Hightalon Czarina Dark Feather sighed as she looked over the treaty she had written up for their terms of complete and total surrender to the New Empire, the official name she had given the treaty was the White Feather Concordat, it was only a day after the defeat of the griffon's air force, barely a day even, it was currently about 6:30 AM, a ruler always had to be up and about before her people after all, moreso when she was finalizing the treaty that would effectively make her empire weak for the next hundred years.

The White Feather Concordat outlined how the Griffon Empire would be willing to pay reparations for resources wasted on the war on the end of the New Empire, and that in return the Griffon Empire would make monthly payments of two thousand standard gold bits, and in doing so also asking for aid with the power systems that kept failing due to the damage done to them, along with a few other small things that would slowly help her Empire come back from the recession that her mother had caused.

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I woke up automatically at the same time I always did, even before I was sent to a new planet I always woke up at around 6:40 AM every day. Every. Damned. Day. It made sleeping in a nearly impossible task to do, regardless a Mister Handy would always be by my bedside with a mug of black gold ready to be consumed, however strangely enough the Mister Handy was not there, and instead in his place was Queen Chrysalis, I had forgotten in my half asleep state about what happened yesterday, until I took a few seconds to think about it and sighed before I took the 20 ounce cup of black ambrosia from her and sat up, before chugging the entire thing in less than five seconds. "Why are you up so early Chrysalis?" It was a good question, last I remember I had reluctantly let her sleep in the same bed as I did, thankfully said bed was no pun intended, a queen sized bed with comfortable soft sheets n pillows.

Chrysalis grinned. "Your robotic butler awoke me to ask if I wished for anything to eat or drink, while holding your normal morning beverage, how you managed to drink that in under a minute I don't think I wish to know, as for why I'm holding your coffee, I wanted to surprise you my king." She frowned slightly. "That thing creeped me out when I first saw it, I thought it was a robotic squid like from the Power Pony comics some of my, now your, subjects like to read."

I simple face palmed and set my large mug on the side table by the bed, and turned on the lamp. "I had another question for you, why where all of your changelings nude when you showed up?" Yeah that had been awkward, I didn't notice it at first due to the fact I was busy trying to pry Chrysalis off myself and once I did I noticed that changelings....didn't wear clothes like ponies did, they went in the nude.

Chrysalis chuckled lightly before sitting on the side of the bed. "We changelings don't have a nudity taboo like most species do, since we live in a hot desert climate, along with pretty much being in contact with one another on a regular basis, there simply was no need for any item of clothing aside from armor, as for why I myself wear clothes, it would simply be unfit for a queen to not look the part."

I simply chuckled lightly. "I guess that makes sense when you think about it, now let me see what's on my list of crap to do today." I grabbed a holopad, a holographic tablet that was just a larger version of the phones Blue Gadget created, just unable to make calls with them, and checked the list of crap I had to do today, the list is as follows, get every changeling an ID and enter them into the Empire's Citizen Identification System, Get every changeling a place to live, Get them clothes, as nudity unless you where a pony, was illegal and even then, ponies in the Empire tended to wear pants, or a shirt, or just even a hat and tie, next on the list was checking up on the construction of the Crystal City space ship being built, after that check up on Commander Tempest over the plasma communicators and see how progress on the asteroid mining was going so I'd get a good idea of when the Crystal City would be roughly completed.

Turning back to Chrysalis I spoke up again. "I had another question, why did I see no male changelings when they where entering the gate into the citizenship sign up process?" Another good point, during the entire five hours I had taken to make sure every last changeling got into the Empire's gates before having them sealed off, not once did I see a single male drone.

Chrysalis simply broke out laughing as if I had told the funniest joke in history, before she wiped a tear from her eye. "Forgive me for laughing my king, but that question just sounded so ridiculous to me due to the fact most species know about changelings and how we do and don't work, either way I shall explain, there are no male changelings, only females, it's always been that way, for what reason I don't know, but either way it makes it so my species requires the male of another species to reproduce, I suspect it was a biological block placed upon our species when we first arrived into this world as a way to ensure we didn't just wipe out all species on the planet, however that was millennia ago when the first sentient races appeared on the planet, so records of times before my mothers rule are not very clear, as before then no one thought about keeping records, just surviving."

