(Abyssinia)

"I have ruled this kingdom for twenty-five years.
My father gave his life to Abyssinia and raised me since I could walk to rule Abyssinia.
My wife is buried here.
This is where my son took his first steps.
I've raised my sword in defense of this kingdom, and I would gladly give my life to my people.
Yet you want me to give you my homeland?" Damion looked down at ponies standing before him donned in full golden plate armor.

All the while the Equestrian ambassador stood before the king with a page of parchment with the wax seal of princess Celestia demanding the king stepped down from his throne to give over his homeland.

"You have let a known criminal of Equestria walk freely in your lands and allowed him to kill and mangle members of the royal guard and allow him to leave freely without turning over to Equestria custody," The Ambassador smiled. "And as the king of your land. You are to do what is right for your people... and surrounding your kingdom over will save your people a lot of heartaches but if you don't sign well once the army is done bringing that settlement to justice they will take your kingdom by force,"

Damion tried his best to not slam his fist down on his throne.

"Are you threatening me, Ambassador?"

"No, I am not... I'm simply telling you the facts of the current events," Damion stared down the Ambassador and his armored escort before tapping his clawed hand against the front of his armrest.

The only sound through the throne room was the king's sharp claw tapping against the silver lion's head on his throne.

*Tap*

*Tap*

*Tap*

"Celestia has some nerve coming to me like this after not only threatening the safety of my people but assaulting a messager's escort of one of my allies and cutting off the trade roots not only to my kingdom but to the Zebra's and Jackals alike," He moved in his seat while staring down the Ambassador. "Have you heard the tale of the fool that once came into this same throne room 500 years ago when my ancestor 'Queen Blair the kind' was threatened the safety of her people by some bold dune raiders?"

The ponies grabbed their weapons at the king's words.

"My Ancestor had that title for a completely different reason," More of the Abyssinia guard stepped from the shadows while some of the sand devils looked down at the ponies from the 'catwalks' on top of the throne room. "She was so kind enough to hand the warlord that threatened her the heads of his entire family on a silver plater and allowed him to leave the kingdom alive and unharmed while letting him keep the sliver plater,"

Drawing their weapons the guard moved around the Ambassador who stared at the king not changing the look on his face.

"Equestria is no Warband of raiders! We have the power of the sun and moon! You are damning your entire kingdom and your people to a life of misery if you do this!" He stepped forward with the contract up. "We have the tools of GODS your entire race will be turned to stone if they were lucky by the elements of harmony! Or your entire land will be not but glass by the power of Celestia hersel-"

The King who was moments ago was on his throne but in the blink of an eye was before the Ambassador with his claws covered in the blood of the pony who seemly forgot where he was or who he was talking to. Damion heard enough of the pony's voice so he took it from him, silencing the pony by clawing out the throat of the Ambassador.

Almost like clockwork, the Abyssinian guard stepped in to defend their king while the sand devils leaped from the ceiling at the ponies below taking them by surprise. These ponies couldn't match the speed and reflexes of the felines along with the heavy gold plate weighing them down allowing the cats lions, tigers, and pumas to attack through the gaps in their armor.

Watching the ponies die at his feet Damion spat at the wax seal before holding up his still bloodied hand.

"Ready the army we must be ready to defend our home and our allies! Aella!"

The sand devil scout turned to her king while whipping the blood of her sword using an equestrian's solar guard white fur to do so.

"Yes, my king?"

"Ready a detachment of the sand devils to go out into no-man's land... I cannot spare much but we must hold our ally in the wastes whether he likes it or not were all in this together," Aella nodded before standing up sheathing her blade but before she could leave to follow with her orders the doors to the throne room open as an outside guard peaked his head in.

"Milord?

Looking at the guard the panther king spoke up.

"What is it?"

"There is someth- em sorry someone here wishing to speak with you,"

"Who?"

"It's that floating metal ball that accompanied Sir Six the other day," This caused the king to shake his head before waving to the guard.

"Well... let him in son!"

The guard pushed the door open allowing the metal floating creature into the throne room as it dashed forward.

"ED-E?" Aella blinked seeing the similar framed machine but it held a different orange and black color than the eyebot she first met.

"Not really," Six's voice echoed through the grilled speaker on the front of the machine while it turned to her slightly.

"Six? What happened to you!" Damion shouted baffled believing the machine was Six.

