Author's Note

Hey, is it okay that I update pretty fast? I sometimes try to slow down and make sure things are fine, but I feel like I update too fast. Maybe I need to focus on my other story, or maybe publish a new one, idk.

Meh, maybe I should focus on making another story.

Welp, see ya next chapter

It Was The Butler! He Ate The Cookie!

Smolder was glad that the class ended very early today, she and her friends were going to do something, but Krieg had came by and dragged them all away to hang out when he heard that they were free for the day. Only Smolder and Gallus weren't happy while the others also wanted to know the psycho more, but at least they didn't have any assignments. Now they were all inside the castle with Spike, who was forced to join in on whatever Krieg had planned, Ember was nowhere to be seen, the smallest dragon in the room had told them that the dragon lord had somewhere to be.

Now they all sat in one of the many rooms in the castle in a circle, waiting for Krieg to finish what he was doing, they didn't have to wait longer as the beast took out a box out of nowhere, probably from his inventory as he told them. He quickly began unpacking the box which consists of a bunch of miniature character pieces which are species they have never seen before, except for Spike since he has already seen it, Smolder picks up the one thing that catches her eye, it was a hairless creature that had the same mask and buzz axe as Krieg.

"Hey Krieg, is is this supposed to be you?" She asked him before handing it over to the others so they could see.

"Yes, see how it has pecs that has pecs like me!? I am tiny flesh man!"

Gallus checks under the Krieg model to find 'Krieg The Psycho' written under, the griffon places it back down before picking up a red headed model, he turns it over to read what was under it. "Gaige The Mechromancer?"

"Yes, that's Little Red! She likes metal booms and red steel torso of awesomeness!"

Ocellus picks up one of the pieces of paper from the floor. "It says here on her character sheet that she's a human. Those mythical creatures?"

"Hold on a second," Krieg looks over to Spike who was sitting right next to him. "are we playing Ogres and Oubliettes?"

"No, Bunkers and Badasses!"

"Also, why am I here?"

"Big Red told of me of the blood you shed, the bones you've shattered, the darkness you banished, and I need aid in painting this family portrait of desire and agony from the void! The numbers, they are the tools of the artist, and I need you to count off the dead so we can have equal portions of the meat!"

"Oh, you want my help on being GM for the session, especially on math, alright." Spike had to pat himself on the for understanding Krieg's psycho talk, all it took was stalking him yesterday.

At first, they have thought the models were Krieg's original characters, but when Gallus chooses Zero as his character, the psycho got very excited. "Ninja Man! He speaks in haiku a lot!"

"Wait, isn't that the guy you told us about, the one who taught you haiku?" Sandbar asked him and received a rapid nod from the beast. "Krieg, are all of these based off your friends? If so, where are they now?"

"Yes, these are them!" Then his mood changes, he looks down at the papers on the floor as the memories reminded him of what he had. "It's been long..."

Sensing the change of emotion quick enough, Sandbar tried to distract him from feeling sadness. "Hey, Krieg, I think we should continue picking characters, you're next Ocellus."

"Hmm, who will I be?" Ocellus ponders to herself, she then decided to pick up the blue haired one, this peaks Krieg's interest, Sandbar sighed in relief.

"Sweet Bug chooses good one! Pretty Lady is siren, she can hold people in the air so her friends can gut them like a fish!"

Spike turns his head towards Krieg so fast it gave him a little pain. "Pretty Lady!?" He and the young six loudly said in the same time.

"Yes, the prettiest lady I have ever seen, she makes my stomach growl in hunger, I want to hold her close on my meat bicycle as we both ride towards the burning sun so we could set it on fire!"

"What about princess Ember?" Silverstream asked him.

*Ember? Krieg, ask what she means about Ember.*

Krieg looks over to the hippogriff. "Why ask about Blue Flame?"

"Well, she is pretty for dragon standards, I was just asking for your...opinion."

Smolder almost frowned. "How about we just move on?" She picks up a character named Axton. "I'll be this guy."

