A Displaced Lich

The royal airship that had fled from the battle of metal, as it was soon named by those flying the craft, slowly crash landed into a Canterlot airship dock much to the surprise of the guards there.

Royal guards stormed up to the crash to help with any wounded or in need of medical attention, before the captain of the ship rushed off to the throne room, and ignored the guards and burst in slamming the huge doors into the marble they where built into.

Princess Celestia's head shot up from the scrolls she was reading. "What is the meaning of this!?" She shouted at the captain.

Captain Dusk Shine bowed. "I am sorry your highness, but three of our royal airships where taken out by an airship far larger that our own, and the Griffin Isles have been taken by the griffins, they said that due to their new ruler 'The Lich King' we where to leave the island or be terminated, they held up to that threat your majesty."

Celestia's glare dropped and she frowned. "Griffin airships you say? that should be impossible due to the fact that griffins no longer have a kingdom, just lands in which they fight for things like water, food, and gold."

"I do not know your majesty, but these griffins where armed far better than any of our troops."

Celestia thought for a few moments before speaking. "You are on paid leave, go spend time off and relax, same for everypony else who was on that ship, they've earned it."

Dusk bowed and left the throne room, and Celestia thought about what he had told her, and summoned a scroll along with a jar of dragon fire, before writing a letter to the other rulers of the world.

Within hours the other leaders of the world where in a small meeting room, when I say small I mean about the size of a 7-11, Celestia spoke up.

"Princess Celestia, Ruler of Equestria." She sat down as the others continued on as per normal.

A diamond dog that looked like a breed of cane corso spoke up next, he sounded like someone from New York. "King Bonejaw, ruler of The Diamond Dogs." He sat down.

"King Golden Horns, Ruler of The Minotaur Islands." The seven foot tall minotaur sat down, causing the stone of his seat to crack some.

"Queen Kaliwa Ruler of Zebrica." Said zebra sat down and thus the meeting could take place.

"I have called you all here today because I think we might be on the verge of war with a new and powerfull kingdom." Celestia took a sip of water. "One that has automatic cannons and muskets, and airships that far outclass any we may have."

"How is that possible? what kingdom are we talking about?" Bonejaw spoke up, he didn't like the idea of a kingdom with better technology than his, if that was the case what would be able to stop said kingdom from raiding his city and his jems?

Celestia looked at the rest of those sitting at the table. "I know not what the kingdom is called, but it has made itself out of the ruins of the Griffin Kingdom, and has violently taken the Griffin Isles from Equestria and forced everypony on said islands to evacuate or die, from the reports I was given they had large metal ships that our enchanted stone cannon balls did nothing and shattered against the hull of the metal ship, along with an airship that is over six hundred hooves larger than our own ships."

The room fell quiet, if what Celestia was saying was true, then they might have to combine their forces in order to take this threat down if it becomes worse, along with the caribou sending threats to almost all kingdoms if they both teamed up it would be a large war, possibly as large as the Nightmare War that happend around a thousand and two hundred years ago.

As they talked about what they could do to stop a war from happening there where caribou airships where flying towards the Griffin Empire.

I had asked Prismo for a few hundred SEA-WIZ units, now for those who don't know what a SEA-WIZ is its an anti-air mini gun that you can find on most modern navy ships, it can automatically select a target and shoot it down, I had renamed it the AAMG or the Automatic anti-air Mini Gun, it has six 20 millimeter gun barrels that can shoot over three thousand rounds a minute and will automatically track and shoot air targets.

And right now they where aimed at a fleet of caribou airships, about two hundred ships, and they looked armed to the teeth in terms of this planets weapons, massive cannons and large bags of hydrogen that was lightly armored with thin iron plate...wait a second, taking a closer look I noticed the shape of a water cooled machine gun...holy shit they have maxim guns or something like them, the largest one, about two hundred feet long, slowly started landing near the castle, if things went wrong the anti-air units would be instructed to take down all hostile air targets.

I watched as it landed and twenty caribou guards dressed in bronze plate armor stormed out and guarded a caribou that looked much larger than the rest of them and also had on golden armor with a weird helmet with a red gem in the center of it, and did I forget to mention all these caribou where armed with what looked like bolt action rifles and from what I can see from here their airships have water cooled machine guns like the ones of world war one? unlike the flintlocks of every other kingdom as far as I knew, which also meant they could possibly have six shot or five shot revolvers, I still had my revolver and my two sawed off's on me loaded and ready to fire if needed.

The largest one was only a foot larger than the rest however, and eye height with me, he calmly walked up to me acting like he owned the place, and stopped in front of me. "I am Commander Steel Hooves, this land is now under caribou rule, any who try to fight will be killed and hung on pikes as a warning to those who try to face the might of the Caribou Empire." He pulled out a revolver, knew it, and aimed it at me, In turn my eyes flashed green and the world around him faded to black, only me and him were there.

