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In the private quarters of the ship, Sunset slept in the warm bed, still recovering from weeks of starvation. The women who found her in that basement had called her by the name of her human self Anastasia, telling her they came after hearing her calling out for help and that they remain loyal to her family. They hand wash her dirty body and fed her, with her too weak and hungry to care who they are and how they found her, just that they saved her.

They’re all strong as she seen them uprooting tree with their bare hands and eating them whole. Overhearing that they needed better fuel, they did bring back animals they managed to find but gave her the best parts and taking the leftovers. They also can summon big ships out of nowhere and the ships are crewed by women who all looked like one of the women. The ships are warm and have beds, and warm food, showers, and light.

They been traveling for days with the women walking through the thick snow and rough terrain, only stopping at night. Meeting some people as they travel or came across the ships at night. The women always kept her close to them and kept on walking south.

They were joined by another woman a few days after she was rescue, a maid. She took over caring for her and reminded Sunset of the maids of the castle. Wrap in coats and blankets the woman Standart would carry her in her powerful arms while the others in circles them for protection. Telling her that she will always be at her side. (1)

Followed by a younger woman named Voevoda, who showed up the following day and joined the group. And Vpered who is a doctor who went to work on healing her body.

“Dinner is ready,” Standart said coming in with a tray of food for Sunset.

Standart is a gorgeous woman with long gray hair that she keeps in a long braid that goes down to her knees. She wears a long skirted grey maid outfit with an apron. Which does little to hide the voluptuous body she has, with huge and soft breasts that Sunset knows as she rest her head on them as she was carried by her.

All the women with her are also beautiful with gorgeous bodies.

Avrora, has long white hair that she keeps in two braids. Has a slender and busty body, that her outfit shows off.

Volkhov, she keeps her blue hair shoulder length, wears a welder’s mask and dresses in white overalls over a black shirt with a large tool belt around her waist. She wears a large white coat that is lined with tools, even carrying a torch. She has a robust and busty body.

Gangut, the eldest of the four sisters, a tall and powerful woman with long white hair that reaches her legs. She wears a large overcoat that covers her busty body that her clothes show off when she opens her coat.

Poltava, like her sister is tall and powerful with larger breasts and has long white hair. Also wears a large overcoat that hides her body till she opens it.

Petropavlovsk, has white hair that she has in a long braid and has wider hips than her sisters with her busty body. Wears a large cloak instead of an overcoat.

Sevastopol, the youngest and unlike her sisters has a slender and graceful body. She also has long pointy ears and red eyes, with long white hair that has two black stripes. She also wears a black and white gown instead of a military theme outfit like the others, that also shows off her modest bust compared to her sister’s.

Voevoda, is younger and has a slender but has an ample chest. She wears a coat that is smaller than the others and wears tighter clothes that shows off her legs. She’s the fastest of the group and scouts ahead of the group.

Vpered, wears a black button blouse and a white long white skirt and a long doctor’s coat. She has shoulder length blue hair and has a busty body. She carry’s a doctor’s bag with her.

“Thank you,” Sunset said as she looks at the food which is a bowl of thick stew of meat that has been grounded up for her to easily eat.

“You’re welcome princess,” Standart said.

“Who are you all? And how do you do all of this magic, did I summon you all with that?” Sunset ask as she looks at the cube on the table next to the bed.

“Yes, we’re the ship of the imperial Russian navy. As I said, I’m Standart, your late father’s yacht and the others are the battleships. That magic cube combine with your magic, gave us humanoid female forms. I can summon my real body and my crew are copies of myself like the others,” Standart said.

“You are all ship? Is that why you all eat wood?” Sunset ask.

“Yes we are and eating wood is to fuel our boilers. I’m royal yacht Standart, torpedoe gunboat Voevoda, hospital ship Vpered, light cruiser Avrora, U-boat salvage tug Volkhov, Gangut-class battleships sisters Gangut, Poltava, Petropavlovsk, and Sevastopol. The Bolshevik took over and executed most of the royal family, if they find you, they will end the direct bloodline to the throne,” Standart said.

“I’m not Anastasia Romanov, she died with her family,” Sunset said.

