My eyes snapped open and I looked around at my surroundings. I found myself in an ornate bed with dark black sheets with gold trim. It looked like an edgy teen’s wet dream. Personally, I preferred gunmetal grey and red highlights for anything I wore but still possessing black clothes as apparently, I looked menacing in black, or at least that is what I was told. Tearing myself from my thoughts I removed my blanket, thankful that my pants were still there, and stood up. I looked for my missing arm, the remaining part attached to my arm sparking prompting me to deactivate and remove the remains which I left on the bed. I walked to the door of my room only for it to open and allow a blue pegasus girl to enter. I only knew she was a girl due to her massive chest which I tried my best to not stare at. I failed.

“Oh you're awake,” she said before bowing quickly and causing certain things to bounce. “My name is Dart and I am one of the few ponies who know that Sombra is dead and replaced by you.”

“What do you mean replaced by me?” I asked backing up into the room I woke up in.

“You killed the previous king and therefore you inherit all he owns by right of conquest,” she explained.

“So I’m the new King?” I asked.

“Yes, that is correct.”

“As my first act as king, I appoint you as my royal advisor because you're the only one of your kind who has yet to attempt to kill me although you are only the second of your kind I have met so that isn’t a very big list to choose from.”

“Wait you’ve never met any ponies other than myself and Sombra. How is that possible?” she asked in surprise while looking around my room which like the bed was coated in the colors red and black with a bit of gold for decoration.

“I’m not from around here,” I said with a small smile.

“Oh ok,” she seemed to accept my answer. “As your advisor, I recommend that you address your ponies.”

“My people you mean,” I said as she looked at me as if I had grown a second head. “There are more than one species here meaning that we wouldn’t be called ponies we would be people.”

“Well that is true you definitely aren’t a pony so I guess people will work. Does that mean it will be everypeople and anypeople?”

“No,” I chuckled. “It will be everyone or everybody and anyone or anybody,” I corrected.

“Oh ok,” she smiled. “Sombra had a large dire wolf hide coat that he wore when outside of the castle it would fit you and cover up your lack of limb,” Dart said as she rifled through the closet built into the wall. While she did that I looked over the remains of my arm.

“Um, Dart where is the rest of my arm?” I asked as she returned with a large coat made of what I guess was dire wolf hide. It was colored dark silver not quite my color but close enough.

“Oh almost forgot about that. I put it in the closet I’ll grab it,” she darted between the closet and her previous position causing me to realize why she was named Dart. “Here it is sir,” she handed me the metal appendage which I set on a table of crystal before placing the other part of the arm next to it.

“I’ll fix it later but for now go gather all those you can into the throne room and then return here and lead me to the throne room as I have absolutely no clue where I am,” I almost asked about food but then thought about the state this place was probably in with an evil tyrant formerly lording over them. He most likely used hunger as a means of control keeping his people weak so that they couldn’t challenge him.

“Yes sir,” she then darted from the room, the door slamming behind her leaving me alone to sit on my bed.

I lifted my remaining hand and pushed internally at the new power which resided within my body. Instantly a dark purple and black energy coated the metal hand flowing like a liquid. I pushed at the second power and floating crystals formed from what seemed to be nothing but I suspected it to be some kind of magic that had to exist in this new world. How else would I be able to do these things? I then thought back to the third power technomagic and wondered how the hell did it work. I released the shadowy liquid and reached into my pocket thankful for my phone’s case which had kept it safe during the battle. I flicked on the little device and read through my powers some more oddly when I reached technomagic everything but the basic level seemed to be glitched out and unable to load correctly. I flipped back to crystal manipulation and looked into constructs specifically the section on appendages. After reading up on my powers and attempting to look up other things which failed I turned off the device and slipped in my pocket.

“Sir I rounded up a lot of people and they’re in the throne room,” said the excited voice of Dart as she opened the door, walked in, and stopped dead in her tracks as she saw what I was doing. “Sir your arm,” she said pointing at the grey crystal construct that I had made to replace my arm. Each of the fingers including the thumb ended in a sharp point.

