Applebloom looked up from her terminal at Sweetie Belle, whom had just gotten back from her job, she had been invited to quite a few radio stations to sing and record some songs she was actually making a good amount of bits doing that. "Whats up Sweetie Belle? Another gig?"

Sweetie nodded. "Mhm, these ponies may look somewhat weird, having four legs, yet still walking on two most of the time, but they are actually quite friendly, and the changeling's are not half bad either very friendly, not like what Twilight described at all as evil and cruel, but I can't speak for all of them, since I've only met around five." She shrugged and plopped down onto the sofa next to Applebloom.

Scootaloo was not present, as she was currently under the employment of the Empire's military, to repair things like fighters, tanks, check ammunition consumption on said vehicles, and other such things, however she was not doing that 24/7, as she still lived with her two friends, but she was there every day or so.

Applebloom went back to her terminal, checking if anyone else needed help with their problems, she had been quite good at using these terminals and finding problems others had in them, or just flat out teaching someone to use them and how, so in that sense she was like Tech Support, but did so on her own free time for no bits, as in her eyes it was just helping someone.

“I can see that, I’ve met a few myself, and by the way we need to go downtown and try that changeling pizza joint, I think it was called Cheezy's Pizzeria, I wanted to try that since I’ve never heard of pizza until I saw one of their ads for it on the television, and it looked like somethin Pinkie would make, except with real food rather than cupcakes.”

Sweetie Belle nodded. “Alright, I don’t have anything else to do today, so we can take the car down and try it, I saw the ads for it to and it did look interesting, to say the least, from what I was told it was something Lorenzo created, or recreated from where he came from, so sure we can try it, anything keepin ya here right now?”

Applebloom shook her head no. “No, seems I don’t have anyone else to help for now, so let us go check it out, I drive, as you still suck at that.” Sweetie pouted at the jab, but nodded as the two walked out the door, locking it, and got into Applebloom’s orange Atomic V8, the car came to life with the hum you’d expect from an electric car.

The drive only lasted for ten minutes as they pulled into the parking lot of the ‘Pizzeria’ as it was called, and got out before walking into the joint. Applebloom looked around at the red brick and concrete of the building and whistled. “Well this is different from what I was expectin, that's for sure.”

Sweetie Belle nodded. “Yeah I expected it to look like the dinners you see scattered around everywhere, this is a nice change though.” They walked over and sat in one of the booths, and a holographic menu popped up from the center of their table showing each pony the many things you could put on a pizza, the type of crust, sauce, cheese, and other random things, along with sides, like garlic bread, breadsticks, hot wings, various dipping sauces, and many salad types.

Once again Applebloom whistled. “Damn thats a lot of different things, what one ya wanna try Sweetie? That pepperoni pizza looks pretty good to me.”

“Well, actually I was thinking of trying this spinach and kale crust pizza.” Sweetie said putting a hand on her chin.

Applebloom shrugged. “How bout we compromise? We get a pizza with that crust, but the toppings are cheese and pepperoni?”

Smiling Sweetie said. “Alright, I guess that will work.” She said with a shrug.

With what they were going to order concluded, a changeling, the four legged kind, came up to their table wearing a yellow uniform that had red circles on it, making it look like pepperoni. “I’m Wobbles! What will you be ordering today?”

Applebloom tilted her head, it having been the first time she had seen a four legged changeling from the Empire, regardless she shrugged and told him their order.

Wobbles nodded while he wrote down the order. “Alright, anything to drink? We have every flavor of Nuka Cola, along with Deezer’s lemonade.”

Sitting up straight and messing with her mane Sweetie Belle spoke. “O-oh, I would like t-to try the lemonade.” she said with a blush and not meeting his eyes.

Applebloom just shrugged. “I’ll just try some Nuka Orange, I’ve been wantin’ ta try that one.”

Wobbles nodded and wobbled off to get their orders, chittering to himself as he walked up to one of the walls and through a hole that lead to the kitchen, not that they knew that they just saw him walk through a wall.

Applebloom just stared at the hole for a few moments. “These changelings are weird, nice, but weird.”

With her eyes fluttering Sweetie said. ”I find them cute.” She said with a longing sigh.

Applebloom facepalmed. “Maker damn it Sweetie Belle, Maker Damn it.” She just shrugged after a minute, if Sweetie Belle wanted to be interested in changelings, she could, it wasn't her business.

Their food came shortly after, with it their drinks, the two friends ate, finding they liked the dish, and their drinks.

