I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING RELATED TO THE STARCRAFT UNIVERSE I ONLY OWN MY OC
Chapter 4 : Family and prison.
3 hour since the attack.
General P.O.V.
Spawning pool.
Kerrigan was supervising the base's reconstruction making sure everything was in order and creating more defensive buildings and units.
After all if there was one thing she doesn't want is another attack on Zerus, sadly it will probably happened when Mengsk realise that no one is giving an update on his... pet.
Sarah felt her rage rise up again when she thought of the way Mengsk treated her son.
Her son. Even after hours she still couldn't believe it. She has a son !
She wanted to scream in happiness, but most of all she wanted to meet her son.
Really meet him.
But she was also scared. What would he think of her ?. Would he accept her or be disgusted by what she had done when she was the Queen Of Blades ?
Would he see Sarah Kerrigan or The Queen of Blades ?
That was the one that scared her the most. After all she looked like her, and sometime she acted like her too. Even if she tried to change, sometimes her Zerg gene will get the better of her. Hell sometimes she even tries to be pacific only to be attacked out of fear.
But that wasn't the only reason she was scared.
Jim was alive ! Atleast that's what she understood the memories that she saw.
But that wasn't what scared her oh no, she was happy that he was alive esctasic even but...
She had reinfested herself...
She was scared that if she was able to find him, he would think that she betrayed him. That the only thing that matters to her is killing Mengsk. And in a way it isn't false, she wants to kill Mengsk.
"But since that night before Tarsonis " She felt a smile coming to her face " Jimmy became... more important than anything in the whole galaxy." She thought to herself.
She just wanted to be with him more, to show him that it wasn't just a one sided thing.
Hell, he did something that people thought impossible. Killing the Queen of Blades. But not with bullets or grenades no... he killed her by simply making Sarah Kerrigan come back.
Maybe not the exact same but he still did it. And what does she do ? She reinfest herself when she thinks he died.
Granted it was to take revenge on Mengsk who she thought killed Jim but still...
How will Jimmy look at her when she finds him.
Will he see the woman that killed Fenix and million of people or will he see Sarah Kerrigan.
In her long life, Sarah could safely say she was never as scared as she was right now.
Deep in thought, Sarah didn't notice the chrysalis that started to shake more violently than before.
*SHAKE*
*SHAKE*
*SHA-CRACK*
Kerrigan quickly look behind her to make sure that the chrysalis was not damaged.
Of course she didn't expect to see two wing blades coming out of the back of the chrysalis.
Her first reaction was to run to the chrysalis, her newly acquired motherly instinct going into overdrive.
Almost killing a Devouring One who was sleeping close to the chrysalis.
While running she also noticed a large amount of Psy Energie trying to escape the chrysalis.
At that she stopped running , relunctantly of course, she commanded her troup to get away from the chrysalis.
After two infestation she knew what happens next.
*CRACK*An arm came out, black chittin covering it.
*CRACK* The wing blades started to move, destroying more of the chrysalis.
*CRACK* The shell of the chrysalis was almost completely destroyed, revealling Zerg dreadlocks covering the face but also revealing that the body of Project Birth was covered in red and black chitins.
For a second nothing happened, for a second Sarah was affraid that something went wrong maybe...
*AAAAAARRRGH*
Project Birth suddently screamed in pain as the excess of Psi Energie came out of his body. All the energy became a beam that went out of the atmosphere. Even killing some mutalisk who were patrolling.
Zergs all around the base watches with awe, as what they now identified as their prince, unleashed his power.
Sarah's instinct were in overdrive once again, she almost started to run toward him but she knew she would get hurt badly. But she couldn't help it, she wanted to make sure he was ok.
For almost 2 minute, she had to watch as her son was in pain, hoping that everything was alright.
And then...
Silence... nothing.
Kerrigan saw her son fall to his knee.
She started running toward him, again hoping he was ok.
She saw him starting to fall forward.
She finally reached him, taking him in her arms.
"M-mother ?" She heard him mutter weakly.
"Shhh don't worry im here." She said, if she was honest with herself she was just acting with instinct. She just said what came to her mind.
After a couple of second he became limp in her arms. Of course, Sarah panicked looking him over but she finaly realised he simply lost consciousness.
