About a month had passed since my Empire had laid claim to Mars, several structures had been built there already for citizens to use, while the former Enclave base became a sort of main command hub for the settlements there. So far construction of skyscrapers on that planet was going well, already had a small town there with a couple thousand citizens happily living there, it was heavily defended of course, several Akun missile batteries to deal with the flying creatures, and a few dozen combat heavy sentry bots to deal with any ground threats, since those were pretty much tanks. With every other nation more or less having magical energy weapons of one sort or another, even the diamond dogs having what looked to be a soviet based laser rifle, I had my top weapon engineers design an energy weapon for the cats that wouldn't rely on magic whatsoever, it was pretty much a long automatic laser rifle with what looked to be gold foil on top. This foil was actually very powerful and very sturdy solar paneling which if used properly, would make the weapon never run out of ammunition, and for night time operations a standard Fission Battery was built into the weapon to make up for the lack of sunlight to power it.

New animals and plants had been dragged over from Mars for study, kept in a climate control chamber to simulate their homeworld, one of the more deadly flying creatures was a round fat ball the size of a basketball with hydrogen air sacs around in between its eyestalks which kept it afload, and when attacking prey it would deflate these and fall right into its prey's head, it had one massive mouth and it would then spin rapidly. This of course would rather quickly kill whatever it landed on due to the amount of teeth held within this little horror, I thought it could be of some use as a terror weapon and had several dozen injected with FEV, they grew larger, changed color from black to a rich purple color, and stronger overall.

Speaking of FEV, I had several Ren sign up for testing it on their own species to see what effects it would have, and I had to say it was overall a positive effect for them, it made them a little larger than they naturally where, but it also increased their strength and made them MUCH more resistant to heat then they had already been! Meaning they could wander about the Empire Proper, aka the chunk on Equis, happily and not die of a heat stroke, and it was found they could still fuck and make more of themselves after being altered, so the FEV went down generation after generation as well like normal DNA would, as such I was having it mandatory to be injected by FEV for this species if they wanted to enter a portal gate into one of the Empire's Worlds. They were banned from Letera-2 and Vanov however, despite the increased resistance to heat the climate on those planets would just kill them.

The Changeling Empire had been relying on Equestria to try and refill the love gems, which didn't work out perfectly, so the moment I returned they began to fill them up, to make up for the fact so many of them were just, so hungry, I had an extra large copy of the Crystal Heart installed into the heart of the Changeling Empire so they could continue to process it into a honey like gel for transportation across their lands to feed their citizens, while the love gems remained filled and I also sent a few hundred cases of 'Nuka Love'. Which for those whom don't remember is classic Nuka Cola infused with pure love for changelings to enjoy it more. I had several Akun technologies given to Equestria for study, such as an Akun landcruiser and a few missiles, with the proper personal to teach them how they worked, and instructions on how to produce more, of course for the tanks Equestria would need to alter the size of the insides. Their current tanks where actually called Manticore Tanks, they looked uncanningly like World War Two Sherman tanks, sept their cannons replaced with a small slim arcane cannon.

Since my Empire had returned I found several DOZEN companies sprung up in the time I was gone to try and fill the 'cola' gap my Empire had left behind! They only sprung up once the Empire was gone, due to my Empire holding the only legal patent to the term 'cola' since the Colta Cola company had went bankrupt at which I bought it after the owner had blown up a Nukatron in Ponyville. They were promptly sued and since Celestia recognized the fact my Empire held the patent for it, the Nuka Cola Corporation won by an absolute landslide. In turn they had to hand over any and all recipes, and bottling plants, so I now effectively owned the ENTIRE Cola market on Equis and three other worlds! Vanov, Letera-2, and Mars, for those whom are confused.

A few of the colas that popped up where rather weird, like Jolt Cola, it contained seven times the caffeine content of a normal cola beverage and thus was more like a cola flavored energy drink. Despite now owning the others companies I simply had the product labels put 'product of the nuka cola corporation' on them in visible colors and continued production, more products to sell and more money for the Empire to spend elsewhere in other kingdoms or Empires.

King Ravorclaw wasn't doing too well, as it turns out he was rather old by the time I met em all those years ago, and now he was elderly as hell, he was glad to see me again, and as a favor I had given him a few cases of the Mysterious Serum, I just spawned a lot of it, packed it into small cases, and sent them back with him.

He didn't have someone picked to rule once he was dead and this was my way of giving him more time, enough time to choose so it wouldn't be an in the moment type of deal, or a political war for control of his empire. I also gave some to Celestia for her top scientists to study, I saw no harm in it since I knew they couldn't replicate it, and I know that for a fact. After all of the enclave crap was said and done, I took quite a while explaining to Celestia about the apparent past history of this world, to say she was shocked would be....a massive understatement, to say the least. But I wasn't going to dwell on that for now, and shall return to movie night with the herd, I was making the snacks and the movie we had been set to watch was the first transformers movie, Spring Dancer had picked that one, and it was good to see her more involved, and now that I wasn't on the anthro equis, she was free to leave the herd if she wanted, and she surprisingly decided not too, but for now, back to the movie. I had made nacos, soft shell tacos, popcorn, and grabbed a few chocolate bars as well, hot sauce for Rainshine to put on whatever she ate, she liked spice even moreso than me, the chocolate was for Moon, and the nachos Spring, me and Chrysalis would enjoy some tasty tacos.

I grinned walking back into the personal room which had been converted into a small movie theater with all the snacks I made, and sat down in between Chrysalis and Moon, with Rainshine laying in a comfortable recliner made for her size, and handed everyone their respective snacks while Spring Dancer was sitting on a small cloud, it was a good way to end the day.

Author's Note

Hiya all! Sorry if this is short! MLP FIM turned ten years old a little while ago, and I just haven't honestly felt like writing, I think I'm gonna take a short break for a few weeks or a month, never know since when I wanna write, I write. Regardless I don't wanna burn myself out like I did during the end of the last installment, so I'm taking an actual break.