It was only a day later after the meeting, the ruler of the caribou, Pathfinder Evergreen Meadow, had been rather quiet, mainly just watching me as I calmly talked to Celestia about items she was interested in within my Empire, mainly the old terminals that the people within my Empire used to use before the zetan terminals, once again modified to how I liked them, where given to them as replacements and all files transferred before being deleted, and as for a side note, I call those who reside within my empire, people, due to the fact there are just so many fucking species living there now aside from crystal ponies, naming every creature off would take to long, so everyone said things like everyone, somebody, to save time and simply make it easier to remember things.

I'd also like to mention that when I left Celestia's castle after the meeting, I did the same as I did last time, large troop carrier, instant teleport, and then poof I'm gone, but as I walked through the halls I noticed something that was odd, aside from the low number of female maids, most of the cleaning and cooking staff where stallions, each one had some frilly uniform on, while the mares had the more practical ones on, I hope to god this is not a world where all stallions are gay, or just gayish, nothin wrong with that, but just would be annoying if I tried to make a friend with a stallion, only for said stallion to be all gay and fru fru, once again nothing against it, just not someone I wanna hang around as it tends to get annoyin.

Currently I was just watching some screens that showed me a complete view of the outside wall around my entire Empire, from the view point of the automated defenses, normally the defenses where as I've always talked about, automated, but on rare occasions I'd take control of a unit myself and have a little fun shooting targets close to the Empire, such as hostile griffon airships, of which they had seemingly stopped sending, however I wasn't stupid, I knew more would come in time, I had only destroyed twenty airships after all, at the moment I also had the Crystal Lorenzo gathering ore from chunks of rock in space, more gold, iron, titanium, and zinc, than had ever been mined in human history, if I wanted I could flat out destroy any nations economy with the press of a button.

Speaking of economy, my Empire was held to the gold standard, and I made sure to not let inflation be a thing, my Empire DID use bits, however they where almost nothing like the ones the rest of the world used, they are not half inch thick coins made of complete solid gold, they are quarter sized coins, same size, shape, and thickness of a US quarter, they come in a few variants, gold is equivalent to one US dollar, copper ones are like pennies, silver ones are worth ten gold ones, and platinum bits are worth one hundred, the same went for the rest of the world, aside from the thickness of the coin and what was printed on them.

Also, some may have a few questions about the Crystal Lorenzo, like, who is the captain? Why are you having it gather all that metal? Well my friends, that was quite simple, remember when I froze Tempest in her own obsidian orb just as she was about to kick it back on my world? I unfroze her using a few unicorns and struck up a deal, fix her horn and she'd work for me, say hello to the cybernetic Tempest, only things different was her cybernetic horn and her right eye replaced at her request, no idea why she wanted her right eye replaced, but with her robotic horn she'd be able to use any spell she wanted within limits of her own energy, and since she was a natural military leader, I made her the captain of the Crystal Lorenzo, as for what I need all that metal for, I was having a larger version of the Crystal Lorenzo built, named Crystal City.

The reason it would be named Crystal City, was because it pretty much WOULD be a giant city in space, it would be eight thousand feet long, two thousand feet wide, a 400 foot wide rail-gun in the nose, it was pretty much just a larger version of the Crystal Lorenzo in terms of shape, and weaponry, aside from having more powerful weapons due to the ability to jam more fusion reactors into the hull of the ship, and speaking of weapons, remember those drone cannons I mentioned where upsized and then used as artillery? I had changed the name from simple drone cannons, to plasma artillery, and unlike the drone cannons in fallout 3, the balls had two settings before you fired, it could either detonate on contact or explode mid air, showering the area with plasma rain, very deadly.

Blue Gadget had invented a few other lil goodies when he was making Defender Prime, he invented a 50 MM grenade launcher, that was currently able to fire any of the standard used Empire grenades, which included plasma, gamma burst, cryogenic, gas grenades, filled with nightmare mist, pulse grenades, nuclear grenades, quantum infused nuclear grenades, and simple fragmentation grenades, since it was a 50 MM grenade launcher, only minotaur could use the damned thing, if any other species did they'd risk breaking every bone in their arms.

