Spike was sleeping peacefully, he was tired when this whole thing happened, and once the excitement was over, the dragons lack of sleep hit him like a ton of bricks, but then it was interrupted by his ship. "Spike we are being hailed by Federation Ship Orion." Said Chris.

Spike groaned at being woken up, it was late and he was having a great dream about eating a pile of gems. "Tell them to screw off, I'm sleeping."

Chris, took the request literally and sent a message to the ship. "Very well, transmitting message. They are responding. They are not happy about what you said."

Spike groaned, now he had to deal with this. "Chris, open communications."

"Open." Said Chris.

Soon the screen popped up and sitting in a large helm was a creature with green hair, 2 long red horns on it's head, and dressed in what only could be the federation uniform. "Greetings, I am Captain Donchun, of The Orion, we are responding to a distress signal in the sector."

Spike rubbed his eyes as he looked at the captain. "Look, first I'm sorry about the screw off thing, I'm really tired, and you interrupted my dream.

"Pilot, state your emergency." Said Donchun, this was a uncharted sector, and god knows what could happen out here.

Spike shrugged. "Yeah about that, The Goliath is right over there, but it's not a problem anymore."

"Ensign on screen." Said Captain Donchun. Spike had no idea what was going on, but he guessed that someone pulled a image of the wreck. "But that's the Goliath?"

Spike nodded. "Right, I took it out, be a pal and go grab the crew, I left their life support on, but I took out almost everything else."

Donchun was really confused as his horns went limp. "But that's impossible, that is captained by Resnick of the empire, he's one of the greatest strategist and captains the empire has." His horns then went back up, and a angry face was all Spike saw. "I do not believe that a single pilot was able to destroy a warship that has plagued the Federation for months."

Chris sighed as he sent telemetry and video of what happened. "Captain, I have sent a transmission of video feed I captured while my pilot was fighting, please look over it and add it to federation records."

"Captain, transmission received, it was sent from a CH 715 fighter, the records show that the pilot should be dead." Said
a voice.

Donchun growled. "Pilot, this is a violation of Federation regulations, as the highest ranking person here, I order you to return the ship, and report to me. Lieutenant open Shuttle Bay 2. Pilot, proceed to the shuttle bay, and land. You will be escorted to me."

Spike looked at the angry face of Donchun, and decided it was too late for this. "No, and for a few reasons. A: I have to head back to my planet, B: I am not part of the Federation, and 3: I'm really tired. Sooooo...Bye. Chris end the call and set course for the planet." Chris sighed as he ended the call and set a course back to Spike's home.

Captain Donchun was silent as he watched Spike fly away from them, but then he got pissed. "Ensign track that fighter, and once we have the crew of the Goliath on board, we're going to follow him where ever he is."

"Yes sir, tracking engine signature." Said the ensign.

With Spike, he was arguing with his ship. "That was not a good idea." Said Chris.

"I know, that's not hard to see, but right now, I'm not in the mood, and I was right, I never joined the federation officially, you landed on my planet, I found you without a pilot, I got pulled into you, you gave me a choice to save my planet or die, I didn't want to die, so you uploaded a lot of stuff into my head, and we fought the Goliath. No where in the last few hours did I ever go to a school, sign up, or pretty much anything that would consist of joining a military or conscripted service. Run that through your processors and see if that makes me part of the Federation."

Chris was silent as he really didn't have a response to that. "Fine, but I am a Federation fighter ship, that means I am part of the Federation."

"Granted, but technically you crashed, for lack of a better term. I found you first, meaning that you are just some really well preserved scrap, that I just happened to salvage. I'm not saying that you are scrap, but where I'm from, that means that the only affiliation you have is to me."

Chris sighed, as he looked up regulations and laws of the federation, and since there was nothing to do with his situation, the law dictates that the laws of the pilot's home world is the highest power. "Very well, by federation regulations, I am no longer under federation sanctions."

Spike smiled but he yawned. "Spike, you are showing signs of sleep depravation and exhaustion."

Spike yawned again, it was probably very late on the planet and knowing his life, he was going to be up in a few hours. "Yeah, sorry, I'm really tired, and this is not helping matters. Chris, listen, I want to learn more about the federation before I jump head first into this, so let me get some sleep, and we can discuss this in the morning."

"Very well, but just to inform you, records show that Donchun is not the easiest man to say no to."

"Well, for his sake, I hope he doesn't do something stupid, I'm pretty sure that would not end well for him or the Orion. Chris prepare for atmospheric reentry." Said Spike as he reached his home, and started going to the ground.

When they landed in the same location as before, Chris opened a door on his side to let Spike out. "Spike, I will reside here until a more suitable location can be found."

Spike pointed to the old castle. "There's an abandoned castle about a mile west southwest of here, it has a canyon and a lot of caves, why don't you take a quick fly there?"

"Very well, activating localized auto pilot." The ship took off again and headed to the old castle, it was safer than where it was, but that left Spike alone, in the Everfree, the same Everfree that was full of creatures that would love a dragon for a snack. So not wanting to end up a meal, Spike got his tail out of the very dangerous forest.

Spike ran across town, thank full it was dark and no one was out, and once he reached his home all he wanted to do was head to his room and sleep. But he stopped when he noticed that in the time it took him to make it to the castle, he was still in his armor. "Crap, how do I get this off of me?" The moment Spike wanted it off, the nano suit retreated into his scales. Spike watched as the suit was now gone. "Ok, that's convenient." Spike opened the door and the moment he did, he was being glared at but Twilight. 'Oh fuck my life, I forgot about her.' He thought, but he smiled at his sister. "Twi, what are you doing up?"

"Do you have any idea what time it is?" Asked the very upset all powerful alicorn of friendship, overprotective sister, and overall bookworm. She had been up waiting to make sure that Spike got home after he left almost 5 hours ago to go on a little walk in town. "Well, I'm waiting for an explanation Spike."

Spike looked at Twilight and had an idea. "Twi you won't ever believe it, I was sitting in the park, then I saw a large shooting star fall from the sky, it landed in the Everfree and I went to go investigate. It turns out that it was a space ship, I got pulled into it and we bonded. Then it informed me that an alien race was coming to destroy the planet. So it gave me control, and I went into space to fight off a massive ship." Spike was hoping that it sounded so half assed that even while it was true, Twilight would just assume it was just an excuse.

Twilight looked at Spike, and even to her sleep deprived mind, the excuse was just a load of bull. She rubbed her eyes out of tiredness. "Go to bed, we'll talk about this in the morning."

Spike nodded as he ran away, happy that she fell for it. Twilight sighed, she was too tired to get to the bottom of why the hell Spike wasn't home before midnight. "I swear, all he needed to tell me is that he was seeing a mare, but where does someone come up with a lie like that?" She shook her head and decided to just stop thinking about this for now. "I'm going to bed."

Inside of Spike's room, he was looking at the ceiling of his room. "Holy crap this really happened didn't it?"

"Affirmative." Said Chris.

Spike was surprised to hear Chris in his room. "Chris, how are you here?"

"I have a neural link with you now, this is so I can communicate with you while on missions."

"Oh....cool, but I'm tired, so can you not keep me up?"

"Fine, but just so you know, I wasn't the one who was still awake."

"Noted, good night Chris."

"Good night, Spike." Spike closed his eyes to finally get some sleep.

Author's Note

So Sorry about how long this took, I got really annoyed with how I first wrote this chapter, than got annoyed at the rewrite, and copy and past that around 12 times more and this was the final product.

A while ago, I asked for help to find a video, and thanks to you all I found it quickly. The while idea was to find what Spike's voice was going to sound like, so thank you all.

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