A New Empire War And Peace
Chapter 31
Previous Chapter Next ChapterI was going over my choices in armor for the upcoming fight, I had decided, that I would beat Cadence's face into the ground, personally, when Sombra spoke up. "Lorenzo, I may have a set of armor that will help you far better than any sets of 'power armor' as you call them, due to the fact this armor will allow you to fly like a pegasus, unlike your power armor's jetpack units which only let a soldier boost up for a few seconds at best."
Turning to Sombra I raised an eyebrow. "Explain, because I don't think any armor you have, could be better than X0-1 advanced power armor." It was a real concern if he actually had the ability to make armor better than power armor.
Sombra grinned and his horn lit up with the sickly black, green, and red colored magic he used, before with a flash of black smoke, or something that looked like smoke, a set of armor was next to him, it was colored a plain dark grey, red, and had a slot for something I easily recognized, the fucking alicorn amulet. "I will need to modify it a bit for your 'feet' and lack of tail, but otherwise it should fit you since we are about the same size, I show you a creation I only created a day before my defeat at the hands of the celestial sisters, the alicorn armor!" He seemed excited, so I guess this was a good thing.
"Alright but how is it better than power armor? And isn't that slot for the alicorn amulet? If that's the case won't it try to corrupt me like it does with anyone who uses it?" A real concern since I don't wanna go all evil an shit.
Sombra shook his head. "The corruption is a defense mechanism I designed into the amulet itself, when used on it's own it would slowly make you go insane, however when plugged into the armor, it powers it and boosts the users magic tenfold, I don't know what it will do for you in terms of magic, but it SHOULD do something since I can just feel all that magic you've been soaking up since you've gotten here...or to your world, either way it's a lot, you most likely won't be able to do spells unless it's something basic, for awhile unless you train or something."
That came as quite a shock, first of all, Sombra created the alicorn amulet, however looking at the design of it and his armor, I could see that, and the armor itself looks very intimidating, so I shrugged and placed it into my inventory, scaring the crap out of Sombra in doing so, and equipped it, since fuck taking the time to put on plate armor piece by piece, once it was on me, Sombra pulled the alicorn amulet out of his pocket, and locked it into the slot meant for it on the chest of the armor, just bellow the neck.
The alicorn armor hummed to life like a suit of power armor, the amulet glowing an eerie red for a moment before it stopped glowing, and then I got the surprise of my life when wings made of LITERAL FUCKING FIRE burst from the armors back, and I could FEEL THEM LIKE THEY WHERE MY OWN LIMBS, fucking trippy. "The fuck?" Was all I was able to say.
Sombra just laughed. "I said it wouls give you the ability to fly like a pegasus, did I not? Anyways a little cheat I built into the armor is that the wings connect to your nerves, you can control them as if you where born with them, the armor itself is enchanted to direct energy attacks away from the user." Huh like tesla power armor but with wings, and not as bulky, alright I guess.
I flapped the wings a couple of times, causing me to lift into the air. "Damn this feels weird....but I like it..." A mister handy floated up. "Sir, Amore is waking up currently and I was told to come get you."
I landed, without planting my face into the floor thankfully, if only barely, causing Sombra to snicker, before I folded the wings on my back, and I and Sombra walked into the medical room I had Amore put into, she was on a typical hospital bed, but was restrained with plastic clamps, in case she had a panic attack she wouldn't go ballistic and hurt someone or herself.
I had Sombra stay outside of the room, and I placed the armor back into my inventory after putting it on a tab I could easily get to it in seconds, now just wearing a suit, as I walked into the room I saw Amore was fully awake now, and was looking directly at me, I sat in a chair next to the bed. "Hello Amore, I am King Lorenzo, ruler of an alternate version of the Crystal Empire from my world, a few months ago my empire was brought here, and the changelings collected your shards to revive you in the hopes you would help them, a little while before that your subjects, from YOUR empire, fled to mine as their current ruler has become a tyrant." I let that sink in, see if she can actually speak.
She just stared at me for a few moments, before slowly speaking. "How long have I been gone for? What happened to Sombra and my Empire?"
I went on to explain how Sombra had been reformed by the crystal heart, and about the pink cunt trying to destroy the crystal ponies culture, how it's been well over a thousand years, and how my empire was different than hers, getting her completely up to date. "Now that your up to date, once your back to full health, we can get you back to your empire so you may take over once again and push that tyrant wanna be off your throne."
What she said next surprised me. "It...has been to long, to long for me to take rule again, I spent over a thousand years, not knowing where I was, in constant agony, unable to die...I just wish, to rest for now, I have no desire to take my empire back, if my ponies are content to live under your rule, so be it, but I just wish to rest, after so long being unable to even blink...."
