The hivemind is conquering for me?

The past week with Prime Three had been a pleasant surprise and change of pace. Other than the first day, she did not bring up anything that touched on mating or the lewding of my body.

The furthest she had gotten was whenever I flirted with her, to which she replied in kind. We mostly discussed our respective battles and while mine were not as... intense as hers had been, whenever I spoke, her large head was fixated upon me, listening to how I described each battle in great detail.

It was also a great learning moment as Prime three would tell me what she would have done differently if she was restricted to my strength. I had learnt a lot from her. Including what the hive considered their greatest threat. Something Jewel does not like to talk about.

The Hive currently had three enemies that had been labelled actual threats. The First I found surprising. The Ker’mins. I did not think Prime Three was serious when she first said that as I spent my entire infancy watching the hive devour the yellow frog aliens.

However, Prime three explained that despite them currently being a literal buffet for the hive with how many terraformed planets the hive devours weekly, the fact was that the hive had also barely scratched the surface into the Kermin territory. Sure right now they posed zero threat. But if the species ever focused their full attention on the hive and figured out where they are coming from. The Hive would be outnumbered approximately by a trillion to one.

I tried to begin to do the math at how many entities that would be, but the number was literally unfathomable to me. I could not begin to picture it if I wanted to.

The second threat was a galactic empire named the Adronox Conclave smaller than the Ker’mins, but made up of only a single species called the Adronox. However, the fact that they were smaller was not a detriment.

The Adronox possessed advanced weaponry. Gauss weaponry. Jewel had naturally fought gauss weaponry before as many prey species had the technology, but the Adronox conclave had made it their bread and butter, perfecting the weaponry to the point whenever Jewel attempts an invasion, she loses so much biomass as the weaponry turns her own limbs into molecules.

The weaponry of the Adronox was not the only threat however. Their leaders were 8 individuals that possessed powers greater than the god I had witnessed the other week. Jewel had actually managed to kill them on multiple occasions via prime one and two, but apparently the individuals had managed to figure out a way to revive themselves with a sacrifice of exactly ten thousand of their population.

The Hive received that information after eating one after all, making Jewel incredibly frustrated as it’s a unique Psionic ability she craves, now more than ever, especially for my safety.

I felt touched and offended when I heard that, but honestly I would want the same if Jewel was weaker than me.

The Final threat was one that intrigued me as I had some form of reference and had been told about them in passing before. There was this faction of robots led by some kind of godly robot that harassed the hive all over the place.

Apparently Prime three and four had had the most encounters with the kind, but the hive actually had very little information on the king due to the fact that most of the robots it created were incredibly biomass insufficient for the hive to consume and the fact that those that are not only have nothing of use, but even if the hive did have technology capabilities, upon ’death’, the robots wipe their servers clean, giving the enemy nothing.

Of course there were various other species and even single entities that that the hive considered deadly. For example, Prime three explained to me at one point how each Prime was different and that prime four was unique even from the rest, being a colossal forty kilometre long bio-ship. And how she once got very close to death when a pod of, what Prime 3 described closely resembled, ’space whales’ practically ripped her to shreds once as they were traveling through a Psionic tendril.

There were threats all over essentially is what I gathered from my talking’s with Prime three. As I was lay on her thorax, one of her claws brushing me up and down with incredible dexterity, as a single micromovement she could easily disembowel me, I felt like I had felt a true threat before, but couldn’t put my head on it and simply shrugged.

”Careful Apollo! It is a good thing I am fast.” Prime three said after I shrugged, causing me to suppress an apology. ”My bad, I got distracted by something.” I replied, causing her to huff curiously. ”Yes I noticed. Where do you keep going when you cut out like that? As I still feel you connected to the link?”

Immediately, Prime three had her link with me suppressed, causing me confusion as I had no idea what she was going on about, causing Sol to relay to my mind. ”Your block from your past life Apollo.” Before going silent once more as she had already been reprimanded for breaking the rule of staying in Apollo’s mind and received a scolding. Which is something she never wanted to experience again.

’But I wasn’t thinking about my past life?’ I thought in confusion before I attempted to reconnect the link back with Prime three.

…

”I am curious! What if he wants to tell us, but isn’t able as there is a condition about it and only asking for details as we are his mate is the answer!” Prime three defended herself to Jewel who had berated her for attempting to probe about Apollo’s inherited memory. Again.

”Apollo shares everything with us! If he hasn’t told us about it yet, it means he can’t have you considered if he does he could die? Could you imagine a universe without our beloved? Think, my Prime, Think.”

Prime three began to think about that horrid thought. The thought itself caused her so much mental anguish. If such a thing came to fruition, especially if she was the cause by probing, she wouldn’t be capable of existing any longer...

Prime three was stopped from thinking further by the probing of her mate’s cute attempt at breaching her Mindspace for communication. ’He is so weak it is too cute!’ She thought to herself before allowing him to penetrate the link.

”Hey, Is everything ok?” I asked now that I was finally let in. ”Yes Apollo, everything is fine. Jewel was just impatient and wanted to witness you again as we have now gone past the week mark and my reward has finished.”

I perked up hearing that and asked. ”Is she ok? Can I speak to her?” Prime three cast a smile, her buccal flaps in full showing. The excitement in her mate’s face upon mentioning the queen, made her feel giddy in her Psionic existence, as she was a part of the Queen’s soul after all.

A moment later, there was a slight shift in Prime three’s movements. Her stroking of me stopped as I felt her posture change beneath me. Despite it being an entirely different body, I could tell who was now piloting this body.

I braced for loud Jewel as the Psionic amplification takes place, so I was pleasantly surprised when Jewel said in a normal octave. ”My prime’s can withstand my might Apollo; The amplification is nullified within them. Enough about me, how was your week? Did my prime treat you well? Remember, it is ok to tell us no if we are being too overbearing.”

Jewel naturally knew everything that had happened of course, but a half lie for her mates benefit was no issue. ”Prime three was excellent. A credit to you, my mate. I love her lots and lots.” I said, grabbing her giant digit and giving it a kiss.

”How are the lovebirds by the way? Have they reconciled in my absence?” I joked and I could physically feel Jewel/Prime three’s body sigh, indicating I may have overused the joke now. ”Orchid is fine, she is currently inside a nest pod tweaking her muscles and going over a minor flaw she encountered during her time on the hunting ground. The Hybrid took your advice after two days and surrendered herself to my control. I have her stored away in the corner of my room to prevent her from being in the way. She is sufficiently fed and will not be a bother for the time being.”

I chuckled at the image of Keyla just in the corner of the room curled up acting like a decoration before I just began chatting with Jewel for a short while about the rest of my week. Towards a good stopping point in our conversation, I spoke up. ”Alright my cute queen, you give Prime three her body back. It is time for me to grant her request she asked of me after all.”

Jewel then gently caressed my cheek with her finger and said. ”You know, you are making my other primes incredibly jealous, I can’t have them all disobeying me and teleporting across my known universe just to see you.”

I chuckled at Jewel for a moment, only to realise she wasn’t kidding. ”Oh! In that case, I am sure I can think up some names. But they will feel so impersonal if I don’t meet them first. Surely they can wait till the natural event of our meeting before I give them their names?

Jewel suddenly received waves of affirmation from the other primes, causing her to smile at her mate’s cleverness. She then relinquished her control of prime three who Immediately looked at me, her black eyes gleaming with anticipation.

I chuckled softly before speaking. ”I have put a great deal of thought into this as you requested and have come up with the perfect name for you.” I could see the anticipation building up in Prime three’s face, causing me to feel nervous, hoping she likes it.

”Your name shall be...”