Smoke & Mirrors

by Doctah WAAwee


Spike is a Wierdo.

"Spider..."

'Mehhhhh....'

"Spider~. Wake up honey."

'Whaaaa...'

"Today Twilight's good friend Spike will take care of you while I go to the Crystal Empire, and you'll get to meet my good friend Twilight before we leave."

Amias opened his eyes to see a smiling Fluttershy gently stroking his head, he yawned and stretched his arms. Something was cooking down in the kitchen, and it was good.

"I made you an omelette, come downstairs. We have to leave in about 20 minutes."

Amias got up from his bed, donned the traditional frat boy attire, and followed Fluttershy to the kitchen. The omelette was on a plate on a table. Amias smiled.

"I know your smarter then the average human...so I gave you a spot on the table...though I don't think I can get used to you smiling." Fluttershy had a mildly disturbed look on her face.

'I'm gonna have to tell her after she comes back. '

Amias decided to not freak her out further and eat with his hands. The omelette was amazing, Fluttershy could sling a mean huevo.

After they were done with the delicious breakfast, Fluttershy put the leash on Amias's collar. The collar itself was a very professionally made one, he wasn't into that kind of stuff, but the collar was very comfortable...

Still, it was degrading to have one on, but it was bearable.

Fluttershy and Amias took their time walking towards the place Twilight lived.

Fluttershy was getting worried, Spider's eyes alone were going to get some attention from Twilight. If he were to smile, or laugh, or do anything that isn't normal for a human, Twilight would not REST until see she knows why he can do this...or breakdown. It can go either way.

They were getting closer to the library. Since it was early in the only sounds that could be heard were their footsteps. As they came closer to the library, Fluttershy's nervousness increased. She did not know how Spike would react. But since he agreed to this, she hoped that he knew what he was up for.

"We're almost there, do you promise to be on your best behavior?" Fluttershy asked Amias. He nodded. The sun was barely out. It created a wonderful painting of oranges and purples in the sky. There was barely a soul in the street. The sunrise was beautiful as it always was. The library was getting close.

Amias saw a purple pony with wings AND a horn. She had a couple of bags with her and was outside, it looked like she was waiting for something.

When the pony saw Amias for the first time, her eyes widened. Whether it was from shock, excitement, or fear he couldn't tell. Her horn shine a bright purple, before she disappeared in a flash of light.

'Not bad, she could have held back on the light sh-'

"Amazing!" A very loud voice screamed.

"EEEP!" Fluttershy exclaimed in surprise.

Amias flinched and looked next to him. Now he got a REALLY good look at the purple wing-horn pony. Her eyes were bright with excitement, curiosity, amazement...it was a little creepy. Also due to the fact that she was VERY close to him.

"So THIS is the human that is going to be sent to Canterlot for study! It's eyes are...astounding, I wonder what else it can do?"

'Wait...study?'

Twilight was feeling at Amias like he was a new toy, lifting his arms, touching him profusely, looking at his eyes, and generally being a creep.

"Ummm....Twilight?" A soft voice said from behind.

Twilight looked behind her to see Fluttershy pawing at the ground. "Yes?"

"Ummm, don't we have to get to the train station for the games...if its alright."

"OH! I'm sorry, but I was just so...intrigued by this human you have here...I heard that they found a genetically altered human on the caravan but...he looks so much like the humans in the world I went to retrieve the crown from Sunset Shimmer. It feels like he can talk at any moment."

"Yeah...well, I think we should introduce him to Spike, we don't have a lot of time left."

Twilight nodded. "Spike! The human is here!"

"Just a sec, Twi! I need to beat Mario!"

"Beat who?...If you don't mind me asking?" Fluttershy asked.

"Ever since the whole Sunset Shimmer ordeal, this Equestria and the other one have been trading goods any chance we got. So, they gave us television, and other advances in technology. Spike is playing a game from the other Equestria called 'Mega Brawl Bros. Melee'.

'If my hunch is correct...then that is an alternate version of SSBM!...I'm going to mess with this 'Spike' character.'

Just as Amias was done contemplating how he was going to mess with Spike, a small purple dragon with green eyes came out. And he didn't look to happy.

"Stupid Mario with his cape..." He muttered to himself. Amias chuckled inwardly, he was best with Mario, and he knew how much of a troll you could be with Mario's cape.

"So this is the human that Fluttershy got..." Spike said. The way he was looking at Amias was of shock, awe and... something else. Amias couldn't tell what other emotion he was exhibiting, and that's saying something. Amias was trained to basically read minds through the muscle movements of the persons face. But this wasn't a human, it was a baby lizard thing. Ponies and...whatever Spike was had these HUGE eyes that made it easy to see what emotions they were saying. So maybe what was hidden behind his eyes wasn't intentional.

"C'mon boy." Spike took the leash from Fluttershy, "let's get you cozy."

"Umm, are you sure you can handle him Spike? I don't want to be a burden on you."

"Don't worry Shy, I got this."

"He's...different from other humans Spike."

"His eyes already tell that fact."

"Just...please keep an open mind, he might do things that are...weird."

"I keep cool with Twilight around, I think I can handle one human."

