Under the Purple Hood

Moving down the hallway of the suites, crestfallen and not looking ahead, Spike opened the door of his room and slowly stepped inside. His expression was one of deep sadness. He walked slowly to the minibar under the television and took out the complimentary bottle of whiskey. Uncorking it, he went to the terrace of the suite. In one gulp, he drank the entire neck of the bottle without hesitation. He turned on the large jacuzzi on the terrace and began to undress, leaving his torso, full of scars in the air, he took off his pants and underwear, revealing that in his pelvis, there was a large scar that went from side to side of his hip. He stepped into the hot water, with the bottle at his side and his pack of unmarked cigarettes wrapped in a black pack. He pulled out one of the cigars and began to smoke as he looked out into the starry night, laying his head on one of the plastic cushions in the hot tub. After the first puff, he let the smoke escape slowly, letting his mind go blank.

"Bad night huh?" said a voice from behind, revealing Adagio, Aria and Sonata.

Spike said nothing, just smiled slightly and approached them the bottle of Whiskey to which Adagio gratefully took a swig.

"Would you allow us to join the night bath?" asked Sonata after taking a drink.

"It's a free country" said Spike looking up at the sky again.

The three mermaids, began to undress in front of the nomag, who upon inadvertently seeing the breasts of the three girls, looked away with a small blush.

"It's okay to look boy" said Aria with a smile "We all have eyes... us included."

"Heh...I guess you girls must have had better sights" Spike said jokingly, still with a sad expression.

"Well...it's different view...not unpleasant...different" Adagio said as she stepped into the water along with her sisters.

Spike smiled at her comment and took another big puff on his cigarette.

"I'm not going to ask what you are doing here...because I know perfectly well...you've seen it all haven't you?" said Spike exhaling the smoke.

"Even the date you had with Skittles" said Aria "How do you know?"

"I saw you on the deck when I won the race, above the smokestacks." He said picking up the bottle of Whiskey and taking a big gulp, leaving the bottle half way down, passing it to Aria.

"That must have been tough..." said Aria taking a swig and passing it to Adagio.

Adagio took the bottle and looked at Spike, who's eyes betrayed great pain.

"You really love them don't you?" said Adagio seriously.

Spike, incorporated his head to look at the three sisters, who were looking at him with concern.

"To the last cell in my body..." he said taking a last drag on his cigarette "But, if you love something, let it go..."

The jacuzzi was silent for a few seconds, until Sonata approached Spike and, under the water, gently grabbed his thigh, not in a seductive, but supportive way. The girl's touch, made Spike startle a little.

"Spike...do they make you happy?" asked Sonata looking into his eyes.

Spike simply nodded.

"Then why don't you let your heart speak?" said Aria approaching the boy as well.

"You think I wouldn't like it?" the nomag said monotonously and looking into the water "But I can't let selfishness like that screw up their lives."

Adagio stood up, again baring her body, from her breasts, to the beginning of her lower belly. Slowly she approached the nomag and bent down, leaving, dangling her breasts in front of the boy's face, who had a big blush on his face and even wanting to look away, could not. She smiled and reached for the pack of cigarettes. When she had it, she dove back in, but not before grabbing a cigarette and lighting it.

"Spike, there are times when being selfish isn't bad..." said Adagio smiling and taking a puff "Like I just did, selfishly, I got up and moved closer to you, leaving you mere inches from my boobs, at a delicate moment and that, surely, wasn't the time. However, your blush and my smile, gives us away telling the truth, that it has been nice. The same with this... if they make you happy and you make them happy... I don't see why not at least you don't try.

"Have you forgotten about the T-Wings?" said Spike sadly to her.

"Those pigs, and believe me we know, they're very easy to fool and mislead..." said Aria with a grin

Spike began to think about the sisters' words. However, in his mind, he kept hearing Flash and the others, repeating to him what he was, a nomag, but the worst voice, was Thunder's, stuck in his head, in imagining what he would do to them if they found him out. Spike stuck his head into the water only to come out a few seconds later, letting it drip through his hair.

"No...I don't want any of that...they deserve better than me..." he said with a deep sadness that made the three mermaid sisters look at each other worriedly. "Besides... I'm tired of all this... I just want to close my eyes and for it all to have been a nightmare. Sorry to be this pessimistic but...it's not easy for me to stay alive."

Spike stepped out of the hot tub, leaving the Dazzlings with the word in their mouths. He went to grab the towel to cover his naked body, but was suddenly engulfed in an embrace by Sonata, who stepped out of the hot tub towards him. She grabbed him tightly from behind as she rested her head on top of his nomag's.

Spike, paralyzed and not knowing what to do, let a huge blush run all over his face as he began to tremble.

"Sorry..." said Sonata breaking the hug "I know you're not used to it... but I needed to give you a hug... and I think you needed it too..."

The other two sisters, stepped out of the hot tub, grabbing the towels and handing one to Sonata as Spike continued to turn around.

"Well...that wasn't so...unpleasant," Spike said, keeping his composure and wrapping the towel around his waist. "Thanks... Sonata..."

"You don't have to give them to me... we'd do anything for a friend..." said Sonata somewhat shy and blushing as she sat down on the bed outside

"Are we friends?" asked the nomag somewhat distrustfully.

All three smiled and nodded sweetly.

"You're not trying to trick me again?" asked Spike with suspicious eyes.

Adagio walked over to Spike and got down to his level, bending his knees. He put a hand on his shoulder and smiled slightly at him.

"Not this time, there's no trap here...now more than ever, you need some friends...who care about you...you deserve to be happy Spike. In a short time...all three of us have felt a strange connection with you, for the first time, we're comfortable with someone." Adagio said without almost blinking, watching the emerald eyes of the boy, who remained motionless.

"And if the Harmonys are so dumb that because of a stupid bet they won't try to get to know you again, we will," Aria said with a confident grin.

Spike, looked at the three of them sadly.

"What about your status?" said Spike "What will people think if they see you with me? I don't want you to suffer because of me..."

"In three words" said Adagio laughing "We. Don't. Care."

"The status thing is overrated, especially if we're next to someone like you Spike." Sonata said smiling

"But... what if..." said the nomag still unconvinced.

"No buts or buts" said Aria as she picked up a new cigarette and laid down on a lounger as she began to smoke "You're not going to change our minds so... two choices, either you join or you screw yourself."

Spike let a chuckle fall from his mouth when he saw the three of them so convinced.

"Well... I'm very stubborn... it' s just as well I have stubborn friends," the nomag laughed.

"For stubborn the one who made you sprout Sonata when she hugged you" said laughing Aria

"Ha ha ha ha, how funny you are" laughed Spike as he sat down next to Sonata on the bed, after grabbing a cigarette and lightly punching Aria on the shoulder. "Get your back hugged by a hottie, see how your panties fit..."

"I'll give you a head start? Pepsicola" laughed Aria making all four of them start laughing.

Spike threw his back out, laying back on the terrace bed, looking out into the starry night.

"Well" he said exhaling a puff "So what do you do with friends?"

Adagio then, turned to one of the bags they were carrying, discovering three laptops.

"Do you like MOBA video games?" said Adagio determinantly.

Spike, smiled confidently and nodded.

Within an hour, the four of them were on top of the dining room table, headphones busted and each at their computer screens, playing a popular MOBA video game.

"God!" cried Aria "I couldn't get a more moronic Support! One to ten is seventeen dumb!"

"Yeah, yeah we've seen it Aria" said Adagio "how can using a Sobek be that useless?

"But look at him, five minutes into the game, no defense items and he goes under the tower to kill the enemy Support who already has one and a half defense items" said Aria trying to escape in the video game from two enemies coming towards her. "A little help please?"

"On my way," said Spike, moving through the game's jungle with a character named Tsukuyomi and launching his ultimate attack "BADABIN! BADABAN! TO YOUR HOUSE, ASSHOLE!"

The nomag character, with his skill, eliminated the enemies, saving Aria.

"I've seen my whole life happen I swear, thanks for saving me Spike" Aria said laughing, however, her character was eliminated by another character's definite. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! A FUCKING KRAKEN TO KILL ME!!!?"

"Try to kill it Spike" said Sonata as she went with her character to meet Spike's character in the jungle.

"Explain to me how Sonata?" said Spike trying to catch up with him but to no avail as the enemy was going faster than him "If it's that broken fucking Poseidon. Look at him, where is he, he's in the Congo already!"

"They should nerf that character's passive for real" said Adagio as he besieged the enemy tower.

"You're telling me" said Spike, Sonata and Aria at the same time.

While they kept the night lively with the game, the next room had quite a different atmosphere. All the girls were in their rooms, trying to sleep, except for one. Dash was on the couch, having a beer and a cigarette, unable to sleep. Remembering the date that just a few hours ago, she had had with Spike. She couldn't stop a few tears from spilling from her eyes.

"Dash sugarcube" said Applejack coming out of the room she shared with the pegasus "You should go back to bed... it's been a long day..."

The pegasus didn't answer, just took puff after puff without taking her eyes off the ceiling.

"If I close my eyes," she finally said to her earthly friend, who stood in the doorway of the room. "I see him...I see his face, his hair and his eyes as he said goodbye to us...we're never going to be able to even talk to him again, hardly even look at him, again just like at the beginning."

Applejack slowly walked over and sat down in an armchair near her.

"Maybe... he doesn't really love us and it's just been a hoax..." she said looking down at the floor sadly

"Say it again until you believe it Applejack..." she replied angrily and helplessly, her tone calm and sad at the same time.

Both friends were silent until the cowgirl reached over to the pegasus and took one of her cigarettes. Lighting it, with a small stream of hot air she formed in her fingers, she reclined her back in one of the armchairs.

"It was stupid of me to think this could go well..." the pegasus said taking a puff on the cigarette.

Applejack looked over as she took a puff on her cigarette as well.

"Let's not let this stop us from enjoying ourselves Dash." Said Applejack "We've tried, but he doesn't want to be with us...best we try to forget about it as soon as possible, enjoy the vacations."

"How are we going to do that if he's right in the next room?" said Dash

"By doing what we've always done...pretending he doesn't exist..." said AJ taking a big puff that made half a cigarette burn away

"Back to the old days huh?" said Dash without taking his eyes off the ceiling.

"Exactly..." said Applejack "It's all back to the way it always was... no more of this impossible romance... he's a nomag and nothing more..."

"For me that's impossible" said the pegasus with great sadness in her eyes.

"Why sugarcube?" asked Applejack curiously.

"Today... when I had the date with him... I asked him... if he was in love with us." Said the pegasus, leaving her friend silent.

"And what did he answer you?" asked Pinkie Pie, who appeared at the door of her room as did the other Harmonys.

Rainbow rejoined her seat and took a strong gulp from the can of beer, finishing it off. She looked forward and silently, making everyone nervous, took a puff on the cigarette finishing it.

"He said yes..." sentenced Rainbow, leaving everyone astonished "He said that he would be able to do anything for us, that we drive him crazy... although... it doesn't matter now."

The harmonies went to the sofa, not taking their eyes off Rainbow.

"Are... are you serious?" asked Shy dumbfounded, to which Dash nodded.

"And so... why did he win the race?" asked Pinkie "I mean, if he really is in love... why did he miss the chance?"

Dash was silent again, until she looked up with a tear in her eye.

"Because of this shitty world... he said that... even though he wants to... he can't do that to us, he can't let because of him, people marginalize us and hate us... he doesn't want to fuck up our future... that's why he did it..." said the pegasus pitifully

Twilight took off her glasses and pressed the bridge of her nose, taking a deep breath.

"He's done us a favor... so to speak..." commented the alicorn.

"Favor?" replied Shy upset with tears "He's a great fool! He goes out of his way for us, he makes us feel like we're floating on a cloud, whenever we need something, there he is... And you're telling me he doesn't go out with us to do us a favor? He's a fool! A jerk! We could be happy but he decides not to, that it's too risky!"

"Calm down Shy...it's his decision..." said Twilight trying to calm her down.

"No it's not Twilight!" said Shy "It's this shitty world's fault that we can't be with him! So, it's not his decision."

"So what do you want us to do?" replied Twilight upset "What with a spell make everyone change their minds about him?

"Or you could empower him Twilight!" the pegasus shouted at her "Aren't you the magic wielder? Then do it!"

"You know perfectly well it doesn't work that way Fluttershy!" snapped Twilight back at her.

"If you wanted to you could solve all of this, but you're trying to wriggle out of it, because you know this is your fault." said Shy

"I DO care Shy!" said Twilight as she and Shy faced each other "But if we're going to tell each other the truths to our faces... Why don't you start, or would you rather I tell them?"

"Girls please, let's calm down" Rarity said as she tried to calm the mood.

"Don't you dare Sparkle!" said Shy angrily.

"Then don't make me Breeze!" replied Twilight also angrily.

It looked like things were about to escalate, but then Applejack, slammed the table in the center loudly, breaking it in half and drawing the attention of everyone present.

"CALM YOURSELVES DOWN RIGHT NOW!" shouted the earthling, rendering them all mute. "Don't you realize it? Society may be to blame, but Twilight is not to blame for people giving more importance to magic than to people..."

Shy and Twilight looked at each other ashamed of what they had done.

"Listen Shy...we're all angry about what happened...but it's no one's fault and it can't be fixed...and about what Twilight said...what's wrong with you...what can't you tell us?" said AJ

Shy was silent, without a word. She looked at Twilight and she, looking embarrassed and pitiful, nodded.

"Could you... throw me the lasso of truth?" said Shy "I won't be able to tell otherwise... I'm too embarrassed..."

Applejack then summoned her lasso and wrapped it around Shy. All the others sat around listening to her.

"You...remember a few years ago...what happened in Manehattan..." said Shy, beginning to recount.

"Yes, the battle against the succubus..." said Pinkie "I haven't seen such depravity since the Brazzers convention..."

"Well... when we were fighting the queen... Chrysalis... a... a... succubu bit me." Shy said with a completely red face and leaving everyone present stunned.

"Wait... but when you get bitten by a Sucubu..." said Pinkie with fear.

"You turn into one..." finished Shy the sentence for her.

" You mean... Are you one of them?" asked Rainbow worriedly as she approached her.

"No... luckily... that night... when we returned home after banishing Cryshalis... there was on my bed a purple injection... with an anonymous note..." said Shy

"Shall I guess who did it or needn't I?" said Sunset with a half smile to which Shy nodded, also with a half smile.

"Spike warned me in the note that the serum would stop the transformation...but it couldn't remove the poison from my hormones...so...long story short...I'm a nymphomaniac and a sperm addict." Concluded the pegasus.

"That explains a lot, actually," said Rainbow.

"The bad thing is that... since I have the poison in my hormones... when, so to speak, I see a target... a prey rather... I become obsessed with it..." said Shy

"And now your prey is Spike isn't it darling?" asked Rarity.

"It's much more than that... I've been researching about succubi... and it's worse... I'm in love with him... which makes my urges stronger and stronger... succubi can be obsessed with several at once... but when they fall in love, they find everyone else even repulsive... and that happens to me." Said Shy "I see shirtless hot guys around the ship, I see how they kiss, how big they have it, how muscular they are and I... they disgust me... I don't like them, I just want Spike... he's something stronger than me... and I'm afraid I might get to... kill him..."

The girls were concerned to hear her and moved closer.

"I'm so sorry about earlier Twilight" the pegasus said crying "But... it's frustrating to see the love of your life slip through your fingers... and more so with this problem I'm having... you're not to blame."

"Hey it's okay Shy..." she said hugging her with her arms and wings "Maybe I got a little too upset too..."

"Aw... group hug!" said Pinkie as she grabbed everyone with her arms and they hugged each other.

After a few seconds of hugging, they separated and Sunset walked around the room, thinking.

"All that's left now is... the big question" said Sunset "What the fuck do we do?"

"What if... we break the promise?" said Applejack.

"YOU NEVER BREAK A PINKIE PROMISE!" said Pinkie upset.

"It's a stupid bet dear" Rarity told her "We all want to try, keep trying, it's just breaking a promise, to win a big prize."

"Rarity is right" said Twilight as she stroked her chin "However we are failing at one thing..."

All the girls turned to Twilight who was deep in thought.

"We are forcing in a loving way Spike...however, Discord's words were that, he's like a bonsai...what is there to be before boyfriends or lovers girls?" said Twi with a professorial expression

They all stood there thinking until Applejack realized what Twilight was getting at

"Friends" she said determinedly

"Exactly" said Twilight "And fast... because... they're ahead of us..."

The six girls looked at each other, not understanding what he was saying, until Twilight, pointed her hand at the wall where their room separated from the nomag's and made it on its transparent side, revealing the Dazzlings in Spike's room, next to him, playing computer games and giggling as they won games.

" Motherfuckers!" shouted Pinkie launching herself into the wall like a bull and crashing into it, falling backwards dizzily.

The others rolled their eyes as Dash and Applejack went to help her up off the floor.

"They've made a move" said Shy going over to the transparent wall "It's our turn to keep playing. I'm not going to lose him and especially not to those fish-faces."

" Nor am I" said Dash confidently going along with Shy.

"Neither am I" said Rarity approaching the wall with her hands on her hips.

"An Apple doesn't give up" said Applejack putting her cowboy hat on tightly and approaching the wall

"I'm not giving up on him that easy" said Sunset approaching the wall with a competitive half-smirk

"Let's get our pussies in gear!" said Pinkie approaching the wall as she rolled up her sleeves.

They all turned their heads to Twilight, who slowly approached the wall thoughtfully and watched Spike giggling. The smile took her back, for a few moments, to the last date she had with "Flash" at the Prestanizzi restaurant, where the figure of Flash changed to that of Spike. Then she smiled.

"Play along." She said confidently, which caused everyone to smile.

Late at night, in one of the crew quarters, small, with a single bed and looking through the porthole, Thorax gazed out at the vastness of the sea. Behind him, he suddenly felt a searing heat as a giant greenish flame emerged from the floor, revealing a red-haired incubus, taller than he was (2.40m), with a strong abs and violet-blue eyes. Thorax turned to look at him, seeing that it was his brother, Pharynx.

"What are you doing here brother?" asked Thorax seriously.

"The monarchs have gathered" said Pharynx approaching him "The Rich want him dead immediately... and Don Brutus has given the green light."

"You told me I was only to watch him, not kill him" said Thorax somewhat resentfully.

"Plans have changed Thorax, before this ship makes landfall, the hooded nomag must die." Said with his grave tone, the red haired Incubus "It's not a complicated job, he's a nomag."

"Oh sure, it's not complicated Pharynx, except that behind him, are the harmony bearer whores." He said facing him angrily
"Well wait until he's left alone you idiot" he said in a passive aggressive tone.

"And why don't you do it if you're so clear about it, asshole?" he said almost snorting.

"The queen chose you because you're the only one who can resist so much teenage hormones...just being here, in this conversation, I'm salivating from the scent wafting off this ship." Pharynx said snickering as he closed his eyes and they reopened completely purple and glowing.

"I have to go now, or I'll make a mess here like a Roman orgy." Said the sex demon half-smiling. "You better not miss Thorax, kill that nomag."

Again, a huge green flame, engulfed Pharynx, making him disappear.

For a few seconds, Thorax stared at where his brother had been. He turned back to the porthole and took a deep breath.
"Enjoy your last day of life, nomag." Said the incubus decisively.

Back in Spike's room, he, was asleep on the couch, hood up, in front of the television along with the Dazzlings, who were obvserving him as they slept. A genuine smile was plastered on each of their faces, until Sonata's expression became sad.

"He doesn't deserve everything that's happened to him..." she said as she gently stroked his leg, without waking him.

"He's a good person... as well as handsome and charming" said Adagio looking at her face.

"It's given us an advantage that the harmonies have decided to get out of the way voluntarily." Said Aria smiling

"It won't last" said Adagio seriously "Knowing them, they will break the promise and try again. What's more I wouldn't doubt that right now, they are watching us through that wall."

The three sisters looked at the wall, to see if anything was happening, but nothing seemed to be happening.

"Be that as it may, in this game of chess we have the upper hand." Adagio said.

The three of them looked back at Spike, who was in a fetal position, his head resting on a cushion. All three, seeing him in that position, couldn't help but let a blush of tenderness come over them.

"It's the first time we've ever done something like this for someone... and it's weird... we hardly know him... but at the same time..." said Aria

"It's like we've known him all our lives..." completed Adagio the sentence for the middle sister.

"Yeah... it's strange isn't it?" said Sonata "I mean... that with just a couple of situations like this he's made us get something in our hearts... it's weird.

"And you say that... but at the same time nice... a real friend at last and hopefully soon, something more." Said Adagio

The three sisters stood up and went to the terrace, turning off the TV and putting a blanket over Spike.

Adagio, once outside, pulled out a pack of cigarettes and offered a cigarette to each of his sisters.

"We must be careful in our next strategy," said Adagio lighting the cigarette "We have the lead, but they may retake the game if we don't play well."

"What do you propose?" said Aria taking a big puff.

"Obviously, not to leave him alone with them" said Sonata exhaling the smoke "We already have their friendship, but they still have his heart."

"True" said Adagio as he paced the terrace "We'll give him the vacation of his life, but always, he'll go with minimum, one of us."

"Okay" said Aria "But what if we can't avoid the situation?"

The three sisters stood thoughtfully looking at each other.

"The best way is to support him" said Sonata.

"Excuse me?" said the remaining two sisters.

"If we can't avoid the situation, the best thing to do to prevent him from rejecting us or thinking weird things, is to support him while we get him out of the reach of any of them. If they get him bitching, we tell him, how cool we think he is, while we get him out of there...I don't know if I'm making myself clear" said Sonata as she smoked and looked back at Spike through the glass.

"I think so Sonata" said Adagio smiling "Instead of jealous, cheer us up...I like it, I like it, this way we keep him from distrusting us."

"I don't know if I can if it's the Cowgirl or the pelvis breaker" said Aria somewhat annoyed.

"Well you must Aria" said Adagio "You can't win a game without sacrificing some pieces."

Aria huffed as she finished smoking and stubbed out her cigarette.

"Alright...for him and for us, I'll do it." Aria said through her teeth

"That's what I wanted to hear" Adagio said smiling.

The three sisters smiled placidly until they heard a piercing scream coming from inside. The three, worried and terrified ran inside, only to see Spike writhing around crying.

"I WASN'T TO BLAME!" he screamed in his sleep "NO! DON'T HURT THEM! NO!"

