-Maretropolis-

On a random rooftop, a bright flash of light appeared and seven individuals stumbled on the roof of the building, groaning from the rough landing and slightly disoriented. The mane Six and Spike arrived back into Maretropolis in their superhero costumes.

“Everypony okay?” Twilight asked, still dazed. A plethora of groans could be heard behind her.

“Couldn’t ya have dropped us in a pillow factory or something’?” AJ complained as she rise up and dust herself.

“We’re ok, Twilight.” Fluttershy said eventually.

“Some even more than others.” Dash said with a sarcastic remark as she noticed Spike was lying directly underneath her, giving him a front row view of her rack. “Enjoying the view peanut?” She teased. Spike started to flail around under Rainbow Dash trying to get up. His muffled screams barely being audible.

“Rainbow Dash!” Rarity called out. “You’re smothering him.”

“What? All I did was fall, it’s not my fault that Spike just so happened to be underneath me.”

“Could you please get off of him?” Twilight asked. Rainbow Dash just shrugged and got up. Spike’s face was beet red as he scrambled to get up. He then turned to a cackling Rainbow Dash with an angry glare on his face.

“You did that on purpose!” He called out.

“Oh don’t be such a baby? Admit it, you enjoyed it.” She said as she noticed her outfit and decided to inspect it. “Nice, I had forgotten how cosy this suit feels like, almost like we are not wearing anything.” She loudly proclaimed before giving Fluttershy a slap on her rear, making her epp and jump and latch onto Spike, hugging him out of instinct and make him remember the feeling of her heavenly bosom on his face.

“Rainbow!” Fluttershy called her out. “I already told you to stop doing that.” She said, still holding onto Spike.

“I think we really filled out the last time we were here.” Rarity pointed out from how tight her suit felt. Pinkie Pie was bouncing around in her jumpsuit.

“Wow, Rainbow Dash has a point though.”

“What about you Spike?” Rainbow Dash asked him with a sly smirk. “Feeling a little tight down below?” She got close to the blushing dragon.

“Girls.” Twilight called out and all eyes were on her. “Let’s not forget why we’re here. We need to find out where Trixie and Starlight were taken.”

“She’s right.” Spike added.

“And stop with the teasing.” AJ warned Dash as they walked forward

“Fine, you spoil sport.” She said following the rest.

“Ok Spike, you know the story, so what happens next?” Twilight asked getting used to her new powers again. Spike was still blushing when twilight’s breasts were hovering in his face. If Dash’s prank wasn’t enough, the fact that their costumes looked to be just a size short and made of spandex was definitely setting him off.

Did the Power Ponies always have outfits that tight? Spike asked in his head as he noticed that their disguises somehow not only left little to imagination, it almost replaced it with an even dirtier image. One that the poor dragon was finding very hypnotic.

“Spike!” Twilight exclaimed, snapping her fingers in his face.

“Huh, what?”

“I was asking you what we have to do.” She said, placing her hands on her hips.

“Sorry. We first have to go to the alleyway where Starlight and Trixie were captured. Mane-iac and her goons might have left some clues for us to follow, she is not exactly subtle.” Spike remarked.

Rarity meanwhile shivered as they reached the alley and tiptoed her way in “A smelly, dirty alley, why do villains always choose these kinds of places? Would it kill them to kidnap ponies on a fashion pasarela or inside a spa?”

“Oh quit your complaining Rarity.” AJ said in response. “Our friends were kidnapped by supervillains, so like it or not, no matter how dirty, we’ve gotta help them.

Rarity sighed and jumped a bit when a rat passed by her. “Spike please tell me that this issue at least does not involve us looking through the garbage.”

“Don’t worry Rarity, Mane-iac wouldn’t do anything with that, it's simply not her…” Spike stopped mid sentence as he sniffed the air. “Girls, do you smell that?”

“Smell what darling?” Rarity asked. Spike sniffed the air again.

Dash and Rarity sniffed the air as well only to be forced to cover their muzzles “The only thing I smell is dirty diapers and other things that I don’t want to know what they are.”

“Not exactly the best place to be sniffing around darling.” Rarity commented.

“No, not this place, it smells like… lemon lime shampoo…” He added. He then turned to where the smell was coming from, and the girls followed him. “It’s coming from over there.” Spike said, pointing down towards a back alley.

“Spike this is not time for cosmetic shopping!” Dash called out.

“No Dash, it's the shampoo. Mane-iac is doomed to always smell like that. That’s the only reason this alley smells like shampoo, she was here, and she left not too long ago.”

“How can you smell that?” Applejack asked in surprise.

“Dragons have a better sense of smelling than ponies.” Spike remarked with pride.

“So, if we follow the smell, we can find her?” Fluttershy asked.

“Knowing Mane-iac, she can be pretty sneaky.” Spike added. “I’d suggest we go down to the alleyway and at least find some clues. Maybe we can find something to tell us where she was heading.”

“What about the comic? You know what happens next right?” Rarity asked him.

“I used to, but Starlight and Trixie changed the story, the rest of the pages are blank until we finish it.” He said in alarm as they continued to run and turned left. “The smell is stronger this way, we are getting closer.”

“Alright, I’ve been itching for some action.” Dash said with excitement as she flew ahead.

Pinkie giggled and looked at Rainbow Dash. “Dashie, I told you that itch can go away with just some aloe lotion.” She said clearly not getting Dash to remark.

“Can we just focus on what clues we have to find while we’re down here?”

“Um girls?” Fluttershy tried to speak up, but was overshadowed as the girls started to argue on what they needed to do.

“How many times do we have to tell you Dash? Frontal attack doesn’t work.” Applejack countered.

“Says you. I’ve been practicing AJ.” RD remarked.

“Girls.” Fluttershy repeated, this time raising her voice a bit.

“Applejack’s right Rainbow Dash. We don’t want to repeat the incident from last time.” Twilight explained. “This time we use the element of surprise, so you think you can summon some depth fog so we can used it as cover?”

“It would be strange for a fog to be out on a clear night Twilight.” Rarity added. “Wouldn’t the villains know something was wrong?”

“GIRLS!” Fluttershy finally shouted, making everyone look her way. She eeped and hid behind her mane. “I...found a clue…” She said, holding out a piece a paper and knife in her hand.

“Who does that belong to?” Pinkie asked.

“That’s one of Shadowmane’s daggers.” Spike said, making the girls turn towards him. “She’s a new enemy that the Power Ponies faced a while back. She’s like a hired assassin, and highly skilled in martial arts and ninjutsu.”

“Great.” Rainbow Dash said, clenching her fists and punching the air. “Means another punching bag for me.”

“Don’t underestimate her.” Spike added. “She's a mare that won’t hesitate to kill who gets in her way.”

“Then what does the note say?” Rarity asked.

“A ransom note? Classic villains move. If they took civilians, usually they ask money, but for superheroes they’re often instructions.” Spike telled as Dash raised an eyebrow.

“You really shouldn’t read so much comics dude.” Rainbow told the drake, who looked back with a frown and unamused eyes.

“This coming from the mare who reads all of Daring Do’s books and gushes about all of her adventures.” The drake remarked back to the speedy pegasus, who's face heated up.

