My Little Pony: Spike to the Rescue

Chapter 2

It took a little while but thanks to Owlowiscious, Spike managed to get all his chores done in less time than it usually took him, he was still exhausted though and whipped some sweat from his forehead once he finished dusting.

“Whew! Finally, it’s done,” he breathed. He turned to the owl flying above him. “Thanks for the help, Owlowiscious.”

“Hoo.” The owl responded.

“You, that’s ‘who’.” Spike told him.

“Hoo!” Owlowiscious hooted again only annoyed.

Spike chuckled. “Relax, I’m just kidding with ya,” he assured him as he walked away. Owlowiscious quickly flew after him. “Now, onto the very last chore, and the hardest of them all!”

“Hoo.” Owlowiscious hooted, sounding intrigued.

“Making my bed.” Spike revealed. The face of the owl flying near him quickly fell flat in response while Spike began to head off.

Elsewhere, in the great city of Canterlot, an alicorn named Princess Celestia, the co-ruler of Equestria, stepped out onto the balcony of her giant, gleaming white and gold castle, which was set on the side of a large purple mountain, looking greatly disconcerted.

Using her great magical powers, Celestia was able to see everything that was happening in the badlands and at that moment she could see the two-legged, hooded figure. His gleaming red eyes sent a shiver down Celestia’s spine and it almost felt like he was walking towards her.

The sound of hoof steps was heard by the Princess and was getting closer. It was Celestia's younger sister, Princess Luna, approaching her from behind. Celestia did not turn around and continued to stare out into the horizon disturbed.

“Sister?” Princess Luna said, getting her older sister’s attention. “What is the matter? You seem… troubled.”

“Oh… It’s nothing Luna, really,” Princess Celestia said, her head lowered. “It’s just that… for some reason I have felt something… the presence of a being of incredible power and darkness and it is coming this way… To Equestria,”

“What? Well, who is this being?” Princess Luna questioned, curiously.

Princess Celestia finally glanced at her sister with a face full of uncertainty and concern that seemed to speak for itself. She glanced back towards the horizon.

“I don’t know, but the power he holds is not of this world and it seems to be growing stronger with each passing second,” Princess Celestia replied with a hint of worry in her voice. “One thing is for sure… this being… whoever or whatever it is… is pure evil…”

Princess Luna walked closer, stood right next to her sister, and joined her in staring out at the land in front of them.

“Can you feel it?” Celestia inquired, solemnly. Luna closed her eyes and concentrated and sure enough she began to feel a dark presence making it’s way out of the badlands and toward nearby village. Just feeling it made her shiver.

“Yes… We must find a way to stop this evil,” The younger sister stated, firmly. “We have to! Summon Princess Twilight and her friends at once.”

Princess Celestia levitated a quill and paper over to her and began to write. “Already on it,” she said as she wrote and prepared to send it to a certain little dragon. “And let’s hope they are read for a task such as this.”

“If they aren’t, who is?” Luna pointed out.

“Good question…” Celestia mused as she finished the letter then used a spell to make it glow before it quickly vanished into thin air.

Around the same time, the young dragon who often receives those kind of letters though not for a long while, was just finishing up his bed and making it neat once more. He sighed in relief once he had finally finished.

“There! Perfect! Now I can join Twilight and the others and…” Spike began to say before he suddenly stopped. He quickly began to feel something coming up and eventually he let out a loud burp and gush of green flame that quickly became a scroll, which landed in front of him. “A scroll! Huh, haven’t gotten these in a while…”

The little baby dragon picked up the scroll, unsealed it and unrolled it to read what it had to say and once he read it all the way down to the end he gasped.

“Oh boy… I gotta get this to Twilight right away!” he cried, as he zipped out the door and ran down every hallway until he neared the front door. He ran past Owlowiscious on his way as well who hooted at him. “Sorry Owlowiscious, gotta go, take care of the place will ya? Be back soon!”

He opened and slammed the door shut after he finished, which causes some objects to fall right over and crash all around the flying owl, who just hooted in annoyance.

Meanwhile, on the said town, dozens of ponies were all lined up at the theatre, including the Mane Six, who were all talking about the show that they were going to see.

