Under the Purple Hood

The sun was rising, as it did every morning, across the sea. On the terrace of his suite, Spike gazed out over the horizon with a serious expression, wordlessly, remembering that just over an hour ago he had fulfilled his deepest wish for years.

"So... you've done it" said a voice behind the hooded boy, revealing himself to be Discord.

"That's right" said Spike exhaling the smoke from the cigarette he had burning. "The thing is... if I've done the right thing."

The Draconequus approached the nomag slowly until he was standing next to him.

"You have done what your heart dictated... what you wanted... after so long you have finally listened to it again..." said Discord looking out to the vastness of the sea.

" Last time I listened to my heart wasn't such a good idea, was it?" said Spike, looking at the Principal.

"Depends on the point of view..." he said with a half-smile.

"From the point of view that no one in this damned world really remembers what happened" said the nomag seriously sucking on his cigarette.

"The world could be a lot worse and you know it" said Discord as he asked the young man for a cigarette and lit it for him "This could be hell."

"Hell? I already live in hell...I've been living in it for years..." said Spike finishing his cigarette and going to sit in one of the deck chairs there, Discord sitting in one next to him.

"Yes... you've been living in hell for many years... because you didn't listen to your heart, now that you have... you'll see how your torment is redeemed." Discord said looking at the boy with pity as he rolled up his sleeves and saw his slashes on his wrists.

Spike realizing what Discord was looking at, covered up again.

"My torment is eternal Discord" Spike told him "That's the way I wanted it...and that's the way it'll be..." he said looking at the floor sadly

"Until you will it..." said the Draconequus taking a last puff. "Changing the subject somewhat... the incubus... do you think it will come back?"

Spike looked to starboard, where the incubus had been thrown by Fluttershy.

"No doubt... but I rather doubt it will attack me again, it will just spy... we must be very careful, Discord," said the boy with determination.

"I agree" said the principal as he stood up and headed for the door "But until then... get out of this room Spike... enjoy the cruise... your friends... and most of all... them."

This last, he said pointing towards the wall separating his room from the Harmony's, which made him blush a little.

"Not everyone can say they have seven superhero girlfriends" Discord said with a teasing smile " Good luck kid."

" Good luck for what?" the nomag asked him before he disappeared behind the threshold of his veranda door to leave the room.

"To survive them... have an isotonic drink nearby" he said chuckling before disappearing drawing a smile from the nomag

"Asshole..." said Spike laughing and shaking his head as he stayed to watch the sunrise show.

On the other side of the wall, Twilight couldn't sleep from the happiness her body felt and just like Spike, she was on the terrace watching the sky as it was tinged with blue and orange. Footsteps caught Twilight's attention, knowing who was coming after her.

"You really sold me out earlier, you know," Twilight said, still smirking, "You could have been the one holding the shot. After all... alcohol can be eliminated perfectly well if you want to, by raising your body temperature."

Sitting next to her, having taken the pack of cigarettes from Dash, was Sunset with a huge smile.

"Well... I honestly thought it was better if you were left alone with him, he has a strong connection with you." Said Sunset smiling and handing a cigarette to Twilight, who took a while to think whether to take it or not, finally agreeing.

"And with you Sunset" Twilight said laughing.

"Yeah, but seeing how he got when you asked him for a kiss... imagine if it would have been me, as brutish as I am... or if it would have been Fluttershy" said Sunset laughing

"Well, in any of the two options, you would have him tied to the bed without moving" laughed Twilight, receiving a friendly punch in the shoulder from the unicorn.

They both lit the cigarette and watched as the sun emerged from the waters.

"We've been very lucky, you know that, don't you?" said Twilight to her friend.

"Too much... I don't know if in others he would have accepted" said Sunset taking a puff of the cigarette.

"Now the real war begins," laughed the alicorn.

"What war?" asked Sunset with a half smile.

"The one with the big question" said Twilight taking a huge puff and blowing a plume of smoke from her mouth "Who will give him his first kiss?"

"War you say?" said Sunset laughing "It'll be the civil apocalypse between us."

"You're telling me" said Twilight "I think it would have to be agreed upon...so there's no bad blood."

"Not a bad idea really..." said Sunset looking in the direction of Spike's room. "Finally after all this time we're next to the right person..."

"Yes... yes we are..." said a bit worried Twilight, which was not unnoticed by Sunset Shimmer.

"What's wrong?" she asked her somewhat worriedly.

"The condition he set me... not to find out anything about his past..." said Twilight looking straight ahead "How are we going to help him when he's bad if he can't tell us what's tormenting him?"

Sunset rested her hand on her friend's comfortingly.

"By being by his side, in good times, in bad times and most of all, in the worst times, like he's been doing for years and years with us, hiding behind a belt." Said the unicorn with a smile, eliciting another in the alicorn.

They both took a puff at the unisosno to the cigar.

"How bad this tastes *cough*" said Twilight coughing.

"Well you're smoking it anyway" said Sunset laughing.

"It's just polite, since you offered it to me" said Twi winking jokingly "We should think about how we tell the girls we have a new boyfriend..."

"That we also share him, he's a nomag, a complete virgin and will probably end up in the ICU several times because of the desire we all have for him... it's going to be fun this" said Sunset giggling

"You're telling me" said Twilight rolling her eyes.

Slowly the ship was waking up and the music, alcohol and partying was back again. It was about half past one in the afternoon when the rest of the Harmony's started to wake up from the night of partying.

"Fuck... what a hangover..." said Rainbow after walking out the bedroom door. "What happened yesterday?"

"I have no idea sugarcube..." said Applejack coming out after her and going both to the table in the living room "I just remember tequila, tequila and more tequila."

They were joined by Rarity, Pinkie and Fluttershy, the first of them wearing lush sunglasses and without a word as they poured themselves a coffee from the machine they had in the room.

"Someone... could ... tell us what happened last night... please?" said Rarity holding her head "I've never drank like that before,"

"Agh... I don't know... I remember coming back from Eden with Spike, being all sad, drinking tequila and the last thing I saw was four mariachis playing maracas really loud... I don't know if that was real or effects of the tequila." Pinkie said dizzily, almost falling off the table as she sat down.

"Please...don't say that word..." said Shy on the verge of puking.

Through the door of the room, entering laughing, walked Sunset and Twilight along with the Dazzlings.

"Oh please" said Dash clutching her forehead "Could you laugh any quieter?"

"My my, did the sleeping beauties wake up..." said Adagio looking at them with a teasing smile "How did the night end?"

"Was the tequila good?" asked Sonata innocently only for Fluttershy to run off to the bathroom covering her mouth "Did I say something wrong?"

"I think sis the only wrong thing is the hangover they have." Aria said jokingly

"Come on girls, don't mess with them so much..." said Twilight laughing

"You don't ask for or anything Sparkle..." said Adagio looking at all of them. "Have you told them the new news yet?"

"What news?" asked Applejack

"I see the answer is no," said Aria.

"Maybe we should wait for them to get their heads together" said Sunset "And for Shy to get her one out of the toilet."

The five that were well began to giggle as the pegasus came out of the bathroom.

"Very funny..." said Shy sarcastically as she sat back down at the table.

"Well, we'd better speed up the process," said Twilight pulling out the bottle of pills Spike gave her the night before and took out five.

"I honestly think the hangover we have will last us the rest of the cruise" said Applejack holding her hand to her forehead and listening as Pinkie hiccupped "What's more, there's a chance that some of us are still drunk."

"That doesn't matter" said Twilight as she handed out the pill to each of her friends "Take this, it will do you good."

"What is it dear?" said Rarity dizzily "Aspirin?"

"Drug?" asked Dash quizzically.

"It's not drug or aspirin, but it will do you good, trust me." Twilight said sitting down at the table along with Sunset and the Dazzlings.

They all shrugged and swallowed the pill.

Without any of them understanding how, their stomach acid, muscle pain and headache dissipated instantly and their energy gradually increased.

"What kind of witchcraft is this?" said Pinkie completely perplexed.

"Not witchcraft" said Twilight putting the pot on the table "Science. Courtesy of a little nomag we broke into his room last night."

"Oh my..." said Shy embarrassed, fearing last night she had done something to Spike.

" If you tell me we had the best night of our lives last night and I don't remember I quit alcohol forever" Dash said pointing a finger at Twilight.

"No Dash, relax, it's not what you think." Twilight said laughing, relieving the rest.

"Let's just say that last night... we were a little sensitive..." said Sunset laughing.

"You drank too much..." continued Adagio.

"You played Mexican music until five o'clock in the morning..." said Aria
"And a feeling was eating you up inside..." finished Sonata.

For a few seconds everything was silent and the five newly recovered girls looked at each other.

"So have we raped Spike or not?" asked Pinkie puzzled.

"No Pinkie... the only thing you raped was the privacy law with breaking and entering" said Adagio laughing

"No... we just went to his room, sick of the secrets, the distances and well..." continued Twilight "After a shooting competition to win us the truth... I ended up being the only one who hadn't fainted or falsely fainted, talking to him alone."

Again, silence reigned down, augmented now with tension and impatience.

"So?!" shouted Rarity, Dash, AJ, Shy and Pinkie all at once.

"You have a new boyfriend Harmonys" said Aria, sparking looks of incredulity.

"Do you... do you... do you... do you mean it darling?" asked Rarity perplexed, receiving an affirmative answer from Sunset and Twilight.

"On his terms" said Sunset "No asking about the past, that first thing and secondly, no jealousy between us..."

They all then looked at Fluttershy, who hid behind her hair in embarrassment.

"This... this... this... this is something to celebrate!" shouted Pinkie happily making all the Harmony's, including Sunset and Twilight get up to hug each other and jump up and down in happiness under the gaze of the mermaids who looked at each other.

"Calm down everyone, don't go crazy..." said Adagio getting everyone's attention. "Besides all that, remember one thing."

They all stopped hugging and jumping and looked at the mermaids.
"You must keep a cool head," said Adagio.

"Exactly" continued Aria "Spike, he's still a nomag and a very hated one, unfairly, by all the students on this ship... and your families."

The smiles began to fade from the girls' faces as they sat back down.
"On that... you're right..." said Pinkie as her hair deflated.

"We don't mean by this that you leave him even before you start with him... just tread lightly." Said Sonata

"As very close friends and not at all unfamiliar with our feelings towards him... I tell you" said Aria putting her hands on the table, scaring the Harmony's a little "If anything happens to him due to the irresponsibility of any of you, you are already starting to hide..."

Aria's threatening tone made them all look at each other until Sonata and Adagio put a hand on her shoulder reassuringly.

"What my sister means..." continued Adagio "Is that if people see you with him, the last thing you should worry about is your reputation."

"Rather worry that Spike doesn't become a grilled nomag." Sonata concluded.

"That's true," said Twilight getting up and standing next to the Dazzlings "There's still a long way to go in this new stage we're embarking on. It will be hard... and difficult... but it is the decision we have made... if any of us wants to get off the boat, never better said, this is the time... to tell him..."

The remaining six were silent in thought, until Rainbow, stood up first.

"I've been standing next to a rapist son of a bitch for years...I'm not going to let, now that I'm with the one I want to be with, let a trifle like the fact that he doesn't have magic keep me apart. I'm Spike's girlfriend." Dash said confidently and smiling.

"I am Spike's girlfriend." said Fluttershy standing up confidently.

"By my great-grandfather's beard that I am Spike's girlfriend." said Applejack standing up while adjusting her hat happily.

"I am Spike's girlfriend darlings" said Rarity standing up confidently.

"I'm Spike's girlfriend" said Sunset smiling as she stood up.

"WE ARE ALL SPIKE'S GIRLFRIENDS!" shouted Pinkie, standing up happily.

While they all celebrated their triumph, on a tiny island, no bigger than a room, with a single palm tree, Thorax was scanning the horizon, recovering from his wounds. Behind him, he felt an enormous heat, coming from a greenish flame.

"Thorax," said Pharynx, who appeared behind him.

"If you've come to laugh at me you can leave, it's been humiliating enough." Said Thorax angrily.

"It certainly has been humiliating" said Pharynx approaching his brother
"How did a filthy nomag beat you?"

"He had help Pharynx" said Thorax confronting his brother "One of the Harmony's is half Succubus...and she's in love with him... I didn't stand a chance."

Thorax turned away from his brother with contempt only to have it fly in front of him.

"There's always a chance!" his brother shouted back.

"What have you come for Pharynx?" asked the incubus seriously.

"Don Bruto is not happy Thorax and the monarchs even less so... however... they have hacked into Fancy's defense system again... the nomag is not on that ship by chance." Commented the other Incubus to Thorax.

"What do you mean?" asked Thorax hesitantly.

"Does the Fire Ruby ring a bell?" asked Pharynx with a devilish grin.
Thorax wandered beside his brother, remembering the legend.

"Yes... the gift the Fire Goddess gave to the Kulahaihuea tribe, capable of dominating the sky, the land and the sea..." said Thorax.

"And the men, brother..." said Pharynx still smiling.

"I guess there's a change of plans, huh?" asked the incubus.

"Wait until he gets it out of the volcano... and steal it... Don Bruto and the monarchs want the ruby to start the Empire... we have been waiting for this for years... it is time that, not only this universe, but all existing and yet to exist, submit to us..." told Pharynx

"And if I don't make it?" asked Thorax worried inwardly, but showing a determined face.

"You know well what will happen to you... eunuch..." laughed Pharynx malevolently as he disappeared again in a greenish flame emanating from the ground.

The incubus looked back to the horizon, raised its wings and began to fly offshore. In the middle of the sky, he breathed in the air, detecting the hormones of the cruise ship's youngsters, which created in his mind a purple trail that indicated the position of the ship.

"I won't miss this time" Thorax thought angrily before he began to follow the trail.

Around four o'clock in the afternoon, Spike, disguised as Patriot, went on deck to head to the Magic Carpet bar, a floating platform that rises and falls at sea level. The place, although the largest distinction on the ship, was always empty, as everyone else was too busy partying in other areas. Spike climbed onto the platform and, seeing that no one was watching, approached the controls that controlled the raising and lowering of the platform. Unbeknownst to anyone and lucky enough that the system was operational, he began to slowly lower the platform. As he turned away from everyone and the music faded, he removed his changeling belt, returning to his original form.

The platform had descended to sea level, only a few centimeters of glass separated it from the water. The nomag was engrossed by the breeze, the sound of the water crashing against the boat and the beautiful summer sun reflecting off the water.

He then made his way to the empty bar and looked at what kind of alcholes and juices they had. A gust of wind behind him, made him blush and smile.

"I thought none were coming." Spike said as he turned around and saw Rainbow Dash smiling.

"What makes you think that little guy?" teased Dash "You tell us yes and you think we're going to turn you away?"

A water collision with the Magic Carpet caught the two's attention, as it had created a giant puddle in the middle of the bar that, little by little transformed into Pinkie Pie.

"Don't even think about it" said Pinkie going near him and kissing him on the nose, which left blushing.

"Hey, not that you're taking advantage that I didn't do anything either..." said Dash smiling and teasing her friend. "Although since you do..."

The pegasus then reached out her arms and pulled the nomag's head close to her, kissing him on the tip of his nose as well.

"Copycat..." the earthling mumbled.

Spike looked to both sides to see if any more appeared, however nothing happened.

"Aren't any more coming?" asked the nomag quizzically.

"They're trying to get Fluttershy out from under the bed" said Dash laughing "She's too embarrassed to meet you, knowing that officially... we're girlfriends of yours..."

"Heh... I still find that term weird with you girls..." said Spike as he poured a pina colada for Dash and a mojito for Pinkie

"I don't know why... you've been calling us that for years..." said Pinkie as she started drinking through the straw.

