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Little did Squishy know that Hypatia did not send a real man as messanger. Rather, she had sent an elaboritly constructed hologram.
After explaining this to the world, everybody calmed down. But after hearing of Squishy’s guard’s feast on the POWs, the world turned against Squishy.
(Incidentally, the POWs were merely holograms of clones, so no-one was hurt. Only Squishy’s guards, who came down with indigestion.)
But there was still the defeat of her army to deal with. Hypatia quickly thought up a plan.
There was only one thing to do. Hypatia stepped into her modified lusticon, and added the right amount of clusterlizard DNA, ala Xev. Stepping out, Hypatia paused to look at her reflection.
“That’s one way to lose that last 5 pounds” she grinned. But more importantly, she was now part clusterlizard.
After supervising the evacuation of her lab to the secret bases on Europa, Mars, and the other top secret place, Hypatia stepped into her helicopter, and headed off to discuss Squishy’s terms.