There are few things I like to do in my free time and these are those things, read, play Fallout four, and watch My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, and right now I'm playing Fallout.
Despite the fact I beat the game, I never started up a new game and have just kept playing the same one since a month after the game came out, I had every DLC added onto my game, Far Harbor, Nuka World, Vault-Tec Workshop, the Contraptions DLC and my favorite, the Automatron DlC. Now some of you might be wondering why that one is my favorite DlC? It's because I can pretty much make an army of robots and fuck anyone's day up if they mess with my settlements.
The robots I mainly make are sentry bots with assaultron heads and Gatling guns on both arms, and assaultrons with one arm being a laser rifle and the other being a blade of some kind or a saw.
I grinned as my robots utterly destroyed a camp of raiders, ah the sound of victory, also happens to be the sound of bullets and bodies hitting the dirt, I aimed my never ending automatic laser rifle at a raider in power armor and shot him repeatedly and within seconds he was a pile of ashes and charred bones. Such glorious carnage.
I paused the game to check the mods I had installed to make sure they were all working properly, place everywhere, the Fallout 3 style stealth boy mod, cause Fallout 4 style stealth boys where complete shit and lasted only thirty seconds, the alien assault rifle mod, and the ammo factory mod. The Ammo factory mod was by far, the best one I've ever downloaded, it took scrap metal and used it to make ammo for guns and energy weapons, it couldn't make mini nukes or missiles sadly, otherwise I'd use those weapons far more often, now I know the ammunition factory mod was made defunct for some by the contraptions DLC, but it was cheaper than the dlc, I still had to use the normal dlc for mini nukes and missiles, anyways getting back on point, the Nuka Cola Factory, Sunset Sarsaparilla Vending machine, The Ammo factory Mod, and the alien assault rifle mod.
Checking the time I saw it was nearly midnight, so I saved the game and went into the kitchen and snacked on a banana before walking up the stairs into my room, and headed off to sleep.
An unknown amount of time later I woke up to the feeling of freezing cold, much to my surprise I was no longer in my bedroom and was now in what I assume, was the fucking arctic, but my confusion did not stop there, cause on my left arm was a pipboy 3000 and I felt like I had metal armor on.
I was confused as all hell, but, I decided to think 'fuck it' and go with it. "No fucking way, this HAS to be a dream." I stood up and looked at my arms and legs, and I was in the mechanist armor, grabbing the helmet I had on I pulled it off, yep that was the sentry bot helmet. "If I have these on, then that means I can do this." With a thought my main melee weapon was in my hand, the assaultron blade.
I grinned beneath my helmet, this was going to be fucking amazing. "This is so fucking cool, but where the fuck am I?" Looking around the only thing I saw was snow, snow , and you guessed it, more fucking snow. Taking a look at my pipboy and after a few minutes of fucking with it I figured how to use it, the time said it was currently ten in the morning, and I saw a waypoint pointed north, since I can't see anything for miles, I choose to walk towards where the blue dot was pointing.
About three hours later of constant walking in freezing cold, I was understandably getting pissed. "I swear to fuck if I don't reach that waypoint within another hour, I'm going to shoot myself and see if I can respawn." About ten minutes after I said that I noticed a large black city about two miles away. After thirty more minutes of walking my jaw dropped at what I was seeing. "No fucking way..." It was I shit you not! The Crystal fucking Empire, but it was WAY bigger than in the show.
I sighed and kept walking, headed towards the crystal castle thingamajig in the center of the Empire, everything was covered in black crystals that seemed to suck the light out of the air, so I had a pretty good idea of who I was dealing with, and after THREE GOD DAMNED FREEZING MY BALLS OFF HOURS I got to the crystal castle.
I noticed right away that there seemed to be some kind of black crystal golems guarding the door into the castle, so instead of trying to fight them, I popped a stealth boy and sneaked past them, thanks to that mod I downloaded this would last about an hour before I would need to get a new one.
Sneaking my way around the castle was like walking through a fucking maze, but after about half an hour I managed to find the throne room, and snuck inside. Only for me not to see King Sombra like I thought I would, but a genderbent version, so Queen Umbra if my guess was right, and I saw ponies chained to the throne, to the walls,to the pillars, shit it would be simpler to tell you what didn't have ponies chained to it.
Pulling out my assaultron blade I quietly walked closer to the Queen before stabbing her in the stomach, surprising everypony in the room as my stealth boy wore off and I was visible again. "Have a nice vacation in hell ya cunt." Queen Umbra only coughed up blood with a look of shock on her face before I pulled the blade out of her stomach and sliced her throat open. She died drowning in her own blood staining her fur and teeth with it, the look of pure terror in her eyes made me smile with glee and when she did the black crystals all over the place just turned to dust and blew away in the wind, slowly, it was kind of neat to watch, the crystal ponies noticing this happen throughout the entire empire, I calmly walked up to the throne, and sat down in it, after taking Queen Umbra's cape and putting it on.
And just when I thought things couldn't get any weirder, the ponies got up and stood on their hind legs instead of getting on all fours like in the show. They all kinda just stared at me, and me back at them, this was getting kind of awkward until one of them spoke up. "Is Queen Umbra really dead?" She looked to the body at my feet, the one who spoke was a yellow unicorn with blue eyes and a white mane and tail, her cutie mark was a sun with a smiley face on it.
I tilted my head at the mare, it was a little more than unnerving to see something that SHOULD walk on four legs walk on two like a person, like the uncanny valley effect. "Yep, I'm pretty sure a sword through the stomach and a slit throat will kill anyone unless their undead, may I ask your name?" I said, raising an eyebrow, not that she could see it beneath my helmet.
The mare beamed at me a smile that would put the Joker to shame, but it was, adorable rather than creepy as hell. "I'm Sunbeam Cuddle your Majesty, I was the royal adviser before Queen Umbra took the throne by force and killed the entire royal family." Her smile faltered at that as her ears flattened against her head.
I grinned behind my sentry bot helmet. "Well you can have your job back, since I'll be needing an adviser for the future." This, was going to turn out so much better than any petty little dream I had before, here I could actually become someone, I could be someone important, I would rule an empire of Crystal and Magic. And no one would be able to stop me once I was done with this place. No longer would I be that one nobody you see at the office or gas station, I'd actually be able to become someone.
She smiled and bowed, as did the other crystal ponies, I think there was even a crystal thestral, yep, I see bat wings. "And what is your name Your Majesty?" She tilted her head, one ear flopping down to the side of her head.
Since my real name wouldn't sound so good with king added to it, I'll go by my Fallout characters name. "I'm Lorenzo, Lorenzo Cruz." Yes I know about Lorenzo Cabot, and the irony is not lost to me that I just happened to choose a name that an npc had in a side quest.
Sunbeam turned to the other ponies in the room. "Go inform the others that Queen Umbra has been killed and we have a new ruler! Inform them the Shadow Queen has been slain this day, and for it to become a day of celebration!" They hurried off to do what she asked, galloping out of the room at speeds that would make Rainbow Dash blush.
I put a hand to the chin of my helmet. "Speaking of her, can you find someone to sliceher head off and get rid of any flesh so I may hang it on the wall behind the throne?" I spoke up, questioning her. Sunbeam to my surprise laughed and nodded before walking off to find someone to do as I had asked, just what kind of mare did I employ? Perhaps she'd need a raise.
While she was gone I wanted to test something, so I tried to use the workshop and I'm happy to say, it worked. I built a robot workbench and started making a simple Mister Handy robot, once I was done it floated around and started dusting the place. My grin was so large it hurt my face, but I didn't care. "Oh fuck yes, this Empire is gonna have the largest army in the world! After I'm done if anyone tries to invade this place, there gonna get a hell of a fuckin surprise! heh." I turned off the workbench since it was set to automatic mode to build more robots.
Taking a look at my pipboy's music section I found, much to my joy, I had every song from Fallout 3 to 4 and my own personal collection of music from my laptop, over four million songs, least I wasn't gonna die of boredom anytime soon.
Thinking about it, if this world has a female version of King Sombra, and semi anthro ponies, I wonder what else about this planet is different from the show, damn it's gonna be weird if I see Princess Celestia walking on her hind hooves, she would be so damn tall. While I was thinking to myself Sunbeam came back into the throne room with a crystal thestral who dragged away the body of Umbra without me noticing. Only after Sunbeam brought back a fanged skull with a curved blood red horn did I notice that she was there. "Oh good job, remind me to pay whoever did this for me." I took the skull and hung it on the center crystal at the top of the throne. "Perfect." I sat back in the throne.
Near instantly Sunbeams eyes locked onto the Mister Handy floating around like a radar guided missile locking onto its intended target. "Um...what is that?" Sunbeam pointed to the Mister Handy that was floating around cleaning the walls.
I chuckled. "Just a Mister Handy brand robot, like a butler." I shrugged while explaining.
Her eyes widened. "How did you make this? It looks far more advanced than the golems that Queen Umbra had used to stop anypony from rebelling against her." She questioned, curiosity and amazement clear in her voice.
Pointing to the robot workbench I explained. "I used that robot workbench, but I have some questions for you about Umbra." I motioned for her to sit before the throne on a pillow I had tossed onto the floor.
She bowed her head. "Alright, what did you want know exactly?" She sat down and looked up at me, damn that was adorable!
I had several questions, since I had to get as much information as possible, for all I knew this was before the Empire was banished. "Well for one, your a crystal unicorn, I thought Umbra would have killed all of them off to prevent anyone else from shaping crystals?"
Sunbeam snorted. "While Queen Umbra may have been a tyrant, a very ruthless one at that, she was far from stupid, if the Empire ever got damaged she wanted to have somepony other than her to repair whatever damage was done to the Empire in case it was attacked, she never wanted to do a 'peasants' work, she never killed anypony except when she took the throne, just had her crystal golems beat anypony within an inch of there life if they tried to fight her."
I nodded, seemed reasonable to me, after all ya can't rule a kingdom if everyone is either dead or dying. "Sunbeam, I want you to let me know when the crystal ponies are outside the palace so I may give a short speech to them about their new lives."
She nodded and walked off while I stayed on the throne going through my pipboy's inventory, I had all the stuff I had on me when I turned the game off, long story short, it's a lot of chems, booze, weapons, ammo, and random bits of armor and clothes, along with a LOT of nuka cola, around thirty of every flavor in the game with the Nuka World DLC, since I had all the recipes I could possibly have the crystal ponies make more of it and give it out to them, other than checking my inventory I just sat and waited for Sunbeam to let me know when it was time to give my speech.
I must have dozed off, because I woke up to Sunbeam shaking me. "I'm up I'm up, hold your horses." I stood up and cracked my back. Stretching and popping out a Nuka Cola Quantum and downing the entire thing for the amount of caffeine in it.
Sunbeam snorted at the horse joke. "Okay, all of the Crystal Empire is outside." She took me to a balcony where I could see thousands upon thousands of crystal ponies, I saw crystal pegasi and thestrals hovering in place along with every other kinda crystal pony.
I walked into view of everypony. "Crystal ponies! Today is a day of celebration! Queen Umbra lays dead and her skull on top of my throne! I am King Lorenzo,and with my leadership this Empire will be led into a golden age! We shall be the most advanced empire in the world. And no one will dare try to take it from us less they face our wrath." After I said this all the crystal ponies started cheering and the entire empire started glowing a cyan color and a loud hum of power sounded out, before there was a bright flash of light and everypony was crystally and the crystal heart was back under the castle, the blast of energy had cleared away the snow and ice, and the sun shined on the empire once more, I had also, been temporarily blinded for about 15 seconds.
After I regained my vision I looked back down at the crowd, and into the flying ones as well. "Tonight, we party! To a better future! To freedom!" The cheers doubled at that, and I walked back into the castle. "Sunbeam, arrange for a feast to be set up by tonight for the crystal ponies to have a meal and maybe some booze while they party."