Sonata, running over, grabbed Spike by his sweatshirt and began to shake him awake.

"SPIKE WAKE UP!" she screamed in fright as she kept wiggling him.
Spike woke abruptly, shaken and hyperventilating, barely even aware that he had woken up and looking at the three sisters in front of him until he realized it was a nightmare.

"Are you okay Spike?" asked Aria worriedly.

"Yeah...it's nothing...I should have told you that I have chronic nightmares...that's why I don't usually sleep..." said Spike catching his breath.

"Chronic nightmares?" asked Adagio quizzically.

"It's a psychological illness...let's just say...every time I close my eyes...once, twice or more times in the night I have nightmares...sorry for scaring you girls." Spike said taking off his hood and grabbing his pack of cigarettes.

"Shouldn't you go to a psychologist for a prescription?" asked Sonata sadly.

Spike looked at her seriously as he lit himself a cigarette.

"Oh... sure... nomag..." said Sonata realizing it.

"Don't worry Sonata...I have my ways of keeping those nightmares from getting to me more than they should." Spike said with a comforting smile, calming the three of them down.

"Hey girls...it's about six in the morning, the sun will be up in no time...feel like watching the sunrise with me?" he asked the Dazzlings, who, smiling, nodded.

"Sounds good to me" said Adagio as he held out his hand to the nomag and helped him back on his feet "That way we can also tell you the plan for today."

"You scare me" laughed Spike as he walked out onto the terrace.

"Trust us" Sonata winked as the sun began to emerge from the ocean waters "You won't be disappointed."

After two hours, the boat was still quiet, the music and the party, would not return until well into the morning, when everyone had recovered from the previous day.

One of the quieter parts of the ship, was the Suites' restaurant, the exclusive Luminae at The Retread Restaurant. There they served a la carte meals, exclusive to the residents of the Suites.

The Harmonys were there having breakfast, each with a different dish and a cup of coffee.

"Tonight is the big party at Eden" said Rarity as she took a sip of her coffee "It's going to be the ship's event, so I'm going to spend the morning at the Spa, getting ready for it."

"Don't overdo it in the sauna like you did in high school either, Rares, understand there are more students waiting" said Rainbow Dash reindicatingly.

"Oh please, it's not that big of a deal anyway" said Rarity.

"Three hours isn't that big of a deal?" said Applejack rhetorically to her

"It's not my fault I have such a high tolerance for heat, besides my complexion looks beautiful after a session." Rarity said as she spooned a piece of her eggs Benedict into her mouth with her fork.

"I'll go with you Rares" said Sunset "I think I'm the only one here who can tolerate such high temperatures, plus I could use a spa session."

"Well I plan to start warming up for the evening" said Pinkie as she rubbed her hands together and made a devilish face "Get the beach bar by the pool ready, because it's going to run out of stock."

"No need to swear Pinkie" said Dash as she ate her bacon and eggs.

"Mind you, leave some bottle for Applejack and me."

"No promises" she said with a smile as she popped some churros into her mouth.

"And what are you two going to do?" said Applejack referring to Twilight and Fluttershy, as she split some of her spanish omelet.

"We were thinking of going to the solarium to relax." Fluttershy said, taking a piece of jam toast.

"With some luck, it'll be a quieter place to swim and read a book on the sun lounger." Twilight said with a smile and taking a mixed sandwich.

"Really Twilight?" said Dash to her sipping his coffee and lighting a cigarette "You can't even give up books on vacation?"

"It's my way of relaxing Rainbow" replied her alicorn friend.

"Besides, you read books to relax too Dash," said Fluttershy.

"They're comics, not books, it's not the same" she said rolling her eyes and leaning back in her chair.

Through the door of the restaurant, the Dazzlings appeared and strategically sat down at a table next to the Harmony girls while they asked the waiter for their respective breakfasts. The seven girls, glared at them and knowing this, the three mermaids began to smile.

"I know we're pretty" said Adagio with a sneer "but if you're going to propose, we demand that you take us to dinner first."

The three mermaids looked at the Harmony's at once as Dash tried to get up, only to be restrained by Applejack who shook her head.

"We had a good time last night... didn't we darlings?" said Adagio mimicking Rarity.

"A mind-blowing night, no doubt about it..." said Aria as the waiter arrived with the Dazzlings' coffees and walked back out of the restaurant.

"The best part was watching the sunrise next to our boy." Sonata said smiling.

"Your boy?" jumped Pinkie "Please...he'll never stoop so low as to fall for your charms, mermaids."

"As long as he doesn't fall for yours, we're satisfied." Said Adagio, angering the Harmonies.

"Look mermaids" said Rarity trying to keep her manners "I don't know what you're up to with him, but I'm sure nothing good and I warn you one thing, if anything happens to him, I intend to rip your heads off all of you like the herrings you are."

"How rude you are when you want to Rarity" said Aria with a half smile

"We don't bring anything with him, for now, it's enough for us with a nice friendship... but we'll see what happens these days of cruise."

"Besides now that you girls have retired gracefully, it would be a waste not to win the game." Sonata said as she sipped her coffee.

"It's a pity he never eats breakfast... but for lunch, we have already booked a nice restaurant... well... for him and me... we split it. What was that you were saying Rares? You have to be generous." Adagio said smiling

At that moment, Sunset banged on the table before standing up and facing the mermaids, who, slowly stood up as well, standing face to face against Sunset and the Harmony's who had also stood up.

"Listen to me well fish face" said Sunset as flames formed in her hands.

"No one here has given up, that bet is just plain stupid and of course, we're not going to let you carry out your plan, whatever it is."

"So... you're still in the game... very well, it's more fun when you compete against someone" said Aria smiling "May the best team win..."

Between both groups, you could feel the tension, so strong that even, the waiter, who brought the three breakfasts to the Dazzlings stood, uncomfortable and fearful, watching the ten girls.

On the upper deck, right in the area surrounding the pool, completely empty and silent, was Patriot, who, seeing that no one was there, turned the hand on his belt to transform himself back into Spike.

Under the morning sun and looking out to sea, he took out a cigarette and began to smoke it.

The sea breeze hit his long green hair as he let the tobacco smoke out of his nostrils. Behind him, a figure appeared and stood beside him.

"Good morning" said the figure, turning out to be Discord, with a cup of coffee in his hand "Quite the sunshine eh."

"I'm more of a rainy day person" said Spike offering him a cigarette which he accepted.

"Suits your personality" said Discord with a half smile as he began to smoke.

They both for a few seconds, stared out to sea.

"I couldn't help but use my powers to see that you spent the night with the Dazzlings... and what happened yesterday with the Harmony's." Said Discord somewhat concerned "It's not your style to play both sides."

"I'm not playing any side Discord... they caught me by surprise in my room and decided to stay." Said the nomag

"However, you didn't invite them to leave either" said Discord shutting up the nomag who took a long puff.

"I was at ease Discord... and in that moment..." said Spike not quite knowing what to say.

"In those hard times... what you needed is a friend..." said looking at him the Draconequus with a smile "Well... three friends, in this case."

Spike looked at Discord then back at the sea.

"Do they suspect anything?" asked Discord.

"They're just making assumptions... they say it's like they've known me all their lives... it worries me..." said Spike as Discord, offered him some coffee and he took some.

"You're free... to do what you want... but be careful, I know you want to regain the friendship with the Dazzlings, but think coldly how to do it, if you do, Spike..." said Discord "Remember about Sunset..."

The two were silent again, as they took, in tandem, a big puff on their cigarette.

"Why did you do the race with Pinkie?" asked Discord bluntly.

"I don't want them to suffer... or find out anything..." said Spike looking at Discord out of the corner of his eye.

"You've suffered a lot Spike... I think it's time to open your circle of trust... and most of all your heart... I know there are things you can never tell them, not to them as girlfriends... not to the Dazzlings if you end up deciding to make them your friends... but you don't have to be alone..." Discord said tossing the cigarette overboard and giving Spike a friendly pat on the back before leaving "You think about it."

Spike took one last puff as he watched Discord disappear after walking through the door into the interior of the ship and rejoined his seat. Looking towards the bow, he could see Armando, who was staring at him.

"Now's my chance..." thought Armando as he slowly approached Spike.
Spike, narrowed his fists, knowing that he wasn't coming to give him a reprimand for leaving the suite.

"Here I wait for you false pegasus..." thought Spike as he stood static in that spot.

When they were just a few feet away from being face to face, from the same door through which Discord had left, Rainbow Dash appeared, dressed in her usual clothes except for the leather jacket. She was also carrying a towel and a bottle of water. This caused Armando to quicken his pace and pass Spike and Dash, who stared at him as she drank the water. When Armando disappeared through the door, Spike relaxed his fist and, unable to help himself, looked at Dash and, seeing that she was looking at him, turned sharply back towards the sea.

Having finished drinking the water, Dash grabbed the bottle while looking at the nomag with his back to her. Not knowing whether to say anything to him or not. At that moment, she brightened up her face and slowly walked over to him.

"Hey... Spike..." said Dash giving him two taps with his finger on his back "I know we shouldn't talk because of the bet thing but... I'd need someone to time me... and... well... who better than you, you're already experienced."

Spike turned his head slightly to look at Dash, who was nervously waiting for him to say something. He turned fully around and nodded. A huge grin appeared on Dash's face. The pegasus, handed him her watch, which had a timer and stood at the starting line that was drawn on the floor of the deck, like an athletic track.

She began to stretch her arms and legs before starting to run, which she did without taking her eyes off Spike, who avoided eye contact.

"Spike...we know that yesterday...you were with the Dazzlings...I just want to warn you that they are not clean wheat...and I don't want anything to happen to you." Dash said

The nomag sighed slightly looking forward and then, guided his gaze to the pegasus and smiled.

"Don't worry Dash...really...I know how to handle it...besides in case you were wondering...I just see them as friends." He said confidently, which relaxed Dash a lot and made her smile. " Now you just worry about not getting off the starting line wrong, go progressive and don't give it your all at the beginning... the Wondercolt championship is very intense and you should take it as a long-distance race."

"How do you know I'm training for the championship?" said Dash somewhat surprised, to which Spike laughed and stared at her "Oh... right... I forgot I've been training with *cough* "Soarin", for months now."

After saying that, they both laughed as Dash finished warming up.

"Are you ready?" asked Spike holding up the watch with the chronometer at zero.

"Whenever you're ready," she said with determination as she got into starting position.

"Five, four, three, two, one...go for it!" said Spike hitting the start button after the countdown.

As soon as the nomag finished the sentence, Rainbow took off running down the small running track, she began to run and run accelerating every meter a little faster, going around the rooftop garden and around the resort deck. Each turn, she caught it even having to lean to one side as if she were riding a motorcycle, using the g-force as if it were a whip, so at each turn, she would increase her speed.

She made the first lap in less than twenty seconds, even making Spike's hair move in the direction of where the pegasus was going when she passed him.

She was going faster and faster, each lap she made, taking less time to get there, the second lap taking eighteen seconds, the third in fifteen and the last in twelve.

At the count of the fourth lap, she, in a sign of exhaustion, collapsed on the ground, head up, looking at the still somewhat orange dawn sky above her head.

"What... uff... how have I... uff... been?" asked the pegasus sweating as Spike brought the water bottle over to her.

"Not bad," said Spike, "Twelve seconds last lap."

"You know that until it's ten seconds, I'm not stopping" she said smiling as she took the water bottle.

"I know Dash" Spike said smiling too as he helped her back up a little to end up sitting on the ground with her back on the railing. "Did you heed my last advice?"

"Why do you think I lowered my last lap from seventeen to twelve in a few weeks?" she said smiling as she was still trying to catch her full breath. "And what I've thought of to spur me on... well, you can imagine..."

The pegasus' eyes turned somewhat flirtatious as the nomag sat down next to her and smiled.

"When I told you to think of something nice while running I meant goals you'd like to achieve or your dreams, not me" he told her with a smile
"Aren't you a goal?" said Dash with seductive eyes.

"You're going to make me blush," Spike laughed along with her.

Dash, from exhaustion, rested her head on Spike's shoulder making him blush for real.

"See, you got it" the nomag said with a grin.

"The blush on your cheeks looks lovely on you, don't complain to me" the pegasus said with a hesitant tone.

They both took a breath and looked straight ahead in silence.

"Can I ask you something?" said Dash a bit nervously.

"Shoot" replied the nomag guiding his gaze to the pegasus.

"Why are you with the Dazzlings and not with us?" asked Dash with some envy "Is it because we are not enough? Understand that it's something that... shocks."

Spike looked straight ahead again seriously as the pegasus, without getting up from his shoulder looked him in the face.

"Don't get any silly ideas please..." said Spike "The difference is that I only see them as friends and because, like it or not, they are the Dazzlings, their reputation has never mattered to them and I'm probably just a passing thing... but you... you must preserve the reputation... for everyone's sake."

Dash, discouraged, also looked straight ahead as he did.

"Why does everything have to be so complicated?" asked Rainbow to the air.

"That's just the way things are... besides in a few days I'm sure the mermaids will lose interest and go off on their own again." Said Spike despondently

"I wouldn't be so sure..." said Dash muttering without being overheard by the nomag.

The boy stood up and held out a hand to Rainbow, who accepted it and helped her up.

Dash looked at the boy for a second dejectedly, looking away from him afterwards.

"Dash," Spike said getting her attention. "Don't worry really...try to enjoy the cruise...try all of you."

The nomag smiled at her and started for the door.

"Spike" said Dash who went to him and without him being able to do anything, she hugged him tightly against her, which caused Spike to blush and start shaking from the hug "Please...be careful..."

Spike pulled away from her, looked back up at her smiling and smiled.
Once inside, Dash snorted a little and turned her head to the right, startled to see Soarin on the other side, who was carrying a bottle and high school training attire (a blue track suit with two stripes, one white and one yellow, on pants and jacket and the Canterlot crest on the right breastplate). His face was in shock and he approached the pegasus.

"Dashie... Who was that?" she said blankly "Why did you say goodbye to him by giving him a hug?"

"What's it to you?" the pegasus sneered at her.

"You're my girlfriend!" he said in alarm.

"Let's see if you can get it through your head you moron!" said Dash grabbing him by the jacket "I am no longer and will never ever be your girlfriend Soarin! You filthy pig!"

She abruptly let go of him with the intention of leaving.

"It's your new boyfriend isn't it!" yelled Soarin angrily and jealously "You're not even capable of mourning me!"

"Screw you!" she replied raising her middle finger at him as she walked towards the door

"I'M GOING TO FIND OUT WHO IT IS, DASH!" she yelled at him "I'M GOING TO KILL HIM! YOU'RE MINE, FUCKING BITCH!"

Dash ignored him and went inside, leaving Soarin alone on the deck. Angrily he punched the railing in rage, hurting himself and stifling a scream.

In a finnish sauna at the SPA, at a temperature of about eighty degrees, Rarity, in her best bikini, a purple two-piece with little sparkles on both the bra part and the Brazilian-style swimsuit-thong, and Sunset, in a tight orange and red one-piece, were enjoying the high temperature, each lying on one of the wooden benches.

Sunset had a worried look on her face, lying on her stomach and looking straight ahead, which Rarity noticed.

"Are you okay dear?" asked Rares "Too hot?"

"No... the temperature is fine... I'm worried... about the T-Wings" said the unicorn laying on her back to look at her friend.

"The T-Wings?" asked Rares quizzically.

"Yeah... they're like fucking goats... now that we've broken up with them... they're more dangerous than ever, like it or not... I at least worry about one in particular..." said Sunset breathing slowly so the eucalyptus steam would clear her nostrils.

"Sunbrust huh..." said Rarity somewhat chagrined.

"Of all the T-Wings bastards he's the most rational... I know that doesn't take away everything he's done to us and most of all, everything they've done to Spike... but I don't want him getting into trouble..." said Sunset worried "He's like the mast of that group... but if he's now blinded by rage that we've broken up and much worse... if they see any of us at any time with another, or worse, with Spike... I don't know what they'd get to do to him. "

Rarity remained somewhat thoughtful as she slowly sat down on the bench.

Sunset, also slowly, slowly, sat up again until she remained seated. With her hand, she grabbed a wooden saucepan that was stuck in a bucket of eucalyptus water and threw it on the stove, which was next to it. A wave of steam came out of it, further filling the room with a now warm and cool at the same time.

"Sunbrust may be a bastard like them... but he's got a head... he won't let himself be dragged down." Said Rares trying to comfort Sunset.

"I don't know...I just hope Spike doesn't come out of this whole situation dead." Sunset replied to her, throwing her head back. "They all hate him...and I don't even want to think about what they'd do to him if..."
Sunset didn't finish the sentence, simply, she remained static, slowly sucking in air and expelling it through her mouth.

Rarity came down from her bench to hers and sat down next to her, placing a hand on her friend's leg.

"He's a survivor... besides, they'll need him for sure, to win us back... nothing will happen to him... and if he needs help at any time... we'll be there" she said smiling and confident, making Sunset, smile too.
The beeping of Rares' watch interrupted the conversation, causing them both to stand up.

"Well, it's time for the chocolate therapy massage, you'll see that a cocoa bath makes you carefree."Said the purple-haired unicorn to Sunset.

"I hope so..." she said as they both walked out of the sauna, Sunset being still worried.

A short time later, more people were waking up, among them, all the T-Wings, who were having breakfast in the Suites' exclusive restaurant along with Octavia and Vinyl, who were a few tables away from the five T-Wings who were there at the time. Blueblood, couldn't take his eye off Octavia's ass as a feline smile and seductive eyes flashed across his face.

"At least wait until breakfast to go flirt Albert" Sunbrust told him as he sipped a black tea with a cruasant.

"Don't tell me what to do Sunbrust" he said to him annoyed "And you don't drink that poor man's water, drink a good coffee."

"It's black tea, it's stronger than coffee, Blueblood" said Sunbrust rolling his eyes.

"Guys, attention" said Cheese with an optimistic look "Today we are going to win back our Harmony girls."

"Do you have a plan?" asked Caramel as he ate a pullet pork sandwich, grease stains remaining around his mouth

"We have a plan" said Flash with a huge grin "What do the girls like best?"
Everyone in the room looked doubtful. Blueblood looked like he had something, but then he rectified and went back to thinking.

Flash looked at one and all and slapped his forehead with the palm of his hand.

"Romance!" said Flash "Chicks love romantic guys."

"Ahhhhh" they all said at the same time.

"Here's the plan, we each, go get our girl and take them out to eat, to the Rooftop Garden grill, a little smooth jazz, show them our abs a little to entice them, a good dance together and bam, tonight, we have their butts and boobs for dinner again." Said Flash in a Machiavellian voice

"I like the plan" said Caramel with a smile.

"It's foolproof" said Cheese excitedly

"No doubt, they won't be able to resist our charms" said Blueblood tossing his blond hair back and forth.

Sunbrust however looked down and shook his head.

"What's wrong with you Sunbrust?" asked Flash somewhat annoyed.
"It's a stupid plan" said Sunbrust with a teacher's tone "We hardly know them for real, how do we know they like smooth jazz? Or better yet, what do we talk to them about over lunch? Assuming they agree to eat with us."

"Please Sunbrust," Caramel said, picking at a few pieces of pullet pork between her teeth with her fingernails and shimmying with the chair.

"They'll be too busy admiring these bodies to talk, regretting leaving us..."
Sunbrust simply slapped his forehead with the palm of his hand and slowly ran it down his face to preen his goatee.

"You look like you don't want to get back together with Sunset," Cheese said annoyingly.

"Well... maybe it's for the best" said Sunbrust with some hesitation.

"What?!" the other four replied in unison.

"What you've heard... we've hurt each other a lot together... maybe it's that we're not made for each other... what I'd like is for her to forgive me for everything I've done and that... I don't know... we stay as friends." Said the unicorn, leaving the whole table silent.

No one said anything, they all had their mouths open and without a word. A few seconds later, Blueblood started laughing making the whole table start laughing.

" Oh Sunbrust" said Blueblood brushing a tear of laughter from his eye "You are hilarious at times, many times you are a pain in the ass and a killjoy but you really have a funny way about you..."

Sunbrust said nothing, just looked straight ahead with an annoyed expression.

"Anyway, let the reconquest plan begin." Flash said placing his hand in the center of the table, followed by Cheese, Caramel and Blueblood.

Everyone then looked at Sunbrust, who curled his eyes and put his hand in the center as well.

Then, joining the table and lowering the spirits of his friends, Soarin appeared, sweaty from having been training and looking worried.

"I'm afraid if you want to do something, you guys have to hurry up..." said Sorain leaning his head on his hands

"What do you mean?" asked Cheese.

"And why didn't you take a shower before you came?" said Blueblood holding his nose in a gesture of displeasure

"Dash... she was on deck before me... with a boy..." said Soarin leaving everyone shocked

"WHAT!?" said Flash putting a hand on Soarin's shoulder "Who's the bastard?"

"If I knew I would have already gone after him to give him the beating of his life for taking my girl from me... but I don't know, I just saw his shadow go around the corner of the wall..." said almost crying the pegasus

"What an impertinent bitch" said Blueblood haughtily "She hasn't lasted a day in mourning, thank goodness my Rarity will still be waiting, crying her eyes out, wishing I'd forgive her."

"I wouldn't be so sure Albert... if Dash has done this to me, any one of the seven can... if you have a plan, we must hurry." Soarin said in a mixture of anger and sadness.

"Tonight, you'll have her back between your legs dude" Flash said encouraging his friend with a smile "I promise".

Soarin saw that all his friends, except Sunbrust, had a determined look on their faces and a smile, so he managed to cheer up, but he also got weirded out.

"And what does Thunder think about this?" asked Soarin looking this way and that "By the way, where is he?"

"We had left him taking a bath in the room...he had a bad night" said Caramel "He woke up in the middle of the night startled and screaming...very strange all around."

"I think it was the headache" said Sunbrust finishing his tea "Yesterday he hit the railing of the boat pretty hard...that's what he gets for drinking too much."

"Yeah, I remember" said Cheese laughing "He hit his head all over like a goof."

"Where was I when that happened?" asked Soarin puzzled.

"I think you had gone off to fuck some Sugar Coat or something" said Blueblood

"One with pigtails, glasses and grey hair?" he said remembering the girl from yesterday "Oh yeah, I remember her, how she moaned as I sucked her nipples, from those giant tits."

