Here's the November Princess continuation.
Time line is NP - LotV - This.
I
Ulnar was a fractured planet. Broken and abandoned after constant battle, there was barely any signs of life still present here, except for rogue Zerg broods left behind after the evacuation. Zagara had deemed her own power yet insufficient, and was forced to relinquish control of a part of the swarm and leave them here.
Ulnar, from the distant suns, was a massive sun disc. Its ring span reached up to eight times the planet size, and was expanding. The core of the planet had destabilised, causing excessive radiations expanding outward to the rest of the Sigma Quadrant. The recent ventures into the Void accessed through it only aided in speeding up its process of collapse. Soon, it will go supernova, and consume itself in a gulf of gas shockwave.
A Terran scout ship shot through space.
Its claw-like appearance housed two propeller rockets on each wing, and a laser gun down the bottom. Its metallic edges cut through the empty space as it twisted and turned to dodge the scouting overlords orbiting the planet's ring. Ulnar's surface had long been uninhabitable, and the gate to the Void was contained within a set of planetary platforms built on its gigantic ring. Even know, the gate hissed and glared, waiting to consume itself due to the eventual collapse of the imbalance of the Void.
The scout ship made its way onto a connecting platform. There were still unpowered Protoss structures here, mostly pylons and assimilators, abandoned during Artanis' brief stay. The ship hovered over a few abandoned mineral patches, before encountering a dormant brood base off the eastern platform. The Void energy present here had been drawing in the abandoned zerg. They had settled into a web of living fortresses to protect the breach, awaiting their eventual damnation. The scout ship had to land, as there was no more safe space to fly over.
Nova stepped out. Her white counter-gravity suit was hidden well behind the blue protective layer of the calibration machinery. Her hair, golden but crudely cut short, sat still in anticipation. She pulled down her goggles and had it at full power. Its scanner revealed the situation she was in. From her position to the target housed some fifteen thousand zerg bionics, stretched across six kilometres of crawlers and overseers. She had absolutely no backup, and not even a good ship. Going back to it for what seemed like the last time for a long time, she clutched the laser rifle in her hand. Tucking the gun behind her back, she sealed the ship's door, and began to move.
This platform system built around Ulnar was ancient, and thankfully straightforward. There were masses of them connecting floating land and stationary continents' debris with rails and transporters. With flying being impossible, she had little choice but to approach the gate to the Void by land. Unfortunately for her, this would involve hacking into and activating the contraptions operating these mobile platforms, effectively alerting her presence to every single zerg on the system. She wouldn't have minded that too much if her mission was a one-way trip. It wasn't.
The first step was always the easiest. Exerting an expert control over her psionic abilities, Nova's suit turned non-reflective. This was a quick and dirty way to mask the appearance of invisibility without having to wear full head armour. An experienced military man paying attention might be able to make out the outline such a stealth system, but Nova doubted the zerg's ability to do anything of the sort.
She began walking calmly toward the end of the current floating land mass. Here a panel resided. Turning on the machine, she realised that it had been hacked into currently. Someone had been using it to great effect, and now she wished she could do the same. Taking control of the panel was a breeze, and she didn't even need to brute force it. Whoever was responsible for locking it seemed to have felt absolutely no need to return. There wasn't even an encryption placed on the lock, but a simple hash. Soon, Nova assumed control over the entire rail system. This should give her free unhinged access, if it weren't for the zerg.
Climbing to a larger rocky cliff, she held a wider view. From this vantage point, she saw the platform she needed for transport being two notches to the west and five notches to the north. That would take at least a minute to get to where she is, and would certainly draw attention. She peered to her north. An overseer floated about aimlessly. Its two antennas rotated from side to side. It was only its path finding module, however. Nova knew it was the various eyes placed everywhere around its body that gave it the ability to see past her tricks. As powerful as such a power was, however, it was still limited by the laws of physics.
Nova initiated the movement protocol, generating a loud hiss from the rail engines. As the transportation platform slowly moved over, she kept watch on the zerg overseers. They could tell that something was causing such a ruckus, but they could not pin point it to where Nova was. She doubted they even figured out that this system was something that could be controlled. On the platform itself, however, was a few roaming zerglings, completely oblivious to what was happening beneath its feet. Nova was now faced with another dilemma. She should have little clearing those pests out, but how could she control the platform mover while standing on the platform itself.
After a moment of contemplation, she pulled out a small explosive from the package on her back. Setting it to maximum flash, she placed it on the control button that would start the correct motion. Departing immediately, she saw the zerglings reacting to this new attention-seeking contraption. As they ran off the platform and onto the control panel, gnawing at the bomb, Nova was already on the moving metallic board. Activating the remote explosive, it set off the signal for the scaffolding beneath her to move in the correct direction. However, it would also destroy the control panel itself as well as the zerglings once there. This sent out an area-wide signal for the stragglers to check out the site, which worked out in her favour. Nova sighed in both relief and worry. It was something she had to do, but she had absolutely no plans as to how to return once this mission was over. That was something to worry about later, still, as her troubles were far from over.
