Hug Chug

Spike was at his desk, Twilight had sent his paper work back along with an angry note about not telling her he was gonna be spending the night at Spitfire's and after finishing up a few loose end's he'd missed he stacked them up and left them on his desk to be picked up by a Helper. He looked over to Spitfire, who was eating a salad with Carrot sticks as she looked over a few papers.

"Nice to see you finally eating, and it's even something healthy," He Cheered merrily. She stuck her tongue out at him and tossed one of her Carrot sticks at him, Spike's sniped it out of the air with his tongue and munched on it with a smile.

"You done?" She asked, eyeing his stack of neatly packed paper.

"For now," Spike replied as she looked to the only window in the room "The Classes penmanship is...less than phenomenal, and their punctuation's even worse," Spike groaned at the thought of what would happen when more and more recruits came under his command, after a moment something occurred to him. "There are a lot of recruits...but not so many Wonderbolts, why is that?"

"Oh, like 98% of all recruits typically fail to actually reach the requirements to become a Wonderbolt, some just don't have what it take, some give up, some actually read the work requirements and find out that in the event of a war or a event of extreme danger the Wonderbolt are more often than not first on the scene, Sometimes they get dishonorably discharged from the program, and the rest end up becoming helpers, only a select few actually become Wonderbolt Trainees, out of all the ponies in current attendance maybe...4 of them will make the cut," Spike looked at Spitfire for a long moment and ended up turning away, having failed to think of a response to that. Spitfire looked threw her papers for a moment, but ended up staring at Spike as he just kind of existed at his desk, she ate her last carrot stick and got up.

"Alright Spike, It's time I show you what I, and now you, do when Paperwork is done and there's nothing else to do for the remainder of the workday but wait for something to happen," Spike looked over at her and she smiled. "We go to the Gym,"

A Few Minutes later

"This is a Gym?" Spike asked as he looked at the outside world, A Few Wonderbolts and Helpers were using the Equipment in the area, Spike saw Thunderlane and Soarin Flying overhead and Spitfire patted him on the back.

"This is a Gym," She confirmed as she headed back inside "I'll be out in about half an hour or so to join you, take a look around, use some of the weight's if you want, but no getting close to the edge with 'em, you could get fired and worse if they fell and hit anything." Spike watched her go and looked around the Gym area, a few Helpers were Doing Push-ups and he even saw one of Spitfire's Recruits Using the Weight's with a Helper spotting them. He was about to go try lifting a dumbbell when Thunderlane landed next to him without warning.

"Sweet Celestia!" Spike yelped, getting a few eyes for a second before the others in the area went back to their own business.

"Hey Spike," Thunderlane said as he put his arm around Spike and Lead him to a door in one of the walls, "First time in the Gym?"

"Yeah," Spike replied as he walked with him.

"Ah, well Spitfire already has a locker with your name on it next to her's with a pair of Sweat Shorts and a Tank-top, Once you get changed out of your uniform I'll give you a quick tour of what can be done,"

A Few more Minutes later

Spike made his way out of the Locker room and found both Thunderlane and Soarin waiting for him.

"Hey Spike," Soarin said patting him on the back "So...this is the Gym," Soarin waved out at the are and then turned back to him "This is the Weight area, we lost every other area in an accident a few weeks back so...this is about it,"

"But!" Thunderlane chimed in "There is one other thing that can be done besides lifting weights," Spike looked at the two of them, the shining in their eye's telling him they really wanted him to chose the not lifting option.

"And that would be?" Spike asked, his question earning him another arm around him and being dragged to the edge where Soarin flew into the air, Grabbed a cloud and cut it's edges off around the side so it was very small.

"Cloud Surfing!" Thunderlane cheered "It's fun...and since wings aren't aloud it's the only sky activity that Rainbow Dash can be beaten in,"

"I already love it," Spike said with a smile as Soarin placed it next to the massive cloud they where standing on.

"Alright just step on and we'll give you the run down on how it works," Soarin said with a smile as Thunderlane flew up and grabbed a cloud for himself to use. "All you have to do it put one of you feet near the front and near the back, put your weight into the one in the front to go forward and the other one to go slowdown, Don't put both in front of back, you'll just fall off," Spike looked down at the long drop below him.

"I'm not enjoying this so much anymore," He decided as Soarin took flight to get himself a cloud, Spike's cloud began floating away from the main one and he put his feet in position as Thunderlane steadied his next to Spike.

