Grimmy Liz always caused a lot of problems. She is very curious and brave mare but sometimes very silly. Once accidentally set fire to the house. Another time endangered the life of her only friend. When she went to school, her friends teased her very much and once even beat her. She was living alone in Ponyville since she was just a child. Even her parents left her. She was a laughingstock because of that. She hated everyone in the world and wanted to punish them all.
As she often likes to say : "One day, they will regret!"
It was a cold, rainy and dreary day. Liz as always decided to go on a walk. She can't go for a walk when the weather is nice, because everypony looks at her like she was a monster. Every time she passed next to someone, she heard unkind words spoken about her like "Oh, it's this troublemaker." or "Hey, it's this villain again, why she came here?" or "Be aware of her, she is crazy". And that was every single time when anyone saw her. She was thinking about it and didn't notice that someone is coming from the opposite direction. It was a black stallion, he was wearing a long black robe and hood. After a moment, they collided with each other and fell to the ground.
"Hey! What are you doing!? " She yelled and covered her head with her hooves.
"I'm so sorry Ma'am." He walked over to her and gave her his hoof.
She stood up and she shook off the dust.
"Excuse me? What did you just say? How did you called me?" Mare was looking at him suprised.
"I called you Ma'am. Why are you asking?"
"Nopony is calling me like that, I'm Grimmy Liz. Who are you?"
"My name isn't important. I know you pretty well and i also know that everyone in this town doesn't like you. I don't really understand why. Even if you are in trouble sometimes they shouldn't say such a words about you. It's not fair!" He looked around and angrily hit the ground with his hooves. "Why don't you show them who is boss in this town? You are pegasus. They should treat you like a normal pony!". Stallion stared deep into her eyes, she was defensless and couldn't help but feel that his gaze penetrated her soul.
Liz was shocked. She didn't know that stallion and she didn't know why he is so kind to her. She also started to feel dizzy.
"Liz, my dear. You can't let them do this anymore. You have to be strong, you have to show them your strenght. You have to prove that you are one of the best ponies in this world. That you are the best pony in this world."
She was very sleepy, she couldn't stand on her feet on her own. She knelt before him overhelmed by the force of his words. Her head began to ache.
"My Sweetheart, take your revenge. Do it for your master. Do it for yourself. You want to punish them." His voice was louder and louder but it was happening only in her head.
She looked at him hipnotized.
"I-i can't believe that somepony is so kind to me. I didn't even saw you once and you're helping me and talking about me in such a way" She was smiling and wanted to pounce on him and gave him a hug but suddenly in her head appeard another thought. "Yes... He's right...They all hate me. They don't want me here. They want me to disappear... But I won't! They will regret! They must regret! I have to follow my master's orders!"
Stallion smiled suspiciously and just disappeard. Liz stood for the moment in one place thinking about revenge on everypony in this town and then she noticed that stallion is gone. "Sheesh... I don't even know name of that guy. I should go home. It had stopped raining. Soon my dear neightbors will come out from their houses." She spat on the ground.
For the next 5 minutes she was walking silently, until she reached her destination. She opened the door and couldn't believe her own eyes. On the table in front of the doors lay big, shining knife. She walked over to it and grabbed it with the hoove. Knife was heavy and solid. She was excited and the blood rushed to her head. . She felt strange, adrenaline increased dramatically. She hid the knife in a drawer and went to the shop for coat.
As always ponies were looking at her but she didn't care about it anymore. She knew that soon they will feel worse pain than she felt for whole life. She accelerated and ran into a clothing store.
"HelloRarityiwouldliketobuycoat" She said quickly and sent a smile to her.
"Excuse me Grimmy, can you repeat please?" Rarity asked her and also smiled.
"I want to buy a coat with hood" replied rudely.
"You could be more polite Liz. What colour do you need?" Rarity started to take off materials from shelves.
"Polite? You are all always rude to me and you are asking me to be more polite? Are you kidding? Black. I want black."
Rarity sent her deadly gaze and began to sew coat for her.
Few minutes later
"Here you go. Black cloak with hood. Six ponie coins please".
Liz yanked coat from her hooves and threw coins on the table. Liz ran out and slammed the door behind her. " You bitch are asking me to be more polite? POLITE? You will feel my wrath when I will put my knife in your ribs."
