Said storm beasts did not look very happy to be working under him, having only recently been shown what better leadership looked like under Anonymous. But alas, though it was easily within the power of Cid and his agents to destroy the annoying cloud creature and take possession of his master’s forces, doing so would paint a target on his back for the foreseeable future. He and his master had discussed this stage of the second plan at length: whoever takes charge after his intentional loss at the hooves of the Equestrians must ride the lines between stupid, predictable and malicious. Stupid, so they would not notice Cid, nor his management of his master’s armies behind the scenes. Predictable, so they were incapable of jeopardizing the plans Cid and his master had laid out with only a few major stupid moves. And malicious, so they would be sufficiently evil enough to ‘order’ their forces to do evil throughout the world, rather than simply sit and stagnate at the island base.