Spike merrily made her way down the streets, only a few Kirins noticing her for who she was and nervously moving out of her way, for the most part, it seemed her identity had not yet been publicly revealed as she was mostly ignored in favor of Applejack and Fluttershy.

Spike waited in front of an outdoor eating area as Fluttershy and Applejack warded off a handful of fans and a few Kirins trying to talk their way into the duo's days with less than subtle hints.

"Is this what it's like for you in the Empire?" Fluttershy asked as Applejack managed to shoo off some of their fans to be left alone.

"I wish," Spike laughed for a moment before sighing "It's way worse, or at least it was, here's hoping being a lady has them keep their hands to themselves, of course, it could always make them worse but I chose not to think of that possibility," Spike clapped her hands together and pulled to conversation back to what they had gone out to do.

"Alright so Kirin's are Omnivores," Fluttershy noted as she looked at multiple Kirin's selling food out of wooden stalls, "so maybe we can find a vegetarian place around here?" While Applejack and Fluttershy tried to pick out a place with a higher vegetable than meat ratio of food Spike noted the medium-sized pavilions with what looked to be a wooden stage with a handful of Kirins hard at work setting up what looked to be a play of some time.

"What's with the stage?" Spike wondered aloud.

"It's for the play tonight," A Passing Kirin in a hardhat replied, a tray full of sandwiches in both hands "Don't you know, tonight the play write Autumn Blaze is releasing her newest play, The Forgotten Kingdom," The Kirin hurried off towards the stage and Spike stood in silence for a solid moment.

"I'm a terrible partner," Spike decided confidently "I didn't even know Autumn liked plays, much less that she wrote them," Spike made his way towards the stage and found Summer talking with a few of the Kirin about what needed to be done.

"...and where are the costumes?" Summer demanded of a nervous-looking Kirin "We have a practice show in less than an hour and not a single one of our actors or actresses is in costume,"

"There's was a slight hiccup, the costumes were enchanted with a faulty flame charm, instead of protecting against fire they burst into flames," Summer threw her clipboard to the ground and Spike felt a shiver down her spine at one of her least favorite sound.

"Oh, Summer, don't grind your teeth you could chip them," Summer turned on the spot with relief and shock on her face.

"Oh thank the stars," She practically cried out as she pulled Spike into a hug "I was about to have a serious meltdown," Spike simply patted her calmly, silently wishing Rarity had stayed behind to help with the Fashion emergency before her. "Autumn and I were gone for just a few days and everything falling apart, the costumes are burnt, and several actors left us for different projects, Autumn is getting an ear full from our funding party about last-minute script changes," Summer took a deep breath "If this didn't mean so much for Autumn I'd have left this production as soon as I found out over half our talent left,"

Spike slowly rubbed Summer's back as her workers looked at them in confusion, Spike heard them whispering but chose to ignore them as she did her best to calm Summer down enough to ask how she could help.

"Oh, it's far too late to fix this," Summer groaned "The shows in just a few hours, and some of our new actors can't remember half their lines, mixed with them all being out of costume the critiques are going to eat us alive,"

"Oh come now, let's not give up hope," Spike said, attempting to play her part as the optimistic lover even with her own personal lack of understanding as to what was happening, "Maybe Autumn has an idea, what say we go ask her?" As Spike had Summer lead the way Applejack and Fluttershy watched her leave from a table as they waited on their food.

"Seems we've been forgotten," Fluttershy noted.

"Eh, seems to be helping out one of her girlfriends with a problem or something, if she's still over there once we finish chowing down we'll go see what's up, but first food, haven't had a bite since Autumn decked me and I'm famished,"

Twilight stood on the balcony alone, a detection spell told Twilight Rainshine hadn't yet returned home, informing her she had no fear of being interrupted. Her mind was filled with ideas and plans, all revolving around how she was going to get Spike to come home with her, especially since he had made it clear he wasn't going to be doing so willingly.

"Quite the Delama I'm sure," A familiar voice noted, Twilight turned to her left and looked over at Discord, who was casually sitting inside of an Umbrella with a lawn chair floating above his head giving him shade. in his hand was a boiling cup of juice.

