“Spike.” I opened my eyes waking up and looking at Twilight next to me, the was sun to my back coming in through the second story window. I fell over the side and she caught me with her magic lifting me back onto the bed. “What is up with you, first you start calling me mom and then I find you in my bed, are you missing your mom or something? Is it a dragon thing I don’t know about?”

“No, I just, sorry.”

“It’s fine, I don’t mind you sleeping with me, you’re actually kind of warm, it was nice, last night was really cold.” I smiled. “Anyway, how are you feeling?” She asked smiling at me, I liked this Twilight, my Twilight would have shoved me out of her bed.

“I feel pretty good, arm is sore, and my face still hurt a little, but I’m good.”

“Alright, well just don’t think I’m going to act like your mom or anything, you still are going to cook, clean and be my assistant.” I gritted my teeth, I guess this Twilight wasn’t that much different from mine, but at least she didn’t say spell dummy.

“Oh, then I should get breakfast.” I said quickly. I got out of bed and rushed down pausing at the bottom of the stairs. I looked around for a moment finding the kitchen. I searched around the entire kitchen looking. She had almost no gems, a few, but that was like crumbs to me, I would need a lot more.

I stopped, opened the fridge and looked inside. While she didn’t have gems to spare, she did have a decent amount of food that I could eat, and she could eat it as well. I grinned a little, the only thing I would refuse to give up was cooking. I was the best chef in my world, and that was before everything went to hell.

Her kitchen was rather unadvanced, she didn’t have machines, real electricity or any of the things I did in my world. Not only that, but they didn’t have anything but basic lighting outside, this was the freaking stone age!

I cooked using magic, cutting the time down from hours to minutes, and finished walking out to the dinner table, setting up two places, one for her and one for me. Of course this was assuming I was allowed to eat with her, she did seem nice enough to allow that. I put the food on plates and her eyes went wide seeing it.

“Whoa Spike, what is all this for?” I paused. Oh crap! I had no clue how good a cook this Spike was, or even if he was a cook. For all I knew he could have only done basic foods, and anything more complex was out of his reach.

“What do you mean?” I asked slightly nervous.

“Well you never cook this nice, in fact I’ve never even seen these types of dishes before, where did you learn it?”

“Just, thought of it at random?”

“Oh well.” She chuckled. “Alright.” I finished setting everything up and sat down next to her.

“Um, silly question, but do we pray?” She stared at me.

“Do we what?” She asked confused.

“Oh, never mind.” Talk about dodging a bullet, there were pony groups which had gods in my world. I would have seriously gone nuts if they were religious.

“Okay?” She said unsure, she took one bite and her eyes went big. “Whoa!” I stared at her, I didn’t know if ponies here liked this type of cooking. “This is absolutely wonderful! How did, wow!” She started to eat making me smile as I started eating myself, enjoying the meal. She had pretty good foods, so it turned out alright, not the best it could be though.

“I’m glad you liked it.” I said smiling as I cleaned up. She wiped her mouth and looked at me.

“I did, you must have spent all night on that.”

“No about ten minutes.” She paused and so did I. “I mean, that was just getting ready today, yeah I spent a while cooking last night. I thought we should have a good breakfast, in fact I think it would be a good idea to invite everyone over, as a way of saying thank you.”

“When do you want to do that?”

“How about tonight?”

“Oh sure.”

“Also do you mind if I go out today?”

“Are you going to Rarity’s again?”

“Rarity? Why would I go over there?” I bit my lip, Fluttershy had said something about me liking her, of course, we probably were dating or something, but wait, that doesn’t make any sense. Why would a pony date a baby dragon?

“You always go over and help her.”

“Oh, yeah, sorry must have slipped my mind.”

“Wait, then where were you going?”

“I was thinking of going gem hunting. I realized that I don’t have any gems to eat, and I should go collect some.”

“Ask Rarity, her talent is finding them, I’m sure she’ll have a few spare to give you, I mean you always help her out.”

“I will then.” Ohhhhhh, so that’s why this Spike was always around a pony, they weren’t simply dating. I took the plates into the kitchen and started washing them. This Spike must have been getting paid to help her or something, that’s probably why there were no scent of gems anywhere in the library.

