Doctor and Ditzy’s Science Theater

by Rixizu

Episode 24 - Epilogue 2

Celebrating would come later.

Ditzy: Trixie had to dry clean her outfit.

For now, hours later as the moon left its high position in the sky and began a gradual, measured, and above all else proper descent towards the horizon,

Doctor: Kids today and their irregular moon orbits.

all Ponyville could do was focus on the return of their loved ones.

Doctor: Ditzy spent most of the day just hugging her daughter, much to the filly’s annoyance.

Most of Ponyville, anyway.

Trixie nodded her head slightly.

Ditzy: (Trixie) I have no love ones and all my friends are too busy with said love ones to hang out with me...

“It’s actually in better condition than I thought it would be,” she remarked as she picked her way through her living room, careful not to step on broken glass or splintered wood. The hole Raindrops had made in her window, remained, of course, but it had been added to a dozen times over by ponies that looked like they had been literally tearing up the floorboards looking for Trixie.

Ditzy: (Trixie) Those jerks stole all the booze! I was planning on spending the rest of the night in a drunken stupor!

Luna moved with somewhat less caution,

Ditzy: (Luna) Gah! (Sniffs) I got a nail in one of my frogs...

a scowl on her features as she surveyed the damage,

Doctor: She was impressed at the rather colorful graffiti about Trixie’s mom.

deepening when she saw that the storybook mural on the wall that had contained the legend of Celestia’s fall and Corona’s rise has been left largely untouched.

Doctor: Except for the mustache and glasses drawn on Luna’s face.

“This…” Luna said, “this is unacceptable. Whatever their imagined issue with you, this house is…” she paused as her gaze centered on a hole in the ceiling of the room, “was property of the Crown.”

Trixie looked to Luna. “It’s just a house,” Trixie remarked. She forced herself to be cheerful. “They were angry and scared. And taking that out on wood and plaster is better than taking it out on each other, right?”

Doctor: No, there is no justification for mob mentality.

Trixie paused a moment as she thought. “Or me.”

Doctor: (Luna) I disagree. Your hospital bills would be nothing compared to the cost of repairing this house.

Luna’s scowl persisted for several long minutes. Her gaze had drifted back to the mural once more, and she had stepped up to it, looking into the painted eyes of Corona.

Doctor: If you look closely, there is a clue to a secret the crown wants hidden!

The wall stared back emotionlessly.

Ditzy: (Wall) What? Do you think I care about your problems?

“You’re right,” Luna admitted with a sigh.

Trixie watched Luna closely. Finally, she asked the question that had to be asked.

Ditzy: (Trixie) How do you get your hair like that? Do you use some sort of special conditioner?

“Are you alright?”

“Of course I’m not!” Luna snapped.

Ditzy: I rolled my persuasion checks badly, and now why sister is out there plotting the destruction of us all!

The unicorn didn’t budge at the burst of emotion, nor the glare that followed,

Doctor: Trixie was happy being her teacher’s emotional punching bag.

albeit only for a few moments before Luna reigned herself in, taking in a deep breath and letting it out slowly. “Every history text talks about Cel - about Corona and the revolution against her

Doctor: (Luna) And would you believe ponies started talking about ‘democracy’, ‘rights of the people’, and ‘freedom from any superior power on earth’? Got rid of that nonsense in a hurry.

and my brave and noble sacrifice by sending her into the sun. But everypony seems to of selectively forgotten what happened next. Everypony but me, and I am trying very, very hard to stop myself from having a relapse. I was as bad as Corona.”

Doctor: (Luna) I went crazy. Tried to cast the world into eternal darkness. It was a bad time.

Ditzy: (Luna) I started monologuing just like her! And even worse, I did an evil laugh too!

Trixie blinked at that. “I really don’t think that’s possible,” she said.

Luna glared at her again. “I was worse,” the princess insisted. “Corona was a tyrant. I was absent and utterly useless at affairs of state because I spent the better part of twelve years in a drunken stupor, trying to block out what I had done, what Corona had forced me to do.

Ditzy: (Trixie) I don’t see the problem.

