Awaken, my child, and embrace the glory that I your re-birthright. Know that I am the Queen of Blades, the eternal will of the swarm, and you have been remade to serve me.

"Yes, my queen," replied the new infested human. The memories of her previous life were hidden deep inside of her, just as Kerrigan's had been. "What are my first orders?"

Good, you are not only willing to serve, but you also wish to serve. This may prove useful for you. Your first orders are simply to set up a hive cluster on this planet. Once you have achieved this goal, proceed to the inhabited planets. We will have these Terrans in the palms of our hands before long. Now go, my princess.

"Yes, my queen," the recently infested girl said, turning to walk towards a nearby sinkhole.

Meanwhile, on the human planet known as Kollin:

"Ahhhhhhh!" a red-haired boy shouted as he lurched upright in his bed. He looked around, remembering that he was in the Medical wing of headquarters. He had had another nightmare about her. "Jeena..."

Rallen stood up and slowly walked across the room to the washing station. Looking in the mirror, he realized that he had neglected shaving due to his state of depression combined with his injury.

"What the hell kinda krawl were those?" Rallen asked himself as he laid back on the medical cot.

FLASHBACK

Rallen and Jeena had been together for nearly two years (Kollin standard time), and it seemed like a good day for their 245th date (he had been keeping track).

"Hey Jeena," Rllen asked as they passed each other in the NPP headquarters' halls, "You wanna go sight-seeing on Daichi later?"

Jeena had gotten used to Rallen asking her out at random after about the tenth date, so she simply replied with a "sure" before walking off towards fossil lab minor. She heard an enthusiastic 'yessss!' behind her as she walked off.

A little before noon, Rallen and Jeena met at their cruiser in front of HQ and greeted each other with a quick hug before walking into their ship.

"Even though it's been five years since I met you, it doesn't seem like your flying's changed a bit," Jeena joked as Rallen pulled off less than practical maneuvers just outside of Daichi's gravitational pull.

"Not true!" Rallen objected with a broad smile. "I have learned a few new tricks since then."

Once they landed on the surface of Daichi, Rallen and Jeena immediately ran to the giant stone arch that led to Tabletop Mountain. This would be their fourth time up in that arch. Every time they went there, they wished it could last forever.

"Race ya to the top!" Rallen shouted as he excitedly started climbing. He didn't look back down after that.

"I beat you," Jeena stated bluntly. She had a smug smile on her face.

"Okay, give it back," Rallen said in exasperation. How many times will she do this?

"Give what back?" Jeena said, her smile broadening.

"The prizmod," Rallen couldn't help but smile back.

"Oh, that. If you want it, you're going to have to get it from me," Jeena said, holding out the small device.

"Okay," Rallen replied with is wide grin. "Iku ze!"

He leapt at her and she let him wrap his arms around her. "You're gonna have to try harder than that!" she said, switching hands.

Suddenly, something hit Rallen in the arm, glancing off of his uniform's shoulder plate. Another of the objects came and hit him in the arm just below the armor. Rallen screamed in pain.

"Rallen!" Jeena shouted as she jumped out of his arms. "Are you alright? What happened?"

"Ah... I-I'm fine," He said as he looked down towards the ground. "What are those things?"

Standing in front of the arch were three, very odd creatures. They had elongated bodies covered in spikes. At the front ends of these bodies were ribcage like structures that supported two arms with three large claws where fingers should be. The bodies extended slightly upward from these structures where heads with enormous frills were stationed.

Rallen and Jeena observed as one of the creatures expanded its frill and sent a projectile towards them. They both dodged the missile easily.

"Those aren't krawl, are they?" Jeena asked in horror.

"Impossible," Rallen replied, though he wasn't as sure as he sounded. "The krawl haven't shown up since we defeated Krux." A volley of shots hurtled towards Jeena.

"Rallen!" Jeena shouted as her partner leapt in front of the projectiles. They lodged themselves in Rallen's arm and side. Rallen let out a pained gasp.

