Ocellus was panicking as she ran through the streets with the Nomad who had found a new shield, she was so busy listening to Bad Maw to notice that Krieg had disappeared, the changeling had promised not to let the dragon out of her sight yet here she was. She hops over a mutilated corpse, a sign that Krieg was here, she was lucky that the psycho was the most messed up killer in the city, or else he would have been harder to find especially when there is the sound of guns constantly popping around.

Though she had a few encounters with some living bandits, her disguise worked perfectly since they don't seem to bat an eye at her, except for those who actually try to attack her at random, good thing Bad Maw was around to keep them off, no one wants to mess with a giant like him or else they'll understand why he was a well known Nomad Torturer.

As for the bandit, he didn't want to let one of Krieg's friends run through the city with other bandits around, because the psycho might go bezerk at everyone if anything happens to her, especially at Bad Maw, as an added bonus, he had found three new midgets for his shield, though Ocellus had voiced her concerns she still understand what these little sh*ts can do.

Ocellus rounded a corner and nearly ran into someone, she had quickly stopped but the giant behind her accidentally bumps into the changeling causing her to fall face first.

"Oh crap, sorry!" The Nomad apologizes.

Ocellus was about to tell her it was okay, but when she lifts up her face from the ground, she was experiencing another intro card, the background changed into a scene of the castle of the Crystal Empire with those golems from the underground surrounding it, one single caption sent fear through the changeling, JACK.

"That was absolutely funny, sadly I'm too busy looking for something and I can't laugh at your pitiful face, also you're a girl, hah! Ain't gonna last long honey, unless you got skills, which I doubt because you kid, look like a little b*tch nobody and I've seen a real woman who could curb stomp a Raging Goliath, so, see ya never!" The see through pony literally walks through Ocellus, the changeling didn't move in fear of what the man from Bad Maw's tale could do, she had learned many things from the Nomad, but what really scared her the most was the tyrannical madman and what he had done during his reign on Pandora.

"Hey!" The Nomad taps the ground with his shield breaking Ocellus out of her fear. "What happened to you? You look like you've seen a ghost!"

Ocellus shook her head clear, she looked over behind her to see that Jack wasn't there anymore, she gets back on her hooves before speaking. "I-I'm sorry, I just thought I saw something..."

The Nomad sighed. "Its the corpses isn't it? Its starting to get to you, I can tell..."

"N-no! It is a bit disturbing, but it was just...I thought I saw Jack-"

"You can see me?"

The changeling just screams in the highest pitch that Jack and Bad Maw have heard, and the Nomad had tortured Midgets before!

The Nomad placed his hoof over her mouth. "What's wrong!?"

"It's him, Handsome Jack is here!" She shrieks out while pointing a hoof at the ghost, who was actually impressed that she could see him.

"Well this is interesting, you know who I am, so an introduction would be great! What's your name kid?"

"Snap out of it!" Bad Maw gently slaps her, it felt like being hit with a stale piece of bread to Ocellus, and she was hit by those a few times in school. "This is bad!"

"W-what is!?"

"Yeah Mr.Nomad, what's so bad of seeing me?" The ghost grins at the terrified Ocellus.

"It's the eridium curse!" The Nomad said. "I think the large number of Psychos in the city is leaking Vault Madness (not really an official name) everywhere! And it looks like you're starting to catch it, which is bad cus' you might end up like you know who."

"You think she's going Psycho? Oh buddy, you are dead wrong, no pun intended." The ghost laughs at his own humor. "Sorry to say otherwise kid, but you ain't going crazy, I'm really here."

"A-are you sure it's Vault Madness?" Ocellus asked the Nomad and he nodded. "What can I do so I wouldn't turn into a psycho like...him?"

"Therapy-"

"Therapy?" Jack scoffs. "Listen, going to see a therapist is useless and they are just a bunch of liars, they will just say what you want to hear and take your money!"

"Believing your friends when they say its going to be okay-"

"You know, I should actually look into the whole friendship thing, I heard that Twilight pony had vanquished some dark evil with it..."

"Having a strong will over your mind and emotions-"

"Not going to therapy." Jack jokingly added. "Want a real advice? Get addicted to weed, that'll help you from going psycho by melting your pea sized brain."

"And most important thing of all, is to keep your friends and love ones close, or else the Madness would hit you with doubting everyone you know. Also, ignore anything that isn't real, if you can't, then try and talk yourself out of it."

"I see..." Ocellus said while eyeing the ghost.

