Intergalactic Gladiator Gamesby Ragnarok17ChaptersCaptureArrivalAftermathIntroductionForming The TeamLet’s The Tournament Begin!CaptureA spaceship approaches Equestria and we see alien soldiers monitor the life on Equestria, Soldier #1 ask Soldier #2 about the planet. “So this is so called Equestria? I heard this planet is full of ponies, is that true?” “Yes, Ponies is say to be the dominant species on the Equestria and they are ruled by Princess Celestia and her sister, Luna. They’re basically Equestria’s goddess.” “Goddess? That will be difficult for The Emperor to deal with.” “That’s not our mission! The Emperor assign us to find a purple creature for his Intergalactic Gladiator Games and The Emperor specifically states the creature have to be the best warrior on the planet.” “Does it have to be ponies?” Soldier #1 ask Soldier #2. “Well, The Emperor didn’t say about capturing a pony. All he says was to capture a purple creature and that creature will be the last one for us to capture.” “Should we put the music on?” “Nah, saving it once we land on a location called Ponyville.” At Castle of Friendship, Spike is finally dusting all books. “Finally! Twilight is going to be happy like always!” Spike smiles as he’s about to lay down, he look at the picture of Twilight and her friends at her birthday with a photoshop picture of himself on it. Spike look saddened “For all the things I did for her, not only she forgot about inviting me to her birthday but everytime I try to be helpful, she and others dismissed me if I was useless to them! Should I let go of them?” Twilight arrives as she greet the baby dragon. “Spike! I’m back!” Twilight hug Spike but he didn’t hug her back. After she let go of him, Twilight notices a tear in Spike’s eye and it got her concerned. “Spike? What’s wrong?” Spike answered, “Nothing, Twilight. I guess I got dust in my eye” he wipes his eye and then Twilight realize something, “Oh right! I almost forgot to tell you something!” “What is it, Twilight?” Spike become curious about what’s Twilight going to tell him about. “Princess Celestia task us to take on a dangerous mission which involves saving ponies from bunch of demonic creatures who has taken over the village.” Spike get exciting about this dangerous mission. “That awesome! Can I come?” Spike give a hopeful look to Twilight as he wanting to be feel useful Twilight chuckles before she answered…..Bluntly, “No, Spike.” “But why?!” Spike ask Twilight in disbelief. Twilight explained, “Because you are a baby dragon and this mission is more dangerous than the one we take on before, You’re too young to take on this mission” Spike’s sad look become furious and Twilight doesn’t know why he’s mad all of sudden. “Oh, I see how is it. I guess you don’t need me anymore.” Twilight is confused about Spike’s comment to her. “What are you talking about?” “Don’t play dumb! Ever since we came to Ponyville and becomes friend with them, you ignores me especially I wasn’t invited to your birthday!” Spike grabs a picture of Twilight at her friends on her birthday party. “Nopony bother me about the birthday party you had! I feel everypony forgot about me!” “Spike! That’s not truth! Everypony do care about you!” “Oh yeah? When I told you that I going to serve Applejack for the rest of my life, you says yes without hesitation! You knew my greatest fear is being dismissed by you and yet you show no hesitation at all!” Twilight become guilty for what she did to Spike. “Spike, I didn’t me..” Twilight tried to explain, but was cut off by the baby dragon. “And the worst part is that even through I save the whole Crystal Empire..... TWICE! and yet you still treat me like if I was useless to you.” Spike starting to have tears in his eyes “You know what? forget it! Twilight, I don’t think I want to be friend with you anymore!” Spike cried and ran off. “Spike!” Twilight cried out as she try to go after Spike. Spike is running fast crying while Twilight is chasing after him while Rarity came out of Carousel Boutique and saw Twilight chasing Spike. “Twilight! What’s going on?” Twilight didn’t have time to tell her as she keep on running. “I guess I have to chase my Spikey-Wikey.” Rarity joins the chase. At Sugarcube Corner, Pinkie Pie is serving cakes for Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. “Thank you, Pinkie Pie! You’re the best!” Rainbow smiles at her. “This cake smell great” Fluttershy give her compliment to Pinkie. “You welcome!” Pinkie smiles As Rainbow and Flutthershy about to eat their cakes, they hear Spike’s crying and they went outside and saw Twilight and Rarity chasing Spike which got Pinkie all hyped up. “How come nopony told me about it’s Chasing Spike day! Come on, girls! Let’s chase our baby dragon!” “Yeah! Whoever catch Spike is the winner and that’s going to be me cause I’m the fastest pony!” Rainbow agrees with Pinkie but Fluttershy doesn’t like the idea. “I don’t know about this..... I don’t think it’s a good id...” Rainbow grabs Fluttershy and all 3 ponies joins the chase. At Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack is finishing on making Apple Cider. “Let’s hope those blasting Flim and Flam brothers ain’t ruining our Apple Cider.” As she about to sat down, she hear all the rumbling. “What in tarnation?!” She went outside and see all Elements of Harmony chasing after Spike. “Y’all causing the ruckus! i’m putting the end of this ruckus!” Applejack joins the chase as the Mane 6 keep chasing Spike while 2 small ships follow them. As they keep chasing Spike, he suddenly stop causing the Elements of Harmony to clash with each other. “Ow!” All Elements of Harmony cries in pain and all of them look at Pinkie. “Pinkie!” “That wasn’t me! I didn’t put a cartoon car crash sound effect!” ”LEAVE ME ALONE!” All Elements of Harmony look at a saddened Spike while Twilight walk to him. “Spike, I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to hurt you.” “Hurt?” Rarity is confused “What is she’s talking about, Sugarcube?” Applejack ask Spike “Guys, I don’t want to be friends with you anymore!” The group except Twilight gasped and Rarity doesn’t take it well. “Spikey-Wikey! Why?!” As Spike about to say anything, he stop when he and others hears a music. “Wait a minute, what’s that music? Pinkie?!” Spike and others look at Pinkie. “That wasn’t me! Plus, I never heard this music before” And then, they see 2 small ship coming after them. “Guys! Look out!” Twilight yells as all of them dodge from 2 ships. “What the heck is that?! I never see that before!” Rainbow is bewildered by this as two ships land on the ground and we see 2 armored soldiers with a space gun as they approach Elements of Harmony while Spike is behind them. “Hello creatures of all Equestria! We are sent by our Emperor, Maverick Faust in order to search for the purple creature.” Elements of Harmony are puzzled by this request. “And you are?” Twilight ask the soldiers “Oh! I forgot to introduce ourselves! My name is Andy and this is my best friend, Randy!” “Andy and Randy?” They says the name in unison “Yup, that’s our name! Is that right, Randy?” “Andy! Focus on the mission!” “Sorry” Randy looks at Elements of Harmony “So ladies, what is your name?” “My name is Twilight Sparkle and that’s Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie” “Twilight Sparkle? Well, it must be your lucky day!” “Why you say that?” “Because I believe you are the purple creature!” Randy grabs a net gun and the blue-glowing net catches Twilight and it’s restrained her tightly. “TWILIGHT!” All Elements of Harmony yell while Spike is horrified. “Oh my Celestia, what have I done?” As Randy about to grab Twilight, Rainbow punch him. “Back off!” “Leave her alone, hooligans!” Rarity scolds them as she punch Andy “Hey! I didn’t do anything bad!” “Damn! These ponies are strong!” “Randy, You know what to do!” Randy nodded to Andy as he grabs a tiny box and put it on the ground which confuses the Elements of Harmony and Rainbow is not impressed. “Really? You think we going to be scared of this tiny box? Yeah right!” Randy push a button which causes a tiny box transform into a giant robot and the robot look at Elements of Harmony and they are terrifying by the robot. Rainbow gulps as Rarity walk to Rainbow. “Remember the old saying? Don't judge a book by its cover, darling“ Pinkie approach to the giant robot and get all exciting. “I never see something like this before! I wonder if this fanfic is a secret crossover between My Little Pony and Trans...” a giant robot interrupts her by picking Pinkie Pie up as she was screaming in excitingly tone. The robot look at Pinkie before he flick his finger off of Pinkie which launch her as she flew over Ponyville. “PINKIE PIE!!!!” Elements of Harmony yell in unison “That doesn’t! Nopony mess with my friend!” Rainbow charges at the robot and use all of her strength to punch and kick the robot but despite her best effort, the robot grab Rainbow Dash. “What?! It doesn’t hurt him at all? What kind of this creature is he?!” Rainbow is bewildered by Robot being immune to her attack before Andy laughs at her. “Woman, that is not a creature but a robot creating by us! We build this baby just in case if the warriors are too strong for us to handle it and he have a name! It’s Mac to you!” Mac crushes Rainbow in his hand “RAINBOW DASH!!!!” Elements of Harmony yell in unison. Mac let go of Rainbow who is all messed up before he throw her like a baseball hitting a home run. Fluttershy is initially scared but she shake it off as she confront Mac “Hey big meanie! If you keep hurting my friend, I guess I have no choice but use..... THIS!” Fluttershy use her famous “The Stare” at Mac in order to stop him from hurting their friends but to her surprise, Mac is immune to her “The Stare” and pick her up and look at her. “What? The Stare didn’t work on him?” All of a sudden, Mac speaks “Robots don’t have emotions.” Mac’s eyes grow red which frightening Fluttershy. Mac put her down as she was traumatized by Mac’s glowing red eyes so much that it cause her to pass out. “Varmint! How dare you traumatized Fluttershy?! You gone too far!” Applejack grabs a giant boulder and throw at Mac which surprisingly knock him a bit, Andy is not pleased. “What?! It’s impossible! Mac is made of ultra rare metal that is powerful to withstand any object!” “I guess this varmint can’t withstand the power of Apple family!” Applejack punch Mac which cause him to back away as Applejack throw many of her punches toward the robot and her last punch cause Mac to fall on the ground. “Mac! NO!!!!!!!!” Andy ran to Mac while Applejack is on the top of Mac’s body. “Now, this is what you get for hurting my friend, Varmint” Suddenly, Mac blast Applejack with his laser that turn her into a giant apple. Spike, Twilight & Rarity are shocked. “APPLEJACK!!!!!” As both Andy and Randy about to eat a giant apple that contain Applejack, Rarity step in front of a giant apple. “Vile creature! Don’t you dare of eating my dear friend, you savage!” Rarity who glared at them in Fury while Andy is not amused by this. “Alright then, I guess we have to kill you.” Both Andy & Randy grab their killing gun and pointed their gun at Rarity who put on a brave face. “Once we kill you, Twilight Sparkle will be going with us and she won’t be able to see her friends again” Randy look at Twilight who is still restrained by a blue-glowing net and Twilight become terrified. “Rarity! Get out of here! You going to get yourself killed!” “Twilight, I am not type of pony who would abandon their friends to barbarians like them and I willing to sacrifice my life to protect all of you!” Rarity close her eyes as both Andy and Randy about to kill her. Spike seeing this is too much for him to handle and decide to finally come out. “STOP!” “Spikey-Wikey?!” “I’m the one you want, not Twilight!” “Spike! What are you doing?!” Twilight is more terrified of seeing her number one assistant potentially get killed. “Huh? A dragon risking his life for a pony?” Both Andy and Randy laughs about it which piss Spike off “SHUT UP!” the words shocked Twilight and Rarity and stop Andy & Randy from laughing. “Okay” “Look, if your Emperor want a purple creature...... then, I am the purple creature you been looking for” Spike walk toward Andy & Randy and both of them lowering their guns. “Spike! Don’t do this! I don’t want you to go!” Twilight pleaded at Spike while Rarity look saddened “Spikey-Wikey! If you do this, we won’t be able to see you anymore!” Both Twilight and Rarity shred a tear. Spike ignores them as he standing in front of Andy & Randy. “Take me in, please! I begging you! Spare them!” Spike crying as he doesn’t want them to die. Andy & Randy look at the purple dragon before Randy use his remote to let Twilight go and turn Applejack back to her old self. “What in tarnation?!” Applejack notices her surroundings and see Spike with 2 soldiers. “Spike, NO!!!!!” Applejack tries to stop him but she passed out as a side effect from being turn into an apple. “Well, The Emperor didn’t say about capturing a pony and this dragon is definitely a purple creature.” “Yeah. I agree with you, Randy.” Andy handcuffs Spike and lead him to the his own ship while both Twilight & Rarity are saddened of seeing him go. “Spikey-Wikey” Rarity cries. “No! Spike! Don’t go! I’m sorry! Please!” Twilight try to pleaded Spike but he doesn’t look at her. “Goodbye, everyone.” Spike shred a tear as he jump into the ship with Andy while Randy turn Mac back into a tiny box and jump into the ship. “Alright, buddy. Equestria is no longer your home planet anymore and your home is on a different planet. You can forget about love, forget about family and forget about friends.” His words doesn’t help Spike as the two ships fly away while Twilight and Rarity are saddened by this. ”SPIKE!” Author's Note I always wanted to do a fanfic where Spike is in a Gladiator games in SPACE! and now I finally got this fanfic off the ground! The question is can Spike survive an Intergalactic Gladiator games? Let’s find out! I was going to put a music at the end of the first chapter but that will be a major Mood Whiplash after what happens at the end of the first chapter. ArrivalAndy & Randy along with Spike are back on their spaceship. They walk with a handcuffed Spike to the ship’s prison cells that contained a lot of warriors that Andy & Randy captured. They stopped at Spike’s own cell which open the hatch of the cell. “Alright, this is your own cell! In here, Dragon!” Randy push Spike into his own cell which cause him to the hit on his own cell. “Ow!” Spike gets up and frowns at Randy. “Hey! I have a name, you know! It’s Spike!” Spike growl at Andy & Randy but they are not intimidate by him. “Whatever” Andy shut the hatch on him and the hatch automatic lock the cell. Spike looks at his own cell and to his surprise, it’s a big white room with no stuff at all, Spike is dismay. “Are you kidding me?! How the heck am I supposed to pee?!” Suddenly a toilet appear out of nowhere. “What the? I guess I ate too many gems.... oh well” Spike sat on a toilet. Andy & Randy are piloting the Spaceship as they are celebrating of finally capturing all warriors from different planets. “Yeah! Wooooo!!!!!!!!! We got them all, Randy!” “Yay!!!!!! The Emperor will be pleases with all warriors we got.” Randy smiles but Andy is not sure about Spike. “Are you sure about that dragon? He’s too small and pathetic to take on all warriors.... He wouldn’t last one fight” “Don’t worry, Andy! I’m sure The Emperor will do something with that dragon. What I heard about The Emperor is that guy is full of surprises and you never know what will he do next.” “Good point.” Both Andy & Randy put the ship on autopilot mode as Randy push a button and it’s play a song. “Now.... we celebrate!” They yell in unison. Andy and Randy took off their space armor as they wearing a funky disco clothes and start disco dancing with hologram disco girls. “CELEBRATE!” The celebrate song is played out throughout the entire spaceship and all robot guards hears a song. “What were The Emperor thinking of picking those two buffoons as the pilot of the spaceship?” Robot Guard #1 ask Robot Guard #2 in robotic and yet annoying tone. “That because according to their records, they are the best pilots in the whole galaxy” Robot Guard #1 facepalm himself “I hate those two guys” “I agree with you” At the pilot, Andy & Randy keep on dancing with hologram girls as Andy about to kiss the girl until a video message appear and we see a small anthropomorphic pug with a cosmic-style gentleman outfit who is baffling of seeing Andy & Randy dance like maniacs. “Mr. Airren and Mr. Rygel! Turn off this rubbish music this instance!” A pug yell in a fancy British accent as both Andy & Randy stop and see an angry look from the pug and gave an “Oh Crap!” Look as they quickly turn off the music and put on their space armor. “Chancellor Brutus! We’re sorry!” They yell in unison and bow to him. “Mr. Airren and Mr. Rygel, The Emperor is getting impatient and he will kill both of you if you are taking your sweet times of gathering all best warriors from different planets. So, did you got them all?” Brutus is staring down at Andy & Randy which terrifies them. “Yes, my dear Chancellor! We got them all! Especially the purple creature that The Emperor request it” “A purple creature you say?” Brutus look at them again. “Yeah! A purple dragon named Spike and The Emperor will be happy that he got what he wanted.” “Interesting. Now, you don’t want to keep The Emperor waiting. I recommend you push a blue button to jump the lightspeed to make it faster for you to arrive at the Planet Faust” Randy look at a blue button “This button?” “Yes, that button. Don’t waste my time and get it over with it” the message end. “Alright, he’s Chancellor” Randy push a button and the ship go way faster than ever and it become a crazy roller coaster ride for both soldiers. “WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” At his own cell, Spike notices a rumbling on the ground. “Now this room is rumbling?! Can this day get any worse?!” Spike sat in the corner of his cell and then.... he remembers about Twilight and Elements of Harmony and remembering about them get hurt because of him, He starting to cry. “What have I done! I’m the one deserve all of punishment for getting you guys hurt! If I haven’t made a selfish choice of running away from you..... you wouldn’t got hurt and I’m the one who cause the pain for you!” Spike punch the wall and crying “I’m a bad friend! I let my selfish conscious get the best of me! I just want to prove that I’m not useless! Not to hurt you! The worst of all is that my last words with you guys is “I don’t want to be your friend anymore” and It’s going to haunt me for the rest of my life! I really don’t deserve to be your friend! Rarity! I don’t deserve your love at all! I hurt you, Rarity! I don’t deserve to be with you! You guys are better off without me...... This is a fitting punishment for a greedy dragon like me, you guys don’t deserve me especially you, Twilight. I’m the worst number one assistant ever!” Spike curled up and cried “I am a bad dragon! I am a bad dragon! I am a bad dragon! I am a bad dragon! I am a bad dragon!” Inside of Planet Faust’s castle, Chancellor Brutus open a door and find The Emperor hidden from the shadow as he’s sit in his throne. “Emperor, Mr. Airren and Mr. Rygel succeeded on gathering all best warriors from different planets including a purple creature from Planet Equestria and they are on their way to Planet Faust.” “Good.” “Emperor, why are you gathering all best warriors from different planets for this Intergalactic Gladiator Games? What is the point of that game?” The Emperor got off from his throne and walk toward Chancellor Brutus as he finally re-emerges from the shadow and we see a muscle clad blonde with a golden cape and cosmic-style playboy outfit. When he’s with Brutus, he laids his hand on Brutus’ shoulder “Because me and my subjects are bored and I want to entertain the audience and myself! what is the better way than hosting an Intergalactic Gladiator Games!” “I understand it but what is the prize if one of them won the game?” “The prize? No no no no no no no, sorry Brutus but I don’t want to tell you about the prize or else it will ruin the surprise! I will reveal the prize once we gathering all warriors for the announcement and the one who doing that is...... ME! Now excuse me, I believe I must get dress up so I can personally greets my guests!” As Emperor Faust about to go, Brutus stop him “Emperor, what about the purple creature? Why are you so desperate on that creature?” Emperor Faust look at him before he give him a Joker-like smile “Brutus, like I say, I don’t want to ruin the surprise! You will find out soon enough!” “Very well, Emperor” Both Emperor Faust and Chancellor Brutus left the Throne Room as Faust went to his own personal room and he look himself in the mirror. “Stupid pug! Why did I pick him as my chancellor in the first place?! He always bugging me everytime!” He punch the wall and bring even more Joker-like smile before calming himself down. “Now, calm down Maverick. No one know about your plan or what to do with that purple creature! Right now, let’s dress up so you can greet your gladiators!” The Emperor went to his dressing room in order to dress properly for their arrivals Back in Spike’s cell, Spike is continuously crying and keep calling himself a bad dragon. “I am a bad dragon! I am a bad dragon! I am a bad dragon! I am a bad drag....” Suddenly, the ship stop and Spike hit the hatch “Ow!” Spike rubbing his hurting head. “It hurt even more than the first one! Am I being cursed for what I did to Twilight and others?” Spike see the hatch opens and see a robot guard grab his neck. “We arrives at Planet Faust, dragon.” A robot guard put handcuffs on Spike and let him go of his neck. “Rude! You could just ask me nicely than trying to choke me to death!” Spike frowns at the robot guard who shock him with his shock gun. “Ow!” “Move, dragon.” the robot guard keep shock Spike a lot until he finally move on. “Fine! I going!” Spike sees all warriors coming out of their cells and start moving as he keep on walking as he doesn’t want to be shock again from a robot guard. After getting off from the spaceship and land on Planet Faust, Spike and all Gladiators look at the Faust City and they are amazed by the aesthetics and design of the city. “Oh my Celestia! I’m not in Equestria anymore” Spike is blow away by many neon colors on the building and see people wearing cosmic outfit and walking around with a lot of different aliens, Anthropomorphic animals and robots. “And I thought Equestria was diversity place!” Spike looks at the place before he get shock by a robot guard. “I say Move it, Dragon!” Spike keep on walking as he and other Gladiators get on a truck and the truck fly over the city while he’s still looking at the city. 