Torn

by Starlight Fan

Rating: teen
Tags: Discord, Violence, Thorax, Ember, Main 6, Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Sad, Romance, Spike
Length: 8250

What if Chrysalis almost gone through with the threat she made towards Spike, how would Equestria feel about their most important friend barely clinging to life.

Chrysalis almost tears Spike’s wings out until Twilight stops her in blind rage. But Spike is in a horrible state, and is just barely clinging to life and Everypony is worried about him, especially Twilight.

Published 2020-12-18 05:50:00 UTC
Last updated 2021-03-06 20:58:55 UTC

Prologue

“Enough or the dragon’s wings get plucked.” Chrysalis threatened while holding Spike up in the air tugging his wings painfully as he squirms in her grasp.

The Main 6 and Spike we’re battling against Tirek, Cozy Glow, and Chrysalis for Grogar’s Bell and Chrysalis was now resorting to ransom, she has Spike in her magic grasp, and now she will end him slowly and painfully if Twilight does not give in to her demands.

“Please don’t hurt him.” Twilight desperately pleaded.

“What’s that i didn’t hear a ‘I surrender oh mighty Chrysalis’.” Chrysalis mockingly jeered as she tugged harder on Spike’s wings making blood start to pool out of them making Rarity and Fluttershy feel horrified, Pinkie Pie feel grossed out, and Rainbow Dash and Applejack enraged at the trio.

“Stop he’s bleeding.” Twilight cried.

“What’s that? tug on the wings more you say, very well.” Chrysalis maliciously replies as she tugs even harder and Spike’s screams only became more painful and unbearable to hear, “Any moment now he will soon bleed out and well you know what happens then.” She cruelly laughed.

Tirek and Cozy Glow couldn’t help but feel a bit concerned for Chrysalis this may be a bit too far even for them and she seems to be enjoying it too much plus it was also gross.

“Twilight please don’t give up, she’s gonna kill me no matter what, just save Equestria.” Spike cries out.

Chrysalis was now furious, she had it with this meddlesome dragon she decided to pull his wings more strong and painfully and force Twilight to surrender and watching them suffer just made it better.

“Enough you cockroach.” Chrysalis commanded,

“Look at him Twilight, feel the utter torment and misery I felt when you took my hive, watch your oldest friend desperately squirm and suffer and know there is nothing you can do, this can all be avoided if you come to the dungeons of Canterlot quietly and I will spare his life.” Chrysalis commanded.

Spike began paling and Chrysalis kept pulling harder and harder and Twilight’s fear slowly melted to rage, after everything those villains have done she has had it they have pushed her around for too long and she had enough, her eyes only saw red, her mind clouded with anger, and she began gritting her teeth, and after Spike screamed in pain one more time something in her snapped.

Twilight charged her horn and fired a ferocious blast at Chrysalis making her drop Spike.

“THAT’S FOR ATTACKING EQUESTRIA!”

Twilight then levitated Chrysalis’ body and smashed her onto Tirek making them both collapse.

“THAT’S FOR HARMING MY FRIENDS AND MY MENTOR!”

she then blasted Cozy Glow making her fall on top of her two partners.

“THAT’S FOR BRINGING THE WINDIGOS BACK!”

She then super charged her horn and aimed it at the trio.

“AND THIS IS FOR TORTURING AND HURTING MY LITTLE BROTHER!”

She then blasted her magic at the 3 leaving them all unconscious.

The Mane 5 gaped at Twilight she may have been powerful but they’ve never seen her like this before.

Twilight then calmed down and was shocked at what she just did, and saw what she just did to the trio and for some reason she felt no remorse or sympathy for them in fact she felt satisfied, they almost took the thing most important to her and she was not happy. She took the bell and then used a spell she remembered when reading on ancient artifacts and drained the three creatures of their magic, they were still alive but they will pay for their crimes.

“Twilight what just happened?” Applejack asked in shock.

“I don’t know I was just so mad after seeing Spike suffer, and- wait Spike!” Twilight started but then yelled in fear.

The Mane 6 galloped to the wounded dragon and saw his blood dried out.

“Oh, Twilight you did it you saved Equestria. I’m so happy.” Spike wheezed.

“Spike you’re wounded how can you possibly be happy?” Twilight asked in tears.

Spike coughed before answering, “Twilight, just as long as Equestria is safe and all my friends are okay I am content.”

The Mane 6 began crying even Applejack who normally cries in the inside.

“I love you guys, thank you all, Rainbow and Applejack for protecting me, Pinkie Pie for making me laugh, Fluttershy for being kind, Rarity for just being yourself, and Twilight for hatching me out of my egg. Without you I’d be some jerkish dragon but all because of you I am who I became. Tell all our friends I love them including Discord. And Twilight if I don’t make it please don’t go too hard on Discord, I know he didn’t want this. You all know he had good intentions. I know it too.” Spike lamented before passing out.

“Spike, Spike!” Twilight cried out.

Pinkie saw all of Equestria on top of the mountain they were all on and saw them walking down.

“Uh, Twilight we have some company.” Pinkie Pie exclaimed.

They saw Ember and Thorax flying towards them.

“What just happened? Is Spike okay? I’m so worried.” Thorax said in a stressed tone.

“Calm down, let me look.” Ember commanded.

Ember listened for a heartbeat and was relieved to hear a faint heartbeat.

“Thankfully for us he’s alive, his heart is still beating but it’s very slow.” Ember confirms.

“Oh thank goodness.” Twilight breathed in relief.