I finished and went outside looking around. I hoped dearly that she lived in the same home as in my world, her younger sister was a fashionista in my world, so they lived in an odd house. I only fell for my Rarity because she was extreme smart and shy. I couldn’t resist her, she was just, well a sheep. I went up and knocked on a rather nice house.

“Come in!” Her voice shouted. “Welcome to.” She paused seeing it was me that was entering. “Oh Spike, it’s good to see you, come in, you know you don’t have to knock.”

“Thank you.” I walked inside and she went over to a sewing machine. I sniffed the air, she had no gems here, wait. I was now confused. “Um Rarity, tell me, um do I ever keep gems here or anything?”

“Gems? No, you only come over to help me, are you alright?”

“Yeah, it’s just, I have a bit of memory loss, and I’m afraid to tell Twilight.”

“Oh my.”

“Do you know where I can find gems? They actually help me a lot, they can heal a dragon to.”

“Really, I did not know that, but I’m sorry dear, I don’t have any on hoof.”

“Thanks then.” I turned and opened the door.

“Wait, are you leaving?” I looked at her, she had a longing expression, by god she was actually in love with a baby dragon! This was even sick, even in my world. I swallowed a little nervous.

“Yeah, I have somewhere else I need to be, but thanks.” I walked outside and started running. What is wrong with this world? First I think it’s pure, then out of the blue they pull something like this?!

I stopped on a hill after traveling for a while and looked around, then up not seeing anyone. I dug a hole into the ground and blew purple fire into it. Gems popped up all around me, hundreds of them. I went around collecting them and sticking them in a pile.

“Whoa Spike!” I turned to Rainbow Dash as she landed next to me.

“Oh hi.”

“That’s a ton of gems, where’s Rarity?” I eyed her, was it normal for a baby dragon and a pony to be lovers?

“Um, I don’t know, I think at home.” Or was Rarity somehow my owner? Did Twilight sell me or something? But then why would she have me live with her? This world made absolutely no sense!

“Really, then where did all these gems come from?”

“I collected them, I’m a dragon, I collect gems and eat them.”

“Yeah I know that,” she scoffed. “I just mean you have a lot of them, you couldn’t have found them on your own.”

“Am I a cripple or something.” She gave me an odd look.

“What, no I didn’t say that.”

“Why wouldn’t I be able to find this many gems? Am I a retard?”

“I, um, there’s a lot here.” She looked around a little nervous seeing no holes in the ground. “Some of these are really big you couldn’t carry them.” She said quickly.

“Rainbow Dash, I’m a dragon.” I walked over and picked up one half my size. “I can pick up any gem my size.” Her jaw dropped. “You are acting really weird, but how am I going to get these back home?”

“Wait, you seriously found these?”

“Yeah?” First no magic, then dating, and now this? Just how weak was this Spike? He had no excuse.

“Oh, well I can get you a cart, but I don’t know anyone that will want to pull it.” I chuckled a little.

“I'll pull it.” She flew off and came back a few minutes later with a large cart.

“Well I'll see you later.” She sped off and I chuckled a little, she was just saying a little dragon was too weak, and then she sped off without even asking if I needed help. I had a feeling she didn’t want to work. I looked around after filling the cart and then went through them making piles and blowing fire merging gems together to make big ones. I didn’t want small ones just falling out all over the place.

I started pulling the cart, eating a few and getting a bunch of energy. I smiled as I went back to the library. I opened the door and Twilight’s eyes went wide seeing me with a gem twice my size, she dropped a quill. I went over to an empty closet and filled it with my find.

“Wow.” Twilight said coming over to me. I looked at her as I put the last one inside, it was too full to close completely.

“What’s wrong?”

“Rarity gave you all these gems, these are huge!”

“What, no she didn’t have any, so I went and found them.” She stared at me making me a little nervous.

“But you were only gone for twenty minutes!”

“Am I a dragon? Or do I just look that way?”

“No you’re a dragon, I don’t understand.”

“Dragons eat gems right?”

“Yes.”