“You’re Sunset Shimmer, a unicorn from a magical world and the personal student of princess Celestia an alicorn who is your mother but hide that fact from you. And you came to this world on the same day your human counterpart died and shared her memories with you. You know her entire life and it changed you from the arrogance child you were, by giving you the one thing that your pony mother couldn’t give you, a loving family,” Standart said causing Sunset to stare at her.

“You all know, how?” Sunset ask.

“Magic from the summoning,” Standart simply stated.

“Oh,” Sunset said looking at the cube and back to Standart.

“We follow you because of that fact. We are Klabautermanns ship spirits given true form and you aren’t the princess we are loyal to but you carry all of her memories, you carry a copy of her and her counterpart,” Standart said. (2)

“All of these memories of a life, I never lived…,” Sunset said now knowing what it would have been like if she had a real mother, a father and siblings in her life.

“You wanted to become a princess, and a ruler, you the chance now,” Standart said.

“Why do you want me to replace a dead princess?” Sunset ask.

“You know why, you seen her memories and we have seen how the Bolshevik are no better, no worst then the very people they say they’re replacing. The White Army is disorganized and have separate factions. They need a leader someone to rally behind, word has spread about the sightings of you. The other Klabautermanns who haven’t been summon yet, have told us all about the tales being told. You ended up close to Yekaterinburg where your other self died, and we’re heading south to the boarder. From there you can decided to either wait till you can return to your world, or take the empty throne,” Standart said.

“To take the throne and defeat the Red army, I would need an army of my own and resources that, I don’t have,” Sunset said her mind racing. “My uncles did nothing when father pleaded with them for help. And the leaders of the White army would only see a young girl, not a leader.”

“You can call for more of us using the cube, after the others found you first, you held onto the cube and kept on calling, and we came once we could pin point where you were,” Standart explains. “Or you could use a piece of a ship to call for them to come.”

“A piece?” Sunset asks.

“This is Vostok, all that’s left of her wooden hull,” Standart said showing Sunset a wooden cross, she found in a long abandoned cabin. “She was a sloop of war but was broken up and her pieces sold off, this cross was made from one of her pieces. I can feel her sleeping waiting to be awaken.”

“So I can randomly summon more Klabautermanns or using a piece of them summon them," Sunset said her mind still racing.

"There's much for you to think about, but we will follow you no matter what, princess. Please eat and think about what, I said," Standart said leaving Sunset in the room to think about what to do next.

Sunset took the bowl of stew and began to eat remembering the life of her human counterpart and how it ended. That life, her human counterpart's life now apart of her and changed her, she isn't Sunset Shimmer anymore. Standart is right about that life changing her, she now has lived two lives, one hers and the other her human counterpart. She can see things in a completely different view, and that her pony home is one where the pony who birthed her didn't wanted her, while the human one did along with her father, sisters, and brother.

The Reds with their way of thinking of how things should be run, would just centered power to the elite few at the top. Once the leaders of the Reds have fully taken over, there be a power struggle like always, she has studied enough history to know what would happen with the kind of government that they want. The Reindeer of the Sera Plains of her world do follow that kind of government that the Reds want and it only works because they are a wandering people who have to keep traveling to avoid the months of night at the northern lands where they live. The ones who tried to settle down in lands where they didn't have to keep on moving and kept the same government where common ownership and no classes expect for the ones in charge. Have all failed with many deaths because of mismanagement of resources and the leaders keeping the resources for themselves.

There is also the story she read based on what happen at Manor Kingdom, where intelligence pigs took over the kingdom from a cruel pony with everyone else but the pigs to end up being even worst then under the rule of the monarch they help overthrow and the other animals suffered all the same. If the Red takeover and rule with how more violent this world is compared to hers, the results will lead to a lot more deaths while the ones in charge grow fat off of the ones they say they're fighting for. (3)

"I'm going to need to know how this cube works," Sunset said looking at the cube having made up her mind as she ate.

