It was two days later, and at the moment the scene was at some unknown location within Canterlot, an old warehouse somewhere within Canterlot itself, long since shut down, but used as a meeting place for the worst of nobles within Equestria, said nobles where sitting at a round table while their own personal guards kept an eye out for any royal guardmare's, armed with seemingly much better weapons than the royal guards themselves, they seemed to have griffon revolving muskets rather than the wheel lock muskets the normal guards used.

The nobles where around the table sitting in basic folding chairs as the meeting was called into action, Steel Hoof a 56 year old earth pony stallion with a sunset yellow coat, a black mane and tail, sapphire blue eyes and his cutiemark is a sword and a map, at the moment he had on a basic suit, black with a red tie, the worlds best illegal weapons trader, was currently at the head of the table, now that everypony was quiet he began to speak. "I have good news, and I have bad news, the bad news everypony, is that I was unable to get into the New Crystal Empire, its screenings are just to thorough, even for me, so that means we won't be getting any of their advanced technology sadly, however, I do have some good news!" Steel Hoof pulled out a long weapon, with a bolt on the side of it. "Fresh from the still 'undiscovered' Abyssinian Empire, what they called a Mauser rifle, I have tested this thing myself and I must say, these will make us almost unstoppable! They have a much longer range than even our muskets and a faster rate of fire at that, they have self contained ammunition, something that every known kingdom has been trying to develop, for years, now however it is within our grasp to turn the tides and put those who SHOULD be in power, in power, the nobles rather than those pathetic princesses."

Silver Lining, a pegasus mare with pale red fur and a navy blue mane and tail, teal eyes, a bit split down the middle as her cutiemark, and her feathers fade into a silvery grey at the tips, the largest funder of illegal activities, grinned. "And just how many bits would it take to get more of these weapons across the border?"

Steel Hoof didn't even have to pause. "Twenty thousand bits should be enough for my contact in the Abyssinian Empire to get those across their borders and into the hands of my ponies, the only problem is that new Crystal Empire and the fact the Griffon Empire declared war on them, whomever wins will most likely become the next world super power, and as greedy as griffons are, they don't bother others about whom rulers their land, so It would be a safe bet to ship the plans for some of these to the Griffon Empire, along with a number of the weapons themselves, which would be easy enough, they could just be sent on a train with markings only my contact in the Griffon Empire knows."

Silver Lining nodded. "Consider it done, the bits will be transferred to your account within the hour, since that is the only reason you summoned me here, I will take my leave, just check back with your bank in about an hour and the funds will be in your account." After she finished speaking, she wrote a check out for Steel Hoof, and handed it to him, before taking flight and being careful not to be seen, flew off.

Steel Hoof looked to the rest of the nobles. "So what do you all think of this plan?" He asked with a small grin.

Stone Chain, an earth pony stallion, with blue fur and a stone grey mane and tail, toxic green eyes, a collar made of stone with ornate carvings as his cutie mark who was a bigger than the average earth pony, was grinning ear to ear. "I'd say I'll have some new merchandise if the war turns out in the griffons favor, new exotic slaves from another world? I wonder what their meat will taste like, will it taste like the mares and stallions that live here? Or will be be a completely new exotic flavor? Oh I am just bursting with excitement at the idea of having a new source of fresh meat, and slave labor to work in my mines!"

Dirty Bit, an earth pony mare, with silvery grey fur and a bronze like orange mane and tail, light grey eyes, seven bits in a ring as her cutiemark, the noble who organized most illegal activities and movements, was grinning ear to ear as Stone Chain had. "Indeed, if we do this correctly than Stone Chain's enchanted collars should be able to completely control those two sluts on the throne, once we get control of them? Everything we've been working to accomplish these past years, will finally bear some fruit, and then we can run this kingdom how WE want, how it SHOULD be ran, and I am also excited about the idea of new exotic meats being served to me, its already a bitch and a half to get the meat Stone Chain does, but with this new supply, we will never have to eat a meal without meat again! It still pisses me off that the griffons, the largest producers of meat products, refuse to ship or sell any to ANY equestrian or outside nation or kingdom, no matter how much is offered to them, but soon enough that won't be a problem, for now let us enjoy the meal that I had my servants bring to us." Said servants, had been cooking in a small makeshift kitchen that had been set up in a side room of the warehouse, and on the menu tonight was fresh stallion, slabs of meat from the poor pony had been cooked medium rare, and served with a nice pale ale.

As Steel Hoof raised his glass in a toast, everypony began to eat their meal, having their plans for the future of Equestria playing in their heads, soon enough in their own minds, they would rule Equestria with an iron fist, not knowing they just all agreed to fuel a fire, a fire that could never be put out.

Princess Celestia sighed looking at the news report she had gotten, the Griffon Empire from what her spies had told her, had acted FAR out of line and tried to have King Lorenzo, assassinated within their own castle, in return King Lorenzo had seemingly targeted the Griffon Empire's main source of power and fuel, their oil refineries and coal power plants, and in retaliation Hightalon Shimmering Feathers had declared war on Lorenzo's Empire, Celestia knew this would end badly for the Griffon Empire, just from the technology she had seen alone would be enough to just turn any foe to glass and ruble. "I seriously wonder what goes on in that head of hers...I mean really? Declaring war after she tried to have King Lorenzo assassinated? I'm rather surprised he only targeted her power plants and refineries rather than just flat out destroy her Empire completely." Celestia paused for a few seconds. "Why am I even saying this out loud? I'm the only one inside this room." Said room was Celestia's study, mainly just a place to relax and read, listen to the radio, or watch one of the few TV shows on her television.

