The Pain Goes HERE!

Chrysalis took a bite out of an apple from the tree she was currently hiding in, the pair of binoculars floated in front of her face as she observes the buff dragon following what the apple pony says, like lifting some barrels filled with apples, or punching a tree to get apples, she almost laughed when the tree tilted forward from the punch by the dragon. The face Applejack made was just really amusing, she couldn't wait to recreate the moment to her totally not friends and only accomplices until one of them back stabs the other. What? They're villains, one of them was bound to betray someone.

After watching him head inside the barn, she puts down the binoculars and sighed heavily, the task Grogar had given her was just too easy, also exetremely boring. When the old coot said the beast can't be reason with, he was clearly over exaggerating because the dragon was doing what the apple pony says, Chrysalis thought to herself that she could easily bend the beast to her will. She would do it if it weren't for Grogar's direct order to just keep watch, so she had to sit in the tree being absolutely bored right now, at least she had brought the purple log with her when she was teleported, and that weird device... Wait what?

Chrysalis had to take a second look, she had swore that it wasn't there before. Before she could do anything, the object just suddenly started making a really high pitched that affected her and any dog near the farm, she quickly stomps on it to try and silence, all it did was make it play a strange message.

"WHY SETTLE FOR CORROSIVE, INCENDIARY, CRYO, SHOCK OR SLAG!? WHEN YOU COULD BLOW UP YOUR ENEMIES TO SMITHEREENS WITH THE MOST F*CKING BADASS ELEMENT OUT THERE, EXPLOSIVE!!! BUT I WILL STILL ACCEPT YOUR CHOICE BECAUSE I DO NOT JUDGE, AT ALL-"

Chrysalis quickly kicks it down from the tree, the device went silent as it fell right towards Sandbar's head, he looks up when he heard the noise coming from the tree, the pony was quick enough to step aside, letting it shatter as it hits the ground. Sandbar looks back up to find a snake, a purple log, and a pair of binoculars sitting on a branch, he looks back at the pile of junk before shrugging his shoulders.

"Sandbar, hurry up!" Smolder called to her friend. Sandbar speeds up his pace and catches up with everyone.

The whole group had woke up early to meet the psycho today, and try to see if they could control him, luckily it seems to be possible, so they have a good chance at keeping him in line. Soon they could see Applejack resting by the cart filled with barrels of apples, the young six went over to greet her and ask for the whereabouts of Krieg.

"Oh Krieg? After helpin' me out with the farm, he just went inside the barn to take a nap he says, speaking of which." Applejack leans against her cart and covers her eyes with her hat, with the help of the dragon, the apple mare has enough time to catch a few hours of sleep.

Everyone couldn't really thank the mare for telling them because she had already fell asleep, so they decided to head over to the barn instead. As they got closer they started to hear voices from the inside, voices that don't belong to the psycho. They opened the door to investigate only to find.... An intro card! Cutie Mark Crusaders, Licensed To Cute!

The experience would have been adorable, but the fact that a rocket launcher was about to launch a rocket towards them made them all think otherwise, luckily the intro card had given the young six enough time to react, when time turns back to normal, they quickly jumped away and let the rocket soar through the air and into the clouds, probably heading to an unlucky pony. They look back towards the crusaders who only smiled sheepishly, Smolder quickly swipes it away but it was too big and heavy for to carry it, so she handed it to Yona.

"Where's Krieg!?" Demanded the dragon.

"You mean the big guy?" Said Scootaloo, she looked around the barn before answering. "Well he was here earlier..."

"Oh, I think he went into town or something!" Sweetie Belle said before quickly placing her hooves on her mouth, the other two also glared at the unicorn.

"He what!?" Gallus exclaimed. "Do you know where did he go specifically?"

"Yes, but I am very sorry Gallus." Applebloom said as she kept avoiding eye contact. "Mister Krieg had told us that we shouldn't tell anyone where he went, and he made us pinkie promise to make sure."

