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Trixie took a deep breath as she stood at the entrance to Ponyville. It had been a while since her performance in this town, which ended in her home being destroyed. She didn't plan on coming back any time soon, mostly afraid of another potential Ursa attack, but she had no choice; there was only one pony in the world (that she knew of) who could help her now.

"Excuse me," she said to a pair of passing ponies. "Do you know where the Ponyville libwary is?" she asked. She hated her new childish voice, but she had hoped that she wouldn't have to put up with it for long.

"Yeah, it's the big tree down this road, next to the florist's shop," Flitter answered, looking down at Trixie with a smile.

Trixie bowed and thanked the mare, and then continued on into Ponyville. She made her way past many ponies, most of which stared at her with mixed expressions. She guessed it was because they recognized her, but were confused by her appearance. It could also be down to the fact that her cape was way too big for her body, and she had almost tripped over it many times.

She eventually reached the library, and brought her hoof up to knock on the door. She hesitated for a moment, reconsidering asking the pony who had embarrassed her before for help. A passing pony commenting on how cute Trixie was brought back her resolve, and she banged her hoof against the library door.

After a few seconds, the door opened up, and before Trixie stood the purple Unicorn that she had sought out. Twilight was obviously expecting an older pony, looking up above Trixie's head, and looking confused when nopony was there. "Twilight," Trixie said, causing the librarian to turn her head down. "Twixie needs your help."

Twilight's eyes widened at the site of the filly standing before her, looking up at her with a deadly glare. "T-Trixie? Is that you?" she asked, kneeling down and examining the filly closely. "Nah, impossible. Trixie's not a filly," she said, laughing nervously.

"She is now," Trixie said, walking past Twilight and into the library. "And she needs a cure. You're good with magic, so Twixie thought that you could help her."

Twilight closed the door and followed Trixie into the library, looking at her sceptically. "Now hold on, back up a bit. So, you are Trixie?"

Trixie turned back and glared at Twilight once again. "Does Twixie need to wecite how she vanquished the Ursa Major by hewself?"

Twilight frowned and let out a sigh. "Ok, you're Trixie," she said, the showmare's arrogant tone being the biggest clue. "But…What happened? Why are you so small right now?"

"Well," Trixie began, but stopped when she smelt something good in the air. "What's that?" she asked, sniffing a few times. "Did you bake cookies?"

"Uh, yeah," Twilight answered, tilting her head. "But, your problem-"

Twilight was cut off by Trixie suddenly rushing off into the kitchen. Twilight followed her, and found Trixie looking up at a tray of freshly baked cookies on the counter, drool pouring from her mouth. "Twixie's hungry! She wants cookies!" Trixie shouted, jumping up and down, trying to reach the tray.

Twilight looked at her in confusion and surprise, and also in slight amusement. 'What's going on? She doesn't just look like a filly, she acts like a filly!'

Twilight walked over to Trixie, a stern look on her face. "Trixie, those cookies aren't for you. They're for me and friends, for our picnic later today." Trixie stopped jumping and looked up at Twilight with pleading eyes, her lower lip quivering, and her ears drooped. Twilight stared at the face for a bit, and felt her heart melting. She let out a deep sigh, and levitated one of the cookies towards Trixie. "You can have one, ok?"

Trixie's face suddenly lit up, and she grabbed the cookie with a loud cheer. "Yay! Twixie wins again!"

Twilight slammed a hoof against her face. 'What have I gotten myself into?'

Twilight managed to get Trixie to settle down in the front room of the library, and offered to prepare some tea for the two of them. Trixie's response was: "Ew! No way! Don't you have any juice?"

Twilight prepared some tea for herself and poured some juice for Trixie, and brought them both into the front room. She saw Trixie writing in a puzzle book that Twilight was using earlier. She didn't mind, since Trixie was only doing the dot-to-dots, which Twilight wasn't interested in.

"So, Trixie-"

"Gweat and Powewful Twixie!" Trixie corrected.

Twilight rolled her eyes, and continued. "How exactly did you get like this?"

Trixie shrugged her shoulders, and continued connecting the dots in her puzzle. "Twixie made a mistake," she said.

