As I hit the ground, I noticed that I was now in a system of caves that seemed to go on as far as my eyes could see. This cave had no natural light coming from the sun above, but it had a bunch of dark green moths that lit it up as they were sitting along the walls of it.
I rose to my feet and walked deeper into the cave trying to find a way to get back to the surface because while I wanted to be separated from the collective for the moment to be able to freely explore the hidden secrets of this world I did not want to die on this planet.
When I started to walk down the only path that was visible the number of moths that were on the wall began to increase and the light became almost white while all the moths were next to each other.
Then as I went deeper down the path, I saw a set of insects that each had a dark green hard shell surrounded their body. Ot had three eyes that were not located at the front of its face like it was for a Terran but instead they were located at the end of tendrils that were stretched out about six inches away from the head to its left, right, and above it. Its legs were long and had two claws that stretched out to hold them up.
The insects all stood still and did not move from the wall as I was cautiously walking down the path. This was odd because I was told that Demetra was a primal and that they only cared for evolution and that they would do anything to achieve it.
I chose to take it as a sign that they did not have any interest in me to help them evolve. That is why I quickened my pace down the path no longer paying attention to the different Demetra that I saw.
When path finally came to a huge opening where I saw that the room had a dark red colored flooring that seemed to be alive as I walked onto it. This flooring seemed to slow down my movement and slowly drain the energy from my power core with every step that I took.
"So; you have finally come to us. We were very curious about the anomaly that you are." I heard two voices say in unison from the back of the room.
Then as I looked at where I had heard the two voices come from, I saw something that both terrified me as if it were a very dangerous threat to me existence, but it also sparked my curiosity as a former member of the educational caste of The Terran Collective.
This creature was very massive it was at least ten feet in height it had six legs with thrre on each side of its abdomen. Then it had a massive chest which seemed to ocassionally pulse blue as I looked at it. The last two major details that surprised was that it had two heads instead of one and the last thing that noticed was that its entire body was covered with a shell of circuitry as if it was part robot.
"What exactly are you?" they asked me as they stretched their long necks until it was fully around me with one head on each of my sides. "We can sense that you are like the warriors of The Ancient Cyborg Slavery Bureaucracy, but then we can sense that you are also like The Ancient Osdronian Dynasty. Tell us an answer that we are good with and we might jjust let you live."
"Well, I am the leader of The Fulkore Collective. We are the creations of The Ancient Osdronian Dynasty to prolong their lives, but something went wrong during an attack on one of the main planets almost one thousand years ago which created us and removed the Osdronian personalities that were in our brains."
"So, you are telling us that you are somewhat of an abomination that should not exist. In that regard we are the same. We also are something that should have never had happened. We once were two separate Demetra that were about to die from a recent battle with one of our kind when we clawed our weakened bodies to this very cave and we have found the robotic bodies of a few cyborgs that were lying in the back of it dead.
We had chosen that we should absorb the Paradisus that was still somehow actively running through their dead circuits and when we did the two of us merges into what you see before you." They both said to me in unison as they moved their heads back to the positions that they were in when I met them.
"Are you satisfied with my answer because I know that there are others on the planet that are out to exterminate your kind. Should you not be focused on them instead of worrying about me?"
"You do not need to worry about them we have captured them and they will become part of our swarm weather they want to or not." They both said to me as I saw that the three members of The Carthaine Empire were being carried by a massive bug that was almost as big as the leader but it was not covered any mechanical plating or parts.
The two headed insectoid put its left pincer into a black jar and when it came out it held a four-foot-long red worm. "They will all become part of my army. With this worm I can turn any organic species into a new strain of Demetra."
Then I saw that the large insectoids began to remove the weapons, armor, and clothes of the men that were captured until they were completely nude.
"We will never serve you. The reason that we were chosen to come this forgotten rock was to exterminate you and all others of your kind". One of the men said as the two headed insectoid stepped past me and I watched him put the worm up the right nostril of the Carthainian that just spoke.
As soon as the worn had made it into the Carthainian's nostril I noticed that the insectoid that was keeping him still stopped allowing for him to fall to his knees.
His back began to expand and hardened into a shell that matched the rest of the insects that I had seen before entering the open room. Then I saw that he started to grow wings on his back and finally his legs and feet morphed into a pair of long bug legs that only had two large claws for toes.
"Now you will join our army of insects." Both heads of the leading bug said as soon as the morphing was complete.
Then the second Carthainian started to morph in the same way and after that I saw that he also joined the other insect bugs in the room.
"You can now see our power to both control and to transform those that are against me. Will you join me in one of the most unlikely alliances that this galaxy has ever seen? In this alliance I want to finally unify the Demetra all under one master, and in exchange for your aid in my endeavor I will give whatever it is that you want." Both insect heads said in unison to me.
I thought about what I should do for a few minutes weighing the options that she has given me. It took me a few minutes because I was no longer make decisions for myself, but it was for the entire Fulkore Collective.
"Okay I will accept this alliance if you help me kill a certain member of The Terran Collective that I seek to get true revenge against. I want you to kill the Terran noble who was the head of the project that ended my life as a Terran." I said to them in a serious tone.
"Then we have an agreement. The Fulkore Collective and The Scaftons will rule this galaxy together in this war-torn time."