After some time some medical ponies took Spike to the hospital while The Young 6, Big Mac, Sunburst and Trixie stayed behind to talk to Twilight and the girls.

“So you all used the magic of friendship to unite all of Equestria? I’m so proud of you guys.” Twilight told her students.

“Thanks Twilight but hopefully Spike gets better soon.” Sandbar said.

“Um, Trixie does not mean to sound selfish but where is Starlight, I’m worried about what Chrysalis did to her.” Trixie nervously asked.

“She’s at the underground prison in the castle of Canterlot.” Rainbow Dash explained.

“I guess we should go break them out of the dungeons, huh?” Rarity solemnly asked.

“Eeyup.” Big Mac answered.

As the group walked towards the castle Twilight was crying for her brother and hoped Spike would live.

Author's Note

Okay I don’t hate the trio, Tirek and Cozy Glow are in my Top 10 Best Characters and also I like Chrysalis but I made them suffer this chapter because they are villains. Anyway I saw the scene where Spike got his wings torn out, and it made me think, what if Chrysalis went through with it, she was probably bluffing in canon but I wouldn’t put it against her either. Do a story idea was born. I know the Mane 5 aren’t speaking much now, but this is only the beginning.

Next Chapter: Starlight, Celestia, Luna, and Discord hear about what happened to Spike which upset them all, but Discord seems the most affected by the news.

Revelations

The group made it to the underground dungeons of Canterlot, and Trixie and Sunburst ran up to the prison Starlight, Celestia, and Luna were in and tried to free them, Trixie mostly only tried to do it for Starlight. Sunburst eventually found the piece of the Changeling throne and blasted it, which broke it and freed the princesses.

"Starlight!" Trixie screamed while embracing her best friend.

"Trixie it´s great to see you too, I'm so sorry I worried you." Starlight apologized.

"No apology is necessary we were just worried Chrysalis did something to you, and after what we saw happen to Spike, we weren't too sure about how safe you were." Sunburst explained.

Starlight stopped hugging Trixie after she heard something happened to Spike, and walked up to Sunburst.

"Wait what happened to Spike? I didn't see him after I freed him and the rest." Starlight asked in a worried tone.

"Chrysalis kept tugging on Spike's wings trying to rip them off slowly and painfully and they were getting torn from his body and he lost a lot of blood, he's at the hospital as we speak." Sunburst explained in sorrow.

"What?!" Starlight screamed in shock, she had tears of sadness for Spike and rage for Chrysalis, Spike was one of her best friends, I mean the two live together in the same castle for crying out loud, they almost always got along with each other, and well this news made her upset to say the least.

"Starlight we're sorry about what happened to Spike, but there is a chance he will live." Sunburst apologized.

"No don't apologize, you did nothing wrong." Starlight said in sadness.

Fluttershy, Big Mac, and Rainbow Dash show up to the chains Discord was sealed in and talked to him.

"Oh Fluttershy I'm so relieved you're safe, but where is Spike shouldn't he also be here?" Discord asked.

"This is all your fault you insensitive, chaotic, self-obsessed jerk, because of you Spike is in the hospital because Chrysalis almost tore his wings out." Rainbow Dash said in rage.

Discord´s eyes widened in horror, Spike his friend almost died because of him.

"No this can't be right, Spike's fine, you're all just playing a joke on me. It isn't funny." Discord said with false hope.

"Discord we aren't kidding, it actually happened." Fluttershy said in tears.

Discord knew it was true now, if Fluttershy was crying he knew they were serious, he then looked down in sadness and guilt.

Twilight showed up to see Celestia and Luna who were concerned about Twilight as she was crying.

"Princess Celestia, Spike had to be hospitalized due to Chrysalis almost tearing out his wings, I failed him." Twilight said in tears.

"You did not fail him Twilight, Chrysalis was the one who attacked him, you saved him before she could harm him anymore." Celestia told her.

"Indeed you saved him from Chrysalis' wrath and the rest of Equestria from the Legion Of Doom." Luna added

"What?" Twilight asked confused.

"Luna came up with that name for the villains." Celestia explained.

Starlight trotted over to Twilight.

"Twilight, tell me it isn't true." Starlight begged.

"Unfortunately it is true, Spike is severely injured." Twilight answered.

"Oh, Twilight I'm so sorry, but at least he's being taken care of in the hospital, he will be fine." Starlight comforted.

"Thank you Starlight, Also Celestia, we got the bell, the villains have been taken care of, they are at the Dungeons Of Canterlot." Twilight stated.

"Yes I will see to it that they are punished for their misdeeds,but first we need our magic back." Celestia said.

After they went to the castle Twilight then gave Celestia and Luna back their magic, she considered giving Discord his magic back but decided not to for 5 months so he'd learn his lesson which Discord surprisingly understood and didn't object to.

Meanwhile in the Canterlot Dungeons the 3 villains woke up in their cell, Tirek noticed his weakened form was back and then cried about it for a bit until Cozy Glow made him stop.

"Let it go Tirek we lost again, but it wasn't our faults now was it." Cozy Glow who was back as a pegasus said while giving a silent glare at Chrysalis.

Tirek picked up on this and also gave Chrysalis a glare, "Yes if someone hadn't provoked Twilight we'd be sitting on decorative thrones, but you just had to try and rip out the dragon's wings."

"I wanted the mare to suffer for causing my humiliating defeat, I figured she'd beg for the mercy of that lizard and surrender." Chrysalis argued.

"Regardless you went a bit too far with what you did, I mean slow agonizing torture is just too cruel even for me." Tirek stated.

