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Welcome back everyone, to chapter 3! Now, let's get to the review first:

To Kamencolin: Mokou's Immortality came from the Hourai Elixir, and it could count as a drug that changed her genetic coding. It's not wrong to compare her to Deadpool, because both of them underwent drugs to become immortal (and half-immortal in Deadpool's case).

With that out, let's get to the main story!

Mutalisks, lowered to the ground. Reach the dirt.

Location: Human village. Being led by a human, protected by… not human. Could be this 'Youkai'. Different senses.

Zerglings, await since the fight ended. The small Youkai, still on one's back. Not normal looking… drunk in Terran terms?

"Hey~a, Kei~na… big doggies…" Not focusing on the person. Holding a bottle of sort… Too young.

Keine notices Abathur's slight confusion, so she explains: "It's just Suika for you. She would be drunk all the time."

"… Seems too young to drink." Saw Terrans. Heard some… rules.

Reimu: "Don't worry about it. She's old enough to drink."

"…Not my problem."

Marisa grabs the girl. "Let's get you off before Abathur gets mad for no reasons."

"Abathy?" … "AH! A big bug!" Turned into mist! Then on his back! "Big buggy~…"

"OH FOR THE LOVE OF…" Reimu immediately yanks the girl off him and apologizes: "Sorry Abathur. She always does random stuffs."

"No harm done." No need to work up… yet.

Keine sighs. "This will get more problematic the more we're in the midst of clear ground. Let's get to the school."

Location: Keine's school. Teacher Office

"Reisen, do you have any ideas to deal with this?" Mokou asks the rabbit Youkai, as Keine starts putting the cups of tea on the table for everyone.

"That depends on Abathur's interview." Reisen answers. "Go ahead, Aya."

"I'm waiting for this!" Pulling out her note, Aya prepares to write down anything she hears from the Zerg. "Alright! First question: How did you get here?"

To the point. "Rift in space. Didn't know how, or who. Currently in war, taking advantages of the rift."

"War, you say?" Reimu asks curiously. "There's no war in Gensokyo as far as I remembered…"

"I think battles would count. Anyway, you talked about yourself being Zerg. What's a Zerg?"

"Zerg Swarm, Purity of Essence. Start from Larvae, morph into different creatures. You saw."

"So you're the same as them?"

"Incorrect. Designed, not evolved. One of a kind. Nearly irreplaceable. Evolve others to adapt."

"Designed? Can you make more senses?"

"Created from strands of the others, put into one. Analyze, improve, spin the greater strands into Swarm."

"A modified Zerg." Everyone looks at Reisen. "If you put ears on human, he or she would become like a Youkai. Abathur is nearly the same."

"Explanation, not entirely incorrect."

"Well, I would just write it down. Anyway, you said before you're Evolution Master of the Swarm. Care to describe what you do?"

"Gather essence, spin strands and sequences into other Zergs. Improve the Swarm's efficiency. Seek perfection for everything."

Keine: "Nothing is perfect."

"Correct. Perfection is goal, always change. Constant moving. Can chase, never catch."

Mokou: "At least you know what you're doing."

Aya continues: "So you're the leader?"

"Incorrect. The first ones were wild. Touched by Xel'Naga and gifted the Purity of Essence. Opposing to Protoss, the Purity of Form. Separated into two: One escaped Amon's control, turned primal. Others, controlled by Overmind, then the Queen of Blades, now the new Queen of Blades."

Now that gives everyone confusion. The way he said it, 'Queen of Blades' must be a title. However, with a name like that, nobody would give it up that easily. So, Reimu asks: "So there are two Queen of Blades?"

"Incorrect. One and the same. The previous, purified back to human. Human, turned herself back days later."

"THE QUEEN OF BLADES IS A HUMAN?" Now that makes everyone shout in disbelief. No sane human would lead a monster group like this, let alone attacking other human… unless she's not sane.

"Was. Turned herself into Zerg. Not completely lost humanity. Being portrayed as monster."

Keine: "That's… disturbing. Why was she even turned in the first place?"

"…Overmind's orders. Foreseen a dark future. Used her to fight against the corrupted Xel'Naga and prevent that future. Not telling her directly."

