A few weeks had passed since my little....rampage, yeah that had made headlines, and not in a very nice way, yet at the same time in a nice way? I was shown as a hero but pictures of bodies so horribly mutilated don't exactly do one's reputation any favors, regardless of why they were in such a state.

At the moment I was overseeing the production of new Nuka Cola flavors, and I had actually acquired a few brands of soda from Equestria, as for how? Simple, damn near anyone can be bought out, so that's exactly what I did, the brands are as follows, Aunt Orange's Orange Cream Soda, Aunt Orange's Orange Blast Soda, Vanko Splash, a blackberry flavored soda, the motto of the guy who owned the brand before I bought it was 'I'm gonna splash ya!' which was silly as hell to me. Another few brands I bought are the following, Dr.Filly, and yep, it tasted exactly like Dr Pepper, I liked it, Dr Pepper always just tasted like cola, root beer, and vanilla mixed into one, to me at least, and last but not least, Cherry jubilee's Very Cherry Soda! Comes in three flavors, standard cherry flavor, dark cherry vanilla flavor, or yellow cherry flavor. I'd like to mention that these, all remained the SAME, except they were bottled and labeled as 'Product of The Nuka Cola Corporation', as such they remained the same in name, and ingredients and only actually changed in brand, which before was named the same as the sodas, like Dr.Filly's Soda Co, etc.

The new Nuka Cola flavors being plopped into production after demand for them surged, to explain how this is possible, I hold temporary sales of flavors, and if they are demanded enough, they become official Nuka Cola flavors, I don't just have these things created to add more flavors to the list, these are things citizens who live within my Empire actually WANT.

Regardless, with that small explanation aside, the new flavors are the following, Nuka Pineapple, Nuka peach Nuka Crystal Apple! Flavored using the empire's native apples, called crystal apples due to the fact they look like red rubies in the shape of an apple, and are quite tasty, Nuka plumb, Nuka Love, a love flavored Nuka Cola that glows a bright pink, in the same manner Quantum glows blue, it was filled with love for changelings to enjoy it more and actually get something from it.

While changelings can in fact eat normal food, digest it and such, it gives them nothing but the ability to make changeling resign, the green goo they can spit, love is the only thing that actually sustains them, as such, I decided to actually give them a drink that could give them a small boost.

Getting back on topic, the remaining flavors are Nuka Sunrise, a cherry and blood orange mix of Nuka Cola, Nuka midnight, a mix of blueberry and passion fruit, Nuka Nightmare, which contained citric acid blueberry strawberry and lime a sour drink, Nuka Volt A pinch of citric acid, strawberries cherries, watermelon, apple extract, once again, a SOUR Nuka Cola, which was no small feat considering the amount of sugar used to sweeten the drink.

Nuka Berry, different from berry bonanza, as it contains no whole large fruits, it contains only blackberries, raspberries, crystal berries, strawberries, and blueberries, Nuka Dream, crystal berries, watermelon, and lime flavors mixed into nuka cola. And now onto the newest, and more, unique ones, some have suggested for new and exotic flavors, to make a unique bottle, so I had done so, Nuka Bolt, a transparent bottle with a blue lightning bolt under the Nuka Cola logo on a yellow label, a yellow cap with a red bolt on the top and lightning bolts instead of the usual fins, filled with a sparking orange liquid, It's a mix of elderberries, cherries, green apples and cactus.

Nuka Legend, a brightly glowing green bottle with a green radioactive symbol under the Nuka Cola logo on a grey label, a grey cap with a yellow radioactive symbol on the top and sentry bot legs instead of the usual fins, filled with a fuming neon green liquid, It's a mix of fly agaric, strawberries, ground tea leaves and mint, along with the normal Nuka Cola flavorings.

Nuka Mystic, a glowing red bottle with a red dragonskull under the Nuka Cola logo on a white label, a white cap with a black skull on the top and skeleton legs instead of the usual fins, filled with a crackling crimson liquid, It's a mix of ground coffee beans, ghost peppers, dragon fruit and Nuka Dark, as such its popular in bars and other places that serve alcohol in the Empire.