“Hey, at least I'm actually reading books, those comics you read don’t qualify as reading material.” Rainbow Dash countered back, glaring at the dragon. He still seemed to be unamused.

“Really, because I seem to recall Twilight telling me that you once said, ‘reading’s for eggheads.’” The drake retorted back, making the mare's face heat up even more.

“... Shut up Spike.” Rainbow Dash murmured, looking away from the purple dragon.

“So this is a summoning?” Twilight asked, inspecting the letter.

“Most likely. She had her eyes on the power ponies for a while now.” Spike added. He took the note and read it.

We have Dazzling Mage and Mare-Do-Well in our grasp. If you want to come save them, then come to the abandoned factory alone.

“The abandoned factory? That's just outside of the city.” Spike said.

“Oh, do you think they have another giant hair spray?” Pinkie asked, remembering their last adventure.

“Maybe, but that place had been abandoned for years.” He began. “It was suppose to be scheduled for demolition by the city's mayor.”

“What do you thing they plan to do?” Fluttershy began questioning.

“Not sure Fluttershy. But Twilight is right about one thing,” Spike said, turning to her. “We do have the element of surprise on our side.”

“Then what’re we waiting for?” Twilight said in a uplifting tone. “We got two of our friends to rescue.” Everyone else cheered at Twilight's uplifting speech. Rarity made a barrier and Rainbow Dash made a floating thunder cloud and placed it under the barrier and they went in the direction that Spike had pointed out. What the group was unaware of was that a certain mare had been watching them from the shadows. When the power ponies had disappeared from sight, the figure stepped out of the shadows to reveal itself as Shadowmane. She then pressed two fingers on her ear.

“They took the bait,” Shadowmane said over a microphone. “and the dagger as well.”

“Great” The voice of Highheels answered. “Tail them and ensure that they don’t try anything funny.”

“Understood.” Shadowmane added, as she threw a smoke bomb on the ground and she disappeared into the night.

-Abandoned Factory-

After a short flight, the seven heroes reached the entrance of the abandon factory using a cloud as cover, while approaching the structure until they reached the front door.

“What do you see?” Twilight asked turning to Pinkie. Pinkie then zipped around the building and three seconds later, came back to the girls.

“This abandoned factory doesn’t look so abandoned anymore.” She said. “Look’s like recent activity. There’s at least twenty guards around and some large tanker inside with some strange chemicals.”

“What could these fiends be planning?” Rarity questioned in a worried tone.

“They’re planning on making super soldiers.” Spike said and the girls turned to him.

“What do you mean?” Applejack asks.

“Mane-iac teamed up with High heel and Shadowmane as I've said before, and her goal was to create a super soldier hairspray that she was going to spray across Maretropolis.”

“That meanie pants.” Pinkie said in a dark tone.

“Then we have to stop her.” Twilight explained. Everyone put their backs against the wall and Twilight looked at her friends “Everyone ready?” The moment they all nodded she put her hand on the handle. “On 3 we launch the cloud and then rush in.” She counted down and then they entered, blinding the guards while using the fog as cover.

The effect is what they were hoping for and all the goons are soon blinded and taken down by surprise one by one, until they started to return fire at all directions.

“Rarity!” Twilight asked her to give them cover. Rarity created a barrier to shield them from oncoming bullets aimed at the heroines. Fluttershy soon grabbed Spike and got behind Rarity “Don’t worry Spike we will keep you safe.” Fluttershy told him with a big smile.

Soon Twilight and Applejack freezed or lassoed the goons that were closer to their friends as Dash zapped any enemy that Pinkie expertly threw at her. With all twenty guards down, the girls looked around the factory for their missing teammates.

“Twilight.” Rarity called her and then pointed to the last goons remaining that have spotted them with the air clearing. “They have a bazooka!” She pointed at the goons pointing bazookas at them.

“On it.” Pinkie told them as she dashed forward and tackled them, but not before two shot their missiles.

Rainbow caught one with a lighting bolt and the remaining one headed straight to Rarity. Fluttershy saw it and got big, catching the missile and tossed it into the air where it exploded.

“Wahoo! Great teamwork girls, we did it!” Dash said in happiness.

“We still need to find Starlight and Trixie.” Spikes told them.

“Oh that isn’t necessary, they’re over there.” Pinkie pointed to another room with a black door.

“Good work Pinkie” Twilight told her as they all approached the room. Spike was starting to get uneasy.

“Does anyone here feel like this is getting a little too easy?” Spike said with some concern.

“Oh would you just relax? We are just that awesome, that’s why those guys didn’t stand a chance.” Dash told him.

They entered the room and found Trixie and Starlight tied up to a chair with clown face painted on them.“What is up with the clown makeup?” Applejack asked.

“Its Mane-iac, nothing she does makes sense.” Spikes told her as he and Twilight went to release the girls. He worked on Trixie as Twilight snapped her fingers to wake up Starlight.

“Hey, wake up.” Spike said, waking up Trixie.

“Come on Starlight.” Twilight said in a worried tone. After about ten to fifteen seconds, Starlight and Trixie opened their eyes.

“Huh, wha?” Starlight groaned. Her eyes slowly adjusted to see Twilight “Ah who are you?” She asked confused.

“Its me Twilight.” Twilight said removing her mask to show her her face. She put it back on shortly after.

“The great and powerful Trixie demands to know, why are you wearing a mask Spike?” She asked confused.

“We’re here to rescue you girls and stop the Mane-iac.” He explained. “Basically she teamed up wtih High heel and Shadowmane and are trying to take over maretropolis.”

Once Starlight heard that name her eyes widen in surprise “Girls! Get out now! This is a trap!” she yelled but it was too late. A secret compartment in the knife Spike took with him sprayed a gas inside the room. The girls started coughing and struggled to stay awake. One by one each mare fell as did Spike. Twilight was the last to fall over but before she lost consciousness, she heard Mane-iac laugh as her tendril mane appeared from the window and she jumped inside with a gas mask on. “Sweet dream, Power Ponies.” She told them before Twilight blacked out.

-later-

Twilight slowly opened her eyes only to discover herself being tied up and wearing a suppressing ring on her horn, preventing her from using any of her powers

“W…what is going on?” Twilight asked, sitting up as the rest of her friends slowly started to wake up as well.

“Oh you are finally awake.” A voice called from outside the cage. “I wouldn’t like for any of you to miss the fun.”

“W...who’s there?” Twilight called out.

“Oh it hurts how you don’t remember your archenemy.” The figure in the shadows slowly stepped out of the dark. “It's me, The Mane-iac.”

“You,” Twilight said while glaring at her foe, as well as trying to break free from her restrain.

“Release us at once, you nasty ruffian!” Rarity called out in rage.

“My, my Radiance, is that any way to talk with your host?” She jested as they tried to struggle free.

“We finally have you right where we want you.” High Heels called out as she stepped from behind the Mane-iac. From behind her, Shadowmane also appeared.

“This is going to be our prized moment when we finally defeat you, Power Ponies.” High Heels quipped with a snicker.

“Just you wait! Mane-bitch! Once I get out of this things I will beat your face flat!” Dash called out.

