I let out a groan as I woke up, my head hurt like nothing else, and I sat up, seemingly within my throne room, rubbing my face and injecting myself with some Med-X to help with the migraine I noticed a paper note on the floor, and thus picked it up. As I began reading my eyes got wide. 'Dear King Lorenzo, I have returned your Empire to its proper place upon this Equis, time has passed the same here as it did for you in the other world, three years has passed here as it did for you back there. Your two new worlds have been brought as well, I have a spell surrounding them and their solar systems which will only allow you and those you authorize into them, your little allies the Red River Union have been brought here as well, the same spell was applied to their solar system, think of it as a gift, as another gift take this gem, use it for your crown. Remember, I'll be watching. Love, Faust.' The letter ended at that, I flipped it over to see if anything was on the back, but nothing.

I set the note down and looked at the round gem on the floor, while mine looked like a random spot of space with stars n shit inside it, this one had an entire spinning galaxy held within, if it was an actual galaxy I didn't know, but from hearing Faust say 'tend to the multiverse' It honestly wouldn't fucking surprise me at this point. So I picked up the gem, took off my crown and popped the center gem out and tossed it into my inventory, and plugged this new gem into the socket left behind, it fit perfectly and made my crown look all the nicer. Alright so the Akun's solar system and the Letera's solar system, along with the ss'ket's solar system got brought here, least I didn't have to leave behind my two new planets, though I do wonder why she brought the ss'ket, a question for another time however. I expected some sort of disaster to strike within the next few moments as I felt like something was about to happen, and I was only half correct as Princess Celestia burst through the throne room's doors, shattering them in the process, and fucking tackled me like a god damned football player. "Lorenzo! I have missed you my friend!" She said, the joy clear in her voice as she began to nuzzle me.

Seemingly she had missed me, seeing as we had been friends, I was one of the few real friends she had before the Empire was tossed across the damned multiverse like a ball in a ping pong machine, I couldn't blame her, I had missed her as well, she was a true friend indeed, so I laughed and scratched behind her ear and returned the rather violent hug I was receiving. "I missed ya too you old fluffball!" It was at this moment Chrysalis walked into the throne room and just sort of stared at us, a look of disbelief on her face.

The moment Celestia saw Chrysalis her eyes narrowed and she was up within an instant, all four legs spread as her horn lit itself with a bright yellow magic, which began to condense into a ball shape, I lightly bopped Celestia on the snout causing the magic to fly upwards and through several ceilings. "Celestia, calm the fuck down, Chrysalis, this is my worlds Celestia, Celestia, this is Chrysalis from the other world, the head mare of my little herd."

Celestia's eyes widened and her face turned red, the bright blush against white fur easily visible. "Herd?" She asked, the shock clear in her voice.

This just caused me to laugh hard. "Yes, Herd, time passed the same over there as it did here, so I've had time to find myself a few lovely mares, though I don't think you'd like the second in charge." That was honest if her own history was anything to go by.

Raising an eyebrow as Celestia let her stance fall back into a less violent style. "How so?" Celestia asked, tilting her head.

I shrugged. "It's that worlds version of Nightmare Moon, she's a different being from Luna, and prefers to go by Moon now however."

Celestia's face went blank for a few moments, before she gave me a raunchy grin which I honestly didn't expect, what I didn't expect more was what she said next. "Well, seems someone's been a busy little stallion! Where are the foals?"

This caused me to turn red in return as I took a moment to process that, and managed to speak after a few moments while Chrysalis just laughed at me. "I don't want, nor will I ever, want foals, of any kind for any reason, as such I have taken medical precautions to prevent myself from having foals, the zebra potions I take daily make me effectively infertile, but will wear off after 24 hours." That was true, after my little surprise from Chrysalis the first time I damn well made sure it couldn't happen again, I wouldn't force my herd to take medications which would prevent them from having foals, that would be cruel, so instead I took such medication myself, and it wasn't permanent as said, I had to take one every morning for the effects to stay.

Celestia pouted at me but just smiled seconds later and laughed lightly. "Oh Lorenzo, I have truly missed you, you are one of the few living creatures who I need not worry die of old age before my eyes within what to me feels like a blink, let alone the fact you treat me like a normal mare, I will accept anyone you have decided to take into your Empire, be it citizen, or be it some eldritch abomination."