Jack chuckled a little. "Well, guess you're gonna start ignoring me now... Best be off then, still got things to do that isn't you honey! But know this sweet stuff," His voice shifted to a much scarier tone, a twisted smile was on his face. "I know your voice, and if I ever find you again I'll make sure Shining locks you up in a dark empty room with no chance of getting out, and I'll be there watching you slowly descend into madness as reality of being alone forever hits you like a train, and when your mind breaks and when I'm done with you, I'll enjoy watching the guards beat you to death like the filthy bandit you are." Jack then hovers away, his laugh echoes in the corpse littered streets.

Ocellus paled under her disguise, the Nomad watches her with concern, it have seem the madness is spreading in Equus, which is very bad.

The changeling had to calm herself down, she had just encountered something that felt too real, she really wanted to go home now. But still, who did Jack mean when he said 'Shining'?

"You sure we should be stayin'?" A bandit asked his fellow Marauder who was drilling a hole into the wall of the bank they were trying to rob, the two were completely alone in the alleyway.

The bandit looks away from the wall just grin at his friend. "Come on man, we got time." He said before going back to drilling.

"That's just it...what if Krieg finds us?"

"Listen, Krieg isn't even here, Baron only said so to get everyone back to the base!"

"Well alright, I guess..."

"Good, now let me drill into this wall peacefully." A minute went by, the Marauders were both silent and the only sound that was made was coming from the tool.

After another minute, the bandit had successfully drilled through the wall. "Heck yeah!" He puts away the tool and motions his hoof over to his friend. "Hey, pass me the stick of dynamite."

He didn't get an answer, he looks over to the other Marauder to find the beast himself standing over the Marauder with a lit stick of dynamite, the bandit couldn't even scream as Krieg shoves the bomb forcefully down his throat, he choked out a cry before getting his head obliterated into chunks of meat, coating the psycho in blood.

*A little bit too much, at least you didn't skin them or something. Wait a minute, where Ocellus?*

At the question of where the changeling was, Krieg immediately began to panic. "Sweet Bug is missing!?" He runs out of the alleyway, crushing the other Marauder's head under his foot as he went by. The psycho was silently beating himself on the head for forgetting about Ocellus.

Unbeknownst to the dragon, Shining Armor was just trailing him from a few feet away, making sure that the psycho doesn't notice him.

As the psycho steps out into the streets, a shadow was casted over him, when he looked up he saw a robotic hoof just in time before it slams into his face. Krieg grabs the metal limb and slams his attacker into the wall before tossing him across the street.

*Wait...who's that? He looks very familiar...*

The pony who was very small compared to Krieg stood up brushing the dust off of himself before glaring at Krieg. "Target acquired!"

*That sounds like...crap, it's Wilhelm! Krieg, be careful with this guy, we may have had numbers back then, but now it's just us and him!*

Krieg growls before pointing a finger at the cyborg. "I'll show you what a badass is!"

Shining took the chance to find a spot where he could give Wilhelm some support, and while he looked for the perfect spot, the prince took out his Echo and began sending out a message.

The psycho and the cyborg began encircling each other, Wilhelm dares Krieg to make a move as they had already made their first lap around, and without warning, Krieg whips out his shotgun and spent all his ammo as fast as he could pull the trigger, the cyborg dives away and retaliated at the psycho with his own shotgun. Krieg ran over to his enemy after reloading his weapon, once he was close enough he swung down the blade of gun at Wilhelm, but the enforcer dodges the blade and slams his robotic fist at Krieg's face, he then blasts him pointblank, causing the psycho to tumble away.

Krieg had randomly aimed at Wilhelm and shoots him in return, the pellets did not hit anyone.

The cyborg used his failure by sending a left hook towards the dragon, Krieg pulls back his head to avoid getting hit, the psycho would then throw his head forward and slams it against Wilhelm's, but the cyborg wasn't fazed, his only reaction to getting hit on the head was hooking his hoof around the beast's neck and repeatedly slamming his robot fist into his stomach.

Krieg tried to pry the enforcer off of him, but Wilhelm would just brush off his attempts and returning to the offensive, the cyborg was heavy, good thing Krieg was strong enough to whip back his upper body and fling the cyborg over, but Wilhelm just grabs hold onto Krieg's horn and brought the psycho down to the ground where Wilhelm would empty his gun into Krieg's face.

When the gun signals Wilhelm that it was out of ammo, Krieg rolls over to his stomach with his mask lifted so he could breath fire at Wilhelm, the cyborg had to take a few steps back from the intense flames.

Krieg then threw himself forward and once again slam his head against Wilhelm, but this time he had aimed for the cyborg's upper body, Wilhelm couldn't react quick enough, he was already sent down on the ground. Before Krieg could take a step, a bullet penetrates his right shoulder, the psycho looked over to a nearby balcony to see the unicorn he had seen before was holding a Hyperion sniper rifle with his magic, Krieg tilts his head to the side, confused as to why an ordinary pony would shoot him.