Releasing a sigh of relief, she contacted the nearest overlord to bring to her Leviathan. She had a son to take care of.
Time Skip.
Leviathan nerve center.
Kerrigan had a choice to make, multiples one even. Now that she knew where Jim could be, she was mobilizing every units available to save him.
But she also neeknow where this Moros was, for all she knew it could be code name for something else.
And she knew who could help her: Matt Horner. One of Jim's best friend and one of the only Terran she still respected.
And now she had her son with her, her and Jim's son if his resemblance to him was anything to go by. She didn't care if he didn't come from her womb, he still had some of her gene in him.
And he was powerful. She knew he would surpass her someday, hell the only thing that made her more powerful than him was her years of practice.
Speaking of him she still needed to find a name for him. Hmm... She had one in mind but it will bring back bad memories for Jim, so scrap that one of the list. Wait... Trace, Jim's father. Huh... this could work actually.
"My Queen you seem troubled ?" Zagara said as she saw her Queen looking out in space.
"Do not worry Zagara, simply a lot on my mind" Kerrigan said, still looking into space.
After a couple of minutes, she closed her eyes and concentrated.
She had a someone very important to her to save, and she will save him.
Hyperion bridge
People were running about, hoping to find any news on their leader. Hoping with all their hearts that the news of his death was only a lie to break their morale. Well if it was their plan, it is working.
Matt Horner and Valerian Mengsk, their temporary leaders, were seated around the space map checking if their research on the matter gave any result, sadly nothing.
The two men looked tired, bags were showing under their eyes and their stances screamed exhaustion.
" Valerian did our recon team found anything ?" Matt asked, His voice showing how tired he was.
Valerian only shook his head.
Matt could only sigh, another chase that was in vain.
Suddently the communacation screen came alive, revealing a face that they hope they would never have to see again.
The Queen of Blades.
Gasp were heard all around the bridge.
Matt could only watch with wide eyes as Kerrigan's glowing purple ones looked back at him.
Not a second later Matt's face became blank, the only thing that were showing any emotion was his eyes. And they were full of anger.
Anger that Kerrigan dared to reinfeste herself, dared to spit on Jim's action. Dared to betray Jim.
" Kerrigan" Matt said, anger evident in his voice.
But what happened next confused him, he expected a sarcastic response , taunting or anything really. Something that the old Queen of Blades would say.
But no, she... sighed with a pained expression, then looked back at Matt, sadness showing in her eyes.
"Matt would you believe if I said that I regret this." She said, showing her clawed hand.
Matt almost responded with a no, but watching her face... it was strange to see the face of Sarah Kerrigan looking back at him, not the Queen of Blades.
"Then if you regret it, why did you do it ? and also why are you communacating with us of all people ?" Matt asked, confusion clear in his face and voice.
" Zeratul contacted me when I was angry and still grieving for Jim's death, he said there was a prophecy and I played a big part in it but I had to become more powerful. To be honest, At first I didn't think I would need to infest myself again. But when I infested myself, I didn't care anymore. I just wanted to kill Mengsk. But something happened..." Matt saw her eyes change, while she was speaking he saw that her eyes were full of regret, pain and even loneliness.
But now there was warmth, joy and... love ? Now Matt was really confused. The only person that could do that to Kerrigan was Jim. What happened...
"Kerrigan... what happened ?" Matt asked, confusion lacing his voice.
Of course, he didn't expect her to have the "deer caught in the headlight" face.
"Nevermind that, my point his Matt when this war is over I want you to find a way to deinfest me again." Kerrigan said, with the most serious face Matt had ever seen.
Now Matt was shocked but relieved, Matt knew what that prophecy she was talking about. Jim had talk about something along those lines after he saw the Ihan crystal in the lab. And she wanted to become a terran again, technically anyway. Maybe there was hope for her.
"I will try to find a way Kerrigan. But as much as I am happy to hear that you are still on our side, why did you really call us ?." Matt said, his face now more soft knowing Kerrigan was still... well Kerrigan.
"Thank you Matt, this means a lot to me." Sarah said" As for why I contacted you, I know where Jim is held." Sarah said, her face once again serious.
