“Dad, you awake?” Lilly asked and I opened my eyes laying on my bed in my bedroom. I loved to crash once I got home.

“Yes?” I asked and she looked around nervous.

“Um, I can’t find Dodge, she’s been gone for a few days, and I’m worried, and there’s a monster in my closet.” I paused, Dodge wouldn’t just disappear, the only reason why she’d leave Lilly was to protect her, and even then she would leave a clone.

“Trixie.” I shook her awake.

“I’m up, I’m up, what?” She asked shaking her head tired.

“Where’s Dodge the doll? Also did she tell you there was a monster in her closet?”

“Yes, and I checked each time, it’s nothing, I also don’t know what happen to her, she never came back.” I got up. “It’s just shadows.” She whined and I frowned making her flinch clearly. I hadn’t punished her for a while. I frowned at her, I knew better than most, that things in the shadows exist, and they are worse than what they appear.

“Let’s go to your room.” I picked her up holding her close. We went to her room and I opened the door looking around. It looked fine, bed was just unmade. I looked under the bed and paused studying it. Nothing alive had been under there but a bug or two.

“It’s not under there.” She said and I set her on the bed.

“You wouldn’t notice if there was, you sleep on top of it.” She paused realizing I was right. I snapped my claws making the bed lay on the floor instead of in the air. I went over to the closet and scanned it for a moment.

“Is it there?” I stopped seeing a magic seal.

“Some pony’s going to die.” I growled and walked through a portal. I looked around, I was in the Everfree forest. A large stone was in the middle of the forest with symbols on it. I scanned around. It wasn’t the Oaka that had made this portal, whoever made it, they were much more powerful and extremely dangerous.

“Daddy!” I heard her shout. I went back through the portal breaking the seal and cracking the rock. They had left it open like an idiot, just any creature with a nose could follow Lilly’s scent back into her room while she slept. It was a free range portal, and getting the materials were very hard in this world.

“I’m fine.” I said coming out of the closet. Whoever made it had to have craved this from here and there.

“You just disappeared.”

“Yep, and from now on you’re sleeping in my room.”

“What?”

“That monster was real, and I don’t know who it was, you can either sleep with Trixie and me, or we can move your bed.” She looked around a little nervous. I paused, I was going to have to search the entire house.

“I guess move my bed.” I put her onto my shoulder and picked up her bed taking it into my room, and moving a few things before setting it down.

“Why?” Trixie asked tired.

“In the hallway now.” I growled and she got up, then went into the hallway. I scanned the room quickly checking in clear places before going into the hallway and closing the door behind me. I frowned making her back up.

“What?”

“There was a portal!” I growled at her and she went pale. “It lead into the Everfree forest, it was open.”

“But, I didn’t see it.”

“You wouldn’t, I can see magic, and seals. It was plain as day for me, whoever it was came into this house and wrote it. That means we’re going to be spending the entire night, looking and making sure not a single one is in this house.” I pulled out a pair of goggle, she put them on. “Scratch the seal, I need to talk to Lilly, I’m not about to leave her alone, our room is clear for now.”

“Right.” She went into another room. I went back into my room and Lilly was shivering in blankets.

“What’s wrong?”

“I thought it was just my imagination! You mean that pony was real.”

“You saw it?” She nodded and I went over to her, hugging her. “Tell me about it, I need to know.” I let go of her sitting down.

“It was a unicorn like me, but, but it was wrong, it’s eyes glowed red, I could see it’s bones.” I stared at her and tears went down her face. “I don’t know, it, it was evil. It scared me, and it would watch me, staring at me. It tried saying something, but nothing came out of its mouth.”

“Did it wear a black rope with a skull on it?”

“Yes, how did ya know.” I growled and she backed up.

“Sorry.” This was far too early, it was a demon pony Lich disciple, the worst possible thing it could be.

“It’s fine.” I froze seeing her teeth, I was an idiot, I had forgotten a single little fact, dead fire. It would be able to wake the lich with just one drop, and at full power. I rubbed Lilly’s face a little opening her mouth, all her teeth were sharp and pearl white.

