//------------------------------// // 14) Fights the Training // Story: The Experiments // by SapphireRose87 //------------------------------// {Henry} The next time we stopped I was half watching Derek train. I had other things on my mind and I was playing with the light that was my magic in my hand. From the looks of it, Derek had weapons in his arsenal too. One of the weapons that he was training with at the time almost reminded me of the iron rod Cora had put in my chest for her last test so that I could be released into Experiment #1. But what Derek was training with definitely wasn’t an iron rod. It was safe to say that whatever weapon Derek was using wasn’t going to be put into my chest. The weapon Derek had was a long metal pole that could be used as a complete weapon or it could be broken in half and used as two separate weapons. He was training with Snips and Snails and they were fighting as if they were in an actual battle. I guess they want to be prepared if we ran into trouble while traveling to The Resistance. “Not bad Agent Derek!” Snips cheered. “Yup, I’m not surprised! You're pretty good with that weapon!” Snails said in a matter-of-fact way. “No wonder why you reached agent status now!” “Did you get a chance to train when the others came to the Inn?” Snips said. When Derek had no answer for him Snips and Snails couldn't contain their laughter. “I know why he didn’t train!” Snails teased. “What Snails?” Snips snorted. “He was too busy being with his lover Henry!” Snails said. “That’s so not funny!” Derek said. “Actually,” said Snails, “Agent Derek doesn’t really need to practice. It's only been six months since Henry and the others arrived at the Inn! We've only been traveling for two months now. So I’d say he hasn’t been out of practice!” “Yeah, he probably wants to show off in front of Henry!” Snips laughed. “I’m not so sure that this would be considered showing off,” said Snails, “Henry seems to be occupied at the moment.” I looked up to see Derek, Snips, and Snails watching me with curiosity. That’s because I was still playing with my magic. I found that I was somehow able to bend the light into different shapes. I kept playing with the light wondering if Sarah could do the same thing. “What are you doing Henry?” Derek asked. I paid them no attention, I just kept playing with the light and for some reason, I really liked the circle that I was forming with it. “That’s right!” Derek exclaimed. “I forgot!” “Forgot what?” Snips said. “Henry and Sarah figured out how to do magic when they’re human now!” Derek answered. “How’d that happen?” Snips said. “I don’t know,” said Derek, “you might want to ask Sarah because Henry can’t talk.” “Ask me what?” Sarah said. “We wanted to know what Henry’s doing,” Derek said. “Oh yeah!” Sarah said. “I figured out how to do magic. Remember when we did teleportation spells? That’s where we can disappear and pop up wherever we want! This is also unicorn magic! I read somewhere in the manual that it’s called light-bending! You can bend the light and make it into whatever you want! It’s mostly used to create weapons and stuff! The manual also said that a unicorn will know the right weapon according to its magic! Check this out!” Sarah opened her fist and orange light beamed from her hand. She moved her fingers around to make the shape of a triangle. She spread her index finger and thumb apart and one end of the triangle stretched out further than the other two. What resulted was a sword-like shape. Derek, Snips, and Snails looked at Sarah’s weapon in awe. “Looks like you like the circle shape!” Sarah said. “Can you stretch it out as I did with the triangle?” I nodded and did the same thing that Sarah did and the circle turned into what looked like a shield. Sarah smiled when she saw what I did. “Now that we have weapons, I think we should practice with them!” Sarah said. “Don’t you think Henry?” “Hey,” said Snips, “can we watch?” Sarah nodded, “Sure! Just don’t get in our way!” * * * Sarah and I were under a nearby tree she spotted that stood a good safe distance from where we set up camp. “Why don’t we do things this way,” instructed Sarah. “We’ll stand back to back and when I say go we start fighting, got it?” I nodded and Sarah and I stood back to back just like Sarah said to do. “Ready?” Sarah said. “Go!” We both turned around and Sarah threw her weapon at me and I jumped out of the way. Sarah called her weapon back and threw it at me again and this time I blocked it with my shield. I threw my weapon at Sarah and she just barely managed to dodge it and it grazed her shoulder. “Ow!” Sarah said. She growled. “Fine then! It’s your funeral!” Sarah and I kept throwing our weapons at each other and calling them back and throwing them again. “What’s going on?” Milton said. “Henry and Sarah figured out how to turn their magic into weapons!” Derek said. “Yeah,” said Snips, “just look at how fast they’re going!” “Are they climbing up the tree?” Milton asked. “Yup,” said Derek, “looks like it to me!” I didn’t realize that Sarah and I were climbing up the tree that was nearby as we were fighting. We kept throwing our weapons at each other trying to figure out different attacks to use against each other. We kept climbing up the tree and going back down. The fight ended when Sarah got behind me by doing