This rain was coming down harder.

The storm seemed to get worse by the minute, making the kriegsman wonder if storms like these were a natural occurrence on this strange planet. However, why were these civilians' buildings so unprepared to deal with such powerful weather if that was the case?

Krieg didn't quite care about this, he returned to the task at hand.

Rain like this made his job hard however he's worked in far worse weather than this and he had already finished with the task he had taken to help his hoists. However, after he finished he couldn't help but notice something else wrong with the housing unit so he turned to that then he noticed something else and something else which was now led him to hammer a metal rod into the wet soil to help reinforce the fence he had built to replace that wooden one.

Patting Krieg lifted his head to the sky while the rain pelted his helm and gasmask, he closed his eyes letting the water drop onto his mask's lenses before taking a deep breath of recycled air before standing up. Grabbing some of the remaining supplies he had 'acquired' from a building site near the housing unit, these abhumans wouldn't donate a few items to a servant of the emperor.

Even though he was less than that.

These hoists of his were too kind to him...

After this storm passed he planned to leave, so he wouldn't be a burden to them.

Krieg flinched, a rare action for him to do but the loud and bright bolt of lightning dancing in the sky did cause him to do a natural human reaction. Not wishing to be struck down by a stray bolt and find himself in a wasteful death, Krieg rose and returned to the housing unit of his hoists. Upon entering the room after whipping off his boot due to Tempest's request the guardsman heard the familiar static of the vox he had repaired.

"...Weather teams have yet to break the ever-growing storm all citizens. All citizens are to remain indoors for the storm has now been classified as a tier 5 rogue storm which could lead to tornado formations. Princess Twilight and the elements of harmony are now seeking the aid of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna to aid in the disbursal of the mysterious storm,"

The abhuman Sally stated at the vox with a worrisome look on her face while the machine reported on the storm, her attention was so fixated that she didn't notice Krieg walk up to the couch until his shadow cast over her.

"Krieg!" She snapped up slightly in shock before turning down with a smile on her face with a hand over her heart with a smile. "I didn't hear you come back in... is it that bad out there?"

Krieg nodded.

"Damn. Must have been hard to fix the basement while in this storm huh?" Sally asked flashing her sharp teeth.

"Not really," Krieg replied shrugging his shoulders. "However finding a way to pour and set the quick-cret was quite a challenge,"

"What you mean quick-cret?" Sally seemed confused by Krieg's words.

"I noticed many different flaws in the structure integrity of this structure and found it fitting to give my thanks by fixing the problem followed by adding in other factors to make sure this housing unit will not be breached by any other factors outside of natural disasters,"

Sally just stared at Krieg for a moment.

"What do you mean by that?"

"I fortified your housing unit ma'am," Krieg answered causing Sally to open her mouth but didn't say anything when the familiar voice of Tempest shouting.

"WHAT THE BUCK!"

Tempest felt her eye twitch at what see was seeing, where only a few hours ago was there a flood basement but now it was something completely different.

By the goddess, it looked like one of the many command bunkers she had been in from her time in the stormking's army.

Sure all the stuff they had in storage was completely organized but there was stuff that she didn't know they had, she could swear the table in the middle of the room wasn't there before and almost looked freshly made!

Her eyes darted around, only to freeze when she saw it.

Her armor...

She never wished to see that part of her past again, however there was something completely different about it.

The armor had been repaired from her battle with the Storm King after she defected, the dents and scraps were all buffed out and seemed to be completely polissed. From the buckles to every single leather strap, the entire armor looked almost completely different since she last wore it.

Hell, the stand it was on even had her helmet, she completely forgot about it since every time she wore the damn thing it was too big for her.

Now that she was seeing the completely renewed armor she wanted to try it on for a moment.

That was until three pairs of footsteps brought her back from her trance, one of them belonged to the one who had caused this complete redecoration.

"Krieg!" The stranger snapped to attention by her voice. "Mind explaining this!"

However, before Krieg could respond Sally and Amber were both awestruck at what they were seeing.

"By the goddess! Krieg this is amazing!" Amber shouted rushing around her wings flapping slightly. "I never seen the basement so clean! It looks completely different,"

Tempest looked to the batpony who was oblivious to the actual manner at had.

"Tempest way are you so upset he did amazing!" Amber pointed out while she flew over to the freshly made table.

