Spike cautiously stepped forward through the rocky terrain. The voice in his head told him the people would not attack him so he pressed on as the mile-high station grew closer. "Put some pep in your step. Act like the fearless dragon that you look like." Spike gritted his teeth and forced himself to speed up his pace.

The fortress had giant doors that slid open to allow a group of odd-looking multicolored people in, their heads pointed up to a stem that ended in a large leaf or flower. The sight made Spike quirk his eyebrow. 'What odd creatures...' He thought.

"Now now, remember that you're in a new environment full of diverse species." She chided. Spike's eyes popped open in surprise. "Before you ask, yes I can hear your thoughts. I'm in your head now remember?".

Spiked nodded dumbly. "Right..."

By now the doorstep was only a few meters away. Someone who stood twelve feet tall in an impossibly heavy-looking armor looked down to him. He had a helmet that ended in three horn-like spikes and a line visor that glowed orange. The titan pulled out an ornate-looking ax that was larger than the wielder. The guard placed the ax beside the entrance in a nonthreatening manner and spoke with a heavy booming voice. "What is your purpose here traveler?" He asked calmly but each word made Spike's heart pump a little faster.

Spike gulped but put on a brave face. "My ship crashed a few miles back, I came here to maybe hole up for a while." He answered honestly.

The titan nodded. "Yes, I saw the stream of smoke awhile ago, a rescue party was planned but we were busy fending off the Void forces. I assume you were shot down then?" Spike nodded. "Are you able to take off the helmet traveler, it would be best to confirm your identity to speed up the process."

Spike pondered if he should do so or even how to do it. "I got it.". The helmet disappeared in a flash of green light to show off Spike's face to the guard. The reaction given was not an expected one. The giant seemed startled and fumbled around with the ax to put it back in place. He dropped to one knee and bowed his head while putting his right fist to his chest.

"Lord General! It is an absolute honor to see you in the flesh." He stood up and opened the door. "Forgive my interference, step in my Lord." Instead of questioning it, Spike thanked the titan and stepped through.

"Get used to it, we need to keep up this charade so from now on you are the Lord General, the most famous and feared war hero in all of the galaxies." She said this plainly but Spike felt like his stomach was about to do one hell of a flip. When Spike took one look at the inside of the station he felt a sensation of wonder and awe. What he could see could be somewhat compared to a super mega mall found in Manehattan but only fifty times more extravagant. Many layers and floors reached up to the ceiling. Aliens of all sorts of uniqueness passed by. He could hear plenty of conversations in new languages he never heard before.

Vendors could be seen all around giving people items or foodstuff, also he could see plenty of nice-looking neon signs over every shop entrance. The place looked like some kind of carnival. One noticeable thing was that almost everyone no matter how small or tall, female or male, bulky or slim, had some kind of weapon holstered around them in some way. This made Spike aware this wasn't some kind of fun meet-up place, this was a battle station.

Spike stood awkwardly in front of it all, unsure what to do. "Follow my directions, I have this place's infrastructure already downloaded." His left eye showed a thin red line on the floor that leads to a door that had a sign on it, it was in an alien language but his eye showed a translation over it. 'Employees Only'. Spike nodded and made his way over there.

Spike felt a tap on his shoulder and turned around to see a group of those multicolored plant people look up at him. They were around five feet each. Each color had a very distinct physical trait among them. The red one had a pointed nose, the blue had gill-like lines across their neck, the yellow had large sharp pointed ears. Both the purple and grey ones had a strong muscular build while the grey one seemed to have rock-like armor around various points on its body, the purple also had two whiskers on each of their cheeks. The white one stood a foot smaller with red eyes and the pink one had very insect-like wings that span larger than its own five-foot body.

By the way, they looked and the slight curves on their bodies Spike assumed they were all female aside from the purple and gray ones. They also had some forms of armor on them, Red, blue and yellow had simple combat armor around their chest and knees while the white and pink ones had a very thin, black skin-tight suit around them. The last two wore a heavy set of armor that only seemed slightly thicker than his. They looked up at him with suspicion and awe.

Spike sweated nervously. "...can I help you?" The white one made a gasping noise. "Wha-" They crowed around him.

"Lord General!" "I can't believe it's actually you." "Will you sign my weapon?" "Can I have a picture please?" "You are so cool, remember when you saved Sangheili from that Wicker beast of Graja, no of course you do, how did you-" "Have any tips you want to share with a young scout like me?"