Sunbeam chuckled. "Already on it your Majesty." She bowed and walked off, a light hop in her steps.
I nodded and sat back on the throne, as soon as I sat down a white earth pony with blue eyes and a black mane and tail, and a dagger for a cutie mark walked in, he had crystal armor on. He bowed before standing back up. "Your majesty, I am Bulky Buster, I was Captain of the guard before Umbra disbanded it, and I would like to request that the guard be reinstated." He looked up to Umbra's skull on my throne. "While I'm sure you are more than capable of defending yourself, the Empire needs guards to protect its citizens."
I gave him a thumbs up. "Go ahead, how long till we have enough guards to decently protect the Empire?" I laughed inside as the thumbs up just seemed to confuse the hell outta em.
He put a hoof under his chin in thought for a few moments, before lowering it. "About three weeks to train them your Majesty."
Thinking about it I looked into my inventory to see my stockpile of weapons, blades, and a lot of other deadly shit. "I have some new weapons for you and soon the royal guard to use." I took out a standard automatic laser rifle and a few energy cells. "Take these to whoever invents your weapons of war around here, and see if they can make more of these, until then just train your guards like you normally would." It would be awhile before I could set up a factory to use the Contraptions DLC and the mods I had, till then they'd have to build these things themselves.
Bulky Buster took the things given to him, and strapped them to his back. "Yes your Majesty." He bowed and walked off.
I went to the robot workbench and set it to build four sentry bots, they had a gatling gun on each arm, and had an assaultron head, they were painted cyan like the crystals the castle was made out of. "You are to guard the crystal heart and neutralize any who try to take it."
The one in the front lifted its right arm up. "Affirmative." Then all four of them rolled down the hallway. Later that night I watched the crystal ponies party while I built two assaultrons, armed with a laser rifle for one arm and an assaultron blade for the left, both painted cyan like the sentry bots, they stood at the sides on my throne.
It was ten weeks later, the royal guard was up to around a thousand along with two hundred assaultrons, equipped the same as the ones who guarded my throne, one of the eggheads had fingered out how to replicate the automatic laser rifle that Bulky Buster had given him, the stallions name was Astral Starlight, he was a lavender unicorn with a grey mane and tail, and his cutie mark was a lab coat, since he managed to mass produce them every guard had one, sept they where powered by gems that stored the crystal hearts energy, speaking of the crystal heart, the barrier it made seemed to expand around two hundred miles out of the city, so the ponies had set to work farming a good portion of that land for crops like crystal corn and crystal berries.
I had quite a surprise when I found out that the crystal ponies where omnivores like me, Sunbeam had laughed at the expression on my face when I had asked why she was eating fish. I still had on the mechanist armor and sentry bot helmet, I took them off to sleep obviously, but other than that I almost always had it on. Me and Sunbeam had been eating lunch, salmon and salad, yum, when a guard ran into the room. "Your Majesty! There seems to be a swarm of black things headed towards the Empire, what are your orders?"
Thinking to myself I had a rather good idea of who or what those could be. "We shall meet them at the border of the Empire and see if they are hostile, if they are then terminate them, if not then we can see what they want." I got up and put my helmet on before taking out my laser rifle and walked off with him. It took around an hour to get to the border of the empire since snow and ice wasn't slowing me down, all of the crystal guard was with us and armed with there new weapons.
We watched as a literal swarm of changelings landed near the border,one of them walked up. "Who is the leader here?"
I stepped forward, much to the protest of the guards. "I am, what are you doing here?" I hefted out a gauss rifle, just in case.
The small changeling looked up at me "We have come seeking food and safety, most of the world shuns us because of what we are, we are willing to join your Empire in exchange for a safe place to live, as changelings are kill on sight in most kingdoms." He, along with every other changeling bowed.
I was a little more than surprised by this development, had this happened in the show after Shining Armor and Cadence denied them? Casting them into the show to die a cold death? "You may rise, how many of you are there in total?"
As he rose back up he looked behind him to the other changelings. "About six thousand, counting the nymphs and nurses."
I nodded. "Alright, you may stay under the condition you follow our laws and only feed from the crystal heart, so long as you comply you will have safety here, get jobs buy things, do whatever, just no digging underground unless you do it in the mines." I had a very good reason for that, I had a lot of ideas, but they'd take time to get rolling.
He nodded. "Those terms are acceptable, I am Chatter, your Majesty."
I patted him on the head. "Alright, just set up near the city and I'll have some construction teams come to start building you houses to stay in." With everything settled on where they were going to stay, I went back to the castle and finished my lunch with Sunbeam.
About two more weeks later the changelings had settled in nicely, and the crystal ponies seemed to like them, I asked Sunbeam about two days ago if she could find out how many ponies where in my empire, taking every colt, filly,mare, and stallion into the count we had exactly eighty thousand ponies, plus the six thousand changelings, so eighty six thousand living in the empire all together,and more ponies where joining the guard every day, maybe in about a month we would be at four thousand guards.
I had made a small Nuka Cola factory, surprising since I had forgotten I installed that mod due to all the crap thats been going on lately, you had to have the Nuka World DLC for it to work, and the recipes for the drinks in said DLC, but so long as it had glass, metal, and the ingredients needed to make the many flavors of cola, it would continue to make all flavors until it ran out. Everything was looking good for the Empire, nothing could go wrong now, ....I feel like Murphy is gonna bitch slap me for thinking that.
Meanwhile in the icy tundra twenty miles from the Crystal Empire.
Cadence was staring at the blue barrier with shock and confusion. "Shining, why is the barrier up? It makes no sense for Queen Umbra to have activated the crystal heart." Her ice blue eyes staring out to the barrier that shouldn't have existed.
Shining armor shrugged. "I dunno Cady, but let's hope the crystal ponies can survive another day before we get there." Shining pulled his cloak closer to him, there chariot had crashed about a week ago, delaying their mission to save the Crystal Empire, but one way or another, they were gonna save the Empire.
Cadence and Shining Armor where getting closer to the Empire, it had taken about two hours for them to get this close after Cadence managed to teleport them fifteen miles closer, which took a lot out of her, almost completely draining her mana pool. Despite that they ran through the barrier that the crystal heart had created, happy to be out of the cold, and exausted.
Princess Cadence looked over at Shining Armor with a huge happy grin. "We did it Shiny, now we can defeat Queen Umbra and save the crystal ponies." Cadence exclaimed with joy.
"Cady, are those changelings?" Shining Armor pointed to a large section of field that crystal ponies where building three story houses out of crystal, seemingly for the changelings.
Cadence's face dropped from joy to outright rage, those disgusting parasites had ruined her wedding and foalnapped her! And now they were trying to take over HER Empire! She said nothing and ran towards a nearest changeling, her horn lighting up a violent blue, her exhaustion forgotten in her state of pure unfiltered rage.
Wobbles was one of the changelings who was having a house constructed at the moment, and without warning a bright pink alicorn mare slammed into him, stabbing him in the side with her horn. He managed to buck her off and flee for his life, headed to the nearest royal guards just twenty feet away, screaming for help. The crystal guards that had stayed behind to help with construction saw heard this and raced in front of Cadence. "HALT!" She shot the guard with a beam of blue magic knocking him back into another guard and kept chasing after the changeling.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Wobbles was running so fast he could give an Olympian a run for his money, or the flash since his legs where just blurs.
With a snarl on her face she screamed. "Get back here you bug, I'm going to crush you like the filthy parasite you are!" Cadence shouted with rage in her eyes and shot a beam at the changeling just as he got near the crystal castle, the four sentry bots I had stationed shot rubber bullets at her, they were armed with non lethal rounds, the only real weapon was there head laser. The rounds shot at Cadence knocked her down, leaving rather large bruises where the bullets had struck her, four crystal guards quickly restrained her and smacked a anti magic ring onto her horn and shackles onto her hooves.
One of them kicked her in the head hard with his armored hoofshoe to ensure she couldn't fight back using magic. "You are under arrest for assaulting an officer of the law, and attempted murder of a citizen of the Crystal Empire." With the help of the others, he dragged her by the chains on her front legs to the crystal palace throne room, dragging her across the crystal floors not letting her stand herself up.
I was sipping some Nuka Orange before a guard burst into the room carrying a bound Cadence who did NOT look happy. "Your Majesty, this mare assaulted two officers and attempted to murder a changeling."
If I didn't have my helmet on they would see I was not happy. "So, let me see if I have this right, you came into my Empire, assaulted MY guards, and MY citizens?" My tone indicated I was pissed.
The pink alicorns face filled with rage as she sat up, wings flaring. "It's MY Empire! I am Princess Mi Amora Cadenza! rightful ruler of the Crystal Empire!"
My tone went flat. "Wrong, I rule this Empire now, and it is going to STAY that way. Whether you like it or not I don't give a fuck, you don't come into MY Empire and assault my guards and my citizens, as King I can have you publicly executed for attempted murder." Cadence paled at that. "But, I will only lightly punish you if you leave and never return after tomorrow, I'm not heartless enough to just say fuck you and send ya back out into the tundra, but after tomorrow you leave, and if you come back afterwards? I'll gut you like the filth you are myself."
Cadence had a look of pure unfiltered rage on her face, her eyes ablaze with anger. "Princess Celestia will hear about this! And she won't be happy unless you give my my rightful place as ruler of the Empire."
I gave her a deadpan look, but again, helmet, however I think I managed to get the look across. "Bitch, I don't give a fuck who won't be happy, accept what I said or I'll just send you to the chopping block." It was at this point another pony was brought in, but this time there were no chains.
Shining Armor had a look of concern on his face. "Cady! what did you do?" Shining walked up to his wife, concern clear on his face as he looked at the bruises and the large black mark on her forehead.
I spoke up, my tone flat, and not at all like my normal chill cheery voice. "She tried to murder one of my citizens, so she will be spending the night in the dungeon until tomorrow before shes kicked out of the city, and if she returns afterwards, I'll kill her myself with my bare hands."
Shining looked up at me, he looked horrified for a brief moment. "Wha..?..ya know what? never mind, I was told your the ruler of the Empire now?" Shining changed the topic, he thought something like this would happen the second he saw the changelings.
I nodded. "Yes, I am King Lorenzo, or Emperor Lorenzo, I haven't decided yet, current ruler of the Crystal Empire, who might you be?" I knew his name, I was a brony after all, but for all I knew everything in the show was wrong since this was another version of Equis.
Shining Armor bowed. "Prince Shining Armor, and captain of Princess Celestia's royal guard, I would like to apologize for my wife's actions towards your citizens on behalf of Equestria as a whole, and ask you do not go to war over the attempted actions of my wife."
I grinned inside, like I'd be stupid enough to wage war on Equestria. "Apology accepted, you are welcome here anytime, but she is not to set hoof in the Empire again after tomorrow, in the meantime why don't we have some lunch?"
Shining looked to Cadence then back to me. "Sure, but can you let her out of those chains, please?" With a snap of the finger, the guard unlocked the chains on her hooves and neck. I gave him a flat look. "If she tries anything, then, lethal force is authorized." Lunch went rather well, to be honest, Cadence didn't try to kill the changeling I had, as I needed him to walk up and down the wall, checking it for any cracks that might need fixing. They were surprised by the Mister Handy that took our orders, and turns out Equestrians don't eat meat, so they only had fruit salads, they COULD eat it, but seemingly where very squeamish about it.
I looked over to Shining Armor. "Shining, would you like a ride back to Canterlot? It must have taken you quite a long time to get here on hoof, and I was informed yesterday that one of the Empire's finest engineering teams just finished repairing one of the airships stored under the castle."
