The Pain Goes HERE!

Yona sat silently in the cage, her friend Silverstream was currently eating her tenth plate of egg related meals, it did not sit well at all that they were saved only to be thrown into a cage and be fed with eggs. She feels a strange feeling in her guts, and it wasn't hunger. The yak look over to the leader of the community, the pony was currently talking to an obese minotaur with a metal helmet, whatever they were talking about is unknown to Yona.

"Friend?" Silverstream looks up towards Yona from her food. "Yak does not like this, and the other creatures."

Silverstream tilted her head. "But why? They are treating us so nice, the food is good and this cage is so comfy!"

"The cage is what Yona does not like, yak could feel deep evil in everyone here."

"They are a bit... odd." She said as she watches a hippogriff wearing the same mask as the leader, slams his club against his own face.

"Kill the kittens! Kill them with my bloody sadness!" The hippogriff shouted, still slamming his club against his face.

Silverstream's eyes widens. "Oh my god, they want to hurt kittens!" She turns back towards Yona. "We have to get out of here!"

"You wish to leave?" They both turn to see the leader standing in front of their cage, two ponies with similar masks by her side. "But we haven't started preparing the final meal, it would truly be bad if you leave now."

"Oh, well we could stay for one last meal, right Yona?" The yak rapidly shakes her head no. "What are we having?"

"Silverstream and Yona adobo."

"Say what now?"

Meanwhile, in the secret hideout of the diabolical group Legion of Doom, Lex Grogar was occupied with his magical crystal ball. Two of his companions were currently arguing again, he could barely focus on his work by their useless arguments, before he could yell and scold them to stop, his crystal ball had reveal to him a symbol. The vault symbol.

"No." He muttered under his breath, but the pony of the group had heard him.

"What's wrong Grogar? You sounded like some big bad came back that isn't you." As Cozy Glow had started speaking, Chrysalis and Tirek had stop their bickering, they too were curious.

Instead of answering, he had just repeated saying "No." over and over, and as he yells out the final "NO!" he slams both his hooves on the table.

The three recoiled at his sudden outburst, only Cozy was brave enough to get close. "Umm, what's got you all riled up mister Grogar?"

"This!" He points towards his crystal ball, now it shows an army of griffons.

"I'm sorry, but what are we looking at?" Chrysalis asks him, but her question was soon answered by what came next, a dragon ripping one of the soldier's head.

The three once again recoiled back, Tirek instinctively covered Cozy's eyes as the next image shown the dragon using a griffon's own intestines to choke said griffon.

"By the gods Grogar, Cozy is just a child!" Tirek yells at the old ram.

"She will see this soon enough if we do not do anything about it!"

"What do you mean Grogar?" The pony said, eyes still covered by Tirek. "And why am I not allowed to see?"

"What you three are seeing now is the missing record of the pony and griffon war. This dragon is known as Krieg, the Kin Slayer."

"I have not heard of him." Said Tirek.

"Same, but he is quite brutal." The changeling commented. Grogar's crystal ball began shifting, to tell the short history of Krieg.

"That is because Celestia had wiped out his part of Equestrian history from the archives! She had then brought him to an unknown location, and had sealed him just right before Nightmare Moon had been banished, he was forever lost in time. Forgotten by those he protected."

"I don't understand mister Grogar, what made you so worried about him? He could still be sealed." Cozy Glow said while lifting Tirek's hand away.

"Because he is free you dolt! He is currently near Ponyville, and once he begins his rampage, not even the princesses could defeat him."

"Then why don't you try and- How you say?- 'convince' him to join our group of villains? He is betrayed by Celestia." Chrysalis had suggested to the ram. "I have spoken and battled with his kind before, it would be too easy."

His glare shifted to the bug, Chrysalis looks away unwilling to make eye contact. "He cannot be reason with you fool, so I have a better idea, you will keep a close eye on him until I could think of a plan on how to deal with this threat. But I will watch over you in case he tries to rip your carapace apart, now begone!" Before she could speak, Grogar had already sent her near Ponyville, he turns towards the remaining members. "Let me educate you on who Krieg the Beast is..."

Back with our heroes, they were nearing to where their friends had been taken, they have left the Hyperion area, so there were no golems to encounter.

"Say Steve," Gallus calls for the attention of the other griffon, Steve looks back and gave him a 'heyoo'. "how come your name starts with an 's', and not with a 'g'?"

