Welcome to the third chapter!
Well, I'm actually surprise that they weren't not even one review saying something about how Abathur speaks, well except for one but I already talk about it through PM, so everything is cool.
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Chapter 3: Grimm attack and adaptation.
To the girls they were already spectating an attack to the hive cluster by the Grimm, but not this sooner, the girls started running to the edge of zerg territory with their zerglings on tow. They arrive to see at least a dozen beowolfs, with an alpha beowolf and a few creeps.
Know, normally for the girls to see this many Grimms near them, they will be scare shitless, even the thought of surviving was very little… but, this is anything BUT normal. They aren't faunus anymore. They are something much powerful. The Grimm were sniffing the air near them as well the essence of the people in front of them, but, to their confusion, they weren't smelling just their supposed prey, but something completely different, abnormal to them and to this "humans", but not sensing any fear from this "humans", as well as seeing those strange creatures by the sides of this "humans".
But didn't paid any attention to that, just seeing a easy prey for them, the Grimm immediate charge at them.
The girls, seeing that the were attacking them, send one command to the zerglings.
KILL.
The zerglings immediate go into frenzy and rush to the Grimm, leaving one of them behind, with the girls analyzing them to see how the fared against the Grimm.
One of the zerglings stop in front of a Creep and growling at it, which the Creep growl at the interference in front, seeing not retreating, the creep rush forward, with it mouth wide open to bite him and killing him quickly, but the zergling was faster and dodge the bite and easily jumping on top of him and biting the Creep on the superior part of his neck, the Creep start frantically moving, trying to get the zergling to fall, but with the zergling mandibles clenching more to it's neck, made the Creep loose balance and falls to the ground, making the zergling clench more in the neck and with one swoop the zergling the spine section of the neck, making the floor stain in black blood, the creep could only drown on it's own blood, with the zergling on top of his slowly disintegrating body, giving s screech of triumph and going with his siblings.
A few minutes later, the battle isn't looking good for the Grimm, even having the numeral and size advantage, the Grimm haven't fight anything like the zerglings before, with their speed and maneuverability it's almost impossible to hit a killing blow. The zergling were literally dancing with the Grimm and when the zergling have the opportunity to attack, it's when they find a weakness on their target, they transmitted through the hive mind to the pack this weakness, so for them to explode it to their advantage.
15 minutes had pass and what's left of the Grimms are at least 2 Creeps and 3 beowolfs, but the zerglings didn't come out unscathed, all of them have different types of injuries in their bodies, not life treating, but could turn to that if they keep fighting.
The girl's thoughts were interrupted by a screech of pain, they turn around to see, that the alpha beowolf somehow flank them and started attacking their drones, injuring one, if the beowolf could he would be grinning like a cat.
The would have none of it.
The girls started running in fury and rage, going more faster then before. Ruby took out her scythe and turn to the right, as Blake and Weiss stayed a few feet behind, with Yang running pass them, with a face full of Rage, slamming into the alpha beowolf with a shoulder check , knocking the beowolf a few feet behind, easily fragmenting the bone armor and fracturing a few ribs.
Ruby sees this opportunity, with her scythe ready, she charges at the alpha, with the creep, her semblance and new strength, make contact with the feet of the alpha and easily penetrates the bone armor, flesh, tendons and bones of the Grimm, with a single strike cutting clean off the feet of the alpha.
Blake and Weiss see this and take out their swords as well, running and jumping and with their new strength cutting off its forearms clean off. After that, Yang approach and started punching all its body, easily breaking the bone armor and it's bones, she was aiming at its mid-section and legs, so it can't crawl away, with one uppercut directed to the face, breaking the jaw of the beowolf and sending it flying a feet away from then.
The girls started approaching at the twisted, bleeding and barely alive beowolf heavy breathing. Yang approach near the face and see that the beowolf trying to growl at her but couldn't do it. The beowolf could only see the death and cold eyes of this thing in front of him.
"So, you think, you could attack our swarm, our new home, without facing any repercussions" said Yang, activating her psionic powers, with the girls that approach doing the same thing.
The beowolf stop growling and could only tremble in fear, in the presence of this thing.
Yang only raise her hand and was a little surprise to see the beowolf started floating, but started grinning evilly and with the twist of the other hand, severe the head of the beowolf and letting them drop to the floor.
