"Ok, Trixie is 'locked in', now... wait, personality absorption?! Trixie didn't ask for anything wi-" She gasped, a sudden realisation snapping her head around - the ponies in the pods, they all wore these rings! She wasn't being empowered, she was joining them! "No! Trixie doesn't want to become a magic battery!" she squealed, focusing hard on her magic even as she felt her legs starting to go limp, eyes blurring. One of the gleaming cables leading from the wall to Trixie's horn began glowing with the unicorn's power as she used her rope-controlling abilities on it, trying to break it, trying to stop whatever the machine was doing.