Another month had passed, and in that time I had made a few decisions, every weapon manned by the Empire that used energy crystals to operate, would switch over to fusion cells and fusion cores, or fission batteries, as I had realized we had been replying on magic far to much, I had also solved a few problems, for one the weapons on my crystal airships and crystal fighters now only used magic to move and fly, the weapons where powered by fusion core's, or plasma cartridges, each weapon used its respective ammo.

As an explanation as to why I was doing this, I remembered Tirek, from that one episode, I had no idea what season of the show I was actually in, only thing I knew was I was at the gala last year, and Twilight was a Princess, she never spoke of a crystal castle, or anything like that, not that I had bothered to ask, but that was besides the point, if Tirek showed up, he would just eat the magic some weapons would shoot at him, so from now on it was back to nuclear power for the weapons of war I had, and as to how I found a way to mass produce fusion cores and fusion cells, and plasma cartridges and almost every other ammo, it was rather simple, I had the ammo factory mod installed before I was sent here remember? I just never really had to use it since my crystal ponies had developed their own way to power the weapons given to them.

I also had another surprise for Equestria, as I felt like they would need it, griffons to if they wanted it, power armor, I had realized a few things, for one, I had power armor pieces with me when I arrived here, and they sat in my inventory just waiting to be studied, I mainly kept X-01 pieces, as I'd outfit my settlers in power armor suits and give them energy weapons or mini guns, because nothing says kill like overkill, now, I had in fact read Fallout Equestria back when I was on Earth, and had looked at fan art, I already had design ideas in mind when I got here, but held off on it until I could think of a way to keep the suit from dying, so to solve that problem, I simply made an enchanted fusion core, to be clear I just had a unicorn enchant a fusion core, it took a lot out of that poor fella, but the result was a fusion core that would constantly charge while the pony in the suit of power armor was not moving, however the suit did not allow a pony to stand on two legs like my crystal ponies normally did, so to I also recreated a battle saddle, armed with two mini guns, you could also replace the two mini guns with any weapon my army used.

I planned to bring these to the next meeting of rulers, which was in two days, and tomorrow was the next Gala, Celestia had set the meeting up the day after the Gala like she had last time, which I found funny, and I wondered if anyone would bring anything new to the table, aside from me that is, I knew what I was taking after all, however this time I required a living pony to go with me, I had just grabbed a random guard and told him he was to stay by my crystal fighter for the time being, I had parked it next to the castle and it was guarded with non lethal turrets, meaning they would just stun a pony who got to close, but there was a line of red paint around the craft so others knew to stay away from the line.

I had decided to go with the same suit as last year, repaired of course, can't have a wine stained and ripped tux to show up to a fancy ass party in, I would of course bring the guard I was going to have help demonstrate the new armor at the meeting, but for the gala he could just party, granted he didn't get to drunk or try to bed a mare, I would not allow that to happen during a visit to Canterlot, I also had a few more things to explain to you all before I wrap up my day and head to sleep.

As you may all know, once a fusion core in game is empty it just poofs away, that was not true with the weapons my ponies used, so I had created a way to recharge the fusion cores, I needed power to recharge them so I had made a facility that automated the process, robotic arms would plug a dead fusion core into a receptor and wait five minutes, then the fusion core would start to give off power and a robotic arm, like a mister handy claw, would remove it and pack it to send it back to the troops of the Empire, or to stores that sold them, as most houses had a fusion core generator in them in the event a power outage could occur, the chance was very low, but it was always better to have it and not need it, to need it and not have it, and the gamma rifles have come along nicely, they went from looking like the gamma gun itself, makeshift junk, unstable, to a viable military weapon, they had a nice black outer plastic casing so the wires and circuits where no longer exposed like the testing models of the gamma rifle, we also had gamma repeaters, which was just a gatling laser with a gamma gun dish on the end, two of them to be exact, it was an automatic radiation spitting mini gun, it was tested on a caribou who had been trying to sneak through the teleportation gate, and his flesh had melted after only 5 seconds of being constantly hit with it, we had even given him armor to see if it would still have great effect when in armor, and it did, he was a puddle of flesh and bones, I had that area decontaminated before testing continued.

