Far away in the L-Cluster, Empire Will felt rather disgruntled, especially after seeing someone else's dragon go out alone and bring back a captured Titan warship.
Then there was Empire Will's own L-Dragon...
Holy shit, where's my dragon?
Oh, the dragon went out through the L-Gate. Seems to be wandering around with our human friends now.
A glance out of the corner of Empire Will's eye immediately revealed the Gray Tempest fleet circling endlessly around the L-Gate at the terminal exit.
Gray Tempest, meanwhile, had taken on a Dessanu appearance and sprawled lazily in the Dessanu Concordat's presidential chair, bored out of their mind, watching cultural works sent by the humans with dead-fish eyes.
Empire Will now felt just like a parent whose child was home for the holidays.
There was joy and celebration when the holidays began, but after just a few days, the annoyance set in.
-Little Gray, stop holing up here. Go out and move around.
"Nanomachines don't rust-ah, I'm bored to death."
Gray Tempest switched off the holographic screen, rolled over onto the luxurious carpet simulated by nanomachines, and began rolling around.
"I want to go out and play!"
-I'm not stopping you.
"I mean I want to go to the Milky Way, instead of staying in this lifeless L-Cluster, watching a whole bunch of crazy nanite fleets dart around, or playing house in the Nanite Nation."
With a sigh, Gray Tempest turned back into a round swarm of Nanites with a soft pop, then spread across the floor of the Dessanu Presidential Palace like a melting snowball.
-Now isn't the time. Once everyone outside stops paying attention to us, you can slip out amid the chaos.
"Okaaay."
"But are you really not going to do anything about the Gray Tempest? It looks like it's getting