Vermeyo Sky Island.
Indigo stood on an exposed stone platform, the hem of his white coat snapping in the wind. He gripped a glass vial filled with thick, slow-moving liquid.
"Scarlet, the admiral is short on men. He needs fighting strength, now!"
He held the vial out to the pink-furred gorilla before him.
"I need you to take more IQ immediately. The same goes for all your beast underlings."
Scarlet was the undisputed king of beasts on Vermeju Sky Island.
He possessed terrifying strength and could summon every beast on the island with a roar.
"Ubo! Ubo!"
Scarlet excitedly beat his broad chest with his thick forearms, producing a series of dull thuds.
He lowered his head, opened his mouth, and swallowed the vial of IQ from Indigo's hand.
The moment the drug went down, Scarlet began to tremble violently. His bones cracked, and his muscles swelled as though they were being pumped full of air.
He grew before their eyes until he stood a hundred meters tall, like a mountain of flesh.
The power surging through him burst out in a deafening roar. Its shock wave uprooted towering ancient trees and sent branches, leaves, and dust flying.
Indigo watched Scarlet's transformation, a feverish gleam in his eyes.
The hastily prepared drug had worked far better than expected.
He immediately tossed Scarlet every vial he had left.
"Quick! Inject every animal on the island with these! We need an army!"
An overdose of IQ would strip its subjects of all reason, turning them into monsters that knew only how to kill. Their bodies might even collapse under the strain of their new power.
But none of that mattered to the Flying Pirates, who desperately needed more troops.
If they won this battle, what did the loss of a few test