AN: I don't own Starcraft or anything Starcraft related, this is purely a fan-fiction.
AN2: This may or may not become a story, this is something I wrote since my brother was writing a SC2 fanfiction as well and it sounded fun. Felt like putting out what i wrote for anyone who is interested.
Silver awoke to darkness, he couldn't move and he felt as if he was encased in a liquid tomb. He could feel a rhythmic vibration akin to a heart beat constantly pulsing around him. Silver was certain he would go insane if he had to stay like this any longer, luckily a change occurred. Rapidly the heartbeat began beating faster, the walls around him started pulsing and contracting before breaking open. He felt himself fly through the air for a moment before landing on solid ground, it was painful but his body was intact.
Silver felt his eyelids automatically open and disappear into his body, he wanted to scream at what he saw but only weird hiss like noises came out of his mouth. A massive structure of dark purple flesh that was pulsing and writhing as if it was alive was directly in front of him. Slowly as Silver moved his body around, he realized he was no longer human, from his memories he was clearly a zerg larva from the game Starcraft 2.
'Fuck this Is bad, really bad…' Silver thought while observing his surroundings, nothing had attempted to force him into evolving yet but that could change. He realized the area was covered with lava fissures and ash, from the looks of things he was on Char. 'Fuckkkkkkkk.' Silver thought remembering that Char is where the worst things always happen. Multiple Cerebrates died here, and in the second game Kerrigan was dezergified by the xelnaga artifact while the rest of the zerg perished or became feral.
Silver did his best to calm himself and realized that some sort of overpowering presence was controlling the Zerg around him, he could even feel the connection personally as if it was shackles around his mind.
'Okay, something is in control of this brood… if its a Cerebrate then we're still in the time of the overmind, if its Kerrigan… well fuck that would be worse.' Silver thought as he tried to find a way to break the shackles while also observing the hive he was at. From what he could tell he was at some form of lesser hatchery cluster, only a single overlord and a few zerglings were stationed here.
Silver could feel the overlord begin to distribute mutation orders to the many larva, clearly it had received a command from whatever force was controlling the brood. Silver found if he strained his mental will he could resist, but he was unsure for how long. While feeling a growing headache, he watched as his fellow larva became eggs that would eventually hatch new higher forms of Zerg. Now he was alone, and he could feel the overlord beginning to focus its attention on him. A undecipherable voice boomed within his mind, he could feel through his instincts what it wanted, apparently he was to become a zergling… Silver despaired, he couldn't hold on much longer, and he didn't want to become cannon fodder by morphing into a zergling. Just as he was about to mentally collapse, a strange mental blast erupted through the connection that linked the entire brood together.
'What…?'Silver thought intelligently as the shackles broke and he was completely freed from whatever had been controlling the brood. He saw the zerglings that had been defending the hatchery become feral, ripping each other apart. He could still feel the overlord through the connection, but it felt confused, unsure of what to do. Acting fast, Silver reversed the connection and forced his influence onto the overlord, he felt this strain his mental capabilities, ignoring the consequences he pushed through and soon had the overlord bound in mental shackles similar to what he once had. He felt he could relay orders to the nearby zerg in this hatchery cluster through the overlord, as such he immediately ordered the zerglings that were left to stop killing each other and move to defend the perimeter.
'I'm free… but what happened?' Silver thought while trying to think of the possibilities, the only thing he could recall that could break the connection in such a violent way would be the death of the brood's leader. Looking around he could guess it wasn't the xelnaga artifact considering he was alive, that or he was out of its range. 'It doesn't matter, the brood has reverted to a feral state and while that gives me freedom, it also puts me in danger.' Silver thought before observing the eggs his fellow larva had morphed into, they had still not hatched and would need a little more time. Feeling this was a chance Silver began connecting himself mentally to the eggs, one by one he shackled their wills and made them loyal to himself while they were still in this infant stage. When he finished the last of the twenty eggs in the cluster, they all started to shake before breaking open. Forty zerglings hopped around and ate some creep, they weren't feral as the new mental shackles Silver had made kept them sane, which was good news for Silver as he was still a defenseless larva.
Through the mental connection Silver could tell these zerglings were bound to him, he would be able to order them without a overlord. However considering the throbbing in his brain, Silver knew this was his limit for now. As for the perimeter zerglings, they were bound to the overlord already, and the overlord was bound to him, thus he had control of them as well in a roundabout sort of way. While Silver could try to transfer the zerglings to be under his direct control, he felt that this would push his mental abilities over the edge and result in a total loss of control. As such, Silver left the zerglings on the perimeter to be controlled by the overlord, which will act as a temporary middle man for his orders.
