After returning through the mirror portal - on the run from numerous young ladies who pursued Spike like a pack of wild dogs (Sonata Dusk's metaphor, since they were all saying Woof) - Spike sighed in relief as he returned to the table where the others were waiting.
"So, did you still turn into a dog?" Rainbow asked.
"No," Spike replied. "But I think I turned every female on the other side into one." At the blank expressions directed his way, he sighed. "They were all saying 'woof'...even Celestia and Luna's alternates."
Everyone gasped in surprise. "Even my alternate?" Pinkie asked.
"Well...yeah," Spike admitted. "Except she and that Sonata Dusk girl were saying it because everyone else was."
Rainbow snickered. "Good luck in town later, Casanova."
Spike tilted his head in confusion. "Huh?"
Rarity waved her hoof, dismissing the issue. "We'll talk about that later, Spikey-Wikey. For now, how about a bit more of your story?"
Smiling, Spike flipped through to the next major entry. "Most of these are more of the same, just daily or weekly mentions of how things are going with me. A few video files, but we can watch those later. Ah, here we go."
Entry212
Today, Spike breathed fire.
I don't know what brought it on, or why only now after so long. However, in the middle of feeding him, he belched up a plume of green flame. He found it hilarious. I found it worrisome.
I know what he is now. He's a baby dragon. A dragon like Ridley.
I don't know if he's the same species or not. Either way, the Chozo trusted him to my care. I'll have to do my best to take care of him...and to make sure he doesn't become a monster like Ridley.
The girls were silent for a time. "Ridley?" Twilight finally asked.
"An...old enemy of Mom's," Spike replied. "I'd...rather not talk about him." He idly flexed his wings, somewhat restless.
After a few moments of awkward silence, Pinkie reached over and swept through the entries to the next one with a tagged video file. "Say, the date here's nearly four years later than the date on the first entry...and about 9 years before the date on Entry zero."
Spike nodded. "Yeah. This is...six months before the first time I went on a mission with Mom," he replied, calling up the log.
Final Entry
Spike spoke today.
...I now understand Old Bird's words when he gave me Spike's egg...
That was all the text in the entry, but there was a tagged video.
Samus lifted Spike up from her logbook, where he'd been browsing through the entries of the creatures she encountered on Zebes, and during her time serving under Adam Malkovich as part of his unit, before she quit the Galactic Federation and went freelance. He seemed mostly to enjoy looking at the pictures, though occasionally she found him tracing lines with his fingers. "Come on, Spike," she said softly. "Time for you to go to bed. If I let you stay up reading, you'll be cranky tomorrow, and I don't have any more clothes I can afford to lose to fire from your stray flames."
Spike let out his petulant complaint noise, somewhere between a growl and a whimper followed by blowing a raspberry. However, his struggle was token at best. He was used to Samus getting her way. She was a lot stronger than she looked, and his body was only just beginning to adjust to the 10Gs Samus kept her ship at for comfort. It wasn't as high as the gravity of Zebes, but it was higher than what the Federation ships kept their gravity at. Spike had adjusted well, but he wasn't yet nearly as strong as Samus.
Smiling, Samus carried him to the pile of gold and silver that had once been place settings for all the various jewelry she'd received over her lifetime that she had no interest in keeping. She had given Spike the gemstones as treats, and the metal was now Spike's favorite bed. Samus had placed it all in a large basket for him to sleep on.
"Wait!" Twilight said as she paused the video. "How did that big pile not trigger your hoarding instincts and Greed Growth?"
Spike chuckled. "It did when she first started giving it to me," he explained. "But by then she'd learned just how durable I was even at that age. The minute I tried to swipe something to add to my hoard without permission, she picked me up, threw me into the wall, stuck her finger in my face, and said 'No' very firmly. I didn't try to hoard without permission ever again."
"Oh my goodness!" Fluttershy whimpered. "Were you alright?"
Spike laughed aloud. "The wall took more damage than I did. Literally. She had to stop by a space port to get the dent evened out. I didn't even have a bruise."
Twilight chuckled. "Well, dragons are an incredibly durable race. It takes a lot to even faze one, let alone hurt them."
Smiling, Spike restarted the video.
Samus set Spike down in amongst the metal, and he snuggled in, wrapping himself up in the gold like a blanket. "Goodnight Spike," she said softly. "Sleep well."
"Nai, Mama!" Spike replied, smiling up at her.
