Somewhere He Belongs

by SuperSamYoshi

Chapter 35: Are you an Alien... or a Human? (Edited)

Sam found himself in the empty void of white once again. This time he didn’t feel so alive, he felt weaker, and his muscles hurt. And like last time, Ultraman was there as well.

“I warned you,” he told him, “I warned you not to overdo it.”

Sam just looked down in shame, he knew he was right. “I had to stop him,” he tried to retort, “Otherwise, he would have destroyed the city.”

“Do you know how much time you had left before you would have fallen into a coma-like state,” Ultraman responded, “5 whole seconds.”

“I know I was cutting it close,” Sam replied, “but I had to do something.”

“You're just lucky that I’m linked to you like a life support machine,” Ultraman said, “or else, I would have separated from you and fought Nightfall on my own. I would give up my own life to save another, not put that other in danger of death as well.”

“I would risk my life to save someone else as well,” Sam retorted, “heck, I’ve done that, I’ve shown that I would rather die than let a whole nation of beings suffer. Ultraman, let me fight with you, we’re stronger together than just one.”

Ultraman just stood in silence looking down on Sam, he knew he was right. If Sam wasn't with him, he would surely lose against EX Demaaga. “You know, I don’t think those shockwaves and high temperatures are related to me,” Ultraman told him.

“They’re not?” Sam questioned.

“Specium energy erupting from your body is linked to me,” Ultraman responded, “you glowing orange and your temperature rising to critical levels isn’t.”

“Then what’s up with me?” Sam asked.

“I don’t know,” Ultraman replied, “But I have the feeling that you are not what you think you are.”

“Am I an alien?!” Sam shouted.

“Calm down, I don’t know,” Ultraman told him, “I think this is something you have to work out on your own.”

“I guess we'll find out later,” Sam said, “right now we need to stop Nightfall and get my mothers back. Are you with me?” Sam held out his hand.

“Yes, let’s save your homes together,” Ultraman replied as he grabbed Sam’s hand and shook it.

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Sam slowly began to open his eyes, his vision was blurry as he struggled to sit up. He felt something laying on his legs, as his vision started to get clearer, he looked around and saw that he was back in his old school. He was laying on a makeshift bed of hay, he also saw that Elena was asleep on his lap. He reached up a hand and petted her head, Elena leaned into his touch as she opened her eyes slowly. When she saw that it was Sam petting her, she sat up and started to lick Sam’s face.

“Ok, ok, easy there,” Sam chuckled.

“Good to see you awake,” said a voice, Sam looked up to see Chris, “You were out for quite a while.”

“What happened?” Sam asked.

“You collapsed for exhaustion after completely destroying EX Demaaga and half the town,” Chris replied.

“What?!” Sam exclaimed, “Wait, it’s coming back, where’s my mothers?!”

“I’m sorry,” Chris responded looking down in shame, “they were taken by Nightfall.”

Sam didn’t say anything, he was too shocked, “but why?” he finally said.

“My guess is that she took you to lure your mothers into her trap,” Chris retorted, “she used the monsters as a distraction for us so she could capture them.”

“We need to save them!” Sam declared as he tried to get up but then he fell to his knees.

“Careful mate!” Chris warned him, “you just woke up. You’re not fully healed.”

“But they’re my family!” Sam shouted as he stumbled to his feet and weakly took a few steps, “why do I feel so weak?!”

“You probably exposed too much energy when you destroyed EX Demaaga,” Chris assumed, “do you know what happened to you?”

“No, I don’t,” Sam replied, “I just have a giant time gap missing. I remember telling you to leave EX Demaaga to me and then I’m back down to normal size and on the ground surrounded by you and my friends.”

“Hmm, interesting,” Chris thought, “come with me, I want to run some tests on you.”

“What are you talking about?” Sam asked as Chris helped him to the old computer room, that seemed to be turned into a lab.

“What the?” Sam questioned, “this wasn’t here before.”

“Me and your friends turned this computer room into a sort of Laboratory while you were out,” Chris answered.

“How long was I out?” Sam asked.

“About a week or two,” Chris replied casually.

“What?!” Sam exclaimed.

“Don’t worry, we’ve fed you so you can stay alive,” Chris replied as he set Sam down on a bench.

“You could have spent that time looking for my mothers,” Sam said.

“Where do you think everyone is,” Chris stated, “why do you think it’s just us, your fox friend and elephant teacher here?”

“Really…?” Sam quizzed, “they’re out there looking for them?”

“Yes, they know how important family is,” Chris replied, “now hold still.”