Taking a minute to process the information I had just been given, I sighed and walked over to the couch on the side of the room and clicked the television on, Chrysalis joined me and I almost laughed when I saw what was on the screen, at the moment it was on a commercial, but the commercial itself made me nearly laugh cause it meant I had been successful in creating someone from fallout 4 and giving them their own company.

On the screen was an average looking Mister Handy holding a glass bottle of lemonade. "Try Deezer's lemonade today! My quality lemonade is guaranteed to be the best lemonade you've ever tried, and the most refreshing, or your money back guaranteed!"

Yep that was right, I had built a Mister Handy unit, named em Deezer, and made him obsessed with selling lemonade, and gave him a fucking company called Deezer's Lemonade, the damned robot was raking in bits due to people liking the many varieties of lemonade he was providing, strawberry, lime, blackberry, raspberry, mint, peach, mango, and for changelings a glowing pink love flavored one.

The morning continued on slowly as I started going through the list of shit I had to do, while Chrysalis stayed behind at the Crystal Palace, first on the list making sure all the changelings got an ID and registered in the system, that pretty much meant just watching as 5 mister handy robots took their pictures, blood samples, names and identification, for two hours, it was super fucking boring, but it was necessary to become a citizen of the Empire, the reason I had to be here is because of the shear amount of changelings that had joined with Chrysalis, the process had been going on all night so I'd have to watch the security camera footage later as well to verify everything.

After that was done I just had to make sure there where available living spaces for the changelings, they had been given clothes upon their verification as citizens of the Empire, if they wanted something different they'd have to use some of their UBI that they got once they where registered, finding them all living spaces actually took about 30 minutes due to the fact I still had twenty sky scrapers that where pretty much full of apartments, they could just move right in, no need to pay rent or anything like that, the Empire provided free housing, electricity, water, heat, air conditioning, and as I've mentioned, a monthly UBI of a thousand bits per month.

I was about to head up and check on the construction of the Crystal City, when a small alarm started going off on my pipboy alerting me to magical teleportation within the Empire, impossible since no crystal unicorn knew the spell for teleportation, the only way to teleport in the empire without using magic was with the relay system I had in place, but that was for military and police use only, with a flash of blue I was near one of the walls just inside the Empire, and I saw none other than Twilight Sparkle, along with her friends, with the elements of harmony, I nearly died of laughing right then and there from the looks on their faces as I teleported in without the use of magic, I stopped and my face went cold as I looked at Twilight. "You my little purple friend have royally fucked up, knowing you, you thought you could just come in here with your elements and blast whatever you felt the tree wanted you to fix, even after I told you the boarders of the Empire where closed off for the time being, also knowing you, you managed to talk your friends into doing this under the guise of doing it in the name of harmony due to the tree once again, I gave you a chance last time, I WILL NOT give you another one."

Twilight tried to speak up, but I beat her to the punch. "Shut the FUCK UP! I don't give a shit about what the tree or that magical coffee table wants you to do, you have broken the law and as such will be treated like any criminal, I don't make exceptions in my Empire, you break the law, you pay the fucking price." With a quick message on the plasma communicators minotaur in power armor teleported in and shot them all with non lethal stun weapons, Twilight's friends where taken to a guest room in the Crystal Palace under STRICT guard of no less than four high class legendary assaultron units, while Twilight herself was jammed into a cryo-pod right next to Jet Set and his bitch of a wife, unlike those two dickwads her sentence would be much lower, yet still a little harsh, she was to be locked Cryo for six months, a fine of 40 thousand bits, before throwing her back over the boarder with her flight feathers clipped, a horn ring on her horn and just a dagger to defend herself with, Not that there was much to defend herself against, it was the Badlands after all, barely any life could survive here.

Unlike Twilight, who broke in willingly knowing she was not supposed to, her friends would be treated as royal guests unless they caused problems, as for how she teleported them in without being detected sooner by the automated defenses, I don't know, regardless I was going to have some unicorns carve anti teleportation runes into the inside of the walls now, as I'd like to prevent another indecent like this in the future.

