You know, the interesting thing about torturing ponies in their dreams, is that they can be exposed to much greater amounts of pain and suffering than they could withstand while awake, if a pony was awake, they would pass out from too much pain but you can't pass out if you're already sleeping, or knocked out, and a pony can brought to the edge of fear induced death by reliving the same horrors a thousand times, with no hope of escape.

That is exactly what Luna went through, and I laughed every time it happened, since she was an alicorn, therefor immortal, she couldn't die, not that easily, but it damn well scared the fuck outta her pretty well, now, I will go, for I'm waking up, to Luna I've been putting her through hell for a week, when in reality it was hours, thanks to the fact time passes slower in your dreams while your sleeping.

If I was being honest the thing that really made this funny to me? This was all just a minor part of the simulations my soldiers train through, and the best part? I wouldn't be telling Luna that, I wanted her to think these things where REAL, and that if I wanted to, I'd unleash them on her, or at the very least, make her think they where just real, out there, waiting for the right time to attack her.

Luna woke up screaming in horror, her sister, Celestia, was standing at her bedside, as Luna had started screaming like she was being murdered about twenty minutes after she fell asleep, Celestia quickly hugged her. "Luna! Tell me whats wrong! What happened?"

Luna stopped screaming, her eyes bloodshot, her fur pale, and her mane sticking out at random places. "I tried to get Lorenzo....to release Twilight, as she is one of my only real friends....and I tried to give him nightmares to make him release her..." Luna sounded dead....hollow, emotionless, as if she had been burnt out.

Celestia's eyes widened as she listened closely. "Go on Lulu, it's alright for now, just tell me what happened." Celestia said, a bit of worry creeping into her voice, as Lorenzo may very well declare war over this.

"He subjected me to such horrors....bodies that wouldn't die, mutated ponies whom only moments ago enjoyed conversation with friends, only to die and mutate so quickly, then to kill their own friends, family....foals...demons made of black ink, a demonic dancing clown that ate foals....black creatures designed to kill, sharp tails, a mouth filled with teeth, and a second mouth on their tongues that easily pierced bone and brain matter...." Luna was unable to continue, and Celestia just hugged her.

"Take all the time you need Luna, I'm sorry but I need to deal with a few things, just rest for now, I'll send for somepony to wake you up during lunch so we can talk in more detail about what happened." Celestia nuzzled Luna's cheek before teleporting into her throne room.

Princess Celestia looked down at the mare that had caused the most recent annoyance to her, Spring Dancer, former captain of a squad of guardmare's, she was a lean, athletic pegasus mare mare with a rather large chest and a thick ass, her fur was an autumn gold color, while her eyes where a light hazelnut brown, her mane and tail where a mix of gold, white, and brown, currently under threat of the death penalty for treason, or another option, one that would prevent a war from happening. "You have been presented with two options Spring Dancer, your very life may be in the hands of another, choose now, or I'll choose for you." Celestia's tone was flat, no kindness could be found in her voice, and some may even say it was borderline threatening.

Spring Dancer nearly pissed herself from fear, looking over the two options she had been given, she didn't quite like either of them, but option two was much better, at the very least she had a better chance of living, at the very least she could beg to live if he turned down the offer Celestia was going to give him, with that logic in mind, she spoke. "I choose option two...your highness."

Princess Celestia nodded and summoned a pen and parchment, before writing a letter, and closing it with a seal of red wax, along with an enchantment. "You are to take this letter to King Lorenzo, only he may open it due to the enchantment I have placed upon it, go now, for you are no longer welcome in Equestria after you cross the border, you know what will happen if you come back." Spring Dancer nearly cried as she nodded, and flew off as fast as she could out of the throne room, and to the train station to await for a train.

After Spring Dancer was gone from the throne room, Celestia seemed to deflate like a tire being popped, she was tired of dealing with stressing crap like this and had to have a much stricter list of rules for her guardmare's to follow, as if Lorenzo had been any other ruler, then surely war would have been the outcome, however Celestia was not stupid, far from it, she knew the reason her guardmare's acted out of line with King Lorenzo was due to the fact he was male, the only real known male ruler, and males tended to be expected to upkeep the house, raise foals, cook in the kitchens, and other things like that, not all where like that, mainly stallions from the apple family, but due to the rarity of stallions in Equestria, she'd had to make it illegal for stallions to not make a herd at some point.

Princess Celestia sighed, she remembered when the population was almost completely 50/50, but that had been well over three thousand years ago, since then stallions started dying off, soon after a few minor battles had taken place against monsters, and at the time, hostile kingdoms, stallions had died in the thousands, soon enough it got to the point where Celestia had been forced to act on the matter, making it so only mares could join the guard, she feared war not only for the lives of her guardmare's and everyday ponies, but for stallions, if they where killed off her kingdom that she had worked well over a thousand years to keep safe, and thriving, would die like a pony stepping on an ant.