'Man! Twilight and others would be trip out of seeing this city!' Spike thoughts and then, he remembers Twilight and others are no longer with him anymore. “Right, I’m not with them anymore” Spike get back on his seat as he sat with other gladiators. “I guess this is my new life” Spike still feeling sad and as we pull back from the bus and see the castle of Faust City where Emperor Maverick Faust lives on. “So this must be where The Emperor lives” Spike thought to himself. Spike and all Gladiators get off from the bus and heading to the castle. Spike and other Gladiators go through the cleaning room since The Emperor would be complaining about the disgusting smells from them. “Stop pushing me around!” Spike complains as he get on the conveyor belt. “Woah!!! I’m not moving on my own! What happening?!” As Spike look around, he see a giant water falling and it land on him. “Ow! The water is way too hot!” And then Spike see giant soap foam falling and it land on him. “My eyes! At least warn me next time!” 2 robotic hands appears with cleaning equipment to clean all body part of Spike from head to toes while being too rough with Spike “Easy! Easy! Not too rough!” Spike’s body is completely clean before topping it up with Faust’s Clean Killer spray that kill any leftover from disgusting smell and spray all over Spike’s body. “I hope this is the end of this torture!” Spike grumbling while coughing from the spray. Spike and all gladiators are standing outside of the castle. “Why are we outside? We should be inside of the castle!” Spike complains until he hear a music “What’s that music?” He see a marching band coming out of the castle playing the music as they roll a big fat red carpet for the majesty! The marching band stand back as they made room for the majesty! Suddenly, The Emperor come out of the castle’s door wearing a flamboyant cosmic outfit and start to dance crazy as he walk in a dancing way and walk toward Spike which terrifies him. “Who are you?” “The name is Emperor Maverick Faust!” Author's Note Spike finally meet the Emperor himself! MAVERICK FAUST! Now for the next chapter, should we get back to Twilight & others and how they deal with the aftermath of Spike getting captured or The Emperor explains about the game and maybe we meet some of Gladiators? AftermathBack on Ponyville, Twilight just stand there and is lost for words as she like being frozen for eternity while Rarity is panicking shaking Twilight. “Twilight?! Wake up! Don’t just stand there! Are you even listen to me?! They took Spike!” Rarity is crying from tears as she tries to snap Twilight from the state she in but Twilight doesn’t respond to her and remain “frozen”. Seeing Twilight like this, Rarity shredding a lot of tears. “TWILIGHT!!!! DON’T YOU EVEN CARE ABOUT SPIKE?!?!?!?!” Rarity punch Twilight which finally break her from the frozen state and Twilight look at her angrily as she punch Rarity. Twilight glares at Rarity while tears are coming from her eyes. “Don’t you ever say I don’t care about Spike” Twilight cried as she walk to Rarity. “I’m sorry, Rarity!” Twilight hugs Rarity while Rarity hugs her back “Yeah, I’m sorry too” Applejack is finally awakens while still feeling from the side-effect that Mac use his laser on her “Ow... what happens?” Applejack look around and see Twilight and Rarity hugging each other while crying from their tears. Applejack walk toward them “Guys, what’s wrong?” Applejack asked Twilight and Rarity. Twilight is too shocked to answer Applejack’s question, so Rarity answer her instead while crying. “Applejack..... They took Spike” ”WHAT?!” Applejack’s yell is so powerful that it awakens Fluttershy “Ah! I heard someone screaming!” Fluttershy look around and see Rainbow Dash who is covered with muds and her whole body including her wings are broken from being crushed in Mac’s hand while Pinkie Pie who is covered with a lot of dessert stuffs got Rainbow Dash under her legs and help her to walk. “Rainbow Dash! Pinkie Pie! What happened with you guys?!” Fluttershy walk to them and help a messed up Rainbow Dash and lay Rainbow down on the ground who smile at Fluttershy. “Fluttershy, oh my dear childhood friend. I am perfectly fine and 100 percent okay after I ALMOST GOT KILLED BY A GIANT FREAKING ROBOT AND MY WHOLE BODY INCLUDING MY WINGS ARE BROKEN!!! Do I look okay?!” Rainbow tries to move but when her hoofs touch the ground, she shrieked in pain. “Ow! Even my own hoofs are in pain from touching the ground! That’s why I have Pinkie Pie help me to walk” Rainbow point to Pinkie “What about you, Pinkie? How did you end up like this?” Fluttershy is flabbergasted of seeing Pinkie Pie with a lot of dessert covered the entire body including her own mane. “Well, that giant robot send me to Sugarcube Corner and I crash land on a lot of dessert that Mrs. Cake made... She doesn’t mind it through!” Pinkie grabs a Rainbow-covered cake with part of her mane on it and eat it which disgusts Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. “Gross!” Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash yell in unison while Pinkie Pie is confused “What?” They stare at her until Applejack yell at them “This is no time to relax, y’all! Cause our little buddy is captured by those varmint!” “What?!” Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie yell in unison. “They got Spike?! No way!” Rainbow Dash is disbelief about Spike being captured, “How did they capture Spike?” Rarity walk toward them to explain why Spike got captured. “Spike let himself get captured in order to protect us from being killed by them. If he didn’t let himself get captured, I would have been killed by them and Twilight would be captured instead.” Rarity shed a tear and continue to cry “They took my Spikey-Wikey!” Applejack, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie comfort Rarity for losing her beloved dragon. “It’s all right, Rarity. We are in this together” Applejack calming her down as Rainbow get up with a help from Pinkie Pie. “Let head back to the castle to figure out about this situation” Rainbow command the Elements of Harmony as Twilight is still shocked to give order to them. At Castle of Friendship, Twilight sitting in her throne as she’s still too shocked to interact with others while Nurse Redheart is treating Rainbow Dash’s injuries as Rarity is talking with Princess Celestia and Princess Luna about Spike not wanting to be friend with them anymore as well Spike being captured by Andy & Randy. “So, Spike doesn’t want to be friend with you or Twilight or Elements of Harmony, You say he let himself get captured by 2 guys named Andy & Randy?” Princess Celestia asked Rarity “Yes and those hooligans claimed to be sent by Emperor Maverick Faust in order to find a purple creature and they would got away with capturing Twilight if weren’t for Spike, he let himself get captured in order to protect Twilight and now, he’s gone forever!” Luna comfort Rarity “There, there” Celestia look at Twilight who haven’t come out of her throne. “That’s why Twilight haven’t greeted me like usual.” Celestia walk to Twilight and smile at her as she use her magic to create a ladybug and put the ladybug on Twilight’s hoof, Twilight look at her hoof and see a ladybug on her own hoofs. “Ahh! Ladybug! Get away from me!” Twilight let go of a ladybug as she tries to fly away before Celestia stop her which surprise Twilight “Princess Celestia! You’re here! Oh my Princess!!!! Something bad happens to Spike!” “I know, Twilight. Rarity already told me about Spike.” Celestia comfort Twilight as she embraces her which Twilight return the embrace. “Princess Celestia, I don’t understand..... Why Spike doesn’t want to be friend with me anymore? What did I do that make him to want to break his friendship with me” As Celestia about to give her answer, Applejack barge through the door with a book on her hoof. “Twilight, I believe we found a reason why Spike doesn’t want to be friend with us anymore” Applejack lays a book on the table and Twilight walk to the table and to her surprise, it’s Spike’s diary that contain his rant. “Spike’s “rant” diary?” Twilight asked Applejack “Yup, Twilight. I believe his diary might reveal why he doesn’t want to be friend with us anymore” Applejack open the book and have Twilight read it. Dear Diary, while I was asleep during Winter Wrap Up, I fall into the water and it was very cold which is bad for me because I could have die and what did Twilight and others did? THEY LAUGH AT ME! THEY WERE LAUGHING IF ME DIED OF COLD WATER IS FUNNY TO THEM! NO! IT’S NOT FUNNY AT ALL AND THIS IS ONE OF MOMENTS WHERE I QUESTION MY FRIENDSHIP WITH TWILIGHT AND ELEMENT OF HARMONY! Twilight and others are stunned in silence to hear Spike’s words as Twilight can only speak. “Spike” Twilight feel guilty of laughing at his potential death while others especially Pinkie Pie feel guilty “Laughing at a child who about to die is definitely not funny and I laugh at it!” Her mane deflated. “I’m bad Pinkie Pie” Twilight continues to read Spike’s “Rant” Diary. Dear Diary, I was so exciting to attend the Gala with my friends as I get to spend time with them but unfortunately, they ditch me like I was nothing to them and they’re only care about making special night for themselves. Did Twilight contradicts herself about me being her friend when I run away home? Did I regret of coming back home? Twilight was shock to hear Spike feeling regret of coming back to her. “But I was careless that night! I didn’t meant to abandon Spike and I certainly didn’t contradict my statement about him being my friend” Twilight continues to read more Spike’s “Rant” Diary Dear Diary, I really love Rarity very much but I starting to feel Rarity was just taking advantage of me when I gave away Fire Ruby to her even though i had been saving that gemstone which is VERY HARD to find for my own birthday and Rarity use her own charm on me so she can add Fire Ruby to her collection. The only reason she kiss me so it give me hope of to be with her but let’s be honest, I expecting her saying “Darling, there’s no way Dragon and Pony can be together because they’re different from each other and the romantic relationship ain’t going to work out” because Rarity will never return her feeling toward me because she’s a gold digger who only interest in those stallions who are very wealthy and that’s the truth! Rarity close her mouth as she learn her Spikey-Wikey accuse her of taking advantage of him as she tears up “No Spike! I would never take an advantage of you! You’re my Spikey-Wikey and I would never say something like that!” Rarity start to cry as Luna comfort her Dear Diary, Nopony ever told me about Twilight having a birthday party at Canterlot and I wasn’t inviting at all! They having a fun time without me! Did Elements of Harmony only see me as nuisance? I bet the reason why they throw the party without me knowing it is so they can get in good term with Twilight which is ironically that the next time they went to Canterlot, they abandoned her at Wedding Rehearsal in favor of Princess Cadance who happens to be Queen Chrysalis! What the hell were they thinking of focus on a pony that they barely knew! Although, I did abandoned Twilight because I was still doubting about my friendship with her way before Cadance or Queen Chrysalis came along! Elements of Harmony especially Princess Celestia didn’t have justified reason to abandoned Twilight and that’s goes to show they only care about getting connection with royalty! Elements of Harmony didn’t really care about Twilight but they certainly didn’t care about me since I wasn’t invited to her birthday party! Twilight gives a stink eye toward Elements of Harmony and Princess Celestia for Wedding Rehearsal incident. They tried to look away and some of them smiled sheepishly while Celestia starts whistling “What?! We say we’re sorry! We were just so careless back then! We definitely didn’t become friends with you for royalty! I’m supposed to be Element of Loyalty and yet I abandoned you over a stupid wedding! I will never do that again!” Rainbow apologizes to Twilight “Twilight, if you still soured about the whole wedding rehearsal incident. Then, I’m sorry. That’s one of moments that I’m not proud of along with banishing my own sister. You are my most loyal student I ever have and I made a big mistake for not listening to you, the next time you tries to warn me, I will listen to you with no hesitation” Celestia smiles at Twilight as she gives hug to Twilight who hug her back. “Yeah, our foolish decision of abandoning you at the Wedding Rehearsal leads many countless fanfics of us going through punishment and all Authors are giving us hard time for what we did to you” Pinkie Pie look at you. (The you as it you are reading this story right now) “HEY READERS! ENOUGH WITH MANY OF A CANTERLOT WEDDING FANFIC ALREADY! LET IT GO! MOVE ON! WE GET IT! WE REGRET OF ABANDONING TWILIGHT! WE SAY WE SORRY TO HER! NOW, WRITE SOMETHING DIFFERENT CAUSE I GETTING TIRED OF GOING THROUGH SO MANY OF A CANTERLOT WEDDING FANFIC! TAKE YOUR ANGRY ON WHOEVER WROTES THAT EPISODE!” Pinkie Pie sat down on her throne angrily. Twilight and others look at her confused. “Who the heck is she talking to?” Applejack asked but no one responds. “Anyway, let’s get back on Spike” Twilight continues the subject about Spike “Spike accuse us for not inviting him because he thought we view him as a nuisance?! That’s nonsense! We just forget about him!” Rarity close her mouth as she realizes what she says. “Oh my Celestia! Spike is right! We did forget about him!” Rarity crying so much that her mascara is officially RUINED while all Elements of Harmony comfort her. “It’s alright, Rarity, I did forgot about Spike too and to this day, I have no idea why I didn’t realize Spike wasn’t at my birthday party.” Twilight wipes tears out of her eyes as she continues to read Spike’s Rant Diary. Dear Diary, Despite Twilight promises me that she wouldn’t dismissed me, she BROKE her promise! I told her that I going to serve Applejack forever and I was hoping she would talk me out of it and what did she say? ‘SOUND GOOD!’ Like she doesn’t give a shit about me at all! Like ‘WHAT THE HELL TWILIGHT?!’, I’m almost reaching my breaking point with that pony! I used to look up Twilight but now, I just feel she doesn’t want me anymore and the only reason why I still live with her because she’s only one that I have and....... now, I don’t really know if my friendship with her and Elements of Harmony are really worth it. It’s best for me if I break my friendship with them so they can forget about me cause they always forget about me and they wouldn’t know that I have gone! Twilight would better off with someone that is better than me as I am useless to her! I don’t deserve to be her number one assistant or her friend. Twilight drop the book as tears started swelling up in her eyes while Elements of Harmony starting to feel guilty for their treatment toward Spike. “It’s my fault that he’s gone because we didn’t treat him as our friend! How can we call ourselves ‘his friends’ if we’re responsible for letting himself captured! I’m awful pony!” Twilight cries on the table while Elements of Harmony, Celestia and Luna comfort her. “Don’t blame yourself, Twilight. We just have no idea what he was going through” Rarity assured Twilight but didn’t help her. “Spike is right, I don’t deserve to be his friend. I should be the one to get captured, not Spike and I let it happens because I didn’t care for him!” Twilight continues to cry until Celestia laids her hoof on Twilight. “Twilight, I understand what pain you're going through after losing Spike but you shouldn’t blame yourself for being a bad friend. Sometimes friends hurt each other but they will always find a way to make up and make their friendship even stronger like your friendship with Elements of Harmony” “Princess Celestia, what can I do? Spike hate me for not treating him right and I always contradict my statement to him, I am a bad friend and he know it!” Twilight was still doubting her broken friendship with Spike but Celestia laids her hoof on Twilight’s cheek. “Twilight, you are not a bad friend cause you always find a way to reconcile with your friends and you know Spike, he will eventually forgive you cause he can’t stay mad at you and Elements of Harmony forever. You just have faith in yourself, Twilight” Celestia along with Elements of Harmony and Luna embraces Twilight. “After all, you didn’t gave up on us when Discord put a spell on us. You shouldn’t give up on Spike! He’s our friend and we will get him back!” Rainbow winks at Twilight. “Yeah, Twilight! Don’t give up on him!” Fluttershy smiles “Twilight, We’re willing to risk our life to help you to rescue Spike.” Rarity smiles Twilight feeling a bit better gave a smile, “Thank guys.” Suddenly, they were interrupted by sound of a rocket crashing on the ground. “What the heck?! That sound is coming from outside!” Applejack run through the door while Twilight, Elements of Harmony and Princesses follow her to investigate the sound. When they are outside, they see a giant tower appear in front of them while all civilians are shocked to see a tower appear out of nowhere “Bonbon! No pony told us about this tower!” Lyra is shocked that nopony informs her about a tower. “Me neither, Lyra” Suddenly a small robot appear in front of them standing on the top of the tower “Greetings civilians of Equestria, my name is A113 and I am sent by Faust Universe Company to broadcast Intergalactic Gladiator Games for people of Equestria to witness!” “Intergalactic Gladiator Games? What’s that?!” One of civilians asked A113 “I will let My boss do the talking” A113 played a video where we see The Emperor appears as he dances along with Aztec-dress dancers while Gladiators are stand there to watch him dance and Ponies are like “What?” “Hello everyone from different planets! My name is Maverick Faust and those folks are the one who are participants of Intergalactic Gladiator Games!” While The Emperor is talking, Twilight notices a certain purple creature on background and to her shock, it’s Spike! “Spike?!” Author's Note The next chapter will see Emperor revealing about the tournament as well finally to get to know some of gladiators that Spike will either befriend with or have to fight them. Faust Universe Company is owned by Emperor Faust, not only he’s an Emperor of Faust but he’s a business typhoon. I think I add way too much crying. Sorry if some of them came off as angst. If Spike came off as a jerk, I am sorry but I have to make him feel that Twilight and others don’t care about him. (I may went too far with Rarity thing, sorry Rarity!) The whole “Dragon and Pony can’t be together because they’re different from each other” line was inspired by one of fanfic where Rarity tell Spike why she won’t fall in love with him because he’s a dragon. So what if Spike was feared that Rarity would use this line to him and that’s why he say that to avoid a potential heartbreak from her. I like to think Pinkie Pie is tired of going through many of A Canterlot Wedding fanfics including the famous “Loved and Lost” by EquineAvenger and she doesn’t want to deal with that event anymore! You could say she was in “Groundhog Day” situation with that event. A113 is a reference to the classroom used by graphic design and character animation students including John Lasseter, Tim Burton and Brad Bird and have appear in a lot of Pixar movies. I don’t know how many Gladiators are in this story, 50? 60? 70? What is your suggestion for how many Gladiators beside Spike to appear? IntroductionInside of Faust’s Castle, Spike and all Gladiators are sitting in their tables while watching Japanese-style drummer playing their music as they are eating their foods. Emperor Faust is enjoying the sound of drums while Spike look around and try his best to be quiet as he doesn’t want to be notices by them. ‘Okay Spike, whatever you do..... don’t try to talk to them’ he thought to himself until he notices a masked figure who is on the left side staring at him. Spike jumped in surprise and gasped, “I’m sorry! I didn’t meant to disturb you! Please, don’t hurt me!” Spike pleaded. To his surprise, A masked figure headpats Spike softly and when he stop headpats him, Spike look at him. “Why did you pat my head?” Spike asked the masked figure but he doesn’t respond to him as he look away from him. “Okay?” Emperor Faust get up from his throne and walk toward the center of the room as he stop the music. “Light! Camera! Action!” All drone appear out of nowhere as they use their camera to film it. Back at Ponyville, Twilight, Elements of Harmony, Princesses and civilians are watching the video as The Emperor preparing his speech to them. “To the good people from all planets, my name is Maverick Faust and you are asking about Intergalactic Gladiator Games, I will tell you about it. Intergalactic Gladiator Games is a tournament to determine of who is the best Gladiator of the entire universe! We have gathered all best warriors from different planets and they will complete in the tournament! Whoever win the tournament shall receive any wish they desires and I will grant them their wish! Faust makes a strong grip on his hand as he look at the camera. ”However, this is where I establishes the rules! If a Gladiator is defeat by their opponent, the opponent can decides on either spares them or kill them off! Twilight and Elements of Harmony gasped “No!” Twilight cried with her hoofs over her mouth. “Spikey-Wikey!” Rarity cried. “That’s messed up!” Rainbow Dash scowling at the Emperor. Hearing this, Spike become more terrified of potentially get killed by all gladiators. “I’m not so ready for this!” Spike pouts as Emperor continues on his speech. ”If they do spares them, well... Not only they will be eliminates from the games but they will become the property of Faust Empire & Faust Universe Company and spend the rest of their life serving me! All Gladiators except Spike are complaining about this. “That’s bullshit! You don’t own us!” One Gladiator spoke up “Let us out already!” Another Gladiator pleading at the Emperor. ”SILENCE!” Emperor push an “ON” button that cause all Gladiators including Spike to experience extreme electrical shock causing them a great pain and incapacitating them. “SPIKE!!!” Twilight and Elements of Harmony cried as they along with civilians are forced to watch Spike in pain. “This is awful!” Luna is horrified with Emperor Faust’s treatment of Spike & Gladiators while Celestia is disgusts with him. “This is not how the ruler treats their subject!” The Emperor push an “OFF” button to relieve the Gladiators from the pain. “OW! I rather be shocked by a robot guard than this!” Spike is still hurt from extreme electrical shock he receives from Emperor Faust. ”If any of Gladiators try to disobey me, I will paralyze them the more they trying to disobey me and this is just a warning. All of you are lucky that I didn’t put on a severe mode or else you will be dead! Got it?!” All Gladiators decides to not protest against the Emperor to avoid the electrical shock. “Good! Now, without further ado, let’s meet our gladiators!” Emperor smiles as he’s going to personally introduce the gladiators. The Emperor sat on his throne as he’s introducing the first Gladiator. “So, who is our first gladiator?” The first Gladiator is a crimson-colored metallic warrior as he walk toward Emperor Faust. “Emperor Faust, my name is Crimson Danger and I’m from Planet Crimson” “Crimson Danger? what make you so special, Danger?” Emperor Faust asked Crimson Danger “Well, I used to be just your average Crimson alien until I found a rare gemstone that transform me into a warrior that can control metals and make those insane sound wave. Yup, it’s hard to make noise without creating sound wave and trust me, you really don’t want me to use those sound wave!” “Not even your opponent, Danger?” “Like I say, my sound wave are dangerous to use!” Rainbow Dash is impressed by Crimson Danger “Sound wave? I really want to meet this ‘Danger’ person” “Alright, next!” Emperor excuses Crimson Danger. “Bye Emperor” Crimson Danger walk away as we introduce to second Gladiator is a white-colored armored cowboy. “I have no time for you, let’s get over with it! The name’s Flint Blaze and the planet that I came from is Planet Gunsmoke.” “So, Flint. My men told me that you are a really good sharpshooter and you never really miss your target, is that true?” “Miss? Ha! I got a perfect record