"When Tirek is calling you out, you know what you did was cruel." Cozy Glow snarked.

"Whatever hopefully we escape soon." Chrysalis muttered.

"Escape is pointless, this place is heavily guarded and magic doesn't work due to the pieces of the throne above our cell, so let's just get comfortable, enjoy each other's company, and hope we don't get executed." Cozy Glow argued.

"You're seriously giving up? Pathetic." Chrysalis stated.

"It will only get worse if you don't accept it." Cozy Glow said.

"Greetings prisoners." a voice replied.

When the three villains looked outside their cell they saw Luna show up.

"I'm here to give you your sentences you will be in prison for a very long time, but you will all live." Luna decreed.

"Phew." Tirek sighed in relief.

"Whatever, I will have my revenge eventu-" Chrysalis started before Tirek but his hand over her mouth.

"We get it already." Tirek said putting a hand over her mouth.

"That is all I came to say, you will be allowed visitors can't imagine why someone would visit you monsters, but I feel like being generous." Luna added before leaving.

Meanwhile at the hospital Spike opened his eyes and found himself on a stretcher, he realized he was at the hospital and was relieved to be alive and saw two doctors looking down at him, one was a yellow pegasus and one was a blue earth pony.

"Oh good you woke up, I was afraid you'd never get up. The Princess would've been so sad she couldn't stop crying when she came over here." The Yellow Pegasus said before almost tearing up.

"Bob stop getting emotional over this, he's alive now, besides you hardly know him." The Blue Pony lectured.

"Aw c´mon Noah don't be like that." Bob told the blue pony.

"Whatever, he's alive so you probably might wanna rest, visitors are allowed, just holler if you need anything." Noah instructed.
The two doctors left leaving Spike alone, until a visitor showed up through the door.

Author's Note

Starlight might be OOC but given the fact Spike's been her friend for a while now, and she lives with him there was obviously a bond with those two, she's bound to be upset by the news. So I'm gonna let you guys decide who visits, you can suggest anybody as long as they don't hate Spike(so Garble is allowed as an option since he's reformed now) and they aren't Twilight or Discord, I'm saving those two for later.

Two Lords One Friend(Ember and Thorax)

The visitors walked in and were revealed to be Ember and Thorax. The latter immediately hugged Spike’s face.

“Spike, thank goodness you’re okay, when I saw what happened to you I was so worried you weren’t going to make it.” Thorax frantically said.

“Alright give the little guy some space you might damage his body more.” Ember warned in annoyance.

“Oh right sorry Spike.” Thorax apologized after letting him go.

“Hey guys, it’s great to see you, I’m crippled but I’ll heal.” Spike said happily.

“Well hopefully you can, this is pretty serious.” Ember reminds him.

“Well enough about me, how is Twilight doing? Last time I saw her she was crying her eyes out.” Spike asked in concern.

“I don’t know, but last time I saw her she was really sad.” Thorax explained making Spike nervous.

Ember noticed this and quickly added “But she’ll recover she’s pretty strong, right Thorax?”

Before Thorax answered he saw Ember look at him in anger letting him know he better do what she wants.

“Yep she’ll be fine.” Thorax lied fearfully.

“Well that’s a bit more reassuring, hopefully I will recover soon so I can go back home.” Spike hoped.

“Yeah you’ll probably be fine.” Ember lied.

Thorax was confused, Spike actually was at the risk of dying, Ember knew this, so why is she not telling Spike this.

“Well we gotta go rule our own lands, sorry we can’t stay but I’m sure more ponies will come.” Ember told Spike.

“That’s okay I’m just happy you came thank you.” Spike spoke in understanding.

“No problem, we’ll see you later.” Thorax said.

I hope we see you later. Thorax added in his thoughts.

After Thorax and Ember left the hospital, Thorax was ready to ask Ember why she lied.

“Ember you know Spike is at a high risk of dying, why did you lie about his condition?” Thorax asked disappointed.

“Spike does not need to to be worried about his condition anymore then he already is, so I didn’t say anything.” Ember explained in sadness.

“I get your point but it isn’t right to give him false hope that he will be alive just to find out he’s going to die later.” Thorax lectures.

“You think I don’t care that he might not make it I do care Thorax, he’s my friend, my first friend actually. You don’t know what it was like to be an outcast.” Ember lamented.

“Actually I do, I may be a nice guy but the changelings weren’t always the way they were, before they reformed, Spike was my only friend at the time, he didn’t give up on me and kept trying to get the Crystal Empire to accept me, he risked everything for me. I never got a chance to repay him.” Thorax said sadly.

“Neither did I, he also risked losing the Gauntlet Of Fire just to help me with Garble.” Ember confessed.

“Well if he survives we should both repay him for helping us become as powerful as we are now.” Thorax said.

“I agree, he probably will be fine anyway, all those unicorns have to do is use a spell on him and he will be fine, right?” Ember said.

“They are not that powerful, sorry.” Thorax apologized.

“There is limits to pony magic huh, of course there is.” Ember said.

“Yeah we should probably go anyway. Pharynx can only tolerate the other changelings’ softness for so long. I’ll tell the others about Spike’s condition before I go. See you later Ember.” Thorax said.

“You too.” Thorax said.

As Ember flew to the Dragon Lands she remembered a memory with Spike.

Flashback: ”Dragon Lord Spike, has a nice ring to it.” Ember praised.

Spike then gave the scepter to Ember.

“Dragon Lord Ember sounds a lot better.” Spike said.

“What? No. You'rethe Dragon Lord now.” Ember reminded Spike.