I had also introduced a few new flavors of Nuka Cola due to popular request after I made a few test batches, the new flavors where lemon, mango, raspberry, melon, carrot, and berry bananza! a mix of cherry, raspberry, grape, and orange Nuka cola to make a mixed fruit cocktail flavored cola.

I also had a few questions randomly as to how I trained what little organic soldiers I actually do have, simple, virtual reality pods much like the ones from fallout three, the worlds where realistic and could throw my soldiers into any number of situations, and trust me, I planned for everything, from aliens, to standard zombie outbreaks, to fucking necromorph outbreaks, soldiers would train for a month, during said month they'd go through hell, literally at some point if the simulation about Doom's hell I helped make would be any indication.

Hightalon Shimmering Feathers was not having a great day, she had recently learned that due to malnutrition, the 40,000 changeling warriors she had been promised, would no longer be assisting her Empire, so she was back down to 50,000 soldiers to attack the New Empire, but in the long run that shouldn't matter, not with how she planned to win this war, she would send out all military airships, new, old, falling apart, shining with new paint, it didn't matter, if it was a military airship, it would be sent, all together that would be about twenty thousand airships, each one carrying hundreds upon hundreds of pounds of shells and powder, for the semi modern ones that would mean thousands of pounds of self contained shells and breach loading rifled cannons, surely with that amount of fire power, she'd overwhelm Lorenzo's 'automated' defenses.

After she dealt with the New Empire and had destroyed it, she would deal with the changelings, if they could not be of use to her, she would turn them into slaves to work for the benefit of her empire, so after speaking into, a rather bulky, radio she had on her, the new orders where given, launch all military airships to the New Empire for an all out assault, and ready the ground troops to attack the changelings while they where weak, she didn't exactly care about the changelings to begin with, they just supplied her with goods they had no need for since the bugs had no industry of their own, gems, gold ore, iron, copper, etc, when digging out their underground cities they found these things in abundance, and thus traded for things like muskets, powder, swords, and other such equipment that was now, as far as Shimmering Feathers was concerned, outdated.

With the orders given, twenty thousand RGAF airships began their journey to the New Empire, ready for an all out assault on the Empire, while the ground troops got into their troop carrier trucks and jeeps, ready with their new mausers and even a few new maxims that been delivered via train, either the bugs would work for the good of the Griffon Empire, or be fertilizer for their crops.

It took three hours of constant flight to get close enough to the New Empire for the griffon airships to see the city, and the wall surrounding it, they took aim with their cannons and fired, shelling the shield and wall, leaving not even a dent.

I was woken up from my nap by the little alarm going off next to me, I had fallen asleep on my throne, so I set a motion detector to wake me up once something was close enough to the walls, and what I saw made me grin, a large fleet of airships, each one trying to shell my Empire with either cannon balls, or what looked like semi normal artillery projectiles, I had turned the automated defenses off so I would be able to do something fucking amazing, I pressed a big, red button, which activated Defender Prime.

Griffons aboard the airships, regardless of age, or how many years they had been in their military, nearly died of a heart attack when a large flat and empty section of the New Empire, two large slabs of metal peeled away and slid into the ground that surrounded them, before a platform raised something from the depths of Equis, it was a behemoth, a giant metal pony with a large slit for an eye, and a horn large enough to stab one of their airships clean in half, however what scared them the most, was when it spoke, its voice held the power of an enraged god about to bring its wrath upon those it deemed worthy of such destruction. "DEFENDER PRIME ONLINE, ALL SYSTEMS NOMINAL, PRIME DIRECTIVE, DESTROY ANY AND ALL THREATS TO THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE AND HER ALLIES, INITIATING DIRECTIVE 7. 3. 9. 5. DESTROY ALL HOSTILES TO THE EMPIRE, GET READY TO DIE BITCHES." It's large head turned to the fleet of airships before it shot a violent blue beam of energy at the closest airship, causing it to instantly explode into burning metal and molten slag.

Defender Prime started walking, shaking the very ground beneath him with every step as he casually walked over the wall, through the energy shields, and stepped onto the other side, before griffon airships tried to shell him, only to not even make a dent since the metal he was made of alone was thick enough to take the full force of a shot from a low scale zetan death ray, in return to being shelled, Defender Prime launched a salvo of missiles at the nearest airship, causing it to explode rather violently like the last one that had been struck down, If I'm being honest, I had to give it to these griffons, despite how many of them had already been killed they continued to fight.

