A Displaced Lich

I looked out the window of the small plane that was flying me to the Changeling Empire, why not a royal airship you might ask? it's a waste of resources and time to fit one with things I have no real need for, such as a queen sized bed or a bar, things like that have no place in an airship unless more than one person was sharing the bed.

As we flew into the Changeling Empire I noticed something, they had biplanes, they looked to be a SE5A biplane, like the ones the British used in world war one, then again I did see the wrecks of those kinds of planes within the hulls of some of the caribou airships, so this did not surprise me much.

The biplanes tried to catch up to our two seat mustang, but were unable to do so due to the pure speed and power of the aircraft we were in, the griffin flying slowly landed on a small strip that had a few biplanes on it, and I hopped out to be met with lewis machine guns pointed at me, my eyes flashed green, they tend to do that when I'm pissed. "You will all lower your weapons or I will kill every last one of you, and laugh as I do so." The shear rage in my voice made some of them tremble, most likely new recruits, before whom I can guess was Queen Seelii stepped up, she looked a lot like Queen Chrysalis, again I remember her cause I love villains, but she had a curved horn, her eyes were blue and slitted like a cats, and her hair was a cyan color.

"You must be the ruler of the Griffin Kingdom, I am Queen Seelii ruler over this part of the Changeling Empire, come with me and we shall talk in a more comfortable area." She started walking off, before I followed I had the griffin within the mustang lock the glass to keep others from getting into it and he stayed inside.

We walked through halls that looked more like a castle than the hive I had expected to find upon ariving here, and walked into a small room that had a couch, a few chairs, some small tables, and a tray of drinks from tea to booze, and she sat down, I did the same in a chair opposite of her.

"Onto the matter at hand, I invited you here to make an alliance, due to my moronic sister Chrysalis, Equestria will soon have aircraft detection systems much like our own and then any scouts we send into Equestrian territory will be spotted and shot down." She grabbed a bottle of what looked like wine and took a long drink from it.

"And why me exactly?" It was a valid question as far as I was concerned, how she even fucking knew I existed was unknown. "And on that matter, how the fuck are they only JUST now trying to make the detection system, as you called it?" I asked, remembering that one episode when the changelings invaded, again a love of villains and me being payed to watch the show was coming in handy.

She sighed. "My moronic sister tried to invade without talking to me and in doing so put our entire empire at risk, but due to the detection system running of changeling magic they have been trying to get it to work off enchanted gems or unicorn magic, and from what spies have told me they have succeeded."

"Again, the fuck does this have to do with me exactly, How could I possibly help you in any way?"

She rolled her eyes. "Because your aircraft emit no magic in any shape or form like others do, that's how the system works, once it detects the magic caused by a crystal sugar engine it relays this to pilots in the planes and they take action to shoot down the invading aircraft, I don't know how you managed to make your craft produce no magic from the engines, but due to that you can get past their detection systems, like you did ours."

Thinking about it that reminded me of radar, but with magic added into the mix, since my planes have no magic that would make sense they can't be detected. "And what would I or my craft do once past the detection systems exactly?"

She gave me a deadpan look. "Are you blind? destroy them, or as many as you can, if you can do this we shall hand over any weapon designs or blueprints to you if you deem them useful."

Thinking about it why did they even need planes to begin with? they had wings for fucks sake! "Wait a damned minute, why do you even need planes when your kind have wings exactly?"

Queen Seelii buzzed her wings to show me as she spoke. "Changeling wings are thin and fragile, we are not made to fly longer than an hour, two at most before we are forced to land, the planes ensure we are able to stay up longer, and due to our wings jumping out of a crashing plane is quite easy for us."

Alright now that made sense I guess, there wings did look like a flies after all. "Alright, what do the detection systems look like and how should I destroy them?"

She grabbed a picture from a pocket in her dress and showed it to me, it looked like a large tower with a weird looking piece of metal in the shape of a circle with gems around it.

"Alright, I can do this tomorrow around one pm."

She nodded, and offered me a drink, I accepted and from there we talked about the best ways to destroy a kingdom, I also corrected her by saying that my empire was called the Griffin Empire, I wondered how the caribou king was liking my little surprise I had made for him, oh well Im sure I would find that out later on.

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Princess Celestia sighed, the royal airships had been being upgraded to use a new type of weapon, designed by a pony named Iron Hale, Hale rockets, they would be launched out of tubes in the airship and strike a target, they looked much like thick metal tubes with a round end and the back was flat, with three vents with a small three armed spiral that would cause the gasses escaping to cause the rocket to spin, keeping it stable in flight, they were made out of iron and used black powder to propel them, a great advancement in terms of weaponized airships, now it would be simpler to shoot down hostile ships.

