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// Spike's New Life. 
// Story: Dragon Bro Z 
// by MrWriterWriter 
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"Ten years with amnesia!?" Celestia hollered. "But the longest time on record is fifteen months! The poor stallion thought he was an oddly shaped yak named Snerly until he recovered."

"I don't really know how to explain it, Mom." Spike replied. "All I know is I was almost in my twenties before the memories started coming back, and even then they were mostly just a name or reference popping in my head on occasion that I didn't really get the meaning of for a long time."  After the group managed to settle down from the surprise info, he continued. "Anyway, with no memory of where I was from or why I was there to begin with, Grandpa decided it wouldn't do to just let me walk away once I recovered from the bump on my head. Especially since neither of us knew how old I was."

"So, that's when he took you in?" Sweetie asked.

"Pretty much." He chuckled briefly. "Though I did meet Goku before he did it." With that, the image of a small boy with extremely spiky black hair appeared, wearing a sleeveless blue shirt and pants.



"Aw!" Fluttershy squealed, "He's adorable!"

"Wait a minute..." Twilight spoke up, giving the image a suspicious look. "I don't recall human beings having tails."

"That's 'cause Goku's not human." He held up a hand to forestall reactions. "One thing at a time. That'll be relevant later." He cleared his throat, "Where was I? Oh yeah; when I met him, he was fishing when Grandpa found me so neither of us were really expecting it."

"How'd he take it?" Rainbow asked. "I mean, to be honest I'd be wanting some answers if I came home to find somebody'd been brought into MY house while I was gone."

"Surprisingly well, actually. Though, in his case, it was more along the lines of 'not knowing we were having company' and 'hoping the fish he caught was big enough for all three of us'."

"Well, he seems like a trusting sort." Celestia commented, giving the scene a contemplative look.

"Yeah. I think it might've been because Grandpa was really the only other person we were around for quite a while." He scratched his chin. "Unfortunately, that kinda worked against us a couple times, but I'll get to that later too. Anyhow, I found out I wasn't alone in the 'not remembering' department while lunch was cooking."



 "So, Grandpa said you don't remember anything?" Goku asked as they watched Gohan season the fish.

"Aside from my name, no." he replied. "Where I'm from, how I got here...it's all a blank. Didn't even know I was a dragon until he told me."

Goku chuckled. "Yeah, I don't remember anything before meeting Grandpa either."

"Say what?"

"When he was little, Goku took a tumble and hit his head as well," Gohan piped up, tossing a few herbs onto the fish. "Granted, that was a few years back, but still."

"Heh, guess I should be glad I'm not alone in that.'' Spike looked at them. "Though, I don't know when, or even if I'll remember."

"Well, no sense letting you go off in such a state," the old man commented. "Especially no knowing where to go, much less the unsavory types out there that won't hesitate to take advantage of that info."



"And with that, I was pretty much part of the Son family." He scratched his nose. "Heh, in hindsight, it 's a lil surprising to know I got a brother aside from Shining."

Unfortunately, he was cut off from saying anything else due to a noise that sounded like it couldn't decide if it was a yelp or squeak.

And it had come from Twilight. "Shining!? Ohmygosh, we forgot to let him know you're back! Knowing Cadance, she might've gotten too busy making sure he and the crystal ponies were all ok to let him know!" Her eyes widened. "And Mom and Dad! They don't know either!"

"Get a grip, Twilight!" Rainbow spoke up, clamping a hoof over her friend's mouth. "Just ask Princess Luna if she can get them. Shouldn't take her that long to zip over and get them if they're all asleep."

"In regards to Twilight Velvet and Night Light, that would be true," Luna replied. "Alas, the Crystal Empire is well outside my maximum safe  travel range in the dreamscape. Without a suitable booster, at least."

"How 'bout a guy who managed to hop over here from another planet?" King Kai piped up.

"You'd do that?" Twilight asked, looking at him hopefully.

"Don't see why not." He shrugged and looked at Luna. "Doesn't seem right leaving the rest of Spike's family outta the loop. Just put a ha--uh, I mean a hoof on my shoulder and tell me which way we're going."