After Discord slowly made his way through the throne room, he snuck around to see if there were any guards around. He started walking towards the throne where he saw Spike slowly starting to glow a little bit, but the creature was with him. So Discord decided to eavesdrop on them.

"So far, so good. You have gotten them under your will and they are starting to spread the corruption." the creature said.

"Yeah, but it will be a matter of time until Twilight and everypony else figures out what we're planning."

"They won't. We killed the Pillars, we burnt every book with ways of killing us, and we will have every non-pony species on our side. Our kingdom will be under your command."

"You're right. But it's the princesses. If we don't do something about them, these ponies will continue to have hope. We can't allow that."

Having understood what Spike was trying to tell it, the creature replied,

"Then we will have to kill them all. Whatever it takes."

"But how...?"

"Well, I'm glad to see you're being proactive with your schemes." a voice called out.

"Huh?"

Both Spike and the creature turned around and saw Discord, being as happy and mischievous as ever.

"What do you want?" Spike asked.

"Nice to see you too, my little dragon friend. How have you been keeping?" Discord asked.

"What is this imbecility?" the creature asked.

"He's an acquaintance." Spike responded.

"Oh you don't know the half of it. We're practically brothers." Discord said, wrapping his arm around Spike.

Spike got out of Discord's grip and walked away from him.

"Make it quick. I'm too busy right now." Spike said as he looked at the rocks outside.

"Oh yes. How rude of me. Let's see... how is Twilight doing?" Discord asked.

"Like I care how she's doing."

"Oh? What happened? You two seemed so close after so many moons."

"Times have changed."

"That I can see. You were like peas in a pod when I first saw you two. What happened to cause all this?"

Hearing this started to spur Spike.

"Let's just say that things weren't working out."

"Ah. And her friends?"

"I couldn't care less about what they're doing."

"Hmm. So do you mind introducing me to your friend? What's his name?" Discord asked, giddy with excitement.

The creature looked at Discord with sheer annoyance and anger as the draconequus started running his mouth off.

"I don't have a name." the creature said with low anger in its voice.

"Oh okay. Just trying to get acquainted. Have you ever went to Los Pegasus? It's so lively over there that you could just-"

Just then, a shot of darkness was fired at Discord on his right side, scaring the utter daylights out of him.

"GET TO THE POINT!!!!" the creature yelled.

Knowing that the creature wasn't fooling around, Discord cleared his throat and said,

"Spike, do you know why your friends treated you like trash after that little mishap back in Ponyville?"

"Huh? What're you getting at, Discord?" Spike asked.

"Hmm. Well, after Twilight and her friends tried to save face in forming the friendship between the dragons and the griffins, she had no idea what to do. So I decided to help her with her problems by giving her and her friends a scapegoat."

Hearing this made Spike stop dead in his tracks. He turned towards Discord with this stunned look on his face and said with low tones of anger in his voice,

"What?"

"Just hear me out, Spike. I felt that the only way to teach you responsibility was to take all the blame and place it on you. Her own number one assistant with no care in the world and no family to call his own. Of course, I knew that you would be confused, so I convinced Twilight and her friends to tell you about it upfront and to banish you. It was quite a master plan I know, but-"

Just then, Spike fired balls of black flames at Discord, hitting him in the process, but of course the latter playfully dodging him.

"Whoa. Okay. Maybe I could have handled it a little better." Discord said in a casual manner with a nervous laugh.

"YOU GOT ME BANISHED!!!!" Spike yelled with rage in his voice.

Emotions were circulating all over Spike as he tried to comprehend what he had went through back at Ponyville. Thinking back to all the times that Discord mistreated him and the way that he was often picked on by him, Spike felt truly enraged at Discord for everything that he did to him.

"SO I ASSUME THAT YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN TO ME!!!!??" Spike yelled, pointing at the malachite heart in his chest.

Discord made a playful, albeit nervous chuckle as Spike growled at him. Then he said,

"Maybe I did watch a little bit...?"

Spike roared and threw a fireball at Discord. He dodged everywhere, yet he continued to mock Spike as he ran.

"Wow. I didn't think you'd be this angry. Does it come with being the number one assistant of Twilight~?" Discord taunted.

"MEET YOUR FATE, DRACONEQUUS!!! the creature yelled as he chased after him with Spike.

Discord warped and dodged everywhere as Spike continued to chase after him. After a few minutes, Discord stopped for a short rest, leaving him open for an attack by Spike. He breathed the black fire from his mouth and hit Discord's leg.

"AUGH! That hurt!" Discord said, trying to put out the flame.

"Good..." Spike said with rage in his voice.

"Are you okay, Spike? You seem pretty tense. Would you like to talk about it? Fluttershy taught me a lot of techniques on how to mellow out." DIscord said, trying to weasel his way out.

"I'll be mellow after I mutilate you." Spike said as the creature started to surround him.

After Discord finished recuperating, he readied magic for battle against Spike and the creature.

"GET READY FOR A WORLD OF PAIN, DISCORD!!!!!!" Spike and the creature roared in unison as they charged towards Discord with rage in their hearts.