Author's Note

This takes place during Season 1

Chapter 1: New Beginnings

It's a lovely day in the magical land of Equestria, ponies are singing, dancing, having nine-to-fives, the usual really, and here comes Twilight's errand boy, Spike the Dragon himself, zooming past fellow ponies without a care in the world since he's got to deliver a special scroll to Celestia! He accidentally sets a cart on fire because he decided to have some peppers this morning, he puts it out but the damage is done

"Oops! Sorry sir!"

Spike said to the middle-aged pony who owned the stand, he looked very angry, as anyone usually would

"Well, kid! You better have the bits for me to be able to build all of this again! Putting out the fire ain't gonna cut it!"

He said, holding his hoof out, expecting the dragon to give him some bits

"O-Oh! Of course sir! Uhm..."

Spike said, opening the tiny pouch to his side to check if he had any bits on him, which he didn't

"I-I'm sorry sir! I don't have the bits on me!"

He said as the pony growls

"Well! You better get some bits before I decide to feed you to a timber wolf! Now scram!"

He yelled as Spike just nodded, not wanting to say anything that could make this situation so much worse as he flew towards Celestia's castle, the place is beautiful! As clean and sparkly as always, with multiple guards everywhere, obviously, Spike heads to the gate and bangs on it

"I'm here to see Princess Celestia! I have an important message from Princess Twilight that I need to deliver! My name is Spike the Dragon!"

He said as within a few moments guards came up and opened the gates for him

"You may come in"

Spike nodded and walked right into the castle, it took him a couple of minutes to reach the throne room, but when he did he saw Princess Celestia and Princess Luna themselves, sitting on their thrones, and he bowed

"Your royalties, I've come with an important message from Princess Twilight, it's about the ball"

Spike said as the two princesses stared at each other then nodded as Princess Luna stepped forward

"Let us see it, dear Spike, we shall take a look to see her questions"

Spike nods and hands the scroll to the two princesses and they start reading it, both of their eyes widen as they both nod to each other and then give the scroll to one of their guards as Celestia speaks up

"Thank you, Spike, this scroll was very helpful, we can see what we can do for Twilight's concern"

She said, as Luna and she put their hooves out, gesturing for Spike to leave, the meeting is done for now

"Thank you! Your majesties"

He said, exiting the room and soon leaving the castle, hours pass and his stomach starts rumbling

"Oh man, haven't eaten anything all day..."

He said, looking around and finding a nice restaurant to order from, he doesn't have any money, but there is an apple cart next to the restaurant that's giving out apples, for FREE!

"Ooh! A nice snack for the road!"

He said as he ran over to the cart but the pony running it looked a bit suspicious, he eventually looked down at Spike and chuckled

"Let me guess, you are wanting an apple, little fella?..."

"You betcha!"

The pony chuckles and hands him a nice, ripe apple for completely FREE! This is odd since no pony has a cart that sells stuff for free, especially food, but Spike is so hungry he decides to shrug it off he starts eating the apple and continues walking down the street, he doesn't notice that the pony is following him and was carrying a wooden bat, he ends up in an alleyway where the pony hits him in the back of the head and starts looking through Spike's pouch

"Come on...you have to have something good in here!"

He said as Spike slowly got up the pony was too busy searching his pouch to notice as Spike grabbed a bottle of apple cider someone left out and smacked the pony in the back of the head with it, knocking them out, and it turned out, some pony witnessed the whole thing, it was a pony with the skin color similar to Cheese, the pony Weird Al played, and he has curly hair and blue eyes and is wearing a blue dress shirt and he rings a bell which is our equivalent to calling the police, minutes pass and guards arrive and dragged the thug towards a wagon they put criminals in and one head over to Spike

"Hey, nice job Spike, that poky has been doing the stuff he just tried on you to other ponies for years! We could never catch him"

He said as Spike looked up

"Oh uhm...thank you..."

He said as the guard chuckled

"No problem! Hey! You should become a hero! A superhero! Just imagine all the good you could do!"

He said as Spike thought about it for a moment

"Hey, I might just try that out! Anyways...I need to head back home!"

He said, getting up as the guard chuckles

"Alright, see you around Spike!"

The guard said as they all got into the wagon to take that pony to Celestia's dungeon where he belongs Spike continued down the street and passed a comic book store where they have The Power Ponies on display and Spike's eyes widened and he looked mesmerized

"Woah..."

He said as he saw the meaningless sidekick outfit, Hum Drum

"Hey...I got an idea..."

He said as he looked across the street and saw a closed costume store; he grabbed a stone and broke the tiny window at the top next to the backdoor of the store; he entered through the window and started looking around until he found what he needed, a Hum Drum costume!

"Perfect!"

He said as the alarm went off and he ran off with the costume until he entered Twilight's library, he slowly closed the door behind him grabbed a wood-cutting kit from a box of random stuff he had, and started building his secret entrance to his own Batcave, hours pass and it's almost morning but he got it done, and he places the wood he cut off back into its original spot, now all he needs to do is pull down a book, he picked one Twilight would never read again, and that wood would open up to reveal a tiny area made for Spike, it was actually quite nice and cute, it held his outfit, a tiny chair, a board that he can pin some photo's on like a detective, it's nice, once the wood is back on, he heads up towards his bed that's next to Twilight's and curls up into a ball, ready for the morning to come.