I nodded as I undid the plastic clamps on her legs and arms so she could move freely. "If you need something just press that red button on the side of your bed, I must go now, and later when you are in better health, you may inform the crystal ponies yourself of your decision." I walked out of the room after making she she wasn't gonna just, kill herself, I also forgot to mention, but she was like her crystal ponies, 11-15 feet tall, about 17 feet tall more like it, she was the tallest living thing in my Empire at the moment, as even minotaur only get up to a max 15 and a half feet tall.
Sombra went in after me, I left them to talk, I didn't want to intrude on their conversation, or whatever they where talking about in there, but let it be known I had turrets inside that room, that would attack Sombra or Amore if they tried to kill one another, they where loaded with rubber bullets so they wouldn't die, just get some bruises.
I grabbed my own personal railgun for the battle that would come, I didn't plan to kill Cadence, just beat her shit in, but anything she brought with her? I'd shoot that with no hesitation like someone would shoot a target at a shooting range, the railgun was called Old World Power, and held a 20 round drum magazine, if I have to mention that this railgun, like all railguns that where not inside a ship as a weapon system, looked just like the classic one from GTA5, I will be disappointed with you all, as by now I've established this almost every time I brought up railguns, so this would be the last time I brought it up, the railgun shot capsule cores, tungsten rounds, the difference between normal railgun ammunition and capsule cores, is basically the tip of the round is hollow and inside of it is something like a mini nuke core, like some Demented High Explosive Round, known as DHER for short.
This type of railgun ammo was what my ships used, and my space ships used, they where meant to pierce even energy shields, even if the first shots didn't get through, the next hundred would, they could take out a tank with one shot, same for any hostile airship, and a fully grown dragon would be no problem with this baby, and Chrysalis had a surprise for me once the battle started, she was going to play some song over the speakers around the empire used for announcements, so I wondered what song she'd pick.
By this point a few hours had passed, and I had re-equipped that armor Sombra gave me, I was just outside the walls, waiting in a chair sippin some sweet tea and munching a sandwich, when the proximity alarm started going off, checking the cameras I grinned, a mile away was a herd of those crystal walkers I had seen in news papers and the crystal ponies had told me about, 50 or so of them, steadily marching their way to my Empire's main gate, and guess who was sitting on top of one of em? You guessed it, the Pink Bitch herself, my only question was how she got them here within two hours, otherwise I didn't care.
I waited a few more minutes, before using the relay system to teleport, Chrysalis was watching so she started the song, and I'll be dammed, it was Indestructible from Disturbed, appropriate I guess, I watched Cadence fly down about 15 feet away from me. "Surrender now Lorenzo, and return my subjects peacefully, or I will be forced to take violent action to get them back!" Cadence looked horrible, Sombra's bitch slap musta been somethin to witness, yeah he told me about that, and I laughed hard when he did.
I said nothing as I put on my helmet, which was just a standard Far Harbor marine armor helmet painted to match the armor I wore, and raised my railgun up to the nearest walker. "I warned you once." My voice emotionless as I shot causing an explosion of twisted metal and magic as the walker exploded into scrap. "Your not gonna get another one." I grinned from inside my helmet as I watched her fly up to try and protect herself. "Hello said the spider to the fly, where do you think YOUR going? You wanted a fight? COME AND GET SOME YOU PINK BITCH!" The armor's wings unfolded and I flew up leaving a trail of flames behind me as I pulled out a stungun, just a tesla rifle with less voltage, and shot at her, but she raised a shield.
Grinning again I pulled out Old World Power and shot the edge of her shield, causing it to shatter and her to fall to the ground dazed from the magic feedback, and after seeing their princess fall in battle, the crystal walkers aimed up, and shot beams of lightning at me, thankfully however the armor protected me, and let me redistribute the energy through the gauntlets, so I went sith lord on their robotic asses and shot lightning at them from my hands, causing a few to short out, before Old World Power took care of the rest, I only reloaded three times, each shot hit was a kill, this 'battle' only took 15 fucking minutes, pathetic really, I landed, once again just barely not falling onto my face, and grabbed Cadence, whom was holding her head in pain. "You've fucked up for the last time, cunt." The last thing Cadence saw was my fist heading to her face before I knocked her the fuck out.
"That....was stupidly easy, hell even a sentry bot woulda been more of a threat than your pathetic robots..." Seriously, two legged giant robots? Just aim for the joints and it's down for the count, assaultrons didn't count for that cause they had ARMS and could and did, if need be, drag their broken bodies into battle to fight, same for the androids.
I called in a few scrap teams and took the armor off, before teleporting into Celestia's throne room while holding an unconscious Cadence by her mane. "I believe this belongs to you?" I said sarcastically as possible.
Celestia just face palmed and sighed before teleporting Cadence away, to I assume, a medical ward or something within the castle. "I honestly don't know what to say, other than thank you for not killing her when she tried to wage war on you." She shrugged, seemingly just tired of bullshit.
"I have some good news, Celestia, I have decided what I will trade with you, and what I want in return for it." I actually was going to message Celestia sometime today before I got that letter from Cadence.
