//------------------------------// // Chapter 38: The EIOSES Leader // Story: Saiyan of Equestria // by Boyzilla //------------------------------// EIOSES Saga Chapter 38: The EIOSES Leader "Why didn't you say so in the first place silly!" The holder of Laughter smiled and pulled out of cup of sugar before handing it over to the eight year old human saiyan hybrid. The child grabbed it and stared at it, never expecting it to actually... Be there. "See?" Kira said to her mom, Lyra. She held out the cup of sugar as proof of her truthfulness. But it was for naught as Lyra could easily see through the lie. "Kira... " Lyra said, emotion of disappointment and anger clear in her voice. *Tap tap tap* "Well done, very well done. I had expected the Human female to bypass most of our defenses with ease." The group looked up, standing on a platform stood a dark red furred pony, wearing a black lab coat and a black paw mark on his rump. "Ziek Foreton, I should have known." Luna said. "Ah, the esteemed Alicornia princess of the night. I'm afraid my business is not with your kind, humans are much more worthwhile than any Alicorn." Kira shouted in anger at Ziek. "You took nii-san! Give him back right now!" A dark chuckle sounded throughout the room. "I have no intention of giving your nii-san back to you, he is my property after all. Soon, little human, you will be too." "You sick bastard!" Rainbow Dash screamed at him. "Now, now, Holder of Loyalty, no need to resort to such primitive language." Ziek replied, he walked toward some sort of device and lit it up with red magic. "Begin procedures with experiment H-1. Also, release the D-5s into room GT." "Right away sir." A voice replied. Suddenly a door opened, the group looked over to see five mutated humanoid green dragons. The mutated dragons stood eight feet tall, spikes protruded out of their joint regions. Their heads had multiple horns and teeth that looked like iron or steel, their eyes were yellow with reptilian slits. Ziek then spoke up. "Now, as a simple test. We shall see what these magic-evolved dragons will face off against naturally evolved creatures. I fully expect the human to survive, but I'll like to see how many ponies will die. Begin test." With that, he left the room, the mutated dragons roared and charged at the group. Luna conjured a formidable magical barrier around the group, but Kira and Lyra stood outside of the defensive spell. Lyra horn lit with tealish glow, while an aura of white Ki energy burst into existence around the small hybrid girl Kira. Two dragons split from their pack, and circled the defensive shield. The other three went toward both Kira and Lyra. One charged toward the middle of them, however unexpectedly, Kira went straight into the dragon's path, a fist came ramming into the creature's stomach. The dragon stumbled back a few meters from the being that caused it pain. Kira in the meantime, grasped her hand in slight pain. "Ow... Very tough scales." She commented shaking her hand in a attempt to ease the pain. Lyra frowned. "Tough scales usually mean magic resistant. This is going to be difficult." She finished. Another Dragon suddenly came behind Kira, a claw appeared forth, crashing down onto the child as Kira turned her head to see what see sensed. The claw came down. *Tear* "Kira!" Lyra screeched, only to stop, eyes widening. The claw, was blocked, blood dripped from Kira's armed as the sharp bones engraved themselves within her skin. Kira's eyes narrowed, she grasped the dragon's arm with both hands and lifted the whole being of the creature up. Kira brought her strength down upon the dragon, slamming the dragon into the broken tiled floor. The saiyan jumped up, then rushed down, crushing the ribs of the mutated monster with her knee. The dragon that was punched earlier came charging at the child. Kira rose up to her feet, grasped a spike of the charging a dragon, flung him into the air, then met it's stomach with a sounding *CRUNCH* of her knee slamming into it's abdomen. Kira didn't stop there, and pulled back her knee, before slamming it again into the airborne dragon. She then spun the dragon again and released, causing it to fall into gravity's painful lessons when it hit the floor, bruised and beaten. "Bucking Hay, that was awesome!" Rainbow Dash commented. "Wait a minute, save one for me! Luna, bring down this shield I wanna help!" The barrier