After speaking for solid half hour with Domain Master Lazoi, we had come to an agreement, so long as I allowed him to keep his Domain, I could own it, and in return begin setting up shop there, so long as I had 'his' Domain defended and let em keep his castle. He had seen Frank Horrigan and knew having such a monstrosity of,,...well they didn't know what metal was seemingly, he said 'rock monster' when he talked about Frank Horrigan and that almost made me laugh my ass off. Now I was rolling up with his males in the back of a Troop Transport vehicle, sort of like those you'd see in world war two. He turned two eyestalks toward me, gripping the handles hard as to not fall, as did his other males. It was just an android driving the vehicle, with me in the back with the aliens, and about eight of the new Assaultron models. "King Lorenzo, must we ride in this....thing? It feels unnatural in every possible way." He spoke, I found it a tad creepy each mouth would open when he did so.

I nodded. "It is indeed needed, this will show those within your Domain that I mean business, and am more advanced than them, which is the case seeing as your species hasn't even entered the Bronze age yet." He was silent from that point, it only took us about five minutes to roll into his Domain's, village? Town? I was unsure what it was called, a settlement I guess, farms with weird purple grain like crops, and workers using what looked to be stone hoes, and some struggling to life them. The moment the Troop Transport came unto view each one of them turned all six of their eyestalks to us, and the Troop Transport stopped. Within seconds a ramp extended from the back and the Aliens were let out first, then the new Assaultron models, the ones with their arms replaced to unfold into automatic weapons, they could still function as arms, but when needed they would open and slide back their hand to let a small automatic weapon pop out, these ones has ten millimeter submachine guns in their arms.

Domain Master Lazoi's hide began to flash many different colors rapidly, sort of like some deep ocean fish do to lure prey, getting even more attention to us and I handed him a loudspeaker, which he spoke into. "This is Domain Master Lazoi! Ruler of this Domain and descendant to the first of our Clan so many winters ago, and now we have had the gods bless us with fortune! For this 'King Lorenzo' is going to make it so no other Clan may threaten us again, and in return we shall do as he commands, fear not however, I am still Domain Master, but our ice, is his ice from henceforth!" The males which had been with him, widened themselves before me, which I still found weird as fuck, if they could do this where the hell did their brain sit in their body?

Others slowly widened themselves as well after I walked down the ramp and stood next to Lazoi, some of them turning bright cherry red, and stayed widened until Lazoi spoke again. "You may now unwiden yourselves, someone please bring forth a tamed Unkoil for a demonstration!" He said, with the air of someone who'd you better listen to unless you wanted bad shit to happen to you, as he said this most of them unwidened themselves, rising back to their normal height.

Someone, I assume a rancher, scuttled up with what looked to be a weird round fat ball of a creature, from what Lazoi had told me, these were used for food like cattle on Equis or Earth, like said before every animal on this planet follows the six eyes, six legs slash six arms rule, this thing was fucking weird as hell to look at, and I grinned as one of the Assaultrons aimed its head laser at the creature before firing, burning it and turning it into actual ash which quickly cooled due to how frigid the temperature here was. Every Ren, which I had learned was what they called their species, recoiled from the massive amount of heat that had just been expelled out the Assaultrons faceplate, and stared at the ashes, eyes widened in wonder, some in horror or fear, their eyes were rather expressive like a person's. While the I was here, those back at the old Enclave Facility where in the process of installing a Molecular Relay, once that was complete shipments of things could come through such as portal gate frames in which I could have set up here.

Several of the Assaultrons began to patrol the town, the outskirts to be exact, in an effort to keep away hostiles from other 'clans' as they called themselves, other Domain Masters apparently always sought to expand their territory, either by it being willing, or all out absolute Conquest and killing every 'spawn' of the current Domain Master, when Lazoi had told me that I had thought about doing so, he was right next to me in the Troop Transport after all, and I had a literal military's worth of weapons in my inventory, and I had decided against it, let my Conquest of this world be a willing one, even if it took a few hundred years I'd have all the time in the universe to get it done, because since I came to this universe, I hadn't aged a single day. I had been 22 when I arrived on Equis and took my Empire for my own, and it's been about six, seven years, so I was 29 and still have not seen myself age a day, which I was glad for, I always hated the idea of becoming some senile old man who didn't remember his own name.

Regardless, back onto topic, apparently this town had beggars in the most literal sense of the word, since several males scuttled and waddled up holding out their arms with cries of 'give! Please give!' which I honestly just found....sad as hell, Domain Master Lavoi and his other males had waddled their nonexistent asses back to the 'castle' which really just looked like a huge chunk of ice carved out. Back to the beggars I gave each of them something simple, from the junk section of my inventory I handed out a ball-peen hammer, a wrench, a bowl, and then just several peaches I had on me, each one said 'thank you generous one' and waddled off, I found it sad this species had to have beggars, even within my own Empire no such thing happened, in Equestria it still happened, but that was rare to begin with and most got help by the end of the day, sometimes sooner than that.

