“Are you sure we should be doing this?”

“Of course! This is gonna be awesome!” 

“Or fatal,” replied Starlight Glimmer, as she and her partner dangled from a pair of ropes.

“Oh come on, this is completely harm-EEP!” The great and powerful Trixie moved to the side and dodged the falling rock. Starlight watched the rock fall past the two mares, smashing to pieces as it hit the distant ground. 

Starlight sighed. 

“Trixie saw that,” Trixie said.

“Riggghhttt,” said Trixie’s skeptical partner. “Look, I know we patched everything up with Twilight and all, but I’m seriously thinking rope climbing to break into canterlot castle just to read her diary is a really, really bad idea.”

“Trixie must know what is in that diary! She wrote something about Trixie! Trixie must find out! Not knowing will kill Trixie!”

“Actually, that incoming rock might kill you first.”

Trixie looked up and swiftly evaded the impossible-to-dodge rock. Trixie clearly did not scream like a filly, clearly did not quiver holding the rope, and most definitely did not close her eyes to brace for impending doom.

But, in the far off case that she did, when those eyes would have reopened she would have seen Starlight holding the rock in her magic.

“Trixie knew you would do that.”

It didn’t dignify a response.

Starlight sighed, before tossing the rock aside into the abyss below.

“Seriously, this is a bad idea,” Starlight said. “Why did I agree to this?”

“Because it’s eating you up too to know what she wrote about us! You want to know as much as Trixie does!” The supposedly stealthy pony shouted out loud. 

In response, before she could shout some more and alert the royal guard, Starlight shushed her. 

This, offended Trixie. 

“Hey! Nopony shushes the great and powerful-"

Starlight’s hoof to her own mouth, she shushed Trixie again.

“Shhhh. Stealth mission,” Starlight whispered.

“The great and powerful Trixie is a master at stea-”

Hoof to Trixie’s mouth, she shushed Trixie for the third time.

“Do you want to get caught again? You know what they’ll do to us if they catch us, right?”

Fourteen seconds passed.

“...Trixie will be less loud.”

Starlight took her hoof off the mare. “Try not being any bit loud.”

In a manner not flirting, Trixie winked a yes. As frustrating as she had been, it was an idiotic, enduring wink that Starlight couldn’t help but smile at. 

At least this misadventure would be an interesting story to tell her kids one day. “Good,” Starlight said.

She fastened her line and mentally prepared herself to finish their climb. “You ready girl? Let’s do this!” Starlight exclaimed only to find Trixie’s hoof on her mouth. Trixie made a long shush that trailed on, slowly dying out like a deflating balloon. 

When Trixie took her mouth off Starlight, she smiled widely in anticipation of what was to come. “Let’s go!” Trixie whispered to her partner, and the duo made their ascent up the mountain and to Canterlot Castle.

[hr]

For many mages, there comes a point in time where one’s magical prowess overtakes their physical capabilities. It is a sort of a point of no return, where a unicorn realizes that normal everyday actions can be accomplished far easier with the use of magic rather than actually physically doing it. This leads to a point where said unicorn will eventually have trouble doing physical tasks because they had become accustomed to using magic only. 

As a prodigy of her time, Starlight Glimmer was one of those ponies who crossed that point very early on in their life, learning how to do all sorts of things by use of magic and choosing to neglect her physical capabilities.

And at this point in her life, as she dangled over a balcony edge with Trixie holding her hooves and pulling her up, Starlight regretted such choices. Also, adding to those bad decisions was her choice of cheap rope, but at least she still had the receipt for a refund and a friend to pull her up from certain doom.

With a final pull, Trixie pulled Starlight up and over the balcony railway and the two mares landed in a mess of limbs with a large oomph, the pinnacle of stealth maneuvers. 

Now safe from falling to her death Starlight could finally exhale. “Th-thanks Trixie” Starlight panted.

“Trixie is great for a reason,” the spirited performed replied with another enduring smile.

The two took a moment to catch their breaths. It took a moment, but Starlight’s cheeks turned red as she realized she was an inch from Trixie’s face.

“Hey, is somepony there?” Trixie and Starlight heard.

[i]A guard! [/i]Starlight’s mind went off in a panic. 

