//------------------------------// // Welcome To Ponyville Party // Story: Spike Pie // by Silver Butcher //------------------------------// "Alright," Pinkie said, "Spike! Assemble the troops!" Spike was floating over Pinkie with Gummy sitting on his head chewing on his pirate hat, and his pet rock Wallace in his hand. "Done," Spike said. "Ok, Spike, my intel tells me that the new pony in town is named Twilight and her griffin friend’s name is Owlowiscious and they're staying at the Golden Oak Library. I need you to go talk to them and distract them. They should be at Sweet Apple Acres around now. I'll move the party to the library, so don't let them come in for as long as you can stall them.” "Got it," Spike said. "Gummy," Pinkie said, "do something adorable to motivate us!" Gummy spat out Spike's hat and flopped off his head onto the bed. "Perfect! Let’s head out!" Pinkie yelled as she ran downstairs to move the party to the library and Spike, after telling Wallace to watch Gummy, flew out the window. He was on his way to Sweet Apple Acres and got there just in time to see Twilight eating a lot of the Apple’s food, with Owlowiscious eating some too. He floated over them, Applejack being the first to notice him. "Hi Spike," AJ said waving "Whatcha doing here again? Need more pies?"  Spike floated down to her and whispered, "I'm here to distract Twilight, we're throwing her a surprise welcome party at the Library, everypony’s invited." It was at that time that Twilight and Owlowiscious noticed Spike. Twilight was looking at Spike with interest. "How are you doing that?" Twilight asked. "Doing what?" Spike asked. "Floating around, with no support other than a few balloons, which should be impossible!” "Oh, I altered my own gravity so I can get around faster," Spike answered simply. "You can’t just make yourself lighter," Twilight said as she looked at the dragon. "It must be some kind of trick." "I’ll have you know," Spike said, "That even if it were a trick, it would still be an awesome trick!" "No," Twilight said, "It’s simple, you had a unicorn alter your gravity and are using it to your own advantage, while at the same time boasting that you have some sorta magical powers," Twilight said as she lit her horn. "That doesn't sound too simpl– oof!" Spike shut up when he slammed to the ground, now weighing a literal ton.  "Come on Owlowiscious." "You didn't have to do that Twilight," Owlowiscious said as they left. "I'm just showing him he can't fool me with cheap tricks," Twilight replied as they left. "Ya alright sugar-cube?" Applejack asked Spike as he tried and failed to get up. "Errg!" Spike said as he tried to lift his body, only to fail. "Give me a second." Spike sucked in some air and kept doing it for about a minute before he was able to get to his feet." This better not be permanent," Spike said as he walked away from the large imprint of himself in the ground, leaving deep footprints in the ground behind him, now too heavy to float, and the magic too strong for him to just shrug it off. "Oh well," he said, "she`ll be nicer after she’s had a good old-fashioned party." But after a few steps, Spike started panting,  the task of moving his own body exhausting him. "Hold on," Applejack said. "I'll go get Big Mac and Applebloom so you can accompany us to the library in the cart."  Spike smiled. "That sounds a lot better than walking." -A few hours later- "...now where`s the light?" Twilight asked Owlowiscious when the lights flicked on. "Surprise!" "Oh..." Twilight sighed when Pinkie came up to Twilight and introduced herself. After the exchange ended with Twilight drinking hot sauce, Spike walked up to Owlowiscious and they shook claws. "Sorry about what happened at the farm," Owlishious said "She gets like that sometimes." "I'll be fine," Spike said. "So long as this spell isn't permanent." "Naw, it should wear off sometime In the next few hours." "Good, until then," Spike grabbed a bottle of cider, and yelled to the room, "Let’s do things we’ll regret in the morning!" "Yeah!" The party yelled as everypony else grabbed a bottle. "A toast!" Pinkie yelled," To Twilight, even though she`s not here, and Owlowiscious!" and everypony/dragon/griffin took a big swig of their cider.