Chapter 7 : to the great beyond

As we sailed through the emptiness of space, I tried to get up to date on the current situation , even though I was powerful now , I didn't want to risk drawing her attention, who knows what would happen. Luckily she seems to occupied with Raynor and the xel'naga artifacrsStill the trip was mostly uneventful, mostly encountering feral broods and inducting them . My small armada had grown and now possessed 20 leviathans

However this all changed when I encountered a Protoss mining colony. It wasn't large but not small either. More in the medium range really . But what I noticed the fleet protecting it (which included a mothership) I knew I had a way to test my new weapon . I sent out a lone leviathan to lure some ships into range. Once they took the bait, the rest of my fleet emerged from and the battle was joined.

Protoss mothership
Naleem was the captain of the Mothership designated 1853 and he wasn't happy. The Zerg leviathan had seemed like an easy prey . He was a fool and his men payed for it . Now the Zerg were tearing his fleet apart and he could hear the last thoughts of every single one and he swore the Zerg would pay for every drop of Protoss blood shed.
"Sir , we are detecting strange anamolies "
"What kind of Anamolies "
"Well it seems to be psionic in nat..."
Before he could finish his sentence, a small wormhole opened and out of it came thousands of zerglings, hydralisks and roaches . Naleem quickly sprung into action but it was too late , the Zerg were overwhelming the ship and were overpowering what forces remained. It was hopeless, the swarm had the numbers and element of surprise. He was pinned down by three zerglings and and a hydralisk seemed poised to finish him off but for some reason it stopped! It seemed to stare at me with a hint of intelligence in its eyes.

Central Leviathan
My plans were working flawlessly, One of the reasons I enhanced the Leviathans was so I can focus on creating various small warm holes , allowing me to teleport my forces right into the ship. It was mentally exhausting but very rewarding. Half the fleet was destroyed while the other half was secured by my forces . I also ordered my Zerg to collect as many live Protoss as possible. While I couldn't assimilate them they still had their uses . With space secured we made planet fall. Despite the destruction of the fleet , the ground forces kept on fighting, trying to buy time for the civilians to escape on shuttles. Unfortunately for them I had my mutalisks intercept them . I still tried to keep as many alive as possible.

Once the planet was properly infested I had the the swarm gather the remaining Protoss and herd them to incubation hives in order to to use them later. What would I want from Protoss you might ask ? Well I remembered a certain mission in heart of the swarm where Kerrigan implanted a parasite into her captive . I wanted to test something I have been working on , the Neouronsk . A small parasitic Zerg that can enter the subject's brain and slowly overtime overtake the nervous system and used as a conduit for me to mind control the subject. With the Protoss safely contained, they were all implanted. My other plan was to use their DNA to produce an army of Protoss loyal to the swarm and eventually recreate the process of creating the hybrids.

I also ransacked the place , accumulating large amounts of Protoss tech and some very special crystals

As a side note I sent a leviathan commanded by Casper on a mission for Zerus because I might need some Primal Zerg . Casper seemed unsure but I promised him that this trip would be a good test for him and will allow him to grow stronger. He promised he won't fail me. I could sense Loki feeling very smug . Already those two were developing a sibling rivalry. Maybe a sister could fix that.

Our voyage continued (Now with 4 new leviathans and some Zerg crewed Protoss ships) and oddly we didn't encounter any dominion or Protoss forces . That all changed when my forces intercepted a lone vessel. It looked like a Terran vessel but didn't match any known design. Consuming the crew I soon found out why , this ship was scouting for new colonies for the UED. And if the databank ps are anything to go by I was very close to the Tau ceti colonies.

It was almost too good to be true. Here there was a large source of Terran and other types of essence as well phenomenal amounts of biomass. If my memory serves me correctly, Earth alone has 23 billion inhabitants. It didn't make sense but I wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth. Best of all destroying the UED won't really attract anyone's attention wether it was the main Terran factions , the Protoss and most importantly the main swarm. I set course for the nearest colonies and prepared my swarm for the feast .