She ran into her house, dressed in her new coat, hid the knife under her coat and was about to leave but she remembered that it is still the middle of the day. " Damn, I have to wait until dusk when everypony is asleep. Maybe I should rest for a while and eat something before my adventure." She wore off her cloak, put the knife on table and went to the kitchen to prepare dinner. After a meal she was thinking about plan. "How should I do it? She is living alone but I have to go throught the whole town unnoticed. Then I have to get to her house, find her in darkness and... Kill her? Yessss.... yes. That's it. But what if I wont be able to do this? Screw it, I have no time to think about such stupid things. Why wouldn't I be able to do this? It's already evening. Small preparations and I can go for my revenge." She wore coat, hid knife, drunk some water and left house.
It was dark and the streets were empty, nopony was outside. "They are all sleeping" said Liz to herself. She covered her head with hood and walked toward Rarity's house. Suddenly in front of her appeared drunk Spitfire.
"Hel-llo S-sweetheart, why are you still up? It's night." Spitfire ask worried.
"Oh, hello Spitfire. I just went for a walk. I can't sleep very well and I can go out only when it's raining or when it's dark outside and nopony can see me." replied saddened. "And why you are here that late? You are not living in Ponyville"
"Hahahah, Pinkie Pie just made an AWESOME party in her house. As always! Well, im bit drunk as you can see and I'm not able to fly to my home. Why can't you go outside when is day? You always can!" She slightly staggered and fell to the ground. It took her some time to pull herself together.
"Not really, all ponies in ponyville hates me, they are laughing at me and they are calling me a monster or worse... it's not fair!" She covered her head with her hooves and started to cry silently.
"Poor girl." Spitfire walked over to her and hugged her. Liz smiled mysteriously pulled out her knife so that Spitfire couldn't notice anything. Liz pressed Spitfire's head harder to her body that she couldn't shout and hit her ribs couple of times with her knife. Liz felt like a knife easily pierces Spitfire's body. She felt how much blood flows from wounds which she made few seconds ago. Few moments later Spitfire's body hit the ground but she was still breathing.
"Honey... B-but... why are you doing this? I'm the leader of Wonderbolts. I never did anything bad to you..." She whispered to her.
"Because you would ruin my perfect plan. You already ruined my plan. Everypony in this town want me to disappear but I won't do this. I suffered from my childhood. I was beaten, everypony was laughing at me, everypony was making fun of me, everypony whished me all the worse. But now it will change. They will suffer more than me. I want them all to feel the pain. I will take my revenge." replied silently.
"Don't do this... Y-you are good girl, I'm sure of it... They didn't mean to..."
"Oh just shut up. You do not know what I went through. It was worse than nightmare. Now say goodbye to this world. Rarity told me that I should be more polite. Sweet dreams Spitfire." She hit her once again, this time straight to the heart...
Liz stood over her victim with a knife in her hoof. She was breathing quickly and was very excited. Blood ran down her knife on the ground. When she looked at the dead body she began to wonder why she did it. It was stronger than her. "But i don't want to hurt other ponies. Why am I doing this? " At this point her childhood memories appeared before her eyes.
It was beautiful, sunny day. Children were running around the park and she, along with her friend decided to go for a swim in the lake near the park. They were laughing with each other and dancing while walking toward the lake. After few minutes they reached their destination and jumped into the water. As always they were having fun. Liz came up with the idea to jump on her friend's back and pull her under the water. She got scared and her throat filled with water but Liz didn't notice that. When they flowed to the surface, Liz noticed that her friend is not breathing and she had closed eyes. She held her out to the beach and asked somepony to help her. Big, black stallion came to the rescue. Stallion began to resuscitate her. After many tries and a lot of hard work she woke up and spat the water out of her mouth. It took her some time to pull herself together. She looked at Liz with anger and she walked away from her at a safe distance. She couldn't believe that her friend wanted to hurt her.
"This mare is crazy! She tried to drown me!" She screamed loud that everyone could hear her.
Ponies were looking at Liz shocked and they began to whisper among themselves and insult her. Liz started to cry.
"I didn't want to hurt you. I would never..." She replied desperated.
"You tried to kill me! My friends were right. I should never be friends with you!" She screamed at her even louder than before. She was very angry at her. She didn't believe it was accident. She thought that Liz did it on purpose.
Liz ran home and the tears flowed from her eyes .
That day she lost her only friend. Suddenly other memory appeared in front of her eyes.