“The Dragon Lord is whoever brings the scepter back to your father! Besides, you'll make a great leader. I was just doing this to protect the ponies. But I know you'll protect them just as well as I would have.” Spike praised.

“You sure about this?” Ember asked.

“Absolutely. My home is in Equestria with my friends.” Spike explained.

“Well, you'll have at least one friend here too.” Ember said happily.

Spike then gave Ember a hug.

What are you doing?” Ember asked in confusion.

“It's called a hug!” Spike explained.

“Oh. I don't know if I like it. But... okay.” Ember shrugged

End Of Flashback.

Spike never had to do that, but he did, he had no reason to trust Ember to protect the ponies, but he did anyway, she really hoped Spike would survive this he was her best friend, probably one of her only friends since other dragons other than Smolder only liked her for her role as a princess or a dragon lord.

Thorax was heading towards the Castle Of Friendship to talk to Starlight about Spike and he was also thinking about how he told her how Spike affected his life.

Flashback:

Thorax and Starlight were hiding from the Changelings and Thorax was panicking.

“Thorax calm down we’re gonna be fine.” Starlight comforted.

“I’m sorry Starlight, but if you knew Chrysalis like I have you’d be scared too, her torture methods are some of the most messed up things I’ve ever seen, and I’m scared that Spike might get broken by her or worse destroyed by her, I don’t wanna lose him I mean I’m scared for the others too but Spike will probably suffer the most out of them all since he and I are friends due to Chrysalis bias against me, he’s my best friend I don’t want him to suffer.” Thorax told Starlight in fear.

“Thorax we need to think positive, I get why you’re scared, I’m scared for him too, but I’m also scared for Discord, Trixie, and the girls, all I know is we gotta be brave for our friends, so I’ll go this way and you go face Chrysalis as me so we can fool her just to mess with her mind it might throw her off her guard while I try destroying her throne.” Starlight planned.

“Okay, I’ll go do that, good luck Starlight.” Thorax said.

End of Flashback

Unfortunately for Thorax his fear became a reality, Spike is now in the hospital because Chrysalis tormented him too violently. He had to tell the others, but Starlight and Twilight would probably wanna hear first, he hopes they will take it well.

Author's Note

Yeah Spike’s visitors will be getting flashbacks showing how much he means to them. I used one from canon for Ember because she doesn’t have many episodes with Spike and that moment was sweet.
Thorax’s flashback was off-screen that will happen a lot in this story because I wanna be creative with the flashbacks.

News about the condition

Thorax flew to the castle and knocked on the castle door, and Starlight solemnly answered the door.

“Hey Starlight, you don’t look too happy, everything okay?” Thorax greeted politely.

Starlight sighed and said “Honestly I feel empty, both of my best friends are suffering, Twilight’s been getting bad dreams about Spike dying, and Spike is in the hospital. So yeah I feel awful.”

“Sorry about that, I have some good news and bad news.” Thorax said nervously.

“Sigh let’s hear it.” Starlight drained.

“Well Spike is awake but he was a 50/50 chance of staying alive.” Thorax confessed.

“What?! So he could still die?!” Starlight panicked.

“Yes, but he has a chance at living too, that’s a plus.” Thorax said.

“Of course but what if he (gulp) doesn’t make it?” Starlight asked nervously.

“I don’t know, I hope it doesn’t come to that, but we’ll just have to accept it.” Thorax explained.

“You really think it’ll be easy for any of us to accept it, Spike has been our friend for years, we aren’t going to get over it that fast, but we will need to accept it if that is the case.” Starlight lamented.

“Yeah, also make sure to tell Twilight this, I think you can survive her uh ‘Twilighting’ is that what it’s called?” Thorax instructed.

“Yeah, I’ll make sure to do so.” Starlight reassures.

“Okay I gotta go back to the hive, see you later Starlight, hope things get better.” Thorax said before flying away.

Starlight waved to Thorax and headed back inside, oh boy this is gonna be hard, she’s about to tell her that her brother figure has a chance of dying. Spike could live but knowing Twilight she will still freak out a bit.

Back at the dungeons of Canterlot, Chrysalis was trying to escape by pounding her Hooves on the bars and it was seriously annoying Cozy Glow and Tirek.

“Okay enough, you are disturbing our peace and quiet.” Cozy Glow yelled enraged.

“Well this escape would be much more beneficial if you two actually stopped being useless and helped out a bit.” Chrysalis argued.

“I told you we should just accept our fate, it’s better that way and a lot less stressful, besides you’re already in hot water, it’s best you stop aggravating the situation.” Cozy Glow advised.

“Ugh like I’m going to take advice from a filly.” Chrysalis screamed.

“Fine it’s your funeral.” Cozy Glow said in a monotone voice.

“Now Cozy Glow let’s not make jokes like that, after all that could actually happen soon.” Tirek snarked.

“Oh laugh it up you two, at least I am actually trying to continue our plan.” Chrysalis argued.

“Oh yeah pounding your hooves on the bars is so beneficial.” Tirek sarcastically remarks.

“Shut up!” Chrysalis screamed.

“This is gonna be a long sentence.” Cozy Glow muttered to herself.

Author's Note

So this chapter was shorter than usual, the reason being is that I didn’t have many plans for this chapter but it was beneficial for the plot, I’m still open to suggestions on who should visit Spike next.

