I woke up with a rather weird sounding yawn, like when you start to yawn and it just turns into a scream, yet not as loud...or something like that, fuck if I know how to describe shit, I just woke up, fuck off with your logic for now, I need my coffee first before I can fully process shit going on around me, so with that said I got up and stumbled outside of the door to the room I had been given, and with a quick message to my two guards, they had been given the day off, but had the orders to not leave the castle whatsoever unless they wanted to be punished for it.

I yawned again, normally this time as I made my way down the hall, and I was about to look for the kitchen or dining room, when the same maid from before walked up and stopped me, she still had on the same uniform as before, but this time she had a tray in her hands. "Sir? Did you need something? You could have just rang the small rope bell system next to your bed built into the wall."

Truth be told I did see that, however I just ignored it since I had no idea what it was for to begin with, I was escorted back to my room, and I sat down tiredly on the bed I had been provided with as I tried to slowly wake up, a task nearly impossible without the black gold known as coffee, so I spoke up since the maid, who's name I have yet to learn, was still here. "I still don't know your name, you never introduced yourself, I'd also like to ask if you could bring me a large mug of black coffee, no cream, no sugar, no sweeteners, just plain black coffee."

She just smirked, which somewhat confused me. "I am Vanilla Coco, and yes I can get you what you wanted, so please just wait here while I get it, try not to leave, as unless you know the layout of the castle, you will get lost and may end up in a place your not supposed to be." She left the room after she finished speaking, leaving me alone, checking the time I realized it was 5 am....fuck my fucking life I hated mornings, I really hate em, I also just realized due to all this shit that the battleships and the Crystal Lorenzo had yet to be launched due to the drama of the past two days, damn it.

After about five minutes, Vanilla Coco came back with the requested item, the beverage of the gods, black gold, plain, black, coffee, within five seconds of having the 12 ounce cup of liquid ambrosia I had drained the cup completely, much to Vanilla Coco's surprise, she took the cup and placed it back onto the small tray she had brought it on. "Breakfast is in two hours, please remain here until then, when it is time I will be sent to escort you to breakfast." She walked out of the room again, not even giving me a chance to reply now that I was somewhat awake due to the coffee.

I was thinking about how the battleships and the Crystal Lorenzo hadn't been launched due to the chaos that the world displacement thing had caused, I'd need to learn more about the militaries of this world, for now I knew they had muskets, so I didn't have to worry much in the gun department if a battle ever took place, however I was fairly certain anything I had would outclass anything brought against my Empire, aside from Celestia's fuck you cannon, aka her solar beam blasts.

I sighed, I'd have to authorize the launch of the battleships and make a speech for the launch of the Crystal Lorenzo, due to demand from the citizens of the Empire, the launch of the Crystal Lorenzo was to be a celebration of great joy, the crowning achievement of the Empire, for now that was secondary however, I had to get a network of information that I had in my world, up and running within this world to monitor other kingdoms and empire's, in doing so Pam would be able to predict what may or may not happen, therefor allowing me and the Empire to prepare for the worst of the worst to happen.

Checking the time I saw it was 6:30 AM, time passes slowly when its morning, or fast? I don't know which one it was this time, either way I was now fully awake and aware, I was able to actually think clearly, with this new world I was already beginning to create plans for this world like I had the last one, all the while I had my Empire's ERD looking into portal technology, for those who don't know by now, sections of research are divided into parts within the Empire, ERD stands for Experimental Research Department, hell even now Blue Gadget was working on a larger version of Crystal Prime, I was just going to let him do his own thing, since in the end it was ultimately for the benefit of the Empire as a whole.

I got up and went into the bathroom of the room I had been provided, and I must say, it looked like a normal bathroom you'd see on Earth, if it was from a rather fancy hotel, after closing and locking the door, out of habit, I hopped into the shower after turning it onto scorching hot, just the way I liked it, and cleaned myself of the sweat and filth that had built up so far from the lack of taking a proper shower for over a day, that itself took about 15 minutes, after that I dried off and put on my clothes once again, and stepped outside of the bathroom after making sure to open a window so the steam wouldn't keep the room fogged up TO long, and saw Vanilla Coco waiting for me.

"It's time for breakfast sir, if you would please follow me to the dining room." She seemed...different, meeker, than she was before, I just chucked it off as her being tired or something, or overly worked, since she didn't seem to have slept this entire time I was here, that I know of, I followed her out of the room, passing a few hallways that made no sense to me, since one was dedicated to just pictures of cake.

I realized rather quickly that we where not doing into the dining room as I was led into a rather poorly lit room, it appeared to be some kind of large storage closet or something, and before I knew what was happening Vanilla Coco was gone in a flash of green fire, along with the two guards who had been following me, changelings, each one female, and each one seeming to think they had an advantage over me since two of them had wheel-lock pistols pointed at my chest, the one that had once been Vanilla Coco stepped up. "Now that we have you alone, you can either come with us to the Queen, or we can do this by force, its your choice to make, however I'd choose wisely if I where you, since you are outnumbered and outgunned."

