Trixie was just about to enter the town of Ponyville for the first time since the incident with the Ursa Minor. To her surprise everything looked pretty well as it did the first time she had entered the town as The Great and Powerful Trixie, even the wreckage that was her old caravan was no longer there. She took a few steps forward before a bubbly pink pony had come up to greet her.

"Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie, I haven't seen you before which probably means you've never been in town before or I was busy and just haven't seen you which is likely because I did have quite a few orders to fill out the last few days. So, what's your name new friend?" Pinkie smiled wide at Trixie as she awaited her answer.

"Umm, well my name is..." Trixie looked down and blushed a bit, she hadn't seen this pony before but surely she would have heard about the Ursa incident a few days ago. "Don't worry about my name, I'm just passing through and probably won't even be staying a day in town..."

"Aww, that's no fun. I won't force you to tell me your name, but please at least try some of my tasty treats. I work and live over at Sugar Cube Corner..." Suddenly Pinkie Pie started shuddering as she talked. "Woah... my Pinkie senses are saying there's going to be a doozy soon..."

"Pinkie senses? Surely you must be joking." Trixie said with her eyebrow cocked.

Pinkie stopped shaking and giggled, "No I'm not, I can't explain it it's just I have different twitches that supposedly predict the future and they haven't been wrong yet."

"Huh, well where exactly is this 'doozy' supposed to take place then?"

"I'm not sure actually, it's feeling like it's somewhere in town but at the same time it feels like it's somewhere really far away."

Trixie shook her head and sighed, "Whatever, if you don't mind I think I'm just going to go on my way."

"Okie dokie lokie, anywhere in particular you heading or just wandering around?"

"If you must know, I'm here to see a friend of mine called Twilight Sparkle..."

"You're a friend of Twilight's!?" Pinkie hugged Trixie tight and started bouncing. "I'm one of Twilight's bestest best friends and any friend of Twilight's is a friend of mine!"

Trixie giggled at the bouncing pony, "Well then, would you mind helping me find her? I haven't seen her place here in town yet."

"M'kay, just follow me!" Pinkie kept bouncing as she made her way into town with Trixie following behind her.

"How are you bouncing like that? Surely you must get tired quickly?" Trixie inquired.

"Nope, I'm just a bubbly bouncy pony especially when I make a new friend."

"Oh, well that's nice. Glad to have you as a friend, Pinkie was it?"

"Mmhmm, that's my name, feel free to use it as much as you want."

"I'll keep that in mind, now where are you taking me?"

"To Twilight's place, duh."

"I know that, but where does she live?"

"In the library in the big tree in the middle of town."

"Ah, makes sense, as I remember it she was a bit of a bookworm."

"Yuppy yup yup, that's Twilight alright."

They finally reached the library and Trixie smiled at the bouncing pink pony. "Thanks for helping me out, if you ever need anything just ask for The Great and Powerful Trixie." Trixie started for the door and just as she reached it she was interrupted by Pinkie.

"Wait, you're that braggy pony that brought the Ursa to Ponyville a few days ago aren't you?"

Trixie sighed and turned toward Pinkie, "Not really, a couple of my admirers wanted to see me in action after I bragged about being able to do it. In a way yeah it was my fault, but I never told those two to bring a beast into town."

"Oh, didn't know that. My friend, Rainbow Dash, just said to be on the lookout for you since you might be returning for revenge against Twilight since she embarrassed you by getting rid of that Ursa  Minor."

"Don't worry about that, revenge is the furthest thing from my mind. Still, don't tell your other friends I'm here. I didn't exactly make the best first impressions with them..."

"I'll say, you're a pretty nice pony from what I've seen, and you're a lot less braggy than I thought you'd be."

"That was just part of my magic act, sure it got a bit out of hoof but that's not going to be a problem anymore in this town."

"This town? Why not ever again?"

"Again, part of my magic act. I have many different personae for the towns and cities I pass through, braggy happens to be a fan favorite as far as I've seen."

"Okie dokie lokie, have fun with Twilight, just a warning though Dashie's weather patrol for Ponyville, she probably knows you're here." Pinkie bounced down the road, shuddering a bit more once in a while.

