To save the colony from the encroaching Rift, you submit yourself to the alien Master that now sits on your head. Following a vision, you soon find yourself underground within the belly of the beast, meeting the true Purpose behind your submission.

Suzy is tired of being a cog in a corporate machine. After interviewing at Rankotech, however, she discovers that being a corporate rubber slave drone can not only be fun, but fulfilling, too.

Tina finds drone love in the storage rack of Hive One. The pull of the machine is thicker than blood, stronger than lust, for it takes surprisingly little to convince her to betray her family into its clutches.

Yellow is taken by the Onyx Queen and turned into her rubber soldier. The other crystal hearts are in her crosshairs, and neither Red nor Blue has any idea what kind of corruptive forces are being brought against them. The web of treachery tightens, Her influence expands.