Nuka Cola Chameleon, a glowing white bottle with a brown Trenchcoat and fedora in the shape of a human leaning on the Nuka Cola logo on a black label, a black cap with a a fedora on the bottom of the cap and revolvers instead of the usual fins, filled with a swirling green blue and red liquid, It's a mix of oranges, red apples, chocolate and banana, along with standard Nuka Cola flavorings, I'm going to stop mentioning how its all mixed with the normal flavorings, I thin by this point you can all understand that will remain the same for any variant of Nuka Cola created under my supervision.

Nuka Cola Primal, a brown bottle with a large blackish grey colored gorilla breaking apart the Nuka Cola logo printed onto the covering, a dull pink screw-on cap with a red balled up fist on top of it. filled with a white liquid, its a mix of Nuka Quartz, Vim Cola, and it has a spicy kick due to rainbow peppers, white food coloring is used to keep it white, rather than rainbow colored.

With that out of the way, I was sitting in my lounge room with Chrysalis, as for how I oversaw the flavors as well as sitting here, comfy, with my head mare? I have fucking cameras which can connect to my own tablet, that's how,I also had my pipboy modified, it looked exactly the same, except now it was a touchscreen device, so it was quicker to use it than before.

I grinned looking at Chrysalis. "I'm still surprised about what happened, I mean, I didn't expect you to do that in public with Moon so openly!" I was laughing on the inside, it had been a funny thing to see.

Chrysalis could only give a coy grin. "The stallion wanted a show, so I gave it to him, along with the mare he was with, their lust was so thick I was tempted to feed from it, it's just so funny seeing non changelings squirm in embarrassment." She snagged a fry from the mess on the plate, the fries were piled high with chili sauce, processed cheese sauce, salt, pepper, and jalapenos, she sure loved her spicy foods.

Nodding I simply booped her on the snout, causing her to go crosseyed and scrunch her snout, which never failed to make her look adorable. "Still, I would suggest you remain decent about such things outside the palace walls, never know if someone would try to blackmail my Queen, but that's not the point, ya need to be more careful, what if Moon had gone and had a breakdown like she did that one time?" It was true, Moon had a small...breakdown, mentally before in public, the poor mare that had been the target of her temporary rage had to be given a LOT of chems and potions to walk again, she was the same shade of purple as Twilight was, didn't help she was a unicorn.

Chrysalis nodded. "I get that, and I do agree, we don't want...THAT happening again, so I'll tone it down." Chrysalis rubbed her snout, before continuing to dig into the mountain of chilli cheese fries before her, while gulping down some classic Deezer's Lemonade, After a few bites, and downing half her drink, Chrysalis continued on. "I am surprised you actually passed that law that changelings wanted."

I sighed, THAT law. "Well, they made a pension, and got the signatures for it, and I wouldn't just deny them since they went through all the necessary steps to get a law to my table, and support for it, so I signed it in after altering it a bit, if they want public nudity to be legal, not much I can do to stop them without looking like a tyrant, but I did have a public announcement about it, and how I would also be enacting a 'common sense law', which as you know pretty much means, don't fuck in public, and if your male, keep it sheathed, not that hard to do unless you need to use a bathroom." I shrugged and decided to snag a few fries for myself, this last week had been interesting to say the least.

A small alarm had gone off, letting me know I had visitors awaiting me in the throne room, so I slapped on a normal suit an tie, my crown, and teleported onto my throne using the relay, only to nearly scream in pure terror as a giant, fucking spider, with a collar and leash on it, was standing next to...Sunset Shimmer? Yep, Sunset Shimmer, however I wasn't focused on her, I was mainly focused on the giant, spider, when I say giant, imagine this, a spider the size of a full grown American Stallion, plus arachnophobia, long story short it meant I wanted to scream and hide for a few centuries, I didn't do that however, and managed to calm myself down enough to, NOT shoot it, and everything that twitched.

