//------------------------------// // YOUR FAULT!! // Story: Spike Pie // by Silver Butcher //------------------------------// Spike and Pinkie were bored.  They had been banned from all parties by the other Elements, and they were bored. Pinkie’s hair had gone flat and Spike wasn't moving with balloons anymore. "I–I just don't know," AJ said as she and Rainbow Dash watched them just sitting in front of a restaurant, food untouched, faces lying on the table. doing nothing."I didn't think they'd be happy about the change, but I didn't think they'd stop functioning in every way!" "Maybe we made too quick of a decision," Rainbow said, "Pinkie’s cutie mark is for parties, and I imagine if Spike had one it would be very similar."     "We should talk to them." "Yeah...we really should." Whether or not Pinkie and Spike saw them, they showed no change or even respond to them. "Ok look," Rainbow said, we're not saying it's your fault you–" But she was interrupted by Pinkie. "Oh, I know whose fault it is." "I know whose fault it is too," Spike responded, and in a flash Pinkie and Spike had their foreheads pressed together with rage in their eyes. "It's your fault!" they yelled at each other, making every pony in hearing range look at them and back away. AJ and Rainbow had jumped back at the sudden outburst, but they weren't even close to done. "If you weren't always, ‘Let's throw a party for this random thing, for that random thing,’ we wouldn't be on this sunken ship!" Spike said to Pinkie angrily. "Maybe you should have said something about it before now then huh!?" "Maybe if you had some common sense!" "Maybe if you had the ability to think for yourself!" "We would not be in this mess!" they yelled and proceeded to slap each other. "Calm down!" Rainbow said to Spike as he flared in anger, attempting to attack Pinkie. "Please, this isn't like you!" AJ said as she was in the same position as Rainbow. "We can talk about this..." But Pinkie had disappeared.  "..oh no." Suddenly there was a yell as Spike was hit full in the face by Pinkie, he flew out of Rainbow’s reach and into a building, leaving a Spike-shaped hole. "Sweet Celestia!" Rainbow cried as Pinkie walked towards the hole. Once she got there she looked through the hole and Spike kicked her in the face, she flew backward a few feet, blood dripping from her nose, and ran at Spike, who now had a black eye, and hit him in the stomach, but at the same time, Spike slapped her with the end of his tail, cutting her cheek. She grabbed the nearest thing she could get her hooves on and swung a broken board from the building with some nails in it at Spike’s arm, stabbing him with several nails. Spike yelled in pain and ripped the board free of his scales, but most of the nails remained. He turned in time for Pinkie to pound her hoof into his belly, immediately pull out her party cannon, now filled with rock candy, and fire it point-blank at Spike. Spike ended up with scrapes all over his body, stunning him for a second. Pinkie ran at him and Spike pulled a pie out of nowhere and smashed it in her face before sidestepping, causing Pinkie to face-plant into the wall. Spike proceeded to stomp her into the ground, where Pinkie grabbed the nearest object, some of the rock candy she had fired at him, and slammed it into the nails, hammering them deeper into his arm. Spike staggered back from pain and Pinkie pulled out a rubber chicken and slapped him silly. Spike grabbed Pinkie’s hair after a few slaps and slammed her into the building, leaving a Pinkie-shaped hole in the wall, Pinkie lay still on the ground for a second, then suddenly her mane grabbed Spike’s leg and, with another crack, Spike fell too.  They lay still for a moment, then they both shot up. Spike limped on his now twisted Ankle and fell into a sitting position. Pinkie jumped at him and he activated his wrist launcher, hitting Pinkie with a solid stream of Orange Soda. Pinkie ended up spinning away, as she spun she tossed the rubber chicken at Spike, hitting him in the face with a loud echoing honk. As Pinkie landed, Spike reached to his arm and popped the scales from his arm that housed the nails, leaving an odd-looking pink spot on his arm as he turned to continue his assault on Pinkie, only to start laughing as Pinkie attempted to get back up and proceeded to fall on her face. "Ow," Pinkie muttered as she tried to get back up. Pinkie and Spike stared at each other. Both Rainbow Dash and Applejack were stuck on how to solve this when the two started laughing at each other. "What the heck are we doing?" Pinkie asked as she laughed. "I have no idea!" Spike laughed back. "I thought you were mad, why did you go from assaulting me with nails and rock candy to slapping me with a chicken!?” "You're the one who splatted a pie in my face!" The two siblings laughed at each other for a good long minute before Pinkie walked over and helped Spike up. "Let's just go back to being party animals," she decided. "It's safer for both of us." "I agree!" Spike smiled back as she carried him back to Sugar Cube Corner. "How's your back?" "Sore but not broke! How's your leg?" "Twisted at worst, just gotta lay in bed for a while." As the two merrily walked away, Applejack and Rainbow just watched them leave in silence. "Those two can be...kind of scary sometimes." Rainbow decided as she looked at the mess they had made. "Wait, who's cleaning this up!?" "Not me." Applejack replied, already walking away.  Rainbow looked at the mess and blasted into the sky. "Not it."