came down, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Twilight Sparkle went into action. Pinkie Pie pulled out a cannon, that fired giant cupcakes at the three last dragon. With cupcakes in their faces, distracting their senses of smell and sight, Applejack came to one, and bucked it's midsection. The buck from her hooves, enforced with years of experience, literally threw the dragon off it's feet and causing it to crash into a wall, its claws holding itself in pain. Rainbow Dash speed caused her own attacks to come from multiple angles at another dragon, the dragon couldn't keep up with the holder of loyalty and soon succumbed from it's wounds that the Pegasus inflicted. "Yeah that's right, nopony can handle the Dash!" Rainbow Dash boasted in her victory. The last dragon faced off against Twilight Sparkle, it released an assault of flaming death upon the unicorn, but Twilight Sparkle was not a uneducated and defenseless individual. The incident of Discord had taught her beforehoof of how she needed to learn how to defend herself and her friends. Twilight learned a multitude of defensive spells, along with a few offensive abilities. Twilight conjured a small frontal barrier that absorbed the flame, then she changed the shields form into multiple magic spears. The holder of Magic powerful purple aura flung the spears onto the dragon, normally the dragon's resistance would have provided a decent defense against this magical barrage. But with Twilight Sparkle being the princess' protege and having the Element of Magic tied around her neck, the spells proved too powerful for it's scales, causing it to die of impalement. *Foosh* A fiery beam of burning heat made it's journey toward the Alicorn Princess. Luna turned to it, her horn lighting in powerful magic, and conjured a beam of her own that overpowered the flame and blasted one of the last dragons to the gates of Tartatus. Quickly, she turned toward the dragon that Applejack had previously injured. "Applejack, step aside!" She commanded, the farm pony did instantly, and a beam from the Alicorn came in contact with the pained dragon, the dragon roared in pain before dying against the wall. "Thata show it!" Applejack commented. "Where's Lyra?" Twilight questioned, looking around. "Over there, standing over the dragony!" Pinkie Pie cheerfully replied, pointing her hoof toward the mint pony who stood over a dragon. Lyra stood before the mutant dragon that had fought against their group, the sick twisted form of what used to be an average teenage draconian. Now nothing but a mindless animal from whatever experiments that have been conducted against its will. "I'm sorry... For all that happened to you." She said to the dragon that lay upon the floor, she lit up her horn and ended it's misery. She looked up, and glanced over to Kira's location. "Kira" Lyra said. "Come over here." Kira's tail went limp, the sure sign that the child knew she was in trouble. The hybrid girl walked toward her adopted mother, eyes staring at the cracked floor tile in front of her white shoes. Kira expected some sort of punishment, ranging from the horrid spanking, to losing some of her rights such as going outside. Instead, she was embraced by her mommy in a warm gentle hug. "M-mommy?" Kira said in surprise. "I'm... Just glad your okay." Lyra replied softly, before grabbing some cloth from her saddlebag and tying it around Kira's arm wound. "Sappy stuff." Dash commented. "Admit it, you find it heart warmin." Applejack replied to the speedster. "I do not! I... Uhh... Just find it nice for Kira, yeah, that!" Princess Luna walked over to one of the dragon's corpse. She looked over it in disgust and slight pity. "Such barbaric experimentation, evil certainly knows no bounds. EIOSES has gone to far with this act of twisted monstrosity, time we put them down." The moon princess turned direction toward a opened doorway. "We shall proceed in the opened pathway." Luna glanced at the two Heartstrings. "Ms. Heartstrings, let's go save your son." "It's time oh little one, for you ascension." Ken looked at Ziek Foreton with hate, his hands clenched into fist in anger. Ziek only laughed. "You can hate me all you want, but your in no position to escape." "Let me out you meanie!" Ken kicked the cage wall, ignoring the magical shock wave that coursed through him upon impact. "Haha, proceed with operation." Ziek stepped