A Death March To The Fall Of Equestria

As soon as Eliza finished counting down; the battle began. Frostine made the first move, charges at Satou, preparing to thrust her spear forwards at him. Satou slowly took a step backwards, moving his hands down the staff to allow him to strike Frostine first. When she gets close enough Satou quickly lunges forward with the end of the staff that struck her in the chest, knocking the wind out of her. She stumbles backwards but Satou went for another quick move, attacking her with a flurry of thrusts. One of the thrusts had knocked her onto her hindquarters. Then back off after giving her a few good blows, allowing her to get up.

“You would think that I’d learn not to rush in like that by now.” Frostine mutters to herself as she regains her balance. After that she charges in again and the same motions as before.

This kept happening four more times, getting a similar result, getting hit off her feet; smacked around or losing balance. After the fifth attempt, Frostine was lying on her back in exhaustion.

Satou looks at the others, expressing his discomfort. “Can we not just call this here? It’s getting embarrassing to watch this take place.”

“No.” Eliza said, raising one finger to the sky. “Satou, one. Frostine, zero.” She shouts to everyone.

“Please just end this in her loss, just so we don’t have to witness that again.” Garret argues, using one of his hands to cover his eyes while shaking his head. The other lizardmen groan as well, just wanting this to stop.

“Nope. You guys want this so you’ll get it, and you’ll deal with the embarrassment whether you like it or not.” Eliza said.

“Eliza… I know you want to prove a point here… but even I am finding this uncomfortable, and I doubt she can keep going.” Satou states as he looked at Frostine’s exhausted form.

Eliza looks to Satou. “That’s what you get. Besides, you need some embarrassment seeing as you have problems being social.”

“You know with that whole problem, I’m honestly surprised I can work with Dainn as I do.” Satou state.

“Well, don’t think that’s going to give you a free pass out of this match.”

“Fine...” Satou said. Young man looks at Frostine; who is still lying down on the ground trying to catch her breath. “But are you sure she can manage another round?”

“I don’t know. There will be a ten-minute break for each round. Though you waste one minute from talking. So nine minutes left before the next round starts.” Eliza explained.

“Fine by me.” Satou walked over to his bag, grabbing a scroll from inside it and began to read it. “Just tell me when we start again.”

Eliza stood there, waiting for the break to be over. At this moment Marble, Onyx, VR-2 Eliza walks out to see what’s going on. Eliza gave a short wave at them before going back to waiting. The new audience looking for a good spot to sit or stand, VR-2 Eliza must have explained to them about this fight.

As the final second goes Eliza clears her throat before speaking up loud for everyone. “Times up! Fighters, return to your starting point!”

Satou sighs, rolling the scroll back up and placing it back in his bag before walking back to his spot, flicking the staff into his hand from the ground before getting into his stance again.

Frostine seemed to do the same but she almost looked like she had little will to fight in her as she held her staff loosely in her claws.

“Round two. Ready?” Eliza looks to each fighter for confirmation.

“Ready.” Satou calmly answers.

“Sure.” Frostine said with a tone of defeat.

“Ready, set, fight!” Eliza shouted.

The second she did, Satou dropped into the same stance as before. However; unlike before, Frostine just drags her staff on the ground towards Satou before dropping it halfway before saying. “Just strike me a few hundred times... I surrender. I don’t see the point in trying to fight and making a fool of us all.”

Eliza walks to Garret and asks quietly. “Is she really bad at fighting?”

“Let me put it this way… We have only one strategy when fighting in honourable combat, and it did nothing. She knows no other fighting styles… none of us do apart from using different weapons.” Garret said. “And I really don’t need to look at that to know the truth… he beat her without any question. And I hate it.”

Eliza sighs before doing a time out hand sign. “Stop the match.”

“Where does this stand?” Satou asks Eliza.

“It clearly shows that she has no combat skills.” Eliza said tapping her chin.

“I already knew that.” Frostine mutters.

“So I’m gonna say this...” Young android women look at both Frostine and l
Satou. “Deal is off until Frostine gets proper training and can fight in a fair battle.” Eliza state.

