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Stabbed Through The Heart And You're To Blame, You Give Chaos A Good Name.

Spike was sitting at his writing desk in his old room, Twilight had kept it clean for him, hoping that one day he would return, the only difference was that his bed was replaced with a king-sized bed thanks to his mother.

Spike groaned as he stared at a piece of paper on the desk, debating between fulfilling his promise and stabbing himself in the heart to preserve his secret. Spike looked over at his clock and sighed. "I only have ten minutes until Discord shows up." Spike then leans back on his chair and groans in defeat. "Why did I agree to give him my nacho recipe!" Asked Spike in anger.

Spike then sighed again and copied down one of his most treasured secrets.

Discord popped outside of Twilights castle out of nowhere and knocked on the giant crystal doors waiting to be granted entry.

Twilight opened the door and greeted Discord. "Good evening Discord, Spike is in his room getting your copy of the nacho recipe ready, he should be down in a few moments." Twilight then grabbed Discord's goatee and pulled him to her face. " And if you ever interfere with one of my letters again I will show you the full wrath of a worried alicorn." Threatened Twilight.

Discord was unfazed by the princess's threat, but he was unable to get free of her grasp. So Discord snapped his lion paw and next to him appeared a pair of oversized scissors that magickly moved on their own. The scissors then cut the chaos gods goatee, separating the two. "Fine, fine, princess, I was just getting a message across to Cheerilee, and by pure coincidence, you just happened to be sending a letter to him, so I just thought I would send mine along with it, its not my fault it got lost in the system." Said Discord as his goatee had magickly grown back to its normal length.

Twilight and Discord then began to argue about small things ranging from common courtesy to matters of national security. At that time Spike decided to walk down to greet one of his few guy friends and noticed the exchange. "...And what would have happened if it a letter warning us about a meteor hurtling towards the planet?" Asked Twilight who was trying to make her point.

"I would think that Tia or Lulu would have been able to handle it. And if they couldn't I would have gotten rid of it." Retorted Discord.

Spike was completely lost and had no interest in getting in the middle of a god of chaos and the more frightening of the two, a ranting Twilights argument, So Spike walked away from the two magical beings who could rip a hole in the space-time continuum with a single thought and headed for the map room to get the game all set up.

Early that same day, Spike was walking back to the old castle to start his training in earnest. Spike was again accompanied by his mother, Celestia, but this time they were joined by his aunt Luna.

Spike then walked over to a group of trees and used his claws to cut two of them down and proceeded to make twenty wooden targets out of them. Then he did the same using three large boulders easily weighing in at the fifteen-ton mark and out of the three boulders, Spike made eighteen stone targets.

Spike looked at his mother and aunt. "Mom, Aunt Luna, can you randomly place these targets around a two-mile radius from our location?" Asked Spike.

They both nodded and in an instant, all the targets were gone. "Thanks, now can you two use the same tracking spell to keep track of them?"

They both nodded again as a massive array of 39 screens appeared in front of them, 38 on the targets and one on Spike. "There you go, nephew, I am most excited to see what you consider to be training after hearing about it from our sister."

"Well technically this is more of a warm-up just so I don't lose my edge, I consider it really training when I am getting attacked by something or someone, but I'm still trying to get used to the area so I think it works out to be the same." Spike then began the process of preparing.

Spike pulled out the Zappfly and Bolamite tubes and releasing the entirety of the two swarms, as both Sparks and Char took their positions. "Ok guys hear the deal, we have 38 targets, 20 wood, eighteen stone. Same instructions as before, but we have a range of two miles so I want double squads this time, you have twenty minutes to report back." Informed Spike. Both Char and Sparks nodded, as both mobilized their respected groups.

Spike then equipped Queen and Fang and gave them the low down. "We have 20 targets today, range two miles, ten for each of you, report to the rest." Said Spike in a commanding tone. Spike then equipped Wallop and Banger and gave them their orders, "You two, we have 18 targets for you, nine for each, and were in a two-mile range, report back and get ready." They both nodded and Spike pulled out Belch and Alvin.

"AWWW, we've been captured by a giant piece of purple shit, whatever are we going to do?" commented Alvin.

"Well if you don't want to be a Timberwolves new chew toy, I would listen up." Said Spike as he laughed. "Same as last time but we have two miles and a lot more of the family out there, so today I'm going to place you as sentries as I go around, Alvin your job is to gather and guide everyone, Belch I want each of you to be paired up with a Punkz and protect the spent. There is a real possibility of danger so I need you two to give it your all."

Belch nodded rapidly showing he was ready to give it his all to protect his family. "Don't worry sir, I won't let anything happen to them, and if it does I don't even deserve to be a chew toy for some stick puppy."

Spike smiled and unequipped the two. Spike then looked at the screens his mother and aunt had projected and noticed that twenty-seven of the 38 targets were marked.

In the next few minutes, all of the targets were marked. Then after a few more minutes all of the Bolamites and Zappflys returned.

Spike then looked at his mother and aunt. "Mom, just for reference my best time with 35 plus targets in two miles is about 34 minutes and 57 seconds, but I placed the targets, so let's aim for around 50 minutes."

Celestia nodded. "That sounds like a fair comparison, do you want the count down?" asked Celestia.

Spike nodded as he got in a ready position. "3....2....1....0" counted Celestia, and when she reached 0, Spike started to run, and when he reached his top speed, he dropped to all fours and continued to speed up.

Spike returned to his mother and aunt, the latter of which was shocked to see Spike during his training. "So how did I do?" Asked Spike who was not even out of breath.