It was cold night, Liz couldn't sleep so she decided to go for a walk. It was dark, clouds hid the moon and stars so there was no light. She had to take oil lamp with her. Also she took her favourite book with her. Liz went to her favourite place sheltered from the wind. It was a bench behind the house of one of the residents of Ponyville. Around bench were bushes which shielded the place from the cold and wind so she could spend time there without fear that she will get sick. When she arrived, she sat down on the bench. She put a lamp next to her and opened the book in the place where she finished reading. It was a story about a lonely mare, banished from the country by the Queen. When she was travelling she met her true love and decided to go back to town and ask Queen for forgiveness. She wanted to build her own house and live there with her sweetheart to the end of her life. When Liz was reading, she fell asleep on a bench and knocked lamp. Lamp crashed to the ground and set fire to nearby bushes. The fire rapidly spread to another bushes and in the end set fire to a nearby house. Liz didn't know anything because she was sleeping. Ponies ran out from burning building and screaming loud for help. Neighbors came with buckets of water to extinguish the fire. When they finished, they found Liz laying on bench and screamed at her. Liz woke up scared, she didn't know what is happening. She fell to the ground and saw burned house. Ponies insulted her, humiliated her. Someone hit her with hoof few times. Liz covered her head with hooves and started to cry.
"I didn't do anything. Trust me. Please. I didn't do that. It was accident. I was sleeping here. Please, you have to trust me." She pleaded and she was frightened. She reatreated farther and farther.
"Go away! Leave Ponyville! You are not welcome here!" They were shouting.
She listened to the insults and cried more and more. She ran through the crowd in order to be in home as soon as possible. When she get there she was shaken. She didn't want to do anything wrong but accidentialy she burnt a house. Her crying woke up her parents. They came over her and asked what happend. They hadn't to wait long for answer. Someone knocked to doors. Her father opened.
"Good evening, is there something wrong?" He asked women.
"Wrong? You are asking me if there is something wrong? Of course there is!" She replied furiously.
"Calm down and tell me what happened."
"Mr.Grim, your daughter is arsonist! She set fire to my house when i was sleeping! I could die!"
"Is this true Liz?" He looked at her carefully.
"Yes but it was accident! I didn't do that on purpose!" Liz answered.
"This is just a child, how could she do this. I'm sure she didn't want to. Can I do something for you?" Mr.Grim asked her.
"No, thank you. Just keep an eye on your daughter you jerk!" She turned on her hoof and walked away.
Mr.Grimm hugged his daugther. "You should go to bed sunshine."
She listened and went to bed. Soon she fell asleep.
Next day when she woke in her bed there was quiet in house. Parents weren't laughing as they always did at mornings. There was something wrong. She came out of the bed and went to their room but they weren't there. She checked all rooms, kitchen, bathroom but they were gone.
"Maybe they went to do shopping. There is nothing to worry about" She said to herself.
But it wasn't true. Days went by but they didn't return. Liz realized that her parent left her alone in this town. That day she lost her parents.
Liz woke up. Memories disappeared as quickly as they had appeared. She felt pain. She doesn't have anyone in this world. They all left her and wished her all the worst. She realized that she is still standing above dead Spitfire. "I should move on. I have to punish Rarity." She looked around if anypony is coming and she went further. After few minutes she noticed that lights are on in Rarity's house and Rarity is working on another dress for someone. Liz hid behind other building and watched her through the window. "Rarity looks tired, maybe I should just go into her house and kill her?" Rarity was walking in her house but after a while she fall asleep on the floor near mannequins. "That's my chance" She thought.
Liz came out of hiding and went to Rarity's home. She opened the door and entered into. She came over Rarity and poked her.
"Good evening Rarity. Why are you sleeping on the floor? You should rest on your bed."
Rarity was suprised. She stood up and smiled to Liz.
"Hello Liz, how you came in?"
"I knocked few times but nobody opened so i came in. I was worried about you. What are you doing that late?" Liz asked.
"Oh, you are really kind. It's better than before when you were rude to me. I was working on a new dress for Rainbow Dash. She is invited to banquet which will be tommorow. I have to go back to work." She started sewing on her sewing machine.
"Rarity, you dont have to worry about it anymore." She smiled to her.
"What do you mean..." She noticed that Liz is holding knife stained with blood. "What did you do to Rainbow Dash!?" She asked terryfied.