"Wait held ?" Matt asked
"Yes, in a place called Moros." Sarah said
"Moros ? Well this could complicate things." Valerian said.
"How so ?" Matt asked.
"Moros is a prison ship that is always moving. Every hour its position will change randomly. For a minute it could be located close to Korhal and the other it could be close to Aiur." Valerian said, looking deep in thought.
"This could complicate things yes." Matt said with a sigh.
"Actually, this could work in our favor." Valerian said, after a couple of second of silence. "The way Moros work is that every hour they change of position, but they always have to send a report of where they were and where they will go. If I am able to contact some of my spies inside of the Dominion I just might be able to get the position." Valerian said.
"Are you sure this could work ?" Sarah asked, looking hopefuly at Valerian.
"I still need to contact my spies but I do think this could work." Valerian said, sounding confidant. "Give me an hour to contact my spies and I will be able to tell you if this could work."
"Thank you Valerian." Sarah said, looking relieved and hopeful "I'll recontact...
She never could finish her sentence has her Leviathan started to shake.
"Kerrigan is everything alright, are you being attacked ?" Matt asked, looking concerned.
"No i'm not being attacked but something happened, I'll contact you in a hour." Kerrigan said, while glancing behind her looking concerned. Only a second later, did the feed cut off.
"Well this was... interesting." Matt said, still looking a bit schocked.
Valerian could only nod.
Leviathan
Sarah was running towards the chamber that she left Trace. She didn't think wake up as soon as he did. She could sense him panicking, wich was what made the Leviathan shake. Arriving outside of the chamber, she took a deap breath camly entered the chamber so she doesn't make him panic even more.
As she entered she saw Trace at the far end of the room, in a corner, his hands pressed to the wall and he was looking around looking like a caged animal. When he saw her it became even worse.
Sarah quickly raised her hands and slowly approach him. Of course he panicked even more.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt you." Kerrigan said, hoping that she sounded atleast a bit soothing.
She saw that he was starting calm down so she continued to walk toward him.
When she was at arms lenght she did something that surprised even her. She hugged him.
She felt him stiffen in her arms.
"I... I saw your memories." She said nervously.
She could sense him start to panic again.
"Don't worry I am not mad or anything" She said softly.
She again felt him calm down. He also started to bring is harm up.
Sarah felt him hugging her back.
"It was a shock, I will admit." She said, still with a soft tone. "But I am happy to see you now, to know that you're alright. To know that my son is alright."
She felt is shoulder shake, silent sobe escaping his mouth.
"W-Why ?" He said with a shaky voice. " why are you doing this ? I'm not even your real..."
"Don't you dare say it." Sarah said, her voice still soft.
"I asked Abathur to test your DNA." She said after a couple of second that passed in silence. "Your DNA matches with mine and so does for Jim's. So don't you dare say that you aren't my son." she said with a strong voice.
She heard him start to sob loudder. She also could sense his happiness.
She brought him back to arms lenght, brought her non-clawed hand to his cheek.
"You are my son." She said with a loving smile. " I don't care of the way you were born, the only thing that I care is that you are here now."
After she finished her sentence, Trace practicaly threw himself at her and started to weep on her shoulder. She only rubed his back, letting cry for all the weeks of abuse from the Dominion.
"You know I actually found a name for you ." Sarah said.
"W-what is it ?" He asked ,his voice still shaky.
"Trace, it was the name of Jim's father. Do you like it ?" she asked, her voice being a bit nervous at the end.
"I love it." He said with smile, as he continued to weep on his mother's shoulder.
Ten minutes later.
Sarah watched with amusement as Trace was looking around the Leviathan with pure amazement in his eyes. As he was walking around she was able to see what the spawning pool did, first his hair were now zerg dreadlocks that reached past his ears. His eyes were now an intimidating deep red. On the side of his eyes were engravements, like hers, that were also dark red. The chitin that was covering his body was black aside from his hands that were dark red. On his shoulders were two spikes that were curved upwards. All in all, he was intimidating but right now it was more comical than anything to see him look around like an energetic child.
She also noticed a "bump" on his left wrist and on his right hand the chitin was not as dense as other places.
"Trace, come here please." Sarah said with a smile.
"Sure mom." He said with is own smile on his face.
