Father Sam Stein smiled kindly down at those below in the pews. "Followers of God, I have joyous news today for you." The 40 or so people within the church, which had been constructed a few months ago in the religious district of the Empire, was currently filled to the brim, the building wasn't too large after all, it wasn't authorized. "Today is the day we shall bring the name of God and his holy justice upon those whom ignore his name in vain of their false demonic gods." This caused a cheer to go up from the pews, to which Father Sam silenced with a wave of his hand. "Today we will purge this land of sinners, of the devils who walk among us as people, it is our divine mission to spread the word of God and bring salvation to the tortured souls within our new home, it is our duty as Sons and Daughters of God, to save them from themselves."

Father Sam lifted a glass of red wine. "Today we shall offer salvation to all within our reach, offer freely to them the Blood of Christ, and if they accept their souls shall have salvation and eternal happiness within the Lords loving hands and if they refuse, Eternal damnation. As is said in the bible, Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.” He looked down with a small smile on his face to the followers. "We shall be his holy ones, to execute his judgement, go forth now, a bottle of Christs blood for each of you to take and give freely, and a blade for those whom refuse the mercy we offer." Everyone stood up, young, old, male, female, and each took a hunting knife and a bottle of wine, before making their way out of the church slowly. The only one who didn't was a former Enclave member, whom had joined the church to continue her religion, but these people, they where crazy.

Father Sam noticed her not take a bottle of wine, nor a knife, trying to rush out of the church and pointed before saying in a booming voice. "Halt her! A traitor seeks to prevent our holy justice!" This caused the former soldier to run faster, and surprisingly enough she managed to get out the door and down the street, no one being able to catch up with her due to her being in almost peak physical condition for a human. This wouldn't stop them, as they'd spread their Lords will any way they could, the first to fall victim was a mare with her foal out on a walk, the small foal in a stroller.

A human male smiled down at her, offering her a glass of red wine. "Hello miss, I insist you partake in the blood of Christ."

The mare looked up with a tired smile. "I'm sorry hun, I don't partake in alcohol of any sort, I've been clean of that stuff for the past two years, I truly am sorry." She turned her head down to continue pushing her stroller, the filly within fussing because of the sunlight, and with no warning she dropped to the floor with a knife in her throat, the human glaring with glee as she attempted to gasp for oxygen her lungs filling with her own blood. Thankfully, depending how you look at it, someone had seen this and screamed for the police. The person was tackled to the ground by several civilians while someone injected the mare with a stimpack to try and keep her condition stable. It took one minute for a medical unit to get down to the scene and the mare, along with her foal, where carted off. The human however, managed to stab several others in the chaos of the dogpile and one earthpony ended up bucking him in the head, snapping his neck like a rotten twig, the crunch of shattered bone echoing throughout the entrance to the alleyway.

-----------------------------------------------------Several Hours Later Crystal Palace------------------------------------------------

Moon's eyes where ablaze with arcane fury, causing her blue slit eyes to turn pure white with the glow emanating from within them. "I thank you for identifying these individuals to me, Jane. For your service to the Empire you may be granted a sum of 25 thousand bits this instant for helping identify these vile worthless wastes of life to me little human." Chrysalis was growling, several changelings around her doing the same.

Chrysalis looked to Moon. "Should we inform Lorenzo? He'd go into a blind rage!" She thought back to the footage she had seen of his rampage on the other worlds Canterlot. And shuddered at the thought if that happening again.

Moon shook her head. "No, he trusted us to ensure laws are being followed, he gave us power almost as strong as his own authority, this time I shall use the power I was given, these...these....BASTARDS, will learn to fear the name Nightmare Moon as those so long ago did." Her voice was filled with malice, pure unfiltered malice.

Chrysalis nodded, a grin spreading across her face. "I remember the tales, I remember the stories and legends that surrounded you, if even half of them where true, these beasts are in for a horrible treat."