"Jeena, the prizmod," he muttered as he extended his good arm towards her. Jeena locked the device into its place on his armor.

Rallen leapt from the high arch as he brought out Aobasar, who safely lowered Rallen onto the ground. The great bird then flapped its wings, sending a dust devil towards the strange krawl. This did little to no damage to the three creatures who merely shrugged off the wind and advanced towards their new target.

"Must be strong against sky," Rallen commented under his breath as he switched Aobasar for Dongiga. "Let's see how they like earth!"

Dongiga teleported to the location of the three krawl and began stomping his feet. This sent chunks of dirt flying everywhere. These also did little damage to the creatures, who began using their claws to scratch away at the Spectrobe's tough skin.

"Get back!" Rallen called, causing Dongiga to teleport to his side. "If sky and earth don't affect them, then I'll just have to find out what does."

Spikanor was at his side in an instant. The large, spiny spectrobe did not growl as he usually did at the sight of krawl, nor did he automatically attack, but at Rallen's command, he immediately lashed out his claws and cracked the hard shell of one of the creatures.

The creature's two companions, who were slightly farther away, shot their pointe projectiles at Spikan. One of the darts glanced off of his claws, but the other found its target in his elbow. Spikan howled in pain and leapt at the attacker. His mace-like tail found its way into the creature's soft stomach flesh.

"Rallen!" Jeena cried from the top of the stone arch, causing Rallen to turn suddenly from the battle bfore him. A flying beast with six claws hanging down below it had grabbed Jeena by her jacket and was carrying her away.

"Jeena!" Rallen cried back as if calling her name would save her from this situation.

He looked back and realized that Spikan had finished off the krawl. He immediately called Aobasar back out and tried to fly after Jeena's captor, but a huge wave of flying creatures, probably more krawl, flew into the sky around him and fired more sharp projectiles at him. He did not give up.

Aobasar flew directly towards the winged krawl and tried to slash through them with its wings. Rallen had to use his left hand to hold out his lance as they approached. They had not killed more than twenty before Aobasar was defeated. Rallen then passed out as he fell nearly four hundred feet towards the surface of Daichi.

Someone, or something, had caught Rallen before he hit the ground.

Back at HQ (still flashback)

A doctor was studying the blades that had been lodged in Rallen's shoulder only minutes before.

"Very peculiar," the doctor said as she turned a knob on the microscope. "This is not like any krawl we have heard of before."

Commander Grant, who Rallen had not noticed until now, spoke up, "how so?"

"The first concerning factor is that krawl projectiles are not physical. They are meant to destroy themselves on contact with their target. Of course, this could easily be explained," the doctor pointed out. "The second confusing thing is this poison on the tip. It's constructed so that, even if it pierced the heart of the opponent, it would not kill them unless they had taken significant prior damage. The most concerning factor of all was the amount of blood this boy was covered in when he came here. There is absolutely no way it was all his blood, and there have been no reports of mass murder. We can only assume that this is krawl blood."

"But the krawl don't bleed," Commander Grant pointed out.

"Precisely," the doctor said with a grim look. "I believe there is a new threat to Nanairo."

"Jeena..." Rallen whispered as he slowly got up. He tried to support himself on his right arm but collapsed when the pain surged up to his shoulder. "What happened?"

"You had a nasty run-in with the krawl, you need to get some rest," the Commander said to the drowsy cadet. Rallen accepted this and drifted back to sleep. The Commander then left the doctor to her studies and headed towards his office.

FLASHBACK ENDS

"Jeena, I'm sorry," Rallen said as he curled up into another state of depression before going back to sleep.

So, what do you think? I've wanted to try this for a while. I don't quite know why, but I always think that all video games, movies, books, etc. that take place in places other than Earth are happening at the same time. I decided that it's about time for Starcraft to find its way to Spectrobes.

I don't own Spectrobes, Starcraft, or any of the characters (with the exceptions of the doctor and the Princess of Blades concept)