Apocalypse's brief return/ A.J's release
Applejack was in her room on her bed crying in sorrow and regret at what she just said, she didn't mean it but still she said it. she was so busy crying she didn't see Spike standing there in the shadows of her room.
"Why did ah say that?" Applejack sobbed "why?" she said.
"ha ha you know you really had me fooled" Spike said knowing his presence. Applejack looked with surprise and saw his eyes glowing in the shadows, Spike then walked out revealing his presence. he had a humourous smirk but from the look in his eyes he was far from pleased.
"to think you had feelings for me, heh" Spike said.
"you heard us" Applejack asked getting rid of her tears.
"I heard enough" Spike said with fake humor "it's funny to know how wrong you can be about somepony when you think you know them, wouldn't you agree?" he said loosing his smirk
"How much did yew hear?" Applejack asked with worry.
"Every single accursed word" Spike said normally but his voice grew grim with restrained anger.
"Yew eavesdropped?" Applejack gaped.
"You never wanted to love me did you?" Spike hissed "you just were stalling that you soften me up I would free you" he brow furrowed with fury at the the heat that was rising within him.
"No thats not what ah meant to say" Applejack tried.
"I should've known you would never care, you knew I would let your friends here on your birthday so they could take you with them, is that It?" Spike demanded with fury, Applejack quickly grew frightened at his growing anger.
"Spike thats not true" Applejack insisted.
"If you had feelings for me for real, then you wouldn't have said "I don't love him" and would've ignored Cadance and Twilight" Spike snarled "But you didn't I'm starting to have second thoughts about making the demands" he hissed as his eyes slitted but went back to normal shaped.
"You took to be my bride because all you cared about was about those filthy mutts you call friends" Spike snarled.
"What choice did I have yew were going to kill the princesses and dozens of ponies" Applejack said getting off the bed but stayed away from him.
Spike stepped back with disbelief and his glare increased as a low and deep growl escaped his gritted teeth inside his mouth "You really thought I was going to kill innocent ponies and the princesses?" he said with shocked anger "Shining and Cadance are Flurry Hearts parents, you think I would want her to feel what I felt when Celestia killed mine, thats low even for me" Spike hissed.
"but you had spikes almost impaling them and were about to bring the castle down" Applejack said.
"I Was bluffing" Spike shouted as Applejack backed up and sat on the edge of her bed, then Spike thought of something that really got him steamed "you thought I was going to turn into that dragon you saw in your nightmares if you didn't say yes" he said "You think I would kill millions of innocent ponies, that is even further from evil that's just demented" he spat "You think Thorax would want me to do those things" he demanded.
"Spike I'm sorry" Applejack sniffed.
"I thought you were different from them, I was blind by my own feelings from the truth" Spike said.
"Spike please let me'h explain" Applejack pleaded at first she thought he wouldn't but with a low hiss he backed up a step.
"Talk" Spike hissed.
"I said those things because my emotions were spiraling out of control and I panicked" Applejack said "ah didn't know could hear that good" she said.
"Does that make it okay" Spike demanded.
"no it was uncalled for but you shouldn't have eavesdropped" Applejack said.
"So you don't feel like your stuck with me" Spike hissed "you don't think of me as some sort of demon?" he said.
"Lord of Faust no" Applejack spoke.
"So you do want to marry me on Saturday" Spike demanded.
Applejack thought since Spike was starting to become hard as stone again "No" she said.
Spike stepped back hurt and angry and turned away from her "Look I still care for yew" Applejack spoke.
"but you don't love me" Spike frowned.
"no" Applejack said.
"No, but why would you" Spike hissed "How can you or any pony ever love a monstrous and hideous beast like me" he spat.
"Spike?" Applejack spoke.
"after all I've done for you you still don't love me" Spike said with his anger growing again "But guess what?" he said then his eyes narrowed as a horrible thought came from darkest part of his mind, before turning sharply back to her sticking out a clawdhand and lifted Applejack up by controlling the metal of the necklace up to his face where his angry but hurt eyes bored into Applejacks, she opened her eyes with sorry as she saw the hurt in his eyes.
"You don't have a choice now" Spike said as the hurt vanished and just fury.
"Spike please" Applejack said with tears falling.
Spike then looked into her eyes as his eyes glowed a pale green as her did the same and he lowered her to the ground.
