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// Spike becomes King 
// Story: A new Age 
// by Silver Butcher 
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The Newly names Young Six sat back in silence as the Villinace 7 argued over what to do, they had split into two teams, Spike, Cozy Glow, and Sonata on one side, Chrysalis, Sombra, Tirek, and Trixie on the other.
"Just use them as hostages," Chrysalis said pointing to the Young six.
"You think that'll work?" Cozy asked, "I mean, it definitely could of have worked on the old Twilight, but this new one, hell no, she'll just put a curse on the necklace, or petrify all of us and unpetrify the young one later, or just petrify us, say the kids were evil Changelings and go about her day cause she's a crazy-ass Princess who turns people who argue with her to stone!"
"I Don't think she'd do that last one," Trixie shot back "I mean Flurry is her niece and all,"
"I'm her brother," Spike replied "didn't stop her from just going insta-kill on my ass,"
"Well technically," Flurry spoke up "You were adopted," All the Villians froze, looked at her then to Spike, who was staring blankly ahead.
"Wow," Tirek said looking over at Flurry holding his hands up in a surrender position "You have to be so blunt with that one?" Spike was staring at the wall while Sonata patted his back.
"Oh don't worry Spike," Sonata said as she rubbed between his shoulder "I'm sure your niece didn't mean to trash on the one bright light left in your life," as she said this she slowly turned her head and glared at Flurry in silence.
"I am so sorry," Flurry said, panicking under all the judgmental gazes the formal villains were giving her "I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, was just trying to help the argument," There was a moment of silence before Sombra spoke up.
"Wait...why are you trying to help us, we are literally holding you all prisoner right now, we're not even being subtle about it, We just referred to you as hostages,"
"Yeah no offense," Chrysalis said as she looked them over "but as much as we'd like to trust you all, which believe me we really fucking do, we can't just let you join in and help us with next to the final phase of a...what 12-year plan?"
"Technically, It's an 11 year and 4-month plan," Spike corrected as he pulled himself together, "Now before we go headlong into my idea, which is amazing might I add, I think it's only fair I finish telling the story of how I became King and how all you ended up joining me.
"I wanna know who this is," Peach demanded as he pointed at Trixie "Why is she here?" 
"Well-" Trixie said proudly before the rest of the young six cut her off.
"No one cares Peach," They said in unison before turning to Spike, Peach and the other villains looked to Trixie who was sitting in silence.
"These guys are assholes," She said before pointing to Peach "I only trust this one now, rest of you little snots can fuck right off," The Villians all looked agape at Trixie.
"Did you just speak in the first person?" Tirek demanded.
"Medic!" Sombra called without a hint of sarcasm in his voice "I think Trixie just had a stroke or something,"
"Trixie is fine, just very insulted," She said angrily as a Tiny Diamond Dog in an Orange Jumpsuit made her way into the room with a box on wheels and began giving Trixie a check-up. Spike turned back to the young six as this was happening and motioned around the room.
"So, you done insulting me and my Friends are you gonna make fun of good old Sombrero next?"
"Oh you better not start that again," Sombra snapped at Spike when a Diamond dog in the Corner asked politely.
"Sombrero?"
"No," Sombra barked at her "No more Sombrero festivals," He whacked Spike over the head who was laughing like mad.
"I was just trying to lighten the mood," he said before turning back to the Young six. "Anyway, Let's get on with the story, you see me and Sombra-"



It had been over a week since they had been launched into the woods and the two were at the very least surviving, Sombra was slowly gaining his natural magic back, but the purple flames around his eyes where gone and his horn now matched his coat.
"At the very least," Sombra said irritably as he stoked the fire "You breaking that lamp stopped the drain before it could steal all my power, that said, you still got nearly every last drop." As he was saying this he tore a large chunk of the left side of his cape from the fabric and wrapped it around a fairly large stick. He looked over to Spike who was mostly a shadow, though his feet were still melting slightly.
