I sighed as I sent a few repair robots to fix damaged areas of the Empire, within two more days everything would be fixed back up, while meanwhile I still had airships from around the world surrounding my Empire, some of which my automated defenses didn't recognize so they took aim and waited for them to shoot first, however a few dragons that had flown near the Empire in the day that had passed, had swiftly been shot at by the railguns on the wall, which I am sure deterred any who had hostile intentions for my Empire, for now at least.

I was thinking about that invitation to the Griffon Empire that Hightalon Shimmering Feathers had given me, and I had decided I would go, I would also make note of city locations as I did so, just to see what kinda cities this world had compared to mine, Earth I meant, I missed Earth, but I wouldn't trade my Empire and the citizens within it, for anything in the world.

The battleships had been launched, and seemingly they had already destroyed a number of sea serpents and weird ironclad style ships, they looked like the civil war SS Virginia, one of the first ironclads used in war, however these had been made of steel, and they belonged to the changelings, if the scans of the burning wrecks and bodies where anything to go off of, they had broadside cannons that shot steel cannonballs, and where powered by steam with coal, seemingly they had a mix of modern and pre modern tech, for instance these ships had radio, basic radar and sonar, along with temperature control inside the ship, but still used coal for steam power, they had petrol engines, so I wondered why they simply did not use those.

The launch of the Crystal Lorenzo was scheduled for later today, after my visit to the Griffon Empire, which I had a small speech ready for that, since due to popular demand, it was to be a celebration of a new age in the Crystal Empire's technology, a new golden age, despite the fact the Empire was ALREADY in a golden age not rivaled by any civilization on either of the planets it had been on. I grinned as I stepped into a fortress troop carrier, which as mentioned before also served as large gunships like normal airships tended to do, and blasted through the shields surrounding the Empire at speeds that caused some of the other airships that surrounded the shields to take pictures, to spin slightly as they fought to fix their stability.

I had Starlight, now General Starlight Glimmer, working on my DIA black ops project COP, also known as the Cybernetic Organism Project, I flat out had plans for cyborg ponies and diamond dogs, along with other species that lived in my Empire, a few had been completed, volunteer of course, I'm not a monster after all, unless you piss me off that is, like Jet Set did, he damned well learned his lesson, that I am sure of.

We passed a few small towns, but seemingly there where only three or four actual cities within the Griffon Empire, just like Equestria, well not really, Equestria had more land and cities, but that land was mostly forest or swamps, while the Griffon Empire was mostly a desert, hot and dry as any other large plot of sand in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, aside from lakes and rivers, it was mostly sand, despite this I noticed a few things right away once I was flown past the boarders into this new empire, roads, like ones you'd drive a car on, and what did I see on those roads? You guessed it right if you said cars, to be specific they looked to be cars you'd see in the 1900's, even saw coal power plants spewing smoke high into the air.

As Griffonstone came into view, it was much different than what was shown on the show, as to be expected it was a city, however the buildings where no more than 8 stories tall, while the castle was 15 stories tall from the look of it, it looked semi modern, electric lights and the roads, but I saw no traffic lights, just basic signs that moved that told you to go, or stop.

The troop carrier landed on a rather large patch of land that had been lit up via what seemed to be strings of lights to mark the area, glowing red, and as it landed a car pulled up to a part of the road that led straight to where the makeshift landing pad was, abit it cut off just a few feet away, and I exited, this time I had come alone, no guards, no pilot, just a synth that could fly the troop carrier, this one was for my personal use, no use to make robots to replace pilots as it would be pointless and just make more ponies jobless, hell there are no jobless ponies within my Empire except for the foals and super elderly, plus even if you didn't have a job they could live off the MBI, or the Minimum Basic Income, provided by yourself truly as a program to help those who simply where unable to work, either due to a medical condition, or family reasons.

As I finished getting out of the troop carrier the back door closed back up two griffinesses? I don't know if that is the correct term, they where female guards stepped out, and a door in the back of the primitive car was opened and I was sit inside, before the doors closed and the car was turned around and driven down the road at a somewhat slow pace, yet it still was faster than the bull carriages I saw Equestrians using, so at the least it wasn't slower than a horse n buggy from the time before cars in my world, however I wondered just how fuel efficient these cars where, as from what I have heard the griffons use up coal, oil, and natural gas at a rate that is just completely stupid.

