As the sun started to rise, Spike finally awoke from his sleep. Where the first thing he noticed, was how cripplingly weak he felt. 'Jeez, I feel like I've had the life drained from me,' he thought to himself, before remembering that was the very thing that happened. Making him remember everything up to the point the necromancer got ahold of him and began to drain the lifeforce from him, causing him to black out.

In response to this sudden resurgence of forgotten memories, Spike tried to force himself to get up. Yet he was only able to meekly summon enough energy to turn his head to the side, where he saw the sleeping form of Rainbow Dash sleeping in a chair right beside his bed. He woke her up and asked, "Mythic Jewel, have you been here all night?"

Rainbow Dash stretched her arms as she yawned and said, "Yeah, I was going to see if you had woken up after I woke up."

Spike noticed the burns on Rainbow Dash's wings and asked, "What happened back there?"

Rainbow Dash started explaining, "When you went unconscious, I flew into the fire to stop that necromancer from killing you. Of course, I got some bad burns on my wings from the fire, but the Mojo Potions from the cargo hold are helping with that. I brought you back to the ship while Time Turner, Morgan, and Bonnie looked for the next clue." she answered, leaving out the part about the fallout that happened afterward. Just wanting him to rest and not be concerned about the state of the crew at the moment.

Spike smiled lightly, and said, "Thanks for saving me. But why-"

Rainbow Dash interrupted him saying, "That's enough for now Spike, you should still be resting. You still haven't fully recovered. Just lay back down and get some more rest." before leaving back for the deck.

Spike sighed, but she was right, he still felt weak, so he laid back down in his bed. He thought to himself, "Something's up with Mythic Jewel, she's always more than willing to do whatever it takes to keep me safe..."

As Rainbow Dash walked back up to the deck, they had just made port at Flotsam. She asked her crewmates, "Any ideas on what we can do while we're waiting for the captain to recover?"

Bonnie Anne pulled out a deck of cards, "Poker?"

Morgan smirked and said, "What if we make it a little more interesting?" as she tugged at her corset.

Rainbow Dash blushed, "Are you suggesting we play strip poker?"

Adagio shrugged, "Well, we're all girls here, unless Time Turner and Bulk Biceps decide to join in."

The two men had already left, so Morgan said, "One more thing. We play in Spike's quarters."

A vein was throbbing on Rainbow Dash's head when Morgan suggested they play strip poker in Spike's room, but considering she had to act less protective, she faked a smile and said, "I'm game."

The girls agreed on the game and headed to Spike's quarters. When they arrived, Spike looked up from his bed and asked, "What are you guys doing in here?"

Morgan smiled and said, "Just sit back and enjoy the show." before sitting down with the other girls in a circle.

When she said, "Enjoy the show." Spike grew worried the four of them were going to do a striptease, but when they sat in a circle and pulled out a deck of cards, he asked, "Are you playing poker? What kind of sh- oh Faust, you're going to play strip poker right in front of me aren't you?"

Bonnie Anne shuffled her deck of cards and dealt the cards, while Morgan simply winked at Spike in response to his question. Each girl looked at her cards, Rainbow Dash had the Ace and King of Spades, Morgan had a pair of twos, Adagio had a pair of nines, and Bonnie had a 3 and 4 of Clubs.

As Morgan looked at the other's faces, trying to read them, she sighed and put her cards down, "Pair of deuces, I fold this round." before taking off her shirt to reveal her corset. She looked over to Spike and purred seductively, "Enjoying the show so far captain?"

Spike said nothing as he barely had the energy to move, so he just stayed silent.

Rainbow Dash looked at one of the community cards and saw that one of them was the Queen of Spades and took it into her hand. She was only two cards from having a Royal Flush, the best hand you could get in a game of poker, besides five aces, if you used multiple decks. She kept a straight face as she came closer to winning this round. She was very nervous of Spike seeing her naked, especially because she like all ponies had a signature cutie mark on her butt. If he saw that cutie mark, she was busted.

Bonnie drew her next card and her eyes widened, throwing her cards down, "Dammit! I drew a Joker!" before taking off her shirt to reveal she didn't have a corset, but a leopard print lingerie top.

Spike blushed as Bonnie Anne took off her shirt, he hated to admit it, but the lingerie she was wearing was hot.

A few hours later...

As the girls continued to play their poker game, Rainbow Dash had taken off her shirt and bra, revealing her C-cup rack. Morgan was completely naked, and she continued to tease Spike with her body. Bonnie was down to nothing but her panties, which matched her leopard print lingerie top. Finally, Adagio was also down to her panties, which was surprisingly a G-string.

Spike was blushing like crazy, and it was obvious he had a boner from the girls. He gulped and said, "O-Okay girls, I think that's enough. Just let me get some rest in peace."

Morgan pouted, but said, "Ok girls, I think that's enough." before getting her cloths back on.

The other girls got their cloths back on, and Rainbow Dash said to herself, 'Thank Celestia, this was ridiculous. I can't believe I had to agree to this.' before waiting for the other girls to leave to walk over to Spike.

Spike gulped and said, "Mythic Jewel, please, no more."

Rainbow Dash shook her head, "Don't worry Spike, the others pressured me into doing this, though I'd be lying if I said I had no interest at all in showing you my naked body. I'm sorry though if we made you uncomfortable."

Spike blushed and said, "Well, to be honest... I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it a bit."

Rainbow Dash blushed as well and said, "Well, you just get some rest." before kissing Spike on the lips and leaving.

Spike blushed even harder when Rainbow Dash kissed him and sighed contently before falling back to sleep.

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