Mokou: "But using a woman to do your dirty work…"

"Overmind, not care. Do whatever it took to survive."

Mokou: "I can see the logic, but…"

"You know, we could have it in another interview." Aya interrupts. "For now, let me ask about your objective here. How much of this 'essence' do you need?"

"… Unpredictable. Each creature, different genetics, different information. Stop only when it's enough to improve the Swarm."

"Hm…" Reisen starts thinking about where the essences could be… then she asks: "Anything is okay?"

"Anything with genetics." Abathur then holds up a ginger hair strand. "Found on Zergling. Contains genetics."

"Oh? Must be Suika's hair." Reimu says, as the mentioned already fell asleep while still being drunk. "Wait, that thing has what you need?"

"Yes. Enough or not, unknown. Not analyze yet."

"So how do you do that? In a workshop or something?" Marisa asks in curiosity.

"I don't think they have workshops…" Reisen says.

Then, to everyone's surprise, Abathur just puts it into his mouth and starts making noise of chewing the hair, making everyone cringe in discomfort. Reimu stutters with her words with that: "W…What the hell are you doing?"

"Consume material. Break it down, taking strands only."

"Can't you try to make it… less disturbing?" Marisa normally doesn't care much about being dirty, but this is just way too weird.

"Not important… Analyzing…" Abathur stops making the chewing noise, as he's focusing on what's inside the hair. "… Fascinating."

"Well that's quick." Mokou comments.

"You got what you need already?" Reisen asks, cearly surprised by how fast the process is. Even with their advance technology, it would still take them an hour at least to check whatever is in a genetic-contained material.

"… One of the mass. Strand, only capable for one Zerg creature."

"Oh yeah, there are many types of Zergs, right?" Marisa asks, remembering the variation of Zergs they have fought before Abathur showed up.

"Correct… Sequence fully analyzed. Can spin into Ultralisk in any seconds."

"Ultralisk?" Everyone asks in wonder.

"Didn't show up in the fight. Currently outside the village. Too large to get in."

Mokou: "Larger than the one flying up high?"

"No. But, larger than this place."

Reimu: "Then how come didn't we even notice it?"

"Underground. Zerg unique ability."

Aya immediately writes it down. "So every Zerg can do it?"

"Yes. Burrow, unable to detect with normal eyes. Scanners, able to find."

Still Aya: "Can you show it to us?"

"… Come."

Location: Outside of the village

"… In logical sense, you could have used it in the first place." Keine deadpans, as the group watches the monster erupted off the ground, making a high roar before standing on its legs, waiting for Abathur's further orders. "Why didn't you?"

"Mission is to gather essences, not to destroy. Forces given to scout, not to attack." Abathur watches as the drunk oni starts climbing on the monstrous beast again, much to the beast's confusion. Effortlessly grabbing the girl off the Ultralisk, Abathur puts the girl aside and starts spinning the sequence inside the unit. Said unit then covers itself into a cocoon, and everyone could see the monster moving inside the giant egg.

"So this is how Zerg evolve…" Aya writes it down into her note then takes a picture. "It's kind of like the butterflies, huh?"

"You could look it that way, maybe." Reisen answers. Then she asks Abathur: "You said about Koprulu Sector, so you're an alien?"

"Correct. Zerg, from planet Zerus."

"From outside and an alien, incredible!" Guess who.

Abathur then notices the Ultralisk's form being reduced… to very small, and he is slowly losing his connection towards the Ultralisk. However, judging the inside still having movements, he doubts the monster has died yet. "… Poisonous?"

"I thought a normal evolution would cause size change?" Reisen asks in curiosity.

"… Changing, too drastic. Losing control on Ultralisk." The more time passes, the more worried Abathur is, and that's a first time he felt that way.

Reisen: "Losing control?"

"Zerg Swarm, needs hive mind. Controlled through psionic by Queen of Swarms and high-leveled Zerg creatures. Current highest, Evolution Master."

"Like an Ant Queen, giving the orders…" Keine understands the situation. "Still, evolution in Zerg is faster than anything I have seen…"

Then, the cocoon stops glowing, and much to Abathur's dismay, he has lost his connection to the Ultralisk completely. "… Can't feel Ultralisk's mind. Dead."

