Equestria's Espada

EQUESTRIA'S ESPADA

By: Vladimir

Spike runs, no, he sprints through the pony sister's castle as he moves along with his adoptive sister and her friends as they look for the "Elements of Harmony", whatever those are. It had taken a considerable amount of control to NOT snap at his sister; Twilight Sparkle.

He moves swiftly, before needing to stop, along with Rainbow Dash, a pony for whatever reason, holds his interests. Rarity is beautiful, but far to snobbish for his tastes or even likes. The apple pony seems to be someone whom he would love to be friends with, and even help out. The buttermilk Pegasus really seems like a good friend, maybe, as she looks to be the supportive type. Then there is the pink ball of over excited pony.

No. Just no. She would be a good friend, yes, but never would he see himself with someone who is far too carefree. But, then again, Rainbow Dash brags of her "speed", something he beats all in no matter their race. Yes, she is very, VERY fast, but, his wings are strong and large enough to make him reach the middle of her speeds in less than a few well placed flaps.

But, she is a hard worker, but, he looks upon her as if they had met before hand, even meeting up at the party and sharing nice conversations about their days, even going so far as to becomes friends, a concept he and his sister had thought was nothing but useless drabble, and yet, they became friends.

Even at the Town Hall they had remained close to Twilight, Dash in hopes of becoming her friend, and Spike in hopes of learning more about the blue Pegasus pony.

But now, the two of them panting and clutching their chest or abdomen as if there were holes there. He notices how....odd she started to look. Her muzzle seemed to become shorter, and her mane seemed to grow long. Her bust grey ever so slightly from a C-cup, to a D-cup, much to his slight enjoyment.

He shakes his head to clear his mind of such perverse thoughts, until a voice range out in his mind.

What is it you humans call, the heart?

The voice of a male says.

He shivers at how cold and uncaring it is, but it makes him shiver, because it's HIS voice. He shakes his head before moving over to Dash and wrapping his arms around her shoulders.

"Are you okay?" He asks softly. Dash nods her head before looking at Spike, whose own features were becoming different as well. Green tear mark streaks were seen moving down his cheeks from his eyes, as his scales turns from lovely purple, to lovelier ash white. His head spines seemed to fold against each other making a mock "mane" that was pitch black. His eyes were green and cat like, yet still held his draconic nature to them.

She blushes lightly, before placing a hand atop of his.

"I'll be fine. Let's just get the buck back to our friends, alright?" She asks. Spike nods his head, and go, but before he could take a step, something slams into his mind. He grunts and clutches his head tightly in his black claws, as flashes of strange people, Arrancar's as his brain told him, and even seeing full fights play out in a minute.

Dash goes to ask what's wrong, but she succumbs to the same situation, and cries out in pain as a man in white clad armor, long blue hair stands in her mind. It was her.

For Spike, he saw himself as a strange man with a long black tail, massive black wings, pale skin and long pointed upward horns. This, somehow, new was him.

Twilight and the others rush back to see their friend and brother, but free when they see the two looking, so oddly strange. Their muzzles were gone, they had faces, small noses, eyes, jaws with sharp and rounded and squared teeth. Spike has gained a mane, no, hair is what it was called. His scales had fused together to form a type of skin, while Dash's fur become the same, and her mane gained a massive blue streak running through it.

Her hooves now looking like Spike's feet, and she had gained much more height, reaching to about 6' 9", while Spike was 5' 3". They had strange white bone pieces on the sides of their heads. For Spike, it looked like a helmet, for Dash, it looked like a carnivores jaw bones.

Dash's eyes become blue and magenta, but grew cat like with the pupils. They stared as they panted heavily, and looked as if they were confused.

"The FUCK IS HAPPENING!?" Dash roars out in obvious anger. "WHERE IS KUROSAKI!" She bellows out. Applejack tilts her head to the side.

"What er ye talking about, Dash?" She asks. Dash seems to freeze up, before her eyes go wide.

"I...I died? But...damn it..." She growls out. A hollow gasp of breath makes Dash whirl around and gaze at the new Spike. "Ul..quiorra?" She asks. Spike looks up at Dash.

"It would seem we have gained a new chance at life. How very peculiar." He says with a monotonous voice. Twilight takes a step to Spike, who looks to her, and his eyes widen. "Twilight. What is happening? Where are we?" He asks, his old voice coming in, yet holds that stronger tone to it. She gasp in horror and points at Spike's chest, just below his neck, is a hole. She looks and see's a large gaping hole in Dash's abdomen.

