//------------------------------// // Chapter 13: Family Fight, Sam vs His Siblings (Edited) // Story: Somewhere He Belongs // by SuperSamYoshi //------------------------------// A few weeks have passed, and things couldn't be going any smoother ever since Sam’s recovery from his coma-like state. When Sam found out Twilight was a princess, he was both shocked and happy for her, he also told everyone what he saw in limbo and that his mother was happy for him, and that he had to be ready for dangers ahead. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon had made up with him and everyone in their class and had become very close friends. Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo had even allowed them to join the Cutie Mark Crusaders, which the two really liked. One day Sam was testing out his new Ultrix (that’s what he’s calling the device) in Sweet Apple Acres. “So how does this work?” he asked his friends. Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were there to watch him. “How are we meant to know!” Scootaloo bluntly said. Sam touched the Ultrix and it turned on with a blue flash. The Ultrix seemed to give Sam the knowledge of the Ultras and how the Ultrix worked. “Ultraseven, Wide Shot!” Sam called out as a hologram of the said Ultra appeared above him. Sam puts his arms in a L sign, with his left arm upright, his right arm bent, the holographic image of Ultraseven did the same, and fired a blue beam of energy through his vertical hand, destroying a nearby tree in an explosion. “That. Was. AWESOME!” Scootaloo shouted as the group ran up to their friend. “That could come in handy when fighting stronger foes,” Sam retorted. Just then Applejack and Big Mac ran out up to them after hearing the explosion. “Is everyone al ’right!? What's happening’!?” Applejack asked out of breath. “Sam blew up a tree”, Apple Bloom said, “and it was cool”. The ponies and Sam all pointed to where a tree used to stand, Applejack and Big Mac looked in the direction they were pointing to see a smoking hole in the ground. “Holy cow”, Applejack blurted out. Big Mac just stared. “Urm, sorry”, Sam apologised, as Applejack turned back to him with a strict look on her face, “I was only testing out the Ultrix.” AJ walked up to Sam and patted his head, “Next time, be more careful of your surroundings”, she said as she and Big Mac turned around and started to walk to the house, “Now, who's hungry?” “ME!” the kids cried, but then Sam suddenly sensed something. “What’s wrong Sam?” Applejack asked, Sam side-stepped, and Derpy fell from the sky. “Ow,” she remarked, as she struggled to get up, "I just don't know what went wrong." “Derpy?!” Applejack responded, helping her friend up, “What happened?” “A weird creature is running around in town,” she replied, “it’s like a rhino but it’s on two legs.” “Oh my,” Sweetie Belle said. “Eeyup,” Big Mac chimed in. “Hey where did Sam go?” Diamond said. “Oh for Pete’ Sake!” Applejack remarked. Sam had dashed off to Ponyville to see what was happening. He reached the middle of town and saw ponies running in fear of something. Sam heard a roar come from the market area and saw a humanoid rhino going on a rampage. He was terrorising and destroying stuff. Sam was already in his Ultrasuit, so he ran forward and kicked the rhino in the back. The Rhino turned and saw Ultraman and growled at him annoyed. Ultraman guessed this was like a simple animal, very strong but not very bright. The rhino roared and charged at Ultraman, but he merely stopped him by grabbing his horn, and tossed the beast aside. The rhino stumbled but didn’t fall, he growled and ran forward for a punch, but Ultraman jumped back to dodge, then jumped forward and kneed the rhino in the face, sending the rhino flying back and hitting his head on a building. Or rather through a building. “That was easy,” Sam thought, “a little too easy.” Suddenly a surprise attack tackled him to the ground. It was a humanoid cheetah, who growled at Ultraman. He tried to get up, but the cheetah held him down as she scratched his helmet with her claws. She then jumped off Ultraman just so he could get wrapped up in a spider web, from a humanoid spider. “It would seem that these creatures are working together,” Sam thought. The Spider eyed him while the cheetah went to check on the rhino. Ultraman could sense the presence of other creatures behind him, he turned to see a humanoid wolf and lizard on top of the houses behind him. Ultraman activated his Specium Blades on his arms and cut himself free. The wolf jumped off the house to attack Sam, but he dodged him in time, but he wasn’t fast enough to dodge the