The next morning was hectic for many reasons, first was the fact that by the time Spike and Twilight had returned from the human world, the crowd outside of the castle had grown to rival the whole of Canterlot in size, making Spike nervous as all hell, meaning that Luna needed to knock him out just so he could get some sleep. Then when morning did come, it was not brought by Celestia, rather it was brought by a very exhausted white unicorn with a suit of armor on her back rushing into Spike's room and nearly getting a Thudslug to the face for it. Old habits die hard. But Rarity refused to let Spike put on his new armor without being clean, so she did a Celestia and tossed him in the shower. Which he did enjoy, even if he didn't have his rubber duck. So, once he was clean and ready, Spike donned his armor once again and smiled at the fact it was just as great as the last version of it. Spike looked at the underside of the left gauntlet and noticed that there was a little embroidery note on it.

To our favorite Spikey Wikey, guaranteed to be stronger than titanium, so if you come back with it broken, you better be ready to hang it up. Love Rarity, Celestia, Twilight, Luna, Starlight, Cadance, Shining and Flurry.

Spike smiled at the message as he got ready for the Q&A.

Then he saw the crowd again. Right now, Spike was looking through the window of the castle, at the crowd of ponies and other creatures. The Q&A was planned to be held at the steps of town hall, and the castle was the furthest building from it, but the sea of creatures made it feel like it was a million miles away. Spike was debating on running away from the Q&A or just calling it off. But right now, both would probably end in a riot. Spike gulped as he stood there in his new armor, it was the exact same, just minus the horns as he looked at the crowd, that had grown to over 10000 creatures. Spike was looking for something to distract his mind from this hell, completely unaware that Celestia was looking at him worried. She walked over to Spike and placed her hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry Sweetie, I'll be right there by your side."

Spike shivered as he looked at the crowd, ponies, griffons, yaks, buffalo, dragons, changelings, all vetted by Thorax and Shining, and if Spike was right the whole Crystal Empire was here. Spike looked at the group of ponies, most of them were ponies he knew from way back when, Moondancer, Twinkle Shine, Minuet, Lyra, Fancy Pants, Fleur and Pony Joe were among the crowd. Gabby and her family were back, Rutherford and Yona were being Yaks and waiting the best, because Yaks best at waiting patiently. Strong Heart brought the whole herd to the town along with the whole of Appleloosa. Ember brought Garble, Smolder, and the real odd one out, Torch, along with a few of the dragons that fought in the gauntlet. Thorax was sitting with Ocellus and a purple changeling, along with most of his hive, all of them were wearing Spike themed stuff, and the whole front of the crowd was filled with the crystal ponies with most of them being mares that looked like they were waiting to tear him apart.

Celestia smiled at Spike as she gave him a kiss on the head. "Spike, do you remember what you used to do when you were scared?"

Spike took a deep breath and nodded. "Yeah, but I don't think picturing everyone in clothes is going to work this time."

Celestia giggled. "Maybe, but all of us will be right there with you."

Spike smiled as he looked at the large stage that the girls had set up the day before. Twilight, Luna, Shining, Cadance and the girls were just waiting in the wings to make sure this goes smoothly, and so far, they were right on schedule. The only thing missing was the guest of honor. He looked at Celestia. "I want you to know something mom."

Celestia smiled as she started teleporting. "And that is?"

Spike smiled as they were teleported. "It's good to be home." Said Spike. The crowd cheered at the declaration and Spike. Spike looked at his mother and frowned. "I should have seen that coming."

Celestia nodded. "Yeah, you should have." She gave Spike a kiss. "Good luck Spike." Said Celestia as she walked to the side of the stage.

Spike sighed as he looked at the crowd. Everyone was looking at him, which was making him sweat. He pulled at the collar of his armor to help relieve his stress. Spike sighed as he looked at Ember. She was smiling at him, he smiled back. "Ember, would you mind?" Asked Spike.

Ember smiled as she released the Bloodstone. Spike smiled as he called it to him, shocking everyone in the crowd, especially Torch. Spike grabbed the scepter and looked at the gem as he started recounting its history. "Long ago, the world as we know it was very different, 4 powerful beings ruled these lands. One of these beings was a necromancer named Grogar, he craved power like no other, so he invaded the land. But the three others banded together in hopes of stopping Grogar. This is where I was laid." Said Spike as he laughed. "The three beings used three items of magical power to defeat Grogar. One was the Elements of Harmony, gifted to my grandmother, Queen Lilith, by Star Swirl. The second was crafted by the first Dragon Lord, Dragon King Bahamut, using his blood and the force of all the volcanos in the world. The last and most relevant was used by Bahamut's mate, Tiamat. She laid an egg and imbued it with her chaos magic, as she was the previous god of chaos, before Discord." Spike then looked at everyone. "I was that egg." Said Spike.

Everyone looked at Spike in shock, but the dragons looked outraged. "Lies!"

Spike sighed as he looked at the scepter. "For the creature of both you and I, I seek to speak to those who died, beyond the line where many fear, but the place where we are free." Said Spike. The gem started to drain its red color and turned a dark black color. A large light shot out of the gem and created a screen.

Suddenly the screen showed both Bahamut and Tiamat standing in purgatory. Bahamut sighed as he looked to the crowd. "Greetings, I am the first Dragon Lord, Dragon King Bahamut. This lovely dragoness is my mate Tiamat."

"Hello everyone." Said Tiamat.

"I had a feeling that Spike was going to use this spell sooner or later, but I'll make this brief, because it saps the life force from all who use it. Spike is my son, the one that was lost to all of time after he was taken. Dragon Lord Torch and Ember have seen into the history of the stone, as have Celestia and Luna. Hi girls, Lilith is busy right now but she's very proud of you both. But, back on task, Spike is getting charged a year for every minute. What Spike says is all true, he is my and Tiamat's son, he is the rightful heir to the Dragon Lord title, and if the dragon Garble is there, you better live as long as you can, because the moment you die, Tiamat is going to have a few words with you about calling him names."

Tiamat cracked her knuckles. "I'll be waiting."

