Chapters Bioshock Infinite: The City Made of Clouds
Author's Note
This is just to clarify who everyone is in the story. sorry for the list being out of line. I am trying to fix it.
Cast
Bioshock Infinite: The City Made of Clouds
Cast
Spike: Booker DeWitt
Scootaloo: Elizabeth
Celestia: Rosalind Lutece
Luna: Robert Lutece
Applejack: Daisy Fitzroy
Flam: Jeremiah Fink
Flim: Albert Fink
Garble: Cornelius Slate
Fluttershy: Lady Comstock
Rainbow Dash: Songbird
Unnamed Dragon: Zachary H. Comstock
Trixie: Preacher Witting
Pegasus, Unicorns & very few Dragons: Cloudsdale residents and Guards
Dragons, Griffons, Mules, & Earth Ponies: Vox Ponyuli
Bioshock Infinite: The City Made of Clouds
Off the Coast of Baltimare
1912 moons
"So are you just going to sit there and do nothing?" asked the dark blue alicorn mare in the front of the row boat holding the two oars in her blue magical aura.
"As compared to what? Standing?" answered the white alicorn in the middle.
"Not standing rowing." Said the alicorn in front.
"No hadn't planed on it. I planed on you doing the rowing." replied the white alicorn as she handed the dragon in the back a wooden box marked "Property of Spike the Dragon: 6th Guard Regiment" in her yellow aura.
The blue mare was having a hard time rowing the boat. With both the storm and choppy waters it was a nightmare for the poor mare rowing.
"Why me?" asked the blue alicorn in a sad tone.
"Because it was your idea to do this and I told you I do not believe in the exercise." said the other alicorn.
"What rowing?" the blue mare asked.
"No i believe that wonderful exercise." Said the other.
"Then what?" asked the blue alicorn.
"The entire thought experiments."
"Excuse me, how much longer till were there? I am getting tired of sitting here in the rain." ask Spike, growing tired of the two mares arguing.
"One goes in to an experiment knowing one could fail." The blue alicorn stated.
"But one dose not go into an experiment knowing one has failed." Argued the other mare.
"Can we just get back to the rowing?"
"I suggest you do or we will never get there." The white mare said sarcastically
Spike rolled his eyes and started to go through the the box the white alicorn handed him. Inside he found his pistol, a key, a postcard of an angel statue with a code written on the back, and a picture of a young mare with an orange coat and purple mane with the name Scootaloo written on the front and a message on the back stating "Bring to Manehattan unharmed".
"Will you please just help me." begged the blue alicorn.
"Why don't you ask him. He probably has more interest in getting there than I do." Said the white alicorn annoyed by her companions complaining
"I guess he dose. But there is no point in asking"
"Why is that?" asked the white mare.
"Because he doesn't row."
"He doesn't row?"
"No he DOESN'T row"
"Oh I see what you mean." The white alicorn said understanding what the other was saying
Just then they reached there destination a lighthouse about ten miles off the coast of Baltimare. Spike stepped out of the boat and looked up to the lighthouse then back down to the row boat to see the to mares leaving him.
"Is somepony suppose to meet me here?" he asked.
The white alicorn answered, "I would hope so. This looks like a terrible place to be stranded." as she and her companion started rowing back to shore.
"Now you decide to help." said the other as they started turning back.
Spike started to walk up to the door of the lighthouse when he found a note nailed to the door that read: "Spike, bring us the mare and wipe away the debt this is your last chance."
Spike opened the door and found nopony there except for a wash pan and a sign above that said "Of thy Sins I wash Thee".
Spike scoffed at the sign an started to ascend the tower calling out to see if anypony was there. Just as Spike reached the third floor he found the body of a dead colt sitting in a chair with a sack over his head and a note that said "Do not disappoint us Spike".
Spike finally reached the top of the lighthouse and was trying to open the door to the room where the light was. As he studied the door he found three belles with symbols on them and seen they were the same symbols from the postcard, he pulled out the postcard of the angel with the code on it. After ringing the belles on the door the light on the lighthouse changed from yellow to red and was making a loud sound. Soon the sky turned red and made the same noise. After the lighthouse and sky stopped flashing red and the noise cease the light from the light house lifted up and a chair rose from the floor of the room and the door opened.
Spike walked into the room and looked at the chair. "I guess they wont me to sit in there fancy chair." Spike thought to himself as he climbed in the chair.
After he sat down in the chair his arms where restrained by metal clamps and a voice came on over a speaker saying "The restraints are for your protection."
Then wall started rise from the floor and surround Spike and the chair turned till he was facing a window. Then the speaker came on again saying "Ascension in 15 14 13 12 11 ...." Then the chair turned upside down making Spike face the rockets engines and making him drop his gun.
"Pony feathers" Spike said as he watch his gun fall under the engines and the chair returned to it original position facing the window.
"5 4 3 2 1 Ascension!" Speaker said as the rocket launched in to the sky. "Five thousand feet, Ten thousand feet."
"Please let me live. Please let me live." Spike started praying over and over.
"Twenty thousand feet. Twenty-Five thousand feet." Then after the rocket had rose above the storm clouds Spike saw the most beautiful sight he had ever seen.
The speaker came on again and said "Hallelujah".
Author's Note
This my first story I ever tried to write. So any help will be much appreciated. If you do not like it please comment so I may know why you did not like it and fix it. Thanks for reading.
Bioshock Infinite: The City Made of Clouds
The So Called Paradise
"Wow" said Spike as he looked out the window of the rocket at the most beautiful sight he had ever seen. A city that was floating on clouds with pegasi flying around airships and buildings made of bricks and stone, and unicorns walking on streets made of clouds and some that were using what appeared to be sky-lines to get to other parts of the city. Then the rocket released a parachute and started to slowly drift down till the rocket safely landed on a platform. After the rocket landed on the platform, the platform started to lower the rocket down into a building. As the rocket went down Spike started to see signs that said "Why did he send us his prophet? So that we would be saved from the evil below."
The rocket finally stopped and the restraints on Spikes arms released him and the door of the rocket opened. The first thing Spike noticed as he stepped out of the rocket was a giant stain glass window with an image of an old purple dragon pointing to a city in the sky with a group of ponies standing beside him and a sign above the window that said "And the Prophet lead us to this new Eden."
As Spike started to look for a way out of the building, he entered into a large room with another set stain glass windows and a statue of the same dragon from the first window. The dragon statue had his armed extended out and a plaque in his claws that said "Our Prophet. Father Comstock". On both sides of the statue were two windows, the one on the left had an image of a pegasus with a yellow coat and pink mane with a sign that said "Our Beloved Lady Fluttershy". The window on the right had an image of Comstock and Lady Fluttershy holding a small orange pegasus filly in their hoofs and claws and a sign that said "The Filly of Cloudsdale".
Spike then entered a large sanctuary thats floor was completely covered in water. He then saw a group of ponies gathered around a blue unicorn mare with a wand and moon as her cutie mark preaching at the far end of the sanctuary. As Spike walked closer to the group he started to hear what the mare was saying.
"On this day we give thanks to are prophet Father Comstock for saving us from the wickedness below and remember all that he has done for us." Said the mare.
“Amen, Pastor Trixie!” yelled the group of ponies
"If the Prophet had just struck down his buffalo enemies at Appleloosa it would have been enough. If the Prophet had just accepted the three gifts of the founders of Equestria it would have been enough. If the Prophet had just led us to this new Eden and destroyed the Changeling army it would have been enough. If the Prophet had just suffered the loss of his beloved and expelled the vox ponyuli IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH!!! Trixie preached as Spike started to make his way through the crowed.
"Who there, is it somepony new? Come to be baptized in the name of our prophet?" Asked Trixie.
"I just want into the city." Spike said. Trixie started to laugh at the dragon.
"Trixie apologizes but baptism is the only way into Cloudsdale. Come now, join me dragon, let us cleanse you of your wickedness." Stated Trixie with her hoof extended out to Spike.
"I guess I have no choice." Spike thought to himself as he reaches his claw out to Trixie.
"Trixie baptizes you in the name of our Prophet and in the name of the founders of Equestria." Trixie said as she submerged Spike in the small pool they were standing in. Spike was struggling in the water due to his lack of oxygen, not expecting the mare to keep him down as long as she did
"You are now born again in the eyes of Cloudsdale." Trixie said as she pulled Spike back up. "Hey this one does not look clean to Trixie." Trixie said before forcing Spike back down into the water and knocking him unconscious.
BANG BANG BANG BANG was all Spike could hear as he awakened from his sleep.
"Who there?" Spike asked half asleep with his head still on his desk.
The knocking at the door continued. "Bring us the mare and wipe away the debt. We had a deal dragon. Open this door right now!" yelled somepony behind the door.
"Go away. I told you I am not going to do it." replied Spike as he started walking to the door.
"Bring us the mare now!" demanded the voice.
"I said no..........." Said Spike as he opened the door to his office/room to see a Manehattan that he had never seen before on fire, and Cloudsdale floating above raining fire down on the city.
Then out of no were a Cloudsdale airship rose up to his door with a firing squad of unicorns and pegasi getting ready to fire there weapons and magic at him.
"Fire" shouted one of the pegasus solider. The last thing Spike saw was a great big flash of light before regaining consciousness.
The first thing Spike saw when he woke up was three pony statues staring at him all holding a different item in there hoofs. The one on the left was a statue of a unicorn marked Princess Platinum, with a key in the statues hoof. The statue in the middle was of a pegasus that held a sword and was labeled Commander Hurricane. The one right was an earth pony with a scroll in it mane and was marked Chancellor Puddinghead.
"Hey, that pony looks just like me." said a pink earth pony with a poofy mane and tail that had appeared out of nowhere.
"uh.........." Spike said.
"Oh oh oh look over there." The pink pony said turning Spike's head in the direction she was pointing.
"Look at what?" Spike asked as he turned around to see the pink mare was gone. "Where did she...Oh never mind, I guess a city in the sky has it far share of crazy ponies too."
"Hey! I am not crazy!" called out the mare but was no where to be seen.
Inside one of the building surrounding the garden were Spike was at.
"Quiet you. Celestia help me deal with her." Said the blue alicorn as she covered the earth pony mouth with her hoof.
"Luna why is she here? I thought we left her at bottom the ocean in the Crystal Empire." Said Celestia.
"I don't know just tie her up before she dose something stupid." Luna said. Just then the earth pony knocked over a 15,000,000 bit vase.
"Upsy. Was that expensive?" Asked the pink mare.
"PINKIE!!!!!" The two alicorns shouted.
Spike just shrug off what he had just seen and started to look for a way out of the garden. While walking he noticed more pony's waking up after there so called baptism and others being brought into the garden.
"That mare needs to learn the difference between baptizing a dragon and trying to kill one." Spike thought to himself.
Spike finally found a door leading out of the garden with a sign posted above the door saying "The filly of the Prophet shall sit the throne and drown in flames the mountains of stallions." Spike scoffed at the sign and opened the doors that lead out of the garden and found himself on the streets of Cloudsdale. Walking down the streets of Cloudsdale, Spike was greeted by many unicorns and pegasi. Many of the younger mares tried flirting with him but he just kept walking and ignored them. He soon came up to a large statue of the so called Prophet holding a sword in his claw. "The dragons got an image." Spike thought to himself as he passed the statue. He soon found a passing parade of airship with the same images he had seen in the building rocket had landed in tell the story of Cloudsdale.
"After the Battle of Appleloosa an angel appeared before our Prophet showed him a city in the sky and telling him to build this great city and save pony's from the evil of the world below. But it was the miracle filly that secured our future. The filly that grew into a mare in just four days is the hope for our great city and shall cleans the wickedness from the world below." narrated the announcer on the last barge in the parade with a sign that said "Cloudsdale Raffle & Fair 1912"
"Just four days? These no way these ponies really believe this." Thought Spike.
"I wish I could age as fast as the miracle mare did. I hate being a filly" Pouted a pink unicorn filly with a tiara on her head and as her cutie mark.
"Now Diamond you know the miracle mare is the only pony that can do that." Said the stallion behind her.
