Will You Stay with Me?

Chapters

Prologue
Chapter One.
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Five
Chapter Four

Prologue

In a world known as Equestria, Spike the dragon had no idea that by midday, his life would be thrown into utter chaos.

It started off early, as Twilight rose the sun, sounds of a nearby rooster went off, but the grown purple dragon had already been awake for a moment. Gazing up at the tall ceiling, watching the tiny specks of dust floating around and about. His few moments to himself he could cherish before becoming consumed by his busy daily life.

A knock on his door interrupted his mindless wondering. "Prince Spike, it's time to get up." The guard standing outside of his door announced.

"Like I didn't know that." The dragon muttered under his breath before sitting up. " I'll be right out, thank you Cherry Showers." He called out to the guard before he got up, in his underwear. Stretching his limbs, he first went to his private bathroom, scrubbed the sand out of his eyes and freshened up.

Spike had most certainly changed over the years, already taller than most of the ponies. He was broader than he had been when he was a kid,, stronger looking, more mature looking, spent years perfecting his looks.

He had to admit, he looked good and took pride of it. "Spike, you one, devilish dragon." Spike giggled, admiring himself before changing into his clothes for the day. Wearing a nice suit that hugged his built frame, slipping in his badge, strapping on his boots and left his room.

"Morning." Spike greeted the stallion.

"Good morning, Sire." The guard bowed to him. "Slept well?"

"Like a baby. Don't work too hard now." He smiled at him before walking off down the hall.

"Yes sir." Cherry Showers said before resuming his duties.

The Ambassador continued his walk down the halls of Canterlot, carrying himself with the honor and pride, heading towards the dining hall. Along his stride, several serving ponies who were working on the halls greeted him.

"Morning Spike."

"Good morning, Sir Spike."

"Hi Spike!"

Each one was met with a respectable response to each and every one of them. Generally appreciating the work they had done over the years.

As he approached the dining hall, he already could hear some commotion going on inside.

"The Great and Powerful Trixie! Is seeking audience with the rrrruler of Equestria."

Spike blinked in confusion before letting out a sigh. "Here we go again." The dragon muttered before opening the doors and sure enough, Trixie Lulumoon with a young mare wearing similar flashy clothes as the head magician. The dress the mare had on, however, was way too see through to even cover her massive pink breasts.

So the dragon pretty much sees everything.

Twilight sat in her designated spot on the dining table. Like Spike, she went through a bit of transformation since taking the throne. Her mane was incredibly long and waved in the same manner as the previous rulers - may the eternal Sun and Moon dance together in Harmony - she wore a light regal blue dress made out of a thin material that fit Princess Bookhorse quite nicely, her crown rested comfortably on her head.

And she didn't look amused that Trixie was here.

"What's going on?" Spike asked as he came in, joining whatever this was.

Twilight turned to greet him and smiled. "Good morning, Spike." That smile turned stoic when now facing Trixie and her assistant. "Trixie decided to join us for breakfast… unannounced."

Her friends can do that, not Trixie.

Trixie gasped dramatically, placed her hand over her heart. "Unannounced? I made an appointment with your secretary three times. She keeps either forgetting or ignores me, so I came."

Spike lets out a salty sigh. He glanced over at the pink mare, who looked embarrassed to be there, in that outfit, letting this idiot talk, gave Spike and the princess an apologetic look.

"I don't like anyone barging in without at least checking in." Twilight grumbled. " So whatever is that you want, make it quick." Her magic levitates the stack of pancakes and her berries onto a plate of hers before making Spike's plate for him and sat it down next to him. "We have a busy schedule so make it fast."

She'll listen to what Trixie has before giving her the boot.

Spike shrugged his shoulders before taking his seat next to her. The height difference between them were something else; twilight was taller than Spike but she was the same height as Celestia was. Her being ten feet tall and Spike being 8'11. He grabbed his stack and began eating his jewel encrusted flapjacks.

Trixie said something to her assistant before clearing her throat. "I, The Great and Powerful Trixie, and assistant Spicy Lace, have come to seek an audience… for a job."

Twilight chokes on her coffee and ends up in a coughing fit. Spike went to her side to make sure she was alright.

"I-im fine, Spike." Twilight coughs again before looking back at Trixie. "Come again??"

The magician gave her a deadpan look. "A job. Trixie needs a job."

"I thought you were working with Starlight and Sunburst at the school?" Twilight asked as Spike returned to his seat. At least that's what she heard the last time she received Star's letters

"Trixie and Starlight...had a bit of a misunderstanding and her so called "best friend" fired her." Trixie explains.

"I'm sorry to hear that." Twilight responded. "But why come to me? You have always done well performing."

"Business is slow since television was created." Spicy Lace explained. "We've downgraded to foal's parties. Parents rated us One star."

Trixie gave her assistant the most ugliest, evil look she could give. "Quiet you..."

Twilight sighed, "Trixie, I don't think we have a need for a magician."

Spike hummed softly. " Well, Bubble Bead, the jester, is out sick. The guards are getting restless from the lack of entertainment. You know how those guys get." He reminded the princess.

Trixie smiled at that. " Princess, you must at least show what I can do, the guards must have their spirits."

Twilight first looked at her adviser then at the magician and sighed. "Very well, impress me, you get the job." She sits back in her chair.

Trixie's smile grew wider by that. "Yes, come and rejoice, be amazed by the mystical arts of The Great and Powerful Trixie!' both her and her assistant striked a pose, confetti exploded around them.

