Chapter 10 : end of the line

Finally once my hold on the UED colonies secure, I gathered about half of my forces, leaving the other half to protect my holdings from any incursions. Still the fleet I ammased was phenomenal. Hundreds of Leviathans alongside thousands of Terran and Protoss ships. My main leviathan, which I named Poseidon, is larger than normal and is implanted with a large amount of Protoss tech. I would have mass produced the design but it was too costly and inefficient to outfit all leviathans.

Still I was confident that what I had now was more than enough to deal with the forces in the solar system. But that notion was challenged as we approached the Sol and I got a good look.

The system was like a massive fortress. The ship yards were working 24/7 and managed to scrape together a rather impressive armada. Every colony was strip mined for resources and every able bodied man armed and almost every inch of atmosphere of every planet covered in killer satellites . I dominated the mind of some humans to act as spies and sabatouers but for some reason I just couldn't reach the minds of high ranking officials, military or otherwise. Some sort of experimental mind shielding technology perhaps? No matter I still had my secret weapons.

First off we had the psi-ports . Based on Leviathan warp travel and Protoss technology, with the power of a psionic powering it it could open small warm holes. It wasn't much but it was a start. I directed one towards the depths of Earth's oceans and sent a small force of Aqualisks and nemolisks there. Consuming local fauna and flora in order to form a hive cluster right under the UED's feet. I also sent some small aquatic spores to shallower waters to collect some useful adaptions from earth. One creature I was eager to get was the mantis shrimp. But sadly as you will see I never got to put that plan in action.

Then came the hard part. I focused all my powers and teleported a quarter of my fleet right on top of Earth's orbit. The suprised forces reacted as expected and fired upon the leviathans, and after taking grevious losses managed to destroy most of them while I ordered the rest to retreat. But the destroyed leviathans unleashed billions of spores into the atmosphere and millions of drop sacs onto earth . While the air defences destroyed most of them by the end I gained a foothold on Earth in South America and Australia . But this was all a distraction so they won't notice a small Protoss ship carrying the elite of my forces to assassinate the UED leadership. I also sent Casper with a small force to Australia.

Loki was sent to Mars and Lara stayed behind to lead scavenging forces

Secondly while the homeworld was occupied another force was teleported right next to the fleet. My fleet was a mix of Protoss, Zerg and Terran vessels this time. The leviathans launched thousands of Starlings and Voidlings into the unexpecting fleet while the Protoss focused on dominating their minds. The Terran ships attacked as a distraction. But this was only one half of the Armada and the other half was on its way from Neptune.

Or it would have came had it not been for my final suprise. The Empress had awakened and her presscence was felt even here as she teleported herself and the entire planet into the solar system( destroying Pluto in the process ). She was a sight to be behold. A massive serpentine body that dwarfed that of a leviathan with two enormous tentacles ending with massive Psi blades . Her back tentacles were now more flexible and ended in multiple launch sites of Bomblisks, Starlings and Voidlings. The Empress was like a mini swarm producing millions of thousands of unique Zerg strains in a miniature ecosystem. One of those were the space adapted Reefazors that were attached to her back.

The space Empress unleashed a massive psionic scream that shattered the minds of the ships nearest to her. In addition the ships that remained had to deal with the Reefazours that while smaller than leviathans were much faster and agile.

The battle lasted two whole weeks . The humans used every single trick to stop us. From ramming their ships directly in kimkazi attacks to hurling entire asteroids . Whenever we managed to take a moon they would glass it to deprive us of biomass. Even using some hastily created teleportation devices ( looted from Aiur ) they launched strike missions inside my leviathan to find and kill the 'central Zerg intelligence '. Luckily I didn't have a physical body to destroy and they were dealt with (but not before destroying most of artwork damn it ).
But it was al for naught for we were the swarm, we are numberless. Even if we lose 100 units to kill only one it was still worth it. One by one their ships were destroyed and their worlds consumed. As the last ship was destroyed and Mercury was infested , the only planet remaining was dear old Mother Earth .

My forces on earth had held out pretty good while my ocean forces made sure naval operations were impossible. I had two new aquatic units. First was the Zantis, a large Mantis shrimp like beast that preyed on submarines by cracking them like eggs. Another was a mix of Megladon and Orca DNA. I can't come up with a name right now but that was irrelevant. They were adept at harassing patrols.

With my focus now completely on Earth, I spam teleported a shit ton of my forces onto the surface. Victory was in my grasp. But then I sensed something. Something powerful and ancient and was in the South Pole. I landed my forces to check but met unusual heavy resistance. Then I sensed a power surge and realised something. That was a masive Xel'naga device they were tampering with. These were my last thoughts as a massive psionic explosion engulfed the entire system and with me in it.