That was when he heard it, all around him, right from the buildings came the sound of hundreds of guns clicking, that's when the psycho knew, they were Hyperion soldiers.

As for Wilhelm, he didn't mind the help, he just stood back up like it was nothing and gave the bandit in front of him a grin.

*Uh-oh.*

"Princess Celestia!" Twilight calls out to the older alicorn as she and her friends follow her through the castle. "Are you leaving?"

"Yes."

Applejack quickens her pace and walked beside the alicorn of the sun. "Pardon me princess, but Ah don't think that's a good idea."

"Why so Applejack?" Celestia did not even look at her, her eyes are set forward.

"Well, ain't that monster dangerous? You could get hurt!"

"Krieg is my problem, I shall deal with the beast myself." She explained to the ponies with her, Celestia was determined to set her mistake right.

Starlight stops in her tracks, only Applejack notices, so she went over to the unicorn with concern. "Starlight, what's wrong?"

The unicorn looked around herself, making sure they were completely alone, just to add a bit more privacy, Starlight had casted a small sound proof dome so no one could hear.

"Alright, this is bad." Starlight said. "But I have a plan, I'm going to go off into the city and look for Krieg and Ocellus, once I've find them I'll get them out before they could encounter the princess."

"But what if Twilight ask about you?"

"Tell her that I...went out to look for survivors! Yeah, that's it."

The farm pony nodded. "I'll tell her."

With her plan now told to Applejack, Starlight puts down the dome and blinks out of the castle, leaving the other mare to herself.

"Wait..." Applejack spoke after realizing something. "Ah am a terrible liar!"

Wilhelm had to keep his distance as Shining and the Crystal Soldiers sent thousands of bullets at Krieg, but something was wrong, Wilhelm had noticed that Krieg was staring at Shining, the psycho was obviously planning something bad. Shining couldn't really notice in the heat of the moment, one thing was in his mind, and it was to get rid of the threat to his country.

Krieg had slowly came to an understanding after a few minutes of getting shot at, Hyperion had somehow found itself in Equestria, and now they're trying to conquer the city, no one really explained to him of what was actually happening, but he does know that these soldiers are bad news so he'll have to deal with them himself, though he is very reluctant to kill the unicorn that his eyes had been focused on, the pony was obviously from this planet.

So without wasting anyone else's time, Krieg had let out a fearsome howl that caused everyone that was shooting him to stop, they were stunned by the sheer aura of murder that was coming from the dragon, Wilhelm was the only who went unfazed. After getting everyone to stop, Krieg holsters his gun and took out his bundle of explosives.

"Tick tock!" He yells out to his enemies before starting to toss sticks of dynamites around himself.

Wilhelm had to step back even further, the unlucky soldiers that was too close were killed off, it was obvious that they needed range, sadly Shining was the only trained sniper in the city aside from Wilhelm and Nisha.

The prince was shocked, the dragon had walked out of their attack like it was nothing, the bullets had done no damage at all to Krieg, which has terrified the soldiers with him, and now the psycho is laughing as he playfully toss bombs around, Shining watches Krieg slowly walking over to the nearest building, killing a few more as he went by, before throwing the whole bundle in, the bomb explodes and the building collapses, killing whoever was inside.

"Keep your distance, let Wilhelm deal with him in close combat!" Shining let out his orders.

"But sir, won't we hit Wilhelm!?" One soldier asked him.

"He has his drones, any damage we and that bandit do can be fixed! Just shoot!"

"Yes sir!" The soldiers follows their orders and began attacking the psycho.

Wilhelm ran towards Krieg, blasting a shell as he goes, the psycho who was just getting started had pulled out his rocket launcher, the cyborg slows down a little to prepare to dodge the rocket, but instead of aiming at Wilhelm, Krieg had chosen to aim at the ground he was standing on, the soldiers and Wilhelm were caught off guard as Krieg blasts himself, setting his own flesh ablaze.

And it only took one moment to tip the scale even further to Krieg's side as fireballs came out of the dragon and flew towards the soldiers in a blink of an eye, Shining was lucky that he was reloading his rifle, but he had just witnessed many of his soldiers to be incinerated so fast, the numbers slowly going down by the second.

