-ponyville days before the fall of equestria-
a couple of minute ago spike was taking care of the uncounciuse dragoness that was sleeping on their couch before he went over to his separate room since he got too old to be sleeping with his sister. As soon as his head hit the pillow he was out cold.
-spikes mind-
"where am I?"spike thought as he floated in a black void making spike feel small.
"You are destined for greatness..." a voice said from within the void
"You will be the soldier we needed you to be......."
"In our darkest hour you will be the guiding light to show us the way...."
"Soon you must make a choice that will either be our victory or our down fall, soon my son the choice will be yours for you and you alone to make." The void finished in a flash of light and spike found himself floating above what used to look like ponyville but is now a wasteland filled with bodies.... Blood and gore everywhere and not a single trace of life, the skies darkened and blanketed by red and black smock.
After a while spike was pulled down towards ponyville to the front of the main hall where the most bodies were scattered everywhere, spike looked around shocked to silence at the horror that he was seeing and in an instant he heard yelling and screams coming towards him, as he looked around he saw an army of changelings and shadowy figures coming towards the hall from all directions and a bunch of them running out of the hall screaming and shooting weird weapons as they ran.
Spike then was pulled towards the hall more till he was right in front of the door as he got a better look he saw a lone drake clad in armour and weapons with blood dripping off of him as he walking towards the entrance of the hall where the forces were waiting to make their kill.
Three figures then stepped out of the crowed, two spike knew right away, and the third shocked him, spike was looking at sombra that came out first and walked to the side of the door, the second one that stepped out was the changeling queen that walked beside the king of shadows, and finally the last figure shocked him the most, the figure was wearing full body armour and weapons and with only the face exposed, as spike looked at the figure more and more he could tell that it was him but more evil.
As spike watch his evil self walk too the door , he saw the drake pull out some weird cylinder object and toss it through the doorway, a second later a explosion was heard and the lone drake that was inside was thrown out the door and was laying out in the open in front of the army, armour torn and ripped apart showing most of the drakes body that had large steady steams of blood flowing out of huge wounds as the drake layed on the ground bleeding to death.
Spike then looked up from the drake laying on the ground to see his evil self walk up to the drake grabbing him by the neck for all to see and yell something that shocked spike even more.
"Finally your time has come brother to die like the rest of those that fell before you, why don't you smile to the crowed..... Or is the great admiral too important for anyone to see him even his own flesh and blood" evil spike said as he dropped the drake and pulled out a pistol aiming it at the drakes head one handedley.
"Spike please let me explain, it was for your own safety, if someone found out about us being brothers, they would of used you a-" the drake was cut off as a bullet went through his head as he fell to the ground lifeless.
Spike then jumped up screaming when he woke up, after a minute twilight bashed through the door to his room her face full of worry as she ran over to spikes side as he sat up in his bed sweaty and eyes full of tears from the nightmare.
"Was it real or just dream, and if so who was the one that the evil me called brother?" Spike thought as he slowed his breathing before looking at twighlight.
"I'm okay twi, just a nightmare....." Spike looked out the window seeing it was morning, " I'm going out for a bit twilight, I'll be back later tonight" spike said as he got up walking by twilight and heading out of the library.
"O-okay spike be careful" twilight said allowed to herself as she watched him go before levitating a scroll and quill to her and writing a message before sending it with her magic.
After spike left the library he walked towards a hill that he used for stargazing to get away from civilization so he could think about the dream without being disturbed, on the way there he crept hearing the voice saying the same things as he did in the dream as if it was on a loop to taunt him.
"I'll be the soldier they'll need me to be?" Spike said allowed as he tried to make sense of the statement but as he thought more questions then answers were made.
Finally spike made it to the hill and layed down looking up at the clouds and blue sky taking in the suns raze trying to stop thinking for a moment and relax, but right before he got comfortable his enhanced dragon hearing heard some pony coming to his position and spike didn't really care he just got more comfortable and closed his eyes as whoever was approaching kept coming and before long he heard the pony lay down beside him and sigh.
