New World, New Overmind

by Abyssal Angel

Inspired by East Bridge's 'The Zerg Swarm'. Here is the 1st-5th attempt at writing this story before finally getting to the 6th, Legacy of the Overmind. I suppose you can consider this deleted scenes or something. DISCLAIMER: If you recognize it, I don't own it! I only own myself. I'd like to keep it that way, thanks.

35. FTS Ch 6

I sighed as I stared up at the sky. There's no way around it. New world, new circumstances, and I'm completely surrounded by Zerg. Despite it, there's no way around it. I'm BORED. I always hated having nothing to do, and with my Overlords automating the expansion of the Swarm for me, I've got absolutely nothing to do!

Last night went without a hitch. Monsters were killed, Endermen drawn off by the Overlord bait, and no surprise proxy visits from HIM either. I can't help but shudder remembering those white eyes from the night before last.

Anyways, I can easily foresee this becoming rather routine, I'm already sick of it, and I've only been awake for an hour this morning! Now, if I were at home, I'd usually just browse youtube or fanfiction to occupy my time, but that requires a computer, which I don't have here. Gotta figure out something before I go crazy!

Sitting up, I stare impassively at the Overlords as they hover over the incomplete second ring of Creep Colonies. I wonder if going flying as one of them would be any fun? Almost immediately I dismiss the thought. That might've been fun if the Overlords weren't so slow.

An absolutely crazy idea enters my mind, but I almost immediately dismiss it. Tarzan swinging from Overlord to Overlord via their tendrils may be fun, but it certainly sounds like a good way to get myself killed. Besides, I'm afraid of heights, or at least have a fear of falling anyway since climbing up and chilling on the top of my first Lair doesn't even phase me anymore.

Flying does sound like fun though. Maybe once that second ring gets finished, along with it's alternating spore and sunken colonies, I can put down a Spire and go zipping around as a Mutalisk. That should be pretty fun!

Sighing, I put that idea on hold though. Despite the Overlords increasing their own ranks as well as that of the Drones on their own per my orders, it'll still take them most of the day to get that second ring finished. My Overlords inform me that the second ring will have anywhere between 35 to 50 creep colonies, so it may even take until tomorrow to finish. So the Spire is out.

Come on! Need to do something… there's the Spawning pool… Zerglings? I could always make a couple. It'd be nice to have some pets to play with, and they could double as body guards in case anything like what happened two nights ago happens again.

Quickly, I morph in a pair, thankful that it only costs 25 be so it shouldn't cause the Overlord's progress any problems. Unfortunately, I have to wait an entire half hour until they're finished birthing. I spent that time gently poking and petting the egg sac, watching it quiver and ripple under my touch. I'm surprised something so tough and armored can be so responsive.

The egg rupturing from within almost took me by surprise, so lost was I in my fascination with the egg sac. Next thing I knew, I had two Zerglings practically jumping on me, slobbering my face with their tongues. Laughing, I brought up my arms to my face to protect from the slobber attack, and they jumped back as soon as I told them to stop. Wiping my face and arms of the drool, I grinned. It seems these Zerglings are reacting to the exact reason why I created them, to be my playmates!

Indulging in my boredom and inner child, I started playing with the Zerglings. They're a bit larger than I expected. I always thought it was weird that they were only the size of small dogs in the previews for Starcraft Ghost, and you can't really get a good idea of scale, no matter how close you zoom in on the map in Starcraft 2.

The Lings are half the size of Utahraptors, putting them up to my waist in size. Their eyes are a nightmarish glowing yellow with slits for pupils. Actually, everything about them is a bit nightmarish, and I might've been slightly scared of them due to that if not for their very enthusiastic greeting and extreme puppy like behavior. They want to play, and I can't help but indulge them since that was the reason I called them into being in the first place!

So I spent the day with my new Zerglings, playing tag, fetch, exploring, and a number of other things as soon as they caught our fancy. It was rather fun, and it tired me out rather quickly. Zerglings, and all Zerg it seems, are near inexhaustible, so the day hadn't even finished before the Lings had completely worn me out. The pair ended up picking me up, a feat I was surprised they could pull off, especially since those giant scythe like claws on their back are so sharp looking, it shocked me that they could be so gentle as to pick me up without giving me a scratch.

