Feral World

As dawn approached over the land, Shining Armor and a few of the unicorn guards were in chariots being tugged by a few of the pegasus guards through the air. Ever since Spike and the girls went AWOL from Canterlot Shining Armor and his fellow soldiers were tasked with locating them and bringing them home.

“I can't believe they got such a big head start when they left.” Shining sighed knowing how far behind they could be.

“Sir!” one of the pegasus guards called, “There's a city right below us. Chicoltgo, I believe.”

Shining looked down seeing the city, “We better check the place out for clues. Take us down!” he ordered.

The guards flew the chariots down before landing on the street. They looked around the deserted city, as Shining spoke up, “Search every square inch of this city and report back here within the hour.”

“Yes, sir!” the guards answered and split up.

Every unicorn and pegasus guard that came with Shining Armor searched all over Chicoltgo hoping to find any trace that Spike and the girls were there. All the while were making sure to keep a look out for any potential ferals lurking about. When the pegasus guards needed a break from flying they had to travel by land with the unicorns walking with them. While on the ground level they had also happened upon a few ferals that held them up. Still with their training to be royal guards they were able to defeat the ferals and continued to press on until the pegasi were able to fly again.

As Shining Armor walked the lonely street looking at the ghost town of a city, he couldn't help but feel bad for all those who lived here be it pony, human, or others were wiped out thanks to the outbreak. He thought to himself while thinking about his sister and her friends, 'My own sister and her friends out here where there's less protection against ferals. And Spike, I know Canterlot's never treated humans as equally as ponies, but to actually leave it for this? Was it all worth it?” he sat down on a bench close to a familiar convenience store to rest his feet before looking from side to side, until he caught sight of something.

He saw stuck in the store's door frame was a strand of pink hair. He used his magic to levitate it over to inspect it, “Same shade of pink,” he sniffed it a bit, “Scent of Cotton Candy... Pinkie Pie!” he gasped.

Later all the guards returned to the chariots, as Shining Armor spoke, “Did any of you find anything?”

“Nothing sir.” one of the unicorn guards answered.

“Neither here.” a pegasus guard added.

“Well, I did,” Shining levitated the piece of hair up, “This is a hair from Pinkie Pie, one of the ponies who went AWOL with my sister, Princess Celestia's daughters, Spike, and the others.”

The guards were surprised, as another unicorn spoke, “So they did come through here.”

“Yes. Which means we're right on their trail.” Shining added.

“Then we better hurry or we'll lose it.” another pegasus suggested.

“Agreed, let's go!” Shining ordered, as he and the unicorns returned to their chariots, while the pegasi commandeered them and took off into the sky again.

As Shining Armor looked down at the city, he thought to himself in concern, 'Twily, please be ok.'

Meanwhile miles away from Chicoltgo, the girls and Spike in their ride the Rainboom were driving down a road surrounded by woods. Rainbow Dash was currently at the wheel while Applejack was resting in back with the others.

“Keep it steady, Rainbow.” Twilight warned the pegasus.

“Relax, Twilight, I totally got this.” Rainbow boasted.

“Not very convincing considering how many times you failed drivers ed more than I did.” Sunset reminded her smugly. Rainbow scowled, but continued to keep her eyes on the road.

Spike was currently fixing his gauntlets as Applejack watched him, “So how's it looking, Spike?”

“With the adjustments I made, my gauntlets should fire even more powerful blasts of energy than they did before,” Spike explained, “If there's more than one type of feral I wanna be prepared for any of them.”

“And ya will, Spike,” Applejack promised, “And remember you're not in it alone. You have all of us.”

Spike smiled at Applejack, before a faint sound caught his ear. It sounded like singing. He looked out one of the windows still hearing the singing. He looked at the thick trees as if wherever the singing was coming from it was calling out to him. Suddenly Spike shouted, “Pull over!” this startled everyone.

“Spike?” Twilight asked in concern.

“Rainbow, pull over!” he ordered.

“What-what is it?” the pegasus asked in confusion.

“Just pull over!” he said desperately.

