I sighed to myself as I stared at the ceiling of the library its mural of the moon and stars was beautiful. That was something I had to give these ponies while their military had sucked they were excellent craftsmen and workers able to make incredible works of art. Looking down at the wineglass I held in one of my tails I had to admit they made great fucking wine to.

It had been a week since I had taken over the crystal empire and I had improved their military and economy drastically. The blacksmith Hard anvil had been a miracle worker, in three days she had created armor for the entire guard that was exactly like mine and had made twenty experimental muskets. The muskets were where things had gotten difficult. Although it had led me to the discovery of something wonderful.

In the pony food chain earth ponys controlled the ground, pegasi the weather and unicorns were the masters of magic. Crystal ponies however did not fall under any of these. They were the masters of enchantments. The crystals that made up the empire were perfect for holding magic, with this knowledge anvil had found a substitute for black powder and reinforced the barrel with almost a dozen different enchantments allowing for better aim and power and I had found a new box to think out of.

I myself had improved tremendously over the week that I had been ruling I had made hundreds of new spells and could do basic sealing which I had found was kind of like enchanting but more versatile and less time consuming. My armor was now reinforced by both seals and enchantments thanks to miss anvil and my skills with my spear could best be called adept.

I had also found that the empire was stuck in a time loop/dimension thingy and according to my research it was supposed to end today which was what led to me sitting in the middle of the library floor inside of a book fort. Turning to look at the time I realized that it was time for afternoon court my least favorite time of the day.

Walking down the hall I glanced out the window and to the city below. The streets were bustling with hundreds of ponies looking closer towards the bottom of the castle I watched as the ponies built the first building that would be built on my command. It was a temple to Inari, it had been rather easy to get the ponies to worship her. Inkheart had seen me carve a shrine to her in my boredom and had asked about it.

Upon learning that I had god/goddess he had asked about her, not four hours later it had spread to the rest of the populace. Then they learned about said god’s connection to foxes and all hell broke loose. Apparently, the crystal empire had already revered foxes as that was how they had figured out what was edible on the ice plains and had followed their example of using the snow as shelter.

I had used this to my advantage by changing the empires symbol to that of fox which was shown as it was on the throne room doors as I walked through them. Sitting down on my newly built throne I waved to the guards to let in the first petitioner. While court was not my favorite time of day it was certainly interesting. The nobles had immediately tried to seize as much power for their respective family’s as they could. They had left said courtroom with less.

The first pony to walk in was a reddish black stallion with a chest piece cutiemark. The stallion walked forward before bowing. “Your majesty I am quickwit I’m a tactician for the guard I’ve come before you today to ask for funds in order build a wall around the crystal empire. While the barrier around the empire has proven to help it has been bypassed too many times to be relied on anymore.”

Looking down at the pony I realized with a frown that he was right. “You may be on to something, yes you shall receive both the funds and the workers you need to build your wall. And while your building I would like you to mount defenses upon the walls. Talk with the castle blacksmith about something called punt guns and that I ordered her to make some for the gate.”

Quickwit looked confused but nodded his head and left, I was about to call for the next pony but with a large flash the castle shook and I suddenly felt a wave of magic sweep over me. Jumping off the throne I rushed towards the window.

Looking across the city I searched for anything that wasn’t there before. It didn’t take me very long to find said thing, it was a mountain there wasn’t supposed to be a mountain just white. The crystal empire was no longer stuck inside the pocket dimension timeloop thing that Sombra put it in.

It took almost three hours to get all the ponies to calm down, after explaining what had happened to the local populace. I had been walking back to the throne room when Inkheart decided to talk. “Your majesty”?

“Inkheart what did I tell you about titles while in private. Just call me Jinx when were alone.” My whiskers twitched, I was really starting to find this title bullshit annoying.

“Sorry, Jinx, anyways I kind of well, who are you? I mean I know your name and species and that you’re now the ruler of this kingdom. What I want to know is why are you here what’s your past like, who are you as a person.”

Huh that’s not what I had expected him to ask. But what should I tell him, no that wasn’t the right question. I know what I’m going to tell him. What I should be worried about is how he’s going to react.

“well ink, I guess I should start off by saying I’m not from this dimension, I was originally born on a planet named earth, in a country called America. I had a large family and we were quite poor. Of course, my childhood sucked because of my autism. I didn’t quite feel emotions the same way as others. Made it hard to make friends. Someone could murder someone else in front of me with a spoon, and while all the other kids would be screaming I would simply wonder why a spoon as it’s an incredibly inefficient murder weapon. I eventually went to college actually got a degree in both history and biology after that I decided that I would open a herbal remedy shop in japan. Named it the vixen’s brew and ran it for the next eight years before a Japanese god decided to punt me across dimensions for shits and giggles.”

Looking back at ink I almost busted my gut laughing then and there but managed to keep it to myself. Inkheart was staring at me like I had just proclaimed that I was an alien from another world coming to take over, oh wait I was.

“Any questions”

Author's Note

this is what the flag of the crystal empire looks like this is a punt gun