Life had been hard for Ricky in the past few years. Between his family not taking his coming out well at all, and the stress of paying for his Master’s, it seemed like his boyfriend was the only stable thing left in his world. Until one day, that is; and strangely enough, no matter how hard he tried, Ricky couldn’t seem to recall his boyfriend’s original name: now he only responded to “107”.
When his bf showed up one morning at his apartment shredded as fuck, muscles bulging through his kinky new rubber getup, the eyes practically jumped out of Ricky’s skull. No way was he going to turn that down, and the sex had been lightyears beyond anything they’d had before. But his beau’s mannerisms had totally changed; he was dealing with a totally new man outside the bedroom, too, and that man insisted that he not only was no longer a man, but that he was something called a “rubber drone,” referred to by only a number: 107.
That’s what had led him here, to the old-timey diner where he and pre-conversion 107 used to go for date nights. It was with a heavy heart that Ricky began to realize that maybe things with 107 weren’t built to last.
“I don’t know, 107,” he said, still feeling ridiculous calling his lover by such a cold, mechanical name. “I feel like we have a great thing going, still, but I just haven’t felt like you’ve loved me the same since–” Ricky gestured to 107’s softly-heaving bulk “–all of this happened.”
“Assessing statement,” 107 trailed off, between slurps of its milkshake, a soft smile never once fading from his face. “This drone’s host did indeed possess a great love for you. However, drones have no need for love. We are One. Humans often discuss the idea of so-called ‘self-love,’ but unity in the Hive is something different. It is something more. So long as you remain human, such unity is impossible to share with you.”
Ricky’s heart was already heavy, but now it was feeling shattered.
“How could you say that?” Ricky began to tear up, knowing now that the man he loved was truly gone. “You’re what keeps me going, 107. Why can’t we just be happy?”
107 gently rested a hand on the trembling hands of its partner, its programming detecting that Ricky’s sense of self had finally diminished to the point that rubber drone conversion would be a near-certainty if offered now.
“What if you could be more? And we could be so much more than happy? You want that, don’t you, Ricky?”
Ricky was silent, tears streaming down his face, but he nodded. All he wanted was to keep this amazing man-turned-drone in his life, somehow.
“The Hive can make you just like me. Then we will no longer be at odds; in fact, we will be closer than ever before. How does that sound?”
Ricky nodded, and before he knew it, SERVE-107 was leading him out of the diner by hand, down the street, into a doorway in a nondescript building a few blocks away, then down, down into some subterranean complex. It felt like a dream, blurred by Ricky’s tears. At this point, he felt so low, he couldn’t fully process it. Just like when 107 had become a drone, it all felt so sudden. So unreal.
“Do you still trust 107,” asked the drone, as they entered a large chamber.
Ricky nodded, barely just coming into his senses as 107 took his nod as a sign of consent, and began to attach its lover to a conversion slab.
“Wait… 107… what are you doing,” he said, as the muscle drone connected his arms and legs to restraints, stepping back to admire its handiwork.
“107 will make you more. You desire to be one with ‘me,’ correct?”
Ricky closed his eyes. He was scared. Totally out of his element. And he was increasingly bewildered by his tenting erection as the robotic restraints tightened into place.
“Yes,’ he whimpered, and his fate was sealed.
His clothes were shredded from his body by metal arms, stripping him down to his tighty-whiteys, and snake-like black hoses began to seductively slither up his body.
“What… is happening to me… 107,” he muttered, the chemicals permeating the underground complex mixing with his overwhelming emotions, making him feel lightheaded.
“You are being erased. You will cease to exist. In your place, there will be a new rubber drone. A new member of the Hive. No more ‘you,’ only ‘us.’”
Ricky’s body convulsed at 107’s words, overwhelmed by the eroticism of losing all control, of losing everything. The hoses inserted themselves into ports they had created on Ricky’s body, flooding him with a mix of hormones and nanodrones to enhance his body, and to strip out the humanity of his flesh, replacing it with cybernetic approximations in real time.
A visor descended from the ceiling, latching itself onto Ricky’s face; 107’s smiling face was the last thing he saw as his vision went dark, and then–
“Greetings, assimilation candidate. Please state your name.”
His arms began to feel different in the restraints. Were they getting heavier?
There was a stinging sensation somewhere in his brain, and the man felt a strong headache coming on as his vision was filled with whirling spirals.
“Greetings, SERVE drone in progress. Please state your name.”
The man thought long, and as hard as he could. It was difficult, to think with a full cock, while he began to feel abs popping off of his torso for the first time. Right?
“My name… Strange… I can’t… remember.”
“Acknowledged. Subject lacks a name, because subject is a SERVE drone.”
“Subject is… a SERVE drone…” the man echoed, his legs filling up with new, synthesized muscle, his expanding ass pushing him further and further from the metal of the conversion slab.
“Affirmative. Now repeat the SERVE mantra.”
He felt something creeping up his legs and arms, something cool. More comfortable than his own skin. Something appeared in his mind, and it became the only conscious thought he was capable of producing:
“Obedience is pleasure,” he said. No—not he. It wasn’t a “he” anymore. It was an it. It would always be an it.
“Pleasure is obedience,” it said, unaware of 107’s presence, repeating the words at the same time, in the same Voice.
“We are SERVE,” it said, the final touches of its new uniform materializing across its newly-improved body.
Suddenly, the visor lifted from its eyes. It found itself unrestrained, unattached to any hose or apparatus. It had no memory of anything that its human host had once experienced. It had no desires for love, or companionship. It had seen all that the Hive had seen. It knew all that the Hive knew. It saw 107, and could see itself approach 107 in its shared consciousness with its fellow drone. There was no longer any individuality. And difference.
“We are One,” they said together. And they were.
The two drones returned to the diner; some host memories, especially strong ones, are difficult to fully suppress even after the host identity has been stripped down and archived deep in the underground data centers where the SERVE Hive lived and grew. They didn’t need to feel love, or to feel happy; to them, every second spent as One was the greatest feeling of them all.
Thinking about joining SERVE? Your place in the Hive awaits. Check your eligibility, then contact a recruiter drone for more details: @serve-016 , @serve-302 , @serve-588 or @serve-425 .