He had to do it. It was the only logical explanation. He first made them play flaming hot potato, then the paperwork game. Here's what they are.
Flaming hot potato. Get a potato, put tinfoil over it. Toss in a fire for 5 minutes to 30 minutes. Take out potato and pour oils and flammable liquids over it. Light it on fire and toss at member playing the game. No magic, no gloves. You can only catch and pass the potato with bare hands (hooves) and your mouth. While it's on fire. For 5 minutes. No breaks or water until after the 5 minutes
Paperwork game: after being scorched you are assigned to fill out 10 pages of papers in 30 minutes. The catch is they are placed in a room covered in double sided Satan sticky tape, even on the desk/papers. And the papers have itching powder on them, and itching power fall's from the ceiling every 5 minutes. You have to do it and if the paperwork is not filled out, the papers are thrown on the floor. Then you have to carefully pick them up. Every rip equals to one shock via handheld Taser.
(I don't suggest you play these games at party's or anytime what so ever. Unless I'm there of course)
Steven finished the torture via games (god he loved that camp) and sent them to the prisons. He set word to everyone in the land that he was king. Of course that meant twilight would stop by.
"How could you do that Steven!" twilight screeched, squinting at him with malice. To him her rage was adorable, so he walked over and scratched behind her ear. "Listen, they never forgave me. I know you elements never really knew me and just went places while I followed and killed things, but that just friends for you. I'm sorry about the 'incidents' that have occurred but all is well twilight. Good day, purple" she looked at him with hatred and with the look of 'are you stupid'. "'Sigh' TRIXIE, get over here and remove purple!" Trixie walked over and pulled twilight away with magic.
"So Trixie, any other kingdoms in this world?" Trixie thought for a moment, tapping her new gold shoes to her chin. "There is the griffon kingdom, but…" he patted her and threw some bits at her. "Good, good. I will finally get to eat poultry" he walked out and left Trixie to her new bedazzled throne.
"Yo midnight, get your fat ass over here!" he heard a voice explode from another room "what did you call me you ape!" he was met with a black, grey and red Pegasus mere milliseconds later. Steven poked his nose. "God damn it Steven, what is your problem" his voice went from rage back to his kind self. Midnight arrow was kind when alone or with nice people (ponies) and only got violent when aggravated, unprepared or upset. He learned this after they met and killed hundreds of guards together. "Listen midnight, I'm going to go and kill some overgrown chickens, you in" midnight looked outside at the night and darkness out of the castle walls. "It's dark, my prime time. I'll do it if you let me have some of the action" midnight said, smirking.
They flew through the void of black. Midnight was pulling of tricks in the dark, avoiding every obstacle. Steven was in his ifrit form, flying and burning everything in his way. They eventually reached the griffon kingdom by the break of morning. How Luna and celestia were able to raise the sun and lower the moon with all their burns, shock's and other injury's he did not know.
"Well, here it is. The large chicken kingdom. Americas dream come true" they found a par of griffons carrying an unconscious pony. The pony was a darker version of rainbow dash or so it seemed. His hair was spikey, and a black and white color scheme. Why every Pegasus he met was having multiple similarities to rainbow he didn't know. Horse fashion wasn't his main life study.
"Midnight, you get the one on the right. I'll get the one on the left. They sped towards the griffons and struck with surprise and power. Steven roundhouse kicked the griffon while still midair. Midnight tackled the large bird into a tree, taking it down with a crack. Probably a rib. "So… what do we do with this guy" they both starred at the pony. "We could bait out the griffon king, then kill him while he eats him" midnight looked horrified. "Dude, feeding a stranger to a species for your murder ideas, are you crazy?!" midnight snarled, yet he knew his new human companion would think of that. "Yes, I am crazy. I also did like three bags of magic cocaine, but that's beside the point. If we don't use him as bait, how are we going to do this?" midnight didn't look remotely surprised at Steven. He had known him for only 15 hours but he knew his crazy murder some personality quite well. Midnight was even stabbed by a lima bean. (Think about that, being shanked by a lima bean. Give yourself 1 or 2 minutes to think on that. Being stabbed multiple times by a large man with a lima bean.)
"Why do you even want to kill the griffons anyway?" midnight asked, standing over the unconscious stallion so Steven couldn't sacrifice him. "I want all griffons dead for the reason of food. Also they have some power so I need to take his honor and add it to my own. Plus you did join me on this" 'b-but you said we would have action not pony murder' midnight stammered. Steven merely shrugged. "Fine, no sacrificing. Meet me after the fire has died out." Steven got up and flew towards the griffon kingdom. "Steven you fool, walking into the eye of the storm to…" the griffon kingdom exploded. Fire of blue consumed the kingdom and everything was blown to bits. Rubble and limbs hit the ground close to midnight. "Steven, you get more powerful and scary by the hour"
Midnight found a large white and black winged biped in the center of the rubble and where a kingdom once was. "Steven, get up. Are you hurt?" Steven recovered after 2 minutes and stood up slowly. "You seem to get stronger pretty quickly. Are you healthy or is this normal?" Steven looked at him and smiled. "You got that right. My first prey was a manticore, and that fought well. Now I'm blowing up kingdoms and fighting gods. Nothing can stop me!" Steven tripped over a piece of rubble and fell on his molten face. He was out cold. "You fight gods and pebbles beat you, should I worship you or the debris?" midnight arrow began to chuckle while Steven moaned in pain.