"It was different Pinkie, I was pretending to be the T-Wings..." said Spike smiling as he opened himself a beer

"Close your eyes and think you're half a foot taller and have muscles of steel, if that makes you feel more comfortable" Rainbow teased him as she winked.

"Nah, I never looked like a croissant boy," said Spike trying to show muscle.

"If you're half as tasty as a croissant, I'll dip you in chocolate before I eat you whole." Said Pinkie pretending to bite him as the three of them laughed.

"Don't play with fire Pinkie, don't get burned." Said the nomag determinedly to her as he pulled out a cigarette.

"Barking dog..." said the earthling rolling her eyes with a smile, to which Spike replied rolling his eyes as well.

Dash looked at the site where they were standing fascinated as she asked Spike for a cigarette.

"How cool is this place...weird that no one's here," Dash said obvserving the Magic Carpet.

"Well, people have come here to bust their livers, lungs and legs partying... they don't have time to come to a haven of peace just inches from the water." Spike replied taking a puff.

"Well, good for us Spikey-Wikey," Pinkie said with a grin.

"What... what did you call me?" puzzled Spike, which worried the two friends.

"It's... an affectionate nickname... does it bother you?" asked Dash afraid that she had embarrassed him.

In Spike's head, the voice of some little girls echoed, calling him by the same nickname. The nomag then smiled, causing the girls to relax.

"Not at all...I love that nickname." He said smiling happily.

Descending then from the deck appeared the rest of the girls. Twilight and Fluttershy flying with their wings and Sunset, Rarity and Applejack being lowered down by a blue colored magic ball created by Rarity.

"Good thing you guys are here already," said Twilight smiling and looking at Spike, who was also smiling.

"Seriously, you have no idea what it took us to get this lady out from under the bed" said Applejack stretching her back, referring to Fluttershy, who was hiding behind her hair.

"I can imagine Applejack" said Spike as he walked up to Fluttershy and held out a hand "I don't bite Shy, you know that."

Shy, trembling and under the watchful eyes of everyone, grabbed Spike's hand, and pulled her closer to the bar along with Dash and Pinkie.

"See?" he said to her in a reassuring tone "It's okay..."

"What's wrong Shy?" said Pinkie jokingly "Afraid of becoming Genormishy again?"

"You named her succubus counterpart?" asked Sunset quizzically.
"Yep, it suits her just fine" said Pinkie smiling.

"Well... for your information, for me, Genormishy is a great heroine, who defeated a succubus and saved us all." Spike said handing each of them, a drink, with a smile causing Shy to shake her head out of her hair with a smile as well. " For Genormishy!"

" For Genormishy!" they all shouted at once, comforting their pegasus friend, raising their glasses in the air.

"For... Genormishy..." said Fluttershy almost whispering but happy.
They all took a swig of the drink at once. When they finished, Twilight made her way to the center of the Magic Carpet.

"Well girls and Spikey..." said the Alicorn tenderly " There is no place for the first official date of our relationship..."

" Haremous?" said Sunset looking for a word that reflected what they are.

" Harem not yet, in a harem you have to taste the product first" said Pinkie surprising everyone.

"Let's see, I've been dating all of them for a long time, on the sly...I think you can contemplate it that way." Said Spike smiling

"Nope" said Pinkie folding her arms "You haven't been dating at all because yes, lots of dates, memories and laughs...but you've been missing something important."

"Oh no... she' s going to say it" they all thought at the same time.

"Surprise me Pinkie, what's missing to confirm I' m your boyfriend?" said Spike, smiling.

Pinkie, smiling, pulled a huge rolled up scroll out of her hair and grabbed Twilight's glasses, starting to read the scroll.

"Ahem" she said clearing her throat "First kiss with each other, almost 478 snuggles while watching movies, over 700 sneaky gropings, over a thousand blowjo..."

"Well I think you've got the concept!" said Rarity taking the scroll from him, red from embarrassment.

"Yeah, basically, physical contact..." said Spike smiling behind the bar, taking a puff on his cigarette "The only thing... you know that for me it's... kind of hard..."

"Easy Spike" said Applejack "Now that we're friends with the Dazzlings, we've been put on notice that you're not used to physical contact..."

"Pretty obvious thing on the other hand" said Twilight as she played with her straw.

"But don't worry... we're not going to pressure you at all dear" said Rairty sipping from her glass

"I know..." said Spike "Although..."

"What's the matter Spike?" said Dash worriedly.

"This... it's kind of awkward and embarrassing to admit girls but..." said Spike looking at Fluttershy nervously, who was weirded out.

"The thing about you've never kissed a girl?" asked Twilight "Because that's normal and nothing to be ashamed of..."

"It's not that..." said Spike turning slightly red "It's just that... I've... never... well... never... had an... orgasm."

The bar was completely silent, worrying the nomag who looked at everyone somewhat startled as he took one more puff.

"How...how...how...have you never...had an orgasm?" asked Rarity.

"Are you serious?" asked Dash "Not even a measly hand job?"

"No... never..." said Spike "I don't know... I never have... and yes, I have erections like some of you know... but... I don't... I don't know..."

Fluttershy stood up, her eyes completely purple, she went to a small glass door facing the sea. She opened it a little, under the vision and silence of everyone, and slowly, holding on to the Magic Carpet with her hands, she stepped into the water up to her hips, a column of smoke coming out from the front, due to the cooling from the contact with the cold water. A few seconds later, with her eyes back to normal, she slowly sat up on the stool where she was.

"What...things...you've never cum...well" Shy said haltingly trying not to look Spike in the eye.

"It's not something I'm proud of... and I know it's not very normal, but that's just the way I am, one of a kind if you want to consider me." Spike said with a half smile.

"That's how we love you dear..." said Rarity smiling as she finished her drink. "And you've never been curious about what it feels like?"

"Yeah, but instead of doing that, I just researched" said Spike taking a swig of his beer "You know, human anatomy, sexual psychology, kamasutra, porn..."

"And here I thought Twilight was the egghead one here" said Dash laughing.

"Hey!" replied Twilight, crossing her arms.

"What I mean is, I sort of imagine what it feels like." Said the nomag

"It's not the same imagining it as feeling it, I'll tell you that much" said Applejack winking at him " If you want... I can teach you..."

"Hey!" they all shouted at the same time.

"And why are you going to be the one to teach him?" said Rarity to him with envy and annoyance

"If anything, I should be the one to do it" said Sunset "I've known him longer."

"What do you believe" said Dash putting her hands on the table "I'm going to be the first one to taste him."

"How funny... now seriously Dashie I'M GOING TO BE THE FIRST!" said Pinkie getting up from the stool.

"HE'S MY PREY!" shouted Fluttershy "HIS BODY BELONGS TO ME!"

"Think a little Shy, if you catch him first you'll kill him" said Twilight "I'm the one who knows the most about it without a doubt."

"IN YOUR DREAMS!" they all shouted at once as they got into an argument.

Spike watched the friends argue wordlessly and rolling his eyes. He took a big gulp at the beer, finishing it and drawing everyone's attention, he smashed it with his hand slamming the can against the bar counter, silencing them all.

"Before you two kill each other like I' m the last coke in the desert, let me say something." Spike said in a calm tone and leaning his elbows on the bar "To me...I don't care which one of you does it...however, I'd like it to come naturally, not be forced. I love you all and I know that, I will end up having sex with all of you at some point if we are dating and I also know that with each of you it will be something amazing... but I don't want jealousy between you, I don't want you to kill each other or try to be ahead of each other. Please, this is not necessary."

The girls looked at each other with some embarrassment and all nodded in agreement with Spike.

"Alright Spike, no forcing anything...let everything take its course" said Twilight with a smile.

"Perfect then" he said rejoining and turning to grab another can of beer and opening it.

"Well and... changing the subject, because otherwise I see us getting thrown overboard" said Sunset "Why did you come on the cruise?"

"What do you mean, Sunset?" asked Spike hesitantly.

"I mean...it's pretty suicidal to get into a relatively small place with people who want to kill you, literally...you knew where you were going when you boarded, because you're not stupid, you know it's dangerous...I just wanted to know why." Sunset said as they all looked at the nomag intently.

Spike doubted whether to tell the girls the plan, but seeing that they were all looking at him expectantly, he sighed and took a drink of the new beer.

"Okay...there better not be any secrets between us...I don't know if you girls know about my relationship with Francis 'Fancy' Pants?" said Spike to the girls.

"Something commented the Dazzlings, yes" said Pinkie without taking her eye off Spike.

"Well... I've been collaborating with him for years... thanks to him I was able to create and market thousands of inventions, under the Discord name... of course" said Spike somewhat embarrassed.

"I knew it!" said Pinkie triumphantly "You assign him the rights and he gives you the money."

"I see you don't lose your detective skills Pinkie" he said with a half smile "Well... a while back I was talking to him... about the poorest countries in the world. Zebrica, Yakyakistan, Nirindia... The water there is barely drinkable, no electricity and pollution is at stratospheric levels."

"It's a real mess what they're doing to nature..." said Fluttershy with a sad look on her face

"Exactly," said Spike as he stepped out from behind the bar and headed towards the glass window to obvserve the sea. "Then I thought... if only there was a way that clean energy could get to those places, that not only distributed electricity, but made the water drinkable... and I started researching. I almost despaired of finding a way but then... someone gave me the idea... you, Twilight."

"Me?" the alicorn said surprised and somewhat blushing.

"Don't you remember the project you did with "Flash" last year?" the nomag said to her with a smile

"The pre-Columbian civilizations..." said Twilight realizing it.

A year and a half earlier

Twilight's room at first glance might have looked normal, however, it consisted of two rooms. One with her bed, closet and bedside table, with a modest window overlooking the garden. However, to the right, as soon as one entered through it, there was another door leading to her study, which was undoubtedly the largest room in the house.

The study looked like a small library, all full of bookshelves with books, a huge circular table in the center with a state-of-the-art computer. There were blackboards with chalk and erasers, a projector connected to the computer and in the huge window, there was a balcony with a large professional telescope and a fake leather chair. Everything was illuminated with a pleasant white light coming from a huge central lamp.

Twilight was sitting in front of the computer, with the presentation of the assignment on the projector, while she nervously, with tired eyes, chewed on a pencil in thought.

Spike, disguised as Flash, walked slowly into the room with two cups of coffee in hand.

"I don't know how to start the presentation Flash... would it be better to start with the arrival of Columbus or shall I move on to telling how the civilizations lived?" Twi said without taking her eyes off the projector.

"I think it's better to relate the life of ancient civilizations before..." said Flash as he approached her, offering her one of the cups "That way we do it on a chronological axis, honey."

"That's a good idea... I just hope Ms. Cheerilee approves us" she said somewhat dejectedly as she sipped with a half smile on her coffee

"How can she not approve the smartest person in high school?" the disguised nomag said to her with a smile as he sat down next to her
"There's always the possibility..." said Twi looking at him with tender and sad eyes

"I doubt it, besides this subject is interesting, those mysterious unknown civilizations, riddled with treasures, twisted deities and curses... it's impossible for us to be suspended" said Flash gently grabbing the alicorn's hands and looking into her eyes.

Twilight's eyes, at that moment, turned emerald and a sigh soothed the alicorn's head.

"You're right, we've put everything on it, from Columbus, to Ponce de Leon and Hernan Cortes." Twilight said cheerfully "Good job mate."

"Although... we could always add the pirate stories to it..." said Flash smiling "Something about Blackbeard, William Kidd..."

"How you like to tug at my heartstrings..." said smiling Twilight as she sipped some of her coffee

"Hey, there's nothing wrong with your favorite books being pirate books Twi, maybe that way, you give it a touch of your own" he said getting up and standing behind her, getting close to her ear "besides you're a bit of a pirate already"

Twilight, following his lead, stood up with a flirtatious smile and pointed her finger at his chest until she pressed him against the table.

"More than a pirate... I could consider myself a mermaid, you know?" said Twilight with seductive eyes.

"Like the Dazzlings?" she said smiling Flash "You're going to mind control me with your singing?"

"I'm worse than the Dazzlings, my jolly sailor bold..." said Twilight slowly approaching him as she began to sing

As she sang, as if it were a whisper, she brought her face close to his face, staying just inches from his mouth and with her hand, she moved his hand, which was resting on the table and made him run his bubble asses, pressing his palm against them and forcing him to grab them tightly, while she rubbed his pelvis.

"Careful with that sword captain" Twilight told him with a lewd giggle "Or you'll end up poking some cabin boy's eye out."

"Then don't provoke with your treasure, little mermaid" said Flash a little uncomfortable, but without avoiding wanting to kiss her.

"Maybe it's that I want you to discover my treasure..." said Twilight hugging him by the neck and kissing the tip of his nose

"Maybe the project should have been all about pirates... then we'd talk about treasure all day" said Flash looking into her still emerald eyes.

"We'd never be done" she said climbing on top of him, making him blush deeply "Who knows how many treasures to master winds and tides they hid across the seas?"

Twilight, from the memory and Spike's recounting of what happened, blushed quite a bit.

"At that moment, when you said that, it dawned on me that many tales of pirates and ancient civilizations, might hold the key... researching, I found manuscripts of ancient privateers that spoke of a jewel that could control life and death... that's when, researching, I found what I was looking for... the Fire Ruby," said Spike with a smile.

"Okay, but to the important thing why didn't you two kiss?" said Pinkie a little jealous "You had it coming."

Spike chuckled as he pulled out a cigarette and looked at Twilight.

"The old reliable one" said Spike lighting it for her "I have to go home now."

"I'll hold that one for you Spikey" said Twilight blushing also laughing "I didn't sleep all night because of you."

"Yeah come on, the house almost came crashing down from the vibrator energy didn't it?" said Dash teasingly causing everyone to laugh

"But well, back to the main thing" said Twilight " Do you really think that jewel is there and will it do what you want to do?"

"Yeah... it's been a bloody job deciphering the book, but there's no doubt in my mind, it's on that island" said Spike looking again at the horizon

"We can help you look for it" said Pinkie cheerfully "It would be a great adventure."

"No, it's too dangerous, the Kulahaihuea plagued the island with traps to keep the Ruby from being found" said Spike seriously "It's better if I go alone"

"All the more reason we should go with you" said Rarity.

"Yeah" continued Applejack "If it is indeed riddled with traps, you'll need help."

"I know which traps AJ...I'd rather go alone seriously...besides I don't want anything to happen to you and my life is less valuable than yours."

"That's garbage Spike" said Sunset "Your life is just as valuable as anyone else's."

They all stared at him expectantly and confidently.

"If anything happens to any of you...not only will I lose you...but the world, which needs all seven of you...don't worry about me." Spike said somewhat discouraged and without looking at them "But if you want... I can leave the drone for you to follow me with it... and if something happens to me..."

"We'll go in the second one" said Dash crossing his arms determined "But, promise us nothing will happen to you."

Spike looked at each and every one of the Harmony's who were also with Dash's determined look and smiling, the nomag nodded.

"Alright then, I'll let you the drone..." said Spike going towards them "But I don't want you to come if it's not strictly necessary..."

"Deal" they all said at the same time with a smile.

Spike's watch beeped discouraging the girls.

"I have to go..." said the nomag somewhat sad as did the look on the Harmony's face "Don't worry girls, I'll see you later and we'll do something, whatever you want."

"Promise?" asked Pinkie discouraged.

"Promise" said Spike smiling, cheering them all up a little.

The nomag used the Magic Carpet's cockpit to lift it up to the Resort Deck. With every meter it advanced, the music began to play again, as did the festive commotion of the students enjoying the party. Before he got all the way there, Spike turned the hand of the changeling belt to transform back into Patriot.

"See you girls later" he said just before running off.

