The sparks of lightning beneath the armor fascinated me, the visual effect of the protective field work was simply pribluda, but so beautiful: it inflicted horror in hundreds as well as my midnight blue armor. The bright sparks flashed and immediately faded in the darkness of my apartments, I watched every flash on the mirror in front of me, looking into my own reflection. I do not know how it happened.

Here I am.

Alone in the dark.

Alone with yourself.

They are right, and I do not need their words to understand this. I do not need someone else's opinion to understand that here I'm wrong. But why, the one on whom I look, rested like an earthen in his farm?

Ebony breathes in my back. Not literally, but I know her opinion. I must apologize, and change ... so want ... Princess.
An infoplanet that I wanted to crush a couple of minutes ago with a characteristic "jin" informed me of a message from Prince Sanguinis. The captain of the first company of the Lunar Pony, our leader, direct and formal. After the Princess of course. The note was simple: "Brother, you need to talk."

I gently nodded at the signal. I did not have much desire to do this - Sanguinis even belongs to the ruling dynasty, but I always served only the moon, not him, and he is inclined to forget about it. The message is "informal" - he wants to tell me something not as a captain of the first company, but as a thunderhead:

"I welcome you, Valdés, I believe you have already begun to execute the orders in the manner you are fully committed to, and I can only wish you good luck and hope that you do not blunder again, regardless of the results of this company, I invite you to the Agrentum Lunas for your return to Canterlot.
End of transmission. "
Agrenthum to the Moons. He invites me ... to Agrenthum Lunas ... The sacred ritual of the ruling dynasty is the glorious rule of the princess ...

What for?

However, you need to write down the answer.
-" I am glad to hear your voice, Prince Sanguinis, I gladly accept your proposal, "-
no excitement, no joy - just a caustic lie, but nevertheless I had to say it. But now ... I need to solve an urgent issue, I had to undermine the chain ...

