Chapter 1: Spike and the Mane Five

"All right, this one is full, take it away!" Someone is heard shouting the next morning. A whip snaps as prisoners are in a caged stage coach, being taking away.

It was a sad day as a bunch of creatures, Aliens, legendary beings, etc. is lined up in chains. By the order of Prince Blueblood, the ruler of DuColt, everything alien, legendary, monster, etc. are to be rounded up and exiled from their homes. He sees anything different from him to be a freak!

"Move along, come on, get up!" A guard snaps, forcing the apes in chains to move along.

During this time, the head of the guards, Razoul, wrote on the checklist of the creatures turned in so far. Villagers are lining up with those they have captured, hoping for a big reward for doing so. It is a sad day for any 'not so normal' being in the land.

"Next!" Razoul orders a bit.

In line is a woman named Old Lady, holding five ponies by ropes. One of them is an Alicorn with a pale, light grayish mulberry coat, moderate violet eyes, a mane and tail that were both moderate sapphire blue with moderate violet and brilliant Rose streaks and a magenta colored star Cutie Mark. Her name is Twilight Sparkle.

The second pony is an orange female Earth pony with green eyes, blonde mane and tail, both in a ponytail, wears only a cowboy hat and has three apples marking on her flank. Her name is Applejack.

The third pony is a female pink Earth pony with dark pink curly mane and tail, bright blue eyes and two blue and one yellow balloons marking on her flank. Her name is Pinkie Pie.

The fourth pony is a pale yellow female Pegasus pony with a long pink mane and tail, cyan eyes. Her cutie mark is three butterflies. Her name is Fluttershy.

The last pony is a light blue female Pegasus pony with a rainbow mane and tail, pink eyes and a marking of a cloud and a rainbow shaped lightning bolt on her flank. Her name is Rainbow Dash.

The ponies look scared as they were captured by a villain that they have gotten in the way of once too often and is simply trying to get rid of them without caring about the money. The five gulps as a guard fights a witch for her broom.

"Give me that!" A guard snaps as he grabs the broom and snaps it in half, "Your flying days are over!"

Razoul gives out coins to the villager who turned in the witch, saying, "All right; 20 bits for the witch. Next!"

While Razoul wrote the witch down in a notepad, one guard shoves a Pokémon, snapping, "Get up! Come on!"

"Oh dear, this isn't happening, this isn't happening." Fluttershy whimpers a bit, scared.

"It's okay, we can escape." Twilight whispers. "Of course, with this rope keeping my magic in check in place..."

As Razoul was given another creature, he adds, "5 Bits."

The Mane Five saw a group of yellow family members known as the Simpsons trapped in a cage each. Bart groans, "Man, this bites! This cage is too small!"

"Tell me about it." Lisa groans a bit. Why is this happening?!

"Don't turn us in!" Pinkie whines a bit to the Old Lady. "Come on, I will never be annoying again! I can change, really! Give me and my friends another chance!"

"Oh shut up, you pink doofus!" The Old Lady snaps to Pinkie in annoyance, jerking the rope and almost choking the ponies.

"Stupid witch," Rainbow growls a bit. "I would've shown you what for!"

"Next!" Razoul snaps impatiently. An old man named Max Tennyson came up with a little boy wearing a device on his arm called Ben Tennyson. "So what do you got?"

"This boy who can change forms through his device," Max Tennyson explains to Razoul. He didn't want to turn his grandson in but the old man was forced to do so.

"Hey, I don't transform into aliens, really!" Ben insists, slamming a fist onto the ground. However, his Ominitrix went off, turning him into Four Arms. He yelps and quickly changes back. "Oops."

"That's 6 Bits for the alien boy." Razoul said, giving out bits to Grandpa Max. The guards seize the Ominitrix and took Ben away. "Take him away."

"Grandpa, please, no! Don't let them do this; Help!"

Ben struggles as he was taken away. Grandpa Max frowns as he remarks, "I hope your prince Blueblood is happy! He and you goons made me give up my grandson."

"Better that than in prison, old man. Next!" Razoul snaps, making the old man leave with the money, feeling sorry. The Old Lady shoves the Mane Five near the desk. "Now what do you talk?"

"I got these five talking ponies, one of them is an Alicorn; two of them are Pegasi!" The Old Lady explains to Razoul eagerly.

"Right...well, that's good for 3 Blue Bits...if you can prove it."

"Okay, go ahead, freaks."

The Old Lady removes the ropes from the Mane Five, eagerly hoping for them to talk so she will get rid of them and her money's worth. The ponies however refuse to talk or do any magic whatever. They just look away, upset or nervous.

"Well?" Razoul ask the Old Lady impatiently.

