Author's Note

Hope you enjoy, I'm trying for a little horror in this story

Things go from 0 to 100

Spike stared hard at Trixie, and she stared right back at him. She was waiting, ready for his move. She had made the advance and looked on in triumph, she had this, she thought, she was going to beat him and there was nothing he could. After hours of trying and scheming she was finally about to beat him. Spike looked at her in silence and moved his piece with a small click.

"Check-Mate"

"FUCK!" Trixie yelled throwing the Chess set off the table "REMATCH!" she demanded, levitating the pieces and setting the game back up.

"Come on Trixie we've been at this for the last 3 hours, can't we just take a break from chess and try a different game?" Spike asked motioning to a shelf full of board games.

"No, The Great and Powerful Trixie shall not be bested at anything, no matter how trivial!"

"I've beaten you like 50 times." Spike replied calmly.

"Those don't count! Trixie had something in her eye, now play!" She said moving her pawn forward.

"Alright, I'm playing," Spike said, moving his piece forward, "I'm playing". Meanwhile, as the duo continued their less than joyfully game night, in another room Starlight and Applejack were getting ready to start their testing.

"And you're sure this will work?" Applejack asked

"Applejack we've gone over this"

"We went over this once a week ago, then had to stall for my friendship mission with Fluttershy." she replied "I'd like a quick refresher course, just in case you've changed the general plan for today." Starlight sighed and levitated an Apple and a Pear onto a stool.

"Alright, so we take an Apple, and any food item of your choosing, like this Pear." she said, motioning to the fruit, "Then I combine them using the Spell," Starlight lit her horn and hit the fruits with her spell, and they watched as the two objects melted into liquid, then reformed together. "And now we have a Pepple! After we make sure it's genetically stable, we can taste test it."

"How do we know if it's stable or..." AJ was interrupted by the Pepple glowing blue. Starlight shielded herself and AJ and they watched as the Pepple began crunching in on itself, then suddenly started to swell, before exploding. "Nevermind." AJ amended, "I think I figured it out on my own" The duo looked on as the pieces swirled back together and reformed as a Peppler.

"It should become stable with time, although some combinations can take longer than others, so we're probably gonna be here for a while."

"Luckily this is all I have planned for today," AJ said as they watched it melt and break into cubes before resetting itself. As the two sat back and watched the Pepple fail to stay a Pepple Spike beat Trixie in yet another game of chess.

"CELESTIA DAMMIT!" Trixie yelled once again throwing the pieces off the table, "REMATCH!" She demanded.

"Let's just do something else!" Spike moaned "Anything!"

"Trixie demands a rematch! She is beginning to think you are cheating!"

"Says the one who tried to turn the board around!?"

"You can't prove Trixie did that!" Trixie shot back, Spike held up a photo of Trixie doing just that. There was silence for a second, "GIVE THAT TO TRIXIE!" She demanded, jumping over the table and diving at Spike.

"Never!" Spike retorted, jumping out of the way "Even when you cheat you still lose!" He yelled running out of the room with Trixie close behind.

"Give it!" Trixie yelled angrily as they ran through the halls.

"Oh, you can have it..." Spike took a deep breath and blew it away with his fire, "IF YOU CAN FIND IT!" He laughed before Trixie tackled him and the two tumbled down the stairs.

"What's that?" Applejack asked as the sound of fighting, glass breaking, and loud swearing came to her notice. Starlight listened for a second.

"Spike and Trixie seem to be playing Chess again." Starlight decided "Either that or Poker."

"TRIXIE DOESN'T CHEAT!" They heard Trixie yell and Starlight nodded.

"Chess, definitely Chess, Spike's the one who cheats at Poker," Suddenly the door slammed open.

"I DO NOT!" Spike said before being tackled by Trixie.

"GIVE TRIXIE THE FUCKING PICTURE! OR SO HELP ME CELESTIA I'LL..." As the two tumbled around they ended up squashing the Peppler.

"Ew" Spike said as he tried to wipe it off.

"Disgusting, This is your fault for accusing Trixie of cheating!"

"I fucking caught you on camera!" Spike shot back, as the two started arguing again Starlight and Applejack looked at the destroyed Pepple.

"And it had just become stable." AJ sighed, Starlight looked up at the arguing pair.

"You two go clean yourselves up," She said, "I've got to clean up the mess you've made." as Trixie and Spike left the room arguing AJ looked at the mess.

"Such a waste, they broke the stool and a perfectly good lantern." Starlight waited as AJ ran to get a bucket of water and a towel. Starlight poured the water on the floor, but as soon as it touched the Pepple's remains it began to glow blue and in a flash, the stool and Lanterns broken pieces melted into a liquid and began reforming. After a few seconds, a glass stool with wooden legs stood in front of them. They looked at it in shock for a second before what had just happened hit them.