My blank emotionless look, how I often look in the morning till I've had my coffee and eaten something, slowly morphed into a psychotic grin, this caused her and her two little friends to falter slightly since they could sense no fear from me, since I was not afraid. "I'm afraid you misunderstand just what kinda predicament you've just willingly placed yourselves into." I summoned my classic ten mm pistol. "I'm not trapped in here with you, YOUR trapped in here with ME so this can go either two ways, option 1, I walk out of here, you three fuck off, and I don't brutally paint these lovely walls with your blood, or option 2, I splatter all your organs on the walls here and laugh while I do so, choose option 2, I'm bored anyways." I kept my grin on this entire time, however by this point two where shaking, while one of them just snarled and raised her wheel-lock pistol up and pointed it at my chest, and fired.

Despite the massive stab of pain I had from being shot in the chest, my pip-boy auto injected a stimpack, pushing the lead ball out of the hole that had once been in my chest, and since the bullet was a round ball, it had destroyed the fabric of my shirt, so they where able to see the wound close up easily, I aimed my ten millimeter pistol up at the one who had shot me. "My turn now little bug." I pulled the trigger, aiming for her shoulders, elbows, any joint that was not vital to her survival, was shot, they seemed surprised I had more than one shot, that alone seemed to surprise them, however it's when I turned to the other two did they realize just how badly they had fucked up, and the other goon who had a pistol dropped it and raised her arms up into the air in surrender, while the other slowly did the same, the screaming from the changeling that had been shot more than 15 times, caused the REAL royal guardmare's to show up, only to see two changelings that looked ready to piss themselves, and one that was bleeding green everywhere from her joints, and me smiling calm as ya please like it was just an average day.

"Ladies, these three changelings impersonated two of your comrades, while the other impersonated a maid, whom I was told was named Vanilla Coco, I managed to scare them enough into surrender, after shooting up their friend so badly that she will be confined to a wheelchair for a few months."

The guardmare's brought out a two pairs of handcuffs, while another one, a unicorn, scanned me, most likely to see if I was a changeling or not, after deeming I was clean, I was asked a few questions, and escorted to the dining room, of which I was late by twenty minutes due to the little detour I had been forced to take, once I got inside I saw a Celestia with a worried face relax slightly. "King Lorenzo! There you are, I was beginning to get worried that something may have happened."

I chuckled. "Something DID happen as a matter of fact, three changelings attempted to kidnap me, and failed so miserably that one will be confined to a wheelchair for a few months for her efforts in shooting me in the chest."

It was then Celestia realized the hole in the center of my shirt, and the now dried blood, but before she got up with a gasp, I raised a hand to stop her. "I am completely fine, being shot is just slightly painful for me, but I can quickly heal due to the stimpacks shown in the little disk I gave you, there is no need to worry, let us just enjoy breakfast before we can talk about other details or questions you may have." I sat down at the table, no one aside from me and Celestia where present in the dining room, I thought this worlds Luna might be here, but she is nocturnal after all, so it wasn't to unexpected.

Celestia looked conflicted for a few moments, before she nodded and her horn glew a light yellow, and a maid stepped in, this one was an earthpony with white fur, yellow eyes, along with a yellow mane and tail, she gave a small bow before she spoke. "What can I get you two for breakfast today?"

What Celestia said nearly made me laugh and choke on air. "I will have a slice of chocolate cake, with some green tea."

The maid had written down what Celestia ordered, and looked to me. "And what can I get for you sir?"

"I will have two slices of golden brown toast with butter, hash browns, and two fried eggs, please provide ketchup for the hash browns." I loved hash browns, mainly with a little butter, some cheese, and ketchup, the maid nodded and walked off into what I assumed was the kitchen, nothing was said in the 15 minutes it took for the food to arrive, me and Celestia ate in silence, after we had both finished, Celestia was the one to speak up first.

"I'd like to see what you think of Equestria's military grade firearms, since I saw the kinds your Empire uses, and if you could help us in any department you deem needed, you will be compensated for this of course, within reason."

I had expected something like this, so last night I had taken apart one of the bullets that went to my ten millimeter pistol, and poured the powder out, and written the formula for smokeless powder, the kind that Razorclaw's scientists had invented a little while before the displacement thing happened, and I simply handed her a small vial of the powder, and the formula. "Look, I already know what kinds of weapons your military uses, and while yes they are super primitive compared to the weapons my Empire uses and is developing every day, I don't know you well enough to just give you things like rifles that my Empire uses, however I can give you smokeless gunpowder, it will improve the power of your firearms, however anything other than this, you will have to do on your own."

Celestia looked slightly miffed, but nonetheless nodded her head and accepted the items I presented to her. "That is alright I suppose, I can understand your reasoning behind the decision." With a small flash of her magic, the items where gone, either to her room or to a section of the castle that had ponies working on weapon development, or something along those lines at least. "Would it be alright to ask you to demonstrate some of the weapons from your empire at the shooting range the royal guard uses to train however? As some of my guards simply think I am lying to them when I showed them the weapons shown in the disk you gave me."