Frostine looked to Eliza before saying. “No. I really don’t want that… I am not capable of the role and training won’t fix that. And I am sure the others share that opinion.”

Android women pinch her temple. “I see… Then it's clear that you are not qualified.”

“And as our traditions dictate, the victor becomes our king, and she becomes his.” Garret said, gesture a hand in Frostine’s direction. “She was the strongest of us and we all have no variation of our fighting styles… that thi- no; our new king is better suited and I can’t dispute that anymore.”

Eliza looks to the lizard captain. “The thing is, Satou isn’t a good choice.”

“Neither was she,” Garret argues gesturing to Frostine. “and I have no intention of gaining the title anymore. Our king is stronger than us all… and as strange as it feels to say this, I think we all accept him as our new leader.”

Eliza blink before facepalming with a groan. “You doom your kind.”

“Technically we are already doomed if she’s the last female of our race. Might as well go out following who we choose; good or bad.” Garret state.

Eliza sighs before walking away with Marble walks up to her nervously. “Your funeral. Don’t say I didn’t try warning you.”

‘She’s not wrong though.’Satou thought to himself.

“It won’t be a mistake!” Garret shouts in anger, glaring at Eliza from her insult at his king.

Satou walks beside Garret before smacking him behind the head. “Garret, I ask that you treat her with the same respect you would me.”

The captain of the Lizardman looks down before apologizing. “I understand my king.”

“And now you behave… I don’t believe it was that easy.” Frostine responds as she rests her head against Satou’s chest again.

Turning to Satou, Eliza lazily points her finger at him. “Satou’s not a “Leader”-type material.”

“Even if he isn’t, the strong are the most suitable to lead.” Garret argued.

Satou looks at Eliza then taps the side of his head three times hoping that she understood him. He heard a click in his head and in his vision at the lower-left corner of blue, highlighted words saying ‘Ez-004, Mental Chat On’ before fades away over time.

“Eliza, can you hear me?” Satou asked through the link.

“Yeah.” Eliza mentally said.

“Sorry for having to do this the way we are. I was simply going to ask if you would be able to help me with the shortcoming you keep bringing up just so I don’t get these idiots killed.” Satou requested.

“That depends on what kind of help you need.”

“I think you know the answer to that Eliza… and you just want to hear me say it don’t you?” Satou responded as the young android women nodded at that. “Of course you do… Eliza… I want you to help me become a better leader.”

“That’s like asking for an expensive ticket for less than ten dollars. I don’t know if you can…” Eliza thought uncertainty.

“Eliza… we both know those new lizardmen only think with their fists, and we also know that Frostine really wanted to pass the role on to someone… and depending on how you look at it, it was, unfortunately, me who they deem to fit their beliefs… I honestly believe I need your help, considering you are the only other person here I trust to help me.”

“I’m sorry to say this, but your past moments of leading me to battle during the wave shows how little trust you put in me.” Eliza mentally remarks.

“To be fair, back then I thought you would have been placed better if you were keeping everyone safe, almost all the caribou were scared half to death and the others barely looked ready to fight back, I was more expecting you to be able to keep everyone safe, after all homes can be rebuilt, the dead can’t be brought back.”

"And your assumptions are wrong." Eliza mentally said sternly.

“You do remember that you were on the other side of the battlefield, and he was alone and surrounded, at the time I thought he wasn’t going to last till someone else reached him. I admit; with the knowledge I have now that it may have been a better call to go straight for the boss, but at that time I thought his life was in more danger.”

“Just tell them that you are not leader material!”

Satou didn’t say anything for a moment. “And then what? Have it become a free for all with them fighting to decide who’s best? You need to remember all that it will cause is, Garret to lead them and trying to go to war with the Caribou with only them facing him… they’ll get themselves killed in an instant… Do you really think that is the best course of action?”

“Then have someone else lead them!” Eliza mentally said irritated.

“...Look, no matter how we do this nobody will be happy and I can bet the only ones in the house they will lose to in a fight is me, you or Isaac… So how about to keep their “the strong may lead” philosophy? I order that they follow the commands of us both? That way you also lead them and it may keep them from misbehaving as much if they were to have the fear of angering both of their leaders looming over them.”