The rockets had been created around three weeks before the Caribou incident happened, but due to it taking a bit longer than expected to modify airships to accept the new weapon they could only just start being installed into airships new and old alike, with the new advancements in rifles and pistols thanks to the caribou's airship being caught with no damage to it her royal guard and royal airship fleets would soon have better weapons than ever thought possible, all within a few days thanks to Equestrian magic making it simple to replicate the weapons in question, just scan them and copy the scan onto some paper sheets or a bored and they could recreate them, within limit as even with magic the production was still a bit slow, but far faster than if they didn't use magic.

It would be much easier to detect any hostile craft as well due to her top scientists getting the magic detection systems to work, they would send out weak waves of magic and if any craft using a crystal sugar engine were hit with would send a signal back, their exact locations could be pinpointed and then the royal air force would shoot them down.

A royal guard walked up to Celestia and bowed. "Princess I have been asked for you to follow me to the test site, so you can see the power of the new weapons that have been created."

She smiled thinking how her little ponies were just a little safer. "Of course let us be on our way then." Celestia said as they walked over to the airship bay of Canterlot, a large section dedicated to landing and flying airships and testing them on old targets, mock enemy airships that would float with no captains at the wheel.

The guard saluted and walked off back to continue his post, and Celestia walked to a section of the airship bay fields that had a general shield spell put into place around it, and soon enough Twilight was escorted into the bubble shield as well to watch the demonstration.

"Celestia, what exactly did you call me here for?" Twilight tilted her head as she sat next to Celestia.

Celestia looked down and smiled at Twilight. "You are here to witness the first weaponization of a rocket, then you can continue with your friendship festival as normal." She looked over to the airship, tied to the ground yet before it could fire a single rocket Canterlots air raid alarm started going off, as large thick clouds of black smoke began to cover Canterlot, about a minute after large airships started landing, shooting large shells from their cannons as they opened up letting out rather large storm troops, no not stormtroopers from star wars you dense morons, the weird yeti things from that Mlp Movie, back to the story now, Celestia and Twilight quickly fled to Canterlot Castle's vault, only Celestia herself could open the door so they would mostly be safe, sadly Cadence had been turned to stone by commander Tempest's obsidian orbs while all of Canterlot panicked as guards rushed to combat the invades, only to be shot by their Browning Automatic Rifles, or BAR's.

I had decided to use something that in my opinion would out do any mustang I had, I asked Prismo for some Horten 229 jets, most don't know this but the Nazi's created the first all wing jet fighter, sadly only three had been constructed so only one real example was still in good condition, but thanks to Prismo I had 50 of these glorious planes, mustangs would still be the main fighter of my empire, but the hortens would be the elites of my forces in air to air, and air to ground combat, the only differences from the ones the Nazi's made was the fact these were made out of titanium, had better engines, modern radar systems, and missiles in on the side of the wings, six per wing, the only thing I did not change was the four 30 mm cannons on the sides of the cockpit, this plane was rather large as well with a length of 24 feet 6 inches a wingspan of 55 feet and a height of 9 feet 2 inches.

And right now I was seeing off the pilots who would make me proud, by destroying most of Canterlot, they had a special bomb to deploy to make even more chaos, in the event they were shot down, the plane they were flying would 'respawn' right back onto my air fields, sadly Prismo can't bring back the dead without altering time, and while I may be evil, I'm not gonna fuck with time travel, so the pilot would stay dead, and I only had five wishes left, so I'd have to use them wisely if I wanted to have any ace aside from my technology.

I grinned as the hortens took off one after another, and lined up in a V formation while they flew to Canterlot at speeds of almost seven hundred miles per hour.

The hortens flew at speeds only dreamed of by most air forces around the world, but unknown to me the Storm Empire had fighters that far outclassed anything Equestria had, by about 70 years or so, the Japanese zero fighter, also known as a A6M Zero, as my hortens approached Canterlot and the detection system towers, their radars began detecting about 20 hostiles, as the hortons closed in on Canterlot things started to heat up , the Storm King’s zero fighters were dominating the skies but luckily for me zero’s were outclassed by my jets, as my hortens had better radar systems, armor, guns and they had missiles, not to mention the hortens speed. As the hortens closed in on their targets they went in for the dive, missiles lit up the sky like they were fireworks, streaking towards their targets, explosions sounded out.
One by one fighters exploded, some made evasive maneuvers but they were gunned down by 30mm autocannon fire, as this was happening some of the hortens started to drop their “special” bombs, releasing a green haze over the city, equestrian fighters struggled to even get off the ground, the hortens, after destroying most of the Storm King's fighters, forcing them into retreat, the hortens did one last bombing run of Canterlot, once done they flew back to the Griffin Empire, the towers, and most of Canterlot in ruins along with the Storm King's forces being decimated, the special bombs the hortens dropped were large canisters of chlorine gas, causing any who breathed it in to foam at the mouth and eyes as their lungs filled with fluid, drowning them from the inside, and I grinned once I saw a section of Canterlot fall down the mountain it stood on, seems one of my hortens targeted the support beams keeping that section of the city up, today was a good day, I really need to thank Prismo for recording this for me.