Sunset Shimmer bowed, to which I nodded and she rose. "I am Lady Sunset Shimmer, ambassador of the Thestral Empire of Everglow, here to begin diplomatic relations and trade between the Thestral Empire of Everglow, and the Crystal Empire, as such I have brought gifts from them, to you, including one of their valuable and prized Acromantula mounts." Her horn glew yellow as the leash, to my dismay, floated over to me, and as to not be rude, I accepted it, having a Mr Handy hold onto it while it hovered next to my throne, while the spider skittered over in a way that made my damned body shiver as it 'sat' next to my throne like a dog might, if a dog was a creature that belonged only in a horror film.

I tried to keep my mind off the giant death machine next to me as I spoke. "I accept your seeking of diplomatic relations between our two Empires, what exactly is it the Thestral Empire of Everglow." Damn what a fucking mouthful to say in one go. "Wishes to trade for and trade with?" This was an honest question, I didn't know what sort of goods and such could be produced UNDERGROUND and not be weird lookin or somethin.

A list floated over to me, so I plucked it from the magic holding it aloft in the air, and read. The basics of what they wanted where different exotic meats, hydroponics so they can grow stuff in caves that would need sunlight to grow, forging and blacksmith training for their people who do it, artificing training (working with gems and crystals for foci and stuff) and trade deals for Empire products, after reading the list and seeing what they could offer in return, I looked up from it. "I think you and I have a deal Lady Sunset Shimmer, will this be all for now?"

Sunset shook her head. "No, I was told to tell you the spiders bond to their rider and it boosts their Intelligence. The downside is that should the Rider die so will the mount, though the rider has to DIE and the spirit has to leave the mortal realm, so I don’t know how it will work with you due to the fact you are immortal in every sense of the word, just like Princess Celestia, Luna, and Discord." She shrugged.

I tilted my head to the side and raised an eyebrow. "Boost their intelligence by how much exactly?" I feared what I would be told.

Sunset Shimmer smirked slightly as she spoke. "In the past, certain bonding have caused the spider to change. At one point a Former council member had its bonded Mount gain a MASSIVE intelligence boost to the point it could talk, and keep in mind, these 'mutations' as some would call them, will be passed down to its children should it have any."

That would be problematic then, if the same was to happen with my ...mount, then I'd have to give it citizenship....it would be like a human riding a horse that could talk and hold a conversation with you, which would be weird as hell, but regardless, citizenship would be granted if that became the case, so I nodded. "Alright, that will be all for now, you are free to leave, or stay awhile and explore the Empire as any citizen could." She nodded, bowed again, and left with a puft of teleportation magic.

I looked over to the giant spider, and patted it, abit I felt like slicing my hand off after doing so, but it seemed to like it as it....fucking purred, yep, it was purring, what has this world come to. I was about to head out and grab myself something to eat at a local food joint, as it was near lunch, when a dragonfire scroll poofed into existence in front of me, an outdated, but still widely used way of getting messages to someone quickly, I opened it and found myself invited to Saddle Arabia.

With a sigh I read on, seeing that....transport would be there shortly to grab me for the trip, well that fucking sucked harder than Chrysalis did that one time after watching me screw Rain Shine....I feel phantom pain between my legs at the thought.

----------------------------------About 3 hours later, location Saddle Arabia, capital of the Saddle Arabian Empire-----------------------------

I was inside some large palace, like you'd see in a place like Dubai or something, at the moment I was being escorted to a meeting room or something along those lines, by guards that where using weapons like the cats had, Luger pistols, but rather than the semi auto luger rifles, they had older, bolt action mausers. The doors to a large room has been opened by the two guardmares escorting me, and I was ushered inside before they closed, with the guardmares outside.

The mare before me sitting on a rather plush chair, looked to be eight foot tall mare of Arabian descent, she had a brown spotted white coat, a silver blond mane and tail with a stripe of Dark green. She was currently wearing a flowing gold and green trimmed short Abaya modified for Desert combat, and on her head tiara of white gold, inlaid into sockets are three Sun Diamonds, which shone in the light like small stars. I took a seat, and then she spoke. "I am Queen Najam Alsahra, Master of The Dune Seas, or more famously known by all around the world, The Coffee Queen."