Twilight rubbed a hoof against her forehead. She could tell that this was going to be difficult to deal with. "Doing what? What kind of mistake turns you into a filly?"

"A magical one."

Twilight stamped her hoof on the ground, startling Trixie. "Stop messing around! Do you want me to help you or not?"

Trixie stared at Twilight in horror, and tears started to for in her eyes. Twilight saw Trixie starting to cry, and calmed herself down. "I-It's Twixie who's a filly. W-why are you the one that's mad?"

Twilight felt somewhat guilty for snapping at Trixie, and reached over to hold her, but Trixie backed away. "I'm sorry, Trixie. It's just, if you want me to help you, you need to co-operate with me better. Do you understand?"

Trixie continued staring, and then lowered her head to the ground, slowly nodding. She wiped the tears from her eyes, and sat up straight. "Twixie was twying to cast a memowy westowation spell," she started explaining. "Twixie's memowy isn't so good. The spell messed up, and Twixie became like this."

Twilight put a hoof to her chin. Behind them, the door suddenly opened, and a cheery voice said: "I'm home!"

The two ponies turned to the door to see a small baby dragon entering the library. "Welcome home, Spike," Twilight said. "And good timing. I need your help."

Spike noticed the purple cape and hat by the door, and flinched. "Wait! These are Trixie's!" he shouted, running over to Twilight's side. "Don't tell me she's going around terrorizing Ponyville or something!"

"Hey!" Trixie shouted, looking annoyed at the baby dragon.

Twilight laughed, and rose to her hooves. "No, Spike. She's not terrorizing Ponyville. Just the library."

"Twixie's right here!" she shouted, turning her annoyed look to Twilight.

Spike looked over at the filly, and then turned back to Twilight. "Who's that? Trixie's sister?"

"Twixie is Twixie! Stupid dwagon!"

"What!?" Spike shouted, looking back at Trixie. "You're Trixie!?"

A silence passed between the three for a moment, before Spike finally couldn't hold in his laughter anymore. He fell onto his back, holding his stomach as he laughed so hard that tears ran down his eyes.

"This isn't funny!" Trixie protested.

"Y-Yes it is!" Spike shouted through his laughter.

Twilight rolled her eyes as Spike continued laughing, whilst Trixie ordered him to stop, threatening to vanquish him if he didn't. 'Well, I was going to ask him to help me find the right book, but I guess I'll just have to find it myself.'

She moved over a nearby bookshelf, quickly scanning through the book titles, looking for the one that contained memory manipulation magic. She had to silence the sounds of Trixie chasing Spike around the library, threatening to slay the "evil dwagon", and eventually found the book that she was looking for. "Got it!" she shouted.

Trixie turned to Twilight with a big smile on her face. "Weally!? You found a spell to fix Twixie!?"

Twilight turned to Trixie and shook her head, lowering Trixie's spirits. "Not yet, but the answer should be in this book."

Trixie ran up to the table in the centre of the room, and took a seat at one end. "Huwwy up! Wead it, wead it, wead it!" she demanded, like a foal waiting for a bedtime story.

Twilight couldn't help but giggle at Trixie, although for a different reason than why Spike was laughing at her. "Alright, let's see," she said, walking over to the table and sitting down. Spike joined her, taking a seat right next to her. "First, we need to find out exactly which spell you used, since there are a lot of memory restoration spells," Twilight explained.

She flipped through the pages slowly, asking Trixie to point out which spell she used. Eventually, they reached the right spell, and Trixie pointed it out with her hoof. Twilight looked at it with a sceptical look. "You sure? It's a fairly easy spell."

Trixie nodded, looking annoyed at Twilight calling it an easy spell, considering she had obviously messed it up. "Of course Twixie's sure! This is indeed the wight spell!"

Twilight examined the items needed to perform the spell, and then looked back up at Trixie. "Did you use the right items?"

