[The Dragonite Spike is now looking very awkward and fidgety. He doesn't mean to make you feel inadequate, bro!]

Spike. He could be a hundred feet tall and capable of circling the globe in five minutes, and he still wouldn't be a replacement for you. It's not what you can do.

[She lifts his face up with her hand under his chin.]

It's who you are. You are my number one assistant. Nopony else. You got that?