(If you want to be added to the notification list, let me know.) Rose stood there as if she hadn't given birth to demonic triplets only a matter of hours before, laughing hysterically at the group. "You all are a bunch of pathetic -blam!-ing losers!" she squealed, "A waste of life! How does it feel that all you amount to in life is being a useless pothead?" she pointed at Camnator, "Or a pedophiliac alien?" she pointed at Vien, "OR A FAILED ABORTION?! HAHAHAHAH" She pointed at Verbatim. But Verbatim was no longer riled up by Rose's bantering. Instead he simply smiled, "Hello Rose, it's nice to see you. How did you get here?" "OH LOOK! VERBY IS SO BUTTHURT, EVEN THOUGH HE'S PRETENDING NOT TO BE BUTTHURT, BUT HE IS SO SO BUTTHURT! HAHAHAHAHA! ARE YOU TRAUMATIZED BY MY BABIES? HOW DID YOU LIKE BEING HELD DOWN WHILE I SHAT OUT MY OFFSPRING ALL OVER YOUR FACE?!?" she shrieked, spittle flew out of her mouth. "You are right, " Verbatim replied calmly, "My ass does hurt. I did have to pull a stick out of it. In fact, it's lying right over there." he pointed to a stick laying several feet away. Rose's mouth gaped for a few seconds, then she burst out into another fit of squealing laughter. "WOW!!!! YOU ARE SO PATHETIC! KEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEE! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOUR MOTHER LET YOU CRAWL OUT OF THE ABORTION BU-" "The only pathetic one here is yourself. *BURRP!!*" interrupted Camnator, who had just finished a bottle of what appeared to be a V8 rip-off with juiced weed."HAHA WOW, YOU REALLY CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY YOU -blam!-ING DRUG ADDICT? THAT WEED AND LSD IS FRYING YOUR BRAIN! YOU MUST HATE YOUR LIFE SO MUCH THAT YOU SMOKE WEED TO FEEL BETTER! HOW PATHETIC, I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU!" Rose rambled incoherently, "WAIT, NO I DON'T, IN FACT I WOULD LAUGH IF YOU DIED RIGHT NOW. I WOULD LAUGH AND DESECRATE YOUR DEAD BODY!" As Rose continued to scream, Verbatim look towards Vien and Jane. Jane appeared to be standing there, stunned. She didn't move or speak, yet her arms appeared to be quivering a little bit, whether with rage or sorrow, he couldn't tell. Vien appeared to be talking to her, pleading with her for something, but Verbatim couldn't hear the conversation over Rose's obnoxious squeals. He also noticed that the hivemind appeared to be holding very still. In fact, it wasn't moving at all, none of it's vines curled or slithered, none of it's leaves were unfurling. It was completely silent, as if it were hiding. Vien appeared to sigh, then he took one of Jane's energy blades off her armor and held onto it. Then he turned towards Rose. "How did you find us?" he demanded. Rose stopped screeching, then she turned towards Vien. "I don't need to explain myself to a pedophile. In fact, I don't even want to hear you." She raised her arms in the air and clapped them together, pointing them at Vien. There was a subtle waft of air that blew towards Vien. When it struck him, he appeared to be unaffected. But when Vien tried to speak, no noises came out of his mouth. His mandibles clacked uselessly. "HEHEHEHEHHE, HOW DOES IT FEEL NOW THAT YOU CANNOT TALK BACK? YOU -blam!-ING DISGUSTING FREAK! IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IF YOUR SON HAD DIED! IF I WERE YOU I WOULD KILL MYSELF!" Rose shouted gleefully, taunting Vien as he struggled to speak. He flashed his sword to life and charged toward her with a silent roar. But when he took a swing, his sword bounced off an invisible barrier and knocked him backwards. "Whoopsie!!! looks like you've been BLOCKED! HAHAHAHAHAH!!!" taunted Rose as she burst out into a fit of giggling. "Wow, you are pathetic" said Camnator. Immediately Rose clapped her hands towards him and removed his voice. Then before Verbatim could speak, she clapped her hands towards him. He didn't feel any change come over him, but when he tried to speak, nothing came from his mouth. Not a sound. It's as if his vocal chords just decided not to work. Familiar anger and frustration overcame him as Rose gloated, "Now you idiots are helpless, unable to do anything to me. HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE SUBLIMELY BUTTHURT AND UNABLE TO RESPOND? HMMMMM?!? OUR WORLD IS GOING TO BE A MUCH BETTER PLACE WITHOUT THE LIKES OF SCUM LIKE YOU!" She walked over to Vien and stood in front of him, looking up into his scowling face. "Don't look at me like that you freak. I saved your son you know. If I hadn't begged Jay to stop attacking him, she would have pulverized him. I told her it would be hilarious when he finds out who he really is, and who he had married." She smirked and continued. "Then I'll kill him myself, right in front of you." Vien let