Trixie glared at Twilight, and slammed her hooves on the table. "Of course! Don't insult Twixie! She's no magic hack! She-" Trixie took a look at the list of items needed, and her eyes widened as she noticed something odd. "Wait, Twixie's book didn't mention Pegasus feathers…"

Twilight and Spike facehooved/faceplamed in unison, as Trixie insisted that her book must have been defective, and that it wasn't her fault. "So if you don't include the Pegasus feathers, the spell reverts you to a younger age, but with all of your memories intact…Fascinating."

"Yes, yes, vewy fascinating," Trixie said sarcastically. "Now fix Twixie!"

"Sound like somepony needs a nap," Spike said, still having fun over Trixie's dilemma. Trixie shot a death glare at Spike, but he wasn't the least bit intimidated.

"Well, it shouldn't be hard to reverse…I just need some ground sapphire. I have the rest of the ingredients, but…"

Spike snapped his fingers and turned to Twilight. "Rarity! She has plenty of sapphires! I'm sure she'd let you have some if you ask her!"

Twilight turned to Spike with an unsure look on her face. "I don't know. She's not exactly on the best of terms with Trixie…"

Spike rubbed his chin with his hand. "Hm, true…"

Trixie watched the two having their own conversation with increasing annoyance. "Hey! Don't leave Twixie out of this! Who is this Warity, and whewe can we find her?"

Suddenly, Twilight remembered the picnic that she was supposed to be at, and turned her head to the clock. "Oh no! I was supposed to meet the others ten minutes ago!" Twilight shouted as she started pacing around the library, grabbing her saddlebags and tray of cookies.

"Twilight, calm down! I'm sure they won't mind if you're a little late," Spike said.

Twilight shook her head and rushed towards the door. "I'm late, I'm late, I'm laaaaate!"

Spike followed Twilight out of the door, chasing after her to make sure she didn't run into something or somepony.

A confused Trixie was left all by herself in the library, looking at the door with an annoyed look on her face. "Um…Twixie still needs help, y'know?"

Twilight arrived at the picnic in the Ponyville park, where he friends were sitting down and talking to each other. "Sorry I'm late!" she shouted, stopping when she reached her friends, panting from the long run from her library.

"No prob, Twi," Rainbow Dash said, turning to her friend. "You're not that late."

"But…I'm still late!"

"Calm down, sugarcube," Applejack said, walking up to her friend. "What've we told ya 'bout stressin' yerself out over nothing'?"

Spike caught up to Twilight, panting just as heavily as her. "Twi…Light…You gotta…Learn to…Slow down…A bit," he said between breaths.

Pinkie hopped up to Twilight. "Yeah, you worry too much! Sometimes you need to learnt o relax a bit!" she said. She reached into her mane and pulled out a Rubik's Cube, and offered it to Twilight. "Here!"

Twilight looked at the cube with a confused look on her face. "Um…Why?" she asked.

"Well, if you feel yourself getting stressed out, you can use this to calm yourself down!"

"Wouldn't that have the opposite effect?" Rarity asked, glaring at the cube. "I myself still have nightmares about those horrible things."

The rest of the group shared a laugh, and Twilight lowered the cube to the floor with her magic. "You're right, I was getting worried over nothing. Sorry, guys."

"Oh, it's no problem at all, Twilight," Fluttershy said.

"But still," Applejack started. "It's a might unusual for Twilight to be late to…Well, anything. Did something happen?"

Twilight turned to face Applejack, and then gasped as she realised that she had left Trixie all by herself. As if on cue, she felt a cold chill down her spine as an annoyed voice behind her shouted: "SPARKLE!"

"Oh, horseapples," she said, slowly turning around to see a very angry Trixie approaching her, dragging a bag behind her. "T-Trixie! Uh, sorry, I kind of…Forgot about you, for a second." Twilight slammed a hoof into her face. 'Great, Twilight. Make it worse by saying you forgot about her.'

"Hm? Trixie?" Rainbow Dash asked, looking into the same direction as Twilight. She saw the little filly approaching them, and stopping just in front of Twilight, panting along with Spike. "Who's the kid? Your sister?"

"You're supposed to be helping Twixie, Sparkle! How dare you leave Twixie all alone back there! What if Twixie had hurt herself!?"

Applejack walked forward to face the filly, a confused look on her face. "Whoa, hold on here. Are you sayin' Trixie's in some kinda trouble?"

