It’s not easy being the only dragon in a town full of fickle, forgetful ponies.
Spike’s day is not off to a good start. Twilight is in micromanagement mode and it seems every pony is at least a little crazier than usual today. He’ll try to push through like always, but the population of Ponyville isn't going to make it easy for him.
Gore tag for a possibly cringe worthy pie eating competition.
This was great! I loved the pie eating flashback...
Great story. Love how you explained several going ons in Ponyville with this fic's logic.
Spike had a great presence and everyone kept true to character...especially Pinkie
Hope to see more of this...so long as it doesn't interfere with the Wheel and Butterfly.
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I liked but I don't think it will do any good. Soon you will be horded with dislikes
and then you will be labeled as a bad comment, and everyone will hate you
You just earned yourself a follower
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Thanks! Glad you liked it!
4099246 NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
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And now it's gone... Presumably killed by the comment maker...
4099419 YEEEEESSS!!! *sob* I don't want to be hated.
I would have just given Twilight one of AJs pies. That would have solved Spikes problem
<silently takes of glasses and stares at what I read>
"this, this is....."
<sister walks in>
"Spike-ify it, what are you talkin' about."
"Oh, uhh, nothin', I'm just...... You wanna go get some ice cream."
"YEAH, wow Spike-ify it, you seem awfully cheery today."
"huh, oh yeah, I just got some....good news today."
<walks into sunset with sister>
Perhaps a few too many reference jokes, but overall a fun little story.
I love when Twilight utterly fails at common sense.
OR, the lazy twat could use her super powerful alicorn magic to get it herself...
That ain't all she forgot.
"And hit me over the head with it? Repeatedly?"
Oh, Ponyville. You and your bizarre stores that make no logical sense.
The first rule of Pie Club: you don't talk about Pie Club.
...
The kind of club you don't talk about.
CALLED IT!!
Dat Pie Club scene...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Wat
Wat
Wat
..... @ Spike's rant.
I cannot facehoof enough for this.
Oh, this will NOT end well.
Well, that's ONE explanation for Hayseed Turniptruck...
Wow, bitch mode engaged.
Oh, Coco. Manehattan finally got to you.
Yyyyyeah Rarity needs a shrink.
Aaaaaand so does Spike.
He didn't stop to ask if it was the last carpet or the last lab supplies?
...that joke doesn't work with ponies. Like, at all.
Oh, Pinkie.
This would be the point at which any sensible dragon would burn off every single hair on Twilight's head.
Thanks. You just gave me a mental image of Pinkie eating garbage, and throwing up, and her vomit is a second Pinkie Pie. Now I'm going to have nightmares about ponies puking up ponies.
Welp, one less crazy pony to worry about!
Awesome.
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Glad you enjoyed it for the most part.
Yeah, I knew the carpet/drape thing was kinda a stretch, but at least it got Pinkie involved a little more.
Oh Spike... The things you put up with...!
My first thought is...Spike would dominate, buckin' DOMINATE at Pie Club, as he ingests shards of sharp, pokey things already and in great volume.
let me gues she will forget about the day right after next day yes? deadly fumes? well thats good for? the Muffin Police
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I considered an ending where Spike showed up, consumes Applejack's pie without flinching and presents his own that has shards of the lab equipment he had picked up that day, but it seemed a little grim.
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I'd see it more as Spike showing up, eating every pie and winning through sheer intimidation, his pie wouldn't even need anything dangerous, I doubt anyone would call his bluff. Heck, he could just make it super spicy
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Huh that's an idea that doesn't require a scene at the hospital for A.J....
I'm thinking of doing a bonus chapter or offshoot story where I cover Pinkie buying her carpet from Panic Station and the two make an increasingly big, panicky deal over it. Maybe I can think of something with the Pie Club too, where Spike does eat all the pies, then sits with his own, and gives everypony this knowing, smug look that fakes them out and causes them to cry "Medic" even though he's baked a (mostly) perfectly good pie.
Of course I can also introduce Pinkie somehow. Apparently it's not much of a stretch that she can eat rocks... not that anything was much of a stretch with Pinkie to begin with...
I want to huggle Panic Station but I'm afraid that if I did she'd have an adorable heart attack. And that would make me have a real heart attack.
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Wanting to huggle her seems like a pretty appropriate reaction.
When I was thinking about her colors I decided to user pony creator to see what she might look like. The result is very hugable to me.
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That sounds like it was from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
It's like the Opal Crab from Discord Whooves.
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It's actually two Monty Python Sketches, it starts out Holy Grail and goes dead parrot by the end.
Crazy fun!
How has Panic Station even SURVIVED this long?
And talk about the crazy leading the crazy.
Pasturedamus... Now that's a good pun.
*inhaaale*
*exhaaale*
That was not only hilarious, but borderline therapeutic. I think the best part was actually Spike's input on his own life debt mishaps.
For a long stretch, though, I wasn't sure if this fic was influenced by the genuine crap Spike puts up with or if it was just making fun of common "Spikefag" complaints, such as knee-jerk accusations of speciesism, or the idea that Twilight is so reliant on Spike that she can't do anything without him. In other words, I wasn't sure if I should upvote this for being wonderfully hysterical work of art, or downvote it for being an obnoxiously sarcastic piece of shit.
Regardless of certain factors, I decided to click th - Oooo, bonus chapter!
4106776 Have Spike huggle her. He deserves it, and Obselescence has a blog post reasoning out how he doubles as a self-insert.
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Hah! I forgot I even made that one.
Anyhow, it's commentary on the show itself and what Spike has to put up with there, not really what fans say about Spike or a dig at any particular group of fans.
This is sound soooooo insane... but so insane... that... that is good. Please, do Panic Station appear more, yes?
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Glad you enjoyed her. I would like to write a little something with her again at some point.
Good story.
“No, that’s his name, dearie.”
Spike knitted his grow together. “Hipsterdouche?” he asked.
Rarity nodded. “Hipsterdouche,” she parroted back to Spike.
I think you ment Brow.
I started reading this with a Spike themed music going and then the playlist just seemed to go so well with your story. Good story and Hope that Twilight actually goes through with her statements.
Station spent most her time staring at the door to the ship and fretting about what might come through.
Think you ment Shop.
It could be waiting for one of us to touch us and that’s when it wraps itself around us!”
Think you ment IT.
But other than that it was funny.
Why'd you turn Pinkie Pie into Zoidberg?
If that's not aggressive negotiations I don't know what is
A Pie-eating competition... between dragons...
*All of Pinkie's family is messily devoured... except Maud... who eats the dragons... because rocks...*
4099438 *Alondro injects a large syringe of purified, concentrated, distilled Hatriol into your veins!* The hate now LITERALLY flows through you!
5268035 DUUUUUUUUDE, you should try this hat stuff, it's pretty great~!!!
5268071 5268035 I hate you all.
TEEHEE!
~Crystalline Electrostatic~
2:2_2/9/2017
What in the world is this... having a day like that?
Must be Tuesday.
This is true beauty.
Gorgeous prose in its purest form.
7935540 It's everyday for me it seems
Why does reading what seems to the inner torment of someone feel so entertaining?
5088024 I'll do you one better.
Isn't this just a normal Tuesday, though?
What? Why are you looking at me like that?
This chapter has something of a Patch Adams vibe. Very nice.
Pinkie, stop playing on the panicky mare's insecurities.
There's no sport in it.
You fat cats didn't finish your plankton