The Griffins began encircling the ponies as they continued to watch Merry and Twilight. Luna and Celestia were distracted with each others attention. Luna was telling Celestia on what she had missed with Diamond Claw finding out about the incident in Ponyville and how Merry was involved and demanded reparations.

“I see...” Celestia sighed “...it was inevitable, and I was foalish to think nothing negative would come of that incident.” Celestia looked up at Diamond Claw only to notice that they were now surrounded by all the griffins that had previously been scattered around the throne room.

“Why are we surrounded Diamond Claw? What is happening?” The rest of the ponies looked around at Celestia’s words, and they too noticed they were surrounded with the griffins giving them glares or being completely stone faced.

“I commend you for coming to pick up your Pet, on such short notice. I am truly impressed. I had hopped to have a few more of my griffins properly equipped for your arrival. But it seems you’re too tired to defend yourself properly at the moment.” Diamond Claw simply smiled at Celestia and Luna

“Diamond Claw! You will end this foalishness immediately, or you will face dire consequences!” Diamond Claw snapped his claws and all of the griffins encircling them began to close in.

“The rulership of ponies and Alicornsis over. The rise of Griffins is at hand. My people may not know it, but they are being repressed by you and your greedy little ponies. You refuse to share your magical lands filled with plentiful food with my griffins. Your little ponies don’t have to worry about dragon attacks everyday!”

While Diamond Claw was giving off his little speech Merry and Twilight were waking up. Before Twilight could get a word out on what was going on, Merry put his hand over her mouth to hush her. No one was watching them. Merry leaned in close so he could whisper into Twilights ear.

“Hey, can you dispel magic?” Twilight immediately understands the situation based on how the griffins were aiming spears at her fellow ponies and the king giving some speech about how the griffins were treated unfairly and robbed of opportunities. She whispered back to him

“Yeah I can, but why?” Merry leaned in closer brining up one of the chains so she could see.

“Because these chains are enchanted with a spell so I can’t break them. I mean look at them! They look so thin. Once the spell disappears I can easily break them.” Twilight looked at the chains and nodded her head.

“Yeah Ok, I think I can do that. I’m still tired though, so hang on.” Twilight focused some magical energy into her horn and a small beam hit the left chain, and the spot she hit lost its golden sheen and went to a dull silver color. Twilight began panting when she finished casting her spell.

“That looks good! Now the other side if you don’t mind.” Twilight nodded her head and struggled to cast the spell again. This time a smaller blast came out, only half of a link lost its sheen.

“Sorry, Merry. That’s the best, I could do.” Merry just patted her on the head

“That’ll do Twilight, that’ll do.” As Twilight laid down to rest she closed her eyes, comforted that Merry was petting her head. Merry looked up at Diamond Claw and saw he was still going on with his nonsense. Merry decided to wait a little bit before he would interrupt him.

“Hey Glork...” a mouth appeared on Merry’s shoulder

“Yeah buddy?”

“Release that limit or what ever so I’m at 100%, you can do that right?”

“Yeah no problem buddy.” Merry felt a sudden surge of energy causing him to shudder in place with excitement.

“And that’s why, I am going to kill you Celestia and Luna, along with every non-griffin here. For the Glory of the true master race, Griffins!” Merry looked at the ponies, and all of the little ones were huddled around Luna legs. The rest of the mane 6 were standing behind Celestia waiting for her response and reaction. Merry however was tired of listening to him babble. And with the chains weakened in certain spots he should be able to break free now.

During this pause Merry saw it as a golden opportunity to make his entrance in this dire situation. He inhaled deeply and shouted at the top of his lungs.

“Let me tell you why that’s all complete and utter bullshit!” Everyone spun around to see Merry standing inside the steel cell with his hands on his hips looking upward at the ceiling. “First reason is, I’m still alive. Second reason is you left the oven on. Third, your taste in decor is absolutely terrible. And fourth is, well I actually just really fucking hate you.” Diamond Claw was visibly upset at the fact Merry was awake and just insulted his throne room.

“What can you do about it?! You’re locked up inside that cage and held back by unbreakable chains!”

“True, true, It would seem that way... You mind if I ask you a question Mr. Claw?” Diamond Claw just chuckled to himself

“Fine, I shall humor you beast, ask your question.”

