A New Empire War And Peace
Chapter 26
Previous Chapter Next ChapterCaptain Sevarak Keska, his name from what Tempest has told me, would arrive at the crystal palace within, about 5 minutes, as the landing pad for the Crystal Lorenzo was relatively close to the palace, I was waiting patiently on my throne, which I had modified quite a bit, it didn't look all that different aside from a small panel on the inside right armrest of the throne, and the bottom being more curved like a half bowl, yep, I made it so my throne could fuckin hover like one of my fighters, it was still attached to the floor however, with a press of a button from a holografic interface from the small panel I mentioned before, it will eject from the floor and I can hover around in it, so now I don't have to walk everywhere or get in a car, hahahaha, I just imagined that old guy from Futurama.
I was waiting for the Captain to arrive, I had some technology I would be able to trade for alien technology, for example a fusion cell, a fusion core, and other random bits n bops of technology, as I'd want to see what kinda alien weaponry and robotics they'd have, also I'd like to mention that due to the zetan blasters found from that site, energy pistols where now much more compact than the bulky classic laser and plasma pistols, so that meant sleeker, more powerful designs, for example an alien atomizer with a slicer barrel, it fired a blast of energy in the shape of a half moon, it was designed to slice limbs off, you can most likely guess where I got inspiration for that, and another weapon that I was happy to now have, a plasma defender pistol, a small, sleek plasma pistol, it fired green plasma and used small crystals as ammo, it was a rather nice sidearm to have, I kept it in my inventory slot next to my ten millimeter pistol.
Soon enough Sevarak Keska was escorted into the throne room, he had a muted red scale color, one blue eye and one red eye and he has a tattoo over his left eye in the design of what most would call a Celtic Knot, other than that he was mostly humanoid, two legs, two arms, hands or some sort, you get the idea, but what I found interesting was a case he had with him, it looked like a high tech suitcase meant to carry enough stuff to last someone a night or two, much to my surprise he bowed, as most tended simply to not do that regardless of whether or not they where from my Empire, or just visiting.
"Greetings your Majesty, I am Captain Sevarak Keska, captain of the ship that your vessel stopped in orbit of the planet, I wish to extend peace between our two planets, and civilizations, and to become trade partners and allies in the vastness of space." He handed me the case he was holding, so I opened it.
What was inside was blueprints for alien technology like their ion engines, something I had no use for, but someone else I know might, their Plasmatic Lance, seemingly a super weapon that could only fire once due to their limited ability to store energy on their ships, along with some other bits n bobs, I closed the case and set it aside. "I'd like to accept your peace and trade, I myself have some items that you could most likely use as well." I handed him a box that contained a few fusion cells, three fusion cores, a few fission cores, and some old laser pistols that no longer had use within the Empire, due to the new designs.
This went on for awhile, he talked about many things, how their people thought their entire planet was a goddess, and thus they had united as a species rather early on, due to that their weaponry was not all that impressive, except for their self contained energy bullets, it was a standard round of ammunition, but it fired off a beam of energy rather than a solid lead projectile, all this information was pretty damn interesting, along with useful, so I had a holotape recording everything on my pipboy, it would later be uploaded to a terminal and upgraded into a digital format for storage on a storage disk.
This all took about five hours itself, during that time I'd had a chair brought in for him while we talked, and after it was all said and done, trades struck, and a few other small details, he was let back into his ship, and as we agreed, it would stay grounded until the zetan FTL had been installed into it so he could go back to his home system and give the glorious news to the rulers of his planet, thats right, just two, I think two, he never gave me a number, ruled over his entire planet, and their solar system, quite astounding, I wonder just what Humanity would be able to achieve if they put aside their petty differences and just worked together for a common goal?
I'm taking like I'm not part of humanity, and to be honest? I knew I was different to most people, now not all people are bad, far from it, but from my experience on Earth, those in power tended to be greedy, spiteful, and a few other not so nice things, that tended to bring in more bad people, and then it just goes on, unlike most I'm not a greedy power hungry maniac, can you honestly tell me if some random psychopath with a power boner came to this planet, to this empire, before me, that it wouldn't turn out worse? Oh look I'm ramblin again, this is all besides the point, the main point was that the meeting took 5 to 6 hours before everything was said and done.
I got up off my throne, intending to get myself some grub before going to sleep, I had missed lunch due to the meeting, since it started at about 12, and I planned to go to sleep early cause it was exhausting going over every little detail for trade, peace, and alliance of military units if needed, but it was a win-win situation in the end.
As I walked into a small, private dining room, meant just for 5 or so people, in the event I didn't want to just use the stupidly lavish dining room, and sat down, as normal there was a mister handy just patiently waiting for me to order something, it was a lot like a restaurant actually, I had gotten bored of trying to think of something to eat every day or night, so I'd had a menu created so I could just go through, and choose, new things where added to it every day, so I'd always have new selections of foods to try, I'd decided on something I'd come to enjoy more and more, a one pound cheese burger with onions, pickles, lettuce, tomato, and a side of onion rings, a classic nuka cola, and some ketchup to go with it all.
In less than twenty minutes my food was given to me, and I ate slowly, talking about an hour to eat everything, once I did I walked to my room, well Chrysalis, Moon's, and my room now seemingly, thankfully Chrysalis had been smart enough to have a larger bed replace our old one, as she was currently cuddling Moon on it, leaving the other half for me, without taking my clothes off, due to being to damned lazy to do so, I just layed down, and within seconds I was asleep, into the land of dreams.