I went to sleep soon after making sure the guard knew he could actually come into the castle and sleep in a guest room before we left tomorrow, and I had the strangest dream, something about blue balls of plasma or something, eh I don't really remember dreams so I'm sure it didn't matter to much, it might have just been a dream about new weapons my ponies had been creating every day.

I woke up the next day, at around 11 AM, I got my tux on and woke up the guard, who donned his power armor, now keep in mind, I was not giving fusion cores to anyone, those where for my Empire's use only, so as an alternative I had opted to have a gem cut into the shape of a fusion core, and enchanted with a simple lightning enchantment, it would power the armor all the same, and we got into a top of the line, modern crystal fighter, after all I wanted to get to Canterlot as quickly as possible, cause I am sure the gala already had started, as we flew faster than the speed of sound, I noticed something strange about Equestria, there was surprisingly more small airships than normally would be in Equestrian airspace, it seemed those airship designs I had given to them had been not only used as military craft, but for civilian use as well, good for them, I landed my fighter in the same place as last time, this time it had been painted to look like my Empire's flag, to let others know this was where the crystal king parked I guess, hah, or to mark where I should land.

I told the guard he could go about the gala, but to stay out of his armor, if he was seen in it before tomorrow I'd punish him for it, as I wanted it to be a surprise, so much so that I had installed a stealth boy unit into the armor so he could pop up outta nowhere, which would be funny to watch the reaction of the other rulers for sure, lets just hope none of them shoot at him thinking he is hostile.

As I had expected the gala was set to last all day and night, it had already begin and a band was playing classical music, not my favorite brand of music, as I preferred rock or rap, but if one plays fallout for as long as I have, you tend to start enjoying it, I walked up to the buffet and grabbed some bacon, again this party was for all species, so of course they had meat out for those who could enjoy and eat it, I ate a few bites of bacon after sitting at a table before I felt someone tap my shoulder, I turned around and to my surprise, I saw Razorclaw, who had a plate of steak and a mug of beer.

He sat down at the table I was at and grinned at me. "Ay Lorenzo, good to see you again my friend." He took a chunk out of his steak and popped it into his mouth, and swallowed before continuing. "We need to meet more often than when Celestia calls a meeting, its rather boring sitting on a throne all day or doing paper work all the time."

I nodded. "I feel ya there bud, I mainly keep myself sane by walking around my Empire, checking new weapons my changelings and ponies have created, reading, and listening to music."

He grinned and took a sip of his beer. "Ay, everything is so fucking boring without a book or music, thankfully those radio's you gave to us, are working perfectly, however while yours are powered by some, unknown or barely known energy, ours have to be powered by gems enchanted with a lightning enchantment, which honestly I don't really care, but just found it odd we can't tell what powers your empire's electric grids and such."

I rolled my eyes. "I've told you all before, ya'll just keep forgetting, my empire is powered by 5 nuclear reactors."

He chuckled. "And as I've said before, we don't know what a 'nuclear reactor' even is, even when you explained it, it made no sense to us." He finished his steak, and walked off to get more, I assumed at least, as he had left his half empty beer on the table.

I noticed Applejack talking to Filthy Rich like last year, except when she was done she started heading towards me, I just watched as she walked up and sat at the table across from me, before she tilted her had. "Hello, a'hm Applejack, I run Sweet Apple Acers, a large farm located just outside of Ponyville, and I wanted to offer you a business deal." She looked nervous, I could see why given the fact I was one, another species, and two, the ruler of an entire Empire, well, by now two empires, what with the whole zebras thinking I'm some kind of god, and just handing me the throne, I swear my fucking luck, others would kill for the chances and crap I've gotten to do and I was already fine with the power I had.

"Well, what kind of deal did you have in mind?" It was a good question in all reality, I don't know what she could possibly want from me.

