A little later on in the afternoon, every mare in Ponyville was wearing the Mane-iac's suit, or copies of the suit made by Rarity. Turns out this new fashion craze was still raving through the town. Of course there was nothing wrong with that, in fact, every young mare looked rather stylish with those suits on them. Spike was he,ping Twilight out with her chores around the mansion. As for the Mane-iac herself, she was helping Hair Stylish and the other Hench-stallions with her latest invention: "The Hairspray Ray of chaos.

"Perfect! My new invention to cause mayhem is finally complete! Mwhahahahha!" She cackled. "The newest version of the hairspray ray of doom will cause even more mayhem, causing ponies who touch it to go completely insane-- Like Me! Hahahahaha!"

All the hit-ponies smiled at her latest evil plan, and could not wait to see their boss pull it off to Maretropolis. The Mane-iac stopped her raucous cackling and wondered if Spike will like the idea and want to see that or not. "What is it, mistress?" Hair Stylish said. The unhinged mare looked around and saw the rest of the Hench-stallions looked concerned about their leader.

"Nothing. Nothing." She barked firmly. The thought of the doppelgänger she saw in her reflection did not go away. "Alright, boys. I mig as well tell you." She took a breath and began "I had this little conflict in me, like this part of me said I should kill Spike after he humiliated us on our doomsday device long ago."

Clip Cut gasped "what? You're never going to kill him, are you mistress?"

"Of course not. I would never. Sadly, this little part of me does not want me to let him live." She growled and broke an ugly vase with a tendril from her mane, shattering it all over the floor, then she was on the brink of tears. "I don't know what to do."

"It's okay, mistress." Said a bodyguard. "I think you just need to let go of that evil inside you."

The Mane-iac looked at him angrily and huffed. "I am evil, you twit!" She said. "I just.... Need to make this little imposter leave me for the rest of eternity so I can stay with my handsome Spike-Whikey. But how? How?"

Then Hair Stylish stepped up and said "well, why don't you go... See a psychiatrist and see what he or he can do."

"I normally don't do psychiatrists, because they all have given up on trying to 'cure' me. Which I think is because I take the fun of torturing them mercilessly, but I don't really ever do buisness with them anyway."

"Well, I think we should tell Spike about this then."

"No! My little Spike cannot know about this! If he finds out, he will think I don't really love him, then we get divorced, and everypony will hate me forever."

"Oh come on." Said Clip Cut. "Spike is a perfectly understanding little guy. He might help you if you would just tell him what is going on. Maybe Twilight can help you out too."

"Well.... She is a princess after all, and she is a solver of friendships all over Equestria." She thought about it "alright, I guess I will. However, I would rather prefer if Spike knew nothing about this."

"As you wish, Mistress." said Hair Stylish. "Meantime, why don't we put this baby to use. We can hardly wait to see what his thing is capable of."

The Mane-iac smiled slightly. "You're right. Let us go forth and wreak havoc on Maretropolis once again! MWHAHAHAHA!!" then the hench-stallions laughed along with her. "Don't laugh with me, you're ruining it!" then they all fell silent. One of the hench-stallions went to get the comic book and they all went off to cause mayhem in the city once again.

A little later, somewhere around one hour and thirty minutes later to be exact, they all came out of the comic, and the Mane-iac had a wonderful time using her new "Hairspray ray of Madness" in all of the city. Nopony got permanently affected by the power of it, in fact, all the citizens of Maretropolis will be back to their sanity in a matter of days. Nevertheless, it was so satisfying for the Mane-iac and her followers.

"How crazy was that?" Said Clip Cut.

"I know." Genius Gel laughed in replied. "You should have seen that mare when she was affected. She was all 'lblblblblblblblb! Ah! Ooh! Ah! Ugh!' Hahaha! Oh it was priceless, flailing her head while sticking her tongue out like a psycho."

"Mistress, you are a genius." Said Hair Stylish.

"That I am. One of the greatest evil masterminds in all of history to be exact. I don't call myself the Mane-iac for nothing, you know?"

They all agreed with her one at a time. "So mistress, you feeling better from your little.. conflict?" A Hench-stallion asked. He worried that the Mane-iac might throw him out of the mansion window just asking that.

