My Little Pony: Friendship is Dangerous: Episode One: Spare Spike a Thought

Chapters

Spell gone Awry
The Forming of a Plan!
A Barrage of Pillows
The Backfiring of The Plan
Spike's Decision

Spell gone Awry

Twilight Sparkle was happy for today she was about to test a spell she had longed to test ever since she had arrived in Ponyville, a spell which would allow her to enter the minds of other ponies and see what they are thinking at any given time, although this may have sounded like a stupid idea to everypony else, she was sure that nothing would go wrong with such a thing. She traced her hoof down the parchment mumbling to words to the spell as she went along. She giggled out of pure glee when she finally realized that the spell she so yearned to complete was now ready in its entirety

“Spiiiiiiiiike!” She called out hoping that her assistant was awake enough to be able to hear her, when she didn't get an answer however she frowned and used her teleportation to arrive in Spike's room to see that he was cuddling a Rarity plush. He let out a gasp and threw the plush aside then blushed and rubbed his claw against the back of his head “Twi! You have got to stop doing that, I need my privacy!”

Spike whined, cheeks as red as the gem he had handed Rarity many moons ago. Twilight of course rolled her eyes “Oh, of course. I'll just leave you to your-...ahem 'privacy'”

If Twilight were born with human hands she would have made air quotations with her fingers, but she didn't so her hoofs would make do for now “Now, I have wonderful news!” She exclaimed bounding towards Spike with a single stride which made Spike stumble and fall backwards onto his bed, he blinked and sat up looking at the unicorn in-front of him with the almost maddening smile spreading across her features “Okaaaaaay, i'm waiting for you to tell me?” He said an eyebrow raising and his arms quickly crossing against his chest.

Her grin seemed to widen at what he said which confused young Spike even more so than he was now “it's finally ready!” She proclaimed, punching one hoof in the air as though she was high fiving an invisible entity that only she could see “If by 'it' you mean your cell in the Canterlot Crazy house then I'm happy that you'll finally be cured of your sudden week long bout of madness” Spike said pointedly, smirk crossing his face which was soon dropped when he felt Twilight's hoof smack him on the upside of his head. He was sure that he saw stars from that moment on “I won't be making a joke like that again anytime soon.” he whispered to himself, claw against the place which Twilight's hoof had hit.

“If you are done with your jokes. I have the spell here!” She teleported the spell which once rested upon her bedside table but now resided within the purple unicorns hoof and waved it around as though it were something a flagbearer would wave if he were leading ponies into a battle.

Spike's head followed the spell as best as he could but from what he could see the only words which made any kind of sense to him were 'mind' and 'dreams' his confusion was obviously noticed by Twilight who stopped her waving of the spell and blushed the tiniest bit, she cleared her throat and decided to explain herself to her assistant “for quite a while now I have been fascinated with the concept of hearing ponies thoughts and entering their daydreams and now that idea has come to fruition!” she squeaked waving the piece of parchment once more. Spike sighed and grabbed her hoof to stop her from shaking it any further “daydreams? Isn't the dream domain owned by Princess Luna?” he asked inquisitively, to which he received an immediate answer.

“Oh, it does! But I sent a letter to the princess earlier this month inquiring about a possible admittance into said dream realm annnnnnnd...” she paused as though she was waiting for some pony to give her a drum roll, Spike waited patiently for her to continue but when she wouldn't he nudged her and she begrudgingly did “she allowed me to do so! Providing that I would only observe said day dreams and not interfere with them in any kind of way!” Twilight clapped her hoofs together like an excited filly to which Spike smirked “and you are going to be my first test subject!” Twilight proclaimed happily, lifting the dragon up with a levitation spell and spinning him around whilst she herself span, the smirk that was once on Spike's face dropped immediately and instead his eyes widened slightly.

“What about Rarity?!” He exclaimed, his world still spinning due to the fact that Twilight had been spinning him around for the past minute and a half.

