After Craig left I had nothing left to really do, or so I thought.

"HALT!" Suddenly I'm surrounded on all sides by pegasi and the princesses along with the Elements of Harmony. I don't move since attacking would be bad for my case. The Elements of Harmony and Princess Celestia walk towards me angrily. Time to bluff. I fall to the ground and project an illusion which makes it look like a ghost left my body.

I yell, "No! Kill it before it possesses someone else!" Everyone buys it and most of the guards go chasing after the 'real ghost'.

"Are you okay?" Twilight asks as she runs up to me.

"You try fighting another entity as an artificial intelligence, it's not fucking fun!" I lie. Good thing I can't show it, or else I'd be in deep shit.

"I'm giving you until the count of ten to explain yourself." Princess Celestia says menacingly, the rest of the Elements of Harmony getting into defensive positions around her.

"I lost control to that AI which is known as Zeta for the past week. When I defeated the Ursa Major Zeta appeared and took me by surprise before locking me out completely. I am lucky I was even able to regain access to my armor. By chance Zeta brought my pelican gunship here as well." I point to the gunship.

"Very well, what are those weapons on your back and their capabilities?" Luna demands.

"If you're asking me to give you them I'm afraid I can't do that. This and that gunship along with all the technology in it belongs to Project Freelancer and I cannot give you any of these without starting an intergalactic war." I bluff, well not exactly a bluff because there is a chance the rest of the UNSC and Project Freelancer, the Covenant remnants, and the insurrections are in this universe. The thought scares me.

"Pray tell, how would that cause a war of such scale." Celestia argues, eyebrows raised. The rest of the girls and even some guards look at me expectantly.

"There are weapons from many different societies in there..." Not exactly untrue. "Some of these weapons are prototypes. Or would you like to fight against one of these?" I project an image of the Covenant glassing Harvest. "Or if you are feeling lucky how about them?" I project an image of the Ur-Didact's ship, 'The Mantle's Approach'. "Either one of those could destroy this entire planet in a single shot."

"How do we know you will not use this technology against us?" Twilight asks.

"I would like to know that as well." Luna adds, getting nods from everyone else.

"Simple, you haven't done anything to me. Besides, I wouldn't be allowed to unless you commited a crime against me anyways."

"Fine but we'll-" Celestia is interrupted when I hold up a hand.

"I'm sorry but you won't be able to watch me every hour of every day if you can't even achieve space flight." Everyone looks at me skeptically.

"Who says we would allow you to leave our sight in the first place?" Luna asks threateningly.

"Look, I'm not the guy you should be angry at. I have not done anything to you. Nor can you prove that I have either. All you really know is that I've been battling a superior AI for the past week. Until I actually do something that warrants this kind of aggression you shouldn't unrightfully treat me like some kind of experiment." Everyone gasps at this and Rainbow Dash glares at me and gets me in my face.

"You do not talk to the princess like that!" She tries to throw a punch but I catch it.

"Have you ever had your personality split, over, and over, and over again until there isn't a piece of you left?! They experimented on me! They tortured me! They killed me!" All of the AI fragments appear and simultaneously say, "We are the product of greed, failure, torture, and because someone simply couldn't LET GO!" Every single pony including the princesses are dazed by my voice. "The horses have your flags!" Every single red and blue soldier within a kilometer hear me as my armor color changes to half blue and half red.

"This is the director of the Reds and Blues!" The reds and blues point their weapons at me. "These horses want your flags, your guns, and your armor! The was have come to an end. We must fight to unite or they will destroy all we have ever known and permanently kill us! That's right! We won't respawn! As I'm speaking all respawn points have been destroyed. Get them!"

The ponies recover and all the guards charge us as we open fire on them, many of the Reds spamming their grenades and rockets while shouting memes while the Blues were relaxing while scoring headshot with all their weapons. The princesses combine their magic to form a super barrier which protects the Elements of Harmony

Twilight gasps as she sees her mentor and Princess Luna strain against the bullets and rockets barraging the barrier. She lights her horn to add her magic to relieve some of their magical stress.

"What do we do?! They're killing everypony!" Rainbow Dash shouts.

I walk towards my gunship and wave a few reds and blues leaders over. "I need you to direct your respective teams from in here. We can't have you dying." The hardened squad commanders do as they are told and get in the passenger seats. "After this is all over you will all be getting promotions. Oh and you will receive mansions because why the hell not." They cheer. I get into the cockpit and start the gunship. It starts hovering and I force it to turn towards the thorn in my side. The ponies.

"Activating missile function. Firing on mark." Delta says.

"3. 2. Mark!" A barrage of over 16 missiles fire all at once towards the ponies and all of them are completely gone.

6 Months later

"Court is no longer in session! Leave the Emperor's presence at once and be lucky you were even able to be here in the first place!" I roar at the officials who are of many different races, human, griffin, pony, etc.

It has been six months since I usurped the throne of Equestria and molded the peaceful country to my image. The capital fell in less than an hour, and all the protectorates and the rest of the country fell and bowed down to me. The sun and moon move on their own now. Not that it wasn't already supposed to be like that. Phones, guns, cars, planes, all kinds of different technology now exist.

You could say, "Freedom is the only way now." No longer do the holds of tyranny separate us, for we are one. And the Meta wins.