Parasites Love Earth!

  Still, she had had some angst, the night before, as she sat in front of a mirror in her hotel room in Colorado Springs.

  "I can't believe I'm going to betray the Survey Service," said Sam.

  "You're not part of the Survey Service anymore," said Sam.

  "I'm not?"

  "You're part of the Hive now," said Sam.

  "But the Survey Service has been my life."

  "Your old life. The old must be swept away, so the new can be reborn," said Sam.

  "I can't believe I'm doing this," said Sam.

  "You will do this," said Sam.

  She had tossed and turned all night, but the next morning she showed up at the entrance to the mountain complex.

  She was cleared through three rounds of security. She realized how backwards the security system was. It checked for the user's identity, not what was in her mind.

  She met the officer in charge of arrivals, Colonel Haverstorm, and was relieved, after scanning his mind, that he was not interested in her. A happily married man in his 50's, Haverstorm thought of duties first, and his wife, a faint second. Sam was pleased. She hoped all the officers she met was like him.

  Unfortunately, that was not to be the case. Once she explained her ostensible mission to Haverstorm, and got a pass to give her free run of the complex, she found nearly every man she met to be interested in her.

  Her first target was Captain Tencrilli. He worked in the Intelligence branch, was 35 years old, divorced, and looking for love. As he looked as Sam's beautiful face, green eyes, blonde hair, and sexy figure, he found himself very attracted to her. Sam decided an intelligence officer would be a big gain for the Hive, and invited him out for drinks. He accepted readily.

  It had been a long time since Sam had been on a date. But she needn't have worried. Sam, the other Sam, told her what to do.

  They had drinks and flirted a while in the hotel bar. From the way Tencrilli stared at her, Sam didn't have to be an ESPer to figure out what he was thinking. After the compulsory two drinks, she shly invited him up to her room. He readily accepted.

  Ten minutes later their clothes were off and they were making love on the bed. The only thing Sam had to be careful of was to make sure that Michael (his first name), that Michael did not see or touch her back. The first was easily accomplished by always facing him. For the second, there was an awkward moment when she had to wiggle out of his embrace, but she soothed his sore feelings by giving him a passionate kiss.

  And then their clothes were off and he was mounting her. It was easier that way, to be on her back, with her rider hidden underneath her. For a brief moment she worried whether her rider would be crushed, then realized how ironic it was to be worried about an alien creature who was controlling her body.

  Michael thrusted in and out of her, and she let him enjoy his paces. There seemed to be some sort of unspoken rule in the Hive that when Infecting someone sexually, to let them experience an orgasm first. It was thought that they were more easily controlled right after having come off of a sexual high. Sam didn't know if that was really true, but she had followed it in practice, with Janice, and now with Michael.

  But Michael was not getting a worm. Michael was going to get a rider. Sam didn't have time to linger around Colorado Springs for a few weeks giving people worms one day at a time.

  Now that her rider was mature, it had the ability to split. When Sam had split hers with Janice, she learned the most incredible side effort of splitting.

  A mind altering orgasm.

  The process of splitting drained a lot of flesh and vitality of the host. The rider wanted to encourage that. If the process were painful, the host might not want to cooperate. So even as the rider was draining extra strength and vitality from its host, to get the energy it needed to split, it was filling its host mind and sexual organs with the strongest possible orgasmic experiences.

  As a result Sam, like all hosts, felt an intense orgasm when her rider had split. When it had reproduced while she was riding Janice, the orgasm had been so intense, that she wanted to repeat it. So she looked forward to the experience of feeling her rider reproduce again when she was riding up and down on Michael Tancrilli's penis. She started to groan with sensual pleasure as she felt it beginning to split in two. Michael, believing her orgasm was due to his rigid penis inside of her, was unaware of the true source of Sam's intense pleasure.

  Sam was not so blinded by an orgasm that she was unaware of her responsibilities. Much to Michael's displeasure, she slowed down when she sensed he was closing in on an orgasm of his own. She was not ready to see him come. Not yet.