Twilight scoffed at the idea “Rarity is a busy mare Spike! She had a shop to deal with!” Spike opened his mouth to try and counter her argument but Twilight cut in before he could say anything “If you do this for me I will help you write your song for Rarity” he stiffened slightly at her words and felt his cheeks become inflamed slightly “How did y-..”

Twilight smirked and nudged him playfully “You speak when you sleep.” she said simply, clearing her throat and stepping away from Spike “now, Spike this may feel-...weird but you'll just have to trust me right now” Spike gulped and nodded wordlessly as he watched Twilight's horn glow a brilliant purple before he knew it the same light which had now set Twilight's horn aglow had now engulfed his entire body, the dragon felt both hot and cold at the same time. His head felt as though he had run full force as into a herd of stampeding yaks and before he knew it his world had dimmed to black.

Twilight stopped immediately when she noticed that Spike had dropped to the ground his eyes shut firmly and his body shuddering as though he had been left out in the coldest of nights imaginable. She pleaded to every god she knew to let her assistant live and cursed herself for being so stupid and performing a spell which she herself had never performed before on him, Twilight felt her vision blur as tears filled her eyes and spilled down both her cheeks “Spike?” she asked, breaking the silence which to her seemed as though it were consuming all matters of sound itself. She didn't know how long she waited beside the dragon it could have been minutes but it felt as though the entire life span of time itself had passed until finally she heard a groan and then watched the small body beside her twitch and move and finally watched Spike sit up and stare at her “Spike?! Oh, I am sooooo sorry!” She grabbed him and pulled him into a tight embrace but to her horror she found that the dragon pushed away and stumbled back against his bed his eyes wide with terror

“W-who are you? Where am I?!” Spike whimpered, those words and those alone caused Twilight's heart to break.

Author's Note

I apologize if this is not the /best/ I have only just recently been able to find my feet (or hooves) with writing again so apologies of punctuation and other such things aren't amazing!

The Forming of a Plan!

Twilight Sparkle had been pacing about the same spot in the library for a while now. She had looked at every single book that was sitting on each and every shelf twice and was thinking about doing so for a third time just for good measure, however before she even got chance to pick up the first book she heard a loud crash coming from the room opposite her. She jumped at the noise and rushed to see what the commotion was and of course it was her assistant Spike trying to open one of the windows in the room he had been locked in to try and escape.

“Look, I don't know who you are or what you want with me-..but-...uh” Spike began, trying to make up some kind of believable lie to escape this supposedly evil ponies clutches “I-..have a-..um” He paused once again and felt the silence fill the air of the room. Twilight herself rolled her eyes but couldn't do anything to conceal the amount of concern and hurt that her eyes held. She still couldn't believe how stupid she had been, maybe if she hadn't been an idiot and actually written the spell down correctly then her faithful assistant wouldn't be staring at her right now with a puzzled expression splashed onto his face like an artists canvas

“are you crying?” Spike asked, taking a step towards the unicorn. He may not remember the unicorn anymore but he did remember that he hated the sight of anypony that cried, it always left his stomach in knots and made him feel awful “look, just don't do anything-..you can let me go and I won't tell Princess Celestia that this even happened” He said, plastering an obviously fake smile on his lips. Twilight's eyes widened slightly, she rubbed a hoof against her eye to wipe away the tears that were threatening to spill down her cheeks once more she felt as though a little firework had gone off in her chest, Twilight had hope she now knew that her assistants memories weren't totally messed up if he knew of the princess.

“Spike?” Twilight began, which made the dragon smile nervously “What do you know of Princess Celestia?” she asked, quickly grabbing a pen and a notebook and eagerly awaiting whatever the young dragon was about to say about the princess.

“well, she's the princess of Equestria obviously. She has a sister called-...Princess Luna?” He paused for a moment and nodded his head as he confirmed the facts in his head before deciding to continue “she hatched me from my egg ages ago and-...uh...” He paused, his head suddenly hurting as though a knife was being jabbed into the back of his skull repeatedly. Twilight immediately rushed to the dragons side but by the time she had arrived the stabbing pain in his head had gone completely “T-that's all I know of her.” Spike took a moment to look over the unicorn beside him, he really looked at her and he realised something, he knew that he had seen this unicorn before but he didn't know where and at what period of his life this meeting took place at “What's your name?” he asked slowly, claw being placed onto his chin thoughtfully.

