When I woke up, about a day had passed from what my pipboy told me, however what confused me was the fact I still had my armor, minus the helmet, on, and I was on some kind of bed, funny enough it wasn't made out of leaves, ferns, whatever the hell you'd expect a bed in the middle of the forest to be made out of, it was like any other cheap bed, soft fabric, a pillow, some weirdly thick blanket, you get the idea, regardless I had the mother of all fuckin migraines at the moment.

A quick shot of Med-X helped that quite a bit, and looking around I realized, I was not alone, creepy that I only just now noticed it, that large grey hybrid thing was sitting across from me on some chair, she was the large one I mentioned before, well, larger than the others that is, I still don't fuckin know what they're called....if they're called dracony's I owe someone ten bucks...then again that person is on Earth, so they can go fuck off.

What I expected was some sort of tribal language I had no hope at understanding, short of a translation spell, but no I was pleasantly surprised to learn these creatures spoke English, or as people on this plant call it, equish. "Hello, I'd like to ask you a few questions.." Her voice surprised me, it seemed like a mix of Fluttershy, and Twilight, I dunno how to explain it, it just sounded like that to me.

I shrugged. "Sure, shoot." I turned to the left and saw my helmet on a small table, a dent had been placed into it, good thing I had it on, otherwise that woulda cracked my skull open, what I find strange is that the helmet is dented by a rock, yet automatic fire from a combat rifle using .45 just scratched it, eh, the fucked up logic of this world.

"What where you doing in my village?" The strange hybrid asked me.

"I recently acquired the rights to this land, and was going to have the forest moved to my Empire, tree by tree, plant by plant, then simply mine the area of any useful items, like oil, ore, you get the idea." I shrugged, no point in lying, this WAS my land now, but if someone lived here, then I'd just charge em rent.

She tilted her head, raising an eyebrow. "And how did you acquire the rights to this land exactly?"

I just chuckled. "I don't know if you know this, but your currently in land that once was part of Equestria, a large nation, in return for trade, I was given this land to do what I pleased with."

A look of 'oh' came to her face. "I see, and where does that leave us? If we cannot live here then we have no home." She was taking that rather well, I thought she was gonna ask me to just leave.

I shrugged. "Ya'll can just move into my Empire if you want, or I could just not deforest this area for the next one hundred miles, your choice."

The mare seemed to think for a few minutes, so I just sat there on the bed waiting, before she finally spoke up. "Me and my kin will move to your Empire, as of late we have gotten tired of the constant predators here, do you have any questions you'd like to ask yourself?"

I nodded. "Yes, for one what are you? Your species name I mean, and secondly, your name? And last but not least, why are you all nude?" I decided to just ask all my questions in one go, as it would save time, rather than just waste time asking them back and forth.

She chuckled, which may I mention, was adorable? Regardless she spoke up. "We are known as Kirin, my name is Rain Shine, the leader of these kirin, as for our choice of nudity? That is a complicated question, there are plenty of reasons to be nude for us, for one our thick fur, and the hot climate we live in, secondly clothes tend to just combust once we get angry, then turning into a nirik, a being of pure anger and flames hot as the sun."

Well that was a lot to take in, imagine turning into a ball of fire every time you got pissed? People with anger problems would literally go Dragon Ball Z on some poor ass motherfucker. "Alright that makes sense, so about me being knocked out?"

Rain Shine looked sheepish. "Well, that is a rather funny little story actually..."

---------------------------------------------Equestria, Canterlot Castle, Dungeon--------------------------

Princess Celestia was glaring at a now mostly healed Cadence, she was no longer considered the Princess of Love, having been striped of that title, and any authority she had after she was healed. "Cadence.... I am very disappointed in you, not only of recent actions of yours that have come to light, but also because of the actions you took when you couldn't handle the consequences of your actions."

Cadence frowned. "I shouldn't be punished for trying to take back what is rightfully mine Celestia, you know that."

Princess Celestia's glare deepened, something that was rather rare for her to do, hell it was rare for her to so much as FROWN. "Cadence, you are no longer the princess of love, nor will you have any power, once I am done dealing with the aftermath of the chaos YOU caused, I will be stripping you of your horn and turning you back into a pegasus, it seems I made a mistake in having you ascend to alicornhood."

Cadence was screaming at Celestia about how it was unfair to do this to her, that she had done nothing wrong, Princess Celestia ignored it and calmly walked out of the dungeon, calm as you please, before she walked down to the kitchen and snagged herself a slice of chocolate pie. "It seems to me everypony is just going completely insane lately..." She nommed on her slice of pie.

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

As per my orders, robotic strike teams of androids and Humvee style vehicles and troop transport trucks where sent to the old crystal empire, as for why? It's quite simple, to the victor go the spoils of war, and I was going to use the relay to teleport chunks of the empire into empty sections of mine, mainly just the bath houses, and community houses that the crystal ponies from this empire missed, as for how I was doing that, I had androids hammer in metal rods that had actually been receptors for the relay's signals, and it would teleport anything within that area of four rods.

