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Chapter Twelve - Echoes of the Future

The next day Texotic awoke to find that he had a surprisingly decent night of sleep free of Bal'Kar or other such dreams. As he got out of his bed to get ready for another round of interviews he noticed that the had gotten a private message through the comm system from Fennel, asking if he wanted to come to his room to help him with something. Though his first instinct was to immediately go out and help him, especially since he had an hour or so from his first interview of the day, he paused when the thought popped into his head that this might be a trap. It was clear that Serathin had influenced the equine before while he was in trance, but since they weren't connected through the controller tentacles directly to the lust network it should be impossible for him to do so now... right?

That was a question that he was going to have to answer for himself, Texotic thought as he sent a message to Fennel that he would be right there. From the room number he was given the wolf found that the maintenance worker was actually somewhat close to his own quarters. This was a relief to him since that meant he could see what the equine wanted before he went about his business with the other interviews.

When Texotic got to the door he gave it a ring and almost immediately heard Fennel on the other side of it tell him that it was unlocked and to come in. The wolf opened the door and stepped inside to find that it was empty, which confused him slightly until he heard the equine's voice come from the other room that he'll be there in just a second. "I don't have too much time to talk I'm afraid," Texotic said as he walked inside and sat down on one of the chairs. "But I got your message and wanted to make sure that you're alright."

"I think I'm more than fine," the lupine suddenly heard behind him. "And soon you will be, too."

Texotic turned around to see Fennel standing there completely naked, his eyes glowing with a bright green just like the tongue that was hovering right in front of his muzzle. The wolf let out a gasp and fell backwards onto the floor, scooting backwards as tentacles began to sprout from the muscular body of the other male, especially around his groin as his main cock turned shiny and black while stretching outwards towards him. "But... how?!" the wolf shouted as the corrupted horse continued to move towards him with green bio-extract oozing from every orifice.

"You should know..." Fennel let out in a garbled hiss. "You're one of us, after all... one of us..."

As Texotic shook his head and raised his hand to stop the other male from advancing he gasped in surprise when he saw that his entire arm had become bloated and black, his fingers merged together into a single white claw of a basher. Just as the wolf started to panic; however, a sudden thought came to him, one that caused him to pause long enough to examine his surroundings closer. "Wait a second..." he said, his tone shifting so significantly that it even caused Fennel to stop and look at him in surprise as he rolled his eyes. "Oh, you've got to be kidding me..."

By the time the Bal'Kar equine regained his composure and leapt forwards Texotic raised up his untransformed arm and closed his eyes while he snapped his fingers. The next second when he opened them again he found himself in his room in the darkness, the clock on the wall revealing that it was still rather early in the day as he sighed and sat up. "What a dick..." he said to himself as he could swear he almost heard the sabrewolf chuckling to himself while he looked around to make sure it wasn't another psychic illusion created by the Bal'Kar. "Could have at least let me enjoy myself before pulling something like that."

As Tex woke up for real he saw that he did in fact have a message from Fennel that said he wanted to meet, making him glance around once more just to double check he wasn't still in a dream. When he assured himself that he was in reality he responded that he would be on his way and once more walked out of his room and towards the maintenance engineer's abode. Ignoring the intense déjà vu he rang the bell, only this time it was a fully clothed equine that answered it. After being invited inside Texotic sat down in the chair opposite the one he had sat down in in the dream and Fennel opted to have a seat on the side of his bed as he looked down.

"I hope I'm not bothering you too much," he said rather timidly as his fingers played with one another in nervousness. "It was just... I had a strange dream that woke me up and I thought that I should share it with you, especially since you were in it."

"Let me guess," Tex replied. "I was in your room and you started to transform into a Bal'Kar?"

Fennel tried not to blush as he rubbed the back of his head. "Close..." he finally said. "But in my dream it was actually you that transformed me. The lust was so intense that when I woke up I could have broken through a brick wall with my dick. I had to jerk it twice just to get it to go down and each time I couldn't help but think of what you had become and what you were doing to me..."

"What I was doing to you?" Texotic asked, the noticed slip causing the equine to tense slightly. "What was I doing?"