I would let days pass without raising the sun,

Ditzy: (Trixie) Again, how is that a bad thing? Nopony likes that horrible thing.

and would set it early as the mood struck me, and probably only raised it at all because barley and grapes need sunlight.

Doctor: (Trixie) That’s just science gibberish. Everypony knows that’s not true!

I would arrange the stars however I wished.

Doctor: Luna enjoyed trolling sailors and sending them to their deaths at sea.

Ditzy: (Luna) I liked to make really inappropriate shapes with them.

I would descend upon a settlement and make the inhabitants wait on my every wish and amuse myself by manipulating their lives and dolling out favor and misfortune as I desired.

Ditzy: (Luna) I want escargot for breakfast this morning.

Doctor: (Pony) I don’t even know that that is!

Ditzy: (Luna) Too bad! It looks like I’m going to have to burn down your house now! Bwahahaha!

I did anything, anything, to make myself forget, and ponies everywhere suffered for it.” Luna snorted as she looked away from Trixie.

Ditzy: (Luna) Though I did get quite a few laughs. I used to curse ponies for refusing to give me hospitality. Good times.

Trixie considered. For whatever reason, she wasn’t actually very surprised by Luna’s admission.

Ditzy: In fact, she thought it sounded really cool.

“Did you hurt anypony?” she asked.

“Countless thousands.”

Doctor: (Luna) I am the worst mass murderer in Equestria history!

“I mean in a permanent way. An unforgiveable way, rather than just you being a big, drunk jerk wandering the countryside.”

Doctor: She cause the deaths of many sailors and travelers by rearranging the stars randomly?

Ditzy: Or what about the ponies that couldn’t feed themselves because their crops didn’t get enough sunlight!

Luna stifled a burst of laughter at that. Trixie’s statement made Luna sound like she had been a sorority head leading a hazing ritual more than anything.

Ditzy: And it’s just like Trixie to pretend that a problem didn’t exist.

“I have not forgiven myself,” Luna stated.

Doctor: We are at the tail end of the story. Is this really the time to get into Luna’s emotional problems?

Ditzy: Surprisingly, both princesses need therapy.

“Princess…”

The alicorn shook her head. “No. I was capricious and melancholy, not a monster. But I was essentially a little Discord. A storm of chaos followed me wherever I went.”

Ditzy: I expect a lot of Discord X Luna shipping when he shows up.

Trixie had made her way to an overturned bookcase. It had been full of a fairly generic collection of books,

Doctor: The Necroponicon, the Dune Sea Scrolls, the Book of the Dead, the Book of Vile Darkness, and the King of Yellow.

mostly the classics like Foalnapped and The History of the Decline and Fall of the Griffon Empire.

Ditzy: Why would ‘The History of the Decline and Fall of the Griffon Empire’ be a classic? That is the kind of book you would only read for a book report.

Doctor: Ah, yes. A reference to the Edward Gibbon’s classic about the Roman Empire. An impressive account who methodology became an inspiration to future historians everywhere.

Ditzy: Which nopony outside of you and Twilight would ever read willingly.

Doctor: (Scowls) Don’t you care about history Ditzy?

Ditzy: Sure. That’s what Ponypedia is for!

Doctor: (Facehoofs)

Trixie had added only a single book to the collection since moving in, and breathed out a sigh of relief as she found her copy of Don Rocinante unharmed.

Ditzy: No Daring Do books? Talk about uncultured.

“What snapped you out of it?”

“A family of dragons decided that Equestria was weak and ripe for pillaging. I happened to be nearby as they crossed the border and…convinced them that they were mistaken.

Doctor: So you murdered them basically.

But after that I realized what I’d been doing. That I was letting my pain and suffering become the pain and suffering of others.”

Ditzy: So...just like Trixie.

“But you did realize,” Trixie noted. “Corona didn’t…she still hasn’t. That makes you better.

Doctor: It helps that the princess actually has depth to her character.

And you’re right, everypony seems to of forgotten that bit of history. It must not of been as bad as you make it out to be.”

Ditzy: Ponies died for sure Trixie.

That didn’t seem to improved Luna’s mood.

Doctor: Because it is a weak bunch of apologism?

She breathed in deeply, and let her breath out slowly. “Celest…Corona…will be weak for a long time,” Luna stated.

