//------------------------------// // Chapter 6: Gravity For Children // Story: Journey of Saiyans (Twin Version) // by Boyzilla //------------------------------// Crossover Saga Chapter 6: Gravity For Children “Well... I was thinking that maybe you both would want to train?” Raze asked them, they walked down the dirt road to Lyra's home, nearby ponies still working they're next few hours before the sun starts setting. “Really! You wanna train us?!” the two twins exclaimed in sync, their voices in perfect coordination with each other. “Yeah, I have the extra Gravity chamber and everything!” Raze said, patting a area in his pants where a capsule containing his capsule box was. 'Huh?' Kira thought, her tail wiggled in curiosity at the mention of this... Gravity chamber. So she decided to ask the full grown saiyan. “What's a gravity chamber?” the little saiyan questioned. “A gravity chamber is a place where you can train at different weights, like the weighted clothing you wear!” Raze replied. "What's gravity?" Ken asked, they were still unfamiliar with this piece of science as they went to a pony school who were like pre-industrial, and they never had any human education. "Gravity is... It's like what pulls you down when you fall, and it helps keep you on the ground and not float into space when your not using your Ki, you get it?" "So it helps us stay on the ground?" Ken questioned, just to make sure if he got it. "Yeah, it's... it's like weight too, the more Gravity, the more your heavy you are." "So gravity is just weight then?" Kira asked, looking up to him as she walked alongside her twin brother. “Yeah except it's based on the planet you're on. The gravity on this planet is the same as Earth's gravity, so we'll probably start at three times this gravity.” Raze said as they neared their destination. “Three times this gravity? I wonder what that will be like." Ken said. 'Maybe it makes up fatter? Eww." 'I don't think it makes us fatter silly. Raze said it was like our weighted clothes remember?' Kira confirmed telepathically. 'Oh yeah! That's right!' Ken thought back. The two twins stopped when the older saiyan stopped walking, they looked over to see Bon-Bon at the front door of home. Bon Bon turned around waved at the two small children and the older saiyan. The twins ran forward and gave their mom's friend a hug. “You picked up the twins today Raze?” Bon Bon asked Raze, said person nodded in return. “Yep! I thought it was the least I could do considering you both let me, Derpy, and the Doctor stay here.” Raze said to Bon Bon. “Well, I'll open the house for you three and then I'll go tell Lyra that you picked them so she doesn't worry.” With that, Bon Bon opened the door and then let them inside. “I'll be back soon with Lyra, so get into any trouble alright?” Bon Bon asked them. “I'm responsible! I'll make sure they're both alright!” Raze said, Bon Bon looked at the twins expectantly. The two twins instantly knew that the pony was expecting them of being troublemakers again. Hey, that frying pan cart moved on it's own, it was monster in disguise they knew it! “Bye Bon Bon! We'll stay out of trouble!” Ken and Kira said in unison, their innocent childish faces making it easy to believe. “Okay then...” with that, Bon Bon closed the door behind herself leaving the three by themselves. 'She still thinks we're gonna cause trouble, doesn't she?' Ken thought to his sister. 'Yeah... I think she does.' Kira telepathically replied, her tail waving in the wind. “Raze, do we get to see the gravity chamber soon?” Ken asked in excitement, his fist to his chest and elbows bent in a manner that would only make a child look cuter. Of course he didn't know better, he was only excited for what they were going to do today. “Come on! In the backyard I'll be able to set it down and show you just how much both fun and difficult training in gravity will be!” Raze exclaimed as he went through the back door. Closely the two twins followed their new supposed sensai, ecstatic to learn about new techniques and a chance to train with someone new. 'What do you think he's gonna teach us?' Ken questioned. 'I don't know, maybe Raze will show us this really really cool move! That like beats up the bad guys in one hit!' Kira thought to him. 