“Lilly.” I let go of her face. “I need to know a few things, have you tasted blood since you were in Canterlot?”

“Nope, Trixie said I shouldn’t taste any pony’s but yours.”

“I need you to bite and drink my blood.” I held up my arm and she swallowed.

“I’m not thirst.”

“Lilly, the creature that was in your room requires you pure, that means free of dead magic. Drinking my blood will make it so they won’t even be able to touch you, let alone come in the same room as you.”

“But won’t it hurt?”

“Nope, I do this all the time with Pinkie, she has to as well.”

“Really?”

“Yep, but she’s something else.”

“But I don’t want to.”

“Fine, do you ever want to see Dodge again?” Her eyes went wide. “You will have to drink my blood once a week, if you don’t, then the creature will kill Dodge again, and again till you do it. Not only that, but he’ll get you, I can’t protect you all the time, keeping you on my shoulder is too dangerous, please.”

“But.”

“Bite, now.” I growled lightly and she bit into my wrist easily. “Now suck the blood from my wrist.” She gulped it down and her eyes shined, she loved the taste, to any other creature my blood had more than a simple blood taste, it had magic and other things added to it. “You need to get your fill, you can’t hurt me.” She drink it rather quickly and stopped licking a drop from her lips.

“I’m done.” She said sheepishly.

“Good, now you’ll be safe, they won’t be able to touch you. I'll be right back.” She nodded and I went back into the hallway closing the door. I went down stairs and Trixie looked at me coming out of the bathroom, I went over to the kitchen sink cleaning my wrist. She came over to me grabbing out a rag.

“You know sacrificial blood will only last a week.”

“I know, and I have to let this heal naturally once, but so long as I feed her every week, they won’t be able to touch her.”

“Right, and you’d see her that much?” I looked at her frowning and she flinched stepping back. “What she needs you, she needs her daddy.” I rolled my eyes. “She calls you that because she loves you.” I paused.

“Never say that again to me.”

“I love you.” The water around my hands evaporated and she stepped back.

“Are you trying to get me to kill you?”

“Oh, and leave her all alone?”

“You’re disposable.”

“Is that why you brought me back? Or is it because you still have a use for me? I know you have plenty of uses for her, so you won’t simply kill her. She’s your fire child now, and you can’t change that.” I growled and she ran pushing me down to the ground. “You will listen to me this time. I don’t know everything that happen to you Spike, but there’s good in there, I can see it, you’re just afraid to let go.”

“Get off of me.”

“No.” I pushed with magic sending her flying across the room, cracking a cement wall and falling to the ground. I got up cracking my neck. I went over to her, she had broken her spine in several places and broken all her ribs.

“Still alive?” She made a light cry. “You’re thinking of the Spike you fought with, not the Spike that killed the Lich. I made even Flutter-birdie cared of my methods. Celestia and Luna broke off because they were scared of me, I became more powerful than the lich.”

“Heal.” She managed to choke out.

“You’re strong, that should’ve killed you, or I’m getting sloppy. Either way it doesn’t matter for you, I'll let you rot till morning then I'll dispose of your corpse. I never had a use for you other than not to be bored.”

“More.” I paused and my body quivered. A plea for death, I chuckled.

“Oh my, oh my. You know just how to play me.” I snapped my claws healing her. She got up coughing. “You’re right, I do have a use for you.” She looked at me. “To take care of Lilly till she matures into something really delicious. Other than her your life, you will have no meaning or purpose.”

“Yes.”

“Good, and for talking back to me.” Her jaw rotted down to her vocal cords stopping her from scream. “Then for shoving me and touching me without my permission.” Her legs twisted snapping in several places. She feel down and tears went down her face. “You’re on a time spell so you’ll heal come day break, I don’t want Lilly finding you so.” I snapped my claws making her turn invisible. “Enjoy the more you asked for.”

