Bugging Out (10/10)

Story by Serathin on SoFurry

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#10 of Bugging Out

Dathmoth was a planet that was ugly, scarred, and barren in all regards. There was no reason that anyone would want anything to do with such an inhospitable place... until a new sonar technique that had been developed showed the presence of Falchorite, an invaluable substance that would cause a company to spend an insurmountable amount in order to try and dig it up. The mining crew is eager to get off, but what they don't know is that there was something else that was trying to get off the planet as well.

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Councilor Abborus sat in the meeting room on colony that had a number which the man couldn't be bothered to remember, especially considering the backwater nature of those that had made the small planet its home. The only reason that he was even there in the first place was because of the Polaris, or rather the two recovery ships that had gone dark after attempting to make contact with it. This was the closest outpost to Dathmoth that had a functional space station orbiting it, though it was little more then a place for ships to get refitted and resupplied before venturing out into deep space. It was also the location where a strange message had been intercepted that had required Aborrus to be there.

As the councilor waited he looked outside the window of the administration building, seeing the skyscrapers that made up most of the capital city. Even though this was considered a small city by most definitions it probably housed hundreds of thousands if not millions, all of them either farming the land or providing some task to help with the deep space exploration efforts of the federation. One of those tasks was monitoring for new alien signals, which was likely the only reason they had managed to get the message in the first place. Abborus still didn't know why he had to be there in person though as he saw the greenish-blue sky slowly turning to red from the setting of the blue star that gave the planet life.

"Councilor Abborus?" another male human said, their smile fading slightly when he saw Abborus give him a sour look. "I'm Regent Ulyssis, I'm here to escort you to the meeting room where the others are waiting for you."

"It's about time," the Councilor said impatiently as he got up from his chair and followed the other male towards a set of large metal double doors.

"I apologize profusely for the delay," Ulyssis replied as they walked through the threshold to the hallway on the other side, heading further into the administration building. "As much as we didn't wish to hold up someone of your position I'm afraid the nature of the message needed some special preparation to be able to view it to you. I'm also going to warn you that what you see is going to be... a bit shocking."

The Councilor just continued to huff as they walked into the colony's war room, which was basically just a command center that was connected to almost all the systems of the colony as well as the space station that hovered above it. In the middle of the circular room there was a table that completely encircled a holographic generator that had the planet and space station currently displayed. There were other military and civilian advisors present that had been standing until they entered, and when the Regent told them all to sit they did so. Abborus was the last to take a seat right at the right side of the Ulyssis as the commanders all asked what was so important that they needed to call a meeting.

"As some of you may know we had been tasked with attempting to find any sort of sign that the two ships, the Nebula and the Horizon, after they had gone dark." Ulyssis explained as he took a remote and clicked it, the holograms changing from the planet and station to three spaceships. "Their mission before they had completely gone dark was to tow back the Polaris to this station to assess the current state of its crew, which had engaged a level four quarantine order before also losing all communications. After a few weeks we were ready to declare all three ships lost until one of our long-range scanners picked this up; and I'm going to warn you right now that what you see on this footage may be shocking, so be wary."

The Regent clicked the remote again and the scene before them shifted once more, this time to what looked like three-dimensional security cam footage of their communications room. The stamp at the bottom of it said that it came from the Nebula, which was the larger of the two ships, and at first it didn't look like anything out of the ordinary. Then about a minute in the blast doors opened and several of the crew ran through it, their bodies and uniforms covered with some sort of slime as they took the blast bolts and activated them to completely seal them off to the rest of the ship. With the distortion of the file it was hard to make out what they were saying, but as they began to take off their uniforms and the purple goo that was on them one of them went to the emergency beacon console and activated it.

"To anyone that might get this message," the man said, groaning slightly as he seemed to be in some sort of pain, holding his stomach as the others in the room also looked to be suffering the same sort of discomfort. "Mayday mayday, this is the Nebula, our ship and the Horizon have been infested with some alien creature from the Polaris. Horizon has already lost... control... and we've been... holding off this horde as best we can..."