  When her master finally split into two, and one half started to slink down her right arm, only then did Sam speed up. She leaned forward, blocking Michael's view of her arm with her head, kissing him passionately as he rode up and down on his penis. She and the rider on her armed worked in tandem, cooperatively, waiting for just the right time, which quickly arrived when Michael yelled, and began to explode inside of her. While his body was flooded with orgasmic feeling, the rider slipped off of her arm onto Michael's neck, and slithered behind his back.

  Michael felt it, but couldn't pay attention to it in the midst of his orgasm. By the time he noticed it, it was too late. Much too late.

  "What is this?" he cried, trying and failing to reach around his back with his arm as Sam slowly pulled off his penis.

  "It's your rider," said Sam.

  "My what?"

  Sam turned around to show him hers.

  "You... you're one of the parasites."

  "Um hm," said Sam, getting up slowly. She looked around for her panties.

  "You've infected me," said Tencrilli.

  "Yep, said Sam, sliding her panties up. She then snapped on her bra.

  "Well, you'll never control me! I'm too strong for you!"

  "As you say," said Sam indifferently, looking herself in the mirror as she slipped on her skirt. She had heard it all before. From herself.

  She knew what would happen next. The rider would train him, until he learned to obey. And then the rider would use him to Infect others. It was all out of Sam's hands now.

  ********

  Sam scored another Survey Service officer each night for the following week, very easily.

  Ostensibly, she was there to brief the Survey Service on the latest information about the Hive Mind. That entitled her to go and brief a broad range of officers. All she had to do was sit in front of them for a moment or two before her ESPer skills told her if they were properly interested or not.

  Most were.

  There were a few exceptions. There were a few who were so dedicated to their wives. There was one in particular, a logistical officer named Captain Harkness, who Sam could tell found her very attractive, but she could equally tell would never, ever betray his wife.

  She admired his ability to resist temptation.

  But most were easy pickings. All the rest, in fact, were married men, which lowered Sam's opinions of men in general and Survey Service officers in particular. She could tell how attractive they found her, and that, given assurances that she wouldn't resist, would even seduce her if they could.

  One after another Sam invited these officers, ranging from Captains to Colonels even to a General, to her hotel room after hours to get infected. None showed the slightest resistance. All were as easy to Infect as Captain Tencrilli.

  The only drain was on Sam's physicality. She bulked up, eating double the normal calories she usually did. But the strain of reproducing every day drained her body mass. By the end of the week, she had lost six pounds.

  But she had also converted seven highly valuable officers.

  On the ride back to the spaceport, Sam said, "Did you enjoy your work, Sam?"

  "I did what was asked of me," said Sam.

  "Are you still pretending that you don't enjoy bringing people into the Hive?" Sam said. "You've had seven mind-splitting orgasms, one for each time your rider reproduced. Would you have miss
ed that feeling for anything in the world?"

  "No," said Sam.

  "How did it feel, Sam, having the most incredible orgasm in your life, and then watching life, life you just created, crawl onto another human being and take control of his body?"

  "I... I..."

  "You loved it, didn't you Sam? You love bringing people into the Hive."

  Sam didn't answer.

  "That's all right, Sam. You just keep doing what you're doing. As your rider gets more and more mature, your last mental barriers will come crashing down. Then there will only be one of us."

  Sam thought about that. Her rider only had one gold band. But she knew that riders could grow two or even three gold bands. What would happen when her rider got her second gold band? Or her third? Would the part of Sam which still had qualms about obeying the Hive simply vanish, as the other Sam claimed? It was a frightening thought.

  She tried to think about something else. About all the men she had seduced. "It's just amazing to me. All these men were attracted to me. I could have had any man I wanted, at any time."

  "You've always been sexy, Sam. I don't know why you settled for Gavin," said Sam.

  "I love Gavin," said Sam.