I tilted my head at that. "I am King Lorenzo, ruler of the Crystal Empire, and the many species within, known as the guy who takes no crap from anyone, if I may be so bold as to ask, why are you called 'the coffee queen'?" I had a pretty good idea why, but I thought I'd still ask, confirm what I thought for sure.

Najam Alsahra raised an eyebrow at my question. "I sometimes forget your empire suddenly appeared out of the blue, for it it had originated on this world you'd have known this, as such I shall explain in detail why I, along with those before me have held the 'Queen Of Coffee' title regardless of how long they ruled." She took a drink of water as she continued to speak.

"You see, Saddle arabia is the only place on this entire planet, that coffee is grown, due to this, it is expensive around the world, and as such, is a major cash crop for my Empire, which it needs to sustain itself, we also produce fine gems, pure gold, and fine silks and rare spices, but the bulk of money that my empire receives comes from the sale of roasted coffee beans, all beans leaving this empire are roasted, so no chance of them being replanted elsewhere would be possible. That is where you come in, as it seems, your empire produces quite a large amount of coffee, enough to the point from what I've been told, that its just two bits per 12 ounce cup, I have invited you here today to ask that you NOT sell coffee in bulk to those outside your Empire, for if you did so, economic collapse would result for my empire." She took another drink of water.

I facepalmed inside my head, this was exactly what I had thought, despite being another world, these cultures tended to mirror ones back home, and this mirrored ancient arabia, we talked for a bit, and I agreed I wouldn't sell any coffee in bulk to any one kingdom or empire, so that the Saddle Arabians could maintain their stranglehold on the crop, mainly because I just wasn't interested in destroying an economy, and due to the fact coffee was consumed daily around my Empire, I'm not sure citizens would want to share HAHAH!

After about an hour of talking, I was told I could stay the night, and decided to actually accept that, as I was tired as is, and was just feeling far to lazy to call in a transport, since I was out of relay range, as such I was escorted to a rather nice fancy looking room, and was just beginning to change into my night clothes (Thank god for my inventory) when a bunch of.....mares came in, barely clothed may I add, and they tried to 'belly dance', but I held up a hand, stopping them, much to their disappointment. "I'm sorry to deny this, but I have a herd, and as such I don't feel like having my cock and balls ripped off by an angry changeling queen because I got a little excited watching you lovely mares dance." With a groan of disappointment they walked back out of the room, and after doing so, I closed the door and locked it, before headed to the bed to sleep.

Unknown to me, the Abyssinian Empire, had been selling their OLD weapons and gear, in bulk to other kingdoms, along with patents that allowed them to produce self contained ammunition, abit at a much lower quality than what the cats themselves produced, and they were in full gear. Meaning they had been rapidly developing new weapons and technology, I'd learn later from reports they invented this worlds first assault rifle, the STG-44, to replace their semi auto luger rifles, and had begun a rocket program, but the most powerful weapons they where building at the time, where large cannons, like the Gustav gun the nazis had, just simply google that or type it into youtube, and you will realize how much damage those things could do to a target, and from what I later learned, the cats had 5 of these built! With plans to build 15 more! After the Boars had pulled their shit, it seems Queen Carnelia wasn't fucking around.

Author's Notes:

First, sorry for such a long delay, but such is life, secondly, tell me what ya thought, what do you wanna see? Anything interesting about the chapter you want more information on? If so just ask and I will get to you at some point, not likely tonight, and another thing, to understand completely about Sunset Shimmer and what she does in this anthro world, you MUST, no exceptions, read this side story I allowed my great friend who helps a lot with the story, wrote.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/460761/diplomacy-in-the-east-a-new-empire-side-story

He decided to write this when I told him I didn't really plan to have sunset shimmer in the story, he asked for permission to make it cannon, I decided after reading it, that it fit with the lore I already had in place, so I gave it the green light, so remember, that side story, is considered CANNON to my 'a new empire' series, and as an explanation, 'moons' in my story, however rarely used, unless actually talking about the ball of white rock in the sky, means MONTHS , as such the same applies to HIS story, thought I'd tell you this for clarification