Darren was conflicted. On one hand he could reveal the zerglings, but while knows how the rest of the people would react. On the other running away had the benefit of no confrontation at all. After a bit of decision making, he decided to reveal the zerglings. A quick order later and the zerglings walked out of the bushes to stand next to Angie.
Chloe and the people from the village took a step back in fear as the zerglings showed themselves. They had been expecting a large dog that may have been lost from the kingdom to come out, not a strange looking bug dog hybrid.
"Angie," Chloe said in a scared whisper, "I need you to walk to me, slowly and calmly."
"But look at them," Angie said as the zerglings laid down passively. "They're nice," as Angie began to pay the zerglings on the head, their eyes closing in pleasure as they relaxed.
The village people began to calm down as the zerglings didn't make any threatening moves.
"Can I keep them Chloe? You said I could if they weren't mean," Angie said as she looked at her sister pleading for her consent.
She wasn't entirely happy about it, but Chloe did have to agree that if these were the creatures that saved her little sister, they, at the very least, deserved some thought.
"Okay, fine," Chloe said defeated as her sister got up in excitement, "But! Only mom and dad decide if they can stay," she said in finality.
"Okay," Angie drawled out a bit down that the dogs might not stay with them. The zerglings seemed to sense this and remedied that with a few nuzzles to the face. Angie's giggles calmed down the village people as they began to walk back home. The zergling with the face scar picked up Angie and put her onto his back and the two zerglings followed the people.
Darren stopped looking through the zergling's eyes and thought about what he just saw. One, there were humans so that was good. They might not all be friendly, but, something familiar was good. And two, there were strange animals that seemed varied from normal ones if the blue wolf wasn't just an outlier.
As he thought, another poke at his mind happened, this time from one of the drones. It hinted with excitement at finding something interesting.
A quick shift in perspective and he saw through the drone's eyes. He saw that the drone was looking into a cave with crystals a varying color shine on the walls. The drone traveled deeper with the two zergling bodyguards and Darren saw even bigger crystals the farther they traveled down. While it wasn't the traditional minerals, the large amount of crystals could be a supplement like the blue and gold minerals from StarCraft.
With that in mind Darren ordered a mass of crystal be brought back to the Hatchery to see if everything would go well and the drone proceeded to its work. The drone cut through the crystals easily with the use of its pincers and stuck what it cut onto its back to travel back with its quarry.
Darren went back to his own perspective and began to plan. He needed to increase the amount of creep outward toward the mine and was unsure how to do so. He sent an order to create more zerglings to protect the Hatchery and to protect a covey he had planned to reach from the Hatchery to the mine.
Some time and a few moments of self-doubt later the new zerglings and drones began to roam the area. Darren soon went over what the drone could morph into an found only a few buildings available. The drone could morph into a Hatchery, a Creep Generator, a Nydus Network, or an Evolution Chamber. The second one was what he was looking for, but it was also the one that seemed a bit strange to him. He felt that it could defend itself from harm, but he wasn't sure how.
He told the eight of the drones to morph into Creep Generators around the clearing in an octagon shape to see what would happen. Eight random drones broke off from a pack near the Hatchery and proceeded with the orders.
After that Darren began to have more overlords be made to scout out the area better to make sure of his surroundings when one of the two drones originally scouting out was suddenly cut from the connection between them. The two zerglings that accompanied the drone sent back images of a large rock like creature with six stubby legs before suddenly dying.
Darren was shocked. His units had died quicker than he could think of retaliating and he had no idea of what the opposition was before him.
I need more information or at least a bigger army to scout at the area before I go back, he thought. At the very least I know what to look for.