"Err, they are just nervous. Yeah, one of them is quite a talker." The Old Lady said nervously as she grabs Pinkie then snaps angrily to her. "Come on; Talk, you stupid Earth freak!"

"Okay, I've heard enough; Guards!"

"Wait, wait, they can talk, really!" The Old Lady quickly grabs Pinkie by the mouth, trying to make her talk...though the villager's impression is very badly and no one, not even Razoul, is fooled or amused by this. "Oh, I can talk! Okie dokie lokie! I love to! I'm the talkingest silliest thing you ever saw!"

"...get her out of my sight." Razoul remarks dryly. The guards seize the Old Lady and took her away.

"Wait, wait! I mean it! Those ponies can talk, use magic and fly! Honest!"

During the mad struggle, the Old Lady kicks a cage that held a Breezie named Seabreeze out of the hands of a pirate named Jack Sparrow, causing it to fell onto Applejack. Dust spreads right onto the ponies, causing them to fly up into the air.

"Hey! Ah can fly!" Applejack exclaims eagerly.

"So can we!" Fluttershy exclaims eagerly.

"They can fly!" Jack Sparrow exclaims in amazement.

"Coco!/They can fly!" Three imaginary friends named Coco, Wilt and Eduardo exclaims, though Coco can only say her own name, while being held by a shocked villager.

"They can talk!" Razoul exclaims in shock. So the Old Lady was right!

"Yeah, that's right, meanie pants!" Pinkie taunts in amusement at the shocked Razoul. "Now I'm a flying talking Earth Pony and so is Applejack! My other friends can fly naturally! You might see pigs fly, maybe a housefly, but I betcha you haven't seen a Pinkie fly; Ha ha ha!"

"Pinkie, look out! The dust is..." Twilight begins to say, but it's too late. The dust wears off, much to Pinkie and Applejack's alarm and notice. Not good!

"Horse apples," Applejack groans as she and Pinkie fell to the ground with yelps. The ones with wings stay up before landing on the ground.

"Luckily we can fly." Rainbow remarks with a shrug.

"Shut it."

"Seize them!" Razoul orders the guards who begin trying to catch the Mane Five. They quickly flew/jump out of the way making two guards hit each other on the head. As the gang flees from the guards, they crash into a cage and it opens. A look alike of Pinkie dashes out and grabs a Brown Alicorn, dashing to the left knocking out some guards as well, "After them!"

"Let's get out of here, girls!" Twilight exclaims as the ponies run out into the woods with the guards in hot pursuit.

"They're getting away, get them! This way, turn!" The guards shout as they chase after the ponies. Will they ever escape?

Suddenly the five ponies bump into something, falling downward. To their alarm, in front of them is a familiar Dragon who is putting up a 'Keep Out' sign when they bumped into him, making Spike turn around to glare at them.

Fluttershy gulped, looking scared, "Oh dear."

"Oh great," Applejack mumbles, seeing the guards coming up the path, making her and the others hid behind Spike.

As the guards arrive, they look startled upon seeing Spike. Razoul spoke up, "You there...Dragon!"

"Yeah," Spike asks Razoul who took out a piece of paper, rolling out a bit. As the head guards read it, he got nervous as Spike goes up to him, rising up a bit.

"By the order of Prince Blueblood, I am authorized to place you and the ponies under arrest, to transport you all to a designated...resettlement...facility?"

"Is that so; you and what army of yours?"

Razoul turns around, expecting his men to back him up...but to his shock they run off, leaving their weapons behind. The head guard chuckles nervously to Spike...then yelps as he runs off after them like mad. Spike laughs as Razoul flees like a coward.

Pinkie giggles happily, "That's funny! They run off!"

"Yeah," Rainbow said with a smile. The ponies saw Spike leaving then follows him. The Dragon did a great thing in chasing those guards off. "Hey! Wait up!"

"Can we say something to you? Listen you are really, Super Duper something back there!" Pinkie giggles as she bounces while following Spike, much to his annoyance, "Very incredible!"

"Hey, are you talking to..." Spike begins to say as he turns to confront the ponies. But to the Dragon's surprise, Pinkie is gone. "Me?" When Spike turns back around, he yelps in fright as Pinkie appears in front of her as if by magic.

"Right; I was talking to you! Can I tell ya that you were great back there!"

"Got 'ta say, sugar cube, those guards think they were so all 'dat." Applejack remarks with a smirk. "But yew showed them and...bam! They were tripping over themselves like foals in 'de woods."

"Right, it was nice." Fluttershy said with a smile. "It makes me feel good to see someone helping folks scare off bullies like that."

"Right, great, really." Spike remarks in annoyance. Perhaps it was a dumb mistake to save these ponies.

