Chapter 2

1st POV

It’s been about a week since my second awakening, and I still feel like shit. These…ponies, as they call themselves, won’t even look me in the eye since they think I’ll kill them for doing so. Despite their reluctance, mostly due to disgust and apparent nausea, they managed to clean up most of the town of the blood, gore, and dead bodies. I had them dump it all in a pile outside of the walls. When the last body was thrown in the pile, I used my sword to spark a flame which caught fire and spread over the pile.

As I watched the flames burn away, it reminded me of the similar brutality of the raider camps I cleared out throughout the Commonwealth. For me, it wasn’t anything I hadn’t seen before. Death was what some called a natural causality. Even though I wore my helmet, I could tell the smell of burning bug flesh didn’t help morale for the pony people, but I couldn’t really give less of a shit. As the pile burned, I overheard some of them mutter amongst themselves.

“I can’t believe he killed this many.”

“The smell…it’s so rancid.”

“Why did we have to drag them all out here?”

“Shh! He’ll hear you! Do you want to be added to the pile of burning bodies?!”

I simply scoffed as I walked back into town. As the ponies were rebuilding and collecting themselves, I was provided one of the houses as my personal quarters. I sat on the floor, since my armor was too heavy for any normal furniture, and wanted to test something in my helmet.

“Access landscape map. Update any at all new landmasses and terraformed environments.”

“Processing…processing…update completed.

Viewing map.”

Suddenly I could see the new world, at least parts of it. The whole landscape of the Commonwealth, and I imagine the whole continent, had changed but there were a few similarities. I could still somewhat pinpoint old landmarks and well-known settlements such as Sanctuary Hills, Diamond City, Goodneighbor, and so on. According to the map, the area could be more geologically terraformed than I initially thought.

I sighed and looked at my weapons laying on the floor next to me. All I had with me were my assaultron blade and Kellog’s pistol. I had plenty of ammunition stored in my armor’s reserve function, but I had a feeling I’d need more than just one gun. I remembered I had an assault rifle with me, but it wasn’t preserved within my weapon locks and was destroyed. I also recalled I had a storage of other personalized weapons I collected and stored them somewhere for safe keeping. Where is that reserve now and if it even still survived after 3.5 million years? No amount of luck or good fortune in the world could procure such a miracle. For now, I simply had to make do with what I had.

Knock! Knock!

“Come in…” I called out.

Starlight Glimmer nervously walked inside and slowly shut the door, but she didn’t move from it. She kept her back against the door as a way for a quick escape should the need arise.

“Uh, M-Mr. Boss…Sir? Uh…W-We cleared out the bodies…and the blood. We also took over the food storage and armory…” She said, I assumed she was hoping it would be a good job so that I don’t need to harm them in any way.

“What kind of weapons do you have?” I asked in a blank tone.

“We were able to retrieve swords, spears, some bows and arrows, and a few war hammers,” Starlight said. “W-What now? Are you going to help us?”

“You have no other weaponry? No other kinds of technology?” I pressed, only to confuse her.

“Technology? What kind?” Starlight asked.

“Anything like this?” I picked up my pistol and held it up for her.

“What’s that?”

“A gun, what else?”

“What’s a gun?”

“Oh, for the love of-.” I shook my head in annoyance as I stood back up on my feet. “So let me get this straight. You’re telling me, that after over three million years, the world somehow reverted back to ancient medieval times when they still used bladed weapons like swords? Perfect, feels like I went back in time rather than forward.”

“We, um, we have magic?” Starlight said.

“Excuse me?” I crossed my arms, waiting for an explanation.

Starlight stuttered a bit until she took a deep breath and I could see her horn light up a light blue aura. I looked down and saw my assaultron blade being lifted in the air that was also surrounded by the same blue aura around her horn. Starlight then set my blade down next to me.

“As you can see, I’m a unicorn. Unicorns are ones who are able to use and control magic. Pegasi can fly and control the weather. Earth Ponies are more in-tuned with nature and are stronger than most other ponies.”

“Guess the mutations came with some benefits,” I said to myself.

“Pardon me?”

“Nothing. I got some plans for this settlement. Are there any able builders around here?”

“We have a few, but they’re still injured. The Changelings made sure that the ones with useful skills like building things or medical practice were given harsher treatment.” I noticed her twiddling her thumbs nervously, like she was hiding something.

“What happened to them?” I inquired.

