What the Future Brings

Twilight and Sparkfang gasped as they saw out the window Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie and Dinky were trying to run away from the dragons, dodging the s that tried to burn their Applejack missing one of the fires near her tail by a mere inch.

The two then got out to help them as they saw Firefly, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy flew down to them, sweat dripping down their faces.

"Thought you all would need our help again!" Firefly shouted confidently with a large grin on her face.

"You should have stayed in Cloudsdale where it's safe!" yelled Sparkfang to Firefly who was drowning out his words with yawning and a roll of eyes, common occurrences for a conversation between them.

"Hey look" Dinky yelled pointing with a left front hoof, they turned to see a royal chariot being driven by royal Canterlot guards and inside was Princess Celestia.

"The princess must have known the dragons would have invaded again!" Sparkfang said thinking things would go much better with the princess around.

They looked up to see the elder Spike Sparkle glaring as he was facing off with Shenron, he de-facto king of the dragon kingdom.

"What brings you here father?" Spike Sparkle snarled with green flames snorting from his nose causing the Mane Six (except Twilight having found out this information from listening to them minutes ago) on the ground to gasp in shock, horror and disgust.

"What? A dragon can't stop by to visit his son or his grandson?" asked Shenron with a smug look on his face, eyes gleaming with darker intent.

"I wished I wouldn't have to see you again after the last time we met, thief" Spike Sparkle growled looking more furious by the second.

"You should have joined me when I offered," Shenron spoke with a chuckle, shaking his head "perhaps Sparkfang would like to join my cause...I can overlook the fact he is part pony and he can help us rule the dragon controlled Equestria by our sides..."

"You leave my son out of THIS!" Spike Sparkle roared green flames blowing out his nostrils in fury.

On the ground from behind the female dragon who had managed to escape the last invasion was sneaking up behind on Sparkfang. She figured she would become a hero amongst the dragon colonies for destroying the hybrid abomination.

When she was about to attack, her right front claw able to take his life she was then blasted into a building by a furious looking Princess Celestia. Twilight looked surprised, the princess never looked this angry before: not when she found out Discord took the elements, not when she responded to her chaotic phase and not when the fake Cadence revealed herself to be the Queen of the Changelings.

"NEVER!" she roared out in a voice that would completely overshadow her sister Luna's royal Canterlot voice "TRY AND ATTACK MY GODSON AGAIN!"

"Godson?" asked the Mane Six surprised, understand that when Sparkfang Sparkle was born Twilight couldn't decide which of her friends to make the godmother so she made them all honorary aunts to Sparkfang and asked the Princess to be his godmother which she happily accepted.

Shenron was angry when he looked down and saw the Princess; his powers were not at their peak so he would not being able to stand a fight against the Princess.

Due to his old age he had managed to find a way to use dragon magic but he had to make a special potion everyday to keep his powers going stronger.

"I shall return my son when I am stronger," Shenron mocked facing his son again "and when I do...I hope you and Sparkfang make the right choice!"

He then blew a green flame from his maw which grew bigger and covered him allowing him to teleport, leaving the dragon minions to fend for themselves as they were expendable to him anyways.

The younger Spike wasn't able to hold on any longer to his future self's spike spines and fell off. Sparkfang using his dragon wings flew up and caught the younger version of his father and put him safely on the ground.

"Sparkfang I don't think I like your grandpa very much" Pinkie whispered referring to Shenron.

"Don't worry I'm not too fond of him either" Sparkfang replied.

Soon Princess Celestia, Spike Sparkle and the royal Canterlot Guards were able to take care of the rest of the invading dragons.

"Who on Equestria was that giant dragon who you called your dad?" asked Rainbow Dash to Spike Sparkle.

"That was Shenron the oldest living dragon alive" explained Princess Celestia "a very dangerous and powerful dragon. Once, years ago he attempted to kidnap several Canterlot Citizens but I managed to send the royal guards to rescue them and bring them back safe and sound though they had not told me he and his followers had escaped. The guards also brought me a dragon egg they left behind which seemed to be the runt of the litter."

Princess Celestia then faced the younger Spike who along with the Mane Six realized Spike must have been hatched from that egg.

"When Sparkfang was but a young hybrid only a few years old, Shenron and his three sons attempted to invade Ponyville to try and get the citizens to bow down before them," Princess Celestia said continuing the story "when he saw Spike he recognised him as one of his sons."

