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Ian Jones 47873. That was his name and his number, there were now so many humans on Earth that it was a necessity to keep track. He was merely assigned this number when the

last Ian Jones 47873 died. Lucky to get a low one. Last he heard, there were over twenty million people with his name. Today he was hoping that he would make this name

memorable, if he could finally score the breakthrough in his research. not just a numbered Ian Jones, maybe the Ian Jones famed scientist. Saviour of mankind.

The mag-lev train was cramped. It was getting more-so everyday. Too many people, not enough space for them to live in. Once long ago, Earth was a biosphere all of it's own. Now

the world was covered in cities and habitation blocks. Reclamation towers and deep bored caverns into the Earth's crust. Mankind had reproduced so much that Earth had simply

run out of room. Science had solved the problems of world hunger and energy. Feeding people with vat grown bioengineered sludge. Air processing plants so they could breathe,

nano-robotics to spin fibres to clothe them, but other than living there was not much else. Mankind had ventured out into space but it was a privileged few that made it. It was

still cheaper to carve out a little more living space on Earth than to make new colonies on the dead worlds of Mars or the barren moon.

Perhaps though, science would be an answer to that. Ian was one of millions of scientists looking for ways to make new worlds liveable. If they could terraform other worlds in

the Solar system mankindd could branch out, there would be some breathing room. perhaps new earthsacrosss the galaxy for humanity to live upon. While others looked and nano-

tech or engineered viruses to convert Mars or Venus to a new Earth, Ian was looking at something unique. Insects. Ants.

It was perfect. Ants worked as a colony, reproduced quickly, could be co-ordinated. They were large enough to resist casual radiation, small enough to manipulate particulate

matter. Engineered correctly they could turn dead Martian sand and frozen ice to soil and air, living off the weak sunlight and scarce materials around them alone. A single

colony of ants could spread across the face of Mars and in a few generations make it habitable for mankind. If they could be co-ordinated they would succeed where all others

had failed.

That was where Ian's genius was stretched. Tests of the bio-engineered ants showed that individuals could work the soil and colonies could be prodded to work in tandem through

instinct but true co-ordination was beyond them and separate colonies would go to war with each other. Ian had put all his work into a new leader insect in the genome. A queen

mother that would cross the boundaries of the colonies and create a hive beyond mere instinct. He was working with joining the tiny minds of the ants. It was almost

pseudo-science but he knew it could be done.

The Maglev pulled through the thick orange clouds surrounding the research tower. The doors sliding open as the train pulled to a halt and the crowd of people slowly pushing

themselves out. The air smelled metallic, there was probably another crack in containment somewhere.

Funnelling through busy corridors Ian made his way to his lab. Through half a dozen checkpoints, swiping his ident-chip coded hand over scanners. Eventually finding breathing

room in the heart of the complex, and through one last small airlock into his appointed lab.

It was a grand sight. The size of football field. A truly open space just for his research. It had to be, for it contained a field of Martian sand and many disparate ant

colonies built within them, all warring against each other. If he could join these colonies and prove his theories upon this test ground he would be the saviour. The lab was

silent today but for the practically inaudible sound of the ants scurrying and the hum of computer terminals. Ian had a flash of inspiration in his sleep last night, while

everyone was still taking their weekend break he wanted to test his theory while the idea was still fresh in his mind.

Sitting down at his desk he tapped out genetic plans, somewhere in the Martian field behind a pane of glass a small robot drone hunted out the queen mother. The tiny insect so

much work had been devoted to. The little drone found it's target, she sat with her bulk overseeing a normal ant queen in one of the hives. Little flickers of static sparked

along her antenna. Double the size of any other ant in the colony her bulbous abdomen dragged along the ground as she looked around frustrated and confused. The other ants

were supposed to follow her, they simply walked around and over her body.