"And I stand corrected." thought Spike as he continued to walk around Cloudsdale trying to find something to point him in the right direction of the mare he was looking for.
Spke soon found a sky barge with a poster with two unicorn mares saying "Only for the Cloudsdale Raffle & Fair. Flim & Flam Industry's presents Madame Vinyl Scratch and Madame Octavia Melody preforming Beethoofs 5th Symphony." Aboard the barge Octavia was playing on her cello while Vinyl was using her new creation she called turn tables to be used in the place of the other instruments needed. They were playing quit lovely till Vinyl started to scratch the record back and forth.
"Vinyl stop that noise right now and use those records like your suppose too." Ordered Octavia.
"Oh lighten up Octy. I am just making this piece of trash called music more enjoyable." replied Vinyl as she turned the speakers up to drown out the dark grey mare talking.
"This music is great the way it is. Your just killing it." said Octavia getting frustrated with the white mare.
"Does it make a difference. It sounds terrible either way." said Spike thinking no one could hear him.
"Oh who asked you, Dragon?" yelled Octavia at the dragon
"Just saying." Spike replyed.
"Go back to Shanty Town where you and your kind belong." Octavia said in a hateful tone.
"You don't have to be that hateful to him." Vinyl said defending Spike.
"Oh what do you know? You like anything that is uncivilized and has no class." Octavia said turning her attention to Vinyl.
"Is that what you think. Well let me tell you something Miss Classy Mare you are the most ..........." Vinyl started saying while taking off her sun glasses.
At this time Spike started to leave, thinking it would be best if he tried not to gather suspicion around himself. He then made his way to the fair grounds were all the booths where at and found what he was looking for. The giant angel statue from the postcard that showed where the mare was being held, a place called Monument Island. As Spike looked at the statue he felt a tug on his arm, he looked down to see a little pegasus.
"Telegram for you sir." The pegasus colt said as he handed to letter to Spike and ran away. Spike began to read the telegram that said.
"Spike. Stop.
Do not alert Comstock of your presence. Stop.
Do not Pick Number 16. Stop.
Luna."
"What is that suppose to mean" asked Spike as studied the telegram.
Spike continued on through the fair ground passing many boots advertising new technology from Flam & Flim Industry's like Voxophones, a device that you could use to recorded your voice and play back what you said. The Handy-Colt was another thing being advertised, a machine that stood 10 feet tall in the shape of huge stallion with a real stallion heart visible at it chest. Another booth was selling Sky-Hooks, a device that allowed ponies without wings to get around the city using the sky-lines. The final booth was advertising Vigors, a magical elixir that would grant ponies that could not use magic the ability to use a limited selection of powers, such as shooting fire and ice from their hoofs or lifting ponies in the air with just the wave of their hoof. As demonstrated by the two alicorns in front of the booth.
"Remind me. Why you get to use the Vigors and I don't?" asked Luna.
"Because we flipped a bit to see who would get to use them first, and the bit landed on heads so I got to use them. Simple as that." replied Celestia. "Besides your just mad I get to shoot them at you."
"Yes. But can I try using one now?" Luna asked.
"Yea can I try one too?" asked Pinkie Pie.
"But how did you... We tied you up and put you in a broom closet. How did you get out?" ask Celestia.
"You left the door unlocked silly." Pinkie giggled.
Luna hoof faced herself "Pinkie just go jump off the side of the railing." Luna said through her hoof.
"Ok." said Pinkie as she jumped over the railing.
"Pinkie. No!" cried Celestia and Luna as they galloped over to the railing that Pinkie Pie jumped over. Then a hot air balloon with the pink mare on top rose from the clouds in front of the alicorns.
"That was fun. What next? What next?" Asked Pinkie as she jumped up and down on the balloon.
"Just stay there and we will come get you later. Ok?" said Celestia.
"OK!" yelled Pinkie Pie as the hot air balloon rose higher in the sky.
Luna looked to Celestia. "Sister, we are not coming back for her right?" Luna said with hope in her voice.
"Yes, hopefully she wont find us this time." Said Celestia.
Spike walk through the fair hoping to find a way to Monument Island, when he was stopped by a light green color unicorn mare offering him a bottle of Vigor named Possession.
"Sorry I don't have any bits on me." said Spike.
"No sir it free. Here try a bottle." said the mare.
Spike took the bottle from the mare and started to drink it. All of a sudden everything he seen turned green and his vision began to blur. The unicorn mare then started to draw a heart with her horn and said. "Just a whisper. There all ears." A few seconds later Spike's vision returned to normal.
"What did you just do to me" asked Spike
"I just gave you control over the stallions of metal. Here try it out." said the unicorn as she dragged Spike over to a Vigor vending machine.
"Just focuses the magic to your claw then to the machine." instructed the unicorn.
Spike rolled his eyes in disbelief and did as the mare said. He focused the magic to his claw then to the machine. As he did a stream of green light shot out from his left claw and to the machine making it shoot bits out of it's return slot.
"Your a natural." said mare as she applauded Spike. Spike thanked the mare for the Vigor and continued down the street to the raffle hoping to find away to Monument Island from there. As Spike walked through streets he spotted some very disturbing posters. One that had a picture of a tall black dragon with his claw reaching out to a young mare that said "Beware the Greedy Dragon seeking to take are mare." Another had a picture of a giant blue bird like creature with rainbow colored wings that said "Thank the Rainbow Bird for she keeps our precious mare safe." The last poster had a picture of a dragon's claw with the initials "SD" inscribed on the claw and had written "You will know the Greedy Dragon by his mark." Spike looked down at his right claw that had the same initials as the one on the poster.
"But how did they? No it cant be the same." thought Spike. Spike had finally made it to the park where the raffle was being held. As he entered in to the park he noticed that a statue of a dark blue alicone labeled Luna, had a circle of light rotating around it and started changing into a white alicone labeled Celestia.
"Hey. That is mine!" Cried Luna out in the distance.
Spike had made his way into the park and was standing in the middle of a large crowd surrounded by unicorns and pegasi. Spike could see only two dragons in the crowd. Both of the dragons stood a foot taller then the ponies. Spike began to notice that there were no earth ponies in the crowed and started to wonder why was there so few dragons and no earth ponies there when a red coated peguases called out to him.
"Hey mister" called the mare.
"Look, I don't have any bits." Said Spike
"You don't pay for the raffle silly. What have you been doing sleeping in a cave? No offense." The mare said remembering who she was talking too. Spike reached into the basket the mare was carrying and pulled out a baseball with the number 16 on it.
"Number 16, that a good number." said the mare as she flew away. Then two yellow coated and red mane unicorns walked on stage.
"Mares" said the unicorn on the left with a red mustache.
"And Gentlecolts." said the one on the right with out a mustache.
"I am Flam." said the unicorn on the left.
"And I am Flim." said the other.
"And we are proud to declare the Cloudsdale Raffle has officially begun." Said the two twins. The whole crowed started to cheer and stomp their hoofs for joy.
"Bring us the bowl." Said Flam.
"Is that not the most prettiest mare in all of Cloudsdale?" Said Flim as a white unicorn with a light pink mane and three fleurs-de-lis for her cutie mare trotted across the stage carrying a bowl filled with paper in her pink aura.
"And the winner is....." Said Flam pulling out a piece of paper from the bowl.
"Number 16!" Said Flim.
"It him. He is the winner." said the red peguses said pointing her hoof at Spike.
"Well then, step right up and clam your prize dragon." Said Flim in a happy tone. As the curtain on the stage pulled back revealing a white unicorn with a monocle and three crowns as his cutie mark and a green earth pony mare with a bird as her cutie mark, tied to a fake tree, as Here Comes the Bride starts to play. The unicorn begging for them to spare the mare he loved beside him and to hit him instead.
"First throw." Said Flam. Spike was discussed by what he saw. Wondering how anypony could agree to this act of hatred and cruelty.
"Come on are you going throw it are what?" Asked Flim.
"Oh I am going to throw it." Spike said as he ran one his sharp claws around the ball cutting it in half and lighting both halves on fire with his dragon breath. The crowd was getting more and more excited as Spike got ready throw the two flaming halves of the baseball. Spike took aim at the couple then changed his aim at the last second and went to throw at the twins. But was stopped by two Cloudsdale guards pulling his arms down. One of the guards noticed the SD on Spikes hand.
"It the Greedy Dragon!" Yelled the peguses guard on Spikes right side, lifting his claw up for the other ponies to see.
Flam & Flim studied the marking on Spike claw and looked at him with an evil smile on there faces.
"Now where did you get that mark?" Asked Flam.
"Don't you know that that make you the Greedy Dragon?" Said Flim.
"And we won't let any Greedy Dragon into are city. Right?" Asked the Flam. The crowd then turned on Spike and started cheering for the twins on stage
"Show him what we got planned colt." Said the twins. As soon as the said that, the unicorn guard to Spike left starting to raise in his spinning sky-hook in front Spike of face.
Author's Note
I know that I have copied from bioshock infinite story and promise that I will try not to copy as much from the original story here on out. If any one has any suggestions on what should take place in the story or who should be added and what role they should play please let me. And please nothing perverted and before you say add Discord, King Sombra, Queen Chrysalis or Derpy, yes I said Derpy, I all ready have roles for them to play. And also I aware that I might have gotten the plural for peguses wrong if any one knows the correct way to pronounce it please let me know. If you have any questions about the story fill free to ask.
Bioshock Infinite: The City Made of Clouds
As the unicorns Sky-Hook got closer to Spike face, Spike threw one half of the baseball up in the air distracting the pegasus guard to his left. The pegasus tried to dodge the ball of fire, but Spike grabbed his neck and pushed him in front of the unicorns Sky-Hook causing the Sky-Hook to drill into the pegasus's head. As the crowd began to flee from the fight more guards arrived, surrounding Spike. Spike then removed the Sky-Hook from the dead pegasus and went to charge at the unicorn guards galloping towards him. Spike took the Sky-Hook and started to beat the guards with it, snapping one unicorns horn off and breaking two others necks. Spike then saw more pegasi, carrying pistols, and unicorn guards closing in on him as they ran passed a firework stand. Seeing this Spike threw the other half of the ball at the stand causing the stand to explode and engulfing the guards in a ball of fire sending some over the railings of the city and falling to world below.
As Spike was taking a pistol and ammo from the one dead guard, he seen one of the remaining guards galloping down the street. Spike started to chase after the guard until he ran into gate cutting him off from the rest of the street. He could hear the guard talk on the other side of the gate as he tried to open it.
"Call in the Fire and Ice Mares!" One guard shouted.
"There already hear." replied another. Spike was able to pull back enough of the gate for him to get through, as he did he started noticed how hot it was getting and then how cold it was starting to turn. Just then two armored cover mares appeared, one a unicorn glowing red with fire and the other a pegasus with ice covering its blue armor, and started to shoot their magic at Spike. The unicorn was shooting fire balls from it horn and the pegasus started to shoot ice from it hoof that would freeze anything it touched. Spike tried to duck behind cover but every time he did the ice mares would freeze it and the other would burn it.
Running out of cover Spike hid behind a column of a building, he then peeked over his shoulder to see how close the two mares where. Seeing that they were close enough for him to shoot them, Spike started to fire his pistol at the two mare but the bullets just bounce off their armor. One of bullets bounced off the ice mare armor and hit one of the fire mare’s fuel lines, causing fuel cover both the mares. Not knowing one of the lines had be shoot off the fire mare made another fireball but this time the fireball lit both the mares on fire, burning them alive. As Spike went to search their bodies he found two Vigor bottles on them, one was blue with a dragon on it labeled Frost Dragon and the other was red with a dragon on it labeled Dragons Kiss.
"Well you only live once." said Spike as he began to drink the two bottles. The Dragons Kiss vigor seemed to have no effect on him till he breathed his fire breath and discovered it was stronger than before. The Frost Dragon vigor made Spike stomach feel as if l somepony had frozen it solid. After pain in his stomach had settled Spike started to try shooting ice out of his claw, but nothing happened.