Trixie turned back to the door of the library, breathing deeply to calm her nerves. She had met a friend of Twilight's, she was nice and something told her that Pinkie wouldn't be friends with a mean pony. Still, there was still the worry that Twilight would not like her just dropping by like this so soon after the incident. Trixie just shook her head and raised her hoof to the door then knocked three times, she had made her choice and was going to see it through.

*****

Earlier that day...

Twilight was walking through the town toward Carousel Boutique, the home and business of her friend Rarity. She made her way to the front door and knocked a couple times, she hadn't come just for a friendly visit but also to check on an order she had placed a couple days ago. Sure it was a rush job but she was certain that Rarity would be able to do it easily.

The door opened, the white coated pony with gems as her cutie mark stood proudly in the door way and smiled at Twilight.

"Good morning Twilight, how is everything?"

"Pretty well, how's it going for you?"

"Good, I finished that order for you just as I promised, no idea why you'd want to have that repaired though..."

"Oh Rarity, even if she wasn't the nicest pony it doesn't mean we shouldn't have helped her a little."

"I know, still if it wasn't for her we wouldn't have had an Ursa rampaging through the town."

"It was just grumpy because those little colts interrupted it's nap, and it didn't cause too much damage before I sent it back to it's home."

"True..." Rarity produced a hat box and a rectangular box, both with Trixie's cutie mark on top of them, placing them on the ground near Twilight Sparkle. "Here's the hat and cloak, good as new. You know, I bet you'd look better in the outfit than she did."

Twilight blushed and giggled, "I don't know Rarity, it doesn't really match my colors."

"Twilight, darling, I know just what you mean, so I whipped up a little something just for you while I was working on hers." Rarity produced another couple boxes with Twilight's cutie mark on them and placed them on top of the others. "Trust me when I say you will look fabulous in these, I'm sure of it."

Twilight smiled and levitated the boxes. "Thanks Rarity, I might have to try them on later. Right now, I've got studying to do back at the library."

"Alright, see you around." Rarity went back inside her shop, closing the door behind her, while Twilight walked back to the library, placing the boxes carefully on her back as she walked home. On the way back she saw Pinkie rush off somewhere, she stopped questioning Pinkie's antics a while ago.

When she reached the library she opened the door and made her way up to her bedroom area, closing and locking the front door so she wouldn't have to worry about somepony walking in on her. Curiosity had gotten the best of her and she took the boxes with her cutie mark off the other boxes, placing hers on her dresser and Trixie's on her bed.

She took the cloak from the box first, it was really well done even for Rarity this was excellent. The pattern was similar to Trixie's but somehow different, she couldn't put her hoof on it, but it was really nice. The main difference she noticed was it's connecting jewel, instead of blue, was bright purple much like her own fur. She put on the cloak and checked herself out in the mirror, it didn't look too bad but it still didn't seem to suit her right. She decided to try it with the hat, after placing the hat on her head she heard three knocks on the door.

"Hmm, wonder who that could be."

She looked out the window and saw a blue unicorn with a beautiful silvery mane. She nearly burst when she saw this, the unicorn who had ran from Ponyville was knocking on her door while she was trying on a version of her outfit. Mostly feeling embarrassed at that she quickly disrobed and made her way downstairs to the front door.

*****

The door opened and the beautiful purple unicorn was standing there with her friendly smile.

"Uhh, hi." Trixie blushed and smiled smugly back, unintentionally going back to a persona by reflex.

"Hi Trixie."

"That's The Great and Powerful Trixie, but I suppose I can forgive you this time."

"Right, well would you like to come inside?" Twilight sighed and motioned to invite Trixie inside.

"Yes I would, thank you." Trixie trotted proudly into the library, Twilight shut the door behind her and walked over next to the blue unicorn.

"So, what are you doing here? Great and Powerful Trixie?"

Trixie sighed and relaxed, reminding herself to stop with the act, "To be honest, I came to see you."

Twilight blushed at that, "M-me? Why's that?"

"I don't know really, there's just something about you. It's like some sort of a spell."

"Well, that's nice of you. But I dunno..."

"Don't know about what?"

"About, being with another filly..."