“Tell me, what did you do with Souls body? The black mare you captured with me?” Diamond Claw lifted a feathered eyebrow at the question and smirked. Celestia and Luna were confused, as they didn’t know he had been traveling with one of their little ponies.

“Her body? What a silly last question to ask. Its in the garbage of course, with the rest of the commoner trash.” Celestia and Luna were both appalled at his answer along with the rest of the mane 6, the children had frowns on their faces.

“Ah... I see.” Merry spun his arms wrapping some of the chain around his forearms and swiftly yanked at them. With a loud snap the chains broke in the spots Twilight had dispelled. Diamond Claw and the griffins were horrified to see him break chains that were unbreakable. All of the ponies simply stood in awe.

“Now to just get these stupid bars out of the way...” Merry gripped two different bars and began to pull at them, a few second later they began to bend and a large gap was formed.

“RRAAAARRGH!!! The bars! They bend and twist with my berserker strength!” Merry laughed after he said that “Hoe boy, I never thought I’d actually get to say that after doing the actual deed.” Merry cleared his throat as he stepped out of the cage. “Now, if you could just hold still, Diamond Claw, while I kill you? K Thanks.” Diamond Claw looked around the room, not wanting to be captured by the monster that had just so easily broken out of the cage that contained it without a problem about a week ago.

“Kill the monster 1st! The ponies wont be able to harm you with your magic nullifying armor!” Diamond Claw lifted up into the air as he yelled. There’s still one thing the monster couldn’t do, and that was fly. He still had the upper hand as far as he was concerned.

Merry watched him fly up into the air and scowl. Diamond Claw was in the one place that made it near impossible to get to him, in the air. Merry turned to look at all of ponies that were just looking at him, unsure of what to do in this situation.

“Why don’t you all go hide inside of my cage and set up a magical barrier? I’ll be fine...” The griffins no longer surrounded the ponies and were making moves to surround Merry, but they knew he was dangerous, they had taken to the air like Diamond Claw.

“This ain’t right at all! We came to save you Merry! You can’t just up and turn it around like this!” Merry looked up at the Griffins circling around him in the air.

“Just get in the cage with everyone else Applejack, besides Twilights passed out from overexerting herself. She did enough...” Applejack stomped her hoof along with the rest of the mane 6, except Fluttershy and Twilight who was asleep.

“We won’t chicken out! We’re gonna help you fight!” Luna and Celestia had ushered all of the children inside the cage while the still conscious mane 6 argued with Merry.

“Yes Darling we may not look like much, but we can be handy in a fight I'm sure.”

“My Party cannon will get the job done in a jiffy! Then we can Party!”

Fluttershy just eeped and went into the cage with the children. Merry turned around to face them taking his eyes off the griffins encircling him from above.

“I told you girls, I’ll be just...” Merry was rudely interrupted as 10 of the griffins immediately dive-bombed him spears 1st when Merry took his eyes off them. The spears pushed though his body at downward angles impacting with the floor. “...fine.” All of the Ponies screamed in horror and Luna magicked all of the younger ponies around so they wouldn’t watch.

“Haha! So much for you monster! Taste griffin steel and die! Die die die!” Diamond Claws gloating was cut short when Merry grabbed the two lowest flying griffins that didn’t immediately retreat after running him through with the spears.

“Glork, handle the spears, I’ll handle everything else.” A mouth appeared on Merry’s right bicep.

“Already on it buddy.” Merry grinned at the 2 griffins in his hands and spit out some blood on the floor infront of him. He then looked at the ponies who were in shock at what had just happened and spoke

“What doesn’t kill you will make you a killer.” Merry closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then smiled at the griffins struggling in his grip. “I’ll be taking your wings.” The griffins opened their eyes in shock and confusion.

He wasn’t really going to rip their wings off and take them was he? The griffins suddenly felt a weak warmth along their wings and back. The heat quickly increased to a searing pain. The griffins shrieked in agony as it felt like their wings were melting away. What was this monster doing to them?