"What gives?" said Spike upset that he was unable shoot ice out of his claws. He then felt something cold coming up from his stomach and into his throat. As Spike went to exhale, he started to breathe ice that froze a nearby fruit stand.
"This is better shooting ice from my claw." thought Spike as his tried out his new powers.
Somewhere off in the difference, Pinkie Pie was still sitting on top of the hot air balloon when her right front hoof started to shake.
"Somedragon just 1up." said Pinkie giggling.
After Spike learned to control his new powers he made his way into a restaurant hoping to avoid the guards looking for him outside and find another way to Monument Island. When he ran into the same two alicorns mares that had brought him to the lighthouse standing in the dining room "You two again." said Spike.
"Yes us." said Celestia.
"Why are you following me?" asked Spike.
"We are not following you." said Luna "Why are you following us?"
"I am not following." said Spike as he sighed.
"Care for a drink?" Ask Celestia handing Spike bottle with a yellow liquid inside. As Spike finished his drink, he felt all scales on his body harden. Causing his body to fill sore.
"Hmm what do you know? It did worked." said Celestia.
"I told you it would. And said it would kill him." replied Luna.
"I said it might kill him. His body still has not reached the stage where the scales would harden on their own. Forcing his scales to harden before they are ready to could have killed him." said Celestia
"You have a point." Luna said.
"What did you just give me?" asked Spike.
"A potion to harden your scales, now your scales will protect you from small amounts of damage." Luna answered.
"Yes, but that does not mean it will protect you from sniper or heavy machine gun fire." said Celestia.
"Thanks, I think." said Spike as he walked through the back door of the dining room. "Hey does either of you ponies know how to...... Where they go?" Spike said as he walked back into the dining room to see the two alicorns had disappeared. Spike made his way to the roof of the restaurant and was able to see the angel statue in the distance and a sign that pointing to a monorail that would take him to the island. The only problem was that the road leading to the monorail covered with guards looking for Spike. Spike decided he would have a better chance if he stuck to the rooftops to get to the monorail.
"Now how am I supposed to get across?" thought Spike as he stood on top of the last building on his side of the street, looking at the building on the opposite side of the street.
"Use the Hook, Spike." said Pinkie Pie in an old raspy voice, on top of the hot air balloon.
"What?" asked Spike, looking at Pinkie.
"See the large hook on the pole?" asked Pinkie, in her normal, as she was pointing to a tall pole with a silver hook hanging from its side, on the building Spike was trying to get to. "Run off the edge of the roof and jump. Your Sky-Hook will magnetize to the hook over there and pull you over."
"Are you crazy? That will never work." said Spike.
"Just trust me it will work." said Pinkie before the hot air balloon drifted away. Seeing no other alternative Spike did as the mare said and jumped. And just like Pinkie said the Sky-Hook dragged Spike through the air and latched onto the hook.
"Whoa" said Spike as he hung from the poles hook. He then jumped down from the hook and started to run across the rooftops. But he was soon discovered by a pegasus guard flying above him.
"There he is. Get him!" yelled the pegasus. Spike spotted an open crate labeled Triple R Machine gun close to him and ran over to it, picking up the gun up inside Spike started firing at pegasi that were shooting at him. As Spike ran one pegasi shot and hit him in the back of his right leg but all the bullet was bend and fall right off.
"So that potion dose work." thought Spike as he ran on top of a large tinted glass ceiling on top of a black building. Just as he made it to the center window of the ceiling one of the pegasus shot the glass beneath him cause Spike to fall through the ceiling. Spike then fell on a long rectangular table surrounded by crows that were cawing at him, as Spike got up he seen that the whole room had very little light.
As Spike ventured deeper in to the building he discovered that the whole building had almost no light, beside the few candles on the floor, and a large population of crows flying around. He soon entered in to a small sanctuary where a group of stallions dressed in black robes standing at the bottom of a stain glass window with image of Lady Fluttershy holding a little bunny in her hoofs. He started to listen to be the talking stallion with a casket chained to his back,that appeared to be the leader.
"And do you commit yourselves to the protection of this city in the name of our beloved Lady Fluttershy?" asked the stallion.
"Yes sir." said the group. Spike watched as the stallion with the casket welcomed the new members into their group known as The Fraternal Order of the Crow. Spike then spotted an exit on other side of the room. Unable to see safe away around the group of ponies Spike jumped out from the pew he was hiding behind alerting the group of his presence.
"Intruder!!!" shouted the leader, as he disappeared into a flock of crows that swarmed around him and flew out of the exit. Spike ran up to the group of stallion as they started to draw their swords, one went to slash Spike with his sword but Spike grabbed the sword with his Sky-Hook and sapped it in half as he pulled the trigger to the Sky-Hook. Then Spike used his fire breath to burn the stallions that we're rushing towards him. After defeating the group Spike ran for the exit that leaded into a foggy garden with nopony inside.
"Die!" shouted the leader as he appeared from a flock of crows and galloping towards Spike swing his sword at him, hitting Spike in his arm before disappearing again. Spike look down at his arm to see what damage had been done to it, but to his surprise all that was there was little scratch. The stallion appeared again this time aiming at Spike's neck. Spike grabbed the sword, before it could hit his neck, with his claws and threw it on the ground. The stallion then jumped back from Spike and launch the flock of crows surrounding him at Spike. As the crows flew closer to him, Spike used his ice breath to freeze the crows and stallion in a solid block of ice. Walking over to the frozen stallion, Spike tapped on the ice causing it to scatter into a thousand pieces with parts of the stallion and crows inside. Spike then found a bottle of Vigor in the shape of a crow labeled Murder of Crows near the now shattered pony, and picked up the bottle and began to drink.
"This tasted awful." He said as he finished the last bit of the Vigor. Spike then raised his claw to try to see what the Vigor was supposed to do. All of a sudden a flock of crows flew from Spikes claw in the direction that his claw was pointing.
"Good thing I don't have to breath this power out my mouth." thought Spike as he made his way out the nightmarish building. As he exited out the back of the building, Spike found the monorail that lead to Monument Island. After stepping on to the open air monorail an automatic machine in the shape of a stallion came to life.
"We are sorry, but Monument Island is now closed please leave. All unicorn workers please continue to the island using the sky-line." said the machine.
"Sky-line huh." said Spike as he studied the sky-line above him. Spike then started to run and jump up to the sky-line with his Sky-Hook in his claw and connecting to the sky-line. The sky-line began to move at a slow pace till the line started to dip down making Spike gather speed.
"This is awesome!" yelled Spike as he held on to his Sky-Hook. The sky-line started to go up and down and around and through building. Soon a couple of flying pegasus guards spotted Spike and started to fly after him. Holding on for dear life to his Sky-hook, Spike tried to shoot down the pegasi that were chasing him. He was able shoot one pegasus in head causing him to fly into the other pegasus and making them both crash into a building. As Spike got closer to a building with a giant zeppelin floating on one side, he saw a group of unicorn guard standing on a landing platform ready shoot him off the sky-line.
"Stand down. Stand down." said a deep booming voice over a loudspeaker. The unicorns did as voice told them and lowered their horns and started to pray. Spike landed on the platform surrounded by the unicorn guards and ventured into the building to find another way up sky-line, due to some crates blocking the sky-line. As Spike entered into the building he found more guards praying and giant screen on the side of the zeppelin had a picture of a dragon, labeled The Prophet, on it. Spike then found a lift and was walking up to it when the screen on the zeppelin changed and the dragon known as the Prophet appeared on screen.
"I know why you are here Greedy Dragon. I have seen every sin blackens your soul. Appleloosa, the Changelings, the gambling, and of course your precious GEM. And now to repay a debt, you have come to take my mare. But not all debts can be repaid, Spike." said the Prophet.
"You don't know me, pal." said Spike.
"Prophecy is my business, Mr. Spike. Like blood is yours. Do you see these ponies that are willing to die for me? Do you know why that is? Because I have seen their future and so they are content." said the Prophet. "What brought you to Cloudsdale, Spike? 'Bring us the mare and wipe away the bet.' This will end in blood. Then again it always does with you." said the Prophet. Just then Spike felt his noise begin bleed and and he lifted his claw up to wipe the blood off.
"What in Equestria." said Spike as he looked at the blood on his claw. He then pulled the lever to the lift and the lift started to rise as the Prophet spoke again.
"You have come to take my mare away from me. I will tell you this one time. GO BACK TO THE WICKEDNESS FROM WHICH YOU CAME!!!" shouted the Prophet. Spike then exited the lift and started walking down a hallway when the Prophet zeppelin fired on the building, blasting a hole in the wall.
“GO BACK!!!” shouted the Prophet. Spike then saw a small airship below him and jumped out of the building and landed on one of the airships wings. As he entered into the airship he found that nopony was in it until he reached the control room and found a unicorn mare praying.
"Hey it’s ok. I am not going to hurt you." Spike said to the mare, but the mare did not respond and continued to pray. Spike walked over to the control board started to pull some of the levers trying to get the airship to move. Then the Prophets zeppelin appeared in front of the airship with the Prophet standing on top of the zeppelin.
"The Lord forgives everypony. But I am just his prophet. So I don't have to. Amen." said the Prophet.
"Amen." said the mare behind Spike as she dropped a lit torch into a puddle of airship fuel she was standing in causing the airship to catch on fire.
"Oh come on!" said Spike. Spike ran out of the control room and into the ship’s cargo bay. After opening the cargo bay doors Spike jumped out of the falling airship, as he was falling Spike saw a sky-line beneath him and used his Sky-Hook to attach to the sky-line. The sky-line then took Spike straight to Monument Island and dropped him in a garden that surrounded the angel statue. Spike then entered into the only building at bottom statue, hoping it would lead him to the mare at the top of the tower.
Author's Note
Two things I need to mention. First one Spike is 27 years old in this story and dose not have his wings, and Scootaloo is 25 years old. Second I will starting to introduce the music tears soon and need at least three songs from around 1950-1989, no rap song. And yes the "Use the hook, Spike." line was a Star Wars reference. I just could resist it, I had to us it.
Bioshock Infinite: The City Made of Clouds
The Escape
As Spike opened the doors of the building, he found that the entire building was abandoned and completely in shambles. While Spike venture further into the building he soon found signs posted warning ponies not to get close to the 'Specimen', and a diagram on a wall chart marked "Power Drained by the Siphon" with pictures of the mare and time stamps on them marked "week 1, week 3, month 1, month 4, year 1, year 3". Spike soon found a large machine as he entered the bottom of the tower labeled The Sipon, the machine looked like it was drawing electricity from large tesla coils and large round drums, that looked like loudspeakers, around it. Spike then found a room with a projector in it, as he walked into the room he saw the projector was showing a film of the mare as she did various thing. One scene was labeled "Specimen Lockpick Attempt" and showed the mare trying to lockpick a safe like door, another was labeled "Specimen Panting" and showed the mare painting a picture of Mare-is, Prance.
"They have been watching her?" asked Spike as he watched the film. Spike soon found an elevator that took him up to the top of the tower, as he walked around inside of the statues head Spike found a door that led him to a observation room that was marked dressing room. As Spike entered into the observation room he found a voxophone on the floor labeled "property of Celestia" and began to play the recording.
"What makes the mare different? I suspect it has less to do with what she is, and more with what she is not. Although she has no memory of her past, her mind has created new memories to replace the ones she lost as my sister Luna had predicted. But a small part of her still remains from where she came." said the recording. The sign above the closed window that said "Specimen Present" began to light up and the shield covering the window began to open to show the orange pegasus mare Spike was for searching looking at the one way mirror fixing her purple mane.
"Well that her." said Spike looking at the mare. The mare then started to look at the photo of Mare-is in hoof and began flap her wings for joy, as she did her right wing started to hurt causing her to look at her wing with small exception of pain on her face. As she moved her wing in front of her face Spike notice that her right wing was missing a small part of it end. The mare then began to gallop into another room and the shield started to cover up the window. Spike then walked into the next observation room marked dining room as he did he saw the mare was standing in front of a painting of the eiffel tower, the mare then put both of her wings in front of her face and began to act like she was pulling something open with them. Then out of no where a portal opened with a view of a street in Mare-is with a theater advertising a film named planète des vaches (Planet of The Cows 1968).