Shining nodded. "That would be nice not to have to go back through the ice and snow, so sure." Well he sure sounded happy he wouldn't have to trek through the snow and ice again, hah.
I nodded, a wide grin on my face. "Alright, the Mister Handy will show you two to your guest room, the window is barred and the door will remain locked until eight AM, there is a radio in the room for entertainment."
Shining Armor tilted his head. "What's a radio?" He asked looking at me.
I chuckled at that. "It's a box that plays music, you'll see when you get to the room." Another Mister Handy came up and took them to the room, most my castle staff was robotic, and what I said about the airship was mostly true, there were 15 airships under the castle in some kind of aircraft bay, they were in perfect working order aside from not having any gas to lift them, I had one of them outfitted with pony versions of missile launchers to protect itself incase it gets attacked, better to have it and not need it then to need it and not have it after all.
I forgot to explain to you all how the Empire managed to produce these things so quickly, I handed most of my weapons over to the Empires main research team and set them to developing pony friendly versions for them to use, instead of fusion cells the weapons used enchanted gems with a magic battery enchantment, and the gems soaked up energy from ambient magic in the air, about a full day of not being used it will be full and stop soaking up energy until needed, and the airship had ten of these to power the propellers on the back of the ship. The airship itself was made completely of crystal, as I've come to expect with everything in the Empire, and it was painted bright blue and had the Crystal Empire's flag on it.
The next day after a short breakfast Shining Armor, Cadence, and me where on the ship as the balloon was being filled with helium, soon it was floating ten feet off the ground and the hose was unhooked and the latch to the balloon closed. The fine captain of the ship landed on the deck. "Winter Gust, captain of the airship Crystal Hope, your Majesty." She bowed before getting to the controls, the weapon systems where automated, don't ask me how I don't know, and the airship left the aircraft bay and rose into the sky.
Sitting in a small lounge I turned to Shining. "So you said Princess Celestia would be expecting us? How did you message her if I may ask?"
Shining pulled out a small jar with green fire swirling inside of it. "Dragon fire in a jar, it can only be used four times before it runs out."
The rest of the trip was silent as we slowly got closer to Canterlot, remind me if I see blueblood to paint him green while he sleeps.
As the airship got closer to Canterlot, I noticed some Equestrian airships, and they seemed to be kept floating via hot air, not lighter than air gas. Soon we were at the landing docks, and slowly we were pulled into the dock via rope that pegasi guards had tied to the ship, when we were locked in place we made our way out of the ship.
Cadence walked off to somewhere else without a word to me or Shining, I think she may be just a little pissed that I rule the Empire and not her, eh like I give a shit weather she likes it or not. Shining Armor asked me to follow him to the throne room, as we walked I noticed only the guards were walking on their hind legs, turning to Shining I asked why. "Hey, why are the guards walking on their hind legs when the servants are walking on all fours?" I tilted my head at a bat pony maid.
Shining chuckled. "All Equestrian ponies can walk on their hind legs, or on all four of them, most ponies walk on all four because it's more comfortable but the guards are trained to walk like that comfortably so they can fire their rifles." We walked past another maid, this one a stallion....not gonna lie, weird, but gender equality and all that shit.
I shrugged. "Eh, makes sense I guess, can't exactly shoot a gun if you can't stand up like that, but speaking of firearms, what kind of guns does Equestria have?"
We walked past the kitchen area, the smell of cake present. "We have revolving rifles, revolvers ,and double barrel shotguns, we keep swords and spears in case we ever run out of ammunition, cartridge ammunition came about eighty years ago, some ponies are trying to make better guns to shoot with, but most tend to be bulky and unreliable."
As he finished his explanation we got to the throne room Shining Armor walked in with me, when I walked in I saw the throne room I saw in the MLP movie, with two thrones side by side, Luna's throne was empty. Shining Armor bowed, somehow he had come back within seconds, seemingly without me noticing, creepy fucker, either way I didn't bow which the guards did not like at all as one came up to me. "Bow to the princess ape."
I looked at him like he was a moron. "I will not bow, because one, she's not MY princess, and secondly, I'm the King of the Crystal Empire." It took all my willpower not to laugh as he paled as he realized he just insulted a king and backed off.
Princess Celestia looked just like she did in the show, aside from a simple gold colored dress she had on. "I presume you are the one my captain Shining Armor wrote about in his letter?"
I nodded. "Yup, nice to meet ya, names Lorenzo, or if ya wanna get fancy, King Lorenzo or Emperor Lorenzo, current ruler of the Crystal Empire."
Celestia chuckled. "Since I have no doubt the Crystal Empire is in need of aid and supplies would you like to set up a trade agreement?"
This actually wasn't the case, the Empire had a lot of stored foodstuffs, plenty of fresh drinkable water as well due to the snow. "Actually the Empire is pretty fine on its own, with my help and the help of most its citizens." I explained and sat on a chair a guard had brought to me.
"Oh?" Celestia tilted her head,one of her ears flopping to the side, daww it took most my will power not to daw and hug her, you would to, don't lie to me all you bronies and pegasisters out there.
Nodding I went on. "Yes, due to me and teams of researchers the Crystal Empire has made leaps and bounds in the field of medicine and other things such as robotics." That last part was mostly true, I just set ten robot workbenches to build twenty of each robot from the game every ten hours.
Princess Celestia raised an eyebrow while keeping her head tilted to the side. "Robotics? like golems?"
I nodded again. "Yes, but from what Shining Armor told me on the trip here my Empire's robots are much more advanced than your golems."
Celestia nodded solemnly. "From what he described I would sadly have to agree, perhaps I can call a meeting of the worlds leaders and we can set up trade agreements in exchange for some of your golems."
I shrugged. "Maybe, maybe not, I'm not sure about giving anyone this tech since its strictly owned by the Crystal Empire." It was at this point the one pony I would shoot without regret walked in.
"AUNTY! the maid responsible for cleaning my royal chambers did not show up and has called in sick, I request you fire her." His tone, oh my fucking god I want to shoot him with a mini nuke.
Celestia rubbed her forehead with a hoof. "Blueblood, I will not fire a maid for being sick, and I'm in the middle of a meeting with the ruler of another kingdom."
Blueblood sneered. "Aunty you know I take priority over some stupid meeting." It was at this point he noticed me. "Gah! aunty there's a monster in the throne room, kill it!" Blueblood squealed like a woman who saw a mouse in the shower.
I cleared my throat. "I'll have you know I am King Lorenzo, King of the Crystal Empire, not a monster, now shoo Im having a meeting with your princess about meeting the other world leaders."
Blueblood snorted. "I don't care who you are, your not a pony so you are beneath me peasant, since I have graced you with my glorious presence you may kiss the royal hoof." He held out his hoof, to which I pulled out a ten millimeter pistol and shot near his hooves, causing him to scream like a bitch and piss himself.
He started jumping trying to avoid the bullets, I was shooting near him not directly at him, seems he didn't notice. "AUNTY ITS ATTACKING ME! KILL IT KILL IT WITH FIRE! OR BANISH IT TO THE MOON!" Someone remind me to put a hit out on this asshat.
Princess Celestia SNAPPED. "ENOUGH BLUEBLOOD! GET OUT OF MY THRONE ROOM BEFORE I REMOVE YOU MYSELF!" Princess Celestia shouted in the Canterlot voice, causing some windows to shatter into millions of little pieces. Blueblood wisely fled as fast as he could, but not before slipping face first into a puddle of his own piss. Celestia sighed and rubbed her forehead with a hoof, I'm surprised she hasn't offed that fucker yet if we're being honest here, I knew he was a complete dick in the show but for him to really be this stupid and spoiled uhhhg. I put the pistol back into my inventory, speaking of I found quite early on that the pipboy had an O.B.M.S.U or an On Board Matter Storage Unit, can hold up to ten thousand pounds of stuff inside it.
Celestia looked like she was tired of dealing with Blueblood's shit. "I am very sorry about him insulting you, I'm very glad you did not shoot him, despite how...tempting it can be."
That made me laugh. "If he tries to start a fight though I won't hold back next time, but let's put this behind us as I can see you are stressed by what just happened."
Celestia smiled a little. "So anyway I'll try to set up a meeting with the world leaders, but I would like to invite you to the Grand Galloping Gala in a week,and I'll try to set up the meeting with the world leaders about a day after that, would that be alright?"
I nodded. "Sure seems alright, I shall be going now but if you wish to contact me just send a mail pony with a letter."
"Oh before you go, I almost forgot to mention to be wary of dragons, they have become very hostile to all Kingdoms as of late, raiding towns and villages for gold and gems, the frozen north should keep your Empire safe from them but I felt I should warn you anyway so you will be prepared in case anything happens."
After that she had a guard escort me to my airship, I saw Equestrian scientists were staring at it taking notes, I ignored them and walked up the ramp and onto the main deck. "Winter Gust! set sail for the Crystal Empire! where returning home."
She saluted, which was adorable. "Aye aye!" And with that we flew back to the Empire.
It was about three days later, I was checking out the suit that one of the royal tailors had made, as per my request it was magenta and black. "Gotta say Twilight Ice, ya did a fantastic job on this suit, I will be paying twice the agreed price due the the fact you did this in a day, and since it looks amazing." Twilight Ice looked like a red unicorn with Rarity's hair, hmm maybe there related?
The mare flushed, and somehow it was visible despite her cherry red fur. "Oh you flatter me your highness, but thank you for the praise." She put the suit in a box and hoofed it to me. "Your 'socks' idea has become quite popular, who knew ponies would love wool socks so much?" She mused.
Yeah ponies here along with the rest of Equestria as far as I knew had no clue what socks where, and when I told Twilight Ice my idea for her to make socks in a rainbow of colors she agreed and her business has been booming since then, not many ponies wear clothes but most ponies LOVE socks.
I shrugged. "Dunno, but thanks for the suit again." I payed her two hundred bits, the agreed price was a hundred, and walked back to the castle to have lunch. Today I was gonna order some pizza, oh I almost forgot to tell you all, but Equestria and the Crystal Empire had never heard of the following foods, waffles, deviled eggs or pizza, there was plenty more, but if I listed them all off we'd be here for about an hour, I told the head chefs how to make said items and they were overjoyed to be the first to cook never before seen food, the head chefs were the only two who were ponies, as I mentioned before most of my staff was robotic.
As a Mister Handy brought me a slice of three meat pizza and a nuka cola cherry I sighed, it was getting rather boring around here, then again at least there's peace, once I was done eating I checked the invitation for the Gala that Celestia had given, it was a golden ticket with V.I.P on it in a darker yellow color, the ticket said I could bring two guards. "I hope the Gala isn't boring, otherwise I will shoot something just to get some entertainment around here."
Two days later I was ready for the Gala, least I think I was, I had on a black suit with a magenta clip on tie and a magenta shirt, what can I say? I love magenta. Just as I finished getting ready and put on my crown, which was a simple golden crown with ice blue gems in it, a royal guard walked in and told me that a pegasus drawn chariot was here to take me to the Gala.
Seems Princess Cakeass forgot to tell me she was sending someone to pick me up and bring me to the Gala, I had planned to take the airship Crystal Hope like I did last time, seems that since I'm a V.I.P that she sent an escort. Getting into the chariot along with my two assaultron guards we took off and headed to canterlot.
Once the chariot landed I stepped out, along with my guards and walked to the main entrance and walked over to Celestia who was greeting others welcoming them to the ball. "Oh welcome to the Gala King Lorenzo, glad you could make it!"
I chuckled. "Well I couldn't pass up a free party after all."
Celestia snorted. "That's the best reason I've heard all night, well enjoy the Gala." She went back to welcoming guests.