Moon narrowed her eyes and grinned herself, her fangs gleaming in the light of the overhead lamp, looking at the clock she stopped grinning noting it was midnight, the humans rounded up in their cells by the police would be asleep by now, the knockout gas that was pumped into their cell would ensure it. "Yes....yes they will, leave now for I must concentrate if I am to punish these cretins as they deserve." Chrysalis obeyed and left with her two changeling guards, leaving the room empty save for Moon and the chair she sat in. Within moments she had connected the minds of all 32 humans left, there had been 40, when people learned what they where doing the citizens had rioted, and killed several of them, good riddance.

Father Sam's eyes widened as he witnessed his faithful followers appear with him within a black void with no light save for that of the stars above them, he knew something was off, the stars looked.,....angry. He didn't have much time to ponder it long, nor did his followers as a tall black demon appeared before them as if from thin air. "Stay back foul demon!" He went to grab his cross, but found none around his neck, his followers realizing the same.

This caused the demon to laugh, a fanged toothy grin spreading across her face as her slit eyes narrowed on him. "You, you sicken me, your followers murdered several innocent citizens in cold blood. You killed FOALS!" The void shook and the stars began to glow brighter, several of the people began to panic trying to find a way out or run, only to end up right back where they started.

Father Sam stood confident. "They where ignoring the will of the Lord in favor of their demonic 'gods' and not showing faith to the one true God. We did what we had to as his tools of retribution, you cannot harm us for he protects us." His followers stood side by side with him, all linking hands in a show of faith that their god would protect them no matter what.

“You know..” Nightmare snarled, the stars once again brightening with her rage. “The interesting thing about torturing people in their dreams is that they can be exposed to much greater amounts of pain and suffering than they could withstand while awake.” This caused Father Sam's eyes to widen. “A waking person would pass out from too much pain. But you can’t pass out if you’re already asleep, and anyone can brought to the edge of fear induced death by reliving the same horrors endlessly, forever with no hope of escape...until they wake with their minds shattered like fragile glass. Except I will not extend this mercy to you, I will leave you all to suffer unable to wake from your nightmare and you will die as you deserve, you will soon learn why I was called Nightmare Moon so long ago.” With that said, Moon vanished from the void and the stars began to glow red, that's when in the police station locked in their cells, the humans began to scream and writhe on the ground where they lay. As instructed the Androids ignored it.

-----One Week Later, Lorenzo's Point Of View----------------

I grinned while looking at Celestia down her fifth bottle of Nuka Cola Quantum. "You sure?" I teased.

Celestia lowered her ears and scowled at me. "Yes I'm sure! I am not addicted to this beverage and can go back to plain tea at any time I desire!"

"Prove it then." I said with a smirk.

Celestia looked at the ground. "Fuck, alright you win, but can you blame me? This tastes amazing and gives me energy to deal with stupid nobility who I want to shove a gun into their mouths and pull the trigger because their so self centered it makes me want to turn them into stains on my carpet."

That startled me. "Jesus fuck I didn't know you hated most of your nobility THAT damned badly....want me to shoot em for ya?"

She shook her head. "No, as much as I may want to accept, or to just turn the lot of them into ash, they are still my ponies and it's my responsibility to look after them, even if not all of them are kind." She looked down at her plate, raising one of her eyebrows. "What is this again? I know it's a type of meat that much is clear but it smells weirdly different to anything you've offered me before."

"It's a Thalaill steak, a professional Chef from the Akun's former capital who used to serve their former emperor is now in my employment, and this is one of her specialties, it's quite good and the seasoning is nothing like you'd expect on Equis, the perks of having an alien planet or two under your control is more exotic and tasty foods to enjoy." I said while taking a chunk of my own thalaill steak and popping it into my mouth.

At hearing that Celestia's eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and she popped a chunk into her maw, chewed and swallowed, before grinning at me like a madmare. "Is it possible to have this meat shipped to Equestria? I am quite willing to pay whatever price demanded, because by Faust is it hard to find new flavors of anything these days due to my age."

Laughing I patted her snout and nodded. "For your age, ya look perfectly fine! But I do understand the dullness of never trying anything new, or really just having anything new to try, so I'll lend you Chef Ako's services as well as shipments of thalaill meat to your castle, I'll include several other meats, fruits, vegetables, and spices from Vanov and Letera-2."