“Ok-ok!” Rainbow replied, as she pulled over.

Spike opened the doors, got out, and raced off into the woods, “Spike, where are you going?!” Twilight called, as the girls started to pile out.

“What's gotten into him?” Sunset wondered.

“He must really have to go.” Pinkie suggested.

“Well, even if that's the case we can't let him go out there alone.” Rarity said.

“Especially not without his gear.” Applejack said, as she carried Spike's energy gauntlets in his bag.

“Come on!” Twilight said, as they hurried after their human lover.

Spike had pushed and trekked his way through the woods before stopping at a clearing right by a creek. He looked out and to his surprise saw three gorgeous older human girls about his pony friends ages sitting by the creek looking like they were doing laundry while singing to themselves and wearing bikinis.

The first girl had big poofy hair colored orange with gold highlights, and her bikini was colored in a mix of yellow, red, and orange. The second girl had purple hair with turquoise highlights done up in pigtails and her bikini was a mix of purple and violet. Finally the third girl had cerulean hair with dark blue highlights done up in a ponytail, while her bikini was a mix of blue, aqua, and arctic blue.

(Go to Sleep Little Baby)

As the trio sang beautifully and alluring, Spike couldn't help but walk closer while feeling unable to take his eyes off the girls, especially since their busts were an eyeful.

Deciding to make himself know he called out, “Hi, ladies! Name's Spike!”

The trio continued to sing, even when they took notice of Spike's presence. They suddenly dropped whatever they were washing in the creek and got up walking closer to the boy still not breaking their song.

Spike watched, as the three sashayed around Spike with the poofy haired girl running her hand across his torso, while the two two came up behind him and started rubbing their bodies all over his back. Spike panted in lust, as the three continued to flirt and rub themselves against him, as the three ladies were enjoying it themselves. Spike was so entranced he didn't realize the three started smirking mischievously.

Twilight, Luster, Sunset, and the rest of the girls finally caught up with Spike, “There he is!” Luster pointed.

“Who's that he's with?” Fluttershy asked.

They got a closer look and saw the three girls surrounding Spike, but to them they weren't human teenage girls. They were instead sirens with the first having a yellowish-gold scaled body, the second had a light purple and moderate mulberry scaled body, and the third had a light cerulean and moderate cornflower blue body. What all three had in common was they had a red gemstone in their chests.

“Oh, no!” Twilight gasped and screamed, “Spike, get away from them!”

Spike looked back, “Twilight?” The three ceased their singing, as Twilight flew in and knocked them away disrupting their singing and making Spike fall to the ground.

The first siren frowned and spoke, “Do you mind, we were in the middle of something!”

“Yeah, luring Spike to you just so you can drain him!” Twilight accused.

“Twilight, what're you talking about?” Spike asked.

“Spike, these girls aren't what you think they are.” Twilight motioned to them.

“Don't listen to her.” the first said.

“Who are you three?” Sunset demanded.

“I”m Adagio, this is Aria, and Sonata.” the first introduced.

“And if you don't mind, we've got a hunky boy to have fun with.” Aria said.

“Yeah, and it's been so long since we've had any kind of fun.” Sonata added with a pout.

“Well, your fun is the opposite of what fun should really be!” Pinkie said taking a stance.

Spike spoke up in confusion, “I'm sorry, what's going on?”

“Ugh!” Rainbow groaned before smacking Spike in the back of the head.

“Ow! Why did you...” Spike looked and saw the trio flirting with him in their true forms, “Hey, where'd the pretty girls go?” the siren girls scowled.

“Hate to break it to ya, partner, that is them.” Applejack said.

“But how?”

“They're sirens,” Luster explained, “Remember from class?”

Spike looking back ignoring all the bad times in class to remember the lessons recalled how they were learning about other species, and one of them were sirens, “Oh, man. They lured me with their voices intent on draining me of my energy?!”

“Afraid so.” Applejack replied.