Ian keyed in a last few commands and fired an ignition sequence into his console. It briefly displayed the outcome of this modification on his screen. A genetic modification

and size increase to follow, the robot drone pulsed the Queen Mother with a beam of power from a dish upon it's nose. Meanwhile another dish in lab sucked in a tiny amount of

animal matter from the protein vats in the lab and transmitted it. This raw material from which all the ants had been originally been created. The queen mother shuddered as

the beam hit her, her bulk expanding to fill the tunnels she occupied. She raised her head up as if to say she was pleased with this new change and snapped her mandibles with

delight. Still though, the other ants in the colony ignored her, seeing her expanded abdomen as simply another obstacle to crawl past.

Ian grabbed a silvery headband. It was supposed to link him to the Queen Mother, and then to colony after. He felt the cold metal press against his forehead and tried to reach

out with his mind to that little spot in the middle of the red sands. As with every time before there was nothing he could sense. Perhaps a faint feeling this time? No, he was

imagining it. His genetic modifications hadn't been enough. He sighed and reached for his headband. This was another dead end. Perhaps he would be able to think more clearly

after a good restful weekend.

Then, something strange... that metallic smell. Ian thought he had closed the airlock behind him. He turned around to see Jeanette 9010478 holding a gun, pointed in his

direction. Had he been concentrating so hard he didn't hear her come in?

"you knew this was coming you little runt." Jeanette said, the corners of her mouth curling up in a wicked smile. "Hands on your head."

Ian obliged. "You know, there's still cameras everywhere around here. You really think you're going to get away with shooting me?". Jeanette was a nanotech engineer, her

personal project had been put on hold while the council had taken an interest in Ian's new approach. Her bile and frustration at being forced to work as a technological

assistant to someone she considered a lesser scientist was well known. Ian had heard the mumbled threats, he had never thought her crazy enough to risk her own career by going

against the council's wishes.

She smirked. "Not today, crack in the dome near monitoring. All the stations are down and a friendly hack means that everything in this city is reading static at the moment.

happy co-incidence you happened to be coming to work here today. All alone." She gestured to the protein vats with her gun. "Over there."

Ian pulled himself out of his chair and slowly edged over. "So, you're going to shoot me? Bullet wound makes it kind of obvious someone murdered me doesn't it?".

"Oh no." She said. "I have a much better plan, I know this technology inside and out." She walked over to the console and tapped a few handful of commands. A moment later the

beam from the matter transfer dish his Ian squarely in the chest, the pulsing field beam around him holding him motionless and captive. "Not only will I be rid of you, but

once you are gone I'll prove once and all as I've always said. This project was a waste of time. Once the council is no-longer deluded by your fanciful ideas I'll be the chief

of a new and superior project."

Ian struggled to breath, the beam making him statue-like, his lungs starting to burn as they demanded air. "and you, since you love your ants so much. You can be with them

when they're reduced back to animal matter again." Jeanette tapped one last button on the console and laughed. She stared at Ian for a moment before turning her back and

leaving. To Ian, the whole world was growing. The transfer beam was sucking out the proteins and molecules that made up his body, transferring them somewhere else... not just

that though, somehow Jeanette had converted it to work like the robot drone. It was modifying his body as he shrank. now he could at last move as his insides churned, he felt

his internal organs squash and pull down his body, reforming as they pushed into his backside. A round insect abdomen forming behind him. His bones melted away as his skin

became a hard and chitinous black. His airless lungs vanished as he tried to scream fruitlessly as his face sprouted two curved mandibles, his eyes expanded across his face.

His arms and legs becoming long and thin as another pair sprouted between them. The world above in a blur until as body shifted and then all of a sudden silence.

Ian looked forward and around him. His compound eyes were blurry and difficult to see with, he felt antenna upon his head feeding him with sensations he didn't understand.

Around him everywhere a silvery giant wall... it took him a while to figure out. All the material he had worn and his body had been converted, this was his headband. With his

tiny body and unfamiliar legs he scurried over to the headband and saw his reflection. A black ant and with a polished exoskeleton. Lost in despair, Ian tried to scream, but

had no lungs to yell out with. In the mixed horror of his thoughts though, some strange calm came over him on a realisation.

