Chapter 43 – Prisoners of the Mind Flayers

The familiars were now fully dressed in black skintight bodysuits and ready for battle while Sam entered the Nexus. 

The two new familiars Harley and Selina were linked in the mind link and were no longer fighting each other.

The familiars weapons were loaded and silencers attached.

"Ready?" Selina asked.

Everyone gave their thumbs up.

She unlocked the door to the room they were in and they entered the corridor and split into two teams.

There were now 22 of them, so they split evenly to 11 per team and headed in separate directions down the corridor.

Both teams soon met with a few illithids who roamed the corridors, but they had the element of surprise and slaughtered them in seconds in a barrage of gunfire. 

Both teams split to smaller teams as the corridors split to more different paths, leaving 4 teams of 5-6 people each.

One of the teams consisting of Selina, Alex, Yuriko, Faith, Trix and Mindy ended in the dungeons, following the sounds of endless female  screams to one particular dungeon.

They sneaked nearer only to see several mind flayers in the room and hear a creepy alien voice.

"How can they last for so long? The process should only last a few hours. It's been days since we implanted the tadpoles" one of the illithids rasped coldly.

"Send them to the kitchen. It's taking too long. Since their brains regenerate, they will be our endless food supply" the illithid that seemed like the leader said.

The girls immediately took action and attacked.

*Pop* *pop* *pop*

The silenced guns fired killing the illithids who were unprepared.

Then they looked at the prisoners. There were 4 naked girls hanging on the walls in the same contraptions that bound Sam in the other room. 

"Those are..." Selina said, recognizing them from the others' memories in the mind link.

"Yes, it's Jemina, Gwen, Aria and Arias" Mindy said as Selina released them from their bonds.

They were still screaming as there were illithid tadpoles inside their heads, eating their brains. At the same time, the illithid tadpoles had already burst through their skull and was partially visible from the outside.

However, as they were Sam's acquired girls, or Samsara bodies as he preferred to call them now, their brains healed simultaneously as the tadpoles ate them, leaving them in a stalemate of being eaten and healing. 

"What do we do?" Mindy asked.

"Surely we don't bash their brains in like Harley did" Selina said.

"I suspect we will have to. In AD&D lore, the only way to reverse it is to kill the victim and the tadpole, then resurrect their bodies." Sam said from within the Nexus.

"Really?" Selina asked, appalled.

A growing tadpole was seen pulsating inside Jemina's skull. As it had been feeding on her brain for several days, it was already fully grown, but yet stuck inside her ever healing skull. 

"That makes it much easier then. Brain doctor's orders" Mindy said, immediately putting her gun on Jemina's head and firing multiple bullets, pulverizing the tadpole, as well as parts of Jemina's brain.

Mindy dug her fingers into the skull to pull the rest of the tadpole out, together with bits of Jemina's brain and skull, leaving her catatonic and drooling.

Mindy threw the tadpole onto the floor and smashed it with her shoe, leaving a purple and silver mess.

Behind her, Jemina's head started healing immediately as she was a Samsara body.

"Success! Next!" Mindy said coldly.

Trix immediately took action, one of her hands transforming into a laser, cutting the whole top of Gwen's head off just above her eyesbrows, removing her skull, the tadpole and the top half of her brain.

She ripped the tadpole and brain it was attached to and replaced the skull back on Gwen's head. Gwen's skull could be seen rapidly healing on it's own, but she was still catatonic as her eyes rolled in her head and she was not breathing, probably due to half her brain being missing.

Trix then incinerated the tadpole with the top half of Gwen's brains with her plasma rifle inside her arm. 

By watching Trix remove the tadpole from Gwen's skull, Yuriko used one of her adamantium fingernails to slice off the top of Aria's head. Like Trix, she stomped on the tadpole attached to the top half of Aria's brain and then replaced the skull top, with half a brain still missing. 

Faith had simply smashed Arisa's whole head into mush with her troll god hammer.

"This works too right?" Faith asked.

"Uh... " Sam said, unable to answer. 

The four girl's heads and skulls began to heal in a incredibly fast rate, like a liquid metal terminator and within 30 seconds, from the outside at least, they looked fully restored, albeit their faces and hair were covered in their own blood. 

He hoped their brains healed 100% as well, otherwise they would be catatonic and lifeless. 

Sam brought all four Samsara bodies into the Nexus and the team of familiars continued scouting the building.

Slowly, the Samsara bodies recovered one by one, gasping as they regained consciousness.

"Are you alright?" Sam asked Jemina, who was the first one who recovered.

She looked at him blankly before she blinked her pretty eyes and started recognizing him. 

"Samsara? What happened? Where am I?" she asked

"I don't know. We are in a castle of some sort. I just extricated myself too" he said.

She hugged him tightly, her naked body pressed closely to his. 

Soon Gwen awoke as well and looked around, surprised to see Sam hugging Jemina.

"This is..." Gwen asked. 

"I don't know" Sam replied. 

"It's the royal castle of Aristonia. My brother, King Richard the 24th's castle" Gwen replied. 

Aria recovered next and looked at her sister recovering before approaching and hugging Sam, looking around what was happening outside the Nexus. 

Sam explained how they discovered them, and the gruesome procedure to remove the tadpoles from their brains. 