"To Dashie? Nothing yet. But I will. First I have to punish you for your words that you said earlier. You and your stupid friends hate me. How can you say Friendship is magic when you dont even want to know ME?" She came closer to Rarity.
"We love you Liz, we love everypony. Please, don't do this. I would never hurt you." She started to cry silently.
"No Rarity, you all hate me."
Suddenly doors opened with a bang and Fluttershy entered the room. Liz reversed and looked straight to Fluttershy's eyes.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING DO MY FRIEND!?" Fluttershy rushed straight to Liz and punched her in her face. Liz flew a few meters and hit the wall. She dropped her knife. In a fraction of second Fluttershy flew to Liz and hit her with her leg. Liz catched her other leg when Fluttershy was trying to hit her again. Liz threw Fluttershy to the wall. She grabbed her knife and started to run towards Fluttershy. Liz noticed that Fluttershy is stunned and threw her knife to her.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Rarity jumped and covered Fluttershy with her own body. Knife pierced her chest and hit her heart. Rarity fell down to the ground and she couldn't do anything. She was dead. Fluttershy saw whole accident and get furious. She stood up and sent her deadly look. Liz didn't wait long. She rushed straight to Fluttershy. Fight started. Liz was stronger than Fluttershy so she quickly took the initiative. She knocked her to the ground, sat on her and she began to beat her in the face. After few powerfull hits, Fluttershy stopped moving but Liz was still punching her face. After another few hits, her face was deformed. Liz was breathing hard. She was tired. She looked through the window.
"Oh shit, it's sunrise. I have to hurry!" She stood up, took her knife and ran out of Rarity's house. She get to the home after few minutes unnoticed...
“It was close but nopony has seen me. “ She stated after finally crossing boundaries of her house, sighing with relief she took off her coat and threw it on the floor, she trotted into the bathroom and washed her hooves and her knife, it wasn’t an easy task to get all that blood from her coat.
After making sure there are no more signs of her night activities she proceeded into the kitchen in order to make herself something to eat.
She checked on ingredients ultimately deciding to eat some scrambled eggs with a pinch of spices and herbs, her mother taught her how to cook when she was just a small filly. This was one of the few fond memories from her foalhood.
Suddenly she noticed some kind of flash in the corner of her eye, she dropper her plate from shock and turned around, her eyes gone wide and it took her few moments to calm down.
She sighed with relief “You scared me, what brings you here?” She asked the black stallion who was wearing black coat with hood, at the same time she started to clean up small mess born from what was supposed to be her breakfast.
Stallion sat down on a chair in her living room, he was playing with a knife in his hooves, his stare could only be described as mysterious, small golden medallion laid down on the table next to him.
“My deepest apologies, scaring you wasn’t my intention, we need to talk about something very important Liz my dear.” He said while smiling widely. “You see I already know what you did to your friends and I must say you’re wasting your potential here. I know you want to punish everypony in this town but I’m afraid it’s just a waste of our precious time.”
“Whatever do you mean by that my master?” She stated while finally getting last part of scrambled eggs off the floor, she turned around only to meet black stallions eyes staring deeply into hers, not giving her any chance of escaping his deadly gaze.
“What I’m saying is that you shouldn’t waste your time killing any more ponies in this town by your own, their punishment will be delivered by my army of changelings. If you don’t want to spend rest of your life in jail you shall listen to me and obey my orders.” He stated emphasizing last words. “They will learn what real pain is when we will finally get rid of royal sisters, they are the only thing that can stop us now.”
“Now, you will wear your coat, hide this knife under it and wait for my next orders.” Liz stared blankly at him, her free will utterly broken by his mesmerizing gaze.
"Yes, my master." She stated and did everything just like he ordered.
‘Humf, I already have her under my control, poor mare she can’t even comprehend what’s she doing.’
He took his black coat off, Liz finally free from his gaze looked at him and froze.
He was big stallion whose coat was as black as the dark side of the moon, his cutie mark looked like blue sun, his sides were adorned with pair of huge majestic black wings, his mane was dark-green with white highlights, however there was something atop of his head that make her shiver.
It was long grey horn.
"YOU ARE ALICORN!" She screamed in both fear and shock.
"Of course I am. Now, are you ready to go?" He replied nervously.
"Yes, my master, So where are we going?" She asked.
