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// Bacon Is Wonderful 
// Story: Unintended Consequences 
// by Daedalus 
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  Spike walked into the kitchen. Something smelled...different. Not in a bad way, by any means, but it was an odor never before encountered by this particular dragon. Spike immediately noticed upon his entrance that the person staying with him and Twilight was cooking something, which explained the smell. 
"Hey, uh, what was it again? Oh, Aristotle, right. Eh, what are you cooking? Smells weird." 
The man in question, who had been very busy, looked up in surprise before noticing Spike and answering his query. 
"Hi, Spike. I am cooking BACON!" 
This was delivered in a silly dramatic voice. 
"That's bacon?" was the reply Aristotle got for his trouble. "'That's bacon?' This is only the best food ever! Unless you're a vegetarian, then it would be pizza. Anyway, I take you haven't had any of this sort of bacon before?" Seeing a nod, he continued."Bacon is the meat from a pig's back, I think. You're a dragon, I think you'll like it. Here you go." Spike was hesitant to accept the proffered meat; he hadn't ever eaten meat before. It seemed wrong to engage in carnivorism, but he ate the bacon to be polite. 
It was pretty good, and Spike said as much. Aristotle was happy about this and started rambling about how he could now be Spike's "bro" or something before suddenly speaking in a more focused manner. 
"Spike, as a male who has lived only with females, you are ignorant of the ways of men. Allow to be your guide to masculinity , and I will make sure that you can be a man when the time comes. Also, I hear you have connections with society's elite, which would be helpful for my job."
Spike, who hadn't been listening much until the part where things made some sense, asked,"You have a job? No one told me." 
In answer, the man rambled some more, but this time it was more to the point. "Since I'm the only person here, I kinda represent humanity as a whole, so that's officially my job title:Humanity's Ambassador to Equestria. I've never been a diplomat before, so I need a lot of help, which I think you can provide. I've been reading a lot of this library's books, but it's not the same. At least it pays well and doesn't demand much of me. Anyways, would you mind being my guide to the circles of society I need to move in?" 
Spike thought about it for a minute, and he came to the conclusion that Aristotle was close enough to Twilight having a bad day that he needed to protect the world from the human's potential danger. And he was interesting in the same way Twilight was. Spike agreed and decided to ask why Aristotle was cooking bacon that day. 
"I got my Carnivore License today. Thought I'd celebrate. Here's yours. Dragon citizens automatically get them. Your License was caught in some backlog, I guess. Or someone important doesn't want you eating meat. I don't know. Beside the point. Can we be bros?" 
Spike replied,"I don't see why not." 
"Spike, I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship. Let's have some bacon." So they did. 
Then Twilight Sparkle walked in. 
"What are you two eating, meat? I'll just go now;I'm feeling sick." 
Spike stood up to explain, but he was held back by his new bro.  "Leave her, Spike. As an herbivore, eating meat is beyond her understanding. Have some more bacon." Bacon proved to be an effective cure for sadness.  And then Spike became a carnivore.