“Ah girls, where are Humdrum and Mare-Do-Well?” Fluttershy asked and for the answer, the villains revealed said friends to them, bound in Mane-iac’s mane.

“I hope this answers your question, Saddle Rager.”

“Spike!” Applejack called before turning to the villains. “Ok you freaks you got us, but let S…I mean Humdrum and Mare-Do-Well alone! He is not a threat to you.”

“Yeah he has no power, isn’t smart, and he is the cute little sidekick. Please at least spare him.” Dash continued.

“Geez thanks Zapp.” Spike said with some anger “May I remind you who save all of you the first time?” He asked, to which Mane-iac dragged him to be right in front of her.

“Oh I know.” She then started to squeeze the life out of him. “You're certainly a pest I still need to take care of.” She said with a glare “And THAT is why he stays right here.” She said, pressing Spike against her chest and started to pet him. “We have a score to settle.”

Spike’s nose started to bleed a little since his face was now being smushed against Mane-Iac’s bosom.

This is the god's working isn’t it? Spike asked to himself as he tried to look away from his position. Please if this is the job of some divine being controlling the universe, either kill me now or stop with the teasing. He begged as Mane-iac continued her dialogue.

“As for her.” Mane-iac turned her attention to Mare-Do-Well. “I have enough vigilantes to mess my mane as it is.” She said casually tossing her around like she was a rag doll before catching her again “The last thing I want is another filly pulling my tail, so i had better deal with you before you start to become a pain in my flank.”

“Let them go you big bully.” Pinkie shouted, struggling in her ropes.

“Oh Fili-Second, it's so funny that you think you have a choice here.” High Heel told her, pinching her cheeks harsh.

“Ouch!” Pinkie said in recoil.

“This is how things will work, you will stay there, and enjoy the show as we will conquer Maretropolis. And if any of you Super Lames try anything funny,” High Heels pointed at the hostages with Mane-iac promptly starting to choke them with her hair. “Did we make our point across?”

“You did…” Twilight said in a disheartened tone. “We’ll do what you ask.”

“Good.” Mane-iac said in a cheerful tone. She let go of Mare-Do-Well and Humdrum’s necks and turned to Shadowmane. “Open the cage, and cut their legs free.” She ordered. Shadowmane walked over, and opened the cage. She brandished her sword and cut the ropes that had their legs bound. Their arms were left bound.

“So what’re we supposed to do?” Fluttershy asked in a worried tone.

“Just follow us. We have something to show you.” Shadowmane said. The Power Ponies complied and walked with the Mane-iac, Shadowmane, and High Heel towards a large tanker with a strange blue liquid inside.

“What is that stuff?” Trixie asked, turning towards the Mane-iac.

“Our secret weapon to defeat you.” High Heels revealed with a sly grin.

“In this tanker is a special formula for super soldiers that we will create when I load this in my large hairspray can.” Mane-iac explained with a cackle. “We plan on spraying it all over the city creating loyal super soldiers that only follow our commands.”

“You monster!” Twilight told her “What is the point of conquer the world that way? Don’t you see? If you strip everyone of their free will they will be nothing more than mindless puppets.”

“Plus all the parties in the world would be become really boring and emotionless.” Pinkie added.

“Silence!” Mane-iac told them. “Constantly you’ve defeated us time after time! Even when we stole your powers, you still managed to defeat us!” She shouted in frustration. “This time, how will you stop us, knowing you will be hurting innocent ponies in the process?”

“That’s where our formula comes in.” High Heels added. “It’s currently in the testing phase.”

“Then why show us any of this if you haven’t tested this stuff yet?” Dash added in confusion.

“Because we never found a suitable test subject,” Mane-iac explained, looking at Hum Drum bound in her mane. The young drake got a nervous expression after Mane-iac’s expression turned sinister. “At least until now.”

They all gasped, and Applejack took a step closer to Mane-iac. “You wouldn’t dare.”

“Would I?” Mane-iac asked honestly as she tossed Spike inside and then laughed maniacally. “I think so!” Spike was suddenly flung in the air off of Mane-iac’s mane. He let out a final scream before he fell into the tanker of the mysterious chemicals.

“Hum Drum!” All of the Power Ponies shouted. Rainbow Dash got pissed and tried to attack Mane-iac only for Shadowmane to knee her in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her. Rainbow Dash let out a grunt and slumped on the floor in pain.

“Zapp!” Twilight called out.

“You whorse!” Trixie shouted and High Heels grabbed her by her neck.

“Sucks to be helpless now doesn't it?” High Heel then squeezed on Trixie’s neck, causing the azure unicorn to start losing breath. “You’ve lost, Power Ponies.” Suddenly, there was a small clank on the floor.

“What’s that thing?” Pinkie said, looking at the ground. Shadowmane looked at what Trixie dropped while High Heel let go of the showmare, letting her drop to the floor in a coughing fit from almost getting choked to death. Shadowmane soon picked up a small bottle with a black liquid inside.

“Wait, isn’t this-?” High Heels said in confusion.

“What is it?” Mane-iac said, walking over to her compatriots. High Heel then handed her the vial that Trixie dropped.

“Dazzling blunder dropped it just now.” High Heels remarked, making Trixie glare at her.

You better hope I don’t get out of these ropes soon, cause I’m gonna kick your flank to timbuktu. She thought with hate in her eyes.

“Wait a minute-- this is my mind control formula.” Mane-iac said, surprising the two.

“What?” High Heel said in response. “But if the formula is here, what did I just pour in the tanker before the Power Ponies got here?” She asked confused.

Right on cue a low growl was heard behind them, coming directly from the tank follow by a claw pressing against it and leaving a long mark before retracting. Suddenly, a large shadow jumped from outside of the tanker, and right behind the three villains. The Power Ponies were shocked as they realized who had jumped out of the tanker, and was nothing but a mere shadow of his former self. No longer a 4 ft. 11 in. dragon, but now an even 9 ft. tall monster stood before the girls. There was almost nothing left of his costume now reduce to pieces of fabric that were fighting a loss battle containing his now ripped body. His scales were much sharper, his eyes were voided white, and he opened his jaw revealing razor sharp teeth that could crush metal in a single bite. Silence reigned until suddenly, a mighty roar was heard with enough force to break the nearby windows.

“…Guards!” High Heels finally yelled with a hint of fear summoning their goons, “Shoot him, now!”

The guards complied and opened fire, drawing the dragon’s attention, who looked at them before using his tail to hit the ground and make a micro earthquake, unbalancing the guards and allowing him to get a good chunk of them knocked out. One of the guards had a rocket launcher in his hand and aimed at Humdrum. The rocket was fired and scored a direct hit.

“I got him.” He shouted. The Power Ponies looked in despair, believing that Spike was dead. But once the smoke cleared, the guards looked ready to pee their pants as they were only staring back into the voided eyes of the angry dragon. He let out a roar and swiped his tail, smacking five guards into the opposite direction. He soon went after the rest of them and took out another five as they tried to shock him with stun rods.