"Forget about your so called friends" Spike told her "They will always hold you back, make you own choices" he said.
"I see it now" Applejack replied.
"See your friends the way I see them, nothing but a bunch of traitorous liars" Spike said.
"They are the real enemy not yew Spike" Applejack spoke.
"the only thing I need is standing infront of me" Spike said.
"the only one ah need is standing infront of me'h" Applejack replied.
"Thats better" Spike smirked wickedly as his eyes turned normal but Applejack's remained pale green.
The Twilight and Rainbow were were heading down the hall to talk to Applejack, Discord had gone outside with Fluttershy cooling off since Rarity called him hideous.
"I feel bad to make A.J cry" Rainbow said "She has a heck of a righthook" she said, then went ahead then heard voices, it was Spike and Applejack but something seemed off.
Rainbow glared and burst in seeing Spike had somehow hypnotized A.J to say yes "I knew you never changed" she hissed.
"You mind?" Spike frowned.
"your going to pay" Rainbow charged at full speed, Spike glared and made a wall of rocks sprout from the ground in front of the Pegasus which broke into pieces.
you should know by now never to charge blindly" Spike frowned as he made a blindfold appear around her eyes, then he blast her into a wall with a mystic blast.
"Whats going on?" Twilight demanded.
Applejack turned to Twilight, she gasped her eyes were pale green "Twilight go away and never come back your not welcome here" Applejack spoke.
"What did you do?" Twilight hissed.
"Oh nothing really just giving A.J a new perspective" Spike replied simply "Isn't that right honey?" he said.
"you and the others are the real enemy" Applejack said.
"you really did it this time, manipulating my friend to love you" Twilight hissed.
"wouldn't happen if you were never here" Spike glared, then Twilight's horn glowed "Really?, you know i'm too strong" he said.
"Doesn't mean you cant be hurt" Twilight hissed.
But then Spike blast her with magic removing her horn and put dear antlers on her head then made a gesture making it grow bigger than her and she fell forward from the weight.'
"Oh that is funny" Spike said before he picked her put by an antler and kicked her out into the party table. Then Spike walked out with Applejack following.
the others were talking when Twilight flew through the air crashing into the party table destroying it.
"What in the world?" Shining said
Spike then walked with a cold smirk and grim look You will pay for that" shining hollower'ed at charged and swung with a hoof Spike caught it easily.
"Oh you want to box?" Spike said coldly "Okay" he smiled wickedly, then he made a chunk of rock break from the floor and cover his fist and wrist and grew into a giant boxing glove and slammed it into Shining Armor making him flew back and crashing into a wall leaving him in it.
He then made pillars of rock break through the ground which formed hands grabbing Cadance and Starlight holding the hard against the wall.
He then glared death at Rarity "So Rarity you want to see how beast like I can be?" Spike hissed then tapped into his Ultra Mystic form and grab Rarity and threw her up at the ceiling crashing through the first ceiling and slamming into the crystal chandelier smashing and fell back down but Spike made a water grab her and hold her against the wall then turned it into ice, he returned back to his normal size and form.
"The Apocalypse has returned" Spike said then laughed evilly
"Whuahahaahaaaaa!, how I missed this" Spike grinned savagely
Discord was out with Fluttershy calming down "how dare she call me and Spike hideous" he huffed.
"let it go Discord, she was just mad" Fluttershy said then screams were heard from the castle.
"What the" Discord said as he and Fluttershy ran to the castle.
they returned and gasp as the saw Spike had revert back to evil "I'm not done yet" Rainbow said flying at Spike with rage, Spike caught her with a mystic energy grasp.
"your too hot headed, chill out" Spike said as he blast Rainbow with a blast of ice water pinning her on the ground, then he made the ground around Twilight opened up and trapped her to the chest down.
"Oh hello Discord and Fluttershy" Spike smirked "I'm back" he said. Applejack was standing there frozen.
"Applejack are you okay?" Fluttershy asked the mare looked at her and Fluttershy gasp at her eyes.
"Better since ah see clearly, that your not my friends" Applejack said.
"What have you done?" Discord eyes widened.
"oh nothing really" Spike told him "Just made her see the world the way I see it" he said.