He would have gotten an answer, but Steve only says one word. Seeing that this would not go anywhere, Gallus goes back to being quiet, and let Krieg do the talking.

*Krieg, answer me, where are we and why are we a dragon!?"

"Strip the flesh!" Gallus was really getting tired by his constant shouting.

*Fine, but you'll have to give me an answer soon.*

During their walk, Krieg kept close to Ocellus, the changeling glances at him, disturbed by how he was just staring at her. "Umm, who is this exactly? Not to be rude mister dragon."

"That's Krieg, just keep an eye on him." Smolder said, not even looking back. "Also, she's a friend Krieg, so no funny business."

"Oh," Ocellus turns to Krieg and smiles sheepishly. "it's nice to meet you, I-Im Ocellus."

"What do you taste like?" Ocellus looks forward, she could not form any words in response to his question.

*Krieg, leave the poor girl alone.*

"I don't want to leave her alone, I want the shiny!" He argues back at himself with a claw pointed at the weapon, seeing this, Ocellus reluctantly motions the weapon towards him. Krieg let out a giggle of appreciation as he swipes the weapon away, he swings it around while laughing like a child on his birthday, Krieg turns back towards Ocellus and menacingly says. "Loooove yooouu."

"Y-youre welcome." She awkwardly said before walking faster to get away from him.

They soon arrive at an entrance, Steve held up a talon in front of his face to tell them to be quiet for what comes next, the six of them soon silently entered. Inside was astonishing, houses and more were built everywhere, even against the walls of the large cavern. All sort of creatures lived in the underground town, but what was more noticeable was how most of them wore similar masks, there were other creatures that even dressed like Steve.

"What is this place?" Gallus asks as he sees a few griffons fighting.

"Smells like home." Was Krieg's answer.

Suddenly a loud siren fills the air, and the creatures stops what they were doing and heads towards the center of their town. They watched as a diverse number of creatures moves, the young four were both amazed and worried by the sheer amount of strangers, the six of them follows the crowd a few feet away to keep the element of surprise.

They soon were behind a wooden fence with enough holes for the six to see through, close enough to see what the occasion was, there right at the center was their friends who were in a cage.

"There they are, but how are we going to get them?" Smolder whispers to the others.

"We need to think one up fast, Steve says that they're going to eat them." Ocellus said, putting pressure on the group.

"Ladies and gentlemen!" The masked mare spoke, she stood right on top a stone table that had blood stained on it, close to her was the cage that held Yona and Silverstream. "Today, we will celebrate the day that our god has given us a sign, a sign that he will rescue us from this world from itself and bring with him his weapons! Weapons that could burn this land to ashes, and bring these herectics to justice with his mighty blade as he vanquish the false gods into oblivion. And that sign is, these surface dwellers!"

The whole crowds cheered, while Silverstream and Yona cowers helplessly in the cage for there is nothing they could do.

"This is a sign, that the barrier has finally died and we can run free from this prison, long have we yearned to bask in the sun's light. Sleep under the stars, witness more things than this stone surface, we will feast upon more than just fish, eggs, and the random bits we find near the shrine of our god!"

The mare turns towards her captives, the two ponies from before returns with a wooden case that was decorated with different symbols. "But before we do, we shall feast upon the gifts our god has given!" With that, the crowd cheers wildly, excited for the event.

"How about," The crowd went silent as the hippogriff spoke. "you don't cook us! Ain't that a great idea?"

"But I want to taste the meat!" A pony from the crowd spoke.

"I want cow, beef is superior meat!" An obese minotaur said.

"I'm just tired of eggs! No offense Mary!"

"None taken!"

"Food, food, FOOD!"

"Kittens! Kill! All! Kittens!" Said another.

Silverstream tilted her head. "But why, why would you want kittens to die, they are just the cutest!?"

"Well I uh... SH*T! She's right."

"Enough!" The leader spoke. "We wasted too much time, bring out the ceremonial blade to CUT- Ahem, carve these creatures to smaller pieces!"

The two ponies who were holding the box opens it, they then brought out a very iconic weapon from the box. Back at our heroes, the fence they were behind had started to shake, they look over to Krieg as he shook with rage at the sight of the ceremonial weapon. The five then tries to calm him down or else he would blow their cover and ruin the advantage of stealth. Sadly they could not as Krieg shatters the wooden fence with his fist, he let out a mighty roar causing everyone in the area to turn their attention to them, Sandbar awkwardly waves.

