Prologue:

After Brood War the Zerg dominated among the races. But a civil war broke out on the inside. After twenty years of battle Kerrigan was finally killed and a new Overmind was reborn. Meanwhile the Terran were sitting back wondering what was going on. They colonated numerous planets and saw the war as a bad memory. The Protoss were living peacefully besides the outbreak of people against the Khala followers. After Raynor's death ( age of eighty), the Protoss and Terran drifted from eachother. The two races thought the Zerg died out from civil war, and only a few instances did they make contact with them. The universe was thought to be safe. It had been seventy years.

The New Beginning

"One who Fights and runs away lives to see the light of day." -Legend of Mana

"AWAKEN MY CHILDREN, AND KNOW THAT I AM YOUR BIRTHRIGHT."
Two zerglings hatched from an egg, a new addition to the swarm. The Overmind had a conversation with one of his trusted Cerebrates.
"My liege, after the downfall of Kerigan, our swarms have grown small", sighed the Cerebrate, "what do these zerglings mean to the swarm? They are so weak."
"YOU WILL SEE SOON, I SENSE SOMETHING COMING."

Up on a hill, away from the distant Hive, stood two Terran.
"Well, this is going to be the first test cadet. The Hawk will be a helpful unit in our army."
"Yes sir, I believe we will too. We're like the Ghosts, but better."
"Don't get cocky, we don't know the capabilities of you and the other Hawks yet, so wait."
"Hey commander? What am I going to be shooting at?"
"See those two zerglings? Those are your targets."

The two zerglings were fighting each other over who could annoy a larva the most, clawing and nipping it. A loud sound rang out, hitting the zergling beside the other in the temple. The surviving one looked around, but it couldn't see anything...then it saw something. The zergling then burrowed. It was created for one purpose, to eradicate all enemies of the swarm.
"WATCH CAREFULLY CEREBRATE"

"Now what commander? I can't shoot at anything else, the other zergling burrowed!"
"That's right, that damn heavy gun of yours can only shoot ground units. Oh well, lets get to base......what in the sam hill?!"
As the commander spoke, two sickles came out of the ground ands started mauling the Hawk's legs. Then from receiving orders, the zergling unburrowed shoving the Hawk out of the way.
"Well I'll be damned..."
The zergling leaped onto the Terran commander and slashed him to pieces. Seeing his commander being mauled to death (if he was still alive) he got up out of the pool of his own blood and stood up, too weak to lift his gun.
"Time for this hawk to fly."
With those words he cloaked and staggered back to his base.

* * *

"NEXT TIME YOU WILL BE PUNISHED FOR QUESTIONING ME, DARIGAAZ. THE DRACO BROOD WILL BE MORE POWERFUL WITH THIS NEW ADDITION."
"Yes, I agree that the upgraded will be useful in my brood." said Darigaaz.
The zergling was walking around the Hive stalking imagined enemies, slashing at the air. It looked around studying its surroundings. Going around burrowing under the drones to slash at them slightly.

In the meantime the Hawk was still trying to get to his far away base. He then spotted a dropship not far away.
"Over here! Come on don't you see me? Come on! Oho, I forgot I had my cloak on."
Once he uncloaked the dropship pilot descended onto the ground.
"Can I help you soldier?"
The dropship pilot opened the doors for him to go in. When the Hawk stepped in he started telling his story about what happened to his commander.
"Thats...what happened."
"I'm surprised your still standing. Are you okay?...Hello?"
The Hawk collapsed on the floor from exhaustion and loss of blood. The dropship approached the base where a group of onlookers watched it curiously.

* * *

"Well, the operation was a success." said a doctor looking at the tired Hawk.
"I feel horrible, .....I can't feel my legs."
"Uhhhhhhh, well, we had to rebuild your legs with some new parts. It was too damaged to do anything else. Your legs are now mostly cybernetic."
"Oh, that's just great. What now?"
"It is actually kind of a good thing. You now have better mobility than normal people."
"I guess that's good news."
"Excuse me Doc, the patient has a meeting to attend to."
He was lead into an oval shaped room filled with commanders and some people he had never seen before.
"It has come to our attention that something unexpected has happened the other day. Now, introduce yourself Lieutenant."
The Hawk stood up and started to speak.
"Good evening, I am Lieutenant Kenna. The other day I was on a training mission at a nearby Hive. After eliminating a zergling, the other one burrowed. Then when the Commander and I were about to go back to base...then... two claws...went out of the ground and ripped up my legs. I...it then unburrowed and attacked the Commander. The odd thing was, it was a zergling."
"Hmmmmm, thank you Lieutenant."
A man then stood up to speak.
"After the war about seventy years ago, we don't have a lot of information about what has been happening with the Zerg. So it is very possible that they created something new...or...even evolved. After Raynor's death, we don't even know what the Protoss are up to. It is hard to believe that anything would occur on Colony Crio." "I say we capture this so called new Zerg and study it." said a scientist in the back, "It can probably help us find out new ways to take out those bloody devils."
"And how do you suppose we catch this new thing?", asked a soldier questioningly.
"Well....I believe we should lead it into an enclosed area and then probably tranquilize it."
"And how are we supposed to do that? Use one of us as bait?!"
"Yep."

