The hivemind is conquering for me?

After the inspection, It did not take long for the mercenaries to pile back into the ship. I was sitting alone in the mess hall when a booming voice echoed from behind me. “Hey Apollo! Where were you? The petty officer of the phalanx guards allowed some 1 on 1 spars. I had 4 back to back fights before I got clobbered by a pretty little thing half my height.”

Looking behind me Ernie was walking over with Janet holding his hand. “Hey, sounds like your type of fun huh? I spent the last three hours with Kathrine and the bases centurion.” “OOF, you poor cunt, you wouldn’t catch me hanging around with them haughty cunts if you payed me in fucks.” A wild willy appeared from behind the large stature of Ernie.

“I think you have the wrong end of the stick on that one, I don’t know about other checkpoints, but the woman who runs this place is rather nice.” I said genuinely. “Translation for you dopey cunts, Lass’ got titties that would make a god cry.” Willy responded to the crowd of mercenaries pilling into the hall.

“Bet they weren’t better than these!” A bold female mercenary said as she unveiled her firm heavy D-bags. In unison the small crowd, male and female, cheered at the action and carried the woman off to celebrate something or other, leaving me alone once more.

“These guys are weird.” I thought aloud. “But in the fun type of way.”

After the Thanatos left the checkpoint and and was back inside the warp lane, Kathrine informed me that my private room was ready. Walking over from her room she was curious and asked. “Handsome, where is your power armour? When the guards brought in your minigun I was surprised that they did not mention it. When I went back to the room earlier, it was not there.”

“What do you mean? I am wearing it right now?” I said confused. “What do you mean huh?” As Kathrine turned around, she was more than shocked to find that I was wearing my full armour. “When did you?” “Now, now, Lets leave some mysteries as such.” I said, my voice carrying a hint of teasing.

Kathrine continued to eye me curiously as she brought me to my room. Opening the door, It was to my liking, space to move around yet not overly big. “This is perfect Kat, thank you, I need a few hours to myself if thats ok? I will come find you later.” Of course handsome, take your time.” Kathrine said with a smile as she began to walk away.

Closing the door so that I finally had privacy, I took off my armour and began investigating the room carefully. 20 minutes later, I was confident there were no cameras in the room so I Informed Onyx she could come out.

Onyx did materialise her form, but stayed invisible. What took me 20 minutes to clear the room, Onyx found a camera hidden inside of a hollow wall in 20 seconds. After breaking it she unveiled her stalker form and said. “A splendid effort my universe, the captain of this ship is crafty however.”

I did not even care for what she had to say I just walked over to her and tackle hugged her to the ground. I felt like an addict going though withdrawal not having the hive around.

Onyx said nothing either and just stroked my back as she watched me use my far sight to see Jewel.

On Apollo-minor, Jewel has been busy with Apollo’s unexpected gift. She was currently both watching and in command of the former warrior-cum-40 meter tall titan bio-form walking across the planets surface. Taking Apollo’s advice, she spoke her findings, much slower than her processing power in order to file it carefully inside her mind.

“My Bio form should at this point be struggling to move as the thickness of its armour alongside of its weight should have crushed me by now. Evidence of this is the genetic clones I have made from this unique strain. All have perished quickly as they could not take the weight as it currently is. One had managed to survive for 15 minutes after I removed all of its chitin, but it died non the less.”

Jewel took a moment to feel the small part of her beloved that latched itself onto the titans bio form. “The potential in my loves psionic energy has modified my titan Bio-form with a minor Gyrokinesis alongside its unprecedented growth. It is just enough to stop the body from feeling the entire weight and in fact feel the same as it did whilst a warrior caste.

Although my experiments resulted in failure to create the same bio form, My loves gift has given me hundreds of ideas to create something new. I shall wait for his return to me before I begin as this form is his, and I wish to wish to make the journey with him, even if it is less efficient.”

As if by thinking of her love conjured him, a spatial crack appeared in front of her humanoid form. She immediately removed her active conscious out of the titan, allowing it to frolic across the barren landscape.

As she peered through the crack, she saw Apollo, holding onto the stalker gene-caste tightly. It did not bother her in the slightest. What did bother her was the look in her loves eyes for she felt the same way. The longing, the love.

In pained her greatly to be away from her beloved, she wanted to consume this strange overly Psionic populated galaxy at once, but she knew her beloved needed experiences to grow. She could feel simply from the spatial crack that he has grown slightly stronger in the last few days since the last time he opened it.

Again no words were spoken, Jewel simply placed her hands and tentacles onto the crack, while Apollo did the same. For 18 minutes the pair just stared at each other, revitalising their very beings with the image on the other side.

I had started to feel sick and dizzy from keeping to crack open for as long as I have. Jewel could also see that and stepped back from the tear. With one final smile I waved and stopped sending my energy into the crack, it quickly closing afterwards.

Exhausted, I planted my head back onto Onyx’s thorax as she slowly morphed into her humanoid form so my head would be on something softer. “There, there my universe. All will be ok, you are strong, your love for us is not weakness.” Onyx said in a comforting tone while stroking my head. “I know that my love, Its just nice to let the vulnerability out sometimes.

Especially when afterwards, my head gets wrapped like this.” I mumbled in between her cleavage.

“I will probably use my far sight to check in with Orchid tomorrow. She is probably still docile, but It would not hurt to check.” I said as I decided to have a quick nap.

As Orchid just finished tearing a man in half, she had the sweetest feeling her beloved was thinking about her. Her lapse of focus had caused her to go flying as a large calibre shotgun blast hit her straight in her midsection. The damage to her armour was already healing as she stood up, but her face was now filled with rage.

As she began her rampage once more, All she could think about was how these inferior prey would dare to interrupt her time thinking of her beloved.

In 5 minutes, the warehouse was filled with dead bodies with entrail decorations as high as the ceiling. A man of short stature was hiding behind a crate of stolen firearms, holding his hands across his mouth as he fought his fear, when it was suddenly flung across the room.

“AAAH! Please don’t hurt me! I have done nothing to you! Who hired you! I will pay double! No, No Ahhhgrglrglggrl” Orchid took a large chomp out of the mans throat, savouring the mans death rattle.

“How could something so great come from a prey so pitiful.” Orchid said after gulping down the flesh.

Suddenly a voice came from behind her. “A bit more gore than I anticipated sister, but a well done job non the less.” Sophia said admiring the scenery around her.

Orchid just shrugged her shoulders as she melded her armour back into her body. She suddenly began to cut herself with her sword. “What are you doing?” ” A piece of metal got stuck inside of Orchid. Here grab Orchid’s sword to keep the wound open.” Sophia did as requested as Orchid began fingering her own stomach and pulled out the shrapnel.

“Powerful weapon.” She mused as she looked at the metal before pulling her sword back out. “Thank you. Do you have anything else that needs doing or should Orchid go back and continue to wait for Apollo?”

Sophia had not planned on Orchids help with her business. However she could use her skillset to expand her sphere of influence in the south while taking out powerful gangs making her hold over the population even stronger.

“Sure thing sister, I have plenty of prey for you to hunt.”