'Yeah, that would be so cool ,and awesome, and uh... Cool!' Ken excitedly replied, if he still had his tail, it would be wagging back and forth rapidly for sure. They continued to follow Raze, but when Raze opened the door, he bumped into Derpy whom had saddlebags tied around her. “Hey Derpy!” He said in minor surprise to the Pegasus. “Hey Raze!” She looked around to see the twins behind Raze and said “Hey Ken and Kira!” “Hi Derpy!” The twins both said together, Ken and Kira both walked to either side of the full grown saiyan warrior, effectively putting them outside of the house with Raze. “What are you three up to?” Derpy curiously asked. Ken, being Ken, spoke up first “Me and sis are going to train with Raze!” His sister cheerfully added on “Yeah!” Her little hybrid's tail wagging behind her in excitement. “I was about to set down the gravity chamber, do wanna watch Derpy?” Raze asked. Raze dug into his pocket and pulled out this white thingy, it was small and had a button on top, he pressed the button and with some smoke a colored box appeared with some strange letters on it. Raze rummaged through the box for something. Derpy then replied. “I guess... Only for a minute though! The Doctor needs more butter! And I need muffin mix!” She sat down on her haunches in wait with the two twins. At the word of muffins, the twins remembered when they had muffins. “You make muffins? I love muffins!” Ken said cheerfully. “Sis likes muffins too!” He added on. “Really! I love muffins too! Tell you what, I'll make you batch for tomorrow's school, okay?” “K!” The two twins replied, eager to have muffins in the near-future. “Ah, here we go!” Raze clicked the top of the white thing's button and threw it into onto a nice sized patch of land. A loud booming sound could be heard and then a large sphere shaped building popped up. “It's pretty big isn't it?” Raze said, looking over to our twin heroes. The large sphere... ball... building... thingy, was huge. Well, not as huge as the house, but neither the less it was quite sizable in the backyard. It looked like their dad's house inside Ken's seal, at the thought, Ken realized he never spoken with his dad all day. 'It's okay Ken, I know you've been busy." His father reassured him. The small guilt fading quickly as he answered. 'Thanks dad.' Ken replied. Derpy then smiled and said “I've got stuff to get! I'll be back later!” Derpy finished with a wave of her hoof, she set off on a adventurous quest for muffins and butter. Ken went up to Raze's Gravity Chamber, the little child stared at the door, then turned around and looked at Raze “Can we go in?” He asked nicely to which Raze nodded. Kira ran up to the door when Ken opened it. The small saiyan female looked inside with wonder and human curiosity “It's really dark in here!” She exclaimed, she almost touched her light crystal to give light to the room, but Raze interrupted her. “I think the light switch is right around- Ah-hah! Here it is.” Raze said, and then a flick sound was heard. The room was large and the tiles were light purple, the ceiling was quite tall and rounded, testimony to it's outside appearance. In the middle of the room was a machine that connected to the floor and the top of the building, on it's white panels lay countless of buttons which the two twins didn't understand with still being in elementary school. “What is that?” Kira questioned, she made her way to the center of the room and pointed at the machine curiously, her small saiyan tail shaping into a semi-question mark as she prodded at the strange large mechanic structure. “That is the gravity control mechanism-” Raze begin to say, but the twins instantly lost him at the last word. Thankfully the full-blooded saiyan noticed their lack of vocabulary meanings. “It means machine, anyhow it's the object you will be using to train with for your time in here. We'll be in here for at least an hour, I think, so we know how much gravity you can train at in the beginning.” Raze said, Raze then made his way to the center console. The twin's human minds stored the information rather quickly and the two children understood what Raze was saying. “I'm not going to start the process until you two think you're ready.” The saiyan told them as he began to press buttons that Ken and Kira still had no understanding of, and possibly never will if they stick to pony education. Ken and Kira didn't hear the saiyan through, so they just played a game. And that game that Ken and Kira had began to play, was a game of good ole' Rock Paper Scissors. But for some strange reason, Ken kept losing to his sister, and they had already reached the tenth round in the battle of a century. Ken had just gotten rock, while Kira... Paper. “Best 11 out of... Uh... 13!” Ken exclaimed, still determined to beat his sister. Kira smiled, her tail wiggling mischievously as she continued to beat her identical twin, “Okay!” But they never had a chance to continue their 'brutal war game', “I'm done setting it up!” Raze spoke up, the two twin hybrids heard his words loud and clear. They both forgot about their game immediately. They gathered themselves up and stood before Raze whom had his index finger on a single button, whatever the button would do the twin didn't know. Maybe it made muffins sprout out onto the metal? Hopefully it was that, because they're hungry! “Both of you should stretch beforehand, okay?” Raze asked them as they both nodded. Guess it wasn't the muffins, oh well, maybe next time. Ken stretched his arms out and then began to stretch his legs. He then cracked his knuckles and then put his body level to the floor and did some quick push-ups. Kira began to run around the machine, she jumped into the air doing several front flips as her feet touched the ground. She then stretched her arms and legs out and continued to run. 