Perfecting an art, you are a master. Learning an art is a whole other story. - JamesC

After his ‘brief conversation’ with Shining, Sun Tzu sets out to check if they have means of protection inside and outside their walls like escape tunnels, fortification, checkpoints, gates, weapons and generally anything that is built to expel and take hits.

He starts off with inspecting the walls first, a warlord and leader’s best friend for a defense; or offense for keeping trade routes at bay to starve a city, like the scene of Rome.

As he was inspecting the city walls, he sees no patrol whatsoever. He at least expects that there be another branch of guards guarding the walls, instead of the to-be-warriors at the Castle barracks. He runs off towards the front gate, in which the train tracks where located.

Sun Tzu wasn’t sure what to make of the iron railroad tracks and the oversized carriage, he only cares about the strength of the gate; in which he was soon disappointed with, again.

The gates looks as though it was rusted on the hinge, unable to be lowered again. The walls didn’t look as sturdy as Sun Tzu thought, so he began to test its limits until his disappointment or
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He could see cracks appearing just from the weight of his foot leaning on the cobblestone wall. Sun Tzu knows a few brick making techniques, but this is beyond aid. He could evidently improve the whole city if he showed Celestia the way of making sun baked bricks and might faint for not noticing the grave importance of having archs as an engineering marvel for underground tunnels and aqueducts; instead of using it as decoration for the capital.

Even the barbaric Romans knew the utmost importance of engineering marvels and military logic, if Celestia is as naive as a newborn child or a weak minded officer then she is unfit to even have Shining Armor as a the capital’s captain or even the Equestrian military.

He had heard, from Rainbow Dash, that Commander Hurricane was the head of the military branch; while Queen Platinum was the head of economical branch and Chancellor Puddington as the head of the agricultural branch of the United Tribes, or as known today as Equestria.

Sun Tzu was also informed by Twilight the many successful campaigns of Commander Hurricane and the several losses as well. The war he was most interested in was the: Gryphonic Wars and the Diamond Dog enclave.

He wasn’t as interested with the Dragon Wars, led by Celestia, which he knew from the start as an unsuccessful campaign and only served to anger the Dragon Union; which today is indifferent with the politics of Equestria and will thus refuse any and all requests and pacts with said country.

Sun Tzu was also informed of the wealthy country of the Griffon Pact, a government ruled by a Gryphon and a Hippogriff. The country was in a state of confederacy, with the Gryphons on the right and the Hippogriff on the left, pony historians argue that the Gryphons won and formed the Griffon Pact, but many of the Gryphons and Hippogriffs protest against it; stating that the Hippogriffs won and the Gryphons lost. The former stating it with pride.

But the most shocking thing he has ever heard, was the Canine alliances. The diamond dogs are, essentially, a group of canines. The diamond dogs can’t be defined as a single species, oh absolutely not. The diamond dogs themselves are a number of dogs, shepherds, Saint-Barknard, Bull and many other unnamed species. He had heard from Rarity their skill for digging and searching minerals.

He was definitely thinking of hiring these species to further aid Equestria, or ,more ambitiously, his own gain.

But, he will decide if he wants to head that road later. For now, he wants to see if Equestria was really worth taking over; if the neighboring countries all see Equestria as a force to be reckoned with, then he can also agree that conquering any country will be a waste of time.

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Meanwhile....

Adolf Hitler was busy inspecting a bar in Trottingham, figuring out the inferior language known as English.

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Nah, Adolf Hitler can completely understand English, as Fuhrer he would rather just find the nearest bar to further educate the necessity of economic importance. As he nears the bar, he groans at the accents of the ponies in his area.

His first time in Equestria was not as bad, he still had his trench coat and cap, and most importantly: his iron cross. Hitler won the Iron Cross for successfully delivering important intel from HQ to the trenches, in which the modern day front-lines was coined, where heavy machine gun barrages and artillery bombardment were most common.

He was an unsuccessful painter, which is why he stole art from various museums to safeguard in Berlin from various Allied bombings, and is why thousands of paintings are still waiting somewhere in Europe, preserved in an Axis bunker.

He didn’t bother asking Mussolini for the various Da Vinci paintings, already predicting his fall and then proceeding to ask the Florentines if they have the various paintings safeguarded from Allied raids or bombings.

He already prided himself with the Mona Lisa, placing it in his bathroom to contemplate it’s beauty. But, as an art historian which he secretly kept, knew the French King had hang a John the Baptist painting in his bathroom, but forgetting the need to preserve it; which had cost him the paintings beauty with his bath’s steam.

He placed a state-of-the-art glass in which to preserve the Mona Lisa from steam and outside contamination and had left it there to study.

Hitler knew the significance of the Mona Lisa’s popularity, and kept it guarded by one person: himself. He didn’t trust anyone with the successful painting, in which he deemed as beautiful as Eva Braun, his wife.

But, enough about himself. He needs to educate people of his special talent, economy.

It was economy that made the German depression seize and it was his idea of economy that drove the jews from their hiding place. He didn’t care for the muslims, as they were a great source for agriculture and food resource, and are great allies against the jewish population.

He prided himself with knowing the Olympic runner, Jesse Owens, and gave him a congratulations for his effort. He liked to see where a man’s determination may lead him, and here was a great example to show the American people that they should follow Jesse Owens determination to get rid of their depression.

Adolf entered the Trotting Mare, a fitting name. He was glad to find a stage in a corner, giving him an 180 degree view of the establishment. He walked towards the bartender, expecting him/ her to be the owner of the bar.

The bartender cast a glance towards the walking form of Hitler, expecting him to be a minotaur, the bartender drops his glass and heads towards the nearby shelves getting a bottle for the minotaur favorite: jagermeister.

“Herr, do you mind if I can use the stage for a while?” Hitler asked, using his self-taught charisma to his benefit.

The bartender was surprised. He expected this minotaur to be like any other bipedal species he’s met, demanding, rude and egocentric. But this one, was simply asking him politely if he can use the stage; which he rarely use: with a large number of any kind of stand ups decreasing in years.

“Yeah, sure, mate. You can definitely use the stage, is not like anypony uses it anyways.”

Hitler smiled and thanked the bartender, then headed towards the stage to rebel against the state.

Author's Note

Just a head up, I didn't edit this part so expect some faulty stuff! Now, the Hitler part was a last second adjustment: which was yesterday and I had to spend a lot of time researching on him. And expect some delays, think someone injected a malware or spyware on me. ;( Had a webcam problem and a Meatspin.com popped up on me....

Wish me luck!