He could still think. It shouldn't have been possible, his new ant body was too small to hold a brain complex capable of human thought. There was something else too, a

presence he could sense not far from here. As a human the silver wall he faced would have been insurmountable, but his ant body crawled up and onto the rim of the band with

ease. There he looked out onto the red fields and saw her. The transfer beam had been locked onto his body but was still focused on the Queen mother, it had drained all the

protein vats and his body into her. From his perspective it was difficult to tell but she must have been the size of a car now, her massive bulk weighing her to the ground.

The colony she occupied blasted around her. She couldn't move, she was dying. He could sense it now and knew this made sense. Insects couldn’t be this large naturally, their

bodies would break under the weight.

"I know what I had to do." It wasn't so much words, but a feeling in Ian's mind. He started to understand things, by this freak accident somehow his project had worked! The

Queen Mother had absorbed not only his body, but his mind. In her enlarged cranium she held his intellect, she was projecting her thoughts and her will with a brain larger and

more powerful than any humans had ever been. She was projecting Ian's mind into his own miniature body.

But she was dying... and somehow he felt the instinct to do what he had to. Swarms of ants from the colonies gathered making a ladder out of their bodies over the pane of

glass. They crawled together as one, Ian joining them as a tiny piece of the whole. They crossed the lab to the console all minuscule parts of the Queen Mother's will, their

combed bodies tapped in commands and re-activated the robot drone beam, altering her body once more.

This time she did not grow, but shifted. Her body formed into an insect build capable of standing strong under gravity. She hauled up her massive thorax on strengthened insect

legs, each one developing a prehensile triple claw at the end. When the beam pulse ended, she was whole. The swarm of ants scattered away leaving Ian alone on the console

under her massive gaze as she pulled he bulbous abdomen behind her. Her mandibles pushing gently against the glass before shattering it, she used her newly articulate forelimb

to pick up the tiny speck that was Ian and bring him up to her face.

Ian stared in awe, somehow he felt a part of her. He knew it was the hive mind, but he felt complete. He felt purpose. "Thank you Ian." She said, her mind echoing in his. "You have given me the gift of thought, the gift of life. I know now a greater goal."

Ian could sense it. Behind a mind brilliant the stars themselves were but embers in comparison, there was a desire. She had felt the power and the ecstasy of growth, of becoming something larger, something more. Now it was her driving purpose, and so it became Ian's as well. They would make the ants a new civilisation in the world of men, she would be their immense ruler. Ian... would become her King Consort. Never to rule aside, but to be there to witness, to revel in her glory for all time.

Ian could still remember his old self. His hope for humanity, now it all faded. That memory was a shadow, this was what he wanted.“That name means nothing now, you are King.”

Yes he was. His old name discarded with his old self. Now was the time to build the ant race.

The Queen Mother's had worked at the genetic console for only a few minutes but her immense intellect was already apparent. King had watched with awe as she programmed gene combinations with remarkable and swift ease. He perched atop her immense head, watching as the airlock opened and closed. Messages and distractions pulled the odd passing human through the airlock, they were struck with the matter beam and their mass pulled into warrior ants who now stood tall with human height, manipulating limbs and posture but keeping the purity of the six legged ant form.

With each human consumed in such a way, the hive mind's intellect and knowledge grew. The tiny shrunken humans were held in the jaws of the unmodified ants, the Queen mother saw fit to gift them with their own minds in the same manner ash she did the king. She revelled in the feeling of superiority she held over these tiny creatures that once towered over her. Those thoughts of fear and smallness they felt under her massive shadow were like ambrosia to her.

King felt some confusion as to why he had not be gifted with his old size again. “Patience, I have something special planned for you.” the Queen's voice replied in his mind.

With her new found knowledge she reached out through the tower network and laid a trap. Jeanette, responding to an automated speaker announcement that an injured man was found in the Lab rushed to make certain that her murder had not been discovered. Into the waiting arms of the Queen's soldiers.

