Every Journey Begins With A Single Step

by TAD2

Seeing The Town Pt.2

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Spike was smiling as he was driving his experimental prototype through the sky. "Father, what happened to you? My records are very clear that you are dead." Asked Flurry.

Spike sighed. "Flurry, I am not your Spike, I am from another reality where I never got the chance to develop you or test out the prototype."

"Madam Flurry, it’s an honor to meet you, I am Sheela." Said Sheela.

"Father, what is this old lady doing in my system?" Asked Flurry.

Sheela didn't take being called old well. "Hey I'm not old! My system is only 5 years old."

"Gross, get away from me, I don't want to catch an outdated system, I'm way too young to be outdated." Said Flurry.

"Oh, watch your tone, I'll have you know that I'm still in my prime."

Flurry snickered. "More like Pentium, what are you running on? 4 cores."

"Oh, why I otta." Said Sheela.

Spike sighed. "So, Flurry, how old are you?" Asked Spike.

"Well, I was developed by my Father, Wilhelm Drako Spike, less than one year ago. He based me off of his niece. Now can you please get this old lady out of my system before my system catches outdated."

Spike laughed. "Sheela, come back to my arm." Said Spike.

Sheela sighed as she returned to Spike's arm. "I'm not old Master, I'm just experienced."

Spike nodded. "Hey, I didn't say a word, and I don't mind."

Sheela smiled. "Thanks Master."

"Meh, I think that old movie did it better." Said Discord as he was sitting in the passenger seat.

Spike sighed. "I'm starting to get used to that, and it's scaring me."

Discord Shrugged. "I see, Harmony is trying to butter you up, typical." Said Discord.

Spike sighed. "So, what's up Dad?"

"You're attracting a crowd, and the guard has been called to deal with you. But Tia wanted me to check it out first before you're shot down."

Spike sighed. "Really, they're going to shoot me down?"

"Spike, I knew it was you the moment I saw this car." Said Celestia as she teleported into the back seats, which were way too small for her body, so she was sitting on the trunk, but the glare she was giving Spike, was very much not good. "Spike, why is your school project here, in the sky, and heaven sakes, where is your seat belt?" Cried Celestia as she used her magic to teleport a seat belt onto Spike.

Spike sighed. "Why hi mom, how are you?" Asked Spike.

"No, don't you try and change the subject, I taught you how to do that. Now answer my questions."

Spike sighed. "Aunt Harmony kinda stole one from a reality where I didn't get taken, and I actually finished it along with the AI to run it."

"Grandma, Grandpa, why are you here?" Asked Flurry.

Celestia rubbed her head. 'Oh no, not another one.' Thought Celestia.

Discord smiled. "Hey, Flurry, can you give us a minute?" Asked Discord.

"Ok, but can you tell Grandma to get off my trunk, she might put a dent in me."

Celestia blushed. "Hey, that's rude, young lady."

Discord snickered as he pulled Celestia into his lap. He smiled at Celestia. "Reminds me of that time my car broke down and we had to take that tow truck to town." Said Discord.

Celestia sighed. "Yeah, I still get a card from Ron every year."

Discord laughed. "Well, he was really cool about towing two naked people back to town."

"And deleting the memory from my mind for the rest of time." Said Spike.

Celestia and Discord laughed. "Oh, it was so funny, Discord broke down while we were on our way back to town after a date, but when we called about a tow, they said it was going to take a few hours, so we decided to have a little fun in the back seats. But then Ron, a free-lance tow truck driver, finds us on the side of the road and finds us in the back."

"I will roll you both out of this car if you keep talking." Said Spike.

Celestia sighed. "Fine, your no fun."

Spike looked at his mother. "Mom, I don't go around talking about what me and Ember did with you two, and I rather not picture you two naked." Discord was about to point out the obvious. "Without fur." Said Spike.

Discord sighed. "Well, I think we've scarred our child enough for the day."

Celestia giggled. "Maybe a little more, remember the time we..." Said Celestia as she and Discord were free falling. She sighed. "Spike rolled us out of the car?"

Discord nodded. "You’re the one who gave him a seat belt." Said Discord as he started floating.

Celestia opened her wings and started flying. She looked at Spike drive away and sighed. 'Maybe we went a little too far.' Thought Celestia. Discord floated next to Celestia. "Don't worry Tia, he's still learning about this place, and to him we've been watching him all of his life. This is the first time he's had freedom."

Celestia nodded. "Hey, Discord, want to have lunch with me?"

Discord smiled. "Sure, Tia." Said Discord as he teleported them to a restaurant.