Not only some strange magic was being casted upon them, but Krieg was still slaughtering every soldier he could get his hands on. "Over here, my sweet meats, your prince of justice and genocide has something to say: Gone are the days of the tentacle and the age of the gods and mercy is far away... We are fighters of the middle, the second act in the three-part MEAT play, AND I WILL WIN BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR!" He ranted as he brutally kills a few more soldiers that had came too close, Krieg laughs as he tore a soldier's head off of their shoulders.

Before the psycho could move on to the next cattle to slaughter, Wilhelm comes in and slams his fist into Krieg's face, the momentum of the cyborg along with his cybernetics had enough power to send Krieg right into a building, the fire ball that went after Wilhelm was only shot out of the air, the enforcer looks over to see Shining nodding to him, Wilhelm nodded back before chasing after the psycho.

Krieg pulls himself out of the debris and noticed just in time for the cyborg attempting to hit him with a left hook, Krieg ducks down to dodge but Wilhelm just slams his knee into Krieg's face, the cyborg then grabs Krieg by the horns and threw him on the streets, the psycho saw this coming and quickly rolls over and kicks the stallion in the chest.

The psycho then gets back up and breaths fire at Wilhelm, the enforcer had lifted his arms up to shield himself from the flames.

Krieg was about to punch the cyborg, but something had slammed him with blinding speed, a Crystal BUL Loader had just arrived to help out the soldiers in battle with more Loaders.

When the machine had stop, Krieg quickly rips off the Loader's eye before bringing out his axe to shred the robot into pieces of metal, an EXP Loader had tried to sneak up on Krieg, but Bad Maw himself had suddenly came out of nowhere and destroyed the machine with his shield, many of the soldiers were frightened by the size of the pony, and the fact that Krieg has now have an ally who was equally hard to take down.

"My lord, I'm here to help!" The Nomad said before aiming his Tediore shotgun at another Loader while making sure no one shoots Krieg on the back, the psycho may have thought of the Nomad as nothing but a sack of meat, but he kinda appreciated the help.

Meanwhile, Ocellus had took the form of an ordinary civilian and hid from the battle, making sure to be behind cover, or else she would get hit by a stray bullet, she and Bad Maw had just arrived, the changeling was confused on why there were a bunch of armored ponies attacking Krieg, but she had remembered from Bad Maw's story that these were Hyperion soldiers, the same company that Jack had ruled.

Back at the chaos, Wilhelm was having the time of his life, not only was he fighting a Badass Psycho but he was also facing a Badass Nomad! Things were really kicking up to high gear. Wilhelm tries to shoot down the Nomad's shield, but the Midgets were too annoying, they would just absorb every bullet he have used and it would take more to shred those little freaks into nothing.

The cyborg sprints forward towards the Nomad, the bandit tried to bash the enforcer with his shield but Wilhelm only used it by climbing up the shield and hopping over the Nomad, he lands just right behind the psycho but Krieg had expected it, the beast whips around and slams his massive fist into Wilhelm's side, the cyborg felt great pain from the attack and his shield had just shattered, but he ignores it and punches the psycho across the face in return.

When Wilhelm was about to back off so he could regain his defense, a stray bullet had landed into his shoulder, he then remembered that he had left his drones to the silent pony, this was a slight disadvantage that he would simply put aside, but the fact that there are over fifty Crystal Soldiers shooting endlessly was something he can't ignore, this was really going bad for the cyborg.

Krieg seizes Wilhelm's shock by slamming both his fists down on the top of the cyborg's head, but Wilhelm had instinctively held up his robotic arm and blocks the attack, though he did not have his drones, he was still a good fighter.

Ocellus watches intensely at the fight, she had always thought that Krieg was unbeatable, but now she was proven wrong, the strange pony that stood against the dragon was a formidable opponent, he did not go down easily like the Hyperion soldiers, when Krieg hits him hard, the stallion would hit him back harder, even with Bad Maw helping the strange stallion was still standing.

Bad Maw was feeling many things today, and the strongest emotion right now was fear, the cyborg he is battling was known to be unstoppable, but he trusts his god to vanquish the Hyperion scum, with his faith he will defeat the cyborg.

Wilhelm ducks under Krieg's punch, the result was that the psycho's fist lands into the Nomad's shield instead, killing one of the three Midgets by the process. The enforcer then slips behind the psycho and placed Krieg into a headlock, the dragon tried to get free but the hold was too strong, a few soldiers began shooting directly at the psycho so Bad Maw was forced to stand in front with his shield so his god wouldn't get attacked while he was vulnerable, but Bad Maw couldn't help out Krieg.

"Got you now!" Wilhelm said, he was sure that the psycho can't get free now, just to make sure that there was no chance, he kicks the back of Krieg's knee to bring him down to a much more comfortable height.

"Krieg!" Ocellus yells out worriedly, no one had seem to notice her thankfully.