The look of terror on her face as the dish was pointed towards her was immensely satisfying, but as her body was drained into Kings, he started to understand the Queen's desires fully. His body didn't grow all at once, his abdomen grew first of all, swelling and expanding until it was all he could feel as it's bulbous bulk rested on the floor, then his thorax and legs grew, his four rear legs picking his body from the floor, his fore-legs becoming three clawed prehensile arms. Then his head, slowly growing to match a body that was too massive for it, until finally everything had equalised. His mind as well, he felt his own mind return to his body... but also the knowledge of Jeanette and all her nanotech science filter into the hive mind.

The rush of power tingled through him, but more-so he grinned with his wicked curved mandibles as the giant Jeanette traded placed with him and became nothing more than a speck.

His new compound eyes were large enough to have so much detail wherever he could see. The Queen mother had also engineered him ears, he could see the terror on Jeanette's face. Hear her insignificant scream. With his chitinous hand he scooped her up, and closed his claws together on her soft pale body.

Then he stopped, he resisted. No, it was better for her this way. So small and worthless, she would live forever in the ant's shadow. He put her down and let the other ants take her with the rest of the shrunken humans.

“Now, we begin the conquest of this world.” The Queen mother's thought's echoed. With her knew knowledge she had everything she needed to adapt and improve upon the matter beam technology.

One more modification to her soldiers and herself. A biological matter dish built into their mouths, they could breathe in the living matter of the humans now and transfer it to any any they wished. With the security network down thanks to Jeanette's tampering and further hacking isolating the human groups one by one in the tower. The soldiers went from room to room, level to level absorbing the humans.

Their mass was split between making new soldiers and the Queen mother who gorged herself with glee. King watched with pride, his insect heart thrumming in his abdomen as she swelled and grew, slowly filling the entire sand field, then watching as her rounded abdomen pressed against the ceiling.

Worker ants were grown as her abdomen ever so slightly faster than the rest of her body. The crawled to the ceiling and make supports of themselves as she smashed through the ceiling.

King could feel her ecstasy, but also the growing power of her mind. The hive was being co-ordinated beautifully. She gathered the still tiny ant queens under her influence, organising them to spawn more ants she needed. She grew whatever she wanted with her power. The warriors scoured the halls in regimented perfection draining every human they could see while the minuscule normal sized ants gathered the now tiny humans, but there was a bigger goal.

As the building gave way to be replaced by supports of ants bodies, King watched in awe as the huge mass of the Queen mother surged ever upwards. Her mandibles smashing through the ceilings and floors of the research tower. He felt the Queen urge him to follow to the roof, and he followed. His insect body was tireless, he raced up the stairwells past soldier ants without effort. When he arrived and cracked the airlock to the orange smog air of Earth he felt the rush of power as the Queen burst the building's walls and emerged into the poisoned atmosphere, catching King upon her head. The worker ants around her hurriedly supporting her skyscraper sized body on a lattice of ants. “This is barely the beginning.” she said.

King could sense it. All around the city the warriors were spreading out now, consuming the humans into the the ant swarm's mass. Without any warning, the humans were cornered and gathered. The billions of this city would be subsumed within hours. There was a greater goal though, the immense protein vats that fed the city.

The Queen Mother knew where they were, she could sense it almost. So much matter, so much that could be turned into her. So much power she could have! Her immense bulk was now so huge she could not move herself, her massive legs and Thorax dangled far above the ground while her tremendously inflated abdomen rested on the ruins of the research tower and her supporting ants.

She shifted the influx of matter from herself to her carriers for a moment, her expansion slowing briefly as a handful of worker ant grew and developed thicker legs to carry her body.

King rode upon her head, feeling almost like riding a balloon at a parade. Inwardly he chuckled at the comparison. The Queen mother's bulk expanded out and started to crush the buildings either side of the roadway, giant worker ants scurried to keep the emptied buildings stable while she passed, letting them collapse into dust once she was clear.