"Oh, you were... uh..." Fennel stammered as his breath quickened slightly. "You had put me under again so that you could look into the hive some more and that's when you started to transform." It didn't take being psychically inclined for Tex to see that there was a measure of lust under the embarrassment that the equine felt, something that intrigued the lupine. "Sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable or something, but I don't know if that's important."

"No need for that," Tex quickly replied as he waved his hand in the air. "I'm actually really glad that you told me, and I think that it might benefit both of us if I put you under again and see if I can pinpoint the cause of all this. Maybe even finally find a way to root out the source of the problem."

Though the equine male remained nervous it was clear that there was some level of excitement, too, as Texotic instructed Fennel to lie down on the bed. Even though the lupine was acutely aware that this is probably what the Bal'Kar wanted him to do he could feel his own lusts growing... which meant that he was close to finding a way into their network. It was a risky proposition but he needed to know... and having a handsome stallion who was aroused by being hypnotized wasn't a bad perk, either. Once Fennel had gotten comfortable Texotic brought him under a light trance, which was much easier since he had already done so before. Unlike last time he could sense the presence of the Bal'Kar slide into the open headspace of the male he had entranced, and this time no invitation was needed to get the wolf to go inside.

Once more Texotic found himself in the vivid mental landscape given to him by Serathin, only this time it was even more defined by walls similar to that of the cavern that the Bal'Kar were housed in. The hybrid was in his usual spot, sitting on the chair, only instead of being completely in his guise form his controller tentacles were out on full display. This caused Tex to pause, he knew the power those appendages had and he didn't want his faculties compromised while he talked to the creature. As he remained frozen Serathin called out that he wasn't going to bite and to hurry over.

"You'll have to excuse me if I don't believe you fully," Texotic stated as he continued to keep a wary glance on the controllers while he sat down, himself.

"Would it make you feel better if I said that they were out last time we chatted as well?" Serathin replied with a smirk. "The fact that you're able to see them means that the idea of becoming one of us is far more intriguing to you now than it was before... Just like your presence here is an indicator that your lust is helping to bring you into the fold."

Even though the words of the sabrewolf resonated with him he tried to shake it off, frowning as he tempered the desire he was feeling radiate through his body to keep a clear mind. "But I don't want to do you what you do," Texotic said. "I've seen what you do and I don't want to be a part of that, I can't just go around corrupting people, it's not right. I know that as soon as I give in I'll become Bal'Kar, but I... don't want to be Bal'Kar, if that makes any sense."

"Here, let me show you something that might put your mind at ease," Serathin said before he motioned into the darkness of one of the caves, the two watching as a partially transformed Fennel came out. It was just like in his dream, Tex thought as he watched the glowing green tongue of the changing male lick along his rubbery, black lips while his back bulged with the beginnings of a spore tower. "Do you see?"

"I see he's turning into one of you," Texotic quickly replied as he watched the tentacles wrap around his mutating cock and begin to effortlessly slide up and down its length. "I don't see what the point is."

"Well when you get the chance to tear your eyes away from him I want you to take a look at yourself," Serathin replied, Texotic looking down at his naked body. "Now I want you to take a glance over here at me." The blue-furred wolf then looked over Serathin, trying to keep his gaze clear of the controller tentacles staring at him. "Now are you picking up what I'm putting down?"

It took Texotic a few seconds, mainly because his arousal was starting to grow more and more, before he figured out what the sabrewolf was attempting to show him. "We both have a remarkably strong sense of self," Serathin continued as he leaned forward and cupped his hands under Texotic's jaw to keep eye contact, the wolf surprised that he was even letting the hybrid do it. "You need to come away from this little experience knowing that you will still be you, but you will be Bal'Kar as well. Much like hypnosis the drive to do what we do is absolute, but how we go about it is dependent on us... so just relax, relax and enjoy what is to come next..."