“Daddy.” Lilly called from my room.

“Be there in a moment.” I chuckled seeing Trixie twitch. “I hope you enjoy the taste of the dead, you ever do that again, and you’ll hope I do this again.” I went up stairs to my room and went inside looking at Lilly on her bed.

“Where’s Trixie.”

“What am I your only parent?” She giggled a little.

“No, but Trixie didn’t want me to call her mom.”

“Don’t worry about that, you can call her anything you want to, but she’s sleeping down stairs, so come sleep on my bed. It can get cold at night.” She ran over and got into my bed. I laid down and pulled her close to me. She smiled falling asleep with me.

I woke up to sun rise and looked at Lilly asleep. She was very cute, but she was going to turn into something else even better, a real monster. I got up without waking her up and went down stairs to Trixie asleep on the sofa. I kicked the sofa.

“I’m awake.” She said sitting up.

“Good, make sure you double check this house, and you protect her, I have business with Fluttershy today. I'll be back later.”

“Yes.” I went down kissing her.

“Now what did you learn?”

“Not to talk back or touch you without permission.”

“Good, now go be with Lilly, if you leave her alone for any reason, I'll have to punish you again.”

“I will.” She said nodding, then getting up and going upstairs to Lilly. I went outside and looked around for a few seconds. Lich Disciples wouldn’t go far, they would be watching every second of every day.

“You know, this is my domain,” I said rather loudly. “Lilly is my snack, touch her and I'll use a skull slayer spell on your entire encampment. I only need two of you to live for me to get to the lich.” The pony that had snuck into Lilly’s room appeared in front of me.

“How interesting,” the pony said with a dark rusty voice. “You know dead magic, yet you are not of Lich.”

“So just one of you? I know you travel in pairs, why don’t you have your friend come out from behind the wall.” Another one came out from the wall.

“How does he know?” I looked at an earth pony mare.

“Haven’t grown your horn yet?” Her hooves lit on fire ready for a fight, it didn’t matter if a Lich Disciple was an earth pony or pegasus, they could do magic, it just depended on rather or not they wanted to get good at magic or fly, though they didn’t need to get either to move through the ranks.

“What are you?” The unicorn asked backing up.

“You can see it can’t you, you’re not a Lich Disciple are you? No you’re a necromancer, you’re traded your physical powers for more magic power. Let’s see there are Earth Rotters, your equal in rank, then Vu Siths and Dead Bringers. Oh but they keep the lich asleep and Lich’s tomb protected while he sleeps.”

“Master what is it?” The mare asked.

“This one is full of dead fire, but it’s not possible. There shouldn’t be a way to get that until the tree awakens.”

“I’m not from your world.” Both of them stepped back. “I killed your Lich personally in my world, and I ate the fruit of the tree of life.” They started backing away. “You will not touch my pray, if you do.” I held out my hand and the mare flew to me, I grabbed her necking choking her.

“If you have fought the lich, then you know killing her is pointless, we can raise our own.”

“Yes you can, but what I can take is so much more precious.”

“That’s, that’s forbidden! Even to the Lich, he would never do that!” I chuckled. “But you’re worse than him aren’t you?”

“Yes I am, so much worse, my world is dead because of me.” I looked at the mare struggling and my mouth watered making her stop. “Now then, you’ll do it properly, and if I catch you near Ponyville again.” I snapped the mares neck. “I'll take more than your simple lives from you.” I dropped her body and his horn lit with a brown magic bringing her back and unsnapping her neck.

“Very well, we will not come back here again, you’re a monster than not even the lich would want to face, you’re much too powerful, but I want to ask one question, why have you not taken this world?” I chuckled.

“Why does a cat play with a mouse?” He frowned.

“Come, we are leaving, we’ll never be able to touch his pray, he’ll do worse than simply kill us if we stay.” They disappeared and I smiled. At least I hadn’t lost my touch, and they wouldn’t be back without a large force, and that would take time. The Lich Disciples weren’t known for being fast, unlike most they have plenty of time to spare.

