//------------------------------// // Heart Shatter // Story: Grogar’s Endgame // by TheClownPrinceofCrime //------------------------------// Shining Armor was extremely worried sick for his wife, Cadence. Ever since her strange disappearance from the Crystal Empire, he sent dozens of guards and soldiers to find her and bring her back to safety. He had no clue whatsoever as to what really happened to her or how she vanished from their home. “You there! Have you found Cadence yet?” Shining asked one of the guards. “No, sir. We looked everywhere! She’s no where to be found!” he replied. “Keep searching! None of us will rest until she is found alive and safe!” Shining firmly ordered. “Yes sir!” the guard complied. He and the other guards took off for their continual search for Cadence. Shining went back to his chambers where his child Flurry Heart was resting. He carefully carried Flurry in his arm and softly cuddled her. “Don’t you worry, Flurry. Mommy will come back home. I promise.” he softly promised her though she was asleep. “Everything is going to be—.” he uttered before getting cut off by a loud explosion. Startled, he trotted to a nearby window of their room. As he slowly advanced towards the window to look outside just inches from it, a decapitated head splattered on the window with no warning. It’s blood stained the glass all over. He jumped out of instant fear as he did not see that coming. He then immediately recognized the head of the same guard he questioned earlier. Appalled by the horrid sight, he turned back and rushed out of the room with Flurry. But just as he was running, the entire roof of the crystal castle shattered to pieces in bits of ice. As he looked up, he saw a figure that almost looked exactly like Cadence...Heart Shatter. Shocked at the sight of the new being he never met, he quickly put Flurry in a crib that he took with him and kept her in a safe place. Then he came back to face this strange foe. “Who are you?! Why are you attacking my castle?!” he interrogated her. “Your castle? Surely, you mean our castle which will soon be mine alone, right, Shining Armor?” Heart Shatter taunted him. Shining was surprised at her words. “How do you know my name?!” he demanded. “Don’t you remember me? The one whom you love so dearly in your pathetic heart.” she coldly spoke. Shining then widened his eyes as he finally recognized her. “Cadence?!? Is that you?!” he shouted. “How is that possible? What happened to your body, your apparel, and...your voice?” “I have my father Grogar to thank for. He has shown what true power and rulership is all about. Now, I’ll take back my kingdom.” Heart Shatter said. “GROGAR?! But he’s a myth! He can’t be real!” Shining denied with fear and shock. “Oh but he is real. And right now, every city and kingdom in Equestria is being conquered by the Decepticons, killing every useless pony and creature. Grogar will be the ruler of all.” Heart Shatter evilly said. “Decepticons? Who and what are they?” he asked. “See for yourself...” she wickedly grinned. Shining looked out through a window. What he saw caused his heart beat to almost stop. The Seekers were slaughtering the crystal ponies that were fleeing for their lives. The Crystal Guards tried to defend themselves with their spears but it was no use. Skywarp fired several null ray blasts that killed most of them. The few survivors managed to escape the onslaught unharmed. “Cadence! You can’t do this!! You’re my wife!! You’re better than this!!!” Shining pleaded with her. “It’s Heart Shatter, you dolt!” Shatter snapped. “No! You got to fight it! I know you are still alive somewhere in there!!” he again pleaded with tears in his eyes. “You really need to...CHILL OUT.” Shatter darkly replied. She blasted her ice magic at Shining but he jumped out of the way. Then he activated his horn and blasted his magic at her, but she quickly froze the blast before it could even touch her. She quickly froze his hooves on the floor to immobilize him. “Poor, poor simple fool...you and your weak and worthless love. Oh, and speaking of love...” said Shatter before she teleported in the room where the Crystal Heart was located. She fired her sharp icicles directly at it and as soon as the icicles impaled the heart, the heart shattered to a million pieces. She teleported back to Shining’s location. “I destroyed your precious Crystal Heart, Shining. Now, I will have a frozen kingdom where all the living ponies will serve me.” “Cadence...why?? How can you do this us? To Twilight? To Flurry Heart? To me?” Shining broke down in tears. “To tell you the truth...King Sombra was ten times the stallion than you’ll ever be. With a cold, cruel, sadistic heart, he would’ve made a better husband than you.” Heart Shatter cruelly taunted. Those cutting words broke Shining’s heart even more. “Time to die.” she declared as she raised her horn to execute him. But before she could do so, she was blasted out of the throne room. Shining looked up and saw Flurry Heart with some smoke coming out of her horn. “That’s my girl.” he smiled. Flurry blasted the ice out of Shining’s hooves and they both quickly fled the palace and out of the kingdom with the other survivors without the Seekers noticing. Heart Shatter slowly retreated back to the throne room and saw through a window the incoming snow storm. “Let the reign of Grogar begin.” she exultantly declared.