"Ah wanted to buy some of those fancy robots, like the one Twilight had, she called it a 'Mister Handy', she named it Jeff, it cleans her castle, organizes things, and if Spike ain't there, cooks for her, and recently the farm needs more hooves to help with the harvest of not only the apples, but the other crops as well, such as wheat, corn, potatoes, things like that, and only three ponies are there to work the farm, me, my brother Big Mac, and my lil sis Applebloom, Granny Smith, the founder of the farm, has jus' gotten to old to work the land like she used to, its to much of a strain on her, and with some of those fancy robots ya'll have, I could have the farm working at 100% efficiency again, we are not even able to bring the farm up to half as good in terms of production as it used to be."

I guess that made sense, they wouldn't be forced to hire others to help them, which would just end up costing more than doing it themselves in the long run. "Alright, how many Mister Handy units did you want for your farm? they are 20 bits each."

Applejack looked at a note she had taken out of her hat. "About 50 or so, Granny said that would be more than enough, but uh...I only have two hundred bits, Granny is bein tight on savins since the farm didn't do so well last year cause of a fruit bat infestation, but I am sure we can work out a monthly payment plan or somethin." She looked nervous again.

I simply chuckled and shook my head. "You don't even really need to pay for the robots, I can just give them to you, I have to many robots as is."

The look of shock on her face, priceless, but she smiled nonetheless and tipped her hat to me. "I'll find a way to pay ya back, even if It takes years, can I get the shipment of them tomorrow sometime?"

I sent an order from my Pipboy to one of the automatic trains to send a shipment of Mister Handy units, 60 of them, to be delivered to Ponyville, and for the robots to just go to the farm themselves. "And done, your shipment should arrive at 12 pm tomorrow, they will come to the farm themselves."

Applejack looked ecstatic as she walked over and hugged me, catching me by surprise, but I shrugged and returned the hug, and soon enough she let go, and went back into the crowed, most likely to tell her friends of what just happened, I watched a few drunk noble ponies stumble around still trying to dance, by now the party had progressed late into the night, it was around 11 pm by this point, and I decided it would most likely be a good idea to head to the guest room I was given for the night.

I walked past drunken ponies, I had more than one mare grabbing at my legs to try and life themselves up, but I just continued walking after leaving the ones that did asleep thanks to some Calmer, a tranquilizer, and walked down the hall to a room with the Crystal Empire's flag on it, Celestia had rooms set up for all rulers of the other kingdoms, she hadn't had a chance to set one up for Bonejaw before he decided to turn on us and try to wage a one army one man war.

Walking inside I closed and locked the door behind me, the guard I brought with me was sleeping in my crystal fighter as I had instructed him to do so, however I did provide a bed in there for him, and as I got into the bed, I felt like I was being watched, however I knew it was just some lunar guards that had been instructed to watch all rulers visiting, to protect them if anyone tried to get into the rooms and attempt something, however if someone tried that with me, they'd get a sawed off shotgun blast to the face, both barrels of lead slug to the head would surely kill any intruder unless they had on armor.

About I don't know how many hours later, I woke up at around ten, to be exact 9:50 AM, the meeting started at ten, so I headed over to the fields we were going to test things in again, and I saw Steel Horns, King Razorclaw, and Celestia just sitting there enjoying Nuka Cola along with some small snacks, along with an artillery piece aimed up at the fields, I wondered why it was aimed like that, but, I guess I'd find out sooner or later during the meeting, so I took my place on a chair and the meeting began.

Celestia stood up, again she only walked on four legs, as walking on two legs would be to awkward for her to do without smashing her face into a wall. "Now that Lorenzo is here, we may begin a bit early, Steel Horns shall go first, you may demonstrate your item now."

King Steel Horns stood up and took a tarp off of a gatling gun, this one however had three barrels and was much larger than the last one as well. "During our short time fighting the diamond dogs, we developed a 50 caliber version of our gatling gun, plans for the weapon and the ammo it uses will be included." One of his guards took aim at a diamond dog shapped target, even had the same armor the diamond dogs had during the battles, and he cranked the crank as hard and fast as he could, causing the gun to spin rapidly as it shot 400 rounds of 50 caliber ammo into the target within the span of a minute, impressive for it being cranked, and by the time he was done the target was nothing more than twisted metal and wood, more akin to modern art than a test dummy.

