Spike and the Opposite Six

(Ponyville)

Twilight Sparkle, student of Princess Celestia, continued to pace the floor of her home as she waited for her friends to arrive. She soon stopped her pacing as someone knocked on her door. She ran to the door and flung it open to reveal her five friends. “Good, you're all here. Please come in.” replied Twilight with an urgent tone to her voice.

“What's the rush sugarcube?” asked Applejack seeing Twilight seem nervous.

“Yeah Twilight, why did ya call all of us here for?” asked Rainbow Dash keeping herself in the air above her friends.

“I called you all here because it's something urgent. I think Spike's gone missing.” replied Twilight who saw all her friends were shocked by the news. “I came to this conclusion after I got home and Spike wasn't here. I searched everywhere, but all I could find was this bag full of gems.” Twilight levitated said bag with her magic and caused Rarity to gasp.

“That's the bag I gave Spike after he helped me.” replied Rarity pointing at the bag with her hoof.

“What's so important about a bag?” asked Rainbow Dash not seeing the big deal.

“I found a strange looking gem near the bag that had a bite taken out of it. Does this look familiar, Rarity?” asked Twilight bringing the gem up for her friends to see.

“I found that gem near a rocky hill just outside of town. I thought darling Spike would love it, so I tossed it with the rest of gems that I was going to give him.” replied Rarity.

“Again, what does this have to do with Spike being gone?” asked Rainbow Dash.

“Well, I did some searching, and I may have found something, but it doesn't look good.” Twilight levitated a red leather book over and opened it to the right page before showing it to her friends. The page had what appeared to be the same gem. “I found that this kind of gem is extremely rare, and very unpredictable. But there have been some cases of this gem somehow having the power to open portals to other worlds.” replied Twilight shocking her friends.

“So what ya'll are tryin to say is...” started Applejack before Pinkie took over.

“Spike's disappeared into an unknown world?!” exclaimed Pinkie getting right in Twilight's face.

“Uh, yeah.” Twilight carefully pushed her friends face away before turning to all of them. “If that's the case, then we'll have to try and open a portal and hope it leads to where Spike is.” replied Twilight feeling down about where her surrogate little brother was.

“Don't worry sugarcube. We'll find the little guy in no time flat.” replied Applejack with confidence.

“Yeah, we'll find him in no time flat with me helping.” replied Rainbow Dash with a confident grin.

“Yeah! We'll save Spike and I’ll get to throw a welcome back home party when we get back!” exclaimed Pinkie Pie bouncing with excitement.

“Don't worry, we'll find him.” replied Fluttershy trying to stay positive.

“There's no way I’m letting sweet little Spikey-Wikey lost in an unknown universe. We will bring him back.” replied Rarity with conviction in her voice.

Twilight smiled at her friends attitudes towards saving Spike. “Thank you all. With all of us working to find him, he'll be back home in no time.” replied Twilight.

All of them put their hooves in the center of them and raised them up with determination laced in their eyes. They immediately got to work on how to travel to the dimension. Rarity and Twilight were looking through books for any other pieces of info regarding the gem. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy headed out to gather the supplies they needed. Applejack and Pinkie Pie were the only ones left and decided to take a close look at the gem to see if they found anything.

'Don't worry Spike, we're coming.' thought Twilight as she kept her gaze on the book in hopes of finding a way to where he was, and soon.

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“Alright, you all know what to do, right?” commanded the tall figure.

“Yes.” the six others replied in unison.

“Good. Now Pinkie, you go first, then we'll begin.” replied the figure as one of the smaller ones stepped forward and gave a salute with their hoof before running to the side of the house.

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Spike laughed at the joke Lightning just told everyone as he was sitting at the main table with the six girls, and two princesses as they enjoyed the music and drinks.

Solar Flare stopped her laughing as she felt something. Being one of the countries rulers had a lot of good perks. One of them was being able to sense the magical energy of other creatures in a large radius. She sensed several signatures, but they were outside the house, and one of them seemed to be circling the house. There was only group that matched the signatures and number.

Solar Flare stood up and turned to her sister. “Nightmare, we have a problem.” replied Solar Flare.

