The Prince was supervised by the Na'vi warriors wherever he went. He considered them an escort to serve him rather than being considered a prisoner. He had placed his weapons back on not wanting the Na'vi to have them. At the Tree of Souls he saw Lex's Yautja body tied to the white grass that led to the tree.
He scanned Lex's abdomen with his mask and detected the small embryo inside. The Prince then turned to the Shaman. "Your world is one of many worlds we come to hunt. If your world were to perish it would matter little to me. If anything happens to this body or the child growing inside, my ship will destroy this whole valley and your home tree," the Prince told her.
"It will not be harmed," the Shaman promised.
"Good. Some of my warriors will be coming here to analyze the tree's fortifications," the Prince informed her.
The Shaman felt she couldn't object to the overly confident alien Prince. "I will have access to my wife whenever I call upon her. If she doesn't come to me when I call you shall entice her to," the Prince continued.
"In our culture the male is subordinate to his wife," the Shaman said annoyed.
The Prince sat down in the middle of home tree on a throne he had had fashioned for himself out of wood. "I know," he said.
The Shaman stared at the masked Prince with contempt. "I summon her…now," the Prince directed.
The Shaman called up her warriors. "Find AlexaWoods," she ordered.
Lex reluctantly arrived to meet the Prince while escorted by Na'vi guards. "Leave us," the Prince ordered the Na'vi guards.
The Prince then rose from his throne and looked her over. He suddenly grabbed her throat and turned her head from one side to the other side. "A typical specimen," he said unimpressed in English.
The Prince then released her. "You find it appropriate to strangle your wife?" she spat at him.
"You are not my wife, but my wife's avatar. I can do whatever I please to an avatar," the Prince said to her.
Lex glared at him as he sat back down in his throne. "You could be killed so easily here," she said.
"And if that happens everyone here will die," he said unconcerned.
"There's a fable on Earth and it goes like this: There was once a fox and a scorpion on the shore of a river. The scorpion asked the fox to carry him across the river. The fox replied that if he did the scorpion would sting him and then he would drown. The scorpion said that it would be against his own interest if he did; they would both drown you see. So the fox carried the scorpion across the river, but half-way across the scorpion stung the fox. As the fox began to drown he asked the scorpion why he did it," Lex said.
"The scorpion replied: It was in my nature."
"Is it in your nature to kill me and all the Na'vi here?" the Prince asked after a long pause.
"I don't know. Your kind has made my life hell since I was in Antarctica. You impregnated me so I couldn't become one of the Na'vi, because you knew it was a possibility. Maybe I would have been happy among the Na'vi. Maybe I could have transferred myself into a human body and gone back to Earth. You knew about this mind transfer tree they had and never told me about it," Lex said angrily.
"The mind transfer is a Na'vi legend. I am as surprised as you are that it worked," he said.
"That's bullshit. You knew it worked. You studied this moon," she said.
"I also knew that if it didn't work your mind would be trapped as a ghost on this planet. You would never die and yet never live as long as this moon still held life. You would be everywhere and nowhere all at once," the Prince said.
"They never told me that," Lex said flatly.
"It is because they're an ignorant stupid people. Even the humans are more intelligent than these creatures. They think this is religion and that Eywa is their goddess. This moon is one large central nervous system connecting all life forms plugged into it. It is one moon-sized organism that forms a symbiotic relationship with all life forms. It is not faith when you can manipulate Eywa to give you whatever you want and it works every time you test it. Faith is when you do not know, cannot know, and will never understand the creator. Faith is when you realize you are never in control and submitting to that reality. Even some of the humans understood this," the Prince said condescendingly.
"So, if it had failed you would not have been one with God, but a nervous electrical signal throughout the moon's extended nervous system," the Prince said. "Eywa is nothing more than one giant electrical socket."
"Well, it did work," Lex said argumentatively.
"You have always been a lucky one," the Prince said amused.
"So, is this Vong bullshit too?" Lex asked.
"No, that's real. They will kill everything on this moon and terraform it. My angle is that I do not wish this hunting ground to be spoiled. Also, the Vong have become too aggressive. They must be stopped here. If not, their next target will be the closest star system: Earth," the Prince said.
"How can they be stopped?" Lex asked.
"Only one ship is here, which means it is likely a scout. It will take some time for the Yautja armada to come out here. So, we have to keep the Vong at bay until more forces arrive. Their ship is bigger and more powerful than ours. They have fighters and we do not. They have more troops than we do. They will also quickly adapt to the Na'vi nerve toxins making them ineffective. They are capable of fast speed regeneration and their strength is superior to ours," the Prince said.
"So, is there any way to win?" Lex asked.
"We have a last resort biological weapon on board a ship. The Vong's ships are entirely biological, so it should kill them. But this weapon can also killed every living thing on this moon," the Prince said.
"A Xenomorph?" Lex questioned.
"No, something worse," the Prince said.
The Prince summoned the Shaman to his throne, which in reality was where all the Na'vi usually congregate as a community. He treated her as basically his servant in all things. "I require a deceased male Na'vi that has not decomposed. I do not wish to endanger my actual body when I do not have to," he said.