Everyone's a bit down after that conclusion. It's true it could be a deadly weapon in their world, but seeing it die that quickly… Aya then tries to comfort Abathur: "Don't worry, Abby. You said there are more Zergs, right? Then you could try on them."

Mokou deadpans. "It's not something you could say…"

"Aya, correct." Abathur, being quickly over the 'death', says. "Could ask for more Ultralisks. Takes time to adjust…"

The moment he says it, the activity inside of the cocoon catches everyone's attention. A figure, human-sized, is trying to break out of the cocoon with a few knocks. Slowly stepping forward, Mokou readies her sword to any unexpected event. Then, she sees the figure raising their right arm up, and she feels the sudden charge of power, so she immediately backs away, and that's the good call because the cocoon gets burst from the inside by the punch, creating a wave of wind sending straight towards the group, forcing them to use their hands to cover and block the wind.

When it dies down, everyone looks to see who just escaped the cocoon, and they're extremely surprised because of what they're seeing. A girl as short as Suika, stands there with a horn on her forehead points upward to the sky, just slightly higher than her head with long brown hair waving freely behind her back. On her head, four more horns are placed just over her ears and point to the sides. Her eyes are glowing with purple, then the light subdues, revealing her 'innocent' looking eyes with purple pupils. Her skin is covered with tight, brown chitin armor in a few parts like shoulders, elbows and knees, hands and feet, revealing her tanned skin. And there are two small blades laying on the ground next to her feet.

Seeing the girl's current state, Aya immediately covers Abathur's eyes, though that doesn't do much as Abathur already sees what happened before him, while the others are agape at the appearance of the new girl. Then, the girl just walks forward the Evolution Master and giggles. "Hello Evolution Master. Your experiment has gained great success again."

Grabbing Aya's hands and pulling them out of his eyes, Abathur looks up and down at the girl's figure, then looks at the blades lying on the ground, which reminds of the Kaiser Blades the Ultralisk has. Then, it clicks in his mind. "Ultralisk?"

"Of course I am, Evolution Master. I know you could recognize me…" The girl giggles again.

"Excuse me…" The girl looks at Reimu, who gets closer to her and examines her horns and armor. "You're saying you're that monstrous beast? You look nothing like an ordinary Youkai, well, aside those armors…"

The girl raises her hands towards the blades, and they automatically fly towards her waiting hands as she grabs them and wields them with no efforts. "I am. You saw the whole process, right?"

"It's because it's too absurd to us to absorb the truth…" Reisen pulls out her coat, which she puts it away in her bag due to the heat of the summer, and puts it on the girl to cover her 'exposing' parts. "But questions later. I think we should give you proper clothes first."

Location: Hakurei Shrine

"Interesting…" Using his hands, Abathur starts examining the newly made Zerg-Youkai, starting with the hair and the horns. "Did not expect the result. Gained own mind set. Less… Zerg."

"It tickles, Evolution Master…" The girl starts giggling as a hand starts reaching her left armpit. Currently she's wearing a purple blouse over a white shirt (provided by Suika since there's no one as small as the Zerg), having her hair tied into one ponytail, a skirt with lighter color than the blouse with green frills at the end. She doesn't wear shoes, because 'it's uncomfortable' as she said.

"Can you stop harassing her for a second?" Reimu deadpans at how Abathur 'inappropriately' touching the Ultralisk.

"Examining, not harassing." Abathur counters, which doesn't sound very convincing to the others because of his own personality.

"That aside… so the Ultralisk has turned into a Youkai…" Keine rubs her eyes in mild annoyance. "It's already hard enough to keep track with the current Youkai already, and now we have a totally different type of one…"

"I see no harm here, really." Marisa gently strokes the girl's hair. "I mean, she looks nice to me…"

"After seeing the original, I would say the opposite." Reimu says uncertainly. "But, seeing her like this? Maybe you're right at some parts."

"At least now we can talk more about the rules here." Keine suddenly changes the topic.

"Rules?" Abathur says, confused at what she addressed.

"You remember the fight we had a while ago? We were using non-lethal Danmaku to try to neutralize you. The majority here has accepted to fight each other with non-lethal methods only. What you have done is unacceptable, but we can overlook it since you're new here."