Twilight grunted, having to pick some pieces up out of her food and gave Trixie a look.

Spike sighed heavily as he ate his food.

The following ten minutes was nothing but Trixie performing the same old tricks she had perform over the years. The same pulling bunnies out of her hat, disappearing and reappearing objects, sawing her assistant in half.

With the assistant's legs and the box literally took off running.

"My legs!!" Spicy Lace shrieked in pure horror. Half of her body was running around frantic.

Spike spat his food and Twilight gasped.

"Whoops." Trixie nervously smiled.

"My legs, someone get my legs!" Spicy screamed, her legs were running into the wall in the same, frightened manner as the top half. "My legs!"

Spike quickly got up from his table and helped the poor mare out.

"Um, just a small miscalculation." Trixie nervously giggled before she harshly whispered to her distraught assistant. "Where exactly did you get this box?"

"Joe's magic emporium, like you told me to get it!" Spicy shrieked.

" I got them." Spike said, gently corralling the dismembered, but alive legs back to the upper half. Leading them back on the table.

Once both halves are together, Trixie tapped her prop wand on the box, her horn sparked. "And now, two become one!"

The box opened and one whole Spicy Lace bolted out of it.

"Ta-da!" Trixie announced before Spicy all of the sudden grabs a stack of Spike's pancakes and throws it at the magician.

"Hey!" Spike snapped but it was too late.

Trixie gasped loudly, teleported just to the right and glared at her. "You dare throw food at Trixie!?!" She gasped.

"I quit!" Spicy screamed at the unicorn's face.

Trixie blink. "Um, what?"

Spike frowned, looking at his now empty plate.

"You said you finally got things together, this isn't it! I should've listen to my mother!" Spicy started walking out of the dining hall.

" You can't leave! Where are you going?!" Trixie asked as she stormed off.

" GOING TO SPACE CAMP!" Spicy shouted before she left.

Trixie watched her go. " Well… that was something." She turned back to Twilight and Spike.

Both of them were giving the magician the same, deadpan look. Causing Trixie to whimper softly.

Twilight slid her plate to Spike - due to the table not having any more gem pancakes - for him to finish eating before turning to Trixie.

"I think that's enough excitement for the day, thank you for dropping by, Trixie." Twilight said, standing up.

" So...does Trixie got the job?" The magician asked, looking hopeful.

Judging by those two looks, Trixie gotten her answer. "J-just hold up. Trixie has one final act!" Trixie starts going through her bag. " Hold up, just one-"

Trixie was cut off when two guards, a pegasus and Gallus swooped in and both grabbed her arms.

"Gallus Barb, please escort Trixie out of the premises" Twilight smiled at her former student-turned guard.

The griffon nodded. " Aye aye, ma'am." He said before he and the pegasus began dragging the unicorn out.

"No no no no no no no no, please give Trixie one more chance!" Trixie begged as the guys dragged. " Princess Twilight!"

"Have a good day," Twilight had a smug grin on her face as she waved her off.

Spike sighed. "Well… that went well." He grunted, annoyingly eating his non-gem encrusted meal.

"Sorry Spike." Twilight said, shaking her head. "Great, now I have a migraine and we have a long day ahead of us." She looked to him. "What do you have planned?'

Spike shrugged. "The Kirins and Dragons are having peace talks. Kirins want a piece of land near the Dragon lands. Put two easily enraged creatures together and chaos would surely endure. " He sighed.

" Who do you think is going to throw the first punch? "

" Honestly, both will throw the first punch."

Both of them giggled at that.

" Alright, let's get this day over it." Twilight said, patting Spike's shoulders.

It was almost noon and Spike was already done with this day. His body was smoking after dealing with the Kirins and Dragons.

Peace talks were obviously rescheduled due to the lack of fire extinguishers.

Spike was sitting on a bench near the castle, holding his coat in his claws. His very tattered and ruined coat. "Great, this was my favorite." He sighed.

The purple dragon breathed fire at the coat then, having it completely reduced to ashes, finishing the job.

"Hmm, what else do I have to do?' he muttered, digging into his pockets and pulled out his list of things to get done. "Oh? Nothing?" He blinked in confusion. Normally Twilight would add something to the list via magic. She hasn't given him something to do. "Eh, works for me." He shrugged.

Time off is time off.

Now as Spike thought of how he'll spend his free time, he hears a commotion across the street.

He sees Trixie trying to perform for a crowd.

And watching as it backfired and the crowd left without paying her.

Trixie looked defeated as she hung her head down in shame and leaned against the side of a building.

Crap.

Spike sighed softly before getting up and walking over to her. "Hey, Trix." He greeted her.

The magician looked up to him, the hat tilted the side. "Oh… it's you."

"I see business is going well." Spike said, looking at what she had. A box in a stool, a magician's cap turned upside down and was placed on the ground, covered in cobwebs by the lack of bits.

"It would be better if Princess didn't kick Trixie out." Trixie grumbled.

" Well you did had an assistant quit on you."

Trixie huffed, getting up off the ground and looked up at him. "Trixie had one trick to show you two, and you both had the nerve to throw Trixie out in the cold without even considering letting the guest finish the performance!"

Spike raised a brow at her. " Um, didn't you show up unannounced?"

" That's beside the point! Those soldiers need to be entertained and you and the princess are denying them."

Something please remind me why I'm talking to her? Spike thought, but no one answered.