***

So he, the day when we should leave, Fleur gathered her Blades into an honor guard, and Soarin brought part of his company as regular units, despite the domination of pegasus in the Trade Union, I was the diplomat, and Soarin had the brains to not get into this with her feathers, the case is given to the skin-wings, and it is better for him to keep quiet.
"You do not go white and black, Valdes"
She noted Fleur with telekinesis adjusting her mane, it's a bit risky to do it for such a trifle, but the knuckles on the armor were always the dirtiest part of it.
Despite all my love for being clothed at midnight, this is really unsuitable. had to be changed to the color gamut of the entire legion, white and black.
The clouds on which Las Pegasus was located were close enough to the mountain range, it seemed to have been higher before, but it seems that it was lowered for access to the terrestrial ground, it was significantly, much larger than in the old photos, becoming an autonomous city, and not a resort with a lot of casinos and hotels, and despite this, these same casinos have not gone anywhere. Despite the fact that day and night began to behave more chaotically, they were still moving at about the same pace, because arriving at noon we knew how much time we would have, the Trade Union did not want us to stay armed for a long time in their territory, and we will be damned by Tartarus if we allow ourselves to be so.
We were greeted with fanfare and a red carpet, if I may say so. we were met not so many pegasas, mostly local guards, mercenaries griffins and minotaurs and a whole seneschal of the Avalos family, the current representatives of the Union, and I'm not surprised that she shivered towards me, it was a raspberry medium growth that rested against my chest , but, at least she did not lose her composure in speech.
- House Avalos welcomes the Equestrian Ambassador and wishes the best to the Princesses.
- The Kingdom of Equestria is pleased to see its friends and hopes for fruitful cooperation.
She did not seem to have expected me to bow to her, but nevertheless she waved the wing and ordered the guards and mercenaries to reconfigure to accompany them, even though the city still lives, we are given the opportunity to go through without complications.
I've been to Las Pegasus before the war, just a couple of times and basically I've been moving along the roofs, but this place has always had a bad place for those who like luck, and for those who want to lose everything that it has, it would seem a long isolation and survival had to change the mood of the inhabitants of the city, but no, closer to the center it was still a place of debauchery and revelry, solid casinos and several brothels, and they also managed to call the "town hall" of the casino of the richest clan, they also pass it on depending from wealth and influence. If there is a conflict, we will crush them faster than they realize that they actually began to attack.
The whole delegation marched in the exact construction of the roar of armor drawing the attention of the whole street. With all our appearance we demonstrated to these jokers that the Equestrian power was back. and the dissenters will have to deal with us.
The central entrance to the building was guarded by a pair of minotaurs, by the eye I felt that there were only two of them, well-equipped, with similar traits to the pupil and teacher, relatives are not to each other, the elder has a blind zone on the left side, a bandage on the eye, however both belong to the same community, the tattoos on the right shoulder are identical, they represent a crossed anchor, they pointedly removed the hammers from the door allowing us to go inside, it seems the younger one was trying to peer into my eyes.
Inside Dyskord was going on, understand that we passed through the main hall to the second floor without incident to the meeting room, but even here the wine was pouring and I thought I could smell medical preparations that were not being used for the intended purpose. although fortunately, the Scars with the Blades, as well as the guards and mercenaries of the griffins, fought off their ardor and a group of ponies of varying degrees of moral decay left the room driven by flapping wings. There are only five pegasuses left and a young stallion at the head of the table is stretched out in his chair and revealing hoofs and wings greeted us warmly.
- Finally! We are already waiting for you, and this I'm talking about the whole situation, not to mention specifically you! Tell me, how are the Princesses? How is Canterlot? Will life return to its rut? Ah, and my name is Cloudstern, how can I contact you?
I can understand his joy. but I can not understand what he hopes, considering that his sugary joy he will convince me that he is glad of our arrival.
- The Equestrian throne sends you its greetings, asks for forgiveness and rejoices that you could survive the Long Night, and also hopes that you will help restore Harmony to our lands. You can call me just Valdez.
I will be honest, I was told by Fleur, I certainly distort them, but I understood the essence of her text perfectly. Adhere to decency, a positive tone and do not press on your opponent. However, I definitely cooled his joyful fervor, I saw exactly how he glanced at the commander of the griffins hoping that I would not notice.
- Yes Yes! Of course! What is required of us?
"To begin with, I would like to learn and convey to the princess the causes of direct slavery to unicorns and the semi-slavish attitude to the earth ponies, as well as the reason for the domination of Pegasus in the class question, now this is the primary question.
He sat down on a chair, but quickly enough he thought of how to explain their behavior, the rest of the pegasus exhaled fears looking at the Blades, and one of the mares could not take my eyes off my chains that were wrapped and locked on locks on my front hooves.
"Necessity, my friend." Earth ponies and unicorns could not cope without our protection, in exchange they worked, honor to honor, everything as before!
In this dialogue, I still could not understand for whom he thinks me.
- And yet! I would like to ask you a couple of questions, will not you?
I nodded, I do not want to exchange notes with him, it's useless.
"Why ... do you look that way?" Honestly, when we only saw you thought that the princesses themselves came to us, are you alicorn? Princesses turn everyone into alicorns?
- No, we are Thunder Ponies, even if we look like we are not deceiving you, that we are like alicorns, it is a genetic coincidence, and also the genetic relationship of all of us with the Luna and Celestia.
Several Pegasus looked at each other in astonishment.
"So ... are we talking to the Prince now?"
- Brad of an ass! It can not be!
I cut off the mare which, a moment ago, I was staring at his question without worrying about propriety, at the same time I wanted to kill him, although from a certain point of view he was right.
- No, we do not have the right to rule, we are warriors, improved and prepared to liberate our world.
This was already a quote from the Codex, not the text of Fleur.
"Well ... in any case, what is required of us at the moment?" And what is more important for us ... what will we receive from returning to the fold of Equestria?
- You ask a strange question, you need to release the unicorns and earthly slaves from slave labor, accept the Royal Law and you will receive the protection of Equestria, and everything will return to its own places.
- Just like Nocturne got protection?
This question knocked me out of the rut, and my interlocutor smiled with a victorious smile, it was very strange, first of all how he learned about it, in the second turn ... it could hit hard on our authority.
- Nocturne was a special case and ...
- I understand, however, how do you explain your actions? Nocturne was our trading partner, and I do not like when my partners disappear.
I did not know that. I missed it like, it's very bad. And maybe the problem was not that.
- Nocturne was a special case of a blatant violation of the Royal Law and concealed it, when he was called to answer, he responded with an insult.
- Do you want to say that you destroy all who do not agree with you?
It can be said that the day fell through with a bang.
"You can say that, but Las Pegasus does not break it as much, free the ponies, hand over the technology for recycling and return to the Kingdom, all that we ask of you.
He lit a cigar, peering at the ceiling.
- I think this is all for today, I ask the Royal delegation to leave this building, and SkyBreeze, then send us our mares, we will continue from the same place where we finished.
This was a blatant impudence, but the reorganization of the Scars and Blades into the guard hinted to me that if I now strip this scum along with his retinue, no one will openly say "thank you" for this.
"We'll come back, CloudShart, I hope future discussions will be more productive."

Author's Note

The chapter was written a long time ago and the translation would take a little time, if something that replaces my cranium did not try to squeeze my brains out. I apologize for this delay, but the new one will probably be even more, because as of yet that's all there is, and a new chapter will appear still unknown when.
Excuse me.