The Talk

Twilight looked tearfully at herself in the map, "How could I have been so ignorant?" she chastised herself. "And for how long?! How long had Spike had to put up with me, every pony, and–What kind of a Princess of Friendship am I if I couldn't even keep track of my very first friend?!" she asked herself in frustration, slamming her hoof on the table, bouncing her cup of hot chocolate, causing the hot beverage to fly up in the air, before coming back down a splashed on the table.

Sighing and exhaling a deep breath, Twilight frowned, “I have to set things right. Starting now."

Just then, the doors opened up and stepping in were the rest of the Elements of Harmony, whom Twilight had invited to the castle.

"Hey Twilight!" Rainbow Dash greeted. "So what's up? We've all got your letters."

"And they all sound urgent, if you don't mind me saying," Rarity added.

"That's because they are," Twilight replied. "It's about Spike."

“Yeah I have some news about Spike too, mind if I join?” Starlight said coming from the other room.

“Of course Starlight.” Twilight agreed mournfully.

Twilight then relayed everything she had in her dream, from the villains capturing Spike to the memories of her mistreating him. The girls began giving sympathetic frowns while Starlight was a bit furious at Twilight for how she’s mistreated Spike but could tell she was sorry so she kept herself calm.

“I’m so sorry you‘ve felt this way Twilight.” Fluttershy said sadly.

“Thanks Fluttershy and girls I had you come here because the truth is, we all treated him so poorly." Twilight spoke with sadness.

"What?! What are you talking about?" Rainbow Dash asked. "What have we done to him?"

"You had to ask?" Twilight looked at Rainbow Dash in irritation. "You would know a lot about that. Remember all those pranks you and Pinkie Pie pulled on him? Like that thundercloud stunt?"

"Oh yeah! That!" the cyan pegasus laughed obnoxiously. "Sorry Twilight but the look on his face was priceless! Those were good times, eh Pinkie?"

"You bet!" Pinkie Pie laughed.

Starlight resisted the urge to scream at the two for their ignorance.

"Well it wasn't so funny with HIM!" Twilight shouted, taking both girls by surprise when she slammed her hooves down. "You could've killed him with that!"

"But...we didn't..."

"You didn't then, but what happens next time, when something goes wrong, and Spike is seriously hurt? And THEN what will you do? The both of you would've gone to jail for that!"

"We would?" Pinkie asked, slightly worried.

"Hang on, Twi!" but before Rainbow Dash can say anything, Twilight interrupted her as she continued.

"What about Winter Wrap Up? Remember, Dash? It was YOUR idea to leave Spike on that block of ice, just waiting for him to drown!"

Starlight then began gritting her teeth in anger, dragons are sensitive to the cold so that could’ve really hurt Spike and that just made her feel more angry but she tried to control her temper.

"Uh, let's just rephrase that," Rainbow Dash began in her defense. "The idea wasn't to 'drown' Spike. It was more to give him a 'cold shower wake up call.' Besides, we've pulled that kind of prank to each other a lot of times before you came to Ponyville, Twi. I did that to Applejack a lot of times, and she got out okay. Right AJ?"

“Yeah only after I got over the sniffles.” Applejack bitterly reminded. "But you still raised the stakes higher for the little guy, Dash."

"See? That's my point!" Twilight pointed.

"Hey, I had no idea the lake was that cold then! You think any pony would put up a sign that reads 'No Swimming?' And I said I was sorry!" Rainbow Dash frowned. "We all said we were sorry when we fished him out, didn't we? How were we suppose to know that dragons were sensitive to the cold then? If anything, you should've known that Twilight! You're the egghead! So in a way, it's kinda your fault."

"Rainbow Dash!" Fluttershy berated. "How dare you would try to pin the blame on Twilight?! You ought to know better, because Spike was just a teenager then! Would you do that to Scootaloo?"

Unable to argue with that, Rainbow Dash slumped down in her chair, before she looked up and pointed at Twilight, "Well then, what about you Twilight?! Remember that Hearth's Warming Eve, with the Winter–Zilla and you used Spike as live bait?!"

“You did what?!” Starlight asked in anger.

"Hey! Don't try and pin that on me, Rainbow! YOU'RE the one who brought the Winter–Zilla to the castle!" Twilight argues in anger.

"I thought it was a WinterChilla!" Rainbow Dash screamed.

"Which turns into a Winter-Zilla at night! Everypony knows that!" Twilight screamed back.

"Are you saying I'm stupid?!" Rainbow Dash asked angrily.

"If I recall, you're the one who made fun of Spike by saying he isn't like any dragons during that migration!" Applejack said with venom breaking the argument before it began.

"Oh yeah?!" Rainbow Dash snarled, standing her ground. "Well at least I didn't use him as some sort of dummy during the Iron Pony Competition!"

"Oh please like you're any better than Rarity!" Applejack argues.

"I beg your pardon?!" the white unicorn scowled, feeling Applejack's statement came out of left field. "Where did you start–"

"Don't play the innocent routine with us!" Applejack continued. "It's clear as day, 24/7 to be precise, that Spike's head over heels for ya! He practically worshipped the ground you walked on, but you only see him as your favorite errand boy and you took advantage of his feelings for ya!"

"Now look here!" Rarity began before getting cut off.

"And don't get me started on the whole drama you brought up when ya found out about him and Gabby!" Applejack berated. "I mean that's a new low for you! So what if Spike's found a new friend? You would be so willing as to get in the way of his happiness by driving a wedge between him and this new girl? And I thought Discord was an expert in that!" in response, Rarity gritted her teeth, unable to deny the truth that was piercing her heart like arrows, while at the same time struggling to suppress her anger and sadness altogether. "I mean why so jealous, Rarity? It's not like YOU actually cared about him."