Spike sighed as he ended the spell. Spike looked as the red color was returning to the scepter. He looked to the crowd, who were all gasping like fish at the fact that Spike just talked to the dead. Spike laughed. "Yeah, I know, this was used for dragons to talk to their ancestors in hope of learning from them." Spike shrugged. "But it can only be activated by a Dragon Lord, so there’s not much use. So, with that out of the way, I think it's time for everyone to be introduced to my family. All creatures look up and try not to breathe." Said Spike as he had been working on this plan for a few days now. He started gathering his fire into his mouth, adding a bit of chaos magic to it, plus a little bit of Mal meddling, and voilà, Spike has a signal fire ready. Spike pointed his mouth to the sky and shot a massive red fireball into the heavens.

Everyone who knew Spike had only seen him shoot green flames, never red ones, but they all became more shocked when the fire ball just kept going higher and higher and higher and higher, but then it finally stopped and began to fall. Everyone was looking at Spike who was ducking and covering his ears. Celestia walked over to Spike to find out why he was doing that. "Spike, what did you just do?"

"What?"

"What did you just do?"

"WHAT?"

"WHAT DID YOU JUST DO?"

"I CAN'T HEAR YOU MOM, IT'S ABOUT TO BLOW!"

"BLOW?" Celestia looked at all the creatures and yelled in her Canterlot voice. "TAKE COVER!" Yelled Celestia.

Everycreature quickly ducked and covered their ears, the only one who didn't move was Discord, all he had was a carrot dog on a stick ready for it to get roasted. The massive fireball was quickly going faster, and faster on its decent. Soon it started leaving a contrail in its path and forming a sound cone as it quickly reached the speed of sound.

Discord smiled. "Aw, Tiamat would be so proud. Wait, I forgot the mustard, damn it." Said Discord as he made a bottle of mustard appear. "Ok, ready."

Once the fire ball achieved the speed of sound the resulting shockwave destroyed the fireball but created a red ring of fire that sped across the sky. Discord smiled at seeing Spike was having some fun with his powers, but he still needed to roast his carrot, so he grabbed some of the fire shock wave and started roasting.

In the Everfree, the whole family was waiting for the signal, and when they saw the red shockwave, they knew it was time for them to move out. The Stingbees grabbed all the Fuzzles, Stunkz and Chippunkz, then took to the air lead by queen who had Fang. Banger and his cloud following behind with Wallop and his swarm. Char and her swarm were the fastest on the ground, so they were keeping pace with them, while even carrying Sparks and his swarm on their backs.

Back with the Q&A group, Spike was smiling at how well that worked, but then he sensed an eminent ear pull, but this time he had an out. "Twilight, if you grab my ear fin, you better be doing it to Rainbow as well." Said Spike.

This stopped Twilight in her tracks, but it didn't make her drop her look. "What do you mean?" Asked Twilight.

"I've been thinking, I never remember hearing about Rainbow getting in trouble for causing a sonic rainboom, I did nothing different than her, there was no earthquake, no brain melting high pitch sound, no damage. So, if you yell at me, Rainbow better be getting a lecture as well, then you get thrown in jail because of Mom's declaration a few days ago."

Discord floated down, and handed Twilight the carrot dog, while Discord ate the stick which was on fire. "He's right you know." Said Discord. He then looked at Spike. "Not bad, your mother would be proud, but I think you needed a bit more Chaos in it." Said Discord as he burped up a small bit of the fire. "Plus, red doesn't really agree with my tummy. Try purple, it's very sweet."

Spike shrugged. "I'll try it later. You going to teleport somewhere?" Asked Spike.

Discord shook his head. "Nope, Celestia hired me to help out today, so you're stuck with me."

Spike smiled at hearing that. "Cool." He looked to the crowd and couldn't help but chuckle at the sight of everyone ducking for cover. "Hey, your all going to miss the show." Yelled Spike. This made everyone uncover their ears as they looked at Spike. Spike looked to the horizon and saw his army.

Then Ponies started screaming in fright as an army of spiders were walking through the crowd, towards the stage. Spike looked to the groups as they all converged on the stage and smiled. When all of them were on the stage, Spike looked to the crowd. "Everyone this is The Family." Said Spike as all the heads took their position.

Everyone was shocked to see the group of creatures.

Spike sighed as he was really getting tired of doing this, but he did a Pinkie and closed all the creature’s jaws, and even with Pinkies help, it took a solid 5 minutes. But, once everyone's mouths were closed, Spike started the introductions. "Ok, let’s try this again. Everyone, I was teleported to a world called Modus, there I was trained by a creature called a Steef, I never learned his real name, but everyone called him Stranger, so I did as well. He trained me how to survive in his world, using 8 types of creatures called Living Ammunition. Over my time there, I forged a bond with a 8 creatures, who lead the others. First is Sparks, he is a creature called a Zappfly." Said Spike as Sparks took position on his friend. "These little buggers are capable of producing electrical shocks that can range from static to lightning. They are able to communicate with their colors." Pinkie then ran over to Spike and handed him a piece of paper. Spike looked at the paper. "And apparently, Twilight and Pinkie Pie have created a handy guide to help everyone understand." Said Spike.

Spike looked out to the crowd and noticed that everyone had a copy of the guide. Spike shrugged. "Ok, next we have Alvin, and I give everyone permission to attack him if he insults you, and a little heads up, he can talk." Said Spike.

Alvin hopped over to the front with his scurry behind him. They all saluted to the crowd. "Attention. We are honored to make your acquaintance. I hope to protect all those the commander sees as allies." Said Alvin, but then Alvin looked at the large dragon in the back. "Man, and I thought a Clakkers was ugly, but not even a mother could love a mug that ugly."

Spike sighed as Alvin just insulted the second strongest dragon in the area, and the insult did not sit well with him. Torch growled as he looked at Alvin. "HOW DARE YOU INSULT ME, DRAGON LORD TORCH, LITTLE RODENT! WHAT IS STOPPING ME FROM CRUSHING YOU INTO DUST?!"

Spike sighed. "Dragon Lord Torch. Two things, me, and the fact that he is indestructible." Said Spike.

Torch looked at Spike. "DO NOT SPEAK DOWN TO ME WELPLING, NO DRAGON ALIVE IS STRONGER THAN ME!"

