It was about, two weeks since the 'marriage' incident as Chrysalis has taken to calling it, winter was here, for Equestria at least, the perks of having many mini crystal hearts and just generally being in a desert had the perk of not dealing with ice fuckin cold snow n sleet, thankfully.

A few things had happened, for one the Crystal City was complete, so my robotic factories where producing upgraded gen-2 synths by the thousands to staff it, when I say upgraded, I mean better intelligence, more sturdy, for example replacing their plastic bits with solid metal alloys enchanted to be as light as a feather, their skin was still rubber however, but that was not the only development to occur within the time span of two weeks, a massive migration of this worlds crystal ponies had seemingly come to my Empire, twenty thousand of them.

Yep, that was right, twenty thousand crystal ponies just up and moved to my Empire, and the kicker for WHY they did this? Quite simple, seemingly this worlds version of the pink bitch was just as stupid as mine, sadly enough, as she had been trying to CENSOR an ENTIRE CULTURE because she thought it was 'depressing' and 'gory' , and your damned well right it was gory! These guys where like this worlds version of the Romans! They had gladiatorial fights, public bath houses, harsh punishment for the smallest of things, and it was glorious, and seemingly these ponies where much taller than their Equestrian counter parts, about 10-14 feet tall was normal for them, so about the size of my minotaur soldiers and citizens, it was now official, my Empire had a population of 2529859, the exact count, since the Citizen Identification System kept track of ALL of em.

Unlike the crystal ponies whom lived within my Empire there where no crystal pegasi or crystal bat ponies, I forget what the main term for them is, sorry, but either way despite them just being standard, by this world at least, crystal earth ponies, they where as I mentioned before, fucking huge! They acted mainly like Romans and their culture was like that of the Romans in many aspects, for example they believed in more than one god, a god of war, a god of technology, etc

I forgot to mention, but the gen-2 synths where not the only robotic units to get an upgrade within my robotic forces, sentry bots were being upgraded and enchanted with magic so they wouldn't over heat in battle, or just on patrol, which was a great thing since they tended to explode if someone shoots their exposed fusion cores, they where still able to open up and vent heat if needed, since the enchanted frost gem stuck and welded to their chassis on the inside near the fusion cores could become damaged if a bullet hits it, destroying the enchantment.

Cadence was throwing a hissy fit last I knew, trying to locate 'her' citizens to punish them, and whomever was hiding them from her, wait till she finds out they are in my Empire, she won't stand a fucking chance if she tries anything, some other news is that there is seemingly a Winter Gala, which is a day before Hearths Warming Eve, it was today, and I was invited to attend, for whatever reason.

My Empire celebrated things like Thanksgiving, Halloween, a version of Christmas called 'The Winter Festival' and a few other smaller holidays, mainly because after telling a few of my citizens about those holidays they wanted in on that, they also shared an Equestrian holiday known as Hearts N Hooves day, like valentines day but with less massacres.

I was going to attend it, mainly just due to the fact I had nothing to really do this week since all there was to do, was oversee the robot factories pump out robotic units to man the Crystal City, and that got old pretty quickly, so I was dressed up in the classic tuxedo for every fancy occasion, I wore it to my worlds gala, I may as well wear it to this one, as well as a simple crown, it was grey with a common diamond in the center, It was made of steel rather than any precious metal, and the gem was common due to the fact, I was not one for fancy things, but alas it came with the territory of ruling an entire Empire.

Sometimes I think of what I'd be doing if I was back on Earth, doing the mundane job I had been working at for the past three years, no family, few friends, really going to this world, the first one that was, and to this Empire, was a miracle if I'd ever seen one, shit I was rambling again, sorry bout that, seems to be happenin a lot lately, either way, back to the point, I was ready to go this this Winter Gala, it was exactly seven PM, the time the gala started, so I pressed a button on my pipboy and was relayed into Canterlot near instantly, the perks of teleportation that uses none of the users energy, wonderful.

