Chapter 4: The initial reaction

We had just walked in the doors when suddenly I was surrounded by guards. They had what seemed to be 3 regiments there for me!

Suddenly a blue Alicorn walks through the guards to me and asks, “What are you? Where do you come from?”

I respond with, “I am a human and I come from Earth.”

“Ok what are you doing here?”

“I came to talk to a leader here about somethings I need to acquire.”

“Ok start talking.”

“If you don’t mind I’m not hostile.”

“Sorry, It’s just things normally are quiet at night so we assumed.”

“It’s ok.” The guards left and she lead me to a room behind the thrones. We then entered and we sat down. The room was really plain.

“Ok so what were you here about?” she asked

“Ok, I have quite a few requests” I responded

“Ok what are they?”

I proceeded to pull out my list. Now my list is really long it is about a foot long.

“Ok first is diplomatic immunity.”

“No”

“Ok then let me explain it is only for the duration if this list so that I’m not arrested for anything that I say.”

“Ok”

“Second where is the cheapest land around here?”

“The badlands why?”

“If you don’t mind I would like to buy the badlands than.”

“You do realize it is about 1million bits right?”

“How much is that in gold, or platinum?”

“About 6 tons of platinum. why?”

“You’ll see shortly. Ok next where are the badlands?”

“They are directly south of Equestria, it is a desert.”

“Perfect, now all I need is permission to build a rail line to every major city in Equestria and to most minor towns.”

“There is already rail lines running between every city and town in Equestria. Why do you want another?”

“Freight and high speed”

“Who will fund it?”

“Me”

“How?”

“You will see shortly”

“Ok”

“Next, how large are the badlands?”

“They take up 300,000,000 acres”

“Perfect, can I have a map of the Badlands and Equestria?”

“Sure”

“This going really well, ok now I need you to come outside with me.”

“What for?”

“I need to show you something.”

We then proceeded to walk outside to where my truck was parked. When we got there Luna asked, “What is this?”

“This is a truck”

“Wow it the size of one of our trains”

“Wow then your trains our very small, the ones I’ll be running for freight are 1-5 miles long”

“Those are some long trains”

“Yes they are we will be able to transport some 3,000,000-30,000,000 tons of material at a time”

“What will they be transporting?”

“Grain, food, raw materials. Oh and do you mind if I run my land like It’s, Its own country?”

“No why”

“You’ll see why later, but now to show you how I’m going to pay for this”

“Ok, you have me interested”

“Good now is there any way I could park something inside the castle walls?”

“Yes there is a rear entrance for carriages.”

“How big is it?”

“About 50’ x 100’”

“Perfect meet me there in 20 minutes”

“Ok”

I then proceeded to go down the line of trailers until I reached the one with the gold in it and the one with platinum in it. I unhooked the trailer behind the platinum and walked back to the truck, pulled forwards unhooked the trailer in front of the gold trailer (the order was gold the platinum) and pulled the truck forwards some more and unhooked the trailer behind the truck and hooked up to the gold trailer. I then drove around to the back of the castle. And I unhooked the platinum trailer and back the gold into the clearing and then the platinum. This took me 15 minutes. After these 15 minutes I went to the gate that I had come through to get here and closed it.

After all this was done Luna walked up.

She then asked, “ok why did you want to come back here?”

“Because those trailers people would kill for.”

“Dang, what’s in those?”

“I’m going to show you. Also If this is not enough I may need a loan.”

“Ok”

I walked around to the back of the trailer and got ready to open the door and I asked, “How much is platinum and gold worth in this country?”

“Raw or refined?”

“Refined”

“1000 bits an ounce for gold, and 10,000 bits and ounce for platinum”

I then opened the trailers. And her jaw dropped

“How did you get all of this?”

“I was the last of 5 people on my world and this is about what I could find before I left.”

“So you stole it”

“No the people who owned it were dead and I was the last one on the continent”

“Wow this will pay for the land but not the rail lines”

“No problem those I will pay for from the land”

“Are you saying you’re going to farm the badlands?”

“Yes I am, and yes I will”

“The badlands are completely infertile”

“I will fix that, actually how far are the badlands from a major source of water”

“About 300 miles”

“Perfect, I can build a pipe”

“Ok so you have the badlands what else do you want or need?”

“I need a contract with Equestria to export things to you”

“Done”

“Then that is all except for 2 things, I need to break off my land from your land”

“Why?”

“Because I need my own laws and so I can deal with my own problems. On top of the fact that the tax on 30,000,000 tons of produce is really, really high.”

“True, so done then”

“Ok, then the only other thing I need is for enough funding to purchase the raw materials to build a rail line between here and Canterlot”

“Wait actually you have enough to do the raw materials for all of your rail lines but not enough for labor”

“Oh well all I need is raw materials; labor will be my problem. Actually that is why I need to separate my land from this country. I need to make deals to other countries and sources for labor”

“Ok”

After that I went to the library because apparently twilight had broken off from me at some point. Naturally I found her reading a book.

“Twi” I called out

“Yes”

“You ready to go?”

“I guess” she replied, “did you get what you needed?”

“Yep, I now own my own country that consist of the badlands”

“Wow”

“Yah, now if you don’t mind I’ll be in the truck waiting”

“Ok be there in 10 minutes”

Author's Note

Really bad but eh it's up.