It had been a special day for Songbird; the last stop on her Equestrian tour: Ponyville. While it hadn't been on the tour originally, it'd been added as a thank you to the princess for saving them all from the Storm King. In addition to this, to give that thank you a little extra kick, all tickets had been sold at a steep discount. They promptly sold out in less than a minute; something that wasn't unusual for her. She had been getting ready for that very show when it happened…

A monster attacked out of nowhere! Apparently, this was something so common that the citizens of the town barely noticed it was happening; they just avoided the street while the chaos was happening and went about their day. Unfortunately for her, she had been on said street when the monster, a leopard with a snake tail and a snake neck as long as a giraffe, attacked. The townsfolk had silently, and with great precision left the area before the monster had gotten to close. Songbird, on the other hand, had panicked and hid from view, but by the time she realized what the town folk were doing, it was too late for her to flee. She'd considered flying, but then the snake-cat had spit a stream of acidic venom vertically down the street, and she didn't want to test its aim.

Now she was standing in silence as three ponies went at trying to extract it: A blue pegasus was flying overhead, irritating it with on again, off again rain from a few clouds, a yellow pegasus was trying to talk it down for some reason, and a pink earth pony was bombarding it with a confetti cannon. Songbird stepped back from the wall she was using as cover, intending to move farther into the restaurant for better cover, when a shadow covered her. She turned and was met with the sight of a dragon, standing about her height, standing in front of her.

Spike had been out for lunch with three of his friends when the Serpopard had attacked. While his three friends were dealing with it, he did his usual task and checked for any poor soul who wasn't used to this kind of thing. After directing a griffin to just walk out the back door and fly to any other part of town, he had walked into the next building and found himself standing before the pop idol; Songbird Serenade. He was struck speechless when it happened. Songbird watched as the Serpopard spat some acid at the bottom of their wall. The pillar she had been standing behind toppled towards them and Spike turned just in time to headbutt it. Songbird watched as it cracked over his head, and after the dust settled, found that she was standing in a nice clean circle surrounded by a collapsing building.

Spike blinked, "That fucking thing spits acid!?" He thought as he took a step back in shock. In doing so, he slipped and swung his arms out to balance himself. As he did this the serpopard threw a rock at Pinkie with its tail, she jumped out of the way as the rock flew at Songbird. Just as it was about to hit her was when Spike had over corrected and, quite accidentally, smacked it to the ground as he tried to save himself from falling. After a moment he caught himself and rubbed his wrist before turning to Songbird, who was staring at him in awe. From her point of view, he'd just headbutted a collapsing building away from her, and bitch smacked some sort of projectile masterfully.

Spike offered her his hand, "Might I suggest we move before it spits at us again?" he asked. Songbird was speechless as he took her hand, and felt her legs turn to jelly beneath her. Spike felt her drop and only just caught her. He picked her up, princess style, and booked it through the debris. Once they had made it down the street, Spike skidded to a halt. Songbird watched as he turned to look at her, his green eyes sparkled in the light as he looked down at her. "You alright?" He asked.

"Never better." She replied, sheepishly, as he set her down.

He turned to leave before mustering up the courage to ask. "I didn't make it in time to buy a ticket to your show and I was just hoping that I could at least get..."

"I'll make sure you're allowed in without one." She replied at once, grabbing his hand as she stared at him. "You can even have backstage access, and can come up on the stage so I can properly thank you for saving my life!" Spike had no answer for that as Songbird let go of his hand and took flight. "Just wait for me by the entrance, I'll make sure they let you in!"

Spike stood in shocked silence for a full minute as the fight raged on behind him. "...I was just gonna ask for an autograph," He said absolutely shocked. "I didn't mean to sound so petty, feel kind of bad now." Spike shook his head and turned back to the fight "Back to work! Still got three buildings to check!"

Songbird watched from the sky as Spike turned and ran, from her point of view, to go join the fight. Sighing, she turned on the spot and flew as fast as she could to the stage.

She landed at the ground gate, and the bouncer jumped in surprise. The large crystal pony made to let her in when she spoke up.

"Are you running the entrance tonight?" She asked.

"Indeed I am Ma'am!" The bouncer replied readily.

"I'm expecting a purple dragon with green head spines, and a spaded tail to come here tonight, he doesn't have a ticket but..."

"You mean the great Hero Spike?" The Crystal pony asked.

Songbird blinked as she realized she'd forgotten to get his name. Before she could answer, the bouncer pulled out his Wallet and opened it, showing a picture of the dragon: Spike.

"Yeah, Yeah...He just saved my life, I'd never heard of him until today."

"Oh, I understand that." The bouncer replied casually as he put away his wallet, "He's not one to brag about his exploits, but word still gets around; he is the sole reason that all of us crystal ponies are not enslaved under the iron hoof of King Sombra. He himself befriended the changeling leader Thorax when he was just an self enforced outcast, and because of him, there is now peace between the two races! I've even heard that he was the Dragon Lord, but gave the mantle to Ember so that he could continue his ever vigilant task as the protector of the Princess of Friendship herself!"

Songbird sat in stunned silence, images flashing in her mind of the dragon in a fight to the death with the demon king Sombra. Spike helping a Small Changeling join the side of good and taking out the evil Queen Chrysalis. They continued with more images of him surrounded by multiple dragons he had beaten in combat while taking the bloodstone scepter, and giving it Ember. Then after everything, returning to the side of Princess Twilight.

"Stop him at the gate and contact me, I'll be escorting him to the stage myself. He may be hiding his good deeds due to his humble nature, but I think this one time he should bask in the glory of his own greatness."

"Yes Ma'am."

-Meanwhile-

"Are you serious!?" Rainbow asked as Spike grinned from ear to ear, his eyes shining as he told her the story.

"How awesome is that!?" he asked "I get to go to the show! And I'm gonna be thanked on stage!" Spike smiled "Best day ever."

Rainbow mumbled. "I was distracting it, I should get thanked too."

Spike smiled in return. "Don't worry, if she lets me say anything I'll make sure all three of you get the credit for actually fighting the Serpopard."

The two looked over at the now crying monster as Fluttershy patted its knee. "It's ok, sometimes there's just no pleasing your father, but you have to be your own monster. You can't just go rampaging to try and make him proud. From what you've told me, he'd just focus on all the bad things and none of the good things."

"You know Fluttershy scares me sometimes," Spike added, as Pinkie offered the monster a cake.

Author's Note

I love Shipping Spike with mares no one else ever ships him with.

Edit: This story was originally just gonna be like 8 chapters long, but my lord what did I do and why do you all love it so much!? Gonna make this a good proper story just so you can have more of it to enjoy.