When Spike is accidentally given cosmic power and goes a little nuts as a result, he is trapped in a magic lamp and sent hurdling into the past, forced to grant the wishes of the one who holds the lamp Spike goes on a grand adventure to get back home
After Discord accidentally gives Spike Cosmic powers and can't take them back Spike goes crazy and is tricked into trapping himself in a magic lamp and sent hurtling into the past, now an all-powerful genie Spike is forced to bend to the will of whoever holds the lamp. And accidentally creates some Equestrian history while doing so.
It started out like any other day, Spike and Discord were sitting in the castle while Twilight helped Fluttershy find a book, Spike had been tasked with keeping Discord company while Fluttershy was busy and the two were now playing what Discord called 5th-dimensional chess.
The chessboard was like a cube missing two sides and they both had 67 different unique pieces with different movement patterns. Spike was lost beyond measures trying to play the game and had instead chosen to argue with Discord about how the rules seemed to be changing constantly.
"I just saw you move your Multi-Penguin Orc this way why can't I?" he demanded as he failed to make the piece move.
"you can only move the Multi-Penguin Orc on an even turn with the number 2 or 8 in it," Discord replied with a chuckle.
"That is stupid," Spike retorted as he tried another piece and found it didn't respond to his touch "On come on this one's just a Knight why can't I move it?"
"That's a Griffin Knight, you can't use it until you take my Griffin Knight,"
"this one," Spike attempted as he failed to move another piece.
"The Cosmic Owl can't be used unless you have cosmic powers,"
"Alright that's it," Spike said as he got up "This game is rigged and I refuse to take any further part in it,"
"Oh, don't quit, it was just getting good," Discord whined "I was about to use my Randomizer Dolphin to make all our pieces move at random,"
"I refuse to play a game that has a piece I can't interact with in any way," Spike spat back as he pointed to the Cosmic Owl, "I can deal with a lot of stupid rules but not being allowed to use a piece because I don't have cosmic powers is the dumbest thing I've ever heard,"
"Oh fine, I'll give you a tiny amount of Cosmic power so you can play," Discord said as he snapped his fingers, Spike's left arm from just above the elbow turned black as the night sky and seemed to have starts sparkling in it. Spike looked at his hand dumbfounded and looked at Discord slack-jawed.
"isn't this kind of dangerous?" Spike asked as he moved his hand away from his body "Like...like the most dangerous?"
"Relax I'll take it away after the game, now let's play!" Spike moved forward and reached out with his star hand, only to find he still couldn't move the owl, "Cosmic owl can also only be used after the 15th turn,"
"I actually hate you right now," Spike said irritably as he continued trying to find a piece he could actually move, both he and Discord failing to notice that the black stary night on Spike's left arm was slowly growing larger and crawling up his arm
Fluttershy and Twilight made their way out of the library almost a full hour later, Fluttershy had several books in her saddlebags and Twilight had a few levitating around them.
"Are you sure you don't want any of these," Twilight asked "There the Prequel books to the series I just gave you, and this one has interesting bits of lore for the characters and some of the monsters in the series,"
"Maybe next time," Fluttershy replied politely "But I'm almost finished with the first book so I wanna finish the main series before reading the prequel books, especially since they were written after the main-Discord," Fluttershy's tone did a full one-eighty when she looked at where Discord was sitting on a chair, soaking in sweat and hiding his face behind an upside-down newspaper, the room around his was in pieces, and there was a large hole where the door had once been "What did you do?"
"My home!" Twilight yelped in shock as she looked at the destruction "Discord it's gonna take Spike and me weeks to clean this up, you snap this all back together this instant," Discord didn't reply and instead continued pretending the read the newspaper.
"What did you do?" Fluttershy repeated, Discord peaked at her over the newspaper.
"Your gonna be mad," he whimpered as he slid back beneath the paper.
"Discord," Fluttershy repeated, sitting back on her back hooves and crossing her front one "What.Did.You.Do?" Discord groaned and pointed to the now-destroyed 5th-dimensional chess game.
"Well Spike and I were playing a game of 5th-Dimensional chess, and then he got mad cause one of the pieces can only be moved with cosmic power, and he didn't have cosmic powers, so I gave him some to play the game, then he mad with power, beat me in the game, then beat me against the wall's, floor, and ceiling, then blasted the front door and left to go be a crazy cosmic being," Discord coughed into his fist and looked away from his shocked friends "You know typical Tuesday," Before either Twilight or Fluttershy could even try to figure out how to process that they heard an explosion and Spike laughing like a maniac in the distance.
"Fluttershy stay here and...chastize him like no tomorrow, I'm gonna go get my brother before he destroys the town," Twilight rushed for the hole that had once been her front door and took flight, very easily finding Spike as the center point of what looked to be a tornado forming around him in the sky, Spike's entire body was black with sparkling stars dotted across his body, his only remaining feature where his now pure white eye, even without a visible mouth he was still able to laugh as he held on hand up and formed the storm above him.
"So much power," He laughed merrily as he used his other hand to make the ground below him begin to swirl like the clouds, causing houses, businesses, and ponies to start to sink in the now liquid-like earth. Twilight lit her horn and shot a stunning blast at Spike, when it hit him she expected him to turn to her or at least react in some way, instead he continued laughing as the blast went completely unnoticed by him. "I can shape this world to my will," Twilight tried again and after failing several times to get Spike's attention with magic she changed her tactic.
"Spike!" She called out, Spike looked down at her and his face showed no emotion as he spoke.
"Ah, Twilight I almost forgot I'd better put you and the others someplace safe until I'm done," Spike waved his hand and Twilight found herself in her castle's main room, now full of her friends and family along with a few others.
"What?" Thorax asked in confusion as he looked around the castle, the others equally confused.
"Why are we in the castle," Applebloom asked as she turned to her fellow crusaders, Scootaloo looked dizzy and Sweetie Bell was tapping her horn.
"Hm?" Celestia muttered as she raised her sunglasses, "Guess somepony didn't get the memo that I'm retired,"
"Princess," Twilight said before shaking her head "I mean Celestia, Discord turned Spike into a crazy cosmic being," Twilight, once again, was denied the reaction she expected as Celestia looked to Luna with a stern expression, who was looking back at her sister with the same look.
"Don't worry Twilight," Celestia said with a smile "As luck would have it my sister and I know of an interesting story about how to defeat a Cosmic being, you stay here, Discord, come with Luna and me," Discord took the change to escape Fluttershy's scolding without hesitation and snapped himself and the two princesses outside the castle where Spike was waiting, he had made a small chart and was apparently making sure he had everyone he wanted in the castle before going back to what was probably a plan born from Madness, a common ailment of Mortals turned into gods without much preparation.
"Did I get Twilight Velvet and Night Lite?" He muttered before noticing the trio before him. "Oh yes I figured someone would come to fight me, I'd better freeze you three,"
"Now, now Spike," Celestia said calmly "but I'm afraid we have already beaten you,"
"No, you haven't" Spike shot back "I'm still doing what I was doing, you just showed up, and nothing has happened to stop me,"
"Well, Luna and I wished that your plan would fail, there for you lose,"
"Wish?" Spike asked with a chuckle "Like on a star?"
"No, on a Genie," Luna replied calmly, Discord raised a brow curiously at the two as Spike scratched his chin.