The one making the message sounded like he was choking slightly and as everyone at the table leaned in they saw that it looked like he was starting to drool excessively. As more of the purple ooze leaked out of his ears and nose the others in his squad were already starting to transform, and as their uniforms began to fall off of their bodies it was clear that they humans had started to mutate as they locked lips with one another. Everyone at the table was wide eyed with their jaw to the floor as the one that was attempting to compose the message had started to grope himself, groaning as his entire body began to quiver from the changes. At first it seemed like that was it, but the one at the console seemed to get enough of a grip to continue on as he pushed the record button once again.

"I can... hear their voices..." the soldier said, his forehead pushing out into a pair of purple antennae as his own voice started to become more distant. "Yes... yes I see now... we must join them..." Though it was hard to see they could all make out the eyes of the soldier becoming a solid purple as his body began to extend, a second pair of legs growing out of the first as the look of fear and concern on his mutating face become one of almost blissful euphoria. "We must all join them..."

Just as the transforming humans began to get into acts that most there would call depraved the feed cut off, most likely the emergency beacon hitting the end of its recording. Those in the war room all began to immediately talk at once, everything from murmuring of concern to practically shouting before the Regent calmed them all down. "As you can see this is a rather alarming situation," Ulyssis stated as the hologram went back to the three ships. "If this recording is an accurate representation of what happened then we have to assume that both the Horizon and the Nebula have succumbed to this alien infection."

"Where are the ships now?" one of the military advisors asked.

"As of right now we do not know," Ulyssis explained. "Somehow they were able to get rid of all tracking and monitoring programs, as well as hardware, on all three ships. The last time the Horizon and Nebula were pinged they were still in orbit over Dathmoth, which is where the infection originally came from."

"Then we should take action right now!" the same advisor said, slamming his fist down. "If what we just saw was true then that means every space ship, space station, and colony is under threat! Let's just take two of our biggest warships and blow these creatures to kingdom come!"

"Now just hold on a second," another advisor said. "We have no idea what's actually going on here and the only thing we have to go on is this recording. Who is to say that this isn't some sort of new intelligent species that just happens to have a peculiar reproduction cycle? Can we honestly commit a genocide of a new species just because it happens to display characteristics that we haven't handled very well?"

"You both bring up really good points," Ulyssis stated as he held up his hands to prevent any further outbursts. "I don't think that either ship knew what they were in for when they tried to see what was happening with the Polaris, and with the unusual nature of this species we may be rushing ahead to try and sterilize it from the rest of the galaxy."

Just as the Regent was about to continue Abborus raised his hand, prompting Ulyssis to yield the floor to him. "You all already have the reports that my office has given you concerning this alien infection, which in turn I had gotten from the Polaris before it went off-line," the councilor explained. "Now in my opinion I would find the nearest sun and send every one of those creatures there so that we can get back to Dathmoth and get those Falchorite deposits, but the question that is really burning in my mind right now is why I had to come all the way here just to be a part of this when we easily could have done this over the interlink?"

As Abborus looked at the others he saw that there were primarily looks of confusion on their faces, especially the Regent as he scratched his head. "Wait..." he said finally. "You don't know why you're here?"

"I wouldn't have asked otherwise," Abborus stated as he crossed his hands over his chest. "So can someone tell me why I'm here?"

"But sir," Ulyssis said as he took a datapad and slid it over to him. "We thought that it was you that had prompted us to have this meeting, not the other way around. The colony didn't send you a summons at all."

The blood in Councilor Abborus' body suddenly ran cold as he heard the Regent say that they weren't the ones that had told him to come here. He remembered specifically getting the summons through his office that he was required urgently to come to the colony in order to deal with the situation on the Polaris... which could have only come from the Regent himself. If he hadn't been the one that brought him there, then who...

Suddenly the intercom in the war room came to life as a voice said that there were three space ships that had just came into range from hyperspace. Even though everyone had an idea of what those three were the Regent asked for their identifications anyway. There was a few seconds of pause before the station attendants replied that it was the ones they were looking for, the Polaris, the Nebula, and the Horizon. There was a stunned silence in the room, save for Ulyssis that told the station to immediately tag the three as plague ships and for no one to go near them.