As I spawned myself a chair from the depths of my inventory, my pipboy began to beep so I held it up to my face and checked the messages section, the replacement of the Enclave Facilities old decrepit reactors and the installment of a Molecular Relay was complete, and I grinned. Within an hour a portal gate would be set up at the Enclave Base, and several walls would go up to prevent the local Ren from just wandering in. I expected it would go fast and the progress from that point would be rapid, what I didn't expect however was a fucking Nuka Cola Delivery Truck, one of the Classic Models, to roll up and open its back cargo door, lowering the unloading ramp in the process as a Crystal Unicorn hopped out of the drivers side door. Walking up to her I spoke. "Who the hell authorized you to drive this truck here? Did they already set the portal gate up? And if they haven't how the fuck did you drive from Equis to here?"

The bright orange unicorn mare nodded with a snort. "Yes indeed Your Majesty! The gate was finished not five minutes ago don'cha know, and as for whom authorized this here delivery it was her Majesty Queen Chrysalis, after the biological information about these here critters got to her, cause it was reported to her after all Your Highness, she decided to have several cases of Nuka Cola removed from the bottles and placed into cups, before being flash frozen for the natives to enjoy seein as they hate to drink flat out liquids."

Raising an eyebrow I asked. "And what is your name?" I said looking at the mare, she wore the Nuka Cola employee vest that marked her as being employed by the NCC, or the Nuka Cola Corporation, sometimes called the Nuka Cola Company, like I mentioned before she was bright orange with streaks of red in her white mane and tail along with bright cherry red eyes.

She smiled. "Brisk Bolt Your Majesty, a proud Employee of the Nuka Cola Corporation!" She gave me a salute, a poor one but a salute nonetheless.

I rolled my eyes and chuckled. "Alright I guess, the scans I had done already show nothing is harmful to them that we produce, just don't eat anything they have, otherwise you'll get completely horrid food poisoning because their foods and animals contain a biological antifreeze, not tasty to us as all." This was true, I had scanned Lazoi with a portable Bioscanner, and it came back that nothing from my Empire's food supply would harm them, so shipments of things like bread would be common soon enough if the locals liked bread. She nodded with that smile still on her face, and began to hoof out six ounce cup sized frozen chunks of Classic Nuka Cola to the locals, some tried to trade her items for it but she refused, it was her job to just hand them out. The locals that tried it, seemed to be taken aback at the exotic, to them anyways, flavors, which made me laugh. I'd have to speak to Chrysalis later on when I returned why she had done this, that most certainly would be an interesting conversation to say the least. For now I decided to call Frank Horrigan over the PCS I had installed into my pipboy when it was fresh off the production line for military and civilian communications.

It rang for a few seconds, before an artificial click sounded and I heard Frank through the speakers. "What is it you need, Your Majesty." His deep guttural voice as polite as it could be when he sounded pissed as ever. I knew he wasn't happy at being told not to shoot the natives, I'd make it up to him by letting him destroy some of the absolute combat robots designated for recycling.

Speaking into the pipboy I grinned. "For the time being, I want a report, a text report, and any information pulled from the Enclave Terminal computer systems sent to my pipboy so I may analyze, and I want several of those starships brought back to Equis to the Empire Proper for study, and I want to know why I wasn't informed about the completion of the Molecular Relay."

Frank was silent for a few moments. "Yes Your Majesty, I'll have the information and reports sent your way as soon as possible, as for the last thing, I simply don't know, dumbasses who installed it likely got too excited to mention they had finished until it went off and some bright red ugly truck rolled through."

Thinking for a few moments, I nodded and accepted that, I had former Enclave scientists install the thing and they had never seen such technology, so that was likely the truth. "Alright, I'm ending the call now, anything tries to be hostile remember to take it out." I cut the call and grinned to myself.

----------------------------------Across the Domain, the Great Plains---------------------------------------

Domain Master Uslea was seething, another messenger sent to the Barad Clan across the great plains hadn't returned, after the first one he had sent declaring the Barad's Domain would be his own and to have it go peacefully, they had seemingly killed his messenger, and now a second one as well. As such, he was going to round up his males for an attack, hopefully his Domain wouldn't be attacked while he was away as he'd be taking all 40 of his males for the campaign, it would only last two or three days at most, so there wouldn't be much to worry about. As far as his scouts had been able to tell for the past week, the pitiful excuse of a Domain Master, Lazoi only had seven or so males to defend his Domain at any time since rarely was conflict nere his ice.

Uslea watched his males round up their ice tools, it would take a week for them to melt with constant use due to the summer heat, which was horrid even within his Domain, but they would serve their use for now, if they melted beforehand they could always use their fingerclaws as was the norm in the ancient past before their ancestors knew how to shape ice into the tools and weapons of war and peace. Soon the Barad Domain would become one with his own, and it wouldn't be a peaceful event, he had tried diplomacy and peace, offering to let the Barad Males keep their spawn and females, now however his soldiers would kill every spawn they came across, as well as the males who fought.