----------------Old Empire-----------

Princess Cadence had noticed in the last few years of her controlling the Crystal Empire, that the crystal heart had begun to loose power, she also realized that it was due to her censoring of the crystal ponies culture, but it wasn't much of a culture, it was books about bloody battles and graphic details about ponies doing.....sexual..things to one another, books about knights defeating horrible beasts and dragging the bloody and battered corpses home as a trophy to show off to others, paintings of the same things, she outlawed jousting, dueling, and banned crystal stallions from joining the guard, following Princess Celestia's lead, she tried to make it much like Equestria in terms of how the other gender should treat one another, she expected stallions to do what they did back in Equestria, and she had collected all of those books, paintings, statues, and other such 'culture' and had them pilled outside of the crystal palace, it was going to be a public event that after years, she'd finally let the crystal ponies start anew, and forget about their violent and depressing past.

Cadence stood on the balcony that was built into the crystal palace with spells placed around it so whatever she said would be amplified ten times her normal speaking voice. "Crystal Ponies! Today is the day we have all been waiting for! The day where you can all start anew, and forget the depressing past that you all lived with for so long, today is a celebration! Today we burn the depressing, and gory books that hold your sad past, and then we shall move onto a brighter future!" Cadence's horn lit up, aimed to set a pile of books, paintings, and other things like that, on fire.

Before Cadence could shoot the pile with a spell intended to set fire to almost anything, she was tackled by one of her own guardmare's, much to the gratefulness of the crowed of assembled crystal ponies. "WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS! I AM YOUR PRINCESS! RELEASE ME AT ONCE OR FACE ATTEMPTED TREASON!" Cadence all but yelled into the guardmare's face.

The guardmare's face went stony, before she lifted one of her armored hands, and started beating the absolute shit out of Cadence, and screamed, each word accompanied by a punch. "TREASON!? YOU BETRAYED US A WEEK AFTER YOU CAME INTO RULE! YOU MAY HAVE HELPED STOP SOMBRA! BUT YOU WILL NO LONGER RULE US! YOU COME INTO OUR EMPIRE, TAKE OVER WITHOUT EVEN ASKING US, AND ON TOP OF THAT!? YOU TRY TO FUCKING DESTROY OVER A THOUSAND YEARS WORTH OF CULTURE BECAUSE YOU THINK ITS DEPRESSING!" By the time she was done, Cadence's snout was broken as fuck, she had a black eye, her horn was cracked, and she was missing about 15 of her teeth.

Shining Armor, Cadence, and any other Equestrians where quickly gathered into the throne room, and locked in after being tied up and having horn rings shoved onto their horns, since most of them had been unicorns, and left to rot while crystal ponies, crystal guardmare's, and general citizens of the empire gathered all of their belongings, paintings, an entire library worth of books, paintings, small statues, a few old dragon skulls, they reluctantly left the crystal heart on its pedestal under the crystal palace, while they may have hated the Equestrians, they where not cruel enough to let them die in the harsh cold, despite what Cadence had tried to do for the past few years, plus most of them knew Cadence was related to Celestia in one way or another, so if she was killed then they knew not even the crystal heart at full power would be able to save them from her solar might.

The entire empire's worth of crystal ponies gathered at the train station, taking 5 trains to fit them all, along with the items they had taken with them, which itself took up two trains, all of this had taken about 3 hours, by now surely the Equestrians would have broken out of the palace throne room, and to the warehouses containing those giant metal abominations, based on Sombra's designs, after everypony and every important object had been loaded up, the trains set off.

------------------Lorenzo's Empire---------

I grinned watching Sunbeam Cuddle do a little dance, she had taken to tap dancing, which was a bit weird to watch, but it was still absolutely adorable. "As always your adorable Sunbeam, it's good to see you have hobbies outside of being the pony who deals with incoming electronic main and organizing my schedules for the day to day things."

Sunbeam was grinning. "I'm happy that you still keep my employed when what I do could be done by a robot hehe." She laughed lightly.

I rolled my eyes. "Nonsense your better than any ole robot Sunbeam, don't you forget it! I'm off now as you know, I got crap I need to do, sadly, but you should join me for a drink sometime, I don't have many actual friends, and your one of em, so it would be nice to hang out more often!" I relayed into the throne room after I finished speaking and she nodded, it was nice to see her happy working for me, after all a happy pony is a productive pony, and due to the fact she looks adorable with a smile on her muzzle.

