Most changelings only want to feed on love and serve their queen, defending her with their lives. But Scales the changeling has never seen eye-to-eye with the others. All he wanted to do was cook. He leaves the hive and finds himself in Ponyville as a baker. He finds peace, but will that peace stay?

((Being rewritten starting from chapter twelve))

Spike wakes up with an itchy back. Twilight begins to look around for possible answers to the dilemma, when her friends show up. With some help, they find a book that explains it- Spike's growing wings...except only he has to deal with an itchy back for two weeks. Note: written before Secret of my Excess and Dragon Quest.