VS Sylvanas

Day 114, Year 1

"Oh Sylvanas!" Alexis cupped her hands and shouted, causing Scott who was standing next to her to slightly wince from the sudden outburst. "Come out come out wherever you are!"

"Well, there goes the element of stealth," The male Overmind muttered, shaking his head and glancing around at the thick vines and trees. The two were currently in their recently conquered swamp, suffering the overly humid air and bothersome insects as they tried finding the Zerg boss that had just lost against them on the battlefield. They had to take care of all lose ends lest it come back to bit them if she's left alive.

"Oh c'mon, we didn't even have that in the slightest!" The young female Overmind rolled her eyes, letting out a huff as she crossed her arms. "Think about it: she loses the battle. She has nowhere to go, we have information that the coast is just beyond here and no Overlord has reported seeing Zerg swimmers yet. Ergo, she is trapped and knows that she has nowhere to go!"

"That may make sense, but still, shouldn't we at least try to sneak up on her?"

"Nope, won't matter anyway. She may be shocked at first, but the effect will be minimal considering that Sylvanas is already about to die. She accepts that, and now, we have an even tougher fight on our hands," Alexis explained without pausing for breath or for thoughts. "A tiger fights its hardest at death's door."

Her mind was processing the raw information at speeds that would leave her siblings in the dust. Scott may be able to analyze things at the crucial turn of the battle, and Kiara in the heat of combat, but Alexis could do so any time she felt it needed. And this very very very very very very important task that their older sister had assigned to the two younger siblings warranted that. Speaking of whom….

"So where do you think Big Sis went off to?" The blond and green hair girl asked as she casually brushed aside some low hanging vines. "Last time, she went off to kill a boss by herself! Do you think she will capture something like an Ultralisk this time?"

"I haven't the slightest idea," Scott responded, shaking his head. "She brought Arthogious with her though, and knowing Kiara's opinion of him, I don't exactly envy what hell he's probably suffering."

"Arthogious is a good addition to the Swarm! Why won't she see that?" Alexis pouted and suddenly Scott felt an urge to just tackle his sister and hug her tightly. Even if her body was slightly older that her actual mental age, it still was young enough to send every Queen in the vicinity racing to nurse her (an awkward situation that thankfully only occurred once). "I mean, I know that he's kinda a backstabbing son of a b-"

"Woah!" The male Overmind lunged and managed to cover her mouth before she could finish that phrase. "Okay, where the hell did you learn that from!? I want names!"

"Mmph mmph mmph!" The young girl frantically gestured and the older brother blinked before realization of his mistake. Asking a person whose mouth is covered to speak.

"Oh. Right sorry." Scott sighed and shook his head, taking away his hand from her mouth. "Okay, who told you that?"

"THERE!" Alexis' arm jerked upwards and a kinetic blast immediately shot outwards from it, the powerful attack blowing away all the thick vines in the general direction. There was an acidic hiss as a Baneling lying in wait was thrown back and burst from impact of hitting a low branch. However, as both of the Overminds' senses kicked into overdrive, Scott immediately recognized the trap that they had just walked into.

"Get behind me!" He shouted, reaching out and yanking the girl's arm roughly backwards. Scott immediately threw himself in front just in time, as three Banelings popped out of the ground and exploded, spraying their payload everywhere. But as the male Overmind was in front, Alexis was shielded while her brother took the hits. And she doth protested.

"SCOTT!" She screamed, tackling him down just as another Baneling flew towards them. Her eyes glowed green as she caught the suicide unit with psionics power, dangling it hopelessly in the air as she forced it backwards and ensured its proper destruction. "Big Bro, are you alright?!"

"I'm fine, I'm fine," The brown haired man mumbled, slowly getting back up to his feet. His sister's eyes widened as she realized he barely showed any damage from the attack, merely some burnt and scarred pieces of carapace on his body. "It's the armor gene," He explained, rotating his arm experimentally.

"Oh, the one that Kiara gave to you?"

"Yeah, it's essentially an emergency save. I can- HIYA!" Scott suddenly dropped and rolled to the side, springing back up on his feet once the tossed Baneling missed him. A quick snap of his wrist sent a spine spiraling into the suicide unit, bursting it behind him safely. "Okay, I get it. The boss is a giant Baneling."

"Banelings, banelings, banelings woaah!" Alexis mockingly sung and her brother immediately groaned.

"Now is not the time!"

"There's always time for a bad parody!"

"Well, well, I have to say," A bodiless voice began, cutting out the developing argument as the two siblings immediately placed themselves back to back in the swamp, hands raised with their respective weapons. "Zestra kept going on and on about how she had found a worthy rival, how she planned to defeat him, how he planned to overtake her, and so on. By the time I saw your own tactics out on the battlefield, I imagined somebody at least a bit more…mature."

"Mature, my arse," The youngest of the Overmind muttered, her hands cackling with electricity as she let it arc from fingertip to fingertip. "This guy still thinks that wearing a tinfoil hat protects one from aliens."

"It's a stated statistic!"

"From a conspiracy website!"

Again, the onslaught of tossed Banelings in their general direction cut short the developing argument and they two siblings quickly regained their combat stance and pace. Scott rushed in, spine knives in his hands as he dashed side to side whilst moving forward, enabling him to dodge the acidic sacs and reach where Sylvanas assumedly was in the thick vegetation. However, upon reaching the location, he was met with a Baneling landmine.

"Ack!" Scott gasped, leaping back and activating the armor gene to shield his body from most of the damage. But unlike Arthogious, this gene only gave limited protection. It blocked most of the fluids from disabling his body, but a few droplets scored through and burnt some skin. He grimaced, but held onto consciousness as the male Overmind neatly landed on his feet. "Alexis! Confirmed in front!"

