Pancake wants to join the Hymenoptera pt1

Who: Justin Pancake
Where: Hanging upside down on a rope
When: 12th Century still, about an hour before we all went back to the future
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He whistled to the Hymenoptera. "Oi, you. Come over here. If you help me. I'll help you. You have a couple of hundred years to go, but soon you'll be the most powerful alien race in the entire galaxy. I promise you!"
The small Hymenoptera climbed their rope up to the tree branch, and them moved across to the branch that Justin's rope was tied to. Then the started to climb down towards him.
"I'm ready!" he said. "I'm ready to join you!"
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Justin watched with happiness as the Hymenoptera approached him. Really, he should have been scared. His overwhelming desire to join them in ruling the universe was greater than his rationality, which should have told him that all they wanted to do was eat him.
The Hymenoptera were relatively small, as Hymenoptera go. Normally they were anything from the size of large dogs, to monstrous Godzilla sized, but these were about the size of squirrels. They were the babies from the eggs that Rosette's Hymenoptera side had laid.
They started chewing on the rope that Justin hung from. He strained his neck to look upwards. "Yes, that's it. Set me free!"
Another of the baby Hymenoptera crawled all the way down the rope. It's feet seeming to defy gravity. It crawled onto Justin's leg, and then down to his knee.
"Hello little fella!" Justin said. "In the future you're really powerful. You're going to rule the galaxy one day. I want to help."
The Hymenoptera looked at him curiously for a second. It clicked and squeaked in some sort of insect language that he didn't understand. Then it bit him.
Justin screamed in pain.
The Hymenoptera had dug it's teeth into Justin's knee, and he could feel the insect's pincers digging deep.
"Stop it. Stop it!" He called out in pain. "I'm your friend. Look. Look in my pocket. I can prove it!"
The insect chewed on the rope binding his hands and allowed him to reach into his pocket, where he took out the green glowing Hymenoptera communications device he'd been given. It had been flashing faster and faster as he had been getting closer to the Hymenoptera, but now it emitted a constant glow.
"See this?" he said. "I got this from the future. It was given to me by someone. Someone who wants me to join you. He said I have a destiny. Just like a version of me in a parallel universe that I met. I'm supposed to serve the Hymenoptera."
The Hymenoptera crawled closer and snatched the glowing device from his hands.
"Hey!" Said Justin. "I might need that still."
The insect walked back up the rope on it's little spidery legs. It turned at him once before leaving the rope completely.
"Wait. Where are you going?" Justin said. "You can't leave me! I can help you. I'm SUPPOSED to help you!"
He watched as the Hymenoptera crawled through the branches above him and then were out of sight. Leaving Justin all alone. He didn't have the green glowing communications device to find them again.
He struggled to free himself from the rope, and it finally snapped. He fell to the ground and hit his head on a tree root.
"Ouch!" He cried, and held his head, checking for blood.
Dazed, he stood up. Still wondering why the Hymenoptera hadn't taken him with them. "Bastards!" he said. "What did they want with my glowing thing?"
An arrow embedded itself into a tree next to him.
Justin looked up two men watching him, they were Robin Hoods men, and they had longbows aimed directly at him.
"The monsters didn't kill you. Explain why!" They demanded.
<to be continued>

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