"Bye Spike" they all said at the same time, almost as if it was a whisper.
After a few seconds of silence, Dash crossed her arms after sipping some of her mojito.

"No matter what you say, I'll be first." She said haughtily with a half-smile.
" Not at all!" they all shouted at her at the same time.

In the Dazzlings' room, the three sisters were in the Jacuzzi, enjoying the ocean view, with cocktails and sunglasses on, reggae music playing and a genuine smile on their faces, waiting for Spike.

When there was a knock on the door, Sonata got up and went to see who it was.

" Coming" she said as she approached the door.

"Hi Sonata" said Spike after she opened the door.

"Spike, we've been waiting for you" she said with a huge smile as she invited him inside.

They both went to the terrace to meet the other two sisters, who were eagerly waiting for him.

" Well, night lover how did the first meeting of your harem go?" asked Adagio with a saucy smile.

"Have they killed each other already for trying to steal a kiss from you or not?" asked Aria with the same smile as Spike undressed, staying only in his Bermuda shorts swimsuit and got into the hot tub along with Sonata.

"Ha ha ha ha, how funny you are Aria" said with a smile and sarcasm Spike "Although...well, yeah what the hell, they almost killed each other, good thing I put some order."

The three sisters laughed as they handed Spike a glass of Sex On The Beach.

"How boring, I wanted blood," said Aria laughing.

"Do you clean up the deck then?" said Spike to her raising an eyebrow as he laughed as well.

"Now seriously Spike how are they doing?" asked Sonata cheerfully.

"Better than I ever could have imagined girls...being with them...no need for disguise, talking to me as an equal, really loving me...it's wonderful" Spike said with a lovesick sigh, thinking about his girls, leaving the Dazzlings somewhat envious and sad.

"The only thing we're worried about is that they might hurt you." Adagio said with somewhat sad eyes, but still glad that it was going well for Spike.

"Don't worry Adagio, everything is going smoothly." Spike said nodding with a smile, reassuring them.

"Well little guy," Aria said as she reached out for the pack of cigarettes next to them "What had you so worried earlier when you told us to meet up?"

The nomag stood there for a few seconds as he asked Aria for a cigarette and lit it. As he expelled the first puff from his lungs, he looked at the three sisters and then, at the black-covered book with a gold star, which was right next to Adagio in the hot tub. Slowly, he grabbed it and showed it to the girls.

"This is what I'm worried about," Spike said in a serious tone as he looked at the mermaids, who looked somewhat guilty. "I know it's not yours girls...because this book rightfully...belongs to me."

The three of them froze as they heard that.

"Wh...what do you mean it belongs to you?" asked Adagio somewhat puzzled.

"Yes...and I know perfectly well where I left it...why did you take it?" asked them calmly, but seriously Spike "Besides, do you know what this book really is?"

The three sisters sighed and shook their heads.

"This, is The Grimoire Of Grogar" said the nomag in a somewhat sinister voice "The book where the satanic sect, devotees of the deity, half man half ram Grogar, wrote curses, hexes, potions and black magic incantations."

"Re... really?" asked Sonata somewhat frightened "But... it's quite old the book... How could it have aged so much since the magic was awakened?"

"Because this book girls... it actually predates magic... it's over seventy years old." Spike said leaving everyone confused "I don't know what you do with it...and I'm not going to tell you whether you should keep it or not...but I'd like to know how you managed to get it out of Fancy Pants' office?"

The Dazzlings looked at each other again and sighed at the same time.

"Well... it happened a few days ago... before the trip..." Adagio began to narrate as she delicately picked up the grimoire.

A few days earlier

The three mermaid sisters were walking through the business district of Canterlot, circling the statue in honor of the bearers, gazing at it with disgust.

"It's unbelievable" said Aria folding her arms in distaste as she looked at the statue "How can those bitches have a statue in their honor?"

"It's best to leave it alone sister" said Adagio as she looked at the statue with displeasure as well "If the world prefers them then fuck them."

"Well it looks like a very pretty statue to me" said Sonata looking at the statue curiously, only to earn a bad look from her two sisters "What?"

Adagio rolled her eyes shaking her head and they continued walking to Fancy Square, which was at the end of the huge street, just past the traffic circle where the statue was.

Once there, the Dazzling, looked up to see the imposing magnitude of the Fancy Tower.

"Wow" said Sonata in amazement "What a complex."

"Do you think he'll try to make up for some other complex?" laughed Aria with a mischievous look.

Adagio looked at them both with a serious expression.

"Don't beat around the bush, remember what we came here for" said the older sister as she headed towards the grand entrance of the skyscraper. "If there's any remote chance of finding that jerk William Afton, it's here."

The entrance to the Fancy Tower was huge, with the entire wall facing the plaza made of glass. The reception area was covered in brown marble with two gigantic columns on either side of the reception desk. To both left and right, there were escalators and state-of-the-art elevators. Above, on the ceiling, hung a gigantic silver chandelier that covered almost a third of the entire room. On the floor, on the walls and above all, above the reception desk, was the logo of the company, this being an " F" in a circle and behind it a double V, all in navy blue and below this logo, the name of the company; FancyPants & W.Coorporation.

Many people of all magical kinds were wandering around the premises, from pegasus to griffins. The three sisters approached the counter where a minotaura waited on them.

"Welcome to FancyPants&W. Coorporation" she said in a friendly tone despite her strong voice "My name is Yona, what do you want?"

"I am Adagio Dazzling" said the mermaid as she handed a folder to Yona "Me and my sisters are here to apply for a scholarship in September to start internships here. These are the applications from the Canterlot High School."

The minotaura, who would be no more than a year or two older than them obvserved the papers carefully with a genuine smile.

"Seems all in order" said Yona with a smile as she skimmed through each page "I started here too on a scholarship from Canterlot High, you're going to love the company and especially the boss."

"We've heard about him" said Aria leaning against the counter "They say Fancy Pants is very nice."

"Some people are crazy about the boss" said an earthling passing behind Yona, smiling and with mischievous eyes.

"How funny you are when you want to Sandbar" said the minotaura as the earthling sat in the other chair. "Alright girls, I'll let Mr.Pants know that you have arrived with these requests."

"That won't be necessary Yona" said Fancy Pants appearing from the right with a genuine smile. "I've been expecting you Dazzlings."

The unicorn took the papers and looked at them with his monocle carefully.

"Excellent grades no doubt" said Fancy obvserbing the three sisters "Would you like me to show you around the facilities?

"We'd love to Mr. Pants... so you can answer... a few questions" said Adagio with a suspicious grin.

"Let's not waste time then" said the unicorn smiling "Follow me please."

As the four of them left, Yona stood gawking at Fancy as she sighed.

"I told you so" said Sandbar laughing "It drives you crazy".

"Shut up!" the minotaura shouted at him with a blush.

The three sisters along with Fancy were observing each installation of the tower, being the first five floors the stock exchange offices, deliveries, orders, accounts....

From the sixth to the tenth, were the programmers and in the basement, they had the R+D+i facilities along with the factory where they created all the technology.

The eleventh floor was dedicated to company meetings and where they had the cafeteria.

The last floor, number twelve, was the amazing Fancy Pants office, where they finished the tour.

"And lastly girls, there's my office" she said as they reached it after walking down a long hallway to the red doors of his office.

Once inside, the three sisters sat down in front of Fancy's desk as he walked over to the nespresso machine he had there.

"Would any of you like some coffee?" the unicorn asked, smiling.

"We're fine, don't worry," said Adagio.

Turning back to the machine, the three sisters nodded and began to scan the whole place for any clues.

"Tell me Mr. Pants... how did you get such a large empire? An anonymous patron perhaps?"

"No..." he said smiling somewhat nervously as he went to his desk "The truth... I started practically from scratch... I was lucky I guess".

"And didn't you have any business before?" asked Aria as she settled back in her chair.

"Well... as a kid I sold lemonade out of my parents' garage... if you consider that a business" said the unicorn reindicating himself.

"And you never thought of a different business?" asked Adagio "Maybe... a restaurant?"

The unicorn laughed somewhat uncomfortably, almost knocking over his coffee cup, but regained his composure quickly.

"Me? A restaurant?" he said nervously "I'm really too clumsy with my hands, can you imagine me as a waiter? I wouldn't be able to make any of the pizzas round."

"We haven't mentioned anything about a pizzeria." Sonata said smiling almost devilishly along with her sisters.

"Well...well...well...let's just drop this...uh..." said Fancy trying to avoid the subject "I see from your Canterlot High transcripts that you are at the top of the class in practically every area, especially economics...your father Svengalop must be proud."

"Yes... daddy should be" said Aria somewhat sad "But it wasn't thanks to him that we passed with those grades..."

"It was thanks to a boy in our class" said Adagio leading the conversation with a smile as Fancy stood up from his desk still holding his cup in his hand "What was his name?"

"Lois Afton wasn't it?" said Sonata with a Machiavellian smile.

At the sound of that name, Fancy's mug fell out of his hand and shattered as soon as it collided with the floor.

"What a klutz..." he said to himself, very nervous.

"Are you all right, Mr. Pants?" said Aria smiling.

"Oh... yes, yes... you were saying?" said the unicorn with a hand behind his head.

"We were telling you that those grades were thanks to a boy named Louis Afton who helped us." Adagio said as the three watched the unicorn approach his chair again "Does the name ring a bell?"

"No" said the unicorn dryly "Nothing really...but I guess he's a good kid"

"The best without a doubt..." said Sonata sighing lovingly "However... for all we know... his father wasn't so much... William I think he was called."

" Oh... Will..." said the unicorn almost sighing.

"Do you know him?" said Aria scooting her chair a little closer to the desk.

"No, no... just... I have an uncle with the same name... heh heh... he reminded me of him... well it's too bad about that dad.... I'm sure he was the typical one who deceives everyone with his appearance and false smile and kindness that you try to build with him a precious family business to then he starts to go crazy and kill innocent children for his own ends, destroying your family after he killed your poor daughter who was not to blame for anything and mentally killed his poor son who was HOLIER THAN FUCKING BLESSED WATER BECAUSE HE IS A FUCKING SOCIOPATH FUCKING SHIT...." he said losing his head for a second, releasing all his pent up rage.

Fancy, seeing his head go, obvserved the Dazzlings who were speechless, looking at him perplexed.

"Just... it was a guess hehehe" he said hypernevious, so much so that he fell off his chair.

"For a guess, it's too specific" said Sonata looking to see if Fancy had been hurt.

"Well..." he said getting up from the floor " For... this kind of business is good imagination... eh well... I will go to reprography to get the contracts... in September you will join our big family... I'll be right back."

Fancy, almost running, left the office to reprographics, leaving the Dazzlings alone in the office.

"Okay girls...start looking for something" Adagio said as she stood up from her chair and wandered around the office, obvserbing every shelf as her sisters did.

"Did you hear right what he blabbed?" asked Aria somewhat in shock "Killing children..."

"No wonder Spike wants him dead...son of a bitch" said Sonata as she rummaged through the drawers.

"If in his babbling he was telling the truth... that bastard killed even Fancy's daughter... scumbag motherfucker..." said Adagio angrily

"We'll find him sister and Spike can get revenge on him... we'll help him every time" said Sonata with determination as she looked at Fancy's computer.

The other two sisters smiled and nodded determinedly as well.

After a few seconds, Adagio looked closely at the bookshelf above the coffee machine, specifically, at a hardcover, black and somewhat torn book, this being the grimoire.

"Girls... come... I just found something weird..." said Adagio as she opened the handwritten book.

"What's this?" asked Sonata as she obvserbed it.

"It looks like a black magic manual..." commented Aria as they saw on every page, strange words, satanic drawings and lists of ingredients with long names.

At that moment, they began to hear footsteps coming from the hallway. Quickly, they went back to the chairs and put the diary inside Sonata's jacket.

"Well... here they are" said Fancy with the three contracts in his hand "Based on your notes and wishes for the future that were written on the scholarship paper... I have assigned each of you to a different position... Adagio you will be my new secretary... I'm sure it will be almost like joining the town hall already. Aria... you will go to reception, being in front of the public will be like going on stage. And Sonata... I think you'll be right at home in the kitchen putting out fires."

The three sisters smiled at the same time while Sonata put better the grimoire in her jacket.

Spike, after hearing the Dazzlings' story, was crestfallen in the hot tub, which was completely silent. Sonata then moved a little closer to him to try to comfort him.

"Is it true what Fancy said?" asked Aria "Did your father kill children?"

Spike didn't say anything, he just stood obvserbing the bubbles that were coming out into the water. Sonata then looked at her sister with a sad expression.

"Some things... it's best to keep them locked away forever Aria..." the younger sister said, causing Spike to lift his head and obvserve the blue haired mermaid, who gave him a smile.

"What...my father did...is not relevant now...I just hope he never rears his head again from wherever he is...because, as you now know...I'm not the only one who has reason to kill him..." said Spike thinking of Fancy and his wife Fluer. "Anyway... I hope that grimoire, you get it back as soon as possible... I've seen the things it can do... it's better that it stays on that shelf forever..."

"I promise that as soon as we get to work in September, we will return it to Fancy" Adagio said smiling "In the meantime, we won't touch it again."

"Thanks girls...really" Spike said with a smile as he climbed out of the water.

"Well...I'm running late and I'm meeting the Harmonys...see you at lunchtime?" he asked his friends.

"You bet" replied all three sisters at once as the nomag smiled and walked away.

The Harmony girls were all walking around the inside of the ship together as they waited for Spike to join them. Rainbow, holding her cell phone as they all looked at the screen, as they were on video call with the Crusaders.

"THIS HAS TO BE CELEBRATED!" yelled Scootaloo from behind the cell phone screen.

"Hey sis... have you told him that the treat is with us too?" asked Sweetie Belle to Rarity as the Harmonies sat down at a table in the Central Café.

"Not yet" said Rarity with a smile to her sister "Now we're giving him the surprise.

"We're going to saturate the poor guy" said Applebloom with a smile "But please, don't let him come to us dehydrated, we want to enjoy him too."

"That's for you to tell the two misses we have here sister" said Applejack as she pointed at Shy and Dash.

"My goodness what a marking" said Dash rolling her eyes with a smile.

"What I find funny is that my brother knew all this time about Spike and he didn't say anything to me" said Twilight folding her arms "He'll hear me when I get home."

"What about Granny Smith?" said Applejack " She kept quiet about it."

" She told me it was because they wanted us to be the ones to find out." Said Applebloom over the video call.

"Well they could have given us a clue by now," Dash said leaning back in her chair.

"I told her the same thing, but well... I think the important thing is that everything turned out well." Said AB with a smile

"That's where Applebloom is right" said Sweetie "He's already ours and we're his...what can go wrong?"

"Never say that phrase Sweetie" Sunset told her with a laugh "It usually triggers some pretty bad events."

"Well Crusaders, he'll be here in no time...we'll let you know how it goes...big kisses to all three of you" Dash said saying goodbye along with the others.

"Bye girls" they said with a cheerful smile as Dash hung up the call.

As they looked up from their cell phones they saw that Sunbrust, was right at the table across from them and seemed to have heard the whole conversation. Although it worried them at first, the unicorn had a big smile on his face.

"Don't worry girls," Sunbrust said as he picked up his cup of tea and took a sip. "Your secret is safe with me."

The seven of them breathed a sigh of relief and Sunset got up to go to where he was.

"Hey... about the T-Wings... I hope they didn't cause you too much trouble." Sunset said somewhat worried.

"No, I know how to get them on my turf... they're all with Flash in the dungeon now, for moral support... by the way, I'm really sorry I wasn't on deck yesterday to help you out... I drank too much during Cheese's party and had to go to the room." Said the unicorn as he held the cup in both hands.