The other girls turn around and were surprised to see that the remaining Grimm started retreating in fear of this new thread, the girls could only grin at each other in victory, with the zerglings started screeching in triumph.
Yang after that immediate turn to the injured drone and he was in pretty bad shape, with one of its pincers barely held by flesh and a few tendons, it's left wing heavily injured with deep gashes and he was bleeding fast.
"Hey, are you okay? can you hear me?" ask Yang, worried.
"I'm ok, my queen" said the drone, with a weak and pained voice. "we Zerg have suffer worse injuries then this, in time we heal ourselves, but the process will be faster if we eat biomass"
"More biomass" said Yang, looking around and spotting one of the feet of the alpha that hasn't disintegrated completely "I think I know what could work"
Yang gets up, goes to the feet, takes it and brings it to the drone. Then she puts it in front of him, the drone takes the hint and approaches the feet and starts rating it, the girls could only see with looks of angsts, wondering if this is a good idea.
Their answer was immediate respond, as the drone started screeching in pain, with is functional pincer in its head, because of the pain, after a few seconds, the eyes of the drone turn red and the screeching stop, the drone turn around and glare at them, it charge at them , with the intend of attacking them, Ruby reacted first and with it's scythe in hand, she dash at the drone and cut it in half.
"Wha-what the hell just happened!?" ask Ruby, complete dumbfounded.
"Why the hell should I know, nobody knows what could happen if you eat Grimm flesh!" said Yang, dumbfounded as well.
Weiss started approaching to the diseased drone, to see if there are any physical change on the body that she could detect, except for the red eyes in the drone, she couldn't find anything, so she stands up and addresses the girls.
"Alright, before you two start bickering about this, ask one of the drones what kind of defensive structure we have or zergs to defend the hive, before the Grimm or other enemy attack us" said Weiss, making the sister stop bickering and nod to her. "Blake, if you could help me with this"
Blake nodded and crouch to take one of the halves, with Weiss taking the other, both started walking to the evolution chamber. As they enter, they see Abathur manipulating what appears to be a visual manifestation of the DNA of one creature and with his hands moving in the DNA removing and including parts to it. The moment that his queens enter, the DNA manifestation disappear, and he turn around to them.
"You know why we are here, right?" ask Blake.
Abathur nodded in acknowledge, or what they think is a nod.
"Then, we want to know what exactly happen to the drone and if you can prevent it if it happens in the future" said/ordered Weiss.
"Acknowledge, my queen, when all breakthroughs are complete, I will send word to you all for inspection and evolution" said Abathur. Taking the pieces of the drone.
"speaking about evolution, I had a question about it" said Weiss.
Abathur laid the corpse piece a few feet away and return to his queens.
"You said that you can reconstruct our bodies, saying that they were or are flawed, what do you mean by that?" ask Weiss.
"All terran bodies had the same flaws, no armor in their skin, no regeneration abilities, no self-sustained weapons, both in range and melee fights, always using the flawed of guns that need to be reloaded, melee weaponry that need to be repaired for days, before returning to combat, with Zerg swarm evolution process those flaws would be completely removed" said Abathur.
"So, it is possible for you to turn us in something like the queen of Blades" said Weiss, as a matter of fact.
"Correct" said Abathur.
"Very interesting, keep with your orders Abathur, we want those results as soon as possible" said Weiss.
Abathur just nodded and go back to the drone corpses, with Weiss and Blake exiting the structure after a few minutes they find that new structures are being constructed and new cocoons in the hive, but a few of the structures are very small compared to other structures, with a length of 2 or 3 cars, the girls approach the sister to talk about all this.
"Oh, you came back, anything new about what happen to the drone?" ask Yang.
"No, but Abathur would contact us when he has finish with the analysis of the drone, but he did tell us something interesting, but first what are the new structures" said Weiss.
"The bigger ones are for 2 new Zerg, the Roach and the Hydralisk, which are both long range fighters, but can attack in close-quarters, the Roach can spit acid to ground enemies and can burrow in any type of ground and the Hydralisk can shoot both ground and air enemies with spines that come out of their mouth" said Ruby.
"And the smaller ones?" ask Blake.
"Those are defensive structures are spine crawlers, with to put it simple are elastic spines that attack anyone that is close to their perimeter" said Ruby.
