Engulfed
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1 Hour prior. Equestria
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Spike smiled as he led Rarity down a narrow path, surrounded on all sides by hills of pure whiteness.
“Oh Spike, this is so romantic.” Rarity smiled, planting a kiss on Spikes cheek.
“Just wait milady.” Spike smiled, holding Rarity’s hoof and leading her forward.
Eventually, the pair crested the hill they were on, and looked out over the landscape. As far as the eye could see, large scoops of ice cream dominated the landscape, being both of the ground and stuck on oversized Popsicle sticks.
“Is that a…” Rarity began, her voice coming out in an amazed whisper.
“Yes.” Spike smiled, pointing to a large house in the distance. “It’s my gingerbread castle in the land of ice cream.” He said dreamily. “Come on, I’ll show you.”
Beckoning for Rarity to follow him, Spike jumped forward, closing the large gap in a single bound, before turning and effortlessly catching Rarity and embracing her in a tight hug, his face hovering a few inches away from hers.
“Oh Spike, kiss me.” Rarity breathed.
“As you wish.” Spike said humbly, before moving forward and covering the last few inches.
For a moment, the pair lost themselves in the moment, as they both closed their eyes to enhance the moment further.
***
“Oh Rarity.” Spike moaned, rolling over in his bed and throwing his arms around his pillow, pulling it tighter to his chest.
For a moment, Spike was lost in the imaginary moment. Eventually though, all good things have to come to an end, and Spikes eyes flew open. Sighing, he relinquished his grip on the pillow and sat up in bed, glancing out of the window to judge the time.
The outside world was still gripped by Luna’s night, and Spike sighed a second time. Once again, he had awoken in the middle of the night over Rarity. One of these days he was going to have to bite the proverbial crossbow and confess his true feelings to her.
“In fact, I’m going to do it right now.” Spike said to himself.
Jumping out of his bed, Spike marched over to the door, reaching to grab the handle, before stopping and considering his options.
“Or…I could wait another couple of days.” He reasoned, withdrawing his hand and walking back over to his bed.
Jumping back into bed, Spike wrapped the covers back around himself, snuggling back into his pillow and drifting back off to sleep.
Instantly, his vision was filled with the image of Rarity, and he smiled as he saw the light of his world appear again.
Speaking of light, Rarity did seem to have a certain, glow, about her.
“Rarity, you’re glowing.” Spike said uncertainly.
“Why thank you Spike.” Rarity smiled.
As Spike watched, the light emanating from within Rarity continued to grow, and Spikes confusion grew in equal proportion.
“Rarity…” Spike continued, before she completely disappeared into the light.
Sighing, Spike realised he had probably forgotten to put out a candle somewhere in his room.
Cracking his eyes open, he looked around his room, looking for the wayward candle.
Instead, his eyes focused on a small ball of pure white light hovering just at the end of his bed.
Throwing the covers off himself, he crawled to the end of the bed and looked at the strange ball. It wasn’t doing anything, or changing in anyway, it was just, floating there.
Curiously, Spike raised a finger, extending a claw towards the sphere and slowly, with the upmost caution, touched the sphere.
Instantly, the sphere changed, taking on a much darker pallor, and emitting a small burst of energy, which pushed Spike away from it and smashed him into the headboard, dazing him slightly.
“Ugh…Twilight, is this something to do with you?” He mumbled.
Slowly, the sphere began to grow, expanding outwards and beginning to advance up the bed towards where Spike was lying. As it did this, something began to exert a force on Spike, and small objects from around the room began to shake violently, before beginning to move towards the sphere.
“Twilight?” Spike asked, his voice getting slightly louder.
The sphere continued to grow in both size and as it did so, the force it was exerting on everything else grew as well. Grabbing hold of the Headboard, Spike held on for dear life as his feet were pulled towards the energy.
“TWILIGHT!” He screamed, now truly terrified, before beginning to lose his grip on the headboard.
“Ugh…what is it Spike?” Came the voice of Twilight from a few rooms over.
“HELP!” He screamed, his claws scraping deep furrows into the dark wood as he was pulled harder by the invisible force.
“Hold on.” She shouted, before a crash was heard around the house, and emanating from Twilights room.