"Don't worry Sunbrust" said Rainbow smiling "We were able to manage on our own... well, with some help."

"Yeah, something I heard about the Dazzlings...that boy is quite the charmer." Said the unicorn, putting his glasses on tightly.

"You can't imagine..." they all said at the same time sighing.

"I hope it all works out for you girls... I really do" said Sunbrust smiling at the seven of them.

"Thank you Sunbrust" said Fluttershy "And we all hope you do too..."

The unicorn smiled and looked straight ahead, where he saw Patriot coming, looking for the girls.

"There's your Romeo, Juliettes..." he said jokingly in a friendly way.
Patriot saw the girls and went with them.

As he passed in front of Sunbrust, the two stood obvserbing each other for a few seconds, until the unicorn nodded and stood up. He moved a little closer to Patriot and put his hand on his shoulder with good intentions.

"Take care of them, little one... and I'm sorry... for all I've done to you over the years..." Sunbrust said to Spike as Spike looked at him puzzled until he smiled at him.

"Don't worry old friend...I know you never did it on purpose..." said Spike to him, confusing both him and the girls.

Sunbrust then smiled again and went on his way. Patriot sat next to the Harmony's who watched the unicorn leave.

"Let me guess something you can't tell us?" said Dash thinking about what he had said to Sunbrust.

"Exactly... although it's pretty obvious isn't it?" said Patriot looking at them all.

"Just one thing... and we're not going to unravel anything with it, just curious... are there any other friends of yours from the past that we should know about?" asked Applejack.

"Nope, that was the last one." Spike said smiling

"I hope someday you'll tell us some little thing about your friendship with him" said Pinkie "He's a nice guy."

"He is...always was..." said Spike wistfully. "Well... What do you girls want to do?"

"Before we do anything...we all want to talk to you about something" said Rarity smiling as she pulled her chair a little closer.

"I don't think we need to tell you who the Crusaders are." Dash said

"How are they doing?" asked Spike cheerfully "Did you tell them...this?"

"Yep" said Fluttershy "But... there's something we didn't tell you..."

"Do you like them?" asked Pinkie without preamble, making him blush.

"Uh... well... I..." stammered Spike somewhat embarrassed.

"Don't worry Spike... say it without fear" Sunset told him reassuringly.

"Well... to tell you the truth... yes... I do like them... they're wonderful... just like you" said Spike without looking them in the eye.

"Well congratulations Spikey" said Twilight cheerfully "They... are part of this too."

"What?!" said the nomag in surprise.

"Yep, plus they're... pretty lost for you too... and for us great darling" said Rairty smiling "Better with you than with any jerk out there... where there's seven, there's ten."

Spike, still in disbelief, pulled out a cigarette and Dash, with electrified fingers, lit it for him, stealing a puff.

"How do you stay little guy?" the pegasus asked him, smiling as she stole his puff and handed the cigarette back to him.

"Well... if you' re waiting for me here, I've spotted a lottery store, I'll draw a couple of numbers and be right back," Spike joked, making them all laugh, "You sure you don't mind? They are your little sisters after all."

" It' s all or none" said Applejack with a smile "That was the deal and that's the way it goes."

"Well... then... so be it" said Spike with enormous happiness.

"Mind you, we should prepare you, because the three of them always do everything together...when I say everything...it's everything" said Pinkie raising and lowering her eyebrows with a teasing smile.

"Don't scare him either Pinkie" said Twilight laughing along with everyone.

"I'll have to get used to it I guess" said Spike "What do you plan on doing?"

"Have the best vacation ever!" said Pinkie determinedly.

The rest of the day and days, Spike and the Harmonys were going to restaurants, sometimes accompanied by the Dazzlings. They went to karaoke, to the pool and had romantic dinners with all of them. Every time they did something, they took a picture with the boy, dressed as a Patriot. On many occasions, each of them had the opportunity to kiss him, but they decided not to, as none of them dared to take the step at the end.

Meanwhile, Sunset helped Spike to control the drone and Twilight helped him to draw up a plan to escape from the island. The Dazzlings and the Harmonys, on the other hand, were beginning to like each other, although there was still some friction.

On the last night on the cruise, the Harmony and Dazzlings were in Spike's room, sleeping except for Twilight, who was at the table with the plans for the tower she planned to build.

"And you think one tower will power the whole planet?" the alicorn asked him as she adjusted her glasses.

"That's what I really hope" answered the nomag, who was with two cups of coffee in his hand, giving one to Twilight who thanked him. "But first of all, I need that jewel... I'll have it in my hands by this time tomorrow."

Spike sipped some of the coffee as Twilight obvserbed him with a smile.

" Are you sure you want to go alone, right?" asked Twilight with concern.

"Yes... I can't put you in danger..." said Spike looking at everyone "By the way Twi... in case tomorrow, something goes wrong... I want to say thank you... all of you... for this vacation..."

"You don't have to thank anything Spike..." said with a blush the alicorn. "And everything will be great tomorrow... I assure you."

They both smiled and took a sip of coffee at the same time. Spike took a cigarette and lit it, not noticing Twilight looked over to the couch to check if the girls were asleep and with a smile and somewhat embarrassed, an idea flashed through her mind.

"You know," Twi said getting up and approaching Spike "These nights we've spent together working on...the ruby thing, it's reminded me of when you used to stay up until dawn studying with me...disguised as the Flash I mean."

"Your number one assistant always at your service princess," Spike said reminiscing about what he used to say to her those nights.

"Do you remember the night of the shooting stars?" asked Twilight blushing and playing with her hair "How could I forget? One of the most beautiful nights of study and one in which I was in the greatest danger of being discovered..."

"It was the day we talked... about getting married... in the future..." said Twilight smiling

"Well... I think that was more the real Spike talking than the Spike in disguise... I was lonely that night and... it saved me from Flash going on a whoring trip with his uncle and sending me to go with you instead..." said Spike a little embarrassed "I said a lot of stupid things that night..."

"For me it wasn't stupid at all Spike" said Twilight as she unbuttoned two buttons of her pajamas, revealing her cleavage, which made Spike nervous "For me... it was one of the greatest illusions of my life..."

"The only thing..." he said a little nervously trying not to look at her breasts "The two kids thing... the couple thing... I'm afraid it's not going to happen..."

"Well... I am the magic bearer... maybe we can come up with something..." she said as she moved in front of him and slowly, sat on top of him, burying his head under her breasts.

Twilight, began to slowly rub herself on top of the boy, who shakily, tried not to panic.

"Hey... look at me Spike" Twilight said in a seductive, soothing tone, leaving her mouth open as she pulled back so she could see the boy underneath her "It's all right... it's okay... soft breathing."

Twilight kept moving her hips slowly, rubbing against the erection she had given the boy. With her hands, which were almost two of Spike's, she guided his palms around the buttocks of his pajama bottoms and made him grip them tightly.

"It's just you and me now...my personal assistant..." said Twilight as she slowly brought her face closer to the boy's.

"Twi... you smell... great..." the boy said gawking as he closed his eyes and between opened his mouth, as the pulse of the began to quicken.

Twilight, began to smile and with her lips, she began to run over Spike's lips, being very small compared to those of the alicorn.

When she finally decided to join her lips with his, a throat clearing interrupted them, startling them and making Twilight almost fall on top of Spike, who held her tightly by her ass, her whole face red with embarrassment.

" I interrupt something?" asked the voice that came out of the shadows, being Discord, with a hyena grin, from ear to ear.

"I FUCK ALL YOUR DEMONIC DEAD!" thought Twilight inwardly as she stood up from on top of Spike and him, blood rushing back to his brain.

"What... wrong?" asked the nomag somewhat puzzled.

" One can already be dying..." muttered Twi, obviously annoyed with the Draconequus.

"I need to steal Spike from you" he said to the alicorn "I hope you don't mind..."

"Only if you return him safe and sound..." said Twilight earnestly

"In one piece," Discord replied as Spike went after him.

"I won't be long Twi..." said Spike to Twi, looking at her with a smile before disappearing out the door.

Leaving her alone, Twilight took a deep breath and noticed that her privates were wet.

"Just when I was about to... damn" she thought cursing Discord and headed for the bathroom.

Discord and Spike wandered slowly around the ship in silence. They made their way to the top deck, obvserbing that no one was there. When they were outside, they both rested their arms on the railing and obvserbed the sea. Discord then, handed him some documents and a key.

"It's already settled," said Discord handing him everything. "You have a speedboat with an 800 horsepower engine waiting for you in the harbor of Bora Bora, the rental papers are in Patriot's name and the key has been delivered to me via Deliveris Instantius."

Spike skimmed through all the papers as a smile came to his face.

"Perfect, the jewel will be our Discord," Spike said with great positivity as he looked out over the vastness of the sea.

The Draconequus looked at him with a smile as his eyes began to take on a saucy expression.

"Yeah... just like you almost had Twilight before didn't you?" said Discord jabbing Spike with his elbow in a friendly manner.

"I don't know what you're talking about" he said seriously as he turned red with embarrassment.

"Don't play innocent with me Spike, who' hungry, thinks of bread and hands go to bread..." said Discord looking straight ahead as he pulled out two cigarettes, offering one to the nomag.

"You and your sayings..." said Spike laughing and lighting the cigarette "Nothing would have happened... I would have chickened out even if you hadn't come in..."

" Aw kid...so many years have passed and you don't get curious enough to remember what her lips tasted like?" said Discord teasingly

"That... happened a long time ago..." said Spike somewhat wistfully.

"But it always comes back to your few good dreams... and don't deny me... one of my wives can get into people's dreams..." said Discord with a piquant smirk as he blew the smoke out of his lungs.

Spike, blushing, took a big puff on the cigarette and exhaled the smoke out slowly.

"I remember her lips a little smaller than they are now...but they're still just as lovely...maybe...yeah I would have kissed her...I don't know..." said Spike unwilling to look Discord in the face.

"It would be very poetic don't you think?" said Discord "Giving you your second kiss in life, to the person who gave you your first."

"It's been so long that it' s like the first one for me..." laughed Spike.

"I know...sorry for the interruption," said Discord smoking a last puff.

"Don't worry... Twilight will probably kill you... but there'll be another time..." said Spike taking another puff.

They were both silent for a few seconds until Spike finished the cigarette.

"They're fighting hard to be your first-second kiss, huh?" said Discord.

"It's a civil war..." laughed Spike "However... this week of cruising has been amazing for me... not only is it the first one I've been able to be with the Harmonys again... but also the Dazzlings... I missed them..."

Spike's expression saddened, something that did not go unnoticed by Discord.

"Something wrong?" asked Discord to Spike who was just staring straight ahead.

"Nothing...I just hope what I fear won't happen...that they remember...I know they promised me they wouldn't...but it's not something that can be helped sometimes..." said Spike with his voice quivering

"Knowing the girls...if a memory ever comes to them...I'm sure they'll pass it by." Said Discord not quite sure what he was telling him.

"I hope so..." said Spike obvserving as the sun began to appear over the horizon and as, in the distance, some small mountains began to come into view "Earth in sight mate..."

Discord looked in the direction Spike was looking to see how ahead of the sun, the mountains of the Bora Bora islands were beginning to come fully visible.

"Finally" said the Draconequus with a smile.

The island of Bora Bora was within a large archipelago. It contained a vast vegetation, as well as ancient ruins of a castle from the Spanish colonizers. The most striking thing was a huge lagoon that had in its interior, of a bright sky blue color, which reflected the rays of sunlight. Around the island, the fine sandy beaches contrasted with the green palm trees that ran along what looked like a kind of greenish inner circle of vegetation, having as an outer circle, the huge yellowish sandy beaches. The sea water that reached this sand was totally crystalline, and the seabed near the island could be seen with the naked eye.

The Celebrity Edge docked near the Four Seasons Hotel, while company boats brought the students to the island, where they were greeted by the hotel staff with genuine smiles.

On the penultimate boat, the Harmonys were waiting for the Dazzlings as they put their luggage on a secondary boat and rode alongside them, all smiling and excited to get to their floating rooms already.

"The first thing I plan to do as soon as I get in the room, is to dive head first from my room into the sea" Dash said leaning back in the boat.

"Try to at least aim for the water, I don't think the "All Included" includes repairs to the floor if you split it" laughed Adagio amicably.

"Ha, ha, ha, ha you're funny little mermaid" said Dash rolling his eyes.

" Tough head no one beats you Dash, just giving you a tip" said Applejack giggling, making them all laugh.

"I'm looking forward to visiting the ruins" said Twilight with a jovial smile "It has to be interesting and profitable to learn about the old colonies."

"Please Twi, even on vacation you don't stop studying, relax, have a pina colada in a coconut and stretch out on the beach" said Aria putting on her sunglasses "I know that knowledge takes up no room but, we are in paradise."

"For me, there is no greater paradise than knowledge." Said the Alicorn firmly and smiling

"Although I think 99% of people disagree with you we love you just the same Twi" said Dash in a joking tone as Twi gave her a friendly punch on the forearm.

"Totally" said a voice suddenly, this being that of Flash, who was accompanied by the T-Wings.

The group of boys dropped their bags in the other boat and sat down next to the girls, who had a big disgruntled look on their faces with all of them, except for Sunbrust.

"She's always going to be a boring book eater, but I love her just the same, it's one of the advantages of me, Flash Sentry, being her boyfriend, that no matter how boring she is, I love her just the same." Said the pegasus with great pride as his friends nodded in agreement.

"For the last time Flash" said Twilight angrily "I'm not your girlfriend, none of us here are with any of you."

"Twilight darling, relax, we fully understand that the Maribbean sun has affected your heads, when we return home we will all celebrate our reunion at a luxury hotel, with an orgy of course, I know you want to." Blueblood said preening his hair and looking at Rairty with seductive eyes, giving her in reply a dry look.

"First, Blueblood, this is the Trotacific Ocean and second, Sentry, you were more entertaining behind bars" Adagio told her defending her new friends "At least there you felt the same as your spirit animal, filthy rat."

Flash, with a furious expression looked at his friends and didn't even look at the sirens.

"Did you guys hear anything?" said Flash in a passive sour tone.

"I did, like a breeze from some fuck-nomag whores" said Cheese with a disappointed look on his face.

"At least we get fucked by someone, not like you guys who don't even want you from a distance." Sonata said annoyed and crossing her arms.

"SO YOU ADMIT IT!" said Caramel "YOU ARE FRIENDS OF THAT SCUM BITCH!"

"DO YOU HAVE ANY FUCKING PROBLEM WITH IT SHORT DICK?!" said Aria getting up and walking towards him.

Her two sisters slowed her down as did Dash and Applejack. Caramel then spat in Aria's face, almost hitting her in the eye.

"How disgusting you make us, cheap bitches" Flash said glaring at them "What about you two? Nothing to say? Why are you defending them?"

Dash and Applejack glared at them with hatred as they stood next to the three sisters.

"Are the rumors true?" said Blueblood "Are you the whores of that magic-less scum?"

The girls, not knowing what to say, looked at each other, however a voice caught everyone's attention.

"They are not T-Wings" Spike then said, appearing with his hood up "They hate me, as you well know, so leave them alone and maybe if you're gentlemen, they'll come back to lick your dicks."

Sentry, looked earnestly at the nomag and then the friends.

"Let them prove it." Flash said looking at them.

They all then stood petrified not knowing what to do. Dash, looked sideways at Spike, who nodded at her and, holding back tears, threw a powerful beam from her hand, electrocuting the nomag, making everyone nervous and the T-Wings, with a satisfied look on their faces.

"Screw you, fucking nomag," Dash said on the verge of tears and immediately sitting back down, after Spike fell plummeting to the ground.

