The Death of Lab 14

Chapters

2) Rules every God has to Follow
3) Another reason why Lab 14 needs to go!
4) Just because You're a God Doesn't Mean You Don't have Feelings!
5) Preparations
6) Taunting Princess Celestia
7) Nightmares
8) The Blue Snake of Justice
9) My Desire of Justice
10) Why Her Heart is Dark
11) God Henry from Zero to Hero
14) The Real Wedding
15) Crime and Punishment
16) The Obstacle Course
18) Dreaming of Revenge
19) Drunk with Power
20) The Waiting Game
21) This Crap Again?
22) The Showdown
23) Experiment Cora
24) The Finale
25) Who's Next?
1) Events and Memories
12) Please stay calm God Henry
13) First Vision
17) The feeling of Love

2) Rules every God has to Follow

{Henry}

Derek and I had set up a tent as we stopped to rest. Although I wanted to keep going, seeing as gods at least need two hours of sleep; taking a break to rest that's probably the best course of action to take.

I had just woken up and I looked to see Derek putting away the communication device we have for contacting the Resistance HQ.

Derek smiled. "Yes, I already contacted the Resistance HQ."

"At least I wasn't awake to hear Pestcord's voice." I said. "It's a good thing he isn't my godfather! If he was, that would just give me license to shoot more lightning bolts at him for target practice."

Derek chuckled, "Yeah I agree with you on that one. That guy refuses to do his job at all costs! It's almost like his job is to annoy us."

I snorted. "At least he can only stay for a day or two. I wonder if we should talk to The Grand God Council about banning him from the In Between?"

"I bet he's getting on Leader Felix's nerves too." Derek said. "From what he told me Discord's been popping up every week, on the dot for fourteen times every time."

I laughed and then I smiled looking at the engagement ring I got for Derek after he proposed to me. I made it to match mine, right down the chain I had for my necklace around my neck.

"You know you didn't have to get me a ring right?" Derek said.

I smiled. "Yeah I know, I wanted to."

"Well, I think it's time we go destroy another location of Lab 14." Derek said.

* * *

{The Lord God Supreme}

The Grand God Council was set up eons ago to keep law and order among the gods. Someone has to do it, or the gods would have free reign to do whatever they want and it destroys every univeres out there. None of the gods would be held accountable for their actions. The Downward wascreated for the reason of discipling gods that didn't do their jobs.

I got picked for the position of the head of The Grand God Council. My name and title is The Lord God Supreme. The other gods that rule with me are Gods One through Five, they prefer to just have a title and not a real name just like me.

Every time we have a meeting, we discuss the decisions that the gods have made and set it in stone so it cannot be taken back. We also relay visions that we have seen about new gods and certain events that are coming up.

When we saw a vision of the In Between becoming a universe we felt flabbergasted by it.

The fact that none of the gods wanted to volunteer to rule over it made us feel even more flabbergasted. Everyone knows if a universe doesn't have a god to rule over it, that universe can be destroyed and the In Between is an important universe to us. That's because we use it to share information with each other.

We breathed a sigh ofrelief when we saw a vision of two gods that would rule over the In Between, God Henry and God Derek. With that being said, we held the first God Con and relayed the information to the rest of the gods about the vision we saw. But we did not tell them everything we saw in the vision.

We couldn't stop ourselves from talking about the new gods that rule over the In Between now, God Henry and God Derek. We did this as we sat around a special table that allowed us to open a portal to watch the gods and see our visions. It's a hard thing to explain how it's done.

"I wonder," said God One, "if God Henry's going to ask who his real parents are?"

"Probably not," I said, "he's just happy that he's been adopted by Applejack and Rainbow Dash. To him, those are his real parents."

God Four said, "I don't blame him, especially with everything he went through!"

"His jaw will drop when he finds out he doesn't have any biological parents!" God Five exclaimed.

I smiled. "No kidding, when a universe core's magic is so strong that extra magic has to go somewhere."

"Who'd thought that those powerful thunderstorms that the weather team cannot control, can create a baby!" God Three chimed. "That's how God Henry was created. The same thing happened with Princess Sarah."

"Don't forget," I added, "that God Derek doesn't think he has any gods that run in the family. I have half a mind to tell him that so I can record his reaction."

We laughed at that thought.

"Why the original god in God Derek's family God Markcus didn't take the job of ruling over the In Between is beyond me." God One said.

"I have no idea," I said. "Of course, no one can figure that lazy god out, just like no one can figure out that pest of a demigod Discord. I do love the nickname God Henry and God Derek came up with for him, Pestcord and it suits him too."

We laughed at Discord's nickname that God Henry and God Derek gave to him. Discord makes a pest of himself everywhere he goes.

"It's a shame Discord's name can't be changed because his name is set in stone," I said. "It's also funny that usually a descendant of the original god the power gets less and less further the family line is. God Derek was the two hundredth descendant from the original god and he's actually the most powerful god in the family, actually more powerful than God Markcus!"

"Not to mention," said God Four, "he's more powerful than God Levi and God Divine combined! And, the first part of the vision is coming true. I can't wait for God Henry and God Derek to get married."

"Yeah, I heard they're engaged now," said God Two, "and we all know that once two gods are engaged, we're the ones that set the date for their wedding."

"I know, but it won't be for a couple of months from now though. Although it does seem that part three is coming true before part two is. I can't figure out many visions anyway." I shrugged. "I guess just as long as it comes true, it doesn't matter."

"I guess so." God Four said.

"I also can't wait until we have another God Con so God Henry and God Derek can attend!" God Five beamed with excitement.

We all nodded in agreement. "Uh-huh."

"I bet you anything Princess Celestia will try to retreat to Equestria to escape from God Henry and God Derek killing her," I said. "I doubt that'll work considering she was one of the ones that stole Princess Twilight's twin boys Prince Milton and Prince Martin from their cribs!"

Gods One through Five nodded, agreeing with me.

"What I still can't get over is number one, everyone that was traveling with God Henry and God Derek are all royalty now! Number two, Discord actually adopted a child, I feel sorry for Princess Jane." God Two said.

"Anyway," I said, "now that there are gods ruling over the In Between, I say we set in stone that all of the other gods must adhere to the rules set for every universe in that place. That means right now, the In Between is officially a universe, all in favor say aye!"

"Aye!" Everyone in the room, including me, said.

"That settles it. I'll relay this information to every The Higher in every universe." I said. "This decision is set in stone and cannot be taken back."

That signaled the end of the meeting for The Grand God Council.

* * *

{Henry}

After destroying two more locations of Lab 14, Derek and I decided to make a visit to the Resistance HQ. Thankfully, ever since Derek warned Leader Felix about his agents getting too close preventing us from doing our jobs, the agents have stayed back.

Since Leader Felix found out that Derek and I can fly, he set up a launch pad that looked similar to a helicopter launch pad for us to land on when we entered the building through a trapdoor in the ceiling. We also gave Leader Felix an audio recording warning agents of the Resistance of our presence. We made sure for it to say that all unauthorized personnel evacuate the building. Of course since Discord isn't an agent there's a good chance he might be there.

Family members, friends, along with Leader Felix and Discord came to greet us once we entered the building.

"Derek!" Earnest and Liza said. They gave Derek a bear hug after saying hi. They did the same thing to me after that.

"I can't believe that my son is an actual god now!" Liza said.

"You can say that again!" Discord cheered.

I groaned, "Seriously Pestcord, when are you going to take a hint and get lost?"

"I'm not a pest!" Discord whined.

"Yeah you are!" I heard Spike say. I turned around and smiled when I saw him. We gave each other a fist bump. Discord looked at me expectantly for me to do the same thing with him. I wasn't about to do that with him.

Discord fake sobbed. "You gave a fist bump to Spike and not me? But I'm you're-"

"I swear if you say you're my godfather, I'll shoot a lightning bolt at you right now!" I snapped. "You know for a fact that you're not my godfather!"

"Yeah, that job is all already taken! It's my job!" Spike said. He stuck his tongue out at Discord and put the letter L sign on his head. I learned from Spike that you would do this if you wanted to call someone a loser.

I couldn't stop myself from laughing at Spike when he did that.

"I heard that The Grand God Council set in stone that the In Between is officially a universe now?" Leader Felix said. "I thought the In Between was already a universe!"

"Well it is," said Derek, "because it was built by gods. Even though it was a universe, because there were no gods to rule over it, it doesn't really count much as one. Now that Henry and I are rulers of it, it's officially recognized as a universe. Thankfully that means Pestcord can't stay long here."

Discord scoffed. "What I want to know is why God Henry hasn't been disciplined for shooting lightning bolts at people."

"Because The Grand God Council put a rule in place and you should know this rule Pestcord," Derek growled, "is that a god has every right to defend their territory! You overstay your welcome a lot! You get in the way of us doing our job and you know it, which is exactly why you earned the nickname Pestcord. The same goes for those that live in the In Between, if they get it the way, we have every right to drive them away so we can do our jobs."

Spike smiled. "I take it people getting in your way has been happening a lot lately?"

Discord nodded. He answered before Derek or I could say anything. "Oh yes, I've been watching them myself. There's a memorial set up by the trees that God Henry chopped down and God Derek drilled a hole into it. People just want to see the new gods that rule the In Between!"

I grit my teeth to show my annoyance with Discord, "I think we can answer for ourselves Pestcord! How long have you been here now?"

Discord shrank back in terror of me. Earnest and Liza covered their mouths to stifle a laugh at Discord's terror.

"And I'm not a god, so I can stay however long I want!" Spike teased. He stuck his tongue out at Discord again.

Earnest chuckled. "I think it's hilarious that Discord, The Lord of Chaos, is afraid of someone!"

"Yeah and it just so happens to be he's afraid of the god that discovered he could summon lightning bolts because he pissed the guy off." Leader Felix laughed.

"Yeah believe or not, there are rules that go along with ruling the In Between," I said.

"Yup," said Discord, "every universe has the same set of rules."

Leader Felix titled his head. "Huh? What are they?"

"Not much," replied Derek, "there are three rules that need to be followed. The first one is the whole barrier thing, if a god has overstayed their welcome for more than two days, then that god will have to answer for upsetting the balance of power in that universe. That's why we only visit Equestria at least once and awhile, but usually after it's been more than a month since our last visit. Although I'm pretty sure Princess Sarah and the others would love us to visit more often."

"The second rule is that we have to build a planet for the universe at least once a year," I said.

Leader Felix seemed puzzled by this. "Huh, I thought that was an option, not a rule!"

I nodded. "Oh yeah it is a rule, why do you think there's a red moon in the sky?"

"I was wondering about that," said Spike, "will any creatures be able to move it in the In Between besides you guys?"

I shook my head. "Nope, not unless we give someone the responsibility to do it. Until then, it's staying right where it is."

Discord nodded. "Yup, it doesn't matter whose responsibility it is, just as long as you make one."

"The third rule is as long as a god does their job to do the best of their ability, it keeps their universe safe," I said. "Which means we have to take care of problems that pop up everywhere in the In Between."

"So gods can be everywhere?" Liza asked.

"Not necessarily, and we can't rule over the personal lives of everyone that lives here," Derek said. "We do have tools to help notify us of big issues that pop up."

Spike raised an eyebrow. "Tools?"

"It's a special alarm that alerts us, even if we're sleeping the alert will wake us up because it's combined with our god powers. Once we are alerted, we'll see to it that it gets taken care of." I said. I glared at Discord. "And there are some gods or a certain demigod in this place that don't know how to follow the rules! Why The Grand God Council hasn't sent you Pestcord to the Downward yet is beyond me!"

"Hey, I broke you out of Lab 14, didn't I?" Discord said defensively.

I rolled my eyes. "True, you did that, but you failed to do the last part of your job!"

"What was the last part of his job?" Earnest questioned.

"He was supposed to steal Henry's voice box back for him!" Derek growled. "But nooo, he didn't care to do that!" He turned to Discord. "Henry went without his voice for almost a year because of what you failed to do Pestcord!"

Once again, Discord shrank back in terror, but not because of me this time, but because of Derek's anger. Honestly, I can't wait for the day when someone finally puts him in his place!

* * *

{Cora}

I still feel nothing but anger against Discord for breaking Experiment Henry out of Lab 14 last year. I'm still angry that Experiment Rose and Experiment Sebastian failed to keep Experiment Henry at Lab 14 when he came back. Not to mention, my previous assistant Eleanor left and so far I haven't tracked her down yet. There's no way she could've gotten her tracking device out, for high ranking employees they have the tracking device inside the brain.

For some strange and odd reason, another powerful experiment of Lab 14 who escaped and went to Star Labs, Experiment Ada, came back to me. She said she desperately wanted to finish playing with Experiment Henry. That works for me because I had originally picked her to bear children from Experiment Henry before Experiment Rose.

My new game plan I have now is I'm going to send tracker experiments that I just created after Experiment Henry and bring him back to Lab 14. I'm not going to call Experiment Henry, God Henry anytime soon.

I also had to hire a new assistant named James and I have a feeling that he hates as much as Eleanor did. Oh well, I could care less about how he feels at the moment.

As I stood at the observation balcony, I stared down with pride at the tracker experiments. They're not finished yet they needed just a little extra something added to them.

I'm so proud of my achievements. That's because ever since I created Experiment Henry, I can make new experiments now with my eyes closed so to speak.

While admiring my latest creations, someone tapped me on the shoulder, I turned around and smiled when I saw my James standing there.

"Are these the latest experiments you've created Head Cora?" James asked.

I couldn't hide my joy even if I wanted to. "Oh yes! These experiments are the ones that will track Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek and bring them back to Lab 14 where they belong."

"Why do all the girls look the same? Why do all of the boys look the same?" James inquired.

"Because they don't need names," I answered, "they're only purpose is for tracking. If this works I might use them in place of the tracker cats that failed at their jobs miserably last year. I sent a scout out to find them and I found three dead bodies. I have no idea what happened to them."

James looked down at the floor. "Oh."

"And seeing that since Experiment Henry wants to kill me so badly, hopefully, that'll bring him back here also," I said. "Last year I thought for sure that him wanting to kill Experiment Rose right with me would work! I almost had them married too!"

I could tell by the look on James face, he wanted to protest and say something, but he chose to keep his mouth shut, so I opened it for him. "Out with it James! If you have something you want to say, then say it!"

James shook his head. The look that he had on his face to me looked like denial. "It's nothing, honest."

I raised an eyebrow and glared at him. "Uh-huh yeah sure it's nothing. Do you have anything you need to show me?"

"Um, no I was just wondering about your tracker experiments, that's all," James said. "I'll get back to work now."

Without another word, James turned around and left.

* * *

{Princess Celestia}

It's nighttime in the In Between now, but I can't sleep. How can I sleep? That red moon in the sky makes me feel uneasy and I don't know why. It appeared shortly after talk of the new gods ruling over the In Between started.

From what I know of, one of the gods ruling over the In Between, used to be an experiment for Lab 14. His name was Experiment Henry, now people are referring to him as God Henry. There's no way I'm calling an experiment god.

I sighed as I looked up at the red moon and said to myself, "I think people and ponies have lost their damn minds around here lately! There aren't any gods that rule over the In Between, no way! Lab 14's still around, so it can't be so."

"Worried about that red moon in the sky Daybreaka?" I heard Discord say.

I let out a long drawn out sigh, "What do you want Discord?"

"You know, that is still offensive right?" Discord said while glaring at me. "Daybreaka!"

"If you call me that name one more time!" I snapped.

"What are you going to do about it?" Discord sneered. "I wonder, do you know who created the red moon?"

"Apparently, Experiment-" I said.

"Oh no you don't!" Discord cut me off. "You really need to start calling him God Henry!"

"He's an experiment!" I snarled. "I'm not calling him god as long as I live!"

"Alrighty then," said Discord, "you'll be calling him God soon enough. I heard God Henry and God Derek have decided to go after Lab 14 and that witch Serpenta first, so you have so more time to live. However, it's going to be very short-lived. Honestly, I'm surprised they haven't made a sun yet. In case you're wondering about your sister, Nightmara can't do anything about the red moon either! Oh well, I just decided to walk in for a visit, you know, because my powers don't work at night. So I'll just be walking out now. See you later Daybreaka!"

Discord taunted me with his laughter as he turned around and walked away.

* * *

{Henry}

I never thought I could go outside of the In Between, just to other universes, but actually outside of it until I became a god. After I created the red moon, sometimes Derek and I take days off to get away from the job of destroying Lab 14. Every time I went to the red moon and looked down at the In Between, it reminded me of a puzzle.

Ever since Derek and I took our first day off, he showed me what a puzzle looked like. A puzzle looked nothing like that stupid ball Cora would have me play with. From what Derek told me all you have to do in order to complete the puzzle, you need to make sure the puzzle piece fits in the right spot. That worked for me. It's now one of my favorite things I like to do with Derek, besides other things couples do together.

As I sat on the red moon looking down at the In Between, Derek sat down beside me. "I'm glad we could take another day off."

"No kidding, but I am surprised we haven't run into any more crazy experiments like Experiment Rose or Experiment Sebastian!" I said. "If we do, I have no problem killing them before the wedding."

Derek snorted and teased, "Oh really, you know, you can't get to the honeymoon without a wedding right?"

"Yeah, I don't need a honeymoon with whatever creature Cora wants me to be with."

Derek rolled his eyes. "I was teasing Henry! Besides, if you're going to marry anyone, it's going to me. I wonder what planet we're going to create next year? Maybe something with chaos and thunderstorms in it all the time?"

I laughed. "Too bad you can't be Lord of Chaos like Pestcord."

"Well, true, there's a 'Lord of Chaos', but I think I could be the 'God of Chaos'." Derek joked.

I chuckled. "Yeah, I bet you could outdo Pestcord any day."

"What does Pestcord say a lot? Sense? What fun is there in making sense?" Derek mocked. "Oh yeah, I love playing pranks on people! It's a favorite hobby of mine."

I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, I noticed. I still haven't gotten you back for that birthday party that you invited my not godfather to!"

I groaned as Derek burst into laughter. He composed himself. "Oh yeah, and even though it was real, when you and the others came to the Inn I had to alert them that it was mating season for the horses. I wish I had a camera for their reactions to that. Yeah, you don't want to be around a horse when it's in heat, especially if you're a pony."

"Too bad I was dealing with making sure I didn't bleed to death by my stitches at the time," I said. "I would've loved to see their reactions to that."

Derek pulled me onto his lap and kissed me. Every time he does that, he reminds me that he is my protector. I never thought that I would find someone like him that I would be able to lean on.

"I love you, Henry," Derek said.

"I love you too Derek," I said.

We didn't say anything else as we sat there staring down at the In Between.

3) Another reason why Lab 14 needs to go!

{Princess Twilight}

I sat down at a table in the garden out back behind the Castle in Canterlot, looking up at the night sky in wonder. Finally, my twin boys Cloud Sweeper and Yellow Storm had returned home. Unfortunately, since Lab 14 stole them from their cribs and tested on them, they have two forms now. They have a human form and a pegasus form. That's okay with me, as long as I have them home where they belong. Their names now are Milton and Martin.

They do change into their pony forms for royal family events and stuff like that. I don't make them stay in pony form because I know they don't like to. I figured that would be cruel and unusual punishment and they don't deserve that, because of what they went through. The funny thing is Milton fell in love with Discord's daughter Jane; her original name is Bubblegum. I feel sorry for Jane, just because she's Discord's daughter. Unfortunately, since Jane is married to Milton, that means Discord will keep popping up more than usual.

It's a good thing I'm not taking care of the moon now, because Equestria would have a lot more angry moons. Milton agreed to take care of the moon and Martin agreed to take care of the sun.

Milton usually keeps the watchtower locked down when he's in there. That's probably because of Discord. Trust me, I don't blame him for doing that.

I love to stare up at the stars a lot of times, at least for an hour or two before I turn in for the night. Just like I do every night now I stared up at the night sky in wonder. The sound of a loud pop signaled Discord's presence.

I rolled my eyes. "Honestly Discord, can you not make a pest out of yourself for once in your life? As you can see, I'm watching my son Milton arrange the stars."

"Yes, yes I know," said Discord, "I just stopped by to say hi," he glared at me, "and I'm not a pest!"

I nodded. "Yeah you are! You know, the more you say you're not a pest, the more ponies are going to think that you are a pest."

"That's not true!" Discord growled. "I don't like the nickname God Henry and God Derek came up for me. I mean, Pestcord? Really!"

I snorted. "I think they got that nickname right. Considering you're constantly popping up where you're not wanted! Aren't you supposed to be doing your job as an assistant to God Levi and God Divine? Why they chose you to be their assistant is beyond me. I think Moria would do a better job of it, if you ask me. Can you stop bugging Princess Jane a lot? Not only are you getting on her nerves, you're getting on her husband Prince Milton's nerves too!"

Instead of being offended, Discord actually smiled at this. "I can't help it! My little Bubblegum has finally come home! Well, it might not be home at the cottage, but home nonetheless. I'm sad that Prince Milton puts a magic lock on the watchtower so I can't see him when he's awake and doing his job."

"And with good reason too." I snapped. "You would get on his last nerve and there would be an angry moon every night just because of you! So yeah, God Henry and God Derek's nickname for you is completely on point Pestcord! Honestly, from what God Henry told me you've been popping up in the In Between non stop lately, so yeah you're absolutely a pest alright! As I just said, Moria would do a better job than you, and she chases chickens at Sweet Apple Acres."

"Humph!" Discord said. He crossed his arms and scoffed. "I can chase chickens too, you know!"

I rolled my eyes. "I know because you can pull them out of thin air. Well, except at night, because your powers don't work at night. Am I right?"

Discord nodded. "Yeah that's right and it's as annoying as my stupid nickname is!"

"Honestly, pull some chickens out of thin air tomorrow and leave the royal family alone for once in your life," I snarled.

"Fine," Discord huffed, "I have to get back to work then."

Discord then stormed off in anger and I rolled my eyes. I doubt he'll actually go back to 'work' anytime soon.

* * *

{Experiment Ada}

I came back to Lab 14 with only one goal in mind. The goal for me is to get Experiment Henry who is now God Henry away from Lab 14 for good. Ever since I escaped from Lab 14 and went to work with Star Labs, I begged them to take Experiment Henry with me, but they refused. They told me that they wanted me and only me. Ever since then, I started plotting to try to figure out a way to get God Henry away from Lab 14. I hate the powers Lab 14 gave me and I wish I could bring myself to kill myself, but I can't do that until I know God Henry is safe.

I cause Earthquakes when I'm angry and I can puppeteer people to death after kissing them. Unfortunately, I have to kill people just to keep my emotions in check.

Right now, in working with Lab 14 and the other experiments that want to keep God Henry at Lab 14, I have to do some serious acting to hide my true intentions.

The experiments that work for Lab 14 decided to have a meeting to talk strategy in keeping God Henry at Lab 14. To tell the truth, I wish I could call Experiment Henry by his rightful title God Henry out loud. But I can't as long as I work for Lab 14. These stupid weekly meetings are starting to get on my last nerve. With reluctance I attend them anyway.

"So, exactly how are we going to keep Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek at Lab 14?" Experiment Lydia asked.

"I know what you're thinking, but I don't think another wedding is going to work this time," Experiment Charles said.

I lied, "I have an idea! If we gang up on Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek together, we can capture and tie them down. They won't be able to escape then."

Experiment Elena nodded. "I agree there's strength in numbers. If we can keep them at Lab 14, then we'll finally be able to give Head Cora the children she wants."

I saw this as an opportunity to try and put phase one of my plan into action in getting God Henry to safety. "I call dibs on the first try!"

Experiment Lydia had a look of amusement. "And why should we have the first try at doing something where you failed to do? I say I should finish what my sister Experiment Rose started."

I couldn't stop myself from cringing at the failed wedding attempt that Experiment Rose did.

Experiment Lydia rolled her eyes. "There's no way I'm doing another wedding attempt. Why Head Cora wants us to be married to Experiment Henry before we give her children is beyond me. I'm not the marrying type, even so I ask I'll have to do what Head Cora wants me to. Honestly, I think giving her children should be enough."

I nodded. "Yeah, I agree with that. As long as we give her children that should be fine. Why give us the stress of planning a stupid wedding? She didn't do that to us when we were younger, so why now?"

"Maybe she's obsessed with the idea?" Experiment Wren pondered. "I don't know, it's stupid to me. Either way, once we have Experiment Henry back at Lab 14, we'll give Head Cora one more step closer to giving her the cure for death."

I nodded. I had no intention of giving Head Cora the cure for death. In any case, Head Cora wasn't going to find the cure for death anytime soon. That type of cure to me is almost impossible to reach anyway. I think Lab 14 just wants an excuse to harm people.

* * *

{Henry}

"You want to tell me why a god is hiding underneath the bed during a thunderstorm?" Aunt Apple Bloom asked. "It just so happens to be the god that can summon lightning bolts?"

I wasn't hiding underneath the bed because I felt scared. I found myself underneath the bed because of having another bad memory of growing up at Lab 14. I just happened to wind up there during a thunderstorm. I had to admit the first time I heard a thunderstorm, the experiencewasn't pleasant to me. During a rainstorm in the In Between it doesn't thunder like it does in Equestria. However, when Derek and I experienced our first thunderstorm in Equestria, Derek seemed excited.

Derek looked at me and frowned. "He's not scared, Aunt Apple Bloom. Believe me, I know when Henry's scared. He probably had another memory of Lab 14. Am I right Henry?"

I nodded and crawled out from underneath the bed. "I'm getting tired of these stupid memories, especially the ones where I'm playing with that stupid toy!"

Aunt Apple Bloom looked puzzled by this. "Why would you be angry about playing with a toy?"

"You see, Cora found out I was color blind because she had me play with this toy that was a ball. It had blocks of different shapes and sizes," I explained, "from what Cora told me, not only did you have to put all of the shapes in the correct spots, they also had to be in the correct color spots in order for the ball to open. At first I was fascinated by it, but after a while, I got bored because I couldn't get the ball open. I'm guessing that's how Cora found out I was color blind. After that, she made me play with the toy on a daily basis. It was annoying for me to play with that stupid thing. Sometimes I refused to play with it, those were the times I got disciplined because of that."

Aunt Apple Bloom's jaw dropped. "That's another reason why Lab 14 needs to go! It's bad enough that they stole you from your crib, but to torture you with something that's supposed to be fun? That's just cruel! It seems that Lab 14 could be the new Tartarus, for as long as it's around."

"Huh?" I said.

"It's a place where evil ponies in Equestria go," Aunt Apple Bloom replied.

"Can it fit a whole lab with twenty-eight locations left to destroy?" I questioned.

Aunt Apple Bloom stared thoughtfully up at the ceiling. "Honestly, I'm not so sure if it's big enough for it."

I found that to be funny. I almost fell off the bed because of my laughter.

* * *

{Discord}

I must say I'm having way too much fun torturing these stupid princesses along with Cora. I know the days of their labs and their lives are numbered. I hate Cora the most! The witch stole my Bubblegum from me and they tested on her and changed her into something she's not.

I like torturing Princess Luna especially because God Henry created the red moon in. Princess Luna seems worried sick about the red moon God Henry created. Every time I see her, she seems worried because even with her magic; she can't do anything about it. When I see the look of frustration on her face when she sees she can't move the red moon is very amusing to me.

On this night, I walked into Star Labs yet again to see Princess Luna pacing back and forth on the balcony attached to her lab gazing up at the sky using her magic to try and move the red moon.

"Worried about the red moon in the sky Nightmara?" I taunted as I leaned up against a nearby wall.

"I don't get it," said Princess Luna, "I am the Princess of the-"

"I'm sorry, you were the Princess of the Night!" I interrupted with a snappy tone of voice. "If I recall correctly, you stepped down from the throne and skipped out on your responsibilities in taking care of the night. Oh, you wanna know who's taking care of the night now?"

Princess Luna paused. "Isn't it supposed to be Princess Twilight still?"

I shook my head and then smirked. "No it isn't if, remember the ruler of Equestria does not have to step down from the throne if the responsibility is handed to someone else. So even though Princess Twilight is still ruling, she gave the responsibility of the night to one of her twin boys that you stole from their cribs."

"And who might that be?" Princess Luna asked.

I gave Princess Luna a wicked smile. "It's someone you used to refer to as Experiment Milton."

Princess Luna gasped. "So you mean to tell me that Experiment Milton is…"

I nodded. "Yup! Royalty! And do you want to know who's taking care of the sun now?"

Princess gave me a wary look, she looked unsure if she wanted to know my answer to my own question.

I stood there, basking in the radiance of Princess Luna's reaction to finding out that one of the children she tested on wound up becoming part of Equestria's royal family. I couldn't wait to tell her that Martin is royalty now too. So I told her, "He's someone you referred to as Experiment Martin. And get this, all of the experiments that were traveling in Group A are royalty now! There's Prince Milton and Prince Martin, of course, Experiment Jane is married to Prince Milton so she's Princess Jane. Experiment Aria who is Princess Cadance and Prince Shining Armor's daughter so she's Princess Aria now and Experiment Sarah is married to Princess Aria so she's Princess Sarah now. Last but not least there's Experiment Henry."

Princess Luna's eyes went wide. "Experiment Henry is a Prince too?"

I smiled wickedly. "Oh no, Experiment Henry is royalty and then some! He's God Henry to you and you really start calling him by that."

"There's no way I'm calling an experiment God!" Princess Luna shouted. "Over my dead body!"

I doubled over in laughter. "You'll probably be calling him God Henry with your very last breath. Too bad I won't be there to see it. Because it's not my job to kill you. Oh well."

Before I could taunt Princess Luna, even more, I felt a burning sensation on my forehead. I groaned because I knew what it meant, God Levi was contacting me. Just as I thought, a holographic screen appeared in front of me and God Levi didn't look happy with me as usual. "Discord!"

I gulped. "Yes. God Levi?"

"Are you in the In Between harassing people again?" God Levi snarled.

"Um…" I didn't want to say yes because I knew what God Levi might do if I did. I looked over when I heard Princess Luna laughing so hard she fell over on her back.

God Levi rolled his eyes. "Judging by Princess Luna's laughter, you are there. This is exactly why we put you on a leash, although I can see, it's not working!"

"Hey," protested Princess Luna, "how did you know it was me laughing?"

"God Divine and I have watched over all of the rulers of Equestria, we know their personalities very well. But I am thankful that we can't rule over the personal lives of our subjects, trust me, I don't want to know what you do in your free time. So yeah I know what your laughter sounds like," God Levi said, "since we can't do anything about the problems in the In Between, I can't wait until God Henry gets to have his fun killing you. I doubt Princess Twilight will let you escape your death sentence especially after what you did to her twin boys!"

"But I didn't-" Princess Luna started.

"Oh yes, you did," said God Levi, "which is exactly why God Henry will be coming for you! Now Pestcord, get your butt over to Equestria!"

I really hate that nickname God Henry and God Derek came up for me, "I'm not-"

"A pest, yes you are! God Henry and God Derek got it right one that one." God Levi snapped. "Get. Your. Butt. Back. To. Equestria NOW!"

I sighed and mumbled, "Yes, sir."

As I started to walk away, I heard Princess Luna having a good laugh at my expense.

4) Just because You're a God Doesn't Mean You Don't have Feelings!

{Henry}

The memories that I kept having of growing up at Lab 14 were starting to get on my nerves. I'm surprised that I don't have Fear Shock again because of them.

In this memory, I was on another 'playdate' with Experiment Rose. I didn't want to talk to her at all. For the most of the 'playdate' I wasn't talking until Experiment Rose said something, "You know Head Cora picked me to be your wife once we get older. We should get to know each other."

I rolled my eyes and looked away. "I'm good, I'm not interested in you and you know that, Experiment Rose. There's no way I'm marrying a creepy weirdo like you."

"Creepy weirdo!" Experiment Rose gasped. "I'm not a creepy weirdo and you know it! Since you won't play with me willingly, I'll just have to do this... Tell me you love me!"

I stared in horror as her eyes turned from all white to all purple. The next thing I knew, I woke up tied to a chair and she was sitting on top of me.

Every 'playdate' Cora forced me to go on with other experiments it ended with me tied to a chair.

After the first time being under Experiment Roses 'Tell-Me-You-Love-Me spell', I was determined to escape. When I ran from Experiment Rose, Cora would do the reprogramming ritual. I resisted the reprogramming ritual because I loved another experiment. Cora would find out who I actually liked and if I didn't do what she wanted the experiment that I loved would wind up killed.

It does comfort me a little that you can't kill a god but, I still worry about what Cora might do to Derek the next time I see her.

* * *

I wound up underneath the bed because of having that memory.

I looked up to see Derek frowning, "Another memory huh?"

I nodded. "It was one of my 'playdates' with Experiment Rose. I'd rather have a nightmare instead of a memory any day. I'm still worried about you getting killed by Cora when we see her again."

Derek smiled and shook his head. "You know it's not possible to kill a god right?"

When I sat down on the bed I sighed. "I know."

"You know what I can't believe is that everyone that was traveling with us to the Resistance HQ is royalty!" Derek said. "I heard God Divine and God Levi put a leash on Discord. It's about time they did that!"

"I just hope he's not bothering Sarah and the others, because if he bothered Milton, Equestria would probably have a lot of angry moons!"

Derek chuckled. "I can't believe Jane is his daughter, I feel sorry for her."

"Yeah and I'm glad Pestcord's not my godfather."

"Are you still having memories about that toy Cora had you play with?"

"It's more like a nightmare than a memory. To tell the truth, nightmares are more pleasant than memories."

"At least I'm not finding you sleeping on top of the red moon at the moment," Derek said. "I'd rather find you sleeping under the bed instead."

"Yeah and I'm glad I can't summon lightning bolts in my sleep."

"No kidding," agreed Derek, "even if you did, The Grand God Council wouldn't punish you for it."

I gave him a wary look. "I don't know about that. I certainly don't want to be thrown into The Downward because of it."

Derek pulled me into his arms. "It's okay, I already talked to The Grand God Council, they told me that there have been situations where a god can do stuff like that in their sleep. One god did something called a hurricane and flooded an area of a planet in their universe that he ruled over. I told them about your bad memories and dreams. So they told me to monitor you to see if you do that. I've seen you fly in your sleep sometimes. I'm going to take a wild guess and say you're running from something Cora created. When I see that, I just try to make sure you don't crash like you did when your parents yanked you out of the sky. That was scary. Do I do anything in my sleep?"

I shook my head. "Not from what I can tell, from what I've seen your magic comes from your eyes. That rampaging bull attack you do is still a little bit psychotic."

Derek snorted. "I know." Then he frowned. "Unfortunately it's necessary to do that with those tricky experiments that decide they want to work with Lab 14."

I sighed, "Yeah I know but Lab 14 has to go, that's part of our job."

"What's wrong Henry?"

"It's just that I don't like the idea of killing someone, that's all."

"I understand. But we have to because we need to make sure that once Cora's dead no one will try to pick up where she left off."

"Hopefully when all of the labs are gone, that'll mean no more children will be stolen from their cribs."

"Mhm. And we should probably go back to it again and alert Leader Felix of the next location we're going to."

I nodded. If it were up to me, I would keep going and literally not rest until the labs were gone. But since Derek's working with me, he makes sure I take a break every once in a while. That's probably a good thing because I'm what one would think is a work alcoholic.

I can't help it. If someone gives me a job to do, I won't stop until it's done.

* * *

After destroying two locations of Lab 14, Derek and I set up camp. I was inside the tent asleep.

I thought for sure I was dreaming. I looked around and wherever I was I saw a yellow light surrounding me and other lights twinkled everywhere I looked. The lights looked amazing to me even though I had no idea what the colors they were. "Where am I?"

When I heard someone giggle I turned to see a young woman, who had blonde hair with red highlights and her eyes were blue.

"Hi there God Henry," The woman giggled. Her giggle made me think she was flirting with me.

"Uh, O...kay?" I wasn't sure if she knew that I wasn't interested in women.

"I know that look, God Henry," the woman said, "I was informed by The Grand God Council that you're not into women in the slightest. But can you blame me for flirting with you? You are pretty handsome, you know that?"

"Yeah no," I replied, "although my sister Sarah tells me I should admire myself in the mirror more than she does. She's definitely Rainbow Dash's daughter alright."

The woman giggled at me, "You're referring to Princess Sarah right?"

"Yeah?"

"All of us The Higher's and Gods still can't believe that everyone that was in your group is royalty now!" The woman said with joy. "Of course you're a god so you're royalty and then some."

"Okay." At this point, I felt nothing but confusion.

"I understand your confusion, God Henry," said the woman while smiling. "Since you're meeting your The Higher for the first time."

"But I thought The Higher was supposed to be a guy!" I exclaimed.

The woman did a facepalm and groaned. "Seriously? It's the same thing with a god, a god can be either a woman or a man."

I snickered. "Oh yeah, that's right Discord or what I like to call him Pestcord did mention something like that when he was explaining what the In Between is. Come to think of it, Derek and I met the gods of Equestria's universe. There's a female god named God Divine and a male god there named God Levi."

"Yup!" The woman said with a small nod. "Most of the time I just appear as a bright light to you and the other The Higher's do the same thing with their gods. We're not sure why that is. It probably has something to do with The Grand God Council, they control everything the gods in every universe do."

This woman was starting to irritate me. I wanted her to explain to me what this place was.

"My name is Ashley," the woman said, "and no you don't have to attach the title The Higher when you say my name. The Higher's say the word 'god' attached to your name as a sign of respect. I am your servant and you are my master."

"Can you get to the point already?" I snapped.

"Sorry about that God Henry," said Ashley, "I brought you here because you'll come to this place when you get knocked out of your body. We like to call this place the 'Knocked-Out-of-Your-Body' realm. This place does exactly what it's called. If you ever get knocked out of your body, you come here. For example, let's say if you take a bullet to the chest or something like that. That will knock you out of your body and you will be sent here."

"Are you sure?" I asked with a skeptical look. "It almost seems too good to be true."

"I know," responded Ashley, "it sounds that way for most new gods. You and Derek are new gods."