'Show off' Ken telepathically commented on Kira's stretching. Kira only grinned back at him during her remaining stretch. Within a few minutes they both stopped, their blood and muscles warmed up. They stood before Raze with excitement and childish joy at what the training could hold for them. 'I wonder what he's gonna teach us?' Kira commented to her brother. Raze smiled down at them at our two heroes, he opened his mouth and said “This will not be actual learning for today. The only thing you will have to do is walk. There is a catch of course and you can probably guess it, you will walk at the maximum gravity that you can take, good luck and steel yourselves.” Raze finished as he looked at them seriously. Ken looked determined and Kira looked a little apprehensive, her tail wiggled in wait. Through in mind, they were trying to figure out what the word 'steel' was. It sounded like a familiar word, or was it called term? Silly Grammar class, it makes lots of things confusing! Raze then pressed the button on the console once. Instantly the twins felt a small force of pressure apply to themselves like they had just put on heavier weighted clothing. But it didn't take long for the two twins to apply their Ki easily to their muscles to make the weight seem so much less. “This isn't so bad! See Kira! There was nothing to be worried about!” Ken said as he smiled triumphantly. “You're right! I can run all day like this!” Kira said as she ran around the console while her tail flew behind her. “That's perfect because this is only two times this planet's normal gravity.” Raze said to them which made them stop running around. “Times? Like a cloak” Kira asked, why was he talking about clocks? That's silly! “No, as in multiplication.” Ken and Kira tilted their heads in confusion. What was multi-pli-cation? Is that some sort of super clock? They had super clocks now!? How strong were they? Were they as strong as Super Saiyan? Were they stronger? Were they bad, are they gonna attack their home? “Uh... it's advanced math.” Raze explained, or seemed to try. “Oh okay!” Ken said. So, no super clocks yet, that's good. “Anyway, your training is just beginning and since I know that you will do just fine at this level, we'll increase it to five! Get ready.” Raze said as the twins both stood ready for what was to come. Both Ken and Kira expected heavier weights like last time. Raze nodded at them and then pressed the button three more times, each time making some sort of 'Beep' sound. The two half saiyan twins immediately felt the new weight hit them all at once, causing them to nearly slam into the ground as they felt like their weighted clothing increased ten-fold, or at least it felt that way! “Whoa!” Ken yelled, he struggled to stand up and he did, if only barely. Kira struggled just as much with it as she tried to lift a leg to walk forward. “It's hard to move!” Kira said, she continued her attempt at moving. Even her tail was in a limping position, facing the floor and was unable to twitch. “You're being tested! Attack me and no Super Saiyan! I won't attack either of you offensively but in self-defense I will!” Raze said to them. 'What! I don't think we can fight him! He's too tough!' Ken complained mentally. 'That's no fair, he can dodge all of our attacks super easy!' Kira added on to her brother's complaint. “If you manage to hit me in the face, we'll all go to the Park on Friday.” Raze suddenly said, he moved to different side of the room away from the control panel. Raze then stood there, in his martial arts stance. That one sentence, that one singular sentence, INSTANTLY changed their thoughts. A trip to the park! They can see their friends and play lots of fun games! They can also help Scootaloo, Sweetie Bell, and Applebloom get their cutie marks! “Just one attack? Alrighty!” Ken exclaimed, determined for them to get a trip to the park. The little saiyan hybrid powered up, a white aura bursting into existence. Ken then yelled out “Kaio-ken Times 2!” as a fiery red aura replaced the white one, causing Ken's muscles to tense and buff. Ken charged at Raze with fist ready,he could feel