“NOOOOO!” He screamed, finally losing his grip on the bed as the wood splintered under his claws.
Flying backwards through the air, he desperately tried to grab onto anything he could, but for once, his claws were working against him, as everything he tried to grab ripped under his grip.
As soon as his feet touched the energy, a burning sensation travelled up his body, as smaller tendrils of energy snaked up his body, engulfing him fully, before with a final last scream, he was dragged into the ball of energy, disappearing from the room.
A moment later, Twilight burst into the room, just in time to see a small white ball fade from existence at the end of Spikes bed.
“S…spike?” She asked uncertainly, looking around the room.
Darting around the room, she took in every aspect of the room, including the large amount of new bits of stuff littering the floor, ranging from a few pencils to whole notebooks worth of parchment.
“Spike?!” She shouted, tears forming in her eyes. “Spike!”
When there was no reply, tears began to appear in ever larger numbers in her eyes. Quickly, she ran out of the room, checking the whole of the library for something, anything, that could help her in her time of need. Finding nothing, and with tears freely flowing down her, she sprinted for the door, teleporting a second before she hit it and materialising on the other side.
Stepping back from the door, she stared up at the tree. From the outside, it looked exactly how it always looked. No structural damage, no magical residue floating around it, nothing.
“Spike?” She uttered mindlessly.
She thought about that for a moment, stunned. Sluggish. Suddenly, a thought hit her, and instantly, she decided on her next course of action.
Taking off at a sprint, her horn lit up, and she covered herself in a purple aura, casting her cloudwalker spell, and continuing running, before disappearing in a soft pop.
Re-appearing again, she found herself on Rainbow Dash’s porch. Not wasting time with knocking, she burst into the house, sprinting up to Rainbows room and shaking the Pegasus awake.
“Rainbow! My library! Now!” She screamed, before vanishing again.
Rainbow looked perplexed at the area that Twilight had just been, before rolling out of bed and moving sluggishly towards the door.
***
A few miles away, Twilight reappeared directly outside of Applejacks bedroom, before repeating the process she had done with Rainbow.
Twilight repeated the process three more times, before rematerializing outside of her library, and waited for her friends.
Spike may have disappeared, but she was not going to give up looking, and she would tear the world in two, before she gave up on her non-blood little brother.
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I truly am enjoying this so far. Keep up the good work.
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Thanks. Glad you liked it.
Dramatic start, but the Jedi seem to be forcing Spike down their path. I doubt he would want to be part of anything that doesn't help him get home at this stage.
3323772
And that is why the Jedi are known as kidnappers by some people. If they want a child in their order, they will mostly take them.
3323771 You are welcome! I have a feeling this will be a great story!
This seems pretty interesting. I haven't read an MLP/Star Wars crossover yet, so this'll be my first! You virginity stealer you!
Silver out!
3323876
Hmm. Virginity stealer.
First time I've been accused of that.
Hope I don't disappoint
3323892
You also read Dusk Quill huh?
...
Silver out!
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Dusk Quill is the one who got me interested in writing. He's an awesome guy.
Interesting. Keep it up, pal.
3323776 I don't think Spike will take kindly to being kidnapped by the Jedi.
3324100
Well I will be dealing more with this in the next chapter.
Okay, you have my attention.
3323776 What you call kidnapping, I call surprise adoption.
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Oh god, that image.
I am not ashamed to say that it made me laugh for about 5 minutes.
Good, good, thought Twilight's reaction seemed a bit exaggerated. Don't get me wrong, but I would figure she would go into a panicked frenzy trying to figure out what happened to Spike first before accepting that he was gone. Plus I don't think the glass would explode inwards if she was screaming. It would be more likely that the town just heard the scream than anything. (For glass to break, she would have to scream at a certain pitch)
Other than that, it's good so far.
given a choice between the jedi and the sith, I'd pick siding with the sith any day of the week.
Oh!
Now this appears to be good! 
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Likewise.
I'm glad, i brightened up your day.
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Unless she was magic or something, in which case she could become the loadstone for a powerful spell which could cause the glass to break and them begin to implode.
As for her reaction, you may be right their, and I may re-write the chapter to tone it down a bit/lot.
REALLY interesting, I love me some Spike and this has a fantastic set up, I really can't wait to see where you take it from here!