Instead the blue wolf shut his heterochromic eyes as tightly as he could, doing his best to resist the saberwolf's influence as well as the controllers bobbing and weaving on each side of his head. This isn't what he wanted... He knew his will was stronger than to give in so easily, that his spirit held far more power than Serathin, Fennel, Dr. Winters, and all the rest of the facility knew about. He could fight this, he could preserve his body and mind. But at the same time this may be his best opportunity to truly tap into the hive's network of lust to learn how this can all be stopped, or at least contained.

Despite his best efforts he could feel his will faltering, his body beginning to betray him as it twitched and shivered slightly while his member slid further out of its sheath. The pleasurable sensations of a multitude of minds were bombarding his psyche by proximity to the saberwolf alone, and the controllers were only amplifying them. It would be all too easy to give in, why should he even bother fighting something that felt so incredible?

Texotic reopened his eyes despite himself and nodded as he stared into the set of green, monstrous ones looking right back into his own. In the back of his mind he knew he was being hypnotized, only this time instead of his muscles growing loose he found himself growing even hornier. Even though his groin began to throb with need he continued to sit there and let his head be cradled by the Bal'Kar as they began to communicate in a way other than speaking, a way that the wolf had been attempting to do all this time. When the fiery passion that was being stoked in Tex's body was high enough to the sabrewolf's satisfaction, Serathin told the wolf to have fun before snapping his fingers.

The sudden noise caused Tex to close his eyes, and when he opened them again he was back in the room with Fennel. Both males were panting hard and when they made eye contact they both paused for a second before diving onto one another. Their bodies bounced on the bed as they immediately began to make out, their lusts going into overdrive as Fennel's tongue licked all around Tex's pierced lips and probed into his mouth. The wolf eagerly reciprocated, but as he slid on top of the equine's body he knew it wasn't going to be enough to slake either of their needs.

Clothes were quickly shed and soon the two muscular males were naked against one another, both groping and fondling each other with such fervor that they had to kick the bedspread off, too. Though Tex remained on top he knew what he wanted, stroking the girthy length of the other male's cock as it practically bounced against his backside. The thick-furred tail of the wolf waved about in the air as they stopped only for Fennel to reach over and grab a bottle of lube, which Texotic applied liberally to both his rear and the maleness that was about to go inside it. With the equine trapped under his body there was little that Fennel could do but groan and writhe under the pleasure that the other male was about to give him.

The two let out near simultaneous groans as the flared head of the horse cock began to push its way in, the lupine body trembling slightly as the ring of muscle was stretched. Thanks to the lube and the fact that the two were still extremely horny in the midst of their sexual escapade any pain from the insertion was quickly drowned out from the pleasure that it caused. As Texotic felt inch after inch of the girthy member slide into him he could only imagine what it would be like if it was a Bal'Kar tentacle, something that he could sense was what the equine was thinking as well. This seemed to bother neither of them as they focused more on the pleasure that was coming from the lupine's riding of the equine's member.

Once again Fennel was more than happy to let Tex take the lead and the wolf realized that the horse was still partially entranced, disguised by their sudden need. He felt a trill of pure bliss run through his body as he took complete control, gripping the horse's sides as he sank himself all the way down to the base before sliding back up again. When he told Fennel to play with his nipple rings he did so instantly, causing the lupine to thrash about even more while still completely impaled. This continued for some time until finally both males came, Texotic being first after the horse began to massage his icy blue member while also hitting his prostate, which caused him to clamp down his internal walls on the cock he had been pumping in and out of him in the first place.

When the two finished Tex sat back and braced himself on the bed, the still-throbbing member deep inside him even as it began to soften. With their lusts slaked, at least temporarily, Tex became clear-headed enough to know that he had to think about what just happened. After he finally got the heavy horsecock out of him he grabbed a quick shower and told Fennel he would contact him later as he got dressed. The equine was so blissed out Texotic wandered if he even heard what he had said as he ran out the door to get to his interviews.

As the day continued on Tex could hardly concentrate on what he was doing, the words of the Bal'Kar swirling around in his mind as well as the sensation of need growing inside him once more. He knew that he had been corrupted, it was his fault he had gotten drawn into it, but though he felt his lust and desire growing he still remained remarkably clear-headed about it. It brought him to the conversation that he had with Serathin right before he rode on that stallion's cock like... had sex... and wondered if there weren't any words of truth in it. There was also something else, something he had sensed when he was under the thrall of the Bal'Kar and connected more succinctly to their network that bothered him.