"Now this is going to be easier to protect the Hive" said Weiss.
"So, what did Abathur tell you?" ask Yang.
Weiss and Blake explain them that the could turn into something like the queen of blades, to which they were shock, to say the least.
"But we all know the problem is that even with all the biomass that we gather, there is now way that could work on all of us, until we found a steady supply of biomass that isn't both alive and dead trees" said Yang
"And what about the dust mine? We know that our cache of Dust is almost empty from al this" said Blake.
"We don't know if its even abandoned at this point, I don't know if the town reopened the mine, or the White Fang took over the mine and even if we try to take the mine if the Fang has it, we only had lest then 8 Zerglings and US v/s what could be thousand upon thousands of their soldiers and YOU should know better then anyone Blake" said Yang, saying the end as a matter of fact, with Blake only stiffening and looking down to the ground.
It was a few minutes of thinking what to do and to get Blake back to reality from the painful memories that still hunt her.
"Ok, for know we only send patrols of 2 Zerglings to both the town and the mine and I had a plan to use some of the zerglings to be use as an early warning, if someone or something come nearby the hive and breed more zerg for this" said Ruby, with Weiss and Yang nodding, but Blake was still frozen.
"Blake?" Ask Yang, worried.
"I'm okay" said Blake, not reassuring Yang.
"Blake, look at me" said Yang, Blake slowly lifted her face to meet Yang's eyes.
"You know that I didn't meant anything bad from what I said, it's just that you are the only person that knows this group better than anyone" said Yang.
"I know it's just that, every time someone talks or I think about that, I can only remember the horrible things that I made with the Fang, all the live I destroy and kill, because of the bastards that lied to me about the dead of my parents" said Blake, in a tone that a person at her age shouldn't have.
Yang come and hugs Blake "We all know that you regret everything that you made in the Fang, but remember we are doing of this to reform or try to reform the world into a good place" said Yang.
Blake stays still, until she nods her head "Yeah, you are right"
As the were ending their conversation, they hear the sound of cracking and an explosion.
The spine crawlers burst open, each with a 22-foot-long tendril that were thick as a tree trunk, with a razor-sharp barb, that remind them to the sting of a deathstalker, and at the bottom was a circular ring full of spikes, each of the tendrils teaching in anticipation for anyone to come near them.
As the girls were admiring the spine crawler, Abathur started to speak "Analysis and breakthrough complete, my queen, come to inspected at the evolution chamber"
The girls immediate go inside the chamber, were they see Abathur waiting for them.
"So, what happen?" ask Blake.
"Most likely caused founded, Grimm flesh is like a virus, at the same level of infestation of queens, kills mental functions of the subject, or in Zerg case, kill mental functions and disconnects the Zerg from hive mind, making it feral. Solution: adapt, can remade Zerg digestive system, strength gastric enzymes, can cocoon all zerg organism to introduce and apply new genetic strain, can apply to queens, if wished, current digestive system inadequate to eat uncooked flesh" said Abathur.
"That's great, apply it to all the Zerg immediate" said Weiss, which earn a nod from Abathur.
"Now we had task to ask you, if it is possible to do" said Ruby.
"Named the required task"
"is it possible for us to be if can add something to us?" ask Yang.
Abathur just nodded. "then is it possible if we can show it to you what we want to add?" ask Yang.
"through hive mind, it is possible" said Abathur.
"Then will show it to you" said Ruby, with her and Yang going to the hive mind.
Abathur immediate received the images, with a robot-like human, shooting bullets through the mouth as close-quarters fire arm, and some kind of foldable armor in the arms of a person, that enhance it the normal strength of the human.
"interesting… very interesting" said Abathur. "Cannot replicated this kind of items"
The girls were visually disappointed.
"But replication is not necessary, can improve design, eliminate flaws"
"You mean the reload system and the maintenance of the weapon" said Blake, as a matter of fact, to which Abathur just nodded.
"Then is it possible to implement now?" ask Weiss.
Abathur didn't said anything for a few minutes. "There is enough biomass to improve 2 queens, before the drones need to collect more, for new Zerg organisms"
The girls stay in silent, thinking if they do it know or wait for more biomass, each nodded. With Yang and Ruby going forward.
"We want those improvements first, keep in priority the improvement we mention, I want to be able to shoot like the robot and Yang wants the close-quarter design in her arms and the digestive system, anything else is secondary" said Ruby, Abathur nodding in acknowledge.