Nightmare Moon looked at her sister with confusion, but nodded and stood up next to her sister. She turned to the group and gave them a bow of her head. “I'm sorry, but we must take leave a once.” replied Nightmare Moon.

Spike seemed sad about that and scooted out from his chair and stood near his mother's leg. “But mom, you two just got here.” Spike didn't want to see his mom and aunt leave already.

“I'm sorry Spike, but we need to go and take care of the problem.” replied his mother who truly didn't want to leave.

“No need to stand up on my behalf.” the music suddenly stopped as the party goers, Spike, the girls, and the princess turned towards a pink cloud that dissipated to reveal a tall figure that seemed to be composed out of numerous animal parts.

“Discord?” Spike was surprised the spirit of chaos there. Then again, it wouldn't be a surprise if he was there to pull some prank. Something everyone should keep an eye open when the spirit of disharmony is in the room. For reason though, he felt himself getting angry at seeing him there, and the pounding in his head wasn't helping matters.

“Discord. You dare show your face on my son's birthday?” Solar Flare cursed herself at not seeing something like this happening. Causing ruckus on a day where people should be happy is definitely something Discord took pride in. She turned her to sister while keeping a calculative look on Discord. “Nightmare, summon the guards and tell them to get here, NOW!” Solar Flare turned to her son and saw he that he seemed to be confused and angry at the same time. She would definitely make Discord pay for causing her son to feel like this.

“Don't worry Solar Flare, I just thought it would be nice if we made young Spike's birthday even more memorable.” Discord held a look on his face that showed that he was not joking. He snapped his eagle fingers and the wall behind him exploded and caused numerous debris to head straight for the party goers. Luckily, Trixie and Nightmare Moon had conjured up a blue shield that kept any shrapnel from hitting the civilians.

Spike and the girls covered their eyes as the explosion caused a dust cloud to snake its way in. Gilda and Lightning angled themselves and flapped their wings, causing the dust to get easily blown away from them to see that the guests had taken the opportunity to flee the half way destroyed tree home. All of them, including the princesses looked and saw five figures through the smoke. Spike's mouth opened by itself as the ones he was looking at bore nearly exact resemblances with his friends of ponyville.

The first one was an earth pony with an orange coat of fur, blonde colored mane and tail with the tail being tied near the end, and the pony themselves was wearing a black coat that draped over their back and had a lasso attached to the same colored belt they had. The final touch up was the black fedora hat that was on their hat that bore a resemblance to a green-haired maniac from an alternate universe. (cough*Hazama*cough). “Applejack.” whispered a shocked Spike before turning to the others.

The second one was a Pegasus, but was not flying. This Pegasus was instead riding on the back of a manticore that had chains in its mouth as a to keep it in line. The Pegasus herself had purple venom colored mane and tail, with a more tanned coat. “Fluttershy.”

The third was a Pegasus as well and took the liberty of staying in the air. She had a darker blue colored coat, with her mane and tail having colors similar to the rainbow, but much darker, and in a flame-like fashion. “Rainbow Dash.”

The fourth was a unicorn that wore glasses, and was sporting some dark colored armor that covered her body. Numerous spots on the armor had a spike protruding from it, such as the back, the front of the legs, and the back part of the neck that the armor covered. Her mane and tail appeared to be the same purple he had grown accustomed to after so many trips to carousel boutique, which made him nervous as he saw the unicorns coat was white like his crush's, except it appeared to be dirty, as though the unicorn couldn’t care less for how she looked. “Rarity.” Spike felt shocked by how his crush looked at the moment, but the last figure truly made his breath get taken away.

The fifth figure was a unicorn, and had the most oddest design out of the rest. It appeared to be the Twilight he knew all too well, similar mane and tail, but her colors all looked like they were inverted. (It would be easier if you open a picture of Twilight in paint and inverted her colors there) “Twilight.” Spike felt tears on his cheeks as he saw his friends. They may have appeared to be similar to his friends, but he felt anger coursing through his being at seeing them. As though a small part of him wanted to break out and have what felt like vengeance on them. Which caused the headache he had to really start to hurt.

“Oh, looks like I missed the party.” this new voice sounded familiar as well to Spike and caused him to look at the side of the hole that was made and saw a sixth pony make their way into the almost destroyed home. This pony appeared to be all pink, but a darker shade. She appeared to be the last of Spike's friends, but her mane and tail were hanging straight down, as though the joy had been sucked out of them.