Doctor: (Luna) At least a season’s worth.

“She will recover the depth of her magical reserves in just a few days, but the power will take longer…perhaps five or six months. But she will not be quiet in that time.”

Doctor: Making her pretty easy to find then considering she never shuts up and constantly causes a scene.

Ditzy: (Corona) Thou hast charged me 2 bits higher for the cabbage than 'twas stated in this flyer! Thou darest attempt to cheat and rob me, mortal? I am Corona! I am the Sun! Thou shalt burn for this outrage! I am the Sun! Thou shalt receive no mercy!

The alicorn ruffled her wings a few times as she thought, then looked back to Trixie. “We should return to Canterlot.”

Ditzy: (Luna) I have cartons of ice cream waiting for me back at the castle.

Trixie blinked a few times at that. “We?” she asked.

Luna grinned slightly. It was forced, but only because Luna still didn’t seem to be much in the mood – the intent behind it was genuine enough. “Trixie, you saved Equestria, saved the lives of some five dozen captives Corona had taken. Surely you don’t think that I’m still angry with you.”

Doctor: You barely acted like you cared that she was ok. What do you think Trixie is going to think? Oh, and don’t call her Shirley.

She looked away. “I…I was lying when I said I didn’t banish you here. I did.

Doctor: (Luna) In fact, I couldn’t wait to see the back of you.

It is an excellent first appointment, in a way,

Doctor: If by excellent, you mean an almost complete dead end one with little promise.

but it is also small and easily forgotten and has little standing in the Night Court.

Ditzy: And the other member love to mock and laugh at it.

Sending you here was intended as a punishment.”

Doctor: (Luna) But hey! At least you would get to fullfill your love of spending most of your life in a booze induced haze.

Ditzy: (Luna) And I was...pretty sure you won’t have committed suicide out of despair.

Luna looked back to Trixie. “The Night Court is the strictest meritocracy.

Doctor: (Snorts) Sure. Whatever you say.

You have to climb through its ranks yourself, Trixie, get noticed yourself, collect your own favors and prestation.

Ditzy: (Luna) Sucking as many...on second thought nevermind. I’m not going to make that joke. Way too easy.

Doctor: Thank goodness.

But there was no need for me to send you here, where you’ll essentially be locked out of the Night Court. I will arrange for a proper appointment elsewhere. A junior advisory position in Manehattan or Neigh Orleans, or a minister to one of the protectorate states like Cavallia or Pferdreich, something where, if you’re clever enough, you could actually get noticed – ”

Ditzy: So much for that then.

Doctor: No doubt she would be noticed for all the wrong reasons.

“I was actually hoping I could stay,” Trixie interrupted. Luna looked surprised at Trixie’s desire as the unicorn pressed on.

Doctor: (Luna) You’re actually choosing your friends over your career? Are you really so naive?

“I mean…I made a horrible first impression on everypony…

Ditzy: To put in mildly.

Doctor: And to the audience.

the residency is a bit of a fixer-upper…

Ditzy: (Trixie) And I rather like the hate filled graffiti. It brings color to the place.

Ponyville is kind of the wasteland of Equestria…

Ditzy: Plagued with raiders, radiation, and super mutants.

I’m not sure about the mental stability of some of the ponies here…”

Ditzy: (Trixie) Just look at Cheerilee. Her cheeriness hides so much despair and bitterness it’s only a matter of time until she cracks.

she trailed off as she realized that, if she contiued listing all the flaws of Ponyville, the two would be there all night,

Ditzy: (Trixie) And the convenience store doesn’t stock my favorite type of tea! The savages!

“…anyway. My friends are here. It’s close to Canterlot so I could even attend the Night Court directly from time to time. And given that I’m your apprentice and I sort of just helped save Equestria, I don’t think being noticed will be a problem.”

Doctor: And she can’t wait to rub that into everyone’s faces.

Luna considered Trixie carefully, before nodding. “Very well,” she said,

Doctor: (Luna) What an idiot. You offer her the world and she decided to live in a landfill.

Ditzy: Isn’t the Princess really overlooking the fact that they might need the Elements again? So it might be a good idea to keep them together? You really don’t want Trixie days away when disaster strikes.

