Author's Notes:

This is NOT a chapter, it is simply a catch up due to the extended break from the story to jog people's memories on the main parts of the story. A new chapter will be on its way soon

Spike, the dragon assistant of Twilight Sparkle, is stolen in the night by a strange orb, the entity appearing from nowhere, and disappearing without a trace right in front of Twilight. When he awakes, he is surrounded by strange bipedal creatures, and soon finds himself inducted into the Jedi Order. Meanwhile, Twilight is distraught, her rage and sorrow fuelling her ascension to Alicorn-hood and Princess-hood. She vows none shall feel such a loss again.

Spike makes friends with his Padawan training group, learning the basis of the Force and Lightsaber conflict, as well as awakening his own magical potential in the form of Moonstone, the personification of his magic, taking the form of a self-aware pony that only he can see. Eventually he completes the first stage of his training and is placed under Jedi Master Solaris for one to one training, the pair forming a strong bond and spending most of their time on a covert Republic military station known as Fireshot. As he progresses, Exar Kun declares war against the Republic, throwing the galaxy into flames. Spike quickly learns the difference between breaking up slaver rings and full-fledged battle and is left behind on Coruscant to keep him safe while the Jedi mobilise for a strike far away from the capital.

Plans are already in motion however, and as the core worlds stand sparsely defended, the Mandalorian hordes allied to Exar Kun strike. Spike finds himself cut off from any high-ranking officials, forced into a command position over soldiers and his old Padawan group alike. It is during this invasion that the first of Spike’s Padawan pack, Asho the Twilek, is shot and killed, sending Spike into a brutal rage, allowing his nascent magical powers to truly blossom, wings sprouting from his back as he falls unconscious.

The invasion is fought back, and Spike is rewarded for his heroism, granted his Knighthood and command of a small ship. Sent to investigate rumours of an enemy force hiding from Republic sensors, Spikes lone vessel is set upon, and Spike himself captured by Mandalorians. Here he is subjected to hideous torture after he refuses to turn to the path of the Sith, though not without great effort. After his liberation, and a lengthy recovery period, he is present for the end of the Exar Kun war and the Wall of Light that burns Yarvin 4 to ashes, before Spike, and many of the Jedi order, are sent to hunt down the force creatures known as the Terentateks.

Spike is on an Outer Rim planet with his new force, the 59^th Recovery Fleet, tasked with repairing damage from the Great Sith War against Exar Kun over two decades earlier. The fleet has helped multiple worlds by now, but soon comes across more than they can handle. An entire world they investigate has been put to the sword, and they soon find that the Mandalorians, long thought defeated, have reformed behind a new leader, Mandalore the Ultimate. Briefly captured with his crew, Spike manages to escape, but crash lands on a world now under Mandalorian control known as Ranox.

To survive, Spike is forced to give into his draconic nature, allowing his personality to fracture yet again into a Beast that would later be known as Desolation. For six months Desolation terrorises Ranox, becoming known as the ‘Curse of Ranox’, hunting down Mandalorians and sowing fear through their ranks with his brutality. Eventually however he does escape the world, Spike forcing control of his own body back, and while he hates what Desolation did, he is forced to accept it.

Escaping in a stolen Mandalorian ship, one he would eventually come to rename Harmony, he returns to Coruscant and brings what he has seen to the Jedi Council. They dismiss his fears however, ignoring the looming threat. Spike soon befriends a mysterious Jedi Knight known as Revan and begins to help him form a group of Jedi who are willing to fight, including his oldest friend, Tarhal the Wookie. After Months of subterfuge, as well as a few clandestine run ins with Mandalorian forces, Spike and Revan’s forces travel to Cathar, only to be confronted by the Jedi Council. Two more of Spikes old Padawan Pack, Corinna and Zule Thanos betrayed Revan’s movement to the council, but before violence can break out, all present have a vision of Mandalorian brutality as they commit genocide on the defeated Cathar people. Reluctantly, the Jedi Council allow Spike and Revan to leave with their forces but refuse to join the war with them.

