Spike walked with luna through an empty Ponyville. She put away her royal we for a more familiar tone.

"When Equsetria was young wars between species were the norm. dragons, unicorns, ponies all fought .

Even I went to battle against my own sister.

Beasts of all kinds struggling for power just for the sake of power.

When I returned from banishment my battle continued on."

Spike sighed "We all saw how that went"

"Indeed Spike, My eyes that were shielded by my vanity were opened. My sister still loved me. and the

world I left had changed, Not for the better and not for the worse. Just different. Like I and you."

Spike looked down fumbling with his claws "You saw the dreams, You think I've got a chance?"

Luna yawned and gave a quick answer "We all have a chance, Will you be strong enough to chose?"

...

Spikes dream decomposed to sounds, Sounds of wagons being loaded ,sounds of cookware shuffling around,

fillies laughing , ponies talking ,even a "Eeyep" punctuated the air. Spike felt a soft warm blanket above

and a soft warm cushion below. Another day had blossomed and he was still half asleep.

Spike laid on his back stretched out his limbs and tail. First up to the air then out to his sides.

As the blanket flung off in a heap to his left,

Spike rolled right and stood up on all fours before he opening his eyes.

He let out a final yawn and saw black ! Black as coal as in no light ! The drake panted and let out a scream.

...

"I'm BLIND ! Twilight ! Rarity I can't see ! ,I can't see nothing Help ! Help ME!"

Spike scampered to the voices beyond the confines of the mobile palace .

His advances suddenly stopped as Twilights aura of magic cradled the fleeing drake.

"Spike what's wrong !" Twilight cried out.

Spikes answer was brief "COLD ! LUNA !DREAM ! RARITY ! BLIND !"

Floating in her grasp had his claws, nose and tail pointing to all sections of the compass.

His spade tail pointing due Twilight.

" I can't see anything!" Spike said coldly .

Twilight slowly turned Spike around and spoke to him slowly in a calming voice

"Yes Spike, It was freezing last night, Rarity and I kept you warm,

And You did have a strange dream with Luna, And What's this about Rarity making you blind?"

_._

Spike heard a little giggle slip from Twilight with the last words. Flustered He asked "Now how would Rarity

make Me go blind?"

Twilight teased the sightless drake "Lots of ways Spike, Like..."

Spike spat out "No ! Twilight! Don't even go... "

She continued "Like taking Raritys sleep mask off!"

Spike went limp with relief and removed the pink mask with red hearts and white fringes.

"Whoa, Don't I look silly." He said a little sheepishly as he was deposited back to solid ground.

Her magic placed the sleep mask to its spot and Twilight said with a soft laugh

"You might be Raritys Spikey Wikey but you'll always be my baby dragon and a national treasure"

Spike hugged the boss-sister-mom BBBFFs little sister and room mate.

"Come on Spike AJs got lunch going" Twilight said with a grumble in her belly.

_,_

They exited the portable palace looking forward to lunch. Out past the fire ring was a bench full of mouth

watering munchies, pies, cakes, burgers ,beans. Main courses and side dishes , salads ,ciders and more.

Along with the added hooves came the added stomachs.

" Twilight ,Twilight Sparkle ! " Wailed Mayor Mare.

Her thoughts of a quick Hay burger vanished as the Mayor informed the princess of the violations that

were piling up with the excavation and unpermitted modification of the land scape. She studied the area.

Raritys portable palace, bed rolls, wagons being loaded by Big Mac ,Pinkie , The Cutie mark crusaders and

assorted back ground ponies.

A big piece of real estate was pock marked and scared like a no ponies land from the First Equestrian War.

The war to end all wars.

Twilight looked at her number one assistant and said "Spike take a note"

_j_

___________________________________________________________________________________

"Dear Princeaa Celestia,

Bla bla bla bla bla La Spike Bla bla bla bla Bits Bla bla bla Dragons Bla bla bla Dig dig Bla bla Me

Bla la la la la Pinkie Bla bla Rarity Bla bla bla Everypony Bla bla trouble Bla bla AJ ,Pinkie Bla bla Bla

Cold, Luna, Dream, Rarity BLIND Ha Ha Ha Bla bla bla Mayor Mare Bla Big Trouble Bla Real Hungry.

The Princess of Friendship

Always your Student

Princess Twilight Sparkle

_______________________________________________________________________________

_j_

Spike rolled the scroll and with the usual blast of green flame sent the note.

Derpy just watched in awe as the letter was sent with postage due.

The Mayor and Twilight debated the finer points of government,

Spike sat himself down to a Hay burger and fries. The crusaders grouped around the bench chowing down after

a hard morning of "CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS EXCAVATOR CONSTRUCTION SPECIALISTS"

All mouths were full as Sweetie Belle asked a loaded question

"Spike I see you always helping around the boutique and stuff why don't you

ask my Sis out on a real date?"

Spike and Scootaloo both gaged except Spikes was a real deep choking gag .

Applebloom charged and gave the drake a good back thump sending the plug of half chewed

hay burger into the air with a pop of green flame. It vanished in the cloud of smoke.

