Chapter 7: Run To The Hills
Twilight stared in horror. The beast that was terrorizing the town was her own assistant, Spike. His body might have changed, but she knew it was him. Spike stood at a large size as he walked on his legs. His body had grown massively, from his tail, his torso, and arms. His neck was longer and snake-like and his head had changed for a more reptilian feature. His back even sprouted wings. With his new transformed body, the dragon was panicking the entire town, even destroying a few buildings.
"Spike…." Twilight whispered quietly in disbelief, not wanting to believe that it was really Spike.
"Twilight!" Pinkie Pie shouted loudly into the unicorn's ear to get her attention, "We need to do something! You must know of something to do!"
The unicorn nodded nervously, "We will need some help though," her words were shaking.
As she spoke, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Fluttershy trotted up to Pinkie and Twilight. Pinkie Pie let out a happy cheer as she saw that her other friends were okay.
"Oh, hey, girls. I hate to ask, but we are going to need each of you to take care of the….um….problem at hand," Twilight spoke to her friends with guilt.
"Can do, sugarcube. What's the plan?" Applejack nodded.
"Applejack and Rainbow, I need you two to try and stop the….monster in anyway you can. Traps, knocking it out, whatever," the purple mare spoke.
"Gotcha!" Rainbow Dash saluted before she bolted off with Applejack following close behind.
"Rarity, Fluttershy," Twilight's words caused her pegasus friend to let out an 'eep' when her name was called, "I will need you two help get all of the citizens out of Ponyville. We don't want any causalities."
"We can do that, Twilight, not a problem. Let's go, Fluttershy," Rarity nodded to her fellow unicorn before guiding Fluttershy away to fulfill their duty.
Pinkie Pie hopped up and down, "Ooo! What's my job, Twilight? Huh? Huh?" her words were very excited, which was to be expected from the party pony.
"I….I don't even know what I should do….I helped cause this…." Twilight's eyes were starting to water as she spoke, "I did this to Spike…."
"Say wha~?" Pinkie looked at her friend with a tilted head.
"The monster is Spike….and it's my fault he's like this," wiping the tears that were starting form in her eyes, Twilight looked to see the monstrous Spike trying to deal with Rainbow Dash flying around him.
"Did you say sorry? That goes quite a long way!" the pink pony asked bouncing around her friend.
As if a switch went off in the unicorn's brain, Twilight had an idea, "You're right. If anger and rage started this, then taking it away should fix the situation! Pinkie Pie, you're a genius!"
"Well, duh! But no pony believes me!" Pinkie commented.
Ignoring her friend's comment, Twilight galloped as fast as she could towards Spike. She had no real plan of how to deal with the situation, but she knew if she just started, everything should work out as it always had in the past.
As she got closer, she saw Applejack taking a quick break to catch her breath. She looked beaten and been through a lot already.
"Twi, you don't want ta get any closer. This is tougher than it looks," Applejack said before she galloped back into the fray with the monstrous Spike.
"It's okay, I know what I'm doing," she replied before she spoke quietly to herself, "I hope…."
Taking a deep breath, she shouted out Spike's name to get his attention. This caused not only Spike to stop his rampage, but also stopped Dash and Applejack who were surprised to learn that it was Spike they were dealing with. Spike looked down the familiar purple pony. He grunted, similar to how he had for his entire rampage.
"Spike! I'm sorry! I'm sorry for yelling at you! I didn't mean to! Now, please, stop this! You are hurting and scaring everypony! Please! I'm sorry!" Twilight shouted at the top of her lungs. Tears formed in her eyes again as she shouted.
The dragon stood in silence, processing the words from the unicorn. Finally, he replied, but not with a grunt, but instead he spoke with a loud, low bellowing roar, "Lies!" After he spoke, he continued his path of destruction.
The purple mare stared at Spike, extremely hurt at his response. She stood completely still, feeling as if her hooves were trapped in cement, keeping her from moving.
"No….no…." she whispered to herself in skepticism. While she was talking to herself, she did not notice a building was falling towards her.