The War of Equestria

The next morning Spike awoke and standing at the door of his room was Shining Armor who seemed to be holding what looked like a present.

"We're leaving in 10 minutes, I recommend you wear this." Shining Armor said.

Shining Armor then handed Spike a pair of black dress pants, a purple formal shirt with a green tie, a black jacket, and a pair of black dress shoes that were specially tailored for Spike. Shining Armor then left the doorway and Spike arose from his bed and put on the clothes Shining Armor gave him. Spike also carried his 50 cal gold Desert Eagle with his holster which he hid under his jacket just in case. As soon as Spike was dressed he found Shining Armor and they then left for the Crystal Empire. The two arrived and Spike let out a sigh of relief.

Spike smiled "It's great to be back here, especially with no crazy King trying to overtake this place again."

"Same here, we better get to the castle before Cadence and Skyla start to worry."

Spike nodded and they walked to the castle. Once the two arrived at the castle they walked through the huge castle doors. Spike was awestruck when he walked in considering he had only been in the castle once before.

"Wow, it's alot bigger in here than I remember." Spike said.

Shining Armor smiled "Yeah after the whole incident with Tirek Cadence and I decided to have the castle rejuvenated and in the process alot of stuff was removed and given to charity."

"Damn, they sure as hell did remove alot of stuff." Spike snickered.

Shining Armor slightly laughed "They sure did buddy, lets get to the ballroom."

Spike nodded and the two walked in the direction of the ballroom. Shining Armor and Spike soon arrived at the ballroom and when they did they were met by Skyla, Cadence, Twilight and the rest of the gang, and both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.

Twilight was wearing the dress that Rarity made her when she and the others went to the Grand Galloping Gala about 16 ears earlier. The others were wearing their gala dresses too, everyone except Pinkie Pie and Rarity who made herself a new dress. Rarity's dress was cobalt blue decorated with white lace, and her hair was curled more at the bottom and she had big blue diamond earrings, and wearing clear crystal slippers. Pinkie Pie was wearing the outfit she wore when she sang her little "sharing is caring" song when they were in Appleloosa.

"Wow! You all look great." Spike said while his face ever so slightly turned red.

Applejack smiled "Thank you Spike, you don't look so bad yourself."

Princess Celestia approached Spike "You do look very handsome Spike." She said.

"My little Spikey-wikey is all grown up and he's a hunk." Rarity said as she cried happily.

"All because of all those books he read about personal fitness." Twilight said with a smile.

"Well I gotta give credit where credit is given, Twilight helped me so much and also I have to thank Rarity, her being my main motivation for working out and I am happy with the results when I was finished."

Spike then unbuttoned both of his shirts and only showed his ripped, six pack abs which caused Rainbow Dash, Princess Celestia, and Princess Luna's faces to turn bright red, almost caused Rarity to faint, and caused both Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy to smile widely.

"Applejack why aren't you reacting?" Pinkie Pie asked.

"I already saw it when he was working on the farm with me a week before he left."

"Yep, I decided it was "too hot" so I took off my shirt and you should've seen the look on both Apple Bloom and Applejack's face, it was priceless."

"I was very impressed considering a year before that day he had barely any muscle at all, and I think Apple Bloom was even more impressed than I was because she likes you Spike."

Rarity then smiled "And I'm sure Sweetie Belle would be very impressed as well because she too likes you darling."

"And if Scootaloo saw you, she would flip shit 'cause you know, she likes you." Rainbow Dash said.

Pinkie Pie gasped "Watch you language Dashie, you realize that there are kids here."

Spike then developed a look of shock upon hearing his friends, "Wow, I didn't know that they all liked me."

Rainbow Dash rubbed the back of her head "Right, sorry."

Princess Celestia smiled "Apology accepted now lets get to the party."

Everyone cheered and they all scattered to different parts of the room and the first person Spike approached was Cadence.

"Hi Cadence." Spike said with a smile.

Cadence turned around and when she saw Spike she burst into tears and hugged her favorite dragon. Spike hugged her back and the two were very happy to see each other.

"I'm so very happy to see that you're okay Spike." Cadence said trying hard to fight back tears.

"I'm very happy to see you Cadence and don't worry, Shining Armor is taking good care of all of us."

"He better or else I'll have to kick his flank."

Spike laughed and Cadence soon did so herself. Spike then looked around the room and he soon spotted the pony he was looking for. Cadence saw Spike look over at Rarity and she then said to him "Go get her Spike, steal her heart."

Spike then nodded and smiled, he then walked over to Rarity and said "Hi Rarity." Rarity looked at Spike with a look that compelled him to continue. "Would you um, maybe, wanna dance." Spike struggled to get the words out but when he did, his words caused Rarity to smile and say "Yes, I would love to Spiky-Boo."  Spike then held his arm out and Rarity soon locked her hoof with his (arm) and the two walked out on the dance floor.

"Rarity?"

"Yes Spike, what is it darling?"

"Do you think you can teach me how to slow dance, I kinda don't know how too."

Rarity developed a slightly shocked look "Really, not even Twilight showed you how to slow dance."