Everyone but Sunbrust started laughing, the latter simply smiled and rolled his eyes.

Thunderlane, then, appeared through the door of the restaurant, completely silent, with a serious and angry expression at the same time, with huge dark circles under his eyes.

"Wow, the sleeping beauty woke up" Cheese joked "How did your highness rest?"

Thunder didn't say anything, he just sat, looking straight ahead and without changing his expression.

"Is something wrong dude?" asked Flash looking at him worriedly.

"No..." said Thunder in an almost threatening tone, silencing any questions and causing the others to change the subject while in Thunder's mind, there was a figure of a short, slightly overweight boy with a kind smile, wearing a grey beanie-helicopter hat, wearing jeans, sneakers, a light green and dark green t-shirt, simulating a turtle shell. "Tank..."

Twilight and Fluttershy were in the room, on the terrace. Shy was sunbathing, face down on a lounger, with her bikini top unbuttoned and Twilight, as usual, was reading a book placidly on the lounger next to her. The calm that both friends had, was interrupted by the abrupt appearance of Rainbow Dash in the cabin, who threw all her sports stuff on the floor, took off all her clothes, staying naked and went to the outdoor jacuzzi in a hurry. She jumped into the hot water, almost jumping in as if it were a swimming pool, drawing the attention of her two other friends.

"He' s got me sick of it!" shouted Dash once she got into the water and let her body slip inside, leaving only her head on the surface.

Twi and Shy, looked at each other, with a huge surprised look on their faces.

"Are you...are you all right Rainbow?" asked Shy as she rejoined her body and put her bikini top back on.

"Do I look like I am?" asked the rainbow haired pegasus somewhat exhausted.

"What happened?" asked Twi worriedly.

"Soarin is what happened to me, he still thinks he has all the power to judge me and tell me if I'm his, blah blah blah blah... I'm sick of it" she said helplessly from the warm water

The unicorn and the pale pink haired pegasus got up from the loungers and headed to the hot tub along with Dash.

"Did you run into him while you were training?" asked Shy.

"Yes, but not only that... he saw me talking to Spike..." said Dash, leaving her friends uneasy "Don't worry, he only caught a glimpse of him as he was leaving, he was helping me timing me."

"That's a relief..." said Shy calming down "I guess seeing you with someone must have sent him into a rage..."

"A rage?" said Dash rhetorically "Like a fucking basilisk! That if I'm a bitch, that if I don't have the right to talk to another guy... Fuck, I'll pass on you Soarin, you've only brought me misfortune!"

Shy and Twi said nothing, knowing their friend needed to break free.

"It's not that you only belittled me like I was trash, but also, you raped me, you allowed my sister, your shitty little brother to beat up and rape the two younger sisters of my friends, always being out partying, passing me, my feelings and every time there was a problem, you were such a coward that you used a poor boy with no powers in a fucking disguise to eat my pissed off, who well you know it's not pretty.... see... you only did one thing right... and that's that thanks to your cowardice... i've known what it's like to have someone really care about you and what you love... someone who if you call him is there... someone who supports you and lifts you up when you mess up *sniff*... if i have to *sniff* be grateful for anything you've done *sniff* it's letting Spike Drake *sniff* into my life.... motherfucking *sniff* fucker *sniff*" Dash said, releasing her anger, letting huge tears spill over her eyes, moving the other two girls present "Sorry girls *sniff* I didn't mean to bore you with my problems *sniff*"

"Not at all Dash... *sniff*" said Twilight brushing a tear from her eye "You needed to let it out... and... you're right, if there's one good thing those pieces of shit have done it's... that thanks to them... we've met someone better."

"You're not alone Dash..." said Shy putting her hand on her pegasus friend's shoulder "There will always be us... and I agree with Twilight... my mom has always believed in fate... that everything happens for a reason and I think that... everything that has happened to us... has led us to it."
"*Sniff* Thank you girls *sniff* really *sniff*" said Dash wiping away his tears and inviting them to get into the hot tub to which they accepted.
Once inside the water, the three of them went over and hugged each other, comforting each other.

"What about the others?" asked Dash recovering.

"Rarity and Sunset are already at the spa and Pinkie and Applejack have gone to the gym...I don't think they'll be back soon, at eleven o'clock it all starts again." Said Twilight

"Today is going to be an exciting day, I can feel it." Said Dash

"No doubt" replied Shy smiling at her friend.

In the ship's gym, Pinkie and AJ were in a room somewhat apart from the rest, which were mostly spinning machines, bodybuilding... However, where the two terrestrial girls were, was the boxing room. They were alone, Pinkie was punching a huge punching bag that Applejack was holding tightly.

"I just don't get it," said the hyperactive earthling, punching the bag non-stop. "I mean, not with us, because of course, he's up to his eyeballs for us, he lets us know that if it's a danger for us to be seen together... BUT THEN THEN THOSE SIREN SOB BITCHES SHOW UP AND THERE'S NO PROBLEM, LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER!"

Pinkie at the end of that sentence, filled her fist with ice crystals and hit the bag so hard, that Applejack had to step aside to prevent her from ramming it against the wall, just as she did with the heavy bag, which even, made a hole.

"It's strange really..." said Applejack "However... something tells me the reason is bigger... and darker."

"The reason for what?" said Pinkie still pissed "That he's past us?"

"I don't think Spike will get past us... however... from what I can gather... let's just say he has a secret and if he spends too much time with us, we might get to unveil it... triggering something bad." AJ said thoughtfully as Pinkie picked up another bag and hung it up, this time letting Applejack hit.

"What could be so bad?" said Pinkie somewhat calmer "We are the bringers of harmony, we have faced more serious things than any that Spike can hide."

Applejack started tapping the sack as she thought.

"Maybe what he's hiding, isn't something physical, but mental...we could take on a whole army of succubi no problem...but what if the thing that makes him not want to be with us...wrecks our minds?" the cowgirl said as she improved her right punches on the punching bag

"Like something that makes us rethink our existence?" asked Pinkie hesitantly.

"Exactly" said Applejack "And he's with the mermaids because he only sees them as friends and as inoffensive... I don't know, that's just what I think."

A thud on the ground made both friends turn around, only to find Adagio and Aria on the other side of the ring.

" Inoffensive?" said Adagio with a mischievous face "You may see us like that... but you better not let your guard down, you know what we're like... and especially your ex-boyfriends."

"Don't tickle me Adagio today is not a good day" said Pinkie pissed off.
"I can smell your envy and jealousy for miles Pinkie" said Aria placing the punching bag "But it's true something you said, Spike is crazy about you... something I don't understand, but it's true and also that he only sees us as friends... but all that, believe me, will be temporary."

"Listen to me well sirens, I don't know what you're up to this time with him, but whatever it is, drop it already, if you don't want to see me." Said Applejack threateningly

"And with me," said Pinkie following her friend.

The two mermaids, started sparring, with Aria being the one hitting the bag and Adagio the one holding it.

"The only thing we're up to is for him to enjoy a vacation with friends for once in his life... and not let anyone step on him..." said Adagio seriously leaving Applejack wide-eyed.

Pinkie gave her a puzzled look as she returned to the punching bag in silence.

"Are you feeling okay?" she asked Applejack telepathically.

"Adagio... she' telling the truth... for once she's telling the truth and not only that... but that last sentence... it sounds familiar, like I've heard her say it before... how strange..." said Applejack as she started punching the bag.

"So just so I'm clear... their only intention for now... is to be friends with him?" asked Pinkie.

"For now yes... but it won't be long before they attack him, that's for sure..." said Applejack looking at the mermaids as they sparred

"What about the phrase?" asked Pinkie worriedly seeing her face.

"I don't know... it was like a memory... but I have no idea, I tried to remember it, but my head hurt when I did it... it was really weird... and I think I wasn't the only one who felt it" she said looking at Adagio who also had a somewhat stupefied face, because she too, had felt it.

Back in the Harmony's room, Dash, Shy and Twilight were in the living room, in towels after taking a shower. Rainbow, was smoking a cigarette while Twilight and Fluttershy, were having tea, laughing and chatting.
"That's amazing Twilight" said Dash exhaling the smoke "As soon as the summer is over, you'll start your training to take the baton of Equerica... nervous?"

"You don't know how much..." said Twilight smiling "Cadance so far has done the best she could... I just hope I don't screw it up."

"You'll do great Twilight" Shy told her "I'm sure you'll make a fine monarch."

"If you say so Shy...what surprises me is that Celestia and Luna declined the position." Said the alicorn sipping her tea.

"Well... everyone pursues their dream, you always wanted a better world, they just wanted to be a high school teacher, to each their own." Dash said "Mind you...how envious they're going to be of Spike, you're going to have to carry him around with an escort all day."

Twilight blushed at her friend's comment and simply rolled her eyes.
"I don't know... maybe I shouldn't do anything with him and leave it up to you girls..." said Twi worried.

"Nonsense Twilight, listen to Dash, if someone wants something, you have to pursue it and you like us want him... don't let prejudice cloud you." Shy said comfortingly.

At that moment, someone knocked on her bedroom door. Shy tucked her towel in tightly so it wouldn't fall off and walked to the door, behind her, stood Jason "Light" Lanter, her bartender, holding a note.

"Oh, Jason is something wrong?" asked Shy.

"No Miss Breeze" the bartender said smiling "I was just coming to give you this anonymous letter provided to me for seven o'clock."

Lanter handed it to her and smilingly bowed slightly.

"Have a nice day heroines." He said as he left

Shy walked back into the room as she glanced at the letter.

"Girls..." the pegasus said smiling "Make yourselves pretty."

"What's going on?" said Rainbow curiously.

"An anonymous guy has invited us all to a meal at the Rooftop Garden," said Shy with a big smile.

"No kidding?" said Dash smiling "And I guess the guy has green hair and it reaches us all almost to our waists right?"

"Looks like it" said the pegasus excitedly sitting down on the couch again.
Twilight picked up the note and read it.

"I know we haven't done things right and I'd like to make it up to you all, let's meet for lunch at the Rooftop Garden Grill at two thirty so we can talk things over properly."

"That's him, I'm sure," said Shy excited as a little girl.

"Yeah, but it's weird, it's computer typed and Spike is more of a handwritten kind of guy..." said Twi suspiciously

"Who cares?" said Dash "The important thing is that he wants to see us and talk to us, so it's time to get stunning for that boy."

"Okay, but we have to let the others know as soon as they get back." Twilight said smiling to which the other two nodded.

Spike was in his room, smoking a cigarette in the main room while he looked at the map of the island where the Fire Ruby was located. From what little he had been able to get from the satellite images, the island was overgrown with vegetation and the entrance to the cave where the jewel was, must have been hidden in the undergrowth.

"I'll waste too much time if I have to go tracing every inch of the foot of the volcano in search of the entrance... I have to be more precise... but how?" he asked himself, looking again and again at the map while he absorbed the smoke from the cigarette and expelled it slowly.

An idea then, flashed through his mind.

"A drone" said Spike "If I get a drone I can comb the island no problem...I remember one of the prizes at the casino was a drone...I have to go."
Spike stood up and stubbed out his cigarette. He put on his changeling belt and headed for the door. He opened it only to find himself face to face with Sonata.

"What are you doing here?" he asked her somewhat startled.

"I came to see you Spike... and that belt?" asked the mermaid quizzically.
"It's... a gift from Discord... it allows me to wear a costume... he lent it to me so I can enjoy the vacations without a problem." Spike lied somewhat nervously.

"Really?" she asked him fascinated "How does it work?"

"Well...like this" he said as he turned the belt hand to Patriot's circle, transforming into him. "Say hello to Patriot "Greenfire" Fly."

Fascinated by the belt, Sonata smiled and hugged the Earthling's arm.

"How nice!" she said smiling "And here I thought we'd have to eat in the room... I can reserve a table for the four of us at a restaurant. If you want of course."

Patriot looked into Sonata's excited eyes and snorted.

"Okay, but first, I want to go to the casino... I'd like to win a Drone." Patriot said

"No problem, I love to play" Sonata said smiling as the two headed for the elevator.

Both of them were walking through the center of the ship, it was already past eleven o'clock so all the activity had returned to the decks. In the resort Deck, most of the people were there, since until the time of the great party of the Eden, Reggaeton would be playing, in The Club room, which was next to the casino, electronic music was playing while in the central Café, several passengers were having breakfast with pop music in the background. The people, passing in front of Sonata, could not help but look at her with eyes of desire while she ignored them, because hooked to her arm, was Spike, disguised as a handsome earthling.

Arriving at the casino, they saw that quite a few students were playing the various card and slot games.

In the prize booth, was as one of the most expensive, the drone Spike craved, costing a total of Five Thousand chips. They made their way to one of the tables, where a poker game was in progress. As they sat down, they noticed that the other two sitting there, were Flash and Zephry.
"Well, well, well" said Flash as he saw Patriot sitting down "Look who dares to sit here."

Spike, looking at Sonata who also didn't understand anything, got nervous.

"Excuse me... have we met?" lied Spike, pretending not to know who Flash was.

"You don't know who I am?" said Flash in a threatening tone "I'm Flash Sentry, the boyfriend of Twilight, the beautiful alicorn you were snuggling with yesterday and I'm friends with her friends' boyfriends too."

"Yeah, and I'm Fluttershy's brother," said Zephry angrily, "And if you even think of getting close to my little sister, I'm going to kick your ass."
"Hey leave him alone you two" jumped Sonata "He didn't do anything."
"You shut up Mermaid why don't you do like the other night and blow me?" replied Flash.

Sonata was about to slap him, however, Patriot calmly grabbed her arm and shook his head, smiling.

"Listen... Flash and Zephry... right?" said the earthling "I wasn't hitting on any of them, I was just hanging out with some friends of a friend... and from what I understand... you guys aren't together anymore."

"That's a dirty lie," Flash told him angrily "It's just that they're dumb, they don't know what they're talking about."

"You think so?" said Patriot under Sonata's watchful eye as the dealer dealt the cards to the three players at the table "They told me otherwise, besides from what I see, you call them dumb, they don't know what they're doing, you cheat on them not once, but several times and you only use them as sex toys... is that loving someone?"

"You don't understand anything asshole" said Flash as his eyes darkened with rage and he cast his cards, forming them into a normal straight flush "Those chicks are ours and they know their place perfectly well, that we are divine, almost unreachable, that they should kiss the ground we walk on just by the simple fact of looking at them, they are nothing without us."

"Are you sure it's not the other way around?" said Patriot with a half smile as he slowly showed on Poker's tablecloth how he was forming, with his cards and those on the table, a straight flush "The way I see it, they are heroines who protect the country and the world from threats. They are caring, intelligent with perfect bodies, funny and exude...how shall I put it...that homely quality that you crave as a child...and you...you are nothing but dirty rats who blame your actions on others...look what you said to my good friend Sonata, you bitch eat my dick don't you? You should be grateful that a magnificent girl like Sonata is lowered to your dick, because she is worth much more than you, it's not her fault that you are a pig. She is single to do whatever she wants, you are not, you always fuck everything you can without realizing that, next to you, you have a woman as wonderful as Sonata, this being nothing more and nothing less than Twilight... so I think, who are nothing without them, are you, and yet, you treat them like semen deposits... tell me, Flash Sentry, how can you sleep at night knowing that you are a nasty hog?"

"Straight flush" said the dealer leaving Zephry and Flash stunned and he gave his chips to Patriot.

Flash clenched his fist tightly, his teeth began to clench and his pupils dilated as Patriot picked up the chips with a smiling Sonata who kept glaring at him.

Flash then jumped over the poker table, succumbing to anger, and threw himself on top of Patriot. The entire casino began to scream as Flash, on top of Patriot, began to punch him relentlessly in the face while his face turned red with rage and his mouth emanated only screams. Sonata tried to get him off of the earthling as best she could, but tears and fear kept her from concentrating.

"STOP!" shouted Sonata while Flash, blind with rage, kept hitting Patriot's face without stopping, breaking his jaw and nose completely. "YOU'RE GOING TO KILL HIM YOU SON OF A BITCH!"

"DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" shouted Flash like a wild animal.

A group of unicorn security guards, tackled Flash pinning him to the ground as he writhed, trying to escape to continue beating Patriot, who lay on the ground unconscious.

"NO!" said Sonata as she cried in waterfall manner "PATRIOT ANSWER ME PLEASE!"

Sonata put her hands on Patriot's face, letting them become stained with his blood as they took Flash, who was still snarling like a raging boar, under arrest.

Zeprhy got up from the table in fright, awkwardly following the guards taking Flash away.

"This isn't over!" the pegasus said before leaving.

A huge mass of people approached where Patriot was standing, surrounding him.

"SOMEONE CALL A FUCKING DOCTOR!" shouted Sonata as she put Patriot's head up, on her knees "Easy *sniff* they're coming to help you *sniff* *sniff* *sniff*"

In Spike's head, even with him having his eyes half open and dazed, only screams and wails could be heard along with Sonata's, completely finished losing consciousness after the muffled and repetitive scream of the little girl always echoing in his head.

Some time later, the girls were strolling around the Resort Deck with huge smiles and joy, watching the others having fun.

"I'm glad Spike didn't keep his promise and decided to take us out to lunch," Rarity said as she looked in a pocket mirror at her hair.

"I don't know, it all seems very strange to me" said Applejack "An anonymous note, typed on a computer, in the plural..."

"A grammatical error anyone can make AJ" said Dash with his hands behind his head and a big smile.

"You look kind of weird this morning Applejack is something wrong?" asked Twilight as they approached the stairs to the Rooftop Garden.
Applejack didn't answer, in her head, only Adagio's phrase "don't let anyone step on him..." echoed.

"Nothing's wrong with her, we just had an unpleasant encounter with Adagio and Aria" Pinkie said cheerfully as she pranced around a little.
As they climbed the stairs, the seven girls found themselves in the small square, full of people, quietly having drinks to the rhythm of jazz and queuing for the restaurant.

"I wonder if he's arrived yet..." said Fluttershy nervously, touching her hair endlessly.

"I don't see him at any table..." said Sunset looking at the restaurant's terrace.

"Well... we'll just have to wait," said Twilight putting her hands on her hips, until suddenly, a whistling sound caught the group's attention.

" Girls!" shouted a voice, this one being Cheese's, at their back. "This way!"

As they turned, the faces of the seven changed radically to disappointment and confusion.

The T-Wings, at seven different tables, were facing them, waiting for them, all with big smiles on their faces, except for Thunder, who hadn't changed his face since he showed up at breakfast, and Flash, who was missing.

"Tell me this isn't real..." said Dash telepathically dumbfounded.

"I'm afraid it is very real" replied Sunset.

"Oh my god" they all said at the same time

Cheese, Caramel, Blueblood and Soarin, stood up with a jovial smile and went after the girls.

"Where are our manners...damsels, if you'll join us" said Blueblood, holding out his hand to them and seeing no response, they clung to his arms and although they put up some resistance, they all let themselves be led to their tables under the gaze of Sunset, Twilight and Fluttershy.Their friends, while being dragged by their ex-boyfriends, looked at them with a frightened face and clearly, asking for help.

Sunbrust hadn't gotten up, she was simply smiling at Sunset, waiting to see if there was an answer.

"What do we do?" asked Sunset's mind.

"Maybe... we should go... it could be worse if we don't... not for us but... you know." Fluttershy said as she slowly walked towards Thunder's table, who was motionless.

"At least Twi... you're lucky... Flash is gone..." said Sunset as she walked to Sunbrust's table.

"I don't know if that's a good sign, really..." said Twilight as she too, walked to the table where her ex-boyfriend should be.

During the course of the meal, the four who had gotten up, kept talking about themselves under the gazes of the harmonies, who could only endure.

"And so, my dearest Rarity, I want you to know, I don't hold a grudge for what you have done to me, so, I forgive you" said Blueblood with a superb smile while Rarity, looked at him with disgust.

"I warned you guys that it was really weird..." said Applejack telepathically as Caramel ate like a pig and talked at the same time.

"Andg igs fog thag thag weg shouldg gog bagck AG" she said as she munched non-stop on an entire leg of lamb while Applejack, had a huge expression of disgust.

"I know baby, you've always loved these muscles, I'm sure that weirdo you saw yourself with this morning, can't even last two minutes in bed, only I know how to make you enjoy as you deserve" Soarin commented to her while still showing off his marked biceps, posing like a bodybuilder.

"Please... get me out of here" asked Rainbow with her mind.

"Me too" said Pinkie as she looked uncomfortably at Cheese as she finished her chocolate milkshake in less than ten seconds.

"That's how I want to slurp you, my precious little cotton candy" the earthling said smiling, winking at her."

"Please and thank you..." stressed Pinkie.

Next to Rarity, however, was Thunder, who hadn't spoken to Shy at all and hadn't even touched his plate, which worried Flutters.

"Thunder... you look kind of weird... you're not talking and... you haven't eaten anything... are you okay?" asked Shy, a little fearfully.

Thunder's murderous look, rose to the eyes of the pegasus, reminding her of several times that Thunder hit her for being contrary to him, which scared her a lot, and she even moved away from the table a little bit.

Thunder got up without saying a word and left the restaurant and although only the T-Wings, Subrust noticed this, all the harmony did.

"What's wrong with him?" asked Dash telepathically.

"Shy are you okay?" asked Twilight, who was next to her.

"No... he's going to kill someone..." said Shy terrified, knowing her ex-boyfriend's intentions.

Twilight seeing how upset she was, got up from her table and walked over to Shy's, sitting down across from her.

"Hey Shy, relax, nothing's going to happen" she told her quietly so none of the T-Wings would hear her.

"No... I know the look on his face, when... when he was beating me up... he'd get the same look... and... and... and... and... if he found out about... you know who... he's going after him, I'm sure." Shy said quietly as well, since the only one who knew about the beatings, was Twilight, who in turn, blocked the minds of the others from listening telepathically.

"Listen to me, Thunder can't do anything here, we can both go after him to make sure, but you have to calm down..." said Twilight to her pegasus friend, who nodded and they both got up.

"But don't leave us here alone!" implored Pinkie as she watched them get up.

"Send them the hell away and get the hell out of there." Twilight told her "We think Thunder is going to do something bad."

Sunset, hearing that, looked at Sunbrust, who hadn't said much since they started eating and back at her friends, who all nodded and gave them all at once, a resounding smack to the T-Wings and got up to go to their two friends.