I thought about it for a moment, before I shrugged. "I guess that is alright, lets go, sooner this is done, the sooner I can get back to my throne room and take care of problems going on due to the world displacement."

Celestia nodded and stood up. "Please follow me." She walked down the halls, to a large field outside behind the castle, away from the gardens and other crap, this walk took us 15 minutes, wow this place was to large, after we got to the field I saw row after row of target's, mainly hay-bales with classic bulls-eye targets set up into them, at various ranges, there I saw guardmare's shooting their wheel-lock muskets, and pistols at targets, one section seemed just to be teaching how to quickly reload, we walked to a section that had no guards shooting and Celestia motioned for me to go ahead, so I did.

I pulled out a standard plasma rifle and took aim at the target, about 60 feet away, very hard to hit with a musket, however for the plasma rifle it was no challenge as molten hot plasma struck the target, setting it on fire, I did this with a few more targets, and a few more weapons, such as a gamma rifle, and a laser rifle, to say Celestia, and any guards who had been watching, where impressed, would be an understatement, some of the guards looked ready to try and BUY my own guns off me, which I found funny since King Razorclaw had wanted to do the same thing, I had been showing off the weapons I had on me, a lot of them, for about an hour when Celestia got a message on a radio she had carried with her, a walkie-talkie I think, and she got a worried look on her face. "I am sorry King Lorenzo, we will have to cut this demonstration short, as the Griffon Hightalon will be arriving on her own personal airship, seemingly she has questions about your Empire as well, or something along those lines, so I will be speaking with her, please feel free to stay within the castle, or if need be, you can be flown back to your own Empire in little time." Before I was even able to get a response out and actually process what she had told me, she was gone in a flash of yellow light, leaving me confused to process the information I had been given.

Author's Notes:

first off ya'll wanted a longer chapter, so here ya go, provided with a tired smile since its nearly 5 am atm, other than that, hello everypony! go check out my blog about the story if you have any questions that you want answered, aside from ones that are MAJOR spoilers, feel free to ask anythin aside from that! How do ya'll like the story so far?

Here is the railgun tank as promised, however I'd like to note, no, it's not meant to look like a normal sized railgun turret, its a 300 mm one, the one's you'd see on the walls of the empire, its like this due to the fact its meant to be a mobile anti dragon and anti airship weapon, not just a normal tank, of which it can function as one, and I'd like to note that the box on the side of all the tanks? those are missile launchers that are fed from inside the tank, just for any who had been wondering that is

remember that these tanks are called L-17 Tempest's

I'd also like to note that for the minotaur's I have decided to give them weapons fitting of their size, caplock puntguns, aka huge ass shotguns, of course most just decide to shoot a 20 mm metal ball and not the normal buckshot of a black powder shotgun, here is a picture to give you an idea how large these rifles are compared to a human, this one punt gun is 14 feet long and can hold 3 pounds of powder, and shot

yeah, let that picture sink in a little, let the size of that ONE gun sink in, now think of row after row of those in a typical musket line, pure and utter destruction, fucking amazing.

Also, I'm sorry the national anthem is takin so damned long to come out, but the guy who is supposed to sing it keeps gettin busy, so ya'll shall just have to wait longer, but for now at the least, I can show you the lyrics to it, let me know what you think of the lyrics, and before ya ask, no I didn't write em, I had somepony do that for me.

What can be said?
About a nation with clear merit?
Such gleaming lust.
Unfathomable trust.
It shines back with it’s crystallized gaze
Such pride and over-comings achieved bliss!

We’ve turned time united with each other.
It’s what we have together that matters.
And what is there to say.
About what ties it all together?

The Crystal Heart.
What passion shines back to us.
It protects with all its might.
When it is dark it shines bright.
A sincere form of care.

The Crystal Kingdom.
The Nation of Majesty and Grace.
Such gleaming lust.
Unfathomable trust.
It shines back with it’s crystallized gaze
Such pride and over-comings achieved bliss.

United, we’ve created new technology.
Mechanics that can rival reality.
That when fused with magic.
Made us the most advanced on the planet.

The Crystal Kingdom.
The Nation of Majesty and Grace.
Such gleaming lust.
Unfathomable trust.
It shines back with it’s crystallized gaze
Such pride and over-comings achieved bliss.

We’ve turned time united with each other.
It’s what we have together that matters.
And what is there to say.
About what ties it all together?

The Crystal Heart.
What passion shines back to us.
It protects with all its might.
When it is dark it shines bright.
A sincere form of care.

United, we’ve created new technology.
Mechanics that can rival reality.
That when fused with magic.
Made us the most advanced on the planet.

All these things considered.
You can see the pristine of the Crystal Empire.
A large conglomerate of the worlds prime.
It really is sublime.

The Crystal Empire.
The Nation of Majesty and Grace.