A week or so had passed since my visit to the human town of Raspberry, so far only 15 people have joined. I'm getting some resistance to leaving or joining, but those are the two options I have presented them, they can either take one, or the other, for I shall give them no other choice. Humans aside from me, being on this planet, complicates things by quite a bit, far more so then I thought possible. Seeing as that town came from my old country of the USA, its citizens own a variety of guns, from pistols, to fucking heavy machine guns, by Faust will that be a pain in the ass to deal with.

Citizens in my Empire are allowed to have firearms, true, but each one can be tracked and traced to the owner, due to having their magical signature imprinted on the weapon, and therefore, the ammunition that fires from the weapon, just a slight deterrent to prevent shootings from happening. It's far more complicated than this, but I don't think I'll be going into further detail for now, perhaps later in a few millennia. Now onto other matters, I had recently had a 2 millimeter railgun pistol made standard to replace the outdated clunky fallout 4 styled ten millimeter pistols my military currently used, smaller ammunition size so they could carry more, and secondly, more punch than a normal bullet. Now when I say replace, I don't mean I would be getting rid of the ten millimeter pistols, nor the advanced mark two ten millimeter pistols, just that I would no longer be producing more unless absolutely needed.

In five minutes my meeting with Twilight Sparkle would begin, seeing as I had invited her here to actually speak to me in person, as such I had a small room set up, just a table, a few chairs, some water or Nuka Cola to drink, and waited. Within 3 minutes Twilight Sparkle had been escorted in by an Android carrying a plasma rifle, a new, sleeker design that would slowly replace the fallout styled plasma rifle, regardless, lets get to this and hope it doesn't end up with me shootin the purple mare.

Twilight Sparkle sat down, and nodded at me. "It's nice to see you again....our last few times of seeing one another, haven't really gone without me getting my flanks handed to me, so I'd like to apologize for the trouble I've caused you, and your Empire." Twilight was beginning to get her hopes up, if he didn't accept, she honestly didn't know what she would be able to do, to make things right with this Ruler, and his Empire.

I nodded back. "I agree quite a bit, and after much thought, and talking with Chrysalis, Moon, and Rainshine, I have decided to accept your apology, so lets shake on it." Since she was less than 3 feet away, I offered my hand to Twilight, and when she smiled and gripped it, the moment our hands made contact the room filled with a bright flash causing me to go blind and causing the Androids just outside the door guarding the room to burst in and take aim at what had caused the disturbance.

That fucking glowy version of Twilight was back, sept this version of her was still an alicorn from the looks of it, the Androids tried to shoot her with their ARRMK2's, but the 5.56 millimeter railgun rounds just peppered her, and....sort of just teleported away. After a few moments of this her eyes glew white and she spoke. "Enough!" And with a flash of her horn, the Androids stopped shooting, no longer having a weapon to shoot with, they each pulled out a plasma knife and got ready to charge, but I held up my hand, calling them off.

Glowy Twilight looked over to me. "Thank you for calling your guards off, as robotic as they may be, I'd still feel bad if I harmed them."

I gave it a blank look. "Allllllllrighty then...the hell are you here for again?" I asked, the blank look staying on my face.

Glowy Twilight looked to Real Twilight, ignoring me. "After months, you have finally past my test Twilight Sparkle, you see, this has been the test all along, there was no friendship problem, I wanted to test your friendship not only with your friends, but with your mentor, your parents, your brother, all of them."

Twilight Sparkle gave Glowy Twilight a confused, and somewhat pissed look. "So you ruined my life, for what? A test?"

Glowy Twilight nodded. "It was a test to see if the bonds of your friendships could be rebuilt, even after you had screwed up so badly most would abandon you, when you rekindled your friendships with Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Spike, Shining Armor, Celestia, and Lorenzo, you passed the test, the test to see if no matter what, you would remain true to friendship and not turn to bitterness like Cadence had, and in apologizing to Lorenzo, the last step is complete, now all that remains, is do you wish to be an Element of Harmony and an alicorn once more? Are you ready to once again hold those responsibilities and not abuse them for your own sake?"

Guess I'll just sit here being ignored, in my own Empire, for fucks sake if this thing couldn't splatter half my Empire I'd have tried shooting it by now. As such I just sat in my chair, slowly drinking a bottle of Nuka Cola, while Twilight, the non glowy one, responded. "I would like to be an Element of Harmony, and my alicorn self once more, but I want your word, your absolute word, you will never do anything like this again, you ruined my life, just to watch me rebuild it from the ashes? That's fucked up, excuse my language, but that's just completely fucked." Huh, I think for once I agreed with Twilight.

The Tree only grinned. "Harmony works in ways you will not always understand, Twilight Sparkle, remember that, and never forget." The glowy Twilight began to glow again, this time its entire body, before with a bright flash which acted much like a flash-bang grenade, it was gone, my eyes felt like someone had stabbed them, and Twilight was on the floor in pain as her wings regrew near instantly, same for her horn, and with another small flash, her cutiemark was plopped back onto her ass and the back of her hand.