"For a moment you really had us scared girls" said Thunder seriously as he made room next to Shy, who he stroked her face causing her to start to panic "We had thought that nomag had fucked you and you had enjoyed it."

Twilight then, with her magic, grabbed Thunder's hand and returned him to his original place.

"If you ever come near Fluttershy again you will deal with me Thunderlane." Twilight said with a murderous look, then the pegasus, simply shrugged and looked down at Spike's scorched body, as smoke poured out of him.

"I hope you didn't kill him Dash" said Thunder "He hasn't met his final fate yet."

The entire boat fell silent as, unnoticed, they looked at Spike and a tear escaped them all.

The boat then began to move in the direction of the island, away from the ship.

Upon arriving at the island, all the students were excited as they got off the boats and made their way to the hotel lobby.

As the harmony raft arrived, the T-Wings got off and headed with a big smile all to where the rest were, Sunbrust being the last to get off.

"Sorry girls...it's really hard for me to control them being the only one with two fingers in front of me." Sunbrust apologized for what happened, as they kept looking at the Celebrity Edge.

"Don't worry Sunbrust, we know" Adagio said nodding with a slight smile.

"Sunbrust come on!" shrieked Flash in the distance as he put his two arms around two unicorn girls.

The boy caught his breath and went with his group as they all stood still.

After a few seconds, they stood up and descended from the raft.

"I hope I didn't... overdo it with the voltage" Dash said without avoiding snorting a bit overwhelmed "And if... I killed him..."

The pegasus began to hyperventilate at the thought and her legs were starting to give out on her.

Pinkie and Rarity grabbed her by the arms and gently lifted her up.

"Relax Dashie" Pinkie said "Spikey will be fine...I hope...sure."

"Of course dear, he'll be fine" said Rarity trying to hide the worry.

Twilight and Sunset grabbed her shoulders nodding and reassuring her, not very convinced even so.

Applejack and Fluttershy then looked at the horizon as a last raft approached the beach and a smile came to the two of them and the Dazzlings.

" Calm down girls" said Applejack smiling.

"There he is" said smiling with glee Shy.

On the other raft, somewhat seasick but smiling, was Spike along with Discord.

As they got off the raft and Discord left, Dash quickly turned and threw himself at the nomag, knocking him to the sandy ground and starting to hug him tightly.

" FORGIVE ME SPIKE FOR REAL!" said the pegasus as she hugged him in tears.

"Dash...I...can't...breathe..." said the nomag choking from how tightly she was hugging him. Realizing this she pulled away.

"Sorry..." she said helping him up.

"It's okay, besides there's nothing like sobering up with electrostimulation." Spike said laughingly.

"Are you really all right, Spike?" asked Twilight worriedly.

"Like a rose, really... you girls should go inside, I have to wait until it's empty... you know..." said Spike shrugging his shoulders and smiling at them all.

The girls started to walk towards the hall, leaving the nomag and the Draconequus behind.

"Hey Spikey" said Rarity catching the attention of the boy and all of them, who were smiling "We love you."

"And I love you" said smiling the boy with a big blush just like them, leaving them also blushing and a little abashed.

The Dazzling girls rolled their eyes smilingly while pulling them so they wouldn't stare at the boy all the time.

As they entered the hall, Spike stared where they had gone and snorted in love. Discord then approached him slightly with a teasing grin and raising his eyebrows repeatedly.

" What are you looking at?" said Spike dryly as the creature chuckled.

Some time later, everyone had already gone to their rooms, enjoying the luxury of being in paradise, others were on the beach or in the hotel facilities, looking at pamphlets of the various activities offered, among which were diving, boat or plane ride through the archipelago, tour of the island and the ruins ....

That night, there would be a grand opening party on the beach to celebrate the beginning of their days in Bora Bora.

The Harmonys had the privilege of being away from the rest of the people, in giant floating huts on the sea side, while the rest of the people had them in the lagoon. Their only neighbor there was Spike, who was currently smoking a cigarette looking out to sea from the balcony of his room while the girls relaxed in the next cabin. They all looked at Spike tenderly while he was oblivious.

"Deep down he's terrified..." said Applejack approaching the edge of the pool where they all stood.

"We know... and it's normal," said Twilight watching him as with each puff he consumed the cigarette. "But it's for us, not for him..."

"Don't you feel like hugging him all day?" asked Fluttershy as she looked at him sadly and they all nodded. "Good thing I wasn't the only one."

"On the cruise we were lucky that the T-Wings were quite distracted... now they are alert and will come after us at every turn..." said Sunset dejectedly "Just look at how they got on the boat earlier."

"Yeah... thanks Twilight, for helping me with Thunder," said Shy sheepishly.

"What are friends for..." replied Twilight smiling at her.

"I don't know about you girls, but I would take advantage of these moments that we are alone to spend time with him" said Rarity as she got up from the pool. "How about we take a walk around the resort with him?"

"Good idea" they all said as they all got up to change, except Pinkie, who didn't say a word.

"You girls go get changed, I'll be right there" said the pink haired earthling as she jumped into the sea water.

Spike, after finishing his cigarette on the terrace, went down to his private pool area and stood contemplating the immensity of the sea. He turned his head to the right for a second to see the girls' room and snorted with a smile.

"Hey pretty thing," a voice said to him from below, being Pinkie floating below him. "Join me for a quick bath?"

Spike smiled and rolled his eyes.

"My hair with the sea water gets frizzy, it's hard to wash." Spike said jokingly.

"Aw, come on, don't you like to bathe? Tell me now and our love will be something impossible." Pinkie said following his joke with a smile.

Spike looked both ways, took off his pants, sweatshirt and t-shirt, staying in his boxers and jumping bombing into the water.

"Wow, sure is the water warm," Spike said swimming over to the earthling.

"I heated it up for you, I know you like warm water." Pinkie said as he approached.

"That's real nice of you" said the boy.

"Yeah..." said Pinkie a little sad "Like letting you get electrocuted to save our skins...thanks...you didn't have to."

"I'm used to it" said Spike with a comforting smile as he moved a little closer to her, keeping himself afloat.

"We really are terrified of what might happen to you...it's not fair for the world to treat you like this." Pinkie said with her head bowed.

Spike swam up to her and stood mere inches from her face.

"The world is a cruel place, where bad people are in control... and there are only two things you can do... give up or survive... for a long time, I chose the first option and to this day... it's true that it's still a temptation, but it's further away every day, if that day, is spent next to people like you Pinkie..." said Spike comforting her, making her blush

The earthling reached over and grabbed both arms around Spike's neck, making a happy smile escape her, which was dissipating again when she saw Spike's shoulder, with the "Think of a happy place" scar.

"That first option, leaves some terrible marks from what I see... if you want a nice phrase on your skin don't you think it's better with a tattoo?" she asked him in a sad tone while looking at him tenderly.

"I'm not... very proud of it... actually..." said the boy with a lowered look.

Pinkie snuggled closer to him, pressing herself against his body, causing him to blush and become a little aroused as he noticed her thighs wrapped around his waist and her breasts against his torso.

"Spike...I know it might be too much to ask...but please...don't do it again...either one...sacrifice you or hurt you...I've watched you suffer all these years...I've been unable to get a smile out of you until now...and I'm not going to stop until I get those lips, arched every morning when you wake up..." said Pinkie somewhat discouraged and worried for him. "It's going to be a hard road isn't it?"

Spike stood for a few moments without saying anything. He looked up and stared into Pinkie's eyes.

"Yes... but, finally after all this time Pinkie... I feel happy again... and it's thanks to you... thank to all of you..." said Spike smiling.

Pinkie also smiled and with one hand, she caressed the nomag's face, which could fit in the palm of her hand, as well as all the girls', which made her blush. Without much thought, Pinkie gave him a kiss on the cheek and hugged him tightly as the warm water relaxed both of their muscles.

"You'll never be sad again Spike... I promise..." Pinkie whispered in his ear without letting go of his embrace.

"I know..." he replied as he settled his head on Pinkie's shoulder.

A few seconds later, they both broke the hug and smiled at each other.

"We'd better get dressed up" said Pinkie "We girls are going to take you on a tour of the hotel... maybe we'll find some fun activity for all of us to do together."

"Fine for me" said Spike as he swam back to his cabin.

"And Spike" Pinkie said tenderly, then joked "I've gotten horny too."

The earthling winked at him before disappearing under the water. Spike blushed and rolled his eyes with a smile.

Later, the Harmonys and Spike, disguised as Patriot, began to walk around the resort, heading towards the Dazzlings' room, admiring the beautiful scenery formed by the floating cabins, with the vegetation of Bora Bora and the crystal clear water of the sea.

"There are so many things to do, it's hard to decide," said Twilight as she looked at all the pamphlets she had been able to pick up from reception. "Scuba diving, visit the ruins, caving to the draconic mountain cave, Spa with Ponynesian treatments..."

"Too many options and only a week to do them" Sunset stressed as she looked through the pamphlets with her as well.

"Well my only plan misses, is to have a nice drink with my feet stuck in the sand" said Applejack adjusting her hat properly.

"That makes two of us" said Dash as she stretched her arms.

"Since we are in paradise it would be ideal to enjoy it, girls" said Twilight to her friends.

"And drinking a good pina colada while lying on the beach is not to enjoy it, Twilight?" asked Dash rhetorically "Because for me it's a great plan."

Patriot, who was ahead of them, stopped dead in his tracks in the middle of the bridge connecting the resort to the floating cabanas in the lagoon.

"Is something wrong dear?" asked Rarity worriedly, only for seconds later she looked to where he was looking, as did the rest of the girls.

The Dazzlings' hut had been completely painted with bad graffiti, with drawings of decapitated mermaids and two phrases repeated along the entire facade: "Suicide Dazzlings Fuck Nomags" and "Accomplices of Murder". Other than that, eggs, toilet paper, and scat had also been thrown on the walls. The three Dazzlings were standing in front of the hut without saying a word.

The Harmony girls, seeing what had happened, were completely shocked and not knowing what to do, they only looked at the Dazzlings and then at Patriot, who slowly approached the sirens.

" Motherfuckers" thought all the Harmony's at the same time.

The disguised nomag, stood behind them, ducking his head and putting his hands in his pockets.

"I warned you girls..." he said despondently "This is what I didn't want to happen..."

Adagio turned around rather dejectedly as did her sisters and walked over to Patriot.

"I'm sorry... really... I shouldn't have meddled in your life..." said Patriot without daring to look at them.

"Hey..." said Adagio catching the nomag's attention "You're not to blame for anything okay?"

"Exactly" said Sonata smiling "They've been sons of bitches trying to be funny."

"And rest assured Spikey" said Aria putting her hand on the boy's shoulder with a smile "That we're going to find them and they're going to clean every wall of our hut with their tongues."

All three smiled at the boy, which cheered up his face somewhat.

"Still, I feel guilty." Spike said as they approached the Harmonys from behind.

" Don't be, we knew what we were getting into when we decided to stand next to you." said Adagio smiling at him.

"Do you have any idea who the funny guy was?" asked Dash looking at the vandalized floating room.

"It literally could have been anyone, let's not forget they all hate me" said Spike looking at the ten girls as he rested on the railing of the bridge and took out a cigarette.

Next to them, a group walked by giggling and holding their noses at the sight of the cabin.

"You suck Dazzlings!" shouted one unicorn.

"Hope you kill yourselves, you accomplices!" shouted an earthling at them.

"How was the experience of fucking a nomag you sluts?" said a pegasus.

"I bet you shit yourselves while you're fucking because of how disgusting you are!" a pegasus shouted at them.

" Die Dazzlings!" shouted a last terrestrial in the group.

The five of them stood there for a few seconds, still laughing and pointing their fingers at the Dazzlings.

Adagio looked over at Spike who dejectedly took puff after puff.

"*ahem* Girls" Adagio coughed to the Harmony's "Would you be so kind to step aside?"

"Gladly Dazzlings" said the Harmony's at the same time smiling and knowing what was about to happen.

The three sisters then, began to address the five who were mocking them.

"Poor things" said Fluttershy as she looked at them and stood next to Spike, approaching him and putting her arm around his waist "I mean those five of course.

Standing next to the group of five and still smiling, the Dazzlings stopped.

"Careful guys!" said the earthling without stopping to laugh "Don't let them get their putrid breath of cum of nom..."

He couldn't finish the sentence, as Adagio at that moment grabbed him by the neck tightly and his expression changed from a smile or deep hatred.

The three sisters began to beat the five of them up, breaking the wings of the pegasus, the feet of the earthlings and the hands of the unicorns.

At every blow they received from the Dazzlings, the Harmony and Patriot, who kept staring at the scene, closed their eyes and shook their heads slightly in pain.

"Not in the face! NOT IN THE FACE!" shouted the unicorn in pain.

"My arm! MY ARM!" cried a pegasus in pain.

" STOP, POLICE!" shouted the earthling.

When it was over, all five were on the ground, completely unconscious and badly injured with a few broken teeth. The Dazzlings, returned to their friends wiping their hands and smiling.

"That felt good" said Aria blowing her knuckles.

"Rather, fantastic" said Pinkie fist-bumping with her.

"See Spike?" said Sonata looking at the earth "You don't have to worry about us."

The costumed nomag looked at them with a smile and Fluttershy, who was still clutching his waist, squeezed him slightly so he looked at her smiling and nodding, cheering him on.

"Yes, I see you know how to defend yourselves" said the boy encouraged again.

"Well, shall we go for a walk or shall we stay here and keep those suckers company?" said Aria with derision.

"Let's better go" said Twilight looking at the dejected group with a smile "I don't want us to get framed for an internal group fight."

The alicorn winked at the Dazzlings as they all started walking back to solid ground.

Once back in the resort's huge main building, a crowd of people began to gather on the beach slope as the sun began to descend. Without understanding much, the Dazzlings, the Harmony and Patriot, began to approach only to discover a group of tattooed, muscular earthlings, clad only in leaf skirts and holding torches in their hands.

As the entire crowd fell away, the earthling at the front began to sing a tribal song as they danced with the torches from and did tricks with them lit, drawing cheers from the crowd.

As the dance ended, a unicorn in a hotel uniform approached them with a microphone in hand.

"Thank you all very much and welcome to the Four Seasons Resort in Bora Bora" said the unicorn "We are preparing everything so that tonight, you will have the best opening party ever."

All the students started squealing with excitement and screaming, including Pinkie, Rainbow and Sonata.

"While we prepare the beach for that event, please follow our beloved tribe to the main stage to enjoy a great show" said the unicorn with a big smile "And again Welcome to paradise!"

After another cheer to what looked like the hotel manager, everyone started to follow the tribal earthlings down the beach.

"Looks funny" said Pinkie as she latched onto Patriot's arm "Let's go!"

Patriot couldn't answer as Pinkie was dragging him by the arm with the crowd while the rest of the girls could only curl their eyes and smile as they walked behind them.

"She looks excited" said Adagio.

"She is" replied Applejack smiling "Let's just hope she doesn't rip Spike's arm off."

Twilight looked sideways, focusing on the crowd and looking suspicious.

"Is something wrong Twi?" asked Sunset.

"I don't know, I have a bad feeling" the alicorn replied.

"What do you mean darling?" asked Rarity quizzically.

"I don't see the T-Wings anywhere... and that's not good." Twilight said worriedly

"Relax Twilight, I'm sure those buds will be up ahead" said Dash with her hands behind the back of her head.

"That's worrisome" said Aria crossing her arms "Knowing them, they wouldn't miss a fire show where there might be volunteers and they can go out and score muscle."

"You don't think they might be up to something bad do you?" said Fluttershy worriedly.

"Let's hope not Shy... let's hope not" said Twilight with suspicious eyes.

