Three months had passed rapidly. The changes coming to all kingdoms was rapid, fast, and best of all close to being complete. Repairs in the Empire were completed a while ago now, the city on Mars was expanding rapidly as well, the small Network of known Enclave bases being the main hub that the city was built around, following the same circle pattern of the Empire Proper. Most Vaults where completed, each one being connected to the others in their respective kingdoms or empires by underground railway tunnels with arcane trains to haul supplies and citizens through them. Blue Gadget had finally gotten around to the Scifi aspect of the information on the internet lately and had seen Halo Hardlight weaponry, it.....gave him ideas, to say the least, I blacklisted a lot of random shit I knew he'd try, such as a black hole bomb. The mining operation on the Moon was going well, a new metal had been discovered which was called Moon Silver, it had what amounted to the same properties as Mithril, and no, its not Anti-Magic, its actually super condensed mana apparently, very rare and expensive as hell. I was having it tested for weapons, power armor, vehicles, you name it and it's being tested for it.

Queen Novo refused to follow any guidelines or actually even trust me when it came to the aliens, I could see why, she hasn't met me before that point and her species mostly lives underwater with the exception of a few thousand who decided to be hippogriffs again, and due to them having wings they don't even have aircraft, and due to being used to living in water, no firearms. The most advanced weapons they have is a speargun, and even then thats underpowered to get even through more than one plate of outdated Crystal Guard Armor. So at the moment I was keeping an eye on that kingdom, but if I was being honest they are almost literally no threat. If they tried something I'd just have a submarine launch a few tesla torpedos underwater and give em a nasty, but nonlethal, shock. And yes, my Empire did in fact have submarines, I've had em for awhile now. Their stealth submarines able to launch missiles and other shit from underwater like some on Earth can, but mostly I had them developed early on to counter Seaquestria should they try to attack ally shipping lanes, didn't know if they would, but they seemed to dislike and even outright hate most surface dwellers except their own.

Moon had been set in charge of governing Mars while it was modernized, once that was done she'd have the choice to continue, or return here to stay in the palace as normal, me and the others visited her at the end of every week, she was happy for the company, and she could visit us as well with the portalgate I had built into the room she was sleeping in, which lead to our room. Chrysalis was still on Vanov, mostly by choice, she enjoyed the hot weather since she was used to a desert climate and was taking a vacation for awhile, just enjoying the sights and all that, while Rainshine was doing the same on Letera-2, we all scheduled times together however as said before, as for Spring Dancer, she sorta jus...vanished, I think she went with Rainshine however. Other news in terms of technological progress, the Enclave Caches had several dozen new technologies I hadn't even known existed in the Fallout Universe, such as a Gauss Shotgun, Faust that thing was a powerful little weapon.

It used the same 2 Millimeter Electromagnetic Cartridges that a normal Gauss Rifle used, and the thing had 50 barrels, you heard that right, a total fucking 50. You shot 50 projectiles per shot, and this thing had eight shots before you needed to reload, this thing held 400 bullets, or, whatever you wanna call something thats pretty much just a metal slug without propellant, it shot 50 of em at a time, it absolutely tore through flesh, bone, scales, and even power armor in some instances. After having those studied, and produced using the Contraptions DLC machine, they had game logic applied to them, so I was having dozens upon dozens of those shipped to the Abyssinian Empire to help with their lack of viable firearms to defend against heavily armored infantry, since most kingdoms now used Power Armor of some sort. I also sent them regular Gauss Rifles, fully modded ones with the best modifications possible for the weapons, as well as all the 2MM EC's they'd need to use these weapons. They had begun to have costal guns emplaced in tactical areas around their new islands, so I had recalled a few of my Battleships to patrol the waters.