"Hu...you wished I would fail with a Genie, then all I need to do is undo the wish,"
"To bad you lack the power to do that yourself," Celestia said happily "And because Genies are more powerful than you, I'm afraid you can't just make one appear, you could spend the rest of forever trying to find it, and you won't cause we wished that you would never find it,"
"Oh son of a-" Spike angrily muttered as he scratched his chin "
"Oh yes," Discord added, doing his best to improvise on the spot "While I said I gave you Cosmic powers It's more accurately that I gave you nearly cosmic powers,"
"I will end you," Spike said irritably to the Draconequus who held up his hands and backed up when Celestia added.
"How about a deal, you don't destroy Equestria, and I'll give you Full Cosmic powers," As Celestia held Spike's attention, Luna lit her horn and a scroll popped into Discord's hands, Discord read it, went slack-jawed at it then rolled it back up and snapped his fingers, offering the scroll to Spike.
"Just sign the scroll and you..." Spike ran his finger across the scroll and his name appeared, "...are Insane," Celestia said with a sigh as the scroll swirled in onto itself and snapped into a golden oil lamp, Spike grabbed the Oil lamp and looked at it for a moment.
"This is cosmic power?" He asked as he tried rubbing it, to no avail, as he inspected the lamp his black stary skin began cracking off, leaving him looking like his old self, around his bottom eyelid a Black eyeliner substance appeared and left three Black lines beneath his eyes, all he was wearing was a simple pair of blue pants with a red cloth belt and curly end shoes. Spike had failed to notice any of this as he was now shaking the lamp. "What is this?" he demanded angrily.
"A trap," Celestia and Luna said in unison as Spike began glowing and he dropped the lamp as two Golden Cuffs appeared and snapped onto his wrists.
"What the?" Spike cried out as he looked at the golden cuffs, his lower half turned into a light purple whispy tail leading to the lamp. Spike felt The Lamp pulling him in and he tried to resist only for the cuffs to force him forward. Spike let out a scream as he was sucked into the lamp, once inside his voice could be heard echoing from within it. "Let me out!" he demanded.
"Now I know I'm not one to talk," Discord said as he looked at the lamp "Seeing as I started all of this, but why was turning him into a genie your instant plan?"
"I'll explain it to you and the rest later, but first we have one last thing to do," Celestia lit her horn and a scroll appeared in front of them, Discord looked at it and shook his head.
"And this is?" he asked.
"A modified version of Star Swirl the Bearded's time spell," Celestia looked over to Discord and added "Starlight wasn't the first one to meddle with this old spell of his, but if Starswirl's stories of the past are anything too go off of, a lot hinders on me doing this," Celestia lit her horn and the time spell was activated and turned into a portal, through the portal all Discord and Luna could see was sand, lots of it,"
"Goodbye Spike," Luna said as she tapped the lamp, taking great care not to rub it, "We will do our best to try and find your lamp in this time period, sadly we were telling the truth, there is no magical way to track it so we'll just have to hope whoever finds it uses it publicly enough for us to find you and see if a few thousand years helps reform you," without another word Celestia tossed the lamp through the portal, Spike still screaming to be let out, his cries cut off as Celestia closed the portal and the scroll burned into nothing.
"Now them, Discord you can tell everyone what happened, Luna and I have a Lamp to find before we can return to our cozy retirement,"
Spike was unable to see anything but the darkness of the inside of the lamp, after a moment he realized he had cosmic powers and made himself tiny so as to fit easily inside the lamp, another snap and there was light without a source inside it, it was simply the inside of the lamp, Spike made a B-Line for the front nozzle and, once he got to it, hit a magic wall face first. his cuffs immediately flung him to the opposite side of the lamp, Spike turned his lower body into mist and tried going for the upper lid, and found that he wasn't able to so much as budge it. After a few attempted teleports Spike let out a cry of frustration "Trapped," Spike banged his fist futility against the bottom of the lamp as he came to the realization that he had, quite literally, signed up for this "I should have read the fine print,"
"Fear me" Spike laughed as he wreaked havoc across a tiny scale model of Equestria that filled the entirety of the lamp, Spike himself was larger than the entire thing and crushing the tiny towns and cities with his feet, laughing as he did so. He made his way to Canterlot and grabbed the mountain as a tiny Celestia and Luna came out and blasted him with magical blasts that did nothing, Spike swatted Luna and sent her flying across the map and into the ocean before Pulling Canterlot Mountain from the earth, Celestia made to flee but Spike flipped the mountain and swung the city into Celestia and into the ground, crumbling the mounting and the city in his grasp.
Spike was about to start laughing again when the scale model suddenly disappeared and his jewelry began glowing again, Spike was harshly pulled to the nozzle and swirled into the real world, the mist trail that was his lower body still attached to the lamp, Spike shook his head and looked down to see a young Kirin holding a wet and muddy lamp and looking at him slack-jawed. Spike instantly knew what was about to happen and winced as the Youngling screamed as loud as her little lungs would allow her to. The Youngling was standing next to a muddy river where Spike assumed she had fished out his lamp, and a hoard of flaming Nirik's came running to the young one's aid. as far as Spike could tell, with his infinite power, they were basically insects fit only to bow before him, but after having spent an unknowably amount of time trapped in the lamp he was sick of being harshly yanked around by his jewelry and instead just kind of let it happen as the Nirik's began firing flames at him, to zero effect.
"Stop," A voice called out, Spike instantly recognized it wasn't the Equestrian tongue but still understood it perfectly, an old Kirin hobbled forward and waved his fellows down "Fire will do nothing against a Dragon," As the Kirin got closer his eyes shot up when he saw Spike's lower body was entirely mist "Especially what appears to be a Dragon Spirit," The Elder Kirin bowed "Please forgive my people, oh great Spirit, The younger generation has never had to deal with anything other than the occasional thieving Diamond dog, I beg you not to smite them,"
"I couldn't even if I tried," Spike replied, "Now where is the small child who rubbed my lamp?" Spike looked around for his new Master and couldn't for the life of him find her, although she was still in possession of the lamp. the crowd of Nirik's turned back into Kirin's and split apart with noticeable defiant mutters, His master was visibly shaking as she looked up at Spike and when he motioned for her to come forward she instead curled into a ball and put her hooves over he head, Spike frowned for a moment before realizing the problem, he was a giant floating ghost-like creature who had just made her leader cower in fear. Spike rubbed his chin as the leader began shakily apologizing again before trying to force the Youngling forward.
"I got it," Spike said snapping his fingers and getting both the Elder and the Youngling's attention as his entire body turned into mist and swirled to the ground and began shrinking in size, as the mist dissipated it revealed a purple and Green Kirin with the Black eyeliner and three lines wearing Spike's clothing, Spike used his hoof to pat his new chest "Less terrifying I assume?" he asked the Youngling, who was in awe, the Elder looked like he was about to have a stoke.
"To be able to change species with just a snap of the fingers," he said as he bowed "Oh great spirit-"
"I am a Genie, not a spirit," Spike said as he moved forward to the Youngling who shakily held out the Lamp, clearly under the Impression Spike wanted it. "And by the law of the Genie whoever rubs my lamp and releases me from my Prison becomes my Master," The elder and the Youngling both looked at Spike in disbelief as he bowed before his new master. He hated every second he was forced to bow before the tiny creature but kept his outward disposition, hoping the trick the Youngling into freeing him if he showed her enough kindness.
"Ma..master?" She asked in shock, Spike continued to bow as he talked.
"As the Holder of the lamp my Limitless Cosmic Power is yours to command, there are a few rules, I can list them if you like,"
"Of course," The Elder said, Spike ignored him and the Elder lightly nudged the Youngly who shook her head.
"I would like to know the rules please," Spike lifted his head and started.