After that I continued on with my day, construction was ahead of the Crystal City was ahead of schedule due to Tempest making regular deliveries of house sized chunks of meteorite, speaking of Tempest, I grabbed a plasma communicator, fuck I needed a better name for those, and called Tempest, it rang three times before a holographic version of tempest stood in front of me. "Captain Tempest, I want a status report and a mission update."

She bowed slightly before standing back up properly. "Your majesty, the Crystal Lorenzo is doing fine, all systems are working well within the set parameters for functionality, the harvesting operation is going well aside from a few synths being crushed because they got to close to the twenty ton chunks of rock before they where securely tied down to the cargo hold, within around three hours I will be having the payload of rocks delivered to the designated drop off site for pickup by your construction protectrons and sentry bots."

I grinned. "That is great news Tempest! Keep up the great work, I also wanted to how, how are the cybernetics working for you? Any phantom pain or bugs you've seen in their systems that you'd want fixed?"

Tempest shook her head. "No your majesty, the cybernetics are working flawlessly, once again I must thank you for allowing my horn to be fixed, and my right eye to be replaced."

I tilted my head before I continued. "Speaking of which, why DID you want your right eye replaced? aside from the scar on the outside of your eye it looked completely fine."

Tempest sighed. "While the eye itself may have been undamaged by the ursa minor that attacked me when I was a filly, it was the damage done to the eyelid that bugged me every time I moved my eye, with this cybernetic one I don't need to worry about that irritating feeling."

I shrugged. "Ah, alright then I guess that makes sense, see any aliens in the solar system lately?" I asked in a joking manner.

Only to get the shock of my life with what she said next. "Yes actually the Crystal Lorenzo's sensors have detected a small craft on the edge of the solar system moving at a snails pace, about 400 to 500 feet long, and an estimated 200-300 feet tall, and I know what your thinking, no it's not the Zetans, the craft is not even remotely disk shaped like the craft you briefed me about before I was allowed to captain this ship."

"How long do you think before they are within visual range of your ship if you stay by the moon?" I asked Tempest with a serious look on my face, as this could either be good, or bad.

"About two weeks before it reaches visual range if I where to keep the ship close to the moon, seven if I where to be closer to the planet, when they are within visual range I will attempt communication on the plasma and radio communicators, if they turn out to be hostile, I will do what needs to be done."

I sighed. "If they turn out hostile, destroy them but try to keep the ship intact as much as possible, if they are hostile we can use their star charts and maps to locate their home planet and send a warning about hostilities to the Empire, if they are not hostile I want to be notified immediately, for now keep an eye out."

She bowed again. "It will be done your majesty, Captain Tempest out, end communication." The screen went black as the transmission ended, I think I was just going to call the plasma communicators phones, since that was what they where shaped like and acted like, only much more advanced.

I began to walk to a Handy Eats Dinner to get a late lunch, when I got a notification on my pipboy, checking the cameras I saw an envoy of griffons approaching the walled gate with trucks you'd see in the 1920's to the 1930's, the reason I got a notification was because the automated defenses wanted permission to attack since the griffons had white flags on their trucks, not their normal Empire's flag, and I almost gave them permission, could I have more than five minutes to myself for fucking once today!?

Nearly giving a growl I relayed to just outside the gate, surprising the griffons, however I didn't expect to see Czarina Dark Feather, and not her mother, I just sighed again before speaking up. "What is it? I'm fucking busy as shit today with other important crap to do, just what is it that you want? My surrender again? Or is it something else I gotta shoot?"

Hightalon Czarina Dark Feather frowned slightly, but she brought out a good sized scroll if paper and handed it to me. "I have disposed of my mother with my own claws, and wish to end this war with a diplomatic solution, this is the White Feather Concordat, it outlines our terms of surrender." She looked hopeful.

I read through the White Feather Concordat as she called it, and it outlined the terms of them surrendering completely to my Empire, how they would give monthly payments of two thousand bits per month for a hundred years or until I deemed the 'damages for resources wasted on the war effort' payed off, and the only thing they asked for in return was help repairing the power systems I had damaged with my missiles, rather simple, so after reading it carefully I took out a pen and signed the bottom, which had Czarina's signature as well, seeing me sign it caused her to let out a sigh of relief.