"You took out all of the targets in 42 minutes and 33 seconds, and that's including the fight you had with that pride of manticores after you hit the 15th target."

"Not bad, but I could have ended that fight a lot quicker, but I was just having too much fun." Commented Spike who was chuckling.

Celestia just sighed and closed her sister's mouth. "If I ever meet this 'Stranger' character, I am going to give him a piece of my mind," muttered Celestia. She then noticed that Spike was about to unleash another whistle, but she quickly gave her reckless dragon of a son a swift slap to the back of the head as she glared at him.

"WHAT!!?"

"You were about to whistle again weren't you?"

"I still haven't had time to think of a good way on calling them, but I think I have a solution for that, I still need to inform everyone, but for now this is all I got."

Celestia sighed and used her magic to retrieve two scrolls, an ink well, and a quill. She then wrote down two notes and used her magic to send one of them to the royal guards in Cantorlot, and tossed the other one to Spike. "This one is Twilights, send it to her." Ordered Celestia.

Spike grabbed the scroll and used his fire breath to send it to Twilight. It was a few minutes later when Spike burped up a reply. Spike grabbed the scroll and read it.

"Celestia dammit Spike, this is your last freebie, find out a better way or I swear you will get the lecture to end all lectures."

Spike sighed and looked at his mother and aunt. "You might want to cover your ears."

After Spikes whistle, he gathered all of the 'spent', the family walked back to the castle and had lunch at the base camp. After lunch was finished Spike began his other set of training exercises.

The family was standing outside of the castle when Spike equipped Queen. "Queen it's time for some Sniper training, get the wasps ready to go." Said Spike. Queen buzzed a few times and nodded.

Spike repeated his process of making wooden targets. once he was finished making his seven targets, Spike looked at his mother. "Mom it's time for my other set of training, so can you teleport the targets somewhere I have a direct line of sight?" Asked Spike.

Celestia nodded and did what was asked of her, but when she finished she gave spike a questioning look. "So what kind of training are you doing now?"

"Sniper training," Spike said Simply but decided to elaborate when he saw the confused expression on his mother and aunt's face. "It works like this, You have the Stingbee queen, then are her personal soldiers, then you have the common worker bee." Spike made his point as he pulled out Queen, then one of her workers, and showed them to his mother and aunt. " The queen has a powerful sting in her own right, and the workers are many in numbers but are far weaker than her, but it's the Queen's soldiers who are the most deadly. They are called Sniper Wasps, but it's just a name, they are in fact a still a Stingbee." Said Spike as he reached under his crossbow strap and pulled out a small dark green and dark yellow insect with a large pair of red eyes and a massive long red stinger. The Sniper Wasp was very unhappy at the sight of Spike as it was buzzing very rapidly.

Spike sighed. "It's good to see you to Blink."

Blink continued to buzz angrily at Spike, but he just ignored the buzzing and continued to explain to his mother and aunt. "As you can see, Sniper Wasp are smaller in almost every way when compared to the workers, aside from their massive red stinger. Their size is to allow them to reach very high speed and their stinger can pierce even the thickest armor. This makes them ideal for long-range attacks." Spike then grabbed Blink by his body and inserted him into the area between the two chambers on his crossbow. Spike then reached over his shoulder and opened his backpack, pulled out a pair of binoculars, and located the first of the targets. "Blink, 260 meters, the angle is 60 degrees, wind speed is less than one mile per hour WNW, the target is wood, probability of passing through is 70%, you ready?" Asked Spike.

Blink buzzed a little.

"Yeah, fuck you too." Said Spike as he launched Blink and in an instant, Blink was embedded in the wooden target. Spike smirked. "Target down." he then pulled out another Wasp and located the next target. "Range 140 meters, the angle is 48 degrees, the target is partially obscured." The wind then picked up. "Wind is now, 5 miles per hour WNW." Spike adjusted his positioning to compensate for the wind change and when he was ready fired the wasp. Again Spike smirked. "Target down."

This process continued for the next seven minutes and Spike was nailing each target with pinpoint accuracy. Celestia and Luna were both shocked at the display, Celestia was shocked that Spike was able to read the environment and compensated for every condition. But Luna was shocked at the deadliness of both her nephew and his arsenal and how well they work together.

Spike then reequipped Queen. "All targets down, get the retrieval squad and bring them home," ordered Spike as he pulled out the Stingbee ammo tube and pressed the button on the tube. The whole hive was released, they quickly scattered around and collected the Sniper Wasps, then returned to the ammo tube. Queen and Blink landed on Spike. Queen buzzed first. "Thanks, Queen, the wasps are as good as ever." Blink then started to buzz angrily. "Yeah, yeah, yeah." Said Spike waving his hand dismissively. "You are still an ass, but you did great, were done training for the day so you can either fly back to the castle on your own, or you can wait for me to get back." Said Spike, Queen buzzed and stayed with Spike, but Blink buzzed and flew off at high speeds for the castle.

Spike sighed and looked at his mother and aunt. "Well, I'm done training for the day, so let's head back to the castle then I will release the Family for the day and then we can head back to Twi's, I need to prepare for tonight." Said Spike, but then he became saddened.

Celestia and Luna noticed the change in Spike's mood. "Spike, what is wrong?" Asked Luna.

"Nothing much, just wondering how much it would hurt to drive a knife into my heart, not literally, of course, just trying to prepare myself for when I have to give Discord my nacho recipe."

Both rulers just sighed.