Abathur moves to one of side of the chamber and touch 2 cocoons, with the size of a human or higher. The cocoon open, like it was someone yawing, Abathur step aside, gesturing to his queens to enter to the cocoon.
"Evolution requires for Yang Xiao Long and Ruby Rose, to enter in the cocoon, digestive system will be improved first, then would add new offensive abilities"
Ruby turn around to Weiss and Blake. "You 2 protect and help the Hive, we need more biomass to protect our home" said/ordered Ruby to them, which they nodded.
Ruby and Yang look at each other and nodded, they started walking to the cocoons and enter inside of them. As the cocoon sealed itself, tendrils started to appear through the side of it, wrapping into the body of the girls, injecting Zerg essence to their bodies, as well they started filling water forming underneath them, they just close their eyes, keeping themselves calm from what's about to occur.
Weiss and Blake could only wish them luck, as the see them slipped into unconsciousness.
After a few minutes the girl walk out of the chamber deciding to leave Abathur do he's job and when they reach the hive, they hear the sound of a structure completing.
The Hydralisk den, looks a little bit like the hatchery, with a central maw slumping over and lying on the ground, with 5 main tendril like-spine on the sides forming a semi-circle and with multiple smaller spines in the center.
The Roach warren, with is a circular chitin dome position on an elevated platform, with several pairs or large-inward bones spikes, one on top of another, with an organic stairway, with inward-curve tusk leading to the entrance.
The girls smile, seeing that they going to have new Zerg roaming around the Hive, but before that they need more biomass, so they went to help the drones, Weiss in the meantime ordered 5 Zerglings to burrow at 500m (1640 feet, aprox) of the creep distance.
Location: Accrington town.
Date: 7th of May, 2547.
(for those confused, they are arrving when the fight with the grimm was over)
In this town, everything was going like it usually is, with the people staying in their home, or outside, kid playing in the streets, vendors selling their stuff coming from Vale or other towns and the farmers planting and making sure that their farms are well farmed and protected.
At the noon, everyone on the town started hearing the engines of a Bullhead, they see it coming from the north, the bullhead was painted with the typical gray color of that vehicle, but it come painted with a shark like design in the front, when it landed, the closest villagers see a symbol, which was design after the old White Fang, but with cell bars on top of it and the wolf design was added a horn like-devil design.
Every villager knows that symbol, the Faunus Detention and Contention Group, or FDCG (if someone has a better name for a mercenary and slavery group just for faunus, pleas send it to me, because I'm not comfortable with this one, says the author), the Bullhead door open letting down a group of 8 people, 7 humans and one faunus, if the deer ears didn't give it away, with the humans all armed with pistols, a few rifles, a few shotguns, one with a sword, one with a crossbow. The deer faunus just have normal clothes, but the only different thing is that the faunus has a metallic collar in its neck, with a red light on it (is the fallout 4, slave collar, from Nuka world DLC, or any other fallout).
"Come on, the mayor is waiting for us in his house, I want to end this before the end of the week" said the leader of the group, with a raspy voice.
The other just nodded, and started walking, but the faunus didn't until the one behind it, pushed hard to move, the faunus could only sent a dead glare, but didn't do anything and obey it.
After a few minutes od walking the arrive to the mayors house, they knock at the door, to which was opened by a man in its 50's, with a black/grays mustache, with black hair and gray tips, with complete dark purple suit, with a black and purple tie with a spiral design.
"You have arrived, please come in" said the mayor, as the group enter the house, with the mayor having a weary look at the faunus.
Most of the group sited in the sofas and chair that were in the living room, with one of them and the faunus didn't sit.
"My name is mayor Nicolas and I lead this town, and you are…" said Nicolas.
"I'm Marcus, and this is my team" that's all that Marcus said.
"So, you think that you have found faunus in freedom" said Marcus.
"Yes we think so, it's been a couple of years since they arrive near the town, but at the time we didn't know that they were faunus until of hunters, that hunt food, was near the cabin were they live and he saw another person with cat ears in its head" said Nicolas.
"And how long since you discover this?" ask Marcus.
"About 6 months ago, a month later we send you the message about it, but we knew that it would take a while for you to arrive with all the faunus that were liberated by Qrow Branwen, back in Atlas" inform the Mayor.