Spike sighed as he flew over to Torch. "Dragon lord Torch, how much do you weigh?" Asked Spike.

Torch smirked. "80 tons, now what do you expect to do?" Asked Torch.

Spike smirked as he started removing all the armor. "Give me a second, I just learned to do this, and I don't want to ruin my new armor." Said Spike as he sent the armor back to Celestia. Spike then looked to Torch as his eyes changed to slits.

Twilight face palmed. "Spike." Groaned Twilight.

Torch looked at Spike and started laughing. "Awe, what a poor little whelp, he thinks that just because he's Bahamut's child means that makes him strong." But Torch was unaware that Spike was tapping into his dragon heritage to grow into his greed form.

All the dragons in the crowd were shocked to see Spike grow, all the ponies were worried that Spike was going to go on a hording spree, and Twilight just sighed. When Spike was around 20 feet tall, only about half way up Torches leg, Spike cleared his throat. Torch looked down at Spike. "What, just because you have control of your greed, you think you are better than me? All Dragon Lords must train to control and harness it to show dominance. If I desired, I could easily exceed this puny pony town."

Spike sighed as he grabbed Torches leg and effortlessly lifted the dragon to the shock of everyone, even the dragon lord himself. "What, how is this possible?"

Spike shrugged as he lowered Torch back to the ground. "Training, by the time I was 13 I could lift a ton, by 18 I was lifting 8 tons, when I started my journey home, I was hitting 10 tons, and that was all without accepting my dragon heritage. Now that I have, I learned that most dragons are actually weak."

Torch looked at Spike. "I AM NOT WEAK!" Yelled Torch.

Spike sighed as he released more of his dragon greed, until he was 100 feet tall, half of Torch's height. "I'm only at 30% right here, I was at 10%." Said Spike as he used one hand to pick up Torch. "I don't want to go full out, because I would be too big to not crush a building by accident." Said Spike as he placed Torch back down on the ground. "Dragons are strong, I do agree, but we are weak in thinking that there is not a creature that is stronger." Said Spike as he shrunk back to normal size. "I Learned that long ago." Spike then looked at Celestia and sent himself back to the stage.

He cleared his throat. "Sorry about that." Said Spike, but everyone was silent. Spike looked at Celestia. "Mom, what's up? I don't have my twins out do I?" Asked Spike.

Celestia sighed. "Spike, no they are still inside of you, but you are naked, and everyone can see your scars."

Spike looked down. "Right, I forgot." Spike looked at the crowd. "Trust me, it looks worse than it is. But let’s get back to introductions. Next we have Char the Bolamite." Said Spike. Char crawled up Spike's back and started signing something. "Yes, but at least the mountain is still in one piece." Char facepalmed at Spike making him laugh. "Next we have Wallop." Wallop crawled up Spike's back and rested on his shoulder. "Wallop is a Thudslug. an insect like creature with a thick exoskeleton, that can punch a hole through a tree, and Char is highly intelligent and pretty much second in command of the whole family when I'm not around." Char then signed to Spike and he sighed. "No, he's always been a blow hard." Said Spike, Char nodded. She looked around at the crowd and signed something to them all. Spike dropped his jaw at what Char just said. "CHAR, you will not do that!" Yelled Spike. Char glared at Spike. "And I will not do that." Said Spike. "And I thought I raised you better than to use that kind of sign."

Everyone was confused at the interaction between Spike and Char. Celestia leaned over to Twilight. "Did you get any of that?" Asked Celestia.

Twilight shook her head. "Nope, I deal with Sparks and that was enough."

Spike sighed at Char. "Char, I'm going to stop talking around you, if you take my words out of context." Char giggled at Spike as she signed one more thing. Spike blushed. "Well yes, I know that they are all cute, that's a given, but I rather get to know them first before we even think about that." Said Spike. Char was about to sign again, but Spike stopped her. "Hold up, you sign one more word and you’re going into your tube." Char sighed as she lowered her legs. Spike smirked. "Clever girl."

Spike looked at the crowd. "Um... Sorry, it got a little too personal." Said Spike as he blushed at what Char signed about him and the army of mares in the front rows. Spike took a deep breath and sighed. "Ok, next we have a little fella, that will either pass out, or knock you all out, so Fluttershy is going to be on standby." Said Spike. "Belch, I need you to hold it in until we move on, I know it's going to be hard, but I believe in you." Said Spike. Belch hopped over to Spike but kept behind his leg, trying to hide from the crowd. Spike looked down at Belch. "Belch, you can do it." Belch chittered and Char sighed. She then signed to Spike, he nodded. "Sure thing little buddy. I know they all would love to help you." Said Spike. "Guys, he wants his family to help him." Said Spike. All the ammo nodded as they gathered around the little Stunkz and gave him words of encouragement. "Everyone this little guy is named Belch, he is a Stunkz, a skunk like creature that can change his spray, to non-lethal compounds, that range from knockout, to memory loss, but he's a little nervous around crowds."

Belch nodded as he chittered one thing and ran right back behind Spike. Spike sighed as that was going to be the best he was going to get from the little chemical weapon. "Ok, that's the best he can do, next we have a nocturnal creature, with highly sensitive ears. So, everyone please be quiet for a little while." Spike then moved his tail in front of him and let Banger hang on it. Banger looked out over the crowd, he then squeaked and nodded. Spike smiled. "Oh, come on old bat, I wanted to show you guys off."

Banger squeaked and Fluttershy blushed. "Banger, language." Said Fluttershy. "I'm happy for you two but there is no need for such explicit words."

Spike looked at Banger confused, then he looked at Shy. "Fluttershy?" Asked Spike.

Fluttershy flew over to Spike and told him what Banger said. Spike blushed as he looked at the little rodent with wings. "Ok, I didn't need to know that about Boombats."

Banger snickered at Spike. "He said, 'Oh, come on Spike, you’re a young male, and we just clicked, I don't see a problem with it." Said Fluttershy.

Spike sighed. "That's not what I'm talking about, I'm happy that you and her are happy. I didn't need to know the other part." Said Spike.

