The Great War

by Spike the Assistant

Rating: mature
Tags: Romance, Adventure, Tragedy, Alternate Universe, Anthro
Length: 2624

War. This has described destruction, chaos, desolation, havoc, terror, and apocalyptic. It is this that defines Equestria now. It has been for over a couple years now. But let's start at the beginning. Hi I'm Spike and this is my story.

War. This has described destruction, chaos, desolation, havoc, terror, and apocalyptic. It is this that defines Equestria now. It has been for over a couple years now. But let's start at the beginning. Hi I'm Spike and this is my story.

Not really alternate universe, more in the future.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2015-06-14 23:52:04 UTC

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"Sector 8, respond." Static. "Sector 8, come in sector 8." Again, static. Damn. I clipped my com back on my belt. That's the third one. First 3, 10, and now 8. How are they tacking us out, I thought we put up new defenses after the Diamond Dogs joined them. What have they done now? Man, I hope Captain Rakes is okay he was stationed in that sector. I unclip my com. "Control, do you copy?"

"Affirmative. What is the states of Sector 8 Spike?" Asked Celestia head of control.

"Control, I'm not getting anything from Captain Rakes or his men. My team are going to help." I responded calmly.

"Damn, that's another one." Celestia muttered. "Go ahead Spike, we'll warn you if anything popes up.""Roger." I clipped my com back and turned to my team. "Come on Omega Squad we're moving out to investigate Sector 8." They collected their stuff and followed close behind. We arrived shortly to our location. "Bloody hell..." One of the soldiers said as we entered the clearing.

I agree with his statement because in front of us was a massacre. Blood, bodies, guns, guts, swords, and knives lay scattered. Limbs and decapitated heads lying around. It was a gruesome site. So much so one of the soldiers turned his head and vomited. I would have too if I wasn't used to seeing this kind of thing. We proceeded farther and looked around us. Death was still in the air as we got closer to the camp, it was just bodies and bodies around us. None of these men and women were ali- "Hold on." We stopped moving and listened. I'm sure I just heard someone-breathing. I looked around, where was it coming from? "Over there, near that area. Come on."

My team picked up the pace. As we got closer to the noise I noticed it was coming from a wall to the left. "There!" I shouted and pointed to were a body was hunched up on the wall. As we got closer I started to recognize him. My Celestia it was- "Captain Rakes." I said finishing my own thought. It was awful, a sword half way down his gut was stuck in him. Apparently my voice jostled him out of unconscious because his head slowly lifted up.

"Hey Spike." He sounded like he was trying to talk through marbles. "How's it going." He looked up at me with his eyes with a pained expression on his face.

Captain 'Snails' Rakes was a unicorn stallion who has a sort of teal-ish mane with an orange coat, and a snail cutie-mark. Snails was never the best at his magic so he decided that he would join the Pony Army, which turned out great, he had leadership skills and although slow at times he was a rational thinker and quick at combat. He was one of my first male friend in Ponyville and he and I really bounded over the past few years, so yeah I got a little emotional when I rushed to him.

"Control, this Spike. My team and I have found a survivor. It is Captain Rakes, I need a medical team immediately. there is heavy blood lose and a sword through the body." I yelled into my COM as I land beside Rakes.

"Spike this is Control, your team is on the way."

"Roger that."

Rakes smirked and chuckled, "Spike, you know and I know that we both know there is no chance of me surviving this, so just call off the meds and take this sword out of my liver."

"No can do Sir, I'm not letting you die like this." I replied.

"Really? I'm fucking dying and your sticking with formalities?!"

I smiled down at him and said "No, just making sure your still alive dipshit."

"Bastard."

"Asshole."

"Shitface."

We both burst with laughter after that one and settled into peaceful silence. But after about five seconds I realized that Captain Rakes had passed with a smile on his face. I grabbed the sword by the hilt and gently took it out of his body and placed it on the ground, then I slowly closed the eyes of a good friend as a tear dropped to the earth with a smile on my face.

THE DISCOVERY

"Okay Spike, just stand right there don't move."

"You got it Twi!"

It was currently a normal day in Ponyville. Birds are chirping, bees buzzing, and Twilight experimenting, again... on me. Hi there I'm Spike, dragon assistant to Princess Twilight Sparkle. Today Twilight decided to see what would happen if we tried a growing spell on a "willing subject" I.E. me, this should end well.

