Six months after the hatching of the egg in Tel Aviv
May soared high over the arid plains of the Middle East enjoying the freedom of flight. Over the past months she had not been given many chances to fly for long distances. The war had kept her busy.
When she first got involved in the war with I.S.I.S., the Israelis had only used her forces as a last resort. They trusted her because they had no other choice. With Israel as the Zerg's only country to recognize the Zerg as a nation, May was quick to ensure that she did not break their trust.
However, as time went on, the Israelis began utilising the Zerg more often, and more Roaches and Zerglings were being sent to aid Israel. Until now, she was always instructed to defend or protect a city or patrol an area. Because of this, she had always stayed behind to plan and work with the Israelis.
Today was different. Today she had been tasked with taking a small airfield in southern Israel near the city of Mitspe Ramon. It was a small but important airport because it gave I.S.I.S. an airport near the front lines. If she had her way, I.S.I.S. would lose it by nightfall.
Her plan was simple. Go in, kill everyone, and make sure I.S.I.S. never gets the airport back. However, the first two steps made her nervous.
Ever since she accidentally discovered her telekinetic abilities before she became a dragon, she had been testing her limits.
At first, she tried to make small rocks float like she had made the interrogator's spit float six months earlier. She found telekinesis to be fairly easy to get the hang of, and quickly moved on to pulling chunks of rock out of the ground. After she mastered that, she wanted to try something bigger. When she began having trouble finding places where she could be alone and practice, she turned to the Mediterranean Sea.
She would go on flights over the Mediterranean at every opportunity, though that mostly meant the dead of night. During her first attempts, she lifted water out of the sea, but after six months of practice, she could lift over fifty tons of a sand and water mixture from the bottom of the sea, then separate the water from the sand without dropping a grain or drop of either.
Telling the sand and water apart was not easy. After experimenting and failing many times, May became able to pick out each tiny grain of sand from a few liters of the mixture and drop the water away. That was two months ago. Since then, she had further developed her telekinesis.
Today would be the ultimate test of her abilities. She had never fought anyone before. Any serious fighting that she had done had been through one of the bodies of the many members of her swarm. Today she would be fighting as herself, and she would be alone. She had one hundred Roaches burrowed around the Mitspe Ramon airport, but she only planned on using them if there were no other options. She wanted to prove herself.
The butterflies that were in her stomach throughout the flight to the airport intensified when the airport's air traffic control building became visible on the horizon.
She did a quick overview of her Swarm to calm herself. The fifteen hundred strong Zerg military had grown to twenty thousand over six months of war. She had hundreds of some of the most powerful Zerg, and she had begun growing a Leviathan.
While an Ultralisk would take just over four days to hatch from start to finish, and a Hive would take almost sixteen days from creating the drone to the final product, a Leviathan would take almost twenty three days to birth.
It had been sixteen days since it began, and May was excited at the new possibilities it would create for the Zerg. If the Zerg was lucky enough to be accepted as a nation, then she was hoping to reveal her Leviathan to the world and eventually take researchers to distant worlds. No humans nor man-made objects had ever been to another star system, and May wanted to change that.
Even though May had amassed a large army of powerful Zerg, she used a small fraction of her forces to assist Israel. Most of her forces remained in Broodland, for she only brought Zerg to Israel when she did not have enough to complete whatever mission the Israelis had assigned to her.
She did not work with the Israelis as much and she worked for them. She figured that since their country was at stake, they should decide what was done to defend it. Because of this, she tried to keep in constant contact with the Israeli military, and she had a Nydus Network connecting her Hatchery in Iran to the Zerg operations warehouse near Tel Aviv. Matilda had used this Nydus Worm to travel to the warehouse.
With Matilda in contact with the Israelis, May could indirectly communicate with them.
"I can see the Mitspe Ramon airport. I will be there within five minutes." May told Matilda, expecting her to relay this information to the Israelis.
She began to descend, and sped toward the edge of a cliff.