The dragon grunted. "How about this, you show me this trick, if I like it, I'll talk to Twily."

Trixie gave him a look. " How would I know you won't go back on your word and get a free show?"

" If I don't like it, you get a bit. Or I can just go because I do have things I gotta get done."

" Fine." Trixie said.

Twilight's castle was in utter chaos. Alarms were going off, guards and the Princess were on the hunt.

"Shit shit shit, shit shit!" Trixie whimpered as she ran down the royal halls. Arms clenching tightly around her rather heavy looking bag.

She fucked up, she fucked up so, so bad.

When she got near a door, she stopped when she saw moving shadows moving towards her. Trixie turns around and saw shadows coming from the other side.

"I think she's over here!" Gallus was heard shouting.

" Oh fuck." Trixie yelped.

In amidst of the panic, Trixie quickly figures a quick solution and thought of a spell.

A spell Starlight taught her.

Trixie's horn sparked and instantly, she became invisible.

Guards from both sides of the hallway met up. The magician pushed herself up against a wall, one hand removed from the heavy bag and clamped her muzzle to hold her frantic breathing.

"Damnit, I thought I heard her." Gallus grunted, looking around at the other guards.

A couple making way for the Princess. "What's the status of finding Trixie?" Her voice was commanding, anger, and of fright.

" She hasn't been seen in the library." One guard said.

"Not in the kitchen and ballroom." Another said.

" Garden and west wing clear."

Twilight let out a yell of frustration. " We have to find her, now. If you see her bag, be careful when handling him, but do whatever it takes to stop that mare!"

" We'll get him back." Gallus said.

" Search every room, search everything. Check multiple times if you must." Twilight said.

The mob quickly took off in their desperate search. Trixie remained invisible for five more minutes before letting the spell down with a loud gasp of air. "Oh my God, I can breathe!"

She clamped her muzzle again for a split second to hear if anyone heard her. They hadn't and she relaxed a little.

But not entirely.

"Who knew an age spell was really an fucking age curse. Bloody Joe I want my money back." Trixie grunted.

At least she could now finally do an underwater escape trick she wanted to do…

But that is the very least of her worries.

"Now, I just got to reverse you." Trixie looks down at her bag then. "Just don't know how..." She frowned.

Trixie looked out a window then to see her trailer that was parked out was swarmed by guards so going there was out.

"Trixie needs a place to think." She muttered before she took off again

Chapter One.

Two weeks earlier…

A blue car pulled up at a suburban house, in a neighborhood just outside of Canterlot, a young woman with pink skin, lilac hair tied up, wearing a dress suit, looked through the windshield and up at the house.

The woman sighed sadly before shutting the engine off, unbuckling the seatbelt before exiting the vehicle. Grabbing her purse and her badge, sticking it to her blouse before heading up to the house.

The woman got up to the front door. Taking a moment before she knocked on the door.

A very pregnant woman with snow white skin, short black hair in a sundress soon opened the door. "Hello." She greeted the woman. "You're Juju Bean, right?" She asked, rubbing her baby bump.

"Yes, I am… is Scarlet ready?" The social worker asked.

The pregnant lady frowned. "Not exactly...my husband is packing her things but…"

Juju Bean frowned as well. "She doesn't know, does she?"

The woman didn't say anything, which answered the social worker's question.

God damnit…

"Where is she then?" Juju Bean asked with a sigh.

"In the backyard."

The pregnant lady led Juju Bean inside the home. The home was relatively nice, decorated modernly. There were a few photos with the couple and a young child. A ten year old that had an aqua green skin, red eyes, her long hair had a gradient of a deep purple color that had transitioned to a deep crimson red. The pregnant lady led her to the glass sliding door.

Juju gazed outside and saw the girl in question.

Scarlet Rose was playing with a medium size dog outside. Grass staining her pink overalls and a black undershirt.

The girl giggled and laughed as the dog chased her playfully, going after the toy.

The dog quickly caught up with Scarlet, pouncing on her and brought her to the ground.

"Max!" Scarlet squealed, wrestling with the dog. Her fingers scratching his back. She looked so happy, not knowing what was about to unfold. "You're such a good boy! Ooh I love you!"

The dog gave her loving licks and barked happily. Tail wagging in joy.

The social worker turned to the mother-to-be. "Is there any way you can reconsider this? This is the fifth home she's being relocated from. She's really a good kid."

" We can't afford to take care of two children. The only reason we tried fostering is because we thought we weren't able to have kids of our own.." the woman said, rubbing her baby bump. "Believe me, I would love to have both kids but…"

Juju sighed, shaking her head. She really hated doing this part of the job. The little girl had been in five different foster homes since she was six weeks old, spending the majority of that time as the ward of the state.

It's not an easy thing.

"Scarlet, honey." The pregnant lady called her.

The girl sat up as she pet the dog and turned to face her. "Yes, mama?"

Oh boy...

Both Scarlet and Juju Bean frowned in sight of one another.

"Ms. Bean..." Scarlet muttered softly.

Juju Bean sighed, walking up to her slowly before stopping and kneeling down to the child's height.

"Hey, sweetpea. How are you doing?" The social worker asked.

Max nudged the child's hand for wanting to get petted, and she automatically complied to the animal's wants.

"I'm fine… what's going on?" Scarlet asked her before looking over to her foster mom.

" Scar… I'm really sorry, honey." The lady said, unable to look at her eyes.

That was all Scarlet needed to know.