"What black magic is this!?" He was turning in circles before he aimed his revolver at me again, I only laughed which seemed to piss him off as he let loose two shots into my chest, sadly for him Im undead in such a way that I don't have a brain for him to destroy like most modern zombies, the only way to 'kill' me would be for him to destroy my entire body, and even then I would be forced to invade a host body and take control over it if that did happen.

I had learned while testing my magic how to force my will upon someones mind like the Lich had done to the snail in Adventure Time, to everyone else his eyes were black with little white dots in the center, slowly I began walking towards him. "You are to go back to your king or whoever rules you and tell them this." I grabbed him by the throat and lifted him up. "The Griffin Empire is OFF LIMITS, or else I will hunt down every caribou in the world and laugh as they die by my hands and by the hands of my loyal griffins." I threw him to the ground giving the other caribou a chance to shoot at me, only for them to be shot by my griffin sniper units, that was the signal the AAMG's needed as they began to fire upon the caribou's airships, oh sure they fired back but the damage was minimal when you had mini guns unloading hot lead into them at a rate of over three thousand a minute, soon the battle, if you could even call that a battle, was over and my griffins where picking through the remains of the caribou's airships to see what kind of technology they had, if it was anything that could beat ours than it would be integrated into our defense systems.

From what I can gather these caribou are far more advanced than the ponies, minotaur, or diamond dogs, they had enfield bolt action rifle that fire .308 it seems to be the only rifle they have as I can't find any other rifles on the caribou or in the wrecks of their ships, said rifles holds ten rounds, and they also seem to have five shot revolvers that fire .45

Speaking of, their airships are far more advanced as well as they have a crude form of steel, which would explain their machine guns but due to it being crude means their weapons will wear down much faster than a normal rifle would, along with the fact they use black powder to fire their bullets and not smokeless like mine.

I had no information on the Changeling Empire whatsoever due to the fact they reside in the badlands, south east of my kingdom, and I wasn't sending scouts out due to me wanting to keep my presence in this world hidden just a little longer.

Seeing as the caribou had nothing that would benefit my empire, I had an idea, Equestria, and a great many other kingdoms used muzzle loading smooth bore muskets and flintlock pistols, yes that would be quite nice, Im going to have one of the ships repaired and ran by undead caribou to crash it into Canterlot, they should find all the ammo and other things and start producing them on their own, evening out the playing field, as its no fun to just instantly kill your opponent in combat.

With a quick word to Prismo one of the ships was back into the condition it was in before my AAMG's unloaded round after round of lead into it, and with a quick burst of my magic the crew of the ship was back to manning it, aside from the green glow and holes in there bodies they looked like normal caribou, and only had one goal, cause as much death as possible to Canterlot.

I grinned watching it fly off into the distance, also picking through the ruins of other ships revealed all airships ran off a engine that used crystal sugar as fuel, so that would explain why there was never any exhaust from their ships engines aside from a small bit of steam, they where using fucking sugar as fuel.

With a quick wave of my hand the large caribou who had died due to sniper fire, rose back to his hooves, his eyes filled with a sickly green glow and emotionless, before he took a one person airship, it was very simple, a small basket with a lever for up and down and one for left and right, and a button to make the engine move forward, the gas bag was just tied on with duct tape and simple rope and it only had enough fuel to make it to the Caribou Empire's capital, they resided to the south near the snowy areas of the south.

Watching the small airship fly off I sat back on my throne, soon the world would know of me and my empire, and that no one would fuck with me and live.

It was six hours later that the House of Rulers meeting came to an end, but as they where all getting ready to leave Canterlot's air raid alarm bells began going off, indicating that Canterlot was under attack by air.

Royal guard pegasi armed with muskets with a bayonet attached to the ends flew into the air to see, only a single airship shooting into the city and dropping fire bombs, flying in close they took aim, and fired, only 50 yards away they were within the brown bess muskets killing range and managed to hit three of the four caribou manning the guns before the last was stabbed through the neck by a bayonet, the green glow in their eyes dying with their bodies.

The ships where searched and landed before they where studied, abit this would take a month before Equestria would be able to create their own and share the plans with the other kingdoms after checking that everything worked as it was supposed to.

Sitting all day on a throne was boring, least I had angry birds to keep me entertained on that phone Prismo gave me, just as I had finished killing the 7th level of pigs in flying machines there was a blue flash of magic as a scroll landed in my lap.

Opening it I was being invited to the Changeling Empire to the blue hive by someone named Queen Seelii, seems I have someone who wants be an ally, welp I guess I'll accept as I have nothing better to do, says to be there tomorrow at noon.