"What's....happening to you two?" She asks.

"We must be remembering our old lives, yet, we have gained similar to our old forms, Grimmjow." Spike says to Dash, who gains a disgusted look on her face.

"It's Dash now, though I refuse to be called "Rainbow", and anyone who does, is going to have my Zanpakuto so far up their ass, they'll be puking out their bloody piss!!" She roars. The girls move away in slight fear as a strange sword appears at her left hip. Another strange sword appears, but it is on Spike's left hip.

"I see, very well, Dash. However, I do not care for either of my names to be uttered." He says with a chuckle. Dash stares at Spike wide eyed.

"Did you just...chuckle? You? Ulquiorra? The Espada of Emptiness?!" Dash exclaims in confusion. Spike gives her a shrug.

"Many Things are different now. I understand what the "heart" is, mostly, and I hold my memories of "Spike" and my old ones of "Ulquiorra". It should not be so hard to believe that I had learned the reasoning for having emotions, though they can be petty at times." Spike says.

"What?" Twilight asks. "What the hay are you talking about!? Who ARE YOU!?" She screams. Spike turns to her.

"I am Ulquiorra Cifer, but, in his life, I am know as Spike, my dear sister." Spike says. Dash turns and gives a two fingered salute.

"Yo, I am Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, but now I am known as...ugh, Rainbow Dash." Dash groans out. Spike chuckles softly before the castle shakes, and he gains a serious expression.

"Now is not the time for toying around, we must find these Elements of Harmony before Nightmare Moon kills off the planet." Spike says seriously. Twilight nods her head, and leads the group with Spike next to her, both unaware of Dash's blush when she looks at Spike, and shakes her head as if trying to clear her mind of something strange. Perhaps a memory that is binging itself back from her mind?

They move into a cathedral like area where a podium stands with five stone orbs. Twilight moves to go and touch them, but is surprised to see Nightmare Moon in to appear before her, a large scythe coming down at her. Twilight screams, but then hears the sound of metal clashing against metal.

She looks up and see's Spike standing their holding the scythe blade with his bare hand, sparks flying from the friction that shouldn't be there. Nightmare's eyes widen in shock, before snarling ad pushing down harder. Spike gives her a bored look before pushing his hand upward, and snapping the blade right off the pole.

The group, save for Dash, stares in shock as Spike then proceeds to backhand the evil Alicorn into a pillar. He turns and looks at Twilight.

"Hurry and do the damned ritual. I'll keep her at bay." He orders out before turning back to Nightmare, and appearing before her in a sound of booming static. He then proceeds to stab his hand at the Alicorn repeatedly, who blocks him with another scythe forming from nothing.

Twilight looks at her friends and nods, however, the stones don't react, and then shatter as Nightmare is slammed down onto the podium, shattering it as well. Twilight stares in horror as the stone shards lay limply, scattered all over the floor. Nightmare then proceeds to grabs Twilight by the throat, and vanish in a burst of light, taking the shards with her.

Spike rubs his head, and groans as he rises to his feet, before seeing the others, except for Dash, go after Twilight. They stare at each other for the longest of moments, before the castle starts to rumble. They spin around, and use Sonido to reach their allies. They arrive just in the nick of time, as Nightmare Moon swings downward at Twilight's neck. Spike dashes forward and blocks the scythe black with the back of his hand and wrist.

Sparks fly through the air as the two push back and forth for power and dominance.

"What are you?" Nightmare asks. Spike gives her a dull and bored look.

"I am Ulquiorra Spike Cifer. I am the ex-Quatro Espada. Now watch, as your life comes to an end." He says hollowly, making everyone gain shivers. Then Spike swings his arm backwards, creating a shockwave that rips through the air, the floors, the walls and the ceilings of the room itself from the sheer force and power. Nightmare is thrown back into a pillar, Spike gives chase as he vanishes and reappears above her.

He points his right pointer finger down at her, and a green ball of light forms just at the tip. Before anyone could react, Dash stomps on the floor in the middle of her friends, erecting marble walls to rise up around them, and then a monstrous explosion happened when a simple word was uttered.