" No!" She got up from the dog, rushing over to the woman and wrapped her arms around her. "Please don't send me away! Please mama please!" Scarlet cried, her head pressed against the belly.

" Scarlet, please don't make this harder."

" Mama, please, i-i'll do better. I'll clean my room, anything, just don't send me back!" Scarlet begged her.

She then saw her foster father, a rather large burly man with orange skin, brown eyes and messy brown hair, wearing a red flannel shirt and heavy looking jeans and boots. In his large hands was Scarlet's backpack.

The backpack was black with small extended fabric bat wings sticking out on either side.

"Daddy, please." Scarlet begged him too. Tears streaking down her face, her eyes were much more redden than usual.

"Sorry, kiddo." The man said. He wasn't so emotional about this as his wife, or he had a better hold on his emotions.

Juju Bean walked up to Scarlet, placing her hands on the girl's shoulder.

"Let's go, honey." Juju said softly, pulling her off of the woman.

"No, no please!" Scarlet screamed but was taken away.

Juju grabbed the backpack from the man. " Good day to you both." She said, her tone was sour to the two before taking the crying child away from yet another home.

****

The ride in the car was quiet, Scarlet is sitting in the backseat with a somber look on her face. The tears had stopped but it was understandable that she was still quite upset.

She watched the buildings pass them by as the car traveled through the city streets. Seeing kids and their parents out and about. Couldn't help but feel jealous.

Those kids have mommies and daddies. They have families, she doesn't.

Juju Bean looked at Scarlet from the rearview mirror. She sighed softly. "Honey, I'm sorry for this. I know it's hard, but don't you worry. We'll find you a home, next time will be different."

" You said that the last time… and the time before that, and before that." Scarlet said softly. Not looking back at the social worker.

" I know, I know." Juju said.

Scarlet waited for a moment before asking, "is there something wrong with me?"

Juju Bean pulled up at a stop sign, when she had a moment to stop the car, she turned around and looked at the little girl. "What makes you think of that?" She asked her.

" No one wants me around." She said, rubbing her eyes and sniffling. "I don't know what I did wrong."

"Hey, you did absolutely nothing wrong." Juju said, trying to console her. "I can't give you a reason why people are the way they are."

Juju does know why. Being a child social worker, she knows various reasons why…

And what hits her the most was the fact that the older Scarlet gets, the harder it gets for her to get adopted. Most couples prefer babies over the older children.

"But I do believe there is someone out there who would love to have someone as special as you into their family." Juju said before turning back around to continue to drive.

However, Scarlet was starting to believe there wasn't any. Ten years of living in the orphanage, having been shipped to different foster homes and returned like a person buying and returning something to a store.

Many years of being discarded away can take a toll on a kid. Scarlet wasn't one to hide her emotions on her face.

Juju soon drove to a nearby gas station, pulling up to pump 3.

She turns to Scarlet. "Hey, wanna come in, pick something out? Chips? Soda? Candy? Anything?" She suggested.

Scarlet silently shook her head as her response.

"You know what, I'll surprise you." Juju smiled, reaching over to grab the kid's hand.

Scarlet pulled her hand away and shoved it into her pockets.

Juju Bean sighed softly at her before getting out of the car. Making sure the AC was running. "I'll be back." She then closed the door and headed inside.

Scarlet sighed softly as she continued to look outside. She sees a mini van pulled into the station. She grimaced when she saw two children her age and parents getting out of the car.

The family looked so happy to be with one another, while she was alone.

Five families, five homes Scarlet was placed, no one kept her longer than several months. Her last home was the longest, nearly six months, she had believed truly those two would be her parents. She was scared that once the mom had gotten pregnant that she would be sent off again, but there wasn't any indication she saw of. She thought she would be a big sister, she even helped pick the colors for the baby's room.

Which would be the room Scarlet was using, now she thinks of it.

She growled softly to herself.

****

A couple of minutes later, Juju Bean came back out with a bit of everything Scarlet liked to eat to snack on and was going to pump the gas. She got to the car and gasped out loud. The sack of snacks dropped to the ground.

The backseat was empty. No batty backpack, no Scarlet.

"Oh my God!" Juju Bean screamed. "Scarlet?! Scarlet Rose?!?" She looked around the parking lot. "has anyone seen a little girl? Anyone?!"

She was in a panic, running to people who were in the lot if they seen anything. The manager of the store came out to the distraught woman, already phoning the police.

There was a missing child.

Now, in Equestria.

Trixie was still running through the castle. The unicorn was running out of options. She couldn't teleport long distances, not finding any solution for reversing her mess.

She didn't want to sit in a cell for the rest of her life for a simple mistake. Perhaps if she can reverse Spike, Princess Twilight would be so happy that she'll forgive the magician.

She just needed a moment where she's not being chased by the Princess herself and the royal guards.

She came to a long hallway of doors. Many doors for her to choose from to hide.

Trixie raced to every door down that hall, testing to see if anything would open. Each door she tried made her more frustrated due to it being locked shut.

Once she found one that was unlocked, she opened it up, rushed inside and closed it back shut. Locking it up and sighed.

"Finally, I can rest." She said, taking her hat off to wipe sweat from her brow.

She replaced the hat back on her head and quickly opened the satchel.

Inside was Spike's egg. It was a lighter purple color with dark purple swirls that mimic fire, and under the light it showed it had tiny green specks all over it. The egg was large, roughly the size of her head snuggled inside of the blue bag with yellow stars on the fabric.

