Aeryn flew through the quiet night skies of Velgrim IV, seeing far more than she ever had before on dark nights like this. Velgrim lacked a sizable moon of any description, leaving nights pitch black. Now Aeryn could see so much more, the infrared spectrum showing every small creature, every tiny detail that would elude mere human vision.

She was heading home, or well, to her former home, to collect some personal effects that, even in her new form, she couldn’t live without. Being a loyal subject to Queen Regala didn’t mean she suddenly lost love for any of the things she loved before. Quite the contrary! Aeryn’s Queen loved encouraging her interests. The swarm felt her joy, just as she felt the swarm's joy. A happy subject led to a happy brood, and a happy brood led to a happy queen.

Aeryn loved her queen so much for letting her come back. It also let her say goodbye to her roommate, who, given the many messages Aeryn had received over her week-long incubation period, seemed extremely worried about her.

It would be great to assuage her worries before leaving to join the hive permanently. The only issue was that if she was caught on the streets of Richmond, she would probably be arrested, or worse, she would have to be a bit sneaky about moving around. Luckily, Queen Regala gave Aeryn wings to fly around with!

Before Aeryn would have struggled to find her way to her apartment without a GPS, but now she was able to intuit her way around just from memory, quickly being able to locate her apartment building.

It was late in the night, but her roommate worked late night customer service, so she was probably relaxing at this hour, so that would ease things. Queen Regala had made Aeryn perfect, but she knew most humans would find her new perfection unsettling.

It was their loss, the broodmind was so comforting, knowing that Queen Regala was always there to help any of her subjects who needed it. That wasn’t important now though, right now Aeryn had to get into her apartment! Luckily none of their windows had locks, so all Aeryn had to do was buzz on down to the window, which was easy to find by tracking her roommate's scent, and latch onto the side of the wall. 

With four arms and sharp talons on her feet it was rather easy to dig into the brick facade that made up the apartment building while still having two arms free to open up the sticky window. Aeryn had so much trouble with opening it before, despite being in pretty good shape, but now the window flew right open as if it were nothing. It definitely helped that she could worm her claws underneath the windowsill.

Shoving the window up, Aeryn threw herself inside and was quickly met with a screech and a loud thump as somebody scrambled around the room.

“What the fuck!” A familiar voice said from across the living room.

The owner of that voice was Terra, Aeryn’s former roommate. They had met at a queer meetup in college and had been roommates for five years. They were both trans, which definitely helped a lot when either one of them needed to borrow hormones from the other or needed help with a variety of other things.

Terra was a short, brown haired girl with a pair of round glasses and a look of perpetual exhaustion on her face. Aeryn felt a little tug of curiosity from her queen, perhaps Aeryn could help with that! Queen Regala provided far more fulfilling work anyway~.

The girl was wearing nothing but a T-shirt and a pair of panties

Aeryn giggled, putting her hands in the air. “Terra! It's me! Aeryn!”

Terra squinted before slowly and shakily standing up. “I-It can’t be… can it?”

“It is 100% me! Just perfected! I feel so much better after Queen Regala improved me~.” Aeryn said, crossing two of her arms under her chest with a smile.

Terra stood up, slowly closing the distance between them. “W-what happened? You left for a job and then you stopped replying for a week, and now you come back like this! Have you even seen yourself? You’re so different…”

Aeryn moved forward and pulled the girl into a big hug. Hopefully, that would help her calm down a bit. If the hug didn’t help, the calming pheromones Aeryn put into the air definitely would. Queen Regala seemed all the more interested in what was going on now but hadn’t given Aeryn any orders yet. Serving her queen was always a pleasure, after all.

Though that was a good point, she hadn’t seen herself yet. She knew she was perfect, because Queen Regala had made her so, but it wouldn’t hurt to see what perfection looked like. Aeryn took Terra by the hand and led her over to the mirror she kept in her room.

What Aeryn saw was perfection, absolute perfection. Her human skin had been replaced with plates of hard chitin that spread up and down her body to prevent any holes that damage could get through. Her four arms ended in five-fingered claws that were perfect for grasping onto surfaces and rending flesh. Her legs were much stronger than before, ending in three pointed claws that gave her so much more traction on certain surfaces, and on her back were a set of folded membranous wings that would let her lift into the air.

Her other features were improved, too. Aeryn was far prettier than before as if her wildest fantasies of a human body had been made even better under her queen’s thoughtful gaze.

Her hair had changed to a bioluminescent blue, to match her eyes which glowed much the same. Aeryn was perfect, just as her queen intended. If only Terra could see that perfection. Aeryn could see it now, a Terra changed much as she was, the two friends sharing a mind, sharing a purpose. It left Aeryn’s chest fluttering butterflies, and a predatory instinct fluttering inside her.