Cero

The castle shook violently as the roof blew off into oblivion. The walls started to crumble but Twilight and Rarity erected their most powerful shield spells to protect the group while Dash spun in the air making a tornado around them to help. The floor gained horrible cracks that then caused them to rise up or collapse into the melting earth below.

Soon, the world become quiet, and the dust settled to reveal Spike standing on the air over a massive crater, filled with darkness. His eyes cold and calculative.

'Is that really Spike?' Twilight wonders to herself. Could what he had said be true, that he was some sort of monster that had died, but gotten a second chance of life? If so, she is glad to admit that he is her little brother.

"So, you survived...." Spike says without interest.

"You...YOU BASTARD!!" Nightmare screams out as her body reforms from the darkness of the crater. "YOU WILL BE DESTROYED!!!! FEEL DESPAIR!!" She roars out as her height is the size of a small house, her wings spread wide, as glowing scythes are held in her hands, and float around her form in the air.

Spike simply turns and studies her. He remains silent as he then gives the "come on" motion. Nightmare screams in rage, and swings her scythe down onto Spike, who side steps it, and allowing the blade to be plunged into the air, where it gets stuck. "Foolishness. I have seen enough." He says monotonously before stabbing his left hand right through the blade as if it were paper.

They stare at him in shock, but soon they look upon Nightmare in fear as she kicks Spike into what remains of a castle wall, which collapses atop of him.

Dash flashes before Nightmare's face with a wide toothy smirk, and kicks the giant Alicorn in the side of the head. Nightmare slams into the ground hard enough to crack it. Dash points her left open palm at the Alicorn, and a red ball forms, flashing brightly. With feral grin on her face, she screams, "CERO!," and an explosion sounds off, as a fiery dome rises into the air, sending shockwaves across the forest.

The smoke rises like a tower as shockwaves rocket making the dark clouds blocking the sky to scatter into nothingness. The ponies lower their hands, and gape as they see Dash standing on the air with a feral grin gracing her lips. Beneath her is a massive crater, where Nightmare lunges out of. She punches Dash strait into the ground, making it shatter and rise around her forearm. She pulls her arm back, making the large pieces of rock fly into the air and crash down towards the ponies.

They scream, but a golden shield forms around and above them, and a white Alicorn lands before them, holding a golden broad sword and shield in her hands. Her aurora flowing mane and tail lash about with her anger. Nightmare turns and grins down at the mare.

"Ah, Celestia. How appropriate of you to arrive. How did you get free?" She says. Celestia waves a hand towards Spike who appears next to her, his cold stare boring holes into Nightmare's own. "I see...." She growls out. She releases a battle cry and charges forward, her scythes form in her hands. Celestia releases her own battle cry and charges forward with Spike jogging alongside her with perfect ease.

Celestia grows to Nightmare's height and the two clash, making the earth shake as both the sun and moon stand in the sky. One side day, the other night. Spike moves around the two giants and reaches Dash who is just getting out of the pit she was punched into.

"Fuck that hurt!" She exclaims while Spike pulls her out with ease. She nods to him in thanks, he nods back. The two both Sonido back to the ponies, where Twilight exclaims something about them being her friends and how it's a spark of some sort. Spike doesn't know, nor does he care. He watches as Applejack gains an apple necklace, Flutter Shy a butterfly necklace, Rarity a diamond necklace, Pinkie Pie a balloon necklace, Twilight a six pointed star crown, and finally Dash a lightning bolt necklace.

He watches as they float into the air, and fire a rainbow colored beam that looks similar to a Cero.

'Interesting....' He thinks to himself as the beam crashes into Nightmare's chest, making her scream in utter pain as she is enveloped into a rainbow tornado, and he watches her shrink down in size, while the darkness of her spiral into her chest, never to be seen again. 'Very interesting.'

A flash of light later, and Dash and her friends lay on the floor, passed out, but soon come back to reality just as Celestia shrinks down to her normal size and helps the blue Alicorn rise to her hooves. Spike walks over casually with his hands in his pockets, and stands before the two. Luna stares and then blushes and looks away, while Celestia giggles before bringing him into a tight hug.

"You look different, Spike. What happened?" She asks with a smile. Spike gives her a dull look.