Twilight gasped and drew in a huge breath of air, this was it. She was assured of it the moment she'd get her Spike back to normal and then days or maybe weeks later they could look back at this and laugh and vow never to perform a spell that dangerous ever again “Twilight Sparkle.” She simply said and then she went silent, eyes locking onto her young assistant. She watched as his eyes seemed to flash a purple colour just as he was about so say something and then he yelped in pain. Twilight of course drew the dragon close to her chest but to her shock she felt him push away from her embrace with an eagerness which matched his desire to work with Rarity at the boutique.

“I-..don't know you! S-stop touching me!” He shrieked, causing the unicorn to stumble back a mixture of shock and hurt staining her already saddened features. She once again felt tears filling up both of her eyes but instead of holding them back she led them flood down her cheeks as though she had opened up a tap and once she was crying she simply couldn't stop herself, the unicorn darted out of the room and into her room as quickly as she possibly could leaping onto her bed and burying her face into her pillow, trying her hardest to muffle the sobs that escaped her mouth after a couple of minutes she had finally managed to regain control of her emotions and pulled herself away from her pillow into a sitting position. She sniffled a couple of times and rubbed her eyes to get rid of any stray tears clinging to her eyelashes

“That purple flash in his eyes...” she said quietly to himself, blinking away any remaining tears and quickly regaining the composure that she needed to show Spike that she was a strong mare and she could do this on her own, not that he would help her now anyway but in the event that something were to happen to jog his broken memory she didn't want him to worry for her “It's like that-...flash was preventing him from saying my name-...” Twilight's eyes widened “maybe-..the spell formed a-..mental barrier!” She exclaimed, leaping from her bed and towards her desk at which she had a quill and a piece of paper. She eagerly took said quill into her hoof and dipped it into the ink beside the paper and frantically began writing on it “If I can get Spike to say my name maybe that will break the barrier that is preventing his memories of me from being shown! That means-...” she giggled and used her magic to levitate many different pictures of herself, Rarity and Spike towards her and set them beside the paper “I need to make Spike a presentation!” and with a clap of her hooves and a grin as wide as one of those creepy clown ponies she'd seen in Canterlot when she was a filly she quickly set to work making Spike a memory jogging presentation.

Author's Note

So, here we have the second chapter to this! Twilight is heartbroken that Spike no longer remembers her but she has a plan to try and fix that! also, Rarity will be introduced in the next chapter!

A Barrage of Pillows

Twilight was currently engaged in a shouting match with Rarity, see after she had come up with her plan she decided that she needed somepony other than herself to help with the visual appeal of each slide and who better than Rarity. She promised Spike that she'd be back in an hour but he didn't really seem to care, he was more bothered about what was going to happen next in his comic book than what a unicorn who he hardly knew was going out to do. Twilight had arrived at the Carousel Boutique in record speed, she had just barely brushed passed Derpy Hooves who was carrying a plate of muffins for somepony, Twilight however did hear a crash further on down the path and managed to yell a “Sorry!” but she was unable to stop and help tidy up the mess, she soon arrived at the Boutique and cleared her throat, mentally preparing herself for whatever was going to happen to her once she informed Rarity about the current situation with Spike.

“Welcome to Carousel Boutique wher-..” Rarity paused and her lips curled into a smile when she noticed the unicorn who had trotted into her establishment “Twilight, darling! So wonderful to see you! Especially on a day such as this glorious one we are having!” she motioned to the window to which Twilight looked out of and she had to admit the sun was shining quite beautifully today. She didn't seem to take notice of that fact when she was rushing over here but now that she did in-fact notice how much of a wonderful day today actually was it made her want to trot back outside maybe try to get some form of a tan? Rarity of course noticed the faraway look that Twilight now had resting upon her face and giggled softly, she waved a hoof in-front of her eyes to snap the mare out of her daydream before giggling once more “are you back with me, darling?” she asked with a grin spreading across her lips.