"THAT'S! MY! GUT STABBER!" He pulls out his gun and ready himself for a fight, but nothing came.

The crowd stared at him with eyes open wide, and their mouths hung, before erupting to cheers. Our heroes all felt confused by their reaction, even the damsels in distress. The leader immediately ran over to Krieg, the ceremonial blade in her hooves.

"Long have I wished that I live to see the day, that our god awakens, and here you are! We have thought the Hyperion machines had destroyed you shrine!" She falls onto her knees, and raised the buzz axe to Krieg. "Oh lord, please accept this act as a sign of our devotion for you, we will be loyal and follow your every command if you open the doors of Valhalla!" She then went on with a very long speech that the rest of the cult seems to listen to. "Lord Krieg, the Wing Eater, Feather Scorcher, the Sky Conquerer!"

During her long speech, the young four and Steve used the distraction to break out their friends from their imprisonment.

"Friends! Yak is happy that you are fine!"

"Uh, who is that anyways?" Silverstream asks the others.

Gallus was the one to answer as they sneaked towards a spot that no one seem to look at. "That's Krieg, and he's nuts."

"We sorta just found him with a sword in his chest, Smolder and Gallus fought him, but I convince him to not hurt them." Sandbar gave a much longer explanation.

"Okay then, but who-" Silverstream went silent when she and Yona glances at Steve. "Oh."

"Yona no understand."

"Heyoo!"

Back with the cult leader. "And bring us to the lands of paradise as we bring you sacrifices. For we are, The Passengers of the Poop Train!" The young six froze on their spot as the whole crowd had started chanting the name of their cult.

"Did they just say what I think they just say?" Ocellus turns towards the closest creature, Steve.

"Heyoo!" He answered.

Krieg was enjoying the attention he was having, he holster his shotgun on his back and took the buzz axe in his claws. "I am the conductor of the poop train!"

*You do remember about the Firehawks, right? They didn't turn out so well.*

The mare then motions everyone to make room, the crowd took a few steps back giving enough room for a big fight. At this, a cream brown coated mare from the crowd hops out, she wore the same mask as well. Her legs were armored with scrap metal, her yellow mane was long, unkept, and frizzled, last detail was the scars that was all over her.

"Is it time!?" She excitedly asked, and when the leader nodded, she squealed before running off. "It's time, it's time, IT'S TIME!"

The leader steps back into the crowd before turning towards her god. "And as a celebration for your return, we offer you a battle against our champion, who we trained both mind and body for battle!" Krieg lifts his arms to the sky, roaring loudly, the crowd follows suit.

"Wait," Smolder said, eyes watching Krieg. "they're gonna make them fight?"

"If this cult worships this guy, then it's obviously a death match." Gallus gave her his thoughts on the subject.

Sandbar turns towards his friends. "We can't let him do that, killing is wrong!"

"Sandbar!" Smolder snaps at him with a snarl. "These freaks were going to eat our friends, then I say we let them fight."

Gallus and Yona nodded, agreeing with Smolder's opinion, Ocellus was still contemplating, while Steve and Silverstream was just watching Krieg. Then they all heard a loud roar that didn't belong to anyone in the crowd, or even Krieg, out of nowhere, a black manticore lands right in front of Krieg, the mare from before was riding it. Then what they felt from seeing Steve had also returned, but with chocolate decorated background and colors, Sweet Mint, Rotting more than teeth!.

"Oh my god!" Gallus cries out. "I really hope that there aren't anymore of that."

"Little man, can I play with the kitty cat!?" Said Krieg as he grips his axe tightly.

"Look, he's speaking to the god of wisdom!" Someone had said from the crowd.

Smolder frowns. "Wisdom is what he doesn't have."

*They wanted to eat Sandbar's friends, so my answer? Break a leg.*

Krieg started making strange noises, excited for a promising fight, he laughs out loud as he charges towards the manticore with his axe raised in the air. The manticore leaps away from him and used his scorpion tail to strike, Krieg rolls to the side and swung his axe down on the tail, it barely left a scratch. The mare on top pulls out a flame Maliwan rocket launcher, she fires off a few shots but she had missed, which cause an explosions which startled the young six for they have not seen such a weapon.