"Howdy sugar cube, what're ya doin here by yerself" spike could tell that it was applejack by the accent and nickname.
Spike stayed quite for a moment before speaking, "just relaxing" he said plainly as he glanced at AJ before closing his eyes and folding his arms behind his head.
"O-okay sugar cube, if ya need anyone ta talk to I always be around" AJ said before getting up and walking away glancing back at the drake with a concerned face before trotting off towards the library.
A few minutes later spike could here wings flapping before he was tackled and pinned down by a blue Pegasus named rainbow dash.
"Hey what did you do to my spikiebro, he's never this bummed out and misses breakfast" rainbow said as she kept him pinned down beneath her and he could of sworn he heard flash sentry, Big Mac, and shinning armour yelling lucky bugger.
" nothing's wrong dash, now can you please get off of me" spike asked as he tried to break free from rainbows grasp.
"And why would I want to do that, I won't bite.... Maybe" rainbow said as she saw the face spike was giving her before struggling some more to brake free and get away. After a while rainbow finally let go and began flying away before turning around to the drake.
"Ok spike if you ever want to talk I'm always free... Really I am always free all I do is attack rogue clouds" rainbow said while laughing a bit and taking off leaving spike alone.
"You are destined for greatness...." Spikes mind once again drifted to the dream again as spike stood up and ran and kept on running till he wouldn't be able to run anymore.
Spike finally collapsed on the ground by a small lake from running and at the moment spike didn't care as he let a huge torrent of orange flame into the lake making steam go throughout the area.
"So the dream really did bothered you that much... Should of known he would do this sooner or later to get our attention." A feminine voice said from behind spike, as soon as he turned around he saw luna standing their with a saddened look on her face.
"P-princess L-Luna why are you here?" Spike said as he bowed to the princess of the night.
"Sir spike don't you dare bow to me again, your a prince for crying out loud, and I know what your thinking, why did I call you a prince well why don't you take a seat so I can tell you why as well what the dream meant." Luna said as she sat down in front of the drake.
After luna told him about their parents and about his brother nova she then moved on to the dream.
"So spike the dream as you called it wasn't a dream at all, it was from our father that gave you actually a glimpse into a version of our future, and your the only one that can change it"luna finished as she looked at the dragon who had a blank expression on his face.
"So let me get this straight, our father was half pony half dragon, I have a brother named nova, and I have to choose something that has to do with the future" spike said as he kept a blank stare.
"That is correct" luna answered before remembering something, "also spike you must evacuate ponyville to the old castle of the sisters, that invasion is coming so you must evacuate the residents to the castle, sister and I thought we would have more time but since you had the vision last night showed us how soon it will start, please spike what ever it takes get to the castle once you get there everything will become clearer to why to go there." Luna said before vanishing.
Spike then quickly jumped up and ran back to the library to tell twilight. As soon as spike got to the library he opened the door finding all the elements there conversing amongst each other until they noticed spike got back.
"Twilight we must evacuate the town now we're going to be invaded!!!" Spike yelled as he looked at the mane six that were staring at him oddly.
"Yeah we"re the ones invading young dragon, you certainly have grown since the invasion of centerlot" a voice said from behind spike, when he turned around he was face to face with himself who gave him a sly grin from the expression that the real spike was giving to the copy.
Spike then punched the copy in the chin making it go flying across the room and landing on top of a table making it collapse and before the other changelings could react spike was already ran up to his copy and vegan curb stomping the changelings face into the broken table splintering it from the impacts.
As soon as spike began curb stomping the other changelings lunged at him and pinning him to the ground, " aww that really hurt young dragon, you made a grave mistake for attacking the changeling queen" the copy said before it erupted in green flame and revealing the chyrisilis.
"Oh go buck yourself, you sick bucker." Spike spat in the chyrisilis's face to emphasize his point. As soon as he did that the chyrisilis charged her horn and the next thing he saw was a flash of green light before he could only see darkness.