Right away I noticed something was off with my dream, for one I knew it was a dream, which was extremely rare to begin with, but I could recognize the place I was in, it was that blue void of stars that Luna took ponies to when she was in their dreams, and thats when I saw her, Luna I mean, she was standing there looking at me with a strange look in her eyes, she had on a black dress, along with her normal tiara and other crap, she didn't look happy, I wonder why?
Luna glared at me. "I have heard news of the imprisonment of my friend and fellow princess, Twilight Sparkle, I demand you release her this instant and drop any and all charges of her name, and pay reparations for damages caused to her being."
I raised an eyebrow. "Why are you just NOW getting to invading my dreams and demanding something? That happened over a week ago." Twas true, it's been little over a week since the 'Twilight incident' happened.
Her eyes narrowed. "It matters not why I was not here sooner, what matters is that you will release Twilight, along with that parasite Nightmare Moon, and Chrysalis, into Equestrian custody, or face the wrath of the night." Her horn started to glow white.
I just laughed. "I will be doing no such thing, there is nothing you can do to scare me, go on and try it! I'd love to see what you can come up with, I love horrifying things and scary monsters and the like, so do your worst." It was true, I'd loved horror games back on earth, notably Dead Space, and Alien Isolation, and some others.
Luna grinned. "Lets see you face the horrors that my ponies have created to scare themselves, shall we?" Her horn glew again and a few zombies popped up, but not normal zombies, just....green ponies with green eyes and fur.....no blood? Rotting skin and fur? No exposed bones? Boring, as such I rolled my eyes, and she tried again, this time it was large spiders, that once again, did not scare me, so I held up my hand causing the summoned things to vanish.
Luna was frowning by this point. "Fine then, if I cannot scare you into doing that I want, then I shall take my leave." She turned around and made a motion as if to open a door, only for absolutely nothing to happen, her eyes widened as she turned around. "What did you do!? I am unable to leave your dream, something that should not be possible!"
I kept a neutral face as I spoke up. "You see, this is MY head, and I've just locked all the exits."
Luna frowned. "It matters not, all I have to do is wake you from your sleep, and I will be free." She seemed rather smug in that assumption, but I'll be the first to shatter it.
I grinned, a normal grin, that turned slowly into something the Joker himself would be proud to see. "Wrong again Lulu, once I fall asleep, I don't wake up until my body's automated response kicks in and I get up at the same time I do every day, and I just fell asleep, so we are gonna have tons of fun together!" The scene shifted from empty blue space, to a dark black void of stars and planets as a ship formed around us. "You tried to give me nightmares? I've seen things that'll make you scream and beg for death, only you won't get that." The screams of ponies was what Luna heard next as she saw mutilated ponies, with large scythe like bones where their hands should have been, slashing into other ponies, brutally killing any whom they targeted.
Luna looked from the gory scene back to me with wide eyes as I grinned. "Have fun Luna! Lets see how long you survive the hoards, shall we?" With a small poof I was gone, now able to watch the dream, no not a nightmare, I loved horror and always dreamed of things like this, and watched the chaos unfold with a smile on my face.
Luna tried to summon up her magic to leave, but like I had told her, I locked ALL the exits, she would only get out if I let her, or if I woke up, the pony necromorphs turned their attention away from the slaughtered ponies, to her, their eyes milky white, skin torn and rotten, large jagged teeth and no bottom jaws, a classic from Dead Space one, they lifted their scythe like bones up, and charged her.
Luna did something she thought she'd never have to do in a dream, she ran, she ran for her life, down halls, past other bodies, some in worse shape than others, she quickly ran into an empty room, that had a vent inside it, and nothing else, the door slammed shut behind her, as she was about to relax the doors had something large, and heavy slam into them, as two blades pushed their way through the doors center, and pried it open, Luna growled realizing a mistake she had made, she should have nothing to fear! This was only a dream, she should be able to just will it away and be free, so Luna tried once again to will away the nightmare before her, only for nothing to happen....well, nothing aside from the necromorph slicing her in half spilling her organs and blood everywhere.
Luna's eyes shot open as she awoke on another section of the dark and damaged ship within the void of space, and Luna realized she would not be free so easily, she didn't have much time to think about why she was in another section of this weird ship, before she heard a hiss behind her, slowly turning her head she saw a black, faceless monster staring back at her, it's jaws open to reveal a smaller mouth inside it's main mouth, she had only a second to think before the second inner jaw of a Xenomorph shot through her skull, once again resetting the 'level' that she was in.
The funny thing about all this was the fact this was just one of the simulations my soldiers went through for training, and they handled it much better than Luna currently was, who may I add was screaming in agony as another horrific creature tore her apart. This would teach her not to go screwing with me, it may be a bit evil yeah, but it would teach her a lesson she'd never forget.
Next Chapter: Chapter 27 Estimated time remaining: 6 Hours, 54 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Sorry if the horror bit of this sucked,I'm not a horror writer, not am I fully awake lol,I'm half asleep and have a cold, you don't like it? Good for you XD ya get what ya get, peace y'all! I'ma go eat some soup n black TF out, once again posted from phone