Rover was in the shower room in the Army base and he was in his combat pants and his bones seemed to be shifting and sticking out of his skin as his muscles grew slightly and he got dressed.
He stepped into a room to be briefed "The systems that the army installed around Equestria will ring alerting us to where the dragon is and he will be shown on radar" a mare spoke.
"He's not going to show up he's knows enough to stay away, he made it a year going across Equestrian Borders without mistakes his not going to start now" Boss Hogg cut in gruffly "We know he has a female unicorn with him and they scan magic or anything magical" signal" he said "He slips up we will see it" he spoke.
"But with all respect General, like you said he won't make any mistakes and he will certainly tell the mare about out tactics and not only that the dragons a soldier" a Cadet spoke.
"The scanners also scan energy signal and it's locked on to his signal, but it may not show until he changes into that beast his signal increases thats how we get him" The General told him.
"Any questions?" General asked.
"When do we leave?" Rover asked.
"as soon we get a signal" Boss Hogg told him "I should've seen this he's not looking to hide he's looking for help" he said.
Starlight was still asleep in the Cave in the Forbidden Jungle she stirred and felt she was sleep on something and saw it was Spike's side who was out, still and in his normal form.
The mare woke up the other two and went to Starlight's Old Village and they went into her old house. Spike was sleeping when he saw a vision of some kind of monster looking like a Diamond Dog but some parts had a dragons and it was huge, he's eyes snapped open and got up with a start.
Spike looked around and saw he was in somepony's house then Starlight walked in with a saddle bag "Oh morning sleepy head" Starlight smiled "before I forget" she said, she gave him a heart monitor just like the one he usually gets "They had a little yard sale and I bought this" she said.
"Thanks" Spike Smiled putting it on his wrist, then Starlight kissed him on the lips and they started making out, they started to feel each other bodies, Starlight rubbing her fronthooves across his scales and muscles, Spike grabbing her cutiemarks and their breathing got heavier then EastStern and Thorax walked in the two broke apart with a start.
"Whoa" they spoke.
Later Starlight dropped a potion and a teleportation device, Spike had on a pair of jeans and shinhigh black boots and a gray shirt and a long coat and a wide brim fedora hat.
"Basically we cant use anything magic related or uses energy like the teleportation device or this potion over here because they will trace it" Spike told them "Don't blast magic beams or even activate your horns, since Starlight sided with me the Army will also be after her so, she will have to disguise herself to" he said.
"right" they said.
"I think I found somepony who can cure your a-" Starlight started but didn't want to offend Spike
"Condition?" Spike smirked.
Spike and his friends and a disguised Starlight Glimmer, she was wearing a cloak with a wide brim hat and sun glasses they were heading to Manehatten.
Later they had arrived after hours and hours of walking, they were looking at a map "He's all the way Uptown the subway is the fastest" she said, Spike just looked at her with a raised eyebrow.
"Me underground on a train with 1000's of ponies in one of the most aggressive cities in Equestria, with my recent problem?" Spike asked skeptically, they had visions of what would happen, a broken and derailed train and lots of injuries and a mad Drakezilla ripping the underground apart.
"Right" Thorax said "Lets get a taxi, there the smoothest rides" he told them.
later they regretted the option of the taxi because the driver was a nutty driver, he was swerving around turned and past carriages with a frighteningly speed, Spike Starlight, Thorax and EastStern had funny frightened looks on their faces, Spike was getting tense he gripped the door's arm rest and it compressed from the grip, then they hit a bump and went on two wheels around a turn before going on four wheels.
Spikes watch started beeping and flashing and readed 189 "Breath Breath breath" Starlight pleaded the last thing they wanted was Spike to Drakezilla out in the carriage, Spike did his breathing exercises calming down
"Pull this thing over young stallion" EastStern ordered, the taxi sped up at breakneck speed and came to a screeching stop at a parking spot, Spike flung the door open and stumbled out put a clawed hand over his heart which was beating faster, the watch readed 199 and Spikes eyes changed slightly into Drakezilla's eyes and his clothes stretched slightly but before he could change, he started thinking of streams going through mountains and breathed in and out bringing it down to 175 then to 150 and dropping.
The others got out, Starlight was the last one out and boy was she furious "Are you off your nut!?" Starlight barked "What is wrong with you, you stupid ass!?" She demanded slamming the door shut the carriage shook, the driver just said smugly.
"Don't like a good ride Mwuah" he said blowing a kiss at her, Starlight just furrowed her eyebrows and let out a angry scream scaring the stallion and he took off but not before Starlight slammed a rearhoof smashing a light.
"You Dimwitted asshat!" Starlight screamed, Spike just looked at her with a surprised look she grumbled with a sigh and looked at Spike.