'Okay okay… perimeter is safe for now… I need more mental power, nothing fancy, just more control. But I can't block off my potential for further evolution.' Silver thought while sending an order to his personal zerglings to defend the hatchery cluster. After they all spread out he curled up on his larva body and bit his tail, the moment he did his head was filled with the possibilities of what he could become. Silver already knew he needed to enhance his control capabilities, thus he used the instinctual evolution data to forcefully enhance his mental abilities. He would still be a larva, but his mind would be clearer and could support more zerg under his control. Finalizing his design he sunk into a deep sleep as the mutation began.
About a day later Silver awoke, his cocoon that had formed around him shattering with a small psionic blast. Silver checked the links and found everything was normal, however he could feel through the link with the overlord that five of his perimeter zerglings had died during the time he was asleep. After reading the overlords memories, Silver found that a small group of feral Zerg had attacked and killed some of the perimeter guards before being driven off. As his mental capabilities had strengthened, Silver began to reinforce his shackles of control on the overlord and his personal zerg, he felt the strength of his shackles over their minds had evolved taking a qualitative leap. Immediately after he extend his mind to one of the three dormant hatcheries of the cluster and awakened it under his control, he ordered the hatchery to release and produce more larva. While he could awaken the other two, Silver knew he shouldn't waste his control on something like larva production yet, the other two would need to remain dormant for now.
Moments later the freshly awakened hatchery released some dormant larva, Silver ordered them to become drones as he needed resource collectors because all the drones had been killed in the feral period of this hatchery. Minutes later the six drones were ready and Silver had them shackled under his mental control, swiftly he ordered them to gather minerals from the nearby resource deposit.
'So far so good, I need defenses though… more than just a few zerglings.' Silver thought and thus as soon as the next set of larva were ready he morphed more drones before further morphing them into spine crawlers, the large mobile defensive structures moved into position near the hatchery cluster's perimeter before digging into the ground, ready to help defend against any feral Zerg in the area. With his most basic defenses in place, Silver was a little more relaxed but not by much. He felt the urgency of his situation and thus continued making drones before morphing them into the necessary buildings to grow his hatchery and his strength. Over time he started the process for a evolution chamber, placed two vespene gas extractors on deposits, and rushed for a Spire as soon as he had the resources. Luckily the hatchery cluster had a spawning pool already, Silver only had to awaken it from its temporary dormancy with a small mental command after bringing it under his control.
Hours passed and Silver felt anxious, at any moment the feral zerg or something worse could come knocking. Earlier a few small attacks had occurred, Silver had been using his overlord as a second pair of eyes to anticipate attacks and thus he had been able to use his knowledge of the terrain against the feral Zerg. Luckily he had not sustained any more losses during this time, the spine crawlers proved their worth when they skewered a few feral zerglings.
Finally, the evolution chamber finished. Silver immediately entered and found a pool of liquid within, he instinctively knew this would help him evolve. Submerging his larva body in the liquid, Silver felt a cocoon form around himself as he began to mutate once more. Further improvements were made to his mental abilities and this time he enlarged his body while increasing the amount of legs he had. When he hatched three days later, he was a large larva with ten pairs of claw like legs and seemed to radiate a slight psionic aura.
'Three days… fuck. Gotta work faster!' Silver cursed himself mentally for taking so long on this evolution, he had to enhance his body to keep up with his mental abilities, unfortunately this made the process of evolution much longer. Leaving the evolution chamber, Silver immediately raised the two remaining hatcheries from dormancy and began using their larva to make mutalisks as the spire had finished and his drones had built up some resources. After about an hour the mutalisks hatched under his personal control and Silver sent them to scout the surroundings, seeing through all their eyes at once and absorbing all the information they could discover.
'It's worse than I thought. What happened?' Silver thought while seeing numerous destroyed hatchery clusters, feral zerg were everywhere and the once great brood he would of been unwillingly apart of was in tatters. Sending his mutalisks further he found some remnants of larger Zerg structures but most everything had been destroyed or lay dormant. Thousands of zerg were constantly fighting, some of the higher forms and thus more intelligent Zerg had created their own packs of feral Zerg. Every pack was fighting each other for supremacy. Silver watched as some were stamped out and their remnants incorporated to bolster another pack. Silver was lucky the packs had not approached his hatchery cluster as it was located within rocky terrain, a good position to hide in. He called back his mutalisks and began to make a few overlords, he needed to experiment with their control capacity before he tried to evolve his own mental abilities further.
Days passed in a cycle of Silver growing his brood and experimenting on Overlords, he knew he didn't have time to be stagnant, but to advance past his small hatchery cluster he needed to be prepared. Currently his small brood consisted of four overlords, eighty zerglings, and twenty mutalisks. He was waiting on an experimental evolved overlord that he had custom made to confirm his theories on mental capacity and how to evolve himself.