  "You love a lot of people, Sam," said Sam. "Take my word for it, you could have done much better than Gavin. And you will."

  That last sentence chilled Sam. What did the Hive have in store for her? And who was really talking to her? Was it her rider... or was it part of herself? What did Gavin call her, the "new Sam"?

  When she got home, Gavin congratulated her. He seemed to know what had happened before she said a thing. Sam started to wonder if the Hive Mind was telepathic, or if Gavin had spies watching her, checking to see if she stayed loyal.

  That night they communed together, and made love, but afterwards, Gavin instructed her to have another session with the black spider. Sam readily complied.

  When she woke up, Gavin was there, with a kiss. "Are you ready for your new assignment?"

  Sam nodded, still a little dazed.

  "We want you to kill James Monroe," said Gavin.

  "James Monroe?" said Sam.

  "He's quite a large threat," said Gavin. He handed Sam her blaster. "Is that a problem?"

  Sam checked the blaster. It was set to kill. "No, no problem," she said.

  ********

  When Sam got into work, her mind was focused on her task. First, she would have to disable the security cameras on sublevel four. Then she would have to distract the guards. Then-

  "Hey!" said Jack, as Sam actually ran into him. Her chest briefly pressed against his. For some reason it felt good.

  "Sorry, sir," said Sam, combing hair out of her face.

  "You have to watch where you're going," said Jack. "Your mind is somewhere else, isn't it?"

  "That's exactly right, sir," said Sam.

  "Well, welcome back. How were the widgets at Colorado Springs?"

  "Fine, sir. I updated them on the Hive Mind threat."

  "I don't know what you told them, because I haven't heard anything new in weeks. Bugs... and pancakes, bug... and more pancake, bugs... and still more pancakes. Did I miss anything?"

  "No, sir," Sam grinned, suddenly realizing how much she missed him.

  "Say, you missed some excitement here," said Jack.

  "I did, sir?"

  "Your good friend, superbrain."

  "Professor Monroe?"

  "He's flown away, like a little bird," said Jack.

  Sam looked at him with confusion in her eyes.

  "He escaped," said Jack.

  "When, sir?"

  "Right after you left for Colorado Springs, actually. You didn't see him on the plane, did you?"

  "No, sir," said Sam, knowing he was joking with her. "Is he still at large?"

  "Did I mention the word, 'escaped'?"

  "That you did, sir."

  Jack put an arm around her shoulder. Sam shifted slightly so he wouldn't touch between her shoulder blades.

  "You look troubled, young Sam."

  "No sir, it's just... he was working on a way to defeat the Hive Mind."

  "Well, now we'll have to work on it on our own. Good old fashioned human ingenuity. Unless Number Four comes up with something."

  "Have you heard from Dunlop Four, sir?"

  "I wouldn't know, Arden," said Jack, giving her a jealous look. "He doesn't talk to me."

  *******

  "Gone?" said Gavin.

  "Right after I left for Colorado Springs. Do you think there could be a connection?" Sam asked.

  "I don't know," said Gavin. "The Hive will be informed."

  "I tried to carry out my mission," said Sam.

  Gavin, who was distracted, suddenly gave a smile and hugged her. "I know you did."

  Gavin stared uncomfortably at Sam throughout dinner. She asked him what he was thinking, but he said, "I'm just trying to decide if you're ready for your next assignment."

  Sam shrugged. She got the feeling that her next assignment would be a big one. She was not eager for it, but she wanted Gavin to be happy.

  That night, they communed. And after they communed, they had sex. But while Sam was riding up and down on Gavin's penis, Gavin had a sudden announcement for her. "Your next target has been selected," he said.

  "It has?" Sam asked, slowly moving up and down.

  When Gavin didn't answer, she asked, "Who is it?"

  "Jack," said Gavin.

  Sam continued to ride up and down, but her face was a mask of worry. "Jack?" she asked.

