I wish I owned DBZ, but I don't. I own DVD's and tapes, but it just isn't the same. I also don't own the right to Starcraft or any of the music pieces you see selected, just copies of merchandise, such a shame. The artists that created them are geniuses and we all must bow to them.

Chapter 13: The Queen

All around the planet the same thing was going on. Zerg and alien forces were fighting on the darkened planet as I learned that both suns were indeed eclipsed. Kerrigan sent our brood's forces off to help fight the creatures nearby, and according to her the Cerebrate would control them from there, giving me a break on my Psi use. I liked to use Psi, but it was a bitch afterward with the lasting exhaustion. Kerrigan said that it was because I still wasn't used to it, and I couldn't argue with that. I noted once we were inside Raynor's ship that my Zerg tissues had receded tremendously while controlling the Zerg in battle. I hadn't seen how this had happened, but it had to have been the Psi usage. If anything only my tail had any infection left, and that didn't affect me as much as it did with the rest of my body. Kerrigan managed to rig up Raynor's onboard computer to work again with his power cells, and then got the engines to fire a bit as well. She didn't deem the ship to be space worthy by any means, but it would be able to recharge itself so it didn't drain the power cells.

Raynor pulled up an infrared view of the battles going on around the planet. Blue and orange broods of Zerg were clashing with the aliens just as much as the purple brood was. Kerrigan pointed out that the blue one belonged to Daggoth, and the orange one Zasz. I had already grown a vile distaste for Zasz, I remembered him to be the one with the orange colored eye on the day I met them all in the Overmind's chamber. I didn't like him from the start, but perhaps being around Kerrigan and the Cerebrate was influencing me just a bit more in that regard. According to her, they weren't exactly fond of him either, though it was obvious. Back to the point, the map flashed a brighter green where there were battles going on with the aliens. Some were being won by the Zerg, but mostly by the aliens since they had slightly higher numbers.

"Guess you guys were busy while I was out here?" I noted.

"Common practice when we fortify our lands," Kerrigan said, generally ignoring me and paying more attention to the battles. I glanced at the large map and noticed something strange. Not to far from Raynor's ship, there was a massive build up of the aliens, much like when they had first appeared from the mountains and hills. Only these aliens appeared to be just sitting there, maybe flying around but staying in the same general area. Even though some of their comrades were fighting some Zerg a few miles away, this large force stayed put.

"What gives over there?" I asked.

"Good question, maybe they want to nest there or something," Raynor said, getting a slight elbow nudge from Kerrigan. Yep they even act like old friends.

"Jim, look before your thoughts become glue again. Obviously there is something there that they are interested in, or it gives them some sort of tactical advantage. The question is, what is it?" she asked as she glanced at me for input.

"Well it doesn't make much sense for them to all hang around there when they have a few losing battles nearby. These things aren't exactly dumb from what I've seen, except when it comes to underestimating their enemies of course. I say we go out there and attack while they're just sitting there like sitting ducks. Light tears these things up, remember? A few big ki beams ought to do it!" I suggested. Kerrigan looked mildly amused at my excited mood when it came to battle.

She agreed, "Not a bad plan, but we had best do this before they decide to spread around more. I'll call some forces from our brood to meet us there."

-

We set out on foot since the location of these aliens was only a few miles to the north of Raynor's ship. While on foot, Raynor and Kerrigan looked like they both wanted to say something to the other, but both hesitated and kept quiet. It was my turn for the eye rolling, and I decided instead to change the subject, not that it had started anyway.

"Question, won't the Overmind notice this type of stuff going on? You know, us three?" I asked.

"Not to worry, more than likely from what we've seen, all forces are engaged in battle. That tends to distract him quite a bit. Worry more after the war for this planet is over. As for your degenerative status just now, he won't like it. But for the time being, I predict he will allow it," she smiled at first, but towards the end of her statement she looked a bit distressed.

"What is it Sarah?" Raynor asked.

"Nothing Jim, nothing at all," she said quickly.

"Now Sarah, I know that you're a telepath and all, but is it true that you can see into the future? I heard that from Mengsk one day, is it true?" Raynor asked in reply. Kerrigan looked shocked at this fact, more than I was at this point, but she tilted her head slightly down before explaining.

"That is true, I can see into the future. How far depends on the current environment and the people involved," she said.

"What do you see with me?" I asked.

Kerrigan hesitated before she answered, "I'm not sure myself. I've seen several possibilities with you, but I have no idea which one is most accurate. Sorry."

"Sorry? Were you using that foresight when you broke me out of the stasis chamber? Not that I want to be back there, but I prefer to know what's coming my way if I can!" I replied angrily.

"Trust me, the future I saw with that wouldn't have been pleasant, and you shouldn't go asking me what your destiny is. It isn't right for one to gain an advantage like that, and it could mess up the balance of things!" she said a little harsher now, prompting my more aggressive side.