"What in the....." said Spike looking at the strange view. Then all of a sudden a pair of red lights started flashing from further down the street, then the lights appeared to be getting closer revealing it was a fire-chariot speeding down the street. Just before the fire-chariot could hit the mare, she put both of her wings in front of her face again and closed the mysterious portal. The mare then started to gallop into another room leaving Spike to try and figure out what just happened.
"But... But.." said Spike trying to comprehend what he just saw. "I don't know what that was but it got nothing to with the job at hoof." thought Spike as he walked to the last observation room marked library. Spike saw the mare was standing at the top of a staircase looking out of a window at the clouds around her with her picture of Mare-is in hoof. Spike found a door that lead to the outside of the statue head and started to walk across the side of it head until he found a entrance back into the statues and door leading into another room. As Spike walked over to the next door he felt the floor beneath him shake and then collapse under him. Spike was able to grab onto the top railing of the staircase and tried to pull himself up when he saw the mare looking at him.
"Uh, Hello." said Spike. The mare screamed causing Spike to fall again. As Spike fell to the floor the mare began to buck and throw books at him.
"Ow. Will you stop it? Will you stop it!?" asked Spike as the mare galloped towards him with a book in her hoof getting ready to hit him again.
"Who are you?" asked the mare.
"I am Spike. I am a friend, I have come to get you out of here." said Spike as he tried to take the book from her.
"Get away." said the mare as she tried to hit him with the book, but Spike took the book from her.
"Are you real?" she asked calming down and raising her right hoof to touch the side of his face.
"I am real enough." answered Spike. As the mares hoof made contact with his face Spike was pulled out of reality into dream like state. He started to see through the eyes of his younger self as he was running through a meadow and chasing after a small filly as the filly giggled.
"Are you a real dragon?" asked the mare pulling Spike back into reality.
"Yes... Yes I am." said Spike as he shacked his head. Then a statue of the Prophet in the corner of the room came on a started to whistle a tune.
"No no no. She is coming. You have to get out of hear." said the mare in a worried tone.
"Why?" asked Spike as she pushed him back.
"You don't want to be here when she get here." answered the mare. Then a strange noise that sounded like whistling mixed with gears turning started to speak.
"I will be there in a second." said the mare as she understood what the noise was saying. The noise spoke again and started to sound angry.
"Stop it. You're too impatient." said the mare.
"I am have come to get you out of here." said Spike.
"There's no way out I have already looked." said the mare looking for a place to hide the dragon.
"What about this?" asked Spike holding a key, from the chest the alicorns gave him, in his claw.
"What about it?" asked the mare.
"It the way out, right?"
"What!? Let me see that." said the mare as she took the key from Spike's claw and galloped over to a large safe like door. She then put the key into the key slot and began to turn the key and unlocked the door. The door opened just enough for the mare to pull it open, as she did an alarm started to sound and the strange noise started speaking and sounded angrier than before. Spike then followed the mare through the door and down the stairs as he did the whole tower began to shake violently as the creature started to hit the tower.
"It's her job to keep me locked up in here." said the mare as she galloped ahead of Spike. As they ran around the catwalk of the statues head the creature started to claw at the building leaving three large holes in the wall. Spike and the mare soon reached the observation room marked dressing room, as Spike hit the button calling the elevator the mare looked into the one way mirror noticing it was a window into her room.
"They were watching me? All this time? Why did they put me in here? What am I?" asked the mare looking at Spike.
"Your the mare getting out of this tower." said Spike. Then out of nowhere a giant blue hoof with metal blades pushed through the elevator door and a large orange glass like eye appeared looking at the two and started to bash it head against the wall trying to get into the small room when the elevator came crashing down on top of the creature making it fall down the tower.
"Come on we gotta get out of here." said the mare as she jumped over to the ladder on the other side of the elevator shaft and began to climb up.
"Be careful, Scootaloo." said Spike as he started to climb the ladder too.
"How do you know my name." asked Scootaloo as she reached the top of the ladder and found a door leading to outside of the tower.
"Not now." said Spike as he reached her and opened the door to the outside letting Scootaloo go first.
"Which way?" asked Scootaloo as she galloped out the door.
"Up!" said Spike following behind her. Spike looked out over the railing of the tower and seen the strange creature flying around the tower. The creature looked like a giant blue mechanical bird with rainbow colored wings, Spike remembered seeing a poster of the creature at the fair with it name on it. calling it the Rainbow Bird. Spike then met Scootaloo at the top of the tower just as the Rainbow Bird crashed into the tower causing Spike an Scootaloo to fall off the tower. Spike quickly grabbed Scootaloo's hoof and reached for his Sky-Hook seeing a sky-line beneath them. Grabbing onto the sky-line, Spike and Scootaloo began riding at high speed across the sky-line with the Rainbow Bird right behind them crashing through airships in its way, trying to get them.
"Can this thing go any faster?" asked Scootaloo holding on to Spike's claw for dear life.
"It would if a certain pegasus with wing would let go of me and fly." said Spike with his arms stretched as far as they could with one claw holding Scootaloo and the other holding the Sky-Hook.
"I can't fly." said Scootaloo.
"Why not?" asked Spike.
"Because.... Look out!" said Scootaloo seeing the head of the angel statue falling and hitting the sky-line in front of them causing it to brake, sending both of them flying off of it and falling into what appears to be an ocean. As they fell Spike lost his grip of Scootaloo hoof causing her to fly further away from him. Spike then landed in the water and was starting to swim back up to the surface when Rainbow Bird dived into the water and grabbed him. Rainbow Bird began to push Spike further down the water, but stopped when a part of it suit ruptured and oil started spewing out causing it to release Spike, but before it returned up to the surface the Rainbow Bird reached for Spike one last time as it did its right glass eye began to crack making the bird return to the surface. Spike began to blackout as he tried to swam back to the surface, the last thing Spike felt before the darkness consumed him was something biting on his back spikes and pull him towards the surface.
BANG BANG BANG BANG was all Spike heard as he woke up on the floor of his office/room.
"Mr. Spike. Mr. Spike." said a voice at the door. As Spike began to get up, he saw Scootaloo standing against his desk.
"Bring us the mare and wipe away the debt." said Scootaloo and the voice in unison. Scootaloo began to hum a tune when the voice began to speak.
"Are you in there Spike?" asked the voice.
"What do you want with her?" asked Spike.
"We had a deal Spike. Open this door right now!" shouted the voice.
"Tell me what you want with her. Are you going to hurt her?" asked Spike. The knocking at the door continued as Spike walked up to it.
"Gem. Gem. My precious Gem." Spike said as he opened the door. Then a large light appeared around Spike causing him to wake up.
"Gem. Gem." said Spike regaining consciousness and seeing Scootaloo standing over him with concern look on her face.
"No it me. Scootaloo." Scootaloo said with a smile on her face seeing that Spike was alive.
"Where are we?" asked Spike as he tried to get up.
"Cloudsdale bay. Here let me help you." said Scootaloo as she tried to help Spike up.
"I be fine just give me a minute." said Spike pushing Scootaloo's hoof away.
"You almost drowned, just let me help you. I already dragged your scaly back up here." said Scootaloo.
"I thank you for that, but just give a minute, ok?" asked Spike.
"Ok." said Scootaloo as she sat down beside Spike on the beach. She then started to hear music coming from the other side of the beach. Spike, still laying on the beach, noticed how excited the mare was getting.
"uh Mr. Spike can I..."
"Go ahead. I will catch up with you in a minute." said Spike.
"Oh thank you Mr. Spike. I won't go far, ok?" said Scootaloo galloping in the direction of the music.
"Don't go far.. don't... go... far..." said Spike as he started to loose consciousness again.
Spike was back in the meadow chasing after the filly.
"You cant catch me Spike." said the young filly giggling.
"Just you watch me." said Spike back to the filly as he chased her.
Author's Note
I realize this chapter mirrored how booker and elizabeth meet and i apologize for that. I could not think of another way for them to meet.
Bioshock Infinite: The City Made of Clouds
Spike woke up ten minutes later after a wave of water hit his face. As Spike got up he noticed that Scootaloo was nowhere to be seen. He decided to ask the group ponies that were sitting close to where Scootaloo left him and see if they knew where she went.
"Excuse me but have you seen a young pegasus mare, orange coat, purple eyes, mane and tail?" asked Spike hopping they did not know about him being the so called Greedy Dragon.
"Oh the lovely pegasus that was sitting with you? She went that way just past the pier." said a unicorn mare pointing in the direction Scootaloo went. Spike thanked the mare and walked in the direction he was told, as he got closer to the pier Spike found a poster advertising for Comstock personal airship called The First Lady Airship, that was at the First Lady Aerodrome.
"An airship. We could use that to get out of here." thought Spike as he looked at the poster of the airship that had a picture of Lady Fluttershy on it sides. Spike continued to walk on the beach until he spotted Scootaloo dancing at the end of a small pier where the music was being played with a group of ponies around her, he ran over to the pier to meet her but she was to busy dancing to notice him.
"Hey, Miss. Miss. Scootaloo!" said Spike trying to get her attention. Scootaloo turned around to see him with a huge smile on her face.
"Hello. This is amazing, come dance with me Mr. Spike." said Scootaloo.
"I don't dance." said Spike. Scootaloo started to frown when a purple pegasus pushed Spike to her trying to get them to dance together. Seeing no other way out, Spike agreed too one dance with her, as they danced Spike started to see through the eyes of his younger self again. He saw himself dancing with the same filly from his other dream this time both he and the filly were old, he could almost make out what type of pony the filly was when Scootaloo pulled him back into reality.
"You really need to stop doing that, it kind of creeps me out." said Scootaloo remarking on how Spike looked like he was in some kind of trace.
"Sorry about that. Ok you had your dance lets get moving." said Spike trying to leave.
"Why? what could be better than this?" asked Scootaloo trying to get another dance out of the dragon. Spike noticed the First Lady Airship flying above them, taking note of this Spike had an idea on how to get the mare to leave with him.
"Well how bout Mare-is?" asked Spike. Hearing the word Mare-is Scootaloo made excited.
"Mare-is? As in Mare-is, Prance?" asked Scootaloo, as Spike nodded yes. "I... I don't understand how can we get there? I can't fly and you don't have any wings."
"It were that airship up there is going, but if you want to stay here." said Spike. Scootaloo then grabbed his arm with her hoof, with a big smile on her face and started to run off the pier.
"Lets go. Let go. Lets go. Come on slow poke let get there before they leave." said Scootaloo.
"What happened to you just wanting to dance on the pier?" asked Spike sarcastically seeing how excited she was getting.
"We can dance when we get to Mare-is. Now come on." said Scootaloo as they entered into a store. Scootaloo stopped when she saw a poster of the Prophet.
"Mr. Spike, it Comstock I read about him. My books say he can see the future." said Scootaloo in a uneasy tone.
"Give a pony a little bit power. And they fall in all kinds of love with themselves." remarked Spike looking at the poster.
"I don't like his look. Can we go now?" asked Scootaloo in a frightened tone as she grabbing Spike's claw. They continued to the upper levels of the boardwalk when they were stopped by two alicorns.
"The Bird?" asked Luna on the left holding a small necklace with a bird on it.
"Or the Cage?" asked Celestia on the right holding a small necklace with a cage on it.
"Oh I don't know. Mr. Spike you pick." said Scootaloo showing him the two necklaces, but Spike was to busy trying to figure out why the two alicorns where here.
"You two again. but how?" asked Spike.
"Really? Your standing on a floating city with stone roads, brick buildings, and a beach with real sand, and your asking why were here?" asked Luna.
"Spike. Please pick one." begged Scootaloo.
"The bird. Now lets go." said Spike.
"Thank you. I love it." said Scootaloo as she put the necklace.
"Surprising I thought she pick the cage." said Celestia as she and Luna walked away.
"Your just upset that she picked mine." said Luna. Spike and Scootaloo started to walk again when Scootaloo noticed something in the sky was burning, as she looked closer she started to see what it was.
