Spike sat down with the news comic from Marevel, and the cover art got him excited alone, a dragon super hero, something that Spike always wanted to see, clad in red and blue, with a pony hanging from his claws he was swinging in between the buildings of Maretropolis on a strand of webbing.
Spider-Drake! It enthralled the small purple dragon, as he open the first page Spike noticed something instantly. This dragon looked a lot like him, only colour swapped, with green scales and a purple underbelly. And wore glasses?
"Ok, this is goanna be a strange read" Spike said aloud, as the comic book veteran entered a new world of comic books, the one of rivalry and a drake fitting into a pony run game.
-Maretropolis-
Pyro Pacer looked at the magic enhancing machine Professor Prosthesis had just finished, he was experimenting on spiders at the moment to see if it could increase the magic of the spider, for the development of cheaper silks, the drake lab assistant looked at the professor.
"Ready to go?" asked the white unicorn in a lab coat, "Sure thing Prof" came the reply, as the machine charged up, the professor let a spider into the control road of the machine. With an almost blinding light the magic filtered through the tube.
"Pyro keep the magic at a stable level, don`t risk the fluctuation" said the professor looking at the read outs, the drake did as he was told. Or he would have if given the chance.
A certain green haired lunatic exploded through the wall, knocking the machine over and it landed straight on Professor's arm, and the containment tube landed on Pyro. The spider held in the tube landed on the drake's ear, with a sharp bite of the magically enhanced spider and the pure magic coursing over the dragon, he began to lift the machine up.
The Mane-iac laugh echoed as she held something in her mane, Pyro looked up, still trapped under the machine. The un-responding body of Professor Prosthesis, with blood pooring from his arm. She cackled.
"See you later Power Ponies!" with that she dropped the professor out the window.
Pyro scrabbled to the window, completely unaware that his glasses were no longer on his face, he looked out of the window, he looked at the street to find Professor Prosthesis laying in the arms of Saddle Rager, with one of his arms covered by the ponies massive build.
Pyro stood in the hall way of the hospital with the prof`s wife and kid. A doctor came out with a frown upon his face. "Is he alright?" asked the profs wife. "Yes Miss Prosthesis, your husband is fine, only we had to remove his arms as a result of the fall"
"You may see him now" said the doctor, as the family members entered Pyro waited outside. 'I`ll wait outside, I`ll go in later' after about 10 minutes Pyro entered. The professor had a small smile on his face. "So how did the experiment go then?"
"I got beaten in the ear" came Pyro`s reply, he rubbed it as it was still sore slightly, the prof laughed slightly. "Ok so, I need to work on the protection then?" Pyro rolled his eyes slightly, "Anyway, thanks for the help in first aid department, only bad thing about the power ponies no hands" stated the professor waving his only hoof in the air.
-Ponyville-
"Wow, this story is dark, none of the super powered ponies have any limb loss in them mind you, Hum Dum`s new backstory and actual usefulness does have to do with that, maybe?" he thought to himself "So when does Pyro get his spider powers?"
Flipping through the book slightly, as much as he liked the character, mindless and boring conversation still bored him. Find a page he found something weird.
"He made the suit for his own gain?" he looked at Spider-Drake fought a Minotaur heavy weight wrestler, flipping through more he found a thief stealing form the pony supposed to be giving the drake his money replying to the wrathful money shark "Hey I beat the guy and you didn`t pay me, I don`t care if you get robbed, you robbed me" as he walks off.
Spike looked shocked "The only dragon super hero and he`s greedy? Great!" he said, flipping to the next page. He blinked in surprise, the unicorn that robbed the place was blasting an old pony, an old pony he`d seen before, Pyro adopted Uncle, Fishing Bass.
-Maretropolis-
Pyro lay with his adopted uncle in his arms, he was dying due to a magic blast, form a thief, he looked distort "Please come on! Please don`t die on me!" all of the ambulance workers pulled him way, with them rushing the old pony to the hospital.
Pyro looked heartbroken as he sat in the hospital for the second time this week, only this time he lay in complete distress, he`s uncle had died and it was all his fault, he looked through the window to his aunt, she lay crying on the bed side. The dragon face seem to shift to wrathful he left the hospital.
And left for an ally way, were his mask was, he put it on and began looking for his uncles killer, with his red and blue costume only slightly ripping in the breeze, his large white lens like eyes seemed to harden, as the webbing coming from his home made contraptions flung him along. With a massive leap he landed on a build, the one opposite it was surrounded by police cars.
Leaping through a window Spider-Drake landed on his feet, instantly webbing his uncle's murderer to the wall. The pony stammered slightly. "Hey let me go!" Spider-Drake just glared, he`s voice echoed slightly "Did you let that pony you shot go?" he grabbed the pony by the neck and gave a cold glare for a split second.
"That would make me as bad as you" he left the mugger stuck to the wall and jumped out of the back and into the night.
Pyro uncles voice seem to echo in his head, a phase he said a lot 'With great power come, great responsibility' His eyes hardened, he looked for any other criminals for the whole night, he always wanted to help others now he could make Maretropolis a better place.
-Ponyville-
Spike smiled slightly, "So he`s a street level super hero, wonder what his first villain will be?" The small purple drake looked at the book for a moment, he smiled "I wonder if this`ll be a big hit, his is kinder like the opposite of the Power Ponies, well I wonder if they`ll do another non-pony super hero? A Griffin maybe?"
"I just hope that…" he looked at the author for the comic, Twilight Velvet… "Twilight!" he said running for the princess of Friendship.