It is the morning after the Royal Wedding, and Twilight Sparkle wakes up to expect it to be like any other day, until, instead of Spike, she meets a little dragonNESS named Spines who claims to be her number one assistant. She then finds out that her friends, everyone in her village, and pretty much everyone in Equestria, even the two reigning princesses, are all the opposite gender. What's more, they're claiming this is how it's always been. Even more so, her "coltfriends" turn out to be harboring romantic feelings for her! Will Twilight be able to solve this conundrum to change things back to normal, or will she be forced to adapt to her new lifestyle? Will Twilight's friends (lovers) bring their beloved egghead back to her senses, or will she be driven to do something everyone would regret?

We all know and love the Element of Kindness known as Fluttershy. We know that she is an animal care taker and one of the six Elements of Harmony, and we love her for her incredible shyness and extreme cuteness. But are there darker elements behind that pink mane of her? For all we know, she could be a former mafia boss.

Applejack lives under the sword of Damocles. Her family, her friendships, and her happy life in Ponyville would come crashing down if anypony ever asked her one simple question: "Are you an alicorn?"

Attempting to summon a creature without a Contract is literally gambling with your soul. However, Uzumaki Naruto is extremely lucky when it comes to gambling and manages to summon something that won't kill him outright.

"Sur-PRISE!"
"Gah!"
"Hi! I'm Pinkie Pie."
"Uh... I'm Uzumaki Naruto, future Hokage!"

Spike finds himself in the middle of nowhere, and with no way of getting back home. For a journey this big its gonna take two, and Spike forges an unsteady partnership with a unlikely pony.

Embarked on a dangerous journey to reach his home Spike is gonna have to keep an ace up his sleeve, call some bluffs, and hope his companion hasn't stacked the deck in her favor. Tempers flare, teeth will be grit, and things will never be the same. Enough napping young dragon, it's your turn for an adventure.

Kudos, and thanks too my beta-readers xgfhj, Lium, and Dataguy who've been patient enough to deal with the multitude of grammar issues that plague my stories, and all around have been a great help.

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For most of his life Spike has yearned to be treated as more than a hatchling; only five years younger than Twilight by all rights he should be considered a young adult, or at least a teenager, by pony standards.

His mind, though still developing, is at times equal to an adult pony's thanks to the many years he spent working alongside his studious caretaker. When forced to focus can could quickly outpace and outwit most colts his age.

His body on the other hand is tiny and adorable.

As with all dragons the pace of his growth matches the demands of the world around him; with the carefree, relaxed life of a librarian's assistant there have been few demands a baby dragon's form could not meet. Until now.

Faced with other dragons, rivals and peers much more fit for survival Spike's body has started working overtime to catch him up and prepare him for the long, difficult life of a dragon. Fortunately, this means he will soon have a body that matches his mind; large enough to take care of himself and get a small token or respect now and then.

Unfortunately this means he has hit puberty.

Luna is haunted by mysterious monsters while she grows up. Can the Doctor help her before it is too late?

While he has returned from being absorbed into Unit-01, Shinji finds himself in an odd situation. Now, in a body that looks nothing like a human's and with a snarky roommate in his head, he has to deal with new powers and abilities while those around him shift.

And he thought that fighting Angels was weird...

Meet Spike, Canterlot's greatest private investigator. How great? You've probably never heard of him. But he's had hundreds of cases, big and small. He's tracked down missing ponies, engaged in shoot-outs with smugglers, and almost single-handedly took down the Pastia, the biggest gang of organized crime to date (lawyers, politicians, and academics aside).

But he's put the whole P.I. game behind him, and he's ready to settle into a quiet retirement (or as quiet a retirement you can get in Ponyville). That is until a familiar mare pays him a visit about her sister's disappearance. Armed with with only a loaded CARA. millimeter and his years of experience and cynicism, he calls upon an old friend, a certain wall-eyed pegasus. He soon finds himself embroiled in one of his toughest cases to date, one that has the fate of Equestria resting on the shoulders of everyone's favorite purple and green dragon.

Author's Note: I suffer from an advanced case of Footnote Fever, and so I wrote it with footnotes. I am since discovering that every website doesn't have a good way of doing them. So I'm just making them silvery and putting them right after the paragraph they were in. Sorry 'bout that.

A dragon is a thing to be feared. That is, if he isn't Spike. But somepony forgot to tell the residents of Ponyville that their dragon isn't dangerous. Driven from Ponyville by their fears, he finds himself in Canterlot with the royal sisters. He begins to wonder, are things better this way? Maybe.