"Well," Twilight began, but was cut off by Trixie.

"Can you not see for yourself!?" she shouted to the farmer, not helping to ease her confusion. She turned back to Twilight. "Have you got the sapphires?"

Twilight knelt down to look Trixie in the eyes. "Uh, not yet. But don't worry, I'll get them for you, and then we can work on getting you back to normal."

"Not good enough!" Trixie shouted. "Twixie has legions of fans waiting for her! She can't leave them without their idol! She needs to change back! Wight now! She needs to-" She was cut off by a Rubik's Cube floating in front of her, being held in Twilight's magic. "What's this?"

"I'll get you the sapphires soon, but I'll still need some time to prepare the spell," Twilight said. "Play with this, and I'll let you know when I'm ready."

Trixie grabbed the cube with her magic, and examined it. "Hmph! Watch in awe! Twixie will have this silly cube solved in ten seconds flat!" she said, wandering off to the side to work on the cube.

Twilight turned around to face her friends, each one waiting patiently for an explanation. "So, uh…That's why I was late," she explained.

Rarity was the first to speak up. "Is that…Really Trixie?" she asked, looking over at the filly.

Twilight nodded. "Hold up!" Applejack said. "How is that possible? She sure wasn't a filly when she left Ponyville, and ponies don't grow down in my experience!"

"Magic mishap," Twilight said simply, knowing that would be sufficient explanation for her friends, and that anything more detailed might take a while for some of them to properly understand. "Anyway, I know how to fix her, but I'm missing some ground sapphires…Rarity, do you think-"

Twilight was cut off by a loud "damnit!" from Trixie, causing everypony nearby to momentarily turn to face the filly.

"Trixie, language!" Twilight shouted, almost on instinct.

"Twixie's not a child! And you're not her mommy!" Trixie shouted back, still fumbling with the cube.

"Uh, guess not…" Twilight said, scratching the back of her head nervously. She turned back to Rarity, with almost pleading eyes. "Please tell me you have some sapphires you can lend me. I don't know how much more of this I can take."

"Wow, she really is a filly, isn't she?" Rainbow Dash asked, staring at Trixie and not doing so well to suppress her laughter. "Oh man, that's too rich!"

"I must admit, it's rather satisfying watching her get what she deserves," Rarity said, grinning at the filly Trixie.

Trixie held the Rubik's Cube up triumphantly, four of the six sides now a solid colour. However, on the last two sides, she noticed that there was one miscoloured tile. She let out a loud scream of frustration, throwing the cube to the ground. Rarity and Rainbow Dash both laughed at the scene, but Twilight was visibly less amused.

"Come on, guys," Twilight started. "She pulls a few pranks on you, and you think she deserves this? Not to mention I have to put up with it, too!"

"Why?" Applejack asked, facing Twilight. "Ah mean, it's not like you have to take her in, if ya don't want to."

Twilight considered that for a second, and realised that Applejack was right. Twilight was used to being a good host, and hadn't even considered the possibility of just sending Trixie home. Twilight turned to Trixie, who was attempting to pry off the two miscoloured tiles with a stick.

"Um, Trixie?" she asked.

Trixie jumped and threw the stick away. "Twixie wasn't cheating!" she shouted, turning to face to Twilight.

"Uh, no, I wasn't going to talk about that," she explained. "I just wanted to ask if your parents know about this. I mean, you may have to live with them if I can't help you."

Trixie turned back to the cube, this time attempting to solve it legitimately again. "Twixie's pawents are buwied somewhere in Canterlot," she said.

The group fell silent at this, and looked at each other with saddened expressions. They then turned back to Trixie, and were somewhat concerned that she didn't seem to show any emotion at all when talking about her dead parents. Then they considered that Trixie was technically an adult, and that she had probably already made her peace with it. Even so, seeing a filly talk about her dead parents as if it were nothing was unnerving to the group of young mares.

Rarity took one more look into Twilight's pleading eyes, and sighed. "Fine. I can get you some sapphires…"

Trixie's ear twitched, and she dropped the still unsolved cube to the ground and ran up to the group. "Weally!? Thank you thank you thank you! Now Twixie can go back to being the Gweat and Powewful Twixie again!"