Chris went over to some monitor and typed around a bit, just them a metal ring lowered down upon Sam. He looked up and was going to get out of its way because he didn’t have the strength to do so, so he let it come down. It turned out that it was a scanner and that it was scanning Sam to see what the reason could be for his flaming outbursts.

An outline of Sam appeared on a screen and Chris monitored the scan. He took notes of the scan, how Sam’s colour timer was connected to his heart, and other biological stuff.

“So what do you see?” Sam called out.

“Well other than your Colour Timer being connected to your heart, meaning that if it was pulled out it would snap the vanes going to your heart and kill you,” Chris replied, “You seem to have some sort of thermal heat generator inside you.”

“What does that mean?” Sam asked.

“I’m not a scientist so I don’t know if that is supposed to be there,” Chris said, “but I my guess is that this is where your fiery energy comes from in your Blitz state.”

“What about me erupting Specium Energy?” Sam asked as a small burst erupted for his shoulder.

“Well that seems to be with your Colour Timer,” Chris said, showing Sam the scan, “It seems like there are invisible cords coming from your Colour Timer that have been stretched to the limit. Some seem to still be intact while others have been snapped. Every time you have a small burst, that’s the cords slowly tearing, and when you erupt a powerful pulse, that’s a cord snapping in two.”

“And how many do I have left?” Sam asked a bit nervously.

“It seems about five,” Chris replied.

“Great, my life is being held literally by thread,” Sam remarked.

“What do you mean by that?” Chris asked.

“Well, back in Equestria, I was involved in a dimensional accident, and a female clone of me was created, she’s like a sister to me, and I think the other end of those cords is her,” Sam replied, “She and I have a connection so if we’re too far apart and keep erupting Specium Energy, we with die.”

“Oh my,” Chris remarked, “So we’re up against the time here. And these seem to snap at random, so it must mean that your female clone is getting further away from you.”

“So we need to rescue my mums and stop Nightfall before it’s too late,” Sam said as he held out his hand, “Will you help me Chris, despite the fact we basically met like a week or so ago.”

“Of course I will,” Chris said, grabbing Sam’s hand and shaking it, “us Ultra Brothers gotta stick together.”

“Right back at ya, bro,” Sam smiled.

Just then Elena came running in, yipping like mad. “Woah Girl calm down,” Chris said, “what are you saying?”

“I think she wants us to follow her,” Sam stated, Elena nodded and ran out the room. Chris helped Sam up and the two followed Elena outside.

Once they got outside, they saw what Elena was yipping at. Or rather who. It was Eden slithering along the ground like the snake she had become with a slip of paper in her mouth. Elena ground at the snake, but Eden didn’t react, she looked rather upset as she looked up at Sam with her slip or paper.

“You brought me this?” Sam asked, Eden nodded as Sam reached out to grab the slip of paper, Eden carefully opened her jaw for Sam to take it. Sam opened it and saw that it was a note, he read it and once he finished he turned to look at Chris with a worried look.

“What’s it say?” he asked as Sam gave it to him, and he read it, “‘The time has come. You better be ready Samuel, because nothing will stop me from fulfilling my plans. Meet me in front of you at three this afternoon, you better show up, unless you want your mothers to suffer.’ And the time now is ten in the morning.”

“Then let us get ready for her,” Sam said, “but first… I want something to eat. I'm hungry.”

---

After getting something to eat and getting his strength back, Chris called Sam’s friends back and they all got ready for when Nightfall would show up. The time ticked by slowly, as Sam waited, he wanted Nightfall to arrive now, and he could put a stop to her. Chris could see Sam was nervous, he knew that Sam wanted to stop Nightfall, but if he did anything wrong, it could lead to his own death. So the time was 2:50 PM, and Sam and Chris were all standing outside the school, Sam’s friends were all inside the school for safety.

“She’ll be here soon,” Sam said.

“Just remain calm, you don’t want to get worked up and lose any upper hand we may have,” Chris warned him.

“I know, I’m just worried for them,” Sam replied, “I’ve scared them so many times, like falling into a coma-like state, and running away from home.”

“And now you know how they must have felt,” Chris stated.

“Yes, it feels awful,” Sam commented.

“Just don’t forget, that I’m here by your side,” Chris replied.

“Right, thank you,” Sam responded.

“Don’t mention it,” Chris replied. The two stood there in silence as the seconds ticked by, then something came to Sam’s mind.

“So when this is all over and we beat Nightfall, what’s going to happen to you?” he asked.

“I’ve actually not thought about that,” Chris answered, “I actually believed for the longest time that I would still be trapped in the warehouse with her keeping me captive.”

“Well, why don’t you come with me back to Equestria?” Sam suggested, “you’ll have nice friends, great food, a new home.”

