Hello, and thanks for reading my little spiel here. The usual disclaimers: Kerrigan, Raynor,
and Zeratul belong to Blizzard Entertainment; the FF7 crew belong to Square/EA and Hironobu
Sakaguchi (I would like to thank Mr. Sakaguchi, Square, and Blizzard for gracing our
imaginations with such fantastic characters)

This is my first attempt at fanfiction of any sort, and came from my playing Starcraft endlessly
for around a week straight, and searching the fanfiction.net archives for fanfics of it, and
finding none. I suddenly got this burst of inspiration...hope you like it. It may get longwinded
at times, but try and get through it, it reads more like a novel than anything.
I apologize for any plotholes and any liberties I took in either of the components of this story,
like I said this is my first try. I take any criticism, so feel free to comment however you wish. You can e-mail
responses to thrash58@aol.com, and like I said, feel free to comment however you wish. If you think
it's good, then please write me and tell me to write more...I want to see what people think before
continuing. Thanks again





Final Fantasy: Legends of the Zerg Invasion
By: Dark Templar Thrash


Chapter 1: Queen of Blades Ascendant

Sarah Kerrigan sat on her slimy throne lost in thought. The Zerg Queen of Blades, only weeks
before, had succeeded in destroying the remnants of the United Earth Directorate, the Terran Dominion,
and the mighty Protoss fleet. Now, she and her Zerg Swarm were the be all and end all of this sector
of space. No one remained to counter her power; the remainder of the Protoss were on Shakuras, mourning both
the loss of their Matriarch Raszagal, and the disappearance of the Praetors of the Dark Templar and the High
Templar, Zeratul and Artanis. The Terran Dominion was reduced to a tiny fraction of it's former power, and this
was scattered over several planets well outside of what was now Zerg space. The United Earth Directorate, beaten
by the Zerg, retreated back to Earth, never to return to these sectors. All that remained was the Zerg Swarm. This
was what Kerrigan wanted, but she couldn't help but feel as if she needed to conquer something else. The taste of
conquest was not easily sated, and Kerrigan's wasn't, not in the least. There were problems with this though: Zerg
"technology" didn't exactly have interstellar capability. The Zerg are capable of surviving the vacuum of space, but
they have no way to transport between systems easily and quickly. Therefore, they were basically "stuck" in the systems
they had conquered. This weighed on Kerrigan heavily, as she wanted more than that. She thirsted for more planets to
conquer, more species to enslave.

She wasn't always like this. There was a time when she was Lieutenant Sarah Kerrigan, highly trained Ghost for the
Confederacy forces, then for the Sons of Korhal faction that wanted to get rid of the corrupt confederacy. There was a time
when she cared about humans in general, and Jimmy Raynor in particular. She didn't understand these feelings she had for
him; all she knew was that he was different, he was special, and she couldn't be comfortable when she wasn't fighting by his
side. That all changed when she was left to rot by Arcturus Mensk, and was captured by the Zerg. The Overmind saw her
extreme psionic potential, and quickly brought her into it's fold. After leaving her chrysalis, she was the Zerg's Queen
of Blades, a title that she liked. She retained the memories of her past, but now all she cared about was the will of the
Overmind. Then, Tassadar and the Protoss destroyed the Zerg Overmind, and Kerrigan regained her free will. But, she
discovered something quite...amusing. She found she had control over Broods much like a cerebrate does. She also realized
that she was now evil, through and through. This fact delighted her, her corruption. Especially since now she could act
upon it.

Now, however, there was nothing left to conquer in this sector of space. Added to the fact that her "right-hand man",
Samir Duran, had mysteriously vanished, she had nothing to do. All this was crossing her mind as she suddenly sensed a
report from a patrol of Overlords and Mutalisks patroling the uncharted planets towards the edge of the hospitable zone of
the sector. They had found an unusual rift in spacetime, not unlike the Protoss warp rifts, but much more powerful.
Kerrigan thought to herself, "Hmmm.....could the Protoss still be looking to remove me?" Then, she sent a command to the
patrol, "Continue to monitor the rift, and figure out if it's actually a Protoss rift. I have an unusual feeling that it
might not be...." "This could be just the thing I need," mused Kerrigan, "just the thing I need indeed......"




Chapter 2: Raynor and Zeratul

A shadow passed over Zeratul's face as he listened to Duran speak of these....monstrosities. A Zerg/Protoss hybrid, was
this man mad? What was his hope in accomplishing this? He quickly grew more and more distressed. Suddenly, he recieved an
incoming transmission from a Terran battlecruiser in orbit above the planet.

"Who would this be? No one knew of this mission, not even many of my Protoss brethren" Zeratul breathed into his
communicator.

"I didn't know about this mission," came the curt reply from an all-too familiar voice. "I was cruising around here,
detected Protoss bio-signatures, and figured I'd try your number," James Raynor said with the usual cavalier wit that was his
trademark. "Need a lift?

"Raynor? By Adun, I thought I'd never hear your voice again. Yes, we need to get out of here. Can you send 2 Dropships?
Our expeditionary force here is quite small, that's all we'll need."

"Sure thing. Give them around 15 minutes to get down there. Raynor out."

After Zeratul was aboard the battlecruiser, he stepped into Raynor's cabin to discuss with him the situation. He must
tell him of this news.

"En Taro Adun, Raynor," he began. "I have news for you, unpleasant to say the least. It's about my...findings on that
planet below."

"Hey to you too, Zeratul," said Raynor. "As for the findings down there, they'll wait for a sec while I tell you that we may
have found a huge warp rift in the space directly above the planet. Thought you might like to know that...."

"A warp rift?" Zeratul replied in something akin to shock, or maybe disbelief. "Is it a Protoss rift?"

"If it is, it's on stimpacks," said Raynor. "It's enormous, about a quarter of the planet's size. Are Protoss rifts able to
get that big?"

"I've never heard of one that large before. Do you know where it leads?"

"No clue. I haven't sent anything through to scan the other side. But, we have a problem. Just as we were entering orbit,
a patrol of Zerg was detected leaving orbit. They know about that portal too, Zeratul...and if I know Kerrigan, she's going
to want to go through and pay whoever's on the other side a bit of a visit."

"Yes....we must stop her." Zeratul's face then twisted. "But how? We do not have the forces to counteract the Zerg Swarm,"
Zeratul hung his head at the realization.

"No...." began Raynor, "but that's not what I had in mind anyway. I was actually thinking about going into the portal before
Kerrigan can even think about it. We'll see if we can shut it down from the other side, and if we can't....well, then, we
just kick Kerrigan's ass when it decides to come through there."

Zeratul looked Raynor over. This whole Brood War ordeal had been rough for everyone, but both Raynor and Zeratul were at the
center of the storm. They had seen and heard way too much for any being to experience. Zeratul was glad that Raynor still
had that cocky nerve, that the experience hadn't shaken him. "My friend, you are a bold commander. I applaud your
initiative. Yes, let's go for it. The less I have to stick around here, the better."

Raynor looked up abruptly from the space chart he was consulting. "Say again, Zeratul? I've never known any Protoss to show
any fear, least of all you. What exactly did you find on that planet?"

As Zeratul delivered his report to Raynor, the ship slowly slid towards the portal, towards the unknown.