"As the owner of the lamp, you have three wishes, You can not wish for more wishes or more Genies, You can not wish for the Death of another, you may not wish for Love or the lack of Love between any creatures, You may not wish for personal Pleasure that causes Physical or Mental harm to another, You can not wish the Dead back to life, I do not have to do anything you say unless you wish me to do it, there are no do-overs and once a wish is used it can only be undone by another wish, When you use all your wishes I return to the Lamp and will be sent into the event horizon unless you wish me free," The Rules said Spike bowed again, hoping that his addition to the last rule would put the idea to free him in her mind..
"C...can I get that in writing?" She asked Spike, he didn't have to oblige to that but did so to appear generous. A scroll appeared before the youngling and the Elder quickly grabbed it with his magic.
"Amazing," he said "Youngling do you have any idea what this could mean for our village," He looked at the Rules before clearing his voice "Do not use any of your wishes on your own, understand, Wait until the High council and I discuss what they should be used for," the Youngling looked at Spike and then the lamp.
"But...these are my wishes," She said as she rubbed the lamp, "Shouldn't I get to pick them?"
"Foolish child, we Kirin live as one, your wishes belong to the tribe, now stay here and do nothing, Guards make sure she doesn't use these wishes until she is told what to wish for," The Elder made his way to what Spike figured was their town while the guards circled her, one of them moved forward and smiled at her.
"Mother and Father would be proud," He said as he ruffled the Youngling's mane "I am sure they are smiling at you from the stars," The little one smiled as she hugged what Spike assumed was her brother, "Come youngling let us go to the 'place'" the Elder brother looked around and in unison, the Kirin around them gathered up and moved to one of the tents at the outer edge of the tribes home, Spike followed his master to the tent and entered it with his master and her brother, it looked fairly barren but the brother lit his horn and the entire place shimmers, revealing it to be filled with Kirin.
"This is it, sister," he said happily as he made his way to the table "We can finally remove the High Council from power,"
"I have questions," Spike decided as he looked around the makeshift war room.
"I care not for your needs," The Brother said as he pointed at Spike "You said you were imprisoned in that lamp, and one doesn't imprison one like you easily,"
"Technically I trapped myself," Spike replied casually.
"Regardless you are a tool, now shut up and do as my sister demands,"
"The only way to enforce that is to make your sister waste a wish on it," Spike replied simply as he sat down and waited for the sense to play out before him.
"Alright sis, we need to think this through, one wrong step and we will end up dead, just like mother and father," the Youngling flattened her ears in fear.
"I do not wish to die," She said trembling, her brother was about to comfort her when Spike's eyes began glowing, the Kirin around them backed away and Spike stood tall and proud, growing a little in size as he looked down at the Youngly before saying in a loud booming voice.
"Your Wish, Is Granted," He declared as the black marks around his eyes began glowing, the top lines on either eye cracked and seemingly broke off into light, leaving Spike with only two marks beneath his eyes as the glowing white magic stuck the Youngling, as quickly as it started it stopped and the youngling stood before Spike looking confused.
"What did you do you beast?" The brother demanded as he began sizzling, on the verge of becoming a Nirik. Spike opened his mouth and spoke in the Youngling's voice.
"I do not wish to die," he repeated back to them, Making the Youngling's ears shot up.
"I thought you said I had to say I wish!"
"You did say I and Wish, whether they are next to each other is a moot point, only that 'I' comes before 'Wish' and that they are in the same sentence matters." Spike shrugged casually "Anyway as you did not wish to die, you clearly wished to Live, so now your life is eternal," the groups around Spike looked at him in pure shock before Spike added "And since I've never granted a wish before I tossed in an end to your aging when you reach your prime, free of charge," Spike rubbed his chest and the blew of his hoof "Two wishes remaining,"
"But I didn't wish-" The Youngling was cut off as Spike put his hoof to her mouth.
"Maybe think before you speak, and avoid using the word wish unless you really mean it," Spike pulled his hoof away and she amended.
"I Didn't mean to do...that,"
"Well you did it, and personally I don't think you should use another wish to wish the first wish away, would be a major waste if you were to ask me,"
"Very well then, Sister wish me eternal, I shall become king by force, and you shall be my trusted aid," before the Youngling could make the wish Spike spoke up.
"Why should you get to be in charge?" Spike demanded, standing up for his master on principle "These are her wishes, and my power is her's, should she not be the Leader and you the aid?" This was met with laughter from the entire tent, Spike looked around, truly confused on how his statement had been funny before the brother cleared it up for him.
" A Female...in charge!?" The Kirin burst into laughter "Women are for breeding and cleaning you fool of a creature, My sister should be honored to even be considered an aid,"
"Do not wish him immortal," Spike said instantly before his jewelry suddenly started glowing and began burning, he screeched in pain and quickly changed his demand into a plea "Master please for the sake of your future do not wish him immortal," the pain went away and Spike made a mental note to never demand anything from a master again as he blew on his still slightly burning hooves.
"Sister ignore the Genie, wish me immortal, and then wish me to be the leader of the Kirin," Her brother smiled at her before adding "Doing anything else would dishonor you and greatly disappoint our parents, I'd have to slay you youngling, so just do what Big Brother say's," Yongling looked at her brother in fear when Spike began coughing like crazy, the Youngling turned to him instantly, afraid she had done something wrong when Spike then began loudly saying between coughs.
"Can't slay an immortal," He declared before going back to fake coughing and adding "Leaders decide what is and isn't honorable," He added, after looking at his master she looked back at him in confusion and he dropped the act. "Oh for the love of...Kid if you wish to be the leader then whatever you say is the law, and honor is what you decree it to be,"
"Sister ignore your slave and make me eternal," the brother held his hoof up and made a motion towards the Youngly that made her cower before him "Or so help me I'll have to punish you disobedient" he smiled as he swung towards her and with Spike's words still in her heads and now afraid of her brother threat of a beating the Yongling cried out loudly.
"I wish to be the one true Ruler of the Kirin!" Spike wasted no time with theatrics and the lines dissipated on his face as he cried out fastly.
"Yourwishisgranted," both he and the Yongling suddenly felt the world shift, Youngling blinked and found herself alone in a lavish tent, resting on her head was a golden tiara that fit around her horn snuggly.
"What....what happened?" she asked as she looked around in confusion before turning to the Genie
"You are the one true ruler of the Kirin," He replied simply "No Kirin dare oppose you, save for the few Kirin's who heard you make the wish, magic is fickle so they might not see you as the" before Spike could even finish the Brother ripped the entrance to the youngling's tent open, rage burning in his eyes.
"Sister," he said angrily "You have till the count of three to surrender leadership to me and make me Eternal or I swear the beating you receive-" The Brother was suddenly enveloped in magic as guards came rushing into the tent and forced him to the ground, fiercely beating him as they dragged him out of the tent screaming, once he was out the elder walked in and bowed to her.
"Your Highness," He said "I apologize greatly, It would seem your trusted aid was right, your brother did plot against you," Spike looked to the Yongnly and wiggled his brows at her with a smug look.
"I told you so, now please leave, we have some important leader stuff to talk about,"
"If I may speak freely?" The Elder asked, Spike proceeded to move and the Youngling nodded for him to go on.
"Your Highness I'm afraid our suspicions have been proven correct, the river is drying up at an alarming rate, and soon we will have no water for drinking or for keeping our crops, what should we do?" The Yongling had nothing and Spike took charge.