"Alright, so how we play is simple, just fly, your cloud will start dissipating as you move-"

"Do what?" Spike demanded

"-and whenever you stop, you lose, Simple,"

"Easy for you to say," Spike replied "You can fly, you'll just go till you got no cloud,"

"Losing you cloud is also considered losing," Thunderlane replied "That said we do have an unfair advantage...but nopony else will do this with us and it's no fun with just two players,"

"Just try it, you might like it," Spike frowned as he got into position and looked forward.

"Fine," he sighed in defeat "Let's just do it,"

"On Three," Thunderlane said as he and Soarin took their stances. "One. Two. THREE!" The three moved forward and Spike blinked as they began moving at a snails pace.

"You kidding," He said as he looked at his cloud.

"Take's a minute to speed up," Soarin said as they all slowly began moving faster.

"I see why no one else would play this with you," Spike noted "not so much a work out as a kid's game," Thunderlane and Soarin gave him blank looks and Spike looked at them deadpan. "This is a Pegasus Children's game isn't it?" their lack of response was all he needed for an answer. "I'm never trusting either of you two again," After a minute they began moving at a semi-fast speed, Spike still sticking to the game mostly because he was stuck either way since his only way off was either a slow crawl back to the big cloud or jumping off and waiting for who know's how long for Somepony to carry him back up. Thunderlane and Soarin seemed to be enjoying themselves, and the helpers and one recruit who where working out stopped to watch two respected Wonderbolts and a Dragon play a game for small children that lasted almost 20 minutes, near the end Spike was going so fast he was afraid if he stopped he's be thrown off, Thunderlane and Soarin where defiantly having a blast.

"Isn't this awesome?" Thunderlane asked Spike.

"Its OK but I'm not waiting 20 minutes standing on a cloud just to reach speeds that'll kill me again," Spike snapped back as his Cloud began ripping itself apart," Soarin and Thunderlane kept going, glancing back and forth at Spike until they stated getting worried about his speed.

"Hey Spike, you might wanna give in," Soarin called to him

"I'm trying to," Spike replied getting both of their attention "But I don't think the cloud give's a dam," Thunderlane and Soaring watched as Spike began pushing his back leg into the cloud, only for nothing to happen.

"Oh crap," Thunderlane suddenly said "Spike how is it that you can stand on a cloud?"

"A Potion,"

"Oh Shit," Soarin agreed "Spike don't panic but...to stop it we use the same magic that let's us stand on them, It's one thing to start it, but to stop it without trowing yourself off requires some magic."

"Magic I wasn't aware you didn't naturally have," Thunderlane added when his cloud lost it shape and he dropped behind, Spike looked back at him, then to Soarin.

"If I die, Tell Spitfire to slap you for me," Spike said before Soarins cloud broke apart and he was left in the dust, Spike looked forward and frowned.

"Celestia dammit," He groaned as he felt the cloud beneath him begin to give way, suddenly a pair of Arm's wrapped themselves around his waist.

"What the Fuck?" Rainbow Dash demanded as she Took his full body weight just as his cloud dissipated "Are you doing?"

"well I just got tricked into playing a children's game, then almost died because of it," Rainbow Looked back at Thunderlane and Soarin who were both flying a fair way back with guilty looks on their faces. Rainbow Groaned as she flew back to the Academy, which was a fair way away.

"When did you-?" Soarin asked.

"I was just relaxing when suddenly you three rocketed by and caused the cloud I was sitting on to dissipate, I was flying up here to insult you three, then Saw Spike on a rocketing Cloud," She eyed the two who gave her a guilty look "Last I checked we are a few thousand feet in the fucking air!" Rainbow shook Spike at them "And this Dragon can't fly!"

"We just thought," Thunderlane said before being barked at by Rainbow

"You two just wanted somepony to play your children's game with you, you clearly didn't think at all cause if you did you'd realize that putting something that can't fly on a tiny cloud that tears itself apart as it moves is a stupid idea even by my standards!" Rainbow began carrying Spike back to the Academy.

"As for you-" She added looking down at Spike who simply said.

"How much money do you have right now because of the pictures you've taken of me and Spitfire?"

"I'm letting you off scoot free, but if you ever do that again I'm gonna slap you and...I'll tell Fluttershy you endangering yourself," Spike looked up at her.

"I lost interest in that the second it started," Spike replied, "Just take me back to the Academy."