"she will never love you now" Discord said "Take it from me a creature he as done that in the past, she will just turn you down"
"Wouldn't come to this if she didn't listen to their poisonous words" Spike hissed turning to glare at the others with hate that had returned.
"You can't make a pony fall for you" Fluttershy said.
"I'm the Apocalypse I can do what ever I want, and what I want I get and if I don't I take" Spike hissed.
"this is low even for you" Shining armor said charging, Spike stuck out a hand and the pony ran into his hand getting bounced back into a wall and limbs grew from the it trapping him, then another wrapped around his neck which Spike made constrict hard enough to render Shining unconsious and released him.
"Hey Pinkie here some cake" Spike said as he made the cake fall on her head then his eyes glowed a pale green as Pinkies did "Better lick it up" .
"Oo cake time" Pinkie said started licking it like a cat.
"Ahhahahhaa ahhahhaw!" Spike laughed wickedly as he stopped the trick he played on her.
Pinkie just stood there stunned but shrugged and want back to eating it off the floor.
"Pinkie stop eating cake from the ground" Twilight cried.
"Spike stop this at once" Fluttershy demanded.
"Shut up" Spike hissed with his back turned.
"Trust us this is not the way to have Applejack fall" Discord and Fluttershy said Spike gritted his teeth with fury and growled loudly.
"I SAID SHUT UP!" Spike yelled as he snapped around with glowing solid eyes as the chain of the chandelier of the first ceiling grew longer suddenly and wrapped around Discord and Fluttershy wrapping them around the two and trapping them against the ceiling.
"Thats it" Scootloo hollowered and jumped on Spike banging his head with a hoof.
"Get off!" Spike snapped jerking his body and swat her off with an arm making her fly through the air.
Applejack was standing there frozen but when her pale eyes saw Scootaloo flying, the pale green eyes faded away to reveal her real eyes.
"Scootaloo!" Applejack said and ran and caught her in her forelegs, Spike looked at this with shock "Thats impossible" he said.
Applejack shook her head and looked at Spike "Spike whats going on?" she asked and looked and saw her friends, Discord and Cadance and Shining Armor who was unconscious, trapped with rock and ice and chains.
"What the hay happened" Applejack demanded.
"Oh you see" Spike tried to explain.
"Your awake" Scootaloo said.
"ah was not alseep" Applejack said, then she thought about what happened, Spike's pale glowing eyes then blank, she gasp with disbelief.
"You used one of your powers on me'h" Applejack frowned.
Spike then frowned "well obviously I underestimated your mental strength when there is a pesky chicken in trouble" he said.
"yew said yew would never use them against me'h" Applejack glared.
"This is my castle, I'll do what I want" Spike hissed.
Applejack just looked at him with disappointment "I thought yew changed for the better," she said "But now ah see their right yew are evil as they say and ah was too late"
"no you just lost it when you agreed with your friends about your true feelings" Spike hissed "I gave you a home, got your family's permissions and even had your bloody friends here on your birthday" he said "If I didn't care or love you I wouldn't have done it"
"Yew have a funny way of showing that by manipulating me'h" Applejack glared.
Spike just glared deeper "well how about this then" he said with a grim smirk, then made rope wrap around her and pulled her back into his chair and trapped her backlegs to the chair with some more.
"I'll make it simple say the words or" Spike frowned, then let out a flash of magic and her friends and Discord, Cadance and Shining had recovered trapped with the chandelier chain, the ponies were in normal state, then made sharp spikes from all side and closed in "they die, maybe not Cadance but won't stop me from permanently injuring her or Shining" he said.
"you have 5 seconds to give your answer" Spike frowned "5" he said
Applejack was torn from the choices
"4" Spike said
Applejack looked at Spike who was back to evil with sorry and remorse.
"3" Spike spoke as the spike's got closer to their faces.
"1" Spike said skipping 2 and got ready.
"Wait" Applejack said "i'll, I will marry yew" she spoke.
"You really would do anything to save your friends" Spike frowned, then released her and helped her up.
"Don't you touch her" Twilight and Rainbow snarled as Twilight teleported them all out and blast at Spike.
"i just about had it with you" Spike hissed, Spike dodged the magic blast and grabbed Twilight by the neck with the blink of an eye, then knocked Starlight out of the way and slammed Twilight into the wall cracking it.