"Balance of things? Tell your beloved Overmind about that next time he comes after Saiyans. Better yet, when I break this pitiful control, I'll show him personally!" I said, my voice was dripping with malice. Raynor looked a bit alarmed at my demeanor, but didn't say much to it. Luckily a few of the aliens dropped out of the sky to say hello, and I shot a ki beam at them to say goodbye.

"Well, if his words don't speak it, his actions do, eh Jim?" Kerrigan asked with an amused look, I however was not amused one bit. I glanced up and to the right to see the mountains we were heading for. I had to squint a little to make out the moving objects in the air, all of the flapping and shrieking sounds were enough to know they were there.

"Sounds like Death Row ahead," Raynor said, cocking his machine gun. I could see a bit of light on the horizon, but very little, much like an hour before sunrise usually hits. I searched with my extended senses and found that the aliens were rather congested, so a concentrated ki beam would take a lot of them out.

"You two might want to back up," I said as I started to power up a bit. Once they saw my aura, back they went, quickly.

"Galic Gun!"

My red beam ripped through the aliens like a blowtorch through paper. I had fired a bigger beam then I usually did just to make sure that I hit most of them. The light it gave off crippled the ones I didn't hit. When the beam passed into space and vanished, I sensed that there were very few left compared to the whole. Those remaining came my way as if asking for death, I didn't dare deny them either. I waited for them patiently while they buzzed around in the air shrieking and hissing, some minor form of communication. There must have been about fifty of them left, because the hostile feeling the things gave off had all but vanished. They swooped around in the air some, as if waiting for me to make the move.

"Don't move, I'll take the fight to them," I said though no one on the ground was protesting, Letch included. I pulled up my Psi again, turning on my sword and feeling the comfort in the bright light that came from it. Then I flew upward quickly, passing a few of the aliens in ascent. They followed me up like rabid wolves, which made me conclude that maybe these things ran on blood, my upper body had been bleeding pretty badly not long ago. But like rabid wolves, they lost their tactical advantage to bloodlust. I swung around and swooped down on top of the line of them, sword first. Swinging left and right quickly, I managed to swipe all of them at least once before getting past them all and turning about. Some had dropped to the ground with any lethal blows I had scored, the rest were crying loudly in pain, but no blood came. My sword likely cauterized all wounds it inflicted, though it never felt hot. Since I still had only slight light enough to see them from a distance, I still had to rely on the air vibrations and my ki senses, hearing them hadn't proven that effective up close.

"Next," I taunted slightly, getting a decent reaction. They all came flying in at a quickened pace despite that I held instant death in my hands. I waited patiently for them and started swinging as they came in, getting a few of them cut in half. One managed to rake at my sword arm as it died, causing me to lose concentration for a split second; long enough for the sword to vanish. I growled slightly as another plowed into my upper body. I punched it away harshly and knocked another out of the sky that way, Letch chased after it. The rest were forming up behind me again for another pass. I grinned slightly and waited for them to get within about ten feet, so they couldn't react if I moved quickly. Just as planned, I phased out right when they got there; causing the small stampede to come to a screeching halt once I was gone. This was their final mistake as my ki bolt storm had already hit them from below.

-

"Man, remind me to never piss him off," Raynor said as I landed.

Kerrigan grunted slightly, "That was a bare minimum, he can do ten times better than that given a real opponent at his level. He can probably take out more Zerg in one blast then that machine gun of yours ever has." Was that a compliment?

"Well, that just about wraps things up here," Kerrigan said, glancing about.

"Maybe, I'm wondering why they were packed up here. It doesn't make much sense to bunch up like that when it doesn't work to your advantage," I noted, giving a hard stare at the mountain. I began to sense something stirring there; it felt hostile like the aliens, but slightly different. The twilight was starting to lighten a bit, and the lighter gray skies started to return.

"Well that's a good sign, at least the eclipse is almost over," Raynor noted. I began to feel a rumbling in the ground, much like an earthquake. It was faint at first, but got strong enough that Raynor and Kerrigan were knocked off their feet by surprise. Fighting powerful villains gave me the advantage of not being overwhelmed very often, that being the case I still didn't sense anything significant in the mountain, just a constant shaking. That didn't lower my caution though, something was about to emerge. I didn't have to wait long, the mountain suddenly started to collapse, then it exploded outward, spraying boulders every which way.

"What's going on?" Raynor and Kerrigan both asked. I didn't answer as I saw the rubble shifting a lot until what I had been sensing emerged. It was just like the aliens we had been fighting, only much bigger. If I had to guess, it was probably twenty times the size of them; I didn't want to think about the weight. And it looked a lot stronger, not just by being bigger.

"Whoa, that's a whopper of a beast! You can take it no problem right kid?" Raynor asked.

