A few days had passed since the encounter with Shimmer and Spike was enjoying life. Just the other day, he had walked down in the city by himself because he wanted to reflect a little bit on what had happened the last few weeks. He is still shocked that they wanted to befriend him in the first place.

Spike never believed that he would ever make friends in Equestria except for the one’s connected to the Yakuza and his Father and Godfathers. Yet, here he was, friends with three popular girls that are known as the Dazzlings. The ones who were defeated at the battle of the bands.

“It is amazing that I actually made friends and not some backstabbers. By now, some old “friends” would stab me in the back.” Spike muttered. He was currently on his way to school, prepared for another day of seeing idiot students act as if they know shit.

Spike had gotten closer to the Dazzlings who he had started loving as friends, and he had gotten to know them better as well. They were parentless and had always been like that. They ran away from their orphanage where they had been staying for a total week. They ran to Equestria and started middle school. Later, they then started learning more and more and when they began High School, that was when they had noticed Spike. They had then started silently fawning over him that Spike had yet to fully find out about.

Spike took a left and he was greeted by the sight of his three friends waiting for him by the steps that lead up to the school. Spike walked up to them and he hugged them affectionately which they returned as well. When Aria let go she scowled at something behind Spike. Adagio and Sonata did so as well a second later and Spike turned around. He groaned.

The Element Bearers stood there, glaring at them. Spike did not have the time to covers with simple-minded potatoes. He had things to do like go to school. Spike looked at their leader, Twilight Sparkle who had to her left Sunset Shimmer and her right Starlight Glimmer. The rest of their little gang was around them, glaring at Spike except for Pinkie and Fluttershy. Spike gave them a smile that did not reach his eyes but he showed no emotion still, not wanting them to get satisfaction.

“Well, isn’t it the killers of Canterlot High! What can I do for you?” Spike exclaimed in fake cheeriness. The girls scowled at him. Especially Applejack and Rainbow Dash. They still had not fully forgiven him for what he did to them when the fight broke out.

“Majima, why have you been spreading lies about us?! We have never killed any creature, especially not your mother.” Twilight stated, although, there was a certain uncertainty in her voice. Spike knew that he was being cold, but can you blame him? He lost his mother that resembled Fluttershy a lot because of the kindness.

Spike only truly blamed Twilight but because of how the rest of the Elements of Harmony acts, he cannot help but feel like they are at fault which they very much are as well. The way they act as if nothing is wrong is disgusting.

“I have not been spreading anything. I simply told the truth when I beat your two idiot friends a few weeks ago. That is the only thing I have ever done.” Spike calmly said, making Twilight irate. Her right eye started twitching. She did not know why, but something about him just made her irate.

“Why are you still lying, punk?! You do realize that you don’t have any proof right?” Rainbow Dash questioned smugly. She looked at Spike as if she had just won the entire thing and that it was all over. Oh, how wrong she was...

“Really? My mother is six feet under and had been killed by a stone in Neighpan when she was out shopping with her friend. If I remember correctly, I was watching the news in replay later that night and I saw that Sparkle there holding the stone and there had been something blurred out on the camera. I then went to the friend who had been nearby and she allowed me to see her memories... I saw what you did Sparkle.” The air felt chillier than usual. The Element Bearers still looked like they didn’t believe it. Namely Rainbow Crash and Appleshit.

Rarity Belle looked like she believed it but remained neutral. Spike may not like her but he respected her for that part. Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy looked horrified, especially Fluttershy which is no surprise. Imagine if you are friends with someone that nearly killed some other creature by accident? Accident or not, it is not a pleasant thought.

“You are blaming us for your mothers’ death?!” Rainbow Dash was livid. “Why are you blaming Twilight for the death when it was Tirek who started the whole world-domination nonsense in the first place! It's not our fault!”

“Was it Tirek who was holding the stone?” Spike was calm, he clenched his fists though, which signalled that if they weren’t careful, they could get a hit. Rainbow Dash who usually had an answer for everything when she was angry felt like she had been punched in the gut on that one. She didn’t want to admit it, but he did have a point in that department. Yes, Tirek wasn’t the one who held the stone, it was Twilight. But it was Tirek who went on a rampage to take over the world which led to Spike’s mothers' death.

The Dazzlings comforted him by rubbing his back, trying to soothe him. He appreciated it. He loved them for it. The Element Bearers who saw this weren’t really surprised. They had seen how the bimbos of the school fawned over him, specifically the Dazzlings. Sunset and Starlight felt a weird connection to him. Like a calling.

“Maybe so, but it was Tirek who went on a rampage throughout the world!” Rainbow angrily said. Spike looked at her and sighed. He knew that she had a point. Maybe if Tirek did not go on a rampage his mother would still be with him today, but some things are harder to forgive and forget.