*Guess we'll find out later.*

Soon everyone had decided what classes they would play, Yona chooses Salvador, Silverstream took Gaige as her class, so the only option left for Sandbar was Krieg. This actually made the Bunker Master happy.

*Alright buddy, let's get started.*

So without further a do, Krieg began their game session. "You all are gathered around the fire, the smell of butts is in the air, all is quiet, UNTIL THE PARTY GUESTS ARRIVED, ROLL FOR WHO EVER WANTS THE FIRST SLICE OF CAKE!"

As all of this was happening, Starlight and the others were in the map room, they were having a meeting about the monster they allowed in the castle, the unicorn was glad that Spike had decided to support the students and their choice, the whole situation does remind her of the time Spike met Thorax.

Now back to the topic, currently they are trying to decide if they would tell Twilight, Rainbow Dash was alright, but she wants Twilight to listen when she comes back first before she would go crazy on Krieg because of the threat he is. Rarity and Fluttershy were in the same boat, and Applejack was still upset from yesterday to decide, as for Pinkie, she wanted to keep him hidden until Twilight's birthday, so with three votes on telling Twilight when she returns, the group chooses Dash's idea.

There was still one more thing they needed to talk about, 'Should Ember know?', Spike had already said yes, so the scale tips over towards the truth.

"We shouldn't tell tell her," Fluttershy spoke. "it could probably make her very conflicted, she might even be forced to choose between her kind or Krieg."

Applejack just glances at the yellow pegasus. "Ah' hear ya', but she has the right to know what she'll be dealin' with."

"Why are we even talking about this? Its okay if Ember doesn't know, it won't hurt anyone!" Said Dash.

"I agree," Rarity began speaking. "she might be discouraged to pursue her desire to be with Krieg, but on the other hoof, this actually could give her motivation to pursue it even more, to reform a beast such as him. Oh, think of the moments they will share!"

"Rarity, AJ is the element of Honesty and all, but I'll be honest to you, I'm tired of this whole romance thing."

"Oh your just jealous a monster like Krieg found love quicker than you!"

"What!? No, I'm not!" The cyan mare defends herself.

"Oh? Then tell me, did you ever date a stallion?"

Dash stuttered for a second. "D-date? Me? Of c-course I've dated a lot of times! Like, I went out w-with so many, I could hardly count every stallion I've been with!"

Rarity playfully smirks. "Liar, liar, tail on fire. Honestly Dash? I think you and Applejack have something in common, you both are terrible liars."

"Girls!" Starlight quickly silenced them both. "We aren't here to talk about romance, we're here to discuss if Ember should know what Krieg is."

"I agree with Starlight," Discord pops in out of nowhere with his name still floating by his side, and a tray of cupcakes on his lion paw. "but we should talk about something else, like how delicious these cupcakes Carrot Top made!" He took one cupcake and threw it into his mouth, and chews happily.

"Ooh, can I have some!?" Pinkie hops up from her seat.

Discord looks at her and thinks about it for a second. "Depends, are you alright with eating meat?" He asked her, not telling them what meat is inside the cupcakes.

"Aw, it has meat inside? Yucky!" She slumps down against the table, saddened that she couldn't eat some cupcakes.

"Is anyone goin' to ask why Carrot Top just started eatin' meat?" Said Applejack.

"Oh, didn't Twilight told us about how she was part of the cult below?" Discord said before tossing another cupcake unto his mouth. "I think the cult practices being meat eaters."

"As much as that is gross, I think we should go back to our discussion." Starlight once again steer the conversation back to the original subject.

"Alright, guess I'll leave you all to it then." Before Discord could leave, he looks over to the window to his right. "Oh, I see that you're about to have some guests, too bad Twilight isn't here to greet them." And with a snap of his talons, he disappears, leaving the mares confused as to what he means.

Then they heard the roar of a mysterious creature that Fluttershy could not recognize right outside the castle, it sounded strange and the way Discord called them guests indicates that there were probably more than one, so without wasting anymore time, Starlight teleports everyone out. When they appeared right in front of the castle, they noticed that Spike and the students were watching them from the windows of the room they're in, Krieg was nowhere in sight.