He coughed and looked at Sweetie "What? - hack-What did you say Sweetie?" His eyes bugging out.

Applebloom looked at the startled drake

"Everypony in town knows you're like a love sick puppy following Rarity

like she has a pork chop strung around her neck"

Everypony at the bench nodded.

Spike sighed and buried his snout in his claws , He thought 'Is it that noticeable?'

_l_

The crusaders watched Spike for the answer to Sweeties question.

Spike took a breath and looked at the prying eyes of the fillies,

How can't you answer after seeing the little urchin faces. He again took a deep deep deeper breath .

He slowly let it out bit by bit.

"Sweetie? Have you ever seen Rarity come back after one of her so called dates?"

Sweetie looked at her hooves and nodded silently.

Spike saw and continued "It's not a pretty sight" Spike sniffed a little "One disaster after another,

I can't see how she doesn't see through the jerks and douche-bagels"

Two fillies giggled at the last words. Sweetie could see the hurt in Spikes eyes and she reached

out and gave him a hug.

"Try and ask her Spike" she whispered in his ear fluke,

Spike sighed and whispered back to her"I don't want to be another of her has been failures"

Spike excused himself and waddled away into the crowd feeling a bit alone and asking "Why me?"

_I_

The mob had shifted from lunch right into high gear toting bags of gems and lifting bales of whatever.

Flutters was huffing and puffing trying to fly a bale if trash from the work site.

Dashie was coaching her on as she too was hauling a load,

Other Pegasus joined in the work with a few mouthy pudd knockers.

"Hay ,Rainbow trash Time to trade in your Rainboom for a Rain broom."

Before the offending Pegasus had finished his untimely rant

Dashie saddled him with a big load of his own.

"Here ya go sport you're now twenty percent heaver" Dashie shagged him.

The Brown Pegasus grunted "Thanks"

Rainbow returned with her trade marked "Don't mention it"

It looked as the fields were picked clean, Only empty craters dotted the landscape like Lunas old prison.

Twilight, AJ and Rarity were now arguing with the Mayor as to where Ponyville stopped and Equestria

unincorporated territory began.

_qp_

As the work wrapped up for the day Spike noticed that the calculations Twilight had, did not take into

account the added hooves of the good citizens of Ponyville taking an unscheduled job fest in Spikes honor.

He waddled on and saw all the happy folks helping. Helping not because he was a

hero of the crystal Empire,

Or the number one assistant of a Princess. But helping a nice drake because he had

been nice and helpful himself.

They were giving not to be rewarded but helping as he did. Without expecting payment, no reservations.

He continued along avoiding the multitude of holes seeing the whole affair wind down.

Waddle walk waddle.

He felt a swelling in the pit of his belly, Was it pride? Was it the Lunch he had? It continued to grow till...

"BELCH" A letter from Princess Celestia ! He was feeling better even with what little lunch he had.

_**_

"Twilight ! Twilight !" Spike yelled as he delivered the scroll from a higher authority.

The Mayor ,Princess, and the rest waited for the reading. Spike cleared his throat "A hem A hem",

He took a small breath.

________________________________________________________________________________

From the office of Princess Celestia Office of Accounting #1121

Canterlot Castle Route 1 A OBM # C1-001

EQUESTRIA GOVERNMENT BUSINESS CENTER Sun Drive

Dear Princess Twilight Sparkle

As you know Ponyville laws and Ordinances need to be followed and even a princess must

set an example to her subjects, We in Government have to work hard to win the public trust.

Please follow any requests the Mayor or any other public official might have so we can service

everypony with equality and dignity. Please vote in the next election and buy municipal bonds.

All Equestria correspondence is written on recycled paper. Please write wisely

Sincerely your Princess Celestia

cc: CB Hamster

cc: RT Fink

form 8130 rev a-1

_________________________________________________________________________________

**

Spike just looked at the scroll and muttered "That's totally messed up"

Twilight just stood with a ' WHAT the HAY ' look frozen with disbelief.

Everypony other than the Mayor mare thought Celestria had gone over the brink and entered

Equestria Weight Watchers and Cakes Anonymous .

The clean up continued, Raritys portable palace the bed rolls and gear was

loaded on the wagon with care.

Twilight still was talking to the Mayor in hopes of negotiating a settlement in the so called violations.

The cutie mark crusaders ganged up on Spike and were pushing him along past Big Mac, past AJ,

past Twilight and the rest.

Rainbow and Fluttershy flew in for another garbage run,

when they saw the drake being pushed along hoof by hoof, Step by step :The two hovered.

Dashie could see what was going on with Spike Rarity and the CMC, She hoofed out and

pulled Fluttershy close and spoke softly "Watch,This is going to be fun !"

**

Rarity watched her little sister, Scootaloo and Applebloom push Spike towards her position.

She could only laugh at the sight of the fillies over powering the Hero of the Crystal Empire.

The defeated knight stood in front of the Lady. The fillies poking and prodding him.

The gals said in a unlikely concord "Spike has something to say to you"

Rarity looked into his emerald green eyes and spoke "Well what is it you need to say?