"So how did I get knocked out of my body?" I said. "The last thing I remember was being asleep."

"You're asleep, I knocked you out of your body so I relay this vision that The Grand God Council saw in regards to the Death of Lab 14!"

Ashley looked overly excited by this. She pointed at the ground. I looked down and vision played as if I were watching a Tv screen.

Derek and I were at a location that Lab 14 has or at least that's what it looked like. Cora had Derek tied down to one of her torture chairs and a black snake had wrapped itself around Derek's neck. The snake was in the process of strangling him. However, it didn't seem to bother Derek. He had a smug look on his face as the snake taunted him.

"The sooner you pass out," the snake hissed in Derek's ear, "the sooner I can eat you and Experiment Henry will stay at Lab 14 once you're dead!"

What the vision showed next disturbed me. It showed Experiment Ada with her hand inside my chest. She seemed like she was close to killing me. I didn't seem to care about that because I looked more concerned about what was happening to Derek. Experiment Ada threw me into the torture chair next to Derek. Cora stepped in front of Derek and sneered at him. "I know you're with Experiment Henry, I know by the matching engagement rings. But you're not the one we picked to give us children with him, so goodbye!"

I continued to watch the vision in horror as Cora shot Derek in the head.

"Why would The Grand God Council pick Derek as a-" I panicked. Ashley put a hand on my shoulder to keep me from panicking further. At this point in the vision, I looked scared and angry.

Cora smiled wickedly, "Now let's proceed with the data gathering shall we?"

I snarled in response, "No way! You're not doing this again!"

Cora gave me a smug look, "Oh? You should take a look at your boyfriend, he's clearly dead don't you see? I heard you were the one who created the red moon in the sky. I think I'll get some good data from you, don't you think?"

I gulped when I saw Cora take out one of her data-gathering devices. It was a round pointed needle that she had in her hand. When she pushed it into my forehead, my body went limp and it looked like I was dead.

I turned to Ashley and asked, "Okay, if gods can't be killed then why do we look like we're dead?"

Ashley gave an exasperated groan. "Did you not hear what I just said about this place? It's your out-of-body realm. Just keep watching, there's more to it."

I watched the comical scene of Cora and other experiments panicking and I wondered when Derek and I would wake up. We probably had a discussion and decided who would come back from playing dead first because it took us a while to stop playing dead. Derek woke up shortly after I did and pulled the bullet out of his head. After that happened, the vision stopped playing.

I laughed. To me, the vision looked like a fairytale. It looked too good to be true.

"You don't believe this vision will come true, do you?" Ashley questioned.

"Nope," I shook my head. "Not one little bit."

Ashley nodded. "Oh, it will come true alright. If The Grand God Council has seen it, then it will happen. The Grand God Council did say there's more to it but they told me not to tell you. They only wanted me to relay that part of it. They also told me that there's a happy ending involved though. What it is they didn't tell me."

"Uh-huh, I still don't believe it."

"Well, believe or don't believe," said Ashley, "but either way it's going to happen. Oh and the feelings you experienced watching the vision, horror, anger, sadness, that's going to happen."

"Why would-" I started.

Ashley cut me off. "Just because you're a god doesn't mean you don't have feelings! I mean I have feelings and I'm your The Higher! Duh! I have already shown God Derek the vision and he's just as skeptical as you are. But at the same time, he's more hopeful than you."

"Well at least someone knows how to think positive."

Ashley giggled, "Weren't you and Pestcord the ones that told God Derek, what part of the word 'god' don't you understand? It seems you don't know how to take a page from your own book."

At this point, Ashley's giggling at me was starting to make me uncomfortable.

"Your giggling is starting to creep me out."

That statement made her giggle some more. "You might want to get used to that. I mean haven't you had women flirt with you before?"

"Yup, usually it's the ones that Cora wants me to marry so I can give her children."

Ashley's jaw dropped. "Wow! That just adds to the list of reasons why Lab 14 needs to go. That also includes Celestial Labs and Star Labs. It's a good thing no God can be killed. It hasn't happened before and I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon."

I gave her a wary look. "If you say so. I guess I'll just have to take your word for it."

"You should probably get back to your body now."

"But how do I-" I started.

Ashley smiled and thumped my forehead with her index finger. I fell backward and it felt like my parents were yanking me out of the sky again. But this time I crashed back into my body.

When I woke up, I felt like I had the wind knocked out of me.

5) Preparations

{Henry}

When I woke up, I realized I wasn't in the tent where I had been sleeping. I was sleeping on top of the red moon. "Nice going Ashley! Good job, The Higher!"

I thought I was snapping at no one when I saw Derek sitting next to me smiling.

"Yes I already met our The Higher and she showed me the same vision." Derek said. He rolled his eyes. "And she giggled at me too."

"Yeah that's not creepy at all."

"Usually it's normal when girls do it to me." Derek said with annoyance. "It didn't creep me out, it just got on my nerves! Especially when I realized I was gay."

"When did you realize you were gay?" I asked.

"My first boyfriend was a fellow Agent." Derek replied. "What about you?"

I sighed, "Another male experiment, he was killed because of me."

Derek snarled, "No one should be killed because they're in love!"

"Tell that to Serpenta," I said, giving Derek a worried glance.

"I'm not going to die Henry," said Derek reassuringly, "I'm just going to play dead. That vision should've been comforting to you. But I understand why you don't think positively about it."

"It just seems too good to be true." I said.

I didn't realize that Derek was on top of me until I found myself hugging him. "Wow, you sure have been persistent about this lately."

"Yeah I know," said Derek, "it's fun for me and I know it's fun for you. I'm pretty sure you need it too, so it can help you keep your mind off of things."

After Derek kissed me, my mind went blank and I knew it wasn't because of Experiment Roses 'tell me you love me' attack. My mind went blank every time I was with Derek because I knew I was safe with him, and I knew we were in love.

* * *

{Princess Twilight}

I paced back and forth in front of my throne in the throne room. I smiled as I looked at the new thrones that had been recently added. Since my two twin boys had returned to me they were right by my side in everything. My son Prince Milton and his wife Princess Jane and their thrones were to the left side of my throne. Prince Martin's throne had been added to the right side of my throne.

The reason why I was pacing back and forth was because the former ruler of Equestria and my mentor Princess Celestia had written me a letter informing me that she was coming back to Equestria and to stay! Princess Celestia said that she wanted to go to the retirement home that she planned on going to before she took my sons from their cribs to the In Between. Princess Celestia even added that she wanted her former assistant Moria to come stay at the retirement home with her.

I didn't believe a word Princess Celestia was saying in that letter, not one little bit. How could Princess Celestia expect me to welcome her back with open hooves, especially with her having a hand in testing on my sons along with the other kids that were traveling with God Henry and God Derek? As a matter of fact they were on the run from Princess Celestia's lab that she oversaw Celestial Labs. I'm not going to let Princess Celestia get away with that! Nope, that's not happening on my watch!

"Don't worry mom," said Milton, "we'll give Princess Celestia or as Discord would call her Daybreaka a show she'll never forget!"

I felt my worry change to excitement when Milton said that. I giggled, "I can't wait to see the look on Princess Celestia's face once I ban her and chase her back to the In Between right where she belongs. Now, you guys know when to change into humans again right?"

"Yes mom!" Martin chuckled evilly. "Right after Moria plays the part of the rabid dog."

"Yes!" Moria barked. "You wanna see my acting Princess? I've been practicing!"

I was interested along with the others to see how well Moria's rabid dog act would go down. Moria pulled back her lips and growled. Then she started barking a menacing bark. She even added to the growl by drooling just to make her point clear. When Moria finished her acting she licked her lips and went back to normal.

We clapped in approval of Moria's acting.

"Wow Moria!" Milton praised her. "I didn't know you were that good of an actor! Maybe you should try your hand in show business!"

"Hey," said Discord, "I'm the one that should be in show biz and not a dog!"

I did a facehoof and groaned, "Pestcord what in the name of Celes- I mean Equestria are you doing here?"

"Did you just say in the name of Celestia?" Discord asked with a smirk on his face.

"Yes and so what if I did?" I snapped. "I'm not giving her any more praise if I can help it! Milton, Martin, and Jane do you guys have your yo-yo's for when you change back into humans?"

Jane smiled, "Oh yeah we have them!" She pointed to a nearby table. "They're sitting there ready Princess!"

"You know you don't have to call me princess." I said. "We're family now." I turned to Discord. "As far as you go Discord, scram! Get out of the throne room and stay out!"

"But I just wanted to watch the fun!" Discord whined. "Princess Jane is my daughter you know!"

"You're just as bad as that knucklehead Princess Sarah when I first met her," Milton said.

"Yes, yes fine," Discord growled, "I'm going!"

Discord snapped his claw and left. Once he was gone, I turned around and grinned. Milton, Martin and Jane grinned back at me. I was excited and I knew they were excited too. We were about to put on the biggest show of our entire lives.

* * *

{Experiment Ada}

I can't speak for the other experiments that were waiting for God Henry and God Derek to arrive back at Lab 14, I was bored to tears waiting for them. For me, I just want to get my hands on God Henry so I could kill him to keep him away from Head Cora once and for all. I had no intention of bearing God Henry's children and I'm pretty sure he feels the same way. Experiment Lydia seems to be most eager to have God Henry's children.

"I'm tired of waiting for Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek to arrive here!" Experiment Lydia growled.

I was lost in my thoughts playing with a kidney that I had gotten from a recent experiment that I had just killed.

Experiment Wren snapped me out of it by thumping me on the forehead with his index finger. "Hello! In Between to Experiment Ada! Come in Experiment Ada! If you're awake then that means you're listening to this."

I laughed at it because it's an inside joke that all of us experiments had about waking up for the first time and hearing Head Cora's voice on the small Tv that we would be given at the start of an Experiment.

"What do you want Experiment Wren?" I asked.

Experiment Wren rolled his eyes. "You know that line is only reserved for Agent Discord right?"

I let out a long drawn out sigh, "Last time I checked, Agent Discord broke his contract with Lab 14 over a year ago. Didn't Head Cora inform you of that?"

"Yes, we all were informed about that," said Experiment Charles, "what's with you today? You don't seem that bored like the rest of us. Are you daydreaming about Experiment Henry? That wouldn't surprise me because you did call dibs on him for the first try."

"You know something, that's not a bad way to pass the time." Experiment Elena giggled.

I didn't dare say what I was really thinking. Me calling the first try with God Henry was just another act and I hoped it looked convincing.

"You got that one right!" I said hoping I sounded excited about seeing God Henry again, "I've been playing with this kidney for a reason. Yup, I've been daydreaming! It's been so long since I've seen Experiment Henry."

Experiment Lydia narrowed her eyes at me. "Uh-huh, you seemed more lost in thought than daydreaming."

I shook my head. "No Experiment Lydia, I was daydreaming! Honest I really was!"

"Uh-huh," hissed Experiment Lydia pointing a finger at me, "because if you go against Head Cora I'll kill you myself!"

I rolled my eyes. "That's a nice fantasy and all, but I don't think you'll have to do that. You don't have the heart to!"

"Just watch me!" Experiment Lydia snapped.

Before Experiment Lydia and I could kill each other, Experiment Charles stepped in between us. "I know we're all restless but we shouldn't take out our frustrations on each other."

Too bad I can't kill Experiment Lydia, I thought, but she's not my main focus at the moment. So she's not worth my time!

Head Cora took us all by surprise when she fired her gun in the air.

"Will you guys stop bickering!" Head Cora shouted. "You are grown up Experiment's and I suggest you act like it!"

Experiment Charles paused. "Uh, grown up Experiments?"

Seriously? I didn't know Head Cora gave an Experiment the power of stupidity! Wow. I thought.

"Do you ever look in the mirror and see how much you've changed lately?" Head Cora growled.

I saw Experiment Lydia thinking about what Head Cora just said and Experiment Lydia's stupidity amazed me. She looked like she had her aha moment, "Oh yeah! Right."

Head Cora smiled. "Of course, how do you think Experiment Henry got the muscles he has now? He didn't get those because he's a child!"

"Muscles?" Experiment Lydia and Experiment Elena repeated.

I rolled my eyes and thought, Well duh, God Henry's bound to have muscles since he chopped down a tree in the In Between and he's a god now. Hello! Is there anyone smart around here besides me and Head Cora?

Head Cora smiled. "Oh yeah, you wanna see a picture of him?"

Head Cora put up a small box on the railing next to her and pressed the button on it. Our jaws dropped when we saw the picture of God Henry. He had muscles alright and didn't look like an adorable child like he did the last time I saw him.

Head Cora couldn't stop smiling at this point, "And here's a picture of Experiment Derek."

I gasped when I saw what he looks like and I can understand that God Henry has probably fallen in love with God Derek by now. Even though those two are sexy, I'm still not into men.

Head Cora chuckled, "I think they'll make fine fathers for the children Lab 14 wants from them. Experiment Ada?"

Every time Head Cora addressed me formally like this, it made me nervous. "Yes, Head Cora?"

"I pick you to bear Experiment Henry's children," Head Cora said.

I choked and thought, Of course she just had to pick me for that.

"You don't want the job?" Head Cora asked.

"I'm just surprised, that's all. I thought you wanted me to kill him not-" I said quickly.

"Be his wife?" Head Cora said. "I want you to finish what Experiment Rose started. We'll have another wedding after I do the data gathering on him and trust me, he won't escape this time. I will keep him tied down with this."

When I saw what Head Cora was holding in her hand I gasped. It was the data gathering device that Head Cora would put in an Experiment's forehead so they wouldn't fight much when the data gathering was done. The object was a round pointed needle.

"Is that really necessary, Head Cora?" Experiment Lydia asked.

Head Cora nodded, "It is because somehow from the last wedding with Experiment Rose, Experiment Henry melted the chains I had him tied up with. So I will keep Experiment Henry tied down to the data gathering chair. He won't be able to melt this because it's wood and not steel. Experiment Elena?"

"Yes, Head Cora?" Experiment Elena said.

"You will be Experiment Derek's wife," said Head Cora, "we'll have your wedding ceremony shortly after Experiment Henry's wedding ceremony. I'll be doing the data gathering on Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek at the same time. They will say yes this time, that is, if they don't want to have their voices removed for the rest of their lives."

"What about me, Head Cora?" Experiment Lydia asked.

"You can be Experiment Henry's mistress," said Head Cora, "the rest of you will decide what you want to be with in regards to Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek. So for now, just sit tight and be patient."

I had a feeling that since Head Cora only wanted God Henry back at Lab 14, I doubted that she would even consider letting God Derek live.

* * *

{Henry}

I had a strange dream last night. When I woke up, I found myself sleeping next to Derek. Derek was wide awake and he was grinning.

"O...Kay?" I said. "Why are you grinning at me?"

"Because you actually slept soundly today."

"Probably because of the weird dream I had," I said.

"What was it?" Derek asked.

"Cora was threatening to take my voice box out again!" I laughed.

Derek laughed at that thought. Right after Derek and I completed the God Challenge and became full fledged gods. It was strange to me because my voice was no longer inside a literal box. Lab 14 figured out a way to put a person's voice into a literal box and punish an experiment with that if they didn't do what Lab 14 wanted them to.

The Resistance figured out how to reverse engineer Lab 14's technology and they were able to confirm that my voice was set in a way a normal person would talk. It didn't matter how many times the Resistance tried, they couldn't take my voice out and turn it into a literal box anymore.

To tell the truth, I'm looking forward to seeing the shocked look on Cora's face when she wouldn't be able to use that technology on me again.

Even so, the vision that The Grand God Council showed me how Derek and I would be playing dead, disturbed me.

Derek stopped laughing and then reached over and kissed me. "You're still worried about me dying aren't you?"

I nodded.

"Just remember," said Derek, "you can't kill a god and if Cora threatens to take your voice away, she can't do it. So whatever she's planning isn't going to work. Just like Ashley said, just because you're a god doesn't mean you don't have feelings. The fact that you're feeling worried goes to show that's a fact."

"Aren't you worried at all?" I asked.

Derek nodded. "Of course, I'm nervous about facing off against Cora again too. But until it happens, we just need to do our job to the best of our ability."

6) Taunting Princess Celestia

{Princess Twilight}

Finally the day came for Princess Celestia to visit Equestria and arrive at the castle in Canterlot. I couldn't wait to see the look on her face when she saw my two twin boys Milton and Martin along with Milton's wife Jane were the children she tested on in the In Between are now royalty. I also wasn't about to let Princess Celestia take Moria with her so she could take Moria apart piece by piece so she could make a new assistant.

As soon as Princess Celestia arrived at the Castle in Canterlot, she walked into the throne room and the trumpets blasted to announce her arrival. When Princess Celestia walked into the throne room, I could tell her didn't want to bow to me, but she did. I made a motion for her to stop bowing and mustered the fakest smile that I could give. "Princess Celelstia! It's so nice to see you again! It's been ages since I've seen you. You know, ever since you went into retirement, I haven't seen you around the castle. So how's Princess Luna?"

"She's doing fine Twilight," said Princess Celestia, "where's Moria?"

"Why do you want to know?" I asked.

"I want to see her so I can take her to the retirement home that I'm going to stay at." Princess Celestia said. "She was my dog and I intend to take her back."

I raised an eyebrow. "Oh? She was your dog, she's not anymore!"

"Yes she is," said Princess Celestia, "I adopted her since she was a puppy, so she's rightfully mine!"

"Oh really?" I said, raising an eyebrow. "Do you have paperwork and the necessary blood tests to prove she's yours?"

"Uh…" Princess Celestia looked down at the floor. She knew that I knew for a fact that she didn't have anything that says Moria is her dog. If she did have something she would've presented it to me with no problem and no hesitations.

From what Moria told me, she was a puppy that Princess Celestia picked up off the street. Princess Celestia did testing on Moria and created Moria into the dog she is now.

I tapped a hoof on the floor, waiting for Princess Celestia to answer me. "Well, do you?"

Princess Celestia sighed, "No, I don't."

"Because when I found Moria," I said, "she had no color on her with her address on her or anything like that. I looked for a microchip and there was none. So exactly, how do you know about Moria?"

Princess Celestia gulped, "I uh, well you see…"

"I also found out that Moria could talk," I continued, "she said what her name was but she didn't say anything else. She certainly didn't say anything about you. And if she wants to stay here, then I think she should stay here."

Princess Celestia snarled and her ears went flat against her head. "Give me back my dog Twilight! And I'll be taking back the throne too!"

I tilted my head and gave her an evil smile. "That's not going to be possible."

"And why not?" Princess Celestia snapped.

Good thing I had my scroll on laws of this sort of thing with me. I lit up my horn and pulled it out of thin air and opened it. "Equestrian Law states right here that if a current ruler hasn't stepped down or committed crimes against Equestria, (which I have done neither of them) then that's the only way you can take back the throne. Since I have not stepped down and named you as ruler and I have not committed a crime against Equestria, you can not take back the throne just because you're throwing a hissy fit!"

I floated the scroll over to Princess Celestia and when she read it she snarled, "But you did commit crimes against Equestria!"

"And what crimes did Princess Twilight commit?" I heard the Royal Court Judge say. I smiled when I turned around and saw her because I knew that she knew that I didn't do what Princess Celestia was claiming that I did do.

"Royal Court Judge!" Princess Celestia gasped.

"If you're accusing Princess Twilight of something," the Royal Court Judge said, "we can put her on trial, that is if you have enough evidence to provide for what you're accusing her of."

"She had a lab in the In Between too!" Princess Celestia cried.

I literally bit my tongue to keep myself from clobbering Princess Celestia to a pulp but since I knew the Royal Court Judge was on my side, I chose not to do anything.

Royal Court Judge raised an eyebrow. "Now I know for a fact that's not true Princess Celestia. Because we've sent out guards to observe what's been going on in the In Between to see if any more labs have popped up there. I do believe one of the labs that have been set up is yours, it's called Celestial Labs. Am I correct with this information?"

Princess Celestia sighed, "Yes, I am the head of Celestial Labs. But that doesn't mean-"

Royal Court Judge cut her off. "Oh yes it does! You were the one that stole foals from their cribs and tested on them! You are the one that's committed crimes against Equestria! So if you chose to stay in Equestria, you will be put on trial and not Princess Twilight."

"Before you make your choice," I said, "you have some 'fans' that would like to see you."

Princess Celestia smirked. "I have fans? That doesn't surprise me. I mean, I am Princess Celestia after all! Everypony loved and adored me before I retired."

My jaw dropped at Princess Celestia's arrogance. This is NOT the Princess Celestia that I knew who ruled over Equestria! What happened to her? Why has she become so cruel and arrogant?

Royal Court Judge smiled and she turned and left when we got to the throne room; I turned around and spread out my wings, that was the cue for Milton, Martin and Jane to come out transformed into their pony form.

I called out. "Okay guys, you can come out now!"

I smiled as I saw Princess Celestia's excited look on her face. She was eager to see who her 'fans' were. Once Milton, Martin, Jane and Moria came out, I let down my wings and said, "Cloud Sweeper, Yellow Storm, Bubblegum and Moria, don't you want to meet Princess Celestia? You are her biggest fans after all! I'm sure she wouldn't mind giving you her autograph before she leaves."

"Sure!" Milton said, with fake excitement in his voice. "I'm so glad to finally be able to meet my hero!"

I bit my bottom lip this time to keep myself from laughing wickedly because it wasn't the time for that yet.

"Oh yes," said Jane with sarcasm, "we've been dying to meet you Princess Celestia, ever since we were foals!"

Nope, I'm not going to laugh, nope not yet. I thought.

"Yup!" Martin said. "We even have an idol that we use to worship you with. It's in the very back of our closets. We use it to pray to you everyday."

At this point there was no way I could hold in my laughter. I snorted and put my hoof over my mouth to try and stifle it but it came out as a giggle. It wasn't a normal giggle either. It was the type of giggle that was unbecoming of a Princess to have. Princess Celestia gave me a pointed look as if she were scolding me. I had tears in my eyes when I saw Moria adding to the hilarity by trying her best to act like a normal dog.

I couldn't help it, this was way too funny. I tried to keep my composure but I was failing at it big time.

When Princess Celestia realized who she was talking to she snarled. "This. Can't. Be!"

Milton gave an evil laugh, "I take it you recognize us?"

"But you were all of the experiments from Group A!" Princess Celestia snarled. "How can you be-"

"Royalty?" I said. "These are my two twin boys that you stole from their cribs and tested on them! You evil witch!"

Princess Celestia paused when she saw Jane. "But the mare I don't recognize you!"

"That's because you didn't talk to me much!" Jane snapped. "You referred to me as Experiment Jane and now it's Princess Jane to you!"

"And it's Prince Milton to you!" Milton snapped.

"And it's Prince Martin to you!" Martin snapped.

"But Experiments Henry, Sarah and Aria-" Princess Celestia started.

"Oh yeah," I said, "they're royalty too. Aria was Princess Cadence and Prince Shining Armor's daughter and Sarah is now married to her. So they are Princess Aria and Princess Sarah to you!"

"What about Experiment Henry?" Princess Celestia asked.

"You know good and well Henry's a god along with his fiance' Derek!" I snarled. "He is called God Henry now and Derek is God Derek!"

"There's no way I'm calling an experiment God Henry!" Princess Celestia sneered. "Over my dead body!"

"Well if you can't respect our friend who is a god," sneered Milton, "then you shouldn't be allowed to stay in Equestria!"

Although I agreed with Milton, I didn't want to say I was going to strip Princess Celestia of her title just yet. I wanted her to see how badly she had made a mess of things.

"Can we transform back to human yet mom?" Martin asked.

I nodded. "Yes you may."

"Human!" Milton, Martin and Jane said and transformed.

"Moria!" Moria barked.

Princess Celestia made my blood boil when she went to grip Moria in her magic. I lit up my horn and canceled Princess Celestia's magic out. I used my magic to bring Moria back to where I was. Then Princess Celestia made my anger hit the roof when she started to attack Milton, Martin and Jane.

"Hmm," I snarled, "that's assault on royal family members, that's another crime you can add to your list of crimes you've committed. Would you like to add any more crimes to that list?"

I looked at Moria and nodded. That was her cue to play the part of the rabid dog now. Moria did exactly what she had been practicing to do for this moment. I went from angry to laughing again and I laughed to my heart's content.

Milton smiled. "Hey mom, can we show Princess Celestia some of our yo-yo tricks that we learned before she goes?"

I was laughing so hard I barely managed to say, "Go ahead."

"Ladies first wifey!" Milton said after kissing Jane.

"Oh I'd love to!" Jane said.

Jane grabbed her yo-yo and made the string into the shape of a crown. "You want to know what this trick is called Princess Celestia?"

"What?" Princess Celestia sneered.

"I call it the Pampered Princess!" Jane laughed.

Martin snorted. "Good one Jane! My turn!"

Martin then made the string of his yo-yo into the shape of a sun. "I call this trick the Rising Sun!"

By this point, I was rolling on the ground with laughter.

Milton smirked. "Me next!"

Milton made the string of his yo-yo look like he was getting ready to walk his pet on a leash.

"I know that move!" Princess Celestia sneered. "Because I taught it to you!"

"Oh," taunted Milton, "then you know what it's called don't you?"

Princess Celestia snarled at Milton. He didn't seem fazed by it at all. He smirked. "I call this move, Walking the Dog!"

I was still laughing at this moment, wishing I had a camera to record the look on Princess Celestia's face. It was priceless!

"Moria!" Moria barked.

This time Milton, Martin and Jane joined in on my laughter. I finally composed myself enough to speak, "There is one thing I would like you to do for me, Princess Celestia."

"What is it?" Princess Celestia asked.

I nodded at Milton and Martin. "Milton? Martin?"

"Yes mom?" Milton and Martin said.

"Could you use your magic to make the sky half day and half night?" I asked.

Princess Celestia's jaw dropped when she saw that.

"Before you make your decision on whether or not you want to stay," I said, "if you can move the sun and lower it, I'll wave your trial."

I called a bluff because I knew it wasn't going to work. Now that Milton and Martin were taking care of the day and the night, Princess Celestia wouldn't be able to do a thing about it.

Princess Celestia gave me a smug look. "Humph! Piece of cake!"

As I have seen her do it before I took the throne, Princess Celestia did what she would do every evening to lower the sun. She lit up her horn and raised herself off the ground. Instead of a bright light shining into the room until the sun was fully lowered, Princess Celestia's horn dimmed and she dropped to the floor face first.

Milton, Martin and Jane snickered and I snickered too. Finally! I can tell Princess Celestia what I've been wanting to tell her since she first got here!

That's when I looked at Princess Celestia's flank and gasped.

"What is it?" Princess Celestia asked.

I pointed to her flank. "Your cutie mark! It's changed!"

Princess Celestia's cutie mark had changed from a sun to a black skull with a red circle around it and a red line going through the circle.

Princess Celestia stared at her flank in shock. "How can this be?"

Milton chuckled, "I think that's punishment for you being so evil!"

"And I think that seals your death sentence with God Henry!" Martin added.

"Experiment Henry is not a god!" Princess Celestia shouted.

I found it funny that Princess Celestia was trying to use the Royal Voice. Princess Celestia knows good and well that once a ruler has stepped down from the throne, the Canterlot Royal Voice leaves them and they no longer can do it.

"Wow, inside voice Princess Celestia! Although I have no idea why your cutie mark changed, I think it's a good thing because of the crimes you've committed. But I'm still willing to give you a choice: are you going to stay or are you going to go?" I said.

Princess Celestia's eyes were full of tears when she snarled angrily at me as loud as she could.

"I take that as you're going to go." I said. "One more thing Princess Celestia, I'm taking your crown and your title!"

I gripped Celestia's crown in my magic and once I had it in front of me, I threw it to the ground and stomped on it. "I hereby officially strip you of your title and banish you to the In Between! I've talked to Princess Cadence and Prince Shining Armor about this and they don't want you in the Crystal Empire either! Now get out of my sight!"

I watched with satisfaction as Celestia ran out of the room crying as she left. Once Celestia was gone, all of us breathed a sigh of relief.

Moria seemed to be the most relieved, "Finally! Glad that's over with! I said I'm not working for another lab and I meant it!"

Martin then lowered the sun and Milton raised the moon. Jane gave Miton a kiss and we all parted ways for the night.

7) Nightmares

{Henry}

Much to my surprise, Derek told me he actually had to kill someone. It happened when he was still an Agent for the Resistance. The guy Derek killed was an Experiment not created by Lab 14 but he was created by Celestial Labs. The Experiment was stealing children from a nearby town, after the Experiment stole the children, he would assault them and break their bones and eat their flesh.

Derek had to kill the Experiment to save his life and the children that Experiment stole lives as well. Once the Experiment was dead he took the guy's body to Leader Felix. Based on the information Leader Felix was able to gather from Derek's badge Leader Felix passed Derek on the mission. That mission still gives Derek nightmares to this day.

"No wonder why you take your job as protecting me very seriously!" I said.

We were sitting at the kitchen table when Derek told me his story.

"That's the reason why I was so angry when I killed Experiment Rose and all of those other stupid Experiments at that stupid wedding!" Derek growled. "There's no way that I'm going to let that happen again!"

Derek was seething with rage at the very thought of me being harmed at Lab 14. The look on Derek's face was starting to scare me and I just wanted him to calm down. I grabbed the back of Derek's neck and made him kiss me. That seemed to calm him down.

Derek's face softened after that. "Sorry Henry, I just can't stand the thought of people being harmed. It makes my blood boil because of knowing the way you've been harmed growing up at Lab 14."

I put my hand on his knee. "You can't change what happened to me in the past. I'm not concerned about what happens to me. I'm just…"

Derek shook his head. "Don't even think about it Henry. I would think that the vision Ashley showed you would comfort you especially with being in that 'knocked out of your body realm.' But I understand why you're not so sure about things."

Derek stood up and held out his hand. "Come on, take my hand."

"Where are we going?" I asked.

Derek pointed to the bedroom and smiled. "Where do you think we're going? I think we should both keep our minds off of things as much as possible."

I smiled back. "I totally agree with you on that."

* * *

It's dark… Way too dark… I couldn't see anything for a while. I was trying to figure out if I was awake or dreaming. Out of the darkness there was a little bit of light shining on me as if someone had flipped on a light switch. I found myself sitting in a data gathering chair that Lab 14 would use for that. I hated that chair the most because I had lost count on how many times I had been tied up in it. Not only was I tied to the chair, I had a dog collar around my neck as if I were a dog. As I looked in front of me and felt nothing but terror when I saw Cora standing standing there with a smug look and an evil smile on her face.

"Well now Experiment Henry," said Cora, "we're not doing any testing today. I have a surprise for you!"

I gulped because I had no idea what Cora was planning and I was pretty sure I didn't want to know.

"You're engaged now!" Cora chimed. "We're having your wedding today! Just let me adjust your collar so you'll stay put."

"No!" I shrieked. "Let me go! Let me decide for once!"

Cora shook her head. "Nope! Not going to happen! You're my son and you will do what I say!"

"If you're my mother," I said, "then why wouldn't you want me to be happy?"

"That's why you're getting married today and you already proposed to her," Cora said.

"I don't remember proposing to her," I cried, "why would I marry a girl I'm not interested in?"

"Oh you proposed to her because it's an arranged marriage," Cora said. "We have decided on it since the day you were born!"

"But I don't know who she is!" I said.

Cora smiled. "You'll find out soon enough."

The next thing I knew there was a woman standing in front of me in a white dress. I didn't see her face because she had a dark veil on. I felt nothing but horror as the woman pulled my hand closer and slipped the wedding band on my finger.

"No!" I shrieked. "I'm saying no! I don't want to be with her! Let me go!"

"Too late," said Cora, "I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may now kiss your wife!"

"NO!" I shrieked. I pulled on my dog collar trying my hardest to escape but it was of no use. When the woman lifted her veil, I saw two red eyes staring at me. When I woke up I was relieved to see that I had been dreaming.

* * *

When I opened my eyes I was in the tent that Derek and I had set up. I realized that I had been sweating so I went over to my bag and took out a towel and wiped myself off with it. Derek was outside the tent and I could hear him talking to someone. I recognized Leader Felix's voice. Of course Pestcord was in the background asking if he could see me. Thankfully, I heard Derek tell Pestcord hell no that he couldn't see me. Then I heard Derek relay to Leader Felix the next two locations that we would be going after. Derek finished the conversation and came back into the tent frowning at me.

"What's that look for?" I asked.

"I heard you screaming," said Derek, "it started halfway through the call with Leader Felix. Pestcord was asking to see you and even Leader Felix was concerned."

"What was I screaming?" I questioned.

"You kept saying no and let me go over and over again." Derek responded. "Were you having another memory of Lab 14?"

I rubbed the back of my neck and then shook my head. "No, it was actually a nightmare this time."

"What was it about?"

"Cora was trying to force me to marry someone again. I don't get it, if she wants children so bad why doesn't she get it some other way? I mean, she's a scientist! I'm sure there's some other way she can do that."

Derek laughed, "I think Cora's a screw loose or maybe a bunch of screws loose! That's why she loves torturing people I think?"

"No kidding, but I have a feeling Cora will probably try to do something like that again. I will definitely say no and I'll have so much fun wrecking the wedding in the process."

Derek cracked up, "I bet she'll try to take your 'voice box' out again."

I laughed, "Yeah knowing her, she probably will try that."

I had a feeling Cora might try to have me marry some creature that she picks that passes for a woman again. I had no idea how right I was.

* * *

{Experiment Ada}

I had no idea of how stressed out I was at the thought of being married to God Henry when I didn't want to be. I didn't know I was dreaming because I thought I was awake because of what was going on around me.

I was sitting in my room and I had an idea of what was going on. Everyone there was preparing the wedding between me and God Henry.

I heard the excited giggle of Experiment Lydia who was sitting next to me. "Isn't it wonderful Experiment Ada?"

"Huh?" I said in a daze.

"Aww," said Experiment Elena, "you're just nervous because it's your wedding today!"

At this point, I felt nothing but confusion. "Wedding? Who am I marrying? I don't get it."

"Wow, Experiment Ada!" Experiment Lydia said. "I've never seen someone so nervous about their wedding day that they forget who they're marrying. You're getting married to Experiment Henry today!"

Experiment Elena giggled. "And he's quite a catch too! I say you're lucky Head Cora picked you to be his wife. I bet you can't wait for tonight can you?"

I paused. "Excuse me? I don't recall being proposed to. I don't even have an engagement ring from him!"

"Yes you do have an engagement ring!" Experiment Lydia said. She pointed at my hand. I looked down, horrified to see that I had a silver ring with a tiger's eye jewel on it.

Experiment Elena giggled. "Isn't it beautiful? It really brings out the color of your eyes doesn't it?"

Experiment Lydia grinned. "You wanna see what you look like in your wedding dress?"

I was still kind of in a daze and I went from dazed to horrified when I saw what I looked like in my wedding dress. I was wearing a white wedding dress with a brown sash around my waist. The dress came complete with a white veil to cover my face.

Experiment Lydia and Experiment Elena were giggly at seeing me like this. Right after I saw myself in my wedding dress I found myself in darkness. Why that was I had no idea. Finally after what seemed like forever, a light shined on me as if a light switch had been flipped on.

I saw Head Cora standing at a podium and she was motioning for me to walk down the aisle.

"Come on Experiment Ada," said Head Cora, "it's time to start now."

I looked and felt nothing but terror to see that God Henry was standing there with a dog collar around his neck. He looked like he had been trying to scream but Head had his collar so tight I was surprised God Henry could even breathe. I shook my head and refused to walk down the aisle. When I did that, I found that a dog collar had been placed around my neck also. The dog collar was tight around my throat. I clawed at it and tried to get it off me but it was of no use.

Head Cora gave me a dirty look. "If you won't come willingly then I'll just have to pull you to me."

I looked down to see that Head Cora had attached a very long leash attached to my collar. Head Cora tugged on the leash pulling me slowly down the aisle. Before I knew it I was standing in front of God Henry and he looked just as horrified as I was.

Head Cora had a smug look on her face. "Now, Experiment Ada, do you take Experiment Henry to be your husband? And you better say yes if you know what's good for you!"

I wanted to run away from there as fast as I could and I was also looking for a possible way to take God Henry with me. But I was scared silly of Head Cora so I just nodded my head because the dog collar was too tight around my neck for me to speak at the moment.

Head Cora turned to God Henry and said, "Experiment Henry, do you take Experiment Ada to be your wife? And you better say yes."

God Henry refused to say yes so Head Cora tightened his dog collar.

"If you want to be able to breathe again," snarled Head Cora, "I suggest you say yes."

God Henry still refused to say yes even though he couldn't breathe. I admired him for standing up to Head Cora. I wished I could do the same thing.

Head Cora growled, "Experiment Henry, you are the most stubborn experiment that I've ever created! I wouldn't expect anything less from you. But you look like you're turning blue. All you have to do is say one stinking word; it's yes."

God Henry still refused to say yes even in the face of death.

Head Cora sighed and she pleaded with God Henry to say yes. Finally, Head Cora lost her patience with him and did something I thought she would never do to him. Head Cora picked up her gun and fired a bullet into God Henry's chest. His lifeless body dropped to the ground with a loud thud.

I coughed when the dog collar was finally taken off my neck.

Head Cora sighed, "Oh well, we'll have to find another experiment for you to marry. It's a good thing I already did the data gathering on him. I didn't think it would be the last one I would do on him."

Head Cora disappeared and I looked at God Henry's dead body and smiled and said out loud. "That's it! If Experiment Henry's dead, then Head Cora can't hurt him anymore."

That was when I woke up. I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw that I had been dreaming.

* * *

"Dreaming about Experiment Henry, aren't you Experiment Ada?" Head Cora said with a wicked smile.

"Why do you think that Head Cora?" I asked.

"You said Experiment Henry a couple of times in your sleep." Head Cora replied. "I knew you were a good pick for him! You're so eager to marry him, you're stressed out waiting for him to arrive. However, we do need to keep your stress levels under control. I don't want you causing any earthquakes before the wedding."

