The hivemind is conquering for me?

Four days later, our excavations were well underway. We just left an extremely mountainous terrain where digging, mining and blasting through all the rock set us back quite a bit, even with Machinery and overtime labour.

Our new location was vastly different. We were on the edge of a major city only around 7 miles from the cities border. All around was a beautiful grassland and rolling hills all the way west to the horizon. The cool temperature, the pleasant view and the easier digging location made up for the last four days of gruelling work for the mercenaries.

Looking down at the dig site from our overwatch, Janine and I had been casually talking for the last few hours. “- huh. I never took lady Kathrine for a hardcore girl. I would have thought she would have to guide you how to eat her out, step by step with no room for error… That’s how I fantasised about it anyway. Lucky bastard.” Janine said as she looked through her monocular.

“Hold that thought a moment.” She said as she cut me off before I could reply.

Picking up her communicator, she relayed into the mercenary frequency. “Westside, 177. We have a group of locals getting overzealous again. Redirect and intercept. They are wearing bright orange for some reason, so it should not be too difficult to spot them.” After getting her confirmation from the radio, she flicked her silver hair back from her face and turned to me. “So what were you going to say?”

I smiled at the Sepiidan. “I was going to say you need to get laid. Or at least find a way to expel your sexual frustration.” Janine wrinkled her face. “I hope you aren’t suggesting anything between us or you will wish I killed you the other day.” I simply chuckled at that statement.

Janine then let out a sigh. “You aren’t wrong though. My species’ biological drive is to literally get fucked as often as possible by the most viable candidate available. I reckon if my mom was actually a dad, I would be doing everything to get in your pants as your strength is actually a turn on. Its just a shame you don’t look like a woman, you would have been a good stress reliever.”

“Gee, thanks…” I said fake insulted. “You ever thought about sneaking over to Coalition space and finding a brothel or something in your time off? You are lacking your species’ horns after all. I am sure you could get around ok without authorities trying to arrest you.”

Janine put a finger under her chin and thought hard for a moment. “Nah, too risky besides like I said, I like my meat strong, not dainty. Ideally If I could find out where my non Sepiidan parent was from that would be best case.”

I too was a little intrigued about Janine’s hunter parentage. A group of female warriors who go are nomadic and go around the universe hunting strong creatures. ‘I wonder if the hive has ever encountered them? I will ask Orchid to do a quick check when I see her again.’

We stayed silent a while before with a twisted face Janine spoke once more. “Oh by my ancestors I can’t believe I am about to say this… You and your fucking sex talk… Do you think If you could convince Kathrine to not shoot me after revealing my nature to her, she would agree to a three-way?”

I looked at her with wide eyes a moment. “Wow, I was right. You really are pent up.” I joked. “Shut the fuck up and answer the question.” Janine said with her face turning pink, unable to look at me. “While I may personally enjoy being with a Sepiidan for the first time, Kathrine really does not like your species I’m sorry.

When ever her husband is brought up in a conversation she always says something about him and his blue cocksleeve back home etcetera. And It is never positive I can tell you that.”

Sighing dejectedly, Janine said. “Yeah, that checks out. Most Spartari female Nobles don’t like us for that reason. Oh well, can blame a girl for trying to get her muff munched.”

Janine looked dejected before a smile appeared on her face. “Hey get looking down my scope, the locals are about to be caught.” She said as she nudged me in the stomach. ‘Mmmh those are hard. Fuck! Why aren’t you female, you handsome bastard.’

Following Janine’s instruction, I looked down the scope of her rifle and found the locals. There were a group of 6 boys, roughly the same age as myself, maybe a year younger give or take. Clearly they were bored and saw our ships land here earlier and it has given their minds something to do. The same thing happened this morning with a few others before they were driven away.

It was only moment later the mercenaries, from the badges on their shoulders the serpent swords, intercepted the group. We could not here from where we were, but the requesting of them to leave did not seem to go well. The leader of the group began waving his arms about before pointing aggressively to the ground. “Probably saying this is our planet, you cant tell us where to go. Its happened before.

Janine said as continued to watch.

It was then, because he was young and an idiot or just simply an idiot, The leader of their group pushed the mercenary in front of him rather aggressively. From the looks of things the mercenary was trying to deescalate the situation, but the man was not having it and kept on trying to shove.

Suddenly the leader went to swing for the man he had been shoving before his entire body tensed us as if on reflex and he dropped to the floor. Every individual there paused and five seconds later, Janine and I could hear the distinct sound of a gunshot.

“Oh shit.” Janine mumbled as she witnessed what happened. The boys clearly panicked now attempted to turn and run before they too fell to the ground. What followed was the snapping of bullets again five seconds later where Janine and I were.

It was then Janine put back on her helmet and contacted the patrol. “Hey snakeshits, what the hell do you think you were doing? Those shits were not armed!” “They tried to attack us overwatch, we had-” “You have years of combat training, they were just kids.” Janine rubbed her helmets visor where the centre of her eyebrow would be and sighed deeply.

“Standby for further instruction, I will call this in to higher ups.” “Yes overwatch.” The man said, his voice a little rattled before she ended the communication.

“Ugh this is a shitshow…” Janine mumbled as she was about to call Caleb. She took a look at me and noticed I was still looking down the scope. “Hey, are you ok?” She asked as she shook me.

“Hmm? Oh yeah, I will be fine. I’ve seen worse. I just don’t like seeing people my own age executed like that.” I coughed to ease my mind a moment before I looked away. “Don’t call Caleb, call Kathrine, she is used to dealing with stuff like this.” “I don’t have her id on this thing.” Janine replied. “No worries, pass it here.”

The communication took a moment before there was an answer. “Yes? Who is this?” “Hey Kathrine its me, we have a problem.” “Apollo? What is it handsome?” I proceeded to pass the communicator to Janine as she could explain what happened better with all the mercenary jargon.

“Shit!” Kathrine exclaimed after hearing the full report. “Jacob and Mindy are not going to hear the end of this for their troops cock up. Ok, I will send a clean up crew out there in a moment. We need to keep those bodies a secret until the end of our mission. After that it won’t matter. Apollo I trust you more than anyone here.

Go down to where the men are waiting and relieve them and wait for my crew. Janine, Stay there and keep overwatch. If any more civilians enter our perimeter, Lethal force is to be expected until this is dealt with. Understood?” “Yes my lady.” “Ok kat.” we replied. “Good, now move it.”

After descending the hill and joining up with the group, they had already stacked the bodies into a little pile. As I entered into their view, My armour caused them a fright a moment as they aimed their weapons at me. “Oh, its just you. Thank the stars. Apollo is your name right?” The man who initiated the killings said.

“Yep, now you lot are relieved from here. Go back to your ship and prey to whatever you call a god that you don’t get fired for this cock up.” As they were walking away, I heard one whisper to another. “Did he say god? Where the fuck is this guy from?” “I heard he is from the outer rim. They may still play make belief out there.”

I ignored their comments and chose a nearby log to sit on. I proceeded to stare at the corpse pile before me until Kathrine’s clean up crew arrived.