"I remembered my life before my death, and this new one that the Hogyoku has granted me, apparently. I am Ulquiorra Spike Cifer. I am the Ex-Quatra Espada of Sosuke Aizen's army of Hueco Mundo." Spike explains. Celestia nods her head, as if understanding all that. Perhaps she did? The blue Alicorn tilts her head.

"The what?"

"The fourth." Spike clarifies.

"Oh, why the fourth?" She asks. Spike gains an amused glint to his eyes.

"I was the fourth strongest, as I had been holding back more than half of my real power. There were three others above me, the Primera being close to my full strength, while still being stronger than me." He states. Celestia giggles to herself as her sister, Luna, gains a light blush as she tries to "flirt" with her student's "brother".

"You must be very powerful then..." She mumbles out. Spike nods his head, and can't help but feel the need, the urge to grab this mare and kiss her soft looking lips, to curve his hands around her waist and pull her close to himself. He shakes his head to clear his mind, before giving her a ghost of a smile.

"Indeed. Though I was defeated by Ichigo Kurosaki. I had managed to tear a hole through his chest, before he turned into a hollow, and killed me." Spike states.

"He WHAT!?" Dash and Luna both exclaim loudly, both feeling a strange surge of anger fill their chests.

"How could that...that! Shinigami kill you!?" Dash exclaims. Spike stares at her with wide eyes.

"Why exactly do you care?" He asks. Dash growls and pushes herself back from him, a blush gracing her cheeks.

"I don't..." She growls out blushing like mad. Luna holds the same blush, while Celestia inwardly cheers for her sister to finally find her mates after being alone for centuries.

"I see, then perhaps it does not concern you, Dash." He says, though Celestia could hear hurt in his voice. He turns away and walks away, his feet softly padding against the ground, before sitting down onto a broken wall, his eyes closed as he listens to everyone. Celestia inwardly sighs, but doesn't show it. Instead, she gives her student a smile, and the two start to speak to each other.

Fluttershy looks at Spike and how he had changed as he sits on broken wall with his eyes closed and having perfect balance. She walks over to him softly, quietly as to not disturb him. Her instincts scream at her to flee, run for her life as she stands in the presence in the most dangerous predator in the entire area. The animals of the forest all remain silent in his presence as he clearly is more of a threat to them then the others realize. Even Dash doesn't hold this same aura that Spike has looming over his head.

She tentatively taps his foot gently, and looks up at his face. His eyes snap open and peer down at her, transfixed on her own pair.

"What did you want, mare?" He asks with a cold emotionless voice. Shy whimpers softly, but stands her ground shakily.

"Are you o-o-okay? Y-y-y-y-you look h-hurt..." She says softly. Spike raises brow.

"None of you are capable of harming me. Even Da-Rainbow can't harm me. Had I wanted to, I could pop her head off her shoulders in an instant." He states cold, but hurt in his voice is evident. Shy gives him a soft smile.

"Not physically, but emotionally, she hurt you, huh?" Shy asks meekly. Spike sighs softly, shallowly, and nods his head.

"Indeed...Bu it does not matter. We should be heading back to Ponyville to make sure that the town isn't destroyed from the "battle"." He says as he drops down onto his feet next to her, making her oddly calm, and a soft jolt of electricity passes through her when they brush shoulders gently. She blushes and leans into him, surprising him immensely. "Are you okay?" He asks. Shy nods her head softly and gives him a blushing smile.

He give her a ghost of a smile and helps her walk towards the others. Celestia inwardly grins as her "son" keeps gaining more mates. It was true that he was Twilight's "sister", but she had actually gotten his egg from his late mother, Queen Virgo, and she had raised him when Twilight was with her family or doing her studies. Spike even treats her like his real mother, even now with his old memories and abilities that go beyond mortals.

He rises next to Celestia, as she wraps an arm around his shoulders, and kisses the top of his head next to his bone mask fragment, making the others watch stiffly with wide eyes.

"You are growing up into a wonderful young me, my son." She says motherly.

"Son!?" They exclaim. Luna gains a sad look, but then smile when Spike rubs her shoulder gently, giving her a small smile, before looking back up at his adoptive mother.

"Thank you, mother. Though I must apologize, ever since remembering everything, I seem to be...feeling oddly. We need to talk later on about other things, however. But at the moment, we must head back to Ponyville to show you and your sister are safe, along with making sure the "battle" didn't cause too much damage." Spike says. Celestia nods her head firmly, and in a flash of light, they vanish.