I ignored the stares and gasps of shock when I teleported in, as one tended to get used to that happening after awhile, since that was literally the only reaction I got from someone not expecting me to teleport near them, as expected there where a lot of ponies, all dressed up fancy n crap, mares, stallions, yet no fillies or colts, I guess that made sense since this gala was supposed to have booze, wine, beer, and other forms of alcohol.

Since I was royalty, despite the fact I wanted to decline, I was allowed, pretty much forced, to skip the line and go straight into the ballroom, I think that's what it's called? I'm not very sure about what the room was called, it was large, roundish, etc, ya get the idea, it was a fuckin ballroom, I head to the bar almost instantly after I saw it, and took a look at the menu they had, all of it was rather....overdone fancy crap, but they did have something I liked.

The bartender was a unicorn mare with dark grey fur and a deep orange mane and tail, dark red eyes and magic aura, a bottle of green brandy as her cutie mark and a longer than average horn, as for how I was able to see her cutiemark without seeing her ass? The anthro ponies had their cutiemark printed on their clothes on the right shoulder, the second she noticed me her eyes seemed to light up like a firebomb over Iraq. "Hey your that guy! King Lorenzo! Ruler of that larger crystal empire!" She sounded excited, yet something was off about her....I decided to quick save, so if something happened I'd respawn in that spot.

"Yes that would be me." I nodded at her. "Why? Was there something you wanted from me?" I tilted my head as I sat on a bar stool.

She nodded, before she gave me a look I know all to well, it's the look Chrysalis gives Moon or Spring before she pounces on them for fun times, that instantly set off a few red flags. "Your the ruler of a kingdom, and I wanna be a queen sooo....wanna fuck after my shift is over?"

I shook my head. "I'm sorry but no, aside from the fact I am not interested, I'm in a relationship at the moment, so I'll have to decline and just order a whisky."

The happy look on her face....turned to anger, before she turned around and grabbed a bottle of whiskey, and since she was turned around, all I heard was the whisky being poured into a low ball glass before she turned around, suddenly happy again. "Here you go sir, that'll be 3 bits."

I handed her 5 bits. "Keep the change." After that, I drank my drink, and seconds after it went down my throat I knew something was wrong, I found out a second later what is was as I started to cough up blood, then I began to absolutely VOMIT blood and bile everywhere, while she was smiling and other guests where screaming or gasping in horror or disgust, before I fell to whatever the fuck it was she put into my drink, I pulled out a sawed off shotgun and shot her right between the eyes, the look on her face as those two barrels raised up at her head was priceless, before it was blown off her face, rather violently, and thus I died vomiting my guts on up on the floor, falling back into the puddle of blood and guts.

I was dead for about 14 seconds before I respawned and yawned, as I was used to dying by this point, since it happened more often than you'd think, but seemingly the other guests where not used to seeing someone just come back from the dead all fine and dandy as if nothing ever happened as paramedics were on me in an instant, checking my blood pressure, getting a blood sample, fucking. everything. Within a few seconds they where trying to strap me to a stretcher, before I backed the hell up.

"OI! I'm fine! check on the mare who's skull met my shotgun shells, she fuckin poisoned me, so I shot her right in the fuckin dome." The medics turned to the mares body, to see the front half of her skull destroyed, it was just gone, they took the body away on the stretcher, and sensing the stress still in the room, I just causally walked out and into the gardens, only to bump into someone I didn't expect to see at a party like this, Scootaloo, however she didn't look like a little filly, she looked like she was 16 or 17, around that age.

She just looked up at me with wide eyes, despite her assumed age, I was still two feet taller than her, damn that mare is short, either way she was just looking at me, before she asked something I would have never expected to come from her mouth. "Can you make it so I can fly?"

