//------------------------------// // Volume I: The Pariah // Story: Lynx; The Saiyan Warrior of Equestria // by AlienXtreme //------------------------------// Another sunrise, means another day full of training for our young Saiyan. He walks outside of his cave , but as he stretches his limbs , he starts hearing a child's scream. "What the hell?" He whispers, as he walks towards the screams. He finds a couple of little ponies playing a weird football-like game. "Hey kids , why the hell were you screaming?!" He arrives at them. "U-Uh...h-hello...w-we were just playing...and...I tripped over." One of the kids answer, as they are trembling due to Lynx's intimidating figure. "Is that so?...I suppose what I should say is... are you ok now?" He kneels down, getting closer to their height. "U-Uh...yeah, I am." They run away as fast as they can. Lynx sees them running, with a face full of discouragement. "Ugh! Why do I even bother?! There is no way, I can change their opinion on me!" He turns around back to his cave and takes his usual pose, when he is about to teleport. 'Damn it! Where is he?!' He starts sweating. 'I cannot find him anywhere! Well, never mind that...I have a better priority right now! Let's go Super Saiyan.' He bursts his aura and makes all the rocks near him lifting. The pressure is again too much for his body and stops, although he lasted longer than the last time. 'Come on! How did she do it?!' He lays down to the ground, trying to relax. "Maybe I should go and check on the girls, they said there was an enemy." A small is drawn on his face. "I can not wait to see his face when crush it!" He teleports to Sweet Apple Acers. "Hey, Lynx!" Applejack greets him as she runs through the apple trees. "Oh...What happened? Why are you running?" He flies towards her. "Tonight is the Grand Galloping Gala, and we have to make two barrels of apple sider." "The grand gallo....what now?" He asks with his arms crossed. "It's a gala in our land and you need to an invitation ticket." Rarity says, as she walks near them. "Oh...so...that means no planetpoly tonight, huh?" He asks, as he scratches his head, nervously. "Yeah, sorry Lynx...but we have been preparing for a whole month." Rainbow flies in. "W-Wait the enemy that Applejack told me about was the time?" Lynx asks confused. "Yup." "How can I help you with that?!" "Well you are pretty strong and fast, so maybe you can help to accelerate the process." Fluttershy joins the rest. 'Come on just help them, you idiot! No, this is just what they want , I will NOT start supporting this CHILDISH propaganda!' He sighs. "Fine but only this time, ok?" He flies up to the sky. "Oh and Fluttershy, please work on your approach on me, I'm not some kind of monster, and cowardness disgust me!" He adds. Giving his viewpoint one final look. He allows his inner energy ran through his body once again as he focuses it on the palm of his right hand, which hand looks up to the clear sky. He closes his eyes and turns his energy into a disc-shaped ki blast. He throws the ki blast and with the utmost carefulness he cuts the stalk of apples of one tree. "Rainbow, catch them quick!" Lynx yells at Rainbow. Rainbow flies quickly, catches the apples and puts them on baskets. "Wow...nice call!" Rainbow flies up to him. "Thanks Lynx!" Applejack yells from the ground. "Hey! Where is Twilight and Pinkie Pie?" He slowly lands on the grass. "Pinkie Pie is right now baking some cupcakes and Twilight is already at Canterlot." Fluttershy says. "Canterlot? And what exactly is that Rar...?" "Are you kidding me? You have never heard of it! It is Equestria 's capital!" He gets interrupted by Rarity. 'I think I already told them to not interrupt me!' "Anyway, I'll leave you be..." He flies to the Sugar cube Corner. "Hey Pinkie Pie! I heard that you are baking." He walks in, and lays to the wall with his arms crossed. "Yeah, I do Lynx. Thanks you for coming for help." She puts a group of cupcakes on the oven. "I never said I came here to help!" "Then why did you come?" She walks near him. "Well...I...uh...I came here to...to eat a cupcake!" Lynx says, as he starts sweating once again. "Well here! Take a whole box!" She gives him a box full of cupcakes. "Ah...thanks! How much do I owe you?" "Nothing." She says, with a broad smile. "But why?" "Why? Because you are my friend, silly!" "Your...friend?" He whispers, surprised. He leaves and flies towards his cave. On his way there, he once again sees everypony run away, due to his own presence. He sights 'Why am I even bothered by THIS? Everyone ,that I slayed back then , was scared of me. No, don't tell me that I'm turning into one of THEM.' He finally arrives at his cave. He enters in, eats a cupcake and decides to train once again. He tries to focus but his constant frustration , about the current lifestyle he's in, doesn't let him think or do anything else. "Great! And now I can't even power up properly!" He punches the ground. 'I need to get out of here! I'll go to my pod, I have a house capsule in there.' He flies back to where his pod was crushed. "Heh...eureka!" 'Why are they so scared of me, it's not like I killed anyone that they care about?' He gets the house capsule and the pod, back to the cave. 