Unit 78328 gave you specified orders to guard several human converted zentai products heading to Sweden via boat. You then acknowledge the orders given to you and immediately left the area and into the loading bay at the back of the plant. You then see the cargo of moaning spandex items loaded on the trucks driven by other zentai drones as it took hours for it to finish. Once the loading was done, you and several other guard drones then enter the truck and took positions of the corners of the truck as the truck's back door close and is pitch black, but it doesn't bother you since you have your own night vision. You, at the corner right near the sliding door of the truck and you feel the truck start the engine and move out followed by two or three more trucks behind four groups in each truck. You and other guards then go to stationary or free will mode once out of range of the facility, but still connected to your group as a small hive. Of course, you decided to talk to them regularly as some way of human socialization. You went up to the one just standing there, and you realize, that's not a human converted drone as it tells you monotone, "Unit 84730, I am not like your kind that like to converse in physical connection, I am the lead drone of this operation". You then apologize to your lead drone, "I apologize Unit Leader 05126."
"Over here!" a voice calls to you from behind where you were positioned. A black zentai waving at you, gesturing you to come over as you followed him back and to the other corner of the truck at the back. Another zentai drone that was a human converted one that has snake pattern spandex skin was there sitting against the wall, feet on the cargo boxes.
"You're unit 84730, Matt right?" the snake zentai drone spoke as the both of you sat down on the truck floor and bracing yourselves between the cargo and the door behind you. "Yeah, I'm 84730, Matt. Nice to meet you Unit 24761." you extend your hand to him as he grabs and shakes it. "Like wise. My human name is George." he says.
The black drone then introduces himself, "Unit 51325, Eric, nice to meet you guys face to face." You both nodded. Then a voice in your head booms in your head, <I'm Unit 45682, Rosie, nice to meet you guys. I'm at the passenger seat with Unit 55231, David here. He's at drone mode at the moment since he's driving.>
<Nice to meet you too!> You three said as a choir. You three looked at each other and laughed despite not showing any emotions.
Of course, it was a long ride so you had a chance to make some small talks with your brothers in arms. "So, how did you guys end up as guard duty?" you ask.
"A friend of mine got a job here at the facility and wanted to join him." George continues, "I was gonna be with him as guards but, the hive redirected him to another facility in Miami, Florida and I wanted to be sent there with him." George then sighs, "Sadly, the hive needed more guards here in the UK since this is a first time setting up the zentai conversion factory. The hive did promise me to go there with him once there is a bit more employees as factory guards or transport guards, probably both."
"Do you manage to talk to them through the hive telepathy?" You ask. The snake pattern drone shook his head. "Though the factories are from the same source, they don't have that full capacity for an international hive telepathy. So, I hope he's doing okay."
Eric then pats George on the back, "I'm sure he's fine. The hive is watching out for him. Well, us."
Eric then tells his part of the story, "Well, I didn't have a job and homeless, so this is the only place I can go to."
"Kinda thought so when I went to the Hive and looked through your memories, Eric." you say. "And it wasn't a good one too."
"Yeah, it wasn't. And I don't like to relive that." Eric states. George then asks you, "What about you? Why did you join?"
you shrug, "Eh, it'd be an awesome experience to be one of your favorite hobbies. Even if it is permanent."
You and the others kept conversing to each other telling other stories and news you heard from media sources, you and the others notice the energy inside you are low, and departed back to your corners and link up to a cable plugged to the nape of your neck and felt your world went dark and show the battery bar slowly being charged as you "sleep" but still aware of the world around you.
Time felt so fast though even though you didn't dream and the only thing that you see in blackened vision is your almost full battery charge. You didn't have time to get to your free mode as you got to the port and were immediately forced to your drone mode like the others as you inspect the contents being transported to the docked cargo ship. Once that was done, you and the other drones went to the ship and waited there for other instructions from the lead drone that you first saw in the truck you were in. But that gave you the free time to move around the ship and talk to other guard drones at the lounge area along with the crews of the ship. Soon, the ship finished their cargo and departed to the open sea to its destination in Sweden.