“Finally some quiet.” A dragon guard said. I looked around, I was in a dungeon ceil, and this one was magically enhanced, my own cell, made just for me, I was honored. Then again, from that single blast I had all the energy I needed to get back to the other world. Getting out of here would be filly play.

“Guard.” I said, my voice echoed entrancing him. “Release me.” He got up opening the door with a key.

“I do not have the key to your chains.” I looked at my shackles and I smiled. I poured some magic inside of them unlocking them. I got up feeling my wrists a little, they had done a number on this body, I just didn’t know what they did.

“No worries.” I walked pass him and his body fell to pieces wetting the floor with his blood. I cracked my neck smiling. Oh it felt good to be back. I went down the hallway and stopped almost hitting a magic barrier. “Whoa, that’s a close one.” I said to myself.

I cut through it opening a hole and passed through it carefully, I didn’t want to alert my old pets. I went up the spiral stair case and to my throne room, then behind my throne. I smiled seeing Twilight, Celestia and Luna sitting at my throne. Oh they were so cute, I just wanted to break their necks.

“AS YOU KNOW SPIKE HAS BEEN DEFEATED!” Twilight’s voice echoed making me almost laugh. “TOGETHER WE WILL BRING UNITY AND PEACE TO THIS LAND, WHICH HAS KNOWN ONLY DEATH AND DESPAIR!”

“Taking a liking my throne?” I asked rubbing Twilight’s cheek and she actually became pale white. “Please finish, I wouldn’t want to interrupt.” I looked out at thousands of my dragon guards which were now panicking.

“Oh no.” She cried as her horn disappeared. I went around and picked her up setting her onto my lap. Celestia and Luna backed away scared.

“You see, I was actually quite surprised, I actually thought you might kill me, and from how my body feels, you did a number on the Spike I switched places with.” I pulled her close digging my claws into her side. “I’m really lucky I planned for this, and left really powerful spells to protect my body from death, and you were pretty close to.”

“Please don’t kill me.” She begged crying.

“Now why would I kill you?” I looked at Celestia and Luna. “Why would I kill them? I mean they didn’t have a part in what you did right?” She shook her head no. “Then I don’t know why they are in my throne room, in fact, I don’t know why anyone, but you and I are in here at all.”

A mass panic filled everyone as they ran out of my throne room. I chuckled a little and kissed her neck.

“What are you going to do with me?” She asked scared.

“How many of my loyal guards are alive?”

“All of them, we didn’t kill anyone.”

“Really, that’s surprising.” I flicked my wrist and three of the dragon guards appeared that had helped her. “Hello you three, now then, I am furious at you, not for betraying me, or for trying to kill you, everyone wants me dead. What I am mad about however, is that you three tried to kill me when I wasn’t dead from Twilight’s spell.”

“Please sire, kill us with mercy!” One of them shouted and I chuckled.

“Really, what do you define mercy as?”

“Without pain.” Another said and I smiled.

“I understand, how about this, I'll give you a chance to redeem yourself, of course you’ll no longer be my guards, and will be released.”

“What?” The last one asked.

“That spell, you see it showed me another world, one untouched by me, or the lich, or any other creature, in fact it was pure. I wanted to do so much, but I didn’t want to spoil that before I came back.”

“What must we do?” Another asked. I threw Twilight down in front of them making them nervous.

“I want you each in a hole, then keep going till she bleeds, then keep going till it’s pours out, I want you to burn her insides each time you finish. Now start, but don’t kill her, I’m far from over with her.” They looked at Twilight and she shook her head no. “Start.” I growled and they grabbed her starting after a minute or two of getting ready.

“NO!” She screamed in pain as her insides ripped from the large dragons.

I chuckled licking my lips. I was probably going to kill her nice and slow, there was no reason to ruin the fun just by slicing her throat. They stopped once they ran out of steam and looked at me.

“Very good.” I clapped and they dropped her, she coughed blood and burnt flesh. She was probably in a lot of pain. Dragons could naturally get their body temperatures to almost molten temperatures. It was like rubbing lava inside of her, after a while she probably went numb on the outside.

“May we go?” One of them asked.

