Chapter 7
Chapter 7
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"Well, my next guest has been all over the news the last couple months. She's the newest hot story all over the world and been on here once before. The guy turned into a filly. Give a round of applause and please welcome, Sam Wilson, or as the fan base know her, Apple Bloom!"
I nervously walk out onto the set as Craig Ferguson introduces me with that great Scottish accent of his. I smile as the studio audience cheered. I walk up to Crag, who kneels down and shakes my hoof, before I go and hop up onto the seat next to Michelle. He'd already spoken with Lauren and Tara and we were the next guests.
Craig looks to me. "So, how does it feel, still being a fictional character?" he asked, genuine curiosity on his face. "Is it easy? Do you look in the mirror every morning and have to remind yourself that's you looking back?"
I give a small laugh, shaking my head. "No. It's not easy. Ah still have to remind mahself this ain't some weird dream or some kooky fanfic one of the fans wrote." I giggle. "Mah family an' I are doing fine. Though we have had to make some changes around the house."
"Oh, really? Like what?" he asks, surprised.
I sigh. "Well, ya heard about how the Anti-Brony community have been reacting to this over the last three months?"
He nods. "Oh! Ooh, yes. I hear you had to get security at your house after the last incident."
I nod, sighing. "The fact that they keep acting like Ah'm some kinda act o' the Devil really hurts. Ah just wish they'd let me live my life, what of it Ah can these days, anyway."
"Ah, yes, I heard you've not gotten much time back home anymore, what with all the interviews and the promotions. What was the latest, by the way?"
I smile. "Well, as anypony— a small laugh and several cheers came from he crowd at my purposeful pun— "knows, Ah was at the premier of the new Mlp movie, Rainbow Rocks."
"Really, how was that?" Crag leans forward on his desk a little.
I giggle. "It was a lot of fun, really. Ah was really happy seeing all the little girls there... an' the bronies, o’ course."
A loud group of cheers came from within the crowd and one guy shouts, "Apple Bloom, we love you!"
Michelle and I shake our heads and she continues where I'd left off. "Yes, they were all really excited to see her. We even had a little fun with them all, didn't we, Sam?" She winks at me and I grin.
I turn to Craig. "We had a little play on voices."
He frowns in confusion. "What do you mean?"
"Well," I glance at Michelle and we both giggle, "Ah'd let the little girls an' the guys ask me questions..."
"Then Ah'd answer 'em from outta sight in my Apple Bloom voice," Michelle answers, causing Craig to jump with surprise, and causing us and the whole audience to laugh.
"Wow, that— that was creepy," he said, looking amused, though a little shocked too.
"Yeah, yeah, that's kinda creepy," Geoff the skeleton said, then made a shuddering sound. "Sorry, but that's way too creepy."
I smirk. "This comin' from the talkin' skeleton with neon lights fer eyes."
"Well, yeah, guess you got a point there," he agreed, sounding sheepish.
"Anythin' else ya wanna know?" I asked, looking back to Craiv.
He smiled. "Don't worry, Applejack. The spell shows that she's not a Changeling, so you don't have to worry."
I blink. "Uh, pardon, Craig?"
He just looks at me, not moving.
I turn to Michelle, an eyebrow raised. "What's up with him?"
She smiles back. But when she opened her mouth, it wasn't her voice. "Ah know, Twi. But she looks and sounds just like Apple Bloom. Is she one o' those clones from the mirror pool?"
That... That's Applejack. But Ashleigh Ball isn't in the studio. What the heck is going on here?
Suddenly the world goes black and I feel like I'm falling through nothingness.
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“Ya sure she’s alright, Twi? Ah didn’ mean fer her t’ fall down the stairs like that?”
“Don’t worry, Applejack. She got a few bumps and bruises, but other than that, she’s fine. Though, this is unusual. If she was just a Changeling that would make this a lot simpler, but she seems like a normal pony.”
“But she can’t be. She’s Apple Bloom, but Ah know she ain’t Apple Bloom neither. Heck, Bloom’s so curious ’bout ’er Ah had to get Mac to keep her an’ the girls busy.”
The voices are faint as I came back to consciousness. I can feel myself lying in a soft bed. Maybe I'm still asleep and this is just some weird dream... well, weirder than life has become anyway.
