"I remember that," Peach said quietly "you never did come back,"
"And I'll tell you what, I am happy as all hell I didn't Pinkie promise I was returning," Spike said with a laugh "Pinkie would would have found me in a snap if I'd broken one, especially if I had broken one to her daughter," Spike got a good laugh out of it for a minute before sighing "Oh I miss that ball of energy, how is she now a days?"
"She's had her hooves full since Little Cheese was born but..."
"What?" Spike demanded jumping up "There's more of you now?" Spike groaned "And I'm probably never even gonna get to met the kid," the 6 looked at Spike for a moment before Zestar spoke up.
"That's a weird thing to be sad about," Spike shrugged.
"Hard as it may have been, I loved taking care of you guys, even when I got kicked in the face, I was at least hoping it would prevent Jasper from turning into his parents,"
"OK That's it!" Flurry practically screamed "I've been asking this for years but since we seem to be doing a Q and A what the hell did Rarity do? All Aunt Twilight says is that you overreacted and the best thing I got out of the other mane 6 was Applejack calling her a whore,"
"Not to far from the truth," Spike replied "We where engaged and she always used the, I wanna wait till marriage thing on me....then I left for a month, as she did hundreds of times before for fashion exposes, to visit the Dragon lands and when I came back she was pregnant as shit," there was a long silence and Spike laughed "I know now that none of you knew that story, tell me what your elders told you,"
"Pinkie said she stole a Ring and years of your life from you," Pumpkin said simply.
"Yeah she took the engagement rings I got for her and used them for her and Soarins wedding," Spike shrugged "I tried to get them back but Twilight said I was being a baby about it," Spike shook his head as Zestar recalled when his mother had told him.
"Ma always laughed when she told me you made it a night to remember by burning Rarity' house down," Spike laughed.
"Funny enough that was actually Ember, I told her what happened and she went ballistic," Spike smiled at the memory "I miss her to, I wish I could see her again, I understand I can't see the mane 6 what with them living like one scream away from Twilight and what not but I've been trying to figure out a good way to get to the Dragon lands and say high, but the idea of her seeing me like....well..." Spike motioned to the dark void of his body, "....Needless to say I've never been able to go threw with it, I mean I saw her like 4 years ago and almost did it, but I'd just found the last shard to the element of honesty and Twilight was close..."
"You have one of the elements fully restored?" Pumpkin asked in amazement "Like it's all together?"
"Oh with the exception of the element of Magic I've fully restored all of them," Spike said simply "The biggest one obviously had to break into the tiniest pieces,"
"Why?" Flurry asked in confusion.
"Ah!" Spike replied as he got back on his Diamond Dog throne and waggled his finger at her "I've answered more than enough questions, now how about you start with either getting the Tickets of getting on the train, witch ever you think would be a more interesting start," Flurry grumbled as about a million questioned ran threw her mind, she took a deep breath to calm herself and picked up the story.
"So we split up into two groups of three, Me and the Girls went to get the tickets while the guys set up a distraction so Twilight couldn't stop me from leaving,"
"Are you sure?" Flurry asked as she and Peach followed Pumpkin threw the castle.
"Positive," Pumpkin replied, "He comes in from 2 to 6 every Friday, we have a good hour before he's suppose to leave so we should be able to get his help if we tell him Twilight would be against it,"
"But he's not exactly what one would call predictable,"
"He'd be a sucky God of Chaos if he was,"
"Indeed I would," Discord agreed from behind them wearing a ninja outfit, Flurry and Pumpkin both jumped and Peach laughed.
"Hi Discord," She cheered happily as the God of Chaos picked her up and gave her a noogied.
"Well if it isn't my third favorite creature," He replied merrily before setting her down and turned to Flurry "So I was just minding my own business when I heard somepony mention needing help with something Twilight would be against," Discord leaned down and looked at them looking like an old man with a cane "So old uncle Discord hobbled on down to show his support for shenanigans," a mini Discord appeared behind Flurries head and whispered into her ear. "So what's the gig?" Flurry looked behind her to make sure there wasn't anypony listening in. "Relax," Discord added "I put us in a pocket dimension, no pony will overhear, now spill the beans,"
"We...think we might have found Spike," Flurry said simply, she expected some reaction for Discord, instead he nodded.
"You mean the Diamond Dog kingdom?" He asked, earning a look of shock from the trio "What? It's not hard to find a Dragon overcharged with magic," Discord smiled "But just between you and me I might be preventing Twilight, or anypony really, from tracking his magical signature." Discord smiled as he looked out the window "Specially since he's pretty busy,"
"Busy?" Flurry asked in confusion.
"That's it!" Spike cheered out suddenly, making the 6 jump.
"What's it?" Pumpkin asked suspiciously.
"That's how you know about the elements, Discord told you," Spike laughed "Oh man, I freaking love that guy, if Twilight didn't have him tethered in magic binding I'd invite him to tea,"
"Magic binding?" the group asked in confusion, with the exception of Pumpkin, who's jaw dropped.
"That explains so much," She whispered "I always found it weird that Discord stuck to such a regular schedule," Flurries ears peaked at that, her friends were to busy in confused discussion to notice her, Spike gave Pumpkin a smile and gave her a hush sign before going back to scratching the Diamond dog in his lap. Pumpkin looked at Spike in silence as she sat back down.
"Pumpkin," Flurry whispered.
"Later," was Pumpkins only reply before Spike cleared his throat.
"Alright now that I know that let's get back to the story, oh and you can skip to after Discord tell's ya about the elements since I totally bombed your reveal,"
The trio where in shock and awe as Discord closed a small picture book that he had been using as a prop when telling them about Spike's several year escapade in hunting down the fragments of the Elements.
"And that's what Spike has been busy with," Discord finished with a smile "Now unless I've missed my guess your here to ask me for travel, tho just be aware once Twilight figures out I gave these to ya she's gonna track my magic to find the traces left on you and will also find the giant bubble of my magic hiding Spike, so if you do this your kind of throwing your old babysitter to the fishes." The three looked at each other, all of them having different looks, Peach seemed hesitant, Pumpkin seemed concerned, and Flurry looked determined.
"We're sure," She replied, Discord snapped and 6 train tickets appeared in front of them.
"Well have fun, I'm gonna go get fancied up for when Twilight inevitably screams her head off at me," Discord snapped once more and he was gone, the three looked at each other one more time before Pumpkin teleported the tickets to her suitcase and they rushing back down the hall to their room to retrieve the boys,"