The rest of the day proved to be somewhat uneventful. Well, if you count Pinkie deciding there had to be a 'completed-our-first-map-quest-and-Spike-taught-the-CMC-to-fly' party as 'uneventful'.
Afterwards, Rainbow and Scootaloo spent the next few hours racing each other around Ponyville. Almost everyone could hear the two laughing and squealing as they zipped around overhead.
Apple Bloom found out that, while she still couldn't buck as hard as her older siblings, flying gave her the momentum to hit the trees with enough force to knock at least some apples down. Plus, since she could hit then go at another, the sheer number she could hit in a short while almost made up for it. Applejack had to admit that, while she was still having a time getting accustomed to her sister being able to buzz around like that, it looked kind of fun.
Rarity however, once she managed to get over Sweetie's flying, found herself getting more than a little inspired for a potential fashion line revolving around the idea. And while she decided that while high speed wasn't for her, Sweetie still loved just floating about.
Plus the look on Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon's faces when they saw was a major bonus.
Twilight, on the other hand was almost vibrating at the prospect of studying a whole type of energy besides magic, especially if it was something that any sapient being could potentially learn. It took Chronoa offering to explain things a little to get her to stop pelting Spike with rapidfire questions.
Fluttershy was just glad to be back home, though she did enjoy watching the purple contrail Scootaloo could leave behind while zipping around.
That night, once again everyone was brought back into Spike's dream, eager to hear the rest of the story.
"Oh, Spike. I showed my aunts I can fly now, and they said they owe you cake." Scootaloo said, hopping into a chair that'd appeared for her.
"Make it lemon and we'll call it even." He smirked, getting a chair himself. "Well, there isn't a whole lot to say about the next few years. After Grandpa's death, it was just me and Goku; getting food, training, and just living pretty much." They all turned to watch a memory start up. "At least until a certain blue-haired girl decided to show up."
"Wow, you're a big one." Spike commented, looking up at the massive, and hungry-looking, grizzly looming over, its beady eyes focused on what it assumed was its next snack. "Kinda hairy, but I can work with that."
With a roar, it lunged, looking to swipe him off his feet with its long claws. What it got, however was nothing but air as Spike leaped back, chuckling a bit in the process. "Missed me!" He called out, suddenly rocketing back at the beast the moment he landed, catching it with a fist square between the eyes.
The force was enough to send it stumbling back some until it fell into a lifeless heap.
"Direct hit!" Luna yelled.
"Spike! What were you thinking?!" Twilight yelled once she regained her composure after seeing the bear. "That thing looks like it was almost five times your size!"
"What? It's not like I haven't hunted bear before, Twi." He replied, shrugging a little.
Fluttershy looked up from watching the memory. "But doesn't that affect the local ecosystem? Judging from how practiced the takedown looked, you've hunted them fairly often."
"A few times, but Grandpa taught us to change up what we went after fairly often since too much in a row wasn't really good for us or the wildlife. Plus bear for three straight days gets old." He laughed a bit at how they reacted to him hoisting it up on his shoulders like it was nothing. "Had to learn to haul lots of heavy stuff around as well. Anyway, by then I'd figured Goku had probably grabbed something for lunch since I'd found dinner."
"Wait, that's ONE meal??" Fluttershy's wings buzzed in surprise, "But, that has to be at least a seven hundred pound bear! Even manticores don't eat that much in one setting!"
"Believe me, leftovers don't exist around the two of us, but like I said, we changed it up a lot to keep from thinning things out too badly. When I got back home, though, Goku caught a lot more than lunch."
Spike looked on shock as he watched Goku throw a big metal something onto its side. Whatever it was, it must've either been real mean or really dumb to make his brother that mad. "Goku, look out!" He yelled, seeing what must've been the thing living in the metal whatever come out and point something at him. He dropped the bear and fired off a blast of
fire at it.Whatever it was, the fire was enough to send it back in with a shriek. Neither boy wasted any time hopping up onto it.
"We got you trapped, monster!" Goku said, pointing the Power Pole down into the opening.
"Yeah, whatever you are, you might as well surrender!" Spike added, taking a fighting stance.
"I give! I give!" It yelled. "No one said there were dragons around here!"
"Spike...tell me you didn't shoot fire at a girl." Twilight looked at him.
"Neither of us knew until she got out!" He replied in his defense. "Granted, once we made her get out, and she proved she was a human, she introduced herself as Bulma Briefs" An image of her showed up in front of them.
