"What do you mean you joined the army? Keyla, are you crazy?" Sophia berated through her mindspace.

"...Yes?" Keyla replied, her thoughts filled with the confusion of ’I thought you knew?’

Sophia began to worry and Keyla felt all this, naturally, so she put her mother at ease.

"Sophia, it’s fine. I used a different name, gave myself a full life thanks to Mary-Beth and am only using a portion of my powers. The other voices have agreed to keep the bloodlust to a minimum while I am here as well. We all love Apollo after all so we need to stay composed and do our job for him."

"But you are still there Keyla. Your face has been seen. You are threatening Apollo’s happiness. If he becomes linked to the sanguine butcher... He might not come back... I cannot have that."

"Hmm~" Keyla paused, thinking on how to proceed. She was going to just use the Lochagos’ computer once she killed her to change the face on her profile, but there is still a miniscule chance she could be recognised by one of her peers here at the boot camp in the future.

"Easy solution. I won’t come back to Euc 4 right away. That way there is no trail to bring me to Apollo... Well except the Kathrine route, but that is all circumstantial and coincidence."

"And where do you plan on going, Keyla? You might have been touched by the queen, but you are still my cultist." Sophia asked, not totally against the idea, but wanting to be the decider.

"Hmm, well I was going to suggest going back to Apollo-minor. Have some brain shut off time again as it was so much fun, but I can tell that answer would make you jealous."

"I-I’m not jealous! We all return to the queen in the end..."

"Very convincing mama... How about I go bully Sammy? It will be fun to see her acting on her own. I’m sure she misses me very much by now anyway. Besides, she had probably cocked something up by now and will need her bestie to help out."

Sophia found that acceptable. "Very well, you can catch Delilah there as well, she hasn’t moved from the world since she arrived a few months ago. Now, I have to go, Orchid is waiting for me to answer her. Oh, and Xeti will be joining us soon."

"Oh, my pet alien? Neato. I forgot about her to be honest. She was fun to break though. Ok mama, I have to go. I have five minutes of free time left so I think I can squeeze out another nut before I have to go. Look out for my handiwork on the news!"

...

Keyla felt Sophia leave her mindspace and she let out a breath. This was taking a while. Sure she could just go bloodfiend mode right now and kill thousands, but it would not be right. For her king, she was unsatisfied with anything but perfection.

’Perfection...’ The word lingered in her mind for a moment. Only one thing in existence matched the word. The image of Apollo appeared again. Slick with blood, his manhood fully erect.

She bit her lip, her arousal building up once more as her fingers began to move on their own.

’I might even get two in!’

...

Sophia opened her eyes before quickly shutting them again. She was made for being spread across a few planets, Keyla’s distance was too much and had strained her mind heavily. She massaged her eyes for a moment and when she opened them Xeti was looking at her, eyes wide, hopeful.

"I-Is Keyla coming back?" She spoke without permission. "I long for her truth to mark me once more."

Sophia poured herself a drink, ignoring the alien. After gulping it down, she sighed. "No, Keyla is going to be elsewhere for the time being, though I will inform you, she forgot you existed when I just spoke with her. Now shut up."

She then picked up her communicator and spoke into it. "Keyla won’t cause Apollo further trouble."

"Good." Was All Orchid said before hanging up the communicator. Sophia then let out another sigh before noticing Xeti was squirming. "Explain yourself." She asked, confused.

Xeti’s breath had picked up, her hands began to caress the wounds on her body. "She forgot me... Of course she did, one whose truth was so pure... Her mind would have been focused on what she was doing, not caring about me. I find myself pained by the revelation I mean so little to her... But at the same time, it feels good."

Sophia got goosebumps. Apollo had been exposed to a lot of things thanks to the hive. Murder, drugs, alcohol, poison war... But a sexually frustrated masochist? Sophia did not want to expose Apollo to such influences. He was pure and innocent... He was her mate. She would protect him at all costs...

Her thoughts, however, didn’t take into account how much she got off when Apollo would slap her rear while mating, or how her queen was currently incredibly excited by the prospect of her being punished by him upon his return for being a bad hive and breaking her word about invading this galaxy in her current need for prime biomass.