I chuckled. "Speaking of...I took in that worlds version of Queen Umbra, known as King Sombra, a male version of her, except a different species, because Umbra was just a corrupted unicorn, this guy is a living shadow."

Yet again her face went blank before she just shoved my face into her chest fluff. "Oh just shut up and hug me for now, we can talk about the mind numbing details later." As such I was smothered in royal chest fluff.

This went on for about 15 minutes before I stood up and patted her on the shoulder. "Alright Celestia, I have a public announcement to make, so stay to the side for now, same for you Chrysalis, I'll be done within I think, less than five minutes." I walked over to my throne and sat, before pressing a button on the holographic interface I had built into the arm rests, and several cameras lowered themselves from the ceiling and began to glow, signifying they where active now.

I looked into the cameras, keeping my face calm. "Citizens of the Crystal Empire, I speak here today to say, we have arrived back on our Equis, we are back, and our new citizens have come with us as well, the Akun, the Letera, and a few Ss'ket, and the Ss'ket's home system, the Letera's, and the Akun's has arrived as well, our Abyssinian Allies have arrived with us as well, for those watching on the world of Vanov or Letera-2, you are now in another universe, impossible as it may seem, this is the universe my Empire hailed from before we where tossed across the multiverse." I paused to take a drink of coffee. "Onto the most important matter, we have survived. We have fended off the Umbrum and annihilated them, while the damage done to our great Empire has been horrible, we have suffered lightly when compared to the others whom also faced the Umbrum, the living shadows, despite these losses, despite the death, we will rebuild, we will thrive as we always have done, and we will make anyone who wants to fight us regret the day they where born, or the day they where hatched." I said, tossing in one of the Akun and letera's common terms.

Going on I spoke. "We will be building a memorial for those who lost their lives, and holding a military funeral service for all of them. Know this, we will continue as planned, the time to make repairs will be a long one, but we will not let it hold us back, we shall continue to make strives and leaps in technology, medications, and arcane sciences, we will go on, I wish you all better days ahead than those we have left behind, you may continue about your day now." I cut the broadcast, this was going to be a long day. Thankfully since I had been blacked the fuck out for three days, most citizens where back on Empire soil, so that was something good to know anyways.

Celestia trotted up to my throne. "Vanov? Letera-2? Are you telling me you've taken two entire worlds into your Empire in the three years you've been gone?" She said, shock clear in her voice as she had a thousand yard stare.

Sighing I nodded, Chrysalis had gone off to oversee repairs, this was going to take awhile to explain. "Alright, so it happened like this...."

---------------------------------Equestria, Canter Mountain, Deep Below The Long Abandoned Crystal Mines------

An underground facility which had once been at the top of a mountain, now long buried beneath the soil and rock, began to activate, lights slowly flickering to life as systems restarted and while some refused to work, many worked as intended as the facilities Artificial Intelligence activated and woke from its long slumber. The broadcast of Lorenzo on his throne, speaking to his Empire played on the monitor and the AI's systems calculated, this was what it had been told to wait for, since what was in the video was clearly human, as such it began to take steps to contact the new power that be. S-s-s-system analysi--iiiis complete, broadcaaazzzzzzzst reci-vvv. Activating e-emergency beacon. The long blocked door of the facility screeched open, letting air rush into the facility for the first time in little over five thousand years, on that vault like door, was a circle made of stars with a capital E in the center.

Author's Note

Should Lorenzo's Equis remain connected to the anthro one? Why or why not, give me a few good opinions and I will make a choice afterwards?

Hiya all! Hope ya enjoyed dis!!! The next installment begins! Hah, I enjoy writing for this series, just don't expect chapter after chapter one after another like I did for the past few weeks, that killed me lmfao

here is a picture I got drawn of the akun, and an UNFINISHED picture of the letera

this second image was the Akun, but the artist forgot the part of their snout which changes color, I post it as well because thats a minor detail and this pic is larger, easier to see

Here is the letera up next

Remember, they are unfinished!

And now a picture of the ss'ket!

By the way, turns out female Ss'ket have tits, didn't know this (my friend made the species, their tech and lore n shit for me to use, I made the akun and letera however) And neglected to tell me this until after seein the picture, falsely assuming it was female, its a male, so is the Akun in the picture seen above this, for Akun they simply tell males from female because the females have longer tails, and a different scale pattern to males.

Let me know what ya think of the pics so far! Here's a map I had someone do of Lorenzo's Equis