"…Laser is non-lethal?" Abathur asks, clearly suspicious at what she just said.

"Laser… I think you're talking about Marisa's Master Spark, huh?" Reimu points towards the Witch.

"Correct."

"Believe it, Abathur. My tornado is non-lethal as well." Aya grins, making the Evolution Master scare a bit in his mind. If they consider Lasers and Tornados non-lethal, then what else would he see here? Non-lethal Nuke for some reasons?

"Danmaku? You mean this?" A swarm of Green Danmaku suddenly appears around the girl, forcing Marisa to stumble back in surprise, not wanting to get hit by them. "After being changed into this, I feel some kind of strange power in me. Not Psionic in any senses."

"…Youkai power in strand… adapted and evolved…" Abathur gives out his theory.

"So you already get Danmaku instantly, huh? Neat." Reisen compliments. "Hey, can you shoot it out?"

"Let me try…" The girl thrusts her hands towards the trees outside (the blades are placed next to her), however, the Danmaku just flies around her defensively. "Seems like I can't…"

"Toxic Cloud. Meant for defensive, cannot burst out. Might be able to extend the effect area." Abathur watches the Danmaku flying, then gives out his thought again.

"Hm…" The girl hears it, and tries to do as her Master said. And true enough, the Danmaku, while they're still flying around her, they have expanded their sphere. "Wow, you are right!"

"No wonder you're the Evolution Master." Mokou comments. "You really know what to deal with this very easily."

"Science, numbers never lie. Situations create changes, always prepare to adapt." That's all Abathur says before trying to touch the Danmaku, only for it to phase through his hand. "Intangible…"

"Uh… they should be." Reimu says in confusion, and experiments the same thing like Abathur. "Huh? It's true…"

"Let me try something…" Aya then grabs her pen and throws it to the girl… and one of the Danmaku suddenly blasts it back to her forehead, making her grab it in pain. "OW!"

"… Wouldn't hurt 'allies' of sort…" Abathur theories. "Zerg, being endured to Ultralisk's toxic. Sometimes, adjusted so Terran wouldn't be hurt…"

"But now I could control that myself. Sweet!" The girl giggles again, feeling happy that she is very useful now.

"What about the blades?" Marisa tries to hold one of them, and ends up not moving it more than an inch. "How heavy are these things?"

Unlike the witch, the drunk oni just grabs one of them and wields it like nothing. "Nice blade~…"

Mokou manages to pull one to herself, but couldn't hold it up like Suika. "Damn, it must weigh at least a ton. Ultralisk is a massive beast, so wielding this wouldn't be strange at all."

"Mokou… do you think she could use the swords like you, or… is it gonna like the way the original uses?"

"Hm… hey, Ultra… you know, we could find her some better names, rather than just 'Ultralisk'." Mokou then remembers about how they address the new girl.

"I would rather stick with Ultralisk, please. That's what I am, really." The girl says, before wielding both of the blades in her hands.

Keine then orders: "Ultralisk, at current moment, I want you to not use the blades yet, because it could hurt people badly. Just stick with that cloud of Danmaku first."

"…If the Evolution Master wants it…"

"Not wanting to be blasted by laser. Agree."

"If you say so."

"OKAY THEN!" Aya suddenly bursts out, startling everyone, and starts flying up. "I have enough info for the paper. Thanks for your help everyone!" Not waiting for any other answers, she flies away to the Youkai Mountain without looking back.

"She better not write anything bad about us." Reimu deadpans. She then says: "If you want to, you can stay here. I'm making some food for you all."

"I'm coming with you." Reimu nods at Keine's offer, and the two leave and head to the kitchen.

"I think, it's good enough for Ultralisk now." Reisen then pulls out some of her gadgets and starts working with them. "While we're waiting for Keine's food, how about you tell us about the story from your place?"

That also catches Mokou's attention. "Yeah, you were talking about war. Mind telling us what that was about?"

"… Will tell… when people gather."

Chapter 3 end!

Yep, I made Ultralisk Oni-Zerg-Youkai, instead of Vampire-Zerg-Youkai in the original, since I feel the former is better than the latter.

I think that's it, for now. Don't worry, the event in SDM will still happen. See you in next chapters!