It's Hero Time!

I was busy staring at what I had just turned into, which meant staring at my hands and feet. "What am I?"

"It looks like something that the cake foals with play with." Applejack commented and Rarity nodded.

I moved and looked in a mirror that Twilight conjured for me. "O....kay....." I stared in the mirror. "I'm lost. I don't get why this would be in here." I extended my arms to twice the length they were. "Hmm." I scratched my chin, and wondered. I then turned my arm into a cannon with other blocks feeding into it. "Maybe this won't be too bad..." I then turned my other arm into a shield. "So whatever I imagine I can turn into. Hey Applejack, want to fight?"

Applejack perked up when I asked her that. "Why would you want to do that?"

"Well think about it, the past few bad guys we've had to deal with used fights and conflict. I figure if I'm going to have the watch I might as well know how to fight back." I said.

"I don' wanna hurt ya sugah cube." Applejack said.

"Well if anypony is coming after the watch they're not going to hold back, and you girls won't always be there for me." I said.

"You do raise a good point Spike, knowing how to fight back would be very useful." Twilight commented.

"Are ya sure Spike?" Applejack asked.

"Come on." I motioned for her to bring it, before I finished AJ rushed me and hit me with her fore hooves knocking me back in the process. My body shifted and reassembled then I was back to a vertical position, AJ rushed me again but I brought up a shield and knocked her back.

"For a feller made of plastic you can really fight back." AJ commented, I took the initiative and rushed her with my other arm forming into a hammer and smashed at the ground in front of her.

She jumped up and tried to kick me in the face but I just shot an extra hand out of my body and caught her. "You're gonna have to do better than that."

Applejack wiped the sweat off her brow and took out her lasso. "YEE-HAW!" She threw her lasso around my waist and pulled as hard as she could. I got pulled towards her but disassembled my body and reassembled in a different location. I grinned and turned my arm into a cannon and started to shoot blocks at her. I stopped the moment the blocks EXPLODED!

"Okay no more of that now." I said when Applejack when bug-eyed.

"SPIKE!" Applejack yelled at me. "DON'T GO BLOWING UP MY FARM!"

"I didn't mean to. I was just in the moment, ya know?" I waved my hands in front of me.

Applejack breathed in and out then she calmed down. "Sorry for yelling, it just surprised me." Applejack said. "I'm still a bit mad for the whole exploding blocks but I don't blame yah, yah didn't know."

"So Pinkie what's the name of this one going to be?"

"Bloxx! With two x's" She directed the latter part to Twilight, who rolled her eyes and wrote it down.

"Hey, how about we move this whole showcase down to the lake?" Applejack suggested. "As much as I like seeing these new critters, I like not having my my farm torn to shreds." Everypony agreed it was for the best and helped clean up the messes that they made, then moved everything to the lake. It was around the time of year were things were cooling down so nopony would really be around to watch them and the princesses arrived as well. Twilight showed and told both of them about the different aliens that Spike has.

"I'm impressed." Princess Celestia said.

"If you don't mind me asking Princesses, why are you still here?" Rarity asked politely.

"Oh it's not a problem, we just wanted to check in with Spike to see how he was adjusting to his new abilities." Princess Luna told the group.

"I'm doing pretty well all things considered. We were trying out the aliens in AJ's orchard but... hehe...something unaccounted for happened." I scratched the back of my head.

"It's fine Spike, but what I'm more worried about now is somepony lookin' at Spike while he's changing." AJ said.

Celestia and Luna looked at each other and smirked. "How about our old castle in the Everfree?" Celestia offered. "I'm pretty sure with some work the training yard could be good as new in no time at all."

I smiled. "What do you girls think?" The girls nodded and agreed. The princesses lit up their horns and teleported us to the castle in the Everfree. The princesses helped clean some, although Twilight protested.

"Twilight my dear student. I have spent many days being attended to by hoof. This is my only day off in a few years, if I don't do something I might wind up like Nightmare moon." Princess Celestia sighed.

