The hivemind is conquering for me?

A few hours later, Prime six had taken me to a nearby planet that had a biomass teleport. It was small and not meant for living travel, but it was better than going back under the ocean for it was on a small island.

The whole reason I learnt that the hive builds smaller teleports like this, but don't use them themselves for travel, other than the energy cost Is sharing. Sometimes when invading a region of space, the hive awakens and drops onto a planet, only to realise there is not enough biomass to sustain that fleet.

When an incident like that occurs, other fleets will send over their excess biomass if they are too far away to share what I refer to as 'the collective stomach' where all the biomass is stored.

There was also another reason like the one I arrived on. That entire planet, once Prime six was done in this system, was being directly drained straight onto home world by another array I was not aware of.

A short while later, The room we were still in suddenly began to fill with water once more up to my waist and a valve opened. From said valve, a warrior in the shape of a sea creature I had no relevant comparison swam over to me and dropped something in the water before leaving once more.

Picking up what he dropped, I recognised what it was immediately. I was a simple white spacesuit. Not as elegant as my other one back on Apollo minor, but it meant I wouldn't have to ride shotgun in Six's mouth again.

After thanking Six for sneakily doing this for me, I put on the suit before I mounted her back, holding on tight to her fin and using my Gyrokinesis to keep me in place once the vacuum sucked us out.

I had forgotten that the valve's tend to depressurise the rooms of air before opening up to space so when the valve to space did open I looked like a fool. Six however, using her energy to observe her surroundings, found my action very cute as she began 'swimming' out into space.

We were just slightly away from being in the planet's orbit as I looked around. Thousands of large ships all with massive towers descending from their bodies into the water below. I thought it was really cool and as I followed one of the towers all the way to the planet's surface with my eyes, I felt a chill go down my spine at what I saw.

In large swathes of ocean, the entire surface for thousands of miles had turned red with blood. The fact I could see multiple patches of bloody ocean from space meant there was an absolute massacre down below.

I put my mind at the thought of the countless sea creatures that were below the water's surface, and noticed that there was now a large amount of landmass. In the last few hours I had been given a mental map, courtesy of Six, of the local system. This planet in particular at the start of the invasion only had a few archipelagos as land masses.

Now, there were continent sized land masses jutted all over as the water level lowered thanks to the Hive being a thirsty girl. As Six began to make her way towards the planet, I noticed something out of the corner of my helmet's vision and frowned as I turned towards it.

I had gone over the map of the system a few times including this planet, and there was no mention of a moon? The moon was large judging from how big it looked at this distance. It could even be considered a dwarf planet under the right circumstances, so why was the hive seemingly oblivious to it?

"Hey Six." I started. "What the deal with-" a voice suddenly whispered through my mind. "Forget me, kindred being." Six waited a moment, but with Apollo not continuing his thought, she relayed. What's the deal with what? Apollo?"

Looking out into space, I felt a hint of confusion. 'I felt like I saw something. Did I?' Shaking my head, I replied to Six. "Sorry, I lost my thought, It wasn't important."

…

Totally Ordinary moon: Moon

'Intriguing. A fellow outer being. Though it seems acclimated to this universe, unlike I.' The moon observed its surroundings. 'Interesting species it has been adopted by. If they do their job efficiently, I might not have to wait till the heat death to be able to leave this wretched place.'

The 'moon' began observing the outer being once more. A few hundred thousand miles was akin to him being in front of its very eyes after all. 'Lets see. Weak, very weak, but it has this universe's energy coursing through it? It has acclimated? I wonder why?'

As the 'moon' effortlessly bypassed Apollo's mind defences without him realising, It got Its answer. 'Oh? one of those life travellers? I have heard of them. Never thought I would get the chance to see one, nevertheless in this mass of gravitational force I am being forced into by this petty universe.'

The 'moon' pondered for a moment about its current situation, the other outer entity, even as weak as it was, was able to observe it for a moment. 'This won't do. These life travellers... The stories I have heard about them... Best not to be nearby when it remembers this once its strength has grown.'

Suddenly a disturbance amassed where the moon had been orbiting the planet below for the last three billion years and vanished without a trace. 90 billion light years away, the moon suddenly materialised what it considered a fair distance from the other outer being.

'This should buy me enough 'time' until I can escape this wretched place. The moon then began to observe its surroundings. 'Hmm, a lot of gasses and materials. I hope I don't become a planet, especially one capable of supporting life. I would despise having little parasites all over me.'

…

As we descended into the planet's atmosphere, the weird feeling I had in the back of my mind faded. As we descended further, I took off my helmet and suddenly smelt an overwhelming fishy stench and covered my nose. "That's gross." I commented, but Six rebutted. "Gross? My love, that is the smell of fresh biomass. Truly there is no better smell.

I decided to let Six have this one and simply put back on my helmet to save my nose from going into atrophy. It was not long with Six swimming through the air that we arrived at the aforementioned island.

It now looked like a gigantic mesa with the lowered sea level as it towered over all nearby landmass. As Six landed, I sighed with relief upon noticing a small batch of land based Hive with an agitator waiting by the teleport array.

Jumping down from Six, I waked over to the agitator, as apart from Six, she was the closest thing to Jewel's mind here. Giving it a hug and lifting it off its floating axis, I mumbled. "Oh nice tentacled, land based agitator. It is so nice seeing familiar bio forms. Get this, turns out I am afraid of the deep ocean, weird huh? You would think it would be no problem being surrounded by you tentacled babes all the time."

The agitator was surprised at receiving affection, but wrapped her tentacles around me tightly. "It is ok my mate, this one understands. Your brain, as amazing as it is, is still a lower functioning one compared to ours. Irrational fears are to be expected. You may hold this one as long as you want to make you feel better." It relayed softly into my mind.

Prime six looked on at Apollo hugging the agitator and mentally pouted 'Curse this large body, I want Apollo to pick me up and squeeze me like that!' I put the agitator down after a few minutes, much to its disappointment, it was so close to dying by Apollo hugs as he had forgotten about his strength increase. What an end that would have been!

I then walked back over to Six and began rubbing her nose again, sending her sensors into an overload of delight. "So Six, what are your plans over the next few months?" I asked, to which she replied.

"Once we have devoured these worlds, a splinter fleet will arrive to deliver our biomass back to our homeworld. I will then push on through the Psionic tendrils, looking for more prey." I thought about what she said and shook my head. "Wrong."

If Six was able, her head would have tilted to the side and looked at me confused. "Wrong? I do not understand Apollo?" I faked a sigh and tapped her nose a few times. "You are wrong about your plans. There will be no splinter fleet. You will come and bring the biomass back to homeworld yourself. I am sure Jewel would like the company of a piece of herself after all, she isn't that biological robot anymore. And before you say anything on the contrary, Your 'King' has commanded you to come back yourself and when you do, you will get your name. Ok?"

Six paused for a moment. Apollo calling himself that title stimulated her mind in all the right ways, on top of the fact that she might become the first named prime and could happily boast about that fact. After the moment passed, she responded.

"Yes my mate, I will see you again soon."