Hurtful Words and a Helping Hoof
Spike just got back from Canterlot after doing some royal business, and now he just got out of the train and now he was finally heading back to Twilight’s castle, as he was walking back to the castle once he stepped in the Ponyville sidewalk he was really confused at what was going on, a bunch of ponies were wearing shirts with the Mane Six’s cutie marks on them, and they were arguing for some reason, he clearly missed a lot, but before he decided to question the new shirts, he decided to break up the argument and see what was going on.
“What’s going on around here?” Spike asked.
The crowd stopped arguing and immediately turned their attention to Spike and they glared at him clearly annoyed with his presence and Spike started feeling nervous why were they so angry with him, did he do something wrong?
“Ugh it’s the useless lizard.” one of the mares said.
“Well we could use a laugh.” one of the stallions said and the crowd began laughing.
Spike was angered by what they said and angrily retorted “Hey I’m not useless or a lizard, I’m very useful and also I’m a dragon.”
The crowd just laughed harder and a stallion with a green coat and a blue mane mocked him even more by saying “Really I couldn’t tell, given the fact you can’t breathe fire.”
One of the mares backed the stallion up by saying “Yeah plus he’s such a pushover by letting Rarity take advantage of him.
The green stallion laughed a bit and then replied by saying “I mean he’s more of a servant than a friend given how Twilight and the others just have him do a bunch of work and always leave him behind.”
“That’s not true.” Spike weakly replied, but he wasn’t exactly sure anymore, looking back at the memories they did leave him behind a lot and they didn’t seem to acknowledge his existence at times, unless they needed something from him, maybe these ponies were right.
“Perhaps it would have been better off if he had never hatched from that egg in the first place.” the green stallion cruelly stated.
At that point Spike was starting to tear up, the mocking and berating was about to continue but then they all heard a loud yell-
“Enough!” the voice and at that point a flash of turquoise light appeared in the middle of the ground revealing an angry Starlight, she heard what that stallion just said, and she isn’t exactly happy when ponies treat her friends like garbage.
“So did I just hear what I think I heard?” Starlight sarcastically asked the crowd.
The stallion rolled his eyes and answered “That the little menace should’ve never been hatched I mean he’s useless and only causes trouble.”
Spike only lowered his head in sorrow which made Starlight glance at him in remorse.
Starlight then said to the crowd “Last I checked he saved the Crystal Empire and allied the ponies and dragons together, and those are just a few examples so he’s not useless. Also do you just gain pleasure out of his pain? because he almost looked like he was going to cry.”
Most of the crowd look ashamed and began to regret how they acted, but the green stallion didn’t feel the slightest hint of remorse, and nonchalantly replied “Pfft so what? He’s just a worthless dragon anyway.”
Starlight face hoofed and groaned “I’m done wasting my time on you, come on Spike.” Starlight and Spike walked out of the Ponyville sidewalk and to the castle.
Starlight and Spike were back inside the castle library she ended up teleporting them there once they we’re near the entrance to the castle itself so they can avoid being seen by the angry mob outside, Spike still had a solemn look on his face.
Starlight felt bad for him and walked up to him and said “Don’t listen to what they said, they’re idiots.”
Spike chuckled a bit and felt a bit better but he still felt empty but he managed to ask “ Hey Starlight, do you think Twilight and the others are my friends or am I just a servant to them?”
Starlight was a bit shocked to hear him question his self worth, but then she remembered he was just bullied, it has that affect on ponies, she’d know from her own experiences and she would not wish that on any of her friends including Spike, but now was not the time to lament about that, she needs to focus on helping Spike feel better about himself.
“Did the other ponies tell you that?” Starlight asked softly, Spike slowly nodded his head.
Starlight then stated “Well I’ll tell you this, no they don’t. Twilight always tells me how much she cares about you, and Rarity might not return your feelings but she does care about you. We all care about you Spike. You’re not a servant you’re our friend.”
Spike embraced Starlight, “Thanks Starlight, I needed that.” Starlight was a bit shocked but she returned the hug with a smile on her face. After the hug broke off, Spike asked “By the way, how come you were even out there?”
Starlight answered by saying “Twilight wanted me to meet you at the train stop while she calms down an angry mob at her castle because she was worried you were going to get bullied or something else bad would happen and well she wanted to me to make sure that did not happen, unfortunately her fears were justified considering what just happened.” Spike was confused and before he could say anything Starlight covered his mouth with her hoof and said “Long story, I recommend not going outside for a while.” So then Starlight removed her hoof from Spike’s mouth.
Spike told Starlight “I won’t, don’t worry, besides I prefer the indoors anyway.” as Spike did a belly flop into a beanbag chair.
Starlight chuckled at Spike’s antics, and said, “Spike, don’t believe what those ponies said about you, okay.”
Spike responded by saying “Don’t worry I don’t plan on listening to them anytime soon.”
Spike felt a lot better now that he knew he had ponies who care about him, and best of all he now knew that Starlight meant every word of what she said.
Author's Note
So this is my first story so I decided to try writing for two of my favorite characters. I always wondered what would happen to Spike if the towns ponies ran into him during “Fame and Misfortune” so I figured I’d give it a shot.
I apologize for any writing mistakes or cheesiness. I hope I did well, this isn’t meant to be a ship story just a simple friendship story.