“I don’t know,” Chris responded unsure.

“Tell you what, if you come with me, I’ll help you find a place to call home,” Sam recommended.

“Really?” Chris quizzed.

“Yeah,” Sam said, “In fact, I feel like Rarity would definitely allow you to stay with her. She’s everything you want in a caretaker or mother, if you want to view her in that way.”

“Ok, I’ll take your word on it,” Chris said, “but I don’t want her to replace my mother.”

“Don’t worry, I doubt she would want to replace her,” Sam reassured him, “Twilight hasn’t replaced mine.”

Suddenly the two boys saw a portal open in the sky and a giant alien that resembled a bat floated down and landed in the town, followed by a monster that Sam had previously fought, Zetton.

“HAHAHAHA!!” laughed the alien, “Come on out Ultraman, I Alien Bat have come to defeat you!”

“Zetton!” cried the space Dinosaur.

“What the?!” shouted Sam as he prepared to fight, but Chris stopped him.

“No, I’ll take him on,” he said, “you need to fight Nightfall.”

“Alright, good luck,” Sam responded.

“Right,” Chris shouted as he ran and transformed into Ultraman Jack. He landed near the alien and monster and got into a fighting pose.

“Wait, you’re not Ultraman,” Alien Bat remarked.

“He’s a little busy,” Jack replied.

“In any way, you have come to die,” Alien Bat exclaimed, “Zetton, begin the Ultraman Annihilation Project!”

Zetton did as he was told as he ran forward Jack. The Ultraman and monster rushed at each other, as Jack ran past Zetton, the monster shocked him with an electrical current through his body. This stunned Jack long enough for Zetton to come closer and start pummelling the Ultra to the ground. Zetton then grabbed Jack by the head and threw him to his master, as Alien Bat caught him, and Jack tried to break free.

“Aim for the Colour Timer!” Alien Bat ordered.

Ultraman Jack kicked Zetton in the chest, sending the monster back, then he managed to get free from Alien Bat’s grip before elbowing him in the chest. Alien Bat stumbled as Jack grabbed him and threw him over his shoulder. With Alien Bat on the ground, Zetton launched solidified gasoline grenade missiles from his hands at Ultraman Jack, but the Ultra simply dodged them. Jack then wrestled with Zetton before pushing him through a building causing it to crumble to the ground.

Jack chopped at Zetton’s neck and even tried to strangle the monster, but Zetton knocked him off. Zetton got back up and fired his Laser arrows from his face at Jack who blocked them with his hands. Jack then ran forward and grabbed Zetton’s arm, but the monster just tossed Ultraman to the ground, and behind a building, before firing its Zetton Napalm at Jack.

Jack got back up on his feet and grabbed Zetton by the antennas and kicked him in the face and chopped him on the top of the head, as Alien Bat crawled on the ground and smacked Jack in the back of the leg causing the Ultra to lose balance and fall to the ground. Both monster and Alien beat Jack to the ground as his Colour Timer started to blink.

Back on the ground, Sam was watching it all, he was worried for his friend but then he heard wicked laughter coming from his left. He turned and saw that it was Nightfall.

“Such a sad image,” she remarked, “watching your friend lose to a couple of aliens. Even though I had nothing to do with them.”

“What?” Sam questioned.

“I didn’t summon them,” Nightfall answered, “But I’m glad that they did appear, that means I have you all to myself.”

“Where are my mother’s?” Sam growled.

“Right here,” Nightfall answered as she stepped aside, Ruben and his gang, looking like human’s again, carrying Twilight and Sunset. But they were tied up and gagged, just like how Sam was in the warehouse.

“Let them go!” cried Sam. Twilight opened her eyes and saw Sam, she tried to break free, but she couldn’t, she tried to scream but her voice was muffled.

“I’m afraid I can’t do that,” Nightfall replied, “I need them to be whole again. You want to see a little magic trick.”

Suddenly, Ruben and Abdul ran to Sam and grabbed him, they held him up as Nightfall grabbed Sunset and Twilight by the arms. Her hands started to glow with magic as she levitated into the air, with Twilight and Sunset. A white orb of light surrounded the three girls, as something happened to them. The three girls became one. As the orb floated back down, and disappeared, Sam gasped in horror as for what stood in front of him was not longer Nightfall but a combination of Nightfall, Twilight, and Sunset. And not only was her upper half human, but the lower half was pony.

“Am I Princess Eclipse, Again?” the being spoke, “no, I’m so much more than just Princess. I'm a Nightmare Eclipse!”

“Oh crap,” Sam remarked in a small timid voice.

“Right you got what you want, now where is our reward?” Ruben spoke up.

