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Krieg screamed...

The pain even for someone like him, the pain was too much!

His vision is still blurred, and the replicated human can only feel what was being done to his broken body.

All he could hear over his screams was sound from the holy machine cut into flesh...

His flesh.

Even numbed the pain was unbearable...

Feeling something begin to slice into the flesh around his melted mask, Krieg remembered seeing the shadow of the mask be removed and the color red.

His vocal cords were strained by how hard he screamed before a tube was pushed down his throat silencing his screams of pain.

As his screams ceased to where the dead man could hear the hym of the machine being chanted.

He could barely make out anything, yet he could faintly make out the black robes of the tech-priest with his many arms moving around working on his body most likely.

"01010100 01101000 01110010 01101111 01110101 01100111 01101000 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110010 01100101 01110111 01100001 01110010 01100100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100010 01101111 01110010 01101110 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101100 01100100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101111 01101101 01101110 01101001 01110011 01110011,"

Krieg felt his mind drift while the machine's song whispered in his burnt ears.

(Morning-ish)

*BOOM!*

Shooting up from the couch the Krieger drew his sidearm and pointed it up expecting to see an attacker or something...

Yet...

Nothing was there.

Dropping back down on the couch's armrest, the Krieger gave a sigh behind his gasmask before looking down at the blanket that was covering him.

Pulling the blanket off of him, Krieg moved up before looking down at his free hand.

Even after so long.

He can still feel it...

The pain.

Closing his hand Krieg stood up from the couch before walking over to the covered window and pulling back the curtains to see the storm still thundering and booming...

Seems like the storm has only gotten worse from last night.

Actually was it still night? Or was it morning?

He still doesn't know of this world's time difference from his homeworld.

"Did the thunder wake you up?" Turning his head Krieg saw a dark figure in the sunlight living room, yet Krieg could make out the figure of Sally.

She walked over to him stepping into what little light the window gave.

He nodded causing him to see her smile slightly with those sharp pointed teeth.

"You know Tempest was the same way when she was first settling down here in ponyville when it was just me and Amber," Sally explained while looking at the storm. "Loud noises always like thunder made her jumpy... still do but not as bad,"

Krieg turned back to look at the storm.

"Though..." Sally turned to the korpsman. "I've been thinking about you... who did you serve?"

Turning to her the dead man looked at 'the navy-haired abhuman shark female', reaching for his helmet to the added armor plate that held the holy Aquila.

"This isn't any griffon army or any germane army symbol I know," Sally asked but Krieg grabbed her wrist but not in a threatening manner almost gently.

This abhuman didn't know about the glorious emperor of mankind and from what he has seen, this world knew nothing of his truth.

He can forgive this abhuman for not knowing.

"The emperor," Krieg's voice spoke muffled by his double-filtered gasmask while letting her hand go.

"Emperor of what?" Sally asked.

"The emperor of-

*BOOOOM!*

The two were blinked by the flash of lightning, turning their heads to the source, Sally's eyes widened for the neighbor's house was struck by a bolt of lightning and was now ablaze.

"OH FUCK!" Sally shouted before running to the front door and opening running onto the front porch. "Fuck! STORM BLAZE!"

Krieg followed after her while everyone on the block exited their homes to see the burning house.

"Somepony get the fire department!"

"They won't make it in time!"

"Get some buckets we have to put out those flames before they spread!"

Sally pointed to the burning house.

"Storm Blaze and his marefriend are still inside!" Sally shouted before trying to get to the door but was grabbed by a freshly awoken Tempest.

"The flames are growing too fast it's too dangerous!" The veteran commander told her friend.

"But-"

Before Sally could finish the engineer moved past them but Tempest couldn't stop him as he made it to the front door.

"KRIEG DON'T BE STUPID THOSE FLAMES WILL COOK YOU ALIVE!"

Not turning to Tempest, Krieg kicked down the front door using his bionic leg before walking into the smoke, luckily his gasmask was easily able to filter the fire's smoke. His eyes adjusted to the brightness allowing him to see in the bright flames. The layout of this house was different but Krieg wasn't at the time trying to find this Storm blaze and his 'marefriend' moving through the burning building. He ripped the door off one room but saw it was nothing but a storage closet before going to another and getting to the second to last door in a hall.

Hearing coughing, Krieg broke down the door before entering the blazing room with two of the equine abhumans on the floor but one of them was a different equine than the one he saw. White with black stripes... must have been a different species, but that didn't matter he grabbed the two unconscious abhumans, throwing one over his shoulder and picking up the male by the waist he turn and left the house.

When entering the hallway the ceiling support gave out before him, blocking his path with burning debris his first thought was to tackle through the rumble. Then again that could cause more internal damage and bring down the entire house on them turning to the guest bedroom window Krieg got an idea.

...

"That pony is mad! He'll die with those freaks!"

"Speaking of freaks did you see what he was wearing? Guess freaks attract other freaks,"

"Yeah guess what diamond said was right that-"

"ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS RIGHT NOW!" Tempest shouted. "LIVES ARE ON THE LIKE HERE!"

"Sure you would defend your fellow freaks," Spoke the mare. "Being a fre-"

Before the pony could finish the window to Storm blaze's house was crashed through by Krieg with Storm Blaze and his mare friend xerene. Hitting the ground Krieg ran over to the sidewalk and put them down before turning his head to the flaming building and running inside.

