Chapter 26: babs seed comes back

"come on big sis. The train could almost be here" applebloom said as she jumped up and down waiting for her sister to pick up the pace. "hold yer horses I'm coming" applejack said as she walked up to her little sister, "oooo. I can't wait to see her again" applebloom said as she jumped around waiting for the train.

Applejack just watched her sister and shook her head at her as she smiled "oh boy. I just hope that yer cousin doesn't freak when she sees sam" she said.

Applebloom stopped jumping as she looked to see the train coming "she's here! She's here!" applebloom shouted, the train stopped at the station right in front of applebloom and applejack.

As soon as the doors opened someponies were walking out of the train one by one, one of the ponies that came out had a orange color mane and a dark orange body as well she also had no cutie mark as well.

"babs seed!" applebloom shouted as she ran over and hugged her cousin "hey ya applebloom. How are ya" babs seed said as she hugged her back, applejack walked over to the two fillies "well howdy there babs seed" she said.

"hey applejack" she said with a smile over her face, applejack patted her mane a bit as she took her bag as they all walked out of the train station.

They walked down the dirt road as they headed to sweet apple acres "so babs seed. How has the cutie mark crusade going in manehattan?" babs seed turned to her "it's going along fine. I have gotten a lot of recruits since I went back home" she said, this made applebloom smile with joy hearing that about the cutie mark crusaders expanding in manehatten.

"well yer gonna love our new member of the family" applebloom said, babs seed looked at her with a puzzled look on her face.

"new family member?".

"yup".

They then reached the farm as the three all walked inside the house, as soon as they entered applejack went upstairs still caring babs seeds bag. "i'm ah gonn put yer bag in applebloom's room for ya babs seed" applejack said, babs seed nodded at her as she looked at applebloom.

"so..who's the new family member?".

"oh I can't wait to show ya. He's real nice. He's like an extra big brother". Babs seed was curious to know more about this new member of the family.

"so applebloom. Where is he?".

"he's in the other room. Come on ll'l show ya".

The two fillies walked into the other room to see sam in the other room writing.

"here he is".

Babs seed just stared at him in awe she had no Idea that the new member of the family was a different creature, "wha-what is that?" babs seed asked her cousin.

"this here is sam. He's a human from a place called earth" she said as she walked over to him and poked his leg "sam. Sam".

Sam stopped writing as he looked down at his little filly friend.

"hey applebloom. How are ya?".

"I'm ok. I wanna show ya to mah cousin babs seed".

Sam smiled at her he always wanted to meet applebloom's cousin since he saw her on the show, he got up from the chair as he saw applebloom walk over to her and point to her. "here's my cousin babs seed. Babs seed this here is sam".

Babs seed looked at him and backed up a small bit a little scared by how tall he was. He then leaned down to the filly and held out his hand to her, "hey it's ok. I'm very friendly, he smiled at her as he kept his hand out for her to grab.

Babs seed looked at him then at his hand as she slowly raised her hoof and touched his hand.

"whoa. You have different hoofs" she said as she shook his hand.

Sam only laughed at her comment "hehe. Yea I do. But it's very nice to meet you. My name is sam".

"I'm babs seed".

"well. It's nice to finally meet you".

"yea same here. Applebloom has been sending me letters and telling me about you" she said.

Sam looked at her with a grin "well then. Did she tell you that there are six of us".

Babs seed had her mouth almost drop to the floor.

"there's six of you guys?" she says in excitement, sam nods at her "yup. Well there were six of us to be exact".

She looks at him with a confused look on her face "what do ya mean there were six of you?", sam then sighs as his smile fades a bit "well you see. One of our friends...well he passed away four weeks ago".

Babs seed looked down at the ground with a sad look on her face "oh...I-I'm sorry to hear that".

Sam then picks her up and holds her in his arms "hey now don't be so sad. I mean yea we still miss the guy but that doesn't mean that we still can't have a good time", she then looks up at sam's face and sees his smile again.

He then rubs her head a bit as she pushes his hand a bit as she shows her smile to him, sam then places her down on the floor as he walks to the front door.

"well babs seed would you like to meet my other human friends?".

Babs seeds smile started to grow more.

"really. Were gonna go see them".

"yup".

He then opened the door for her as babs seed walked out of the door as applebloom followed as well, "I wanna come to. I wanna show babs seed our fan club".

"hehe ok. Let's go see the gang".

PONYVILLE MARKET

the three were walking into ponyville as they looked around for the other mane eleven. As they were walking they saw scootaloo and sweetie belle at one of the stands as they were looking at the popcorn, sam decided to walk over to them.

"hey girls".

