Rise of the Imperial Pony Empire

Location: Arthrenia, city streets IPE

A few days of getting ready and cleaning the keep, they were ready to meet the Ruler of the Solar Empire. All Troopers in the IPE were told to stand down unless provoked to let Celestia into the Capital.

Rose was standing with Fury next to her as well as the Mayor, with the Royal Guards beside them. They wait in quiet for Celestia and her escort to enter the through the gates of the city to the Keep. The citizens of the city wait along the road to there, watching the gate carefully for her.

Finally, the sound of a guard of the great gates of the city cries out for the opening of it. All chatter that has been, ended as the grand gates open. Its sound echoing through the city in the quiet streets lined with ponies watching.

Celestia, upon the gate being fully open, enters with her Guards behind her scanning the city for dangers. She looks strait ahead to the Keep, where Rose and company sit overlooking and watching her from the balcony. The city remains quiet as she passes through to the Keep, thankfully. The walk to the Keep from the gates was a good 5 minutes. She arrives at the steps to greet Rose and Fury there. She starts her way up them with two guards on each side.

Rose nods, "Celestia."

She nods back, "Empress BlackRose."

Rose turns with Fury to enter the Keep along with Celestia and her guards following close behind. The Doors slam shut blocking all sound from the outside.

Location: Arthrenia Keep meeting room.

The meeting room in the Keep was rounded. It had 4 doors one to each other part of the place other than the one they just came through. It had a dome roof with a spiraling-like artwork on it. The room floor was a shining marble a light brown as its main color. It was also circular, if you had not figured it out yet, with desks set up near the middle with a podium in the dead middle facing out from the entrance door toward the desks around it. At the top or front of the place opposite of the entrance, sits a Throne of red and bronze.

Rose enters and sits in the Throne as Fury takes her side. She motions for Celestia to sit in a desk. She heads over and sits in one to the left of Rose with the guards behind her. She sit patiently and looking at Rose like she is studying her. Rose was doing so in turn.

Sighing Rose starts, "Well are we just going to inspect each other or are we going to chat?"

Celestia nods, "Let's start off with why did you attack us?"

"A good topic, I'd say. We attacked you because well, we needed more land. We would have offered a letter but, Fury here got heavily offended by your troops." she says pointing a hoof at him.

"I am sorry about that, do you still have the letter?" she asks calmly.

"Indeed we do." Fury answers before Rose and orders one of the Guards to retrieve it. The guard returns later with it in his grip. Fury takes it from him and thanks him quietly before passing it to Celestia.

She scans it over reading before responding, "This offer.... is crazy." she says putting it down on the desk in front of her. "You demanded for all of the Solar Empire's west coast....but then again, you already have it." She mutters under her breath, "From war."

Rose heard it as she said it and responds, "Well it would have been more easier than by letter plus, it would have led to war anyway if you had declined it."

Celestia nods in understanding, "That does make sense though, But could you have sent it another way?" she asks.

"We could have but we wanted to keep ourselves a hidden nation till you responded, and the roads were dangerous, due to sitting right on the boarder of the NLR." Rose states.

"I could understand the second reason, but the first, no. May I ask why?" she says

"Well..." Rose thinks putting a hoof on her bottom jaw, "We like to be hidden from the world till now."

"So now you all are revealing yourselves?" She says lifting a brow.

"Yes, we are now."

They kept chatting for hours till a certain pony came in. The cloaked figure enters the hall and all goes silent as he walks over to Rose. Rose watches him come to her and prepares to remove his cloak. Celestia and her guards go instantly on alert once the figure took it off. It was not a pony, but a changeling. His coat was not of a normal changeling color of black, but gray along with all the rest of his body save for his wings and eyes. His horn was not holed like others but still curved and was gray like the rest of him.

"My Empress I have returned from the NLR." he says giving a scroll to Rose.

"Good, you may rest here now, Tryx." she remembers Celestia, "Oh! calm down he won't hurt us." she says.

"Are you sure?" Celestia says weary, only to get a nod from Rose. "Alright, stand down." she tells her guards as well as she sits back down.

As Tryx leaves the room to another part of the Keep, Rose looks back to Celestia, "He is a half changeling." she states. "He is both pony and Changeling if you are wondering what I mean by that."

"Fascinating, never heard of one like this." she says.

Rose nods, "Of coarse you would say that not many are known."

"Hmp." Celestia crosses her hooves on the desk in front of her. "So, anything else?" she asks.

"Well, we could go tom peace and work together versus the NLR." she suggests.

Celestia nods, "Hmm, yes that is a good idea."

"Great!" Rose beams, "When do you hope to attack?" she asks leaning on the desk in front of her as well.

"Hmm well, in the next few days we will attack them near our boarder. You can attack on your front to help us." Celestia says.

"That's a swell idea, they won't know what hit them!" Rose says smiling.

Celestia smiles in kind, "Shall we make preparations?"

"Yes, let's do so." Rose waves out a scroll and writes down a few things before passing it to Celestia. "This is a military pact it indicates that we are to work together in armies and they cannot attack one another." she states.

"Sounds good." she says looking down and reading it before signing it on the bottom next to Rose's name. When she finishes she gives it back to Rose who looks over it before nod affirmation and lays it on the desk.

"We have done great work here, don't you agree?" she says looking back at Celestia.

"Yes we will stop them and reunite Equestria together. One condition, if you see Luna on the battlefield, you are not to hurt her but try to capture her and bring her to me alright?" she says.

Rose nods, "Of coarse." She gets up from her throne as well as Celestia and they meet at the door. They both smile to each other before opening it to the crowd of ponies waiting.

Location: Arthrenia streets outside of Keep

The ponies were quiet as the rulers came out of the Keep. They had all gathered around the entrance only the guards of the IPE kept them from going farther than the steps. The two rulers, fully outside and on top of the steps, kept a emotionless face as they both looked out over the crowd. Fury was next to Rose with somewhat of the same face as them.

Finally, they looked at each other before giving a swift nod and turning back to the crowd.

Celestia beams, "We are united!" she exclaims.

Cheers sprang up from the crowd of ponies gathered there and the whole city was throwing streamers somehow, the hats were understandable but the streamers came from nowhere. Both Rose and Celestia were smiling happy with the alliance with the two nations.

Rose however was more smirking than smiling.

Celestia moves down the steps after shaking Rose's hoof for one final time. She heads down the street among the cheering ponies with her guards flanking her smiling and waving, till she reaches the gates and leave the city to head back to Canterlot. The gates close again once she left.

Rose was smiling at her victory, her plan was coming nicely.