They were also issued to soldiers of my own, as well as combat androids, and the police forces, should they need a more lethal option they now had it on hand. Another thing the Enclave had managed to save was Winchester P94 plasma caster, Hellfire Power Armor, several cybernetic systems meant for humans, such as replacement limbs, eyes, even artificial organs, and plenty more, each had plans to produce em, so I was looking into all of them. Many have been fully researched and tested by this point, such as the Gauss Shotguns as an example. But the most advanced Gauss weapon recovered was the Gauss Minigun, three barrels, huge damage and about the same rate of fire as a normal minigun, still the same 2mm EC ammunition. The cat's where using these as machine guns for emplacements because they couldn't actually carry these by hand, some mounted to vehicles. My own troops now used them as well, they replaced the older outdated classic 5 mm minigun.

The Solar Plasma Rifle Mark Two was finally entering mass production on an industrial scale, at first there were some problems on how to power the damned things because of how much energy they required to shoot, but that was fixed recently with the introduction of Solar Cores, a blocky energy cell that plugged into the side of the weapon and allow it to fire on full automatic for up to 30 seconds, that may not seem important to some, but remember this weapon was a miniaturized plasmatic lance pretty much, it shot constant beams of energy hotter than any plasma weapon before it. And the classic Fallout 4 styled Plasma Rifles, where being replaced with the modernized ones designated 18-C's, and 18-D's. The 18-C's where small, slim and sleek, small automatic submachine gun plasma rifles pretty much, the 18-D's where long, sleek and advanced looking automatic and semi automatic plasma rifles, these would become the new standards, still using Plasma Cartridges for ammunition. So at the moment all plasma weapons, aside from the Plasma Defender Pistol, and the Mark 43 Heavy Plasma Machine Gun, HPMGMK43, where being collected and tossed into storage while I decided what to do with them.

Just as I was about to go get some food, Sunbeam Cuddle walked in, before bowing at the throne and standing back up properly. "King Lorenzo, I was going over some of the images we are getting from the orbital satellites and recently we found a new landmass between the Empire and the Griffon Empire, I'd suggest contacting the Griffon Empire's ruler King Razorclaw before trying to claim or set foot on the island, we don't know if it belongs to them as it's not on any maps we have acquired." She tapped a few times on her tablet and my pipboy lit up, displaying the new island, landmass thing, in question.

I tapped at the map to zoom in a small bit, and hummed. "Alright, I'll call him up now, thank you Sunbeam, tell the husband I said hello, and checking the time, it seems your going for overtime again, I know you're trying for a foal, so I've decided to give you a few weeks off with pay, overtime included, I was actually going to call you and inform you in another two hours, but since your here I may as well just tell you now." I was tapping through my pipboy contacts list.

Sunbeam Cuddle smiled. "Thank you Your Majesty, I'll be on my way then so you can make your call without interruption." She, actually sorta bounced off like Pinkie Pie would.....weird.

Well, with her gone I tapped the contact causing it to glow red as it established a connection with the Griffon King's more primitive communications technology, before Razorclaw picked up. "Lorenzo? What can I do for you my friend, it's been awhile since we've spoken outside of a summit room."

I chuckled. "Yeah, we need to hangout more, regardless my satellites mapped a new island between our two Empire's, and I wanted to know if it was a territory of yours because its not on a map." I tapped a button and sent the map through to his end of the line.

The line went quiet for a moment. "No, the Griffon Empire hasn't claimed that island, and if I'm being honest it seems more trouble than it's worth, since I have other things to worry about at the moment, which I have more time thanks to you, I'm going to just let you have whatever the island is, or whatever is on it, the Griffon Empire is too busy with finishing the last Vaults as well as defenses while I myself am trying to find someone to replace me once I am gone to worry about some island."

I nodded, even if he couldn't see it, still felt right to nod. "Alright, thanks. I hope your search for a new King goes well, pick wisely, you have as much time as you need due to that serum, if you run out just call and more will be delivered to you personally by my top DIA agent." We said our goodbyes, and he hung up so I cleared the call function off my pipboy before using a relay to teleport next to an Akun Transport Helicopter, startling the crew who was in the process of cleaning it, before they realized who I was and bent into the posture of respect.