"Thanks for helping us out, sir. I would've use magic but we were outnumbered." Twilight admits as she and her friends stretch a bit. "It's not right for that to happen."

"Right, feel so good to be free!" Pinkie giggles happily while stretching a bit.

"Glad to hear that, so why don't you celebrate your freedom with the rest of your own friends?" Spike asks the ponies impatiently then heads off.

"Err, we would...but we don't know where our other friends are at."

"Right, besides them, we don't have any other friends." Rainbow remarks in concern while looking back. "And as much as I hate to sound like a coward, no way are we going out there by ourselves with those jerks looking for us."

"Right; we need 'ta find a place where we can be safe fer a while." Applejack said in concern.

"Wait, I got an idea!" Pinkie exclaims happily as she bounces after Spike eagerly. As the rest of her friends follow, the pink pony continues, "We will stick with you, big guy! You are a mean, purple fighting machine! Why together, we will scare the spit out of anyone who tries to get us!"

"Well, it would be great to have a new friend and ally." Twilight said to Spike who roll his eyes while stopping, "So how about it?"

Spike then roars loudly at the ponies, trying to scare them off. While Fluttershy seems a bit frighten, the rest of the pony just stares a bit, shaking their heads.

"Dang, 'dat's scary, big sugar cube, if yew don't mind me by saying so." Applejack admits. Spike groans, his roaring didn't do the job. He heads off, trying to get away from the ponies. "An' hay, if 'dat doesn't work, yer breath will git 'de job done fer sure!"

"Right, you definitely need some breath mints or something. Your breath stinks!" Rainbow remarks to Spike with a hint of disgust in her voice.

The Mane Five saw Spike heading off; they got to catch up to him. Pinkie does so first, appearing in front of him from a log, hanging upside down to the Dragon's surprise as she comments, "You almost burned the hair from my nose! Reminds me of the time when..." Spike in annoyance covers Pinkie's mouth, but she kept on talking. After a while, he removes his claws. "...then I ate some bad cupcakes. Wow, made some strong gases out of my flank that day."

"Don't ask please, really." Twilight said to Spike as Pinkie bounces off the log. "It's rather...unpleasant."

"Why are you five following me?!" Spike snaps angrily to the ponies. Don't they even know what the five are dealing with here?!

"Oh, let me tell you why..." Pinkie said with a sad sigh.

"Oh dear, here it comes." Fluttershy said as Pinkie begins to sing.

Pinkie: Cause I’m all alone.
There’s no one here beside me.
My problems are all gone,
There’s no one to deride me.
But you gotta have fait-

"Stop singing!" Spike exclaims annoyed, picking Pinkie up by the tail. "No wonder your other friends aren't here."

"Well, yew is a true friend...sort o'." Applejack said thoughtfully. "Ah mean, only a true friend could be 'dat cruelly honest; unfortunately."

"Look, ponies! Look at me! What am I?!"

"Uhhh..." Fluttershy said puzzled as she and her friends look up at Spike for a moment, "Really tall?"

"No! I'm a Dragon! The fire breathing kind! As in 'grab your torches, pitchforks, and swords'!" Spike explains in annoyance. "I mean, doesn't that bother you?"

"Well...no, not really. I mean, you aren't really big and mean like other Dragons that scared me. You look rather...nice."

"Right, doesn't bother me any nor the rest of us," Pinkie explains to Spike happily.

"Really," Spike asks the ponies in surprise. None of the ponies are even bothered by the fact that there's a Dragon in front of them?

"Really really," Twilight said with a smile. "After all, you may be nasty looking on the outside but I betcha you are nice on the inside."

"Oh."

Pinkie giggles as she said, "I like you…My name's Pinkamena Diane Pie…but my friends call me Pinkie. And these are my friends."

Twilight introduces herself next to her new friend, "I'm Twilight…Twilight Sparkle."

"Name's Rainbow Dash," Rainbow remarks, pounding her hooves in the air.

"Howdy…name's Applejack." Applejack comments while tipping her hat to the Dragon.

Fluttershy quietly said, "Fluttershy."

"Huh? What was that? I can't hear you." Spike said to Fluttershy, not quite hearing her.

Fluttershy a little bit louder respond, "Fluttershy."

"I still can't--."

Fluttershy scream at the top of her lungs, surprising even Spike, "FLUTTERSHY!"

"Ow! That really hurt my ears!" Spike exclaims, rubbing his ears out in the alarm to get rid of the noise.

Fluttershy calming down apologizes meekly, "Sorry."

"So…what's your name?" Pinkie ask Spike curiously.

Spike awkwardly shrugs, saying, "I'm…uh…Spike."

"Spike?"

"Well, you know what we like about ya?" Rainbow asks as the ponies follow Spike over a hill that is front of her home. "You got that kind of 'I don't care what other ponies think of me' kinda thing. I really like and respect dude, Spike. You're all right."