“But they never saw me fight… I don’t think they’ll do that without proof.”

“Then why not try something, Garret seems to default to their leader and if he needs proof, we could have you face him… Just don’t beat him too quickly, we wouldn’t want to completely wreck his confidence.”

“... Fine.” Eliza mentally said with a shrug.

“At least this way we both get a say in what they do and they have someone to follow when I’m dealing with Dainn.” The android woman thought about this before nodding at this. “So… You ready to get this sorted?”

“Go ahead.” She said in the mental link.

Satou took a deep breath, preparing for what he’s going to say before looking at the group; who seemed to be arguing again. “You lot listen up. If I am going to be leading you I have one thing we need to sort.”

“What is that my king?” Garret asked as he looked at Satou.

“I will not always be around to handle your problems and disputes like I should be, as such I am wanting you all to be co-ruled by Eliza to account for my absences.”

“Like I’ll agree to follow her, I doubt she could even beat me in a fight!” Garret shouted.

Satou just smirked. “She is just as capable of a warrior as me that much I can assure you.”

“I won’t believe it till I see it!” Garret argued.

Eliza looks to Garret. “Is that what you want?”

“I want to see proof that you are indeed capable! I refuse to follow some weakling's orders, even if my king requests it!” Garret ordered.

“Then how will we fight, you choose.” Eliza gestures to Garret.

“The same way as our king did, but I only need a single round, but we fight till only one of us is able to stand!” Garret shouted. “And I will be wanting to use a sword.”

“Very well.” She said without a second thought before looking at Marble. “Marble, can you bring everyone from the house to watch this fight. I want the workers to see my combat capabilities first hand. Unless,” Eliza looks to Garret. “If you don’t mind?”

“I don’t mind;” Garret responded. “I’ll be happy to show them just how weak you are!”

“Well do you mind if I check on Glacier first?” Satou responded.

“Go right ahead.” Eliza said, heading for the right side of the starting point of the arena as Marble heads inside to get everyone while Satou makes his way back to his room.

As soon as Satou reached his room he walked inside to find the copy of Eliza sitting in the same place as before, watching Glacier sleeping form.

“How’s he doing?” Satou asks as he walks up to her.

“He is doing alright, woke up five minutes ago but fell asleep soon after.” VR-3 Eliza said softly.

“That’s good, how was he when he woke up?”

“He panicked but with a few reassuring words that he’s safe that he calms down. I gave him a glass of water before telling him to get some rest.”

“Did he tell you what seemed to scare him?” Satou asked as he knelt down beside her.

“Fear of dealing with more testing and a test of the duration of his body.” VR-3 Eliza said sadly.

“I see, I’m not surprised with the state he was in before I brought him here.” Satou responded before placing his hand out again before casting the same spell again. Sighing as he continued. “Think he’ll wake up again anytime soon?”

“Don’t know. His eyes look very tired, sooo... maybe three or more hours.”

“I see.” Satou responded. “I apologise for having you keep an eye on the kid for me, a lot needs sorting. But if he wakes up again and doesn’t want to fall back asleep before I get back, could you bring him to the training field where everyone else is?”

“Sure, though I doubt he’ll be awake to see much of the fight but I’ll bring him if he does.”

“Thank you, and if they finish as quickly as I expect; they will, I’ll be back before he wakes up.” Satou added before kissing the copy on the head, “I owe you another one… And I hope you aren’t keeping track or I’ll soon be in debt.”

“That’s two so yes.” VR-3 Eliza said before adding with a serious tone. “Also don’t kiss my forehead like that again.”

“Right sorry about that.” Satou said, rubbed the back of his head before making his way back to the training field.

The android women had stood in the same spot when Satou came back outside. He sees everyone living and working in the mansion had come outside, standing a few feet away from the edge of the ring. Marble soon came back and stood beside Onyx who was looking around nervously as she rubbed her wrists.

Garret was standing at the edge of the arena talking with the remaining Lizardmen while Frostine had decided to stand near Froststorm who was standing a small distance back from the crowd.