I nodded and walked inside, my assaultron guards following side by side, I saw Rarity following that prick Blueblood, he was completely ignoring her though. Walking up to a pink bartending mare, who froze up in fear at the sight of me as I looked at the menu, I rarely drank alcohol so I decided to get somethin light.
"I'll have a...red wine please." She turned around and poured the wine into a glass before hoofing it to me, taking it I reached into my pocket and placed something into hers, causing her to freeze, she looked into her pocket to see a silver bit, worth one hundred gold bits, she stared open mouthed at the generous tip. "Don't spend it all on booze now ya hear?" I chuckled and walked off sipping my wine.
Applejack's attention was taken off Filthy Rich as a strange biped walked into the room, picking at one of the buffet tables. "Hey Twilight, ain't that the critter from the Crystal Empire Princess Celestia wrote to ya about?" Applejack pointed towards a biped in a tux.
Twilight Sparkle nodded. "I think the Princess said he was the King of the Crystal Empire, but she never told me his name, but she did tell me about the technology Shining Armor reported." Twilight squee'd thinking about how far that technology could advance Equestria.
Applejack shrugged, and turned back to Filthy Rich. "Anyway Rich, that shipment of apple jam should be at your store in about a week, is there anything else ya'll wanted to talk about before I go back to my apple stand?"
Filthy Rich shook his head. "Nope, that was it Miss Apple, have a nice day now ya hear?" His gaze was on the two bipeds following the crowned one, they seemed to be wearing some sort of fancy metal armor over their entire bodies.
I looked over and noticed Filthy Rich walking up to me, he was looking at my assaultron guards, when he walked up he started talking. "Hey now, I'm Filthy Rich, owner of Barnyard Bargains, and I couldn't help but notice the armor your guards wear, would ya tell me what its made out of?" He tilted his head.
that caused me to just chuckled, it was so funny seeing ponies mistake my technology for something else. "Oh thats not armor, their robots like your golems but more advanced." I explained to him.
He got a look in his eyes that I didn't like. "How much would it take for you to sell em to me?" He asked pulling out a check book, I could see the bit signs in his eyes I swear to god.
I shook my head. "Sorry, there not for sale, end of conversation." I walked back and gave my glass back to the bartender and walked to the buffet table.
Prince Blueblood had been drinking,and he was quite drunk as he walked up the the bartender mare. "Hello sir, what can I get you?"
His face twisted into an angry expression. "Sir!? I am a Prince! wench fetch me more wine!" He shouted at her, not slurring his words as the mare hoofed him another glass, he didn't leave a tip. Blueblood then made his way over to the buffet table to sample some of the treats before he noticed that creature aunty yelled at him for insulting, with his judgement clouded by alcohol his first course of action? To smash a wine bottle over its ugly head, so with the sound of shattering glass and spilling liquid, the thick heavy wine bottle was shattered over the creatures head, the force of which it hit causing the bottle itself to break. Everypony's eyes shot to Prince Blueblood, who had just smashed a wine bottle over the head of a ruler of another kingdom, everypony gasped as he turned around, blood dripping from his head and face, had that been anypony else they would surely have been knocked out.
I winced as I felt a glass bottle smash on my head, good thing I invested a lot of points into strength, turning around I saw the guards trying to get through the crowd, unsuccessfully, Blueblood then stabbed me in the stomach with the broken end of the bottle, it was at this point I was done dealing with his shit and whacked him across the face with a power fist on high setting, knocking him to the ground. With Blueprick out for a minute or two I grabbed the bottle sticking out of my stomach and to the horror of most the ponies pulled it out before quickly injecting a super stimpack,causing the wound to close up. "Okay motherfucker, I am DONE with your shit!" I all but growled as I picked Blueblood up, he spit in my face.
Blueblood gave me a shit eating grin, a grin I would soon make him regret. "I challenge you to a duel beast, winner takes all and the winner decides the fate of the loser, If I win I get to kill you and be praised for being a hero."
Inside I was grinning, with all the weapons I had on me I could take on a small army, or one Pinkie Pie IF I was lucky. "I accept your challenge you worthless sack of shit." I threw him to the ground and walked off to look for a bathroom to check the damage done to my tux. Everypony watched as the king left, then ponies saw Princess Celestia staring at Blueblood with a look that could kill, she dragged the Prince off with her magic to the throne room.
Celestia glared at Blueblood. "Blueblood,what in the name of Faust made you think assaulting the ruler of another kingdom, was a good idea!?" Her voice just under that of the Canterlot voice.
Blueblood flinched. "Aunty, surely you see I was in the right? that thing is a danger to everypony and must be put down for the betterment of Equestria!"
Celestia's glared harder at Blueblood. "I am so very disappointed in you, so much that even if you win the duel you challenged Lorenzo to I am going to strip of your title as Prince and claim all your royal funds for charity." Her tone cold as the ice around the Crystal Empire.
Blueblood rolled his eyes. "Aunty, you and I both know you won't do such a thing,because I'm one of your last descendants." He walked off to ready himself for his no doubt heroic victory in the duel.
Celestia walked up to me, and sat next to me. "I am very sorry about him attacking you, I knew he has not been acting the best lately, but for him to attack the ruler of another kingdom? For what he has done I will be stripping his titles if he wins the duel, if you win you may set any punishment you see fit for him." Wow she looked pissed and stressed at the same time.
I patted her on the back. "Don't worry I'm not gonna declare war or nothin cause one prick was bein a prick, let's go the the arena or wherever it is the duel will happen."
Celestia nodded and walked to a large sparring ring in the gardens. "This is where it will take place, the only rule is no guns anything else you have you may use."
Hmm..what to choose..what to choose, I could go with my assaultron blade, maybe the mister handy buzz saw? Oh well I'll find out when Blueballs shows up. Everypony from the Gala was sitting in stands while vendors where passing out popcorn and....bottles that said Colta Cola? wow this world had a ponified version of Coca Cola hah.....hah.....I'd have to do something about that.
A pony wearing a ref hat stepped up to a mic that wasn't there a second ago as Bluebitch got on the other side of the ring while I was on the other side. "Attention everypony! The match will start once the rules have been stated, rule one! No firearms of any kind! rule two is the winner chooses the losers fate, it can be anything they want to do! and third, NO outside help of any kind! it's one on one only, now, FIGHT!" The ref backed away from the ring as Blueblood pulled out a short sword.
And I pulled out the ripper, a handheld chainsaw, and revved it up, grinning at the look on Blueblood's face as I walked closer to him. "This is your last chance before I give you facial surgery." My grin was large, my eyes pinpricks.
Blueblood rolled his eyes. "Foul beast, I Prince Blueblood of Equestria shall slay you and hang your head on my wall." With that he charged, I stepped to the left and let him run past me, turning around he used his magic to launch his sword at me, pulling up the ripper and revving it up sparks flew as his sword tried to cut the chainsaws blade, I grinned harder seeing my ripper dent his sword.
Cracking my neck loudly I glared at Blueblood. "My turn." He had no time to react as I ripped the sword out of his telekinetic grip and threw it to the side before jumping at him with the ripper buzzing angrily like a swarm of hornets.
Blueblood screamed like a complete bitch and much to my surprise teleported ten feet away with a flash of blue and pulled his sword back to him, I pulled out a sword called the Shishkebab, or as I renamed it, the blade of flames. Blueblood tried to slash me and got my left arm, wincing a shot forward and stabbed him in his front left leg, the hot metal of my sword burning the wound preventing bleeding, but also causing Blueballs to screech so loud a mares glasses broke, holy shit my ears! That fucking hurt!
Before I had time to react Blueblood stabbed me in the stomach, holy fuck that hurts, auto injecting a stimpack and pulling out a powerfist I set it into automatic mode and beat the everloving fuck out of his head, punching over and over and over and over. By the time I was done he was barely breathing, his face pretty much forever fucked up, his snout crushed, and his fur covered in blood and patches of burn marks from where the sword touched him. The ref looked at Blueblood and waited ten seconds before pulling a mic out of nowhere. "And we have a winner everypony! King Lorenzo wins!" Cheers went up, the loudest being Rarity's, wow that was kinda pathetic I expected Blueballs to at least be trained enough to decently combat a threat.
Princess Celestia walked up, her horn glowing a golden color as she pokes Bluebloods forehead with it causing him to wake up with a pained gasp. "You have lost Blueblood, now Lorenzo gets to decide your fate, and no matter what you have to do as he says or you will be banned from Equestria."
Walking up next to Celestia I grinned at Blueblood. "His fate is he shall be turned into an earth pony, his title as prince taken, and his mansion to be turned into a homeless shelter and a soup kitchen, and his accounts to go to charity and other things to help the poor."
Blueblood looked pissed off, very pissed, but said nothing since he had no say in his fate since he lost the duel, Celestia nodded. "It will be done, you are free to go back to your guest room if you wish, remember the meeting with the world leaders is tomorrow."
I nodded. "I remember, but remember what I said, while your allies may share weapons technology freely with each other and you, I may not do the same." With that I walked to my guest room, after a royal guard medic checked me for any wounds and fell asleep in the bed, tomorrow was going to be quite interesting.
I had woken up two hours ago, it was around ten thirty AM, me and Celestia where sitting in a meeting room with two more chairs, we were waiting for the king of the Griffin Empire, and the king of the Minotaur Kingdom to show up, the table had some snacks and a six pack of Colta Cola on it, and just in the other room was a firing range for the weapons that we would all be demonstrating.
We didn't have to wait for longer than 15 minutes before the other rulers arrived,two guards each carrying a crate before they bowed to their rulers and walked out of the room. The Griffin King was black with gold eyes and a tuft of yellow fur on the end of his tail, he had on a gold crown with rubies in it, and the Minotaur King was grey with blue eyes and gold colored horns, he had a silver crown with blue gems in it.
"I am glad you two could make it." Celestia sat down, as did everyone else including me.
The Griffin King spoke up. "Well since none of us could attend the last meeting we had to come this time, since there was nothing keeping us to busy."
The Minotaur King nodded in agreement. "Aye, I agree with King Razor Claw, now you wrote to us about a new Empire?"
Princess Celestia nodded. "You are correct King Steel Horns." She pointed to me. "He is the ruler of the Crystal Empire."
"I am King Lorenzo of the Crystal Empire, I've been invited here to show what kind of weapons my Empire has, due to the fact my Empire is not included in the Arms Agreement Treaty I can deny sharing certain weapons, but we can talk about that later after you've seen the weapons in question."
Celestia stood up. "As per normal we will have one guard show the new weapon or weapons in question and demonstrate how they work." She walked to the firing range, the rest of us followed, a griffin guard was holding what looked like a world war one german stick grenade, and a minotaur guard wheeled an 1883 style gatling gun out.
King Razor Claw spoke up first. "What we have invented I call a stick grenade, it is like your TNT but less powerful, and simpler to use, all you do is pull the string on the bottom and throw the grenade." We watched as the griffin guard demonstrated what the king said before throwing the grenade at a wooden target, when it exploded nothing but wood chips was left.
One of Celestia's royal guards walked up holding what looked like a revolving rifle with a bigger chamber and the barrel was short but wide, Celestia spoke up. "What one of my top weapons makers have come up with is a five shot revolving shotgun that fires the standard brass shotgun shells found in all of our kingdoms, it works just like a revolving rifle but with shorter range and mainly for close combat." The guard took aim at a close wooden target before letting out six shots of lead into the target, blasting it off the face of Equis.
King Steel Horns grinned. "What the Minotaur Kingdom has invented what I call a gatling gun, its drum magazine can hold four hundred rounds of .45 ammunition and can fire as fast as you can turn the crank." The minotaur guard saluted and aimed at a larger target, and cranked as quickly as he could, destroying the target before he even got close to three hundred shots.
