"Weird, usually Rarity has something for me to do..."
Spike was just leaving the Carousel Boutique, confused about why Rarity didn't need his help. Usually, she let him help in some way, even if it's only to act as a pincushion. This time, however, she was busy working on some kind of outfit. When he asked her about it, all she said was that she was "correcting a horrible mistake in fashion!"
Walking through the streets of Ponyville, he was getting closer to his tree home. Twilight should've been back from that errand she said she had to run by now. The three fillies comprising the Cutie Mark Crusaders ran by, none of them paying the dragon any mind.
Going up to the door of the library, he opened it before entering and calling out.
"Hey, Twilight, I'm back. How did that-" When he saw a strange creature sitting in a chair, he stopped in his tracks. "You're not Twilight."
Grimm looked up from the book he was reading. "And you're a dragon."
Spike just silently shut the door. "And what are you, and why are you here?"
"Long story, I'm basically a guest here until further notice."
The dragon just shrugged; this wasn't the weirdest thing to happen to him. His eyes fell on the pile of keys on the ground. "Those yours?"
"Yeah, I guess. Why?"
Spike picked a skull-shaped one up, finding it to be a gem of some kind. "Mind if I have 'em?"
"Knock yourself out, I have no need for them."
Picking up more of the keys, he began popping a few into his mouth. They tasted like normal gems, but these were a bit different. "Say, where did you get these, anyway?"
"Picked them up while I was in Hell." Grimm just went back to his book.
Spike stopped chewing the gems and put them back in the pile slowly. "So, mind telling me the full story behind you?"
The marine let out an annoyed sigh. "I would just show you the same thing I showed Twilight, but she didn't take it too well, so I figure that we just leave it at 'I saved the world' and call it a day."
"Speaking of which, where is Twilight?"
"She's upstairs, said she was gonna sleep for a bit."
Spike just shrugged again and went off to kill some time before Twilight woke up, and Grimm continued reading.
Rainbow Dash was curled up into a ball on the floor of her cloud home. Dried blood from that incident still covered her here and there. She was shivering uncontrollably, not able to cope with what she had been through just yet. The events kept replaying themselves in her head:
The first sighting of the creature.
That creature killing everything in Tartarus.
Her drifting too far forwards and being attacked.
The creature from earlier tearing the demon apart right in front of her.
That creature just standing there, looking at her, before falling over.
Ever since she had flew home after that, she hadn't left. Her mind was filled with questions, none of them being answered. Finally, she managed to push herself on her hooves, standing shakily. She was still horribly confused, but she remembered that Twilight and Fluttershy were with her when that happened, and she saw them on her way out. She had to make sure they were safe, and if they weren't...
She knew what to kill.
Yes, it's a shorter chapter this time, but I'm in a bit of a writer's block, and this isn't quite the point where I can just play some Doom for ideas. Better a short chapter than no chapter.
Who is rainbow gonna kill? Is it doomguy? Plot twist!
Dun dun dun, shit can't get anymore real!
Writer's block? But this chapter just set up a whole bunch of interactions between Dash and Grimm! Now get back to work!
*cracks whip*
690898 then swat team kicks in your door and lets him go
I hope rainbow doesn't do something stuiped like she does in every other story I read (does leeroy Jenkins style rush at human only to get owned / owns human) and messes up relations between the ponies and humans ... But thinking about the would be kinda funny to read
Rainbow Dash covered in blood slowly turning into an insane killing machine?
How can you have writers block, Just go and write that chapter where Dash and Doomguy go back to freaking hell and where they let the blood and organs FLOW.
Or hell spews his creatures into Equestria ,because the portal is unguarded cuz the ceberus died from a stroke or something, and Dash and Doomguy are the only ones badassed enough to make a diffrence so they LET THE FREAKING BLOOD AND ORGANS FLOW.
RD+shotgun to mane = SPLAT!
NOT GOOD!
690748 We need Postal Dude to join Doomguy to make this the best crossover ever.
Just a little error that caught my attention.
"Finally, she manages to push herself on her feet, standing shakily."
Rainbow Dash does not have feet, unless she spontaneously mutated into some quadrupedal and simultaneously footed being that would look Edgar Allen Poe-ian (not quite Lovecraftian, however). Actually, that would be interesting to see. In any event, good story, good author too.
it would have been cool that instead of naming doomguy john grimm, you named him:"stan blazcowicz" (descendent of b.j from doom rpg and wolfenstein rpg)
"she knew what to kill"
rd IT WHOULD TEAR YOU APART!
forgot to write this in last chapter, if i was twilight id be like, CAN I DO DIS TOO
nice music references, you know your shyte
2889956 you Are TEARING ME aPArt lisa!
Every poorly treated employee's dream
2889956 Man and Demon.
I hope Rainbow Dash will be able to shake off the trauma and join Grimm in the wonders of exterminating the legions of hell. Plwas let that be the case.
Spike meet some random creature yet still is the most nonchalant person i have met