“E-erm...” Twilight blushed a deep shade of red before covering both of her cheeks with her hoofs. She had to tell Rarity about the situation with Spike but she needed to wait for the perfect moment to tell the white unicorn. She chewed her bottom lip as she went over every possible way that this conversation could go in her head when she was interrupted by Rarity who once again waved a hoof in-front of her eyes to get her attention “O-oh!, yes right...” Twilight's blush wasn't as bad as it had been previously but it was still very obviously present “Rarity, there is no easy way to say this-...so you had better take a seat.” Rarity raised an eyebrow in bewilderment but decided to follow Twilight's instructions and placed herself elegantly down on the seat beside her.

“Whatever is the matter, darling?” she asked, worry seemed to spike through her body as she noticed that once again the unicorn seemed to chew on her bottom lip. Rarity of course knew this kind of behaviour and her lips once again curled into a grin “Ah, I know what this is about...” she said holding a hoof up to silence Twilight who had just opened her mouth to reply to her, Rarity took a closer look at Twilight and nodded satified with the fact that she had her problem figured out in a matter of moments “Is there a special colt you have your eyes on? Perhaps you came to me for advice on how to woo him?” she was flattered of course.

Twilight Sparkle's blush seemed to brighten the entire room. She fumbled upon her words and then shook her head furiously “No! It's nothing like that it's about Spike.” and that's when Twilight noticed a small hint of a smile spread across Rarity's lips, Twilight knew of course that she would probably bombard her with a whole lot of questions about him so she figured she'd take this opportunity and tell her of Spike's condition “I cast a spell which was supposed to help me see into the minds of ponies when they daydream and I used Spike as a sort of test dummy and-..well….” she paused and noticed the fact that Rarity hadn't even blinked, the smile however she had before had vanished and an ever present anger seemed to grow on her face. She gulped as she really didn't want to tell her the last part of the havoc she had wrought upon Spike “W-well….he no longer remembers me and-….if he no longer remembers me I don't think he may remember you.” Twilight was about to explain in more detail when she felt a pillow hit her square in the face, she stumbled back and had to cover her hooves over her head as a barrage of pillows rained down from everwhere at once “Rarity! Stop!” Rarity didn't listen to her words and kept launching pillows at Twilight.

“How. Dare. You!” Rarity screeched, finally relenting in her pillow attack and scanning the room to try and find something bigger to throw at her “How could you endanger poor little Spikey-Wikey like that?! Could you not simply send a message to Princess Celestia and inform her of your spell?! Did you have to use it on that cute little dragon?!” She had tears in her eyes now and her anger seemed to soften into despair “W-we….must regain his memories! I trust you have a plan?” she sniffed, dabbing her eyes with a tissue.

Twilight nodded and gave Rarity a soft smile “of course I do. A presentation of all of our memories together should help unlock the ones he has of us, then and only then will we have the proper Spike back to us.” and without another word, Rarity practically sped out of the Boutique dragging Twilight along with her “Hurry, there is not a moment to spare!” She shouted.

The Backfiring of The Plan

Twilight had by now gone other the presentation with Rarity well over five times to the point where Rarity could guess what she was going to say next, Rarity even began a little game where she would count all the times that Twilight said something different to the previous time she had rehearsed her presentation and so far she was astounded to find that not a single word that came out of Twilight's mouth had ever been changed or altered in any kind of way, it impressed Rarity slightly that she was able to keep so focused during a simple rehearsal of the proper thing. Rarity had been lost in her own thoughts for too long because when she next looked up she noticed that Twilight was staring at her with a smile on her face as though she were expecting some kind of answer. Rarity inwardly panicked and let out a small giggle “Well-….” she began before Twilight lifted a hoof the smile that had been on her face had dropped completely and now a frown made its way onto her features.