Discord let a maniacal grin on his face as he faced the two princesses. “I think it's time we let the children play.” the mismatched creature snapped his fingers and the copies of his friends soon charged at the six females that he slowly had accepted as friends.

Applejack charged at Cherry and used her back-legs to push her a little into the air, before she raised her front hooves and brought them down on Cherry. She had easily seen the simple attack come at her and sidestepped to the right. But her eyes widened in shocked as Applejack’s hooves impacted against the ground, which soon begin to rise up into jagged pieces where she slammed her hooves onto. Cherry saw that was close and made a mental note to stay away from her front hooves.

“Why don't ya just be a good little pony and take your end like a warrior!” Applejack charged again in an attempt to crush her with the earth ponies strength and weight. Cherry merely used that against the earth pony and jumped up above the pony, which caused Applejack to keep running and ran right into a bookcase. Cherry looked back with a confident grin on her muzzle before checking her hair.

“I prefer to look my best for my wedding one day.” Cherry took a small glance at Spike and kept her head focused on Applejack to keep her blush hidden. “Time for round two.” Cherry charged forward as Applejack got her bearings back and charged as well.

Gilda dodged the strike the manticore tried to deliver and used her eagle claws to scratch at the beast. It made a few scratch marks on its cheek, which got the beast furious. Fluttershy tugged on the chain and the beast got on all fours and tried to hit the griffin with its scorpion tail. Luckily, Gilda saw it in time and was able to breeze past it and flew at the pony that sat on the creature like it was a ride at a fair. She would have made it, but the manticore wasn't finished as it rose up and blocked Gilda from attacking its master.

“Oh my. Seems like my pet is hungry. It would be wise if you gave up and became his meal.” Fluttershy had said this all with an emotionless face, but the aura behind those words made Gilda nervous a little as this Pegasus would make it seem like she didn't care, yet still give you the feeling as though she could strike you down with ease.

“Sorry, but being eaten isn't on my schedule for today.” Gilda dodged another strike from the manticore before charging at the beast and pony duo for another attack.

Trixie was currently running from the insane, pink pony as she chased after her with a large cannon that she had pulled form out of nowhere.

“This is fun! Hope your ready for my surprise!” exclaimed Pinkie whose excitement for this fight wasn't contained at all.

Trixie didn't have time to ask her what she meant, but she quickly got what the insane pony meant as she noticed a patch of ground that seemed to have recently dug up. Not trusting the looks of things, she was able to grab a pebble while she continued to run and tossed the small stone onto the section of dirt. The effect was instantaneous as the mound of dirt exploded.

“Oh, you found one of by traps. Oh well, it's not like you'll have to worry about them.” replied Pinkie as she took aim with her cannon even as they ran and pulled the cord and sent a cannonball at the unicorn.

Trixie didn't have time to put up a high level barrier and quickly conjured up one to take at least half the blast. The result was the cannonball hitting the shield, and easily destroying it as the explosion was worse than she thought and sent her crashing outside the home.

“That was fun!” exclaimed the pony as she ran outside with her cannon at the ready.

Lightning and Rainbow were currently trying to out match the other in speed as they took to the airs outside the half way demolished home.

“Come on Rainbow, we both know this will be like last time.” replied Lightning who ducked form Rainbow Dash trying to grab her with her hooves.

“Shut it! I'm the fastest in all of Equestria, and you were the one holding me back when we were fillies!” exclaimed Rainbow pointing her hoof at Lightning.

“If you won't listen to reason, then listen to this.” Lightning shot at Rainbow and caused the both of them to crash into a separate cottage. Soon a sphere of both Rainbow and Lightning bolts could be seen swirling around each other as it shot into the air.

Fleur easily dodged the charge that Rarity threw at her and chuckled at the unicorn as her armor was stuck in the wall now. “Have you had enough?” Fleur already new the answer, but making the unicorn irritated brought amusement to her.