Princess Celestia sighed again, before she teleported to a rather...run down house, in the lower sections of Canterlot, which she still found strange since the pony who lived here could most likely afford a rather nice mansion, due to his work with alternating current that helped advance Equestria's, and subsequently every other, electric grid in the world, the pony was a neon blue unicorn stallion with electric yellow eyes and an electric yellow mane and tail, who's name was Tesla, a very....strange pony, after fixing her tiara to her head properly, she knocked and waited.

It was only five seconds before the door was opened and a middle aged stallion opened the door, and looked up at Celestia before he grinned widely. "So you've come back at last to once again ask for my help? As it couldn't be anything else, since you NEVER come over just to visit and have tea."

Princess Celestia nodded, not even trying to hide the fact she was there to once again, ask for help, like she had with Equestria's hydro electric dams, power systems, and airship engines, causing Telsa to grin. "Then come on in! I have what your looking for..I think, you are looking for a weapon to replace the muskets we use, yes?" Another nod from Celestia caused Tesla's grin to get even larger, which in turn made him look insane as Celestia stepped inside the cluttered home, notes and papers everywhere, plans for different devices scattered about, small tesla coils lighting light bulbs wirelessly.

Tesla grabbed a weird looking device off of a table with notes and other random bits and bobs around it, it looked rather like a musket, or at least the back of it did, the rest looked like a weird amalgamation of electronics, tubes, and at the end on the left side, a glass cylinder with a basic lightning gem inside, just a gem enchanted to give off power for machines when a plug was not available. "I call this a Tesla Gun, harmless to ponies due to our natural resistance to electricity, however to any other race? It is far more deadly than musket balls, it contains 15 shots before you need to replace the gem cylinder on the side, it shoots highly concentrated bolts of electricity for up to twenty feet, a great feat in magical engineering if I do say so myself! Built completely by hand this is the result of two months of almost non stop work!"

Telsa took aim at a small target, fittingly a griffon shaped target, and fired, causing a violent bolt of neon blue electricity to shoot out of the end and arch to the target causing it to explode from the overload of electricity and set on fire, which Princess Celestia quickly put out with her magic. "I also have plans for an anti air cannon version that would be stuck in place, but able to take down hundreds of airships if it continued to fire, the plans to build these are yours under one condition Celestia."

Princess Celestia raised an eyebrow. "And what would that condition be Tesla?" Celestia questioned.

"I want to work on this with your top scientists, I want full control over the project, what I say goes, or you won't get these weapons from me, do we have a deal Celestia?" Tesla held out his hand.

Princess Celestia nodded. "You have a deal Tesla." She shook Tesla's hand, and thus a new deal had been struck, one that would no doubt benefit Equestria for years to come.

I grinned sitting on my throne, watching a screen that was a bunch of mini screens, live feed from the satellites in orbit around this planet, they had already mapped most of the world, and I had found somethin rather surprising, an entire Empire, unknown as far as I knew, to the rest of the world, run by Abyssinians, the name for that anthro cat species, as it turns out the cat who had told me the name of his species, had been QUITE drunk at the time... either way, it was great to know the name of the species so I don't accidentally fuck somethin up with em, from the close ups my satellites had taken of the Abyssinian Empire, they where MUCH more advanced than most kingdoms or nations, seemingly they keep to themselves mainly just minding their own business, not interested in other kingdoms or nations, they have a lot of world war one style weapons, one looked like a QF 1 pounder, universally known as the pom-pom, a 37 millimeter anti air weapon from the first world war.

I planned to make contact with this new Empire soon enough, get an idea of what they where like, but other than that, Hightalon Shimmering Feathers had declared 'war' on my Empire, the idea that she thought she was a threat to me, was laughable, my Empire is completely self sufficient, I have nearly unlimited manpower with the fact I can send wave after wave of robots, robots who don't need food, water, shelter, or heat to function like a normal soldier does, added to the fact I have a wall with HUNDREDS of weapons on it, all automated nonetheless, and ENERGY SHIELDS around my Empire that even Celestia would have a hard time getting through without the use of her solar beam, to put it simply my Empire was a power house that would be completely impossible to take over or destroy, and I flat out knew it, I didn't even try to hide that fact about my Empire to those I met from other kingdoms or nations, a show of power, without really even showing the power my Empire held within its walls.

I grinned thinking about the troop carrier I'd be taking to the Abyssinian Empire tomorrow to meet their ruler, by surprise of course, and as for how I knew it was called the Abyssinian Empire? Simple, my satellites could also spy on radio and satellite based communication, they had television like most other empire's or kingdom's, and they where in a complete desert, hotter than even the badlands I am surprised something with FUR could live in a desert and NOT die instantly of heat stroke, I knew nothing of their political or social standings, but I'd find all that out tomorrow, and tomorrow would be an interesting day indeed.

Princess Twilight Sparkle, also known now as the Princess of Friendship, was absolutely confused at the moment, as the map in the center of her throne room, had her cutiemark, in the badlands, seemingly hovering over a larger version of the Crystal Empire, that seemed to be well defended if the large wall that surrounded the Empire on the map was any indication, she sighed, she still didn't know how this mapped worked even after hours of studying it, but nonetheless she had to do as the map said, and started packing her stuff for tomorrow.

Author's Notes:

here is what the tesla cannon is supposed to look like once its completed

and here is tesla's tesla gun

and here is the Mauser rifle the nobles have tons of now, the evil ones that is <c> what did you think of this chapter? do you like the story? is so comment and tell me why! Let me know what you think, if you like the story don't forget to hit that lil thumbs up button