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An Infestation in the Herd

Part 5

For Flimflamfun5

By Draconicon

Hayburg fell to the hive, but it was not the only settlement in Equestria, nor was it anywhere near the largest. The hive wanted - no, required - more hosts, as there would be an ever-growing number of parasites that would need them. While their current bodies were fine for that, the hosts knew that eventually there would be too many to contain. Already, some of them were starting to shift and take on different forms, their bellies swelling ever so slightly as the parasites moved from the rectum to the abdominal cavity of the equines. While there was room there for them to grow, change, and even host their young to some extent, it was only a holding measure, not a full solution.

So, when Drone-Mayor Cloud Scraper got a message from the governing monarch of the land, inviting all those ponies that had ideas for improvements to the kingdom to gather in Ponyville to present them, it represented a golden opportunity for the hive.

A number of drones were chosen at random. Many of them would stay at Hayburg, if only for the fact that the merchant horse, Sunrise Spark, had promised that more traders would be paying their little town a visit. The merchant himself was heading off to a number of other settlements, where he'd start building up the other parts of the hive in different places, just to make sure that they could spread faster, further through the land.

But it was the representatives that had to go to Ponyville that had the most important mission. If they failed, then they would expose the hive to threats from all over Equestria, and they could easily be wiped out. Yet, the hive knew that there was no better opportunity than this, and they had to take it.

Those chosen to leave were among the first and last infested of the little town. Moonlight Thunder and Azure Breeze, the married pair that had been near the start of it all, were chosen, as were the stallions Astral Ace and Storm Chaser. Four wasn't much, but provided that they were smart about what they did, it would be more than enough to start a cascade that would bring all of Ponyville into the hive, and if they were lucky...

Well, if they were lucky, then Celestia herself might be drawn into it when she came to hear of their complaints and suggestions. That was the hope of the hive, at least.

They left with pleasure between their legs and the feeling of more parasites growing in their guts. When they arrived at Ponyville, they would be ready to spread their hive to many people.

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Moonlight Thunder was the first to see the settlement in the distance, and the first to feel his cock start to throb between his legs at the thought of what they were going to do. He pulled his anal tendril away from his wife's, making sure that there was no trace of it as it slurped back into his pucker. Azure was quick to do the same, hiding the evidence of her infestation, and she cleared her throat. The other two stallions quickly did the same, blushing not from the embarrassment of being caught, but from having to be corrected in what they were doing.

The town ahead was bigger than theirs by quite a bit. Ponyville had once been a town, but as certain equines grew up there and grew stronger, more famous, it started to grow as a town, as well. Now, it was almost a city with nearly four hundred ponies in it. The only places bigger than that were Manehattan and Canterlot itself, and they weren't nearly as much larger as they had once been.

The four equines made their way to the main road, heading into town. Stallions and mares alike waved at them as they entered, and the four horses had to remind themselves that they needed to wave back. They weren't just having their minds read like they were doing with the parasites all the time anymore.

The four-legged inhabitants of the town were rather friendly, and one of them, a pink horse wearing a blue apron, walked out of her shop to greet them as they approached the center of the town.

"Hey there. What brings y'all out here?"

"Oh, just the -" Moonlight Thunder paused for a second, as if he was trying to recall the word, as indeed he was as the parasite fed him the information he needed. "The convention that's being held. We kinda thought that, being out on the edge of things, we might be able to tell the princess some of the stuff that we need. It's not just you big towns out there, after all, and we need things, too."

"Well, that's awesome." She smiled, nodding towards her shop. "Why don't one of you come along inside? I have a few treats to spare, and I bet you've been walking for a long time and could use the break."

In truth, he hadn't really noticed any tiredness. His parasite had made sure that he felt good from walking, from obeying the trip to get out here. The feeling of tiredness was on the periphery of things, and he chuckled, feeling that would be the best response.

"Heh, don't you worry about us."

"Oh, you're not? Tired, I mean?"

"No way."

"Wow. And I thought that the Apple Family was tough. You walked all day and you're not tired?"

He could tell that she was more than slightly impressed, and more, he could tell that she was interested. Or at the very least, she was thinking of rather naughty things, things that might be exploitable.

"Tell ya what. We'll get things set up, and then I'll send Storm Chaser over to pick up a few snacks. Good?"

"Oh, lovely. Tell him to ask for Ms. Sweets, okay?"

"Sure."

They left the happily-humming mare to her business, walking into the main square of the town. Storm Chaser walked up behind him, nudging him with a hoof.

"Are you telling me I'm going to have to...mate her?" the younger, dark-blue stallion asked.