However, the evil mare was a little silent and had a blank look on her face. It was a rather fun time she did in a while since she used her mind controlled shampoo to turn everypony into slaves, almost winning taking over the city. However, she still felt that flame inside her that kept telling her to kill Spike.

"Well... I don't know. Gah! I still need some help with that!" She growled.

"Oh, mistress, please talk to Twilight and her friends." Stylish begged. "They might have a solution to your problem. We are pretty sure that they will help you in the best possible way to do it."

Mane-iac took a little breath and had to face the fact that they are all right on this one. "You're right. Perhaps I should go talk to them. In the meantime, make yourselves scarce, this instant!"

"Yes ma'am." They all said, and then they all separated all over the place, and the Mane-iac was alone. Now she went over to see if Twilight was available, and to make sure that Spike doesn't find out about this.

Finally, she found her in her room, reading a novel like she always does in her free time that doesn't involved hanging out with her friends. "Ah, Twilight. There you are."

"Mane-iac, you mind of scared me."

"Oh, sorry."

"It's okay. What can I help you with?"

The villainess sighed and bowed her head in shame. "Twilight, I..... I have a problem?" She replied at last.

The purple allicorn's face turned I to a small frown. "What's wrong?"

"Well, I think it would be more safe to talk about this with your friends out of the mansion." She glanced to and fro. "You see, it involves me and Spike. Of course I still love him, but it would be best if he didn't know about any of this."

"Oh... Okay." Twilight didn't really know what to think of this. It really sounded dire and serious. She followed her outside. But before they could do, Spike stopped them

"Twilight? Mane-iac? Where are you going?"

"Oh, we are just out to get some grain." Mane-iac said.

"Yep. That's right. Don't worry, we won't be gone for long." Twilight added

"Oh. Alright, I'm just going to read some more comic books."

"You do that." Then they both went outside. After a little walk, Rainbow, and the other friends caught up with them.

"Mne-iac, Twilight. Hello." Rarity said.

"What brings you here?" Pinkie asked

"The Mane-iac here.... Has a little problem." Twilight clarified. They all looked at her with concern.

Rainbow asked "What kind of problem?"

"Well... I don't know if i should say this to all of you, but it involves me and Spike. they all murmured. "Of course I love him, but.... I have this little..... Conflict within me."

Fluttershy then asked "what kind of conflict?"

"It was happening for a number of days now. You all see, I have this little part inside me that keeps telling me to kill Spike."

They were all shocked. "You wouldn't do that!" Rarity exclaimed

"No no no. Of course not. It is just that, I worry I mig go to my evil ways. Oh, I mean, like evil as in killing Spike and all of you. Of course I still commit some mayhem back in Maretropolis when I want to, I don't want to lose him, and make him think I don't love him."

The six friends didn't really know what to think of this. Fluttershy replied by saying "we know you really love Spike, and know you would never do anything to hurt him in any way."

"Yeah, y'all are meant for eachother." Applejack added. "You're just having some trouble trying to adapt to this new lifestyle, that's all."

"Applejack speaks the truth." Rarity added "all changes can be hard deal with, even if they are good changes."

"I know that. But I just want to make this little demon within me go away."

"Well, don't worry. We will help." Twilight proudly stated. The unhinged mare smiled at their kindness. She felt that Spike was lucky to have friends like them by his side, and was flattered that they would do the same thing for her as well.

"Thank you so much." She said "just tell me what I need to do and I will do it. As a matter of fact, I will do anything to cleanse this lowdown evil inside of me."

"Well, sometimes you need to confront your fears to get pass them." Rainbow said. "It worked with me when I was a filly.

"She's right." Rarity agreed. "What she means is you must tell Spike how you feel."

"Are you insane?!" She protested.

Pinkie remarked "Not compared to you." The Mane-iac wasn't amused and rainbow angrily shook her elbow at her, telling her that she was not helping.

"We know it doesn't sound right, but Spike will understand how you feel. He can help you." Fluttershy said

The Mane-iac remembered his hench-ponies suggesting that to her as well. If the elements of harmony say that as well, then it must be true. All the good times she and Spike are spending together. Their love was stronger than a mantis shrimp's punch.

"Yes, Spikey-Whikey will do anything for you. He loves you and you love him back. Think about that, darling."