"About time," Twilight groaned "I've been waiting for hours,"

"That's funny," Discord chuckled "seeing how I'm early and all, so tell your dear uncle Discord what's the matter,"

"Spike's been indoctrinated into a cult," Twilight said simply.

"To my knowledge, there are three Cults resolving around Spike, the obvious one being in the Crystal Empire, and there's that one in Manehattan, ran by Crystal ponies go figure, and that one hiding in Ponyville, Kirin's oddly enough, though I feel that may be less odd seeing how Spike is now in a fourth cult that's centered in this here Grove, so what do they have the poor lad doing? gonna sacrifice him, convince him he's their rightful king and he must destroy the world, are they feeding him their young?"

"They turned him into a Futa and they have him sleeping with 6 different girls, and they have him convinced he's the reincarnation of some Goddess of Fertility that they say Celestia killed,"

"Ah," Discord nodded slowly before chuckling "I go visit The Smooze for one week and this shit happens while I'm away," Discord sighed "Dam I have got some timing,"

"Alright, step one I need you to talk to Spike,"

"Oh, I'm gonna talk to Spike," Discord assured her "Quite tragically, for you at least, I don't think I shall be picking a side, as that would be very unchaotic of me, I shall remain Chaotic neutral,"

"Discord," Twilight said angrily, "So help me I'll..."

"You'll what?" Discord countered "Trap me in stone for not being your personal dog and jumping at your side," Discord shook his head as he began walking away, "I told Celestia, she's not ready, she's far too young to be doing this alone, too emotional driven, but did she listen no, said she just needed confidence, so I tried helping with that, then suddenly it was all no, don't teach them bad guys to team up we need blind peace, not confidence," Discord irritably snapped away and Twilight put her hands on her face, taking deep breaths as she tried to think of someone who could help her,"

"Shining," She realized "He'll side with me on this," Twilight lit her horn and teleported away.

Spike nodded her head slowly as Autumn was explaining the plot of her play to her in what seemed to be one breath.

"...and then the forgotten king has her thrown into the dungeon, the forgotten, filled with despair, demands she be returned to his side, then his father tells him that 'outsiders must not be allowed to leave, else they tell the world of their hidden paradise,"

Spike nodded slowly as she struggled to remember as much of Autumn's story as she could, "So the King is the bad guy not because he's inherently evil, but because he's scared the outside world would destroy his home and his people?"

"Oh yeah, it's explained near the end, so anyway the scene changes and we return to..." Autumn was cut off when Summer slammed the door to a small wooden cabin about the size of a walk-in closet.

"I hate him," Summer hissed angrily as her ears flickered with flames, "Demanding we change the king into a tyrant queen because, that's what sells, everyone loves to hear a story about an evil queen, no one cares for a sympathetic King,"

"I kind of like both of those though," Spike noted.

"So do I," Autumn agreed "But I wrote this story to have a sympathetic king, I'd have to change back stories, rewrite the entire last act, not to mention fire the current king, have a last-second re-cast, and then teach the already struggling with their lines cast what would basically be a whole new play," Autumn sighed "Think it might be time to declare this project a bust,"

"Oh don't be silly," Spike smiled merrily "I like it, and I bet Discord liked it too, I'm sure the two of us could help out," Autumn and Summer looked at Spike in confusion for a moment before Discord moonwalked into existence.

"How long have you known I was here?" He asked curiously.

"I saw you sitting next to Twilight and figured you were her 'back up' How'd that go by the way?"

"I politely declined although she doesn't seem deterred by that enough to stop," Discord cracked his knuckled and his tail turned into a hand and offered itself to Autumn and Summer.

"Hello," Autumn greeted merrily "Are you one of Spike's friends?"

"Why yes, I am the God of Chaos Discord, and Spike and I have a game night every few weeks, although I'm betting it's delayed for the moment," Spike smiled at the word game night.

"Say Discord," Spike said mischievously "Since Autumn's producer is screwing her over, what say you 'inconvenience' us all and force the show to be delayed?"

"Who, me?" Discord looked around dramatically before leaning in with a smile "I say why not?" Discord laughed before popping out of existence.