They were about to get caught! Their eyes widened with fear as Trixie rushed to a nearby set of bushes, yanking Starlight in with her tailfirst with another loud oomph. By the time the two found themselves in good hiding positions inside the bush, A royal guard pegasus had flown into view, landing on the balcony with a scowl on his face.

“I heard somepony.” Said the pegasus guard. “And I swore I totally saw someone too.”

The guard looked around left and right, trying to find the culprit, but saw nothing but the rope on the floor, sweat next to it, and the lovely set of bushes on both sides of the balcony. 

“Huh, you could use a rope like that to climb into the castle,” He said “And there’s a puddle of sweat. That might mean somebody's here, trying to break into Canterlot Castle.”

Starlight and Trixie looked at each other in horror. Hiding behind a bush, the two knew it was a matter of time before the royal guard discovered them. 

“Oh Celestia we’re gonna get caught...” Trixie muttered. Starlight turned to her and saw the same amount of fear on Trixie’s face. 

The guard was standing right next to the bush that the mares were hiding in, If he turned to his side he would see the bush quivering in fear.

[i]We’re gonna go to jail...[/i]Echoed in Starlight’s mind.[i] No, wait. Figuring what we’ve done, It’ll be worse, like a superjail, or a Hyperprison or a-[/i]

“Oh well, it’s probably nothing,” The guard said, winding up the rope and walking away with it. “Mine now.”

The panic of the two mares turned to complete shock.

“I know what I’m doing with my girlfriend tonight~” The absolutely competent royal guard skipped off the balcony and flew away in joy.

“...”

“...”

Starlight and Trixie walked out of the bushes, dumbfounded.

“You know… this is really telling,” Starlight said. “No wonder why the Changelings conquered Canterlot so easily!” Starlight stomped her hooves in annoyance. “When we are done here, I am so writing princess Celestia a letter telling her that her guards are-”

Trixie shushed Starlight, hoof to her mouth.

“Shhhhh. Not too loud, Stealth mission,” Trixie said, oblivious of Starlight feeling Trixie’s saliva on her lips. Trixie was right, but that taste of Trixie’s saliva was all Starlight could think about.

[i]Oh Celestia! Is this an indirect kiss! Do indirect kisses count as first kisses? Is this how my first kiss happens? With her? Of all-[/i]

Looking down, she saw Trixie in a puddle of sweat, and Trixie's free foreleg stepping in it.

[i]Oh….this is...[/i]

Starlight was tasting Trixie’s sweaty hooves. Immediately, Starlight’s gag reflex kicked in.

One vomit later, the duo snuck inside.

[hr]

“Ok, if the schematic I have is correct, we should be in the princess’s guest hall now,” Starlight said, walking through the endless hallways of Canterlot Castle. “The room Twilight’s in should be right down that hallway. I’ll just be happy when we’re done walking. It’s taking a toll on my hooves.”

“The Great and Powerful Trixie never has that worry. Trixie has been walking on her hooves all her life, unlike you, miss levitate everywhere.”

“Hey, I care what I step on. You know all the dirty, gross stuff we step on every day, and then we actually eat with those same hooves? It’s gross! It’s why I used a lot of our water back in Our Town for cleaning and enforcing strict sanitary standards.” The duo turned a corner. 

“....which might have led to a crop crisis because we used too much water, which might have gotten worse because after I took everyone’s cutie marks nopony had the skill anymore to save the crops we had. Which led to us having nothing but burnt muffins left. I made some… very questionable decisions back then. I really was not a good mayor at all.”

“You actually sound like a really bad one.”

“More like the worst,” Starlight sighed, memories returning.

“Outside of the whole brainwashing cutie-mark stealing dictatorship you established or was it that?”

Starlight just wanted to say yes to that or check whatever the ‘all of the above’ response was for that. Thankfully, she didn’t need to say anything as their prize soon came into view.

“There is it!” Trixie's eyes lit up as she saw Twilight’s door. “After long last, finally, Twilight’s secrets will be revealed! She’ll know exactly what secrets about Trixie she holds!”

Trixie rushed to into the hallway, only for a yank on her tail. 

“Hold it!” Starlight exclaimed. 

“What for! Her room is right there! Why are we stopping?” Trixie said.

“Because I know Twilight. She’s smarter than this,” Starlight said. “She wouldn’t leave the door unprotected.”

“Trixie isn't so sure. Wouldn’t Twilight sleep soundly knowing the royal guards are patrolling the castle?”