The mane 5 plus Starlight heard the roar getting louder as it approached, that's when it came out of the horizon, two metal machines on wheels were heading straight towards them in incredible speed, once the machines were close enough, it screeches to a halt, kicking up a cloud of dirt covering itself. The cloud slowly dissipates to reveal the strange metal machines to be some kind of wagon or cart that had no one pulling it, an equal amount of bandits and psychos were on each wagon, but what really surprises them all was that one of the trucks have Pinkie's sister Maud sitting at the front with her hooves on a wheel, she seems to be out of place because of her size.

"Maud!?" Everyone even the students and Spike above exclaimed.

"Hey everyone," The gray mare spoke in her usual monotone voice. "meet my neighbors a few levels below."

"Hello!" The diversed group of bandits greeted them.

"Maud," Pinkie zooms up to her sister. "what are you doing with these guys, they're evil!"

"Pinkie, these are my new friends."

"What!? Maud, they could kill you if they wanted to!"

One of the psychos cleared his throat. "We could try to kill her, but she already broke Paper Crane's back, so we rather not."

"She's also helping us expand!" A bandit bruiser spoke.

"Don't worry Pinkie, they won't hurt me, I'm a good friend of their leader." Maud tries to assure her sister that she was safe.

"Excuse me," Starlight steps closer to the bandits. "but why are you all here!?" Her horn charges up, ready to cast a spell in case they cross the line.

They looked at each other before looking towards the castle, banging their hooves or claws against the metal surface of the cart while chanting one name. "Krieg! Krieg! Krieg! Krieg!" Maud looks at them before joining in on the chant, but with her own pace.

That was when the doors to the castle was kicked open, the psycho they worshipped stood menacingly in the doorway with his buzz axe in hand, and long line of toilet paper stuck on his foot. "WHO ORDERED A PIZZA PARTY!?"

*Wait a second Krieg, those are Bloodshots and Firehawk cultists! What are they doing here?*

"Little Man, I ate that one back then." Krieg points a finger being absolutely sure about it.

The Firehawk marauder gasps. "He's pointing at me! He remembers, he remembers!" The marauder was so excited that he fainted from the experience.

*Oh yeah, I remember him, you tore off his face just to eat his brains.*

The cult cheers at the sight of Krieg as he walks up to the bandits.

Before anyone could speak, another truck that was painted red roared in the distance, soon it drives up next to it's fellow death machines, but this one was holding something far worse than a bandit at the back, once he steps off, the young six were given an introduction.

The giant dragon creature raised his anchor high just in time as time slowed down, Captain Flynt, Burn, Baby, Burn.

*Wait, what!?*

"Big Burns!?" Krieg exclaimed, he was surprised to see one of his kills standing right in front of him, he was taller than Krieg just like back in Pandora, his horns were obviously real now, and his metal mask seems to be altered to fit his new form, but his glowing red eyes still remains.

"Surprised to see me Vault Hunter!?" He said as he slowly walks up to Krieg, yup, Flynt was taller. "I still remembered that time we spent, how your short friend used my own horn to blind me."

"What are you doing here?" Starlight did not ask, she demanded an answer from the giant.

"Isn't it obvious? I'm here for him!" Krieg raises his axe and brought it down aiming to right between the pirate's eyes, but Flynt was quick to put his anchor in the way. "I'm not here to fight Vault Hunter, I'm only here to deliver an offering from Sweet Mint!"

Flynt was kicked by Krieg and the pirate slams against the vehicle that Maud was driving. "You're a Passenger of the Poop Train!?" They all heard Silverstream said from the windows.

Pinkie and Dash began snickering at the name. "Poop!" Said Pinkie before bursting into laughter with Dash.

Flynt could only groan as he stood up, this was very embarrassing. "You're lucky I'm specifically told not to fight you Vault Hunter, and yeah, I am part of this stupid cult, but before I go on of how I hate this cult, let me just give you the damn offering!" He walks back towards the truck he arrived in and pulls the driver off. "Ahem, for our second offering for your return, we of the Cult of Krieg- Unofficial name- have brought to you a Bandit Technical equipped with a buzz saw launcher, we hope you're happy."