Trixie sighed and tried her best to smile, even if she felt like crying, "I guess it was too much to ask of you, I didn't even know if you liked fillies and I came over anyway..."

"It's not just that, I've never been with anypony. I've just barely become social enough to have friends, let alone a relationship. That and, whenever I saw a pair of fillies they always seemed to get hassled and made fun of by other ponies."

Trixie nodded, "Yeah, small minded ponies hassled me in school when I got up the courage to come out about it."

"I'm so sorry to hear it."

"Don't worry, it was a long time ago. I've moved on."

"Alright, oh I've got something for you." Twilight perked up and started up to her bedroom.

"Really? What could you possibly have that I'd be interested in, aside from yourself?" Trixie said in a sort of teasing tone.

"You'll see." Twilight giggled and got up to her bedroom area, grabbing Trixie's boxes off the bed, not noticing Trixie had followed her up the stairs.

"Wow, this is where you sleep? It looks really nice." Twilight jumped a bit, dropping the boxes from the break in her concentration.

"Oh, yeah I guess it's nice. I also do a bit of private studying here during the daylight hours when other ponies come to borrow books from the library downstairs."

Trixie took notice of a piece of clothing on the dresser, as well as a familiar looking hat, "Looks like somepony liked my stage outfit." Trixie teased again as she lifted Twilight's cloak and hat with levitation.

Twilight blushed and looked away, "That was my friend Rarity's idea, she thought I'd look good in it."

Trixie placed the hat on Twilight's head and draped the cloak around Twilight, clasping the jewel properly and smiled at Twilight, "Hmm, I think it looks great on you, she must be a great seamstress."

"She is, she's the one who's hair you turned green in your act."

Trixie giggled at that, "Oh right, the one that made a really nice dress from my drapes. Hope she's not too sore at me for messing with her hair like that."

"I wouldn't worry about it, she's a nice pony and she was more mad at the Ursa incident that Snips and Snails caused."

"Right, so was this your surprise?" Trixie giggled and smiled at Twilight.

"No, my real surprise was here on my bed."

"Oh, so you've decided to give fillies a try then?" Trixie teased.

Twilight blushed hard and shook her head, "N-no! I have boxes to give to you!" Twilight levitated the boxes off her bed and set them in front of Trixie.

"Oh, these look interesting." Trixie opened the boxes and her jaw dropped as she saw what was inside. "Y-you didn't..."

Twilight smiled and nodded, "Yeah, I couldn't save the caravan but I thought you'd appreciate this at least."

Trixie hugged Twilight tight and cried softly, "Thank you so very much! You have no idea what these mean to me!"

"Can't breathe..."

"Oh, sorry." Trixie let Twilight go and smiled, she put on her old cloak and hat, still crying a bit. "I just thought they were destroyed."

"They were, kinda. They were in really rough shape, but as you know Rarity is a great seamstress and she fixed them up for me."

"I'll have to thank her as soon as I can. Thank you again Twilight."

"Anytime, so you have a place to stay in town or are you just going to be on your way?"

Trixie thought for a moment, remembering her caravan still parked outside Ponyville. "I think I'll stay for a while, but I don't have anywhere to sleep."

"Well, how about staying with me? I've got plenty of room and a guest bed."

"I'll think about it, until then how about we go get something to eat? I'm starving."

"Sure, I know just the place!" Twilight was just about to take off her outfit when Trixie stopped her.

"Keep it on, I'm curious to see what the reaction to us both dressed up like this will be. The Great Trixie and The Powerful Twilight, going out for a bite to eat."

"Alright Trixie, though I don't think I deserve half of your title."

"Yes you do, you're much more powerful than me, I'm just greater."

"Whatever you say Trixie."

The two giggled and made their way out the door, a few ponies noticed and gasped at the sight of the pony they thought responsible for bringing an Ursa to their town walking next to the pony responsible for saving their town from the same danger, both dressed up in matching outfits like they were going to do their own magic show together. Trixie didn't mind the attention, and while she was saddened by not having Twilight as she wanted she at least was going to have a great new friend. Perhaps the greatest friend in Equestria.

"If only it were that simple," Trixie sighed under her breath, being careful not to worry Twilight.