She checked to see if the egg was damaged. To her relief it wasn't. "Phew, you're okay." She said. She closed the bag up and looked around the room.

And stiffened when she saw where she was at.

She was in Twilight's main study. The walls were lined with personal books, photos of her friends on various shelves, a white lounge seat and other comfy seats with a coffee table. A winding staircase up to a loft office.

And tucked in a corner was a strange contraption with a mirror displayed.

"Oh this is not good." Trixie gulped. "So not where I want to be." She turned back around to go outside. She stopped however when she heard more hoofsteps coming down the hall and slowly back away from the door.

"Okay, not going out." She gulped, clutching the bag.

She looked around in the office for a spot to hide, while trying to be as quiet as possible.

The problem was that the gravity of the bag was weighing Trixie down on the wooden style floors, causing them to creak with each step.

This was just not Trixie's day.

She walked past the mirror contraption and stopped.

"Hmm, this looks like the mirror portal Starlight mentioned. To another realm."

Trixie thought about it for a moment and came up with a perfect hiding spot.

Trixie looked for a way to activate this portal. It took her a few minutes to find out how to get it working.

Trixie took a few moments before rushing through the portal.

With no idea what will lie ahead of her or Spike.

Chapter Two

The experience of traveling through the portal was intense. Colors of the rainbow surrounded the screaming magician. Her screams echoing as she fell down, down, down into the depths of another realm, traveling to a world Trixie does not know.

The bag clutched to her chest, holding on for it for dear life. While Trixie's body started to glow magenta red for her transformation, the egg was not glowing of any color, nor undergoing a change.

When it seemed to be an eternity of falling, Trixie finally stopped falling when she landed on solid ground, rolling to a stop.

Trixie groans, seeing stars and wands floating around her head as she sits up. "Anypony got crackers?" She asked incoherently. Woozy from the fall.

She quickly shook her head, placing a hand on the side of it. "Ooh, Starlight failed to mention the headrush."

She went to put her hand on her muzzle to rub it when she realized that it was much shorter and smaller. "What happened to my face??"

Trixie examined her body and noticed that she wasn't a pony anymore. From the lack of horn, her ears have changed shape and moved to the sides of her head, her skin didn't have much fur by the looks of her arms - nearly hairless, no tail and her hooves were different as well, but with shoes on.

Her clothes from the other world remained the same.

"Starlight also failed to mention this." She attempted to use her magic to locate her hat but the magic wasn't working. "Ooh I've been downgraded to a freaking earth pony."

But she clearly wasn't an earth pony.

Trixie then remembered the bag and quickly opened it to check on Spike. She let out a deep exhale of relief, the egg was safe.

Then she frowned. "Uh… did you get bigger??"

The egg and the bag were normal size...it was Trixie that was smaller.

Bbbbbbbrrrriiiiinnnnggg!!!

The sounds of a school bell caused Trixie to jump. Soon students of this realm started to flock out the doors and escape to freedom.

Trixie gulped before getting up on her feet, when lifting the bag, she stumbled to balance. The egg was harder to hold.

"Dude, lay off the gems." She grunted before running off, running past the portal statue and down the sidewalk away from the school.

Running while carrying the egg was proving to be quite difficult, Trixie was quickly sweating profusely from the strain.

"Okay, Trixie needs something to carry you easily." Trixie grunted, looking around the busy street.

The people looked at Trixie with an odd look, eyeing at her strange flashy clothes and struggling to carry the bag

"Oi, look at some pony else." Trixie grunted.

"Weirdo." Someone called her in passing.

Trixie shook her head as she came to an alleyway. She hummed when she saw a beat up old wagon parked right next to a dumpster.

She pondered for a moment before walking over to the wagon, placed the bag in it before grabbing the handle. It creaked and squeaked when she began pulling it. "Ah, this will work perfectly."

The dumpster began making noises, bottles and glass breaking inside.

"Hey, who's out there?!" A young voice called.

Trixie yelped and started running off again, dragging the wagon behind her.

At the same time, Scarlet stuck her head out of the dumpster, she looked dirtier and hair unruly, but she was okay. And mad.

"That's my wagon!" Scarlet shouted at the strange woman.

When no one stopped Trixie, the ten year old growled before pulling herself out of the dumpster. Her batty backpack filled with what half eaten food and items she found spilled out on the ground. She wore a black hoodie and jeans.

Scarlet took a moment to zip her bag, throw her hood up to hide her hair and took off after the wagon she claimed days ago.

"That's mine!" Scarlet yells at Trixie as she runs full speed.

"Beat it, pipsqueak, I need it!" Trixie shouts back when she realizes that she was being tagged.

But the little girl was not giving up.

Trixie ran past an ice cream shop.

This world's Luna just walked out, she looked a bit more matured, but still held elegance and beauty. Her hair in a side ponytail and in a blue dress and sunglasses on, she had a red ice pop in her hand, she used her free hand to hold the door opened.

"Okay boys." She called.

Twin boys Galaxy and Comet walked out with their ice cream cones. Both boys were a rich blue color with jet black hair. Comet wore a dark jacket with a white shirt while Galaxy wore a more western attire. Galaxy had chocolate while Comet had vanilla.

Comet glared at his twin. "You look ridiculous."

"You're just jealous that I look cooler than you." Galaxy grinned, fixing his black cowboy hat.

"You play that game too much." He responded while licking his treat.