I grinned slightly, "Well, were going to find out right now." I blasted off towards the beast; firing ki bolts along the way, scoring hits with each one. I heard it shriek slightly, but the smoke cleared and I could only see a few burn marks on it, nothing else.

"Okay, maybe they don't all share that weakness," I said aloud, charging up a Masenko blast. I would have fired a Kamehameha or a Galic Gun for the power, but the beast was starting to move right towards me quickly and I needed to save time. I fired and flew above the huge creature to see the results. A huge whipping talon came from the smoke and nearly cut me in half had I not dodged at the very last moment. Okay, looks like this is going to take a little bit more.

I powered up quickly while flying a little higher, unlocking all of my Psi as well. The huge alien was in the air a moment later; it felt like a hurricane force wind blew by me when those huge wings flapped once. I got away quickly though. It might have been able to fly and move more quickly compared to the others, but it wasn't going to catch me easily. I landed near Kerrigan, seeing if she had any insight on this creature.

"Well, if I had to guess, I'd say it's the mother creature, or queen. Take a look at that appendage on the back. Looks like an egg sack of some sort," she said as the queen was shifting around looking for me.

"Well I'm pretty sure I can beat it, but it may take awhile...so I may not be able to help you with them. Wish me luck!" I said as I blasted off again. Raynor was right away wondering what I meant before I heard his machine gun start firing and I sensed Psi emitions from Kerrigan.

I rushed up to the queen, "Okay you big bitch, let's see what you're made of!" I dashed in and punched her on the side of what I believed to be the stomach. Whatever it was I didn't stay to find out, because the blow barely affected it, if at all. Its huge mouth and teeth the size of cars came biting at me, so I phased away and kicked the side of her head. The beast sidestepped a little, but that was all. Okay, physicality has been ruled out now.

I saw the monster's head reel back towards me, so I phased out and reappeared above the topside. There was a large tail waiting to hit me there. I hit the hard dirt a second later. Okay, pretty good instincts too.

I didn't wait for the elephant legs to come crashing down, and phased out the instant they came close. I reappeared above her, and began preparing a Kamehameha. I don't know if she sensed the blast, or me, but she was coming up fast, headfirst. I barely had time to register that she was coming so fast, and dodged away accordingly since I had an instant worth of time. I saw the queen batter my after-image until it vanished, a semi-clueless look on its face.

"HA!!!!" The big blue turtle beam of death stormed up and hit dead on. Some of the hills and mountains behind me collapsed from the wind gust I had produced with it, but that didn't matter to me. I glanced over at Kerrigan and Raynor, who were now sitting quietly behind some rubble watching me. I saw why it was quiet there, several dozen Zerg flyers were hovering there, and the ground was once again riddled in the other aliens bodies. I gave slight thumbs up, as I didn't see any sign of the queen, before I saw a slightly horrified look on Kerrigan and Raynor's faces. I looked back at the smoke, seeing the creature emerge. It looked highly burned and scraped, but if anything it looked pissed off more than anything.

"Oh, great," I noted as I watched the queen rise up before me again. Looks like I'm gonna have to cut this bitch down to size slowly. I summoned my Psi sword and held steady, waiting for the queen to do something stupid. She charged forward on the ground and I gave her another after-image to swing at as I phased up behind her huge head. I noted that that back of her head was like a huge iron plate of skin that jetted backwards. Not wanting to get caught in an unavoidable situation, I dashed back a little and drove my sword tip down into her back. She whipped around right away but I stayed on top of her by holding onto my sword tightly. I drove it deeper and got a loud cry out of her. As I pulled out and started to drive down again, the tail got me from behind. I flew off from the blow and plowed into some rubble, hurting my head in the process. The queen appeared to be shaking off the fresh wound in her back, probably because it wasn't big enough to do much, but now I had a weak point to aim for. She came stomping my way again, swinging just as I phased out again. I got plowed down right away by her other hand, or talon. Whatever it was it hurt. When I hit the ground I thought I heard some ribs crack under the pressure. Damn she learns quick, nothing is working. Guess its time for the trump card.

I powered up more and blasted off into the air, far enough for her not to get me on the way up. I got some distance on her before I started charging my attack. I felt sure I had enough strength in me to pull off what I had in mind and still be fine afterwards, I hadn't been hit that much. I gathered a lot of Psi in one hand and ki in the other, spreading them out at arms length. Then I brought them together and mixed the energy in my connected palms. The attack didn't want to get going right away until I noticed I had put forth too much Psi. I growled a bit and pulled it back in through my hands. The blast came together once I did this, shimmering green in color. Now its time for this bitch to go down!