"If the hive tells you to."

"Well, if the hive says so..."

If the hive said so, Storm Chaser would do just that. They were all drones of the hive, all eager to obey, and the pleasure that came from doing what they were told was all but mind-blowing. They might remember what they had been, but he knew that they were all better off now that they were infested than when they were 'free,' and they were here to bring that gift to the rest of Equestria.

He glanced at his wife. While he and Ivory had been great friends and fuck-friends, even, before the beginning of the corruption, there was every reason for him to stay with Azure, as well. She had been a very giving mate, someone that had allowed him a great deal of pleasure, but if the parasites ever told him that he was not allowed to put his dick in pussy again, he would obey.

All of them would obey.

"So, where do we go now?" Azure asked, making a little face afterwards. "It's so...strange to talk..."

"I know. But we have to blend in."

It was a simple thing, something that he imagined that none of them had thought of during their walk towards Ponyville. They would have to go back to talking out loud rather than just exchanging tentacle touches. The horses that weren't infested yet didn't know how to get along without speech. They'd learn, but until then...

Well, they'd just have to make sure that happened quickly.

Eventually, Moonlight managed to snag one of the other equines running through the square and found out that they needed to register their village with one of the officials down at the town hall. They would need to talk to Mayor Mare to make sure that they had a slot for giving their presentation next week, and they'd need to make sure that they paid the fee for the slot, too.

All of that was down at town hall, and that meant that they needed to, forgiving the phrase, pony up some cash to find a way to get what they wanted.

Or, as the hive reminded them, they had other options.

Moonlight went to the town hall himself, walking into the Civil Affairs office. There was a stallion behind the desk, one that was a soft red color. Not bright, but soft, looking like a nice glowing guy behind the desk. The earth pony looked up as he kicked the door closed behind him, cocking his head to the side.

"Can I help you?"

"I'm looking to register for a speech slot?"

"Oh, right, right. You're another one of those outsiders. One second."

The earth pony pulled a drawer open, all while Moonlight listened to the hive through his own parasite. A little pressure began to grow in his middle, the much-grown parasite having moved to the belly and spread out from there. He could feel it clenching down on parts of his colon and bowels, feeling around until -

He stifled a moan as he felt a clench around his prostate, and the pleasurable feelings back there continued, slowly milking his cock from his sheath and making it hang down in the open. The thick thing started to throb, slowly rising up as he shifted from hoof to hoof.

The red-furred stallion paused in his fiddling around, looking over the desk.

"Uh, we don't do that in the city."

"Do what?" Moonlight asked.

"Show off our...you know."

"Really? It just happens, back where I'm from."

"Well, you can find a place downtown to buy some leather to cover it, if you need to. I mean, if you're prone to...you know...dropping..."

Dropping cock was a way of referring to an older stallion that didn't know how to keep his dick in his sheath anymore, that didn't have the muscle control to hold it in or the virility to get it hard. Moonlight might have been a bit offended if it wasn't for the fact that the other horse was staring at him so hard, and not just in the disapproving way that he had started with.

He likes it, he thought, and he would have chuckled if the hive hadn't been holding him still, debating what to do next. He could feel his balls throbbing, churning, rolling and swelling between his hind legs, and he knew for a fact that there was a parasite waiting to come out of his ass to give this younger stallion a good induction to the hive.

But not yet. Not yet.

He turned to his side, showing off his cock as it didn't just drop, but swelled upwards. The thick thing was quite wet and shiny, dripping with the new seed that he had been altered to produce. The hive was very good at making sure that its members were well-supplied with slippery, thick, mind-altering seed, and that was what was dripping from his balls these days. Not mere baby-batter, but thick, heavy, mind-melting seed that would make most equines go into a rut just feeling it on their skin, let alone inside them.

The smell from it, too, was getting the other horse to prance slightly, shifting from hoof to hoof again and again. He walked a bit closer, his hooves clopping gently on the floor.

"Something the matter?"

"Huh?"

"You're staring. You don't like it?"

"Just...didn't think you were...Celestia..."

"Do you want a closer look?"

"I shouldn't..."

"Come on. I'm a stallion of the world. I know what it looks like. Come on."

The official blushed, but did as he was asked, moving around the desk to take a better look. As soon as he moved from behind the big wooden thing, it was clear that his cock had slipped free of his sheath, too, dropping down and then rising up. The head hadn't flared just yet, but it was well on the way to doing that, starting to pulse and drip from that thick hole down the middle.

He lifted one hind-leg, showing off his cock a bit more, as well as the swollen balls down below. The other horse stared, going so far as to lean down and forward, his eyes widening and his mouth falling open.

