Spike had taken a walk from ponyville, they had just recently defeated Nightmare moon a few weeks ago as everyone was starting to settle down, Spike had started to feel useless as he didn't really do anything to help stop her, the main 6 all did something to help but he didn't. he started to doubt himself, he thinks he can't do anything to help. he asked twilight if he could take a break for a bit to relax for a bit, Twilight agreed but asked him to be careful. Spike had walked through the village after helping a few folks because they were all a little shaken after the most recent events. The villagers liked spike and were all thankful he could help, he then made his way to the woods, he always liked coming to this place as it was quiet, beautiful, and no predator's ever came here. Spike had always enjoyed the nature as he took whatever free time he had to go out and admire it, he and Fluttershy would get along just fine because they both love nature and animals. Spike often went to help her with her pets whenever he had free time to after twilight had allowed him to go.
Spike made his way through the forest as he looks at the place, the sun was shining the trees were brushing along the wind lovingly, it was a perfect day, even after the most recent events things still recover and they continue to live on with their lives.
"It's amazing on how quickly things can recover" Spike says with a smile, his friends at the village were all busy, Rainbow dash was helping with the weather, Rarity was helping with the townsfolk fashion, Applejack was helping with the trees, Pinkie with birthday parties, and Fluttershy with the animals
"Why wasn't i able to help? I could've done something..." Spike says sadly as he continues walking.
"I didn't do anything to help... They all told me i couldn't .. even though they were worried for my safety, i still wished i could do something to help..." Spike says as he sits down a nearby tree a strange looking spider had spotted him and began crawling down without his notice its body seemed to glitch for a moment as if something was wrong...
"What if more attacks like this happen... Will i be able to help? Or will i just be on the sidelines like this again?" Spike asks while looking at the sky.
"If something happens to my friends... I won't be able to help... They'll get hurt and i can't do anything..." Spike says with a tear in his eye.
"I wish i could find a way to help them... to be something spectacular..." Spike says a s he closes his eyes, the spider had just crawled onto him with out his notice making his way to his hand.
"Will i ever be able to help? Or will i just be sidelined, just a number one assistant? I love helping twilight around the tree, but i wish i could do something to help them all." Spike says as he's still in thought, but he feels something strange on his hand, he looks up and gasps in fear as he sees a spider on it, the spider then bites down on his hand injecting its venom into it, Spike then feels dizzy and his eyes become heavy as he starts sweating heavily from it, he feels more tired and he constantly starts to see multiple things at once.
"Oh come on..." Spike says as he fell asleep, the spider suddenly gets sucked into a portal that appeared right beside it sending it somewhere else...
A couple hours pass and spike finally begins to wake up.
"Oh... what happened? " Spike asks as he gets up, he then remembers about him getting bit by that spider.
"Oh right!!" Spike thought with worry as he looks at his hand to see what happened, the bite mark is still there, but the spider is gone completely.
"It was just a normal spider Spike... nothing bad can happen from it right?" Spike asks himself as he then gets up and heads back to the village.
The village had just gotten finished with repairs, everypony had calmed down, they then see spike and wave at him with smiles and he smiles back as he makes his way to the tree.
He walks in to find twilight studying once again shifting all over the place reading different books, she then looks at him and teleports right in front of him.
"Spike are you okay?! Where were you? you were gone for hours!" Twilight asks worried as she hopes spike is okay.
"I'm fine twilight i just needed time to myself, I'm sorry for making you worry so much." Spike says regretfully
"Well if your okay that's all i need to know... I need you two help me organize this place, more books had just arrived and they needed to be properly placed" Twilight says as she points to a large pile near the table.
"You got it twilight..." Spike says with a smile but a little annoyed as he proceeded to help her out. It took almost the rest of the day to properly organize the books into place but by sundown the place was finally done.
"Finally! glad that's over with" Spike says exhausted.
"yeah me to spike, lets get some sleep we got more work to do tomorrow." Twilight says as she gets on her bed and spike gets on his.
"Good night Spike" Twilight tells him.
"good night twilight" Spike says with a smile as she falls asleep, but spike couldn't as he kept thinking about what happened.
"It was just a normal spider, but why do i feel somethings different" Spike thinks as he looks at his hand.
"Something may have been different about that one... I can't tell twilight or she would freak out and try multiple experiments...I should just sleep for now and think about this later..." Spike finishes his thinking as he tries to sleep again