The main Pilot, I could tell by his body paint, was the first to speak up after a few moments of having his eyeturrets to the ground with everyone else. "My Emperor what may I do for you this chilly day?" The others stood back up after he spoke.

I handed him a small disk. "I desire to be taken to this location on the map, once you plug this into your helicopters computer system it'll mark the coordinates for you to head to, its now property of the Crystal Empire, and before I forget, what is your name?"

He waggled his eyeturrets. "I am Orbit, My Emperor, I thank you for asking the name of one as lowly as a pilot."

Bending over I patted him on the snout. "Ay now I told you guys to cut that out, you ain't lowly, or trash, your a sentient person like me or anyone else, but, you'll do as you will, so I'll let it slide and won't bring it up again, for now let's head out." Without giving Orbit a chance to reply, I hopped into the back compartment of the helicopter and sat in one of the seats, they adapted to what species sat in them so it wouldn't be a crappy ride like the time I tried to drive an Akun Motorcar.

Without a word he and the other pilot hopped into their seats and started the helicopter, causing the back door to close as it lifted into the air, and tilted itself forwards in the direction of the island. It took an overall hour to get there, I took that time to catch up on a book I hadn't had the time to read all that often lately. I enjoyed taking these more primitive upgraded aircraft sometimes rather than an Antigrav craft because of the time it took to get to the destination, giving me more time to just relax, listen to music, or read. I hadn't even noticed we had arrived at the location until the helicopter landed on a mostly flat piece of land, I closed the book from my Pipboy and looked over to the main pilot. "Keep the engine running, I don't know what's on this island, thats why I'm going to explore it without anyone else, if something happens I'll respawn and call in for you to get out of here and head back to base." This was true, if somethin like a hydra or some shit managed to kill me these lil guys in a helicopter wouldn't fare much better, even if it was armed with a few chainguns and some missiles.

Orbit bowed his head. "As you command My Emperor, your will Shall Be Done." The Co-pilot bowed his head as well, both of them lowering their eyeturrets in unison. I left quickly after that, holding a weapon I hadn't held for, quite a few years, my Assaultron Blade, keeping it on my back as I trekked around. So far as I could tell from looking at the ground, someone had made trails to walk around on, and had used em enough to make them indent into the ground by a quarter of an inch, so I was just going to follow one until I found something.

After about, ten minutes of walking in this forest on a dirt trail I came across something that confused me to absolutely no end. It looked normal enough from my perspective at first, a village with thatched roof houses, what confused me was that it wasn't ponies, not normal ones anyways, or any species I've seen so far going about their daily business in this village, no these looked like fucking hybrids. A pony torso, on a giant snake tail, I estimated 15, 20 feet long for each of em, except the smaller ones, foals.....pups? Pupoals? Fuck if I know, but it seems they noticed me not long after I noticed them as one coiled into what looked like the shape of a spring, before JUMPING, thats right, jumping, at ungodly fast speeds, before I knew what the fuck had happened I was in a cocoon of coils.

Thank god I'm not afraid of snakes like I am spiders, because if a spider did this I'd set off an M45 Warhead with me still on top of it to kill the fuckers. Within about a minute I was tossed onto the floor of a one of the larger houses which on some sort of pillow, mostly coiled around itself was a blue snakehorse, sky blue to be exact, with red slit eyes and a puffy white mane that looked like a cloud. "I am King Cloudyfangs, what are you here for Gorilla Spy." His tone was flat.

This confused me, I knew I wasn't a gorilla, hell humans didn't look like gorillas except very vaguely, the differences are clear as day. Standing up I looked at this guy, male by the voice. "I am not a Gorilla Spy, I am King Lorenzo, Ruler of the Crystal Empire, this island recently became territory of the Empire, so I was checking what was on my new island."