"Impressive, the plans for all these weapons are here with us and there is a copy for everyone so if you wish to make your own versions of these you are free to, as per the Arms Agreement Treaty, now I believe it is King Lorenzo's turn to show us the weapons his Empire uses." Celestia smiled as she finished speaking.
"Alright, first off I have something close to your gatling gun King Steel, it's called a minigun and fires 5 millimeter bullets, since I have no guards with me I will be shooting the weapons myself." Walking over to the range I pulled a classic mini gun out of my inventory and aimed at a target, this one made of metal and fired, I only stopped once all nine hundred ninety nine rounds were fired and the gun was empty, the metal target was nothing but swiss cheese now.
Turning around I saw all of their jaws dropped before Celestia spoke up. "Continue if you please."
Pulling out a combat shotgun with a drum magazine. "This next weapon is a combat shotgun, it holds thirty two rounds, I don't think I need to shoot this since you know what a shotgun does, this next weapon is my own personal laser rifle." I pulled out the Wazer Wifle, a never ending laser rifle, taking aim at a wooden target I shot twenty times before lowing the rifle, the target was on fire due to the fact it was wood.
"Now those are the weapons I won't be giving you, I will be giving you a Winchester lever action rifle that fires .45 and can hold eight shots." I pulled out Old Reliable, a lever action rifle that comes with the Far Harbor DLC, and shot six of the eight rounds at another target, taking the rest of the bullets out I handed the rifle to Celestia." I don't have plans for the rifle itself so you will have to re make it yourselves."
King Razor Claw spoke up. "Your weapons technology is impressive, how much would it take for you to sell me the 'laser rifle'?" He had sat down and was sipping some Colta Cola.
I shook my head. "None are for sale, sorry." I was not going to be giving technology like that to this world, not yet anyways.
Razor Claw shook his head. "Shame, but since your Empire never signed the Arms Agreement Treaty we can't force you to sell or trade anything, but what kind of armor do your guards use? As our Kingdoms pretty much use the same armor."
"My Empire's crystal guard uses inch thick titanium with ballistic weave under for padding and extra protection, it covers the entire body of the guard." With that there eyed widened and there jaws dropped the second I said titanium.
King Steel cleared his throat. "Where did you get titanium? It is a very rare metal and is hard to find."
"The mountains around the Crystal Empire are full of titanium and other metals and ores, I just had some miners mine out some of a mountain near the Empire."
Celestia smiled and spoke. "Would you be willing to sell some titanium to us? We will pay you well for it."
I shrugged. "Sure, I've got tons of the stuff, also I wanted to sell a soda brand here in Equestria, its called Nuka Cola, would you three like to try some?" I sat back at the table from when the meeting first started.
"Sure." They said in unison, kinda creepy but whatever.
"Okay so there are many flavors of Nuka Cola, there's the regular Nuka Cola, there's Nuka Orange, Nuka Cherry, Nuka Wild, Nuka Dark, and last but not least Nuka Cola Quantum."
Steel horns spoke up. "I'll try Nuka Dark."
Princess Celestia seemed to think for a moment. "I'll try quantum."
"I guess I'll try cherry." Razor said as he yawned.
Handing them there requested flavors they all took a drink, and loved it,long story short I could sell Nuka Cola in all there Kingdoms, I'm gonna stick with Equestria for now though cause I know ponies just LOVE sugar.
Celestia stood up. "Well, this meeting is called to an end, may you all have a safe trip back to your kingdoms." With that said I left and was taken back to the Crystal Empire via pegasus chariot.
I was re writing all the laws in the Empire since they where very outdated, there was a law that you had to eat a pie on Monday, just who the fuck wrote this? As I finished writing up the new laws Sunbeam came in. "Your majesty the head of the weapons research team has some news for you, the weapon project you thought of is complete and ready to be tested." Oh joy, now my Empire will have a weapon that can make any threat piss itself from fear.
"Good, let him know I'll be down shortly." She bowed and walked off, before I walked over to the research section of the castle and walked up to Astral Starlight. "Sunbeam said you had some news for me?"
He nodded and pointed to a glass room,with a pony inside it. "Yes, and I have had a test set up to show you that the weapon is fully functional, the pony is a volunteer from the guard." He pointed at what looked like a mini nuke, but painted completely white with a black fanged skull instead of the nuclear symbol you'd see on a mini nuke. "As per your orders it is made to be a non lethal bomb that can be dropped by pegasi and changelings alike or from airships, let us begin the test." He pressed a red button causing the 'bomb' to drop to the floor and as soon as the casing cracked a ominous black mist seeped out.
We watched as the mist took the form of the ponies worst fear, in this case it was spiders the size of my fist that looked like fanged skulls, the pony screamed and banged on the exit to the glass room as the eight legged horrors crawled all over him, and Astral pressed another button opening the vents letting the gas out into the air.
"As you can see, the 'nightmare mist' is the perfect non lethal weapon because the mist will take the form of the subjects worst fear, causing the subject to try to flee in terror or curl up into a ball and hide." As a explanation crystal unicorns are payed to cast this spell and bottle it up into large jars about the size of a gallon jug, the jars have no chance at breaking due to the fact there made of crystal, using high pressured air the nightmare mist is pumped into the bomb and once it hits the ground it will release the mist into the air causing it to take effect to any nearby lifeforms that can feel fear. The spell is called Nightmare Mist, Queen Umbra wrote it down for later uses, having tested it on a few ponies it does indeed work and any unicorn can cast it.
I grinned. "Perfect, how many have you made so far?" What he said next shocked me.
"I along with the other researchers have made around one hundred already, and is ready to be deployed if needed." Once he was done talking a guard walked into the room,he looked jumpy.
"Your highness? There appears to be another swarm of changelings headed this way, with a larger one leading them." Ooooo I hope it's who I think it is.
"Alright, gather the a force of five hundred guards and wait for me at the barrier." He saluted and ran off, while I was grinning and grabbed around ten 'Nightmare bombs' as I shall name them,all fitted to launch from my fatman launcher,after grabbing the bombs I walked off to where the guards were at near the edge of the barrier.
As he had said there was a large swarm of changelings flying quickly towards the Empire, I looked to the guards and they had on there new set of armor, the helmet had a built in gas mask that would prevent them from dying due to toxic gas, or being affected by the nightmare mist.
About ten minutes later Queen Chrysalis and what looked to be around ten thousand changelings landed before she stepped forward. "It has come to my attention that some of my subjects did not return to the hive after the invasion, I demand you return them to me." Her voice sounded like two people talking at the same time.
"Well I'm afraid to inform you that they have become citizens of my Empire and no longer need to feed of others because of that." It was true, the holes in there legs and wings had closed up after they got a good feeding, changelings only have holes in there bodies if there starving or malnourished.
She tilted her head to the side. "So you refuse to return what is mine?" Her tone and that look in her eyes, I didn't like it.
I shrugged. "I'm not gonna just make em leave, they wanted to stay here on there own violation, and you are welcome to join them if ya want."
Chrysalis snarled and hissed at me. I will not stand for a non changeling to rule MY subjects, go swarm, feed my children! we shall take back what is mine by force! Her horn lighted up a sickly toxic green color before she shot a beam at me, I stepped to the side and took out a baseball bat before whacking her in the head with it, knocking her out, before turning to the changelings she had brought with her.
"Changelings, all of you are welcome to join my Empire and feed freely from the love in the air." Oh god my male pride cried at me saying that. "All you have to do is swear loyalty to me, follow our laws, and only dig where you are told you can dig, any who try to kill or fight my guards will be shot, and their head hung on a pike as an example to those who want to hurt what I'm trying to create."
They all looked to each other before walking further into the Empire and settling down in some unused houses, note to self if I get anymore subjects to make fucking skyscrapers.
I dragged the former queen to the throne room and had her put into the dungeon, if she wanted to join me she would be let out,if not then within a month I would go down and shoot her.
About twenty minutes later Astral Starlight walked in. "Your highness I have some more good news for you, the first hover ship prototype has just been completed, and we are ready to begin testing its flight capabilities."
"Good, let's go then." We walked to an empty part of field just outside of the city,and surrounded by most of my research staff was a large oval like airship, it had a rounded bottom, and the back end of it was pointed like a teardrop, the bottom and sides where covered in a blue crystal with red gems the size of a head on the back, front and sides of it.
Astral sat down. "Once our unicorns pour some magic into the lofite crystal it will automatically draw in magic itself so it only needs to be done once, and the red gems are heat gems, they will help turn the ship and make it move without the use of propellers."
As a quick explanation lofite was a rare crystal that once it was exposed to a small concentrated burst of magic it would suck in magic from the air around it, much like an enchanted gem but the magic inside of it would cause it to float forever, it needed only magic to fuel the heat gems that make it move.
We watched as a crystal unicorn lowered her horn to the blue lofite crystals causing it to glow before it slowly rose up, chains keeping it tethered to the ground so it wouldn't float away before the second part was done, once it was ten feet into the air another unicorn plugged magic battery gems into four eight sockets and the red gems glew a cherry red and the ship stopped floating away.
I clapped my hands ,and Astral clapped his hooves. "Great job guys, but from what I remember you said lofite was rare, so how did you get so much of it Astral?"
He chuckled. "Well, since crystal unicorns can grow crystals with there magic I tested to see if the same could be used for lofite crystals, and much to my surprise it could, and due to the fact the unicorn in question only uses a little bit of magic to grow the crystal it is not nearly enough to power it up."
I nodded. "Alright, but can it really fly around without floating away, or crashing?" I questioned him,as I didn't want this thing crashing into the city or the wall.
"The heat gems will make sure it never crashes or goes where it's not supposed to, and the lofite will make sure it never needs to land for more gas like a normal airship." He nodded and the chains keeping the ship to the ground where snapped off and the pilot turned the ship around slowly moving it forward and backward.
"Good job guys, but who came up with this idea again? I keep forgetting." I spoke up, sipping some Nuka Orange again.
A stallion named Blue Gadget stepped up. "I did your highness, my house had a lofite lamp chained to the floor of my room so that is where we got the lofite from to begin with." He was blue with a brown mane and tail and green eyes.
"Well great job with the design of the hovership, I'm honestly surprised it worked, this will be sure to replace normal airships, your looking at a larger paycheck this week, keep up the good work and try to outfit it with missile launchers and plasma weapons for defensive air to air combat, and possibly bomb bay doors." I patted him on the head and walked back to the castle, and signed a paper for the first shipment of Nuka Cola and titanium to Equestria, the Nuka Cola would be sent to ponyville and the titanium would be sent to Canterlot, along with a surprise for Celestia.
Ponies watched as a weird train pulled into Ponyville station, it looked nothing like the friendship express aside from the its wheels, it was long with twenty cars all painted orange, and the front car had tinted windows so nopony could see inside it.
One of the cars opened up and a nukatron walked out with a small cart behind it, a nukatron is a protectron modified to act like a Nuka Cola vending machine, it would dispense cola for caps, or bits in this case, it walked slowly to an empty part of the market and set the cart up, it had a bright red and white sign that said 'Nuka Cola! Nuke your thirst! Cold and refreshing!' It didn't take long for ponies to walk up to the stand to see what was being sold.
The menu had regular Nuka Cola, Nuka Cherry, Nuka Grape, Nuka Orange, Nuka Wild, and Nuka Cola Quantum. All flavors of cola where two bits each, the same as a small six ounce bottle of Colta Cola, I mention the size because Nuka Cola only comes in 24 ounce bottles, so compared to the normal sized bottles that ponies were used to, these where king sized.
Pinkie walked up to the new soda stand, taking a look at the menu she smiled. "I'll take a Nuka Cola Quantum please!" She chirped.
The nukatron spoke up in the default protectron voice. "That will be two bits please."