"Focus," Sombra added "Untile your body properly adapts to the magic you have to focus on keeping it in the shape of your body our when it does settle your natural form will be warped, and since I'm forced to depend on you I rather you have the ability to walk, not lumber,"
"Sorry," Spike said, having spent 9 days constantly being yelled at by Sombra, he'd kind of gotten over it and was just kind of glad he wasn't sitting in a hostile environment alone and as a puddle, Spike closed his eyes and his feet looked like his old feet, he got up, looking a shadow of his former self, only thinner and noticeable taller.
"Look at the bright side," Sombra said as he finished tying his cape around the stick firmly "You don't ever have to worry about carbs and fats or other such things ever again," Spike gave the old colt a smile and he rolled his eyes. "The Downside is that while I probably still have my immortality as otherwise, I would surely have rapidly aged to dust, I'm willing to bet you probably have it to now, so I'm stuck with you for the rest of forever or until I'm turned into a statue,"
"Well look on the bright side," Spike replied "Now you'll forever have someone to nag and yell at," Sombra looked over to Spike for a moment.
"I can not tell if you are being sarcastic or not," Sombra said as held out the cape, "Now put this in your mouth and get it nice and wet,"
"Oh that sounds so weird," Spike said as he took it "Please never say that again," Spike opened his mouth and stuck it deep down into his throat," After what felt like forever Sombra snapped his fingers and Spike pulled it out of his mouth and handed it back to Sombra with a fair amount of black liquid on it.
"Ok so why did I do that?" Spike asked.
"You are a dragon," Sombra said simply "therefore since your body has changed your throat and stomach should be full of flammable liquid so you can still ignite a fire," Sombra put the cloth into the fire and it ignited into a beautiful blue blaze. "And," Sombra added "Since you are now Magic your fire itself is now your base source of magic, you can make it warm but not burn, make it burn underwater, Make it so it only burns certain things," Sombra smiled. "Very interesting, but at the moment I suggest you focus on making it point us to the nearest civilization that will not kill us on sight." Spike closed his eyes and sure enough, the Fire started letting out smoke rings that floated against the light wind.
"Alright," Sombra cheered "I would say I am proud but I am pretty sure that I am just feeling spite that I myself can no longer cast that spell,"
"You can still levitate things," Spike cheered "And...make your eyes glow green,"
"Oh yes I am quite the powerhouse," Sombra replied "Glowing eyes and levitation, truly I am unstoppable," Sombra and Spike followed the smoke rings, leaving the comfort of their landing spot for the first time since they had landed there. Spike did his best to make bright of the situation while Sombra did his best to crush Spike's every comment, weirdly they were both having fun with it,"



"You can't prove that," Sombra barked at Spike.
"Oh yeah? Why do you have that guilty smile on your face then?" There was a long quiet and Spike and Sombra stared dagger at each other before laughing and patting each other's backs.
"Oh, I miss bickering," Sombra said smiling "We should do it again for old time sake,"
"Maybe before we go after the elements, our next move could mean our end, at the very least if we fail some of us are getting petrified, I just hope it's Soarin,"
"I wanna kick that guy in the dick," Sombra said in agreement "Never met him, but none the less if you should die in the battle Spike, I'll kick him in the dick with a mace for you,"
"Oh you old so and so I knew you liked me," Spike said with a smile before coughing awkwardly at the looked the Young six were giving him and Sombra "Sorry didn't mean to be rude," Spike raised his hand and a mug appeared in it, along with a glass in the hand of every creature in the room, even the throne, and the Diamond Dog Guards. "I love everyone in this room, and I swear, if any of you die or get petrified I'll kick Soarin in the dick in memory of you," Spike raised his glass and every creature cheered out.
"To kicking Soarin in the dick," before sipping drinking from their respective mugs.