They both turned there heads and looked up at the human "hey sam what's up?" scootaloo said to him, sam then leaned down and petted her head "oh nothing much. I was gonna show applebloom's cousin babs seed my friends", this made scootaloo jump up and down "oh boy babs seed is here in ponyville!" she shouted.

"yay! Were is she?" sweetie belle said.

Sam then stepped aside as he let the two see her as she was standing next to applebloom. They all then had huge smiles on there faces as they all ran at each other and embraced into a hug, sam could only d'awwww at the scene.

"hey babs seed. How have you been?" sweetie belle said.

Babs seed blew her hair out of her face as she smiled "I'm doing real good. I just got here this morning from the train station" she finished, scootaloo then stood next to her and pointed at sam.

"hey did you meet sam babs seed?".

"yea I did back at the farm. I'm really surprised that he is a member of the apple family" she said in a low tone so he couldn't hear.

"well. He is really cool. But not as cool as rainbow dash or Clayton" scootaloo said with a huge amount of pride.

Babs seed then scratched the back of her head, "well we were gonna go and see all of sam's friends today".

Scootaloo and sweetie belle then looked at each other and smiled "hey. How about that we all go together" sweetie belle said. This made applebloom smile "that's a great idea. How about it babs seed?".

"sounds like a plan" she said.

The four of them then all gathered together as they then shouted in unison:

"CUITE MARK CRUSADERS MEET THE MAIN FOUR! JUST WHO THE HAY DO YOU THINK WE ARE!"

Babs seed didn't say the last part as she had no idea what they ment.

"ughh just who the what now?" she said with a puzzled look.

The three looked at her "it's something new that we put into our unison shouts" sweetie belle said as babs seed still looked at them puzzled, "well when did you guys started doing this?" she asked.

"after Clayton said it" applebloom said to her.

Babs seed was starting to get a little interested in hearing more about Clayton, they then started to walk out of the market past sam and into the town, sam saw the four walking as he then smiled at them.

PONYVILLE STREETS

the four walked around the town as they talked with one another, "so is there anything that I missed while I was gone?" babs seed asked her cousin. Applebloom then looked at her with a smile "oh ya didn't really miss much. We had a special visiter at our school four weeks ago" she said.

"who was it?".

"Clayton".

Babs seed then blew her hair out of her face "so he visited you guys four weeks ago".

"yup".

"can I ask a question".

"sure babs seed. Ask away".

She then placed her hoof on her chin so she could think of the words that she wanted to say, "what was Clayton like?".

Hearing this made applebloom ponder at her question "well..umm..he's..umm..he's" she couldn't think of anything in her head to say about him, suddenly scootaloo then stood right in front of the three as they stopped.

"what was he like. He was awesome, fearless, just as cool as rainbow dash, and he had a thing on his back. I can't really remember what it was called but it was so cool!" she said as she started jumping rapidly.

"wow. Sounds like he was a really cool pony" she said "but can I ask another question".

Scootaloo smiled as she kept jumping up and down "sure thing babs ask us anything".

"what happened to him?".

Scootaloo stopped jumping and just stood there with a blank expression of sadness on her face, babs seed saw this and thought she had hurt her feelings.

"oh geez. I'm sorry scoots" she said as she placed her hoof on her shoulder. She looked at her and smiled a bit.

"it's ok...it's just I really miss him. There was a war four weeks ago. And he got killed in it" she said.

"aw man. I bet he was super cool".

"yea he was. But were staying strong for him. And that's why we made a fan club for him in his honor" scootaloo said, babs seed was happy to hear that they did something for him in his hornor.

"that's pretty cool. Can I be a part of it?".

Applebloom then hugged her cousin "sure ya can. Were always happy to let new members join our club" she finished, babs seed smiled more hearing that she was now a part of there new fan club, she then saw another human walk by.

"who's that?".

The girls turned to see dillon pass by them.

"oh that's dillon. He stays with fluttershy. He's really nice once you get to know him".

She then ran up to him and poked his leg, dillon stopped walking as he then looked down to see a little dark orange filly, "well now. Who is this I see" he said as he then leans down and pets babs seed's head. She smiles as he finishes petting her head "hi. My names babs seed. I'm applebloom's cousin".

"ah. Your applebloom's cousin huh".

She smiled "yup. I just got here today from the train station".

"well I hope that have fun here in ponyville while your here" he said as he then stood back up and looked down at her "I'd love to stay and chat. But I have to go to work up in canderlot. Until next time".

They saw him walk way out of there line of sight, babs seed then turned to her friends.

"I like him. He sounds cool" she said. The three then started to sinker at her "what's so funny?", they then bursted out laughing until scootaloo spoke "you have a crush on dillon! Hahaha!".

Babs seed looked away from them not wanting them to see her blush, she did have a little crush on him and she only meet him a few minutes ago.