“Wow how was I so oblivious to all this?” Starlight asked herself in regret which no one heard.

"DON'T YOU DARE SAY I DON'T CARE ABOUT SPIKE!" Rarity stomped her hoof.

“SILENCE!” Starlight screamed making everypony stop arguing and widen their eyes.

“Phew, Twilight I know you’ve made some very bad choices with Spike but you do care about him you just need to show him that.” Starlight advised.

“As for the rest of you.” Starlight yelled.

The Mane 5 gulped Starlight was surely pissed now.

“You’re all no better than Twilight you all have mistreated Spike one way or another, especially Rarity.” Starlight lectured.

The Mane 5 bowed their heads in shame but then Starlight continued “But you do care about him and you just need to show him that.”

The Mane 6 lifted their heads in thought and all agreed they needed to show Spike they care and that they are sorry.

“And Rarity, enough leading him on, it’s just horrible, tell him how you really feel about him.” Starlight commanded angrily.

“I plan to do so. I’m sorry.” Rarity apologizes in regret.

“Don’t tell me that, tell that to Spike, also I would be lying if I said this wasn’t my fault too, I was oblivious to his misfortune but we all can improve on our mistakes for Spike.” Starlight put her hoof out.

The Mane 6 and Starlight put their hooves together and chanted “For Spike.”

“So Starlight what did you wanna tell us, you said you had news.” Twilight asked curiously.

“Oh boy.” Starlight said worried.

Author's Note

Credit to Phantom Dragon for the idea of the argument scene he/she is one of my idols. I tweaked it a bit though so it doesn’t sound like a rehash of his/her story.

Telling Twilight

“Well the thing is there is a 50% chance Spike will make it.” Starlight explained nervously.

“What so there is a 50% chance he won’t make it, Spike no!” Twilight screamed before fainting in terror.

All of Twilight’s friends widened their eyes and were shocked at how Twilight fainted, Pinkie Pie then got some water and poured it on Twilight waking her up. Twilight then shook Starlight.

“Tell me Spike is going to be okay.” Twilight said frantically to Starlight.

“I don’t know that for sure, he has a good chance at living though.” Starlight admitted bashfully.

“But he could also pass away and I can’t lose him, I can’t.” Twilight cried out.

“None of us want to lose him but all we can do is hope.” Starlight advised embracing Twilight, the Mane 5 joined their group hug.

Back in the prison, Tirek and Chrysalis were sleeping but Cozy Glow was still up ever since the Spike incident she was beginning to question if she was on the right side, and given how Chrysalis was acting she was even more sure that she was on the wrong side, she didn’t wanna lose her sanity so she might as well try to be a hero, nope maybe an anti-hero, maybe that’ll work she hoped she could at least redeem herself for her bad actions.

Discord's Guilt

Discord was in his realm depressed and dejected, he was furious with himself, he caused Spike to get put in the hospital.

He has no idea if Spike will make it out alive but he was hoping he would, but as of now he was in regret, not even his chaos could cheer him up.

Discord went to bed and began having a dream, a bad one.

Discord was in the Canterlot Dungeons desperate as he watched Chrysalis tug on Spike's wings she sadistically smirked at the Draconeqius.

"Look at him Discord, gaze at his suffering why would Spike ever consider you a friend after this, mwahahahahahha." Chrysalis laughed.

"Discord why?" Spike asked tearfully which struck Discord in the heartstrings.

"I'm sorry." Discord softly spoke in tears.

Spike's wings were then ripped out with Spike screaming in pain and Chrysalis laughing.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Discord cried out.

Discord then woke up looking around in terror, it was only a dream, the worst dream ever he began crying in agony.

Luna flew inside the Chaos Realm watching Discord cry bowing her head in sadness, she saw his dream but could not make it in time and she was greatly sorry, she had to talk to the Elements Of Harmony about this.

Luna and Celestia awaited for the Mane 6's and Starlight's arrival and were please to see that they showed up.

"Thank you for coming my little ponies, we have some important matters to discuss." Luna said seriously.

"Sure thing Luna what is it?" Twilight asked curiously.

"It's about Discord," Luna started.

All seven ponies winced slightly as they heard Discord's name. If the truth be told, Twilight and her friends did harbor some anger toward Discord as they held him partially responsible for what had happened.

"What about him?" Rainbow Dash asked with a hint of bitterness in her tone.

"Well, you see, he's taken Spike's injury just as hard as the rest of us." Celestia said.

"Hmph, I should hope so," Rarity huffed. "He's the reason why our Spikey-Wikey is in the hospital in the first place."

"I don't even know why were even bringing him up in the first place," Applejack added with anger.

"Because he was trying to help you. We are worried about Spike just as much as you all do, but clinging to the past won't do any of us any good," Celestia said curtly.

"Oh, and how did he "help" us as you put it?" Rainbow dash asked, the bitterness in her tone becoming a bit more evident.

"Remember how he realized his mistakes and how he promised to make it up to everyone?" Luna asked.

Rainbow fell silent, she remembered how Discord swore to them that he'd make it up to them, how the cyan pegasus herself told him that, "it would have to be a pretty epic make-up". Discord, however, was true to his word. He grabbed a crystal rock while trying to work out a bargain with the three fiends, eventually getting into a verbal fight with, and eventually angering Tirek to the point where the centaur tried to blast Discord. At the last second, Discord stuck out the crystal rock, Tirek's blast hit the rock, it ricocheted off of the object's reflective surface, and it ultimately obliterated the shard of Chrysalis' old throne that was subduing Starlight in her cage, causing her to break free and the pink unicorn was able to break out every other creature. When Rainbow Dash, as well as her friends, thought about that way, they realized that while Discord may have gotten them into his mess, he managed to get them all out of it.

