Is it all Worth it?

by TheDawsonator1

Rating: everyone
Tags: Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Spike, Slice of Life, Human
Length: 1569

Anon and Spike sit down and ask if their current struggles are worth the effort they put into it.

Anonymous, the Human that has been around for a while in Equestria. Spike, the dragon assistant to the Princess. They both have one thing in common:

They both have been rather ignored in the scheme of things.

Anon has been in a dead end job for bits and Spike has a one-sided crush for Rarity but the question they ask each other is...

Is it all worth it?

Starts of a bit negative but has a happy ending. Rated I for Ice Cream!

Published 2015-07-09 14:50:02 UTC
Last updated 2015-07-09 14:50:02 UTC

The Ice Cream in this chapter will be Future Spike's problem.

Ignored, it’s a rather negative word isn’t it? It’s something both a Dragon and I as a human seem to suffer, the backs that point our direction. It’s rather annoying and it makes you suffer deep down inside.

My name is Anonymous, or Anon for short or as Pinkie calls me, Nonnie. My only real friend in this place is Spike, the resident dragon here in Ponyville, I was looked at for one second after a magical disturbance and then tossed aside like a old sneaker.

I have met Spike and he told me his escapades and I would listen, he likes a mare named Rarity, I think they look cute together but can they be together…I don’t know. But the girl never looks his way, he tries everything for her, is that what a symbol of love looks like? I do not know as I have never really known what being in love is like.

He likes comic books too, while I like movie adaptations of them, some comics still interest me but Power Ponies got me hooked, it’s like the avengers back home, Rainbow Dash would make an excellent Iron man only it’d be Iron Mare.

He works as Princess Twilight’s assistant ever since he was young, some say that Spike is like a little brother but it’s not hard to see the so called “Slave” thing going on. Spike I guess is like the retainer of Twilight’s sanity so the say at some points. Perhaps we all have somebody for that.

Every so often, we just chat out problems away, it’s thera…thra…poootic? Ah what’s that word? Um, it’s like drinking our problems away only without the depressants. But we chat a fair bit make no mistake.

I was sitting on one of the many benches of Ponyville when Spike just came up and just sat down next to me, I guess it’s time to hear what troubles him at this current time.

“Hey Spike” I greeted him
“What’s up?” he greets back
“So, how’s it going?” I ask
“Alright” he said in an unconvinced tone

I know better than that, I know he is lying.

“Spike you know it’s not alright, you’re a worse liar than Applejack tried to when she accidently broke my bathroom mirror when she asked to wash her hands real quick so she could hide any prank evidence from Rainbow Dash” I say to him

That’s a story for another time…

“How do you do it?” Spike asks
“How do I do what, Spike?” I ask back
“Dealing with it, all the bad stuff that happens all the lack of praise for achievement, just everything?” He asks the question bugging him
“I don’t, I just walk through life without a real fulfillment, I never really did sort myself out ever since moving here” I answer
“But you have a job and a home and all” Spike points out
“Yes I do, but do I like my job? Being the guy behind the desk sorting out paper I have no idea why it exists in the first place? No, I don’t. But will I yell at my boss or quit? No I wouldn’t, there is always a worse place like a fast food job and if Rarity saw those outfits for those things back home, she’d die of unfashionableness if that’s even a word” I answer

Believe me, I don’t wanna be there, it’s degrading…

“Let me ask you in turn Spike, what really is hurting you today? Is it Rarity?” I ask
“Sort of, just everywhere I go, nopony seems to appreciate just what I have to offer, and Rarity just won’t see that I love her and treats me like a slave” Spike says with a look towards the ground
“I ain’t no Cadence but sometimes it’s a one-sided love. I admit but sometimes I wonder why you bother, she’s pretty and all but is she worth it? All that pain just for her back to point to your direction everytime?” I answer his possible hidden question
“Haven’t you ever loved somepony? Back on your world?” Spike asks
“Once, a painful experience of being shoved in the Friend Zone, between me and you, Rarity’s ignorance is considered the mushy cheesy romance film at best to humans, it’s a mad, mad world out there Spike” I answer this question

I guess the saving grace for poor Spike is that he is safe from the things a girl to do to a guy back home, they can tear you from the inside out.

