The hivemind is conquering for me?

As a laser of doom descended upon home world, I felt a moment of relief, before I ran off to the side and puked. I had never been in contact with universal energy like that before, I had always been inside of a ship, so I did not know what to expect.

Meanwhile, ”Whoo! That was so much fun! There were so many colours! I think our atomic structures merged with each other at one point! Can we go again!” Keyla shouted with glee, getting a flat no from Orchid.

I quickly recovered from my overstimulation and took a glance as a couple of drones had come over to begin eating the sick. Turning away to let them do their thing, I smiled as I walked over to the girls and said.

”That was wild indeed, I can’t believe we travelled all that distance in an hour. That is insane.” Orchid, who was rubbing my back to make me feel better, looked at me confused. ”An hour? Apollo-love, it was only ten minutes.”

I gave Orchid a look as though she was speaking utter nonsense, but from her tone, I could tell she was serious. ”T-Ten minutes? To travel thousands of galaxies? The speed we must have been going if it takes the Ships two weeks... I think I am going to be sick again.” I mumbled.

As Orchid continued to rub my back, Keyla looked around with an excited expression on her face. ”Home world. So beautiful.” She exclaimed as she looked around at the large cone structures around her, watching them as the blue energy dissipated at the top. She then saw off in the distance lava rivers and volcanoes, finally she looked up at the three brown stars that were directly overhead. ”Pretty.”

Suddenly, an earthquake began to occur, which was strange as I had never experienced an earthquake on the planet before. The cause soon revealed itself as three Queen’s guards had tunnelled their way to the surface and began screeching up into the sky, creating a visible shockwave.

As two continued screeching as I watched in awe at the statues that I have only seen move a select few times, the other approached, Its red and white exoskeleton looking particularly dazzling in the open, and looked between the three of us, seemingly unsure of something.

Orchid seemed to know what It wanted and extended her link towards the anti Psionic being. A moment later, she collapsed onto the ground, weakened by the communication. I went to help her up immediately as Keyla stayed stunned as her eyes were glued to the being in front of her.

”Love-bug, are you ok?” I asked, knowing all too well how it felt to be in contact with Anti Psionic energy. Orchid nodded her head, before a slight movement from the Queen’s guard caused her to get to the subject matter.

”The suns have all just increased in temperature Psionically. There is no explanation for this so the guards are defending you and the queen until we understand the reason why.” Turning to face the suns, I frowned. ’It can’t be a coincidence right?’

As I thought this, the suns began letting out small solar flares over and over, as if trying to communicate, but the armada of ships that had begun to swarm the three suns, creating an artificial eclipse would have prevented me from seeing, even if I had the eyesight to do so.

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Suddenly, the Queen’s guard in front of me began to change one of its curved sword arms into a humanoid hand in less than a second. It then placed it onto the ground next to the three of us, the message clear, get on.

As we climbed onto the guards massive hand, I did not feel utter disgust upon contact like with that Praetorians weapon. It was more like how it felt to hold the stick, normal. The guard then clenched its fist slightly and brought it close to its chest before jumping down the hole it had burrowed on the way up.

It took a minute of freefalling before the guard landed in Jewel’s throne room, to which it lowered its arm to put the three of us down. Looking around, I felt a massive wave of happiness hitting me as I was truly home. I then looked towards the end of the room and a lovestruck expression washed upon my face.

Standing at Eighty meters tall, Jewel was a piece of art. Her body had two long thin legs which still looked out of place on her large form, but I loved them all the same. A torso of Purple with White accents, that had no chitin except for where her chest would be on that delicious body of hers. Instead, she was composed of a thick, almost scaly flesh which was more durable than any other armour any other bio form possessed . She had four arms, two ending in gigantic scythes and 2 ending in a three fingered claw. Her face was pentagonal in shape with no discernible eyes, instead was another thick plate of chitin with two tentacle-like appendages caressing the sides of her beautiful facial structure. The back of her head was a sight to behold in of itself. It was almost the size of her torso and looked like a humongous ’sac’ adorned with large purple, pulsing spheres jutting out through holes in the sac. Smaller blue spheres were also peppered all over the exterior of the sac like jewels, her namesake. Even from a distance you could feel the psionic energy bouncing and radiating of each of the spheres in an Psionically charged dance.

As eldritch as she would look to others, to me she was the personification of beauty. Jewel was currently not moving in the slightest as twenty seven of her guards were stationed around her.

*Thud*

Looking to my left at the source of the sound, Keyla had dropped to her knees as she stared upon the form of her queen. There was no room for playfulness in her mind right now, no thoughts of disrespectful names.

No, what she saw before her was her equivalent to a god, her Parasite flooding her with emotions of reverence as she stared up at the form before her. ”Keyla? Are you ok?” I asked with no reply.

Orchid then turned to me and planted a kiss on my cheek. ”I will stay with Keyla for now, you go to your lab and treat your injury my love.” I hesitated a moment, not wanting to leave, but I did turn around and walked away with the Queen guard following me.

Walking along the familiar tunnels with the hulking bio-form behind me, It felt weird not feeling the Psionic link from it so I said out loud. ”Thanks for looking after me. I know your base function is to protect Jewel from harm, so It means a lot to me.”

The being, knowing its voice would pain me, stayed silent as it gazed at me with its full attention. ”You know, I think the three sun’s heating up is not a random occurrence you know? Back in Spartari, there was a heatwave caused by a Psionic event increasing the sun’s temperature, or so it said on the news, the fact that it is now here could just be a coincidence, or it is somehow related to me.”

The queen guard let out a subtle click that made me nauseous for a moment, but did not cause me any pain as confirmation that it heard what I said, or that is how I interpreted it. Passing by the training area, I smiled as I materialised Zircon.

”I am still feeling pretty good and it’s been a while since I could train with you. How about a quick bit of training then I will give you an oil rub as an apology?” My smile widened further when Zircon began violently vibrating in my hand to the point it began to hurt.

”Haha, I will take that as a yes.” I exclaimed as I let go of Zircon and allowed her to hover around my body as I began to set up the practice equipment. Usually Orchid would set up the equipment as it was incredibly heavy, but I managed thanks to my passive growth and my casual training I had been keeping up in my off time.

I had worked up a sweat simply performing the task though, so I went to grab a towel to wipe myself down before I began. As I was wiping the sweat off, I noticed the guard had knelt down to fit itself in the room.

I smiled and walked over to it, feeling bad it would just be staring at me for thirty minutes or so, despite the fact it spent the last however many decades standing completely still in the throne room.

”Hey, would you mind holding my towel while I train, Clicky?” I asked, casually giving the queen guard a nickname, currently unaware of the effect ’the second love’ had on the queens guards.

’Clicky’ did not respond in any way, but did simply take the towel from my hand and continued to observe me. I nodded politely at her before turning around and grasping Zircon as I began training for the first time in what felt like forever.

As I was training, I was unaware of the fact that the guard had brought my towel up towards it’s mouth region and inhaled slowly, enjoying the scent. It was not enough though, very discreetly, the guard used its energy carefully to acquire another towel from the opposite side of the room.

Once it floated the towel above Apollo’s fully concentrated form, The guard devoured the previous towel before holding the new towel in the exact same position as the old one. She had an incredible first meal in over 3000 years and no one would find out.