As for why I had them on Humvee's? rather simple, they would be using a new weapon, it looked somewhat like an MK2 browning 50 cal heavy machine gun, but it was an elongated plasma rifle, beefed up, and it had a barrel that would fit a .80 cal bullet, but since it was a plasma machine gun, it shot large blasts of molten hot plasma at those crystal walkers, as Cadence had left SOME of them to guard her empire, their main objective however was to retrieve the crystal heart.

About, 3 hours had passed since I woke up at that kirin village, and to my surprise, most had been extremely happy to be getting out of there, mainly because tatzle wurms kept attacking the village, and would sometimes make off with an unlucky kirin in it's maw, so I'd have Crystal Prime stationed here till the forest was gone, as while he may be an older model, he was still damned well effective in combat.

After being told about them being relocated to my Empire, a few kirin even jumped with joy, while others simply started packing up their items, I had a teleportation gate set up in the entrance to the village that led to the testing rooms for citizenship signup, Rain Shine seemed to just...follow me, offering me weird exotic fruits and other stuff, I excepted the fruit, cause yum fruit, and plus it gave me the chance to have more fruits and plants planted in the empire's hydroponic gardens, one of em tasted like a lemon lime mix, like sprite, but a fruit, delicious.

I turned around and looked up at Rain Shine. "Why you keep following me? I don't mind I just thought I'd ask."

She looked sheepish again, which as said before, adorable. "You are the first to even visit this village within two hundred years, and you didn't attack us like the last one did, your offering us a safer place to live, and you didn't try to jump the females here like the last male visitor did."

I nearly choked in a fruit I was eating. "TWO HUNDRED YEARS?!" That was a real damn concern, if the lifespan of these things was like that, then damn.

She just giggled and nodded. "Kirin can live for thousands, if not millions of years, we rarely ever need to mate and make more kirin due to that, it's also why we only go into heat every thousand years, and if we so choose, we can ignore that heat easily."

I face palmed. "So this last guy, tried to jump the females here?"

She nodded. "Yes, he was gelded quite quickly by a female warrior using a bone knife, he did not enjoy that, he vowed one day he'd get vengeance on us for it, but ponies don't live that long, a hundred years at most, but since you didn't try to rape the females upon seeing them, I have taken an interest in you, since you are so different from any species I've ever seen, that and your handsome."

I face palmed again before I just signed and accepted it, not like I could change someone's feelings about me, so I'd just have to introduce her to Chrysalis once I got back to my Empire's crystal palace. "Alright, I'll talk to Chrysalis, and Moon about that, till then however I dunno what to tell you"

Rain Shine nodded. "I understand Lorenzo."

------------------------------------------------------------------------3 Hours later, Lorenzo's Empire, throne room-----------------

Welp, Chrysalis and Moon had accepted Rain Shine into the herd, rather happily I may add, other than that I had just gotten a bit of interesting news, the NZR was calling for aid to fight the boars, since even with the help of the Abyssinians they had been loosing horribly for the past few years, and where all but about to be conquered by them, the letter was basically their leader asking for help, and that in return they could have whatever they wished, but that it was urgent they get help within the next few days, or else all would be lost.

Being the good person I am, I decided I'd help them myself, with hundreds of androids, tanks, aircraft, you get the idea, and I was getting my troops ready for that right now, only the tank crews and pilots would be living, the rest where androids, machines, at the moment Humvee's loaded with MK43 Heavy Plasma Machine Gun, the weapon I mentioned earlier, unlike a normal plasma rifle it would not use a plasma cartridge, it used a plasma cell, a glowing green tube the size of a fusion core but it looked more like a beefed up alien power cell, with metal caps on the end, and green not blue.

I've gotten off point by mistake, anyways as I was saying, Humvee's, tanks, and aircraft, where being loaded into modified troop carriers, they'd simply be able to drive out since they where backed into it. This all took about 30 minutes, the tanks I'd be taking where strictly the railgun variant of the tanks I had, that was because I had been told the boars had fucking tanks, however from the pictures and drawings I've seen, they are like the British tanks of world war one.

The reasoning I had for using the railgun variants of my tanks, was simple efficiency, regardless of the armor the boars tanks used, they'd be no match for railgun rounds, so I'd be taking no chances, within less than an hour, everything was ready to go, so the troop carriers took off, rather than teleport they just went mach 7.

It only took an hour to get to NZR territory, their capital was in sight, and it seems the situation was worse than what they described, boars where attacking their capital with fucking artillery, while defenders launched their own shells back at them, as the troop carriers where landing the boars took notice of it, and attempted to rush them, only for the same turrets that killed caribou, to open fire on them, letting tanks, and humvee's roll out , about 20 tanks, and 40 humvee's, each humvee equipped with with a MK43 HPMG.

I simply teleported into the castle of the ruler here, causing her to nearly have a heart attack, she was a tall zebra, 6'7, built like a concrete wall, she did not wear some fancy dress, just simple leather and cloth clothing, enough to stay decent but not enough that her clothes hid her scars, which she had many of, her stripes had a rust color to them, and her eyes where the same crimson of blood, she had on a crown, one that looked like you could ram into someone head first and stab them to death with it, everything she had, was combat ready, that included the rifle she had aimed at me. "I am here aiding your forces, and you aim a rifle at me? Maybe I should go." I wouldn't really go, it was obvious by the time anyone else replied to her call for help, there would be nopony....nozebra? left to help.