King Razorclaw stood up next, and took a tarp off a artillery shell, it looked like a normal shell to me, before he spoke. "This shell looks like a normal artillery shell, however once it gets close to the ground it will explode into a bunch of tiny pieces, sending metal flying everywhere, it is called a shrapnel shell, useful against enemy troops, like diamond dogs, and teenage dragons, or other creatures." A griffon guard loaded the shell into the cannon before it was fired, once it got about twenty feet near the ground it exploded in a rather violent fashion, ripping apart the ground that the pieces struck like tissue paper.

Celestia stood up and spoke again. "My prize student Twilight Sparkle, Princess Of Friendship, has invented something just by looking at a robotic battle zone in the Crystal Empire, once she realized the ponytrons we had were mostly just useful as door guards, slow, unable to chase their targets, she created a second version, she calls it the assault class ponytron, or the ponytron class A, or PCA for short." With her magic, she pulled a tarp off a pony shaped object, and to my surprise, it looked like a ponified novatron! It was a greyish white, with yellow, and on its flank where a ponies cutiemark would be, was stamped in yellow paint 01.

The PCA looked up, and Celestia pointed to a target of a diamond dog, and it went into attack mode, a blue laser charging instead of the classic red you'd see on a novatron, or assaultron, before it shot causing the target to turn to burning embers and molten slag, since it was made of metal and wood, if that had been flesh and metal, you get the idea of how painful that would be.

The other rulers looked to me causing me to chuckle since they saw I had nothing with me, before Celestia spoke up again. "Lorenzo, did you bring anything to show or share?" Wow when she said that I felt kinda like this was 3rd grade show and tell in class, hah.

I chuckled yet again, and with a quick touch to my pipboy and a message to the guard, who had in fact been standing next to me in his power armor, turned visible again, he has been using a stealth boy, this caused the others to gasp. "Yes in fact I have, I present to you the peak of plate armor design, power armor, armor so heavy it needs to have a frame inside and be powered for the user to move around within the armor." The guard in the power armor trotted around for a bit before stopping at the range for a target. "As you can see, this guard stallion has two mini guns on his sides, he is able to control them from within the suit he has on, I will be giving these plans to all of you, but for griffons and Minotaur, its up to you to design your own units for your species, we will now watch as he takes out a target." The pony turned to a target and fired his mini guns, from his battle saddle, causing flashes of light to glint off the armor as the bullets bounced to the ground and onto the grass, while the target seemed to be disintegrating into nothing. I laughed at the faces each of them made, as I handed them the blueprints and possible designs for griffon and Minotaur variants of the armor, after the guard showed off what he was able to, I had him take the armor off and hand it over to the Equestrians.

Twenty minutes later the meeting was over, and I was just headed back to the crystal fighter I used to get here, and Celestia stopped me. "Will you be attending the Friendship Festival in three weeks?"

I thought about it, before I shrugged. "Sure I guess, exactly three weeks time yeah?" She nodded, I patted her and got into the fighter with the guard, who fell asleep instantly on the bed I had placed into it, and took off headed for the Crystal Empire once again, I had preparations to make after all.

Author's Notes:

the power armor looks something like this.

the ACP looks like this, also known as the assault class ponytron, ACP for short, cool eh? tell me if you like this chapter, and also I am sorry its not as long as the first version that was deleted, but, after yelling at my computer for crashing causing me to loose progress, I decided to put that energy into re writing the chapter, its a good thing I had this idea so well thought out, otherwise I'd have given up, but as said before, tell me in the comments section if ya'll like the story so far? what will happen next? Find out only on ONE PUNCH MAN! nah just fuckin with ya, but seriously tell me what ya like bout dis story, makes me feel happy n special