Spike sighed. "Ok, that was a little harsh." Said Spike. "Sheela, can you add 'Have a family dinner' to my calendar?" Asked Spike.

"Yes, I have also set a date, will 6:30 in two days’ work?" Asked Sheela.

Spike nodded. "Yes, and tell them I'm sorry." Said Spike.

"Sending invitation now."


With Celestia and Discord, they were sitting at a restaurant waiting for a waiter to take their order. "So, Tia, why the sudden lunch call?" Asked Discord.

Celestia shrugged. "I don't know, I guess having Spike around, and you acting different, it makes me think that I've been a little cold to you since you got out, and having seen how you've been behaving, makes me remember how we were when we were dating... Before we..." Said Celestia as she started crying.

Discord grabbed Celestia's hand and rubbed it gently. "Tia, I know what I did was horrible, but I wasn't in my right mind, I don't blame you for what you and Luna did, but what you went through was much worse."

Celestia chuckled. "I remember the morning sickness, I swear, between the cravings and the hurling. I just wish we got to experience the payout for all of that." Said Celestia.

Discord nodded. "I do too, but we cannot change the past, my mom almost destroyed this reality when Starlight tried to go back 20 years, now think about what she would do if we tried to go back 1500 years, then think about how that would throw all of us out of balance. Tia, I know you talked to a doctor, they told you that there was nothing that we could do, he just wasn't meant to see us." Said Discord crying.

Suddenly a letter popped out of nowhere. Discord grabbed the letter. "It's from Spike." Said Discord.

Hey, mom, dad. Sorry about the whole rolling you out of the car, that was out of line, so to say I'm sorry, come to my place for dinner in two days at 6:30 so we can spend the night like we used to. Love you both.

Celestia smiled at the letter. "He's such a good boy."

Discord nodded. "Yeah."

"Pri… Princess, how can I... help you?" Asked the first waiter to grow a spine and do his job.

"I'll have a salad."

"And I'll have three bowls, two plates, 20 napkins, and a spork." Said Discord.

Celestia looked at Discord. "Discord?"

Discord sighed. "Fine, make it 2 bowls, 20 napkins, and a fork."

Celestia smiled. "Good boy."


Back with Spike, he noticed that there was someone else in the passenger seat. "Hey!" Said Spike.

"Sup, cool ride."

"Thanks, I built her myself, or I will, or he did?" Spike sighed. "Reality hopping and time are a pain in the ass." Said Spike.

Rainbow laughed; she was the one in the passenger seat. "So, Spike, where did it come from?" Asked Rainbow.

Spike handed Rainbow the letter. "Read the P.S."

Rainbow shrugged and looked. Once she was done, she shrugged. "Yeah, that's confusing."

Spike nodded. "Hey Rainbow, is your name Riley Dash?"

Rainbow laughed. "No, what a dumb name, why would you think that?" Asked Rainbow as she blushed.

"Well, seeing that I've known you for almost 7 years, I had a feeling, just like the time you lied about skipping our Wednesday weight training to go visit the Blue Angels air show."

Rainbow looked at Spike. "Spike, what are you talking about?"

Spike sighed. "Sheela, pull up Riley's file."

"Pulling file up on Riley Dash now. Warning unsafe to show while operating vehicle. Switching to audio. Riley Dash, age 28, former Air Force reservist, current personal trainer to Spike, Celestia, Luna, Cadance and Discord Solaris, has a habit of napping while should be working, taking long brakes in the company spa, and has a cloud with a lightning bolt colored in the primary colors tattooed on her hip." Said Sheela.

Spike looked at Rainbow Dash's flanks and saw her cutie mark. "Sure, you're not her?" asked Spike.

Rainbow tried to swallow the knot in her throat, but she couldn't. They had her down to a T, she loved napping, she loved a quick visit to the spa, and right there on her flanks was a cloud with a primary color lightning bolt. She looked at Spike. "Spike, I don't know how you got that info on me, but please don't tell anyone, I'll do anything." She couldn't let it be known that she liked to nap instead of work, she could get in trouble, if ponies found out that she liked getting pampered it would kill her street cred.

Spike smirked. "Well, I think I know one thing?"

Rainbow blushed as she covered her chest. "No way man, I'm not going to fuck you!"

Spike stopped the car as they were just floating. "WOW! Where did you get that idea? I was going to ask for you to show me around town."

Rainbow blushed to the point she looked purple. "We never speak of this again, you hear me?"

Spike shrugged. "Well, buy me some lunch and we'll call it even."

