Two roads lay before Savage Grimm, one led to Twilight Sparkle's crystal castle and the other led straight to Alla.

"Which way to go?" Savage chuckled, "Oh why not both ways!"

Red mist rose from the psychopathic marauder, swirling into a tornado of transmutation the mist formed a second Savage Grimm.

"Go, old debts must be paid after all." The first Savage snarked.

"Indeed, not to infect or absorb, but to restore," here the second Savage paused, "Although I think this form would not be welcome."

"For certain Mr Grimm," Savage intoned, So perhaps a better form Eh?"

"Indeed Savage," Jack Trades answered. This from will be much more agreeable.

"Even with such a drab coloration and such a dull cutie mark, I am still such a handsome fellow." Savage complemented Jack.

"Well, must be off. Mustn't keep dear Sparkles waiting, eh?" Jack bid Savage farewell.

Taking the path that led to the crystal castle Jack Trades turned one last time and said unto Savage, "Twilight is just as much a victim as we. I will look after her as long as I can. Once she is alone I will undo all that was done. She will remember us. She will remember what Cadance and her BBBF did unto us and Chrysalis. Thus our vengeance on them is complete. We will be square. All debts and transgressions done."

Savage shook his head once Trades walked off. "I am entirely too dramatic an individual."

Continuing to shake his head Savage took the path that led directly to Alla. None were left to bring him pause, it was time to end all of this. Alla would be safe.

Savage looked up at the warehouse that held Alla. Narrowing his eyes he snorted dismissively.

Tch! Holding your hostage in a warehouse, such a cliche. Rolling his eyes at the tackiness, he guffawed, "still I have always wanted to do this."

Strutting up to the front door, he raised his hoof to kick the door in, but was disappointed when it swung open of its own accord, the door giving off an ominous squeal.

"Oh c'mon! You can't even give me kicking in the bucking door!

Stomping in sullenly, he smirked as he saw the cameras, "Look, I've been n candid camera this entire time!" He chuckled, They better have caught my good side.

"You don't have a good side, Savage." A famaliar voice snarked. "Now come and untie me, we need to talk."

Savage's ears wilted as he slunk over to the love of his life, "I am sure that we can work things out, sweetie." Savage cajoled, I am sure that I can explain my ----

A slap interrupted Savage as he freed the stout Unicorn.

"You lying monumental Jerk!" Alla ripped into him, "What was the one promise I asked you to make?"

Savage's ears went down further, "Not to use lethal force."

"Then why did you use coming to save me as an excuse to break that rule?"

"It was the only way to ----"

"Horseshit!" Alla again interrupted him, "You are for all intents and purposes an intelligent telepath assimilation virus. You did not have to kill a single being. You could have easily just came and got me. Hell, you could have immobilized any that stood in your way. Then move on by. You told me how your powers work. I am the one being that knows everything. I helped you explore them! Try again, Why did you slaughter your way here when you knew what my reaction would be? Why did you waste the time? Buck, without all the killing to hold you up you'd have been her 2 hours ago! But no you used this hole incident to cement the return of the Sunless! Don't tell me this is about anything else. You monumental ASS!"

Savage hung his head, no words came from the Stallion that had brushed all others aside. Sniffling, he mumbled, "I'm sorry Alla, forgive me?"

Sighing Alla turned away from Savage. "I forgive you and I still love you. But I cannot be with a Stallion that does the things you do. I won't drag my family and others into this mess. I will always love you, I just can't be with you."

Savage nodded, then growled out a promise, "I understand. If you or any of those that you call family ever find themselves in the darkest of places. They will find that they have an ally. That the darkest of place is their ally. They only have to speak my name, I will hear and I will look after them. It is the least I can do. Your family took me in when I had nothing, treated as one of them. Therefore they are one of mine and I protect that which is mine."

Alla shook her head, "Savage, I hope that day never comes. Goodbye Savage. I hope this was all worth it."

Walking out the door, Alla left Savage within the warehouse. He made no move to stop her.

A chortling laugh echoed into the warehouse, "The great Savage Grimm, whipped!"

Savage smiled, C'mon out Winter. We both know you want to gloat."

Another laugh echoed out into the now empty warehouse. "Why of course, Savage! I will happily join you."

Wheeling himself up to the standing Savage, Gale sneered at the large stallion. "Brought low by a dying stallion, to weak to walk. Broken by a simple mare, not even one of the Sunless. So falls the great Savage Grim from grace!"

Pausing to cover his mouth as he hacked and coughed, Savage watched as Winter Gale pulled back a red coated hand. Kneeling down, Savage took Gale's hand in his own.

Smiling nastily, he breathed out his red mist, that soon forced its way down Winter Gale's throat.

"Still such an amateur Gale. I'm not going to kill you. Instead I have just arrested disorder. You will never recover, but you will no longer die from it either. This is my gift to you. I will in no way seek to harm you either. I will even vouch for and sponser your daughter as she joins the Sunless. She's such a cute little thing I will enjoy giving her all the help I can." Savage leered.

Rising once more to his feet Savage looked behind Gale and uttered, What is thy name child?"

A chill wind blew through the warehouse, Winter Gale turned to see his only daughter removing the last of his tools from the box.

She looked her father square in the eye as she said, I am Arctic Gale and I look forward to all the help I can have from you, Savage. After all, you spared my father, and allowed me to ascend to his place. I absolutely loved that letter you sent me, it made so many things perfectly clear," her eyes became as cold as her voice as she asked, So Father, is it true that you raped and killed my mother? That I was birthed by dark magics from her cold dead corpse?"

Sauntering over to Savage, she draped herself off of him, "I take from your silence that the answer is yes. We are done, I at last have the power and patronage to leave your diseased presence. I imagine when the guard catches up to you the evidence I've been recording this entire time will be most useful in convicting you.

Savage bore his teeth at Gale, "Me and Arctic have to be going. We have a Council of the Sunless meeting to attend. Official business, you understand. Something that you no longer have any influence on."

Savage dissolved into Red mist, while Arctic Gale turned translucent and dispersed, leaving one old, sad, pathetic, individual all alone and adrift.

Author's Note

here it is, second to last chapter. The next one is the last. This was setup to be a series. Well guess what? I AM NOT GOING TO BE THE ONE TO DO IT! Anyone out there can pick this up and run with it. I just want one thing. PM me the link to whatever you guys right so that I can read them. You all very well may do a much better job then I did on this. Lord knows I did not set the bar very high on this one, UGHHH!!!!!