back, and a dozen other white-lab coated unicorns of various colors horns lit up with magical prowess. "Huh?" Ken said as the caged suddenly opened. Then beams of magic shot forward instantaneous and wrapped around the limbs of the saiyan child, arms, legs, neck, and waist tied up in a sort of lasso. "Let me go, let me go!" Ken yelled as she struggled with the newly made bonds. The bonds forced the young saiyan hybrid upon the tiled ground. Ken tried to push himself upward, he looked to see Ziek smirking at his attempts to get free. "More power output." Ziek said, and the bonds tightened and strengthened, making Ken slammed into the ground despite his arms trying to hold himself up. Anger coursed through him, no Ki energy to spare for it was used trying to get free, he watched helplessly as he was stagnant on the ground. "You can feel your anger coursing through you can't you? Your instincts pressing on you to attack, to fight back, you can't resist them, they are a part of you after all. Let go human, you can't fight a two sided battle between your emotions and instincts." *Rip* "Ah... Your tail, unexpected that it grew back." A monkey-like tail whipped around the backside of Ken as he continued to struggle uselessly. "But no matter, there is no lunar waves for you to absorb in order to initiate transformation." He looked into Ken's eyes, seeing the anger and hate that course through them. "Take him toward room E08, be sure to strap him down with the strongest magical bounds at our disposal as I deal with the female human." Ken's eyes widened at the last word, the only other 'human' besides himself was his sister. "Your leave nee-chan alone! Leave her alone!" Strength rose from within him in determination to protect his sibling, he pressed onto the ground, creating cracks within the tile. Slowly Ken pushed himself upward against the forceful bindings that were wrapped around him. "Incredible you humans are." Ziek commented. Ken placed a foot down, and rose to his feet. The bonds that tied him began to crack as Ken brought his arms to his chest, pulling forth every ounce of Ki energy left within his small, mangled body to release a explosive wave of energy. At least, that's what Ken planned to do. Until the half saiyan child fell to the ground out cold from a powerful blow to the boy's neck, courtesy of Ziek's magic. "Get to it, we haven't got all day with the Alicorn breathing down our necks." Ziek commanded. The scientist pulled Ken's body down the dark hallway. "How many of these vermin are there!?" Applejack yelled, bucking another EIOSES scientist to the world of dreams. "It is saddening to know this many ponies fell from grace." Luna said, blasting two other ponies who had tried to grab onto her. "Can't we do anything for them?" Twilight Sparkle questioned as she dodged a blow from a earth pony and knocked the pony out with magic. Princess Luna stood silent before replying. "My sister commanded the Royal Guards to capture these scientist. In fact I believe they are en route right now." She ducked from a flying griffons claw attack before sending a mild shock wave to the sky, sending it and other flying enemies crashing into the ceiling. "I hope the Princess can do something for them." Lyra said as the last EIOSES scientist in the room stood a few meters from them. Kira ran toward the last scientist, a earth pony, with her fist ready to punch. "Wait, stop! I'm not with them!" The earth pony screamed, causing her to stop herself right before she hit the pony. "Huh? Your not evil?" Kira questioned, the other of the rescue group walked up to the two. "Who are you?" Rainbow Dash questioned with distrust. The earth pony pulled out a symbol of Celestia and Luna. "I'm Zooey Buck, I'm a spy for the Equestrian government and a Zoologist." She turned back to Kira. "I've been here for a few weeks, it's horrible this place. But I saw your brother and took care of him the best I could." "You saw nii-san?" The human saiyan child then asked, "His he alright? His Ken hurt? His he hungry or cold? Is daddy's seal fine? How is nii-san?" "Whoa whoa, hehe, slow down there." Zooey giggled a bit. "Your brother is fine, for now. But I'll lead you all to him, we will have to be quick as I do not know what evils Ziek has planned for Ken." Lyra spoke up with determination, "Lead the way, I won't have them hurting Ken!" Zooey Buck lead the rescue group as