I was wandering about the Hive. The Slitherers had not been attacking for the last few days and I was getting very worried. Well, and very bored as well for lack of things to actually do. I had had a few conversations with Firm Ties and we got along very well. The rest of the embassy was still on an unofficial high alert. But something that had me even more worried than the other matters at hand was Prime Directive. Prime Directive had been very quiet since Johnny had been summoned. And whenever I 'looked' over its 'shoulder', it would quickly put away whatever it was working on. I finally decided to try to bargain with Prime Directive, which was always a dangerous thing.
"Prime Directive?" There was hesitation for a moment before it responded, no doubt hiding whatever its project was.
"Yes?"
"I want to bargain with you."
"For what?"
"Specifics about the time you were with Johnny, and what your project is."
"No." I wasn't going to give up so easily this time.
"Is there anything you would trade for the info?"
"No." Wow, it was very talkative today.
"I'll tell you what happened before you woke up."
"No." I didn't have much to bargain with besides that. But I decided to use the one bit of leverage I hadn't put on the table, or was unwilling to give up. Even so, I hesitated before saying it.
"I'll add a redesign of the body to my end of the deal." That grabbed its attention. It hesitated before grudgingly saying,
"No." I was revealed on the one hand, but disappointed on the other. "But I will tell you by those conditions once my project is finished." My emotions flipped right then.
"That'll have to do." I felt Prime Directive drift back to its area before continuing work on whatever it was. I had accomplished in part something that I had to. I was dreading the redesign, and whatever might happen to me. Although one thing was almost certain to happen this time, and I dreaded it.
Celestia
I sighed as I trudged through the paperwork as it was up to my knees now. I was looking for where to begin when I detected a familiar magical signature. I shifted the paperwork before finding it. It was a letter from Twilight. "Well," I thought to myself, "Just this before I begin." I got half way through it before I lost my temper. I screamed, "DAHAKA!!!!!" before I charged a teleportation spell to confront Dahaka about the creature below ponyville.
btw, I wrote this part listening to this.
Dahaka
I was startled as Celestia teleported right in front of me. I registered her expression, and tried to diffuse the situation before it exploded.
"Why Celestia, it is a pleas-" Too late.
"HOW DARE YOU SEND SABOTEURS TO PONYVILLE!" She used the Royal Alicornian voice to great effect.
"Now Celestia, listen-"
"NO!" She yelled with all of her breath before saying in a menacing tone, "I thought we had a truce, I see now that it was just a ruse. I officially-" I interrupted then. I now knew that this had something to do with the encroacher that I had sent to the village that was apparently called Ponyville. The outburst had seemingly put her tongue in a twist, but that would only last until she found the word she was looking for. I had an idea about what it should be.
"Now Celestia, the unit was only there for our little cold war. I have pulled them out now." This barely seemed to register with her as she came up with a revolutionary sentence in this world’s history of swearing.
"You sea serpent with the rear of a diamond dog." What did I tell you, revolutionary. I facepalmed as I said,
"That isn't bad at all Celestia." I quickly withdrew my hand claw appendage from my face. "But if you go to Ponyville and check again, you will find that it is gone. My apologizes for the scare. Now PLEASE get out. I have things to do." She looked flustered, but she probably thought that it was better to be flustered in her rooms instead of in front of me so she teleported out of the way. I sighed at the episode, and went back to thinking about what Prime Directive might turn me into.
John (AKA, the lord of the slitherers(AKA, the Mimics.))
I almost had the veritable tsunami of units prepared. I had even fabricated a new type of drone that I called the Elephant. The only update in the research and development side of things was that my mimicry of enemy units was incredibly imperfect. I could make a mold, but for some reason I could not make the insides work nearly as well as they should. But no matter, they would fall soon. They had numbers, sure, but my units could overpower theirs. I may have a good chance of winning this time, but I wasn't going to go in guns blazing. I already had a diversion prepared, and the diversion might even take the town that apparently was called Seaddle. But until the attack I had plenty of time on my hands, and I was planning something even more devious just in case.