Twenty minutes later his males, along with himself looked over across the Great Plains, they were close now he knew that much, he could see that pathetic Domain Master's castle from here, as such his males along with himself flattened themselves, and attempted to change their coloration to match that of the ground they walked on in an attempt to remain undetected until too late. It had worked, and now his males saw something....strange, several beings with glossy purple skin much like the color of the purple itch standing at attention, seemingly looking for something, the way they moved was unnatural, but he had confidence in his own males and spoke to the one next to him. "Throw your spear and impale that creature, any male that spears one of those may have two females for themselves."

With that encouragement several of his males straightened themselves and hurled their spears at the weird creatures, rather than being impaled and bleeding as expected, the spearheads themselves shattered as if they had struck stone, before one of them, the glowing part of its head anyways, faced them. "Unexpected assault! Defending!" It screeched, its tones like that of a monotone male, yet somehow it sounded.....threatening.

Domain Master Uslea turned to his other males, keeping himself widened. "Attack!" With that he tried to widen himself as flat as possible to avoid thrown spears. Without warning the male next to him was hit by a bright red.....he didn't know what to call it, but the heat radiating from it made him scuttle backwards to flee from it as the unfortunate male hit by it turned into....oh by the gods....ashes where only something known of in legend and yet here he plainly saw one of his best fighters turned into them before him as if the gods had come down and unleashed their wrath upon him. Then several rapid noises began to go off, and one of the weird arms of the creatures began to spit fire hot and deadly, his males stood no chance and went down. Brownish red blood began to splatter the ground in puddles which remained unfrozen unlike normal ice, Uslea himself acted as if he had been hit and purposely fell into a growing pool of blood and gore to avoid the same fate as his males.

--------------------------------------------------------------King Lorenzo's Point Of View--------------------------------------------

One minute I had been speaking to Frank Horrigan over the PCS hooked into my pipboy like a radio caller, and then the assaultrons began to go berserk and attack seemingly nothing, I thought as much anyways until I saw ice spears shattering against their metal chassis. After that I watched the massacre happen, it had to have been males from another clan or domain nearby as Lazoi had informed his entire Domain within short order to not attack, let alone touch the assaultrons, he had to say not to touch them after a male had tried to trade with one for....whatever fuckin reason, I don't know why he did that. To say I was surprised when one assaultron dragged a Ren covered in their brownish blood still wiggling and seemingly unharmed would be a massive understatement. "Your Majesty." It went on, its voice the same as any assaultrons. "This Ren attempted to play dead to avoid being caught or shot, do you wish to question it."

I thought for a minute, and nodded with a grin. "Yes, Yes I think I will question it, him I think." So I grabbed the Ren whom was almost completely covered in his own kinds blood, and with the help of an assaultron jammed em into the back of the troop transport for our little conversation.

He, for it sounded like a Ren male normally did, screeched and flailed and tried to claw me as he spoke. "I am Domain Master Uslea! I order you to get your unclawed hands off my hide and release me from this stone prison at once! Or you shall suffer the consequences of angering one of the most powerful Domain Masters within the region!"

Giving him a deadpan look, I lit myself a cigarette and laughed in his face after I had taken a drag. "Your no longer a Domain Master, you are my Prisoner to do with as I desire, and your Domain now belongs to me since you tried to attack mine."

Uslea, which was apparently this guys name, recoiled his eyestalks in horror at my words. "You, You can't possibly expect my Domain to just willingly go to you! This Domain should have been mine by now, that pathetic excuse of a Domain Master Lazoi was supposed to be in charge of this Domain, and I was going to have him slain before my eyestalks!" Uslea.....Lazoi had told me about him, his domain, and to say I was disgusted would be an understatement. This Piece Of Shit allowed females to be treated as nothing but breeding stock, Lazoi wanted him dead for that alone, seemingly Lazoi's Domain was one of the few that allowed female Ren the same freedoms a male would have, I was going to ensure that became the norm on this planet, so what needed doing, would be done.

Chuckling I rolled my eyes at em, which seemed to confuse em, before my tone went emotionless. "Let me make one thing clear you six eyed bitch. This planet belongs to the Crystal Empire now, that means every chunk of land, sea, and air on this world now belongs to me, and I won't take hostilities from your species, I'm willing to let your species slowly join at its own rate, which is inevitable due to the presence I will soon have on the planet, and I can't just allow shitheads like you to go around trying to toss spears at my new citizens, I'm afraid I've gotten all the information I need from you, and thus will no longer be requiring your services, so I must bid you farewell." I pulled out my Advanced Ten Millimeter Mark Two pistol, raised it, and fired.

Author's Note

Hoi How did you all like the chapter? Sorry it took so long, but eh, its here now anyways! Comment, share, if ya haven't already, like the story, lemme know what ya think, what do you think will happen next? I enjoy hearing your opinions about that sorta thing, so tell me what you honestly think will happen next, always love to hear what you guys think