"I'm sorry Sunbrust... I have to go." Said the unicorn, to which Sunbrust, looked at her friends, who from the blow, were on the ground.

"I know... save the little guy... he's the one who really took care of you." He said with a huge smile.

"Wh....wh...what...what...?" said a terrified Sunset under the gaze of the harmony, who were stunned.

"These stubborn friends of mine are too stupid to know... but you only have to look at the details to find out... he's a good boy... and it's a hell of a thing for me to say, knowing what I've done to him for so many years but... he's the one who really knows you... who deserves you all... take care of him... and Sunset... I just want to apologize... for... everything I've done... it hasn't worked out well for us as a couple, but I wish we could be friends sometime. " Sunbrust commented to her, leaving Sunset and her friends completely surprised "Just think about it... and by the way... Thunder is going to kill him... but today he won't... he prefers to do it on the island... however today he is out of it... because of a nightmare... I don't know what he is capable of, but I think he will go to the cabin to lie down, don't worry."

Sunset stared at her ex-boyfriend, who nodded determinedly and smiled.

"Run along, go" the unicorn told her cheerfully "I'll calm these ones down when they come to...go."

The unicorn with red and yellow hair smiled and nodded.

The seven harmony, left the Rooftop Garden, being watched in amazement by the rest of the passengers, who had witnessed the cake that had been propitiated to the T-Wings.

"Good luck girls... and to you Spike..." said Sunbrust quietly as he continued to savor his cheeseburger.

The seven of them, descended to the Resort Deck, where Latin music and drunken students were piling up.

"Do you trust him?" asked Twilight to Sunset.

"I know him well enough to know when he's telling me the truth...otherwise he can confirm it Applejack" said Sunset looking at her cowgirl friend, who nodded her head.

"Now then...where did Thunder go?" said Twilight looking around with her eyes, until she focused some of her magic on them, to see through the walls, she relaxed when she saw that he was back in his room and had fallen plumb on top of the couch. "We can breathe easy girls...Sunbrust has told the truth."

They all snorted, relaxing, Shy the most.

"It's just a scare at least..." said Rarity.

"It's been awkward," said Applejack.

"We should have figured that Spike wouldn't do something like that... but something weirder... is why wasn't Flash there?" said Dash looking at Twilight

"I have no idea" replied the alicorn "But... I don't know if that's a good sign or a bad sign..."

Abruptly, Adagio and Aria appeared on deck in a huff. Seeing the Harmony's, they both went after them, surprising the seven of them when Adagio grabbed Twilight tightly by the neck and shoved her against a wall.

"WHERE IS THAT BASTARD TWILIGHT?!" asked Adagio angrily as Twilight shoved her off of her and the seven of them got into a defensive stance.

"What the fuck are you talking about Adagio?" said Twilight catching her breath.

" YOUR BFRIEND SENT PATRIOT TO THE HOSPITAL!" yelled Aria angrily "WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU HIDING HIM!!!?"

"TO THE HOSPITAL?!" said all the terrified harmonies.

In the onboard hospital, there were few people, only those who had been admitted for an alcoholic coma and in an empty room, aside, was Spike, still wearing his Patriot costume, still unconscious on a hospital gurney. Behind the curtains separating him from another empty gurney, a blonde-haired, purple-eyed pegasus nurse wearing a changeling belt slowly approached him. Seeing him unconscious, she grabbed a scalpel from the surgical table next to him and pointed it at his windpipe.

"Now you're not getting away, you bastard," said Thorax, who was behind the nurse's costume.

He was about to stab him when abruptly and startlingly, the Harmony's along with Adagio and Aria entered the room. Thorax dropped the scalpel on the floor in fright.

"Here he is" said Adagio approaching the stretcher where Patriot was.

"Oh my" said Fluttershy, putting her hands on her face as she saw that the earthling, had both eyes black and a pair of cotton balls on his nose. "How is he feeling, nurse?"

Thorax surprised, looked repeatedly at the Harmony and Patriot.

"He... is... well... stable... it won't be long before he regains consciousness... I have to go" said Thorax as he left the room "Almost..."

As she left the room, Sonata appeared, drinking a canned soda.

"Where were you?" her sister Aria asked.

"I was thirsty" said the younger sister approaching "Any news?"

"The nurse said he was stable, he'll regain consciousness soon." Pinkie said as she looked sadly at Patriot.

"How did this happen?" asked Applejack upset.

"Ask that one's boyfriend" said Sonata pissed off pointing her finger at Twilight "He beat him to death in the casino."

"And I'm to blame?!" said Twilight angrily "Because you didn't do anything huh? You were with him Sonata.

"He stood up for you Twilight, that's why he left his face a mess." Said Sonata "It was all too fast, I didn't know how to react."

Shy jumped on top of Sonata, grabbing her by the neck and pinning her against the wall.

"WAS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED SIRENS?!" she said angrily as her eyes started to turn purple, scaring everyone "YOU SHOULD HAVE DEFENDED HIM!"

"CALM YOURSELF FLUTTERSHY!" said Applejack as he summoned his lasso and grabbed her around the waist with it "IT'S ALL BEEN AN ACCIDENT!"

"AND A FUCK!" the pegasus replied angrily as she couldn't do anything to stop him from dragging her towards her.

The two sisters went to help their sister get back on her feet.

" ARE YOU CRAZY BITCH!" said Aria angrily.

"She can't control herself when it comes to him Dazzlings" said Twilight trying to keep them from fighting "It's not her fault."

"Then tell her to control herself!" replied Sonata catching her breath. "It's not my fault Flash beat him up!"

"Relax everyone!" shouted Rarity "Within all the bad stuff, whoever was at fault or not... he's fine and that's all that matters... it could have been worse..."

"Yeah... I could look like Cheese in the face" said Patriot, startling everyone as he slowly opened his eyes.

The ten girls approached him, Fluttershy being the first to jump on him and hug him tightly. Seeing how close she held him, Patriot blushed and Shy, red as a tomato, slowly pulled away from him, covering her face with her hair.

"How are you?" said Sonata grabbing his hand, which made the Harmony's jealous.

"I've been worse... I assure you..." said Patriot with a smile "At least this time, you can say I had it coming..."

"Hey, don't say that little guy" said Aria calming down "You were very brave to say four things to that pig."

"I only defended their honor" she said referring to Twilight and Sonata, who both smiled with a small blush.

" You... you didn't have to Spike..." said Twilight.

"I'm not going to let anyone say anything bad about any of you ten...I assure you...you're all very important to me.

All ten smiled and looked away from the boy embarrassed by their blushes.

"Oops oops oops, don't tell me I got to you girls?" said Patriot teasingly.

"As usual, Patriot "Greenfire" Fly, joking even when his face is picassoed" said Rarity laughing as a tear rolled down her face.

"Factory defect" said Patriot, winking at her.

At that moment, through the door, the captain of the ship appeared with a worried face.

"Hello Mr. Fly" said the girl "I see that you are well and in good company, but I would like to speak on behalf of the entire passage to apologize for the incident."

"Don't worry, really, it's not like I'm used to this kind of physical friction, but I'm fine." Patriot said drawing a smile from everyone present.
"Even so... and to avoid... any bureaucratic procedures... the company wants to give you a gift, whatever it is, to avoid lawyers involved" said the captain smiling somewhat uncomfortable and uneasy "Anything you want. All you have to do is ask."

"Well... now that you mention it... that state-of-the-art drone you have as a prize in the casino... I quite like it." Patriot said smiling.

"Yours it is, forever" said the captain contentedly "If you don't want anything else, the doctor says you're good to go, you just have to give yourself the anti-stroke cream in your eyes twice a day and in two hours, you can take the cotton balls out of your nose."

"That's a relief" said the earthling trying to get up, helped by Rarity and Sonata, under the attentive gaze of the others.

"And in case you're wondering, Flash Sentry will be confined until we reach Bora Bora in the onboard cells." Said before leaving the captain "I hope he makes it through the rest of the voyage accident free."

"So do I Captain," Patriot laughed.

As the captain left the room, the girls escorted Patriot to his cabin. Once at the door, he turned to them.

"Thank you girls," he said, transforming back into Spike, "I'm glad to see you together...really...you don't know how much...and especially that you don't kill each other."

"Don't crow victory," Adagio said looking at the Harmonys.

"Still...I'm glad I woke up and saw you all...very much." Spike said with a bit of a blush

"We'll always be there when you need us Spike" Pinkie said with a huge smile.

"Well... I'll rest for a while if you'll let me." Spike said, but before he went inside, Sonata grabbed his arm, overtaking Dash, who was about to do the same.

"Hey, if you feel better later... they're having a reggaeton party on the Resort Deck... you can come with us if you want." Sonata said with a smile

"Pinkie, Applejack and I will be there too... we'd love to see you there." Said the pegasus looking furtively at Sonata.

"I'll think about it" Spike said looking at them all "Thank you all again...really."

Spike closed the door and stood leaning against it, inside his room.
"I love you girls..." snorted the boy as his eyes filled with water.

The ten girls, in the hallway, each stared at their group.

"The war goes on Harmony, don't think we'll give up" said Adagio confronting them.

"We'll see you this afternoon on the Resort Deck," said Dash.

"We'll be waiting for you there." Aria said as she and her sisters left for the elevator.

"It's going to burn Troy today" Twilight said jokingly as she pulled out her card to enter the room.

"It's going to burn something" Dash said as he looked at Spike's door "But it's not exactly going to be Troy."

After a few hours, Spike woke up on the couch in his room and went to the bathroom to remove the cotton balls from his nose. He looked in the mirror after removing them and observed his face. His expression was cheerful but gradually changed. In his head, he heard some very familiar voices of little girls laughing, but soon they changed to a cumulus of screams and the usual wailing of the little girl to which he was almost used to. From his wallet, he took out the photo he had of him and his siblings, stared at the little Smolder sadly and raised his eyes to his former self. He saw how his once brown hair glistened in the sunshine of the photograph and his yellow eyes had an expression of genuine happiness. Next to him, his brother Garble, had that typical bad boy pose and mischievous grin.

Then, with tears in his eyes, he pulled out a second photograph from behind that one. He stared at this new one for several seconds as he tried to suppress the tears forming in his throat.

A short time later, there was a knock on his door. Spike, suspicious, slowly walked over to it, gently grasping the handle and opening it, revealing the Dazzlings behind it. All three sisters were in the same model of bikini, a one-piece, neoprene-like, with a layer so thin you could almost notice the mermaids' naked bodies.

"You look much better Spike" Sonata said with a huge smile as the boy was still somewhat shocked by the sight of the three of them in swimsuits.
"Uh... yeah... yeah I'm better" he said smiling.

"So are you coming with us to the resort deck?" said Adagio putting her right arm on her waist.

"Uh...sure...why not?" said Spike as he went to the bathroom to put on his changeling belt and grab his pool suit.

As he came out of the bathroom, already in the costume and dressed in purple shorts, he could see the three of them looking at his package area, which made him blush.

"Sorry." Said Adagio embarrassed as she realized "It was an accident."

"There are no such things as accidents." said the earthling jokingly. "Shall we go?"

"Sure" said Aria as she latched onto his arm "Is that belt waterproof?"

"Yes, yes it is" replied Patriot smiling, somewhat uncomfortable about carrying Aria hooked to his arm, something that got worse when Sonata hooked herself to the other one.

"Better" said the little sister as they headed for the elevator.

On the Resort Deck, there were practically all the students, some at the beach bar, some at the pool and the rest all around the deck, dancing, taking off their clothes, drinking every bottle of alcohol they could find, to the sound of reggaeton music from a DJ that was in front of the pool.

Thorax, disguised as Armando, was now bartending at the poolside beach bar, serving cocktails to diners.

"I've been so close..." thought the costumed Incubus " No matter, one way or another, today I'm going to kill that nomag."

As he was preparing a mojito, he was approached by two pegasus girls, drunk, with their bikini tops off, showing their breasts, which made Armando, lose concentration for a second, causing him to almost drop the mojito he was preparing.

"Eh... *hic* What do you *hic* like *hic* what you see ?" asked one of the girls, but Armando didn't answer.

"Yep *hic* yes he likes it sister *hic*" said the other pegasus with a teasing smile.

"If you want handsome *hic* I'll let you touch them *hic* when *hic* you prepare me a drink *hic* as payment *hic*" one of them told him

"They're *hic* very big *hic* cup *hic* E *hic, I can do *hic* wonders to you *hic* with *hic* them." Said the other one to him, setting her breasts on top of the bar.

The Incubus was getting nervous, his nature pushing him towards the two girls. His eyes, were turning bright purple and his heart was starting to race.

"Control yourself, control yourself, control yourself" he thought as a cold sweat ran down his back and the two girls kept provoking him.

At that moment, Discord arrived, catching the two girls' attention.

"Girls, don't disturb the waiters" he said as he took a sip of his pina colada.

"Oh *hic* principal *hic* we were just having fun *hic*" said one of them.

"Plus *hic* it *hic* is *hic* really hot *hic*" said the other one

"As if he's Adonis reincarnated" said Discord "Besides, I'm sure there are plenty of boys your age, willing to oblige your needs. Come on, air."

The two girls left, but not before, blowing a kiss in the air to Armando, who snorted in relief.

"And don't drink so much!" shouted Discord to the two girls before sitting down on the stool of the Bar.

"Excuse them eh... Armando" said Discord looking at the gold colored pegasus badge "They're young, hormones through the roof, alcohol... bad combination."

"Don't worry" he said with a smile "I knew what I would face when I was assigned."

"Assigned?" laughed Discord "It's not like you were a fellow soldier."

"If you only knew..." thought Armando.

"Well, while you're at it give me one of these" said Discord finishing his pina colada and signaling for another.

Capturing the attention of everyone present, Rainbow, Applejack and Pinkie, arrived at the pool area in their bikinis, causing everyone there, boys and girls alike, to gasp.

Applejack wore a trikini open at the tummy to neck area, orange in color, which exposed her tummy and cleavage, just as the swimwear fit her figure.

Dash was wearing a red Brazilian two-piece. Because of her outfit and the fact that she seemed to be wearing nothing at all on the bottom, several of the students and waiters almost slipped as they gawked at her two buttocks.

Pinkie on the other hand, was wearing a blue and white two-piece with stripes on both sides, holding her two large breasts and the swimsuit part supporting her buttocks.

Armando looked at them suspiciously, something that Discord did not go unnoticed.

"Is something the matter Armando?" the Draconequus asked her.

"No, nothing," he said dryly as he poured the pina colada for her.

Discord became suspicious of Armando and unnoticed, he gave him a sidelong glance as he sipped on his cocktail.

Pinkie then walked over to the beach bar to order a bottle of tequila for her and her friends.

"Pour me the strongest tequila you have, the whole bottle if possible and three shot glasses." Said the earthling cheerfully.

"Right away" said Armando dryly.

"What a rude" Pinkie said under her breath as she turned away.

Discord walked over to the student and placed some bills on the table.
"It's on me Pinkie" the principal told him.

"Thank you Discord" she said cheerfully "How's your cruise going?"

"Well, all day in the hot tubs or in the pool and missing my two favorite alicorns" she said sipping the pina colada thinking of Celestia and Luna "A well deserved vacation... What about you ladies?"

"Well... we had some unpleasant moments... but overall pretty good." Said the earthling somewhat sadly, lowering her gaze.

"And how about Spike?" she asked empathetically.

"We're in a strange spot, on the one hand, something keeps him from letting loose with us, on the other hand, the Dazzlings are closer than ever to him... I don't know... it's a mess." Pinkie said worriedly

"Maybe you shouldn't worry so much... I know that guy, he only sees the mermaids as friends." Said Discord putting his hand on her shoulder "But he loves you girls."

"I don't really doubt it but... it's the three of them I'm worried about, I don't want him to get hurt." Pinkie said

"They won't, I assure you" Discord answered her with a comforting smile.
Pinkie then watched as to the pool, the Dazzlings and Patriot were coming down the stairs, the Dazzlings being leeringly obvserbed by most of the people present.

"Speak of the devil..." said Pinkie with a frown.

Armando handed over a tray with a bottle of Sunrise Tequila without addressing Pinkie and took the bits Discord handed him.

"Don't worry Discord, it won't last." She said firmly as she headed back to her friends.

Applejack and Rainbow, were looking at the Dazzlings and Patriot, who sat on some loungers near them.

"I can't believe those bitches are gaining on us." Dash said enviously.

"Don't get all sulky Rainbow" Applejack told her "We won't let them win the war."

"Exactly" said Pinkie arriving with the bottle "But for now let's have fun!"

The three of them grabbed a glass, filled to the top with Tequila and after toasting them, they took the shot. Then Pinkie, screaming with happiness, jumped into the pool and began to dance in the water, to which the other two joined in.

Inside the water, there were a lot of boys and girls, dancing, rubbing and kissing each other in an endless stream. The three friends danced happily as they passed the bottle of tequila over each other, drinking it non-stop.
The Dazzlings watched what the three friends were doing. Between laughter, dancing and boys and girls coming up to them and rubbing up against them and vice versa, the three of them were watching out of the corner of their eyes what Patriot was doing, who was distractedly reading one of his favorite books, 1984, by Coltge Orwull. Sonata then had an idea, her sisters looked at her and nodded.

"Hey Spi... I mean, Patriot" Sonata said to him "How are you at dancing in the water?"

Patriot pushed the book away and looked at her smiling.

"You can't be telling me seriously." Patriot said laughing.

"Oh yeah" Sonata said smiling devilishly.

The three sisters got up and pushed Spike to the edge of the pool.

"On one, on two and on three!" they said at the same time as, holding his arms, the four of them jumped into the water.

The pool began to empty as soon as the new song began to play, until it was only at the level of people's knees.

"TIME TO TWERK AND MOVE THAT PELVIS!" shouted over a microphone the DJ.

"I love this song!" shouted Sonata.

At that moment, all the girls, started twerking to anyone who passed behind them, while the guys, moved their hips to the sound of the girls shaking their buttocks, in what looked like a clothed orgy.

Adagio then noticed that the three girls were dancing and rubbing themselves with three other guys watching them. When Patriot looked over, Applejack and Rainbow noticed and winking at each other, they moved closer and without taking their eyes off him, they started kissing in a sexy way, sticking their tongues in each other, which made Spike blush and try to look away, but it was impossible when Pinkie decided to join the kiss with the other two. The three boys surrounding them, looked immersed in them, as none of the three, stopped kissing and Twerking on top of their swimsuits, causing an incredible erection to appear in them. When they broke the kiss and saw the effect it would have had on Spike, they were surprised to find him dancing next to Spike and Aria, he with a huge blush on his face and his hands shaking, while she intensified her hip movements, looking at the three friends, smiling devilishly.

The three of them then, envious, turned around to the guys surrounding them and without a second thought, kissed them passionately while rubbing their private parts with theirs, sticking their tongues down their throats and vice versa.

Breaking the kiss with the boys, who were stunned with excitement, the three of them looked back at the Dazzlings and Patriot, only to be surprised to see how Sonata had challenged him to dance. Patriot began to sway his hips to the song and Sonata waited for her turn to end so that when it was her turn, she would sway her mermaid hips from side to side, come up sharply to him and rub her breasts on his bare torso, which were nearly visible, and her nipples ran a path from his pelvis to the costume's pectorals, although for Spike, the sensation was real and he felt every bit of skin he brushed against, becoming nervous and red in the face. Adagio and Aria, looked at the three Harmony's, and with derision, clapped them sarcastically, mocking them.

"I can't take it anymore!" said Rainbow going towards them, after finishing the bottle of tequila in one gulp, leaving Applejack and Pinkie bewildered.

The pegasus then walked over to where they were, Sonata and Patriot. She pushed the mermaid roughly away and grabbed the disguised nomag by the neck.

The song was at a part where it began to pick up the tempo and at the same speed, Rainbow began to rub up against Patriot, knocking him completely blank. First, she rubbed all over his front part and then turned around and with her two powerful buttocks, she pushed the boy against the wall, while she moved up and down her ass without stopping, causing both of them to start getting too excited. With a final hip thrust to the nomag's waist and pelvis, she pulled away from him. They stood staring at each other, panting as a huge heat rushed across their faces and Dash could only think of kissing him. Then she turned to the Siren, who was looking at her smiling.

"That, is rubbing *hic* mermaid *hic*" she said succumbing a little to the effects of the alcohol as she walked away again with her friends, who had their mouths wide open from what they had just witnessed.

As she pulled away and a new song was beginning to play, the three sirens approached Spike, who was completely in shock.

"How are you feeling loverboy?" asked Aria jokingly.

"I think... I need a drink... nice and cold..." he said almost stammering, which made them laugh.

Applejack and Pinkie stared at Dash as she arrived with them and started to leave the pool.

"What *hic*?" said Dash as she laid down on the lounger.

"No, nothing, nothing..." said her friends at the same time not knowing what to say.

"What did you *hic* want me to do?" said Dash somewhat annoyed "I see those *hic* bitches *hic* seducing him and I have to *hic* stand around *hic* with my arms crossed *hic*? Well no... *hic* I don't feel like it."

"We... we don't tell you anything, relax," Applejack told her as she sat down on the lounger next to her "Mind you, you left the poor guy with no blood on his head."

"No, he did have blood on his head... but not on the top one" said Pinkie making the three of them laugh.

At the snack bar, the Dazzlings and Patriot, were at the counter deciding what to order.

"So, rum cola for all?" asked Adagio to which the others nodded. "Excuse me bartender."

Armando turned around and looked at the four young men, noticing that Patriot, was wearing the changeling belt, to which he stared coldly at him as did Patriot at him.

"Yes, tell me," he said dryly.

"Could I have four rum colas please?" said Adagio.

Armando and Patriot did not look away from each other, cold and serious, for several seconds, without a word. The Dazzlings, looked at one and the other quite confused.

"Right away" said almost in a threatening tone the pegasus, turning around to prepare the drinks.

"Is there something wrong with that guy?" asked Sonata in his ear.

"Look closely at the belt" she said without taking her eyes off him "It's a changeling belt, just like mine..."

Sonata, Aria and Adagio, discreetly looked at the belt, realizing that it was the same as Patriot's belt.

"I don't know what's wrong with it, but I don't trust it one bit." Patriot said seriously.

"If he tries anything we'll be there Spike, don't worry." Said Adagio looking at Armando determined

At that moment, Discord approached the four friends, with concern.

"Hey Dazzlings..." said the Draconequus "Could you give me a second to your friend?"