"Good lord, man..."

"Heh, doing well for my age, right?"

"I'll say."

"Glad you like the view. What do you say to giving it a bit more than a look, though?"

"Wha?"

"You know what I mean. You're a stallion, you got needs."

That finally got through to the other male, and the red-furred stallion yelped, yanking his head back and blushing enough that his face actually looked like it might catch fire from pure embarrassment.

"What? No, that'd be completely unprofessional."

"Just saying, you could have fun."

"I don't have fun on the job!"

"And why not?"

"Because...because..."

"What's your name, kid?"

"...Ember Days..."

"Well, Ember, what do you say that you clock out for a bit, and you and I have a break together?"

"..."

"It'll be fun. And besides, if you don't do something, I'm going to end up making a mess on your floor here."

That seemed to be what finally convinced the other stallion. Ember darted to the door, turning the lock with a hoof, and then leaned down again. Once more, Moonlight lifted a hind-leg to expose his cock and balls, and the other stallion blushed a bit further.

"Just...just to keep you from making a mess, got it?"

"Got it."

Besides, it wouldn't take more than a little bit for the pre-cum to start having an effect on the other stallion's mind. He was young, already a bit horny on his own. It'd be easy to turn him, for the good of the hive.

Another clench in his lower body, another little twitch down there. Ember groaned, but slowly leaned in. He felt the rubbery lips of the other horse gripping at his cock, pulling it to the side, and then -

"Mmmm..."

He moaned as he felt the wet tongue working along the underside of his cock, dragging it in and giving him one hell of a tongue-lashing. It was beautiful, fucking hot, but that was hardly the only thing that he was getting.

By obeying the hive, by giving the stallion something to enjoy, he was getting rewarded for being a good drone. His mind burned with pleasure, his body throbbed with it. His balls started to rise up, a little surge of pleasure running through them, too, another little dose of the parasite's chemicals running through them and making them swell with hive-seed.

Thank you...thank you...

There was no response from the hive, just like there never was. He was a drone, after all. All he needed were his orders.

He moaned as he turned a bit, starting to mount the other male's head. Ember's head stayed down, neck outstretched, and the big stallion started to thrust forward. Each little hump dragged his cock a bit deeper, forcing it further down the other male's throat, making him swallow hard to keep from gagging.

"Mmmph. Mmmph!"

"That's it."

"Nnngh!"

"Take it. It'll be easier this way."

And it wouldn't make a mess, and it would make sure that Ember got the full dose of the mind-melting seed. In, out, in, out, each thrust going a little faster than the one before it, each one taking him that little bit deeper. He could feel his flare swelling, but that was secondary to the constant pleasure that he was getting from behind.

Ah...ah...thank you...

The hive rewarded him again for keeping the young stallion down, for keeping him from getting away. He thrust in, pulled back, thrust in, pulled back again, soon bottoming out with each thrust.

Ah...ah...

He panted in his head, his body too controlled, too firmly commanded by the parasite inside of him to actually get off in the same way. He was giving himself to the parasite, letting it take full control, reminding him of his place as a drone. He was there to fuck, to fill, to give the parasite the chance to expand to new hosts. He was an obedient drone, happily fulfilling the purposes of the parasite.

In, out, in, out, in, out, until he finally felt his balls starting to rise.

Seed, was the command that he felt from the parasite, and he did as he was ordered.

No sound escaped him, not even a warning that he was about to cum. Instead, he just thrust forward one more time, his front hooves resting on Ember's back, keeping him in place, holding him there. One pump, two, three, four, each one flooding the other stallion's throat with seed, forcing him to swallow or drown.

Like a good little stallion, Ember swallowed.

As he felt the gushing subside, the swallowing pleasure no longer matching the waves of pleasure that the parasite released through his body, Moonlight slowly pulled back. His cock didn't quite subside, nor did it push forward quite so had as before. Instead, it was merely 'readied,' pushed to the right spot to fuck again if needed.

Looking down, he could see that Ember wasn't in the best of ways. The mind-altering seed that the other stallion had swallowed was doing its job, making sure that he was good and horny. His cock had dropped completely, and the shaft throbbed and swelled by turns, swinging up and hitting his belly again and again.

"Feel better?" he asked.

"Mmmph...wha...what's going...on..."

"You are being taken by the hive."

"What...what's that..."

"You will be part of the hive. It will be for your own good."

His voice was slightly emotionless as he said that, even though he felt particularly good about being able to offer this gift to someone else. It was the best thing that someone could feel, the greatest gift that could be given. It was something to be celebrated, even if all he could offer was a monotone response.

