Playing Cards

Bruce and Spike looked up at the sky, the sun was starting to set and it turned the grasslands of the forest to a golden sea. But neither Bruce nor Spike were concerned with the beauty of nature, they were concerned about how to get back home.

"Hey do you think Twilight has cooled down?" Bruce snickered.

"I don't know, she was quite a hot head earlier." Spike replied.

They both laughed in unison, and heard howl from the nearby woods.

"I think we should get back." Spike said.

"Agreed."

The pair cautiously crept away from the fringe of the forest, turned to head back.

"You know Bruce, you're not a bad...human thingy."

"Thanks. You're a pretty cool dragon too. Not that I'm a dragon though."

"Heh, tell me, how did you get Exodia on the first draw?"

"Simple. I cheated. Nopony, actually, nobody draws the best cards on the first try." He smiled and looked up at the clouds, which were starting to transition into stars. "The whole point was to test Twilight's patience."

"Test her patience?" Spike asked as he looked up from the ground and displayed the puzzled look on his face.

"I wanted to see how long it would take her to get mad, or rather how mad she could get. Like stuff that would make her mad basically."

"Oh ok. But why?"

"Its complicated."

"Nothings complicated when you look at it a certain way. Twilight told me that."

"Fair enough, I like her. I, a human, like a mare. I feel like a complete creep for saying that."

"Nothing wrong with it. I like Rarity and she likes me I think, and everything works out fine."

"Right. I'm not sure if she likes me though, thats the whole thing. Considering I'm here, I thought I would have the confidence to ask her to dinner or something by now."

"Well, there was this plan I had to take Rarity out on a dream date. I could give it to you."

"You'd do that?"

"Yeah. I'm too young to drink alcohol anyway."

So it's that kind of plan. Bruce thought. Kid's pretty chill.

As the two schemers walked up to the library door, Bruce's stomach dropped violently. The now black skies helped to hide his nervousness.

"Jeez, it's like my stomach is playing dubstep."

"Dubstep?"

Bruce turned to Spike and mouthed a never-mind. He took in a deep breath, and slowly, brought his trembling had to the door and knocked. Twilight peered at the door from her book, is Fluttershy back? she thought. She unraveled her hooves and stood up from the floor. Her horn tingled while she walked up to it, sensing the powerful magic from her mentor. Using her magic, the door glowed and swung open; and her face dropped.

"Oh. Its you two." She said.

"Yeah sorry about the door and everything." Bruce blushed and glanced towards Spike. "I see you fixed the library."

"Yes...thanks to Princess Celestia who also informed me that you have no place to stay.....and you'll be staying here."

"Well then," Spike broke the silence. "I'll leave you two alone. I'm sooooo tired from walking in the woods all day so I'm going to sleep for a really long time. Goodnight."

Spike walked past the two, and gave a nonchalant wink to Bruce, and a grin to Twilight. Twilight responded with an uneasy smile in return. She looked back at Bruce who was scratching the back of his head. She rolled her eyes, much like her mentor, and went back to reading her book.

"So, uh what are you reading? You seem to be pretty into that book."

Buck. She thought, and snapped the book closed. "Nothing nothing, nothing at all! Just uh, spell book. Gotta study you know? Eh heh..." Her eyes started to shift rapidly from left to right, and she tossed the book into one of the shelves. Unfortunately for Twilight, Bruce saw exactly where the book landed. It was the only black book in that shelf after-all, although she could move it later.

"Ah. Okey dokey lokey then, can you show me where I'm staying exactly?" Pinkie Pie popped out of nowhere, causing Bruce Willis and Twilight Sparkle to flinch.

"Celestia! Don't scare me like that Pinkie." Twilight said, still gasping for breath.

"Fiiiinneeeee. So, where am I staying huh!?"

"Pinkie! What did we discuss earlier?" Twilight lectured to her good friend.

"I know silly filly! Just making sure you remember the plan. Hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge? Looots of 'nudge nudge' if you know what I mean." Pinkie Pie smiled in her deviously adorable way.

"Get out Pinkie." The purple mare was definitely not in the mood for nonsense, Bruce and Spike knew that as a fact.

The pink mare bounced out of the library smiling and winking to Bruce, and Twilight shut the door and sighed.

"Sorry about that. You see that room up there? That's Spike's room. Next to that is my room. You'll be sleeping in there."

"What about you?"

"I'll be sleeping....with you...." Her cheeks turned to a bright red, along with Bruce.

"Oh. Oh! Uh yeah hah, sure."

"Now before you get all excited, I have a few more things to tell you. Since you wear clothing the Princess decided to have Rarity make dresses for you."

"Nice." Trollestia indeed. He thought.

"You can even tell her what style you want it in. Just don't be too demanding."

"Right right, she can get stressful at times I'm guessing?"

"Yes. Now I can't believe I'm saying this, but lets go to sleep."

"Yeah, sleep." Thats some pretty heavy innuendo Twi. He thought.

Phase one of your plan had better work Pinkie. Twilight thought about the various things that could go wrong with the plan.

They both slowly, and awkwardly, walked up the staircase to their new room. Bruce went in on the right, while Twilight went on the left. They looked at each other for some time before Twilight blinked and said good night. As the night went on, both the strange otherworldly human, and the super-intelligent mare fell asleep. With sleep comes dreams, and Bruce was lost in the wonderland of Lucky Star, while Twilight was dreaming of spending time with her old doll smarty pants.

Oh smarty pants, how I love you so. She smiled, and unconsciously, placed a single hoof upon her "bed fellow's" shoulder.