What the Future Brings

Twilight and Spike didn’t speak as they looked at the elder Spike Sparkle in disbelief, their minds not understanding just how they had reached so far into time with two simple spells of un-summoned magic. They then turned their heads to see the three strange creatures they saw earlier running towards the larger, older dragon.

“Dad! Dad! We got some really big problems” shouted Sparkfang running so fast he almost hit his father’s right leg but stopped just as he almost collided with it “some dragons are flying over Ponyville! We think it might be Garble’s gang looking for revenge!”

Spike Sparkle forgot about the creatures that reminded him of himself and his wife as he faced the three teenagers.

“Make sure everyone gets to saftey, I’ll handle it!” Spark Sparkle ordered in a serious tone that none could disobey, Spike Sparkle then looked Twilight in the eyes only seeing the same hard stare of determination and innocent that he had fallen in love with when he was young and with a soft whisper of "Please...be safe, Twi..I can't lose you again" he ran from the first into the clearing, intent on stopping his own kind from whatever chaos they wished to cause.

The three teenagers nodded watching the older male run to battle before they started running back to Ponyville as Spike Sparkle did ready to face the invading dragons once more. Twilight and Spike started running after the teenagers. Twilight's mind in a bit of surprise at her older assistant's last words before she snapped out of her thought and focused on the enemies to come.

“Can we help? We should be able to provide a lot of assistance” asked Twilight concerned.

“Yeah....sure....whatever” Firefly replied rolling her eyes, not understand how a baby dragon and young mare unicorn could be of that much help before she flew off to Ponyville to help get the Pegasuses to saftey.

Pretty much every resident of Ponyville was in panic running around screaming while Sparkfang and Dinky were helping them get into saftey whether it was in the stores or in their houses. Firefly was leading the Pegasuses up to Cloudsdale. As these actions were going on the giant dragons were swooping down and snorting flames which were attacking the buildings, there were four of them, two males and two females, two were pitched black in colour with blue eyes as one male was red scaled with green eyes and another, one of the females was pink scaled with brown eyes.

“This is forty percent too much for me” muttered Firefly with a grit of her teeth as she was flying about leading the Pegasuses.

Begrudgingly Sparkfang helped the little filly who insulted him earlier find her parents and get them into their home. The parents thanked Sparkfang for the help and the filly even gave him a quick sorry, saying that maybe even hybrids did have a place in their land causing Sparkfang to chuckle.

Outside the City Hall a grown stallion who was the current mayor of Ponyville was shaking his head trying to calm the residents of his city down. He was a white pony with a brown mane and brown patches around his body.

“Why did I decide to go in politics?” muttered Mayor Pipsqueak under his breath, running for shelter to the best place he could....under his desk.

“What in tarnation?” asked Applejack as the Mane Six minus Twilight were looking for their two remaining friends and spotted the running ponies and the dragons swooping in.

They saw Twilight and Spike running up them, both of them out of breath as

Spike had managed to grab his moustache and place it back onto his face, wanting to look cool for no other reason them because he could.

“Okay we’re back together,” Rarity shouted, her eyes wide in fear of the dragons before her as she levitated a large rock with her magic and threw it at one of the dragon's near her, accidently hitting Spike Sparkle in the back as he roared but did not turn around due to his larger enemy he was facing “question is now: how do we get home? I want to go HOME....This is the WORST ....POSSIBLE...THING....EVER!”

Their eyes widened when they saw the elder Spike Spark, slashing them with his claws, tail and even large breaths of green flames which had no real effect on the fire-proof creatures.

“Who is that?” asked a stunned Rainbow Dash marvelling at the giant dragon before her and at the sheer muscles that he had on his form, a small amount of drool sliding down the left corner of her mouth before she wiped it away, blushing and knowing that doing both was far beneath a pony like Rainbow Dash.

“You’re not gonna believe us if we tell you-” muttered the younger Spike.

“But we think that might be Spike! Or at least a much older version of him at the very least” Twilight spoke for all her friends to hear, the Mane Six, or rather five dropped their jaws in awe.

“I don’t believe it.........but it seems like it really is him.....how.....appropriate” Rarity stated in awe and a hint of shock and fear at the older version of the dragon she considered a younger brother.

“Seems like we really have travelled through time” Twilight said with a shake of head, not understanding how far they could have travelled and the other Mane Six nodded their heads.

They then saw Sparkfang stopping for a minute before cheering out for the elder Spike Sparkle yelling out “Go dad! Kick some dragon tail.....even though you are a, um.....forget it....GO DAD!”

“Seems that the strange creature is Spike’s son in the future” thought Twilight her eyes widening as she could not believe that such a unusual creature could exist “but the creature doesn’t look like a normal dragon to me and just who is his mother? Where could she be?”