The three looked at each other quizzically and then at Patriot, who nodded calmly.

"Yeah, sure... we'll wait for you in the loungers..." said Adagio as they left "Don't forget the drinks."

When they were away, Discord gently grabbed Patriot by the shoulder and pulled him a little away from the bar.

"Having a good time kid?" he asked him with a jovial smile.

"To tell you the truth, even though in less than a day of cruising I had to go to the hospital and get beat up twice, frankly it's been the best vacation I've had in a long time" Patriot said with a smile looking at the Dazzlings and the three Harmony's that were there.

"Yeah, I heard about your confrontation with Flash at the casino" said Discord "Why did you get into it with him?"

"I was just defending the honor of two wonderful girls, besides, it got rid of him for the rest of the cruise." Patriot said scratching the back of his head.

"From him maybe, but not from the rest of the T-Wings" said Discord worriedly as he leaned against the railing "Speaking of them... Do you know anything more about Thunderlane?"

Patriot's face changed to a worried one at that point.

"No" he said looking out to sea "I heard from some people that he was very strange today, dark circles under his eyes, blank stare... I fear the worst."

"The worst?" asked Discord somewhat quizzically.

"That he kept remembering... and that it reminded... him..." said Patriot closing his eyes, trying to calm himself.

Discord, seeing him worried, put his hand on the disguised nomag's shoulder and shook him slightly.

"Don't worry, as long as you're in company" said Discord looking at the six girls on the deck chairs "Nothing will happen to you."

"What happens to me doesn't matter Discord, you know that..." said Patriot turning his head also to look at the girls "I don't want any of this to splash on them and they..."

The earthling's gaze turned sad as he looked away from the Dazzlings and Harmony.

"It won't" Discord said comfortingly.

"I hope so" Patriot replied "By the way... have you got what I asked for yet?"

"Before we get to Bora Bora I'll give you the papers to take a boat, don't worry" said Discord smiling as he adjusted his straw hat.

"Perfect" said the boy "I'm going to go talk to Fancy, to inform him that everything is going well, he will be worried."

"Go" said Discord as he went to the bar "I'll get them the drinks, don't worry."

Patriot nodded and headed for the stairs that took him upstairs, oblivious to Armando obvserbing him as he left.

"That's it... stay away from people... you're not getting away this time" thought the pegasus as, unnoticed, he made his way out of the beach bar.

Applejack, Dash and Pinkie looked angrily and sidelong at the Dazzlings, who were smirking. Lying down, the three sisters, right next to the three harmony, Adagio began to smirk.

"You're going to burn us with your eyes at this rate," said Adagio.

"So you'll burn like baked sea bream" murmured Pinkie.

"What's the matter girls?" said Adagio "Are you envious or something?"

"Envious of what Adagio?" asked Applejack suspiciously "Spike can be with you girls all he wants, but the ones he's in love with are us."

"For now" said Adagio smiling.

"For now and forever" said Dash standing up abruptly and facing her "We have more than just a connection, which you girls don't."

"Yeah, right Skittles... that's why he's with us, instead of you..." said Aria causing Dash to be about to jump them, if it hadn't been for Pinkie and Applejack who stopped her, grabbing her by the shoulders.

"It's complicated to explain mermaids, your tiny brains wouldn't be able to comprehend it" Pinkie told them.

"Maybe you're the ones who aren't getting it" said Aria standing up "Spike is ours."

"For now" said Applejack smiling, imitating what Adagio did.

Discord arrived with a tray, with the Dazzlings' drinks.

"Discord where's Patriot?" said Sonata quizzically.

"He...had some urgent business to attend to...he won't take long." Discord said.

The Dazzlings grabbed the drinks, but before they drank, they smelled it worriedly.

"Is something wrong?" asked Discord.

"Nothing, the bartender who made our drinks, we don't trust him..." said Aria "He kept looking at Patriot coldly... plus he had... a changeling belt."
"What?!" shouted Discord upset "Are you sure?"

"Yes, it's the same one Patriot is wearing." They said worried "What's wrong?"

Discord was quiet for a few seconds and looked at the beach bar, to find that Armando had disappeared.

"Oh shit" he said as he ran off towards the stairs where Spike had gone.
The Harmony and Dazzlings, were quiet for a few seconds, until it dawned on them what was going on and they ran off after Discord.

On the top deck, Spike was all alone. There, checking to make sure no one was there, he took off his changeling belt and pulled out his antique cell phone. He dialed Fancy's number and leaned against the railing, looking out to sea as he pulled his pack of cigarettes from his shorts pocket.

The phone began to communicate with Fancy as he lit his cigarette, going hands-free.

"Louis?" asked Fancy's voice through the phone "I was already worried you wouldn't call me, is everything all right?"

"Everything is all set and ready, I've got a drone to fly over the island before I go in. It will be in and out." He said with a smile as he took a puff.

"I'm glad... and for the rest?" asked Fancy concerned "Are you having a good time?"

"Yeah...frankly yeah." Spike said exhaling the smoke

"What about the girls?" asked Fancy

"Well... I've tried to stay away from them... but it's kind of impossible, it' bigger than me... and now that... the Dazzlings and I are back to... well I think they're kind of jealous..." said Spike somewhat worried as he took a puff again, looking out to sea, unaware that on the other side of the wall, there was a figure listening and obvserbing him.

"Wouldn't you be?" said Fancy to him "They do what they can to get close to you... and you walk away and show up with the Dazzlings... it's kind of hypocritical don't you think?"

"Yeah... of course I know, but... it's complicated," Spike said with a saddened look on his face.

"Want some advice from an old friend?" asked Fancy " Just go ahead and let go. If you really trust them, like you do the Dazzlings, let go, let them into your heart. You've been alone too long Louis, let love come back to you..."

"But...what if I put them in danger? What if I wreck their lives? What if they start to remember like Thunder?" he asked alarmed and pacing around the small uncrowded space where he stood.

"You worry too much" said Fancy in a soothing voice.

"How could I not Fancy?" said Spike snorting "They are the reason for my life..."

"I know" said the unicorn "That's exactly why it's about time it's not you protecting them, but them protecting you, together, protecting each other."

"And if it goes wrong?" he said on the verge of tears.

"If it goes wrong, with love and if you all want it to, it will be fixed." Said Fancy comfortingly "You think about it, you deserve to be happy."

Fancy Pants hung up the phone, leaving Spike on that deck, letting a light breeze caress his face. With his eyes closed, Spike began to reminisce about the best dates he had with the Harmonys, remembering what made them so special. Fluttershy's voice, warm and comforting like a mother, Dash's passion, brave and indomitable like a tigress, Applejack's determination, strong and immovable like a century-old oak tree, Pinkie's laughter, cheerful and contagious that would make the devil himself laugh, Sunset's smile was as calm and soft as the breeze on his face, Rarity's elegance, firm and dazzling, like the brightest of diamonds, and above all, that feeling that Twilight gave off, the leadership and protection that, like an alpha wolf, made you feel safe next to her.

Spike smiled at that feeling and with a small tear spilling down his left cheek, he took a breath and looked up at the sky.

"Okay... it's time... for me to think a little... about my happiness." He said smiling and determined to talk to the Harmony's.

When he wanted to turn around, without expecting it, he hit the figure that had been watching him since he started talking to Fancy, the blow being so strong that he fell to the ground, revealing himself to be the Thunderlane figure.

"Going somewhere midget?" he said to him in a murderous voice.

Rainbow, AJ and Pinkie joined the Dazzlings back at the beach bar after scouring part of the cruise ship looking for Spike.

"He's not in the rooftop Garden or anywhere in the pool," said Applejack worriedly.

"He's also not in his room or anywhere forward where could he have gone?" said Adagio with concern

"No sign of Armando either" said Discord, coming with them. "I fear the worst."

"No, no, he's got to be around somewhere." Dash said, looking around.

"Are you looking *hic* for the *hic* muscled pegasus?" said suddenly one of the two girls who had provoked Armando "He's *hic* hot *hic* huh."

"Yes!" said Aria "Where is he?"

"We *hic* saw him *hic* go to *hic* the top here *hic*" said the other friend "But *hic* he's tough as nails *hic* we showed him our boobs *hic* and he didn't even flinch *hic* I think he's gay *hic*"

The seven of them looked at each other and ran up the stairs, leaving the two friends bewildered.

Upstairs, in the private, secluded area, Thunder grabbed Spike by the neck, choking him against the wall.

"WHAT DID YOU DO WITH HIM, MURDERER!" he snapped at him angrily as he tightened his hands on the nomag's neck, causing it to writhe around in search of oxygen.

"To... who...?" asked Spike running out of air.

Thunder threw him across the area, causing him to hit the railing and his head to start bleeding.

"MY BROTHER!" he yelled at him with homicidal rage in his gaze "WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY BROTHER!"

"I...I don't know anything...I didn't know...you...had...a brother" He said trying to maintain consciousness.

" YES YOU DO KNOW FUCKING NANNY!" said Thunder propitiating Spike with a kick to the stomach, causing him to start coughing and writhing in pain "WHAT DID YOU DO TO TANK?!"

"Tank... *cough* *cough*" said a completely dumbfounded Spike "Ho...Ho...Ho...how do you know?"

Thunder kicked him again, this time in the face, breaking a few of his teeth and causing him to start spitting blood.

"I SAW HIM, I REMEMBERED HIM YOU FUCKING SON OF A BITCH" Thunder told him grabbing him again by the neck and pulling him up on top of the railing "I'LL KILL YOU RIGHT HERE IF YOU DON'T T TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK YOU DID TO HIM FUCKING DAMN NOMAG!"

Spike, due to the blows, choking and blood loss, was beginning to lose consciousness.

"He... was... my friend..." said Spike letting out his last breath before passing out.

Thunder realizing this, let out a huge scream and threw Spike back, against the wall, leaving his unconscious body lying on the floor.
Looking at the inert body of the nomag, his breathing began to calm down and without looking back, he left the area with rage still in his eyes.
Turning around, on the other side of the deck, he made direct contact with Discord, the Dazzlings and the three harmony. After a few seconds of the eight of them looking at each other without saying anything, Thunder resumed his walk.

"Oh no" said Discord running towards the area where Thunder had left, followed by the six girls.

When they got there, the seven found Spike, lying on the ground in a pool of blood emanating from his mouth.

"NO NO NO NO NO!" shouted Discord going towards him "SPIKE CAN YOU HEAR ME!!!?"

The girls as they arrived, were exhilarated at the sight of him.

"SPIKE!" shouted Dash going towards Discord and looking at the nomag's bloodied face "TELL ME HE'S NOT DEAD DISCORD!"

"He's not, but he's lost a lot of blood, giving me room" said the Draconequus standing up "This isn't going to be pleasant to watch girls."

Rainbow went along with Applejack and Pinki and together with the Dazzlings, who were paralyzed with fear, they hugged each other while they couldn't hold back tears.

"VULNERA SANENTUN!" pronounced Discord raising his hand above the nomag, letting the lightning he had summoned begin to heal every wound on his body.

As the bluish lightning flashed through his body, it could be seen as the blood rushed back into his body. The crunching of the teeth repositioning in his mouth and the bruises on his neck withering away could also be heard. All of this, caused all six girls to be horribly afraid, but not as scared as the thought of Spike being dead.

"Please let this work" they all thought at once.

Once the spell was finished, Discord and the girls stood silently, staring at the boy lying on the ground. A few seconds later, Spike suddenly opened his eyes and took a deep breath of air. Puzzled as to what had happened, he began to look around. Both the Dazzlings and the Harmony ran up to him, kneeling around him.

"Are you all right?" asked Pinkie, grabbing his cheeks, "What happened? Why did Thunder almost kill you? Do you know what a fright you gave us?"

"Stop harassing him you cocainomaniac!" shouted Aria.

"I'm not a cocainomaniac!" yelled Pinkie back.

"Quiet everyone!" yelled Applejack at them "Let him breathe!"

AJ pulled them all away from Spike and gently helped him back to his feet.

"What happened?" asked AJ calmly as he leaned his arm around her neck.

"Get away..." said Spike almost whispering.

"What did you say?" said Applejack puzzled.

"I SAID GET AWAY FROM ME ALL OF YOU!" he cried tearfully, startling even Discord and abruptly pulling away from Applejack "I DON'T WANT TO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ANY OF YOU! NOT FROM YOU HARMONY OR YOU DAZZLINGS! GET AWAY FROM ME FOREVER AND FORGET ME!"

Spike ran off, turning his belt hand and transforming into Patriot, leaving everyone completely frozen and Discord completely bewildered who ran off after him.

"SPIKE HOLD ON!" yelled Discord as he ran after him.

The six girls burst into tears, helpless and unmoving from what Spike had just yelled at them.

On the other side of the wall, where Thunder had been hiding before, Armando was listening to everything that had happened and a malevolent grin broke out on his face.

"Perfect" thought the disguised Incubus Machiavellianly.

Spike, ran across the deck until he reached the inside of the cruiser. He ran inside until he was in a huge hallway of interior rooms which was completely empty. There, with tears streaming from his eyes, he began punching the wall until his rage dissipated. He leaned against it and dropped to the floor. He turned the handle again to transform into himself and began to wail, covering his face.

Discord, who had followed him there, walked slowly and worriedly to the nomag, who kept crying. He knelt down to his full height and took a deep breath.

"Spike... What happened?" she asked him gently.

"Thunder *sniff* remembered him... *sniff* worst fears *sniff* have come true Discord *sniff*" said Spike without taking his hands away from her face.

"Oh no..." said the Draconequus almost sighing, also leaning against the wall and sitting down on the floor.

" I... *sniff* can't take risks *sniff* that's why... *sniff* I had to tell the girls that *sniff*" said Spike pulling his hands away from his face and looking at Discord completely red with rage "I can't *sniff* allow myself *sniff* standing next to me *sniff* any of them to start remembering *sniff* *sniff*"

"I... I don't know what to tell you Spike..." said Discord completely at a loss.

"No need *sniff*" said the nomag trying to calm down "I already made the decision *sniff* I'm not going to risk it all by being selfish *sniff*that's the way things should be *sniff*"

"But... what about your happiness?" asked Discord almost on the verge of tears as well.

"I don't care about my happiness... *sniff* I'm not going to let them remember and let everyone start remembering *sniff* that I'm a murderer *sniff* and go after them *sniff*"

Discord stood there slumped and not knowing what to say to him.

"That's the way things should be *sniff*" he said getting up from the ground and starting to walk.

"Where are you going?" asked Discord getting up as well.

"With luck? *sniff* Forward" Spike answered him, disappearing around the bend in the hallway, leaving Discord alone, head bowed and shaking his head slightly with it.

Over the PA, the captain's voice began to sound.

"Attention all crewmembers, in five minutes, will begin in the main pool, the First Great Sunset Electronic Music Festival, with the collaboration of DJCheese, do not miss it."

While all the crew members, waiters and sailors as well, went to the resort deck, leaving the ship empty inside. On the sundeck, were Rarity and Sunset along with Fluttershy and Twilight. Shy and Rarity were taking a relaxing bath while Twilight was reading a book on a deck chair and Sunset was taking in the last rays of sunlight through the ceiling window, with her feet in the water.

Through the door of the solarium then appeared Pinkie, Applejack and Rainbow along with the Dazzlings, all six with a look of genuine sadness on their faces. At the sight of the mermaids, the other four girls became alarmed.

"What are those doing here!" said Twilight abruptly getting up from the lounger.

"Twilight let us explain," said Applejack as Rarity, Shy and Sunset climbed out of the water and stood next to Twi.

"Now can the explanation be good enough for you to show up with the fish-faces" said Rarity quizzical and pissed off "Are you being manipulated?"

"Girls please can we talk like rational people just for once?" said Adagio with his head down.

The four girls looked puzzled at each other.

"You better sit down..." said Aria sadly as she wrapped an arm around her sister Sonata, who couldn't stop crying.

While the ship was empty, Spike wandered through the vast corridors in which even, there was an echo. He had just left his room after changing and had arrived at the Grand Plaza. Silently, he approached one of the windows that looked out and watched as the sun began to set behind the vast sea, with an anxious feeling.

"I guess... it's over" he thought as he recognized the sound of music on the deck above. " It was stupid ..."

Armando, was a few feet away from him, hiding behind a wall.

"It's now or never" the Incubus said to himself as he summoned a black sword, from which blue-green flames were coming out.

When he got a little closer to the nomag, he inadvertently dragged one of the chairs of the Central Café, something that did not go unnoticed by the nomag, who, suspiciously, walked without saying a word to a door of the place, where it was written "Authorized Staff Only, No Exit".

Armando, once the nomag entered, ran to the door and went inside as well.

The Incubus descended the metal stairs behind the service door. At the bottom of the stairs was the engine room, full of tubes, cables, the huge flaming boiler and an almost infernal heat. The whole place was illuminated by a dim yellow light. However, there was no clue to the nomag.

"There's only way out through the door... he couldn't have gone far" he thought as he took off his changeling belt, revealing his demonic appearance.

He walked slowly through the place, unaware that on the metal bridges above him was the nomag, obvserbing him.Jumping silently over the Incubus from one bridge to another.

As he leapt to the last, the chains that held it screeched, warning the creature, who gripped his black scimitar tightly, causing the blue-green flames to burst out more intensely. He looked up and saw him. With a flick of her wings, she reached the other side of the bridge where the nomag stood.

For a few seconds, the two glared at each other, motionless and wordless.

"Of all the creatures Don Bruto could send to kill me, he chose an Incubus" Spike said monotonously "How did you manage to not fuck the whole ship?"

"At least I have a chance of fucking someone" he said as he began to walk slowly towards the nomag "You on the other hand, are gonna die virgin."

"You move me...but I think you underestimate my survivability, demon." Spike said as he placed his hand in his pants pocket, where he had his gun hidden.

"No doubt... how many failed suicide attempts" Thorax said as he continued to approach, wielding the Arabian scimitar " Not Even Death wants you with it, you filthy nomag..."

Spike watched as the Incubus spoke, that the bridge chains were rusted and that's why it squeaked.

"But don't worry" continued Thorax as the flames from his weapon intensified even more "this time no one will be able to bring you back to life."

The demon began to run towards him, charging with the weapon. Then, Spike, with an accurate shot in the corroded chains of the bridge, made it begin to collapse, leaving it hanging only by three chains that could not withstand the weight of the Incubus, who badly clung to the railing. The bridge fell several meters down to the floor of the boiler room. Thorax was somewhat stunned by the blow, and Spike took advantage of it to dive into the labyrinth of pipes and wires at the heart of the cruiser. When the Incubus regained consciousness, rabid, he also ran into the maze after a huge snort, in which he showed his vampiric-looking teeth.

The girls were still in the solarium. Applejack, Pinkie, Dash, Adagio, Aria and Sonata had just told them what had happened with Spike that day and also confessed what they had heard the day of the hospital. Silence reigned inside the solarium, only interrupted by the background music of the resort deck.

"So... that's it... it's all over..." said Sunset wiping her tears.

"We don't know what Thunder told him... but we're sure that change... it's because of that." Dash said looking at her four friends.

"Besides, before we came here... we met Discord... we asked him about Spike... and he simply told us that he made a painful decision for our sake." Said Aria who was still comforting her sister.

"For our sake?!" said Shy abruptly "He's a fucking idiot!"

"Calm down Shy... maybe it's true that he's doing all this to protect us" said Applejack.

"Protect us from what Applejack?" said Rarity getting up and starting to walk to the side of the pool "What can hurt us? We are the bringers of harmony and they are powerful mermaids what can hurt us?"

"What people say about us with him." Said Dash, who was on top of a deck chair, knees up to her face.

"Really? Again?" said Sunset "I thought we talked about this."

"Honestly... I think there's something else behind this" said Adagio then "Something is really wrong with that boy... something very dark..."

The girls all fell silent again, until Twilight, got up from her lounger and walked over to one of the Solarium windows.

"For once... I agree with you Adagio" said Twilight surprising them all "What a coincidence that he just changed his mind not only with us but now with you after Thunderlane beat him up. You just told us that you followed him to the hospital that day and that he knows things about his past... too much of a coincidence isn't it?"

" I think so too" said Adagio standing up along with the others.

"Is it possible that Thunder has remembered something else?" asked Fluttershy.

"Sure" said Twilight turning back to her friends and the Dazzlings "And whatever he remembered, it has made him rethink something."

"But the what?" said Applejack as she stroked her chin.

"This is a conspiracy!" said Pinkie pulling a tin foil hat out of her hair "They sure are spying on us right now!"

"Cut the crap Pinkie" Sonata told her recovering "This is more complicated than it sounds, but I highly doubt it's a conspiracy."

"Only a spy would say that!" said Pinkie pointing her finger at her and hiding behind Sunset, who simply rolled her eyes.

"It's possible..." said Dash thinking.

"What?" asked Twilight.

"What if like Thunder we too have a forgotten past?" said Dash looking at them all

"That... would explain a lot of things..." said Applejack agreeing with her friend.

"What makes you think that Skittles?" said Adagio going to her

"Sunset... had a past with Spike" she said referring to the unicorn "But... what if that past is modified? I mean what if those memories are false... because you found out something?"

Sunset, at Rainbow's question, froze in thought.

"Could be... I don't remember another time where I was with Spike... what if they modified my memory?" said Sunset somewhat frightened.

"What if they erased all of our memories?" said Twilight "What if something that happened in the past put us all in danger and had to do with Spike?"

"That would explain everything" said Rarity "Then it would be understandable that he would want to stay away from us, because he doesn't want us to be in danger again."

They all fell silent again and Shy, approached Twilight.

"We need to talk to him" said the pegasus "This is something that, surely, he's just outgrown... together, we could help him."

"Okay genius" said Aria "And how do we do that? He doesn't even want to see any of us."

"By leaving him no choice." Said Shy

"You mean like kidnap him or corner him or something?" asked Adagio

"Precisely," said the pegasus with determination.

"Fluttershy!" said her friends in agreement.

"What?" said the pegasus "I'm not going to let Spike walk down this boggy road alone where he's stuck and if I have to use force I'll use it."

"You're starting to grow on me soul-sucker" said Adagio smiling "I'm in."

"Me too" said Aria

"So do I" said Sonata

The harmonies looked at each other and breathed hard.

"Who are we kidding?" said Rarity "It's the only way, I'm in."

"Me too" said Dash "I'm tired of this back and forth, we need to know the truth."