Banger shrugged and went back to his nap; he had a long night and he was spent. Spike looked at the crowd. "Trust me, you don't want to know." Said Spike, everyone nodded. "Next we have the leader of the Stingbee hive, Queen of the Stingbees, Queen." Said Spike. Queen flew over to Spike and took her seat on his head. She looked at the crowd, there were too many for her to give her trust, so she buzzed. "Ok, everyone to show that she will trust you, she normally lands on the tallest point on a creature, but since there are so many of you, she is going to task the hive with doing it. They all have strict orders to not sting, so anyone with a bee allergy, you should be fine." Said Spike, making sure that Mr. Cake and others with the allergy remained calm. Queen buzzed, telling her whole hive to go, they left the stage and flew over to the crowd, where they started landing on horns or heads. The only one who stayed was Blink.

Once the hive was finished, they all returned to the stage. "Ok, now as a little warning, if you brake that trust, the whole hive can sting you, for anyone that is not a dragon, you will die in a matter of stings. Dragons, I took around 50 to my back and they broke my scales, so unless you want to take the chance, don't piss her off." Said Spike. "Ok, lastly we have a very protective and aggressive little ball of teeth. His name is Fang and he is the reason why the stage is so large, he is a Fuzzle, an ambush predator that will enter a fury if they are threatened. We have talked about controlling it, but it’s a process." Spike brought Fang over to the front as everyone awed at the little death machine. Spike sighed, that was everyone's first responds, even his when he first saw a Fuzzle, but you learn quickly that looks are deceiving. "Fang, show them." Said Spike.

Fang growled as he showed his sharp teeth. That shut up the awes rather quickly. "Trust me, these little guys are very dangerous, and just to show you I have prepared a demonstration." Said Spike as he walked over to the wings and pulled out a large pile of bones from the Roc. "This is a Roc that I killed, their bones are hollow, but even hollow, they are just as thick as a pony’s full bone." Said Spike, he placed the bone in front of Fang. "Fang, chomp." Said Spike. Fang growled and destroyed the bone in no time flat. "Fang, stop." Said Spike. Fang went back to normal. "That is how one of them dealt with the bone, normally they work in a group of 5 to 12." The whole crowd backed away from the stage in fear of the little death machine. Spike picked up Fang and placed him on his shoulder. "That is the family, I saved them from situations that would have killed them, and in turn they have saved my tail hundreds of times. I trust them and they trust me, and they are how I survived ten years in a world where I was stuck. With that said, it is now time that I tell you all the story of my ten years on Mudos."

3 hours later and Spike has finished his ten year journey on Mudos. "And with all of my goodbyes said, I walked back to Doc's lab and he sent me back." Finished Spike. Everyone was shocked to hear such a tale, and how unbelievable it sounded. "Now, I know that you all have a lot of questions, so I will try and answer as many as I can, but I also have a journal where I captured everything saw in drawing, and thanks to our resident god of chaos, I will be able to show it all to you." Said Spike as he grabbed his journal.

Once Spike had his journal, it was time for the Q&A to start. "Ok, now let’s start with some questions." This was met with a lot of raised hands. Spike sighed. 'This is going to take a while.' Thought Spike, he looked out to the crowd. "Ok, lets kick this off with the crystal mare in the second row."

The mare was a purple mare with a white mane, but the moment she got picked she was blushing, making her look more red than purple. "Um... are you still a virgin?"

This made every creature turn to her in shock, even Celestia was looking at her, she was surprised that someone would even ask that in such a public event, in front of his whole family, his friends, and powerful beings of cosmic proportions. Spike blushed at the question, but he sighed. "I did say I would answer all questions today, but I was not expecting that. Yes, I am still a virgin. But can we keep the questions a little less personal?" Asked Spike.

He looked to the crowd, many of whom were still raising their hands. Spike pointed to a black and white stallion with a red mane and a reporter hat on. "You, the news reporter that looks like a sunburned penguin."

The stallion stood up and brought a note pad up to ask his question. "News Print with the Canterlot Times, I'm the one who wrote the article about your return. There were mass reports of weird dreams one week ago. In those dreams, ponies were teleported to a world they knew nothing about, but also did. But a single figure was seen by almost everyone. A tall purple dragon with green accents, going by the name Sentinel Flame. Many dismissed this as memories of your loss, seeing as the anniversary of the day you disappeared is only a few days away, is there any correlation?"

Spike nodded. "Yes, and much of that is due to Discord. On Wednesday, we arranged to meet for an old tradition that we used to do before I left. But before that, I had to make a deal with Discord to make sure that we were not all killed. So, I offered to make him the one in charge of the meeting, and he agreed. So, on Wednesday, we met up and teleported to a land that was under the thumb of a tyrant named Sekto."

A lot of ponies gasped and figured out most of the story. "SPIKE!" Yelled a pair of unicorns as they pushed their way to the stage. "I'm going to kill you!" Yelled a tall light pink mare with a very pissed off face. She teleported to the stage and started punching Spike's chest.

Spike laughed. "Hey Fleur." Said Spike as he just took those punches. "Oh, I got to know, are you pregnant?"

Fleur slowed her punches and started laughing. "Yes, and you’re the uncle." Soon the punches stopped, and the mare wrapped Spike into a tight hug.

Soon her husband walked onto the stage and sighed. "Fleur, you can't just crash the event."

Spike laughed. "Hey Fancy, but it's fine, it's good to see my old friend again." Said Spike as he returned the hug. "I missed you Lissy."

Fleur giggled at the old name. "Stop that Spade, I'm not a guard anymore."

Celestia smiled as she walked over to the group. "Captain De Lis."

Fleur blushed as she let go of the dragon and saluted Celestia. "Princess, please forgive my outburst, I had no intention to harm the prince."

Celestia smiled. "At ease, now I think it is time for the truth to come out, Fleur, or we might have to throw up some shields?"

Fleur blushed as she smiled. She walked over to Spike and rubbed his back. "Well, I guess I kinda let the cat out of the bag."

Spike nodded. "Well, I was going to ask you to stay afterwards, but this was on you Lissy."

