Feral World

The girls, Spike, and Starlight drove along the abandoned road still longing to locate the Garden. As Applejack drove the Rainboom, each of the girls were currently relaxing with Spike sitting on the sofa and Luster Dawn was sitting in his lap currently making out with him. Spike had his arms wrapped around the unicorn his age who had her arms wrapped around his neck, both of them wanting to keep the other as close to them as possible.

Their tongues danced together inside each others mouths, as Spike could feel Luster pressing her rack into his chest. Suddenly they were interrupted, at the sound of a ringing sound. Sunset who was holding her phone that was on timer mode was ringing before she stopped it.

“Time's up, sis!” Sunset said, as Luster and Spike separated.

Luster pouted, “And it was just getting good!”

“That's how it is.” Sunset said, as Luster got off Spike's lap with Sunset taking her place.

“Better make your time with Spike count, Sunset,” Rainbow began, “Because after you it's my turn for some love with Spike.” she gave Spike a wink making him blush.

“I'll try not to wear him out too much.” Sunset teased.

“And when Rainbow's done, someone take over so I can have my turn.” Applejack called from up front.

“Sure, Applejack.” Twilight replied.

Sunset started the timer, but before she and Spike could start their make out, Applejack spoke up again, “Hold it, ya'll!”

Sunset groaned, “What is it?”

“We're coming up on a town.” the country pony girl replied.

“How does it look?” Pinkie asked as she looked out the window.

“Like everywhere else.” Applejack replied dryly.

Spike looked out the window and saw a worn out welcome sign that read 'Welcome to Obsidianville'. At the sight of the sign Spike's eyes widened in shock and fell silent. The girls seeing him started to look concerned.

“Spike?” Fluttershy asked.

“Sweetie, are you all right?” Rarity asked in concern.

Spike finally found his voice, “This place...”

“What, Obsidianville?” Rainbow asked.

“What is it, Spike?” Twilight inquired.

Spike looked back to the girls and answered in sorrow, “This was... my hometown.”

The girls taken aback by Spike's answer were surprised, “This was where you used to live?” Pinkie began.

“Before the outbreak?” Twilight finished.

Spike nodded, as he looked out the window seeing the town was just like every other place, abandoned, ruined, and a mess.

As Applejack pulled over, Starlight quickly stopped and backed up her car to the girls winnebago. Starlight rolled down the window and looked up as Applejack stuck her head out, “What's going on?”

“This is Spike's old home town before the outbreak happened.” Applejack answered.

Starlight gasped, “Really?”

“Uh-huh.” Applejack confirmed.

Spike climbed into the passenger seat next to Applejack, “A.J, there's somewhere I wanna check out. Follow my directions.”

“Well, ok,” she replied, before calling down to Starlight, “Spike wants to check something, so follow us.”

“Ok.” Starlight said, as the vehicles drove through the town.

As the two vehicles drove through the abandoned town, Spike looked out the window seeing the wrecked state of everything while remembering the sounds of people and ponies screaming in a panic as the ferals were emerging and running amok. When Spike looked ahead, he spoke to Applejack, “Stop right here!”

Applejack pulled to a halt, followed by Starlight. Spike got up from his seat and stepped outside the Rainboom followed by the girls, and Starlight and Jack. The group looked at the street they stopped on and all the houses on the block that were all wrecked and old. They looked ahead seeing the house Spike was staring at was a bungalow home that was like all the other houses.

“Where are we?” Rainbow asked Spike.

“This was my childhood home.” Spike answered.

“This was your place?” Luster asked him.

Spike nodded, before taking another look at it, “It's become just like the place I used to live in the city. No surprise there.” He started to approach the building while noticing the door was torn halfway off.

“Hold on, Spike!” Twilight stopped him, “You never know what could be in there. Ferals or nomads.”

Jack sniffed the air and barked at Starlight who spoke, “Jack doesn't seem to smell anything fishy around here.”

“Then let's go in.” Spike said, as Applejack using her earth pony strength pulled the door off allowing them to enter.

Spike, the girls, and Jack the dog walked through the house seeing the interior matched the exterior of the place. The walls were rotting with mold and mildew, the floor was torn up, and whatever decorative stuff that was there was worn out and ruined.

“Well, this is cozy.” Rainbow said in sarcasm, only to get hushed by Applejack and Rarity.

Spike sighed, as he looked around, “This place really has changed since that day. And yet I still remember what it used to be.”

