The failure of humanity to effectively grapple with climate change caused a cascade of ecological disasters followed by vicious devastating wars over the remaining resources. The surface of the earth became deadly to human life. The remnants of humanity were forced underground. Over the following generations, humanity was forced to rapidly adapt to the changed conditions both socially and biologically; so much so that they are nearly unrecognizable to people of our day. This is the story of three typical mutants of this possible future.
"Oh, Palinta," said Tesi. "Queen Lasina just announced that you were chosen as one the new honeypots."
"Do you think,"said Kali, "She would assign us as your feeders?"
"It couldn't hurt to ask," Palinta said. "I just hope I am worthy to do such an important task."
Palinta, Tesi, and Kali were workers and special friends. Friendships are not encouraged in the Nest. All of the workers are expected at all times to obey the queen and work for the good of the Nest. Friendships could be a distraction but Queen Lasina was a peaceful and benevolent queen that allowed some freedoms for her workers as long as it didn't interfere with their strict duties. There are some queens who dispose of any workers that show the tiniest bit of individuality.
The three workers resembled identical triplets because they were actually sisters, daughters of the queen, among her hundreds of daughters. They looked like slim young women of our time with some substantial differences. They were pretty in a feral way. They were hairless except a fur covering the top, back, and sides of their heads and a thatch around their cunts. In this nest the hair is black. This hair doesn't grow. It is the same length as when they were taken from their egg sacs. They wear no clothes. There is no weather underground and clothing would offer no protection to the dangers that might confront the Nest. Instead of breasts they have eight vestigial nipples on the front of their torsos in four rows of two. They have a chitinous carapace on their backs.
Palinta tried to summon the right combination of humility and assertiveness as she went to the queen's chamber. Lasina was her mother, her queen, and her goddess, and she was terrified of displeasing her but she wouldn't see Tesi and Kali anymore unless they were made her feeders.
As she entered the throne room she bowed and said, "May I please make a humble request of Your Magnitude, Queen Lasina?"
Queen Lasina sat on her birthing throne. She was huge, weighing about 600 pounds. Instead of just nipples she had eight large breasts with pumps attached to store her milk to help feed the young of the Nest. Football-sized milky translucent eggs emerged one after another from her stretched out cunt. These were promptly picked up by an attendant and given to one of the waiting nurse workers. They would go to the nursery where they would be bathed in milk and nectar for thirteen years until they were opened and a fully formed worker would emerge. The worker would undergo six years of training to learn her job assignment. Palinta and her friends had completed their training but because there are no seasons underground and their routines are repetitive they have no awareness of time. The queen's attendants looked warily at her.. The slightest expression of displeasure from the queen would cause them to attack Palinta mercilessly. Lasina smiled slightly and lifted her hand. Palinta felt emboldened to speak.
"Your Magnitude, first I want to thank you for giving me the honor of becoming a honeypot. I hope I can show you I am worthy of the faith you have in me. I would like to make a request. If it is Your Magnitude's will, could you please make Tesi and Kali my feeders. I think having them near will make me more able to fulfill my duty."
Queen Lasina smiled just a little more broadly. She enjoyed seeing a little harmless spunk in her workers. Despite the fact she spent all her time on her birthing throne popping out eggs she still knew nearly everything that went on in the Nest. In fact, she knew things that her workers didn't know. She had consumed the previous queen and by a mysterious process learned her knowledge and the knowledge of the queens before her. This made her seem omniscient to her worker daughters. She knew to awaken a male drone, mindless useless creatures, from stasis when her egg production ebbed. The pathetic creature would spend days thrusting his giant cock into her cunt, pumping his precious sperm into her. When he had exhausted all his sperm, he would be disposed of and his body prepared to nourish the queen's renewed egg production. She enjoyed having the drone's cock inside her but enjoyed the sensation of popping out eggs more. She knew the signs that the nectar farms were going to fail and a famine would strike the Nest. She knew when to birth new queens and drones to try their luck flying over the surface to found new nests. She also knew that her time would eventually be over and she would birth the queen that would kill and consume her. She knew Palinta was a good worker; that's why she chose her to be a honeypot. Tesi and Kali were also good workers. The trio's affection for each other was just an atavism from the times when humans could afford to have emotions. Perhaps the friendship would cause them to be more committed feeders. Lasina's mood was good. She was producing many quality eggs and creating new honeypots meant the nectar farms were thriving.
