Opening the door of the Golden Oak Library, you and Spike through yourself onto the nearest couch. You hadn't exactly done much today, but you still felt quite worn out.

Quiet clearly, Spike felt the same.

"How's your arm, Spike?" Twilight asked, apologetically.
She was picking up some books that were scattered across the floor of the library with her unicorn magic. Twilight must've been feeling guilty, as she never asked how he was as she was to distracted by the baby dragon's outburst.

"It's not too bad. Just a bit red, that's all." Spike replied, smiling reassuringly.

Twilight continued organising the scattered books for the next few minutes, while Spike prodded at his small wound with his tail.

"I'm gonna head off to bed," Twilight informed you, groggily, "It's been a long day."

You figured that she had done most of the chasing when it came to catching Fluttershy's escaped chicken. It would've made sense due to Spike's small infrastructure.

"Oh, ok! Goodnight, Twilight!" you replied, smiling happily.
Spike also said goodnight as the Alicorn disappeared up the staircase.

"Goodnight, guys!" she replied as she fully vanished at the top of the stairs.

Now that Twilight had gone to bed, you were expecting Spike to roll over onto his side and fall asleep, but he didn't.
Instead, a serious look overcame him as he stared right at you.

"Are you and Twilight hiding something from me?" he asked, the usual quirkiness of his voice non-existent.

Suddenly, you feel panic start to well up inside of you. Had he heard what you and Twilight had been whispering this whole time. A pit formed in your stomach as you thought about who he might tell if he found out you had been hiding your past from him.

"U-Um... No? Why?" you replied, nervously.

The baby dragon simply stared you down in response, even rivalling that of Fluttershy.

Maybe you should tell him.

"Can I trust you?" you asked him, causing him to drop his stare. Some of his usual 'charm' returned at that moment, allowing you some relaxation.

"Of course. I'm your bro." he answered, jokingly.
However, behind that joking demeanour, you knew he was being serious.

Over the course of time that you'd known him, he seemed pretty trustworthy, and you didn't expect him to tell anypony if you asked him no too.

"And you promise to not tell anypony?" you asked, your ears drooping slightly.

"I promise."
It wasn't a pinkie promise, but you weren't being picky.

And with that, you could now tell Spike about your past. The secret you and Twilight had been hiding from him for the entire day.

You shuffled around in the couch, uncomfortable with the situation you had gotten yourself into.

"Basically..." you began, "I'm from a different world."

At first you were met with silence, just as it was with Twilight, but soon...

"Cool!" the baby dragon replied, excitement in his eyes, "But is that all you were hiding, because I'm not all that bothered where you're from."

You were slightly puzzled, but then realised that maybe it was for the better that Spike didn't really mind. But it did make you think.
You were hiding your secret from him for nothing.

"Well... I think I died in my original world," you continue, causing Spike's excitement to be replaced with shock, "It's ok though, because honestly..."

Spike didn't interrupt and instead let you continue, letting you know he was taking this seriously. You were also slightly confused as to why he was trusting you so easily. Not that you were complaining. It was the truth after all.

"I prefer it here." you said with a smile.

Spike shuffled closer to you on the couch with a sad expression on his face, and then asked you something you hadn't really even told Twilight about.

"What was your world like?" he asked, curiously.

You had never really thought back to it since you arrived, but you remembered all the imperfections that Earth had. War, climate change, extinction, you name it.
But Earth did also have its fair share of good things.

"Now that I think about it, it wasn't that great," you said, causing some slight shock to Spike, "There were great battles raging all over the world every day. Natural locations were disappearing and entire species were being killed off."

"That's terrible!" Spike looked incredibly saddened at this news, but you didn't want him to pity you just because your home world had a lot of major flaws.
While your home world didn't have the magic that Equestria had, it still had many things that this world did not.

"But it did also have a lot of nice things. It had beautiful natural landmarks, like the Everfree Forest but less evil," you explained, making Spike a little happier, "And it had video games and cartoons..."

You hadn't really thought about technology since you had arrived here, either. Equestria seemed to thrive even without it, most likely due to their use of magic.

"Video games?" Spike questioned, wondering what was so great about something that sounded so boring.

Truthfully, you had no idea how to explain video games to someone with no prior knowledge of them. You decided that the best course of action would be to try and create something to show him.

"Let me show you." you replied, already thinking of how to demonstrate animation.

Getting off the couch, you walked over to a bookshelf that Twilight had previously organised and pulled out a book. The book you had picked up was entirely blank, most likely a sketching book.

You didn't think Twilight would keep these books around, but then again, her house did double as a library.

You walked over to a desk that Twilight occasionally studied at and picked up a quill with your free hoof. Slamming the empty book down on the desk, it flipped open onto the first page.

Hurriedly, you sketched a grassy meadow with a large orb hovering above it, intended to be the sun.

Flipping over to the next page, you sketched the exact same thing, but the sun had moved a little to the left.
You repeated this again and again, until the sun had moved all the way to the right.

You had made a flipbook. Sure it wasn't exactly a videogame, but rather a cartoon, much like this world once was.
You showed your flipbook to Spike, who was somewhat impressed, but not nearly as much as you thought he would be.

"Moving pictures? We've got them here too!" he said, happy that what he thought were video games existed in Equestria.

"No, Spike, this isn't an actual video game," you inform him, shaking your head, "In video games, you can control the pictures."

This caused Spike to desperately want to play one, but much to his disappointment, they did not exist in Equestria.

"Your world sounds like fun, Storm!" Spike said, glad that you had entrusted him with this secret.

Although you did miss some of the luxuries of Earth, it didn't come close to Equestria in any way. On Earth, kindness was a relatively rare thing to come by, yet here it was plentiful.

"It's not as good as here, trust me." you laughed in response.

Spike let out a loud yawn as he stretched his arms above his head.

"Thanks for telling me this, Storm, but I'm gonna hit the hay." he said, leaping off of the couch groggily.

"Wait," you almost shouted, causing him the turn back around quickly, "You promise not to tell anypony? Not even Rarity?"

You knew that he had a crush on Rarity no matter how much he denied it. You even recalled him admitting it to Twilight and Pinkie Pie, not that you could tell him that, though.

While you were telling him about your past, you still weren't going to tell him about the show that featured him as a character.

"Wha-? I don't have a crush on Rarity! I don't know what you're talking about." he replied, trying his best to sound confused.

You laughed at his comedic antics, causing Spike to begin laughing too.

"I promise, dude." he answered, stopping his laughing abruptly.

"Thanks." you replied, smiling warmly.

The baby dragon nodded, smiling back, before finally turning and walking up the stairs to join Twilight in slumber. Now that you thought about it, maybe you should get some sleep too. You did wake up in the middle of last night.

Walking up the stairs, Spike had already entered his bedroom, leaving you alone in the realm of consciousness. Your bedroom door crept open, and then swung firmly shut, blocking out any light that may have been entering your room.

Hopping into bed, you found yourself drifting into sleep almost instantly. Welcoming the dreamscape, you parted with the real world until the next day arrived...

Author's Notes:

I'm tempted to class this chapter as filler, since it pretty much only exists to tell Spike about Storm's past.
Honestly, I didn't put as much effort into this chapter as I usually would, since it only existed for one sole reason, meaning I couldn't do as much with it. This resulted in a much shorter chapter, but it was either that or I leave it out altogether.

Rainbow Dash will be in the next chapter, so look forward to that.