"Mr. Spike over there, it's my tower." said Scootaloo as she pointed to the half destroyed angel statue. Various ponies started to notice it too and started to panic, some where starting to blame some pony named Applejack, others were asking where the Rainbow Bird was at, and some were asking why their prophet did see this coming when a loud speaker came on and was telling everypony to stay calm. Spike and Scootaloo started to make their way to an arcade that would take them to the Lady's Aerodrome when they seen a crowded of ponies in line getting ready to be checked by some guards.
"Well no way we are getting through that way." said Spike. Scootaloo started to gallop to a door with a lock on it at the end of a hallway, out of sight of the guards, and began to pick the lock.
"What are you doing?" asked Spike seeing what she was doing.
"What does it look like I am doing? Done." whispered Scootaloo as she finished picking the lock and the lock fell to the floor.
"Where did you learn to do that?" asked Spike as they walked through the back way into the arcade.
"I was trapped in a tower with nothing but books and spare time. You be surprised at what I know how to do." said Scootaloo. They were about to enter into the arcade when they were stopped by a white unicorn stallion and a green earth pony mare.
"Hey mister. We would like to help you." said the mare.
"Do I know you?" asked Spike.
"Back at the raffle, you helped us escape. We would like to give you this as a token of our appreciation." said the stallion as he handed Spike a small bag of bits.
"Applejack always said that somepony like you would come along." said the mare. Spike thanked the couple and continued into the arcade with Scootaloo. As they entered into the arcade Scootaloo was amazed by all the stuff that was there, she then noticed that two of the restrooms were marked differently. One side was for unicorns and pegasus and the other was marked for creatures and earth ponies.
"Hey Mr. Spike. Why is one side for creatures and earth pony and the other is not?" asked Scootaloo.
"It just is." answered Spike not wanting to start a discussion on racism with the naive mare.
"It looks completely unnecessary." said Scootaloo. They soon reached the entrance to the lobby to pay for tickets for the First Lady Airship and the gondola that would take them to Soldier's Field, when a silver coated mare with a silver spoon for a cutie mark stood in front of the entrance.
"Zipporwhill? Zipporwhill is that you? It me Silver Spoon." said the mare.
"Oh no I am not Zipporwhill. My name is Scootaloo." said Scootaloo to the mare as the mare started to enter the lobby.
"Scootaloo what a strange name." said the mare.
"That was odd." said Scootaloo as she and Spike entered the lobby. Spike noticed how strange the ponies inside the lobby were acting and grabbed Scootaloo hoof and pulled her closer to him.
"You really like holding my hoof, don't you Mr. Spike." said Scootaloo blushing at what he was doing.
"Just stay close to me." said Spike as they reached the ticket counter. The pegasus stallion behind counter started to talk on the phone when they walked up.
"Yea their here. So how do you want this dealt with?" said the stallion to somepony on the phone.
"Hello, two tickets for the First Lady Airship." said Spike.
"Yea just a minute." said the stallion as he continued to talk on the phone. Scootaloo then started to walk over to stallion as Spike was trying to get the tickets.
"In a bit of a rush pal." said Spike.
"Just a minute." said the stallion.
"Excuse me can I get some help sir?" said Spike a bit irritated by this point.
"Certainly sir, sorry about the WAIT!" said the stallion as he stabbed Spike's right claw with a knife.
"What are you doing?" asked Scootaloo when she heard Spike shout in pain.
"Get the mare!" order the silver mare.
"Let me go." said Scootaloo as she bucked the guard trying to grab her. Spike then pulled the knife from his claw and turned around to see another unicorn trying to grab Scootaloo, Spike grabbed his pistol and shot the unicorn in the head making him let go of Scootaloo. Then the rest of the ponies in the lobby pulled out their guns and was getting ready to shoot Spike, but before they could Spike launched crows from his claw and started to breath his fire breath, burning the distracted guards. After the fighting was over, Scootaloo started to gallop out of the lobby towards gondola.
"LET ME OUT!" shouted Scootaloo as she galloped out of looby.
"Scootaloo wait." said Spike.
"STAY AWAY FROM ME!" shouted Scootaloo. Then five more guards started to rush into the lobby and galloped toward Spike. Spike spotted a shotgun on one of the dead guards, he then ran to the gun and picked it up and fired two shots at the guards. One shot killing two of them and the other hit a heater in a carrot dog stand burning the remaining three alive. Spike then ran out of the lobby to the gondola where Scootaloo was at, he walked into the control room where Scootaloo was trying to pull the lever to make the gondola move. She quickly seen Spike walk in and moved away from the lever, Spike walked over to the lever and pulled it to make it move.
"You killed them. All those ponies. They're all dead." said Scootaloo looking away from Spike, she was shaking in fear.
"Scootaloo, I..." said Spike before Scootaloo pushed him.
"You really are a monster." said Scootaloo.
"What did you think was going to happen?" asked Spike causing Scootaloo to look at him." Do you see the expense ponies went through to keep you in that tower? Do you think their just going to let you walk away? You are an investment, and you will not be safe until you are far far away from here."
"What do they want with me?" asked Scootaloo turning around to face Spike.
"I don't know, but that's the last time I let them get the drop on us." said Spike as he looked at his claw that was stabbed. Scootaloo seen his wounded claw and took it with her hoof and began to bandage it.
"It not the last of it is it? The killing." asked Scootaloo as bandaged his claw.
"I don't know. Thank you." said Spike as she finished with the his claw.
"I guess I will have to get use to it then." said Scootaloo as they exited the gondola and entered into the Soldier's Field amusement park.
Author's Note
Ok so I am thinking of adding a new type of vigor to replace the Charge Vigor so if you have any ideas for a new kind of Vigor just tell me what it does and a give me a name for it if you can. Also I need two songs for the music tares. So please comment below and let me know. Thanks For reading
Bioshock Infinite: The City Made of Clouds
Spike and Scootaloo enter into the welcome center for the Soldier Field amusement park, as they walked through the welcome center Spike noticed that the entire amusement park looked like a place that was trying subject young foals to military propaganda. They had made it to the exit of the welcome center when a metal gate closed on them, cutting them off from the exit. Spike then lifted the gate up so they could continue on, as Scootaloo ducked under the gate she noticed a poster advertising a vigor called Shock Jockey.
"Shock Jockey. Who needs the power company?" read Scootaloo.
"Look like somepony's alternative to electricity." said Spike as he ducked under the gate.
"Doesn't seem to work really well." remarked Scootaloo as they entered into the amusement park. As they entered Spike saw the First Lady Airship preparing to dock at the aerodrome.
"There it is, the First Lady. Looks like it getting ready to dock." said Spike pointing to the airship.
"And that will take us to Mare-is?" asked Scootaloo as Spike nodded yes. She then took Spike's claw with her hoof and walk into the park.
"Looks like you really like to hold my claw." said Spike with a small smile on his face.
"You told me to stay close to you, Mr. Spike. So that what I am doing." said Scootaloo blushing.
"Just call me Spike."
"Ok, Spike. So..... do you know why you were hired to come and get me?" asked Scootaloo.
"I imagine the ponies that sent me were interested in meeting you." answered Spike.
"Not that I am complaining but why you?" asked Scootaloo.
"I dont know. I had never even heard of this place before." said Spike.
"Really? I thought everypony knew about Cloudsdale." said Scootaloo. As the pair ventured further into the park, Scootaloo decided to ask Spike more questions while they searched for away to the First Lady Aerodrome.
"So... What do you do for a living, Spike?" asked Scootaloo
"I am an independent contractor. I used to be a royal guard until I left."
"Why did you leave?" asked Scootaloo with a worried look on her face.
"Let's just say if you seen the things I saw and did, you would understand why I left." said Spike.
"Back on the beach you keep saying 'Gem'. What was that about?" asked Scootaloo.
"It was nothing." said Spike quickly, trying to avoid the subject.
"Ok? One more question. Is there a mare in your life?" asked Scootaloo giggling at the thought.
"There was, my wife, but she is gone now." said Spike with a sad tone in his voice.
"Oh I am sorry to hear that. Did you two have a foal together?" asked Scootaloo.
"Yes but... she... she is gone too. If it all the same to you can we not talk about this?" asked Spike. Scootaloo noticed how upset Spike was getting and decided to drop the subject. They so found a gondola that would take them to the aerodrome. Spike pulled the lever to summon the gondola to them, but when he did the Shock Jockey that powered the controls overloaded and shut down.
"Great." said Spike looking at the machine that powered the controls. "It looks like this thing runs only on Shock Jockey. Where in Equestria are we suppose to find that at?" asked Spike.
"Hey look. Come see the future of power at the Hall of Heroes." said Scootaloo as she read a sign beside the machine.
"Well that's convenient." said Spike, surprised he did not see the sign there. They then went to the elevator that would take them to the Hall of Heroes, but the elevators door was covered in yellow tape with a sign above that said "The Hall of Heroes is closed until further notice". Spike pushed the button to call the elevator and started to pull the tape off the door.
"What are you doing? The sign said it was closed." said Scootaloo.
"And that means there is no line to get in." said Spike as he entered into the elevator with Scootaloo following behind him. The elevator was about half way up to the top floor when the power went out in the elevator causing it to stop.
"Great. Just hold on a minute while I get this fixed." said Spike as he took the cover off of the cricket breaker and began to fix the elevator. As he worked, Scootaloo noticed a bee flying around her.
"It's a bee! I hate these things!" screamed Scootaloo in fear.
"Just kill it." groand Spike.
"It will sting me." replied Scootaloo.
"Scootaloo."
"Wait. I have a better idea." said Scootaloo as she put her wing in front of her face and began to pull something open.
"Wait what are you doing?" asked Spike.
"I am opening a..... tear." said Scootaloo as the tear opened up showing a window with a small rose plant in the window sill.
"What... What is that?" asked Spike both afraid and amazed by the tear.
"It's a tear. I used to open them all the time in my tower." answered Scootaloo as she shooed the bee out of the window.
"What is a tear?" asked Spike.
"It's like a window to another world. Sometime some of them are boring, but sometime I see something amazing and I pull it through. See?" said Scootaloo as she pulled a rose bud off of the plant and put it in her mane and walked out of the tear.
"I remember seeing you open one in your tower when I came to get you. You opened one with a view of weird looking Mare-is and was almost ran over by a fire-chariot." said Spike.
"Yea, you would be surprised how times somthing like that happens." said Scootaloo embarrassed that Spike saw her almost get ran over, again.
"I guess you don't have some Shock Jockey or an airship in there do you?" asked Spike
"No but there is something. Oh no no no no." said Scootaloo with fear in her voice, as she seen Rainbow Bird flying around.
"Scootaloo, close it." said Spike as Rainbow Bird started to fly towards them.
"I am trying." said Scootaloo as tried to close the tear as Rainbow Bird flew closer to them, but just before Rainbow Bird could crashed through the window, Scootaloo closed the tear. Paralyzed with fear by what just happened, Scootaloo leaned against the wall of the elevator and tried to gather her thoughts.
"I don't understand what I just saw, but it sure looked like a quick way to get us killed." said Spike as the door to the elevator opened.
"But it could help us." protested Scootaloo.
"Look, I can handle the guards. You just stay away from the fighting, ok?" asked Spike, Scootaloo decided it would probably be for the best and agreed. As they exited the elevator and walked to the boardwalk, Spike spotted a group of guards standing at attention at the end of the boardwalk.
"Get down." whispered Spike as he pushed Scootaloo behind one of the shops on the boardwalk. He then tried to listen to what the leader of the group was saying.
"Alright stallions, we have our orders. We are to storm the Hall of Heroes and capture or kill Caption Garble. I know some of you think Gable is some kind of war hero, but he is not. He has betrayed our Prophet and has sided with Applejack and her Vox Ponyuli." said the pegasus leader.
"Grable?" asked Spike surprised by the name
"Who's that?" asked Scootaloo. Spike quickly shushed her and turned his head and noticed a Sky-Line at the end of the boardwalk that would take them to the hall. Scootaloo then saw something shining in corner of her eye and walked over to see what it was. She then came back and handed what she had found to Spike.
