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As the days pasted and turned to weeks, then the first month of the school year pasted. Stardew Valley High was doing well, keeping Izuku happy and not stressed, mistreated or anything else how he treated before in his old Highschool. The students and staff besides having their quirks taken from them, are also facing other hardships. The students are finding it impossible to get into other schools or been imprisoned and the staff are also imprisoned. Making sure that any resentment Izuku has towards his former classmates and staff, won’t be an issue. With any legal limited ignored so that they be punished as it’s either that or Izuku giving up and they don’t have any say in what happens with them joining the empire.

The government official Mika is looking over the reports from the monitors that have been watching the school. To make sure that nothing happens with Izuku, the school is always under constant watch and all students and staff monitored. People coming to town are also monitored and are only allowed in after going through check points that are open 24 hours a day. Too much at risks and the other countries have sent their own people to handle things as they couldn’t trust the Japanese to do the job themselves.

Currently Sundial is training Izuku in her style of fighting, dirty fighting. Other sword masters had been brought in to help train Izuku, the duel is following the rules of dueling where first blood wins. The sword styles that are for small and fast attacks have been chosen being the best suited for Izuku. Seeing how he’s going to be facing off against bigger and stronger opponents, he needs speed and agility to win.

Watching the screen of the training is Marlon and Gil who are in the room with Mika. He, and Gil have gotten use to having a full school again, as they were both around when the town started dying when the mine closed down. Of course it’s only temporary as once this is over all the new students and staff would be leaving, win or lose.

“Sundial is making the best progress with Izuku,” Marlon said watching as on screen Sundial is showing Izuku how to duck and dodge a much larger and strong opponent.

“And teaching him to fight dirty,” Gil said who has been getting Izuku in shape for his duel.

“The duel isn’t for displaying skills or following the tournament rules like I did. The only rules are what they agree on before the duel starts,” Marlon said.

“Is Izuku’s father still around?” Gil asked.

“He is and is trying to build a relationship with Izuku. So far nothing, Hisashi just spent way too much time away and never contacting him to form a bond with him,” Mika said from her desk.

“Bonding with a complete stranger or bonding with his future wives. I know what I would choose,” Marlon said.

“Who thought that he would help?” Gil asked.

“Some people in the defense department thought it would help. They had the company he’s working for to send him back home and have a branch office open here in town. The company went with it as they want to make deals with Equestria but of course with how Hisashi, is the his job comes first and his family last. A good idea to keep Izuku from quitting, but only if he had a relationship with his son in the first place,” Maki said. (1)

“He is talking and going out on dates with Inko,” Marlon adds.

“I get it. With Izuku going to be apart of the royal family and Inko also joining with all the benefits, like extending their lifespans and all that. He’s hoping to be apart of that, even if it’s just through his wife,” Gil said.

“The only thing he has going for him, is that he had remained faithful to Inko, and provided them with money,” Maki said.

“He be the family member that is around but no one is really attached too,” Gil said.

“In Equestrian society, a father like that who could have remain in contact with his family but didn’t. Is seen as a worthless male, the ponies will never see him as anything but that. And if Inko wasn’t around they wouldn’t tolerate him being around,” Maki adds.

“Is Inko still attached to him?” Gil asked.

“Looks like it’s more because of him having provided for her and Izuku, that she’s with him. She is looking healthy and skinnier then she was before she started living with her son in that ship house. And is the reason why those girls no longer dress so skimpy. Them being still young mares, they automatically follow the oldest female who is apart of their herd, which is her. And with her presents in the manor, is also the only thing keeping Sunset and her ladies in waiting from overwhelming Izuku with their sex appeal and willingness to have sex with him. Seems while the ponies are open about sex, it is still awkward for a parent to walk in on the younger ones having sex and not wanting to join in,” Maki said. (2)

“That would really put a stop to the fun,” Marlon said shuddering at the thought.

