Spike's Discovery

by Symphony

Rating: teen
Tags: Rainbow Dash, Spike, Comedy, Fluttershy, Random, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Length: 1293

I'm sorry

What's with all these ponies wiggling their eyebrows like that? Well, Spike intends to find out!

I'm sorry...

Published 2012-11-01 02:30:02 UTC
Last updated 2012-11-01 02:30:02 UTC

Aka, Murphy's a Bitch

I'm sorry for this... I really am.

It was a normal day in Ponyville, or, as normal as a day in that cursed town could possibly be for once... Anyway, Spike, the assistant of the Ponyville librarian was taking a slow walk through the town as it was his day off from slaving away under the hoof of the lavender unicorn. Wouldn't that be illegal in some manner? I mean, he's a baby dragon. Isn't that considered as child labor? Whatever, I'm sure he's cool with it...

However, Spike was taking his own, sweet time to walk through the town, as he didn't have to hurry to get anywhere. He was on his way to Rarity, to see if the fashionista was in need for any assistance. He greeted some random ponies he didn't actually know, or ponies that he had forgotten the names of. It's better to be safe than sorry, after all.

Spike wandered through the town, until he came to the market. He decided to take a quick stroll through it, just to see what the salesponies were offering this day. It was probably the same, old crap as always, but there might be something interesting, for once, he thought. He was wrong. He trudged along through the marketplace, deeply disappointed in himself to getting his hopes up. As he walked, he noticed the Apple stand, selling all kinds of apple accessories in the usual spot. Twilight's friend, Applejack was running the stand today and he was about to greet her, when a stallion walked toward her.

He thought that it would be rude to impose when she was already talking to somepony, so he waited for a while. And waited, and waited... Finally, AJ's eyebrows started wiggling in a strange manner. He hadn't seen anypony do that before! The strange thing was that the stallion copied her and retreated to walk behind a nearby building with her. “That was strange...” The drake thought. “Oh well, maybe she wanted to show him something...” Spike shrugged and continued his walk.

Instead of walking directly to the Carousel Boutique, Spike took a walk around the outskirts of the town. There were some young ponies running around and playing. Spike wanted to join them, but he was a dragon on a mission! ...If only he remembered what that mission was, that is... He spotted three familiar fillies running around with red capes on them. Spike shivered as he thought of what kind of hell those three spawns from Tartarus were bringing to town this time. After another while, Spike came across two well-known pegasi, namely Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. They appeared to be talking about something with half-lidded eyes. He noticed a small, but increasingly spreading blush on the yellow pegasus' face.

But yet again, he noticed the same strange eyebrow wiggle, but this time on Rainbow Dash! “Huh, that's weird...” What was even stranger was that now Fluttershy wiggled her eyebrows back to the daredevil! He overheard something about going back to Rainbow's place. What would they do there..? Then the pegasi stood up and spread their wings to fly off, before Spike could even get to talk to them. But before they took off, Rainbow gave Fluttershy a light smack on the flank, which emitted a high-pitched squeak from the butter-yellow pegasus, who flew after the now fleeing daredevil pegasus.

Spike was standing there, deeply confused. “What's with their eyebrows... They move them a little, then ponies want to follow the one who did it...” He thought and scratched a claw to his chin, thinking about what was happening. “First Applejack, now Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy? That's pretty weird...” He decided that more research was needed in order for him to understand this strange phenomenom, so he ventured back into town, intending to find out what was happening. But who understands strange things more than anypony? Pinkie Pie, of course!

Spike sat on the steps outside Sugarcube Corner, grumbling something incoherent. Everything was going his way, until the Cakes asked him why he wanted to talk to Pinkie. After he had explained himself, the owners of the shop was standing there slack-jawed and looking at the young dragon in disbelief. After that, they ushered him out of the Sugarcube Corner, claiming that Pinkie Pie was out on an errand of some sort, even though he heard the obvious voice of the pink pony coming from the kitchen.

He stood up and brushed himself off, he didn't have the time to just stand there brooding. He still needed some answers, and the next best option for him to get the answers were from the nerdiest nerd of the nerds, also known as his caretaker, Twilight Sparkle! He puffed his chest out in triumph and grinned. “Nothing could go wrong!” Spike would later realize that Murphy is a real bitch. He marched back to the library, forgetting his original task of visiting Rarity in her boutique.

He stopped momentarily and thought about it. “Wait a minute... What if I would try this eyebrow-thing on Twilight? I bet she would understand what it means, just by me showing her! Yeah! That'll work!” He jogged off with renewed vigor, setting up what he had already learned from observating the other ponies doing it to a plan...

Twilight Sparkle was of course, reading a book. Surprising, eh? No, not really... But whatever, she was researching some ancient magic on the matter of long-distance teleporting. She snortled at the possibility of ending up in a universe where everypony is the wrong gender. It was awfully quiet in the library, not that she minded it. It was a nice, quiet atmosphere to read in and she would make the most of it.

She flipped the page with her magic while scribbling down a quick note on a piece of parchment on a desk beside her with practiced ease. She rubbed her left hoof to her eyes in a swift motion to relieve her stinging eyes for a moment. She heard the door open and the sound of claws on hardwood floor. She lifted her head from the piles of books scattered around her and focused on the drake who was walking in a strange manner toward her with his eyes half-lidded. She arched an eyebrow as Spike spoke up.

“Hey Twi, wanna go upstairs?” He then continued to wiggle his eyebrows as Applejack, Rainbow and Fluttershy had done. It was hard at first, but he got the hang of it after a while. Twilight was just sitting there with her mouth wide-open in shock from hearing and seeing something so suggestive from the young dragon. Spike frowned and remembered what Dash did. He almost didn't do it at first, but he bit his lip and closed his eyes while raising his right claw in a slow fashion, only to let it smack down on the lavender unicorn's flank.

Twilight's mind went blank with that and instinctively, she turned around with her hindlegs toward him, reared forwards and bucked. “Pervert!” She screeched and Spike just stood there confused, until he felt her hindlegs connect with his chest, sending him flying across the room and smacked into a bookcase. Before he passed out, he saw Twilight running through the open door, leaving him there.

Dear Princess Celestia,

This is Spike writing to you about a recent discovery of mine. I learned that eyebrow-wiggling is stupid, and all you get from it is pain in the end. I mean, who the buck would come up with something like that? I also learned that Murphy's law is a real bitch.

Ps. Twilight sure knows how to buck...

Your somewhat frustrated and pained student,
Spike