Chapter 4
As Spike made his way out of the library, he noticed a certain feeling in his stomach. A feeling he had never had before. It was like the whole world was watching him, like if he messed up this date then the world was going to collapse on him and he would fall into the deepest abyss in the history of Equestria. It was the most intense feeling of his nerves getting to him. Even with this feeling, Spike moved forward, increasing his pace toward the park where he was to meet his dream mare, Rarity.
As much as he wanted Rarity to love him in the same way he loved her, he knew that this date was probably out of pity. As though she knew of his feelings all along, abused those feelings, and then felt guilty all o the sudden, making her do this for him.
He shuddered at the very thought, 'No, Rarity would never betray somepony like that.' he thought, though the realization came to him, 'She would never do that to somePONY, but I'm no pony, I'm a dragon. What if that would really make a difference, what if she really hates me, what if she agreed to do his to turn me into the laughing stock of Equestria?' Again he shuddered. If this really was all a joke then he would need to hide in the library forever, never coming out again, until he had the wings and size to live with the other dragons of he world.
Spike's heart rate increased noticeably, even externally those who looked in his direction knew he was scared. As he tried to calm himself, he saw the doctor, running through town...not to say that was an unusual sight. From out of nowhere he heard somepony yell," Allons Y!" as another tan earth pony ran after he doctor, in fact, these two shared a cutie mark, nearly everything about them was the same, save that the second was wearing a long, wool knit scarf. The two disappeared into an alley, and there was a burst of blue light. After which the doctor came walking triumphantly out of the alley and over to Spike.
"So how's my scaly mate doing?"the doctor said with a grin.
"Words can't describe it Doc, in about half an hour, I'm going to be in a date with my dream mare."
"Good to see that the timeline is in- er good to see that you finally asked her" the doctor mumbled, trying to cover his error.
"It's just strange to think that this is really happening doc."
"You asked her, what did you expect, aside from a denial. Actually, that means I won the pool!"
"Well actually, she kind of asked me... what pool?" Spike said, purposely omitting certain details, such as the fact that no question was ever truly asked by him with the words 'Rarity would you go on a date with me?' in it, but Spike was sure that it was implied. After all, she said she would give him a chance.
"Well Soarin said you would chicken out, Feinien said that she would say no, and I was the only one who said you'd get a date with her. Of course I didn't add who would ask whom, so that means I still win!"
"Thanks for believing in me doc, but I still want to get there early enough for our date." Spike said as he began to turn back towards the park.
"Right, well I have Daleks to tend to anyway, so cheerio." the doctor said as he gallivanted off on another adventure.