"Oh really now!" Rarity looked at the image in unashamed disapproval. "I'll admit that I've let my pride get the best of me on occasion, but brandishing your name like that for any Trot, Dick, or Harry to see? Certainly doesn't say much for her modesty. And huuaa...hooaa..." She tried to say the color without looking ill.
"Hot Pink?" King Kai offered.
"Ehuuaa....y-yes, thank you."
"Yeah, she kinda liked to complain about a lot of stuff. As for why she was out there, she was looking for the Dragon Balls. Even had a detector that told her where they were hidden. Apparently Grandpa had come across the four-star one, which is what brought her out there. Anyway, she wanted Grandpa's so she could make a wish. Me and Goku were a little leery about letting her have it at first, but agreed and joined up to find the others."
"You weren't the only ones." Chronoa added. "Remember those two goofballs who worked for the little blue guy, Pilaf?"
"Oh yeah, the lady and the dog?" He asked, watching images of the two appear. "Yeah, I remember seeing them a couple of times."
"So that's a human?" Shining scratched his chin. "Talk about weird looking..."
"Anyway, you had your first run-in with them when the three of you stopped for the night, and you mistook their plane for a big fat bird." The SKOT giggled a little. "If it hadn't been for the pack of wolves, they probably would have made a go for the Dragon Balls you guys had."
"Really?" A contemplative look crossed Spike's face. "Huh, now I feel a little bad for the ones me and Goku ate."
"Dude, there anything you didn't eat?" Rainbow asked, making a face at what she thought wolf might taste like.
Nice to see you getting back to the story of Spike’s time in The DB world.
a little more editing, but the story is going very good, so the updates are slow for the moment XD.
Oh, Fluttershy, pray you never see a Saiyan eat. Also, fun fact: Bulma actually doesn't have a last name. As in, her name isn't Bulma Breifs. Her dad, who is a doctor, is just called Brief.
I believe it is didn't.
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And abbreviating Supreme Kai of Time as SKOT? I understand but goddamn, distracting.
And uh, now I seen in comments you called GT atrocity. It wasn't great but had some good concepts
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a couple, but in general, i just found the whole thing to be awful..
Watching Goku and Vegeta eat will prolly give Rarity nightmares for awhile. I'm a little disappointed that Spike didn't write a book about all the meat he ate.
You know, considering that Spike's adventures take place between "Magical Mystery Cure" and "Twilight's Kingdom", one thing occurs to me...
I saw AJ's reaction to AB's flying. But how about Big Mac's and Granny's opinion? Since we all know Big Mac secretly want to fly like a Princess.
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I suppose they like to keep their names brief.
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Eh, Baby saga was good concept but could've been done better. Tsufurus were mentioned in DBZ after all and that they were at war with saiyans. Shadow dragons were also a good concept, especially what with overuse of dragonballs. As for SSJ4? I like that it did remember that saiyan's main thing originally was going Oozaru, being a major plot point in DB. It's like respecting your heritage, and it looks like an evolution of a Saiyan. It's a design you can't add more to, otherwise it'd be too much, though. And honestly? I like it better than, as Frieza called it, "Super Saiyan Blue Hair Dye". GT has saiyans go towards their primal root, while Super goes towards divine and mystic.
Besides, Dragonball originally started as story inspired by Journey to the West, and Goku is based of Sun Wukong. In SSJ4 he resembles Wukong even more.
...granted, Super 17 saga could be changed and the search for Black Star balls, while fleshing out the UNIVERSE of Dragonball... felt a bit flaccid
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granted, it did have a couple positive aspects, but I just couldn't get into it personally
that is a loaded question for that dragon rainbow.
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It had some good ideas, but terrible execution.
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Eh, I can understand that. It had its flaws, while Super has 20 years of hindsight and people wanting DB after so long powering it. I still think SSJ4's design is leagues better than Blue. I get that Blue is meant to be simplistic but it feels a bit lazy
So I assume you're gonna use DBS for this, or just go with Z and End of Z episode?
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Indeed
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gonna be adding some of super, though i'm still undecided just how much.
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Well maybe like you could have the flashbacks end at the beginning of Super and and continue the story into super without flashbacks.
Did that come out right?
Fun fact Bulma does not have a last name. She is just Bulma not Bulma Briefs. Her father’s name is Briefs no last name. Surnames in DB are rare which is why Videl was surprised by Gohan having one
I can't believe I didn't point this out before, but how is Fluttershy not freaking out at the thought of Spike hunting animals?
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most likely because fluttershy is friends with other animals that eat meat like harry.