to prove it to you and I would love to shoot you right now but I’m not gonna do that since I don’t wanna to deal with that buzzer you have” “Wise choice for you, Mr. Blaze” Pinkie Pie notices Flint Blaze reminds her of Applejack “Applejack, that Flint Blaze sure remind me of you” “What are you talking about?! Just because I wore this hat doesn’t means I am same as that fella!” Applejack point out the difference between her and Flint Blaze. Flint Blaze walk away as we meet a very odd-looking gladiator who resemble a 1930s-style cartoon character. Emperor Faust is faze by his appearance “Okay.... This is interesting for a gladiator... what’s your name?” “I am Happy Charlie and my hometown is Inktown! I can’t wait to play the game!” Charlie suddenly become angry and start acting like an old man who is out of touch with modern folks. “Man! Those darn kids! Back in my old days, the cartoon uses to be plain and simple and we tend to make the audience laugh because we love to make them laugh but nowadays, the cartoon become too complex for us to handle and those greedy company turn cartoon into a FUCKING CGI! They killed animation!!!!!!!” Angry Charlie get his knife out and ran to the camera while Faust guards try to stop him “Guards! Stop that man from destroying my camera!” The Emperor cries as he seeing one of his beloved camera being dismantled by Happy Charlie. “I’M GOING TO KILL YOU SON OF A-“ the video cut to a Faust Universe’s “Stand by” screen while playing the music. Twilight, Elements of Harmony, Princesses and civilians of Ponyville are flabbergasted and confused of what just happened. Applejack approach Pinkie Pie. “Well, I guess I wasn’t one who have their own counterpart” Applejack teases Pinkie Pie which she took offensive to her comment. “Applejack! I’m not like that crazy man! I don’t go around and go on a killing spree on ponies and turn them into cupcakes! I may be crazy but that way too far for me!” Pinkie Pie look at the readers (again). “I looking at you, Sergeant Sprinkles“ Pinkie Pie gives a death stare at you and Applejack is once again confuse by Pinkie Pie. “Who is this Sergeant Sprinkles fella, Pinkie?” The video message is back online and Emperor Faust is cradling one of his beloved camera drone. “My baby, I promise I wouldn’t let that man hurt you again” Emperor Faust embrace the camera while everyone including Spike, Gladiators and all of people who are watching him. Luna is disturb by him, “Sister, this man starting to scare me a bit” “I know, Luna..... I know” Celestia is creeped out by him too. Emperor Faust realizes they are watching him and he throw the camera away like it was nothing to him. “Sorry about that, I will make sure Charlie behave himself and doesn’t try to kill anyone before the games! Anyway, sorry to disappoint you but the next one will be the last Gladiator we meet until the big games!” Spike is sitting on his table when a group of Faust guards approached him and grab him. “Hey! Let me go! I didn’t do anything wrong!” The guards along with Spike walk to the Emperor and the guard let him go as Spike look at Emperor Faust. “Spike!” A concerned Twilight look at the video of her beloved dragon. “Spike! My boy! I finally get to talk with the Purple Dragon from Planet Equestria!” Emperor Faust chuckles as he walk toward the baby dragon and gives a big grin to him. “I guess you’re somehow know my name” Spike nervously chuckles as he doesn’t know how the hell Emperor know his name despite meeting him for the first time. “My men already told me about you and I heard you let yourself captured in order to save your friend, why did you do that?” Spike is unsure to answer this at first but decides to answer him “The reason why I let myself captured is they got hurt because of me and I’m a bad friend to them. To be honest, I think they are better off without me as I was nothing but a terrible and awful friend to them” Spike become sad as Twilight and Elements of Harmony feeling bad for him “Spike” Twilight feel sorry for him “You know Emperor, Intergalactic Gladiator Games is definitely a fitting punishment for a greedy dragon like me for being awful to Elements of Harmony especially Twilight & Rarity! I don’t deserve their love! I rather being killed by gladiators than spending the rest of my life for what I did to them!” Spike starting to cry and fall to his knee while Twilight & Elements of Harmony gasped at Spike’s comment “Did Spikey-Wikey says he want to be killed by gladiators?!” “Spike! Don’t be hard on yourself! It’s not your fault!” Twilight yells at Spike. While Spike is crying on the carpet, Emperor Faust look at him and he grabs his staff and hit it on the floor which stop Spike from crying. “Spike, don’t blame everything on you. You have a lot of potential and yet your so-called “friend” hold you back on your potential and was just using you as you are useless to them but since they’re no longer here with you, you can finally unlock your true potential!” The Emperor give a big grin at Spike while Elements of Harmony are angry over Emperor spreading lies on them to Spike. “Don’t you dare lie about us, Varmint!” “That big meanie spreading lies about us!” Fluttershy scowling at Emperor. “Potential?” Spike asked Emperor Faust. “Yes! A big potential! Your body also have a potential and I can make you feel comfy on my planet!” Emperor Faust walk around Spike and touches Spike’s cheek and just rubbing it. “Your skin is so appealing! It make me want to touch it all days long” Emperor get closer to Spike as he become very uncomfortable while Emperor touching his stomach. Watching the Emperor keep touching her beloved dragon enrages both Twilight and Rarity even more. “Get your bloody hand off him!” Twilight scowling at the Emperor. “Leave him alone, you monster!” Rarity growls at the Emperor. As Emperor Faust touching Spike, he whispered in his ears “You are one divine purple creature I ever met and I going to make you..... MY CHAMPION.” Emperor Faust let him go as Spike is confused by his comment. “Me as your champion?” Spike asked Emperor Faust but Faust suddenly yells “Guards! Guards! Take him out of my throne room!” The guards appears and grabs Spike “Hey! let me go!” “SPIKE!” Elements of Harmony yells in unison. Emperor Faust walk to one of guards and whisper to him. “Take him to the laboratory” “You got it” One of guards hit Spike’s head which cause him to knocked unconscious. The guards left the room with unconscious Spike while Emperor Faust look at the camera. “Remember folks, we will starting Intergalactic Gladiator Games very soon! That will be all” the video ends. Twilight and Elements of Harmony are worried about Spike, “We need to rescue Spike at once!” “But how, Twilight? He’s far away from our planet and we don’t have a flying machine for us to get to Planet Faust” Applejack point this out to Twilight. “Not even our magic are strong enough to transport us to a planet that is far away from us” Celestia answered with regret. “But we can’t let Spikey-Wikey get killed by those savages! We must find a way to get on that planet!” Twilight, Elements of Harmony and Princesses are trying to figuring out of getting to Planet Faust while worrying about Spike. “Spike, whatever you are, I promise we will rescue you and take you back home”. Twilight making a promise to her number one assistant. Spike groaned as he opened his eyes, “Ow, my head is still hurting” as he tries to comfort his head, he can’t move his hand. “What the heck? I can’t move! Where am I?!” Spike look around and he find himself on a laboratory. “Oh my Celestia” Then Spike look at himself and he find himself being strapped to the bed. “Are you kidding me?!” Spike struggles to get out of the bed until he saw a robotic doctor looking at the skull “Is that a robot? Gosh! I am starting to get sick of meeting every robots!” Spike complains about it until the Doctor look at him and talk like a typical Mad Scientist. “Excuse me? I am not a robot! I am a cyborg! I am Doctor Dexter Blight and you going to be my subject!” Dr. Dexter Blight walk to Spike and look at his body. “This is very interesting species and yet this one is not fully-grown Dragon but rather a dragon who still at his baby age, but how he’s able to talk in his baby state lead me a lot of questions..... Hmmmmmmm?” Dr. Dexter Blight ponder about Spike as he continues to look at his body. “Oh my! I guess this is your lucky day!” “Lucky day? What are you talking about?!” “My dear boy... we are going to age you up..... FASTER!” He push a button to let Spike free from the bed and grab him to prevent him from escaping. “Let me go!” “Hold still!” Dr. Blight injects him with a syringe that knock Spike out. “Much better” Dr. Blight put Spike in his invention that age everyone faster. “Emperor Faust told me that in order to make you a champion, he want me to age you faster so you can take on any Gladiators with no problems. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Now, let’s begin the experiment!” He turn on the aging machine and we see bunch of light coming from the machine as the Doctor starting to laugh insane. “Oh yes! Oh yes! Soon, you will no longer a baby dragon anymore! You are going to be Faust’s ultimate champion!” Author's Note Oh no! Spike is in trouble! Can Twilight and Elements of Harmony find a way of getting on Planet Faust to rescue Spike from the clutches of Faust Empire?! Find out in the next chapter! P.S. The whole Emperor touching Spike is inspired by a scene from 300 where Xerxes touches Leonidas’ shoulder as well many scenes from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure especially Golden Wind. The mysterious masked figure, Crimson Danger, Flint Blaze, Happy Charlie and one more Gladiator will played important roles for future chapters. Forming The TeamIn the shadow, Spike groaned as he opened his eyes. “Man! That was a terrible dream I have.” As Spike about to touch his head, he notices his hand is huge! “My hand! It’s huge!” Spike notices his voice is now more mature-sounding voice. “My voice! What happened to my voice?!” Spike begins to have a freak out as he quickly gets up and he look at his fully grown body. “How did my body grow so fast?!” And Spike saw he got wings on his back, he screams at this. Spike run and scream around like a manic while trying to processing this sudden development of his body. “This can’t be happening to me! I was a baby dragon and now, I am a fully grown adult dragon! What the hell happened?!” Spike continues to scream until he was hit by a rock, He turn around and see a masked figure who pat his head from yesterday who is laying against the wall with his arm crosses. “Are you done screaming?” A masked figure asked Spike Spike look at this figure as he nervously chuckles “Ah....... Yeah. So, how long have you been watch me screaming?” Spike asked a masked figure “Long enough.” The masked figure walk toward Spike and stare at him while Spike is sweating and standing still as he doesn’t know what the figure is going to do with him. The masked figure look at his whole body. “Your name is Spike, right?” The masked figure asked Spike. “Huh? Yes, my name is Spike! Despite my new appearance, I’m still same old dragon you headpats me” Spike answered his question in a nervous tone. The masked figure once again headpats Spike as Spike thought to himself, ‘What is up with him petting my head?! He doesn’t know me and yet he petting my head for no reason! Twilight doesn’t pet my head that much!’ “Well, Spike. You can call me, Ronin.” as he stop petting Spike’s head “Ronin? A cool name” Spike compliment to Ronin “Spike, I like you to be part of the team” Ronin make an offer to Spike “A team?” “Yes, I knew i need an allies to get through this Intergalactic Gladiator Games as I have no intention of serving Faust Empire. Same goes for you, Spike. You definitely can’t survive on your own.” “But why me? Back on my planet, I was seen as useless to my old teammates and I don’t know why you want me to be part of your team? I would just be distraction to you” Spike looks down and trying to not remember about his time with Elements of Harmony as he doesn’t deserve to be with them. Ronin comfort the adult dragon. “Spike, don’t be hard on yourself. I am sure your old teammates missed you. If you want to see them again, you must help me to get through this games” “But what if they don’t want to see me again? I’m the one who cause the pain to them when I let myself captured! Why would they forgive me after I put them through pain?!” Spike shredding tears as Ronin petting Spike’s head “Don’t think about that, Spike. Sometimes we hurt each other but not every friends are perfect. Just because you hurt them doesn’t mean they don’t want to see you again, You just don’t know what your old teammates must be thinking right now after watching you got yourself captured.” Spike stopped his crying and look at Ronin “Spike, what going to be? Seeing your old teammates again or spending the rest of your life as Faust’s puppet?” Ronin asked Spike Spike looked at him while remembering his good times with Elements of Harmony and makes a confident face “Alright, I’m in” “Good” Spike and Ronin look at each other until they saw bunch of other gladiators goofing around and Spike begin to notices the environment. “Hey, Ronin. Where are we?” “I believe this must be the dungeon.” “A dungeon?! That’s mean I would have to sleep on the ground! I don’t want to sleep on the ground! I don’t want to!” Spike begin to whining about sleeping on the ground until he was suddenly almost blasted by a sound wave from Crimson Danger “Hey!” Spike growls at Danger. “Sorry! I was just trying to adjusting my sound wave!” Crimson apologizes to Spike for almost blasting him. “Hey, how come you don’t use your sound wave to escape from this dungeon?” Spike asked Danger. “Well, I would love to but if I did, I would end up destroying the whole place and that would be a collateral damage and I don’t want to do put others’ life at risk” Crimson Danger answered his question. “Despite your name, you are a type of person who doesn’t like danger. Why did you pick that name?” Spike asked Crimson Danger which offends him “BECAUSE IT SOUND COOLER! Plus, what kind of a dragon that named himself, “Spike”?! I don’t see any Spike on your body, fluffy dragon!” Danger tries to insult Spike but it doesn’t work as Spike suddenly resemble an anime version of himself and starting to teasing Crimson Danger “Oh! You think you going to insult me by calling me, Fluffy dragon? This is coming from an alien who have an ability to make those big sound wave and yet, you’re too scared to use it! You such a ladybug!” Spike laughs at him while Crimson have an 💢 on his head and suddenly resemble an anime and more exaggerated version of himself as a T-Rex “Ladybug?! How dare you go so low by calling me a Ladybug?! Nobody call me a Ladybug! You purple freak!” “Bring it on, Buggy!” Spike and Crimson Danger stares at each other intensity as we hear the sound of T-Rex in the background Ronin interrupted them by hitting their head and both of them went back to their normal self. “OW!” Both of them yell in unison. “Enough of you! Bickering with each other won’t help us on getting out of this damn place! If we are going to survive Intergalactic Gladiators Game, we must help each other whether you like it or not! Got it?!” Spike and Crimson Danger nodded as they’re kneel before Ronin. “We are so sorry!” Spike and Danger yell in unison hugging each other while crying. “Good grief” Ronin facepalm himself. Ronin see Flint Blaze sleeping as he laying against the wall with his hat covering his face, Ronin walk toward Flint Blaze and look at him. “What are you doing, cowboy?” “Hmm?” Flint wakes up as he see Ronin looking at him. “Just sleeping in, I’m not going to waste my time with those buffoons. I cannot sanction their buffoonery” his comment offends Spike as he angrily walk toward Flint. “Hey! I’m not a buffoon! Unlike them, I am trying to survive the game so I can get out of this cursing dungeon and all you do is sit there and don’t do anything! What kind of a cowboy are you?!” Spike glares at Flint, only to get his cheek pulled by Ronin. “Ow! What did I do?” Spike asked Ronin Flint get up and look at Spike, Ronin and Crimson Danger. “Look, if you guys are forming the team...” Crimson Danger interrupted him “Sorry, I technically didn’t officially join the team. I was just forced to be part of the team by this samurai dude” Crimson Danger chuckles while Ronin intentionally steps on Danger’s foot HARD causing Danger to scream like a deranged woman, his scream continues to throughout Faust City. Chancellor Brutus is shaving his face as he notices the scream from Crimson Danger “Those stupid peasants, they never learn” Brutus continues to shave his face Crimson Danger continues to scream until Spike slap him “Get a hold of yourself! He just step on your foot, man!” Crimson Danger notices all Gladiators are staring at him if he was a crazy maniac “Sorry, move it on!” Crimson Danger chuckles nervously as all Gladiators continues to their business. “As I was saying, if you guys are forming the team, I guess I have no choice but count me in” Flint Blaze’s response surprise Spike as he didn’t expect his answer. “But why?” Spike asked Flint Blaze “Because you guy are seem intelligent.... except for the red guy” Flint mocks Danger “HEY!!” Crimson Danger scowled “Plus, I rather work for the likes of you than working for bunch of those wackos” Flint points to the Gladiators that do stupid stuff to entertain themselves. “Wow! Those guys are definitely wackos!” Spike agrees with Flint until they hears an Italian music “Where it coming from?” Spike asked the team as they are investigating the music. When they finally found the location, they came across Happy Charlie eating his Italian black and white Spaghetti with a table set up. Charlie grabs a spaghetti with his folk and ate it. “Mamma Mia! I love me some Spaghetti!” Charlie continues to eat his spaghetti while Spike, Ronin, Crimson Danger and Flint Blaze are staring at him eating his food. “What the heck did he get his own food from?” Spike asked the team “I don’t want to know” Ronin answered his question. “Me neither” Crimson Danger answered his question “This is one strange looking fella” Flint Blaze is amused by Charlie’s cartoony appearance. Charlie finally notices them and hide his Spaghetti from them while speaking in his fake Italian accent. “Mamma Mia! Get away from me Spaghetti! Don’t you know it’s my lunch break?! If i going to fight anyone, I can’t fight them with an empty stomach!” Charlie grabs the entire spaghetti and shove it to his mouth and swallows it which flabbergasted Spike and the team as Charlie continues to speak in his fake Italian accent. “Sorry but I don’t speak me English! Ciao!” Charlie try to run away from them but he hit the wall and fall on the ground. “Wall? Why it got to be wall?!” Charlie get up and is cornered by Spike, Ronin, Crimson Danger and Flint Blaze. Charlie get on his knee and start to begging them. “Please! Don’t hurt me! I’m just your lovable cartoon character, Happy Charlie! Here! Take my money!” Charlie grab his wallet and throw money at them. “Here! Take all of my money! Just don’t hurt me!” Spike walk toward Charlie and Charlie closes his eyes as his ferocious appearance scared him. “Oh almighty dragon! Please! Forgive me for all of my sins! I didn’t meant to commit such a heinous crime like taking a lollipop from little boy! I’m sorry but that lollipop look so good that I took it from the boy! Father! Forgive me!” Charlie holding Spike’s leg and start crying like a manchild which amuses Spike. ‘Okay, can this day get even weirder?’ Spike thought to himself. Charlie continues to cry until Spike grab and holding Charlie in his hand. “Listen Charlie, if you want to forgive yourself for stealing a lollipop from little boy. I suggest you should join our team to atone your sins” “Join you? Why should I join you and your goons?” Charlie questioned them “Goons?! I ain’t nobody’s goon!” Crimson Danger is offends by Charlie calling him “Goon”. “Shush!” Spike silences Crimson Danger as he look at Charlie “Charlie, let me tell you about The Emperor” Spike whispers to Charlie’s ear, “He loves CGI” Charlie immediately believe Spike’s lie about Emperor Faust and transform into Angry Charlie “That son of a bitch! That prick prefer CGI over traditional animation?! This is complete bullshit! NO! NOBODY SAID NO TO ME! YOU HEAR ME?! NOBODY SAYS NO TO CHARLIE! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!