"Leave us Elder, we shall discuss a solution to this problem," the Elder backed up, thanking them for hearing him out before turning his attention to the issue of dealing with the brother. Spike groaned and looked to the Youngling with a chuckle.
"I don't know your name," He said with a laugh "Never thought to ask for it, but unless I've missed my guess" Spike chuckled as he shook his head "You're Rainshine aren't you," Rainshine looked surprised, and smiled at him.
"You cheated with magic didn't you?" She asked with a laugh as she got off her throne and hugged Spike, who hugged his new friend back happily.
"Something like that," Spike replied with a chuckle "Anyway suppose we should get onto the business of your last wish," Rainshine looked to the lamp and smiled.
"Oh I know, I can free you, and then..."
"Sadly that won't do," Spike replied with a sigh, making the smile melt off of Rainshine "Being unbound from the lamp so soon after being bound to it, not that I know how long it's been mind you, could have been years ago for all I know, not the point. The point is that if you wish me free I might go just a tiny bit nuts, and for me, a little nuts could mean the end of the world or something," Spike groaned "So that last wish-"
"I just won't use it," Rainshine decided with determination "I live forever, you can just stay and be my aid,"
"I could, and I would, but I can't use my power to help unless you use that wish, and if you don't use that last wish your people are all gonna die from your river drying up," Spike shook his head "The Desert just doesn't seem like a good place for the Kirin to live, maybe someplace nice and shady, with tones of plants, trees, and water,"
"But...but..." Rainshine looked like she was gonna cry "I only just met you, I...You...you've been the best friend I've ever had, and I haven't even known you for an hour.
"Oh don't worry," Spike said as he smiled at her "You're Immoral, and so am I, one day, far in the future someone will free me and I'll make sure to return to my first master," Spike smiled as he ruffled her mane as she grabbed his hoof.
"You Promise?" She asked as she started crying.
"I wouldn't miss it for all the power in the world" Spike replied with a smile.
Spike stood before the Kirin tribe, ready to do it, he and Rain had spent the last several days planning out the wish, he was confident she was just trying to buy even just that tiny bit of extra time with him, and he was glad to take it as he'd probably end up stuck in his lamp for a long time after the wish. Before him, the Kirin had all their things packed up and Rainshine had set the oil Lamp on a stone pedestal that had small statues of Spike as both a Dragon and a Kirin on two sides, one pointing North and one South.
"Trusted aid," The Elder said "Please, let me stay behind in your stead, surely your more important than some old Kirin like I,"
"I appreciate the offer," Spike said before lying through his teeth, "but sadly we don't have the time to teach you all the spells required to do so," Spike stood up "OK listen up, the ritual is short and sweet, once it's done all but I will be sent to a new home, a better home with all you'll ever need," Spike smiled "Wish me luck in returning to you all one day?"
"Luck upon you, great Aid of Rainshine," All of the Kirin said as Rainshine stood at the ready, the crown on her head sparking in the sunlight as she held back tears.
"I wish for us all to be teleported to a lush land with plenty of plants, trees, and water that we will never have to abandon," Spike smiled as his eyes began glowing, going all out on the theatrics for the Kirin as his horn and eyes began sparkling with light and he was lifted off the ground, the Kirin watched in awe as the sky turned dark the ground started shaking, In a loud booming voice Spike cried out.
"Your Wish Is Granted!" all of the Kirin's vanished, leaving only the pedestal behind, Spike smiled as his jewelry began glowing and he was sucked back into the lamp, he turned to mist and turned back to a dragon once he was inside, he didn't feel anything but knew that his lamp had just been sent flying across Equestria, going far from Rainshine, he sighed as looked at the destroyed scale model of Equestria and with a snap replaced it with the tent that he and Rainshine had spent the last few days living in, he walked in and sat in front of her throne, a picture of Rainshine and Spike as a Kirin rest upon the seat and Spike sat staring at his new friend, before clapping his hands and making a calendar appear, he looked at it and his ears dropped.
"a little over 10,000 years before the day I was sent to the past," Spike made the calendar disappear and continued looking at the picture of Rainshine and him before moving his finger and making the picture move like a T.V as he sat back at watched the few days he and Rainshine had spent together on a loop, waiting for his next master to arrive.
Spike in his Dragon form was in a hammock, his Lamp was full of different trinkets and oddities, his favorite thing was the tent holding the picture of him with Rain Shine in it, other things included a small golden sphinx statue, a bag of yarn, the two potted palm tree's he had his hammock tied to, and many other things. Spike had had a lot of masters over the last century, and so far his Kirin form had been his go-to for all of them, as it had received far fewer screams than his Dragon form. Mostly to keep his mind busy and keep from boredom during the years between his masters Spike had split his mind in two and his Kirin form was currently playing a game of Pin-ball.
"I hate this game," Kirin said irritably as he pushed the machine and it disappeared into a blue mist, "I wanna play..." Kirin tapped his chin, trying to think of a game when Dragon spoke up.
"How about a game of chess?" he offered.
"Last time we played chess we were stuck playing it for two years," Kirin snapped back, there was a moment of silence before he added "I call Black," Before Dragon could respond they both froze when they felt it about to happen, it wasn't much of a warning but they had 3 seconds to react before their new master rubbed the lamp, both Dragon and Kirin turned into mist and swirled into one before making towards the nozzle as the lamp was rubbed, the lamp began shaking as he exited the nozzle, mostly for show and somewhat to make sure his master had a moment of warning and didn't chuck him off a cliff as one had done in the past. He came pouring out of the lamp and swirled into existence as a Kirin, and was instantly met with tiny screams, he looked to his new master and found several Breezies who had been inspecting the lamp that was tangled in vines and dangling in the branches of a tree.
the Breezies whom Spike instantly recognized to be his master stood proud and started yelling at Spike in a language he didn't understand.
"Well this is a problem," he noticed immediately as he scratched his chin in thought "I don't speak any language other than Equestrian Ponish," the Breezie continued yelling at Spike for a moment before he figured out his solution, "Oh, duh, Cosmic powers," Spike booped his snoot and his eyes began rolling like a slot machine, the Brezzies watched in confusion as his pupils spun until the stopped, showing them in the shape of Breezies, Spike booped his snoot again and exploded into mist and swirled in front of his master, taking the shape of a Purple and Green Breezie.
"What the?" His master demanded in shock as he and the rest of his unit all moved back.
"Ah, I can understand you now," Spike cheered "Figured that might work," Spike fluttered his wings and pointed to his master "Alright, so I can tell that you're the one who released me from the lamp, I am the Genie of...you know, the lamp, that lamp, and you're my master now,"
The Breezie looked at Spike for a moment before pointing to himself in confusion, "Me?" he asked
"You rub the lamp you wake up the Genie, and the Genie becomes your slave," Spike could instantly tell he had failed to sell the idea to the Breezie.
"Slave?" he demanded "I have no desire to own a creature,"
"Well, you own this one," Spike said casually "Just make three wishes and I get to go back to the lamp," Before his master could speak again one of the Breezies behind him spoke up.
"Sir, If I may speak freely?"
"Speak," the lead Breezie replied.
"We could use these wishes to find our way home,"
"You're right," He said as he scratched his chin "I could wish for us all to be returned home, but I suppose I must be..." His master was cut off when Spike used some theatrics to get his attention, as his eyes began glowing he made the Breezies and the lamp glow for effect and made a very light wind so as to not send them all flying but to get their attention.
"Your Wish is Granted," Spike declared as one of the black lines under his eyes disappeared, and in a bright flash, they were all in the middle of a cave full of Breezies," Spike just kind of sat back and watched as they were swarmed with Breezies alerted by the bright flash only to find what Spike know knew had been a scouting party that had gone missing. Spike didn't partake in the happy return until he was noticed by the Breezies.