It was just a little after lunch time, so while chatting with Sunbeam I had decided to get us some food, she had a sandwich, I had myself a BLT with extra bacon, yum, either way I was sitting on my throne bored out of my damned mind, I didn't have to do anything for the next three or so hours other than going over recommendations from soldiers on how to improve quality of life within the military, and I did so happily, accepting a few things that made sense, and denying the things that where just plain fuckin stupid, like mandatory party day, no one likes going to a party if it's mandatory, that and it was just stupid.

As I was going over a few things, as I mentioned, when a glowing portal opened in the center of my throne room and wouldn't ya guess it, none other than Discord popped his mix n match'ed ass outta it, I'd say it was this worlds Discord, but he had the same general body shape as an anthro, so I knew this was my worlds Discord. "Lorenzo my buddy! I've finally found you!" He floated down and hugged me hard enough to make my back crack.

I'll admit it, I yelped. "Gah! Where the fuck have ya been!" That was an honest question, cause I knew he could go through other dimensions, but not actually find somethin specific.

He chuckled and set me back down on my throne. "Celestia's been throwing a hissy fit since your empire up and VANISHED leaving a rather large crater in the frozen north, since I owe you a favor, and Celestia asked me to, I've been searching for you for awhile! I'm glad I found ya!"

I nodded. "I am as well! This means there is a way back to my world after all! Once we get you the needed magic from one of my magic generators!"

His happy mood seemed to sour a bit. "Sorry Lorenzo, even if I wanted to, there is some weird magic surrounding your Empire, it's FAR stronger than mine, something that shouldn't be possible, so while I may be able to visit, I can't do shit about moving your Empire back to its rightful place, not much I can do I'm afraid." He shrugged.

I frowned. "Well fuck then, just remember how to get back here, and let Celestia know everything is fine at the moment, my scientists are working on a way to send my Empire back as we speak, making very little effort in doing so, but some effort is better than none."

He nodded. "Alright will do, now that I know how to get here, her top mages can also begin to work on a way to bring you back! Till then I leave you with this little gift, keep it on you at all times! It'll allow me to get back here quicker!" He handed me a......fucking twilicane.......god fucking damn it Discord.

I looked at the twilicane, then back to him. "God damn it...really dude? Just fuckin really?" I said with a deadpan look on my face.

He nodded with a laugh and with a flash of yellow he was gone without another word, while I stored that abomination of a cane in my inventory, I was so tempted to jam the thing down his throat because of how many memes where made back on Earth using that thing.

I sighed, now I at least knew there was a way back, and I'd get there, even if I had to cut my Empire into tiny bite sized chunks to do so, as this planet was beginning to go fuckin nuts, hell I had other rulers trying to win me over with gifts of gems, chocolate, whine, and other crap, what do I look like to them? A lonely woman with an addiction to booze and chocolate? Hell some of em sent chocolate covered flowers, keep in mind not all of em where doin this, the Griffon Empire wasn't, it was mainly the caribou and minotaur doin that, tryin to get in my good graces or whatever the hell it is they wanted.

I also had some news from the medical side of research that was going on at Med-Tek about a mile away from the palace, the zebras where adept in using potions to cure things like a broken tooth, mane loss, and cancer....YEP thats right, the zebras had a fucking cure for cancer in a drinkable form, if anyone on Earth ever got their greedy fuckin hands on that they'd try to sell it for millions, then governments, ones without free health care that is, would up the price so those who had cancer would either have to pay up or die, or just die from lack of money to buy it, unlike greedy fucks like that, chems where cheap as hell, one copper bit could get ya 3 chems, if you went to a hospital in need of medical aid everything was free, food, housing for awhile till you could leave, medication, everythin, I came from the US before I ended up with my own Empire, and I can tell ya just how stupidly fuckin expensive health care was, those Canadians had it good.

The alien's ship had been upgraded with a fusion plant, energy shields, and a zetan FTL device so they'd be able to go back to their star system or whatever and give the news to whomever they answer to personally, in other news aside from that Crystal Prime was being upgraded with energy shields, like Defender Prime had, after he was upgraded he'd be sent to help Defender Prime with building a wall around the badlands, since I now effectively owned that land since it belonged to Chrysalis, but since she answers to me now, it was official, I now owned an Empire the size of a continent, so yay I guess, more land, resources, places to build more cities and homes, plant a few forests for ponies and others to enjoy a walk through, without worry of bears or wild animals attacking.