"Hey!"

The group shared a laugh. After the two mares left, Spike led Amias to, by Amias's guess, was a T.V and next to it was a purple cube-like thing...

'I'm really staring to love this world.'

"I really need to beat Mario...maybe this human will be my good luck charm."

He picked up a controller, and turned on the 'gamecube'. He let the intro video play, which was basically a slightly different version of this:

'Ahhh...childhood. Even though I still have the game.'

Spike was getting pumped, I started talking to himself. 'today's the day' 'your going down, Mario' and other words of self encouragement.

When he went to defeat lv.9 difficulty 'Mario', he picked 'Link' as his character.

'One battle of epic proportions later...'

"HORSEFEATHERS! HE GOT ME WITH THE CAPE AGAIN!" Spike screamed. It was pretty funny. 'Mario' caped link just as he was doing his spin recovery, and to add insult to injury, he meteor smashed him into oblivion.

But when the screen said to Spike 'You are a loser.' Amias couldn't hold it in, he snickered and snorted like crazy. Spike looked to him, imitating 'Surprised Patrick' just like his friends. But strangely enough Spike's shock soon changed into annoyance.

"I'd like to see YOU do better!" He said, he dumped the controller into Amias's lap and looked away in a huff. Muttering something along the lines of 'dumb human'.

'Alright.'

Amias picked up the controller and started going through the motions of setting up another match. Spike slowly turned around and looked at the screen, when Amias started to thoroughly school lv.9 Mario, Spike just looked on with orgasm eyes.

"GAME SET!" The sound of the automated voice declaring Amias the victor. It only took Amias 5 minutes to beat him, and he had three lives left. Amias decided to mess with Spike even more by looking at him, smiling, and holding out the controller from him to grab.

Spike was frozen in place until the sound of fanfare was heard from the game.

'Stage unlocked: Townsvillie Tower!'

"Wait...this can't-"

'New Challenger: Bubbles!'

Spike shoved the controller back into Amias's chest. "Go on boy! Beat bubbles, unlock her!"

'...This could be fun.'

And just as Amias predicted, a slightly different version of Bubbles from PPG started attacking Mario...

It was the hardest battle Amias has ever fought.

She was fast, she hit hard, and her projectiles (laser eyes, FIRE BREATH, sonic screech) did a number on him...but.

"GAME SET!"

Amias won out in the end. Spike started cheering, jumping up and down like he just got a Christmas present. Spike surprised Amias by glomping him, and rubbing him all over.

"I don't know how you did it boy but THANK YOU!"

'Ohhh...my.' Amias thought, doing a very good impression of Fluttershy.

Spike went behind him and started rubbing his back, he laid down on the floor as Spike continued to scratch him. His mind shut down and he just enjoyed the feel of Spike's claws on his back.

"You like that don't you boy?"

Amias nodded.

"You can understand me?"

He nodded again.

"Oh your a smart one, much better than the other human I met."

Spike started rubbing the base of Amias's spine. He almost fainted from the sensation.

"Twilight has a lot of books about humans ever since we came back from the other Equestria. I met a human version of a pony that I really like...she was beautiful."

'Haaaa....ahhh.' Amias was putty in Spike's hand.

"Ever since I came back from there...I started seeing humans in a different light. None of the humans in this world even came close to the beauty of human Rarity...I met a human who was as close as you can get...but you. Your smart, your the best human I have ever seen in this world. Your hair is long enough...I could style it in Rarity's fashion, would you like that?"

Amias nodded as Spike pressed deeper into his back tissue.

"Good boy..." Spike...took a deep whiff of Amias's back. His eyes used their internal eyelids to blink and a long, serpentine tongue came out of his mouth. He licked Amias's neck and let out a deep, animalistic growl. Spike started to grow ever so slightly.

"Oh the things we can do together...I finally have you Rarity, right?"

Amias nodded. The feeling of his long slender tongue on his neck was amazing.

"Now...let's take off this sheet and-"

"SPIKE!" a familiar voice was heard. Spike looked behind him to see Twilight, she teleported, evidence being the black ring on the wood floor. Spike hissed and used his body to wrap around Amias's body. He snuggled into the grip.

"Back off Twilight...she's mine. You WON'T take Rarity away from me again!"

"Spike please. Your not well, the dragon inside you is taking control! Remember what happened with that other human you thought was Rarity!...Please Spike, I don't want you to be put in jail..." She was crying.

Something inside Spike was trying to reason with his primal desires. Spike slowly started to shrink back to regular size.

"O-...I'm sorry Twi...I thought that I could resist because the human was a boy...I-"

Twilight shushed him with a hoof. "It's alright Spike...it's not your fault."

"...How did you know..."

"When it happened the first time, I put a spell on you that would notify me if it would ever happen again...I guess I have to renew it."

They hugged each other and stayed in a loving embrace, the library was silent...

"Ohhh...what happened?"

Twilight and Spike slowly turned to see Amias sit up and stretch.

"Man I feel...amazing for some reason."

Amias looked around and saw Twilight and Spike stare at him, eyes bugged out and mouths open.

"Ummmm...hi?"

Their screams were heard throughout Ponyvillie.