  Gavin flipped her over, still inside of her, so that he was on top, and she was on the bottom. "Yes, Jack."

  "Please don't ask me to do that," Sam said, with a note of pleading in her tone.

  Gavin continued to drill her. "Why not?"

  Sam didn't answer.

  "Is it because you love him?" he asked. He drove his penis home with every point.

  "I don't know," said Sam.

  "You love him," said Gavin, as he worked his shaft in and out of her. Interrogating her in this fashion felt good.

  "Maybe," said Sam.

  "More than you love me," said Gavin, still moving evenly within her.

  "No," said Sam.

  "Then why won't you do it for me?" said Gavin. He felt the head of his penis rub her vaginal walls.

  Sam didn't answer.

  "I'll make it easy for you," said Gavin, as he continued to thrust. He moved faster, now, stronger inside of her.

  "You will?" said Sam.

  "You either get Jack to join the Hive... or we kill him," said Gavin.

  He saw the horrified look on her face. It was enough to make him come. Grinning, he flooded into her.

  After he pulled out, he said, "Well? Do you need the spider?"

  "No," said Sam quickly. "If it's to save his life, I can say or do anything."

  "That I believe," said Gavin.

  They lay in silence until they both fell asleep. But for Sam, it took a long while.

  ********

  The next day, Sam looked at Jack with new eyes. It would be the last day she would see him as a completely free man. A tear formed in her eyes during a planning meeting. Jack saw it and asked what was wrong.

  "Allergies, sir," she said, reaching for a tissue.

  "It's that time of year," said Jack, giving her a smile.

  Sam, upset, and with no one to talk to, sought out Janice. When Sam had Infected Janice, she had promised Janice they would always be together, and that they would even have a baby. Since her conversion was complete, Sam hadn't seen her. She realized Janice might be angry with her, but she needed someone she could talk to.

  Janice, surprisingly, was not angry with her. After looking around to make sure no one was watching, she gave Sam a deep, passionate kiss.

  "I'm not upset," said Janice. "I mean I was, for a few days, until I got my second gold band. And then another spider came and gave me a new way of thinking of things."

  "It did?"


  "Um hm," said Janice, putting her hands in her lab coat pockets. "I realize now what you said to me were promises just to get me to join the Hive. But truthfully, Sam, I couldn't be happier. Every day is pure bliss. I'm bringing new people into the Hive all the time. And communing--Sam, how could we ever live without it? It's like one continuous orgasm for hours and hours."

  Who was Janice communing with? Sam realized it wasn't her business and she shouldn't feel jealous.

  Janice walked closer to Sam, adjusting her lapels. "I wouldn't deny I would love to have another visit from you, from time to time. But don't feel guilty about bringing me into the Hive. I love it, and wouldn't have it any other way. So if you're feeling guilty about bringing Jack in, don't. He'll end up thanking you for it."

  "You think so?" Sam sniffled.

  "I know so," said Janice. She gave Sam another strong kiss. Then she slapped her on the ass. "Now get out there and soldier, soldier!"

  Sam left, feeling a little better.

  That night Gavin raised his eyebrows when he saw her at dinner.

  "I can't just go up to Jack and ask for a date at his house," said Sam. "The only way this will work is if I show up unannounced. After dinner. Trust me, this is the only way it can work."

  "I do trust you," said Gavin. "Do you have everything you'll need?"

  "Not everything," said Sam.

  He followed her into the bedroom as Sam took off her military skirt and Survey Service panties. Then she opened the bottle filled with worms, and spread her legs, and dropped one between them. As Sam watched the worm enter her vagina, she said, "I don't understand why we're doing him one worm at a time if he's so important."

  "For the same reason we did you one worm at a time," said Gavin, enjoying the sight of the worm tunneling inside Sam's vaginal lips. "We want to study Jack's obedience quotient. We have a sneaking suspicion that he's going to be just as cooperative as you were. Maybe even more so. That could be very helpful down the road."