I nodded.

"Now, I have three new experiments for you to play with before Experiment Henry arrives." Head Cora said. "Are you up for playing today?"

I gulped and then nodded. I would never dare to say no to Head Cora with anything she asked me to do. "Yes, I'm up for it."

"Good," said Head Cora, "now it's time for you to get dressed and go play."

Since Head Cora scared me silly, I didn't refuse. I did as I was told.

8) The Blue Snake of Justice

Author's Note

The reason why this chapter is called The Blue Snake of Justice is because of the ending scene in this chapter. And The Tracker Experiments only pop up one other time in the story which is why the starting scene is being told in third person POV. The rest of the chapter is first person POV.

8) The Blue Snake of Justice

{The Tracker Experiments}

The Tracker Experiments that Cora had sent out after God Henry and God Derek stared at the ground in frustration.

The Girl Experiment One sighed, "At this rate, we'll never find them!"

The Boy Experiment Two nodded. "I know, Head Cora will not be pleased and I don't know how much more patience she has left. It looks like Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek are moving pretty fast, leaving nothing but dust and rubble as they go destroying locations of Lab 14."

All of the Tracker Experiments pointed their fingers from the dead experiment they found and to the ground where God Henry and God Derek's magic strings were.

"Their magic strings connect from this dead experiment to here," The Girl Experiment One said.

"But then they connect over here," The Boy Experiment Two said, pointing in the other direction where God Henry and God Derek's magic strings connected again.

To add to the frustration, the Tracker Experiments couldn't touch God Henry or God Derek's magic string because they were hot to the touch. Their magic strings would burn the Tracker Experiments fingers.

"Darn," said The Girl Experiment One, "too bad we can't touch their magic strings or we would've already found them by now!"

The other Tracker Experiments nodded in agreement.

"I would hate to report this to Head Cora," The Boy Experiment One said.

Right on cue, there was a loud beeping noise that was coming from the Tracker Experiments foreheads. After the beeping noise a holographic screen with Cora's face on it appeared in front of them and she did not look happy.

"Boy Experiments One through Three and Girl Experiments One through Three," said Cora, "have you made any progress in finding Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek?"

The Girl Experiment One shook her head. "We're sorry Head Cora, but we're having trouble finding them. Their magic strings are too hot to the touch which is why we're having trouble finding them."

Cora looked puzzled at first but then she smiled. "Hmmm, interesting. If they have that much power, then Lab 14 will be able to find the cure for death in no time at all! Just tell me whatever information you find and report back to me. I'm signing out now."

After Cora signed off all of the Tracker Experiments exchanged a look.

"Okay," the Girl Experiment One said, "is it just me or did Head Cora respond favorably to our news?"

"She did," the Boy Experiment One said, "I wonder, is she feeling okay?"

The Boy Experiment Two shrugged. "I'd rather have that reaction than yelling."

"In any case," the Girl Experiment One said, "we'd better keep moving. The sooner we find them the better."

The Tracker Experiments nodded and went to pick up where they left off in tracking down God Henry and God Derek.

* * *

{Henry}

I smiled as I was sitting on top of the red moon looking down at the In Between. I was tired of sleeping in a tent especially when it was raining. I heard Derek come through a portal that leads to the red moon. "You just don't want to sleep in a tent don't you?"

I shook my head. "Nope. Sleeping in a tent drives me nuts and not in a good way."

"Have you gotten any sleep at all today?" Derek asked.

I looked away. "Not yet, I'll probably do it after I contact-"

"No Henry," said Derek, cutting me off, "we agreed that was my job. I don't want you to be any more stressed out than what you are now."

"Don't you think you're going a little bit overboard with protecting me?" I said, giving Derek an annoyed look.

Derek chuckled, "Nah, I don't think so. But you should get some sleep. Are you still having bad memories of growing up in Lab 14?"

"Not lately," I responded, "it seems that I've gotten all of my memories back now. I just have a bad dream or two other than that it's a dreamless sleep."

"You don't have any good dreams?" Derek questioned.

I sighed. "No, I guess my brain doesn't want me to have those."

"Wow, you poor thing," said Derek, "you've been through Hell so much that you don't even know what Heaven looks like."

"I guess you could say that."

Derek pulled me onto his lap and held me in his arms. "Henry, you need to sleep."

He put his right hand over my eyes and I felt a small surge of power go through me. After that, I fell asleep.

* * *

{Leader Felix}

I was sitting in my office filling out paperwork on the children the Resistance had recently freed from Lab 14. I was thankful that the Resistance was able to reverse engineer Lab 14's technology so we can take away a child's powers that Lab 14 gave them but only with their consent. As I filled out the paperwork Discord or as God Henry and God Derek like to call him, Pestcord popped up.

I did a facepalm, groaned and pinched the top of my nose to show my irritation with him. "Pestcord! What do you want this time?"

"I was wondering when God Derek was going to call again?" Discord said. "I also wonder why hasn't God Henry contacted us instead? I would love to hear from him. I just want to see if he's okay, especially with the screaming in his sleep he did the last time God Derek called."

I shrugged. "I don't know. You'll have to ask God Derek about that."

The alert on my desk sounded and a holographic screen popped up with God Derek's face on it. I always smiled when God Derek called because it made me happy to see him. "Ah, God Derek! It's so nice to hear from you again."

God Derek smiled. "It's nice to see you, Leader Felix."

"Where are you guys at now?" I asked out of curiosity because it didn't look like God Derek was inside the In Between on the screen.

"We're on top of the red moon," answered God Derek, "Henry's finally asleep right now."

"Where's God Henry, God Derek?" Discord asked. "I just wanna see if he's okay."

"He's right over here," God Derek said. He turned the camera around to show us where God Henry was sleeping.

God Henry was curled up in the fetal position and God Derek had put a pillow under God Henry's head and had covered God Henry with a blanket.

I raised an eyebrow. "You guys are outside of the In Between?"

God Derek nodded. "Uh-huh we're gods now, so we can breathe the air outside of the In Between."

Discord smiled. "And God Henry looks absolutely adorable when he's asleep."

"So what was wrong with God Henry the last time you talked to us?" I asked.

"It was just a bad dream that's all," said God Derek, "I've had to make him go to sleep a couple of times this week. I think he's dreading the day when he faces Cora again."

Discord frowned and looked down at the floor. "Poor thing…"

"Yeah I know," God Derek paused. "Wait a minute... Is Pestcord sad about something?"

"Just because I'm a Demigod doesn't mean I don't have feelings!" Discord snapped. "I also wonder why doesn't God Henry contact us instead?"

"Because me and Henry decided contacting you guys would be my job." God Derek replied. "Henry already has enough on his mind as it is. I don't think he wants to contact you especially if Pestcord is there. And nine times out of ten you, Pestcord are there."

"Hey!" Discord said.

"No you're not Henry's godfather! I swear if you say that one more time Pestcord," scolded God Derek, "I'll let Henry deep fry you for lunch!"

"But I thought you wanted to eat Moria and not me!" Discord said defensively.

"You know I don't mean Henry wants to literally eat you." God Derek snapped. "It's a term to show how much someone gets on Henry's nerves! And you're the number one Demigod that's the definition of annoying! Henry doesn't want to eat Moria because she lives in Equestria now and chases chickens instead of bothering Henry and popping up in the In Between all the time like you do! Which is why you earned the pet name Pestcord!"

I chuckled. "Speaking of Moria, did you hear she put on quite a show for Princess Celestia a couple of weeks ago?"

God Derek smiled. "Yup! Princess Twilight gave us the video footage from it. It must've been really hard for Moria to act like a normal dog. I still can't believe that Princess Celestia would go so far as to assault Royal Family members! She should've shown respect to them, even if Milton, Martin and Jane used to be experiments from Lab 14."

"I agree," I said, "that disrespect should not be tolerated!"

"Yeah," said God Derek, "here are the next three locations we're going after."

God Derek gave me the information I needed to know and I plugged the information in on my portable computer I like to use.

"Until I see you next time, Leader Felix. Goodbye for now," God Derek said.

I nodded. "Yes God Derek."

After the holographic screen disappeared, I looked to see that Discord was upset about something. "What's wrong, Discord?"

"God Derek didn't say goodbye to me!" Discord cried.

I went into a fit of laughter after Discord said that. I regained my composure enough to speak, "Wow Discord! You're upset because someone didn't say goodbye to you? Seriously? Real mature Discord, real mature."

"Hmph!" Discord scoffed. He then snapped his claw and disappeared. Once Discord disappeared I couldn't stop laughing.

* * *

{Henry}

The next time I found myself dreaming, I was in some sort of weird place. Or at least I thought it was a place, but everywhere I looked there was nothing but darkness. "Where the heck am I?

I looked around and tried to figure out where I was. When I couldn't figure out where I was, I panicked.

"Hello!" I called out. "Is anyone there?"

When I called for someone, my voice echoed back at me. So I sat down feeling nothing but confusion about this. Finally, after a while, I heard a voice call out to me. "God Henry… Hello God Henry."

I tried to figure out where the voice came from but this made me even more confused. Then I heard what sounded like a mix between a laugh and a snake hiss.

"Okay," I said, "wherever I am, I want out and I want to go home!"

I heard that strange laugh again.

"Okay then..." I said.

"Sorry for such a slow introduction," the voice said, "but just look down in front of you so I don't have to raise my head up any further. So it will be easy for you to see me."

I looked down to see that there was a blue snake with black tiger stripes going up and down its body. I looked at its head to see beady little black eyes staring at me and the snake also had flaps on the sides of its head. The snake bobbed its head up and down and I can only assume that was the way it acted normally.

I blinked. "Who are you? What are you?"

The Snake laughed. "I am the Blue Snake of Justice."

"Uh, Blue Snake of Justice?" I asked.

The Snaked laughed again, "I'll repeat myself since you are my owner and all. I am the Blue Snake of Justice, or you can call me Tiger Stripes for short. It works because I have tiger stripes going up and down my body."

I tilted my head. "Okay, am I dreaming?"

"In a sense you are," said Tiger Stripes, "in another sense you aren't."

"Come again?" I asked.

"You're inside your own subconscious," explained Tiger Stripes, "that's why in a sense you're dreaming. But this also isn't a dream for the same reason God Henry."

"I'm not following you Tiger Stripes," I said.

Tiger Stripes laughed, "The reason why this isn't a dream is because we are inside your subconscious. This is where I live inside of you. This is because you created me!"

"Why did I create a snake?" I asked. "I thought if I was going to create something it would be a bunny rabbit or something other than a snake."

Tiger Stripes found that statement funny because he snorted. "Do you think that a bunny or some sort of other creature would have been effective for carrying out justice? In case you're wondering, I am a he. I don't think you have the capability to create a female creature considering the hell you've been through because of females. But you should know, not all females are bad."

"Yeah I know," I said, "but sane females are few and far in between. So exactly why did I create you?"

Tiger Stripes stuck out his black tongue that matched the color of his eyes. "You created me to serve justice to those that deserve it. The way I do it is by killing the person that needs to be killed. I eat their soul and body and send them to the Downward where they belong."

I gave Tiger Stripes a puzzled look. "Okay, so how do you know that a person deserves to be brought to justice?"

"Remember the powers you have that can detect problems that pop up in the In Between?"

I nodded. "Yes."

"I enhance that power and can see through a person's eyes and inside their soul. With that, I can tell if someone needs to be eaten. I will inform you of this and then I will sit back and let you decide."

"So if I created you then why haven't I seen you outside of my dreams?" I asked.

"Oh that," replied Tiger Stripes, "I haven't fully connected with you yet. Before, you were just developing me. So to make it official, all you have to do is point your index finger to touch my tongue. Then I will travel up your arm and into your head. Of course you will be able to talk to me in your sleep, that is, only if you wish to."

"Okay."

Tiger Stripes bobbed his head up and down. "Well? Do you want to make me official? Or do you want to turn me into something else?"

I thought about it. Though I did think Tiger Stripes was strange looking, at the same time I thought it was cool that I created a snake to help serve justice to people.

I nodded. "Sure Tiger Stripes, I'll connect with you."

I did exactly what Tiger Stripes told me to. I touched my index finger to his tongue and Tiger Stripes did what he said he was going to do.

He traveled up my arm and it felt like my skin was boiling. I looked at my arm to see boils on it. I didn't know which was worse, the time I got my voice box put back in or this. When Tiger Stripes finally reached my head, I felt a pressure behind my eyes. That was when I woke up.

9) My Desire of Justice

{Henry}

When I woke up I found that I was still on the red moon where I had been sleeping before. Derek had put a pillow underneath my head and covered me up with a blanket.

I sat up and just sat there in a daze about what happened in my sort of sleep where I met Tiger Stripes.

"You okay Henry?" Derek asked.

Even though I wasn't sure if I was ok I nodded. I felt more confused about what happened with Tiger Stripes more than anything at the moment.

Derek raised an eyebrow. "You sure about that? You don't look like you're okay. You seem confused about something."

"Am I that obvious?" I asked.

Derek nodded and laughed. "Oh yeah, you couldn't hide your feelings from me even if you wanted to."

"Oh."

"What are you confused about?"

"I'm not sure if I was actually dreaming," I explained, "apparently I was in my subconscious and I created a snake that called himself The Blue Snake of Justice. But he preferred to go by Tiger Stripes for short."

Then I heard Tiger Stripes laughing, "Master God Henry?"

Derek backed away from me in surprise. "Am I delusional or is there a strange voice coming from you?"

I shook my head. "That's not my voice. If I didn't know any better, I'd say that's Tiger Stripes voice."

"Master God Henry," said Tiger Stripes, "may I come out and meet your soon to be husband God Derek?"

"Sure," I said.

When Tiger Stripes came out of me, it didn't hurt like it did when he connected with me.

Derek stood there looking at Tiger Stripes in awe and curiosity. "Henry created you?"

"Yup!" Tiger Stripes responded. "Just think of me as you and Master God Henry's assistant. I will help you take evil souls to the Downward for punishment or sometimes I'll eat them and they'll stay inside my belly. A god can create a spirit animal if The Grand God Council allows for it to happen. And other gods from different universes can request this from you through The Grand God Council but only if it's necessary and only if a God's subconscious agrees with it. Since Master God Henry's soul desired to bring justice to those that deserve it, he agreed to this and I was created. Now if you two want an actual Demigod Assistant, then you'll have to go directly to The Grand God Council and ask for that yourselves."

I shook my head rapidly. "Hell no, that's how Pestcord came about, yeah no thanks!"

Derek snorted. "Yeah no kidding!"

Tiger Stripes cocked his head to the side and looked like he was debating about something. "God Derek?"

"Yes, Tiger Stripes?" Derek replied.

"Would you like to connect to me too?" Tiger Stripes asked.

Derek tilted his head and had a puzzled look. "Connect?"

"Why yes," said Tiger Stripes, "if I'm connected to you then I can do your bidding just like I can do for Master God Henry. In case you're wondering how I can do that, I can do this."

Tiger Stripes split himself in two effectively cloning himself. Derek smiled, looked at Tiger Stripes, and nodded. "Sure, how do I do it?"

"Just touch your index finger to my tongue and I will travel up to your head," Tiger Stripes answered.

Derek nodded and Tiger Stripes did exactly what he said he was going to do. Just as it happened with me when Tiger Stripes traveled up Derek's arm, it looked painful because of the boils that went up Derek's arms as Tiger Stripes was traveling up it. After Tiger Stripes went to Derek's head, Derek passed out.

* * *

I held Derek in my arms while he was passed out. About an hour passed and I was starting to get worried and it seemed that Tiger Stripes picked up on it.

"Don't worry Master God Henry," Tiger Stripes said reassuringly. "God Derek will be waking up right about now."

Derek finally opened his eyes, sat up, and shook his head. "Man that hurt! Why did it have to be so painful?"

"Don't know," said Tiger Stripes, "I suspect it has something to do with how strong of a desire Master God Henry has for justice. Maybe that's why? I completely understand because of what Master God Henry has been through in his life."

Derek blinked. "Huh, that makes sense to me! Now if the double vision would go away that would be nice."

Tiger Stripes laughed, "You just need to rest for a little bit and the double vision will disappear."

"How long do I need to rest?" Derek queried.

"You should rest for at least an hour," answered Tiger Stripes, "if I were you, I'd stay here on the red moon until you're finished resting. It's a good thing you made sure to pick up and take your camp with you God Derek."

"Yeah because knowing Cora," said Derek, "she'll send Tracker Experiments after us again."

Tiger Stripes bobbed his head up and down and it looked like this was his way of agreeing with Derek.

Derek looked at me. "Henry, would you do me a favor and use your powers to knock me out like I do for you if you need it?"

I nodded. "Sure I can do that."

So I made Derek fall asleep and I kept holding him in my arms as I waited for him to wake up.

* * *

{Experiment Ada}

I walked with Head Cora down the cold dark hallway to the entrance of a cave that I knew all too well. I stayed here a lot growing up in Lab 14. This cave was a place where Head Cora would tie several experiments up to poles and make me 'play' with them. I had to do this in order to keep my powers under control and I still have to do it. I hate this stupid cave!

Head Cora started having me play in this cave right after she made me have sex with God Henry against his will. I remembered that horrified look on God Henry's face when it happened. The rumor that was going around Lab 14 shortly after that if God Henry wouldn't do something that Head Cora wanted of him, another experiment would get killed and no one knew why.

I walked with Head Cora to the middle of the cave even though I wasn't really in the mood for playing today. But because I was scared silly of Head Cora, I would do what she wanted me to do.

"How long do I have to stay here this time, Head Cora?" I asked.

Head Cora rolled her eyes and said with annoyance, "I think you already know the answer to that question, Experiment Ada. You'll stay here until you're finished playing with them. Look, they're already set up for you. They look terrified, isn't that the way you like them?"

I stopped in my tracks when I saw an experiment that reminded me of God Henry. The experiment didn't have a shirt on or shoes, he was only wearing blue jeans. He looked at me with nothing but fear in his face.

"Head Cora?" I said.

"Yes, Experiment Ada?" Head Cora said.

"What if I'm not in the mood to play with this one today?" I pointed at the experiment in front of me.

Head Cora gave me a sinister laugh, "What kind of silly question is that? I would think you'd want to play with all of them. Especially this one in front of you. He looks absolutely terrified. Unless, he reminds you of Experiment Henry, hmm? This experiment looks nothing like Experiment Henry. Experiment Henry has brown hair and this one has blonde hair and brown eyes."

"Does he have a name?" I asked.

Head Cora shook her head. "Nope, these experiments I made for you to play with. They don't need names because they're going to die soon anyway. But if you must call him by something, call him Experiment 1-D2. Does that satisfy you?"

I nodded. "Yes Head Cora."

Head Cora smiled. "Good. As I said before, I don't want you causing any earthquakes before Experiment Henry arrives. I don't want a repeat of the last one you did fifteen years ago."

I couldn't look Head Cora in the eyes at that comment. So I just looked down at the floor. Head Cora seemed satisfied with my reaction because she nodded, turned and left me to play in this stupid cave.

* * *

{The Shadows of the Downward}

The Downward is a place where no god or evil soul in general would want to go. It's a cold dark place. The Grand God Council used and still uses this place to punish gods that didn't do their jobs.

The Downward consisted of six different sections and each section was worse than the last. Every section in the Downward had dungeons that housed different gods depending on the crime they committed. The sixth section which was the worst section of the Downward. It was reserved for gods who let their universe die. This section was basically a frozen wasteland. The cold in this wasteland was unbearable and gods wouldn't be able to cope with it so much so that the gods being punished there would actually freeze. The gods wouldn't freeze to death because you can't kill a god. However, when the rulers of the Downward would see that a god had been frozen they would take them to a section of the Downward that was warmer to unthaw them. Once the rulers of the Downward saw the god that froze had been unthawed, they would take that god back to the section of the Downward where they were being punished.

The first section of the Downward was the mildest section for a god to be punished in. The rulers of the Downward were three Shadows. Their names are Stanley, Raja and Lamb. Gods that are being punished in the Downward can't not actually see what the Shadows of the Downward look like. What the rulers looked like to the gods being punished; they looked like shadows.

The Shadows of the Downward also used mirrors to watch the different sections of the Downward. The main section that the Shadows of the Downward that they like to reside in was the first section.

The Shadows of the Downward were talking about how to retrieve a god that had escaped to another place that was worse than the Downward called the Underneath. The god that ruled over the Underneath his name was the Dark. None of the Shadows knew the Dark's real name but they did know that he was the definition of the word evil. The Dark's wife, whose name was Minnie, had given birth to a baby girl over a century ago. The Dark and Minnie named their child Venom.

Since the Downward and the Underneath were considered universes the gods that ruled the Downward and the gods that ruled over the Underneath agreed that they would never cross paths with each other. With that being said, the Dark and his wife Minnie kept Venom from going outside of the Underneath.

The Shadows knew that Venom told her parents that she yearned to see what the outside world looked like. She became complacent about her lot in life when she should have been grateful. One day Venom's parents noticed she was missing but the Shadows knew exactly where Venom was. They couldn't retrieve Venom themselves because of where she went.

Venom had found a young child named Axe and she was living inside of him and that's how Venom was able to escape the Underneath.

When the Dark and his wife found that Venom was missing they sounded the alarm and sent out a search party for her. But by the time they found where Venom was, it was too late. Venom was inside the young child and there was no way to retrieve her.

Venom was proving to be a tricky god to find and capture because it seemed that every time that she was inside a body and the body died she would move on to the next body. The body that Venom currently resided in, was a woman named Cora who ran a lab called Lab 14.

The Shadows of the Downward hatched a plan to retrieve Venom. They asked The Grand Council to help God Henry's subconscious create a spirit animal one that could bring gods like Venom back to the Downward. The spirit animal that God Henry wound up creating was a snake called The Blue Snake of Justice or Tiger Stripes for short.

Today was just like any other day in the Downward. The three Shadows Stanley, Raja and Lamb were talking excitedly among themselves about God Henry creating Tiger Stripes.

"I'm so happy that God Henry created Tiger Stripes! Now we can have Venom back home where she belongs," Stanley chimed.

Raja nodded. "Thankfully, the Dark and his wife Minnie have agreed to punish Venom once she is returned home. It's too bad we can't let Venom stay inside Tiger Stripes belly, but that type of punishment would just be a slap on the wrist."

Lamb agreed. "I know, besides if Venom stayed inside Tiger Stripes for too long it would upset his stomach."

All three of the Shadows laughed at that thought.

"Not to mention," said Stanley, "Cora will have to be punished too. Given the evil that is inside Cora's heart and Cora unknowingly must've made some sort of deal with Venom for Venom to be able to reside so long inside of her."

"Who knows what that deal was that Cora made with Venom," Raja said with a disgusted look on her face.

"But because Cora's soul is just as dark and evil as Venom's it makes sense that Venom would pick Cora's body to reside in," Lamb said.

"I wonder what punishment the Dark and Minnie will give Venom and Cora?" Raja pondered.

Lamb shuddered as if he had a chill go down his spine. "I have no idea, and I sure don't want to find out! The Dark and Minnie will probably have some sort of creative punishment for Cora and Venom. They have their ways of punishing souls that go to them to be punished."

Raja gulped. "One second thought, I don't want to find out what punishment the Dark and Minnie will give to Venom and Cora either!"

Stanley nodded. "That makes three of us! I don't even want to think about what kind of punishment the Dark and his wife will give to Venom once she returns home."

Lamb closed the discussion by saying, "Well, all we can do right now is sit back and wait. . ."

Author's Note

Okay, I was going to leave that last scene out at first, but then I felt the need to keep it in because another new character will be popping up as a supporting Villain. You'll see in the next couple of chapters what I mean. So I kept it because that way when this character pops up readers won't be confused about it or surprised.

10) Why Her Heart is Dark

{Henry}

I didn't realize that I was dreaming until I woke up. But before I woke up my dream started out with me chasing after a butterfly. I was laughing as I was running after it. When I finally caught up to it, I held out my hand and it landed on my finger. The butterfly flapped its wings as it sat on my finger.

I laughed, "Well hey there little one, you could land anywhere you wanted but you chose to land on my finger."

The butterfly flapped its wings again and flew off. I started to chase after it but stopped when it disappeared. I looked to see Tiger Stripes laughing at me.

"Why are you laughing at me, Tiger Stripes?" I asked.

"I'm laughing," said Tiger Stripes, "because God Derek and I were able to combine our powers to help you have a good dream finally. Just look at yourself sleeping peacefully."

Tiger Stripes showed me what I look like sleeping. I actually looked like I was sleeping soundly. Derek was watching me with a grin on his face. He had put a pillow underneath my head and covered me up with a blanket. He wasn't doing anything else, he was just sitting there watching over me and that was it.

Tiger Stripes laughed, "Finally, we were able to help you see what Heaven looks like."

"Huh," I said with a small smile. "I was chasing a butterfly earlier and that was it."

"It's not much but it's a start." Tiger Stripes said. "God Derek and I are trying to trigger your brain for more happy dreams in the future. It might take a while for that to happen on its own. We suspect that your good dreams will be few and far in between. But I do have a feeling once Lab 14 is destroyed and Cora is killed, then you just might have more happy dreams."

I agreed, "Yeah you're probably right on that, I just might not rest easy until that witch is dead."

Tiger Stripes bobbed his head up and down and laughed, "We figured as much, it's time for you to wake up now."

"How do you know I'm getting ready to wake up?" I asked.

"I can just tell," said Tiger Stripes, "see you in the real world."

Tiger Stripes faded away and that's when I woke up.

* * *

I opened my eyes and looked over to see Derek smiling at me.

"It's about time you slept peacefully!" Derek said. "Sleeping soundly is one thing but sleeping peacefully, that's even better. Keeping you asleep is a full time job on its own. But I don't mind doing it either way. It is fun doing things to you but giving you a good dream is much better for a change."

I smiled, "Uh-huh." Then I teased, "Too I don't dream about us having sex all the time like you do. Or that wouldn't have to happen."

I laughed at Derek's reaction because he blushed and looked away. He looked back at me. "So what were you dreaming about?"

"I was just chasing a butterfly and it landed on my finger." I answered. "It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I never saw anything like that growing up at Lab 14."

"Oh I see," Derek said.

"May I make a request Master God Henry?" Tiger Stripes asked.

"What is it?" I responded.

"Can you and God Derek figure out another pet name for Cora instead of Serpenta?" Tiger Stripes asked.

I titled my head, "Why?"

"It's offensive to every snake alive that's not evil," Tiger Stripes said.

I snorted, "Sure okay."

Derek perked up. "I have an idea."

"What?" I said.

"Have you ever seen spiders before?" Derek asked.

I gulped when Derek said that because Cora found it very entertaining torture me was to put a spider underneath my pillow sometimes and she would laugh when I woke up screaming after getting bit by it.

Derek gave me a look of concern. "What's wrong Henry?"

"I've seen spiders before alright," I growled, "especially the big ugly hairy ones! Cora would place a spider underneath my pillow sometimes and then she would laugh when I woke up screaming when it bit me."

Derek snarled, "Why that evil little-" He paused. "That's it!"

"What's it?" I said.

"How about we call her Spider Witch?" Derek said.

I laughed, "That's a good pet name for her. Although that might be offensive to the spider's that are alive that aren't evil too. Actually, naming Cora after any animal would probably be offensive anyway."

Me, Derek and Tiger Stripes had a good laugh at that thought.

* * *

{Derek}

As I watched Henry sleep, I couldn't help but feel angry about everything Cora put him through while he was growing up at Lab 14. Henry is so traumatized by that woman that he can't even have a good dream. If he's not having a memory then it's a nightmare. The very fact that Henry had never seen a real life butterfly before just fueled my anger.

No one deserves to go through the crap Henry went through growing up. I wouldn't wish what Henry went through on my worst enemy. I take that back, I would wish for that to happen with Cora.

I frowned when I saw that Henry was starting to have another nightmare. Every time Henry starts having a nightmare there's nothing I can do to stop it. All I could do was let the dream run its course.

Henry started screaming, "Let him go Cora! I did what you wanted me to do! Stop! Please stop!"

All I could think to do was hold Henry in my arms and hope the screaming would stop soon. After a minute or two which felt like forever Henry's screaming finally stopped. I used my magic to make sure that the nightmare wouldn't start up again and I would do this to make sure that Henry got his two hours of sleep needed for the day. So far Henry had only been asleep for a half hour. Even though I was happy to help Henry stay asleep, it was a job on its own.

While Henry was dreading the day he would have to face Cora again, I was looking forward to it. True, I would get knocked out of my body by getting shot in the head. It scared Henry because of that. I would think that Henry would be comforted by the fact that you can't kill god. But unfortunately even knowing this didn't bring him any comfort. It comforted me though because I knew there would finally come a day that Cora would die.

* * *

{Cora}

I smiled when I woke up to start another day as Head of Lab 14. I got out of bed and got undressed and took a shower. Then I got dressed in my work clothes and the thing I was most proud of about my work clothes was my scientist white robe that said Lab 14 on the right side of it. Above the words Lab 14 was Head Cora.

I stood looking at myself in the mirror and gave the same sinister smile that I would give my experiments before I started torturing them.

"Well hello there Cora!" I snickered at my reflection. "You're looking as evil as ever! Ready to do some damage today?"

I heard a moan that didn't come from me and was puzzled because there was no one else in the bathroom with me. I jumped when I looked at the mirror and didn't see my reflection. Instead of seeing my black hair with blonde highlights and grey eyes, I saw someone else staring back at me. The woman had brown hair and blue eyes.

"Hello there Cora!" The woman said.

I blinked. "Why am I seeing another woman in my mirror? I know I didn't have that much to drink the other day!"

The woman laughed a laugh that sent chills down my spine. I wasn't sure why I was so scared of the woman in my mirror but I know evil when I see it. This woman was even more evil than I was.

"I figured since I'm the one making your heart so evil," said the woman, "I should finally introduce myself. My name is Venom. And I'm a god's daughter and I'm from an evil place called the Underneath."

"Why would I need someone to help me be so evil?" I snapped. "No one's looked out for me growing up. So I only look out for myself. No one's free from harm when I'm around!"

Venom laughed, "You deny the fact that your heart does have some kindness in it. Why do you think you drink everyday? It's to deal with the pain you put your experiments under. Especially the one who you view has your son Experiment Henry? And why won't you acknowledge that Experiment Henry is a god now?"

"That's because he's an experiment!" I growled. "There's no way I'm calling a lab rat a god!"

Venom laughed a dark cold-blooded laugh, "Oh? You are in complete denial Cora. It's laughable really it is! Your drinking has intensified lately especially once Experiment Henry was announced as God Henry didn't it?"

I racked my brain only to realize that what Venom just said was true.

Venom gave me a sinister smile that topped mine. Not only was her laugh sinister, her stare was blank and lifeless. "Deep down inside you want to call Experiment Henry, God Henry and you know it! But I won't let you. Do you want to know why?"

Even though I was curious, I wasn't sure if I wanted to know what Venom was going to say next.

"Because you made a deal with me before you came to Lab 14," explained Venom, "your soul told me that I could stay in your body and in return I will keep your heart dark. It's been working like a charm so far. It's been a little bit difficult lately but not by much. I've been helping you control your emotions. I won't let you call Experiment Henry, God Henry as long as I'm alive and living inside of you. Got it?"

I was never afraid of anything before and now I've found something or in this case, someone to be afraid of. Venom was probably the most terrifying person I've ever come across. All I could do at the moment was nod my head in response.

"Good," said Venom, "now do me a favor and go do some damage for me today hmm? I'll be watching you and I will see if you're becoming kind and I will get rid of your kindness. Time for you to go raise some hell for me, goodbye for now."

When Venom's reflection disappeared and mine reappeared, I had half a mind to call off work today. But I knew I couldn't do that because I knew I had things that were very important. I also knew that because Venom was inside of me, I couldn't stop being evil even if I didn't want to.

* * *

{The Lord God Supreme}

I was sitting in my chambers using my crystal to watch God Henry and God Derek like I normally would do on my days off. It made me curious because I wanted to see how well the job of destroying Lab 14 was coming along. Ever since God Henry and God Derek came on the scene I've been fascinated with them. God Henry and God Derek are the two most unique gods I have ever seen!

I got a knock on the door and it was God One standing there and he looked frantic.

I frowned. "God One, what's the problem?"

"There's been a messenger sent from the Underneath! The Dark and his wife Minnie want to confirm their decision on what they want to do with their daughter Venom." God One replied. "Their decision also has to do with Cora, the person Venom is living in now."

"Okay then," I said, "tell the messenger I'll be right out. That dark creature will not be allowed in my chambers!"

"Yes, Your Highness." God One said. He gave a short bow, turned around and left.

* * *

I left my chambers and greeted the messenger from the Underneath. I let her stop bowing and she stood up and looked at me. I could tell by the horrified look on her face that she was afraid of me.

"I hear The Dark and Minnie have reached a decision about Venom?" I asked.

"Y-yes, your highness," the messenger stammered, "my L-Lord…"

The messenger couldn't look me in the eye as she handed me a scroll with the message in it. I opened the message and smiled when I read it. I took a quill and signed the scroll, and put my stamp of approval on it. "Well then, I agree with their decision, there is a right that needs to be done in order to correct a wrong."

When I handed the messenger back the scroll that the message was on, the messenger left the room.

* * *

{Princess Twilight}

"Is there anything we can do mom?" Martin said.

I know a look of concern when I see it and I could see it in Martin, Milton and Jane's faces. They were probably worried because I was pacing back and forth trying to figure out if I covered everything on my checklist. That's because of what I was planning for God Henry and God Derek. I had thrown homecoming parties for Milton, Jane, Martin, Sarah and Aria once they were returned home to Equestria. I've been wanting to do this party for God Henry and God Derek forever, ever since I heard they got announced as the rulers of the In Between.

This has got to be perfect, this has got to be perfect. I kept thinking and there was no way I was going to allow any screw ups. Nope, no screw ups! Not one, even down to the very last piece of confetti from Pinkie Pie's party cannon was going to be screwed up, not on my watch!

"Let's see here," said Spike, "finish parade floats one, two and three, check!"

I smiled and nodded, "Good!"

I looked over to see Milton, Martin and Jane's worried looks turn into smiles. I could tell they were ready to burst into laughter because of my obsession with checklists. They knew exactly what Spike was going to say next. "Okay, double check the checklist after completing the checklist. Check!"

I smiled as Milton, Martin and Jane burst into laughter just like I thought they would.

"Okay, okay you guys," I laughed, "yes I know I have an obsession with checklists. Even though it is pretty funny, I just want to make sure everything is perfect!"

Milton chuckled, "I'm sure everything will be fine mom."

I returned Milton's smile but I wasn't about to let anything slip through the cracks. I wanted everything to be perfect. It would be perfect if I had something to say about it and I did.

11) God Henry from Zero to Hero

{Henry}

Derek and I were finally able to pay a visit to Resistance HQ, Leader Felix and Spike took us by surprise by blind folding us.

"What's this all about Spike?" I asked. "Cause if you're going to tie me down to something, I'm escaping and I'm not coming back!"

"Oh come now God Henry," said Spike, "we would never do that to you! You know, with knowing the crap you went through growing up at Lab 14. Princess Twilight has a surprise for you. It's something she's been wanting to do for a long time now. She had a party for her children last year and now it's your turn!"

"Uh, excuse me?" Derek said.

Leader Felix chuckled, "God Derek have I ever tried to harm you in any type of way?"

Derek shook his head. "No, I'm just confused. Why are we blind folded again?"

"You'll see!" Leader Felix and Spike said with excitement.

As Leader Felix and Spike took us to wherever we were going to, we heard music playing off in the distance. Leader Felix and Spike had us stop right when we got close to the music playing. They took out blind folds off and our jaws dropped. There was a huge crowd of people and ponies cheering for us.

Derek and I jumped about a foot in the air because there were two trumpet players and they were playing some weird tune.

"Any clue what's going on Derek?" I asked.

Derek shook his head. "Nope, I have no idea."

One of the trumpet players stood in front of us and made a loud and clear announcement. "Announcing the arrival of our royal highness the rulers of the In Between, God Henry and God Derek!"

"'Hurray!" The crowd cheered.

I looked at Derek utterly confused. "Uh, Derek?"

"Don't look at me!" Derek said. "I didn't do anything!"

The crowd parted and Princess Twilight came up to us smiling. I was even more confused when she bowed to us.

"Okay," said Derek, "either I'm dreaming or is this an alternate reality."

"Yup," I said, "I totally agree."

Princess Twilight giggled after she stopped bowing to us. "I can tell by the looks on your faces that you're completely confused. This is a party celebrating you two! Don't you think it's about time we had a party for you that's not on your birthdays?"

I felt even more confused and Derek looked like he felt the same way. Princess Twilight laughed and I heard a high-pitched voice that belonged to my Aunt Pinkie Pie say, "And this party is all thanks to me! Your Auntie Pinkie Pie Party Planner Extraordinaire!"

I looked at Aunt Pinkie Pie and rolled my eyes at her. Derek found my reaction funny.

"I'm so proud!" Aunt Pinkie Pie cheered.

I rolled my eyes. "Of course you are."

Derek and I jumped a foot in the air when Aunt Pinkie Pie's party cannon went off.

"Okay guys," Spike cheered, "let's party!"

The crowd cheered again and I started to relax after a while because the only thing I was dealing with at the moment was a party.

* * *

It was the day after the party Princess Twilight held for us and we decided to ask Aunt Apple Bloom and Uncle Big Mac over for a visit. They were happy to come over. After we ate dinner, Aunt Apple Bloom seemed excited about something. Uncle Big Mac seemed to join in on her excitement.

"Okay," I said, "what's with the excitement about?"

Derek saw this, he perked up, "You'll see."

Aunt Apple Bloom went into her room and brought a medium-sized box with a ribbon tied into a bow wrapped around it. "This is something I've been wanting to give to you ever since you came back to Equestria. But I kept chickening out on giving it to you."