"Whatev-gah!"

Before Galaxy could finish speaking, Scarlet ran the boy over. His ice cream flew out of his hand, staining Comet's shirt. Boys and Luna let out a gasp of surprise.

"Sorry!!" Scarlet shouted at them as she kept on running.

While Trixie was running, she turned a corner to cut through a back alley, she collided onto someone.

The alleyway seemed to echo the girls' shout upon contact.

"Oi, watch where you're going!"

Trixie blinked, getting her barrings together and looked to who she ran into.

Herself. Trixie ran into this world's Trixie. However, her outfit was much more appropriate for showbiz. It wasn't too tacky, with colors light and lavender with a yellow accent on the dress. Her makeup was alluring and mystified, her getup also looked like she had more money than Equestrian Trixie.

While pony Trixie looked like she just got hers from a costume shop.

Human Trixie scrunched up her nose when seeing Pony Trixie. "What's this? An impersonator of me?"

"Impersonator? If anypony who is an impersonator, it's you. I am the Great and Powerful Trixie!" Pony Trixie stood with a flashy pose.

Human Trixie rolled her eyes. "Ugh, I haven't heard that since High school." She stood up, dusting her dress off. "listen, I don't know where you get that but get that trash out of my sight. I got a show."

" A show? Puh-lease, you look like you can't perform one trick." Pony Trixie grunted.

Human Trixie points at a poster on a wall behind Pony Trixie. PT turned around and blinked.

CANTERLOT THEATER PRESENTS MADAM TRIXIE OF THE MYSTIC ARTS!

With HT printed on the poster. The Headliner.

"The poster speaks. Now let the real magician go do her show." HT went to move.

PT snarled. "Trixie is the only real magician. You-you changeling!"

HT turned and looked at PT. " You're even talking like me when I was school." She glared at PT. "I am the real Trixie."

" No I am!"

One thing led to another and both Trixies began duking it out.

"I'm the real Trixie!"

"No I am, you charlatan!"

While both of them were fighting who is the real Trixie, Scarlet managed to catch up. Drenched in sweat, panting from running, legs turned to jelly, her hair clinging to her face.

She watched the two women fighting. "Huh, must be a twin day." Scarlet noted, thinking the girls were twins.

Scarlet looked around and saw her red wagon with PT's bag resting inside. She chewed the inside of her cheeks and grunted.

"You take my wagon, I'm taking your bag."

Using the fight as a distraction, Scarlet retrieved her stolen wagon and pulled away. She had trouble pulling it due to the weight of the bag, but since it was on wheels, she was able to pull it away from the alley without the girls noticing.

And by the time the girls exhausted themselves from the brutal fight, Trixie realizes that the wagon was gone.

Spike was long gone.

Trixie gasped out loud, hands on her face. "OH NO!!"

***

Back in Equestria, Twilight and her guards came into the study. The princess gasped in horror to find the portal was activated.

"No…. No no no." She whispered softly.

"Princess?" Gallus looked to the princess as she walked up to the portal.

Her horn glowed as a special book levitated to her with an ink and quill.

"Princess, we'll find Spike. That clown can't be too far." Gallus said.

" Trixie and Spike are not here. They're through this portal." Twilight said as she quickly opened the book to an empty page.

"I'll have my guys go in and-"

"No, Gallus." Twilight said as she began writing in it. "You don't know the land. I barely know anything of this world, I have visited it before but I know nothing about it to know where to look. I know one pony who does." Twilight whimpered. "Only she can do it." Twilight hoped.

She can't leave Canterlot, her friends cannot do it on her behalf.

The only person that can find Trixie and Spike is Sunset Shimmer.

Chapter Three

The Marshal office was busy as usual, people were running through the halls as they scrambled to their cases.

In the Equestrian Magic Task Force department, Marshal Sunset Shimmer had just finished with another case. She placed a long wooden wand inside of a case. Like the other artifacts, equestrian magic has enchanted what seemed like a stick that one can find on the ground. When in actuality, it can turn a simple thing into whatever the user thinks.

"I'm not going to be drinking chocolate milk any time soon." Sunset sighed, closing the lid.

" Oh come on, it wasn't that bad!" Marshal Pinkie Pie was heard giggling from the other room. She came rolling in with her chair, drinking a pint of frosty chocolate milk with Cool Whip on top.

"Please tell me that wasn't from the river?" Sunset asked, eyeing heavily at that glass.

"Noo, I made it before you took the wand away from me." Pinkie giggled.

"That was because you tried to throw a party and ended up turning everyone's desks into gingerbread village displays and the offices into Santa's Workshop." Sunset grunted, reminding Pinkie of what happened just five minutes ago. And how she made Pinkie reverse the damage before taking it away from her partner.

"Tis the season Sunny." Pinkie snorted.

"Ooh, you won't be so jolly after you receive a bill from my hairdresser!" Rarity cried out from her desk, desperately trying to get the sticky gumdrops and lollipops out of her purple hair.

Sunset chuckled. "Okay, RD and AJ are still on their honeymoon. Twilight and Fluttershy are still out in Dodge Junction on a case. Why don't you two girls head on home, I'll finish up."

"Thank you, darling." Rarity said, gathering her things and finding something to cover a mess of her hair.

"You're sure?" Pinkie asked as she downed the chocolate milk.

"Yeah, you girls go on ahead. I'm just going to finish up the paperwork." Sunset said, grabbing the box off the desk and walked over to the evidence vault that was built in the office, punching the code and opening it.

