Fillydelphia, home of the famous Filly HayCheese Sandwich, but this is not time for eating, this is business. Blueblood, Shining Armor, Dizzy, Pearl, and a few guards came to this city in order to find any trace of Stargazer. Pearl and Dizzy revealed to Blueblood that Fillydelphia is his hometown, so if there's any place in Equestria he might return to, it's here. Upon arriving in the city, they were confronted with by paparazzi just aiming to get pictures of the prince. Blueblood did his best to ignore them and continued on with the others until they eventually came to a large house. "Is this it?" he asked.

"Y-yeah." Dizzy answered. "This is where Stargazer said he lived."

"Wait, I thought he lived near Ponyville." said Shining.

"This is his childhood home; before he moved to Ponyville." Dizzy explained. "I doubt he'd return there since that's the first place we'd look."

Blueblood looked over at Shining Armor and nodded. Shining motioned for his guards to move in and apprehend Stargazer. The guards readied their weapons and slowly walked onto the property. As they moved closer to the house, something caught Blueblood's eye. It looked at though it was some kind of wire that was stretch across..........

"GET DOWN!" he yelled as one of the guard's foot touched it.

*BOOOOOOOM*

The entire property exploded; sending shockwaves in throughout the neighborhood. Blueblood and the others were blown a few feet away while the guards were caught in a massive fireball. The entire house went up in flames; burning away at their very eyes.

"W-What the tartarus was that?!" yelled Pearl.

"A trap." Blueblood growled. "He set it up! He knew knew we'd come looking for him here!" Blueblood stood up and looked at the burning property. His anger started to rise as realized how close he came to meeting his end. "On your feet everypony, we're moving out."

"Wait, what about my guards?!" asked Shining. "We can't just leave them!"

"Shining, they're dead." the prince said with venom.

"D-Dead?" Shining said said with shock. "T-They can't be dead! You said nopony dies in this story!"

"No. I said nopony dies in the last one." he said. "This one has a "death" tag in it, the others didn't."

"But, why?" Shining asked.

"You're asking the wrong one." Blueblood said before turning away. "You got a problem with the direction this story's going, take it up with the writer's followers. They're the ones who had a problem with nopony dying during our time in Baltimare." As Blueblood walk away, Dizzy and Pearl simple looked at them; confused as to what they were talking about. Just then, the sound of somepony screaming in pure blood rage could be heard coming from the distance.

"P-Pinkie?" said Dizzy.

****************************

Pinkie sat in her room with an extremely pissed off look. She grumbled Blueblood's name over and over; causing concern from everypony else. She wasn't the only one, Applejack was doing the same thing; upset at the fact that Blueblood put her grandmother in a retirement home in Manetreal; the one thing she swore she would never do to her.

"Hey, Equestria to Pinkie and Applejack!" Rainbow said with snapping her fingers. "If you two don't mind, we should get started with this meeting."

Snapping away from her anger, Pinkie cleared her throat and began. "Okay, we need to confirm, besides Celestia, and Twilight, who here is willing to participate in "Operation Bang Spike"?" she asked. The only ones who raised their hands were Applejack, Rainbow, Fluttershy, and Pinkie herself. Rarity and Starlight opting out of doing it on the count that they didn't want to betray their lovers. It was also decided amongst them that if they decided to back out, then it wouldn't be held against them. "Okay, that's four of us and with Cadence that makes five." Pinkie said.

"Will it be enough?" asked Rainbow.

"It has to be." said Celestia. "He's......he's already claimed Twilight, Luna, and myself, so with five extra mares, Spike will have eight mates." A slight blush formed on Celestia's face as she started to remember her last night session with Spike.

"Okay, tonight is our Monthly Annual Slumber Party, we'll get him under control then." Pinkie said. "We have to, for Spike's sake."

There was a brief moment of silence amongst them before Twilight spoke up. "Pinkie, Starlight told us that you threw water on Spike to change him back, what happened?"

"Well....." Pinkie started. "From what Mrs. Cake told me, Spike was afraid that the he might've forced himself on her last night, which he kinda did. Mrs. Cake wanted him to feel better so she hugged him and well........that kinda set him off."

"So you threw water on him?!" Rainbow half yelled. "Do you have any idea what that'll do?!"

"I tried to pull him off, but he wouldn't budge." Pinkie defended. "I panicked. If it continued, he would've......you know." Pinkie didn't want to say it, but everypony knew what she meant. Spike would've unknowingly taken her by force. "That's why we have to do this as soon as possible. The next time he goes off, we might not be able to stop him." Once again there was another moment of silence between the mares. All of them thinking about Spike and how they failed to protect him last time. This time will be different. This time, they will be there every step of the way.

"I'll get in contact with Luna and Cadence and tell them what's happening tonight." Celestia said as she stood up. "The eight of us should be able to do this."