“Well, this isn't something I've ever seen before. She seems like Apple Bloom, though the genetics are a little off. I’ll need to run some tests on the samples of her mane and fur I took before I can really say what she is. But, since she didn’t change when I used the spell, we know she isn't a Changeling, but I don't think she's Apple Bloom from the other world, either. She would've run from you otherwise, knowing her big sister was after her.”
I moan, slowly opening my eyes. I am lying in a bed. If the ceiling’s any indication, it’s Apple Bloom’s room.
Blurry brightly coloured shapes are standing around me, one purple, one orange. I rub my eyes with my hooves and my vision clears. Standing around me are Applejack and Twilight Sparkle.
“Hey there, surgarcube,” the orange mare says, smiling gently at me. “Doin’ okay?”
I shift, before wincing. My whole body aches. I can feel plasters on my front legs, one on both cheeks and a small bandage around my head.
Applejack puts a hoof on my shoulder. “It’s okay. Yer safe here. Sorry Ah acted the way Ah did. Ah didn’ mean fer ya t’ get hurt.”
I want to panic, I want to thrust off the covers on me and run, but my body is refusing to do as my brain screams at it to move. I slump back, looking to Twilight. “How’d Ah get here?”
She blinks, then smiles. “Applejack brought you up here and put you in bed. Then she had Big Macintosh come and get me so I could—”
I shake my head. “No. How’d Ah get here, in Equestria?”
This seems to take them both off-guard and they glance at each other, before Twilight looks back at me.
“Where were you before?”
I sigh. “First off, Ah ain’t a pony. Or, Ah wasn’t a pony afore a few months ago.”
Twilight leans a little closer, concern and worry showing in her eyes. “What were you?”
I sigh. “Ah was a human.”
Twilight gasps, her eyes going wide, but I hold up a hoof to stop her, though it came up slowly.
“Afore ya get all frantic, Ah ain’t the Apple Bloom fr’m the other world, so don’t worry ’bout that.”
The Earth Pony frowns. “If ya’ll ain’t fr’m there, then where were ya fr’m?”
I shake my head. “A diff’r’nt world. There, I used ta be an adult male. My name was... is Sam.” I sighed. “But, fer some reason, little over three months ago, Ah just woke up lookin’ an’ soundin’ like Apple Bloom... then Ah wake up here shortly afore Applejack spotted me an’ mistook me fer her sister.”
Twilight suddenly looks more concerned than she had when she thought I was the other Apple Bloom. “Three months ago?”
I nod. No point in lying, the Element of Honesty is in the room, so may as well tell the truth and get it over with.
Twilight bites her lower lip. “Oh, Celestia. Tell me that didn’t happen,” she whispers, though I heard it clearly and so did the other mare.
“Tell ya what didn’t happen, Twi?” she asks, cocking an eyebrow.
Twilight almost jumps, as if she’d been lost in thought, then shook her head firmly. “I need to see the princesses. Maybe they know what happened and how we can send her back.”
Applejack blinks. “Send her back? Looking like mah sister? Twi, that’s gotta be onea the worst ideas Ah ever heard, an’ Rainbow Dash has had a ton o' ’em.”
I look to Applejack, feeling hurt. “Ya’ll think sendin’ me home’s a bad idea?”
She widen her eyes, shakes her head and smiles sadly at me. “Sorry, sugarcube. Ah didn’ mean it like that.” She puts hoof on my shoulder. “Ah jus’ meant sendin’ ya looking an’ soundin’ like mah sister might not be the best. Ah don’ think yer race were exactly happy ’bout it, were they?”
I wince at her words, then looked down. It was true. While things hadn’t been as bad as they could’ve been (no people in black vans, wearing HAZMAT suits coming to take me away for study or experimentation at any point), it had started going downhill during the third month.
Several times after leaving from a place I’d made an appearance, whether just as an appearance or for an interview, some of the Anti-Bronies in the crowd had thrown stuff at me. I’d even been hit in the head by a bottle and when I came to, I was being driven away in an ambulance, having received a concussion from the impact and had a massive gash on my forehead.