“You want your reward?” Nightmare Eclipse questioned, “here’s your reward.” And she fired beams of magic at the gang knocking them all out.

“Oh my,” Sam stated, “so you’re Eclipse again, now what?”

“Simple,” Nightmare Eclipse replied, “I want to rule over Equestria like the queen I am.”

“You’re no queen,” Sam remarked, “a queen would be fair, and not use overs as components.”

“Oh Please, I was the main part, Twilight and Sunset were just there to complete me,” Nightmare Eclipse commented, “and now that I’m complete, it’s time to put you to rest.”

“I like to see you try, Nicole,” Sam said as he donned his Ultrasuit.

“Nicole is no more,” Nightmare Eclipse replied as the two started to fight.

Back with Jack, Zetton had brought Jack back to his feet and then threw him to the ground, Jack rolled and got back on his feet, as he deployed his blades and launched on stabbing Alien Bat in the heart. The Alien stumbled back in agony as he fell to the ground and died on the spot. Jack ran forward, Zetton grabbed him and lifted him up, then threw him into the sky. Jack then fired his Cinerama Shot, destroying Zetton, he then fired it at the corpse of Alien Bat, when it too blew up.

“Finally,” Jack panted, “now let me get back to Sam.”

Ultraman was having a tough time fighting back against Nightmare Eclipse, she was faster and stronger, and could fight from long range. Luckily Ultraman was human sized, so he wasn’t using Specium Energy. But that didn’t stop him from erupting with energy.

“Give me back my mums!” Ultraman shouted.

“You’ll have to separate us to do so!” Nightmare Eclipse shouted.

Jack then landed and readied his railgun, he fired it striking Eclipse in the side. “You have no choice, Eclipse, it’s two against one!” he cried. But the only thing he got in reply was evil laughter.

“You fools,” she remarked, pulling out the ray gun, “do you not know what I’ve been up to for the last week.”

She then fired it at the ground and was absorbed, as a monster rose from the ground. The monster was a mix-mash of other monsters, with a mace and blade on one arm, a crab pincer on the other, wings, two sets of legs, a long tail, spikes running down its back, large ears, poisonous sacks, feathers, a gorge on its chest with an eye just above it, and a horn on its nose.

“Boys I present to you, my most powerful EX monster. EX Tyrant!” cried Nightmare Eclipse from inside the monster.

Ultraman wasted no time in changing sizes to battle EX Tyrant, Jack waited until he had enough strength. Ultraman landed in front of EX Tyrant and ran towards the monster and tried to kick it, but EX Tyrant blocked it with his arms. But was too slow to react in time when Ultraman roundhouse kicked him in the chest, causing the monster to stumble back. Ultraman ran forward and grappled with EX Tyrant but the chimaera monster just swatted Ultraman away like nothing.

Ultraman kicked Tyrant in the side and then chop at his body and neck, but it seemed to do nothing as EX Tyrant swiped his mace blade down, slashing Ultraman across the chest. Ultraman stumbled back as EX Tyrant went to smack Ultraman with his pincer, but Ultraman dodged it and backhanded smacked him in the side of the face. EX Tyrant roared out in pain as Ultraman grabbed him by the head and started to elbow Tyrant in the back on the head before kneeing him in the face.

Back in the school, Elena and everyone were watching the fight, they knew they were safe enough by being in the school, but Elena wanted to do more than just sit and watch. So she ran outside and started to yip Sam on. The others soon joined her, Jack noticed this just as his Colour Timer returned to normal blue.

“What are you guys doing out here?!” he exclaimed, “get back inside now!” But Elena refused to move, “Oh you want to cheer us on. Well we’ll make sure we win.”

Ultraman punched Tyrant in the chest before grabbing his head and tossing him around. Tyrant threw Ultraman off him and spun around to swing his tail into Ultraman, but Ultra dodged it just in time. Ultraman stood firm as he powered up his Specium Beam and fired it at Tyrant, but to Ultraman and everyone’s shock, EX Tyrant opened his gorge and absorbed Ultraman Specium Beam.

“Seriously!” Ultraman cried as he tried to change his aim, but the beam just seemed to curve to the gorge. Suddenly Ultraman let out a Specium Pulse that seemed to knock Tyrant back, but he was still absorbing all of Ultraman's Specium beam. Soon Ultraman was out of energy to fire his Specium Beam. He tried to fire it again, but nothing happened, just as his Colour Timer started to blink. “Are you kidding me?! All my energy is nearly gone!”