As Satou arrived back at the arena; walking towards the main group, only for Frostine to quickly run up to him and wrap her arms around him in a hug while Froststorm calmly walked to stand beside him.

Satou looked at both of them. “Is everything going okay here?”

“Of course master!” Frostine responded as she smiled happily as she wrapped her arms around Satou’s left arm.

“Mostly okay… and Dainn had Sombra leave you a message earlier, it was handed to me to give you when I next saw you.” Froststorm added as she held a scroll out to him.

“Thanks; Froststorm. I’ll give it a read later.” Satou thanked her as he placed it in his bag, before looking towards the arena.

Android young women look to Garret. “Are you ready yet?”

“I don’t know. Are all of your audience here yet?” Garret responded with a smirk.

“They are.” Eliza said. “When you're ready, stand at the start spot in the arena.”

“Fine… But I do hope that you have two identical weapons we can use?” Garret asked.

“You have to ask Satou, Afterall, the only sword I ever used is my sword.” Eliza looks to Satou. “You have anything?”

“I think I do.” Satou thinks as he reaches into his bag. He pulls out two wooden shortswords which he passed to both Eliza and Garret.

Eliza looks at the weapon nervously, treating it like she’ll break it.

“I don’t have anything else that won’t end up getting one of you needing medical attention after the fight.” Satou responded.

Eliza looks to Satou then to the wooden sword. She calls her sheath and slides the weapon in before unsheathing as her Skill: Quick Draw Burst activates by her command. A burst of aura shot out of herself and blade, those that were not within blade range yet close to her got a feel of a strong burst of air during the quick burst. She looks like she’s hoping for something, but none of them knew why. That is; until they see the weapon she was provided broke apart.

Eliza’s head droop. “Sorry.”

“Don’t worry… I have too many wooden swords as it is… But I’m not sure what we could use that won’t break apart.” Satou admitted.

“Maybe I should just go with Grace.”

“And what do we have that can match it for him?” Satou asks in confusion.

“Just give him any he wants. Something sturdy and around Attack 40 plus.”

“You sure it's a good idea to give him something like that?” Satou asked as he began looking through his inventory.

“Yes.” She said. It’ll be dangerous but that's a risk she's willing to take.

After a couple of seconds, he pulled out a long sword which had its handle made from bone that was covered in blue scales while the blade itself looked to be made from a strange white metal.

Satou asks. “Will this do?”

Eliza opens the weapon info and stats. Damage +39, and +5 defence from the scales. With a nod, she closed the info screen. “Yeah.”

“Okay then.” Satou responded before passing the sword to Garret before stepping to the side as Garret made his way onto his spot.

“Will you do the honours of being our referee, Frostine?” Eliza asks the frost lizardwomen.

“I guess so.” Frostine responded, walking towards the edge of the arena. “Are you both ready?”

Eliza held Grace in one hand as her combat suit replace her sleep clothes, though the armor parts didn’t appear beside her right arm since it had her sheath holder which was already equipped after her weapon test. “I’m ready.” She responds.

“Ready.” Garret added as he gripped the sword in his claws, glaring at Eliza.

Frostine looked at both fighters. “Set...” She raised her arm above her head before throwing downwards as she shouted. “Fight!”

Eliza held the blade in both hands, keeping an eye on Garret, who instantly charged towards her, him preparing to thrust his sword towards her. She dodge to the right and held the blade in a block stance when he got within range, Garret's blade skid across the flat side of her blade. Halfway through the blade length is when she moved past him a few distances away, still facing him.

Garret seems to growl at this before quickly turning back around, once again charging and trying to stab his sword forwards, almost in the same fashion to the way Frostine had tried to attack Satou before. Eliza just repeats her previous action and avoids the attack again.

“Stop moving and fight me!” Garret shouted.

Android women look at him for a moment before running at him, holding her blade horizontal with the palm of her right hand pressed on the back edgeless side. Garret smirked at this before moving his own blade to try and parry Eliza’s. What he wasn’t expecting was her suddenly skid a few feet away from him in mid charge before doing a front flip over him and landing to look at Garret.