"It was really a weird one too." Said Scootaloo before she repeated the exact words. "Cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye. He also said he'll take our pinky fingers if we tell... No idea what that is though."

"Maybe it's dragon related!" Said Sweetie Belle.

"Girls, its important that you tell us where he is!" Ocellus spoke, trying to convince the three to spill the beans. "He could-no- he might hurt someone!"

The crusaders huddled together to discuss what they know, after a few arguments they faced the young six to give them their answer.

"I'm sorry, but we promised and that's that." Sweetie Belle said before the crusaders ran off to avoid questioning. Gallus was about to chase after them but Sandbar holds him back.

"We don't have time for this, we need to look for him now!"

"Sandbar is right, let's split up!" Ocellus said before giving everyone a task. "Sandbar, Yona and Smolder should ask around while the rest of us scout for Krieg from the sky, he'll be definitely easy to find since the town is mostly ponies. Questions?"

When no one asked any, they all start their search for the psycho as they hurried back to town. While this was happening, Applejack was still asleep by her cart dreaming about apples and stuff. But that would have to stop as a certain rainbow maimed pony crashes into her, rudely waking up the apple mare as they tumbled away from the cart.

"Gosh darn it RD! Why are ya' goin' around and tackling ponies for no reason!?"

"No time to explain!" Before Applejack could ask as to why, Rainbow Dash wraps her fore legs around the farm pony and took to the skies, Applejack quickly holds on for her life as she was being carried towards the castle.

And just before the two could crash through the one of many windows, they were suddenly caught by a giant baseball glove, the glove closes putting both ponies in the darkness, and when they could see light again, they both found themselves in their respective seats in the map room. Rarity and Fluttershy was there also, as well as Discord himself.

"Thank you Discord." Fluttershy said to the spirit of chaos, she then notices his own name floating besides him. "Umm, Discord, what is that for?"

"Oh, this?" He motions towards the subject of her attention. "This is just something I'm preparing for later. Do you think I should go for bold and italic letters or just underlined? Maybe all three? I want something that really says chaos just like me."

"As much as I am curious on what Discord was planning, I'm much more curious as to why y'all brought me here, is there some kind of emergency?" Applejack said, recovering from the strange experience she just had.

The doors swings wide open to reveal a very tired looking Twilight, she slowly walked up to take her seat.

"What happened to you Twilight, it looks like you didn't sleep at all!"

"I'm just- I'm just tired, that's all..." She yawns for second. "Alright... You all are probably wondering why- wait, where's Pinkie?"

"Pinkie Pie?" Discord spoke as he was looking through a box filled with colorful letters. "I went over to get her just like you asked, but she is currently busy entertaining a newcomer."

"Oh Pinkie, always a friendly face." Twilight leans on her hoof against the table, almost dozing off right there. "Yesterday, princess Celestia took me and her guards into an underground prison, right below Ponyville."

"Oh my, there is prison, right below our homes!?" The fashionista exclaimed.

"Yes a prison, one that kept another monster that used to walk on Equestria. But that's not all, the prison itself have changed, now it is big enough that there is an underground city built inside, I have no idea how old it is."

That alone made everyone else but Discord absolutely worried and curious.

"Wait, does that mean there are like, mole ponies?" Dash asked her friend.

"You're almost right and I wished it was just that... You see, the ponies and other creatures below are a cult that worships the monster as a god, we were not welcome as they attacked us. At first, I couldn't believe what princess Celestia said after we encounter them... "

"W-what did she say?" Fluttershy spoke as she watches the alicorn straighten herself.

"Kill them..."

The whole table just went silent, Discord stops whatever he was doing to look at Twilight with eyes wide open. The silence went on another minute before the alicorn continued.

"These creatures, they don't listen to reason or have an ounce of mercy, they only fight and fight until they can't. We were all lucky to get out when they started growing in numbers, but at the cost of one life..."

"Need a second sugarcube?"