"What is that!" Gallus asks the others, but none of them could give him the answer, except for a a masked pony.

"That's called a rocket launcher." The young six and Steve were startled by the unexpected guest. Before they could do any thing, the mare raises their hooves in the air. "W-wait, I don't want trouble!"

"Same here, but we can't have it all, can we!?" Said Smolder as she prepares herself to burn the pony, no matter the consequences.

"N-no please! I have only been here for three months!" She took off her mask, and gave them a joyful smile. "I-I'm Carrot Top." She said, a single tear run down her cheek.

Sandbar gasps loudly. "Carrot Top!?"

Back with Krieg, he was having a great time right now, the manticore proved to be a strong enemy for him while Sweet Mint happily shot rockets at him. This counts as a total win for the psycho. Krieg ducks down from the manticore's claws, as he stands back up, he threw a punch directly at one of the beast's eyes, blinding it for a second. It was enough time for Krieg to swing his axe and land a few hits, the beast staggers back to avoid his next strike, Sweet Mint then landed a shot right on him, but that was a terrible mistake.

"I don't understand, how come they didn't eat you? Not that its a bad thing." Gallus said as the battle continues on.

Carrot Top looks towards the yak and hippogriff. "That's because I passed the test. You see, when I first arrived here, they asked me what was the first thing I saw when I got teleported here. And it was him." She points towards the battle, Krieg was playing around with the manticore while on fire. "I don't know what brought me here, but I was forced to learn these things, guns, monsters, and worst of all, Krieg's history."

"What for?"

"For war."

Sweet Mint was having trouble, just like what she had learned since the day she had started training, her god was powerful. But that won't stop her, she will fight to please him, she will fight to gain entrance to Valhalla. No matter what.

Krieg lifts his left arm over his head to block the manticore's massive paw, he kicks it's hind legs back, causing the manticore to drop on the ground. He uses this moment to toss his axe right at Sweet Mint, she reacted quickly and used her rocket launcher to block, but the strength behind the throw causes the mare to fall off the manticore. The manticore recovered quickly, it jumps away from Krieg and began to circle the dragon, it's rider stood back up from the ground and watches her mount standing off against her god. The beast pounces at Krieg with claws and fangs ready, but he was also ready, Krieg took one of the grenades he had on his belt and shoves it down the manticore's throat. Krieg let out a maniacal laugh, arm still in the manticore, the animal tried to pry him off but Krieg took hold on it's head to keep it from escaping. Suffocation is what would have killed it, but the timer on the grenade had ran out, one explosion was all it took to decapitated the manticore, the head still around Krieg's arm as he laugh louder than the crowd cheering.

"How can I snap your neck if you don't have one!?" He asks the corpse as the head slips off his arm.

The young six were lucky that Steve and Carrot Top had pulled them all away to avoid witnessing the manticore's fate, Smolder tried to take a peak to see if it was over, but Steve kept her still, shaking his head as the crowd started chanting "KILL!". Krieg walked over to the champion, Sweet Mint drops her rocket launcher to the ground and waited.

At this, Sandbar attempted to stop this, but Steve wouldn't let him. "Let me go! We need to stop him!"

"Do that, and everyone here will just shoot you." Carrot Top warns him of the fate he will have for preventing what the cult wants. "Seen a few ponies and others try, but they all just..." She stops herself not wanting to remember a few names, she then stood up to watch it happen, being surrounded by psychos had changed her slightly.

The rest of the young six just looks at the ground, Sandbar holds his hooves over his ears and waited.

Krieg grabs hold of her right foreleg and lifted her to eye level. "You, live." With that, he drops her and picks up the Maliwan, which was a Puissant Pyrophobia. "A golden mallet for the meat pounding!" He holster the rocket launcher before walking towards the cult leader.

*Krieg, that's different. I'd imagine you would rip her apart.*

"She is undeserving, I can feel it, these meat sacks around her had made her into this!" He quickens his pace, swiping the buzz axe from the ground as he passes it.

The cult leader knew what her god was planning, so she lifts her forelegs in welcome for what's to come, when the beast reached her he swung down his axe right on her skull. It was not enough to kill her. Though it was their leader being executed, the crowd cheered nonetheless as Krieg let go of his axe to grab the forelegs, with one pull, he rips out the legs out of its sockets. The mare did not scream, only laughed as she accepted her fate, Krieg then pulls her mask down to shove his shotgun in her mouth, he pulls the trigger causing the undamaged side of her head to splatter against the wall. He then pulls the axe out of her skull to behead the corpse with one swing, during all this, Krieg did not laugh or show enjoyment for the mare's death.