“Oh and I heard Crescent Jewel was just hilarious in…” Rarity started to tell the others before she noticed Twilight’s thoughtful look. “Twilight?”

Twilight then snapped out her stupor. “Huh?”

“Is something the matter?” Fluttershy asked.

“Oh, it’s nothing… I’m was just thinking that maybe I should have stayed with Spike… you know, to make sure he was ok.” Twilight Sparkle admitted.

“Relax Twilight! Spike’s been on his own plenty of times, one more isn't gonna hurt him.” Rainbow voiced.

“Or maybe they do…” Twilight realized, quietly.

“Come again, sugarcube?” Applejack inquired, raising a brow.

“Yeah, rewind a bit.” Pinkie added, while making the sound of a rewinding tape.

“Well… I just realized that… all those times Spike has stayed behind while we were off traveling Equestria or doing… whatever… what if deep down he’s always wanted to go but…” Twilight began.

“He felt he had to stay behind?” Rainbow guessed.

“Yes! And sometimes I tell him to stay, I know he’s still a baby dragon but… he’s not gonna be one for long…” Twilight said, sadly.

“Oh yeah…” Pinkie realized, lowering her head.

“A very sad truth indeed…” Rarity nodded.

“And a little bit scary…” Fluttershy said, shaking fearfully till Applejack comforted her.

“Aw, calm down sugarcube, you know that no matter what size he’s gonna be in a few years he’s always gonna be the same Spike.” Applejack assured her.

“Exactly! We’re his friends!” Pinkie Pie smiled.

“Yeah, he’d never try to eat us!” Rainbow added, confidently.

Fluttershy sighed, feeling much better now. “You're right… guess I was just being a little…” she began before she and the other noticed a big cloud of dust rising up in the distance as well as somepony rushing towards them, which freaked her out once again. “Paranoid!”

The shy pony quickly hide behind her friends, who squinted to see who was coming towards them.

“Who is that?” Twilight asked out loud.

“It almost looks like…” Rarity started to say.

Eventually they see that it was Spike running over after the dust around him cleared up.

“Hey! It’s Spike!” Pinkie declared.

“He sure looks like he’s in a hurry…” Rainbow observed, realizing that he wasn’t gonna stop till he reached them.

“You're right… but why is he…” Applejack began before Spike screeched a halt in front of them, accidentally causing the cloud of dust to surround them instead. They all coughed and hacked while Rainbow and Fluttershy used their wings to blow all the dust away.

“Spikey dear! Honestly! Did you have to bring all the dust in town with you?” Rarity remarked, aggravated. “Why you almost dirtied my hair and coat!”

“Sorry… but I got something you need to see! A letter from the Princess!” Spike told them as he held out the scroll.

“Really?” Twilight said, very surprised. “What’s it say?”

“See for yourself.” Spike offered as Twilight levitated the scroll, unrolled it and quickly scanned it.

When she finally reached the end of it she gasped sharply like Spike did earlier.

“What is it?” Fluttershy inquired, looking concerned just like the others.

“Trouble, that’s what.” Twilight said, urgently.

“What kind of trouble?” Rainbow questioned.

“I’ll explain on the way.” Twilight said. “Come on, there’s no time to lose!”

Twilight then began to gallop away as quick as she could and soon enough the others began to chase after her, as did Spike.

Now it was true that most parts of Equestria were beautiful, it was also true that parts of it were dangerous and sometimes… just downright ugly. That’s what Spike and the others, who were all wearing their saddle bags, were all thinking as they flew and walked over to what appeared to be an old town that had no pony around and the half buildings were decrepit and old while the other half looked just half finished.

The strange thing was, it looked like all of it was just done, recently.

“Is this the place?” Spike asked, while glancing at Twilight.

“Yeah, this is it. This is where Celestia told us to be..” The Alicorn confirmed “So… why are we going all the way to the middle of nowhere again?” Rainbow Dash questioned, tiredly.

“Because the Princess said there was a disturbance around here and wanted us to check it out.” Twilight told her.

“She also mentioned that a big evil was coming and if we don’t stop it… Equestria is doomed…” Spike added, fearfully. He, Fluttershy and Pinkie all gulped.

