Yes yes yes I'm still excited about Dead Space! Yes yes yes yes yes yes... Oh god I feel like Twilight... what am I becoming?! What horrible curse have I received? I ask you readers! What has happened to me? Oh! I'm also looking for more positive feedback people! You like this story? Great! But not enough people do. So go out there and find your friends and tell them to read this. You see... the more good things I hear about this the better I write. See? It's equivalent exchange.

Pinkimina and I ran out and far away from the castle before our friends could catch up with us. I this is more like it! When we lost them we planned ahead.

"We can't do the movie first." said Pinkimina.

"Good point. They'd expect us to go there."

"How about some grub?" I held out my hand and summoned a back of bits.

"That sounds like a plan to me."

We spent the next hour having a fun time. Sure it wasn't a great big party with tons of friends and people you've never met but I hate those parties more than anything. They always leave you with a fucking headache and the only thing you'll hear for the next 3 days is (BBBBBBBBBBBBEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPP)

We went and grabbed some salads and nachos and ate till out heart's content. Then we went frog hunting. Odd I know but fun! Later we saw this epic rip-off of Evil Dead. Pony Bruce Campbell is like real Bruce Campbell but only... like... he's a pony. I don't know what to expect from this. Bruce is still my favorite actor of all time, no joke.

After that we talked it out and we went to the arcade. We almost got seen by the Elements over there. When they asked about us I grabbed Pinkimina and turned invisible cloaking her as well. We had to stay in a hug formation but we made it out. The arcade sucked anyways. I was only good at the dance dance revolution they had set up because I'm a great dancer. Yeah. No sarcasm intended. I was like Twilight... only faster!

"So Grimm... what do you have in mind?"

"It's a carnival. We do everything!" we both ran in and got the super bracelet tickets which let us do every ride for free as many times as we wanted. This is my b-day and ain't nobody gonna fuck that up. Well... something tells me that I probably will. But till then... onward!

We got on... well... everything! Except for the baby rides and we didn't do any eating contest. The nachos... kinda already filled us up. I would describe the rides to you but... meh... That's no fun.

"That was fun!" Well the rides were fun but If I tell you about them I would end up like those douche bag fuckers who go to every amusement park and make stupid comments on every fucking thing.

"Yeah they were. What do we do next?"

"Hmm... I don't really know. It's your b-day man."

"You don't say? Hmm... I know! Let's go on an adventure!"

"Let's not."

"Why?"

"I'm too full and tired to do something as exhausting as an adventure."

"Oh...We could go talk to the others."

"But they made you mad."

"But they made me mad. Why don't we... I can't really think. I'm so happy."

"Why?"

"I haven't celebrated this day in so long. I feel like a kid again."

"So your just now starting to act like a kid? Oh my heavens..."

"What?"

"Nothing."

"I just get the most out of life Pinkie. The longer you stick with me the quicker you'll find out."

"Find out what?"

"Spoilers."

"Hahaha... yes that's correct. Don't spoil the fun." said a womanly voice from behind us. I turned to see that bug queen thing from before.

"Oh hello!" I said standing up and shaking her hoof. "How's it going?"

"Don't you dare try to play nice with me! Our battle isn't over yet!"

"It's not? Oh... sorry I kinda forgot your name. Could you remind me? Was it Cherry? Sherry? Carrie? Mary! That's it!"

"What?"

"Well look Mary I'm sorry that I kinda fought you in the past. Bad habit of mine."

"I'm Chrysalis! Queen of the changelings!"

"I am the Painkiller. Good to meet you." I shook her hoof again and this time she accepted it.

"Bah! There's no point in killing you is there?"

"No. Even if it was possible." We both had our stare down and it was she who backed down.

"Fine. Bye." she said walking away.

"So she's going to back down? Just like that?" asked Pinkie.

"No she's not. There's definitely a fight coming." I watched her turn around and look at me like a cowboy showdown. Even the little hay bundle flew between us. "I'll let you walk away."

"I'm sure you will. There's a reason we dubbed you a murderer."

"I don't murder in self defense."

"Oh how noble."

"Don't test my patience."

"Don't test my wrath!"

"Look. If you want to die then come at me."

"You dare threaten me?"

"Chrysalis you know me." I turned my arm into a chainsaw. "And you know I don't play around."

"Fine. I'll stand down."

"Now your never going to start another war again." I said calmly moving my left hand in the air.

"I will never start another war again."

"You and your changelings will live in peace and harmony with everyone else."

"We will live in peace and harmony with everyone else."

"Grimm what are you doing?" whispered Pinkimina.

"Shh... Jedi mind trick." Chrysalis shook her head and looked around at us.

"Oh my lord! What am I doing? Are you okay Pain?" She asked worriedly.

"Yes I am! How are you feeling?"

"Horrible! I've done so many bad things over the years and and... I..." she had tears building up. "I'm so sorry!" She said pulling me in for a hug and lifting me up. How... how did she do that? I weigh 6 tons!

"What did you do really?" asked Pinkimina.

"I took the evil out of her." I held up the purple orb in my hand. "See?"