I flew into the air going to Fluttershy’s cottage and going to the door knocking. No one answered and I looked up. It was probably too early for her, not every pony gets up in the morning.

“Yyyyep.” I paused turning as Big Mac and Fluttershy walked around the corner. They both stopped looking at me.

“Oh, Seffron.” Fluttershy said and they came over to me.

“Big Mac.”

“Yep.”

“How are you?”

“Good.”

“Fluttershy, Applejack said you wanted to talk to me?”

“Yes, the Foundry is having problems, they said that the walls are too heavy to lift with thirty pony. They need your help, so catch the first train over.”

“But that would mean they finished the inside.”

“Yep, they said with the new train upgrades they were able to shave off a month, putting the walls and ceiling up is all that is left.”

“Wonderful.”

“I paid them already so do whatever you like. Oh I almost forgot, come inside I have a few things to give you before you go.” We went inside and she went over to a safe opening it and pulling out a packet. She slid it onto the table and closed the safe.

“What is it?”

“Deeds, and I have material lists for you, I need to make sure you have everything you need.” She put a few lists down and a few contracts. “Sign on the red spots, and they will be yours.” I paused.

“Wait which name?”

“Seffron.”

“Okay.” I signed and she gave me another one and I signed it. “You have a nice signature.”

“Thank you.” She handed me paper work and then pointed at lists of materials, and how much was there. “This is what is there currently on site, and what’s on the way. Is this all you need, I can add more onto the order.”

“No this is perfect, I could make all the armor and weapons for twenty thousand soldiers if I needed.”

“Great.” She gave me the lists and I shrunk them putting them away. “Anyway, if you need anything tell me and I'll have it shipped to you as soon as possible.”

“I will.” She smiled and I turned stopping at Big Mac frowning.

“You smell funny.” I paused.

“Big Mac.” Fluttershy said and he stared at me as I walked around him.

“He smells dead, why?” I frowned.

“Oh no.” I jumped back and he jumped forward punching me and sending me flying through the wall.

“You’re gonna die!” He shouted walking through the wall.

“How is it that we met only once and neither of us noticed?” I asked getting up out of the chicken coop.

“Don’t know, don’t care, you’re gonna die.”

“Does Applejack know you’re with the Lich?”

“Ain’t gonna find out none, I'll make sure of that.”

“You know I wouldn’t have realized it had you just let me pass by you.”

“Nope, you would’ve.” I sighed cracking my neck.

“And here I thought the Dead Bringers wouldn’t leave the Lich’s side.”

“Was made a Dead Bringer after the fact. I’m not that old.”

“And you going to kill Fluttershy?” He looked at her.

“Planning on it, need to stall the war effort, and she’s the purse. Only sure way to stop ya from getting battle ready.”

“Big Mac, but you said you loved me.” Fluttershy said starting to cry.

“Nnnope, you got yer wires crossed. I said I liked ya, not loved, I be a dead bringer, I don’t love the living.” She flew away crying. “Don’t worry, I'll find ya later, I still gonna kill ya before ya do something’ stupid like always.”

“N2o Big Mac that’s not nice.”

“Ya one to speak. I see that dead fire in ya, you killed millions and ate dem. Not even da Lich can get dat much fire.”

“Well then we.” He appeared in front of me in punched me sending me flying through trees through a hill snapping my bones easily. I landed in a second hill indenting in the ground, he appeared in front of me.

“Don’t have time to talk none.” I turned and he punched the hill causing it to explode from the force of his hoof. Dead Bringers were near impossible to beat in a fist fight, but not invincible.

I punched Big Mac sending him flying through the air. I smiled and grew to full size, he got up frowning. I slammed my hand and he punched up ripping through it like wet paper making me roar in pain.

He jumped kicking my chest and sending my flipping several times through the air. Then crushing trees of the Everfree forest ripping up my wing tips. He appeared in front of my face and I blew fire roasting him. He ccondensed the air jumping off it and punching through the back of my throat sending fire onto the forest.