Even so he found himself yearning for those tentacles to be wrapped around him, even knowing what the consequences of those actions were. He would be a Bal'Kar, but if what Serathin told him was true and he could still be himself, was that really a bad thing? There were worse ways to spend one's days than wrapped up in the tentacles of another, and the more he dwelled on it the more appealing it got...

"Excuse me," a naga said as he popped his head in, Tex looking up to see him start to slither through the door. "I was told that I was supposed to come here so that you could look at me due to my... behavior as of late?" The snake man seemed nervous as he shifted about, trying not to make eye contact with the wolf. "Is there any way that we could make an appointment for another time though, I'm super busy with work..."

The way the naga held himself was cause enough for concern and it didn't take a lot of mental probing to figure out why, he was also strongly tainted with the lust of the Bal'Kar. It wasn't just that, though, there was something that the naga didn't want Tex to find out and was trying his hardest to keep it from coming to light. Unfortunately for him that only caused what they were thinking about to surface more, and with an untrained mind he was unable to keep himself from essentially showing the lupine what it was. When he saw what it was his eyes widened before he told the naga to sit down, an order which the other male followed.

"You're name is Korios, correct?" Texotic asked, the naga nodding. "You're one of the maintenance personnel that work down near the generator areas, which if memory serves is rather close to the Bal'Kar caverns." Once more the naga bobbed his head up and down and whimpered slightly when he realized that the psychic knew what he was trying to hide. "Yes, I know what you're up to, and I was wondering if you would be interested in a little deal?"

There was a moment where the naga looked like he was about to make a run for it before he stopped and looked at the wolf in confusion. "Wait... what?" Korios asked, seeing the grin on the wolf's muzzle grow slightly wider.

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That same day Texotic and Fennel both walked through the utility tunnel, neither of them saying anything to one another as they moved to the sector that they were told to go. He could feel the lustful resonance of the creatures grow stronger with each bulkhead door they passed until it was like he was already connected to the hive itself, the whisper of voices becoming nearly audible as they both walked. A glance over at Fennel revealed that the equine had already been almost completely overwhelmed, the only thing keeping his fingers off of his cock was the tented fabric around it. When they finally got to the meeting place they saw Korios standing there with a smug look on his face in front of tarps that blocked off the rest of the tunnel.

"I was wondering when you guys would finally get here," he said with a chuckle as he opened up the tarp. "Come on in, I'm almost done."

Both males merely nodded and stepped inside, nearly tripping over the digging equipment as they ventured into the makeshift workshop that had been set up. It appeared that the naga had been attempting to get at the Bal'Kar caverns for quite some time from the nature of the divot in the otherwise thick concrete. "Wow..." Texotic said as he looked at the rebar to see that had been embedded in it also was cut away, likely weakening the wall even further. "You must have been working on this a while."

"Since I first felt the call of the lust," Korios replied. "I always thought that the Bal'Kar were really cool but could never muster up the nerve to ask Dr. Winters to let me become one of them. Then after he shut down the observation deck and quarantined the entire area I knew asking him would just lead me to a similar fate, so instead I decided to forge my own path. Unfortunately even with the lax security down here I had to work with hammer and chisel to not set anything off; however, thanks to our new friend here I think that one of the generators above us is about to throw a belt."

Texotic looked at Fennel, who just gave him a wink as Korios rigged what appeared to be an explosive cutter, something that would go through the remaining reinforced wall like butter. Once the device was in place the three backed away to the other side of the tarp and both maintenance professionals pulled out remote control devices. The first to press theirs was Fennel, the click of the button echoing through the utility tunnel as the naga waited. At first it seemed like it did nothing until there was suddenly a loud bang caused the entire tunnel to shake slightly, which was when Korios pressed his button. The effect was far more instantaneous as they heard the loud pop of the plastic explosive go off, though most of the blast was directed at the copper wedges that sliced through the hardened material.

