Bunet found herself waiting in the command chamber that was dead center of the hornet doom sphere. She was sitting in a wooden throne made of wood pulp built into the undead hornet flesh that made up most of the frame of the craft she was in. She found herself staring in rage at a screen made from undead hornet wasps that allowed her to view the outside of the hornet doom sphere from the strategically placed hornet eyes around the sphere.
She was watching as the invaders, the pixies that had played so many games with her in the damn grass fields before she could finally find their home and strike true, were now attacking her home once again. It infuriated her, causing her hornet nature to demand she charge them and sting them into an agonizing earlier grave. But she could not because her king and ruler of the hive had decreed that duty belonged to the newest of their ranks with the ability to lead.
That new commander was the miserable rage catapult, a strange being, for it was of the new weapons but for some reason was more intelligent than its fellows. Though that wasn't entirely true, as Bunet thought about the miserable rage catapults, Perciluar's na was what led it to being more intelligent than its fellow superweapons. Because it was a being of both rage and misery, it needed a certain amount of understanding to understand such emotions, hence its higher intelligence.
Though that didn't stop it from seeming insane to Bunet and Horter if she guesses right. As he didn't seem any more comfortable around the things ever swapping emotions than she was. This dislike for the creature's seeming insanity caused her to question her ruler's decision on whether or not the miserable rage catapult should be leading the defense, and her having to watch the smog grass catapult army being pushed back under its leadership didn't help such matters.
Though it turned it around, causing Bunet to realize that while its dual nature did make it insane, it also made it an effective commander. As it seemed to use a combination of her blunt approach with a mix of Horter's more complex one. Though whether this made the miserable rage catapult a better military commander or just one harder to predict, she couldn't tell.
Though to be honest, she didn't want the answer because if it turned out that she needed a more mixed approach, like the miserable rage catapult had, she would be in trouble as she was hardwired for simple aggressive tactics, as was the nature of hornets, hence her being a hornet undead commander. She figured Horter was in the same boat as an undead butterfly commander; it was a bit depressing thought to think that she might be already be getting replaced with those undead with better static sense.
So to take her mind away from such thoughts, she brought her focus back to where she was in the command chamber of the hornet doomsphere. She looked around, taking it all in, and had hope for the future once more. Even if her ruler began creating better tacticians, her kind would be needed to command the hornet doom sphere, and the power she felt in every inch of the hornet doom sphere told her it wasn't getting replaced any time soon.
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She looked at the ornate architecture of all the chambers and the cells that made up every wall and hallway around her. It was truly a magnificent creation that she could feel pulsating with the urge to release its urge on those below it. For the hornet doom sphere was an undead creation and as such had a will, though it was nowhere near as intelligent as the miserable rage catapult but was intelligent enough to follow her orders and fix itself.
Which was more than enough for her needs and what the kingdom demanded of its service. Though soon she hoped her king and ruler of the hive would demand that she have the hornet doom sphere release its payload of hundreds of agonizing stingers on those below them. Sadly, though, as she turned her attention back to the screen of wax that began showing her the battle in the south, she saw the miserable rage tank not only emerge victorious but somehow capture the pixies with their own armor.
Well, it looked like she would have to wait before she would have a chance to show the night of the hornet doom sphere and her skull in commanding it. Though she supposed it was no time to relax, as she needed to be prepared for anything that might be coming if there was anything else coming to attack. Which might be wishful thinking, though it was shameful to wish such things. Bunet knew, but Bunet felt like she needed to prove herself, as her last few battles, where she had been in total command, had not ended well.
In fact, it had only been when Horter had shown up and become the commander of their army in the last few battles with the pixies out on the grasslands that any progress had been made at all. Which Bunet was starting to become afraid that her ruler, Maxwell, had noticed that detail, hence the need to prove herself to her hive and kingdom?
Though for the moment she found herself without any opportunities to prove her abilities. So it was best to use her time to practice until an opportunity arose for her. So Bunet began making the hornet doom sphere go in circles from her chair in the command chamber, testing the steering and how well it flew. She then did a couple more advanced maneuvers, such as a figure eight or lowering then rising the hornet doom sphere height while moving.
Once Bunet was sure everything was flying good and she had gone through all the flying practice maneuvers, she moved on to the other things to practice. Which was the firing mechanism, so she found a good ground area that had no smog grass elementals in it and fired, sending hundreds of agonizing stingers into the ground. Seeing the firing has worked, she then had the hornet doom sphere reload, which it did rather quickly.
Bunet then began practicing her firing while moving and shooting, trying to improve her aim as well as the hornet doom sphere's ability to create new agonizing stingers by practicing. This went on for a little bit, causing a small mountain of stingers to form within the territory within her ruler's domain that Bunet had been assigned to protect.
She began thinking about what she should do with all the stinger left lying around by her practice fire when the next part of the pixie invasion started. All of a sudden, nine ships on a wave of giant grass came through the smog wall, making a direct line towards her outpost.
"Well, it bzzz looks like I bzzz get to bzzz f after all bzzz." Bunet said, her voice filled with anticipation at the chance to destroy her ruler and give enemies. Though she would admit she was very wary and suspicious of the clear pixie magic on display. Luckily she was far above them and would soon fill them with agonizing stingers for daring to invade her hive. She directed the hornet doom sphere, which shook with an eager anticipation at the carnage it would unleash on the enemies of its maker.