"Huh," Said Starlight. "When you put it like that, I guess he did really try to help Twilight, he just didn't plan for the villains to betray him."

"Precisely," Celestia said. "Discord wasn't trying to bring you down. He just didn't think it through."

"He is in his realm suffering and grieving about Spike like you." Luna added.

"Well I think we should see him, he has suffered enough." Fluttershy suggested.

"I agree with Fluttershy he needs us to be there for him." Twilight agreed.

Author's Note

Next up we go back to Spike and his next visitors.

Tirek’s Thoughts

Tirek was in deep thought, his fellow prison mates were asleep but he was still awake thinking about the regrets he had.

To put it frank he regretted a lot, he stole magic, banished the princesses to Tartarus, committed many atrocities with no remorse until today.

Tirek only began feeling remorse when he saw that dragon having his wings tugged apart, his screams of anguish were too much and the blood was so gross to see.

He felt like he had failed his Grandma or Gam-Gam as he affectionately called her, she raised him better than this.

“I’m sorry Gam-Gam.” Tirek whispered tearing up.

Author's Note

Short chapter but it did what it needed to do for the plot. Next up we go back to the Discord arc.

A Visit

The villains were in their cage, Tirek and Cozy Glow were solemn and in regret while Chrysalis was getting angry that Tirek and Cozy Glow were being regretful.

“Do you two seriously regret all the fun we had and terror we brought to those ponies?” Chrysalis asked as if they were crazy.

“Yes we do, we actually have sanity Chrysalis.” Cozy Glow said flying up to Chrysalis.

“Don’t talk back to me you stupid child.” Chrysalis commanded angrily slapping Cozy Glow to the ground.

“Hey leave her alone she’s only a child.” Tirek defended standing up for Cozy Glow.

“Aw and what are you going to do? Fight back with those noodles you call arms?” Chrysalis asked with a smirk.

“Quiet.” Luna bellowed walking up to the cell making Tirek and Chrysalis stop what they were doing.

“You three have a visitor and she isn’t happy.” Luna announced angrily.

Luna then took a few steps back and then revealed Starlight Glimmer with a piercing glare on her face.

Chrysalis smirked knowing that she would enjoy enraging her rival.

“Why hello there Starlight Glimmer where is your little dragon friend oh wait he’s in the hospital, hahahahaha.” Chrysalis laughed cruelly.

Cozy Glow and Tirek were disgusted with this Starlight noticed this and made a mental note about that later.

“Oh laugh it up Chrysalis, I’m not the one in a cell right now.” Starlight spoke with venom and anger.

“My, my why are you looking at me like that Starlight, what happened to the nice pony who tried to reform me?” Chrysalis asked sarcastically.

Starlight gritted her teeth and then answered “If I had known you were going to do this your flank would be in Tartarus.”

“Fair enough.” Chrysalis said with a smirk.

Starlight then looked over to Tirek

“I don’t know you that well but I am very mad at you for letting Chrysalis do this.” Starlight said annoyed at the centaur.

“Ditto.” Tirek sighed surprising Starlight a bit before she looked at Cozy Glow.

“And you I’m really disappointed in you, I was personally hurt by your betrayal because I thought we were friends but I guess I was wrong.” Starlight said tearing up a bit.

Cozy Glow felt very sorry for Starlight and whispered “I’m sorry.”

Starlight was shocked at this but still kept her glare “Sorry isn’t good enough, lucky for you and Tirek you’re sentencing has been decreased due to you not committing enough crimes to warrant life imprisonment.”

“What about me?” Chrysalis asked annoyed.

Starlight then turned to glare at the former changeling queen “You just be thankful I didn’t let them execute you, I requested them to let you live but you have life imprisonment.”

Chrysalis then looked shocked but she didn’t want anypony seeing this so she kept her glare.

“That is all, have a good life.” Starlight yelled annoyed.

Tirek and Cozy Glow kept their heads low while Chrysalis began snarling.

Author's Note

No I’m not redeeming Chrysalis.

A Talk Between Two Villains

Cozy Glow watched as Chrysalis sleep-talked.

“I have you now Starlight Glimmer, oh yes suffer, SUFFER!” Chrysalis said in her sleep.

“Um Tirek I’m getting nervous.” Cozy Glow admitted to the centaur.

“I don’t blame you she’s been like this for 3 months, thank Celestia our sentence is almost up.” Tirek said to the filly.

“Hey Tirek have you ever thought about...” Cozy Glow began asking before Tirek cut her off.

“Reforming, yes I’ve been planning to reform.” Tirek answered before Cozy Glow finished.

“How did you know I was gonna say that?” Cozy Glow asked curiously.

“You literally apologized to Starlight I think it was pretty obvious.” Tirek answered rolling his eyes playfully.

“Oh but what about Chrysalis, I’m worried about her.” Cozy Glow asked fearfully.

“She’s a lost cause, just look at her.” Tirek explained.

“Ah yes, I enjoy tasting your blood mwahahahahahahahahahahaha.” Chrysalis said in her sleep.

“Yeah unfortunately.” Cozy Glow admitted.

“You seriously don’t want to reform her do you?” Tirek asked as if this filly was mad.

“No but I’m just disappointed in her but she’ll always be our friend.” Cozy Glow admitted sighing.