Samus' eyes went wide. Tears beaded at the corners of her eyes. She struggled to blink them away, but they wouldn't stop. Bending over, she pulled Spike into a tight embrace, holding him against her.
Several Daws greeted the end of that video. Fluttershy cooed happily, while Applejack and Rarity smiled happily. Rainbow glanced over, obviously hiding whatever tender emotions the moment brought out in her.
Twilight, however, looked thoughtful...and somewhat sad.
Pinkie suddenly spoke up. "Samus seems like a really great lady!" she said happily. "Will we ever get to meet her?"
Spike smiled. "Well, if we can arrange her getting through town without causing a ruckus-"
A window shattered as an orange sphere was propelled through it, slamming into the wall before dropping to the floor. The sphere groaned. "I don't like hoofball..."
"Mom?" Spike asked in surprise.
The sphere unfurled, revealing the Power Suited warrior.
"Hey Spike," Samus replied, leaning against the wall. "You found her?"
Spike nodded. "Mom, this is Twilight Sparkle, my Mother." He beckoned Twilight forward. As Twilight stepped up to his side, he smiled up at Samus. "Twilight, this is Samus Aran, my Mother."
Twilight smiled. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Aran."
Samus knelt down to be closer to Twilight's level. "Nice to finally meet the one who's been in Spike's dreams for so long. Forgive me for not removing my armor just yet, but I'm still adjusting to the low gravity of this world. Right now, my suit's keeping me from accidentally breaking something or someone." She rubbed the back of Spike's head. "Spike's armor serves much the same purpose."
Pinkie's eyes widened. "Just how strong is Spike now?"
"This world is 0.8Gs," Samus explained. "Spike's physiology is adapted to be able to function normally at up to 40Gs."
Rainbow spat out her drink. "But that's 50 times normal gravity here!" she shouted. "I don't even hit that with most of my stunts, except the Rainboom!" She stared at Spike in awe. "If he can fly in an environment like that...what's he like in the air here?"
Samus chuckled. "Go flying with him and see. He's pretty good in the air."
"Then we're gonna race, Spike!" Rainbow said challengingly. "I wanna see what you can do!"
Spike chuckled. "You're on, Dash."
Twilight chuckled. "You'll stick around, won't you?" she asked Samus.
Samus shrugged. "Sure." She spotted the datapac. "How far did you get?" she asked Spike.
"I was about to tell them about Tallon IV," he replied.
"Good thing I'm here for that part," Samus replied.
"So how come ya came flying through that window?" Applejack asked.
Samus chuckled, self-consciously rubbing the back of her head. "I was worried about Spike, since he hadn't gotten in contact with me. I was using Morph Ball to get through the town without drawing attention...and an orange Pegasus challenged a yellow pony with a red mane to see how hard she could kick me."
Applejack facehoofed. "Apple Bloom..."
Applebloom?
Every time...
The race is on!!! Get ready to get your flank kicked Rainbow.
im liking this a lot keep it up and its not going to fast.
that last line was hilarious
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To be fair, how was she gonna know that strange metal ball was a living being?
5966671 Twelve bits it'll be uber close.
Looks like a filly can kick Samus Aran...
5966741 screw the reptilian pirates, all Ridley needs is a swarm of determined foals to defeat Samus!
5966733 15 bits says Spike utterly trashes her.
Bloomer the boomer! am sorry I kicked yer mother Spike.
40 Gs?
Rarity! Stop that!
cool
Heehee, that was fun to read.
5966826 I raise to 30 bits
5966880 Woot!
Morph ball is now hilarious forever!
Huh... you know, it wasn't until now I realized how the ball morph was similar to a ball...
...
Wow, that was a dumbass moment.
This is turning out to be an awesome story.
Also
Applebloom...WTF!!!
5966880 Let be bet like a real stallion, 200 bits on Spike!
So for Spike, both Twilight and Samus are his mother, right ?
5967039
Yup.
5967047 Kay, Thanks
Okay, I'm glad that Twilight is starting to show some negative feelings. Not sure if sorrow, guilt, or even jealousy, but something.
Although now I'm noticing that Spike and the girls seem to be jumping around with their actions, like everyone has ADD and can't focus on his story.
i thought it might be important for you to know that with her suit ON samus is 7 to 7.5 feet tall
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
good read
5967036 ONE HUNDRED MILLION BITS!!
"Samsu seems like a really great lady!"
Even though this is a typo, it made me laugh more than I should have lol.