"Is that all?" Asked the powerful unicorn, her horn still charged up in case they do something.

"There is still one more thing Vault Hunter." Flynt adjusts the grip on his anchor. "I heard you killed my son."

Those behind Krieg gasps at what the large dragon had said, the psycho only tilts his head to the side.

"I just wanna know why," The tone of his voice sounded like it was filled with rage, the mane five and Starlight prepares themselves, while the students and Spike watches. "why did you f*cking hesitated!?"

"What!?" They all yell out, nearly falling over at how that went down.

"Huh!?" Was all Krieg said.

"You heard me!" He dove his hand behind the truck that he was giving to Krieg, then he pulls out a very scrawny black dragon that was only as tall as a pony with a similar mask as Captain Flynt. "Sweet Mint told me that you and the other Vault Hunters hesitated! Why the hell would you think twice before killing someone that sent assassins at you! I mean, Mint even tells us that you ate a Goliath alive!"

"Can we not talk about what he kills?" Applejack had to hold in her stomach as she pictures what he had just said in her mind. "And how is he alive if you say that Krieg and his friends killed him?"

"That's between me and Mint!"

"Dad, can you put me down?" Sparky said as he was continuously being shaked around like a piece of meat.

"Come on Vault Hunter, that's just insulting to my family! Tell you what, how about you do it right this time, go ahead, eat his heart."

"Okay, dad, I don't think uncle Zane or uncle Baron would like this!"

"If Zane found out, he would just asked the Vault Hunters to tear off your arm! Baron would probably scold me. At least Zane would buy a robot arm for you..."

"Okay." They all heard from Krieg.

And for the second time that day, the good guys once again yell out 'What!?', even Sparky said it as well.

"Don't worry Sparky, it will be over quick, or not." Flynt assures his son that he would be fine.

"Dad, you are an asshole!"

"Hate you too son."

Rarity steps right between the dragons. "Now wait just a minute! How could a father want their own child to die?"

"Because they hesitated to kill him! Were you not listening to what I was saying!?"

"Listen here!" Applejack stomps her hoof on the ground. "You take your boy and go back to whatever hole y'all crawled out of, we don't need no troublemakers in this good town of ours!"

Flynt looks at her before panning his head to the left, inspecting the ponies in front of him. "Alright, I'll leave." He drops Sparky down and heads over behind the truck Maud was driving. "Off!" The bandits did as they were told, Flynt climbs up.

Krieg silently watched the pirate, he wanted to chop Flynt up to pieces so badly, but he was still confused by the sudden appearance of the pirate.

"Vault Hunter," Flynt looks back at Krieg. "believe it or not, but this whole universe is a vault."

*This place!?*

The students notices Krieg tensed up, whatever the pirate meant seems to be something important to the psycho.

"Sweet Mint has one of the three pieces of whatever this vault is hiding, she's going to find the rest and nothing is gonna stop her, you've been warned Krieg." The Captain slams his palm against the truck, signaling Maud to drive, the bandits had to run after the two trucks as they leave the ponies and others.

"Krieg," Starlight approaches the psycho who was staring at the red truck. "what did he mean that this universe is a vault?"

She will not get any answers from the psycho, he was too busy appreciating the truck the cult had given him, Krieg moves his palms around the hood, giggling like a child, seemingly forgotten what had just happened.

If Grogar was younger, he would have white strands of hair growing on his head to show how much stress he was getting. All of the plans he thought up on getting rid of Krieg always ends up scrapped, the psycho was too unpredictable to deal with, every time he almost completes a great plan, one simple information brings him back down to square one, and now the cult was everywhere.

He had the trouble of encountering them just yesterday, the cult wasn't much of a problem, but they kept coming back as if they wanted something. Grogar also had told Tirek not to consume their magic unless they were from their world, not another.

A few cultists even tried to convince him to join their side, hah! As if Grogar would stoop so low, but he still needs to get rid of Krieg and his followers. The crystal suddenly lights up, the ram looks closely on the magical item, the ball now shows the Crystal Empire surrounded by it's new army, the ram could only groan, now this puts a wrench to one of his plans.