"Wait Krieg there is no one else inside!" Sally shouted but Krieg was already back through the hole before going back in.

"Krieg? What kinda name is that? Sounds-"

"YOU NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP RIGHT NOW!" Sally shouted while Tempest went over to the zebra and unicorn's aid.

"How dare you... I have-"

"IF YOU USE YOUR EYES THERE IS A FIRE! NOW IS DEFINITELY NOT THE TIME FOR YOUR FUCKED UP POINT OF VIEW ON THIS!"

Before the pony could say anything Krieg came out of the fire again but this time clenching something to his chest, walking forward his armor steaming slightly. Holding onto a blanket wrapped in something Krieg reached down to the blanket, Amber looked at Krieg.

"Holy mother of Celestia... they had a kid?" Amber asked before Krieg looked at her.

"The Infant is not breathing... I believe medical assistance is needed,"

(A few minutes later)

After helping with the fire the fire department arrived and stopped the fire from spreading while medical personnel put the couple and their child onto a medical cart before taking them away.

Krieg stood in the middle of the sidewalk on another side of the street looking at the house but looked back up at the storm as more thunder boomed in the storm sky.

"Alright everypony back to your homes! It's still dangerous to be out with this storm," A abhuman spoke in golden armor holding out his hand.

As they began to disburse the crowd, Sally punched Krieg's arm causing him to turn to her.

Luckily for her some time ago a Cadian did the same to him but quickly learning it was a gesture of respect before he almost punched the purple-eyed man's teeth out.

"Looks like we got ourselves a local hero! Saving that power couple and their kid!" Sally stated with a smile. "Though how do you know they had a kid? I didn't even know that,"

"There was an empty room," Krieg answered through his mask.

Sally blinked before speaking.

"I... um... don't get me wrong Krieg props to you for going back into the fire and saving the kid but what if there was not a kid and the building went down. You could have died," Sally explained.

Krieg looked back to the flames.

'Unfortunately... I didn't'

Tempest walked forward smiling.

"Luckily he did go in and found the kid... though I'm kinda confused why they never told anyone about their kid. Xerene moved in about a month ago and I highly doubt she got pregnant and gave birth all in a month," Tempest said, but before she could press on the equine in gold armor spoke to them.

"Sorry to but-in but it's too dangerous to have a conversion out here," The guard told them.

Tempest smiled.

"Sorry Sentry we'll head back inside," The group then moved in before Krieg turn back to the burnt house, turning back his gaze was stopped when a pink-furred equine with a purple mane glared right at him.

Feeling uneasy he turned back and walked into the house before Amber closed the door and the girls began to dry off, stepping onto the hardwood floor Amber pointed to his boots.

"Krieg seriously! Your boots!" Krieg looked down at his boots before back at her like: 'what's the matter? they are fine'

Making a strange look on her face she then pointed to his boots to the door and to his boots again.

Confused the dead man looked to the door and then at her again.

"You're making a mess!"

Looking back down at his mud and ash-covered boots, Krieg then took notice of the mess he made.

"Apologizes," Krieg said hanging his head before Amber sighed holding the bridge of her snout.

"It's fine... I'll get a mop... but please take off your boot or at least whip them off at the doormat!" Amber shouted causing Krieg to walk over and make more of a mess causing Amber to turn red at him dirtying up her nice clean floors.

"It's too early for this shit," Amber said to herself before going to fetch cleaning supplies.

(Main six)

"Twilight what are we going to do?! The storm only got worse after Rainbow's Rainboom!" Applejack asked.

Twilight lightly bit her finger trying to think of something.

"Twilight?"

"I don't know," The princess of friendship said. "We might have to wait it out like with a normal storm,"

"But darling there has been a fire caused by this storm and with no end in sight," The white fur pony said.

"I know rarity but anything we do will only make it worse!"

"Isn't there a spell you know that can just zap the storm away?" Rainbow dash asked.

"If there was wouldn't I have used it before we did your Rainboom?"

"Fair enough,"

The six friends then went silent as the only sound was the storm outside the castle walls.

"Let's be a least grateful it's just a big thunderstorm," Pinkie pie said trying to lighten up the mood, but this caused her friend to look at her.

"Too soon?" They all nodded at the same time.

"Well you know me... *sigh* I was really hoping to meet that newcomer today," This caused the five to turn to pinkie pie.

"What? Newcomer?" Twilight asked to which Pinkie nodded.

"Yep, my pinkie sense told ponyville had a gotten new friend that came in! I was going to meet them but we were with the crusaders at the hospital! I didn't want to leave my friends like that," Pinkie smiled.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Twilight asked.

"Pffph if I were to tell you of every newcomer you would say: *Clears her voice in her best twilight impression* 'Pinkie I'm doing this and this I'll meet them later," Pinkie said before smiling at twilight.

"Fair enough but... you know the crusaders were saved by somepony,"

"Yeah,"

"That pony could be the newcomer,"

*Processing Pinkie.EXE*

"Pinkie?"

"OHHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Author's Note

So here it is after a few weeks in the tale of the Krieger engineer.

Sorry for the wait, you know life gets in the way, writer's block, losing my fire to write.

Luckily this week (5/28/22) is labor day weekend and I have three day weekend!

So I'll try to get a chapter out every day.

Cutting it close today I know but hey.

At least it's out now.