The Lizardman glare hardens at her, yet again just charging in at her. She didn’t do anything besides holding the blade horizontal and right hands palm placed on the back edgeless side. Garret didn’t stop as he continued charging at Eliza, swung his blade diagonally at her as soon as he got close enough. Just as his blade hit hers, her blade broke in two, making her stumble back in surprise.

“Did you expect that to happen?” Frostine asked as she looked at Satou.

“No… I did not!” Satou responded before he looked back to Eliza and Garret.

“I thought you chose to use that sword because it wouldn’t break!” Garret laughed before saying. “Maybe you should have stuck with a wooden one instead, even that looked less fragile!”

Eliza shook her head, getting her mind back into the fight, raising both fists up.

“Seriously? Are you going to try and punch me to win?” Garret asked before looking to Satou. “Is this her loss or what!” Before he could get an answer Eliza dashed at him and gave a right hook to the side of his face, sending him stumbling back.

Garret recovers from the surprise attack before swinging his sword at her yet again, though she moved her right arm, the sheath attached to her mech bracer block his weapon.

“Don’t get cocky, Garret.” Eliza said seriously.

“Okay then!” Garret said angrily before wildly swinging his sword with no clear direction or target, most strikes not even getting close to Eliza.

She waited for an opening. When she saw one, Eliza gave him an uppercut punch, causing him to stumble back again and this time dropped his sword. He glares at Eliza and tries to swing his own fist at her. His fist connects to her crossed arms, she adjusted her arms to block his incoming attack.

“Your,” Eliza grunt, fell to one knee, struggling to stand. “not, gonna, win!”

“Really? Doesn’t look that way!” Garret responded as he walked towards her before kicking her in the side of the head, she fell to her side.

“Wait… Did she just lose?” Frostine asked as she looked at the scene in front of them.

Satou didn’t respond as he re-opened the mental chat with Eliza. “Okay, are you really serious right now Eliza?” He didn’t get a response, not even a connection.

Marble looked worried when she saw Eliza not getting up. “Miss Eliza…” She whisper, part of her wanting to go to her to help but holds herself back in hope that the android woman is alright.

“Okay… So I guess I’ll need to do something,” Satou responded as he held his hand out before saying; “Aqua Heal” before a drop of water fell onto Eliza’s face.

“Hey! That's pretty much cheating!” Garret shouted at Satou.

“And I’m pretty sure it’s been more than a count of 10.” Satou added.

“And what does that mean?”

“Pretty much that you won… As for “how” I have no idea.” Satou admitted. Before Garret can do another thing the Eliza on the ground vanish into data codes.

“Wait; What?! Where did she go?!” Garret asked as he looked around.

“Right Here!” A familiar voice spoke behind him before getting hit hard that sent him flying forward right at the edge of the makeshift arena.

“Or maybe not.” Satou muttered to himself.

“Okay! How is that even fair?!” Garret shouted as he stood back up.

Eliza reappears in a right thrust punch stance. Her body relaxes and rests her blade on her sword arm shoulder. “And how is that unfair?”

“You weren't even in the arena to fight! So how could you even count as fighting!” Garret shouted.

“I was in the arena, you just couldn’t see me.” Eliza counters his statement.

“We didn’t disallow magic or spells… So it didn’t break any rules.” Satou stated.

“Come on! Seriously!” Garret shouted before running towards Eliza yet again. “This time I’ll make sure you stay down!”

“Sorry, I have to end this quickly.” Eliza said as her blade is sheath, taking a calm breath. With a motion, Eliza slides the blade out as she dashes at him.

Garret seems to ignore this as he continues charging her - still unarmed. Jumping up into the air, lunging a punch forward towards Eliza’s face. Seeing the incoming fist, she jumped back with a VR Eliza in her place. “Again with swapping yourself with a fake!” Garret shouted as he struck the copy knocking it to the floor and dissipated into data.

Android women quickdraw with her slashing the blade in a diagonal swing, from the swing itself shot a shockwave projectile at Garret who failed to dodge as the shockwave struck him, once again knocking him to the floor at the edge of the arena.