Doctor: The Princess is so good at planning for disasters.

as she turned around to leave. Trixie followed, both of them exiting through the front door of the residency (the front aperture, at least, the door itself Trixie had not been able to find), out a sense of tradition if not necessity given the numerous other options Ponyville had seen fit to provide Trixie with. “Stay at a hotel for now, I will arrange for the residency’s repairs.”

Ditzy: (Trixie) Can I get a jacuzzi?

Doctor: (Luna) No.

Ditzy: (Trixie) Oh come on! I saved the world! So I deserve a jacuzzi!

Trixie nodded at that, though a second later she flinched a little. “About that…” she said. “I might have spent my entire stipend when I was trying to…well…spite you.”

Luna glanced at Trixie incredulously. “How?” she asked.

“Weather-for-hire ponies aren’t cheap, especially when they’re rushed down from Cloudsdale.”

Doctor: (Luna) Trixie, you had 1000 bits in your account. A thousand.

“But they ended up being superfluous.”

Ditzy: And all thanks to Rainbow Dash!

“Their contract specifies ‘no refunds.’”

Doctor: (Facehoofs) I really don’t think she’s cutout for being in the Night Court.

Luna shrugged. “I suppose I could float you some bits,” she remarked as her horn glowed. With a pop, a small cloth bag appeared in front of Trixie, who caught it telekinetically.

Trixie was puzzled a moment,

Doctor: (Trixie) This is chocolate candy!

Ditzy: (Luna) Tough. That’s all you’re getting.

before sighing. “It was you. The random pony I stopped on the street and paid thirty bits to find Lyra.” She considered as she remembered Luna’s trick prior to the official beginning of the Longest Night. “One of you, anyway.”

Ditzy: (Blinks) Really? That’s a weird coincidence.

“Indeed. I will arrange for more money to be sent to you. But that,” she pointed a hoof at the bag, “is a loan. I expect to be paid back.”

Doctor: (Luna) With .32 percent interest... an hour.

Trixie blinked. “Why? You’re the princess! You haven’t paid for anything in centuries! Millennia, even!”

Doctor: Clearly she doesn’t know about her secret rendezvous at Donut Joe’s.

Luna offered a grin, a more honest one than any she had been able to produce for some time. “Maybe that’s because as the princess, I never get paid.

Ditzy: (Luna) I use taxpayer money to get whatever I want.

It was a novel experience, and I had plans for those bits.”

“What plans?”

Ditzy: (Luna) Chocolatey plans.

Luna didn’t answer as the two reached the residency’s front gate and stepped out into the street.Previously, it having been nighttime for the first time in what Luna had told them was nearly twenty hours of daylight – the longest day in Equestrian history,

Ditzy: Title drop!

though far short of Corona’s promised ten days of uninterrupted sunshine –

Doctor: Obvious to anyone that knows basic math.

everypony had been asleep or, more likely, lying awake, fearing what Corona was doing to their loved ones. Now, the entire town was up and active in their homes,

Ditzy: Finally getting to that awesome castle they were making in Ponycraft.

the sheer elation of having their foals and loved ones returned to them an almost palpable sensation, though that probably wouldn’t persist for long as exhaustion set in and everypony got some much-deserved rest.

Doctor: Until they need to get back to work at 8.

Luna turned to Trixie as they stopped. “Now then, Trixie,” she said. “You have friends here, and that’s good. But you’ve had those in the past, too, and managed to drive them away. You must try, hard, not to do that again.”

Doctor: (Luna) Because that means you threw away a promising position for nothing.

“I know,” Trixie said, images of previous friends she’d had in Canterlot drifting by in her mind’s eye.

Ditzy (Past friend) Bite me Trixie!

Doctor: (Past friend) You still owe me 10 bits!

Sea Swirl, Amethyst Star, Chocolate Tail… she nodded, looking up at her hat. The Element of Magic was still there. It was, perhaps, a bit gaudy, and Trixie didn’t think she’d make a habit of wearing it all the time.

Ditzy: In case of power crazed past students of Princess Luna coming back to steal it.

