//------------------------------// // Spike at Your Service // Story: Spawn of Disharmony // by KenSES64 //------------------------------// Spawn of Disharmony By:KenSES64 Chapter 32: Spike at Your Service I was asleep when I felt something nudging me. I open my eyes to see Rainbow Dash poking me with her hoof. “Seth, you have to get up, you’re late for work.” She said. “Oh, *Yawn* crap!” I said jumping out of bed, and rushing to get ready. While I was doing my normal morning stuff as quickly as I could, Rainbow followed me around to speak with me, “Hey Seth you’ve been so stressed since you got back from Canterlot. I’d say you’re even worse than when Trixie disappeared. I mean when did you even get to bed last night?” “Honestly I don’t know and of course I have. How can can I not be? So red mist thing is absorbing beings not just from Equestria, but the whole world, including one of my very few guy friends. Which his wife, Copy Cat, took extremely hard. Have you ever seen a changeling cry? It’s surprisingly more depressing than you’d think it’d be, and Light Arrow blames himself for it because he went to lunch, yet it’s not like he could of stopped it. The biggest thing I’m wondering about is what I have to do with this.” I was quiet for a second before I repeated the voice’s hint, “Order and chaos. Chaos and order. Two sides of the same coin. A coin that has always come up on heads, but soon it will land on tails.” I was silent for another few seconds, “I still have no bucking clue what that means.” “Seth I told you before that...” “I know, nothing’s going to go bad as long as we have each other’s backs. Still this thing is a threat to the whole world, and I need to stop it.” “We need to stop it.” Rainbow corrected, “According to what you told me the mist said was, that me, the others, the princesses and you can’t be absorbed for one reason or another, so we’ll work together on this when it comes, but for now I don’t want you to drive yourself insane from worry.” She then flashes some bedroom eyes, “Besides you’ve be neglecting your duties as my fiance.” I roll my eyes and Rainbow makes a pouty face and says, “What a mare has needs and you’re my only option, element of loyalty after all.” “You’re making this sound like you can do better than me.” “Implying that there is anypony better than you?” I smile at my mare and say, “Like I said last week, I’m rubbing off on you.” I give her a kiss before I leave, hoping that Twilight’s not mad at me. ______________________________________________________________________________ As I was rushing to the library I ended up running into Spike. “Hey Seth, Twilight told me that if I ran into you to let you know that you should bother going to the library.” He told me. “Wait, are you saying she fired me?!” I said as my jaw dropped, “I mean I know I’m late, but...” “Oh no, I didn’t mean it like that. You see Princess Celestia assigned a dozen books for her to read, so she gave both of us the day off.” “Oh, well thank Celestia, and I mean that both figuratively and literally.” “So, what are you going to do now? As for me I’m bored.” “Go back home to Rainbow of course.” ______________________________________________________________________________ So I made my way back home and teleported inside, so I can try to surprise Rainbow. I find her at the desk reading, I sneak up behind her and cover her eyes, “Guess who?” “I thought you were going to work.” She deadpanned. “Twi gave Spike and I the day off.” I explain as I remove my hooves from her eyes. “So do you want to do anything like go out to lunch, see a movie or...” I lean up to her ear, “I can make up for neglecting my duty as your fiance.” Rainbow got a small blush and said, “I like the sound of that last one.” ______________________________________________________________________________ Some time later afterwards Rainbow and I were walking together in town, by Rarity’s so Rainbow decided to stop by to say hi. She flew up to the open window and said, “AJ, Rarity, what’s happening?” “Applejack saved Spike’s life and now he has to serve her forever.” Rarity said. “Sweet. What are you having him do? Wash your laundry? Clean your room? Help you with your unfinished novel? Mine’s about this awesome pegasus, who’s the best flyer ever, and becomes the captain of the Wonderbolts.” “How ever did you come up with that engeniusly woven intricate plot line?” Rarity asked sarcasticly. “Just came to me.” “Is that a novel or just the sequel to your Daring Do fanfiction?” I