Her mind warped to a distant asteroid as she sensed Terrans in close proximity of the place as Abathur explained. "Dominion defense platform, Sigma Centari. Feral brood lords nearby." Brood Lords? That was an asset their needed to secure again as she witnessed the formations of Missile Turrets protecting the Dominion from standard Mutalisk attacks. "Missile turrets designed to kill Mutalisks. Stalemate without brood lords." Thankfully, the Brood Lords were close by, with a small force of Mutalisk protecting them as Kerrigan commanded.
"Find the brood lords. We'll assimilate their essence and destroy the Dominion." From the infested platform, the Mutalisk spawned from the vents and were readied as Abathur spoke.
"Kill brood lords. Recover essence." With that, they attacked the patrolling Brood Lords, eliminating them and collecting their essence before Kerrigan commanded as they returned to the vents and tunnels inside the platform.
"Assimilate their essence." From there, spawned the new Brood-Mutalisks as Abathur spoke, curious that the strain for Brood Lords was spun into Mutalisk instead of Corruptors, but she had a feeling that Abathur was intent on making the Corruptors a different evolution matter.
"Mutalisks can morph into brood lord. Await your command." They entered their airborne chrysalis and emerged as Brood Lords as Abathur explained again. "Brood lord: launches broodling, assault ground targets from distance." That was not all as a flock of Mutalisks joined the force as Abathur continued. "Supplying mutalisks, will protect brood lords. Complementary skills." That meant that the Mutalisks should only serve as air protection for now while the Brood Lords barraged the ground targets with their broodlings divebombs.
"Now let's end this stalemate." It was a slow movement, but the Dominion were not prepared in the Brood Lords assaulting the location, even the protective Vikings were stopped by the Mutalisks as their missile may be effective on armored units, they were not good against a flock of Mutalisk, whose glaives bounce among targets and the Planetary Fortress fell, despite more forces being called in to stop the airborne attack.
"Planetary fortress destroyed. Platform secured." Kerrigan breathed with the return of the Brood Lords, but she didn't have time to waste as her mind reached to another site that Abathur had selected for the Mutalisks...
The planet was not as inhibited as she was expecting, so it must have been a small force here for something as Abathur spoke. "Brokas Hur. Dominion storage world." Still didn't seem like much as the planeside view brought their eyes on a crashed Hercules transport, she getting a feeling that it was the same transport that ran when the Hunter Banelings rolled in for the attack. "Transport wreckage discovered. Jorium crystal contained within. Jorium useful for experimentation. Enhances psionic potential. Must acquire."
Kerrigan didn't want to let Abathur have something that could boost psionic power, but she couldn't leave the Dominion such a resrouce as altered Mutalisks descended to the surface as Abathur explained to the different form, much like the Hunter Banelings and Lurkers in her opinion. "Completed research on primal essences. New strain created: viper. Ready to assault Dominion." They mutated and Kerrigan recalled seeing those sort of creatures during the siege on the cluster for her 'evolution'.
"Viper: strategic asset. Abducts targets, pull to its location. Usable on ally or foe." A trio of Aberrations erupted from the creep-covered soil of the infested base.
"Move across the river and pull our Aberrations to the other side." The creatures were slow, but they yanked the Aberration across, no problem as Abathur warned.
"Siege tanks detected. Use vipers. Pull into range of aberrations." That rendered their ability to go siege mode null as the Vipers yanked and pulled the tanks into range of the ABerration claws as they pressed on to a Bunker with another ability on hand for the Viper.
"Viper, emits disabling clouds. Foes within, cannot attack." It was like the Dark Cloud from the defilers four years back and what corpses they could find on Char around that time as a disabling cloud was shot onto the Bunker, rendering their firepower null as Kerrigan commanded.
"Rip that bunker apart!" The Bunker fell and a pair of Aberratiosn were dropped in as Kerrigan mused. "Only their final defenses remain. Move in for the kill." The Viper pulled in the Aberrations for the attack and laided down clouds to stop the ground forces form attacking while the pair of protecting Wraiths engaged the Vipers directly before the battle was won over the wrecks of Siege Tanks, the corpses of Marines, and the ruins of Bunker as Abathur spoke in success.
"Jorium cargo secured. Must prepare Mutalisk morph."
Kerrigan returned as Abathur spoke in selecting one or the other of the Zerg Evolutions. "Mutalisk morph ready for integration. Await decision." She looked between the two versions before making her choice.
"Ready the Brood Lords, the Viper are worthy as well, but I prefer giving my foes a bit more claws and fangs to worry about than just getting pulled in for the slaughter."
"Acceptable. Brood Lord Mutalisks now serve as main Swarm Mutalisk. Viper strain will be spread among Queens for equal power on field." Kerrigan nodded as she turned back and looked out to the lab of the platform.
Now it was down to Narud and his secret Tal'darim followers, then the Swarm would have destroyed both the creator and his main source of Hybrid monsters for the Dominion, his dead god soon going to be joined by his pitiful creation...