The Crystal City ship was coming along nicely, along with four more versions of Defender Prime, the first one would be the leader, while the new four ones would just act as general defense against things like tatzleworms, nasty bastards those are, and you may be wondering how I had sky scrapers and roads, and a bunch of other things made within months, that was due to the fact my Empire didn't use normal cement or concrete, it used the roman concrete and cement, mainly the kind that sea water made harder, so unlike modern concrete from Earth, mine would last for thousands of years, it would kinda need to since I was plannin for the long run.

I was about to head off, to check on the development of the Crystal City, when I got a notification about a train that had pulled up close to the Empire, a train station had been allowed to be built by the Equestrians, but not directly into the Empire itself, I learned that lesson after the Blueblood incident to not allow any trains into the Empire's walls unless it was the metro trains under the city, either way the train only had two ponies inside it, a pegasus mare, and the conductor whom simply continued on her way with the train after the pegasus had gotten off, with a quick scan my scanners told me she had nothing on her but her clothes, a letter, and some water, so I pressed a button and she was relayed into the throne room. "Yes how may I help you today?" Holy crap I just felt like a shitty fast food employee saying that, I nearly died inside hahaha.

The mare bowed. "I am...or was, Spring Dancer, the guardmare that almost caused an international incident, and for that I have been punished, my life is literally in your hands, with that I give you a letter written by Princess Celestia herself, only you can open it due to the enchantment she placed upon the scroll." She handed me an old fashioned scroll.

I opened the scroll, and to say I was surprised, would be like saying shooting tnt was dangerous, actually no it would be like saying 'hey lets smash atoms together and stand in front of it, it'll be fun!', only then, would it not be an understatement, the letter read as such.

To His Royal Majesty, King of the Crystal Empire, Protector of His Realm, The first of His name, King Lorenzo.

On behalf of Equestria and it's people, I extend to you the mare beholding this letter as an offer of peace. She Dishonored herself, the Guard she was apart of and her nation by trying to attack you in your own home. For this she has been convicted of Treason, The only crime in Equestria worthy of Death or Exile.

I as princess of Equestria and Head of the Solar Guard Defacto, have decided to commute her sentence if she agrees to the following conditions.

1. She gives up her Rank and all future obligations to the Guard.
2. She agrees to be dishonorably discharged from her branch of service.
3. She Agrees to be Harmony Bound to you in Marriage.

With this Marriage I hope to secure peace between our nations. But should you decline, I will be forced to execute her as is her punishment for her crime.

I hope you will make the right choice in all this, her life is in your hands.

Her Royal Highness, Princess of Equestria, Sol Invictus, The Thousand Year Sage, Princess Celestia.

I read the letter a few times, looked up at the mare, down at the letter, then back up, before I face palmed and pulled out my phone, calling a certain number. "Chrysalis, get your ass down to the throne room, now, no I don't care that your currently 'busy' with Moon, this is more important." I hung up and waited for about 5 minutes before Chrysalis walked into the throne room.

She looked rather sweaty and was panting, most likely either from her 'fun' with Moon, or running here, most likely both hehehe, either way she didn't look very happy. "What did you want Lorenzo? You know how I get when I'm having my fun." Without saying a word I trusted the letter into her face and she took it, and read it, before she looked to the mare, and broke out laughing, hard. "By the Maker! Celestia must be desperate for peace if this is what she did! I guess we can keep her, she ain't gettin no royal power however."

I shrugged, at this point I didn't care about others being added to the herd so long as Chrysalis was fine with it, mainly cause she was the only one having 'fun' with those she wanted to join, at the moment it was just her and Moon, now I had another one in the lot.....damn it soon enough my entire palace will be filled with mares, I don't want that. "Alright miss Spring Dancer, you may stay here." She seemed to brighten up at that and Chrysalis led her off to the bedroom, most likely to continue her fun with Moon.

I grabbed a piece of paper and began writing on it, after about a minute I was done, and tossed it into a relay tube that teleported it directly to Celestia's throne room.

------------------Canterlot Castle Throne Room-----------

Celestia was enjoying the fact day court had finally ended, and she was free to do as she wished, when with a violent blue flash a letter smacked her in the snout, she opened it and it read as such.

Dear Princess Celestia

Dafaq? I accepted the marriage thing, but don't pull crap like that again, I don't want a palace full of mares, thanks, King Lorenzo, Ruler of the Crystal Empire, and Fucker Up of Shit.

Celestia broke out laughing hard, took her about 5 minutes of wheezing non stop for her to calm down enough to smile. "That was entertaining."

Author's Notes:

Hiya all! Been writing this for days because I kept getting distracted and falling asleep lol XD if ya like the story don't forget to say so, and always comment,I love comments, edit fixed a mistake with celestia's letter to lorenzo