When at last she came to the vats she didn't need that assistance any-more. Her rounded sides simply rolled over the buildings and crushed them. She paused for a moment savouring the growth to come, then breathed in.

King shuddered and twitched as he felt the power flood into the Queen mother. As she breathed in the beam of energy, her shiny black carapace creaked and groaned, surging outwards in all directions. The sensation was incredible! King watched as the Queen mother's grand head and antennae grew massive about him, the round black horizon behind him as her abdomen swelled and crushed city block after city block.

By the time the surge ended her abdomen was taller than the highest building in the city. King knew it to be over two miles tall. Could there really have been enough animal matter in the city to have made her this huge? No, he could sense further through the hive mind, the ants had spread much farther afield. Protein vats across the continent were being raided and channelled to her. Other cities within reach of the maglev were being systematically drained. Humanity on the other side of the planet was being kept blind.

As large and powerful as her body had become, her mind was now immeasurable. It was reaching into every system, mankind was blind as their living physical matter was being drained. The ant armies grew as the Queen Mother slowly swelled across the broken and emptied city. King could sense it. But for the handful of humans in space, all mankind would be shrunk to the size their new masters once held in a few hours.

He felt... glad. All his life he had worked towards saving humanity but now he knew his real place was here. The ants had been kept underfoot by evolution and misfortune, now they had freed themselves and taken their rightful place. He would be here to witness it.

There was frustration though, he could feel it from the Queen Mother. She had enjoyed that surge of power and still grew, but she knew she would not grow as fast again with the supply of humanity slowly running dry. She had a new plan she would enact shortly. She would not be robbed of her destiny.

Watching as the Queen Mother's head cleared the clouds and her bulbous body rolled over and crushed the last of the city, King could feel her lust as well.

Ant civilisation had claimed the Earth. But for the shrunken humans trapped in their glass prisons and fed by their new masters, all life was now ant based. The Queen mother had stopped growing for now and consolidated her power. Each grown ant was given personality and will, yet still subsumed by the hive mind much like King. Everyone desired as part of the Queen Mother's will to work towards and admire her. To complete her growth was to complete their own.

He desire to grow again was almost a palpable force. King felt the guided civilisation of ants as they scurried under her shadow to prepare for the next stage of her power. In the stars, modified ants flew through the void hunting the last of the humans, each small speck of animal matter remaining would be pumped into the ant nation. Every passing moment she desired more. She knew she had to be patient though. There were greater plans that would be ruined by her haste.

Now her abdomen reached over twenty miles high and the rest of her body small in comparison hung well above the swirling brown and orange clouds that choked the Earth. Below her, the workers ants forged a new technology of her own design. Something wondrous that would usher in a new age.

After a week of work the ants had made a platform below her and channelled deep into the core of the planet. King felt the movements of the workers end, then the exodus of ants as they scurried up onto the Queen Mother's massive body. After hours the entire ant race had crowded onto her.

“This is still only the beginning.” Her thoughts echoed through the hive mind. With that her body rose, the massive anti-gravity generators installed powering her up and beyond. The ants clinging to her abdomen as she did so. “So ends the cradle.” as she hovered in space, a new beam struck her from below. Again she started to swell, King could sense it.

The Queen Mother had discovered how to turn inorganic matter into herself. She started consuming the entire Earth. “So begins a new age of ant dominance.”.

The growth started slowly at first but then began to accelerate. In the airless void of space King couldn't hear the groan and creak of her body as it expanded, but he could feel the vibrations as he gazed out upon her from her head. Faster and faster, he could feel the strength, the mass, the bulk of the earth flooding into her. Below the earth was crumbling, collapsing into itself. The dying orange world splitting into black chunks as the continents came apart, the glow of magma spilling out as it's life blood flashed into the void.

The Queen Mother's body swelled beyond any way for King to keep track, the growing chitin below him rushed apart as if the ground itself was speeding by in a blur. Lost in the wonder of this powerful sensation he fell from her head, her new gravity catching him as he slowly fell to the new ground that was this one giant ant. The great tower that was the Thorax and head of the Queen now immense above him and filling more and more of his vision.