"Well, now that that's out of the way, oh yeah me and Sombra were bickering, ah the good old days-"



"Shut up shit for brains I think I see our destination," Sombra said suddenly, cutting Spike off from talking about a particularly nice cloud. before the two stood a large Circular cavern, it was so deep that neither could see the bottom of it,  in the middle of the cavern, was an odd-looking building that looked to be about to size of a typical home, from where they were standing a few shapes were moving about around it.
"What the fuck is this?" Sombra asked in confusion, "How...who built this? Why here?" Sombra got closer to the edge and was hit with a strong wind, Spike grabbed him and the two watched as their torch was blown out like a candle and sent flying down into the cavern and out of sight. Sombra frowned as Spike looked at the large pillar of land in the middle of the cavern and held up his hand, Sombra watched as two wooden poles shot out of the ground and a Rope Bridge formed across the gorge. The two watched as it whipped around violently in the wind.
"Hu," Spike said as he looked at Sombra "I was trying to make a normal, none rope, bridge,"
"Did you specifically think of what it should be made of?" Sombra questioned.
"No," Spike replied "Just a bridge,"
"well next time think before you make it," Spike held up his hands and a protective field went around the bridge protecting it from the wind. 
"I have a question," Spike said as he and Sombra started across the bridge "Why am I...more like Discord than you?"
"Do you not know the story of how Discord came to be?" Sombra asked, earning a shocked look from Spike. "Ah yes, you do not, I suppose the Princesses hide the truth so more like him couldn't be made," Sombra pointed to Spike "Back when I was a young one it was common knowledge, though not something that comes up often, probably why the citizens of the Crystal empire haven't made it know to the general public, A few hundred years ago a might Wizard, who had long since been forgotten by even me, wanted the ability to fly, he got a little carried away with his experiment though, he soon added multiple creatures to his ideal body, Griffin, Dragon, Goat," Sombra rolled his eyes "basically everything that makes up Discords Body, and once they were all close enough together he used an ancient weapon to drain their life forces into him and gained their powers, but ended up becoming one with their very souls, turning into a creature of pure Chaos and went mad as the minds of all the creatures collided and fused into one massive confusing mess. That is how Discord was created," 
Sombra turned and pointed at Spike "Creatures such as you, ones born without the ability to control magic when given even the most basic of magic, can warp reality around you, You are like Discord because you got your powers the same way he did, though without the side effect of becoming back shit crazy simply because I hadn't been fully absorbed yet, that glass lamp would have broken even if you hadn't compromised it, you doing so simply save both of us a less than desirable fate,"
Spike was silent as they crossed the bridge.
"I wonder how Twilight made that lamp," Spike muttered.
"The Older Princesses have retired yes?" Sombra asked, getting a nod.
"Yeah, they moved to a retirement home but after a few too many attacks on it they moved to an island that can't be reached without the proper spell why?"
"Well, I sincerely doubt that even if she didn't want it getting out that Princess Celestia would destroy any part of Equestrian history, Twilight probably read the story and was more than likely planning to drain me and every other villain of our powers and giving them to herself so she could become a God."
"Wouldn't that make her bat shit crazy?" Spike asked and Sombra turned to Spike.
"Friend, that Princess is already bat shit crazy, with how she talked during the fight she probably was going with the logic that as a princess she would be fine since she's a higher race and blah, blah, blah," Sombra continued down the bridge and Spike smiled.
"Where Friends? wow, I'm way better at this than Twilight ever was,"
"It's an expression," Sombra snapped back as he turned to keep going only to find a spear in his face, he froze and backed up, Spike moved and let himself be the target of spears instead of the far more stabable Sombra. The Spear holder was a Male Dimond Dog in black armor, it growled at him and then barked at him, Spike looked at him in confusion before Sombra spoke up. "Will yourself to understand him," Spike tried this and blinked as the barks turned into a single word.
"STAB!" The Diamond Dog yelled at him angrily.
"Um," Spike replied in his native language.
"STAB!" The Diamond Dog repeated.