"No, at that time I didn't think I would need to ask her."

"Why not darling?"

"Well you remember when you and Fancy Pants were dating."

Rarity's face then turned from confused to angry "Yes I very clearly remember."

"Well around that time I was going to ask you to be my date to the Grand Galloping Gala a couple of months ago but when you showed up holding his hoof, it tore my heart in half so that's the reason why I left that night."

Rarity then hugged Spike with all of her strength "I'm so sorry Spiky-Boo, I just wish I could've known you felt that way." Rarity then pulled Spike's head down and kissed him on the lips. Spike was surprised more than anything but he soon kissed her back.

"This is the greatest day of my life." Spike thought to himself.

Rarity then released Spike and she then looked at him and said "Did you enjoy that Spiky-Wiky?"

Spike then developed a large smile and strongly nodded. Rarity then laughed and then hugged Spike once again but this time she stood up on her hind legs and grabbed Spike's claw (or hand) and put her other hoof on the side of his neck.

"Just follow my lead sweetheart." She said in a very relaxing tone.

"Okay." Spike then followed Rarity's movements and looked down at her hooves and followed her steps. Spike and Rarity shared in a dance and everyone's eyes were on them. Rarity looked around and saw everyone was looking at her and Spike and became nervous (remember, there are about 1,200 ponies in the room and they are all looking at them).

"Spike, everyone's looking at us."

Spike then looked up "Don't worry about them it's just you and me now."

Rarity then blushed and the two continued their dance. When the song ended Spike then lifted Rarity up above his head and gave her one more hug. Rarity then whispered in his ear "Shall we kiss again?" Spike whispered back "We shall." and then Rarity grabbed the back of Spike's head again and pressed her lips forcefully against his. Spike then kissed her back just as hard as she did. They soon released their grip on each other and they shared in one last hug.

Rarity's face turned bright red "Wow, where did you learn to kiss like that Spike?"

Spike shrugged his shoulders "I don't know, I guess it was just instinct."

Spike then set Rarity back down on the dance floor. Cadence then trotted up to the dance floor "Okay everypony it's time to sing happy birthday and open presents." Shining Armor walked up next to her "Okay 1,2,3." Everyone in the room then started singing "Happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear Skyla happy birthday to you." and Pinkie Pie ended with "And many more."

Skyla then began to blush "Thank you everypony for all of this." Cadence then handed the first present to Skyla "Happy birthday sweetie." she said, the present was wrapped in a cerise wrapping paper topped with a royal blue bow. Skyla smiled and unwrapped her present and when she looked inside her face lit up with joy.

"Oh my gosh, look daddy." Skyla then lifted up a pink crown with a blue jewel in the center. "Yep your mother and I..." Shining Armor then cut off and started grunting.

"Shining Armor? Are you okay?" Twilight asked with a worried tone.

Shining Armor then looked up "S...Sombra." He then collapsed on the floor, Cadence and Twilight then rushed to Shining Armor's corpse. Spike looked up and saw King Sombra. "Shit." Spike then removed his gun form it's holster and pointed it at Sombra who was holding a rifle.

"What's going on Spike?" Cadence asked.

Spike looked at Cadence and directed her vision upwards. When Cadence saw Sombra the look on her face turned from concerned to enraged. Cadence then flew up towards Sombra as fast as she could with her horn glowing with magic.

Spike yelled "Cadence no!" but it was to late Sombra had already shot her multiple times.

Sombra looked at Spike with a smug look and he then shot Skyla. "Sombra! Stop this now or I will kill you!" Spike yelled in anger.

Sombra then started laughing evilly "I doubt you know what it is I'm trying to achieve here." Spike cocked his gun and pointed it once again at Sombra "I don't care what you are trying to do. Twilight"

Twilight then looked at Spike still holding her dead brother in her hooves "Yes?" "You need to get everyone out of here." Twilight still sat there looking at Spike "NOW!!" Spike yelled. Twilight then nodded and demanded that everyone leave. "Oh no you don't." Sombra said. he then pointed the gun at Twilight.

"Twilight look out!" Spike yelled. Twilight then looked up and was immediately shot.

"TWILIGHT!!!!" Spike then looked at Sombra with rage and fired his gun straight at his face.

"Ah ah ah you don't want to kill more of your friends." Sombra then opened in a portal in front of the bullet and the other side was opened right next to Rarity. The bullet then entered the portal and then Rarity immediately collapsed. "R...Rarity." Spike then dropped his gun and ran to Rarity's dead corpse.

"Y...You...YOU BASTARD!!!" Spike then flew up to Sombra as fast as he could.

"Tisk tisk you never learn do you?" Sombra then shot spike in his collar bone. Spike then grunted and Sombra then started shooting Spike's spread wings. Spike grunted from the pain and then Sombra came up to him and hit him with the end of the gun. Spike then fell a whole 25 feet and landed straight on his head. Spike could barely open his eyes. Spike could hear the blood curdling screams as Sombra massacred the rest of his remaining friends, Celestia, and every other pony that attended the party. Spike could barely speak "No." He then passed out and was left on the floor to die.