Spike and the Mane-iac 3

Popularity was growing among Spike, Mane-iac, and their close friends on the Reality show. They were all happy getting paid with the right amount of money as promised they would get if they performed in front of the camera, and staying in character while performing.

While Twilight Sparkle still had her doubts, she continued to perform on the show as well, but only because Spike was okay with it, and his beautiful yet crazy wife of his. Today, she and the other cast were taking a day off.

It was rather a good thing because she desperately needed the break. Twilight would probably get to reading some of her own books again, and a little catching up with some recent studies on the side. For instant, she was getting a few letters from dragon Princess Ember since Spike befriended her on that quest for the gauntlet of fire.

Personally, Twilight was rather intrigued by the new Dragon Lord's information she was receiving. Ember wrote in her correspondences by saying that since she is the dragon lord now, many of her subjects started to have a more positive or okay view on how they are. "Hoo!" Said Owlicious.

"I know, I mean, this is great knowing more about dragons now Ember is the new ruler of the Dragon Lands." Twilight replied with enthusiasm. She looked over the recent letter and gasped with excitement to view another intriguing detail. Taking out her pen, she wrote it down as a next piece on her notes for writing a book about Dragons someday. "I'll have to thank Ember the next time I see her." She thought out loud very proudly.

Meanwhile, Spike was just doing laundry. Of course it's not really for him since he doesn't really wear clothes most of the time. These were mostly just the Mane-iac's line of her usual supervillain suits, along with Twilight's own sexy Mane-iac suit from Rarity, which is still going popular (not as much as before, but many mares across Equestria still wear it.

There was also a few jackets and coats like on the rainy days, or in the autumn, or winter. As soon as Spike started the machine, he happily walked out of the room, whistling to a nice tune. In his head, he was thinking about what Twilight said whether this reality show idea was a bad idea from the start.

"Hmm, it was a rather.... weird encounter at the Crystal Empire." He thought out loud. With a little change ofbheart, he said "nah, this show is good for us. We're getting more money, and my friends are getting more fame and recognition. Not to mention it's around me and Mane-iac. Hell, Twilight's just worrying a little too much.

He made a small chuckle.

"Spike, sweetheart." Called a sweet woman's voice. It was Mane-iac, looking happy to see her husband as ever. "I see you are doing laundry?"

"Uh-huh. Well, I just put them in the washing machine, just gotta wait for them to be cleaned and then dry them out, you know how it goes."

Mane-iac made a snall cackle. "Of course I do, who wouldn't, say, I have a very funny prank to pull if you would like to hear it."

"Sure, what?"

Then Mane-iac whispered in his ear, and whatever she was telling him, Spike began to grow a devious smile on his face obviously liking the idea. She zoomed her head out of his ear "oh how Rarity would freak out when she sees it! Hahaha!"

"Yeah, she will take multiple baths a day!" Spike chuckled. "When do we do it?"

"Well, isn't she still taking one of her Sunday morning beauty naps?"

"Yeah, why?"

"We'll do it in a little while. Meantime, why don't we have a little walk around town? Nothing like a little Ponyville stroll, hmm?"

Spike nodded his head in agreement "got that right. Oh! And do you think we can stay at the boutique so we can watch Rarity's reaction? It will be priceless!"

"Ooh ho ho of course." Said Mane-iac with a devious Grinch-like smile. "Exactly as we will plan it."

Then they all went for a walk around town before they pull their little unknown prank. Both of them notified Twilight that they were going, and she was perfectly alright with it, but of course, they did not tell them about the little prank on Rarity. Oh how could they possibly get tired of the nice, Equestrian breeze in the air.

Over at the park, near the large fountain, Spike looked over his reflection in the water. Maybe perhaps, this show wasn't a terrific idea after all. Twilight was the smart one of the group after all, that's why she had all those books within her library, so much that it would make an excellent small knoll of novels, or bigger.

"Everything alright, Spikey-poo?"

"What? yeah, I'm just fine." the baby dragon replied. "I was just thinking."

"About what?"

"Well.... What if Twilight was right? Maybe there is something going on in this Reality TV thing. I just can't put my finger on it."

"Nonsense, my dear." Mane-iac reassured him while blanketing him with her tendrils. Just look at how happy we are with it. Not just us but our friends as well.

"I know, I know. But, I mean, I don't know why I am agreeing with Twilight. It just came to me."

"Don't you worry." She kissed him on his forehead. "If the Reality camera crew were trying to deceive us, I would drive them off with knives and chainsaws, hahaha!" Do to her craziness, she imagined herself hacking the camera crew to Illinois of meat pieces, and blood being spilled all around. Oh how she wished she could do that.

"Okay, let's not get too carried away, now." Spike reminded

"Right, I apologize. Nothing like a good mayhem."