She slid the box across the table to me. I opened it to see that inside was a rope that looked a lot like it could be used as a whip. I tilted my head. "What's this?"

"It was Applejack's when she was alive," answered Aunt Apple Bloom, "I call it her 'Heroes Rope'. She used it many times while saving Equestria along with the other Elements of Harmony bearers! She didn't use it when she went to save you from Lab 14. I think that's what led to her downfall. Just like your music box, I think it should bring you good luck! It will definitely help with your job destroying Lab 14!"

Uncle Big Mac nodded and said his signature word, "Eeyup!"

"Exactly how am I going to-" I said.

"I already thought about that," said Aunt Apple Bloom, "Big Mac and I made a special belt so you can hook it onto it and pull it out when you need it. Here, take it!"

I took the rope and belt and put them on.

Aunt Apple Bloom smiled, "Now you really look like Applejack's son!"

"Eeeyup!" Uncle Big Mac said.

I laughed, "Is that all you can say Uncle Big Mac?"

"Eeyup!" Uncle Big Mac said.

Good thing I was sitting down I was laughing so hard that Aunt Apple Bloom and Derek joined in.

"Well," said Aunt Apple Bloom, "Big Mac and I will be leaving first thing in the morning. We gotta make sure Moria doesn't eat all of the chickens."

Derek and I nodded. Aunt Apple Bloom and Uncle Big Mac said their goodbyes because Derek and I had no idea when we would see them again.

* * *

{Agent Rarity}

I was to be finally able to get back to Ponyville to jump start my fashion empire again. Now I could drop the word 'Agent' from my name and just go by Rarity. It made me happy and surprised when I found that all of the kids that were traveling in Group A were all royalty now. So the titles changed from 'Experiment' to 'Prince' or 'Princess'. Experiment Sarah and Experiment Aria are now Princess Sarah and Princess Aria because they're married. Experiment Milton and Experiment Martin turned out to be Princess Twilight's twin boys Yellow Strom and Cloud Sweeper, they are now known as Prince Milton and Prince Martin and in a weird twist Prince Martin had married Discord's daughter Experiment Jane who is now Princess Jane.

Experiment Henry who turned out to be Applejack and Rainbow Dash's son and Princess Sarah was Applejack and Rainbow Dash's daughter. Experiment Henry's original name was actually Crimson. He was recently announced as a god and one of the rulers over the In Between. He is now being referred to as God Henry. He is also soon to be married to his co- ruler God Derek. God Henry and God Derek would be the ones that would kill that awful witch Cora who runs Lab 14.

I was very happy to be back at my boutique and not at Lab 14. Once I took down the boards that said the boutique was closed; I started going around cleaning up the place. I also started cleaning out the attic, and out my most treasured items. Lighting up my horn I smiled as I opened a box. Inside of the box were pictures of Applejack and Rainbow Dash along with the rest of the family.

"Well hello there my most treasured items!" I said to myself. "So nice to see you again!"

After I cleaned out the attic I took out of the box the pictures and placed them thoughtfully around the boutique. I was in the middle of moving from room to room cleaning and making sure everything was perfectly set up. Then the doorbell rang.

I was very excited when I opened the door and saw my sister Sweetie Belle all grown up and dressed like a rock star. That's because Sweetie Belle was a rock star. Her stage name was Bellea and she had been going in between nationwide tours all throughout Equestria. Sweetie Belle would even help me come up with names for my new fashion lines every once and awhile.

"Sweetie Belle!" I said, giving Sweetie Belle a hug. "I can't believe I finally get to see you again!"

"Yeah Rarity," said Sweetie Belle, "I take it your rescue mission to save the children was a success?"

"Oh yes it was," I said, "but I wasn't the one that rescued them. It was a chain of events that helped the children rescue themselves!"

"Oh that's right," said Sweetie Belle, "I heard all of the kids in the family are royalty now thanks to a god! And one of the children is Discord's daughter. I feel sorry for that child."

I almost fell over laughing at the thought of Discord having a daughter. I hated to think of the mental health effects on being Discord's daughter would be just as bad as having the effects of growing up at Lab 14. "I totally agree Crimson grew up to be a fine young man and he goes by the name Henry now. So he's the one that's called God Henry."

"Wait a second!" Sweetie Belle said after her jaw dropped. "Crimson is God Henry?"

I nodded and said with pride. "Why yes darling! I know I didn't believe it either. He would've been a stallion by now but Lab 14 stole him from his crib and changed him into a human."

Sweetie Belle gasped, "That's horrible!"

"Yes it is, but he's finally out of that dreadful place. I wish him well now," I said.

Sweetie Belle then looked like she remembered something. She went outside and brought back my pet cat named Opal. I felt nothing but joy when I saw her. "Opal!"

During my cleaning of the boutique I had found Opal's favorite toy and I gave it to her when Opal came out of her cage. Opal went straight for her toy and purred as she played with it.

"I had forgotten about what Opal's favorite toy was!" Sweetie Belle said. "It seems she remembers it."

Opal purred again as I petted her. Opal then proceeded to rub up against my leg as a sign of affection for me.

"It seems Opal remembers me too," I giggled, "I'm surprised because we've been separated for over a year now."

Sweetie Belle laughed, "Yeah I know. But trying to make sure to save the family's children from that awful place called Lab 14 is a noble cause to leave your pet."

"Yup," I said, "and Opals a proper cat. Unlike those disgusting tracker cats I had to work with."

Sweetie Belle tilted her head. "Tracker Cats?"

I sighed and looked away. "Cora has cats called Tracker Cats; they track down an Experiment that's escaped from Lab 14 and returns them to Lab 14. Those cats are barbarians, they pooped right where they just ate and cleaned themselves there at the same time! Yuck!"

Sweetie Belle gagged, "Yuck indeed!"

"It's okay Sweetie Belle," I said, "I took care of those Tracker Cats."

"What did you do to them?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Let's just say they won't be around to bother anyone anymore!" I declared.

"Well okay Rarity," said Sweetie Belle, "I have to go. My next concert is in Manehattan tomorrow."

With that, Sweetie Belle gave me a hug. When Sweetie Belle left, I smiled at Opal as she played with her toy. I knew that since I couldn't stab Cora in the back myself, it comforted me knowing that God Henry would stab Cora in the back for me.

* * *

{The Lord God Supreme}

The other gods on The Grand God Council and I were in a very special place behind a waterfall. It's not a place that an evil villain would hideout. It's a magical place where gods of all shapes and sizes come to get married. As soon as we found out that God Henry and God Derek were engaged we quickly started making preparation in this place for their wedding.

I can't speak for the other gods on The Grand God Council but I felt nothing but pure excitement at the time being. I had never seen a love as strong as God Henry and God Derek's love for each other. They are truly the most unique gods I have ever seen come about!

"Is everything ready Spike?" I asked.

Spike chuckled, "Almost, let's see check, check and check!"

I chuckled because I knew about Princess Twilight's obsession with checklists. "Don't worry Spike. If you say it's done then it's done."

Spike snorted, "Yup, good thing you're not Princess Twilight. She would be a mess about double checking everything! She's such a perfectionist that if she were announced as a god she would need help. Not a demigod assistant help, if you know what I mean."

I snorted and laughed so hard it gave me hiccups. "I'm glad I asked you here to help out."

Spike smiled and nodded. "Yes, I'm happy to plan my godson's wedding. Which is funny because he's an actual god now."

I said, "Yup, and it'll be a real wedding, with real love and not forced. It's about time God Henry learned what real love is."

"No kidding," said Spike, "that evil witch Cora, trying to force him to marry someone just because she wants children from him. I can't wait until that witch is dead!"

"You and me both, Spike." I said.

I smiled when I saw God one jumping up and down excitedly. "This is so exciting!"

I cracked up, "God one, please control your excitement. They won't be here for at least another week. I know because I'm monitoring their location. That's why we're not preparing the food just yet. Their, The Higher will guide them to this place and they will be married before they face Cora again. But they have to go through the vision we showed them. With a love as strong as theirs, those two will be able to get through anything."

I can't speak for the rest of The Grand God Council except for God One, but I was sitting on pins and needles waiting for God Henry and God Derek to arrive.

14) The Real Wedding

{Henry}

After we destroyed another location of Lab 14 we paused when we saw the most beautiful river in the In Between. The water was crystal clear as the light from the sky in the In Between shined down on it to show off the waterfall's beauty. The water flowed off to the right of us as if it were in a hurry to get somewhere. When we sat down and looked at the river in wonder, we heard Discord cough and clear his throat to get our attention.

"Pestcord!" Derek and I said.

"For the last time you two," Discord snapped, "I'm not a pest!"

"Let's see," I said, "how many times have you popped up in the In Between just to bug people? And no, you're not my godfather! Get that through your thick demigod skull! My godfather is Spike and not you!"

"Okay, okay, geez I surrender already!" Discord said. He snapped his claw and pulled a white flag out of nowhere and waved it.

"So what do you want this time?" I snapped. "You'd better explain quickly before I summon one of my lightning bolts and use you for target practice!"

"Well I just noticed that this river is by a certain waterfall," Discord said, "usually if gods go by this waterfall, it's for a good reason."

"What?" Derek asked.

Discord nodded, "Oh yes, all you have to do is step into the water and see what color it is. That'll tell you what the reason is as to why you're by this waterfall."

Derek and I exchanged a glance and shrugged. We were curious to see what Discord was talking about. When we stepped into the water it glowed a bright yellow color and it had blue streaks in it. Or at least that's what it looked like to me.

Derek and I turned around to see Discord smiling, "What?"

"Those colors only mean one thing..." Discord chimed. "You two are getting married!"

I choked, "Excuse me? Derek and I haven't even set a date yet!"

Discord did a belly laugh and said, "You two are still so new to being a god now. When two gods are engaged The Grand God Council sets the date for them. It looks like your wedding is going to happen today! Why wasn't I told about this?"

"I don't know," said Derek, "probably because you're Discord?"

"For crying out loud!" Discord growled. "I'm not a pest!"

"Oh yes you are," I said, "especially since The Grand God Council agrees with our pet name for you Pestcord!"

"Anyway," said Discord, "while you're still in the water, let me see if I'm invited!"

When Discord stepped into the water according to Derek it turned into a dark red color. That's because red looks like yellow to me because I'm colorblind as my God Limitation.

"Drat!" Discord growled.

I snorted. "I take it that means you're not invited?"

We heard someone cough to get our attention behind us. We turned around to see it was a mare Pegasus standing there. The mare tapped her hoof on the ground and glared at Discord.

"Oh hey," said Discord with a nervous laugh, "Cozy Glow, how are you doing? I haven't seen you in ages. We have so much catching up to do. We're friends right?"

"No, we're not friends!" Cozy Glow snapped. "Why I was the only one that got out of that statue to track down incompetent demigods like you is beyond me! I'd rather be turned back to stone! Maybe I should ask God Levi and God Divine to do that? Although I doubt they will because unfortunately I'm the best in the business."

When Derek and I found this remark funny, Cozy Glow smiled at us. "Well now, I'd never thought I'd get to meet the new famous gods of the In Between! God Derek and God Henry it's a pleasure to meet you!"

"You know God Henry is my-" Discord started.

"Don't start Pestcord!" I cut him off. "I'm not your godchild! For the last time Spike is my godfather, not you!"

Discord crossed his arms and scoffed at me. I snickered at him.

"No comment for your laughter God Henry!" Discord growled.

Derek and Cozy started laughing at me snickering at Discord. After a while we stopped laughing and I cleared my throat, "So how do Derek and I get to our wedding?"

"Oh," said Cozy Glow, "you jump down from that edge right over there."

Cozy Glow pointed at the edge of the river. Derek and I gulped when we saw how far down it was. Discord laughed when he saw our reactions.

"Discord I would advise you to stop laughing," snapped Cozy Glow, "and don't you dare try to follow them either! You know what will happen if you do. Now, you're coming back with me to Equestria. Don't say another word. Obviously the leash God Divine and God Levi put on you is not working!"

I snorted, "God Levi and God Divine put a leash on Discord? Yup, it's not working alright!"

Just then a dot that looked like white to me started blinking on Discord's forehead. A holographic image with God Levi's face on it appeared.

God Levi didn't look happy, he roared. "Discord! I know where your location is. I don't like the fact that you're poking your nose in places where it doesn't belong! Especially in matters concerning the In Between!"

I rolled my eyes. "You can say that again."

God Levi smiled. "Would that be God Henry's voice I hear in the background by chance?"

"Ah… Yes?" Discord said.

I knew that God Levi would ask to see me so I stepped into view of him. I pulled Derek into the view of him with me.

"Well now," God Levi gushed, "wow you two look so cute together! No wonder why everyone wants you to be married so bad now."

"God Levi's a butt kisser!" Discord coughed.

"Excuse me Discord?" God Levi snarled. "Unbelievable! I hate to be the bearer of bad news but The Grand God Council has decided to give you an extra punishment. That's because the one issued before was a slap on the wrist."

"What!" Discord said with a horrified look.

God Levi sighed, "This might be a little harsh but I think you deserve it Discord."

Suddenly, what looked like a dog collar appeared around Discord's neck. Discord opened his mouth and tried to speak again but when he did he got an electric shock that went through his body.

"And Cozy Glow?" God Levi said.

"Yes sir?" Cozy Glow said.

"I'm giving you the extended leash so you can drag Discord back home where he'll be put on house arrest for two years! That's the amount of time God Henry lost his voice times two! He would've gotten his voice back if you, Discord had stolen his voice box back for him when you broke him out of Lab 14." God Levi said, scolding Discord. "At least for now you won't be popping up in the In Between or any other universe for that matter!"

I almost felt sorry for Discord but if it kept him from bugging me and Derek and keeping us from doing our jobs this punishment was fine by me.

"Oh and God Henry?" God Levi said.

"Yes, God Levi?" I responded.

"You can thank Leader Felix for suggesting this type of punishment for Discord," God Levi said with a smirk.

I couldn't keep my laughter in so I let it out and I saw Discord glaring at me. He went to say something about it and received another electric shock. Seeing that made me laugh even harder. Derek joined in on the fun and he started laughing too just to be spiteful. As we were laughing at Discord's misery a long leash came from his dog collar. Cozy Glow got it and wrapped it around her right forehoof.

"Thanks so much God Levi sir," Cozy Glow said.

God Levi nodded. "No problem Cozy Glow, the sooner you bring that demigod back to Equestria the sooner we can keep him from bothering people and not doing his job all the time. Well until we meet again God Henry and God Derek."

After Derek and I nodded at God Levi, the holographic screen went away. We started laughing again as we watched Cozy Glow dragged Discord away as if disciplining a pet. Once Cozy Glow and Discord left, Derek and I looked at each other and gulped.

"Well," I said, "how do you want to do this?'

"It might be best if we jump together," Derek suggested.

So that's what we did. When we landed at the bottom of the waterfall and a rock door slid open and it showed a secret passageway; we entered the passageway not knowing what was waiting for us inside.

* * *

Once Derek and I entered the passageway, we were automatically blind folded. We were then escorted off in different directions.

Uh, Derek? I thought. Any idea what's going on?

Nope. Derek thought.

I was confused because whatever room I was in, someone was in the room with me. Whoever it was started changing out my original clothes and helping me get dressed into whatever they wanted me to wear for the occasion.

"You know if you let me see," I said with an annoyed tone of voice, "I can get dressed on my own!"

I heard Spike chuckle, "Oh no, you're not ready yet."

"Okay," I said, "if you're putting me in a dress I swear Spike…"

I heard Spike laughing hysterically. "Oh no, we'd never do that to you Henry! Although I wouldn't put it past psycho Cora!"

"Ha, ha Spike," I replied.

I felt someone brush my hair and after that the blind fold was taken off. I saw Spike smiling. "There! Now you're ready, here take a look!"

Spike spun me around to look at the mirror. I had to admit I was quite pleased with the way I looked. Yes I was in a suit but it didn't look even close to the one that Experiment Rose had me in. I was wearing a tan suit with a white button up shirt and I also had on blue jeans and black dress shoes. I noticed that whoever dressed me made sure that my engagement ring on my necklace was in plain view. I guess they decided that my necklace would be a replacement for a tie which was okay with me.

"See? No dress and no Experiment Rose suit!" Spike chuckled.

"How did you-" I started to say.

"One of The Resistance agents broke into Lab 14's vault and stole the video from that stupid wedding," Spike replied.

"Yeah Cora is the very definition of the word psycho!" I exclaimed.

"Yeah I know." Spike said.

I stared at the mirror at myself wondering how the wedding was going to be done.

Spike chuckled, "I know what you're thinking, the wedding's going to be done a little bit differently then it would be done with a man and a woman."

"Oh." I heard trumpets blaring off in the distance. That's when Spike practically pushed me out the door.

"Time to go, Henry!" Spike said quickly.

"Hey!" I said. Spike kept pushing me until I found myself standing in front of an altar and Derek was standing on the other side dressed the same way I was.

Derek was trying to keep a straight face as I almost ran into the altar from Spike pushing me so much. The Lord God Supreme was standing in between us and motioned for Spike to stop pushing me.

"Uh, Spike," The Lord God Supreme laughed, "although this is an exciting occasion I think God Henry's already at the altar."

I looked over when I heard the audience laughing at Spike eagerness to see me and Derek married. I saw Aunt Apple Bloom and Uncle Big Mac sitting in the front row. Uncle Big Mac was definitely emotional because he was crying and in hysterics. Aunt Apple Bloom tried her best to console him along with his wife Aunt Sugar Belle.

"Aww it's okay Henry," said Aunt Sugar Belle reassuringly, "Big Mac just gets emotional at weddings and this is his nephew's wedding. Trust me, he was worse at his own wedding!"

"Yeah," said Aunt Apple Bloom with sarcasm, "if only we had a bucket to catch his tears in."

The audience sure found that funny because laughter erupted all around the room.

After a while The Lord God Supreme cleared his throat to silence the audience. "Now everyone knows this wedding signals the union of God Henry and God Derek. I would make a speech about what marriage is and blah, blah, blah."

Derek and I bit our bottom lips to keep ourselves from chuckling at this.

The Lord God Supreme beamed. "Yes I know, funny right? Anyway, God Henry and God Derek would you please look at the altar and see what's on it?"

Derek and I looked down to see what was on the altar. There were two necklaces that had silver chains and two plain gold bands on them. The necklaces were clipped together and looked like they could be taken apart at the center of them.

"These necklaces signal the union between the two of you. Once you put the necklaces on they will glow brightly and then once that's done, your union will be complete. So if you would please just unhook them and place them around your necks," The Lord God Supreme instructed.

Derek and I did as we were told to and we looked to see that the rings on the necklaces were glowing a bright yellow glow and once they stopped glowing, The Lord God Supreme smiled. "Your union is now complete! You may now kiss your partner!"

Derek and I smiled as we kissed, the audience cheered and clapped.

After the wedding was over Derek's family and my family came up to congratulate us. Earnest gave me a big bear hug followed by Liza. Derek started laughing at the site when he was interrupted by Aunt Apple Bloom giving a bear hug followed by Uncle Big Mac and Aunt Sugar Belle. I smirked when they did that.

"Aww," said Aunt Apple Bloom, "you two are finally married!"

"Yeah," chirped Liza, "I knew my Derek would be married one day. I didn't think he'd be married to a guy. But as long as he's happy, I'm happy!"

"I second that!" Earnest said happily and he had a twinkle in his eyes.

Aunt Apple Bloom, Uncle Big Mac, and Aunt Sugar Belle smiled and nodded.

Aunt Apple Bloom had a mischievous smile on her face. "So where are you two going to have your honeymoon?'

We heard The Lord God Supreme laughing behind us. "Actually, we have a second place on the other side of this place for that. Follow me you two."

We followed The Lord God Supreme took us to an area and he used his magic to open the door. When we saw what was inside our jaws dropped. What we saw was a beautiful garden and in the center of the place was a beautiful sparkling river. On the far left side of the area was a huge king-sized bed that had a canopy over it where the curtains could be drawn all around it for privacy.

"Considering Cora's going to be sending Tracker Experiments after you, this is a safe place for your honeymoon so it won't be interrupted." The Lord God Supreme said. "No, we don't have cameras in so it's completely private. Well, I shall take my leave now. You two have a fun two weeks here."

As soon as The Lord God Supreme left, Derek looked at me and grinned.

"What?" I said, raising an eyebrow.

Without warning, Derek grabbed my hand and led me over to the bed.

I rolled my eyes and after we sat down. "Of course, you would bring me here the first thing after our wedding."

"We just got married," chimed Derek, "love is in the air!"

I couldn't stop myself from laughing after Derek kissed me.

"What's so funny?" Derek asked.

"What do you think?" I replied.

Derek responded by kissing me again and with that we started our honeymoon.

15) Crime and Punishment

{Cora}

It was just another day of me running Lab 14 with an iron fist like I usually do. Every morning when I got up and got dressed I would repeat my mantra as I looked at myself in the mirror. "I am evil and I will do nothing but harm."

But today the mantra wasn't working. I longed to see my favorite experiment. It was Experiment Henry and I viewed him as my son. When he comes back to Lab 14 I'm going to do everything in my power to keep him right where he belongs with me. If that means taking his voice away again then I will do that. Although Experiment Henry went without his voice for a year even after Discord broke him out of Lab 14. So when I thought about it, taking his voice away again wouldn't make much sense because he wouldn't work with me then and I doubt he'll work with me now even if I did that again.

Today I was walking down the hallway when I saw Venom sneering at me in the mirror.

I tilted my head, "What?"

"I detect kindness in your heart Cora!" Venom snapped. "I thought we talked about that."

I raised an eyebrow, "What are you talking about?"

"You just want Experiment Henry back at Lab 14 because you view him as your son. You want to hear his voice again. Aww, isn't that sweet?" Venom mocked.

"How did you-" I said.

Venom rolled her eyes and growled, "Not only can I see what's in your heart, I can hear your thoughts too."

"So what are you going to do about it?" I snapped.

"Oh I'm going to do something about it alright," said Venom, "and it's not going to be pleasant."

Before I could walk away, I found that I couldn't move. The next thing I felt was pressure in my chest, and it felt like someone was squeezing my heart. I gasped for a moment trying to catch my breath. Finally after a long moment, whatever Venom did was over with.

When Venom finished what she did, the strange thing was, I felt more evil than I've ever felt before with the darkness that swelled up in my heart and it felt good to be evil. I smiled at Venom in the mirror and said, "Well Cora, ready to do some damage today?"

Venom chuckled, "Have fun Cora and leave no one in your path unharmed.

I went back to doing my job like nothing happened.

* * *

{Cozy Glow}

I finally got Discord to his home in Equestria. His wife Fluttershy invited me in so I could sit down on the couch. Fluttershy questioned me about the dog collar around Discord's neck after she got me some tea.

"Why does Discord have a dog collar around his neck?" Fluttershy asked.

I pointed to it. "That is a form of discipline that The Grand God Council handed down to him for not doing his job as far as God Henry goes."

"What did he do?" Fluttershy asked.

"Well his job had two parts to it. The first part of it was to steal God Henry's voice box back from Lab 14's vault. Discord failed to do that so God Henry went without his voice for a year." I started to explain.

Fluttershy gasped and looked at Discord in horror. "Discord! How could you? No one deserves to go without their voice for a year, shame on you!"

I nodded, "That dog collar is to make sure Discord isn't able to talk for two years. That's the amount of time God Henry went without his voice doubled. If he even tries to speak, he'll get a nice little electric shock to remind him to keep his mouth shut."

Fluttershy nodded and scolded Discord, "Serves you right Discord! And you're not sleeping in my bed for the full two years either. You're sleeping in the guest room. If you even think about coming into my room, I'll give you the stare!"

I chuckled at Fluttershy's form of creative punishment for Discord to add insult to injury. "I guess it's not a total loss because he did the second part of his job without any problems. He broke God Henry out of Lab 14. Honestly, I don't know why The Grand God Council sent Discord to do it because he claimed he was working for Lab 14 to get the children out of there. He didn't start doing it until he finally had the balls to break his contract with Lab 14 and helped get the children to The Resistance HQ."

After I explained what Discord did, Fluttershy's anger went through the roof. She shouted angrily at Discord, "I knew you were keeping something from me! I thought you were gone all week because you were God Levi and God Divine's demigod assistant. From what Bubblegum told me, you've been making a nuisance of yourself in the In Between and getting in the way of God Henry and God Derek doing their jobs.

"I thought I taught the fundamental basics of Friendship and that you were better than this! Working for that awful place that changed Bubblegum into something she's not, really!"

Discord shrank back in terror that Fluttershy was putting out. I assumed from the looks of it that Discord had never seen Fluttershy this angry before. From what I knew of, it normally takes a lot for Fluttershy to get this angry.

Fluttershy calmed herself down after she took a couple of deep breaths, "Sorry about the anger you guys. I'm the Element of Kindness and just like I did with the Breezies, it seems I have been too kind for you Discord. And you should know that part of being kind is being able to trust your partner. Which apparently is something I can't do with you anymore, you slimeball for a husband!"

I put a hoof over my mouth and bit it to stifle my laughter as much as possible. I then took my hoof from my mouth and cleared my throat, "This tea party has been nice and all Fluttershy. I should get back to The Grand God Council to figure out which god they want me to track down next. See you later Fluttershy."

"See you around Cozy Glow," said Fluttershy, "don't worry, I'll keep this slimeball I have for a husband in line."

Once I got out of earshot of Discord and Fluttershy, I laughed to my heart's content. There was no way I was going to stop laughing anytime soon even if someone was watching.

* * *

{Henry}

It was the last day of our honeymoon and I didn't want it to end.

Most of the time we stayed where were at naked except for when food was delivered to us. At the moment, we were laying in bed enjoying ourselves. I still dreaded the day we would face Cora again. The more locations of Lab 14 that got destroyed the closer we would be to facing Cora.

"You are hating the fact that we have to go back out and destroy more locations of Lab 14 aren't you?" Derek asked.

I nodded. "How'd you figure that out?"

"I know that worried look when I see it," Derek said. "Just think, the sooner we take care of Cora, the sooner we can take care of Celestia and Princess Luna. Once we take care of them, the In Between will be much safer."

"Yeah and I'm pretty sure more problems will pop up even after the labs are gone."

Derek laughed, "Well duh! I doubt now that gods rule over the In Between that probably won't be much of a deterrent for people to stop committing crimes. I think that goes for other gods too."

"I still can't believe The Grand God Council took Discord's voice away and it serves him right too!" I said.

"Yeah I wonder what Fluttershy's going to do with him once he gets home?" Derek asked.

Derek and I laughed at that thought because Fluttershy was going to be in for a surprise when she finds out what Discord did.

I smirked. "We probably get something for Leader Felix just for suggesting that punishment for Pestcord."

"We'll have to think about that when we get done destroying Lab 14." Derek said.

"Yeah…" I went silent for a bit. It was still unsettling that the more locations of Lab 14 we destroyed, the closer we would be to facing Cora.

Derek put a hand on my cheek and gently made me look at him. He smiled, "Think about it Henry. The ultimate revenge on Lab 14 is not just destroying it but killing Cora too. If I were you, I'd keep that in mind when you think about facing that witch again."

I smiled and kissed him just for saying that. I always loved it when Derek says things like that, because I knew he's absolutely correct.

* * *

The next day we got dressed and headed out. Right when we destroyed another location was when we saw them. It was the Tracker Experiments from our vision that we shared.

Derek gulped, "Great… It's the mutants!"

I looked at Derek and he looked terrified but he kept his composure as much as possible.

Oh boy, I thought, and I thought I had it bad about being afraid of facing Cora again!

There was one boy and one girl that stood in the front of the group. I can only assume that these two were the leaders. Just like in the vision the males in the group had blue hair and purple eyes. They looked like the male version of Experiment Rose. The girls in the group had green hair and red eyes.

Don't worry Derek, everything's going to be fine. I thought.

Yeah, sure it is. Derek thought.

Wow you're scared!

Yeah think?

"Well now," the boy experiment said, "you two have a wedding to get to."

I rolled my eyes again. "This crap again?"

"Looks like Cora's up to her old tricks again," Derek snarled.

"Old tricks?" The girl experiment said.

"Cora tried to make me marry a creature named Experiment Rose," I growled.

The girl experiment and the boy experiment didn't say a word, they just exchanged a look and shrugged.

Uh, Henry? Derek thought.

Yes, Derek? I thought.

Um, I can't move!

Huh?

Suddenly, there was a flash of light before my eyes and I couldn't see. I screamed in surprise because of it and I fell over backward. I heard Derek screaming my name. Then after the flash of light, everything went dark.

* * *

{Derek}

I panicked when I woke up in darkness. The main thing that scared me the most is that I didn't know what was going on with Henry. That's another reason why I was so scared of this vision happening. Not being able to protect Henry or knowing where he was scared me. Even though I knew you can't kill a god it still scared my silly not knowing where Henry was.

Okay I guess I'm just being an overprotective spouse. I can't help it, I'm tired of Henry being put in harm's way.

Out of the darkness a bright light shone in my face. After the light went away, I saw standing in front of me, the girl experiment with green hair and red eyes.

"Where's Henry?" I snarled.

The girl experiment laughed wickedly. "Oh you mean Experiment Henry? The others are probably preparing him so he can go back home and marry Experiment Ada! Isn't that wonderful?"

"I'm sorry," I said with sarcasm, "but Henry's off the market. He's already married.

The girl experiment chuckled, "You're such a kidder Experiment Derek! But either way, you'll make a fine husband for Experiment Elena."

"Hell no," I snapped, "because Henry is my husband!"

All of the experiments laughed at that thought. The girl experiment paused when she saw my wedding band on my necklace around my neck. "Why is there a wedding band on a necklace around your neck?"

"As I said before," I said, "I'm married to Henry and he has a wedding band on a necklace around his neck too. It's tradition in Henry's family to do that. He's supposed to be a pony but because of sick and evil twisted people like Cora he got changed into a human!"

"Huh," the boy experiment said, "I've heard of that happening with Experiment Henry, but I never thought that was possible."

I had no idea that the ropes I was tied up in started burning and I was free of them within five minutes.

"Okay that's it!" I snapped. I did my lion roar that I use to activate my magic. The Tracker Experiments looked at me in fear. "I'm done with people like Cora who shouldn't be allowed to exist!" I roared. "Henry and I are going to kill Cora and we're going to destroy Lab 14 and any experiment that gets in our way!"

Suddenly, the ground started to shake and cracks were starting to form in the ground.

"Great," the girl experiment said, "a male version of Experiment Ada, lovely!"

I raised my hand in the air and I looked up to see that there was a boulder floating above it in my magic. I threw it as hard as I could at the girl experiment. I knew she was dead because I heard her bones crack. I also saw that she had a pool of blood that came out of her. I did the same thing to the other experiments that were there.

After I killed all of the experiments I sank to my knees in terror. The thing I was most afraid of with this vision coming true, was my own anger.

* * *

{Henry}

After the vision played out on my end of it, I went around to the other side of the building to see where Derek was. I found him on his knees shaking and it looked like he was in shock. I tried to shake him out of it but it didn't work.

"Snap out of it!" I slapped him on the face and that worked. I've never seen Derek afraid of something, not as long as I've known him.

"Oh, hi Henry…" Derek said not wanting to look me in the eye.

"Derek, what's wrong?" I asked.

"I'm a monster!" Derek exclaimed.

"Huh?" I said.

"Apparently," said Derek, "I can cause earthquakes and summon boulders out of thin air when I get angry."

I chuckled, "Is that why you were afraid of the vision?"

"That's not funny Henry!" Derek snapped. "What if I destroy the In Between because of this?"

"Oh boy, I doubt that will happen, but maybe we should talk to The Grand God Council about this?" I suggested.

Derek nodded. "I think that's a good idea."

It puzzled me that someone, especially Derek, would be afraid of their own anger.

* * *

When we got to The Grand God Council, The Lord God Supreme greeted us. "What seems to be the problem you two?"

"A few weeks ago," replied Derek, "Henry and I shared our first vision as gods."

The Lord Supreme nodded and stated, "Yeah I got an alert that you two had one. It's part of my job and no I can't see what it's about, however, I can see what your reactions were to it. You God Derek were scared of it and yet you God Henry enjoyed it."

I chuckled, "Yeah because I got to feed the Tracker Experiments that captured me to Tiger Stripes. He definitely enjoyed the meal."

"So that's why you were laughing like a psycho in your sleep because of it?" Derek asked, tilting his head.

I burst into a fit of laughter. "Yup. I just wished the vision lasted longer."

Derek's jaw dropped. "Wow."

"Now why were you afraid of the vision God Derek?" The Lord God Supreme asked, giving Derek a curious look.

"Apparently, I can cause earthquakes and summon boulders out of thin air when I'm angry." Derek said. "I think I'll destroy the In Between because of it!"

"Oh no," The Lord God Supreme laughed, "that's not possible."

"But-" Derek said.

"Listen, every god is bound to get angry sooner or later. Just because you're a god doesn't mean you don't have feelings. Sometimes, gods develop different abilities based on their emotions. It might cause things to happen in their universe but it won't destroy it. The only time a universe can be destroyed is if they're not doing their jobs." The Lord God Supreme said reassuringly.

"So what might mine and Derek's powers cause?" I asked.

"Well, since you cause lighting bolts when you're angry it's possible it might cause thunderstorms to happen. With God Derek's powers it might cause earthquakes to happen. If it does happen, it'll only happen sometimes, not all the time," The Lord God Supreme explained.

"But I don't want to kill people needlessly!" Derek with a panicked wide-eyed expression on his face.

"Calm down God Derek!" The Lord God Supreme said. "It happens to every god sooner or later. A god can't control what powers they develop and what the effects are. We of The Grand God Council don't take offense to that. What we do take offense to is a god not doing their job and that's the only way a universe can be destroyed. Is that what you were afraid of with the vision, God Derek?"

Derek nodded. "Yes."

The Lord God Supreme chuckled, "You know Leader Felix was surprised that you were afraid of something. He said you didn't even flinch when you were held up at gunpoint."

"Yeah, apparently that was a test to upgrade my status from Child Agent to Adult Agent," Derek said. "Leader Felix didn't tell me about that until afterward."

"What I don't get is why would someone be afraid of their own anger?" I asked.

"Because I've never been that mad before." Derek answered. "I don't want to hurt you even if there is a good reason to be angry."

I smiled, "You know what? I felt the same about my lightning bolts."

Derek looked at me. "Really?"

"Yeah, really," I said.

The Lord God Supreme laughed, "Well, now that's settled, I think you two should get back to work."

Derek and I nodded and went back to the job of destroying Lab 14. I'm still not looking forward to facing Cora again. Not one little bit.

16) The Obstacle Course

{Experiment Ada}

I'm starting to get worried about Head Cora. I've seen her talking to herself in the mirror. I wonder if she's getting too restless waiting for God Henry and God Derek to arrive.

It makes me even angrier because I know Head Cora just wants to bring God Henry more harm and trauma. I think she's put him through enough hell already. That's why it's my goal to keep him and God Derek away from Head Cora even if it means killing them.

I've perfected a new attack that I like to call the 'flying bullet' attack. All I have to do is put a piece of material and it doesn't matter what it is into my index finger. Then I kiss my index finger and make a motion with my hand as if I were firing a gun. Once the attack hits my victims, it kills them instantly. I'd rather do it this way than puppeteering my victims to death. I'm starting to wonder why I haven't caused any earthquakes yet because of my anger towards Head Cora.

I'm assuming it's probably because I'm scared silly of Head Cora at the same time. As I was sitting down at a table playing with a kidney from an experiment that I had just killed when someone tapped me on the shoulder. I rolled my eyes when I saw it was Experiment Charles.

"What is it this time, Experiment Charles?" I said with an annoyed tone of voice.

"I was wondering," said Experiment Charles, "if you would let me be Experiment Henry's boyfriend after the wedding?"

I groaned. "Fine, but after the wedding got it? Now would you stop asking me and go bother some other experiment?"

"Sure I can go be with another experiment," Experiment Charles said. "I'll wait until after the wedding and then Experiment Henry will be mine too."

That's another thing that pisses me off. Head Cora just loves to have other experiments have their way with God Henry.

I hate this because I remember the last time Head Cora made me have sex with God Henry. He was in tears by the time it was over with. I was forced to get on top of him and the experience wasn't pleasant for either of us. God Henry was begging for it to stop but it fell on deaf ears. By the time it was over with, he had cried his eyes out.

When I went to get myself cleaned up, that was when I caused an earthquake. It was a pretty bad one but not bad enough to level the building. I wish I had done that.

* * *

{Henry}

After we destroyed another location of Lab 14, Derek and I decided to pay a visit to The Resistance HQ. Once we landed on the railing or what The Resistance calls it, our 'god launchpad' we were greeted by Leader Felix, Spike, Aunt Apple Bloom, and Derek's parents Earnest and Liza. Earnest and Liza gave me and Derek both a big bear hug.

Spike came over and gave me a hug so hard I could barely breathe. "Henry! I'm so happy you're here!"

"That's nice Spike," I croaked, "now please let me go."

"Oh, yeah," Spike said and then he let go of me. I sat down on the ground and caught my breath, everyone laughed as I got to my feet.

"Yeah, yeah," I said, "very funny."

Aunt Apple Bloom had a mischievous smile on her face.

"What's that look for Aunt Apple Bloom?" I asked.

"So," said Aunt Apple Bloom, "how was the honeymoon?"

"Ah…" I felt my face turn red and I looked away.

"Oh Henry," laughed Aunt Apple Bloom, "you're just way too much fun to mess with!"

Derek chuckled, "Yeah he's still freaked out by girls batting their eyelashes at him."

Liza laughed and teased, "You mean like this?"

Liza batted her eyelashes at me and giggled.

"Yeah," I said, "please don't do that."

Everyone found that reaction to Liza's teasing me funny because they burst into laughter.

"Ha, Ha," I said, "well, you should know that Mr. Derek over here is afraid of his own anger."