She blew her hair out of her face as she then turned to them "well then. Now that we have had our little laugh. Let's go see the others".

They all then ran to sweetie belle's house to see rarity.

CAROUSEL BOUTIQUE

The four walked inside so they could find Corey and introduce him to babs seed, they looked all over the house and couldn't find him or rarity. They sat on the couch as they were trying to think were they were, they then heard the front door open as rarity, Corey, and jack walk inside caring bags.

The girls ran up to them and hugged there legs except babs seed.

Corey laid the bags down and picked up sweetie belle and hugged her "hey sweetie belle" Corey said "hey corey. Were have you been? We were looking all over for you" she asked, he rubbed her head as he placed her back on the ground.

"sorry. We went shopping for a bit" he sees the filly a few feet away from them "who's your friend sweetie belle?".

Applebloom walked over to babs seed and walked her over to the group "this here is mah cousin babs seed. she came here today from manehatten. Babs seed this here is Corey and jack", the boys lean down to her and extend there hands to her.

"hey there babs seed. My name is Corey".

"and I'm jack".

She then grabbed there hands and shook them as she looked at them.

"so babs seed. How long are you gonna be here in ponyville?" jack asked her.

"I'll be here for about two months" she said.

The boys were happy to here that she would be in ponyville for two months, it would give the five boys a chance to get to know her more. As Corey then walked over to the bags and took them into the other room jack walked over to the front door.

"I'm gonna go and get some cooking books from twilight and max. If you want babs seed I can take you with me to see them".

Babs seed turned to her cousin and her two friends as they nodded and smiled at her, she looked back at jack "ok ll'l go with ya" she said.

He then opened the door as the two walked out and went over to twilight's house.

GOLDEN OAKS LIBRARY

Max and twilight were in the study hall napping as they laid in her beanbag chair, spike walked by to see the two asleep. "man. Those two never leave each others side" he said, he then heard a knock at the door as he ran to it.

He opened the door to see jack and babs seed.

"hey jack" spike said.

"hey there buddy. Are twilight and max home?" he asked.

Spike nodded at his friend "yea there here. But there asleep at the moment. Look like they have been studying to hard" he finished with a laugh, jack only giggled at bit "there still studying? Geez I thought that they were done studying but it looks like I was wrong".

Spike giggled a bit as he then looked at the filly next to him "hi ya. I'm spike" he said as he held his claw out to her, "I'm babs seed" she said as she took his claw and shook it.

"cool name".

"thanks".

Jack then scratched his head as he looked over his shoulder to see the sun starting to set "well it's getting late. I should probably get back home to pinky pie" he said, spike nodded at him "ok. Well be sure to drop by tomarrow".

"I will. See ya spike".

"see ya".

Spike then closed the door as babs seed and jack walked from the library.

SUGERCUBE CORNER

Pinky pie, mr and mrs cake, pumpkin cake, and pound cake were waiting outside for jack to come home.

Pinky pie was jumping up and down as she she was trying to calm herself "oooo. I hope Jackie gets here soon. I really really really wanna hug him".

smiled at how pinky pie was acting "oh don't worry dear. I'm sure that he'll be here in a second".

The five of them then see jack and babs seed walking up to the store, as soon as jack is within her sight pinky pie zooms right at him knocking him over as she holds onto him.

"Jackie your home!" she shouts.

"hahaha yes I am pinky pie. Did you miss me?" he says in a sweet tone as he pokes her nose, she blushes as she nuzzles his neck "of course I have silly willy" she said as he got back to his feet and put her up over his head giving her a piggy back ride.

Mr. Cake smiled brightly as he saw the two approach them "ya know dear I never saw such a wonderful couple. Make me miss the good old days when we were younger. Wouldn't you say hunny bun?" he finished as he nudged her side.

This made mrs. Cake blush to the core with red overflowing her face, she then leaned over and kisses her husbands cheek as she then nuzzled his face, jack and pinky pie stopped in front of the four as he put her back down on the ground.

As soon as he got to his feet he saw babs seed walk over to him.

"hey umm".

"jack".

"right jack. Thanks for letting me go with you today".

He smiled at her "it was my pleasure. Do you want me to walk you home?" he asked her, babs seed shook her head "nah I'm ok. Hey if I see you again can you introduce me to dillon I really wanna get to know him better", jack leaned down and stroked her mane "well well looks like somebody as a little crush I see" he said in a teasing way.

Babs seed brushed off his hand and smiled at him "it's not that. I-I just think he looks cool that's all".

"sure. Whatever you say" he then held out his hand to her in a balled up fist. As she saw this she knew what he was getting at as she hit his fist with her hoof, jack got to do the one thing that he wanted to do with a pony: a brofist.

She then walked away from Sugercube cornner on her way to sweet apple acres.