"Great," Rainbow Dash said sarcastically, rolling her eyes.

"Well, what are you waiting for?" Trixie asked a confused Rarity. "Come on! Twixie has all the other ingwedients here! She just needs the sapphires!" Trixie opened the bag that she had brought with her to reveal a collection of items that she had taken from the library.

"Hey! Did you go through my things without permission!?" Twilight asked, glaring at Trixie.

Trixie nodded, and started giggling to herself. "You have some strange books under your bed, Twilight," she said, causing the librarian's eyes to widen as she blushed. Trixie started dancing on the spot, chanting "Twilight's a pervert!" in a sing-song voice over and over.

With the exception of Fluttershy, the rest of the group were trying their best not to laugh. In the end, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie couldn't hold it in any longer, and exploded with laughter, soon joined by Trixie. Rarity managed to escape by saying that she would fetch the sapphires from her store, and Spike joined her.

Applejack walked up to Twilight and put a hoof on her shoulder, giving her a friendly smile. "Don't worry, Twi," she said, taking a moment to glare at the three laughing ponies. "It ain't nothin' ta be ashamed of. It's only natural to have…Those kinds of interests."

Twilight's blush intensified, and at this point, all she could do was wish for Rarity to hurry up, so that she could turn Trixie back to normal.

"Ah, cookies!" Trixie shouted, her laughter stopping when she laid eyes on the tray of cookies that Twilight had set on the picnic blanket. "Twixie loves cookies, but Twilight's mean, and won't Twixie have any," she said, falling down onto her stomach and pouting.

Pinkie Pie hopped onto her hooves and faced Twilight. "Aw, that's not good, Twilight! When you make yummy stuff, you're supposed to share it with everypony!"

Twilight frowned at her pink friend. "Pinkie, those cookies were made for you guys, not Trixie," she said. "I only let her have one because I made an extra by mistake. If she had more, I wouldn't be able to split them evenly amongst the rest of you."

Pinkie grabbed a cookie from the tray, and split in half, offering one half to Trixie, whose face immediately lit up. "Here ya go! It's best to share good things with friends, after all!"

"YAY!" Trixie shouted, jumping up and grabbing the half-cookie, before wrapping her forelegs around Pinkie in a tight hug. "Pink one is Twixie's favourite out of all you guys!"

Pinkie laughed and stroked Trixie's mane. "Aw, she's so cute!" she shouted, causing Trixie to blush. "And my name's Pinkie Pie, by the way! But you can just call me Pinkie, like all my friends do!"

Moments later, Rarity returned with Spike, who was carrying a cartload of sapphires. Twilight raised an eyebrow at the huge stack of sapphires in the cart. "Um, Rarity? We only needed a few…"

Rarity turned back to her pile of sapphires, and then back to Twilight. "Well, better safe than sorry, right?" She levitated a few sapphires to Twilight, and gave one to Spike as thanks for assisting her.

"Well? Whewe's the spell?" Trixie asked, running up to Twilight with an excited look on her face. She looked like a filly opening her presents on her birthday.

"Alright, let me just prepare the recipe," she said, levitating a bunch of items towards herself. "Can everypony except Trixie stand back? The spell will affect everypony in range."

Everyone obeyed, backing away whilst Twilight mixed the items together. A few minutes later, and Trixie was starting to grow impatient. Finally, the spell was ready, and Twilight gathered some energy into her horn. "Ok, here we go," she said, aiming her horn at Trixie.

Trixie's eyes widened and her heart started to beat faster as a flash of light was fired from Twilight's horn. The area was covered in smoke, causing everypony around to cough until it started to clear. "Did it work?" Trixie asked as the smoke finally started to die down. She looked around to see that Twilight's friends were still much bigger than her. "What!? Why didn't it work!?"

Trixie turned to where Twilight was standing when the spell was cast, but instead of finding the purple mare she was expecting, she instead found a purple filly, sitting on the grass and examining her body. "Well…That wasn't supposed to happen…"