The hivemind is conquering for me?

Inspecting all the weapons a mercenary company owns can take a gruelling amount of time. Opening boxes, checking data with data, looking for contraband, counting loose bullets and trophies of war.

Fortunately I had nothing to do with that. It had been three hours and Kathrine, the centurion Hailey and I Have been drinking chatting and making merry the whole time. “Ok Aunty, you don’t need to throw the knife so hard that it goes through the board. This is the last one. Just aim better and you wont need so much power.”

“Hush darling, I’m concentrating.” Unlike myself, Kathrine had not improved at the game much these past hours. In result, she missed her first two throws. “Oh sod it.” She whispered underneath her breath and threw the knife with enough power, thanks to her family’s psionic enhancements, that it cleaved the board in twain.

“Whoops! Guess I’m stronger than I thought.” She said innocently for the sixth time “The act was cute the first two times Kathrine, now drink the rest of the bottle since you have technically disqualified us all from the game.” I said leaning back on the waiting couch.

Feeling our eyes on her Kathrine felt cheeky as she picked up the bottle. The bottle had a long neck which she proceeded to take the whole neck into her mouth as she began drinking while making eye contact with me.

Hailey on the other hand was Glaring daggers at her aunt at the action. Kathrine felt those glares of her niece and decided to stop playing around and finish the drink. ‘Scary.’ She thought as she finished the last drop. “Man, that brandy goes down smooth. I insist you buy me a bottle for my birthday my darling niece.”

“Sure, sure whatever, in the meantime though, how about you find a way to entertain us since you broke all my boards!” Kathrine was brought to a blank for a moment at her nieces request. Thankfully she was rescued by a knock at the door.

“Enter.” Hailey said coldly. Two of her elites entered the room holding a box by either end. “Centurion, The inspection went off without a hitch, not even narcotic contraband which is to be expected amongst mercenaries most of the time. The only outlier was an unknown origin minigun found in the Lady Kathrine Hyllus’ quarters.”

Placing the box down, The minigun I earned from killing the ker’min was inside. Hailey walked over to inspect it. “Hmm, The components look similar to what we would make. However the cooling chamber and the plasma fuel flasks are completely different. Aunty where did you get this?”

“Ah miss Hailey that would be mine. I have legal permits allowing me to own alien weaponry. Should I go to the ship and retrieve the documentation?” “Oh, no need Apollo, you are trustworthy enough, the weapon is not that big of a deal to be honest.”

“Centurion, I would highly recommend-” “Was there anything else to report guard?” Hailey cut the guard off. “No centurion.” “Then you are excused, This man is a friend of the family, he does not need the third degree by mere grunts. Understood? Good, you may leave.”

Although wearing a helmet, It felt like the guard was giving me the side-eye as he left. “Thanks again Hailey, I should go take this back. Give you two a chance to talk without me for a bit.” “Again no thanks necessary, do you need any help taking that back?”

To answer her question, I lifted the minigun out of the box and began walking to the door with ease. “Till next we meet Miss Hailey.” I said bowing slightly before I exited the room.”

After I left the room, all the emotion on Hailey’s face left, leaving a cold demeanour behind. “You should have told me you were planning this sweetheart, It was a good thing Apollo told me before I left the ship he had been here before, I may not have been able to hold back my surprise of seeing you otherwise.” Kathrine said as Hailey went to sit behind her desk.

Hailey said nothing in response as she sat down in her chair and adjusted the support. Looking back up to her aunt, her face shifted as she said. “Do you think he likes me?” “Wait what?”

“I mean, I did not play too distant right? And I was not too forward? Do you think he caught me staring at his budge when I thought he was preoccupied? I hope I did not make a mess of it all.”

Kathrine stared at her niece for a moment in building suspense before a loud belly laugh emerged from her. She continued to laugh for 30 seconds before responding to the impatient Hailey. “Oh sweetie, It is such a delight to see you like this. No I don’t think Apollo noticed. He is… Different from other men sweetie.” “Different how?” Hailey asked inquisitively.

“Apollo is incredibly a free spirit from what I have observed in the short time I have known him. He lives solely in the moment, enjoying every second. He does not seem scheme and put on a fake smile like other nobles, Rather if he enjoys something he can enjoy it for hours. Like our game today, He took it for the game that it was, rather than your test of ego and boasting.

He could not have cared if he won or lost, he simply enjoyed the game alongside two beautiful women.”

Hailey thought on her aunts words carefully, She had been surrounded by scheming men since she was a baby, Its how you grew powerful in Spartari. A free spirit, who was not a total pervert like that captain, was a breath of fresh air. She continued to think a moment longer before a smile grew on her face. “Do you really think he thinks I’m beautiful?”

Kathrine rolled her eyes at her little girl. “Honestly, If my Rhea is as airheaded as you, I would worry for her. Yes I am sure he found you beautiful, He would be blind otherwise. That and I saw him checking your ass out a few times as you got up off the couch.”

Hailey blushed at the comment while Kathrine laughed at her again. They then continued just chatting about this and that enjoying each others company.

Meanwhile, as I was walking back to the ship carefree with my gun, from the corner of my eye I spotted Captain Caleb leaving a storage room with his attire dishevelled. The explanation of his dishevelment followed shortly after as a male and female guard exited the room shortly also dishevelled . All three of them froze like a deer in headlights as they spotted me.

I maintained eye contact for a few moments before shrugging my shoulders and continuing my walk.

“Don’t worry you two, I don’t think he will tell anyone about our little scandal. I know affairs while deployed are punished heavily, Your cock and your pussy is our little secret. Either way ill catch up with him just to make sure.” Caleb said with a wink at his two new friends. As he chased after Kathrine’s fuck buddy.

Having reached outside, I heard a voice yelling behind me. “Hey Buddy! Apollo! Bro stop powerwalking jeez.” Reaching me, Caleb put his hand on my shoulder as I continued walking. “Hey we need to talk about what you just saw.” “Do we have to? I mean you had sex what’s the big deal?

Also please don’t touch me until you have washed your hands, I don’t want to accidentally get space aids.”

“Space aids?” Caleb asked confused. “Whatever look, It actually is a big deal. If their superior found out they were banging this stud while deployed they could face severe consequences. So is there anything I can do to make sure you will absolutely 100% not tell anyone.”

I stopped walking for a moment and looked at the man. “Look, really, I could not give two craps, but I can tell you are stressed out about it for some reason. How about you carry my gun the rest of the way and we call it even?”

“That it? Heh, I knew you were a good kid the moment I laid eyes on ya.”Caleb said in an attempt to butter me up “The first time you laid eyes on me you aimed a gun at me.” I reminded him. “Oh yeah, I meant after that. Here give me the gun I may have a few decades on ya’, but I’m still strong ki- Fucking hell!”

Caleb was not expecting the weight of the gun to be as heavy as it was as I was one arming it as I was walking, to be fair I was using my Gyrokinesis so it weighed next to nothing. After Caleb got a good grasp on it I commented. “You got it from here? Good. Just leave it outside Kats room, I’m going to get something to eat.

As I walked away, Caleb could not help but mutter as he began to huff the gun back to the ship. “The hell does that kid eat to carry this so leisurely?”