When seeing his destruction capability Mane-iac smiled and looked at the guards. “Change of plan boys, I want Hum Drum alive, switch to the tranquilizers” They nodded and switched their weapons before aiming at Spike only for them to bounce of his hard scale skin.

“Aim for the eyes!” She ordered and they tried to aim as best they could, but Spike was now moving like a wild beasts, making a really difficult target. Some goons that were smart got away in time before a swipe of his claw claimed other unfortunate souls before taking mortars and shot smoke grenades at the beast in hopes of distract him before switching to sleep smoke. Yet that soon turn inefficient when Spike only exhaled and cleared the air, knocking out some of the guards with their own tranquilizers

“Shadowmane... provide cover! High Heel... keep him busy!” Mane-iac instructed them. They used one of her smoke screens to hide before appearing from the second floor and then attacked Spike’s head with their weapons, which did little against his skin. Realizing the danger, both jumped before becoming victims of Spike and regrouped as the abandoned factory imploded in complete open war against the beast Spike.

In all the chaos Mane-iac dropped Mare-Do Well and the girls took her before finding cover, all minus Dash who AJ was forced to drag while she cheered for Spike. “That’s it Spike go get them!”

“That aint the best time for That Rainbow Dash.” Applejack added.

“Are you ok Starlight?” Twilight asked her in concern.

“Yeah I think, a little sore throat but nothing too serious” She said holding her throat before looking at her “Twi…” She tried to say but Twilight stopped her.

“Sorry, but we need to keep our secrets identities here, for now just call me Masked Matter-Horn.”

“I’m Zapp.” Rainbow Dash said.

“I’m Fili-second.” Piknie said in a bubbly tone.

“I’m Radiance.” Rarity told them, striking a pose as best as she could with her hands tied up.

“I’m Mistress Mare-velous.” Applejack soon told them.

“And I’m Saddle Rager.” Fluttershy was the last to speak.

“I know they sound like comic book names…because they are Starlight. I need you to understand and believe me when I tell you this, you and Trixie got sucked into Spike’s comic book, and became characters in it.”

“The great and powerful Trixie demands an explanation.” She asked confused.

“Don’t ask us, this is how this weird magic comic works.” Applejack said with a shrug.

“Probably to make the experience more real.” Pinkie said with a giggle.

“Anyway, you are Mare-Do-Well and Dazzling Mage , and like us you two now have super powers, powers that we can used now.” Twilight said pointing at Starlight belt. “Mare-Do-Well, you have hidden blades in your utility belt. I need you to please use them and set us free.”

Starlight inspected the belt and she indeed found the blade making her sigh. “This is one weird comic book” she said before starting to work on freeing her friends

“What super mare is Trixie?” Trixie asked in an enthusiastic tone.

“You’re the Dazzling Mage.” Twilight said in response.” You have the ability to cast illusions that disorient your enemies blasts.”

“T… I mean Dazzling Mage finds that fitting.” She said with pride.

“Good, because we might need to used it.” Applejack said once Starlight released her and she checked the chaos that was happening. Spike pretty much had managed to take care of the goons and was now aiming at the main villains. Each of the guards around Spike were severely bruised and groaning in agony from the blows they had taken from Spike’s fists.

“We might need to call an ambulance after all this is done. Something tells me that a lot of these ain’t gonna be walkin away from this for a good while.” Applejack said, feeling sorry for their current state.

Twilight looked at it before turning to Fluttershy. “Saddle-Rager, do you think you could subdue him if you get bigger?”

“I…I don’t know Masked, I can only do it if I get angry. The last thing I want is to hurt Spike, besides.” Fluttershy blushed and looked away “This costume is a little small for me now, if I get even bigger it might r…r…rip completely.” She said with embarrassment.

“That is great, if that happen you will only need to press Spike’s head against your knockers and he will be out cold.” Dash told her earning a smack in the back of her head by Applejack. “Hey! I was only saying it always worked and maybe Spike will react the same way even if he is now a monster.”

“I’m not sure if he can anymore…”

Suddenly they all heard a crack noise and looking back they got scared when they discovered that Spike had already dealt with Shadowmane and High Heels, and now had Mane-iac in his claws, who looked to be in extreme pain.

“Oh no! At this rate he’s going to kill them!” Twilight said in alarm.

“Considering what Mane-iac did to him, I'd say he’d have a good reason to do it.” Rainbow Dash said causing everyone to glare at her. “I’m just saying.”

“Maybe, I have something on here that could subdue Spike.” Starlight said as she inspect her belt until she found what looked to be boomerangs in the shape of a large M.

“What’re M shaped boomerangs supposed to do?” Trixie asked in a dull tone.

Twilight looked at them and soon came up with an idea before looking around until she looked at the sprinklers. “Mare-Do-Well quick! Use your mare-do rangs and hit the sprinklers!”

“What’s that suppose to do?” Starlight asked.

“Other than ruin our manes.” Rarity said in response.

“I have an idea, and it involves Zapp.” Twilight said looking back at her. “We need to try and draw his attention.”

“And what about all the goons Masked?” Applejack asked in concern.

“We will put them with us inside the force field, Fili-Second…”

“Already done!” Pinkie said, already having piled all the goons near them.

“Good, then here is the plan the moment the sprinklers are off, Radiance will protect us in her shield while Zapp shoots a lightning bolt at Spike. And we will let the water do the rest.” Twilight finished, and the girls agreed.

“Wait, what is Trixie supposed to do?” The azure unicorn asked in response.

“You’re gonna help me distract Spike long enough for our plan to work.”

“That would suffice.” She nodded. “If possible, Trixie will draw his attention with some illusions too.” She offered.

“That works for us.” Trixie said in praise. That was cut short as they all heard the screams of Mane-iac and the groans of High Heel and Shadowmane. “There is no time! Everypony let's go!” Twilight said as she and Trixie went and confronted Spike, using lasers to get his attention. It grazed his face, and he looked in the direction where the beams came from.

He growled and tried to swipe them with a claw only for Masked to lift Dazzling Mage into the air “Quickly used your powers and make copies.” Twilight told her, and Trixie did just that, making copies so Spike didn't know what to hit. Meanwhile, Pinkie managed to reach his side and spoke in his ear.

“Hey Hum Drum, remember me?” She asked the dragon, only for the latter to try to swat her like a bug only for her to appear on his other side, “It's me Fili-Second.” He tried again only for the same thing to happen.

“Don’t be mad we are all friends.” She continued until he was fed up and released Mane-iac to try to catch her but she was long gone. Meanwhile, Twilight and Trixie would shoot energy beams at Spike, drawing his attention.

He roared once more shaking the place up before clapping his hands with enough force that he made a shockwave, which sent Twilight and Trixie flying. Spike went to them and was about to slash at them when a lasso grabbed his wrist.

“Sorry partner.” Applejack told him while holding the other end of said lasso “But I can’t let you do this, and I’m sure you don't either.” She moved her wrist and tied him up as Dash helped make the binding more stronger and then looked him in the face.

“Just admit it peanut, a part of you would be enjoying this, or would you prefer if the positions were reversed?” She teased him, which only succeeded in making him angrier.

“Zapp! Not the time to be teasing!” Applejack told her, struggling with the lasso.