fast as she could down the many halls and rooms of the EIOSES base. Through the darkness and tricky mazes, Zooey had memorized the layout of the base which allowed the group to easily past by the obstacles made to slow down intruders. Heading down a set of stairs deeper underground, the arrived at a row of cells. With no Ken in any of them. Rainbow Dash checked the last cell, nothing. "He's not here! They must have taken him away!" "Dang it, that means they have headed toward the experimental rooms." Zooey said, "It's not far from here, but their might be opposition on the way there." "I have a bad feelin 'bout this." Applejack commented. "Five bits says nothing bad happens." Rainbow Dash said. "Your on." Applejack replied. The group followed Zooey back up the stairs and down a set of hallways, they came across a large doorway which Zooey then pressed her hoof onto a set of runes. The runes lit, and the door opened. The group entered the dark room, when suddenly the lights lit up with brightness. When their eyes had adjusted, they saw the leader of the EIOSES group along with more of those mutated dragons from before surrounding him. "You win this time." Rainbow Dash said, passing five bits to Applejack, who grinned in victory. "Lookie, more dragons!" Pinkie Pie said. "Those don't seem like dragons anymore Pinkie." Twilight Sparkle said. "You are correct Ms. Sparkle, these 'dragons' are a more evolved specimen, the D-6s. More powerful than the D-5s in all regards, including magical and physical resistance." Ziek laid eyes upon Kira. "But enough about that, I have business with the girl, so if you would please hand her over." Kira frowned at the sound of Ziek's voice referring to her as property. Lyra choose this moment to speak. "Kira... Is not your toy! She is a child of sentient thought and emotions! Not your thing to experiment with multiple tools then throw her away when your done! The same goes for Ken, he is not your property, nor is he anyponys!" Lyra yelled at the EIOSES leader with anger. Ziek Foreton, leader of EIOSES, stood silent. Then he laughed, he laughed at Lyra and all those that had come to rescue Ken from his establishment. "That's a good one, but I have to disagree for Ken is by now, nothing more than an animal." "What... What do you mean!?" Lyra yelled. Ziek grinned maliciously. "The one called Ken, is being injected with a serum called Animas Potentias, which increases the instincts of any creature higher than anypony's willpower. The serum also increases the body's abilities by a large margin and provides a higher regeneration rate and increased resistance. Quite powerful isn't it as you've noticed with the D-5s, who were dragons injected with a previous version of the serum." "How... How could you?" Twilight said with disgust. "I just did." Ziek replied. *Crack* "Ah, appears that the female human is angry." Ziek said. A white aura of fiery Ki encircled Kira, who seemed to look down at the ground, a shadow over her face and her hands clenched into fist. Sparks of electricity shot wildly from her feet, the floor tile cracking with ease from the sheer power of Kira's anger. Her aura seemed to create a wind so strong the ponies around her had to cover their eyes with their hooves to block any dirt from getting into them. "You... You... " The saiyan girl growled out, she opened her hands shaping them like claws. Two blue Ki balls formed into both her palms as she lifted her head to stare into the eyes of Ziek with dangerous intent. "Uh... Kira? Sweetie?" Lyra said to the saiyan hybrid, but was unheard. "Grraaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Kira screamed at Ziek, bringing for her hands and blasting two waves of explosive Ki energy at him. The beams of energy shot past the D-6 dragons and right toward the EIOSES leader, who's horn lit up with red magical energy and a shield appeared in front of him. The Ki waves made contact with the magical barrier and exploded outward. *Boom!