One night, I’d woken up to a bunch of guys standing in my room and saw that they all had their pants down. I’d screamed and my parents had come rushing in. I’d never seen my dad so angry before and Mum? Well, let’s just say the sight of Celestia as Solar Flare wouldn’t come close to how scary my mum looked at that moment.
All those creeps (half Anti-Bronies who’d obviously just wanted to hurt me) had been sent to hospital for care, then arrested for what they’d been about to do to me, the thought alone always gives me shivers. I’d spent the next few days sleeping in my parents’ bed, I was too scared to sleep on my own and we’d gotten more security all around the house to prevent such a thing from ever happening again.
I’d refused to do any more interviews or leave the house for the rest of my time on Earth (not knowing I’d be leaving Earth at all, though), and remained in my room, just sitting on my bed, holding my Togepi plush toy close, sometimes watching cartoons or other shows from my DVD collection, even MLP a bit.
I nod, tears brimming in my eyes.
At once, I feel someone... no, somepony embrace me in a warm hug, and from the scent of apples and earth, I know it's Applejack.
As soon as she held me I couldn’t stop myself. I wrapped my legs around her neck and bawled. I couldn’t hold it in. This was all just too much. Not only had I been through everything I already had, now I'm in Equestria, with no explanation as to why or how.
I'm completely separated from my parents, my siblings, everyone I know and care about. I was a stranger in a world I wasn’t even sure had existed until a few hours ago and I'm all on my own.
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I cried for what felt like hours, just crying, not wanting to be here, but knowing I don’t have a say in the matter. All the while, Applejack held me, rubbing my back and making soothing noises. It helped... a little.
At some point, I was vaguely aware of Twilight saying something about sending a letter to the princess, but didn’t listen. I didn’t want to listen. I just wanted to be home, to be with my family and friends, to live my life without any more weirdness than I’d already had to deal with.
At some point, I must have cried myself to sleep, because I woke up to find Applejack still holding me, her head resting on top of mine.
“Ah... Ah know how ya feel, Sam,” she whisper, either just to say it or because she knew I'm awake again. “Ah know just how ya feel.”
I push her aside, glaring at her, tears still in my eyes. “NO, ya don’t!”
She blinks. Apparently she didn’t know I'm awake and heard that. She then frowns. “Yes, Ah do. Ah know just how ya feel.”
I growl at her. “No, ya don’t! Ah’ve been separated from my parents! Ya’ll don’ have a clue how that feels!”
I realize just what I’ve said too late.
Applejack looks at me, an angry, but sad look in her eyes. They start to fill with tears and she wipes them away with a foreleg, before looking back at me.
“Ah know just how that feels, Sam. Ah lost mah parents when Ah was just a little filly. Apple Bloom was barely more than a foal.”
She shifts forward and I try to move away, worried she’ll hurt me. The bed doesn’t give me much room to move and I’ve somehow gotten my hind legs tangled in the cover. She reaches out and I brace for the worst, only for her to wrap her hooves around me and hold me close.
“Ah know how it feels ta lose yer parents. Ah do.”
“Ah’m... Ah’m sorry,” I whisper, shame etched on my face and in my voice. “Ah... Ah didn’t mean ta say that. Ah... Ah’m sorry, AJ.” She pats my back gently, which makes me feel a bit better.
“It’s okay, sugarcube. Ya’ll were angry an’ yer worried ’bout getting home ta yer family an’ how they’re doin’. It’s natural.”
I hug her a little tighter. Held in her bigger legs I feel comfortable. I don’t feel so scared anymore.
She pulls away enough to look me in the eye, a warm smile on her face. “Til Twi can get ya home, ya’ll can stay here, alright?”
I look at her in confusion. “But, what if she sends me back t’day?”
She shakes her head. “Tain’t that easy. World crossin’s big magic and even Twi can’t do it like that.” She lifts a hoof and somehow causing a clicking sound, like when humans click their fingers. “She’ll need time to find yer world an’ send ya back.”
I look down, my ears drooping at the knowledge I wasn’t going home.
Applejack tilts my head up and smiles. “Like Ah said, yer more than welcome ta stay here til then, ’kay?”
I wipe my eyes on my foreleg, then give a small smile. “Okay.”
She nods, right before a loud gurgle/rumbling sound comes from my stomach. She grins as I blush furiously.
“Looks like somepony’s hungry. What’s say we get you sumthin’ ta eat, huh?”