Earnest gasped, "What? Why?"

"Apparently," said Derek, "I can cause earthquakes and summon boulders out of thin air when I get angry."

"Wow," Earnest said. "Of course, I'm not surprised coming from you."

"Why?" Derek asked, tilting his head.

"Because you always surprised us right when we started teaching you about magic and stuff like that. I mean for crying out loud Derek," said Earnest, "you have a glass eye and transfer your magic to it."

"Oh," Derek said.

"Is being afraid of your anger why you were so scared about that vision happening?" Liza asked.

Derek nodded. "Yes, that would be it."

"May I ask why you, God Henry, enjoyed the vision?" Leader Felix asked.

I smiled. "I fed the mutants to Tiger Stripes. He definitely enjoyed the meal."

Leader Felix raised an eyebrow. "Tiger Stripes?"

"Oh, uh Tiger Stripes?" I said.

"Yes, Master God Henry?" Tiger Stripes responded.

"Can you come out here for a minute?" I said.

"Sure." Tiger Stripes came out and there he was in all his glory.

"How did you get him?" Leader Felix asked, looking at Tiger Stripes in awe.

"I was created by Master God Henry's subconscious," Tiger Stripes explained. "His god powers also helped with that."

"Whoa!" Leader Felix said.

Tiger Stripes laughed his signature laugh, "Yeah, I've been getting the same reaction when people see me. Even when I'm getting ready to eat them. Although the Tracker Experiments were pretty terrified of Master God Henry when he broke out of his restraints, laughing like a psycho when he did it."

"Well that's a good way to enjoy something," Aunt Apple Bloom chuckled.

"Yeah, let's hope I can do that when I face Cora again," I said.

"I don't blame you for being terrified of her," Spike said. "I can breathe fire and I've heard enough stories about her even to scare me!"

"But since I'm a god now," I said, "I'm not going on anymore 'play dates' with who that witch has in mind for me to be with."

Spike paused and raised an eyebrow. "Play Dates?"

Derek shook his head. "You don't want to know. I know what they are and trust me, you don't want to know."

"Oh, I see," Spike replied.

"So are you going to stick around or head right out to destroy Lab 14?" Liza questioned.

"Hmm, I say we stick around," I said. I turned to Derek. "What do you say, Derek?"

Derek smiled and nodded. "I think we can stay, we only have a handful of locations to destroy. So yeah let's stay."

* * *

After we decided to stay at the Resistance HQ Leader Felix took us to a building that had a roof dome. Inside the building there were two mini forests along with a fake city in between them. In the forest, there were buildings that looked like locations for a lab. There were also a couple of mini-mountains too.

"What is this place?" I asked while looking around.

Leader Felix chuckled, "This is the training grounds for the Agents of The Resistance. There were a lot of different realistic scenarios in it. There are experienced Agents throughout the area too. I thought it would be fun for you guys to take a crack at it."

Derek grinned. "Of course, I wouldn't mind taking a crack at it again."

"The rules do say that only agents can do it and no unauthorized personnel can be in here," Leader Felix said. "But I figured since you're not agents and gods now, it should be okay."

I rolled my eyes at that comment.

"Oh, God Derek told me about your fear of facing Cora again. So we've added a little something extra in there just for you God Henry," Leader Felix said.

"Seriously Derek?" I growled.

"What? I have no idea what Leader Felix has in mind." Derek said, shifting his gaze. I could tell by the look on his face that he was lying.

"You know I know what you look like when you're lying Derek," I said, "but okay."

"I have one request," Leader Felix said.

"What?" I asked.

"Just try not to destroy this place," Leader Felix said.

Derek and I nodded. Before I got started, I thought about what attacks not to use. Derek and I went to separate areas of the building. Before the lights in front of me gave me the go-ahead to go, I thought about which direction to go in. When I got the light that told me to go, I zoomed past the cave that was in front of me. I wasn't about to get tied up to the ceiling by a psycho agent. Yeah, I didn't feel like 'playing' today.

* * *

I felt like I was doing fine on the obstacle course when I came across her... She stepped out of the shadows and I knew it wasn't Cora based on the sound of her voice and I didn't know how Leader Felix was able to do it but the mask the fake Cora had looked exactly like the real Cora.

"Well now Experiment Henry," the fake Cora said, "it's time for you to come home. We have a wedding to get to! I can't wait for you to give us children by the woman we've picked for you."

I gulped and thought, It's not Cora! It's not Cora!

The fake Cora came towards me, I backed away from her. Even though I kept telling myself it wasn't Cora, the fear of her was still there. As I backed away from the fake Cora, I tripped and fell over. At that moment, every bad memory of Lab 14 flashed before my eyes. I don't know why, but after a while, the world went dark.

* * *

{Derek}

When I got halfway through the obstacle course, an alert sounded throughout the area. I know what happens when that alert sounds, I knew it meant something serious was happening. I had a feeling that it had something to do with Henry. At that moment, I could sense something was wrong with Henry and because my magic is connected with Henry's I felt it too. I ran in the direction of where I sensed Henry's powers were. I stopped short when I saw Henry on the ground passed out.

I looked over at the fake Cora that Leader Felix had set up, standing there staring at Henry in shock, not knowing what to do. I knew exactly why Henry passed out. The fake Cora must've triggered flashbacks or the fear that Henry has towards the real Cora when he faces her again.

I gave the fake Cora a reassuring glance. "It's okay. Henry just passed out because of fear."

The fake Cora took off her mask and was surprised by my reaction. "But I thought gods don't get afraid of anything."

I shook my head. "That's just a myth. Just because you're a God doesn't mean you don't have feelings."

Leader Felix and the others came running up to us.

"What happened?" Leader Felix said.

I sighed, "Henry passed out because of fear."

Leader Felix's jaw dropped. "Wow, I know he was afraid of Cora, but I didn't think it was that bad!"

"Oh yeah, I guess it's not time for him to overcome it yet. But I also wonder if this brought back bad memories?" I said. "I guess I just have to ask him when he wakes up."

I looked at Henry when he started screaming in his sleep. I took him into my arms and held him. I transferred some of my magic to him and that seemed to help stop the screaming. I looked around at everyone to see they had tears in their eyes. I was surprised to see Leader Felix crying because he hardly shows any emotion.

"It's okay," I said, trying my best to console everyone. "I know it's sad right now but I'm pretty sure Henry doesn't want sympathy. He just needs to rest and he'll be good as new."

"Okay, everyone give them some space," Leader Felix said.

Everyone made a path for me to go through, I picked Henry up in my arms and carried him to our room.

* * *

{Henry}

I woke up to see that I was back in the room that I shared with Derek. Derek was sitting at the edge of the bed with a worried look on his face.

"What happened?" Derek asked.

I shook my head, "I don't know. Flashbacks started happening when I saw that Cora stand-in. I guess fear got the better of me when I passed out."

"That's just what I suspected," Derek said.

"Um, I don't think I can kill her when I see her again," I said.

"I have an idea that can help." Tiger Stripes said.

I tilted my head. "Huh?"

"The Shadows of the Downward taught this to me," said Tiger Stripes, "it's something they found in their research were a whole bunch of different gods volunteered to do it. They told me to only do this when Master God Henry's fear of Cora got out of control."

"What is it?" Derek said with a curious look.

"Apparently, fear can be replaced with anger," Tiger Stripes explained. "It takes a while to do it. All I have to do is use Master God Henry's god powers and attach it to the thing (or this case person) that he's afraid of and bring the emotion of anger up to the surface. The Shadows of the Downward found that in doing so anger helps a god overcome their fears. They also found that if a god has a memory attached with anger and not fear, helps the process out a lot. Tell me, Master God Henry, what angry memory do you have? If you have a lot of them, anyone will do."

"Oh, I have plenty of them!" I growled. "But I guess anger turned into despair and despair turned into fear when I couldn't figure out a way to kill Cora. The first memory I have of anger towards her was the first time she had another experiment rape me. I begged for it to stop but my pleas fell on deaf ears. It was shortly after that, Cora found out that I had a relationship with another male experiment. She killed him right in front of me. After that, I tried to figure out a way to kill her but when I couldn't figure it out, my anger turned to fear."

Derek balled his hands into fists when he heard this.

Tiger Stripes sighed, "How long did it go on?"

I looked away. "Two hours straight..."

Derek started shaking with anger at this point. "When I get my hands on Cora, I'm going to find a way to keep her alive as much as possible when I torture her! I have half a mind to bring a camera with me so I can watch her screaming over and over again."

"Hmm," said Tiger Stripes, "you could use your god powers to kill her over and over again."

"But won't she become a demigod if I do that?" I questioned.

Tiger Stripes hissed and shook his head. "Nope, if a god resurrects someone for the purpose of punishment that won't happen. And punishment is the only reason you can do that for. It can't be done for any other reason. If a god tries to resurrect someone for any other reason then that person that comes is just a zombie. The Grand God Council put that rule in place. So, what do you say, Master God Henry? Do you want to replace your fear with anger?"

I didn't have to think twice about my answer, "Yes I want to! Cora needs to die!"

"Alrighty then, let's begin," Tiger Stripes said.

* * *

The process took half a day to do. After this was done, my anger towards Cora was renewed. However, this time I had a way to kill her.

I decided to go through the obstacle course again and this time when I came across the fake Cora, I was angry enough to summon a lightning bolt. Instead of killing the agent, I just shot it at a nearby tree. The Agent fell over and sat on the ground staring at me in awe.

"Ooops!" I laughed. "I guess I got a little carried away."

I helped the Agent get to her feet. She took her mask off and looked at me in awe and surprise. Leader Felix and the others came running up to me.

Leader Felix's jaw dropped. "Okay, how did you get over your fear of Cora so quickly? I mean, you passed out because of it the other day!"

Derek grinned. "Looks like what Tiger Stripes did worked!"

"Can I explain to them, Master God Henry?" Tiger Stripes asked.

I nodded. "Sure."

Tiger Stripes explained to everyone what he did to me and everyone seemed impressed by it.

Earnest chuckled, "I bet you can't wait to kill her now, huh Henry?"

I smiled wickedly. "Yup, I'm going to kill her if it's the last thing I do! Don't worry Derek, I'll let you torture her first!"

As I laughed along with everyone about this, it made me happy to think that Cora was going to die once I got my hands on her.

18) Dreaming of Revenge

{Henry}

Derek and I left the Resistance HQ and headed out to go destroy another location of Lab 14. Since I now have all of my memories back of growing up at Lab 14, I'm not waking up underneath the bed because of them. Or any other place for that matter.

Now I keep getting strange dreams but at the same time happy dreams about killing that witch Cora. I still can't believe at one point in time I actually called her mom when she was never my mom, to begin with. I guess one would say she is because she raised me. At the same time, she's not a mother because she viewed me as nothing but a lab rat with no kindness and compassion towards me whatsoever.

I think that applies to the others that were traveling with me. To me, even though someone raises a child, they need to bond with them to be counted as a parent. Applejack and Rainbow Dash bonded with me before I was taken from my crib. That's why I have memories of them saying they're my mothers and they will protect me with their lives. Which is exactly what they did. They walked into a trap just so they could bring their children back home. True, Cora sends out tracker cats to bring an experiment back to Lab 14 but there's no way she would go and lay down her life for me or any of the other children she's taken from her crib. She is the worst kind of person.

Someone that tortures a child and adds the word 'experiment' to their names does count as a parent to me. How can someone as sick and demented as Cora even consider herself a mother? As I said in one of my memories to her, if you're a mother then I'm Santa Clause.

But no, she refuses to acknowledge that she is the worst human being to ever live. To add to that, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna are the two worst ponies to ever live. When I get to kill all three of them, I will take pleasure in doing so and I don't care if they call me God Henry or not. At this point, I just want all three of them dead so the torture of innocent children will finally stop.

I was having a strange dream during my two hours of sleep needed to keep a god from going into Fear Shock. In this dream, instead of me being tied to a chair looking at tracker experiments eager to take me back to Lab 14 so Cora can do her experiment on me again, Cora was the one tied to a chair. I laughed as I saw the scared look on her face.

"Wow Cora," I said with a sinister laugh, "I'd never thought I'd see the day when you would actually be the one cowering in fear of one of your 'beloved experiments'. Hmm, what do you always say to me when you're doing one of your 'tests' as you call them? Oh yeah, that's right? Mommy loves you! The child has to be kicked out of the nest sooner or later. I wonder if the same thing applies to the mother?"

"I will never call you God Henry!" Cora snarled. "I will never acknowledge an experiment as a god! Over my body!"

I laughed a wicked laugh and she started shaking with her eyes wide as saucers. "I didn't say you had to call me God Henry, Cora. To think I actually called a heartless witch like you mother! Oh and guess what? Now that I'm a god I kill you and resurrect you to continue your torture as many times as I want!"

"You can't do that! Why would you do that to your mother?" Cora shrieked.

I rolled my eyes, "As I've said time and time again, if you're a mother then I'm Santa Clause. You just proved my point, again. Only this time, I'm not Santa Clause, I am a judge, jury, and executioner. I have the first point of torture in mind for you."

I turned around and smiled as I saw another scientist that worked with her standing there also cowering with fear. I knew him well, he was one of the ones that supervised the many tests that were done on me before I got released into an experiment. Of course, no one supervised the last test that was done because Cora was the one that did it.

This test is about as sick and demented as all of the other tests. Lab 14 would have another experiment that Cora picked for me to be with, rape me and after that, she check to see how high my sperm count was to make sure I could give her children. Now, Cora seems to be obsessed with me marrying the experiment she picked for me in order to give her children. I'm glad that test never worked in her favor. I wondered if my magic protected me from that happening.

The test would start with three different shots. One of the shots would take place shortly after I was tied down to a chair, this one was to make sure I stayed put. The next shot was to make sure that I was turned on against my will. The last shot went to the other experiment that would soon be on top of me. This shot would turn them on against their will. I remembered sometimes the experiment Cora chose for that, would be in tears just as much as I was and would beg for what was happening to stop. Strangely enough, I remembered Ada was the first one that Cora picked for that to happen. She was begging for it to stop and she kept apologizing to me and she did it because she didn't want to be disciplined by Cora again. I wonder if that's why she ran off to go work for Star Labs?

Anyway, the guy that would do this test was James. Every time it happened it seemed he got off on it too. Which was even more disgusting than the test itself.

I brought out a tray of the three shots that were used for this sick and demented test and Cora started to scream at the top of her lungs when she saw them.

I gave her a sinister smile. "Yeah, you seem terrified right now. Which to me is good, I'm glad. I think you deserve a little bit of your own medicine."

"Please don't do this!" Cora sobbed. "I promise I won't torture anymore children if you spare from this."

I shook my head. "Yeah, I doubt that. It's easy for you to say now that you're going to be the one going through it. I wonder though, how come you didn't listen to me when I begged for this to stop every single time it happened huh? Why should I spare you? Do you realize that you are the worst human being to ever live?"

I wondered if I should turn Cora's voice into a box and take it out. I should probably do the same thing to James so they couldn't beg for it to stop. I guess the look on my face said it all. Cora started to scream bloody murder, it was almost as if she knew what I was thinking. "Please don't take my voice away from me! I was looking for an answer that is for the greater good of everyone, honest that's all it was!"

I snarled, "So you think that science is justification for torturing people and making them do things against their will? You really are the worst person that ever lived! You, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, do you really think that looking for the cure for death gives you an excuse to harm and kill people? YOU'RE AN IDIOT! AND YOU'RE GOING TO PAY!"

"NOOOOOO!" Cora screamed.

"Oh yeah, it's happening and the next time I do this test I'll do it with another one of your scientists. Not to mention I'm taking your voice away. I wonder, I should probably do some 'data gathering' on you also!" I sneered. "Won't that be fun? Well, more fun for me than you."

That was the last thing I said when I woke up. To tell the truth, when I woke up I was disappointed that the dream didn't last long.

* * *

When I opened my eyes, Derek was laughing. I raised an eyebrow. "What is so funny?"

"I'm laughing because you talk in your sleep now," Derek chuckled. "I'm going to assume that because you've gotten all of your memories back now that you're thinking different ways you can torture Cora the next time you see her?"

I smiled and nodded. "Yup! Now that I'm not afraid of facing her anymore, I can't wait to see her!"

"Oh and Henry," Derek said.

"What?" I asked.

"Obviously, the dream you just had was a wet dream," Derek laughed.

I paused and looked down. I smiled when I confirmed what Derek said, "Well if I get off in my sleep to the idea of killing and torturing Cora, that works for me. I'd rather have those types of dreams than finding myself waking up underneath a bed or on the red moon because of a memory about Lab 14. So what was I saying?"

"You were saying something like, you're an idiot and you need to pay! I think I'll do some 'data gathering' on you next!" Derek smirked.

Tiger Stripes chuckled, "Well now, I'm glad to see Master God Henry is no longer having bad dreams. Honestly, I look forward to you laughing in your sleep more instead of screaming."

"Yeah, I wonder who else heard you laughing Henry?" Derek asked. "We are in a tent and not back home in a soundproof room after all."

"Honestly," I said, "I could care less about how many people hear me laughing or talking about how I'm going to punish Cora the next time I see her. Hey if it'll help keep the agents of The Resistance keep their distance from us, I'm all for that."

Derek nodded. "I can agree with that."

I smiled knowing how much of a relief it is now that I have all of my memories back. I hope this means I'll be having good dreams from here on out.

* * *

{Leader Felix}

Finally, with Discord on punishment because of him messing up on his job by not getting God Henry's voice back for him after breaking him out of Lab 14, I can get some work done in peace. As I was doing my paperwork and entering in locations for where the children that the Resistance has saved to send them back to their homes, the button on my desk started blinking. I smiled as I knew it meant God Derek was calling.

As usual God Derek's face popped up on the holographic screen.

"Leader Felix how's it going?" God Derek asked. He seemed really happy about something this time calling me.

"Pretty good God Derek," I said. "Now that Discord's on punishment, I can finally get some work done in peace. You seem happy about something today. Is it a special occasion or something?"

God Derek laughed, "No special occasion here, Leader Felix. It seems now that Henry's got all of his memories back and got over his fear of facing Cora again, instead of screaming in his sleep, he's been laughing like a psycho and talking in his sleep instead."

"Wow," I said.

It was almost as if God Henry knew we were talking about him in his sleep because he started laughing. At first, I wasn't sure if he was sleeping. "Uh, is God Henry asleep now?"

God Derek smiled and nodded. "Oh yeah, he's asleep."

He focused the camera on God Henry showing that he was asleep. God Derek and God Henry were in a tent and God Henry was sleeping on a thin mattress, his head on a pillow and was covered up in a blanket.

God Henry was laying there laughing like a psycho, he started saying things like, "You're an idiot Cora! Trying to find the cure for death and using it as an excuse to torture people and make them do things against their will, yeah that's not justified. I think after I torture you with this, I'll do some 'data gathering' again."

Then God Henry snored a bit after that and went back to laughing again.

I chuckled, "Wow, okay then, I'd rather have him laughing in his sleep and daydreaming about how he's going to torture that witch Cora when he sees her again that screaming because of fear."

God Derek laughed, "No kidding! Anyway, as usual, here's the location of the next building we're going after. I'll talk to you later, until next time Leader Felix."

I nodded and after the call with God Derek ended, I started laughing myself. I'm glad God Henry finally got over his fear of Cora.

19) Drunk with Power

{Henry}

Derek and I destroyed another location of Lab 14. Now we only had seven more locations left to go. I was frustrated about not finding Cora yet.

Derek and I were taking a break back at the Inn.

"There's still no sign of that witch Cora yet," I growled.

"Yeah I know," said Derek, "although the vision did show that it was in the last location of Lab 14. Or at least I think it was the last location of Lab 14. Did you recognize what that location looked like?"

I shook my head. "Nope, I've never seen that one before. Not even in my memories. Although most of the time I'm stuck in that stupid room or on a 'playdate' in whatever location I was at. Or I woke up sitting beside a tree in the rain every single experiment I've been released into."

Derek sighed, "I guess we should look at the map again."

Derek took out the small black box that contained the map. He pressed the button on top of it and out came a holographic screen that showed the last seven locations of Lab 14. He pointed at what might look like the last location of Lab 14. The location was a building that was deep within a forest almost at the edge of the In Between.

"Hmm," I said, "that does seem like it might be the last location of Lab 14."

"Yeah," said Derek, "I'm not so sure that I want to deal with walking into that trap right now. Listen I know you want to get your hands on Cora, but I think we should destroy the rest of the locations first and then kill the witch once and for all. Okay?"

I put my head on the table and groaned. As always I knew not to argue with Derek because he was right once again. Derek put a hand on my shoulder. "Don't worry Henry, we'll get her. Don't fall into despair or fear again because of waiting so long okay? Cora will die, it has to be done and the vision said it will happen. Ashley said that if The Grand God Council has sent the vision then it will come true."

Even though I still felt skeptical and looked at Derek with hope. Derek smiled and nodded then he reached over and kissed me and pulled me onto his lap. I smiled as I put my head on his chest.

"You know, I'm glad you find comfort when you're with me," Derek said. "You deserve to be comforted no one deserves to go through the things you've been through. I'm sorry I couldn't find you sooner and get you away from Lab 14."

I smiled. "No need to apologize Derek. You have me now and that's all that matters."

Derek chuckled, "Yeah and I'm going to do everything in my power to protect you. Unlike your parents, I can't be killed. Although the vision does show us playing dead for a while."

I laughed at the thought of playing dead just to freak Cora out.

"What's so funny?" Derek asked.

"On the bright side, I'm not falling into despair because I know Cora's going to die. The thought of playing dead just to scare her sounds like fun. But, how we start playing dead, that's what scares me," I said.

Derek snorted. "Why would you be afraid of pain? I mean with all the pain Lab 14 put you through the 14 tests they did on you before getting released into those experiments."

I shook my head. "It's not that. It's the thought of seeing you get knocked out of your body first." I started to cry. "The way you get knocked out of your body. That's exactly how Cora killed the experiments that I loved in front of me."

Derek sighed, "Oh."

There was quiet for a while between us. Derek stood up while holding me in his arms. I laughed, "What are you doing?"

Derek kissed me and I just about rolled my eyes when Derek took me to the bedroom and tossed me on the bed. "Of course, you would take me here."

Derek didn't respond to my comment as he climbed on top of me and started to make out with me. That's Derek for you, when he doesn't want to think about anything sad or frustrating to him sex is the key.

* * *

{Cora}

Damn it, damn it all to hell! I thought. I was once again pacing back and forth down the medal hallway in front of the main computer. I was in the very last location of Lab 14 that I would use to transfer my experiments after I did the reprogramming ritual and release them into an experiment. I only got up to seven experiments with Experiment Henry. From what my tracker experiments have told me, Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek are slowly destroying every location of Lab 14 in existence. How on earth they knew how many locations Lab 14 has at first was beyond me. But then I guessed once Eleanor left Lab 14, she probably revealed how many locations Lab 14 has.

I've been watching the main computer in horror as I saw the locations of Lab 14 drop off the radar one by one. I have no doubt that's Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek's doing. I had half a mind to shut down both of those experiments when they finally arrive here and forget about the stupid wedding.

But I can't bring myself to do that. From what I found out it's actually a better chance of getting perfect children from an experiment if they are alive. The sperm can not come from a test tube either. What I wondered though is how much magic Experiment Derek has.

I watched the video footage from the failed wedding with Experiment Rose and found it interesting that Experiment Derek seemed to have a similar attack to the 'Tell Me You Love Me' attack. Only with his attack, it's activated by saying the words 'Tell Me You Hate Me' and it seemed to give him double strength along with his lion roar. I was going to kill Experiment Derek and just leave Experiment Henry alive but now that I'm curious about Experiment Derek's power I'm thinking I'll let him live instead of killing him.

Of course, I made the mistake of walking past the mirror as I went towards my office to try and think of a game plan on how to stop Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek from destroying the remaining locations of Lab 14. I'm starting to think it's nearly impossible to do that because every Tracker Experiment I've sent after them, the Tracker Experiments wind up dead. I know this because other Tracker Experiments I send out find the previous Tracker Experiments dead bodies.

When I walked past the mirror by my office, the sound of Venom's dark laugh. I exhaled slowly, "What do you want this time Venom?"

"I just wanted to tell you something I've noticed about you," Venom laughed her wicked laugh.

"And what might that be?" I snarled.

"True you seem to be able to hold onto the feeling of love as you call it, but it's not real love. Nope, not even close!" Venom smiled.

I raised an eyebrow. "What are you talking about Venom?"

Venom nodded. "Oh yes, the main reason why you want to call Experiment Henry, God Henry so badly is because you are attracted to his power. You want to know when you started to desire power?"

I gave a confused look. "Okay, when?"

"When you were ten years old. I can see into the past of those that allow me to stay within them by making a deal with me as you did," Venom answered. "You were very paranoid, you thought the neighbor kid had it out for you."

"Well, she did!" I said.

Venom shook her head. "Nope, she didn't. I got a good glimpse of that memory. I was able to look at both sides of the story. She was planning on throwing you a birthday party which was supposed to happen the following week."

I gulped and looked at her horror and thought, No that can't be! Gloria had it out for me, she was so fake and I know she got that attitude because she was the most popular girl in school! I mean, why would a snobby girl like that befriend me? Out of sympathy? Out of pity? Even so, I didn't need friends like that. Not with all of the crap I was going through at home. Dad was abusive towards me and he was abusive towards mom.

Venom gave me a wicked laugh. "Oh Cora, I can tell by the look on your face you know I'm right. Oh, that's right! I was able to see the memories before that of your so-called abusive dad. He was never abusive, he pushed you in school because he wanted you to do the best you can do. And look at you now! Bet he would be so proud of you, but I'm not sure about that considering that you use the excuse that you're looking for the cure for death as a way to harm people. Your dad was never abusive to your mom. Your mom was a lazy slob. He pushed her the same way he pushed you. All he wanted was for her to get off her lazy butt and do some work for a change."

By this time I was shaking, I didn't know why though. Shaking out of fear or anger maybe? Maybe Venom was using this as a way to make me second guess my memories. Well, she should know it's not going to work, nope it's not happening.

Venom gave me a wicked laugh again. "Aww, that's cute! You're in denial so bad it's laughable! Anyway, you were so paranoid that the neighbor kid had it out for you that your solution to the problem was to kill her beloved pet dog named Cody and you left a lovely note when you delivered the dog's body to her. Hmm, how did it go?"

I went back to staring at Venom in horror as I remembered the letter that I wrote Gloria:

Dear Gloria,

You are the sickest and twisted human being ever! I know for a fact that you talk about me behind my back at school all time. And bragging about the many boyfriends you've had that's disgusting! Are you some sort slut? Because that's exactly what it sounds like to me.

I know you're not my friend. You're my enemy and you will always be my enemy. I decided I should give you a little early Christmas present, you know because Christmas is in two weeks. I doubt you'll be there for my birthday party if there is one this year but I wouldn't count on there being one. Because there's never a birthday party for me, and doubt dad will be throwing one for me.

Have fun planning a funeral for your dog Cody.

Sincerely,
Cora

Venom gave me an evil snort. "Awww are we having a guilty conscience now? You killed your only friend's dog and right before she was going to throw you a birthday party. Oh and here's the kicker, she was planning the birthday party with your dad the whole time."

"No," I insisted, "that wasn't the case! That was never the case! You're just making me second guess my memory! That wasn't the case at all! You're lying!"

"Wow Cora," said Venom, "if that's not denial I don't know what else is. Face it, Cora, you want to call Experiment Henry, God Henry because you love his power. After you killed your neighbor's beloved dog you started killing every animal you could get your hands on. You killed those animals just for the thrill of it. Then you moved on to killing people, and oh that was after you met me and made that deal with me. Hmmm, the first person you killed was your so-called abusive dad, wasn't it?

"Then you met the previous head of Lab 14 before Lab 14 was even established. The reason why you're looking for the cure for death is that you feel guilty for killing your mom and dad and you desire to bring them back to life. Isn't that cute?

"And you know something, Cora? The cure for death is impossible to find, you'll never find it you know. Your so-called 'scientific breakthrough' with your 'fake son' Experiment Henry was never that at all. I know because I can see what you see. True Experiment Henry's power came back triple every time you flatlined him but there was no 'scientific breakthrough' now was there?"

My jaw dropped because I knew what Venom was saying was true. There was no 'scientific breakthrough' with Experiment Henry. I realized at that moment I didn't love Experiment Henry, I envied him.

Venom gave another evil snort. "Oh and one more thing Cora, I've seen you get back together with the previous head of Lab 14. He's just as powerful as Experiment Henry is! That's what you desire the most! You don't desire love, you're drunk with the desire for power. Using the excuse that you're looking for the cure for death is just another example of how much you desire power and that's why you made the deal you did with me.

"Oh yeah, that's right! Before you called off the wedding with your ex-boyfriend who is now your boyfriend again you had a miscarriage didn't you? Is that why you're obsessed with Experiment Henry marrying another experiment to give the children you so desire from him? Not only do you view Experiment Henry as your 'fake son' you would probably view the children he might give you if he ever gives them to you like your 'fake grandchildren' that's so adorable it makes me want to cry. Well, not really. I just wanted to give you something to think about before Experiment Henry comes back to his 'fake home', too bad I don't have a camera with me because the look on your face is absolutely priceless. Until the next time, we speak Cora."

Venom laughed her sinister laugh that sent chills down my spine as her picture in the mirror faded from view. After Venom disappeared I ran into my office as fast as I could. I didn't make it to my desk before I passed out.

20) The Waiting Game

{Experiment Ada}

As I went around the corner to go down the hallway to my room, I gasped as I saw Head Cora lying face first down on the floor passed out right in front of her office. Well, maybe she's dead?

To be honest, I hoped that Head Cora was dead, because if she was then it would mean the end for Lab 14 possibly. It would also keep God Henry away from her and hopefully Lab 14 altogether.

For some reason I was actually concerned for her. I went over to her and tried to wake her up. "Head Cora! Head Cora, are you okay?"

Head Cora groaned and rolled on her side and sat up against a nearby wall. "I'm fine Experiment Ada, really I am."

I gave her a wary look. "Are you sure about that? You don't look so good. Maybe you should go get some rest for the day?"

I looked to see that she was completely disturbed by something. I wasn't about to ask her what was disturbing her and trust me, I didn't want to know. Wow, she's really that anxious for God Henry and God Derek to arrive? Why does she want to have them at Lab 14 so bad anyway? I mean, I know God Henry was the first experiment Lab 14 ever created, but is his really that valuable?

I was snapped out of my thoughts by Head Cora clearing her throat, "Uh, Experiment Ada? Are you daydreaming about Experiment Henry again?"

"Huh?" I said.

Head Cora laughed, "I know that lost in thought look when I see it. Most of the time it happens when a person is daydreaming about someone."

I gave Head Cora a nervous laugh, "Yes that's right, yup I was daydreaming about Experiment Henry alright. I was going to go have a wet dream about him in my sleep. Yup! That's exactly what I was doing."

Head Cora smiled. "Wow! But I do wonder, why did you run away from Lab 14 if you like Experiment Henry so much?"

I paused. To tell the truth, I ran away from Lab 14 and went to work for Star Labs because I was tired of getting disciplined by Head Cora again. I didn't want to have her forcing me to rape God Henry. I didn't want to tell Head Cora the truth, so once again I lied through my teeth. "Honestly Head Cora, I don't know."

Head Cora nodded and she seemed satisfied by my answer to her question. "Okay then, I have some more experiments for you to play with in the meantime. That is whenever you want to. You did say you were going to turn in for the day right?"

I nodded. "Yes Head Cora, I am tired."

Head Cora nodded and went into her office. I breathed a sigh of relief when I got to my room and closed the door.

* * *

{Henry}

At this point I was starting to get very irritated that I haven't found Cora yet. Derek and I went back to the Inn after destroying four more locations of Lab 14. As a matter of fact I've been getting so irritated that when Derek and I keep having to kill those tricky experiments so I got creative with it. I think I might have scared Derek doing that, he's never afraid of anything. Well, except for that first vision we shared that showed his anger in it.

I was out back by the barn taking two by fours and throwing them outside of the barn and at the walls. It was a way for me to get my anger out somehow. At least I had an outlet for it this time instead of being locked away in a room at Lab 14.

I threw another two by four at the barn wall when Derek came up beside me.

"Well, at least you have some way to get your anger out this time," Derek said.

"Yeah," I threw another two by four at the barn wall. Finally, I got tired of throwing the two by fours at the barn wall and sat down. "Why can't I just kill her already?"

Derek sighed, "I don't know why yet. But there is one location deep within a forest in the In Between that we saw before, remember what we talked about? We're going to save that one for last and I'm pretty sure when we get there, that's where that witch Cora will be. We have only three more locations left. Once we get those, then we go after the last one. If we run into Cora before we go to that location that we think is the last one, that will make our job easy. Then all we would have to do is destroy the rest of the location's and the job is finished."

I nodded. "Yeah, it's just annoying that I haven't seen her yet."

"I agree with you on that," Derek said. "I think you're overdoing it on how you kill those tricky experiments lately. It's kind of scaring me."

I smiled. "Why? They were going to die anyway. Do you think I'm going to become a psycho like Cora or something like that?"

"Not necessarily," said Derek, "it's just, I've never seen you this angry before. I mean I'm glad Tiger Stripes helped you get over your fear of facing her, but I think we've created another monster by that. Although I'd rather have you laughing like a psycho in your sleep than screaming in fear."

I snorted. "Yeah and that's because of the stupid test they did on me before the iron rod goes in. I plan on doing that to Cora when I see her."

Derek looked like he threw up in his mouth at the very mention of that test. I don't blame him because that test as I call it 'the rape test' is about as sick and demented as it comes. To think they did that to me before every single experiment that I was released into. From what Milton and Martin told me, Lab 14 did that same test to them and they have no idea if that test has produced any good results on their end either. It seems Lab 14 did that to every experiment they had and not just me. Good thing Lab 14 never got their hands on Derek like they wanted to.

"I'm glad Lab 14 never got their hands on you because you probably would have endured the same thing I did," I said. "That's exactly why I want Cora dead and fast. The last thing I want to deal with is another wedding. Yuck! There's no way I'm marrying any creature that passes for a woman that she picks for me. Nope, not happening!"

"What I want to know is why is she so obsessed with experiments marrying each other anyway?" Derek asked.

I shrugged. "I have no idea. All I know is she's psycho and a person like her should never be allowed to see the light of day."

"No kidding," Derek said.

The fact that I had not seen Cora yet made me more determined to search for her and I wasn't going to rest until I got my hands on her.

* * *

{Cora}

I decided to take a day off for a change. But I didn't go outside of the last location of Lab 14. I was determined to stay there in case Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek arrived in my absence.

I was sitting in a private café at the location of Lab 14 that I'm in. I had a bottle of vodka and a cigarette. My now boyfriend who was the previous head of Lab 14 Aryan was sitting next to me but he was drinking whiskey.

Aryan looked at me and frowned. "Are you okay Cora? You don't look so good."

I sighed, "Yeah I'm just wanting Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek to get here. I was just going to kill Experiment Derek but when I reviewed the video footage from Experiment Roses wedding I saw one of his attacks that made me curious."

"What about it?" Aryan asked.

"Well, I saw an attack Experiment Derek has that looks very similar to Experiment Roses 'Tell Me You Love Me' attack. Only his attack is activated by the words 'Tell Me You Hate Me' instead. It makes him look like a rampaging bull. From what I heard, Experiment Derek has a glass eye because he touched a tree before his third birthday and it burned his eye to a crisp," I explained. "From what I know of, Experiment Derek has magic transfer, he can use the magic from his normal eye and transfer it over to his glass eye."

Aryan judging by the look on his face seemed impressed by this. "Interesting. Maybe we can get children from both of them?"

I shook my head. "I don't know, it's been hard enough to track them down with the tracker experiments. I've seen on the main computer that every location of Lab 14 is being destroyed one by one. You know what everyone's been saying about that."

Aryan laughed, "Yeah, yeah I know Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek have been destroying them. Yeah I find that hard to believe."

"That makes two of us," I said. "And from what some of the tracker experiments have told me, they've found other tracker experiments dead. Apparently that was Experiment Henry's doing. The reason why they know this is because their dead bodies were hung by their necks on the ceiling and whoever did it left a little note for me. It's one number, the number fourteen. I wonder if that's his way of making a death threat towards me? If that's the case then I think it's adorable."

Aryan and I had a good laugh at that thought. Even though I thought Experiment Henry's death threat is adorable, at the same time it actually scared me because if I die then I can't find the cure for death. That would mean I won't be able to bring mom and dad back from the dead.

"I know what you're thinking," said Aryan. "But to be honest, I'm beginning to wonder if finding the cure for death is even possible. Besides, even though we have your parents' bodies frozen, who's to say it'll work on people that have been dead for decades?"

"It'll work," I replied. "It has to work!"

"And what if it doesn't? What then Cora?" Aryan asked after raising an eyebrow.

I looked down, I don't know what I'll do if I can't resurrect mom and dad, not to mention Gloria and her dead dog. Why I felt that was the best way to deal with them was still beyond me. Either way I know soon Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek will arrive and I will be able to continue my research. But had to admit, it was fun torturing Experiment Henry and I envied him because of his power. I really thought that there was a cure for death and if anyone was going to find it, then it would be me.

I would use the cure for death to bring mom and dad back, along with Gloria and her dog. I would beg for their forgiveness because I killed them. Then hopefully, we could be happy together from then on. I was snapped out of my thoughts by Aryan's laughter. I frowned. "What is so funny?"

"I just think it's adorable the way that you think that once you bring your loved ones back from the dead, you can live happily ever after with them, the end," Aryan chuckled. "You know that's not possible right? Who's to say that even if the cure for death did work, would they accept your apology? I mean you're the one that killed them. If I were them I was brought back from the dead by the person that killed me, there's no way I would accept that person's apology."

I sighed, "I guess so, even if that's true, I still have to try."