While everyone was at the tribe show, the T-Wings were walking in the direction of the floating sea huts where Spike and the Harmonys were staying.

"Hasn't vandalizing the Dazzlings' hut been enough?" said Sunbrust somewhat nervously "What are we going to do now?"

"Those mermaids are just stupid Sunbrust" said Blublood as he combed his hair "Surely the nomag hypnotized them or something, we're just helping them."

"But that nomag deserves a lesson" said Soarin getting his knuckles tanned.

"He's going to earn the pie in the face of his life" said Cheese pulling a blueberry pie out of nowhere and popping it in his hand.

"By pie you mean beating, don't you?" asked Caramel somewhat confused.

"Not a beating buddy" said Flash with a Machiavellian grin "It's going to be THE beating."

Thunder, who was leading the group said nothing. Like all those days, he had a blank stare, dark circles under his eyes and a perpetual expression of hatred.

"You don't say anything Thunder?" said Sunbrust stepping forward and going to his side "If we get caught, what Flash has been through behind bars, is going to happen to all of us and I don't know about you, but I don't want to spend my whole vacation in a barracks."

"We understand your concern Sunbrust" said Soarin cracking his neck "But don't worry, that magic-less dwarf won't be able to say anything, because he's not going to have any teeth or jaw left to talk."

The T-Wings approached Spike's hut and without even knocking, Thunderlane broke down the door and went inside.

"Noooooooooooooomaaaaaaaaagggg!" shouted Flash as he entered "Where are youuuuuuuuuuu? We want to have a little chat about your relationship with the mermaids..."

The place remained silent, only broken by the water of the sea.

" Find him" Thunderlane said in a somber tone as all the T-Wings began to search through all the rooms of the cabin.

All but Sunbrust searched the entire house, leaving the unicorn in the center of the room with Thunder, who was looking out to sea while holding his head with a pained expression.

"Migraine again?" asked Sunbrust, approaching him.

"It's that midget's fault," said Thunder in an almost demonic tone.

"The nomag's?" asked Sunbrust quizzically "How can it be his fault?"

"Let's just say it mate... that he took something I cherished... and I want to know what he did with it... before I kill him..." said Thunder gritting his teeth in pain and anger, causing Sunbrust to back off a bit and go along with the rest of T-Wings to scavenge the hut "You're going to tell me what you did with my brother... and then I'll do the same to you Louis..."

The students were enjoying the fire show from the tribe on the main stage.

It was decorated as if it were a temple in honor of a pagan god.

Surrounded by a small river, stone statues and fine sand all around. In the center, there was a wooden stage and what looked like a stone altar.

Sitting on benches around it, all the students watched in fascination the acrobatics of the stuntmen, some of them even setting their bodies on fire.

Patriot was sitting next to Fluttershy, who was holding his hand tightly.

"How can they set their whole bodies on fire?" asked Shy, terrified and fascinated at the same time.

"It's because of a cream they use, it makes them unfireable for a while." Patriot said without taking his eyes off the show.

"And what happens if the effects wear off?" asked Shy somewhat frightened.

"Don't worry about that, I manufactured it to last between an hour and an hour and a half. They won't burn out." Patriot said squeezing her hand a little, causing her to blush.

"You made that cream?" asked Sunset fascinated, who was behind them.

"Along with a bunch of other fireproof stuff, special suits, accelerated action extinguishers..." said Patriot looking at the girls who were also fascinated

"You don't really like fire do you?" said Aria smiling.

"Depends on which one" said Patriot before turning and winking at Sunset who blushed "But, no kidding, I'm terrified of burning to death... it must be horrible."

"I don't think anyone would like to die like that, I for one don't want the last thing that will be remembered of me is a smell of barbecue" Pinkie said just before she started to drool "MMMMMMMMMMMM... Barbecueaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggg"

Everyone started laughing at the joke, unaware that Discord was approaching.

"Sorry to interrupt girls but, I need to talk to your boy...can I steal him for a second?"

"No problem" they all said at once as Patriot got up and went after Discord.

Twilight's expression, changed from a smile to concern as she looked around and the T-Wings were still missing.

"I don't like it," Twilight said to the girls, getting their attention. "They're still not showing up."

"It's very worrying... I don't know what they could be up to" said Adagio who was behind her.

"Yes, it's very strange that they disappear and not come to try to harass us" said Dash looking to the side

"Or try to hit us" said Sonata strangely.

"I just hope nothing happens to Spike" said Fluttershy looking where the disguised nomag had gone

"You and everyone" said Applejack as they all nodded worriedly as well.

Off stage, on the beach, Discord and Patriot approached the shore as the latter picked up two cigarettes.

"The boat is docked a few yards to your right" said Discord looking out to sea, where the boat could be seen. "You'd better go now while they're all distracted."

"I should say goodbye to the girls for what may happen" said Patriot lighting his cigarette.

"I'll do it for you" said Discord looking towards the light coming from the stage "Go."

Patriot looked towards the light also with sadness on his face.

"Don't worry, they will be fine and I will take the blame for not saying goodbye to them, now go, the sound of the show will hide the sound of the boat and there is no one around that can see you leave... now go." Discord said smiling at him and nodding.

Patriot nodded and took one last puff before de-transforming and heading for the launch.

Discord lit his cigarette and went to the show to tell the girls that Spike was gone.

In the brush of the vegetation, watching from the shadows, Thorax looked on as Spike climbed into the boat and headed off in the direction of Ruby Island.

"That's it, get me that jewel you filthy nomag" thought Thorax with a devious grin.

As everyone continued to watch the show, the T-Wings rampaged through the entire cabin throwing chairs and tables into the sea, smashing every decoration, lamp, toilet paper while everyone except Thunder and Sunbrust laughed.

"God, this is almost orgasmic," Flash said as he threw a vase against the wall and it shattered into a thousand pieces.
"This might be the most relaxing activity we've ever tried gentlemen" commented Blueblood as he threw a glass table from the second floor into the pool area.

Thunder wandered around the house slowly as Sunbrust, out of the corner of his eye, watched him.

The pegasus then spotted Spike's room and strode decisively into it.

On tiptoe, his unicorn friend followed him in, staying half hidden in the doorframe and seeing what he was doing.

Thunderlane began to rummage through the entire room, the bed, the drawers, the closet, until, behind a painting of two palm trees, he found a strongbox. With the help of the base of a lamp, he began to bang on the lock until it broke.

Slowly, he began to open the safe to reveal a photograph and the gun.

"Now I've got you, little fuckin' midget." Thunderlane said through his teeth and smiling ghoulishly.

The pegasus grabbed the pistol with a great look of satisfaction on his face, however, curiosity got the better of him as he took a closer look at the photograph. He put the pistol back inside and picked up the photograph quizzically.

"Why does he keep a photo in a strongbox?" he asked himself rhetorically as he turned the photo over to see what it had captured.

As soon as he saw it, he was completely paralyzed for a few seconds, his eyes wide as saucers and his mouth half open in shock. His head began to ache like never before, even screaming from the pain just before he fainted and Sunbrust ran towards him.

Everything around Thunder went black. He was on a ground he didn't recognize, it was asphalt and as he opened his eyes, he could glimpse that he was in an unfamiliar and completely empty neighborhood.

" What the hell is this?" said the pegasus completely lost.

A laugh he knew made him turn his head to the right. In the driveway, stood his brother Tank, smiling at him as always and holding his favorite red balloon in his right hand.

"Tank? Is that you?" he asked his little brother, but Tank didn't seem to hear him even though he was looking at him.

At that moment, Tank began to walk slowly down the empty street and his brother, puzzled, began to follow him.

That place seemed strangely familiar to Thunder, who kept looking everywhere. He could contemplate the moon as it was gradually being covered by some black clouds, even so, although he felt that something bad was going to happen, he followed his brother.

They arrived at a square where in the center there was a restaurant: "Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and Games".

At the door of the place, there was a hooded figure that he pegasus recognized perfectly.

"Nomag?" he said to himself.

His little brother approached him and greeted him cheerfully.

" Hi" Tank said in a high pitched voice, however, he got no response from Spike "Hello?"

The nomag after a few seconds reacted and looked up. Seeing his face, Thunder was puzzled as his hair was brown like his eyes and that at most, Spike would be eight years old.

"Sorry Taylor, I had gotten caught up in my world for a second." Spike said with a fake smile that hid sadness and fear.

"It's okay," Tank said cheerfully, "What did you want to show me?"

"It is...a new...Ballon Boy mechanic...he can now play a mixer and...well...I wanted to show it to you..." said a little overwhelmed Spike

"Great!" said Tank cheerfully as Spike opened the door to the shop and ushered him in first.

As soon as Thunder's brother walked through, his smile disappeared, he looked this way and that to see if anyone was there. After checking, he slowly closed the door.

"I don't like this at all" thought Thunder as he made his way to the door, but as he tried to push the knob, his hand went through it as if he was nothing more than a ghost.

He tried unsuccessfully to get through and began pounding on the door, but his pounding and shouting could not be heard.

"TANK!" he shouted to see if his brother would open for him, but it was impossible "TAYLOR OPEN PLEASE!"

Frightened, the brother ran to a window to see if he could break it, however he couldn't either.

Through the glass, he could see Spike and Tank going toward an animatronic holding a red balloon like Tank's. It had a helicopter cap like him and its clothing was predominantly red, blue and white. The robot also had a big grin on his face and eyes wide as saucers.

"Here it is," said Spike with his head down, while from behind he touched a button that opened the animatronic. Its front part opened sideways, revealing all the robot's mechanisms. In the center, however, it was empty. "In the missing cavity, we'll put the motherboard that will make it able to mix songs like a dj."

"How cool!" said the boy as he bent down and stuck his head inside the animatronic. "Hey, I can fit in here just fine."

"I know..." said Spike as he sighed as tears began to fall down his face and inadvertently to Tank he pulled a huge knife out of his hoodie pocket. "I am *sniff* so sorry Tank *sniff*"

"TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK!" yelled Thunder trying to alert his brother futilely as he pounded on the window.

With fury Spike began to stab his friend repeatedly while little Tank screamed in pain and at Ballon Boy's feet, a huge pool of blood began to emanate from Tank's body who agonized at every stab Spike gave him in the back, piercing his spine, perforating his lungs and heart from behind, while the nomag cried non-stop.

When his body stopped breathing, his red balloon slipped from his hand, floating up to the ceiling slowly. Spike dropped the knife and began to lift the corpse into the animatronic.

With his head bowed and still crying, he closed the inside of the animatronic, which finished crushing Tank's body. From the eyes and extremities, the blood of Tank's brother began to flow out, staining the entire body of the robot.

Thunder was completely paralyzed while little by little the scenery began to fade and the ground began to disappear making the pegasus fall while screaming.

The T-Wings were surrounding Thunder who was starting to wake up on the bed in Spike's room.

"He's coming to" Soarin said coming closer "You okay mate?"

Thunder as he finished opening his eyes and checking that he was back in real life, clenched his fist where he still had the photograph, which he pocketed and angrily, got up without saying anything, just growling as if he were a beast.

The other T-Wings shrugged their shoulders and began to follow Thunderlane.

The tribe's show was coming to an end, leaving the audience in awe with the grand finale of the human pyramid of fire. With the last step of the performance, all the students began to cheer and applaud them.

"Thank you all very much" shouted one of the earthlings as he threw his torch into the river and it, began to burn on a path to the beach, where some led lights began to shine "Now let's get this party started!"

The tribe's show was coming to an end, leaving the audience in awe with the grand finale of the human pyramid of fire. With the last step of the performance, all the students began to cheer and applaud them.

"Thank you all so much" shouted one of the earthlings as he threw his torch into the river and it began to burn its way down to the beach, where led lights began to glow "Now let's get this party started!"

Everyone got up and ran after the river of fire as music began to play in the background. The Harmony's and Dazzlings however didn't move, they looked around hoping to find Spike.

"Where the heck did he go?" asked Applejack.

"Yeah, the party's about to start." Said Pinkie worriedly

Discord, walked slowly in front of them and Twilight went after him.

"Discord where's Spike?" asked the worried alicorn as the other nine girls followed her.

"Don't worry about him, go to the party and enjoy yourselves" said Discord "I told him he'd better go to the island now, taking advantage of everyone being distracted."

"What?!" they all shouted at once in alarm.

"He promised us that we could use the drone to be with him!" said Sunset, crossing her arms.

"I know, but I thought it was better if you didn't see where he was going... I don't think it would be good for you girls, that island is full of traps and it's very likely he'll get hurt." said Discord looking at them all

"That's it!" said Dash taking flight "I'm going with him!"

Discord with his magic, caught her in a magnetic aura and lowered her back to the ground.

"No way miss!" said Discord lowering her down "None of you are going to accompany him, it's best if he goes alone. I don't know if you remember that your survival is primordial to protect the world."

"We don't give a damn about the world Discord!" shouted Fluttershy as tears fell from her eyes "If Spike's in danger, screw the world."

"Exactly do you think we're just going to stand here like it's nothing while Spikey faces who knows who dangers?" said Rarity angrily.

"That's what I hope, because Spike, besides, already told you, he doesn't want any of you going with him. It' too dangerous." Discord said crossing his arms.

"Danger is my middle name Discord and if some monsters guarding that jewel want to party, I'll party for them." Said Pinkie as she rolled up her sleeves and headed out to sea, only to be stopped by Discord "LET ME GO DISCORD!"

"I said no!" yelled Discord again as he pulled Pinkie back closer with the group "Listen, I'm in communication with him and if anything happens, I'll let you know, okay?"

The girls looked at each other worried for Spike as they looked in the direction of the sea.

"Can't we go ourselves?" asked Adagio "We don't carry any elements, we could help him."

"I'm sorry, but no student can expose themselves to danger while I'm here." Discord said despondently.

"Oh, but when we were attacked by the Incubus there was no problem was there?" said Applejack crossing her arms angrily.

"I wasn't attentive at the time, that's exactly why, I'm trying to avoid now what I couldn't before." Said Discord "I know you'll be worried about him, but I promise if he needs any kind of help, I'll tell you right away."

The ten of them looked at each other worriedly again.

"It's okay Discord" Aria said sighing.

"But at any sign of mortal danger you tell us right away" said Sunset pointing her finger at the Draconequus.

"And we're going at lightning speed to get him" concluded Dash nodding as did the others.

All the girls started walking with their heads down towards the party, being afraid of what might happen to Spike.
Discord stood watching them as they left and simply sighed.

"Be careful Spike" thought the Draconequus.

Almost 100 km from the island of Bora Bora, Spike was arriving at the coordinates of the lost island, steering the boat with determination.

He looked at the map beside him as he steered the boat with his left hand and his right hand, in addition to holding the map, held a cigarette with two fingers.

"It's close," said the nomag to himself as he looked ahead, took a big puff and slowed down.

He then turned on a spotlight on the front of the boat and thanks to it and the moonlight, he glimpsed a faint figure of a volcanic cone.

"There you are..." he said with a smile of satisfaction.

He guided the launch to near the shore of the island and dropped anchor just in front of its white sandy beach.

Spike stepped away from the boat's controls and went to the back, where Discord had put the drone, ropes and hooks.

Spike grabbed the drone's controller, which had a screen where he could see what the drone was seeing, luckily it had a night camera mode.

"Here we go." Said the nomag as he lifted the drone into the air and began to direct it to the island.

From what he could see, the jungle on the small island was completely untouched except for what looked like an ancient stone path.
"Interesting..." said Spike as he followed the path unnoticed that, on one side of the path, a shaman-like statue had detected the drone's movement and had opened its eyes at the same moment that, unnoticed by Spike, the volcano began to slowly expel smoke.

