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// Spike's Mistake 
// Story: A new Age 
// by Silver Butcher 
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"And that is how I became King," Spike said before taking a sip of his mug "Oh, and also how I met my wife,"
"Wait you're actually married to that thing?" Flurry demanded in shock getting an odd look from Pumpkin.
"Flurry you referred to her as his Dog throne wife before Dinner started,"
"I was just bitching at you," Flurry snapped back "I didn't think they were actually married," Spike shook his head at them and looked over to his Throne, who was watching Trixie get a check-up with the other Diamond Dog Guards,"
"Trixie is fine," She said irritably as the Diamond Dog did the last step on her checkup list, Jasper and Pound had been watching the ordeal in silence, mostly due to the odd things the Dog was doing to check on Trixie's health, Trixie lowered her head and the Diamond Dog started scratching behind her ear, after a few second Trixie started waving her tail and the Diamond Dog Medic let out an adorable yipping sound.
"Alright then," Sombra said with a nod as Trixie was Given a Lollypop made out of Rock-candy, and with a final yip the Diamond Dog medic made her way to the door, the closest guard opened it for her and closed it behind her.
"I'd still like to hear your story later," Peach said to Trixie politely.
"Very well, Trixie will tell it to you, and you alone, later," Trixie smiled at her before turning to Sombra with an irritated glare.
"Just because Trixie stops using the Thrid person, doesn't mean she's having a stroke!"
"The First time I heard you use the first person was when you were having a stroke!" Sombra snapped back
"That was a Heart attack!" Trixie yelled back angrily
"How is that any better?" Sombra demanded.
"It's not I'm just being correct!" Trixie snapped at him before Cozy Glow spoke up.
"Sombra I do believe you called dibs on telling the next story did you not?" She asked.
"Why yes I did," Sombra said proudly as Cozy turned to Trixie.
"And Trixie, chill out before you have another Heart attack,"
"I only had one because of Sparkle," Trixie snapped back before crossing her arms and muttering something that went unheard.
"Alright then," Sombra said as he stood up and lit his horn the room around them seemed to shift untile it looked as tho they were standing in a garden
"So what is this?" Zestar asked "Levitation or glowing eyes?"
"I've regained some of my magical prowess over the last decade," Sombra said as he proudly before adding with a noticeable frown "Tho I mainly deal with Illusions, and a handy spell for finding water underground," Sombra cleared his throat, now-" He placed his hand on Spike's head and lit his horn before pointing behind the Young six, "If you will all face that way I shall begin the show, no talking please, thank you and enjoy,"



The Garden seemed empty, devoid of anything save its plentiful decorations and growth, until something began stirring beneath a Rosebush, after a second the shadow beneath it suddenly darted out to the nearest bush and went still once more, After a moment Spike opened his eyes, they kind of gave his position away but it was pretty hard to look around with them closed.
"Where are you?" Spike muttered as he scanned the area for his quarry "I know you're here somewhere," Spike suddenly heard a pair of voices and he darted into the bush so he could spy on the passing duo. Twilight and Shining Armor soon came into his line of sight and he listened to their conversation.
"...I just don't understand," Shinning said, he looked like he hadn't slept in a week and like he'd been homeless for just as long. "She just threw me out,"
"Well that's what you get for cheating on her," Twilight said, only half-listening to her brother as she looked threw a book.
"But I didn't, I would never," Shinning cried out as he waved a stack of photos around in his hand "I don't even know who this mare is!" Shinning cried out in despair.
"Well Rarity said she and Applejack caught you in the act, she even got pictures and Applejack backed her up,"
"There Fake," Shinning practically cried "Twi, please you've got to-" The rest of their conversation was lost as they moved away from Spike. who poked out of the bush with a look of pity in his eyes.
"I wish I could help, but pretty sure Cadance will blast me into oblivion if she sees me, definitely wouldn't believe me if I backed up Shinning, probably make it worse actually," Spike looked both ways before rushing down the garden path to where to two had come from, he went threw a bush and ended up face to face with the statue of three former villains.
