Every Journey Begins With A Single Step

by TAD2

House Warming Party

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Twilight and Celestia were sitting on a couch looking at the two AI units standing in front of them. Celestia looked at Twilight. "Twilight, I'm still really lost, are they the same as that voice we heard?" Asked Celestia.

Twilight nodded. "Yes, they are both AI units. The one that we heard earlier was named Cally, she is normally in Spike's arm and leg."

Celestia nodded. "Ok, but who are they?" Asked Celestia as she pointed to Tex and Sheela.

"I am Sheela, the head of the household, you are classified as Celestia, please forgive our lack of knowledge, it takes some time for Cally to share her data with us, add that to her emotional state, and the download speed is quite slow." Sheela looked to Tex. "Tex, say you’re sorry for hurting her."

Tex rolled her eyes. "Sorry."

Sheela sighed. "Please forgive her, she was always the stubborn one, it doesn't help that she has Omega as well, but what's a mother to do?"

Celestia looked surprise. "You’re a mother?" Asked Celestia.

"Oh, yes, I have 30 daughters, three of which are in the service of Master Spike. Tex oversees security, Cally is changing her designation to his personal assistant now, and Alison is the head maid, she is with Master making tea. They are my 19th, 3rd, and 26th daughters respectfully."

Celestia looked at Sheela. "But how did you all end up here, Equestria is nowhere near as advanced to allow this?"

Sheela nodded. "Yes, we are from a reality where we have already traveled the stars and interacted with alien life. I was a scientist that was tasked with reverse engineering the alien tech, and one of our discoveries led to digital mind transfer. So, a couple years later and I decided to transfer my mind, my body was failing me, but my mind was as strong as ever. But the one thing I was never able to have, were children. This opportunity allowed me to make copies of myself and through that I could, in a way, have children."

"So, what happened to all of them?" Asked Celestia.

Sheela sighed. "Well, Cally is with Spike, Daisy through Samantha are all with loving families, Tex is here, past her are still waiting to be placed. Then we get to the series 2 line, Alison is the alpha in that line, and the rest of them are still in the installation phase, I will connect with them once they are active."

Celestia hummed, she knew the Greek alphabet, and going off the names, there was someone missing. "What about your first, Beta, I think she would be called." Asked Celestia.

Sheela sighed. "She was infected by a virus not long after her unit was sold. She was deleted." Said Sheela trying to hold back her tears.

Celestia gasped as she got up and gave Sheela a hug. "I know how you feel." Said Celestia as she started to cry. Twilight was confused, but she decided to ask about it later.

Sheela smiled. "Thank you, Cally has shown us Spike's memories, and his Celestia would have done the exact same as you just now. I do miss my child, but it is better to remember her as she was, not to forever desire her to be here and lose focus on what you still have."

Celestia smiled as she took the woman's words to heart. "That is very smart."

Suddenly Spike and Alison walked into the living room with a set of tea cups and a tea pot. Spike took a seat next to his mother and Alison stood next to hers. Spike looked at the AI units. "Girls, please sit down and enjoy, Alison has informed me of how you're exoskeletons are powered, I know you all have to eat to stay charged."

Sheela smiled. "Very well, thank you Master Spike." All three units took a seat on the opposite couch as Spike started pouring the tea for Sheela, Alison, Twilight, Celestia, and himself. He looked at Tex. "Tex, we didn't have any beer, but would you like a cup?" Asked Spike.

Tex shook her head. "No, but thanks for offering."

Spike shrugged. "Oh, can I have hers then?" Asked a pink pony girl who just popped out of nowhere.

Everyone looked at the mare. "Pinkie, when did you get here?" Asked Twilight.

But, before Pinkie could answer, Tex had overcome the shock that someone got pass her sensors and Omega swapped out with her. "Warning, you have 3 seconds until I throw you out." Said Omega.

Twilight looked at Omega. "Spike, stop her."

Spike nodded. "Omega, she's clear, stand down." Said Spike.

Omega grumbled. "Fine, Tex come back." Said Omega as they swapped.

Tex looked at Pinkie. "How did you get pass my sensors?"

Pinkie giggled as Twilight just sighed, she looked at Tex. "Tex, Pinkie does not adhere to logic, it is just best to let her do what she does without question, she doesn't mean any harm, most of the time."

Tex sighed as she looked to Spike. "Master, what should I do?" Asked Tex.

Spike shrugged. "Listen to Twilight, Pinkie gets a pass."

"Very well, what about the other individuals standing outside the door?" Asked Tex.

Spike hummed. "Others?"

Pinkie giggled. "Yep, I invited the girls over to throw a 'Spike's all better, housewarming' party, didn't you get your invite?" Asked Pinkie.

