A Mess of Titanic Porportion

Damn you Mason. Now I have to fix the economy, restart the industry, get the farms going again, and balance the military budget. work work work. I looked up to a clock, 1:34 AM, There goes my sleep. I need coffee. I started to head to the kitchen, on the other side of the throne room. as I got to the throne room, I saw mason still on the throne. Wonder if he's asleep or in thought. I quietly moved through to the kitchen. took the coffee maker, and headed back to my room.

"Not neglecting your sleep, are you Kenny?" I walked back just staring at him all the way past. And walked back to my room. After many hours of caffeine filled work, I meandered back to the kitchen for food. As I once more passed the throne room, I saw mason, still hasn't moved. "Mornin' Kenny." I nodded in acknowledgement and continued to the kitchen. In the kitchen, there were a few cooks making breakfast, I took a couple loafs of bread and a pie and headed back to my room. this time, mason stayed quiet, with his eyes closed.

"So, whats on the agenda today?"

"Besides hiring help?" he responded, eyes still closed, "Screen the candidates you found, reset the economy, ensure enough food is distributed, watch the sky's, and do what you've taken on your plate. That would be the end of things for you. I also have to deal with court in addition to all that."

"At least you don't have to screen the candidates."

"And you don't have another consciousness to keep track of." touché. Well, lets get this day started, go screen the candidates, and go find shining star.

"oh, and Kenny." Hmmm? "Get your shrink machine working, please."

"Alright, you are... stoic defender" Really? "You were a guard befor sombra took over correct?"

"Sir, Yes sir!" If anything could describe this pony, it would be military for life. Well, lets test him. My ROTC days should help with this.

"We're just going to run some tests, go stand over there." I point towards the right wall, and he... marches all the way over. This will be a long day.

Resetting the economy, was not an easy job. I started by gathering everyone with even the most basic on economics to veteran business... ponies? Why did it have to be this show? I wonder how mason is doing?

Stamp. Stamp. Stamp. Stamp.  Stamp. Stamp. Really having second thoughts about this whole king business.

He's probably fine. So, the bit will have the equivalent worth of the American dollar. Wonderfull.

Farming, not my forte, but it needs to be done. "So, are you ready to begin distribution?"

"MmmHmm, n' HayYaw! We gon' do dis thuf rit now MmHmm. Les go Mr prim' Min'ster."

"Uhhh, yes, lets go." Extreme Country dialect, thankfully, I'm adept.

I walked through the empire looking up at the sky, occasionally telling the ponies that walked past me to "Watch the skys, traveler" Don't know what possessed me to say that, but I did.

I was walking back to the castle grumbling to myself about food. Its been a long day and I couldn't wait for dinner. My thoughts trailed back to mason, the poor sod's still got a couple hours of court left. I was about to launch into another mental round of grumbling when one of the guards ran up to me.

"Pri- Primme Mini-Minister" He was panting so hard he could barely speak.,

"Breath soldier, what's wrong?"

"Yes sir, There are strangers at the gates!" I looked at the sky, and yelled... internally. Seriously, what did I do to deserve this?!

Major Murphy, Sir Someone just asked what could go wrong! Permission to press the red button!

My god, Permission granted.

Screw being mister nice guy. "Alright, where are they?"

"this way sir"

I walked/stomped my way to the gate to get this business over with. likely the empire will be experiencing a mini-earthquake for the time being. When I got to the gate, there were about eight ponies there, and I recognized all of them. "State thy name and business... please!"  one of them stepped foreword.

"I am Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, And I am the rightful ruler of this empire, stand down and you will not be harmed!" Is she serious? "We know that You are being controlled by sombra, fight his influence! His will is not yours!"

"My will is my own. And by the way, He's dead." They were shocked for a moment.

"Then where is the crystal heart? if he is dead, where is it?" Crystal heart... oh.

"Princess, I have more important things to worry about than a simple jewel." One of them, you can guess which one, flew up to my face.

"How dare you speak to the princess that way! I oughta teach you some manners!"

"Rainbow dash! Get back down here!' I couldn't see which one said that.

"I got my eyes on you, bub!" she slowly descended, glaring at me all the way down.

"now that your business here is done, what are you going to do now?" The pretty pink princess stepped forward again.

"I am The rightful Ruler of the crystal empire, I am here to retake my throne... please?" So NOW its all please and thank you, do these ponies have no shame?

"Well, your going to have to talk to the new king and I about this then." Then purple smart came forward.

"What do you mean, new king?"

"The peop - ponies have elected new leaders."

"You mean like, a democracy? But, That wouldn't work, no one would agree on anything and nothing would get done!"

"Depends. Follow." I commanded.

The walk to the castle was surprisingly simple, even though Twilight was constantly pestering me about everything. "Guards, take them to a room, we'll talk tomorrow." I quickly turned away and started to climb to the balcony. Again! Once I got there, I saw mason in the midst of court, still. He was smashing his head into a large crystal while the pony was talking about taxes. I whistled for his attention. The pony, once again coved their ears.

"I'm not a dog" He gestured to signal court ending. "So Kenny, what's up. A lot of ponies were saying 'Watch the sky's traveler'. You wouldn't have anything to do with that, would you?"

"First, yes my fault. Second, we got a large headache, eight of them." He groaned in response. "Well, look art the bright side, they are going to be suffering with us together."

"Kenny, go get some sleep"

"Walking" to the throne room sucked.

"Morning Kenny" I nodded to him. "ready for the big day?"

"Nope!" I say with a fake smile.

"that's what I like to hear!" He said with the same smile. After a few minutes, the guards walked in with the six mares and one stallion. "Kenny, I thought you said there was eight?"

"I did." to their credit, even the guards looked surprised.

"Fuck!' just then about a ton of confetti exploded all over the room. I looked towards mason direction and saw his face twitching slightly, before hitting his head.

"Um, sorry about pinkie shes-" She was cut off.

"HII'MPINKIEPIEWHOAREYOUDOYOULIKECUPCAKESIDIDN'TGETACHANCETOTHROWAPARTYFORYOUBUTICANNOWWHATWOULDYOULIKEOOOICANMAKEITASUPRISEPARTYBUTICANTDOTHATIFYOUKNOWABOUTITSO-" Her tirade was cut off as the guards pulled her away. I looked back to mason who was twitching again, his hand squeezing his armrest and trying to move towards his mace.

"...Ahem, anyway, My name is Princess Mi Amore Cadenza and this is my husband shining armor, and I am the rightful ruler of this empire. I appreciate what you have done for it, but I ask that you would abdicate the throne. lets be honest, what do you actually know about ruling over ponies?"

"Interesting offer, I'm going to have to say... no."

"Well I'm glad we could reach a- wait, what? what do you mean no?"

"I mean, no. I will not abdicate the throne" This is about the time where I step in.

"What my-" I was cut off, what is it with these ponies and cutting people off, by a rainbow blur racing towards mason. Before I can even move, there was a large crack and screaming. I rubbed my eyes and saw rainbow dash on the ground, clutching her hooves, and screaming her lungs out.  I looked back towards mason to see his head slightly flung back, though he pulled it back seemingly fine.

"That's a broken coffin bone, navicular bone, and proximal sesamoids, and who knows how many fractures." I looked towards the princess and a slow realization came over her face.

Political shitstorm.