My throat healed and I swiped at him and he blocked with one hoof pushing it back and causing me to spin as he jumped kicking my side and sending me rolling ripping off my spikes as they dug into the ground making me roar in pain.

I shrunk down and coughed blood as he appeared in front of me making the ground rumble and crack. Dead Bringers traded everything for pure strength, endurance, speed and fortitude. Their skin was harder than diamond and they could crush dragons like flies in any battle. Magic was almost useless against them, they could absorb it.

“Bad call growing.”

“Yyyyyep.” I smiled and he appeared behind me punching so hard that his hoof created a small sonic rain boom. His hoof hit me exploding the air, my side exploded causing me to get sent through the air sending pieces of my body across the field we were in. I cratered the ground I landed on.

“Disgusting filth!” I shouted as he appeared in front of me punching me up and sending me into the air. He jumped off air flying around and ripping me to bits. One final punch sent me sky rocketing through Fluttershy’s cabin barely alive.

Nothing of my body was in the right place. My bones were turned to dust, and if it wasn’t for my magic I would have died easily. I sat up throwing up blood as my body shifted. He landed in front of me shattering the ground.

“Time to die.” He grinned.

“Oh please try.” I said and grinned. He punched clean through my chest crushing my heart and he paused trying to pull out his hoof as my body started to wrap around his hoof snapping it slowly.

“What the hell?!” He shouted.

“I think I’ve had my fun. You see, I’ve dealt with dead bringers before, you could lift mountains, you could run through them, your strength is unlike any other, you could beat even dragons in your sleep, but you.” He punched through me again and he tried to pull out but couldn’t. “You have one weakness.”

“What’s that?” He growled. I went to his ear whispering.

“Your mind.” He looked around sweating as he realized we never left Fluttershy’s cottage, and he hadn’t moved from staring at me.

“Big Mac?” Fluttershy asked going over to him and looking at him. “Are you alright, you just paused, and then you started sweating?” He looked at me smiling and gulped. “We should get you to the hospital.”

“No, I think he’s perfectly fine.” He stepped back. “Actually could I barrow him for a while Fluttershy, there’s a few things I think we need to talk about.”

“He’s right.” Big Mac said and then cleared his throat.

“Oh.” Fluttershy said.

“I'll, come back.” He nodded and then followed me outside silent. I smiled as we got out of sight. “What do you plan for me?”

“Ripping out your soul might be a little harsh, don’t you think?” He started to sweat, I had him and he knew it, once I invaded his mind he was my pet.

“Yep.”

“Now then, you’ll love Fluttershy.” He looked at me.

“What?”

“You’ll love her.”

“But, I’m dating another.”

“Dump them, Fluttershy is a fun little treat, don’t you think?” He blushed a little. “Her kindness is so sweet, it’s sickening.” He stopped and I looked at him. “I would have probably killed her by now if she didn’t prove so useful to me. I need to keep her happy, and you seem to be doing a fine job of that.”

“But, I love Cheerilee.”

“She’s living, and not important. You became a dead bringer because you wanted physical power, probably to save your farm or something, but that cost you. Now you will do as I say.” He coughed up blood. “Or I'll have your own body start to rot from the inside out, you don’t die so easily, so it would be fun.”

“Fine, but ya can’t tell my sister, she’d, not understand.” I grabbed him pulling him up to my face.

“You’re my dead bringer now, not the Lich’s. You forsook his power the second you thought about attacking me. You’re running on my magic now, he’ll never be able to take you back, and if I stop feeding you magic.” His right front leg started to rot away. “You’ll die like the dead creature you are.”

“I understand.” I dropped him and he shivered as his arm grew back.

“Good, now go have fun, if you hurt any pony without my permission.” I chuckled lightly and he looked down. “You’ll beg for death.” He nodded. “Now get going, and tell your brethren, that if they come here for any reason, I'll take them as well.” He ran back to Fluttershy’s cottage and I sighed.

