After some time she stopped thinking. She has above animalistic intellect but below average intelligence of a creature that is considered sentient due to her using the minds of all sixteen of her children. She 'pulled' the electrical signals of their minds and instead of having a hive mind she made a temporary mind hive with herself as the centre again, she could do this due to her intuitively knowing about the basic concept of grouping of minds. Once she had gotten the mind of seventeen minds including her own she had a boost of intellect and could plan.

The plan she came up with was for the three Swarmer's to go outside and explore linked via hive mind. The ten other Swarmer's will be on guard and giving her their minds and intellect through the mind hive along with the Spawner and two Drone's who will wait in the back room of the cave along with her.

So she acted out her plan and sent out the three Swarmer's. 

She decided to see if the Swarmer's had a change in their electrical signals, she would link to their mind and then observe through them. The Swarmer's had no change after a few minutes so she decided to allow them to move away from the entrance a bit. Still, no change occured so she ordered the Swarmer's to move back towards the entrance. 

She decided that she will go out to the outside of the cave herself, alone. She walked out the back area of cave and through the tunnel. She then flew through the large entrance area and came to the -small compared to the large interior- exit of the cave. 

As she arrived at the entrance she looked outside and saw large plants, very much bigger than her. Trees that dwarfed even these plants, multiple time their size. She was in awe and shock at the scale of everything compared to her having seen things so large in her short life of about a week and three days.

She dismissed these feelings with the need to find a food source, the food in the cave would not last. So with the need for food in mind she looked around the area by the entrance. She knew herself and her children could eat anything that had Biomass in it. Anything living; animals, plants, trees, etc. [Gather] she ordered the thirteen Swarmer's. The Swarmer's came out the cave and began to gather small plants while she kept a look out for any danger. Each Swarmer took all it could carry and flew back into the cave and placed then in the back of the entrance area at the back and repeated the gathering process a few times. 

When the Swarmer's were coming out to gather another load she felt a large disturbance on her electromagnetic field she distributed to detect things out of her view. She turned to her left and saw a large amount of winged insects coming through the large plants. [Retreat] She ordered the Swarmer's to run back into the cave, she did the same. 

Once again she feels irritation and danger. Irritation from the fact that these winged insects keep interfering and danger due to the fact their numbers are large. [Hide, Ambush] She ordered the Swarmer's to hide around the entrance and area around the entrance inside the cave and then attack anything that entered, she did the same. And just like she was preparing for winged insects charged into the cave. 

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She did not give the Swarmer's any additional commands and just waited for the winged insects to come into the cave, their brown and yellow backs darkening as they entered further. As she did not order the Swarmer's they stayed put. However, when the winged insects entered the cave far enough and she had counted their numbers, eleven, she ordered the Swamer's [Attack], she also jumped into the battle stunning one winged insect with her electrical signals while the Swarmer's each took one winged insect each except the winged insect nearest the entrance which had two Swarmer's jump on it. While the winged insect she stunned was frozen she jumped on it's flying body and pushed it causing it to fall on the floor below and she then bit into it's small neck and ripped out it's insides as she did not have to time to bite its head off and eat it. As she did that the Swarmer's had been able to overpower the one winged insect it fell to the floor, stomach ripped out, blood spraying out uncontrollably and the two Swarmer's moved on to help one of the lone Swarmer's. 

However, not all was going well. One of the Swarmer's that was fighting one vs one with a winged insect let out a small scream as it fell to the floor. It had been deeply pierced by the stinger of the winged insect and dropped to the floor, dead. The fight was now twelve Swarmer's against nine winged insects. After the death of one Swarmer there was no more issues in the fight as she continually ordered the Swarmer's to surround the winged insects as she herself kept fighting as well, the remaining nine winged insects all soon died. 

After killing all the winged insects she ordered the Swarmer's to quickly take the bodies to the back of the cave and pile them up on the now very small pile of other dead winged insects right next to the new pile plants. [Eat, Lay] She ordered the Spawner eat enought to lay four eggs and then lay them. She then ate from the plant pile and then used the gained Biomass to lay four eggs of her own. 

[Guard] She then ordered the twelve Swarmer's to guard the cave entrance and fell asleep.

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Four days passed as she ordered the Swarmer's to guard the cave or gather plants from the outside. Now the eight eggs were hatching.

As soon as they came out their eggs she ordered them all to eat. Once they all ate she ordered them to evolve into two Drone's, five Swarmer's and one Spawner. 

Once they finished evolving a few hours later she ordered the new Swarmer's to defend the entrance with the others and ordered all four Drone's to go outside and gather more plants. After she did this also used her electroreceptive ability to hijack their brains use all of her twenty three of her children's. Using twenty four total minds she still held below average intellect however she could think of some basic concepts and ideas individually without any of her inherent knowledge. The first thing she thought of was names. 

She thought of a name for what herself and her children can be called as a whole, Ahiak. It never struck her to think of individual names or titles due to her always having thought of unity and advancement as a whole due to her inherent knowledge of grouping minds as the first race she assimilated and used to evolve has a hive mind as one of its most prominent features and she just took all their traits, attributes and physiology while keeping the essentials of her original form. 

After this she decided to sleep and then decide what to do next once she woke up. She gave back her children their thought processes.