As the advisors started to shout again Abborus was still sitting there, his face as white as a sheet as he stared ahead. The Regent hadn't invited him, which meant that someone wanted him there, and just as he was confirmed to be on the planet there were suddenly three ships that had been infected with the alien virus that he had been warned about. He found himself slowly standing up and tried to tell Ulyssis that he was leaving, only to get practically shouted at that no one was leaving as the hologram in the middle of the room switched to the space station. Overhead they could hear the voice of the space station attendants attempting to get any of the ships over the radio, only to be met with static as they continued to make their approach.

"Shoot them down!" Councilor Abborus suddenly shouted, his panicked tone getting the attention of the rest of the room. "You need to destroy those ships immediately! They're coming for all of us!"

"Councilor Abborus, control yourself!" Regent Ulyssis shouted back, slamming his palm down on the metal table. "We're not going to destroy three space frigates like that on a whim!" His attention went back to the voice on the intercom as the councilor just stood there frozen. "Now whether or not you can get a hold of them try to tell them to follow quarantine protocols and have them maintain a distance of at least fifty thousand meters away from the station."

"Roger that," the voice said as everyone listened to them relay the message. "Looks like all we're getting back is static, so... wait, I think we're hearing something... you might want to have a listen for yourselves on this."

Everyone stopped what they were doing as they heard over the speakers a low hissing noise. At first listen they would have assumed it to be some sort of distortion, but as it grew louder it was clear that it was hissing and chittering. It wasn't just one voice either, the longer they listened to it the more they heard until it was a cacophony of noise that filled the entire war room. Before Ulyssis could tell them to shut it off however the noise suddenly stopped and was replaced with the panicked voice of the station attendant as they shouted that one of the ships had started to accelerate right for the docking bay!

The radio suddenly cut off and everyone looked at the projector as the Horizon had broken the formation of the other two ships and had put itself on a collision course with the station. Before Ulyssis could get back in contact with them they watched as the representation of the ship smashed into the station, which meant that miles above them in space the Horizon and the station were both breached as the entire docking bay was destroyed in the collision. Though it wouldn't have been enough to destroy either of the two structures there was now a ship sticking out of the station itself... and the plague that was contained within would likely be able to spill out of the impromptu dock that had just been created.

That thought was quickly confirmed as the Regent switched the views to station diagnostics near the impact site, and when he turned it to the life sign detector they could see dozens of dots spilling out from the fused ship and station. It was also clear from the fact that those dots were red that it was a species that it had never identified before, and as they watched those little spheres of light collided with the white, blue, yellow, and other life sign indicators very quickly. They watched in horror as those that had met with a red dot soon became red themselves, spreading like a virus over the space station faster than anyone could do anything about it.

"Alright, we can officially classify this as a xenomorphic threat level five," the Regent said with gritted teeth as he switched the intercom from the sound of people screaming on the station to an office on the surface. "We have a situation in the station and need all traffic to and from grounded immediately. I don't care if there are ships that have already gotten up into space, bring everything down and lock down the city."

A stage five xenomorphic threat... no one in that room had ever experienced such a thing before. It meant that a colony was under direct invasion by a hostile species, which meant not only was the entire federation put on alert but the colony itself was to remain on the planet until the threat could be dealt with. Thankfully, one of the advisors pointed out, the frigates were too big to enter into the atmosphere and with the lockdown in place they wouldn't be able to use the ships on the station to get down to the planet. That meant they were all safe for the moment... even though there was a huge threat hovering above their heads they just needed to wait for the battle frigates to come in and deal with the situation above.

But as they watched the holographic screen they saw the entire scene zoom back out, showing not only the crashed ship and station but the other ship marked as the Polaris starting to get closer to the planet. "What are those fools doing?!" the military advisor shouted as the proximity warnings started to go off. "If they try to crash down into the planet they're going to kill us all!"

"Oh... oh no..." Councilor Abborus said as he put his hand to his mouth. "The Polaris... it doesn't need to come down itself..."

