In The Beginning Part 1

While our young and studious Unicorn; Twilight Sparkle is still learning more about Celestia's past, we go to Spike who is out walking in the woods, only to find McAllister's hut so that he can meet with him and ask him some questions about how he knows Spike. So far as he was walking, he was looking at the map and keeping an eye out, but then he tripped on something and fell flat on his face. When he got back up, some of his stuff had broke, he looked inside his bag and everything was all crushed. He was so a little mad and what's worse, strong wind started blowing at his direction, causing the map to fly away and Spike chasing after it. Spike was running real fast so that he can chase the map, but the map was moving faster than he was, it was already useless going after it, but he insists on chasing after it because he needs it to navigate the woods with ease. Unfortunately for Spike, the map got away, and what's even worse... he had already lost direction.

So now he has to get back on track, he had been walking through the woods for about 2 minutes,  he starts to notice that some parts of the woods are familiar and plus it was dark out. Spike has been practically walking in circles, he was a little upset that he got lost in the woods, and at the same time, he was also scared because he heard strange noises from a distance. The sooner he finds McAllister's hut, the better chances he'll be safe he said, but he was far off to McAllister's hut than ever before, so Spike had only one thing to do, and that was remember how he got to the hut last time.

So, as he tries to think back on how he got to McAllister's hut in the first place, he's still hearing strange noises in the farther distance of the woods, therefore he had lost his concentration and got scared quickly. As he was standing there all scared, the noises started to get closer, Spike was becoming even more frightened to where his teeth are chattering, his eyes were twitching and his whole body started shaking. Even though he was scared, he still tried to speak out who was out there;

"Uh, wh- wh-who's out there? Hello, anypony out there?"

But no response has made, except the noises sounded really close, then Spike started to hear something making steps, and it was coming towards him. Then, Spikes notices a shadow-y figure coming this way, and then he started screaming and began to make a break for it. Little did he know though... is that it was McAllister that was making those noises and was the shadow-y figure that was walking towards Spike as he was walking out of the shadows. McAllister was so confused as to why Spike would run away from him, he started chuckling and then he said;

"Well, geez Spike, where's the fire bro?"

And then after he said that, he turned back around and went back to the shadows. Meanwhile, Spike was still running for his life, he was freaking out big time because he couldn't stop screaming, poor fella. If only he knew who it was, he wouldn't be freaking out so much as he is now, and as he continues to run, he looks back to see if the shadow-y figure was still following after him. But nothing was following him anymore, so Spike was a little relieved to see that whatever it was that was following him is gone, then as turns his head back to the front, he finally bumps into McAllister. Spike was on the ground and out of it for a bit, but then when he got back up and shook off the dizziness, he sees McAllister in front of him and was happy to see a "friendly face" as he puts it. And now that they are together at last, they can finally head back to the hut and gets some snacks and refreshments and not only that, Spike can finally ask those questions that he had been holding on until now.

After that long walk in the woods, the boys finally made it to the hut, they were excited to finally come home after such a dreadful walk, they can finally get some grub. As McAllister and Spike enter into the hut, Spike notices some changes on the inside since the last time he went in. He starts telling McAllister that if he's been doing some renovations around the hut, McAllister replied to his answer with;

"Why, yes I did. I figured I could renovate this place up a bit, I would have more guests. But since then, I haven't gotten a single guest... well, up until now that is. What brings you here Spike?"

"Well, I came here to ask you some questions, McAllister. That is, if you don't mind me asking."

"Of course I don't mind, Go right on ahead, ask away."

Then, Spike starts to think on which question to ask McAllister first, considering that he has so many, he doesn't know which one to pick, and he doesn't want to get personal with McAllister either. So the first question that he opens up with, is how McAllister knows Spike's name before he could even get the chance to introduce himself. McAllister response to that question was exactly as he told him before; "Before, After, it's all the same, Spike." But Spike sees it as much more than that, in fact he believes that he and McAllister may have met before at some point in time, but he doesn't remember such a thing though, and he is hoping that McAllister would remember if they have met previously. "Nope, can't help you there." Said McAllister, and of course he still tries to pull that before/after deal and Spike still doesn't buy it. He still believes that he knows something and doesn't want to share it, so he continues on with the questions. The next question was; why is he the only pony that doesn't have a cutie mark, and another question he asked; why does live all alone in the woods, and at the same time... he's hoping that McAllister would answer his first question sometime soon.

"Well, it's just as I said before... I still can't figure out what my true talent is and plus, I only live in isolation because I don't have time to communicate with the pony folk and make friends, far too busy for that."

"Ha! Do you expect me to believe that?"

"No, not really, even you're not that gullible. But I'm still not going to tell you the truth, to be honest with you, you aren't even ready for it just yet."

Spike was confused, what does he mean by the truth Spike thought to himself, he continued to convince him to tell him anyway, by all means necessary and McAllister still refused him and that he told him that if Spike knew what McAllister knows, then everything will change, Spike's life will turn upside down if McAllister came clean about what he knows. After all, he fears that things will change if Spike knew right away, so he asks him to leave. But Spike wasn't going anywhere, he needed to know what McAllister was hiding, even if he had to plead and beg him to tell him everything. McAllister saw the glance in Spike's eyes, McAllister didn't have any other choice but to confess, in his head, he believes that he will regret telling him everything, but that didn't seem to matter anymore. So he will only tell Spike on one critical condition;

"Okay, Spike. If you want to know the truth about me, then you'll have to sit down for it because it's a long story. And I will only tell you one condition okay? You have to promise me that after you leave this hut, you must not repeat what I have said to you. Nopony needs to know about this, I don't want them to know, so you can't tell your friends, your acquaintances, and you cannot tell the princesses either."

After telling Spike his condition, Spike solemnly swears to McAllister that he won't say a word to anyone, but for how long will Spike keeps quiet about he's about to hear, when will the time come when Spike does break his promise and then the whole world will know, that what's swirling around in McAllister's head right now. But for right now, he and Spike sit down and McAllister begins to confess everything to Spike... starting with who he really is.