Genesis Planet 333_SystemNeXuS "The Hive" Bang. Pain. Light. More pain. This was the last three hours of Cla's hive mind. Bodies of her children lay across the empty plain… she was wounded. Not even her great skin could save her from them. They came with the storm. Hundreds of them came, in armors and with weapons. They scorched the air with hot light. And they killed. Her faithful warriors had charged, faster than there heat could catch them. They tore them apart, only to be shredded from afar. Her Royal guards had fared better, taking out half of them before they died. Her Ravager mate … Kra … beat down their largest with his blades, but even he was slain. Only ¼ of the hive was left then. She had stood up, tearing the empty sac from her, and ran to meet the opposition. Her children tried to stop her, but they fell in step with a single command… it was a slaughter. They were defeated, but at all costs. Her hive was less than small now. Only two remained. Her tail was destroyed, her crest cracked, and her heart broken. Her unborn daughter was resting on her knee. Her unhatched one lay between them. She was fixing it. This mistake. She let them live here. She hoped for peace. They didn't share her sentiments. They are now dead. More will come. They always do. Her mother had explained it to her through the web. They never stopped. Not until they killed all. Cla was doing something new. She picked up a body, her mate's, and drug it to her unhatched. Opening the egg she took her child. Her mate was going to do the impossible, give birth. Her mate was really something special. He was the greatest specimen of strength aside from her. His birthing was… unique. He was royal, as he should be to be her mate, but his crib had been a Predator. He was smarter than any other One the web knew. And different he was as well. His blades were night. And his skin was blood. He was large too. Uncrouched he stood 47 feet. She was also special. She was a Queen of strength, a true battlequeen. Unable to be stopped easily, she had the ability to change. In minutes, her arms could become sharper, her tail could grow blades, and her skin compound its density many times over. This unborn was unbelievably special, her newest that is. Their only child together lay there. She commanded her daughter to wake him. She did. From his solid black egg crawled a red unborn, incredibly large he was. 7 feet and 78 pounds in all with a bladed tail as well. On command he approached his smaller sister. His bladed tail trailing her underside, she shivered, but she understood and opened up. His tail reached in until it was at her core. He wrapped it up and swiftly removed her, carefully placing her within himself. As mother wished. He turned; another command and he started shrieking. But as mother wished, he crawled up her leg. If he could cry then he would. Death, that is what awaited her, they knew it. She opened herself with a claw, hissing her pains away. He reached in and removed her core as well, though this time it required his blade. He then placed it inside himself again. Following her last orders, he approached the body of father. Using his blade he opened him up and burrowed down. The flesh, still warm, closed behind him. Soon, he knew he would reach it. Slicing and digging and slicing and digging, his body thriving with the new cores, he reached it. Father's core was too large, so he burrowed into it and made a space. Curling up, he slept ... and he changed. / Years passed and Cla had been right. They returned and found her. But she was dead. An egg was suspicious, but its facehugger was next to it, dead, so they didn't worry much. They looked around and salvaged all that they could. But nothing was usable: rust, acid, fire, weather, and brute force had destroyed what was left of the soldiers. They would have salvaged xenoskeleton, but their shells were all split down their chests. They searched the world, looking for the evidence of other hives. They found none. Destroying the bodies, they started to leave, none noticing the extra passenger who left with them.