Ember didn't have a response to that, only leaning forward, barely keeping himself upright on all fours. His tail was flagged up high, his breath coming harsh, hot, and fast, and Moonlight Thunder knew that the other stallion was barely aware of what was going on around him. His cock was throbbing, dripping all over the floor, and the red-furred stallion looked like he might just cum from the mouthful of cum that he'd swallowed.

Truly, the parasite offered powerful boons to those that joined and obeyed the hive.

He walked around to the far side of the other horse, looking at that puffy pucker. It was already clenching, begging for something to fill it, and he had just the thing. His cock would have been nice, but he had already been given the chance to just rut something. It was time to offer something else.

Moonlight would have groaned in pleasure as he felt the tendril running out of his asshole, but there was something more mechanical to it today, less biological. He did not moan. He did not smile. He merely moved so that he was standing with his ass facing towards the other stallion.

He was, however, allowed to look over his shoulder, and that he did with great eagerness.

As he watched the green tendril rising out from between his ass cheeks, he could feel its slimy pressure running out of his hole, running along the wrinkled, puffy flesh that came from someone having something big sliding through that pucker on a regular basis. It was a pleasure all its own, making his cock throb, but his face never changed expression. He never moaned, never whimpered, never gasped the way that Ember was doing.

After all, he was a drone, and a drone did what they were told. If he had needed to blend in, perhaps, he would have been allowed to and encouraged to moan. As it was, it was better to hold still and let matters take their course.

The green tendril slid back and forth, exploring the other stallion's ass. Wet slime ran down the cheeks, and along the tail, before it finally found the waiting pucker on the other horse. It stroked along the rim a few times, leaving behind more and more of the green slime that it dripped everywhere, before finally running towards the little opening at the center.

"Nnngh...so...so horny..." Ember panted.

"You will enjoy this. Take the gift of the hive."

And then, the tendril pushed forward.

As Ember gasped, he slowly backed up, given instruction from the hive. He worked his ass back until their cheeks touched, his tendril sliding deeper as he moved. The feeling of them standing pucker to pucker, balls to balls, really gave him a sense of power as he delivered the hive's newest member to them. The parasite inside of him seemed to swell slightly, and then he felt the newest parasite sliding down the tendril.

It was almost like pushing an egg out of his hole, and it felt a little like someone like Ivory pulling out of him as it ran through his hole. He stomped his hoof once, but that was less because of the stretching feeling and more to get rid of a slight spasm that was making it difficult to maintain his position.

He remained still as a proper drone should be other than that little motion, allowing that rounded parasite shell to pass through. Their holes stretched together, pushing wide open, and Ember gasped for breath as he felt the thick thing sliding in.

"What...oh god, what's that...what's that thing...inside...me?"

"It is the hive. You are a host, now. Be welcome..."

He felt the tendril slurping back into him once the parasite was deposited, and he waited until it was all the way back inside of him before taking a step forward. The slurping sensation was surprisingly pleasant, and he smiled as he felt it happen. He stopped a few paces away, then slowly turned in place.

There was a slimy mess around the other horse's pucker, but that was being pulled in, likely done by the new parasite as it saturated the insides of the stallion's hole with all of its essence. Ember gasped, hunching his hips, his cock slapping up against his belly again and again. Each time it hit, there was a slow, hollow drum-smack, almost like the parasite was taking control of it and beating out a tune on the host's body.

It wasn't, of course. They did not take pleasure from something like that.

It took very little time for Ember to go over the edge, the new drone cumming on the floor just as he had threatened to do only moments ago. Ember panted hard, his eyes closed as he felt the pleasure of being a new host rolling through him, and Moonlight felt a slight stab of envy, wishing that he could feel that again for the first time rather than knowing exactly how good it would feel every time that he obeyed.

Eventually, the new drone opened his eyes, smiling as he turned on the spot. His hooves dipped into the seed left behind.

"I am part of the hive," Ember said.

"Be welcome to the hive."

"There are others?"

"It will tell you."

"Yes. Three others, and soon more."

"Yes. They will all know the pleasure of the hive, and of obedience."

The stallions smiled, though not from the throbbing that took place between their legs. No, it was more than that. It was the good bliss that rolled out from their middles, filling them from head to hoof with the reminder of how good it was to do as they were told. Ember bowed his head a few times, moving back to his desk.

"You will need a space."

"You have some?"

"Plenty."

He pulled out several sheets of paper, using a pencil between his teeth to make a few marks on it. Eventually, the sheets were passed to him.