Celestia seemed to perk up at that. "And what would those be?"
I pulled out a list. "I can currently trade, razor grain, bloodleaf tea, steel, as my steel makes yours look like tinfoil, I know I had it tested, canned meats such as cram and corned beef since now I have more than enough to trade, titanium, and thats about it, in return for this I want a large forested area of land, and I want the mining rights, lumber rights, and drilling rights to said land, in return I will send you the items mentioned, in bulk until the land is deemed no longer useful to the Empire, do we have a deal?"
Celestia nodded. "Yes actually there is a rather large unexplored section of land that is at what ponies call 'the end of the line', it's where the train tracks stop, the land is unexplored and as of now, nopony has shown interest in the land, it's called the Peaks Of Peril, you may have this land." Celestia pointed out on a map where the area of land was, and it was a sizable chunk of land, about 500 miles or so large.
"Alright, you've got yourself a deal, I'll talk to you later Celestia." I relayed back into my throne room, which was by now, empty, cause it was now effectively 10 pm, by now most people where asleep, I was sitting on my throne to take advantage of another game mechanic to come with me from fallout, waiting for hours in one spot, for less than half the time it would actually take in reality, I set the time to 7 am, and within minutes, and thankfully I had an Atomic Punch energy drink to keep me awake.
If your wondering, Atomic Punch is Nuka Cola's version of an energy drink, I made it myself and it sells in cans that look kinda like redbull cans, pretty much a fruit flavored energy drink that would keep me up another, 5-8 hours, and unlike morons back on Earth trying to kill people, the caffeine content was CLEARLY labeled,in the EXACT dosage of caffeine you'd get from drinking it.
Once it hit 7 AM, I had a drone sent to my new land, and it dropped a beacon I could relay to, so I did, I wanted to take a look at the area before I decided what to do, I was hoping to take all the trees, and replant them in an empty and still undeveloped section of the badlands that I now owned, I wanted to have a forest for others to enjoy, like a national park, except you didn't have to worry about animals attacking you, as for the drilling rights and mining rights, that was just somethin extra on the side, looking around I saw that the area was mostly just forest, a few clearings, you get the idea, I didn't go to deep before I had robots relayed in that would dig up the trees and have them shipped back to the Empire.
The robots digging the trees up where just modified protectrons with clamp arms, and other ones had digging drills and shovels for arms, while they got to work on the trees just in front of them, I decided I'd explore deeper, see if anything interesting was inside this forest.
Walking through a few bushes and some random shrubs, I started to notice a path, which from what Celestia had told me, shouldn't be possible since nopony lives here, or has even explored this area since Equestrias founding, so I put on a suit of marine armor, cause it's completely sealed, and I didn't feel like getting something weird on me, and started following the path, while holding a sawed off in my hands, I saw a few nice looking blue flowers, so I tucked a few bushels of those into my inventory, another five minutes of walking and I found something absolutely shocking, a species I hadn't even seen on the show! However to be fair, I did get transported to MY equis before the show was over, like, just after that episode about a venom rip off, known as the pony of shadows.
Using a stealth boy to stay hidden, I observed this new species, they where.....tall, like the crystal ponies, seemingly like the changelings they didn't wear clothes, however due to the hot humid environment and their fur, I can see why they'd rather be in the nude, as embarrassing as it may be for me to watch them, anyways as I was saying, they had the general shape of a pony, but they all had horns, long tails with tufts of fur on the end, and this weird lion like mane around their head and chest, their horns looked extremely weird, like gnarled branches or something.
I walked closer into this weird little village, careful to make no noise as I scanned the buildings, simple huts made of wood, hay, grass, large leaves, you get the idea, what confused me is they seemingly had glass, metal, and plastic, yet I see no signs of the modern industry needed to make these items, glass is easy to make, and I guess metal can be to if you know how, but plastic? That requires some fancy tech to turn oil into plastic, or turn something else into plastic.
As I was thinking about this, standing just 15 feet away from the main village, as I didn't actually go inside, it was only twenty or so huts, my stealth boy wore off, and I hadn't realized it till I was being stared at by like, 40 of these weird pony dragon lookin hybrids, at least, I didn't realize it till I felt something tap me on the shoulder, and I turned around to see it, since I was facing away from the village ready to leave, only to see this tall...whatever their called, she was about 18 feet tall....damn talk about tall, her fur was some weird greyish color, her mane and the tuft of fur on the end of her tail where a light greenish cyan color, and her eyes where red, same for her horn, I didn't have much time to think about this before I was dog pilled by these creatures and smacked my head on a rock in the process, knocking me out, fuck I hope this doesn't turn out like that one movie where someone finds a lost tribe in the Amazon, only to get killed and eaten.
Next Chapter: Chapter 32 Estimated time remaining: 5 Hours, 55 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Hey everypony! Ya like the chapter? I was gonna continue it,but decided to make it a two partner, what will happen to Lorenzo? Find out in the next chapter! Lol