Bred by the Hive Chapter 54
By Gary LM Martin
THE CONCLUSION
Previously:
The other Sam grabbed Sam by the shoulders and started to push her to the ledge. The falls roared below.
"Do you know why I chose these falls as a meeting spot?" said the other Sam, as she pushed Sam back, foot by foot. "It's because it's the spot where Professor Moriarty defeated Sherlock Holmes, sending him plunging to his death."
"Not quite right, my dear," said Sam, struggling against her. "It's the place where both of them fell to their death. It's an even trade I'd be more than willing to make with you!" And then Sam pushed the other Sam back, with more strength than a normal human being should have, and the other Sam realized for the first time that she had underestimated her original self. That little shit friend of hers wasn't just lurking somewhere nearby; she was closer. Much closer.
Sam and her counterpart fell to the ground, on the edge of the falls, rolling over and over. Both had hate and death etched into their faces, both determined to see the very end of the other. Sam screamed and the other Sam screamed and they both yelled and scratched and bit into an ear and bit into a cheek and kicked and punched and clawed into a shoulder and a stomach and rolled and rolled as they tried to kill each other with the power of murder in their eyes.
"Die, bitch, die!" one of them yelled.
"You first, you fucking cunt!" the other yelled back.
And they fought and hurt each other and yelled some more, and then they came to the edge and one rolled over and screamed... and was gone.
Major Samantha Arden stood up, brushing herself off. She ached all over. She was full of bruises and cuts and deep scratches in her shoulder and a very nasty bite mark on her cheek. She saw a flashlight on the ground. She painfully climbed to the top of the bank, and turned it on and off, slowly, three times on, three times off, giving the universal Survey Service code for all clear.
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Sam brushed the dirt off her legs as the lead Survey Service officers ran up to the picnic area. One of them, a captain, saluted Sam. She saluted him back.
"Prisoners?" he inquired.
"No," said Sam, shaking her head. "The body of Colonel Sullivan is back there. Take him in." She touched her forehead. She had a nasty bruise on it.
Sam returned to HomePlanet Security. She went to see General Henderson.
"Our little Sammy is finally taken care of," said Sam.
"Good," said General Henderson.
"But I'm concerned about security for the gateway we are building to Dimension 43."
Henderson gave her a look. "What do you mean?"
"There are indications that little Sammy found the location. She may have shared it with some of her rebel friends. I was wondering if we should consider moving the project elsewhere."
Henderson gave her an even odder look. "Major, we can't simply move tons of equipment. It's hardwired to the accelerator at CERN in Geneva."
"I know that, General," said Sam. "But the Hive is concerned about the security for the project."
"Well then, why don't you take it up with the Hive Mind?"
"I will," said Sam. "Thank you, General."
********
Sam went home. She had a few things she had to gather. She heard a knock at her front door. She went to open the door-
and got wacked in the face.
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Sam slowly regained consciousness. She was tied to a chair. She strained to focus. She was in some kind of dimly lit warehouse.
There were other people there. A tall, grim faced middle aged man was staring before her. "Awake yet?"
Sam nodded. Her head hurt. "What..."
"We'd like to ask you a few questions," said the man. His name was Jasper Ford.
"Who are you?" Sam asked.
"That doesn't matter," said Ford. "We want to know the locations of your Hive nests."
Sam looked around, gasped, and then laughed. "You... you're the resistance?" She looked around at the serious faces watching her. "Listen, I don't have time for this."
"You'll have to make time," said Ford.
"I'm on my way to a very important mission," said Sam. "Millions of lives are at stake."
"Does your rider tell you that?" Ford asked.
"I don't have a rider," said Sam, giving him a mocking look.
Ford curled his lip in disgust. "We know you're one of their senior people. We've captured and interrogated others who have confirmed it."
"I
was
one of their senior people," said Sam. "Until I removed my rider."
"Removed your rider?" Ford looked back at the others and laughed. "Not bloody likely."
"Did you bother to even look at my back when you captured me?"
Ford stared at Sam for a long moment. Then he reached into his pocket and pulled out a switchblade, and opened it. "You're not going to enjoy this."
"I'm already not enjoying this," said Sam.
Ford went behind her and started cutting the back of her shirt. He noticed immediately that there was no hump there. His expression changed from confused to astonished as he exposed her bare back. "She has no rider."
"Maybe she's one of the duplicates," said someone.
"No," said Ford. "She has the red rash. She's human, all right." He walked around and looked at her, face to face. "How did you manage to remove your own rider?"
"I'll tell you everything, but first you have to release me," said Sam. "And there's one other thing I'll need."
"And what would that be?" Ford asked.
"Explosives," said Sam, her face grim.
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Sam's HomePlanet Security credentials were checked and rechecked as she entered the CERN facility in Geneva, Switzerland. She thought it was ironic to be subject to so many checks since it was now the Hive who controlled access to the facility. Each guard had the familiar hump between his shoulder blades. They were all members of the Hive.
Sam wore her Survey Service jacket which obscured what should have been her own rider hump. She strode in confidently. When guards asked to see her briefcase, she refused, saying they contained top security information. Her credentials were checked again and reverified before she was allowed to proceed.
Sam walked down the main corridor in high heels. Her heart was racing. She knew what she had to do. Plant the bomb, and get out. Anywhere in the main reactor facility should suffice. She heard the powerful hum of the reactor as she got close to it. It was a sprawling, multilevel facility that extended ten stories into the air.
Sam saw a series of generators to one side of the facility. That would do. She walked over to them, and opened her briefcase. She took out the bomb. She had made a simple timer, which could be activated by-
"Hello Sam."
Sam turned around to see... herself.
"I'll take that," said the other Sam. She held out her hand.
Sam drew her blaster with one hand. With the other, she put her hand in her Survey Service jacket, and activated the timer.
The bomb would explode in fifteen minutes.
The other Sam looked at her mockingly. "I'm so disappointed, Sam."
"You went over the falls. You're dead," said Sam.
"You know so little about us," said the other Sam. "They brought me into the shop for some repairs. I needed some body work, nothing more," she grinned. She took a step forward. "I know you want to return to the Hive, Sam."
"No," Sam said.
The other Sam took another step forward. "Think about it, Sam. Think of all the pleasure you felt. The fucking, the taking of people's minds, bringing them kicking and screaming into the Hive." She took another step forward. "You loved the fact that the Hive was able to give you Jack."
"Yes," said Sam.
"You loved bringing him into the Hive, dominating him, enslaving him."
"Yes," Sam gasped, blinking back tears. It was true.
"You loved being able to fuck any man or woman you wanted. You loved having your body worshiped. You loved being irresistible. You loved watching a man or woman climax right as they were being brought into the Hive." The Other Sam took another step forward.
Sam shuddered, feeling a tingling in her clit. "Yes," she said, in a whisper.
"You love watching your precious Jack's penis being altered, in the most painful way possible."
Sam, biting her lip, nodded.
"You loved it when he impregnated you with me. You loved it when you squeezed the pod containing me out of your tight snatch."
Sam's labia tingled. "Yes," she gasped.
"You love what was done to Carla and your nieces," the Other Sam went on, as she kept approaching. "You loved seducing your sister, exercising power over her, twisting her mind so much that she became your secret lover and willingly brought her own children into the Hive."
"Yes," Sam repeated. The tears were going down her cheeks now.
"You loved watching them being absorbed. You never had a greater orgasm in your life than when you were watching their bodies melt away as a Greater Intelligence fucked you hard in your cunt and your mind."