Sweetie what is this all about young lady?"

Sweetie nudged Spike a little more.

Spikes vision collapsed and all he saw was her baby blues, He couldn't hear thundering roars beyond

his beating heart, This was it.

Luna had asked him if he was strong enough for it.

For the longest time he had a nice speech planed for just the right time.

"Rarity?" he asked like a drunken sailor on a binder. "Rarity?"

The white mare asked "Yes Spikey?"

"Raritywillyoubemymare?"

He had messed it up big time ! He thought 'I'm so hosed ! -Noooooooooo !'.

__

Raritys eyes twitched her nose scrunched up and her ears laid back on her mane, That look, That wild look.

She was prancing around in circles, Looking like she did in Shining Armors wedding when she

pounced on those poor flower foals diving for the tossed bridal bouquet.

Sweetie Belle remembered that day with her big sister and yelled "She's going cray cray!"

Twilight charged her horn ready to protect her number one assistant. Rainbow roared with laughter,

Flutters hid behind a cloud, Pinkie spun around into her tail and vanished in a puff of pink dust.

Spike trembled as his enraged marsh mellow approached him . She's taking it rather good so far.

She looked into his soul and asked one long question. Here it comes

"Can you even find it conceivable that you can furnish this ladys requirement as a consort?"

Spike put a claw to his snout and humbly looked up at her, Thinking 'I'm dead already, Oh well.

"I can only try my best Lady Rarity" Can it get any worse?

The crusaders scrambled for cover as Rarity stomped her hooves and reared up .Spike closed his eyes

accepting his doom, Everfree Forest Lawn here I come.

Waiting the few microseconds felt like hours, Twilight watched Spike get picked up by

his overjoyed white mare in a tight hug.

"I thought you would never ask ,You silly Drake!" YES YES YES YES

She happily exclaimed as tears fell through her painted eyes .

0.o

She smothered the purple drake in kisses kicked up her hooves and pranced around floating him aloft

in a blue aura of her horns magic.

The sight was a circus of micro proportions AJ ,Big Mac and the crusaders climbed aboard the wagons

and set off to town laughing at Spikes plight.

Shy giggled and joined Dashies fun flight over the field.

Twilight was in tears sitting on her plot holding back snickers.

Spike took his claw and fist pumped up to the wild blue. As they passed his purple sister-boss-roommate

the butterflies in his belly rumbled, and roared. "belch !" .

Out popped a Scroll and it floated into Twilights hooves.

___________________________________________________________________

Dear Princess Twilight Sparkle

Please Disregard the previous letter. ( Numbered 1121)

I have looked into the mineral rights as out lined in the treaty of the Diamond dogs v Rarity

Royal Court case EQ 23146 Dog vs Pony.

The land in question has been subcontracted for strip mining by the PFRF corporation.

Please inform Mayor mare all regulations will be followed as required by Equestrian laws.

I am informed by Princess Luna about Spike and Raritys happy situation and wish them all the best.

(Now when are you going to step up to the plate?)

PS. Tell Spike to chew his food better before swallowing ,The janitorial staff would appreciate it.

Don't be such a stranger and come out for a visit some time, Cakes and tea on the house.

Princess Celestia (Tia)

______________________________________________________________________

''''
Twilight looked at Mayor mare and smugly remarked "Looks like it's out of your hooves now Mayor!"

The Mayor looked at the scroll and rolled her eyes " R-H.I.P. Princess , Rank Has Its Privileges.

See you at the next meeting at city hall" The bi-spectacled mare exited field left.

Twilight looked at the scroll and asked herself out loud " I know about the diamond dogs-

but what's this PFRF corporation ?"

She looked at the late day sun and turned to see Spike and Rarity strolling back to Ponyville.

" Wait up you two ! You both have a lot of explaining to do!" Twi galloped off after the couple.

She followed the scent of strawberries and the sound of laughter.

...

The sun glistened off the chrome and pink behemoth sitting off in the distance, It loomed larger than life

made of iron and steel the dirt yielded under it's unloaded weight,

It chugged to life belching flame and smoke puff, Chug puff chug PUFF CHUG CHUG.

It ROARED to full power. Hideous forces driving pumps and pistons.

It's studded treads moving over massive rollers. The links straining as giant drive sprockets turned.

The beast clawed over the pock marked earth the shiny blade lowering

and cutting fresh gashes into the ground.

The operator yelled a mighty "Wooo Hoooo!" As she pushed and pulled the levers .

It raged on with it's attack.

Rainbow Dash flew down to confront the machine and it's destructive power.

The driver saw her coming.

"Hay ! Pinkie ,That's an awesome ride you've got ! Can I have a go at it?"

Dashie beamed her bud a grin.

Pinkie smiled wildly "Sure Dashie! My Pinkdozer's always open for business ! Wooo Hoooo !"

Painted on the side was PIE FAMILY ROCK FARM CORPORATION. D - 10 Cat-A-Pie-r .

End?

Author's Note

I just don't know what happened It looks so bold.

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