Fleur sighed. "Hello, everycreature, many of you know me as the fashion model Fleur De Lis, but I was originally one of Princess Celestia's royal guard captains. Tasked with protecting those closest to her. My equal was tasked with protecting Princess Cadance, that was Shining Armor. The rest of us were tasked to tolerate Prince Blueblood, but I was tasked to protect the young prince. I was sworn to secrecy about his identity until the day he would be announced. But I spent my early 20's standing by his side when his family was busy. I must admit that I was shocked to find out that he was a dragon, but he was such a good little dragon, unless he wasn't."

Spike sighed. "Yeah, Lissy, I never told anyone, but we dragons have two personalities that swap in and out and take control of our bodies when we are younger. Every time I was a pain, that was Mal. Remember that time I 'accidently' cut your tail?" Asked Spike.

Mal swapped out with Spike. "I remember you running around crying about your tail." Said Mal as he smirked and used his claws to make a scissor motion.

Fleur looked at Mal. "So, I wasn't crazy, you weren't Spike?"

This made Mal look at Fleur in surprise. "How the hell do you know about me?" Asked Mal.

"I was tasked with watching you all the time, I saw you call Celestia a bitch, I'm the one who informed her about the guard that was complaining about is mare friend. I saw Cadance walk into your room then run out moments later, and I saw you crying when you got to the princess's room. I saw all of it." Said Fleur.

Mal shrugged. "Well, I guess I wasn't that sneaky."

Fleur giggled. "No, you were not, but I don't care, it was a long time ago, and my tail grew back."

Mal sighed. "Wow, I was just waiting for you to mention seeing me stare at your flanks when I was 9." Mal went silent the moment that went out of his mouth.

He gulped as he was getting a glare from the mare. "You what?"

"Um... Spike, save me." Yelled Mal.

Spike sighed. "Fleur, please calm down, and don't kill Mal, I kinda need him to keep me alive most of the time. Besides take it as a complement, even back then you were beautiful, and to be honest, my first kinda crush."

Fleur sighed. "Spike." Said Fleur.

Spike chuckled. He gave Fleur one last hug. "Hey, I need to keep going, so Fleur if you want to stay after were done here, I would love to talk more."

Fleur smiled as she walked over to Fancy Pants who helped her back to their spots.

Spike sighed. "Ok, back to questions." Spike looked around and noticed that now even some of the dragons were wanting to ask questions. "Ok, pink dragoness in the back."

"Well, I wanted to know, what was the strongest thing you fought while on Modus?" Asked the dragoness with a slight purr in her voice.

Spike hummed. "Ok, there was Willy..."

"But we didn't fight him, he kinda just tried to eat us, but decided he would probably die if he did." Said Mal.

Spike sighed. "Right, but he is still a good boy, for a 30 foot gator. How about those trio of outlaws, Jo Boy's? They did shoot off my spine."

"Well maybe, but that's really it, and they did that because they had turrets, that Banger and his cloud blew up after one shot."

"Oh, how about that time we had to stop a train robbery?"

"Not stronger, we were outnumbered by a hundred."

"Well, we could talk about..."

"We agreed to never talk about that one."

Spike nodded. "Right, so what, after we got our footing it wasn't that hard to get by?"

"Well, what about our last fight with Billy Goat Bitch Face, that was a hoot to watch."

"For you, and don't call him that, you know how hard he can hit."

Mal laughed. "Yeah, but I like that one, plus I think everyone is wondering if you've lost it, so tell that one." Said Mal.

Spike sighed. "Fine." Spike looked to Discord. "Discord, first page, and make it big." Said Spike.

Discord nodded as he looked at the first page of the book and showed a large copy of the drawing of Stranger, using his left eye to copy and his right to project in color.

Spike smiled at seeing his master. "Ok, this was the man I consider my master, he is a Steef, a guardian race that protected the world, but one day and I don't know the reason, he removed his horns and left his kind. But when he found me, he trained me for a hellish and great 8 years. This is the story of how most of my training fights went.

For the next ten minutes everyone winced at the thought of Spike getting tossed off a cliff, running into a tree, falling in a hole, blown up, bludgeoned, tied up, and insulted.

"But when I was 20 years old, I was still with him. One day he wanted to see how I was doing, so we went into a nearby clearing with some boulders that I put there, and we talked about what we could use. I took the Zappflies, Stunkz, Boombats and Stingbees, all of which had very little effect on me, but a huge effect on him. While he took the Bolamites, Chippunks, Fuzzles, and Thudslugs. We started on opposite ends of the clearing and first one to get a solid hit won."

"Ready, you old goat?" Asked Spike as he was taking cover behind a boulder.

"Come on lizard, I'll die of old age before you ever hit me." Said Stranger.

Three seconds later creatures started flying. Spike launched a volley of Stunkz into the area where Stranger was, hoping to gas him out, but Stranger knew Spike's skills and used a Bolamite to make a mask for him. So, in retaliation Stranger launched a very loud and very annoying Chipunks over to Spike, while laying five Fuzzle traps out in the area that separated them.

"Oh, here is that fucking lizard again, I swear I'm going to make a belt out of you one of these days, but then again, I remember you talking about a bitch named Rarity that would have just tossed it because it wasn't fashionable enough."

Spike growled at the annoying little rodent and ran out of his cover to get away from it. This gave Stranger enough of an opening to launch a few Thugslugs at Spike. But thankfully Spike wasn't that clueless, and he dodge them all. "Come on, it that the best you got, I think you need some glasses." Yelled Spike.

Stranger growled as he moved up. Spike took this opportunity to shoot his Stingbees at the Steef. But he was too fast for them. Spike groaned, but then he came up with an idea. Spike removed his Zappflies and gave them their orders. He then launched his Boombats towards Stranger hoping to empty his crossbow and get ready for the win.

Stranger dodged all the bats and was just waiting for Spike to use his Zappflies. "Come on Spike, all you have left are Zappflies, and I still have most of my ammo left. This is over."

Spike smirked. "I couldn't agree more." Said Spike as he tossed his crossbow over to Stranger. "Also, I told them to keep it at a nonlethal voltage."

Stranger was confused until the fur on his body felt staticky, he looked up and noticed that 20 Zappflies were charged and about to unleash an attack. "Oh, Mother Fucker." Said Stranger as he tossed the crossbow away. But he forgot that he also had a hunk of metal on his arm.

Spike smirked. "You lose old goat." Then Spike was hit in the head with a Thudslug the moment Stranger was hit with the electric attack.