'If my calculations are correct, my pod will be ready in 2 weeks.' He opens the capsule and his new home is revealed: The dome shaped building has 2 floors and an extra, smaller, dome shaped building fused with it. As he enters, there's a living room with a blue colored floor and yellow colored walls, with a red sofa. Right next to it there is a kitchen, with the same floor and walls , and normal kitchen furniture, such as an oven ,a fridge etc. "Alright time for training!" He enters the smaller building. It includes , once again a blue colored floor, but this time it has white walls and a bizarre machine on the side. He turns the machine and all of a sudden, the gravity of the room is now 10x heavier than before. For several hours, he is doing push-ups, and tries to surpass his limit on how high he can unleash his power. That is until he hears a knock in his door. "Who is it?" He disables the machine and goes to open the door. When he opens it, he finds the mane 5 with a bunch of outfits, cupcakes and makeup. "What in the...?" "Hey Lynx, we have an idea!" Rainbow says, as they rush into his house. "Wow! Nice house, Lynx! How did this happen though?" Rarity takes a look inside. "I'll explain some other time, why did come here, weren't you suppose to go that Gala?" He asks, confused. "That is what the idea is about!" Rainbow dashes at him. "I don't understand." The girls throw an outfit at him. "And I am not sure that will fit me." "Well, you'll come with us, after all when you get a ticket, you are allowed to get a guest with you." Fluttershy explains to him. "Oh I forgot to ask, what is this amulet about?" She adds, pointing at his amulet. "As far as I know, it is an artifact , that shows what is deepest to your heart, or at least that is what I heard before I stole it." He explains as he is playing with it. "You stole it?!" "Yes, Pinkie ,I was a mercenary, destroying planets, killing ton of alien races! I was working for the tyrant named Lavra!" He yells at her. "Wow...that is awesome!" "No, Rainbow Dash! This is a serious crime!" Applejack yells at her. "It is, I haven't done anything like this for years though, due to me seeing that weird rainbow-like thing coming from here." Lynx says , as he scratches his head. "Listen, I know this is important, but if he doesn't dress up right now, we are going to be late!" Rarity throws another outfit at Lynx. "But I..." "Don't worry, I made this specifically for you!" "Listen, Rarity, Lynx ,telling us what he was, is way more important than a yearly gala!" Applejack yells at her. "Oh yeah, and how do you know?! We were waiting for the Gala for the week, it is more important!" "Girls..." "No, it is not Rarity!" Applejack says, but as she does it, Lynx clenches his fist and feels a small burn at his stomach. "Girls, stop it this instant!" Lynx bursts out, making the ponies to back out from the pressure of air, coming from his body. "I shouldn't go there, because...I am not a pony. Now please leave me be." The girls leave the house. "You idiot! What do you want anyway?! Why are you liking this?! This is a childish propaganda!" Lynx says to himself, sitting on the couch. He hears another door knock once again. 'Who is it now?!' He opens the door once again. "Um...hey...mister...I just wanted to thank you for earlier today." The filly , from earlier today, says. "Oh...ok." He closes the door. He sits back and tries to clean up his thoughts. "How am I going to deal with this kind of battle?!" He says to himself. "What would master do?" "Lynx, you need to look within yourself, to find your best self , only then your true self will reveal itself." He makes an impression of Owlto. "Even when I am mimicking him, I cannot understand what he is saying." He facepalms. "Wait, what in the...this energy...could it be?" He feels a familiar energy near Canterlot. "This...can't be real!" He flies as fast as he can to Canterlot. 'Damn it, why am I sweating again?' He arrives at Canterlot after a half hour trip. 'Crap, I am late!' He finds all the top of the castle being destroyed and something even worse... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Girls! Take the elements there are ins...!" Celestia yells at the girls, and before she can even complete her sentence, she creates a shield to protect herself from a green spell like attack . The mane 6 run inside, without a second thought. "Equestria is done for, your last defense is down! Let's kill all of you!" But unfortunately, the shield isn't enough, Celestia is about to get blasted until... "This land is done? Who decided that?! Their last defense is down? Who decided THAT?! I'll be the one, who decides the fate of this battle, you got that?!" A figure as tall as Celestia is revealed, and it is none other than Lynx. He is protecting her with a blue energy barrier. "What's up Celi, mind if I jump in?" Lynx says, doing his best to smile. "Heh...never thought YOU would show up!" The female figure, that attacked Canterlot, is revealed: An alien woman ,with black skin, V-shaped green hair, claws so sharp, they can tear through titanium like nothing, a black-colored dragon tail and dragon wings, that are black from the outside and green from the inside, holding a golden spear that also features a golden protrusion at the top. "Well...if it isn't Lavra's bratty sister! Why did you come here Lira? You want to prove yourself to her by killing the traitor?" Lynx disables the barrier. "Grrr...Soldiers attack!" Lira orders her minions to attack Lynx. Lynx flies at them and starts fighting the army. He hits a bunch of soldiers with knee attacks, breaking their spines. He fires others with a bunch of Ki blasts. His body is focused on the fight, but his mind is still focused on what happened the last week. A soldier was going to sneak in and attack, but Lynx back-hits him, knocking him unconscious before he could take a moment process what happened. "Grrr...Those useless minions!" Lyra says, frustrated from the air. "If you thought your minions would hold me off, then you got another thing coming!" Lynx takes his battle stance. 