“Ooh… spooky…” Pinkie commented.

“Well, we will stop it, we’ll face it just like we have everything else.” Twilight said, determined.

“Atta girl Twilight, that’s the spirit.” Applejack commended her.

“And… this evil is here…?” Fluttershy inquired, nervously.

Rainbow glanced around. “Well, I don’t see anything so far and looks like everypony already left.”

“Good, ain’t no worries about anypony getting hurt then.” Applejack said, relieved.

“Yeah…” Fluttershy added.

“So… what’s the plan, Stan?” Pinkie Pie asked Twilight eagerly, whilst getting a little too close to her.

Twilight slowly pushed her away. “Just spread out and let me know if any of you find anything… weird,” she said.

“I’m on the case!” Pinkie saluted as she scurried away. Twi watched her go with a weird look then shook her head and rolled her eyes before she continued inspecting the ground while the others all spread out and started searching.

The little dragon, who felt lucky to come along, then walked over to an old house and peeked through the window, the place was a mess and everything looked like it had been turned to ash. He bent down and looked at the ground again before seeing several burn marks on it. His eyes narrowed before he turned to the others, who were still searching as well.

“Hey, did you guys find anything yet?” Spike asked.

“Nope.” Rainbow Dash responded.

“Nada.” Applejack added.

“Nothing.” Rarity stated.

“Zippo.” Pinkie cheered.

“Sorry…” Fluttershy apologized.

Twilight rubbed her chin and began to think. “Hmm… maybe a magic scan would help…”

“Good idea.” Applejack nodded as Twilight’s horn glowed before she began to shine a light from it. Swiveling slowly in place, she lets the beam play over the area.

“How can I help?” Spike asked Twilight, eagerly.

“Uh, I think we’re good for now Spike.” Twilight said.

“Oh… ok.” Spike muttered, glumly.

“So… what do ya got, Twilight?” Rainbow Dash inquired.

“Hmm, strange… whoever or whatever did this… seemed to have been caused by one pony.” Twilight revealed.

“One pony? Fiddlesticks! Look at this place!” Applejack said, gesturing to around them.

“Yes! Why there had to been a whole army here.” Rarity added.

“And… why do you think it’s a pony?” Fluttershy inquired.

“Yeah, it could have been… diamond dogs, Parasprites, Timberwolves, Cragadile’s, dragon’s…” Pinkie began before Spike gave her a certain look. “Uh… no offence!”

“None taken.” Spike sighed.

“I’m sure it was a pony, I mean… look at the ground.” Twilight told them, as she pointed downward with her hoof. The others looked and saw hoof shaped marks in the ground. “There are hoof prints all over the place!”

“Yeah, but… there’s only two sets of them each…” Rainbow pointed out. “Almost as if…”

“Somepony was walking like… me.” Spike realized. Now they were even more bewildered and confused.

“But that’s impossible… ain’t it?” Applejack questioned.

“I don’t think so, I’ve read somewhere that their once were creatures that stood upright on two hooves, like minotaur’s only… they’re were half goat.” Twilight said.

“Half goat?” Rainbow echoed.

“Ooh! I know what those are!” Fluttershy realized. “They’re called satyr’s!”

“Satyr’s?” Rarity repeated, looking confused.

“Legendary beings that used to rule Equestria prior to the three pony tribes came, but when the Wendigo’s followed the tribes here and brought on a deep winter the satyr’s were driven out. Nopony has seen one in years.” Fluttershy explained. They all stared at her blankly following this. “I… read a little history.”

“So… you think one of them satyr’s is still around and has come back?” Applejack questioned.

“I don’t know… but I’m getting a really bad feeling…” Twilight admitted.

Just then, something or somepony dropped down behind them with a loud ‘crash’, kicking up dust and startling the ponies and their dragon friend. They all turned around and when the dust cleared they noticed a figure kneeling, this figure had red hair in the form of dreadlocks, no hair on his upper body, little sticks at the end of his forehooves, horns on his head and hairy brown goat legs. He also had an odd medallion around his neck.

He chuckled as he glanced up at them with his eerily green eyes. “And you should,” he whispered.