You decide to breed with Lottie. Your next step in Growth is the sentinent latex body, so why not have it now?
"Good..." Lottie purrs as she picks you up and puts you on your back, your nether regions exposed to her. Her ovipositor slides into your slit without a problem, and immediately you feel a shock of pleasure throughout your whole body. Moaning, you notice that Lottie is doing the same as her ovipositor goes in as far as it can. She then pulls it out, then back in. Out and in. Charlotte does this for a few minutes, filling both of you with ecstasy with every movement, until suddenly, you feel a burst of eggs and liquid latex inside of your body, making your stomach bulge a little and making your mind go numb with pleasure. Overwhelmed, you pass out.
You wake up slowly, hearing a quiet voice. "Hey, get up. Come on, let's go. Charlotte is doing something." It's not Lottie's voice. The voice sounds unfamilliar, yet you feel like you've heard it before. It sounds like your own, but sounding more androgynous - not male nor female. You start hearing it again. "Charlotte is doing something. C'mon, this is going to be important." You roll onto your front, pink feet landing in a puddle of latex that dripped out from last night's endeavours. Groggily, you ask, "Are you the-"
The voice responds, "Yes, I am your body. You don't need to ask me anything, just think of it. For now, get up. Charlotte is going to tell you something important."
You lap up the latex puddle at your feet as your mind starts to clear up and process what's going on. Lottie is saying something to the panther, bat, and crocodile that you both changed yesterday. The orca is a little further away, but is slowly making his way to Lottie. The bee notices you and motions for you to come over.
"Hey! C'mon, I need to tell you something really important."
As you approach, Lottie starts speaking to you. "I was just telling these guys here about our plans for this afternoon. The hivemind is having the latex animals spread over at the town nearby."
"Hivemind?" You think to yourself, before the voice in your head starts talking again.
"Yes, the hivemind. All of the latex animals who have Grown to have the conscious body are automatically linked to the hivemind by their body. The hivemind is a very important key to our sucess in conversion. It's very, very smart, remembers anything that the latex animals see, and can keep a telepathic connection with all the animals with conscious bodies. Your link will take a little while to develop, but once it does, I'll tell you of anything the hive wants us to know."
Lottie continues speaking. "We're kinda limited on numbers, but we're growing. We're probably going to be able to spread to all the residents in the whole town by this afternoon. The hive has positioned our numbers to surround the town. You won't be following, though."
You ask to Lottie, "Why is that?"
"You have eggs in you, silly. They'll pop out of you by, hm, about late afternoon, and we need to take care of them. I'll be with you the whole time, don't worry."
Lottie has a point. You're bearing eggs, they'll come out today, and that's a bad thing if it happens during the spread into the city. What do you do now?