"There we go," Spike said merrily "Discord is gonna get your show tonight canceled and rescheduled, I recommend having it pushed back a few months, that way you have time to get the costumes perfect, work out that actor situation, and make whatever revisions to the scrip you plan to make,"

Autumn pulled Spike into a hug and gave her a kiss on the cheek, "Thank you hon, you're a lifesaver,"

"Come on Autumn," Summer said before giving Spike a kiss goodbye "We gotta look busy so we don't look suspicious when the show gets delayed," Summer and Autumn hurried back to talk with their actors and Spike's smile turned into a frown as Discord popped back into existence.

"Now," Discord said as he cracked his knuckles "What did you actually want me to do?"

"Oh, you don't do anything yet," Spike said as she turned to the producers' small cabin "I want to have a word with Mr.Producer about what happens when someone tries to fuck with one of my girls," Spike walked up and did her best to listen through the door while Discord placed a can against it and put his head to it. After a moment Spike caught wind of what the Producer was saying,

"...Yeah yeah, she's still under contract but if she fails to meet the new deadlines we can drop her," Spike heard a faint second voice and figured he was speaking through an enchanted mirror or something of similar design for long-distance communication, "Yeah she has ok sales, but rumors are going around she's been sleeping around with members of Rainshines court, they don't have a lot of traction yet, but we're better off dropping her before they really pick up, don't wanna be known as the company that works with a famous harlot do we?" With a loud banging sound Spike kicked in the door, her ears flaming, the Producer jumped in his seat and dropped a small hand mirror that cracked on the ground. "Who the fuck..." The Producer attempted to scream out in anger as he got up, only for Spike to start whistling, plants began bursting through the floorboard and forcefully tied the producer's mouth shut.

"Hello there," Spike said calmly as Discord walked in wearing a suit and tie and tsked at the producer.

"Poor move," He chuckled "Defamation of a girl who has the love of a god at her side never ends well," The Producer said nothing as his mouth was still tied shut as Spike walked up to him.

"I am the Goddess of Fertility, Kirin of the Garden, and so on, and I would be the Kirin in question who Autumn has been, how did he put it again?"

Discord pulled out a long sheet of paper and quickly spun it out until he was wrapped up in it "Sleeping around with," Discord informed.

"Yes, I'm the Kirin that Autumn has been sleeping around with, well me and the other girls in my Personal Haram," Spike leaned forward "So, what say I, your literal Goddess, set a few ground rules about how your treat my Autumn?"

Spike was humming a soft tune and making grass grow as she walked over to Applejack and Fluttershy's table, with Discord walking behind her wielding a Duck-shaped Lawnmower.

"Hope I didn't keep you waiting too long," She worried as she took a seat across from them and Discord took residence next to Fluttershy.

"Discord," Fluttershy greeted "What are you doing here?"

"Oh you know, Twilight be trying to pull me into her crazy, now I'm helping Spike save one of her harem wives from being screwed over by screwy bosses, helping by being the cover story that is since Spike used her plant magic to hold him in place and told him how much of a problem she could become if he continued to be one," Discord snapped a jug into his hand and began drinking from it, the jug emptying from the bottom as he did so. "How about you? Enjoying being amongst your many Kirin admirers?"

"Eh'," Applejack responded with a shrug "Not exactly subtle when it comes to what they wanna do to thank us,"

"Let 'em try to make a move," Discord challenged "There gonna have to go through me to get Fluttershy," Spike smiled as Discord and Fluttershy began chatting about how far he should go if a Kirin tried to go too far with her.

"Welp," Applejack decided, her voice not reaching Fluttershy or Discord in their debate. "I'm gonna head back to Rainshine's, some creature should be keeping an eye on Twilight, plus I wanna ask about helping Rainshine with anything around the grove, try to help mend that relationship Twilight wounded,"

"And I should go check in with Moonstone on that Garden Ritual thing, I'll be a bit early, but frankly speaking, I haven't the slightest idea as to what I'm supposed to be doing," Spike and Applejack wished each other luck on their respective missions and took what was left of their food before departing, leaving Fluttershy and Discord alone to plot against any would-be Kirins trying to take a stab at Fluttershy.

Author's Note

This chapter is pretty short compared to the rest, sorry but sometimes you finish what you wanted quicker than you expected and sometimes it ends up being longer, maybe the next one will be longer, I'm not gonna tell ya you'll just have to come back next week (Or just read it now should you be reading this in the future)