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even if she is magic, she would have to cast a spell for the glass to implode. Besides that, why would she implode her own house?
kinda makes no sense.
imo, just omit the whole implosion thing if you rewrite the chap. it's kinda unnecessary and just way over the top.
I'm only trying to help.
3327384
I have. It's been rewritten already.
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read and it does look better.
I would still strongly advise in getting an editor and/or proofreader. It will help a lot.
hope the story works out for you. It has potential.
Peace is a lie, Jedi!
3328128
Well I could always do with an editor if you're interested.
Same goes for anyone. If you're interested, just shoot me a PM.
3323776
The Jedi are also not opposed to slave labor. I mean, just look at the clone army! Thousands of individual lives, each with their own tells and personalities, and they send them off to die without batting an eye. Disgraceful.
And then we have the sith. Willing to destroy entire planets - and their populations - over a grudge.
... Why do we have force-users, again?
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Yeah, but they were clones, bred to die in a war against battle droids who were expendable.
A better example is the army of Light from before the Ruusan reformations. That army was comprised of millions of people who volunteered to join the army under the command of the jedi, and were still thrown away carelessly.
3328593 The clone army is still a worse breach of morality. The Jedi actively support the creation of life whose sole purpose is to die. That's just cruel. They offer nothing to the clones to even make their life really worth living: no individuality, no freedom, no family...
The clone army, in addition to being a blatant disregard for the value of life, is also a large scale slaving operation masked as protection and justice.
Just my thoughts...
3328593
I'd almost argue you have it backward. At least the people who signed on had a choice about what they wanted to do, and made the decision to enlist, knowing that being killed was a hazard.
Clones didn't get that choice. They were born to live half the life span of a regular person (accellerated aging to get them on the battlefield sooner), and to be tossed around as cannon fodder regardless of their needs or wants. The few that were injured such that they could not continue their duties have no idea what to do with themselves, because they were trained so specifically that they have no social experience beyond the minimum requirements. There was no retirement plan or program for the clones once they were injured or aged.
The clones that weren't up to code were terminated as children by the kaminoans, and the Jedi council did not interfere even after they found out about the army. Actually, you would think they'd pick up the mass murder of children in the force...
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I guess you do have a point, but think of this. A person, grown from the cells of the mandalore himself,and reared to love the republic, compared to people who would have to be force-ably conscripted to fight in the self same situations. The majority of the army of light wasn't given a choice, and it was either fight or die by firing squad then.
We can debate semantics of which one is a worse crime, but in the end, both were done to justify the destruction of the brotherhood of darkness or the CIS, so they had their merits.
3328968 I'd more argue that neither of those are justified in the presence of better options (droids in the Republic's case, not being forceful in the Light army's case (which you have conflicting descriptions of, I might add. Here you say they were forcing people to be soldiers whereas before you said it was comprised of volunteers)). Regardless, this argument is rather pointless.
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The debate is kind of pointless, because either way we see the Jedi actually kind of suck.
finally finished the story to follow it, I have to say it was irksome when the Jedi said spike couldn't marry and severe all emotional ties, and just promptly picked up spike to the Jedi council.
I've stated before with these things, I could never see myself following the questionable ways of the jedi, denying themselves emotional ties that would more then not help them instead
nor would I ever want to be a Sith blinded by their own selfish desires 
but surely force users have figured a way to harmoniously be balanced between the two at some point in time. Its quite sad Jedi and Sith are blinded to following one side or the other or none at all.
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Which is where gray Jedi come in.
Glad you enjoyed it though.
3355379 Oh I enjoyed the story vary much I was just criticizing the structure of the series in general not the story as I'm liking it so far xP and gray? I've only heard of them really recently but I still have no idea who these gray Jedi are.
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From what I've gathered, Gray Jedi see the force as a power, and that it can be wielded in its entirety, both the light and dark side, by everyone. I may be wrong though. New chapter should be up by the end of the week though, so all good.
Well, looks like Spike has changed his view in regards to Rarity!
But anyway, I am pretty sure you meant "my lady" there.
In fact, I’m was going to do it right now
1. In fact, I’m going to do it right now.
One of these days he was going to have to bite the proverbial crossbow and confess his true feelings to her.
