The hivemind is conquering for me?

I had watched the dogfight for a few hours before deciding to get some shuteye while I could. I had a suspicion the war would take a lot more than a day to win with such numbers at play and I did not know the next time I would be able to rest peacefully.

After opening my eyes, I looked around and realised two out of the three individuals that I came with had taken advantage of my sleeping state to snuggle up with me. Deciding to allow them rest until they woke up naturally, I had the Chonkmeister materialise nearby and mouthed the word ’food’ to her and then watched as she yawned before turning to leave the room.

When the chonk returned, the two beauties began to stir. I was not sure if it was the smell of the meat sticks Sapphire had in her mouth or the fact that even on this extremely large ship, Sapphire made a lot of noise when she moved. She was a big girl after all and those muscles when they make contact with the ground have an impact.

As Keyla awoke, she loved the first thing she could see to be Apollo, but shortly after her eyes widened, threatening to fall out if they went any wider and shot to her feet, looking around as she did so.

”Is it time? Can we go down yet? I crave some bloodshed!” She shouted at the top of her lungs, causing Orchid to frown as she stirred. Orchid then proceeded to position herself fully on top of my body now that there was room as she replied to Keyla with her eyes closed.

”Not yet, still too much prey surrounding the planet and with the amount of surface to orbit weapons we have witnessed on the planet, It will be a while before we deem it safe for Apollo’s descent.”

Sapphire walked towards me, ignoring the little one that was mumbling to herself about killing things and lay down, positioning her head right next to my own. Turning to face her, she had three sticks of mystery meat in her maw.

Once I took the middle stick from her mouth, she did not care about the other two and spat them onto the ground for the others when they wanted them and proceeded to place her face directly next to mine and began to lick softly.

As she showed me affection, I smiled as her intent was relayed to me. ”Aww, are you excited to go into battle with your master? Gosh you are such a cute little kitten; I could eat you up, give me those cheeks.”

I then grabbed the chonk by the sides of the face and began a scritch frenzy. My erratic movement caused The creature, commonly known as Orchid, to fully wake up from her Apollo rest and left my body, picking up her stick of meat off the floor before walking away.

I didn’t play with the Kitten long as I was feeling a little hungry. After sitting up, Sapphire positioned herself behind me to act as a backrest as I ate my food. As I began munching on the very bland food, I could not help remembering Elias’ food and how good it was as I shed an imaginary tear.

While eating, I looked over to my gals and noticed they were silent as they stared at me. ”Wha?” I let out mid chew. The two did not respond to me because they did not want to seem jealous at this moment.

The love Apollo showed for Sapphire was not one the hive had received as of yet and they were incredibly envious of that fact. They were of course oblivious of the love one could have for one’s pets as the hive has never had any.

Ignoring the oddballs, I finished my food and allowed time for them to finish theirs before I got up. After stretching and cracking my back as I slept on the floor, I turned to Orchid and asked. ”Hey, how is Jewel?”

I got a reply instantly from the sexy queen herself as she relayed from a distance. ”I am fine my love, just a bit preoccupied as these prey are very well prepared. Go find somewhere to look out into space and you will understand.”

Jewel then severed the link, leaving me more than curious. After activating my armour, as we were now in a warzone and I thought it best, just in case. I made my way into the adjacent room to look out of a membrane and was stunned by what I was witnessing.

Blood, Haemolymph, oil, bodies and scrap. Everywhere. I could not even begin to count the amount of dead outside of the ships, but the numbers seemed endless. And to top it all off, the fight in space was still ongoing, the hive ships had been moving at a snail’s pace for some reason.

...

The reason was Jewel was being efficient. There were still so many rippers in space that Jewel could afford to take her time. Slowly adapting to the giant lasers that had been firing into her ships the entire time.

If those were the only things that continued to attack her ships, apart from the occasional robot swarm, she would have gone at an even slower pace, making it a battle of attrition that she would win with her numbers.

But when the enemy’s large battleships, which had been hiding behind a sea of drones and smaller ships, began opening fire with alternative ammunition, two of her ships that were taking heavy fire began taking damage past their dispersion fields.

The damage so far had been negligible, a couple thousand bio-forms here or there perishing or being jettisoned out into space. One said bioform actually floated its way into the middle of the main fighting and actually managed to destroy a ship with its scythes as it was flown into. A sight she thought Apollo might have found comical.

Speaking of, with Apollo in the fleet, Jewel was showing off. She had to show her mate how even such simple wave tactics her scouts perform were perfected under her leadership and decided to show off a bit of her might to impress her beloved and to also prevent any more damage on the other two ships from the lasers.

After passing a certain point, Jewel began manifesting a large amount of Psionic energy at each of the heads of her ships. On the planet below, sirens were going off at the insane amount of energy building up in a short amount of time.

Aeletha was stunned as she looked up into the sky. The amount of energy she was feeling was something she did not see as a joke. Was this why she felt compelled to come here? For a threat they had not witnessed from the hunger was manifesting itself here?

As the energy grew, the planetary shields were naturally raised; they were not sure where the attack was located, but the planet was heavily fortified and an attack with such power anywhere would cause significant losses.

As Jewel casually checked in on Apollo via Orchid, she smiled as he was still watching outside. All of a sudden, all the ships that were under attack from the green lasers, suddenly expelled an invisible pulse that used the matter the lasers were composed of to spiral around them and build up speed as they travelled.

The force getting even more powerful as it travelled eventually ran out of room and collided with the space station and in a massive explosion, all the lasers were destroyed. A few of the attacks still had energy and proceeded through the space stations as well, causing the defenders on the planet to notice massive distortions in the planet defence shield.

Jewel was satisfied with that attack. It did not take that much effort on her part and judging by Apollo’s cute, handsome... So handsome, so perfect...

Jewel pulled herself back quickly, now was not the time to be swooning over her mate. Judging by Apollo’s normal, ordinary face, he was stunned by what just happened, leaving a warmth inside of Jewel’s bodies.

With the constant buzz of the main attackers gone, Jewel could lower her dispersion fields a little bit, allowing to put more thought power into the ones that had taken damage. Of course if she was not over seeing everything herself, she would have guessed those ships would have been extremely injured at this point and may have ended up crashing into the planet as a large nest pod.

Of course, this hunting ground was different for her. Unlike the prey below she was about to unleash her bio forms upon. This was not war for her. No, this was a chance to show off in front of her mate. Doing everything she can to not win too quickly by using her Psionic powers so she could give Apollo a real show.