Nightmare Eclipse laughed within EX Tyrant as the monster stomped forward and slashed his blade across Ultraman’s chest and swung his tail around, striking Ultraman and causing him to stumble. Tyrant fought with feist power, striking Ultraman with his mace blade, and pincer arms as well as slamming his front weight onto the Ultra when Ultraman was on the ground.

Ultraman grunted in pain as he continuously got stomped on, as EX Tyrant roared out loud, just as bullets of light struck the monster in the face, causing the Tyrant to get off Ultraman and fall to the ground. It was Ultraman Jack firing his Railgun at the monster, Jack went over to Ultraman and held out his hand.

“Do you always jump in without thinking things through,” Jack joked.

“Not always! Thanks for the save!” Ultraman replied as he took Jack’s hand, and he helped him up.

EX Tyrant roared out loud as he stood back up. Jack fired more bullets of light from his railgun at Tyrant, as the monster came out of the smoke that had formed from the attack, he seemed unphased by it but then Ultraman came flying in and kicked EX tyrant in the side, sending the monster falling to the ground. Tyrant slowly got back up as Ultraman and Jack prepared to finish him off.

“Cinerama Shot!” Shouted Jack.

“Slash Beam!” Cried Ultraman and both Ultras fired their beam attacks at EX Tyrant. Both beams stuck Tyrant in the chest and exploded.

Both Ultras panted as they pumped their fists in victory. But from the smoke and flames of the explosion, a steam of fire shot out and struck both Ultras in the chest catching them off guard and sending them flying back. It turned out that they didn’t destroy EX Tyrant and their attacks did little to no damage to even scratch it.

“HAHAHAHAHAHA!” laughed Nightmare Eclipse sounding more insane every time, “This is the true power of my EX Tyrant! Chimaera Hell Beam, FIRE!”

The eye above the gorge started to build up with energy, Ultraman and Jack got ready as EX Tyrant fired a very powerful beam right at Ultraman Jack. He got ready to block it but Ultraman pushed him out the way and took the full force of the attack. The beam pushed Ultraman through several buildings and caused him to have three more Specium Pulses, one more pulse and Sam would die. Ultraman weakly looked at Jack who came running up to him.

“Sam!” he cried, Ultraman’s Colour Timer was blinking rapidly, “Why did you do that?!”

“It’s… up… to… you… now…” Ultraman gasped as his Colour Timer stopped and his eyes went out.

“No… NO!!” Jack yelled, “You can’t die! You promised me a new home! A new Family!!”

“HAHAHAHA!” cackled Nightmare Eclipse, “One down, one to go!”

“You’ll pay for this!” Jack screamed as he deployed his blades and ran to attack EX Tyrant.

Back at the school, everyone was horrified, they had witnessed the power of EX Tyrant, in how he defeated Ultraman in one blast. Elena was so shocked, tears were streaming from her eyes.

“SSSAAAA…. SSSSAAAA…. SSSSAAAAA….” She hissed until… “SSSSSAAAAMMMMM!!!!!!” She cried out his name. Everyone was shocked, Elena, a fox, just spoke. Elena’s voice reached Ultraman’s ears, his Colour Timer glowed white and shot a beam up into the sky and landed on his friends. The beam was harmless as Elena and the rest’s eyes all started to glow white.

---

Sam was once again in the empty white void of limbo, he lay on his back motionless and almost dead like. The layer of mist started to move upwards over Sam, as a sign that he wasn’t alone. Off in the far distance, figures could be seen making their way in Sam’s direction. Their outlines first resembled animals, but as they got closer, they started to shapeshift into humans. And not just any random group of humans, they were Sam’s friends.

Once they reached Sam’s body, Tyler, Sommer, Oscar, and Chloe all lifted him up and they continued to wake into the mist. As they walked carefully with Sam in their arms, the mist started to disappear and was replaced with green grass and yellow flowers. The white sky started to turn blue, as they reached the end of the cloud ceiling. Soon, the white empty void of limbo was replaced with an endless field of flowers.

The group reached a small hill with a lone tree standing on top of the hill. The four gently laid Sam under the shade of the tree as they all kneeled around him. Then, Elena spoke up.

“Sam,” she said, “you can’t die. Not now after we just reunited.”

“You can beat this evil,” Joe stated.

“You have to,” Thomas spoke up.

“We’re here for you,” Sommer remarked.

“Sam,” spoke Miss Dickson as she placed a hand on his chest, “You taught and showed us what it means to be. A student.”

“A leader,” Joe remarked, as he too placed his hand on Sam’s chest.

“A Friend,” Thomas said.

“A Kisser,” Phoebe stated.

“A Rival,” Oscar commented.

“A Jokester,” Erin noted.

“A Sweetheart,” Chloe mentioned.

