Arc 4.1 Queen Mother

Tian Xi woke up with immense pain in her stomach region. Opening her eyes, she saw that she had been impaled by a large piece of scrap metal that was more than 5 inches thick.

Her brows scrunched together tightly as she sat up and pulled open her wound even more.

"Fuck me...It can't possibly get any worse than this. First I died with an injury to my stomach, and now I woke up with one." Tian Xi wanted to cry but had no tears since she couldn't do anything about her two measly luck points at the moment.

She inhaled sharply as she pulled the large scrap metal out of her body without a care in the world as if she wasn't afraid of blood loss. In fact, something was telling her that it was okay to do such a normally self-harming act. Surprisingly, the area around her wound sizzled and the gaping hole in her stomach was filled and healed in less than a minute. What was even more of an eye-opener was the fact that her blood was yellow. Y.E.L.L.O.W!

Tian Xi gaped at the metal that she threw to the side; her blood seemed to be acidic since it was melting it slowly. It.was.melting.it.

Oh god. Am I still a human?! She quickly lifted her hands to observe them. Pale, thin white fingers. She sighed in relief. Thank god, I still have five beautiful fingers on each hand.

Her hair in this world was fiery red-orange and from her hazy reflection on the scrap metal that was deteriorating quickly, she could see that her eyes were a pale blue and she had a pair of enticing cherry-red lips. Her skin was flawless and soft like a newborn baby's, which was weird because she felt that this body should not have been so...perfect originally.

Her black clothes made of unknown webbed material were tight-fitting yet flexible with intricate glowing blue circular and linear designs trailing throughout.

The surroundings were futuristic with pristine white walls that were stained with red blood (presumably human) and the floor was transparent made of yet another unknown material as it did not dissolve like the metal did after coming into contact with her acidic blood. She could see from the other side of the floor that she was currently in outer space. The round metal door was presumably the source of the scrap metal that was embedded into her stomach when she first woke up as it was missing a large chunk of it and she could see that the hallway that it led to was in no better shape than the room she was currently in.

There was an overwhelming and thick stench of iron floating around, which was to be expected as there were numerous corpses of humans lying haphazardly everywhere within the enclosed space. Some of their chests were ripped apart, seemingly from the inside.

Tian Xi could feel another consciousness trying to overtake her own and it felt as if an ant were crawling around on and inside her brain, but she simply blinked and she could feel the foreign force withering away. Indifferent to what just happened, she told 001 to send her the mission and world details.

[Aye, host. Here you go.]

Suddenly, a screeching scream resounded in her mind when the other force completely disappeared, making her wince in pain as the memories of the body quickly flowed into her.

This was a Level 3 World.

It was year 2940 of the Martian calendar, almost 1000 years after the humans left the planet, Earth. They currently inhabited Mars, and because their technology permitted it they had ventured further out into space using starships, space jets, and mechs among many other things. In 2940, the military received orders from the top four families of both A-92 and B-418, the 1st and 2nd largest and prosperous colonies on Mars at the time.

They had lost contact with Starship 549, a vessel that was sent out secretly and covertly on a mission. The last message sent by the captain of the ship relayed the warning of the new and dangerous species that they had intended to import, requesting for help. The fleet's mission was originally to bring in the new species as experimental subjects, but it obviously backfired. These four families wanted to profit from the introduction of a possible new bioweapon, but they never considered the possibility of being unable to control it. Nevertheless, caring more for the profits because of their massive investment in the project rather than rescuing the crew responsible for the mission, the four families issued an order to send the most talented bunch to retrieve the goods from the drifting ship.

The original crew of Starship 549 consisted of imposing figures, but they were low-key and practically unknown to the general public so that their deaths would not have much of an impact if anything had gone wrong. Even some illegitimate children and branch members of the four families had been part of the fleet. However, they were mostly unwanted by the main branches. They did not underestimate the difficulty of the mission, rather their efforts were simply not enough. If they really underestimated the mission the top families would not have sent out the unrecognizable original members of Starship 549. They knew there would be deaths. Many deaths.

Anyway, despite their warnings to their own beloved and precious children to ignore the suicidal order, those rebellious yet prideful and righteous children still volunteered themselves to embark on the dangerous quest. Yes, the male lead and female lead of the world were both heirs to two of the top families, Nile Betelgeuse and Lily Rigel.

Due to their own sense of duty and righteousness they did not want to avoid the suicide mission just because it was "too dangerous" while letting their own subordinates and comrades go to their deaths knowingly. The two were engaged since young and were the golden couple of the galaxy. Even though they were engaged they never met or knew each other until they joined in on the mission. The fact that they both had the same reasons for joining in on this suicide trip showed that they were made for each other like the sun and the moon. It was also one of the main reasons they acknowledged and fell for each other.

They embarked heroically only to realize that the drifting Starship was more of a hell hole than they thought it was. Within the first four hours, their entire fleet of fifty talented and competent brothers and sisters in arms were reduced to a mere ten; of course, Nile and Lily were alive due to their protagonist halos. The second male lead, Duke Fomalhaut and his sister and Lily's best friend Taina, Mallory Deneb, Christopher Altair , Karl Bellatrix, Bruce Saiph, Winston (Winnie) Ophiuchi, and Ariel Pollux were the other eight surviving members.

Unknowingly to the rest of the team, during the short time frame that Nile had looked away from Lily, she was ambushed and lost her body and soul to the alien that then possessed her. She returned not as herself but as a queen of the aliens in disguise.

During the team's escape from aliens to their temporary base, the control room, they ran into three survivors. One was the beautiful redheaded young woman Alex Aldebaran, followed by Tyler Betelgeuse and Faust Fomalhaut; Nile's older illegitimate brother and Duke and Taina's distant cousin relatively.

