Author's Notes:

Tossing in the Gnarl torture scene real quick-
...what?
Oh, the text color, yeah, the boss sent me in to take of this real quick there is a lot of things to be said so, we are starting off with a bit of comedy before proceeding.

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Gnarl once again had his eyes held open by a machine, similar to the machine found in that weird episode of Phineas and Ferb, and was forced to look over ever episode of My Little Pony from Generation 1 to Generation 3...
*sounds of typing on keyboard* *click... click-click... click*
...that is 89 episodes to those that were curious plus who-knows-how-many movies.
...wait Gnarl's eyes have the glassy eye look... *puts a finger on a vein*
...nope still got a pulse, gonna have this paused, put a system in place for when he wakes up, that it will unpause and pause whenever he becomes unconscious or his brain shuts down temporarily.
*sounds of every tool in existence being used and then some*
And there you have it. I think after this him will be let go, what do you guys think? One more scene or let him go?

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... Sweet Jesus, I thought the boss was kidding when he told me he thought himself a sadist...

Anyways onto announcements... *shuffles through piles of papers* ...aha! Here we go, *ahem* WARNING: there is going to be excessive swearing this chapter so, as many other authors have said, 'don't like, don't read'. There will be a warning letting you know when the cursing will begin and another label letting you know when it is safe to read, however, if you do skip, you might miss some important information and some of the chapter might not make sense to you.

And without further adieu, please, enjoy. *disappears into shadows*

I looked around as I appeared in my Silent Hill and started walking towards the Entrance/Exit of the building I was in, until I heard hoof-steps approaching.

"Somepony seems to be in a rush," a voice said, looking in the direction of the voice I find the mare formerly known as Floral Sense, now known as Lily Purity, odd name I know, but I didn't pick it she did, "What's got you all riled up?"

I summon a replica of the newspaper from a few days ago, "The Princess summoned me and my brothers to meet with her to prove we are who we say we are," I stated, using all of my resolve to avoid saying 'Princess' with venom.

"The Princess?" she asked, I nodded, "As in the Princess Celestia?" with an unnoticed and quiet growl, I nodded again.

At this point she had a grin that could've probably surpassed Luna's when she first learned of Nightmare's ability to go into the Dreamscape.

"Before you start shouting in excitement," I said, causing her to put her hoof into her mouth to stop said shout, "from what my brothers have told me, the only people the Guards will let see Celestia were us meaning you might not be able to see Celestia..."

This statements caused her to frown, then I continued, with a smirk hidden under my helmet, "If it weren't for the fact that I have given you some of my own power."

The moment what I said clicked in her head, her smile became bigger than the previous one, if that was possible.

"Well," I asked, waving her over, "If we are going to see Celestia, we might need to see her as soon as possible and you can't do that waiting around here.

I continued walking as she shook her head, then followed.

After a few minutes of walking, we arrive at the train station, I studied the train schedule for a moment, then looked to Lily, "I need you to check..." I looked back to the schedule for a moment, "... the train arriving at 6:15 and find a spot for me to ride in without being noticed."

She nodded and vanished in a flash of dark blue energy. I knew no pony would question why a hooded mare would randomly teleport into a train-station, and that train I asked her to check? It will not arrive for about 20 minutes, so I had some spare time on my hands.

I was remaking some of the creatures found in the Silent Hill games and movies, so far I succeeded in making the Nurses, the blind creatures that only reacted when they heard something in the same room as them.

"Hey, Pyramid," said Lily, who had, though not noticeably, startled me out of my concentration, good thing the Nurses were properly made, otherwise they might have attacked her.

"Please, do NOT startle me like that, especially while I am working," I stated irritably, "you could've been seriously injured... or worse."

"Sorry," she apologised with a sheepish smile, "but I bought us the VIP cabin, on that train."

She had pointed to a train, and looked over and found the train she was referring to, which I know was not there a few moments ago, maybe things just moved around in Silent Hill silently... yup, OK, I did just say something that I should've guessed was obvious.

