Author's Note

Spike is wearing a Hoodie, a white undershirt, and Brown pants
Gabby is wearing a Tanktop and shorts.
Their clothes aren't mentioned in the story cause I couldn't think of a good time to mention it, so here you go!

The School

"This is soo cool!" Gabby, the arctic grey griffon in a pair of shorts and tank top, exclaimed. "Why don't I get to attend here?!" She was awed by the massive lavender school building.

“Well, to go here you'd have to quit your Job as a mailgriffin,” Scootaloo, an orange filly wearing cargo shorts and a hoodie with the sleeves up, answered, “That, and you'd have almost no time to help others with cutie mark problems, with homework apparently being really hard to ignore, and most of the time really fun.”

“Also, you'd have to live here,” Applebloom, the yellow filly in jeans and short sleeves, added, “But we still wanted to invite you over.”

“So you could see if you wanted to go here, if you ever stopped being a mailgriffin," Sweetie Belle, a white filly who wore a short sleeve coat over her long skirt, chimed in.

Gabby nodded as her three friends all listed off their reasons. “These are all really good reasons, but I still think I should attend here, on the grounds that I want to,” she said as the three of them walked into said School of Friendship.

Twilight and Spike were in one of the classrooms just after classes ended.

“Alright, Spike I need you to clean off the chalkboards, sweep the floor, move the desks back into place, take out the trash, replace the bags, and check that all the chalk is properly stocked up. I would help, but I got three other classrooms to clean, and I have a class soon,” She said as she made her way out. “Thank you for helping.”

“No problem,” Spike, the purple dragon in a hoodie and shorts, answered happily as he waved her out. His smile vanished as soon as he heard the door close. “Like my normal chore list isn't long enough,” he grumbled as he started knocking all the trash off the desks and onto the floor. As he moved around he silently kept complaining about his job.

“They are the ones making huge messes during class, but I have to clean them up?” He leaned over to start picking up the large pieces of trash when he noticed gum stuck to the bottom of one of the desks. “Great,” Spike muttered as he walked to the front of the class to grab the trash can and a small scraper before getting to work to de-gum the classroom, “I overheard Starlight asking for her paycheck.” He grumbled on, “I don't even get paid!” He leaned up as he moved over to another desk, “And I've been doing this job since I was six!” He started picking up trash with his tail while scraping off the gum; he continued to complain, unaware that Twilight had left the door slightly open in her rush out. She hadn't heard any of Spike's complaints, but the CMC had been walking past and overheard, and were now standing outside the room listening in.

“Wait, is it even legal to make somepony that young work without pay?” Sweetie asked.

“Unfortunately, it is,” Applebloom confirmed, “I have to work and sell products for the farm, and I don't get paid.”

“I think that's different,” Scottaloo responded.

“Not to me,” Applebloom muttered as Gabby leaned in.

“Shh,” Gabby said as she looked in. Spike had put the trash can down and was now picking up trash off of the floor.

“Everypony else gets to be what they wanna be, all living their dreams. And me? I get stuck with the shit nopony else wants to do!” He groaned even more as he tossed all the trash in the bin and began moving the desks back into their original positions. “And do I even get a ‘thank you’? NO! Half the time I'm just there for the sake of sight gags, getting doors right in my face, and blasted off by spring loaded floor tiles. Even when we got sucked into the comic book's world, I got stuck as Humdrum!”

“You were Humdrum?!” Scootaloo laughed, then slapped her hand over her mouth as Spike froze.

“The door's open, isn't it?” He sighed as the four intruders walked in. “You didn't hear me swearing, did you?”

“I heard some of it,” Scootaloo said, “but you got turned into Humdrum!? That's so…”

"The rest got turned into the Power Ponies.”

“...Unfortunate,” Scootaloo decided. “Sorry for your cosmic embarrassment.”

Spike stood and looked at them, then switched to the personality they were used to. “Any-ho, if you girls don't mind, I got some work to do. So, if you could close the door on your way out, I'd really-”

Gabby scoffed, “You expect us to leave after hearing that?”

“Hm?” They all asked, turning to her.

“Once I came to the CMC looking for a Cutie Mark-” Spike made a noise and Gabby turned to him “It's ok you can laugh,” Spike did just that as Gabby continued, “And while I didn't get one, I did find the one thing I was meant to do; helping others find the one thing they are meant to do. Just like I was their first non pony client…”

“Oh no,” Spike said as he realized what was happening. At the same time the CMC's faces lit up.

“No way!” they cheered as Gabby pointed at him.

“... you, Spike, are my first nonpony, and together we shall find the one place where you will be happy!” The CMC cheered as Gabby gave Spike a pat on the back.

Spike frowned at them. “...But there is literally no pony or non-pony that can do my job.”

“We can do it!” Sweetie said happily.

“Not without permission from Twilight or-”

“Will I do?” Starlight asked, making all of them jump.

“I swear to Celestia, Starlight, do you ever knock?!”

“Hey, that last time was an accident!” she defended. “But I'm here to take over the rest of your chores for the day.”

“Are you sure?” Spike asked. Starlight smiled, and with a flick of her horn, the room was clean.

Spike stood in silence, then broke out of his usual tone with an angry shout to rival Luna's!

“WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T TWILIGHT DO THAT!?” he yelled angrily, breaking a window and leaving all the others to cover their ears. He covered his mouth before looking at them, “Oops, sorry.”

“It's fine, and I'm pretty sure your job was just to give her more time to read, now I think this is the part where you and your new friend run and find out where you belong.”

“It is!” Gabby cheered, grabbing Spike's hand and dragging him along, the CMC and Starlight followed and watched as the two took flight towards the far side of town.

After a moment of silence, Scotaloo angrily yelled, “HE CAN FLY NOW!" She fluttered her wings. "I CALL HAX!”

"We're right here too…" AB muttered as she and Sweetie watched the two leave them behind as well.