"Who are you?" An older-looking Breezie asked as it feebly fluttered to him.
"I'm the guy who poofed these guys here," He replied casually as his master flew up to him.
"I do not understand, why did you bring us here?"
"You said, I and Wish followed by a request to bring your party home," Spike replied casually "Intentional or not, you say I and Wish before something, it counts as a wish, got two left,"
"What are you?" His master asked, wonder in his eyes as he looked at Spike "You are no Breezie, nor any other kind of creature I've ever seen before,"
"Well I'm a Genie," Spike said before raising his hoofs and growing massive in size and gaining the attention of all the Breezies in the cavern, "I possess Phenomenal Cosmic powers," as Spike said this his hooves became a light with magic as the ceiling of the cavers shifted and plants seemingly began swirling around Spike, Spike shot down to the lamp, with the ceiling going back to normal and the Planets evaporating as he shot inside the nozzle and he popped out through the lid "And I live in a lamp, rub the lamp, you get three wishes, there are a few rules but I doubt with all my being that a Breezie such as your self would even think of breaking any of them even without knowing them, that said you wish for something and I grant it," Spike smiled as the Breezie's began whispering among themselves, his master clearly not knowing what to wish for.
"Maybe we could ask for our cavern to be larger?" one of the Breezies asked.
"Maybe we could ask for flowers to grow in the cave?"
"But if we do that the flowers may attract bees, and the bees may bring other predators into the out home, remember what happened the last spring when those wasps made a nest by the entrance, we lost many a good Breezie clearing their nest,", as the talk turned to predators Spike heard his master sigh.
"Oh, I could wish we were be safe in our own home," His master didn't seem to notice he had made a wish as Spike's eyes began glowing and one of his black lines disappeared.
"Your wish is granted," the entrance to their home decreased in size massively, leaving only a small hole that was slowly getting smaller.
"Wait," His master said in a panic stated, "What did I wish for?"
"To be safe," Spike replied casually "Your home will now be sealed off from the rest of the world, and only link back up once a year just long enough for you and your people to gather pollen and return home, with a week or two breathing room in case you get slowed down by something,"
"But...But we can not survive cut off from the rest of the world, we need water, sunlight, we need..."
"You know, you could just wish your cave had everything you need to survive," Spike said casually before licking his hoof and attacking a smudge on his lamp, "just wish for it to be a Grotto or something," Spike looked at the smudge before adding "but before that can I get some help cleaning my lamp, gonna be a few years before someone rubs it again, and I'd like it to shine a little, makes it easier to find," Spike continued attacking the smudge with his hoof only to find some of the Breezies had actually come to his aid and were wiping his lamp down, "oh, thank you," Spike said as he stopped attacking the smudge, Spike sat in wait for them to finish before waving to his master who looked nervous as he spoke his first and final intentional wish.
"I wish for our home cave to become a Grotto we can thrive in," Spike nodded at it.
"You know what, I can work with that," Spike waved at the Breezies as his eyes started glowing, he increased to massive high again as the entire cave began glowing, "Your wish is granted," he declared as he moved the cave out of Equestria and into its own little pocket dimension, giving the Breezie a grotto separated from Equestria in every way but the temporary entrance. Once the wish was granted Spike could feel himself being sucked back into the lamp but resisted with all his might as he watched the Breezies react to their new home.
"This is better than I could have hoped for," The Breezie who had once been his master said in awe "Why don't you stay with us? I'm sure we can find a nice place for your lamp,"
"What?" Spike asked with a chuckle as the lamp started spinning "I don't voluntarily live in this thing, I'm trapped in it, and once a master uses all three wishes I'm sent flying into the event horizon," The Look on his ex-master face almost made Spike feel bad. "I did say I was a slave," he managed to say before the lamp began forcing him in, Spike's lower body turned into a tornado as he was sucked in, his upper body being flung around with it, "Oh I don't like this," He decided as the lamp prevented him from shrinking down and he was violently sucked into the lamp while massive. while being sucked in he felt something and saw that a swarm of Breezies was trying to stop him from being sucked in.
"Ah that's sweet," He managed to say before the lamp sent out a surge of magic and shrunk him down to the size of a normal Breezie, his rapid change in size sent the ones trying to pull him free-flying as he was finally sucked it with a large amount of discomfort on his end, Spike arrived back in the lamp and for the first time ever felt the lamp move from within. it jumped and sent him hurtling face-first into the ceiling before it presumably flung itself out the entrance to the Breezie's cave and flattened Spike against the back of it.
"Pain, a lot of pain," Spike managed to say before the lamp hit something hard and Spike flung forward and hit the nozzle, his wrist cuff started glowing and slammed him into the back of the lamp once more before he was allowed to fall flat onto the floor of his lamp, in a puff, the Breezie split into the Dragon and the Kirin and the two fell over in pain as the Breezie continued existing on the floor.
"I forgot to ask my master his name, and I failed to give him mine" Breezie groaned "Why do I keep doing that, I suck so much,"
Spike had split his mind between all his forms more equally so he could be all of them at once, at the moment he was arguing with himself mostly out of boredom.
"No, I'm pretty sure it was Sweetie Belle," Kirin said as he scratched his chin "She was the one we had a crush on I'm confident of it,"
"No, no, no," Breezie said as he fluttered over Kirin "it was Fluttershy, hundred percent,"
"What? You're both stupid, It was Pinkie, without a doubt," Dragon declared with determination "Had to of been," as the 3 all started trying to prove to one another that they were the one who was right they all felt it at once.
"A master!" Kirin said in excitement "Oh it's been centuries!" he clapped his hooves and rushed to the nozzle, feeling he was the most acceptable form for this master as his other two forms all stuck their tongues out at one another before dissipating. Spike swirled out from the lamp and the yell of shock informed him his new master had not intentionally summoned him. Spike took advantage of this to be a little theatrical, Spike grew large and kept his lower body as a mist as he declared in a loud booming voice.
"I am the Genie of the Lamp, you have summoned me and my power is yours to control my master," Spike looked down at his new master and was fairly shocked when he recognized him, his master was an old-looking Unicron with blue robes, a wizarding had, and a long beard. The Unicorn looked suspiciously at Spike but Spike decreased in size and gave his master a once over. "Say...aren't you Starswirl the Bearded?" Being recognized got a look of surprise from Starswirl
"I feel I must take being recognized as a great honor," Starswirl said as he looked at the oil lamp "To think the tales of genies are true,"
"Well I dunno about Genies plural, I'm the only Genie I know of," Spike rubbed his chest proudly before shaking his head and looking at Starswirl, "Regardless as you are Starswiril the Bearded I am hoping you'll at least let me tell you the rules before you start wishing?" Spike saw a shine in the old unicorn's eye and Spike clapped his hoofs together, poofing a scroll with the rules on it into existence for him, Starswirl looked at it and Spike waited for a minute while the rules were read.
"Interesting," Starswirl said as he looked over the rules "Is there a time limit to how long I can wait to make my wishes?"
"Well, I guess if you die or lose the lamp, other than that you have nothing but time," Spike looked around his surroundings, they were in a forest clearing, right behind Spike was a small ditch, that ended at Starswirls hooves. "Ah, guessing my lamp made this when it blasted off from my last master," Spike kicked at the small scar on the land his lamp had made when Starswirl smiled.