The current team had entered yet another dungeon and killed all the illithids there. There were two naked females also on the walls, as well as a male.  

They looked like the tadpoles were about to break out of the skull as they went through the final stages of becoming illithids.

"Who are they?" Mindy asked, wondering whether or not to free them. 

"They look like my sister in law, Queen Serene of Aristonia as well as my niece and nephew, Princess Celestia and Prince Leopold. Can you please help them?" Gwen asked.

Selina immediately freed them, laying their bodies on the floor as Sam and the four Samsara bodies exited the Nexus. 

Mindy aimed her gun at Queen Serene's forehead, but Gwen suddenly stopped her. 

"Samsara.... can you please.... turn them to become like us.. before you remove the creatures?" she asked, gesturing towards herself, Jemina, Aria and Arisa. 

"You mean.." Sam said. 

"Yes... Just in case normal resurrecting doesn't work" Gwen said. 

Sam hesitated, only to see the tadpoles pulsate and crack the three loyal's skulls a bit more. 

He immediately placed his penis at Princess Celestia's opening and shoved himself in, pumping in and out of her as fast as he could. 

Both Princess Celestia and Queen Serene were amazingly beautiful women, with Queen Serene looking like she was about 40 years old while Princess Celestia looked very young, probably 14 or 15 years old. 

The blood on his penis showed that he had deflowered her, so he didn't want to think about it as he quickly ejaculated in her. 

[Do you want Princess Celestia?] the Nexus asked. 

"Yes!" Sam said, already approaching Queen Serene. 

[Affirmative. Princess Celestia acquired] the Nexus confirmed. 

Just as Sam shoved his cock into Queen Serene, he heard a loud noise.

*BAM* 

Turning, he saw Faith smiling sadistically as she had smashed Celestia's head into mush with her troll god hammer, together with the tadpole inside her head. 

"It's the fastest way!" Faith said with a eager smile. 

Gwen screamed as Mindy held her back. Slowly, the head of Celestia could be seen reforming by itself. 

Suddenly, both Queen Serene and Prince Leopold's head started breaking open. 

"Fuck no!" Sam yelled as he quickly pumped as fast as he could, ejaculating inside Queen Serene. 

[Do you want to acquire Queen Serene?] the Nexus asked as Queen Serene and Prince Leopold's head burst open revealing the fully grown illithid underneath. 

"Yes" Sam yelled, looking at the illithid's ugly face and tentacles that had covered Queen Serene's face, as his cock was still inside her.

[Affirmative. Queen Serene acquired] the Nexus said. 

*BAAM*

Faith struck again, smashing Queen Serene's head to mush.

Sam quickly getting up and exiting her body. He was appalled as the pretty face he was looking at became a gruesome illithid, which suddenly became meatpaste. 

"What do we do with that one?" Mindy said as Alex magically bound the now fully awakened illithid that was once Prince Leopold's body. 

"Lets try to do the same and resurrect him. However, lets try to remove it gently" Sam said. 

Yuriko suddenly moved in a flash, slicing the top of the illithid's head with her adamantium nails, leaving as much of Leopold's head and brain intact as possible. 

As the silver blood flowed down the illithid's body, Yuriko started moving with quickness and precision, cutting off as many non human bits as she could using all 10 fingernails. 

Within a minute, she had cut out all the illithid parts, leaving the body mostly intact, with the damaged brain having holes where they were eaten by the tadpole, and the broken skull. 

Sam cast [Heal] on the clearly dead body and Gwen used her white magic to try to resurrect him. 

Princess Celestia and Queen Serene had now recovered and were looking around in shock as Aria and Arisa talked to them and comforted them. 

After a short while, Leopold looked like he was fully healed. However, Sam was not so sure about the recovery of his brain. 

The rest had recovered completely due to the magic of the Nexus turning them into Samsara bodies. Now, even if 90% of their body was incinerated, the remaining parts would be able to regenerate their whole body back to wholeness. 

But he wasn't sure of the chances of surviving from becoming a illithid of a person who wasn't a Samsara body. 

Prince Leopold opened his eyes, but remained silent.

"Leo? Are you alright?" Queen Serene asked.

Leopold stared blankly and didn't respond.

"Leopold, can you sit up?" Gwen asked.

Leopold sat up, but remained silent.

"Stand up" Gwen continued

Prince Leopold stood up but remained silent.

Several commands later, they concluded that Prince Leopold had lost his personality, his thoughts and his character.

He can only respond to orders like a robot. 

"Shit!" Sam thought. This literally means that there was no hope of recovery once one turns into an illithid, unless they were a Samsara body of his. 

"So what do we do with him?" Alex asked.

"We use him as another one of our weapons" Gwen said, looking at Queen Serene. 

Queen Serene nodded with a sad look in her eyes.

"Leopold, transform" she ordered.

Leopold suddenly started growing bigger, more muscular, and his hair becoming more wild looking. Fur grew covering his entire body and even a tail grew out of his back. 

He transformed into a half beast, standing at nearly 3 meters tall, looking like a half lion, half human being. 

As he was naked, he looked even more wild and bestial with his erect cock standing up under his fur. 

"Alright, lets go" Sam said as he entered the Nexus with the Samsara bodies while Leo joined the familiars as they continued exploring.

To Sam's surprise, Celestia and Serene pushed him down onto a bed and started crawling onto him.