Probably just for formal occasions and whenever she needed to save the world, the latter of which would hopefully be a rare event.

Ditzy: You poor naive fool. Once you get in this business, you end up saving the world once a week. I expect aliens to start invading in about a month or two.

“Friendship is magic and all that.”

Luna blinked. “Not the phrasing I would have used…” she admitted,

Doctor: In her experience, friendship was a worthless, shallow thing that barely lasted a few years.

Ditzy: It a bit shocking how unenthusiastic Princess Luna is about friendship in this story.

“but completely valid in its own way. But I don’t mean you should keep your friends just to keep the Elements functioning. That would be a hollow, meaningless thing.

Doctor: And it would cause them to stop working.

More than anything else, you should be happy.”

Doctor: Here's a little song I wrote

You might want to sing it note for note

Don't worry, be happy

In every life we have some trouble

But when you worry you make it double

Don't worry, be happy

Don't worry, be happy now

Trixie nodded. “I’ll try,” she promised, bowing. “And I’ll see you soon, princess Luna.”

Doctor: (Trixie) I’ll try this thing you call ‘happiness’.

Ditzy: Trixie seems the type of pony that loves being miserable.

The alicorn inclined her head in acknowledgement, then thought better of it and instead came forward and pulled Trixie into a deep embrace.

Ditzy: Finally!

Doctor: It’s about time these two showed actually affection for each other.

Trixie remained a not particularly touchy-feely pony and flinched,

Ditzy: (Trixie) This...happiness. I don’t think I like it at all!

but after a moment returned the show of affection.

Doctor: With a kiss.

Eventually, Luna pulled away, and closed her eyes, horn glowing. In a moment, she had become a nebulous, star-studded mass that rose into the night sky, then shot off.

Trixie watched Luna disappear, then looked to the bag of bits she held. A thought occurred to her, that hadn’t before, but in hindsight it was one she really should have considered first.

“Does Ponyville even have a hotel?” she asked,

Doctor: (Trixie) In this backwater dump, they probably make visitors sleep in outhouses.

then paused again. “Would I even be able to check in at this hour? I wonder if Carrot Top has a spare bedroom…”

Ditzy: Considering she barely has anything in her house, would she even have a second bed if she did?

Doctor: Or even a bed at all?

Ditzy: What a wonderful end to the story. Trixie is homeless. Carrot Top will have her life ruined by the Apples for opposing them. Corona is still out there being evil and will probably nuke Ponyville once she gets her powers back. And Spike is going to be Corona’s slave and will be forced into hurting and killing ponies.

Doctor: You would think the first story in the series would end a little more...optimistically? I don’t really get why the story has to end with Trixie homeless and it ends on a rather dower note.

Ditzy: Trixie could at least get an apology for destroying her house. And, I don’t know, pay for her hotel room.

Doctor: I don’t really get the world building in this story. It just suddenly shows up out of nowhere and doesn’t bother to really explain anything or how things are different in this world. It just makes you shrug and wonder what that was about. Was there some sort of guidebook we are suppose to read beforehand?

Ditzy: You know, this fic actually got me thinking.

Doctor: Really?

Ditzy: I’ve seen Raindrops around, but I don’t think I’ve actually really talked to her. I wonder if we could actually become good friends.

Doctor: Worth a try.

Ditzy: I’m already friends with Lyra and Golden Harvest. Cheerilee....Well, I’ve always found her kinda annoying, but maybe she’s really nice once you get to know her. As for Trixie….we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Doctor: Hmmm. If there is one thing you can take away from this story, it’s that you never know who you can become friends with.

Ditzy: Ready to get out of here?

Doctor: (Nods)

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        Diamond Tiara watched as Dinky’s parents walked out of the theater. They were chatting about the fanfic they just read.

        “I guess it has potential. It wasn’t a badly written story. It doesn’t seem to have the ability to handle a cast of so many ponies though. Carrot Top and Cheerilee seemed to have been lost somewhere.” Ditzy said while waving a hoof.

        “True, Lyra and Raindrops’s stronger personalities overshadowed them pretty easily.” The Doctor nodded.