The airport was situated in a large valley, several kilometers wide at its longest, that was surrounded by steep cliffs on most sides. May landed on the edge of one of these cliffs and looked down at the airport.
"Matilda, I'm here."
With her enhanced vision, May could see about a dozen parked planes and helicopters at the airport...and few guards. The airport was not on the front lines, and the Zerg had never attacked any I.S.I.S. troops without Israelis present. Because no Israeli forces would have been able to reach the airport unnoticed, I.S.I.S. had practically stopped guarding the airport.
The only way May was able to get to the airport undetected was by morphing into a Roach-like creature, tunneling under the warzone, and morphing back into a dragon once on the other side. It was a process that took a couple of days, but if she succeeded, it would be worth it.
May inhaled deeply, and slowly blew some of the butterflies out of her stomach. She then jumped off of the ledge that she stood on, and hugged the ground as she sped towards the airport.
She figured that the parked planes and helicopters could be used by the Israelis, so she did not want to destroy them. Instead, she went for the air traffic control tower. It was attached directly to the main building, and May had a clear shot at it.
Once May was close to the tower, she shot up towards the top of the tower and blasted through the glass windows, landing on top of an oblivious soldier and crushing a couple of computer desks. Chaos erupted.
She heard a gunshot to her left, and out of the corner of her eye she saw a soldier with a pistol laying on the ground. He had been knocked down by her entry. She swung her tail into the man at lightning speed, tossing him across the tower room and through the unbroken window on the other side.
May saw two more soldiers preparing to fire on her from her front and right. They also had pistols. She stretched out her left wing, and swung it into the chests of the two soldiers, and clipping the head of a third who was trying to get to his feet. The two men were sent flying, and they landed on a table across the room. The third man had either been knocked out or killed by the strike to the head.
May looked around her and found the room to be void of life. However, the same could not have been said of the rest of the airport. May could hear soldiers running up the stairs to the top of her tower. Wanting to prevent the soldiers from organising, she jumped out of the window she entered through.
She pulled up to hover halfway between the air traffic control room and the ground floor and psionically punched a hole through the wall to provide entry. The large chunk of cinder block wall shattered and rained down the center of the spiral staircase. May hopped through the newly created hole and found her level empty. She looked down at the spiral staircase that led to the ground floor. It too was empty. Above her, the soldiers that she had heard earlier were at the top of the stairs disappearing into the control room.
May spread her wings as much as she could given the tight space and jumped up while using her wings to get a small boost. She climbed the staircase somewhat clumsily, and psionically punched a hole through the floor of the air traffic control room once she reached the top.
She darted through the hole and found a group of thoroughly freaked out soldiers trying to figure out what had happened. They quickly surmised that the Zerg were upon them.
All of the soldiers opened fire, and May acted quickly. She pounced on two of the soldiers and picked them up with her front talons. Then she jumped up through one of the windows and dropped the two before flying away and circling back around. Making another pass through the control room, she picked up two more soldiers and dropped them to their deaths. She made two more passes before the room was clear.
Once all of the soldiers in the tower were gone, she landed in the control room once more. She checked herself for injuries and found that, although none of the bullets had penetrated her armor, the bullets had severely weakened it. Cracks were visible and a lucky shot could potentially pierce through.
She was interrupted from her thoughts by the thudding of AK-47 fire and instinctively dipped her head as bullets impacted the walls of the tower from the outside. More AK-47s joined, and soon, the fire was constant and coming from all around the tower. It wouldn't be long before bullets began to make their way through the thick walls of the tower. May looked down through the hole in the floor to see if she could get out that way, but when she did, soldiers running up the stairs opened fire. May jerked her head back and surveyed the room for anything she could use.
May looked up and had an idea. Using her psionic prowess, she broke the supports for the roof of the control room, and lifted the roof slightly. Then she leapt out of the room and immediately turned back in an upward direction, landing on top of the roof that she was levitating. She then moved the roof over where some of the soldiers on the ground were shooting from. Then she dropped the roof. She and the roof dropped towards the ground, and just before the roof hit, she jumped up and flapped her wings to slow herself. The roof crushed several soldiers who had not been able to move away fast enough, and May landed on top of the roof.