“You weren't listening to what I said at all were you?” Twilight asked, to which Rarity gasped a look of hurt spreading across her face. Twilight sighed and cleared her throat preparing to go over that slide once again when she saw Spike standing at the doorway with a confused expression written all over his face, Twilight gasped softly to which Rarity gave her a puzzled expression and followed her gaze to the little dragon which in turn caused her to gasp too. Twilight watched as Rarity leaped up from her chair and rushed over to Spike, wrapping him in her arms and simply holding him. Twilight noticed the look of confusion amplify to the point where he was beginning to look uncomfortable with the mar that was holding him “Spike, that's Rarity. You must know her” Twilight said a look of hopefulness dancing in her emotion stricken eyes.

Spike took a moment to look at the white unicorn that stood in-front of him, she did indeed look somewhat familiar to him but he couldn't quite put his claw on where he had seen her before. She looked like some kind of model that you would find in Canterlot or possibly even Manehatten perhaps she was one of them? Spike simply shrugged his shoulders however eliciting a sob from Rarity. He didn't understand why he had two mares crying over him now rather than just the one. He frowned for a moment and stared at Rarity a memory seemed to be making itself known to the young drake. He saw himself in Carousel Boutique with another pony who was dreadfully blurred out to the point where Spike couldn't even take note of any distinguishing features, he did notice the white unicorn in-front of him and heard himself call her “beautiful” Spike gasped slightly as pain sliced into his head making the memory twist and blur until he was pulled out of it and found himself being held in Rarity's arms, however unlike Twilight he didn't pull himself away immediately he simply allowed the feeling of their closeness to flood through him like a rush of cold water the feeling was somewhat odd to him but at the same time oddly addicting. Rarity turned to Twilight and gave her a small smile to which she noticed that Twilight had a tear or two threatening to make their way down her cheeks. Rarity bit her lower lip and pulled Spike out of her arms and placed him on the chair.

“Twilight, had a presentation for you to look at. She thinks that it may help with your memory problem.” Twilight saw Spike roll his eyes at this to which she giggled, Spike always used to do this whenever she had asked him to do something extra and then bolstered that with the promise of some kind of gem to munch on. Spike however instead of staying in the chair jumped from it so he was now standing on the floor “I don't want to sit through a boring presentation to regain memories of you that you are so sure that I have. I don't even know what I am doing here the only thing I do remember was being back in Canterlot and then I closed my eyes and the next thing I know is I wake up here.” his words struck a chord with Twilight who felt the tears she had held at bay come flooding down her cheeks.

“Spike, i'm Twilight Sparkle. This is Rarity.” She motioned to Rarity who gave the dragon a slow wave before turning away to wipe at her eyes.

“You keep saying that name like it is supposed to mean something to me, I don't know who that pony is and this 'Rarity'” when her name was mentioned Rarity whipped her head round and waited eagerly for what he was going to say next “doesn't exist for me. I'm sorry girls but by the end of the day I want to be back in Canterlot with Princess Celestia.” and with that Spike quickly hurried out of the room, Rarity and Twilight turned to each other then looked at the planned presentation before sighing deeply.

“Well, we have a time limit now. Spike needs his memories back by the end of the day or we may lose him forever” Twilight said dabbing her eyes with a tissue in the same manor that Rarity had done previously “We need to find the book I had been studying, perhaps there is a counter spell for such a condition” she said dragging Rarity off to where she was studying the book that started this whole thing. Twilight continued dragging Rarity until she arrived to her room, she pushed into the room and sped towards her desk where the book was and happily levitated it in-front of her before opening it and scanning the pages quickly. Rarity sighed and sat beside the mare gazing down at the same book glancing through the window at the sun which was now at the highest point in the sky.