"Ok later today, there is a big chance that I will attack the place that your father is held. And there is a chance that I will need your help. As much as I don't want you on the front line, it might happen sometime. That's why today im gonna start to train you to control your powers." Sarah said seriously
" Ok mom, I'm gonna make you proud !" He said with a large smile
" Your already doing me proud." She said with a warm smile. "Anyway first is to control your psyonic better."
And for the rest of the hour mother and son trained together.
Hyperion bridge
time skip.
Morale was now up for the raiders. They knew where their Leader was and they knew how to save him. And to top it all of they had one of the most powerful ally possible to help them : Sarah Kerrigan herself.
speaking of the devil...
" Matt, Valerian" Said Kerrigan, nodding to them through the communication screen." Where you able to find the location of the Moros ?"
"We did, I'll send you the coordinates for it. But they're still one problem we have: finding a way to prevent the Moros from warping."
"I will use the Leviathan for that I can easely keep it in place with some well place nydus worm that could provide me with... Is there a problem ?" Sarah said when she noticed that everyone on the hyperion bridge was looking at her with wide eye stare.
"Hum... Kerrigan there is a flying zergling behind you." Matt said.
"HEY MOM I FINALLY DID IT !" A voice screamed behind her.
Now everyone on the bridge were mumbling to there selves.
"Wait mom ?" "Did the commander knock her up ?"
"Look Matt I know you want to know who that was but please could you wait after we saved Jim." Sarah said.
" Of course... I suppose." Matt said still a bit confused as to what just happened.
"Good, anyway my ETA to the coordinates are 15 minutes, prepare tour transport to escort Jim." Kerrigan said, her face once more.
" Understood. And Kerrigan, take your time when you find him. Make him understand why you did it." Matt said
" I will Matt. I will..." she cut the feed.
Time skip
The Moros.
The nydus worm were in position. This is it. She would see Jim again. And she was nervous, not of the Dominion but of what he would say when he will see her. But she'll be damned if she let him rot in a prison. Even if he was disgusted with her, than atleast she would help him for one last time.
As she started to walk she never noticed the figure following her through the nydus worm. A red and black figure.
Time skip ( check the A.N to see why I didn't wrote the mission)
Outside Jim's raynor cell.
"Matt tell your transport to be ready. I'm in front of Jim's cell." Sarah sent to Matt.
"Understood, and remember what I said Kerrigan." He sent back before cutting the mental conversation.
As Sarah started to walk forward she suddenly stop. She was afraid. What would he say, what would...
"Mom wait !" A voice yelled behind her.
She quickly turned around to see Trace running towards her.
"Wait, let me talk to him first !" Trace said when he was closer
"Trace what are you..."
"I followed you, look mom dad will probably not react well when he sees you like." At that Sarah winced"Let me talk to him first so he doesn't react as badly." Trace said
"Trace you know this could make things worst right ?" Sarah said, nervously looking at the cell door
"I know but please, trust me for this" Trace said
With a sigh, Sarah only nodded while looking a the door.
As she watches her son approach the door she couldn't help but chuckle. Her and Trace really srarted to know eachother for only an hour but here they were on a prison ship, who could blow up at any moment. Not every mother could say they did the same thing with their son.
Jim's cell.
Light flooded the cell as the door was ripped open. Jim could only watch as a figure entered his cell. If he was honest with himself, that man whoever he was had an imposing presence. But Jim had faced worse so it didn't affect him.
"So... who you are you exactly ?" Jim asked still seated on the ground.
The figure seated himself in front of him.
"Mr Raynor, a lot of things since you were captured." The figure said
Jim only raised an eyebrow. This really was not what he expected would happen today.
" First, after you were captured you're Raiders tried to find you, with no sucess. Second, m... Sarah Kerrigan also tried to find you, also without sucess. Until recently. She is actually on the other side of this wall."
Now Jim's attention was focused solely on the figure. But at the same time question were swirling in his mind, the main one being why is she not in front of him ? Did something happened ? Worry began to seep into his mind.
" But you also have to understand that she did not stay with your raiders." Oh god no..." She tried to use the Zerg to find you again, but Mengsk gave the fake news of your death." Please god no... " She became enraged, sad and of course lonely. But she was contacted by someone. A protoss actually. His name was..."
