Arthur Sandoval was worried sick, his wife kept calling him, crying for answers that he clearly did not have yet, his limo was taking him to the very entrance of Yellowstone Park, he took a glance at the mountains nearby, he was disgusted beyond believe, but he had to try and remain calm.

Until yesterday his daughter was presumed dead, now she lived, but she begged him to just come and pick her up, no press, no media, he wanted to respect her wishes, she deserved that much…but something about this made his stomach churn…

His chauffeur was now opening the door and Arthur took a moment to fix his tie, he was freshly shaven and his tall and thin figure looked impeccable, as it was expected from the Wyoming Gobernor, he only hoped he could keep his temper in check.

It was not Arthur’s first time in what was colloquially called “Base Cabin” the sizable wood structure had served as the base of operations as the rescue teams were sent; Now it was 4 am, the sun was starting to show its features on the distance, but the cabin was covered in rangers now, he counted at least 30.

But that was not the surprise, the surprise was how much the place reeked of sex, or at least, to a rancid smell that was very close to it, he had only experienced something similar once his friends had dragged him to a whorehouse in Illinois, he hated the scent then, and sure as hell he hated it now.

Despite the great news, the mood was, strangely relaxed, a lot of the rangers casually spoke with each other, and seemed to almost pay him no mind, Arthur was not sure if that offended him or not.

But finally he saw the tall man in charge in here, the regional…whateverman… Harold, his hair looked like a mess, and he clearly had not slept much, but considering the miserable bad press of Yellowstone these days, he could not blame him, Arthur half practiced his smile  on the way to meet him

“Harold… thank you so much for your commendable job in-”

Harold interrupted him with a strangely cold tone “I did not do anything…Erika Miller, found your daughter” Erika stepped forward, she also looked like a mess, her clothes seemed to half cling , was she covered in sweat? Arthur preferred not to ask. “Miss…I owe you a lot…I don’t want to sound impatient… but I need to see my Sally”

Arthur was guided deeper inside the cabin, going past various rooms, and yet somehow, the stench remained, Arthur also took note that many other of the ranger’s uniforms looked disheveled and rugged…

As if reading his thoughts Harold said “Miss Sally appeared two days ago…everyone stopped whatever we were doing to tend to her needs and make sure she was safe, we even had to close  the park, per her wishes, most of us just stood here, waiting for you to arrive.

Arthur just nodded, although that behavior seemed odd, he was about to reply to him when they reached the door, and his little girl

Sally, with a doctor besides her waited for him

He rushed towards her, and he embraced her tightly, he tried to man up but at this moment he could not help it and he broke down sobbing, it was his little girl, her baby girl was safe, that was all that mattered, she hugged him back and he heard her also cry like a baby.

Eventually he managed to calm himself enough to  break the hug, by that point Harold had left, leaving him alone with sally and the medic, the woman besides Sally seemed to be in her forties, she was Afro-American, with long curly hair, She looked beautiful, but slightly distracted, she seemed  to be contempt whith just watching the ceiling

“Sally… please… tell me what happened…” his darling cleared her throat as she sat again, “Daddy…its… its painful to talk about it…I…I will tell you everything…but not here… I…I don’t want paparazzi’s and… media people on my face…I beg you…”

Arthur took a glance at her doctor, hoping for some answer on her part,  the doctor seemed to notice that all eyes were on her, she gulped “Mr. Sandoval…” she then took a pause to gather her thoughts…a pause that was way too long for Arthur’s liking “Miss Sandoval has gone through quite the traumatic experience, and any father…in your position… would probably try to move heaven and earth to find….the responsible.” Arthur nodded annoyed “however…it is your daughter’s wishes that...whatever measure you want to take…. you do once you two arrive at your home…where she will tell you…all she knows…What I can tell you is that your daughter is healthy and in no danger, the staff here have feed her and clean her…and the bruise on her forehead are quite superficial…

Arthur  took a glance at his daughter again… he  was no fool… he could piece together what had happened: she was raped by one of these ranger fucks, his fist  shook in absolute fury, but of course she could not accuse anyone here,  not on their home, they would protect their own… oh god…was that why this entire place reeked of  fluids? Were they fucking other people in other rooms?! they had to leave! Arthur knew now what to do, he would take her back home, let her explain everything, and then sue these bastards for all they were worth…

Arthur nodded, and his daughter smiled “please… lets go home”

Arthur took his daughter out of that cabin, as if he was Orpheus freeing Eurydice from the Underworld, the rangers first looked like animals but now looked like bugs, even worse than bugs, they were parasites, he would remember their faces, he would make sure they paid!

Twenty minutes later both father and daughter were on the limo ride back home, Arthur wanted to shout so bad, but she was now besides him, the girl who he feared he would never see again, and to his delight she hugged his left arm almost as if to reassure him that she was real.

