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Prologue
He hated flies. Those annoying creatures, always buzzing, unceremoniously invading his space. They seemed to him the personification of everything that was out of control.
And then she showed up.
Not a fly.
She.
But for some reason, it was from this moment that everything went wrong.

Chapter 1. Crushed Wings
Mark Sokolovsky was used to order. His life was measured down to the second: wake up at 6:00, cold shower, black coffee without sugar, ten pages of a new novel before lunch. He was a successful writer, although lately words had been difficult for him.
And then, on one of those days, when he was rereading an unsuccessful paragraph for the hundredth time, something small and buzzing crashed into the window.
Fly.
She was beating against the glass, helpless and persistent. Mark watched her attempts with a frown until he waved his hand - let her get out herself.
But the fly didn't fly away. It landed on the edge of his notebook, as if studying what was written.
"Even you think this is crap?" he chuckled.
And then something strange happened.
The fly… blinked.
No, that's impossible. Insects don't blink.
But she did it again.
And then… she spoke.
“Well, finally you noticed me,” a thin voice whispered.
Mark recoiled, knocking over his cup. Hot coffee spilled over the manuscript.
- You... You...
- Yes, I can talk. And it seems we have a common problem.

Chapter 2. Prisoner of his own body
The fly introduced itself as Lika.
"I wasn't always like this," she said, fiddling with her paws. "I'm... human. Or rather, I was."
Mark didn't believe a single word, but something in her tone made him listen.
- Who are you?
- Lika Vorontsova. Journalist. I was investigating the Pharmaco case, and then... I woke up looking like this.
He went cold. Pharmaco was the pharmaceutical giant that had sponsored his latest book.
- Do you think they killed you?
"No," the fly whispered. "Worse. They turned me."

Chapter 3. Shadows of the Past
Mark didn't want to believe it, but the trail was too clear. His agent had disappeared after signing a contract with Pharmaco. His editor had suddenly rejected a previously approved story. And now here was a talking fly claiming to be a woman.
“Why did you come to me?” he asked.
- Because you're next on their list.

Chapter 4. Laboratory
They infiltrated the Pharmaco research center. Lika knew the passwords, the corridors, the weak points.
"They're testing a new drug," she explained. "It's supposed to give immortality... but instead it turns people into insects."
- For what?!
- Because flies only live for two weeks. Ideal test subjects.
Mark felt sick.
- How can I get you back?
- Destroy the main server. Erase all data.

Chapter 5. Last Chance
They almost succeeded. Almost.
But the guard fired first.
Mark fell, feeling warm blood spreading across his chest.
Lika took off.
"No!" he shouted.
She crashed into the server, right into the flames of the short circuit.
Sparks. Explosion.
Darkness.
 

Epilogue
He woke up in the hospital.
“We miraculously survived,” said the doctor.
“A… fly?” Mark whispered.
The doctor frowned.
- What fly?
Something small and buzzing flew past the window.
But when he turned around, there was no one there.
Or so it just seemed.

The Fly. Book Two: Chimeras
Prologue
He still hated flies.
But now - for a different reason.
Because they reminded me.
About her.
And also because after that incident with Pharmaco, he began to understand them.

Chapter 1. Voices in the Dark
Three months have passed.
The Pharmaco case was swept under the rug by the court — the people behind the corporation were too influential. The lab was closed, the "leak" was eliminated. Official version: a terrorist attack. Unofficial — Mark knew the truth.
But the truth didn't matter anymore.
Because at night he heard them.
- Mark...
Whisper. Thin, like a wing touching glass.
He jumped out of bed, grabbing a fly swatter.
- Don't hit me. It's me.
Lika's voice.
Impossible.
She burned. He saw.
But when he turned on the light, there was a fly sitting on the windowsill.
The same one? Or another one?
She looked at him.
- They didn't stop.

Chapter 2. Chimeras
“You’re hallucinating,” the therapist said.
Mark gritted his teeth.
- I'm not crazy.
— After what you’ve been through…
- They continue their experiments!
The doctor sighed and prescribed new pills.
But that same night the fly returned.
- Look for "Chimeras".
This time he followed her.
In an abandoned park, under the roots of an old oak tree, lay a beetle.
Huge.
The size of a palm.
And on his back… there was a human face.

Chapter 3. The Hive
The beetle didn't speak.
It creaked.
But Lika (if it was she) translated:
- He was a scientist. They perfected the formula. Now they turn not only into flies... but into other creatures as well.
- For what?!
— Army. Invisible soldiers. Perfect spies.
Mark touched the beetle; its chitinous shell was cold.
— Where are the others?
— In the Hive.

Chapter 4. Dr. Weiss
The hive turned out to be a private clinic.
The sign reads: "Center for Genetic Innovations."
The director is Dr. Weiss, a former Pharmaco employee.
Mark entered the building disguised as a patient.
“Insomnia?” Weiss smiled.
— Nightmares.
- We will cure...
A shadow flashed behind the glass door of the laboratory.
A man with wings.

Chapter 5. Transformation
He was caught that same night.
“You’ve upset the balance,” Weiss sighed.
Mark was restrained and injected with a drug.
The body was burning.
The bones cracked.
“You will soon become more perfect,” the doctor whispered.
The last thing Mark saw was a fly hitting the lamp.
Lika?
Or…
Now he's on his own.