I flew home and went right inside. Trixie looked at me and flinched, Lilly was next to her and she looked at me.

“How’d it go?” She asked.

“Lilly, go to my room for a little, I need to discuss a few things with Mom.” She ran up stairs shutting my door. “Big Mac was a dead bringer.” I growled lightly and her eyes went wide with surprise. “Did you know?”

“No, I’ve, never really met him.” I went over to her and kissed her.

“You and Lilly are coming with me, we’re going to the foundry, they almost have it finished and I want my weapons.” She nodded going upstairs and getting Lilly. I sighed as they got two bags and I put them on my back as Lilly laid down on Trixie’s back.

“Can I have Dodge?” Lilly asked. I snapped my claws making Dodge appear and she looked around.

“Lich Disciple killed me!” She said looking at me.

“I know, we need to go talk to Applejack first, then we’ll fly. I don’t want to risk teleporting with them possibly trapping us, or stopping the train.”

“Yes.” I put Dodge next to Lilly and they hoof bumped each other smiling. We went outside and I changed to my real form, but around the size of a normal room allowing Trixie to climb onto my back and we flew to the military camp.

“Seffron!” Applejack shouted as I landed.

“Foundry is almost done, I have to get over there and start, you have everything you need, I won’t be around for a while.”

“Can Dash take off her ropes?”

“Not till for a few days, make sure she doesn’t. Also I won’t be around for a while so go crazy, you have the list of events and everything.”

“Yep.”

“Enough explosives?”

“Yep.”

“Good, I'll see you when I’m done.” She nodded and I took off growing to my full size as I got into the sky. “It’s going to be a few hour flight, try to enjoy it. I have a shield on my back which is why you aren’t feeling the wind, you won’t be able to fall off. So you can walk around on my back.” Dodge and Lilly started to run around playing.

Hours passed and I finally arrived, ponies below me started to panic as I flew over the worksite landing on the beach, we were north of White Tail Woods, but by the ocean, so it was far enough that there was plenty of room.

Trixie got off with Dodge and Lilly. They started to play on the sand and I changed size handing Trixie the bags and she nodded. Several soldiers ran over to me but stopped realizing who I was.

“Commander!” All ten of them shouted saluting me. I changed size and walked over to them.

“You two, I would like you to stay with them, make sure they are safe, and don’t get lost, show them around, I know we’re far away from the city, but I don’t want them getting lost in the woods.”

“Yes sir.” The two said.

“And make sure to have fun, you aren’t filly-sitters.” They nodded.

“Commander.” Spear said walking over to me.

“Spear, what are you doing here?”

“I was sent over by an order by Applejack before the Rat Race.”

“Fill me in then, I assumed you were told everything.”

“Yes, I was ordered to increase security with recruits and finish any fall backs, we have a hundred soldiers on site.” We started walking. “We have a basic wall all around the base and soldiers patrolling it. There have been curious ponies that have nearly died from entering the worksite.”

“Okay, I don’t care about protection, tell me more about how the progress is going with the foundry.”

“Nearly complete, they can’t lift the walls up or the ceiling, they are way too heavy to do that.” We got a ways and Skyscraper looked at me waving us over. We walked over and he had a hard hat on and orange vest.

“You got here fast.”

“Flew, now tell me what I need to do.”

“Pull up a wall so we can manage it, and then pull up another so we can then bolt them together.” I smiled seeing the factory a little ways away from the foundry, the factory was exactly as I had told them, it was a large box with glass skylines on top, painted with trees on the outside and fit in nicely to the surrounding area.

“Let’s do this then.” Pony stepped away from me as I walked over changing my size and easily lifting up the wall, putting it into place. Pony moved into place attaching metal beams to the side and then to large beams already attached to the ground.

We finished after an hour or two making another box building like the Factory, the shape itself wasn’t that great, but what it was made of would allow for skyscrapers over five stories tall easily, plus many other things, Skyscraper would be able to live up to his name.