Rainbow groaned. "Fine, deal." Said Rainbow holding out her hand. Spike took the hand and shook it. "Well, first off, we should probably go down, the crowd woke me up from my nap."

Spike muffled a laugh but complied, he popped the transmission into L for low range, but it was more like low distance from ground. "Starting descent, estimated distance needed to land is 500 feet. Please proceed with caution." Said Flurry.

Spike nodded as he pressed the clutch and the gas to start going down. "300 feet, 200 feet, 100 feet, 50 feet, 10 feet, minimum height achieved. It is now safe to park and deactivate system." Said Flurry.

Spike smiled at Flurry. "Flurry, activate cruising mode, keep speed at minimal to maintain hovering, avoid all objects."

"Affirmative Father. Activating cruising mode now."

Spike smiled. "So, Rainbow, where to first?" Asked Spike.

Rainbow hummed. "Well, we should probably tell Twilight that it was only you."

Spike nodded. "Yeah, I need to tell her about the fact that I know most of you." Said Spike as he turned the car and headed to the castle.


"Then I told her that if she wanted to keep me, she would have to do the cha-cha in front of her next brood." Laughed Discord.

Celestia giggled at the thought of Queen Chrysalis dancing in front of her grubs. "Well, I see I wasn't the only one you tortured while with." Said Celestia as she finished off her tea.

Discord chuckled. "Well, with her it was seeing how far she would go, with you, it was more like teasing."

Celestia shot Discord a glare. "You tossed me into a pool of liquid rainbow on the day you know I had an important meeting with the minotaur king. I was 7 colors for two months, and my pink mane is never coming back because of that." Said Celestia as she motioned to her three colored mane.

Discord smiled. "Well, I thought you needed more color, and besides the moment your coat was back to normal, you saw yourself in the mirror and decided to keep the mane colors." Discord smiled. "Still didn't change how I felt around you." Discord then blushed.

Celestia blushed but giggled at what he said. She grabbed his lion paw. "Discord, I missed you so much."

Discord smiled. "I did too Tia."

Celestia smiled as she needed to get back to work, she got out of her chair and powered up her horn. She looked at Discord and quickly gave him a peck on the lips. "Same time tomorrow?" Asked Celestia.

Discord nodded slowly as he was pretty much frozen. Celestia smiled. "It's a date." Celestia then teleported back to the castle to go back to work.

Discord sighed. "I swear this has to be someone's doing, and right now, I'm glad they did it." Said Discord as he teleported to go do something.


In the space between reality, where the beings that created all creation resided. Two lights were watching over a single reality. "Dear, are you sure this is for the best, we cannot risk him going out of control."

"Yes, I believe it is finally time for Discord to become whole, he has had eons to learn, to grow, to find control, and to find a purpose."

"I don't disagree with that, but why this Spike? Why not that one where he was a dragon turned alicorn, at least he would have some sense of magic in that world."

"Well where would be the fun in that?"

"I swear, somehow you transferred too much of you into him when he was born."

"Well, maybe that isn't all bad, but look at him, he's starting to understand that he wants and needs others in his life to find happiness."

"Well, he does look better than when we split him. But what will happen to all of the Discords when he merges?"

"They will not be reborn, they will live as long as the form they take, and not come back, and once the last Discord is gone, he will finally be whole."

"I hope you are right Time; I hope you are right."


When Spike and Rainbow arrived at the castle, Twilight was waiting for them right at the door, she stomped over to Spike and looked at him. "Do you have any idea how much trouble you’re in for causing a panic in town?" She then looked at the car. "And what is this think, it looks like a car from the human world?"

Spike sighed. "Twilight, this is my graduation project. An experimental hover car with an electro gravitation pulse emitter that harnesses the planet's magnetic fields to generate a limitless power supply, that coupled with my designs, creates an identical pole that repel the vehicle from the ground." Said Spike trying to make it easy to understand.

"Father, I don't think she grasps the concept." Said Flurry.

"Yeah, I was just as confused as she looks, back when my teacher tried to explain it to me in college." Said Sheela.

Spike shrugged. "Well, I don't really know how to dumb it down further, I made it, I never thought I would have to explain it to someone without a degree in engineering and physics."

"Father/ Spike." Said the two AI units disappointed in their creator and idol.

Sheela popped up with a drawing app pulled up. "Madam Twilight, it works like this, as the planet spins, it generates an invisible force thanks to its conductive core. Flurry is made with a super sensitive but highly powerful electromagnetic generator." Said Sheela as she drew a circle and a bunch of lines circling the circle's two poles.