With a small psionic blast the large egg containing the new overlord hatched, it floated using psionic power and was much larger, the tendrils that once hung limply now were barbed similar to those of the spine crawler, giving it a fearsome attack power. While it was still so slow that a turtle would beat it in race, at least it wouldn't be defenseless as Silver spent quite a lot on it. Silver test its control and found while a normal overlord could control about sixteen zerglings, this overlord could control forty without repercussions, fifty if Silver was in a pinch and was willing to risk it mentally detonating… essentially its brain would explode from overload.
'Okay, my brood can survive here for the moment… probably.' Silver thought while entering the evolution chamber's pool again. Submerging himself in the liquid and forming a cocoon, Silver began carefully enhancing his abilities once more. This time he pushed his knowledge and instincts to enhance his mental capacity far past his prior form, he needed to expand, and he had plans on how to do it. After four days his transformation was complete, he now only had eight pairs of clawed legs, his body had shrunk slightly to a medium sized larva. This was an improvement as he could move faster with less weight and had reduced the size of his brain while increasing its efficiency. Although he was still mostly defenseless, he could now use psionic powers, the most basic thing he could do was a mental psionic blast to kill or wound others. Further powers would take time to develop and training of his psionic abilities.
Leaving the evolution chamber, Silver called his mutalisks and almost all his zerglings, only leaving twenty to defend. His new grand overlord would come as well as it was essentially a battle control platform. Silver had it land and some of its utility tentacles to place him safely on its head, for his plans to work Silver had to advance with his brood.
As his Zerg followed the Grand Overlord while Silver gave direction, they soon reached the first pack of zerg, a hydralisk was leading several zerglings. Silver immediately used his mental power to enter a battle of minds with the hydralisk while his zerglings kept the feral zerglings busy. Half the feral zerglings died before Silver learned how to shackle a resisting will, forcing the hydralisk under his banner along with its small pack.
With his numbers bolstered and confidence high, Silver continued on to round up the smaller packs he had found using his mutalisks. Occasionally he had to avoid an ultralisk as he was not yet ready to attempt a higher form of zerg in mental or real combat. Over time he would bring the new Zerg back to base and have them burrow under the ground, putting them into a dormant state so that he can free up his mental control to dominate more through mental combat. Slowly his brood grew, soon he had five hundred dormant zerglings, over one hundred dormant hydralisks, and even fifty dormant roaches. He had avoided other types of zergs believing them to be too dangerous for him at the moment.
On the third day of his feral takeover plan, Silver was rather far from his hatchery cluster, having cleared the surroundings of lesser and even medium sized packs, unfortunately his furthest scout had found something ominous. Through its eyes Silver could see a organized Zerg brood systematically wiping out the feral Zerg in the area and only slightly being troubled by higher forms of zerg and their large packs. Silver finally remembered an event in Zerg history, the feral Garm Brood's extermination by the player, who at that time was a new cerebrate, and Kerrigan.
'Well fuck me, right?' Silver thought while immediately pulling back and only leaving a few mutalisks to watch over the progress of the new threat. Once he returned to his hatchery cluster he racked his brain for solutions to this issue, he could try to fight them head on but that would potentially draw more Zerg, even if they're most likely preparing to attack Aiur now. His best option was to escape unnoticed, and continue to grow. But how? He had yet to see any leviathans and he wasn't sure if he could even control one either. He could try to make one, but it might not be ready in time to escape. Silver eventually decided to try a combination of plans, pooling his entire sum of resources he started to morph a single leviathan in the center of his hatchery cluster. Then he sent mutalisks in all directions to search for any feral leviathans. Finally he moved to the evolution chamber to evolve once more, this time he was risking a lot with his next form, if it cut off his evolutionary potential, well, Silver would just have to deal with it when the time came.
Ten days passed before Silver emerged, he had shed his old larva form and now looked similar to a gray horned hydralisk. His mental abilities once again took a qualitative leap, however he would need much more time for the next evolution as he was unsure of how to advance from this point.
Using his mental connections, he took in all the events of the past ten days through the eyes of his brood. The leviathan still needed at least another five days to finish, the egg towered over the hive cluster and had absorbed the hatcheries to speed up the process. Kerrigan and the Cerebrate were now nearly on their door step, but they had been stalled by a tough pack that was holding fiercely between Silver and them. Once the pack fell there was nothing between them and Silver's brood.
As for his mutalisks he had sent to find leviathan transports, none had returned, they had been either hunted down by Kerrigan and the Cerebrate or just simply found nothing and flown on out of his mental control range.