They then saw the elder Spike bite the tail off of the male black scaled dragons and then use his tail to decapitate him before ripping the tail out of the body and throwing it like a spear to one of the females, the sharp sight arrowed tail like spear impaled the black scaled female without any problems as she crashed to the ground before the Mane six, dead. As this was happening police unicorns were coming in to help against the dragons.

Spike Sparkle managed to knock down the dragon who seemed to be the leader right out of the sky with a large rock before he grabbed the creature in his claws, his voice filled with hatred that his own kind would dare return. “Why have you come back? Of what purpose would it serve to torment this town you scaled ugly, buck!” Spike asked venomously.

“What’s it to you traitor?” sneered the male red scaled dragon with harsh green eyes dragon “you disgraced our species by marrying that filthy, worthless pony and producing that abomination!”

The dragon then roared in pain as Spike then sliced his left front claw deep into the dragon's eyes, red blood pouring from the wound as the dragon moaned not being able to see and knowing that he would not live long “Never insult my love or son again!!!!!” he screamed into his face with green snouts of flame coming out of his nostrils, the other dragon feeling the waves of rage emanating from the green and purple scaled dragon before him.

“Garble was a visionary who knew we dragons were more deserving of ruling Equestria than those sick, weak little meals of prey...” the dragon coughed loudly, blood dripping down his mouth to his chin as Spike Sparkle only scowled in disgust before the dragon added then said “though those dreams were squashed when you murdered him!”

Spike then grinned at that sentence, he normally didn’t like killing but Garble deserved it. Who would have thought what was nothing more than a big bully and a jerk would turn out to become a power hungry mad monster?

“We have found a new leader to help us continue Garble’s legacy” grinned the dragon smugly not knowing if he was facing Spike or not and just wanting for his life to end.

“Who is your new leader?” asked Spike sternly black puffs of smoke was exhaled cruelly from his nose into the dragons face as he coughed and swiped the smoke away before being back clawed by Spike with his right front claw causing the dragon to only grunt.

“Wouldn’t you like to know?” asked the dragon darkly and spat in Spike Sparkle's face before a snap of his neck by Spike ended his life who then dropped him to the group and turned around, walking on all four to allow the police ponies to aid him in taking away the ponies, not knowing that one of the four escaped.

Soon with the amount of police ponies against another group of dragons and with Spike Sparkle's help including the Mane six the invading dragons retreated allowing the ponies to go out and get to work repairing Ponyville.

Dinky, Firefly and Sparkfang came up to Spike and Sparkfang ran up to Spike Sparkle as Sparkfang hugged his right father’s leg. Spike then smiled at his son thankful he was okay and then gently used his left front claw to pat him on the head, causing Sparkfang to ignore the blood on his father's claws and now his own head.

The group then watched the Mane Six and the younger version of Spike walk towards them, in awe and a hit of panic of what they just saw.

“Hiya Pinkie!” chirped Dinky to Pinkie Pie making both earth ponies smile and acted as if a large battle did not just take place before their very eyes.

“Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie and..........me?” asked Spike Sparkle confused as to why he was seeing the younger version of himself, his deceased wife and his old friends as he eyes drifted once more onto the younger version of his dead wife, wanting nothing more than to take her face with a claw and kiss her lips which would have the taste of ozone, the smell and fragrance of paper and fresh wood and a hint of a grape and daisy sandwhich which was always her favourite food he remembered with a sad smile as the young mare noticed that he was looking intently at her and forced him to look away, even after so many years her eyes were the only ones that caused him to act as if he was a small colt in love for the first time, blushing in what seemed to be of so many years .

“Who are these ponies, father? And why does that small dragon look a bit like you?” asked Sparkfang and the younger Spike and Mane Six minus Twilight gasped; it seemed the older Spike was the father of the strange creature.

“I think these are the younger versions of me and my friends many decades ago” said Spike Sparkle to his son making Sparkfang look at all his father's friends who he only heard of in stories and even at the younger version of his father who stared right at him and waved shyly as Sparkfang could not be rude to his....younger father and waved back, confused beyond believe and not wanting to get grounded by the both of them.

“How are you all here? Where did you come from?” Spike Sparkle then asked the Mane Six after facing them but could not help but look deep into the eyes of his young wife as he spoke, not wanting for her to leave his sight in case he lost her again, which he could never allow to happen.

Twilight then gathered her breath and spoke, hoping to clear up any confusion and not anger any of the creatures before her but could not help but look into the eyes of her older best friend “Understand that we were in Canterlot Castle in our own time period and due to a mishap with a spell of both mine and Rarity’s on accident we ended up here! We were sent here outside Ponyville and used a camouflage spell to hide when we saw them coming toward us!”

