A Displaced Lich

It was three weeks later, Twilight and her friends, as told, stayed in Ponyville while Twilight kept a bubble shield around the entire town. There were 20 unicorn guards helping maintain the shield when Twilight needed to rest. At the moment, however, Twilight was at the train station seeing Spike off. He was going to the Crystal Empire to make the crystal ponies feel safer.

"I hope you have a fun time, Spike! remember to be careful and not to leave the Crystal Heart’s shield!" Twilight waved as the train chugged out of the station, and Spike waved back.

Three hours later, Spike was getting off the train and headed straight into the Crystal Palace at the center of the empire, going to the top floor as he was told to. He met up with Cadence. "Spike! It’s so nice to have you here. The crystal ponies will really appreciate it." Cadence sat down with Spike on a few small chairs. They were on the top floor of the tower, while Shining Armor walked up and sat down with his wife.

"Uhhhhhg, I wish the crystal ponies would let me modernize their army. They still use spears for Celestia's sake! They won't even let us use any detection array towers! It’s completely stupid to let them have complete control over the military like that." Shining groaned and took a sip of tea.

Cadence giggled. "Oh hush you, they have their traditions and its important to them that they are kept alive." Their conversation continued while Spike was munching on a bowl of gems and being fanned by two crystal mares.

-------------------------ten miles outside the Empire--------------------------

I grinned as I sat with Queen Seelii on one of my behemoth airships, turns out the changelings had airships as well but unlike mine, they were not driven through the air with six jet engines and used the same propellers they had on their biplanes, just larger, why were we on our merry way to the Crystal Empire you might be asking? Well it was quite simple, the changelings fed on love, the Crystal Empire has a magical item that emits love so long as ponies are around it, Queen Seelii asked me to help them invade the Empire, I agreed to do so and was happy to hear all they wanted was the ponies and the crystal heart itself, I could take whatever I wanted after that, six changeling airships where following mine, abit they strained to keep up due to the fact my airships had better engines, speaking of my airships, I had upgraded them a bit, they now had air to air and air to ground missiles, and mini guns on the sides to replace the MK2 50 caliber machine guns, simply to lay down more fire when needed, and right now the Crystal Empire was coming into view, I had a special shell that would fuck that shield around the empire up big time, changelings used love for energy, so it would make sense some of it ended up in their magic, well as it turns out changeling magic fizzles out near me when I am using my own magic, so I had one of the howitzer shells brought to me, where I poured magic into it for a week straight, it glowed green and was very toxic to anyone who touched it, aside from me of course, and that would take the shield down.

The empires barrier shone in the light, shame it would be the last time this barrier ever existed, and from what the changeling spies had reported, they had no guns, no air defence, not even a damned air force! So this was going to be a piece of cake.

My airship aimed its howitzers to the shield and I myself loaded the shell into one of them, and fired, the shell impacted the shield and began to crackle with violent arks of green magic, the shield slowly turned a toxic green before it faded away, that was the mark for the changelings who started launching large thin metal cans at the empire, all filled with a knockout gas.

Once the cans hit the ground they broke open, letting the gas trapped inside into the air, any who breathed it in where knocked out within moments of breathing it in, it only took 15 minutes for the entire empire to be out of it, changelings flew down and cocooned anyone they found, much to my surprise they brought three of the cocoons to me, and Queel Seelii grined so hard the Joker would envy her.

“As a gift for helping us, as agreed before you can have the Empire itself if you wish to take it, and as a extra little gift, the rulers of the Crystal Empire and their friends pet dragon, cocooned to stay asleep for you to do whatever you wish with them, we have no use for these three since they cannot power the heart.” Changelings loaded the cocooned ponies onto their own airships and began to head off, Queel Seelii started flying to one of her airships with the heart in her arms. “Thank you for the help! Enjoy the empire!” She boarded one of the airships and began the four hour trip back to the Changeling Empire, for me it would be a one hour trip cause again, jet engines, but that was not the point.

The point was, I now had a new city, and only needed to ask Prismo to move it for me, so taking out the phone he had given me and sending him a quick text, the Crystal Empire vanished from the north, and was plopped down near my capital of Griffin Stone, a new city in an ever growing Empire, this would surely be the last straw for Celestia for her to attack, let her attack, I was ready for it, my entire Empire was ready for it.

I had a few surprises up my sleeve, things I had asked for a while back after I asked Prismo for those weapons of his, and soon they would be put into play, lets see any army take on mine once they see their modern weapons, they all had world war one and world war two style shit, I had modern weapons, for the most part at the least, so I doubt any ship of theirs can take down any of mine.

They still had used wooden ships, seemingly to stupid to realize how to make warships out of metal, the Storm Empire however might have semi modern battleships, so I'd have to tred carefully, that Storm King could become a major threat to my plans, I was going to see if I could get him to bow down to me, or if he chooses not to, I can always hang his skull on my wall like a hunter would hang the skull of a great kill, oh well, we shall see.