I nod, my blush refusing to go away, which only makes me blush more.
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Ah see a typo. Do youuuuu? :3
*Homer Simpson voice*
Mmmmmm..... Chapter......
A wonderfull new chapter...
What is Twilight not telling?
Did she know something bout the whole incident?
Will Sam has to go to school?
Will Sam and Applebloom talk in synchro when they meet Diamond Tiara?
How will the rest of the Applefamily take the news about a "second" Applebloom?
Will Pinkie throw a "Welcome to Eqestria and congratulation to look like Applebloom and been "adopted" by the Applefamily" Party?
Sky Hooves: PINKIE! I already told to ask me first before you write something! And Stop breaking the fourth wall again! The last repair bill was expensive enough!
This was a wonderful and bittersweet chapter. Those feels.
Also, a 4th member of the CMC, who seemingly is AB, but has the knowledge of an adult man. I don't know if that's scary, hilarious, or both
4985356 no, twilight wasn't acting like that because of a spell. think more... big red jerk
Why do I think it's all Twilight's fault?
4985358
Did you just call Clifford a jerk?
4985433 no way. i loved that big dog when i was a kid
4985413 Thats actually a plausible scenario now that i think about it
Loved the chapter update, should be fun watching "sammy" (as i have begun to call sam lol) meet the rest of the CMC
A very good chapter, here is how I think it could be better.
Terms like Sugarcube, and Darling, are terms of endearment. Its the same like when someone calls you honey or hon, it implies some kind of intimacy but not too much that it cant be used with friends that you know well.
The thing with these terms is they have to be used sparingly. I think, and you use it sparingly enough that I think this is just my opinion, that you use it just a tad too much. No one goes around constantly calling people honey or darling, and neither should the characters. Even if you only use them once a sentence, if they get used every second or third sentence it can be too much.
Also: You do a good job I think, but do a bit more showing with your character descriptions, but thats a minor complaint as the rest of the story is very good that I can stand to ignore that.
another great chapter but what i don't understand is why people in fics are always written to blush when their stomachs rumble. that doesn't happen to anyone i know in real life so why is it written like that?
How did Applejack know her name was Sam without telling her? Even when she told them she was a male human, she didn't say her name was Sam.
And how on Earth does Twilight exactly tell she's a little different from the real Apple Bloom, and that the difference is genetic? I know magic isn't something solid and it's practically anyone's guess or theory, but even magic has to make sense for your story. Saying that Twilight found out about it because she's Twilight and she's the element of magic as well as a scientist is plain horse apples, and is just as bad as using the phrase 'one thing lead to another' in telling a story. Give more details.
That little flashback of his life nosediving could have been shown in the 1st 2 chapters, but here you're just telling it. Showing gives importance, telling explains what has already been established. If you keep on telling without showing, it'll backfire and people will lose interest down the line.
This chapter darkens my hopes
4985802 Its a biological function, its making Sam self conscious in a situation where he already has enough body issues to be self conscious about. Its a really weird situation.
Why didn't they think to ask how he knew that he was Applebloom? I mean, if I woke up as something else then went to another universe, wouldn't I have to explain how I knew who I was? Or who others where? Something.... is not right here.
4985433 Triek man! Big ugly centaur with an inferiority complex and who was definitely compensating for something.
After the flashback scene, you would have expected that s/he would have said something about being almost raped, or being tormented almost every time s/he leave the house, and then a lot later talk about being seperated; it's too soon to talk about missing them when you think about all the other crap that s/he went through for the past 3 weeks.
this was a great chapter I am really starting to get into this story I eagerly await your next chapter.
4986119 well i understand that but it happens in literally ever fic where someone's stomach rumbles or growls or whatever the word for it is.
Just a minor nit: It's The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, not Up Late with Crag Ferguson. You're also consistently misspelling Craig's name. Nice banter with the robot skeleton, though. Would have been nice to find some way to include Secretariat, because, you know... ponies.
I be honest, it is a really good story, i like how the story went and it looks really better then the one with Sweetiebell, but i was looking for a story with either a Human as a Pony on Earth, or a Human in Equestria as a Pony and don´t turning Human again.
