"Robin, wait!"

"No Sparkle! Fuck you, I'm going to my room!" Robin yelled as he stomped angrily down the crystal hall, his quote unquote 'guardian' finding it ever so difficult to keep pace with the human as his two tall legs left her four grape-colored stumps in the proverbial, and pretty much literal, dust.

"But Robin, we're not done discussing this matter!"

"Oh yes we most certainly fucking are!" Robin responded, taking a sharp turn down a hallway and leaving the little short-ass lass behind him scampering to catch up. "In fact, last time I checked, we've BEEN done with discussing this a hell of a long time ago! But a certain someone has been constantly bringing it back up!"

"That's because a certain some-pony cares!"

"Well it would certainly do my sanity some good if you cared just a little less."

There was a audible gasp from behind but was apparently left on deaf ears as Robin came to a stop outside his bedroom door.

"Robin!" Twi gaped, seemingly appalled by what had just been spoken. "Why would you say something like that?!"

With a firm grip on the doorknob, Robin turned his head sharply and stared absolute daggers at the now slightly quivering and slightly teary-eyed equine princess.

"Why? WHY?!" He opened the small, at least for him, door with a flare of anger. "Maybe if you actually listened to me for once, You'd know exactly why!" And with that the human stepped into the room, turned, and slammed the door before marching over to the not-so human-sized bed and fell upon its comfy sheets with an exhausted-exasperated sigh.

"Damn over-protective book horse." Robin muttered as he closed his eyes for a much needed nap

...

Several minutes to an hour later and Robin was brought back to the land of the living by a trio of knocks on his front bedroom door. Hoping that his door's assailant would leave him, and it, be if ignored them, Robin was sadly proven wrong when the knocking persisted, leaving the man with only one other option. And that was to tiredly sigh as he got up, walked over to his door, opened it, and was about to give a certain purple, pint-sized pain in his ass a real-

"Hey Robin. What's up?"

"...Oh. Hey Spike."

Seeing the tiny dragon standing before him, Robin's rising anger was immediately cooled to only simmering irritation as he allowed a relieved smile to betray his manly features. Seeing the dwarf drake also in possession of a tray of grilled cheese and a side soup of the tomato variety was simply water on the fire as the man stood aside to allow his dragon friend entry.

"Man spike, am I glad it's just you." Robin said as he closed the door and proceeded over to the bed, his scaly bro in tow.

"Oh yeah?" Spike said, raising an inquisitive brow. "We're you and Twilight at it again?"

Giving the dragon a look, Robin ultimately sighed with emphasis on the exaggeration.

"Oh I don't know, what tipped you off?"

Putting the tray down on the bed, Spike hummed thoughtfully.

"Weeeelll, If I had to guess...the yelling definitely did it."

Sighing once again, Robin picked up a sandwich and began to dig in, all the while his guy friend, one of only a few actually, hopped up onto the bed and made himself comfy.

"Wanna talk about it?" Spike asked, to which Robbin readily accepted. And after ten minutes of intense discussion, mostly one-sided mind you, grilled cheese eating and soup sipping, Robin had finally arrived at the root of the problem.

"And yes. Despite her technically saving me from the Everfree, that doesn't give her the right treat me like a damn child. I mean look at me, I'm a grown-ass man god dammit!' Robin exclaimed, with a wave of his arm.

And all the while listening as intently as one could to his interdimensional buddy's woes, Spike nodded once and placed a little claw on said bro's leg.

"Hey bro. I feel ya. Sometimes I wish that Twilight and the others girls would treat me like an adult too." He then sighed. "But In the end, I'm still Spikey-Wikey to them. No matter what I do."

Understanding this shared moment of guy troubles, Robin simply nodded and patted the drake on his spiked back.

"Don't worry Spike, it'll happen one day, you'll see."

Nodding, Spike smiled in reassuring understanding before raising a balled up claw and presenting it to him, a gesture which Robin accepted with a fist of his own and coolly bumped them together.