Before Ulyssis could ask what that meant he got he answer in the form of more warnings flashing on the screen, this time of unauthorized entry of projectiles into the city itself. Suddenly the ground under their feet shook from multiple impacts with the surface of the planet as the SPIKEs that were equipped by the Polaris crashed down. Once more the scene on the projector switched, this time to a planet side view as it registered multiple impacts among the streets of the city while some had managed to land in the middle of parks with pinpoint accuracy. As the heat from entry through the atmosphere dissipated those that had been near the crash began to move forwards, their fear mostly replaced with curiosity as the doors to the pods began to open.

The advisors watched as the emotions of the crowd quickly turned back to that of horror as a large, dark purple anthropomorphic scorpion man practically burst out of the metal tube and lunged for the first person that they could find. Within a matter of minutes it had infected a dozen people as the citizens of the colonies ran for their lives. Those that had been hit by the tail or bite of the alien quickly began to transform, the virus mutating their bodies and minds so that they could spread more quickly. As the feed switched from that pod to others they saw similar situations, some of the areas filled with cocooned victims while others were covered with the purple ooze had begun to rut with one another and cause their infected bodies to merge.

"Damnit!" Regent Ulyssis said as a computerized voice announced that unauthorized bio signs were spreading throughout the city. "We need to contain this now!"

"How?!" one of the advisors said, motioning over to the projector as it displayed a rapidly reddening map of the city. "Even if we somehow manage to contain the borders of the city that's not going to stop the Polaris from spiking another one, not to mention it's the city that we're in right now!"

"We have to try!" Regent Ulyssis stated. "I'm going to order the containment grid go up... we may all get trapped here but it's either us or the planet. Councilor Abborus, I'm sorry that..."

The Regent paused when he looked around and saw that the man that had been standing next to him this entire time was gone and that the doors were opened. The fleeing councilor could hear Ulyssis shouting his name as he used his override code in order to get past the lockdown and back into the administration building. His ship was in a hanger just on the other side of the structure... if he could get to that before they called down the containment grid then he would be able to escape whatever fate waited for him there. If he didn't though not even his code would be able to get past it, which only prompted him to run faster down the hallway past the windows that showed the doomed city.

Just as he got halfway down Abborus was blown off his feet and pushed into the nearby wall as the glass shattered, a loud boom echoing across the area as a SPIKE craft landed right in the courtyard of the building. Though he wasn't severely injured the man knew that he was in trouble as he got back to his feet and saw the metal craft starting to open. Had they come here specifically for him? It was something that he didn't wish to find out as he continued to race towards the landing platform of the building.

Councilor Abborus managed to make it to the lobby area before he had to stop, ducking behind a corner as those who had went to the smashed windows to see what was happening were suddenly overrun with those creatures. Those closest were quickly pounced upon, several getting webbed in the process while others were poisoned. Those that had gotten brought down to the floor struggled for a bit before it appeared that the virus would take effect, and when it did it was clear that the alien bug people were not shy about where they put their eggs into people. Just seeing those wiggling cock get pushed into those already infected, for what purpose he couldn't fathom since they were already mutating, made his stomach drop to his feet.

But with those that were infesting the administration building focused on their latest victims it gave him a chance to continue his escape, going around the back and into the hallways to reach the landing pad. With every second that passed the double threat of being trapped down there and the number of marauding aliens increasing he grew ever bolder in his attempts to try and push forward. It appeared that luck would be on his side though as he got to the landing bay and found that not only was the hanger still open but his ship remained unmolested. He breathed a sigh of relief and gave a weary look around before sprinting as fast as he could to it, practically passing out when he got inside and closed the door behind him.

"This is Regent Ulyssis to Councilor Abborus!" a voice over the radio said as the sweating man got into the pilot seat, his own likely already transforming into one of those swarming creatures. "The containment grid is about to be put into place, you cannot leave the hanger! Do you know how many lives you are putting at risk right now?!"

"I'm saving my own, thank you very much." Abborus said back in a quiet but cold tone as he turned on his ship computer to find that only the lockdown was still in effect, punching in his code to allow him to override it. "I wish you all the luck in the world and will make sure to tell the federation to give you some sort of honor for your sacrifice."

