Spike, Spike, Twilight, Vinyl and Octavia were inside their personal armoury. Four plasma pistols were on the shelf. Spike frowned as he picked up his plasma pistol, he winced slightly as it registered his name.

Vinyl frowned “It was a good idea to gene lock these. Now only we can use them.”

Twilight nodded “They are Grade 4B weapons, as are the tanks. We need to build a sealing place for them to.”

Spike frowned “Maybe a powerful dimensional sealed location that will collapse the dimension if entered without authorisation.”

Octavia nodded “I agree, we can get Sally on that. This is too important to have it get interrupted by something.” They leave the reinforced titanium bunker and then leave through the base exit, Sally joining them as they left. On their way back to Canterlot Castle an owl materialised in front of them.

The confused owl looked around “Who?” It then flew towards Spike, Spike frowned as he saw the letter in it’s talons. It landed on his arm and he took the letter.

Spike opened it, Vinyl, Octavia, Sally and Twilight looking over his shoulder. It read

To Spike Firelight Potter

We have recently found that your file has changed, I request that you come in person so we can confirm the changes alongside your magical guardian Princess Celestia Skystar. This is of great importance, so I expect you to arrive soon.

From Amelia Bones, Head of Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the British Ministry of Magic.

Spike grimaced “I need to speak to the Princess.” He showed the letter to the others.

Vinyl grinned “Will we be able to come with you?”

Twilight frowned “Of course we will go with him, Spike is our friend.”

Sally smiled “I can keep the systems running even across dimensions, I will come with as well.”

Octavia smiled “Well let’s get going.” The four fillies galloped behind their dragon friend towards the castle.

The guards let the five of them through, the castle staff weaved around them as they bolted toward the throne room. One of the guard frowned “Princess Celestia has returned to her study, you better head that way.”

Spike gave him a thumbs up “Thanks.” The five of them turned tail, one of them running with the other four galloping behind through the hallways to the Celestia’s study. When they arrived Spike knocked on the door “Princess, I got a letter from the other world?’

Celestia opened the door allowed the five of them to enter, Spike placed the letter on the table “This is the letter.”

Celestia read over the letter a few times before nodding, she grimaced “I was hoping to have some more time before we did a portal field test but it seems that fate has forced my hoof. I’ll rearrange something so we test the portal tomorrow. I suggest you get some rest tonight while I tend to this.”

Later that night as the five of them were sleeping, Spike started to glow a dim red. Sally was the first of the four fillies to wake, she raised an eyebrow as she saw laying on something massive and purple. Sally saw the green spikes on the dragon’s back, she tapped him “Spike.”

Spike’s much larger form stirred, the three fillies slid off his back onto the squished remains of their bed. Spike turned around, he blinked “Sally, have you gotten smaller?’

Octavia started to stir as Sally shook her head “No. You have grown, from what I can tell dragons such as yourself can grow to massive sizes.”

Octavia sat up as Vinyl and Twilight stirred, she looked at Spike “Who is that?”

Sally rolled her eyes “I’ll explain once the other two wake up fully.” Twilight and Vinyl sit up as well and look at Spike. Before they could say anything, Sally facehooved “That is Spike, he has just grown larger and I’m not sure as to why. There is no information available on this aspect of dragon biology.”

Vinyl and Octavia shout “What!”

Twilight meanwhile levitated out a notepad out one of her saddlebags labelled dragons “Interesting.” She did the same with a quill and inkwell as she began taking notes on Spike. For the next hour Sally helped Octavia and Vinyl to adapt to the increased size of Spike while Twilight took his measurements.

Then there was a knocking on the door, Celestia’s voice came form the other side “May I enter?”

Twilight dropped everything, opening the door and letting Celestia in. Celestia looked up at the Spike who at least three times her height “The Titanus gene has already activated at such a young age. You will need a tremendous amount of energy to activate that gene so early, what have you been eating?”

Spike turned to Twilight “Um, when you asked me to dispose those nuclear fuel rods I couldn’t dispose of them safely. They were too dangerous, so I ate them so that they wouldn’t pile up in some storage room until we ran out of space.”

Twilight groaned “Spike, I told you not expose yourself to that level of radiation. What if it did something unexpected?”

Celestia frowned heavily “You actually built a nuclear reactor somewhere in Canterlot. That was an incredibly reckless thing to do, that could very easily wipe out all of the city. I would ask that you shut it down.”

Sally glared at Celestia “Excuse me but I need that to function. My computer system requires that power to keep my systems running. I am not going to die just because you want to shut down my power supply thank you very much.”

Celestia turned to the other four “You created a fully functioning AI system, that is marvel. I’ll allow you to keep her running but can you allow me to get some of the researchers to perform some tests.”

The three living ponies looked nervously at the Princess, Spike however was not so easily shaken “No Princess, we will not. Sally is not some toy for some scientists to take apart, she is a being with the same cognitive and emotional reasoning as any organic being. She is our friend. I will not budge on this.”

Celestia smiled “You are quite right Spike. Now if believe you wish to test the portal come with me. We need to make sure everything works, Spike nodded as he focused on his body shrinking down to his previous size and this four friends followed him out. Three glaring at Celestia while one looked very nervous.

Author's Note

I hope you enjoyed this chapter.