The Queen's Fall

Yuka lunged forward, her hammer swinging out, knocking away the insectoids blocking her path, and piercing deeply into the Queen's body.

The Queen howled in pain, her thoughts dulled by Kenji's psychic influence. Angrily, she shook her body, trying to dislodge the bothersome human clinging to her.

Yuka reached into the Queen's oviposition cavity, climbing up through the hole, getting ever closer to the Queen's brain.

The Queen, now in panic, sped up her egg-laying process. But due to insufficient energy, only one in a thousand of the eggs hatched successfully. And each of those successful hatchlings, falling to the ground, were immediately killed by another human – Kenji.

Yuka had climbed to the Queen's brain. She transformed the hammer back into a long sword, the blade pointed downwards, and without hesitation, she plunged it into the Queen's brain.