"Spike, look what I found. It a vigor." whispered Scootaloo as she handed Spike the vigor.
"Where did you find that at?" asked Spike before he drank the vigor.
"In that crate over there." said Scootaloo pointing to a small crate labeled Bucking Bronco Vigor. When had Spike finished drinking the vigor he seen that the scales on his claws start to split open and start bleed, but then his claws quickly turned back to normal.
"You ok?" asked Scootaloo, worried about Spike.
"Yea, I...I am fine. Do you see any way around them?" asked Spike.
"No. Looks like we will have to fight are way through them." said Scootaloo.
"No. I will deal with them you stay here." said Spike. He then walked out from the shop they were hiding behind and was quickly spotted by the flying pegasus leader.
"It's the Greedy Dragon! Get him!" shouted the pegasus. As the guards galloped towards him, Spike raised his claw and used the power the Bucking Bronco vigor gave him and lifted the entire group of guards up in the air. He then breathed his ice breath, and froze the entire group in a solid block of ice. The power soon wore off and dropped the frozen guards, causing them to shatter into a thousand pieces when they hit the ground. Spike then looked around to make sure that was all of them, seeing that there was no more guards he called out to Scootaloo.
"Ok. It's safe to come out now." said Spike. Scootaloo started to came out from behind the shop when a Zealot of the Lady appeared behind her. The zealot then grabbed her and put his sword to her neck.
"Drop your weapons or the mare looses her head." said the stallion. Spike did as he was told and dropped his pistol and shotgun. "Good, now kick them over to me." Spike kicked the shotgun over to him.
"I said both of them. Do it now or she will die." said the stallion as he pushed his sword closer to Scootaloo neck. Spike then winked at Scootaloo, telling her that he had a plan, she then nodded back to him. Spike raised his claw and used the power of the bucking bronco and lifted both the stallion and Scootaloo in the air. Spike then picked up pistol and took aim at the stallion in the air, careful not to hit Scootaloo, and fired at the stallion and killed him. Spike then ran over to pull Scootaloo back down and check to make sure she was not harmed.
"Are you ok?" asked Spike with a concern look on his face.
"Yea, thanks for saving me." said Scootaloo with a smile on her face.
"You're welcome. I change my mind, maybe those tears of yours would come in handy next time we get into a fight." said Spike
"Ok but there has to be a tear around for me to use. I can't just open ones that are not there." said Scootaloo as they walked towards the end of the boardwalk to the Sky-line. Spike was getting his Sky-Hook ready when he noticed Scootaloo picking up a Sky-Hook out of a crate.
"This is going to be awesome." said Scootaloo as she started to spin the Sky-Hooks blades.
"If your going to ride this thing on your own, then stay close behind me and hang on to your Sky-Hook." instructed Spike
"Got it." said Scootaloo. She then followed after Spike as he jumped up to the Sky-Line and began to ride up to the Hall Of Heros. Scootaloo thought riding the Sky-Line was the most exciting thing she had ever done, to her this was the closes thing to flying. They soon made it to the Hall of Heroes and saw that the entire place looked abandoned, but there was clear evidence that somepony was there. The entire plaza was trashed, with a half destroyed angel statue that laid in ruin, dead Cloudsdale guards lying everywhere, and all the windows of the museum were broken.
Spike and Scootaloo then entered into the Hall of Heroes and found a giant statue of Comstock with a sword in his claw and a plaque at the bottom of the statue.
"Our Prophet, Father Comstock, Leader of the 6th Guard Regiment." read Scootaloo.
"That dragon did not lead the 6th. I don't even remember guy." said Spike, then all of a sudden a spotlight turned on and shined a light on the statue of Comstock.
"Private Spike proved he was a real dragon two times on the battlefield." said a voice behind the spotlight.
"Garble? Is that you?" asked Spike looking up at the spotlight.
"You always been different Spike. I just blamed it on the fact that you were raised by a bunch of ponies." said Garble.
"Look we don't mean any harm, we just need some Shock Jockey. So if you would kindly let us through to where they keep it I ...." said Spike before Garble interrupted him.
"That so called dragon Comstock wants to kill me and my soldiers, but we will not die by the hoofs of a tin soldier. We will die by the hoofs of a real one. We will die like true dragons and stallions." said Grable before he turned off the spotlight.
"Scootaloo stay behind me. There is going to be trouble." said Spike. Scootaloo did as he said and hid behind him, then the doors in the back of the room opened up and a dragon, with a green scales, and a yellow pegasus ran through the doors. Spike took his shotgun fired two shots and kill them, then Garble spoke again.
"See Spike, you're a real dragon like it or not! You will always kill." said Garble.
"I don't want to do this Garble. Just give me the Shock Jockey so we can leave." said Spike.
"Oh you will get you want Spike. As soon as I get what I want. My soldiers wait for you at Appleloosa and the Badlands. Go give them the death they deserve." said Grable before leaving. Spike and Scootaloo soon made it to the place where Grable had told them to go, it was a room that split into two separate exhibits. The one that went to the right was labeled The Battle of Appleloosa and the on the left was labeled The Extermination of the Changelings. Spike and Scootaloo decided to go into the Appleloosa exhibit first, as they did the exhibit came to life and a buffalo chant began to play and cardboard cutouts of buffalo and stallions fighting started to pop up.
"The fake dragon is taking credit for the acts of real soldiers. The dragon you are with Miss, he became a true dragon of on November 29, 1904." said Garble over aloud speaker.
"What does he mean by that?" asked Scootaloo.
"You don't want to know." said Spike as they entered into the main Applelossa exhibit. The exhibit was filled with cutouts of buffalo warriors standing around a statue of Comstock with a sign above the said "The Hero of Appleloosa".
"You were there, at Appleloosa. I can see it on your face." said Scootaloo talking to Spike, but he did not hear her. He was seeing through the eyes of his younger self again, but this time the filly from before was not there. He was on the battlefield of Appleloosa fighting the buffalo warriors that were charging at him and his fellow guards.
"Tell her Spike. Tell her how we burned are buffalo enemies alive." said Garble pulling Spike back into reality. "Here he is colts. Go and get your heroes death." said Garble in a happy tone.
Then a group of stallions and dragons jumped out from behind the buffalo cutouts and started to charged toward Spike and Scootaloo, Spike pushed Scootaloo behind the Comstock statue and raised his shotgun and fired at the group. More stallions started to fall from the ceiling and began to open fire on him, Spike then took cover behind a small display case and tried to fire his shotgun only to find out that he was out of ammo. Seeing him throw his gun to the ground, Scootaloo grabbed a Carbine rifle from one of the dead dragons that was close to her and threw it over to Spike.
"Spike! Catch!" yield Scootaloo as she threw the rifle to him.
"Thanks." said Spike as he caught the rifle and started fire at the stallions trying to get to him, he then launched a flock of crows to kill the remaining stallions. After the fighting was done, Spike went to check and make sure Scootaloo was ok and search the dead dragons and ponies bodies for ammo.
"You see mare? You see the real dragon Comstock wishes he was?" asked Garble over the loudspeaker.
"I told you Garble. I don't want to do this. Just give me what I need." demanded Spike.
"I will Spike. Come and find me among the Changers." said Garble.
"What are the Changers?" asked Scootaloo.
"He means the Changelings. He wants us to go to the other exhibit." said Spike as he exited the Appleloosa exhibit. As they entered into the Changeling exhibit, Scootaloo noticed the strange cutouts that looked like a black pony/insect hybrids
"What is this?" asked Scootaloo looking at the strange creatures.
"It the Changeling army." answered Spike.
"What happened here?" asked Scootaloo.
"In the Badlands? It was my dragon breath the burned the kingdom to the ground. But of course that not what Comstock said happened." said Garble over the loudspeaker. They soon made it to the main Changeling exhibit, the exhibit was filled with cutouts of Changelings and a giant statue of Comstock on the ground with a pistol in his claw.
"I read about this. On November 12, 1904, Comstock lead the 6th regiment into the Badlands and...." said Scootaloo before Garble interrupted her.
"COMSTOCK WAS NOT THERE!!!" yelled Garble. "I was there. Spike was there too until I sent him away to bring renforcement. The Changers captured me and my comrades and tortured us for three days, they took eye and killed all of my friends right in front of me. Is there even a plaque to remember them by? NO!" shouted Grable in anger, as he ordered his soldiers to attack. The soldier jumped down out of the ceiling started to gallop towards Spike, one dragon tried to tackle him from behind, but Spike dodge him causing him to run into the other group and making them fall over themselves. While they tried to get back on their hoofs Spike froze them with his ice breath, killing them.
"Thank you Spike. You gave these soldiers a hero's death." said Garble
"I did not ask for this." said Spike in anger.
"Heroes never ask." said Garble.
"I never said I was a hero."
"Then what are you? If you take away all the parts of Spike the Dragon you tried to erase then what's left? hmm? I have what you want. You will find me in the gift shop past the First Ladies Memorial, it's almost over Spike." said Garble. Spike and Scootaloo were making their way out of the exhibit when Scootaloo noticed that Spike looked disturbed, because of what had Garble said.
"Spike, what did Garble mean? What did you try to erase?" asked Scootaloo.
"Now that you're out of yours, maybe you'll see that cages have their advantages." said Spike
"It is better to have a choice, than to never be able to chose, Spike." said Scootaloo.
"Yea, but if you woke up one day and decided you didn't like what you chose?" asked Spike with tone of regret in his voice. Spike and Scootaloo soon made it to The First Lady Memorial, as they entered into the first room of the memorial they found large paintings and statues of Lady Fluttershy. They then found a set of stairs that took them to the next room that had a stone statue of Lady Fluttershy riding on a chariot with a baby pegasus in her hoofs.
"The foal of the Prophet laid in the womb of our Lady for only two months." said Scootaloo as she read one of the plaques at the foot of the statue. "This can't be right. My books never said anything about Comstock's wife having a foal." said Scootaloo.
"That something big to leave out. I don't think that was by accident." said Spike as he watched her read the other plaque.
"But the foal took ill and our beloved lady prayed day and night for God to heal her. And after four days the foal was not only healed but had aged into a full grown mare." read Scootaloo. They then entered into the next room that had a statue of Comstock holding the mare in his arms as he walked to a replica of Scootaloo tower.
"Spike look, it's my tower." said Scootaloo. Then the statue of Comstock began to speak.
"While Applejack has killed my beloved, she will not have the mare. She will not come between her and prophecy." said the statue. "THE MARE OF THE PROPHET WILL SIT THE THRONE AND DROWN IN FLAME THE MOUNTAINS OF STALLIONS." said the statue in a loud voice.
"Am I... Am I?" asked Scootaloo.
"Your Comstock daughter." answered Spike.
"No I...I... I cant be. I just can't." said Scootaloo.
"He want you to follow in his hoofsteps." said Spike.
"Well I want a pet turtle, but we don't always get what we want." protested Scootaloo, with tears in her eyes, as she galloped out of the room with Spike chasing after her. Spike soon found Scootaloo collapsed on a bench, in the middle of a hallway, sobbing. He went and sat down beside her and tried his best to comfort her.
"I....I...I don't understand, how could I be that dragons child. Do I look like I am half a dragon to you?" asked Scootaloo through her tears.
"Well no, you look like a regular pegasus too me. Maybe you are part dragon on the inside and you just have the outward appearance of a regular pony. I don't think anypony really know what a dragon/pony hybrid is suppose looks like." said Spike hoping that would give her some comfort, but sadly it didn't. "That thing said that the foal had aged into a mare in just four days. How old are you exactly?" asked Spike.
"My birthday was just two days ago, I thought I had turned twenty-six, but I don't know anymore." said Scootaloo.
"Well, maybe you are and all this stuff about your age is just one big lie. It looks like it doesn't take much to fool the ponies around here, so it would be easy for Comstock to lie about your age." said Spike trying to make her feel better.
"Maybe, but I don't know Spike it just doesn't make any sense. I have memories of me being in that tower for as long as I can remember, all the way back to when I was a little filly." said Scootaloo.
"Just more evidence that prove that you really are twenty-six. It might not prove that you are not Comstock daughter, but it is at least something." said Spike.