They waited for a few more seconds before Korios checked to make sure that everything had gone off as planned before allowing the others in. When he gave them the go-ahead both Texotic and Fennel walked inside and saw the gaping hole that had been created in the concrete wall of the utility tunnel. Together the three of them ducked under the pipes and made their way through the newly-created threshold, coming out on the other side into another wide open space. All three looked around in awe as it felt like they were on an alien world, the entire cavern pulsing with life as everything glowed with a green hue.

"Glad to see that you could make it," a familiar voice said behind them as they turned to see Serathin standing there in his guise form, as well as several Bal'Kar who weren't. "Welcome home..."

The other two nearly knocked Tex over as they ran into the embrace of the Bal'Kar, the eyes of the controllers going down to mesmerize their newest converts as they were wrapped up in those rubbery, slimy coils. As the two started to transform almost instantly Texotic continued to hold his ground, even with his own pants straining to hold in his erection. "Something wrong?" Serathin asked, the coy grin still on his muzzle as he stepped forward. "I imagined that when you came down here you'd be overjoyed like your friends here."

"I know what you're planning," Texotic replied as his dichromatic eyes stared into those glowing green ones. "I saw it when we connected the second time, sensed it when I was finally able to translate your network of lust... and I still can't say that I approve."

Though the hybrid stopped moving at that, the bemused look on his face remained as he gave a small shrug. "It's in our nature," Serathin stated simply. "Though I'm curious then on why you decided to come down here instead of giving my intentions to Dr. Winters, you would think of all the people here he would be the one that should know the most. Yet instead you decided to follow Fennel down into the lion's den, so to speak..."

Tex could feel his body tremble slightly as he hid his embarrassment away from the creature. "I... the lust..." the wolf could feel his body begin to quiver but for a completely different reason as he felt pleasure radiating from his core. "My body craves the touch of the Bal'Kar, and I can't say that I'm opposed to your forms... it's a case of the flesh being weak while the spirit remains defiant."

"Man, you all really get hung up on the strangest thing," Serathin replied with a chuckle, causing the wolf to tilt his head in confusion. "I thought that with what I showed you I could convince you that we aren't just mindless lust factories... well the mindless part at least, and that we all have our different personalities. One of us is just really, really into hugging, for example."

Texotic looked past the sabrewolf to the Bal'Kar he was pointing to and watched as it had completely wrapped every tentacle it could around Fennel, whose hide had already started turning black and his body growing by the second, which just caused the one transforming him to embrace him with more tentacles. "I... see your point," Texotic said as he could sense the Bal'Kar was content with it. "I know why I'm here, as do you... I suppose I'm ready."

"I'm so glad to hear that," Serathin said as he closed the distance between the two. "We're not so different, you and I, and soon that's going to be even truer. Pity about the piercings, though, you're going to have to redo them every time you go into your guise form."

"My metal wasn't cheap, you know! The hive owes me about a grand in tha-" Texotic shot back before he was cut off, surprised by being suddenly grabbed as something bright green and glowing was plunged halfway down his throat. All he could see were the shiny jaws and teeth of the sabretooth Bal'Kar as he slowly began to transform, growing bigger as the lupine felt bio-extract filling his maw and throat. As the slurper continued to wiggle down deep inside it him the wolf worried briefly that he was going to choke, but he could already feel his throat start to transform as dark blue fur was replaced with rubber flesh. Just as he could feel the pleasure intensifying in his neck as it began to expand he saw something bulge out the slurper, his corrupted mind knowing that it was an egg as he felt his own tongue begin to wiggle of its own accord.

What would have been impossible for the lupine to swallow passed easily into his gullet as his teeth were replaced with the sharp fangs of the Bal'Kar, his piercings falling out as strands of his bright blue hair seemed to merge, thicken, lengthen, and shift, the six tentacle tips that had formed beginning to glow with deadly disintegrator energy while the rest of his body became slick with bio-extact. Texotic let out a muffled huff and grunt as tentacles wrapped around his body, everywhere they touched causing his fur to melt into his skin as his blackened throat bulged with the egg being slid inside of him. When it had reached the end of Serathin's slurper he pulled out, glowing green drool leaking out of Texotic's half-transformed maw and tongue.