The path was long and almost completely covered by vegetation until it ended in a huge esplanade at the foot of the volcano.

On the rocky wall, there was a huge crack in the shape of a door that split in half the wall overlooking the esplanade. On it were written in the Kulahaihuense dialect different strange phrases. On both sides of the hidden door, there were two unlit stone torches that were glued to the door as separators to what is the authentic volcanic wall.

"Alright...it's time," Spike said perking up and taking off his sweatshirt, shoes and t-shirt, leaving only his pants to which he attached the hook and ropes.

He returned the drone to the boat and turned it off, staring at it for a few seconds.

"Sorry girls...wish you could join me...but it's better this way."Spike said just before launching himself into the water, but not before watching as something glowed on the back of the boat next to the drone, it being the ice surfboard Pinkie had given him.

Spike reached over and picked it up, seeing that there was a note attached to it.

"Pinkie gave this to you as a gift, it will surely come in handy. Best of luck kid, get that jewel. Discord."

Spike hitched his board to his pants as well and without waiting any longer, he dove into the water.

At the Bora Bora party, all the students were dancing on the sand to the sound of the music blaring from the speakers of a mixer where a unicorn DJ was mixing different songs and on top of his mixer was his name: "Alvama Ice".

Unlike everyone else, who were dancing animatedly, the Harmony and the Dazzlings were apart from the party, at the edge of the sea, out of the disco lights and only illuminated by the incandescent light of Sunset's hand. They were all silent and looking out to sea.

Dash was sitting worriedly near the water, letting her feet get wet and from them shooting out little lightning bolts that reached Twilight, who also had her feet in the water.

"Ouch" said Twilight due to the shock "Dash, you electrocuted my foot."

"Sorry Twi" she said dejectedly pulling her feet out of the water "I'm flustered."

"We all are Dash" said Applejack who was leaning her back against a rock that was next to where they were sitting. "But we can't do much else either."

"We can always go without saying anything" said Sonata who was sitting on the same rock where AJ was leaning along with her sisters.

"Discord is watching all the time to see if we get off the island, he won't let us." Twilight said without taking her eyes off the sea. "We can only wait."

All the girls at once sighed.

"He's a brave boy" Rarity said smiling "He's faced a hostile world with him all these years, an island full of traps won't be able to take him."

"Heh... that's true" said Pinkie also smiling "He's a very brave boy... and a strong willed one too."

"And you can say that" said Aria laughing "Six years dating you girls and the most he's ever given you is a hug or a kiss on the forehead..."

"Especially with Shy" said Dash teasing "Now that was a test of Not Falling into Temptation."

Shy, who was standing next to Dash, gave a friendly punch on Dash's arm as they all laughed lightly.

"You know? Deep down I think I knew that wasn't Thunder...it wasn't the same being with one as with the other...the times I've thrown myself at him on a date and he's dodged me were countless...however with Thunder, the real one, it didn't come so easy to kiss him...I think now I know why...because I was always in love with Spike."

"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY FLUTTERSHY!" shouted a voice behind her that made them all stand up at once as it was Thunderlane "ARE YOU IN LOVE WITH THAT MURDERING SON OF A BIG SLUT!!!?"

"THUNDERLANE I...!" said Fluttershy unable to finish the sentence as the pegasus propelled a punch in her mouth that knocked her to the ground.

"YOU'RE GOING TO SHIT YOU SOB!" shouted Dash angrily lunging towards him with her fist wrapped in sparks while Rarity and Pinkie hatefully, slowly lifted Shy up and all of them got into attack position.

Just before she reached Thunderlane, Dash was stopped by Soarin, who lunged at her.

"Calm down Dashie" said Soarin pushing her out of the way.

The rest of the T-Wings started to arrive and pulled Thunder away from the girls.

" WHAT THE FUCK DID THAT COME FOR, BRUTUS THUNDER!" said Sunbrust pulling him away from the girls.

"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT DANGER OF DEATH YOU ARE RUNNING RIGHT NOW SUNBRUST LIGHT!" threatened Thunderlane to the unicorn who still didn't move away.

"SUCK MY FUCKING ASS, DON'T EVER TOUCH ANY OF THEM AGAIN!" said Sunbrust threateningly.

"DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?" said Thunder "SHY IS IN LOVE WITH NOMAG!"

This left all the T-Wings, except Sunbrust, breathless and with a huge gasp.

"What the fuck are you saying Thunderlane?" asked Flash.

" How fucking disgusting you are Fluttershy" said Cheese spitting on the ground.

"Get away from Thunder, Sunbrust, let's show that bitch what happens to the one who fucks nomags" said Caramel cracking her knuckles

"DARE YOU TOUCH HER AND I'LL KILL YOU THIS MOMENT CARAMEL!" said Applejack as her hands turned into whirlwinds and they all got in front of Shy, who was crying from the blow.

"YOU DEFEND HER!?" shouted Flash "EVEN YOU TWILIGHT!?"

"SHE'S MY FRIEND!" said Twilight "AND IF I HAVE TO DRAG THAT SHORT DICK YOU HAVE ALL OVER THE BEACH TO DEFEND HER I WILL!"

" COME ON BITCHES!" shouted Cheese pulling a baseball bat out of nowhere "HAVE THE DAMN GODDAMNIT TO ATTACK US!"

Everyone looked like they were about to jump, when a shout from Shy, caught everyone's attention.

"STOP!" shouted the pegasus approaching towards Thunder, who's murderous gaze could cut through even the air. "Listen Thunder, do whatever you want to me, but don't touch them... please."

"Don't do it Fluttershy!" shouted Adagio "These assholes deserve a beating.

"NO!" said Fluttershy with determination "Leave this to me!"

They all began to let their guard down, trusting Shy.

She began to approach Thunder as the veins in her body began to glow phosphorescent green. As she touched her hands to Thunder's pectorals, she slowly closed her eyes only to open them abruptly and jump back.

With a strong flapping of her wings, she threw several of her feathers like darts, which stuck in the torso of all the T-Wings, except Sunbrust. They all began to fall plummeting to the ground.

They all gasped at the sight of her.

"Uh... and that attack?" asked Twilight fascinated.

"I was taught it by *ahem* "Tunderlane" on a date a while back... I'd forgotten I could do it." Shy said with a smile as her veins stopped glowing.

Sunbrust slowly approached them and gently kicked Flash to see if he would react.

"Don't worry Sunbrust" Shy said reassuringly "They're not dead, just asleep. When they wake up, they won't remember anything that happened just now."

"What the hell is wrong with Thunder anyway?" asked Sunset to Sunbrust.

"Well... to tell you the truth I have no idea..." said the unicorn scratching his head "He's been acting weird since the first cruise party. He doesn't sleep, he's having nightmares, his head is going and he's getting horrible migraines... all since he hit his head."

"He hit his head?" asked Applejack "Is he like this because of a bump?"

"To tell you the truth, he was weird before...ever since the boxing ring...it's been like a facet of him...like a trauma he had dormant in the deepest part of his psyche has come back to him." Sunbrust said approaching Thunder and crouching down in a crouch, reaching into his pocket for the photograph. "Today without going any further...we were at Spike's cabin...they were tearing it apart when I saw Thunder break into Spike's strongbox...where he takes this photograph."

Except for Sonata, who was terrified, the others were quizzical.

"I don't know what happened, but when he saw it he froze and fell plummeting to the ground while screaming Tank's name... I don't know what he means." Sunbrust said as he unwrapped the picture "But, let's find out."

Before he could see it, Sonata lunged at him and snatched the picture away.

"Don't you ever think of looking at this picture!" said Sonata hyperventilating and leaving everyone present extremely puzzled.

"What's in that picture Sonata?" said Adagio.

"No!" said the little sister "This is what Spike meant by leaving things in the past... listen... this picture is dangerous... and I know because... the other day, when we became friends... I saw it..."

"So what happened?" asked Rarity quizzically.

"Spike almost killed me... literally... he pistol-whipped me..." said Sonata tearfully and leaving everyone completely speechless.

"But... what's so dangerous about that picture that he would threaten you?" asked Sunbrust.

"You wouldn't understand Sunbrust... but... they will" said Sonata getting everyone's attention. "Let's just say... I remembered... part of the past."

Everything went silent again.

"Luckily, I managed to stop the memory... I guess when Thunderlane saw it... he remembered something that happened..." said Sonata looking at Thunderlane.

"Wait... wait... wait... wait... I'm not getting it... what the hell is going on here?" asked Sunbrust at a loss.

"It's long to explain" said Sunset still in shock "But... what's in that picture Sonata?"

Sonata didn't say anything, she just walked over to Thunder and put the crumpled photo in the same pocket.

"Some things are better... not to remember..." said Sonata getting up. "See to it that he ends up returning the photo Sunbrust... but don't look at it... please..."

Sunbrust looked at the girls and again at Sonata and although he still didn't understand anything, he nodded and started using his magic to raise with an aura to his friends.

"I'm so sorry about everything girls... and especially you Dazzlings, I couldn't do anything to stop them from vandalizing the cabin." Sunbrust said as he put his glasses on tightly. "I'll take them to their beds...I'll tell them they got too drunk."

Twilight seeing that Sunbrust was having a hard time keeping his friends floating, walked over and with her magic, teleported them to their cabin.

"Thank you Sunbrust... really..." said the alicorn with a big smile as they all did.

"And for the cabin don't worry" said Aria smiling "We'll make them pay for it."

Sunbrust smiled and started walking towards the party.

"Even if he has cheated on me several times... gotta admit he's a nice guy" Sunset said with a grin.

"Truth be told the guy fucks well" said Adagio smiling.

"Don't draw blood Adagio" said Sunset rolling her eyes.

"Sorry" apologized the sister "It's still kind of weird for me to be nice to you girls."

"You'll get used to it," Pinkie said with a smile.

Dash looked at Shy who had her eyes back to the sea.

"Are you okay Flutters?" asked the pegasus putting her hand on her shoulder.

"Yeah...I'm most worried about Spike...hopefully he'll be back soon." She said as she sat back down on the bank.

The Dazzlings sat back down on the rock, Sonata being in the middle of the two.

"Is that picture really that horrible Sonata?" asked Aria.

"No... it's quite the opposite... it's a lovely picture..." said Sonata looking out to sea.

Both Adagio and Aria looked at each other quizzically and shrugged their shoulders.

On the island of the ruby, Spike advanced cautiously along the stone path almost hidden by the jungle. With every step he took, he could hear the rustling of branches in the wind, the smell of smoke emanating from the volcano's crater, and in the distance, the sound of waves crashing on the beach.

A short time later, he reached the esplanade and carefully approached the hidden door.

"Kha-ïkuloiu Sakharu-ökanhtü Dekartë-ükulu" read the nomag from the writing on the wall "Whoever desires, Fire ruby, ritual sacrifice..."

The nomag thought about what the writing meant until he noticed the unlit torch to the right. As he approached it, he noticed that on one side was an ancient stone knife and that engraved on it was an ancient ritual dance dedicated to the fire goddess by the Kulahaihuans.

Somewhat hesitantly, Spike grabbed the knife and stared at the wall. He closed his eyes and with the knife began to cut the palms of both hands until a great line of blood began to flow from them. As he did this, he stuck the knife into the crack in the wall. Then the torches began to light up and the crack shifted a little to the side.

The nomag caught his breath and began to shout an ancient war cry, accompanied by the ritual dance that the knife said.

The dance forced Spike to strike his chest, forearms and legs with the palms of his hands hard, staining his skin and pants with blood and causing the wounds to sting. In the last blow of the song, he hit the wall hard, each of his hands on one side of the crack.

As soon as he hit it, the two torches began to burn with great intensity while a small earthquake caused the door to open sideways, allowing access to the cavern.

"Good thing no one saw me do that" said the boy somewhat embarrassed as he went inside the volcano and the door behind him closed, extinguishing the torches.

As he entered the cave, all was dark. Spike walked slowly and without vision, stepping softly on the ground beneath his feet and resting his aching hands on the walls.

At the end of what seemed like an endless tunnel, he could make out a small light, coming from a torch, below him, about twenty meters down from what looked like a cliff. Below him, there was a subway lake and with strength and determination, he jumped into the water, which, although hot from the volcano, was salt water, which caused a huge stinging in his hands that almost prevented him from floating after jumping from the inner cliff where the tunnel ended.

He managed to reach the surface again, shrieking in pain as soon as he caught his breath.

" Holy shit! Salt water, you've got to be bad-ass enough to make a salt water lake!" He complained as he reached the shore where the torch was "At least my wounds will heal."

As he climbed back onto solid ground, he sat back down as he watched his palms stop oozing blood and gradually scabbed over. He also observed the cavern where he was, feeling insignificant as he contemplated the huge walls of more than fifty meters, how the ceiling looked like night but some stalactites could be distinguished, besides the overwhelming silence that was only extinguished by the sound of the fire of the torch placed specifically buried in the ground, just before the entrance of another tunnel.

Spike caught his breath and stood up grabbing the torch and headed into the second tunnel.

Illuminated by the fire, the nomag continued walking through the cave, now being able to see something where he was going. The tunnel began to change shape, being previously in the shape of a circle, becoming two straight walls in a narrower corridor. Also, the rocky material of the walls changed, being these now made of human bones and skulls, as if it was a catatomb.

"Why do I get the feeling that something really bad is about to happen?" said Spike sarcastically.

Suddenly, one stepped on, a part of the floor that, in reality, was a loose tile that sank a little, activating a mechanism that closed the tunnel behind him with a great rumble, causing from the wall that had cut the tunnel, the floor to begin to crumble and fall away into a dark abyss. At the sight of it, Spike started to run as inches away, the floor was about to fall in on him.

The huge corridor of bones that Spike was running down, began to slowly squeeze, moving the walls.

"OH COME ON!" shouted Spike as he ran for his life "ISN'T IT ENOUGH THAT FLOOR FALLS?!"

The bone walls were moving rapidly, Spike now having to run sideways as the floor fell a scant two inches from his foot.

The bones in the walls began to graze Spike's body, some of them even cracking his face, torso and back.

Luckily, at the last second, he managed to leap out of the corridor, just before the walls closed in on him and back into a part of the circular tunnel.

Lying on the floor and catching his breath, he closed his eyes for a second to rest his eyes.

" Phew... I think I'm going to have claustrophobia after this..." he said recovering his breath.

Spike stood up again, still holding the torch in his hand and holding it up high so he could make out if ahead of him there were any more traps.

"And I guess that must have been the easiest trap... marvelous" Spike said sarcastically again.

He went through the tunnel again, holding the torch up to get a better view.

Finally he came out of the cave system and reached a completely dark area. He looked to all sides to see if he could see anything.

To his right, he saw a small hole where the torch could fit.The nomag placed it and little by little, a bunch of torches began to light up around him in what was actually a huge square room, so big that it was about the size of a professional soccer field.

In front of him, he could see a huge door about fifty meters away from him.

"If this doesn't look like a trap let God come down and see." Spike said taking a good look around the room.

Not trusting much, he picked up a small rock and threw it as far as he could. As soon as it hit the floor, part of the right wall and part of the left wall crushed where the stone was in less than a second, pulverizing it.

Separated as if they were pieces of a cake, various parts of the room began to collide with each other at ferocious speed repeatedly.

"And how the fuck am I supposed to get through?" said Spike trying to search for the solution as the walls continued to collide like a piston mechanism.

When the part of the wall in front of him collided and separated again after a second, he noticed that at floor level, on the walls, as if they were molds, there were human figures doing extravagant postures. The first of them was a figure arched in the back and held only by one leg.

" Great, the worst thing I do in gymnastics is flexibility" he said as he stretched out his limbs and cracked his neck. "Well... now or never."