"Like what you did with Discord."

"Exactly! But he didn't have enough time to change." Damn you David and your extremely awesome revenge schemes!

"So what do I do now?" asked the still crying Chrysalis.

"Can you tell me who corrupted you?"

"No... I can't remember."

"Can you remember the war?"

"Only bits and pieces."

"The wedding?"

"What wedding?" Hmm... this isn't good. She was corrupted for a long time. I'm not detecting any thing else nightmare related. Nightmare? She might be the cause of this. Come on what's left of my brain! Think! If I have all this free space then I should be extra smart! Wait that's it! Nightmare's on the moon and she can't leave so she takes control of others! So maybe I can take this spirit and change it into something good!

"So you can't remember much of what happened. How far back?"

"I can't... remember... the past... 12 years..." Oh that's pretty far back. I hope I didn't erase her memory. "I think I can remember who did it to me... this scientist went fell out of the sky I think and he did this to me."

"What was his name?"

"I...I can't..."

"Hey hey... calm down. Take your time."

"Dr...Z I think. Yeah... it had a z in it. Pain are you okay? You look sick."

"Yeah... I"m fine... and it's Grimm by the way."

"Okay."

"Pinkie. Take her back to the castle so Celestia and her can talk out some peace. I need to check on some things."

"But Grimm-"

"That's an order."

"Yeah... okay." she accompanied Chrysalis to the castle while I walked down the hill. If Zephyr's back then I need to get my game together and work out some strategies. First it would be best if I followed the signal and traced his footprints to find out where he's been and what he's done. Hmm... I wonder...

Later at the Tardis...

"Come on dammit!" I yelled smacking the computer screen. Then I saw Kay's face. "There you are."

"Dust...need...out!"

"Speak clearer!"

"Dustin you need to watch out! Zephyr's back! Dustin you need to watch out! Zephyr's back! Dustin-" I smacked it again cutting it off.

"That didn't help me at all. How did she know? Oh... great fucking birthday!" I yelled giving the screen a good kick and I saw Kay's face again.

"Dustin are you there?" I hooked up a cell phone with the speaker.

"Kay?"

"Listen to me! Zephyr somehow survived your last encounter and he's corrupting ponies to go after you and your friends!"

"I kinda already got that."

"Oh... so you know about Godzilla?"

"Godzilla?!" I ran outside and saw a giant dinosaur with him riding on top of it. "Kay... I'm gonna have to call you back." I hung up the cell phone. I spread my wings and flew up to the throne. "Hello Doc."

"Ah... Dustin. Or shall I say Grimm? I've been studying you for quite a while."

"Okay that's just wrong."

"Don't be so sensitive my boy. I've learned everything about you. Like how you can't regrow limbs but you can reattach them. So say I do this." He made his monster throw it's hands up and clap me. Yeah. A fucking clap. When it did all my armor systems shut down.

"Shit... I can't move!"

"Your just a rock now." He stood on top of me. "Now say I do this." He grabbed my wings and started to pull. "You nothing without these wings!" I felt the steel wings get pulled right out of my back. The pain was so great I couldn't scream. He then threw them into the mouth of Godzilla and she ate them.

"You... bastard."

"How about another arm? Hmm?"

"Why don't you do me a favor and go fuck yourself!"

"Nah. This is more fun." He fused with his monster making his dragon form from last time. "I made it out alive because I found something."

"What?"

"The marker." He held the red and black stone in the monster's hands. "I'm going to keep you as a slave and use you. Your the only one who can translate this."

"Fuck off!"

"Wrong answer!" He held me in his fist and slammed me into the earth.

Far into the earth's crust...

"Oh... ow... ow..." I tried to move but I couldn't. "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. He's got one hell of an arm." I felt the ground heating up and saw the lava that was starting to pour. "Oh wonderful! Lava!" It circled me and started getting closer and closer. "I've always wanted to know what this felt like." I felt it under me and my body start to melt. "Oh fuck! This is surprisingly painful!"

"No! I need you alive!" Yelled Zephyr as he tried to dig me up. The last thing to be melted was my left arm.

"Fuck you!" I gave him one last finger and died.

In heaven!

"Ow ow ow!" I continued to wipe the hot liquid off of me. Okay... that sounded so bad. Hehehe... Oh now's not the time for jokes. Huh. Alpha and Beta were right.

"Oh hello Grimm." said Death. "I swear I had Zephyr under control."

"What did you do?"

"I didn't mean to."

"What did you fucking do!"

"I lost his soul. There. Also he found the marker."

"Alright." I felt a spark shoot out of my helmet. "Ah fuck!" I threw the helmet of and watched as it blew up.

"You need new armor."

"Yeah... hey Death. Your magic and all. Can you switch my hair and eyes back to normal even when I'm wearing the suit."

"Sure!" He snapped his fingers. "However you might not like the hair."

"I don't care! This is my last change I will ever do to my body! So shut up and hand me a mirror." he did as was told and I looked at my reflection. I still had black hair but it was mostly greying. The stubble remained mostly black though. "Huh. Bad-ass." I got my blue eyes back! Yes! Orange is so creepy.

