It was three days after the Cutiemark Crusaders had joined my Empire, after they where given Citizenship I personally went down to welcome them into the ranks of my Empire's citizens, and saw to Scootaloo getting her cybernetic wings, she'd take a few days to get used to them, then she'd be able to fly as if she had the ability to do so when she was first born.

I had decided to make a few changes with random things, for one gen-2 synths, would now be called androids, no gen 2 or anything since they where my own versions of them, the other changes I didn't actually have a say in doing, remember those miniature crystal hearts I had being set up everywhere so the entire Empire had a barrier like the one the main crystal heart produced? As it turns out, those hearts connected to one another in some sort of wireless hub with the main heart, boosting their power along with the power of the normal crystal heart, and in doing so everything was altered... as in, the concrete, now looked like grey crystals, samples where taken from the cement and concrete, and an inch under it was the same, but for the rest? It had transformed into this super strong yet durable crystal, now the rest of the Empire matched the center where my Crystal Palace stood, before I had everything expanded.

Blue Gadget and Astral Starlight had worked together, and with the help of Flim and Flam, they created a laser rifle, but it was about three times as powerful as your standard semi automatic AER9 laser rifle, it looked about the same, but it was made to be lighter, it's beam was purple rather than the deep red you'd expect it to be, due to the crystal arrays used to focus the energy into a beam, they designated it the AER-10 laser rifle, and with a few tests, it was shown to be effective against dragon scales, something that no normal laser would be able to do, it used fusion cores for ammo the same way a AER9 would use fusion cells, so that it would have three times as many shots before needing to reload, it would be classed as a medium weapon due to it's use of fusion cores as ammo.

The AER-10 would NOT be replacing standard AER9 laser rifles, but it would be issued to new android units as their standard weapon, after it went into mass production with the use of the machines placed in factories due to the Contraptions DLC, they would then work off game logic, never needing to be cleaned, never breaking, over heating, you get the idea, in other news Moon had to go to therapy due to ...issues, she was very emotionally unstable, she could be fine one moment, then the next she'd be ripping apart the robot that asked her if she wanted sugar with her tea, other times Chrysalis would find her sobbing in our room alone, thus it was decided she needed therapy.

Spring Dancer acted more like a general servant than anything else, but mainly just followed Chrysalis around or did what she wanted, she actually seemed happy to be here, which is not something I expected, like, at all, I expected her to be miserable here since she was pretty much forced to choose coming here, or dying, but no she seemed happy as can be, I swear sometimes I will never understand ponies, from either world.

As I was about to finish working on my little robobrain project, which was almost complete after all this time, the crystal heart started to spin rapidly again, which had been happening lately so it was just seen as it bleeding off excess power from all the positive emotion it was having to absorb, before as expected it shot a beam of positive emotions, given form in the shape of a blue, yellow, and purple beam, into the air that soon made an aurora affect, but them something strange happened, unlike normal where the aurora effect would just wave around in the air making a pretty light show, it shot off to the north, something I found weird, but shrugged it off, the thing acted weird all the time, not like there was anything I'd care to do about it so long as it didn't hurt the Empire.

------------Old Crystal Empire---------

Princess Cadence, the Princess of Love itself, was in horrible condition, despite the time that had passed, and all the medical spells placed upon her, her snout was not completely healed, and one of her eyes was still swollen and sealed shut from the build up of fluid caused when it was punched by a metal fist three times as big as her fist, she was now the ruler of an empty empire, sure there where the few Equestrian unicorns she had employed, but they didn't actually live full time in the crystal empire, they'd be leaving within a week once their contract ended and they'd have no reason to stay.

The crystal heart had been acting up as well, trying to power up to make a beam like it did when Spike first helped free the empire, but it just simply didn't have the power to do so, and its center had begun to dull, almost a greyish blackish color, she had tried to help the heart power up several times, but it just wasn't enough, she had just given up on fixing the heart, when the most unexpected thing happened, a beam of positive energy was shot directly into the crystal palace, and therefore, into the crystal heart, causing it to spin at a rapid pace, before it suddenly stopped, and a beam of black, blue, purple, and yellow energy shot in front of her, causing her to jump back in shock as something she never expected within a million years to happen, happened.

The beam formed a pony, but it was no normal pony, it was the infamous King Sombra, full with his armor, cape, crown, yet strangely enough his eyes where not green and red pits with purple smoke leaking from them, however Cadence didn't care about that at the moment, and shot a beam of magic at Sombra, only for the crystal heart to counter it with another beam of energy, now bright as ever and seemingly at full power.

