Now it was only a matter of time until the hornet scouts discovered the bee bastions and alerted the rest of their kin about them with their pheromones.
Together with bringing this news, Chief Commando Flightsight made a suggestion to Malevolence:
"We can kill the scouts, Grand Commander. Quickly. Quietly. They won't tell the rest about us."
Malevolence shook her head. She knew well that this wasn't as simple as Flightsight described. Commando Bees carried rifles as part of their kit, and many of them were great shooters. But killing a moving hornet with just a few bullets—a squad of Commandos won't be able to shoot more than twenty or thirty before the hornet would be upon them—was still extremely hard.
And Beehounds weren't invulnerable like Beemarines—being noticed by a hornet meant certain death. By Beehounds' own reports, the evolved hornets could fly just as fast as morphotyped bees with 'Flight V'.