From here, Spike goes to war in earnest, proving himself as one of the strongest Jedi commanders alongside Revan and Meetra Surik. With every battle he fights his reputation on both sides of the war grows, but he also loses parts of himself, mental at first, but soon even his scales bare the scars of war, even losing his tail to the enemy, receiving a cybernetic replacement and continuing the fight. As a rivalry with the Mandalorian Commander Cassus Fett grows, Spike finally finds out just how much he can lose, managing to stop a nuclear bomb from killing a Republic army by siphoning the power of the explosion away via magic, but even he couldn’t hold all of it, and the remainder of the explosion rips him apart. It takes numerous doctors to bring Spike to life once more, much of his body has been destroyed, and for a time he loses faith in everything, even attempting to end his own life. He is only snapped out of this downwards spiral by a message from Twilight, something he had not been able to replicate for all the decades he has been away from her. This message gives Spike hope, and he soon accepts almost full cybernesis, over 75% of his organic material needing replacement.

Back on the front lines, Spike is giving joint command of a new special forces unit along with Tarhal, the pair turning them into a deadly force by using the Mandalorians own training regimes on his men. Soon they are called to help assist difficult sieges, including one on the stronghold of Duxn. In this hellish fight Spike is reunited with Corinna Thanos, his friend hating the fact she betrayed Spike and joining the war to try and make it up to him. Unfortunately, she has sustained massive injuries by the time Spike reaches her, and even though he manages to fly her to a medical bay, she dies in his arms.

Enraged, Spike burns his way through the forest with his special forces to attack the Mandalorians directly, before being overcome by his rage, Desolation trying to take full control once more. Only by clawing out part of his own brain does Spike manage to ‘kill’ Desolation, or so he thinks. With Duxn won, Spike returns to further training his forces, even being granted a Padawan of his own, Katara, as the final Padawan to join the war. Soon after he is confronted by Revan, and though the two have drifted apart due to differences in command tactics, Revan gives Spike the opportunity to help end the war.

The pair find and board the Mandalore’s flagship, and while Revan fights the Mandalore himself, Spike finally fights Cassus Fett. Both are victorious, cutting down their opponents, before setting sail for the final battle over Malachor. Spike soon finds out what Revan plans to do however, and though he reaches the flagship in time, he is unable to stop Meetra from activating the Mass Shadow Generator.

The war ends in mass murder, and Spike abandons Revan’s cause, even falling out with Tarhal who believes Revan to have been right. As the Republic forces follow Revan into Dark Space to finish off the Mandalorian remnants, Spike and Katara retire to an Outer Rim planet to try and find some modicum of peace.

Spike has been in a maximum-security prison for years after the Jedi Council accused him of war crimes, exiling him from the order in the process. However, he is soon visited by Katara, and after finding out that Revan and Malek have fallen to the Sith, along with many other veterans of the Mandalorian War, and is attacking the Republic. He is called back to active service as one of the Jedi’s most experienced warriors and generals, many of their other experienced Jedi having turned to stand with Revan.

Once again Spike is given command of the Special Forces of the Republic, taking the fight to Revan on any front he can, but soon he is tricked by his old friend, abandoning a planet he was supposed to defend in favour of the potential to kill Revan and Malek in the same way Revan and Spike had ended the last war by killing the Mandalore and Cassus. Though he gets close to the pair of them, he does not manage to cross blades, his fleet is thrown back with heavy losses, and the planet he was to defend is laid to waste.

Shamed by the defeat, Spike has command of the Special Forces taken from him, instead given a large, but mostly outdated fleet, to defend the Republic’s flank from what is reported to be a small Sith force. As soon as the fleets meet however, Spike sees they have grossly underestimated the Sith Armada, and doubts his chances of victory, even before betrayal from the surface decimates his fleet. Manging to capture an interdictor engine, Spike and the surviving Republic forces fortify themselves on the planet, the Sith fleet unable to jump away due to the interdictor engine and are forced into a protracted siege. Again however, Spike doubts his chances, and prepares his final sanction, the destruction of the world with the interdictor engine, reminiscent of the Mass Shadow Generator from the end of the Mandalorian Wars. It will kill everyone on the planet, Republic, Sith and civilian alike, but it will also destroy the Sith Armada, and Spike proclaims that to be worth the price.

