//------------------------------// // What's Wrong with Green Peppers? // Story: Dragon Sadness // by Lord Dico //------------------------------// xxxxxxx It was just four days, after the incident at the Galloping Gala, and Twilight had the others over for a slumber party she was having, and even let Spike be apart of it. Only downside for him, was that he had to make the party food. It was a lot of hard work for him, but thankfully, Pinkie Pie was generous to help him out, as long as everything wasn't JUST sweets. While that was going on, the others were playing a game of 'Twenty Questions', with Applejack being the one it, and the others only having three questions left. "Is it bigger than your hat?" Rainbowdash asked. "Nope," Applejack responded, shaking her head. "Is it smaller than a parasprite?" Fluttershy asked. "Nu-uh," Applejack said. The others ponies were now stumped. What was she thinking? They only had one question left, and who else, but Twilight, would use it. But before she could say anything, she noticed something right by Applejack. It looked to be one of Owloysius's fallen feathers. The unicorn started to smirk at this, using her magic to levitate it. Applejack noticed Twilight's horn glowing, but didn't notice the feather slowly floating towards her back hoof. xxxxxxx "Okay, so all we need left for the pizza is the toppings," Spike said to Pinkie, who the both of them had chefs hats. "Then it's a good thing I bought a bunch of them," Pinkie said, getting out a bag. "Alright, let's see...olives?" Spike asked. "Check!" Pinkie exclaimed, getting out the toppings called. "Mushrooms?" "Check!" "Pineapple?" "Ew, who eats pineapple on their pizza?" Pinkie asked, with a disgusted expression. "Twilight and Applejack," Spike answered. "Oh. Let's see...check!" "Okay, good," Spike said, looking back at his list, "Alright, I think that's it." "What about green peppers?" Pinkie asked, looking over his shoulder. "Green peppers?" "Of course! A pizza's not a pizza, without green peppers!" "I didn't even know you LIKED green peppers," Spike said, stepping back a bit, "let alone, green peppers on pizza." "Have you ever TRIED them on pizza?" Pinkie asked, "It's DELICOUS!" "Is it?" Spike asked, looking away, "well...I guess I COULD give it a shot. Let's do it!" Suddenly, they heard a loud crash, and loud laughter coming from the other room, causing a few things on shelves to fall onto the floor, and shatter. The dragon and earth-pony looked at each other, and where the noise was coming from. "I think we'd better hurry, before things get out of hand." With that, they started to put the toppings on the unbaked pizza, and pop it into the oven, as Spike started to sweep up some of the shattered pieces. After the time was up, Spike got his mitts on, taking out the work of art that had a smell, that nopony could resist. That, and a slice had gems on it, as he continued to drool with hunger. Soon enough, he snapped back into reality, and started to bring the pizza and some of the other refreshments into the other room, where the others were. "Soup's on, everypony!" Spike said, "Or rather, pizza's on." Twilight and the others soon started to gather round the table, letting the delightful aroma fill the area around them, as they each grabbed a slice. Spike got his, since his was the only one with gems on it, but then noticed that Applejack wasn't there. "Hey, where's Aj?" the dragon asked. "She's using the bathroom right now," Fluttershy said, in a quiet tone. "Yeah, she had a bit of an accident, but she'll be okay," Rainbowdash said. "Oh, alright then." As Spike synced his teeth into his slice of pizza, the green pepper taste was astounding to him, as he let the flavor dance all over his taste-buds. "See?" Pinkie said, noticing Spike's happy expression, "I told ya so!" "You were right Pinkie," Spike said, swallowing his bite, then finishing off the rest, "That really was..." Spike was then cut off, when he started to get an uneasy feeling in his stomach. He tried to ignore it, but suddenly cause more trouble for him, as he started grunting a bit. "Spike, are you okay?" Twilight asked. "Oh yeah, I'm...I'm fine...Ooh!" Spike said, then feeling another cramp-like pain in his guts, "oh jeez." "Are you sure you're alright, darling?" Rarity asked. This time, Spike didn't reply. He simply grunted, making an intense face, until he started to turn pale. Suddenly, Pinkie's ears started to flop. Then her eyes fluttered. And as Spike started to rush towards the bathroom, Pinkie's knees were twitching, causing her eyes to widen and gasp. "Spike, wait!" She called, "Watch out for the..." But as Spike was about to go through the bathroom door, it swung open, pancaking him between the wall and door, as Applejack started to exit, with a gloomy look. "...door." "Boy," she said upset, as she continued to walk, "If I knew Twilight was going to tickle me silly, I wouldn't have drank all that apple juice. So embarrissin'." As the door to the bathroom slowly departed from the wall, with Spike still stuck to it, it made it's way inside, with him landing on the floor. He then got to his feet and locked the door. Applejack soon approached the other ponies, giving Twilight and Rainbowdash a mean glare, as they returned with nervous smiles. Applejack then looked over at the pizza, which lightened her mood. "Pineapple," she said, grabbing the last slice, "my favorite." (A/N: Probably should've brought this up a while back, but...get it? It has 'apple' in it's name.) "I wonder if Spike will be okay," Fluttershy muttered to Twilight. "I'm sure Spike's fine," Twilight said, "He's probably just got a bad case of dia-" Twilight was then cut off, by a sudden explosion, with the bathroom door plowing into Applejack, sending her crashing into a wall. The other ponies looked over, to see Spike, covered in soot and ash. "...rrhea." "Twilight," Spike started, "We're probably gonna have to get a new bathroom." Everypony was now started to get a disgusted look, feeling kind of sick. "Oh Spike, don't tell me-" "No, really. Look." Twilight then looked over, to where Spike was pointing, and was surprised. There was, literally, nothing there, but a big hole in the wall. Twilight, then looked made over at Spike, who chuckled nervously in response. "I'll...I'll get a mop," he said, walking away. xxxxxxx "And that's pretty much it," Spike said, finishing his story. "So...the reason you won't eat green peppers, is because it will cause an explosion?" Scootaloo asked. "Yep. It's just gas, but with a dragon, it's pretty dangerous." "Well, that would explain why sis had an icepack on her head, when she came home that night," Applebloom said. "Glad we had this," Spike said, "Now if you'll excuse me-" Just as Spike was about to exit the basket, Scootaloo dashed up ahead, blocking the door. "Oh, don't think you're off the hook yet, Spike," she said, "I realize what you were REALLY doing. You made that story up, so that way we could get distracted enough for you to slowly scat away. Well, it's not going to happen...or do you want fair Rarity to know about your little...secret crush?" Spike was now backing away from the basket door, to the other fillies, one of which, Sweetie Belle was glaring at Scootaloo, for bringing up Rarity. It may have been funny the first time, but now it was starting to get a little irritating, to use her sister into forcing someone. Scootaloo, then gripped the bag with her teeth, dragging it towards Spike. "Come on Spike." "I told you, no!" Spike exclaimed, folding his arms and turning away, "And bringing up Rarity won't make me change my mind." Scootaloo started to pout at this, thinking that maybe she SHOULD jump on her scooter and tell Rarity. THAT, or she could try something else. "Okay Spike," She said, "you asked for it." She then looked through the bag, getting out some rope, and Spike still not paying attention. As for the other crusaders, they saw this and tried to block Scootaloo, but no luck. She then pounced over at Spike, causing a cloud of smoke and a lot of noise, only to have Spike appear, tied up and struggling. "Let me go, Scootaloo!" he exclaimed. "No. And if you won't eat them, we'll just FORCE ya too!" xxxxxxxx