The Nexus

Spike sat on the bench, drinking his juice and eating some granola bars that Kiryu gave him as he watches the both of them train. He looks at the time as Zero and Kiryu had been training for hours as it was about to be seven in the evening as they were training none stop.

Zero was bruised up and battle-damaged as he pants heavily, going in for another attack only for Kiryu to block it and sideswipe his feet, making him fall onto his back as he coughs in pain. “You don’t play around when it comes to training huh?” He held out his hand as Kiryu helps him up.

“Told you, now again!” He attacks Zero with his tail as he grins, watching Zero dodge his attacks for a bit before instantly getting tail slapped into the ground. “You’re getting there, but remember, you’re not the best anymore so you have to work on your blocks. Also, stop putting too much force in your attacks. Yes, you want them to be powerful, but you gotta hit precise areas... like so.” He then starts hitting Zero in different areas of his body while hitting a few pressure points before karate chopping his neck, making Zero fall to the ground.

Zero groans as he couldn’t move his arm or leg as Kiryu undoes what he has done, “This is so boring though! When are we going to learn about this…” He sparks up his hands as Kiryu snaps his fingers, sending a lightning bolt down as it struck Zero.

“We will get to that once I know you are capable of blocking and attacking. You may have gotten lucky with the diamond dogs, Shining Armor, and the spider... but there are creatures and beings who will show you no mercy if you continue to be cocky got it?!” Kiryu emits his EMP which makes Zero kneel down to him.

Zero grunts and balls up his fist, looking up at Kiryu who glared down at him as he sighs, “Yes Master Kiryu…”

“Good. Now here, drink this.” Kiryu gave him a canister filled with a blue liquid.

“What is this?” He sniffs it and scrunches up his nose as he looks at the canister that was given to him.

“It is a special elixir that’ll heal your wounds and re-energize you. Now hurry up and drink so we can continue.”

Zero nods as he drinks it, almost coughing it up to how bad it tasted but managed to gulp it down. Once he finished, his body started reacting to the drink as steam came out from his wounds, slowly healing him as he held his stomach in pain. Once the pain was gone, Zero stood back up and looked to see his wounds had healed and he felt even better, “Wow! This stuff is great!”

Zero pumps himself up as he cracks his knuckles and smirks at Kiryu, “Alright tin can, let’s do this…”

Everfree Forest

Sonata hums a little tune as she skips through the forest, back to the hideout as she nibbles on an apple. In the distance, she heard Aria and Adagio arguing over what they should do, “I’m telling you, I saw a human here!!”

“Sheesh Aria, if you liked the human world that much, you should’ve stayed there!!” Adagio barks back as they bump foreheads and growl at each as Sonata just sits down on a rock and watches the two. “Don’t think because you have your powers back you could be the leader again! Last time you led, we got sent to that god awful world!!”

Aria scoffs and pushes her sister, “You think because I said I saw a human means I want to lead again?! Jeez, all those male humans you fucked must’ve destroyed your brain cells... oh wait, you don’t have any.” She smirks smugly as Adagio’s face was completely red in embarrassment and anger as she tackles her onto the ground, both of them wrestling around.

Sonata eats her apple in peace as she watches them roll around, “If we were back in that dimension, we could’ve made a killing…” She gasps as her eyes sparkle. “Take off your clothes and fight in your bra and panties!”

They both stop and look at their sister funny as she shrugs, “What? Guys in that dimension would’ve loved to see almost naked girls fighting…” They both look at each other and just laugh, knowing that to be true as they got up from the ground.

Adagio smirks as she grabs Aria’s breasts and plays with them, “H-Hey... stop that..” She pushes her sister off of her as Adagio pouts.

“Oh come on. Sonata lets me fondle her boobs…” She goes over to her and starts playing with them. “Ooh, very soft... you used that lotion?”

“Mhm, I still have it if you want some.” She pulls out the lotion and hands it to Adagio as she takes, putting some of it on her own breasts.

She then remembers something as she smugly looks at Aria, “Oh now I remember. You’re still a virgin.”

Aria completely turns red as she looks at her, “No I’m not! I just don’t sleep around as much as you two do…” She shivers remembering the restless nights hearing both Adagio and Sonata moaning throughout the night. “Couldn’t sleep for a week.”

“Oh, yea? Then tell me... what does a human penis look like?” Adagio and Sonata giggle at how flustered Aria got when asked.