“Yes, you may, but if I ever see you again, hear about you again, I'll hunt each and every one of you down.” They all ran away. “Twilight, Twilight, Twilight, what am I going to do with you, so much to do, so little life left in you.” She couldn’t even speak at this point, her teeth and entire mouth was charred. “Let’s hear you scream.” I snapped my claws and everything from her stomach to her noise heal, letting her let out a beautiful scream.

“Oh, it hurts!” She said with a dry mouth screaming. Such wonderful music, one can hardly imagine letting it stop.

“Really.” I snapped my claws completely healing her and she started to breathe fast, she bit her tongue, but it healed instantly. “Now, now Twilight, no killing yourself, that wouldn’t be very nice!” I kicked her sending her across the room and into the wall crushing every bone in her body but her skull. I snapped my claw again and she healed rolling up into a ball.

“No.” She begged.

“Come now Twilight, do you really think that this will end for you? I can heal you from your head being cut off! You can’t escape.” Tears ran down her face once again. “Now then.” I went down to her holding her face up. “Do you love me?”

“Yes!” She cried. I went over to my throne and sat down.

“Good, now then, come to me.” She got up and walked over to me. “Tell me why, what you did was wrong.”

“I tried to kill you, it was wrong because you’re my master, without you there is no purpose.”

“Very good.” I clapped. “Now come here.” She came over to me. “I want you to tell me everything that happen, from the spell to the time I walked into the throne room, everything this body said and did.”

“After we did the spell, we were scared that you had not died. Then you started to act like, someone else. We tried our best to kill you, everything we could imagine, but nothing worked, and after we beat your guards, we locked you up.”

“Did you tell me anything?”

“What did you mean?”

“Did you tell him I was ruler?” I said flatly.

“No, but what do you mean?”

“Another Spike switched bodies with me, he was from another world, I want to know what information you gave him.”

“We never really had a chance to talk to him, next to the constant trying to kill him, we didn’t really talk all that much. If that was another, another Spike, then, what have we done? We tortured him, did everything evil we could imagine to him. We’re monsters!” I kissed her and rubbed her belly a little bit.

“You did exactly what I thought you would, oh my, how wonderful.”

“What?”

“You see that world’s pure, innocent. I told some heavy lies about you, but you did exactly what I wanted you to do, and now the lie will appear true. So taking over their world will be so much easier now. You’ve just condemned millions of ponies to a fate worse than this world ever knew.”

“What?!” I kissed her again.

“And you want to know what?”

“W-what?”

“You’ll be able to rule this world while I play in that one.” Her eyes opened wide.

“What?” She said unbelieving.

“You passed my final test, for a long time you’ve just, well been a pain. I wanted you as my queen, then we can rule together. I will forever be seen as the evil king, you the savor of the world. Bringing the ponies into a new world order, a good one, one free of the filth that infected this so long ago.”

“Really?” She asked thinking I was lying.

“Yep.” I snapped my claws making the sky clear and blue instead of a gray dark cloud layer. Grass started to grow everywhere turning everything green. I set her down and she followed me as we walked down a long hallway going to a balcony.

“No please.” Tears went down her face seeing the last four thousand two hundred and twenty two ponies left on the planet. My guards surrounded them so they didn’t try to escape from me.

“No you don’t want to rule?”

“Don’t kill them.” She said choking on sobs.

“Do you love me? Do you trust me?” She gasped a little as I pet her.

“Yes.”

“Ponies of Equestria!” I said and my voice echoed. Panic started to build in the confused ponies. “I would like you to meet Twilight Ever Sparkle, from this day on she will rule over you as I have. I have made the ground fertile, giving you back your wings and horns. You may now control the weather, grow food and multiply as you see fit.”

“Sire?” A guard asked.

“Have every guard follow ever last order of Twilight, after today I will no longer be ruler, she will be, she convinced me that this world needs to rebuild.”

“Yes sire.”

“Now Twilight, this will feel really good.” I tapped her forehead and a horn grew out of it making her gasp. “So will this.” I tapped her sides and wings grew out making her bite her hoof not to moan out load, everything was still on the loud speaker.

“But.” I kissed her.

“Rule with light, and ready yourself, for when I return.” I licked her cheek. “I will expect a pure world. Not one which is forged by the evil creatures that no longer exist because of me, I will love you then mother, if you do that for me.” Tears went down her face.

“Please do not let this be a lie.”

“I wouldn’t dream it.” I let go of her and turned walking back to my throne room.

