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October 19, 2019
When inquired after the fact, there wasn't a person in Japan who didn't remember where they were or what they were doing on Arrival Day.
It happened without warning, without the usual fanfare, devastation, or declarations of war which usually accompanied an alien invasion. One minute, the skies were clear, and everyone in the country was going about their own business.
The next, the sky suddenly pixilated and took on a honeycomb pattern. As the Japanese people looked up in confusion and alarm, the hexagons peeled away to reveal a huge golden tunnel in a honeycomb pattern, from which a massive golden ship resembling a massive beehive made of interlocking hexagons descended.
People panicked. The Armed Forces mobilized. Calls were put out, a variety of colorful heroes prepared to leap into action, politicians were shuttled off to bunkers where they could watch the impending invasion in comfort, and schools remained in session, because even the end of the world wasn't going to keep Japanese youth from their studies, especially since the end of the world happened at least once a week and at this point wasn't really worth canceling classes over.
As the hexagons flew back up into the sky to seal the hole once the ship had fully passed through, a variety of ports opened in the side of the vessel and millions of glittering drones resembling beautiful golden bejeweled bees flew out, swarming in the air around the ship before coalescing in a single mass in front of it, taking on a vaguely humanoid shape.
The mass shuddered, and suddenly a wave of golden light passed down from the top of the mass to its bottom, causing the drones to compress and interlock into a single, solid form.
And what a form it was! The resulting giant creature was much less monstrous than the standard colossus which attacked Tokyo on at least a weekly basis, and far more attractive at that. It was distinctly feminine, her body made up of golden chitin with black stripes with a faint honeycomb pattern visible just beneath the surface.
She had four arms, two positioned in the same place as most humanoid life forms, slender, shapely, clad in regal gold and black-striped gauntlets with bejeweled stingers jutting out from the top and honeycomb-patterned sashes linking them to her shoulders, which were covered in a luxurious furry mantle dotted with hexagon jewels, each hand made of three elongated, multi-jointed, very sharp looking digits. Her other two arms were crossed over her chest, each of them covering up a sizable and distinctly mammalian-looking breast as a makeshift and very eye-catching brassiere.
A (literal) wasp waist connected her upper body to her lower, which was composed of a pair of segmented, multi-jointed legs ending in talons with barbs jutting from the sides, each of which had a glittering ring wrapped around it and jewellike formations dotting the length with a gorgeously woven piece of cloth with a complex honeycomb crest on it hanging between the legs. A very large abdomen ending in a cluster of crystalline multicolored stingers jutted from her rear, almost half again as wide as the rest of her body.
Six iridescent wings grew from her back, currently hanging down like a cape, though occasionally flicking outwards and refracting light in myriad hues across the city. Her head was vaguely triangular in shape, with a pair of very fuzzy and soft-looking antenna growing from the top of her head in between what appeared to be a crown made of interlocking golden bejeweled hexagons, her eyes large and dark and inviting, the compound lenses making them up so small as to be nearly invisible, and a mammalian mouth in between a pair of dainty yet sharp-looking mandibles.
"People of Earth," the giant women spoke, her voice soft and evoking the sensations of a warm mouthful of honey or loving hug from a mother, while resonating as if being spoken by many mouths, a faint but not unwelcome buzzing underlying it. "Be not afraid. I know that your planet has suffered attacks from dozens of hostile invaders in the past, but I swear to you that we are not one of them."
She smiled, though there was more than a hint of sadness to it. "If anything, that's why we have come here. Your reputation as an indomitable planet, one which has broken some of the most powerful empires in the universe, is known across the stars… Which is why it is my hope that you will allow us to settle here."
She clasped her main hands together and bowed her head in supplication. "We do not wish to impose, nor do we want to bring our war to your world, but there is nowhere else for us to turn. And so I, Queen Apista XCIX, humbly ask you to grant my people asylum."
And that was how the last vestige of the Hive came to Earth.