Epilogue
Morning.
Mark woke up on the ceiling.
His body was… light.
He looked down.
He was lying on the bed.
Sleeping.
Fixed.
Dead?
“Welcome to the Hive,” a familiar voice whispered.
He turned around.
There was a fly sitting nearby.
But now he understood her.
Without words.

The Fly. Book Three: Metamorphosis
Prologue
- You're not dead.
- Then what's wrong with me?
- You became who you were meant to be.
— Have I turned into an insect?
- No.
- Then what?!
- Look in the mirror.
But there were no mirrors in the Hive.

Chapter 1. New Body
Mark tried to touch his face, and instead of fingers he felt smooth chitin.
He didn't become a fly.
He became… something else.
His body was human, but something foreign was moving under the skin.
“What have you done to me?” His voice sounded strange, as if two tones were overlapping each other.
Dr. Weiss smiled:
- We have improved you.
Thin membranous wings fluttered behind Mark's back.

Chapter 2. Queen
Lika was not a fly.
She was the first.
“They called me Queen,” her voice came from the darkness.
Mark finally saw her - not an insect, but a woman with pitch-black eyes and barely noticeable veins on her skin.
- Are you... alive?
- No. More than alive.
She raised her hand, and a thousand flies froze in the air, obeying her gesture.
- They thought they would create an army. But I outsmarted them.

Chapter 3. Uprising
The hive was not a laboratory.
It was an anthill.
The chimera people infected with the Pharmaco virus no longer belonged to themselves.
They belonged to her.
“Can you control them?” Mark asked.
- No. You can.
She touched his forehead and the world exploded with a million signals.
He felt them all:
The scientist beetle in the basement.
A girl with transparent wings behind the wall.
The guard, whose eyes now saw in the darkness.
Our own.

Chapter 4. The Last Experiment
Weiss didn't expect them to wake up.
"You must obey!" he shouted, pressing the alarm button.
But the signal didn't work.
Because the flies have already filled the system.
Mark stepped forward—and for the first time, let go of control.
His wings spread.
The skin has hardened.
The eyes are divided into compound eyes.
"You wanted to create soldiers?" His voice became a buzzing chorus.
- Get a war.

Chapter 5. Exodus
They broke out.
Thousands infected.
Flies.
Spiders.
Beetles with human voices.
The city wouldn't have noticed them if they hadn't started merging.
Bodies broke, rebuilt, forming a new form.
Not a human.
Not an insect.
Something third.
And in the center of this stood Mark and Lika.
"What now?" he asked.
- Now... we are changing the world.

Epilogue
At dawn, the authorities declared a quarantine.
Strange epidemic.
People with insects in their DNA.
But it was already too late.
Because when the sun rose, it was reflected in a million faceted eyes.
And in the abandoned laboratory...
…something moved in the cocoon.

The Fly. Book Four: Apocalypse
Prologue
The city was burning.
But not from fire.
From the wings.
Billions of chimeras crawled out of sewers, rose from parks, burst out of windows. They buzzed - and the sound drove you crazy.
And in the center of it all stood two people.
She has eyes that reflect entire universes.
He was with a body that no longer obeyed the laws of nature.
“Are you ready?” Lika asked.
Mark looked at his hands. Claws. Chitin. Human skin, cracking at the seams.
- No.
- Then let's begin.

Chapter 1. Code 99
The government called it "Code 99" - the final protocol before total destruction.
- Ground troops! Flamethrowers! - the general shouted.
But the soldiers hesitated.
Because among chimeras...
...their relatives were there.
A wife with antennas instead of hair.
Son with buzzing lungs.
Mark sensed their fear.
“We are not monsters,” he whispered, and his voice carried throughout the city through thousands of tendrils.

Chapter 2. The Black Queen
Lika led them there - to the epicenter.
Former Pharmaco laboratory.
Now it was a temple.
The walls are covered with living cocoons.
In the center is She.
The real Queen.
A giant woman-wasp hybrid chained together.
- Mom? - Lika touched her face.
The creature stirred.
- You're late.

Chapter 3. Virus
It turned out it was all a lie.
Pharmaco did not create chimeras.
They tried to stop what had broken out back in the 80s.
"I'm patient zero," the Queen hissed. "They thought I was going to die. But I evolved."
Lika trembled:
- Then who am I?..
- My copy. A precaution.
Mark realized the terrible truth:
They did not mutate.
They became infected.

Chapter 4. Choice
The Queen proposed a deal:
— Become my heirs.
- Or die like people.
Lika looked at Mark.
- You decide.
He remembered:
- My old house (books, coffee, silence).
- Your new body (strength, wings, one mind with the swarm).
- I...
The city shook.

Chapter 5. The End and the Beginning
The choice was made for them.
The government has activated Code X, a thermonuclear warhead.
They had 3 minutes.
“Run!” Lika shouted.
But Mark smiled (like a man) and spread his wings (like a chimera).
- We won't run away.
- We will change.
He hugged her - and their bodies dissolved into the swarm.
Hundreds of thousands of flies.
Billions of particles.
One virus.
Explosion.

Epilogue
One year later.
In the desert where the city once stood, the sand moves.
A little girl with dark eyes raises her hand - and a fly lands on her palm.
“Mom?” she asks.
The insect buzzes something in response...