Hi Gene-Master here with another chapter. I pulled a muscle or something and now I'm limping

Enjoy.


A spindly dark being sat in a small space, with a few small holes here and there like an ants nest, with a slightly larger hole above him and a small pool of glowing green liquid in front of him.

His long and very thin right arm held up a green orb made of some sort of syrupy acid-green liquid little drops streaming down the spindly hand every few seconds. with a vague shape of spider inside, the being watched with a neutral disposition as the shape dissolve. Once the shape was completely gone numerous limbs with anywhere between 3-1 fingers, rapidly pulling out strands of the green liquid before merging or separating them from other strands and putting it back together.

Before he could continue his current experiment a dull twang echoed through the back of his head signalling that the creep felt something foreign step on it.

Ignoring his current experiment and sitting back as he silently ordered his larva to move out of the entity's way. He slowly started climbing up through the largest hole absentmindedly placing the green orb in a small pit and the dozens of limbs pulling back and forming a narrow carapace along the ridge of his spine. His long arms folded up to his chest as the smaller pair was used to climb up his 5 meter long thick snake tail dragging behind him.

On the way he ordered the main hatch to close behind the entity, and briefly contemplated trying to find out what the being was through one of the larva, in the end decided against it the only eyes available at the moment where those of the larva and despite their usefulness had horrible eyesight, they weren't designed for any purpose other than being a stepping stone to something greater after all.

Finally reaching the end of the tunnel he used his main arms to pull himself up and pushed himself out of the hole using the small pair of graspers on his front waist to hold himself up.

Once he was up and steady using his lower graspers to hold himself up He took the time to examine the intruder, if our male protagonist had eyebrows he would lift them.

In front of him stood a girl, she looked him over for a few seconds... before her eye's rolled up in her head and she passed out.

Leaning a little over her he took his time to inspect her.

Plain robes – Gryffindor if he remembered correctly - about 12 years old black messy hair and green eyes, the same shade as his albeit the sclera and pupils where just as black and white as any other human. She was flat as a board and her hips haven't grown jet, though his eagle sharp eyes spotted sure signs of malnourishment.

After tossing her wand away he Grabbed her head, his long fingers reaching fully around her head he pulled her up, using his other arms, to pull of chunks of hardened creep and placing them on her slowly cocooning her, until finally he placed her back on the ground her head being the only part of her uncovered.

Feeling his work finished for now he curled up his limbs and let himself glide back to his small room to continue his experiment.

It wasn't until the experiment was done and the first test was nearly hatched did he receive another ping at the back of his head.

Deciding to let his unwelcomed guest wait for a bit so he could finish his experiment.

Sitting back patiently he looked at the egg throb almost rhythmically held up by his tail coil for a few seconds until finally with a tear sound the egg hatched holding a dog like creature.

Vicious fangs and no sign of lips, the entire body was smooth like a reptile with thin carapace where flexibility wasn't necessary. It lacked a tail and ears and the hind legs where a bit more muscular than the front legs.

Making a note to himself to see if he could improve it. he once again made the long tunnel trek up to the main room.

Once he reached the room he crawled out of his hole and leaned over the squirming form of the raven haired human. She was obviously trying to escape though she froze in fear once she saw his inhumane form.

He looked her over for a few seconds, until his hyper hearing picked up a gulp.

"u-u-uhm ... w-why are you k-keeping me here, .. w-what for." She stuttered out.

That froze him in place.

Why was he keeping her here. He briefly contemplated gathering a sample of her dna, but decided against it. Terran dna wasn't worth much and it was to much of a waste of resources to analyze and integrate it.

Deciding to simply dissolve her into extra bio-mass he grabbed her by the scruff of the cocoon and pulled her up.

Just as he was going to turn she spoke up. "a-a-are y-you going to .. k-k-k-kill m-me" she said horrified shivering with beginning of tears blurring her vision.

He looked at her for a second before speaking up his vibrative baritone voice echoing through the room, and her head. "negative, killing waste of effort, dissolve into spare bio-mass."

He started dragging her towards the other side of the room. Towards an green filled pit, this one possessing ungodly amounts of enzymes and a lower concentration of acid to dissolve organic matter in a few minuets, something harvested from the origins artefact.

He was going to drop her in and continue his research in recreating the zergling.

Or atleast he WAS.

Instead he felt an ungodly pain in his head, Just before he passed out.

If he had been awake for a few seconds longer he would have noticed Dani's eye's glow a violent ungodly amber synchronized with his headache pain followed by her too passing out albeit from some sort of exhaustion instead of pain.

A severe headache throbbed through his head he felt consciousness return to him and the headache getting slowly lesser As an almost physical pain waved through the vertebra of his spine, he struggled to sit up, deciding the exercise futile he gave up and merely layed there waiting for the headache to subside.

Once the waving echo of his spine stopped and the throb off his head cooled into an oddly pleasant buzz he gave sitting another try. Pushing himself up and resting the weight of his torso on his snake tail coiled up into a sort of pedestal to support him, looking around for any assailants that may have harmed him.

Pondering the thought he was just about to turn around until he felt a change in his head, something he didn't have before he passed out. A usually dull feeling on the back of his head was gone it was the same feeling he focused on every time he commanded his small collection of misfit zerg.

For the first time ever he Felt panic rising what if I've somehow lost the ability to command the swarm. His thoughts were put on hold as he heard a groan behind him.

Calming himself somewhat he slowly turned around and saw the terran girl, slowly sit up holding one hand to her head "uugh what hit me." She groaned out. He stood still for a second wondering what to do but before he could react he felt it, the back of his head reacting the same area he used to control the swarm, a solitary pulse followed by a soft constant pulling feeling, like a gentle tug on some unseen earlobe.

Before he could react or wonder what it meant he felt something rise up his spine his eyes dulling and his body tensening, as a load of memories hit him not his own.

Dozens of feelings curiosity, compassion, love, loyalty. and images, hundreds of thousands of them each showing one of four people: the original overmind, the queen of blades, her incarnation Sarah Kerrigan and once again the queen of blades this time reformed from the re-humanized Sarah and ancient zerg cells.

Dazzled for a few moments was stoic for a few seconds before realization hit him.

His queen, she was his queen, the new queen of blades. A pleasant buzz filled his cranium before subsiding taking with it the earlobe-tug feeling.

Looking at the young teen with his eyes going over every cm, he wanted to slap himself she showed all the signs of being a magus. a unusual eye colour, less body hair than normal humans, a minor hardening in the nails. Combined with the fact he now sensed psionic energy coming from her, she most likely unleashed her own psionic potential due to the small signal he was sending out to his larva combined with the stress of dying most likely unlocked her latent potential, and combined with probably accidental magic to create some perversion of psionic energy and magic, transferred his ability to control the swarm to her making her the new overmind.

For the first time in many years abathur signed, looking at the awakening girl. This is going to be a bother... at least the swarm can grow with a proper leader in seat.


Hi Gene-Master here

So what do you think.

Like or not

Regardless it was fun to write though I was a bit stuck on how to show abathur at work. I had a few designs but eventually incorporated what the designers (of sc2) had in mind originally ( a large web with abathur weaving strands together to arrange the DNA of a creature) albeit somewhat altered.

Also I went back to chapter 1 and changed abathur's design a little, this was how I originally imagined him but noticed I left a few things out to make things clear. i also went back and changed the authors note in chapter 1 i wrote something there that i wasnt going to put in the plot but i decided that i may want to incorperate that later so i removed it. not telling what it was that would be a spoiler.