lizard as she latched onto Ultraman’s back and tried biting his shoulder. Ultraman slammed his back into a wall to get the lizard off him. It was now a one versus five. “Ok that’s just not fair,” Sam said aloud, but the mask disguise his voice so the creatures didn’t know it was him, “but I must stop them to matter what.” The fight continued on until early afternoon, and Sam was getting tired. Fighting five enemies was hard work, he could keep up with the attacks. The Rhino would charge at him, making him go flying into a spider web created by the spider. The cheetah would sprint at him and scratch at his torso, she went so fast Sam couldn’t dodge her in time. And the lizard would swing her tail at Ultraman’s feet and cause him to fall and get a mauling from the wolf. Ultraman did manage to get some hits in, he grabbed the wolf’s tail and swung him into the others, he managed to push back against the charging rhino and swing him over his shoulder and managed to at least land a hit on each of them. But they were still too much for him. His Colour timer started to blink, showing he was nearly out of energy. He looked up in time to see all five attack him at once, sending him flying and rolling on the ground. The creatures started to close the distance between them and Sam, when out of nowhere, Twilight fired a beam in front of them from the sky to protect Sam. She landed in front of Sam and raised her wings up. “Stay away from my son!” she shouted angrily, as the rest of her friends showed up and protected Sam. To save how much power he had left, Sam took off his Ultrasuit and spat blood onto the ground from when he was continuously hit in the stomach. “Sam!” Fluttershy called out as she, Pinkie and Rarity rushed to Sam’s aid. “I just came out of a coma for crying out loud,” Sam breathed, as Rainbow, AJ and Twilight stared daggers at the five creatures. But all of a sudden, their snarls and growls stopped and looked for shocked than anything. “S…Sam?” asked the cheetah as she tried to get closer, but Twilight shot a blast of magic at her first step. Using her magic, Rarity helped Sam onto Pinkie’s back while Fluttershy used her wings to help balance him. The five beasts could see Sam on Pinkie’s back and their jaws dropped in pure shock and horror. The spider even started to cry, which took Twilight, Applejack and Rainbow by surprise. “I didn’t expect that,” Rainbow muttered. Twilight still didn’t trust them, they just attacked her son. “State your business, why did you attack my son?!” Twilight demanded. “We only wanted to find him,” the wolf said, pointing at Sam. “Why?” Twilight scowled. “Because he’s our brother,” the cheetah said as she comforted the spider. “WHAT?!” the ponies cried, Sam was equally as shocked. “We thought we lost him,” the Rhino said, “we thought he was killed or turned into an animal like us. “But now we know that he’s been here the whole time,” the lizard chimed in. “And we attacked him, thinking he was attacking you’ll,” the Spider cried out, tears running from her eyes. Sam listened to all their voices as tears started to leak from his eyes. “Pinkie, take me to them please,” he asked Pinkie. Pinkie just nodded and slowly walked to them. She kneeled down so Sam could get off, he stumbled forward to the creatures. “Is it true? Is it really you?” Sam asked clutching his side, “Kerry? Rebecca? Scott? Emily? Jake?” “Yes it is, Sammy,” Kerry said as she took a knee and outstretched her arms. That was it for Sam. He stumbled into Kerry’s arms and cried his eyes out into her soft fur. Scott, Rebecca, Jake, and Emily joined in with the hug. Twilight and the rest could only smile that Sam was reunited with his original family. "I... I missed you all," Sam said while weeping with joy. "It's okay, Sammy. We’re here," Rebecca said soothingly. Twilight and her friends finally came closer, as Twilight couldn’t help but smile and shed a few tears, to see her son so happy with his family again, even though she didn’t trust them after they attacked him. "Ssh, it's okay, Sam," Emily said, "we’re here now. We’re just glad that you’re safe." Sam smiled, "I missed you all, so much. But you did try to kill me." "Hehe, sorry for that little bro," Joe replied, "But we will always love you, no matter what. I know mum and dad are.... not here anymore, but at least we can still be together," and Sam buried his face in Rebecca’s t-shirt. “And can be with you forever now,” Jake said, “because we’re not leaving this place or your side from now on.” "Aww,” Pinkie’s voice cooed from behind them. The group looked and saw Twilight, and her friends. Twilight, Fluttershy, Rarity and