“ He unleashes his lighting power and target at the object. A gladiator see this and warn the others, “INCOMING!” Him and the rest of Gladiators dodge the attack as Charlie’s lighting power fires at the object. Spike and the team are disturbed by Charlie’s angry behavior and their jaws dropped as Charlie went back to his old self and smiles at them. “Okay, I’m in!” “So, that’s make us five, five is good enough! Is everyone good with it?” Ronin asked the team but Spike looked around and he seem unsatisfied. “Sorry Ronin but I feel we are missing one more members of our team” Spike making this statement to Ronin “What are you talking about, Spike?” Ronin asked Spike “Back on my planet, My team, “Elements of Harmony” have 6 members and I think our team need to have 6 members. I won’t be satisfied until we find our sixth member of our team” “But Spike, how are we going to find our sixth member? There are like 35 Gladiators and you think one of them want to be our sixth member?” Crimson Danger doubting Spike “I will join the team” they hears a mysterious voice as they turn around and saw a mechanical robot in front of them. “Who are you?” Crimson Danger asked the robot. “I am Test Bracer” “Test Bracer?” They say in unison. “Yup and no need to introduce yourselves, I already eavesdropping your conversation and when you looking for a sixth member, I knew I don’t want to miss out on being part of this awesome team!” “You’re not going to shock me like rest of the robots I met?” Spike asked Test Bracer “Oh heavens, no! Unlike them, I don’t like harming others and I only fight if I have to.” Spike sighed in relief as he doesn’t have to deal with electrical shock from Test Bracer. “You seem more emotional than rest of the robots? How is that possible?” Ronin asked Test Bracer “Well, you could say I’m special-type robot, that’s all I can say about myself.” He shrugs. “Alright, welcome to the team, Test Bracer” Ronin welcome him in the team. Spike, Ronin, Crimson Danger, Flint Blaze, Happy Charlie and Test Bracer are making circle as all of them put their hand together. “Alright team, from this day on. We will be known as “Gladiators of Harmony”!” Spike announces the name for the team which Danger and Blaze are puzzled by the name. “Gladiators of Harmony?” Crimson Danger asked Spike “Do I look like Harmony to you? Why Harmony?” Flint Blaze question Spike’s choice for the team’s name. “Because it’s a tribute to my old friends and I will survive this game so I can be reunites with them! So get used to it” Spike affirms his decision to them. “Fine” Crimson Danger signed. “Alright that settles it!” Spike smiles as all of them yell “Go..... GLADIATORS OF HARMONY!” They throw their hand in air. In the training ground, Spike and Gladiators of Harmony are sketching their legs as they are preparing for Intergalactic Gladiator Games. “Yeah! If we are going to fight those gladiators, we better to train our body in order to win our fight!” Spike look at Gladiators of Harmony who nodded to him. “Hey! Test Bracer! Since you are not going to train with us since you’re a robot, Turn on a workout music!” Spike asking Test Bracer “Coming right up!” Test Bracer push a button on his right arm and it play a workout music. In the training montage, Spike is dodging attacks from robot soldiers as he use his fire breath which turn them into ashes. “Woah! My fire breath got bigger...... AWESOME!” Spike is admires at his big fire breath but he have to shook it off as he continues to dodge attack from robot soldiers. “Man! Those guys doesn’t give up easy, are they?” Spike run toward robot soldiers and keep punching them. Ronin slashing all robot soldiers while running fast. “Damn! That samurai is one fast gladiator” Robot soldier #1 is impressed by Ronin before he get slashed by Ronin, “Should’ve see that coming!” That was his final words before it explodes. “Those are supposed to be the best soldiers of Faust Empire? Pathetic” Ronin is unimpressed with robot soldiers. Crimson Danger use his power to control all robot soldiers and tear all pieces of them apart. It’s big explosion while Danger is standing and act if he is proud of himself. “My masterpiece!” He blow a kiss “You know you should use your sound wave than being lazy with your metal control power, Ladybug” Spike teasing Crimson Danger “I told you I am NOT Ladybug and I’m not going to use my sound wave!” Crimson Danger glares at Spike while continues to tear all robot soldiers apart. Flint Blaze is surrounding by all robot soldiers as he grabs his gun and shoot all of them without miss his shot which cause them to explodes. “Bang! This is just a baby’s step” Flint keep shooting at robot soldiers with two guns and dodge their blast. “Come on, you mechanical trash can! Is that the best you got?!” Flint Blaze shooting at robot soldiers rapidly. Robot soldiers cornered Happy Charlie “Look at this gladiator, he is a funny-looking for a gladiator! No wonder people prefer CGI over Cartoon!” Robot Soldier #2 teases Happy Charlie’s appearance as he and other soldiers laugh at him. “Don’t you dare make fun of the cartoon..... you little ungrateful piece of shit!” Happy Charlie transform into Angry Charlie as he grabs multiple knifes from his bag. “Oh crap!” Robot Soldier #2 regrets his comment as he and others are being utterly destroyed by Angry Charlie while laughing at them manically “Who laughing now?!” Charlie keep stabbing all robot soldiers. Spike and Gladiators of Harmony look at all destroyed bodies of robot soldiers as Spike look at the sky and he decides to use his wings for the first time. “Here we go!” Spike flaps his wings and go sky high. “I will be damned” Flint Blaze took off his hat as he saw Spike flying. Spike stop at the top of the training ground as he look at the sky. “Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie. I promise I will win the game so I can be reuniting with your guys!” Spike flying down to the ground as he land safety as he stand along with Gladiators of Harmony. “WE ARE GLADIATORS OF HARMONY!” they yell in unison. Author's Note Spike finally got his own allies! GLADIATORS OF HARMONY! * Spike- The Leader * Ronin- The Second-In-Command (The identity of Ronin will be important later in the story) * Crimson Danger- The Buffoon (I based Danger on Jean-Pierre Polnareff, Okuyasu Nijimura and Narancia Ghirga fro JJBA. So expect a lot of bad things happens to this poor little Ladybug) * Flint Blaze- The Space Cowboy (He basically if Applejack become a gunslinger than working on Apples) * Happy Charlie- The Crazy One (Gladiators' answer to the local crazy pony, Pinkie Pie! and I thought it would be funny if one of his allies resemble a cartoon character from Who Framed Roger Rabbit movie) * Test Bracer- The Nice Robot (He's the token robot of the team and is very rather emotional for a robot) While Spike and Gladiators of Harmony are preparing their fights at the games, how can Twilight and Elements of Harmony find a way to get on Planet Faust since the planet is too far for their teleportation spell to work? Let’s The Tournament Begin! Emperor Faust is relaxing on his own bath-tub while enjoying listening to classical music. “I love the classical music and it’s bring joy to my ear” Emperor praising the music while using his finger to pretending that he’s the conductor of orchestra, “Once the tournament begins, it’s going to bring entertainment to not only my own subjects but all different planets across the universe!” Emperor see his own butler approached him with a wine for him to drink. “Thank you for bringing my wine, my dear old Woz” he smiled as he drink the wine. “Emperor, Mr. Airren and Mr. Rygel want to speak with you.” “Good! Send them in” Emperor orders his butler to bring in Andy & Randy as the Butler walk to the door and opening the door for Andy & Randy. “Emperor is ready for you” Andy & Randy who are no longer wearing their armored outfits as Andy is wearing a neon-green hoodie, comfort blue jeans and rainbow-colored sneakers & Randy is wearing a sharp-dressed suit, tight black jeans and a black dress shoes. They give their thank to the butler as they approached the Emperor. “Really, Andy? We are about to meet The Emperor of Faust City and you wearing this clothes?!” Randy criticizes Andy’s choice in fashion. “Sorry but I don’t want to wear uncomfortable clothes and you don’t know that the outfit I wore is very uncomfortable to wear and it make me sweats everyday!” Andy defends himself from Randy. “Don’t worry, Andy. Once The Emperor gives us a reward, we’re no longer Faust’s property” Randy whispers to Andy as they’re standing in front of The Emperor who is still on his bathtub. “Well, you must be Andrew Airren and Randall Rygel! My two favorite guys!” Emperor greetings Andy & Randy as he smiles at them. “Thank you for the compliment, my dear Emperor” Randy smiles as he & Andy bow down before The Emperor. “Please! You don’t have to bow down before me, you guys did a wonderful job of gathering all of my gladiators for upcoming Intergalactic Gladiator Games.” Emperor hold his glass to them, “A toast for both of you for succeeding on this mission” Emperor drank his wine all the way and his glass is now empty. Andy & Randy gets up as Emperor get off from his bathtub and put on his bathrobe. “Excuse me, Emperor but where the re..” Andy began, only for Emperor to put his finger to his lips. “Your reward is here” Emperor pointing his finger to a golden briefcase with Faust Universe Company’s logo on it, “Open it up” Andy grabs a briefcase and open to find a lot of moneys, Andy & Randy are smiling of having a lot of cash that we heard a sound of angels singing. “Oh.... my..... God! We’re rich! Filthy rich! Ehehehe!“ Andy & Randy yells in unison as both of them start to jump around like someone who just won a lottery ticket, Emperor is amused by them. “Those twos are rather interesting” Emperor looks at Andy & Randy who continuously to jump around until Emperor shouted, “THAT’S ENOUGH, YOU TWO!!!!!!” which causes them to stop jumping and went back to their original position as they chuckles nervously. Emperor Faust become saddened, “Now, it’s sad that I have to let both of you go as part of your deal since you two are like 2 brothers I never have. Do you really want to leave Faust Universe Company?” Emperor asking Andy & Randy. “Sorry but the deal is the deal. We been working this company for 20 years and we want to explore the universe!” Andy answered “Very well, I bid you two farewell and I hope both of you have a brighter future” “Goodbye, my dear emperor” Randy bow to the Emperor while Andy wave goodbye to him as they left the room with their own briefcase. Emperor dropped his saddened look as his look is now disgusted look. “Finally! I got rid of those two bozos! They’re nothing more but nuisance for me!” The Emperor go to the window and see Spike & others training who are preparing themselves for Intergalactic Gladiator Games, Emperor smiles at Adult Purple Dragon who is using his fire breath to burn all of his robotic soldiers. “Soon, Once the games begins, all gladiators will kneel before my own champion” Emperor laugh in a sinister tone until his butler came in and interrupted him, “Emperor, there’s a lot of civilians protesting in front of your castle” “Protesting? My favorite people! Butler! get me my attire! I want to see them!” Emperor with a smug smile. “Yes, my Emperor” The Butler went off to get attire for his Emperor while Emperor Faust showing a sinister smile and continues to laugh. ”MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!” Andy & Randy are eating ramen noodle soup to celebrate their release from Faust Universe Company. “I really glad we don’t have to deal with him anymore and to be honest with you, I never liked him” Andy stating his dislike toward Emperor Faust. “You’re not only one who despises the Emperor” Randy point to bunch of protesters who are protesting in front of Faust Castle. “NOT MY EMPEROR! NOT MY EMPEROR! NOT MY EMPEROR!” Protesters shouting at the castle while Emperor Faust who is wearing a royal Red and Yellow attire enjoying the sound of them shouting at him. “Music to my ears, spread your hate toward me and it make me want to continue my reign as Emperor of Faust City even more!” Emperor stretches his arms out as he have feathers attached to his attire and pose like a Phoenix. “It’s been 25 years since you become Emperor of Faust City and you turn our once peaceful kingdom into a dystopian corporation kingdom! There’s no fresh air to breath in!” A young male protester yelled from the crowd. “You destroyed all forests so you can build part of your precious Faust Universe Company! Animals can’t live without their forests! Stop destroying their home!” A female protester joined in. “You bring nothing but trouble to our kingdom and we want you to resign your position as Emperor so we can rebuild the kingdom that you’re destroying! Empress did better job than you! You mad tyrant!” An older male protester angrily said. Hearing the word, “Empress”, Emperor Faust made his eye twitch and his face becoming more enraged with a flame on his eye. “Don’t you ever...... MENTION ABOUT THAT BITCH! You bunch of ungrateful ingrates!” Emperor Faust angrily shouting at the protester as he call his guards up. “Guards! Guards! I order you to get them out of my sight now! Arrest them! They’re supporters of that wretched BITCH!” Emperor order his guards to arrest the group of protesters. “Yes, my Emperor” The leader of Emperor’s guards flew toward the ground and land in front of the group of protesters. “Anyone who support the treacherous Empress will be arrested and possibly face the execution” The leader coldly told the protesters as they pointing their guns at them. Andy & Randy who are watching this wanting to help the protesters but they turn their back on them. “I really want to help them but I don’t want to throw my life away and being Faust’s property again, I cannot afford myself to spend another 20 years with him” Andy said as Randy hold a box that contain Mac. “Even we have Mac, we would cause collateral damage to Faust City and it’s too risking” Randy sighed with regret. The group of protesters put their hand on their heads but one of protester refuses as he tries to attack them. “I will not surrender myself to Maverick Faust!” He run toward them in attempt to attack them but the leader manages to grab the poor lad and holding him “Poor choice” Leader throws a male protester to the ground and grab his collar as he start to punching the lad while civilians stand there as the leader continues to punching the young protester whose face become more messed up and a lot of blood coming out of him. “Don’t just stand there! Stop him!” A female protester pleaded the civilians but they ignored her pleading as they continue with their life, leaving the male protester to be suffer by the hand of the leader. The leader of Faust’s guards finally stop punching as he standing in the blood pool of the male protester’s corpse body while other guards laughing at his body as they kick his dead body around which angers a female protester. “You monster! He didn’t deserve to die!” A female protester angrily yell at the Leader. “Unfortunately Ma’am, he could’ve surrender himself but he pay the ultimate price” The Leader coldly answered her as he orders his men to handcuff the group of protesters and lead them to their vehicles while Faust Universe Company’s clean up crew picks up the corpse body of a young male protester. Andy & Randy feeling guilty for not preventing the leader from beaten male protester to his death but they knew that’s how the system of Faust City works and didn’t want to spend another 20 years of being Faust’s properties as they continue to eat their noodle while listening to a blues song. “Life at Faust City sucks.” Randy stating his opinion on Faust City as we see part of the city being filled with darkness and utterly bleakness for those who suffer from the reign of Emperor Faust. In poor neighborhood of Faust City, we see a young boy walking around his neighborhood and see all people struggling with their life as they wore clothes from the trash and they don’t have enough food for the whole neighborhood. “I wish I could help them but I don’t have the power to make their life better” A young boy grab a locket from his pocket and he open his locket to find a hologram picture of him and his mom. “Mom, I wish you’re alive cause you always the one to guide me and without your guidance, I can’t help them! What do I do, mom?” The boy shred a tear and as he wiping his tear, he see a big blimp as Emperor Faust who wearing a red and yellow businessman suit appears on the screen. “Ladies and gentleman, I like to remind you that on tomorrow is the Intergalactic Gladiator Games! It’s a free event as you get to see Gladiators fighting each other to their death! Come to the Faust Universe Coliseum to watch the event! This is one event you don’t want to miss!” Emperor smiles at his subject. “Also, don’t forget to buy our Faust Universe T-Shirts, Shoes, Jackets, Glasses etc. once you go to the coliseum!” Emperor drink a Faust Universe soda and he look at his subject, “Man! That is one tasty beverage made by Faust Universe Company!” The boy who watch the announcement chuckles as he look at the hologram picture of his mom. “Mom, I think I got an idea!” At the dungeon of Faust Castle, Spike and Gladiators of Harmony are about to go to sleep after long weeks of their training but while Gladiators of Harmony are having no problem of sleeping on the ground, Spike still not used of sleeping on the ground. “What’s wrong, Spike?” Ronin asked “It’s just I so used on sleeping on my own bed and I still adjusting to sleeping on the ground with no blanket, Ronin” Spike complains about having to sleep on the ground and feeling the coldness without his blanket. “Get uses to sleeping the ground, Spike. This isn’t a fancy hotel for us, this is a dungeon and they’re not giving us blankets, beds or even foods and I haven’t eat any food since we got here!” Crimson Danger’s stomach growling, “If I don’t find any food to eat on tomorrow, I going to cut someone’s feet off and eat it like a beast!” Crimson making an evil face before he get hit by Flint Blaze, “Ouch!” “You ain’t eating no one, Danger” “Hey guys, you don’t have to worry about me, I’m robot and I don’t eat foods” Test Bracer reminding the team about himself. “WE KNOW IT, BRACER!” Spike and Gladiators of Harmony yell in unison. “Jeez, Bracer! I may look like 30s-cartoon character but at least I‘m aware the existence of robots!” Charlie growls at Bracer. “Sorry” Spike get up from the ground and look around his team “Listen guys, even through we don’t get along with each other but we must work together in order to win the game. We must win the game or else we won’t be able to get our freedom and..... and.... I won’t be able to see my old friends again.” Spike shred a tear while his team feel bad for him as a Ronin get up to comfort the dragon as he pet Spike’s head, much to Spike’s annoyance. “You really love petting my head, don’t you? Ronin?” Spike asked “You got a soft head, Spike” Ronin continues to petting Spike’s head, “I know you really misses your old buddies back on your planet but we can’t let our emotion distract us from the game, Spike. We must focus on winning the game. Once we win the game, you will see your friends again” Spike feeling better, “Thank you, Ronin” then Spike look at Gladiators of Harmony, “Remember guys, big games tomorrow! Make it count!” Spike and his team throw their arms in the air, “Go Gladiators of Harmony!” At the coliseum, we see bunch of civilians making their way to the building and one of them is a young boy. “I hope one of Gladiators can help me of making the city better” The boy rush to the coliseum hopefully to find any Gladiator for him to help. Back on Equestria, Everypony including Elements of Harmony, Princesses, Shining Armor, Cutie Mark Crusaders and even Discord of all people attending to watch the broadcast screen from A113 in order to watch Intergalactic Gladiator Games. Discord is wearing a football cap with 2 drinks attached to his cap, “My! Spike fighting his life as a gladiator? Man! This is going to be exciting tournament to watch!” He snap his finger so he can sit down on a comfort chair to watch the game whiling drinking 2 drinks from his cap. Twilight look at the screen and thought to herself, ‘Spike, I hope you are okay’. Inside of Emperor’s personal luxury suite, Emperor Faust is relaxing in his chair with Chancellor Brutus and the leader of Emperor’s bodyguards by his sides. “Excuse me, what’s your name again?” Emperor asked the leader of his bodyguards. “It’s Kougan” “Kougan! So, did you arrest those disgusting creatures?” Emperor asked “Yes and one of them unfortunately pay the price” Kougan answered with no sign of any remorse of killing the poor lad. “You what?!” Chancellor Brutus asked in shock “Ah, well, that’s what he gets for siding with.....that BITCH!” Emperor once again made his eye twitch. “Relax, my dear Emperor. Everyone is on your side” Kougan reassures his Emperor and manages to calm him down. “Thank you, Kougan” “Emperor, why would you hav....” Brutus began, only for Emperor stares at him with flame on his eyes which terrifies the pug, “Never mind” We see many civilians finding their seats while Andy & Randy are enjoying of eating their hot dogs. “Andy, why do you want to come to Intergalactic Gladiator Games? You said you don’t want anything to do with Emperor Faust and his Faust Universe Company, why?” Randy asked “Because I want to see what’s the dragon is capable of and this event got free foods and I am massive lover of foods!” Andy ate up his hot dog before he grab another hot dogs, “Free foods!” Andy chuckles. “Good grief” Randy facepalm himself. Inside of the armory, Spike dressed in a shiny purple armor with a purple gladiator helmet with 2 small fake dragon wings on it resembles a Roman era Gladiator. Gladiators of Harmony even Ronin & Flint holding their hands to their mouth laughing hysterically. “You got to be kidding me. Again, why do I need an armor? I’m a dragon!” Spike complains of have to wear a gladiator armor for the games. “Emperor request you to wear this armor because he think your skin is not hardened enough to protect yourself from the fights, so wear it and get out there and fight” a fashion designer who look like a small chipmunk answered. “My skin is not hardened?! Man, I bet he never have a fight with a dragon before” Spike ponder about Emperor but Crimson Danger interrupts his thought. “Spike! You look more like someone who go to a costume party than actual gladiator” Crimson Danger is laughing hysterically at Spike’s over the top purple Gladiator armor until he get hit by a seed from a fashion designer, “Hey! What did I do?!” “That’s for mocking my fashion, you stupid ladybug” “I am not a ladybug and I don’t resemble anything like a ladybug! Why do everyone keep calling me a ladybug?!” Crimson Danger angrily asked everyone but they ignores him, much to his dismay. “Come on, Spike! If you want to act like a Gladiator, you have to look the part! Look at me, I was a sailor, musician, chef, boxer and many more! So please, wear this armor just for the sake of your beloved friends” Charlie pleaded to Spike whiling struggling to holding his laugh from him. “Yeah, I think it look cool on you” Test Bracer encourages Spike as he’s the only one beside a fashion designer to not laugh at him wearing this ridiculous armor. “Fine! I will wear this stupid armor!” Spike reluctantly accepting the armor. “That’s the spirit! Enjoying your fight” A fashion designer exit the room as Gladiators of Harmony finally stop laughing at the poor dragon. “Alright team! Let’s do this!” Meanwhile at Equestria, Elements of Harmony especially Twilight & Rarity are concerned about Spike. “My Spikey-Wikey is going up against those savages?! This is insane! Spike can’t survive this!” Rarity freaks out like if her fashion is ruined by someone. “Relax, Rarity. It’s not like the end of the world” Rainbow Dash trying to calm the fashionista but it doesn’t work as Rarity get into Rainbow’s face. “Rainbow Dash! Losing my Spikey-Wikey is more devastating to me than the end of the world! It too much for me to hear of losing Spike!” Rarity starting to cry as Sweetie Belle comfort her sister. “Sorry Rarity” Rainbow apologizes to Rarity. Cadence and Shining Armor approached Twilight, as both of them laid a hoof on her. “Don’t worry, Twilight. We here for you.” Cadence assures Twilight. “Your BBBFF is here to help you to get through this difficult situation, Twily.” Shining Armor smiles at his younger sister. “Thank, guys” She smiled. Discord is waiting impatiently, “Come on! It’s been 6 minutes since I got here and the game haven’t starting?!” “Discord, calm yourself down. Maybe they just wanting to make sure they got everythi....” Celestia stop at her sentence when she along with the entire civilians of Ponyville see a golden smile emoji-like creature with golden suit standing on their screen. “What” Celestia is speechless. “The” Luna is speechless too. “Heck” as well as Cadence “Is” Shining Armor did double take. “That?!” Cutie Mark Crusaders gasped as they hold each other. In the coliseum, A hologram of a golden smile-emoji appear in front of the audience and talk in a bombastic voice as the crowd cheering. “Live from Planet Faust, I’m Kit Smileton and welcome to Intergalactic Gladiator Games!” Kit smiles at the audience, “Today, we going to witness the most ANTICIPATED Event of all time! For the TITLE of first ever Intergalactic Gladiator CHAMPION OF ALL THE UNIVERSE!!!!! Are you READY?!?!?!” Crowd cheered loud “Good people of Faust City, I say....... ARE YOU REEEEEEEEAAAAAADDDDDDDYYYYYYY?!?!?!?!“ Crowd cheered even more louder than ever. “Wonderful! Let’s the tournament BEGIN!” Author's Note Sorry about the other day, I accidentally click on “Publish” button on the chapter that I still writing and I have to delete that one to make another one! My apologies! So! We finally at the Tournament and can Spike and Gladiators of Harmony win the tournament in order to get back home or they will be Faust’s property? Twilight and Elements of Harmony are still trying to figure out of getting on Planet Faust since the planet is too far away from them using their teleportation spell, what will they do to get on that planet? Kougan is NOT a robot but an alien who willing to not only follows his beloved Emperor but shows no hesitation of killing anyone who stand in Emperor’s way or even mention about Empress to his face. The boy will play a very important in the story. Also, Rest In Peace for a young male protester who was tragically killed by Kougan and he died in vain. RIP Unnamed Male Protester https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QuNhTLVgV2Y