"You know I can show you some tricks that help you manage your anger effectively" Spike told her.
"You button your lip, were walking mister" Starlight glared at him before walking off.
"Okay" Spike said with a smile "They said I have anger management issues" he snickered.
"What was that Spike the Dragon?" Starlight spoke back in a low tone.
"Nothing I said okay lets go" Spike said quickly before walking.
A doctor stallion in his 40's was walking out, when Spike and Starlight, Thorax and EastStern walked up.
"Um excuse me, I'm Starlight Glimmer" Starlight spoke.
"whoa pupil of Twilight Sparkle in the flesh" The doctor gasped, then looked at Spike and his eyes widened "And Captain Drake, a legend lives" he said shaking his clawedhand.
Minutes later they were in a room with a lab table on the other side of the room "I must say I wasn't going to see the day when I meet the famous dragon hero, but here you are" he said.
"Everything is true the stories and songs, are all true" Spike told him.
"and your other half is also" The doctor said.
"Drakezilla and yes, he's very real to" Spike told him "But I didn't come to talk about my heroic tales, I came here because you can probably help my condition, You see I keep changing quickly and my heartrate is always high" he said.
"I see well lets what the problem is, lets pop" The doctor said "Maybe I can diagnose it" he offered.
"At this point I say just do it" Spike told him
Later Spike was on a table with metal restraints on his wrists and ankles and torso and lowerboby after Spike poked holes through his scales on his chest and limbs so the Doctor could put needles in attached to nozzles, the sensors pads on his head and heart were keeping track of his heart and brainwaves which did seem to be working faster than it should be.
"Your right about your heartrate being high" The doctor said, the Doctor put a bit in his mouth and picked up a voltage head pieces that looked like stethoscope but shoots out voltage
"We all set?" The doctor said, Starlight held his clawedhand and rubbed his chest "Uh I wouldn't do that if I were you" he to her, she let spike go and backed up.
"These restraint are made of stern metal strong and tough so they should be strong too keep you down if you have a strong reaction" The doctor told him "But I injected a serum that reads changes and will make the transformation slow than normal so it can read, but don't worry the serum will vanish out of your body when it's done" he said.
"You can tell me later if you think these things were strong enough" Spike muttered to him,
"Please don't crush me" The doctor said as he pressed the voltagescope to his temples a torrent of electricity raced through him, making him release a small grunt through the bit.
his eyes were squeezed tight so were his clawedhands and they flung open as they changed into Drakezilla's eyes and slowly and painfully changed, his scales turned into a dark purple and his spines changed into a darker green and his muscles grew slowly under his scales his fists opened as the clawedhands swelled and grew larger as his limbs stretched.
"Sweet Celestia" The doctor gaped, he turned to a injector of something.
"Wait there is more" EastStern ordered. Spike's colors got darker and scales got thicker and rougher armorlike as his body continued to triple in length and size, then the rage grew more on Drakezilla's face as he got to his miniature size of 10 feet.
"Now before he's too big" Starlight said, but the Doctor just stood there stunned then Drakezilla's restraints were straining and he tore them off with a jerk and a pieces the ones on his upper and lowerbody snapped off into different pieces, one hit the doctor in the head snapping him out then he tripped over Drakezilla's tail and the table support started to bend and sink at the adding weight and mass the nozzles popped off and the holes closed up, Drakezilla sat up growling angrily at being forced out by a Quack and looked ready tear something apart, as usual.
But before he could Starlight who was out of the lab teleported in and jumped on top of him straddling his chest, then he grew to 30 feet the table flattened underneath the rapidly growing dragon, the room shook.
"I thought you said it make the change slow!" Thorax yelled who was across the lab with EastStern.
"I did but there is limits so it's burning off faster" The Doctor said, then Starlight Grabbed the doctor by the face with her magic
"Do it now" she barked, The Doctor hit a button and a liquid went into the tube.
"He's burning through it too fast to, do something only your dragon knows" The Doctor told her, then Drakezilla continued to grow his limbs pressing against the walls and the burst apart at the pressure of the weight "Now before I don't have a lab or i'm crushed" he said then Starlight kissed Drakezilla's massive lips pouring all her feeling's through her kiss, then Drakezilla relaxed since it was something Spike knows.
Then the liquid relaxed him he slowly changed back into Spike who was sleep, then the monitors readed 60 beats, Spike opened his eyes and looked at Starlight who was still on top of him.
"that was too close" Starlight said to the Doctor.
"I agree" he said looking at the damage done just by changing "Your were right these restraints weren't strong enough" the Doctor told Spike.
"Hi" Spike smiled up at Starlight.
"afternoon" Starlight replied kissed him on the nose
Back at the Army Base the sensors went off.
