Epic of Bee

I walked through the Honey Gate holding Serria's pawed soft hand, and there was a large group of guards waiting for us. My wives, Rixie, Talli, Pixie, and Gamble, were standing off to the side, and I walked over to them.

Now that we were back around more people, I could tell that Serria was starting to get uncomfortable from the slight tremble in her hands. I pulled her closer to me and then kissed her forehead as we walked up to the other girls.

"I see that you two finally connected," Miasma said as she came over to give Serria a hug and then me, but she put her face to my left ear and whispered to me. "Are you okay? Messia had come to me earlier crying, saying, take she had hurt you last night from being too rough!"

I hugged her back and then kissed her before pulling back a bit to give Messia a warm smile.

"I am fine now, and it was just something new for us," I said as I pushed a strand of hair from Miasma's eye.

"Good. I don't think that Messia meant to be so rough, and all's well that ends well. Now, you seem to have your own personal healer if you are feeling this good now," Miasma said as she smiled at Serria.

"Yes, I will keep the queen safe and heal any more injuries that she has," Serria said as she nervously pulled closer to me.

I turned to look at the gathered Guards, and my eyes connected with Tag and then Sig. The two of them came over right away, but I frowned at them.

"What are you two doing? You should be asleep or at least resting! I am not having the two of you come down there with me like this!" I scolded the two men, and they both shook their heads.

"No, we are staying back, my most Queenly Queen, but we wanted to come and make sure that you are taking all the precaution," Tag said, but then yawned.

"Yeah, how excellent could we actually Bee if we didn't come to make sure that you were leaving safely?" Sig asked while giving a long and over-exaggerated stretch

"Get! Go to bed; these men will be more than enough, but I have the drones standing by," I said, but then Messia stepped from the group and came over to me.

"I will stay back; this way, if something does happen, I can come out and get you. We should always have one of us watch over when we all leave the ship. Next time Miasma can take my place, and I will join you," Messia said after leaning in to get a kiss from me that I returned without hesitation.

"That is an excellent idea. As much as I wished you were there with me, I completely understand why you want to do this. Thank you for being the one to do this, Love," I said to Messia and then kissed her again.

Messia turned from me and then grabbed the Mecha-Jet, and Dragon-Fu by the ears and dragged them off to the Honey Gate. That gave me a warm feeling as I watched them leave, but now it was time for us to get this show on the road, and I turned back to everyone.

"Thank you all for coming to escort me, but we will also need to be mindful of these people's customs and anything else. That being said, I want Will, John, Rixie, and Miku in the shadows at all times close to me. Carl, I am sending Tigra with you, and you will both be going up top to act as lookouts," I said to the gathered group.

"The Queen's name is Mordiraine, and she is pretty nice from what I hear. I think that she will want you to reward you for helping them, but make sure that you don't decline the things that they offer," Xani warned from my side, where she had appeared to take my hand into hers.

"Thank you, but why don't I want to refuse anything? I don't think that I would… hm, yes, maybe I would try to deny the offer…." I said, trailing off.

"They are sensitive people and very emotional from what I have heard from the Trolls," Xani said, but as she finished, one of the Rock Trolls Brawler started to laugh.

I looked over and didn't recognize who it was, but the Troll slowed down his laugh. The massive black and yellow Troll turned to me with a gravelly grin.

"When we had to take Nectar from two of their flowers, they had two SugaBee Workers guard the two flowers. So, we went back and took from the flowers right beside them. They only cried about how horrible we were to trick them so soundly as to choose different flowers!"

The Rockman was almost in tears and then started to howl again after he was finished, and more joined him. I held my laughter back.

It wasn't that I didn't think it was funny, but this put a completely different spin on things. These SugaBees didn't sound like very reasonable people, and now I would have to be extra careful, so I called for everyone's attention again.

"Okay, Rock Trolls, you are going to stay here in the hangar to act as a backup with the Bee Bikes if you can fit on them. Everyone else, you are all going BeeHive like respectable people to the people we are going to visit. We will try to get in and out, so we don't start any trouble with these people," I said, starting to feel stressed about the whole idea of the trip.

It might just be better to beam the Queen up here, but at the same time, I really wanted to know what they did to make their structures. I would just have to keep an eye on everyone, and Thanos and Atom would help me with that.

'I will be watching with this other one and let you know if I see trouble,' Tigra said as she jumped from my shoulder.

Suddenly, I felt a warm, soft, and furry hand slip into mine, and then everything was okay. I turned to see a smiling Serria with twitching ears, and I couldn't help but lean over and kiss her; it was good for me after all.