"And what about the paid?" ask Marcus.
"I don't think that would be necessary" said Nicolas, letting his hand up to stop any fights. "Now, hear me out, I don't think that would be necessary, because, if what my hunter said it's true, it's that 2 of the faunus are the fugitive sisters, Ruby Rose and Yang Xiao Long"
Marcus could only open his eyes in shock about this. "Are you certain? Then how any of you didn't recognize them"
"The news of those faunus didn't arrive here until 7 months ago, because we are the farthest village in the kingdom of Vale, news of any kind don't' arrive as fast as other and the description of the faunus parts match on their description, both gold blonde and black with red tips hair, red and silver eyes, retractable claws and wolf ears. The key characteristics is spot on" said the Mayor, with a little bit glee in his voice.
Marcus was in silence, thinking about this situation.
"If I may able to ask, was is… it doing here?" ask Nicolas.
Before anyone could respond the faunus answer. "I'm not it, I'm a her"
The faunus only receive a hard slap to the face, that make her fall to the ground, with a red and bruised cheek, the man standing on top of her glaring at her, with anger in his eyes, then he crouches and pulls her hair, making her scream
"You aren't a her anymore, you're only property, a slave and nothing more, you're only obedient to your masters and nothing else, do you understand?" said the man, letting her hair go and dropping her on the ground.
"Yes, sir" said the faunus with her voice full of sarcasm and rage.
"Looks like, someone needs to be retrained in her pen" said the man. "and to answer your question, mayor Nicolas, we bring it here, so it can gain the trust of the faunus and then use a strong form of anesthesia, so we can bring them without problem, we are only here if the faunus start attacking us" the Mayor Humm in understanding.
"So, you think that they are them?" ask Marcus.
"Yes, we are pretty sure" said Nicolas.
"But if they aren't them? Do you have the enough Lien to pay us" said Marcus.
The Mayor sigh in a little of frustration, but answer anyway "If they aren't the sisters, we have the enough Lien to pay, so you shouldn't have any problems" said the Mayor.
Marcus could only keep looking at him, making Nicolas a little nervous, but turn to relief, when he saw Marcus with a little smile on his face and stretching his hand. "Alright, we get the job done" Nicolas shake his hand with a smile on his face.
Nicolas let them stay at a little inn that is on the town center, until the finish their mission, each one of the men take his own room, except the faunus as he was take it by one of the men to his room, where for a few hours in the night in that room could only be hear were the screams of pain and skin-slapping of the faunus and sadistic laugh of the human inside of the room (I believe it isn't necessary to explain the situation there, is it?)
By the next morning, the men were having breakfast at the first floor of the inn, with the faunus, with almost none bruises (yes the faunus have aura, but most of them are broken before they find their semblance or have any though of freedom or rebelion, this faunus is one of the few exceptions, and how the hell to you think the faunus survive at Atlas) only eating the remains of the food and a little bit fruit that they bring with.
By midday, the group was at the entrance of the forest, one of the men push the faunus forward. "Alright, start sniffing the faunus essence, or you didn't have enough punishment yesterday?" said the man, with a sadistic smile, that send shiver to the faunus.
As the group move forward, they were completely unaware that they just condemned the town and themselves, to something much worse than the Grimm.
Author notes:
Well, I hope that you like the new chapter, sorry if it is a little bit more shorter than the usual chapters and if there's anything bad or not well written, it's because I had 2 weeks full of test and quizzes that make me have little to no time to write my ideas for this chapter, so sorry if some parts of the chapter look out of place, to say the least.
Well as you can see Ruby and Yang are the first to enter to phase one of transformation or evolution in to a full flesh zerg, but hold your horses, their complete transformation, of our 4 girls won't be shown until much later on the story, but before the beginning of volume 1, so, please, be patience, ok.
For the time being I'm going to pause this story, but I'M NOT ABANDONING IT, it's because I want to actualize my other story, that I haven't touch for over a month and that's how is going to be my schedule with my stories, first my first story (with the long title) and then this one and I'm not promising anything but expect new chapter every 2 weeks or a month, I'm NOT making ANY promises
Well as always, review, favorite and follow this story if you like what are you seeing, so have a good week, because I don't know how is going to be mine (chuckle a little).
See you around.