"If that stuff fuses whatever it's attached to together when it gets wet..." AJ started,

"And Spike and Trixie are both covered in it and about to clean themselves off..." The two looked at each other in silence

"COME BACK!" They both yelled in unison slamming open the door. Meanwhile, Spike and Trixie were in the bathroom, Spike had set up a bubble bath for himself in the bathtub. It was sunk into the floor and was basically a tinny hot tub, he turned and tossed Trixie a towel.

"What is this?" She demanded holding it up.

"This is my bath." Spike said simply, "You can use the towel or wash off at your own home"

"Trixie is not walking all the way home like this!" She responded angrily "It's already getting crusty! You have scales, you can just scrap it off!"

"I'm not gonna do that, it'll scuff up my scales!" Spike said, Trixie walked past him to the tub, but he cut her off, "This is my bath!"

"I need it more!" Trixie said angrily, pushing forward. Spike grabbed her ears and she tried to levitate him off of her. She got him a little ways off her back, but with a mighty tug on her ear, Spike broke her concentration. She yelped, falling to the floor, and Spike landed hard on her back.

"Trixie calls dibs!" She said trying to buck him off as he held onto her ears, "And she demands that you let go of her ears!"

"I live in this Castle, and I drew the bath!" Spike shot back. Trixie tried bucking him off again, but just as her back legs lifted off the ground, Starlight slammed the door open, making her jump in shock.

"Stop!" Starlight yelled as Trixie fell face first into the tub with Spike.

"NO!" AJ and Starlight yelled as the two broke the surface.

"Dammit, Trixie!" Spike said angrily shoving her, as soon as his hands pushed into her chest they watched in horror as his hands melted into her chest.

"AH!" Trixie screamed, "GET OFF!" She tried pushing him away with the same result. Starlight and Applejack watched as their friends melted into the tub.

"No." Starlight said, "We were right here, we made it, but we...we failed..." The pair watched in mounting horror as Spike and Trixie's remains began swirling together. As the Dragon and Unicorn were put back together layer by layer, Starlight couldn't make herself look away. The process was as captivating as it was revolting.

After the Skeletal structure solidified, the organs grew into place, and muscles began wrapping around the body, Starlight threw up a little as she finally managed to look away. AJ had covered her eye's as soon as she saw what was happening, but then it started screaming.

As its tongue and vocal cords solidified, it let out a seemingly endless blood-curdling scream. After a solidified mixture of Dragon Scale and Pony Skin started growing, its body began to snap and pop. Its bones snapping in and out of place, trying to figure out where they fit.

Its tail splashed out of the water, long and Draconic, ending with a tuft of fur. The mane came next, it was the same color as Trixie's, but with splashes of Green. Two horns stuck out of its head, they bent backwards in the middle, and ended in a sharp point.

It blinked, and for a moment, for one horrifying moment, it had four eyes. But the 2nd pair seemed to be deemed unnecessary, and with several snaps and pop's they were removed.

Starlight watched as the creature continued to alter itself, removing unneeded limps and other pieces of Trixie or Spike that were not needed. She threw up again as bones broke through it's back. As it continued to scream, Applejack could feel the pain emanating from it as skin and bone grew out of its back, forming into a pair of wings.

Just when it seemed to be over, its foreleg began breaking apart and started reforming once more. Finally giving in, AJ pulled Starlight out of the bathroom and slammed the door closed as the creature continued its screaming. The two stood in silence, Starlight breathing heavy after being sick, AJ simply standing there in shock.

"What in Celestia’s name is happening in there?" AJ demanded

"The Spell is trying to find a compatible mixture of the two pieces that will allow the final structure to be stable." Starlight said looking back at the door, screams still echoing out from behind it.

"Come again?" AJ asked.

"The spell is trying to put them together in a form that is survivable, with no threat of muscles crushing blood vessels, organs popping or being dislocated from their proper position, and no limbs or bones breaking loose from the rest of the body. Once the Spell has made its body stable, it should regain cognitive function.”

"So they’re...it's not..."

"It does not currently have any brain wave patterns, no. All it's doing is existing without cognitive thought, it's screaming in pain, but each second is the beginning and the end of its memory...wait..." Starlight and AJ turned to the door, the screaming had suddenly stopped.

Putting her ear to the door, Starlight strained to hear anything. With a sickening pop, pieces of the creature’s body slammed against the door. She leaped away, hoof on her chest as her heart threatened to beat out of it.

"What in Tartarus?" AJ asked going for the door, only to be halted by Starlight.

"Remember what happened to the Pepple when it failed to become stable?"

"Well it pulled in on itself, and then it....oh no...don't...don't tell me it just..." Applejack finally threw up.

"We'll have to stay out here until we’re absolutely positive it's stable. Until then, you stand watch and I'll go get the others. If it becomes stable before I get back, do everything you can to keep it in there!"

As Starlight ran off down the hall, Applejack jumped as the creature started screaming again.

"I was not ready for today" She muttered as she turned to the door and waited for Starlight to return with the rest of her friends.