The questions kept piling. In response, Spike stepped back. They approached a step further. 'What do I do?' He asked mentally to his brain companion.

"Listen to my directions, indulge them." She said, Spike felt confused. "The General is very kind to his fans so we would be ruining his image if we were rude to them, I'll tell you what to do alright?" Spike grunted in confirmation.

Spike was handed a marker by one of them and signed a pistol-like weapon with the name 'General' in fancy handwriting. He let the few take pictures of him and did various poses and some with them in the image. Then he gave out some simple training tips given to him by the A.I. that seemed to please the crowd that was starting to grow once people took notice of who he was. He signed more things until his hand started to cramp. Then he gave more pictures. Shook some hands. Said some quotes like 'This will be our finest hour!' or 'Unity will never fall to the likes of you!' and 'The only good Void is a dead one.'

This would last for almost an hour. Spike could have sworn he signed some female's bare chest in the signing haze. He even got a surprise kiss by some peppy woman plant girl. 'My first one...' He thought sadly. Just before Spike felt like he was about to break, a deep voice called over all of them.

"That is quite enough everyone!" The crowd stopped their jabbering and started to disperse without question. "Yes, that's right, let the General go on with his business, we're in the middle of a battle remember?" Many of them gave apologies and waved him goodbye.

The white plant girl from before ran up to him, hopped up and kissed him on the cheek, and gave him a card with a number on it. "Call me!" She shouted as she ran back to her group who were either chastising her or giving gleeful remarks.

Spike stood in disbelief at everything that just happened. He looked down at his hands. "Who am I?" He asked to no one. He wondered how famous the guy he was impersonating was, the way those people loved him could make a Changeling die of overconsumption.

A humanoid robot came up to him. "I am terribly sorry about that Lord General." He bowed. "I understand how busy you must be but to take time to cater to your adoring public is most honorable I say." Spike nodded. "Now may I be of service to you? I am on guard service so it would be no trouble of me to escort you anywhere."

"Tell him to take you to the lounging area.".

"Thank you, I would like to be taken to the lounging area please."

The robot nodded and started going towards the door he was heading to earlier. "Most certainly General, follow me, this path will allow us to go through without coming across more fans."

The two went on through, they walked for a while until they came across an elevator. "Go up to level 7 and you will be right in front of the desk area for a room or whatever else you wanted." He turned around and started to leave. "...actually could you perhaps sign my chassis if you have the time?" The robot looked to him with hope in his blue shining eyes. Spike smirked and did so. "Thank you tremendously General." He bowed again and walked away.

"I guess robots have their fans too."

The ride up was short, the doors opened to show another set of open halls that looked down a giant gaming center. Spike heard the sounds of dice and balls rolling and people cheering. In front of him was a desk with one of those blue plant people working over it. "Hello?" He called lightly, seeing she was occupied looking at the holographic pad before her. She looked up and her eyes popped in shock. 'Here we go.' Spike thought.

"G-general! An honor to meet you-" She shook her head, Spike found the way her flower stem waved around cute. "I'm sorry, I spaced out for a second. I assume you want a room then?"

He nodded. "Anything will do."

"Alright, first-class it is then." She handed him a card. "You will be at room 500, down the lift in front of the card dealers." As she spoke she slowly pushed a pad of paper closer to him. She looked nervous. Spike smiled and signed it. "Ah~ Thank you, My Lord!"

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Even if he wasn't the General and this was all a lie Spike did like making people happy that was for sure. "You're doing pretty good as the General I say.". Spike shook his head.

"I'm exhausted, I just want to rest for at least a few minutes and figure out how we're going to get back and save my home." The voice was silent. Spike took little notice as he came in front of the metal door that opened once he came near, it seemed to just know he had the card on his person...speaking of the card. "Oh crap, I forgot to pay her!" Spike planned to give the woman some gems he still had tucked in his scales. "She must have been too busy gushing over me to notice." The voice came back and started to laugh. "What's so funny?"

"Oh nothing, it's just the idea that people would even expect the General to pay for anything is hilarious to me...yeah don't expect to have to pay for anything for a while now."

Spike thought about this and shrugged. "Cool." Inside the room were a giant bed and a huge TV of sorts. On the side desks were baskets of fruit, candies, and drinks. He could also see this place had three stories with many rooms all around it. It was like a house in here.

"...cool."

Author's Note

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