The griffins watching everything happen from above saw a bulge appear on Merry back. Their allies wings were getting smaller as the bulge on the monsters back was getting bigger. Without warning the bulge suddenly exploded causing the spears in the area to break apart and fly away. What came from under them, was a pair of bloody wings. The wings kept getting bigger until the two griffins no longer had wings and went limp in Merry’s hands.

Merry unceremoniously tossed the 2 limp griffins away and brushed the rest of the spears off as Glork had done his job. Glork had broken down the parts of the spear that were inside the body so the remains could just be brushed off if they didn’t fall off.

Griffins and Ponies alike just looked on in confusion, horror, or were just plain speechless. They had never seen something like that before.

Something clicked in Celestia’s mind, Was this what had happened to her Diamond Dog friend a few months ago? She admits Merry did resemble Iron Jaws build before the incident, But what she saw was... horrifying. The act of stealing physical features seemed to cause such extreme pain, she wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

And Merry, he was different from what the ponies remembered. They haven’t seen that face before. A look of pure joy that they had never seen before, and all of it from causing pain. Only the mane 6 noticed the strangest thing of all. Because Merry was naked they could see that he was erect from everything happening.

Merry looked behind him and looked at his new wings for a bit. After a while they began to move and make some weak flaps.

“Wings are so weird... these look a little too small. Maybe I get some magic to help me fly?” Merry began to flap the wings faster and harder. After a good 10 seconds of everyone just watching they looked around at each other. He wasn’t lifting off at all, just spreading dirt and dust around on the floor.

“Well this sucks...” Merry looked up at the griffins hovering above him. “... why don’t two more of you come down here so I can take your wings as well! Mine aren’t working very well right now...” Merry just put his hands on his hips and grinned at the griffins flying above his head. Diamond Claw found his voice finally and spoke up

“Monster! Hurry and kill it!” All of the griffins flying above Merry looked at each other and began to shake their heads in disagreement.

“You go first! I ain’t going!”

“Buck that shit! Did you see what it just did?!”

“Dragons can’t even shrug off damage like that!” After the griffins finished arguing with each other they looked down to Merry

“Hey you! Monster! If we stay outta this, will you leave us alone?” Merry put his hand to his chin in thought and began to laugh.

“Yeah sure, why not. I only wanna kill that Skag Lick of a king anyway.” All of the griffins looked at each other then over to Diamond Claw and shrugged dropping their spears.

“I always liked the ponies anyway.” one nameless griffin commented. The griffins that Diamond Claw himself had assembled from veteran fighters flew away toward the ponies inside the cage and landed in front of it.

“Duel it out, we’ll just watch. We don’t wish to lose our lives for something none of us really wanted anyway.” Celestia and Luna looked at the griffins that started standing outside of the cage that they were now all hiding inside with a barrier Luna was keeping up.

“What do you mean? Not all of you wanted to take over Equestria?” Celestia spoke with a weary voice. One of the griffins spun around to look at her.

“Yeah, the thought of taking over Equestria so we could eat ponies and live mostly dragon free lives was our mad kings idea. Well the dragon free part would be nice. Anyway, he got a taste for pony flesh and changed. He used to be the advisor until he talked the last king into letting our king be decided by the strongest fighters...”

“Strongest fighters?”

“Yeah something like that. Its set up so that anyone can challenge the current king for his throne through the way of a duel. I don’t know all the details because I wasn’t into that stuff, but apparently Diamond Claw is a top notch fighter, and with noble blood in his veins, it made him the ideal king... at the time anyway.”

“So if Merry wins the supposed duel you have set up with them, will he be the new king?” The griffin put on his thinking face along with the other griffins that overheard their conversation. Several of the griffins turned around to look at each other and then shrugged at each other.

“I guess he would yeah, the rules never stated the challenger had to be another griffin of royal blood...” Celestia and Luna got a glint in their eyes as the other ponies were just mulling that fact over.

Diamond Claw just watched as his Elite soldiers abandoned him to go sit with the ponies. Leaving him to fight this body part stealing abomination alone. Diamond claw became scared he would have to fight this thing all alone. He was a capable fighter, but what he had seen so far made it seem like winning wasn’t going to be possible. He decided to hide his fear with anger.