*Get out of there big guy! We can't leave him alive, who knows what he can do!*

"Little Man, I can't breath!" Krieg manage to say as he began to lose conscious.

"That's right bandit," Wilhelm grins, it was truly obvious that he would come out as the winner. "just go to sleep, we'll wake you up in time for your public execution for attacking the city!"

Bad Maw curses at himself, if he tries to help then he himself would be expose to the hail of bullets that came their way, he was conflicted to do anything.

Shining felt relief, it would seem that the soldiers who gave up their lives to the city would not die in vain, now that they have the bandit leader in their grasps, the whole bandit group would fall apart.

"KRIEG!!!"

All eyes looks up, the soldiers rejoice, Bad Maw and Ocellus felt dread by the sight, as for Krieg, he felt rage.

*Celestia?*

In the sky, Celestia hovers as she glares down at Krieg, she slowly descends to the ground, Bad Maw took a step back, the soldiers didn't continue firing since their princess is here now, some have feared injuring her with their weapons.

*Celestia.* The voice spoke as if he just remembered something, something he had rather forget.

Wilhelm grins, she was a powerful being so this would make taking care of Krieg much easier, if only if it did.

*Celestia!* Now the voice spoke as if the name was poisonous to the tounge.

Krieg slowly began rising from his knee to his feet, the grin on Wilhelm fell as the psycho grabs his arms and pries them off, Wilhelm tried to keep his hold but as if Krieg was discovering a new found power that was stored within and the cyborg was slammed into the ground causing the street to crack and deform.

The soldiers began panicking, as something was happening to the psycho, Ocellus gasps aloud as she and everyone else are witnessing a strange and bizarre moment, the psycho was growing bigger than before, Bad Maw knew what was happening so he had ran over to Ocellus while everyone was distracted, and once Krieg was done, he grabs Wilhelm's leg with his gigantic fist and lifted the enforcer up.

"*CELESTIA!!!!*" He roars out before throwing the cyborg at the alicorn, Celestia casted a shield but it broke when Wilhelm collided into it, the cyborg was knocked out by the impact making him useless to the fight.

"W-what happened to him!?" One of the soldiers that was with Shining asked.

"He's a monster! No dragon could transform like that!"

"Everyone stay calm! The princess will deal with him now, I want you all to gather anyone who is injured and bring them back to the castle, I'll go get Wilhelm!" Shining gave out his orders, the soldiers nodded before going to work.

"*CELESTIA!!!*" Krieg yells out the name again as he runs up to the alicorn with his axe in the air, Celestia dodges quickly and blasted him with magic, but the psycho was unfazed, Krieg swung down his axe only to hit nothing again, the alicorn kept her distance as she repeatedly blast him. "*YOU LIED TO US!!!*"

"I did it to keep Equestria safe from you, beast!" She shouted as she zaps him with a thunder spell.

"*WE'RE GOING TO SKIN YOU ALIVE!!!*"

Celestia jumps away from Krieg as he breaths fire again, once he was done she took hold of him with her magic and attempted to lift him up but it seems he was just too heavy for the strongest levitation spell. Krieg took the chance to punch her right in the face, his gigantic fist sent her tumbling away but she quickly ragain her balance and got back on her hooves.

She spat out blood as more drips down from her broken snout, the fact that her head was still intact was impressive.

Ocellus flinched when she witnesses Celestia getting punched in the face, Bad Maw chuckled a little but stops when Ocellus glares at him. "What? It's funny!"

"No it isn't! We have to do something... What happened to him?"

"He went Badass, not only is he stronger and faster now, but he's practically unkillable! Honestly, I'm afraid of going in there."

A sudden flash of light came from behind them, they look over to see Starlight standing there, the unicorn recognizes Ocellus quickly, she was about to speak but her eyes landed on the psycho's new form.

The Badass psycho roars before throwing his axe at Celestia, the princess shoots it in the air and renders Krieg weaponless, or so she thought. Krieg then pulls out another from nowhere and began throwing it all at Celestia as he slowly made his way, the alicorn easily blasts each one out of the air, but she failed to notice Krieg getting closer.

But before he could do anything else, Krieg was blasted by a powerful spell from the sky, it was Luna, and when the psycho saw who it was his anger rose even higher. "*LUNA!!!*"

"Thou shall keep their claws away from my sister, prepare for your end you monster!" The alicorn spoke out before charging up her horn for another spell.

The beast didn't waste anymore time, he quickly sprinted over to Celestia and swings his axe horizontally, the princess activates her shield but all it did was soak up all the damage and sent her to the ground a few feet away from the psycho.