Pinkie inserted two bits into the nukatrons coin slot and the flavor she wanted popped out of a tray like it would from a vending machine, after the nukatron handed her the soda she instantly drank all of it, somehow,and she smiled wider and started vibrating before shooting off, remember ponies that Quantum was advertised to have twice the sugar and caffeine than the regular Nuka Cola, the world is doomed.
Ponies having seen Pinkie like the new soda brand they all rushed and formed a line to get some, after all who knew how long the stand would be open for? Little did they know it would be open 24/7.
Soon ponies all around Ponyville where enjoying some flavor of Nuka Cola, even foals liked it, Equestrias Colta Cola brand had a new threat to deal with, aside from Frothy's Root Beer and Ginger's Ginger ale.
Meanwhile the train drove forward and headed into Canterlot station, guards where waiting for the train with wagons to haul the titanium bricks that the train held, the doors opened and the guards grabbed the titanium, and much to there surprise plans to build airships like the ones the Crystal Empire had used to bring Shining Armor and Cadence back, as soon as they were done the trains doors snapped closed and the train headed off, it was fully automatic being drove by a protectron the train was powered by a fusion generator like the ones you see sometimes in pre war basements. But what nopony saw was a stallion in a black cloak sneak into one of the train cars as it headed back to the Empire.
The train pulled into the Crystal Empire's train station around midnight, where a workforce of utility protectrons to reload the train for its next shipment of titanium before the train would pull into another section of the station, as the doors to the train opened a stallion in a black cloak sneaked around the protectrons who where loading the train and slowly made his way around the Empire towards the castle.
The stallion pulled out a small green amulet from a pocket on his cloak, and slipped it onto his hoof causing him to vanish from sight, he was still there but nopony could see him as he snuck into the castle and past the guards and assaultrons walking the halls.
Nopony noticed when the throne room doors opened and slowly closed themselves, and nopony noticed a stallion appear from thin air and he pulled out a six shot .45 revolver, taking aim at the thing sleeping in the throne he let off six shots, each hitting its chest.
I woke up to the sound of a gun going off, only to notice my armor had been dented and that there was a cloaked stallion holding a smoking revolver, he seemed to think I was dead and I used that to my advantage, quietly walking behind him, before picking him up. "Next time you try to kill someone, make sure your bullets get through their armor and make sure there dead you fucking moron." I said with a slightly psychotic cheery tone in my voice that would have sent a shiver down the Jokers spine.
I ripped off his cloak to reveal Blueblood, oh wow this fuckwit tried to kill me, in a castle FILLED TO THE BRIM with guards and combat robots,t he look of fear on his face as I pulled out my ten mm pistol and put it under his chin. "Well, I spared you in the duel, you ain't gettin that luxury again, have a nice vacation in hell you worthless bastard."
He flailed trying to bite ,hit, kick, anything to stop be from shooting him, even begged for his life, it was for nothing as I pulled the trigger and splattered his brains across the castles floor. "I'd call it a dignified death, not really it was actually quite pathetic hahahaha!" I took a look at my pipboy to see the time was exactly 12:25 Am, he must have snuck onto the train otherwise he would've been spotted the second he tried to enter the Empire.
Looking at my mechanist chest armor I saw six large dents in the metal, it's a good thing I had this thing reinforced with combat armor and made the armor a little thicker using titanium, otherwise I'd have to see if I could respawn. I sighed, once I woke up I wasn't able to fall back to sleep, and took something out of my inventory I thought would have no use here, a giddyup buttercup.
For those who don't know what a giddyup buttercup is, it's a little yellow robot pony that can run around and make horse sounds, it was a pre war toy for little girls and you can find them in some places around the Boston commonwealth, I had ten of these things and for roleplay reasons I had them set into the school parts of my settlements, but maybe I could give these to Equestria and let them create their own versions of it since there golems where pathetic,even one of my eyebots could kill one of there golems, just heat the runes keeping it powered and moving and blam its dead and useless.
Taking another look at my inventory I saw two weapons I never really used, the alien blaster and Hub's alien blaster, along with four hundred alien power cells for the thing. "Hmm...should I give one of these to Equestria? no doubt they will make a version to use magic as ammo but should I influence this worlds technological process? I mean, I did it for the Empire cause its mine and they've been gone for over a thousand years...fuck it." I took out the blueprints to build a giddyup buttercup that I got from a goul toymaker and the default alien blaster and ten cells of ammo for it, and an institute laser rifle before putting it into a box along with the giddyup buttercup with the plans to build it taped to its back.
The alien blaster was complete crap in my opinion, its weak and the beam is not like a normal laser weapon, it takes time for it to reach the target and even then it had weak damage, sure others loved it and I did like the way it looked, but it was just impractical for me to use it as a main weapon or even a backup weapon, so off to Equestria it goes for them to have a somewhat decent energy weapon, not near as good as mine are but you get the point, next time I went to Equestria I'd stop by the castle and give this to Celestia.
Looking at the time I saw it was around six thirty, damn I need to stop getting lost in thought, walking to the kitchen I made a cup of coffee and grabbed a bagel before going back to the throne room and sitting down, maybe I would invite Celestia for tea or something,other than the weapon developments it was getting boring around here.
Speaking of weapon developments my research ponies have made a gamma rifle, like the gamma gun but it used the energy crystals as ammo and it looked like a military grade weapon, and I'm sure nothing on this planet has any resistance to radiation so it will be a great weapon to use against dragons since I'm not sure if the plasma weapons on the wall would be effective against them since they swim in lava for fucks sake. Checking the time it was 7:30 am, time to wait for morning court.
Filthy Rich looked at his sales report, seeing Colta Cola had not been sold at all the past week he tilted his head and thought about that robot selling Nuka Cola, maybe he could get that thing to sell him some and then he could sell it at twice the price!
Filthy walked over to the stand the robot was selling at, it seemingly had an endless supply so it shouldn't be too hard to get it to give him some to sell. "Hello I am Filthy Rich owner of Barnyard Bargains, and I would like to make a deal with you to sell Nuka Cola in my store."
The Nukatron turned looked at Filthy. "Negative, Nuka Cola is a product of the Crystal Empire, it is not for sale in stores in Equestria."
Rich looked a bit miffed, nopony aside from that Lorenzo guy had told him no to a deal, it was his special talents making deals to make money after all. "Oh come on, surely there is some way we can come to an agreement? After all if Nuka Cola is sold in my store its sure to make you more money." This was it, nopony ever said no to more money.
"Negative, if you continue to pester this unit will defend itself violently." Despite its synthetic voice it was clearly a threat, Rich glared at the robot and walked off.
The creator and CEO of Colta Cola was NOT happy, in Ponyville sales of Colta Cola had completely dropped, what could be causing this? Cola Colt thought for a minute before he got a letter, it had said that shipments of Colta Cola where no longer needed in Ponyville due to sales of a new soda, called Nuka Cola, he glared at the letter before sending ten more crates of it to Ponyville, he would not lose anymore bits then he already has, he will sell his product where ever the hell he wanted to!
"Well, Nuka Cola, you've made your first and last mistake." Cola Colt turned to two ponies in trench coats with revolvers hidden under their coats. "Gentlecolts, I want you to 'convince' that fellow selling Nuka Cola in Ponyville to move his sales elsewhere." The two goons nodded and trotted off.
The CEO of Colta Cola and the factory that made it was in Canterlot,the two goons took the train to Ponyville, when they got there they saw a lone nukatron advertising Nuka Cola, they calmly walked up to him.
"Alright here is the deal pal ,our boss wants you to stop selling this trash on his terf, aka all of Equestria, so pack up and move elsewhere or we'll be forced to break your face." They pulled out their revolvers.
The nukatron aimed his arms at them. "Hostile detected." Much to the goons surprise it shot lasers out of its arms at them hitting there revolvers causing them to heat up making them useless, and disarming them. "Further hostile actions will lead to death." Its voice emotionless as it was programmed to be,the goons wisely fled.
Sitting on a throne and listening to nobles who actually CARE about the common pony was nice, this one had just asked for me to restore an old park that had fallen into disrepair with Umbra ruling, I agreed and he was sent on his way.
An Equestrian mailpony walked in and hoofed me a letter, as per normal I fed him a carrot and opened the letter while he waited in case I wanted to send a reply.
It hath come to mine attention that thou hast not returned the Crystal Empire to our niece Cadence, we demand thou return it to her post haste, or else, while Celestia is happy to sit by and let thou rule we shalt not put up with something telling our niece she is not entitled to her RIGHT as the ruler of the Crystal Empire, reply post haste -Princess Luna.
I sighed, this was the TENTH FUCKING TIME THIS WEEK SHE SENT THE EXACT SAME LETTER! I was DONE with this shit, and wrote a letter for Celestia and luna and the pink bitch to come visit, maybe once they realize WHY I can't give them the Empire they would fuck off.
Handing the letter to the mailpony and giving him a carrot for the road he smiled and flew off. I grinned watching him leave, I had given him some Nuka Cola cherry to drink on his way back after he ate the carrot. It was about three hours later that there was a large flash and Celestia, Luna, and the pink bitch teleported into the throne room with a bright flash of yellow light.
"Thank you for inviting us King Lorenzo, but I must ask, whatever for?" Celestia tilted her head as Luna and Cadence glared at me.
I nodded to her, she was the only princess I respected. "Because I have some technology to give you and because your sister Luna will not stop sending this exact same letter, I've gotten ten of the same letter within the past three days." I handed her the letter Luna kept sending me.
As Celestia read her smile slowly turned into a frown. "So you invited us here to explain why Cadence couldn't have the Empire? because I am fine with you ruling it."
I nodded again. "Yes, but also because I have some tech to give you, and for you to share with others if you want to."
I walked over to a window and looked at the crystal ponies and changelings going about their day, happy and carefree, and had the others walk over and observe this with me. "You see this? Those ponies, and changelings, are able to go about their day carefree aside from minor worries like what to make for dinner or lunch today, they don't have to worry about being violently taken over and turned into slaves and forced to mine deep beneath the grounds, or having to worry about dying of hunger from lack of love, or worrying about their foals and nymphs waking up tomorrow without a parent to care for them, I have created a great thing for them." I walked back over and plopped down on my throne, giving them a flat look while I spoke again.
I cracked my neck before speaking again. "This is why I can't give you the Empire, or rather why doing so would be pointless. I saved the Empire alone and essentially brought them into a golden age, I allowed the changelings which you all kill on sight into my Empire, the Empire is still relatively fresh out of banishment, and you wouldn't be able to take it anyway without taking very big risks on your forces and the 96,000 number of civilians that can't be evacuated, and yes I'm counting the changelings into that number."
Turning around I sat on the throne again. "On the topic of Cadence. Even if she truly is the rightful heir to the throne, no one will follow her, she won't have their loyalty. Where was she when the Empire was banished? Why was an unknown creature with unknown motives and capabilities the one to free them? They don't know nor do they care, all the Empire knows is the one they needed most was never there for them. The first thing she did upon arrival was try to kill a changeling, one of MY people, and demand I give her the throne. Even if I did she wouldn't have the throne for long. Who is everyone more likely to follow, their savior and avenger who didn't exactly want the throne, but accepted it anyway and as I said brought them into a golden age, or the princess of ANOTHER KINGDOM who they probably never knew about until the so called 'rightful heir' attacked them? If I did give her the throne the Empire would have done one of two things: come with me or rebel if not out of loyalty then for their changeling friends lives and either she would be ruling an Empire with the population of a small village or I would be back on the throne within the month." Celestia watched as Luna's and Cadence's jaws dropped, and in a very cartoonish fashion as they hit the floor.