“Cowards! All of you! Where’s your warrior spirit?! Your Griffin Pride!? Your...” Diamond Claw was interrupted by Merry

“Shut your beak you whining bitch of a bird. Are you afraid to fight your own battles? Have you no backbone? Have you no spine? It should be you on the front lines! Show me your griffin pride, your warrior spirit! Or are you just a giant chicken in a griffin body?” Diamond Claw was enraged. A monster of commoners blood was insulting him. And not just his personal self, but his griffins pride and warrior background. His blood line! Insulting a griffins credibility as a fierce warrior was like telling them they were worthless as a griffin. Diamond Claw growled as Merry merely grinned at him.

“I’ll kill you myself you bucking monster! You may have wings, but you’ve already proved them useless! I still have the advantage of flight and speed! Once I’ll kill you, I’ll kill those traitors and the feeble princesses!”

“Cool story bro, but you gotta get through me first you fucking bitch!” While Merry just stood there with a crooked smile on his face, Diamond Claw used his powerful wings to give him an extreme burst of speed to enter a dive bomb at Merry.

Glork may have increased Merry speed, but he didn’t improve his eyes or Merry’s ability to cope with the new speed. Merry just stood there dumbfounded as Diamond Claw embedded his claws into his chest. Diamond claw quickly used his back legs to kick off, pushing Merry to the ground as he backed away to a safe distance. Merry just laid on his back as he grasped at the two new holes in his chest.

“Well, that’s an eye opener... Let’s get it on!”

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Merry jumped up and ran in Diamond Claw’s direction. Only to see him take off back into the air. Not wanting him to get out of reach again, Merry squatted down and leaped up into the air after him.

Diamond saw Merry jump, so he stopped going up and quickly changed his direction so he was to the right side of Merry as he was ascending into the air. Diamond Claw proceeded to swipe his claws into Merry’s right side abdomen. Merry however, didn’t even flitch at the attack and lashed his fist out hitting him in the side. To no effect however, Diamond Claw was still wearing that adamantine breast plate, all Merry’s fist did was push him back a few feet in the air.

Merry on the other hand began to descend. In an effort to see if his wings were truly useless he flared them out in an attempt to glide back to the ground. He didn’t glide, at all.

“The wings! They do nothing!” Merry yelled, yes yelled. Not screamed like many of the griffins and ponies thought as they witnessed him crash land into the throne turning it into a pile of scrap wood and metal.

Merry rose from the dust cloud that erupted and walked out brushing the dust, wood chips and metal bits off his body. He actually pulled a wood chunk out of the gash on his side that Diamond claw gave him. Diamond Claw laughed as Merry was pulling himself out of the debris.

“Stop flying around you stupid faggot and fight me griffin to monster!”

“Ha! I am fighting like a Griffin! Now just hurry up and die you stupid monster!” Merry was getting frustrated at the fact the wings he had stolen were completely useless, and the Skag lick of a griffin king kept flying away staying out of his reach. So Merry opted to throw things at him while he was flying around in the air.

“What are you...” Diamond Claw opened his eyes wide as pieces of his throne were now being flung at him. For some reason the monster was able to throw them nonstop is great succession, but with terrible aim. Half of them he didn’t have to dodge. Diamond Claw just flew around as the awkward pieces of broken metal and wood flew by him or made him float over to the left or right to avoid impact. “You can’t hit me! Its pointless!”

Merry reached for another piece of debris only to grab an actual spear that had gotten mixed up in the pile. He griped it and threw it the way he had learned from watching and playing video games all those years. The arch back, lifting of the foot, and the full body movement involved with a power throw.

The spear flew with such speed and power it embedded itself in the ceiling above Diamond Claw without him even noticing it go past him. If only Merry had better aim...

“Fuck! I missed again!” Diamond Claw looked above him at the spear that was halfway embedded into solid rock. He had to admire the craftsmanship of those griffin smiths. The damn spears were able to penetrate solid rock and not break upon impact. Then he gulped and was glad the monsters aim was so bad.

“I told you it was pointless monster!” Merry was getting tired of being called monster, he was one after all, but he didn’t need to be reminded every 12 seconds by a skag licker.

“My name is...” Merry crouched down

“Merry Sue!” He then leapt into the air directly at Diamond claw again.

“How do you do?!” He quickly ascended, closing the gap with an arm outstretched reaching for Diamond Claw who quickly flew to the left side this time.