“Um, well... human male dicks look like... um…” She was completely red as she heard them laugh at her. “Oh, who cares anyway?! Look, we’re wasting time... lets just go wake up this Hydra!”

Sonata giggles as she takes out another apple and eats it, “Oh we have plenty of time left. Plus this is more important... how could you let your little sister get laid before you?”

“Oh my... Sonata I will slap you if you don’t shut up about that. Plus you’re only ten minutes younger than me.” Aria sighs as she sat down underneath a tree and looks up at the sky, smiling at how beautiful it was.

Adagio smiles softly as she pulls Sonata over as and takes her over to Aria as they both sat down beside her. “So, was he cute?”

She looks at her confused as Adagio rolls her eyes, “The human you saw, was he cute?”

“How should I know? I wasn’t really paying attention…” Aria was actually as she thought the human had a great body, not too buff and not too skinny. His eyes were also quite telling as she could tell he was hiding his pain as she sighs. “So how’s mom and dad doing?”

“Oh, they’re doing great. Cussed me out for us not coming back home first, but they’re happy that we’re back. Mom almost cried and dad sounded happy and relieved to hear us again.” Sonata said as she finishes her second apple.

All three of them stared up into the sky and watches the stars twinkle as after a few minutes of resting, Adagio gets up and stretches out, yawning. “Alright, lets hurry up and do this cause I am sleepy.”

Aria and Sonata agreed as they both got up, following Adagio into the Hydras den. A few moments go by as singing could be heard coming from the den, followed by a loud screech/roar. The Hydra then walks out of its den, its eyes glowing bright red as a green mist flowed into its nostrils as all of its heads looks at the three sirens controlling him. “Go to the town and destroy everything in your sight. If you’re hungry, eat the survivors…” They all said in unison as it roars up at the sky and started sprinting towards PonyVille.

PonyVille

Before the sirens woke the beast up, Twilight and company were all at the library, trying to contact Zero. “I hope they’re alright.” She sighs as she tries calling Zero again, but it goes straight to voicemail as she sets her phone down on the table.

“Well, maybe they’re just hanging out... you know, doing guy stuff…” Fluttershy pitched in as she places her hand on Twilight’s shoulder and smiles softly. “Right girls?”

“Well, I think he’s probably up to something. I mean you heard how defensive he got when Celestia and Luna went through his head? How else are we supposed to know about him, if he doesn’t tell us anything?” Rainbow said as she looks out the window, hoping to see Zero and Spike, but it was just the wind. “I mean yea he told us a bit, but that’s just not enough... Pinkie, what do you think?”

Pinkie was eating a couple of cupcakes as she quickly gulps it down and composes herself. “Well I think that the reason why he’s super-duper secretive is because he just doesn’t trust none of us yet. But that part he did tell us was just a ruse so we could stop bugging him about it. So that’s why Applejack felt weird when he said that…” She takes a big breath of air and continues. “And that day when Princess Celestia and Princess Luna told him that they were looking through his head and that we tell everything he does and report back to her made him not trust us even more. So now he’s trying to keep his distance away from us.”

Everypony looked at her funny as she gives a cheeky smile, “I mean... he has done some good, and I think he’s pretty cool.”

“Well, I just don’t trust him. He’s sneaky, a smooth talker, and probably been stealing my apples…” Everypony gasped as they look at Applejack. “Been seeing a lot of apple cores around the trees. Me and Big Mac thought it was some little critter, so we put down some traps to catch em... but come the next day, even more apple cores are on the ground.”

“Are you sure Zero is the one doing it? I mean, it would be rude to point fingers at him just because you don’t trust him.” Rarity looks to Applejack.

Applejack nodded as she shows them a picture of a shoe print, “I’m quite positive that he’s the one doing it. I mean, do you see anypony else wearing shoes, unlike Zero?”

Before anypony could answer, there was a loud roar in the distance as they all quickly got up and heads out the door to see everypony running and screaming as right behind them was a hydra. It chased after a few of them, only to chomp down, swallowing the ponies it caught as each head roars again.

The girls couldn’t believe what they saw as Twilight fired a spell, hitting it directly at one of its heads as all five of them turn to look at the six ponies as the main head hisses, drool with a mixture of blood dripped from its teeth as it roars at them. “Alright Fluttershy, I got its attention... Fluttershy?”

Fluttershy looks at it as she saw the main head of the hydra stare right at her. She looks into its eyes as with a jolt; she faints as Rarity catches her. “Fluttershy?!”