These three were later revealed to be aliens. Tyler and Faust were Alex's royal guards. Although they were said to be aliens, all three of them were able to subdue the savage and primal instincts of the aliens within them, but not the...ahem... not the sexual instincts (A/N: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)). Both Tyler and Faust had loved Alex for a long time as they all grew up together and their feelings only intensified due to the aliens inside them—with her being their precious Queen.

When both parties crossed paths in the hallway while running from a horde of aliens, Lily was automatically hostile to Alex who was also a queen of aliens and attempted to kill her, accusing her of being an alien. Tyler and Faust immediately backed Alex up claiming they never left each others' sights so that wasn't possible. Lily argued that they could all be aliens and were in it together.

Taina, as her best friend, believed her. Duke, as the second male lead, thought rationally but also considered the possibility of her claims to be quite high and that the three were no longer human. Nile who was biased due to his time with her during the mission believed in his fiancee and not his older brother, even though their relationship could even be said to have been quite nice and stable since Tyler never mistreated him nor coveted his position as the heir to the Betelgeuse family. Tyler was happy to be free to be with whoever he wanted and to do whatever he wanted. Nile was also known to have never mistreated Tyler for being illegitimate or for whatever evil deeds his step-mother did against him since Tyler always ended up cleaning up after her messes and prevented most of them himself. On the other hand, the Fomalhaut siblings were never close to their cousin because Faust was an introvert and rarely spoke to anyone. He was aloof to all, but he was actually very gentle and had a pure heart.

The most unreasonable and unrealistic part of the story was that they were still in the hallway and the aliens were hot on their tails. Nevertheless, they had all the time in the world to argue whether or not to let the three survivors join them without being killed. In the end, Tyler pleaded with Nile on the account of them being siblings to at least let them head in the same direction since it was the only direction they could run. He was visibly hurt that his brother didn't trust him over his fiancee that he only knew since they first embarked on the mission, but Tyler prioritized his two comrades' safety and didn't mention his sorrow. Even if he didn't mention it, Alex and Faust knew their friend well enough and only despised Lily more than they already did.

The two groups ended up splitting up; the group of three stayed in the room beside the control room. Lily kept trying to convince her team to kill the three others since it was better to be safe than sorry. She reasoned that it was impossible for the them to have survived since even their own unmatched and peerless legion of 50 was reduced to nothing in less than four hours, much less 20 days which was how long the Starship was under siege by the aliens. Other than that, their main goal was to bring back an egg and corpse of an alien so the people back home could experiment and whatnot.

Lily's team ultimately held off on killing the group of three since they seemed to know more about the ship as well as the creatures due to their time on the ship. They temporarily allowed them into their group after the three had helped them ward off some aliens that attacked them in the control room.

Alex, Tyler, and Faust were actually a thing. Slightly influenced by the queen in her, the original Alex had her eyes on the strongest of men to be the fathers of her children, and Nile filled the bar and even raised it completely. She already copulated with Tyler and Faust repeatedly ever since they first became aliens. Alex only started aiming for Nile when they were allowed into their team of ten and due to his powerful presence and aura that made it almost impossible for her to control the instincts that she released only for Tyler and Faust.

Alas, Lily who was also a queen except with the female lead halo and was destined to be with the male lead already mentally claimed both Nile and Duke as hers. She'd already become one with Duke when they had been left alone in the control room one day, but Nile was still untouched. Sensing a threat from Alex, she immediately enticed him and did the deed, finally officially claiming him.

When queens consummated with human husbands, the husbands would practically become enslaved due to their massive drop in IQ and do their every bidding. Tyler and Faust were not only no longer humans, but they had also overcome their alien instincts so they were above both lifeforms in terms of mental and physical strength. Lily had no use for them as they were exclusively loyal only to Alex.

Before anyone knew it, Lily already had her entire team--aside from the three girls whom she eventually killed--as her harem and they became her royal guards, overwhelming Alex and her two guards by numbers and protagonist halos.

Finally having gotten rid of the nuisance and becoming the Queen Mother of all of the aliens, Lily then completed the mission that they were sent to complete outstandingly by taking her own eggs and the three superior alien corpses back to B-418 along with her harem. They were all crowned as heroes while she officially married Nile, not neglecting to enlarge her harem and have numerous children, eventually taking over the entire Martian planet. They all lived happily ever after.

And who was Tian Xi this time around? Alex, of course! She woke up right when the queen had first invaded her mind. That bugging feeling she had earlier was the queen trying to take over, but of course our infallible protagonist blinked it off and successfully conquered her alien self even more efficiently than the original Alex did.

'My mission, 001.'

[Main Mission: Become the Queen Mother of the Aliens. Reward: 5000 points]

[Side Mission: Achieve Pair Title: Golden Couple of the Galaxy. Reward: 2500 points]

'Well, in this world it seems like I get my own little harem hehe,' Tian Xi giggle inwardly, waiting for her two loyal knights to show up so she could ogle them.

She totally did not forget that a couple means a pair and not a trio; and even more serious of a matter was that she seemed to have forgotten about her husband who follows her into every world!

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[Black Box]

A certain husband, ・゜・(ノД') "Baby! Wife! If you dare let those dirty men touch you, do you believe that I won't punish you in bed?"

Ignorant wife, "Hehe"

Irresponsible author: DW guys it's still 1x1, HE, no harem. This author may be irresponsible but she prefers writing happy-go-lucky stories with minimal angst.

Ignorant wife, "Wait...no harem...?" (༎ຶ⌑༎ຶ)

Shameless husband, *winks* "You won't need a harem with me around, wife."