“Sire do you need anything?” I held out a list.

“Everything on that list.” He nodded running off. I sat down on my throne and snapped my claws, Celestia and Luna appeared. Before I left this world I needed to make sure the conditions for me leaving were right, or a delicious plant would not grow in its stead, at least not to my liking.

“Master.” They said bowing scared. I snapped and the black rings on their wings and horns disappeared.

“Good, now then, you are free to do anything you wish, I am leaving this world, but first I need to ensure that it is in good hooves. You two were once evil rulers long ago back before all of this even happen, you made me what I am today. Do you remember?” I asked eyeing them and they looked at me.

“No sire.” Luna said.

“Good, then you do not remember the evil you once were, you will never do anything to Twilight while I’m away, remember it will not be forever, I want a pure world once I get back, and you better have given it light to grow, and rest to sleep. You must take care of this world, is that clear?”

“Yes sire!” They said tears running down their face.

“Very good, now then go join Twilight your new master.” They nodded and ran. I started to laugh as they went out of ear shot. My claws dug into the throne’s arm rest.

This was perfect! Almost too perfect! I could go enjoy myself in another world, then come back after I was done with that one. This world will grow under Twilight, she is powerful, and wise, the ponies couldn’t be in better hooves.

“Sire?” A guard asked.

“What?”

“Well it’ll take a few hours to gather everything on the list.” I sighed. This was going to be a long day. Some dragons set up a portal machine in front of me and Twilight walked back inside pausing.

“Master.” She said carefully.

“Well if it isn’t Princess Twilight.” I chuckled. “It’s nice to see you smiling, you seem pretty happy.”

“Yes, are you really leaving?” She still didn’t believe.

“Once I have all the pieces I will, I don’t know how long, but to you, it’ll be at least a hundred years, maybe more. You right now have all the power you need to grow this world and make it flourish.”

“But you’ll be back.”

“Yes, actually I need to do something before I leave. I'll be right back.”

“I'll be right here waiting then.” Twilight said.

I got up and tapped my foot sending magic into the ground, and the ground under me started lowering. It went down below the surface to a long stone hallway with bad lighting. I got off the platform and the elevator I used went back up. I kept walking getting to my own privet lab.

While I had Twilight create many things, I never had her work on military projects, things which would cause me to get overthrown or killed in my sleep. I looked around at the few bookshelves of dark magic, tools sprawled across one of three tables, and the lighting got better showing stone walls and floors.

“Let’s see here.” I mumbled under my breath as I looked through the books checking what I needed. Unlike any other books these ones were spelled so only I could read them, and see them. To anyone else this room was invisible, the hallway just lead to a dead end with no way out.

I stopped at a book flipping a few pages, stopping at a spell. I picked a loose scale from my arm and tossed it into the air making it disappear. I walked over to another book shelf and pulled out an empty book. I started writing certain spells I would need to remember.

Going back to the other world was going to be painful, it was going to limit my magic massively, and I couldn’t risk forgetting any spell that I would need when I started taking over. I stopped after an hour and stretched, this was quite a bit of work, I had gotten lazy.

“Having fun?” I looked at Twilight for a few seconds.

“Yeah, this isn’t fun yet, you were always the most powerful, I always thought you knew of this place.” She looked around.

“Just some empty bookca, oh.” She paused realizing.

“Don’t have anyone come down here, there are things here only for my eyes. All of the magic that’s ever existed is written here. From the Lich, to the Green Bog, the Bog, to even all of my forsaken spells. Well maybe not all of it, just the important war things.”

“Why are you leaving?” I looked at her for a moment.

“This world is wasted, there’s nothing left for me here, at least not for a long time, you know everything you need. You can grow the land, pony kind will grow. I have business elsewhere that will be more fun.”

“So what, you are just going to come back later and destroy us?” I chuckled.

“If I wanted the world gone, I would have a long time ago.” I kept writing.

“But you were once good. You can be good again.” I paused. “You saved us countless times, even created the elements of order! It’s because of you that everything was not lost to the dead.” I kept writing.

“You have seen what I do, I can’t hold anything without destroying it. This world has turned me into the perfect monster.” I cleared my throat so I didn’t drool at such a pleasant thought. “I enjoy it too much to give it up. Also if you want to really talk to me come down here, I don’t like talking to holograms.” She sighed.