Diamond Claw prepped for another claw strike when Merry suddenly spun around mid air turning his body and brought his right leg down to impact with Diamond Claws skull causing him to plummet to the ground and land on top of a box that was for some reason placed in the middle of the throne room.

All of the griffins in front of the ponies suddenly cringed and gasped. The griffins because they knew what was under that box, the ponies because it looked like it hurt a lot.

Merry attempted to glide back down toward the ground again using his wings, only to plummet straight down to the ground like meteor. Merry quickly got up and brushed himself off again as he walked over to Diamond Claw who was groaning on the ground where he landed.

As Merry got closer he noticed Diamond was now covered in some green and red slime. Merry had never seen it before as when Soul Eater had used the contagion spell he was asleep. Merry walked up to him only to have his body no longer listen to him. He stood frozen while taking a half step.

“No way buddy, he’s as good as dead now. He’s been infected with Slimly Doom now. Its best if we avoid him until he dies. We don’t want to risk catching it as well.” One of the smaller ponies pointed a hoof out at the mouth that appeared on Merry’s shoulder. Glork for some reason decided to make himself visible this time around.

“Mom look! Merry has another mouth on his shoulder, and it was talking!” All of the ponies and griffins looked to his shoulder to see the mouth move to his upper back on the right side and have an eye grow as well.

“Yeah! I’m tired of hiding my self! Now that you’ve seen my buddies power, you should fear him and be amazed!” Merry grunted and snapped back

“Glork! Shut-up and give me control back!”

“Sorry buddy, I was just trying to keep you from doing something stupid is all...”

‘’yeah faggot don’t be doing stupid stuff now’‘ Merry growled at the voice in his head

“What ever! This feels weird. I can feel my muscles move, but not move. I can’t explain it."

“Well that’s cause I’m overriding your muscle movement signals, I did a lot while you were asleep buddy. But don’t worry its just preparations for when I get your body anyway.” Merry just sighed, he would rather die then let some demon control his body and do as it pleased.

‘’‘you never know, he might do good.’‘’ Diamond Claw was beginning to stir

‘Shut the fuck up, I don’t wanna hear from you two.’ Diamond opened his eyes to see himself covered in that horrible slime

‘’You can’t be rid of us forever!’‘ He then looked over to Merry, who for some reason was standing frozen in front of him with his eyes closed

‘’‘We are here to stay love’‘’ Diamond Claw grinned. He wasn’t going to die like this alone.

‘Shut-up shut-up shut-up!’ Merry was suddenly impacted with what felt like a wet feathery embrace. He opened his eyes to see Diamond Claw had wrapped his arms around him covering him in the red green slime as well.

“I won’t die in agony alone you monster!” Merry just smiled as Glork released his hold on Merry’s muscles in shock and despair. Merry returned the embrace of death brought by the griffin.

“Then us go together in a glorious revolution of death!” Merry gave him a powerful bear hug until a loud crackling snap was heard. Diamond Claw went limp in his arms. Merry then placed him under his arm like he was some kind of package. He then turned around to face the ponies and bowed.

“Thanks for coming to get me guys but... it seems like I can’t go back with you.” Twilight woke up a few minutes before to witness the end of the battle, to see Merry knock Diamond Claw down into the slime stuff then to stand victorious over his body. Then to see the cowardly Diamond Claw latch onto Merry because he didn’t want to lose alone.

Twilight witnessed his glorious victory over the bad guy. To witness his heroic hair flow in the wind. (He had yet to get a hair cut during everything he’s done.) Only to have her hopes of him coming back with her crushed when the bad guy jumped on him with that wicked slime. She spoke out to Princess Celestia and Luna in a plea.

“Princesses! Their must be something we can do! Don’t you know of any cures for diseases?” Celestia shook her head with Luna.

“If that is indeed the dreaded Slimy Doom, then there is nothing we can do. It is a demonic sickness that we thought was contained within Tartarus. If it is indeed the real thing, then there is nothing we can do but burn the slime pile once they die...” spoke Luna. Celestia looked just as sad as Luna and the rest of the ponies.