"How do you think other kingdoms would see this? Taking over an empire shortly after it's discovery and return, or how about other changeling hives? She would ruling an empty Empire or it's citizens would rebel and if she escaped the likely regicide you would have a civil war that YOU started with yours truly back on the throne and due to the circumstances of the situation which I would make certain the rest of the world knew about, you would have little to no backup of any kind." To make this clear, I was talking to Cadence and Luna, Celestia was only invited due to me having tech to share with Equestria.
I was laughing on the inside at there faces. "There is no version of this where Equestria comes out on and stays on top, if I did give her the Empire we would be back to square one in a month and you wouldn't be able to do anything without making yourselves look like power hungry tyrants further damaging your would be strained relations with the other kingdoms. One way or another I always win, for even when I lose I make sure they don't get to enjoy it, and while I may seem like a complete and utter dick saying this as bluntly as I have, it should convince you why Cadence can't rule here, and why you should stop with the subtle threats."
Celestia snickered at Luna's and Cadence's faces, there jaws were dropped to the floor and there ears where flopped back, they looked as if someone told them santahooves wasn't real.
Luna stood up and looked at Cadence. "We art done here, let us go niece, where we are wanted." Luna's horn lit up white and her and the pink bitch teleported away, leaving only me and Celestia.
"That was a well thought out speech Lorenzo, I am sorry for the trouble Luna has caused you as I should have told her why I was fine with you ruling the Empire."
I shrugged. "It was clear it would not stop till I did something, but aside from this I have some things for you to take back with you when you go." I handed her a box with two giddyup buttercup robotic ponies in it, and the alien blaster with ten cells of ammo for it, along with a institute laser rifle with four cells of ammo for it.
Celestia looked surprised at this. "I thought you said you wouldn't be sharing technology like this?"
"Well, those robotic horses where toys for little children, and that blaster and the laser rifle will allow you to develop your own energy weapons and robots, because let's be honest here,your golems are just pathetic."
"Well thank you Lorenzo, but speaking of technology Equestria has recently developed an automatic carriage, called a Model-T, its powered by a block of gem that acts as the power source." Celestia showed me a few pictures of the Model-T and much to my surprise it looked like the Model-T from my world, aside from not having any crank on the front to start the engine.
I chuckled. "Impressive Celestia, would you mind sending over two models of each one since I gave you that box of goodies?"
Celestia smiled. "I see no problem with that, I was going to share the plans to make them with every kingdom anyway since this can better everyone, but I must be off now, day court will only wait so long before Im needed again." Celestia teleported off.
It was seven weeks later, and a lot had happened in that time, the hover ships were completed and refined to be heavy fighters that could fly at half the speed of sound, and I had the changelings and crystal ponies build a wall around the Empire to keep out invading forces, it was forty feet tall and 15 feet thick, made of crystal and stone reinforced with changeling goop, it was green while fresh and once it hardened it was pitch black, the wall had minutemen artillery along with gamma, plasma,and bullet anti air systems that could also be aimed at ground troops approaching the Empire, I was truly proud of my ponies for having invented so many weapons.
I had also shared radio technology with Equestria and the other kingdoms, all where outfitted with a deep range transmitter, something that in game was meant to relay messages from mars to Earth. So kingdoms all around the planet where broadcasting music of every kind, but what they didn't know was that my Empire has the institutes relay, it used radio waves to teleport synths in game all across the commonwealth, but with every radio station having a deep range transmitter to boost the signal I could teleport my troops or supplies to anywhere with a near those signals, now some may be thinking, oh hey with that he's gonna take over the world, nope it's just if any kingdom needs reinforcements since the dragons have been attacking anything for gems and gold lately.
And true to my word I went down to the former queen a month after she was put in the dungeon, she had refused to join me saying she would drain me dry until nothing but a husk remained, I shot her in the chest twenty seven times and hung her head on my wall like I did with Umbra's. And Equestria's robotic technology had gotten far better than their simple golems, they made a robot that looked a lot like a Fallout 3 protectron,but ponified, they sent photos and said it was called a ponytron.
It mainly ran off magic, no programming aside from spells telling it what to do, they would last a thousand years before needing replacement due to the gems inside them containing runes, and one in there head was able to shoot a blue laser just like the ones from Fallout 3.
Equestria's weapon technology had also gotten better, they had made magic powered versions of the laser rifle and the blaster I sent them, a day and night version for each.
Just as I was going over the photos Celestia sent me the cities alarm started going off, it sounded like your typical air raid alarm and I was notified on the radio that what looked like an army of Elk were approaching the Empire from the North side, activating the relay me along with three thousand combat robots teleported just outside the wall and met the army face to face.
One Elk, larger than all the other stepped forward. "You are on our holy land, we demand you remove yourselves from it this instant." He sounded kinda like someone from New York.
I rolled my eyes as I looked at him. "Why should I even think of doing that? This Empire has been here for thousands of years, and only recently came out of banishment, so no I will not be moving my entire Empire, because you want us to."
His antlers lit up a yellow color. "Then you leave us no choice." He shot a beam of magic at me, I rolled to the side and my sentry bots and assaultrons shot into action, charging into the Elks with no worry of death, magic shots took down some of my robots, but these ones would explode upon death with an explosion like a mini nuke.
I walked up to the head Elk, and grabbed his antlers. "You and your pathetic army will leave, and never return, otherwise I will hunt you all down till no Elk remains in the world, do I make myself clear?" My tone cold as the snow and ice around us.
While Elk around us where being butchered into chunks of meat by bullets, lasers,and rockets, before he kicked me in the stomach and fled for his life, the other Elk seeing their leader run for his life made the others follow, my robots kept shooting till they were out of range.
Taking a look at one of the Elk bodies they seemed to have on thin gold armor and used spears and swords along with there magic, they didn't have firearms, so it would be easier to kill them if they showed up again...yeah Im not letting it happen again and turned to my robots. "Hunt them down, all of them." The bots ran after the Elk after I said that, and I relayed back into the throne room.
My pipboy beeped letting me know someone was trying to message me, clicking accept I heard Celestia's voice. "Hello, King Lorenzo, A meeting with the world's leaders is set two days from now, will you be attending as well?"
"Eh sure, another meeting to show off technology that has been created over the last months?"
"Yes, not only weapons technology but also civilian technology, any of the Empires technology you wish to share please bring the blueprints for it, you are also allowed to bring tech that you will not be sharing." The call ended after that and I thought about it, eh screw it I'll just bring some of the new weapons my ponies had developed.
I grabbed the blueprints for the nightmare bombs, and I also grabbed some chems that I would give to the other kingdoms, no harm in giving them better medical equipment.
Putting all of the stuff into a box I closed it and then walked over to a section of field about three miles outside the Crystal Empire, I was still in the barrier but I was outside the city itself. Walking up to an aircraft bay with the new hover ships I booked one to take me to Canterlot in two days, with that done I relayed back to the throne room and continued on with my day as normal.
Two days later I got a message that the meeting was taking place in three hours, so I got into the hovership after grabbing the box I put the tech stuff into and we shot off for the Empire at half the speed of sound, much faster than the 50 miles per hour airships every other kingdom has.
Ponies all around Equestria watched as a slick teardrop shaped object flew past at amazing speeds that only a certain rainbow maned pegasus could beat. Celestia watched as a teardrop shaped craft approached Canterlot at speeds only dreamed off by Equestrian airship captains, before it slowly came to a stop and landed in one of the ship docks, before a hatch opened and much to her surprise Lorenzo hopped out and the latch closed.
"Damn, thought it would take longer to get here, seems I'm early." I chuckled at Celestia's face before she shook her head.
"A pleasure Lorenzo,it seems your empire's technology has progressed at an astounding rate, tell me, did you bring anything to share with the kingdoms?"
I nodded as we walked to a field with targets set up, I could see a few Model-T's on the field as well, one was a van one was a truck and the last was a regular car for two ponies. "Yes, I have brought something I think will be a big help for you and the others against the dragons, but that will be revealed in the field demonstration."
She nodded as we sat on the ground, a large blanket had been set out with Nuka Cola and some snacks for everyone. "Also I have some news Lorenzo, a new kingdom has come to light, the Diamond Dog Kingdom, their king will be showing up as well for the demonstration, I do not know if they have any technology to share though,but we will see." Celestia grabbed a slice of cake and some tea.
Soon the others showed up, and the new guy Bonejaw, he was a diamond dog that looked like a breed of wolf or something, he had on a dark blue suit and fedora with a green tie, and I could see a revolver in his suits pocket.
Celestia stood up and we followed her to a few Model-T's. "This is a Model-T it is an automatic cart that needs no pony power to move it forward, we have also invented top of the line robotics due to the help of Lorenzo." She motioned to a guard and he opened a box, and a ponytron stepped out, again it looked just like a Fallout 3 protectron, but ponified, it turned to a target before a blue beam shot from the dome on its head causing the wooden target to turn to ashes.
A solar guard brought out two new weapons, a day version of the blaster, and a standard version of the laser rifle, before shooting each at a target. "These were also made with the help of Lorenzo."
Bonejaw nodded his head. "Impressive, I've also noticed all the new radio towers and music broadcasting across the world, I assume Lorenzo was responsible for that as well?" He sounded like Jimmy Falcone from the cartoon Fugget about it.
Celestia nodded. "He gave us plans to make the towers and how to make radios,thanks to him I no longer have to have send my student letters when I need her to do something, and the music my little ponies broadcasts is just lovely."
Steel Horns nodded in agreement. "Aye, my people have invented what we call a Mark-12 one pounder, it is an artillery piece that can shoot a target from two miles away." A minotaur guard loaded the weapon and shot a hole through a target behind three thin wooden walls.
Razor Claw stood up next and pulled out, a standard revolver and pulled out a bullet. "Now this may not look like much, but trust me it is far better than what we currently use." He put the bullet back into the gun and shot a round into the air, much to everyone's surprise there was no flash of smoke like the other bullets others aside from my empire used. "We have invented smokeless gunpowder, gives the bullet more power."
Bonejaw pulled a pump action shotgun off his back before showing it off. "And my diamond dogs have invented a pump action shotgun, just pump it to load a new shell and keep shooting, it holds 8 shots." He aimed at a close target and pumped the gun before shooting all 8 shots, every time he shot he pumped the gun making that classic click-click sound.
I grinned and stood up. "My Empire has invented many weapons, most of which you will never get, but I have with me a perfect weapon to use against the dragons." I pulled out a nightmare bomb, careful not to let it drop. The others stared at the bomb. "This, is what I call a nightmare bomb, any volunteers to test it out?"
The griffin king shoved one of his guards forward, I had him go about twenty feet into the field before pulling out a fatman and loading the bomb into it. "Now this is a fatman, for my use only, these are meant to be dropped out of a airship." Taking careful aim so that it would land near him and not crush him and fired, the bomb whistled as it flew and hit the ground denting the bombs shell causing the nightmare mist to seep out and react to the guards worst fear.
The nightmare mist took the form of a large black hydra with fire in it's four mouths, causing the guard to flee in terror and the hydra to blow away in the wind, turning around I saw the others staring with their jaws dropped.
Celestia was the first to speak up. "I do think that will be rather effective at making the dragons flee from villages they try to raid or burn, thank you Lorenzo,was that all?"
Shaking my head I grabbed the chems from the box I brought. "Nope, I'm also giving you all better medical technology, there is a list of how to make these and what they do." I handed each of them a box with one of each chem and instructions on how to make them. I had given them stimpacks, jet, and buffout.
They traded blueprints to each other and ate a few snacks as I walked back into my ship and flew off, I was just over Ponyville when a large green dragon slammed into my ship knocking it twenty feet to the left.
The ships alarms blared and flashed as it was crashed into by a large green dragon, think of it like this, see that 707 pulling into the terminal? It wants to eat you.