Twilight shook her head. "No, I'm fine. When we came back to the surface, we met Carrot Top, she was part of that cult until she escaped, but she had help from this monster. She then tells us that the beast is traveling north, princess Celestia had sent out troops to scout for him, and tomorrow both Luna and I will join princess Celestia to meet Cadance so she would be informed of this *Yawn* beast...."

Twilight could not finish her sentence as she drifts off to sleep, when Rainbow was about to wake her up, Applejack along with Rarity kept her from moving, the farm pony silently gestures for all to leave and let the tired alicorn sleep. It was obvious that whatever she experienced down below had kept her awake, so it was good for Twilight to catch some sleep, before Discord followed Fluttershy out, he used his chaotic magic to conjure a pillow for the sleeping mare. Applejack thinks about what her friend just told them, it was really unnerving to know another powerful being let loose in Equestria again, she could only hoped that they could find and get rid of it quick.

Smolder flew around the town as fast as she could, the dragon approached many civilians to question if they have seen a particular dragon that was larger than her, and all answers were the same, 'No'. When she was a bout to pass by the town's forge where the blacksmith who is ironically named Black Smith, stood in her way with a very angry face, she stops in time before she could crashes into the pony.

"Hey kid, do you know that big dragon with the mask!?" It was obvious by the tone of his voice that the smithy was really peeved off.

"Oh god, what did he do?"

"Well your friend came here and wanted to use my forge, but when I said no, he snapped my best shovel in half and threatened to eat my lungs through my ears! So I let him do what he wanted and this is what happened!"

Black Smith motions towards his forge which was in shambles, the floor was littered with all kinds of things you would find in a forge, from metal pieces to hammers, swords, farm tools and burning charcoal. The pony's smithing tools were bent and damaged, obviously from Krieg's powerful grip.

"And all he gave me after he was done were these!" He showed to the dragon a large stack of green paper, it was the same thing she saw Ocellus collected.

"Uh, I'll pay for it next time. How much does it cost?

He looks back into his forge and began counting everything before facing her again. "40k bits."

"I'll get back to you." Before he could say anything else, Smolder had already flew off, leaving the pony alone.

He sighed before heading inside to clean up the mess Krieg had left.

After finding out that the beast was the in the local forge, Smolder began to find more clues, and more damages to pay. When the beast was done with whatever he did back in the forge, Krieg had gone to the local hardware store and bought a lot of buzz saw blades and ducktape, then he went to the fireworks store to buy some fuses, just fuses, after he was done with that he had gone into Berry Punch's bar and bought the strongest liquor she had. Every time they tried to not accept the green paper, Krieg would throw a tantrum which would cause him to destroy their stuff, so to keep him from breaking anything else, they accepted the currency and Krieg would move on.

Just when Smolder thought things wouldn't get bad enough, she encountered her friends Yona and Sandbar, what they found out was really starting to stress the dragon out. Apparently, Krieg had also went to the market and stole a bunch of watermelons. As for what Sandbar found out, the beast had broke into the local post office when it was closed since it was a Sunday, and when no one was actually present in the building, Krieg had some how found out where the most known mailmare lived and forced her to deliver a letter to Steve, it was actually nice of him to think about his friend who is on a journey, kudos to Krieg for that.

When they were about to move on, the dragon lord herself had stepped in front of the trio's way.

"Hey Smolder!" Ember happily greeted them.

"Ember!? I thought you would have left by now!" Smolder said, surprised by the fact that her leader was still in town, with the psychopath who hates his own kind and is currently not watched by her or the other young six.

"Well I just wanted to see how well I am with this friendship stuff, so I decided to stick around and make a few friends."

Sandbar smiled after finding out what she had planned. "Well that's an amazing idea princess Ember, how many friends did you make?"

"Well um... Bar Soap?... The thing is, I wanted to go and befriend someone who I'm more comfortable with first, before the ponies in town."

Sandbar couldn't correct her faster than Smolder and Yona realizing what she just had said. "You want to be friends with Krieg!?"