CaptureA spaceship approaches Equestria and we see alien soldiers monitor the life on Equestria, Soldier #1 ask Soldier #2 about the planet. “So this is so called Equestria? I heard this planet is full of ponies, is that true?” “Yes, Ponies is say to be the dominant species on the Equestria and they are ruled by Princess Celestia and her sister, Luna. They’re basically Equestria’s goddess.” “Goddess? That will be difficult for The Emperor to deal with.” “That’s not our mission! The Emperor assign us to find a purple creature for his Intergalactic Gladiator Games and The Emperor specifically states the creature have to be the best warrior on the planet.” “Does it have to be ponies?” Soldier #1 ask Soldier #2. “Well, The Emperor didn’t say about capturing a pony. All he says was to capture a purple creature and that creature will be the last one for us to capture.” “Should we put the music on?” “Nah, saving it once we land on a location called Ponyville.” At Castle of Friendship, Spike is finally dusting all books. “Finally! Twilight is going to be happy like always!” Spike smiles as he’s about to lay down, he look at the picture of Twilight and her friends at her birthday with a photoshop picture of himself on it. Spike look saddened “For all the things I did for her, not only she forgot about inviting me to her birthday but everytime I try to be helpful, she and others dismissed me if I was useless to them! Should I let go of them?” Twilight arrives as she greet the baby dragon. “Spike! I’m back!” Twilight hug Spike but he didn’t hug her back. After she let go of him, Twilight notices a tear in Spike’s eye and it got her concerned. “Spike? What’s wrong?” Spike answered, “Nothing, Twilight. I guess I got dust in my eye” he wipes his eye and then Twilight realize something, “Oh right! I almost forgot to tell you something!” “What is it, Twilight?” Spike become curious about what’s Twilight going to tell him about. “Princess Celestia task us to take on a dangerous mission which involves saving ponies from bunch of demonic creatures who has taken over the village.” Spike get exciting about this dangerous mission. “That awesome! Can I come?” Spike give a hopeful look to Twilight as he wanting to be feel useful Twilight chuckles before she answered…..Bluntly, “No, Spike.” “But why?!” Spike ask Twilight in disbelief. Twilight explained, “Because you are a baby dragon and this mission is more dangerous than the one we take on before, You’re too young to take on this mission” Spike’s sad look become furious and Twilight doesn’t know why he’s mad all of sudden. “Oh, I see how is it. I guess you don’t need me anymore.” Twilight is confused about Spike’s comment to her. “What are you talking about?” “Don’t play dumb! Ever since we came to Ponyville and becomes friend with them, you ignores me especially I wasn’t invited to your birthday!” Spike grabs a picture of Twilight at her friends on her birthday party. “Nopony bother me about the birthday party you had! I feel everypony forgot about me!” “Spike! That’s not truth! Everypony do care about you!” “Oh yeah? When I told you that I going to serve Applejack for the rest of my life, you says yes without hesitation! You knew my greatest fear is being dismissed by you and yet you show no hesitation at all!” Twilight become guilty for what she did to Spike. “Spike, I didn’t me..” Twilight tried to explain, but was cut off by the baby dragon. “And the worst part is that even through I save the whole Crystal Empire..... TWICE! and yet you still treat me like if I was useless to you.” Spike starting to have tears in his eyes “You know what? forget it! Twilight, I don’t think I want to be friend with you anymore!” Spike cried and ran off. “Spike!” Twilight cried out as she try to go after Spike. Spike is running fast crying while Twilight is chasing after him while Rarity came out of Carousel Boutique and saw Twilight chasing Spike. “Twilight! What’s going on?” Twilight didn’t have time to tell her as she keep on running. “I guess I have to chase my Spikey-Wikey.” Rarity joins the chase. At Sugarcube Corner, Pinkie Pie is serving cakes for Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. “Thank you, Pinkie Pie! You’re the best!” Rainbow smiles at her. “This cake smell great” Fluttershy give her compliment to Pinkie. “You welcome!” Pinkie smiles As Rainbow and Flutthershy about to eat their cakes, they hear Spike’s crying and they went outside and saw Twilight and Rarity chasing Spike which got Pinkie all hyped up. “How come nopony told me about it’s Chasing Spike day! Come on, girls! Let’s chase our baby dragon!” “Yeah! Whoever catch Spike is the winner and that’s going to be me cause I’m the fastest pony!” Rainbow agrees with Pinkie but Fluttershy doesn’t like the idea. “I don’t know about this..... I don’t think it’s a good id...” Rainbow grabs Fluttershy and all 3 ponies joins the chase. At Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack is finishing on making Apple Cider. “Let’s hope those blasting Flim and Flam brothers ain’t ruining our Apple Cider.” As she about to sat down, she hear all the rumbling. “What in tarnation?!” She went outside and see all Elements of Harmony chasing after Spike. “Y’all causing the ruckus! i’m putting the end of this ruckus!” Applejack joins the chase as the Mane 6 keep chasing Spike while 2 small ships follow them. As they keep chasing Spike, he suddenly stop causing the Elements of Harmony to clash with each other. “Ow!” All Elements of Harmony cries in pain and all of them look at Pinkie. “Pinkie!” “That wasn’t me! I didn’t put a cartoon car crash sound effect!” ”LEAVE ME ALONE!” All Elements of Harmony look at a saddened Spike while Twilight walk to him. “Spike, I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to hurt you.” “Hurt?” Rarity is confused “What is she’s talking about, Sugarcube?” Applejack ask Spike “Guys, I don’t want to be friends with you anymore!” The group except Twilight gasped and Rarity doesn’t take it well. “Spikey-Wikey! Why?!” As Spike about to say anything, he stop when he and others hears a music. “Wait a minute, what’s that music? Pinkie?!” Spike and others look at Pinkie. “That wasn’t me! Plus, I never heard this music before” And then, they see 2 small ship coming after them. “Guys! Look out!” Twilight yells as all of them dodge from 2 ships. “What the heck is that?! I never see that before!” Rainbow is bewildered by this as two ships land on the ground and we see 2 armored soldiers with a space gun as they approach Elements of Harmony while Spike is behind them. “Hello creatures of all Equestria! We are sent by our Emperor, Maverick Faust in order to search for the purple creature.” Elements of Harmony are puzzled by this request. “And you are?” Twilight ask the soldiers “Oh! I forgot to introduce ourselves! My name is Andy and this is my best friend, Randy!” “Andy and Randy?” They says the name in unison “Yup, that’s our name! Is that right, Randy?” “Andy! Focus on the mission!” “Sorry” Randy looks at Elements of Harmony “So ladies, what is your name?” “My name is Twilight Sparkle and that’s Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie” “Twilight Sparkle? Well, it must be your lucky day!” “Why you say that?” “Because I believe you are the purple creature!” Randy grabs a net gun and the blue-glowing net catches Twilight and it’s restrained her tightly. “TWILIGHT!” All Elements of Harmony yell while Spike is horrified. “Oh my Celestia, what have I done?” As Randy about to grab Twilight, Rainbow punch him. “Back off!” “Leave her alone, hooligans!” Rarity scolds them as she punch Andy “Hey! I didn’t do anything bad!” “Damn! These ponies are strong!” “Randy, You know what to do!” Randy nodded to Andy as he grabs a tiny box and put it on the ground which confuses the Elements of Harmony and Rainbow is not impressed. “Really? You think we going to be scared of this tiny box? Yeah right!” Randy push a button which causes a tiny box transform into a giant robot and the robot look at Elements of Harmony and they are terrifying by the robot. Rainbow gulps as Rarity walk to Rainbow. “Remember the old saying? Don't judge a book by its cover, darling“ Pinkie approach to the giant robot and get all exciting. “I never see something like this before! I wonder if this fanfic is a secret crossover between My Little Pony and Trans...” a giant robot interrupts her by picking Pinkie Pie up as she was screaming in excitingly tone. The robot look at Pinkie before he flick his finger off of Pinkie which launch her as she flew over Ponyville. “PINKIE PIE!!!!” Elements of Harmony yell in unison “That doesn’t! Nopony mess with my friend!” Rainbow charges at the robot and use all of her strength to punch and kick the robot but despite her best effort, the robot grab Rainbow Dash. “What?! It doesn’t hurt him at all? What kind of this creature is he?!” Rainbow is bewildered by Robot being immune to her attack before Andy laughs at her. “Woman, that is not a creature but a robot creating by us! We build this baby just in case if the warriors are too strong for us to handle it and he have a name! It’s Mac to you!” Mac crushes Rainbow in his hand “RAINBOW DASH!!!!” Elements of Harmony yell in unison. Mac let go of Rainbow who is all messed up before he throw her like a baseball hitting a home run. Fluttershy is initially scared but she shake it off as she confront Mac “Hey big meanie! If you keep hurting my friend, I guess I have no choice but use..... THIS!” Fluttershy use her famous “The Stare” at Mac in order to stop him from hurting their friends but to her surprise, Mac is immune to her “The Stare” and pick her up and look at her. “What? The Stare didn’t work on him?” All of a sudden, Mac speaks “Robots don’t have emotions.” Mac’s eyes grow red which frightening Fluttershy. Mac put her down as she was traumatized by Mac’s glowing red eyes so much that it cause her to pass out. “Varmint! How dare you traumatized Fluttershy?! You gone too far!” Applejack grabs a giant boulder and throw at Mac which surprisingly knock him a bit, Andy is not pleased. “What?! It’s impossible! Mac is made of ultra rare metal that is powerful to withstand any object!” “I guess this varmint can’t withstand the power of Apple family!” Applejack punch Mac which cause him to back away as Applejack throw many of her punches toward the robot and her last punch cause Mac to fall on the ground. “Mac! NO!!!!!!!!” Andy ran to Mac while Applejack is on the top of Mac’s body. “Now, this is what you get for hurting my friend, Varmint” Suddenly, Mac blast Applejack with his laser that turn her into a giant apple. Spike, Twilight & Rarity are shocked. “APPLEJACK!!!!!” As both Andy and Randy about to eat a giant apple that contain Applejack, Rarity step in front of a giant apple. “Vile creature! Don’t you dare of eating my dear friend, you savage!” Rarity who glared at them in Fury while Andy is not amused by this. “Alright then, I guess we have to kill you.” Both Andy & Randy grab their killing gun and pointed their gun at Rarity who put on a brave face. “Once we kill you, Twilight Sparkle will be going with us and she won’t be able to see her friends again” Randy look at Twilight who is still restrained by a blue-glowing net and Twilight become terrified. “Rarity! Get out of here! You going to get yourself killed!” “Twilight, I am not type of pony who would abandon their friends to barbarians like them and I willing to sacrifice my life to protect all of you!” Rarity close her eyes as both Andy and Randy about to kill her. Spike seeing this is too much for him to handle and decide to finally come out. “STOP!” “Spikey-Wikey?!” “I’m the one you want, not Twilight!” “Spike! What are you doing?!” Twilight is more terrified of seeing her number one assistant potentially get killed. “Huh? A dragon risking his life for a pony?” Both Andy and Randy laughs about it which piss Spike off “SHUT UP!” the words shocked Twilight and Rarity and stop Andy & Randy from laughing. “Okay” “Look, if your Emperor want a purple creature...... then, I am the purple creature you been looking for” Spike walk toward Andy & Randy and both of them lowering their guns. “Spike! Don’t do this! I don’t want you to go!” Twilight pleaded at Spike while Rarity look saddened “Spikey-Wikey! If you do this, we won’t be able to see you anymore!” Both Twilight and Rarity shred a tear. Spike ignores them as he standing in front of Andy & Randy. “Take me in, please! I begging you! Spare them!” Spike crying as he doesn’t want them to die. Andy & Randy look at the purple dragon before Randy use his remote to let Twilight go and turn Applejack back to her old self. “What in tarnation?!” Applejack notices her surroundings and see Spike with 2 soldiers. “Spike, NO!!!!!” Applejack tries to stop him but she passed out as a side effect from being turn into an apple. “Well, The Emperor didn’t say about capturing a pony and this dragon is definitely a purple creature.” “Yeah. I agree with you, Randy.” Andy handcuffs Spike and lead him to the his own ship while both Twilight & Rarity are saddened of seeing him go. “Spikey-Wikey” Rarity cries. “No! Spike! Don’t go! I’m sorry! Please!” Twilight try to pleaded Spike but he doesn’t look at her. “Goodbye, everyone.” Spike shred a tear as he jump into the ship with Andy while Randy turn Mac back into a tiny box and jump into the ship. “Alright, buddy. Equestria is no longer your home planet anymore and your home is on a different planet. You can forget about love, forget about family and forget about friends.” His words doesn’t help Spike as the two ships fly away while Twilight and Rarity are saddened by this. ”SPIKE!” Author's Note I always wanted to do a fanfic where Spike is in a Gladiator games in SPACE! and now I finally got this fanfic off the ground! The question is can Spike survive an Intergalactic Gladiator games? Let’s find out! I was going to put a music at the end of the first chapter but that will be a major Mood Whiplash after what happens at the end of the first chapter.
ArrivalAndy & Randy along with Spike are back on their spaceship. They walk with a handcuffed Spike to the ship’s prison cells that contained a lot of warriors that Andy & Randy captured. They stopped at Spike’s own cell which open the hatch of the cell. “Alright, this is your own cell! In here, Dragon!” Randy push Spike into his own cell which cause him to the hit on his own cell. “Ow!” Spike gets up and frowns at Randy. “Hey! I have a name, you know! It’s Spike!” Spike growl at Andy & Randy but they are not intimidate by him. “Whatever” Andy shut the hatch on him and the hatch automatic lock the cell. Spike looks at his own cell and to his surprise, it’s a big white room with no stuff at all, Spike is dismay. “Are you kidding me?! How the heck am I supposed to pee?!” Suddenly a toilet appear out of nowhere. “What the? I guess I ate too many gems.... oh well” Spike sat on a toilet. Andy & Randy are piloting the Spaceship as they are celebrating of finally capturing all warriors from different planets. “Yeah! Wooooo!!!!!!!!! We got them all, Randy!” “Yay!!!!!! The Emperor will be pleases with all warriors we got.” Randy smiles but Andy is not sure about Spike. “Are you sure about that dragon? He’s too small and pathetic to take on all warriors.... He wouldn’t last one fight” “Don’t worry, Andy! I’m sure The Emperor will do something with that dragon. What I heard about The Emperor is that guy is full of surprises and you never know what will he do next.” “Good point.” Both Andy & Randy put the ship on autopilot mode as Randy push a button and it’s play a song. “Now.... we celebrate!” They yell in unison. Andy and Randy took off their space armor as they wearing a funky disco clothes and start disco dancing with hologram disco girls. “CELEBRATE!” The celebrate song is played out throughout the entire spaceship and all robot guards hears a song. “What were The Emperor thinking of picking those two buffoons as the pilot of the spaceship?” Robot Guard #1 ask Robot Guard #2 in robotic and yet annoying tone. “That because according to their records, they are the best pilots in the whole galaxy” Robot Guard #1 facepalm himself “I hate those two guys” “I agree with you” At the pilot, Andy & Randy keep on dancing with hologram girls as Andy about to kiss the girl until a video message appear and we see a small anthropomorphic pug with a cosmic-style gentleman outfit who is baffling of seeing Andy & Randy dance like maniacs. “Mr. Airren and Mr. Rygel! Turn off this rubbish music this instance!” A pug yell in a fancy British accent as both Andy & Randy stop and see an angry look from the pug and gave an “Oh Crap!” Look as they quickly turn off the music and put on their space armor. “Chancellor Brutus! We’re sorry!” They yell in unison and bow to him. “Mr. Airren and Mr. Rygel, The Emperor is getting impatient and he will kill both of you if you are taking your sweet times of gathering all best warriors from different planets. So, did you got them all?” Brutus is staring down at Andy & Randy which terrifies them. “Yes, my dear Chancellor! We got them all! Especially the purple creature that The Emperor request it” “A purple creature you say?” Brutus look at them again. “Yeah! A purple dragon named Spike and The Emperor will be happy that he got what he wanted.” “Interesting. Now, you don’t want to keep The Emperor waiting. I recommend you push a blue button to jump the lightspeed to make it faster for you to arrive at the Planet Faust” Randy look at a blue button “This button?” “Yes, that button. Don’t waste my time and get it over with it” the message end. “Alright, he’s Chancellor” Randy push a button and the ship go way faster than ever and it become a crazy roller coaster ride for both soldiers. “WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” At his own cell, Spike notices a rumbling on the ground. “Now this room is rumbling?! Can this day get any worse?!” Spike sat in the corner of his cell and then.... he remembers about Twilight and Elements of Harmony and remembering about them get hurt because of him, He starting to cry. “What have I done! I’m the one deserve all of punishment for getting you guys hurt! If I haven’t made a selfish choice of running away from you..... you wouldn’t got hurt and I’m the one who cause the pain for you!” Spike punch the wall and crying “I’m a bad friend! I let my selfish conscious get the best of me! I just want to prove that I’m not useless! Not to hurt you! The worst of all is that my last words with you guys is “I don’t want to be your friend anymore” and It’s going to haunt me for the rest of my life! I really don’t deserve to be your friend! Rarity! I don’t deserve your love at all! I hurt you, Rarity! I don’t deserve to be with you! You guys are better off without me...... This is a fitting punishment for a greedy dragon like me, you guys don’t deserve me especially you, Twilight. I’m the worst number one assistant ever!” Spike curled up and cried “I am a bad dragon! I am a bad dragon! I am a bad dragon! I am a bad dragon! I am a bad dragon!” Inside of Planet Faust’s castle, Chancellor Brutus open a door and find The Emperor hidden from the shadow as he’s sit in his throne. “Emperor, Mr. Airren and Mr. Rygel succeeded on gathering all best warriors from different planets including a purple creature from Planet Equestria and they are on their way to Planet Faust.” “Good.” “Emperor, why are you gathering all best warriors from different planets for this Intergalactic Gladiator Games? What is the point of that game?” The Emperor got off from his throne and walk toward Chancellor Brutus as he finally re-emerges from the shadow and we see a muscle clad blonde with a golden cape and cosmic-style playboy outfit. When he’s with Brutus, he laids his hand on Brutus’ shoulder “Because me and my subjects are bored and I want to entertain the audience and myself! what is the better way than hosting an Intergalactic Gladiator Games!” “I understand it but what is the prize if one of them won the game?” “The prize? No no no no no no no, sorry Brutus but I don’t want to tell you about the prize or else it will ruin the surprise! I will reveal the prize once we gathering all warriors for the announcement and the one who doing that is...... ME! Now excuse me, I believe I must get dress up so I can personally greets my guests!” As Emperor Faust about to go, Brutus stop him “Emperor, what about the purple creature? Why are you so desperate on that creature?” Emperor Faust look at him before he give him a Joker-like smile “Brutus, like I say, I don’t want to ruin the surprise! You will find out soon enough!” “Very well, Emperor” Both Emperor Faust and Chancellor Brutus left the Throne Room as Faust went to his own personal room and he look himself in the mirror. “Stupid pug! Why did I pick him as my chancellor in the first place?! He always bugging me everytime!” He punch the wall and bring even more Joker-like smile before calming himself down. “Now, calm down Maverick. No one know about your plan or what to do with that purple creature! Right now, let’s dress up so you can greet your gladiators!” The Emperor went to his dressing room in order to dress properly for their arrivals Back in Spike’s cell, Spike is continuously crying and keep calling himself a bad dragon. “I am a bad dragon! I am a bad dragon! I am a bad dragon! I am a bad drag....” Suddenly, the ship stop and Spike hit the hatch “Ow!” Spike rubbing his hurting head. “It hurt even more than the first one! Am I being cursed for what I did to Twilight and others?” Spike see the hatch opens and see a robot guard grab his neck. “We arrives at Planet Faust, dragon.” A robot guard put handcuffs on Spike and let him go of his neck. “Rude! You could just ask me nicely than trying to choke me to death!” Spike frowns at the robot guard who shock him with his shock gun. “Ow!” “Move, dragon.” the robot guard keep shock Spike a lot until he finally move on. “Fine! I going!” Spike sees all warriors coming out of their cells and start moving as he keep on walking as he doesn’t want to be shock again from a robot guard. After getting off from the spaceship and land on Planet Faust, Spike and all Gladiators look at the Faust City and they are amazed by the aesthetics and design of the city. “Oh my Celestia! I’m not in Equestria anymore” Spike is blow away by many neon colors on the building and see people wearing cosmic outfit and walking around with a lot of different aliens, Anthropomorphic animals and robots. “And I thought Equestria was diversity place!” Spike looks at the place before he get shock by a robot guard. “I say Move it, Dragon!” Spike keep on walking as he and other Gladiators get on a truck and the truck fly over the city while he’s still looking at the city. 'Man! Twilight and others would be trip out of seeing this city!' Spike thoughts and then, he remembers Twilight and others are no longer with him anymore. “Right, I’m not with them anymore” Spike get back on his seat as he sat with other gladiators. “I guess this is my new life” Spike still feeling sad and as we pull back from the bus and see the castle of Faust City where Emperor Maverick Faust lives on. “So this must be where The Emperor lives” Spike thought to himself. Spike and all Gladiators get off from the bus and heading to the castle. Spike and other Gladiators go through the cleaning room since The Emperor would be complaining about the disgusting smells from them. “Stop pushing me around!” Spike complains as he get on the conveyor belt. “Woah!!! I’m not moving on my own! What happening?!” As Spike look around, he see a giant water falling and it land on him. “Ow! The water is way too hot!” And then Spike see giant soap foam falling and it land on him. “My eyes! At least warn me next time!” 2 robotic hands appears with cleaning equipment to clean all body part of Spike from head to toes while being too rough with Spike “Easy! Easy! Not too rough!” Spike’s body is completely clean before topping it up with Faust’s Clean Killer spray that kill any leftover from disgusting smell and spray all over Spike’s body. “I hope this is the end of this torture!” Spike grumbling while coughing from the spray. Spike and all gladiators are standing outside of the castle. “Why are we outside? We should be inside of the castle!” Spike complains until he hear a music “What’s that music?” He see a marching band coming out of the castle playing the music as they roll a big fat red carpet for the majesty! The marching band stand back as they made room for the majesty! Suddenly, The Emperor come out of the castle’s door wearing a flamboyant cosmic outfit and start to dance crazy as he walk in a dancing way and walk toward Spike which terrifies him. “Who are you?” “The name is Emperor Maverick Faust!” Author's Note Spike finally meet the Emperor himself! MAVERICK FAUST! Now for the next chapter, should we get back to Twilight & others and how they deal with the aftermath of Spike getting captured or The Emperor explains about the game and maybe we meet some of Gladiators?