"Gotcha! Take this!" The young girl roared, pointing both hands forwards and letting the built up electricity arc out in a massive stream. There was the distinct smelling of ozone followed by burnt flesh as Sylvanas roared in anger, the Zerg boss finally being hit by the Overminds. "Hah! We've gotcha now!"

Suddenly, both Scott and Alexis stumbled and nearly tripped themselves as the ground began shaking as Sylvanas rose up to her full height, giving the Overminds the first glimpse of what she truly was: A massive turtle-like creature, but instead of a shell, the iconic green pulse of Baneling sacs dotted the boss' back. The beady and slightly blackened face of Sylavnas snarled before roaring again, shaking its body side to side as the sacs on its back popped off to spawn even more Banelings. The most intimidating factor?

Sylvanas was at least three times as big as an Ultralisk. "Okay, maybe not!" The blond and green hair girl took back her words of confidence and now positively had a tone of fear. But within that fear was excitement. This was going to be fun!

"FOOLS! I AM THE QUEEN OF BANELINGS!" The Zerg thundered, slamming a foot down into the muddy water. "You had no chance from the very beginning!"

"What really gets me is how she was able to disguise herself and not reveal her actual size…that's interesting," Scott muttered, rolling his shoulders around as he readied his spines. "Even Overlords didn't report this massive anomaly. I wonder how she was able to do that?"

"I have an idea," Alexis replied, eyes flashing green as she began floating off the ground, hair levitating and flowing out on the air. Her hands shot outwards from her body as the stones began to rise up from the ground, the sign that the young girl was entering her psionic mode. "Keep her occupied!"

"Got it." With that, the brown haired man dashed forwards, ducking and weaving in-between the tossed newly spawned Banelings, eventually reaching the scaly leg of Sylvanas. Giving a yell of distraction, Scott jammed out of his knives through the meaty tendon and causing massive pain. Sylvanas roared and raised the offending foot, only to have Scott rapid fire and fill the sole with his spines. Meaning that when the Zerg boss tried stomping down on the Overmind, who nimbly rolled sideways to dodge, the spines forced themselves even deeper into the foot that had already been filled with pain.

"I WILL CRUSH YOU WORMS!" The Baneling boss screamed, shaking herself and sending even more Banelings flying everywhere. Some dropped down from the birth holes with a plop and began to scurry around, looking for targets. Others went soaring through the air from the momentum of being shaken about with intention to explode upon impact, but Alexis already saw that ahead of time. Whenever a Baneling got too close, it was immediately battered away by an invisible wall made of air that the psionically sensitive Overmind erected.

Meanwhile, Scott dealt with the flying Banelings his own way, simply sending a spine into the sac as he evaded them, ensuring that they suicide themselves onto nothing as he began stage two of "Annoy Sylvanas." The male Overmind took in a deep breath before leaping and latching onto one of the four legs that the beast had, using and digging the spines into the flesh to slowly climb upwards. Obviously, Sylvanas noticed; but she couldn't do anything to stop him, short of falling to the side and crushing him.

However, she was able to spawn a Baneling just as he was climbing up. Turns out that using knives to climb up something is very slow; Scott wasn't even able to get halfway up before a Baneling bounced against his face and exploded. To avoid massive damage, the Overmind was forced to let go and fall back onto the ground. His eyes narrowed upon noticing that where the Baneling exploded, Sylvanas' skin was unblemished.

This information spurred him even harder to climb up Sylvanas, and Scott did so by using his psionic powers. With a roar, he slammed his fists down onto the ground and twin torrents of water engulfed his hands before freezing. The man then pulled and shattered the columns, but spiky ice gloves now coated his forearms, just like how it was imagined in his psionic state. Using these new icicle gauntlets, Scott took a running leap and latched back onto Sylvanas' leg, using the spikes this time.

Before Sylvanas could even notice, Scott was already on her back. With pinpoint accuracy, he sent spine daggers flying everywhere into the birth holes, killing the Banelings before they even exited their mother's body. The acidic fluids flowed freely into the exposed wombs, scalding Sylvanas' insides as her own weapons were turned against her. "Why you-!"

"I saw how you could take acid without flinching- you must be immune to it from the outside obviously. But I doubt that even you could handle Banelings from the inside!" Scott grinned, elegantly back flipping off just as the acid threatened to overflow from the birth pores. "I-"

"DAMN YOU ALL!"

A mental tidal wave slammed into the Overmind and he choked and gasped as it threatened to break through the hasty mental barriers he panickedly threw up. "What the-?! Alexis!" Scott groaned, falling to his knees and grabbing his head under the pressure. "I...I can't!"

"Hang on, I've got this!" The tsunami of sheer psionic power was countered by an even bigger wave as Alexis unleashed her gathered power, the girl roaring as she forcefully pushed back Sylvanas, both mentally and physically with her might. "Hiyyaaaa!"

With a shocked bellow of surprise, Sylvanas lifted off the ground for a brief second before crashing back down on her back, flattening half the swamp in the process as she submerged her pores in the water. "No, no! My babies, my babies!" The creature cried.

"Have no fear, you'll be joining them now!" Scott and Alexis both roared, their minds moving in perfect sync with each other as they dealt the final blow. The male Overmind leapt up into the air at the same time as the youngest of them, and with a psionic air blast, Scott was sent flying at the exposed underbelly of Sylvanas with his knife pointed out. "This is the end!"

A/N: I still have nightmares about Husky's singing.