"Damnit Councilor, you can't leave this planet!" Ulyssis shouted. "If you bring this alien infection to another planet then-"

Abborus switched off the radio and began the take-off sequence, his ship rising up and out of the launch bay. As he left the building and got a chance to take a look at the city he could see the chaos had spread through most of it, bug creatures could be seen crawling up the skyscrapers and breaking into the windows as others were converted right there in the streets. As he looked back towards the building he had just exited he could see that the same thing was happening there as well. He could just imagine all those people that were in the war room huddling around their table, trying desperately to keep out the scourge infecting their colony as they came banging on that door...

It didn't matter to him anymore though, soon Abborus saw the red skies of the planet that surrounded him turn into the blackness of space. To his left he could see that a similar situation was happening in the space station, the area of the ship that had forcefully merged itself with it covered in shiny purple biomass as other sections could be seen imploding from the fighting that was happening. If his own ship wasn't equipped with light drive he would have had to try and find a way to get one of the frigates that was fleeing the area to help him, but instead he just punched in the coordinates to the nearest space station with actual federation presence and got ready to jump. A few seconds later the stars stretched out around him and he properly left the growing nightmare behind him.

Once he was en route to his new destination he got out of the pilot's chair in order to go back to his cabin and fix himself a stiff drink, only to find himself unable to get up. When he looked down at himself he gasped in surprise to see the thin strand of purple that was across his chest. Even with it looking like some sort of string he found it quite strong, pinning his arms to his side and keeping him there even when he tried to wiggle out of his chair. "Looks like I guessed right," a deep, gravelly voice said that caused Abborus to freeze. "Sonya thought that you might remain in the war room with the others for safety, but I knew that a spineless, arrogant blowhard like you would use their power to attempt to escape the fate we laid out so carefully for you."

Suddenly the councilor was wrenched around in his seat, facing two purple bug creatures that stared at them with multiple sets of eyes. "Captain Daniel..." Abborus said in a mixture of shock and outrage. "How..."

"Not important right now," the extremely muscular creature replied, taking one of the scythe blades that were his arms and bringing it up to the trapped man's neck. "What is important is what we're going to do to you. Though the queen has allowed us to execute judgement on you I find myself conflicted on bringing such a poisonous personality like you into the hive... though I'm sure that we could make a few changes. I wouldn't mind just killing you and being done with it."

"W-wait!" Abborus said as the surprisingly sharp purple edge of the blade pressed against his throat, causing him to lean back in his chair to try and get away from it. "You-you know you can't just go around like a plague of locusts, even now the colony has you on every extermination list in the federation! Sure you might get that one, maybe even one or two more, but your little species will soon find themselves on the wrong end of a war frigate's guns and they'll tear you all to pieces all the way back to Dathmoth!"

The two creatures looked at one another and despite their alien features Abborus knew that he had struck a chord with them. The hive seemed to have some intelligence behind it, and they knew that once they were marked for extermination the federation would stop at nothing to do so. "Alright then," the smaller of the two said, Sonya's clawed hands pressing against his face while the blade remained. "What do you propose we do with you?"

"Just... let me go and allow me to state the case for your kind," Abborus stated. "You are an intelligent species, even if you seem to be driven by certain instincts, and if you can prove that you can behave yourselves perhaps you'll even get status in the federation. Of course you're going to have to smooth over the colony that you just infested but I'm sure with a little talking and some greased palms we can make it happen."

"It's becoming more clear how you manage to retain your position despite being a waste of flesh," the smaller creature said as the blade was taken away from the human's throat. "Your offer does intrigue the queen though, so perhaps we can find some common ground after all. You will be let go, but you will not be left unaltered."

Once more the councilor began to squirm as Sonya's claws began to rip through his suit. "Wait, you can't do this!" he shouted. "I can't argue your case if you turn me into one of you!"

