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// The Forming of a Plan!  
// Story: My Little Pony: Friendship is Dangerous: Episode One: Spare Spike a Thought 
// by SpikeyWikeyTheDragon 
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Twilight Sparkle had been pacing about the same spot in the library for a while now. She had looked at every single book that was sitting on each and every shelf twice and was thinking about doing so for a third time just for good measure, however before she even got chance to pick up the first book she heard a loud crash coming from the room opposite her. She jumped at the noise and rushed to see what the commotion was and of course it was her assistant Spike trying to open one of the windows in the room he had been locked in to try and escape.

“Look, I don't know who you are or what you want with me-..but-...uh” Spike began, trying to make up some kind of believable lie to escape this supposedly evil ponies clutches “I-..have a-..um” He paused once again and felt the silence fill the air of the room. Twilight herself rolled her eyes but couldn't do anything to conceal the amount of concern and hurt that her eyes held. She still couldn't believe how stupid she had been, maybe if she hadn't been an idiot and actually written the spell down correctly then her faithful assistant wouldn't be staring at her right now with a puzzled expression splashed onto his face like an artists canvas

“are you crying?” Spike asked, taking a step towards the unicorn. He may not remember the unicorn anymore but he did remember that he hated the sight of anypony that cried, it always left his stomach in knots and made him feel awful “look, just don't do anything-..you can let me go and I won't tell Princess Celestia that this even happened” He said, plastering an obviously fake smile on his lips. Twilight's eyes widened slightly, she rubbed a hoof against her eye to wipe away the tears that were threatening to spill down her cheeks once more she felt as though a little firework had gone off in her chest, Twilight had hope she now knew that her assistants memories weren't totally messed up if he knew of the princess.

“Spike?” Twilight began, which made the dragon smile nervously “What do you know of Princess Celestia?” she asked, quickly grabbing a pen and a notebook and eagerly awaiting whatever the young dragon was about to say about the princess.

“well, she's the princess of Equestria obviously. She has a sister called-...Princess Luna?” He paused for a moment and nodded his head as he confirmed the facts in his head before deciding to continue “she hatched me from my egg ages ago and-...uh...” He paused, his head suddenly hurting as though a knife was being jabbed into the back of his skull repeatedly. Twilight immediately rushed to the dragons side but by the time she had arrived the stabbing pain in his head had gone completely “T-that's all I know of her.” Spike took a moment to look over the unicorn beside him, he really looked at her and he realised something, he knew that he had seen this unicorn before but he didn't know where and at what period of his life this meeting took place at “What's your name?” he asked slowly, claw being placed onto his chin thoughtfully.

Twilight gasped and drew in a huge breath of air, this was it. She was assured of it the moment she'd get her Spike back to normal and then days or maybe weeks later they could look back at this and laugh and vow never to perform a spell that dangerous ever again “Twilight Sparkle.” She simply said and then she went silent, eyes locking onto her young assistant. She watched as his eyes seemed to flash a purple colour just as he was about so say something and then he yelped in pain. Twilight of course drew the dragon close to her chest but to her shock she felt him push away from her embrace with an eagerness which matched his desire to work with Rarity at the boutique.

“I-..don't know you! S-stop touching me!” He shrieked, causing the unicorn to stumble back a mixture of shock and hurt staining her already saddened features. She once again felt tears filling up both of her eyes but instead of holding them back she led them flood down her cheeks as though she had opened up a tap and once she was crying she simply couldn't stop herself, the unicorn darted out of the room and into her room as quickly as she possibly could leaping onto her bed and burying her face into her pillow, trying her hardest to muffle the sobs that escaped her mouth after a couple of minutes she had finally managed to regain control of her emotions and pulled herself away from her pillow into a sitting position. She sniffled a couple of times and rubbed her eyes to get rid of any stray tears clinging to her eyelashes

“That purple flash in his eyes...” she said quietly to himself, blinking away any remaining tears and quickly regaining the composure that she needed to show Spike that she was a strong mare and she could do this on her own, not that he would help her now anyway but in the event that something were to happen to jog his broken memory she didn't want him to worry for her “It's like that-...flash was preventing him from saying my name-...” Twilight's eyes widened “maybe-..the spell formed a-..mental barrier!” She exclaimed, leaping from her bed and towards her desk at which she had a quill and a piece of paper. She eagerly took said quill into her hoof and dipped it into the ink beside the paper and frantically began writing on it “If I can get Spike to say my name maybe that will break the barrier that is preventing his memories of me from being shown! That means-...” she giggled and used her magic to levitate many different pictures of herself, Rarity and Spike towards her and set them beside the paper “I need to make Spike a presentation!” and with a clap of her hooves and a grin as wide as one of those creepy clown ponies she'd seen in Canterlot when she was a filly she quickly set to work making Spike a memory jogging presentation.