The hivemind is conquering for me?

Kathrine and the mercenaries finally made it out of the city and the defensive camp ahead was now visible. The AA guns were still firing against any Thurx ships and drones that came to close, but most fire was now directed towards the small streams of Swarm warriors that have been making there way towards them.

As the group began making there way into the safety of the camp, a lot of them collapsed due to exhaustion now they had some modicum of respite and those that were wounded were taken to their respective ships for treatment. Kathrine allowed them the moment to rest, while telling one of the nearby camp defenders to retrieve Mindy for her.

Mindy eventually ran over to Kathrine." Lady Kathrine, I am glad to see you have returned safely." "Thank you Mindy, Report the situation here." Kathrine replied. "Of course. The attacks of the Thurx have been our main threat, although with our amount of AA, the threat was significantly reduced and I had spare men begin to load up the ships with equipment." She took a breath before continuing.

"Once the swarm arrived, A small fragment of the ship landed over there." She indicated to her right. "But once we took care of them with our mounted weapons, they have only been a minor nuisance."

Kathrine nodded her head. "Very good Mindy, prepare the rest of the camp for take-off. We will leave in 15 minutes." Mindy nodded her head and was about to turn around, when she suddenly noticed a lack of 400 or so mercenaries. "My lady, what happened to the rest of the troop? For that matter Where Is Apollo and my husband?" Mindy asked, her mind beginning to race with worst case scenarios. "

"Your husband is in your ship, he is receiving medical treatment and is in critical condition." Kathrine informed. Mindy's hands began to shake. She may have thought of leaving him recently, but the last thing she wanted was for him to die. He had been a part of her life for a long time and although she no longer loved him the way she once did, she still cared for him.

Still, she decided to remain strong and believe he would pull through. "A-and what about Apollo?"

Kathrine removed her helmet, her face looked extremely pale in contrast to her fiery red hair. "Apollo is the reason we were able to make it back here at all. The Swarm had us cornered. 5 Brain bursters 2 queen guards with other basilisk surrounding them and thousands upon thousands of warriors. Apollo decided he would unleash his Psionic power and hold them back.

Thanks to him, we have only had to kill the occasional dozen until we arrived."

"So he's." Mindy was about to finish, but Kathrine interrupted her. "All evidence points to that outcome yes, but I have a feeling in the back of my mind that he is still alive. Its like I just know. Either way, we cannot sit around idling, we need to get to work preparing evac."

While the rest of the camp began to dismantle everything they possibly could and place them back into the ships, Janine was in a guard tower watching the city line in the distance through her scope. "Come on you little shit, come on. I can't lose the only friend who has ever truly known me." Janine whispered.

Tears threatened to fall out her eyes, but she refused them as they may impair her vision and she may miss something.

There was only a few minutes until the ships would take off now and Janine was about to lose her hope. However, during her last pan over the horizon, she saw a blue outline moving towards the camp. She ignored it at first and continued her pan, but quickly went back when her brain recognised the colour.

Sure enough, the blue beast that helped Apollo underground was now running towards the camp at insanely fast speed. She could not see right away, but after the beast moved it giant head slightly, she could see it had a passenger. Janine collapsed to the floor in relief and simply whispered to herself. "Thank you."

As Sapphire made her way closer and closer to the camp, other sentries began to notice. Some had not seen the beast themselves and had heard of it via the other mercenaries, while those that did go below against the Deimos recognised it instantly. "Its APOLLO!" One of the mercenaries yelled after getting onto an elevated platform to see the commotion.

"Is he alone or is anyone with him?" Ernie yelled out in a desperate tone from below. "He's alone, he's on that blue beast of his and from the looks of it, he does not look good."

Ernie scrunched up his face and clenched his fists, he could grieve later. Instead, he awaited at the camp entrance alongside a few others who were not in the ships yet.

Janine made it down her guard tower and to the entrance of the camp just in time for Sapphire to enter through the gates. She had see Apollo's condition from a distance, but up-close made her draw in a gasp. The mans armour was barely existent at this point. All that was left was the three purple orbs on his chest, the minigun on his arm and enough material to cover his groin.

The rest was held together by thin, thin strands of metal that allowed it to still be attached to his body.

Speaking of his body, It was saturated in blood, not just his own as the ichor the swarm had was mixed in between his own that had come from the innumerable cuts and gashed that riddled his body. In his left arm he held his sword in a tight grip and in his right, a huge scythe of a creature he had clearly been using as a weapon before he passed out.

Sapphire ignored the humans around her and proceeded with her order. She strutted through the camp until she arrived at the ship she was told to go to. Once she was in front of the loading doors, she lay down and then dissapeared, leaving Apollo to fall a small distance onto the ground.

Once she was back in the Mindspace, she immediately was given affectionate Scritches on her chin for a job well done.

"Thats my chonky girl, what a good show you put on." I said as the scratching commenced. Sapphire closed her eyes halfway and looked at the figure who had been absentee for the last two weeks with a smugness from the corner of her eye.

The absentee in question, Onyx, was in her humanoid form currently and took great offence at that look as she grabbed my arm and said. "Apollo! Did you see the look she gave me! She was looking down on me like I was inferior to her! I am your mate my universe, stand up for me!"

I looked at her bewildered then looked back at my chonk. "Oh sweetheart, you are just imagining things. You know how you get in that form. My chonky girl loves you and would never do that. Would you, would you." I said as she presented her belly and I began scratching all over.

As I continued my pampering of the chonkiest girl ever, She once again looked at Onyx upside down with a smugness that made Onyx want to kill everything in sight. To the look of rage, Sapphire licked the side of her maw before closing her eyes and enjoying the pampering.

30 minutes later, I could audible hear Onyx's aura of jealously so I decided to stop pampering Sapphire and alleviate some Jealousy from Onyx. As I wrapped my arms around her, I could not help say again. "I missed you so much my cloak and shield." As I said this, I leaned in for a kiss, but Onyx turned away with a frown. "Oh? You don't want to kiss me?

Thats fine, Ill just go back to playing with Sapphire." "NO!" She yelled and pulled into her face with a little more force than she should have in my mind.

I ignored it and began kissing her passionately, every time our lips touched, it sent a tingling sensation through each of our bodies. In the middle of kissing, Onyx looked over at Sapphire to boast as the overly grown feline had done to her. Sapphire was in the middle of licking her nose when she felt the gaze and looked over.

Upon realising the mate was attempting to goad her, she simply rolled her eyes and began walking over to her sleeping spot under the Origin, completely unfazed as it was impossible for her to feel that way about her master.

For starters, she was made from a piece of his soul and was an extension of him and second, She was only a female because the template her master used was a female. She did not even have genitals to feel any drive to mate.

Onyx did not care however, she felt the retreat of the overgrown feline was a win and her kiss with Apollo became even sweeter, which she never knew was possible.