5967036 I say a 1,000 bits that it gets close near the end, then spike zooms by and beats her in the last seconds.
I feel like things are moving stupidly fast.
5967628
A bit for every atto second this universe has existed.
Aka, 4.35485578 × 10^35 bits
And here enters Samus, or as she shall hence-forth be known as; Rainbow 2.
5967940 You win.
wait a minute, that suit is from metroid fusion, this its self might be a problem with the story.
since samus has that suit, i must mean this story takes place after fusion which is the last event in the time line, which means every game in the metroid time line has already happened which is why this may be a problem unless it is addressed soon.
in order to avoid potential plot holes, the writer has to either: include the baby metroid in the story, have the event of super metroid and metroid fusion never happen while still explaining how she manage to get that suit or have spike somehow beat mother brain and be immune to the X (i suggest not doing this)
now to those who don't play the game let me explain: in metroid 2, samus come across an egg where a baby metroid (who was also the last of it's species thanks to samus) hatched and made samus into its mother, samus spared it's life and brought it back with her. jumping into super metroid, the baby metroid was kidnapped by the space pirates, lead by ridley, to be used as a weapon. Samus chased after them to their base and found that the baby escaped and has grown in size from eating alot of enemies inside, it almost killed samus until it recognized its supposed mother and stop, fast foward, samus is then almost killed by mother brain until the massive baby metroid attacked mother brain and saved samus's life, then the metroid grabbed onto the weakened samus and start to heal samus with the energy it took from mother brain until mother brain recovered and attacked the baby while it was trying to protect samus. One final attacke killed the baby and the remains fell all over samus but this gave her the hyper beam power up and unleashed hell onto mother brain. (since prime and other m contradicts each other i wont mention them) skip to metroid fusion, samus is attack by a parasite called the X, samus almost dies until the scientist discovered that the metroid was a natural enemy to the X and by using the DNA from the baby to make a vaccine, samus survived with the ability to harmlessly absorb the X.
now for the tl;dr version: the baby metroid samus found saved her life twice in ways that only a metroid can perform
unless the three options aren't addressed, this leaves a big plot hole to people who follow the story
5968046
I actually have a plan to handle that issue...which is none of the ones you've suggested. As we get through Tallon IV, you'll start to get a glimmering. When we get past Super Metroid, you'll see it clearly.
If you'd like Spoiler explanation - if for no other reason than to poke holes in it - PM me and I'll share.
5968068 well i take your word for it. im actually curious how you will pull it off but ill wait like everyone else
I'm unsurprised that Morph-ball Samus got punted.
Why?
Lots of Daaaawww in this one. I do like the image of Samus mothering the Greed Growth out of Spike. And yay, she came into Ponyville! I hope to see more family bonding moments and Twilight and Samus swapping stories over the different ways they did things.
My money's on, Spike, doing his own sonic boom, and Rainbow floating by with her mouth agape!
And I love the reactions of all the girls in the other world, especially, Celestia and Luna, now for the ones in the pony world!
5967154
How did you come up with that number?
5968068
Please, for the love of God, tell me that you've made Other M non-canon.
5969053
Better.
I plan to fix it.
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Out of curiosity, what about the story makes you feel it's shitty and worthy of a downvote?
5969053 samas without armour is 6 foot 3 inches tall. with the suit on she gets 3 to 4 inches from her boots, and another 3 from her helmet (at least).
5970741
That's still only 6'9 to 6'10. Less than seven feet.
That was funny chapter. i liked it.
Can't wait for next chapter, because it. Is. ON! v (I got 40 G's on Spike.)
5969297
You know what? I think I could die happy were I to read that fix.
I will await such a fantastic solution patiently.
5970762 true but i was only guesstimating at the time I made the original post. and I had just woken up.
5970741
Also, don't forget that she's currently wearing her Fusion Suit, which is significantly smaller than any of her other power suits (remember, it's essentially the under-layer of her Varia Suit). I'd say that shaves both the helmet and the boots down to 2 - 3 inches.
Still, that places her somewhere between 6' 7" and 6' 9", which is still head and shoulders above most men.
5970281 Dude. What part of the story has got your jimmies in a rustle?
This story is at the top of my list right now. Needz more soon.
If this is meant to take place after Fusion is the comptuer version of Adam Malkovich also going to turn up? What's more are you going to delve into the aftermath Samus no doubt had to deal with after having to destroy the B.S.G. station and making an enemy of the Galactic Federation to stop the spread of the X?