The mares all nodded to each other in agreement. Tonight, they put their plan into motion.

****************************

Before the girls started their meeting, Spike was sent to Sweet Apple Acres to help out with the family's harvest. He and Big Mac had a little competition in which Big Mac obviously won. Panting heavily by the barn, Spike struggled to stand. Both he and Big Mac had ran with from the field to the barn each pulling a wagon with loads of apples on it.

"Geez, I told you to go easy on him." came a female voice. Approaching them was a peach earth pony mare with an orange mane and tail. "You okay, Spike?"

"A-Ask m-me......that again......in about......20 years." he panted. The mare kneeled down and handed Spike a cup of juice which he took and drank slowly from it. "Ya think me being a dragon.......would be enough......to keep up with Big Mac." he said.

"Just sit back and rest." she said as she looked over at Big Mac. The red stallion chuckled nervously while rubbing the back of his head. "In any case, thanks for your help, Spike."

"Not a problem." he said. "So, is Applebloom doing okay?"

"Well, yes and no." the mare answered. "Her leg is healing nicely, but she's been a bit moody since Granny was sent away."

"AppleJack's been the same way." he said. "Why was Granny sent away?"

Big Mac and the mare looked at each other nervously. Neither one wanted to reveal the reason that Granny was sent away was because she started a war with another country in Spike's name. It was then a yellow stallion with a red mane and tail came up to them with a light jog. "Pear, son, we have a special delivery to make." he said. "We just got the order in, so we have to move if we want to deliver it in time."

"Who's the order for?" asked Pear.

"Some big wig in Canterlot." he answered. "Come on, we better get started." Big Mac and Pear both let out a sigh of relief at this interruption; Pear standing up and stuck out her hand to help up Spike.

"Mind giving us a hand, Spike?" she asked.

"Sure." he answered.

****************************

After everypony left Sugar Cube Corner, Pinkie and Mrs. Cake were in the kitchen about to start baking a cake for an order they received. The pair worked in silence for a while before Mrs. Cake spoke up. "So, you girls are gonna put your plan into motion tonight?"

"Yeah." Pinkie said as she mixed some ingredients together.

"Will it work?" Mrs. Cake asked.

"It has to." Pinkie answered. "Eight of us will be doing it with him, so it should be enough."

"If you do it, Spike will claim you as his until his cycle is over, right?" she said; earning a nod from Pinkie. "What if after his cycle is over, he decides not to release you. You know dragons are naturally greedy, so what if he decides to keep you all for himself?"

"We'll cross that road when we get to it, right now our main goal is to make sure Spike doesn't go crazy and go after any mare he comes across." she stated.

"Well, does Dizzy know about this?" she asked.

"Yeah, he knows, so does Big Mac." Pinkie explained. "They don't wanna see Spike hurt anypony either. Besides, it's just until the end of summer when his cycle ends, then he can reverse it." Mrs. Cake was unsure if it was going to be that easy. Part of her feared that Pinkie and the others were doing more harm than good to Spike; despite their well intentions.

****************************

Celestia sat alone in the throne room awaiting the arrival of her sister and Cadence. The conversating they were going to have was top secret so she ordered all guards to leave until their meeting was over. She didn't have to wait that long as Luna and Cadence entered the throne room. "Why have you called us, sister?" Luna asked. "Has Blueblood and Shining Armor found him yet?"

"Unfortunately, I haven't heard from either of them yet." Celestia said as she got up from her throne. "I called you here to talk about Spike. There's been another.......incident."

"What happen?" Cadence asked with a gasp.

"Spike's cycle was.......triggered.......and Pinkie was forced to slash water on him to snap him out of it." she explained with a blush; excluding the fact that she and Twilight had a powerful session with him last night. Luna and Cadence gasped at finding out water was splashed on Spike. They wonder how Celestia knew this, but figured that Twilight must've contacted her and told her the situation. "It's been decided that we're going to get Spike under control tonight before he unknowingly hurts somepony."

"So we have until tonight to prepare ourselves, huh." said Luna. "There's no telling how out of control he'll be once we set his cycle off."

"It's been a while since we've been to one of their slumber parties." said Cadence.

"So, at sundown we'll travel to Ponyville and get Spike under control." Celestia said with slight blush. Luna and Cadence were blushing as well. Luna, for remembering when Spike claimed her, and Cadence, for the fact that she was going to sleep with somepony who's basically her little brother. The three princesses stood there awkwardly for a while; all of them thinking about the event that was going to happen tonight.

****************************

At Sweet Apple Acres, Fluttershy landed in front of the barn where she saw Spike helping the family load up two carts of apples. "Hey, Spike, what's going on?" she asked.

"A huge order from Canterlot came in." he answered. "Bright Mac said that if we hurry, he'll carry both carts over there." As Spike placed another basket of apples on the cart, Big Mag came out of the barn holding two more in each arm. After placing them on the cart, both his parents exited the barn as well.

