Chapter 41.2
Sam was part of the Hive now. No one at work, not Jack, not Janice, had the faintest idea that Sam had a fully mature rider on her back. Dunlop 4 might have noticed, but he was working on his own, following leads to the Hive Mind.
He had left several weeks ago, but not before saying goodbye. "I work fastest on my own," said Dunlop. "But I will take the communication device you have brought me. If you need me, call, and I will come."
She certainly needed him a week ago, when she first got Infected.
But now? Sam felt ambivalent. Her relationship with Gavin was the best it had ever been. She had a feeling of extreme contentment. And her sex life was tremendous.
Sam was thinking that after dinner that night, when Gavin was making love to her. She had much to thank the Hive for, the least of which was Gavin's newly enlarged penis. When he had finished making love to her, he looked into her eyes, and must have noticed the change. He said, "Are you ready for your first task, Sam?"
"I... Yes," said Sam, taking a deep breath. She was eager to obey, and yet, also a little nervous. What would the Hive demand of her first?
"Come with me," said Gavin.
Gavin took her to the cave.
This particular cave was in the hills of northern McLean, by the Potomac, in a small wooded area.
Sam got her first look at a nest, and it horrified her. She and Gavin had taken off their clothes, and they were now bathed in an eerie green light. Gavin pointed out the Hive Mind, a big round globe with eyes, which seemed to stare down at them. Sam, with her ESPer skills, sensed only malice and hate from it. She shuddered, directing her attention elsewhere.
But horror surrounded them all. Human beings were being experimented on in every direction. She saw people with insect body parts, even insect heads. She saw people strapped down while tiny insects flooded into their bodies. She saw the communing room, where rows of people sat facing away from each other, their faces full of joy and fatigue. She saw giant spiders eating people. And then she saw women being eaten alive by riders, who were sucking the life out of them.
"This... this is the Hive?" Sam asked.
Gavin smiled. "Do not be alarmed. It is all part of the cycle of life."
All part of the cycle of life.
Sam relaxed slightly as Gavin turned her away from the sight of people being consumed by riders.
He took her to a chamber which was empty, and then spoke to a Harem Guard, who left immediately. "What's... what's going to happen, Gavin?" she asked nervously, as she rubbed her legs together. Sam's nude body looked green under the harsh Hive lights.
"You're going to bring your first person into the Hive," said Gavin. "You're going to have sex with him, causing your rider to reproduce and create a rider for him. You can do that, can't you?"
"I... I think so," said Sam.
But Sam was shocked when she saw who the Harem Guards escorted into the chamber. It was a tall, thin dark haired man. A man she knew.
Lieutenant Jim Healy, from HomePlanet Security.
Jim was completely nude, like her. But apparently, he didn't have a rider.
"Sam!" he said, his eyes widening as he took in her nudity. "You're a prisoner too?"
Sam shook her head. "Not exactly." Suddenly she realized what she was being asked to do. She was being asked to bring someone from HomePlanet Security into the Hive. The part of Sam that was still loyal to Earth rebelled. No, she couldn't do this!
"Is there a problem, Sam?" Gavin asked.
"Gavin... can't I do someone else?" Sam said. "Anyone else, anyone! Just not someone I know! Not someone from HomePlanet Security!"
"There is no bargaining with the Hive, Sam," said Gavin. "Perform your function."
Sam looked at Jim. She imagined hugging him, kissing him, making love to him and giving him a rider. She felt a powerful urge to do it. Her rider was making her aroused. But.... "No! I can't!" She started sobbing.
Gavin came over and put an arm around her. "It's all right, Sam."
"It... it is?" said Sam.
"Of course. Follow me, please."
The Harem Guards grabbed Jim. They followed Gavin and Sam to a clear tube filled with thousands of worms. The guards led Jim up a spiral set of stairs to the top of the tube, some ten feet above them.
"Gavin... what's about to happen here?" Sam asked.
Gavin didn't have time to answer, as Jim was pushed into the tube. He screamed as the worms started to devour his flesh.
"No!" Sam cried, as Jim was eaten alive in front of her. "Why did you do that?"
"I didn't do anything, Sam. It was all you." Gavin looked intently at her. "Are you going to obey the Hive now, Sam?"
"Yes! Yes! I'll do anything it says!" said Sam.
Sam, sobbing, was brought to a different chamber. Being held inside was another nude man, another man Sam knew.
Staff Sergeant Mark Ford. Sam knew Mark, a short, stocky man with a pleasant smile and a wife and two kids. Sergeant Ford worked in administration. They didn't work directly together, but were friendly, and had flirted from time to time.
Sam knew immediately what her choice was--to bring Mark into the Hive... or to watch him die.
"Sam!" said Mark. "What's going on?"
Sam's rider started to emit a version of her natural scent, laced with pheromones. She put a smile on her face she didn't feel. Then she walked up him with a sexy step, as Gavin looked on. "We're being held captive, Mark," she said.
"What do they want from us?" Mark asked, as he started to breath in the pheromone.
"Oh, not much, not very much at all," said Sam. She caressed his cheek, which made Mark excited but also frown. "They just want you to join the Hive."
"You're one of them!" said Mark. He felt himself getting very excited as the pheromone worked itself into his system.