"Please don't?" Spike tried.
"STAB!" The Diamond Dog screamed back before throwing the spear at Spike's face it went through his eye and flew into the distance, impaling itself on the bridge.
"Oh great," Spike said as he looked at it "Now I have to move that before getting rid of this bridge, I'd feel bad if it fell on someone," Spike turned back to the Diamond Dog and found it curled up into a ball whimpering the word stab. "Hu," Spike said as he looked at the pitiful creature. "He gave up fast,"  he noticed before the sound of running was heard, a large number of Diamond Dogs came rushing around the building to them, some had Spears, some had Bow and Arrows, and one had an Axe, the one holding the ax looked to Spike and used it to point at him.
"WHat thIs THang?" He demanded to Spike with inconsistent shouting.
"I am Spike," Spike replied, the Dimond dog blinked.
"It TalkK!" He spoke and shouted in what Spike figured was confusion.
"Yeah, can I talk to someone who can speak without screaming?" Spike's response was a fair number of bows and spears being pointed at him. "Sombra how do I make a shield?" Spike demanded, Sombra gave no reply and Spike realized he was still speaking dog. "OK," Spike said panicking slightly "How about you take me to your leader?" The Diamond Dogs muttered among themselves, mostly words similar to Stab before the one with the Ax spoke up.
"TAke to kinG!" He screamed out "GET REword!"
"You mean Reward?" Spike asked in confusion before the Dogs advanced, Spike held his hands up and Sombra mimicked his actions.
"What the hell is happening?" He demanded, Spike willed he understood him and spoke.
"Um...there taking us to their leader," Spike replied as he and Sombra began walking onto the land with the army behind them "Also their vocabulary is mostly stab based so how do I do the shield thing,"
"Just think of a shield you idiot," Sombra snapped back "It's not that complex, just think of something and something will happen," Spike pondered that for a moment as they were taken to a door, a line of Diamond Dogs wearing things ranging from tattered clothes to nothing at all were slowly making their way dimly threw the door.
"I don't like this," Sombra muttered.
"Since when do you care about treating things with respect?" Spike asked.
"They're dogs, not ponies," Sombra snapped back "I happen to like dogs, I had a shit tone of 'em when I was king, I committed my first act of violence when one of my old school bullies kicked my dog, I love and respect dogs, don't give two shits about ponies though," Spike looked at Sombra for a moment before looking to the line, due mostly to the fair amount of nude ones Spike figure that most of, if not all, of the Diamond Dogs in the line where Female. 
"I don't like this either," Spike muttered as the line moved out of the way, the one with an ax and a few of the spear ones followed after. It didn't take them long to reach the Diamond Dog King, Spike, and Sombra's jaws dropped when they saw him, he was the fastest dog either had seen in their lives, he was sitting on the back of a Large Female Dog who was chained to the floor in a push-up position, Spike willed himself to understand them and, thinking on the spot, willed Sombra to as well.
"Higher," The King said kicking the Dog that was his throne in the back of the head, the Dog looked like she was about to pass out as she lifted the Fat thing on her back higher.
"kinG!" the one with an ax screamed out making Sombra jump. The king looked down at him before taking a bite out of what looked to be the leg of some kind of bird. "InTruder,"
"Hi," Spike said in a forced polite tone "I'm-"
"Kill," The King said without even looking at Spike "Cook, Want eat,"
"Protect me," Sombra demanded as he curled into a ball, Spike put a shield around Sombra as several spears were thrust at them, Sombra was saved and they just passed threw Spike.
"Kill better," The King demanded before kicking his throne again, making Spike wince "Higher," he commanded, Spike wasn't sure how long the dog had been acting as his throne but judging from what happened next it had been one second too long, the Diamon Dog fell to the floor, breathing hard.
"Punish," The King said as he tossed a bone aside and started on another one, without hesitation the Diamond dogs around him rushed to the Diamond Dog female and began violently kicking, scratching, and biting at her.