“Never! You think you're better than me, just because you focus on looking like a model. Well, I’m gonna fix that!” Rarity used her magic to pick up a cylinder attached to her armor, which extended into a battle ax. Using her magic, she sent the deadly weapon at the model. Fleur just stood her ground and waited for the right moment before easily twisting her head and letting the weapon careen past her. She opened her eyes to a shocked Rarity. “Being a model has its perks. Like this.” Fleur used her magic on herself and jumped at Rarity before landing on her front hooves and pivoting from them to twist her body and hitting Rarity in the face with her back hooves. This sent the armor clad unicorn crashing upstairs with her head sticking out from the hole she made.

Sunset used her magic to send a cloud of books at Twilight, who retaliated by projecting a shield and grinning at the attack. “Is that all you have? How sad.” Twilight focused her magic to grab to a piece of the wall that had fallen and chucked it at the student. Sunset used the same shield to block the attack before charging at the unicorn with her magic focused in her horn. Twilight grinned and did the same and the two soon met as a bright flash of green and red lights soon obscured where the two unicorn were.

Discord smiled at the princesses attempt at attacking him. If they tried to throw something at him, he'd just teleport out of the way. If they tried to hit with magic infused shots, he'd simply project a shield to take the hits. He glanced to where the females were fighting and frowned at seeing his minions get their buts kicked. He grinned and snapped his fingers at each pair of fighting females. Time to turn the tables.

Cherry was prepared to charge at Applejack, but soon the lasso on her belt suddenly detach itself from the earth pony and shot at her like a serpent. It was too fast for her to dodge and soon found her legs tied together.

Trixie grinned at her supposed victory over the insane pony. She had successfully plugged up the cannon with a sphere she had made out of books from the remains of the library from around her. She was about to tie the pony up, but soon heard a strange sound and looked up, only for her eyes to widen as a cage descended upon her and quickly closed up around her.

Lightning grinned at seeing Rainbow exhausted. At this rate, she would be able to outlast the pegasi at this game of tag. She would have gone ahead with a charge, but suddenly felt a cold metal touch from her wings. She turned her head and gasped as a metal brace had been put on her wings and caused her to start falling to the ground. Luckily they had unknowingly stayed close to the library and the fall was not death defining, but still painful when she landed.

Fleur was enjoying this supposed fight as she easily dodged any weapon or charge that Rarity attempted at her. But her smile was soon wiped from her face as a small cannon popped out of Rarity's armor and shot a metal sphere, which soon opened to reveal a net that soon entangled her. It was even worse as the net was lined with a special alloy that neutralized magic for the captured.

Gilda had successfully taken down the manticore. It was only a matter of time before the scratch marks and blood loss caused it to fall unconscious. She made a dive for the ringmaster behind the beast, but soon found her limbs and wings were caught in chains that had been placed around the ceiling and ground as a way to tangle her up without her knowing.

Sunset tried in vain to keep the shield up with all her will, but soon found it wasn't enough as Twilight busted through the shield and at the same wrapped Sunset in a cocoon of magic that left her head the only thing now covered.

Discord smiled at the turn of battle and turned to his opponents and gathered two orbs of dark energy that sparked at the slightest touch. He was able to teleport above both of them let the orbs drop from his palms and land on the princesses back. The orbs soon expanded and swallowed the two princesses up and surrounded them in a barrier where you could still see them. Both of them thrashed around inside both spheres as the energy caused them large amounts of pain.

Spike was gobsmacked at what he was seeing. His supposed mom and aunt were trapped along with his friends. He began to panic as he felt all kinds of emotions flood in him. Confusion, panic, anger, fear, and sadness. This seemed to be too much for the baby dragon as he let his body drop and his body soon felt into a state of unconsciousness.

(Spike's mindscape)

Spike opened his eyes and soon stood up in shock and stopped as he saw that everywhere looked there was nothing. As though someone painted the entire world around him completely white. His eyes looked everywhere until they stopped to a shadowy figure that stood before Spike. He took a step back as the figure seemed to radiate a dark aura around him.

“Who-who are you?” asked a stuttering Spike pointing to the individual.

The figure looked down on him and merely gave him a grin that showed the sharp teeth he had. “Who I am is of no important at the moment. All you must know is that I can help you.” Spike was about to ask, but the figure held up his hand, which was actually a claw similar to his. “The help I’m referring to is the ability to give to you, so that you may save your family and friends.”

