Spike has been depressed for the past few months, and after a suicide attempt, he must attend a Suicide Prevention Group for 3 months.

Trigger Warning: Suicide

Captured by your enemy. It's something that no soldier wants to think about, much less experience. Unfortunately for one U.S. soldier fighting in Equestria, that's exactly what happens. At the mercy of the ponies, he will have to resist their attempts to extract information from him, and hope that he'll see freedom again.
(Language warning for those who care.)

Many thanks to my prereader, Cosmic Cowboy, for letting me bounce ideas off him, and not letting me upload garbage.
Cover art by the awesome (and patient) Erindor.
Appeared in the feature box for a brief time on 10/11/2015. I have no words...

Spike's love for Rarity is massive. So massive that he would die for her. Only problem is that that happens during a parasprites attack. Only one (sort of) problem: he respawns.

“Dragons are not meant to live with ponies”

Spike thought that he had found his place among ponies, especially after the dragon migration.
But things didn't turn out the way he thought.
Life had other plans for him:

It has been more than three years since Spike was banished from Ponyville and shunned by his friends.
He now lives a relatively quiet life in the Everfree Forest.
But what happens when events lead spike to look back at his old life, and take him back to the times where everything went wrong? And what happened to Spike after Pony kind turns her back on him?

This story ignores Season 6 and splits from the universe from "The Cutie-Remark".

During the last bits of the Cutie Re-mark, a new portal opens unexpectedly, dragging Twilight and Spike into another timeline. Without the spell, they are stuck in a timeline with the smell of war everywhere, a place where the magic of friendship is no more. To return to her timeline, she has to fix this timeline and end this ten year war against Starlight's regime.

But Twilight will realize that sometimes, she has to get her hooves dirty and commit horrible crimes to better the whole world and save her friends.

"Twilight, get your gun, get your gun, get your gun.
Take it on the run, on the run, on the run.
Hear them calling you and me,
Every Mares of Liberty.
Hurry right away, no delay, go today.
Make Celestia glad to have had such a lad.
Tell your sweetheart not to pine,
To be proud her mare's in line."

Parodied from "Over There"

Based on WW1.