"Where'd you get the bits?" I asked, looking back to her.

She looked down, with a small frown, "I... had kept some bits on me from when I was... going to... you know," Lily said sadly.

I tensed a bit at that, "I-I'm sorry, I didn't know-" I started to apologise.

"It's fine," she stated, a neutral expression on her face, "Just... just get onto the bucking train already."

She started walking into the train, I followed from behind a bit, and she led me into the cabin. I walked in and would've sworn that, if you found a room like this a thousand years ago, then it would've belonged to someone in a royal family of some kind. Thankfully, it isn't a thousand years ago... not anymore anyway.

As I got ready to appear in the mortal realm, I felt a hoof touch my side, stopping me and making me look down to Lily.

"Hold on," she said, then vanished in a flash of dark blue once more, and appear once again barely a moment later, "OK, we're clear."

Then not a moment too soon, we both vanished in a flash of dark-purple light.

We both appear in the VIP car just as the door out was closed by somepony else... I think it was pony...

"I got the guards that were hired for the cabin to leave us be until either we arrived at Canterlot or there was a danger on board," Lily said as her voice changed to a more normal sounding one.

"I see," I said trying to do the same with my voice, "let us just get some rest before we arrive."

Once I said that she let out a small yawn, "Yeah, we don't want to be drowsy when we see the Princess," she headed to the bed that was big enough for, not one, not two, but three alicorns.

'How much money is put into making these cabins?' I thought to myself, 'and do they even pay back how much they had cost to have been built in the first place... actually they probably would.'

Shaking myself out of my thoughts, I go to the other side of the and decide to take a quick nap.

I had come to with a painful headache and heard... I heard ????? screaming, my eyes shot wide open, and I looked around a noticed a few things.

#1: I was hanging by my hands, which are numb at the moment.
#1.5: Considering I was hanging by my hands, I was probably shackled or chained, can't tell which.
#2: There was a camera in the corner of the room.
#3: There was an intercom speaker on the ceiling in the middle of the room.
#4: ????? was tied to a chair a few feet in front of me.
#5: There was a knife, a big kitchen knife, on a tray to my right.
#6: There was an odd, yet familiar smell in the room.
#7: The entire floor in the room was wet.
#8: There was a metal door behind ?????.

As I noticed these things, there was a static-like noise, then a voice spoke over the intercom.

"Ah, Mister ???????," the voice, with just enough static to be unable to identify as male or female, said in an amused tone, "you are finally awake. We have so MUCH to discuss."

My eyes narrowed as I looked directly at the camera, "LET US OUT OF HERE!" I shouted at the camera.

"My, my, someone's a bit pushy," the voice stated with... interest? "how about we get straight to the point then, hm?"

There was a loud beep and suddenly fell to the floor, into a small puddle that soaked my clothes, yet didn't get into my eyes or mouth.

I started getting up, the odd smell a bit stronger, and looked around then to the camera.

"What do you want with us?!" I shouted as I ran over to the door, and try to pry it open.

"I will let you free," the voice stated simply catching me off guard, then it continued with a sly tone, "you just need to do one thing for me."

I hesitated, then remembered the knife from before, "W-what is it?" I asked, almost in a whisper.

I heard a slight chuckle... giggle?... from the intercom, "Well, since you asked, I need you," she stated as if the I was going to have a hard time understanding, "to kill her."

My heart dropped to my stomach, "No. Nononono," I started, "not her, please don't make me do this!"

The voice 'hm'ed, "Well, it is either that, or you both die," the voice stated as if giving a simple second option, "I mean, haven't you notice the smell?"

That's when it clicked, I looked at my soaked clothes, then the wet floor, then took a whiff of the air again.

We were in a gasoline covered room, and the only exit was locked.

I back from the camera slowly, "Y-you wouldn't-" I said before being abruptly cut off.

"Oh, but I will," the voice said, sounding like it was smirking, "that is, if I don't get what I want."

"I won't, I-" I said, then a heard ????? mumble something, I turned to her, "W-what was that?"