ask smirking. Rainbow doesn’t answer, but shoots me a short glare. “The thing is I don’t really want him to serve me forever, but I don’t know how to get him to stop.” Applejack explained. “That’s easy, just make him help you with something really, really, hard.” Rainbow said. “I don’t know, I don’t want him to get hurt.” “Pah-lease, he’ll quit way before there’s a chance of getting hurt.” There was a crashing sound and Spike came out with a pipe. “Leave this to me.” Rainbow said to Applejack. “Sooo Spike, Applejack was going to help me stack some hay, so I can practice smashing through it, but I’m feeling extra, extra powerful today.” “You are?” Applejack asked. “Yeah, I am. So, instead of hay, I’m gonna smash through rocks!” “Rocks?” Spike asked. “Rocks?!” I asked nervously. “Yeah, a huge tower of rocks, and you’re gonna build it.” Rainbow said, putting her arm around Spike for a second. “I am?” He asked. “Yeah, I mean unless you don’t want to help Applejack.” “I do! It’s Spike’s dragon code.” He said, bowing. “Then get to it.” Spike ran off, and Rainbow turned to AJ, “Trust me. This is gonna work like a charm.” ______________________________________________________________________________ So Spike ended up building the rock tower. Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow and I all looked at it surprised. “Bad news, he actually ended up building the whole rock tower. Good news, I got a rock tower to knock down.” Rainbow said nerviously. I pulled her aside, hoping that Spike won’t hear us and said to her, “You don’t have to do this. I mean I can just use my magic so it’d look like you knocked it down. I don’t want you to get hurt.” “Would you?” I nodded, and Rainbow flew at the tower. I did as I said I would and pushed it over right before she made impact. “That... was... awesome!” Spike exclaimed before a boulder landed right in front of him. “Want to do it again Rainbow Dash? Applejack can rebuild it for ya, and when I saw Applejack, I of course mean me.” “Sure why not?” She said, landing on the ground and giving me a quick wink. “No! I mean, I don’t think Rainbow Dash needs any more of your help, my help, I don’t think she needs it. Right, Rainbow Dash?” Applejack said. “Yeah I guess I’m good for now.” “And so am I. I just can’t think of one more thing I need help with. So, you don’t have to do anything else.” Spike fell onto his back, “W-What do you mean you can’t think of anything else I can help with?” “Exactly that. There’s nothing else I don’t want you to do anything.” “But, if I don’t help you how will I know if I’m a noble dragon?” “Well I...” Maybe there’s things you need help with that you don’t realize you need help with.” The Spike when through a few ideas like giving AJ a massage, singing to her, and even breathing. Yeah, I don’t want to get into that one. ______________________________________________________________________________ Later as Applejack had Spike distracted with having him count grass, the mares and I were in the barn thinking of a plan. “Alright y’all, here’s the deal. Spike needs to save my life.” Pinkie pulled out a bunch of random crap and said, “And you wanna shoot out a cannon, towards the hornets nest, and give Spike the butterfly net so he catch you near seconds before you hit the nest and are stung by a thousand angry hornets! I’ll wear this mustache.” “Wait did you say hornets?! Sorry girls, but I hate bees and anything related to them so I’m sure you can handle this without me! ‘Kay bye!” I quickly said before teleporting out of there. What I despise bees, why you may ask, well I may go into more detail sooner or later, but lets just say it involves that hellspawn of a rabbit Fluttershy calls Angle. A while later, Rainbow explained what they did, and they didn’t do Pinkie’s plan, so my cowardly exit was pointless, but hey, in the end they didn’t need me. What the plan was to fake Applejack being attacked by a Timberwolf, but Spike didn’t fall for it, then a few real Timberwolves showed up, and in the end Spike did save Applejack. They agreed that they were even and to just stick to Applejack’s code of “that’s just what friends do.” ______________________________________________________________________________ That night, while I was asleep I had a dream of nothing, but the mist’s voice, and it said, “YeS sEtH jUsT lIsTeN tO rAiNbOw AnD wAiT fOr YoUr EnD oF dAyS. iT wOn’T sLoW mE dOwN. yEt, NoThInG eLsE wIlL. oNe SiXtH oF tHe WoRlD’s PoPuLaTiOn CoUlDn’T.” Then of course it started laughing.