The hivemind is conquering for me?

With four new tanks in place and filled up with rejuvenation fluid, I pulled away from my research on the technique to create the testing bodies. There was a slight issue however, I needed human DNA.

The exact same DNA at that, so my experiment stayed constant. I could not use Keyla, she was too hived out to take from her and I could not be classified as human anymore. Too much stuff in my miss matched genes.

’Hmm, but that was not always the case was it?’ I suddenly recalled. Turning my head to look at the wall to my right, I shouted. ”Jewel, can you send me data for what my DNA looked like as a baby? I am going to use myself as the template of the experiment after all.”

A moment later, I got a reluctant ok as my previous Genetic composition was sent to me on my bio-pad. I nodded to myself at what I was seeing. If I had never been picked up by the hive and was never abandoned, I had to admit, I still would have done pretty well for myself.

I wouldn’t have been as tall, nor as strong of body, but still I would have had a peak physique. ’Seriously though, I won the body lottery with this life.’ I smiled in remembrance.

Still though, as I looked through the data in front of me, there was an issue, I was not adept in creating new life. I could do it rapidly with...”Stay here!” I yelled at Keyla who was still investigating the intricacies of the technique and began to sprint out of the room.

A while later I was in the nest pod cavern. Making my way further in, I spotted the Agitator I was looking for. Without even greeting her, I ran over, grabbed one of her tentacles and began pulling her as I ran away with what looked like a giant black tentacle balloon.

The Agitator did not even bother to ask what was going on as it was being pulled away. What Apollo was doing had been running in the back of her link so while it did not know entirely, it had a vague idea of what she was needed for and she would be more than happy to oblige.

After running back to my lab, I pulled the Agitator past Orchid and Keyla without a fuss, bringing her back to my station and began to explain my request. ”So, I need four copies of myself coming from my childhood DNA. They need no Psionic powers and no brain functionality. I need simply the bodies, not individuals. Can you do that? Please?”

The Agitator observed the Data and began to compose a series of tasks needed. ’It can easily be done. Your genetic structure is nowhere near as complex as ours, so it should only take half a day to complete for this one. I assume that’s why you wanted this one to do it instead of figuring it out yourself? As you only have a few days to experiment?”

I nodded my head in response. ”Yeah, I do prefer to learn how to do it myself, but in reality cloning myself isn’t something I plan to do a lot so I don’t mind you helping out my lovely. So if you can get work on gestating the bodies, I am going to dive back into my research. Thank you a bunch!”

I then gave the agitator a quick kiss on its body before turning back to the technique and how I could improve its efficiency. The first Idea I had was a pretty good one as well. Thanks to my Psionic decay I learnt how the energy literally began to replace my red blood cells. If I could figure out a way to replicate that safely, on a much smaller scale with the Hyllus technique, replacing perhaps 1% of a blood cell with the energy, The power of the technique would skyrocket.

I had a couple of other ideas that involved a smidgen of body mutilation, but I would resort to that if my current theory did not pan out. And if it did end up working, I could then possibly figure out how to make it work without a uterus. ’I have no use for it myself, but now that Kathrine and I are in it for the long-haul. The idea of us having kids can be thought about and they could use it if they wished to appear more human If they choose not to join the hive.’

...

Kathrine was currently in a meeting and suddenly felt an overwhelming delight rush through her body. She had the strongest feeling Apollo, her master and lover, was thinking about her in a way she heavily approved of. A smile crept upon her face as she looked into space, daydreaming about her master.

”Lady Hyllus, are you ok? Do you feel unwell again? Should I call your mother?” A member of her board asked. Kathrine’s abuse of her new connection to Apollo had become somewhat known around the company, though people there believe she has come under some illness that keeps on putting her into a comatose state.

”No, I am fine. I just remembered something I need to do later. Please, continue.” She replied as the meeting continued.

...

”Hmm, no. Concentration was too high. The blood cell simply exploded once more. I could compensate and say that for example, Valerica was already strong, she could probably handle it, but this is supposed to be able to be used from childhood...”

The testing had not been going well. It had been three days and I could not get the blood samples correct. Too much energy or too little to create an effect seemed to be the constant errors in the trial period.

Though that was only inside the blood samples. Still blood. ’Perhaps it is time to actually turn my attention to the homunculi as I feel in my gut that this should be working.’ Taking off my mad scientist goggles, I turned from my work space towards the tanks and blinked in surprise.

In the tanks were four women floating gracefully in the tank with breathing systems in place so they would not die. ”Is that what I would have looked like?” I said as I moved towards the tanks to observe the faces of the women in the tanks.

They were not too dissimilar to my own, but with the added femininity and the fact that I still was enhanced, I could not help to admit that in the base form of what I would have been. ”Man, I am an attractive woman huh? Shit, better not let Janine find out, she will ask for one.”

As I was checking ’my selves’ out, the Agitator floated over and relayed. ”This one did its best to adapt your genes to the opposite sex. the bodies in the tanks are infertile however, This one lacks the knowledge how to create fertile humans. Forgive this one.”

”But they still have all the organs necessary inside if they were fertile?” I asked, causing the Agitator to relay affirmation. ”Yes Apollo, They even produce the monthly reproductive cycle that involves expelling the lining of the uterus, they just cannot become impregnated.”

I gave the Agitator a strange look as it kept on repeating the fact they could not become impregnated. ’I hope it doesn’t think I am a pervert that would engage physically with my own brain dead clones...’

Ignoring the ’look’ from the Agitator, I moved to the base of the first tank and began typing in the synthesised results of my three days of testing, followed by exactly what the clone’s body functions should be doing in regards to the manual circulatory function required to do during the technique. Something that genuinely impressed me that a non Psionic, non genetic scientist family like the Hyllus’ figured out how to do.

Once satisfied with the parameters of the test. I began. To start, I flooded the rejuvenation fluid with Psionic energy, making it act like a Psionically dense environment, which according to Keyla’s notes, helps with the technique. I then initiated the sequence that made the clone begin to channel her blood in the way in the original technique.

I watched the clones biomonitor. Her blood was now flowing completely different from how it was supposed to, pulsing strangely through her brain, heart and uterus. I squirmed slightly as I watched that as it looked wrong to me.

Still, everything was working perfectly, the clone seemed perfectly capable of adapting to the Hyllus technique. I waited a short while, the clone still functioning flawlessly. I then felt it was the time to adapt to my technique, changing the way the blood pumped through the system in a way that encouraged the Psionics in the surrounding to enter the subject’s body and form a ’bond’ with a blood cell of its choosing.

Forced bondage was not the right tool for this technique as it could create a backlash, I found out on the first day of testing when a whole dish of blood exploded all over my face. The current technique was more like conjoining two properties together though coercion. The technique being a dance to entice the energy into its body.

As the technique switched to my own, I watched for ten minutes, then twenty. Four hours later, the non existent pain receptors inside the clone made it so it could train endlessly, its strength already going through an incredible increase.

As I began to think how long the clone could keep up with the Channelling, the rejuvenation fluid turned into a murky red as the clone exploded. Keyla, who was next to me, began taking down a note.

”Note. Apollo’s improvement seems to work incredibly well, increasing initial rates by a significant factor. Note to users of technique. Do not exceed four hours of training or you will explode into a red paste.”