“A Sibling,” Bethany declared.

“An Artist,” Kelly asserted.

“A Straight Man,” Reece spoked.

“A Boss,” Sophia remarked.

“A Hothead,” James stated.

“An Impressionist,” Sommer commented.

“A Talker,” Millie quietly noted.

“A Fighter,” Tyler mentioned.

“A Boyfriend,” Elena said, the last to put her hand on Sam’s chest. Their bodies started to glow different colours as an object appeared in a flash of light.

Sam slowly opened his eyes, and his friends all smiled at him. Sam looked at them and smiled back at them, as he placed his own hand on top of all theirs.

“Thank you, everyone,” Sam declared, as his friends slowly disappeared in their lights. Sam grabbed the object and stood up and point it to the sky, “ULTRAMAN!!!”

---

Jack was struggling to fight EX Tyrant, his Colour Timer was flashing rather fast, and he was almost out of energy, but he had to keep fighting. Nightmare Eclipse was having a grand time, Jack was barely hurting her, and she had tons of strength to use. When Suddenly a shockwave was unleashed from Ultraman, Jack and EX Tyrant turned to look at him, and in a blind flash of light, Ultraman stood back up, but as the light faded, Jack and Nightmare Eclipse were shocked to see that Ultraman wasn’t a robotic suit, but a fully organic Ultra.

“Holy Moly!” Jack exclaimed.

“How are you alive?!” shouted Nightmare Eclipse in anger.

“Chris. Stand Down.” Ultraman spoke. Chris nodded and returned to normal and was about to collapse to the ground, but Oscar caught him and brought him back to rest.

Ultraman just stood still, not even striking a fighting pose. EX Tyrant fired a steam of flames at Ultraman, but he just stood there completely unphased by the flames. With one swish of his arm, the flame disappeared. Tyrant then tried to use its Arrow Ray, but like the Death Fire attack, Ultraman was completely unphased by it, as he started to walk closer to EX Tyrant.

Now starting to panic, Nightmare Eclipse made EX Tyrant fire all types of attacks at Ultraman, Freezing Gas, Eye lasers, Arrow Rays anything to stop the Ultra, but Ultraman just kept walking. Suddenly Ultraman ran at the last minute and kicked EX Tyrant in the chest, sending the monster falling to the ground. As EX Tyrant stood up, Ultraman used his Slash Ray to destroy EX Tyrant’s poisonous sack on his head, venom splashed on the monster's body, poisoning him, and starting to feel weaker. Ultraman then grabbed the blade on the mace arm and pulled it straight off the arm and stabbed the blade deep into the Gan Q eye on the chest.

Crying out in pain, Nightmare Eclipse looked up and saw Ultraman jump back a good few metres away.

"What are you, Ultraman?” Nightmare Eclipse asked, “Are you an alien... or a human?"

"I am both. I was born to fight those who break universal laws, like you,” Ultraman replied as he then started to charge up a power the strongest Specium Beam he had ever charged. His arms glowed light blue while the black markings on his body glowed fiery orange.

“Ultra Specium Beam, Blitz Empowered!” He cried as he fired a Specium Beam with a mixture of blue and orange at EX Tyrant.

The monster opened its gorge in hope to store it, but the beam just kept coming, and it was starting to burn EX Tyrant on the inside. EX Tyrant tried to fire a beam out the Gan Q eye but because The axe blade was buried deep inside the eye, it was blocking the beam from being unleashed. EX Tyrant’s body started to swell with energy building up inside him and Nightmare Eclipse was getting really hot from the heat. She cried out for Ultraman to stop but he kept on firing until at last, EX Tyrant exploded in a fiery explosion that would match that of a nuclear bomb.

Nightmare Eclipse landed on the ground with a massive thud in front of Elena and everyone who had been watching it all happened. She looked up and back up in fear as Elena, Joe and Thomas had their teeth snarling at her. Eclipse looked up at Ultraman who then charged and fired a special Colorium Beam down on Eclipse, which separated her back into Twilight, Sunset, and Nightfall. Ultraman shrank back down to Sam and ran to give Twilight and Sunset a hug, which they returned with smiles and tears of happiness. They all looked to the smoking crater that Nightfall lay in.

“Nightfall, you have failed,” he declared, “Your monster was destroyed, your lackies out cold, and you’ve been defeated by a ten year old. Surrender now or else I’ll let my friends eat you.”

Sniffs could be heard from Nightfall, she was crying.

“Nightfall, you have two options,” Twilight called out to her, “you can either make amends for your actions, or go to Tartarus for the rest of your life.”

“The choice is yours,” Sunset said, “we just hope that you make the right one, sister.”

