The Hive 6: Dollhouse

By Lyka Bloom

In the sixth chapter in the mind control horror series The Hive, "Dollhouse" finds a team of researchers engaged in a months-long test in the remote desert. When their biodome is invaded by a rubber-corrupting Queen, they must come together to survive, or each fall victim to the transformative terror and become a drone for their new latex Queen.

Both a continuation of The Hive series and a standalone story, Dollhouse is sure to heat you up even as it gives you the chills!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lyka Bloom
• Release date: Dec 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005693534

Lyka Bloom

Lyka Bloom writes various forms of fiction, but erotica has become a new passion. She preferstransformations and games of control, and enjoys exploring all the perverse kinks bubbling beneath the surface of sexuality.

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THE HIVE 6: DOLLHOUSE

by Lyka Bloom

THE HIVE 6: DOLLHOUSE

First Edition. December 5, 2021 at Smashwords.

Copyright © 2021 Lyka Bloom

Written by Lyka Bloom

This is a work of fiction. All names, places, likenesses, events, and incidents are fictional, and are in no way intended to describe actual events.

For more, visit www.LykaBloom.com.

1.

Red lights flashed and klaxons shrieked. In the ag dome, the sound bounced off the geometric panels that formed the largest of the three domes. Dani wrinkled her nose and covered her ears. Kelly nodded. There was no point trying to speak over the sound.

There were three of them in the garden. Charlotte joined Dani and Kelly in the exodus out of the dome, sealing the metal door shut behind them. Coming out of the humid agricultural biome was a shock when the cool of the passage hit them. Bubble lights flashed overhead, marking the exit. After one of the drills, Kelly asked Colby, the head of security, why some of the lights flashed and others didn't.

They lead you out, Colby said. They lead you home. It was an uncharacteristically poetic line to come out of the tall woman with the hard expression, but it had been an uncharacteristic moment with her.

Dani led her team past the passage that would carry them to the administration and personnel pod. They were marching straight ahead, on to the personnel hub. That was where the showers and mess hall were. The big dinner table doubled as a conference table when they had biodome-wide meetings, but those happened less as time went on.

By Kelly's count, they had been inside for two hundred and eighty-six days counting today. They were there to prove that life inside a dome was possible, and to reveal unintended problems with life in a self-sustaining environment. Kelly might not make it to Mars herself, but her work might be the next step in getting there. She wasn't the most outgoing, so she was glad when she discovered that the icy security chief had a soft center, and while she wasn't sure exactly what she would call the relationship between her and Colby, it was more than friendly.

You don't think there's been a real breach, do you? Charlotte asked.

She was the youngest, a grad student with more tits than brains according to Colby. Kelly found her pleasant enough, but she treated her time in the dome like a box that needed to be ticked for her to take a step toward... what? Some research job? Kelly never thought to ask. The dome, Kelly realized, did not call to the most social of volunteers. You had to be a little cracked to be in the bubble, she thought.

Good morning, ladies, nice to see our green thumbs looking so ravishing.

Morning, Harlen, Dani said. She moved instinctually between Harlen Jeffries and the woman beside him, Charlotte. I don't suppose this was your idea.

For all I know there's a real emergency. He grinned when he said it, all upper teeth and big forehead. Harlen was shorter than most men and perpetually dressed as if he was on a safari and not sealed inside a test facility of his own making. He had a deep voice and a British accent that immediately suggested wealth. The truth was he was far richer than one could easily conceive. Once he had spent a year inside his dome, he would emerge and announce to the world that Mars was ready for colonization. Charlotte would rotate out, too. The rest of them had another two years on their ticket. It was Mars they were simulating after all, not Cancun.

The double doors of the personnel pod hissed open. Inside the mess hall, Will and Merlin were already at the table. Colby was standing to the side, watching as they entered. Kelly couldn't suppress a soft smile at the sight of her. She had her hair loose instead of back in a practical ponytail today. She knew Kelly liked her dark hair down. When Colby caught Kelly looking, she turned her attention fast to the table where Merlin saluted the women as they entered.

The klaxon died when Chambers arrived, looking frail inside his ill-fitting jumpsuit. He wasn't the oldest, Harlen had that honor, but he looked a decade senior to any of them with his scrubby chin and sallow cheeks.

I'm glad you all have time to run another of your simulations or whatever. Some of us have real work to do out there.

A few acknowledged the grumbling, but seeing past the silver lining to the dark cloud was Chambers's nature. He made himself a cup of instant coffee while Will rose and cleared his throat to get the attention of the room.

Sorry to interrupt everyone, I know these drills aren't convenient for anybody.

Chambers chuckled, a wry sound that Will ignored. Will was soft-spoken, with a large, attractive jaw and wispy hair that fell neatly over his scalp. There was a Southern lilt to his voice that Kelly quite liked, and he always seemed to be smiling to