“As the new leader I can’t be perceived to have any weaknesses so I have fashioned myself a new arm that will work well enough until I fix my old one,” I explained and pulled up the hood of my new coat which cast a shadow over my face only allowing my eyes, which now emitted an unnatural black and dark purple glow, to be seen. “Let’s go Dart.”

“Y-yes sir,” she stuttered out before walking down the halls to the throne room. As we got closer I heard voices all of the scared and worried. I wanted to make a good impression on these people so I stopped power flowing to my eyes and dulled my crystal fingers as I stopped in front of the large clack crystal doors to the throne room. So much black in this place it needed to be replaced by something that would appeal to more people than just edgy teens. I willed the doors open with my powers and walked towards the crystal throne with my back straight head held high and the crowd parting in front of me. As I reached the throne I stopped and waved my metal arm which was easier to move than my crystal one which I had to actively mentally control whereas my metal arm could move as if it were my original flesh arm. As I waved the black crystal throne shattered and flew into the air in pieces I then stuck out my crystal arm and in the place of the black throne rose a grey throne with ornate carvings on it. On the top of the tall headboard which went far higher than my head was the Warhammer 40K Aquila made of red and black crystal with the eagle's body being made of red crystal and the head’s and wings being black.

“Hello, my new subjects my name is Jekyll you can call me King Jekyll or My King or sir. You may be afraid that I will be like my predecessor Sombra who I killed but worry not I am here to rebuild this land into the Crystal Kingdom,” I finished and looked at the tall crystal pillar in the center of the room. Within it was what was left of Sombra. “Here I show you the soul of your tyrant king imprisoned for eternity in that which he thought he could control,” they all looked at the pillar in awe. “Now are there any questions?” I asked and immediately regretted as all of them raised their hands. I pointed to a deep green normal pony.

“What are you going to do about the food shortages we only have enough for close to another three months and that includes using the small magic gardens?” asked the pony.

“Why not build a bigger garden?” I asked.

“We’d need a large room with no broken windows and plenty of room to carve runes to simulate sunlight,” I turned to Dart and whispered.

“Do we have any big rooms?”

“We have the ballroom just one floor up,” I turned back to the question pony after talking to Dart.

“You can use the ballroom and turn it into a large garden,” the pony’s eyes bulged outwards.

“Really?”

“Yes really please gather those you need to help you and get to work immediately,” I said to him as he ran to multiple other ponies before a group of at least thirty ran into one of the halls. I then pointed to a pink unicorn.

“Are you going to kill any male unicorns?” I stared at her for a moment.

“No, I will not kill anyone who has not committed a high-level crime. Crime levels will be set at a later date after I look at the laws in case any need to be changed but just so you know murder and rape are up there,” I explained.

“Oh good because there are multiple young male unicorns hidden away.”

“Go bring them out, they have nothing to fear from me. None of you do. I am going to bring this empire into a golden age!” I said loudly and stood up spreading my hands' wide showing off my crystal and metal arms while my eyes flared with black and purple magic.

It was slow at first but eventually, they all either clapped or cheered while others hurried out of the room most likely to bring out those hidden away but among the ones who stayed was a white male pegasus who stepped forward.

“My King, do you wish to rebuild the crystal guard?” he asked before continuing. “Sombra dissolved it in favor of his creations.”

“Yes I would like to rebuild the guard but for now I will only take volunteers. We are not in danger from foreign attacks at the moment so we don’t have to worry about needing a large defense force.”

“I am one of the few remaining guards so I’ll get my brothers and sisters together and begin recruiting,” he said before saluting me and walking off leaving me in the throne room with only Dart and Sombra’s crystalized soul.

“I think that went rather well,” said Dart with a smile.

“I’m going to work on my arm. I need you to gather information on the kingdom. Things such as population, stored food, food production, housing, and other things of the sort also see if you can get me some food but no more than is eaten by the others I will ration food like my people. Do you understand?”

“Got it, boss,” said the bubbly pony before rushing down a hallway leaving me with the realization that I had no idea how to get to my room.

“Shit.”

Author's Note

Here is chapter 2 and as I said before feedback is welcome but if it is negative at least try and be gentle and not like a warhammer to the head.