the gravity's pressure pushing him down, forcing him to be slower. But the technique and child determination kept Ken from giving up so easily. Ken shot his right arm, but the full-blooded saiyan dodged it effortlessly, he tried another toward the left of Raze's ribcage, but again was thwarted. Ken continued his assault as he thrusted his left fist upward, attempting to hit the adult's jaw. Again he missed but the hybrid child used the momentum to follow through with a right punch. But once again, his opponent out-bested him with speed and experience. Suddenly, a invisible wave of Ki energy blasted outward. “Wha!” Ken gasped out as the Ki reinforced air hit him, knocking him toward the tile flooring. In the meantime, another saiyan hybrid flew behind Raze, Kira choose this time to attack the full-blooded saiyan but as she sent her fist toward the back of Raze's head, he disappeared. “Aww! You used afterimage! No fair!” Kira complained, she attempted whipped around too attack him with her tail's lash, but the strain of the gravity prevented her from doing it quickly. “All's fair in this training session!” Raze countered, as he quickly made his way away from the human hybrid girl. Causing Kira to pout as Raze got away from her attack so quickly. She landed on the flooring and took this moment to gather her breath. Ken went by his sister's side. 'Dang, you almost had him!' He thought to her. 'Yeah, but he's too fast, I think we gotta attack him differently.' She mentally said. 'Mmh, I think if we attack him together he won't be able to stop all our attacks!' Ken suggested. Kira nodded, agreeing to the plan, “Let's do this nii-san!” Kira exclaimed. Ken grinned and powered up his Kaio-ken form, while Kira's white aura appeared around her small form. Raze seemed a bit confused, but it quickly turned to shock as the twins advanced at him with rapid but untrained attack patterns. But being twins had it's advantages, they instantly seemed to naturally follow up to the others attack, where one punched the other kicked, where one defended, the other advanced. Each action they made going in perfect coordination with the other twin. Ken and Kira fought as hard as they could manage in the heavy gravity. The two twins were determined that Raze would hold to his promise of a day at the park if they manage to hit him. Earning that was still proving to be a challenge for them both as Raze had the advantage of already training in these conditions. But the twins had spars with each other and had worked together many times, thus making it easy for them to follow in each others attacks more then they could already naturally do. But Raze still continued to block and dodge their seemingly endless attacks, and the two were now feeling the strain of the gravity wearing down upon them, most notably Ken, who was using the Kaio-Ken technique to increase his personal power. The two twins jumped back from their 'rampage', to took this time to take a quick breather and plan their next moves. 'It's... not working.' Ken thought, still exhausted through he wouldn't admit it. 'Maybe if we try it differently?' Ken's sister advised as she took her own breaths. 'I guess we can try Ki attacks?' He replied. Kira shook her head barely. 'No, I don't think they would work, he's too fast.' 'Maybe we can circle him!' Ken mentally exclaimed his idea. 'Okay, let's try that! Kira agreed. The looked at Raze with cheerful, yet determined faces, Raze got into his fighting stance “Well? You two aren't tired now, are you?” Ken and Kira smiled and then ran at him from different sides “That won't work!” Raze exclaimed as he pushed air at them with Ki. But the two twins dodged to different sides and ran at him, they had done this tactic before against Discord, and it seemed to be working against Raze as well. Guess it was a twin sibling thing, Raze moved out, he ran off and then turned around. But the two twins were running on top of the ceiling toward the full-blooded saiyan warrior. It didn't take long for him for realize where they were through. Raze blasted more Ki reinforced air at them. The twins dodged it easily and flew down at him. The heavy gravity made them come down at him a lot faster than normal thus giving them a better advantage. Raze made a move to go back, but found himself hitting a wall, the two twins charged at him using their momentum when they hit the marble tile flooring as a propeller to attack the saiyan. Together, they both shot forward their fist and finally managed to hit the saiyan. Making Raze hit the wall, thankfully the walls seemed really really strong, so the saiyan bounced off it without destroying it. “Oof!” Raze grunted as he slid down the wall. “YEAH! We did it! We did it! We did it!” Ken and