She began to enact some plans on how to correct this alien before her, but before she could think a young voice yelled. "Mama? Why is Xeti out of her cell?"

Leilani asked, holding a cookie in her hand, looking towards the alien.

Sophia looked between Xeti and Leilani before shaking her head. "The better question is, why do you have a cookie? You are going to ruin your appetite. Better yet, why are you here? I thought you were at school with- Oh!"

Sophia suddenly recalled a piece of information from her underlink and checked the time. "Oh! I didn’t realise what time it was. Lele, are you ready? This has to go well, it will benefit Apollo greatly after all."

Hearing Apollo’s name, Leilani’s eyes opened wide with excitement. "I am! All we do is for him!"

Sophia smiled, although Lele wasn’t made aware of what the cult actually was yet, being her preparation daughter, Sophia had a more hands on approach with her training... The child already adored Apollo, so she turned that adoration into worship in such a short amount of time.

"Yes, for him. Xeti returned to your cell, you will eat everything given to you to grow your friend, understood?"

"Yes Mistress."

She then observed as Xeti left the room towards the elevator. Once it dinged, Sophia turned and smirked at Lele. "Ok then, let’s make sure this playdate goes well. If we can get this woman as an ally it’s only a matter of time before Apollo becomes king of this planet too!"

Sophia then grabbed her back and prepared to leave. Just as she got in the elevator an annoying daughter of hers was blowing her lid further down south, not wanting to deal with it right now, she closed the link before looking down at Lele, holding her hand. A smile crept on her lips.

’All for him.’

...

"WAKE UP YOU OLD CUNT!" Jinx screamed into the ear of White Death. She was starting to get seriously pissed off now.

She expected this gig of ’leader’ to last for two weeks tops.

Not nearly three months!!!

Things had not been going well. Not only was she feared and respected. But people had begun to talk about her taking over permanently!

’Fuck That!’ She had dreams, aspirations. She had plans. Apollo needed dome and her tight slit when he was back. She couldn’t do that from here!

What made it worse, was every time she asked her mother when she could leave, she would just get left on read.

’STUPID WHORE!’ she screamed into the under link, knowing she was not getting through at this moment.

"Jinx, come on. Relax. We are turning profits, sure we have lost some territory, but downsizing after the war has been nothing but a net positive for the gang. You are doing a great job. I am sure Timmy knows you are doing a wonderful job, which is why he is still resting." Fume said from the bedside, but all it did was anger the beast as Jinx turned towards her.

"Oh I don’t give a flying rat’s vagina if I’m doing well. I don’t wanna do this anymore. I do not like being the leader. I am a good little follower. I kick ass and take lives. Logistics and paperwork can lick my twat!"

She then turned to Timmy and yelled. "So wake up, you miserable turd burglar! Or I will rip off your nuts and feed them to a squirrel! UUUGGGHHH! Why hasn’t he woken up! I mean for fucks sake, he isn’t even crispy anymore!"

Jinx then proceeded to climb atop the old man and grabbed him by the pyjama top he was wearing, startling Fume.

"Jinx what are you doing! *Gasp* Stop shaking him!"

Jinx ignored the woman and continued to shake Timmy. "No, I’m done. He is waking up. Wakey wakey Timmy! Time for school!"

*Whapow!*

She struck out with enough force to pop the head off a normal human. She then punched a couple more times before the room suddenly became icy cold almost instantly. A pair of eyes suddenly opened and Jinx was now looking directly into the eyes of White Death, they were wide with surprise and had changed. They were now fully black, sclera and all. He looked at Jinx confused, before turning to Fume and smiled, taking the woman by shock. He then let out a sigh of relief.

"About time I got out of that place..."

He then turned to Jinx, having gotten his bearings, smiled, and punched outwards hitting the woman in the face and sending her hurdling backwards. Jinx swiftly got up, spat out some blood and smiled at the deserved and well struck punch "Ah boss, looks like your little sleep did you some good. Your punch was stronger than last time. Now, please, can I finally give up command now that you are tip-top and ready for action?"

White Death stood up and stretched his back, his body began cracking as he stretched.

"Yeah, about that..."