"Magic reading and energy detected" a Soldiers spoke.
"Where?" Boss Hogg and Rover demanded.
"Manehatten" he replied.
"alright Colts move out" Boss Hogg ordered, soon airships were loaded up and heading to Manehatten.
It was nighttime in Manehatten
"So did you find the problem?" Spike asked inside the lab.
"Yes when you went under your heartrate was still really high and it delayed at the mark, but I just gave you a dose of a sedative but two teaspoons of a horse Tranquilizer that lowered your heartrate and functions down to normal" The Doctor explained.
"A sedative imagine that" Spike smirked "Now one problem over, one remains, Thank you" he said, then Spike saw something in a beaker it looked like blood "What is that?" Spike asked pointing at the beaker.
"Oh just a blood sample" The doctor said.
"Of what?" Thorax asked.
"I don't know alot about dragons but a sample from a dragons blood and I can know near limitless things" the doctor said
"How did you get that?" Spike asked as he got a weird feeling.
"Don't freak but when I inserted the nozzle I had another but a syringe and took a sample of your blood" The doctor said nervously.
Starlight, Thorax and EastStern looked horrified at what the doctor did while Spike looked appalled, big time.
"With some work with the specimen we can make cures of all kind" The Doctor said.
The army arrived Rover went in the entrance and looked around.
Then Rover heard voices upstairs "This way" Rover growled and he charged to the stairs.
back in the lab Spike was having images of his blood falling into wrong hooves and mutating creatures
"No were going to destroy it, is this all you took" Spike said.
"We could get the Nobel for this science" The Doctor trying to change Spike's and the others mind.
"You do not know the harm that can cause, dragon's blood isn't like Ponies or other creatures blood" Starlight argued.
"She's right you know nothing of what the Army will do if they saw that" Spike told him "I know they experimented on Rover and tried to kill Starlight, you can't trust them" he said.
"This isn't science this is playing the Gods" Spike argued "trying to make things with ancient organisms and forcing change" he said.
Then sniper ponies were on a roof next to theirs "Fire" Boss Hogg said.
"Look I hate the Government just as much as the next Stallion but your being paranoid" The Doctor spoke tapping a hoof on a table.
Spike just growled and was about to walk over to him but when he walked by the window he felt stern needles pierce his scales since he wasn't ready.
"Ow!" Spike yelped and turned slightly they saw tranquilizer darts sunk in the gaps between his scales, the darts worked fast, he staggered Starlight caught him and pulled the darts out with her magic.
"Or not paranoid" The doctor yelped.
Then Spike heard pawsteps and looked past Starlight and saw a vengeful looking Rover storming through the doorway "Get out" Spike frowned, then Starlight stood infront of Spike but Rover smacked her across the room slamming into a wall, out. Spike dodged a grab then grabbed Rover by the shoulder turned throwing the Diamond dog across the floor slamming into a counter across the room cracking the wood, but then Rover stood up swiftly.
"Whats this?" Spike asked.
"Got an Upgrade" Rover hissed and charged.
Spike staggered around more as the drugs continued to put him to sleep, he smelled metal coming from the dog with his dimming senses, he remembered a style when he learned to fight, he dropped on the ground and kicked his legs upwards hitting the dog in the gut with his feet slamming up wards, he jumped used gravity to land on Rover and slamming him on the ground, he stood up sluggishly.
He sluggishly weaved a swinging and threw drunken like hits to the stomach doubling Rover over and sprung bumped the Soldier Dog knocking him down and then then Spike went down as the drugs knocked him out.
Later Spike was awake but still out of it, he was on a stretcher with dragonproof cuffs on his wrists and ankles, Boss Hogg was talking to Celestia.
"Thank you General Hogg for capturing him" Celestia said, the stretcher went by them.
"This isn't how to gain my trust" Spike frowned "You said you wanted it so here's your chance, tell them to let me go and I'll forgive the things you've done" he said.
"I'm sorry I can't" Celestia told him.
"You will regret this, the army can't keep me detained for ever when that happens, you better watch it" Spike hissed as four soldiers brought him up the airship ramp.
Starlight just ignored the two but Celestia stopped her with her hoof, Starlight just glared at her.
"I'll never forgive what you've done to him" Starlight glared.
"He's a fugitive" Celestia said.
"You made him a fugitive to protect your secrets to protect yourself, this all started because of you" Starlight spat.
"It's only because your Twilight's pupil your not in cuffs to" Celestia said sternly.
"there better then your lies" Starlight snapped and knocked Celestia's hoof off of her with a swipe of a fronthoof and went into the Airship, Thorax and EastStern just gave her the silent treatment.
"Maybe you and that crooked General should marry each other, your perfect for the other" Starlight shot out from the Airship.