“So you caused that sound in the fields then?” Firefly questioned putting the pieces together as the Mae six and Spike nodded, the younger dragon admiring his older self's muscles and stared to wonder when he would have to appear like that, flexing his right arm as Sparkfang face clawed but did not speak, knowing that his father still did that action even to this day.

“It seems we had been sent to the future!” Applejack said slowly shaking her head "Ah need a glass of apple cider" she whispered making Spike Sparkle chuckled hearing her words, Applejack and Dash did like a drink together before they both moved out of Ponyville.

Spike Sparkle thought he vaguely remembered something similar.

“It makes sense!” nodded Sparkfang relieved, already putting the pieces together in his mind being as smart as his mother before him.

“What do you mean?” asked Dinky confused looking at his friend.

“Dinky they are from the past” explained Sparkfang “that pink one looks like you and even has the same name as your grandmother! So that means....”

Dinky then managed to make one and one equal two in his mind forcing him to have a grin that only a member of the Pie family could obtain. After bouncing up and down excitedly Dinky then charged at Pinkie shouting “Grandma!”

Once Firefly got Pinkie away from bone crushing hug that her grandson was giving her but could not repeat, Firefly then asked with a large tone of surprise and pride “Wait did Sparky’s dad say one of you is called Rainbow Dash?”

“Yeah that’s me!” replied Rainbow Dash proudly floating from where she sat next to Applejack and landed next to the identical Pegasus.

“You must be my grandmother,” shouted Firefly, not noticing the two dragons and hybrid grabbed their ears in pain at the large amount of volume “a legendary flier who I have admired all of my life!”

“Really?” asked Dash excited realising she must have become famous in the future.

“Really...but you know.... your old news” Firefly replied with a wave of her right front hoof and a smug grin h her face, loving her grandmother but still having attitude for her talents....just like a Dash would “ sorry to say this grams, but once I make it big everypony will have forgotten about you!”

Fluttershy and Applejack then held back an angry Rainbow Dash to prevent her from fighting with her granddaughter, wanting to smack that grin right off her face for her large amount of disrespect.

“Okay well if you’re supposed to be my son” asked the Younger Spike to Sparkfang scratching his head with a claw “who’s your mother?”

Spike Sparkle then faced and looked deep into Twilight's eyes and so did Sparkfang recognising her as his mother from the photos in his photo album and from his memories. Twilight once realisation hit her like a kick to the face from all of her enemies at once looked at Sparkfang and could see he looked a little like her with the horn and his eyes and the way his eyes shined to want to learn more about anything that was possible.

“You’re a mother Twilight! Ah reckon I never thought ah would see the day, bookworm, old Twi got herself a mate” Applejack excitedly laughed patting Twilight on the shoulder with her left front hoof.

“I thought you would be a great mother someday Twilight, dear! I cannot believe though that you would have children, old the poor, sweet little boy! ” Rarity said with tears at the corner of her eyes.

“Wait...but if he’s the son of Twilight and Spike,” asked Fluttershy nervously, hiding a little under her pink mane while looking at her friend around her as they all had to take a step closer to hear her “doesn’t that mean Twilight and Spike........”

At that realisation the Mane Six gasped and Twilight and Spike blushed looking at each other before turning away, not knowing how all of this could have led up to them having a child.

“Well Spike does seem kind of cute...I can't believe that we are mates in this time period though, it just does not seem to be the most logical point of view, I mean sure he-” thought Twilight in her mind, looking at the ground underneath her.

“Well Twilight has always been there for me, I mean I did always think that she was beautiful and I'll admit she does look a bit sexy when she wakes up from bed or when she smiles that soft, gentle innocent smile at me, but for us to have a child in this time period, it's-” thought Spike in his mind before his thought were interrupted by the older version of himself who loudly cleared his throat and waved his tail for the animal to follow him back to his and his son's home.

Soon they decided the Mane Six would stay with them until they can figure out how to send them back, Spike and Twilight keeping away from one another until they could wrap their heads around thought has been told to them. Sparkfang said he would write a letter to Princess Celestia explaining the predicament hoping she would have a solution as the Mane six nodded while eating dinner, Spike resting outside the treehouse with his older self, enjoying the large amount of gems that was at his disposal.

*In a dark, haunted cave far away*

In the large cave the remaining female dragon who tried to invade Ponyville nervously went up to their new leader who was much larger than any other dragon and explained the failure of the invasion because of the traitor Spike Sparkle.

The leader then excused itself and then thought about the female’s words.....the dragon who had fallen in love for a unicorn and create the first hybrid in centuries was known though out the entire dragon kingdom..........to him particularly.