I gasped and took a breath as I had just finished explaining to Celestia, how the Akun invaded, or tried and failed, to invade the alternate Equis, how they tried to invade mine, how I took them into my Empire with little force or resistance, and about everything I could think of from the alternate Equestria and Equis as a whole, handing over a storage crystal with all the information about them to her for later viewing. "Alright, that should cover everything you need to know, and what has happened so far, for Equestria, yours, the year is 2035, since your ponies have been keeping date since Equestria was founded, and has been around for two thousand thirty five years." I pulled out a Nuka Cola Quantum because that long winded explanation had left me thirsty as fuck, and I could use the energy boost it would give.

Before I even managed to get the cap off Celestia DOVE and snagged it with a screech of. "Mine!" Before rolling and landing sitting down, before she ripped the cap off using her magic and downed the entire fucking thing at a speed that should not have been possible. I just sort of stared at her, disbelief on my face, causing her to giggle and explain. "When your Empire vanished, it took your wonderful little sodas with it, and nopony else, not even my top chemists has been able to recreate your Nuka Cola, let alone your Nuka Cola Quantum, which is my favorite, so I just couldn't resist."

Laughing I patted her shoulder. "How about this, I'll send you 15 crates of Nuka Cola Quantum, and in return I can boop you whenever I want." I grinned at Celestia.

Celestia acted like she was thinking for a moment, her hoof under her chin, looking up at the ceiling, before she smiled and spoke. "I find this trade agreeable." She snorted and broke out laughing.

Before I was able to say anything else however my pipboy began to beep rapidly, so I looked at it and took the call, it was from an unknown source, I was shocked to see what looked to be a video recording of a man in a general's uniform.

The man was sitting in what looked to be some fancy ass leather chair, looking into the camera with a grave expression on his face. "This message is encrypted and for human eyes and ears only. This is General Blake Smith here of the last Enclave survivors trapped in Cheyenne Mountain Military Complex, this pre-recorded message has been sent to the surface by the Complexes ZAX computer, Code named "Calculator", to transmit on open frequency for all human survivors of the Great Calamity. We are all likely dead by now, but we died for the future and safety of humanity. I beg of you, find the Vault, take what we have left and ensure this never happens again, with this message, the coordinates to several caches of technology and cryogenic frozen Enclave Personal have been encoded into this message, I ask of you to find them, and free them and use the technology to bring about peace, hopefully whomever is watching this can even understand me, General Blake Smith, Sighing off for the last time, God Bless America, God Bless the Enclave, God Bless Humanity." The message cut out, then a synthetic male voice spoke. "This message will repeat in, 15 seconds." I turned off the call, and looked over to Celestia.

I looked up from my pipboy with worry. "Um....Celestia, comere for a minute would you? Your going to want to see this." I pressed my pipboys screen it was projected a map, a map of Equestria. On this map several locations had been marked with red dots, each one with a name of the human city that once resided there. Site Beta was the first, under that name was New York, which was where modern day Manehatten is on an Equestrian map, second is Site Gamma, Under Bakersfield, modern day Hilltop, third is Site Lima Dodge City Kansas, Modern day Dodge City and the fourth was Site Mable Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Modern Day Bitsburgh, however my pipboy had tracked where the message had come from to begin with, and the location marked on the map was Mount Canter, the very mountain in which Canterlot City sat.

Celestia looked at the map for a few moments, before looking up at me, her face filling with concern and worry. "What exactly does this mean?" She asked, looking at the map rather than me as she spoke.

I glared at the map, and spoke. "It means shit just got a lot more complicated, and I'm going to have to ask that you trust me and let my Empire handle these facilities, I know the technology and how they function if I remember correctly, stay away from it, I'll handle it, and inform you of everything I find out."

Celestia stared at me for a few moments, deep in thought. "Alright Lorenzo, seeing as your one of my closest friends, and someone I know well, I will trust you with this, but I want to know absolutely everything you find and or see, and if it poses a threat to my ponies, and after all is said and done, I want to know how you know about anything within these facilities to begin with, seeing as that shouldn't be possible." She said seriously, her tone leaving no room for argument, not that I would have as her request was reasonable.

Nodding I shook her hoof. "Then we are in agreement, any knowledge found will be turned over to you." She nodded and shook my hand. Now I had to plan, I couldn't just waltz into there with no idea of what I was getting into...well I mean I could, I can respawn for fucks sake, but I didn't want to somehow set a nuke off or whatever, it wouldn't take long however, two or so hours at most.

Princess Celestia was skeptical of what Lorenzo was going to do, but, she put that aside, he was a fellow ruler and her friend, she knew him well, she had become close friends with him over the years he had taken control of the Crystal Empire, and enjoyed his company, if not for the mere fact he'd not bend head over hooves to please her with flowery words and false promises, he treated her like a normal everyday mare, even if she could crush him within an instant with her magic, he didn't act like it, and that is what she liked most. But the question in the forefront of her mind was how did Lorenzo know anything about these facilities? When his species had never before been seen on Equis until he arrived all those years ago?

