Equestrian Elseworlds: The Five Spikes

Of Duels and Dragons

Academy Island, off the coast of Japan, Asia, Earth

I love these girls, they've been with me since I got here. What exactly do I mean? Well my friends, I died, only to resurrect in another dimension. I now have a life here, and this is barely my third month in this world. Yes, I feel like Sweet Tooth when he's talking about his ice cream truck, and you could say that the girls were my ice cream truck.

"Good morning Spike!" Mana said, hugging me. When it comes to the joy-bringer of the group, it's Mana, also known as the Dark Magician Girl. She was trained by Mahaad, also known as the Dark Magician. With a height that barely reached my chin, she was quite a good person to spend time with.

"Well if it isn't the lovers," Burst said, walking in. Blue-skinned woman with a fiery attitude, Burstinatrix was the serious one. She hails from Skyscraper, and she is not to be messed with when she is with her fellow Elemental Heroes. As for her real name, nobody knows, and I barely reached her eyes.

"Oh stop it Burst, you had a relationship with Avian. Besides, Mana and Spike aren't dating!" Yubel said, as she entered. Now Yubel was a whole other story: beautiful woman until the transformation, but that didn't matter to me. She had been there for me before Mana, Burst, and even before Twilight (when she played her role as my 'guardian'). Yeah, Yubel and I were like Ebony and Ivory, two of a kind, misfits in their own cases.

I know it is a favoritism of sorts, but she has been with me 4 of my 17 years and, since I was born on May 13th, 1988, I am quite happy. I still miss my mom and my Equestrian friends, but I have made new friends here. I occasionally hang out with Syrus and Bastian, given that Chumley was given a job at Industrial Illusions due to his incredible drawing skills.

I also hang out with Misty, Jasmine and Alexis, the last one having caught my eye. I know it may be quick, but I'm giving it time, focusing on school and my two jobs.

"Well girls, I must go to the Obelisk Girls' Dorm for the weekly masseur sessions," I said, putting my masseur uniform on. I know that a man giving a woman a massage is forbidden on campus, but after a short massage on Fonda, the word spread like fire. After a demand of sorts, I was granted the job of massaging each girl in the Obelisk dorm once a week. Lucky man, aren't I?

"Be good Spike," Mana said, smiling.

"Don't put your hands in the wrong places," Burst said, a glare on her face.

"Just keep the good massages going," Yubel said, smiling softly. With that, I began my short walk to the dorm, prepared to attend four of the thirty-one women in the dorm. Once I got there, I walked past the guards, who stepped aside once I showed my permit.

"Hello Spike!" Fonda said in her cheerful tone. Yeah kids, I had to give her a massage, but the massages I gave were standard: neck, shoulders, back and legs, nothing more. This was pretty much a win-win: the women of the Obelisk dorm would get weekly massages. I in exchange, had my meals covered. I saw the massaging more like help than an advantage over the other men.

"Hello Miss Fontaine, shall we get to this week's session?" I asked.

"Why of course, I've been stressed out this week training the Ra Yellow for the baseball game."

"Bastian has science, so you have an advantage Miss Fontaine."

"There is no need to call me like that Spike, we are not in class. You may call me Fonda." Achievement unlocked: from student to colleague. I was going the distance in a sense. Only thing missing is Crowler letting me address him by his name. Fonda and I got to the massage room, and we begun the hour-long session.

The session consisted on getting rid of the uneven parts that had come up, and then relaxing the muscles of each woman.As I finished the first massage, I walked out of the room, expecting the next girl. What I got instead was an odd voice singing an old song they taught me.

The King and his men

stole the queen from her bed,

and bound her in her bones.

The seas be ours, and by the powers;

where we will, we'll roam.

I joined in, singing the second part of the song.

Yo ho, all hands,

hoist the colors high.

Then, a third voice joined us.

Heave ho, thieves and beggars;

Then, a fourth voice formed part of the singing.

never shall we die.

Finally, a fifth song began singing, and I sung with all my spirit.

Yo ho haul together,

hoist the colors high.

Heave ho, thieves and beggars;

never shall we die!

As it finished, Yubel came in, worried look on her face, telling me the following: "The song, it's-"

"Been sung, somebody needs help," the reaper told me. My question was the following: who?

"Who on Earth could need me?" I asked him.

"You might as well fix that, someone in Equestria needs you."

"And that would be?"

"Yourself."

"I don't get it, how could I need myself?"

"Picture a clone of yourself, somewhere in space and time. You are a clone as well, along with several others. The song was made to help those in need, and apparently, someone's in trouble."

"Oh, ok... this is some kind of Doctor Whooves stuff though, how am I going to get to the clone?"

"I can help you my friend," the reaper said, as he whistled. A few seconds later, a horse on fire arrived, and the reaper got on the horse. It took me a while to realize that it was the Reaper on the Nightmare. Right after he got on, Mana got on the Red-Eyes B. Dragon. I don't know how she did it,mouth she now had a silver armor.

"Get on, we don't have much time!" Mana yelled in a cheerful way. I got on along with Yubel and Burst, the last one had warped in. I was now in front, and I felt how some green flames enveloped me, and we took off behind the reaper. After several seconds of flight we reached a portal and went through it. Boy would you believe where we ended up at.