"The truth always has to come out in the end" said Applejack "I'm in."

"Me too" said Pinkie still wearing the tin foil hat.

"I don't like having to get into this situation, but Shy is right, I don't know if my past is real or not anymore...I'm in." Said Sunset

They all then looked at Twilight who was doubtful.

"It's the only way... I'm in," said Twilight.

The thirteen girls looked at each other confidently.

"Who would have thought?" said Pinkie with a smile "The Harmony's and the Dazzlings being friends."

"We're not friends" said Aria "This is just a truce."

"Well, we'll see" said Pinkie smiling, causing the three sisters to roll their eyes.

"By the way... do any of you know where Spike is?" asked Twilight to which they all shrugged.

In the bowels of the ship, in the middle of the labyrinth of pipes, Thorax was rabidly searching for the nomag, who, was hiding, squeezing the pistol behind the corner of the corridor where the demon was advancing.

"Coward!" the demon shouted at him "Show yourself nomag!"

Spike, seeing that he was still advancing, looked around the maze for something that might help him. Next to him, there was a poorly closed valve leading to an exhaust vent in the tub. He silently approached it, having only one chance to escape from the dead end he was in.

As he turned the corner, Thorax ran into the nomag and without thinking he rushed at it. Dodging it at the last second, Spike with the butt of the gun, broke the valve, causing the fiery steam exhaust to break completely, burning the face of the Incubus, who for a few seconds was blinded, trying to break the nomag in half, lashing violently with the scimitar to one side and the other.

"I'll break every bone in your body!" the Incubus said angrily and blindly as Spike took the opportunity to escape.

Regaining his vision, Thorax began to run after the nomag. Spike knew he was going to catch him in that endless corridor surrounded by wires and wires, he pulled the trigger, but before he could do anything, Thorax jumped on top of him, leaving him on the floor. The demon, out of rage, started punching him in the face until he broke his nose.

"YOU'RE DEAD SON OF A BITCH!" he shouted at him as he raised his weapon to the sky with the intention of slicing his head in two.

Spike, the second before he lashed out at his face with the scimitar, managed to draw his gun and shoot him in the hand, shattering it and causing him to drop his sword. As the Incubus screamed in pain, Spike took the opportunity to get to his feet and run away.

With blood dripping from his nose and somewhat dazed, he managed to find the stairs again. Without thinking, he ran upstairs and closed the door on his way out. Feeling relieved he leaned against one of the tables in the central cafe, staining the tablecloth with the blood from his nose.

"Fuck, I almost didn't count it..." he said to himself as he caught his breath.

A clatter behind alerted him again. Thorax, ripped off the metal door, blue-green fire shooting out of his eyes. His hand, was slowly regenerating as were the burns on his face.

" Fuck my live" he said as he started to run after a huge snort coming from the Incubus.

On the Resort Deck, the whole ship was jumping, drinking, dancing, in front of a screen of lights that, in front of it, Cheese dressed in a neon lights suit, was playing his songs, enlivening a party atmosphere.

"I want to see everyone jumping fuckeeeeers!" shouted Cheese through a microphone, which made everyone present, crew and passengers, scream with euphoria.

The light show, accompanied the song, along with vapor-wave style videos on the screen behind Cheese.

The Harmony and Dazzlings arrived from the Solarium, intent on finding Spike.

"Quite a party they've got going on," said Adagio.

"For something Cheese is good at, I expected nothing less" said Pinkie with a shrug.

"How are we going to find anyone in this place?" said Applejack as the ten of them made their way inside the party, dodging the drunken people who were dancing, drinking and kissing, too passionately some of them.
Shy bumped into one, turning out to be her brother, who, was making out with a pegasus.

"Zeprhy!?" said Shy in surprise.

"SISTEEEEEEEEEER!" he drunkenly shouted as he hugged her "I want *hic* to let you know *hic* I'm so sorry about Flash *hic* and I want to introduce you to *hic* Dashie Jr. *hic* she's like Dash *hic* badass style."

"My name is *hic* Indigo Zap *hic*" said the pegasus also drunk.

"Whatever *hic*" said Zephry before launching herself back onto the pegasus' lips and falling to the ground with her, where they began to croquette as they kept kissing.

The ten girls watched the spectacle with discomfort and disgust.

"Can we please go on" Dash said uncomfortably.

"I WANT TO STOP LOOKING BUT I CAN'T!" said Pinkie with her eyes wide like plates.

"Seriously, can your brother be normal at some point?" said Aria to Fluttershy

"Let's just keep going please" said Shy red as a tomato.

At that moment, as they were about to continue, they were slowed down by the T-Wings except for Sunbrust and Flash. Cheese, with the lights pointed to where they were, to which the others made a run around.

"I would like to dedicate this song to the most important people to us." Cheese said through the microphone, as he programmed a song and walked off stage to join his friends. " Girls, we've been real fools, all of us and we'd like to apologize for our behavior."

"Oh my..." thought all the Harmony's at once.

"Should we help them?" asked Sonata to her sisters.

"No way" laughed Adagio as Aria with a wicked grin, pulled out her phone to record the moment.

Each of the T-Wings stood in front of their respective ex-girlfriend.

"Dash" said Soarin as the microphone was passed to him "I know I love winning races, but your love is the greatest prize I've ever had, let me win it back."

"Little Apple" said Caramel as the microphone was passed to her "You, plus me, same as always, think about it my love."

"Shy, baby," Thunder said, still bleary eyed as the microphone was passed to him. "I know I've been a scumbag... and I just ask for your forgiveness. Just that..."

"My dear Rarity" said Blueblood as the microphone was passed to him "We're almost king and queen, let's not let the plebs push us apart anymore."

A cheer from all present, went around the deck as the Harmony's, began to get uncomfortable and embarrassed.

"Pinkie, since I can't express myself with words," Cheese said as he took back the microphone. "This one goes out to you and all of you."

Suddenly, the T-Wings got into formation and began to dance in front of everyone, while the other passengers, cheered, complimented and cheered.

"This is the most awkward thing I've ever experienced in my life," Dash said telepathically.

"Tell me about it..." said the others.

Once the show was over, all the T-Wings were silent for a few seconds, before applause from everyone there began to flood the entire ship, putting the girls in a very awkward situation.

"What do you say?" said Soarin moving towards Rainbow Dash until she was inches away from her face "Are we a team again?"

"Tell him yes!" said a pegasus.

"Forgive them!" said a unicorn.

"You're the best team!" said a earthling.

"T-Wings and Harmony forever!" a set of people began to shriek.

"Kiss them! Kiss them! Kiss them! Kiss them!" they started yelling at everyone in chorus as all the T-Wings approached their ex-girlfriends.

Dash stared into Soarin's eyes for a few seconds, becoming somewhat enraptured with the pegasus' seductive gaze.

"Come on baby" Soarin told her almost in a whisper as the chorus continued to play in the background. "Let's forget the mistakes of the past, let's start over."

None of the girls knew how to react and the T-Wings, slowly began to approach each other's lips, fueling the people witnessing the show, to follow the chorus faster and louder.

As they were mere millimeters from each other's lips, when for a second, they were all forgetting why they had left them, an explosion on the forward part of the deck, brought them back to reality along with screams of fear from the passengers.

"NOOOOOOOOOOMAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!" Thorax was heard screaming after a huge hole in the deck from which the hooded Spike ran out, gun in hand, in front of everyone, without even realizing that the girls were there and that the entire crew was there as well.

From the hole then emerged Thorax, still with fire in his eyes, looking for the hooded man among those present, while everyone remained in shock and motionless. Spike came out from behind a column where he had been hiding and ran to another.

" FUCKING COWARD!" said Thorax when he saw him, while he generated a blue-green fireball in his hand and threw it at him, who dodged it by a miracle, causing the attack to shatter the column as it had done with the wall of the deck seconds before.

After firing the fireball, Spike took the opportunity to aim at his chest and start shooting him with the pistol, surprising even more those present.
The impact of the bullets in the marked pectorals of the sex demon, made him weaken, falling to his knees while the nomag ran off in the direction of the Rooftop Garden.

The demon's blood, green and black, began to ooze from his body and a unicorn, feeling sorry for him, approached Thorax, who, snorted from the pain of the bullet projectiles.

"He... he... hello" said the frightened girl "Are you all right?"

Thorax's eyes, which had ceased to flame and were closed, opened again, but his pupils, instead of blue, were violet. With his hands, he grabbed the girl's neck choking her and lifted into the air, squeezing tighter and tighter. Then, with a smile, he began to open his mouth and with his huge snaking tongue, he removed her bikini bottom, revealing her vagina and with a single hand movement, bringing her closer, he introduced his tongue and mouth completely inside the girl's organ.

Inside her vaginal walls, he began to move his tongue like a locomotive, causing the whole girl to almost convulse with pleasure, her eyes rolled back and moans involuntarily came out of her mouth. The girl's flow entered Thorax's body with every tongue movement, which made his wounds begin to regenerate quickly and his height became even greater, reaching now almost three meters. When the girl had the biggest orgasm she had ever had inside the Incubus' mouth, his veins began to glow violet like his eyes, increasing the volume of his muscles. He slowly pulled out his tongue from inside the unicorn girl and threw her into the pool, where she was floating in the water, with a face of incredible happiness and a smile from ear to ear, while everyone else was still in shock and without moving.

"NOW YOU'RE DEAD FUCKING NOMAG!" said the Incubus in a demonic voice, as it spread his wings and flew off to where Spike was standing.
As the Incubus left, the people slowly, slowly came to.

"Okay, I wasn't expecting that," Cheese said through the microphone. "Well, let's keep the party going!"

Everyone jumped back in euphoria, started toasting again and smoking.
The terrified Harmony Girls looked at each other, just before the Dazzlings ran past them.

"Where are you going?" said Fluttershy.

"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK!?" replied Adagio, transforming upset.

"But it's an Incubus and people are looking at us..." said fearful Shy

"AND IT'S SPIKE, WHO HE'S TRYING TO KILL!" shouted Sonata at them "IF YOU FUCKING WANT, STAY WITH YOUR T-WINGS SHIT AND YOUR REPUTATION, WE'RE GOING TO RESCUE OUR FRIEND!"

At that moment, the three of them, flew off in the direction where Spike and the Incubus went.

Everyone stared at the Dazzlings and started muttering.

"Why does she say that to the Harmony's?" commented a pegasus.

"I don't know, what do they have to do with the nomag?" another replied.

"Are they friends with the nomag?" said an earthling "How fucking disgusting, and I wanted to go out with Sonata..."

"What a fucking disappointment," replied a pegasus.

"Seriously, how can they care about a nomag?" said a unicorn to her group of friends.

"Do you think the Harmony's are friends with that piece of shit too?" said a pegasus.

"No way, they would fall for me, forever." Said a unicorn.

The Harmony's, looked at each other not knowing what to do or how to help Spike.

"WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?!" said an upset Twilight telepathically "THE ENTIRE WORLD IS LOOKING AT US!"

"If we leave now, everyone will notice." Said frightened Rarity

"What are we going to do?" asked Fluttershy.

The T-Wings, approached the Harmony's, with a serious expression except for Cheese, who had returned to his DJ position.

"Why did the Dazzlings tell you that?" asked Blueblood seriously.

"We...well...uh..." began Rarity to stammer as the T-Wings' frowns deepened.

Suddenly, the entire ship went without power and it was all in total darkness, with nothing and no one distinguishable.

"The Dazzlings are right, I'm not going to stand idly by!" said Dash telepathically as she flew off after absorbing the ship's electricity.

"Dash!" said Shy "It's an incubus! It'll kill you!"

"I intend to save Spike whatever it takes Shy!" said Dash bravely as she concentrated on tracking the electricity from the bodies of Spike, the Incubus and the Dazzlings "I'm telling you the same as them, are you coming with me or staying?"

For a few seconds, the rest of the Harmony were left thinking and taking advantage of the darkness, they went after Rainbow, the last one being Fluttershy, who was afraid of what could happen.

On the rooftop garden, Thorax, landed in the middle of the small square with vegetation, with his power increased and rage in his eyes.

"Noooomaaaaaaaag" he said in a sinister tone "Come out little rat, I want to see your little tail!"

The incubus, threw the tables in the air, hoping to find Spike, who was hiding in the Grill restaurant, behind the barbecue grills, gun in hand.

"Don't think that just because it's dark I won't find you..." he said, smiling Machiavellianly as he split a flower pot in half with his sword.

Spike, not knowing quite what to do looked around the kitchen, something he could use. Then he saw the gas lines feeding the grill.

Determined, he crept up to them while the Incubus was still looking for him. He turned on the gas to all the grills, letting the area of the restaurant, even if it was partially open, begin to fill with flammable gas. He put a cloth over his mouth and nose to avoid getting dizzy and left the kitchen, making as little noise as possible.

Thorax, kept looking this way and that, unnoticing the sirens, heard him from behind a wall.

"There he is," she said whispering to her sisters.

"What about Spike?" `asked Aria "Can you hear him anywhere?"

"Hear him no" said Dash, appearing behind the sirens, startling them a little "see him yes".

Using her electric vision, in her mind, she spotted the nervous termination of Spike and the incubus, who was still slowly parting and pushing tables aside on all sides, while on all fours, Spike dodged him and made his way to behind a flower pot, almost next to where they were. From the pot, he grabbed a small rock and prepared to throw it, however he stopped, as he couldn't see the restaurant's kitchen well.

"Shit" thought Spike "How the hell am I going to manage to throw it at the Grill if I can't see anything?"

Dash walked up to him and from behind him, to keep him from screaming and drawing the demon's attention, she covered his mouth with her hand.

"Easy Spike it's Dash" said the pegasus "What do you have planned?"
Reassuring himself of the fright, Spike removed Dash's hand from his mouth and handed her the stone.

"I turned on the gas in the restaurant" said the nomag "I don't see anything, so throw it for me."

"Said and done" said the pegasus looking at the restaurant's electric current and seeing a near perfect silhouette of it.

She threw the stone, landing accurately in the grill area.

Hearing the sound of the crash, the Incubus quickly became alert and flew over.

"There you are you son of a bitch!" he said as he rushed into the kitchen.

"What now?" asked Dash.

"Fireworks" Spike answered her, abruptly getting up, pointing the gun and firing at the restaurant.

As the bullet entered, in less than a split second, the restaurant burst with Thorax inside, in an explosion that put everyone on alert, leaving the entire Roodtop Garden area shattered and on fire. Spike could then see, thanks to the flames the Dazzlings and behind him Dash.

The five of them got out and stood in front of the restaurant.

"Do you think he's...?" said Sonata puzzled.

"No, he's just recovering, take the opportunity to run away, I'll try to get him away from the ship." Spike said as he went in the direction of the railing to jump off, but was stopped by Adagio's hand.

"No way you're jumping in the water to drown Spike" said the older mermaid "We're in this together."

"It's none of you girls' business" she said referring to the four present "It's me, who he's coming for."

"That's exactly why it's our business Spike" said Dash smiling determinedly with the sirens.

Spike just stared at them and got a half smile and some blushing.
Suddenly, a lot of frightened muttering started to be heard heading in the direction of where they were.

"Shit, if they see what happened I'm dead," Spike said, knowing it was the ship's crew.

Not knowing what to do, the Dazzlings and Dash looked at each other in fear. At that moment, a dome covered the whole place, and from the outer walls, a pulse came out that made, for a second, all the colors turn negative.

"ZA WARUDO!" shouted Twilight from behind them, summoning the spell.
Everything outside the dome, stopped in time. Then, the rest of the girls, approached the rest.

"Are you okay Spike?" asked Rarity and Shy, who approached the boy worriedly.

"For now" he said astonished, reassuring the girls.

Twilight, was leaning against the wall, trying to recover from the expenditure of energy it had taken her to conjure that spell.

"Za Warudo is a very strong spell Twilight" Spike told her "You didn't have to, I would have taken the blame and the consequences."

" I wasn't... uff... going to let... uff... you get lynched Spike..." she said with her breath coming in short gasps and putting her hands on her knees.

"Pinkie do you have any chocolate?" asked the nomag to the earthling.

"Doubt offends" she said smiling and pulling a bunch of chocolates out of her hair.

"Give it to Twilight, it'll get her energy back." Spike told her

Pinkie offered one of her chocolates to the alicorn. Smiling, she began to eat it.

"Why is the Incubus after you?" asked Applejack to Spike.

"He's one of Don Bruto's thugs" said Spike "He won't be happy with me after what happened to his warehouse."

"Wait... were you the one who set the port fire?" asked Adagio in astonishment.

"You'd be surprised what I'm capable of, little mermaid" he said with a cheeky grin.

"How do he know it was you?" asked Sunset worriedly.

"That's what really worries me" Spike answered her thoughtfully. "I have a chip in my body that inives my face from any recording devices. Even if I were to be captured by the port cameras, my face would be blurred..."

"You always wear the same clothes, you'd probably get caught for that," said Rarity.

"Most likely..." replied Spike to her.

"Why don't you ever take it off?" asked Shy "The sweatshirt I mean."

Spike didn't answer, he just stared at the fire that was still blazing from the restaurant. Looking suspiciously at the debris, he watched as something began to move.

"This isn't over..." said Spike leaning back somewhat.

Abruptly, Thorax, with a huge scream of rage, came out of the rubble, now having the flames in his eyes huge.

"YOU'RE DEAD NOMAG!" shouted Thorax lunging for him.

As he was about to hit him, Adagio, with a quick flick of his tail, slammed into his fist, sending him flying into the rubble.

"Hide Spike!" the mermaid told him as her sisters and the Harmony's except for Shy, went on the defensive.

"We'll take care of this brute," Rarity said as she conjured in her hands, solid rock fists.

Shy, grabbed Spike and pulled him up on top of her, causing him to blush heavily.

"I'll hide him" said the pegasus as she flew off with Spike on her back.

"Well, well, well" said Thorax slowly approaching where the nine girls were standing "Who do we have here? Some little whores in love with a filthy nomag, you disgust me."

"Says you demon?" said Sunset "Rape to gain power, the only disgusting being here is you."

"It's not raping, if it pleases the girl" he said as he continued to approach them. "Maybe what you need is a good fuck bitch."

"I'm going to freeze your balls off with erotic results" Pinkie told him running up to him, conjuring an ice hammer and hitting him on the chin, launching the Incubus into the air. At that moment, Dash flew towards him and with an electromagnetic pulse threw him towards the ground, leaving a crater where he fell. The nine girls surrounded Thorax, all of them determined to attack him.

Thorax stood up with a macabre smile and looked at them all.

"Let the orgy begin ladies..." he said as he made his sword become completely covered in flames.

Shy and Spike flew out of the time dome, unaffected by the Za Warudo, thanks to Fluttershy's element of harmony, covering them both with a pale pink aura.

Both of them, reached the prow, this being the farthest point from the fight.

"We'll be safe here" said Shy helping Spike down from her.

"We can't stay here Shy, you know as well as I do that fight is lost." Said Spike seriously

"It's nine against one, they'll be able to handle it" said Shy trying to ease Spike down.

"To summon the Za Warudo, Twilight has needed a lot of energy, energy that I guess, you all gave her" said Spike, to which Shy nodded "The Dazzlings, they are good at fighting, but in conventional fights, the Incubus will beat them to a pulp and feed on them and only Dash will be left at the mercy of that demon."

Shy stood thoughtfully and fearfully, kneeling at Spike's level.

"So... what can we do?" she said fearfully.

"You're the only one who can defeat him Fluttershy," said Spike putting a hand on her shoulder.

"M...M...Me...?" she said trembling with fear "But... I'm... not..."

"I know you're afraid of Succubus Flutters, because of what happened to you on Manehatan..." said Spike looking her in the eyes "But that thing that happened to you, it's now our only way of escape. You're half Succubus, you don't have to be afraid of that part of you. I know you can make it... for them, for all of us... for me..."

"But... what... what... will happen if... I can't control it..." she said embarrassed without looking at him.

Spike, with his hands, made her slowly, slowly turn her head to face him.

"We'll all be here to help you...I promise you everything will be all right, if you do exactly as I say...trust me," Spike said smiling at her.

Shy, with her mouth open and noticing that her heartbeat was beginning to relax, stared into Spike's eyes in rapt attention. Then, the pegasus' eyes began to turn emerald green. A huge feeling of bravery began to fill her completely.

"What's the plan?" said the pegasus bravely and smiling.

In the Rooftop Garden, Thorax, with a sure blow with his fist, directly in her face, sent Aria flying against one of the walls, knocking her completely out. From behind, her sister Sonata, caught her breath to launch a sonic scream, however, the sound waves, although they dragged Thorax backwards, did not manage to do anything to her. Adagio, on one side, while still being dragged by the sound, rushed against Thorax, with a tail blow in his face, which made him lose his balance for a few seconds, which Pinkie took advantage of to freeze the ground where he was going, throwing him to the ground. Applejack took a big jump, staying in the air for a few seconds. Suspended, she began to spin on herself, turning her body into a small whirlwind. A few seconds later, she charged at the incubus, hitting him directly in his stomach, which made him groan in pain as he lay on the ground. Rarity, ran towards him to hit him with her rock fist, however, Thorax, quickly got up, narrowly dodging the attack. Twilight, began to shoot him with her hands, knocking out spells, which had the shape of laser beams, however, due to the power that the demon had in those moments, they only destabilized him for a second.

"ATTACK HIM ALL AT ONCE!" shouted Twilight, seeing that it had no effect.

In formation, the remaining eight girls, began to attack him.

Adagio and Sonata, used their sound waves to push him in the direction of the railing. Sunset was throwing fireballs at him. Rarity, started shooting sharp diamonds at him. Pinkie, used her freezing attack against him to slow him down and damage him with the cold. Applejack, was attacking him with air balls and Dash, from the sky, was throwing lightning bolts at him.

The seven seemed to be beating the demon, however, Thorax, letting out a huge snort, made a blast of blue-green fire from his body, destabilizing and knocking out the girls, Rainbow being the only one who managed to escape the shockwave.

They were all on the ground, sore and tired.

"Pathetic" said Thorax laughing "Only you left, pegasus."

The sex demon, stared at Dash, who with rage in her eyes, began to fill her body with sparks.

"Then what are you waiting for, monster!" the pegasus shouted at him "COME HERE!"

