The Pyromancer II's first loss and new name

The sun shone through the windows of a common house in the town of Gearmane, a town that was home to the best tinkers and grease monkeys of all of the Germane, inside laid a grease gray pony. Next to him were a work bench and a small miniature of an airship and next to that was a schematic of a fireworks cannon. The pony was snoring from another late night of work on the schematics and making working models of the project he had been working on. A green earth pony almost an exact copy of the grey one came into the room. He looked around and spotted the only picture in the room, it was of a yellow unicorn, a little older than the gray stallion with a white unicorn foal in her forelegs.

"Huh, Grease Mane wake up, come on big brother, you need to get to work on the firework airship soon." The green pony tried to get his big brother up this was when the yellow unicorn from the picture came in.

"Oh let him sleep Sonic Wrench, he deserves to sleep in every now and then, and it is his birthday after all" The unicorn smiled and walked over to the gray earth pony and kissed him on the cheek.

"And you need to stop babying my big brother just because your dating him doesn't mean you decide his break hours we have a week and a half to finish the Pyromancer II, Golden Flame" Sonic Wrench looked annoyed.

"Brother, how many times have I told you to stop messing with Goldie, and Goldie my little brother is right I need to finish that steam boiler for the Pyro's engine, my mom said she would watch Silver Match if you want to help me, the faster I finish the boiler and the propulsion system the sooner I get to spend the rest of the day with you" Grease Mane had woken at the kiss to his cheek and had stood up still wearing his work apron.

"Sure, and its great who you treat my daughter even though her lazy bum of a father is long gone from her life she misses him still, you will do her some good." Golden Flame smiled as she levitated another work apron to her "Silver sweetie, you're going to stay with Grease mommy so behave yourself alright"

"Okay mommy, I will" A voice called out from another room in the house.

Grease Mane walked over to Golden Flame and kissed her gently on her cheek. He gingerly hugged her before he moved to the door "Sonic I need you working on the ship's hull, and when you finish that come to the warehouse to help me and Goldie with the boiler." With that he left with Golden Flame right behind him.

Grease Mane made his way to his warehouse for his more dangerous projects on inventing or improving on other's machines. He was Gearmane's top mechanic able to fix or improve on anything with a few hours of thought, but he only did so when others asked him to. He looked at the beautiful unicorn with him.

Golden Flame was ten years older than him but that didn't matter in the world of love. He had fallen for her when she had proved him wrong about the mistake in the propulsion system for the Pyromancer I, and that ship was his worst mistake so far he was just lucky no pony was killed in the explosion. She had a yellow gold mane and a light yellow coat and a blow torch for a cutie mark she was the best pyro mechanic in Germane and he loved that about her and he loved her adorable little daughter Silver Match.

He was so wrapped up in his mind he never noticed they had reached the warehouse. He shook his head and looked about spotting his modified boiler. "Alright we will work on this and the propulsion system all day love"

Grease Mane was laying on his back inside the turned off steam boiler. He had a wrench in one hoof and a schematic in the other making the necessary adjustments on the pressure intake valve while his fillyfriend worked with a steady hand on the pressure guage. They worked right through their lunch hour and into the late afternoon. It was a new boiler and Grease wanted it to be in even better condition than brand new so he had made modifications to the boiler and started to apply them to it but he couldn't get the pressure intake and release system in proper order for some reason.

"Hay Goldie, it's time to fire this baby up and see if we have it working" Grease came out of the boiler and wiped the sweat from his brow as he stood and turned to the pony who stole his heart.

He closed the boiler and turned to his love and smiled "Remember behind the protective barrier"

He waited for her to move behind the barricade before he turned the valve that would start the process. He rushed back behind the barrier but all it did was puff and smoke a little. He came around the barrier and scratched his head with his hoof wondering why on Germane the boiler was still malfunctioning.

He rushed to it and looked the pressure guage over and it read low pressure "Hmm well that isn't good what could be causing the low pressure in the damn thing." He scratched his head again and was lost in his thoughts again so he missed the clanging in the boiler.

"Grease its overloading you need to get your tail out of there" Golden Flame was in a panic by now as she rushed over to Grease and the death trap of a boiler.

