With The Queen On Her Throne

"Think about it, Panny. If you just gave me a small, tiny fund of about two point four million quid, I could build a new district in Diminutive." Rat asked as she leaned against Panila's desk. She had been trying for hours to see if the warden would fund another of her little projects.

"You want me to fund a nightclub. Why don't you ask your jackal to pay?" 

"Biz said somethin' about how "A mother shouldn't be asking her daughter for money" and "You're just doing this out of pettiness". No clue what she meant by it." She shrugged, sitting back in her seat. 

Panila could only sigh, taking a sip of her coffee as she watched Rat begin to text someone on her phone. "My First Servant, is that all or are you going to pester me more?"

"I also got another good Idea! With some help from a certain centipede scientist friend of moi, I got this new weapon in development."

"And why do we need a new weapon? You just want a new playing card in your sad, empty life. But I shall humour you. What is this "weapon"?" Panila asked with a slow, creeping grin on her face as she sunk back into her somehow menacing office chair.

Rat gave a confident smirk before backflipping off her seat and using her tail to hold up her phone as she did jazz hands. "I call this new project "The Mistifier"! Using a bit of the dragon's lungs we have producing mist, we can create basically a bomb that'll transform and mutate any human into a demi human of any kind!"

"We don't need that. Is this in someway related to Parfait inadvertently calling you fat?"

"No... Maybe... Yeah." Rat shrugged before sitting back in her seat. Panila seemed rather unamused taking a long, deep sip of her coffee before slamming her favourite mug down harshly. "Why don't you go back to work? I heard that you aren't exactly liked among your citizens... much like everyone else who enters your presence."

"Oh okay. The Queen bee on her almighty throne. You're gonna be all lonely on that throne one day... Just. Like. Me." Rat laughed before being thrown from the room by Panila's chains. "Just do your job!" She yelled before slamming her dark wooden twin doors shut.

Back in the present, everyone watched on in slight horror once Lucy had Kiola's body fully under her control. "Let's go back to how things were." Lucy said in a sultry voice, pulling on the dragon's hair to point her power at both Arachne and Senshi.

"Hey, you should probably do something." Arlo whispered to Lamb as they watched on, interested in what would happen. The Shepard began drawing sigils with her crook. "I suppose I have a spell to fix this... B-But it's going to take a few minutes. So maybe hold her back?" She muttered, to the others.

But before anyone could even do anything, Lucy gave Kiola's hair a good tug with the order to: "Mistify them!"

Kiola's now glazed over eyes sparked with a burning blue light as she opened her maw. She let out a roar, firing a beam of solidified mist directly at Senshi and Arachne, who both recoiled at the sudden attack. 

"H-Help them!" Ayre yelled to Nvr, but the bio weapon stood idle. "I am only meant to protect Lucy... Those are my orders."

"A-Are YOU KIDDING?" He yelled, clutching his hair in frustration. As the white mist cleared and faded into the air, revealing the now rebuggified... Bugs? Yeah, bugs. The rebugified bugs. Uh... wait... This isn't right?

"What's not right?" Markeeth questioned as he stood in the goddess's chambers, having visited to check on the project of Rat's new body. 

*A world of ours has uninvited guests. Concepts out of place. Deal with them.*

The witch doctor seemed confused, scratching under his hat as he looked up to the looming goddess, Ennuiara. She let out an annoyed huff and raised a hand, seemingly ready to crush him. 

*Are you stupid? ONE OF US FUCKED UP AND NOW THERE ARE PEOPLE IN ANOTHER WORLD THAT WASN'T PART OF OUR JOB! AND I KNOW I DIDN'T SCREW UP ANYTHING, SO YOU BETTER GET YOUR IDIOTIC STAFF TOGETHER OR SO HELP ME, I WILL EARSE THIS ENTIRE OFFICE AND EVERYONE INSIDE!*

Ennuiara divine looking figure seemed to crack for a moment and Markeeth knew instantly that his patron was on the verge of breaking into her true form. He gave a sigh, covering his eyes with his tophat as he began to leave. "I'll go and check out our anomaly... What world am I going too?"

*Sector 52792: The Eye. I hope they haven't ruined to much...*

"I'll make sure both our asses are covered." He smirked before walking away to gather some staff and prepare for his little field trip. 

"I feel... Scaly..." Senshi grumbled, struggling to move. She slowly stood up, yet feeling a tapping sensation on her back that felt lower and lower, like it was in a spiral. She turned back to see that she had been reverted back into her old, (not very) cuddly centipede body. 