She looked to me with a small smile and tears in her eyes, "Do it, don't let me be the reason you die," she stated, and I noticed a look in her eyes, it was the one I had when I couldn't save our daughter. It was when I had lost hope.

"No," I said to her, "I will not lose you too, we will get out of this, we will find a way, there just has to be."

I started looking around, and as the voice began to chuckle, I ignored it until I heard the next sentence it spoke:
"Oh my, I guess that means that I will have to wait until you want to kill her... just kidding! You have until the count of ten before you both start burning alive."

My eyes widened as looked over to ?????.

"One."

Look around the metal door quickly, trying to see if maybe the door could be pried opened.

"Two."

I bang on each of the walls listening, seeing if maybe the wall would be weak enough to bust through into some sort of path.

"Three. Four."

I looked to what held me up on the wall before, shackles, and started banging on the wall with them, while ????? said, "Please just do it, don't get yourself killed because of me!"

"Five. Six."

I looked around, trying to think of another way out. Anything, anything at all! ...

"Seven. Eight."

Nothing.

"For God's sake! Just do-" ????? shouted.

"Nine-"

"FINE!" I shouted, making them both go silent, "Fine! I-I'll do it," I walked over to the tray and picked up the knife then walked over to ?????.

I look at the knife, then to ?????, "Are you... are you sure you want to do this?"

She nodded with the same small smile.

I closed my eyes and plunged the knife... and I opened my eyes...

... into her neck and blood gushed onto the hand that I held the knife with and spluttered from her mouth.

I let go of the knife and fall back onto my ass and started crying, saying and repeating, "This isn't real, it can't be real. It has to be a nightmare, it has to be."

I woke up with a slight start, looking around I realised I was still in a train.

'Goddamn nightmares,' I thought to myself.

Just when I thought to get more relaxed, I jumped at someone or rather somepony shouting, "WE WILL BE ARRIVING IN CANTERLOT IN A FEW MINUTES, PLEASE GET READY FOR DEPARTURE!"

When I jumped I realised that I had something... er actually, somepony attached to me, and I looked down and noticed that Lily had snuggled up to me at some point when I was asleep, and was now hugging me.

"Hey, Lily, it's time to get up," I said softly trying to wake her up without to much fuss.

"... not now... five more minutes..." Lily mumbled, hugging me tighter.

"If you don't let go, then ponies are going to be talking," I stated jokingly, wondering what her reaction will be.

"Huh?" she asked as she started to wipe the sleep from her eyes, then blinked a few times and looked at what she was hugging and 'eep'ed as she let go with a blush.

I chuckle a bit at her reaction, "We will be arriving in Canterlot soon, just wanted you to not be asleep and wake up on the opposite side of Equestria," I said as I held out my hand to help her up.

She puts her hoof in my hand as she gets off the bed, "My, my, such a gentlestallion."

"Why thank you," I said as I finally managed to get my voice, somewhat, back to 'normal', "I always try my best to be."

After helping her up, I quickly wrote a note and placed it on the door, took a small brown paper bag out of one of the drawers for those with motion sickness, and placed a few items that may be valuable to the guards in it.

"What is that?" Lily asked, her voice going back into its 'normal' echoing and powerful sounding self, as she pointed to the bag.

"Our tip to the guards," I said simply, and not long after that we heard the sound of the train's brakes being engaged.

The second we felt the train completely stop, we both vanished in a flash of dark-purple light, leaving a unicorn guard to open the door confused at first until he spotted the note and grabbed the bag on the bed and take it with him shrugging to the other guards asking where the passengers in VIP cabin went and showed them the same note.

Lily and I were walking through Canterlot, not Silent Hill Canterlot, just normal Canterlot, and it was going all fine and dandy, even though any citizen that saw us, what was the phrase again? Ah, 'ran for the hills'. Anyway it was all good until we passed a Guard Station, to which about a dozen or so Royal Guards surrounded us.

"Halt, creature!" one of the Royal Guards shouted pointing their supposed spears at me, specifically, "Release the mare and you will be taken in for a trial with the Princess."