The soldiers again opened fire, and May psionically shifted a thin layer of earth beneath their feet causing them to fall. She took out several while they were down, but more began to make their way around the airport to aid their fellow soldiers. May was forced to burrow.
Even though the Zerg had been fighting I.S.I.S. for six months, the abilty to burrow had not been used around them except by Roaches who could tunnel. As such, they had learned to expect burrowed Zerg to move underground. The soldiers began looking around, expecting her to resurface anywhere.
After collecting herself for a moment, she burst from the ground and psionicaly picked up a dozen watermelon sized chunks of earth and chunked them at the surrounding soldiers.
The remaining twenty or so turned to May and were about to open fire when May pulled their weapons toward her, wrenching them from the soldiers' grasp. The AK-47s floated around her for a moment before she sent them back to where they came from at blistering speeds. The rifles sped through the air and struck their wielders, breaking bones and tearing flesh. Several of them were killed, but most ended up severely injured.
May looked around and got her bearings. An alarm was going off, and she could see a line of trucks full of soldiers coming her way. In the distance, the city of Mitspe Ramon could also be seen. Reenforcements would likely be ariving within minutes.
Deciding not to wait for more enemies to arrive, May began bounding toward the line of trucks. The physical build of a dragon did not allow for any form of running, so the fastest way for May to move without flying was to practically jump repeatedly forward. Though it worked well for Zerglings,
As she approached the convoy, the soldiers in the first truck opened fire. Instead of dealing with each individual soldier, May psionically picked up the first truck and threw it on top of the one trailing behind it. The colision was violent and certainly killed everyone involved. The third and final truck had to swerve sharply off of the road to avoid the wreckage.
Seeing how effective her first approach was, May lifted this truck into the air as well, and tossed it upwards. At about fifteen yards high, it began its descent. It crashed into the ground making a loud thud and a cloud of dust.
May then jumped into the air and circled the airport while looking for enemies. She found that some of the soldiers she had thrown the guns at were still trying to put up a fight, and several of them shot at her while she flew. She simply tossed the survivors high into the air, and allowed gravity to finish the job.
Next came the airport building. She wanted to clear the building herself, but decided against it because she did not want to cause more damage than she had to. The Israelis would have to repair anything she broke whenever they got there.
Instead, she ordered a dozen Roaches to clear the building for her. When the Roaches cleared the building, taking out everyone inside, May contacted Matilda.
"Matilda, tell Amos that the Saudi Arabian forces at the airfield have been eliminated."
"It will be done."
Now all May had to do was hold the airfield. The loss of the airfield would help give the Israelis air superiority in the area, thus driving back the I.S.I.S. forces, hopefully. The process could take weeks, and May had a Nydus Worm underneath the airport ready to provide reinforcements within minutes should more enemies arrive before the Israelis did. However, May still wanted to push herself, so she wouldn't call in the Nydus Worm unless she had to.
As requested, "More May and less mother-killing." - Arachnodon
Also, a much quicker update!
Don't worry about me abandoning you guys and not telling you. You guys make me want to write more, and if I decide to discontinue this story, you guys will be some of the first to know about it. I hate it when I find a story that has been abandoned for years with nothing explaining what happened...Okay...I take that back, if I die suddenly, I won't be able to tell you guys that I am not going to write any more...so...if I abandon this story with no explanation, something terrible has happened.
Just a quick apology to anyone from Israel who may be reading this story: sorry for invading your country.
Last thing: I know that Donald Trump won the election. However, I let you guys vote for the president in this story. Hillary Clinton won my poll, and our alternate, Zerg infested future will have America's first female president in it. I thought that we would be farther along by now, but that did not pan out. Oh well.
Thanks for reading!