out another silent roar and punched against Rose's shield again and again and again until bits of purple blood began to trickle towards the ground, much to her delight. But then Rose looked towards Jane, grinned, and then walked towards her. "What is up with you? Don't you have anything to say? I won't silence you, I want to hear how miserable your loser of a mate or husband or whatever made you." Rose taunted. But Jane didn't respond, it was as if she didn't even see Rose. Rose waited for a moment, frowned, then she picked up a rock and threw it at Jane's face, smashing against her mandibles. Jane emitted a yelp and and held her bleeding mandibles, but she didn't respond, she didn't fight back. "WOW YOU ARE A PATHETIC MISERABLE BITCH!" shouted Rose, as she threw another rock at the female sanghieli. Verbatim, Camnator, and Vien both launched themselves at Rose, but they were knocked back by her shield. Rose didn't seem to notice, she kept attacking and taunting Jane. "FIGHT BACK YOU USELESS -blam!-, YOU ARE JUST AS PATHETIC AS YOUR LOSER HUSBAND! YOUR WHOLE FAMILY IS PATHETIC! ONCE THEY REUNITE, I AM GOING TO KILL YOUR SON AND I AM GOING TO ENJOY IT SO MUCH!" Suddenly, there was a loud crunch, Rose went flying backwards and landed on the ground, Jane was holding a trembling arm out, Rose's blood was on her fist. "You will NOT lay a finger on him you DESCPICABLE BITCH!" she shouted with fury, flashing an energy blade to life in her hands. Rose got up shaking, her jaw looked like it had been dislocated. She began to shriek and brought her hands up int he air, then she began to bring them down. But before she could, a large tentacle-like branch came down on her and smashed her into a bloody pulp on the ground. "FORGIVE ME MY CHILDREN, I DID NOT SENSE THAT ABOMINATION UNTIL SHE APPEARED." the high mind said, it's branches and vines began to move again. "YOU MUST GO, THIS ONE IS NOT DEAD AND IT'S AURA IS POWERFUL. IF YOU HOPE TO SAVE THE WORLD, YOU SHALL FLEE." as the high mind talked, Rose's blood began to flow across the ground and form into puddles. It began to bubble and boil, hundreds of threads began to weave and intertwine, forming new flesh. Partially formed faces began to rise out of the puddles, their mouths gaping and their eyeless sockets frothing as eyeballs formed in them. Arms burst from the puddles as if they were trying to pull themselves out of the ground. Verbatim watched with horror as the fleshy tentacles continued to spin and weave the rest of the bodies, even the clothing was made of new flesh. On one of the bodies, a namebadge appeared saying "Onion Beetle." It was then that he realized these were Rose's alts in the flesh. Before the alts finished forming completely, several more branches smashed them into a pulp, but that only served to multiply the number of blood pools that spawned more alts. The more the high mind fought rose, the more powerful she became, the more she grew. Several large vines wrapped around Verbatim, Vien, Camnator, and Jane, then they shot up the tunnel it used when it brought them here. Like before, there was no wind, and the walls were moving at a blur. Verbatim felt the vine holding him twitch as if it were in pain, but it kept moving. A few minutes later, it twitched again, it swung side to side, almost brushing the party against the walls. Trembling, they began to slow down. Verbatim could see the a circle at the end of the tunnel growing larger and larger. The vines slowed down to a halt as it reached the entrance, and weakly deposited the party onto the floor of Jane's lair, and then flopped to the ground. They began to turn gray and brown, then they began to wither and die. Camnator embraced the vine that brought him, sobbing uncontrollably, his voice returned to him. "You were the most beautiful creature I ever met." he sobbed, "I will do everything I can to save the Earth." Meanwhile, Vien walked over to Jane and knelt in front of her. "Kiala, I have failed you yet again. I couldn't protect you.." he began but was cut off. "I Do NOT need protecting Vien!" she hissed, anger and misery marked her features. "I know...but I...I.." he stuttered, "I do NOT want to talk about it." she cut him off again, "Just be quiet, I do not want to contemplate what you did with our son, if indeed he is still alive." "I think you should talk about it. Lack of communication is the cause of many problems in the world, even between alien couples." A voice called out. Jane flashed a sword to life and whirled around. The party looked up and saw a professional looking young man holding a notebook. His hair was neatly trimmed, thick glasses rested on his nose and a small tidy beard grew on his chin. Adorning his vest was a professional nametag that said Mr. Psychologist.