I chuckled a bit, "Number one," I stated as I held up one finger, making them flinch, yet they stayed where they were, "I'm not holding Lily against her will, right?"

"I am as free as a bird," Lily said, her voice making some of the Royal Guards' eyes widen and the rest just raised an eyebrow as they looked at her, "I am his apprentice and if I chose to, I could leave him alone at anytime."

"And number two," I stated as I raised a second finger on the same hand, making them look back to me, "I'm here to see Princess Celestia anyway, she called me via a summons, one that was on the newspaper... how many days ago? Three? Four?" I shrugged. "I lost count, but the point is,
either you can escort us to her," I hefted the Great Knife onto my shoulder with little effort, "or you can get out of our way."

Most of them widened their eyes looking at the weapon I wield, the others with determined looks on their face with noticeable amounts of sweat having appeared on their faces.

I started to walk past them and they all tensed up, yet I continued, Lily followed close behind still wearing her cloak. The Royal Guards did not dare to move an inch towards them, so they, slowly, retreated back into the station, leaving us to visit Celestia.

The rest of the trip was uneventful, if you exclude the fast evacuation of ponies from the throne room, which, to be honest, was quite hilarious.

When I went past the guard blocking the throne room door I looked to Lily, whom the guard said was not allowed inside, and nodded, to which she vanished in a flash of light like a teleportation spell seemed to do.

I then walked inside and waited for a bit, then another flash of light happened in front of my position to which Lily appeared from with a mischievous grin on her muzzle. We then walked to the throne room together.

When we arrived there were absolutely no Royal Guards, no servants, no nobles, no one. We both saw her, Celestia, looking at one of the stained glass windows in the room, one that seemed to be about... huh... Discord, being defeated by six other ponies.

'Guess Slender was right,' I thought to myself as Lily and I approached.

"Greetings, Celestia," I said, Celestia didn't move, but there was a familiar aura radiating from her, Fear.

The she turned towards us confidently, the aura of Fear having dissipated to nothing but an almost unnoticeable outline.

"It has been awhile, has it not?" Celestia asked, then looked to Lily, seemingly just noticing her, "and I see that you managed to get a pony in without the Captain noticing."

'Captain, eh?' I thought with a small bit of amusement to myself, "Getting past the Captain was merely elementary for my dear apprentice here."

"An apprentice you say?" Celestia said with a small, but noticeable, smile, an eyebrow lifted and her aura now radiating Amusement, "I never thought I'd see the day you would have an apprentice, considering-"

"We are not here to do small talk Celestia," I said, a bit of power behind that sentence making her tense up and her aura showed a little bit more Fear, and got Lily to look at me with a frown and a raised eyebrow, "Lily, please go into Silent Hill and come back in about... half an hour? Please?"

Lily, at first reluctant, slowly nodded and vanished in a flash of light, leaving just me and Celestia.

"Now... where was I?" I scratched my chin in thought, until I remembered, "ah, yes... after all," I slowly started approaching Celestia, applying pressuring to my weapon, making it leave a deep cut into the ground as I walked, "it was your fault that me and my brothers ended up trapped that void-like prison," at this point her aura of Fear was almost as big as rug in here was, "we had to call home for the last," at the next part I stomped on each step with each syllable, "ONE-THOUSAND FUCKING YEARS!"

"And don't you fucking DARE say that you had no other choice," I continued, my helmet in her face, eye-to-eye, "You could've done something else instead of having us being blasted to the damn void-!"

"Like bucking what?!" Celestia shouted back at me as tears started to pour from her eyes, catching me off guard, "how else could I have prevented a blast of magic, that was bucking strong enough to take me out, from bucking harming me?! If I aimed it towards the sky, the magic would've been pulled back at some point by the central focus point of the Tree of Harmony, and probably destroy an entire city at some point, if I aimed it at the mother-damned forest around the castle, when ponies were still evacuating mind you, there would've been dead guards and servants. If I sent it back, sure it would've killed Nightmare Moon, but it would've killed Luna as well!