        “And what is with it giving me a daughter? I don’t get that at all. Do I really look like a pony that would have a teenage pregnancy?” Ditzy complained. “Although she was really cute, in a generic cavity giving way.”

        The Doctor tilted his head. “I have no doubt you would make a terrific mother, if a bit odd one. Though, I think you still want to enjoy life a little more before starting a family.”

        Ditzy nodded emphatically. “Right. I am way too young to have a family. I should enjoy these early years while I still have them. Although I really wish I wasn’t wasting them stuck here reading terrible fanfics by some nebulous force.”

The Doctor nodded and the two left for the kitchen. Ditzy was planning on cooking a casserole tonight.

Diamond Tiara sighed. These two really weren’t going to make this easy. Dinky just muttered a goodbye and trotted out of the room one again in a sour mood. It was like fate itself was going out of its way to spite the poor filly.

“It really isn’t fair is it?” Star Shot said seemingly reading her thoughts. “Dinky goes through so much, but these two seem to have it so easy. Look at them living so carefree.” Currently Ditzy was preparing dinner with a smile on her face while the Doctor chatted with her while reading some book half paying attention to it.

“So we are going to make them read even worse fanfics?” Diamond Tiara proposed.

Star Shot thought for a moment and chuckled to herself. “No, I have a better idea. Bright Eyes just gave me to me.” She quickly left the room. Diamond Tiara turned towards Silver Spoon and she just shrugged. Diamond Tiara looked apprehensive and wondered what the strange mare was up to.

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        Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon spent the next two hours playing rummy in the control room. Diamond Tiara won most the games as usual much to her best friend’s annoyance. Diamond Tiara suppressed her grin. She enjoyed crushing her opponents.

        Dinky eventually joined them and the game seemed to have put her in better spirits. They were currently playing a game of Go Fish.

        “Do you have any fives?” Dinky asked. Diamond Tiara nodded and passed her 3 cards. Dinky took a card from her hooves put them in a pile next to her.

        “Do you have any jacks?” Dinky asked Silver Spoon.

        “Go fish.” Silver Spoon replied and Dinky took a card from the pile in front of them

        They all heard whistling and turned to see Star Shot entering with a big smile on her face. She waved. “Hey guys. I’ve got a big surprise for you.”

Dinky raised an eyebrow. “Really?”

“Just look at the screen.” Star Shot pointed at a monitor that showed the main meeting room. In it was a large wrapped box with a pattern of a cute teddy bear. It was at least the size of a pony.

“What is it?” Dinky asked hesitantly. Diamond Tiara mirrored her reaction, with this one it was hard to tell what she was going to do.

“You’ll see.” Star Shot in a sing song tone.

It didn’t take long for the Doctor and Ditzy to found the package. “What’s this?” Ditzy asked looking at the Doctor. He just shrugged.

“It’s probably from Dinky. Let’s open it.” The Doctor said enthusiastically. He seemed intrigued by the package. Ditzy looked hesitant and the Doctor noticed it. “I’m sure it's fine. It isn’t like they have a reason to hurt us. Well, not a big one anyway.”

Ditzy gave a hesitant nod and flew to the top and tore off the wrapping paper and opened the box. When she looked inside she gasped and fell backwards crashing into the ground with a thud.

“Wha?” That was all Ditzy could say. The Doctor tapped a hoof on his chin and pulled the box down so it toppled over. The box’s contents spilled on the ground. Hundreds of packing peanuts fell to the ground as well as a familiar bound and gagged unicorn with a blue coat and a silver mane with a purple cape and hat with a stars on it.

Everyone except Star Shot gasped. The Doctor looked taken aback at this sudden revelation and went back a step.

“T-trixie?” Ditzy stuttered.

The Doctor regained his composure and glared at the screen Dinky liked to communicate with. “What is the meaning of this?” He had an dangerous edge to his voice. Ditzy rushed to Trixie’s aid and untied her.

        “Trixie thanks you.” Trixie finally said after the gag was removed. She brushed packing peanuts from her hat and cape with a hoof.

        Star Shot trotted up the mic on the console. “Oh, I just thought things were a bit dull around here, so I decided to give you a new friend!”

        “Trixie demands to know what in Tartarus is going on!” Trixie stomped her hoof in emphasis.

