Prologue

Science Station "Cairis"

Affiliation: Confederacy

Location: Unknown

Armament: 50 point defense cannons, docked battle cruiser "Sanctum"

Within the cold hallways of the Cairis; a scientist by the name of Dr. Daniels walks with the utmost haste with a datapad in hand and beads of sweat across his forehead. This is due to him being the lead scientist of an extremely important but fragile project that could bolster mankind's strength in the universe: the combining of Protoss, Zerg, and Terran DNA. It is also his life's work when he started it 14 years ago aboard this station, in fact the station was specifically designed for this project with full support from the Confederacy after a whole lot of convincing. This was all after the discovery of the alien races called the Zerg and Protoss with the former being covered up for some time to prevent panic, but it was only a matter of time before the public would find out. The existence of the station however, remains a secret from all prying eyes.

Despite their abundant resources from the Confederacy, the task of creating such a hybrid proved to be an extremely difficult task as they found out that Protoss and Zerg DNA do not naturally go well together. It's fortunate that they were provided with plenty of specimens of both races from the Confederacy; with how they manage to obtain them he doesn't bother to question as it helps him with getting the results he needs. Said results so far are two hybrids, which didn't come easy, that are currently in stasis deep in the lab for further study.

There is now the challenge of integrating the human DNA into the existing hybrid gnome in a stable form. Through much trial and error they grow closer to accomplishing their goal with each subject lasting only a little longer than the previous before expiring while in the growth chamber. With each expired subject comes a huge setback however as each subject takes a while to grow to compensate for the large amount of DNA. This problem has been mitigated through the expulsion of unnecessary sections of the gnome to lessen its complexity while being stable.

The current subject, subject #23 or also known as subject "Ares", is shown to be stable and is near the end of its fetal stage unlike the previous subject which expired while still in its embryonic stages, but there's still a chance that it will expire at some point.

The thought of this probability plagues the scientist's mind as he approaches the entrance to the laboratory in which the subject, and all the prior subjects before it, are grown and stored in. Placing his ID in front of the scanner, he sighs as the door opens hoping that this subject will be successful. He is met with with a large spherical containment unit with a fetus seen floating in the center. There are numerous scientists working around it; weather it is updating their datapads or observing the monitors that display the condition of the subject and its containment unit.

"Professor Daniels." A female voice calls out from his left.

"Professor Sira, how is our subject doing today." He greeted back towards a female scientist with shoulder length brown hair and emerald green eyes that glint against the lavatory's lighting.

"So far his vitals are stable across the board and the DNA shows no signs of degeneration as of the moment. If this keeps up then this could be our first successful subject ever." Her voice showed a hint of joy as she spoke.

"We can't say that for sure, anything could happen between now and until its birth." He doesn't doubt his fellow scientist's claim, he had known her ever since the project started and has proven time and time again that she knows what's she's doing. It's just that when it comes to this line of work, there are too many variables that can cause unforeseen setbacks that can result in failure of the subject.

"Yea, you're right. But I still have hope that this could be the one we were working towards." As if triggered by this statement a scientist called out to Sira. They immediately head towards the scientist to investigate the situation.

"What is it?"

"Look." The scientist gestures to the screen with a hint of dismay.

'DNA structural decay: 10%'

It was just as he feared; the DNA displayed was deteriorating little by little.

'DNA structural decay: 20%'

He looked back at the fetus to see it squirming around as if trying to fight something off.

'DNA structural decay : 30%'

His heartbeat became much more sporadic as he helplessly watched as the subject started to die before him.

'DNA structural decay : 40%'

Sira can only watch in disappointment and sadness, fearing that this was yet another failed specimen.

'DNA structural decay : 50%'

This subject is going to expire like the rest.

However, after a few intense moments of waiting, something unexpected happened: the DNA on screen started to regenerate.

'DNA structural decay : 45%'

The process was slow but seamless as the damage done to the genome was being repaired. They are astonish by this action as Daniel looks back to see the subject slowing its movement to how it was before.

"How is he doing that? No other subject had ever exhibit this sort of behavior before." Sira was astonished by this sudden turn of events as she looked over her recorded data. "Could he be self aware of the damage or is it an instinctual action that is only exhibited at this stage of development? Whatever the case, it must be due to the zerg's regenerative aspect in the genome that made this possible. Good thing we left that in."

"Whatever it is it just saved us a lot of trouble of creating a new specimen. Continue your work here, I'll notify the other labs of this development."

"I will sir." With that he exists the lab leaving his compatriot behind to manage their recovering specimen.

Meanwhile, Sira looks up to the fetus to see it floating in the chamber peacefully as if nothing happened. She gave a small smile as perhaps there is still hope for subject "Ares" to succeed where the others have failed.

a/n

Hello my fellow readers and authors, welcome to my newest story so far, the start of a story of three hybrids surviving in the Starcraft II universe. Hope you all enjoy and the next chapter will be of "A Lone Faunus" which will come out when it's ready.

Hope you all have a good day or night wherever you are. Now excuse me as I meet up with a certain fox boy. *Jumps through a portal*