The Drawbacks and Advantages of Combination

by zekromthepokemon


Prologue: A new disater begins.

Within the walls of the Castle of Friendship, Pinkie and Spike were hard at work reorganizing the books, due to Twilight having to pull them out in a frenzy for a huge project she was doing.
“Thanks for helping me with organizing Pinkie,” Spike said as he shelved "Attack Spells for Dummies".
“No prob Spike! I kinda have to due to the ... incident with the cookbooks.” She then threw a book in the air with her mouth and bucked it. Pinkie had (after a few months) gained the ability to buck books in their exact spots by using practice, and raw skill. Spike was quite proud. After Tirek had destroyed the first library, the first month of re-shelving the new library was a nightmare. In the second month, Pinkie had ruined all the cookbooks by accident and decided to help with the library to repay them for not charging her.
After a few hours of work, the duo had finally finished. Spike sighed with exhaustion as a familiar, lavender alicorn came down the crystalline steps. She had a tired look on her face, eyes bloodshot, and a strange, stone box within her magical grasp. “I’m done,” she said as she sat the box down on the floor and fainted. Pinkie rushed over, her vigor not drained by the work.
"Twilight! Twilight! Twilight! Are you okay?” she yelled as she shook her friend. Spike smiled at Pinkie’s antics. He knew that Twilight always did that when she had to do something really difficult. Twilight’s eyes slowly opened and she looked up at her slightly worried pink friend.
“I’m fine Pinkie, just let me sleep.” Her head then slammed back onto the floor. Pinkie Pie then looked at the stone box, her curiosity rising steadily. Spike quickly ran up to her and grabbed the stone box.
“Don’t mess with this Pinkie.”
“Aww, why not?” she whined. Spike gave her a serious look and she gazed at the ground, feeling bad.
“I’ll just put this back in Twilight’s room,” he said sternly. The dragon hopped up the stairs and Pinkie Pie looked back up and had a smile, a mischievous and terrible smile.