Biohazard

About a month later, the office that the bioweapons had been dismantled and turned into an accounting office. Lipid and his team had been moved to a far better location...the cellar of a bar. Now, whenever they fancied a drink, they just had to go up a flight of stairs and bring it back down. Who knew alchohol and mass murder worked so well together?

Lipid and Prion were enjoying a drink together after a hard day's work, and they were looking over a report from the Central Government.

"So." Prion began. She then paused for an awkwardly long time.

"You gonna say something?" Lipid sipped his beer.

"Yeah, then I realized that if I did, I'd conveniently die from the virus." Prion mumbled. "And by that I mean the central government will come down here and kill me."

"I know what you mean." Lipid sighed. "At least Princess Platinum managed to come out on top for the most part."

"You mind telling me what's been going on?" Prion asked. "And I do mean to pry. I did come up with the contingency plan after all. We've been stuck down here for two moons."

"Sure." Lipid took a long sip. "So when the pegasi and earth ponies first found out about the virus, remember the bribe to the Pandemic Patrol?" Seeing her nod, Lipid continued. "Well, its a good thing those idiots are more concerned with money than saving lives, cause, heh, they told everypony to calm the hell down and act like nothing was wrong. The disease actually spread quickly, and then a lot of ponies started to die and the war's basically been put on hold."

"Wouldn't they trace it back to us?" Lipid asked, crumpling the report before unceremoniously tossing it in the trash. "Score."

"Well Princess Platinum's made a very public statement saying that the pegasi engineered a bioweapon and brought it here during the summit." Lipid smiled smugly. "I told you doing everything would have worked. Well, mostly. There's a few idiots in tin foil hats from each faction that say we're responsible. But what the gov's done is that they have big international organizations like the Equestria Bank make announcements that bend the truth slightly, and then state run media uses these trusted sources to bend the truth even further. Nopony knows whats actually going on, and it just makes everypony point hooves at each other."

"A superb case of villainy." Prion chuckled. "If it wasn't clear already, my character's a bitchy mare that feeds off drama and gossip."

"We're going to start the next phase in the plan soon." Lipid smiled. "The unicorn nation is going to have extreme quarantine, we're going to literally lock ponies into their homes. Of course nopony else in the other nations will know and we can just fudge our numbers. So while they're all freaking out over the new killer virus rampaging around the countryside-"

"There still will be idiots who claim that it's no more dangerous than a common cold." Prion cackled. "More deaths!"

"Naturally. But image this. Our official numbers are showing that we're beating the virus, and we can start saying that we saved the world. The investigation can find some stupid reason for the beginning of the pandemic, maybe an interaction with a filthy yak or a crazy pony drinking bat soup, and we'll be able to claim that we're the world's foremost experts on curing the disease. This'll put us on the top to rule over the earth ponies and pegasi once more." Lipid slid his mug down the bar. "Another round!"

Prion leaned back, pushing the stool onto two legs. "We could harvest some of the more rebellious ponies' lungs for our own citizens."

"Just write the ideas down before you forget them." Lipid caught his full mug sliding back his way. "Honestly, you can tell the idiots that toilet paper will save them and they'll believe it."