The other Bal'Kar had begun to gather around the three transforming males and as they did Texotic could hear their voices clearer than ever, what had just been static was now more potent than ever as they gave their lust to him and he reciprocated. But what Serathin had said was also true, even as tentacles sprouted from everywhere and he felt his tailhole push out into a heavy Bal'Kar grappler with an egg already sliding out, he knew that deep down he was still him. It was a moment of pure epiphany and the euphoria that came with it as his insides became seethers while other Bal'Kar began to push into what was once his tailhole with slurpers and breeders alike.

Just as Texotic's hands finished merging together to become bashers and dug into the ground he felt his perspective shift, finding himself suddenly back in the psychic space that Serathin had made and back in his regular form. Well... almost his regular form as he began to feel something push out from his back. He let out a loud moan as he fell to his hands and knees while two controller tentacles pushed out into the air, their petals opening up to reveal glowing green eyes. It was then he knew that he was linked to the hive, he was Bal'Kar...

Suddenly a blue-scaled hand entered into his vision and helped pull the lust-drunk wolf up onto his feet, seeing Serathin standing there with that same smirk on his face. "Didn't I tell you that everything was going to be fine?" he said as he gave him a wink. "Looks like you're more or less yourself."

"More or less," Texotic replied as he gave the new tentacles on his body a tickle, feeling his body shiver from the pleasure it brought before returning his attention back to the hybrid.

"Well... there is one other thing," Serathin said before he opened his hands and mirror materialized there with Texotic's reflection in it. When the wolf stared at himself he realized that his eyes had changed, the glowing green irises offset against black sclera. "Welcome to the Bal'Kar."

"Indeed..." the wolf said in partial shock and partial amazement. He knew joining the hive meant sacrificing one of the colors of his eyes, stripping away a facet of his identity... And yet he was still at peace with his decision, that ping of pain fading as quickly as it had come. He mentally reached out and felt the warm, comfortable embrace of the entirety of the hive through his new lustful resonance, feeling them all reach back with similar sensations that signified their welcoming of him into the fold, one in particular seeming to emit more than mere lust. "So... what's next?"

"Next is what you saw we need to do," Serathin said, causing the wolf to frown slightly. "It may not be your way, but it is the way of the Bal'Kar and it must be done. After that, though, there are going to be some friends that I want you to meet, I think they're going to be very happy to have you among them. Until then though let us enjoy the now... for as long as we have it."

Texotic nodded and once more the two were back in reality, only now there was no horse, no naga, no wolf... the only things that were in the cavern were Bal'Kar. Serathin's plans would be able to proceed unhindered, let alone without needing to worry about an observation deck or the facility's only psychic warning them of new additions to the hive. In fact with Texotic now on the side of the tentacle their influence would likely reach beyond what it had done previously, the former lupine acting as a sort of signal booster for their corruptive aura. He could sense the others eagerly awaiting their instruction as a number of them eyed up the hole that had been created into the facility... but while it would have been easy to just storm the place the sabrewolf told them to wait, there were still some things that needed to be resolved before anything like that happened...

A few hours later Dr. Winters tapped his pencil noisily on the desk as he watched his inbox grow with the amount of e-mails that were coming in from the researchers that were talking about either wanting to meet the Bal'Kar or requesting information on them. Whatever was happening to this base seemed to be intensifying, even he had distracted thoughts of those tentacle monsters when he wasn't focused on something else. Part of him wanted to evacuate the base and be done with it... but was it already too late for that? What if he let out someone that was potentially infected by some sort of strange lust virus that the Bal'Kar could transmit psychically?

"Marko," August said as he pushed the button on his intercom. "I want the entire base to get signed up for testing tomorrow... full battery. Physicals, psych evals, everything under the sun."

His assistant told him that it would be done and August sat back, sighing as he looked at the number on his inbox going up. "So much for studying the Bal'Kar," he muttered to himself as he poured a drink. "Looks like we're the test subjects now..."