“It’s just…among the prisoners here, they were forced to work without rest. They barely had any food given to them, and they always were the brunt of abuse and injuries,” Starlight confessed. “The changelings never cared how much we were suffering, so long as we did what we were told.”

“Hmm, got any medical supplies?” I asked, approaching the door.

“We had a doctor, but he was taken away so we can only assume he’s dead,” Starlight said as she got out of the way.

“Show me to the injured,” I said as I walked towards the door.

I opened the door and everyone flinched at seeing me. I ignored them and made my way down the road. Starlight led me to another house and opened the door for me where many other pony people lay in beds. They all flinched at seeing me as I scanned the room. Most of the males had crude bandages wrapped around their arms, legs, even their heads. I walked over to the nearest one and he shuddered at me.

“What hurts?” I asked bluntly.

“H-huh?” He said shakily.

“Tell me what hurts.”

“Uh…m-my arm’s broken?”

I reached back into my armor pack and pulled out a syringe tool. I didn’t wait and jammed it into his shoulder and injected him.

“Aah! What the buck are you…what the-?” The stallion man looked down and moved his arm freely after the bone reset itself into place, as if it was never broken in the first place. “M-My arm! How did you do that?”

I didn’t answer as I pulled out more stimpacks and began treating the rest of the injured. I injected one above the knee and he was able to move the badly mangled leg only a few seconds later, the bone popping loudly back into place. As expected, the stimpacks worked like a charm and managed to heal them all well enough for them to stand on their own.

“Wow, I’ve never seen anything heal so fast before!” A pony man said as he stepped on his leg a few times.

“My head doesn’t hurt anymore, and I can see more clearly too!” A pony woman said with a smile.

“It’s not only that my injuries are completely healed, but I actually feel much better than I did before!” Another pony man said.

“Listen up! I got some things I need you to build. We’re gonna fortify the walls surrounding this town.” I looked around and saw some paper and a pencil. I walked over to the paper, with Starlight following, and began drawing up a diagram. About ten minutes later, I handed the paper to one of the pony people. “Use this to fortify the walls, got it?”

The pony, a female with black coat and white hair combed back to look spiky, looked at the diagram.

“Hmm…we can make it work, the changelings left some resources here that we could use. Is there anything specific you want us to build as well, um, sir?” The pony woman asked me.

“Nothing for now, I’ll leave you to it,” I dismissed her and they all left to get to work.

“If you don’t mind me asking, what is this?” Starlight asked, but flinched when I looked at her.

“What, the stimpack?”

“Is that what it’s called?”

“Yeah, stimpaks are typically syringes filled with a mixture of healing agents and stimulants, allowing the user to boost their own body’s natural regenerative functions,” I explained. “In most cases, it leads to an almost instantaneous regeneration of wounds. The syringe is equipped with a gauge for quickly identifying the state of the contents and can be used either in an intravenous or intramuscular fashion.”

“Incredible! This is something that would require at least three trained doctors to accomplish at a fast rate, but this is…this could give ponies a chance,” Starlight said, sounding hopeful.

“Do you think you can make more with that magic stuff?” I asked curiously.

“May I?” Starlight asked, I handed her another one of my stimpacks and she examined it. “Hmm…if I have a place and the right tools when I can use my magic to make more.”

“I’ll get the workers to build some kind of chem workstation for you, but you better not screw it up, got it?” I warned her and she nodded nervously.

“I-I’ll get started on making more.” She and a few other ponies left to do their job.

“Whatever,” I said with a shrug.

I used my helmet to widen the map a bit to see more of the surrounding area. As I panned through the map, I saw a group of red blips on the screen headed towards my settlement from the south. I narrowed my eyes and made my way out of the building and towards the gates.

“Boss? Where’re you going?” A pony asked.

“Never you mind! Get back to work!” I barked, making the pony man cower. “Those fucking bugs don’t know how to take a fucking hint.”

I ran out of the gates and away from town, occasionally glancing at the map and a group of enemies headed towards me. I pulled out my sword and even my pistol and I could feel my anger spiking again. I didn’t expect to engage in another blood bath, but those damn bugs brought it on themselves.