"Your wish is my command" said Thorax before flying off towards Dash.
In midair, the two fiercely clung to each other as they began to ascend the dome of the Za Warudo. With every meter they ascended, they began punching each other. Dash, was relentlessly punching his head with her right hand, while with her left hand, which was clutched to his neck, she was electrocuting him. The demon wielded his scimitar with his right hand and hit him in the side, trying to break a force field that Rainbow had created in his body, while with his left hand, which was also on her neck, he burned her with his fire. When they were both, just before leaving the dome, in zero gravity, the Incubus managed to break the force field and stabbed the sharp blade of his sword into Dash's side, making her start to bleed and scream in pain. Taking advantage of that moment and the fact that they began to descend at high speed, Thorax placed her under him, making her suffer the impact against the ground.

Defeated in a hole in the ground, Dash tried to get up, but she was too weak to continue. Blood was still oozing from her wound and Thorax, on top of her, was looking down with victory in his eyes.

"Now, if we've finished the dance ladies..." he said as he grabbed Dash by the hair and lifted her to eye level, threatening to plunge his sword into her stomach. "Where is the nomag?"

They all, watched with tears of helplessness and pain at the scene. Then, from behind the rubble of the restaurant, Spike appeared.

" LET HER GO!" shouted the nomag "You wanted me, didn't you? Here I am, leave them alone."

" Spike no!" they all thought at the same time.

Thorax, with a smile, dropped Dash and headed towards Spike. The pegasus seeing him, rushed with her remaining strength to close her wound with little lightning bolts on her fingers, afraid of what Thorax might do to him.

Fluttershy, still with green eyes, was near Twilight, crouched down and watching.

"Shy..." said Twilight, pained, as she looked at her

"What...what...what...what...are...you...doing? He... lp... him ..."

"No...no...no...I...can't" said the pegasus nervously "He told me to stand by watching and not do anything...he says he has a plan and it's critical that I watch."

"But... he'll kill him..." said Twilight tearfully.

"No... he won't, I'm sure he has a plan..." she said now very nervous.

Thorax, being already face to face with the nomag, thrust the sword to the sky, with a Machiavellian smile.

"ONE LAST WORDS!" said with enormous satisfaction the demon.

"Rot in hell," Spike told him without moving an inch.

The Incubus, lunged with the sword at Spike, who closed his eyes and jumped back a few inches, just enough so that it didn't cut him in half, but enough to slit his stomach completely. With a thud, the nomag fell to the ground, bleeding out.

"VICTORY!" shouted Thorax in joy, raising his sword.

They were all in complete shock, Shy the most.

"My queen and Don Bruto will be proud to have taken you out, you filthy rat!" said Thorax laughing.

Spike, began to laugh, pained, at the Incubus, which left him bewildered.
"That... *cough*... is what you think... *cough*" he said laughing as he coughed up blood "This... was just *cough* *cough* *cough* my plan... turn around."

"What...?" said Thorax, speechless at the sight of Fluttershy, now standing next to the gap where Dash was healing.

The pale pink haired pegasus, began to tremble as she gritted her teeth and her gaze began to become murderous. Her veins started to turn violet like her eyes. Her body, glowing brightly, caught everyone's attention, as her heart began to pump rapidly.

"THAT... THAT....IS...MY...PREEEEEEEEEEYYY!" she screamed as her entire body began to transform.

Shy began to grow to 3.20 meters, her breasts reached an H cup and her buttocks measured, from buttock to buttock, 188 cm. Her arms became firm and muscular. On her stomach, her abs became pronounced and her legs became as muscular as her arms. Her wings were transformed into yellow demonic wings and two huge fangs appeared in her mouth and her hands were transformed into claws. Her usual clothes were torn completely, covering her most intimate parts for very little.

"WHERE IS THAT MUSIC COMING FROM?!" shouted Pinkie, completely engrossed by her friend's transformation.

" Holy... fu..." said Thorax, who didn't have time to finish the sentence, as Shy, flew towards him at high speed and started to hit repeatedly all over his body.

"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!" she shouted at him without stopping hitting while Thorax couldn't defend himself.

Shy, grabbed him by the neck and threw towards the opposite side, trapping him against a wall.

She slowly approached the demon, who was in complete shock.
Shy, began to fill his right arm with roots, which formed a giant baseball bat.

"IF YOU EVER TOUCH MY SPIKEY-WIKEY EVER AGAIN OR EVER SHOW YOUR DISGUSTING GUT ANYWHERE, IF YOU DARE COME OUT OF YOUR CLOAT, I WILL SHATTER EVERY ONE OF YOUR BONES AND FEED THEM TO THE PIGS IN MY SHELTER" said in a deep demonic voice Shy "I'VE SPOKEN CLEARLY!"

Shy, grabbed Thorax by the neck and raised the bat backwards.

"What... what... what... are you... doing...?" said the Incubus to her in terror.

" BATTING!" said Shy with a murderous look on her face.

At that moment, she launched Thorax into the sky and when he fell back down, she lashed out with the root bat, launching him into the air, sending him vanishing into the horizon as a blue-green trail.

Fluttershy's breath hitched as she watched Thorax disappear over the horizon. Twilight then stood up, sore and slowly, reached out to her friend and gently touched her arm.

Shy turned abruptly and nervously, wanting to attack whatever touched her, but when she saw Twilight she calmed down. The other girls began to get up, including the Dazzlings, who first helped their sister Aria unhook her from the wall. When all nine were gathered around Fluttershy who took a deep breath and slowly de-transformed back to her normal appearance.

"I think... maybe I overdid it..." said Shy embarrassedly covering her face.

"Remind me... to never mess with you again" said Aria shocked and pained.

Dash, having healed the wound, then looked over to where Spike was lying on the ground and bleeding. Without a word, like a flash of rainbow light, she ran over to his limp body, which had a cut across his stomach. Lying on the floor in a pool of his own blood, his breathing was very slow and he could barely keep his eyes open.

"GIRLS HELP ME PLEASE!" cried Dash desperately and grabbing the boy's head.

They all ran to where Dash was who began to cry as they all did when they saw the extent of the wound.

"PLEASE *sniff* SPIKE HOLD ON!" cried Dash completely helpless "SOMEBODY *sniff* FIND DISCORD *sniff* PLEASE!"

Spike wet his lips a little with his tongue as he watched the girls surround him.

"You...have...done...very...well..." he said between cut off and almost out of energy "You...the one...most...Fluttershy..."

"HOW DID YOU EVEN THINK OF DOING THAT!" cried the timid pegasus who stood on the other side of where Rainbow was, still crying.

"I had... to... do... awaken... your power..." said Spike with a smile "Don't... be... ashamed... of who... you... are... Use it always... to your advantage... you're worth more... than you think... Fluttershy Breeze..."

Spike was beginning to convulse a little, his skin began to cool as his eyesight began to blur with every second.

"He's getting cold *sniff*" said Twilight touching his hand "IF WE DON'T DO SOMETHING *sniff* HE'LL DIE!"

"FUCK!" yelled Dash again "GO FIND DISCORD!"

Spike then grabbed the pegasus athlete's hand and shook his head.

"No...I'm fine...I'm...surrounded...by...people...that I care about...my...three best friends...and...the seven...that I'm...madly...in love with...I don't need more..." said Spike in a delusional tone

"WE DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU DIE SPIKE!" cried Adagio in tears.

"EXACTLY!" said Sunset "STAY HERE!!! I'M GOING TO FIND DISCORD!"

"I... always... wanted... to... die..." said Spike before Sunset went out to get the Draconequus. "At least... I got to see you... again... all ten of you... together... as in... the old days..."

All of them at that last sentence were puzzled.

"As...as in the old days?" said Rarity in consternation.

"Harmony...I...love...you...all..." said Spike closing his eyes and expelling a last breath.

They all froze, but were brought back to reality when they saw Spike stop moving.

"Spike? SPIKE!" shouted Applejack who bent down to move him a little to no effect "NO NO NO NO NO NO NO FUCK!"

At that moment, the Za Warudo spell began to break down and the dome began to fall, returning time to normal. The ten girls became alarmed.

"AND NOW WHAT THE FUCK DO WE DO!" desperately shouted Pinkie and Rarity at the same time, who were crying non-stop.

The three mermaids looked at each other and nodded.

"Give us Spike" said Adagio as calm as possible.

"NO!" shouted Fluttershy who was holding Spike's lifeless body in her arms.

"FLUTTERSHY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR US TO SAVE HIM!" shouted Adagio "BUT WE HAVE TO TAKE HIM AWAY FROM HERE RIGHT NOW!"

Shy looked at the three mermaids who looked at her with determination. Then, she looked at her friends, who were shattered and desperate as the dome crumbled. All of them, including Dash who was standing next to her, nodded.

"Trust us Shy!" Sonata told her.

Fluttershy, trembling, let go of Spike, letting Aria take him in her arms.

"We don't have much time sisters" Aria told Sonata and Adagio "Let's fly!"

The three mermaids flew out of there, unnoticed and landed in their suite.
The seven friends, stayed in the Rooftop Garden while time came back to itself. The horde of people making their way to their position froze as they saw the whole place smashed up.

"What happened here?" some of them shrieked.

"Looks like a bunch of elephants" commented an earthling.

"Or rhinoceroses" completed her pegasus friend.

Everyone stared at the Harmony's who were in the center of it all. The T-Wings, went through the crowd of people, along with the captain and part of the crew, who were looking at them.

" Where' s the Incubus?" asked the captain to which the Harmony's looked around and slowly shrugged their shoulders.

"The Harmonys saved us from the Incubus!" cried a unicorn gratefully.

"Long live the Harmonys!" cried a pegasus.

"Hurray!" shouted everyone at once as they began to cheer and applaud them all around.

" Thank... thank you all..." said with a fake smile Twilight "And captain, don't worry, we'll get your ship repaired in no time."

"Really that's not necessary heroine" said the captain full of pride of having Twilight Sparkle herself on her boat

"We insist" said the alicorn smiling.

Twilight then ordered each of the harmony to repair a part. Inside, however, they were all terrified.

"Please Spike, come back" they all thought at the same time.

In the Dazzlings' suite, the three of them were upstairs, where they had laid Spike's body on the bed. They hurriedly moved all the furniture out of the way except for the bed, which they placed in the center of the room.

They pushed aside the pillows and sheets, leaving only the mattress with the nomag on top.

"How much do we have?" asked Sonata as she continued to move furniture out of the way.

Adagio reached over and put his hand on Spike's forehead as his amulet glowed.

"Seven minutes or he'll go brain dead" said Adagio "We have to hurry. Aria do you have the book!!!?"

Aria rushed upstairs, carrying a black covered book with gold inscriptions, which, had a gold star symbol on the flap.

"Chapter 12 Aria" Adagio told her "Energy Transmission."

Aria began to flip through the book, turning page after page until she found the chapter her sister was referring to.

"Here it is!" her sister shouted and let Adagio read it to her.

"Alright!" said the older sister as she stood on the corner of the bed "Just like when we resurrected that lamb!"

"Sis, this isn't a lamb, it's Spike...do you think it'll work?" said Sonata worriedly as she stood in another corner

"We have no choice." Adagio said nervously

Aria positioned herself on one side of the bed, where Spike's head rested, forming a perfect triangle.

"Here we go sisters!" said Aria "Now or never!"

The three Dazzlings raised their arms, standing almost in the shape of a cross. They began to hum at the same time as their amulets began to glow brightly, closing their eyes tightly.

They arched their arms slightly until the three of them were almost touching, their fingertips touching the next sister.

"Abazoz, gradenis, carednis, energium, satera om niristrum!" shouted Adagio.

Then, a kind of snaky red lightning began to emanate slowly from their amulets, coursing down their arms and passing from one sister to the other.

All three opened their eyes, which were completely red, without pupils. A faster, larger beam shot out from the gems, creating a huge ball of energy above them, which grew larger and larger thanks to the three direct beams.

"Already?" asked Sonata to Adagio.

"Not yet!" she replied

"We don't have much time left!" said Adagio as the ball grew bigger and bigger and a huge red light glowed even outside the room.

The Harmony's, who were repairing the ship as fast as they could while cheering them on, noticed the glow from the Dazzlings' room, distracting them for a second.

"You can do it Dazzlings" they thought at the same time.

The ball was almost the size of the ceiling and everything around it began to shake and move.

"Sister!" Sonata and Aria shouted at the same time.

After a few seconds of silence and when the ball, was about to leave the room, Adagio looked down at Spike's body.

"NOW!" she said while at the same time as her sisters, they slam their arms down, causing the ball to descend swiftly to Spike.

The energy surged into his body, making him convulse like Frankenstein's monster. Spike's body began to shake sharply as did his head, moving at great speed. The nomag suddenly opened its eyes, dissipating the energy with a shockwave that threw the Dazzlings sideways.

Everything calmed down again and Spike, brought back to life, looked to one side and the other bewildered and lost.

"Where am I?" said the boy "What happened?"

Spike then looked at the three Dazzlings, who were almost out of energy on the ground.

"Bloody hell!" he said descending from the bed and passing by the three unconscious sisters.

The nomag, could breathe a sigh of relief to see that they were breathing. Spike then saw the book they had used lying on the floor, freezing all over. He walked over to it and seeing that the last few pages were torn from the inside, he breathed softly again. He glanced at the energy transfusion page and shook his head.

"You didn't have to..." he said quietly as he watched the mermaids resting.
"We...weren't...going...to let you...die easily..." said Sonata squinting as she formed a smile.

"Even at the risk of you dying?" said the nomag crouching down to Sonata's level.

"What are friends for?" she said smiling as the other two woke up as well.
Spike helped Sonata and her sisters to their feet and helped them sit on the bed.

"Thanks girls...really..." said the nomag with a smile.

"You don't have to." Adagio answered him smiling.

The boy then felt a severe headache and had to sit down together with the sirens on the bed.

"Careful... coming back from the dead leaves the whole body with a hangover" Aria said jokingly.

"I can feel it already. And you skip the fun part too." said Spike following the joke, making all four of them laugh.

Sonata stood up and took Spike's hand.

"Come on, I'll take you to your room, you need to rest." Said in a pleasant tone the siren.

Spike looked at Adagio and Aria who smilingly nodded. With Sonata's help, Spike got up. Seeing him so weak the mermaid took him in her arms like a princess and carried him down the stairs.

"What a jerk" said Aria laughing a little jealous "Next time I'll ask to hold him in my arms."

"And then me" said Adagio feeling the same way.

After a while, Sonata and Spike arrived at the boy's room. Entering through the door, the siren pulled him all the way into the bedroom and set him down on the bed.

"I hope I didn't weigh you down too much... You'll be weak after passing some of your energy to me..." said Spike with a smile.

"Not at all, you're like a little feather." Sonata said with a blush

"You should go to dinner, you'll need energy like your sisters." Said Spike as he settled in between the pillows.

"Don't worry about me, I'll stay until you fall asleep." She said as she sat on the edge of the bed.

"And then you'll have dinner?" asked Spike worriedly.

"I promise" she replied smiling "Now get some rest."

Spike nodded and slowly began to close his eyes.

An hour later, Sonata got up from the edge of the bed and checked to see if the boy was asleep. Seeing him lying on the bed, resting, his angelic face being covered by his bush of green hair, Sonata blushed and without much thought, gave him a light kiss on the cheek.

"And to think that just a little while ago you were dead..." thought the mermaid.

Turning her head to look at the boy's body, Sonata realized that in his sweatshirt pocket he had the gun and his wallet. Carefully, the girl took it from him.

In complete silence she put the pistol in a drawer and was on her way to put the wallet on the bedside table next to him. However, curiosity got the better of her when she saw a photograph sticking out. She looked back at Spike to see if he had woken up and noticing that he hadn't, she slowly pulled the picture out from inside, this one being of his brothers.

"Spike with brown hair...who knew" she thought with a smile playing on her lips "These must be his brothers... their faces look familiar."

This last, she thought quizzically as she ran her finger over Garble's face.

As she slid it over, she noticed a second photograph, just below the one of his brothers. She slowly pulled the photo out and what was at first a smile, dissipated the second she saw the full picture, an expression of complete horror. So much was the impact, that the wallet slipped from her hands, falling to the floor. Afraid that she had woken him up, she looked over at Spike, but he was still asleep.Shocked by the image, the mermaid looked back at the second picture completely freaked out.
Shocked by the image, the mermaid looked back at the second picture completely freaked out.

"Who the hell are you?" she thought terrified, looking back at Spike.

Around ten-thirty, the Harmonies, along with Adagio and Aria, were back at the Luminae at The Retread Restaurant, at a single table waiting for Sonata.

"Are you sure he's okay?" asked Twilight worriedly.

"Don't worry Sparkle" Adagio replied smiling "He's recovering, he'll be as rosy as a rose in no time."

"I never thought I'd say this but... thank you Dazzlings" said Applejack smiling.

"Can you play it back while I record you on the cell phone please?" said Aria jokingly "I'll set it as my ringtone."

"Don't overdo it though" said Applejack giggling and rolling her eyes making the others giggle as well.

"Now seriously Dazzlings, thanks for saving him." Twilight said without losing her smile but in a more serious tone.

"He's our friend... What else could we do?" said Adagio also without losing her smile.

"But... you girls want him to be more than just your friend... don't you?" asked Dash somewhat discouraged

"Of course we would love to... but we have to be honest with ourselves... he loves you... and that's not going to change no matter how much time he spends with us." Said Aria

"Well... you don't choose who you fall in love with" said Pinkie playing with the knife.

"We know that" said Adagio "That's why... we don't want to put obstacles to you and him..."

This left everyone puzzled and puzzled.

"Excuse me darling" said Rarity "What are you trying to tell us?"

"That this absurd war is over" said Adagio looking at her sister.

"We've been talking and... well... we're not going to stop being his friends and... what we want to say is that... he's yours... he always has been." Said Aria leaving the harmonies silent

"Wait, say that again, that's worth having on tape" said Applejack jokingly "Are you really saying that?"

"On one condition Harmonys" Adagio told them raising her finger as if she was a teacher "If you kill him for animal circumstances, let's call it that, we'll put a chastity belt on you... especially goes for you two."

The mermaid pointed at Dash and Fluttershy, leaving both of them with a blush on their faces.

"I can't promise you anything Adagio" Dash said jokingly " He owes me years of affection and I'm going to collect... but don't worry, I won't go that far."

"I... em... I... I... I'll try not to go that far too..." said Fluttershy shyly looking away.

"Snu-snu!" laughed Pinkie, which made Shy, who was next to her, give her a gentle fist bump jokingly.

The whole table laughed and at that moment, Sonata arrived, with a cold expression and a blank stare.

"Are you okay sis?" asked Aria "And Spike?"

"What? Ah... yeah... yeah... asleep..." said Sonata somewhat dazed.
"Are you all right?" asked Sunset, looking at her strangely.

"Yeah... tired only... because of the resurrection and stuff..." she said clearing her head and smiling.

"Well you'd better clear your head because today is Eden's party!" said Pinkie smiling and cheerful.

"Do you think he'll be recovered by then?" asked Dash smiling.

"Hopefully Rainbow will be" said Twilight "But he has to go at his own pace."

"Hey, now that we're all friends... do you want the ten of us to go together?" said Rarity looking at the Dazzlings

"Uh... really?" asked Adagio.

"Sure!" said Pinkie "After all... and in Spike's words, you're his best friends and if you leave the field free for us... we'd better get along."

"Well spotted Pinkie" said Sonata smiling.

"Now that you mention it... what he said before... you know... it was weird" commented Twilight.

"I guess what we were thinking in the solarium turns out to be true in the end Sparkle" said Adagio "I think we all knew each other in the past and for something, it made us forget..."

"The question is... why?" added Sunset

"I think... there are things that are better left locked in the past..." said Sonata remembering the photograph and what happened afterwards "If you want to know my opinion... I think we shouldn't focus on the past... but look to the future...."

A few minutes before she was to join the others at the restaurant, Sonata was in Spike's room obvserbing the still frightened photo in the living room.

"What the fuck is this?" she said as she circled around the coffee table in the living room where the picture was "What does this mean, who the fuck are you?"

Sonata froze for a few moments and picked up the photo again.

"I have to show it to the others...this can't stay like this." Sonata said turning around to go running for the door, however she was stopped by Spike, who was pointing the gun at her.

"LEAVE. THE. PHOTO. THERE." Said in a passive aggressive tone the nomag, scaring Sonata.

Sonata obeyed and put the photo back on the coffee table of the living room.

With the gun, Spike motioned her to move into the room.

"HANDS. IN. THE. HEAD. SONATA." He said menacingly as he led her to the bedroom bathroom.

Sonata cried in fright as Spike gritted his teeth.

"ON YOUR KNEES!" he yelled at the mermaid as she obeyed.

"I'm sorry *sniff*" she said crying in fear "*sniff* I didn't mean to *sniff*"

"FUCK SONATA EVERYTHING WAS GOOD!" said Spike upset, holding his hands to his head "WHY THE FUCK DID YOU HAVE TO SEE THAT FUCKING PHOTO!"

"I DON'T KNOW!" she said frightened "PLEASE *sniff* DON'T KILL ME!"

"SO WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO SONATA!!!?" Spike said scared too while kept pacing around the bathroom and tossing his head. "I CAN'T LET YOU REMEMBER!"

Spike's feeling of fear was picked up by the mermaid's gem, realizing that he is more scared than she is.

"You don't want to kill me," Sonata said more calmly.

Spike began to cry inconsolably as he rested his hands on the sink and threw the gun on the floor. Sonata slowly, slowly pushed the gun away with her hand, throwing it across the sink.

"Spike" she said getting up "Louis..."

"DON'T CALL ME BY MY REAL NAME!" yelled Spike in desperation as he fell to his knees.

"Listen to me...I know you didn't do it on purpose...we both got upset...we're both scared...that's it." She said approaching him from behind and hugging him.

"No... *sniff* I can't... *sniff* let you *sniff* remember Sonata... for your sake *sniff**sniff*" Spike gasped as the siren pulled him back to sit up.

"Uh... it's okay... there you go" said the mermaid stroking his head "Why can't I remember?"

"If... *sniff* you remember*sniff* you'll end up *sniff* getting *sniff* killed *sniff*" said Spike in fear.

"Who will kill us?" asked Sonata in a sweet voice.

"No...*sniff* I can't *sniff* tell you anything else *sniff* please *sniff* don't make me Sonata *sniff* now that I had gotten you three best friends back *sniff* don't make me *sniff*" said Spike desperate and snuggling into Sonata's arms.