* * *

It was quiet at the Hive. The zergling was running around in circles bored out of its mind (if it even has a mind). The drones were busily gathering minerals and vespene while the overlords were just lazily floating in the air watching over the activity going on below them. Some of the drones were morphing into creep colonies and other things. The zergling decided to wander off, not paying attention to the overlord's call to report back to the interior of the hive. When it was about a few hundred miles away from the hive it smelt something. All of a sudden it went into a frenzy and started burrowing in and out of the ground in confusion. It started rushing toward the scent paying no attention to the call of the overlords hovering above the base.

"It's coming right into the trap. What did you use to make it go into a frenzy like that?"
"Simple, I just put some human blood in the area.", said the scientist walking up to him, "I am such a genius." "So, what do I do again?" asked the civilian nervously.
"Well," sighed the scientist, "when the zergling starts charging at you point the tranquilizer gun and fire."
"I could have figured that out."
"Here it comes."
The zergling was rushing headlong towards the civilian. Each shot the civilian attempted missed completely. The civilian recited a silent prayer as he unloaded the rifle and stuck a tranquilizer into his arm waiting for his impending doom. While the zergling was clawing and biting its victim it started to feel strange. It staggered back and forth, with its jaw hanging down, losing all feeling in its body. The last thing it saw was a Terran in a white lab coat standing above it.

* * *

"Hello there. My name is Mr. Stools. Waking up are you? No, no,no...tisk tisk. Silly zergling, not even a Zerg of your stature can break through this kind of material, it's a shield wall. And don't try to burrow neither, the bottom is made up of a material practically impossible to break. Hmmmm, now what to call you...I know!...Fred!"
"You're some kind of nut case aren't you." sighed Kenna.
"Yes, why do you ask?"
Once the zergling caught the scent of Kenna it started to going wild bouncing off of the sides of the cage, snarling and trying to get through shield walls.
"Ol' chap doesn't seem to like you. What did you do? Kill his twin?"
"Heh, heh...um...yeah."
"Well then you might not want to be around when I'm studying him."
"What, are you going to let it out of the cage? Ha ha funny."
"Actually yes."
"You crazy bastard."

"My liege what shall we do now that the zergling was captured?" asked Darigaaz irritably.
"WE WILL CONTINUE CREATING MORE OF THE ZERGLINGS AND OTHER UNITS AS WELL. AS FOR THE OTHER, WE SHOULDN'T BE WORRIED ABOUT ONE UNIT." replied the Overmind.

"Time to start the EXPERIMENTATIOOOOOOOONS!!!!!!!!!!" yelled the scientist.
With that he deactivated the shielding of the cage and the zergling jumped out right towards Mr. Stools. Just as it was about to kill him there was a glimmer of light and the zergling sprawled onto the floor.
"Heh heh. Silly Fred, I have a personal shield on........Still trying to kill me eh? Fisety. Maybe you need some sedateness."
The scientist took out a tranquilizer pistol and sedated the zergling.
"Hmmm, let's see what makes you tick."
He put the unconscious zergling onto a table with a little difficulty and took out his tools.
"The claw thing's connected to the, aaarm thing. The arm thing's connected to the, aaarm. The arm's connected to the, shouuuulder. The shoulder's connected to the, neeeck head. The neck head's connected to its, jaaaaws. Its jaw's connected to my, haaand. My hand's connected with my, aaaarm. The...waaait a minute! How did that happen? Oh well. Enough with that experiment."
With that he put the limp zergling into the cage and activated the shield.