"Spike stop" Applejack cried.
Then Rarity tried to pull him off with her hooves but Spike swung with an arm slamming the back of his forearm in her chest knocking her on the ground making he skid into a pillar, then Spike pressed his hand against Twilight's face cracking the wall and held it there, then he then drew his claws on his free hand and held his clawedfingers ready to pierce her and then his claws grew longer by an inch.
"Spike don't" Applejack said her eyes widened and ran forward.
Then Rainbow charged but Spike just slammed a fist in her face sending her crashing into a pillar cracking it, then stopped Cadance and Shining with a blast of mystic energy sending the two into another pillar badly hurt, since the blast was quite large.
Then Spike was ready to strike with his claws "say hello to Chrysalis, in Tartarus" he snarled, with hate and fury contorting his face into a mask of ferociousness started to strike.
"Spike Stop It" Applejack yelled grabbing his arm with both hooves stopping him trying to pull him off, Spike not thinking spun around and slammed a fist in her chest with his claw he held Twilight with, sending the mare flying across the room and slamming hard into a wall with a pained groan.
"'Gasp' Applejack!" Spike he cried with worry as the mask shattered and replaced by horror and panic and zipped up to her, Applejack looked at him with a look that made Spike freeze, it was a look of terror as tears fell from her eyes, it was a look of terror when one looks at a monster.
"Don't look at me like that A.J, I'm sorry I didn't mean" Spike said as he tried to reach to help her up she covered herself and backed against the wall with her eyes closed for once showing great fear towards Spike.
Spike looked at his claws like they belonged to someone else's as tears stung his eyes "What have I done" he said with a whisper.
"Love isn't worth it" Spike frowned as he spoke softly be turned and walked away, then a green glow spread'ed out thought the room repairing the castle in waves and healing the ponies.
Starlight helped Applejack up "Get out" Spike hissed.
"what?" Cadance asked.
"Get out of my castle, now" Spike hissed even louder as his eyes glowed and slitted as he glanced at them.
"fine we never wanted to be here in the first place" Rainbow spat and they fled from the room as the doors magically opened.
"by girls" Applejack said walking to the door waving, then nervously walked up to Spike.
"That goes for you to" Spike said with a soft tone.
"Pardon me'h" Applejack said.
"your wish you wanted" Spike said as he he flicked a glowing clawhand the necklace vanished from Applejacks neck.
"Spike" Applejack said with wide eyes.
"your no longer bound to me" Spike told.
"yer letting me'h go?" Applejack said puzzled.
"Yes it's what you really want, your old life" Spike said "I'll give you the apples now go and never come back" he told her.
"ah don't understand" Applejack said as she put a hoof on his arm, Spike spun around with his face contorting with anger.
"Are you thick headed!?, I SAID GO!" Spike roared as the castle shook, Applejack shook like a leaf at the hurt and furious dragon and ran out with tears falling down.
Spike panted and sighed sadly as he teleported to his tower and watched the ponies leave, his fists clenched as the sky turned black and darkgreen mixed in purple lightning flashed and thunder crashed.
"RAAGGGRAHAA!" Spike roared with anguish as thunder crashed and thunder flashed across his sky, then he slumped and panted.
"goodbye" Spike said softly, then music began to play.
"Devastation and terror is all I know
It's hard to let it go
I wasn't meant to feel or know of friendship
The promises I've made
Were broken with no shame
My evil deeds were done in utter blindness
Heartless
No compassion
Every action
Done with no second thought or ounce of mercy
(Spoken) But...
Her spirit had moved me
Her honesty improved me
Her understanding soul, that's why I loved her
Her passion, her faithful nature
I found my completeness
Oh, how I did love her; she could have loved me too
If I can't have her, then who?
Long ago, I should have foreseen
All the things I could have been
Careless, and unthinking, I took over
No pain could be deeper
No life could be cheaper
No point anymore
If she can't love me
No way would she ever
Share my life with pleasure
I know she cannot have a happy life with me
I could plainly see
From how she looked at me
Let this world be done with me"
When Spike stopped he went back into his castle
Applejack was across the bridge she looked back and saw Spike's land grow dark again, black and darkgreen clouds formed spreading a shadow across his land and darkened the castle and the grass black.
"Goodbye Spike" Applejack sighed.