Plot Bunny Theater: Sp-Sp-Spikezilla! · 5:24am Dec 26th, 2019
I enjoy stories where Spike learns to go Kaiju mode on command. Seems like it would have been very useful in more than a few situations. Also perhaps hilarious.
As an example...
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A familiar scene: Tirek the Centaur has imprisoned Twilight Sparkle's friends, as he and the Princess of Friendship face off in the Badlands. Some distance away, Spike the Dragon is watching on, feeling helpless.
Tirek: "We seem to be at an impasse, Princess Twilight. But I'll be sporting about this. Give me the alicorn magic... And you can have all your friends."
As Twilight gasps in horror, Spike, far away... Pushes himself.
Spike: I'm not useless anymore... I'm not... COME ON! I need to get BIG! If I don't... I'll lose them all! Every single one of them! Pinkie, Applejack, Dash, Fluttershy... Twilight... Rarity...!
He clenched his claws into fists.
Spike: He can't have them... I WON'T lose them... They... ARE... MINE!
Tirek: "Well? What's it to be, Princess? Time is shor-What is that sound?"
Tirek is immediately tackled by a skyscraper sized purple dragon travelling at the speed of a runaway freight train. One that was currently ROARING in RAGE.
Twilight: "... Spike?!"
Rarity: "Oh... My... GO SPIKE! THRASH THAT BRUTE!"
And one that smashed Tirek through a mountain... And the mountain behind that... And behind that...
Tirek: Manages to, with sheer brute force, push the dragon back "YOU! FREAK! YOU DARE TO STRIKE ME?! Just for that, I will CRUSH every last being you love! STARTING WITH PRINCESS TWILIGHT! ... And ending with the WHITE UNICORN!"
Tirek's magically enhanced voice could be heard even miles away. So Spike had no issue understanding.
The massive dragon's eyes widen... And then his pupils shrink to pinpricks as his scaly brows narrow. His back spines glow a deathly green, as do his eyes. Tirek grins, prepared to sap the dragon of his magic the moment he charges-
Spike: "RAWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRR!"
... But was not prepared for the firestorm blast that erupted from the dragon's mouth like a nuclear explosion!
KABOOOOMMMMM!!!
Tirek: Badly burnt, staggering "... You know, with the benefit of hindsight-"
Spike rips up a boulder the size of an ocean liner and SMASHES Tirek under it.
Twilight: "Girls! Come on! Spike's buying us time, let's use it! And-RARITY!"
Rarity: *Fanning herself* "Ohhh... The things I'm going to do to that dragon~..."
Dash: "Do them LATER, let's MOVE!"
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This has probably been done before, but what are some other ways it could be done?
... Not to mention all the "Size Queen" jokes to be made about Rarity.
I've read a few stories like that... and I never really liked them. I dislike Spike being turned into The Incredible Hulk.
"That's my secret, Twilight... I'm always greedy."
I mean, I wrote in my story that Spike learns the value of the dragon greed. That his magic is fueled by it, but more than that, it's that a "hoard" doesn't need to be trinkets or treasure. It;s whatever a dragon values more than life itself. That which he would die for. That which he would kill for.
But for Spike to just be able to "flip a switch" and grow to a giant just seems... cheap. It's a bit hard to explain. I read a story a while ago—I'm sure you know which one—where Spike literally says, "Screw it" and goes Spikezilla, and it was just too much for me. Plus, I always got the feeling from Secrets of My Excess that when he does the whole greed growth thing, he turns into a mindless hoarder. The entire point of the episode, I felt, was that it turned Spike into a monster.
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Well not so much flip a switch as learn how to use the Dragon Greed... Much like your own story. Seriously, are you a telepath?
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Yeah, like that scene with Doctor Banner in The Avengers.
*Spikezilla*
I laughed out loud reading this! I must shamefully admit that I only used Spikezilla once, in a round-robin with some friends that had the Mane Six on DC's Apokolips. Spike goes big and trashes Kalibak. I really have to think of more ways to use the little-big guy.
I bet Garble would have show some restraint in his bullying if he learned Spike was capable of turning into a kaiju on command.
I fucking LOVE IT!! That last line gave me chills!!
Edit: Wait a second...there are full stories with this theme? Where are they?! I must have them!
In all seriousness, I've repeatedly stated my headcanon that Spike has taken "the real treasure is the friends we made along the way" to its logical conclusion, which has done very strange things to his biology.