"Spike? Spiiike? oh there you are, do you have my checklist of things I need to make checklists for this week?"

Spike wearily wiped his eyes with the back of his scaly clawed hand and sighed irritably, It took him nearly two hours to make this list alone, and he was in low enough spirits.

"Twi' come on we've spent half the day already working on this can't you just let it go?"

"Let It Go!? Spike do you have any idea of the chaos that could unfold if I just Let. It. Go? The only thing that stands between us now and the total destruction of everything we know is what-?"

"*sigh* Organization" Spike groaned, already he knew that he was going to get nowhere in this.

"Organization! Ex-actly! We can't just go all willy-nilly all the time, that'd be crazy!"

Under his breathe Spike mumbled about how she never goes 'willy-nilly' at all.

Looking to the side her saw her book of Starswirl the Bearded's notes on time magic. An idea formed in his head.

"Twi! Twi I got it! look at this, Starswirl the Bearded was close to figuring out how to control the flow of time for an individual pony- I bet if you looked into this you could do it-then you'd be able to spend a week making lists and only take a few minutes!"

"Oh Spike that's ridiculous, Starswirl the Bearded was one of Equestria's best unicorn magicians, if he couldn't manage something like that what makes you think that I'd be able to-to, hmmm?"

Despite having been talking about how she could never manage, Twilight had taken the book and was studying the notes, in seconds she was totally engrossed.

Spike gave an evil chuckle as he crept away to enjoy his time before Twilight either figured it out or realized his trick.

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It was late at night when Spike came back to the library, but to Twilight it had been almost no time at all. She had been reading and experimenting so intensely that she hadn't even noticed his abscence, she'd even been conversing with him throughout the hours he was gone.

Tired as Spike was he announced himself to the purple pony that he was going to bed.

"Wait Spike once last thing! Hold this up I'm going to try and make that little apple over there ripen. Page forty-five, note fifty-four."

Spike wished he could simply go to sleep but he lifted the large book anyway and flipped to the fifty-fourth page, holding out the note in the forty-fifth space. Twilight skimmed the ancient text and pointed her glowing horn at a hard green apple next to Spike.

Unexpectedly a burst of shining white magic exploded from Twilight's horn throwing her back. Spike shouted as he was hit by the magic and he too was sent away. They both crashed into the shelves causing an avalanche of books to fall off all the walls.

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In the morning Twilight sat up groggily and shook her head, she blinked a lot and surveyed the mess. tossing books aside carelessly with her horn she called out to her little dragon.

"Spike? Spike are you okay?"

"Yeah Twi'"
"I'm fine"
"No duh"
"All's Good!"
"Yes Dear"
"Oh...Yeah"
"Grahhhhhh!!!"

Six Spikes sat up tossing books aside, and rubbing their head, all looking slightly different.
There was one who looked completely normal, one tough looking one rubbing his arm, one with a gleam in his eye scratching the back of his head, one with a giant grin, one sitting elegantly on a stack of books, one seemingly hiding behind his tail, and one giant dragon that roared and ran out of the library making a big hole in the wall.

Twilight's eye twitched slightly.

"Oh no."