-hours later-
When spike woke up he found that he was laying on the floor of the library before he had a scorching headache rip throughout the insides of his skull making him yell in agony.
After a while the headache finally died down, and he then noticed that there were bodies everywhere, he looked outside seeing buildings with huge holes blown through them and some buildings we're renew gone and what was left were large poles of rubble mixed with bodies and unattached limbs.
Spike ran out of the library and sprinted away from the town towards the everfree forest, where luna told him to go.
After a long while of running spike finally reached the castle of the sisters, as alike walked through the castle he started noticing figures following him from a distance so spike stopped and waited to see what they would do but to his shock they did nothing just stayed in the shadows and watched.
"Hello, you do relies I can see you right" spike yelled at the hidden figures but they still didn't do anything until a figure about as tall as spike came out of the shadows right in front of him, in the open spike saw that he was wearing the exact armour as the drake from the dream and which gave him one thought.
"E-excuse me a-are you my brother" spike stuttered, as he took a step back when the drake stepped closer.
"and if i was your brother, what would you think?" the drake asked walking closer to spike till he was a foot away from him.
by instinct spike took a few steps back looking down and twiddling his thumbs, "I-i don't know" spike said looking back up to the drake but as soon as he looked up he was pulled into a bone crushing hug by the drake and the hug began to hurt from the armour.
"gah....cant....breathe..."spike said while gasping for air."oh sorry, got a little carried away, its just so nice to finally meet" the drake looked behind the drake at one ofg the figures that was in the shape of the pony and nodding to it, " ok spike we will meet again later today but right now i have a boring meeting with the other admirals that i must attend, im really sorry... sergeant stardust speedster will give you an orientation of the city"the drake looked at spike for the moment and remembering that he still had his helmet on so he instinctively took it off and putting it under his arm."i almost forgot, my name is admiral nova eternal blaze, now i really must be going or else ill be late, stay with the sergeant at all cost, he'll protect you at all cost and tell nobody about us being brothers cause their are some people that would go to any lengths to take you captive, i just really don't want you put in danger from my problems."nova said as he began walking away nodding to what spike would guess was the sergeant.
"Hello sir I'll be your escort for the day, let's head to the elevator and I'll expo an how everything works as well what your true title is and where the mane six are since they asked all of us to keep an eye till you showed up." Speedster said leading spike to an elevator and as they went down speedster explained everything about the underground city, then moved on to spikes title " ok sir since your part of the royal bloodline your supposed to be a high ranking officer like your brother nova and sister luna...... But since you have little to no experience in fighting or leading the council of the head admirals which nova and luna are the head of chose that you'll be a squad leader so you have a fare rank of an officer and that you will learn how to give orders from fellow squad leaders and those leaders will be given orders to their commanders" speedster finished as he looked at spikes face that had the far away look, and in which made the sergeant laugh.
"You sure are novas brother"
Spike then shook his head and looked at speedster questionably,"Why did you just say luna was my sister, isn't celestia and luna sister, which means I'm celestias brother..... Speedster where's celestia and luna?" Spike asked with a hint of worry.
"Spike Luna's up on a space station above the planet, and celestia is...." Speedster glanced at the drake before looking a straight ahead,".....she's MIA, we've been sending out recon squads to find her but had no luck finding her, it's as if she just vanished off the face of the planet, but we do know she's still alive because the sun is still rising in the morning." Speedster answered while walking out of the elevator and walked over to a green car that was parked in front of the elevator with two dragon guards in full armour waiting in it for them ready to take off.
As soon as spike got into the back seat the car flew into the air making spikes head get pushed into the seats head rest, "what is this thing" spike exclaimed through clenched teeth.
"You have a lot of catching up to do" speedster said shacking his head. Just at that moment speedster radio turned on its own accord and novas voice came through it.
"Sergeant you have three vessels approaching your position each on an intercept course for your vehicle, we're sending you reinforcements but they will rendezvous with you ETA 20 minutes" nova said as the radio transmission cut out.