“Right, Right.” Rainbow Dash said before summoning a snow cloud and making it snow in hopes to force Spike to hibernate but Spike got peeved and broke free, grabbed the lasso and used it to toss Applejack straight at Rainbow Dash. In all the chaos that was happening, Saddle Rager and Fili-second carried the unconscious High Heel and Shadowmane to safety as well as a severely injured Mane-iac. Mare-Do-Well used the opportunity to throw her mare-do-rangs at the sprinkler system, making water rain down on the building.

“Radiance, do your thing.” Twilight told Rarity.

“With pleasure darling.” Rarity stepped in the middle of the group and summoned a shield big enough to protect all her friends, goons and enemies.

“Zapp now!” Twilight told Dash, who tossed Applejack’s flank out of her face and then shot a lightning bolt directly at the sprinklers, creating the expected result. The entire place was electrified, minus the power ponies, villains, and the injured lackeys that were still in Rarity’s barrier. Spike let out a pained roar as he was electrocuted from the water around him that poured into the room.

“Okay, that’s enough.” Twilight told Rainbow Dash, who backed off. Spike fell limp on the ground as Rarity dissipated the barrier. Fluttershy didn’t waste time and went to pick up Spike’s face and nuzzled his cheek. “You poor, poor thing, we will make sure to save you from whatever things those mean mares did to you.” She said closing her eyes and kissing his forehead

Twilight finally sighed and then looked at the injured ones, particularly Mane-iac who Rarity and Applejack are inspecting as well. “How is she?” She asked in concern.

“Not to fancy Twilight.” Applejack told her. “It looks like Spike crush some of her ribs, don’t know if anything major was damaged, but we really should take her to a hospital”

“I doubt any hospital would want to take any super villains.” Rainbow remarked, glaring at them. “I guess we’ll have to go with them and ensure the doctor's safety until they all heal, or maybe ask for a super doctor.”

“Super…doctor?” Rarity asked her with a raise eyebrow in which Dash shrugged.

“What? We are in a comic book world, where mares have living manes and the city is protected by eight mares in spandex, so would it be so weird that there is a doctor or doctors with either super powers or know how to treat super ponies beings?”

“Well, how do we go to those special hospitals?” Rarity asked.

“Simple we ask…S…pike.” Dash said, but kept quiet as she turned to her friend who was still unconscious.

“Ah! Maybe the power ponies base have a map of those hospitals?” Fluttershy suggested

“Yeah! Good idea Fluttershy!” Dash explained. “We would only need to go to base, search for a map and go there so they can receive proper treatment.”

“Ok…then where is the base?” Twilight asked Rarity who shrugged. “I have only read a couple of issues darling, and none of them tells where their base is Twilight, it only says ‘in the base of the power ponies.’” She quoted.

“How about we try the building that’s literally shaped like two p’s in the center of town?” Rainbow Dash bluntly stated, pointing to a large orange building from the factory making the other mares blush in response.

“Okay, let’s do that.”

“What about the goons?” Pinkie said, pointing at the pile “Shouldn’t we call the police or something?”

“Oh! I know this, don’t worry about them darling I have them covered.” Rarity said before going to Mare Do Well. “Excuse me darling I will borrow this real quick.” She told her before taking a flare gun from Starlight belt and then going to a nearby window, to fire a shot. Soon afterwards the sky illuminated and they later heard police sirens. “There, that should take care of the ruffians.” With that taken care of, the power ponies carried the unconscious bodies of Mane-iac, High Heel, and Shadowmane, as they made their getaway.

-Power Ponies HQ-

“Ooo...pretty...” Pinkie dashed up to the monitor and was about to press random buttons when Applejack stopped her. “Pinkie, maybe its best if you don’t press random buttons here. Last thing you want is to launch a missile into a party right?” Pinkie Pie then backed away from the console and back into her seat.

Twilight meanwhile looked around what appeared to be a meeting room. “Keep your eyes open girls, something here might give us a clue into what could help Spike.” She told them before a voice called for them and entered the room.

“Ah Power Ponies, so nice to see you again.” From the front door a zebra mare walked toward them. She wore an open scientist lab coat that show a blue blouse that barely contain her generous GG cup cleavage, black skirt and a pair of black high heels, had a long flowing striped mane and tail style, a cute pair of blue glasses similar to the ones Rarity used, and some black lipstick on her lips.

Pinkie smiled the moment she saw her and rushed to her to give her a hug. “Zecora! It's so good to see you.”

The mare got confused at her outburst and action. “Zecora? Fili-Second what nonsense are you saying?”

Twilight brought Pinkie back and laughed nervously. “Hehe sorry, we just came back from our fight with Mane-iac, and her head is a bit dizzy.”

“My goodness, what kind of head injury did you receive for you to forget your good friend Stripes?” The mare now called Stripes asked in worry while inspecting Pinkie’s head.

“Actually,” Twilight said, pulling the zebra doctor away from Pinkie. “We have a couple of ponies with us that could really use your help.”

“And who would they be, Masked Matter-Horn?” She asked.

Applejack and Rainbow Dash brought Spike and left him on top of the table as Rarity, Fluttershy and Starlight brought Shadowmane, High Heels, and Mane-iac and put them next to Spike as well. “By the stars is that…Hum Drum?” Stripes asked in worry as she lifted his head and opened one of his eyes to look at it closely. “How did this happen, and what happened to these three?” She asked confused as she looked at the injuries that the three villainesses had. “This doesn’t look like something that any of you would do.”

“Mane-iac threw him into a tanker full of unstable chemicals is what happened.” Starlight explained as she took a vial from her utility belt. “Some Super soldier formula that she and the other villains were working on.”

“What happened next, only ended up in a total disaster as he rampaged around the whole factory, injuring the Mane-iac and knocking out High Heel and Shadowmane.” Trixie added.

“I brought a sample of the batch just in case there is a way to cure Humdrum.” Starlight added.

Stripes ‘hmmmm’ed as she inspected the condition of the mares until she stopped at Mane-iac “Oh my... this one has 2, no 6 broken ribs. It's a miracle that none punched any vital organs.”

“Is she going to be ok?” Fluttershy asked in worry.

“Do not fear my friend, I just happen to have a machine that will speed her recovery and will put her bones back in place. It's fortunate that she is already unconscious, otherwise we might have needed to used a tranquilizer.” She then turned to Twilight and Pinkie “Get her into the infirmary and I will go with you as soon as possible.” She then looked at Rarity and Trixie “Radiance and Dazzling mage would you please lock her accomplices in the next room? Their injuries are minor so they don’t need much attention.”

She finally turned to Spike and the vial Starlight had. “As for Hum Drum,” She took the vial. “I will have to perform some tests before knowing anything or how to treat him.” She turned to Applejack and Rainbow Dash again. “Could you both assist me into taking him to my lab?”

“On it.” They said at the same time as Stripes wrote something down on a piece of paper and gave it to Twilight.

“Here are the instructions on how to start the machine. Once you have it ready, call me so I can calibrated it and we can start with Mane-iac’s treatment.”

“Um sure, just one question…” Twilight asked, turning towards the zebra mare.

