Excalibur and the Zerg

by Disciple of Chrysalis


Chapter 5: By The Gods

Excalibur lay in the tree rather nonchalantly, it had been about two weeks since he had experienced his dream and now, it was truly a dull glimmer in his memory. He barely moved in his perch, he was comfortable and he had discovered a small civilization underneath his hole-filled hooves and when he had gone down to meet them, they had practically begun to worship him as a god, giving him plenty of Love, too bad he couldn't understand a thing they said. He lay his head down upon his crossed forelegs and closed his eyes, but within seconds, he heard small claws upon the bark. He opened one of his misty blue eyes a thin slit and gazed down the trunk, there were three lanky, shrew-like creatures climbing the bark and up towards him, each bearing a small berry in their jaws.

Excalibur groaned and stood, flexing his translucent, hole-filled wings and buzzed them quickly, these little rodents never let him have a second to himself, he knew that they needed their 'God' to bless their weddings, which included three to four of their kind and right now, he just wanted a second to himself. He floated into the air and sped away and into the forest, a quick glance back showed them looking upon his escape with sorrow, now they couldn't get married because their 'God' didn't approve, but at this point, Excalibur didn't give a fuck.

He landed on a new tree a good mile away from the edge of the shrew-thingy creature's territory and was glad for some peace at last, he lay down and curled up "Hello Excalibur" a voice below called. "Uh, I knew it was too good to be true" he muttered to himself, "Hello Metamorpha" he called in a bored tone and he looked down to her as she looked upon him with her weird, spider face.

"I have a surprise for you" she called and now Excalibur was confused "Surprise?, this isn't another attempt to make me your consort is it?" he called and slowly he stood up, much to his body's disdain, and slowly floated down to Metamorpha, never touching the ground. "Of course not, you arrogant little prat" she said "It's just a Terran ship has landed on our world and I thought you would like to see my Zerg in action" she said, suddenly sounding rather shy. "Terran?, I don't know what that is, but I am quite interested in seeing the Zerg in action" he said, raising a hoof to his chin "Why no-!" he started, but suddenly he was grabbed by spindly limbs "Then lets go" Metamorpha said and in almost seconds, they were standing on a ridge over-looking large metal structures and all around were creatures larger then himself in what appeared to be extremely bulky blue armor.

"What in Tartarus are those things?" he asked, finally being set down upon the ground, "Those are Terran, quite below the Zerg interest, but their psionic potential is incredible" she said in return. Suddenly, a loud screech could be heard from the forests around the ridge and burst forth from them were Zerglings, Banelings, Hydralisks, Ultralisks, Mutalisks, and Swarm Hosts, he had learned all these names from Metamorpha. "Now Watch" she whispered and Excalibur couldn't look away from the slaughter going on below and the worst part was, the Zerg were being slaughtered, even the mighty Ultralisks, of which were three.

"What, NO NO!" Metamorpha cried and suddenly she jumped down the ridge and charged towards the Terrans, she didn't make it far. "Well, looks like thats the end of it" Excalibur murmured and he began to turn away when once more, something tugged at his mind, stronger then before and it was coming from the sky. The entire clearing was suddenly obscured from his sight and below he saw the entire area covered in shadow and every Terran turned to look up and upon the monstrous creature now in the skies. From the creature dropped hundreds of bright pink pods with dark tentacles trailing behind and when the pods impacted, hundreds of Zerg rushed forth from the impact craters and within seconds, completely annihilated the Terrans.

Excalibur backed away down the ridge now, his instincts were clear now, he saw these were different Zerg, they were more evolved then the ones Metamorpha had controlled, even the Mutalisks looked like monstrous dragonflies. He buzzed his wings and sped away from the hellish sight below, but he was noticed by a few of the Dragonfly Mutalisks. One let out a terrifying screech and before he knew it, he was being chased by more Mutalisks then there were Changelings that invaded Canterlot. "Get BACK!" He cried desperately, but they kept chasing him and one of them shot out what appeared to be its tongue, Excalibur raised his hooves to protect his face and it's tongue caught on one of the holes on his hooves and he felt the creature tugging him back "Shit, Sit, Shit" he muttered.

He thought of an idea, he was slightly disgusted by it, but it was all he had, with great difficulty, he pulled his hoof up to his face and bared his sharp fangs and with sudden swiftness, buried his fangs in the Mutalisks tongue. The saliva was sickly sweet and once he bit down, the Mutalisk screamed and released it's hold upon him. As soon as he was released, he dove downward into the thick trees, where the Mutalisks wing's wouldn't allow them to go. He crawled into a tree hollow that was barely big enough for him and he watched in fear and amusement as the Mutalisks kept trying to find away through until they just left all of a sudden, but he didn't leave the tree hollow for fear is was an ambush, he just nodded off.