I kept running for a couple of hours and was already miles away from the town. My running had brought me out of the mountain area and I came across a trail. I checked my map again, making sure I was still going to meet them head on. They were just a few kilometers from me, which meant I was on track. My interception route brought me just beyond the base of a large snowy mountain with a few trees standing around. Seeing snow on a mountain was unexpected, considering I didn’t expect to even see snow ever again. The trees that stood by were tall and had actual green leaves growing from their branches. The temperature around me had dropped considerably.

“And here I thought Mother Nature was killed off when the world destroyed itself,” I said aloud.

As I gazed at the mountain, something about it was bothering me. The winds that blew around up top looked fierce and could blow away anything it liked. It was a gut feeling, but it was almost like there was something at the very peak of the mountain. I checked my map once more and saw the red blips about to arrive on my position. I just stood there, alone, glaring in the direction of where the hugs would meet me.

Off in the distance I could see multiple black dots flying towards me. When they were close enough, I counted at least thirty of those damn bugs all armed with swords and spears. After they were about a couple yards away from me they all stopped. One Changeling stepped forward, his armor was black as night and covered in spikes. He wielded a large ax on his back and stood two heads taller than the rest, but not taller than me and my armor.

“You must be the metal demon that killed our brothers and sisters!” He shouted while aiming his ax at me. “You look more like a bipedal turtle to me!”

“It must’ve caught them off guard, or maybe even just tricked them!” One of the other bugs mocked, sounding cocky.

“It looks like it will topple over with a gentle breeze!” Another said.

“I’ll deliver his head to his family!” One proclaimed.

“Tartarus, I might give his family a visit!” The changelings boasted, but that one…I’m gunning for him.

“Boss, can we maybe try and end this quickly?” A different bug asked the leader. “We shouldn’t even be near this mountain.”

“It’s just a damn mountain, so what?!” The leader barked.

“With all due respect, sir, but I agree,” another bug said. “This mountain feels evil.”

“Shut it! All of you! If you want to leave so bad, then tear this metal freak apart!”

“You’re all nothing but slabs of meat to me…” My voice pierced their hearts like a dagger as they all stopped dead in their tracks. I was no stranger to intimidation when dealing with scum like them. I learned how to ebb away at their resolve throughout the many battles I experienced. I wanted them to remember my voice before I began butchering them.

“You all…are fucking noisy…” I exclaimed, stepping forward, making them instinctively back away.

“Buzzing…buzzing…buzzing around.” I pulled the safety back on my pistol, my trigger finger twitched a little like it was itching to blow someone’s brains out.

“So many of you come to take what’s mine…which tells me you have no regard for your lives.” My voice sounded more bloodthirsty as some bugs lost feeling in their legs and their faces became pale.

“I fucking slaughtered all of them, crushed them under my boots, and burned their remains like the worthless trash.”

The changelings all took a step back as I marched closer, I could tell by the look in their eyes that they felt fear. That they could, would, really die today.

“And you know what?” I aimed my pistol at their leader. “I enjoyed spilling their blood and hearing them beg for their lives as I butchered them.” I then pulled the trigger and a bullet flew out the barrel of my pistol, hitting the leader straight through his skull. The bullet came out through the back of his head and killed another changeling behind him by penetrating his eye and straight into his brain. Both bugs fell to the ground, twitching a little before going limp.

“More to the pile…” I cackled as they were surprised from the loud bang coming from my gun. I grinned behind my helmet and readied my sprint. “You’ll join them…all of them!” I stomped into the ground and charged forward with my gun aimed and my sword raised.

“I’LL DRIVE YOU ALL TO FUCKING EXTINCTION!!”

I stormed towards them and bulldozed straight through them, their bodies felt like I was tearing through parchment as I crushed them under my boot. Bodies went flying due to the force of impact and some of them tried running away but ended up falling to the ground. When I stomped on their bodies as I ran by, I could feel their fragile bones being crushed and their screams of bloody agony rung in my ears.

I raised my blade up and sliced through two changelings and shoved my revolver into one of their mouths, blowing a hole in his head. My still outstretched arm was gripped by the dead changeling’s fellow. They, along with a pair of their friends, attempted to pin my arms but I slammed their heads together. The impact was so strong that their heads exploded like water balloons filled with blood and they dropped to the floor.

“Kill.”

A Changeling hopped on my back and tried to plunge his sword in my neck, but it shattered as soon as it tried to pierce my armor. I reached behind me and grabbed my attacker by his leg and began swinging him around like a ragdoll. I now had two melee weapons in both hands, one with my sword and the other a foolish bug who thought he had the drop on me. The changeling I was using to beat his comrades was screaming constantly. His bones were breaking each time I bashed another bug with him. Eventually he stopped screaming and was a bloody limp mess, which meant he was now useless to me and I dropped him to the floor.

