The hivemind is conquering for me?

As the battle raged on for almost an entire day below, I began to feel weary. Jewel had begun setting up multiple positions where she could start creating bio forms on the fly, but the fighting was still slow.

When the entire planet is one gigantic defensive structure, inside and out, with billions of defenders and no innocent civilians to devour, things get a bit more grindy at the start with greater casualties.

Jewel could feel my unrest and was both concerned and flattered. The fact her mate wanted to help her, protect her made her feel good in so many ways that she did not have time for right this moment.

The thoughts Apollo had about entering the planet were a little worrisome though. I don’t know how he expected to survive crashing onto the planet from within a hollowed out moon, but she respected his creativity and decided to somewhat go with his plan, even though there were no moons in the vicinity.

”Apollo my mate, collect your things, I am sending you to another ship and like your thoughts, I am crashing it into the planet. It is the perfect time for you to descend as the powerful entity is now on the opposite side of the planet thanks to the planet’s rotation.”

I did not need a second to think, picking up my minigun off the floor, I mounted it onto my arm before walking hastily to where I needed to go. Having made it to the location I needed to go to, multiple valves opened on the ship and a wing ripper Freethinker was waiting for Keyla, Orchid and I.

”Don something that will allow breathing in Space. This one will glide you over to the next ship.” The Freethinker said. I relayed to my suit, which manifested the helmet around my head. Orchid morphed her body so her combat attire was equipped, alongside her helmet and Keyla...

After a spout of blood mist, the Bloodfiend had made its appearance once more, being a Psionic being, it did not require oxygen to breath and would be fine in the vacuum of space. Orchid and I climbed onto the Freethinkers back, but Keyla was too big.

So when the valve behind us shut and the valve to space opened, the Bloodfiend was jettisoned out, its mouth open, clearly screaming, and considering the fact that it was Keyla, screaming in enjoyment, as it began spinning like crazy.

The Ripper Freethinker, with us on its back, then flew out and grabbed one of the Bloodfiends arms in its maw before flying towards the new ship. On the way, I was looking around, for some reason I suddenly felt very exposed now I was not in the safety of a hive ship.

From my frame of reference, to the right, a couple hundred wing rippers were manipulating Nest pods towards the battering ram ship. Jewel was packing this ship to the brim with Bio-forms.

Looking around, I noticed that the wing rippers of the main force were keeping a good job of acting like a barrier, hiding the ship that even now was slightly lurching forward towards the planet

Checking on Orchid with a squeeze to her midsection, she responded by placing one of her hands on my leg, indicating she was fine right now. Then turning to Keyla, aka, the Bloodfiend. I was slightly taken aback as it bared its maw as wide as it could go into a ’smile’ and waved at me playfully.

Conjuring up a Psionic bullet with no power, I fired it at the Bloodfiends head before relaying. ’Keyla and the others. You are not allowed to look ’cute’ in that form. I really need to keep the illusion that I am a ’normal dude.’ So try and look menacing.’

It was hard to tell without sound, but with the way the Bloodfiends torso was heaving, I had a feeling I was being laughed at by the collective that made her up. Deciding to punish Keyla later, we did not have to travel long before we arrived at the next ship.

Once inside the ship, we dismounted the Ripper Freethinker and as a good luck charm and a thank you, I placed a kiss on its head before it returned to the battle. As the valve to space closed behind the Ripper, Oxygen began to enter the room, causing Keyla to explode into a bloody mist, back into her regular form and began inhaling heavily.

After a few moments of blissful inhales and exhales, she said. ”I did not like that. I still had the subconscious urge to breathe even though I did not need to. In the future, can you find or make me a small spacesuit or something?”

After Keyla was fine and dandy, we made our way into the main part of the ship which was packed to the brim with Bio-forms. Jewel had relayed to Orchid where the safest part of the ship was and that we were to stay there during the ramming.

The only way we were making our way through the sea of bio-forms is that Orchid was forcefully relaying commands for them to move. Eventually we made it to our location and I was surprised to see a dome made out of my Warrior strain. They had all interlocked their heads in a way that they now resembled the aforementioned dome with two warriors waiting by the sides of the ’entrance’.

After entering the ’ball’ I was surprised to see that in between all of the warriors bodies, some sort of foam had been tightly packed in. Simply giving it a quick touch, I could tell the foam was shock absorbent and had to give credit to Jewel as she does work fast.

Once the three of us were in, the last two drones, filled up the entrance hole and a little ball on their back I had not noticed earlier erupted, covering their entire bodies with the foam almost everywhere except for one small hole for air so we did not suffocate before we reached the planet.

Sitting on the ground, I activated my Gyrokinesis so I wasn’t squashing the poor warriors with my armours weight. I also took Keyla and Orchid by the hand and covered them with my energy, to ease the load as while Keyla might only be a dainty thing, Orchid was very heavy as her muscles were so dense.

”Mmmh, It is so dark in here, I cannot see a thing, should we make out?” Keyla suggested, leaning against my armour. Looking down at her thanks to my night vision from my eye augmentation, I removed my helmet and teased.

”What? Do you not wish for our next kiss to be us covered in blood? Surrounded by the deceased as far as the eye can see? Ok then, come here cutie.” I said and grabbed Keyla’s chin forcefully, bringing her up towards my face.

I could see Keyla’s eyes darting back and forth in the darkness as she was contemplating her choices. Holding her just in front of my lips, I waited a moment before she exclaimed. ”Apollo, wait! Keyla wants that! She wants that! Don’t kiss me! Orchid help! I am being attacked by a pervert!”

Orchid ignored Keyla and nuzzled up next to me. She had a feeling the upcoming battle was going to be hectic and she may lose sight of her Apollo at some point. So for the time being, she was being a good girl and was simply basking in his presence.

…

A Limapoda, a giant slug type species, general was in charge of the surrounding 100 thousand km2 of this defensive position. He had been relatively lucky so far, at the expense of his allies in only a few of the hunger’s numbers had made it into his borders yet, allowing his position to continuously forty itself further.

He was certain that the hunger’s swarm tactics would fail to his ingenious defensive positioning that he would take a bath of salt if he was wrong. As though he had tempted fate, Sirens began blaring indicating an incoming attack.

Heading to his viewing platform as the sound of anti air began firing, The Limapoda wanted to view with his optical tentacles the sight of the hungers living meteors being pulverised by his defences.

He felt pride as his AA emplacements were perfectly positioned around his entire territory, nowhere in his zone were these meteors safe to land. As his defence finished destroying the meteors, another wave came. Then another. Followed by another. It was practically raining meteors at this point.

As the Limapoda was wondering why the concentration had become so high on his position, his communicator, which he did not realise had been interfered with, suddenly screamed out. ”General, have you evacuated successfully?”

Using the modulator around his throat region, he replied. ”Evacuate? Why would I-” The Limapoda’s Optical tentacles retreated into his body as fear overtook him. A giant ship had just parted the clouds that were protecting its approach. It was like a battering-ram and was heading for a collision course directly towards his fortifications.

The Limapoda was a true general though, and regained his courage in the face of death. Relaying an order to his valiant troops via his once again working communicator. ”Every single one of you, aim your weapons towards that ship! Do as much damage as we can before we Perish! For the Coalition!” He screamed, causing a response from all of his men, a defiant last act on their part.

”For the Coalition!”