I nearly died, if the bar on my HUD was anything to go by, as such the pipboy auto injected me with a stimpack, and I stood up. After a few moments, I injected Twilight with a stimpack, and helped her up as well, her wings flopping about for a few moments as she readjusted to them. "So, your a Princess again, ya got your wings, and your magic, what ya gonna do now?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

Twilight looked herself over, and then blushed hard, seeing as becoming an alicorn again upped her entire body by half a foot, and thickened her out a little more than the skinny non earthpony she had been less than a minute ago, she was back to how she was before she had her magic and shit taken away, meaning her clothes BARELY fit her. I just facepalmed and handed her a solid green dress, the same you'd get in game from a suitcase or some random ass container, and yeeted her into the closet to change. Three minutes later, she came out looking less embarrassed. "For one, if the castle isn't back, I'm going to have it rebuilt, I likely can do so with the correct spell, secondly, once I get a home again, see if Spike wants to come live with me again, he's getting tired of the animals at Fluttershy's, I can tell as much."

I nodded. "Seems sensible, your ride here will also be your ride back, just get into the same personal carrier and it'll take you back to where you wanna be." She nodded and teleported off, I assume to the carrier pad. So I got ready for the second meeting I'd be doing today, I'd be visiting my alien allies, known as the Ss’ket. I had been invited by the Red River Unions two rulers, both royalty like myself, so they would be expecting me. Within a moment I had relayed to the Crystal City Starship, it was only 8:45 AM planet side, so this shouldn't take more than perhaps a day thanks to the ships advanced FTL system.

Looking over to Tempest I grinned, she had been made captain of this ship when it was completed, while the Crystal Lorenzo was to be piloted by another captain. I sat in a chair that overlooked the vastness of space, and spoke. "Initialize the FTL drives, set a course for the Ss’ket's Solar Sytem, its already programmed into the ships map, so just press it with a hoof and turn the drives on."

Tempest saluted. "Yes your Majesty." She did as instructed, pressed the location on the holographic map, and turned the drive on by pushing a button, within mere seconds the Ss’ket's bright blue star was in view, their solar system larger than Equis's by quite a bit, several asteroid belts and the like, more planets, three habitable planets, our goal was the second habitable planet from that bright blue star, their home world. I stood up from my chair and got into a specialized pod, it would take me to their palace, as that had been where I was told to go, the Starship would stay here, if it entered this solar system it could cause so many problems for the locals I didn't even want to bother with that.

The pod shot off, on a pre plotted course I had been given, to avoid crashing or slamming into any of their own spacecraft or starships, that wouldn't harm me however, since....fucking energy shields, but, they don't have such shields, so it was best to go the course given to me. It took all of 20 minutes before the pod autolanded itself on the area they had designated for me. After a few moments of Ss’ket in military uniforms spraying down the outside of my pod with some sort of anti fire foam, which was pointless, I stepped out and much to my surprise, they bowed. I gave a confused look before one of them stood up and spoke. "Seeing as you are Royalty, it is only proper to bow as a sign of respect."

I nodded, and two of them began to escort me, carrying their weird little bolt action styled rifles. That was part of the reason I was invited here actually. I was escorted into the Palace, which was rather nice looking, and taken to a private dinning room for the royals. Hituzz Skin had light brown scaling and jet black hair, being 5'8 feet tall, and Shihezz Skim, he had dark green scaling, and dyed red hair, the bowed to me, and as such I bowed back before sitting down. The meal was surprisingly close to something I'd eat back in the Empire, fried fish, of course from this planet, and vegetable sides. Seeing as these things did not evolve on Equis, and thus also not on Earth, things from Equis being copies from Earth for the most part, like the air, grass, etc, I could taste the difference from anything back home, it was a nice meal, if a bit semi exotic, for dessert there was a caviar pie, which was lovely. Once the meal was over, business came.

Shihezz was the one to speak first. "I'd like to ask about the weapons we asked you to bring, and the designs for them as well, do you have them?" His slit eyes looking at me with curiosity.

I nodded. "Indeed I do have em, here ya go, as we talked about, a basic automatic combat rifle in 5.56, adjustable for your species ammunition." I pulled the Rapid Combat Rifle out of my inventory, along with basic blueprints on how it worked and how to build more, and slid them over to him, he looked on in approval and nodded his head.

"Yes, Yes....these will do nicely, we can finally begin replacing the bolt actions, and you also have the designs for those 'hydrogen jet engines' as you put it? I'd like to begin replacing our multi role push prop craft as soon as possible, these same engines would also be used for civilian craft, which is Hituzz's field, mine is peace and war time military technology."

Hituzz nodded. "Indeed, with these advancements we will also be able to improve civilian life more than we already have thanks to the previous technologies you gave us upon our first visit to your Empire."

I grinned. "I got em right here, along with how different flying a jetcraft is from a propeller aircraft, both in terms of civilian and military pilots, tactics, and how it gives you much better range and fuel efficiency, moreso when you can just pump hydrogen into the fuel tank and be ready to go." I slid the plans, a copy for military, and civilian versions of the engines, along with how to produce liquid hydrogen in an environmentally friendly way for them to fuel em. Remember this species believes their planet is a goddess, so I don't wanna fuck their planet up less they declare war.

They nodded, and for the rest of the time I visited, I was allowed to collect samples of things like local fish, fruits, and plants, and I went back with several Ss’ket that wanted to see what life in my Empire was like, if all went well they'd sign up for citizenship, it would be nice to have alien citizens, heh, they might be the first, but they certainly wouldn't be the last, I knew that much for sure, I had plans for my Equis's universe, big, big plans.

Author's Notes:

Ay I seem to be bored a lot lately and feel like writing, so lemme know how dis was oco

If you like the story, comment, lemme know why, srsly comment lol

Here is the combat rifle lorenzo gave to the aliens, sept their in 5.56 mm not .45