"Yes, my generator is able to produce enough energy to emit a similar, but all be it more powerful version of this force that allows me to repel myself from the surface of the planet." Said Flurry as she hopped into Spike's arm and added more detail.

Spike nodded. "Yes, but to harness that second force I had to create devices to redirect it, so it can be utilized. That is where I devised these pulse generators." Said Spike as he pointed to the F1U66Y. "And this was the result." Said Spike.

Twilight looked at Spike in shock. Spike looked back at Twilight. "Sheela, what's wrong?"

Rainbow sighed. "Spike, I literally think you broke the smartest person in the world." Said Rainbow.

"Well, Wilhelm did have an IQ of 240 before he died." Said Sheela.

Spike hummed. "Well that's a bit of an exaggeration, last time I was tested they gave me a 237 IQ, but I was kinda hungover when they did it, so yeah 240 sounds about right." Said Spike.

Twilight looked at Spike for only a moment before grabbing him and pulling him to the castle. "Spike, you, me, Library, Now!" Yelled Twilight in joy to have someone else to talk math and science with.

"Um... Ms. Dash, why did Mother take Father without turning me off?" Asked Flurry.

Rainbow sighed. "Kid, trust me, it's not for what you think?"

"So, they’re not going to talk about math and science, then what are they going to do?" Asked the little AI.

Rainbow gulped; she just poked the bear.


Inside the castle Spike was looking at Twilight's library, it was a little smaller than the one on the university's campus, but there were books on magic, and theoretical physics, and some with both. Spike was looking at a book that explained the theory of how a single feather could produce a hurricane, another was on how the sun is powerful enough to generate enough power to travel in time. The last one was just a comic book that looked cool called the Power Ponies. Spike did have a life outside of tech and ponies, he liked comics, movies, music, and when the need arose, sweating, achieved in a few different ways. "Twilight, I must say, most of this is fascinating, some a little out there, and a few just plain nuts. There is no way that a chicken when soaked in string cheese will turn into a frog."

Twilight looked at Spike like he was crazy. "Spike, what are you reading?" She looked at the book's cover and growled. "Celestia Damn it Discord, I told you not to mess with my books anymore. This was supposed to be a transmutation spell that when applied to the right objects it would produce a hybrid object. I used it on a cake and a stone for Maud's wedding last year."

Spike hummed. "Oh, Daisy Pie, yeah, Diane had to leave town for a few days to attend a wedding for her sister Daisy."

Twilight sighed. "Right, so Spike why are you here?" Asked Twilight.

Spike looked at Twilight. "Well, I'm pretty sure you dragged me against my will into the castle leaving Rainbow and Flurry alone."

"Wait, why is Flurry Heart here?" Asked Twilight worried that Cadance and Shining were in trouble.

"Oh, so that's her name, but no, Flurry is an AI I developed in the reality that Sheela and the others are from. I apparently based her on my niece."

Twilight sighed in relief. "So, she call's you what, uncle Spike?" Asked Twilight.

"Nope, she calls me father. I did create her."

Twilight rubbed her temples. "Spike, you have royally screwed my peaceful day of reading that I had planned."

Spike hummed. "Yeah, sounds about right for me." Said Spike. "Oh, that reminds me, here is a copy of my medical history." Said Spike. Sheela then produced a full copy of Spike's records.

"There is also a readout of a recent blood test I conducted while he was driving." Said Sheela.

"So that was you, I thought a bee got stuck in my joint." Said Spike.

Twilight looked at the file, but then she started to blush, then she blushed even more, then she started babbling nonsense as her wings popped open. She looked at Spike then she looked lower to his pants. "Meep." Squeaked Twilight. Sheela had provided a full medical report, including some very personal information. 'He's a fucking tripod with lemons.' Thought Twilight.

"Hey Twilight, you ok?" Asked Spike.

"Yep, just fine Spike, oh look at the time. Well, I think I have everything I need to clear my worries about your girth... I mean health, but if you don't feel well, please don't hesitate to cream pie… I mean come by, but please tell me before hand, I'm usually in a rutting mood this time every day, so bye." Said Twilight as she teleported to her bedroom.

Spike looked at the space Twilight was a moment ago. "Man, she must not be feeling well today, she was stammering a lot." Said Spike.

Sheela sighed. 'He's a brick wall, I could tell she wanted to fuck him.' Thought Sheela. "Master, I believe it is time that we return to the F1U66Y, before we overstay our welcome."

Spike shrugged. "Ok." Said Spike as he walked to the entrance. "Bye Twilight, I'll drop by later to tell you what I found out." Spike then left the castle.


Author's Note

MEEP

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