She lowered her rifle. "Forgive me, I thought this was a surprise attack from the boars...I am glad you answered my call for help, we have not formally met, I am Queen Zulu, and you are?"

I chuckled. "I am King Lorenzo, ruler of the Alternate Crystal Empire that now resides within the badlands, which have become part of my Empire's territory and will soon be surrounded by a wall to prove that point."

Her eyes widened. "I did not know the ruler of an Empire such as yours, would show up them self, normally if aid is requested, rulers will just send some soldiers or airships to aid those who need it, not fight themselves."

I just laughed at that. "Well as you can see! I'm not like most, I like to fight alongside my troops, for now however I'll let them handle whats going on outside, so while that goes on, let us talk about what you meant by 'anything they want' in the letter, as I'd hate to just, take something you actually need."

We continued our conversation, while my troops, and the zebra troops fought against the boars, the boars who had been winning for the past few months, suddenly had to deal with tanks that could easily destroy theirs, soldiers that would not stop after getting shot, scary for them, for the zebras it boosted moral highly.

Androids driving humvee's drove right up to the front lines, the gunner attending their MK43 HPMG's letting loose thousands upon thousands of bolts of plasma, the boar soldiers, whom had on simple metal body armor, and where using bolt action rifles, while some had light machine guns, where no match for the onslaught of plasma and railgun rounds, let alone the zebras own standard ballistic rounds, the boars tanks stood no chance against railgun projectiles, their futile attempts at harming Empire standard tanks was laughable at best, pathetic at worst as they got blown apart.

Within three hours all boar soldiers, combat units, and fighting vehicles either lay destroyed or abandoned, along with their supplies, a victory if there ever was one, and the zebras couldn't be happier, offering androids various forms of booze, only to be disappointed when it was shown that androids can not in fact, get drunk.

Back within the palace, castle, whatever I don't know what its called, I was sitting with the Zebra Queen, watching the glorious battle take place, and she was shocked at the efficiency of my troops, funny thing? I didn't even need to use my fighters in the air, the boars just fled as fast as they could, getting the hell outta dodge.

As the last boar was seen to be killed via plasma fire, Queen Zulu turned to me. "As the battle is over, and your troops continue to chase them, what is it you would like for helping my nation in a time of need and war?"

I shrugged and simply smiled before speaking up. "Absolutely nothing, ya see, I don't help others because I get something out of it, I do so because its the right thing to do, for instance if someone needed water, they'd get water, or food, you get the idea, I helped because I wanted to and felt like it, you owe me nothing for this assistance, and rest assured I will not be stopping here, I will be going to the very capital of the boars and putting a stop to this war."

Queen Zulu seemed absolutely shocked, she tried to speak, only for nothing to come out of her mouth, so I just waited as I sat in a chair, for her to compose herself, which took a stupidly long amount of time, ten minutes, after that she spoke up. "How can you not want some form of compensation for MILITARY AID!? Any ruler would ask that at LEAST a few thousand bits be payed for treating their soldiers wounds! The time it took to get here, the ammunition used in the fight, any troops lost!"

I chuckled. "I'm not like other rulers, like I said before, I help to help, not for monetary gain, or gain of anything else other than allies and friends."

She laughed. "Well you've certainly gained an ally for anything your Empire may need!"

I grinned. "Glad to hear it! Drink?" I offered a Nuka Cola, after all I gotta sell this stuff to anyone who's willing to buy it, more bits for the Empire, and consumers get a tasty beverage for it.

------------------------Boar Empire Capital, the king's castle-------------------

The boar king looked like the pig king from the angry birds movie, if you gave him tusks and brown shaggy fur, and slightly longer legs and arms, with hands rather than hooves for hands, he was King Bernt, ruler of the Boar Empire, and at the moment he was receiving some troubling news, news about how his forces had been brutally pushed back by some ally of the Zebras that had shown up during the siege of their capital, the last city they'd need to take to completely break the zebras spirits and hope of victory.

An adviser, who looked ready to shit himself spoke up after his king shot near his legs with a pistol after being told the bad news. "My King...I believe the only hope we have to defeat this new enemy would be to utilize the new bombs."

The King seemed to think for a few moments, before he spoke up. "Yes....that...I can see that working." He turned to a boar guard in rather shiny metal armor carrying a bolt action rifle. "Inform the generals I am hereby authorizing the use of the arcane bombs, A-Bomb, for short, and to stay clear of the designated detonation zones, NOW." The guard saluted before rushing off, and the King smiled, a wicked grin spreading across his face. "Soon those zebras will regret fighting back against me, and so will those cats." His thoughts about the destruction that was to come, made him giddy with glee.

Author's Notes:

Hiya everypony! What's up with the long chapters? Fuck if I know, anyways hoped ya enjoyed, what's the arcane bombs the board talked about? You can guess, but I ain't Tellin till the next chapter,enjoy !