        “What is going on?” Dinky hissed glaring.

Star Shot just gave an amused look and shrugged. “Just like I said.”

“Apparently this some sick joke on Star Shot’s part.” The Doctor said dryly.

“Trixie demands to set free! Now!” Trixie yelled.

“Can’t do that Sparkles.” Star Shot said with a hint of mockery in her voice.

“What did you call me?!” Trixie fumed.

The Doctor sighed. “It seems you're stuck with us. Part of this experiment or whatever it is.”

        Trixie went pale. “Experiment? Like making us complete puzzles in a deadly maze while secretly trying to turn us against each other?”

        “Thankfully no. We’re just forced to read bad fanfics.” Ditzy piped in.

        “Trixie thinks the former would be preferable.” Trixie paled again.

        “Definiently. It would be faster.” The Doctor said sighing. “I’m the Doctor by the way. I don’t think we’ve formally met.

        “And I’m Ditzy Doo!” Ditzy chimed in.

        “And I, as I’m sure you're all aware, am the Great and Powerful Trixie! The greatest magician in all of Equestria. Capable of amazing and…”

The Doctor interrupted Trixie.”Yes, yes. I think we get it.” Ditzy just rubbed her head and sighed.

Trixie gave the two a better look. “Wait a second! The Great and Powerful Trixie remembers you! You’re those two hecklers from Trottingham!” She glared hatefully at them.

The Doctor bristled at this while Ditzy look embarrassed. The Doctor coughed. “Well, yes, but that long time ago.”

Trixie was not placated by this. “You called the Great and Powerful Trixie an overblown third rate magician more suited towards foal’s birthday parties than any real magic!” Trixie growled. “Then you upstaged Trixie with your own impromptu magic act and played a classical music piece using only spoons! Then, you slipped away before Trixie could do anything and show off her fantastical rebuttal. The Great and Powerful Trixie was unable to win the crowd back and you completely ruined my show!”

Trixie continued. “You made Trixie a laughing stock and Trixie lost the remainder of her reputation and she was forced to work on a rock farm! A rock farm!”

The Doctor looked a little ashamed and looked down. “I might have gone a little too far.”

        Ditzy looked crestfallen. “Yeah, that wasn’t cool of us. Sorry.”

        Trixie snorted. “I bet.”

        “Ms. Lulamoon. Is it okay I call you that?” The Doctor started. Trixie nodded. “I think we’ve started on the wrong foot. My friend Ditzy is right, it wasn’t right at all for us to do that. I had no idea it hurt you like that. I was being childish. I deeply apologize for what happened. Since we’re stuck together for the time being, I rather not have us at each other's throats. How about just start over and put all past mistakes behind us?” Ditzy nodded emphatically in agreement.

        Trixie thought a moment. “Very well. I accept. Trixie too has done things in the past she regrets and wants to forget.”

        The Doctor put out a hoof and Trixie shook it. “It’s nice to meet you Ms. Lulamoon.” Ditzy did the same.

        “Huh, they make friends faster than I expected.” Star Shot commented a bit surprised. “I expected them to be throwing punches by now.”

“What are you doing? What about the plan?!” Dinky demanded pointing a hoof.

“I just thought I would punish them a little for the way they treat you.” Star Shot grins. “I thought it would be funny if I gave them the most annoying pony in the world.” Star Shot put a hoof to her chin and smirked. “Considering how she acts, I wonder how long the peace will last.”

Star Shot noticed Dinky still glaring at her. “Oh come on. It isn’t really going to change anything. Besides squirt, It isn’t like people don’t follow in love while around other ponies.”

Dinky just threw up her hooves. “Whatever. Just don’t do it again.”

Star Shot grinned. “The best part, no pony will care if she’s gone! She’s the perfect pony to take!”

Diamond Tiara agreed. Considering what the so called Great and Powerful Trixie had done and what she is like, it is probably the best and safer for everypony if she’s trapped here. And it would be amusing to watch Dinky’s parent having to deal with her. This will probably be a lot of fun. Next Chapter: Episode 25 - Kingdom of Monsters Part 1 Estimated time remaining: 3 Hours, 4 Minutes