The ponies stop walking, finally arriving at Spike's home in the swamp. Pinkie remarks in disgust, "Wow! Check that out. Who wants to live in that mucky place?"

"That happens to be my home." Spike remarks, offended by Pinkie's remark.

"Oh, and it's quite lovely." Twilight said quickly, not wanting Spike to get angry for Pinkie's remark. As the Dragon heads onward, she continues, "Beautiful. You got quite the decorator. Amazing what one can do with a modest budget."

"Yes. It's nice. Yay," Fluttershy comments as she smiles at a boulder. "Oh, I like that boulder. It's nice too."

Spike goes by a couple of 'Keep Out' signs. Applejack glances at the signs, commenting, "Ah is going 'ta take a guess an' say yew don't entertain much?"

"I like my privacy, AJ." Spike remarks to Applejack with a frown.

"Yeah, you know, so do we!" Pinkie giggles, bouncing up and down. "You know, that's another thing we all got in common. "Like I reaaaaalllly don't like it when you got somepony in your face, you're trying to give them a hint and they won't leave, and there's that big awkward silence that happens!"

"Err, Pinkie?" Rainbow asks Pinkie awkwardly. Sure enough, Spike glares to the ponies and the big awkward silence happen...just as Pinkie said it could.

"So...how about it; can we stay with you?"

"Wait, what?" Spike asks startled and surprised. Is this pink pony wanting her and her friends to stay with him?

"Can any of us stay with you please?" Pinkie asks Spike, giving out a big smile.

"Oh...of course."

"Really?"

"No!" Spike snaps to Pinkie in annoyance. He was being sarcastic! Can't this pink pony take a hint?

"Pinkie, I don't think it's a good idea to just ask him when he doesn't want us to live here." Twilight said to Pinkie in concern.

"Awww, Twilight! He got to let us in! I mean, we can't go back out there! He doesn't know what it's like to be considered a freak!" Pinkie whines a bit. Of course, she glances at Spike who clearly knows what that's like. "Okay, maybe he does! But that's why we gotta stick together!"

"Pinkie got a point, Twilight." Applejack said in concern. "We won't last a day in a land where we get persecuted."

"Right; Come on, please Spike? Please?" Fluttershy ask, giving out puppy dog eyes to Spike who groans a bit. They are hard to resist.

"Okay, fine." Spike said with a sigh as he opens the door to his shack, "But one night, only okay?"

"Oh yes, thanks," Rainbow laughs as she and Pinkie rush into the shack, much to the other ponies' shock and Spike's alarm.

"Hey, what are you..." Spike yelps as Pinkie bounces on a chair. "No, no, no!"

"Oh, this is going to be Super Duper fun!" Pinkie giggles playfully while Rainbow helps herself to the fridge. "Oh, we can stay up late, swap some ghost stories, and in the morning, I am making pancakes!"

"Man, nothing but gems in here." Rainbow remarked, closing the fridge door. Spike growls angrily at the intruders. "So where are we sleeping?"

"OUTSIDE," Spike exclaims furiously, pointing outside to the shack.

"But are you going to let us get cold out there?" Twilight ask Spike in concern. The Dragon pauses then sighs.

"Okay, Twilight. Since, you, AJ and Fluttershy were nice and not barge in, you can stay in here. But Rainbow and Pinkie are sleeping outside."

Rainbow frowns then groans as she flies back outside. Pinkie's mane and tail deflates, giving out a sad and dramatic look. As the mare heads outside, she sniffs, saying, "Oh...okay, I guess it's okay. I mean, we don't know you and you don't know us. So I guess outside is better for both me and Dashie, you know. Here we go." Pinkie sniffs as she heads outside before turning to Spike. "Goodnight."

Spike slams the door close. Rainbow rolls her eyes, sitting down while remarking, "Come on, I like the outdoors. I am a Pegasus pony, I was born outside....and I prefer the clouds." The cyan Pegasus pony flew to a cloud in the sky and sat on it.

"Right, Dashie...I will be outside...by myself...you and the other girls inside know...by myself, outside."

Spike groans, heading off much to Twilight, Applejack and Fluttershy's concern. They hear Pinkie singing sadly.

I’m all alone.
There’s no one here beside me...

Author's note
Well, that was an awkward first meeting. In the next chapter, when Spike's home gets invaded by more creatures, aliens, etc., he and the Mane Five leaves the swamp to speak to Prince Blueblood, who tortures a griffin named Bucky while looking for a bride with the help of Grim. Read, review and suggest.

Razoul is the head of the guards in the Aladdin franchise.

Seabreeze is the Breezies leader that appeared in the recent episode of 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'.