Starcraft: Queen and Country
By Wanderer D
Chapter 019: Roots of Hate
2504, Koprulu Sector, Planet Char █
'I'll convince Queen Kerrigan to let Gallus and the others live if I can…' Sweetie repeated to herself as she sliced her way through droves of unnamed Terrans. 'She has a soft spot for Raynor, right?' she reasoned as one scythe ripped a weapon and hands from an unfortunate solder, while the other decapitated him when the screaming started. 'She knows Gallus is mine, and I have felt her respect for Grampa Warfield… Tychus is a bit of a nag, but I like him, he's fun in a fight. I'm sure she'll go along with it after we win… after all life without enemies is not fun…'
And she had no doubt they would win.
Her gambit had played beautifully, and beyond the amount of shock and damage she had caused, it was also the first time she had used her magic as Harmony intended since she had been captured and transformed.
A spell!
A real honest-to-Twilight spell, after so long! It had felt so good to do that… like rediscovering a love for muffins. Or drinking a glass of water after days in the desert.
It was like taking a shower after being in the mud or taking a deep breath of fresh air during a chill morning. It was invigorating. Empowering. Cleansing and addictive all at the same time. Things seemed more clear and it was as if the world was back into focus again… somehow, even if she hadn't sensed any sort of haze before.
She needed to practice more though… since the magic had hurt a little, going through her system, but magic was coming back to her like a torrent of memories and experiences. She was sure she'd be able to do all of the magic she had learned up to that point… and even more, now that she had so much more sheer power.
Even if channeling her magic had been challenging with her split horn… even a bit painful, especially with the amount of energy coursing through her body as she built it constantly and held it back until she could no longer keep an iota more of magical energy… and then she had released it.
And it had been glorious.
The exhilaration of the magical spell functioning, the energy burning through her, leaving her tingling as it gathered in the sky of Char above the Terran base and, at her command, struck down her enemies… she had never been able to do something like that in Equestria.
Her magic was stronger, but her body as it was originally wouldn't have survived the exertion, and she'd have ended up with a burst horn, like Tempest at best, possibly dead at worst.
She felt giddy, giggling as she cut off the legs from under a Terran and impaled another through the face.
She hadn't even known if it would work! But taking the risk for her queen had been worth it, and now she knew she could do so much more than any other Zerg, Terran, or Protoss.
Already she could feel through the Zerg's connection the imminent win… and then, the crescendo of voices she had been hearing ever since the Terrans had set up the artifact rose to a high pitch.
She didn't know what clued her in, but in a second, her magic swirled, forming around her like a bubble, and a second later she had to flap her wings furiously as she fell back to Char's surface, several klicks away from the Terran base, with half of her right hind leg and tail missing.
"Did I just teleport?" she gasped, but then pain flared in her head and she lost control of her wings, slamming into the surface of the planet with more force than anticipated.
Far away, where the Terran base was, she could see a shockwave of blue energy disintegrating all of her Zerg.
She groggily looked up at it, blinking in confusion. "What—"
"An impressive defense. But not nearly enough to stop us."
Kerrigan's voice came to her mind like a rag of oily water. The voice of her queen was welcome, but there was something there… something wrong. As if something that she hadn't noticed before was holding her queen back from… something.
Sweetie struggled to her hooves, already regaining strength. She glanced back at her severed limb, which was quickly regenerating to the point where she could walk again a few seconds later.
Soon, she would be combat ready. Before she could think too much on what she had felt, Kerrigan spoke again.
"We have immeasurable numbers… and theirs dwindle by the minute."
"Y-yes my queen, but what the hell was that?" Sweetie asked, checking herself for other missing pieces and finding none.
"Just a distraction. I was more surprised by your ability to escape than Raynor having an ace up his sleeve.
"It's still… painful."
"Pain is just a sign of life. They might have pushed you away and forced me to regenerate, but they will not last long. The end is near, Sweetie Belle.
"It doesn't have to be the end. This can still be turned around."
Sweetie blinked. "Um… did you say something?"
"Concentrate, Sweetie Belle. This is a battle we cannot afford to lose. Do you have any more tricks like the one you performed?"
Sweetie nodded, even if she knew that her queen could not see her. "I believe so, but I'll need a moment… It's been a long time since I used my powers this way."
Kerrigan didn't answer, but Sweetie could feel the presence of her Queen once again on the battlefield. The fact that the Xel'Naga artifact was strong enough to not only damage Sweetie, but push the Queen back?
It was a risk they couldn't allow to exist. Not unless they controlled it. And to be able to do that, she needed to think outside the box again. Could she teleport again and steal it?
When Prof. Quantum State had explained teleportation to Sweetie, it had been… understandable, on a superficial level. She hadn't been slacking in her magical learning, but her focus wasn't in magic. Still, she had somehow internalized the feeling of it, when she had assisted Quantum in casting it.
Perhaps that had been his intention all along. University professors were sneaky teachers, after all. She hadn't allowed her unicorn instincts to take over since being released for fear of the Zerg side consuming her… but instinctual reaction was very different from performing the same feat with intent.