Celestia nodded in satisfaction and continued with her meal, she was pleasantly surprised to find Lorenzo had a small diner built into a section of the Crystal Palace for staff to dine at, as she ate she could see several of them now eating a few booths away as if their ruler wasn't sitting less than 15 feet from them, had she tried the same thing back in Equestria the restaurant she went into would be swarmed by citizens eager to get a look at her. She'd have to ask Lorenzo how he managed such a feat, even her own staff would sometimes gawk at her, his barely batted an eye in his presence besides a 'Your Majesty' as he went by. The exception to that being the Letera or Akun who acted as if Faust herself graced them with her divinity, she had been briefed of their religion and would accept it as she had any other that wasn't harmful. "How goes your colony? I heard you recently constructed a new one."

My eyes widened, I hadn't made that public news yet, before remembering I had told Celestia over cake in Canterlot last week. "Yes, it's going well! The deathclaws are a hearty species and thus where perfect for taming a new world, two hundred twenty five, along with robotic crews to help construct buildings and such." I slid her some photos of the new colony.

She looked them over, the world was smaller than Equis by about a quarter, the sun a bright blue while the planet had the classic greens and blues one would expect from an Equis like life bearing world, I continued. "Already several new animal, and plant species are being studied, and tested to see if their a viable food source, if they prove to be then they will be added to the current food supply after experimentation on how they can be used."

Celestia looked up at me impressed, but with a confused look. "I find that fascinating, however why do I see no fleet in the orbital pictures of the new colony? Surely you would defend such a place?"

"There are no starships in orbit due to trying to keep the colony itself hidden from Zetan eyes, we both know from the data how many solar systems they've found, logged, and kidnapped natives from for experimentation, this solar system is not in their starcharts and I intend to keep it that way until we have a surefire way to destroy them as a threat completely, the colonists are not defenseless however, they are trained military with the weaponry and vehicles that goes with that to defend themselves and the colony with." I explained, finishing the last bite of my meal, watching Celestia do the same.

The old Solar Alicorn seemed to ponder this, before nodding. "Makes enough sense I suppose, now anything else interesting happen lately?"

Nodding I said. "As a matter of fact, yes. The Changeling Empire has offered to merge with the Crystal Empire." Celestia spat out the Nuka Cola Quantum she had been gulping down like a pony who's never heard of water. "WHAT!?"

-------------------------------------Former Caribou Empire----------------------------

Empire troops in military issue power armor where becoming commonplace among the former citizens of the nonexistent Caribou Empire. With the destruction of their capital killing all military leadership and making rebuilding there not likely since it was mostly glass and ash, raids on Zebrica, an Empire Colony had necessitated that the former Caribou Empire be annexed, as there was just violent struggles for power and military control throughout what remained. A caribou doe threw a glass bottle at one of the power armored unicorns. "Leave us be! Begone from our land, your Empire, "She loaded the word with enough venom to kill a manticore. "Has done more than enough harm to our once great land! You raided the royal vaults and killed the old ruler, and then your allies blew our capital city into ASH!"

The unicorn's helmet turned in her direction. "Further hostilities will result in jailtime, I am willing to overlook it once but not twice. Your former government is to blame for this situation as well as the roaming bandits who think Empire territory is ripe for the picking, move along citizen." A mesmatron rifle was hefted in the unicorns magical grip, this caused the doe to sulk away. Not long afterwards several shots from the Caribous primitive firearms, mostly old Equestrian Revolver Rifles and primitive iron rockets. In return the Empire Unicorn deployed a shield spell to cover their unit, and the Akun and Letera started shooting their plasma rifles. Within moments the hostiles where dead.

Author's Note

Hello! Hope ya liked the chapter thus far, it's decently long, so I hope ya like it more than others since you guys seem to love the long ones, even if I can't pump em out as often as shorter ones. Remember to comment guys, the last chapter got barely any comments and that saddens me, it makes me happy to see your comments and to see what you think of the story, how you like it so far, so last time was really disappointing. Regardless, I hope ya liked the chapter, Remember to share the story to people you may think will like it, we're at 111 likes and this pleases me because Fallout 4 XD