Behind him the last of the Earth crumbled and flickered as it was sucked away. A brief flash of light perhaps a thank you for ending the world's torment.

Before King struck the ground He was caught gently by one of the towering Queen mother's six arms.

Minuscule in her grasp he looked up and around, his head clearing from the fog the growth spurt had flashed through the hive mind. She was now the horizon, the sun warmed her as she turned slowly in space where the Earth once occupied. Her tubular heart thrummed through the abdomen that was the ground, the rest of her body, the size of Florida, grew from it and looked down upon herself with satisfaction.

With a flex of her will she ordered the ants to move the remnants of humanity onto her body. On her back covered under a great glass box. The tiny humans, still intelligent through her mind and power alone, were sealed in a tiny flat Earth. Made a paradise where they could live comfortably, but forever know their insignificance in comparison with the Ant Queen Mother. They would only see her back and not her face, they were the past now.

“Now King, you must witness.” From the powerful palm of her hand King was thrust into space. His ant body built to resist the cold vacuum he twisted and turned before he felt a force hold and grasp him still. The Queen Mother's mind was so powerful now, she could alter matter and force with a simple thought. He knew this now.

With her mind she gestured the moon over to her, the cold white surface hung in front of her face for a few moments, before she breathed in it's mass.

King felt his body explode as the power was channelled into him. Such incredible sensation as he felt himself fly apart in every direction. His mind was lost amongst the sheer growth of his body, he felt himself double in size, then triple, no that wasn't enough! He surged forwards tenfold his size before, more and more! His abdomen ballooned out, his legs thick but unable to reach round it. He felt the Queen Mother's gravity. He felt his own gravity, he felt the thrumming of his gigantic heart.

When the mist cleared he was the new moon of the ant planet. His body had changed proportion but not as much as the Queen's. His thorax was a third of the size of his abdomen as he was before, his mind though... it was immense. So many things he had wondered were clear now. Concepts he couldn't have comprehended before were now simple. He understood why though, the Queen was about to embark upon something grand. She desired a witness, but needed someone to understand the measure of this goal.

“The Universe has been empty and unchanging for so long, we shall see it changed. No longer shall it fly apart, but we shall see it dominated.” The Queen mother needed more power, there was something untapped just below the surface of the universe, she needed to become more to have that power!

Now free of the gravity of another world, she moved her bulk from planet to planet. She sucked in the mass of the asteroid belt, Mars, Mercury, Venus. With each world consumed she stretched out, became stronger, her understanding of the universe more complete. Large enough now she worked upon the gas giants, consuming Uranus, breathing in the rings of Saturn before savouring the bands of gas that surrounded the world.

Then Jupiter, quickly and in one great gulp. She sucked in so forcefully and with such urgency reality itself seemed to shudder with fear. The growth spreading to unconsciously to every other ant still clinging to her body, making them giants and able to withstand her massive crushing gravity.

Then, the final test. She warmed herself in the glow of the sun, letting King go and orbit the source of this solar system's warmth one last time. The enlarged ants behind transferred to crowd upon his surface before she dived in. King was swollen to double the size of Earth as she gorged herself, her ecstasy and lust for growth overcoming everything else. Every thought, every sensation, every sight, every sound. There was only the Queen mother and the thought of even more Queen mother to come. More, she thought. MORE!

The sun shrank faster and faster and she consumed every last ember, she loomed over the last spot as it vanished like a single spark into the blackness of night. With the end of this though, there was no sorrow. She had crossed the threshold of understanding, underneath the universe there was unlimited power. Reaching out with her mind she drew it into herself.

Her body that had been so quickly expanding before started to grow again. It began to increase in pace. Soon she would be able to expand beyond the dreams of mere mortals. The fabric of the universe shuddered and started to tear in fear of this new goddess, but her will was stronger. She forced the universe to accept the impossibility of her size. It would be the new way of things.