I was taken aback by this, as I had always assumed she just had stunted wings that would grow as she got older, seemingly this was wrong however, but since I had the Cybernetic Organism Project, COP, I knew that cybernetic wings where an ease to give a pegasus with damaged wings, or a unicorn a new horn, even replacing an entire set of legs, so I nodded. "Yes I do have something that would make it so you could have the ability of flight, however to be allowed access to that you'd need to be a citizen of my Empire."

Scootaloo seemed to think for a few seconds. "How can I become a citizen of your Empire?" She tilted her head and flicked one ear down....FUCKING HELL even anthro ponies doin that was heart attack inducing adorable! HNNNNNHG!

After getting my heart back under control from the overdose of DAWWW, I chuckled. "You take a few tests, say a few oaths, and then get an ID, fill out some paperwork, and blam, your a citizen, able to get all the benefits that come with it, for example, free health care, free housing and electricity, water, the whole nine yards, a ubi of 1000 bits per month, what you do with the bits is up to you, however getting a job is purely your own job."

Scootaloo thought for a minute. "Alright, I'll sign up to become a citizen sometime tomorrow, see you King Lorenzo." She walked off, strange considering I never told her my name, then again I guess I am in more than a few news papers or magazines that show life within the Empire itself, so It shouldn't be much of a surprise that she knew who I was.

I shrugged and sat down on a bench looking over some fancy floral arrangements and hedges trimmed to look like Celestia, what I didn't expect five minutes into watching birds flutter around, was for someone's large, white fluffy wings, to wrap around me causing me to yelp slightly.

Celestia chuckled. "Got'cha!" She sat down next to me and wrapped a wing around me, I wasn't gonna complain, those wings where soft as fuck.

"What brings you to me Celestia? Ya need somethin?" I tilted my head, it was an honest question as far as I knew.

Celestia nodded. "Yes I'd like to apologize about the mare that tried to poison you... I'm so very sorry that these incidents keep happening between our two kingdoms... I'm just so worried your going to think this is some plot to assassinate you or something, and start a war with my Equestria, something I above all else, will do anything to prevent..."

I just chuckled, which seemed to confuse Celestia. "Listen Celestia, you don't need to worry about a war, so long as you don't outright declare war on my Empire and start blastin the shields with solar blasts, we're good, okay?"

Celestia's worried expression melted away and she smiled. "Yes, I understand Lorenzo, thank you for calming my worries, I've just felt as lately if Equestria was to go into a conflict I'd be unable to prevent or stop it before to many died."

Celestia leaned forward and hugged me, I hugged back, and behind us I saw the flash of moonlight on metal, to be specific, a fucking rifle. "GET THE FUCK DOWN!" I pushed Celestia off me and onto the ground before pulling out a standard hunting rifle, with a scope, and took aim in vats, having a 67% chance at hitting the target I put all my AP points into it, and shot them three times, once in the shoulder, and twice in the head,

Celestia yelped but after I made sure the bastard was dead, I helped her back up. "Sorry, but there was a sniper behind us aiming at you or me." I pointed to the body less than 20 feet away hidden slightly behind some tall hedges.

Celestia gasped and then did something that surprised me, she fuckin hugged me hard enough to crack my back, causing ME to yelp yet again. "Lorenzo, while I may be immortal, I can still bleed, and go comatose if I loose enough blood or are injured enough, you may very well have just saved my life!" She set me down after my back cried 'I SURRENDER! DON'T SHOOT!' causing me to groan.

"Damn mare! You work out? Ya damn near turned my back into dust!" I grinned seeing her blush from that comment.

"Anyways! I hope you enjoy the rest of your time here at the Winter Gala, but I must be off Lorenzo, I hope to see you again at some point, we should write to one another every now and again." She teleported off, taking the body with her, I just chuckled and watched as winter colored fireworks went off in the sky.

Author's Notes:

Hiya everypony! Sorry this took so long to plop out,but once again I'm sick, in other news gen 4 mlp has ended officially, please put an F in the comments to pay respect to the greatest show I've ever watched, sad to see it end...., That's another reason this took so long,I'm just flat out depressed about the show ending