"Thanks bro, that helped calm me down a lot. Really appreciated it."

"Anytime bro."

There was a moment of silence before Spike suddenly asked.

"So Robin, what are you going to do now?"

There was then a moment of pause before Robin suddenly replied.

"I don't know. Guess I'll be leaving then."

"Oh. Okay then...wait, WHAT?!"

Spike jumped to his claws in shock, then as fast as he could, he clambered up onto the Robin's lap and grabbed at his shirt.

"GO?! Wh-Wha-What do you mean go?!"

Robin shrugged.

"I mean, I'm going to pack up my stuff and head out." He then picked the little dragon up and placed him back on the bed.

"But...where will you go?" Spike continued, still bewildered by this alien-like independence. The human again shrugged.

"Not sure. Don't give a damn really, I just won't be staying here much longer, that's for sure." He then stood up and and walked over to a wooden trunk beside the wall, opened it, and soon began rummaging around in it. taking out clothes and other personal items along with a large sack, for some reason. "In fact, I'm leaving tonight."

"Tonight?!" Spike all but yelled before covering his mouth and resuming in a hushed voice. "Tonight?" But...where to?"

"as far away from here as I can, buddy." Robin said before pausing a moment. "Maybe...maybe to the sea? Always wanted to anyways. But could never find the time back home." Having finished taking out all his junk, he then brought the sack close and began filling it. He chuckled.

"Always dreamed of sailing, you know? Heh, and now? I think I'll actually try that out." He chuckled again. "Maybe with enough time and effort I'll even be a captain one day, or something ."

Blinking, at the human's choice of future affairs, Spike couldn't help but imagine his friend at the wooden wheel of a grand vessel, sailing across the open seas, being the one who gave orders rather than the other way around. And for just the briefest of moments, A thought had suddenly crossed Spike's mind, one so utterly ridiculous that it just needed to be mentioned, and mentioned it was.

"Hehe, yeah. Or heck, maybe even a pirate captain."

"..."

Robin paused in his packing at the utterance of those words. Words, that seemed to almost repeat in his head like a broken record player. Words that had seemingly ignited within himself a light that, for a time, had most likely been left merely flickering off in the corner of his mind up until suddenly blossoming to life at the mentioning of and pairing of two certain words.

"You know Spike," Robin finally said. "That's not a bad idea."

"Uh...What?"

That was all that Spike could say in response to that response before the human suddenly stood up, picked up his stuffed sack, and stepped over to the nearby window, whereupon he stood gazing dramatically at the burning red horizon.

"Pirate Captain Robin Crow...boy, do I like the sound of that."

...

The next morning, Twilight stood before Robin's closed bedroom door. It had kept her up almost all night the fight they had had and the topic on which was fought over. And after much thought, consideration, and a bit of self-perspective, Twi had finally made up her mind.

Knock Knock Knock

"Robin? Are you awake?"

"..."

"L-Look, I'm...sigh. Listen, I'm sorry about yesterday, okay? I shouldn't have let the norms of our world dictate the way I treat somepo- someone, especially when they're not only of an entirely different species, but from an entirely different universe."

"..."

"So...co-could you open the door? So we can just talk about all of this like big mar- hmm, l-like adults? Ro-Robi-?

Upon opening the unlocked door, Twilight was greeted with an empty room. Oh boy.

"Robin?!"

Looking about frantically, her fears were only heightened and confirmed when she noticed a single piece of parchment on the nightstand. Levitating it over, It read as such...

Dear Twilight.
I'm leaving. Going to go become a pirate now. Have fun with life, I guess. I know I fucking will. Also, don't come looking for me.
From Robin

-P.S. I took Spike.

"..."

"..."

"ROBIN!"

Author's Note

Well...here's a fic no one asked for and yet I'm making it cause I gotta free up some headspace. Yup, seems legit.

What do you folks think?