“Eh I’m not sure about that.” Tirek shrugged.

Author's Note

Next up we go to the Young Six’s feelings.

Bad Dreams

Twilight tossed and turned in her bed she was having another dream and it was becoming the worst one yet.

Twilight was in a magic containing bubble watching Chrysalis disintegrate Spike, while Tirek and Cozy Glow forced her to watch her best friend suffer in anguish.

“Nooooooooooooooooo” Twilight cries in agony. “It’s only a dream Spike is still in the hospital.”

“Oh poor Twilight it’s obviously a dream, but y’know I kinda expected this.” Cozy Glow said in a nonchalant way.

“That Spike would be gravely injured at the hooves of Twilight Sparkle, yeah I believe that.” Tirek smugly stated.

“What do you mean?” Twilight asked angrily “This is your fault.”

“Only because Spike’s so called sister didn’t save him and just watched as I almost ripped off his wings.” Chrysalis laughed.

“In fact you’re hardly there for him you spend more time with your precious friends than that dragon almost as if you forget about him.” Cozy Glow added with malice.

“You also played an outrageous prank almost letting him freeze in those cold waters and laughed at it, that’s just cruel, and the fact you treat his concerns like nothing and blow up at him is very awful of you indeed Miss Sparkle.” Tirek smugly said.

“You treat him so badly, and it’s worse seeing he is so loyal and you are exploiting his loyalty.” Chrysalis laughed.

“No, I’m not a bad sister, I’m not.” Twilight shouted before waking up in her castle bedroom she then began crying, she’s been having regrets about how she treated Spike ever since he was in the hospital, she felt so awful and she knew that she had to tell some pony these feelings.

“I need to talk to my friends.” Twilight told herself.

Crystal Visitors(Cadence and Shining Armor)

Cadence and Shining Armor were both worried for Spike, as he was family to the the two, they were both clearly distressed, Shining Armor wouldn't stop pacing around in the hospital waiting room now they were here to visit Spike. They could still remember their happiest moments with him.

"Look it's the monster." one of the Canterlot Guards said with venom.

"Hey fellas how is it going?" Spike asked nervously seeing as the three guards surrounded him.

"Quiet Dragon scum." another guard said pushing Spike to the ground.

"They oughta take you to the palace to get you roasted." one guard mocked.

"Or branded." the other guard laughed while Spike shuddered in fear crying.

"Excuse me." Shining Armor made his presence known and glared at the guards.

"Captain Armor uh-" one guard tried defending himself.

"Silence it is clear what I saw, you are not to cause such pain to Spike again, as punishment for this nonsense you will be cleaning the whole castle, get to work." Shining Armor ordered angrily making the guards run in fear.

Shining Armor then walked to Spike in remorse.

"I'm sorry about the guards, ignore what they say, they don't know you like we do."

Spike then looked up at Shining Armor with a smile "Thanks Shining Armor."

Further into the past it showed Twilight, Spike, and Cadence playing together as the three smiled at each other having a good time.

"Your majesties, Spike is waiting for you." Bob bowed while speaking.

"Thank you sir." Cadence said gratefully as she and Shining Armor walked to Spike's room.

Bob then ran to Noah and then said with glee "Did you hear that the princess said thank you to me bahahahahahahahaha, I'm so happy."

"Good for you, now if you'll excuse me I have patients to check on maybe you should try it sometime." Noah said sarcastically.

"Okay I'll come too." Bob said following Noah.

Shining Armor and Cadence then looked at Spike with remorse he looked like he was hit by a bus and he was so pale too.

"Spike thank goodness you're okay." Cadence said with relief hugging the pale dragon.

"The Crystal Empire has been in a frenzy since you were sent to the hospital, they were very worried about Spike The Brave and Glorious." Shining Armor stated.

"Well tell them I'm doing fine for now, it's so great to see you guys, how is Twilight?" Spike asked coughing a bit.

"She's worried sick, and she hopes you'll pull through." Cadence clarified with sadness.

"Well tell Twilight I am doing fine and to stay strong." Spike said encouragingly.

"Will do, Spike." Shining Armor said with some happiness.

"Excuse me your highness we need you to leave, Spike is getting an X-Ray." Bob said in remorse.

"Okay that's fine, you stay safe Spike." Cadence said in understanding.

"I will guys, don't worry." Spike said encouragingly

Author's Note

So Spike is doing alright so far, next chapter we look at the villains, namely Tirek see you then.

Forgiveness

Discord was in his realm once again and he was still in a grim mood, he turned himself and the entire dimension gray because that’s the only thing that made him feel somewhat happy.

The Mane 6 and Starlight then showed up through the door in full color.

“Oh welcome visitors, may I get you a drink or are you here to turn me into stone.” Discord said in a bored tone tearing up.

“Discord we’re not here to turn you into stone we came to say we forgive you.” Twilight said putting a hoof around Discord.

“How can you forgive me? I caused Spike’s injury.” Discord said crying even more.

“Yeah but we know it wasn’t your intention and we’re sorry for ignoring you and shunning you.” Starlight apologized in regret.

“I’m sorry too, if it weren’t for me Spike would be safe healthy.” Discord said in regret.

“It’s okay Discord like we said we forgive you and we all have wronged Spike before.” Fluttershy said hugging Discord.

Discord felt warm and happy knowing his friends forgave him so color returned to his realm and to his body.

Discord then embraced the Mane 6 and Starlight.

“Thank you girls, thank you.” Discord spoke with tears of joy.

Author's Note

Next up we go to the villains again but this time they get a visitor.