she herself remained silent. Instead, Cheerilee stepped up to Trixie. “Nopony will blame you,” she said. “You must have been close to Princess Luna…if you don’t think you can handle this right now, we’ll understand.”

Doctor: (Cheerilee) We understand if you want to hide in a corner while the big girls handle everything.

Trixie recoiled a little. She’d managed to not think about seeing Princess Luna so soundly thrashed by Corona…not think about the fact that Luna was gone, sealed away for a millennium…

Doctor: And a day.

for several minutes now. The image of Corona’s magic sending Luna away in a white comet, straight into the sky, came rushing back to her.

Ditzy: How she crush Luna with barely a thought.

Even if they won…even if they somehow, against all odds, got the Elements, figured out how to make them work, and then used them on Corona…would that bring Luna back?

Doctor: The idea of the Night Court alone in charge of Equestria was a terrifying thought.

Trixie looked to Lyra and Ditzy Doo. The former had lost the love of her life. The latter had lost her daughter. Both were willing to put everything on the line nevertheless. Luna would never forgive her if she didn’t act –

Ditzy: Princesses always encourage suicidal quests to save the day.

and just as importantly, Trixie would never be able to forgive herself. Trixie didn’t consider herself a principled mare,

Doctor: She thought having principles was for other ponies.

but whatever principles she did have, now was the time to be honest with herself about them.

Ditzy: (Trixie) I’m worst pony.

Trixie also grimaced as she looked each of the ponies in the eye.

Doctor: The way they were silently judging her.

She had been horrible to them over the past few days – well, not Ditzy Doo so much,

Ditzy: And being mean to me is like kicking a puppy.

but certainly Lyra, Raindrops, Cheerilee, and Carrot Top. But these ponies were still willing to go on what she said to try and save Equestria from the mad alicorn queen now trying to take it over – and had been willing to try and help her from everypony in Ponyville landing on her like a ton of bricks.

Doctor: And come to think of it, being a total jerk to everyone really never worked out for her.

“I’m going too,” she said. “And…and I’m sorry. I’m sorry for the last two days. I’m sorry for the way I treated you all. I’m sorry for the weather-for-hire ponies, for the blackmail, for calling you useless, for butting in where I wasn’t wanted, for manipulating you to do what I wanted to try and get back at Luna over something stupid that was all in my head…” Trixie looked down. “I’m sorry. If this all goes to the sun, I just want you to know that.”

Ditzy: (Trixie) So this what character development feels like...It’s pretty good.

The other ponies looked between each other.

Doctor: (Lyra) Are you buying this?

After a moment, Cheerilee, Ditzy Doo, Carrot Top, and Lyra all nodded. “Just don’t do it again,” Cheerilee said.

Ditzy: Who elected Cheerilee spokespony of the group?

“Provided there is an again for us.”

Ditzy: Don’t say that. You’ll jinx it.

Trixie nodded once, before looking hopefully at Raindrops. The pegasus considered Trixie for a long moment, analyzing her.

Ditzy: (Raindrops) My cybertronic brain tells me there is a 98.992 percent chance you are being sincere.

For once in her life – or at least for the first time in a long time – Trixie willingly let the emotions she was feeling just display themselves on her face. “Alright,” the pegasus declared at length, waving a hoof as though casting off the murderous intent she’d possessed earlier in the day.

Ditzy: There is something serious wrong with that pony.

“But if you ever do anything like this again, I’m going to hit you. Hard.”

“Fine by me,” Trixie said. “As hard as you want.”

Doctor: Ahem. Aren’t you forgetting her ability to break concrete?

Raindrops nodded as she headed towards the door to Carrot Top’s house. “I’m holding you to that,” she promised.

Ditzy: (Trixie) It’s fine. Maim me as much as you want! Beat me senseless! Don’t hold back! If you want to break my spine and paralysis me for life, so be it!

Doctor: (Raindrops) Uh, I only wanted to punch you in the face a little...

Ditzy: (Trixie) No! That isn’t enough! I want to feel to full extent of my crimes! I want to be nothing but a broken piece of meat by the time you are done with me!

Doctor: (Raindrops) We really need to get going! Those hostages aren’t going to rescue themselves! Next Chapter: Episode 23 - Longest Night, Longest Day - Chapter 11 Estimated time remaining: 6 Hours, 28 Minutes