The girls were standing in the waiting room of the hospital. Twilight was pacing the waiting room waiting for Spike to get out of surgery.

Nurse Redheart stepped out, "Princess Sparkle?"

Twilight rushed the door asking. "Is Spike alright?" Redheart didn't like to deliver this kind of news but she had some questions first. "Have you known about Spike's prior visits to the hospital?"

"No why?"

"Because the past four years have been damaging to his health, especially to his back. Since January he has experienced major nerve damage and it just snowballed from there. Did you know what happened on the date of the 28th?" Twilight gulped at this date, January 28th was the day of the Iron Pony competition and she volunteered Spike to be tossed from both Applejack and Rainbow Dash and then hog-tied. It caused nerve damage? Redheart continued, "Did you ever take him to get acupuncture therapy?"

Twilight looked at her. "No I haven't why?"

"Well that doesn't account for the multiple holes in his nervous system." She showed Twilight a scan of his back. "It looks like somepony used him as a pin cushion." Pin cushion? Spike once volunteered to be Rarity's pin cushion for a bit. He said he wasn't effected, he said that he had thick scales. It finally clicked in Twilight's mind, He wasn't doing it because he felt he wanted to, but because he had to.

"Can we see him?" Twilight now had tears in her eyes.

Redheart sighed and said, "He's still in surgery it's to determine whether or he'll be able to walk or not. In my professional opinion it's less than a five percent chance of him being able to do so." Twilight sat back down in the waiting room.

Pinkie was the first to ask. "What happened Twilight?"

Twilight sighed, "Nothing good."  

Fluttershy asked."W-what do you mean?"  

Twilight looked at her friends and asked. "Am I a good friend?"

The girls were shocked at this, they went to comfort her but she shied away.

"Where is this coming from sugarcube?" AJ wondered.

Twilight looked at her with red eyes. "You girls have been the best thing to happen to me. I would never take away the things we did together, but from what the nurse had said it's unlikely that Spike will ever walk again."

Rainbow spoke up. "What? Spike's a trooper he'll pull through this without a scratch on him...right?"

"I-I don't think so Rainbow, he's got less than a five percent chance."

The girls looked at the ground. Pinkie's hair straightened out a bit, Rainbow stepped away when that happened. She had already seen crazy Pinkie and she didn't want to again for a long time.

The nurse came up to the girls and said. "He's done with the surgery."

The girls knew it was time to face the dragon, "He's in room 420." The girls with their tears in their eyes trudged to the room their mood effecting almost everypony in the hospital. Spike was not feeling well, he was the opposite of good. He was just told that he'll never be able to walk again, he let that sink in. He already sent Celestia a scroll about it. She said that she'll be over soon and that she was going to have a long talk with the girls, this shouldn't have happened. There was a knock on the door.

"It's open." He replied.

The last group of people he wanted to see strolled in. The Mane Six, that's what everypony calls them. They're the heroes, they're the Elements of Harmony. They have the magic of friendship to help them in a jam. Where was Spike's help? Sure when he became a rampaging dragon and destroyed the town, they were there to stop him. When he needed help they weren't there. When the palace was put into place his chair was shorter than the rest. That meant that his destiny was to forever be a servant. The girls always focused on their problems. They were the last people on the planet he wanted to see right now.

"What are you doing here?"

Twilight spoke meekly. "W-we came here to help?"

Spike snorted. "Like anything I do needs your help."

Rarity scolded. "Spike I know that your upset but that doesn't mean that you have to take it out on Twilight like that."

Spike looked at her like she had said something crazy. "Upset? UPSET!? I'm not upset I'm livid. Throughout all the time I've lived in this backwater town I've been nothing but tortured, beaten, frozen, racially profiled, stolen from, tossed, kicked, fell, used as a test dummy for a mad scientist, treated like an animal, been a victim of pranking so bad that I have stress attacks,used as a pin cushion, and all around ignored when I needed help. But upset is where I draw the damn line. I am paralyzed from the waist down, I have to shit and piss in a bag from now on. I highly doubt that any of you would have given me the time of day before then so I'm leaving. Tonight, I'm going home, back to Canterlot where I am appreciated as an individual and not as a fucking slave that you can boss around on a whim."

Spike with all of his pent-up anger spent he just pointed a finger, "As far as I'm concerned, None of you are my friends."

That had hurt all of them, the girls walked back to the castle to see a chariot in front of the crystal tree palace.

They entered to find the Princess of the Sun looking down at them, "I am very disappointed in you all."  

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