-----------------Lorenzo’s POV-----------

About two days had passed since Chrysalis had laid her eggs, and unknown to me she was being milked daily by a nurse drone, and said milk was being stored in the fridges of the royal kitchens until the little ones hatched....you can see where this is going, I accidently drank some of that milk, being honest I should have known something was wrong when it was slightly yellow and glowing fucking PINK, but I don't care about that now, it was damned good milk, so I had some set aside to be made into vanilla ice cream.

Another thing had happened recently, after having the crystal heart from the empire here studied for awhile, it was placed next to my crystal heart, and they ....kinda fuckin fused into one larger heart, I shit you not, they just flat out fused like plastic being melted together, the result was a large, stronger crystal heart, that needed a bigger containment shield, to prevent theft of course, it's power could still flow through it, another result was the network of crystal hearts that had been formed was boosted.

The Griffon Empire had also stopped making monthly payments of bits this month, as I had forgotten about it and the bits where just sort of...piling up, so I messaged them, letting them know they have repaid any damages done.

I found out rather recently Blue Gadget had a colt, that's right, he had a son, and guess what? That damned colt as just as smart as his father, if not more so, since he had already invented a few things from spare parts back at his dad's place, like a damned spider drone with an assaultron laser under it.....yeah I had him hired, he was 15 so he was legally allowed to work, and Blue Gadget was happy to have his son on the team.

Another bit of random news I had found out about, was that Shining Armor had DIVORCED Cadence, and moved to my Empire! The best part? Not two days later he was seen dating a changeling, the anthro kind, I found that ironic. I only found this out since the Citizen Identification System, CIS, was updated recently, and I'm notified of all updates via pipboy.

Another bit of news I had decided to have any homeless and orphans from Equestria moved into my Empire, after giving checks for criminal backgrounds to the homeless, and everyone was given medical examinations, it only took a full day surprisingly enough since few orphans even existed within Equestria, it was less than a thousand, and they quickly found homes within the Empire with those whom couldn't have a kid, like a diamond dog and pony couple, you get the idea, the homeless numbered less than 20 thousand, only a few had to be rejected due to criminal activities, like drug dealing, stabbing someone for some petty reason like they didn't like your salads, that was one weird mare.

I also forgot if I had told you this, but the Empire standard combat rifle was recently changed and updated, it now had a drum magazine so the soldiers wouldn't have to reload as often, and for minotaur it came in a .50 cal version, the minotaur used a lot of heavy weapons, like 20 mm combat shotguns, I WASN'T gonna give em a 20 mm combat rifle, so they settled for a .50 caliber version, as they had found it just to weak to use the standard .308 rounds, and one last bit of information, I lent Celestia my general, Starlight Glimmer, to help them come up with better battle tactics, as they still used the damned musket formations despite now having rifles and machine guns, if they went to war they'd be murdered easily due to that, so she was sent there to talk with Celestia on how to better use her troops and weapons.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------Celestia's POV---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Celestia sighed sadly as she watched Cadence being dragged into a prison cell, the cell was padded, as at the moment Cadence was not mentally stable, she was in a straightjacket and had been sedated, her last cell has been a regular one, but after bashing her head into it trying to get out, it had been decided to move her to a block for the more....insane, inmates, she was by all means, sane, she was still aware of what she did, but she just didn't seem to care, in her mind she was justified for what she had done, and had attempted to do, Celestia had planned to have Cadence attend mandatory therapy for the next two years of her sentence, before she would be released back into the public. For now however she had a meeting with Lorenzo's general, Starlight Glimmer, to talk about better strategies to use with the newer weapons they had gotten from the cats.

Unknown to anyone aside from the most corrupt however, an elite of the most wicked, cruel, and downright evil nobles waited, watching, and they were pissed about the homeless populations of cities for the most part, being pulled away, away from where they could influence them, or use them, so they sat, awaiting for the time they could strike and take what they have wanted for so long from those they see as undeserving of the power they hold.

Author's Notes:

Heya all! sorry if this chapter is short, or not what ya wanted, but I've been busy! happy new years btw! and as a side note, the cmc convo was helped by 'SCIENTIFIC NUTJOB' whom helped me with the conversation, since as you all know I suck at those

another note, a clopfic has been made! for lorenzo and his herd, just a one shot, this is for those whom have wanted me to write clop, and been very vocal about it, but this is a one time thing! the link to it is here, edit, edit made on 1/29/2020, I'd like to apologize or the long wait, thus I have decided to post this chapter while I wait for the clopfic to be finished, thank you for waiting, jus keep holdin in there

otherwise I hope ya enjoyed the story! ta ta for now!

Another thing is I am sick and I think vomiting blood? I'm not sure, I have nothing in my stomach yet the liquid that comes out is pinkish red, I'll find out friday when I go to the doc, wish me luck ya'll!