After about 15 minutes we arrived at the castle, and drove through the gates as they finished opening to allow us inside, and I was escorted to what seemed to be a rather comfy room, meaning it had sofas, recliner chairs, a coffee table that had wine, coffee, tea, juice, and some small snacks such as small cookies, sitting on one of the sofas was Hightalon Shimmering Feathers herself, and then another griffiness I didn't know, she was much smaller than Shimmering, being a short 5'7 feet compared to Shimmering's 6'2 feet tall, she was much sleeker, seemingly built for speed rather than to be a brute like Shimmering was, I sat down across from them, and Shimmering was the first to speak up.

"This is my daughter Czarina Dark Feather, one day she will rule this Empire like I am now, until then however she shall remain as my daughter, anyways King Lorenzo, I am glad you decided to take me up on the offer to visit the capital of the mighty Griffon Empire, we plan to make a few more cities and set up some more mining operations in the desert, aside from that, is anything of interest going on within your Empire that you'd like to share?" She handed me a glass of red wine, taking a sip from her own, meanwhile her daughter was drinking a cup of tea, and had remained quite this entire time.

"Yes actually, just today I had 15 battleships launched, as I had been delaying it due to the whole....new world thing, and later today I plan to give a speech for the launch of the Crystal Lorenzo." I wanted to see what she would think of my little project, a show of power you could say, after all no species on this planet had the ability to go into space, nor had any interest in doing so, so this would be interesting to see what she would do upon learning of the news, its not like I could hide it anyways since all those ships surrounding the Empire would take photos of the Crystal Lorenzo as it launched into space.

She raised an eyebrow. "I presume the Crystal Lorenzo is another battleship?" She seemed to look confused, before with a subtle nod, I almost didn't catch it, her daughter got up and left the room.

"Sort of, its a massive battleship yes, but not for the sea or air, its for space, it will be launched later today to map this entire planet, so that I can update the world maps of my Empire for now due to the fact the old maps no longer apply to this planet."

Her eyes went wide, almost creepily so, they where already large to begin with, now they just looked unnatural in doing so, however that was just a small part of my brain telling me that this entire world was not natural, I mostly ignored it since I knew the world was real, since I could feel pain, I could get tired, I could get thirsty and hungry, and other such things, however as her eyes went wide I felt a blade pressed to my throat, and saw Shimmering grin before she stood up. "I'm afraid it has come to this Lorenzo, and so fast as well, I assumed my daughter would take at least an hour to get ready for this, however your Empire sits upon a massive reserve of oil, oil that belongs to the Griffon Empire due to deals struck with the changelings, of which you have destroyed 3 of the Changeling Empire's steam powered steel clad ships, and as their ally it is my duty to come to their aid when they ask, and they have asked for my aid in getting rid of you, the benefit is I get to send drillers to your Empire to harvest the oil, while the changelings can just feed off the crystal heart."

I had honestly expected something like this, so in all honesty it was no surprise when she turned on me, or when I had a knife pressed to my throat, with a quick movement with speed something should not have unless said something had taken a gallon of jet, I grabbed Czarina Dark feather from behind me, and flipped her over onto the table and stood up as I pulled out a ripper. "You my friend, have just made the biggest mistake of your life, however, I won't kill you here, no I will show you just how badly you have fucked up, as any ruler, you care about your citizens, despite the fact you are a bitch I can see you actually care bout those who live in the Empire due to the fact I have seen no homeless, no one that I can see is poor enough to be unable to live a decent life, however what will happen when I take that all away from you with the push of a button? Did you think I came here unguarded, as a test? No I came here without guards because simply put? You cannot kill me, nothing can, trust me I've died and just flat out came back seconds later, however you will not be so lucky if your citizens decide to revolt after I am done with this pathetic empire." With that I relayed back to the troop carrier, and said troop carrier teleported into Crystal Empire airspace, where once again, I teleported into my throne room.

My throne room was my command room, I could control all defenses from there, and I was choosing what city to lock onto for a little gift to Hightalon Shimmering Feathers and her citizens, one that they would never forget, even if they tried to do so, after a few minutes I choose a target, Talonburg, just 15 miles away from the capital, my little gift would sure to be seen by that bitch, now some of you may be wondering, what was my gift? That was rather simple, a few simple missiles with tactical nuclear warheads, they would not cause much death due to the fact they where small, but they certainly would cause enough to get the message across, you don't fuck with me, or my empire, and get away with it without getting a kick in the teeth first.

Author's Notes:

hi, sorry if this seemed rushed everypony, but I'm tired, its 1 am, I'm hungry, and tired, but don't think I just rushed this, I planned to have this happen awhile ago like I said, remember if you have questions to go ask them on my blog, I most likely won't respond to comments tomorrow or the day after, since I will be busy with something else other than the story, that will take up a good chunk of my time, so I wanted to crank this out for ya'll before that happened, hope ya enjoyed! if not then meh, your problem