"Well yeah... Did he already leave? I was sure a few ponies said he was around."

Before they could say anything to dissuade her, Silverstream flew down from the sky with a message.

"Guys, we found him!"

"Really, where!?" Sandbar quickly asks the hippogriff.

"He's at Sugar Cube Corner, come on!" Silverstream quickly flew away, leaving her friends to follow her in their own speed.

"Hey, wait for me!" Ember calls out to them as she followed as well.

When they arrive to the pastry shop, they find a very uncomfortable bunch of ponies watching a very large dragon shoveling food into his revealed mouth while he was conversing with the party pony, well, Pinkie was actually talking as if the beast was mentally communicating with her. But first, an intro card!

When time slowed down, Pinkie is now wearing a pair of Groucho glasses and a blue with white polka dotted tie with a colorful afro on top of her head, Pinkamena Diane Pie, Best Pony [Heck Yeah She Is]! She returns to speaking with Krieg when her intro was up, her strange attire now gone in a blink.

"And that's why I think Twilight is better for the medic class, and besides, Fluttershy doesn't really fit any of the other classes because of her personality as well! Also me being engineer is actually the best choice!"

*Never met the both of them, but I think you're right, on whatever the subject was.*

"Thanks Krieg! So, what's your taste in music, pop, country, or electro swing?"

*Well, since I can't really do anything, I listen to whatever the big guy listens to, its mostly rock and metal, anything that has good guitar solo.*

"That's so sad! Not being able to try out any other genres of music must be terrible! You must be really happy to finally at least talk to someone."

*Yeah, I am. Been so long since I had a decent chat that doesn't have someone shout about riding bicycles made of meat.*

"I HAVE THE SHINIEST MEAT BICYCLE!" The beast just suddenly shout, causing those around him to jump from the loudness of his voice, it even scared those just passing by the bakery.

*Quiet there Krieg, I'm speaking with Pinkie right now.*

"Don't be so mean, he just wanted some pancakes. Isn't that right Krieg?" She pats the top of his head and he giggled like a child. "How tall do you want it?"

"Make it tall, so tall that you start speaking Spanish!"

*Give him only three stacks because he's scaring the other customers.*

"No, don't listen to little man!" He said as he fixes his mask.

"Sorry Krieg, but maybe if you are a bit more quiet, then I could ignore him. How about it?" Pinkie tried tempting the dragon.

*I like that idea. So Krieg?*

"Okay..." Was the only thing he said, Pinkie gave him a boop on the nose of his mask before leaving for the kitchen, now he sat alone on the table waiting for- Oh hey, its Sandbar with his friends... and the dragon lord...

Krieg waves the group over and kept an eye on the blue dragon as they approached, as for Ember, she was terrified once again by the sight of the beast, she tried to break out of the feeling, but all she could do was follow Smolder towards the larger dragon.

"Krieg, why did you leave the farm without telling us! You know how much trouble you got us into just to find you!?" Smolder scolded the beast.

"Big dragon is bad, Yona had to clean fruit stand after Krieg break stand, but it was good break, Yona is impressed." The yak said, still carrying Krieg's rocket launcher on her back.

"And you made us worried, you could've broke something more than fruit stands!" Gallus said to Krieg, but he and the others notices him just staring at Ember, obviously he didn't hear what they have just said, Ember looked around awkwardly as the beast stared silently at her.

"Um, we haven't really properly introduced each other, hello, I am dragon lord Ember!" She said as she outstretched her claw for a shake, but the psycho just stared, Ember quickly retracted her claws and awkwardly cleared her throat.

"Why is blue flame here?" Krieg asks Smolder, Ember was slightly upset by the name he used for her, she felt as if friendship was not working out.

"Krieg, be nice to princess Ember." Ocellus tells Krieg, he grunts before facing the blue dragon.

"Bro, she's the dragon lord, you have to respect her!" Smolder scolded him. "Do you want to make me upset?"