“Wow” Spike imagines what it must be like
“But Spike, are you sure you want to continue chasing a girl that won’t seem to give you the time of day? Is it worth it? Ever since you got here, you’ve been kissing her feet and for what? Just a gem and a peck on the cheek, this has been going on for years, I wonder how nopony has snapped yet trying to expose this fact unless Pinkie did a Pinkie Promise on the whole town. I get you love her but think do you really think by her attitude she loves you?” I ask the question to get back on topic

I sense a lot of thoughts coming from Spike now, the dragon is responsible but sensible though can escape him, however this time I do not think that is the case.

“I guess not” Spike answers
“Look, when you grow up, there is gonna be pain, just look at me! I’ve been dragged out of my life into a new different one and end up in a dead-end one where I sort useless paper I don’t think anyone sane would look at again, it’s the degrading job from Tartarus! How is that a mare who reads books all day has a better friendship life than me? How is that that our achievements are tossed aside in the nobody cares pile whereas Rainbow Dash’s daily workout makes the front page of the newspaper? We helped this place too!” I ranted on

There was silence for a while, Spike and I had our fair share of misadventures to prevent Ponyville from burning up while the Elements have been doing other things. Last week we literally saved the Crusaders from burning down Town hall and defeated some evil monster guy by ourselves.

“I guess we have problems huh?” Spike asks
“Yeah, it feels good to get them out doesn’t it?” I ask
“Yeah…who needs Twilight’s therapist mode?” Spike asks
“I’ve been meaning to ask, did Rainbow Dash really doing a rainnuke on Applejack’s barn?” I ask curiously
“Yeah! I have no idea where Twilight got those glasses from when she tried to stop Rainbow though, maybe she’s finding out Pinkie Pie’s secrets” Spike says
“Good lord, Pinkie Pie’s secrets having scientific explanation, I fear the sign of the Apocalypse has arrived” I say in dramatic shock
“Hahahaha, yes! I can totally see it now!” Spike laughs at the thought.

At the end of the day, as long as we laugh at the end, it’s worth it to me.

“You know what, we are getting Ice Cream” I announce suddenly
“Really?” Spike perks up at that one
“Damn straight we are and damn the consequences!” I stand up and say boldly

2 hours later…

Ice cream stomachaches…why? Why do you torture us so?

“Damn YOU consequences!” I curse out loud
"I hate past me" Spike cursed himself as he rolled on his back.

Spike and I were lying next to each other on the floor of the castle with our stomachs being sick from 2 tubs each of ice cream each. He had Strawberry while I had Cookies and Cream Ice Cream.

“Totally worth it…” Spike groaned with his hands holding his stomach.
“You said it…the day two tubs of Cookies and Cream ice cream is not worth the sickness will be…a very bad day indeed…urrgghhhh” I replied in a groan as my stomach made a weird noise

The Door opened and Twilight comes in with the lecture mode look about to happen. We are so in for it!

“Now care to explain why the pair of you ate two tubs of ice creams? EACH?” Twilight looks down on us.
“Because we wanted to” I answer, knowing what was coming next.
“Well you know what? I have half a mind to…” Twilight started lecturing

Twilight’s lecture mode, lord have mercy on us all! Celestia too! I may be lectured but Spike and I enjoyed the ice cream and as much as we got a lecture and being ignored by those close to us, I realize that despite life giving us the bad stuff, it’s the ice cream that makes it worth it and Spike and I fistbumped each other behind Twilight’s back. At the same time we uttered...

“Worth it…”

THE END!

Author's Note

A Short fic that came in my head, I hope you like it. I guess the Moral of the story is that life can give you so much bad things but in the end, it's the little tubs of Ice Cream that make it worth it...mmmmmmmm...ice cream.

Oh and all that do not like Cookies and Cream shall be assimilated! if you get the nods to the show in the story, good for you!