Location: King's Station

Julia let out a yell as a black object barreled into her, knocking her on her back. As she regathered herself, she noticed that the black thing appeared to be a living thing, though it didn't look like any bug. It was almost completely vanta black, with a contrasting white shell like helmet thing on its head.

Her yell caused Lucas and Joshua to hurry up in getting through the hole, and soon enough joined her in looking at the weird small…. not quite a bug thing. It appeared to be jumping up and down in happiness

"Looks kind of cute" Lucas commented, which caused the small bug thing to stop jumping and look at it, like it was confused.

Pov: Ghost

"Found them, found them" Ghost chanted in their head as they jumped up and down.

Then one of their siblings spoke... verbally? That's… strange vessels don't usually talk verbally, maybe let out a simple grunt or maybe even a high pitched shout, but they mostly communicate mentally, and they were speaking in a tongue that Ghost didnt understand. Ghost could clearly sense the void in them, but they didn't look like any void entity he had ever seen before, they wore all white suits, and the place where a face or mask should be, a pitch black glass like material took its place. They were also really tall, one looked taller than hollow, and he was the tallest vessel in the whole abyss. Something was wrong, Ghost wondered that based off the all white uniform, that mayne the pale king indoctrinated them, and maybe even gave them a voice. Ghost couldn't really think of any reason why the King would do this, the infection was already gone, but Ghost didn't really care for the reason.

Ghost then heard an audible shout from around him, which is when he remembered where he was. King's station, one of the busiest Stag stations in Hallownest. "I had to get my siblings out of here" Ghost thought to himself. It would not be long before the King would send his guards to retrieve his 'property'.

Ghost turned out to be correct, as city sentries were alerted, and began creating a formation in front of him and his siblings. They had to get out of there, they couldn't fight the many sentries, lancer sentries, heavy sentries, and even a great sentry alone, and he doubted these knew siblings knew how to fight yet.

Pov: Humans

"There goes my hopes of this being peaceful"" Julia grumbled as she checked how many bullets she had left in the magazine, 5 she counted.

"Weapons ready" Julia shouted to her squadmates, who had already turned off their safeties.

Julia hoped that she could still end this peacefully, if not, the Bunker may be at great risk, depending on how large and powerful this civilization is. They have shown to be able to organize to an extent, and have what appears to be a cohesive military procedure judging by the formation of the bugs around her and her squad. Strangely enough, the little black bug appeared to be a little sword, and faced the bugs in front of them, appearing determined.

Pov: Sentries

"Attention trespassers, this is Hallownest territory, put down your weapons and surrender" The Great sentry at the head of the formation announced. The Bugs they were formed around said something back to them, in a language he didn't understand. Arrogant heathens, thinking that they can just waltz into the domain of their great King, and not even having the courtesy of speaking the local dialect. They must be taught a lesson in humility, this should send a message to whatever savage comrades they may have, that Hallownest was only for the civilized.

As he raised his blade to signal an attack, he saw a flash from one of the objects the weird bugs were holding, and it was the last thing he ever saw.

The other sentries stepped back, or in the case of the lancers, flew back, that was a heavy sentry, and whatever the strange bugs were holding pierced his helmet armor like it was nothing. How fast could these newcomers kill them? Was it a long time between attacks, or an instant?

Many of the civilian bystanders just looked at the body of the great sentry in shock, what in Hallownest could defeat such a warrior so quickly.

Pov: Ghost

Ghost was a bit proud of their siblings to say the least, it even took Hollow a few seconds to deal with a great sentry, and the new siblings did it in an instant. He hoped that Hollow wouldn't be too jealous, with him losing the status of tallest vessel and possibly greatest warrior. Some of the nobles in the crowd were quietly wondering how much it would cost to enlist one of these strange bugs as a personal bodyguard.

The sentries before them appeared to be considering their next move, when a black cloud suddenly appeared before them. Hollow emerged, nail drawn, and a look of bloody murder in his eyes. With the appearance of the former Hollow Knight, the sentries finally came to the decision to retreat, and order the civilians to evacuate.

With the enemy in full retreat, Hollow and Ghost turned to their new siblings. Hollow tried to send them messages in their mind, but they only responded back with confused sounding verbal noises in a tongue he didn't understand. "New siblings no know how to talk right yet" Ghost explained. Hollow did a vessel's version of a sigh, they needed to get them back to the abyss as soon as possible.

Pov: Humans

"Damn it, damn it, damn it" Lucas said to no one in particular, as the hopes of peaceful contact were dashed before his eyes.

Joshua the one who took the shot responded "He raised his sword at us, what was I supposed to do?"

"Maintain trigger discipline! Maybe!" Lucas snapped back

"Enough! What's done is done, we can not change the past" Julia said, trying to break up a pointless fight. It was then that she turned her attention back to the strange vanta black being, now with a bigger one, only slightly shorter than her (if you don't count the horns), both of them were staring at the group intensely.

Suddenly, the larger one grabbed her, she wrenched her arm back, and was able to pull free. Not wanting to cause another incident, she ordered a fall back.

"Back through the tunnels! NOW!" She ordered, Lucas and Joshua proceeded to crawl through the small hole in the wall. Before Julia could follow suit, a large vanta black being pulled her out, tendrils from its cloak wrapping around her, and then suddenly, they were consumed by a black fog.

Pov: Hollow

They were not able to capture all their siblings, but that was ok, it looked like they could handle themselves, and he could always retrieve them later. Right now he had to focus getting the one he did capture back to the abyss, teleporting corner to corner in the city to avoid detection. He had to get to the Shade Lord in order to fix them, he would know what to do.