"You know what. You are right." Mane-iac finally decided. "I don't know if I would like this, but if this does help me, then so be it."

"It will."

"Alright. Thank you for the advice."

"Of course. Anything for a wife of Spike." Fluttershy commented.

"Now don't worry." Said Twilight. "Everything will be fine. Just go and talk to him."

"Right." Then Mane-iac and Twilight went back to the castle while the friends went back to their businesses. More butterflies filled up the Mane-iac inside for she knew that she was going to confess to Spike. Twilight gave her some support saying that everything will be fine, but the villain wasn't so sure of that. Of course, she knew there was only one way to find out for sure.

They both went back inside the castle and speaking of the devil, Spike was sweeping the floors. "Spike?" Twilight called to him

"Oh, hey guys. Did you get some grain?"

"Well... not really." Twilight answered nervously. Look. We were out because the Mane-iac wanted to talk to me and my friends about something... important." then she looked at the villain

"What's wrong, Mane-iac?"

The crazy mare sighed and finally answered. "Spike.... i have this conflict within myself. Alright?" She felt half glad and half scared getting that out of her chest.

"What kind of conflict?" he baby dragon asked.

She was silent for a moment, and finally, she replied "Well, this little part of me wants me to kill you."

Spike grew a little shocked by this. "You... you're not going to kill me, are you?"

"Of course not, sweetie. You're my husband." she explained. She pulled him close to her to cuddle with him. "I just have this little.... pure evil inside of me that wants revenge on you for humiliating me for ruining our doomsday device. I really want to cleanse that evil. And of course i am still evil, just not really the 'kill everypony' type of evil anymore. Please, you got to believe me. I don't want you to hate me."

The baby dragon looked at his wife, and saw that she was shedding a tear from one eye. He can tell that she really loves him and does not want to kill him one little bit. "Mane-iac." Spike said "Of course I still love you."

"You do?"

"Of course, you're my new wife after all. Besides, I think i know what the problem is."

"What's that?"

"I think you just still need to adapt to this kind of lifestyle. One half of you misses your criminal ways. Oh, right, you still do criminal ways, but just do it from time to time now, but I mean be pure evil."

"But, this was going on for a number of days. I just think I should see a psychiatrist maybe."

"Days? well that does sound serious." Spike thought. "Well, i think we know somepony who can help you with that little problem."

"Who?"

"Princess Celestia and Princess Luna."

"Yeah, good idea, Spike. They know how to fix those kind of problems."

"Well, I don't know, what if they banish me from Equestria from Ponyville?" Mane-iac asked worriedly

"Nonsense. They would never do that. They know you and Spike are meant for eachother too. They will really help you out. Besides, they are coming over for a visit later anyway. They want to see this new fashion craze that Rarity created with your suit."

"Oh. That's... perfect. I guess."

"Don't worry, we'll help you. I promise."

The Mane-iac gave a sad smile. "Oh Spike." then she hugged him. "You always know how to make me feel so much better." then the baby dragon hugged her back.

"Thanks." the baby dragon remarked

"Well, they should be here in a little while. Meantime, why don't you go out for a little stroll in the park, or around Ponyville, or someplace fun at least."

"You're... you're right, princess. Well, I always like to look at the Joke shop down the street. I adore pulling pranks, you know?"

"Oh yes. We know." said Spike. "So, shall we go then?"

"Yes. Let's." then she grabbed him with a few tendrils and placed him on her back for another ride through the town. "We will see you in a little while, Twilight. Please let us know if the princess' are already here if we are not home yet."

"Of course." then the couple went out the doors to enjoy the fresh air once again.

"So, how was your new invention?" Spike asked curiously

"Oh it was marvelous! HAHAHA! You should have been there. Everypony in Maretropolis was going absolutely bonkers."

"Aw man. I wish I could have seen it."

"Oh don't worry, Spikey-Whikey. I will show you what this thing is capable of another time. Don't you worry. In the meantime, do you really think Celestia and Luna can help me with my problem?"

"Of course. Just trust me."

"I do." she remarked. "I suppose I will give it a shot. Then she continued walking down the main road to the joke shop.

Rights for this song go to REO Speedwagon

Author's Note

Will The Mane-iac be cured by this? or will it be worse than ever? find out if she will really cleanse that evil doppelganger inside her in the next chapter