"Your physical form will be left unaltered," Daniel hissed as Abborus continued to get stripped. "With so many more joining the hive we have learned to control the virus somewhat... and with the addition of the eggs we're about to implant in you we will be assured that you will not betray us. If you do not wish to comply then we can just fully infest you and release you to the world that you are warping too... I bet you would convert quite a few before they put you down."

The threat of death, either immediate or through being infected, was enough for Abborus to comply as the last of his suit was ripped off to reveal the toned body underneath. "Would you look at that..." Sonya said with a smirk and a chitter as he turned the augmented human on the chair. "How much did you pay for this body Abborus?"

"None of your business," Abborus replied bitterly after turning his head from being smushed into the rest of the chair. As he continued to feel Sonya groping his backside he suddenly found his vision filled with the spiked head of the bigger male, who merely smirked at him before leaning in. "Wh-what are you doing?"

"Distracting you," Daniel said before leaning in and opening his jaw to reveal the shiny purple tongue within. Just as Abborus shouted in terror the alien creature's face practically latched onto his, shoving the appendage deep in his mouth before sliding down into his throat. At first he gagged slightly but as the thick goo oozed its way down into him it immediately seemed to numb the muscles within so that it could continue to snake down into him. At the same time Sonya was doing something similar, taking advantage of the human's focus on the one in front of him to push theirs into his backside to prepare him for implantation.

Though it made both of them a little sad that they weren't going to turn him into something like a biopod or something more like the parasite he was they knew that the hive would need his power to continue to survive. Despite being driven by instinct they were capable of seeing the use of having him retain his human form... mostly. As the virus continued to seep into the human's insides it would keep their eggs inside of him, ready to hatch if they sensed that he was about to betray him. They would also give him a limited connection to the hive itself, though they made sure to keep the rather whiny man's voice as separate as possible.

Despite the initial protests they could feel his fit, augmented body already taking quite well to their ministrations, sensing that he had gotten more than a few modifications for such a thing. It didn't take much for Sonya to start to shove her ovipositor into him, the alien appendage spreading open the lubed passage way while causing Abborus to moan into the maw of the other creature. Both creatures basked in the pleasure of the laying, Daniel's own cock throbbing as he could practically feel the egg sliding through the member of his mate before being pushed into the human. As the bulge stretched open the ring of the human it caused him to practically jump, his eyes widening as the virus spread through his system and into his brain.

Though one egg would have been enough to keep the council under control the two aliens decided to make it a half-dozen, the sensations intensifying with each egg that left Sonya and was thrusted into the body of the human they were thrusting into. When they were finally finished all three of them had achieved multiple orgasms and Abborus was left a sticky, purple-goo covered mess while the two aliens rubbed the bulge that had formed in his otherwise washboard abs. There was also a slight tint in the eyes of the ambassador as the virus made a few subtle tweaks in his mind, helping to enforce the truth that they had just given to him. The creature may still look human, but he was now a slave to the hive and would do whatever he could to ensure its protection and growth.

Once they had pulled their tongue and cock out of the male they dissolved the string that had continued to hold him to the chair and allowed him to leave, Councilor Abborus stumbling back into the ship in order to take a shower while the two bug creatures watched. "Do you think he could really do it?" Sonya asked as Daniel knelt down to keep his hulking body from continuing to be slouched over in the rather cramped space of the cockpit. "Turn us from a species that will be feared across the galaxy to one that might actually be accepted into it?"

"It's going to be hard to argue our continuous need to spread," Daniel rumbled in reply. "But we are creatures born of Falchorite, which means we can work inside many starship engines where people can't go without having to get into three layers of suits. If the hive can stay manageable and we can staunch our desire to infect then perhaps we will."

The two once more remained silent as they continued their trip, arriving at a planet ripe with converts. Already they could feel their needs bubbling to the surface with the mere thought, and this was going to prove to be quite the test for their kind. Can they manage to keep themselves satiated and under control... or would they become the alien plague that had already visited themselves upon one colony with no plans of stopping? Would they become an invaluable ally, or a powerful and dangerous enemy?

As the computer beeps to notify them of their destination they knew one thing was for certain, whatever might happen they were going to find out very, very quickly...