"I guess. Thank you Spike this means alot to me, you talking with me like this." said Scootaloo as she wrapped her front hooves around Spike hugging him. As she did Spike was pulled back into another dream like state, this time he was hugging the filly from earlier, but now she was a young mare.
"You came back. I...I can't believe this. I thought you were dead." cried the mare hugging Spike.
"I promised I would come back to you, my Gem." said Spike.
"You did, you came back. You came back to me." said the mare through her tears.
"Spike are you ok? You're starting to cry." said Scootaloo with a concerned look on her face.
"Yea. I... I am fine." said Spike wiping the tears from his eyes.
"Are you sure? You kept saying Gem again." said Scootaloo.
"I am fine. Come on we still have to find Garble and get that vigor." said Spike as he got up from the bench.
"Ok." said Scootaloo in a worried tone, still concerned about Spike and the discovery her origin. The next room they entered into was a memorial to Lady Fluttershy death and had a statue of her having a red ribbon wrapped around her neck and another statue of an orange coated earth pony mare, with three apples for her cutie mark, holding the ribbon that was strangling Fluttershy. The sign below the statue read 'The Death of Our Dear Lady Fluttershy, Killed by the Anarchist Applejack'.
"Well this is not disturb at all." said Spike sarcastically casing Scootaloo to giggle. The last room had a statue of Comstock chasing Applejack and some dragons, griffins, and mules off a bridge and a sign above that said "The Prophet peruse Applejack and her Vox Ponyuli to this day." They soon made it to the courtyard where the gift shop was at, and came up to a large gate that kept them out of the courtyard.
"Great how are we suppose to get around this?" asked Spike as he tried to shake the gate open. Scootaloo then looked up and saw something that might answer Spike's question.
"Spike, Look up there, it a tear." said Scootaloo pointing to the tear. Spike looked up to the tear and was able to see what it was.
"It a freight hook, thats convenient." said Spike.
"It's a form of wish fulfillment. It looks like I can pull it through." said Scootaloo.
"Well go ahead and open it." said Spike. Scootaloo then put her wings in front of her face and began to pull open the tear and bringing the freight hook into their world. Spike then grabbed Sky-Hook and was getting ready to jump on to the freight hook when he noticed that there was only one hook for them to use, so he grabbed Scootaloo's hoof and ran with her up to the freight hook attached to it. They then jumped down from the hook and walked across the courtyard to the gift shop, as they entered into the shop they found the place completely empty. Then all of a sudden three, seven feet tall, machine in the shape of the founders of Equestria came to life. They all started to speak at once, making it hard to understand what any of them were saying, and then all the machines turned off.
"You see what Comstock wants to replace us with. These tin soldier. He will replace all of us with them. I will not be replaced by a tin dragon." said Garble over a loudspeaker, as soon as Garble finished speaking one of the machines in the back shop started to hit against the glass case holding it. The machine was in the shape of Comstock and held a large gatling gun in its claws, it soon broke through it's glass case and started shooting at Spike and Scootaloo. Spike and Scootaloo took cover behind the counter as the machine fired at them. Spike then checked to make sure Scootaloo was not hit, seeing that she was alright Spike began to shoot at the machine. Scootaloo then saw a tear with a MG turret inside it, she then started to open the tear and pull the turret through. As soon as the turret appeared it locked on to the Motorized Comstock and started to shoot at it. With the combined firepower of both Spike and the turret the machine was destroyed.
"You see Spike, maybe you're the dragon I remember. Maybe not, it doesn't matter anymore, Comstock has sent his stallions to capture me.You can have your vigor now, it's in the back of the store." said Garble as a spotlight shined on the door of the room that held the vigor. Spike and Scootaloo entered into the room only to find that the room was empty.
"It not hear. Garble where is the vigor!" yelled Spike.
"Come and finish what you started, Spike. Me and my stallions are waiting for you in the courtyard." said Garble. Spike and Scootaloo ran out of the gift shop and back into the courtyard when they did, they seen small airships flying above the hall.
"Spike what are those?" asked Scootaloo.
"It's Comstocks guards, they're coming for Garble." said Spike. Then Garble walked out onto the balcony of the memorial and started to shoot lightning from his claws at the airships, lighting them on fire.
"IT WAS GARBLE THAT FOUGHT AT APPLELOOSA. IT WAS GARBLE THAT BURNED THE CHANGELING KINGDOM TO THE GROUND." shouted Garble. "Do you see Spike? Comstock has sent his tin soldiers to kill me and my colts. We will not die by their hoofs. Here he is guys, the dragon that will give us our heroes death!" said Garble, after he said that his soldiers started to jump down from the balcony and fire at Spike. Scootaloo, who was hiding behind a column, started to open another tear and bring through another turret and a Motorized Comstock to help Spike defeat the stallions and dragons trying to kill him. Spike took cover behind the turret and was able to kill many of the stallions and dragons that were taking cover from the Motorized Comstock. Spike took aim at the last stallion standing, that had just killed the Motorized Comstock, and was about to shoot him when he seen Garble getting ready to shoot his lightning at Scootaloo. Seeing this, Spike quickly changed his aim and fired at Garble and shot him in his left shoulder causing him to flee back into the the First Lady Memorial. After Spike had killed the last stallion, he called out to Scootaloo for her come out from where she was hiding. They then made their way back to the memorial and found Garble laying on the ground past out, Spike walked over to Garble and went to pick up the Shock Jockey that he had took, when Grable grabbed his claw.
"You're not done here dragon. Finish it." said Garble handing Spike his pistol. "Please." begged Garble, Spike was taken back by what Garble had just said. Knowing that if he spared Garble he would be captured and tortured to an inch of his life, Spike decided to kill him. Spike then took the pistol from Garble claw and pointed it at his head.
"They haven't changed you Spike. Not.... one... bit." said Garble before Spike pulled the trigger. Scootaloo turned away before Spike pulled the trigger and jumped when she heard the shot. Spike then took the vigor from Garble.
"This better have been worth all this Garble." said Spike as he uncorked the bottle. After Spike finished drinking the vigor, his claws started to grow weird purple crystal and started to shoot lightning from them. As Spike's claws turned back to normal, he decided to try out his new power on a nearby fountain. He pointed his left claw at the water and began to shoot lightning at it, shocking the water. He then turned back to Scootaloo and seen her standing over Garble lifeless body.
"I guess it was an act of mercy. Comstock's guards would have taken him and done who knows what to him." said Scootaloo as she closed Garble eyes with her hoof.
"It was." said Spike
"Do you ever get used to killing?" asked Scootaloo as she started to head back to the entrance of the Hall of Heroes.
"Faster than you can imagine." answered Spike following behind her. They walked back to the entrance in complete silence, both of them were trying to come to grips with what had happened. Spike was trying to block out the memories of the horrible acts he had committed when he was a royal guard and Scootaloo was still trying to understand how she could be Comstock daughter. Spike had convinced her that even if she is Comstock daughter the stories about her ageing into a full grown mare in just four days could not be true, since she has memories of being in that tower all her life. The one thing she could not wrap her mind around was the fact of her being Comstock daughter.
"How could I be his daughter? It doesn't make any sense, even if what Spike said is true and I am really half a dragon on the inside. Wouldn't I be able breath fire?" thought Scootaloo. Spike and Scootaloo finally made it back to the plaza of the Hall of Heroes and road the Sky-line back to the boardwalk. As they entered into the elevator that would take them back to Soldier Field, Spike decided to ask Scootaloo about her tears.
"So...How you are able to do, what ever it is you do with those tears?" asked Spike as he pushed the button on the elevator for it to go down.
"Well to be honest, I really don't know how I am able too. I have been able to open them ever since I was a little filly. I remember when I was younger not just being able to open tears but create ones." said Scootaloo
"But how?" asked Spike.
"Well I tried to figure it out. I read some books on physics."
"What did they teach you?"
"That there is a world a difference from what we see and what is." said Scootaloo as they exited the elevator and made their way to the gondolas controls. As they walked to the controls they noticed that the entire amusement park was empty, Scootaloo suggested that the park was closed and that was why it was empty. Spike told her to stay close to him just incase it was a trap. They soon made it back to the gondolas controls and Spike shot the lightning from his claw at power source, after the power came back on he pulled the lever and summon the gondola. Spike saw that Scootaloo was getting more and more excited the closer the gondola got to them. Then out of nowhere two Cloudsdale sky barges, full of armed guards, rose up from the clouds and surrounded them. Comstock then started to speak over a loudspeaker.
"He will leave you my sweet sweet Scootaloo. Once he has what he want he will toss you aside like an old toy. What do you expect from a liar and killer." said Comstock.
"Dad...Prophet...Comstock, who ever you are. I am leaving whether you like me to or not, and there is nothing you can do to stop me." said Scootaloo.
"Oh my sweet child. That's where you're wrong. Kill the Greedy Dragon but do not harm the Mare." said Comstock. The guards then jumped off the barges and started to gallop/fly towards Spike and Scootaloo. Spike and Scootaloo ran to a near by bookstore to take cover, Spike then took his rifle and aimed at the unicorns that were firing their magic at them. Spike was able to shot one guard in his neck, just before he could fire his magic at Spike, and made the unicorns magic hit one of the flying pegasus guards. Scootaloo then seen a tear at the entrance of one of the shops close to where the guards were taking cover, she then pointed the tear out to Spike to see if he thought it would help them. Spike shook his head and told her to open it, Scootaloo then put her wing in front of her face and opened the tear pulling through a speeding train through that ran over the unicorn guards.
After Spike finished off the rest of guards, he and Scootaloo made a run for the gondola before more guards could arrived. They made it into the control room and pulled the lever to send them to the aerodrome. Seeing that there was no guards chasing them, Spike and Scootaloo decided that they were in the clear for the time being.
"Spike, why did you come here to Cloudsdale?" asked Scootaloo.
"To come and get you." answered Spike.
"Yes, but why?"
Spike sighed "I gambled and I owe money to ponies you don't want to be in debt to. I came here to pay it back."
"Who sent you?"
"Somepony willing to take away my debt in exchange for you." said Spike. The gondola soon arrived at the aerodrome and dropped them off at the main hall of the aerodrome. They soon found an elevator that would take them to the top of the building where the airship was docks, as they entered the elevator Scootaloo noticed a poster of a dragon with its claw reaching out to an orange pegasus mare, seeing this made her laugh.
"Well it looks like you're the Greedy Dragon, Spike." said Scootaloo pointing at the poster.
"I guess that makes you the Mare." remarked Spike.
"Yea, lets not call each other that." said Scootaloo.
"Fine with me." said Spike as the elevator stopped at landing pad where the airship was at. Spike made Scootaloo wait outside of the airship until he made sure that nopony was in it, after he had finished checking airship he called for her to come in. They made their way to the control room and Spike started to pull the levers to set their destination.
"I want to see Mare-is. I want to see everything." said Scootaloo flapping her wings in excitement.
"Well that up to you now." said Spike as he finished putting in their destination.
"Hey. What is that? 40 north by 74 west? That Manehattan not Mare-is" said Scootaloo seeing the coordinates that Spike put in.
"Wait, how did you know that?" asked Spike
"Another thing I had in that tower besides books was time. Time to study stuff like geography." said Scootaloo irritated that Spike had underestimated her.
"Look there is a stallion in Manehattan that was willing to wipe away my debt if I brought you to him." said Spike, then Scootaloo started to cry. Spike walked over to her and tried to get her to stop crying.
"Come on Scootaloo. I sorry I lied to you. If you will just turn around and look at me so we can t...." said Spike as Scootaloo stopped crying and grabbed a wrench, that was laying on the control board, in her wing and hit Spike in the head with it knocking him unconscious.
Author's Note
I apologize for Garble not having many original lines in the story and for having to change Scootaloos age. Also I am not that good at writing action sequence so i apologize for the fight scenes filling rushed and lacking detail I will try to approve on that. I will soon be doing a q&a for the story in the next few days. so if there is anything thing you want to know about regarding the story just comment here or PM me.