As soon as the walls separated, Spike jumped onto the first of the eight segments where the walls separated and into that position.

As he saw the walls approaching, he caught his breath and closed his eyes. As they came together, Spike breathed a sigh of relief as he saw that he had made the exact figure. Without moving an inch, he visualized the second figure, this one doing a frontal spagat.

"Why don't you just kill me outright fucking cave!" shouted Spike in horror as he saw what it was his turn to do. "All right... on one... on two... AND ON THREE!"

The nomag hopped up quickly and dropped down stretching his left leg out in front of him and dropping his right leg back. Creating a perfect 180° line with his legs after hearing a terrible crunching sound in his crotch.

"I....HAVE...JUST...BROKEN...MY...NUT...!" she screamed in pain just before the walls came together and saving herself a second time. "I FUCK ON YOUR..."

The walls came back apart and together a second time, cutting off his insult.

"...AND ON THE SHAMAN'S DIC...!" continued to scream Spike in pain as a third time the walls came together and parted "AND ON THEIR FUCKING...!"

He shouted a fourth time before they came together again. Now calmer and taking in the pain in his crotch and quads, he looked at the next figure, this one being a person doing a handstand.

"Are you serious...?" said Spike thinking about the strength he needed to get up from his position and into the next one.

Quickly, he jumped up, again having a huge crunch as he repositioned his legs and getting on face down.

In this third position and holding himself as best he could while the walls crushed around him again and again, he closed his eyes and took a breath.

When he opened them and the walls opened again, he ran skipping over wall four, stopping at part five, this being a dancer's pose. He ran again skipping part six and seven in a row and reaching the last one, having as his position the bridging pine, which he quickly performed before he was crushed by the walls. As he did so, his whole back cracked and, in pain, he lunged forward, overcoming the second trap.

" Ouch... ouch... my back..." complained Spike as he crawled forward and leaned his back against the door. "Now I understand what a Trotinese contortionist feels like."

He slowly stood up and placing both his hands behind his back, arched it as he stood on his tiptoes to crunch it.

He took one last look somewhat dazedly around the room before he opened, somewhat gone, the door. However, he didn't realize that as soon as he opened it, there was a kind of stone slide down which he fell down, screaming with fright and shock as he dropped several meters to the end of the slide.

When he reached the end, he fell on a stone floor of a huge room, more elongated than the previous one. It was dominated by green moss and gray stone, with very high ceilings and on the walls, there were huge holes of almost thirty meters that led through dark tunnels. There were also smaller, but still large holes and presiding over the room, at the end of it, was a huge stone statue in the shape of a giant rabbit, with sharp teeth and extremely long arms.

Just below it was a flaming torch on a stone stand.

Spike approached it slowly as his muscles and bones, still twitching from what happened in the previous trap.

"I know what's going to happen... everyone knows what's going to happen..." said Spike as he approached the torch.

As he reached the stand where the torch was, it had engraved on it again, words in Kulahaihuense.

"Körhaö-Mäkraiuta Tkrë-Äkuräks-Rakiutka Kükuïo-Traë-Haï Sakharu-ökanhtü-Käiä-Saka" Spike read aloud as he translated "Final Test, three torches illuminate, guardian might deceive, the Fire Ruby you have."

Spike quizzically looked this way and that, all around the room.

"But... there's only one torch... and it's already lit..." said Spike, still looking around until he noticed the holes.

The nomag walked to one of them and at the end of the tunnel it formed, he saw that there was another room.
"This room is a circle..." Spike said to himself as he tied the hook he had to the rope "I'll need it..."

Resolutely, he walked back to the stand and grabbed the torch.

At the very moment he removed the torch from the lectern, the whole room began to tremble. In front of him, the statue of the rabbit began to light up with a purple hue in lines like veins, just as his eyes opened, both having the same color.

From its half-open mouth, a strange song began to play. Spike, as he watched the beast slowly released and began to move, the nomag slowly walked backwards, until it was completely free and along with the music, it roared.

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" shouted Spike as he began to run, chased on all fours by the stone guardian.

With his huge arms, he was trying to crush Spike, who was dodging them badly, stumbling a few times but never falling. To his left he saw a hole in the ground to pass through to the side. He ran there while from behind, the rabbit's arm almost caught him.

When he reached the other room, he saw an unlit torch at the end of it. However, a rumble caused him to look up to see that the rabbit had climbed up to one of the giant holes on all fours and was beginning to descend at great speed. Again, the nomag began to run with torch in hand towards the extinguished torch.

The rabbit, seeing that it was moving away, hit the ground hard, causing a small earthquake that broke the ground, revealing the lava of the volcano underneath.

Spike, without stopping running, dodged the steam coming out of the cracks and jumped from stone to stone to avoid falling into the lava. Even so, as he turned around, he saw the stone rabbit advancing towards him at great speed.

The ground kept breaking up and letting the lava begin to emerge from the ground.

The guardian's hand was about to crush Spike, who had tripped and fallen to the ground, however, one of the rabbit's legs fell into the lava, distracting him and giving Spike a chance to reach the unlit torch.

Using his own, he lit it and dashed off to another of the holes before the newly recovered rabbit caught up with him. Inside the tunnel, Spike stumbled and noticed the rabbit staring at him from the entrance. At that moment, the stone monster reached his arm in to try to catch the nomag, but quickly, the nomag recovered and moved on to the next room.
When he got there, he looked everywhere for the torch until he found it on the opposite wall, about fifty meters up.

Spike heard that the monster had started to climb the wall so he ran to the other side.

When he got there, he saw that the torch was at the entrance to a giant hole. He grabbed the hook and rope and spinning it around a bit, he threw it upwards, missing it by a few feet.

"SHIT COME ON!" he said trying again, but missing again.

Again, a clatter made him turn his head to find that, the stone rabbit was already climbing down the room to go after him.

"FUCK COME ON!" she shouted just before throwing it for a third time, finally hooking it over the edge of the hole.

Hardly believing it and as the guardian went for it, he started climbing the wall at full speed, propping his feet on the wall and climbing with his arms, putting the torch stick in his mouth.

With every meter he climbed, he felt the wounds on his palms opening up again and although he started to bleed again, he did not stop climbing. Also, his speed was progressively slowing down because of the pain in his muscles.

"I WILL NOT FAIL NOW!" he encouraged himself to keep climbing.

The rabbit reached where Spike was climbing and to prevent him from reaching the torch, it hit the wall hard, causing it to start shaking and the hook to come loose, causing the nomag to start falling directly into the rabbit's mouth.

As it entered its mouth, the hook became entangled in one of the monster's rock teeth.

With one hand, Spike was able to hold on to the rope and with the other, he tightly gripped the torch that slipped from his mouth. As he fell down the rope, he had to hold on tight, causing a huge burn on his palm, in addition to the wound.

The nomag began to shriek in pain as well, due to the intense noise of the music emanating from inside the beast, which was so loud that his ears were failing.

The stone rabbit, realizing that the rope was caught in its tooth, began to pull it out, dragging Spike back outside. As he climbed out, the rabbit saw how he was hanging on to the rope. The monster began to chew, shredding the rope and pulling it back down to kill the nomag.

Before it reached for its teeth, Spike leapt towards its face and with the underside of the torch, began to hit the rabbit's glass eyes, shattering one of them. The boy, seeing that his right arm had rested right in the torch hole, began to climb towards it while he was distracted, grabbing his damaged eye with his left arm.

When he got there, he lit the second torch and ran to the last room.

The rabbit, now blind in one eye, climbed into the hole Spike was running through and began to chase him, getting closer and closer.

At the end of the tunnel, the nomag had no choice but to leap forward into a large drop. Luckily, there were some vines hanging from the ceiling to which he was able to hang on, this time with the hand that was not burned, which helped him to hang on better, but caused the other hand, not having the same strength, to drop the torch to the ground.

The stone guardian stared at the dangling Spike and Spike stared back.

They both then looked at the torch on the ground, still burning. Spike, saw that on the side of the tunnel, there were more vines reaching down to the ground, so, with his body, he began to swing back and forth as one of the rabbit's hands was about to grab him. At the last second, the boy let go, reaching where the vines were and began to descend through them at great speed, just as the stone monster did.

Both reached the ground at the same time and neither waited to run towards the torch.

The rabbit stretched out its long left arm to try to crush the lit torch, but just inches away from doing so, Spike grabbed the torch and ran towards the unlit one at the end of the cone-shaped room.

The monster began to run at full speed after him.

A few meters away from reaching the nomag, Spike lit the torch, causing the wall where it was placed to open, revealing another stone slide through which he threw himself, just before the monster reached him.

The slide carried Spike down, spinning until he was once again on a volcanic floor, inside a circular room.

The nomag lay on the floor for a few seconds, recovering from what had happened.

"I hate...fucking...rabbits..." said Spike almost on the verge of passing out.

A red glow caught the boy's attention, causing him to look to the center of the room.

There, on an altar and hitched to the stone, was a red heart-shaped jewel glowing in the moonlight coming in through what looked like, the crater of the volcano, just above them.

"The ruby" he said almost as a sigh and with eyes wide in fascination.

Slowly, he stood up and walked over to the rock altar.

For a few seconds, he stood admiring the jewel.

"It's beautiful," Spike said with a big smile as he plucked it off the rock with one hand. "It's mine... IT'S MINE!"

With a great joy, the boy hugged the ruby and squealed with excitement.

"What it has cost me to get you... now at last, you are mine..." he said admiring the ruby in his hand.

His joy, however, was short-lived when suddenly, a huge rumbling sound caught his attention. The entire floor began to shake as it started to crack.

"Oh... crap," said Spike realizing that the volcano had just started to erupt.

On the beach of Bora Bora, the girls were still in position without saying anything. The party had ended hours ago and it was almost dawn. Some of the Harmony girls like Applejack, Pinkie and Sunset had fallen asleep as well as Aria and Adagio. The rest of the Harmonies were still looking out to sea.

Twilight then heard footsteps behind her and turning around saw Discord with a worried face.

"Discord!" she said waking up the others "Is he back already?"

"Well... the thing is funny Twi..." said Discord nervously as he put a hand behind his head "No... I don't know anything about him... he should have been back hours ago..."

The girls began to stare murderously at Draconequus, who took two steps back.

"Didn't you say you were in communication with him?" asked Twilight with a darkening countenance.

"Well... it's funny too... I told you so... you wouldn't worry" said Discord swallowing saliva and hoping for mercy."I can see the island and the boat and I saw him come ashore... but I think Ruby's power interferes with my magic and I can't see through the island... and he's been stuck there for hours... funny isn't it?"

"Discord..." they all said at once clenching their fist.

Before they pounced on him, their attention was caught by an orange glow on the horizon.

"Is it dawn already?" asked Pinkie quizzically "But, isn't it time yet..."

Discord stared up at the orange light glowing the night sky with a horrified expression.

"It's not dawn..." said Discord in complete shock.

In the T-Wings' hut and smoking a cigarette he had stolen from Flash, Sunbrust lay smoking in the pool area until he saw the glow, at which he stared in horror.

"Holy shit..." said the unicorn.

In the ruins of the island and hanging like a bat on the highest tower, Thorax also saw the glow, then grinned evilly.

"Rock&roll midget" said the Incubu with a Machiavellian look.

The girls looked at each other strangely until they realized what was happening and, frightened, they also looked at the light.

"SPIKE!" shouted the ten girls in horror.

In a second, the island of the ruby became hell. The eruption of the volcano caused that everywhere on the island, lava began to emanate, destroying the jungle, the beach and everything that was there, becoming a land formed only by lava, magma and ash.

The biggest explosion came from the crater of the volcano, where it began to expel as if it were a heiser, liters and liters of lava.

Propelled like in a circus cannon, Spike came out of the volcano through the crater on the ice board that Pinkie gifted him.

As he was propelled out, he hovered in the air for a few seconds until he began to fall again.

As he fell, the nomag held tightly to the board until he reached the start of the volcano's slope where he began to slide down at high speed.

"FUCK!" he shouted as he reached the slope and stood up to surf "Well it could have been worse."

A second explosion chilled his blood and turning his head slightly, he checked behind him and coming towards him at great speed, a river of lava was approaching.

"WHY DO I HAVE TO ALWAYS OPEN MY HUGE MOUTH!" he shouted as he began to surf more aerodynamically so as not to get hit by the lava.
A few meters later, from a leak in the slope, a second river of lava emerged and cut him off head on.

Grabbing the board by the front right side and pulling it, he did a corkscrew, avoiding crashing into the river.

The floor of the island began to crack, creating giant cliffs and lava falls that Spike had to dodge by the skin of his teeth as they broke in his path.
In the end, he ended up jumping from one of these lava waterfalls while the giant lava river was still on his heels.

In that jump of almost thirty meters into the void, he could see how the whole island was now a labyrinth of rocks and magma. In the background, he could see the sea and the boat still waiting for him.

"I have no choice." He said launching himself into the gorge at the end of the waterfall.

Falling at high speed, he almost plunged into the lava, but was able to raise the nose of the board high enough to stay levitating and sliding at full speed down the lava river while the Tsunami that had been formed by the river that had been chasing him since he left the crater, had gained strength.
"OH, COME ON, GIVE ME A BREATH!" said Spike groaning as he saw the giant twenty meter wave of magma coming towards him.

An extreme roar warned him of a new danger. Out of the lava, the guardian rabbit emerged again, just at the end of the gorge that led to the ocean.

"This has got to be a fucking joke..." said the nomag to himself.

The rabbit, completely covered in magma, grabbed a huge chunk of burning rock from the bottom of the lava river and threw it at Spike.

The nomag, had to knock the board over in order to avoid being crushed to death by the rock, which he then had to dodge three more almost in the last one falling off the board, having to lie down on it and hold on tight as he sped towards the giant rabbit-like monster and the tsunami of lava just ten feet away from him.

"Either the hot bunny or the summer soup tsunami kills me...now what the hell do I do?" thought Spike nervously as he approached the monster, which had grabbed an entire chunk of gorge and was about to crush Spike and the tsunami was accelerating.

At that moment, in a moment of lucidity, he tightened his grip on the Fire Ruby he had in his back pocket and pointed it at the monster.
He closed his eyes, imagining a lightning bolt that would destroy the monster.
" COME OOOOOOON!" shouted the nomag in desperation as the ruby began to glow brightly "NOW!"

The ruby, as if it were a laser blaster, discharged a brutal bolt from its core directly into the monster's chest, that with a choked scream and under a flash of white and red light, exploded into a thousand pieces, propelling Spike through the air towards the sea at full speed, diving into the water.

A few seconds later, the nomag emerged from underwater with the Fire Ruby in his hand and leaning on the board, which fortunately floated close to him.

The green-haired man looked at the island and how, from one second to the next, except for the lava in the gorge, it began to fade and solidify.

Spike saw the boat and with the help of the board, went towards it. As he climbed up and turned the board back into a piece of ice, he lay on the floor of it for a few minutes, looking up at the sky.

"I hope for your sake Discord that you've seen it all... because I am not going to do it again..." joked the nomag with a victorious smile.

From the beach of Bora Bora, Discord smiled and nodded, having watched as Spike had escaped the island.

"I've done it mate," he said under his breath as the girls, watched worriedly as the glow was fading.

"What happened?" asked Shy with eyes completely wet with tears.

Discord, turned slowly with a victorious smile and nodded.

" He did it," said the Draconequus cheerfully.

The Harmony and Dazzlings, began to scream and hug each other in joy.

Spike got up from the ground and stood at the helm, still holding the ruby in his hand.

"Thanks to you, little jewel, the world will be a better place..." said Spike obvserbing the ruby as he put the boat back in gear and set course for the island, having the sun emerging on the horizon.