* "Wah!" Pinkie yelled out, trying to keep herself on the ground from the explosion's kinetic energy pushing out at them all. Kira rushed forward, flying right past the mutant dragons and shooting a punch right where Ziek was. Only to meet the magical barrier as the smoke cleared. "Tch tch, undisciplined like your brother." Ziek mocked, grinning much to Kira's annoyance and hatred. His barrier turned into magical missiles that blasted Kira to the right side of the huge room. The room was suddenly split by a immense magical barrier between the Rescue group, and the two fighting each other, Kira and Ziek. "Kira! No, I won't let her fight alone!" Lyra yelled, her horn lit up with magic to allow her to teleport to the other side. When she disappeared she reappeared hitting the barrier, pushing her back. "No!" Lyra yelled with anguish at the fact Kira would be fighting that... That monster alone! "Lyra, we have our own problems!" Luna yelled as Lyra turned to see the D-6 dragons starting to close in onto the rescue group. Everypony got ready for combat, Lyra's horn lit with her tealish glow. "Let's defeat them quickly so we can help Kira!" Kira got up from crashing into the wall, she stood and looked at Ziek Foreton who was now only three meters away. His horn lit with magic and suddenly five spears of magic came rushing at the young saiyan hybrid. Kira rolled forward, causing the spears to crash into the wall behind her. Kira went back to her feet, running toward Ziek to engage in melee combat. Kira shot her right fist forward, only to be blocked by a small barrier. She stepped back and threw her left leg at his side, only to again be blocked by a small barrier. The little girl brought her hands together and shot out a Ki blast, front flipping over Ziek as the blast exploded when it made contact with yet another barrier. Quickly, the human hybrid rushed down from the air, aiming to kick the EIOSES leader's back. The barrier from before changed into a form of the likes of rushing water, and slashed at Kira. The magic hit her, causing her to fall back onto the ground. Ziek Foreton shot forward a arc of magical lightning toward the human child. The lightning cracked over the tile floor and made it's way quickly to Kira, she saw it and dodged by rolling to her left across the flooring. But Kira underestimated the attack and it followed her. Kira got up quickly and jumped back from the incoming electrical attack, she kept jumping backward dodging it's current before her back made contact with the immense magical barrier separating the room in two. "Ahhh!" She screamed as she felt her back burning from the barrier, causing her to fall forward then the magical lightning from before caught up to her and strike her body. "AHHHH!" Kira screamed in anguish as she felt the massive amounts of electrical magic energy coursing through her. "Is that all you got? You'll going to have to do better if you ever hope to beat me." The red unicorn, Ziek, mocked. The little saiyan girl pulled herself off the ground after the attack had run its course. Standing up, the nerves in her body weakened after the electric attack causing her body to twitch now and then, Kira did her best to glare at Ziek in anger. "If glaring is your best attack, then I'm disappointed." He continued. "I'm... Going to break your... Stupid shield!" Kira promised. "Apparently my 'stupid shield', is quite effective against your physical attacks. And knowing how your both weaker than your brother, and majority use physical attacks, your not going to break it anytime soon." He replied, unfazed by Kira's comment. Grinding her teeth, Kira lifted her right hand and shaped it like a claw. A dark royal blue ball of swirling Ki energy continuously rotating at many points collected itself with her palm. Kira rushed forward at Ziek Foreton with her attack at her side. Ziek's horn lit and the magical barrier he was so proud of, surrounded him. The young hybrid girl came forward and thrusted her attack at the barrier, the Ki energy attack crashing into it and coursing throughout the shell of the shield like lightning. "Swirling Sphere!" Kira yelled as she pushed the attack with all her might at the magical barrier. Only for her to get pushed back by a shock wave of magical energy that came from inside the barrier, causing Kira to crash into the flooring and nearly hit the immense barrier again. She looked up to see the barrier undamaged in any way. "Not good enough 'Kira'." Ziek mocked, saying her name with distaste. Kira got up, and her left foot in front of her while her right went more back, she also cupped her hands in front of her body. "If you really think that technique is going to work, you must be more desperate then I thought." Kira grinned before starting the word of the famous Z-fighter technique. "Ka... "