The Anti-6

Spike was reading a book in silence, he was sitting in a lawn chair next to the Swimming hole, he was only there on the request of Starlight, but she had ended up having to cancel due to the school, as had the mane 6, leaving Spike alone. He didn't really care in any way, this was just his life and this was how things went, others made plans, then they ditch them because of some random problem, same old same old. Spike was reading a book on Marine Biology when he felt something tug on his tale, Spike jumped up and looked down, a small vine had wrapped itself around his tail, Spike stared at it in silence for a moment.

"Starlight if this is your idea of a prank, you getting better," Spike called out to the wood's behind him as he got up, set his book down, and got down to untangle himself from the vine, it took a hot-minute since the vine was a resilient sucker but Spike managed to untangle himself. As soon as it was off of him the vine retreated back into the ground. "That being said it's still a weird pra-hm?" Spike had reached for his book and found his chair was now empty. He got down to see if he'd put it on the ground when he heard a splash, he turned to the swimming hole and watched in silence as his book floated in the water, the pages facing up. "And now you're just being a dick," he added as he made his way into the water. He swam to his book and picked it out of chest deep water.

"Interesting." The Voice said, Spike jumped in shock and only just managed to not fall over or drop his book "where are your friends?"

"Oh ho ho, fuck everything about this." Spike said as he looked around "Whoever's doing this your-"

"Now, now Spike there will be time to be bitter, but I wanna talk about your many jobs and skills." Spike's facial expression turned sower at the tone the voice had when it said 'skills' "I have of course noted your job as Twilight's number one assistant, and of course there are your amazing skills at carrying the bags of a Unicorn who doesn't appreciate you, oh but I have to say your commitment to the role of a Pincushion was most excellent." as the voice said this the water around Spike began swirling around him, Spike didn't hear any wind rushing past his ear, yet he felt it.

"No idea what's going on here, but I don't think I wanna be a part of it," Spike said.

"Oh but I thought you where the Great Hero Spike of the Crystal Empire, of course, I understand the confusion now that I think about it, your only a hero in the empire, anywhere else your just some random face in the crowd, who cares if you're the reason the Dragon and the Changelings are now on Friendly terms with Pony kind, your nothing but the assistant to a Princess, and that's all you'll ever be, sure you've got this nice thing in the empire, but I'm sure as time goes on the story will be distorted so that your just a nameless colt.

"Alright listen here voice thing!" Spike said, dropping his book into the water, with had transformed from a whirlpool into a Vortex of water shooting into the clouds "You think you can talk down to me and manipulate me or whatever the fuck it is your doing here? Hell no! I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I'm sharp enough, so you can-" The Voice cut Spike off.

"Oh dear Spike," It said, it's tone full of sympathy "it's sad really, but I guess these are how abusive relations ships work, the abused one's never want to accept that's the kind of relationship they're in, be it a romantic or a Friendly one." Spike had no response to that as the voice talked "I mean honestly one of your 'friends' used you as a Pincushion, not to mention the many times she made you carry her luggage when she's a Unicorn! and that's just one of them, how often do you get the short end of the stick? Door's slammed on you? Slamming into a building because Twilight teleported through it and forgot you, as the Voice talked Spike stood in silence, no argument coming to his mind as his book landed at his feet, the pages flipping fast until they stopped, Spike looked down at a page about Octopie as the Octopus on the page came to life, it's tentacles becoming one with the Vortex around Spike as it grew in size, Spike looked up as the Vortex began to close in on him when with a bang the Vortex collapsed in and he was swallowed by it, after a moment the water settled and the Swimming hole was back to normal, no signs of anything weird happening, the water rippled as Spike emerged, he was blue now, his Wings, tail and all the spines on his head had been replaced with Tentacles, he had 5 on his head, the front one covering one of his now yellow eyes, he had a smile on his face, a Smile that just screamed out that it was wrong, he was much large now, had Ember been there he might have stood at or over her height as he walked out of the water in silence.

"I see you over there." He sang out, Applebloom emerged from the tree's and Spike offered her his arm like he wanted to go skipping with her "What say you and I go make some friends?" He asked happily. Applebloom gave him a quick once over before nodding.

"Now that sounds like a fun time," She responded as she turned back towards the woods and Waved Spike forward, He followed after Happily. The two made their way through the tree's and found themselves on the path to Ponyville, Applebloom walked down the path calmly with her arms behind her back, Spike was almost skipping as he hummed a merry tune to himself as they walked.

"So were we going?" Spike asked, "Cause I'm willing to bet I can guess at least two of the ponies you're going after."

"And I'm willing to bet you'd guess right, we just need to get th-" A howling sound came from Ponyville and the dup stopped.

"Oh dear, I hope no one's died," Spike said, his smile widening, "What are the odd's that something convenient will happen now?" Almost on cue They saw Rainbow dash take to the skies from the forest a little ways in front of them and speed off towards Ponyville, a voice could be heard calling after her, Applebloom sunk into the ground and Spike jumped into a small puddle, as he started sinking into it he laughed "I should start gambling" just as he completly sumerged a scraped up Scootaloo rounded the corner.

"excellent, leave this one to me."