As she arrived at the north most base of the zerg web, these feral have managed to set up a quite airtight defence line against unknown threats. Without a leader, they were maintaining formation on both sky patrol and ground patrol. Packs of mutalisks and corruptors circled the immediate airspace above the gate, which was now drenched and absorbed into a giant zerg biomass. Nova moved forward, almost stepping into tumours along the way. The ground reeked of flesh and pulsated like veins. It was common zerg structural distribution, but that made it all the more strange. They shouldn't have been this organised, not even close.
Nova sneaked in between a pile of rocks. With the platform movement having cut most of the distance, she was now only a fifteen minute run to her target. This last stretch was the hardest, however. Immediately before her was a spire. The giant biological structure was five times her height. Its spiky, armoured tendrils dug deep into the ground. In the middle were bug-like fangs sticking out, flailing aimlessly. The top of it housed a curious everted hole, pulsing up and down as if it was used to breath.
Nova believed structures to be the key to her quest. They had the least nerves connection with the rest of the swarm. If she were to kill a single zergling it would alert the entire horde. However, a few pokes here and there on a spire would not cause much trouble at all. Thinking fast, she bolted toward the tendrils. Edging her way across the bar-like formation, she was now underneath the structure. Right beneath her was a crack in the ground leading to absolute darkness. Right above her was the swinging claw, desperate to grab at anything it could. Despite the overseers still very much keeping close eyes on things, this temporary shelter will keep her hidden. The structure itself had no reaction, not that it normally wouldn't, but because she was still invisible to the naked eye.
There was a hatchery not further than a ten seconds' dash. Due to its colossal size, Nova figured it could be a decent place to hide under. Despite it not having any chambers meant to be walked, the ends where it produces larvae could be hijacked as a quick moving parasite. Not thinking any more, she went for it, and made the run even faster than expected. The hatchery loomed over her head like a giant pyramids. On for sides claw-like bone structure raised to the sky like columns, anchoring the building to the earth it was injecting itself into. She went deeper into it, expecting to be able to come out of the other side. As it got increasingly darker, she was forced to turn on her night vision.
She had wished she hadn't.
An innumerable amount of unprocessed larvae was crawling on all possible open space within here, and even on top of each other, piling themselves up to her waist. Their small but sharp spikes covered their entire body, even their heads. As she carefully stepped over and forward through these dark and seemingly endless tunnels, Nova could feel these creatures swarming over here. She cannot resist, lest risking the horde being informed of her position. While her body suit was tough and unshaken, her exposed head left a large area of vulnerable exposure. Despite having her arms and hands covering them, she was still getting stung occasionally, along with goo and saliva dripping onto her skin at most times.
After this futile struggle, she made it out to the other end. She was quite close to the gate. There was no significant building in the way, and despite the patrols she could swing herself into the gate and forget about the rest. As long as she kept her cool she had a chance. With that, she ran like mad. Counting each stride she paced herself to avoid any obstacles that appeared at the corner of her eye. She was obviously drawing attention, but it didn't matter. Once she passed there would be no looking back. Presently, the gate was only a few metres before her, and she ploughed toward the dark opened gate.
Instead of feeling the weightlessness of the void, she could only feel a hard stop. She had rammed into something which sprang up straight from the ground below her. Falling to her back, Nova realised that a zerg queen had been laying in ambush this entire time. All eight of its legs etched forward, its arms pinning Nova down by the shoulders, and its fibreless, bony wings were poised ready to strike. The queen screeched at her face, releasing bile and other substance upon its victim. The wings were raising slowly, and struck down fast. Nova closed her eyes and readied herself for damage.
Momentarily, nothing occurred.
The ghost operative opened her eyes again to see that the queen had stopped dead in the middle of attacking. The zerg about, which were approaching her position to intercept before, had also done the same. Slowly, the queen's wings now lowered, but not with the speed of a strike. Instead, it merely touched the end of its bony structure on Nova's forehead.
"It is you." A telepathic voice was transferred through that nerves system. "The Terran woman."
"Zagara?" Nova spoke out it surprise. She then realised that they weren't communicating through words, and began transmitting back the message through a psionic connection. "Are you controlling the zerg swarm here?"
"That's right, human." The Queen of the Zerg's voice transpired through all other beings in this immediate vicinity. "Why have you come here?"
"I'm here to save Kerrigan!"
For a moment, there was no reply.
"The Queen of Blades has been consumed into the void, human." Zagara's voice was that of faint regret, uncharacteristic for a primal. "There is nothing we can do."
"No, I can still sense her in there." Nova struggled to get out of the captive's grasp. Zagara allowed this.
"How can you sense her, yet we loyal subjects cannot?" The Zerg Queen pressed.
"My feelings for her are far more than just gratitude and respect," Nova explained under a painful voice. One could almost feel the agony in those words. "We are connected, Kerrigan and I. Trust me Zagara; I can do this."
A momentary silence.
In unison, all the zerg forces stepped aside, despite Nova still being within reach of the gate. She gave them all a nod of appreciation, before diving into the void gate once again.