Celestia was pacing back in forth in her chambers. This...thing was nearly indestructible, and from what Luna gathered while in the dream reality all it absolutely needed to survive was a few centimeters of water and it would begin regenerating wounds and regaining its ability to use its powers. Thus far it seemed as though what was around its body was nearly invulnerable and with what knowledge she gained from Starswirl when he talked to the...thing, some of how it was altered made it more resistant to damage, significantly more so at that.

"So the question is...can we use it?" She mumbled to herself about trying to get it to be more friendly...it seemed to have taken some kind of liking to Lulu and Starswirl, though it also seemed to harbor quite a bit of aggression towards herself. The only one who seemed to truly be able to elicit an entirely non-aggressive response from it was Starswirl, and those two always ended up talking about magic or...plasmids and gene tonics was it? But never about any kind of settlement of these petty dislikes...even though she did throw him into the walls...and floor...and ceiling. All in the dream reality of course.

*Meanwhile with Delta.*

'Now what?' Starswirl had left Delta in the dungeon, a small basin of water was on the wall, and a bucket was on the floor, presumably for relieving one's self in. Though thanks to some of the functions of the suit he would have to be doing that very little. Though he would have to remove his suit every few days, otherwise the sack in the back would get unpleasing to the senses and to empty the non recyclable materials excreted from his body.

He noticed the "bed" in the cell. It looked more like loosely held together thread stuffed with hay and dead bugs. 'Nope, not sleeping in that.'

He began to collect the water in bucket, and stood in it. He knew that he looked ridiculous but he was running very low on eve and it needed replenishing. While standing in the bucket he contemplated breaking out of the rather crappily built cell. Maybe it was just his time in Rapture, or maybe it was some of the gene tonics in him, but he began to notice several of the errors in the building along with the iron bars themselves. If he were to apply continues pressure to one of the bars on the edge it would slowly budge, then he could do the same with the next and so on until finally, the entire door frame clambered down to the floor.

He had just finished his bucket time to see a guard walking down the hall, who seemed to be escorting Luna. 'Wonder what she's doing here.'

"Hello Mr. Delta." She waved to him with one of her hooves, she wore a smile that looked so forced that her lips were quivering. 'She must be frightened.'

+Hello Princess.+

A few seconds of silence passed. The guards coughed and fidgeted in their armor, obviously very uncomfortable in this situation.

"So...how's prison?" Luna immediately face hoofed at the less than bureaucratically gifted guards question.

+Could be better. The water's nice I guess. Getting a little hungry.+

Luna whispered to the other guard, he rushed off as soon as she was done speaking. "I just sent him to get us all some refreshments. MoonWatch, open the door please."

The guard hesitated for a moment, looked at her keys, the cell door, Delta and finally Princess Luna. She levitated the keys, put them in the lock, closed her eyes and braced and... *Click* The cell door was less than an inch ajar...and Delta wasn't rushing out.

'Diplomacy time I suppose...Not nearly as fun as fighting time though.'

The guard backed away several feet and stood at attention, obviously ready to attack Delta if he showed even the least bit of aggression. Delta meanwhile was a little shocked. From what he gathered of what Starswirl said, these ponies were scared shitless of what he could do. To have sent a guard to retrieve refreshments, and THEN opened the door was something bold. He liked it.

Slowly opening the door and stepping out of the cell, Delta noticed the slight trembling the guard was doing. He slowly put his hand in a handshake motion towards the guard, she looked at it in confusion.

Delta feigned a handshake, and then pointed to her hoof, then his palm. She suddenly seemed to get the concept and shakily put her hoof in his hand, he gently shook it.

Luna meanwhile looked like she was getting bored, though she did find the interaction to be amusing. She thought that it might be some kind of show of respect, or perhaps was just the normal greeting of his people. Though she imagined that meeting a large group of ponies for the first time would be a very long process where he was from.

"Mr. Delta, I have never been the best at formalities, or interacting with other ponies in the most proper fashion, so I hope you don't mind my being a bit blunt." Delta nodded his head. "Celestia wants to know whether or not you are going to try and destroy us or not."

'She was not lying about being blunt. At all.'

+Well, as much fun as fighting you all can be, if I keep ending up in a place like this I would get very, very bored. So no, I don't plan to. +

The guard visibly relaxed slightly, Luna released a lungful of air she didn't realize she was holding in and the general mood of the area lifted just slightly. As if on cue the other guard returned with a tray of food and drink in tow with his telekinesis. Delta realized he had an opportunity to test something that Starswirl had offhandedly mentioned to him.

Walking towards the unicorn at a slightly faster pace than normal he reached out his hand and lightly flicked the horn of the unicorn while reaching out his hand for the tray. The unicorn, surprised by this backed away slightly, and his magic cut out for a brief moment, due to this Delta caught the tray. "Ouch! What'd you do that for!?'

Delta grinned inwardly. At least he knew how to do deal with magical adversaries: Aim for the horn.

*Back to Celestia.*

'I really need to get somepony else to handle all of this daycourt.' Celestia was addressing several of the ponies under her rule, all of which were coming to her with what seemed like the most minor problems, that should have been fixed almost as quickly as they happened. But, thanks to the apparent idiocy of certain nobles they had grown to such proportions in the courts that it had to be brought to her. 'It is going to be a very long day. At least I get comfort in knowing that my sister is probably working just as hard as I am.'

*Back to Delta.*

"So I said to her, "No, that's my cheesecake!"" The guards and Luna all began laughing quite loudly, while Delta chuckled within his suit, the emotion apparently showing quite well.

Author's Note

If you are wondering about the methodology behind him being able to take down the entire door frame of the dungeon cell, then here is a fairly simple explanation.

Basically, imagine the bars are being held in place only in the top, now with all of the bars in each of their respective little holes up there, along with the bars being against the ground, but not actually in it, then the frame could be pushed out near the edge, though it would take an amount of force that only a Big Daddy, or a fairly strong earth pony could provide. It would also take quite a bit of time.

Also, sorry about it being so small...and crappy...and that it took a long time...and is probably very much so filled with grammatical errors... I felt bad about not publishing anything lately, so I decided to force myself to write some...this is what was produced.