“I’m sorry my faithful student, is it as my sister says. The disease acts so fast we were never able to develop a cure for it. Only contain and prevent its spread until it was gone...” Merry whistled when he looked at all of the ponies look so sad in front of him.

“You guys shouldn’t weep for me! Don’t be sad that I’m leaving! Be happy!”

“Why should we be happy to lose a friend?!” Merry felt a pang in his heart, he forgot they considered him a friend, even though he merely thought of them as mostly annoying.

“Well, I admit losing a friend...” Diamond claw began to vomit out slime. “... that’s nasty. Anyway, losing a friend is always a sad thing, but think of it this way. I’ll be able to see my little Scoots again...” Merry looked down to the ground with his eyes glazed over “.. Besides I’m tired and I wanna see her again...” Merry’s eyes began to water “... I miss her.”

Diamond Claw vomited out some more slime. As a response Merry just began to crush Diamond Claw who was under his arm and he squawked in response to the crushing strength.

“You’re ruining my sad moment you stupid fuck.” Merry hit Diamond Claw in the face when he began to make more gagging sounds. One of the griffin guards spoke up.

“If you both die, who’s going to rule over the griffin kingdom?!” Merry just raised an eyebrow at the question. He could feel his insides beginning to churn.

“Why are you so stupid? Let Celestia and Luna take command. Unite the griffin and pony lands, isn’t that what Diamond Claw was trying to do in the 1st place before he...” Merry closed an eye and vomited a small pile of slime. “... fuck this shit acts fast. Anyway, wasn’t he planning to do that before he went bat shit crazy and wanted to take over the world or some shit?” Celestia and Luna looked to each other and shrugged

“I suppose we could but...” Merry interrupted them before they could give a reason not to take control.

“Then its settled! Princess Sun Butt and Princess Moon Butt...” all of the children giggled at the names Merry had given the princesses ”...will take over command of the Griffin Kingdoms and help the Griffins prosper along side ponies! Now...” Merry vomited up some more slime. “... Now I’m gonna go find a place to die.” As Merry turned around to walk away a mouth formed on his right arm along with an eye.

“Buddy! I don’t wanna die! We can beat this stupid fiend disease! All we gotta do is keep eating bio mass until the disease runs its course!” Merry just shook his head in disagreement

“I disagree buddy. I’m tired, I’d rather just hit my own reset button on life itself right now.” As Merry was walking to the back of the throne room Glork began to scream.

“I don’t wanna die! I don’t wanna die! I! Don’t! Wanna! Die!” Merry suddenly stopped walking as he lost control of his muscles.

“Glork! Stop right now!”

“No! I don’t wanna die! What kind of living being are you?! Have you no survival instinct?!” The ponies watched as Merry dropped the limp Diamond Claw to the ground as his hands moved up to his head.

“Stop it you stupid parasitic demon thing!”

“No! I refuse to die when I have such a perfect body at my disposal! I’m taking control now!” Merry could feel the bubbling in his chest build up and push itself up to his neck. Merry had no control over his right hand as it went up and gripped his hair and began to pull upward

“What the fuck are you doing?!”

“Removing you!” Merry felt control return back into his legs, so he ran toward one of the throne rooms large glass windows and threw himself outside through the glass, Not wanting to fight himself in front of the ponies. He never understood why royalty in this world liked building their castles up on the cliff sides of mountains.

As Merry and Glork fell down the side of the mountain, they impacted upon several cliffs that jutted out the side of the mountain. The small cliffs crumbled under the sheer massive weight Merry’s body had become. They continued to fall as Glork continued to fight for control of Merry’s magnificent abomination of a body.

At some point Glork was able to assert himself enough to where he tore Merry’s head off with his own right arm. Instead of blood gushing out it was simply a bubbling mass on his neck stump. Glork tossed Merry the Head away as he continued to fall.

As Merry the Head slowly stopped spinning from the throw, he looked out to the horizon.

‘I wonder how long I can live as just a head... probably until I hit the ground. Hehe’ Time seemed to slow as he looked at the night sky toward the moon. He simply closed his eyes and let gravity take him.