She looked at the guage and saw the pressure was in the red zone and she could feel the heat radiating from it. She knew it would explode too fast for them both to get out of the blast area. So without a word she pushed her love out of the way just as the contraption blew. The blast knocked even the pushed out of the way Grease off his hooves landing him on the ground as the concussion of heat and sound pushed outward losing power just as fast as it had gained it.

"Oh what a damn bomb I made, ugh" Grease stood and shook off his dizziness and then he snapped to the present "Goldie, can you hear me Goldie, oh no Goldie where are you"

He rushed in the smoke from the explosion, and he was treated to the sight of his love speared by a pipe. She coughed up blood and Grease knew instantly this type of wound was fatal even if he could get her an augment in time. Her heart had been pierced and no augment to her could save her from the trauma of the wound.

"Oh Goldie no why did you save me, oh my foolish mind wondering I oh Goldie" Grease cried with pure depression that Golden Flame knew he would be lost without her so she knew what her last words had to be.

"Oh, my sweet Grease, it's not your fault… I had to sa- save you my love….." She had a fit of coughing before she could continue "You're destined for greatness love, and…. I don't want to … see your gears …stop turning so soo- soon love, and please take care of my little Silver Match" She lost consciousness and soon stopped breathing here.

Grease laid a hoof to her face before he laid her down. He looked up with a grim set to his eyes. He walked over to the remains of his boiler and sifted through the debris and found the piece that had caused the overload. It was a small pipe that had a crack in it; it had been protected from the blast by the other pipes so the crack had to have been there before the explosion. He looked up as the door to the warehouse opened letting in not just his little brother but his entire family and his new adoptive daughter Silver Match.

"Brother, oh my pony what happe… oh no Golden Flame we need to…" Sonic Wrench rushed to the corpse but before he got to her Grease waved him to a stop.

Grease Walked over and closed the still open eyes on the unicorn he loved. He looked with a sadness at his little brother as he moved away. He stood between the little Silver Match and the lifeless body of her mother. He held in his hooves Goldie's goggles, and with the tradition of mechanics he passed the mother's goggles to the daughter, only done so when the mother or father dies. Grease had his own goggles given to him by Goldie for a present, and he cherished them.

"It's too late she's gone, Mom, take Silver away she shouldn't see her mother like this" Grease had a calm aura about him that belied the raging emotions inside him "Sonic Wrench, pop you two clean this mess up and I'll take care of Goldie"

Grease walked back over and lifted the lifeless unicorn up on his back, and walked to the door "She deserves a proper burial but we will keep it a private affair, no pony is to come unless they are related to us or Goldie"

Grease walked from the warehouse all the way to the funeral home with Goldie on his back with every pony watching in horror as the procession went by. He would be called murderer by many, some would pity him but Everypony would know it was his fault that Golden Flame was dead. It was his machine that had killed her, and he had done nothing to stop the explosion. He would forever be known as a death trap grease monkey.

His last words to the lifeless unicorn was this "I will finish the project like you would want me to, but it is no longer the Pyromancer II from now on it shall be called the Golden Flame, a gift for the mare I loved but can never have ever again" Tears rolled down his cheeks as he spoke "And Silver Match will always have me to take care of her"

He reached the funeral home with the body in ten minutes. He looked at the pegasus with a coffin as their cutie mark, and Everypony called him Doc. "Doc, Golden Flame died in a Boiler accident, I need to set up a funeral service for next week, but I must get back to work, its what she would want me to do, please Doc take care of her"

"Of course Grease, I will and I am truly sorry for your and Silver Match's loss" The pegasus nodded and took the body.

He left her with the funeral home director and left to work until the funeral ceremony. He would finish what he started not for the ponies who hired him or for himself but for Golden Flame, in honor of her memory and nothing would stop him no matter what it was not even the warlords of Equestria would stop his work on the Golden Flame nothing would.

To Be Continued

Author's Note: Hey all you ponies this is my first steampunk fan fiction for MLP so let me know what you think. P.s. I will be working alongside my pony cousin Steam Punk Pwny aka Thunder Eclipse with hit Tales of a Mechanic, with mine being a tie in with OC Grease Mane