"Gnight!" Pinkie said as she bounced out.

"Good night, Sunset Shimmer." Rarity said, heading out as well.

Sunset waved the girls off before setting the wand up in the vault and closed the door.

"Hey Spike, gimme an hour and we'll go on home." The ketchup and mustard haired Marshal turned to the dog who was in his doggy bed tucked up against a wall. The large dog got up and yawned, stretching his back.

"Take your time." This world's Spike said, scratching the back of his ears with his back paw and shook his head. When Twilight was away, Spike stayed with Sunset.

Sunset chuckled before something started vibrating at her desk. Curiously, the Marshal walked over to it. Opened the bottom drawer and the Equestrian book was glowing.

"Hmm, is it from Starlight?" She smiled in thought of her before grabbing the book and opened it up to the new entry.

Her face fell instantly.

Dear Sunset Shimmer,

Though it has been awhile since we talked, and I wish it was under different circumstances, but I request you and your friends' assistance.

Hours ago, a fugitive by the name of Trixie Lulumoon had turned Spike into an egg and she is now somewhere in your world with him.

Please do whatever it is that you can to stop Trixie and bring Spike home.

Your friend,

Princess Twilight Sparkle.

"Oh no, Spike..." Sunset whispered.

"What's up?" Spike asked, prancing up to her.

"Not you, the other you." Sunset said.

Spike looked confused but realizing what she meant. "Oh, dragon me."

Sunset rolled her eyes before saying, "Up for hunting down an equestrian fugitive?"

Spike responded with an excited bark, jumping around three-sixty, his tail wagged in thought of a chase. "Let's go!" The thought of a hunting excited the purple and green dog.

Sunset chuckled, reaching over and pets the dog's head. "Let's go save a dragon." She grabs her keys and she and the talking dog took off on the case.

Scarlet dragged the wagon across town till she came to what was only explained as the bad part of Canterlot. Multiple rundown buildings surrounded by homeless and questionable people live there.

The young girl kept her head down as she dragged it down the street to the place she calls home. For now at least.

She pulled into an alleyway, up to a loosely boarded up window. Scarlet dropped the wagon handle before she got to working on removing them. Shifting and sliding the boards away to expose her way inside.

Scarlet took off her batty bag and threw it inside. She walked over to grab the other bag and pulled.

"Whoa!" She exclaimed. She pulled and the bag barely moved with the weight. Scarlet tugged and tugged. "Man, it's really heavy!"

She tugged tugged, bracing the side of the wagon with her feet. She pulled and pulled till the bag tipped over the side. The momentum caused Scarlet to fell backwards on her but. The blue bag fell on her lap.

"Owie." Scarlet moans.

It took a moment before the little girl was able to push the bag off of her. She got up and tried to pick it up, but realized that trying to lift it up was a waste of time.

Scarlet hummed before thinking of another solution. She began rolling the bag. It was awkward looking but it was better than the ten year old picking it up. She rolled the bag to the window and pushes it in.

The bag fell a good drop but landed softly on an old mattress.

That acted both a landing pad and Scarlet's bed.

Scarlet looked down, making sure she won't land on the bag before dropping down herself.

"Phew, home sweet home." Scarlet sighed. She migrated to an outlet on the wall. In the dark room, there wasn't much light from the window, but her eyes had adjusted to the darkness just enough not to bump into the clutter that cascaded on the ground.

Once she got to the outlet and plugged the cords in, strings of fairylights lit up around the room, fast food wrappings were on the ground with a single eye burner and a frying pan and a fork.

The room was revealed to be the boiler room of some office building. The boiler wasn't on so the room was cold.

"Lights on," Scarlet smirks before turning towards the stolen bag. "Now, let's see what you are." She said as she approached it.

She got on the bed and crawled up to the bag. She examined the blue bag with yellow and purple stars all over it. Her head tilted curiously before she opened it.

"Um… what?" Her red eyes widened when she saw the largest egg she ever lay her eyes on. "An egg?"

She placed her hands on the shell, gasping softly on the pulsating heat coming off of it. She then taps it.

What she wasn't expecting was the egg to echo her taps.

"What the?" She taps again, and again the egg copies the taps from inside.

She even did a rhythm tap with the egg finishing off the end.

"What are you?"

Chapter Five

two hours ago…

Spike and Trixie were back at Canterlot, both of them just outside of the courtyard.

"Now remember, one more trick, if I like it, I'll talk to Twilight about it but there are no guarantees," Spike said, munching on a gem. "If I don't like it, you get some bits and you don't come back, got it?"

"Got it." Trixie grunted.

She cleared her voice before she began. "Fillies and gentlecolts of all ag-"

"Do you have to go through the whole shtick before the trick?" Spike asked, already bored with this.

Trixie gave him a dirty look before continuing. "As Trixie was saying, watch and be amazed as I will turn this egg," she holds up a small brown egg. "Into a grown chicken."

An aging spell? Spike thought as he watched the unicorn place the egg on the ground. He has yet to see Princess Twilight perform a spell and neither Starlight had from what he remembered.

If she can do an age spell, then it'll be worth it.

"Now, watch and behold!" Trixie called out and her horn started to glow and she concentrated on the brown egg.

The horn sputtered and dissipated. "Oh shoot, hold on." Trixie said try again.

And curiosity fell flat on Spike's face as he sat back and watched this show like all others go down the steamy smelly pot that is the story of Trixie's life.