"What do you intend to do? To connect with Eywa the way AlexaWoods has?" the Shaman asked.
"No. We have the technology to link my brain to the deceased Na'vi's brain. We will not need to continue offending Eywa with our continued bastardization of her grace," the Prince said diplomatically.
"I will also be taking my wife's body to the ship. She will be reconnected to her Na'vi body and will remain with you until this threat has ended. I require more corpses so I can connect them to my other warriors. This will allow us to scout and engage the enemy without the threat of death," the Prince said.
"You are like a necromancer," the Shaman said of him.
"I am the devil you know," the Prince replied.
The Yautja warriors disconnected Lex's Yautja body from the Tree of Souls. Immediately her Na'vi body fell to the ground. Lex awoke in her Yautja body and got to her feet with some difficulty. "There will be some muscular decay," the Prince told her.
Lex felt weak as she reluctantly followed the Prince and his warriors. They took Lex's Na'vi body and then took a dozen whole corpses many of which were killed directly or indirectly by the Yautja. The Shaman felt troubled by what the Yautja were doing, but felt she had no choice.
A shuttle ship launched from the moon back to the Yautja ship. As insurance for their continued cooperation some Yautja warriors were left behind with strict orders to not kill anyone. The shuttle docked with the Nobleman's ship. Once inside the Yautja took off their masks.
"Attention on deck!" a Yautja warrior said as the Prince entered the bridge with Lex.
"I offer you my seat," the Nobleman said as a courtesy.
"Take my seat," the Prince replied.
Lex then saw the Nobleman for the first time. He was bigger and looked older than the Prince, but Lex was not fooled by this. The Prince's emphasis was on speed and was the best swordsman among his kind. "Princess," the Nobleman bowed his head.
"This is my seventh wife. She calls herself Lex," the Prince introduced.
"I have heard so much about you," the Nobleman said pleasantly. He gave her a look over and then turned to the Prince. "Excellent craftsmanship, they have made advancements," he said.
"Let us hope the heir has the same features," the Prince said.
Lex felt sick as she heard the word "heir" in the conversation. "Ah yes, congratulations," the Nobleman said to Lex.
"Thanks," Lex said sarcastically.
"Is the equipment ready?" the Prince asked.
"It is ready for you," the Nobleman said.
The Yautja workers placed the deceased Na'vi in tanks and filled them with healing solution. "You had these all along in your ship?" Lex asked.
"I didn't show you every laboratory in the ship," the Prince told her. "The process is similar to the Na'vi's technique. The process is similar to a prosthetic piece. The nervous electrical signal will go from the Yautja to its host. Instead of it just being an arm or a leg it will be a complete body," the Prince explained.
"Why didn't you use this before?" Lex asked.
"Using a Na'vi body to hunt other Na'vi is not sporting," the Prince said. "Besides, all of the corpses we brought back were damaged beyond repair."
The Prince then turned to the Nobleman. "Is my ship's engines functional?" he asked.
"The engines have auxiliary power but the weapons are offline," he reported.
"That is good enough. I want to be plugged in when it becomes available," the Prince ordered.
Lex watched with some interest as the Prince plugged himself in. His Na'vi body then rose and looked over himself. "Nervous connection is steady," the scientists reported.
"Ready my shuttle to my ship," the Prince ordered in English.
Lex and Nobleman watched as the shuttle rocketed back towards the moon's surface near the damaged ship. The Prince went inside the ship and activated the controls. Slowly the ship rose from the ground and then into space. "What does he plan to do?" Lex wondered.
"You'll see," the Nobleman said.
The Prince used his new fingers to rapidly input commands into the ship. The Vong ship noticed him and started firing at him. The Yautja ship evaded what it could, but was too damaged. The Prince put the fusion reactor on meltdown and continued its course. The Vong ship launched fighters and tried to move away but it was too late. The Yautja ship slammed into the Vong ship while on meltdown. There was a powerful explosion as the Yautja ship erupted like a star. The Vong ship was damaged but not destroyed.
The Prince then awoke and went to the bridge to assess the damage to the Vong ship. "Did it hurt?" Lex wondered.
"A little," the Prince said.
The Prince then activated a hologram of the plant that showed Eywa's concentrated energy. There were a number of ports across the plant that took the form of trees. As the clans gathered together near to the Toruk Makto the Na'vi only had a few guards on each of the trees.
The Prince considered a tree on the other side of the moon far away from home tree. "Send a team to this tree. Kill the guards and install the transceiver," the Prince ordered.
"What are you doing?" Lex asked him.
"Eywa connects to all living things on the moon through a network. Most animals on the moon connect with this network at least once a day. It is pleasurable to the animal to do so. We will connect directly with Eywa and send a transmission that will order all biological units to fight the Vong," the Prince explained.
"You can do this?" Lex asked amazed.
"We've never actually tested it. This would be a good time to try it," the Prince said.
Lex looked uncertain with this plan. "If we don't do it the Vong will," he said.