Kira exclaimed, jumping up and down in joy as they grabbed each others hands. Kira's tail wagged around in her joyous emotion. “Yes, you both did great! I guess that I owe you both a trip to the park...” Raze said to the twins. “Yeah!” They both exclaimed. Suddenly, Ken and Kira's senses picked up as the familiar energy of their adoptive mother came right through the door. The twin's mother, Lyra, soon fell stomach first onto the hard tiles due to the shear gravitational weight pulling down upon her. “I just got back from the studio and I-aah!” Lyra yelled, but was interrupted as the gravity fell onto her. “Mommy!” Ken and Kira yelled in concern, they rushed toward their adopted mother in worry. When they reached her, they area suddenly seemed much... Lighter then before, like when they take off their weighted clothing before sleeping. The two twins heard footsteps coming closer to them, they turned their heads looking at the direction of the sound to see Raze kneeling down at their mother Lyra. “You alright?” He asked her. “What was that?!” The motherly Lyra yelled at the full-grown saiyan, now recovered from the weight that had kept her down. The two twins and Raze covered their ears from the yelling, Raze seemed to have slightly more sensitive hearing then the two hybrids through, and as such had a little more pain causing him to fall backward on his rear. “Oops, I didn't mean to yell, but what was that?” She asked in a lower tone, her anger now vanished. “That was gravity that pulled you down and the floor caught you!” Raze said all too honestly. Lyra gave him a confusing look. How could the gravity change in a single building? Where saiyans more advanced then the humans? “So, is it some sort of saiyan technology?” She asked him, wanted to confirm her suspicion. “Umm... No, it's human technology.” Raze said. Lyra made it like she passed it off. “Well, Okay then. Dinner will be done soon, so go and get the Doctor and Derpy so we can all eat!” Lyra exclaimed. 'Wow, humans are so advanced in his dimension. I wonder what Ken and Kira's is like now, maybe they had big giant blocky ships with huge cannons and can open portals in space to travel at the speed of light. Nah, that's just ridiculous Lyra.' Lyra motioned for her two adopted human hybrid children to follow her through the door. They did so without question and the group went back into the house. There, they quickly ate a good sized dinner of a vegetarian diet, cause they didn't have anymore fish to serve much to the twin's and Raze's disappointment. Lyra told them then to go to bed, because it was dark and there was still school tomorrow. Ken tried to complain how they could stay up later, but one look in Lyra's eyes made him change his mind quickly. The both wished their mother a good night as Lyra kissed them on their foreheads. The two identical twins made it up to their room, picked up the room to make it clean and then changed into their pajamas. Which were basically the same clothing to each other considering of very soft green fabric with a harp picture in front of the shirts. They climbed into their respective double bunker, Kira slept on the top while Ken on bottom. "Night sis!" "Night nii-san!" The candlelight flickered out, and they both fell into their dreams of joys and happiness. However, a few hours later, Ken while in his sleep started turning and moving in his bunker, his breathing started to quicken and his face turned paler. He calmed down a few minutes later, but if one was to look you could tell it wasn't exactly in good health at the moment. During the few hours before however... Chris is having a nice seal day, considering being mostly bored due to his saiyan blood that wanted some sort of sparring action. However with no real opponent, and his son still being too weak to give him a good warm up, it was getting repetitive on his daily planning of cutting imaginary wood, eating imaginary food, hunting imaginary animals, and re-watching memories over and over. Course it wasn't all boring, he loved watching his son and daughter train with their newly acquired friend, Raze. The unexpected saiyan was something they needed in their pony-filled life, sparring with each other can only go so far, and their human side can only entertain them for so long. Don't forget to mention how their children still. Through, when Raze came into the seal-scape with a strange inter-dimensional Discord that seemed to watch his whole life up to the point where he was sealed within Ken, it was kinda... Creepy... Awkward? He didn't have the word to describe it. But still, Chris could tell from Raze's eyes that the young saiyan teen, or young adult, has had a tragic history. Maybe worse then Ken, maybe not. Chris pondered on