"Of course," Starswirl said with a smile, "If I were to use my wish-"
"Careful," Spike interrupted, "saying I and wish in a sentence counts as making a wish so make sure it's what you really want, I really need to add that to the rules," Starswirl looked at Spike and back at the lamp. "If you want time to think aloud just rub the lamp again and back in I go till you're ready for me," Starswirl did just that and Spike was sucked back in, Spike trotted over to one of the Lamp walls and put his hoof on it as his other forms materialized in the lamp, the wall turned into a mirror and shimmered before giving Spike a third-person view of Starswirl putting the lamp under his cloak and leaving the area, heading to a very old and worn looking path that Spike assumed Starswirl had been walking on when he had noticed the lamp.
"Unexpected," Starswirl said as he made his way down the path "I came here to study ruins, and instead I found something far more unique to study," Starswirl made his way along the path and found the ruins he was looking for, some old crumbling ruins, after some looking around and taking a fairly large number of notes he set up a camp near the ruins and continued his investigation far into the night, suddenly a fit of coughs overtook him and he was forced to retire for the night, The night itself was upon him half an hour later as he sat next to his dinner reading a book on Llama's, he had just finished it and was returning it to his saddlebag when he dropped the lamp and, seeing as he was now resting, he decided to rub it and begin his study on the Genie. What happened when he rubbed it was unexpected, as a table appeared out of the smoke and a set of three creatures formed sitting at it with his Genie, all playing what looked to be a complicated version of chess and drinking from odd-looking cups.
"You can't use the comics owl until at least the 15th turn," A Breezie said as it sipped from a tiny cup, he noticed Starswirl and spat out its drink, instantly the scene before him dissipated and the Kirin stood before looking embraced.
"Sorry," He said awkwardly "Wasn't paying attention,"
"Who were all those creatures?" Starswirl asked, curiosity burning in his mind "They were all dressed just like you,"
"Oh they're all me," Spike replied casually "You spend a few thousand years in a lamp with cosmic powers and you'll eventually start duplicating yourself just so you can argue with someone," Spike thought for a moment and added
"If you want I can make a special form just for you, kind of like a way of remembering you when you use up all the wishes,"
"Interesting," Starswirl said before falling into another fit of coughing, "Pardon, adventuring at my age is no easy task,"
"I could fix that," Spike said leaning forward and wiggling his eyebrows and Starswirl "Just gotta think of the right wish," His master pondered the idea for a moment before turning to the Genie.
"What would you subject?"
"immortality along with no longer aging," Spike said without hesitation "You'll have all the time for the rest of forever to study to your heart's content,"
"An interesting proposition," Starswirl replied stocking his beard with his hoof "I'd never have to worry about my dwindling age, instead of trying to finish my work with my limited time, I can focus all my efforts on them," Starswirl smiled and Spike could tell he'd sold him on the wish.
"I wish to be an ageless immortal," Starswirl decided firmly, Spike's eyes started glowing and he stood on his hind legs, lifting his front hooves up as the three black lines under his eyes were reduced to two.
"Your Wish is Granted," Spike declared, Starswirl felt the magic wash over him and could feel all his sores and aces disappearing. While Starswirl looked the same on the outside he felt energy and vigor he hadn't felt since he was young. After Starswirl gave a few kicks that would have hurt him had he done them before the wish he let out a laugh.
"I must thank you for the idea, but I must get back on topic, do tell me Genie, how is it that a Genie is made?"
"When a Mortal is given Cosmic powers by a god and then tricked into trapping themself into a lamp," Spike replied casually, Starswirl's eyebrow rose and Spike quickly added "Giving a mortal cosmic powers make them go completely nuts, give someone who spends their life trying to help other cosmic powers, and they'll be trying to remake the world in their image in less than a minute," The look on Starswirls face was somewhat comical.
"Interesting," Starswirl said as he began taking notes of what Spike was telling him "Well then since I imagine you have more knowledge than I on this particular matter, what would you recommend for my two remaining wishes?"
"Well, you're the master so I can't go ordering you around, but if it's a recommendation you looking for then might I suggest saving them? You could regret wasting them, might need them when you least expect it," Spike winked at Starswirl and the old sorcerer looked over the few notes he had written down.
"Well now," He decided as he used his magic to quickly pack up his camp "These old ruins can wait now that I'm no longer bound by time, think I'll set my sights on a few of those projects I abandoned, never thought I'd get anywhere with them but now that time is no longer a factor I think I can crack them," Starswirl mad to rub the lamp but stopped and looked first at his saddlebags, and then up at the Genie "You know it's somewhat...random, but I am rather fond of Llama's,"
Spike was humming a tune as he read one of Starswirls many books, he was sitting inside Starswirls workshop in the form of a Llama, it had been a fair number of years since Starswirl had made his first wish and the Lamp was now set comfortably on a pillow in his study, surrounded by protection spells, Starswirl himself had let Spike out of the lamp and decided to let the Genie roam the shop freely since he couldn't stray too far from the lamp," Spike was reading a book Twilight had once read to him when he felt it, he closed the book and hid behind a bookshelf before popping his head up like a periscope and watched through a gap between the books as a scrawny looking pony walked into Starswirls Study, it was also the public library, though they rarely got any visitors. Starswirl himself was looking over his old notes when he heard the bell chime, he chose to ignore it and was about to continue writing when one of his desks draws opened and Breezie Spike peaked out
"Destiny is calling," He said before disappearing into a mist, Starswirls ear's perked, and he sloppily finished his notes before making his way to his guest, the Unicorn looked like he was trying to keep his cool when he saw Starswirl, he said nothing as he tried to find the correct words only for Starswirl to speak first.
"I sense you're not here to check out a book," He noted as he approached the pony "You are here on a mission, a grand one it would seem," the relief on the visitor's face was almost comical.
"You truly are as great as they say," He said as he took his hood off "I am Stygian, and I am on a mission to gather 6 of the mightiest ponies from across the land to forge a team strong enough to protect Equestria from any and all danger, you are the first one I have come to reach out to,"
"Interesting," Starswirl said, "Come, I shall accompany you in gathering the rest," Stygian followed Starswirl to the second floor of his home and while Starswirl was preparing a few scrolls noticed the oil lamp.
"Interesting thing to keep on display," He noted as he looked around at a fair number of far more valuable-looking objects cast aside and accumulating dust around the room.
"Ah yes, I found this lamp near Pone Henge, it has...interesting magical properties that I hope to one day fully understand, until then however it remains on my desk, covered in protective spells so those with wicked hearts can't obtain the power it holds,"
"How interesting," Stygian said, He and Starswirl made their way to the bottom and Starswirl wrote a quick note and sent it off with a spell, his message sent he and Stygian left his shop, leaving only Spike behind, once they were gone he split into all his forms again.
"The shop is ours!" Llama Spike cheered "Who wants to play 5th-dimensional chess!"
It had been a few years since the Pillars had joined as one and Spike knew that tonight was the night, Starswirl entered his home, nearly breaking the door as he did so.
"Stygian has returned," He said as he made his way to the second floor, Where Llama Spike was standing, packing a suitcase with copies of some of Starswirls items, "What are you doing?" he asked the Genie.
"I like keep-sakes, and I've never had a master for so long, but sadly history dictates your time as my Master is drawing to an end," Spike looked around the shop and spit, the entire building started glowing and a tiny doll house version appeared on Spike's back as he made the Suitcase disappear, "That'll do,"
"You are correct," Starswirl agreed as he reached through the magic barrier and grabbed the lamp "But I won't be using your magic against the pony of shadows, if we fail and he knows of your existence he could use you to reshape the entire world. No, your powers are needed elsewhere," Starswirl rubbed the lamp and Spike was sucked back in, Spike looked around the inside of the lamp as he split in multiples.