"We won't last that long out in the open like this," speedster said allowed to himself, "pilot take us to the closest safe house as fast as you can, at least we won't be shot down" speedster said quickly before pulling out some kind of wrist brace with a hoof and placing it on spikes right hand and turning it on showing a female AI on the screen.
"Hello sergeant stardust speedster and sergeant spike blaze how may I be of assistance" the AI said through the speakers of the brace and making spike flinch from the unpredicted voice, "what is it" spike asked tapping the screen of the brace.
"This is a multi purpose wrist brace, it is also connected to a multi user AI called eve, the brace will fire lethal, shock, stinger, and incinerator rounds, eve give spike a quick demo on how to use it in combat were short on time" speedster said quickly while looking out the windows.
" sergeant were landing in 30 seconds" the pilot said as his fingers danced across the control panel landing the car and opening the doors in front of an old house.
As soon as spike and speedster got out, the car exploded in a furry of orange flame killing the two guards that were still inside.
"Spike get inside now, I'll deal with these jokers, whatever happens don't come out... No matter what." Speedster said making sure spike got in side before turning to the vessels that landed in front of speedster and a group of 20 mercenary griffons and dragons jumped out of the vessels weapons aimed at the sergeant ready to take him out at the ready and one dragon impiticularly stood out amongst the rest.
"So this is how the great sergeant speedster falls, so where is he" the red dragon said while two griffons held the sergeant down.
"Garble don't do this, don't get him involved you already have me, what else do you want!!!" speedster yelled at garble while trying to break free.
"Revenge" garble plainly said as he broke the door to the safe house down, walking into the building finding spike in front of him with his right arm out and began firing at the red dragon which each shot was deflected off his scales like nothing and walked up to spike ripping the brace off his arm and picking spike up by the back of the neck and walking out of the house.
As soon as garble walked out of the house a blue blur streaked through the sky heading right for the safe house at unimaginable speeds, when garble saw this his eyes went as huge as saucers as he dropped spike be began sprinting away from the blue blur that shot by spike and speedster like a bullet right for garble and in a matter of minutes the blue blur tackled garble to the ground making a swirl of dust and dirt into the air.
Once the dust settled showed nova punching garble to a pulp, once nova thought garble had enough he got up forcefully picking garble up by the shoulder and pulling him till garble was face to face with an enraged nova.
"Don't you dare put a single claw on my brother again or ill skin you alive and make you eat it, do you understand me now garble"nova said venomously ripping his sunglasses off so he was staring garble eye to eye showing that he was not messing around and shocking everyone into silence since nobody has ever seen novas eyes and lives to tell the tale and even the ones that have and lived will never say what they look like.
Nova glared at garble a few seconds longer before throwing garble in front of the mercenaries proving his point further and in return all the mercenaries dropped any weapons they had and putting their hands over their heads surrendering to nova.
Speedster was still shocked at what would happen if he got on novas bad side only Meer hours ago as he kept an eye on the prisoners as they were taken into custody for the death of two guards and assaulting an officer, speedster then looked over seeing nova walking over to his hover bike that was set off to the side by an officer.
Speedster quickly trotted over to nova before he took off, "hey buddy are you okay, you haven't said a single word to anyone, and where did spike go I haven't Sean him in a while? Speedster asked as he kept calm staring at novas sunglasses hoping that they were staring eye to eye.
"I had an officer take him to a safe house that the mane six are being protected, I wiped the place off the grid.... No one will find him this time." Nova said as he ignited the engine of his bike making hover off the ground a few feet, nova turned his head back to the sergeant and giving him a small grin, "I'll be in my quarters, got a lot a paperwork to sign for your promotion to captain and my personal right hand man, I'll meet you at old jollies for a drink in an hour drinks will be on me..... This time" nova said with a sly grin before blasting off at top speeds sending dust and dirt into the air in front of speedster who was standing as still as a statue from the knowledge of the promotion.
"Damn drake sure knows when to pick his moments, hey soldier can yeah give me a ride back to the barracks" speedster said as he galloped off to a transport that was about to take off.