*Remember Krieg, you're her brother.*

"No..." He said still eying the dragon lord. "I am Krieg..." He said as he gestures his hand for a shake to Ember, she smiled a little before holding his massive open claws, almost glad that he was coming around, that's when Krieg tightens his grip and nearly broke her hand.

"S-so," She began speaking after she pulled her hand out of his strong grip. "care to tell me... how your day was going?"

"I also want to know, the crusaders wouldn't tell us." Silverstream said as she and the others were also curious, still mad about the whole event.

Krieg happily smiled under his mask before reaching behind him and picks up a large sack from the floor before placing it on the table, he reaches into it and revealed to all what he had, a brand new buzz axe that was painted pink, he then gestures it over to Silverstream.

"Gifts!" He said, the ponies around them was slightly impressed by his kind gesture, but it was still strange to offer anyone a strange looking saw blade on a stick with dangerous sticks of dynamite on the side.

Before the young six could react, Krieg had shoved more buzz axes to them even though they did not want it, but it would be rude to reject a gift, all color coded to their respective owners and much more smaller to fit them than the psycho.

"Gee Krieg, this is awfully nice of you." Said Gallus as he inspected the gift, both sides had dynamite strapped on it like Silverstream, he looks over to Smolder to find her saw blade to be glowing, Yona and Ocellus had bigger blades than the rest, and for Sandbar, his had a really pointy handguard.

"I uh, can't wait to use this on... trees?" Sandbar said as he swings it carefully around.

"Wow, those look awesome!" Ember said as she looked at every axe in the room, she then notices the one on Krieg's back which seemed to be all in one, the young six noticed it as well, but that wasn't like that yesterday. "They just look so cool, especially yours Smolder."

"Hey Krieg," Smolder said as she saw the dragon lord's eyes locked on the axes. "do you got more? I think Ember would also want some."

"Yeah Krieg, we don't want her to feel left out right?" Ocellus said as she inspected the weird object behind the saw blade.

Seeing that they wanted him to be nice and give Ember a gift as well, he nodded and began rummaging in his sack, he wanted to impress his friends and to show them that he's awesome, so he takes out one of his many duplicates of his original and current one, he then gently gave it to Ember. The dragon excitedly took it and almost fell over by the weight it had, but she was happy nonetheless, at least she was doing well with the friendship thing, or so she thought. Krieg was still doubtful about the dragon, he kept a close eye on her and waited for the moment when she shows her true colors.

"Ooh, are you giving out presents!?" Pinkie said as she came out of nowhere just to place a really tall stacks of pancakes, it was taller than Krieg. "You are such a good brother to Smolder and a good friend for Sandbar and the others. That deserves a reward!"

"Yahaha!" Krieg laughed before digging into the stacks, everyone could only watch as the beast quickly eats through the pancake so fast that it could rival Pinkie Pie, said mare was happy that the psycho was enjoying himself. When he was done, he made a really loud burp that almost shook the whole building before turning towards Pinkie and gave her a large amount of dollars to pay for the food and give her a lot of tips for good service.

Pinkie looked at it before shaking her head. "I'm sorry Krieg, but we don't take this currency, we take bits!" He stared at her for a few seconds, before suddenly picking up his sack and bolted out the door, nearly tearing said door off its hinges. He ran away but not out of fear of the pony, but out-yeah it was fear, its obvious that Pinkie could easily break Krieg's back if she wanted to, so he chooses life. "Hey! Aw, now who's gonna pay for what he ate which is exactly 3,609 bits?" She said to only Ember, as the young six had seen this coming and decided to chase after the psycho instead of adding up the amount they have to pay for the beast.

"I'm just gonna go now." Ember hefted the axe over her shoulder as she leaves, slightly happy with the progress she had made with Krieg. "Bye... Applejack?" She said before going through the doorway.

"Bye Ember, have a nice day!" Pinkie waves her hoof around as the dragon exited. "Now, how am I gonna explain to the Cakes about a dine and dash dragon?"