Luna finishes her spell and shoots it straight at the beast, but he had jumped to the side in time, the ground he was on before was now reduced to a smoldering crater, it would have hurt him if he didn't dodged it. Celestia had already stood back up and zaps Krieg again, the psycho let's out a cry of pain, Luna circles the beast from the sky and was still casting quick spells at him, anything to help bring down the psycho.

Starlight now recovered from the shock, spoke to the two. "Listen, we need to get out of here!"

"What about Krieg!?" Ocellus spoke in worry.

"I'll come back after you're safe Ocellus!"

"Uh," The bigger pony spoke. "can I come?"

"Who are you?"

"Bad Maw, follower of Krieg."

"Fine. Ocellus? I'll come back for Krieg, I promise."

The changeling had no time to speak, she and the Nomad were already teleported away from the city, leaving the alicorns and the psycho to fight. Seconds later, Starlight returns from Ponyville to witness Krieg getting overpowered, she was trying to think of a way to get him out without the princesses noticing her.

Krieg ran back and forth trying to get Celestia, but it seems they have learned from the last time they fought to keep away from him, Krieg tried to cut the alicorn with his axe but he would only miss every time and only do damage on the street, that's when he had though up an idea, the psycho began destroying the stone street by throwing his explosive axe randomly and making it harder to move around on, unless your a man who have done battle on a similar environment.

"*YOU'RE DEAD TO US, YOU SHOULD HAVE NEVER LIED TO US!!!*"

Celestia had fell right into Krieg's plan, she had tripped on one of the shard of stone that jutted out of the street and fell down hard.

"Sister!" Luna worriedly calls out to Celestia.

"*I'M GOING TO EAT YOUR EYES OUT, AND HE'S GOING TO RIP OUT YOUR SOUL AND SHRED THEM INTO PIECES FOR WHAT YOU DID TO US!!!*" The psycho was already on top of Celestia, he raised his axe high in the air, Luna would have casted a quick spell but they were too weak to deal with the dragon, so she decided to fly straight towards him and try to tackle the monster, she just needs to be faster.

Celestia looks up with eyes wide open, the psycho was about to end her there if she doesn't do anything quick, a stronger spell would take too long to cast and she wasn't fast enough to get out of the way, just as the psycho brings down the axe she notices a sudden shift in his stance and he misses her just by a hair.

Krieg looks to his left trying to figure out who had shoved him causing his axe to miss, before he could even do anything, he was gone in a blink of light.

Celestia was shocked, Luna had stopped in time before she hits the ground, both were confused as to why the psycho just disappeared.

"Princess!" Both alicorn looks over to Shining who was carrying an unconscious Wilhelm over his shoulders. "Are you alright?"

Luna helps Celestia up to her hooves, the older alicorn quickly heals her snout before facing the unicorn. "We are fine Shining, but what is the status report?"

The prince looks away in shame. "We have lost more soldiers from the dragon, those who haven't died are injured and the possibility that they would return to service is low...I shouldn't have brought them here..."

"Shut up." Shining was surprised, he looks over to the pony he was carrying, the cyborg wasn't really fully awake just slightly still asleep but he knows what Shining was feeling. "It wasn't your fault, he was just too much for the soldiers. The thing is, it was my fault, I could've deal with him a lot quicker but I just had to stall out the fight for no reason, I'll take full responsibility here sir."

"There is no need," Said Celestia. "Krieg is a powerful dragon, it will need all of us to deal with him, and we need you more importantly, never have I seen anyone stand against the beast and lives with his limbs attached after, you are quite strong, that strength shall be useful for Equestria."

Wilhelm stared at her silently before stoically nod to the princess.

As for Shining, he had agreed with Celestia, the enforcer was the best fighter in the whole city and losing him would be bad, as long as he and Nisha were around, the Crystal Empire shall be safe from the bandits, especially now that the city have learned of the bandits, their defenses will be much stronger.

Bad Maw was feeling very uncomfortable, the hippogriff in the castle was chatting with his remaining Midgets, good thing he had removed the dead one or else they would've been terrified by the corpse, he could also feel the two small dragons glaring at him, expecting something to happen, he notices that the orange one was holding a buzz axe, this was a sign that they didn't trust him.

The Nomad looks over to Ocellus, she hasn't stop pacing back and forth, she was obviously worried for his god and Bad Maw took note of this, she was obviously not a friend of Krieg but a really close one. Then he notices it, he was surrounded by Krieg's friends which means he was chosen, this was his destiny in this new world, he shall lead his fellow followers to a better path, they won't be like the cultists he had met, no, they shall walk the steps that Krieg have taken, he shall hunt down the deserving and offer them a choice, give up their misguided ways and protect those who can't defend themselves or keep their bandit life, if they do not choose the first choice then they shall die.

