Friends and Family Part 1

A few weeks later after the incident with Lyra and Bon Bon, the mane 6, Spike and Neo went out to watch the dragon migration. The ponies came dressed in camouflage clothes, but Rarity just had to come in a fancy dress, which the other ponies and Neo thought was kind of weird.

They looked up and saw the dragons flying over them, they watched the dragons from inside a trench.

As Spike watched the dragons, he wondered what it would be like to be like them. The ponies, especially Rarity teased him about how cute he was, which made Spike mad because dragons aren't supposed to be cute. Then Spike walked off angrily back to the library while Neo and the ponies watched the rest of the dragon migration, although Neo felt bad to see Spike like that.

Later that night, Spike couldn't sleep, he was thinking about where he came from and his purpose in life as a dragon. Twilight and Neo couldn't sleep as well because Spike was keeping them up, they decided to do searches about dragons for Spike.

Twilight looked through books and Neo searched on the internet on his IPad. They searched for hours, but found nothing, there was nothing in the books about dragons and the only information Neo found on the internet was that dragons are mythological creatures and don't exist in the real world (which is true).

The next day, Rarity and Rainbow Dash came to the library. They wanted to hang out with Neo, Twilight and Spike, but Spike wasn't interested, he wanted to go on a quest and find out what it means to be a dragon.

Neo and the ponies tried to talk him out of it, but Spike didn't listen. In the end, Twilight encouraged Spike to go.

Neo and the ponies waved goodbye to Spike and wished him luck as they watched him walk off. When Spike was out of sight, they decided that they were going to follow him.

It took Spike 2 days to get to the area where all the dragons were, which was on top of a volcano. When Spike got there, the other dragons ridiculed him for several things, including that he was really small, he was from Ponyville and he had no wings.

During the ridicule, Twilight, Rarity and Rainbow Dash showed up disguised in a dragon costume that Rarity had made, just wanting to watch Spike because they cared about him. Neo was off hiding somewhere watching Spike through camera, and he couldn't stand seeing Spike get ridiculed by the dragons. Neo wanted to defend Spike, but now wasn't the right time for it and he knew that.

The dragons challenged Spike to prove to them that he was a real dragon. They started with a belching contest, but when Spike tried it, he just belched out a letter from Princess Celestia.

A dragon read the letter and said, "Ha! Get this, guys! Spike's pen-pals with a namby-pamby pony princess."

That made Neo and Twilight mad, Rainbow Dash tried to calm down Twilight but she saw no reason for anypony, or dragon to disrespect Princess Celestia, and Neo really wanted to beat up that dragon. Princess Celestia was like a mother to him and he wouldn't stand for anypony disrespecting her or ridiculing her, but he couldn't do anything just yet.

Then the dragons challenged Spike to other things. Spike tail wrestled the dragon that the ponies were disguised in, but Spike won without revealing that they were actually ponies. Spike got a little cocky, but the dragons wanted Spike to keep proving that he was a dragon, so they did a king of the hoard contest where they climbed a mountain of gemstones and the one standing directly on top is the winner. Spike did pretty well on that one, until he fell off the top while shouting, "KING OF THE HOARD." Since Spike fell off, the dragon named Garble considered it a failure.

Then the dragons went diving in lava and whoever made the biggest lava splash won. When Spike dove, he landed flat on his belly when he hit the lava. The dragons were actually impressed by that, they were starting to think that he was a real dragon.

So Spike continued to hang out with the dragons and they wanted to keep teaching Spike about being a dragon. Spike said he wanted to hang out with them for life, which made Neo and the ponies sad. Twilight felt really bad because she encouraged Spike to go. Neo hated seeing Spike hanging out with the dragons, Spike was like a brother to him and these dragons were punks, he knew that they would be a bad influence on Spike.

Then the dragon named Garble decided to go on a dragon raid, he wanted to go swipe some phoenix eggs. So garble and 2 other dragons flew off, one of them carried Spike away since he couldn't fly. Neo and the ponies followed them.