Pinkie peered into the kitchen seeing an old milk carton on the table with the contents hardened, “I guess you guys accidentally left your milk out that day. Spike tried to smile at Pinkie's attempt to liven things up, but he still kept to himself. Spike turned a corner and stopped before a door. As he touched the doorknob the whole door fell forward landing with a thud that startled the girls and Jack.

Spike walked in and looked around seeing the room looked like it belonged to a little boy, “This was my bedroom.”

Pinkie looked around dismally, “Oh, bummer. It looks just as bad as your old apartment.”

“Yeah, but back then this was like my sanctuary.” Spike, said as he looked at all his old toys and clothes that were left.

Spike then wondered about something before going to his dresser and pulled struggled to pull one drawer out much to the girls confusion. He was finally able to tug the old drawer out and looked inside. He reached in and pulled out a red dragon plush toy that still looked in good condition.

“What is that?” Applejack asked.

“Shenron,” Spike answered, “My buddy, Shenron. He was still here all this time.” he hugged the plush close.

“Why was he in your drawer?” Starlight inquired.

“That day I was playing with him, and we were pretending to play hide and seek with the drawer being his hiding place.” Spike explained a bit sheepishly recalling his childhood.

“How adorable.” Rarity cooed, as the girls smiled.

Spike and the girls continued to explore his house before walking into his parents room. He was aside from the obvious old and rotting walls, messy bed sheets, he saw a desk in the corner littered with papers. Spike walked over and started looking at the papers, as Twilight spoke.

“What're those?”

“Documents for my parents research. They may have been loving parents, they were disorganized plenty of times.” Spike answered.

“You said your parents worked with pony scientists to help find a way to make humans better so they wouldn't always feel inferior to other ponies.” Twilight recalled.

“That's right.”

“Where did they do their work?” Sunset Shimmer asked.

“The lab they did all their research on was a facility in town.” Spike explained.

“Did you ever go there?” Fluttershy wondered.

“A couple times.”

“You think it's still there?” Rainbow asked.

“Who knows?” Spike shrugged.

Twilight started gathering up the papers on the desk, “You know, it wouldn't hurt to see if it is. Maybe we can find something there of use to us. Like spare parts to help with your weapons. I'm also curious about this research your parents were doing.”

“So am I.” Starlight spoke up.

“Can we, Spike?” Pinkie pleaded.

“If it's ok with you.” Fluttershy said.

Spike looked around at the others and the research Twilight was compiling from the desk. He sighed before answering them with a smile, “Let's go check it out.”

“Yes!” the girls cheered.

Soon they were back in their vehicles driving through town before reaching the outskirts of it. They stopped right outside what looked like a bunker area. They got out as Spike looked, “Well, this is it.”

“So let's go.” Rainbow said, as they approached the reinforced entrance.

“So how're we going to get in there?” Applejack asked.

“Those doors look like they can't be opened like turning a knob.” Luster said.

“Yeah, usually it required hand print scans, but since it looks like it don't work anymore that's not an option.” Spike said checking out the hold hand print scanner wasn't active. He then looked at the energy gauntlets he wore, and over at Twilight, Rarity, Sunset, Luster, and Starlight, “But maybe we have another way to open it.”

“How?” Rarity asked.

“With all of your magics and my energy gauntlets we should be able to bust it open.”

“Can we do it?” Luster asked Twilight and Sunset.

“Well, we can try.” Twilight replied.

“I'm down with trying.” Sunset said.

“Me too.” Starlight agreed.

Rarity nodded, “I'll do it for Spike.”

“Then take a position, girls.” Spike instructed, as the ponies with horns gathered close to Spike who raised his gauntlet covered hands out aiming them at the door.

The girls concentrated their magic into their horns building them up with as much magic as they could muster. The rest of the girls and Jack backed away behind the group not wanting to get caught in the crossfire or anything.

“And... fire!” Spike ordered, as they blasted at the door together making it bust down granting them an entrance.

“It worked!” Applejack gasped.

“That was awesome!” Rainbow smirked.

Spike powered down his gauntlets, as the girls helping him powered down their horns looking a bit tired, “I don't usually build up that much magic.” Rarity said, as she started to catch her breath.

“But it worked. Thanks, girls.” Spike smiled at them.

“Anytime.” Twilight said.

Spike looked at the opened entry, and spoke to the group, “Alright, girls. We're going in. We don't know what we may find inside, but be ready for anything.” The girls nodded, as they walked into the bunker unknown of what they would be finding.