I had to read over this sentence a second time to realize it, but that's an interesting replacement for the normal saying. And very appropriate for the MLP universe too.
Spike must have been groggily, you don't wake someone up in the middle of the night, that's just rude. I couldn't really tell if he was just realizing that or if he's just being shy.
Since when does Spike have a bed? I thought he slept in a basket.
3323772 Yeah, but if they can't help him get home even if they wanted to, what other choice does he have? He's a baby and the only member of his kind in an unknown universe. A forced path is better than no path at all.
3325369 If you can make a sound at the right pitch and if it's loud enough, then you can shatter glass unamplified. Though it's near impossible for a human to do unless at point blank range and with a relatively small object.
3325458 Eh, I wouldn't, never. The Jedi may at times kidnap children, but they still try to uphold galactic peace. The Sith kill anyone who even slightly annoys them, oppress and outright torture prisoners of war for giggles, and blow up planets just because they can. Oh, and they also kidnap children too.
3355379 It's funny how 'gray' is considered the morally best. Is Spike ever going to get tutored by Jolee at any point?
3355379 hard to believe this "Severing Emotional Attachments" thing the Jedi follow originated as something innocent and justifiable over 25,000 years ago.
Before the Jedi and Sith, and well before there was a Galactic Republic: there was the Je'daii.
The Je'daii were forced to separate themselves from those that cannot use the Force for the safety of their loved ones. Tython is said to be a planet kept in perpetual beauty and peace; but only when Balance is maintained in the Force between Light and Dark. If there is too much Light Side or Dark Side on the planet that balance is thrown out of whack, Force Storms ravage across the world annihilating anything in their path. Arguably enough, My Little Pony has the exact same thing in the tale of Hearths' Warming Eve with the Three Tribes and the Windigoes, only difference is that this sense of maintaining Balance doesn't require a sect of the population being in exile from the rest for their safety.
Kinda makes you wonder if the Tho Yor is not just anchored in the Lore of Star Wars, what with images and footage like this showing otherwise:
img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120111223737/mlp/images/5/5c/Young_Granny_Smith_in_Canterlot_S02E12.png 24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m555mqAtvF1rtr3kno1_500.jpg Also take a look at this scene from MLP.
And now this episode of The Clone Wars.
Maybe the ponies were once an otherworldly species -possibly heralding from a distant planet or star system with Zebras and Donkeys- and were discovered to be Force Sensitive and brought to the world that houses the continent of Equestria, they along with the Dragons, the Changelings, the Griffons, and other sapient species shaped their individual nations and sought balance and peace with one-another long ago, forging and breaking apart alliances only to re-build them anew with passing generations.
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Severing emotional attachments came right at the end of the war against Exar Kun. Mostly due to what caused Ulric Qel-Droma to fall. It was a moronic over-reaction fueled by fear (ironically) and paranoia. The Je'daii sending their loved ones else where in the system was for the reason you stated (made more imperative when Xesh arrived). Then, Xesh, the Force Hound's presence on Bogan snowballed into the split between Light and Dark among the Je'daii.
You would think the Je'daii wouldn't have split for the simple reason that they all, even the guy on Bogan whom Xesh met, knew full well that unbalance would ravage Tython. Yet, they did it anyway. Sheer stupidity. I think those diamond ship, things (forgot the name) brought them to Tython specifically because of how it reacts to imbalance.
Something I find interesting is that the Je'daii constantly worked to keep themselves in balance of Light and Dark. Revan, when he confronted the Sith Emperor, instead was said to have had the Light and Dark flowing in harmony through him. This implies that there is a difference between balance and harmony. Like, perhaps balance means having them in equal measure whereas harmony means having them in measures that custom fits the individual's personality and sense of self. Seems likely, since the Light seems to be more like emotionless, higher intelligence than "good" and the Dark seems to be more like primal spirit and instinct than "bad".
It feels weird being the only person with little to no star wars knowledge here, i fell like a.....wookie...i guess?its the only species besides human i know in this universe...
7784477 darn you
i read that command while drinking!!
As a Star Wars Legends fanatic, I'm already enjoying this story immensely. I caught the humorous but true note about the Devaronians on the first read-through.
At this point i was like. Its a dream