"We both woke up in the clearing, I had a broken snout, and Stranger developed a twitch from the shock." Said Spike.

Discord shut down the projector eye as he looked at Spike. "Spike, that is crazy. I'm so proud that I chose you."

Spike laughed. "Why thank you." Spike looked at the crowd. "Ok, next question?" Asked Spike. Less hands shot up but there were still a ton. Spike looked around and hummed. "Chief Thunderhooves, it's good to see you and the rest of the herd by the way."

A large dark brown Buffalo nodded in respect. "Thank you, Mr. Spike, I am glad to have been able to attend. I ask a simple question, you only talk about a select few creatures, were there more?"

Spike nodded. "Oh, you have no idea how many creatures." Spike looked at Discord. "Discord, page 12, 15, 16, 25, 29, 43, and 63 please." Discord nodded. "Well I have talked about Grubs, Slugs, Steefs, Clakkers, and Vykkers, but that only touches the surface. We have Sligs, Glukkons, the Mudokon, the Gabbit, the Interns, the Gloktigi, and the Wolvarks. The Mudokon, Gabbits, Steefs, and Grubbs are all natural living creatures that depend of the land to live, while all other species are industrial centered that have nearly out run the others to keep expanding."

Chief Thunderhooves sighed. "A sad reality that many deal with it seems." Next to him was Sheriff Silver Star, a brown stallion with a mustache as he nodded. Spike smiled at seeing that the two of them have seen the faults of expansion, but the respect to accommodate it.

Spike looked out to the crowd again. "Anything anyone wants to toss into this question?" Asked Spike.

"Yes, Spike, did you become friends with any of these creatures you spoke of?" Asked Twilight.

Spike shrugged. "Mostly, a few were more acquaintances, and we all know the Vykker. But I did meet a Mudokon named Abe when I was helping them take the Glukkons. The Glukkons were using the Mudokon as slaves to work in their factories. I wasn't going to let that stand, so I rallied a bunch of them, and we took over the largest factory in the whole operation. Then we got word that a group of Vykkers had found a endangered creature, a Gabbit named Munch, apparently Gabbit females were over hunted for their eggs or Gabbiar, which is a delicacy, causing the males to die off as well. So, I organized a group of my Fuzzles, led by Fang, to infiltrate the Vykker lab Munch was being stored in. So, we broke him out and found out that there was a single can of Gabbiar left in the whole world. It was going to be sold in an auction, and that in one week’s time they would be eaten. So, me, Abe, and Munch tracked down the can, I joined the auction, Abe stole all his people’s artifacts that the Glukkon had stolen during the oppression, and Munch got the can. Plus, I stole a shit ton of Moolah, from the safe that Glukkons were going to use to restart their empire. We got away after a pretty big fight, but the last I saw of Munch was he was going to fertilize those eggs and hopefully restart his kind. Abe stayed with me for a little longer, just to make sure that the Glukkons were finished hurting his people, but last I heard, the Mudokon have pretty much taken over the company that hurt them, but are making it more fair, even letting some Glukkons work there. As for me, I was stupid rich, no new wounds, and a kick ass estate in the middle of nowhere, So I took some R&R for about a week."

Celestia facepalmed. "Spike Solaris, tell me how many revolutions you have been a part of, or so help me I'll make you have a guard assigned to you at all time."

Spike sighed. "Fine, it's not like I didn't help them at all, but 7, with 6 of them led by me."

Celestia sighed. "Spike, from this moment on you're the new minister of defense as well as crown prince."

Spike shrugged. "Nah, sounds boring, let Shining keep his job."

This sparked a new set of questions that need to be answered. Spike hummed. "How about you, the adorable death inducing filly with wings." Said Spike as he noticed that Flurry Heart was above him. Spike used his tail and grabbed her. "What's up Sweetie?" Asked Spike.

"Um... Uncle Spike, are you going to leave again?" Asked Flurry.

Spike hummed as he thought. "Well, yes. But I'm going to go help others where I end up."

Flurry pouted as she hugged Spike's neck. "No, I don't want you to go."

Spike sighed. "Flurry, I'm not going to be gone forever, I'll drop by a lot, just to see you."

Flurry wiped her eyes. "But what if you don't come back?"

Spike smiled. "Well, who says I won't? I'm your cool uncle, Prince Spike Solaris, dragon Bounty hunter, assistant god of chaos, 74th Dragon Lord, son of the late, Dragon King Bahamut, and god of chaos Tiamat. Plus, my mother will probably kick my tail back to life if I do." Said Spike.

Spike then smiled at the crowd. "I'm not planning on going anywhere for a long while, I have a duty as not only the prince of Equestria, but as an ally to all creatures gathered here. I do not wish to be stuck in a throne like my mother, aunt, and cousin. But I will travel the lands, talk to its creatures, help them where I can and when it is my time to take over for Discord, a little warning, I'm probably going to be a lot worse." Said Spike as he grew an evil smile. "Or not." The smile was gone.

Everyone was smiling at the little declaration. "Will you teach me how to be just like you Uncle Spike?" Asked Flurry.

Spike looked at Shining and Cadance, both were shaking their heads. "Um... maybe when you're a little older. Now I think it's time to go back to Cadance."

Flurry nodded. "Ok, can you send me?" Asked Flurry with puppy dog eyes. Spike's only weakness aside from food.

Spike sighed. "Fine, ready?"

Flurry nodded as Spike shot a flame at her sending her to Cadance. Spike smiled at the happy face Flurry was making. "So, lets hit some more questions." Said Spike.

Now that all the questions were answered, there really wasn't much more to say. But suddenly an apple dropped out of the sky and landed in front of Spike. Spike groaned. "Yes, I said I was going to explain that. Everyone, as we all know, Discord is a real being, well he's not the only one, there are many beings that oversee the world, one of which is Fate, she is the one who watches how things happen in life and she is the one who dropped this apple, apparently she likes to use them as a message system." Said Spike, he looked at the note.

Spike, a little heads up, the old castle is about to be attacked by a hydra, and the chimera is kinda in trouble. I know you can deal with it, good luck.

