This is my first full story I am going to write, excluding Operation:Imperial Ember, since that was just a simple, albeit longer, one shot. I'll skip the thing about different types of speech, since I assume you have seen it enough times befor now to know what is what. If not, you will figure out. Please send a PM if you find anything misspelled or sounds odd, no matter how insignificant. With that all said, I would like you to know that posts will be short-ish and have much time between them. Enjoy.
Niadra stood on the bridge of the Protoss starship, looking out contemplatively at the stars. She thought about the day, long ago, when she was created. The Leviathan, warm and full of the thoughts of her fellow Zerg. The Protoss scientist, who's anxiety was easy to see. Then, her arrival on this very ship itself, at the time cold and empty of Zerg. Her metamorphosis, where she burst out of her cocoon and received her task from her queen to destroy the Protoss aboard the ship. She fought until she had destroyed the last of her enemies; an Archon; with her brood. And then, suddenly was cut off from the rest swarm, alone.
She had vowed to destroy the Protoss, and she would. Nothing can hold back the swarm, not for long. While some may slow their advance, they shall never face defeat. Powerful or not, her brood would destroy all Protoss, or die trying. All they had to do was get off of this ship. Unfortunately, with the warp drives damaged beyond repair and escape pods nothing more than shredded metal graves, that task was all but impossible.
"Mother Niadra, we have found something that may be of use to the swarm."
Niadra reached out into the hive mind to the queen who had made this statement. A new discovery? They had been drifting in this ship for years, and anything of possible use should of been discovered long ago. Using her subordinate's eyes, she gazed upon the object before her.
"What is this... thing?"
Before the queen was a piece of Protoss technology, shaped like a sphere. It was the usual golden color of the creations of her foes, and covered in markings that meant nothing to her.
"One of the overlords discovered it near the engines. It was masked from our sight before by wreckage."
Curious. She had her minions thoroughly search the ship for anything that could be used against the Protoss or her brood. The fact that they missed this was confusing, but unimportant.
"Can we use it?"
"It is possible. It has been emitting increasing amounts of psionic energy since the overlord discovered it. We may be able to control it. Also, there appears to be controls like the ones the Protoss use."
Suddenly, Niadra sensed a powerful shudder go through the ship, followed by even more. To her growing dismay, they were starting to damage the ship. The next shocking discovery was that they originated from the device in the hands of the Queen under her control. Perhaps it was her lack of experience with technology, or maybe it was bad luck. However, the choice she made that moment would bring the demise of most her brood.
"Destroy it! Now!"
The queen obediently threw it to the ground and began firing spines into it. Upon contact with the first of the spines, a wave of psionic energy fired from the device in all directions. The queen was instantly ripped apart, with other Zerg creatures nearby dying as well. At the same moment Niadra felt psionic power pass into her mind, causing her excruciating agony for a few seconds. Suddenly, just as quickly as it began, it stopped.
Niadra barely had a moment to recover from the pain before the entire back half of the ship exploded. At the same time, the ships destroyed warp drive activated and initiated a jump through space towards an unknown location as it was destroyed. Once again her brood died as they were sucked out into space. She felt the pull of this vacuum and has swept off her feet and towards her death, saved by the fact that her massive size couldn't fit through the door, saving the lives of two queens and her ursadon in the process. This went on for a few more seconds before the supposedly destroyed emergency shields came into place, ending the carnage. Yet it was too late, as she found almost her entire brood gone, limited to the few on the bridge with her and a lone overlord outside the room, punctured through the head by a peace of metal that prevented it from leaving the ship earlier, slowly dying. Staring out into the void of space as it flew by the window at nearly impossible speeds, she lamented to herself about the deaths of her children.
Minutes later they stopped traveling, ending up in front of a planet covered in snow.
Relief way felt through her bond with her remaining forces. Then, she felt something... familiar. Yet, she had no memory of ever being near such a presence. She than delved into the memories of the swarm that she retained from after her creation, and found what she was looking for. They were Terrans. If she had a mouth, Niadra would have definitely grinned. As it was, she simply prepared to annihilate her foes.
"For the swarm."