AftermathBack on Ponyville, Twilight just stand there and is lost for words as she like being frozen for eternity while Rarity is panicking shaking Twilight. “Twilight?! Wake up! Don’t just stand there! Are you even listen to me?! They took Spike!” Rarity is crying from tears as she tries to snap Twilight from the state she in but Twilight doesn’t respond to her and remain “frozen”. Seeing Twilight like this, Rarity shredding a lot of tears. “TWILIGHT!!!! DON’T YOU EVEN CARE ABOUT SPIKE?!?!?!?!” Rarity punch Twilight which finally break her from the frozen state and Twilight look at her angrily as she punch Rarity. Twilight glares at Rarity while tears are coming from her eyes. “Don’t you ever say I don’t care about Spike” Twilight cried as she walk to Rarity. “I’m sorry, Rarity!” Twilight hugs Rarity while Rarity hugs her back “Yeah, I’m sorry too” Applejack is finally awakens while still feeling from the side-effect that Mac use his laser on her “Ow... what happens?” Applejack look around and see Twilight and Rarity hugging each other while crying from their tears. Applejack walk toward them “Guys, what’s wrong?” Applejack asked Twilight and Rarity. Twilight is too shocked to answer Applejack’s question, so Rarity answer her instead while crying. “Applejack..... They took Spike” ”WHAT?!” Applejack’s yell is so powerful that it awakens Fluttershy “Ah! I heard someone screaming!” Fluttershy look around and see Rainbow Dash who is covered with muds and her whole body including her wings are broken from being crushed in Mac’s hand while Pinkie Pie who is covered with a lot of dessert stuffs got Rainbow Dash under her legs and help her to walk. “Rainbow Dash! Pinkie Pie! What happened with you guys?!” Fluttershy walk to them and help a messed up Rainbow Dash and lay Rainbow down on the ground who smile at Fluttershy. “Fluttershy, oh my dear childhood friend. I am perfectly fine and 100 percent okay after I ALMOST GOT KILLED BY A GIANT FREAKING ROBOT AND MY WHOLE BODY INCLUDING MY WINGS ARE BROKEN!!! Do I look okay?!” Rainbow tries to move but when her hoofs touch the ground, she shrieked in pain. “Ow! Even my own hoofs are in pain from touching the ground! That’s why I have Pinkie Pie help me to walk” Rainbow point to Pinkie “What about you, Pinkie? How did you end up like this?” Fluttershy is flabbergasted of seeing Pinkie Pie with a lot of dessert covered the entire body including her own mane. “Well, that giant robot send me to Sugarcube Corner and I crash land on a lot of dessert that Mrs. Cake made... She doesn’t mind it through!” Pinkie grabs a Rainbow-covered cake with part of her mane on it and eat it which disgusts Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. “Gross!” Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash yell in unison while Pinkie Pie is confused “What?” They stare at her until Applejack yell at them “This is no time to relax, y’all! Cause our little buddy is captured by those varmint!” “What?!” Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie yell in unison. “They got Spike?! No way!” Rainbow Dash is disbelief about Spike being captured, “How did they capture Spike?” Rarity walk toward them to explain why Spike got captured. “Spike let himself get captured in order to protect us from being killed by them. If he didn’t let himself get captured, I would have been killed by them and Twilight would be captured instead.” Rarity shed a tear and continue to cry “They took my Spikey-Wikey!” Applejack, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie comfort Rarity for losing her beloved dragon. “It’s all right, Rarity. We are in this together” Applejack calming her down as Rainbow get up with a help from Pinkie Pie. “Let head back to the castle to figure out about this situation” Rainbow command the Elements of Harmony as Twilight is still shocked to give order to them. At Castle of Friendship, Twilight sitting in her throne as she’s still too shocked to interact with others while Nurse Redheart is treating Rainbow Dash’s injuries as Rarity is talking with Princess Celestia and Princess Luna about Spike not wanting to be friend with them anymore as well Spike being captured by Andy & Randy. “So, Spike doesn’t want to be friend with you or Twilight or Elements of Harmony, You say he let himself get captured by 2 guys named Andy & Randy?” Princess Celestia asked Rarity “Yes and those hooligans claimed to be sent by Emperor Maverick Faust in order to find a purple creature and they would got away with capturing Twilight if weren’t for Spike, he let himself get captured in order to protect Twilight and now, he’s gone forever!” Luna comfort Rarity “There, there” Celestia look at Twilight who haven’t come out of her throne. “That’s why Twilight haven’t greeted me like usual.” Celestia walk to Twilight and smile at her as she use her magic to create a ladybug and put the ladybug on Twilight’s hoof, Twilight look at her hoof and see a ladybug on her own hoofs. “Ahh! Ladybug! Get away from me!” Twilight let go of a ladybug as she tries to fly away before Celestia stop her which surprise Twilight “Princess Celestia! You’re here! Oh my Princess!!!! Something bad happens to Spike!” “I know, Twilight. Rarity already told me about Spike.” Celestia comfort Twilight as she embraces her which Twilight return the embrace. “Princess Celestia, I don’t understand..... Why Spike doesn’t want to be friend with me anymore? What did I do that make him to want to break his friendship with me” As Celestia about to give her answer, Applejack barge through the door with a book on her hoof. “Twilight, I believe we found a reason why Spike doesn’t want to be friend with us anymore” Applejack lays a book on the table and Twilight walk to the table and to her surprise, it’s Spike’s diary that contain his rant. “Spike’s “rant” diary?” Twilight asked Applejack “Yup, Twilight. I believe his diary might reveal why he doesn’t want to be friend with us anymore” Applejack open the book and have Twilight read it. Dear Diary, while I was asleep during Winter Wrap Up, I fall into the water and it was very cold which is bad for me because I could have die and what did Twilight and others did? THEY LAUGH AT ME! THEY WERE LAUGHING IF ME DIED OF COLD WATER IS FUNNY TO THEM! NO! IT’S NOT FUNNY AT ALL AND THIS IS ONE OF MOMENTS WHERE I QUESTION MY FRIENDSHIP WITH TWILIGHT AND ELEMENT OF HARMONY! Twilight and others are stunned in silence to hear Spike’s words as Twilight can only speak. “Spike” Twilight feel guilty of laughing at his potential death while others especially Pinkie Pie feel guilty “Laughing at a child who about to die is definitely not funny and I laugh at it!” Her mane deflated. “I’m bad Pinkie Pie” Twilight continues to read Spike’s “Rant” Diary. Dear Diary, I was so exciting to attend the Gala with my friends as I get to spend time with them but unfortunately, they ditch me like I was nothing to them and they’re only care about making special night for themselves. Did Twilight contradicts herself about me being her friend when I run away home? Did I regret of coming back home? Twilight was shock to hear Spike feeling regret of coming back to her. “But I was careless that night! I didn’t meant to abandon Spike and I certainly didn’t contradict my statement about him being my friend” Twilight continues to read more Spike’s “Rant” Diary Dear Diary, I really love Rarity very much but I starting to feel Rarity was just taking advantage of me when I gave away Fire Ruby to her even though i had been saving that gemstone which is VERY HARD to find for my own birthday and Rarity use her own charm on me so she can add Fire Ruby to her collection. The only reason she kiss me so it give me hope of to be with her but let’s be honest, I expecting her saying “Darling, there’s no way Dragon and Pony can be together because they’re different from each other and the romantic relationship ain’t going to work out” because Rarity will never return her feeling toward me because she’s a gold digger who only interest in those stallions who are very wealthy and that’s the truth! Rarity close her mouth as she learn her Spikey-Wikey accuse her of taking advantage of him as she tears up “No Spike! I would never take an advantage of you! You’re my Spikey-Wikey and I would never say something like that!” Rarity start to cry as Luna comfort her Dear Diary, Nopony ever told me about Twilight having a birthday party at Canterlot and I wasn’t inviting at all! They having a fun time without me! Did Elements of Harmony only see me as nuisance? I bet the reason why they throw the party without me knowing it is so they can get in good term with Twilight which is ironically that the next time they went to Canterlot, they abandoned her at Wedding Rehearsal in favor of Princess Cadance who happens to be Queen Chrysalis! What the hell were they thinking of focus on a pony that they barely knew! Although, I did abandoned Twilight because I was still doubting about my friendship with her way before Cadance or Queen Chrysalis came along! Elements of Harmony especially Princess Celestia didn’t have justified reason to abandoned Twilight and that’s goes to show they only care about getting connection with royalty! Elements of Harmony didn’t really care about Twilight but they certainly didn’t care about me since I wasn’t invited to her birthday party! Twilight gives a stink eye toward Elements of Harmony and Princess Celestia for Wedding Rehearsal incident. They tried to look away and some of them smiled sheepishly while Celestia starts whistling “What?! We say we’re sorry! We were just so careless back then! We definitely didn’t become friends with you for royalty! I’m supposed to be Element of Loyalty and yet I abandoned you over a stupid wedding! I will never do that again!” Rainbow apologizes to Twilight “Twilight, if you still soured about the whole wedding rehearsal incident. Then, I’m sorry. That’s one of moments that I’m not proud of along with banishing my own sister. You are my most loyal student I ever have and I made a big mistake for not listening to you, the next time you tries to warn me, I will listen to you with no hesitation” Celestia smiles at Twilight as she gives hug to Twilight who hug her back. “Yeah, our foolish decision of abandoning you at the Wedding Rehearsal leads many countless fanfics of us going through punishment and all Authors are giving us hard time for what we did to you” Pinkie Pie look at you. (The you as it you are reading this story right now) “HEY READERS! ENOUGH WITH MANY OF A CANTERLOT WEDDING FANFIC ALREADY! LET IT GO! MOVE ON! WE GET IT! WE REGRET OF ABANDONING TWILIGHT! WE SAY WE SORRY TO HER! NOW, WRITE SOMETHING DIFFERENT CAUSE I GETTING TIRED OF GOING THROUGH SO MANY OF A CANTERLOT WEDDING FANFIC! TAKE YOUR ANGRY ON WHOEVER WROTES THAT EPISODE!” Pinkie Pie sat down on her throne angrily. Twilight and others look at her confused. “Who the heck is she talking to?” Applejack asked but no one responds. “Anyway, let’s get back on Spike” Twilight continues the subject about Spike “Spike accuse us for not inviting him because he thought we view him as a nuisance?! That’s nonsense! We just forget about him!” Rarity close her mouth as she realizes what she says. “Oh my Celestia! Spike is right! We did forget about him!” Rarity crying so much that her mascara is officially RUINED while all Elements of Harmony comfort her. “It’s alright, Rarity, I did forgot about Spike too and to this day, I have no idea why I didn’t realize Spike wasn’t at my birthday party.” Twilight wipes tears out of her eyes as she continues to read Spike’s Rant Diary. Dear Diary, Despite Twilight promises me that she wouldn’t dismissed me, she BROKE her promise! I told her that I going to serve Applejack forever and I was hoping she would talk me out of it and what did she say? ‘SOUND GOOD!’ Like she doesn’t give a shit about me at all! Like ‘WHAT THE HELL TWILIGHT?!’, I’m almost reaching my breaking point with that pony! I used to look up Twilight but now, I just feel she doesn’t want me anymore and the only reason why I still live with her because she’s only one that I have and....... now, I don’t really know if my friendship with her and Elements of Harmony are really worth it. It’s best for me if I break my friendship with them so they can forget about me cause they always forget about me and they wouldn’t know that I have gone! Twilight would better off with someone that is better than me as I am useless to her! I don’t deserve to be her number one assistant or her friend. Twilight drop the book as tears started swelling up in her eyes while Elements of Harmony starting to feel guilty for their treatment toward Spike. “It’s my fault that he’s gone because we didn’t treat him as our friend! How can we call ourselves ‘his friends’ if we’re responsible for letting himself captured! I’m awful pony!” Twilight cries on the table while Elements of Harmony, Celestia and Luna comfort her. “Don’t blame yourself, Twilight. We just have no idea what he was going through” Rarity assured Twilight but didn’t help her. “Spike is right, I don’t deserve to be his friend. I should be the one to get captured, not Spike and I let it happens because I didn’t care for him!” Twilight continues to cry until Celestia laids her hoof on Twilight. “Twilight, I understand what pain you're going through after losing Spike but you shouldn’t blame yourself for being a bad friend. Sometimes friends hurt each other but they will always find a way to make up and make their friendship even stronger like your friendship with Elements of Harmony” “Princess Celestia, what can I do? Spike hate me for not treating him right and I always contradict my statement to him, I am a bad friend and he know it!” Twilight was still doubting her broken friendship with Spike but Celestia laids her hoof on Twilight’s cheek. “Twilight, you are not a bad friend cause you always find a way to reconcile with your friends and you know Spike, he will eventually forgive you cause he can’t stay mad at you and Elements of Harmony forever. You just have faith in yourself, Twilight” Celestia along with Elements of Harmony and Luna embraces Twilight. “After all, you didn’t gave up on us when Discord put a spell on us. You shouldn’t give up on Spike! He’s our friend and we will get him back!” Rainbow winks at Twilight. “Yeah, Twilight! Don’t give up on him!” Fluttershy smiles “Twilight, We’re willing to risk our life to help you to rescue Spike.” Rarity smiles Twilight feeling a bit better gave a smile, “Thank guys.” Suddenly, they were interrupted by sound of a rocket crashing on the ground. “What the heck?! That sound is coming from outside!” Applejack run through the door while Twilight, Elements of Harmony and Princesses follow her to investigate the sound. When they are outside, they see a giant tower appear in front of them while all civilians are shocked to see a tower appear out of nowhere “Bonbon! No pony told us about this tower!” Lyra is shocked that nopony informs her about a tower. “Me neither, Lyra” Suddenly a small robot appear in front of them standing on the top of the tower “Greetings civilians of Equestria, my name is A113 and I am sent by Faust Universe Company to broadcast Intergalactic Gladiator Games for people of Equestria to witness!” “Intergalactic Gladiator Games? What’s that?!” One of civilians asked A113 “I will let My boss do the talking” A113 played a video where we see The Emperor appears as he dances along with Aztec-dress dancers while Gladiators are stand there to watch him dance and Ponies are like “What?” “Hello everyone from different planets! My name is Maverick Faust and those folks are the one who are participants of Intergalactic Gladiator Games!” While The Emperor is talking, Twilight notices a certain purple creature on background and to her shock, it’s Spike! “Spike?!” Author's Note The next chapter will see Emperor revealing about the tournament as well finally to get to know some of gladiators that Spike will either befriend with or have to fight them. Faust Universe Company is owned by Emperor Faust, not only he’s an Emperor of Faust but he’s a business typhoon. I think I add way too much crying. Sorry if some of them came off as angst. If Spike came off as a jerk, I am sorry but I have to make him feel that Twilight and others don’t care about him. (I may went too far with Rarity thing, sorry Rarity!) The whole “Dragon and Pony can’t be together because they’re different from each other” line was inspired by one of fanfic where Rarity tell Spike why she won’t fall in love with him because he’s a dragon. So what if Spike was feared that Rarity would use this line to him and that’s why he say that to avoid a potential heartbreak from her. I like to think Pinkie Pie is tired of going through many of A Canterlot Wedding fanfics including the famous “Loved and Lost” by EquineAvenger and she doesn’t want to deal with that event anymore! You could say she was in “Groundhog Day” situation with that event. A113 is a reference to the classroom used by graphic design and character animation students including John Lasseter, Tim Burton and Brad Bird and have appear in a lot of Pixar movies. I don’t know how many Gladiators are in this story, 50? 60? 70? What is your suggestion for how many Gladiators beside Spike to appear?
IntroductionInside of Faust’s Castle, Spike and all Gladiators are sitting in their tables while watching Japanese-style drummer playing their music as they are eating their foods. Emperor Faust is enjoying the sound of drums while Spike look around and try his best to be quiet as he doesn’t want to be notices by them. ‘Okay Spike, whatever you do..... don’t try to talk to them’ he thought to himself until he notices a masked figure who is on the left side staring at him. Spike jumped in surprise and gasped, “I’m sorry! I didn’t meant to disturb you! Please, don’t hurt me!” Spike pleaded. To his surprise, A masked figure headpats Spike softly and when he stop headpats him, Spike look at him. “Why did you pat my head?” Spike asked the masked figure but he doesn’t respond to him as he look away from him. “Okay?” Emperor Faust get up from his throne and walk toward the center of the room as he stop the music. “Light! Camera! Action!” All drone appear out of nowhere as they use their camera to film it. Back at Ponyville, Twilight, Elements of Harmony, Princesses and civilians are watching the video as The Emperor preparing his speech to them. “To the good people from all planets, my name is Maverick Faust and you are asking about Intergalactic Gladiator Games, I will tell you about it. Intergalactic Gladiator Games is a tournament to determine of who is the best Gladiator of the entire universe! We have gathered all best warriors from different planets and they will complete in the tournament! Whoever win the tournament shall receive any wish they desires and I will grant them their wish! Faust makes a strong grip on his hand as he look at the camera. ”However, this is where I establishes the rules! If a Gladiator is defeat by their opponent, the opponent can decides on either spares them or kill them off! Twilight and Elements of Harmony gasped “No!” Twilight cried with her hoofs over her mouth. “Spikey-Wikey!” Rarity cried. “That’s messed up!” Rainbow Dash scowling at the Emperor. Hearing this, Spike become more terrified of potentially get killed by all gladiators. “I’m not so ready for this!” Spike pouts as Emperor continues on his speech. ”If they do spares them, well... Not only they will be eliminates from the games but they will become the property of Faust Empire & Faust Universe Company and spend the rest of their life serving me! All Gladiators except Spike are complaining about this. “That’s bullshit! You don’t own us!” One Gladiator spoke up “Let us out already!” Another Gladiator pleading at the Emperor. ”SILENCE!” Emperor push an “ON” button that cause all Gladiators including Spike to experience extreme electrical shock causing them a great pain and incapacitating them. “SPIKE!!!” Twilight and Elements of Harmony cried as they along with civilians are forced to watch Spike in pain. “This is awful!” Luna is horrified with Emperor Faust’s treatment of Spike & Gladiators while Celestia is disgusts with him. “This is not how the ruler treats their subject!” The Emperor push an “OFF” button to relieve the Gladiators from the pain. “OW! I rather be shocked by a robot guard than this!” Spike is still hurt from extreme electrical shock he receives from Emperor Faust. ”If any of Gladiators try to disobey me, I will paralyze them the more they trying to disobey me and this is just a warning. All of you are lucky that I didn’t put on a severe mode or else you will be dead! Got it?!” All Gladiators decides to not protest against the Emperor to avoid the electrical shock. “Good! Now, without further ado, let’s meet our gladiators!” Emperor smiles as he’s going to personally introduce the gladiators. The Emperor sat on his throne as he’s introducing the first Gladiator. “So, who is our first gladiator?” The first Gladiator is a crimson-colored metallic warrior as he walk toward Emperor Faust. “Emperor Faust, my name is Crimson Danger and I’m from Planet Crimson” “Crimson Danger? what make you so special, Danger?” Emperor Faust asked Crimson Danger “Well, I used to be just your average Crimson alien until I found a rare gemstone that transform me into a warrior that can control metals and make those insane sound wave. Yup, it’s hard to make noise without creating sound wave and trust me, you really don’t want me to use those sound wave!” “Not even your opponent, Danger?” “Like I say, my sound wave are dangerous to use!” Rainbow Dash is impressed by Crimson Danger “Sound wave? I really want to meet this ‘Danger’ person” “Alright, next!” Emperor excuses Crimson Danger. “Bye Emperor” Crimson Danger walk away as we introduce to second Gladiator is a white-colored armored cowboy. “I have no time for you, let’s get over with it! The name’s Flint Blaze and the planet that I came from is Planet Gunsmoke.” “So, Flint. My men told me that you are a really good sharpshooter and you never really miss your target, is that true?” “Miss? Ha! I got a perfect record to prove it to you and I would love to shoot you right now but