the unknown variable that is Raze, while continuously chopping imaginary wood with a imaginary axe. Suddenly, two energy signatures appeared behind him. “I think you got the spell wrong Discord.” The voice that was undoubtedly Raze spoke up. “I think you're absolutely right Raze...” The no doubtingly Discord mumbled. Chris put down the axe, or more like slammed it into the tree trunk, what where they doing inside the seal again! He told them to ask Ken before attempting such a barging in of privacy! Have they no respect for his wishes or his eight year old son's private mind-scape! He turned around and walked over to the two, yet again, intruders. "So, what are you two doing here again?” Chris asked them, his eyes clearly spotting their body language giving themselves the feeling of hesitation. “Uh... Visiting! Right Raze?” Discord said, he seemed to glare at Raze with a "play along!" stare. Chris knew this glare too well to be fooled so easily. He knew they were already lying the moment their body language gave them away. “Well, yeah! That's what we were doing, how are you?” Raze lied and asked. Chris smiled kindly, he remembered when he was young and tried to change the subject so easily. It doesn't help that Raze acted like his brotherly figure Goku, who he knew very well. “Just fine. But let's talk about you two instead. You weren't planning on visiting some other dream or mind of any sort... Were you?” The Z-fighter gave them calculating stare. “That depends... Let's say, hypothetically if we were... What would your reaction be?” Discord asked as he floated above the ground. “Probably angry... A little disappointed, and might have the incentive to help you learn a lesson of trust.” Chris said to them. 'This could be a good change to have a small spar, not too big as I don't know the limits of the seal, but at least a good enough one to stave off my boredom.' The father of the twins thought to himself. “It's a good thing were not visiting any other places, this just so happens to be where we meant to go isn't that right Raze?” Discord asked Raze. “Of course! See? We're so happy to see you and I know you had to be watching during the training session! What do you think of that?” Raze said quickly, clearly showing a little desperation for Chris to be convinced by such an apparent lie. But Chris can wait no longer, if he was right, the moment he threaten Raze the saiyan would get himself locked in his pride and fight him. Just like he wanted. “You're just trying to change the subject. You were trying to get into Ken's mind!” Chris accused Raze, speaking the full truth right into his face. “Maybe! But that is just fine because it didn't work!” Raze exclaimed back as Chris cracked his knuckles. A clear universal sigh of saiyans that basically says 'Fight me if you think you can.' “Um... Guys? Saiyans?” Discord was trying to say as Raze also began to crack his knuckles. “If you think I'm not going to fight when your blatantly cracking your knuckles at me then your mistaken!” Raze exclaimed as he stood his ground. Bingo, Raze has replied just like he predicated. 'Alright, now just gotta change the area to a more fitting fighting ground. Also gotta keep from using large scale attacks because I'm not sure of Ken's body can take such force being released within him.' Chris mentally nodded to himself and spoke up. “This area is a little unfitting to have a fight on, so let's take it to an open area.” Chris said, the landscape changed into a desert area with high plateaus all around, but Chris knew this area well. It was the same area where his 'brother' Goku fought Vegeta for the first time. “Is this good Raze? Or would you prefer somewhere else?” Chris asked with a smile, a smile that was easily known to saiyans as a challenge. “No, I think this is just fine! I'll show you not to take me lightly!” Raze exclaimed as he stretched a bit. “You two are seriously going to fight now? As much as I really want to see this, I don't think it's appropr-” Discord was cut off by Raze. “I've been to out of it lately, I need a serious fight and here it is on a silver platter! I will not waste my chance! Especially with a famous Z-fighter!” Raze exclaimed as he stood up. “You make the first move Raze!” Chris said confidently, sliding into his old fighting style of the Angelic Martial Arts school. “Here I come!” Raze yelled as he charged forward. Chris smiled, he muscles tensed and his feet placed in a firm balanced position. His eyes looked over at the charging Raze with the experience of a warrior, analyzing every moment, every weak point, every opening. Just like the Z-fighter he is, just like a saiyan, just like a warrior. And in the background, a certain Discord yelled. “I'm going to love this!”