"That's the last of'em." said Bright Mac.

"You sure you don't want the boys here to help you?" Pear asked.

"Nah, ah got it." he said as he lifted both carts over his shoulders. "Ah should be back by sundown." After giving his wife a quick peck on the cheek, Bright Mac took off running at full speed.

"I swear, sometimes I feel like i'm married to a demi-god or something." Pear said as she turned to head inside. "Would you like something to drink, Spike?"

"Yeah, thanks." he said. Spike followed Pear inside the house; leaving Big Mac alone with Fluttershy. The yellow pegasus grabbed Big Mac's hand and led him away; inside the barn. Big Mac started to think that she wanted to have a little "fun" while they were alone. Truth be told, they haven't done it in a while, and he was starting to forget what it felt like. Once they were alone in the barn, Fluttershy turned to her coltfriend with a serious look on her face. Any thought Big Mac was having was instantly wiped from his mind.

"Big Mac, I know." she said. "I know about Stargazer. I overheard you and Blueblood talking about him last night. Is he....is he going to come back and hurt Spike?" A scared look formed on Fluttershy's face as she thought about what might happen to Spike with Stargazer on the loose; prompting Big Mac to wrap his arms around his marefriend. "He's gonna hurt Spike, is he?"

"Nope." Big Mac said as he held her tighter. "Ah won't give'em the chance."

****************************

"YOU WHAT!" Rarity screamed. She, Applejack, Rainbow, and Starlight all had shocked looks on their faces. "How could you still have feelings for that......stallion?!"

Twilight lowered her head.

"Does Spike know?" Starlight asked.

Twilight shook her head. "I haven't said anything to him; we've been a little.......busy.......since we got back." A slight blush formed on Twilight face as she thought about all the......."activities".......she and Spike shared.

"So what are you gonna do?" Rainbow asked. "Don't tell me your gonna take him back?"

"WHAT, NO!" Twilight said in shock. "I.......I......." It was hard for Twilight to put into words. She didn't want to be with Stargazer after he betrayed her and tried to kill Spike, but at the same time she wanted to see him again; to hear his voice once more. Twilight started to hate herself over this. Why would anypony want to be with somepony who tried to have one of their closest friends killed; then try to kill them themselves?

"Yo, Twilight, Equestria to Twilight!" Rainbow said; catching her attention. "I asked what are going to do about Spike?"

Twilight lowered her head once again for a few seconds before coming to a decision. "First, we need to get Spike's urges under control, after that, i'll figure something out." Rainbow and the others looked at each other. They knew that getting Spike's urges under control should be their top priority, but Twilight's still lingering feelings for Stargazer had them concerned. If Twilight decided to take him back, then she'll have to get Spike to remove the mark he gave her and ultimately break his heart. It'll be a worse insult than what "she who shall not be named" did to him; especially since he tried to kill him.....twice.

"We should be getting ready." Twilight suggested. "Spike will be home before we know it." The mares agreed with Twilight, although they wanted this conversation to continue. The fact that Twilight still had feelings for somepony who tried to have Spike killed was inconceivable. As Twilight started to walk away, Starlight asked a question that caused everypony to freeze where they were. "So, who's gonna be the first one to take on Spike?" Spike was just recently doused with water; meaning the next time his urges are set off, he'll possibly wreck somepony. All five mares started to shuttered at the thought.

****************************

Finally being discharged from the hospital, Sentinel walked out of the building where he ran into Moonstone and Gravel who were waiting for him. "I'm back in action!" he declared.

"That's good to know." Gravel said sarcastically. "Now come on, we have lots of planning to do for the next games."

"Not yet." Sentinel said with a smirk. "I have important duties to attend to first." Moonstone face palmed with Gravel growled. The two stallions knew exactly what their idiot friend was talking about.

"Dude, no." Moonstone said sternly. "You're lucky you weren't brought up on charges after what you did."

"But I wasn't." Sentinel countered. "Besides, I was soooo close to nailing that."

"So you're planning on heading to Ponyville and try the same shit again?" Gravel asked.

"No, no." Sentinel said. "This time, i'm going to use something else to get Princess Twilight in bed with me." Sentinel walked passed his friends with a determined look on his face.

"Where are you going?!" Moonstone asked.

"Where do you think?" Sentinel answered. "Ponyville. I'm gonna claim what's mine." As Sentinel walked off, Gravel and Moonstone remained where they were; both were contemplating on whether or not they should follow him. They knew talking him out of it was pointless, but if he did something stupid, then being put in the hospital next time might not happen. The two stallions looked as each other before sighing heavily.

"Come on, let's go make sure he doesn't get himself killed." Gravel groaned as he and Moonstone followed after their "fearless leader".