Celestia watched as her loyal guardmare's loaded up onto a battle ready airship, she had to make sure her guards could actually protect themselves after all, she had no idea if this new landmass within the Badlands was hostile or not, or if it was some changeling trick devised to fool her and her guards, however she doubted that since she knew nothing on this planet, aside from maybe Discord himself could cause what she had felt was full of power, possibly more than even Discord had, that thought itself scared her slightly, while Celestia herself was not lacking in the power department, the consequences of USING that power is what scared her, for fear of what might happen to her ponies, and others that did not deserve her solar wrath.

The airship was rather large, about 200 feet long, and 70 feet wide, it looked like a WW1 German zeppelin, but had some differences as well, for one the bottom hull seemed to be thicker, having stationary cannons placed all around it at angles for either air to air, or air to ground attacks, it was one of the most advanced airships in the entire Equestrian Royal Air Force, or the ERAF, for short, it had 36 inch cannons, Hale missiles, the most advanced engines possible for the time of this airship, by all means it was the pride of the ERAF, and it was closing in on a new landmass that had taken a chunk out of the badlands, every guardmare was on edge, as they had no idea what to expect with nothing but the orders to not start any hostilities and to only shoot their cannons off if they needed to defend themselves.

As the new landmass came into view, many jaws dropped as they saw it seemed to be a seemingly MUCH larger version of the Crystal Empire some of them had seen in the frozen north, it seemed over 50 times larger than the one in the frozen tundras of the north, a large city with strange blue shield spells surrounding it all, as they where about to send a radio message, a rather large lime green dragon flew into view, seemingly either its rest was disturbed or its home had been destroyed once this Empire had taken its place on the Badlands, and it let out a roar of the likes the many guardmare's that crewed the ship had never thought possible, and some got their cannons ready, as if stone cannonballs would do anything against a dragons thick scales, however it seemed to ignore them and head for the new Empire, and one of the many weird looking cannons on the wall that surrounded the ENTIRE empire, aimed up and with no warning, fired, the railgun projectile tore into the dragons hide like paper, it shot three times, once in the chest, one in the wing, and another in the head before the dragon fell dead to the sands bellow with a large crash.

Captain Cloud Charge, a dark blue pegasus mare with yellow eyes, and a light blue mane and tail, with a weird uniform on, like the ones you'd see during the civil war, it was completely made of yellow cloth,the current pony in command of the airship Celestial Might, grabbed a radio speaker from a counsel and clicked it before speaking. "Be on alert mares! We have no idea if this thing will shoot at us also, I will be sending a radio message and setting it to repeat, if they turn out to be hostile, shoot to cause as much damage as possible." With that, the guards rushed to their battle stations, holding their breath as they awaited for orders.

Captain Cloud Charge looked down at the Empire, seeing what LOOKED like radio antenna, so she could only hope that this worked, and that this new Empire was not hostile as she grabbed the radio again and clicked before once again speaking. "This is Captain Cloud Charge, captain of the Celestial Might of the ERAF, we are requesting clearance to land and investigate the off the charts energy readings that we got about five hours ago." She took her thumb off the button on the radio and set the message to repeat.

It only took five minutes for her to get a response, one she had not expected in all honesty, a male voice spoke up through the radio and what he said next surprised her. "This is King Lorenzo, Ruler of the Crystal Empire, you are permitted to land in the section marked with red lights, I will meet you at the landing site within five minutes." What he said should have been impossible, no male had been leader except a thousand years ago when King Sombra violently took over the Crystal Kingdom, she was calling the normal Crystal Empire the Crystal Kingdom to save time and so to not confuse these two Empire's, regardless of what she thought personally she did as told and started to fly through the shields, seemingly they allowed the airship through as she flew over a large circle of red lights, and the petrol propellers aimed upward, forcing the airship to land inside the marked area, with that done she ordered her guardmare's to disarm the cannons, but keep their muskets or pistols on them, in case the need arised where they needed to defend themselves.

