As I watched Celestia teleported away in a bright yellow flash of light, not unlike my relay teleportation systems, but yellow and not blue, just like the last Celestia she seemed to have great abilities in terms of magic, so for now I was going to assume they where just the same in terms of power, I activated a relay and teleported into the throne room, much to the surprise of Celestia herself, and seemingly her new guest, who I assumed was the Hightalon of the Griffon Empire, she looked like a Brute of a Griffiness, standing at a massive 6 feet tall, and built like a brick shithouse.

She kinda looked like a genderbent version of Razorclaw, black feathers, gold colored eyes and beak, but her 'hair' aka the feathers atop her head, where a whiteish grey color, however her and her two guards had weapons I didn't expect to see aimed at me, what LOOKED like two revolving rifles, and a walker texas revolver, looking closer they all looked like cap n ball weapons, meaning they used percussion caps to light the black powder within the weapons, so still no self contained fully metallic ammunition yet, that I know about, regardless with a quick burst of magic from Celestia, they where all disarmed and she spoke up. "Hightalon Shimmering Feathers, this is the ruler of the larger Crystal Empire your scouting airships have photographed, this is King Lorenzo, King Lorenzo, this is Hightalon Shimmering Feathers, Ruler of the Griffon Empire, currently from what she has told me she has ships surrounding your Empire to take photos, and to see just what exactly appeared on our world."

Well shit, if any of those ships FIRED at the shields around my Empire, the automated defenses would shoot back, over a thousand times harder since I had railguns while these fucks used black powder smooth bore cannons, so I decided to speak up. "Look, you can have all the ships you want NEAR my Empire, but you are not allowed to attempt to land by force, or anything like that, unless you are given permission from air traffic control to land, otherwise the automated defenses will fire apon your ships if you try to enter by force, like that dragon that was killed did, no, thats not a threat or a promise, just a warning, I don't control the automated defenses."

Hightalon Shimmering Feathers was looking at me with a look that screamed 'I will do something to you that you will not like unless I get my way' or something along those lines before she spoke up. "I am sure you didn't know this, but we recently made a deal with the Changeling Empire to drill where your Empire currently sits for oil, I am afraid you will have to allow us to drill within your Empire to reach said oil, since the land belongs to the Griffon Empire." She kinda sounded like Gilda, if you beefed her voice up a bit.

I just laughed. "If you think I'm just going to let you drill into the underground superstructure that took me fucking months to build then you are OUT OF YOUR MIND, now, I do understand the need for oil and coal, however my Empire uses no such things, all of it is nuclear energy that powers everything within my Empire, better yet, I don't think you should be making any threats whatsoever, due to the fact I out gun you in every aspect, as I don't think your airships can reach speeds only dreamed of, or up to the vastness that is space, I don't want to have any conflict on this planet for now, if your worried we are just going to keep the land, don't, I already have my top scientists working on a way to take me and my Empire back to MY world, where it belongs, until then however its tough shit, I can't do jack about it, nor can I do jack about the oil under my Empire currently, you can't use it, not yet, you must wait until I either allow it, or the Empire is returned to its rightful place back on my planet, until then I don't know what to tell you other than a firm no." I shrugged.

I nearly died laughing from the face she made, seemingly she was used to always getting her way, her two guards however seemingly did not like me talking to her like that, as they aimed their revolving rifles at me, so with the press of a button my two guards teleported next to me, and took aim with their mini guns, revving them up threateningly, before what she said next surprised me, but I didn't let that show hah. "Guards, lower your revolving muskets, as for you King Lorenzo, I am sorry if I acted rude or anything of the such, but that oil is needed to help my Empire stay alive and grow, for now I invite you to come to my Empire anytime to the capital of Griffonstone, until then I will leave your Empire alone, for now I shall take my leave as this has given me the answers I came here for, guards! With me." She turned around and walked out of the doors that lead into the throne room, and me, Celestia, her guards, and my guards, watched as the large double doors closed.

Celestia looked shocked, which made me wonder, thankfully I didn't have to ask however before she spoke up. "That is unusual....normally Hightalon Shimmering Feathers would have challenged you to a duel, or just flat out shot you for speaking to her in such a manner, so I'd be wary around her if I where you, however I am not you, so do what you wish when the time comes, whatever may happen."