“Have enough?” Eliza asks Garret, relaxing her stance after seeing him being a good distance.

“Not a chance!” Garret shouted as he stood back up on shaky legs before he sluggishly charged Eliza again. She dashes at him and strikes him at the chest with a horizontal swing which makes contact with him before launching him out of the arena. He collapses onto the ground just in front of Satou and Frostine.

“You think he’s done?” Satou asks as he looks at Eliza, they hear a groan from Garret.

“That’s up to him.” Eliza said with a shrug.

Satou and Frostine then looked down to Garret again, waiting a couple of seconds before Frostine said. “Yeah… He’s done.”

Satou looks to the other lizardmen. “I assume there are no other objections?”

“N-no.” One of them stuttered.

“Good.” Satou responded before looking at Garret. “Take him to get medical attention.” Marble, hearing this, tells a few maids to help bring Garret to the medical wing. He then looked back to the other lizardmen. “I take it you all share the same method of fighting as him?”

“W-we have less experience than him.” Same lizardmen answers.

“Probably doesn’t help that you all didn’t do much to begin with.” A voice states from behind the crowd that got everyone's attention. A wolf walks forward towards them with Drayce on it’s back. “I mean, none of you ever took training with your previous king seriously either.”

“D-Drayce?” One of the lizardmen stuttered in shock as he saw the lizardmen. “We thought you were killed along with the king?” The other Lizardman nodded, thinking the same way.

“Not killed. Taken and sold off like the Princess was.” Drayce explained.

“And what happened to your… umm.” Another Lizardman asks, looking at his missing legs but stopped before he goes any further.

“I lost both my legs after we escaped. We attacked Satou and during that the sky was filled with fire, and when I regained my senses I lost my legs and saw the princess lose to Satou before I lost consciousness.”

“Wait, fire in the sky? The princess really lost?!” Third lizardmen stutters, dumbfounded.

“Well from what I remember of it, the sky around us turned red then the next thing I remember was being on the ground without my legs.” Drayce began to say but stopped when his mind caught up to the last part. “Wait… Did you all really think Satou was lying about beating her in a fight?”

“Y-yes. We thought it was a fluke so we asked for proof.” The lizardmen answered.

“You all do remember the only training she had was from me and her father. She may have more training than you all do but she’s by no lengths able to fight.” Drayce admitted.

“Yeah… I really need to work on that.” Frostine added as he nuzzled up to Satou’s sides.

“Either way… She has lost, twice to him. Do any of you still have any reservations on these two leading us?” The lizardmen all look at each other before answering with a shake of their heads ‘No’.

“I should expect not.” Drayce responded. He then turns to Satou and Eliza before adding. “I apologize for being away for as long as I have. I had… personal matters to attend to.”

“It’s alright.” Eliza reassured Drayce.

“Why does this “personal matters” worry me?” Satou asked.

“It shouldn’t… I just collected some winning from when we arrived… And spending said winning on a few things.” Drayce admitted.

“I feel like i’m going to regret asking. Why did you get those winning from?”

“I bet on a certain… tournament winner.” Drayce responded.

“Of course you did.” Satou responded as he shook his head. He turns his head to Eliza before asking. “Do you have any free time on your hands to help me teach them a bit?”

Eliza tsk at that. “I’ll do it myself. I’ll get them to shape.” She looks at Satou. “You go and check up on the kid.”

“You sure you don’t want an extra set of hands?” Satou asked.

“I can do this all day without exhaustion, you can’t. Anyways, you’d just do it wrong and I'll have to fix up your mistakes, which in itself wastes their training.”

“How would I do it wrong?” Satou asked as he set multiple wooden training weapons against a nearby wall.

“So far, I only ever see you use that gun of yours and that doesn’t require training and the staff.” During their conversation, everyone went back to what they were doing besides the lizardmen folks.

“Okay, fair point,” Satou responded after a couple of seconds before looking at Frostine and Drayce before he said. “If you're both feeling up to it, I think it would be best for you to join them.”

“Of course.” Drayce responded. “I’ll make sure they focus on what they need to do and try to work on using my spear while I’m riding on the wolves.”