Outside, the duo heard a yell of laughter and joy. The two followed the distraction out of the nearby open window and saw two royal guards, the pegasus stallion from before and a batpony mare both decked in armor, the mare swinging on a large rubber tire, hanging by a rope.

“See honey! I told you would love this!”

The girls closed the window and looked at each other.

“Trixie concedes,” Trixie said. “So then, what would she do?”

Starlight began to think. “If I was Twilight and didn’t trust any of the idiots here, what would I do...”

The two girls rubbed their chins and began to think. A minute later, Trixie shot up.

“Trixie knows! She must have booby trapped this somehow. There’s a lot of trap mechanisms here in the castle. Trixie knows that from experience. She must have activated one to protect herself...but what?”

Acting on impulse, Starlight reached into Trixie’s saddlebag and pulled out a coin. Before Trixie could protest, Starlight rolled the coin across the floor, where a few feet into its roll the coin was immediately bisected by laser beams that popped out of the wall.

“Lasers...huh,” Starlight commented while Trixie froze.

“Starlight, you realize that was our one hundred bit coin, which was our train money back to Ponyville, right?”

Starlight Glimmer froze as her brain caught up to her body.

“Starlight, You just destroyed our train money home.”

Starlight nervously chuckled. “My… bad? Heh-heh...sorry...”

“Starlight, we are good friends… but sometimes, you make very questionable decisions…”
[hr]
[i]A young Starlight was thrown into a large jail cell.[/i]

[i]She saw ponies left and right, none her sex.[/i]

[i]To the right, she saw a group of ponies, double Starlight’s size. They looked at her with hungry eyes, and not the perverted kind.[/i]

[i]To the left, she saw a possibly smelly pony with a red sickle on his flank, who the ponies on the right were avoiding like the plague for some reason. [/i]

[i]She took her chances.[/i]

[i]Luckily, the old red pony was not smelly. He was, though, very talkative. “So,” he began. “Want to learn about a philosophy that’s only brought destruction and despair to every society that’s tried it, and then take your crack at it?”[/i]

[i]The young Starlight thought about it for a minute and shrugged.[/i]

[i]“Sure, what’s the worst that could happen?”[/i]
[hr]
Starlight frowned. “I know.”

“Moving on…” Trixie began. “Trixie knows how to turn off this trap. There should be a security panel to turn if off from this end, and a manual switch on the princess’ side of the hallway. But it’s also magically attuned, so if we use any magic it’ll trigger an alarm. 

Starlight took a step forward. In order to regain her honor, she knew what she had to do. “Leave it to me then!” Starlight exclaimed. “I’m the flexible sort! I’ll sneak through it and have that trap off in jippy!”

“Wait no, Trixie thinks that’s a terrible-” Trixie watched Starlight miraculously dove in between a pair of the laser beams, taking a pose to evade the hot laser death she now danced with.

 “-oh and she started.” Trixie sighed.

Starlight Glimmer’s initial entry into the laser beams was successful. With a series of turns and pivots, she navigated herself through the lasers, standing on her hind feet.

[i]Hmm, this is easier than I thought[/i], thought Starlight, as she bobbed through another row of lasers, successfully maneuvering halfway through them, standing on her hind legs. Even if she wasn’t the most physically sound, or the lightest, or agile, Starlight wondered why she didn’t stand on her hind legs more often. 

The wobble of said hindlegs answered that question. Starlight began to shake as her legs started to give, sweet hot dissecting laser death all around her. Like before, Starlight noticed her mistake a little too late as her legs gave way and she fell...and hit her head on the solid floor.

“OW!” Starlight exclaimed. Her eyes reopened with her brain back on, she noticed the laser beams were gone.

She looked to Trixie, walking behind her. “Trixie disabled it,” she flatly said.

“Wha…” It took Starlight four tries to finally make her next word. “Ho...how?”

Trixie basked in the pride of her skill. “Trixie knew the security code to turn it off. Every code here is 1,2,3,4.”

“Why am I not surprised,” Starlight muttered as she got up on her hooves. They were about to continue before Starlight stopped, a thought in her head.

“Wait, Trixie, how do you know that?”

“A magician never tells her secrets,” Trixie confidently replied.

While a non-answer, It did, though, make Starlight think of what was. With the thought now in her head, she asked Trixie the question she should have asked before any of this began. 