Well, now I knew what those weapons where, revolving muskets, just like a revolving rifle, but no rifling within the barrel of the gun, so it would, or SHOULD have the same amount of accuracy as the muskets used by Equestria, just more shots per soldier rather than one or two a minute, but either way from what Celestia said, it was not normal for that brute of a griffiness. "Alright, I think we have had enough time here however, I will be returning to my Empire post haste, within ten minutes I can be back there, I just need to be in an open area to send the signal."

Celestia looked confused yet again for a few moments, before she nodded and we, along with my guards, where teleported back to the open field I had just been at less than 20 minutes ago, and I threw down what looked like a relay grenade, except it was not a relay grenade, it was a signal grenade that would activate one of the fortress troop carriers and have it teleport into the sky above us, and thats just what it did, with a violent blue flash and the crack of noise that sounded like thunder, the gigantic troop carrier teleported into the skies above us, causing some guards to gasp and seemingly some pegasi to shoot at it from the sky, however the pilot ignored those shots since they would do nothing to the troop carrier itself, and I nodded to Celestia with a grin, her mouth was stuck open in shock, and me along with my two guards relayed into the troop carrier.

It was fun watching the chaos that I had just caused, but alas I could not stay to watch as I had to give orders to the pilot to fly back to the Empire, that would take around ten minutes, it COULD be done instantly, however I didn't feel like throwing up my organs at the moment, so for now top speed of mach 9 would do.

Princess Celestia, co-ruler of the kingdom of Equestria, was stuck staring in awe at the size of the airship that had simply teleported into the sky with no warning, and promptly left after King Lorenzo and his two guards had been teleported onto it, she could sense no magic from the teleportation, which should have been impossible, but aside from that, that airship had been massive compared to any from any other kingdom, nation, or empire she had ever been to or seen in her long life, truly Lorenzo's Empire was powerful, a powerful ally, or if the worst happened, a powerful enemy, Celestia would do everything within her power to make sure this new Empire was an ally, rather than a new foe for Equestria to face.

As the WR-3F Fortress landed on the designated landing pad within the Crystal Empire, just 15 minutes later, I was notified a being from this world had actually come to sign up for citizenship, as a little explanation, so long as you had an ID of some kind, and allowed for DNA to be taken for the system, you could become a citizen of my Empire, unless of course you where just blatantly trying to infiltrate, it was determined with a lot of questions, a lie detector test, and many mind reading spells to see if you where lying or held malicious intent for the Empire, so imagine my surprise when I show up to the building that you need to go to, in order so sign up for citizenship, only to see none other than an anthro version of Starlight Glimmer, she looked ragged, as if she had not rested in weeks and had been running for her life for the past few weeks, her clothes and everything where in tatters, and because I liked her, no not like that you fucking perverts, I meant her character, and due to the fact purple was the best color in my opinion, I let her join as a citizen, under the condition she worked for me and used her magic for the benefit of the Empire as a whole.

Meanwhile unknown to me, rulers around the world had been informed about my Empire via radio messages, and they had already begun planning something, of course each one had their OWN plan, no plans where shared between the Empire's and Kingdom's that got this news, but each one of them had a plan of their own, and they intended to get what they wanted, most of them at least, only a select few of them didn't even make plans for my Empire, some of them where content to just sit back and watch what happened, unless it would become a direct threat to them, their kingdom or empire, and their people.

Author's Notes:

hi all! this is set officially JUST after Starlights village was freed from her control,, I'd say about 3-4 weeks after, now with Starlight working for the Empire, and the Hightalon acting out of character, what do you think will happen? do you like the story so far?

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?

If you like this, lemme know! and remember to do what I said and ask on the blog if you have questions! no major spoilers remember! also I am sick, so that is why this took longer to come out, and as two last side notes, the national anthem is being changed, idk how much, but since the person who was going to sing it keeps putting it off, I gave it to someone else to do what they want with it, so if it remains mostly the same, then yay! if not, then yay! either way this version of the Crystal Empire WILL get a national anthem!

the last side note, is THIS is a puntgun, since others told me the picture in the last authors notes where BROKEN AF , here is a picture of the puntgun I was talking about

like I said before, just let that sink in, row after row of those in a normal musket formation, pure and utter destruction at its finest, beautiful