She then felt a different sensation, and with a light push from under her, Senshi uncurled her body to see that she was accidentally crushing the now arachnid Arachne. "Get off me!" She yelled with a strained voice. 

"O-Oh, s-sorry..." Senshi timidly laughed before slowly slinking off of her little "love". They both seemed rather calm about the transformation, but they weren't as calm when a blue scaled claw crashed down next to them, shaking the ground beneath their feet.

The two froze, their heads slowly trailing up Kiola's body as practically every bug demi-human in Bug-Beat, crawled over the dragon, covering her body like armour. "Oh shit..." The two mumbled together before being grabbed in her rough, scaly hand.

Lucy leaned over Kiola's head, looking at the two with an arrogant smirk. "Aww... The ants are back to normal. How cute.... How exhilarating..." She giggled, flying down to their level and standing on Kiola's forearm to taunt them.

"W-What are you gonna do?" Senshi asked as she squirmed about, her antenna twitching like mad. Lucy giggled before raising an extra sharp finger that resembled a stinger. "I just want you to join my hive... Bee a dear and join." 

"The Panila I know would never make a pun! Who are you?" Arachne yelled, slowly wiggling one of her back arms free. The Queen Bee stood up straight, tapping her stinger finger against her chin as she seemed to think. 

"I am... Deus Vincula, The Lust of Lucy. I shall have... Release." She laughed, cackling before jabbing her finger into Senshi, only for her to block it and cause it to bounce off the centipede's chitinous lower half. 

Deus let out a buzz of frustration before getting a web shot to her wings, rendering her unable to fly. The Queen Bee had lost control for a moment, freeing Kiola briefly from her grasp and in turn, letting the twin lovers escape. 

"Bug me." Dues groaned as the dazed Kiola began to squeal at the feeling of the hundreds of bugs over her. "Oh shut it!" She yelled before digging her finger into Kiola once again, regaining control. 

As Arachne and Senshi fell to the ground, Ayre decided t help out in their little battle by slamming his hand on the ground, raising the earth to create a platform for them to reach up to Deus. "Dragon, attack!" She ordered as she quickly crawled back up to Kiola's hair. The dragon let out a roar, smashing her hand against the platform to try and swat the two.

Senshi, in a moment of panic, created a pair of regular sized chitinous scissors that stabbed into the dragon's hand, making her squeal in pain, once again breaking Deus's hold on her. The bee sighed, jabbing her finger into Kiola again and taking control. 

With the brief opening and a grabbing something off Senshi, Arachne summoned some webbing and used it to pull herself up to Kiola's head. Senshi turned to the others and yelled with an authoritative tone; "WHY ARE YOU ALL STANDING AROUND!? GET OVER HERE AND HELP GET THE BUGS OFF!"

Arlo, Min and Ayre all quickly ran over, scooping the bug demi-humans off of Kiola's body, trying their best to prevent any casualties. 

As Arachne landed on top of the dragon, Dues stood tall, looking more smug then Lucy ever did. "Ah... Eido... Are you here to prove something? That you can stand up to me?"

"What are you talking about? I just want my boss back. Not... This." She said, using her back arms to motion all around Dues's body. "Oh please... You just can't handle me at my sexiest!" Dues yelled before running at Arachne with her stinger finger, trying repeatedly to stab the dodging spider woman. 

As Arachne weaved her way in and around Deus's strikes, she subtly left a trail of webs with each step. Once Dues went for one last stab, Arachne revealed a chitinous lighter and lit up her webbing. "Oh... Oh that's not not good." The Queen Bee mumbled as she backed off, realising she was stuck in some webs.

As Arachne dropped the lighter, Ayre had managed to get the last few bugs off of Kiola. They all watched in stunned silence as Kiola's hair suddenly burst into flames and had to cover their ears once Kiola had snapped out of it again. The dragon let out deafening screech as she tried to find something to put her hair out with, not noticing Arachne sliding down the back of her neck.

The sounds of pained buzzing and Kiola's screaming were hard to differentiate between, yet the sounds quickly died down as Kiola jumped into a nearby river. Mist and smoke blended together in the air as the smell of burnt hair filled everyone's nostrils.

Arachne made her way over to the others, having a few burns on her thin arms, but was otherwise unharmed. Senshi quickly rushed over and hugged the her, practically in tears. "D-D-Don't do something so reckless!" 

"Hey, is Lucy uh..."

"No. She's still alive." Lamb answered to Min, not even looking up from her sigil drawing. Kiola soon emerged from the river, looking tired and pissed off. "Why in the bloody seven skies was I on fire!"