I’m not gonna do that since I don’t wanna to deal with that buzzer you have” “Wise choice for you, Mr. Blaze” Pinkie Pie notices Flint Blaze reminds her of Applejack “Applejack, that Flint Blaze sure remind me of you” “What are you talking about?! Just because I wore this hat doesn’t means I am same as that fella!” Applejack point out the difference between her and Flint Blaze. Flint Blaze walk away as we meet a very odd-looking gladiator who resemble a 1930s-style cartoon character. Emperor Faust is faze by his appearance “Okay.... This is interesting for a gladiator... what’s your name?” “I am Happy Charlie and my hometown is Inktown! I can’t wait to play the game!” Charlie suddenly become angry and start acting like an old man who is out of touch with modern folks. “Man! Those darn kids! Back in my old days, the cartoon uses to be plain and simple and we tend to make the audience laugh because we love to make them laugh but nowadays, the cartoon become too complex for us to handle and those greedy company turn cartoon into a FUCKING CGI! They killed animation!!!!!!!” Angry Charlie get his knife out and ran to the camera while Faust guards try to stop him “Guards! Stop that man from destroying my camera!” The Emperor cries as he seeing one of his beloved camera being dismantled by Happy Charlie. “I’M GOING TO KILL YOU SON OF A-“ the video cut to a Faust Universe’s “Stand by” screen while playing the music. Twilight, Elements of Harmony, Princesses and civilians of Ponyville are flabbergasted and confused of what just happened. Applejack approach Pinkie Pie. “Well, I guess I wasn’t one who have their own counterpart” Applejack teases Pinkie Pie which she took offensive to her comment. “Applejack! I’m not like that crazy man! I don’t go around and go on a killing spree on ponies and turn them into cupcakes! I may be crazy but that way too far for me!” Pinkie Pie look at the readers (again). “I looking at you, Sergeant Sprinkles“ Pinkie Pie gives a death stare at you and Applejack is once again confuse by Pinkie Pie. “Who is this Sergeant Sprinkles fella, Pinkie?” The video message is back online and Emperor Faust is cradling one of his beloved camera drone. “My baby, I promise I wouldn’t let that man hurt you again” Emperor Faust embrace the camera while everyone including Spike, Gladiators and all of people who are watching him. Luna is disturb by him, “Sister, this man starting to scare me a bit” “I know, Luna..... I know” Celestia is creeped out by him too. Emperor Faust realizes they are watching him and he throw the camera away like it was nothing to him. “Sorry about that, I will make sure Charlie behave himself and doesn’t try to kill anyone before the games! Anyway, sorry to disappoint you but the next one will be the last Gladiator we meet until the big games!” Spike is sitting on his table when a group of Faust guards approached him and grab him. “Hey! Let me go! I didn’t do anything wrong!” The guards along with Spike walk to the Emperor and the guard let him go as Spike look at Emperor Faust. “Spike!” A concerned Twilight look at the video of her beloved dragon. “Spike! My boy! I finally get to talk with the Purple Dragon from Planet Equestria!” Emperor Faust chuckles as he walk toward the baby dragon and gives a big grin to him. “I guess you’re somehow know my name” Spike nervously chuckles as he doesn’t know how the hell Emperor know his name despite meeting him for the first time. “My men already told me about you and I heard you let yourself captured in order to save your friend, why did you do that?” Spike is unsure to answer this at first but decides to answer him “The reason why I let myself captured is they got hurt because of me and I’m a bad friend to them. To be honest, I think they are better off without me as I was nothing but a terrible and awful friend to them” Spike become sad as Twilight and Elements of Harmony feeling bad for him “Spike” Twilight feel sorry for him “You know Emperor, Intergalactic Gladiator Games is definitely a fitting punishment for a greedy dragon like me for being awful to Elements of Harmony especially Twilight & Rarity! I don’t deserve their love! I rather being killed by gladiators than spending the rest of my life for what I did to them!” Spike starting to cry and fall to his knee while Twilight & Elements of Harmony gasped at Spike’s comment “Did Spikey-Wikey says he want to be killed by gladiators?!” “Spike! Don’t be hard on yourself! It’s not your fault!” Twilight yells at Spike. While Spike is crying on the carpet, Emperor Faust look at him and he grabs his staff and hit it on the floor which stop Spike from crying. “Spike, don’t blame everything on you. You have a lot of potential and yet your so-called “friend” hold you back on your potential and was just using you as you are useless to them but since they’re no longer here with you, you can finally unlock your true potential!” The Emperor give a big grin at Spike while Elements of Harmony are angry over Emperor spreading lies on them to Spike. “Don’t you dare lie about us, Varmint!” “That big meanie spreading lies about us!” Fluttershy scowling at Emperor. “Potential?” Spike asked Emperor Faust. “Yes! A big potential! Your body also have a potential and I can make you feel comfy on my planet!” Emperor Faust walk around Spike and touches Spike’s cheek and just rubbing it. “Your skin is so appealing! It make me want to touch it all days long” Emperor get closer to Spike as he become very uncomfortable while Emperor touching his stomach. Watching the Emperor keep touching her beloved dragon enrages both Twilight and Rarity even more. “Get your bloody hand off him!” Twilight scowling at the Emperor. “Leave him alone, you monster!” Rarity growls at the Emperor. As Emperor Faust touching Spike, he whispered in his ears “You are one divine purple creature I ever met and I going to make you..... MY CHAMPION.” Emperor Faust let him go as Spike is confused by his comment. “Me as your champion?” Spike asked Emperor Faust but Faust suddenly yells “Guards! Guards! Take him out of my throne room!” The guards appears and grabs Spike “Hey! let me go!” “SPIKE!” Elements of Harmony yells in unison. Emperor Faust walk to one of guards and whisper to him. “Take him to the laboratory” “You got it” One of guards hit Spike’s head which cause him to knocked unconscious. The guards left the room with unconscious Spike while Emperor Faust look at the camera. “Remember folks, we will starting Intergalactic Gladiator Games very soon! That will be all” the video ends. Twilight and Elements of Harmony are worried about Spike, “We need to rescue Spike at once!” “But how, Twilight? He’s far away from our planet and we don’t have a flying machine for us to get to Planet Faust” Applejack point this out to Twilight. “Not even our magic are strong enough to transport us to a planet that is far away from us” Celestia answered with regret. “But we can’t let Spikey-Wikey get killed by those savages! We must find a way to get on that planet!” Twilight, Elements of Harmony and Princesses are trying to figuring out of getting to Planet Faust while worrying about Spike. “Spike, whatever you are, I promise we will rescue you and take you back home”. Twilight making a promise to her number one assistant. Spike groaned as he opened his eyes, “Ow, my head is still hurting” as he tries to comfort his head, he can’t move his hand. “What the heck? I can’t move! Where am I?!” Spike look around and he find himself on a laboratory. “Oh my Celestia” Then Spike look at himself and he find himself being strapped to the bed. “Are you kidding me?!” Spike struggles to get out of the bed until he saw a robotic doctor looking at the skull “Is that a robot? Gosh! I am starting to get sick of meeting every robots!” Spike complains about it until the Doctor look at him and talk like a typical Mad Scientist. “Excuse me? I am not a robot! I am a cyborg! I am Doctor Dexter Blight and you going to be my subject!” Dr. Dexter Blight walk to Spike and look at his body. “This is very interesting species and yet this one is not fully-grown Dragon but rather a dragon who still at his baby age, but how he’s able to talk in his baby state lead me a lot of questions..... Hmmmmmmm?” Dr. Dexter Blight ponder about Spike as he continues to look at his body. “Oh my! I guess this is your lucky day!” “Lucky day? What are you talking about?!” “My dear boy... we are going to age you up..... FASTER!” He push a button to let Spike free from the bed and grab him to prevent him from escaping. “Let me go!” “Hold still!” Dr. Blight injects him with a syringe that knock Spike out. “Much better” Dr. Blight put Spike in his invention that age everyone faster. “Emperor Faust told me that in order to make you a champion, he want me to age you faster so you can take on any Gladiators with no problems. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Now, let’s begin the experiment!” He turn on the aging machine and we see bunch of light coming from the machine as the Doctor starting to laugh insane. “Oh yes! Oh yes! Soon, you will no longer a baby dragon anymore! You are going to be Faust’s ultimate champion!” Author's Note Oh no! Spike is in trouble! Can Twilight and Elements of Harmony find a way of getting on Planet Faust to rescue Spike from the clutches of Faust Empire?! Find out in the next chapter! P.S. The whole Emperor touching Spike is inspired by a scene from 300 where Xerxes touches Leonidas’ shoulder as well many scenes from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure especially Golden Wind. The mysterious masked figure, Crimson Danger, Flint Blaze, Happy Charlie and one more Gladiator will played important roles for future chapters.
Forming The TeamIn the shadow, Spike groaned as he opened his eyes. “Man! That was a terrible dream I have.” As Spike about to touch his head, he notices his hand is huge! “My hand! It’s huge!” Spike notices his voice is now more mature-sounding voice. “My voice! What happened to my voice?!” Spike begins to have a freak out as he quickly gets up and he look at his fully grown body. “How did my body grow so fast?!” And Spike saw he got wings on his back, he screams at this. Spike run and scream around like a manic while trying to processing this sudden development of his body. “This can’t be happening to me! I was a baby dragon and now, I am a fully grown adult dragon! What the hell happened?!” Spike continues to scream until he was hit by a rock, He turn around and see a masked figure who pat his head from yesterday who is laying against the wall with his arm crosses. “Are you done screaming?” A masked figure asked Spike Spike look at this figure as he nervously chuckles “Ah....... Yeah. So, how long have you been watch me screaming?” Spike asked a masked figure “Long enough.” The masked figure walk toward Spike and stare at him while Spike is sweating and standing still as he doesn’t know what the figure is going to do with him. The masked figure look at his whole body. “Your name is Spike, right?” The masked figure asked Spike. “Huh? Yes, my name is Spike! Despite my new appearance, I’m still same old dragon you headpats me” Spike answered his question in a nervous tone. The masked figure once again headpats Spike as Spike thought to himself, ‘What is up with him petting my head?! He doesn’t know me and yet he petting my head for no reason! Twilight doesn’t pet my head that much!’ “Well, Spike. You can call me, Ronin.” as he stop petting Spike’s head “Ronin? A cool name” Spike compliment to Ronin “Spike, I like you to be part of the team” Ronin make an offer to Spike “A team?” “Yes, I knew i need an allies to get through this Intergalactic Gladiator Games as I have no intention of serving Faust Empire. Same goes for you, Spike. You definitely can’t survive on your own.” “But why me? Back on my planet, I was seen as useless to my old teammates and I don’t know why you want me to be part of your team? I would just be distraction to you” Spike looks down and trying to not remember about his time with Elements of Harmony as he doesn’t deserve to be with them. Ronin comfort the adult dragon. “Spike, don’t be hard on yourself. I am sure your old teammates missed you. If you want to see them again, you must help me to get through this games” “But what if they don’t want to see me again? I’m the one who cause the pain to them when I let myself captured! Why would they forgive me after I put them through pain?!” Spike shredding tears as Ronin petting Spike’s head “Don’t think about that, Spike. Sometimes we hurt each other but not every friends are perfect. Just because you hurt them doesn’t mean they don’t want to see you again, You just don’t know what your old teammates must be thinking right now after watching you got yourself captured.” Spike stopped his crying and look at Ronin “Spike, what going to be? Seeing your old teammates again or spending the rest of your life as Faust’s puppet?” Ronin asked Spike Spike looked at him while remembering his good times with Elements of Harmony and makes a confident face “Alright, I’m in” “Good” Spike and Ronin look at each other until they saw bunch of other gladiators goofing around and Spike begin to notices the environment. “Hey, Ronin. Where are we?” “I believe this must be the dungeon.” “A dungeon?! That’s mean I would have to sleep on the ground! I don’t want to sleep on the ground! I don’t want to!” Spike begin to whining about sleeping on the ground until he was suddenly almost blasted by a sound wave from Crimson Danger “Hey!” Spike growls at Danger. “Sorry! I was just trying to adjusting my sound wave!” Crimson apologizes to Spike for almost blasting him. “Hey, how come you don’t use your sound wave to escape from this dungeon?” Spike asked Danger. “Well, I would love to but if I did, I would end up destroying the whole place and that would be a collateral damage and I don’t want to do put others’ life at risk” Crimson Danger answered his question. “Despite your name, you are a type of person who doesn’t like danger. Why did you pick that name?” Spike asked Crimson Danger which offends him “BECAUSE IT SOUND COOLER! Plus, what kind of a dragon that named himself, “Spike”?! I don’t see any Spike on your body, fluffy dragon!” Danger tries to insult Spike but it doesn’t work as Spike suddenly resemble an anime version of himself and starting to teasing Crimson Danger “Oh! You think you going to insult me by calling me, Fluffy dragon? This is coming from an alien who have an ability to make those big sound wave and yet, you’re too scared to use it! You such a ladybug!” Spike laughs at him while Crimson have an 💢 on his head and suddenly resemble an anime and more exaggerated version of himself as a T-Rex “Ladybug?! How dare you go so low by calling me a Ladybug?! Nobody call me a Ladybug! You purple freak!” “Bring it on, Buggy!” Spike and Crimson Danger stares at each other intensity as we hear the sound of T-Rex in the background Ronin interrupted them by hitting their head and both of them went back to their normal self. “OW!” Both of them yell in unison. “Enough of you! Bickering with each other won’t help us on getting out of this damn place! If we are going to survive Intergalactic Gladiators Game, we must help each other whether you like it or not! Got it?!” Spike and Crimson Danger nodded as they’re kneel before Ronin. “We are so sorry!” Spike and Danger yell in unison hugging each other while crying. “Good grief” Ronin facepalm himself. Ronin see Flint Blaze sleeping as he laying against the wall with his hat covering his face, Ronin walk toward Flint Blaze and look at him. “What are you doing, cowboy?” “Hmm?” Flint wakes up as he see Ronin looking at him. “Just sleeping in, I’m not going to waste my time with those buffoons. I cannot sanction their buffoonery” his comment offends Spike as he angrily walk toward Flint. “Hey! I’m not a buffoon! Unlike them, I am trying to survive the game so I can get out of this cursing dungeon and all you do is sit there and don’t do anything! What kind of a cowboy are you?!” Spike glares at Flint, only to get his cheek pulled by Ronin. “Ow! What did I do?” Spike asked Ronin Flint get up and look at Spike, Ronin and Crimson Danger. “Look, if you guys are forming the team...” Crimson Danger interrupted him “Sorry, I technically didn’t officially join the team. I was just forced to be part of the team by this samurai dude” Crimson Danger chuckles while Ronin intentionally steps on Danger’s foot HARD causing Danger to scream like a deranged woman, his scream continues to throughout Faust City. Chancellor Brutus is shaving his face as he notices the scream from Crimson Danger “Those stupid peasants, they never learn” Brutus continues to shave his face Crimson Danger continues to scream until Spike slap him “Get a hold of yourself! He just step on your foot, man!” Crimson Danger notices all Gladiators are staring at him if he was a crazy maniac “Sorry, move it on!” Crimson Danger chuckles nervously as all Gladiators continues to their business. “As I was saying, if you guys are forming the team, I guess I have no choice but count me in” Flint Blaze’s response surprise Spike as he didn’t expect his answer. “But why?” Spike asked Flint Blaze “Because you guy are seem intelligent.... except for the red guy” Flint mocks Danger “HEY!!” Crimson Danger scowled “Plus, I rather work for the likes of you than working for bunch of those wackos” Flint points to the Gladiators that do stupid stuff to entertain themselves. “Wow! Those guys are definitely wackos!” Spike agrees with Flint until they hears an Italian music “Where it coming from?” Spike asked the team as they are investigating the music. When they finally found the location, they came across Happy Charlie eating his Italian black and white Spaghetti with a table set up. Charlie grabs a spaghetti with his folk and ate it. “Mamma Mia! I love me some Spaghetti!” Charlie continues to eat his spaghetti while Spike, Ronin, Crimson Danger and Flint Blaze are staring at him eating his food. “What the heck did he get his own food from?” Spike asked the team “I don’t want to know” Ronin answered his question. “Me neither” Crimson Danger answered his question “This is one strange looking fella” Flint Blaze is amused by Charlie’s cartoony appearance. Charlie finally notices them and hide his Spaghetti from them while speaking in his fake Italian accent. “Mamma Mia! Get away from me Spaghetti! Don’t you know it’s my lunch break?! If i going to fight anyone, I can’t fight them with an empty stomach!” Charlie grabs the entire spaghetti and shove it to his mouth and swallows it which flabbergasted Spike and the team as Charlie continues to speak in his fake Italian accent. “Sorry but I don’t speak me English! Ciao!” Charlie try to run away from them but he hit the wall and fall on the ground. “Wall? Why it got to be wall?!” Charlie get up and is cornered by Spike, Ronin, Crimson Danger and Flint Blaze. Charlie get on his knee and start to begging them. “Please! Don’t hurt me! I’m just your lovable cartoon character, Happy Charlie! Here! Take my money!” Charlie grab his wallet and throw money at them. “Here! Take all of my money! Just don’t hurt me!” Spike walk toward Charlie and Charlie closes his eyes as his ferocious appearance scared him. “Oh almighty dragon! Please! Forgive me for all of my sins! I didn’t meant to commit such a heinous crime like taking a lollipop from little boy! I’m sorry but that lollipop look so good that I took it from the boy! Father! Forgive me!” Charlie holding Spike’s leg and start crying like a manchild which amuses Spike. ‘Okay, can this day get even weirder?’ Spike thought to himself. Charlie continues to cry until Spike grab and holding Charlie in his hand. “Listen Charlie, if you want to forgive yourself for stealing a lollipop from little boy. I suggest you should join our team to atone your sins” “Join you? Why should I join you and your goons?” Charlie questioned them “Goons?! I ain’t nobody’s goon!” Crimson Danger is offends by Charlie calling him “Goon”. “Shush!” Spike silences Crimson Danger as he look at Charlie “Charlie, let me tell you about The Emperor” Spike whispers to Charlie’s ear, “He loves CGI” Charlie immediately believe Spike’s lie about Emperor Faust and transform into Angry Charlie “That son of a bitch! That prick prefer CGI over traditional animation?! This is complete bullshit! NO! NOBODY SAID NO TO ME! YOU HEAR ME?! NOBODY SAYS NO TO CHARLIE! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!