"You, all!" He adresses the crowd. "Stay!" He looks towards the obese minotaur and punches the helmet off before running towards the others. The goliath began turning red as he became exetremely angry.

*What the hell!? You're just gonna leave the pony you spared to die!?*

"Yes, she is too far gone little man! But if she was a Tannis, then she lives another life cycle!" He slides next to Sandbar, shotgun pointed at Carrot Top.

"Wait, don't shoot!" Carrot Top pleaded, and he listened. "T-thank you, follow me, I know another exit!"

The young six didn't look at Krieg as they followed the pony to the surfaces. Though Sandbar sometimes glances back at Krieg with a sadness and disbelief in his eyes. They all could hear the gunfire from the town as the goliath wreak havoc on the citizens.

An hour had gone by, the underground town was already too far from them, Carrot Top had led everyone to a very conveniently large elevator that was going straight to the surface. During their ride, Sandbar decided to cut the tension by starting a conversation, mainly towards the larger dragon.

"Hey Krieg, why were you down here anyway?"

*Yeah Krieg, why were you down there?*

Krieg looks him dead in the eyes. "Celestia." The young six froze completely still, for their time together, Krieg only called them by strange names like sweet bug, bird horse, or fluffy cow. But he had never called anyone by name. "She had brought me here to sleep, Celestia had betrayed me, sent me into the pits of hell to rot and be forgotten! Even though I protected them... And if I see her, I WILL KILL HER WITH MY GUNS AND PLAY HOPSCOTCH IN HER CHEST CAVITY!" He started breathing heavily as he shook with rage, he walked away to the edge to start ranting about unrelated things.

"We need to tell the princess, quick." Gallus whispers to the others.

Smolder nodded. "Yeah, this guy is dangerous."

"Guys wait." They all turn to Sandbar, even Steve and Carrot Top. "I know and understand who or what Krieg is, but we shouldn't just sell him out."

Yona quickly took the pony in her hooves. "Is Sandbar crazy!? This beast is evil!"

He shook his head. "You think he's evil, but he protected us, and we should be grateful for it. Without him, you and Silverstream would have been eaten by those creatures. He helped us and now he needs our help."

"Sandbar, you're too nice to him!" The griffon said to him.

"He's right," The hippogriff spoke. "we would have never gotten away if it weren't for him."

"I also agree." They turn to the changeling, surprised by her opinion for the subject. "He may be a psychotic, destructive, murderous, monster. But he did all the things just to protect us, and Krieg says that he was betrayed for being such is why we should be kind to him, he just wanted to be appreciated for his deeds. He just needs to be set to the right path."

Yona looks towards the beast. "Ocellus is right, yak might not be big dragon, but yak knows what different feels. So Yona agrees with Sandbar."

Smolder pinches the bridge of her snout. "I hate to say it, but I have to agree too, he was very helpful."

They all turn to the Griffon and waited for a response, he let out a heavy sigh before facing them. "Alright, fine, we owe him big for helping our butts. But if we want to do this, then everyone here needs to promise not to tell the princesses." He said mainly towards Steve and Carrot Top.

"Heyoo!"

"If you kids think you could handle him, then I won't tell anyo-anypony. I rather forget everything that happened down there."

"Thanks Carrot Top!" Sandbar smiled to everyone. "Also thanks everyone. But how are we going to do this?"

"We keep him away from Celestia, duh. Then we make sure he doesn't run off to who knows where." Smolder informs him of her simple plan, while Ocellus went over to Krieg to talk with him, with one thing running on everyone's mind.

"This has been a long afternoon."

"Shining, dear?" Cadance calls for her husband's attention from across the table, she was worried since he was staring at his bowl of cereal for minutes.

Why he was doing so? Well, he was currently seeing things, such as a ghost of a strange looking pony dunking their non existent hoof in his cereal repeatedly while talking on and on.

"-A fricking spoon! And I'm dying laughing, right? So I scoop out his stupid little eyeballs with it, and his kids are all, 'waaahh!', and, he can't see where he's going, he's bumping in to stuff, and ah... I don't know, maybe you had to be there."