"Sorry Princess." Twilight apologized.

"It's fine, and please call me Celestia. We've known each other far too long to keep being formal."

"Ok pri- I mean Celestia." Twilight said and helped her teacher.

Moments passed and the training yard looked good as new. Twilight sat next to Luna and Celestia telling them about the aliens that Spike had previously transformed into. Then the watch beeped letting me know it had recharged. "You ready Twilight?"

Twilight nodded and I popped out the display and switched to an alien that I didn't discover yet. The guy was small but I pressed it anyways. My skin changed to gray and my vision became wider it was like looking through a weird telescope and I... shrank? "Okay this is a predicament that I haven't questioned before." I said.

Twilight looked at me. "Spike is that you?"

"It is, somehow I feel that my cognitive functions have increased tremendously and that I am able to process knowledge at a faster pace than I was able to before." I said. "This is quite the quandary, not only has my stature greatly decreased but in light of that my thought process has increased by at least a thousand fold."

Twilight's mouth was hanging open, in fact so were the princesses. "Spike, I think this alien is hyper-intelligent."

"Hmm, yes also did you know that the sun does not revolve around the planet? From my calculations the mass of the closest star would be far to great, and adjusting it in any manner would have dire consequences for all of those involved." I said. "My apologies princesses but why lead ponies on with this farce?"

"I well..... um.... it's easier?" Celestia said.

"Wait hold on a minute!" Rainbow shouted. "How do you explain Discord being able to change it from night to day so fast?"

"By changing the rotation of the planet." I explained. "The planet is on a fixed rotation on an axis yet it needs a constant source of energy or else it would cease to rotate, thus that's where the princesses come in they continue to provide the energy that the planet needs on a 24 hour schedule. But you can change the direction of the energy, making the planet go from day to night or night to day it's as simple as flying."

"Okay you lost me." Rainbow sat down.

"It's simple Rainbow. The planet spins like a ball, but the ball can spin in more than one direction, it's up to the princesses to keep that ball spinning in the same direction at a fixed pace." Twilight said.

"So you don't raise the sun princess?" Fluttershy asked.

Celestia sighed. "It's true. The only reason I never told anypony is because it would be too complex to explain."

"All I do is keep the moon from leaving the orbit of the planet, other than that it spin around on it's own." Luna said.

"But what about your immortality?" Twilight asked.

"That is a result of Discord, when he was trapped in stone, before he was completely encased he cursed us to only perish when he does." Celestia explained.

"So what about Cadence and I?" Twilight asked.

"You will live normal lives and when it comes time for you to depart from the world you shall do so." Luna told Twilight.

"Okay, to be honest I was worried about that for a second." Twilight admitted. "As much as I would like to be a princess I don't think I could do it forever. No offense."

"None taken my dear pupil." Celestia said.

"What title shall we give my current form?" I asked.

"May I name this one?" Twilight asked.

"Please proceed." I said.

"Gray Matter." Twilight named. "Personally I think this one will be my favorite. It will be good to have another intellectual to banter with."

I hopped up onto Twilight's shoulder. "Personally I have some conflicting ideas with this. The small stature would help in some cases, though they seem few and far between."

"That's understandable." Twilight nodded and the watch started to beep so I hopped off of her shoulder and was changed back. "So now there is, Heatblast, Four Arms, Diamond Head, Wildmutt, XLR8, Bloxx, and Gray Matter."

I stood next to Twilight and the princesses. "That's seven so far. I've only seen 10 aliens on the watch."

"So three remain." Luna stated.

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"So we have Heatblast, Four Arms, Diamond Head, Wildmutt, XLR8, Bloxx, Gray Matter, StinkFly."

Applejack smirked. "I don' care who ya are that's a funny name."

"Rath, and Ghostfreak." Twilight finished.

"Now there's the future to look forward to." I said.