Chrysalis was apparently informed of our departure. Because as we left, she came to say good bye
"I thought you would be staying longer," she commented.
"I don't want to be the cause of a rebellion in your hive, Ive done too much already."
"Well, thank you for the consideration then."
"Your welcome."
"I see that you have a vanguard."
"I do indeed. I will be going then."
"Very well, good bye."
"Good bye."
So I started up the long tunnel to the surface. Once there, and squinting as the sun used its brightest rays to try and blind me, I selected a direction and started to walk towards a mountain. The journey was mostly uneventful except for the occasional small animal that got eaten by my zerglings. I had my zerglings save a rabbit for later. Once I reached the mountain, I had my zerglings scout around for a cave. I had to wait for another extremely uneventful hour before they found a cave big enough for my purposes. Once I got to the cave I was just about ready to scream from boredom. Luckily, I had the rabbit to make into a miniature hatchery with one modification, it could grow.
But once the new hatchery was growing, it was boring once again. I tried singing "fifty bottles of beer on the wall, fifty bottles of beer!" but it became annoying to even me after a while. Then I tried punching the wall. The wall did not put up much of a fight. Then finally I tried sleeping "Wake me up when the hatchery is done, and has produced some larva. Ok Prime Directive?" "As you wish" I almost laughed at the unintentional reference, but did not. Sleep then greeted me like an old friend.
Celestia
"Any sign of Dahaka?" I asked Shining Armor. We where in the throne room.
"No, he has disappeared entirely."
"That is most likely a bad sign. We must locate him before he can build his army and come against us."
"Yes Celestia. I suggest that we use Cerberus to-"
"No Shining Armor. If we do that, even temporarily, Tirek may escape."
"But I could use my shield spell to close Tartarus until he gets back." I shook my head
"I am not willing to take that chance. If Tirek escapes as well, then we will not be able to hold. We might not be able to hold now."
"That is why we must take chances. One of the things that I learned about strategy is that when you are the underdog, you must take chances. That is the only way to gain an edge." I hesitated for a moment, then said
"Fine, but take a dozen guards of various races as well. You need to have backup. I just wish that there was another way."
"Perhaps you should try and reform Discord? He would be a useful asset to have."
"No, Cerberus is enough of a risk for now. I will not give Dahaka two chances for certain victory at the same time."
"I will take my leave then." Shining armor then walked out of the throne room. I sighed. I did not want to put Cerberus on anything other than guard duty. He was the last of the Alicornian War Hounds. And more than that, he was my parents last gift to Luna and I before they when to stop Dahaka.
Dahaka
I was wakened to find a half complete hive cluster, dozens of drones making the cave bigger, and a huge army.
"PRIME DIRECTIVE!" I screamed in my mind.
"Yes?" it said
"I told you to wake me when we had some larva!"
"you did not define 'some', so I started working." I sighed and said
"In future, ask when there are variables."
"Very well." I sighed again. Working with Prime Directive was often tiring. At least I wouldn't have to do as much as before. Although, the residents of the planet where lucky that I awoke before Prime Directive ordered an assault. I decided to have Prime Directive do something to occupy it.
"Prime Directive, start work on a multi-universal gateway.." It was impossible for Prime Directive to complete this task, but it would try. That made this the perfect way to distract it for a long time.
"Starting now" I might not be able to be rid of Prime Directive, but at least I could do things like this. I started work on building my fortress. I started by making one of the zerg structures Prime Directive had designed for me many years ago right in the cave entrance. This structure acted like a sort of bubble that could make its surface change according to what I wanted it to look like. It could also let zerg pass through it. In emergency, it could harden and die into a material so hard, that it was as tough as a steel wall. Of course if I did that, we would have to make a new entrance. That was why it was a last resort. As soon as that started, I made an Encroacher Lair. The Prime Directive had no imagination when it came to strategy, -or imagination in general- so it saw almost no reason for them when I commissioned them. But I knew how to use them. After that base building was very routine.