Spike's Decision

Twilight sighed and knocked her hoof against the door which Spike was behind, her eyes damp with tears that she refused to let flow down her cheeks, herself and Rarity had spent almost all of the afternoon looking through countless amounts of books and scrolls trying to find some way of reversing the spell that she had placed upon Spike. She had found things that were like the spell she had cast on him but not her specific spell, probably because it was one of Starswirl's old spells which she had tweaked slightly to be slightly more effective than the previous iteration of the spell. She also realized that she had cried enough these past couple of hours and crying more would further distance Spike from herself and Rarity something that she couldn't afford, especially right now with everything that was happening. She rested her ear against the door and listened for any sign of noise from the other side and luckily she was able to hear something, the clangs and clatters of Spike picking up certain objects in the room and then placing them back down and the squeak of a couple of floorboards as his feet went over a certain section of his room again and again. Twilight had always promised that she'd use some kind of magic spell to fix the problem but Spike insisted that she get some other pony to do it because he was frightened that she'd blow a hole in his floor, she giggled softly at the fond memory and listened as the pacing around his bedroom stopped for a moment before continuing once more, she presumed that Spike had wondered what that was but shook it off obviously still very deep in his own thoughts about the strange situation that he had found himself in.”What will you do when you arrive back in Canterlot, Spike?” Twilight asked aloud, hoping that the dragon would hear her question and give her some kind of reply.

Spike had no idea how to answer the question, he didn't know what to answer the question with without further hurting the poor mare. He leaped onto the bed and swung his feet gently off the edge. He frowned when he noticed that he still wasn't able to touch the ground from wherever he was sitting at and longed for the day that he would grow up to be a big tall dragon like he was assured his mother and father were. The silence hung heavy in the air like a storm cloud that had yet to release the copious amount of rain it had stored inside it, Spike couldn't bring himself to break it and on the other side of the door Twilight couldn't bring herself to say anything more lest she further annoy Spike. Spike sighed deeply and leaped off the bed and onto the floor, staring at the door “I-...” the silence had been broken by Spike, and Twilight immediately straightened herself and listened for the dragons reply “Princess Celestia?” He suggested, shrugging his shoulders “I could stay with the princess since she is the one who found my egg….” He paused and leaned picked up a framed photograph of himself and Twilight, Twilight had a bright beaming smile plastered on her face whereas Spike had a relatively normal smile. His face was dirty and the closer he looked at the picture the more he noticed that Twilight had little flecks of mud and dust scattered on her fur, he grinned as the memory invaded his head. He could see it being played in his head as though it were a projector at a cinema, however just before the two were about to do the thing that had gotten them both so muddy his head seared with pain, his claws went to the sides of his head and desperately massaged his temples in a vain attempt to try and calm the self-induced headache down. It had worked but only briefly as the memory that Spike was seeing was still being played with the mare he was with Twilight was now all faded and blurry and whenever she spoke to Spike her speech was garbled and gibberish until finally the memory ended and Spike stumbled for a few seconds before regaining his composure and opening his eyes which he didn't even realized that he had closed “I need to pack, if you would like to help me then thank you if-….” He paused and turned to the door sighing softly “If not then please leave me be. I would appreciate it if you wrote a letter to Princess Celestia informing her of the situation?”

Twilight sighed and looked down at her hooves, nodding her head as though he would be able to see her do such a thing “Yes, of course.” she said in reply, her words shaky and full of emotion which Spike of course picked up on, Twilight turned away from his door and trotted off down the corridor taking a right she bumped into Rarity who had been listening to the whole conversation, she yelped of course at the impact but managed to compose herself before saying “Spike is still going. I don't know what we can do anymore.” Rarity thumped Twilight on the upside of her head, eliciting a yelp of pain from the fellow unicorn “What in the hay was that for?!” She exclaimed getting ready to return the thump that Rarity had generously given her.

“Darling, didn't you say once that negativity is for ponies who have stopped trying?” Twilight nodded her head, puzzled expression on her face. Rarity tutted slightly and allowed her eyes roll a smile soon making its way onto her lips soon after “Listen, I managed to find something that may help us bring Spikey-Wikey back to us but we must act fast!” Twilight's eyes lit up at her words and she allowed Rarity to drag her off down the hall “To the library!” Rarity shouted “No time to waste!” she quickly added sounding more like some kind of super hero from one of Spike's comic books than a fashionista.