Cloud Charge watched as a weird bull-less carriage that was a mint green color with white colored tires, pulled up, and much to her shock two armored stallions stepped out of the carriage and one opened one of the doors on the back of it, and out stepped a creature she had never seen before in her entire time in the guard, and that was no easy feat since she had been to most kingdoms or empire's on the planet during her active duty to protect the Princess from any and all threats while she was visiting other kingdoms, the ponies themselves looked weird, they had a different body shape compared to her, or any other stallion she had ever seen, as for how she was able to tell they where stallions when they had on what seemed to be full suits of armor, was the fact the muzzles on the armor where completely square, mares had round muzzles, while the creature itself wearing a silver crown with three red gems in it, seemingly this 'King Lorenzo' looked MOSTLY like a pony, but was missing a few key features, for one the lack of fur aside from the mane on his head, and the lack of a muzzle, fur, and tail, and weirdly shaped hooves.

I sighed as I got into the corvega four door sedan with two guards, I had woken up only two hours ago, to find much to my surprise, aside from a few broken bones, and some collapsed buildings, everything was relatively intact throughout the Empire itself, the underground super structure thank fuck wasn't damaged, that woulda been a clusterfuck of a nightmare to deal with, from the radio message, and from what the cameras on the wall had shown me, I was in a completely different fucking world, if this was the work of Discord, I would personally hunt that bastard down, and saw his dick and balls off with a rusty combat knife, cook them, then FEED THEM TO HIM BY SHOVING THEM DOWN HIS GOD DAMNED THROAT! To say I was pissed about this unscheduled moving day would be the understatement of the CENTURY, all the plans I had for the world I WAS in before, where ruined, I had planned to bring Equestria into a space faring age, colonizing the other planets within the solar system, now that plan was ruined, and now I wouldn't be able to have a relaxing visit with MY version of Celestia, I knew JACK SHIT about this world other than the ponies here where full on anthro, unlike my semi anthro ponies, who could walk on either two legs, or all four if they so choose.

After about five minutes, just as I said, we arrived at one of the smaller landing pads, meant for the old crystal airships before those became outdated by the fortress troop carriers and gunships, and from what I could see, this airship was a little more than different to the ones used by the Equestria I was used to, it looked more like a world war one zeppelin rather than the wood,metal, and cloth airships the Equestria I knew used, plus it's cannons where stationary, rather than on turrets like a normal airship.

I watched as the captain of this weird airship walked down a ramp with two guardmare's, strange since most guards in the normal Equestria where male, her two guards each had a flintlock musket with a bayonet attached to the end of it, before she stopped less than 10 feet away from me. "You are King Lorenzo, yes?" She sounded very....confused, strange considering I should.

I nodded. "Yes I am King Lorenzo, what exactly was it that I could help you with?" I was curious, it was less than a day later before this Equestria, of which I will just call Equestria to save time, investigated my Empire, and the differences I could see in technology, made me a little disappointed all that effort to beef up Equestrias military was something I'd never get to see how far they advanced on their own now, however hopefully the Empire disappearing didn't destroy the planet or something.

She looked to be in deep thought for a few moments before she got her composer back. "I am going to need you to come with me, Princess Celestia will want to meet you, and most likely she will have many questions to ask." She looked nervous, as if I was just going to shoot her for speaking.

I shrugged. "Sure I can come, however I will be taking these two guards with me." The two stallions in power armor had their mini guns rev up before they stopped spinning, I just grinned at those two.

Cloud Charge seemed conflicted for a few moments, before she hesitantly nodded. "I suppose that is acceptable, please follow me your majesty." She walked back up the ramp with her two guards following, and I followed along with my guards, after sending a message over the plasma communicators PAM was left in charge of the Empire for now, and I was taken into what I assumed, was a staff break room as there where a few couches, a small radio, a pool table, a fridge with food and drinks in it, and a few books, I was getting weird stares by the guardmare's that had already been inside the room before the captain brought me here, my two guards where also getting weird looks as well, but if they noticed, they didn't show it, since they kinda had helmets on, that kinda makes it hard to see what someone may or may not be thinking.

Author's Notes:

note, I am in a motel atm cause my new small house is so packed full of my shit that I don't have a place to sleep as I have yet to organize it, this was written on my laptop XD Did ya enjoy this? what do you think of the new world? what other differences are there in this world to the old one? only time will tell my little ponies, if ya liked it, lemme know down in the comments bellow

also since this is a new Equestria, what season should it be set in?? any ideas? any would help as for that part, I have not yet decided