"Alright here it goes, just got to breath and-

*SAP*

I open my eyes but all I see is smoke. "Twi?!" I shout at the smoke hoping for a reply.

*COUGH, COUGH* "Spike! You okay? I can't see you, or anything for that matter."

"I feel fine but I can't tell, lets just wait for the smoke to dissipate I guess." I realize I'm sitting start to get up when I-"OW!"-bonk my head. I left to rub the spot when I-"OW!"-hit my hand. "Okay what the heck, I keep hitting something."

"Spike, wait a sec I'm going to use a wind spell to clear the smoke okay?"

"Go for it!" I say as I brace my body by closing my eyes and tensing my muscles. I wait a minute but nothing happens. I open up my eyes to see Twilight looking up at me with a surprised face. "What?" I ask, then it hits me, she's looking UP at me. I swivel my head around the library to see that everything is smaller.

Twilight continues to just stare at me. "Well, it seems that this was a successful test."

I give her my best 'Well no shit Sherlock' look as I cross my arms. As far as I can tell I'm at least triple my original size but I still look the same.

"Looks like your triple the size you were but generally the same." She says as she looks from side to side and from different places. This time I give her the 'You've got to be bucking kidding' She looks up at my face and notices the look. "Hey, don't you be giving me that look mister."

I smirk, "Okay but only if you stop pointing out the obvious."

She also smirks, "Fair enough, but in all seriousness lets change you back.

After she use a shrinking spell I'm back to normal. I am 6 foot and some given the fins, and purple with a light green, i am currently 18 or somewhere around that,(it's hard to tell being a creature with an extended lifespan) and slightly toned more lean than bulky.

"Alright now that I'm back to my prefect self, I think it's time for lu-ACK!" And with a poof and a trill a scroll pops out of my mouth, I snatch it out of the air. "Hey Twi! we got a letter from the Princess!" I say when I start undoing the seal.

"Well, open it!" She yells from the kitchen.

"Dear Princess Twilght and Spike,

"I require you both at the castle immanently for an important meeting. I have Spike's Father here who would be very much like to see his son.

Sincerely, Princess Celestia

*CRASH*

I look up from the letter to see Twilight has drop a plate and is mirroring the same face i have on: Total Shock and Disbelief. "Well... that's something you don't hear everyday."

THE ANOUNCEMENT

Spike's Father, Spike's Father, Spike's father

Those are the same two words I say to myself over and over. Those same two words as I read and reread the letter, then just staring until that one sentence became blurry. I sat on the couch that was conveniently behind me, and just sat there digesting this information. "Wow." Twilight says coming over to sit next to me.

I look up at her and give a smile, though it might have been wobbly. "Yeah... Wow." I repeat continuing to just sit there. Eventually Twilight gets up and walks over to the plate that's shattered on the floor, and uses her magic to cleanup the mess. I also go over to help her. "Here Twi, let me handle-" at this time I am interrupted by a bundle of pink fuzz busting through our door. I wish I'd stop being cut off mid-sentence.

"HEY TWILIGHT AND SPIKE!" Pinkie screams after she enters the library. "My Pinkie-sense told me there was a huge development in the story! But the Mr. Author Guy won't tell me what it is! So tell me, WHAT HAPPENED!" Pinkie says all this with without taking a breath, and hopping around the room. By now in my life I thought I'd get used to all the strange things she does, I was wrong, very wrong. So I'm going to not mention her earlier sentence.

After a little rubbing of the temples, and a quick 'it's Pinkie' sigh, Twilight answers Pinkie's question. "Pinkie we just received a letter from Princess Celestia that she has Spike's Father waiting to see him."

*LONG DRAWN OUT GASP* "WE HAVE TO TELL THE OTHERS!" She screams as she runs out the library.

"NO, WAIT! PINKIE!" Twilight and I both yell after her.

Too late she's already out of sight. Twi and I both sigh a 'it's Pinkie' sigh again. I look over at Twilight. "Well, that could have gone worse." she chuckles. "How 'bout I make us lunch and we just wait on them to arrive?" I say as I head for the kitchen.

She smiles and shuts the door. "That sounds wonderful." She replies coming after me.

with in a hour or so the gang was all here, and panting. Even Fluttershy, where speed isn't her strong suit. I guess hereing about my Dad was big news.

"WE SHOULD HAVE A 'SPIKE'S GOING TO MEET HIS DAD AFTER 17 YEARS' PARTY! THERE CAN BE CAKE AND CUPCAKES AND PUNCH AND-" Pinkie was silenced by Applejack.

