The Storm King Wants to Join Grogar's Ranks

by twilightsparkle3562

The Storm King Wants to Join Grogar's Ranks

The demonic blue ram known as Grogar arrived in the depths of hell amongst the legions of caged and deadly monsters serving an eternity of imprisonment. As he walked down the line of cells, he made his way towards a cell at the far left end of the hallway. Looking into the cell, he looked at the creature inside it, a white monkey like creature in armor.

"You have reached out and requested to have an audience with me, Storm King," remarked Grogar, sitting down in a chair that had been provided for him. "So go on, I'm listening. What is it that you wish to say to me?"

"Um, let me put it this way, Grovar or whatever your name is," explained the Storm King, only to be interrupted by Grogar, who sharply rose out of his seat.

"IT'S GROGAR, YOU HEAR ME?!" the demonic ram shouted, glaring at the Storm King right in the eyes. "GROGAR!"

"Yeah, yeah, whatever," the Storm King remarked, seemingly unfazed by the ram's rage. "Anyways, I hear you had a little…snafu…trying to get someone to play by your rules and he ended up paying the bill."

Sighing heavily, Grogar continued to listen to what the Storm King had to say.

"You must mean King Sombra, I suppose?"

"Yeah him, the gray dude with the red horn or something like that," continued the Storm King. "Word of mouth is that you are supposedly hiring a replacement. I'll have you know that I can join your ranks."

Remembering all too well of how King Sombra went against him, Grogar was determined to not let the Storm King play him for a fool.

"It's not that simple, Storm King," Grogar answered, tapping his necklace and sending a gold orb in front of the Storm King. "Like all my other minions, I have studied each and every defeat you had obtained against six puny ponies."

The orb produced the moment of the Storm King's defeat, at the hooves of his second-in-command, Tempest Shadow. The satyr recoiled at the sight of his defeat.

"Well, let me say that you can blame Tempest for the situation I find myself in," he remarked, trying to shift blame off of himself. "She was the one who put me in this mess."

"Apparently, you have forgotten that your impatience to get the magic of the four alicorn princesses was your own undoing," Grogar remarked back, tapping his necklace again to show the Storm King another living picture, this time of him after he had obtained the powers of the four alicorns, playing around with the sun and moon. "And would you care to tell me what this action of yours is?"

The Storm King watched himself playing with the sun and moon using his staff as a control stick.

"Well, I mean, I was very excited to get control of the sun and the moon," protested the Storm King. "I mean, how else do you act when you get something that you want?"

"You obtained the magic of the princesses and you played around with them like a pair of toys," answered Grogar. "That alone tells me that you are clearly unfit to be in my ranks."

This didn't bode well with the Storm King, who began hopping up and down like an angry primate.

"What?! Are you kidding me?!" groaned the Storm King. "You're just going to deny me the right to join your ranks because of that?!"

"It's much more than that, Storm King," replied Grogar, tapping his necklace to pull the orb away from the Storm King. "On the outside, you may seem like the type of creature to join my ranks. You have a powerful army, a determination to set a goal for yourself. But, on the inside, you are nothing more than a creature who wants to play by his own rules instead of mine."

"Are you trying to compare me to King Sombra?!" cried the Storm King, his voice filled with anger. "Is it just because I am a king that you are denying me the chance to get out of here and be on your team?"

"Of course not," said Grogar, calmly. "I'm denying you because you are a liability and if I release you, you'll just go your own way."

"Come on, Grofar!"

"GROGAR!"

"Whatever, the fact is that I can be a valued asset to your legion. Besides, I need a chance to take revenge on Twilight Sparkle too! Come on, give me that chance!"

The desperate pleas of the satyr seemed to bounce off of Grogar as he rose to his feet and turned to leave the prison.

"Hey, hey, come on!" pleaded the Storm King. "Let me prove to you that I can be a team player! Come back, Grodar!"

Grogar sighed in disgust at his name being incorrectly pronounced again.

…

From inside his lair, his three villains were watching everything that was going on.

"I told you he was just going to be another liability," remarked Chrysalis to her fellow minions, Tirek and Cozy Glow. "

"Well, he really didn't take his victories all that seriously," added Tirek. "I mean, I heard about him conquering the Equestrian capitol, so he should have considered him then."