Before he could express his joy for his new found destiny, a flash of light illuminates the room, the students looks over to the source to find a horrific and disproportionate Krieg, all except Ocellus and the Nomad screamed in terror by the sight of the psycho, Starlight suddenly appeared on Krieg's side clutching tightly on to him, her invincibility spell had just worn off. The beast growls and snaps his head around, confused as to why he just teleported, then his eyes landed on Bad Maw, he didn't see the man or pony in the coat, he saw a bandit, the type he slaughters on a daily basis.

"My lord?" Bad Maw asked worriedly as he notices Krieg's predatorial glare.

*Kr--- wai-!* The voice tried to speak but was unheard by the psycho.

Before anyone else could say anything, the psycho rushes over to the Nomad and slams his fist into the bandit's chest sending him through the wall of the castle and out into the open, the Nomad fell down with a loud thud, he was left sprawled on the grass.

"Excuse me!" Bad Maw turns his head to the side to see who that voice belonged to, it was a white unicorn filly who was accompanied by three other ponies, he could also see a red chest behind them.

Back at the castle, Ocellus and the other were shocked by Krieg's action, they have no idea what he was right now and it was scaring everyone. The psycho's attention then lands on Gallus, the griffon notices the same hunger in the beast's eye when they have first met, and Gallus frowns as he knew what was coming next.

"Aw nuts."

"Flesh Buzzard!!!" Gallus had already ran from the dragon and slams the door shut behind him so he could get a head start, Smolder swipes the younger dragon and tried her best to keep them both hidden until Krieg calms down, Smolder knows what's going to happen, she could only hope that Sandbar would stop the beast.

Ocellus quickly steps in his way and tries to stop him, but psycho only shoves her away, seemingly forgetting who or what she is, Starlight who was still holding on had decided to hold him in place with her magic, but as if there's a strange protective spell is keeping from grasping the psycho, the beast chases after the griffon, he smashed through the closed door and ran in incredible speed with Sandbar and Ocellus on his trail, Silverstream had chosen to stay in case the Midgets escape.

Gallus flew as fast as his wings could take him, this really does depend on his life and he rather not be Krieg's or whatever that thing's meal. A loud crash from behind catches his attention, he looks back to see the huge monster stomping his way over to the griffon, Gallus let out a startled and terrified griffon screech before beating his wings even faster. In the distance, Gallus could see the front doors of the castle in sight, all he needed to do was stay low and hide until the psycho regains his common sense or what comes close to one.

Before the griffon could reach the doors, he had made the mistake to look back and finds a gigantic hand coming up to his face, the hand wraps itself around Gallus's face, Krieg then slams the griffon through the doors and out into the open.

"TASTY CHICKEN DRUMSTICK!!!"

The griffon could only muffle his screams in Krieg's palms as he thrashed around, before the psycho could do anything he was tackled to the ground by Bad Maw, Gallus was freed and flew higher into the sky, Starlight was also flung off of the psycho from the Nomad's tackle.

"My lord, stop! This isn't you!" The Nomad tried to knock some senses into Krieg.

The psycho only slammed his fist into Bad Maw's side and threw the Nomad aside, the beast then looks around himself looking for the griffon, but he does find was four ponies were staring at him with eyes wide open, he could see the fear in their eyes.

*K--eg!*

The psycho took a step closer, and they took one back, he did it one more and it causes the orange one to accidentally bump into the damaged lock of the chest they have brought causing it to open from the slight bump, the lid snaps upwards and flings an Echo out, the rough landing caused it to play a message, it was a voice that Krieg had never heard for a long time.

"Hey Gaige, it's me again," The psycho froze, his body began shrinking back to normal size, Sandbar and Ocellus arrives in time to see what was happening. "I... We got bad news, Sanctuary is gone..."

The ponies around the psycho notices him tensed up, Krieg quickly ran over and swipes the Echo from the ground and held it closer to him, by now the other dragons had came after noticing the lack of screaming and shouting, Silverstream was also there with the Nomad's shield.

"Some old Dahl soldiers just came out of nowhere and took the place..." Gallus had also noticed Krieg being too focused on the device, so the griffon knew that his short rampage was over. "One thing led to another, Lilith had to destroy Sanctuary to save Pandora and it worked, this place ain't gonna change, but the thing is, its over. You, me and the others? Are done on Pandora, Vaults are open and we have nothing else to do... Listen, Gaige, I'll send you my coordinates so we can-"

"Axton..." The beast's eye widens as he hears Gaige's voice.