Pinkie had tears of joy in their eyes, and of course, Rainbow and Applejack didn't but they were holding them back. Sam looked up at his human family, "How did you all get here?" “We were chased out of our town for being animals,” Kerry said, “We went into the forest and found a cave that led to a lagoon. Then Jake slipped in and sank to the bottom. We jumped in to save him and next thing we knew, we were these anthro animals in this world.” "So, who and what are you guys?" Jake asked Twilight and her friends. "We have never seen creatures like you before." "Yeah, you look very peculiar," Emily retorted. “You’re one to talk,” Rainbow remarked. “Fair point,” Emily replied. "And rather adorable." Rebecca added. They all blushed at the word adorable. "Oh well, thank you," said Rarity. "I'm Twilight,” she said, “Sam's new mother." "Mother?" they all asked, a little confused. "That's a little weird." Jake blurted. Then Kerry jabbed her elbow into his stomach "Ow! what was that for?" " Don't be rude like that," she stated. "Sorry,” Jake said. "Guys, please don't be mad at me,” Sam said as he limped to Twilight, “but she decided to take me in as her son, and she loves me very much." "Oh no. It's quite alright, little man." Scott reassured him, "It's just.... not what we expected. So, who are the rest of you?" "My name is Rarity," she said, “It’s a pleasure to meet you.” "I'm Applejack," she spoke, “howdy.” "I'm Rainbow Dash,” she answered grandly, “the fastest flyer in all of Equestria." “I’m Fluttershy,” she replied meekly, “it’s very nice to meet you all.” “Heya I’m Pinkie Pie,” Pinkie then gasped, “I got to make a welcome to Ponyville party right away!” then she dashed off. “What was that?” Scott asked. “Don’t mind her,” Applejack said, “that’s just Pinkie being Pinkie. But you should be ready, because she’s off to throw you a welcome to Ponyville party.” "Well, it is a pleasure to meet all of you." said Emily. "Now I guess it is time to introduce ourselves. I’m Emily, Sam’ old babysitter, Scott's girlfriend, and so to be wife." “Woah hey now, let’s not get that far ahead,” Scott blushed, “well I’m Scott, Sam’s older brother.” "I am Kerry,” she said, “the oldest sister." "I'm Rebecca,” she chimed in, “the youngest sister bust older than Sam." “And I’m Jake,” he replied, “I’m Kerry’s boyfriend.” "Well, it's a pleasure to meet all of you," said Twilight, "You know, Sam told us about you.” "Really?" they asked. "Oh yes darlings,” Rarity said, “he told us how awesome you guys are, and a few of the nicest humans he has ever met." "Oh well, you know," said Scott. "What he said is true,” Emily clarified, “Sam is family.” "Oh, that's good," said Applejack. "So are you all a part of his new family?" Scott asked. "Yes." they all said. "Oh, that's good,” he responded, “It is good to see Sam being with ponies that care about him so much." "I agree," said Jake. "We do." said Fluttershy, then Sam got himself in a group hug with Twilight, her friends, and this anthropomorphic family. It was a little.... unusual for the teens to see a new family for him that are ponies, but they were happy that Sam was happy and of course, still alive. "So, I think we should go and have a look around." Scott clarified. "Good idea. Come with us, and we can talk about where you'll stay,” Twilight said, “I would allow you all to stay with me, but I don’t have any guest rooms." “I could use some extra muscles around the farm,” Applejack said to Jake, who gave a flex to show off his muscles. “Your scales are simply divine darling,” Rarity said as she looked at Emily’s arms, “If you malt I can make a dress with your scales.” “I don’t know if my house will support you,” Rainbow said to Scott, “I’m not calling you fat, I’m saying you’ll just fall right through the cloud it’s on.” “I would love to have some extra company that’s not just normal animals,” Fluttershy said to Kerry. “I guess I’ll be with Pinkie then,” Rebecca said. “Don’t worry,” assured Sam, “you’ll love living with her. Maybe the Cakes will allow you to help with making desserts.” Scott chuckled at his response. “Come here, you," then he gently picked Sam up and placed him on his shoulders. "Wow you’ve gotten heavier. Ready to go?" "Yep," Sam cheered. "Perfect. So, let's go,” Scott said. Then the older siblings followed Sam's family around Ponyville. Sam was overjoyed with being reunited with his old family and now he can be with both old and new at the same time. Of course these are going to be some ups and downs and some explaining to do regarding his scar-less chest but it’s all for the long run but for now, Sam is going to cherish these moments forever.