The dragons told Spike to lure the phoenix parents away from the eggs so they could swipe them, Spike lured the parents away. When the dragons got to the nest, the eggs hatched, but Garble wanted to swipe them anyway, but the phoenix babies got away from the dragons very easily.

When Spike met back up with the dragons, Spike managed to steal some of the phoenix eggs, the dragons told Spike to smash the egg, but Spike felt bad about doing that, it was just a defenseless egg. So Spike stood up to the dragons, Garble got angry, but before he could do anything, Twilight, Rarity and Rainbow Dash came out from behind them in the dragon costume. They threw off the costume and were ready to defend Spike.

"Nopony's gonna lay a claw on him!" shouted Rainbow Dash.

"That's right," said Twilight.

"Fighting's not really my thing, I'm more into fashion." Rarity said, brushing her hoof across her mane. "But I'll rip you to pieces if you touch one scale on his cute little head!"

The dragons laughed and said, "Ooh, scary, hehe! Spike, are these namby-pamby ponies your friend?"

"Yes, they are." Spike said in a proud tone. "And they're better friends than you could ever be. Now, if you don't back off, you'll see what us ponies do when confronted by a huge group of jerky dragons"

"Yeah, you stay away from my little brother," said a voice from behind them.

They looked back and saw Neo coming, he was pointing a taser gun at the dragons. The dragons stared at Neo, they had never seen a human before.

"And what are you supposed to be?" Garble said in a sarcastic tone.

"I'm your worst nightmare dickhead." Neo replied. "And if you know what's good for you, you had better back the fuck up and leave my little brother alone." The ponies and Spike gasped at Neo's language.

Garble got mad and said, "What did you say to me?"

"You heard what I said. Now back the fuck off, or you're gonna get it."

"Ohh, what are you gonna do?" Garble said, ridiculing Neo.

Suddenly, Neo discharged his taser gun. The prongs went into Garble and Neo tased him with 5000 volts. Garble fell to the ground in pain as Neo tased him. The red dragon growled in pain.

"I told you asshole," said Neo.

The ponies and Spike were amazed. Garble tried to get up, but he was too hurt to move, the taser had badly hurt him.

The other 2 dragons tried to get Neo but Neo quickly pulled out a hand taser. He lit it up in front of them and said, "You jerks take more step, you'll be pissing lighting bolts till next week."

The 2 dragons backed up, not wanting to get tased. Then Garble stood up, ready to fight.

"Alright guys, let's get him."

The ponies and Spike were scared now.

Neo made a cocky look, "I wouldn't do that if I were you."

"Oh yeah," said Garble. "You can't possibly fight all 3 of us."

"Oh yeah, that's what you think."

But before the dragons could do anything, Neo turned into a dragon (like Liu Kang's animality). The dragons, ponies and Spike were amazed by his transformation. Neo growled at the dragons and shot fire at them, the dragons were now burned. The dragons ran off like a bat out of hell, screaming in fear and in pain.

When they were gone, Neo changed back to himself and said, "That'll show them. As long as I'm around, nopony is gonna mess with my little brother. I haven't done that in years."

The ponies and Spike gathered around Neo, they were deeply amazed by what he did.

"Neo that was amazing," said Rainbow Dash.

"A marvelous performance," said Rarity.

"Yeah, how did you do that?" asked Twilight.

"It's called animality," said Neo. "I learned it back when I was in Mortal Kombat."

The ponies were so amazed, and Spike was very impressed.

Spike looked up at Neo, "That was so awesome Neo. Now that I've seen what you can do, I feel that you really are my brother, thanks for getting me out of that mess."

"Of course Spike," said Neo, "What are friends for?"

"You're more than friends," Spike said with tears in his eyes, "You're my family."

Neo, the ponies and Spike shared a big group hug, expressing their love and friendship for each other. They felt like that they were a family and they always would be.

When they got back to Ponyville, Spike wrote a letter to Princess Celestia about what he learned. He learned what he is is not important, what's important is who he is. He said he was proud to call Ponyville his home. He also mentioned about Neo's animality and that Neo truly is like a brother to him, and Neo and his pony friends truly are his family.

End of part 1.