"Now let's make some new armor."

"I have just the one in mind."

On Earth...

Zephyr walked into the throne room in his regular human form and every pony was forced to get on there knees except Luna and Celestia as he wanted to speak with them.

"Hello my beauties!" he said giving Luna a slap on her rear. She was shocked but didn't say a thing. "I have destroyed your precious Painkiller and on his birthday I might add. Oh what fun!"

"Listen hear..." I tried to speak up but Niko covered my mouth.

"David shut the fuck up!"

"He slapped Luna on the ass!"

"I know but we can't play the hero right now!"

"Grimm could."

"Grimm's dead!"

"He's always been dead! Watch. He'll be hear in a few seconds."

"Yeah right-" The ceiling blew up and a large chunk fell on Zephyr barely missing the princesses. Then a human in a suit with rocket boots slowly descended to our level. He was wearing this black and white space suit with pieces of blue armor on and a blue helmet that looked very... futuristic. It had three blue lines across the visor that shot out a light in the darkness.

"Hello boys." He said with a snappy remark. "Everyone get up and get the fuck outta here!" he said happily pointing the door with his thumbs. We all cheered and left the room.

Grimm's POV

"Ah... the Advance Suit." I said to myself unfolding the helmet. "Tell me Zephyr. Do you know why it's called that?"

"No..." He said while shaking.

"Because it's better than the last one!" I yelled stomping on his hand and breaking it. "This is the best birthday ever. I get some new armor that doesn't look menacing and I get to kill you for reals!"

"For reals?"

"For reals." I kicked him onto his back and looked at the princesses. "Do you gals want some hits too?"

"Oh allow me to eat some of your cake." said Luna popping her hooves.

"Wait..." said Zephyr backing up. "Wait wait... Okay we have a misunderstanding but you don't have to do this... Leave me alone! No! No! AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!"

Meanwhile at Shy's cabin

"Here you go Angel Bunny." said the gentle yellow pegasus offering her rabbit a new kind of meal she just cooked up. "It's a new recipe. Will you please try it? Oh don't be afraid."

"AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!" a scream echoed through the air.

"Ah!" the pegasus jumped on to the couch and hid herself under a quilt.

In Rainbow's cloud house

"No way Daring Do! That's so cool!" said the happy blue pegasus in her bed reading her favorite.

"AAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!! NO! NO! AAAHHH!" the scream continued through out the world.

At the castle 2 hours later

"Man was that the best pizza ever..." I said to myself finishing my plate. I had all of my friends here with me.

"So he's not coming back?" asked Twilight.

"Well I mean he doesn't get to teleport anywhere this time. I took his magic. Also I left him in a volcano"

"How did you meet him?" asked Fluttershy.

"Well... it's such a complicated story I'm not going to tell you."

"Aw..." they all sounded disappointed. But it's best if I build a wall here before they cross the bridge. Know what I'm saying?

"So are you sure your back feels good?" asked Vinyl. I unfolded my armor showing her the stitches that Death gave me.

"Yeah I'm fine. Can't feel a thing."

"Was it a good birthday?" asked Luna.

"One of the best."

Okay. Keep it cool Grimm. Don't tell them about the marker. Don't even bring it up. Don't even think about it. Well I am now. And now. Oh god I can't stop thinking about it!

"Hey Grimm! We found this rock with your pet dinosaur. Want it as a birthday present?" asked Pinkie. She pulled a wagon with the marker on it. "So do ya?"

"Pinkie... what have you done?!" I yelled pulling her away from it.

"Hey what gives!" Just then one of the bat Infector creatures came out from behind it and jumped on one of the guards.

"Quick pull it off-" He tried to yell as it stabbed him in the brain infecting him.

"Shit! Pinkimina! Go get my axe!"

"The Tardis is gone!"

"Gone? What do you mean gone?"

"I mean it's gone! As in not there!"

"It must have gone to heaven when I died..." I said quietly. "Fine! I'll improvise!" I grabbed one of the sharp wings from the decomposing guard and held it as a sword. "Alright! I want everyone going for cover now!" They all ran away leaving me with the necromorphs. "Just like old times..."

"Painkiller!" Yelled the Slasher pony who jumped me. I quickly stabbed him in the gut and removed his lower legs. "You shall be absorbed!"

"Not gonna happen!" I yelled stomping his head in the ground. The Infector quickly jumped on my but I grabbed the blade from it's mouth and pulled it down and I stomped it to the ground as well. "Damn it Z. Why did you have to do this?"

"It was my fault." said a voice behind me. I turned around to see Kay.

"Kay? But... but..."

"I'm so sorry."

"Grimm he's not real!" said David. He didn't leave the room?

"I said get to cover!" I yelled as Celestia grabbed him and teleported. "Kay... how is this possible?"

"The marker. It's to cause of all of your pain."

"What?"

"It's the reason I'm here."

"What?"

"Listen to her little brother." said Cody from behind me.

"What?"

"Oh happy birthday!" they said in unison.

"What?"