Cadence growled. "What is the meaning of this! What did you do to the crystal heart!" Her horn lit up again in preparation to fire another spell at this beast.

King Sombra merely raised an eyebrow at how....beat up, for the lack of a better term, that Cadence seemed to have had a war hammer taken to her face, but shrugged that off, knowing what he had to do, as shown by the crystal heart while it had recreated a body for him. "I did nothing to the crystal heart, however it did do some things to me, shown me...what I've done wrong, and how to make amends with those whom I've hurt."

Cadence simply frowned. "I won't fall for your tricks, I will end you like I should have when I first came here!" She launched herself at Sombra, her horn aglow with a violent blue light, only for the most epic bitch slap in existence, to take place punting her pink ass back 15 feet.

Sombra turned to the heart, a weird look in his eyes as he reached INTO the heart like it was made of fluid, and pulled out a black, heart shaped item from it. "I will make amends, and I will being her back, I promise you this, whatever it is you are exactly, as from what you've shown me, you are far more than a simple magic artifact.." With that Sombra pulled one of his classic moves, turning into a living shadow before he was gone with a breeze from the wind, his magic leading him to the south.

A messenger came up to Cadence less than 15 minutes later, by then she had stood up and had a large black and blue bruise on the left side of her face, despite this the messenger mare showed no concern, since it was not her job to care, nor did she want to be here stuck in the middle of bumfuck nowhere in the north in an old empire that was no longer relevant, either way she handed Cadence a letter, before flying off back to her post.

Cadence glared at the mare as she just flew off, not a word of concern for her health or how the princess was doing at the moment, as some ponies should have cared, but most simply didn't, they viewed her with the same contempt the crystal ponies did once they learned of what she was actually going to do, regardless she opened the letter and found much to her surprise, shock, and anger, that her crystal ponies had been found, as citizens of the New Crystal Empire.

She was so pissed, she was nearly frothing at the mouth, how dare her crystal ponies just up and abandon her? Then to add insult to injury they joined ANOTHER VERSION of her empire! They may as well be spitting in her face and telling her to go fuck herself, she knew that while it was in hindsight wrong, to attempt to destroy their culture and start new, but honestly! All that blood, gore....the skulls kept as 'trophies' it was sickening to her, Cadence with a quick burst of magic was inside her throne room, and the guard next to her, an Equestrian guardmare, whom 50 or so had been transported to the empire via train after her guard abandoned her, was tapped on the shoulder. "Guard, I wish for you to write a letter, write exactly as I say, then have it delivered to the badlands Empire." The guard nodded and pulled out a pen and parchment.

----------------------------------------------Lorenzo's Empire, 4 hours later-------------------------

I was just stuck in shock staring at what I assumed was this worlds version of King Sombra, whom had TELEPORTED into my THRONE ROOM, let that sink in, there where runes CARVED INTO THE VERY WALLS AROUND THE EMPIRE to COMPLETELY PREVENT teleportation of the magical kind, now keep in mind that only allied 20 feet into the empire itself and only blocked teleportation INTO the empire, unicorns could still learn the spell and teleport out and then get stuck outside the walls, military sites had the same runes etched into their walls to prevent civilians accidentally teleporting in, or doing so with a not so nice agenda.

Regardless the main reason I'm in shock is what he just explained to me, seemingly this worlds crystal heart, didn't DESTROY HIM by turning him into dust like it was shown on the show, rather it had actually contained him within itself and forced him to see all the pain and suffering he had caused, in a sense reforming him without actually taking away his powers, and he wanted to make amends by bringing back Queen Amora, whom from what I can remember from the comics, was the first ruler of the crystal empire, the reason this was shocking? The crystal heart had told him most of her shards but one had been collected and pieces back together in a room filled with strange medical equipment.

I had in secret had my changeling agents use little crystals that could detect Sombras crystallized magic, and find her shards, most where actually already collected by the changelings since they had hopped if they brought her back, she'd be able to help them with their food shortages, so the changeling agents where already out looking long before I got control of their hive, all had come back with something, be it a small shard the side of a coin, or chunks the size of a large soup can.

The only piece they had been unable to find was a weird heart shaped thing she wore around her chest/neck area, so the statue of Amore was complete aside from that chunk, and for the moment was stored in a room within the castle under constant guard, and here he shows up, proclaiming to be reformed, ready to bring her back, literally HOLDING the last chunk needed to do so, so doing what any sane person does, I shot myself to see if I was dreaming, as when I shoot myself in a dream I tend to wake up cause the world thinks I need to respawn but then corrects itself.