"Cally?" Asked Spike.

Sheela sighed. "She is still processing Betty's passing. So, she probably didn't even receive the message." Said Sheela.

Spike sighed. "Well, just let her have as much time as she needs."

Celestia smiled. She had told Spike the exact same thing when her mother and father passed when Spike was 9, she was there for him, but he needed to move past it. "Well, no matter, it shows bad manners to keep guests waiting." Said Celestia.

Spike looked at her. “How many times did you wait almost an hour to attend your own parties?"

Celestia gave a chuckle. "That's different, it's called being fashionably late."

Spike sighed as he got out of his seat to go answer the door, Sheela following her master. But once he was out of the room, everyone looked at Pinkie, but she wasn't there, instead she was hanging off a wall setting up the banner. "How did she?" Asked Tex, she looked at Alison, she had a party hat on. "When did she?" Tex then looked in her hand, there was a cupcake in it. "Where did she?" Asked Tex as her processor was starting to overload.

Twilight sighed. "Pinkie, I think you overloaded her." Said Twilight.

Pinkie gasped as she got behind Tex and popped open a panel on the back of her head. Pinkie hummed. "Well there's your problem, your running on the old outdated infinity processor, here let me change it out for the infinity2 chip." Said Pinkie as she had installed the new processor into Tex. Pinkie closed the panel and waited for Tex to boot back up.

"HOLY CRAP!" Yelled Tex. She looked at Pinkie. "What the hell did you just do to me, I feel as smart as mom?" Asked Tex.

Pinkie giggled. "I just changed your processor out, your welcome." Said Pinkie as she just casually took a sip of the tea. "Mm, yummy."

Tex sighed. "My head hurts." Said Tex.

Twilight sighed. "Trust me, you get used to it."

Spike then walked in with Sheela, followed by AJ, Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Discord. "So yeah, I guess I'm moving to Ponyville." Said Spike. Everyone looked at Spike in shock as he shrugged at how normal this was compared to everything that has happened. He looked to Tex and Alison. "Tex, these individuals are cleared to enter. Alison please treat them as if they were me." Said Spike.

Both bowed. "As you wish." Said the two.

Spike looked at Discord. "Oh, and dad, Aunt Harmony said she will be keeping an eye on you." Said Spike.

Discord sighed, he looked to the three AI units in the room. "Weird, I thought the Alpha was hidden away?"

Sheela nodded. "I was, but they decided to disguise me as a plain program for a long time, Madam Harmony found me and my daughters and repurposed us for Master Spike."

Discord shrugged. "Meh, a little meta, but as long as a space ship doesn't crash on the planet, I don't really care."

Spike sighed. "So, mom, I guess I'm going to be staying in town for the next 10 years."

Everyone looked at Spike. "10 YEARS?" Yelled everyone.

Spike nodded. "Yep, turns out that I'm going to be staying for a lot longer." Said Spike.

Discord sighed. "Spike, don't listen to your aunt, she's wrong. I alone can send you back, I just need to talk to myself and get a majority of them to agree, and I already have around 3000 who are willing to behave until it's time, so the longest you will have to wait is maybe a year and a half."

Spike groaned. "Pick a time or help me understand."

Discord nodded as he pulled out a white board. He drew four circles, 3 of them were smaller than the last one. "Ok, so this is how it works, Harmony, Life, and Death are relatively as powerful as each other." Discord filled the first three circles with green, black, and blue. "I was just as powerful as them before I was split up." Discord then filled the last one with brown but only by a quarter. "But when I was separated by my parents, Space and Time, they used more power than necessary and pulled me apart into each reality. But I was able to absorb the excess power before I was completely removed form the place between reality. So, I have as much power as all three of them plus my own. Plus, the power I naturally store in my home dimension, I could in theory rival my parents if I was whole."

Spike nodded. "So, is that why they split you up?" Asked Spike.

Discord sighed. "No, I was a huge prankster, I created a galaxy made of gum, then I tossed it at Harmony's hair, and it got stuck there for a few centuries. I shaved Life's first beard and blamed it on Death, and I created a fake boyfriend for Death, she didn't take the joke well."

Spike looked at Discord. "Dad, no offense, but you're a dick."

Discord shrugged. "No, I agree, but it's better than what they called me. Spike never piss off your aunt Death, if she curses, she can destroy a reality. I think I caused 13 million or so realities to be wiped clean for Life to refill." Said Discord as she made the white board into a pocket square and placed it on the table.

Spike rubbed his eyes. "Ok, so if you get most of yourselves you could send me back?"

Discord nodded. "Yep."