Before any of them could do anything, the hydra screeches before sprinting at them. Twilight manages to quickly teleport them away as the hydra destroys the library, roaring into the sky as it continues to cause terror throughout the town.

Twilight had teleported them to Fluttershy’s house as Angel looks outside the window and sees them, “Why did Fluttershy just faint? Do hydra’s have some sort of ability to make ponies faint?” Rainbow said as she helps Rarity carry Fluttershy to the door as Angel lets them in, wondering what happened to his owner.

“No they don’t Rainbow. Maybe she fainted because she was just so scared.” Twilight said as she looks out the window, seeing the town in flames as she bites her fingernails as she looks back at them. “Come on guys... we have to get back out there or else PonyVille will get destroyed.”

Twilight was about to head out the door before Applejack grabs her shoulder gently, “Twi, we can’t just go there without a plan. Especially since Fluttershy is out of commission…” Applejack looks back at Fluttershy who was breathing heavily and sweating.

Angel went and got them a cold rag and gave it to Rarity, who then wipes the sweat off from Fluttershy’s forehead. Rainbow however was getting impatient as she looks out of the window and growls, “We can’t wait any longer!! Ponies are dying!” She then flies out of the door, everypony yelling for her to stop.

“Alright, Rarity... stay here with Fluttershy. Everypony else, let’s hurry before Rainbow gets herself hurt.” Twilight, Applejack, and Pinkie hurry back to PonyVille as Rarity looks back down at Fluttershy who was still sweating badly as she breathed heavily. In Fluttershy’s head, she heard laughing from Adagio, Aria, and Sonata.

Rainbow made it to the town, covering her mouth as she saw a couple of dead ponies on the ground. Either from being crushed or bitten in half. She sees the hydra in the distance as she glares and growls at it as she sped towards it as it slowly turns one of its head to her, only to get its head kicked into a building as its other heads look at her and screeches at her. She quickly speeds off as the beast chases after her, stretching its heads and trying to bite down on her as she continues to dodge each attack, kicking its heads several times before it got agitated and sped up a bit, jumping fully over her head. Rainbow quickly halts and flies up into the sky, its heads still trying to reach her before she was out of reach.

She flew up as high as she can as turns back and dive bombs back down. Flying down as fast as she can as a mini barrier forms around her. The hydra sees this as it plants itself into the ground as it roars up into the sky. Twilight and the others look up and see Rainbow as she teleports behind the beast, firing a more powerful spell while Pinkie fires her cannon full of cakes at its eyes to blind it as Applejack throws a rope and wraps it around its leg, pulling it and causing the hydra to stumble a bit but it manages to steady itself.

The beast then looks up to see Rainbow coming down hard, breaking the sound/light barrier creating her Sonic Rainboom as she plows right into the hydra, making a mini earthquake.

Applejack covers her face up as the dust from the collision blew right past her. Once it settled, she reopens them and sees that Twilight had created a barrier around them as Pinkie was just being Pinkie, “Do you see Rainbow anywhere?”

“Not yet AJ.” Pinkie looks through the dust as she’s Rainbow limping over to them and holding her arm. “There she is!!” She somehow gets out of the barrier and hugs Rainbow as tight as she can. Twilight puts the barrier down as she and Applejack head over to her.

Rainbow had a cheeky smile on her face as she rubs the back of her head, “See, I told you…” Before she could say anything, she got a hard slap from Applejack as she rubs her cheek. “What was that for?!”

“For being reckless! But I’m glad you’re alright..” Applejack was about to hug her until they all heard a growl. Turning their heads as within the dust, the hydra stands back up, snarling at them as Rainbow barely scratched it as they all look at it in terror. It roars at them and before any of them could do anything, a bolt of lightning struck down, making it screech in pain as the lightning bolt managed to push it back.

“Sorry I’m late to the party ladies.” Their eyes widened in shock, looking behind them as they saw Zero with Spike as he walks up to them smirking, “So what I missed?”

“And where in tartarus were you?! We were all worried about you and Spike! And how did you do that?!” Twilight question as he says nothing. Before she could yell at him again, the hydra got back up, its eyes flashed red as it roared at Zero, who just grins at the beast.

“Talk later. Spike, get them to safety… It’s showtime.” Zero cracks his knuckles, an aura of electricity surrounds him as he gets into a battle stance. Spike helps Twilight and them get to safety as she continues to question Spike on where they been and how does Zero knows magic as he just shrugs.