"No, but I'm getting closer," He muttered as he slid around the pavilion the statue was sitting on as he went from path to path he groaned "A Hedge maze, I bet this was Discords idea," Spike turned a corner and found a few benched, he was about to turn around but froze when he felt an odd feeling form in the air, he darted to the nearest bench and hid in its shadow as a light lit up where he had just been and Shinning walked to the benches, defeat etched into his face. He sat on the closest Bench, the same one Spike was cowering under.
"Oh shit, oh shit, I don't wanna test to see if he's on my side or not," Spike thought as he tried to be a shadow. Shining Armor looked at the Pictures in his hands and tossed them to the grass, Spike peaked at one and looked away at the rather graphic image of what looked to Shinning enjoying an intimate moment with some random mare and Declared loud and proud "NOPE, FUCK THIS," Shinning jumped at his voice and Spike Rushed the exit at full speed before giving up on that to and jumped into the hedge wall, Shinning got to his hooves and looked to where the shadowy blob had run to.
"Spike?" He asked before smiling and running down the path and turning out of sight.
"And there he goes," Spike said, peaking out of the hedge "to get Twilight and kick my ass," Spike went from a blob into himself and ran in the opposite direction of Shinning, he turned a corner and froze, it was a Dead end, surrounded in hedges, but at its endpoint was a pavilion, and standing on it, the look of shock still on her face, Was the petrified Statue of Starlight Glimmer. Spike let out a squeal of Glee before running to her and, once next to her, started rubbing his hands together, green electricity came out of his hands.
"Alright, took three months to synthesize this magic, but it should turn you back," Spike stopped rubbing and clapped his hands together, pulling them apart his hands turned Green and he smiled as he turned and put his hand on Starlight, three things happened at once, Alarms suddenly came to life, the Pavilion started shaking, and Something Grabbed Spike by the middle and jumped away from the statue Spike hit the grass and rolled to his side to see Shinning armor laying next to him, with a loud click the Pavilion finished turning into a Box, covered in markings and ruins. Spike looked at it in confusion before Shinning spoke up.
"It was a trap," He said "She knew you'd come back for her, made a fake statue and trapped it," Spike looked at Shinning then heard voices and acted fast.
"Get Ready to bubble yourself and pretend you just got hit in the stomach," Shinning blinked when Spike grabbed the front of his shirt and threw him to the entrance of the dead-end, Shinning bubbled himself just as the Guards rounded the corner and he brought them down with him. Spike turned on the spot and began plowing threw hedges, he slid to a stop when he ran into more guards, who lit their horns and fired at him, Spike spun in place and ran down the path, he turned a corner and once again found the three old Villians, he looked at his hands, still glowing green and sighed.
"I can't use my magic until I get rid of this, and it can't just be thrown away," He sighed and made his way to the Three villains. He got to them just as Twilight landed and her Guards closed in.
"End of the line Spike," She said as she lit her horn, "But hey, at least I don't have to move you," She blasted the spell and Spike jumped out of the way and put his hands on the base of the Statue, The Green magic soaked into the stone and with his hands now Free he put up a shield that reflected Twilight's next blast and sent it flying, Twilight and her guards watched as it flew to her castle and the large star resting on it's top was struck with the spell and slowly began turning to stone.
"My Castle!" Twilight cried out as she instantly lost interest in Spike and flew to it to stop the curse from spreading. Spike left his shield up and was about to dip out when something landed on him, he looked at his shoulder and Cozy Glow looked back. Before either could say anything a loud echoing crash was heard as the entire upper part of Twilight's castle was blasted away with a huge magical blast before it could infect the rest of the building. Spike winced.
"Oh, not exactly what I meant to do," Cozy blinked and looked from the massive destruction to Spike.
"You did that?"
"I mean...I caused that, I didn't wanna get turned to stone so I bounced it back, and it hit her castle so OH SHIT SHES COMING BACK!" Twilight landed in front of her guards cracking the ground as she landed, her face was red, just as she landed Tirek was freed from the statue and looked at the chaos in front of him before looking to Spike and Cozy.