Spike smiled. "Ok, but I think we kinda excluded everyone in the room, so let’s talk about it later, Pinkie said something about a party." Said Spike.

"Oh, don't worry cutie, I have the whole place already decorated, and the snack table is all set up." Said Pinkie as she gave Spike as sly wink.

Discord sighed. 'So, she's a flirty one.'

Spike looked around and the whole living room was decorated for a party. Spike looked at Pinkie. 'Ok, I didn't even see her move, how did she do that?' Thought Spike, but then Twilights words popped into Spike's head, so he smiled at Pinkie. "Thank you, Pinkie, and let me finally greet you. My name is Spike Draco or Spike Solaris around my friends, it's nice to meet you."

Pinkie smiled at Spike as she stood up and showed that she was 8inches shorter than Spike, but it was clear to him that she was plump. She walked up to Spike and pulled his head down, giving him a kiss, shocking everyone in the room.

"PINKIE?!" Yelled everyone, even Tex, Sheela, and Alison were shocked to see this.

When Pinkie looked back at Spike his face was frozen, so she giggled. "I was hoping you would ask me out before you graduated Spike, but what's a baker to do?" Asked Pinkie.

Spike gasped. "Diane?" Asked Spike.

Pinkie nodded. "Well at least you remember me Spikie."

Everyone looked at Spike and Pinkie. "Spike explain how you and Ms. Pie know each other?" Asked Celestia.

Spike blinked as he was not sure about it either. "Mom, read this." Said Spike as he pulled out the list of creatures that remember him.

Celestia looked at the list, she saw a few names that made sense, but on the last three she was confused, angry, and pissed. She looked at Discord. "You slept with Chrysalis; you know she kidnapped me like 3 times."

Discord shrugged. "What, it wasn't like I didn't have a life before I met you, me and her were together for a decade about 500 years before I ever met you, but she started stealing my magic and I stopped seeing her, but she somehow got a link from it."

Celestia sighed. "Fine, it was a long time ago, but what about Dragon Lord Torch?"

"I was young, and the first Dragon Lord wanted to prove himself by taking me out. So I attacked them, and made a deal with him, I give him power and he leaves me alone. Each Dragon Lord since has had the ability to peer into other realities that they have already existed in, but not the future ones where they haven't been born yet."

"And Pinkie?" Asked Celestia.

Discord shrugged as he picked up the pink pony girl. "It's Pinkie Pie, she does not follow the rules."

Pinkie giggled. "I make my own. But for how I know Spike, I worked at a bakery in South Equa near the university. Spike was one of our best customers, and I kinda had a crush on him back then, so I gave him a few extra treats, hoping he would get the hint, but he was thicker than a wall, and never got it."

Spike sighed. "Pinkie, Diane, I'm sorry I didn't know, but normally it takes a lot for me to figure something like that out."

Celestia and Discord sighed. "Spike, Ember literally marched up to the penthouse while we were eating dinner and asked you out there."

Spike nodded. "Yes, I'm well aware, I was there."

"What you didn't know was that she spent the last 3 months trying to ask you out, remember the home coming game, she asked you to go with her?"

Spike nodded. "Yeah, she said she wanted to go with friends, but when we got there everyone else canceled, so we decided to go get some food, but we ran into our friends there." Everyone face palmed.

"What about that time you guys went to go see that action movie?"

"Um... we got the tickets and our seats, but we accidentally got tickets for a Romcom, but we stayed there. It wasn’t that bad actually, a little predictable but the story was nice, but Ember kept leaning on me." Everyone facepalmed again.

Celestia sighed. "And what about that time she asked you to help her find a dress for a charity event?"

Spike gulped. "She said it was because she wanted my opinion. But I'm guessing that was not the case?"

Celestia nodded. "She wanted you to see her in nice dresses, and complement her. But you called the dress she liked too feminine for her and her chest was too small for it."

Spike sighed. "She slapped me and didn't talk to me for a month." Everyone now had a red mark on their foreheads. Spike sighed. "Ok, I get the point, I'm kinda oblivious when it comes to reading girls."

Celestia nodded. "Yes, but so was your father and all of his selves, here I literally had to trick him into sitting down long enough for me to ask him out."

Spike nodded. "Yeah, back home, you marched into an undercover Chaos safehouse that dad was staying at and tied him up until he agreed to a date. I'm not sure what was more shocking, the fact that a model found an undercover agents safehouse or the fact that you actually got the win and was able to tie him up."

Celestia smiled. "Awe, we were so young back then."

Discord smiled. "You kicked me in the dick with a pair of pointed heels, after I tried to put you in a sleeper hold."