Like i said, it is not a bad story, it is just not tha what i was looking for. I mean they turn him to Human again right? If he is staying in Equestria after that i would be good with it. I just don´t like it to turning normal again.
Good work
surprise they didn't send a body guard as soon as possible! just saying people know bronies and the crazy people react she should of been assign one and the scientist fear? there all not heartless monster with no morals im sure they would of ask permission from the parents to the person in question for consent letting them know what they want or will do like x rays and blood sample a live species is better then dead so no dissection and animal testing is strictly regulated and monitored an unknown like her better studied alive to understand since it would be illegal and punishable by law if they tried to be bad heck they be dead cause some people would protect her with there life! side people would not want to mess up an encounter this rare plus it not smart it common sense not to do that.
the thing with the cloppers in her room trying to rape her in her own room.... how did they all get in there without people knowing or seeing seriously!? cameras crazy plus anti brony attack {bet the one who did it in jail.} pressure of media fame she be on the witness protection list day one it doesn't make sense!!! meh I guess it was just a plot for drama. don't look into it more angie just stop! stupid ramble thoughts!!!
I hope they give new Apple Bloom a new hairstyle and color and call her AJ's other little sister.oh and have twilight bring the togapi plushie to equestrian PLEASE!!!
4986169 As a frightened child, Sammy Bloom is probably going to want his (her?) parents more then anything right now.
He is lost and alone in a strange place. Its not surprising they are the first thing he pines after, as opposed to going on about all the bad things that happened to him.
My only real "complaint" with this chapter is Sammy Bloom's attitude. I'm gonna sound really cynical when I say this, but wouldn't there be that small part of him that wants to be in Equestria?
I mean, he is a brony after all.
So, not really a complaint. Just me being dumb.
4988193 I actually googled it after i asked and checked the very page you linked, and was totally clueless to what i was reading
so i just decided, i just will put it out of my mind as something i just don't get and instead just enjoy the story 
4986083 i could've sworn i wrote that she tells them her name's sam. my mistake
4986981 well, when the two sets of energy, one being comprised if four alicorns' power and one that was mixed with chaos magic as well as the magic of celestia knows how many other ponies, including the bearers, a rift could have happened when the two forces collided.
I was wondering why Applejack was mad at Sam when she thought he was Apple Bloom? I wonder what she did?
Twiiiiliiiight what have you been up to?
4989550
Maybe she accidentally summoned the smooze?
*but I don't think she's Apple Bloom from the other world, either. She would've run from you otherwise, knowing her big sister was after her.”* Yeah because a pony claiming to be your sister WON'T be scary for a little girl.
*I sighed. “But, fer some reason, little over three weeks ago Ah just woke up lookin’ an’ soundin’ like Apple Bloom* Wasn't' it like three months in another chapter?
Ahhhhhhh... it feels so... good to read a story where the characters just don't... well...
Some stories are really great, believe me. I've read plenty of 'em. Sometimes, though, I'll come across a fanfic and... my brain just goes "DOES NOT COMPUTE" and I can hardly read on without groaning on agony. When the outbursts of crying and rage come out in a story... makes me feel like it's actually happening, as I always "melt" into the story as I read. I like "melting" into stories. It's so... bliss. And you here have given me one of those stories I can truly melt into. For that, I thank you. I can't wait until I publish something and give others that amazing experience.
I just started reading this story a bit ago, and I noticed a big inconsistency - you keep switching between him having turned into AB "three months ago" and "three weeks ago".
Edit: Also I hope you'll be updating this story again soon, I really like what there is and I for one would like to see more.
Lookie who got featured immediately after update!
Good chapter
or some kooky fanfic one of the fans wrote." I giggle.
“Hey there, surgarcube,” the orange mare says, smiling gently at me. “Doin’ okay?”
here shortly before Applejack spotted me an’ mistook me fer her sister.”
Applejack blinks. “Send her back? Looking like mah sister? Twi, that’s gotta be onea the worst ideas Ah ever heard, an’ Rainbow Dash has had a ton o' ’em.”
I don't think you spelled that right.
I wasn’t even sure had existed until a few hours ago and I'm all on my own.
6:00
You didn't caps the "I"s again in the authors notes!!
I would appreciate it if these chapters were named.
I think we can agree to that notion.
Alright I won't