While the roots below were turning the siege worms that had tried to invade into fertilizer below in the kingdoms underground there was something stirring above ground. Bunet the hybrid zombie made up of the bodies of a hornet and a butterfly was filled with rage and since Maxwell was currently unconscious from his grand necrotic spell she could act on it.

" Bzzz will destroy bzzz enemies of the bzzz hive." Bunet said with heat as she gathered the bodies of the slain insect zombies putting them into the hive of the undead. Bunet was hoping by recycling the bodies she could start rebuilding her undead swarm faster. Though through the feeling of her connection to the undead hive she could tell it would still be a bit before it started producing her undead hornets like she wanted.

This was unacceptable as far as she was concerned she would not let the enemied of the hive wet away with their attack so easily. Especially since they were in full retreat and would be vulnerable to attacks from above as they tried to defend their weakened leader. Unlike before were there strange magic allowed them to fight as one and destroy her swarm without effort.

So she would have to do even more to speed along the recovery of the undead hives resources so that it could began spawning the undead she required. So Bunet immediately took to the skies high above the rather thin smog wall that had several holes in it unlike before as it seemed her maker's output of smog was drastically down.

But that would be a later concern she had something more important than some holes in smoke to deal with. As once bunet was high in the sky she began her hunt killing and bringing back exclusively hornets as they were in the hunt.The hornets tried to fight back against her but found their stingers ineffective well hers very much were.

Though she did get bitten more than few times by the hornet's mandibles but in the end she got what she wanted and supplied a steady supply of fresh hornet bodies to the hive of the undead. Which meant soon enough she got the option to create the zombie hornets she wanted and so she did. Soon she had a small swarm of a few hundred undead hornets to pursue the enemies of her hive.

She was about to order a full pursuit when she realized the fatal flaw in her plan and that was you never leave the hive undefended. No well there were several undead elementals matching around having been born under the effects of undead grass lands with Maxwell unconscious there was no one to command them and by themselves they weren't all that effective just acting by themselves instead of as a group.

So if Bunet wants to follow through on her pursuit plan then she needed another commander to lead the defense here well she lead the offense on the hives enemies. How to get one Bunet though about it and came to a crazy idea. As bunet knew she thought more like a hornet than butterfly even though she was made evenly of both so why not seperate the butterfly from her and have that one command the defense.

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Seeing as the hive of undead had gotten her as it's commander and created in turn both hornets and butterfly perhaps it could seperate the two from her as well? So with the probably insane and reckless idea in her strange combo head she dove towards the entrance of the hive of the undead. Once she passed through nothing happened for a long moment then the whole hive lit up with a strange black light before it stopped and two beings walked out of the hive.

A screen appeared confirming what had happened as well as explaining what the new beings were coming out of the hive. The two both looked two the purple screen to get all of the details of their new changes.

Bunet commanded the hive of the undead to seperate- command accepted-

Bunet: chimera zombie- seperated into- specialized zombie commanders-

Zombies commanders: a zombie that can command other zombies as well as specialize in a specific zombie species-

First commander: Bunet- zombie hornet commander- hornet tactics- allowing for better control of hornets and use of their stingers against enemies

Second commander: Horter- zombie butterfly commander- butterfly tactics- allows for better control of butterfly and use of their wings against enemies

The two commanders looked at each other after reading the details of their new undead life's. Horter was a zombie butterfly made of a combination of two butterflies fused together and then stretched to their limits. While bunet was of two hornets fused together into a shorter bulker mass than Horter was.

The two humanoid zombie commanders looked at each other a moment their instant dislike for each other somehow palpable between them despite coming from the same original form. "You watch over here while I attack the enemy." Bunet said to the other commander. Who simply nodded then proceed to wave at her to take the hornets and go.

Bunet promptly did taking the small swarm she had built up and heading out to pursue the enemy. While the other one turned to the hive. " Now it is time for someone with more sense to defend the homeland." Horter said sounding somehow distinguished as he began having the hive of the dead produce butterflies for his own personal army before walking over to the spider and centipede undead grass elementals to get them patrolling in groups.

Meanwhile Bunet lead her swarm of undead hornets through the wall of smog only to scream in incoherent rage at what she found on the other side. She found on the other side of the smog wall that the invaders had ridden themselves within what seemed massive unending grass. For a moment Bunet merely stared with four eyes at the magic grass with the unnatural hate of the undead while her two sets mandibles clicked rapidly in agitation.

" Fine you want to hide in the grass then I will search through every last blade until I find you." Bunet whispered in pure rage before directing her zombie hornets into the grass to began the search the sound of battle immediately breaking out as the insects in the grass fought her zombie hornets. " Good I'll add you to the hive of the undead." Bunet said already having some of the victorious hornets bring back their kills to the hive of the undead. So the invasion by Bunet and her swarm of zombie hornets had truly begun.