'Glad that my training here has paid off!' "Oh...Is that so? Fine then...let's fight!" She fires her green spell-like attack once again from her spear. "Super Galick Gun!" The attacks begin to clash. Her spell is at an advantage, but Lynx isn't ready to give up. "Let's go everypony!" Twilight and the girls rush in, with the elements of harmony. "No girls! You're no match for...Grah!" Lira wins the clash, destroying the chestplate part of Lynx's battle armor and ripping some parts of his black full body outfit. Lynx is laid down, barely alive, on the whole that the attack made. "Lynx no! Are you okay?!" The mane 6 run towards him as fast as they can. "No...stay...back...she will...!" Lynx says, barely keeping himself conscious. "Hmm...what an interesting chemistry? I wonder what will happen if...!" Lira charges her attack , targeting the girls this time. "NO, DON'T DO IT LIRA!" Lynx begs her, but Lira doesn't care. She fires at the girls successfully. The girls fall unconscious right next to Lynx. Lynx gets up, but doesn't say a single word. He has nothing to say as the prince feels time being slowed down right before his eyes. The image that is thrust upon him in such a way that even a Saiyan can feel something. Voices. Explosions. Impact. All have been unified in his ears as a buzzing noise. A buzzing noise that is just a mere distraction from that image. These ponies, they threw themselves into danger just to check if  he is okay. Why? Why would they do that? He's just an outsider. An alien. A pariah. And he's not exactly the type of person who would do the same.  The young Saiyan tries to reach his hand, in order to check if they're dead or not. But he can’t do it. He can’t reach. His will isn't strong enough. However, he can feel his heartbeat being elevated more and more by the second.  Now he realizes. The prince realizes that he does care. These ponies are the only ones in Equestria who trust him.  These ponies give him a reason to smile. These ponies…are his friends. "You…" A strange and wild energy is suddenly present on his back as it starts expanding to all of his body. "You're gonna pay for that…" The rasp in his voice is stronger, like a raging beast  is about to be unleashed any minute now. The debris from the castle ruins, the rocks from the hole Lira's blast made,  and the dozens of destroyed decorations start to get lifted from the ground. Denying gravity in order to correspond to the sheer power the Prince of All Saiyans is letting out. "You…bitch!" The most primal part of his mind is currently screaming at him two words; Kill her. And this primal part is starting to feel overwhelming. Everything is suddenly more…red. Anger is fueling his will to fight. Anger is pushing him to just give in. Give into his desires. Give into his emotions. And give into the wildness that comes with them.  And that's exactly what he will do. His hair is waving wildly, thanks to this new energy now having been spread through his entire being. His muscles are getting more and more tense. And it is then that his hearing comes back. "I will…" His fists clench so hard that veins are visible through his gloves."...make you…" The anger reaches its peak. "…suffer!" In that moment, Lynx snaps. In that moment he doesn't care. He doesn't care about his heritage. He doesn't care about fulfilling a legend. He doesn't care about his revenge. He doesn't care about his pride. All that the royal wishes right now, is for them to be okay.  His scream is a warning to his enemy for what's about to come. A message to the ponies who are here, that a warrior has awakened. And a sign to all the Saiyans in the galaxy that might still be alive, that their legend is here! The screaming stops as everypony sees what just happened to their visitor from the stars. His whole presence is different, with a look of pure fury on a pair of two emerald green eyes. The golden light from his aura is touching everything around him, and the sheer power of what is standing in front of them is felt through the very air. 'He did…it.' Twilight says in her mind, just before she falls completely unconscious. "Everypony…" He seems to have trouble speaking right now. "....get…out!" But everypony is too stunned to do anything, which further angers the alien. "Now!" The sudden raise of his voice, combined with the increased rasp, scares them and they finally do as they were told. Noticing that the ruler of Equestria is still here, he turns at her and for the briefest of moments his look softens. "Celestia…" Pointing at his unconscious friends, he finishes his sentence. "...help them."  Celestia takes the girls away, but not before she notices that his left bicep is still glowing, not able to be seen. With the place finally secured, there's only one left thing to do. "No more playing around, Lira! You will die today!" The Prince of All Saiyans yells, as for the first time in years his mask has been taken off.