“ He unleashes his lighting power and target at the object. A gladiator see this and warn the others, “INCOMING!” Him and the rest of Gladiators dodge the attack as Charlie’s lighting power fires at the object. Spike and the team are disturbed by Charlie’s angry behavior and their jaws dropped as Charlie went back to his old self and smiles at them. “Okay, I’m in!” “So, that’s make us five, five is good enough! Is everyone good with it?” Ronin asked the team but Spike looked around and he seem unsatisfied. “Sorry Ronin but I feel we are missing one more members of our team” Spike making this statement to Ronin “What are you talking about, Spike?” Ronin asked Spike “Back on my planet, My team, “Elements of Harmony” have 6 members and I think our team need to have 6 members. I won’t be satisfied until we find our sixth member of our team” “But Spike, how are we going to find our sixth member? There are like 35 Gladiators and you think one of them want to be our sixth member?” Crimson Danger doubting Spike “I will join the team” they hears a mysterious voice as they turn around and saw a mechanical robot in front of them. “Who are you?” Crimson Danger asked the robot. “I am Test Bracer” “Test Bracer?” They say in unison. “Yup and no need to introduce yourselves, I already eavesdropping your conversation and when you looking for a sixth member, I knew I don’t want to miss out on being part of this awesome team!” “You’re not going to shock me like rest of the robots I met?” Spike asked Test Bracer “Oh heavens, no! Unlike them, I don’t like harming others and I only fight if I have to.” Spike sighed in relief as he doesn’t have to deal with electrical shock from Test Bracer. “You seem more emotional than rest of the robots? How is that possible?” Ronin asked Test Bracer “Well, you could say I’m special-type robot, that’s all I can say about myself.” He shrugs. “Alright, welcome to the team, Test Bracer” Ronin welcome him in the team. Spike, Ronin, Crimson Danger, Flint Blaze, Happy Charlie and Test Bracer are making circle as all of them put their hand together. “Alright team, from this day on. We will be known as “Gladiators of Harmony”!” Spike announces the name for the team which Danger and Blaze are puzzled by the name. “Gladiators of Harmony?” Crimson Danger asked Spike “Do I look like Harmony to you? Why Harmony?” Flint Blaze question Spike’s choice for the team’s name. “Because it’s a tribute to my old friends and I will survive this game so I can be reunites with them! So get used to it” Spike affirms his decision to them. “Fine” Crimson Danger signed. “Alright that settles it!” Spike smiles as all of them yell “Go..... GLADIATORS OF HARMONY!” They throw their hand in air. In the training ground, Spike and Gladiators of Harmony are sketching their legs as they are preparing for Intergalactic Gladiator Games. “Yeah! If we are going to fight those gladiators, we better to train our body in order to win our fight!” Spike look at Gladiators of Harmony who nodded to him. “Hey! Test Bracer! Since you are not going to train with us since you’re a robot, Turn on a workout music!” Spike asking Test Bracer “Coming right up!” Test Bracer push a button on his right arm and it play a workout music. In the training montage, Spike is dodging attacks from robot soldiers as he use his fire breath which turn them into ashes. “Woah! My fire breath got bigger...... AWESOME!” Spike is admires at his big fire breath but he have to shook it off as he continues to dodge attack from robot soldiers. “Man! Those guys doesn’t give up easy, are they?” Spike run toward robot soldiers and keep punching them. Ronin slashing all robot soldiers while running fast. “Damn! That samurai is one fast gladiator” Robot soldier #1 is impressed by Ronin before he get slashed by Ronin, “Should’ve see that coming!” That was his final words before it explodes. “Those are supposed to be the best soldiers of Faust Empire? Pathetic” Ronin is unimpressed with robot soldiers. Crimson Danger use his power to control all robot soldiers and tear all pieces of them apart. It’s big explosion while Danger is standing and act if he is proud of himself. “My masterpiece!” He blow a kiss “You know you should use your sound wave than being lazy with your metal control power, Ladybug” Spike teasing Crimson Danger “I told you I am NOT Ladybug and I’m not going to use my sound wave!” Crimson Danger glares at Spike while continues to tear all robot soldiers apart. Flint Blaze is surrounding by all robot soldiers as he grabs his gun and shoot all of them without miss his shot which cause them to explodes. “Bang! This is just a baby’s step” Flint keep shooting at robot soldiers with two guns and dodge their blast. “Come on, you mechanical trash can! Is that the best you got?!” Flint Blaze shooting at robot soldiers rapidly. Robot soldiers cornered Happy Charlie “Look at this gladiator, he is a funny-looking for a gladiator! No wonder people prefer CGI over Cartoon!” Robot Soldier #2 teases Happy Charlie’s appearance as he and other soldiers laugh at him. “Don’t you dare make fun of the cartoon..... you little ungrateful piece of shit!” Happy Charlie transform into Angry Charlie as he grabs multiple knifes from his bag. “Oh crap!” Robot Soldier #2 regrets his comment as he and others are being utterly destroyed by Angry Charlie while laughing at them manically “Who laughing now?!” Charlie keep stabbing all robot soldiers. Spike and Gladiators of Harmony look at all destroyed bodies of robot soldiers as Spike look at the sky and he decides to use his wings for the first time. “Here we go!” Spike flaps his wings and go sky high. “I will be damned” Flint Blaze took off his hat as he saw Spike flying. Spike stop at the top of the training ground as he look at the sky. “Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie. I promise I will win the game so I can be reuniting with your guys!” Spike flying down to the ground as he land safety as he stand along with Gladiators of Harmony. “WE ARE GLADIATORS OF HARMONY!” they yell in unison. Author's Note Spike finally got his own allies! GLADIATORS OF HARMONY! * Spike- The Leader * Ronin- The Second-In-Command (The identity of Ronin will be important later in the story) * Crimson Danger- The Buffoon (I based Danger on Jean-Pierre Polnareff, Okuyasu Nijimura and Narancia Ghirga fro JJBA. So expect a lot of bad things happens to this poor little Ladybug) * Flint Blaze- The Space Cowboy (He basically if Applejack become a gunslinger than working on Apples) * Happy Charlie- The Crazy One (Gladiators' answer to the local crazy pony, Pinkie Pie! and I thought it would be funny if one of his allies resemble a cartoon character from Who Framed Roger Rabbit movie) * Test Bracer- The Nice Robot (He's the token robot of the team and is very rather emotional for a robot) While Spike and Gladiators of Harmony are preparing their fights at the games, how can Twilight and Elements of Harmony find a way to get on Planet Faust since the planet is too far for their teleportation spell to work?
Let’s The Tournament Begin! Emperor Faust is relaxing on his own bath-tub while enjoying listening to classical music. “I love the classical music and it’s bring joy to my ear” Emperor praising the music while using his finger to pretending that he’s the conductor of orchestra, “Once the tournament begins, it’s going to bring entertainment to not only my own subjects but all different planets across the universe!” Emperor see his own butler approached him with a wine for him to drink. “Thank you for bringing my wine, my dear old Woz” he smiled as he drink the wine. “Emperor, Mr. Airren and Mr. Rygel want to speak with you.” “Good! Send them in” Emperor orders his butler to bring in Andy & Randy as the Butler walk to the door and opening the door for Andy & Randy. “Emperor is ready for you” Andy & Randy who are no longer wearing their armored outfits as Andy is wearing a neon-green hoodie, comfort blue jeans and rainbow-colored sneakers & Randy is wearing a sharp-dressed suit, tight black jeans and a black dress shoes. They give their thank to the butler as they approached the Emperor. “Really, Andy? We are about to meet The Emperor of Faust City and you wearing this clothes?!” Randy criticizes Andy’s choice in fashion. “Sorry but I don’t want to wear uncomfortable clothes and you don’t know that the outfit I wore is very uncomfortable to wear and it make me sweats everyday!” Andy defends himself from Randy. “Don’t worry, Andy. Once The Emperor gives us a reward, we’re no longer Faust’s property” Randy whispers to Andy as they’re standing in front of The Emperor who is still on his bathtub. “Well, you must be Andrew Airren and Randall Rygel! My two favorite guys!” Emperor greetings Andy & Randy as he smiles at them. “Thank you for the compliment, my dear Emperor” Randy smiles as he & Andy bow down before The Emperor. “Please! You don’t have to bow down before me, you guys did a wonderful job of gathering all of my gladiators for upcoming Intergalactic Gladiator Games.” Emperor hold his glass to them, “A toast for both of you for succeeding on this mission” Emperor drank his wine all the way and his glass is now empty. Andy & Randy gets up as Emperor get off from his bathtub and put on his bathrobe. “Excuse me, Emperor but where the re..” Andy began, only for Emperor to put his finger to his lips. “Your reward is here” Emperor pointing his finger to a golden briefcase with Faust Universe Company’s logo on it, “Open it up” Andy grabs a briefcase and open to find a lot of moneys, Andy & Randy are smiling of having a lot of cash that we heard a sound of angels singing. “Oh.... my..... God! We’re rich! Filthy rich! Ehehehe!“ Andy & Randy yells in unison as both of them start to jump around like someone who just won a lottery ticket, Emperor is amused by them. “Those twos are rather interesting” Emperor looks at Andy & Randy who continuously to jump around until Emperor shouted, “THAT’S ENOUGH, YOU TWO!!!!!!” which causes them to stop jumping and went back to their original position as they chuckles nervously. Emperor Faust become saddened, “Now, it’s sad that I have to let both of you go as part of your deal since you two are like 2 brothers I never have. Do you really want to leave Faust Universe Company?” Emperor asking Andy & Randy. “Sorry but the deal is the deal. We been working this company for 20 years and we want to explore the universe!” Andy answered “Very well, I bid you two farewell and I hope both of you have a brighter future” “Goodbye, my dear emperor” Randy bow to the Emperor while Andy wave goodbye to him as they left the room with their own briefcase. Emperor dropped his saddened look as his look is now disgusted look. “Finally! I got rid of those two bozos! They’re nothing more but nuisance for me!” The Emperor go to the window and see Spike & others training who are preparing themselves for Intergalactic Gladiator Games, Emperor smiles at Adult Purple Dragon who is using his fire breath to burn all of his robotic soldiers. “Soon, Once the games begins, all gladiators will kneel before my own champion” Emperor laugh in a sinister tone until his butler came in and interrupted him, “Emperor, there’s a lot of civilians protesting in front of your castle” “Protesting? My favorite people! Butler! get me my attire! I want to see them!” Emperor with a smug smile. “Yes, my Emperor” The Butler went off to get attire for his Emperor while Emperor Faust showing a sinister smile and continues to laugh. ”MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!” Andy & Randy are eating ramen noodle soup to celebrate their release from Faust Universe Company. “I really glad we don’t have to deal with him anymore and to be honest with you, I never liked him” Andy stating his dislike toward Emperor Faust. “You’re not only one who despises the Emperor” Randy point to bunch of protesters who are protesting in front of Faust Castle. “NOT MY EMPEROR! NOT MY EMPEROR! NOT MY EMPEROR!” Protesters shouting at the castle while Emperor Faust who is wearing a royal Red and Yellow attire enjoying the sound of them shouting at him. “Music to my ears, spread your hate toward me and it make me want to continue my reign as Emperor of Faust City even more!” Emperor stretches his arms out as he have feathers attached to his attire and pose like a Phoenix. “It’s been 25 years since you become Emperor of Faust City and you turn our once peaceful kingdom into a dystopian corporation kingdom! There’s no fresh air to breath in!” A young male protester yelled from the crowd. “You destroyed all forests so you can build part of your precious Faust Universe Company! Animals can’t live without their forests! Stop destroying their home!” A female protester joined in. “You bring nothing but trouble to our kingdom and we want you to resign your position as Emperor so we can rebuild the kingdom that you’re destroying! Empress did better job than you! You mad tyrant!” An older male protester angrily said. Hearing the word, “Empress”, Emperor Faust made his eye twitch and his face becoming more enraged with a flame on his eye. “Don’t you ever...... MENTION ABOUT THAT BITCH! You bunch of ungrateful ingrates!” Emperor Faust angrily shouting at the protester as he call his guards up. “Guards! Guards! I order you to get them out of my sight now! Arrest them! They’re supporters of that wretched BITCH!” Emperor order his guards to arrest the group of protesters. “Yes, my Emperor” The leader of Emperor’s guards flew toward the ground and land in front of the group of protesters. “Anyone who support the treacherous Empress will be arrested and possibly face the execution” The leader coldly told the protesters as they pointing their guns at them. Andy & Randy who are watching this wanting to help the protesters but they turn their back on them. “I really want to help them but I don’t want to throw my life away and being Faust’s property again, I cannot afford myself to spend another 20 years with him” Andy said as Randy hold a box that contain Mac. “Even we have Mac, we would cause collateral damage to Faust City and it’s too risking” Randy sighed with regret. The group of protesters put their hand on their heads but one of protester refuses as he tries to attack them. “I will not surrender myself to Maverick Faust!” He run toward them in attempt to attack them but the leader manages to grab the poor lad and holding him “Poor choice” Leader throws a male protester to the ground and grab his collar as he start to punching the lad while civilians stand there as the leader continues to punching the young protester whose face become more messed up and a lot of blood coming out of him. “Don’t just stand there! Stop him!” A female protester pleaded the civilians but they ignored her pleading as they continue with their life, leaving the male protester to be suffer by the hand of the leader. The leader of Faust’s guards finally stop punching as he standing in the blood pool of the male protester’s corpse body while other guards laughing at his body as they kick his dead body around which angers a female protester. “You monster! He didn’t deserve to die!” A female protester angrily yell at the Leader. “Unfortunately Ma’am, he could’ve surrender himself but he pay the ultimate price” The Leader coldly answered her as he orders his men to handcuff the group of protesters and lead them to their vehicles while Faust Universe Company’s clean up crew picks up the corpse body of a young male protester. Andy & Randy feeling guilty for not preventing the leader from beaten male protester to his death but they knew that’s how the system of Faust City works and didn’t want to spend another 20 years of being Faust’s properties as they continue to eat their noodle while listening to a blues song. “Life at Faust City sucks.” Randy stating his opinion on Faust City as we see part of the city being filled with darkness and utterly bleakness for those who suffer from the reign of Emperor Faust. In poor neighborhood of Faust City, we see a young boy walking around his neighborhood and see all people struggling with their life as they wore clothes from the trash and they don’t have enough food for the whole neighborhood. “I wish I could help them but I don’t have the power to make their life better” A young boy grab a locket from his pocket and he open his locket to find a hologram picture of him and his mom. “Mom, I wish you’re alive cause you always the one to guide me and without your guidance, I can’t help them! What do I do, mom?” The boy shred a tear and as he wiping his tear, he see a big blimp as Emperor Faust who wearing a red and yellow businessman suit appears on the screen. “Ladies and gentleman, I like to remind you that on tomorrow is the Intergalactic Gladiator Games! It’s a free event as you get to see Gladiators fighting each other to their death! Come to the Faust Universe Coliseum to watch the event! This is one event you don’t want to miss!” Emperor smiles at his subject. “Also, don’t forget to buy our Faust Universe T-Shirts, Shoes, Jackets, Glasses etc. once you go to the coliseum!” Emperor drink a Faust Universe soda and he look at his subject, “Man! That is one tasty beverage made by Faust Universe Company!” The boy who watch the announcement chuckles as he look at the hologram picture of his mom. “Mom, I think I got an idea!” At the dungeon of Faust Castle, Spike and Gladiators of Harmony are about to go to sleep after long weeks of their training but while Gladiators of Harmony are having no problem of sleeping on the ground, Spike still not used of sleeping on the ground. “What’s wrong, Spike?” Ronin asked “It’s just I so used on sleeping on my own bed and I still adjusting to sleeping on the ground with no blanket, Ronin” Spike complains about having to sleep on the ground and feeling the coldness without his blanket. “Get uses to sleeping the ground, Spike. This isn’t a fancy hotel for us, this is a dungeon and they’re not giving us blankets, beds or even foods and I haven’t eat any food since we got here!” Crimson Danger’s stomach growling, “If I don’t find any food to eat on tomorrow, I going to cut someone’s feet off and eat it like a beast!” Crimson making an evil face before he get hit by Flint Blaze, “Ouch!” “You ain’t eating no one, Danger” “Hey guys, you don’t have to worry about me, I’m robot and I don’t eat foods” Test Bracer reminding the team about himself. “WE KNOW IT, BRACER!” Spike and Gladiators of Harmony yell in unison. “Jeez, Bracer! I may look like 30s-cartoon character but at least I‘m aware the existence of robots!” Charlie growls at Bracer. “Sorry” Spike get up from the ground and look around his team “Listen guys, even through we don’t get along with each other but we must work together in order to win the game. We must win the game or else we won’t be able to get our freedom and..... and.... I won’t be able to see my old friends again.” Spike shred a tear while his team feel bad for him as a Ronin get up to comfort the dragon as he pet Spike’s head, much to Spike’s annoyance. “You really love petting my head, don’t you? Ronin?” Spike asked “You got a soft head, Spike” Ronin continues to petting Spike’s head, “I know you really misses your old buddies back on your planet but we can’t let our emotion distract us from the game, Spike. We must focus on winning the game. Once we win the game, you will see your friends again” Spike feeling better, “Thank you, Ronin” then Spike look at Gladiators of Harmony, “Remember guys, big games tomorrow! Make it count!” Spike and his team throw their arms in the air, “Go Gladiators of Harmony!” At the coliseum, we see bunch of civilians making their way to the building and one of them is a young boy. “I hope one of Gladiators can help me of making the city better” The boy rush to the coliseum hopefully to find any Gladiator for him to help. Back on Equestria, Everypony including Elements of Harmony, Princesses, Shining Armor, Cutie Mark Crusaders and even Discord of all people attending to watch the broadcast screen from A113 in order to watch Intergalactic Gladiator Games. Discord is wearing a football cap with 2 drinks attached to his cap, “My! Spike fighting his life as a gladiator? Man! This is going to be exciting tournament to watch!” He snap his finger so he can sit down on a comfort chair to watch the game whiling drinking 2 drinks from his cap. Twilight look at the screen and thought to herself, ‘Spike, I hope you are okay’. Inside of Emperor’s personal luxury suite, Emperor Faust is relaxing in his chair with Chancellor Brutus and the leader of Emperor’s bodyguards by his sides. “Excuse me, what’s your name again?” Emperor asked the leader of his bodyguards. “It’s Kougan” “Kougan! So, did you arrest those disgusting creatures?” Emperor asked “Yes and one of them unfortunately pay the price” Kougan answered with no sign of any remorse of killing the poor lad. “You what?!” Chancellor Brutus asked in shock “Ah, well, that’s what he gets for siding with.....that BITCH!” Emperor once again made his eye twitch. “Relax, my dear Emperor. Everyone is on your side” Kougan reassures his Emperor and manages to calm him down. “Thank you, Kougan” “Emperor, why would you hav....” Brutus began, only for Emperor stares at him with flame on his eyes which terrifies the pug, “Never mind” We see many civilians finding their seats while Andy & Randy are enjoying of eating their hot dogs. “Andy, why do you want to come to Intergalactic Gladiator Games? You said you don’t want anything to do with Emperor Faust and his Faust Universe Company, why?” Randy asked “Because I want to see what’s the dragon is capable of and this event got free foods and I am massive lover of foods!” Andy ate up his hot dog before he grab another hot dogs, “Free foods!” Andy chuckles. “Good grief” Randy facepalm himself. Inside of the armory, Spike dressed in a shiny purple armor with a purple gladiator helmet with 2 small fake dragon wings on it resembles a Roman era Gladiator. Gladiators of Harmony even Ronin & Flint holding their hands to their mouth laughing hysterically. “You got to be kidding me. Again, why do I need an armor? I’m a dragon!” Spike complains of have to wear a gladiator armor for the games. “Emperor request you to wear this armor because he think your skin is not hardened enough to protect yourself from the fights, so wear it and get out there and fight” a fashion designer who look like a small chipmunk answered. “My skin is not hardened?! Man, I bet he never have a fight with a dragon before” Spike ponder about Emperor but Crimson Danger interrupts his thought. “Spike! You look more like someone who go to a costume party than actual gladiator” Crimson Danger is laughing hysterically at Spike’s over the top purple Gladiator armor until he get hit by a seed from a fashion designer, “Hey! What did I do?!” “That’s for mocking my fashion, you stupid ladybug” “I am not a ladybug and I don’t resemble anything like a ladybug! Why do everyone keep calling me a ladybug?!” Crimson Danger angrily asked everyone but they ignores him, much to his dismay. “Come on, Spike! If you want to act like a Gladiator, you have to look the part! Look at me, I was a sailor, musician, chef, boxer and many more! So please, wear this armor just for the sake of your beloved friends” Charlie pleaded to Spike whiling struggling to holding his laugh from him. “Yeah, I think it look cool on you” Test Bracer encourages Spike as he’s the only one beside a fashion designer to not laugh at him wearing this ridiculous armor. “Fine! I will wear this stupid armor!” Spike reluctantly accepting the armor. “That’s the spirit! Enjoying your fight” A fashion designer exit the room as Gladiators of Harmony finally stop laughing at the poor dragon. “Alright team! Let’s do this!” Meanwhile at Equestria, Elements of Harmony especially Twilight & Rarity are concerned about Spike. “My Spikey-Wikey is going up against those savages?! This is insane! Spike can’t survive this!” Rarity freaks out like if her fashion is ruined by someone. “Relax, Rarity. It’s not like the end of the world” Rainbow Dash trying to calm the fashionista but it doesn’t work as Rarity get into Rainbow’s face. “Rainbow Dash! Losing my Spikey-Wikey is more devastating to me than the end of the world! It too much for me to hear of losing Spike!” Rarity starting to cry as Sweetie Belle comfort her sister. “Sorry Rarity” Rainbow apologizes to Rarity. Cadence and Shining Armor approached Twilight, as both of them laid a hoof on her. “Don’t worry, Twilight. We here for you.” Cadence assures Twilight. “Your BBBFF is here to help you to get through this difficult situation, Twily.” Shining Armor smiles at his younger sister. “Thank, guys” She smiled. Discord is waiting impatiently, “Come on! It’s been 6 minutes since I got here and the game haven’t starting?!” “Discord, calm yourself down. Maybe they just wanting to make sure they got everythi....” Celestia stop at her sentence when she along with the entire civilians of Ponyville see a golden smile emoji-like creature with golden suit standing on their screen. “What” Celestia is speechless. “The” Luna is speechless too. “Heck” as well as Cadence “Is” Shining Armor did double take. “That?!” Cutie Mark Crusaders gasped as they hold each other. In the coliseum, A hologram of a golden smile-emoji appear in front of the audience and talk in a bombastic voice as the crowd cheering. “Live from Planet Faust, I’m Kit Smileton and welcome to Intergalactic Gladiator Games!” Kit smiles at the audience, “Today, we going to witness the most ANTICIPATED Event of all time! For the TITLE of first ever Intergalactic Gladiator CHAMPION OF ALL THE UNIVERSE!!!!! Are you READY?!?!?!” Crowd cheered loud “Good people of Faust City, I say....... ARE YOU REEEEEEEEAAAAAADDDDDDDYYYYYYY?!?!?!?!“ Crowd cheered even more louder than ever. “Wonderful! Let’s the tournament BEGIN!” Author's Note Sorry about the other day, I accidentally click on “Publish” button on the chapter that I still writing and I have to delete that one to make another one! My apologies! So! We finally at the Tournament and can Spike and Gladiators of Harmony win the tournament in order to get back home or they will be Faust’s property? Twilight and Elements of Harmony are still trying to figure out of getting on Planet Faust since the planet is too far away from them using their teleportation spell, what will they do to get on that planet? Kougan is NOT a robot but an alien who willing to not only follows his beloved Emperor but shows no hesitation of killing anyone who stand in Emperor’s way or even mention about Empress to his face. The boy will play a very important in the story. Also, Rest In Peace for a young male protester who was tragically killed by Kougan and he died in vain. RIP Unnamed Male Protester https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QuNhTLVgV2Y