King Cloudyfangs's right eyebrow rose up as he looked down at me. "Crystal Empire? That must be a lie, no land outside of this exists, and we're forced to compete with the Kirin and those religious nutjob Gorillas."

That caused me to laugh, so I pulled up a map of the known world from my pipboy and projected it with the holographic interface, startling him and the two guards he had at his sides, who raised their spears as if to impale me on them, but stopped once they realized it was a map, so it seems they did have a concept of such things. I pointed to the island we were on. "This is my new island, the one we are currently on right now." I pointed to the Empire Proper across a small chunk of ocean. "This is the Empire Proper, the chunk of land which my Empire controls, other kingdoms and empires control their own parts, this one is mine now."

King Cloudyfangs looked to be in deep thought for a few moments, before speaking. "So you could get us off this island? Away from the Kirin and Gorillas?" He sounded...hopeful? What the fuck?

I nodded. "Somewhat, however the Empire already has Kirin citizens, the Gorillas and Kirin here would become citizens of the Empire as well, but I doubt you'd run into too many of them, the Empire is large after all." That would be an understatement, compared to the Empire this island may as well have been a small rock, I hadn't expected to find anything worthy of noting down on this island, but turns out I was wrong.

The Snakehorse King, whatever the fuck you called his species, put a hoof onto his chin and seemed to be thinking things over, he took a grand five minutes before looking back down at me. "Alright, we submit to your rule so long as you can do the following, one, Get. Us. Of. This. Island. Two, put us in an area with few to no kirin, they have harmed us in the past because they think this land is theirs, now that there is apparently a better option, they can have the damned land. Three, while I will no longer be king I do wish for some sort of position of power and to keep my wealth."

......Well that was fucking easier than I expected. "Alright then....that, can be arranged, all of those demands, I'll have transport aircraft land nearby for you all to get into....I guess just pack your stuff? I can have arrangements to help those who can't bring their stuff.." I was honestly confused and thought this was a ploy, but all he did was nod and have me tossed out of his house.

With.....whatever the hell that was, I got directions to these apparent religious gorillas. It was only a two mile walk and took me about an hour, during that time I called in to have several civilian transport craft brought over to the snake village thing, but to have several armed androids in the event it WAS a ruse, so no organic soldiers would get hurt. And I doubt even with their size they could do more than immobilize an android. After about another thirty minutes I saw what surprisingly looked like an almost normal, if not primitive, town. Gorillas everywhere, they looked like Silverback Gorillas, but I may be wrong I'm no species expert, or whatever those people are called. The moment one of them got a look at me they called attention to themselves and pointed. Then the shitshow began, just like the god damned zebras the first time I met em they began to bow as if Jesus Christ himself had walked out of a store carrying a pizza. An elderly, if they fur turning white at points was anything to go by, Gorilla began walking up to me, wearing some sort of weird helmet.

He, as I saw no tits, was about eye level with me as he walked up, before looking me up and down. "How has an Ancient One returned to the land of the living?" His voice was indeed elderly, he sounded like the grandparent everyone wanted when they where small, like a grandpa.

However his wording confused me, ancient one? What the hell was this about? So I asked as much. "What the heck are you talkin about? Ancient One?" I asked raising an eyebrow.

He held up, what was undoubtedly a partially destroyed Human Skull from a pouch he had on him. "You Ancient One's created this world, created everything within it, your kind made the land, the sky and the sea, then you made plants and animals to live within that land and granted sapience, you are clearly an Ancient One." Oh for...fuck it I'm going to use this to my advantage, so I decided to play along.