I went into the foundry once they finished painting and smiled at three very large forges, they would pour molten metal into casts that passed under them on a ceramic belt. I could make anything I wanted and as large as I wanted to, I could remake my armor, which wasn’t even close to being repaired by my dolls. The stupid things wouldn’t know a re-forger if it bit them in the ass.

“How is it?” Skyscraper asked looking at the blueprints I had given him.

“Perfect, I just need to start everything up, move in a few things, and I can get started making weapons.”

“Oh here.” He gave me a list of name. “You might need workers to help you.”

“Nope, I already have them.” He paused as I gave it back. “All I needed was you building the structures, I’m going to be adding a lot of things, this was only the ground work. Machines are going to be doing most of the work after I make them myself.”

“I'll tell Fluttershy that we won’t be needing a payroll then.”

“Okay.”

“I guess this is goodbye then.”

“No, far from it.”

“What do you mean?”

“Your team did a splendid job, I'll need more buildings later. They might not be like these ones, but I will need them. I need a oil refinery, and several other buildings as well, an army is more than just weapons.”

“That’s great, tell Fluttershy and we’ll get on anything you need, your blueprints were amazing, you don’t mind me using the materials and other things for others do you? I mean, they would do a lot.”

“I don’t care, just no foundries like this.”

“Oh you don’t have to worry about that, this was, we don’t have a way of pulling the walls up. So this will be the only one we make unless it’s for you. Anyway, I'll be meeting you later on, and it was a pleasure doing business with you.” I nodded and he left.

All the workers left and I started working going for almost three month before finally stopping. Trixie looked at me with a sleeping Lilly on her back. Machines lined the walls and dolls worked on the line creating my weapons.

“Commander.” Spear said walking over to me. He paused seeing the dolls and I looked at him.

“Yes?”

“What are those things?”

“Dolls, what do you want?”

“Oh, well word from Applejack, they have beaten the list one through twenty six and are moving on to twenty seven.”

Every few days another army would attack, but they were small and hardly a threat. Applejack hadn’t lost a single soldier yet, extremely lucky, but as she won more battles she received more soldiers, we were nearing a ten thousand soldier mark, and ponies were starting to take notice, as well as every nation.

Equestria’s militarization was noticed by the world, and every nation was following suit building armies and weapons of their own. After the Goblin army victory, Princess Celestia was bowed to rather it was from fear or love.

“Good, how are the soldiers handling the new ships?” I had first built metal ships to patrol the waters with magic rail guns on their bows. They could punch a hole through a gravestone miles from the shore ninety percent of the time.

“Good, they easily sunk the Vesitle fleet in ten minutes.”

“Great.” In my world, we had a large land army, but it had taken many more years to even get close to this tech, and I had all the blueprints in my mind. There wasn’t a single navy on the planet able to stand against Applejack’s navy.

“Applejack is requesting you come back.” I looked at him.

“What, why?”

“Well they don’t know how to use the guns.” I looked at his armor, it was simple layered carbine fiber, with two guns on the sides on arms. “In fact no one does. I can’t figure out how to move them, no one can here, so it’s not just me.”

“Then I'll have to go and train them, send all soldiers back to home base. I'll do a mass teaching once I get back.”

“But then who will protect here?”

“My dolls, no one is going to attack, I have two ships with dolls patrolling so attacking here will be extremely hard.”

“You have dolls using ships?”

“Don’t think about it, just go.” He nodded leaving. I paused, I probably shouldn’t have said that. I had actually outfitted my own doll soldiers without any pony realizing it. I had a fleet almost the same size as Equestria. While it wasn’t any more powerful, if I needed to they could come in on a moment’s notice.

I sighed looking at Trixie, she had become a good pet, and seemed happy, but that only annoyed me more.

“Are we going?” Trixie asked.

“Yes.” We walked out of the factory getting onto a train. The Lich Disciples had yet to make a move, but they were getting close, I could feel it.

Author's Notes:

hahaha I know a few of you were cheering on Big Mac, he can kick some serious ass