"Lieutenant Kenna, there has been an increase in Zerg activity in this proximity. There have been reports of...creep signs about twenty kilometers away. We expect an attack soon. We have gathered these two promising troops to train under you since you have first hand experience with the Zerg and extended training. Men, come in."
Two soldiers walked into the room readily.
"Introduce yourselves to Kenna men."
The marine walked up to Kenna and shook his hand.
"My name is Zachary sir. I am a skilled marine and specialize in close combat."
The second man walked up to him and introduced himself.
"Hello, my name is Pierce. I am one of the newly trained hawk's. I'm the best of the best in the sniping exercises."
"Nice to meet you both. Follow me and we will start training as soon as possible."

The Zerg Hive was full of activity with drones morphing into structures and units being produced by the second. The creep covered about 57 percent more terrain than before. In a matter of days there were about eight Hatcheries, a Lair, and three Hives counting the one in the beginning. They were preparing for an attack against the terran occupants of Crio. The hydralisks were roaming the structures looking for any intruders in the area. The gigantic ultralisks were slashing and stomping around eagerly awaiting the orders from their master.The activity suddenly ceased as an order from the Overmind had come.

* * *

"Alright Pierce, this is your target, a vicious blood thirsty zergling!" said Kenna.
"Um, Kenna? That's a cardboard cutout of a zergling. Why couldn't we just use that zergling you guys captured...do they even make cardboard anymore?" replied Pierce.
"Well for one thing, the scientist isn't done with the experiments yet. Anyway during one of his experiments somehow his watch got inside the zerglings mouth."
"Ohhhhhhhhhh kaaaaaaaaaaaaay. So... where should I shoot from?"
"Try about 20 yards away."
"That's all? Kay."
Pierce went about 20 yards from the cardboard cutout and fired. It hit directly between the fake zerglings eyes. "Very good Pierce. Zachary, show me what you can do-just a minute I need to put up the other target-there we go."
Right after Kenna finished his sentence Zachary shot round upon round of amunition into the target and with his finaly he took out his sword and cut the cardboard in two.
"Impressive Zach, can I call you Zach?"
"Sure, why not."

Orbiting Crio were the dropships sent for reenforcements. Looking at the planet below a ghost felt the oncomming death that layed before him and the rest. Behind the mask a tear escaped his eye and went down his face.
"Alright ladies, get ready for a bumpy ride." yelled a commander.
The dropship and the ones behind it started entering the atmosphere of Crio heading for the Starbase in the terran colony.

Kenna looked up, seeing the bright dots in the sky.
"What are those?" asked Zach.
"Those," replied Kenna, "are the reinforcements."
One by one the dropships landed and unloaded the troops. Most of them were marines and ghosts, but there were a few seige tanks that came lumbering out. Farther off there came a group of about 27 wraiths coming in at an angle and landing. One of the pilots of the wraith's stepped out of his cockpit and inrodced himself and the others. He was known as Wolfe, another was Zephyr, Joshlow, Lora, their Wing Commander, Smithry, and so on. Wolfe then stood in front of the head of the army on the colony Colonal Dominique and moved his hands to indicate that he wanted to speak to him in private.
"We still have battlecruisers coming in but there is a possibility they won't make it until five days from now." "And why are you just telling me this Wolfe?" replied Dominique .
"Well sir, me and the rest of the squadron were given orders not to report this to anyone but you since it might cause the rest of the troops too much hope. If they have the idea that there are plenty of units then they might not try as hard as they should. And it would be good to keep the battlecruisers secret for other reasons." "Alright, now go report to Smithry that the plan's safe with me."
With that the two terrans walked away in opposite directions.

* * *

Maintenance hall 21 was, undoubtedly, the coziest of all areas of the colonial command center, according to the head of janitorial staff. The aged man stepped heavily down the hallway, down in mind with the impending doom on the facility, but light in heart for the cozy warm glow of the florescent lights. He sat with a groan as his rusty joints bent, enjoying the radiance of his lights, until they went out.
"Goddangit..."
Brows furrowed, he stumbled blindly down the dark hallway. With the death of the lights, the air quality deteriorated.
"Power must be out," he grumbled.
Suddenly, he heard a shuffle ahead. He stopped. The old man leaned forward with his ear cocked ahead of him. A panel nearby sparked to life, illuminating a zergling's maw. He jerked back suddenly with a grizzly screech, arms flailing. The zerg advanced forward. The old man continued flailing his arms. Suddenly, the zergling was cut down beneath a metal door. Looking over, the old man saw the latch beneath his palm.

* * *

Fred the zergling suddenly stopped slashing at the cage as it felt the will of the Overmind starting the attack. There was a major power outage and everyone on the colony started to panic. The zergling then dug into the now unshielded cage to join its comrades in the attack. Mr. Stools stood there waiting the inevitable. All but the glimmer of his personal sheild was dark.