Kerrigan strode through her new Hive at a leisurely pace, noticing several of her newly implemented architectural features that had been incorporated with the latest mutation of the Hive. She merely grinned at her handiwork - it was pitiful compared to her other...projects. She continued through the hive, walking past the larvae chambers and the resource processing facilities. She finally came to a halt in a long hallway, and walked over to a wall. She touched the wall and it spread apart, revealing her private laboratories within. She walked over first to the new Zergling cage which held a new mutation which would increase the speed of the Zerglings, then she walked into another room. Inside were several slanted walls. But - unlike any of the other walls - these had openings in them. There were around twelve, and only two were occupied. She looked at her latest project, the infestation of psionics.
Shad was the first one she examined. She had opened the small chrysalis and extracted him from it. He was, so far, only in the first stages of infestation. His skin showed signs of plating forming, and his powers were being slowly unlocked from all of the precautions that the Dominion took. She finished examining him and put him back using telekinesis. She then extracted Mike from his chrysalis and began to look at him. His system was, for some reason, adapting more effectively to the infestation. The plating was more prominent then Shad's and all his mental blocks had been removed. Even now Kerrigan could feel him reaching out, even lashing out in cries of help. She smiled, and whispered," Poor Michael, this room was created just to prevent those pitiful cries from reaching anyone." She then returned Michael to his place and sealed the cocoon, as she telepathically ordered a Hunter Killer to watch the Chrysalis's.
She walked back to the wall, touched it again, and began to walk to a new section of the hive. She usually had one of her Hydralisks join her for the stroll to the other side of the hive - however she didn't have that luxury today as a large portion of her troops were beginning their assault on yet another planet. She stopped at a well fortified portion of wall, and touched her hand on it. It slowly opened to reveal an adjutant, recently captured from one of the many Terran Command Centers on the planet.
"Activate," she spoke simply. The machine began to buzz, clank, and rotate as the Adjutant's systems came online.
"Zerg presence detected, self destruct imminent ," The Adjutant said with a purely artificial, female voice.
"Sorry, but that trick of yours has been disabled."
"Core memory dump in thirty seconds," The Adjutant replied bluntly.
"Again, disabled," Kerrigan sighed," Now, maybe you can help me. Login, Administrator."
"What is the password?" The Adjutant asked.
Kerrigan waded through the memories of the recently infested Terran Artificial Intelligence Expert (who had been captured in the Assault) and extracted it from his memory.
"Alpha 005, Delta 088, Sigma 044," Kerrigan grinned.
"Password accepted, Administrator account logged in."
"Bypass Security and deactivate the watcher programs."
"Task completed," The Adjutant replied as it looked at Kerrigan.
"Now, I want all the data on Psionic Ghost Agents transfered to me via neural uplink," Kerrigan ordered.
"Select mode of transfer: Storage Device or Psionic Link." The Adjutant ordered.
"Psionic Link," Kerrigan pushed herself telepathically into the device and allowed for it to begin the transfer.
Five minutes passed before the data had been fully transfered into Kerrigan's mind.
"Bio-Linking established, permanent Administrator set," the Adjutant barked before Kerrigan shut it off.
"Good to know," Kerrigan said as she sat and filed through her memories - looking for the fullest candidates for her latest; and possibly most productive, project. She searched through several, many of the names in the database were new to her as the Academies had been training full on since the first war. She eventually had picked several candidates. There was Wyatt Coleman, skilled in his works with psionically induced combat states. There was Jessica Nelson, a potent psionic, but even more so skilled in eliminating terrorist cells. She had even crossed Raynor once or twice. There was also Jose Hunter, who had a reputation of removing high priority targets at a distance. Than there was Jessica Baldwin, who had gone to the same Academy as Wyatt and become a skilled fighter in hand to hand combat. All of these were top candidates, and she had the picking of any one of them.
Kerrigan cycled through each one again, then picked one randomly. Her mind landed on Jessica Baldwin, Kerrigan smiled as she reviewed the characteristics. 5' 8", Long Dark Hair, lightly tanned skin, brown eyes and a small scar on the right of her jaw. Her next target.