I took another swig of my bottle of vodka when Aryan said, "Cora, have you thought of trying for another baby again?"

I spit the swig of vodka out on the floor and coughed because some of it went down the wrong pipe. Aryan laughed and patted me on the back. "Sorry, that was bad timing on my part and no I wasn't joking. I'm being serious here. I'm also thinking are the miscarriage you had an a failed wedding with us the reason why you want Experiment Henry to marry another experiment and give you children by it?"

"Ah…" I didn't know what to say to Aryan. I had to admit, Venom was right. My past failings are the reason why I put Experiment Henry through so much trouble to give me children that I desire. I'm still confused as to why there has been no success in that area yet. As a matter of fact, none of the experiments form Group A and that includes the female experiments that were in that group have yet to give us any children. From what I was told just about every experiment in that group lives in Equestria now and they were all children of royalty. So there's no way Lab 14 would be able to steal those experiments back unless we made a deal with the ruler of Equestria to give them back to us. But I doubt that's going to happen because the two twin experiments, Experiment Milton and Experiment Martin were the ruler of Equestria's twin boys that were taken by Lab 14. The same thing with Experiment Aria, she was the daughter of a Princess and a Prince that ruled over a place called the Crystal Empire and Experiment Sarah is now married to her. Experiment Jane is actually Discord's daughter and she is now married to Experiment Milton.

Then there's Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek, yeah there's no way I'm calling two experiments god, that'll be over my dead body.

I sighed, "You know what Aryan? There is a bit of truth to what you're saying. But for me now is not the time for a marriage or a baby at least for us. I'm going to find the cure for death and when I do, then it will be the time to do that."

Aryan shrugged. "Okay then, whatever you say."

It was whatever I said. What I say is I'm going to find the cure for death and no one's going to stop me.

21) This Crap Again?

{Henry}

When Derek and I went back out to destroy another location of Lab 14 and still no sign of Cora. The closer we got to the location of Lab 14 that was deep inside a forest in the In Between; I knew we would be closer to finding Cora. She had to turn up sooner or later especially since she wants me to be back at Lab 14 for good.

As Derek and I headed to the next location that would be the last one before the location of Lab 14 that was deep within a forest in the In Between. I started to feel nervous about how the fight between me and Cora was going to go down. The vision did say that we would be knocked out of our bodies but the way that we were going to be knocked out of them made me even more nervous.

But after things went down, I couldn't wait to torture Cora and hear her screams as she begged for mercy. I'm not really sure if she would beg for mercy considering she refuses to acknowledge me as a god. I guess that makes sense because she doesn't acknowledge anyone else as having authority but herself.

Walking to the next location we just decided to take our time because this was now the last location of Lab 14 left to destroy.

"I wonder if we're going to run into any more tricky experiments that I can creatively kill?" I asked.

Derek just about choked on what I said. I tilted my head. "What?"

"You're getting a little too creative with your killings lately," Derek said.

I laughed, "Well I'm trying to send Cora a message. Although I'm not sure if it's working. Considering there's still tracker experiments being sent after us. Oh well, more fun for me to be creative in my art."

Derek chuckled, "Okay, okay I get it. It's just a little bit creepy."

My jaw dropped. "Well, well my husband is actually afraid of me?"

"Kind of but not totally, because I understand where your anger is coming from," Derek replied. "Just don't turn into a complete psychopath on me okay?"

I snorted. "Yeah I doubt that will happen. If I did you would be the first one to know of course."

Derek laughed, and put his arm around my waist. We stopped short when we got twenty feet within the last location of Lab 14.

We just about rolled our eyes when four experiments came out to greet us. They were wearing outfits similar to the one I wore when I woke up as part of Lab 14's experiment. What they had on was a white t-shirt, blue jeans, gray gym shoes and brown jackets with the number 14 them as big as Lab 14 could make it. There were two female experiments, one of them had red hair and all white eyes her white eyes looked a lot like Experiment Rose's did. The other female had blonde hair and green eyes. There were two male experiments one had black hair and red eyes and the other male experiment had gray hair and black eyes.

"Looks like Cora decided to send double the Experiment Creature Rose and Experiment Creature Sebastian." I growled.

"Hey!" The female experiment, with the red hair and all white eyes snapped. "Don't you talk about my twin sister that way!"

"Chill Experiment Lydia," the male experiment with black hair eyes said. "Head Cora wants these two back at Lab 14 and they're not going to stay here if you let your anger get the better of you!"

"I know that Experiment Charles!" Experiment Lydia snarled.

"Wow," I said to Derek, "maybe we should let them take each other out and just go this location the back way?"

Derek laughed, "Nah, I say we stay here and watch the show."

Without warning, Experiment Charles turned into a snake and shot out at Derek with lighting speed. Derek rolled his eyes as Experiment Charles wrapped around both his legs. My eyes went wide when I recognized Experiment Charles was the snake in the vision Derek and I saw from Ashley.

I thought for sure this was going to be how Derek would wind up back at Lab 14 being strangled by Experiment Charles and being shot in the head with a bullet from Cora's gun.

"No!" I shrieked. I didn't realize that Experiment Lydia had got behind me somehow because I felt two hands around my neck. When I felt the hands squeeze my neck, my fear turned into anger and I managed to summon a lightning bolt. I took it and after I broke free of Experiment Lydia's hands, I spun around and stabbed Experiment Lydia in the side with my lightning bolt.

Experiment Lydia let go of me and I pushed her back and landed a fist in her gut. This punch sent her flying backward and she landed into a nearby tree. This split the tree in half because I punched her so hard.

All of the other experiments, even Experiment Charles stopped what they were doing and gasped at what I just did. I looked to see Experiment Lydia on the ground knocked out. Experiment Charles unwrapped himself from Derek and transformed back to his human form. When he went over to help Experiment Lydia out, I summoned two lighting bolts this time and I threw them at Experiment Lydia and Experiment Charles and it electrocuted them. I stood there as I watched them screaming in pain shaking with anger.

"That's it!" I roared. "I've had enough! I'm done with this crap! IT'S TIME FOR CORA TO PAY!"

"Henry!" Derek said. He ran over and grabbed my hand. "Henry stop!"

Once Derek grabbed my hand, I looked at him with tears in my eyes. "Why Derek? Why?"

"Because there's going to be more of them coming after us after this," Derek said. "And it looks like the vision we saw wasn't quite one hundred percent correct. I wonder why they didn't say anything about it but I'm pretty sure they have their reasons. Given the-"

Before Derek could finish his thought, we looked down to see that we had been hit with needles filled with the knockout drug. We rolled our eyes. Like when Experiment Sebastian hit Derek with the knockout drug at Experiment Roses wedding the veins in our arms puffed up and the liquid that made the knockout drained out of them from our fingers.

We rolled our eyes again to see that we had been tied up just like when we fought Experiment Rose and Experiment Sebastian.

I raised an eyebrow and thought, Oh boy Derek, this crap again?

Derek grinned and thought, Yup! It looks like it's this crap again!

I'm going to let you come up with the bright ideas this time. I don't feel like having to be forced into proposing to some creature today. I thought.

Derek didn't let go of me because he was laughing so hard.

"Uh, Experiment Elena?" The other male experiment left said. "Why is your future husband laughing while he's tied up and clearly in trouble?"

"Hmmm," said Experiment Elena, "don't know, maybe he can't wait for the wedding to happen, Experiment Wren?"

"Seriously?" Derek said, still laughing, "Nah I'm not excited for our 'fake' wedding because I've already had mine!"

Experiment Elena raised an eyebrow. "Uh-huh now who could you be married to Experiment Derek?"

"Excuse me!" Derek snarled. "I'm not an experiment and neither is Henry not anymore he's not! As a matter of fact, he's my husband!"

Experiment Elena and Experiment Wren with shocked and stunned looks on their faces.

Derek and I broke free of the ropes no problem.

You know what? Derek thought.

I'm listening, what? I thought.

Instead of killing these two attack dogs, Derek thought, I say we use them to send Cora a message. Before we send them on their way to deliver our message announcing our arrivals.

Huh? I thought.

I looked at Derek and saw he had a sinister smile on his face and knew whatever he was planning was probably just about as messed up as the creative way that I've been killing those tricky experiments. He took out of one of his pants pockets, one of his pocket knives that he's been using to kill tricky experiments. He even has a label on it: Kill Lab 14.

Experiment Elena and Experiment Wren's eyes went wide when they saw Derek's pocket knife.

Experiment Elena gave Derek a nervous laugh, "Experiment Derek, what are you going to do? Now you wouldn't hurt your future wife now would you?"

Derek rolled his eyes and snarled, "I thought I already told you, I'm not an experiment! Sorry not sorry, but I'm already taken, see?"

Derek pulled out from under his shirt the necklace around his neck that has his wedding band on it. I did the same thing with mine.

Experiment Elena and Experiment Wren gasped and said at the same time, "No way! It can't be!"

Henry? Derek thought.

Yes, Derek? I thought.

I heard Tiger Stripes laugh, "Before you decide to use one of your weapons to tie these two up I think I can help you with this Master God Henry."

"Oh?" I said. "What do you have in mind?"

Tiger Stripes then let out a loud piercing scream. Honestly, it's a good thing I'm god now and have only one limitation because if I wasn't I probably would be deaf. From what The Grand God Council told Derek and I, once you become a god you don't have to deal with any more limitations added onto the one god limitation you already have.

Derek and I paused when we saw that Experiment Elena and Experiment Wren were frozen in place. I saw Derek's sinister smile turn even creepier as he walked towards Experiment Elena and said, "Come here oh future 'fake' wife of mine! I have a special present for our wedding night!"

Experiment Elena screamed as Derek grabbed her by the neck and slammed her up against a nearby tree. I was surprised he didn't break her neck with how forceful he slammed her up against it.

"No honey," Derek sneered, "I'm not going to kill you, nope, not going to happen just yet. You want to know what I'm going to do?"

Derek let go of Experiment Elena's neck long enough for her to answer. She didn't say anything, she stood there shaking.

Derek grabbed Experiment Elena's right arm and carved the number 14 in it with his pocket knife. He grabbed her left arm and did the same thing to it. She sank down to the ground sitting there looking up at him in terror. He blew her a kiss. "Don't go anywhere yet darling."

He then went over Experiment Wren and slammed him up against a nearby wall and did the same thing to him that he did to Experiment Elena. Only with Experiment Wren, Derek didn't blow him a kiss, before Experiment Wren could sink to the ground in horror, he grabbed him by the shirt and made him stand up.

Derek went over to Experiment Elena and made her stand up. He shoved Experiment Wren forward and did the same thing to Experiment Elena.

"Now baby dear," Derek snarled into Experiment Elena's ear, "go tell your mother that her two beloved son's have come home."

At first Experiment Elena and Experiment Wren didn't move. So Derek barked at them, "Move! Now!"

I couldn't stop laughing as Experiment Elena and Experiment Wren ran away from us as fast as they could.

After that I composed myself and looked at Derek. "And you worry about me becoming a psycho."

"Ooops, sorry," Derek laughed, "I guess I got a little carried away there."

I smiled at Derek and we entered the last location of Lab 14.

* * *

{Cora}

Once again I found myself pacing back and forth in front of the main computer. At this point I was starting to feel a little bit of fear. Mostly because all of the locations of Lab 14 except for the one I was at now have been destroyed. I got an alarm that Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek had just arrived so I sent Experiments Lydia, Elena, Wren and Charles out to greet them.

I got a shock when Experiment Elena and Experiment Wren came running into the main hallway screaming, "Head Cora! Head Cora!"

"What, what is it? What's wrong?" I asked.

Experiment Elena and Experiment Wren looked as if they had seen a ghost.

Experiment Wren gulped, "Um, Experiment Derek and Experiment Henry have arrived and they're on their way inside now!"

I had no idea why but the feeling of fear built up inside of me. I told myself to stay calm and not show how I was feeling. I always told myself to do that in front of my experiments. I paused when I saw blood dripping down from Experiment Elena's and Experiment Wren's arms. "What happened to you two?"

Experiment Elena went from looking terrified to angry. "It seems my future husband has a new found hobby."

Experiment Elena and Experiment Wren showed me their arms and on them the number 14 was carved. I gasped and stumbled backward when I saw their arms. Experiment Elena and Experiment Wren exchanged a look.

"Are you okay Head Cora?" Experiment Wren asked.

I composed myself again, "Yes, I'm fine. Send for Experiment Ada, Experiment Elena, we'll get you cleaned up and we'll prepare for the wedding's!"

I went over to the main computer and pressed the red button on it. It played a pre-recorded announcement I had prepared for this moment. Even though I felt a hint of fear, it was overshadowed by a sense of excitement.

22) The Showdown

{Henry}

I had to admit I was having just as much fun as Derek killing every scientist we came across in the last location of Lab 14. "This is way too much fun hubby don't you think?"

Derek had just activated his 'Tell Me You Hate Me' attack that I like to call the 'Rampaging Bull' attack and he laughed. "Oh yeah! And considering how many of those stupid experiments including my 'future fake wife' were sent to greet us that witch Cora is definitely here alright. Just think of how much fun we're going to have torturing her!"

I chuckled, "No kidding! It's about time someone put her in her place!"

"I wonder if Experiment Elena and Experiment Wren sent our little message to Cora?" Derek asked.

"I have no idea, honestly at this point I just want to kill her, forget about sending her the message," I said.

We rounded the corner down another hallway and a group of scientists were standing in our way. One of them, who was clearly the ringleader, had a sinister smile on her face. I recognized her as Leader Freya.

"Well now, it seems like Experiment Henry's all grown up now. Boy aren't you a looker huh?" Leader Freya smirked.

I rolled my eyes. "I would say it's nice to see you but it's not nice to see you. No, I didn't want to be that creature's husband even if you made me! I have a feeling that witch Cora picked out another creature for me to marry and sorry about your luck but it's not happening."

"Oh come now Experiment Henry," said Leader Freya, "the bride Cora has picked out for you is a beautiful young woman! You two will make wonderful children together!"

I gagged at the thought of having sex with a woman. But then I practically threw up in my mouth. I swallowed my throw up and composed myself enough to speak, "No thanks, I'm not having sex with another woman especially whatever creature Cora has in mind for me ever again!"

Leader Freya rolled her eyes. "You know women aren't that bad right? Unless you're-"

"Gay," I said. I nodded. "Yes, yes I am. By the way I'm already married so yeah."

Leader Freya laughed at that, "Now who on earth would you be married to Experiment Henry?"

I pulled out my necklace around my neck that had my wedding band on it and I pointed to Derek.

I gave Leader Freya a wicked smile. "I'm married to Derek."

Leader Freya doubled over in laughter, "Oh that's funny, two gay experiments married-"

"Okay that's it!" Derek snarled. "I am tired of people calling me and Henry experiments! We're not experiments for crying out loud!"

"Unicorn!" I shouted and transformed. I smiled and thought, It's been a while since I've used this form. I wonder why I haven't done it much lately?

Leader Freya whistled when she saw me transformed as a unicorn. "You're handsome as a human and you're handsome as a unicorn, no wonder why Head Cora's so eager for you to give her children!"

At this point not only was Leader Freya getting on my nerves about the wedding and giving Cora children idea, it was starting to make me angry. I charged up my horn and summoned four shields just like I did when I was fighting Experiment Rose. I shot all four of my shields every which way I could. Before I knew it, every scientist in front of me including Leader Freya was dead.

"Human!" I said and transformed. I dusted my hands off. "Well, that takes care of that."

Derek laughed, "It sure does!"

I looked up at the ceiling and noticed a whole bunch of security cameras lined up all the way down the hallway. "Derek, are you seeing what I'm seeing?"

I pointed up at the ceiling and Derek looked up. "There's security cameras lined up about every five feet down the hallway."

"Exactly! That means the main computer is probably that way. Let's go!" I said.

I didn't know if Derek was keeping up with me or not, but I ran full speed ahead as fast as I could down the hallway eager to put an end to Cora's reign of terror.

* * *

{Cora}

I smiled as I watched the cameras on the main computer seeing that Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek were running down the hallway at full speed. It was almost as if they couldn't wait to see me and for what reason, I had no idea and I didn't care.

It's about time Experiment Henry came back home! Hopefully, this time he'll be here to stay. I thought. With him, I'll be one step closer to the cure for death for sure!

Once Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek arrived at the main computer I was pissed when I saw that they had matching wedding rings on necklaces around their necks.

I snarled, "I can see you two are together," I pointed to Experiment Derek. "But you're not the one we picked for Experiment Henry to be with."

"It doesn't matter!" Experiment Derek roared. "You have no right to tell someone who they should and should not be with. Henry's not an experiment and not your property!"

Before I could say anything a sharp object came flying out of nowhere and went straight through Experiment Derek's head and his lifeless body landed on the ground. I turned around to see that the sharp object had come from Experiment Ada's hand.

"Experiment Ada," I said, with a bewildered look, "what are you doing?"

Experiment Henry was visibly upset. To tell the truth I was upset too that Experiment Derek was now dead before I got a chance to explore what powers he had. I thought for sure Experiment Henry was going to charge at me with full speed but for some reason he was frozen in place.

"I'm sorry God Henry but this is the only way to keep you safe from Head Cora!" Experiment Ada cried. The next thing I knew another sharp object came flying from her hand and pierced Experiment Henry in the chest. His lifeless body fell to the ground.

* * *

{Derek}

The next time I opened my eyes I was in the 'Knocked out of My Body' realm. I had a big headache at first from being shot in the head with something. I groaned not wanting to sit up at first. "That hurt! It just had to be me that got knocked out of my body by being shot in the head!"

I heard Ashley laughing, "Well at least you didn't get knocked out of your body by something piercing your chest."

I finally sat up and looked at Ashley. "Huh? What are you talking about Ashley?"

Ashley helped me get to my feet. She crossed her arms and smiled. "God Henry will be here soon."

She made a motion with her head and pointed. I looked over and I saw Henry laying on his back. He opened his eyes and gasped for air. I ran over and quickly helped him get to his feet. When he got to his feet he held onto me as if he were getting ready to pass out.

"You okay Henry?" I asked.

"Yeah I'm fine. Getting knocked out of your body by being shot in the chest, kind of knocks the wind out of you," Henry said.

Ashley chuckled, "No pun intended."

"Ha, ha Ashley," Henry said. He rolled his eyes.

"See what I told you?" Ashley said. "You're a god and just because you're a god doesn't mean you don't have feelings, God Henry."

"Okay I get it," said Henry, "it still-"

"Yeah I know." I said. I pulled Henry into my arms and gave a passionate kiss. Once we broke the kiss, I had to ask what changed in the vision we saw. "Okay so what happened? The vision didn't play out the way you showed us."

"Well, The Grand God Council did tell me that something changed but they refused to say what," Ashley explained.

"So when do we know our cue to go back?" Henry asked.

Ashley pointed at the floor, and just like when she showed us the vision The Grand God Council relayed to her, a picture popped up. It was like we were watching a movie as the events in the real world played out.

Henry couldn't stop laughing as we saw that witch Cora freaking out because she thought we were dead.

"Experiment Ada what have you done?" Cora panicked.

Experiment Ada then shot a sharp object out of her hand towards Cora, the object stopped in mid air and dropped right in front of Cora.

Cor smiled wickedly. "I think this means I can't be killed."

Henry and I looked at each other as we were watching this and rolled our eyes. What Cora didn't know was that because we had not given Experiment Ada responsibility to kill Cora, her plan wouldn't work. We saw Experiment Ada starting to get angry and the whole building started to shake. She said, "You want to know something, Head Cora? If God Henry hadn't wrecked the wedding, I would have!"

"You know what?" I turned to Henry after seeing this. "I think that's our cue to go back."

"Yeah, the question is who goes back first?" Henry asked.

"In the last vision I showed you, God Henry goes back first," Ashley said. "So I think it's safe to say it should be that way even though something's changed and it's annoying that I don't know what."

"Why me?" Henry whined.

I chuckled. "You know you sound like a kid right now."

Henry pouted and had a look on his face as if he were begging me to go back first. "Why don't you want to go back first?"

"Because I hate the way it feels to be pushed back into your body," Henry replied.

Ashley laughed, "Yeah that happens with newcomers, but you'll get used to it."

Henry pouted, "Fine, I'll go back first."

I snorted. "You know you're awfully cute when you don't want to do something."

"Very funny Derek!" Henry said with sarcasm.

Ashley smiled and thumped Henry on the forehead and he was gone within a matter of seconds. She turned to me and did the same thing. I had to admit being pushed back is not pleasant at all.

* * *

{Henry}

When I opened my eyes I smiled at the horrified look on Cora's face.

"Oh boy Cora," I taunted, "what creature did you pick for me to marry this time?"

I looked over to see Ada, and she was sitting on the floor laughing hysterically. "My name's Ada, that's what you can call me before I die, God Henry."

I exchanged a look with Derek. "Uh, Derek? I did get some sort of brain damage from paying dead?"

Derek shook his head. "I don't think so, if you did then so did I."

"I don't understand, you two were dead!" Cora exclaimed.

"Because you can't kill a god Cora you monster!" I snarled.

"But Experiment Ada couldn't kill me so-" Cora started to say.

I cut her off, "No Cora you're not a god. It's Derek and I that have the responsibility to kill you and no one else's. Only the gods ruling over this universe can hand out responsibilities to people. Since I'm so eager to kill you, I chose to keep that responsibility as my own."

Ada snorted. "That makes perfect sense to me! It's about time that witch Cora got her just desserts. I'll wait my turn to die."

I paused. "Okay, why do you want to die so much Ada? If I recall correctly before you knocked me out of my body you said something about wanting to keep me safe from Cora?"

Ada nodded. "Yes I did. And, that's what I've been trying to do from day one of being created by Lab 14. The key word here is 'trying', and I failed."

"Oh no you don't!" I heard Tiger Stripes shout. I looked over to see that Tiger Stripes wrapped himself around Cora as tight as he could. "Master God Henry, Cora was using your conversation with Ada as a means to escape."

I smiled. "Thanks Tiger Stripes, can you hold her there for a minute?"

Trigger Stripes nodded. "Yes, Master God Henry."

I turned to Ada. "Ada, can you explain what you're talking about?"

Ada sighed, "Yes do you remember the day Head Cora had me rape you?"

I looked away. "Yes, I do."

"Once I went to go get cleaned up, I was so angry that I caused a major earthquake that day," Ada said. "I almost leveled the building. I wish I had."

I thought back to that memory and remembered that there was an earthquake that day and Lab 14 had to transport everyone to another location because of it. I blinked. "That earthquake was you?"

"Yeah," said Ada with a nod. "My powers are that I can cause earthquakes when I'm upset. In order for me to prevent that, I have to puppeteer people to death, mostly men to keep my emotions under control. Ever since Head Cora had me 'play' with you in that stupid cave, I've been plotting and planning to get you away from Lab 14 and help stay away from Lab 14. But it seemed that everything I tried backfired on me. An experiment was killed in front of you because I failed to help you escape.

"When Star Labs came and asked me to work for them, I begged for them to take you with me. For whatever the reason, they refused. No, I didn't want to capture you to make a pay raise, I used that as a way to possibly help you escape. Knowing Princess Luna she was probably going to use you as a way to make a deal with Lab 14 for something."

"No wonder why those tracker experiments were saying that I'm the male version of Experiment Ada!" Derek exclaimed.

Ada raised an eyebrow. "Huh?"

"Well you see Ada apparently, I can cause earthquakes when I'm upset and I can summon boulders out of thin air," Derek explained.

"Lucky!" Ada growled. "At least you don't have to kill people to keep your emotions under control."

In light of this new information I spotted an iron chain sitting on a nearby table. "Derek."

"Yes, Henry?" Derek said.

"Can you take that iron chain and tie Ada up with it?" I asked.

Derek nodded and tied Ada up. She looked at me confused. "I don't understand, is this how you plan to kill me or something?"

"It's more like 'or something', I'll explain once I'm done having my fun with the witch over here," I answered.

After Derek tied Ada up I heard a voice call out for Cora. "Head Cora! No!"

I turned around and a sinister smile when I saw him. The man's name was James the one who did the sick and demented 'rape test' on me before I got released into every single experiment. I couldn't be more happy to see him.

23) Experiment Cora

{Henry}

I put my hands on my hips when I saw James in a scolding manner. "Well now, it's about time you showed up! I was beginning to think you got killed or something."

James paused when he saw me. Then he smiled. "Now look who's here! Experiment Henry, my, my, how much you've grown! No wonder why-"

He didn't finish his sentence when he looked over and saw Cora tied up by Tiger Stripes. He snapped, "Release Head Cora now!"

I tapped my chin with my index finger and then shook my head. "Hmm, yeah I would but no."

James sneered, "Why you little-"

James charged at me and before he got close to me I summoned a lightning bolt and threw it at him. The lightning bolt landed mere inches in front of him. He stopped short and stood shaking when that happened. He looked over at Cora. "Head Cora did you-"

Cora shook her head. "It wasn't me and as you can see I'm a little tied up right to even try and figure out an explanation."

I rolled my eyes. "I'm sorry but you're not going to get a chance to look for one. Not after today you won't!"

Cora snarled when she saw Ada laughing again. "What is so funny, Experiment Ada? When I get my hands on you again-"

"You'll do what?" Ada sneered. "Discipline me again? Oh I'm so scared, someone help me please!"

Derek didn't even bother to stop laughing. I wondered if he was going to pass out. He kept laughing so hard.

Ada looked over at Derek laughing and frowned. "Uh, God Henry?"

"Yes, Ada?" I said.

"Can you stop God Derek from laughing so much? He might pass out," Ada said with concern.

This statement only added fuel to Derek's laughter.

I shrugged. "Nah, besides if he does pass out it won't be for too long anyway. We just came back from the dead, so yeah I'm not worried."

James paused. "Wait, Experiment Ada, did you just call an experiment god?"

"Yeah, so?" Ada said. It was kind of funny to me because she said it so casually.

"An experiment is NOT a god! There's no way that's possible!" James snarled.

"It's too bad you missed the show because God Henry and God Derek did just come back from the dead literally," Ada said.

James looked to Cora to confirm this, she sighed and nodded. "Yes it's true, I saw it. One moment they were dead and then the next moment, they just popped up like nothing happened."

Tiger Stripes let out a loud shout and just like with Experiment Elena and Experiment Wren, Tiger Stripes shout froze James in place. The next thing that happened was we came under a hail of bullets from out of nowhere.

"You've got to be kidding me!" I said. "Okay fine, you asked for it! Unicorn!"

I transformed and summoned my shields again. This time instead of using them to kill, I used them to protect Ada. I was relieved when I saw that I didn't have to protect Cora and James because Tiger Stripes had put a doomlike shield around them.

James smirked. "Don't worry Head Cora, we'll be out of this situation in no time! I called the firing squad before I got here. I knew there was trouble when I saw Experiment Elena and Experiment Wren's dead bodies next to their rooms."

"What?" I said. "Last time I checked, they were alive when we saw them."

"They're dead," said James, "it looked like they bleed to death with the number 14 carved in both of their arms."

Derek snorted. "That was me that did that! Wow, I didn't know Lab 14 would let my 'fake future wife' die. Oh well."

Cora's eyes went wide in horror. "No way, they were supposed to be stitched up and ready to go for the weddings by now!"

Ada smirked. "Aww poor Head Cora, Lab 14's never going to the children they so desire."

As Ada was busy taunting Cora about Experiment Elena and Experiment Wren dying Derek and I were busy squashing the firing squad like a bunch of bugs. Finally, when the last person of the firing squad was killed, I put my shields away and shouted, "Human!"

Once I was transformed into a human, I dusted my hands off. "Hopefully we won't have any more interruptions. So why don't we begin with your punishment huh, Cora?"

Cora's eyes went even wider than before. Derek whistled when he saw that. "Wow Henry it looks like you've struck fear into her heart. Gee I didn't know she had feelings!"

"I'm not scared! I'm-" Cora answered quickly.

I rolled my eyes and cut her off. "You know when someone says something that quickly, they're in denial so bad."

I gave Cora my best sinister smile. Finally it was time for her punishment.

* * *

{Cora}

The next time I woke up, I was terrified. I had to admit, I've never felt afraid of anything in my life except for Venom of course. Experiment Henry was towering over me with a sinister smile on his face. "Well, well, Experiment Cora's awake finally. Did you have a nice nap?"

"I'm not a damn experiment, Experiment Henry!" I snapped.

Experiment Henry laughed wickedly, "Now where have I heard that line before? In case you're wondering, yes you're tied down to something. I wonder if you can guess what you're tied down to? I'm going to give you a little hint it starts with a 'd'."

I looked down to see I was tied to one of the data gathering chairs and the fear inside of me multiplied. This can't be happening! I'm dreaming! I'm dreaming, that's right! Yup I'm dreaming!

"Wow, Experiment Cora," Experiment Henry laughed, "you look like you've seen a ghost! For the record I'm not Experiment Henry, just call me Henry, will you? Or you want to be more correct, God Henry."

"THERE'S NO WAY I'M CALLING AN EXPERIMENT GOD! OVER MY DEAD BODY!" I shouted. "AND I'M NOT A DAMN EXPERIMENT! I'M THE HEAD OF LAB 14!"

"I hate to break it to you, Experiment Cora," Experiment Henry said, "but Lab 14's gone. We're in the very last location of it and once Derek and I are done with you Lab 14 will be gone for good."

Then I heard a hissing noise in my ear. "Master God Henry, can I let you in on a little secret?"

Experiment Henry tilted his head. "Sure Tiger Stripes, what is it?"

"The reason why Experiment Cora doesn't have a kind bone in her body is because she has someone inhabiting her body that is making her heart dark and keeping it that way," Tiger Stripes said. "Oh Venom! Why don't you come out and play?"

I gasped for air as I felt something being pulled out of me. After the feeling left I looked to see Venom standing in front of me and not staring at me in a mirror. She had blue handcuffs on her wrists and struggled to get free of them but it was of no use.

"Let me go now!" Venom shrieked.

Tiger Stripes laughed and it was a strange laugh, I can't even begin to describe what his laugh sounded like. Although when I got a good look at him, he looked like a snake that was blue and had tiger stripes going up and down his body. So I guess the name Tiger Stripes suited him. "Oh Venom you've been such a tricky god to track down. It seems you've found a way around the whole barrier law. You've been able to inhabit someone's body to mask your powers. I think The Grand God Council is going to have to look into this. Although technically you didn't break the law until after the In Between became a universe. Either way, that's why there were scouts sent out like me, to track down gods like you and bring them to the Downward for punishment. Oh and one more thing, Experiment Cora."

"What?" I growled.

"I'm sensing from your emotions that you've been wanting to call Master God Henry by his rightful title this whole entire time," Tiger Stripes said. "But with Venom inside of you, she had been making sure that didn't happen, am I right? Well, if I am then you can go ahead and do what you so desire. If not, oh well, either way, I'll be taking Venom to the Downward. The Dark and his wife will deal with Venom when she goes back home to the Underneath."

Venom looked panicked when Tiger Stripes said that. "No! Don't take me back there! I don't want to go back!"

Tiger Stripes laughed, "That's why the shadows of the Downward sent scouts like me to track gods like you that break the rules. Too bad, you're going back and it looks like you're going back kicking and screaming. But before I go, I do want to hear if my guess about Master God Henry is right from you Experiment Cora."

I bit my bottom lip. Even though Tiger Stripes was right, I didn't want to do what I desired so badly to do. I didn't want to do it in front of Experiment Henry, nope if I was going to do it I would do it in private. Tiger Stripes smiled. "Wow, Experiment Cora, I know that you know I'm right. But it seems you have too much pride to actually do it. Oh well, come on Venom, it's time for you to go back home."

I heard Venom's screaming as Tiger Stripes dragged her away.

* * *

The world kept fading from me off and on because of the pain Experiment Henry put me under. Of course now, I've swallowed my pride and started calling him God Henry. Every time I called him God Henry, I begged for the pain to stop. It seems that no matter how hard I begged my pleas fell on deaf ears. I didn't realize how much pain I had put my experiments under in all the testing I put them through. Of course, I didn't realize it until I found myself on the other end of the stick.

I was surprised that God Henry didn't do the iron test on me or tie me to the ceiling. I wondered why he didn't do it.

Through one of the tests God Henry put me under, I looked over when I heard James screaming and begging God Derek to stop the pain he was putting him under.

"Please, stop this madness, Experiment Derek!" James pleaded.

"Excuse me?" God Derek snarled. "I wish you would stop calling me a damn Experiment! I'm not an experiment and I never was to begin with! Okay I'm done hearing your voice, it's getting on my nerves. Henry?"

"Yes, Derek?" God Henry said.

"Do you remember where the voice box technology is?" God Derek asked.

God Henry smiled and told God Derek what room the technology was in. I stared in horror at the thought that James' voice was going to be taken away from him. The procedure has to be done just right or it can be fatal. I didn't dare do it on God Henry until I perfected the technique. Once I did I used it as a form of punishment for him. He was stubborn, it didn't matter to him if his voice was gone, he wasn't going to cooperate with me, not one little bit. That's another reason why I envied him. His strength and his endurance, Eleanor was right I would never measure up to him.

As God Derek was taking James away I looked over to see Experiment Ada laying on a cot on the other side of the room sleeping. Or at least it looked like she was sleeping, she was tied up with an iron chain as she laid there.

"In case you're wondering, Ada's not dead," said God Henry, "she's asleep, the poor thing. It's been a stressful day for her. No, I'm not killing her. Even though she was misguided in her attempts to save me from you, she was still trying to help. I figured it would be best to have her sleep so she doesn't level the building with an earthquake."

"Oh," I said.

"Now where were we?" God Henry said.

I was in tears by the time the next test was done.

* * *

{Henry}

I was having way too much fun giving Cora her punishment. Listening to her screams begging for me to stop and the best part of all she called me God Henry while doing so. After I had my fun with torturing her I decided it was time to do the final test I had in mind.

Derek had already taken James' voice away from him and wheeled him back into the room where I had Cora in. James didn't not look happy, but at this point, I didn't care.

During Cora's testing there was no way I was going to let her die. I didn't want to have to resurrect her to continue her punishment, once she's dead I decided she would stay dead. An evil person like her should not be able to see the light of day again after they've died once.

Once James came back from his voice being taken out, Derek had James' voice box in his hand and was throwing it up and down as if the voice box were a toy.

I rolled my eyes. "You're having way too much taunting this guy aren't you Derek?"

Derek smirked. "What the guy kept calling me an experiment. I'm not a damn experiment for crying out loud! If I was, I still wouldn't want the 'experiment' attached to my name."

"Oh well, it sucks to be Experiment Cora," I snorted. "She'll have that word attached to her name down to her very last breath."

"I'm not a damn experiment God Henry!" Cora cried.

I rolled my eyes and growled, "Too bad, you're an experiment, get used to it!"

Cora snarled at me, but it didn't bother me, not one little bit. By now, I'm pretty immune to Cora trying to strike fear into my heart. I mocked her, "Aww, that's so cute! Experiment Cora is once again trying to strike fear into my heart. I'm sooo terrified!"

Derek was trying to keep himself standing up because he was laughing so hard. I almost rolled my eyes at it but I didn't want to spoil Derek's fun.

Uh, Derek? I think it's time for the final test, don't you? I thought.

Derek stopped laughing and I saw him throw up in his mouth because he knew what I was talking about. Yeah, are you sure it's time?

Yeah I'm sure. I've had my fun. I'm done with her. But I need to take her voice away first, I'm tired of hearing her screams for mercy. I thought.

Derek nodded. So I untied Cora and put her in the same type of chair Derek had put James in. I grabbed a pair of earplugs and put them in because Cora started to scream bloody murder as she realized her voice was going to be taken away. I was going to turn her voice into a box and after I took it out she would never get it back.

24) The Finale

{Henry}

Once I finished Cora's punishment, Derek and I took Ada and destroyed the last location of Lab 14. I actually had happy tears in my eyes as we flew back to the Resistance HQ. When we got back there we were greeted by Leader Felix. He couldn't contain his excitement and joy at the fact that we had destroyed Lab 14 once and for all.

Leader Felix stopped short when he saw Ada tied up in an iron chain sound asleep in my arms. He whistled, "Now who is this sleeping beauty you have with you God Henry?"

"Her name's Ada," I said, "she was an experiment like me. She has crazy messed up powers that Cora gave her. She can cause earthquakes when she's upset and has to kill people to keep her emotions under control."

"Wow," said Leader Felix, "it's a good thing we've reversed engineered Lab 14's technology so we can take away an experiment's powers. A child with the messed up powers or whatever Lab 14 gave them, should be able to live a normal life afterward. The only thing is it has to be with the child's consent because if not, then we're no better than Lab 14."

I nodded. "I see, I understand. I say we get her set up in a room and probably give her a light sedative again so she won't level the building if she gets upset."

"Works for me," said Leader Felix, "then maybe I can get a chance to get to know her?"

I gagged on that thought. Leader Felix had to be at least twice Ada's age and who's to say she's even into men at all?

Derek gagged. "Yuck! Leader Felix, I forgot how much of a pervert you are."

"Hey I'm not a pervert," Leader Felix replied defensively. "I just like them young, that's all."

"Gross," I said. "I didn't need to know that. But thanks for the info."

After we got Ada set up in a bedroom, I untied her and used my magic to wake her up. She looked around with a look of confusion. "Where am I?"

"You're at the Resistance HQ," I answered, "Lab 14 is finally gone and you're free now."

"But why am I still alive?" Ada cried. "A creature like me shouldn't be allowed to live I-"

"Sssh, Ada," I said, "you were just as much a victim as I was. Not to mention, there is a way to take your powers away from you."

Ada paused. "What? Are you pulling my leg, God Henry?"

I shook my head. "Nope, I'm not joking."

"Yup! We can do that for you, um Ada is it?" I heard Leader Felix. I turned around and just about gagged again when I saw Leader Felix giving Ada a flirting look.

"Uh, God Henry?" Ada said. "Who is this old fart and why is he flirting with me?"