“Cat's out of the bag, girls,” Adagio told her sisters, “So let's take it by force!” the trio of sirens glided around the ponies and Spike with Rainbow flying around to attack back. Twilight flew around launching her own magic shots at Adagio who dodged but before she could tackle Twilight she was blasted by Rarity from on the ground.

“I'll go for the boy!” Aria said, as she flew down to try and snatch Spike who dove to the ground avoiding her.

“Spike!” Applejack called, as she tossed him one of his gauntlets.

“Yeah!” Spike dawned the gauntlet and blasted right at Aria taking the hit.

The siren crashed on the ground, before living her head up and growled at the human, “Little flesh bag!”

Pinkie was bouncing around as Sonata tried to strike her only to miss every time, “This one's too hard!” the siren complained.

“You think yours is hard?!” Adagio asked rhetorically, as she was avoiding magic blasts from Twilight, Sunset, and Luster.

“There are harder ones!” Aria called, while avoiding energy blasts from Spike's gauntlet, until Applejack rushed and jumped right at her throwing her fists back and punched the siren in the face making her fly backwards and crashed into Sonata.

Adagio saw her sisters flying right at her and upon collision all three flew back before crashing into some trees.

“Ooh, that'll hurt.” Rainbow chuckled.

The three sirens lifted their heads up groaning, until Spike saw another tree close to them and smirked. He aimed his gauntlet and blasted one end of it at the bottom making it uneven, and it started tilting, “Timber!” he called, as the tree fell forward landing on top of the sirens heads knocking them out cold.

Pinkie laughed, “Timber, good one, Spike!”

Spike smirked, “That's how I got even with Flintheart. Made a tree fall and split his house.”

“You did what?” Rarity asked in surprise.

“Hey, he had it coming,” Rainbow replied, “Besides no student liked him anyway. At least Spike had the balls to give him payback.”

“Maybe we should continue this back in the Rainboom?” Fluttershy suggested.

“Agreed, let's get out of here before those three wake up.” Twilight said, as they hurried back the way they came.

Once they returned to the Rainboom, the travelers were back on the road. Spike grabbed a drink from the mini fridge and spoke, “I can't believe I fell victim to those three.” he said in shame.

“It's not your fault, sugarcube.” Applejack comforted him.

“Applejack's correct,” Twilight agreed, “That's just how sirens are. They play on others to lure them in.”

“You were just unfortunate to listen too closely to them.” Sunset said.

Spike just sighed not feeling any better, but Applejack just kept close, “It just goes to show ya have to be prepared for just about anything, and not just ferals.”

“Yeah, there are more than just ferals out here in the world.” Luster noted.

“There are a whole manner of creatures outside the pony tribes.” Fluttershy said.

“We were never informed how many of them lived after the outbreak or where they went, but if we do run into more creatures we'll have to prepared for whatever.” Rainbow added.

“You're right, as much as I hate Flintheart's class and him in general, his lessons on other creatures will finally be put to use.” Spike said.

“Agreed,” Twilight nodded, “Until then let's keep on moving forward.” the girls smiled and nodded, as they continued to relax, while getting as far away from the sirens as they could.

When nighttime fell, the group parked their ride outside an abandoned gas station around a highway loop. As the girls were all laid out in the sleeping bags, Spike was in the back laying on the cot bed, until he saw Applejack sit down close to him.

“Hey, Spike.”

“Hey, A.J.”

“Can't sleep?” she asked.

“Sort of, just thinking about what happened today and all,” Spike explained, as Applejack nodded knowing today was a surprise, “But I also want to thank you, Applejack. You got my weapons to me before Aria could've gotten me. So you saved my life today.”

Applejack smiled, “I'd do anything for you, Spike. Because like me and the said before. We love you. I love you.”

Spike smiled, as his eyes started to get watery. He reached out and hugged the girl who hugged him back, “I love you too.” he said. The two separated a bit before leaning closer and kissed passionately.

When they broke lips, Applejack spoke, “You get some sleep, hon. We got another long day ahead of us tomorrow.”

“You too. Goodnight, A.J.”

“Goodnight, Spike.” Applejack went back to join the girls, as Spike got comfortable and soon was sound asleep.