"Tesi, Kali, feeders, yes."
Palinta, Tesi, and Kali were tending the nectar mycobots as usual. The mycobots were a genetically modified hybrid of epiphyte plants and basidiomycete fungi. They had been developed by scientists before scientists went extinct. They secreted a sweet fluid, nectar, that if properly tended, harvested, processed and conserved was usually able to provide nourishment to the entire Nest. The work was difficult and if not done well could doom the whole Nest. As such a workers did their duties constantly. Sleeping was done a half hour at a time and most workers were awake while a few slept.
"Palinta, Tesi, Kali!" a matron shouted. "Come with me to your new assignments!"
Matrons were more experienced workers that the queen had appointed to organize tasks. They did not really have more power than ordinary workers, although some acted as if they did.
Palinta was excited as she and her friends followed the matron. Her new life was starting.
When they arrived in the honeypot chamber, the friends let out involuntary gasps. There is no sunlight underground. The mutants had developed the ability to see in the dim light from luminescent minerals and the light from any ancient electrical machines the Nest has managed to keep running. The workers mainly use heightened sense of smell to move about the Nest's tunnels and do their duties. Each inhabitant of the Nest emits her own pheromones. Regular workers emit relatively weak pheromones. The honeypot chamber has more of the ancient machines than anywhere in the Nest so the light is just a bit brighter. More importantly the honeypots in the chamber give off more powerful pheromones. Only the queen gives off more scent but there is only one of her, There are a myriad of honeypots in the chamber causing our heroines to have a sensory experience unlike they had ever known. They followed the matron to a place where two rocks had been carved with crude steps.
"Palinta, this will be your new home. Feeders, help her to get in place."
Tesi took her right arm and Kali to her left. The took her up and climbed the stone steps. From there they lifted her up to adhere her carapace to the glue-like substance on the ceiling. She would hang there for the rest of her life.
"Now feeders begin feeding."
Kali picked up a nearby hose. She pushed the large nozzle deep into Palinta's wide open mouth. A pump began to make rhythmic noises as Tesi started its machinery. The nozzle filled Palinta's mouth. It began to pump sweet liquid into her mouth so quickly that she had barely enough time to swallow it. It was nectar, but special nectar, a nectar that had been developed in former times and the recipe passed down from queen to queen. It contained body altering hormones to change her from an ordinary worker into a honeypot and opiates to keep her content and docile. Formerly Palinta only drank enough nectar to keep her alive and working. From now on she would be force fed as much of this special nectar as possible. She was being kept as a food storage unit to feed the nest in case of famine.
She hung there getting used to her new fate. Time was less meaningful to a honeypot than it was to even a worker. Every so often Tesi or Kali would change her nozzle, clean her up, and check that nothing had gone wrong with her or the machinery. Otherwise she just looked a the other honeypots and their feeders and matrons officiously making sure everything was going to plan. She began to notice changes in her body. First her belly was becoming extremely distended and stretched, so much so the she imagined it exploding like an overfilled balloon. Her nipples enlarged and then she grew eight breasts. They went from tiny bumps to huge udders in an instant. She couldn't see it or reach it with her hands but she could feel that something was happening to her cunt. It seemed to be swelling and opening up. Her body began to give off the enticing odor that the other honeypots had.
It was harder for her to understand but something was also happening to her mind. She was beginning to feel feelings. Since emotions of any kind tend to make workers less efficient they have mainly evolved out of them. The special nectar changed that. She began to experience pain and pleasure in her altered body. She enjoyed the feeling of pain but not as much as she enjoyed the pleasure, She began to feel longings that she had never felt before and didn't understand. She thought maybe Tesi and Kali could get her what she wanted. She did feel a strange thrill when one of them brushed against the nipple of her new huge breasts.