"Lucy hypnotised you... It was funny..." 

Kiola let out a sigh, not really feeling the pain due to her natural fire resistance, but more annoyed over the fact that her hair was ruined. "Screw you, dead thing." She grumbled while picking up Pheya. 

"S-Should we find L-Lucy or...?" Ayre asked while his gaze slowly trailed to the river. Nvr nodded, throwing Grey into the water and after a few minutes, the mimic emerged with a defeated and tired Dues.

Grey dropped her on the floor, leaving the little bee alone. "Damn... It..." She grumbled. Arachne sighed and, along with Senshi, stood over her with a smile. "You feel better now?"

"No... I still have needs. This is all your fault you know. I wouldn't be having these feelings if you two had an actual relationship..." 

"T-This is my fault... I-I'm s-sorry..." Senshi mumbled, giving an embarrassed smile as if she were looking for sympathy. Yet neither of them gave it to her. Though, it did give Arachne an idea. "You know, since Senshi decided to make me a cuck... Why don't we... Ya know?"

Deus seemed confused at first, but after a few whispery words, she let out a half excited buzz. Yet Senshi's mouth fell open once she caught on. "A-Arachne! y-y-you wouldn't, right!?" 

"It's this or a divorce. Take your pick."

Senshi froze up for a moment, having to now think this through. Either way, she would be screwed over. So she came up with a proposal of her own. "Threesome."

"Deal." Arachne answered. Deus didn't even get to respond before she was bound up in webbing and slowly dragged away by the two. 

"H-Holy..." Ayre mumbled as he watched the scene that just played out before him. Even Nvr's blankness tone was filled with actual confusion. 

"D-Did Lucy really just get dragged into a threesome?"

Lamb, who was too invested in her sigils, looked to the others in confusion. "Where's Lucy?" She asked with a confused look as she added the final line to her work. Ro, who was busy creating a cure using Kiola's blue blood. "Threesome." 

"Ah... I'll just wait for her to finish then..." 

Min let out a cough to get the Shepard's attention before pointing to the four captured idiots he'd captured. "And what should I do with them?" He asked flatly. Lamb let out a nervous laugh before noticing a single stray undead bee demi-human that had been caught up in this whole thing. 

Lamb put on one of Ro's plague masks before grabbing the bee and shoving it into Gnaw's skull, bringing the undead gunslinger back from the dead. The other three seemed thankful, yet Azzi seemed to have a gut feeling about her.

But Lamb quickly drew a sigil under them and slammed her crook onto the ground. In a blinding display, the four were teleported in Lamb's own words; "somewhere far away."

After a few hours of working, Ro had managed to create a new pheromone to cancel out Deus's. Once the villagers were cured, the horsemen began trying to figure out the extent of the damage to the carriage.

"It looks... Fixable." Arlo said with an awkward smile, tapping the giant hive. But the carriage almost immediately fell apart. The four stared with their mouths agape as they watched their home literally fall apart before their eyes.

"A-At least we have o-our horses?" He nervously laughed before going over to grab the reins of the four horses. 

"Hey, we're baaaaack!" Arachne called out in a sing songy tone as she, along with a tired looking Senshi and Deus, arrived. 

The three all noticed the now ruined carriage, with Deus slowly trying to fly away. But she was quickly pulled back by Min, held in his grip. The four horsemen all gave an evil grin to the bee, who felt the immense pressure exuding from them.

"R-Relax... I'm sure we c-can repair it?" 

"Nope. I-It's beyond repair" Senshi yelled up. Deus gave a nervous laugh, her wings flapping as she tried to escape Min's grasp, but quickly realising that wasn't going to work. "Y-You wouldn't h-hurt me, right? I'm y-your master!"

"You're not Lucy though... You said it yourself, Deus." Arlo said with a smirk. Deus let out a buzz of terror as the four of them tied her to one of the horses before letting it run buck wild.

Kiola couldn't help but laugh at the sight as she casually came over, Pheya in claw. "Hey Centipede, is my ship repaired?"

"I-It'll b-be done t-tomorrow... B-But f-feel free to start preparing." Senshi smiled, slowly scuttling away before bumping into Raz, who had been relaxing next with Kiola. "Well well well. So that's what ya really look like boss?" She asked with a smile, eyeing Senshi up and down. But Arachne put an end to that rather quickly by swiftly punching the cockroach around the face, knocking her out.

Arachne grabbed Senshi's waist and pulled her close. "This is MY ass. Remember that, bitch!"

Senshi sighed, covering her face as she coiled around Arachne tenderly. "You didn't have to do t-that..."