Spike Sparkle grimaced remembering how nasty, arrogant and evil his three older brothers Sharptooth, Smerg and Grimlock were, he was glad his father hadn't raised him otherwise he could have ended up like them.

"He tried to get me to join them" Spike Sparkle growled remembering that time:

*Flashback*

"Spike my son," Shenron said looking down at his long lost youngest son who was now larger than a pony but still small enough to fit in a room in a building "you have been with these ponies for far too long, it's time you join your own kind!"

"Forget it," Spike shouted firmly "this is where I belong, with my wife and my son!"

"You mean that pony filth and that abomination..." the eldest brother Sharptooth snarled before letting out a great roar as Spike then went to his brother's tail and bit it hard with his fangs then forced back harshly with a blow to the face.

Sharptooth was dark purple though not as dark the shade his father was and he was lean and thin and he had green scales like his father and brother.

"NEVER INSULT MY FAMILY AGAIN!" Spike roared out before leaving them in a huff, which they despised.

*Flashback end*

"When I refused...they...they..." Spike Sparkle started before slumping but Princess Celestia flew up to his back to give him a slow, remorseful pat.

"It's alright, nothing to worry about now" Princess Celestia calmly assuringly as she floated back down.

"What did they do?" asked the younger Spike wondering what his dad and brothers could have done to upset his future self so much.

"They had kidnapped Sparkfang" whispered Princess Celestia looking at the hybrid in question.

"WHAT?" the ponies asked shocked, as soon as her mentor had said those words Twilight then rushed to Sparkfang and then held him in a tight, loving embrace.

"it was at night and Shenron's son, Smerg sneaked his tail through the window of the library and took Sparkfang from his crib, Shenron must have thought he could use him as leeway to get Spike to join them or perhaps raise him to embrace his dragon heritage" fumed Princess Celestia herself disgusted the dragons would stoop so low.

"Twi was so distraught she had been unable to speak properly because of her tears, her parents and Cadence had to come comfort her and so they could grief together. You have no idea how many times we fought verbally because she wanted to help so much to find our son...but I would not let her if...we did not love one another so much, and if we were not already married we probably would have separated...which would have haunted us for the rest of our lives" Spike Sparkle spoke calmly with tears sliding down his eyes.

"How about Shining Armor" Twilight asked still holding onto her future son "how did he react?"

"He had personally lead the entire Canterlot Guards to rescue him," said Princess Celestia with pride "they had managed to retrieve Sparkfang and although Shenron escaped they had managed to capture Shenron's sons who were executed by Twilight, myself and Shining Armor. When Shining Armor brought Sparkfang back to her Twilight basically refused to let him out of her sight for a few days."

Twilight had calmed down enough to let go of Sparkfang, no longer squeezing the life out of her child.

"Until today I had never seen him again," Spike Sparkle snorted in annoyance "and it seems he had Garble's army as well."

"Garble?" asked the younger Spike remembering the teenage bully dragon he had once met a year and a half ago in his own timeline.

"Six years ago he had gathered a large coven of dragons to try and take over Equestria by invading Canterlot," said Princess Celestia "though despite his ambition, Garble was a terrible strategist and the invasion was easily thwarted and Garble had been executed!"

"I was there when it happened" Firefly shouted with a glint of awe in her eyes "it was more awesome than any Wonderbolts show I ever went to and that's saying a lot! Sparkfang's old dragon decapitated the idiot with his own tail!"

The Mane Six then looked at the younger Spike, their minds trying to comprehend the mere thought of Spike being able to do something like that.

"You think that Spike's meanypants dad will be coming back?" asked Pinkie.

"I'm afraid that's more than likely" replied Princess Celestia shaking her head slowly.

*Dragons lair*

In his hideout while getting another even larger dragon army to attack for a third and final assault, Shenron was also making the potion he needed to increase his powers.

"Perhaps I could convince Sparkfang to join my cause?" asked Shenron to himself contemplating what to do "Convince him those weak ponies will never accept him as one of their own and he would be better off by my side! Or perhaps I could anger Spike enough to kill me and take over as leader of the dragon colonies and then he would realize the dragon race is where he truly belongs... I know just the thing to anger him enough, the truth about what really happened to that unicorn mare he married..."