"Perhaps you both forget that the Storm King really didn't also take part in the initial invasion," Cozy Glow added. "It was Tempest Shadow who did all of the work and she was reformed by Twilight Sparkle. Maybe that is part of the reason why the Storm King won't be joining us."

Both Tirek and Chrysalis nodded in reply to the young Pegasus filly. At that moment, Grogar appeared before them, towering over his crystal ball.

"And you are absolutely correct, young filly," he said. "The Storm King is just like King Sombra, another creature that I could use as a warning to you should you chose to cross me."

"So what happens now?" asked Tirek.

"We continue to prepare ourselves for the conquest of Equestria," answered Grogar. "And I will not tolerate any errors from the three of you. Do I make myself perfectly clear?"

Nodding nervously, Tirek, Chrysalis and Cozy Glow took in what their superior had to say.

"Good."

…

THE END

Comments

[Tailbiter231]

That also crossed my mind as to why Grogar didn't revive the Storm King.

[DrawLight]

Well, this is certainly random. Quite a nice story.

9556244
Same thing over here.

[Xanderfox]

The best point was that yes the Storm King basically took credit for Tempest's work. Who took over all those kingdoms? The Storm Army, under command of Tempest. Who beat the princesses? Tempest. Who found and empowered the magic staff? Yea tempest, he didn't even known what it was called. The Storm King's only real accomplishment was convincing Tempest he had any powers, she did all the planning AND all the leg work.

[Aurora Dimmet]

Storm King's only real power is his charisma. Which, don't get me wrong, is the power that moves and shapes the land, raises and breaks kingdoms and empires, and ultimately leads to life and death.

But he's also dull as a fucking brick.

[twilightsparkle3562]

9558575 Remember also that he is a loose cannon, something that Grogar would not tolerate.

[Even Evil Has Standards]

Shouldn't there be a Grogar tag?

[Flufux]

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This all happened before he recruited Tempest...derpicdn.net/img/2017/6/28/1473263/large.png derpicdn.net/img/view/2019/1/1/1924189.png derpicdn.net/img/2017/10/30/1573622/large.jpeg derpicdn.net/img/2018/8/7/1800629/large.png

The last one didn't exactly happen that way, but it just represents him attacking the Hippogriffs and making them go into hiding.

The only thing Tempest was a part was the invasion of Equestria, and that was only because of the amount of inside knowledge she had on the place. He was a great threat to the world at large who has been stated to have conquered and destroyed dozens of lands long before ever meeting that edgy unicorn. Also, as seen in this image...
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...Tempest is clearly afraid of him, and she wouldn't be that if he was just some goofy charlatan.

As for Tempest, every single thing that made her a threat was his doing. The airships, minions, overpowered crystal orbs were all things he gave her. She was little more than a puppet in the great scope of things.

[Flufux]

9556244
Mostly because his voice actor is too expensive really.

[Xanderfox]

9756264
Same reason Tempest, Skystar, Novo and Capper all didn't return. Doing a Animated movie is one thing but lots of stars won't "lower" them selves to an animated TV series because it doesn't pay enough.

[Tailbiter231]

9756264
That's what I thought at first, except that they recast the king that DID get revived.

[Flufux]

9756749
That's because King Sombra only had about five lines of dialogue in season 3, and those were even done by Big Jim (MLP: FIM's show-runner) rather than a professional actor. In the movie, Liev Schreiber did such a great job voicing the Storm King that they didn't want to recast him...or any of the other movie characters for that matter.

[Emperor Grogar]

Pffft As if i would EVER have that mindless fool join me.

[StormLuna]

I personally think the Storm King would be an even bigger liability than Sombra. He acts like a child most of the time in my opinion anyway....something Grogar would never tolerate.

[Switch Swap]

I just thought about if Tirek, Cozy, and Chrysalis enlisted the storm king when they betrayed Grogar, what would be different from the events of ending of the end.

[Mlpfan1993]

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9558234
In the chapter book a stormy road to Canterlot the Storm King already had his staff before he and Tempest had even met eachother, he also seemed to know about the way the staff worked as he wanted to steal Queen Novo's magic pearl so he could put its awesome transformational powers into the staff to use to make him stronger than before. So, yeah I thought it was weird that he acted like he had no clue what the staff was even for in the movie

[Xanderfox]

10863303
Got a feeling Tempest told him how the staff worked.