“Yes?”

“Where is the room with this chamber you’re describing?” She asked innocently while rubbing the back of her head. Stripes got confused at how she was acting.

“I may need to run a diagnostic on all of you to find whatever is affecting your memories once I’m done here.” She said as she walked in the room with Spike. “I’ll let you all know what I find out, and in the meantime, I would like you all to wait in the main hall after you put Mane-iac in the machine. The infirmary is the second door on the left.” She said pointing towards a door that had a medical symbol on the front.

“Thank you.” Twilight said as she carefully carried the Mane-iac towards the chamber. The doors opened automatically and Twilight placed Mane-iac on what she thought was a large bed. The bed suddenly expanded and glass slid in, locking Mane-iac inside.

Pinkie went to what appeared to be a computer and checked Stripes’ instructions before starting the machines. The moment the monitor lit up the mares saw an x-ray of Mane-iac showing her skeleton and the section of her injuries were marked by red dots. Just like Stripes had said, the mare had six broken ribs and some minor injuries mostly on her arms, most likely do to the pressure Spike gave her. “Poor meany mare.” Pinkie said as she watched the radiographic waves monitor her heart beat.

“Let me see those instructions for a second.” Twilight said as Pinkie gave her the piece of paper so Twilight could read it. Once she memorized them, she turned to the keyboard and started to work on it by following a series of instructions and giving the name of the patient. Once done, the mares got a small scare when the machine started, and they saw how the chamber where Mane-iac was started to be filled by one suspicious green liquid, and 2 robotic arms carefully placed a breather on the villain. The liquid eventually filled the chamber, and Mane-iac was left floating inside.

“Now what?” Pinkie asked.

“Now we go to the main hall and wait for Stripes.” Twilight said with a sigh. “Don’t worry Pinkie, according to this, that substance Mane-iac is floating in now would prevent her condition from worsening and get her ready for whatever treatment Stripes has for her.”

“Alright then.” Stripes said as she walked in with a clipboard. “I see you followed the instructions on the machine, good.” She looked at some data in the machine before importing some codes on it, soon after the liquid change color to a dark blue. “There, her healing can start now.”

“How long does she have to stay in there?” Twilight asked.

“For the next twenty four hours.” She said in response. “I just developed the prototype and I haven’t tested it yet.”

“What’s that green stuff inside of the tank she’s in?” Pinkie asked, looking at Mane-iac floating in the green fluid.

“It’s a medicine I developed recently that’s loading in the medical ward. She has to stay perfectly still for it to fully take effect.” Stripes added, adjusting her glasses. “Now I shall tend to Hum Drum, and find out what is in this vial.”

“You think that green liquid would help him to Stripes?” Pinkie asked. “When Hum Drum fell into that tank and turned into that thing, he wasn’t even able to recognize any of us. He was just a mindless beast that only attacked whatever was in his way.” Her eyes started to water a bit. “I’m scared, I don’t want Hum Drum to leave us forever.”

“Don’t worry, Power Ponies.” Professor Stripes said, trying to calm everypony down. “I’ll run some tests in my lab and from there I can learn what we have to do.”

“Thank you Stripes.” Twilight said with a smile as they all watched her enter the other room where Spike was currently lying on a metallic bed, and Professor Stripes sat behind a desk, and started up a nearby computer. After pressing and clicking a few buttons she started up a machine that scans Spike’s body.

“Hang in there buddy will get you out of this.” Rainbow Dash say approaching Spike and getting her hand in the way of Stripes x-rays.

Fluttershy took the opportunity to get closer to him and clean some of the water from the sprinklers, removing some of the cables that Stripes placed on him to scan him.

“Miss Stripes, is there anything, and I mean anything we can do to help don’t hesitate on asking us” Starlight said next to Twilight who nodded in agreement.

“Yeah name it and we will bring it to you.” Pinkie told her, bringing all sort of things “Towels, water, juice, a clipboard, a pillow.” She said, swarming Stripes with objects untill she eventually stopped and got beside Stripes while looking at her machines.

“So what’s this suppose to do?” Stripes suddenly got annoyed, and pushed everyone out of her lab.

“Fili-second. I would appreciate it if you and the rest of the power ponies not breath down my necks while I work.” She then slammed the door behind her and returned to her work station. Everypony looked at Pinkie and she got a nervous smile while everyone was glaring at her. She ran away and then came back with a plate full of muffins. “Apology muffins?”

-Three Hours Later-

The room was silent. Twilight and her friends waited patiently on Professor Stripes for the news on Spikes condition. The mares were worried, but not as much as Twilight was with how she was leaving a circular indentation from her constant pacing.

‘What if she can’t help Spike?’ Twilight thought as she continued to pace around the main hall. ‘What if he stays as a monster forever? What if he can’t be cured?’ Her worries started to get the better of her.

“Geez Twilight, get a grip.” Rainbow Dash said to her friend. She suddenly finds herself flung in the air.

“I CAN'T RAINBOW DASH!” Twilight shouted, startling the rest of the girls in the room. “HOW CAN I RELAX IF WE CAN’T SAVE SPIKE?!”

“Please Twilight, we have to trust Professor Stripes.” Starlight began.

“Yeah Twily, remember this is a comic book, they usually have a cure to solve pretty much any problem. That is how they work” Pinkie said with a smile.

“She is right Twilight. That is usually the way they operate, especially hero ones.” Rarity informed her.

Fluttershy grabbed Twilight and guided her to sit on a nearby chair. “Now why don’t we just sit down, take a deep breath and calm down? Professor Stripes will find the cure and if said cure needed us to search for ingredients we will need our full strength right Twilight?”

Twilight took a deep sigh. “You’re right...I’m sorry everypony. If it comes to that, we’ll do what we can to help Spike.”

“What the hay is taking the Professor so long?” Applejack groaned. “It’s been at least three hours.”

“Why don’t we pay attention to what’s on the news and see what’s going on?”

They all nodded as Pinkie took a remote control and turned on a nearby tv where a reporter that looked a lot like Suri Polomare started talking about their earlier fight. Spike had really done a number on the goons working with Mane-iac, High Heel, and Shadowmane. Most of them had been placed in ICU while others had been checked into mental hospitals.

“…In other news, the number of victims after the fight in the old abandoned factory is yet to be confirm. Witnesses say that the power ponies are indeed responsible for such acts of violence and it’s believed that they unleashed some kind of new monstrous weapon on their enemies. With the result of the battle and the collateral damage of it, this reporter must ask: ‘Did the power ponies snap and decide to take a more permanent solution to crime?’“

“Wait, what?” Dash asked in confusion. “They thought it was us?!”

“Those jerks!” Starlight yelled. “They don’t even know what really happened!”

“Who could possibly make a report about us like that?” Fluttershy asked, sad for that horrible report.

“This is Sugar Latte reporting, back to you Stone Cold.”

“Thank you Sugar.” The image changed and the girls now turned to the news reporter to find that it's Blueblood in a blue blazer and a short mustache. “I always knew those power ponies where nothing but trouble!”

“Of course.” The main six said at the same time with a roll of their eyes.