a cartwheel and landed a kick to my back sending me flying face-first into the ground. Derek, Snips, Snails, and Milton winced when they saw that. “Did you have to be so rough with him?” Derek snapped. Sarah rolled her eyes, “Oh brother! He’s not a baby! And by the way Henry, I win!” Sarah stuck out her tongue at me after that we put our weapons away. “I’m not surprised that Sarah acts like a brat around you because she’s your sister and all,” Milton said. “What?” Snips and Snails said. Derek nodded, “It’s true, they’re both having the same memories so it’s safe to say that they’re related.” “Anyway, that was an awesome fight!" Snails cheered. "Even if you did lose! You win some, you lose some, isn’t that right Agent Derek?” “Let me guess,” said Milton, “you’ve lost a couple of fights didn’t you Derek?” “Yup!” Snips confirmed, “Even though he’s pretty good with his weapon I remember Derek losing a couple of fights. I’m pretty sure you want to tell your lover Henry about that, don’t you Derek?” I just shook my head and smiled at him. “I think that means he doesn’t want to know right now,” Milton said. I nodded as I was walking away. I wished that they could’ve heard me laughing. But because I didn't have my voice, I couldn't make a sound. * * * {Earnest} I stood in the shadows and watched as Experiment Rose and Experiment Sebastian made their way towards the Inn. I tried to keep my anger down when I saw my wife Liza there and Agent Rarity with them. Stupid Lab 14! They had to set their sights on Derek. Man, I can't wait until Lab 14 is destroyed! “Hmm,” said Experiment Rose, “Experiment Henry’s magic string ends right here.” Experiment Sebastian raised an eyebrow, “Oh? Wait a second… Isn’t this the Inn where Experiment Derek lives?” I saw Liza’s eyes go wide in terror when she saw the Inn. Experiment Sebastian smiled when he saw Liza’s reaction. Great, Lab 14 had their sights on Derek and now a stupid experiment does too? Yuck! I thought. “I take it, that's a yes?” Experiment Sebastian smirked. “I think you hit a nerve Experiment Sebastian!” Experiment Rose said. “Good!” Experiment Sebastian said. “Since she won’t be my In-Law let Agent Liza be pissed!” Experiment Rose took a pair of scissors and pressed a button in the middle of it and it glowed the same color that Henry’s magic string was. She snipped the string at the point where it was at the Inn. After she did that, the other part of the string that she had cut disappeared. “Oh well, I’ll reattach this when I pick up Experiment Henry’s trail again!” I could tell by the look on Liza's face that she was hoping I was here. I would show her my presence but I had to wait until the right time to do so. I heard a pop and I turned around to see Discord behind me and I smiled. "You ready to go?" Discord said. I nodded, "Oh yeah, I'm ready to go alright. Let's do this!" Finally, Discord and I stepped out of the shadows. “I think,” I said, “that this is as far as you go.” Discord laughed a wicked laugh, “Yup! I totally agree with Earnest here! I say with my presence included I’d say that makes 12 against the 10 of you!” Experiment Rose and Experiment Sebastian doubled over in laughter. “I don’t think this is funny!” I snapped. “Oh yes, it is!” Experiment Sebastian said. “That’s because you won’t be fighting the rest of the experiments or the agents here either!” “Oh really?” Discord taunted. “Yeah really!” Experiment Sebastian said. “Because you’ll be fighting me and Experiment Rose! This is going to be easy! I’ll have my hands on Experiment Derek very soon!” “I would appreciate it,” I snarled, “if you wouldn’t call my son an experiment!” “It doesn’t matter Earnest,” said Discord, “with me here it’ll be five against two!” Experiment Rose chuckled, “Don’t underestimate your opponent! Let’s get this party started shall we?” I took out my weapon; it was the same exact one that I gave to Derek. I had trained Derek to use that weapon ever since the age of five. The main reason that I trained Derek with this weapon was that I wanted to give Derek a way to defend himself because he had a glass eye. Derek even amazed both me and Liza when he figured out how to transfer the owl attack from his real eye over to his glass eye. I figured it was probably because even though he was born in the In Between, that must’ve been what his magic was. That was probably why Lab 14 wanted to take Derek in the first place and wanted to add him as one of their experiments. There was no way that Liza was going to let that happen. That’s why she stepped in and became an Agent for Lab 14 to keep Derek away from that awful place! It still makes my blood boil to this very day. “Oh,” said Experiment Sebastian, “that looks like the same weapon that my lover Experiment Derek used to escape from me!” “Stop calling him an experiment!” I snarled. I watched as Experiment Rose's eyes went from all-white to all purple and Liza told me about what that attack was. It was an attack that everyone working at Lab 14 called ‘Tell Me You Love Me.’ Experiment Rose would use it to stun her victims and shut down their thinking ability and make them fall madly in love with her. Thanks to my quick thinking, I managed to trigger my owl eye attack to cancel out Experiment Roses attack. “Now Earnest,” said Experiment Rose, “tell me you love me!” “No way!” I shouted. The Owl-Eye attack gives me the advantage of turning my head 180 degrees behind me. A bonus is that it creeps Discord out. “You know you creep me out every time you do that!” Discord said. “And I’ve seen that attack many times!” “Pipe down Discord!” I said. “Are you going to jump in and fight any time soon?” “Fine, fine!” Discord said. He snapped his claw and four chickens came out of thin air. The chickens picked at Experiment Sebastian and Experiment Roses heads there were two chickens for each of them. Not to mention the chickens decided to drop eggs on their heads. Discord and everyone else couldn’t help but laugh at the site. “Okay,” said Experiment Sebastian, “now I’m mad! I didn’t want to have to do this but you’ve earned it!” What happened next I got a real kick out of it. Experiment Sebastian changed into a garter snake and wasn’t even big enough to eat Discord alone. I tried very hard to bit back my laughter but I failed. “What’s so funny?” Experiment Rose snapped. “He’s so cute!” I teased. “He can barely eat Discord alone! You do realize that owls eat snakes like you?” Experiment Sebastian's response was to hiss at me as loud as he could. I was laughing so hard I forgot I was fighting him and he wasn't an attraction in a zoo. I barely heard what  Experiment Sebastian said next because he hissed in between his words. “You won’t be laughing when I hold you still for Experiment Roses magic to take hold of you!” The only other thing about the Owl-Eye attack is that it gives you the ability to eat your enemies but it depends on how big they are. “I’m sorry,” I laughed, “what did you say? I didn’t hear it! Can my dinner speak up for me please?” I did not want to eat Experiment Sebastian, not one little bit. Thankfully Discord had an evil smile on his face, and I had a feeling of what Discord was going to do next. Discord snapped his claw and a boa constrictor dropped out of thin air and wrapped around Experiment Rose and Experiment Sebastian. When the snake wrapped around them it caused Experiment Sebastian and Experiment Rose to turn back into humans. When I saw this, I let out a sigh of relief because I really didn’t want to eat Experiment Sebastian. “That’s not fair!” Experiment Sebastian croaked. “You made me turn back into a human!” “All is fair in love and war!” I laughed. “I’m glad Discord let out his pet snake to eat you! Cause I really didn’t want to eat you! You probably would’ve tasted horrible!” Discord’s smile was so evil that would make anyone’s blood run cold except for me because I've seen that smile many times and it filled me with joy. “Fang here is really hungry!” Discord said. “I’m glad I didn’t feed him today!” “What are you talking about?” Experiment Rose growled. “Fang here,” answered Discord, “is my pet snake that started following me around recently. I keep him at home in my chaos dimension. I feed him all the dead rats he could ever want until he gets sick of them! He knows not to eat me and Fluttershy because he knows we’re his family. Even though Fang loves to eat dead rats, he also likes to eat his food while they’re alive. I’m not sure why that is. I’ll have to do some more research on that. He definitely wouldn’t mind eating you unlike Earnest over here! I could tell Earnest didn’t want to eat you; he was just stalling until I brought out Fang!” Fang hissed and was waiting for Discord’s approval to eat Experiment Rose and Experiment Sebastian. Fang was very eager to eat them probably because he hadn’t been fed yet. Discord scratched Fang affectionately under his chin and he responded by hissing into his ear. “Aww,” said Discord, “you’re really hungry aren’t you? Well, go ahead eat them! It’s dinner time!” Fang then swallowed Experiment Rose and Experiment Sebastian in the blink of an eye. He then curled up and looked very satisfied about what he had just done. The children from Group F smiled as Fang ate his favorite snack. “Well now children of Group F,” said Discord, “do you want to stay here, or would you rather come with me and go to your original homes?” A young woman who looked like the leader of the group stepped forward and after looking back at her group she said, "My name is Harper. I think everyone agrees, if it keeps us away from Lab 14, then we'll go with you!" Discord smiled and snapped his claw and left with the children from Group F and headed to The Resistance HQ. Liza then came over to me and kissed me. Liza looked over and smiled at Fang because he looked happy and content about eating Experiment Rose and Experiment Sebastian. “So honey dear,” said Liza, “what’s going to happen to these two?” I shrugged “Hopefully, Fang will digest them, but probably because of their magic he’ll have to spit them out within a week.” “Yuck!” Liza and Agent Rarity said. “It’s okay you two,” I said, “you can go back to Lab 14 HQ or run to The Resistance HQ.” Liza shook her head “No Earnest, I’m going back to Lab 14. I have to make sure Derek and Henry stay away from that place!” “Oh, I wouldn’t worry about that so much,” I said. “Why’s that?” Liza asked. I sighed, “The Higher sent Derek to protect Henry. He also gave them the job of destroying Lab 14 from the inside out!” “And how are they going to do that?” Liza said. “I don’t know,” I said, “but I’m sure they’ll find a way to do it.”