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The ponies and griffins just looked at each other dumb founded at what just happened before their eyes. It looked like Merry and the strange mouth on his arm had an argument about control or something. Then Merry dropped Diamond Claw and threw himself out the window. It really didn’t make any sense to them. Celestia being the 1st to find words spoke up

“I know losing a friend is a sad thing, but his body must be found and burned when it degenerates into a goo pile, it’s the only way to prevent the spread of that terrible disease...”

“He’s gone just like that?! We didn’t even get to say goodbye or anything!” Yelled Rainbow Dash.

“But didn’t Merry’s talkin arm say they could beat it? What’s a biomass anywho?” Questioned Applejack as she slowly walked out of the cage with the others.

“Biomass is the total mass of a living organism, essentially Merry’s arm said all he would have to do is eat...” Twilight gulped as she explained “... animals, ponies, griffins, etc.” the rest of the mane six shuttered at the thought of Merry having to eat large amounts of other living creatures just to beat the sickness.

“We must take hold of the current situation, we can grieve this loss at a later time, for now we must prevent the spread of that terrible demonic sickness.” Spoke Celestia to the griffins and the mane 6. She knew now was not a time for mourning, if that sickness were to spread it would be disastrous.

The griffins followed her orders without question and began to block off the areas where the green red slime was while others left to get torches. The ponies on the other hand were less enthusiastic about the whole ordeal.

Rainbow Dash seemed the most troubled by it, What kind of friend was she, when she didn’t even help Merry? Even though he didn’t ask for help, and told her to stay out of it, she still felt like she should of done something.

“I’m going out to find out where he landed. Don’t try to stop me.” Without waiting for anyone else’s response. Rainbow Dash zoomed out the window going straight down with a rainbow trail following behind her. The other ponies just watched her leave in a flash.

Rainbow Dash Flew down the mountain side, the bright moon was provideing ample light to see everything. She could see the damage he had caused while falling. Evidence of rock slides were all over the mountain side. At the bottom was a mass of rocks and dirt. She landed just outside of the rock mess and began to search around, Many of the rocks were far too big to move. She would have to wait for Twilight so they could dig him out. While she hovered over the rock pile she saw what looked like a mass of hair to the left of the pile. She slowly flew over to it until she heard Merry’s voice.

“That fucking doctor was right, I can live as just a head...”

“Merry! You’re Alive!” She quickly flew over until she was floating above his head looking down at him. “At least, I think you’re alive? How can you talk?”

“Hell if I know Niji... Find a stick or something so I’m not face down anymore yeah? Wouldn’t want you getting sick.” Rainbow Dash looked around and found a small tree and broke a branch off. She then pushed Merry’s head so that he was looking up at the sky.

“Ahh, that’s better, thanks Niji... Tell me, how bad does it look? You think I’ll make it?” Rainbow looked around nervously, she wasn’t the element of honesty, but she still didn’t like to lie to friends.

“You’re gonna be just fine, so uh, relax...” Rainbow Dash smiled sheepishly. Merry smiled and gave a soft laugh

“You’re as bad at lying as Applejack is...” Merry blinked a few times. “... I’m not gonna lie Niji, I don’t know where my body wandered off to. I saw it stumble away after I landed. And honestly I’m surprised my skull is still intact, I guess all my hair braced my fall or something.”

“What do you mean your body walked away?”

“Yeah you know my arm? It was a parasitic demon I picked up like... a month ago? I have no idea. I lost track of time while I was passed out inside that cage.”

“Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh, this is bad, very bad! You think he went off to get that biomass he yelled about?”

“Probably... hey, You ever plan on having kids Niji?” Rainbow Dash became flustered and confused at the question and odd subject change.

“I, well. Uhh. Someday, but after I become a Wonderbolt. I don’t want a kid slowing me down until then.” Merry would nod his head if he could. He wasn’t sure, but it felt like he was getting lower to the ground.

“Welf thash goof.” Merry realized his face seemed to be destabilizing. He no longer had total mouth control. Rainbow Dash looked to Merry the Head and saw that he was starting to look green. The slime was taking over.

“Goofbye, Nifi, Telf ofers I say bye too...” Rainbow just watched with tears filling up her eyes as Merry closed his eyes with a content smile on his face.

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Merry opened his eyes shortly after and was in a waiting room, it looked familiar. The terrible decor and dirty walls. The only difference was that everything seemed taller. It wasn’t until he tried to move he realized something. He was still just a fucking head. He was back in the damn waiting room where everything started, but he was just a head now.