"What happened to me? Wait... ohhhhhh! No! Damion I'm fine perfectly healthy and well for the most part The eyebot spoke. "I sent this eyebot to make sure you weren't assaulted like we were over here and I wanted to make sure you guys weren't attacked as well,"

"Well um... Six it is very considerate for you to see this message to us but you should be more focused on your front I can imagine the strain the equestrian army is giving you currently. Don't worry I'm seeing some of my best to aid you in your time of need-"

"Actually Damion we're all good over here,"

"What?"

"Yeah they attacked us but we handled it,"

"The entire Equestria army?"

"That was their ENTIRE army? Okay... Amelia was right that was extremely stupid to come at us like that with everything they had," The courier chuckled through the ED-E. "I'm just glad you guys are s-"

Before the courier could finish the entire throneroom shook while the echo of an explosion caused the entire structure to shake.

"Son of a-... just had to open my big mouth,"

Rushing out of the throne room Damion pushed the doors open and froze upon seeing the wave of Equestrian troops outside the city walls and siegecraft suddenly appear through magical teleportation blimps.

"Milord get down!" Aella tackled the panther king down as a hail of arrows came crashing down from above, the eyebot quickly moved up before firing a pulse sending backward and softly landing backward.

Getting up Damion watched as the machine turned towards him.

"You all alright? Can't really see you,"

"We're fine my friend your messager here shielded us from a rain of arrows... what is this one's name?"

"His name? I called this one Hex... send him not to only be my voice but at least help out before we can get to you. He may not be as smart as ED-E but he'll do his best,"

"Thank you my friend please ride swiftly I don't know how long our walls can hold out!"

"We'll be there in five,"

"Five? Wait in five hours?" The Eyebot didn't respond as it just floated in place. "Damn..."

Damion turned to his men before holding up his bloodied fist.

"What are you all waiting for it's time to defend our homeland! To arms!" The guard and the sand devils raised their weapons before Damion pulled his king's robe from his shoulder revealing his armored body, while the troops began to form up. "Aella,"

The sand devil scout looked as the king stopped her.

"My king?"

"Do you think our faith in Six will not be misplaced," Damion asked the scout who flinched at the king's words.

"I can't really say..."

"Aella... I'm not speaking as your king but as a friend who wishes for another friend's advice," Aella looked away from Damion, she had not known Six long but she gave her trust that the courier was able to save her sister's life and he did.

Giving a nod the lioness nodded.

"I do believe we can count on his aid," The scout answered to which the king nodded.

"Then let us get to work,"

Stepping forward the King was handed his blade before taking to action with the scout and the eyebot behind him.

'I only hope we can hold out for five hours'

(Meanwhile)

"WHHOOOOOW!!!" Amelia laughed while at the wheel all the while Six was holding for dear life in the turret seat as the transport they were in hit a sane dune sending them in the air before hitting the ground.

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"Yeah please, Amelia I know were in a rush that was really unnecessary,"

"Watashi no warui~" The android gave an apologetic look before turning back to the viewfinder while Six looked at her and then to ED-E on his docking station, Six looked back at Amelia before speaking as he went back to calibrating the weapon system.

'Hey, Brain-me,'

'Yeah?'

'Points for picking up that language course when we were separated,'

'You were the one who got me ripped out of you,'

'Hey, we talked about this,'

'More like thought about it,'

'Don't get snarky with me,'

'I'm you asshole'

'Now who is the one using vulgar language now,'

'Shut up... eyes forward two minutes,'

Flipping a few switches the twin 20mm machines came to life as the weapon platform lit up as the targeting computer and lenses were activated. Six looked through the three monitors to the outside, and on either side of the reborn pre-war death machine where a small army of securitrons easily keeping up with the tank.

Six did work for Mr. House before his time with the NCR and even after his order to kill the 200-year-old living mummy Six had kept a few things from his time like the entire data network from the lucky 38 and the one thing that set him on this path.

He definitely earned the right to keep the chip after all he has been through... he was never letting it up.

"One minute ready to show me your 'superior driving skills' Amelia?" The Android laughed before flooring the gas.

"Kore o yarou!"

Author's Note

Not as long as the last chapter but I hope you enjoyed it...

Also yes I did add a little something to the front of Part 12 that's not a mistake... this is the Red sand war-arch.

Where the arch will take the palace in the badlands along with Six now involved, where they have to establish connections with the half of the badlands outside of Equestria's control. Help the Zebras and the somewhat isolated Jackals and fit the trade lands and who knew Six might gain new allies...

And one of them is not the one you will expect...

X)