"Man I haven't been in here in like 5 years," he said with a laugh as he looked at Rain Shine's tent and took a peek at the picture resting inside it before raising his hoofs and setting up the tiny copy of Starswirls home, a picture of Starswirl along with the Llama replaced what had originally just been a picture of Starswirl.
"Least we don't have to wait nearly as long to see him again," Llama said merrily as he shrunk down to doll size and walked into the house, poking his head out a window as he did so. Dragon Spike chuckled at the remark.
"Yeah, we just have to wait for him to rub the lamp and use his last wishes," Dragon Spike made his way to the wall and touched it, watching as Starswirl left his home for one final time and mumbled something about essays before lighting his horn and teleporting to a cavern where his fellow Pillars where waiting, each of them had a colored gem, Starswirl took off his hat and removed a star-shaped gemstone and set it in place.
"How do you plan to put our magic into these stones?" Rockhoof asked as he lightly nudged his.
"I am going to ask an old friend to do it for me," Starswirl said as he pulled out the oil lamp.
"Oh, I remember that," Meadowbrook said when she saw it "You said it held a great power within it, did you finally figure out how to unlock it?"
"I think it's time, to be honest, I've known how to use this object since the day I found it, but it can only be used three times and I've already used it once, I've kept it safe with many a spell since the creature withing is forced to bend to the will of whoever holds the lamp,"
"Starswirl," Flash Magnus said with a slowly raising brow "Are you telling us that you're holding a-" Starwirl rubbed the lamp and mist began pouring out, swirling to form Spike's Dragon form, he kept his lower body mist as he formed around the pillars, most of whom took a step back, with the expectation of Flash Magnus who raised his shield at the sigh of the dragon.
"-A Genie lamp," Starswirl said finishing Flash's question "Yes, that is what I am saying, Genie it is time for my second wish, I wish to imbue each of these Gemstones with the magical essence of the pony who brought it and plant them here so that they may keep the land safe when we are gone," Spike's eyes began glowing and the two lines beneath his eyes faded to one as he declared in a booming voice.
"Your Wish is Granted," the gems and the Pillars began glowing, a small amount of each of their glow attached to the gems they had each brought, and the glow died, leaving each of the gems floating as crystal-like roots broke through the earth and wrapped around the gems, after a moment the gems all disappeared beneath the ground where Spike knew the Tree of Harmoney would soon stand, Spike bowed and Starswirl looked at the Pillars around him "please give me a moment, my last wish is...private,"
"Very well," Somnambula said as she and the others made to leave. "Thank you for your help Genie,"
"Don't thank me, Starswirl's the one who wished for me to do it," As the pillars left Starswirl looked up at Spike and offered a hoof, one that Spike shook in departure before Starswirl made his final wish.
"I wish that my young students Celestia and Luna will find this lamp when they are ready to control its power," Spike smiled and his eyes started glowing one final time with the black lines around his eyes disappearing.
"Your Wish is Granted," Spike said simply before being sucked back into the lamp, Starswirl watched as the lamp began spinning and then shot out of the cave and off into the horizon.
Dragon Spike and Kirin Spike were in a heated game of 5th Dimensional chess that had so far lasted almost a full year, watching in silence the Breezie and Llama were waiting to see what Kirin would do and watched as he moved the Hyrda-mancer three spaces to the right and summoned a Hydra Knight to his side, Dragon countered this by moving his Randomizer Dolphin to move all their pieces at random, much to the Kirin's irritation.
"Stop using that stupid Dolphin," Kirin demanded "You've used it every third turn for the last three months!"
"And it's working!" Dragon shot back "Soon luck will be on my side,"
"If luck was on your side I'd instantly use my Randomizer Dolphin to take your semi ok formation away,"
"Not if I use my Cosmic owl!"
"Your owl still has a 98 turn cool down before you can use it next,"
"I'll wait," Spike replied with a smile "I'll win eventually,"
"Don't we technically win and lose regardless?" Breezie asked, Earning a glare for all the other Spikes instantly "Oh come on, you all thought it, that's why I said it!" Before Spike could begin arguing with himself he felt it, while with most of his master he didn't notice them until they were about to rub the lamp thanks to Starswirls wish he could feel that Luna and Celestia were about to find him and he instantly ended the chess game and his multiple forms were all sitting in a movie theater as the outside world appeared on a movie screen.
The Lamp was resting in the branches of a small tree that had grown in the middle of a mostly empty field, sitting next to the tree, and unaware of the lamp, sat Luna and Celestia, the two looked worn and tired, from the look of them they were barely adults, telling Spike that only a few years had passed since Starswirls last wish.
"Another dead end," Luna sighed as Celestia leaned against the tree "Sister I think it's time to accept that we might never find him,"
"We can't give up," Celestia insisted "We managed to track him to that cave with the crystal tree,"
"That was a year ago, and we've found nothing since, all we've found since then is that the lamp he had on his desk is also gone, and as far as we know he took it with him to where ever he went,"
"He said he was going to take care of the pony of shadows, and the fact that there's still light in the world shows that he did just that so we know he won," Celestia made a frustrated noise and kicked the tree she was leaning against, her ear's perked when the shock of her kick caused the lamp the fall from its perch and land with a clank against the hard earth. The two sisters looked to the sound and stood dumbfounded as they looked at the old oil lamp that had belonged to their teacher.
"What?" Luna demanded as she looked up at the tree in confusion "That can't be Starswirls lamp," Celestia used her magic to pick it up and looked it over.
"It is!" She declared "It has the same carvings, and on the bottom, it's faded but Starswirl stamped his Cutie mark on it," Celestia rubbed her hoof against the faded ink, clearly reminiscing her lost mentor, when the lamp began violently shaking and she dropped it from her magic and smoke began billowing from it and started taking shape as Spike emerged in his Llama form.
"Oh man," he cried out as he immediately started winding his neck 360 degrees "I can't even begin to tell you how much I hate it in there," as Spike continued spinning his head Celestia lit her horn and pointed her attack at Spike, who ignored her for the time being and continued spinning his neck and began prancing in place, enjoying being free from the lamp.
"What is this, who are you," Celestia demanded.
"Who am I?" Spike asked playfully "Who are you? Rubbing my lamp, bringing me here, then pointing a loaded horn at me,"
"This lamp belonged to our mentor and-"
"Ah good old Starswirl," Spike said with a sigh "my second favorite master, without a doubt. But regardless this Lamp was his for a few years but I've lived in it for thousands of years," Spike unwound his neck, and his head spun for a second before he looked at Celestia as she stared him down. "Alright master, maybe unload the horn, and let's talk about this reasonably, introductions maybe?" Celestia looked taken aback at being called Master and called Spike on it.
"Master?"
"You rub the genie lamp, you become the genie's master," Celestia shook her head at the word genie and instantly came around.
"I wish-" She attempted to say only to be cut off.
"whoa, whoa, whoa," Spike said fastly, knowing she was about to wish for Starswirl to return, "you should probably know that if you wish to know where Starswirl is or wish for him to appear before you, you might destroy the future,"
"What?" Celestia demanded.
"I can't explain any more than that, it might also destroy the future, the best I can do for you is that you can't go looking for him until someone finds something of his that is lost,"
"Why should I trust you?" Celestia demanded, "You're a Genie. If the stories are true about your kind..."