"Look Sugercube, I know herein' about Spike's Dad is exciting an' all but I think we should keep this on the down low, okay?" Pinkie, who still had AJ's hand on her mouth, just simple nodded and sat down.

At that point Fluttershy spoke up, "I think it's great that Spike is going to meet his real dad," Fluttershy has gotten bolder over the years. "if that's okay with you guys." Even if it was slight.

"Yeah Shy, we're all happy for the kid but what do we know about him? what if he's like coming to get Spike to wage war or something?" RainbowDash asked.

"Rainbow!" yelled Applejack.

"What?"

"I swear, does somethin' not stupid come out of that mouth of yers'?"

"Guys!" shouted Twilight, "Can you stop? I'm sure it's not something like war, there hasn't been a war sense the Griffin Wars of the Old Times. There is a logical explanation that the Princess will explain when we Go to the meeting." I hope she's right.

"Exactly Darling! I'm sure its going to be simple fabulous, and every thing will be fine." Said Rarity, putting in her two cents.

I finally decided to speak up. "Than we should get going," I said getting up off the couch that I was sitting in. "Twilight if you would." As an alicorn, Twilight's magic had increased drastically, so much so I new she could handle all seven of us with breaking a sweat.

"Sure Spike, okay everyone stand still. And with a flash we were off to meet the one guy I thought I'd never meet.

"

THE MEETING

A second later and in an instant we were at the Castle.

"Uuugg, I'm a pegasus  not a unicorn, I'm build for fling not teleporting." Said Rainbow holding her stomach. Someponies just aren't that big on magic. But I was only half listening, because in front of me... was my Dad. And he looked almost exactly how I pictured myself when I was younger,(I knew that image was in my head for a reason.) the only different things about him was there wasn't a cape, more like a shoulder-cape thingy on his left side. He was standing there next to Celestia looking at me with emerald eyes, like mine. He had a smile on his face and his expression was kind-calm one.

"Hello my little ponies, I'm glad you could come. I would like to introduce to you Rockjaw, The King of Dragons.

"Greetings to you ponies," his voice was deep and kind, the voice to respect. "And to you to Spike, my son." He walked over to me and looked down with his smile, I could feel my throat close up and my body go rigid as he gave me a big hug that lifted me off the ground. once he put me down, he looked at me up and down. "Look at you my boy! You are coming along nicely, you have the start of a great dragon in you." Even though I only just meet him, I smiled stupidly knowing he was already proud of me.

Celestia came over to us. She had a pleasant smile on her face as well. "This is wonderful, but before we discus things could everypony, and dragon please move to the meeting room." She said opening some double doors in the castle. We all sat down in this order: Celestia, my Dad, me, Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie, Applejack, Rainbow, and Fluttershy. There was one more empty seat.(My best guess was that was where Luna sits) Speaking of The Princess of The Night, the twin doors were opening and in came said princess.

"Son?" I turned toward Dad, "Tell me of the adventures you have down in your time here with your friends." He said to me when Luna had taken her seat.

I was about to when I was stopped by Twilight, who asked, "Wait a minute, King Rockjaw. Your title was the King of Dragons was it not?"

"Yes, it was."

"Then does that mean that Spike is the prince?" She finished with an arched eyebrow.

"No actually, my name is really a title," said Dad "it's my Gladiator Name, that I won in The Dragon Tournament, which is a triple challenge to decide who is the fastest, strongest, and smartest of all dragons.

"You see, the way us dragons run our society is different than ponies. We have The Council, which is made up of the wisest of dragons. They created the tournament for the youth, that way they could contain the aging drakes." Dad finished explaining this as he looked at all of us.

I glanced to see all my friends to be staring wide-eyed at this information. So I spoke up, "Then why are you here now Dad?"

He smiled, "Glad you asked. Because I had won the title of dragon king I was guarantied a spot on the council, Which I am currently filling. Long ago The Council wanted to make a peace treaty with the ponies, but they all agreed it must be something very important to sustain that peace, so what they did was trade the firstborn of one of the members of the council and the Princess of the ponies. And I just happen to be that member." He finished saying. Now everypony (except Celestia and Luna) was wide-eyed with their mouths open, I no exception.

"So.. that would mean that Celestia has-"

"A kid yes," finished the Princess of the Sun. "I do indeed, her name is Sunstar, and she will be married to Spike next year.