Rainbow Dash grunted and messed her head “Seriously? Even in another universe that jerk is here?”

“Rainbow, remember it's a comic, someone in our world must have made it…which mean that character is a way to poke fun of the real Blueblood.” Twilight explained.

“Do not listen to that oversized baby, girls.” Stripes told the girls as she entered the room. “If your memories are that bad, at least you should be grateful to know that there is not a single soul in this city that take those two seriously, the most likely explanation for why they are still in the air is because it's kind of funny seeing two grown ponies act like spoiled brats.”

Pinkie giggled at that. “You are right, they are kind of funny.”

Around that time, the sound of a mare shrieking and the sounds of items falling on the floor caught the girl's attention. “What was that?” Rarity asked in concern.

“My assistant may have hurt herself again.” Professor Stripes said in a calm yet worried tone.

“I’ll go with you.” Rarity volunteered.

“Why thank you miss Radiance.” Stripes complimented and both mares left to where the crash was heard. They turned around the corner to find a moving cart and several boxes on the floor. Rarity was about to ask what happened when a manilla hand springs from a pile of boxes and muffled cries could be heard.

“S-somepony help me…” Said a mare's voice from under the mess, waving her hand around.

“Honestly,” Professor Stripes said, grabbing the mare’s hand and pulling her out of the mess. Rarity was surprised to see another familiar face as the mare that stripes pulled from the rubble, resembled Coco Pommel back in their world. She wore a pink blouse and blue shirt under her large lab coat. She also had a pair of glasses on similar to Rarity when she works. Her Lab coat was closed, but Rarity could tell that she was at least a D cup in chest size. “How many times do I have to tell you not to overwork yourself?”

“I’m sorry Professor.” The mare said, dusting herself off.

“It’s alright Calm Breeze.” Stripes spoke in an angelic tone. “Just don’t push yourself so hard.”

“Hello dear,” Rarity told her with a smile “Nice to meet you.”

“Hello Radiance.” Calm said, bowing her head.

“Oh now Breeze, it’s okay.” Rarity said, hugging the stunned mare. “I think we should get back to the others.”

“Oh, the rest of the team is here?” Breeze asks in a worried tone. “Is Mare do Well is here too? Do you think she’s still mad at me for borrowing her Mare Do Mobile?” She asked with some worry.

“Well, I’m not sure what happened exactly, but I don’t think she’s that mad anymore.”

“But I crash it!” She said as they turned the corner where the other mares were waiting for them.

“What happened?” Starlight asked, and Calm freaked out and hid behind Stripes.

“Are you okay?” Fluttershy asked the frightened clerk.

“Please don’t squash me!” She said in fear as she saw Fluttershy approach.

“Wow, what did you tell her Radiance?” Dash asked, confused.

“Everyone meet Calm Breeze, Stripes’ assistant.” Rarity told them, confusing the mare in question.

“Why are you introducing me if you know who I am?”

“They appear to have had a memory relapse Breeze.” Stripes explained. “I’m looking into that later, since right now I’m looking into Hum Drum’s condition.

“A relapse?”

“Yeah... We had a really big battle with Shadowmane, High Heel, and Mane-iac. You don’t need to worry about us, we mostly got out okay,” Twilight said before looking worried, “Its Humdrum the one I’m scared for.”

“Why, what happened?”

“I’ll explain that, dear Breeze.” Stripes said. “During the heat of battle, I’m afraid that dear sweet Humdrums was captured by the enemy and underwent a mutation due to falling into a tank of mysterious chemicals. Currently he’s stable and sedated but at the moment, the substance that affected him has turn him into a monster.”

“Oh my….” Breeze gasped. “Is he alright?”

“He will be when the Power Ponies start his treatment.” She said, turning to the girls. “Now then, I believe you all were waiting for me to bring you good news, am I right?”

“Yes.” Twilight said with hopefully eyes, and Stripes smiled.

“I indeed have good news.” Her smile soon disappeared “But also news that I’m not exactly sure whether to consider bad or neutral.”

“What do you mean?” Starlight asked.

“Well the good news is that Hum Drum’s condition can be cured.”

“Oh, thank the stars.” Twilight said in satisfaction.

“That’s perfect dear Stripes.” Rarity added.

“What’s the bad news?” Starlight asked.

“Well, as I mentioned earlier, I’m not sure if it’s bad news or just neutral.”

“Well, don’t keep us waiting Stripes, what is it?” Trixie asked anxiously for her answer.

“Well…” Stripes paused and her cheeks turn a rose pink. “You may have to use unconventional means to sate his...desires.”

“Desires?” Rarity asked with a raise eyebrow. The rest of the girls were confused as well.

“What do you mean?” Rainbow Dash asked. Stripes then took out the clipboard.

“Well I analyzed the sample that Mare-Do-Well gave me.” She added, flipping through several pages. “Most of the chemicals included performance enhancing drugs, a few cortical hormones, a few dangerous chemicals here and there that cause sudden mutations, and the last ingredient was aphrodisiac.”

“What?” Twilight asked, looking at the clipboard.

“It’s what I said.” Stripes added with a calm look. “The last ingredient was aphrodisiac.”

The room was left in silence at the sound of that until Rainbow Dash started to laugh. “Oh that’s a good one Stripes, you really got me there.” She said, clearing a tear “That’s probably just Hum Drum’s hormones acting up, being a teenager and all.”

“I’m not kidding Zapp.” Professor Stripes explained. “I found traces of Aphrodisiac on the batch Mare-Do-Well gave me. What I don’t understand is why Mane-iac needed aphrodisiac for her serum.”

“I don’t think she will be in a talking mood once she wakes up.” Applejack said looking at the infirmary where Mane-iac was currently. Starlight then turned to Trixie, practically glaring at her.

“Mage…” Starlight asked Trixie, and she started to sweat. “Did you drop an aphrodisiac bottle when we were captured earlier?” Everyone turned to her with mixed expressions.

“I might have…” She said with a nervous giggle. Twilight suddenly put Trixie in a magic bubble and levitated her so they are eye to eye.

“So this is your fault!” Twilight yelled, making the azure unicorn falter and shiver in fear.

“That’s enough Masked!’ Professor Stripes yelled and got between the two. Twilight still had Trixie in her bubble and wasn’t letting go anytime soon. “Getting angry with each other won’t solve anything.”

“Matter-Horn dear, I know you are tense and angry but you shouldn’t lash on your friends.” Rarity said in response.

“Well her stunt was what made Spike this way!” Twilight said. The girls gasped and Twilight suddenly realized what she had said and covered her mouth in response.

“Are you all okay?” Stripes asks, confused. Twilight took a deep breath and turned to the confused professor.

“Professor Stripes, could you please give us a minute?” Twilight asked her while still holding Trixie. She was confused but nodded, and she and her assistance gave them a moment. Once they made sure they were gone, Twilight turned to look at the azure mare with a stern gaze. “I hope you’re happy.” She told her, still upset with Trixie. Trixie was still in her bubble but didn’t say a word.

“Anyway why did you have that thing with you in the first place darling?” Rarity asked, confused for the revelation.