"The fee will have to be paid."

"The hive will have them pay us," Moonlight said.

"Yes. Oh. There is something else."

"Yes?"

"Information of the host. May I share?"

Moonlight nodded, and they backed up to touch again. The slow extension of tendrils was its own pleasure, but what followed was the same bliss that he always craved.

The familiar shocking bolt of pleasure, like raw nerves touching each other for the better, slammed through him. He almost lost his footing, his legs shaking from the information exchange, and poor Ember, inexperienced as he was, did lose his footing. He could hear the spurting as another mess was made on the other side of the desk.

The parasites, however, exchanged information with one another, the hive gaining new things. He could not tell what it was, but he knew that it must have been important. The rewards that rushed through them, the muted gasps - breath trying to be exhaled and failing due to the control that the other parasite had over its drone - all that he could hear, but it was enough to know that Ember was getting something good for his service.

Eventually, they pulled apart again, and he knew that he had to get in touch with the rest of the hive. It was not a suggestion, or something to get around to. It was something that was utterly required.

"You will watch things here?" he asked.

"I will," Ember said. "And I will spread when I can."

"Good. The seed will soak in."

"And arouse others. The hive tells me."

"Good. Be obedient."

"Be obedient."

They bowed their heads, and he left.

Moonlight didn't have to look for long to find Astral Ace. With Storm Chaser busy working on getting the baker female on their side, Astral Ace was there to help them with 'buying' their space for speaking, while Azure Breeze was waiting for the chance to speak with this Mayor Mare.

He found them both and gathered them together, making it clear that the hive in him had determined that they needed to speak. They were quick to leave the town hall, going outside and finding a bush where they could hide behind. The tendrils slid out, and they had a quick little three-way exchange. When they finished shaking, the parasite in him finally shared the information that it had gained from Ember.

They weren't the only hive out here.

Moonlight was surprised at that, and more surprised to find that the other hive was something that did not infest people, but rather fed off of them directly. Predators, almost, rather than parasites, they were known as the changelings. They were strange creatures, almost like bugs, able to change their appearance to match any horse that lived in Equestria, and they fed on love and affection.

Now that the hive knew about them, there was a priority - at least in Moonlight's mind - to be on the lookout for them. The minute that they were able to take one and turn them to the work of the hive, the better. An obedient drone that could transform at any moment, that could look like any horse that it knew, would be beyond useful.

Moonlight, Azure, and Astral all shared a look. They had no idea how they were going to find one such changeling, nor did they know how they would recognize it when they found it, but they knew that the hive demanded it of them. That was all that mattered. Good drones did as they were told, and they were good drones.

"We will watch," he said.

"And we will find," Azure said.

"And we will bring them into the hive," Astral said, the black and white pony bowing his head.

Thus decided on a course of action, the three drones separated again. They had part of their paperwork, but they needed to find a place to stay for the night - it was starting to get late, after all - and one of them needed to check in on Storm Chaser, just to make sure that things had not gone sideways there.

The hive was powerful, but needed to be close to share information, and they were too far from him to be able to share in what he was doing.

As Astral Ace made his way back into town, Azure Breeze and Moonlight Thunder started walking through the streets, seeing if there was a hotel or anything that might be open for travelers. He imagined that there had to be, with all the different horses that were making their way into town, but whether there were rooms was a different question.

"You enjoyed Ember," she said as they trotted along.

"He had a good mouth."

"He will serve the hive well."

"You do, too."

"Why?" she asked, looking at him. "How?"

"You aren't jealous."

She paused, obviously listening to her own parasite, obviously trying to untangle what he meant. Eventually, she nodded.

"I am not jealous, and that makes the mission easier. Of course, that doesn't mean I don't enjoy what I see."

"Oh?"

"Yes. You put males in their place very well. You are more than a drone, sometimes. You are a stud."

"That isn't a role in the hive."

"Hmm. Perhaps it should be. After all, drones are workers, and you're more than a worker."

That was something to consider, he supposed. His part of the hive was already thinking about it, and he knew that he'd hear a decision later, something that would decide whether more was needed or not. For now, though, they needed a bed, something that would give them a chance to rest. Just because the parasites took the tiredness away didn't mean that their bodies weren't waiting for it, after all.

The End

Summary: The hive continues to spread, this time moving from the town of Hayburg to Ponyville, where the infested start looking at ways to take others into the hive.

Tags: M/M, age difference, ponies, horses, MLP, equines, oral, blowjob, musk, parasite, infestation, series, body control, slavery, cum, orgasm, forced orgasm, tentacle, anal,