I snorted. "This is Leader Felix, he's the head of the Resistance."

"Oh, what is the Resistance?" Ada asked.

"The Resistance is a place that was setup help stop labs like Lab 14 from taking children from their cribs so they could do testing on them. We also rescue those that worked with the labs to safety once they break their contract with the lab they worked for," Leader Felix said.

"Huh," said Ada, "I heard that Head Cora's assistant Eleanor left Lab 14 almost a year ago. No one knows where she went or how Lab 14 wasn't able to find her. Did you guys assist Eleanor to safety?"

Leader Felix nodded. "Yup, and she went back to her family in the universe she came from. From what I was told she's married and has a child now, a baby girl named Esme."

Ada smiled and had tears in her eyes. "I'm so happy for her!"

Ada paused and she looked shocked about something. I tilted my head. "What?"

"I... I'm confused, I… Actually feel happy for a change? I wonder if I can keep this feeling going?" Ada pondered.

Leader Felix chuckled, "Well, you'll be able to keep it going if you allow us to take your powers away."

"Yes! Yes! I would love that!" Ada cheered.

Leader Felix's jaw dropped for some reason. "Wow, that was fast! Normally it takes a child from a lab a day or two to decide what they want. Are you sure Ada?"

Ada nodded. "Yes, I'm sure. I want it done as soon as possible!"

"Okay then." Leader Felix said. "As a matter of fact, we can set this up within a half hour."

* * *

After Ada had her powers taken away from her, she surprised me by walking around the Resistance HQ with a smile on her face. It was comical when she would hide behind me every time Leader Felix came near her.

"Would you stop flirting with me, you old fart?" Ada said. "How many times do I have to tell you, I'm not interested in men?"

I heard Liza laughing as she came up to us. "You know Leader Felix, when a girl says no, she means no. Now I know you like to rob the cradle but sheez, I think she's old enough to be my daughter."

"Actually no," said Leader Felix, "she's your age, Agent Liza."

Ada blinked. "Excuse me?"

"Oh yeah, that's right I forgot, it's always a custom at the Resistance to show children we've rescued from the labs their real names and birth certificates," Leader Felix said. "Come with me."

"Oh no, I'm not going anywhere without God Henry," Ada said.

"Okay fine," Leader Felix said.

When Ada and I got to Leader Felix's office, he pulled out a file from underneath his desk. When he opened it, the birth certificate on the top of the stack of papers said Amliea Leffit.

"You were taken at the age of ten, kidnapped from your parents when you were on vacation," Leader Felix explained. "The thing is every time we hear of a child disappearing out of nowhere like that, we send a Scout Agent to try and figure out if they were taken by one of the labs. By the time we figured out where you were it was too late. Lab 14 had moved you to another location. It seems when Lab 14 wanted to stop us from rescuing children like you and God Henry they stayed one step ahead of us. It's also possible that once we rescue a child from Lab 14 could find them and take them back. It wasn't until God Henry and God Derek came along that we had any chance of shutting labs like Lab 14 down."

Out of nowhere I heard a voice say, "It seems we got it wrong!"

Derek and I gasped when we saw The Lord God Supreme standing in the doorway.

"The Lord God Supreme!" Derek and I said. We bowed to him and when Ada saw us bowing, she bowed along with everyone else in the room.

The Lord God Supreme chuckled, "No need to bow to me God Henry and God Derek."

"But-" I said when I stood up.

The Lord God Supreme put a hand up to silence me. "Yeah, I know. I rule over the gods and keep law and order among them. But even still it's disrespectful for a god to bow to another god when that god is a guest in their universe."

At this point I was speechless, I had no words. The Lord God Supreme seemed to find my reaction to what he said funny. Finally, I brought myself to say something. "So exactly what did you get wrong?"

"The vision I had your, The Higher relay to you," The Lord God Supreme replied.

"Huh?" I said. "What do you mean?"

"Well, the vision me and the Grand God Council relayed changed the very next week we showed it to you," The Lord God Supreme explained. "That's never happened before! We were very shocked when we saw it."

"Okay," I said.

"I must admit, you two are the most very interesting gods that me and The Grand God Council have ever seen!" The Lord God Supreme said. "Oh and another thing God Henry, are you the least bit curious as to who your biological parents are?"

"Not really, but now that you mentioned it, sure," I said.

"Well the fact of the matter is, you have no biological parents," The Lord God Supreme said.

I gasped, "Seriously?"

The Lord God Supreme nodded. "Before the In Between became a universe, Equestria's universe was the strongest one and well all that extra magic had to go somewhere. So God Levi and God Divine would cause out of control thunderstorms. And after the thunderstorms left sometimes they would leave behind a baby. One thunderstorm created you and another thunderstorm created your sister Princess Sarah."

My jaw dropped and it was hard for me to even pick it up off the ground upon hearing this information.

"Believe it or not," said The Lord God Supreme, "I'm not joking. I don't play pranks, I'm not partial to them. Well, now that's settled I shall be off. Maybe I'll come back for a visit when I have a day off."

Without another word, The Lord God Supreme opened up a portal, stepped through it and disappeared.

* * *

{Cora}

The next time I opened my eyes, I noticed I was hanging from something. So he did decide to hang me from the ceiling after all! I was wondering if he was going to do that. Not that I'm excited about it or anything.

Then I heard a dark bone chilling laugh. "Well now if it isn't the famous Head Cora from Lab 14! I'm so happy you're awake."

I tried to say something to whoever was speaking to me but I couldn't make a sound. Then I remembered, God Henry took my voice away from me. When he showed the box he put it in, he stomped on it so at that moment, I knew I was never getting my voice back, it was gone for good. The next thing I remembered after that was God Henry had my assistant James rape me.

I had a feeling why God Henry made it a point to do this to me. It was the same thing I did to him before I released him into every experiment that was done. The reason I did that test is because I wanted to make sure his sperm count was high enough to give Lab 14 a child that another experiment would bear. Then God Henry was released into the experiment. The hope was that every time he got dropped by a tree and met up with the other experiments in his group, we would be able to collect them and his powers would be strengthened. If his sperm count was high enough and the experiment we picked was already pregnant with his child, we could use our technology to harness God Henry's powers and give them to his child. I figured once the child had God Henry's powers, he would be able to help me be one step closer to finding the cure for death.

But I should've known, there is no cure for death. Ayran was right, who's to say if I did find it, and used it on those I wanted to bring back, would they forgive me for killing them?

I heard that bone chilling laugh again, "Oh Cora? Could you pay attention to someone else but yourself for a change? You might want to try and figure out where you are."

I felt a blast of heat in my face and when I looked around I noticed there was darkness that surrounded me. Okay, where am I? I don't get it.

I looked down to see where the heat was coming from. I stared in horror as I saw I was hanging over a pool of lava and that was also the only light source in wherever I was at the moment.

I heard the voice that matched the bone chilling laugh again. "Have you ever heard of what the afterlife is in whatever universe you're from?"

I searched my memory and remembered my father telling me something about bad people to go to a place called Hell when they die. I gulped when I remembered. But I knew I couldn't answer because my voice was gone. I paused at that thought. Wait a minute! If I'm dead then I should have my voice back right? Unless it doesn't work that way in the afterlife?

"Could you turn your head and look at me Cora?" The voice asked with an annoyed tone of voice. I did as the voice told me to and what I saw sent chills down my spine.

I craned my head around and gulped when I saw what looked like the boogeyman. I knew the boogeyman to be a scary campfire tale growing up. Not to mention he looked just like the pictures I would see in horror movies I watched growing up.

"Allow me to introduce myself," the boogeyman creature said. "My name is The Dark. I rule over this place and this place is called The Underneath and this is where your friend Venom lives. This is also your afterlife. Venom is my daughter and true she is a god or I should correct myself she was a god."

I opened my mouth and tried to speak but no sound came out. Darn, I thought for sure I'd have my voice back in the afterlife.

"In case you're wondering," The Dark said, "it depends on what the reason was you were sent here for your actions when you were alive on what body parts your soul will have. Given the fact that God Henry took away your voice for good. And seeing how much of a despicable person towards him --and with the help of my daughter-- I think it's best to keep your voice away from you. And yes, a god's status can be revoked from them. Even though they are still considered god's, what I mean by removed status, it means that their privileges are taken away.

"That's what is happening with Venom and we've already started phase one of her punishment. Since you can't actually kill a god, we can only scar her for her punishment."

"Honey, dear, can show Venom what's going to happen to her best friend?" Another voice said, this one sent chills down my spine even though it sounded like the female version of The Dark's voice.

I looked and saw the female version of the boogeyman and saw that Venom was standing there with iron shackles around her wrists and a long iron chain was attached to them. The Dark looked at Venom as her eyes were wide as saucers.

"Ah, Minnie and Venom, so nice of you to arrive here finally." The Dark said with an evil smile.

"No! Please don't!" Venom cried.

The Dark laughed, "You always whine and cry like that when something doesn't go your way."

"Don't forget when she doesn't want to be disciplined dear," Minnie chuckled. Her chuckled sounded like a mix between a hyena's laugh and a snake hiss.

"But dad-" Venom cried.

The Dark put up a hand to silence her. "No buts Venom! You broke the rules and you or Cora herself are not above the law! It's evil ungrateful spoiled little brats like you that make the children of gods look bad! I say before we drop Cora into the lava-"

"No!" Venom cried again.

Minnie did a facepalm and groaned. "Dear, can we cut out her tongue and voice now so we don't hear her blubbering anymore?"

The Dark shrugged. "Hmm, we have been authorized by The Grand God Council to punish Venom that way. So why not?"

I looked over to see that there was a pole next to where Venom was standing and I couldn't help but think that it was interesting the things you can see once your eyes adjust to the surroundings. Minnie dragged Venom over to the pole and tied her to it with the iron chain that came from her manacles.

I wanted to protest what I saw happen next but seeing as I couldn't make a sound that was next to impossible to do. Minnie took out a huge knife that looked like a butcher's knife. She made a slit in Venom's throat and I have no idea what she pulled out of it. Either way it made me puke. My puke landed in the pool of lava that I was hanging above.

I looked in wonder to see that Venom's wound had already healed. But when I looked on the ground to see that whatever Minnie had removed from Venom's neck was still there, I was puzzled by this.

The Dark smiled. "I would explain to you all of the in's and out's on the laws that govern all the gods and blah, blah, blah, but your soul is not going to be in existence for much longer anyway."

The Dark pointed at the pool of lava I was hanging over. "You see this pool of lava you're hanging over? It's what I like to call 'The Eraser', you wanna know why? Well, it does what the name says, it erases stuff or souls in this case. Even if a soul gets sent here sometimes given if they are reformed, they get a chance to be reincarnated as something else. However, there are some souls such as yourself, that don't deserve that chance to be reformed or to be reincarnated. So they get sent here, to 'The Eraser' to be wiped out of existence once and for all."

I felt nothing but fear and terror at the thought of not being able to exist again. Amidst all of those feelings, I wondered if that's how mom, dad, Gloria and her pet dog Cody felt when I watched the light fade from their eyes while I killed them.

"Well now, it's been nice knowing you Cora," said The Dark. "But it's time for you to go."

The Dark pulled a lever that was beside him. The next thing I knew I was falling from the ceiling. The only memories I saw flash before my eyes of my life were memories of dad, memories of mom, memories of Gloria, memories of Ayran and then, nothing at all.

25) Who's Next?

{Henry}

Still reeling from the fact that I was created by a thunderstorm Derek and I decided to stay at the Resistance HQ for a while so I could take some time to process things. After I found out the information about where I came from I stayed in my room most of the time Derek and I spent at the Resistance HQ.

Today I was in my room laying in bed staring off into space. So I don’t have any biological parents? Does this mean I was already a freak of nature before Lab 14 tested on me? I don’t get it, was I never supposed to be in this world to begin with?

As the questions kept circling around my head I felt someone tap me on the shoulder. “Oh, hey Derek.”

“How are you doing today?” Derek asked.

I sighed, “Okay I guess. I mean how am I supposed to feel? Excited that I don’t have any biological parents and that I’m a freak of nature who probably wasn’t supposed to be in this world to begin with?”

Derek pulled me into his arms. “Oh Henry, who's to say who should be born and shouldn’t be born huh? The fact of the matter is that you were born and when you think about it in a way, God Levi and God Divine are your biological parents you know because they created the thunderstorms. To me it doesn’t matter where you came from I still love you and I always will. I wouldn’t have asked you to marry me if I didn’t think I would love you.”

I smiled and put my head on his chest. “I guess I should’ve told you how I was feeling in the first place. That does make me feel better knowing that you love me.”

“Henry, it’s okay,” said Derek, “I figured you needed some time to yourself so I let you be. I would probably ask the same questions if someone told me I was born that way. It’s no different than telling someone they were born because they were pulled out of a magician hat. In the long run Applejack and Rainbow Dash are your parents. You are a part of that family and you always will be.”

I heard someone sniffle and I looked in the doorway to see Ada standing there crying. “I’m sorry God Henry, I came to see how you were doing. God Derek what you said to God Henry was the sweetest thing I’ve ever heard anyone say!”

Derek blushed and looked away.

“So Ada or do you prefer Amelia now because that’s your real name and all?” I asked.

“I still prefer Ada,” said Ada. “I’m thinking I’ll stay here and work for the Resistance and help rescue the children from Celestial Labs and Star Labs. I know exactly how many locations are at each lab, mostly Star Labs. That is if it hasn’t changed.”

“Okay,” I said, “so how many locations are there?”

“For Star Labs they have forty locations.” Ada said.

“Oh that’s right,” said Derek, “Leader Felix gave me two maps as to how many locations each lab has. Ada's right Star Labs has forty locations. Leader Felix sent an undercover agent to each of the labs so the Resistance can hack into their systems and figure out how many locations there are. The funny thing is, when most of the children were housed in Lab 14 Celestial Labs in the biggest one with the most locations!"

"Oh?" I said. "How many are there?"

"There's fifty locations!" Derek said.

"So which lab are we going after next?" I asked.

"Well, you picked the last one that we went after and the most evil one," said Derek. "I say we go after the biggest one next!"

I nodded. "Okay then, sorry Ada but it looks like Star Labs is sticking for a little while longer."

"It's okay God Henry, this is your job to do," said Ada, "I don't have a right to say how it gets done. Either way, I still want to work for the Resistance and help out in any way I can."

Derek? I thought.

What? Derek thought.

I was wondering, instead of Ada working as an agent of the Resistance, I thought, maybe she could be our personal Agent?

What do you mean by that? Wait, do you mean like working directly with us on shutting down those labs like Ashley is our The Higher that delivers messages and stuff? Derek thought.

That's exactly what I'm thinking. I'm wondering if we can handpick people to work specifically with us and then they can help get the job done faster. As far as rescuing children from the labs and all that jazz. I mean the Resistance can still help us out too and it's not that I don't like Leader Felix or anything. I thought.

Oh it's okay Henry, I'm sure Leader Felix won't take things too personally. But I think we're going to have to run this by The Grand God Council just to be sure we can even do it. Derek thought.

"Uh, guys? God Derek and God Henry if you can hear this that means you're awake." Ada said.

That snapped us out of our communicating by thought conversation.

"Huh?" I said.

"It was an inside joke that the other experiments had that were working for Lab 14." Ada said. "It was used to snap someone out of their daydreams."

"Oh, sure," I said, "well Ada you might not have to work for the Resistance to help rescue the children."

Ada raised an eyebrow. "Okay?"

"We'll have to run it by The Grand God Council to see if our idea is okay to do." I explained. "Until we get back, can you do us a favor and stay here?"

Ada nodded. "Sure I can do that. Oh crap, when you guys are gone that means-"

"Oh don't worry about Pervert Felix!" I heard Liza chuckle.

I laughed when I heard that, "Uh, Pervert Felix?"

Liza nodded. "Oh yeah, he likes to rob cradles and it's a good thing Ada doesn't wear a skirt. But even still I've seen him staring at her butt every time she walks by."

Derek gagged. "Yeah I forgot about how much of a pervert he is once I gained Agent status working here."

Liza snorted, "Yup, that's where the nickname Pervert Felix comes from. Although I hear you're not into men, Ada?"

Ada nodded. "That's right, not into men at all."

"Well I bet if you get a girlfriend, Pervert Felix will stop chasing after you, hopefully." Liza said.

"How am I going to do that?" Ada said. "I'm new here, I don't know anyone."

"Ever since you arrived here, I know of a couple of female agents that work here that wouldn't mind hooking up with you." Liza said.

"Seriously?" Ada said.

Liza nodded. "Yup. I can introduce them to you and you can get to know them. Even if you don't hook up with them I'm pretty sure they wouldn't mind protecting you from Pervert Felix."

I couldn't help but laugh at this thought. I composed myself. "Okay then, anyway you stay here Ada and we'll be back shortly."

* * *

Once Derek and I arrived at the universe where The Grand God Council was, The Lord God Supreme greeted us. "May I ask how are you doing with the information I provided to you, God Henry?"

"I'm about as fine as I can be." I said. "It's okay even though I don't have biological parents."

"Wow, if I were you and I found out that information," said The Lord God Supreme, "I would be dealing with the shock for longer than what you did."

"Are you sure this isn't a joke?" I asked with hope.

"I'm sure it's not a joke unfortunately," said The Lord God Supreme. "The rest of The Grand God Council and I aren't sure if we're going to tell Princess Sarah this same information. She might not handle it as well as you did. So exactly how did you wind up dealing with this so well?"

I smiled and pulled Derek into my arms and gave him a long passionate kiss. We broke the kiss when The Lord God Supreme cleared his throat. "Oh I see, it's a good thing you have God Derek to lean on. Let me guess he's the more reasonable one isn't he?"

"I guess you could say that." I said.

Derek's jaw dropped. I looked at him. "What? You know it's the truth right?"

"I never thought that was the case actually," said Derek, "I mean sure we see eye to eye on things but ah…"

The Lord God Supreme snorted. "Aww that's cute. You know once upon a time I thought about being married to someone, but then I decided I'm not the marrying type. In over 13million years of living, I haven't changed my mind on that yet."

"Really? I thought for sure a guy like you would-" I said.

The Lord God Supreme cut me off, "Well, enough about that, so what did you want to see me about?"

"Well Henry and I came up with an idea to help us finish destroying the labs. We already destroyed Lab 14 and Cora's finally dead." Derek said.

"I heard about that," The Lord God Supreme said with a smile. "I would think that you two would want to take a break to celebrate. Another bonus to that is Cora's soul has been wiped from existence. She has no afterlife."

I paused. "Wait, what? No afterlife! How is that even possible?"

"It's complicated, let's just say Cora was sent to The Underneath where Venom came from." The Lord God Supreme said. "The afterlife is about as hard to explain as what The Downward is."

"Oh." I said. "I'm not sure if we'll celebrate just yet."

I looked to see that Derek had a look on his face and I knew what that look meant. He was already planning something and knowing him, the wheels were set in motion and there was no way I could stop whatever he had planned.

I did a facepalm and groaned. The Lord God Supreme smiled. "What?"

"I know that look Derek," I said, "you're already up to something aren't you?"

Derek shifted his gaze which confirmed my suspicions. I saw the look on The Lord God Supremes' face and it told me he was in whatever Derek was planning.

"Anyway, Derek and I thought of an idea," I said. "We were thinking of handpicking a few people that know the labs inside and out. One of them we thought of was an experiment like I was, Ada."

"She wouldn't by chance be Experiment Ada, would she?" The Lord God Supreme said.

I groaned. "I really hate the word 'experiment' being attached to someone's name and I'm pretty sure Ada feels the same way. But what we were thinking, is if we could handpick some people to work with us that are willing of course, it would be much faster to destroy the labs. It's not that we don't like the Resistance or anything, they've been very helpful and of course they can still help us out."

"Oh I see what you're saying, you want some other helpers don't you?" The Lord God Supreme asked.

"Well, that's the idea." I said.

The Lord God Supreme laughed, "Why of course that's a perfect idea! You didn't have to run that by us though. The only time something like that would need to be brought to our attention is if you wanted a demigod assistant or something like that. Destroying the labs and ruling over the In Between is your job. How you get your job done is up to you. I think finding those that know the labs inside out will be of a big help to you two."

"Okay then." I said.

"Well, we'd better go back and let Ada know about our idea." Derek said. "We also need to rescue her from Pervert Felix."

The Lord God Supreme doubled over in laughter at our nickname for Leader Felix. "I heard about that nickname. It started happening shortly after the Resistance was set up. It seems he hasn't changed a bit."

"Nice, lovely." I said.

Now that Derek and I had a plan in place, we headed to the Resistance HQ. I'm not sure if I was looking forward to whatever Derek and The Lord God Supreme were planning.

* * *

Once we got back to the Resistance HQ, just like I thought, I was in for a surprise. As soon as Derek and I landed on the launch pad there was a crowd of people waiting for us.

Seriously Derek? I thought.

Actually, I didn't plan anything this time, Derek thought, I just mentioned something to mom and The Lord God Supreme about this. I figured you could use a pick me up with what just happened lately.

No kidding. I thought.

I jumped a foot in the air when I heard trumpets blaring and then when I realized what that meant, I rolled my eyes at it.

"Announcing the arrival of your highnesses the rulers of the In Between, God Henry and God Derek!" I heard someone say. Once that was done the whole entire crowd cheered.

Then just like when Princess Twilight threw that homecoming party for us, Aunt Pinkie Pie made her way up to us. "Once again, I have outdone myself! This is the second biggest party I've ever planned for you guys! I'm so proud of myself!"

"Of course you are." I said with sarcasm.

"Oh come on Henry," said Spike after he hugged me. "It's not that bad. You act as if you don't like parties or something."

"More like or something, I'm just ready to finish destroying those labs." I said.

"A workaholic huh?" Spike laughed.

I heard Earnest snort. "Oh yeah he is, I noticed from the very moment he started working at the Inn with me. That's another good reason he's found Derek as his mate. Because Derek makes sure Henry takes a break."

Derek chuckled, "Yeah and apparently I'm the more reasonable one in this relationship."

Earnest laughed, "I'm not surprised. You're that way even with us."

Earnest doubled over in laughter when Derek blushed and looked away.

"Alright everyone!" Aunt Pinkie Pie cheered. "Let's party!"

Even though I was having fun at the party, I felt anxious about completing the job of destroying the other two labs left, Star Labs and Celestial Labs. But since Derek wanted to go after Celestial Labs next, Star Labs would be sticking around a little bit longer.

* * *

{Princess Celestia name now changed to Celestia because Princess Twilight stripped her of her title.}

"You've got to be kidding, this can't be! I'm dreaming! I have to be dreaming!" I panicked as I paced back and forth while I watched the video footage that one of my agents brought me of Experiment Henry torturing Head Cora, the head of Lab 14. She was calling Experiment Henry, God Henry all the way down to when he took her voice away.

Head Cora was killed by being raped by her assistant James and his voice was taken away by Experiment Derek. The whole video was very graphic to watch and it made me throw up in my mouth a couple of times too. But I made myself watch it anyway.

After watching the video footage for I don't know how many times, I sat down and stared out the window in my room and looked up at the red moon in the sky. For once in my life, I would actually be happy to see Discord pop up unannounced. But from what I was told, Discord's on punishment for failing to do his job as a demigod assistant to God Levi and God Divine.

To add to my problems, I have been stripped of my title by Princess Twilight the ruler of Equestria. The two twin boys Experiment Milton and Experiment Marin turned out to be her twin boys that were stolen from their cribs. Lovely, if we hadn't taken the ruler of Equestria's twin boys from her, then maybe I would've been able to seek refuge there. I doubt Twilight will take in Luna either. To add insult to injury, my cutie mark changed to this horrible looking one. I've never heard of this happening before!

Ever since my cutie mark changed I had one of my servants import a long black hooded cloak that was long enough to cover my flank to hide the new disgusting cutie mark I have now.

As I stared up at the red moon, I hoped beyond all hope that Luna was able to do something about it by now. Then one of my servants came busting into the room in a frenzy. He bowed and I shook my head. "No more bowing to me, I have been stripped of my title as a princess of Equestria. I am no longer worthy of being called 'your highness'."

"Okay," my servant said, "then what should I call you?"

Ever since I had been stripped of my title, I had been thinking of how else I should be addressed now. "Call me, Head Celestia now."

My servant nodded. "Okay. We've received word that every single location of Lab 14 has been destroyed!"

I gasped, "What? By who?"

"From what has been found out," said my servant, "it's the work of Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek, they even killed the tracker experiments that were sent after them!"

I snarled at this information, how on earth could two experiments be the demise of Lab 14? I mean for crying out it's Lab 14!

This is not good, not good at all! I thought.

"Um, Head Celestia?" My servant asked.

"Yes?" I said.

"Should I start making arrangements for your departure to Star Labs?" My servant asked.

When I came back from Equestria, I had been planning to visit Luna and tell her what happened to me. I figured at that point in time, I needed her to lean on. But now with what's happening after Head Cora being killed I figured I should stay put. I shook my head. "No I'm not going, I'm staying here to prepare for something else."

My servant paused. "Uh something else, Head Celestia?"

"Sooner or later Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek will arrive here at the last location of Celestial Labs." I said. "I need to be prepared for their arrival. Celestial Labs won't go down without a fight!"

My servant nodded and I dismissed him. I opened the window and yelled, "Do you hear me Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek! Celestial Labs will not go down without a fight! We will find the cure for death and you will NOT stop us!"

I smiled after I did that. There's no way I'm going down without a fight. There's no way I'm calling an 'Experiment' a god either.

Author's Note

I am currently working on the rough draft to the sequel for this story called: A Black Sun Rises it's not finished yet and it might take a couple of months or so for me to finish it. I'm not sure if I'll publish it on this website or on Royal Road. I'll make a blog about it when the rough draft is finished.

1) Events and Memories

{Henry}

I woke up to the sound of rain. At least this time I was indoors and not outside by a tree. Every time it rained it irked me because it reminded me of the time I first woke up as an experiment, property of Lab 14. Well, I'm not their property anymore. Even though I'm now a god that rules over the In Between, I still have to deal with my memories of growing up at Lab14, coming back one by one.

In the memory that I'm having at the moment, I was young, how young I don't know. I was in my room at Lab 14, playing with some strange toy. It was a round ball that had different shapes and sizes of anything from triangles, circles, and even squares. To unlock the ball, you had to put little blocks in it and the correct color slot. Once you got everything in the correct place, it would open. Or that's what that witch Cora told me. It made me start thinking that it was part of another experiment that she did with me.

I kept playing with the toy, hoping I got all of the blocks in the correct color spots to get the ball to open. I looked up to see Cora sitting there smiling at me.

"Wow, Experiment Henry!" Cora said. "You love playing with that toy! It looks like it's your favorite one."

"I don't know, I just want it open already!" I said. "But I can't and I don't know why!"

Cora looked at me curious about something, "Hmm, let me see."

She took the toy from me and examined what I had done so far. "It looks like you don't have the blocks in the correct color slots."

I titled my head, "Huh?"

Cora then manually opened up the ball and dumped out the blocks I already had in it. "What did you do that for mom?"

"I just want to see something, that's all. Try and put the blocks in there again." Cora said.

I groaned, "Fine, I already had half of them in there."

I did as Cora told me to and I was frustrated that once again, the ball didn't open.

"Hmm, interesting, this might be a side effect," Cora said.

I paused, "A side effect of what?"

Cora shook her head, "I can't tell you, it'll throw off the results from the data I need."

"Oh. Mom?" I said.

"What?" Cora said.

"Can I play with that other form I can change into? You know, the one where I'm on all fours. It looks really cool and I look completely different with it! What's it called?" I said.

"It's called a unicorn and you can't play with that form today," Cora said.

"Why not?" I asked.

"Because you're having your play date with Experiment Rose today," Cora responded.

"But I don't want to play with her!" I whined.

"And why not?" Cora said.

"Because she's weird and she creeps me out! I don't want to play with the other girls either!" I answered.

Cora gave me an annoyed look. "You're going to play with her whether you like it or not!"

"But-" I protested.

"You better play with them, or I'll take that toy away!" Cora snapped.

I didn't want to play with those 'weirdos' Cora wanted me to play with. I'd rather sit in my room and try to work on getting that ball to open instead.

I groaned, "Fine I'll play with that stupid weirdo."

Cora gave me a wicked smile, "I knew that was your favorite toy!"

Honestly, the toy wasn't my favorite one, I wanted to get it opened if it was the last thing I did.

"No, it's not my favorite toy!" I growled. "I'm just tired of you taking my things away!"

"Well, if you're tired of me taking your things away, then you will go and play with Experiment Rose and that's that! Got it?" Cora said.

"Fine," I said.

Cora took my hand and led me to go on this 'playdate' with Experiment Rose. After that, I snapped out of the memory and back to reality.

* * *

"It's about time you snapped out of it!" I looked over to see Derek sitting on a chair at the kitchen table next to me.

When we became gods on the In Between, we set up our base back at the Inn where we first met. I was kind of wary about doing that, but since we're gods now, we used our powers to strengthen the barrier around it.

I sighed, "Yeah I know and I'm getting sick and tired of these stupid memories I'm having about growing up at Lab 14!"

I looked at Derek to see that he was nervous about something.

Oh boy, I know what that look is for! I thought.

"There's something I want to talk to you about," Derek said.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to know what he was so nervous about. The last time he acted this nervous was when he decided to throw a surprise birthday party for me last year. "What are you up to? Not another surprise birthday party again? Because if that's the case, I think you're a little too early on that."

Derek snorted. "Your reaction to that was priceless! I'm glad I had a camera for that."

"Yeah and inviting my not godfather Discord. What were you thinking?" I said.

"What? I was just thinking you can spend some quality family time with him, that's all." Derek laughed.

"Ha, ha very funny," I said.

"Okay fine, you got me, I'm up to something," Derek said. "I'm just going to ask you this outright. Henry, will you marry me?"

Derek took out of his pants pocket, a small black box. I gasped when I saw a silver ring with a diamond on each side of it. I didn't have to think twice about my answer. I sat on Derek's lap and kissed him. Derek started laughing after that.

"What's so funny?" I said.

Derek smiled, "You always do that when your answer is yes."

Derek put the ring on my necklace beside the ring I already had on it. Aunt Apple Bloom explained to me that the ring and the necklace were to help with what a pony can have growing up called power surges. They were supposed to balance your magic out, to help ease the pain from it. Usually, those start when a pony turns about the age of three. That's the exact age that Lab 14 stole me from my crib.

According to Aunt Apple Bloom, the power surges I would have would be so bad that I would pass out and sleep for three days straight. That made sense to her because I figured out how to do teleportation spells by the time I turned two years old!

My parents Applejack and Rainbow Dash had no idea who my real parents are. Honestly, I could care less who my real parents are. To me, my real parents are Applejack and Rainbow Dash and not that psycho Cora.

After Derek proposed to me I just said yes, I remembered something. It was something Cora would do every time I didn't get into a relationship with the experiment she chose. Somehow, she would find out who I wanted to be with and kill them in front of me, just to make a point. I know Derek and I are gods now, so we can't be killed. It still scares me that something might happen to him.

I have no idea how Derek does this, but he seems to know when I'm worried about something.

"You're worried about something, aren't you?" Derek said.

I sighed. "Yes, do you remember Experiment Rose saying she was the one Cora picked for me to give her children?"

Derek nodded. "Yes."

"Every time, I didn't do what Cora wanted me to, somehow she was able to find out who I liked and she would kill them in front of me just to make a point," I said.

"You realize that's not going to happen to me right?" Derek said.

Even though I knew Derek was right, it still didn't stop me from worrying. I was snapped out of my worry with Derek laughing in my ear. "Huh?"

"I'm gonna say the same thing you said to me when I was afraid of leaving the In Between when we became gods," Derek said.

"Okay," I said.

"What part of the word 'god' do you not understand?" Derek teased.

I fell off Derek's lap on my back laughing because as always, Derek is correct.

* * *

{Leader Felix}

I'm getting sick and tired of Discord constantly popping up, he's popped up what, over a hundred times now? For some reason, he pops up every week at least fourteen times a day, and then he goes back to his universe. Of course, if Discord won't go back willingly, God Henry would get the opportunity to shoot lightning bolts at him and force him to go back. Most of the time that usually works. From what I can see, Discord is terrified of God Henry, and with good reason too. Discord's the reason why God Henry figured out he could summon lightning bolts because he pissed God Henry off.

Now God Henry and God Derek are working with me to help free the children from the locations of Lab 14 before they destroy it. Unfortunately, they're children that decide to work with Lab 14 and those are the children that God Henry and God Derek deal with. I'm going to assume they kill those children. Honestly, I have no idea what God Derek and God Henry would do to those children, and I don't want to know.

What's funny is that I never thought I'd see the day when I would have to call one of my top agents, god. God Derek and God Henry don't seem to like the title of god added to their names. God Henry I can see not liking another title added to his name because of what Lab 14 did to him. Yeah, Experiment Henry, property of Lab 14 my butt! I can't wait until God Henry gets a chance to kill the witch that runs the place, Cora. She's the reason why he lost his voice. Somehow, Lab 14 found a way to turn someone's voice box into a literal box, it can be taken out and put back in at any time. Both getting the box taken out and put back in isn't pleasant in the slightest. From what the kids traveling in God Henry's group told me, Lab 14 uses that as a form of corporal punishment. When Discord got assigned to break God Henry out of Lab 14, he failed to get God Henry's voice back for him. God Henry went without his voice for almost a year because of that. Fed up in dealing with Discord's incompetence, I sent one of my agents who just so happened to be God Derek's mother, Agent Liza to retrieve God Henry's voice.

Then Discord pissed God Henry off by claiming to be his godfather and just making a pest out himself in general. Thankfully, Discord isn't God Henry's godfather, turns out Applejack and Rainbow Dash gave that job to Princess Twilight's assistant Spike. Which is pretty hilarious to me.

I also still can't believe all of the children that were traveling with God Henry to the Resistance, are royalty now. Prince Milton and Prince Martin are Princess Twilight's two twin boys that Lab 14 stole from their cribs. Prince Milton is now married and his wife is Princess Jane. Princess Aria turned out to be adopted by Princess Cadance and Prince Shining Armor, Princess Sarah who is God Henry's little sister is married to Princess Aria. Then there's God Henry, he's royalty to the highest degree of it. You know, because he's a god now. I'm also happy that God Henry found someone to love and protect him as God Derek does.

As I went over my paperwork I heard a pop signaling Discord's presence in my office yet again. I groaned. "What might be your reasoning for popping up this time?"

"I figured God Derek and God Henry might be calling you soon, I miss them!" Discord said.

I rubbed my temple, feeling nothing but annoyance with Discord. "Let me ask you Discord, do you really think God Henry and God Derek want to see you?"

"Well of course God Henry would want to see me!" Discord chimed. "I'm his godfather after all!"

"Uh, no you're not!" I snapped. "If I recall correctly, you're the reason why God Henry can summon lightning bolts when he's angry."

Discord shrank back in terror at the very mention of God Henry being able to summon lightning bolts when he's angry. I burst into laughter at Discord's reaction.

"That's not funny, Leader Felix!" Discord snapped.

I kept laughing at Discord and he pulled on his beard to show his annoyance with me. I could care less if he's annoyed. The one that should be annoyed here is me.

"At least you don't have a pet name you didn't want." Discord growled.

"Oh, you mean Pestcord?" I said. "I think it's a wonderful pet name for you! That's exactly what you are! Considering how many times you pop up in my office for no good reason!"

"I'm not a pest!" Discord whined.

"You know, the more you say that the more people are going to think it's true," I said.

I got an alert on my desk which had a blinking light on it, which means either God Henry or God Derek is calling. Most of the time, it's God Derek that calls. Once the alert sounded, out of the button on my desk came a holographic screen that showed God Derek on it.

"Hi, Leader Felix," said God Derek, "it's good to see you again."

"God Derek!" Discord cheered.

God Derek groaned, "Is that the voice of Pestcord that I hear?"

I chuckled, "Yup, that would be him."

"I'm not a pest!" Discord protested. "I'm not that bad!"

"Honestly, I'm glad Henry's parents gave the job of godfather to Spike instead. Especially since you piss him off the most!" God Derek said. "I just invited you to Henry's birthday party last year as a joke. I'm surprised he didn't shoot lightning bolts at you then. Now that you think about it, I did have to hold him back quite a bit."

"Oh, before I forget," I said, "I want to congratulate you two on your engagement."

"Thanks, Leader Felix!" God Derek said with a smile.

"Hey," said Discord, "you didn't thank me for it when I congratulated you! I'm God Henry's-"

"I swear Pestcord," God Derek growled, "you're NOT Henry's godfather! Get that through your thick skull already!"

"Yes, God Derek." Discord mumbled.

"Oh and one more thing, Leader Felix." God Derek said.

"Yes, God Derek?" I said.

"Give a warning to your agents not to get in our way when we're doing our job or I'll let Henry's next lightning bolt hit the mark! Got it?" God Derek said.

I nodded.

"Haha," teased Discord, "Leader Felix just got reprimanded by God Derek! That's funny!"

"And that goes for you too, Pestcord!" God Derek snapped. "You're lucky Henry's asleep right now. I don't think he'd be too happy to hear your voice. Anyway, here's the location of where we're headed to next."

I looked at the location and typed some keys on the holographic screen to record it. "Oh, are you guys going to be popping up at the Resistance HQ anytime soon?"

God Derek shook his head. "I'm not sure about that yet. Maybe, if Pestcord isn't around."

"I don't like that nickname!" Discord growled.

"Oh yeah?" God Derek snapped. "Well get used to it! You're getting on my nerves and you're getting on Henry's nerves the most! Oh, Henry's waking up, so I better go. I'll be sending the next location we're going after soon."

With that, the call ended and I turned to Discord. "If I were you, I would get lost and stop coming around all the time! Don't you have a job to do back in Equestria? How you got to be an assistant for God Levi and God Divine is beyond me! Now get lost, I'm trying to do some work here!"