“Trixie,” Starlight asked. “How many times have you broken into Canterlot Castle?”

The great and powerful Trixie’s confidence vaporized. “Uhhhhhh….The great and powerful Trixie did not exactly break... into Canterlot Castle…or into its dungeon,” she said, emphasizing the word 'into'.

Trixie looked to the left, and then to the right and pursed her lips, trying to come up with the right words but without incriminating herself. Such wording, however, was a little too late.

“Oh Celestia I’m talking to an escaped criminal.”

“Trixie’s not a criminal!” Trixie proclaimed “It… wasn’t exactly a crime... ok the escape part wasn’t. It was the Alicorn Amulet thing. They wanted to hold Trixie over for months to make sure Trixie wasn’t contaminated evil or something! And as you know, the great and powerful Trixie is not evil, she’s awesome and cannot be contained, nor can she be cooped up in a comfy cell, even if they give Trixie as much peanut butter and crackers as she pleases. Trixie had to escape and be free!”

Starlight’s mouth hung open. 

“In retrospect… Trixie probably thinks that might not have been the best decision she could have made.”

There were many things she could say, many criticisms and complaints, but Starlight knew, in the grand scheme of things, she couldn’t. Being responsible for nearly killing everyone in Equestria was in a sorts, the royal flush of evil deeds all things considered. To Starlight, complaining about a reformed pony’s misdeeds was something she no longer had the right to, as her villainous past decisions would trump everyone else’s until the day she died.

So instead, Starlight liked to focus on the brighter side of things. Like that she was about to discover just exactly what her best friend Twilight thought of her.

“You know what, I’ll just take what I can get.” Starlight regained her smile and buddied up to Trixie. “We’re all the way here. Let’s get that diary and finish what we started, ok?"

The girls smiled and walked inside Twilight’s guest bedroom. They tiptoed in, only to realize that they were alone. Twilight Sparkle, was nowhere to be found. 

“Wow, Trixie is impressed. So this is the royal guest room of a princess,” Trixie said as they scanned the room.

“There it is!” Starlight said. She smiled as she trotted over to the guest room’s desk, where their prize laid. It was a fancy red diary, with a gold spine and engraving of more gold and crystals. Inside laid a bookmark, assumingly to Twilight’s most recent entry.

“Oh, I remember that. When we went back to Our Town, she was jotting down tons of things in that diary. Hmm… I do wonder what she was scribbling about...”

Trixie dashed to it and opened the diary’s pages. “Then let’s find out!” she exclaimed. Trixie and Starlight turned the dairy to where the bookmark resided, and shock overcame their faces.

“Hey look...there’s a picture of us…” Trixie muttered.

“She drew a little picture of us… kissing?” Spoke a stunned Starlight.

Trixie and Starlight’s jaws dropped as they then read the princess of friendship’s entry. The more they read the more their cheeks turned red in embarrassment.

Upon finishing Twilight’s entry, the two looked at each other and promptly fainted.
[hr]
[center]Twilight’s Entry #690: [/center]

Trixie came back to town, and of all the people she befriended she made friends with Starlight!

There was a big hassle at first and I thought we weren’t going to become friends, but then we did! They’re currently having fun in ponyville, while I make this short but very important excursion. 

This was a combination I never thought was possible! Starlight and Trixie!

They’re both unicorns, former baddies, and also talented magic users who play really well off each other. They’re so compatible, I can’t believe I never thought of it before!

For the longest time I always thought Trixie could only be my waifu (well, anyone’s capable of becoming my waifu according to the shipping chart), but then Cadance showed us that maybe she could have other like Blueblood and Maud. And now she’s got Starlight too! 

I’m so happy at Starlight’s progress. First me and the girls, rekindling that spark with Double Diamond and Sunburst, then forging a new ship with Spike, and now this! My little Glim-Glam is growing up, making new potential waifus everyday!

I just wonder where this leads! Are their acquaintances going to mix now and make new ships? Heck, what are we even going to call this ship! TrixGlam? Triximmer? I don’t know! Ohhhh, the possibilities are making me all tingly!

We must confront the Grand Shipping Chart in Canterlot Castle and plot all these new relationships out! I’ll have Spike write a letter to Royal Shipper Celestia and Grandmaster Shipper Cadance. We have much to discuss!

[hr]

[center][b]The end[/b][/center]