"Do you want to tell her or me?" Sally asked aware of what Krieg did.

The former commander growled while looking at Krieg.

"How were you able to do all this?"

"I requisitioned some local building supplies from a nearby construction site ma'am," Krieg answered causing Tempest's jaw to drop.

"You stole supplies from a construction site!?"

"Negative. I had requisitioned them ma'am," Krieg corrected. "The construction site was in complete ruins from the storm. I was able to save some of the supplies before they were washed away or exposed to the rain,"

Tempest opened her mouth to say something but stopped as she slowly registered what he said.

"What do you mean the site was in complete ruins?"

"The site's main structure had been toppled over due to the winds and the concrete pits were flooded in ruin. I was fast enough to get a few remaining supplies before the main street power went out," Krieg answered.

"Wait... the power went out?" Sally interrupted.

Krieg nodded.

"Then how do we still have power," Sally asked to which Krieg simply pointed to a magical generator tucked into the wall causing all three females' jaws to drop. "YOU STOLE AN INDUSTRIAL-GRADE GENERATOR!?!"

Krieg shrugged while Tempest facepalmed.

"By the everything good... why?"

"It would have been wasted in this storm," Krieg simply responded.

"Not... I... What else did you steal?"

"Requisitioned,"

"Fine Requisitioned," Tempest asked, however, a thunderbolt cracked outside almost blinding everyone inside the basement. "WHAT THE-!"

Krieg went over to the small window that was tucked away to look outside.

"Storm is only going to get worse,"

"How can you tell?" Amber asked to which the kriegsman rubbed his bionic right arm.

"It's how you say 'a feeling'..."

(Twilight's castle)

"Alright everypony calm down there is plenty of space for everypony come on now. There is no need for pushing. HEY! Diamond I saw that!" Spike spoke above the crowd of ponies that had come to take shelter in the castle of friendship as the storm grew ever worse.

Meanwhile Twilight was sweating bullets at the sound of rain pounding on the magical crystal windows to the outside, this storm that she and many others thought was an unplanned rogue storm. But now it's growing into a powerful thunderstorm that was almost on the lines of a hurricane, yet when Rainbow Dash attempted to force the storm to dissipate with a sonic rainboom it only seemed to feed the Storm and make it worse.

To the point that this storm has now taken lives...

Two fatal thunder strikes from pony would be unfortunate to be outside when this storm passed over and one indirect fatality due to the storm. A poor filly died due to smoke installation from a fire that was caused by the storm, even though some brave soul ran into the fire to save the mother, father, and child it was in vain as the child died only an hour ago and the parents are left in critical condition.

When Twilight was informed of these deaths she held the information from Rainbow Dash, knowing that the daredevil might blame herself for their deaths.

Even though they weren't...

The princess of friendship sighed holding her head while she landed on the banister above the main hall.

Is this what Princess Celestia and Princess Luna felt when faced with similar situations in the past?

What would they do?

She stood there for a moment in thought to think...

Maybe they would try to figure out what might have caused the storm to happen in the first place to understand how they can stop the storm.

Yeah!

That had to be it.

Heck, she might not need the princesses' help after all!

The storm wasn't that of natural winds so she can rule that out...

Magical?

Yeah, it's the only explanation for how the rainboom only made the storm worse.

But what magical users knew weather magic outside of ponies?

Discord?

No, he wouldn't do something that could end in the deaths of ponies even though he had a past in chaotic magic.

Dragons?

Again no, there are currently two dragons in ponyville Spike and her student Smolder who was with her friends held in the school grounds for shelter.

Who else...

...

Then it hit her like the lighting outside.

The local diamond dogs!

They had foalnapped the cutie mark crusaders before some stranger rescued them.

From what the three had said the diamond dogs were going to use them as 'bargaining chips' and maybe because of the stranger the diamond dogs had turned to magic to get back at them!

It's the only logical reason for this storm!

Maybe she will have to wait for the princesses...

This could lead to something she was not prepared for...

War.

Author's Note

Oh, my lordly lord... I do apologize for the long hiatus but life happens.

And writes block

And video games

And being broke

That is life in a nutshell.

But here it is back and going forward again along with other stories of mine.

Some might not be updated as fast as others but here it is the Kriegsman returns and I can't wait to reveal what's under that mask of his.

Plus the reason for the storm and what else I have instore...

I'll let you guys guess till the next chapter.