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// Cruel Capture 
// Story: Life's End 
// by Nightingale28 
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Spike looked out the window of Canterlot Castle. 

It was storming, strikes of lightning illuminating his view of outside.

It didn’t really matter that it was raining, what would he even be doing if it wasn’t? All he did nowadays was lay around the castle. He didn’t find much joy in life anymore. He couldn’t enjoy it with his friends after all. Sure he had Twilight, but she was so busy ruling Equestria that she barely had time for him.

He had lost so much in such a short time, he had lost Fluttershy, Pinkie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and even Rarity, not to mention countless others. 

What was the point of making friends if they were constantly being taken away?

He closed the blinds of his window and went to his bed, curling up beneath the covers.

As he was getting comfortable he noticed something, no somepony standing in the doorway of his bedroom as a strike of lightning flashed across their black, tattered cloak.

Before he could get Twilight, or even so much as move, a dart was shot into his stomach and he slumped to the floor.

The hooded figure moved closer, putting Spike into a sack, before teleporting out of the castle.