“Well, we have to be able to find gems, I can smell them, the bigger they are the easier it is to smell them. Why are you acting so weird, even Rainbow Dash was weird.” I wanted to ask, but I didn’t know if I wanted to know the answer. “Also does Rarity own me or something?” She looked at me a bit confused.

“Own you? No one owns your Spike, wait did Rarity tell you that she owned you or something?” She asked serious.

“No, I was just wondering, gosh, critical much?”

“Oh, no I didn’t mean it like that.”

“Anyway, what are you going to do today?” I asked and she eyed me for a few seconds making me nervous. I had absolutely no clue what was normal or not. “I am your assistant aren’t I?”

“Owlicious has it covered, I’m just working on a spell is all.” An owl landed on a stick and I eyed it for a few seconds. “And don’t you start again, I know how you two like to fight with each other.” This Spike fought with an OWL! He couldn’t lift gems even half his size, not only that he couldn’t find gems, he was pathetic. If I ever got the chance to meet him I was going to slap him till the flesh fell off his cheeks.

“Oh, okay.” I took off the bandages and she stopped.

“What happen to your wounds?”

“Gems heal dragons, what is up with you, you are my mother and you don’t know a simple thing like that? Do you not care for me?”

“Not care, I care for you.” She said quickly moving a bit closer to me.

“No, not as in you care for me, like you feel for me, but as in you take care of me as your baby dragon.”

“I take care of you, I just don’t know everything about dragons. It’s not like we talk to that many dragons. There aren’t any books about them either.”

“Yeah there is.” I walked over to the book shelf and pulled out a book named dragons 101. I handed it to her and she looked at it for a few seconds.

“I’ve never seen this book before.” I rolled my eyes, of course you didn’t! I just made it with my magic.

“I figured.” She took it over to the table and opened it, she started reading it and looked at me as I walked over to her. “Anyway, that will have everything you need to know about dragons, I thought you had read it.”

“No Spike, I didn’t even think this book existed, I looked even in the royal library when I was younger, there was nothing to even suggest it existed. Also who is Epiks Rvre Elkraps? I’ve never heard of them.”

“I don’t know, I never looked it up.” I paused seeing her notes. This spell was old, one of the firsts of my Twilight over four hundred years ago. “Also you got this all wrong.” She looked at me with a, what do you know, look. “Look here and here.” I pointed at her notes. “You need to switch that and then add this.” I wrote down a symbol and her eyes went wide.

“SPIKE!” She shouted standing up, making flinch at her sudden outburst. “You did it, that will, that will work perfectly, I’ve spent a week on that spell!”

“Really?” I said with unbelief. “I mean wow, cool.” I chuckled nervously and she eyed me for a moment.

“Yeah,” she narrowed. “It took me a week for that one spell, and in five seconds you figure it out.” She turned to me and I got off of the chair backing up. “Something’s wrong and I don’t know what it is. My Spike wouldn’t know that symbol let alone be able to understand magic and rewrite it. You start calling me mom and start finding huge gems.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I backed into the wall. While I wanted to kill her, and I had no fear. I didn’t have all the information I needed yet, this world was just too dangerous to let anyone know yet, especially an alicorn which knows this world’s Celestia and Luna, and is clearly powerful.

“Tell me right now who you are.”

“I’m Spike.”

“You’re lying.”

“Really, or is it that your mad that I figured out the spell and you couldn’t?” She frowned more, and I swallowed. “Someone’s at the door.”

“Nice try but no.” She paused hearing a knock. “We are not done, after I answer that you are talking.” I smiled a little bit. She went to the door and I ran for an open window, I jumpped. I floated in the air being held by magic. I looked at Twilight, her horn was glowing. Rarity was at the door looking around a bit confused.

“Is everything alright Twilight?”

“Spike was just about to tell me something.” I held up a gem.

“Twilight did you know gems can absorb magic?” I touched it to my forehead falling onto a table. I flipped it into my mouth eating it. “Of course you do now, if you read that book, you would know that dragons are also naturally resistant to magic because of gems, and I ate a lot of them.”