He sighed… “Darling…are you sure you can’t tell daddy now?” sally looked down, and then to the chauffeur’s seat.

Arthur understood and closed the window that connected the chauffeur to the passengers, she nodded “but please come closer daddy…closer…”

He offered his ear… and she stung him five times just to make sure.

Sally whispered into her daddy’s ears, about delightful sensations, and about the joys of childbirth, he would not remember any of that, but she so wanted to just say it:  “I fucked so many people yesterday daddy… those ranger boys filled me up so much I will birth wonderful creatures for the queen…you will need help…. You need to be ready once we return home”

Arthur drooled half paying attention to his daughter, he liked the idea of going back home, he wanted to fuck his wife; and the maids; and Sally? No that was…weird, wasn’t it?  but maybe fucking Lilian? Sally’s older sister, Arthur felt his cock getting harder, as his daughter spread her legs…and began laying a variety of eggs…

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Far away, on the queen’s hive she closed her eyes again, she could perceive the many MANY creatures that populated Yellowstone now, their eyes were her eyes; and their simple thoughts were hers. She could spy though them from very far away, and the multiple creatures gave her various different perspectives

She had seen this whole infection take place, since she conceived it a few moons ago, a smooth and silent approach to start her work on peoples of interest and start expanding beyond Yellowstone, if only a bit further.

However, the queen had not considered one factor in all of this…

How absolutely panic inducing the whole operation was from its very first step!

Not only leading the Infection Carrier (now called IC01) avoiding the creature that escorted her there to be spotter, or maybe the angry exchange that almost ruined everything, even worse when the Erika girl fell like a lifeless husk and hit her head, the queen was convinced she was quite dead.

Then the infection of the human man in charge of these “rangers” something the queen had anticipated , would occur on the following days, maybe even a week…the infection worked wonders for the mind, it made them compliant and quite obedient, at least to a certain extent, but the new infected did not have ways to infect others, her infection had been developed, too focused on just taking a hold of the mind it was not infectious enough to pass from victim to victim, originally the Snake infiltrators were for that, the infected would get their own snakes, or other similar creatures in the following days, a slow approach to not bring attention to possible side effects or symptoms, but then she realized in horror that Erika was fucking  that human boss as soon as she woke up! She was fucking an important male and neither Erika or IC01 carried any more snake infiltrators with them! Erika’s ovaries had not been modified yet! the queen watched in horror as her whole plan was falling apart because of crippling overspecialization!

Too focused on making different things do one task perfectly… she had failed to consider that if the scenarios deviated slightly from course, then she would lack the pieces to get the job done.

Erika, and indeed all the infected were supposed to infect the rest of the rangers on the following weeks, but the rise on lust of the infection had been way too effective, the queen had no option but to mold a new creature as fast as she could that could guide Erika back on course, and also ready the human leader for further infections.

In retrospective this made the queen look very competent and capable to think on the fly.

But in the moment she was half crying, desperately screaming as the infected came closer and closer to blow their own cover!

She knew that “alien invasion” was not exactly what most humans would think if this infection got discovered, but her desire to succeed, and make the gods proud put her in absurd levels of stress…

As the whole wooden cabin erupted in mindless sex after only one day the queen couldn’t help it, she curled into a ball and ordered Bibi to comfort her, she knew she was being a weakling and that annoying voice inside her head chastised her for it,  but she did not care, she could only hope that the two gods above were not watching this whole mess unfold.

And to her absolute surprise, the cover was not blown, yes…there were a lot of suspicion lately and the moronic infected seemed to have a hard time pretending to “be normal” and not fuck anything with two legs.

At least she got lucky there, was this the so called tenacity? despite the odds being against them Erika and her infected managed to get the job done it was worth investigating further still these infected needed fixing she had miscalculated many things and that was unacceptable, she could send a whole swarm of slugs to take over their brains, but then there was the whole “forehead scab” problem, IC01 could only hope to infect the rest of her family quick enough before anyone started to suspect something.

For now, the queen could get a sigh of relief, but she urgently needed a way to keep the Yellowstone inhabitants as docile and obedient as possible.

As she developed a new strategy, she felt one of the slugs calling, it was IC01, that human leader was now infected, and soon enough he would be able to infect any women he fucked as well, he just needed to get stung a few times on his reproductive organ…

Yes, this confirmed it…This first infection design was way to awkward and she should probably avoid spreading it further anymore, the infected women had to get their ovaries modified just to develop new eggs, just to make a few creatures, and those creatures’ objectives only were to inject the reproductive organs of their father? No this would not do, as a test it was amazing and it worked way better than expected, but if she hoped to reach a global scale, she needed something better.

She felt a new pang of anxiety as she thought about how her duties would increase more and more as her swarm grew, billions and billions of creatures, and billions and billions of things that could go wrong, she felt her breathing becoming ragged again.