However, as he watched, Spike got this nagging feeling scratching at his skull to get up and run.

"Oh, why won't you work?!" Trixie roared and her horn sparked in magic and shot a beam. However due to the max level of frustration, she misses the egg oh so horribly and hits Spike square in the chest.

When a pink cloud appeared where he was at, it disappeared.

His clothes were on the ground and in the middle of the pile was a dragon egg.

Trixie blinked very slowly at what she saw. "Oh Trixie is sooo not going to get the job now… "

Now…

Both Spike and Scarlet was still screaming in fright of one another.

The little girl jumped back from the purple thing and pressed her back against the brick wall.

"W-w-what are you?!?" Scarlet stammered.

"What am I? How about Where am I?!?" Spike responded, looking down at his smaller frame, breathing in a panicking way. "Why am I a baby again, what's going on??"

"And you talk!? Just what did I stole from that crazy lady?!"

Then the two screamed one more time which proceeded two minutes before Spike got himself controlled.

"Okay… okay, let's just both of us calm down." Spike said, rubbing his face.

He remembers that he was supposed to be an adult, he remembers his name, but other than that, he has no memory of where he's supposed to be or anything else in his past life.

Scarlet, still frantic, grabs a rock and holds it up like she was going to throw it. "What are you and how can I understand you???"

"Whoa whoa wait, let's not get violent here, kid." Spike said, holding his hands up. "I-I don't remember much, but I know that my name is Spike, I'm a dragon and I don't know anything else."

"A… a dragon???" Her red eyes widened, dropping the rock.

"Yeah, a dragon, see? " He goes over to the cold boiler and opens the hatch door. He grabs some trash and throws it in there and breathes a burst of green fire at it.

It didn't take long before the cold boiler room began warming up.

Scarlet gripped her hair. "Oh my God, I stole from a witch. Am I going to get cursed too?!"

Spike facepalms at that statement. He lets out a long groan before shaking his head before looking up at her.

"No, I don't think you're going to get cursed… what's your name? " He asked calmly.

"S-Scarlet Rose." Scarlet responded, hyperventilating.

"Okay, Scarlet, just calm down, take deep breaths." The purple dragon approached her calmly, having her do some breathing exercises. "No one's gonna curse you, this is probably a big misunderstanding."

After failing several times, the little girl began to get her breathing under control and not on the verge of passing out. During that moment, Spike took a moment to look about the dank and dirty boiler room, the mattress underneath the window.

"Scarlet, where are your parents? This isn't a place a kid should be living in." Spike said after getting her situated. Now seeing how filthy the ten year old was.

Scarlet frowned. "I don't have any."

"No mom or dad around?" Spike asked and she nodded. "What happened to them?"

She shrugged in response. "I was given up as a baby, I have no one."

Spike frowned and sighed, shaking his head. "Sorry to hear about that. Listen, you said you took me from some crazy lady, what do you remember?"

"Uuuuhmmm," Scarlet had to think before saying, "I was in a dumpster getting food, a crazy lady stole my wagon, I stole it back with you in it and we're here." She said.

"Don't suppose you remember where the crazy lady was when you left?"

"Nope, I don't remember where I left her."

Spike cursed underneath his breath. "Okay next question… you got any pants?"

Author's Note

IS NOT DEAD

Chapter Four

The young girl sat on the bed, legs crisscrossing. Sitting just across from her, propping on a pillow, the blue bag tossed aside, was this large purple egg.

Scarlet didn't know that Equestrian magic existed; nor knowing that she possessed a dragon egg.

But she has it, she just needs to figure out what to do with it.

"Hmm..." Scarlet chewed the inside of her cheeks. “Well, you’re obviously not a chicken egg, or an ostrich.” she was puzzled as she stared at this thing in front of her.

The egg just sat there in silence in response.

"Well, you are really the biggest egg I've seen...maybe it's a dinosaur egg! Ooh that would be so cool!" Scarlet chuckled. Thinking that she would have a baby dinosaur egg. She knows there’s something inside the egg.

As she thought, her stomach started to gurgle.

She quickly reached for her backpack and unzipped it open. She looked at what her choices were and frowned, nothing really appetizing. Nothing but half eaten moldy sandwiches with trash on it and random junk.

"Man I knew I should've grabbed that pizza." She groaned as her stomach rumbled.

Scarlet then looked at the egg, then looked at her single eye burner and pan.

The hungry child licked her lips before reaching out and grabbed the strange egg. "I'm really hungry."

Time to make some scrambled eggs.

Having a bit of a strained grip, she waddled the egg over to her cooking area. She checked to see if the pan was clean enough before she turned the burner on and proceeded to crack the egg open.

After two cracks, she opened the egg…

However, instead of yoke, a purple creature the size of a full grown Pomeranian plops into the pan, tipping it and rolling in the ground.

"What the heck?!" Scarlet jumps up and scoots back from it.

The creature groaned and moaned, sitting up, shaking its head. It made strange sounds as it lifted its arms and looked at their hands. It had green ear fins, rounded green spikes along the top of it's head and down the back and had a lighter green underbelly and had a tail.

When looking up at it's new surroundings, it looked frazzled before turning it's head and their eyes meet up with Scarlet's.

The two of them stared at each other for a split second before both of them started screaming.

Author's Note

Sorry for short chapter but next will be a bit longer lol

Disclaimer: No dragons were harmed and scrambled in makings of this fic