Chrysalis

“Eldest! What are you doing up here?” Leeroy complained.

“Hah. Thought you had a nice final stand setup here, did you? You thought you’d run far enough from the rest of the Colony that we wouldn’t be able to catch up and keep you alive? You should know better by now, Leeroy.”

“But don’t you need to rush deeper into the nest, Eldest?” she asks, hope still alive in her scent. “We can hold this position… against overwhelming odds, even! Yes! We can stay here, battling to control the mouth of the nest to protect you… until we fall one by one, tragically!”

Wow, she worked that up in her head quickly.

“No chance, Leeroy. I came up here strictly to keep you and all your followers alive. None of you are going to die while I’m here,” I tell her firmly.

“Dammit.”

“This sucks!”

“Ruining everything…”

“I was feeling good about today…”

“Hey! Shut up over there! You think I can’t hear you? Don’t make me walk over there!”

“Would you kill us if you did?”

“What? No!”

“Dammit...”

on that after this battle, you’ve had your fun. Now get back to fighting termites already. You’re

but it's easy to see that the fire has gone out

the termite nest, their scent trails are all around us, along with literally tens of thousands of them all around us, climbing up the

up for this then what the hell are you

so I can’t understand their lack of gusto. It’s

Let me at ‘em!

the sulking corps of Immortals, I rush toward the outer edge of the formation and run right over the top of the armoured soldier in front of me,

down before I even land. WIth plenty of brain power to spare, I pour all of my mental energy into compressing the

there, crashing into their lines, my jaws snapping and crushing as I raise my business district high

Eat acid you suckers!

that, but I won’t get the chance

it’s up close and

to answer the call! Unrestrained, I unleash all of my pent-up rage upon the enemy, channelling the intent of my entire family into my mandibles as I

once. In the distance I can see the rest of the Colony pushing forward, grinding down the enemy and rolling them back

only narrow deeper

me, climbing atop one another to take their shot, but with a hundred thousand members of

manage to pile up, I can heal them. In fact, the more I fight, the more energised I feel as

the Vestibule and I can tell that the battle is one sided so far. Against the might of this many ants, supported by their loyal militia of sentient buff givers, our enemy is completely out

you wood chomping morons! Did

Muahahahahahaha!