"You do not know how joyed I am that you have accepted the terms within the White Feather Concordat, I was afraid for a moment that you'd laugh in my face and shoot us." She looked relieved, as if a five ton weight had been lifted off her shoulders.

I shrugged. "I'm not evil, you don't try to shoot me I don't try to shoot you, it's simple as that, I live on a live and let live policy, don't fuck with me? I won't fuck with you, it's quite simple, yet some morons seem to be unable to grasp such a simple concept, and no offense but your mother was one of them, I'm sorry you had to kill her, I'd like to have done that myself, but what's done is done, robots will be sent to the power plants to get them back up and running and decontaminate the area so it's safe for griffons to be within it again."

She grinned. "Thank you King Lorenzo, once again I am sorry for the actions of my mother, but rest assured I will not let such a thing happen so long as I am in power of the Griffon Empire, I shall leave you for now, the payment will arrive tomorrow on a military delivery truck." With that she hopped back into the truck she was in, and the two that had followed her turned around as she was driven off escorted her side by side with her truck.

If I'm being honest I didn't expect this, I expected that I'd have to go to the capital of the Griffon Empire, Griffonstone, myself, and gut that bitch of a Hightalon with my own ripper....kinda wish it worked out that way, but eh I won't be picky about victories, if you can even call that a victory since I did jack shit aside from let a massive killer robot loose on the Griffon's air force, I sent news of Twilight's imprisonment to Princess Celestia over the radio and with a picture of her in the cryo-pod locked up tight.

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Princess Celestia was sitting on her throne, a small table next to her with a metal tray that held a teapot, two tea cups, a bowl of sugar and a small spoon, and the teapot held her favorite tea, a simple hot peach tea with two spoonfuls of sugar, she was drinking her tea when the radio next to her, it acted as a radio and a small fax machine for pictures or reports for Celestia to read instantly, used for guards to get in touch with her if needed, went off.

"This is a message from King Lorenzo, for Princess Celestia, Princess Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship, was arrested earlier today due to breaking into the Empire's borders via teleportation with the rest of her friends known as the Elements Of Harmony, due to this Princess Twilight Sparkle, Equestrian Princess of Friendship, will be locked Cryo for six months, and pay a fine of 40 thousand bits upon being released, after that she will be banned from entering the Empire's borders for the rest of her life, do not worry about her friends, they have been sedated and will be treated as guests to stay for one week if they do wish to do so, they will not be held prisoner." A picture of Princess Twilight Sparkle with her flight feathers clipped, a anti magic ring on her horn, and frozen in a metal glass tube like pod, was printed out on the side of the machine.

Princess Celestia spit out her tea in shock before she coughed and grabbed the picture before frowning at it. "Damn the Maker Twilight, I told you not to screw around with Lorenzo's Empire, but no you just had to do what the tree wanted, with no concern for international policies or conflicts, you single handedly could have caused a war...I thank the Maker that King Lorenzo is not cruel, greedy, or evil, otherwise I am sure this would have ended with a war between our two nations, a war Equestria would never win, not without a high cost, one that I am not willing to do again like I did so long ago."

Celestia got up from her throne, and with a quick blast of magic the tea she had spit onto the floor was cleaned up, and her tea set was gone in a flash of yellow magic as well, she would have to explain to Luna why Twilight would be unable to watch the strange ship Lorenzo had in space with their high powered magic telescope again like they had been for the past few weeks, but for now she would head to the royal dinning room to have dinner, then to sleep, she could tell Luna tomorrow in the morning, and also finish reading the letter Cadence had sent her about new magical defending golems, much like Lorenzo's own automated defenders, except using magic and not the technology Lorenzo preferred over magic.

Author's Notes:

Hiya all! a friend of mine mentioned I should use line breaks or something so that changes to the section of the story don't break it up so suddenly, if you don't like that let me know, otherwise what did ya think of this chapter? ya like it? if you like this story don't forget to share it with those whom you think would enjoy it to begin with, other than that how do you like how things are progressing so far? l