The One Where Spike is The Mane Character

"SPIKE!"

"What is it, Twilight?"

"Could you clean up the library? I'm going out to get ice cream with the girls."

"Why can't I come?"

"Sorry, Spike. Maybe next time."

Twilight trotted out of the library. Spike wondered why he couldn't just get out of the library for once. Twilight was making him do  what seemed like an unnecessary amount of work recently. He began with the bookshelves, dusting and sweeping, polishing. It was hard work, but he made it look nice!

"Twilight is gonna love how that looks!" he exclaimed.

He moved on to the bedroom. He fixed up Twilight's bed, tucking in the sheet and blanket, dusting underneath his basket bed. He washed the window as a finishing touch. He finished sweeping and cleaning the floors of the library, and picking up all of Twilight's old checklists.

He went down into the basement, where it was extremely dusty. All of Twilight's old research projects and machines. It took awhile to dust the place and polish the machines. He remembered when Twilight put Pinkie Pie down here for a test. Twilight didn't believe Pinkie sense, a talent Pinkie Pie had. Spike still wondered how that was even possible. But, Pinkie Pie was Pinkie Pie.

After lots of cleaning and dusting, he realized how boring this was.

He was bored.

And alone.

Which was AWESOME!

What could he do while Twilight was gone?

Spike decided to let out his inner child and build a book fort. He promised himself he would put the books back right after he was done. First, he gathered all the needed materials. Books! Lots and lots of books. He brainstormed, and realized he would need some sort of enemy. He drew up a bunch of monsters and Diamond Dogs on spare sheets of paper. Finally, he cut up some cardboard and doodled on it to make it look like a sword. He arranged the books so it looked like a castle. Then, he tied his blanket from his basket around his neck and wore it like a cape.

"The forces of evil are attacking my castle! It seems they want queen Rarity!"

Spike ran into his book castle and grabbed a cardboard sword, and then talked to a crudely-made Rarity. It was made out of books with white and purple covers. It sort of resembled Rarity, but not much. It didn't matter to Spike, though.

"Ooooh Spike, my fair king, protect me!" The fake Rarity said. Spike made his best Rarity voice impression.

"Fear not, my damsel in distress! I shall do as you say!" Spike responded. He puffed out his chest and marched out of his castle.

Spike then wildly swung his cardboard sword at pictures of terribly drawn monsters and Diamond Dogs.

"Back monsters, back I say!" he called out in a triumphant voice of courage.

He then tore up the pictures of the monsters into shreds, showing their defeat. With this, he turned around on his small dragon heels and proceeded back into his book fort.

"You were so BRAVE!"

"Why thank you, Mrs. Rarity! Now for my reward?"

Spike pressed his face into the fake Rarity, as if she was kissing him. Although, in his imagination he was actually getting a real kiss from her.

"Well. That was fun, now time to clean up these books." Spike said, and he placed the books back on the shelves in no time.

He heard a hooting from above. Owlowiscious looked down on him.

"Not a word to Twilight, got it, owl?" Spike snapped.

"HOO! HOO HOO!"

"Alright, my secret is safe with you!" he said, with a sigh of relief.

Spike thought that was a fun activity, but then boredom began to settle in. He was bothered by how easily he got bored, but he couldn't think of any way to stop it. Then, an idea struck!

"Aha! I know, I'll write a book!" Spike said. "It won't be great, but I'll read some of Twilight's for inspiration."

He looked upon the shelves, until he spotted a copy of Daring Do. Rainbow Dash's favorite book! If she liked it, no doubt it would have some good stuff in it. He pulled it off the shelf and began reading it. He was captivated! In fact, reading it made him a bit sleepy. His eyes were getting heavy. Then, he was fully asleep.

"Okay, big guy, we're going to show you how to use your powers for good!"

"Fluttershy, I don't need your he-"

"Nonono Discord! Ever since you've been reformed, you haven't used your powers correctly."

Discord sighed and gave in. If anything, Fluttershy would be the perfect person to help him out.

"Fine, Fluttershy. What's first?" Discord asked.

"Well, first of all, you need a target." Fluttershy said, looking around.

"Got it, why don't we use Twilight's treehouse over there?" Discord replied.

Fluttershy had left the ice cream social to help out Discord. She glanced at the library. If Discord did something bad, would Twilight forgive her? She sighed. She had to give Discord the trust.

"O-okay, Discord. Now, try something!" Fluttershy exclaimed.

"Hmm...let's see..." Discord said, rubbing his chin.

He snapped his fingers and a bolt of magic shot out of his hand, it struck the library, although it didn't appear to do anything at all. Fluttershy looked confused.

"What did that do?!" Fluttershy asked.

"I don't know. I didn't really even think of a specific thing to do." Discord said.

"Let's go check on Spike, and see if anything happened." Fluttershy said. "Just in case."

"Where'd Spike go?" Fluttershy asked.

They were in the library, but there was no sign of Spike. Just an open copy of Daring Do, lying on the floor.

There was something strange about it. Fluttershy trotted up to examine it.

"SPIKE?!" she exclaimed.

There was a picture on the page. It was of Daring Do, all tied up and trapped by one of her enemies.

Except there was one problem.

Spike was tied up next to her.