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A white furred diamond dog in a black suit and crimson tie with a compact laser pistol strapped to his hip strode into General Secretary Vadik's central office and bowed his head to him, the the light grey diamond dog looked up from his paperwork and looked at Silent Molotov, his mustache having been freshly combed. "What do you disturb me for Silent Molotov? You know I am busy with these reports and processing the changes that have come in recent years." His tone hinting he was displeased at being bothered when in the middle of work.

Silent Molotov kept his head bowed, it was best not to anger Vadik, even if he was a good ruler he had a nasty temper which almost rivaled Bonejaw's. "General Secretary Vadik, I come to report the return of the Crystal Empire, and with it, King Lorenzo, the savior who allowed our revolution to go without much resistance."

General Secretary Vadik's light blue eyes widened in surprise as a grin broke out on his face. "I want the Crystal Empire contacted immediately so I myself may personally thank King Lorenzo, and the peasants and workers of the Crystal Empire for allowing the Dialectic to prevail without many losses, had his Empire not stepped in our losses would have surely been much, much higher, I will freely admit this." Vadik said seriously.

Silent Molotov nodded. "I will have them contacted at once General Secretary Vadik, I have no further news for you, is there anything else you require of me?"

General Secretary Vadik waved his paw. "No, if I do, I shall see to it you are contacted and brought before me as soon as possible, for now however, go and follow through with the task assigned to you, I must finish this paperwork."

Silent Molotov nodded and made his way out of the rather large, fancy looking office in which General Secretary Vadik was sat within. Once Silent Molotov was gone Vadik pulled out a cigar and lit a match. Taking a few puffs and blowing the smoke through his snout he grinned and poured himself a glass of vodka, this was going to be an interesting time, that much was for sure. He went back to poking at the computer on his desk, it was a lot like the Equestrian models, he however knew it was much older, far older than it had any right to be if that decaying series of long metal hallways and flickering lights was any indication, that had been found surprisingly close to the capital of his nation, which mostly sat underground. Looking back at the computer he grinned as he began to read the text on the screen as it lit up, finally getting the blasted thing to function, which hadn't been easy. Welcome to ROBCO Industries (TM) Termlink.

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After scanning this...doorway that looked a lot like a vault-tec's gear styled vault door, the results came in that no nuclear fission bombs where inside, so I walked in, two heavy sentry robots and a dozen androids armed with ARRMK2's keeping guard of the entrance while I went within. The hallways looked horribly rusted, but they held, and if they decided to just collapse onto me I could just respawn and have them cleared again. It took a few minutes but I managed to find my way to the central command hub of the complex, to be met with a ZAX computer, and several dozen terminal screens and a massive monitor like the one House used to display his face in Fallout New Vegas. Several terminals where flickering, some had large cracks in their screens.

The main monitor lit up displaying a thin white line across it, which warbled as noise began to come from the speakers. "Human liiiii-fe detected, scanning.....assessssssing Pre-War Records.....Identity confirmed. Nate Cooke. 2nd Battalion, 108th Infantry Regiment. By Order of General Blake Smith, I welcome you to the Cheyenne Mountain Military Complex, and by executive order of General Blake Smith, I am hereby authorizing you as President of the United States Of America, shall we begin Mr.President?"

I looked at the monitor. "What the absolute fuck are you talking about you crazy computer?" The lights began to flicker again, so I tossed down a basic Cold Fusion reactor and plugged it into the system with a few wires, the lights in the room instantly lit up to full power as did the monitor.

The AI spoke again. "Power restored, rebooting core systems.......reboot complete, thank you for that, I was running on absolute dregs of power and don't think I could have lasted more than another month at most." The voice was male, it had a slight synthetic tone to it as well.

I gate the screen a deadpan look as I spoke again. "I will once again ask, what the fuck are you talking about you crazy computer?"

The screen flickered. "I am Calculator. Before General Blake's passing he authorized me to make the first living human to walk through those doors President of the United States Of America, and therefore authorize them to use this facility and other Enclave Facilities scattered throughout what remains of the United States."

This....was not what I expected. "First, my name isn't 'Nate Cooke' whoever the hell that is, I am Lorenzo Cruz, King of the Crystal Empire, I'm going to ask you some questions, and I'd hope for your sake you answer them honestly."

Calculators screen flickered again. "Yes Mr.President, what do you wish to know?"

I sighed and sat in a chair, one without a long dead skeleton sitting in it. "First, what was this 'Great Calamity' that your General spoke of in the video?" This was going to be a long, confusing day, this facility confirmed what I had thought when I saw the dead zetans and zetan technology on the Storm Empire's Islands.

Author's Note

I'd like to note, when Lorenzo took control of the Crystal Empire, he set the date to 2295, the same date his game was at 7 years have passed, he spent four on his Equis another three in the anthro one, so the year is about 2302

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