"Those stories were written by a Pirate that was too full of himself to listen to me, he used all of his wishes in like 5 minutes, and he waisted the first one on something he already had," Spike could tell that he hadn't won her over and changed tactics.
"Alright, if you really wanna risk it, you could waist a wish and wish for me to tell you if I'm lying or-"
"I wish for you to tell me the truth," Celestia said instantly.
"Wow, ok," Spike said as he held his hooves "No one's ever called me on that, props," Spike's eyes began glowing and he cried out in a booming voice "Your wish is granted," one of the black lines disappeared and Spike said flatly "I have not yet said anything to you that wasn't true,"
"Dangit," Celestia said as she flattened her ears "I did not just waste a wish on that,"
"oh you did," Spike Confirmed "you waisted it like no tomorrow," Spike snickered at Celestia and she intern rubbed the lamp and sucked him back into it "That's a cheap shot!" Spike managed to cry out before being forced back inside, Spike slid along the bottom for a moment and a bed materialized in his way and caught him like a ball in a mitt, it flopped over and expanded as the other versions of his himself all appeared in order of when they were formed and all materialized a Nightcap "And now we wait for her to get over the fact that she totally waisted her first wish," Llama declared as he clapped his hooves and the lamp went dark as he all got comfortable.
It had been well over an hour since Celestia had made her first wish and all the forms of Spike were now in a dog pile as half of him napped and half of his stood at the ready, Spike figured Celestia was waiting to summon him again in private and this proved true as she and Luna made their way into Starswirls old home and Luna locked the door and covered the windows.
Celestia made her way to the center of the first floor and rubbed the lamp, instead of a Llama she got a Breezie and Spike saw her doing her best not to laugh at the sudden size change.
"Relax," Spike said waving his hands at her "I'm a Genie, I can basically look like anything,"
"Maybe some warning next time," Celestia said as she did her best to not die of laughter, Luna's reaction was similar but she continued to say nothing as she stood her ground at the front of what Spike figured was now the de-funked Library.
"Alright Genie," Celestia said as she looked at Spike with as calm of a gaze as she could "I would like you to tell me anything you might know about Discord,"
"That Chaos dude?" Spike asked casually as he took full form and flopped on the ragged old couch he had lain on so many times in the past "Can't tell you much past that he and I haven't met yet,"
"Do you plan to work for him? Overthrow him?" Celestia asked as she looked at the Genie "If tales of your kind are true your just as powerful, if not more so, than him,"
"Maybe, but he ain't enslaved to a lamp, and I am, also enslaving all of Equestria sounds like, supper generic, that's what all the powerful creatures do, naw when I get out of this lamp I'm a Retire," Celestia looked at Spike before he pointed at her "B.T Dubs, Your first wish is still in effect, I still can't lie to you,"
"Alright, then I wish for a way to defeat Discord," Celestia said with determination, Spike's eye's started glowing and his Blackeye lines decreased to one for each eye.
"Your Wish is Granted," he declared as a scroll appeared in front of Celestia, she grabbed it with her magic and found herself looking at a single sentence.
"Go to the tree of Harmony," Celestia read aloud, looking back at her sister, who shrugged, the two looked back at Spike and he pointed back at the scroll, which was now a map, directing them to the cave containing the tree. "We must depart," Celestia said as she rolled up the scroll and picked up the lamp, "I'll put this back on Starswirls old desk pillow, the spells are weak but they will last long enough for us to return, Celestia moved to the desk and the rubbed the lamp.
"Oh come on," Spike complained as she was sucked back in and crashed into his sleeping forms. "You don't have to suck me back in after every wish, it ain't like I can make a run for it," Spike grumbled angrily as his other forms all complained about him sitting on himself.
Spike and his over selves were all arguing with one another about the simple things in life.
"It's been two years," Breezie groaned as he rolled along the floor of the lamp "When is she coming back for us,"
"It hasn't been two years," Llama replied as he walked in a circle, his neck spinning the opposite direction that he walked "It's been three and a half,"
"Feels like it's been five, "Dragon shot back as he and Kirin messed with a scale model of Equestria.
"It hasn't been that long," Kirin snorted back as he sat next to the area with the Kirin tribe and watched Rainshine go about her daily business as ruler.
"How would you know," Breezie shot back "You just sit there and watch Rainshine all day like a total creep,"
"And you don't spy on the Breezies?" Kirin asked back, earning a gasp from Breezie.
"It sounds so bad when you say it that way," He said dramatically, before adding "Think of a different way to say it," Before Kirin could respond the lamp was suddenly rubbed, and all of Spike was caught off guard and Randomly chose the Kirin to pop out, He stretched and looked down at his master, and was surprised to find it wasn't Celestia, but Luna.
"So how's my favorite princess of the moon doing?" He asked casually, the look in her eye was all he needed for an answer "Angry by the look of it," Spike noted as he looked down at her before he could say anything else Luna lit her horn, and Spike was plucked out of the air and slammed to the floor "Although enraged might be more accurate," Spike noted as he looked up at her from the floor.
"For my first wish," Luna said with a smile "I wish for power strong enough to defeat my sister," Spike's eyes started glowing and his three lines went down to two.
"Your Wish is Granted," he declared, he saw no Physical change in Luna but could feel her magical prowess shoot through the roof in an almost literal sense as the old building began crumbling around them, Luna lit her horn and with the lamp enveloped in her magic she took flight, Spike turned into a cloud of mist and followed after.
"So, Master, how long was I just kind of left on the table for?"
"30 or so years," Luna replied.
"Alright I was kind of against this but now I hope you give Celestia a solid thrashing," Spike said with a noticeable tone of irritation in his voice.
"Genie, my second wish," Luna said suddenly "I wish that when the time is right my body will look like a nightmare, to strike fear into my sister before our fight.
"One Nightmare Moon coming up," Spike said as the lines around his eyes cracked away "Your wish is granted," Luna smiled and he suspected her third wish was to be something along the lines of the world being able to thrive in the light of the moon but instead of making a third wish she rubbed the lamp and he was sucked back in.
"Oh come the heck on," Spike said angrily "Stop sucking me back in here it sucks, it's cramped, and these other guys never shut up,"
"We're you!" his duplicated all yelled back angrily.
"Oh, you wanna make this a thing?" Kirin said, "Cause I'll kick the snot out of myself if I have to!"
The Spikes all lay battered and bruised, the lamp looked like a war zone, and the Spikes were all in pain.
"I told you," Kirin said as he fixed his broken leg, "I told you I'd kick my own.."
"Oh just shut up," Dragon said as he felt the lamp being rubbed, Spike emerged, and before him was a destroyed castle and Celestia crying as she held the lamp in her hooves, above them Spike could see the mare in the moon.
"Hm, she still had one wish left," Spike said as he looked up at the moon, Celestia didn't show any sign of caring about that or the fact that Spike was now a Dragon. "So...are you sure this was the best time to call me out? I'm not all that good at comforting so..."
"I'd like to make my final wish," Celestia said as she attempted to rid herself of the tears "I wish that this lamp was sealed away for as long as my sister is to be sealed and that only a pony who deserved to find it will find it after,"
"Oh man, this is gonna suck," Spike groaned before lighting his eyes "Your wish is granted," Celestia dropped the lamp and Spike quickly added "Oh, in about a thousand years say high to Twilight Sparkle for me, you're gonna love her," Celestia looked back as the Genie gave her a thumbs up before being sucked up, the Lamp Spun on the spot and shot straight up into the night sky, seemingly becoming one with the stars as it did so.