"Tirek this guy can block the stone spell!" Cozy punched Spike's cheeks "With him we are unstoppable,"
"Aren't you the Princesses assistant,"
"I kinda...I guess I did what you did and ate Sombra's magic?" Spike said in confusion "It was a weird day," Spike looked at the quickly unpetrifying Chrysalis and sidestepped as Twilight's spell bounced off again and opened a hole just as Chrysalis unfroze and fired a magical blast that went straight through the hole and hit Twilight in the face, knocking her onto her ass as Spike turned the shield into a dome.
"What the...?" Chrysalis asked in confusion when The Guards started an on slot of Magic blasts, acting fast Spike held up his hand and forced all the blasts into a large ball before bringing it to him and holding it out to Tirek who accepted it happily and Spike turned the dome into a copy of his head and Spoke loudly threw it.
"Later bitch," he sang out before the dome imploded and in a black swirl of confusion the 4 were standing before what looked to be the Trunk of a giant Brimstone Tree.
"This is your base?" Crysalis asked "Kind of small but..."
"It goes all the way to the bottom of the Cavern around is," Spike said as he pointed to the edge "And then my Kingdom spreads out for a few hundred miles in every direction. The Three stared at him in silence.
"Now for the rules," Spike said simply "No leaving without asking me if you do leave, try to keep a low profile, Twilight has gone bat shit crazy and if she petrifies you she might then shatter you so, you know, beware of that," he then pointed to Cozy "Don't try and overthrow me and I'll name a city after you," he turned to Chrysalis "Don't drain the love from any of my dogs, unless you ask them first, you might be surprised how many are into it, and if you do, don't drain all of it," he turned to Tirek "And you, just try not to break any doors with your horns," The Three Villians looked at him in confusion as he opened the door to his castle.
"Now which one of you wanna go tell Sombra how much more successful you were than he was?"
"I DO!" Cozy said immediately.



As Cozy dashed to the door the Illusion faded away and they were once again in the room.
"So you three are here," Pumpkin said looking to the three Villians "Completly on accident,"
"Not Completly," Spike corrected "They were more like the backup plan,"
"You love us," Chrysalis said with a smile "You know you do, if not for me all the trading routes, underground trails and tunnels connecting all your cities, towns, and Mines would still be the safety hazard they were when I first got here,"
"Thanks to my advice," Tirek said proudly "Quite a few of your Citys have successfully started growing crops using the land above them," He gave a nervous laugh "Sadly We just got the report in this morning, Easy bay had been taken over by the Equestrian Government," The Young six watched at the area quickly turned into a Council meeting.
"What!?" Sonata Demadned "That Town was our main exported of Fish!" She Hit the table angrily "How am I supposed to enjoy a Fish taco if every week one of our ocean cities is taken over!"
"We need to set an example," Sombra said angrily, "Take an Equestrian city,"
"Since when are you the General?" Cozy demanded as she pointed at herself "That Idea is stupid, Remember what happened to the Griffins when they Tried to push against Equestria slowly overtaking their border? Twilight Declared war and sent hundreds of troops to tear their cities to the ground!" They even tried to surrender but Twilight just wiped them off the map, Griffin stones not even Griffin Stone anymore, It's Ponystone now, and it's not just Diamond Dogs she's kicking out of their homes, I got word from our Spy that Applelossa is-" Spike suddenly Cracked the table and maybe everyone jump.
"Not to alarm you but we're talking about some serious Government secrets in front of our hostages," Spike got to his feet and the rest of the Villians did so as well.
"I'm Taking Peach," Spike said simply "The rest of you take one of them with you, don't care who you take or why," He turned to Trixie.
"Trixie you and Throne go to the Central Hub and raise the Alarm, Evacuate the Castle and the City" The Villians all had looks of shock on their faces.
"You mean..." Sombra asked a hint of fear in his voice.
"Yes," Spike said with a frown, "We're getting the last piece of the Element of magic...and leading Twilight here for the final battle,"