Domination of Equestria - T-246 days.
“Mr President? You have a call sir.”
“Humm? I’m in the middle of reviewing arms designs. Tell them to wait and call back.”
“Ah, um...It’s Princess Twilight Sparkle sir.”
“Oh is it now? Ok, I’ll take it in here.
Princess, how may I be of service to the Crown?”
“You can tell me what you’re up to.”
“Humm? Well Princess, we’re quite a diverse company here, we create electronics for the emerging markets and we have a large distribution arm-”
“Don’t play coy with me. Did you think the Crown wouldn’t notice you gathering artefacts from across Equestria? Tomes written by Discord before his first entombment, body parts of Changeling Queens and countless others. Nothing your company does relates to any of those fields.”
“Of course they don’t Princess, they’re just for my own personal amusement. It may be our logistics division making many of those discoveries but I assure you I pay for them from my own private funds. No embezzlement here or misuse of corporate assets.”
“That’s not the issue here. Do you think some petty fraud would merit me calling you like this? Those artefacts are a threat to Equestrian security. You’re very close to committing treason here Mr President.”
“Treason!? Oh my, I had no idea. Princess, please. You have my personal assurance that I will destroy all of these risky items immediately! I never knew I was undertaking such risk. I thought them mere curios.”
“No, destruction won’t be necessary. Send them all to my castle here in Ponyville.”
“Of course Princess, I will have them made secure and then shipped to you directly with all great haste.”
“Good. I’m glad we’ve come to an understanding. We’ve avoided something quite calamitous here. I’m surprised, you’re being very reasonable.”
“Of course Princess, it’s my honour and a pleasure to serve the Crown. If that’s all, then I’ll bid you a good day.”
Bitch.
“Miss Dictation?”
“Yes Sir?”
“Get me the Logistics department on the phone, the Special Acquisitions and Development Branch.”
“Yes Sir, connecting you now.”
“How may we do your bidding, Master?”
“Princess Twilight is onto us. Prepare a shipping manifest containing all the Level Black items and have the Container Ship Placebo loaded with the dummy crates. Mark them for Ponyville and ship them by the Southern Swirl.”
“Is the ship to be lost at sea Master?”
“With all hooves, and all cargo. Make sure it happens in the deepest trench you can find, I don’t want investigations turning up the fakes in the wreck.”
“Your word is my command, My Master.”
Overlord Rule No:92 If I ever talk to the hero on the phone, I will not taunt him. Instead I will say this his dogged perseverance has given me new insight on the futility of my evil ways and that if he leaves me alone for a few months of quiet contemplation I will likely return to the path of righteousness. (Heroes are incredibly gullible in this regard.)
Well played. Thought not unexpected
Was wondering when this one would pop up. It would probably be super effective on ponies.
For some reason I keep envisioning the Evil Overlord as being Jim Fucking Sterling, Son.
6501456 Supreme Overlord used Rule 92! It's super effective!
The moral of this:
Just because you are under suspicion doesn't mean it's time to place all bets and come out of the closet. Keep your cool.
If your antagonists knowledge is only partial make sure it stays as reduced as possible for as long as you can without drawing further suspicion.
The less they know the easier it will be to deceive them, and doing so can help you in an endless amount of ways, like giving you more preparation time for instance.
Also, if you are cunning enough you could erase suspicion by providing fake evidence that exonerates you from suspicion.
... at least until something else comes up that compromises you.
~Leonzilla
Hehehe, ponies are so gullible. In the defense of our recent Evil Overlord, the ponies have hardly showed that they can be trusted with said powerful artefacts, considering their usual approach to them is 'lock them away somewhere for a few years where they'll be forgotten and nobody will know or be prepared for when it inevitably backfires'.
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Who does that make the Princesses? Konami?
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Konami is the New Atari.
Started out ok, then plummeted into their own crap. The next Metal Gear will be so poorly made that excess copies will be thrown into a landfill desert somewhere.
Yeah. like DBZ Abridged Goku.
6515218 Konami may be shit at video games, but I'm sure they make a killing off of Yu-Gi-Oh, since they translate the cards and dub the anime.
I wish these were in order time wise all this jumping around is starting to get confusing
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oh, have you heard of "Metal Gear Survive"?
it's a zombie survival game with NOTHING in common with the real Metal Gear games but the engine.