"Mister Grogar!" Cozy cheerfully calls out his name as she hovers above the evil ram. "Those Passengers are back!"

Grogar slams his hoof on the ground. "What is it now!?"

"Oh, well, they came by and gave me this weird thing and said that I should give it to you." She shows him the object that she received from the cultists, it then activates and shows the masked face of another cultist, the pony in the screen was silent as he stares at Grogar.

"Greetings Grogar." The pony finally spoke.

"Make this quick, I do not have time to deal with you!" Grogar glares at the screen.

"Very well, I am Incinerator Clayton, my fellow Passengers and I are looking for something that was in your possession once, I was given instructions to find it for the glory of our god! We know that you have knowledge of the bell's location, where is it!?"

The ram only smirked. "You truly believe I would just tell you? Fool! I would never tell you where it is, you and your group should just leave, or else I will have to tear you all apart, piece by piece!"

"We have given you a chance Grogar, you will now taste the holy flames that our god has blessed us with! Only he can accept your forgiveness, we shall not show mercy!"

"You god? He is but a mortal, the beast is no match for my prowess!"

This seems to offend Clayton. "You insult lord Krieg? Just for that, we will skin you alive."

Grogar took the device from Cozy's with his magic to bring it closer. "I would like to see you try." Grogar then slams the device into the wall and breaks it into pieces.

There was a moment of silence, it was calm with no sound coming from the two creatures in the room, then a loud explosion was heard from outside.

"Cozy, find Tirek and tell him to deal with these fools," He created an orb of light and handed it to the filly. "and tell him to use this for now."

"Alright mister Grogar!" She then flew into one of the many openings in their hideout, he looks back at the crystal ball on his table to see a new picture on it, it was somewhere in Griffonstone, there was something there, and he needs to find out what.

"Hey Baron!" The gray pony lowers down the Playcolt magazine from his face, he looks over to the psycho pony who was previously known as Nine Toes, now known as No Toes. "There's a call coming from your brother!" No Toes said before tossing the Echo at Baron.

The Baron easily caught it in his hooves, he then answers the device, the face of his brother on the screen. "So, how'd it go?"

"Well, besides the fact that I wanted to gouge out his eyes, it went very smoothly!" The Captain's voice booms out of the device. "He got what Mint wanted to give him, and I found myself a new toy! Ain't that right Claptrap #2?" The screams of some unlucky pony were heard from the Captain's side. "It might not be the same, but it still feels like music to my ears!"

"Glad you have something to keep you busy. I gotta ask first, did Mint give the green light?"

"Huh? Oh yeah, she says that you start the mission, she also said to be careful. Bah! What are we, children?"

"Now, now, brother, she only cares for her subordinates." Baron tells the Captain. "Alright then, I'll see you later then."

"Alright Baron, don't get yourself killed in this world, or else I'll tell Zane how you died for the second time in a world of ponies and rainbows!" The Echo went silent as the pirate hangs up, Baron tosses the device back to No Toes.

Baron took a cigarette and places it in his lips before lighting it, after letting out a puff of smoke, he turns around and faced the large group of bandits. "Listen up, some of you may have died because of Krieg, so I want you to put that anger aside, we work for Mint who worships him! Mint might be a psycho, but with her help, all of us can have everything that we wanted! A place where the wildlife doesn't hunt you down all the time, women even though they are a bit exotic, riches, and finally some delicious food! Tell me, when was the last time you ate some gourmet sh*t back at Pandora?"

"Back when Dahl was around!" One of the bandits in the crowd spoke. "Their shlop was better than what I usually eat!"

"That's right, Mint will give us what we want and all she wants us to do is head into that place over there-" He points his hoof at the Crystal Empire. "-and find the second piece of the Artifact. So are all of you ready to burn down a city!?"

"Yeah!" The bandits cheered, the excitement could not easily be contained, they wanted to shoot something.

"Alright then!" Baron looks over to No Toes. "Tell Ivan, to light it up."

KABOOM!!!