Spike was surprised that this guy who he had never met was willing to give him power to save them. Before he could accept, the figure held up his finger.

“But, there is a catch. I'd explain it to you, but times running out for your friends, so I suggest you take the deal now.” replied the figure.

Spike looked at his claws as he pondered the choice. He wanted to save his friends and family, even if he was still confused about everything. So he clenched his claws before turning to the figure with determination. “It's a deal.” Spike held out his claw.

The figure grinned before shaking Spike's hand as a dark tendril slithered onto Spike's arm and soon began to spread across his very being. Spike didn't seem to react to the tendril. In fact, it actually felt soothing to the baby dragon. Soon he was covered in a sphere of darkness that disappeared. The figure grinned and sat cross-legged as he waited.

(Library home)

Spike's body soon began to stir before the young dragon’s eyes opened. He saw that he was on the floor and reached up to the table's edge and pulled himself up. His eyes widened at seeing his friends and family, but they soon narrowed in anger as the dark energy from his mindscape soon began to seep out of his body like waves. This sudden action went unnoticed by everyone there as they all began to turn toward Spike and their eyes widened as the young dragon was soon wrapped in a cocoon of dark aura that made Discord and his minions nervous.

The cocoon soon dispersed to reveal large figure busted through the ceiling of the library, furthering the destruction the home had taken that day. The figure appeared to have black armor all over their body. They had long red wings that stretched form their back and had what appeared to be a cannon below the wings. (Imagine Imperialdramon, but having purple skin where the blue skin shows.)

“Whoa, that's...” started Lightning from her position on the ground.

“Spike?” asked Sunset staring at the new creature.

Discord was shocked by the sudden transformation of young Spike. He went from a baby dragon to this creature that was completely unknown. He quickly became scared as the creature turned towards him and he quickly ordered his minions. “All of you, attack!” Discord would regret that action as his six minions charged.

Spike in his new form merely looked at the six ponies as they tried to harm him. Pinkie and Applejack were trying to harm him with the cannon and tried pulling him with her lasso.

“Fall down already!” exclaimed Applejack who's efforts were doing nothing.

“I've got him.” Pinkie aimed her cannon at his head and fired. The cannonball made a direct hit and gave Pinkie a smile on her face, which soon slid off as his head didn't have a scratch on it. He merely brought his large claw up before brushing them away and sending them colliding against each other and falling to the floor.

Rarity and Rainbow tried crashing into him with their strength and armor.

“This large fellow won't fall!” exclaimed Rarity in frustration as her armor didn't seem to even tickle the behemoth.

“Hit harder!” exclaimed Rainbow who charged at his head, and was easily swatted away and joined the pile of Applejack and Pinkie. Spike looked down and sent Rarity into the pile with a flick of his tail.

Spike turned to the last two and felt a grin coming on as they both stared at him with fear. Twilight's eyes widened as he brought his claw to the side to send them flying. Before that could happen, Fluttershy made a meekly cry of, “Mommy.” before she and Twilight were sent into the pile.

Discord finally knew he was beaten. He snapped his finger an brought the six ponies to him and teleported them out of there as as quick as possible.

The disappearance of Discord and his minions canceled the magic that was used to trap Solar Flare and the others as they all stood back up from their restraints. They soon saw that Spike in his new form seemed to be growing anxious and was starting to leave the wreckage of the home. “We must stop him. The sudden transformation could cause him to go out of control if he gets out. Everyone, try and reach Spike.” commanded Solar Flare.

Soon the six females, plus princesses surrounded the large Spike who growled at them. “Spike, it's me. Sunset. You have to clam down.” Replied Sunset trying to reach the young dragon.

Spike stare down at Sunset as she walked next to him and placed her hoof on his claw. Spike was confused by the gesture and was even more confused as he felt more hooves and a claw as all the females tried soothing him. His large red eyes scanned over all the females and for some reason, he felt safe an secure.

Solar Flare and Nightmare Moon stood in front of Spike and waited til his head was lowered a little before gentle caressing his cheeks with their long manes. It sent a wonderful feeling through the dragon as he layed down and relaxed into the embrace and closed his red eyes.