Turns out I wasn't dreaming, if the horrified look on Sombreros face was anything to go off of, so I stood up. "Alright, either way if you had been evil still, my crystal heart would have punted your ass halfway across the badlands as a fine powder, so you gotta be telling the truth, follow me." I walked down a few hallways, with a horrified Sombra following me, before I walked into a room that had a vault tech style sliding doors that slid into the ceiling and ground, anyone who's played the vault 81 dlc know's what I'm talking about, either way in the center of the room was Queen Amores statue hooked into a bunch of electrodes that themselves where connected to those mini crystal hearts.

Sombra seemed to...wilt at the sight of her, her face was stuck in a horrified scream while her hands where up trying to block whatever it was she saw before she was turned to crystal, Sombra slowly walked up and placed the heart shaped chunk into its place, it fit perfectly, and I nodded to two crystal unicorns, the four legged ones, and they shot the mini crystal hearts with some of their magic, causing them to spin rapidly and the wires connected to them forced their energy into the statue of Amore, the lines on her crystally prison began to glow blue, purple, and yellow, before the crystal shattered revealing Amore on the ground, knocked out hard, turning to two guards I spoke up. "You two, take her to the medical ward, if need be have doctors nearby ready to sedate her, she may go into a terror filled panic and we need a way to keep her calm, so give her some liquefied day tripper if you need to, but make sure she stays calm."

They saluted. "Yes your Majesty." They picked her up, careful to not hurt her, and rushed off down the halls to my own personal medical room, one meant for me if I where to say, fall into a short coma or simply black out hard during the middle of the day due to some injury.

I turned to Sombra. "You may wanna get ready for this, those whom have gone through it DO get used to it, but it is nothing like magical teleportation." He nodded and I pressed a button, causing us to relay back into my throne room, I sat on my throne and he sat on a chair provided for him, as per my instruction for when we'd be back. "What do you plan to do once she wakes up? What after that? Are you going to attempt to stay here, or somewhere else?"

"If you will allow it, I will stay here, and make amends with the crystal ponies, the ones from....the other empire, and with Amore, if she will allow it, but as I've come to seen she will hold no power here, this is YOUR empire, even if your world had a version of Amore, I doubt the crystal ponies of either empire would just up and abandon your rule to go with her if she decided to take back her empire."

I shrugged. "You can stay, but just like everybody else you gotta go through the Citizenship Sign Up process like everybody else, you will also need to stay within the palace if you do sign up, as seeing you may cause a panic within the current population of crystal ponies, from both sides, since you look so similar to Umbra."

Sombra nodded. "I understand, I will sign up, and as you wish, I will stay within the crystal palace." It was then an Equestrian mailmare flew in, and handed me a letter, opening it I saw it was from this worlds Cadence, what I was surprised about was the letters contents however.

Dear 'King' Lorenzo

You are to hereby return my subjects to me within 24 hours, or this will be a declaration of war

From, Princess Cadence, Princess of Love and Hope, Ruler of the Crystal Empire.

I just simply broke out laughing, this was so damn funny I nearly puked with how hard I was laughing, I decided to write her a response, so I had the mailmare stay, after about 30 seconds I was done, and handed her a letter to take back, and told her I'd be teleporting her there, before giving her a chance to respond I pressed a button and she was relayed back to Cadence's Empty Empire.

--------------Old Crystal Empire---------

With a flash that scared the crap out of her, though she'd never admit it, her mailmare was standing before her throne holding a letter for her, after handing her the letter and flying off, Princess Cadence opened it, eager to see the reply she had gotten for her demanding her citizens back as was her right.

Dear Pink Cunt of Shit

Go Fuck Yourself, no seriously, go fuck yourself you daft cunt

I will not be 'returning' quote 'your' citizens, they have all signed up for citizenship of MY empire and legally been accepted, so you hold no power over them, furthermore, war? You must be off your fuckin rocker if you think thats a good idea, as said before, go fuck yourself

Signed, King Lorenzo, fucker up of shit, and the guy who will personally beat your face into the ground if you try jack shit.

Princess Cadence's anger was almost strong enough to turn her blue magic aurora red as the letter burned to ash in her telekinetic grip, before she teleported herself down to the warehouse that stores the crystal walkers, and turned to an Equestrian unicorn scientist who had been signed onto the project to help with the magic half of things involving these crystal walkers. "Activate the walkers, we are at war."

The unicorn mare's face showed panic for a moment, before she nodded and her horn lit up, and she shot a beam into a plug receptor for the crystal walkers, that connected each of them, it only took the tiniest spark of magical energy to cause a chain reaction of jump starting their (MASS) causing them to activate, their single eye glowing pink, and their weapons charging up.

Author's Notes:

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