The hydra charges as it raised one of its arms and threw it down for a powerful smash attack.

Zero dodged the attack and went for the other legs. He punched and kicked, sending thousands of volts of electricity into its body, making it roar out in pain. It looked at Zero and snarled as it uses its head and swung it at him.

Zero turned and saw the head coming and quickly grabs ahold of it, charging up his hands as he blew up the head. The hydra just snarls as it was about to regenerate its head before Zero snaps his fingers, making another lightning bolt strike down, hitting the wound and completely frying it. It looked shocked as it couldn’t regenerate its head anymore.

Zero quickly backs up as the hydra roars at him, trying to grab ahold of him with its mouths, but Zero just kept dodging each head while hitting them back, sending volts of electricity into them. He smirks, thinking he had this as he wasn’t paying attention as he forgot about one of the heads as it slithers behind. Spike and them were shouting at Zero, telling him to watch out, but it was to late. As soon as he turns his head, the beast scooped him up into its mouth, swallowing him whole as it roared up into the sky.

“NOOO!” Twilight screamed.

“No... he can’t be…” Rainbow said with tears falling from her eyes.

The Hydra then turns its attention to them and hisses. Before it could do anything, two powerful beams of magic shot it, making it screech in pain as Celestia and Luna lands right in front of Twilight and them, glaring at the hydra as she and Luna shot it again with another powerful beam as it roars at them. “What happened here Twilight? We heard the roars and came as fast as we could.”

“Zero… he…” Twilight managed to say as she couldn’t believe what just happened. Luna didn’t understand at first until she did as her eyes widen as she looks up at Celestia, who showed no emotion to hearing that Zero may have died as she was about to attack the hydra again.

The hydra was ready as it was also about to attack as it stopped in its track. Growling in pain as a whirring sound was heard coming from it, confusing everypony there as its stomach region began to glow purple. The whirring sound became louder and louder as heat could be seen coming from it as the hydra coughs up a bit of blood, its body expanding like a balloon as its eyes widen in shock.

As soon it opens its mouths, it exploded as a powerful beam of energy tore it apart as an unknown field of energy was sent out, pulsing throughout the town as Celestia and Luna try to put up a barrier, but their magic wasn’t working. They looked shocked and confused as to what was happening as the hydra let out its final roar, falling to the ground, dead. Celestia opens her eyes to see Zero, covered in blood as sparks of lightning were seen. She quints her eyes as they then widen in fear. Seeing Zero standing there, smirking and covered in blood, she saw a split image of him and Slade. He looked like a demon to her as he coughs and walking towards them.

The girls, Spike, and the princesses were in so much shock and awe that Zero had actually defeated one of the toughest creatures to known in Equestria. “Aww, you guys do care.” Zero joked, seeing Twilight and Rainbow crying as Spike comes up to him, “You were going to cry weren’t you?”

“You had me in the first half, not going to lie. But I knew you’d make it.” Spike was about to give him a fist bump, but remembered that he was covered in blood, “You need a bath first though, cause you look horrible.” They both laugh as they look at the girls.

“Bu… but, it ate you… how are you even alive?!” Twilight yelled, tears streaming from her face as Zero just smiles at her.

“Well lets just say, I had a little help.” Zero smirks as his eyes flashed purple. He then looks at the time, “Sheesh, it’s pretty late. Welp I‘m going to hit the hay…” Before he could leave, Celestia got right in front of him as he looks up at her. “Excuse me but… you’re in my way.”

“You’re not going anywhere until you tell us how you know magic?” Celestia knew what it was as she glares down at him, wishing she could use her magic to restrain him and find out for herself, but she couldn’t.

Zero glares right back, shrugging her off as he pushes right past her. “Sorry but I don’t have to tell you jack shit Sunbutt… good seeing you though.”

Celestia blushes in embarrassment when he called her that as she heard Luna giggle behind her, “What are you giggling at?” She tells her older sister nothing as once Zero was out of range, their magic came back as Luna started the repairs as the day and night guard came to help as well. Celestia grumbles and mumbles as she looks around, making sure no one was looking as she looks at her ass and rubs it. “Maybe I should lay off the cake…”

Author's Note

I know this chapter is wonky, but I'll fix it if I get enough feedback on it. Other than that, hope you enjoy.

Aria, Adagio, and Sonata

Zero in Celestia's head

Hydra Roar