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Days Later -

Sunset learned much from her studying the cube and asking the Klabautermanns what they know about their bodies. They are able to eat entire trees to fuel their boilers and to resupply themselves. Anything that they eat they can convert into something that can be found on their ship bodies, they can eat metal and other things that no organic being could eat to help restore themselves faster. They do like eating real food for the taste. The food stores of Standart which she's been using to feed Sunset with, she can restock by eating enough materials to create more, like how the others can also do the same for their ammo. (4)

The Klabautermanns are one woman armies, able to survive anything that a armored warship can. They can summon their rigs which are the weapons they have on their ship bodies, that while small in their human form still packs the same power as the full size ones. They are also have magical abilities from firing blasts of energy to summoning things like fairy like beings to attack. Also when they use their rigs they hover over the ground and can travel much faster then by walking, but they also use more fuel than they would by walking. When they use their ship bodies and are crewed by copies of themselves, are alot weaker at human level.

She also learned that they can regenerate any lost parts of themselves by eating enough, like when Ganguts took off her heavy machine guns from her ships body and mount them on Standart's ship body, to give her more firepower to her lone QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss gun. After eating several trees and a long abandon broken wagon, eating the wood and metal bits she was able to replace the machine guns with new ones. And now Standart's rig is now more than one gun that she carries but also several machine guns, from harness on her sides like the others have.

It gave Sunset an idea and had Volkhov lead the others into creating a raft with them attaching an old abandoned log cabin onto it, making a house boat. Sunset then merge the cross made from Vostok timber to it and had the others curve runes onto the house boat to make it into one of the flying ships. Sunset had learned how to make the runes to make a flying ship but lack the mastery of professionals so the house boat could only float a few feet above the ground and needs her to charge it with magic to do it. But that’s the point to her experiment in how the cube works mixed with her magic knowledge. (5)

When Sunset summon Volkhov, a voluptuous older woman with wide, generous hips, magnificent bubble butt, lush, well sized melons, long, curly brown hair, her old ship form of a sloop of war, merged with the floating house boat creating a flying wooden ship. The other Klabautermanns went to work on adding a propeller to the sloop to allow it to move around in the sky, putting it at the back of the ship. They took the boiler from Standart to power the propeller and added better weapons. As for Volkhov, Sunset had her change from the old uniform of the Russian navy and changed into clothes made from furs and leather, with a headpiece made from a bear skull and horns from a wild sheep.

“Yes this is good,” Sunset said looking at Volkhov in her new outfit.

“What is this for?” Volkhov asked looking over her new clothes that replaced her uniform.

“I’m going to have to tell how I gain magic abilities and why I’m back from the dead. It will give honor to the loyalty that Grigoriy Yefimovich Rasputin had for my family, by him using his magic to contact an old legend that has stayed for countless centuries. Through her she gave me new life and powers, which you will become known as, I renamed you as Baba Yaga,” Sunset said to Baba Yaga.

“The witch, I’ll shall become,” Baba Yaga said.

“Once we’re airborn, head for the sea. We need to recruit more Klabautermanna and I remember how father said about the British intelligence helping in the death of Rasputin as he was pressing father to get out of the war. Might as well send a message to uncle as well. But in the meantime any Reds we meet, we destroy,” Sunset said.

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Author's Note

1 - The Standart was an Imperial Russian yacht serving Emperor Nicholas II and his family, being in her time (late 19th/early 20th century), the largest imperial yacht afloat. After the Russian Revolution, the ship was placed in drydock until 1936, when she was converted to a minelayer. During World War II, she participated in the defense of Leningrad.

2 - A Klabautermann is a water kobold that assists sailors and fishermen on the Baltic and North Seain their duties. It is a merry and diligent creature, with an expert understanding of most watercraft, and an irrepressible musical talent. It is believed to rescue sailors washed overboard. The name comes from the Low German verb klabastern meaning "rumble" or "make a noise". An etymology deriving the name from the verb kalfatern ("to caulk") has also been suggested.

3 - Animal Farm

4 - The Klabautermanns are able to restore their supplies and parts lost by eating or repairing their ship bodies. They can also add things to their ship bodies and refit them for better equipment and weapons.

And like in the game they can use special attacks ranging from energy attacks to summoning something to help them or to attack an enemy.

5 - Seeing how there is flying ships in Equestria, there be books that explain how to make one. Which Sunset being Celestia’s student would have access to said books.