Oddworld Spike's Wrath

"Ok the best place to start is at the beginning, so two years ago, ten years for me. Twi and I were working together on some new portal to other dimensions like the one to the human world, but after no success, there was an accident where a random portal opened when we were working and I was sucked in, This was the worst day of my life.” Spike said to everyone.

Flash Back:

"Ok Twi, are you sure you will be able to open a portal to another world?" Spike asked.

"Yes Spike." responded twilight with a hint of annoyance "I’m sure I double-checked my triple check to make sure the formula is correct, and with this spell, we won’t need to pass through the mirror to go see Sunset, and hopefully we won’t have to change into a human and a dog to do so.”

"Ok but why isn’t Starlight with us helping?" asked Spike hesitantly.

"Because she’s in the crystal empire with Sun Burst”

"That’s right, ok Twi if you say it's fine ill believe you."

“Great now stand back” and with that, she charged her horn and a portal started to open in front of the duo, but then something went wrong, and it started to pull everything in.

“Uhh… Twi is that supposed to happen?"

"No Spike it’s not, hold on maybe I can fix it” using more power Twilight was focusing on the new portal so much that she did not see a large book about to slam into her, so Spike being the ever-faithful assistant jumped to grab the book but missed and was hit with it instead and was being pulled in to the portal. “OH, MY CELESTIA! SPIKE!” Twilight screamed.

"TWILIGHT!!!"

"Spike, hold on I’ll try to help you” But before she could spike was sucked into the portal.

"Spike…SPIKE…Where are you?”

"Oh, Celestia I need to find him.”

End of flashback

"That's what happened, and after I searched the castle I sent word to the girls to look around town for you, but when no one saw you we told the princess, and we all know what happened after that."

“Yeah, you told me earlier about the searches and everyone helping…Thanks for that everyone.”

“Well what else were we going to do; we are your friends Spike.”

“Yeah but back to what happened.”

Back to the Flashback

“Twilight help me.” Spike cried in the portal until he found himself in the middle of a forest. “Great… where am I?” just then a loud bang was heard by Spike “What was that?” he started to whimper to himself, but the bangs got louder and louder until a tall figure ran past spike followed by a rather fat creature holding a long piece of metal in its hands, thankfully it did not notice Spike as seemed to be chasing the first figure. Hoping to find help Spike followed the fat one to see if it could help him get home.

As Spike was running through the forest the loud bangs suddenly stopped but learning to track animals thanks to Fluttershy he was able to follow the tracks of the large creature. After about five minutes Spike stumbled upon a tall figure in large boots, a poncho, and a hat, looking in some hole that was growling. Spike walked up to the large figure but stopped when it pointed its crossbow at him. This caused Spike to start sweating and shaking.

Seeing that this creature was not his enemy the tall figure lowered his weapon and looked back into the hole where the growling had stopped, then he smirked. “Great I can finally capture him,” said the figure in a deep gravelly voice. Then he proceeded to point his weapon towards the hole and there was a loud swoosh sound followed by a pop. With that done the figure turned back to Spike and asked, “Who and what are you?”

“I…I’m s…Spike and I’m a Dragon”

“Good for you, now go home.”

“But I don’t know where I am, could you please help me?”

“Fine, I have headed back to town anyway, maybe someone there can help you get home.” Said the Stranger with a hint of annoyance.

“Thank you, what’s your name?”

“Don’t have one, the townspeople just call me Stranger, so use that.”

“Ok and thank you.”

So, after some walking Spike and Stranger made it to the town of Gizzard Gulch where they would turn in the bounty and hopefully find spike his home, as they reached the town gate they had to stop when they were asked to leave all weapons with the gate and that they would be returned when they left. So, Stranger unhooked his crossbow and placed it in the slot, after a minute the gates opened, and then they entered then spike broke the silence “What are you going to do here?”

“I’m turning in the bounty on this criminal and his crew.” They continued to walk into town and when they reached a building with the words Sheriff's office they stopped then Stranger asked Spike to stay outside, so he could talk to the sheriff. After about ten minutes Stranger opened the door and asked Spike to come inside. When Spike entered the first thing spike saw was a giant chicken-like creature then as Spike continued to walk forward he noticed the kind eyes of Stranger making Spike feel at ease. Spike walked up to the tall desk and just waited patiently.

"What’s your name, little fella?" Asked the large chicken creature from behind the tall wooden desk.

"Spike," he said with some hesitance.

"Do you know where you are?" Spike shook his head. “Do you know where you live?”

"I live in Ponyville in Equestria, do you know where that is sir?” Spike responded with hope.

"Sorry kid I have no idea where this Equestria is but your welcome to stay with us in Gizzard Gulch until someone you know comes looking for yeah."

"Thank you, Mr…”

"Just call me Sheriff, everyone does."

"Ok thanks Sheriff." responded spike.

"Thanks' for the help with the kid here Sheriff, but now I need a new bounty." Stranger spoke.