" Zeratul. The name of that protoss was zeratul." Jim said, he could see where this was going. After all, the memories of the Ihan crystal were still fresh in his mind.
" Correct, now Zeratul said to her that there was a prophecy and that she was very important for it to happen. But she needed to become more powerful. Zeratul directed to a planet called Zerus. The home planet of the Zerg. For days she battled with what are called primal Zerg. Until finally she reached what is called The Spawning Pool. Kerrigan used the spawning pool. In other words..."
" She reinfested herself..." Jim said, his face blank
Before Trace could react, Jim was bolting out of the door. Of course he didn't expect to see close to fifty Zerg around the room, looking at the exit he saw... Matt and a couple of Raiders ? And who is he talking to ?
Wait that's her... She really reinfested herself. Jim felt hurt and angry. As he started to approach them, Matt noticed him. He also noticed his angry expression. Matt started to back away from Kerrigan, there was no way he was going to participate in this.
When he finally reached, she turned herself to look at him in the eyes.
"Why ?" Jim simply asked.
" Jim do you trust me ?" Sarah asked, her voice wavering.
He simply continued to look at her.
" Please talk to me..." Sarah said, her voice still wavering.
" Why did you do it ?" Jim asked, a bit of anger in his voice.
" I was angry, sad and I wanted Mengsk dead more than anything. when I heard the news that you were dead I... I snapped..." Kerrigan said, the tremor in her voice getting worst.
" And now ?" Jim asked, his voice a bit softer.
" Now ? I still want Mengsk dead but... but he isn't my priority right now. My swarm is not ready to attack Korhal. And I just want... I just want to rest." She said with a sigh. "I'm tired of always fighting, I'm tired of not being able to be with you." She said the last part quietly.
Jim was now looking at her with tired eyes, warm but tired eyes. He wanted to believe her but... after everything that happened. He just didn't know. He still loved her, no question. But he just didn't to be played like in the brood war. It still hurted to this day when he thought back to those time.
he saw her eyes start to water. Shit... psyonic.
" Please believe me Jim, please..." Sarah begged, tears streaming down her cheeks.
" Did you attack anybody other than the Dominion ?" Jim asked, he would give her a chance to explain herself.
" No, the only other were some protoss but they attacked my swarm first. They were only warriors don't worry, no civilian casualties if that's what you're asking." She said, sounding a bit hopeful.
" Ok... who was in the cell with me. He was definitely Zerg but he looked a lot like you. Did he use that spawning pool that he was talking about ?" Jim asked.
" He did, but I wasn't the one that made him enter it. It was the Dominion." Sarah said, making everyone look at the teen who was sitting on the ground. Two Zergling were resting their heads on his lap, purring in contentment as he scratched their heads.
" He was created with the DNA of two person, abused by the Dominion, Mengsk wanted to make him become a living weapon. But he didn't want to use the mind wipe that most ghost go through. He wanted to make him his puppet, or his pet as he called him." Sarah said, anger evident on her face.
" Do you know who's DNA he used to create him ?" Jim asked, getting really curious.
"yes... the DNA that was used was... it was mine and... and your's. Mengsk wanted a weapon to counter the both of us. So what better way then use our... our son." Kerrigan said, nervousness practically oozing from her.
" Jim he is our son."
CLIFFHANGER !
I'm really sorry i had to do this to you guys but this chapter wen't on for long enough. As for why this one took me so much time to make, well I kinda had a mini writer's block. But I was able to get out of it.
Also some of you may be asking why i didn't write the whole mission, well it's pretty simple. I don't know why but every time i started to write it, i always didn't like the way it ended. So I just said to myself "fuck it". And just wrote the cinematic. Also after this chapter there might be a couple of shorter chapter, to see the relation between our newly created family. After that the fic will go back to the games. And also I have really big plan for the future. One of them is to bring a SC1 "character" back. Also after this it might become more AU than i thought. The old ones will be explained later i just couldn't find a place in this chapter to place them.
Also... HOLY FUCK almost 400 views. Thank you, again it means alot. Also thank you to : AvengedReader, Dinowolf, Scarease and alexandervzeballos for the favorites. And also another thank you to Scarease for the review.
Anyway take care all of you-DoctorIm