Immediately, Spike charged at Discord with brute force as the Draconequus proceeded to dodge his attack. Roaring with extreme fury for Discord's act of treachery, Spike would stop at nothing until he could wrap his hands around the former's heart and eat it.

"Oh. Is that really what you call a strategy? Rainbow Dash has more creativity in her attacks." Discord said in a calm yet taunting manner.

"RRRRRRROOOOOOOOAAAAAARRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Spike was unleashing everything he had upon Discord. From spewing fire to hurling boulders at him with the help of the creature, he did everything he could to hit the Draconequus, but Discord's incessant use of his magic kept Spike from touching him. Discord laughed as he kept dodging.

"Oh dear, you are so humorous to watch. Every little ball fire you throw at me along with every boulder just increases all the fun that I enjoy having with you." Discord gleefully said as he moved.

Roaring with anger and animosity, Spike was destroying the throne room little by little as he chased after Discord.

"You know what? Seeing you throw things around is starting to become bland. What do you say we spice things up?" Discord said.

Snapping his fingers, duplications of himself appeared out of nowhere and started swarming Spike. After getting tackled simultaneously by the dopplegangers of Discord, Spike started using the strength he mustered from all the years of his adventures with Twilight. In the next minute, he bursted out of the stack of bodies that piled on him. Knocking back the duplicates, Spike took a fighting stance with the creature on top of his upper-back like a tag-team partner.

"Oh? It seems I may overestimated myself." Discord jeered.

"And I thought I was the Hero of the Crystal Empire. I guess we're all disappointed." Spike said with an edge of dark humor.

"I'm indeed disappointed. What would Rarity think of you if she saw you like this?"

Hearing Discord mention Rarity's name made Spike charge at the former. He summoned a group of huge boulders from inside the throne room and flung them directly at Spike. Dodging them effortlessly with the creature flinging them back at Discord, Spike jumped onto Discord and pinned him to the ground with the creature holding his arms.

"Oh, whatever shall I do~?" Discord said in a taunting manner.

Angry with him, Spike proceeded to breathe a set of black fire into Discord's face. Screaming in pain and anguish, Discord pushed Spike off and started rubbing his face to alleviate whatever pain he felt.

"Does it feel hot? It's okay. So do I." Spike said in a menacing voice.

Discord got off the ground and showed his face to him. It was extremely melted and it nearly showed his skull. Suddenly, it healed instantly and started laughing jovially.

"You honestly thought that a little wave of fire in my face would hurt me?! Oh my, you are so hysterical." Discord said as he continued to laugh.

Just then, he started to fell something in his face start to tingle. Wincing in pain, he shook his face to try and recover.

"Okay. So you did get me. What do you say if you have a little fun with my buddies?"

Just then, Discord's dopplegangers appeared, only it was six of them. The next thing that happened, they transformed into the exact same copies of the Mane Six and Starlight. Boiling with rage, Spike proceeded to attack them. Slashing and swiping with his claws and tail, Spike fought them to the best of his ability with the creature aiding him. The Twilight duplicate fired a beam of magic at him while the Pinkie Pie duplicate pulled out her Party Cannon to fire at Spike. Spike maneuvered his way around them by grabbing Pinkie's cannon and firing it at Twilight, knocking her back. He proceeded to gouge her eyeballs out and split her skull apart with his claws, exposing her brain and turning her back into the doppelganger. After dropping her, he moved towards Applejack who kicked him in the face. Making a quick recovery, he dodged her next attack, grabbed her legs, and flung her at Rainbow Dash who was charging at Spike.

"Is that really your best, Discord!? Fluttershy's pets were more tougher than this!" Spike shouted, looking at Discord.

Fluttershy helped Rainbow Dash up and proceeded to coordinate their next attacks in the air. Applejack got up and got into position. The two pegasi flew up to the mountains and started dropping rocks for Applejack to kick. After kicking them at Spike, the creature suddenly grabbed them and threw them right back at Applejack, with one of them hitting her so hard that her brains were bludgeoned out of her head on impact as she shifted back to the duplicate. Spike shifted his direction towards Rainbow Dash along with Fluttershy who were flying around in a circle, trying to figure out the best strategy for attacking the former. Moments later, they descended and attempted to charge into Spike, with both of them effectively knocking the wind out of him. Grinning over the fact that they stunned him, they attacked him even further with the same tactic until he wised up and stabbed Fluttershy through her mouth to her brain with the tip of his tail while grabbing onto Rainbow Dash. Flying around trying to get him off her back, she flew into various rocky mountains to make him let go.

"IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?!" Spike shouted.

Just then, he dug his claws into Rainbow Dash's body and the doppelganger started to scream as Spike dug them deeper into her hide. Gaining the advantage over controlling her, he steered her over to Discord's location and started breathing balls of fire at him. But having gained his second wind, Discord fought back by summoning meteors from the sky. Spike dodged them effortlessly and continued to breath more balls of fire at Discord. Suddenly, Spike started to feel this growing pain in his upper and lower back. Seeing the opportunity, Discord lunged at Spike and knocked him off the doppelganger. Punching and biting each other as they fell, Discord eventually pushed towards a wall and started beating him.

"How does it feel, sidekick? How does it feel to be treated like dirt by your friends?" Discord asked as he beat his face.

Just then, the creature slashed Discord's abdomen, giving Spike the opportunity to slash the former's face and get him off. Discord got up and tried healing, but this time he wasn't healing. He touched his face and realized that he wasn't healing at all.

"Oh dear..." Discord said as he looked at blood.

He turned towards Spike as he rolled all over the ground and was scratching himself. The pain that he was feeling grew even more as he felt something grow out of his back. Suddenly, these four longs limbs spewed out of his lower and upper back. The pain stopped now and Spike was shocked to see what they actually were.

"They couldn't be..." Discord said in shock.

"Yes. It can be." the creature said in amazement.

The limbs then spanned out and revealed them as wings. Upon getting a good look at them, Spike felt completely happy that he obtained his own two pairs of wings. Granted he didn't expect to have two, but he was happy regardless. However, he knew that he had no time to celebrate, seeing as he now had to eliminate Discord. Just then, he heard Discord chuckle as he got off the ground.

"It seems that my magic is starting to dwindle. I guess I have no other choice..." Discord said as the Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle duplicates came back, albeit still bleeding out.

Suddenly, the ground started to shake as Discord started to transform. The doppelganger merged with him as he started to turn into this large, malformed monster. Various limbs and bones were snapping as he started to grow up to the point where he is taller than most of the mountains. Arms were sprawling out of his main arms as multiple teeth in his mouth spewed out while he looked down at Spike. Upon opening his eyes, it was revealed that even random pupils were displaying from his eyes as multiple eyeballs and mouths emerged all over his body. Looking down at Spike, he laughed in a sadistic manner and asked in this dark, warped voice,

"What do you of my new makeover, Spike? Would Twilight and her friends be amazed?"

Seeing this new form and feeling nothing more but contempt for Discord at this point, the creature started to engulf Spike then he got down on all fours.

"Come on!" Spike roared with his wings shaping into talons as Discord proceeded to slam his arm at the former.