“Well this flipping sucks...” Merry did his best to look around the room and realized that people weren’t inside this waiting room. At least, not humans. Ponies, griffins, minotaurs, and other strange exotics were in the room with him. He was in Equestria’s netherworld waiting room.

‘Might as well get comfy I suppose...’ Merry moved his lips and chin around on the seats cushion and then closed his eyes.

About 40 seconds passed and he opened them again looking around the room. ‘Not having a body fucking sucks so bad right now.’

‘’Tell me about it...’‘

“What the fuck?! Why are you still here?!”

‘’you can’t get rid of us, just because you die doesn’t mean we are gone.’‘

‘’‘Yes, we are here to stay love. Don’t forget it.’‘’ Merry began to pout as everyone in the waiting room looked over to him to figure out why he would yell like that.

“The voices! They won’t leave me alone, even in death! Woe is me.” The others in the room turned away not wanting anything to do with an insane spirit that was just a head.

Noticing everyone in the room suddenly turn around to ignore him, Merry became upset. Upset to the point he would annoy them until someone talked to him to end the boredom. Being just a head, the only thing he could do was sing. Sing as best a bodyless head could.

Hollywood Undead- Another way out.

“Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh” some of the ponies turned to look

“Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh” more of the ponies looked at Merry

“Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh” some griffin heads began to turn

“Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh, I wish there was another way out” a single minotaur looked over to see what was going on.

“Voices won’t go away. They stay for days and days.” The ponies exchanged glances with each other as they listened to him sing.

“They say some awful things, ways to make you fade away” Merry’s voice was cracking here and there, but he wasn’t doing a that bad of a job. The griffins thought differently having sensative ears.

“I don’t think no one’s home. And we’re just here alone” Some of the ponies began to move their heads to the tone of Merry’s voice. Deep as it was he had a decent going rhythm.

“I better find you first, before you find the phone” Everyone raised an eyebrow at the word phone. Because apparently Magic negates the use of things like telephones.

“You better run, better run, better run, yeah I’m coming after you. When you’re sleeping at night, yeah there’s nothing you can do” Some of the ponies stood up and trotted over to better hear his singing. The griffins had just about enough of it while the minotaurs could less if he continued or not.

“There’s no place you can hide cause I’m coming after yo-yo-you. I wish there was another way ou-ou-ou-ou-oooouuuut for you” The griffins had finally had enough of his terrible singing.

“Shut up you insane head!” The ponies backed away, but some stood their ground.

“Hey, we liked his song. What was wrong with it?”

“His terrible singing voice was piercing my ears to the point I wanted to claw them off!” the other griffins nodded in agreement

“Well, he is just a head... How are you singing as just a head anyway?” Merry looked up and would of shrugged if he could.

“Magic I would guess.”

Suddenly the door burst open and a short fat man in a suit came running inside.

“Merry! You son of a bitch! What did I tell you about going and dying on me!?” a green pony in a nurse outfit walked out behind him.

“Sir, would you kindly stop yelling. This is the equestrian netherworld, what are you doing here?” the short fat partly bald man ran a hand, with only 3 fingers on it, through his hair as he pointed to the head on a chair surrounded by some of the ponies.

“I’m here for the son of bitch that just gave me a shit ton of paper work... What the fuck happened to your body?” Merry just looked at him with a smile as the ponies shuffled out of the way.

“Oh you know. Glork kinda stole it from me... that's not gonna be a problem is it?” the suited man face palmed and grumbled.

“Shit, now there's gonna be even more paper work...” he looked at Merry then at the pony nurse, then back to Merry. “I’m gonna have to carry you aren’t I?” Merry just looked around and puckered his lips out

“Maybe...” The fat bald man in the suit walked over and picked up Merry’s head, sticking it under his armpit before walking back out the room grumbling the whole way.

“Oh God! It Smells! Aaarrggg!”

“Shut yer yap, besides, not like the dead can do anything about smells anyway... Call me Marcus. We're gonna end up working together for awhile now...”

Merry gave back a muffled response as they left.

Author's Notes:

Next chapter will be epilogue.