“Besides the ick to their sex free culture, the technology they shared so far are doing a wonder for the town. The recycler is a wonder, being able to break down anything into either organic, synthetic, or mineral materials that take the form of square cubes or balls. Linus who runs the garbage dump has been getting many customers to send their trash here, after all the trash in the dump was recycled. Hospitals and laboratories have been sending biohazard waste and expired materials to be recycled. The fishermen the town are also sending the offals from their catch to the recycling facility as well. Of course all the cubes are being taken by the Equestrians, as Linus is only renting the recycler from them. They also have a recycler installed in the water treatment plant and the sewage treatment plant,” Gil pointed out.

The recyclers filter out all the materials and chemicals from the water, as water is the only thing that the recycler doesn’t break down. Which the recycler was created to do in the first place by the race that created it, before its other uses were discovered by the Equestrians. The Equestrians like the Anicent Romans when they discover something new, started by Infinitia during her rule as queen. New technologies and ideas from any new races or the ruins of a fallen civilization or space wrecks were gathered and incorporated into the existing technologies of Equestria.

“Showing us a sample of what life be like under their rule,” Maki said.

“The new medicines would be nice, I seen what they’re doing for Inko,” Marlon said wondering if they could make a new eye for him.

“Yes, all and good with that but if Izuku loses or gives up. We don’t have any say in how joining the empire will be like. With how Oriana explained how any kind of group or people are against the empire, unlike conflicts that happen here. She just kills off the entire group and wipes out the knowledge of them from history. With anyone connected to the groups being made sterile so they can’t pass anything down to the next generation. Writings and records destroyed, being replaced by what she had made to twist the idea or belief. She’s fond of rewriting books of faith, like she has a dim view on the faiths around here that devalues females. She would rewrite it so that it’s the other way around, and because she’s immortal she can wait for the changes she makes to take effect,” Maki said.

“I saw that interview. She had one race faith be rewritten to where the male would have to tear off their own penis and balls and eat them, once they have a child. That faith died out quirkily,” Gil said.

“And she showed that she can give the Middle-East farmable fields and water. Which she will take away if any group there straps bombs onto themselves. So that after having a taste of a better life, everyone knows who to blame. And that she will just read minds of the people there and fling them into space and keep on doing it till there’s no one left who is a believer. She done it enough times where it worked and after a 100 years or so past, no one who has lived a better life will care about a group of people who were all flung into space. And in the extreme cases, she’s more than happy to wipe out the entire group that the people of those groups came from. As she pointed out, there are around 7 billion people on Earth. She can cull our numbers down and she has completely destroyed cultures and ways of life for other races and in a few short generations, the future generations of their race don’t care one bit about them,” Maki said.

“The Middle-East diplomats weren’t happy with that,” Marlon said.

“Or after she was insulted, she gave out the bio-fuel that can be used instead of gasoline, to our world all for free,” Gil said.

“Installing the facilities and supplying the fuel, just to bankrupt the oil soaked Middle-East countries and taking away much of their power and influence. The only value of oil is as fertilizer for the empire, and isn’t that valuable where the power and influence that the Middle-East countries with oil will ever have again. As besides oil, there’s not much they have that can’t be found elsewhere,” Maki said.

“Sand for cement?” Gil suggested.

“Nope the sand of deserts aren’t that suitable to make cement with. The sand from rivers and beaches are more suitable,” Maki said. (3)

“I’m looking forward to living under the empire,” Gil said.

“As do many other people. The ones in power are the ones who are the most worried as they have the most to lose,” Maki said.

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Author's Note

1 - A very common way for getting the parents to not be around in anime and mangas. But I would like to a story where a parent or parents who have put their jobs ahead of their kids for years, suddenly having to bond with their kid after ignoring them for all that time.

2 - Due to Inko living in the manor with them, Sunset and the girls can’t be as open as they want in having their way with Izuku.

3 - The sand from the deserts of the Middle-East isn’t suitable to use in cement making and why imports of sand from other countries are used instead.