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Steven awoke, as tired as ever. Coffee and various energy drinks were sacrificed to awake the hot headed warlord from his slumberous state. He walked to the hung over mare that claimed his bed hers. He took a wooden pole and poked her repeatedly until she stopped him. Her fireball spell worked as well as it did yesterday, causing the pole to be a shorter charred piece of evidence. "c'mon Trixie, get up and at em'" she rolled in the bed, hiding her face under the mountain of blankets. Steven sighed, she was going to be one of those people. He morphed into his larger ifrit form, and walked over to her. He lightly poked her on her back with his finger, his black claw creating a sizzling noise upon contact. Trixie jumped out and gave him a look of hatred "why would you awake Trixie like that" Trixie questioned through clenched teeth. She was clearly upset by his method. "I have to leave, so you had to be awake to receive orders." He handed her a list "do these by the time I am back. That can be anytime from a day to 35 years. Have it done by then" he shape-shifted back to his human form and marched out of the room.
Steven found the six waiting at a train station. He turned invisible and crept silently behind rainbow dash, then deactivated the cloaking spell and jumped at her "aaaaaaah!" rainbow shrieked loudly as Steven and pinkie began to laugh at her expense "best. Prank. Ever" Steven croaked in between laughs. He and pinkie hoof bumped before he got up and added "anyway is this a 'be there or be square' type of thing because I'm willing to be a pretty good pentagon right now". Twilight looked at him curiously "we are heading to the crystal empire, why do you ask" Steven knew why as he came to make amends. "I am going to go too. I need to catch up with someone plus I never got to fully apologize to you all" he heard rainbow mumble under her breath "sorry rainbow, by the way"
The train arrived shortly after the conversation. That train was the fucking weirdest train he had ever seen in his life, and he had seen some fucking weird trains. But as the saying goes "when the going gets tough the tough ride weird ass trains" they all boarded and Steven began the speech "listen, I never got to apologize for the things I had done. I entered this world and you ponies greeted me with open hooves and I brought violence here soon after. I am sorry for the manticore, the medical ponies, tirek and blueblood, (maybe) and everything else I had done. Hopefully soon we could have a new introduction and a fresh start".
The ponies actually forgave him and gave him a second chance. Pinkie pie befriended him, fluttershy forgave him mostly and had a little trust in him and the others were currently neutral. "So what was the blueblood incident you spoke of?" rarity questioned, speaking with her accent as usual. Steven was happy to think of that day. "Ya' see, I went to the castle with twilight and was assigned to guard this blueblood prick. Blueblood then criticized fluttershy who had stopped by that day. Fluttershy is adorable and no one should ever say or attempt to harm her" fluttershy blushed slightly at the comment. "So I punched blueblood and broke his shoulder, then I went into my ifrit form and was going to kill him, but fluttershy said no. I listened as she is my friend and I care about her opinion, plus her adorableness is impossible to say no to." Fluttershy was now blushing on a very obvious level. Rarity didn't seem upset about the story, she actually seemed amused. "Well, I wouldn't have gone about in the brutish way you have darling, but I hated the very soul of that unmannered stallion." Steven was happy about this, another member of the kill blueblood and rich douche bag club was found.
Steven watched the tree's go by from the window until they stopped and he saw the destination in the distance. The crystal empire came into view. "Well, let's meet Aphrodite from another dimension, in person this time around."
Twilight greeted princess cadence and began to sing. "Sunshine sunshine, lady bugs awake. Clap your hooves and…" Steven cut them off. "what the hell is that, my god twilight just say hello or give a hug or something', god damn" cadence just gave him a 'are you kidding' me face. "Oh shit, my name is Steven sorry about that." He grabbed cadences hoof and shook it. "See twilight, this is a proper greeting."
The eight (Steven, cadence and the main six) walked to the entrance of the castle. Shining armor came down and greeted them. "Twily!" shining called as twilight responded all too emotionally "shining". They ran and hugged a hug in stereotypical 80's movies style. "We're here too shining, and what is with you ponies and emotional greetings?" twilight gave Steven a scold before the group wandered off inside the castle. "So Steven, how have you been?" shining asked, unfazed by Stevens previous comment. "Eh, it's been moderately eventful. Killed tirek, killed a changeling queen, and got a minion. Nothing big." Shining's looked at him with amazement. "You did all that in a week and you think it's nothing big!?" Steven scratched his neck. "Well, everything happened so fast recently that it doesn't feel like much. Something big for me was what I did to Detroit. All it took was a piece of hair, a pencil and a light bulb to destroy that place. Good times"
As the group was walking and informing each other on their current lives Steven noticed a statue of a heart shaped crystal with noticeably more detail and time into it than other ones. "Shining, what's that" shining saw what he was looking at and began. "That statue depicts the time twilight, cadence and I helped protect and save the crystal empire from king sombra." Steven looked at him and did a hand motion to tell him to keep going, and shining armor did. "King Sombra was an evil tyrant who tried to take over and enslave the ponies and the crystal empire, but in the end he was destroyed" Steven patted twilight on the head. "Good job, instead of banishing him you killed king sombrero. You actually did something useful"
The group walked through the shopping part of the city. "Ooh darling we must check out this booth" rarity bellowed. The feminine part of the group walked in and began shopping. "Well shining, it was good catching up with your life and all but I will be departing now. Tell twilight I will be in pony Ville and will want to talk to the group once they head back". With that Steven flew off.
Once back in pony Ville Steven got bored. Trixie was still practicing the spells he told her to learn on the list so Steven decided to visit the forest of ever free. He walked along and noticed a patch of blue flowers in a particular area. "Well if unnatural out of place blue things got me here let's see what these can do." Steven picked up a blue flower and bit it. It was bitter and spicy so he spit it out quickly. Soon after he began walking back to the castle. He got to his room and felt a wave of pain and began to go limp. He blacked out just as he arrived.