“Fine, I'll be there in a moment.” Twilight was already showing her old self, our past was of more evil than I dared count. The world was long since rotted before I got my claws on it, all I did was clean it up with a bit fire spit polish.

Twilight walked into the room and looked around. She came over to me and put her head onto my shoulder looking down. I kept writing and she nuzzled my neck making me stop and look at her.

“What?”

“I can’t even tell what you’re doing.”

“I know, it’s magic I never taught you, or had you create. I didn’t want you to get even an ounce of this filth in you, you’re still pure in this world, you can cut it, clean it and make it shine so beautifully.” I kissed her.

“You know it’s not your burden.” I chuckled lightly.

“Getting a bit big now that you have a shiny new horn and wings?”

“Well I could beat you now.” I laughed.

“I’d love to see that.” I said chuckling and kept writing.

“Why didn’t you kill me?” She wasn’t going to make this easy.

“I told you, another world awaits.”

“Is the Spike I love in there? Or has he truly been rotted away? I thought before, everything was gone.” She turned my chair around surprising me a little. “But I have realized you have only played around, tortured Rarity, and that’s it since you took over.”

“I’ve done plenty, do not mistake me for good, or ponies will end up like that guard defending my cell.”

“Well you were being held against your will, of course you’re going to be mad and kill him.” I sighed and rubbed my temple a little. “Our history is weird, you, you never did that much. In fact we haven’t had any war for almost three hundred years.”

“Twilight what are you saying?”

“I want you to become good again, like when you beat the Lich, or Flutter- birdie and her horde of magic crazied ponies, or any of the creatures. Or like when you helped create the elements of order.”

“Twilight, you know those days are over, and long forgotten, we are no longer at war, I’m not needed for anything like that. You need to leader, not conqueror, now let me get back to my work.”

“Please, become our, my hero again. I know I accidentally hatched you into this rotten world, but please come back. The evil is gone, you washed the filth away.”

“No, I’m still here.” I felt her face. “I want to snap your neck so badly right now, and just rip into your belly, but I can’t because you’ll create something, soooo much better than this.” I kissed her cheek. “But I have another world to burn.” I turned around and she stepped back as I started writing again.

“Spike please, I know you haven’t forgotten, you never forget, nothing, every word, every action.” I stopped looking at the page.

“I remember those days, those days of blood, and tears. I remember when we overthrew Luna from burning the world, and how Celestia corrupted her from the shadows. We finally freed pony kind from their shackles, it felt so great to finally no longer be their slave.”

“We can do it again, you and I.”

“But I also remember the feeling of ripping open ponies, those foolish ponies, they just had to defy me.”

“Spike, they had tried to kill you.” I chuckled and kept writing.

“Be that as it may, I want something pure to sink my teeth into, and this new world will be just perfect for me. I'll be able to get my fill, I'll be able to, to, do so much.” I wiped my mouth a little bit and pulled another book from a shelf.

“Spike.”

“Don’t you have pony kind to rule or something? I’m expecting something wonderful to really sink my teeth into once I get back.”

“Yes Spike.” I stopped hearing a tear hit the floor. She ran back down the hallway, and I shivered a little bit. My heart burned a little, but then again it was probably from not having anything to eat for a while.

I got up after I finished, I shrunk the book down and put it into a dimension pocket on my arm under a scale, then I went up to the throne room. Guards lined the walls and Celestia, Luna were to the right and left of the portal. Twilight looked at me trying her best not to cry for some reason. I went up to her and felt her cheek.

“Spike I’m banishing you.” I paused and chuckled a little bit. “You are no longer ruler and you have to leave, never to come back.”

“Please don’t patronize me.” I kissed her and a tear escaped from her eye. “As if you could banish me, mother.” I walked passed her and went to the portal pressing my hands to either side of it pouring magic into it that Twilight had given me.

“You are not allowed to return.” Twilight said and I smiled. The portal opened showing a black vortex.

“I'll be back.” I smile at Twilight. “Remember that, spread the word, I'll be back, and if this world isn’t as I want.” I looked at Twilight as I changed into a baby dragon form spreading my wings. “I'll conquer you all again till it’s pure.”

“Leave!” Tears ran down Twilights face as she shot me with magic sending me through the portal.