Bioshock Infinite: The City Made of Clouds
Spike found himself lying on the floor of the control room and fading in and out of consciousness. He was able to see Scootaloo messing with the controls, trying to steer the airship, before he passed out.
"Of course I still love you silly. Why in Equestria would you think I wouldn't still love you?" asked the mare.
"I was gone for a long time. I figured you would have moved on and found somepony else." answered Spike.
"First off, you were only gone for three months. Second you promised me you would come back and you did."
"But you said you thought I was dead." said Spike
"That's because you stopped writing to me. Look at me Spike." ordered the mare. Spike did as he was told and looked at her.
"I will always love you Spike and nothing will ever change that." said the mare
"I love you ..........." Spike started to regain consciousness.
"How in Equestria do you steer this thing?" asked Scootaloo out loud as she pulled the levers. She seemed to be having trouble putting in the airships new coordinates.
"Yes. Finally." exclaimed Scootaloo as she finally was able to put in the coordinates she wanted. The sign on the dashboard read 48N 2E, she was steering the airship towards Mare-is, Spike then began to pass out again.
"Spike are you ok?" asked the mare with a worried look on her face. Spike was staring into space, having flashbacks of his time as a royal guard. "SPIKE!!!" yelled the mare.
"Sorry. Sorry" apologized Spike as he shaked his head.
"You really need to talk to me about what happened." said the mare. Spike just sat there in silence hoping his marefriend would drop the subject, but to his dismay she didn't.
"Spike, will you please talk to me about what happened? I can't help you, if you don't talk to me."
"I am fine. I promise."
"No you're not. Why are you so afraid of talking to me about what happened?"
"I am afraid you will think I am monster." answered Spike with a tears in his eyes. The mare then wrapped her hooves around him and hugged him. Spike then began to tell her everything that had happened in the Badland and Appleloosa.
"Spike you listen to me. You were under orders to do those things. If any pony is to feel guilty, it's the ponies that gave you those orders. You are not a monster." said the mare. Spike then began to hear Scootaloo's voice, causing him to wake up.
"No. Anypony but them." said Scootaloo as she hid underneath the control board. Spike was soon able see what she was talking about, it was a small sky barge wrapped in red ribbon, flying in the distance. Scootaloo then stopped the airship when she seen the barge start to fly towards them. After the airship came to a complete stop Scootaloo galloped over to the airships exit, Spike rolled over to face the exit and looked up at Scootaloo, who was looking down at him. She looked like she was trying to decide if she should leave Spike on the airship or not. She then decided to leave him and jumped out of the airship, Spike passed out just as the Vox Ponyuli began to board the ship. Spike was starting to wake up again when he seen various wounded creature and ponies limping into the control room, as Spike tried to get up he seen a tall red earth pony stallion standing over him.
"Nnope." said the stallion as raised his right hoof and punched Spike in the face, causing him to pass out again.
"......Will you marry me?" asked Spike, on one knee with a tiny box in his claw.
"YES!!!!!" screamed the mare, in a loud enough pitch that she could be heard all the way in Vanhoover, as she tackled Spike to the ground.
"I don't think they heard you Los Pegasus." said Spike sarcastically.
"Oh be quiet." said the mare with tears in her eyes.
"So do you like it?"
"Spike. It beautiful."
"I hoped you would like it." said Spike as the mare started to kiss him.
"I love you Spike. I love you so much." said the mare.
"I love you to............" Spike then started to feel a gust wind hit his face, causing him to wake up.
"Whoa." said Spike as he hung out of the window of the First Lady. Spike was able to see a large group of earth ponies, dragons, griffins, and mules chained together trying to crush large rocks on a prison airship, flying below the First Lady, with a Handy-Stallion watching over them.
"Big Mac, is the dragon up yet?" asked a mare.
"Eeyup." said Big Mac as he pulled Spike back into the airship.
"So you the Greedy Dragon ah been hearing so much about." said the mare as she trotted over to Spike, who was being held by Big Mac. Spike quickly recognized the mare that was talking to him.
"I am guessing your Applejack." said Spike
"You would be right." said Applejack.
"Look I have no problem with you or your Vox Ponyuli, but this is my airship you are dangling me out off and I am in great need of it." said Spike looking Applejack in the eyes.
"Really? Cause this sure look like Comstocks airship to me." said Applejack.
"I'm not looking for a fight." said Spike.
"There's already a fight dragon. The only question is which side y'all on." said Applejack as she showed Spike some of the wounded Vox Ponyuli. "Comstock is the king of the rich ponies, the privilege ponies, the so called special ponies. But if you believe in common the creatures then join the Voxs. If you believe in the good creatures then join the Voxs. If you believe in the hard working creatures then join the............." said Applejack
"I just want my airship." interrupted Spike, irritated by the mare.
"And the Voxs will give her to you, but first you must help us." said Applejack. She then pulled out a business card from her hat. "Down in Flim & Flams there is a gunsmith named Caramel. Find him and get our guns from him, then you can have your airship back." said Applejack as she put the business card between Spike's top spines. She then nodded to Big Mac and he pushed Spike out of the airship, Spike fell a few feet and landed on his back, he then discovered that he landed on the Flim & Flams Industry loading docks.
"Great no airship and no Scootaloo. I better find Scootaloo before she gets into trouble." thought Spike as he got up. As he searched around the docks, Spike heard one of the dockworkers talking to his supervisor about an orange pegasus mare trying to get on some of the transport ships at the delivery center. Spike was quickly able to find the entrance to the delivery center, as he approached the door to the delivery center Spike started to hear Scootaloo arguing with one of the ships captain.
"Oh come on, just let me ride until we get to a airship station." said Scootaloo as she was being pushed off of the cargo ship.
"I said no. Now get out of here before I call the guards." said the captain as he pulled the railing back onto the ship, so Scootaloo could not get back on.
"Scootaloo." said Spike as he opened the door. Scootaloo then started to run away from him.
"Stay away!" yelled Scootaloo as she galloped to the exit.
"Wait! I just want to talk to you!" yelled Spike as he followed behind her.
"I said stay away from me." said Scootaloo as she kicked over a large stack of shipping crates, thinking it would slow Spike down. Spike quickly climbed over the crates and continued to chase after her.
"Scootaloo, I am sorry I lied to you. Will you please just stop so we can talk." said Spike.
"No!" yelled Scootaloo as she opened a tear and pulled through a pink earth pony mare dancing around falling balloon.
"Hey Spike." said Pinkie Pie as Spike ran through the falling balloons.
"Scootaloo stop. I just want to talk to you!" yelled Spike.
"Leave me alone" said Scootaloo as she opened another tear pulling Pinkie Pie through again, this time she was playing ten different instruments.
"Hey...... Spike." said Pinkie Pie between breath as she played her instruments.
"Move mare." said Spike as he pushed Pinkie out of the way.
"Hey, I have a name. It Pinkie Pie"
"Scootaloo I am not made at you." said Spike.
"That makes one of us." said Scootaloo as she got ready to pull open another tear and pull through a large blue tank with a yellow earth pony stallion riding on top of it.
"Oh come on." said Spike.
"Hey Pinkie!" yelled the stallion
"Hey Cheese. What are you up to?" asked Pinkie
"Oh you know. Just passing through." said Cheese Sandwich as his tank drove through another tear. Once the tank was out of the way Spike ran into a large warehouse, that Scootaloo was in. As he ran up to meet her, Scootaloo opened a tear to another part of the docks.
"Wait don't go in there!" warned Spike.
"No." said Scootaloo as she went through the tear, she was then quickly grabbed by two guards on the other side of the tear.
"We've got the Mare." yelled one of the guards as the tear closed before Spike could get to it.
"No!" yelled Spike as he ran to the place where the tear Scootaloo went through was. "Great now where did they take her?" thought Spike as he looked around the warehouse for a clue that could tell him where the guards might have taken her. He soon found a map of the docks and found the place that they might have taken Scootaloo, a workers holding area close the warehouse.
"It looks like I can take the Sky-line to there." said Spike as he looked at the map and the Sky-line outside of the warehouse. He then ran out to the Sky-line and and road it to the holding area. Spike soon made it to the holding area and watched the guards put Scootaloo in a cell. Scootaloo seemed to be trying to push the guards out of her way so she could escape, but one of the guards slapped her, making her fall back into the cell. Seeing this Spike jumped down from the sky-line and started ran towards the guards. The guards saw Spike running towards them and started to gallop towards an alarm, to call for more guards, but Spike quickly shot one of the guards in the head and grabbed the other and threw him against one of the cells knocking the guard unconscious. Spike then took the guard's machine gun and the key to Scootaloo's cell, and ran over to her cell to unlock the door. As soon as Spike opened her cell door, Scootaloo opened a tear and pulled out a sky-line and began to ride it.
"Will you just stop already?" asked Spike in frustration.
"I am not going with you!" yelled Scootaloo, Spike then started to follow her on the sky-line. The line took them to a cargo barge that was getting ready to go to the Flim & Flam Industry's Worker Induction Center. Scootaloo then jumped off the line and galloped toward a departing barge, Spike started to run towards the barge when a Handy-Stallion jumped down in front of him.
"Greedy Dragon!" yelled the Handy-Stallion as he grabbed Spike in his metal hoof and threw him over to a nearby hanging crate. Spike was able to grab onto the crate and began to climb on top of it. Just as Spike got on top of the crate, the Handy-Stallion threw a large metal disk at the ropes holding the crate, causing Spike to fall. Just as Spike began to fall Scootaloo opened a tear and pulled out a hot air balloon, with a strange pink thing on top of it, to catch him. Spike was able to grab onto one of the ropes on the side of the hot air balloon, but as he pulled on the rope he felt the rope starting to snap.
"Hey. I need a little help here." said Spike.
"Do not follow me, Ms. Spike." said Scootaloo turning away from him.
"Scootaloo I am sorry I lied to you, but I have made a deal to get our airship back." said Spike.
"You can get us out of here?"
"Yes. I just have to supply enough weapons to start an entire revolution." said Spike
"Of course you do, and how are we suggest to get these weapons?"
"A gunsmith in Flim & Flams. Should be easy."
"Yea just like everything else." said Scootaloo
"Come on I can't do this without you. What do you say, partners?" asked Spike with his claw extended out to Scootaloo.
"You are a liar Mr. Spike, but you are my only hope of getting to Mare-is. Ok partners." said Scootaloo as she help Spike down from the balloon. "Don't think that just because we are working together that makes us friends."
"Can we be friends?" asked Pinkie standing on top of the balloon, surprising Spike and Scootaloo.
"Just ignore her and she will go away." whispered Spike.
"No I wont." said Pinkie.
"Who are you?" asked Scootaloo.
"I am Pinkie Pie. Who are you?"
"I am Scootaloo and this is Spike."
"Come on Scootaloo we need to find that gunsmith." said Spike trying to get away from Pinkie.
"Who Carmel? I know where he lives. I can take you to him." said Pinkie.
"No thanks. We know where he lives him." said Spike.
"Really?" asked Scootaloo raising an eyebrow.
"No, but she doesn't need to know that." whispered Spike thinking Pinkie would not hear him this time.
"I heard that."
"Do really know where he lives?" asked Scootaloo.
"Yup. he lives at the Plaza of Zeal in Flim & Flams" answered Pinkie
"Ok you can come with us." said Scootaloo.
"No she can't. We will find him on are own." said Spike.
"Oh please please please let me go with you." begged Pinkie giving Spike the saddest look she could.
"Fine." said Spike. Pinkie then jumped down from the balloon, and hugged Spike and Scootaloo, nearly crushing their bones.
"Yea! new friends." said Pinkie. The trio then entered into the Worker Induction Center to find away to Flim & Flams.
Author's Note
Pinkie Pie will now be apart of the main story, figured she be a good Idea to add. The reason I decided to add Pinkie Pie to Spike and Scootaloo's group was. One, I remembered back when everyone was trying to figure out what the dlc for infinite might be and it was thought that there would be a new main character to join Booker and Elizabeth. Second, I have plans for her. Also my resent blog has new story idea's I need help deciding which one I should do first so if you want go check that out.