“Don’t hesitate.”

I jammed my sword straight into a bug’s skull, straight up from under his chin through his head.. He stood there in a daze, as if not being able to register that there’s a huge sword sticking out of his head. I took the opportunity to quickly reload my pistol before yanking my sword back out. As I aimed my pistol again, my senses heightened and everything around me slowed down. I chose my targets all together and pinpointed where I’d fire my gun. Once my targets were picked, I rapidly fired shots at all their heads and they exploded as the bullet pierced their skulls, brains and blood rained down around me like grisly rain. The other three bullets I fired tore right through their targets and killed more changelings behind them.

I gripped my sword and heightened my senses once more by taking a deep breath and centering my focus. In a fluid motion, I hacked and slashed through about a dozen more changelings by running right through them again and swung my sword wherever I saw an enemy. Some of them I cut the top of their heads off, exposing their brains, so when they fell to the ground their brains fell out of their skulls. When I drove my sword through another changeling’s guts, he screamed in pain as I hoisted them up and slammed them on the ground. I then raised my boot and crushed their skulls like grapes before pulling my sword back out.

One changeling tried stabbing me in the chest, but their spears shattered upon impact with my armor. I backhanded him and tore his jaw off, he howled in pain and choked on his own blood. I left him to have a slow death. I plunged my blade into a changeling’s abdomen and started slicing my way up. He cried out in pain as he tried to get free, but I was already at his chest when he died, his guts spilling on the ground. I tossed his body towards some more changelings and took a deep breath, the world around me slowed down as I shot three more in the head and slashed two more changelings in half.

“That’s it, bud, keep hacking away.”

For the third time, I heard the same voice. I thought it was my imagination, but it was more clear this time. I put away my pistol for the moment and grabbed a changeling’s head. I ran towards more changelings, using the one I held as a battering ram, and shoulder checked them into the stone wall. They all screamed all together as I pushed my trapped victims deeper and deeper against them, the sounds of bones breaking and blood spraying out of their mouths and eyes. Once they were paste, I turned around and there were a handful of changelings left. Each of them were scared out of their wits as I pulled out my pistol again and reloaded.

“Run…” I said it loud so they could all hear me. The light from my helmet switched on and flashed red, giving me a more menacing appearance to fuel whatever nightmares they may have in the future.

Many of them ran or flew for their lives, but some stayed rather than try to escape. However, it wasn’t because they wanted to fight, no. I could tell by their eyes and their shaking legs that they were too scared to move. Fear had frozen them in place as they couldn’t do anything but whimper, shake, and piss themselves.

“I told you to run.” I aimed my pistol. “Your fault that you die today.” One by one, I fired at each of their heads. They each fell down dead as some of them began crying and whimpering at me.

“P-Please…please spare me!” The changeling cried out loud.

“No.” I fired at her head and she fell down with a bullet through her brains. One last changeling remained as I looked over him and he was in a trance of pure fear. “I somewhat pity you. You probably had a good thing going before I showed up. If anything, you should blame your naïveté for believing this would last forever.”

“N-No! Please, I beg of you! No-AAAAAAAAAGH!” The changeling cried out in pain as I drove my blade into his stomach, twisting and turning the blade inside him as he howled out in pure agony, until finally…silence.

“Well, well, well.” My whole skin crawled all at once. “I didn’t think you’d have it in you.” My voice hitched and my anger spiked almost immediately. I knew this voice, a voice I had hoped to forget and bury within the confines of my mind.

“…Kellogg.”

“The most resilient man in the Commonwealth. Or, at least formerly, seems that the Commonwealth has changed a lot. Wonder if your kid would have liked it?” Kellogg taunted me as he chuckled coldly.

“Where are you?! I thought fucking killed you?” I growled in anger.

“Yeah, you did, but that didn’t stop my cybernetics leaving you a little something in your Pip-Boy.” Kellogg remarked.

“How and why the fuck are you here? Looking to haunt me after I blew your brains out all over the floor? ” I said as I then sat down, panting slightly as I was a bit tired with all the shit going on.