"Yes, I'm one of them," Sam agreed. She looked into his brown eyes. "I'm here to give you a rider, Mark."
"No!" Mark said.
Sam kissed him, pressing her lips gently against his as she wrapped her arms around him. "Yes, Mark." She started to kiss him some more, as she fondled his body. Mark, who quickly became lost in need, started to kiss her back.
"But we shouldn't, Sam. We really shouldn't," said Mark.
"I'm doing it to save you, Mark. This will save your life," said Sam. She felt Gavin's eyes on her as she got Mark more and more aroused. Mark stopped resisting and started kissing her avidly. Soon he was ready and Sam lay him down on the spongy cave floor and slowly mounted him. Except for the incident with the vampires, it had been years since she had felt another man inside of her. But Mark slid into her smoothly and easily.
Sam rode up and down on him. She could feel her rider starting to bubble on her back.
"This is it, Sam," said Gavin, coming into view. "Your first reproduction. How does it feel?"
"Feels... good," Sam gasped. Her rider had already started to reward her, sending a flood of good feelings through her body.
"Just think, Sam. A new master is being created on your back. A master made from your flesh and blood and sweat and tears, all in the name of the Hive." said Gavin. "And in moments all your labors and efforts will be used to put your friend here under the control of the Hive."
"A master," said Sam slowly. "I am creating a master on my back."
"Yes, Sam. How does that make you feel?"
"Feels... feels good," Sam gasped. No, she mustn't! She was letting an alien lifeform use her own body to reproduce to take over the man beneath her!
But she must!
Gavin's words drove Sam to greater ecstasy, as they had been intended to do, and Sam cried out as she impaled herself even harder on Mark's penis even as her rider began to split into two.
This feels so incredible, Sam thought. And then it happened; where there was one rider on Sam's back, there were now two, a banded one and an immature one. Sam's rider rewarded her with an earth shattering orgasm. Sam bounced up and down and cried out, her heavy breasts bouncing in every direction. And then she felt the new, immature rider starting to crawl down her right arm.
"No," Mark cried weakly.
Sam grinned savagely and pinned down his wrists, as sweat dripped off her chin.
"Sam, don't do this! You're a Survey Service officer!" Mark cried.
"But I'm also a woman," said Sam.
The rider jumped onto Mark's back, and he cried out. "My head! There's something in my head!"
Mark joined the Hive.
"Did you enjoy it?" Gavin asked.
Sam touched his arm. "Oh, Gavin, the feeling of having my rider split on my back... it was so incredible!"
"Would you like to feel that way again?"
Sam nodded eagerly.
After that, Sam's reluctance about bringing people into the Hive vanished. She quickly grew addicted to the euphoric feeling of having her rider reproduce on her back. Even though she felt tremendously drained, she loved every minute of it. In the space of ten days Sam lost eight pounds but gained eight mind shattering orgasms.
Gavin's trust in Sam gradually broadened, and Sam was sent out of the cave on her own to bring others into the Hive. Sam approached her work with enthusiasm, always coming home to dinner with an exciting tale of who she had brought into the Hive.
But then one night they were lying in bed and Gavin gave Sam her next target to bring into the Hive.
"It is your friend, Janice. We want her to join the Hive," said Gavin.
Sam took a deep breath. "No, not Janice!"
"Why not?" said Gavin, playing with her breast.
"Janice is my best friend."
Gavin looked at her. "Didn't you just tell me at dinner how much you love bringing people into the Hive? Didn't I watch you have the orgasm of your life as you mounted one of your fellow Survey Service officers?"
"Yes," said Sam, feeling embarrassed. "It's just... Janice is my best friend."
Gavin took her hand. "I thought the Hive was your best friend, Sam."
"It... it is," said Sam.
Gavin clearly saw the conflict within her. Sam's mind has been remolded, reshaped, so she accepted the idea that she must spread the Hive. But even with a single banded rider humping her, she still had some strong pockets of resistance in her mind.
"That's all right, don't worry about it," said Gavin.
"Oh, thank you!" she said, giving Gavin a great kiss.
"We'll just take Jack," said Gavin.
"What?" said Sam.
"I was ordered to bring one senior member of HomePlanet Security into the Hive," said Gavin. "We had winnowed down the choices to Jack Sullivan and Janice Whistler."
"Oh, I can't take Jack," said Sam.
"Of course not," said Gavin. "We'll have someone else do it."
"You're going to bring Jack into the Hive?"
"Yes, dear," said Gavin. "Another woman will seduce him. Another woman will enslave him. Another woman will have his body." As he spoke he fondled her nipple, smiling as it got hard under his touch.
"No!" Sam cried. She paused, wetting her lips. "If I... If I bring Janice into the Hive, will Jack be safe?"
Gavin paused a short moment, as if considering. "If we have Janice, we won't need anyone else from HomePlanet Security."
Sam looked into his eyes and she knew. She knew that once Janice was taken over by the Hive, the entire base would be vulnerable. Each person going into Janice's office for an exam would come out with a rider on his back. Eventually, the entire HomePlanet security would fall into the Hive's hands.
But she had to save Jack, at whatever the cost. She nodded. "I'll do it."
"Good," Gavin smiled at her.