Despite their efforts and their bravery, in my opinion more like stupidity, they stood no chance as airship after airship was taken down as violently as possible, some of them just swatted out of the air with one of Defender Prime's large metal hooves, as the numbers slowly dwindled from twenty thousand, to a few thousand, to a few hundred, to a few dozen, till only seven airships remained from the battle, they had decided to retreat and live another day, knowing they would never have a victory, of course Defender Prime sent a few low yield explosive missiles after them to cripple their hulls, but otherwise they would remain unharmed.

Another three hours later, the remaining crippled griffon airships where within rage to send messages via radio, so the commander of the head ship in what was left of the once mighty fleet, begged for forgiveness as the mission had failed and they had lost almost all their military airships, only to get the shock of a lifetime when Shimmering Feathers daughter spoke through the radio rather than her mother. "This is Czarina Dark feather, the new Hightalon of the Griffon Empire, my mother has been disposed of, I personally saw to her death by my own claws while she was distracted waiting for the fleet to return, I myself will see to it that a diplomatic solution to the war my mother created, is found, unfortunately due to how great changelings are in the art of espionage they got wind of my mothers plans for them and fled, to where I don't know."

Queen Chrysalis, the once mighty Queen of the Changelings, was starving to death, all her children where, she had given what she could to her hive of two million, only half the population of Equestria as a whole, but it would only last them another two days at most, while the griffons could provide basic items and military weaponry, they could not provide the changelings with love, refusing to give any griffons to have drained slightly, her only option was the very Empire that had attacked her naval ships, and her old ally the Griffon Empire, an ally for three hundred years until they decided to betray the changelings while they where weak, she could only hope that the New Empire would accept her or at the least, her hive.

It had taken the changelings four hours of non stop flying leaving them, her more so, exausted as she fell to the ground near the New Empire's walls, she could feel the amount of pure love energy just twenty or so feet on the other side of the wall, two medic changelings helped her up, and tried to offer a little glob of pink goo, but she refused it. "Save it for those who need it more than myself." Was what she said to her two drones, who reluctantly nodded, she and her changelings had landed near a giant door like structure to the inside of the New Empire, however it was closed, she shakily walked to the door, and knocked.

Less than a minute later, the doors opened and before her stood a being that she had no knowledge of, and that said something considering changelings knew of every species on the planet, but there was no time for that, as from the description she had been given from the Griffon Empire, this was King Lorenzo, the ruler of this New Empire.

Chrysalis, a being known for being evil, cunning, and overall downright nasty to other species, begged, she begged for King Lorenzo to save her changelings, even if it meant she had to die for it to happen, what she said next seemed to surprise him moreso than the last few words she had said however. "I beg of you, if you take my changelings in and allow them to feed from the love that permeates the very air you breathe in, I will dedicate myself to you, mind, body, and soul, please do not allow my species to fall into extinction..."

I was having a hard time processing this if I was being honest, first off I got to watch Defender Prime fucking destroy the griffon fleets like they where made of paper, then a few hours later two fucking million changelings show up, and this worlds version of Chrysalis is begging me to let her lings inside so they don't starve to death, and in doing so becomes my bitch.....Life is so fucking complicated at times, sometimes more so than what I'd like it to be, but I was not heartless, its not like I'd turn her into a maid or something, so for now I'd just go along with it. "Alright, you and your changelings may come into the city, but stay behind the fence on the inside until all of you have been given an ID and a place of residence has been found for you, it won't take long, there are plenty of sky scrapers that have apartments that need to be filled, don't worry about currency, everyone within the Empire gets a basic UBI of a thousand bits per month." I smiled as I watched the hopeless looks on the changeling's faces, turn to joy, but before I knew what hit me I was tackled by Queen Cheese legs being hugged and...embarrassingly enough getting my face covered in teal colored lipstick, god help me now.

Author's Notes:

Hiya all! First off sorry if the formatting is wonky,my wifi won't work properly so I had to transfer this chapter to my phone as a txt file and then copy n paste it in my phone, also chrysalis and Lorenzo are a thing now much to Lorenzo's surprise, thank a friend of mine for that as I planned to just destroy her till he mentioned her,but other than that,who else will join Lorenzo as chrysalis has? Who knows!