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Wait what was I doing? Oh yeah, I realized that I hadn't updated in a while, so I decided to update! Yeah! Uh, sorry about my other stories, it's just that I found my Pokemon Yellow version and decided to play that. Did the Mew glitch got really happy and...
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StarCraft: High Yield
Chapter 9
Primary Hive Cluster, 1 Mile beneath capital city Argo, Moria, Koprulu Sector, Galactic Fringe
The Matriarch nestled deep in the ground. A mere three days into the invasion and over half of the planet was covered in creep. Thousands of hives dotted the landscape of the planet and little resistance remained in the path of Zerg. The queen had spawned numerous queens, each of which would produce specific strains of Zerg creatures.
The efficient compartmentalization allowed each hive to focus on producing one strain. While for other races, have each base produce only one type of unit could be disastrous, the Zerg had many options.
First were the crawlers. The new organisms could crawl around and root itself into the ground and attack, much like its predecessor, the colonies. The Matriarch thought about the differences, before dismissing the thought; the new crawlers were much more versatile.
Then there was the Nydus system. Previously, the underground tunnels could only transport between any two, but with a few genetic twists from Overlord's transportation sacs, the simple travel system was now a complex tunnel network.
The Terran defenders had thought that since each base only produced one type of Zerg, it would leave huge gaps to exploit. The Matriarch had taught them otherwise.
She glanced down at the larva squirming about; soon each would taste the blood of the Terrans. Before the Matriarch could give anymore thought to victory, she felt a painful impulse run through her head.
The queen saw through the consciousness of the fliers in orbit to see a startling discovery: the Protoss had arrived. Hundreds of the alien's ships had arrived in a mass warp jump, similar to the Terran arrival. The Matriarch made the Zerg equivalent of narrowing eyes, before screeching at this set back. The Protoss would be warping in thousands of ships soon.
Before the Matriarch left Char, the Queen of Blades had given the Matriarch samples of thousands of Zerg strains; the amount was near limitless. However, rather than try out a new strain in battle, the Matriarch decided to fall back on a proven strain feared by all sentient races: Scourge.
With a small mental twist, she contacted the queens responsible for aerial defense and shared the bio-strain with them. The Matriarch felt as thousands of larva began morphing into the volatile strain. She was pleased to note that some of the queens were tweaking with the Scourge genome; perhaps they would come up with something useful and unexpected.
As the Matriarch turned her gaze skyward yet again, she saw a small Terran strike force entering the atmosphere. Some sort of large transport with a strong escort of wraithes. She almost casually set an entire hive after them as she turned back to tinkering with the genome of a creature Kerrigan had shown her, one that would be field tested in this battle. But first, to successfully grow oneā¦
Hercules-class Dropship Perceus, Moria atmosphere, est. height 4.5 kilometers, Moria, Koprulu Sector, Galactic Fringe
The ten psychics were not the only soldiers in the dropship. As Ryan, Specialist 23852-005, looked up and down the corridor from his seat he saw dozens of marines, strapped into seats against both walls. He knew that if he bothered to look, all the other corridors would be the same. Ryan looked forward to see his partner, Ren. Specialist 23852-006 had been his partner since training, and the two would continue until they died.
Ren, instead of inspecting her surroundings, had rested her head against her shoulder and fallen asleep. Any alarm that said to drop would probably wake her, and if the ship was destroyed, there would be nothing to worry about. So instead of worrying about any cataclysmic event, she had snitched a tranq from a passing medic and dozed off.
50 SCVs waited for touchdown in the main loading bay of the dropship. Around them stood a myriad of soldiers and vehicles, ranging from experimental M.U.L.E.s to Arclite siege tanks. They stood in the bay nervously, looking around as though a nearby tank could fire upon them at any time.
Outside the Perseus, a flight of twenty wraithes flew in a wide formation around the unarmed dropship. Captain Kyle Darex, the leader of the squadron began scanning the dropzone when they were two minutes out.
"Command, we are on approach vector," He said as the dropship flew over a canyon. "We are negative on hostile contact. The Perseus is undamaged and will de dropping in," he glanced at the chronometer, "90 seconds out, Command."
As the dropsite came into view exactly 12 seconds later, Captain Darex began transmitting again. "Command, Dropsite appears clean, nearest Zerg Hive is 7 kilometers out. Zerg flyers are-, wait, what was that?" he said as he brought his ship around in a tight turn. As he looked out the cockpit, he saw hundreds of Zerg flyers heading directly for the dropship! Somehow, they had managed to fool the squadrons radar and snuck up using the canyon as cover.
"All wraithes, turn and engage Zerg flyers. Activate cloak on my mark," Darex said confidently as the Zerg swarm approached. When the Zerg were just outside of missile range, the captain gave the order. The 20 wraithes disappeared from view and unloaded a full volley into the swarm. The Zerg crumbled under the weight, many disintegrating in mid-flight. Broken mutalisk wings fell from the sky. Scourge erupted and took out their own allies. Darex watched as a dead guardian dropped through the Swarm and killed dozens of other Zerg. Burst lasers, normally meant for use against ground targets, shot into the mass and scored as many kills as the missiles.
However, the Zerg were not the only losses. Darex observed helplessly as a Scourge randomly crashed into a nearby wraith. He watched as the acid seeped through the ship and destroyed the precious cloaking device. As the ship flickered into view, a single devourer launched a cloud of acid spores at the damaged wraith before moving on. The pilot inside was disintegrated before he could scream in pain. Another wraith had the misfortune of skimming a brood lord. The broodlings had managed to cling onto the ship and tore into the ship with a near fanatical frenzy. When they reached the cockpit, they tore the pilot out of his seat and ate him before the ship crashed into the ground.
Despite the huge number of casualities, the Swarm kept on directly for the Perseus. As it was, the Hercules dropship was unloading its cargo onto the red Morian dirt. 5 SCVs had begun constructing what appeared to be missile turrets, while another ten were constructing bunkers. The remaining 5 had begun constructing base infrastructure, but it was too little, too late.
As the flyers closed in on the landing party, thousands of C-14 spikes tore into the Swarm. But, a far more deadly threat was beneath the massed marines. Just as the flyers reached them, the ground beneath the landing party erupted. Two ultralisks unburrowed, taking out over half of the marines. Several swipes from the deadly Kaiser blades, and the entire company was killed. As they burrowed, the flyers took out what forces remained and returned to their hive.
On a nearby ridge, Specialists 23852-005 and 23852-006 watched as the Zerg headed south east, towards the capital. Unspoken agreement was reached between the two and they headed towards the ruined city. As Ryan looked up, he saw the wraithes decloak and head back towards the fleet. As he looked back towards his destination, he saw Ren staring at him. Raising an eyebrow, Ren obliged.
"Remember what the general said? Yep, we found ourselves a war."
Yay, cliche sayings!
Now I've been checking how many hits I've been getting. There are a lot more hits than reviews. Somewhere around HUNDRED TIMES more hits than reviews. Most of those reviews have been from Son of Napalm. Now, he could use a little help reviewing this story. You people could just take a little time to write a review and boost people's egos.
Mine included.
Thanks for reading, I hope to post in a week or so!
En Taro Shakuras!