Spike sighed as he looked at Celestia. "Mom, a hydra is attacking the castle, I need to go deal with it." Spike looked at Pinkie. "Pinkie, distract them." Said Spike.

Celestia nodded. "Ok, be good."

Pinkie saluted as she got Maud and a microphone and placed them both on stage. Maud looked at Spike. "Hi Spike."

Spike smiled. "Hi Maud, thanks for doing this."

Maud nodded. "No problem, but you should get going unless you’re a spherical hunk of sedimentary stone." Said Maud.

Pinkie laughed at the joke like it was the funniest thing in the world. Spike shrugged as he flew off to deal with the hydra.

20 minutes later and Spike was coming back, but unlike when he left, Spike was riding on the back of the hydra, with Belle, Eve, and Sophie. Everyone looked at the odd display, worried that Spike was leading the hydra to town. But the hydra was happy and calm. Celestia and Twilight looked at Spike riding the hydra. "Spike, what happened?" Asked Twilight as she flew over to Spike. But the Hydra was protective and tried to lash out at Twilight.

Spike growled. "No, bad Wilhelm." Said Spike as he gave the hydra a glare. Wilhelm whimpered as he saw the glare using one of his heads. Spike sighed as he gave the middle neck a loving rub. "Hey, it's ok, but you need to wait until we know what's going to happen." Said Spike. He looked at Twilight. "Hey Twi, I got a new friend." Said Spike.

Twilight sighed as she rubbed her eyes. "Spike, why is there a Hydra in town?" Asked Twilight.

Spike shrugged. "He's going to be staying in the castle with the girls when the Family is out, and I thought he should learn what is bad and what is not." Said Spike. Spike then pointed to Twilight. "Wilhelm, this is Twilight, she is nice, what do you do when we see someone nice?" Asked Spike.

Wilhelm leaned all his heads to Twilight and looked at her with his ten eyes. Then the middle head gave Twilight a full body lick. "Ew, why did he do that?" Asked Twilight as she tried to get the hydra saliva off her coat.

Spike laughed. "Well, that's how he says hi." Said Spike, he looked at Wilhelm. "Good boy, who's the good boy, you are, that's who." Said Spike as he started scratching the Hydra's back. Wilhelm's tail started wagging around happy to be getting love from his new master.

Twilight sighed. "Spike, how did the hydra that was attacking the old castle, become your pet?"

Spike shrugged. "Well, he lived on the other side of the forest, thinking he was the strongest creature in it, but when he caught wind of the girl’s scent, he wanted to investigate and show his dominance."

"Yeah, we weren't having that." Said Eve. "So, we decided to show him that this was master’s place, and since we are tasked with protecting it, we had to fight back."

Spike nodded. "Yes, thankfully I showed up before they did anything, and I won him over."

Twilight sighed at the fact that in the last three days, Spike has tamed two of the most dangerous creatures in the world. "What's next, are you going to tame the yeti in the north?"

Spike hummed at the thought, but he was slapped in the back of the head by Twilight. "SPIKE, THAT WAS RETORICAL!" Yelled Twilight.

Spike shrugged. 'Meh, maybe next time I'm in the north.' Thought Spike. He looked at Twilight. "We'll talk later." Said Spike as he jumped off Wilhelm's back. "Girls, Wilhelm, this is Ponyville, this is where you can find me if something happens, and if I'm not here, tell Twilight and she will get into contact with me or she will handle it." Wilhelm nodded all his heads and gave Twilight another lick. Spike laughed. "Wilhelm, the girls know the rules, but you cannot hurt ponies, the river that we passed should have plenty of fish for you to eat." Wilhelm nodded. "Ok, now be a good boy and follow the girls back home. I'll drop by tomorrow." Said Spike. Wilhelm nodded as all the heads looked at their older sisters.

"Come on Wilhelm, I'm hungry and we can have fish tonight." Said Eve.

Belle sighed. "Can we pick up some hay before we leave town for me?"

Eve sighed. "Fine."

"What about some birds?" Asked Sophie.

"We had that last night, we get fish and hay." Said Eve as they walked Wilhelm home.

Spike looked at Twilight. "So how are the rock jokes?" Asked Spike.

Twilight sighed as she just teleported Spike to the stage.

Back on stage, Maud was holding bolder. "Then I said that's not my father that's a chunk of hardened obsidian."

Pinkie was crying as she was hitting the stage trying to hold her laughter back. "Hardened obsidian, a classic." Said Pinkie. "Oh, Spike's done." Said Pinkie. She walked on stage. "And this has been a Pie sister’ distraction, thank you." Said Pinkie as she pulled Maud off stage with a comically long pole.

Spike looked at the crowd, they were a little upset that the comedy act was finished. "Come on, everyone a round of applause to Maud Pie." Said Spike. The crowd erupted in a massive round of applause.

Once the cheering died down, Spike looked at the crowd. "Sorry for leaving, I just had to deal with a hydra, but he's a good boy." Said Spike like that was something that he had done a hundred times before. "So, it looks like the time is running out on this fine day. I wish all of you a safe journey back home." Said Spike as he took a bow.

Everyone cheered for Spike and Maud as he walked back stage. Spike smiled at everyone. "So glad that is over, I was going to die from fright." Said Spike.

Twilight smiled at Spike. "See, I told you that spell was going to help."

Spike nodded. "Yeah, but now it's time for a different kind of Q&A." Said Spike as he cracked his neck and yawned.

"Well, not before I get a hug goodbye." Said Fleur as she and Fancy Pants walked to him.

Spike smiled. "Well, I don't want to make Fancy mad."

Fancy smiled at Spike. "Just don't look at her flanks, Spike old boy."

Spike sighed. "That was Mal. I have some self-control."

"How many times did you stare at Rarity's Flanks?" Asked Mal.

Spike blushed. "Hey, I'm not the one on trial."

Mal laughed. "If I'm right, over 700 times right."

Spike huffed. "Get your numbers straight Mal, we both know It was 873 times.... I said that out loud, didn't I?" Everyone nodded as Rarity blushed.

She cleared her throat. "Well, it's perfectly healthy for a young drake to take in interest in those kind of thoughts." Said Rarity.