"Hey, right. So, what am I worried about? It's all on my head, and Twilight's head, too. Heh, she is probably reading so much that she probably doesn't have enough room for anymore ideas. Probably even burned herself out!"

They both had a good laugh. "Exactly! That is exactly my theory. See what you get for over-studying?"

"And they said TV rots the brain." They laughed once more. After the joking around, they all decided to put that prank into action. They heard Rarity about to take a shower, sighing lovingly.

Mane-Ian carefully used a tendril to go through Rarity's bathroom window, and she removed the real shampoo and replaced it with a fake one. Luckily, Rarity didn't see, so they remained undiscovered.

After a few minutes, they both decided to come inside to see the reaction for themselves. "Oh, hey guys," Sweetie Belle noticed. "What are you doing here?"

"We pranked Rarity." Spike muttered to her. Both he and Mane-iac were snickering and giggling about what will happen next."

"Ooh, what kind of prank?" Sweetie asked with a grin.

Mane-iac made her evil Grinch smile again, and replied "you'll see. Come watch the Show with us."

"Yay! This should be fun." Said the unicorn filly. They all went upstairs, and waited in front of the bathroom door to see the outcome,

"Okay, now, she is turning off the water, she is getting out," Spike noted. "Now, she is looking at her reflection in the mirror and-"

"Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!" Came a scream of pure horror. At this, Spike, Sweetie, and Mane-iac were laughing themselves silly. The door flew open and it revealed that Rarity's mane went from purple to green.

This made them laugh even more. Now here mane looked like the same color as the Mane-iac, well, a little more acid green in color at least.

"Spike! Mane-iac! Look at what you did to my beautiful mane!" Rarity exclaimed, feeling on the verge of a panic attack.

"Ho ho ho, green Rarity." Spike sang in a tauntingly tone of voice

"Grr, maybe whoopie coushins are one thing, and maybe pranks from Pinkie Pie are one thing, but when you mess with a mare's shampoo, you are messing with the MARE!!!"

"Oh come now, Rarity, Green is a wonderful color." Mane-iac remarked. "I mean this looks like a new you."

Rarity however, did not buy it. "Oh you are too much, Mane-iac!" Then she ran down the stairs, screaming in horror and disgust because of how her mane looks.

The three laughed again. "That was hilarious!" Said Sweetie Belle. "Oh you got her good!"

"Yes, and you should have heard her scream! hahaha!" Spike said "oh it sounded silly. She really thought it was the end of the world!"

"You know my sister, she is the queen of all drama queens." Sweetie chuckled

"I heard that!" Rarity called out from downstairs.

Sweetie rolled her eyes sideways with a smirk in response to that feedback. "You might want to get out of here before she goes on a rampage." She whispered to Spike's ear. The baby dragon and his wife hurriedly went out the door, victorious about what they have accomplished

Meanwhile, Rarity peeked out the front door while angrily shaking her hoof in the air, with her mane still green. "You'll pay for this!" She shouted before going back inside with a loud slam.

Tired from running, they both catches their breath. "Wow, you were absolutely genius, Mane-iac!"

"Oh I flush. And you were amazing also, putting green hair dye into that shampoo, haha! Poor Rarity might have to hpget use to having green hair for a few days,

Spike continued laughing "yeah, we both did a good job. Well, let's get some ice cream to celebrate,"

Mane-iac made a small gasp of joy "ooh, I so feel like chocolate with sprinkles on top." Then they both went to the ice cream parlor. However, Spike's ear got the attention of something. He heard Camera Len's voice. Curious, he wanted to know what was happening.

As thought they were talking about Spike and Mane-iac and the rest of the Show. Mane-iac noticed this and asked him "what are you doing?"

"Shh, it's Camera Len talking about us." Spike whispered. The unhinged mare decided to listen in too.

"Come on, guys. Can you even believe how gullible those idiots are just agreeing to be on the show?" Both Spike and Mane-iac were shocked to hear that, and responded with a quiet gasp

"I know, boss. Rainbow Dash and Rarity might even kill one another, and who wouldn't even want to see fighting like that?" Said one of his employees. "We're gonna be rich!"

"Right, but don't forget about the shocking ending season finale." The boss meant.

Both the pair looked at each other from outside in confusion, both going like "what shocking ending?"

"What's that Camera?" Asked a boom operator

There was a pause so long that Spike and Mane-iac could hear the sound of hooves passing by in the streets,

"At the end, one of stars will be kicked off, and have a new replacement! And then, we will humiliate them even more with fake details about them, like in an inquirer. Oh, we will be richer than Celestial and Luna, I can't even think about who wouldn't want a good gossip, or how fun it is to watch two mares get in a cat fight? Heh, I think Rarity should get voted off."

Both Spike and Mane-iac gasped, completely shocked at what they were hearing. Twilight was right all along. What could this mean? Is there love in jeapordy?