"Ok I'm done with this shit," Spike declared as he held up his hand, immediately every one of the King's guards was pinned to the wall, every dog, even the throne, looked at Spike in shocked silence. Spike looked at the Female that was being used as a chair and got an idea. he pointed to the ones he had pined and with a flick of his finger tore the black armor off them, leaving them in their less-than-presentable birthday suits. The Dogs tried desperately to cover their shame as Spike turned the armor into a liquid and ran it over the throne's right hand, as it did so the chain around said hand liquified and joined the metal before hardening into Full armor covering the arm, The Dog moved her hand in awe, whether at being able to move it, the armor, or both Spike didn't know. It was at this point the King started screaming, he was Red in the face and flailing angrily.
"KILL!" He demanded, "KILL, KILL, KILL!!" The one with an ax ran to the throne with his ax raised as the archers raised their bows, with no effort Spike stripped them of their armor and found that all their weapons save the bowstring were made of the same black metal as their armor, the Dogs ran away whimpering as they tried to cover themselves. One ran to a nearby Female in line to give an offering to the king and began tearing at her clothes to cover himself, without hesitation, Spike pointed at her, and in a flash, she was in full body armor, they both blinked before Spike made her raise her a hand and made a Club form in it, with a shine in her eye she instantly smashed the male over the head with glee before turning to Spike who smiled at her before turning back to the throne and freeing her other arm, with both arms free she got to her knees and sent the king tumbling down, the Armor formed around her chest and a helmet formed around her head, it went to her waist and both of her legs, freeing her fully before covering her tail. She wobbly got to her feet and looked at herself before Spike rose the Axe high into the Air and added some of the black metal to it before forging it into a mace and letting it gingerly drop into her hands before letting go of it, Spike turned to the first Female in line and in no time began one at a time armoring them up and giving them weapons, once outside he stripped the rest of the Male Dogs of their armor and sent them running into a mine shaft in the ground that probably lead to their home. Spike frowned when he ran out of metal and shrugged before holding his hand up and snapping, instantly every remaining Diamond Dog in the line was armor and weaponed up.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" Spike asked them as they stared at them, he pointed to the mine shaft "Go kick their asses," A cheer rang out before the line of Heavily armored Female Diamond Dogs rushed into the mine they called home to begin raging a war," Spike smiled and returned to the castle to Find Sombra sitting in the Bubble looking miffed. "Oh sorry," Spike said as he made the shield dissipate "Forgot I left you in there," Sombra tried patting his cape off, it was muddy and was damaged after a week of being used as both a blanket and an umbrella.
"Oh whatever," Sombra groaned as he unclipped it from the red gem on his chest and tossed it aside, Spike, however, smiled at it and made it fly to him, in a blink of an eye it was nice and clean, he kept the rip since it made it seem battle worth and made his way to the Throne, who was VIolently Shaking the King while holding the Ax Dimond Dog under her Feet. She looked at him and Spike smiled at her.
"What you gonna do with that prick?" Spike asked as the King continued shouting the command to kill, "One sec," he added as he snapped and the King went mute "Much better," Spike said with a smile before holding out the cape and making it grow a little before floating it over to the Diamond Dog and having it clip onto her Armor.
"Nice," Spike said as she gave her a once over "You look like you'll make a great Queen," She gave Spike a large smile and tossed the Old King away, and kicked the Ax Dog away.
"Am Queen," She agreed, Spike smiled before she pointed to him "You King," Spike's face would have turned red if he knew how to do so.
"Um...I am?" he asked in shock and turned to Sombra who actually looked proud.
"Not even empowered to a Double-Digit day and you've already overthrown a government, I think I am actually proud," Spike turned to the Diamond Dog smiling fondly at him, and he thought back to Starlight, to all his friends, either turned against him or turned to stone and he gave her a sad smile back.
"Yeah, I guess I am King, King Spike!"