“That maybe so, but it doesn’t really change anything does it? What has happened, happened. Now, we are all living in the future, going to school to get an education while you occasionally go to save the world from villains that have most likely been misunderstood.” Spike calmy proposed. The Element Bearers looked at each other and the pink-skinned girl looked at her friends and she felt a sensation that told her to simply trust the angry dragon. Her mind and body had never lied to her before, so why would It now?

“What do ya mean some villains’ bein’ misunderstood?” Applejack angrily asked. She did not see or realize that Sunset and Starlight were there with them. Spike looked at the Applefarmer. She isn’t serious, is she? There is LITERALLY two ex-villains with her friend group and she is asking...

Spike was so shocked stupid that he could not even follow his line of thinking anymore, the whole thing was ridiculous. The farmer noticed that he looked at her with disbelief. She wondered what he was thinking but then she realized. She had two best friends that were ex-villains.

Said girls had flinched when Applejack had said ‘misunderstood’. She sounded like she did not believe it at all and yet there were two very good examples and that is what she said in the spur of the moment. Spike laughed inwardly. She looked pale but she managed to conceal it.

“What I mean is that some villains are just that: misunderstood. They do one thing and then every creature is against that one creature who did something bad. You don’t even allow the creature to explain his or her situation, you just straight up accuse the creature, don’t even look back on it.” Spike was calm but on the inside, he was raging at the Apple farmer. She could sometimes be really mean, but Spike had a feeling that it was not her intention of doing so but it happens anyway. Spike looked at the Element Bearers who flinched under his gaze.

Twilight Sparkle fidgeted with her hooves on the ground. Her hands used to be crossed but because of the gaze she got from Spike, she could not even dare look at him in fear that she would turn into a crisp by staring at him alone.

“Are you not even going to try to defend yourselves somehow? That was what I was expecting at least. I thought that you would defend yourselves somehow but no. Albeit there isn’t much to defend in the first place.” Spike said in a voice that showed that he believed that they had a low IQ.

The girls did not answer or look at him. They looked defeated and Rainbow Dash for the first time had nothing to say. It was as if she knew that nothing good would come out of it. Spike raised a brow at them but shrugged.

Spike turned around and walked to the school but before he could even enter the building, Sunset stopped him.

“Majima, who is your mother?”

The question had him almost falling over himself. He knew that the question would eventually come, but this was too quick for him, he wasn’t ready to tell the Element Bearers of his mothers’ name.

He started walking again towards the school and then did something out of character: he ran away from the girls, he could not stand seeing them or feel their presence. It was too much for him. It was like he had been pressured but that this was the final tipping point for him. He did not know for how long he ran or how fast. He ran down a corridor to the left, right, straight, it just continued until he found a room that was not occupied by any creature much to his relief.

He went to the corner of the room to the left and sat down with his bum on the floor. He grabbed his arms around his legs and he put his head down and for the first time in many years, openly sobbed. He had not cried this hard since he learned that his mother had died. He remembered how he had not believed it and refused the facts that were right in front of him. He then had come to the realization days later that his mother was truly gone. Spike had openly cried and his father had cried along with him. It was then Goro “Spike” Majima Junior was fully born. Yes, he carried those names already but it did not have the same weight because “Junior” was in the name and the juniors are usually seen as weak and perhaps those creatures were right, but here Spike is, more powerful than any other creature there is in existence and have gotten into major fights, committed more crimes than his father when he was his age.

He suddenly felt a presence in the room. Not a bad one, it was a good one, he felt a pair of arms on his shoulder and he turned to the left and was met with the red-eyed Sonata. He hugged her lightly, but Sonata would have none of that and gave him a full proper hug one that Spike so desperately needed. His nerves calmed down but not enough. Aria and Adagio were nowhere in sight but Spike could only imagine what they were doing with the Rainbooms. Spike touched Sonata’s hand with his left one and Sonata took him as well. They felt more connected than before and it was a very special moment for the two of them.

“If it isn’t too much, Spikey, who was your mother?” Sonata’s voice was innocent, curious and protective. She may look weak and to some extent, useless that the other students believe but when she got angry, then you better have a spaceship ready. It is not a pretty sight.

Spike wondered what he should tell her. Was there anything to really tell her in the first place? Spike looked at Sonata and he felt as though that Sonata represented his mothers’ kind side while Aria represented his mothers’ aggressive side and Adagio representing his mothers’ calm side. They were a perfect match for the three of them.

“Well, a name is always good?” Spike questioned, making eye contact with Sonata and her heart raced. She grabbed his hand tighter as if to reassure him.

“Her name was... Makoto Makimura Majima.”

Author's Note

Here is the chapter guys, the one that you have all been waiting for. The reveal!