"Yeah?"

"We're not gonna see him again, are we?"

"I...don't know..."

"I miss him, its too quiet without him." Then it went silent, the call had ended there.

The psycho knew who they were talking about, he began shaking the device aggressively. "LITTLE RED, I'M HERE!" The psycho began hitting the side of the device with his palm. "MISTER DAHL, HELLO!?"

The creatures could see the emotion he was feeling right now, they all could only watch as the psycho tries to make the device do what he wanted.

Krieg had pressed numerous buttons trying to connect a call, when he gets nothing he let a loud and frustrated roar before throwing the Echo away, the device would have shatter on the ground if it weren't for Ocellus quickly catching it with her magic.

*Sanctuary...* The voice spoke, finally audible to the psycho. *W-what...do we do?*

"Little Man...I don't know." The dragon said as he began walking away, he noticed the red chest before he could leave and sees three of his guns on the display, they were the ones that the others didn't like, cursed just like his shotgun, but he didn't really feel like playing with them right now, he just wanted to end the day.

"Krieg, wait!" Sandbar calls out but was ignored.

"Umm, what's going on?" Big Mac finally spoke, catching everyone's attention.

Starlight sighed before facing the students. "I'm needed back at the Crystal Empire, could you six handle this?"

"S-sure..." Gallus spoke, still shaken by his near death experience, again.

With things taken care of, the unicorn teleports herself out of Ponyville and back to Twilight.

The fillies and the apple pony stood awkwardly waiting for answers, Gallus would then choose to lie to the four while Ocellus goes to check the Nomad if he was okay, while the rest honestly have no idea what to do, Sandbar wanted to go after Krieg, but it had looked like that the psycho wanted to be alone. They all expected Krieg to come back but not in the form of some kind of monster, the only way to understand why he transformed is to ask Ocellus about it.

"He was showing you some dragon magic?" Sandbar heard Scootaloo speak, he looks over and listens to their conversation.

"Yeah, he said he had learned it from his travels." Gallus had lied to them.

"But, what was all that part where he chase ya'out of the castle?" Applebloom asked.

"I kinda made fun of him and turns out while he was in that form, his temper becomes much shorter..."

"So it was your fault that he was breaking things?"

"Yes, it was mine." He said with a hint of sarcasm.

Sweetie Belle then gasped, catching the other two crusaders attention. "Then we made him sad for brining that thing! We have to make up for it!"

The griffon nodded, Krieg being sad was kinda thier fault, at least it calmed him down quicker.

"Umm, who's that?" Big Mac said before pointing a hoof towards the Nomad.

The griffon only sighed, he needed to keep them in the dark, it wasn't as if he didn't trust them or anything, but Gallus was just scared that the information of the psycho would slip, he doesn't expect it from Big Mac, but he just believes children would sometimes talk without even knowing it.

Maybe he could tell the farmer when the fillies are gone, but for now, they'll be hearing his lie.

Author's Note

Welp, this was the longest chapter yet and I hope you all have enjoyed.

Some of you who have known the BL series very well might be asking, "Hey, why didn't Wilhelm tear Krieg in two?" Well friend, I agree that Wilhelm is very OP by lore wise, but if he can take down the first four Vault Hunters, (keep in mind that Lilith is a skilled siren and Brick can one punch people because he is very strong) then he can kill Krieg easily, so I tried to Nerf him by removing the drones(that's why I added Marble Pie(if you don't know who that pony that Wilhelm had followed around, then alright.)).

But that wasn't really enough because the cyborg has cybernetics and skills, so it kinda made me reluctant to make him lose, but I had no choice, the story needs to go further and the fight doesn't really sit well to me, and all we know from Krieg's lore is that he manage to break out of some Hyperion lab which is obviously has heavy security, plus he might've had help from Doctor Samuels who was the lead researcher in the facility, she must of have played a big part in his escape.

The thing is, Wilhelm would have won the fight, even with hundreds or thousands of bullets flying his way, and if he had his drones then he would had an advantage over Krieg, also the fact that(people and the guy who worked on BL had considered this cannon and so do I) Jack had killed Wilhelm off was probably one of the reasons he had lost, the cyborg was useful.

Alright, guess that's all, and if you can guess what Celestia did, here's a hint its something both Kriegs would be angry about if you look at it from their point, something that would actually benefits both of them I might tell you if you got it and the prize is me eating a cookie in your honor.

Anyways, see y'all in the next chapter, actual spoiler, click if you want Wilhelm will win the next fight, also Face Mcshooty will return in later chapters. go on friend, click it.