"There are a few but they ain't worth much." responded the sheriff.

"That’s fine just make sure you have my moolah when I get back got it.”

"Yeah, yeah just bring them in and you’ll have your moolah."

With that done Stranger turned to Spike and said, “Good luck kid if your still around when I get back maybe I’ll show you some tricks to help you get by until you find your way home.” Then he left to get his next bounty.

End of FlashBack

“That’s how I met the Steef who saved my life and helped me get home.”

“Spike, what’s a Steef, and what did these chicken-like creatures look like?” asked everyone with a high level of interest in the story.

“Oh, yeah sorry about that, let me grab my bag from my room, I kept a journal of my time on Modus.” And spike got up from his seat and went back upstairs to retrieve his bag and the rest of his gear. After fifteen minutes Spike finally found his room and began searching for his gear. he found his hat and boots where he had left them and actually feeling naked without them he decided to put them on. now all he had to do is find his bag and get his journal. after looking on the desk in the room and not finding it there he decided to look in the closet hoping that one of the girls placed it there. upon opening the closet door he immediately found his bag, it looked even worse now than it did when he first arrived home. Grabbing it and making sure of what he had left he slung the bag to his back and exited the room to return to the group.

Meanwhile, as Spike was searching for this bag, everyone was asking a lot of questions.

"What is that thing he has on his arm its, not like any crossbow I have ever seen in my years?" wondered Luna.

"What is this place he keeps calling Modus?" asked Twilight, Starlight, and Celestia all at once.

"Why does he keep that abomination of fashion on? it is the most hideous thing I have ever seen in my life." exaggerated Rarity.

Everyone gave rarity a deadpan look.

"What?" she responded "It's hideous. I really need him to come by the boutique so I can make him some better-looking clothing."

"Ok, we will ask our questions after Spike is done with his story, Agreed?" Asked Celestia

"Agreed" responded everyone.

With his bag in tow, Spike was able to join back up with the large crowd of ponies and showed them the journal of his adventures. He then gave twilight the book, so she could project all the images of who he had met and the places he had gone. “Hey Twi, can you project the second page of the journal that one should be the drawing of the Clakkerzs, but as for the Steef I could tell you guys now but I didn’t find what a steef is supposed to look like and who they were until about two years ago, but if you want to know now, I’m ok with it.”

Everyone discussed it between themselves and decided “We can wait, Spike.” Everyone nodded to show they agreed with the princess.

"Ok but first this is what a Clakkerz looks like"

They are very kind people and very lively but they are not the most intelligent people, they are overly trusting and are just as scared as Fluttershy when something bad happens."

"Like what?" asked Celestia.

"Like a group of bandits blowing up one of the supply routes into town, all they did was run inside and waited for Stranger to clear them out and capture their leader," responded Spike. "They have no backbones when it comes to defending themselves so they relied on bounty hunters to deal with their problems, but they are very hardworking and were able to move hundreds of tons of boulders in a matter of days."

Everyone went slack-jawed at the idea of these Clakkerz being able to move such a large amount of rocks in only a few days.

"How? From what I can see these Clakkerz don't have any magic and even with a team of unicorns just destroying rocks it would take about four months and another one just to clear that much rubble from the road," questioned Celestia.

"They are very developed in terms of technology, They have giant diggers designed to dig through mountains and cranes to pick up the boulder, but we're getting off-topic, Twi I will show you what I have learned after we get done, ok?" responded Spike.

"Ok," Twi said with disappointment evident in her voice from not being able to learn about new developments.

“But nothing really happened for the next few months while I was in Gizzard, so in exchange for being able to stay in town I helped at the local general store loading and unloading the stock, I was able to learn about the town and I talked with the Clakkerzs townspeople. And that was my life for about three months. But then, Stranger returned from collecting the bounties, and that’s when he agreed to teach me about his line of work.” Spike stated.

FlashBack

“Welcome back Stranger, you got them bounties”

“yep. hey, sheriff what happened to that kid I brought in a few months ago…Spike I think was his name.”

“Yeah, he’s still here, he’s working down at the general store, but he keeps coming in to see if you’ve been back… something about teaching him some tricks to help him.” This caused Stranger to growl in annoyance.

“Thanks.” with that Stranger left the sheriff’s office and heading to the general store. As he walked down the street he thought to himself “What am I going to do to with the kid, I can’t leave him here and I can’t take him with me, and he’s too inexperienced to just toss him out of in the world, as he was thinking he stopped right in front of the general store. ‘ok best course of action is to show him how to become a bounty hunter and teach him about using a crossbow… FanFuckingtastic, I got to teach a kid how to become strong enough to survive.’ With his decision made he pushed the door to the general store to try to find Spike.

After finding Spike, the Stranger decided to use some of his moolah to get spike a copy of his crossbow and he took Spike back to the same forest that he found him in to teach him the way of hunting and using the crossbow, training him how to become a bounty hunter, what the stranger did not know is it would take him nearly eight years to train Spike.