------------------------------------------------------Bison Empire, Capital City Iron Mountain------------------------------------------------

On top of a mountain, much like Canterlot, sat a city called Iron Mountain, the Capital of the Bison Empire, large smokestacks and factories punching into the sky while the Imperial Palace sat as the highest structure in the city itself. Empress Bifslu looked across the table at her two allies with a savage grin on her face, the light of the overhead lamp making her crimson eyes glow like a cats, her two white horns shining as well. "Well, it seems our little attack on those pathetic fleabag Abyssinians has begun, as we agreed, once the island is ours and all of those pests are dead, we shall split the resources they claimed so arrogantly on those islands between ourselves, the amount of natural gas and oil alone would be more than enough for all of us for many years to come." Zeena, Sultana of Saddle Arabia nodded her head in agreement, as did Emperor Romulus, ruler of the Caribou Empire. Their forces should be bombarding that island just about now with their battleships large 15 inch guns.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------Mars, location unknown----------------------------------------------------------

Several soldiers in exo suits where patrolling around the newly constructed base, it was underground and took several months to finish, they had to work carefully and quietly as the people who stationed them here had no idea if this area was monitored or not. A portalgate had been built on their end once the base was complete to uplink with the portal back on Earth. Since the base was completed a month ago they didn't fuck around, and several recon and recovery teams had been going to seemingly abandoned military bases scattered nearby each one having a capital E surrounded by a circle of stars somewhere on it and in it, and hauling back severan dozen interesting pieces of technology, one of those technologies was plasma weaponry. Owen Green, Head Researcher and Scientist looked over to General Mark with a wide grin on his face. "Sir what we have recovered will give us leaps and bounds in technological progress, advanced fission reactors, and most importantly, these." He pressed a button and the display case lifted up, showing a weird looking rifle with glowing green bits on it.

General Mark raised a bushy eyebrow. "And what is that exactly?" He peered at the thing as if it was going to blow up at any moment.

Owen smiled harder. "Sir, with the testing we've done, this weapon is...a very advanced yet, very primitive, Directed Energy Weapon, one which shoots plasma, so, a Plasma Rifle."

This caused both eyebrows to shoot upwards in surprise. "What do you mean very advanced, yet very primitive Owen, that makes no logical sense!" Mark looked at Owen with a look of curiosity on his old face.

The scientist happily went on to explain. "While the weapon itself is advanced in what it can do by our standards, its electronics are primitive, something we had decades ago, the only problem we'd have in trying to recreate this thing is trying to replicate its power cells, but given the state of solid batteries and our knew knowledge of fission reactors we are liable to be able to produce a working fission battery or cell of some sort to power our own versions of these weapons, already a prototype has been made and after being hooked into the base's power supply managed to melt a large hole in a half inch thick tungsten metal plate." He pulled up footage of the test fire, the weapon looked makeshift, circuitry and wires everywhere, but he was correct, once plugged into a power supply outlet protected by a surge protector, it managed to fire a bright red bolt of plasma slammed into the metal plate, instantly melting a huge hole into it, the molten metal dripping onto the floor.

General Mark looked up from the video screen. "Well, color me impressed, we have the budget, keep working on it, if you need someone to help design a power source for that thing then by God himself you'll have em. We have the budget for damn near anything right now, so spend as much time as you deem appropriate refining this design and getting a combat ready version ready for field use, this will give us a massive edge over our opponents here."

Owen Green nodded. "Speaking of, several native flying species have managed to kill a few soldiers on their smoke breaks, they fell onto their heads and span themselves, thousands of little teeth tore the flesh off the poor bastards heads till nothin but bone remained."

Mark turned yellow. "God that sounds awful, shame their families will never know, but security here is top priority, we are all expendable." With that said and the information and data found so far uploaded to the other side of the portal, he walked through said portal, walking right back into the base on Earth as if he walked into another room in his house.

Author's Note

Hiya all! How did ya like the chapta OCO, hope you enjoyed it enough to like and share the story lol. I enjoyed writing it for sure.

Here is the new Empire Standard 18-C's

here is the 18-D's

Here is the Solar Plasma Rifle Mark 2, the mini automatic plasmatic lance plasma rifles.

here are the snakepones, this one is a naga, my oc Cyrus Slipscale actually

he's cute ^c^