“I think I might do that.” Frostine responded, adding while she rubs up against Satou’s side. “But after I finish training; I am going to see you again.”

“Just knock if I’m in my room, and if it's for the requests that you wanted before the duel, those will need to wait.” Satou responded with a shake of his head.

“Fine.” Frostine responded with a sigh. “But I’m still coming to talk to you about that… And other things.”

“Okay then.” Satou responded before looking back to Eliza. “I’ll leave them in your capable hand. Do you need me to get you anything else before I go?”

“Nah, Marble will be back for refreshments for them so nothing else. Now then.” Eliza turns to the lizardman. “Let's start by running around the gate twenty times, and if I see any of you use a cheap method then all of you will get ten more laps. Got it?!”

“Yes, Princess Eliza.” Frostine responded as she kissed Satou before she began to run off in the direction Eliza had ordered her with the remaining lizardmen following close behind her.

“Umm… when you say cheap tricks. Where do I sit in that regard?” Drayce asked.

“You're alright so don’t worry about it. Though-” Eliza starts talking to him about his training as Satou turned to head back to his room.

Satou reached his room and walked inside to find the scene was almost identical to when he had left, placing his bag by his desk before walking over to the copy of Eliza before speaking up. “Any changes since I left?”

“He’s doing well. As for if he’s awake, he’s still asleep. That fight didn’t take very long.” VR-2 Eliza report.

“I didn’t really expect it too. It was Eliza fighting Garret, who already said to her they all have the same fighting style, so she knew he would be just charging her.” Satou admitted.

“Is that your assumption on my action in the fight? It wasn’t the knowledge of them charging at me, I just waited for an opening or got him to attack first so I can decide on the course of action.”

“Even with that, it wouldn’t take long for a single round. It doesn’t seem they’ve had much training up till now.”

“Tell me, in your own assumption, why did I go with doing those actions instead of just beating him quickly?”

“Knowing you, it would have been to either test how capable he was, or to see how he’d react to different things.”

“Both, but also to see if he’ll try to do something different.”

“Which it was pretty clear he didn’t.” Satou responded, shaking his head.

“No, he did do one. Instead of just charging at me, he swung his weapon as well. Just a little change but it’s definitely different.”

“Okay point taken.” Satou responded. “What other tasks have you got to do today?”

“Besides training the Lizardmen’s and Frostine, nothing.”

“Okay then.” Satou said. “Is there anything you want to do?”

“I’m only here to keep an eye on the child. Hmm…” She thinks about it for a moment before answering with. “Sorry, can’t think of anything.”

“Okay… I’m sorry, but there must be something you’d want to do, other than maintaining this place and looking after everyone I brought here.”

“As long as the caribou’s have control, nothing really. I’d rather deal with them now but it’s not a good time.”

“The thing is even if we did kick them out that leaves it back where they started without a home and wondering looking for one. We’d just end up sending the problem elsewhere, and killing them all doesn’t sit right with me.” Satou admitted.

“And it’s harder with you making suggestions to their culture is only making their ways less bad when it is bad.” Eliza counter his reasoning.

“I know that.” Satou responded. “But I don’t feel like I can completely disregard their culture. It is most of their heritage… I wouldn’t like it if some random creature appeared and tore down my entire race's beliefs because they viewed it as wrong.”

“They change the ponies culture! And you are defending the caribou’s?!”

“Let me just say that I don’t agree with theirs either… but we also weren’t around when everything changed here.” Satou paused before shaking his head, “If we had a way to stop them, without committing genocide, I would try it, but I don’t have one that could work.”

“They need to leave, they are ruining these ponies' lives and minds! Sooner or later, someone is going to kill them without a second thought and it’s not gonna be us.”

“And go where exactly?” Satou asked.

“Anywhere that they’re culture doesn’t ruin others lives.”

“Well… if we can find somewhere that we can send them to we can try it.” Satou responded. “but right now we don’t have one.”

“Anyways.” She got up. “Now that you're back, I’m off.”

“If you need me for anything, just ask. Okay?” Satou offered. With that she faded into data codes, leaving just Satou with Glacier.