“Trixie was actually going to pull a prank on Spike involving that. The plan was inviting him over one of her new performances and giving him that drink so he could have an extra joy to think at night.” She said with a little snicker. “He is so cute when turn red, Trixie just couldn’t resist.”

“What?” Twilight asked and Trixie turned to her.

AJ could only sigh and shook her head. “All this for just one bad joke, unbelievable.”

“Trixie was just going to mess around with him a little that is all. And for the record, Trixie’s not the one who threw Spike into that tanker full of whatever was in there, so you really can’t blame me for all of this.” She added, crossing her arms under her chest.

“Trixie, do you have any idea how dangerous it is to use that in ‘pranks’?” Twilight said making air quotes. “Spike’s heart could have burst!”

“It was going to be a mild dose, okay?” She said in defense, while holding up her hands.

“Yeah, and because of that dose you are going to find a way to fix this!” Twilight said, glaring at Trixie.

“And how in Celestia's mane are you intending for me to do that once Spike is cured, to invite him on a date?”

“For what you have done, that would be the minimum you should give him.” Starlight said.

“Yeah. Spike could order you around like a dog completely naked for a day, and he will be on his right to do so.” Rainbow Dash added.

“Oh, you will need some lube for that date.” Pinkie added.

“What!? Girls I was joking.” Trixie countered.

“Yeah, not so funny when it's on the other side is it?” Twilight said, dropping Trixie on the floor as she walked back to meet Stripes. Starlight sighed and turned to Trixie. “I’ll talk to her and try to calm her down, but you should really think on what you did Trixie. Fun or not, there is a limit to things.” Starlight said as she chased after her teacher.

“Are you alright?” Stripes asked, her assistant appearing behind her.

“Yes, we’re fine.” Twilight explained. “So what did you mean by unconventional means to cure Spike?”

“Well the mention of aphrodisiac was clearly a foreign element that Mane-iac didn’t want in her formula, so it's actually fighting the other elements inside of it. You could say that in a way, it can give us a fast access to a solution. In this case, we can let the substance simple sweat out of Humdrum, unfortunately it will only happen if his brain produces enough endorphins to react as the chemicals.”

“Uh, could you explain that in english please?” Dash asked.

“In simple terms…Hum Drum has to ‘ahem’ mate with multiple females in order to cure himself.”

“M…m...mate…?” Fluttershy asked, stuttering.

“What!?” The rest of the girls shouted other than Fluttershy, and Twilight, who just stood there, frozen.

“Come on Stripes, don’t you think that is a bit extreme?” Rainbow Dash asked in confusion. “You need him to do the deed, then why don’t we just restrain his hands, get close to him, and I don’t know give him an electric hand job or something? I think we could get him off enough time like that.” Rainbow Dash suggested.

“I’m afraid it will not work. His body is acting like a soldier, so restraining him would only make him aggressive and violent. Even if you gave his...penis….treatment, he would not release until he broke free and ripped your neck open.” Stripes added, turning towards the monitor and showed the Power Ponies a bio-scan of Spike’s vital signs. “If Hum Drum’s anger increases and if he somehow escapes, Maretropolis will be a desolate wasteland and nopony would be able to stop him, not even you. Like it or not, It has to be extracted the old fashioned way for him to be cured.”

“Oh...Celestia…” Rarity gasped as she fell in the nearest chair behind her fanning herself.

“Oh great now we have an unstoppable beast looking for a date.” Rainbow said in anger. “Anyone has the number for monstrous blind dates? Maybe the lady on the lake might want to give him a shot? Or maybe the bride of Equinstein, they never had anything serious right? Plus she came with instruction manuals in case Hum Drum rip her into pieces…or maybe-”

“I’ll do it.” Twilight interrupted Rainbow Dash, making the attention fall on her. Rarity jolted up immediately from her sudden faint.

“Darling, what did you say?” Rarity inquired, thinking that Twilight was crazy.

“I said I will do it.” She said looking at the monitor. “He’s always been there for me for a very long time now. He needs my help once more, and if somepony needed to do this with him, then it should be me.”

“Masked, please don’t take this the wrong way but, have you lost your mind?!” Dash asked in surprise. “You know what he did to those goons back there, right? And you want to put your marehood at risk for that!? Do you have a death wish or something?”

“I assure that Hum Drum would not turn aggressive if we used that method.” Stripes tells the girls. “He appears to understand the situation around him. He attacked in the factory because he was threatened. In here, if we show submission and attraction, he will…well let's say he will be ready to mate.” She said with pink cheeks. “Your life won’t be in danger of course, but your genitalia might be really sore for some time.”

“Oh...my…” Fluttershy said with her face turning red as a tomato.

Rainbow shook her head before turning to Twilight. “Even if that is the case, this is just big. Masked, you can’t just punch in your v card and be done with it...not like this.”

“Zapp, I have to. Hum Drum needs our help and if he loses his virginity like this, well…I will be happy to be the one that guides him into adulthood.” She said in determination as she advance but then Rainbow Dash stop her.

“Ok ok, let's assume that this plan is not completely crazy, that old Hum Drum’s finally will get lucky tonight. Why are you talking like you are the only mare in Maretropolis?”

Twilight just looked at her confused. “What are you saying?”

“Hum Drum is not there right? Ok then, that way to lose his v card will just suck, nah I think it will not even count. So what would be the point of making it ‘special?’” She says doing air quotes. “Let's go outside, search for a hooker that knows yoga and has a big umbral of pain, and then…” Rainbow Dash froze when Twilight’s eyes started to glow a bright white and things started floating randomly around her.

“I’m not letting him have his first time be taken from a tramp off the street!” Twilight interrupted her friend in anger.

“Then we will find for an expensive one, they are probably just like expensive strippers, right Pinkie?”

“Hmmm probably.” She said with a shrug.

“Zapp…it's going to happen.” Twilight said, taking a step forward. “Time is running out, so we can’t just think of candle and dinner. We need to do this now before it's too late.” She tried to approach Spike, but Dash would not have any of that.

“Aw…fuck it!” She then took her lighting collar and created a low lighting blast that not only stunned everyone, but knocked everyone out. “You owe me a HUGE one!” She said, pointing at all of them before looking at Trixie. “I will make sure to tell Spike how to properly deal with you later.” She said, pointing at Trixie with a small glare.

She then looked at Stripes. “Get them out doc.”

“What?” She asked in surprise.

“You heard me, take my friends and leave…please.”

“But Zapp, you can’t possible be serious. Even if he is not aggressive-”

“I know!” She yelled with close eyes. “And that is why it needs to be me. Neither Masked or any of my other friends would be able to resist what I can. So please, please let me at the very least try. If it means the safety of my friends, I will do it!”

Stripes looked lost for words but she and her assistant soon saw Spike starting to wake up which scared her. “It's not time for debate, do it!”

With a heavy sigh, Stripes pressed a button, and big metal walls surrounded Dash and Spike, locking them from the rest of the room. The voice of Stripes was soon heard on the intercom. “The moment your life is at risk, I’m getting you out of there.”

Author's Notes:

Here's Chapter Two. This one was tough to write with Spike's Transformation and the method the girls have to use to cure him. But anyway, hope you enjoy the series.