@dzamie
I know, right?

I’m so glad for commenters to remind me of the existence of stuff like this

Boing boing fwoosh

Boing boing fwoosh

Boing boing fwoosh

Boing boing fwoosh

Buddy you’re a boy, make a big noise, playin’ in the street, gonna be a big man someday…

This is cool and awesome

 
“DRRRRAGON FIIIIIRE!”
 
(|| Yes, that is Imperial Dragon from Action Man: Jungle Storm. If you’ve played this game in your childhood, you earned a billion cookies :P ||)

see this, Hasbro? THAT’S what we want for spike

The bravest and glorious-est!

Ooh, this is pretty cool

@Background Pony #82B6  
The notion was suppose to go away in Season 1, even: He bakes some cupcakes with just his breath in Bird in the Hoof. Why it persists six years afterwards, I know not. Ah, well. <3<

@glorycat  
Spike has used his green fire to burn/melt things many times already. Paper, popcorn, wood and even metal.  
While on the other hand, the only thing he’s ever teleported are Twilight’s/Celestia’s scrolls (and a card one time).  
So by this point its a bit strange to me that people still automatically assume green fire = teleport.  
I mean, I know its a very distinctive ability and related to his role but, c’mon. He’s burned so much stuff already.

@glorycat  
Not necessarily; it IS used as a legit “lighter” in an episode or two…
 

Wouldn’t the green fire just teleport them away though?
 
This is god-tier animation though.

@nobody here  
Just because the heat doesn’t do anything to him doesn’t mean the rest of it won’t.  
Humans are (relatively) waterproof, but it’s still a bad idea to get hit with a blast from a firehose.

Spike is badass?!?! O___o

Boing! Boing! PHWOOOH!!!

@Background Pony #9DC5  
Since you mentioned it I started to see it.

Anybody else reminded just a hair of Spyro, at least when he’s on all fours?

Spike practicing his fireball katas.

I pity the creature that pissed him off.

Okay, thank you for the reply.
 
Great pieces of fan art can inspire speculation. Fan fiction itself is speculative fiction, just like how science fiction sometimes inspires actual scientific inquiry and research. Going with your answer, it doesn’t need to be a pony. It would more likely be the “Villain of the Week,” someone who goes in knowing that there’s a dragon (even if a baby one) to deal with when they go after Twilight. It could even be another dragon, bringing along the enchanted lava to capture Spike at the request of Ember’s father (he wants to have a little talk with Spike.)
 
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my comment.

@Tetrominon  
BP asked, I answered.

@nobody here  

@Background Pony #D7D8  
You were serious? Ok, assuming some pony can do that who would know to do it? Ponies know very little about dragons. It’s mentioned in Gauntlet of Fire and Secret of My Excess. From the transcript of Dragon Quest…
 
“Twilight Sparkle: Nothing. Nothing in this one either!  
Spike: Nothing at all about dragons? This is getting ridiculous!  
Twilight Sparkle: I know! It’s hard to believe, but ponies know next to nothing about dragons. Apparently they’re too rare and too scary to try to talk to or study!”
 
By show canon the only ponies we know have ever seen this are Twilight and Rainbow. Yes, Rarity was there but sadly didn’t have eyeholes to watch from it from. So, three with a good probability of the rest of the mane six hearing about it later. Throw in the possibility of Celestia and that’s seven ponies very unlikely to tell this information to anyone out to hurt Spike.

Awesome stuff!

@nobody here  
What’s wrong with that head canon explanation? Something is happening, and I provided a potential causality. Problem?