“I’m… I’m sorry,” came Nightfall’s stuttering voice, “I’m so sorry. I just wanted to be whole once again. I just wanted to be loved again. Please forgive me for everything.”

Sam started to feel sad for Nightfall, enough though he was still really angry at her for doing what she did, he could help but feel sorry for her. He walked over to the crater and offered to help her out. She looked up at Sam with hope in her eyes, as she grabbed a hold of his hand.

“Why don’t you start over again,” Sam suggested, “make this place your new home, and have a fresh start as Nicole Foster.”

“Really?” Nightfall asked, “you want me to live here and start anew?”

“Yes,” Sam replied, “and my friends here can teach you how to be a good person once again.”

“Oh thank you Sam,” Nightfall cried, hugging Sam with tears in her eyes, “Thank you so much for giving me another chance.”

“You’re very welcome at Nightfall,” Sam replied.

“Please, call me Nicole,” she responded.

“Very well then, Nicole,” Sam remarked.

They stopped hugging and Twilight and Sunset came up to her, “You’ll be happy here,” Twilight said.

“And I can do good by trying to reverse all the humans back to animals,” Nicole replied, “I’ve shown how good I am with tech.”

“That’s a job and a half,” Sunset remarked, “but good luck to you.”

“Thank you, I’ll try my best,” Nicole said. Just then Spike came out of the school.

“Spike!” Twilight cried, opening her arms to let Spike run into them.

Spike barked happily to see his adoptive sister, “Wait Spike where you slept the whole time,” Sam asked. Spike just nodded, “Oh my goodness.”

Soon it was time to head back to Equestria, Nicole had given back the EX Capsules she stole to Twilight and Chris took a minute to say goodbye to his home. Just as they were about to enter the pond and swim back to Equestria, they heard yipping coming from Elena. She came running up to Sam and nudged his hand.

“What’s wrong Elena?” he asked, he looked into her eyes, and he got what she was wanting to do.

“I think she wants to come with you,” Nicole replied.

“Is that true?” Sam questioned, looking into Elena’s eyes, “do you want to come with us?”

“She’s been living here, waiting for you to return,” Nicole remarked, “she wasn’t ready for you to disappear.”

“We’ve seen how much she cares for you,” Twilight chimed in, “She went out of her way to find you when you were captured.”

Sam just kneeled down and wrapped his arms around Elena’s soft neck. “Let’s go and say goodbye to our friends,” he told her. Sam let go of the hug and the two went over to their group of friends. “Guys, I know I’ve only been here for a short while, but to me, It’s felt so much longer. It was nice to see you all again, even though you’re all animals. Joe, you are the leader of our team for now on, protect them and be a true leader like I was. I’m going to miss all of you so much, I love you all.”

Tears started to fall from his face, as his friend all nuzzled in closer and a warm and comforting embrace. They were like that for a little while before it was time for Sam to leave. First Spike jumped into the pond, took a deep breath, and started to swim down. Next, Sunset stepped into the pond, she waved goodbye and followed Spike into the water. Then Twilight got into the water as well, she waved goodbye, wished Nicole luck one last time and with the capsules strapped to her back, swam after Sunset. Just as Chris too swam below the water, Sam and Elena looked at each other, back at their friends, at their school and then back to the pond. Elena went first as she started to doggy paddle below the pond and finally, with one last wave goodbye and a single tear falling down his face, Sam went below the water and headed back to Equestria.

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Sam popped his head out of the fountain on the other side of the portal to his home world, gasping for air as the swim was very long and they could have drowned. Twilight used her magic to help him out of the water and set him gently on the ground.

“Well that was an experience,” Sunset remarked.

“Tell me about it,” Spike spoke up, finally able to speak after so long.

“How did it feel to be fused with Nicole?” Sam asked.

“It was strange,” Twilight replied, “it felt like I was whole again, like I wasn’t complete. But I’m glad to be myself once again.”

“You think Nicole will be alright?” Sunset questioned, “she is like the only human on earth.”

“With my friends by her side, I think she’ll be fine,” Sam remarked, “as long as they don’t go feral and eat her.” Sam then turned and saw Chris get up, still coughing and gasping for air.

“I’m never that good at holding my breath,” he commented. Sam chuckled but then his eyes fell on the fox, just at the base of the fountain.

“Elena?” Sam questioned

“S…Sam?” Elena spoke, she gasped that she was able to speak with no problem, “I can talk!”

“And that’s not just it,” Chris said, “take a look at yourself.”

Elena struggled to get up and look at her reflection in the water of the fountain. She saw that she looked human, but she had fox ears, fur, tail, paws, and a nose. She was a humanoid fox girl.