Silver sent out a pulse of psionic energy through his connections, this awakened all the dormant zerg he had. His brood was had over one thousand zerglings now, one hundred fifty hydralisks, and a hundred roaches. As his brood looked to him and the giant egg, Silver roared, his psionic might affecting them all as they too roared with him. The might of over on thousand zerg roaring at once shook the area, echoing far even to the battlefield where Kerrigan and the Cerebrate fought against the ferals. As the roar died down, Silver felt his connection had strengthened with his brood, they were of one mind. Silver lead his brood towards the site of the battle, he knew it would take them half a day to arrive, and thus set out to ensure they arrived under the cover of darkness. They soon stood on a plateau overlooking the fierce confrontation, Silver even saw Kerrigan throwing around psionic blasts like they were going out of style.
Using his mental abilities, Silver connected to the leader of the ferals, it was an old ultralisk that remembered the early days of the brood. Silver sent a simple message across asking them to lure the organized Zerg into a trap he would set. He also promised them a way off this molten rock if they agreed to join his brood. This was the first time Silver tried to negotiate rather than dominate, luckily the ultralisk was intelligent and knew it wouldn't win this fight. The ultralisk accepted the offer and soon the pack of feral zerg began moving according to the instructions Silver had given. They moved towards a pass that allowed passage through the plateau area. The organized zerg followed recklessly, clearly Kerrigan was impatient and cocky. As the ultralisk led its brood through the pass, Kerrigan's Zerg also entered, Silver ordered his Zerg to push boulders and rocks down and crushed many of Kerrigan's brood while sealing the pass. Now Kerrigan and the Cerebrate that was with her would need to find a way around or dig their way through.
Satisfied with how things turned out so far, Silver moved his brood to meet with the ultralisk, he led them to his heavily defended and hidden base where the two broods joined in a pact to fight together. Silver of course ensured he maintained leadership of the brood, but the ultralisk would be allowed semi autonomous control of his own forces. Silver also gave the ultralisk a name, Ragna, short for Ragnarock from his old world. Ragna was pleased hearing its meaning and they held a short council to determine how best to stall Kerrigan and the Cerebrate. Ultimately they decided for small hit and runs while prolonging the time before a final battle, they kept this up for three days, now only a day away from their escape leviathan being ready.
On the final day, Silver and Ragna held their forces back and waited in the rocky terrain where the leviathan egg rested. Silver ordered the brood to use cover and the terrain to their advantage while also having his roaches burrow in no mans land. When Kerrigan and the Cerebrate came with their massive brood, Silver was a little miffed, did they really need to bring that many Zerg just for him?
The swarm of Zerg stopped and Kerrigan came to the front. Silver felt a mental connection start to form and chose not to fight it, no point in fighting Kerrigan in a psionic battle.
'Surrender now, or be destroyed.' Kerrigan mentally said to Silver through the link.
'How about… no?' Silver replied laughingly.
'Insolence! You will' Kerrigan started but failed to finish as Silver cut the link.
'Ragna, would you do the honors.' Silver sent to his second in command.
'Of course lord Silver.' Ragna replied before roaring powerfully, the rest of the brood joined in and the rocky terrain shook with their might. This signaled the start of the battle as Silver's hydralisks began spitting spine rounds out from behind rocks into the organized Zerg. When the opposing zerglings charged, Silver's own leaped over the rocks and came crashing down in a wave upon them. The battle was chaotic yet oddly organized, something strange for a pure zerg fight. Eventually even Silver's hidden roaches had to un-burrow and began a chaotic assault in the middle of the enemy lines. Like this the two broods tore into one another. Silver was beginning to grow worried as Kerrigan and the Cerbrate clearly had more numbers and they were ever increasing as reinforcements arrived, just as he was about to join the fight himself the entire battlefield shook. Turning back Silver saw the leviathan had just hatched, a massive roar sounded out which further invigorated Silver's brood.
Kerrigan looked up and saw a massive leviathan rise over the small rocky mountains, she felt a chill down her spine. The leviathan began devastating her brood and forcing her to pull back, she gave one last look at the weird gray hydralisk that was Silver before leaving.
Silver's brood roared again in triumph, having lost over seventy percent of their forces yet still emerging victorious. Calling the leviathan, Silver, Ragna, and their combined brood boarded and immediately left Char. As soon as they broke out of Char's ashen atmosphere they warped away, Kerrigan having not expected them to have a leviathan had not had time to move her own fleet of space-borne Zerg to stop them. Leviathans had a natural affinity for space travel, thus although this was a blind jump, they would at least end up somewhere safe.