"We are going straight to Canterlot. I will summon my army soon, be ready to leave." He said and sat down on a chair. Stallion grabbed golden medallion, murmured a few incomprehensible words and soon it started to shine. After few seconds, changelings started to emerge from the floor. They have black carapace-like coats, webbed manes and tails, fangs, bent horns, insect-like wings, and holes in their legs. The moment they fully emerged from the floor, one by one they stepped outside through her front doors. After few moments in front of Liz house stood small army made from more or less fifty changelings.
"Attack the village, destroy everything." Two simple orders which they didn’t hesitate to fulfill, in few seconds they were in air flying towards the center of the town, burning houses, killing ponies and consuming their feeling along the way.
‘I think it's more than enough to rase Ponyville, we should go.’
Stallion stood up. He summoned another five changelings and went outside with Liz.
"We are going to fly straight to the Canterlot, no matter what happens do not stop." He screamed to her and took off into the air. Liz stretched her wings and flew after him and changelings.
"Princess Celestia, Princess Celestia!" Guardian ran through the door screaming in panic, he soon knelt before his ruler shivering in fear.
"Yes what is it?" Celestia asked with calm and soothing voice.
"Ponyville... Ponyville is under attack! Our rainbow anti-unknownponies and other unknown creaturies defense system detected small group of attackers are flying in our direction. " Guardian said quickly. "Invaders are on their way here. You have to run my Princess. They are coming from north. There is one alicorn, pegasus and changelings. I don't know how many..." He fainted.
Princess Celestia looked around.
"Get ready for battle, enemies are on their way here and they are propably very strong. Luna, notify the rest of the guards of the castle to gather here in this hall. We will be waiting here." Celestia looked at guardian under her and healed him with magic. He stood up and ran away to the other guardians. Celestia went to her own chamber.
'Where is it? I can't find my... Oh, here it is. '
Princess opened chest and took out armor. She wore golden chestplate and graves. She also found helmet but it hinders the use of magic so she decided not to wear it.
'Now I am ready to fight for my ponies.'
When she came back, Luna was already waiting for her. Her eyes opened wider when she realized that Princess Celestia is wearing armor.
"You look gorgeous my dear sister. I'm impressed. Guardians are ready."
"Thank you Luna, I feel it's going to be hard battle."
They were waiting for opponents and soon, Luna noticed few shadows moving to their direction from the north.
"They are propably our enemies. It doesn't look like there are many of them. I think we will overpower them easily."
"Don't underestimate our opponents Luna. If they are attacking Ponyville and us in the same time, they can't be weak."
Celestia smiled to her sister and hugged her. After a while few changelings flew into the hall and attacked guardians but they had no chance with them. Guardians quickly knocked down changelings and tied them.
"You don't have to worry about anything Princess. We won't let them hurt you." One of the guardians said to Celestia.
"We are close Liz, we will land before doors to the royal hall. After that I will take care of guardians and you will attack Celestia. Knife which you recieved from me can penetrate armor, it doesn't matter how strong it would be." He shouted to her and accelerated.
After few moments they landed before doors. They were closed and before them were standing few guardians. Guardians rushed straight to attack Liz but black alicorn used his magic and cast them down from the bridge to royal hall. He pushed the door and before their eyes appeared large hall with many decorations and at the end of it, there was Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. There was a problem because guardians barred the way to them. Stallion looked at them and focused his mind. After a while his horn started to shine. From his horn fired stream of energy which scattered guardians on the sides.
"It's your chance Liz, go!" He looked at her and pushed her gently.
Liz rushed straight to Princess Celestia between guardians with knife in her hoove.
"Stop Sweetheart." Celestia sent rainbow beam straight to Liz and she fell down dropping the knife. She was laying there for a long while. Liz stood up looked around and couldn't believe her own eyes. She was in royal hall, in Canterlot standing before the most powerful pony in this world. She turned around and looked at black stallion terrified. He killed all the guardians. Suddenly in her head appeared memories of last days. She remembered what she did to Spitfire, leader of Wonderbolts, she remembered what she did to poor Fluttershy and Rarity. Liz began to tremble, laid down and covered her head with hooves.
"What have I done?" She was horrified and shocked. "I.... I didn't want to hurt anyone..." Liz started to cry loudly.
"It's okey honey, it's all right. It wasn't your fault. You were hypnotized. You didn't want to hurt anyone." She used her magic to pick her up and put her behind Luna. "Take care of her sister."
Celestia looked at strange opponent and she realized who is standing in front of her. Her eyes opened wider.
