Spike 10

by Silver Butcher


Heatblast vs Rainbow Dash

Spike was eating lunch, or at least he was trying to, Rainbow was fiddling with his watch.
"Who's this guy?"
"Stinkfly."
"And this one?"
"Articguana?"
"How about this guy?"
"XLR8."
"where do you come up with these names?"
"They reflect my alien, Stinkfly is a giant foul smelling Fly. Articgunna is an Ice guy. XLR8 Is super fast." Spike said bluntly not looking at Rainbow as he took a bit out of his sandwich when in a flash he was XLR8.
"Hey!" He yelled, falling out of his chair and sending his Lunch flying "No! My lunch!" he turned to Rainbow "What was that for?" Rainbow was inspecting him.
"You don't look that fast, I bet I could outfly you in an instant"
"Of course you could." XLR8 Said as he blurred for a second then took a bite out of his new sandwich "I can't fly." Rainbow jaw dropped as XlR8 blurred for a second and struck a pose "I just finished all my chores for the day, cleaned up the sandwich mess, and braided your mane." Rainbow's hand shot up to her mane, with was indeed braided.
"HEY!! Undo that right now!!" she felt a soft breeze and her mane fell back into place. She started shaking and mumbling angrily as XLR8 relaxed in his chair.
"Thanks, now I have the rest of the day off, Twilight banned me from using the watch in the castle, but since you did it I call a loophole." XLR8 yawned and leaned back when Rainbow stuck her finger in his face.
"I challenge you to a race!" XLR8 Blurred out and was suddenly holding a slice of cake
"Before you ask, yes, I paid for it." XLR8 looked at her and smiled "I'd accept, but I don't want to outshine you." He said as the symbol started beeping and he flashed back to Spike.
"But If you want you can Give Heatbast a run for his money...Altho I suggest you ask Twilight to Give you a heat shield."
"Why?"
"I'm not exactly good at flight mode yet, and there's no way Stinkfly would have a chance against you," Spike said as he got up and Stretched. Rainbow leaned down and put her arm around his neck.
"Fine, I guess you can take the title of the fasted runner, But I'm definitely the fastest flyer!" she said as she gave him a noogie. "Meet me in front of the Castel tomorrow at 5 pm, well race to the top of that mountain where that Red Dragon slept that one time.
"Sounds like a plan," Spike said with a smile as he left to enjoy the rest of his day "See you then." he said with a wave, only to be stopped when he walked into Starlight, "oops, sorry Starlight," Spike said as he walked around her, Starlight watched him go and looked at Rainbow with a raised eyebrow
"You challenged him to a race?"
"Yeah, me vs Heatblast, I'm gonna win, but still, it should be fun for the first 8 seconds."
"Ok...so what are you gonna do if...time out midflight?"
"I just...wait..." Rainbow seemed lost in thought, after a moment she turned to Starlight "I hadn't thought of that, how long does he stay transformed?"
"I'd say 10 - 15 minutes if he doesn't use it too often, I'm sure you noticed that he was only XLR8 for like 2 minutes, he's been running around as Wildmutt for most of the day helping out Fluttershy, and then as Ditto for a long time to go do three things at once, I'd say he was Ditto for about an hour" Rainbow rubbed the back of her head
"Got so caught up in the moment, Guess I forgot he's just a Kid playing with his new toy."
"Gonna be a lot worse next month when Twilights School is finished being built" Rainbow smacked her head
"There'll be Dragon students, and so many other species, He's gonna make at least one friend, and when he does"
"Oh how Tartarus will break loss" Starlight waved her hand "Just told Twilight the same thing, gonna go tell the rest of the girls before they challenge him to a race or something"
"And don't worry, I'll stand by to rescue him if things go wrong, and I'll extinguish any unintentional flames." Starlight said with a wave as she left the room, Rainbow nodded
"Alright, I won't challenge him to any more races, after I win the next one." Rainbow turned to get ready for the race as Spike walked outside
"Time to Practice" he turned the Dial and in a flash Heatblast stretched "Time to fly." he placed his hands to his side and blasted off, once in the air he managed to fly in a wobbly line "Alright, now I..uh...how do I land?" He ponded "Maybe I should just" he tried reducing the flamed but ended up plummeting "AH NO!" he shot flames out of his hands again, but just ended up slamming in front of the castle in a flaming crater, Spike pulled himself out of it
"Alright, I need some serious practice," he muttered as he patted out a flame
-5 pm The next Day
a large number of Ponies had gathered outside the castle, in front of them Heatblast and Rainbow were 10 feet apart, Rainbow's entire body was tinged blue
"Nice heat-shield" Heatblast said as he got into position "Ok so first one to the top and back?"
"Oh yeah," Rainbow said as she started hovering in the air, there was a loud crunching sound and everypony turned to look at Heatblast, who was now hovering on a flaming chunk of rock
"I've been practicing," He said with a smile and Rainbow smiled back
"So Have I" the two turned and Applejack walked behind to two with a flag
"Ready?" the two nodded
"Then go!" the two blasted off, Heatblast doing so quite literally. Rainbow pull ahead as she flew through the clouds, but Heatblast started catching up when he added the boost of spewing fire from his hands, this added to his speed but he started wobbling.
"Maybe. I should have. Thought this threw!" he said as he unintentionally did a loop that almost knocked him off his rock. Rainbow started gaining speed when something Spike had said hit her
"Wait," she turned in the air "When did you practice!"
"Yesterday and most of the morning" Heatblast called back. Rainbow remembered Starlights words
" he was only XLR8 for like 2 minutes" Rainbow turned on the spot
"Spike... I mean Heatblast wait!" Heatblast looked at her just as his Icon went red "oh man, not now" he complained as in a flash Spike was thrown off the flaming rock which crashed into a nearby lake, Spike plummeted only to be enveloped in Magic. Starlight lowered him to the empty streets below, then looked up at Rainbow
"You two can have your race another day" she looked down at Spike "And we're gonna have a chat"
"Man"