Spike blushed. "Well, before I die from embarrassment." Said Spike as he hugged Fleur and Fancy. "I need to settle a few things with a few ponies." Said Spike as he grabbed Celestia and Luna's hands and sent them to the castle, but the weird thing was that he didn't need to shoot fire, they just disappeared.

Everyone looked at Discord who was eating popcorn kernels with a hard candy drink. "What?" Asked Discord.

"Did he just?" Asked Twilight.

Discord nodded. "Yeah, a little heads up, it takes a whole lot of control to keep chaos magic in check, it still does what it's told, but can happen without thinking. Here have a taste." Said Discord as he dropped his control.

Twilight groaned as she was now a chicken, AJ was a kiwi the size of a pony, Rainbow's colors were inverted. Rarity's hair turned into mouths, Pinkie was a normal pony, Fluttershy was the size of a wagon, Cadance was turned into a Yak, Shining was shrunk down to a mouse, and Flurry was an adult. "Wow, I'm big, cool, does that mean Uncles Spike will teach me how to be cool like him?" Asked Flurry.

Discord smirked as he regained control. Everyone turned back to normal. "See that is what happens when Chaos magic is released freely. Now tootles, I need to see someone about making me a fire hydrant that can shoot grape soda." Said Discord as he teleported away.

Twilight sighed. "I'm never going to have a peaceful day again, am I?"

Spike, Luna, and Celestia were all in the sleepover room, ready to go to therapy. Spike was laying down in his bed that Celestia teleported. Celestia was using the bed that came in the room, and Luna was just going to do her thing. "Ready." Said Spike as he yawned.

Luna nodded. "Sister?" Asked Luna, but Celestia was already out like a light. Luna sighed as she brought Celestia and herself into Spike's dream.

"Um... wow, I wasn't expecting it to be so..."

"What, I have to admit, it's an old memory, but why change the classics." Said Spike as he walked into his dream of the power ponies’ issue #1's Maretropalis. "The artist were new, and they didn't draw that many background characters." Said Spike.

"Yeah, I always felt a little disconnected when you read them, I thought they could have used more violence." Said Mal as he walked next to Spike. He was an exact copy of Spike, just more muted colors. "But man does it feel good to finally take a real form after so long. I haven't had a spine in 21 years."

Spike laughed. "Yeah, those were the good old days, sleeping with mom at night, playing with Twilight."

Mal sighed. "Tormenting Blue Prick."

They both sighed. "Good times."

"Ok, down to business." Said Mal as he clapped. "Mother I think it would be best to get you out of the way first." Said Mal.

Celestia gulped as she slowly released all her control. "Awe, I see you finally decided to let your guard down Celestia, I was wondering when that would happen, now I can finally take my rightful place as Queen of Equestria." Said Daybreaker as she slowly started to form a body in the dream.

Spike sighed as the moment Daybreaker was solid, he grabbed her neck and started bitch slapping her repeatedly. "Hey...Stop...That...Spike...That... Hurts....Mommy." Said Daybraker as she tried to speak.

Spike just kept slapping his mother’s other half. "Daybraker, I want to talk, no evil." Said Spike. "I'll stop slapping then." Spike started slapping her face harder and harder.

It was after about five minutes that Daybraker had enough. "ENOUGH!" Yelled Daybraker as she used her solar magic to shoot Spike. But all that came out were bubbles. "What?"

Spike sighed. "We're in my dream. Meaning I'm the one in charge." Said Spike.

Daybraker growled. "Let me go Spike, or your grounded, and you don't get gems for dinner."

Spike sighed as he looked at Celestia. "Mom, let her fully out, I see too much of you." Said Spike.

Celestia gulped as she lessened her control. "LET GO OF ME YOU WORTHLESS WHELP, I WILL BOIL YOUR INSIDES AND USE YOUR SCALES FOR A HAND BAG!" Yelled Daybraker.

Spike was a little surprised. "Wow, she's nuts, but still a little too easy." Said Spike, he looked at Celestia. "Mom, I said fully out."

Celestia looked at Spike. "But Spike, I'm not holding her back anymore?"

Spike hummed. "Really, then something is really wrong?" Said Spike. He looked at Daybraker. "Seriously this is all you got?"

Daybraker was shocked. "What, how are you not in pain, I changed the area around us to rival the surface of the sun?"

Spike shrugged. "Mal?" Asked Spike.

"Well she's not lying, but I don't really feel anything." Said Mal.

Spike shrugged. "Dragon stuff." Said Spike as he looked at Daybraker. "So, unless you want me to snap your horn off, you sit down, shut up, and maybe, just maybe, we'll find a compromise, that doesn't involve you spending the rest of your life in the back of her head." Said Spike releasing a lot of his anger.

Daybraker blushed as her wings popped open. Spike looked at her in shock. "No, I'm not going there, you are my mother."

Daybraker purred. "But, not by blood, and imagine the terror we could make, the two of us together, besides every queen needs a king and who better than a prince." Said Daybraker.

Spike looked at Celestia. "Seriously, please tell me this is her, and not you?" Asked Spike, really hoping that she wasn't secretly wanting to fuck him.

Celestia shook her head in disgust. "No, nope, hell no, I changed your diapers, I gave you baths, I even let you nurse on me when you were first hatched and didn't have teeth, after I found a spell to help with that. "I do not see you as what she sees you as."

Spike sighed. "Wow, what a relief." Said Spike, he looked at Daybraker. "So, what's your deal?"

"What, I'm an all-powerful alicorn, I could get anyone to fuck me, but being the weak one is actually hot." Said Daybraker.

Spike sighed as he just released Daybraker. "First off, gross, second, behave." Said Spike.

Daybraker growled. "If I do, will you spank me?" Asked Daybraker.

"He's our son, what the hell is wrong with you?" Asked Celestia shocked that her other half was thinking of fucking Spike.

"Oh, don't go there, you remember when he asked us what was happening to him when he got his first erections."

Celestia sighed. "Yes, I told him to sit down, and wait for them to go back in, and that I would explain what happened later."

Daybraker laughed. "Yes, but I was more interested in..." Said Daybraker before Spike dreamed up some tape and used it to close her mouth.

"Yeah, I'm now really regretting this."

Author's Note

Here is therapy in a nut shell. "It's fucked up."