As preparations for the plan near their fruition, Spike fights the Sith commander, almost breaking as he sees it is his best friend, Tarhal, now fallen to the ways of the Sith. The pair cross blades, and though Spike is stronger, he is distracted by his grief, Tarhal slicing one of Spike’s arms off and claiming one of his two Lightsabres as a trophy. Before he can land the killing blow however, Spike’s plan is put into effect, the planet beginning to be torn apart. Few escape the planet, Spike is one of them, and he believes Tarhal to be another, but billions die by Spikes claw.

Limping back to Coruscant, Spike goes before the Jedi Council where Atris, someone who has hated Spike force his actions in the Mandalorian War, declares Spike a traitor and sentences him to death. Spike only escapes this fate due to his magic, once more allowing it to overwhelm his body. This time however it regrows all lost flesh, as well as causing him to grow massively, and he takes off, leaving the Jedi Temple behind. Moonstone manages to guide him into orbit, Spike’s draconic scales and lungs able to sustain him in the void, and using magic, Spike forces himself into Hyperspace, jumping away from the planet.

Crash landing on an unknown world, Spike is confronted by an old enemy. Desolation was also affected by Spike’s sudden regeneration, gaining a physical body of his own the size of Spikes, but without wings. The pair fight, destroying mountains in their rage, but eventually Spike manages to kill Desolation once and for all.

Months go past, and Spike has made a living as a gladiator in a small Outer Rim outpost, rising to champion quickly. He has found himself cut off from the force, but his magical potential has grown exponentially, and he is able to change his appearance in subtle ways such as colour, as well as shrinking back to his previous, Wookie like size. This all changes when a Mandalorian he knew from Ranox enters, Spike initially attempting to kill him, but soon relenting, the pair talking about old times.

In time, Spike and the Mandalorian, Seugtai, form a plan to continue to help the war, even with both not able to directly help the Republic. Returning to Coruscant under a mercenary pass, Spike, Seugtai and many of the Gladiators who chose to follow their champion, instead attack the prison where Spike was once held, liberating those prisoners who will work with them, and executing those who won’t. With a small army now at his back, Spike and his force travel to the old Space Station Spike grew up on, Fireshot. The once state of the art facility is now out of the way and redundant, but many on board still know and like Spike. As he lands his army takes the station, only targeting droids, leaving living crew members alive. As Spike enters the bridge, he gives those on board the chance to side with him, to which they accept.

With the choice between life and death so starkly presented, the familes fall in line, forming a syndicate that will strike at the Sith in places the Republic can't, their first target, a vast weapons depot, filled with the material required to wage a provate war on the followers of the Dark Side of the force.

Unknown to all however, this action did not go unnoticed, HK-47, an assassin droid built by forces unknown, was dispatched to end the former Jedi's life. Narrowly surviving thanks to the aid of his Mandalorian ally, Spike and Seugtai travelled to the Outer Rim world of Tatooine, selling what remained of the assassin droid before speaking to a mysterious figure, known only as the Teller of Truths. In a vision conjoured by the Teller, Spike saw his former adopted mother, Twilight Sparkle, consumed by fire, a profecy foretold before the Teller vanished without a trace. Shaken and enraged by the cryptic visions, Spike returned to his ship, Seugtai in tow, preparing to return their base of operations.

Alas, such a journey was not simple, Spike captured by Tarhal, the former Jedi turned Sith very much alive, seeking to torture his one-time friend for abandoning him before turning him to the Dark Side. It is only through Seugtai's intervention that Spike is freed, the pair travelling to the bridge of the interdiction cruiser to confront the wookie, Spike and Tarhal crossing blades one final time in a confrontation only one could survive, Spike standing over the corpse of his greatest friend.

Now, with a moments peace in the eye of the storm, Spike prepares to travel to Kashyyyk, homeworld of the Wookies and recently liberated from the Czerka Corprations slave operations, to give his friend a proper burial. Before he departs, he contacts Jedi Master Zule Thanos, the only other surviving member of Nexu clan from Spike's childhood, asking him to attend, even as his allies warn him against exposing himself to one who wishes to see him returned to prison on Coruscant.