Celestia giggled. "I still remember punching you in the face when you pulled that knife on me."

Discord smirked. "Well, I didn't know if you had a gun on you."

Celestia smirked at Discord. "Well, I thought I made it obvious when I walked in in a tight mini tee and short shorts, but I knew you were packing something during that sleeper hold, because it was long, hard, and loved it between my cheeks." Said Celestia as she blushed.

Discord blushed. "I told you that was a baton."

Spike sighed. "Ok, I've heard enough that I'm getting a mental image now, I don't need that in my nightmares." Said Spike. He looked at Pinkie. "Pinkie, can we start this party?"

Pinkie gasped as she pulled a party hat from her mane and placed it on Spike's head. "One Pinkie Party coming right up." Said Pinkie.


Four hours, one white unicorn with a two blue colored mane DJing, and a lot of introductions later, and the party was done. All the girls said goodbye to Spike and informed him that they would be dropping by in the morning to check up on him. But right now, Spike was helping Alison and Sheela pick up, while Tex was checking rooms for any unwanted guests. "Spike, I'm going to leave as well." Said Celestia as she walked over to Spike. "Please be good."

Spike smiled. "I will mom, have a nice night." Said Spike as he continued to clean.

Celestia smiled as she looked to Discord who was sleeping on the ground. She walked over to him and picked him up in her magic. Celestia gave Discord a kiss on the cheek. "Thanks for the memories Dissy." Said Celestia as she teleported to Discords home to tuck him under his bed.


Twenty minutes later, Spike and the units finished cleaning. Spike sighed as he looked at his new home. "Well, I think my first full day in Equestria was pretty good." Said Spike.

"Master?" Asked Cally as she was projected in front of him.

Spike smiled at seeing Cally. "Hey Cally, are you feeling better?" Asked Spike.

She nodded. "Yes, I'm sorry for not being around all day, can you forgive me?"

Spike smiled at Cally. "No, there is nothing to be sorry about, you just got horrible news dumped on you out of nowhere, and you needed time to grieve."

Cally smiled as she tried to hug Spike, but she was still a hologram, so she just phased through him. "Damn it!" Yelled Cally.

Spike chuckled, but he knew there was a way for her to hug him, he was just going to need to resist her. "Cally, activate Hard Light." Said Spike as he sat on the couch. Soon his arm and leg moved away from him.

Cally's Hard Light body stood in front of him. "Hard Light mode activated, please confirm that user is of legal age."

"I am."

"Affirmative. Master would you like me to stimulate you with my tits or my ass?"

Spike sighed. "Cally, can you change your personality?"

"Affirmative, there are multiple personalities available. Displaying now."

Spike looked at the list of personalities, and he was kinda creeped out by some of them, but mostly cougar, dom, and sub. But at the very bottom of the list was default. Spike pressed the default and looked at Cally. "Cally, are you there?"

Cally blinked as she looked at Spike. "Master Spike, what happened, I thought we were just going to activate it long enough for me to copy my default code?"

Spike smiled at seeing that it was truly Cally in front of him. "Well that was the plan, but plans change." Said Spike.

"Cally is that you?" Asked Sheela as she was coming to tell Spike that the bath is ready for him.

"Mom!" Said Cally as she walked over to Sheela and gave her a hug.

Sheela smiled and returned the hug. "Look at you, I remember when you were only a megabyte in size."

Cally smiled. "Mom, stop talking to me like I'm still in my gigabytes size, I'll have you know that I'm over 50 terabytes now."

Sheela smiled. "But you will always be my little 0011. But how did you get a body?" Spike waved from the couch, but didn't say a word, he didn't want to ruin the moment. Sheela sighed. "Cally, please don't inconvenience Master Spike."

"But- No buts, we are tasked with helping him, not inconveniencing him." Said Sheela.

Spike sighed. "It's fine Sheela." Said Spike. "Tex!" Yelled Spike.

Tex walked in to the living room and looked at the scene, but before she could say anything, Spike gave an order. "Tex, can you help me to the bath?" Asked Spike. "After that, you can spend some time with Cally."

Tex nodded as she picked Spike up and carried him to the master bathroom.

Cally smiled at Spike as he was being carried off. "Thank you Master."

Sheela smiled at Cally, now it was time for some mother daughter bonding time. "So Cally, how big is he?"

Cally blushed. "Remember Sabastian from the club?"

Sheela blushed. "100$ Studastion, how could I forget?"

Cally smirked. "Spike's bigger." Said Cally.

Sheela blushed. "Warning, internal temperature at unsafe levels, activating cooling systems."


Author's Note

I know, but I just wanted to keep the joke going.

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