Then something plowed me from behind, causing me to lose a lot of the power I had charged. I snarled and glanced up and behind, seeing a lot of the smaller aliens. Obviously they didn't take too kindly to me fighting their queen. I didn't care what they thought at this point though. Their actions reawakened that bloodlust I had been trying to keep down and I used whatever was left in my left hand to fire at them. They were vaporized instantly from the big green light. When the area darkened back up, I realized that it had been a good thing I had dropped so much mixed power. When I expelled the energy it drained me a lot. Before I thought it was just because I had used too much on Borgos, but now it had been made a little clearer to me. I was still an incredibly new amateur at the art of using both Psi and the mixed energy.

I didn't have time to elaborate on it any further though; the queen came up from behind with stealth and smacked me in the side with her huge talon. I managed to turn in the air and slow myself down before I hit the ground, but the queen was now on me viciously, it was all I could do to dodge her huge blows. I was getting low on power, and soon it felt like an elephant was stomping on my back as her huge legs trampled me. I spat out blood, and coughed a bit as I hurt everywhere. I saw that huge mouth open and the teeth come towards me like she was ready to feed. I gathered whatever energy type I could find and blasted it into the mouth. The teeth became broken chunks of what they were, and a big billow of smoke came out. She was furious at this, giving me some time to phase away. The result of this wasn't too pleasing; because she was in my face the instant I did it. Really fast learner, I thought as I was hit hard again. This time I flew out of control into another side of the mountains.

When I hit, I knew I wasn't going to be getting up any time soon. Note to self. When you get out of this mess, pick a fight with Vegeta every time you see him for more battle experience at this level, or better yet, Goku. I watched her shovel up and get ready for the final blow, but it never came, and I breathed a brief sigh of relief.

-

Apparently Kerrigan had seen enough of this beat down, because it was the Zerg forces that saved me. The flyers spit their missiles of bone and acid at her while the ground fighters either bit at her legs or attacked her by jumping on top. She handled all of the attacks very well, but was having trouble with some forty to fifty Zerg around. I closed my eyes on concentrated with my Psi again, getting my controlling vision in the process. I saw that her backside was bleeding pretty bad after I had struck it, and called the Mutalisks to hurl their bones at it and the Kamikazes to crash into her there. They did so and she buckled a bit, but then flew up in the air and mauled all of the Mutalisks, taking them down in one or two hits. So much for that idea.

The Zerglings on the ground weren't gonna give up, but soon were getting splattered around as she jumped up and off the ground several times, squashing several at a time under her feet. Soon there weren't any Zerg left. I opened my eyes for real and snarled at her, but didn't move; it hurt too much at this point. I don't know if the thing smiled at me or not, but the way those broken teeth were showing it didn't look pleasant. Then a brown Zergling hit her in the side.

My eyes shot open, "No!!! Letch, don't!" He didn't listen, and her talon slashed him a second later. He fell lifeless on the field and the queen stomped on the body, splattering the remains. I fell silent in shock, for some reason the little Zergling had really touched my heart, and now his death had done the opposite. Then I felt my hidden powers stirring, and in a fit of rage I grabbed a hold.

"YOU BITCH!!!" I shouted powering up as I stood up. The extreme power of my Super Mystic form caused me to scream a bit, but that was fine, the queen wasn't sure what to make of me. Kerrigan knew though, because she was ushering Raynor to run. Then I heard the rest of the mountains and hills directly behind me get blown to dust in a blinding silver light that was my power being unleashed. I had to admit, it was impressive, and it felt damn good. I charged forward and smashed the queen over the head with double overhead fists. She stumbled in midair and I kicked her head, causing her to fall to the ground from the force. I growled a bit and fired mixed energy bolts at her, causing multiple wounds to open up. I barely recalled the fact that my energies stayed mixed together in this form, and I was too mad to care what I used. She jumped into the air and flew in the other direction, apparently trying to run. She wasn't getting away this time.

I flew up to an even level of altitude, watching her fly away from me. Then I dropped back as I started charging her death. The brief time I had known the little brown Zergling that had been completely loyal to me. It was gut wrenching to see him die, much like the panther cats on Tarsonis, and many of my friends as well. Those memories only fueled what was to come.

"Super Galic Gun!" The teal-green beam smashed into the queen and obliterated her instantly. As I caught my breath from the energy being expelled, I wept a few tears out for the little guy, but kept it limited to that. I landed near where Raynor and Kerrigan now were, powering down just slightly but keeping my form. Thinking rather constructively considering what happened, I decided to stay powered up for the time being. My Super Mystic form was starting to become a little easier, but I still couldn't transform and drop out at will; I passed out every time I did.

"Cool eyes, kid," Raynor noted with a noticeable shake in his voice.

A/N: Verto has wasted the queen and her little aliens and the eclipse is over. Ya'll knew that was coming though.

Next time on DBV: The Overmind grants Verto's request to train and his infestation slows to a halt. Elsewhere Videl deals with her afterlife training and the Briefs family gains a new member.