“Get over here!” She ran at me and I jumped out the window falling into a bush. I climbed out to see Twilight in front of me. Rarity came over. Twilight picked me up with her magic taking me back inside.

“Rarity help me!” I pled. “Twilight is going to do something bad to me!”

“Now Twilight, what did he do wrong?”

“He’s hiding something from me, he’s not acting like Spike at all. Doesn’t something feel off to you?”

“Why yes it does actually, he came over earlier and asked me about gems, when I told him I didn’t have any, he ran off. He literally ran out of my home and disappeared. I don’t know why he was after gems.”

“Well he brought home a ton of them.” The closet door opened and a few large ones floated out. Rarities eyes went huge and she ran over looking inside.

“OH MY GOSH!!!” She screeched like a banshee making me cover my ears. “These are massive! I’ve never seen gems so large, these are absolutely impressive!”

“Yeah he.”

“Spike where did you find them?!” Twilight rolled her eyes.

“I can smell gems, what is it with you ponies and.” I paused closing my mouth. I whimpered as best as I could, but it sounded even fake to them. “I mean what is up with you both and, um, not knowing about dragons?” I asked even though it was meant to be a statement.

“Who are you?” Twilight asked shaking me a little.

“Rarity I'll give you three of the big ones if you save me.” She gasped looking at them then at Twilight. She sighed and walked over to me.

“Please Twilight let me save him.” She pouted.

“No, I want to know who this is, this isn’t my Spike.”

“Please Rarity she’s been having me call her mom! Ask Pinkie Pie, she’ll tell you.” I knew the second I said it I shouldn’t have. Both of their jaws went down. This Spike apparently never got away with anything.

“Spike you were the one that wanted to call me mom!” Twilight said harshly. “I don’t know what you’re trying to pull, but my Spike would never say that! Who are you and what have you done with him?!” I sighed.

“I can’t stand it anymore.” I growled and Twilight’s magic stopped, she shook her head a little. “I swear just how boneless was this Spike?” Both of them stared at me shocked. “I’m Spike from another world okay!” I growled.

“I knew it.” Twilight said.

“My Twilight was trying to kill me and somehow I was sent here to this world. I don’t belong here and have been trying to find a way to get back my real body. Your magic is sad so I realized you guys couldn’t help me, being probably a good few hundred years behind me.”

“Wait what?” Rarity asked.

“So you’re not our spike, where is our Spike?” Twilight asked.

“Probably in my world, and probably dead. I held the last of the resistance against my Twilight before she finally found my main base. She, well, I think she roasted my old body, I probably wouldn’t have survived it, but I tried to negate her magic. I somehow ended up in this world and, here we are.”

“But you called me mother.”

“Yeah, and that Twilight raised me as well, you reminded me of her early years, she was really nice, well before she started killing every pony. Man the things she did.” I chuckled. “But that isn’t, important.”

“Wait you can do magic?” Rarity asked.

“Ah yeah.” I held up my hand and a blue flame appeared. “It’s not hard to do, but, yeah so now you know. You aren’t going to kill me or anything, right?”

“I should get Celestia.” Twilight said as she realized fully what I told her.

“Wait.” They looked at me. “I, um, are you sure? I mean is, is she nice?”

“Why wouldn’t she be nice dear?” Rarity asked.

“I, well, in my world, Celestia was kind of.” I let out a breath. “Well my master, she would often used me, I’m still scared of her.” I lied, oh there was a time that was true, but that ended quickly.

“Oh dear.”

“That’s, are you, is there any chance Spike is alive?” Twilight asked panicked.

“I, I wouldn’t know for sure, but our time lines are on the same course. If her spell worked, then well he’s dead, and opening any kind of portal would be impossible for me. Also if the same thing happen to anyone which went between worlds, then we might get their Twilight or Celestia, and, I don’t have to tell you how bad that would be.”

“We have to save our Spike!” Twilight said a little unreasonable. This lie was going to take some weaving to do properly, I wouldn’t be able to let on Spike was even a little bit alive, and I would have to complete crush any chance to save him. My fun wasn’t over yet. “Come on we’ll all go see Celestia!” We all teleported.