“I’m… I’m…” she stuttered.

“Cute, adorable and beautiful,” Sam remarked, walking up and hugging her. She liked that but had to pull back as she felt her fox breasts on his body. Other than the fur coat she had, she had no clothes and was basically standing there naked.

“This is going to take some getting used to,” Elena stated.

“Woah,” Chris commented as he looked out at Equestria, the sun was slowly lowering behind some mountains, “This place is beautiful.”

“Thank you, young one,” came a familiar voice, “me and my sister always make sure that this land is peaceful and gorgeous.”

“Princess Luna!” Sam cried as he ran up to the midnight blue alicorn and gave her a hug.

“It’s good to see you too Sam,” Luna returned the gesture by nuzzling his cheek, “I trust your mission went well.”

“Well we got the capsules that Nightfall stole,” Twilight replied.

“And we brought some friends!” exclaimed Sam, “Princess, I would like you to meet Elena and Chris.”

“Greetings you two,” Luna replied, “I am Luna, Princess of the Night.”

“Princess?!” cried Chris before getting on the floor and bowing to her.

“No need to be so formal,” Luna kindly replied, “a friend of Sam is a friend of mine.”

“Thank you Princess,” Chris said as he got back to his feet.

“I must tell my team about you,” Sam said.

“Oh that’s going to be harder than you think,” Luna commented.

“What do you mean?” Twilight asked.

“Just after you all left, Ace was discussing something with your team,” Luna replied, “I didn’t hear what they were saying as I had duties to attend to, but Tia mentioned that they were going to do something far away from Equestria.”

Suddenly a burst of Specium Energy erupted for Sam’s left shoulder, scaring everyone.

“What was that?!” exclaimed Sunset.

“Chris…” Sam turned to his Ultra Bother with worry.

Chris donned his Jack suit, spooking the ponies, “lucky I integrated so of my tech into my suit,” he said as she scanned Sam, his mental cords with Gwen had relaxed but not much, and as they hadn’t been fixed, Sam only had one cord left, and it was started to split.

“Sam, what’s going on?” Elena asked.

“Well it’s hard to explain,” Sam replied.

“He has a mental link with someone called Gwen, and their mental cords have been straining all the time they have been apart for so long,” Jack replied.

“And if these cords snap… I could die,” Sam finished.

“WHAT?!” Twilight shouted, “you mean to tell me that you’ve been on the verge of death this whole time!”

“It’s only been happening because me and Gwen are so far apart,” Sam replied, “I need to get to her and so it’s not staining to the point it could snap at any time.”

“We don’t even know where they are!” Twilight yelled.

“Wait, yes we do,” Jack said, “Me and Sam can follow the mental cord that is linking them both.”

“Well where is the leading?” Sunset asked.

“That way,” Jack replied, pointing north east of Canterlot.

“But the only kingdom that way is the Ice Kingdom,” Luna remarked.

“Wait, Ace was discussing it, and they’re in the Ice Kingdom,” Sam thought out loud, then it clicked, “Oh no. He wouldn’t. But he would.”

“What are you saying?” Jack asked, as Sam donned his Ultrasuit.

“I’ll explain on the way,” Ultraman said.

“Princess, did Celestia mention that Pinkie and the girls went with them?” Twilight asked.

“You called?” came Pinkie’s voice from behind Twilight.

“AAHH!” She yelled, “Pinkie!”

“I guess that answers your question,” Sunset said.

Ultraman retracted his mask as he bent down in front of Elena, “I don’t want you to die,” Elena stated.

“Don’t worry Elena,” Sam told her, “I’ll be back.”

“Please make sure you do,” Elena said, kissing Sam on the cheek making him blush.

“Mum, take Elena back to Ponyville,” Sam said, “Me and Chris will go find the others.”

“Ok, just make sure that that last cord doesn’t get broken,” Twilight said motherly.

“Right,” Sam replied as his mask came back on, “Jack let’s fly.”

And the two Ultras took to the sky and flew towards the Ice Kingdom with Twilight and Elena looked to where they flew off with worry on their faces.

“So do you mind explaining the situation?” Jack called out.

“Ok so it’s like this,” Ultraman replied…

But I mustn’t tell you any more, or I will spoil the next chapter.

Author's Note:

Hi guys

Oh My God, I've finally finished the Return to Earth saga, this is by longest chapter yet.

I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, I know I did as some points. And I'll leave it to you guys to guess what with happen in the next chapter. Until then I'll see you all later

Comments

[ArcticAce01]

Very amazing my friend! I enjoyed this return to Earth saga!

[Haver]

More good

[midnight arrow]

Great chapter