“No. Well, maybe a little. I just thought it would be fun to watch you fall. To see the human side of you fall and become, well…me.” Kellogg laughed mockingly. “As for how, I don’t know either, bud, by all rights I should be nothing more than a pile of memories, yet sitting in that cave did something and now I’m all there again.”

“You-!”

“Oh come on, bud, you expect me to believe you weren’t even tempted to abandon your moral code and kill all in sight?” Kellogg mocked. “The only thing that kept you going was those annoying friends of yours and the pathetically inept Minutemen you led.”

“They’re not here anymore…” I said somberly.

“Exactly, they’re not, you’re all alone. And I’m just a functioning AI in your Pip-Boy and Power Armor’s internal computer. Though I will miss having a body of my own, no doubt my real body is dust and my soul is still burning in Hell somewhere, I’m actually looking forward to seeing how far you’ll fall. Face it, bud, you knew deep down you couldn’t keep up the nice guy act forever.”

“It wasn’t an act!” I snapped, slamming my fist into the ground. “It was never an act! I cared for those people! I helped give them a chance of living in peace and safety with the Minutemen’s help!”

“And yet the world still went down the shitter and the people still live in torment. It’s just how the world is, in the end. I learned that the hard way, but I adapted. You’re the one who was in denial and avoided the reality of it all.”

“Is that how you felt when your wife and kid were killed too?” I questioned.

“If I still had a body, I’d very much like to strangle you for that low blow,” Kellogg sneered. “At least I accepted the fact that guys like us don’t deserve nice things.”

“That’s where you’re wrong,” I said as I stood back up. “I paid my dues with enough blood to drown my sorrows. The world is cruel, more so now than ever, but that doesn’t mean I’m not owed anything.”

“And what, pray tell, are you owed?” Kellogg asked.

“As far as I’m concerned, whatever I damn well desire.”

“Interesting.” Kellogg let out a mock laugh. “You sure have changed.”

“Get used to it, now do me a favor and shut yourself down. I don’t want to talk to you anymore,” I said bitterly.

“Whatever you say, bud, whatever you say…”

Kellogg’s voice switched off and I put away my sword and pistol. I looked around me at the carnage, the blood I spilled relentlessly for the second time. This kind of bloodshed was a new experience for me, but it’s not like I regretted my actions anyway. Seeing how the imminent attack on the town was now taken care of, I made my way back the way I came as the cold winds from the mountain blew past me.

“Come…” An echo called out from the wind. I paused when I heard an echo of some kind.

“Come…to me…” the echo said again through the wind. I turned around hearing the disembodied voice again, thinking my mind was playing tricks.

“Come…come…to me…” the wind kept blowing and the voice kept speaking, as if I could hear it all around me.

“Who’s there?! Kellogg?! I thought I told you to fuck off?!” I said loudly.

“Come…come to me…” the echo called out again.

The echos didn’t sound like Kellogg, they sounded distant. It was like I heard it all around me, but no matter where I looked, I didn’t see anyone. I checked my map to see if there were any survivors, but nothing showed up on my radar.

I then finally realized that the voice was coming from the mountain. I was confused as to why and how it was possible that I was hearing some disembodied echo in my head. It was like some kind of mantra that was pulling towards it, and I couldn’t just turn away.

“Come…yes…come to me…” When I heard the voice again, the winds blew from behind and towards the mountain.

I shook my head at the repetitive voice continuously echoing in my head. Did the voice want me to climb up the mountain? Was there something at the peak for me waiting? Despite my better judgment, I reluctantly began my trek up the mountain.

Climbing in Power Armor wasn’t exactly easy, as they weren’t built for such tasks, but it didn’t stop me from trying to reach whatever it was that was calling out to me.

The snow was deep and reached up to my knees, but I managed to trek my way through without any delay. The winds, however, were a different issue. Despite wearing a suit of heavy armor that was a few tons, at least, I still had to push against the winds as I climbed up the mountain.

“God damn, it’s like the wind is fighting from moving forward.” I groaned as I nearly stumbled back from how strong the winds were getting.

“You must’ve killed hundreds of raiders, Super Mutants, Synths, Ghouls, and all sorts of fucked up monsters in the Commonwealth, but it’s wind that kills you? Pathetic,” Kellogg mocked

“I don’t remember asking for your opinion on my life choices,” I sneered while pressing on. “As far as I’m concerned, you’re just a dead man’s voice haunting me for the sake of annoying me.”