"I didn't know you were over at that bucking field where Ponyville now stands," she continued, her face now had two waterfalls of tears, and a small frown "at the time, it was the only shot I had at making sure nopony- no, no one got hurt by the blast that Nightmare Moon sent at me. If I had known you were there, I probably would've bucking risked sending it into the mother-damned sky instead of having it be me that practically blasted you with it!"

I was shocked, she had absolutely no idea? But Luna, well... I guess that...

"I sent a small platoon of my guards over there," Celestia said, the small frown on her face had deepened, "what they brought back was what remained of your sword, the Great Knife, charred, cracked, broken in-half, before I could even touch it, it bucking fell apart and seemed to become one with the ground beneath our hooves.

"Every year," Celestia said, looking to me with her frown going back to being just a small one, "on that day, of every mother-damned bucking year, I grieved, for both the loss of my sister and the loss of my closest friends, whom I thought were gone for good."

I was now crouching down on one knee, this close to hugging her to alleviate the pain.

Then her frown became a small smile, "Then my sister came back and was purge of Nightmare Moon by the Elements of Harmony, and the pain was a little easier to deal with, especially since I could now lean on my sister for support."

I had made my voice a bit more softer for her, "Have you... told her that...?" I asked referring to the spell she cast as Nightmare Moon.

"No," she said simply, "I did not want another supposed sin to weigh on her mind."

I now felt a little guilty for blaming her for all of our mis- no, I blamed her for my misery, I was the one who craved revenge.

"I..." I hesitated, then hugged causing her to tense up, "I'm sorry, I just... I guess I didn't think this through thoroughly enough."

After a moment, Celestia relaxed, "I-I don't bla- *hic* blame you th-though," she said as she hiccupped, "either me o-or Lun- *hic* -a would have be-been pissed at o-one of y-you *hic* if we th-thought it was even re-remotely your faul- *hic* -t."

I let go of her and let out a small chuckle, "Probably," I said with amusement, "But still, it was not right to just blame you, I wasn't thinking clearly, nor did I give you a chance to explain yourself, and that wasn't fair of me."

"... What the buck did I just teleport back into?" Celestia and I look in the direction of the voice to find Lily looking at with a perplexed expression.

"Just..." I said as I look back over to Celestia, "two friends overcoming each others differences."

Lily looked between Celestia and I, then raised an eyebrow, "So... you two are not special someponies?" she asked up front.

I merely tilt my head a little, while Celestia's jaw dropped and was flabbergasted, "No," I replied simply, "sure we get along surprisingly well, but... well..."

Celestia had recovered and finished my statement for me, "When we first went out on a date, several businesses were burned down," at this Lily's eyes widened, "who knew that if he ate spicy foods too spicy for him he would literally breathe fire?"

I was blushing under my helmet, so they couldn't see it but, I probably sounded a bit embarrassed when I said, "Celly, I told you that we were to never speak of it again, ever."

She chuckled at my dismay, along with Lily, which caused me to groan at my current misfortune.

"H-how?" Lily asked, trying to curb her laughing and failing miserably, "What m-made it *snrk* so you breathed fire?"

I shrugged, "To be honest," I started, "I have no clue, but I have heard of such thing happening in works of fiction..."

"Anyways," I said, stopping them from dying of laughter, hopefully, "I would like to stay around for a bit and chat," my voice softened once more, making Lily raise an eyebrow.

Celestia smiled at that, "I think that I could work that into my already tight schedule, since you cleared a big portion of it with your arrival," she stated with a laugh at the end.

"I always seem to have that effect, don't I?" I asked jokingly, having joined in her laughter.

After I left Canterlot, I made sure to drop off Lily at Las Pegasus, before returning to the void-like realm that I have been in for the last thousand years. However something felt a little off when I started entering, so I became cautious before I completely entered, weapon in hand.

However, upon entry, nothing was out of place just a bunch of emptiness, the temporary house we built here, and my three brothers.

'Maybe I'm just imagining things?' I thought to myself.