Queen Regala picked up on this, a pleased emotion flooding over the link they shared and, all the more, an order. Aeryn was to convince Terra of the wonders of joining the hive, to get her to join them. All the more, Aeryn was told to enjoy herself.

Aeryn’s impression of Terra changed with this; she wasn’t an old friend anymore; she was prey, and a shudder of erotic anticipation washed over her. She began releasing pheromones tuned to induce an arousal response in humans before turning to Terra with a grin on her face.

Aeryn used a claw to caress the underside of Terra’s jaw, adjusting her body language to imply sexual interest. “I think I look perfect.”

Aeryn then wrapped another arm around Terra’s back, moving her in closer. She was sure to breathe directly into Terra’s face, giving the human a much-needed whiff of the brand-new pheromone concoction. “Don’t you think so too?”

Terra began blushing, the signs of arousal in humans already building. With heightened heart rate, deeper breathing, and dilated pupils, Aeryn knew she was getting the human woman right where she wanted her.

“A-Aeryn? W-what are you d-doing?” Terra asked.

Aeryn didn’t reply quite yet, she simply slowly backed the deliciously aroused human back towards the bed until Aeryn could safely climb into the human's lap. Oh yes, Terra was rock-hard. Aeryn’s queen had given her another gift with her changes. A brand new vagina. It was intended to allow Aeryn to bear eggs as a reward for good service, but now it would serve an altogether different purpose.

Aeryn groped one of Terra’s breasts, causing the human girl to let out an adorable little gasp to the point that Aeryn couldn’t help herself anymore. She allowed her pussy to lubricate itself with a sensitizing solution and began to grind against Terra’s dick through her panties.

The human girl let out a much-deserved moan, immediately pulling Aeryn in closer and ensuring that she took more of Aeryn’s pheromones into her system. “A-Aeryn…”

The swarmer merely grinned. “I was missing out on so much… remaining just friends. I’m so glad I can see you for what you really are now~”

Terra started grinding her hips into Aeryn’s own in return, letting out pleasured moans between each and every word. “A-and what i-is that?”

“An adorable little slut~. A few pretty touches, a few nice words, and you just fall apart at the seams.” Aeryn replied before moving into Terra’s neck to pepper it with kisses.

Terra seemed to respond well to the degradation, as babbling moans was the only reply to come out of the human's throat, joining Aeryn’s own passionate moans.

“My queen has taken an interest in you, you know.” Aeryn continued, stroking the back of Terra’s head to more needy moaning. “She wants you. I want you too.”

Aeryn punctuated that statement with another squeeze of Terra’s right breast. The human girl was barely coherent by this point, which Aeryn couldn’t quite blame her for. She had so much working against her. Queen Regala had given her creation so many tools to turn humanity's own biology against them.

Pheromones, tuned body language, a mild psionic field, everything that Aeryn could need to seduce her former roommate. Aeryn pulled the girl into a deep kiss, letting her long tongue extend down the girl's throat. Terra didn’t even try to resist anymore.

That was where Aeryn’s final trick came in; through the tip of her tongue, she leaked a steady stream of a special mutagenic substance down her partner's throat. The point of this substance wasn’t to change her considerably. That was something only Queen Regala could do.

The point of this sweet, sappy substance was to open the little human’s mind to the hive. To let her feel the love and desires of Queen Regala and how much better it would be to simply submit.

As Aeryn pulled back from the kiss, she saw Terra’s eyes slowly glaze over, as Aeryn felt the two’s minds intertwine to a degree. Terra was beyond resistance at this point. Queen Regala’s will flooded into her, just as it had Aeryn all those weeks ago.

They were both so close now, and they could both feel it in each other. They both wanted the other to feel good, but one more thing needed to be gotten out of the way first, lest it remain unsaid too long.

Aeryn leaned in close to Terra’s ear, whispering softly. “Who do you serve~?”

Terra’s voice was distant, empty, lost in both the pleasure of the sex and the pleasure of being joined to the hive. “Q-Queen Regala…”

Queen Regala dove into both of their minds, flooding them both with pleasure for this act of submission and rather quickly, they were both pushed over the edge. Aeryn felt waves of ecstasy fall over her, which echoed through Terra, which echoed back into Aeryn, leading to a form of bliss neither had experienced before.

It was sheer pleasure, shared back and forth, amplifying it tenfold, leaving no room for any thoughts but their love for each other and their queen.

After all was said and done, Terra was left empty, docile and compliant. As she should be. Queen Regala wanted her that way after all. Aeryn on the other hand, was left completely able bodied, as she still had some work to do.

Aeryn had come to grab some personal effects, but given she was now going to be transporting an entire human back to the hive, Queen Regala offered to send some humanoforms to go and grab her things the next night. For now she had a much more important job.

Getting her new mate to the hive, where she would take on her new form.