As much as I hated to admit it, these winds were becoming a real pain to deal with. My Power Armor was as durable as I could’ve possibly made it to be, but didn’t account for cold weather and freezing winds. To make matters even more complicated, whenever I even considered going back down the mountain, the voice kept goading me on to keep hiking up the mountain. After about an hour of hiking, the snow had reached up above my knees and the winds were as strong as ever before. Patches of frost formed all over my armor and I was moving much slower than before. Nevertheless, I kept going and hiking up the mountain.

“Sooo, you walking up this mountain for the exercise or did you already decide to kill yourself jumping off its peak?” Kellogg asked, laughing. “I’m disappointed, thought you would last a bit longer.”

I ignored Kellogg as I kept walking, trying to wipe off some of the frost that was building up on my helmet’s visor. An even more powerful gust of wind nearly flew me back but I dropped down to my hands and knees, trying to now crawl my way up.

“This shit better be damn worth the time I’m wasting,” I said as I kept moving, digging through thick snow as I marched onward. It took about three more hours until I finally reached the top. I looked more like a snowman on buffout.

The peak, thankfully, did not have any of those annoyingly strong winds blowing me back. I brushed off the snow and frost off my armor and visor and was met with some kind of cave. Something bright was glowing within the cave and there was some kind of protective barrier surrounding the entrance. I stepped towards the barrier and reached out to it. The barrier felt solid, not like it was made of any known solid material, but like some kind of unknown energy.

“Come…to me…” I heard the voice again, and it was louder than before.

“Ugh, again with that voice!” I said. “Whoever or whatever it is, it’s pretty damn insistent.” I pushed on the barrier and it crackled a little with the energy, sending a tingling sensation up my arm. “Ugh, fuck this, I don’t have time to waste!”

I pressed both my hands on the barrier and pushed. The unknown energy sparked around my arms and felt like I was being pushed back. I grit my teeth and kept pushing as hard as I could, but the barrier kept holding on.

“Grr, I came all this fucking way, only to be stopped by some annoying-ass fucking wall?!” My Power Armor strained as I kept pushing and I managed to take a step forward. “Come on…come the fuck on!” The barrier’s energy began to crack a little but desperately tried to keep me out. The ground beneath me cracked a little from the pressure of my boots pressing into the stone floor.

“LET…ME…FUCKING…THROUGH!!!” I bellowed and pushed with all my might.

With one last strong push, the barrier couldn’t handle the pressure anymore. It shattered altogether and a pulse of its energy echoed into the atmosphere. I breathed heavily as the heat from the exertion of my armor managed to melt away the snow and ice covering me. After collecting myself, I entered the cave. It wasn’t deep by any means, as I thought it was, but in the back of the cave was a small stone pedestal. On top of the pedestal was a small, old-looking, bell-like object. The bell glowed a bright green glow that lit up the cave and had some kind of unknown energy emanating off of it.

“The hell is this thing?” I wondered.

“Finally…”

The voice echoed once more as the bell glowed brighter. A shadow formed on the wall behind it and took the shape of some kind of goat creature with large curved horns. Two glowing eyes shined from the wall shadow as it seemed to stare at me.

“Welcome…stranger of metal…” the shadow said in an echoey voice.

“What the hell is this?” I asked aloud as the shadow on the wall cackled.

“I am most impressed to see you here before me…” The shadow said as it floated across the wall. “Withstanding those enchanted winds throughout your climb, let alone using nothing but brute force to gain entry into this sanctum, makes you a very interesting specimen. I also commend you for the glorious display of bloodshed of those wretched insects. Had it not been for your display of brutality, my spirit would have remained dormant and undisturbed.”

“Who, or what, the hell are you?” I asked the shadow. It was silent before I saw shadowy images form along the wall. It showed me images of little figures standing in a small town of houses.

“I was known by many names, in days gone by.” The shadows formed horrific-looking monsters and attacked the little figures. The shadow itself rose up from behind as the town was being attacked.

“The Father of Monsters.” The shadows raised its arms up as more shadowy monsters formed all along the walls.

“The first Emperor of Equestria.” A crown of shadows manifested above the shadow’s large curved horns.

“But you, stranger of metal, you may refer to me as Grogar…”

Author's Note

His past comes to haunt him and a new discovery may open a path of destruction.

Hope you enjoyed!

~WurkyWilk has left the building…