The Anti-6

"Hu," was all Spike could think to say as he looked at the spot where a Tree house had once been, now it was just a burning tree. "I have several questions," He decided as Scootaloo and Babs landed next to him.

"How did you beat me here!" Scootaloo demanded of the dragon "I flew!"

"And I traveled via water." Spike responded as he watched the fire slowly die in the rain "And since it's raining I basically took the train while you two took a cart." the Trio stood in bemused silence as they looked around.

"Hold up it's on it way." The voice said before the could ask what 'it' was the ground below them turned into a vortex and the trio dropped into a body of water.

"Loving this!" Spike cheered as she broke the surface and looked at the two standing over him. "Oh, well dang Applebloom looks like you and I are the only ones that can't fly," he noted as he watched Sweetie float overhead.

"You look interesting Spike," Sweetie said as she floated down to him. Suddenly Scootaloo broke the surface and shoved Spike out of the way.

"Oh yeah, Flying buddies!" She cheered as she flew out of the water, Babs pulled herself out and looked at her cousin.

"I gotta say cus, you're looking pretty green." Spike floated on the water as the crusaders talked after a minute this he sighed in frustration.

"Well this sucks ass." he decided as his Smile melted off and he got out of the water.

"How so?" Sweetie asked.

"Let's see, Crusader, Crusader, Crusader, Crusader, and non-Crusader." Spike said bluntly "If the next member is also A crusader that's the end of the show, I'll just be the side guy who's there to get hurt an make the big dogs laugh."

"Funny and true," The voice chimed in "and that's bad for Villainy, no more Crusaders are allowed to join this group. next member can't have anything to do with being a Crusader in any way."

"Alright, the solution is easy." Applebloom replied, "Spike, go for a walk and turn the first creature who catches your eye."

"They have to be young, older minds are so much harder to corrupt and use up so much magic to do so." Spike gave a salute and Sweetie vortexed him back to the now non-burning tree.

"Alright, so I just walk around and find a suitable-"

"Disguise!" The voice called out loudly. Spike's body shimmered and in a flash, he looked like his old self again.

"-Oh this will make walking around much easier." He said jolly as he moved out, the only thing different was the Large smile he was wearing on his face. as Spike went on the long walk to Ponyville, the Crusaders were having a different discussion.

"Alright, so what do you think of the place?" Applebloom asked Scootaloo, They were in an underground cavern, made by Sweetie directly under the swimming hole, a magical waterfall fell from the ceiling and into the center of the body of water that the others had arrived in, the magic made it so only water could go in and out, to the naked eye there would be nothing odd about the swimming hole beside the fact that it was now slightly shallower, the waterfall brought water down and up in an endless cycle to keep the underwater pool clean and to make sure it didn't overflow. a little ways from their small pond Applebloom and made a Tree sprout from the ground and made it so it was a mega Tree house, with a total of 12 rooms on it, the inside of the tree was also hollow and the tip of the tree had been fused to the bottom of the Tire Swing tree next to the Swimming hole, that way both Spike and Applebloom could be lookouts, at the end of the cave was the entrance Sweetie had made, only the 5 could enter and exit through it, and once she saw their 6th member they to would be able to do this. Applebloom had set aside 7 of the 12 rooms for specific reasons, 6 of them for the individual member to take as a room, and one that was built at the very bottom of the tree was to be used for meeting, they had their very own Cutie-map in the room that showed where all the living creatures of Ponyville where at all times, at that moment Scootaloo was pretending to crush the tiny version of Spike happily walking through the rain towards Ponyville.

"This is the coolest thing ever." She said while Babs talked to Sweetie, who did as she asked, after a moment there was a Basketball court off to the side of their Treehouse and the pool.

"Oh yeah, you three can be the home team, Me Spike and 6 can be the other team." She said as she picked up the magically reinforced basketball and bounced it, Sweetie having specially made it so none of the sharper fingered ones would pop it on accident. she made her way to the pool and sat on the ground, splashing the water with her hooves.

"I wonder who number 6 will be," she said to herself while Applebloom and Scootaloo joined Babs in playing a weird one on one on one Basketball game.

Spike skipped down the street, merrily singing a song to himself that he had heard on an old record, it was originally in a different language so it didn't sound as good as the first time he'd heard it.

"♫I’m not dead and I’m not alive either. My tin heart plays a wound up rhythm. Just by taking three steps, all are obscure. My velvet eyes appear at the mainspring♫"

"What the hell are you singing?" The voice asked absentmindedly.

"A Song." Spike responded merrily "I can't speak the original language so I had to get it translated after first hearing it, I haven't sung it in a long while but it just came to my mind."

"Well of course it did, you have the powers of a Siren." The voice said simply "You sing and gain control of others around you, so I made it so you could call up the memories of any song you should wish to remember, my guess is you where trying to think of a song with nothing in particular in mind and you got a random song from your memory"

"Let me guess, Twilight and the other's are immune to this just like they were to the actual sirens."

"You know where the Sirens are!?" The voice asked suddenly sounding interested "I've been searching for those three for a good long while."

"Their in another Dimension now." Spike responded merrily "Starswirl sent them there." The Voice grumbled irritably at this news and Spike switched from singing to humming so as to not accidentally Siren the town and gain the attention of the Mane 6 while alone. Spike made his way down the street, more than a few ponies noticing his smile.

"Morning Spike."

"Morning also to you," Spike replied to Bon Bon who smiled at him until her watch began beeping like crazy.

"oops gotta go." She said with a wave as she ran off, almost losing her Umbrella to the rain as she moved into the shadows on a building and looked at Spike who was trying to figure out where to go. she held up her hand and pressed on her watch.

"Agent Sweetie Drops calling in." She said quietly. "You where right boss." She looked at her watch, it had a tiny needle on it and it was in the red.

"Targets name?" A distorted voice responded

"Spike the Dragon." She replied, "He set the meter to red, and there's something wrong with his face." Spike decided to check out Cheerliees School since the entire team was school age and it was defiantly the least crowded of the two schools he could go check. Bon Bon got another glimpse of his face and nodded "He's smiling from ear to ear, Not his normal smile either, his upper lip looks like the smile you'd see a foal draw on a cat picture."

"Good work, you where well worth the effort it took to find you, I shall Inform all the Agents in your area and alert the Princess, we may not know what's causing these fluctuations in Dark Magic, but if Spike is radiating it out of nowhere, we can only assume he's either apart of the problem, possessed, or that's not the real Spike. Do not let target leave your line of sight, repeat doesn't let target leave your line of sight." Bon Bon looked out and found that Spike had long gone, he wasn't even on the trail she'd seen him going down.

"Too late." She responded, "Target is long gone."

"Then report to meeting site Alpha-B," The voice said, "we shall find Spike after the Princess has been notified of the situation." Bon Bon looked around and headed out, as she moved Spike moved from his hiding spot from a puddle right next to the corner she'd been hiding behind, once she was gone he laughed.

"And you thought I was being stupid when I followed her." he smiled

"Shit." the voice replied "Move it Dragon, you're on a leash now, find the 6 and return to the base before any of the Princesses begin searching for you."

"Yay, I'm gonna be hunted!" Spike cheered as he turned and headed out to Cheerliees school in the hope that somepony would be there.