"It's okay...Spike...look at me please..." said Sonata in a soft tone and lifting Spike's head slightly. "I promise I won't try to remember...or tell anyone about the picture..."

"Really?" asked Spike looking at her as he wiped his tears.

"Pinkie promise," she said raising her pinky finger with a smile.

"Thank you...really..." said Spike catching his breath.

"Just tell me one thing... if you don't mind..." said Sonata curiously to which Spike nodded.

"If it's so dangerous for that picture to be seen by anyone, to the point of threatening them with a gun...why are you keeping it?" said Sonata concerned for the boy, whose gaze was shadowed with sadness.

"Some things... you have to let them be kept in the past... but there are others that... no matter how much you want to dispose them... you can't... it's the only thing I have left from that time Sonata... that's why I don't get rid of it..." said Spike

"Well... then let's do one thing" said Sonata approaching the boy "Let's not look to the past... let's look to the future... if whatever happened at the time of that photograph was so painful that it endangers us all... then let's forget it... let's look to the future..."

"It's going to be hard when the past is the future..." said Spike looking her in the eyes

"Then let's keep it simple..." said Sonata smiling at the nomag.

Back in the present, Sonata had been lost in her reverie staring into nothingness until Aria's hand came in front of her.

"Earth calling Sonata" said Aria waking her from her trance "Are you okay?"

"Yes...yes I am" said Sonata coming back to her "And by the way, Spike told me that he would be coming to the Eden party...he gave me this."
Sonata then from her pocket pulled out a square box that inside, there were some contact lenses.

"Contact lenses?" said Pinkie quizzically "What for?"

"He has to go with the changeling belt...but he knows we all want to see the real him...these contact lenses iniven up the costume...the silly boy forgot he had brought them with him in the suitcase...we certainly could have used them." Sonata said remembering the fight with Thorax.

"You're telling me..." said Twilight smiling and rolling her eyes "Crazy head that he is..."

"Well damsels" said Rarity "In light of the fact that a hooded gentleman is coming with us to the ball, I propose we have dinner and all put on our most stunning dress what do you think?"

"Perfect" they all said at once as they raised a glass of champagne they had in the center of the table.

" For our new friendship" said Adagio clinking the champagne with the others.

"For our new friendship" they all said at the same time.

Some time later, Spike was in his room, dressing in a suit that Fancy had given him years ago. Being the same height as when he was ten years old, the suit fit him perfectly. He looked at himself in the mirror, still affected by what had happened with Sonata, he looked at the photo that had caused the incident. He decided to keep the photo in the drawer next to the gun and not open it until he reached the mainland, so much so that he locked the drawer.

"I must not look to the past," he said to himself, "but to the future."

He smiled at himself in the mirror and saw his suit, the black blazer with a small golden emblem on the collar lapel, which was in the shape of a Chinese dragon, his white shirt without fastening the last top buttons, his black pants finished with dark Italian shoes. He combed his tousled hair and put on his belt. Changing into Patriot form, the boy smiled and walked out the door of his room.

The discotheque of Eden was full of people, on the three floors, everywhere you looked, everyone was dancing, laughing and singing along to the songs that a DJ was playing. In a reserved area, the Harmony and the Dazzlings, were taking the attention of everyone present.

Rainbow was wearing the same dress and makeup she wore to Spike's date, and she was sitting placidly smoking a watermelon-flavored hookah on a velvet sofa.

Next to her, also smoking, was Applejack, dressed in a pair of fine brown silk pants and wearing a brown cross top, which held her two breasts firmly in place, tied in a knot in the back. Her handmade wooden heels, a gift from her mother, had Applejack's name embroidered on both shoes. Her hat, she had decorated with a red ribbon just like her little sister's.

Rarity, who was also sitting talking with Sonata, was wearing a long purple lace dress, embroidered with flowers and diamonds, decorated with a light glitter that highlighted her long neckline. Her eyes were made up with a bit of eyeliner and her cheeks with some blusher. Her hair was kept intact thanks to a purple emerald orchid that "Blueblood" had given her for their third anniversary. To top it off, her crystal heeled shoes gave an elegant air to the rest of the outfit.

Sonata wore a long turquoise blue tailed dress that fit her figure, resplendent with small white pearls sewn on her arms. Like her sisters, she had no makeup on and her shoes were silver platform shoes. Her hair was tied back in a long ponytail and styled to perfection.

Adagio and Aria, wore the same dress and shoes as their sister Sonata, only the older sister's was orange and the middle sister's was a greenish color. However, Adagio's hair was not in her usual afro style, she had straightened it and created small waves, letting her hair cover her almost to her heels. Aria, on the other hand, had straightened her hair all over, shining every greenish and purple strand she had.

Pinkie was wearing pants similar to Applejack's but in fuchsia pink and the top was a full collar, the same color as the pants, which left her figure tight. Her hair was tied back in two small ponytails. Her sneakers were original bluish colored vans. She was standing, sipping a drink while talking to Sunset.

Sunset, she was wearing her favorite dress, a tailed dress with psychedelic colors mixing red, yellow, orange and purple, paired with shoes of the same color. Her hair was tied up in a high ponytail. Her eyes were made up with blue and black tones and she had placed small sparkles under them.

Twilight, on the other hand, was talking to Shy, Adagio and Aria while they wiggled a bit. She had taken off her glasses and straightened her hair completely. Her outfit consisted of sky blue Slim jeans and a light blue top that covered her entire chest. Her sneakers were black and white. She only had some eyeliner on her eyes.

Fluttershy was wearing a yellow lace dress like Rarity's, her embroidery however, was made up of butterflies and hearts and her neckline was hidden by white embroidery that looked like tree branches coming out of the dress. Her makeup, was some blush on her cheeks and a little touch of eyeliner with a pink eye shadow.

The ten girls were enjoying the party to the music. They were all anxious to see Spike arrive, though.

"Do you really think he would have been up for coming?" asked Dash to Applejack as she handed her the hookah hose.

"I hope so Sugarcube" said Applejack "After the day he's had, he deserves nothing less than a good night."

As they sipped on different cocktails, the song changed to a well-recognized bachata song, with the first few verses of these being when Adagio and Aria became engrossed looking up at the staircase leading up to the third floor.

"He's... gorgeous" said Adagio with her mouth wide open.

Descending the staircase, all seeing him as Patriot except for the ten girls, Spike to the sound of the song descended step after step, smiling at the girls who were speechless.

As he reached the floor, the song began to pick up a run and he, following the steps began to dance as he approached the reserved area under everyone's gaze.

"Who is that?" asked a unicorn.

"I don't know, but the harmony and dazzlings are staring at him." Said a pegasus

"Aw, how envious, I wish they were looking at me" said an earthling.
Twilight, with a smile, removed the velvet cord that separated the reserved area from the dance floor, letting Spike pass, while he continued dancing.

"Well," said the boy, "How do I look? Doesn't the suit make me fat?"
"Fat?" said Rarity getting up and going to kiss him twice, which made him blush "Please, you look divine..."

"You look gorgeous Spike" said Dash smiling at him.

"It looks great on you" the mermaid sisters said at the same time.

" Fat you put it on me" said Fluttershy with her eyes wide as plates.
Realizing that she had said it out loud, she turned completely red and tried to hide herself with her hair, which caused them all to laugh as well as Spike.

"Don't worry Shy..." laughed Spike and winked at the pegasus, "I get it too. You all look stunning."

"Thanks Spike" they all said at the same time smiling.

"Well... this is a party, isn't it?" said Spike grabbing a bottle of rum from the table "Then let's party!"

They all squealed with excitement. For a long time, they were dancing and drinking non-stop every bottle they asked for. Spike had climbed up on the table to dance along with Rarity and Pinkie who moved to the music, getting as close as they could to the costumed nomag. The three sisters then, along with Spike, dueled with bong smoke tricks, Aria winning by quickly releasing a column of smoke rings, followed by a jellyfish.

Applejack, challenged Spike to a shot duel, winning hands down by downing twenty shots of vodka in a row with almost no flinching. After that, the eleven gathered in a circle to dance as the song ended.

At one point, two slow songs came on, the first of which he danced to clutching Fluttershy, the two of them completely embarrassed as they were cheered on by the rest.

At the end of the song, Twilight turned to Spike and asked with her hands if she could dance with him and the boy accepted.

"Are you having a good time?" the alicorn asked him as they danced.

"It's the first time I've been to a party, but I can say yes." Said Spike "How about you? Are you all right?"

"Yeah... I'm fine" she said smiling as she looked into his eyes.

"Hey...I'm sorry Flash got thrown in the dungeon because of me" said Spike somewhat guiltily "I know you still have feelings for him."

Twilight looked tenderly at Spike as they continued to move.

"It's not even comparable to how I feel about you" Twilight said surprising the boy "I know...I don't show it as much as the others but...I really do love you Spike...I need you in my life like when you were disguised as the Flash...it's complicated for me all this."

"I know Twi...and I wish things were different," Spike said looking at her with some sadness.

"I don't want them to be different Spike... I want you to keep being you... to take care of us... to talk to us... to love us... and we want to start giving it back to you... we really do..." said the alicorn with her heart in a fist "What I'm trying to say is that... we... would... like to..."

Spike hushed her by putting his finger to her lips with a half smile.

"I know...Twilight...that's why...I want to enjoy tonight...for whatever may happen next...I can't answer that for you now...but I will...I just need to furnish my head a little..." said Spike looking at her sincerely to which she smiled and hugged the boy.

The party continued for several hours without any inconvenience for the eleven. A reggeton song began to play and Rarity glanced furtively at Spike, who was sitting quietly smoking a cigarette.

"Let's raise the stakes," said the unicorn, drawing the girls' attention.

As the song played, Rarity sat on top of Spike, surprising the boy, who was speechless at the sight of her face so close to the girl's breasts.

Looking down at his face, she winked at him as she began to rub herself against him to the beat of the song. From one perspective, it looked like they were making love right there. Spike could only enjoy the sensation of the huge unicorn climbing on top of him as he finished his cigarette.

Following the song, the girl turned around to show him her ass as she wiggled her buttocks on top of him.

"Give it to him hard Rares" Dash encouraged.

"Show him who' boss friend!" said Pinkie as she sipped her bottle of tequila.

"Stay grounded or you won't enjoy it Spike" Sonata teased him.

Shy however, started to recomer her jealousy and her eyes started to turn purple again. Twilight noticed this and approached her friend.

"Are you okay Shy?" said the alicorn.

"Yes" she said dryly "I just need to... up the stakes even more."

The pegasus looked over to the DJ booth and went there. Dash noticed and walked over to Twilight.

"I'm scare" said the pegasus to her friend.

" Same" Twilight replied without taking her eyes off Shy.

As the song ended, Rarity got off of Spike and blew him a kiss.

"I hope I didn't stun you too much dear" she said laughing flirtatiously.

"Yes ma'am, fresh as a daisy, the shrimp..." said Spike stunned and grinning.

"And I think it gets worse for you buddy" Aria told him with seductive eyes "Look who's coming over there..."

Shy, had just spoken to the DJ and the entire runway cleared, making a corridor to Spike.

Shy raised her wings and flew to the ceiling, hanging from it like a bat.
As the song began to play, Fluttershy began to descend down a pole dance on the ceiling until she ended up back on the floor. She began to dance seductively, softly at first, lightly rubbing her buttocks against the pole. Not even for a second did she take her eyes off Spike, who was mesmerized by the pegasus' movements. At a certain point of the song, when the word "animal" ended, Shy, who was at that moment on the floor on all fours, made her dress fly away among the branches that had risen from the pots below her, being now only her nipples and her vagina covered by some green leaves. Everyone at that moment, from the shock of the vision, dropped their mouths and whatever they were holding in their hands there and then.

Spike, motionless and transfixed by Shy's figure, could do nothing but watch as she slowly straightened towards him with smooth movements. Shy, upon reaching him, with completely violet eyes, sat on top of him, beginning to rub herself and almost uncontrollably, tucked the boy's small head between her two breasts and began to move up and down slowly. Her two powerful hands grabbed the boy's and made him hold her buttocks tightly, which she could not quite get around, let alone fully grasp.

As the chorus returned, the girl pulled back and ran back to the pole dance to dance quickly on top of her.

As she finished the song, with firm, graceful steps like Rarity's, she turned back to the boy, who had his mouth wide open. The pegasus leaned down as if to kiss his lips, but instead, as the song ended, she kissed him on the forehead.

The entire disco fell silent and Shy, coming out of her trance, saw that everyone was gawking at her. She blushed and looked at Spike.

The boy, standing up slightly bent over so no one would notice his erection, began to clap his hands. Like dominoes, the room began to fill with applause and cheers for the girl who began to smile a little embarrassed.

Dash rushed over to her friend and hugged her while they laughed as did the rest of the girls.

"Now that's showing him who' boss Flutters!" said Dash.

"Even I wouldn't have known how to do all those sugarcube tricks!" said Applejack as she hugged her by the neck

"And here I thought the quiet ones were shy" said Aria smiling and crossing her arms.

Spike walked up to the group and gave Aria a few friendly slaps on the back.

"Please Aria, you should know, that the fiery ones, are always the shy ones" he said winking at Fluttershy, who responded with a smile and a blush.

Near dawn, the girls, along with Spike, were in the elevator to their suites. They had said goodbye to the Dazzlings and had agreed to all have breakfast together the next day.

"It's been a spectacular night" said Pinkie holding on to Applejack and Sunset.

"Yep" said Dash with her hands behind her head "There's no doubt about it, it was THE night."

"Do you always end parties like this?" asked Spike smiling.

"No, we usually end up in bed with some guy" said Twilight with seductive eyes.

"Is that a proposal Miss Sparkle?" he looked playfully at Twi.

"Take it any way you want Mister Drake," Twi replied with a smile.

Arriving in the hallway that divided the two rooms, the girls escorted Spike to his door.

"You see dear," Spike told her as he opened his door and stood on the threshold, "I don't let anyone but the gardener into my garden of delights."

"Then we'll put out a curriculum to see if you'll hire us" Shy said winking at him

"I'll have to think about your application...good night girls...thanks...for everything..." said Spike waving goodbye

"No...thanks to you Spike" said Sunset "For making us live the best night of our lives"

"Always at your feet my ladies" said the nomag as he closed the door slowly with a smile.

The hallway fell silent with the seven female friends now dejected.

"Tequila before bed?" said Pinkie dejectedly.

"Please..." they all said at the same time.

About half an hour later, on the terrace of the Harmonies, they were all in silence with already six bottles of tequila finished, around a table, all with their arms crossed, while a typical Mexican song was playing.

"GOOOOOOD *hic* I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!" shouted Pinkie holding her hands to her head.

"If he doesn't *hic* tell us *hic* an answer *hic* to our questions at once *hic* I'm going to go crazy" said Applejack completely inebriated.

"I'm *hic* with you AJ *hic*" Dash encouraged her "I say *hic* we go now *hic* right now and *hic* get an answer from him."

"Totally agree *hic* darlings" said Rarity taking another shot of tequila.

"He'll be asleep *hic*" said Twilight trying to maintain consciousness.

"I'LL *hic* GET HIM *hic* OUT OF BED *hic* BY FUCKING HIM IF I HAVE TO *hic*!" shouted Sunset putting her hands on the table.

"AND FUCK *hic* I'M DOING THAT *hic*!" shouted Fluttershy to Sunset.

"Come on *hic*" said Twilight downing the last shot of tequila "Just to try *hic* *hic*"

Spike's room was completely silent and soundproofed. The nomag was smoking quietly as he reviewed the plans for the drone he already had in his possession to learn how to operate it.

"This is harder than I thought" he said fumbling badly with the drone with the controller "I'll have to practice these days."

A loud bang outside his room startled him, causing him to crash the drone against the wall.

Startled, he left the room only to see the Harmony crashing on his terrace.

"You scared the crap out of me girls" he said breathing easy again "What's wrong?"

Dash gets up from the floor and goes after him pointing her finger at Spike, causing him to back up all the way into the room.

"You *hic* you're what's wrong *hic* Ssssssssssssssssssssspiiiikeeee *hic*" the pegasus said to him as the others entered the room and closed the door to the terrace

"Yep *hic* we don't plan on moving *hic* from here *hic* until you tell us the whole *hic* truth" Applejack said moving an armchair over to her and sitting down.

"Yes *hic* everything *hic* we want to know *hic*" said Rarity sitting down on the couch.

"Who are you? *hic*" said Sunset

"Why do you love us? *hic*" said Fluttershy

"Did we know each other before? *hic*" said Pinkie

"How did you know us before? *hic*" said Rarity

"Why did you agree to the T-Wings blackmail? *hic*" said Applejack

"In general *hic* everything, including *hic* the *hic* question *hic* I asked you in Eden." finished Twilight

At that point they all folded their arms waiting for an answer. Spike stood motionless and emotionless on his face. Slowly he walked over to the bar cabinet and pulled out a bottle of shimmering green and eight shot glasses.

"What's *hic* that?" asked Dash.

"You want the truth?" said Spike seriously "Earn it. If you manage to keep even one of you from keeling over while drinking this new drink I'll soon send to your parents, Dash, I'll tell you all the essentials you need to know."

"That *hic* is sucked *hic*" said Applejack as she poured each of them a shot of the bright green alcholic liquid.

Applejack took the first shot and seconds after taking it, her eyes closed and she slumped back on the couch.

"One down," Spike said taking the shot nonchalantly and taking another.
Dash picked up his glass and in one gulp drank it down.

"Ummm *hic* blueberry *hic* yummy..." said Dash just before both of her eyes glazed over and she fell slumped on the couch.

Shy and Rarity didn't even get to drink it, as the smell alone made them faint.

Sunset took the glass and looked into Spike's eyes, who looked back at her expectantly. She took a small sip and collapsed in surrender.

"In *hic* this *hic* no one *hic* beats me *hic*" said Pinkie taking the shot and as soon as she finished it, she fell down like the others.

"Only you are missing Twilight" said Spike looking at her seriously.

She picked up the shot glass fearfully and trembling, she sniffed it and the strong aroma of berries intoxicated her, making her turn her head away a little.

"If you want to know everything, swallow." Spike said looking at her spectatingly.

Twilight then caught her breath and without thinking, took the shot.
A rush of chills ran through her body until the drink settled in her stomach. Then, she opened her eyes and stared at him.

"I won *hic*" said the alicorn looking at Spike with determination.

Spike, disappointed, went to a drawer in the living room and grabbed a bottle of white pills, grabbed one and handed it to Twilight along with a bottle of water.

"Take this," the nomag told her as he sat down next to her.

Twilight looked at the pill with resentment and then back at Spike.

"It's not a drug, take it," Spike said seriously.

Twilight trusted the boy and popped the pill into her mouth. Swallowing it with water, in a few seconds, the drunkenness had worn off with no signs of any hangover, as if she hadn't been drinking that night.

" But what?" said the alicorn when she saw that he was perfectly "How?"

"A pill to cure all ills...I never got it approved by the pharmacies since they wouldn't make money off it, but I have my personal stash...I don't need them anymore...because I was my own guinea pig...I can't die from disease nor does any toxin affect me...that's why I'm never sick." Spike said looking at the girl.

"You're a genius..." said the alicorn in amazement.

"No big deal..." said Spike smiling "I sobered you up because I want you to remember well what I'm about to tell you."

Twilight, as if she were a young pupil, fell back and looked at Spike intently.

"First, I am someone... who has had and has problems... for things I can't tell you... for your safety, I can't tell you who I am or my past, it would put you in danger... Why do I love you? Because you are the most beautiful thing that has ever happened to me... each one in your own way, with your quirks and personality... you are my girls... every day I spent by your side, disguised, I was enchanted by something new, your intelligence, your leadership... you are not only a beautiful facade as many people think, you are pure art and poetry... because of the way you care for others... because of the way you take care of each other... maybe everybody fell in love with you because of your physique... but I fell in love with your soul... And yes... I knew you before... but I can't say anything, I can't do it even if I really wanted to... I don't want you to ask me about the past... please... and I agreed to the T-Wings blackmail... because it was the only way to get back together with you girls... and if you want the answer to your question Twilight... Yes... I want to date you... but only if you stop trying to get information out of me about the past... please... I only ask for that in return. " Spike said without even looking at Twilight.

The alicorn, was motionless and speechless as two tears ran down both of her cheeks.

"Say something please..." said Spike without looking at her and on the verge of tears.

"I accept..." she said as if in a whisper.

"What?" he said looking at the alicorn

"I accept... we accept... if the past can't be unveiled for whatever reason it won't be unveiled... you are the Flash I fell in love with, you are my Kara Sevda... I... love you Spike... we all... love you" Twilight said as she stuffed her mouth with a smile of joy and wiped her tears.

"Really?" asked the boy, completely taken off guard.

Twilight merely nodded repeatedly.

"Well in that case and if you do what I've asked you to do" said a tearful Spike "Twilight... officially... we are, you, me, and the girls... boyfriend and girlfriends..."

Twilight rushed at Spike hugging him as tightly as she could.

"You have no idea *sniff* how happy you just *sniff* made me *sniff*!" said Twilight pulling away from the nomag a little with a blush "Can I... kiss you...?"

Spike went rigid and blank not knowing what to answer. Twilight realizing this and that he had started to sweat and shiver, smiled and kissed him on the cheek.

"This will do for now..." said Twilight caressing his face "But you're not getting out of this trip, little one."

She winked at him.

The alicorn stood up and saw her friends lying there. She smiled and with her magic made them disappear.

"How wonderful to be an alicorn..." said Twilight smiling "It saves me from having to wake them up."

"And from carrying them..." said Spike reassuringly and smiling.

The hooded man handed the bottle with the pills to Twilight and winked at his now girlfriend.

"For when they wake up... and you have to tell them the big news..." said Spike with a chuckle.

"I hope they don't go too crazy..." said Twi as she headed for the door.

"I hope so too." Spike said standing up.

Twilight grabbed the doorknob and opened the door, but before leaving, she turned back to Spike.

"You're never...going to be alone again Spike...I promise...goodnight" she said just before she walked out the door.

Spike walked with a smile into the room and opened the gun drawer and grabbed the picture, he stared at it for a few seconds and looked out to sea.

"I was never alone Twi...I always had you girls..." said Spike as he put the picture back away and climbed inside the bed.