I winced as the dragon blew fire at the ship, making the alarms blare harder, aiming the ships weapons at it the ponies of Ponyville watched in awe and terror as large flashes of green and yellow light tore into the dragon, along with what looked like fireworks hitting it in the eyes. The dragon let out an unholy screech of pain as the ships gamma, plasma, and missile defenses ripped into its hide like tissue paper, the plasma burned the wounds caused by the missiles other than that it had no effect.
Pressing a green button a mini gun slid out of the nose of the ship and I aimed it at the dragon before holding own the fire button, ponies covered their ears as a loud BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT sound filled the air with the dragons screeching and the dragon fell onto the town since its wings had more holes in them then swiss cheese.
Quickly landing the ship I hopped out and walked up to the dragon, somehow it was still alive and trying to get up, I pulled a mini nuke out of my inventory and walked up to it. "Your first mistake was denting my ship,your second mistake was trying to attack said ship, and your third mistake was pissing me off, so enjoy this treat!" I opened its mouth and jammed the mini nuke down its throat and backed up.
The green dragon coughed and tried to breathe fire on me, only for it to detonate the mini nuke severing its head from its body in a rather gory fashion causing the nearby ponies to gag and some to pass out or throw up.
A larger hatch opened from the back of the ship and I dragged the dragon's head into it, I planned to have that mounted In my kill room, turning around to the ponies still staring in shock at the scene. "Sorry about the mess, have a nice day all!" After that I got back into the ship and flew back to the Crystal Empire
The trip back to the Empire was peaceful, thankfully no other dragons thought of attacking my ship, the Empire came into view and I cranked the speed up, within five minutes I was in a aircraft bay and had landed the ship before hopping out and relaying back to the throne room, now some of you might wonder, why didn't ya just relay back after the dragon attacked and you were flying back? Its cause the last fucker to try that ended up halfway into one of the nearby houses, I was not risking that.
I dragged the dragon head to the same pony who had cleaned my Umbra skull, she was a bat pony named pumkin, and had her clean and skin the head before I dragged it back to my kill room, it was a room with the skulls of those I have killed, there was Umbra's skull, Chrysalis's skull, the skull of that Elk king that had tried to invade the Empire, and now a dragon's skull was added to the collection, if this continued I was gonna need a bigger room to store these skulls.
Walking back to the throne room I checked the reports I was given on my pipboy about the sales of Nuka Cola in Equestria and was happy to see that the Colta Cola Company had gone bankrupt, now I and I alone owned all sales of Cola in Equestria, unless someone else creates a new cola, but that's highly unlikely to happen, sales of Nuka Cola had been made in every city and town in Equestria, and had effectively ended any and all sales of Colta Cola, I had sent Nukatrons to all cities and towns to help make that happen, even my ponies here in the Empire loved Nuka Cola.
I had tasted Colta Cola, and compared it to Nuka Cola, I think the reason ponies loved Nuka more than Colta Cola was because Nuka was sweet, and Colt Cola was bitter and had a bite to it, kinda like when Coca Cola had first come out, it was very bitter and had a bad taste, and a lot of cocaine and caffeine, and yes I know this because I watched a documentary called 'The Cola Wars' I was happy to find out no cocaine was in Colta Cola, otherwise I'd have to see if addictol worked for that, after that I went to sleep.
(Equestrian laser weapons,night and day version
(Ponytron
(Model-T's,just without the ford logo and no crank
It was three weeks later, and Bonejaw could not be happier, because that Lorenzo guy had invented a bomb that needed magic to work, Equestria just made them and shipped them to his city Sapphire Sky, it was called that due to the numerous sapphires that covered the caverns ceiling.
Bonejaw's kingdom was run like a mafia, he wouldn't let anything stand in his way, as he always said, the end justifies the means, so taking that into account he had made something that looked a lot like a flamethrower, and took the nightmare mist from the bombs and pumped it into said device, his troops even had crude gas masks like the ones you would see in world war one.
Dragons had tried to attack his city, and he and his troops had fought back using the nightmare mist, and mustard gas along with explosives, the dragons never stood a chance in a pan fried hell against those things, Bonejaw tolerated many things, but he would NOT tolerate this attack on his home.
He got up from his throne and put out his cigar in an ashtray before walking off to the weapon bay, it was supposed to be an airship bay but he had rigged said airships to explode and pour out nightmare mist, and mustard gas, he kept mustard gas a secret of course, he wouldn't wanna give the other nations something like that, and what they didn't know wouldn't hurt em.
"Oy! I want these things up in the air and teleported deep into the dragon lands as soon as possible!" He was talking to a white diamond dog in a lab coat.
"Aye sir, but what will you do with them since they are rigged to explode? I don't think that will hurt the dragon's much."
Bonejaw rolled his eyes. "You moron, don't you remember that I had the others pump those airships full of nightmare mist and mustard gas? it will kill since it worked to get rid of em here, so I'm damned sure it will work on them again."
Most don't know this, but diamond dogs CAN use magic, just not much,they tend to rely on runes for more advanced things, such as teleportation, ten airships filled to the brim with nightmare mist and mustard gas sat in the center of a large runic circle, they each had a timed bomb on them that would blow a hole into them causing said gases to get sucked out and spread so long as the ships where in the air.
Twenty diamond dogs in red robes that had runes on them started glowing yellow, and so did the circle, with a flash the ten floating airships where teleported to the heart of the dragon lands, sadly diamond dogs had limited magic, so once the glow died down the twenty dogs where dead where they stood, but as Bonejaw always said, the end justifies the means.
Dragons all around the kingdom looked to the bright yellow flash in the center of their kingdom, just above the kings cave, and saw ten dirt brown airships, perhaps it was an attempt by the ponies to attack them, pathetic really, ponies and every other species was only really good for one thing, serving the dragons, since they were to stupid to see that dragons would just take what they wanted, WHEN they wanted, and no one was gonna stop em, had been goin good for almost a year now, burning towns cities and villages for the gold and gems inside them.
The dragon king looked out from his cave, the inside was miles deep and filled to the brim with gold gems and other shiny things, he looked a lot like the ender dragon from minecraft, black scales and purple eyes and a purple flame pattern on his back and wings, flying up he got a close look at the airships, seemed no one was on bored.
Just as he was about to burn them each one had a rather large hole blown out of them and a black mist that and the smell of onions floated out of the ships, the king took a breath about to burn the ships, only to grab his throat and start coughing, his eyes foamed and his throat clogged, before he fell to the ground trying to breathe, about five minutes later he fell still, dead.
Other dragons fell to the same fate, the nightmare mist was only really put into the ships to push out the mustard gas, since the gas blocked off airways in the body the mist didn't have time to take effect, since you needed to breathe it in for it to have any effect.
Once most the dragons in the area where either dead or dying the ground shook as Bonejaws forces popped up from the ground, each one wearing a protective rubber suit with a gas mask on, they had metal clubs and went about smashing every dragon egg they could find, along with looting every cave, chest, and even pulling some gold teeth out of some dragon's mouth, before Bonejaw himself walked right into the kings cave, he saw a pink dragoness clutching ten eggs, dead, he calmly walked up before smashing the eggs, and ordered his troops to take all the gems and gold they could after sealing off this cave, they would tunnel back to there own city and constantly move the gems and gold from here to there, giving them more wealth and things to trade with other kingdoms.
Cola Colt looked sadly at his closed factory, his company had gone bankrupt, he had nothing left aside from a small house with a few things, his sad look turned to rage, his company was ruined, his LIFE and dream was ruined, he would have his revenge against the creator of Nuka Cola even if he had to die to get it!
Walking into his home he entered a code into a wall mounted safe, when it was open he had a .45 revolver, and three I.E.D or three improvised explosive devices, now one might wonder why he had those in his safe, it was because he used to work in construction, and he would often have to blow up sections of an area so the place could be dug faster and concrete poured.
Getting onto the train to Ponyville it took three hours for it to reach Ponyville, when it did he walked around till he saw the nukatron selling Nuka Cola and pulled out his pistol, and shot it on the little screen on it causing it to shatter and causing the nukatron to go into defense mode, it aimed its arms at Colt and shot red lasers at him,causing him to duck behind a cart,he armed one of the bombs and threw it at the nukatron,causing it to be blown to scrap.
"Heh..hehe..HAHAHAHA! I did it!" He laughed until he noticed three guards making there way towards him, he pulled out his pistol and shot one in the head,causing the other guards to pull out there blasters,and shoot the entire cells at him, since Colt had no armor on he was turned to blue ashes by the weapons energy.
To be clear, Bonejaw didn't rule all diamond dogs, just around a million or so, there are still tribes of them that don't follow his rule, and right now once such pack was trying to raid the Crystal Empire.
A diamond dog with crude iron armor and a rusty spear tried to stab me, I grabbed his head and smashed it into my knee, the force of which caused his neck to shatter.
"I swear to fuck if you mutts don't leave now I'll personally turn you to paste!" Deciding I did not care anymore I grabbed the mini nukes from my inventory along with a fatman I fired causing most the dogs to die to either the blast or the radiation of the three bombs I launched.
Dogs left right and center where being killed by my robots, the crystal guard was only to defend the citizens if any threat got INTO the Empire's city itself, that's why I normally just bring robots to battles, but the guards were helping, manning the wall they fired plasma weapons at the dogs.
A large red diamond dog, three times the size of any other and had golden armor and two axes carved from what looked like diamond let out a roar and beat his chest before charging, only to get a hole blown in his head before his body fell to the dirt, that was it, no battle to the death, no fight for honor and no gems to take, just a simple head shot by one of the Empire's snipers, the diamond dogs seeing there alpha fall to the dirt dead they fled, I had my robots hunt them down before I returned to the throne room,today had been interesting to say the least.
First I had gotten news that the dragon kingdom had collapsed, then I got news that the owner of the Colta Cola company had killed a nukatron thinking it was the creator of nuka cola, and then these sad sacks of shit tried to invade during my mid day tea time, it was green tea if you must know.
Some good news came in today also, one of my guards had reported that 'the project' had been completed, if anyone else shows up to fight the Empire I'll just let them fight that monster of a robot.
We all know who Liberty Prime is right? A giant ass kicking robot that spouts off things about America, well when I told my ponies about it they got an idea, and made a fucking ponified version of it, mainly made of blue crystals that protected the internal components it was 40 feet tall and had hooves the size of a fuckin car, and shot beams of energy from a horn on its head,and it was ready to be field tested, I just choose to let them do that themselves since I didn't wanna leave the throne room every time someone got something to work right, a simple report will do.
My pipboy beeped and I clicked accept on the call before Celestia's voice came through. "Lorenzo, we have a problem." She sounded stressed.
I raised an eyebrow at this, I hadn't expected a call from Celestia today. "Yes? what is it exactly?" I asked with some slight concern in my voice.
What she said next shocked me. "King Bonejaw has turned on us and is planning to attack Equestria, then the Crystal Empire, for what reason he is doing this I do not know, but he has a new weapon that can kill you just by breathing it in, my spies have told me its called 'mustard gas'"
I was silent for a few moments. "Fuck this world just got a lot more complicated, I'll send over the schematics for gas masks as soon as I can, they should keep your troops safe."
"Thank you Lorenzo, I'm sure that together we will have no problem beating him, I must go now I've just gotten reports that there's been a shooting in Ponyville." The call ended and took a look at the booze in my inventory. ".....Fuck it I need it." Taking out some of everything I drank enough to make Berry Punch cheer.
The road ahead would either be short or long, with Bonejaw turned on us no doubt the other kingdoms would offer aid, I just hope this don't turn into a world war one thing, probably not since the only other major kingdom was already taken down by Bonejaw.
griffin stick grenade 
Minotaur gatling gun 
and my oc king razor claw