They set me down, clothes and all, into the stream to soak. The water is a bit cold, but I got over that pretty quickly, and watched bemused as the Zerglings splashed and chased each other throughout the water, chittering the entire time. If my days can be spent like this, then I guess I won't be so bored after all.

-Chapter End Review-

OVERMIND

Health-50/50

Psi-Energy-30/100

Psi-Replenish-10pc

Control-10ucp

Abilities

Spawn Hatchery-100psi-2hours-1ucp

ZERG SWARM LVL 2

Bio-Energy-45

Bio-Replenish-600pc

Control used/provided-80/125

Strains Available

Larvae-0be-0:0:1-3 per Hatchery-25hp-10armor

Drone-50be-0:20:0-1ucr-40hp-5ga

Overlord-100be-0:40:0-8ucp

Zergling-50be for 2-0:30:0-1ucr for 2-35hp-5ga

Buildings Available

Hatchery-300be-2:0:0-1ucp-1250hp-800 m creep gen

Extractor-50be-0:40:0-750hp

Creep Colony-75be-0:20:0-500hp-500 m creep gen

Evolution Chamber-75be-0:40:0-750hp

Spore Colony-50be-0:20:0-400hp-15aa-700mr

Spawning Pool-200be-1:20:0-750hp

Sunken Colony-50be-0:20:0-300hp-40ga-700mr

Hydralisk Den-200be-0:40:0-850hp

Lair-350be-1:40:0-1ucp-1800hp-900 m creep gen

Spire-500be-2:0:0-600hp

Queens Nest-300be-1:0:0-850hp

SWARM COMPOSITION

Sentients-1

Overmind

Underlings-91

4 Lairs

1 Spawning Pool

1 Evolution Chamber

20 Sunken Colonies

14 Overlords

79 Drones

2 Zerglings

Vassals-0

Allies-0

REQUIREMENTS TO EVOLVE

Queen's Nest

A/N- Wow, I can't believe I actually updated so fast! Seems my muse is going strong for the moment. I've got a particular scene I really want to write, but it can really only be done by spreading the Creep out of the forest, and since this is a large biome, that could take up to a month, or I could have the Overmind go exploring beyond the Creep for sheer something to do. Stupid villages, why do they have to only spawn in Plains Biomes?

Now on to answering reviews, and thank you all for the favorites, follows, and of course the reviews! I always thought it silly how some authors reacted to reviews, but I'm starting to really understand how gratifying feedback like this is. Thank you all!

Beyogi, S.R.457, thank you for reviewing, and special thanks to Winter Feline for reviewing every chapter. I like the feedback! Once again, thank you, and feel free to shoot me suggestions. I'm only one guy, so having ideas thrown out there that I can incorporate into the story is very helpful! I'm even thinking of later in the story, if there are enough suggestions, adding a council of Cerebrates who offer those same suggestions themselves. Maybe I'll even name those Cerebratesss with the name of the suggestee. Just a thought.

DaLintyMan – Well, there are two answers to your question about why Spore Colonies when there are no air units. First, is that there is one flying unit the Overmind has to worry about, and that would be HIM. I'm sure you can guess who HE is. Who else in Minecraft has glowing white eyes? Second, well, if you haven't guessed already, my Overmind character is actually based off of myself. I was a Boyscout, so I hold to the motto of 'Be Prepared' quite closely, and you never know what I might end up facing that'll require me needing AA defenses. Sorry if you dislike SI's, but in my defense, this story is what I like to call a true SI. This isn't the author written in character form. This is simply a character based off myself, who only has knowledge of things beyond the fourth wall from before he entered the story, so while I've played Heart of the Swarm (and been disappointed in the story of it), the character hasn't, and while HotS answers my Lurker problem quite nicely, my character isn't going to know that, so in the end, he'll probably make his own version of Lurkers that are nothing like Lurkers at all. But that's way down the line since he requires a Cerebrate first.

FtDlulz – Your suggestion has merit. Only problem is when I say perspectives, I don't mean I'll be switching from one persons view to another in the story. I mean that it's difficult for me to remember that each character has to have their own personality, goals, and actions. Often times while I'm writing multiple characters, I'll lose sight of that and conversations will start to sound less like conversations and more like talking to myself. It's rather debilitating to my writing since writing a story where the main character is by himself the entire time isn't going to be anymore interesting than writing a story filled with different aspects of the author.