King knew though, there would be those that would try to stop her. He was massive now, a god himself in mind and thought. He knew that he could not even comprehend the queen mother's mental might, but there were other forces in the galaxy that would fear her dominion. They would be brought against them.

In concert with the growing Queen, King worked on modifying the ants to go to war. They would conquer the universe as the Queen Mother sought to fill it. Channelling the power from the Queen Mother and absorbing the mass of other worlds and Solar systems, the ants spread across the Galaxy. Individual ants were adjusted in their perfect form to become great warships. Each world was absorbed into a new queen ant to become a new ant world.

Conquered species were gathered and shrunken in the same manner as the humans. Slowly at first, and then more rapidly, a patchwork of flat miniature worlds was joined with the speck that was Earth and humanity.

When the great fleets of a vast alien alliance came to the Milky way to prevent the coming ant dominion, they found an entire galaxy of living worlds. Where ants had been adjusted for every environment. In the darkness of space existed moon sized ant battleships carrying swarms of smaller flying soldiers who invaded and consumed the enemy vessels. Ant queens the size of entire worlds endlessly birthing new re-enforcements. Even the gas giants where they thought they might hide, the cores replaced with a single giant ant world, their covering clouds filled with floating ant islands. With overwhelming numbers and the infinitely expanding mind of the Queen Mother, they were hopelessly outmatched.

Eventually the Queen's bulk extended so far and so vast that she overshadowed the entire milky way. As the last handful of alien ships fled the galaxy, she rotated her mass, and an army, tiny compared to the rest of her huge size, grasped the fleet for a few moments, before the breathed in it's mass and let it's pitiful small volume forever become a part of herself.

There was nothing left to stop her now. King settled back down upon her head as she started her final push. As the ant armies flooded across the universe to convert every world and civilisation into Antdom, she expanded. King and Queen growing to be the centre of all creation.

When at last every final galaxy and world had been conquered she paused for a moment and stopped. She arranged the galaxies to spin around her in beautifully intricate spiral patterns. She let her mind wander and sensed the entire hive that was part of her in every edge of the universe.

King sat upon her head, the size of a Galaxy himself now but still upon an endless field of polished black with two towering antennae about him, he was still so small in comparison.

“It's still not enough.” He thought. The Queen didn't think back, there was merely a knowing agreement with him. He felt the power of a thousand universes flow into him as the Queen Mother pushed towards the edge of everything.

It was a force and feeling unlike any mind ever could ever comprehend. He could sense every part of his body down to a single cell, it was as if he was expanding almost infinitely he was infinitely huge, then growing faster and an infinite rate, then faster, then faster! Not only that, but the Queen mother was expanding beyond even that! He was an explosion, a supernova that existed everywhere and everything and he was a mere flicker compared to the blinding brilliance of the Queen's might.

After what seemed like Aeons, the sensation passed. King looked back to himself, his abdomen was now a wall behind him. The gravity of which would rip all creation asunder had his mind not screamed at the weak fabric of time to shut up and know it's place. He could feel his body behind him extending in all directions without end.... yet he looked below. Below him was the Queen Mother. Her vastness was more than any words could describe. It was as if she was wholeness, everything and more.

As King's multidimensional mind struggles around the concept of even beginning to measure a fraction of the Queen's size he stumbled upon a tiny glow. An infinitesimal speck before him, so small he could barely compare it to the great empty black. The universe and all of Antdom, so small and meaningless before him... then he thought. He cast his mind to the remnants of humanity.

King didn't even register as existing to the Queen mother in terms of size, the remnants of humanity upon her back not comparing to the size of the universe King barely considered worth noting now. How far he had come.

“This is still only the beginning.” He heard the Queen Mother's voice echo. Her bulk pushed up against the boundaries of reality, he sensed them strain and break. There would be a new universe they would create, one without limitations. One that would let them grow in ways that had not been thought imaginable.

With the lightest surge of effort, the Queen mother increased her size infinitely. There was still much further to go.

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