"Fine." Discord mumbled.

Thankfully, Discord snapped his claw and disappeared. I hope he stays gone.

12) Please stay calm God Henry

{Henry}

It was the night after we had destroyed another location of Lab 14 and there was still no sign of Cora. We still had twenty-four locations left to destroy. I still dreaded the day when I would have to face Cora again.

For some reason when I go get my two hours of sleep lately I've been having strange dreams. To me a strange dream is better than a bad dream or a memory of growing up at Lab 14 any day.

Since there weren't a whole lot of locations left Derek and I were taking breaks from destroying Lab 14 more often. Today I was finally able to get to sleep after being awake for a while.

That's when I had that strange dream. The dream started out with me sitting next to a young boy on a bridge near a river. I knew the young boy's name was Derek. The Derek in my dream looked a lot younger than what he looks like in real life.

"So what game are we going to play today?" Derek asked. "Mom said I could stay out later today!"

"I don't know." I picked up a small rock and skipped it across the water.

"What are you thinking about Henry?" Derek asked.

I wasn't really thinking about anything much but wondered why Derek and I were so young in this dream.

"Never mind that," said Derek, "it's a good thing you live down the street with your father. He's a pretty nice guy. Because if you didn't live so close, we wouldn't be able to get together like we do now."

I tilted my head and blinked. "My father?"

Derek smiled, "Yes, he owns the store that's in town. I have something I want to ask you."

"Ask me what?" I asked.

That was when the strange dream took a turn for the worst. I stared at Derek in horror as the pupils in his eyes disappeared and his eyes turned all purple.

"I was going to ask you to tell me you love me!" Derek said. His voice was deep and reminded me of Experiment Rose. After that, I woke up.

* * *

I woke up in the bed in a cold sweat and I was shaking. Derek said, "Darn it!"

I looked at Derek in confusion. "Huh?"

"Sorry Henry," said Derek, "I was trying to help you stay asleep peacefully again working with Tiger Stripes. It seems your brain overruled that. Somehow the dream turned into the Experiment Rose. I was so hoping that it would help you stay asleep. You've only been asleep for a half hour now."

"Oh." I said. "It's okay Derek. My mind doesn't work the way yours does."

"I know," said Derek, "you didn't grow up in a loving environment like I did. When my family and I saw the awful things those labs were doing, that's when we decided to start working with the Resistance. Every time we tried to get you out of Lab 14 you were moved to a new location. It's funny because it took Pestcord breaking you out of there for us to help keep you safe."

I yawned, "Yeah, but of course I didn't get out of there in one piece. But I knew that was going to happen anyway because it's Lab 14. No one goes inside Lab 14 and gets out in one piece."

Derek smiled. "Yeah I know, at least you look tired enough to go back to sleep now. I will make sure you stay asleep like I always do. I already slept earlier anyway."

I didn't know how tired I was until after Derek kissed me. So I rolled over and went back to sleep.

* * *

"Rain," I said to myself, "I hate the rain! Why does it even need to rain here anyway?"

I finally got my two hours of sleep that's required for me to and I woke up to the sound of rain. It always drives me nuts when it rains. It's because it reminds me of when I first woke up as part of Lab 14's Experiment.

"Well, at least it's not a thunderstorm!" Derek teased.

I groaned and then rolled my eyes. Derek started laughing so hard he fell off the bed.

"Well Derek," I growled, "you try waking up when it's raining outside and not remember who you are and then see how you feel about it!"

Derek composed himself. "Sorry, I just thought it was funny because you don't like it when it rains. I guess I shouldn't take how you feel about it lightly. It's just I've never come across someone who doesn't like rain."

"Gee I'm glad I'm entertaining, but this guy," I pointed to myself, "hates the rain! I don't think I'll change my mind about it anytime soon."

Derek started laughing again. I didn't do anything in response. I just sat there staring out the window, watching the rain droplets slide down it. That was when I realized how much hatred I have for the rain. I had half a mind to create a planet to make sure that it didn't have to rain to help the forest's of the In Between prosper.

"I bet you're trying to figure out a way to keep it from raining here aren't you Henry?" Derek asked.

I rolled my eyes and said with sarcasm, "That's cute, you know me so well."

Derek sat behind me and put his arms around me. I guess that's his way of comforting me. Honestly, just being in his arms in general always comforted me.

"We are the gods that rule over the In Between now," said Derek, "it doesn't have to rain here if we don't want it to."

"I guess so," I said, "it might take a while for the residents to get used to it."

I didn't say anything else because Derek bit my ear. "Ow! Hey, what was that for?"

"Hmm," said Derek, "I just felt like biting you."

"Yeah you've been doing that randomly lately," I said.

"I know," said Derek, "it's just so much fun teasing you like this. If I wanted to have sex with you, I would let you know."

I rolled my eyes again. "I know that."

My mind went back to thinking about how much I hate the rain again. I was just about lost in thought when Derek bit my ear again.

"Seriously!" I snapped. "I'm not food Derek! If you're hungry then go get something from the kitchen!"

Derek snorted, "I know that Henry. I'm not hungry, I'm just playing around. Just chill out okay?"

"Yeah, sure you're just playing alright." I said with sarcasm mixed in with a hint of annoyance.

Derek then put his tongue in my ear to keep teasing me. I growled, "Your teasing is starting to get on my nerves!"

"Hmm, I'll try to stop but I can't make any promises." Derek said. He bit my ear again.

I was getting ready to get up and walk away. Derek must've sensed I was getting ready to do, so held me tightly.

"I think you should relax, you've been so worried about facing Cora again, you're stressing yourself out because of it," Derek said. "Your nightmares have been getting more intense lately. I've been trying to help you with it but it's been very hard to."

I had to admit it but Derek was right. I was so consumed with being worried about facing Cora again and hoping I had the strength to kill when I did see her again. To tell the truth, I was terrified of Cora so much, I didn't know if I would be able to kill her.

I sighed, "You're right Derek. I'm not sure if I can relax. I don't think the word relax is in my vocabulary at the moment."

Derek started to laugh but then caught himself. "Hmmm."

I could tell by his body language that he was coming up with some sort of idea.

"What are you thinking about?" I asked.

"One word," said Derek, "magic…"

I panicked when I heard that word. "Nope! No way!"

I was getting ready to run when Derek stopped me. "Calm down Henry, it won't be my magic, it'll be yours!"

"Excuse me?" I asked. I felt nothing but confusion by what Derek just said.

I heard Tiger Stripes laughing hysterically.

"What is so funny Tiger Stripes?" I said.

"How do you think we've been able to give you pleasant dreams lately?" Tiger Stripes answered.

"Well, if you want to call my strange dream pleasant then okay," I said. "I'd rather have a strange dream than a nightmare any day."

"We've been using your magic to hijack your dreams to try and turn them into something pleasant," Derek explained. "It doesn't always work because your memories of growing up in Lab 14 have a tendency to take over."

"We're trying to get you to stay asleep and wake up feeling relaxed," Tiger Stripes added. "I wonder if this would work better if you were awake for this instead?"

"I'm not sure if putting me under a spell would count as me being relaxed," I said.

Derek chuckled, "Oh Henry, it would be no different than when we have sex. You're barely aware when it happens. I wonder why that is?"

I shook my head. "I don't know."

"Maybe," said Derek thoughtfully, "do you think that it's because with me you feel safe and relaxed when it happens?"

I thought about it and smiled because I realized that's exactly what happens. When I'm with Derek, I don't feel the need to run. All I want to do is stay put and I don't want it to end every time it happens. Derek bit my ear again and it snapped me out of my thoughts.

"Ow!" I said. I smiled. "Now that you think about it, I don't feel the need to run when I'm with you. I chose to stay put because I love you."

"Aww," said Tiger Stripes, "true love is so cute. It almost makes me want to cry. So what do you say Master God Henry?"

I nodded. "Sure if it'll help, I say go for it."

"In the meantime," said Derek, "I think I'll just take advantage of the situation. If you know what I mean."

"Yeah," I said, "I don't want to know."

Derek sat on me and made me lay down on the bed. He smiled. "It starts with this..."

He pointed his index finger to my forehead. I didn't realize how tense I was until after a while I felt very relaxed. When Derek kissed me, I was barely aware of what was going on. At that moment, I didn't care what happened to me.

* * *

{The Lord God Supreme}

I was sitting in my chambers looking out the window to my universe and I had a smile on my face. I had just recently built a new planet as a tribute to God Henry and God Derek. It was a medium-sized brown planet with a large tree sticking out of it. The tree was chopped in half and the stump had a hole drilled into it. It was my day off and I was thinking of what planet I was going to build next year.

I was listening to some music when I got an alert. I rolled my eyes at it so I put my robes on and went to go see what it was about.

I was surprised when I saw the other gods that made up The Grand God Council had shuffled into the viewing room. The lights in the viewing room dimmed and the viewing table that sat in the middle of the room lit up.

"What's going on, Your Highness?" God One asked.

I shook my head. "I don't know God One, I just got the alert."

Before we could say anything else, we heard a voice coming from the viewing table that signaled the beginning of the viewing session. "Come with me and you will see a tale of a horrible tragedy. Future you'll see the truth unfold, an unspoken story that needs to be told…"

All of the other gods of The Grand God Council and I gasped at what we saw next. It was a vision that we had relayed to God Henry and God Derek. It looked completely different now. God Henry and God Derek would face off with Cora at the last location of Lab 14. God Henry now had a rope attached to a belt around his waist. When Cora saw the wedding rings around God Henry and God Derek's necks she was pissed.

"You're not the one I picked for Experiment Henry to be with!" Cora snarled.

"It doesn't matter!" God Derek roared. "You have no right to tell someone who they should and should not be with! Henry's not an experiment and not your property!"

Then a sharp object came out of nowhere and hit God Derek in his head and his lifeless body dropped to the ground.

Cora gasped when she saw where the sharp object came from. "Experiment Ada, what are you doing?"

"I'm sorry God Henry," cried Experiment Ada, "but this is the only way to keep you safe from Head Cora!"

A sharp object came out of Experiment Ada's hand and it went through God Henry's chest. His lifeless body fell to the ground with a loud thump. Another sharp object came from Experiment Ada's hand and it went towards Cora and stopped in mid air and fell to the ground.

Cora gave a smug look. "I think this means that I can't be killed."

"You want to know something Head Cora?" Experiment Ada sneered. "If God Henry hadn't wrecked the wedding, I would have!"

Cora looked down at the ground horrified when she saw the looks on God Henry and God Derek's faces on their seemingly dead bodies. God Henry stood up and gave Cora a sinister smile. Shortly after that, God Derek did the same thing.

Experiment Ada smiled at this and God Henry returned the smile. Cora kept staring at God Henry and God Derek in shock and disbelief.

"Oh boy Cora," said God Henry, "what creature did you pick for me to marry this time?"

Experiment Ada started laughing hysterically, "My name is Ada, that's what you can call me before I die, God Henry."

God Henry exchanged a look with God Derek, "Uh, Derek? Did I get some sort of brain damage from playing dead?"

God Derek shook his head. "I don't think so. If you did, then so did I."

"I don't understand, you two were dead!" Cora exclaimed.

"That's because you can't kill a god Cora you monster!" God Henry snarled.

"But Experiment Ada couldn't kill me so-" Cora started.

God Henry cut her off, "No Cora you're not a god. It's Derek and I that have the responsibility to kill you and no one else's. Only the gods ruling over this universe can hand out responsibilities to people. Since I'm so eager to kill you that I chose to keep that responsibility as my own."

That's when the vision ended. As I watched the vision I had been thinking about what to do about this new information. After the vision ended I made up my mind. "I think it's best that we keep this to ourselves. God Henry and God Derek have enough on their minds as it is. I also want to see how this plays out in the end."

God One through Five nodded their heads in agreement. I smiled. "Well, let's set this decision in stone."

With that, the viewing session ended and when I parted ways with other Gods that made up The Grand God Council I couldn't help but wonder how things were going to turn out for God Henry and God Derek in the end.

13) First Vision

{Henry}

I finally got a chance to figure out how to use my mother Applejack's rope. I figured since it was a rope, I could use it to swing from place to place.

I stood outside by the now empty barn and hooked the rope to a nearby tree branch. I proceeded to stand on top of the barn and jumped, swinging myself into the nearby pond.

The geese in the pond squawked and flew off when I landed in the water. I swam up to the surface and got to the edge of the pond and sat down. I wasn't able to contain my laughter when I saw the geese reaction to what happened. I looked over to see Derek leaning up against the barn with a smile on his face. "Having fun Henry?"

I chuckled, "Oh yeah, it's about I got a chance to play with my new toy. And it's a toy that I want to play with this time!"

Derek almost fell over. He was laughing so hard. "I'm going to guess it's because Cora didn't give it to you?"

I smiled, "You guessed it! Also it's because my mom had it last."

"I do love hearing you laugh, Henry." Derek said. "I was surprised to hear it when I came around the corner. It's been a long time since I've heard you laugh like that. So I figured I would just stand here and watch you have fun."

I felt stunned by what Derek just said but quickly got over it because I knew that he was always right. The words 'fun' and 'relax' I didn't feel that would be possible much until Cora was dead. It seemed like it was going to be rare to me because the last time I had fun like this was when I was apple bucking with Sarah.

I smiled, "Once again Derek, you're right. Until Cora's dead, I'm not sure if I'm going to have much fun."

I had also figured out a way to call my rope back. It's strange because I figured it out when I was playing it and all I had to do was point my palm towards whatever direction my rope went in and it would come back to me and it would wrap itself around my waist when it came back to me.

Derek gave me a curious look. "That's pretty cool, the new weapon you got. It's almost like it's connected to you."

I nodded. "Yeah. You wanna give it a try?"

"Sure, what do I do?" Derek asked.

I handed Derek the rope. "Just point the rope and hook it on where you want it to be. Then stand at the tallest point from where the rope is hooked on and well I think you know what to do after that."

He did exactly what I told him to. He landed into the pond right next to me. This time geese were very pissed off at having their afternoon swim interrupted again. It surprised me when they didn't come over and attack us for it. Even though Derek laughed at this, he seemed puzzled as if he thought the same thing.

I tilted my head. "What?"

"Normally, when geese are pissed off and they feel threatened they will defend their territory like we defend ours," Derek explained. "I wonder why they didn't come and attack us?"

I shrugged. "Beats me! Your guess is as good as mine."

When the geese got settled into doing their afternoon swim again, I thought about pissing them off just for shits and giggles. Derek looked at me and I could tell that he knew what I was thinking. He went into a fit of laughter.

I raised an eyebrow. "What is so funny Derek?"

Derek snorted. "You want to piss them off again don't you?"

I gave him a mischievous smile and nodded. Derek couldn't stop himself from laughing.

"Too bad they can't go beyond the barrier because they'll get zapped if they do," Derek laughed. "And they don't need to migrate because there's no seasons here in the In Between."

"Well if they won't defend their territory then that's going to make it even more fun for me!" I laughed wickedly.

Derek chuckled, "I think we might've found another way to help you relax other than using your magic to help you."

That's what we did for the rest of the day. We kept waiting until the geese got settled back to their swim again and we disturbed their swim. Finally, the geese got so agitated that they retreated into the barn for the night. I must admit that was a lot of fun.

* * *

The next time I fell asleep, I had a really strange dream. It wasn't a memory and it didn't feel like something Derek and Tiger Stripes would do for me. The dream was just strange and eerie. The dream started out with me being tied to a chair and I thought I was going to be taunted by Cora again. I looked over and saw a goofy looking kid, he looked like he was about Derek's age or younger. He had blue hair and purple eyes. To me it looked like he was the male version of Experiment Rose.

"In case you're wondering," the boy said, "I don't have a name. I'm just a tracker experiment sent to track you down and bring you back to your home, Lab 14 where you belong!"

I snarled, "Lab 14 is my home? You've got to be kidding me!"

"But Head Cora wants to see her son again!" The boy chimed. "Don't you want to see your mother again, Experiment Henry?"

I rolled my eyes. "First of all my name is not Experiment Henry! It's God Henry to you! If you want to see my birth certificate, it says Crimson on it because Cora just decided to change my name. Second of all, Cora's not my mother. My mother's are Applejack and Rainbow Dash! Cora stole me from my crib when I was three years old!"

The boy frowned. "But Head Cora raised you! So that makes her your mother and you should be happy to see her again!"

I groaned, "Let's see, tutoring me and wiping my memory over and over again is raising me how?"

The boy showed no reaction to that whatsoever. "No matter, you're coming back to Lab 14 one way or another."

I growled, "The only way I'm going back to Lab 14 is to finish what I started and to kill Cora once and for all! Not because you made me!"

The boy rolled his eyes. "Boy, Head Cora did us you are quite a handful. She said she really wanted some data from you because it's rumored that you created the red moon in the sky."

I stared at the boy. "Of course I made the red moon! Only a god can do that, you idiot!"

"Wow," the boy said, "someone's awfully sure of themselves. You won't be so sure when you're back at Lab 14!"

I groaned and rolled my eyes. "As I've told Cora many times before, do your worst!"

"Oh I'll do my worst alright!" The boy sneered.

I rolled my eyes again as the boy put a hand on my back and it felt like my shoulders suddenly fell asleep. The boy screamed and jumped back after he did that.

"What was that supposed to do? And why did you just scream?" I asked.

"Well that was supposed to stun you so that the others could come up and knock you out," The boy explained. "I couldn't do it because your skin is so hot to the touch even through your clothes!"

I laughed at the boy just to be spiteful. "Cora must've botched your group of experiments she sent after me if that's all you got!"

"What do we do now?" I heard another kid panicking.

"I don't know," the boy said, "looks like the three of us will have to work together before Experiment Derek finds the rest of us! He's sure to find Experiment Henry and kill us as well."

I smirked. "Did you just say my husband killed some of you? That's my Derek for you!"

The boy paused. "Did you just say Experiment Derek was your husband?"

"Yes my husband," I snapped, "and there's nothing you or Cora can do about it!"

The boy didn't say anything. I felt my body go numb from the waist up. I heard shrieks of pain after that.

Oh brother, this is getting on my nerves! Time to make my exit and kill the rest of these fool's! I thought.

I looked down to see the ropes I had been tied up in were burned to a crisp. All I had to do was stand up. I stood up and turned around to see three terrified Tracker Experiments. Then I heard Tiger Stripe's voice, "Master God Henry? Can I eat them? They obviously have evil intent and I haven't been to the Downward to eat yet. It'll save you the trouble of killing them yourself."

I gave three terrified experiments a sinister smile. "Sure Tiger Stripes, after this, you should be pretty full for the rest of the day afterward."

Tiger Stripes then ate each of the Tracker Experiments one by one. He burped in satisfaction, he gave a grateful hiss and thanked me for the meal.

The next thing that happened was that I laughed like a psycho. As I laughed I wondered how many more experiments like the tracker experiments Cora was going to send after me. I would just give them to Tiger Stripes for his next meal. It's a shame that I couldn't enjoy the dreams ending for too long because I woke up.

* * *

I opened my eyes and felt Derek kissing me. I could tell by the way he was doing it, he was panicking. When he saw I was awake, he stopped kissing me.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"What in the world were you dreaming about Henry?" Derek said.

"There were Tracker Experiments trying to take me back to Lab 14 by force. The leader of them was a young boy that didn't have a name. He had blue hair and purple eyes. I could've sworn he was a male version of Experiment Rose! I don't know what kind of powers he had because it didn't work. The other Tracker Experiments were terrified because you killed the rest of them.

"Tiger Stripes volunteered to eat them, so I fed them to him as his meal. I started laughing like a psycho because of my version of the dream's happy ending for once," I explained. "So what was I doing in my sleep this time?"

"You were laughing like a psycho and I thought it was another nightmare because you said you weren't going back to Lab 14 and it's not your home anymore," Derek replied.

Derek frowned when I started laughing like I did in my dream. Derek paused and his eyes went wide in terror. I tilted my head. "What?"

"Did you say young kid with blue hair and purple eyes? Looks like the male experiment of Experiment Rose?" Derek squeaked.

I raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, why?"

"I had the same dream the last time I was asleep!" Derek said.

"What?" I gasped. "How is that possible?"

Derek and I just sat there in silence trying to figure out why this happened.

Tiger Stripes started laughing, "I know exactly why that happened. You two do realize you're god's right? That was one of the first visions that you two will share."

"Okay," That was the only thing I could think of to say at the moment.

"You'll have to figure out what to do about this on your own," Tiger Stripes responded. "You guys are gods now. So you're not ordinary creatures. I'm pretty sure that's bound to be more surprises that will happen to you along the way."

* * *

Derek and I just sat there with a long awkward silence between us. Finally, Derek broke the silence, "What do we do now?"

I shook my head to try and shake off the feeling of uncertainty, "I'm not sure if there's anything we can do except wait for the vision to come true."

"Oh joy," Derek said with sarcasm, "I can't wait!"

I found Derek's sarcasm funny and Derek frowned at me as I was laughing.

"What is so funny Henry?" Derek asked.

I snorted. "My future husband is actually afraid of something for once."

"I'm not afraid of this," Derek said quickly.

I raised an eyebrow and smiled. "Uh-huh, sure you're not."

I laughed at Derek's reaction because he blushed and looked away.

"You know something Henry?" Derek said. He took a deep breath and let it out, "I really hate to admit it… But… You're right."

I snorted. "Excuse me? I'm right for once? Wow."

I laughed even harder because Derek couldn't look at me at the moment.

Derek rolled his eyes. "No comment on your laughter."

"You do realize it's okay to be afraid of something right?" I asked.

"Not for me it's not!" Derek replied.

"Why not?"

"Because I don't get scared!" Derek snapped.

"Really? You do realize that you can have feelings even though you're a god right?"

Derek sighed, "I know, it's just embarrassing especially in front of you."

I grinned and this time I bit my bottom lip to keep myself from laughing. "It's okay to be scared Derek. Hey, I have a long list of things I'm afraid of, facing Cora again is one of them."

I then tried to console Derek by reaching over and kissing him. Derek kept kissing me as he grabbed me and held me in his arms.

* * *

{Leader Felix}

I'm always glad when I get a call from God Derek. I was still amazed that one of my top ranking agents is now a god. Of course if Discord would stop popping up that would be great. It's almost as if Discord knows when God Derek is going to call because as soon as the call with God Derek started Discord popped up.

God Derek groaned when he saw Discord, "Pestcord! What do you want this time?"

"I'm not a pest!" Discord whined like he normally does.

I groaned along with God Derek at Discord's protest.

I tried to reason with Discord, "Honestly Discord! Stop popping up all the time! I have work to do and so does God Derek! Too bad they don't have pest control for rodents like you!"

"Hey!" Discord said. "What I want to know is why didn't I get invited to your celebration party a few weeks ago?"

"I have no idea because we didn't do it!" God Derek snapped.

Once Discord turned to me for an explanation, I shook my head, "Don't look at me! Princess Twilight was the one that planned it!"

"But my daughter was there," Discord pouted, "even Fluttershy got to go!"

I couldn't help but laugh at Discord and God Derek joined. When we stopped laughing at Discord, God Derek teased, "Wow you're whole family got to go and you didn't?"

Discord scoffed at God Derek and stuck out his tongue. After that God Derek rolled his eyes because he knew what Discord was going to say next. "No Pestcord, Henry's asleep and there's a reason why I call when he's asleep. We both agreed that I would be doing the calls and don't play the godfather card because you're not his godfather!"

God Derek then gave me the coordinates to the next location that he and God Henry would be going after. When I saw the location I gasped because that's the location next to where God Derek and God Henry would be having their wedding planned by The Grand God Council.

God Derek tilted his head and raised an eyebrow. "What is it?"

I gave a nervous laugh and lied, "Oh nothing, nope nothing at all, anyway, we'll do what we usually do. Until next time God Derek."

God Derek nodded and ended the call. Once the call ended, I looked over and saw Discord grinning at me.

"No Pestcord!" I snapped. "It's my own personal information and it's none of your business!"

"Personal information huh?" Discord said.

"Yeah," I snapped, "personal information. Now if you'll excuse me, I have work to do so get out!"

"Fine!" Discord said. He snapped his claw and disappeared.

Once Discord left I typed a couple of numbers on my keyboard underneath the holographic screen that I just had the call with God Derek on. I was calling The Grand God Council, The Lord God Supreme to be exact. The Lord God Supreme answered the call and gave me a kind smile.

"Ah Leader Felix," said The Lord God Supreme, "I'm going to assume you have the next location that God Henry and God Derek are headed to?"

I nodded. "Yes Your Highness."

When I sent the location over to The Lord God Supreme he gasped, "Well I'll be! Looks like their The Higher is doing a better job than expected. They'll be at the waterfall in no time at all. Good thing Discord doesn't know."

I smiled and nodded. "I totally agree! Discord would just ruin the surprise."

"Fortunately," said The Lord God Supreme, "only the gods that we've granted access to the waterfall are allowed to attend. That being said, you and Spike of course along with God Derek and God Henry's families will be able to attend. I'm thinking about reconsidering not inviting Discord and maybe invite him after all."

I chuckled, "I'm surprised you're even considering inviting that pest. He did his job half-heartedly, and didn't get God Henry's voice box back. Because of that God Henry had to go without his voice for almost a year! I'd like to take Discord's voice away for double the amount of time and see how he feels about it!"

The Lord God Supreme tapped his chin thoughtfully. "While that is an interesting punishment I'm not sure if that can be done. God Henry's voice was taken away because he wasn't a full fledged demigod yet. After Cora took his voice away she dropped him by a tree and that was the last time he died. His voice didn't come back because it wasn't inside of him yet. Although I have seen The Shadows of the Downward that govern the Downward put shock collars on the gods so they can't protest their punishment. And I have seen them put on a god that's on house arrest and has a lesser punishment."

This idea of punishment piqued my curiosity. "Hmmm, shock collars huh?"

The Lord God Supreme nodded. "Yup, I've also received an alert that God Henry and God Derek shared their first vision together."

I raised an eyebrow. "Oh? Any idea what it was about?"

The Lord God Supreme shook his head. "No, I can't see what the visions are about, just that it's happening and how they react to it."

"So how did they react?" I asked.

The Lord god Supreme laughed, "You're not going to believe this, but God Henry thoroughly enjoyed it. God Derek on the other hand was actually afraid of it."

My jaw dropped when I heard that, "Well I'll be damned! God Derek is terrified of something! He's never afraid of anything! Trust me, I know, I mentored him when he was training to become an Agent. He didn't even flinch when he was held up at gunpoint."

The Lord God Supreme smiled. "Well believe it or not, God Derek's afraid of something alright."

"Okay then," I said, "is there any other information I need to give you?"

The Lord God Supreme shook his head. "Nope, everything's set up. Just be at the waterfall and wait for their arrival. I've changed my mind about inviting Discord. He's not invited, I'll let The Grand God Council know. I'm sure they'll be happy with that decision. That's all for now."

Once the call ended, I went into a fit of laughter at the thought of Discord not being invited to the wedding. He'll be disappointed because he claims to be God Henry's godfather. I would feel sorry for Discord, but what's the point? He's a pest anyway.

17) The feeling of Love

{Cozy Glow}

I have a few reasons to hate the job of having to track down incompetent gods and demigods like Discord. I hate it because oftentimes the gods I've been assigned to track down are very hard to find. Sometimes I have to go track down gods from other universes. That is also annoying.

Another part of my job is to find those that were workers and have left greedy corporations and escort them to safety. Nowadays, this part of the job is being done in the In Between. That's because of those stupid labs that have been set up and are doing their evil deeds. They claim the reason for their evil deeds is that they're looking for the cure for death. Yeah, that's a practically impossible cure to search for. Why they want to interrupt the cycle of life is beyond me.

God Divine and God Levi turned me back from stone in order to do this job. They didn't choose Tirek or Queen Chrysalis probably because they thought I would be the easiest one to reform and they were correct. All they had to do was change my viewpoint on what friendship is.

In tracking down this next person that left Star Labs almost a year ago. Her name is Willow.

I hope I'm granted a vacation after this. This is the tenth tracking assignment I've had to do this week and back to back too! I don't blame them though. Lab 14 and the other labs that have been set up by Princess Celestia and Princess Luna are just pure evil! The fact that they even use the excuse that they're finding the cure for death to steal children from their cribs and change them into something they're not. That's just cruel. God Henry had the worst of it! I thought.

On this tracking assignment, I had help. The pony with me was another reformed villain. Her name is Flizzlberrypop but her villain name was Tempest Shadow. I admire her because she's a unicorn and even though she has a broken horn, she can still do some magic with it.

We were in the In Between, looking for the woman named Willow when we stopped at a cave.

"Hmmm," Fizzlberrypop said.

"What is it?" I asked.

Fizzleberrypop pointed a hoof at the entrance of the cave. I looked to see a woman dressed in a green shirt and blue jeans. Pinned to her shirt was a gold star. On closer examination of the star, it said Star Labs employee on it. They examined the woman's arm to see that it had been burned and the wound had been cut open. They didn't need an explanation as to why this was because there was a tracking device next to her dead body.

"I'm guessing that she was trying to get the tracking device out and that's how she died," Fizzleberrypop said.

I shook my head in sorrow. "It's sad she didn't have anyone to help her like Discord did with Eleanor. If I recall correctly, based on the picture, the woman's name is Willow. She broke her contract with Star Labs over a year ago! Let me take out her picture to confirm this."

I put my saddle bags on the ground and pulled out Willow's file to confirm that it was her. I sighed, "That's Willow. We need to take her body to The Resistance so they can send her back home to her family."

Finding people and ponies dead is another reason I have for hating this stupid job.

* * *

{Henry}

The next day I woke up from my two hours of sleep to find myself being held in Derek's arms. "You know you're being really overprotective of me lately."

"What?" Derek laughed. "Someone has to protect you. Because no one protected you growing up. I am your spouse now."

I didn't respond to that, because I knew that once again, Derek was right. He's always right, which is why I don't argue with him. When I get upset with him, I usually steer clear of him and then talk to him later when I've cooled down. I think I've rubbed off on him because he does the same thing. In the end we always work things out.

I stayed in Derek's arms and put my head on his chest. It always comforted me when I did that.

I looked up to see Derek smiling at me. "I'm glad I have you. It seems we work well together. Which is good because we're the gods that rule over the In Between now."

I nodded. "Uh-huh, it's also good now that we have the power to create different planets now, because we can create one to get away from people when they annoy us."

"I'm telling you, those agents of The Resistance are getting on my nerves!" Derek said.

"Yeah, too bad I can't kill them because that's against the rules." I said.

"Let's hope I don't get angry enough with them to cause an earthquake and summon a boulder to throw at them," Derek said.

I nodded my head in agreement. With only twenty more locations of Lab 14 left to destroy, now more than ever I can't wait to get my hands on Cora so I can kill her and end Lab 14 once and for all!

* * *

{Cora}

Experiment Henry has been gone from Lab 14 for over a year, and it's all thanks to Discord. Not only did Discord get on my nerves every time he popped up, but now he's taken my favorite experiment from me.

I'm not worried though. Experiment Henry will return to Lab 14, he'll marry Experiment Ada and give me the children that are necessary for the experiment to be completed. I'm so close to finding the cure for death, I just know it! From what the tracker experiments have told me, Experiment Henry's along with Experiment Derek's magic strings have gotten stronger and they can't touch them because they're too hot to handle. It's just like when I tried to get Experiment Henry to marry Experiment Rose, the restraints that had put on him and Experiment Derek started to melt and I could barely touch them when it came down to changing them into their wedding tuxedos.

I still wonder why that happened. A lot of people around Lab 14 are saying it's because Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek are gods now. Yeah, no and even if they were, I'm not calling them God Henry and God Derek anytime soon, because I can't with Venom inside me.

Apparently, I made a deal with Venom when I was very young. The deal was, I let Venom stay in my body and in return, Venom will see to it that my heart remains cold and dark. Why I would even make such a deal with someone like that, I have no idea. Honestly, I think I can cause harm and chaos on my own, thank you very much. But now, there's a fifty-fifty chance the Venom might pop up and make sure that I'm not even thinking about how sometimes I view Experiment Henry as a son. Honestly, I really do feel that way about Experiment Henry, I feel like he is my son in a way when he's actually not. I know he's not because I stole him from his crib at the age of three.

It always amazed me that every test I did on him, I made sure to cause as much pain as I could on him, but he refused to scream or show me any satisfaction that he was in pain. Every time I did the last test which consisted of putting an iron rod in Experiment Henry's chest and yanking it out from the side. He didn't scream not one time every time I did it before I could reprogram him. I had to keep him awake for it because for some reason, even though I could only put the devices on his right side, somehow his powers would short circuit even then. That always annoyed me. All I want to do is find the cure for death. When I found it, I could withhold the cure until I was paid in full for it.

The last experiment I did before Experiment Henry escaped, I made a scientific breakthrough. Not so much with the cure for death. But a way to help heal someone's wounds a lot faster than modern medicine could. That to me, is one step forward to the cure for death.

However, every time Venom tried to take how I felt about Experiment Henry away from me, it didn't work, because the feelings never went away. It will never go away, I'm the one that raised him, so that makes me his mother. But I know Experiment Henry will never see it that way, I don't blame him after what I did to him. I also know that I stole him from his real home and it didn't matter if I raised him or not, I was never his mother to begin with. Applejack and Rainbow are Experiment Henry's real parents. I still feel kind of guilty that I killed them to keep them from finding their son. I mean kind of guilty, but not much sense he's my favorite experiment hands down.

From what Discord told me, Experiment Henry wants nothing more than to kill me. I don't blame him either. But I can't die, not when I'm so close to finding what I'm looking for.

As I kept thinking about Experiment Henry, I walked past a mirror and sure enough, Venom popped up.

Venom cleared her throat, "Ahem."

I rolled my eyes. "You know you've been trying to take away my feelings for Experiment Henry for like what, weeks now? It's not going to work, you do realize that right?"

"Oh really?" Venom said, giving me a sinister smile. "I've taken away even more stubborn feelings people have had for each other before. Or at least I think I have. Yeah, you're probably right, one feeling that I can't seem to get rid of from you humans is love. That's an annoying feeling you humans have!"

I made sure to show my annoyance with Venom. "Well, maybe it's because you've never had the feeling of love for someone. I had that feeling for the previous head of Lab 14 and we dated because of that even though he was ten years older than me. When we broke up it made me want to hurt everyone around me even more. So tell me Venom, have you ever fallen in love with someone?"

Venom shrugged and shook her head. "No, I can't say that I have. It's an annoying feeling to have anyway."

"Wow." I said. "Anyway, I'm off to work, now would you stop popping up every time I walk past a mirror?"

Somehow, even with Venom shrugging and shaking her head, she never lost her sinister smile, not once. Normally I'm not afraid of anything, but Venom scared me silly. I thought firing my gun in the air when I'm angry was scary to people, but Venom tops that.

Venom laughed, "I can tell by the scared look on your face, you're just a little puppy dog compared to me. And I don't like anything that's supposedly cute. I thought for sure when I met you that you wouldn't be like any other regular human because of your sinister ideas that you had for harming animals. But turns out, once again I was wrong. That is also annoying! But fine, I'm leaving for now. See you soon Cora, now do some damage for me today, will you?"

I groaned, "Whatever, I can do that without your help. Right now, you need to get lost and for good too!"

"You can't order me around Cora, because I have more power than you do!" Venom sneered. "In any case, I'll be seeing you soon."

After that, Venom disappeared from the mirror and I sighed.

* * *

{Experiment Ada}

When I saw Cora talking to the mirror and calling it by the name of Venom, that explained so much why she's so cruel to people.

Okay, then, yup she's cruel and psycho and probably needs to be reprogramed herself. Although I doubt that's possible. I thought That's more than enough reason to keep God Henry and God Derek away from her! At least I can call Experiment Henry and Experiment Derek their rightful titles has gods in my head now. From what I know of, Lab 14 hasn't created an experiment that can read people's and if they did, I'm going to be the one to kill them.

"Wow," I heard Experiment Charles say, "I've never seen Head Cora this anxious about something before. But it is Experiment Henry that she's waiting to arrive here. So I guess I can't blame her. He is pretty sexy and I can't wait to get in bed with him."

I rolled my eyes. "You know you're getting on my nerves when you keep saying that!"

Experiment Charles smirked. "What? I can't help it! Aren't you on pins and needles as you wait for him? You are going to be his bride after all."

Experiment Charles looked down at the stupid engagement ring Head Cora's now making me wear. It's actually my worst nightmare come true. It has a silver band with a tiger's eye stone to match hazelnut eyes. It's funny how Head Cora picked someone to marry God Henry who's eyes match his almost. I guess Head Cora decided she doesn't want children with eye colors this time around.

Experiment Charles smiled. "That ring Head Cora gave you really brings out your eyes. I like women also. It's a shame I can't be with you until you give Head Cora children. After that I can have both of you."

"Not without my consent you won't!" I growled.

Experiment Charles raised an eyebrow in such a way to taunt me. "Oh? I won't? We'll see about that. I can always ask Head Cora to give me the same drug she's used on Experiment Henry to make him stay put and aroused for it."

At that comment, my anger just about hit the roof. "You wouldn't dare! If you weren't an experiment with no name, I'd kill you where you stand just for even thinking like that."

Before I could go beat the crap out of Experiment Charles, Head Cora stepped in between us to stop it.

"Experiment Charles and Experiment Ada stop it right now!" Head Cora roared. "We don't need Experiment Ada causing any earthquakes and leveling the building before the wedding! Experiment Charles, I would appreciate it if you stop bugging Experiment Ada about Experiment Henry! Geez, I know he's sexy and all but you can't have him or Experiment Ada until after they produce children for us, got that?"

Experiment Charles gulped and nodded his head.

"Good!" Head Cora snapped. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have some work to get done and you two play nice."

I laughed at the expression on Experiment Charles' face as Head Cora walked away. The expression on his face was nothing but pure terror. Boy, I can't wait to get God Henry away from Head Cora. It's too bad I'll have to kill him to do so.