Teleporting was out of the question. It was unreliable for now. With practice… yes. Now that she had done it, she was able to replicate the magical 'feeling' associated with the spell matrix she had to internalize. it would take time to perfect, but she'd get to be as good at it as Twilight!
She paused, as Kerrigan sent an actual Leviathan into the field. She could feel the panic from the Terrans almost as if it was a palpable force.
"Oh, hay no. I'm not letting her have all the fun!" She cackled, taking flight towards the Terran base again, still gathering her energy as she directed her Zerg to flank the units that had amassed in a desperate attempt to stop it.
"Sweetie!"
She barely had time to dodge as Gallus almost tackled her, and it took more effort to resist slashing his armor in half when he dived past her. "Gallus! Be careful, I almost cut you in half!"
She prompted her troops to ignore the Griffon as she hovered in place, allowing him to fly up to her.
"Sweetie Belle. Do not waste time with that creature."
She cringed, but sent a mental message back. "My queen, I'm planning a large scale attack, but I need to gather energy. Gallus will not stop me."
"I shall be the judge of that, Sweetie Belle," Kerrigan sent back. "If you keep defying me, I might lose my use for you."
"I understand," she silently messaged back.
"Don't stop Raynor. They are close... so close to freeing all of us!"
Sweetie gasped, faltering in her flight for just a second. "What was that?"
"What do you mean?" Gallus asked, glancing at his HUD to make sure Warfield wasn't about to blast the Xel'Naga artifact again, but it needed to recharge enough for another blast.
"I… heard another voice. It sounded like the Queen but—"
"Sweetie, I'm not sure what's going on," Gallus said, "but you know this is nuts, right? Don't keep doing this! Can you imagine what your sister or anycreature back home would say if they saw you killing others like that?"
Sweetie shook her head and glanced at him with half-lidded eyes. "Really. Well, that hasn't stopped you from killing Zerg."
"That's because they'd kill me if I didn't fight back!"
Sweetie snorted. "And what happened to us?" she asked. "Were we welcomed with open arms? Were we offered help when we didn't attack anycreature?"
Gallus tried to dodge, but his reactions weren't as fast as Sweetie's, and her scythe went straight through one of his rockets. She brought them both down, slamming him into the surface of the planet.
"No!" she snarled. "They didn't! They obliterated Quartz! They tore me in half! They experimented on me and turned me into a Zerg! Why should I not defend myself? Why should I not fight the cause of all this misery!" She used her other scythe to run through the other thruster in his armor before lifting him up.
Gallus was unhurt, and struggling, but she held him in place with her psionics. Her magic wasn't even necessary. "Why do I have to think of peace when all they do is conquer and kill! If it's not us it's someone else. When I work for peace I get shot at! I don't want to kill but I'm not going to stay still so they can kill me!"
"They're not—they're not all bad!" Gallus growled, raising his armored claws to grasp her scythes. "Raynor is not like the ones that attacked you! He's helping me heal you!"
She saw another blast of the Xel'naga artifact destroying the Zerg that had gotten too close. Rather than running, she created a shield with her accumulated magic around her and Gallus, grunting as the psionics slammed into it, but she held strong. "Idiot! What if I don't want to be cured?!"
Gallus flinched, relaxing his grip a little before shaking his head. "Why wouldn't you?! This is not you talking, Sweetie, you've been—"
"Changed? Of course I have!" She clenched her teeth, her pincers clicking in frustration before she looked back up at him. "But I'm happy like this! I-I'm happy being part of something bigger! Being different! I like being sexy and I like being bad!"
"Sweetie…"
"Back home you'd never even spare me a glance."
Gallus gulped. "We never hung out much an—"
"Here you do." Sweetie interrupted. "I can smell it. I can see it and sense it. Here you want me." She grinned. "And not just to save me. I think you like it when I get aggressive."
Gallus chuckled nervously as she lowered him down. He glanced at his thrusters, broken through and leaking fuel, although thankfully repairable. Once again Zerg ran past the pair of them, a real stampede in an effort to destroy the last defenses of the Terrans.
"I have purpose. I have… somepony I want and who wants me, even if we haven't figured this stupid situation out." She gave him a small smile. "I have a mission and I have friends and responsibilities. I can make a change here like I never could back home." She drew herself up. "It's selfish. And I don't care. I want to be someone people across the universe speak of in awe and respect. I can change this universe for the better, Gallus… I really can, and you guys have no chance of surviving this battle. Please join me."
"Not like this Sweetie…" Gallus insisted, he pushed back extricating his armor from her scythes. "Look at all the lives you're taking!"
"And how many lives is Raynor taking too? Of his own kind? Or Protoss?" Sweetie countered. "Whatever you want to say to me, you can't pick one side only! The only difference is the monsters we fight! Mengsk is a tyrant that used his cronies in the media to convince billions that he was a legitimate champion of justice!" She paced back and forth within the confines of her shield.
"And what did he breed?" she asked the griffon, "Intolerance! Fear! Hate! He betrayed his allies and championed tyranny! He divided people that should have been friends! He—he's the same type of absolutist that created the unicorns first movement in Equestria! Thank Celestia we have Twilight there, but here? Where the greatest 'authority' is corrupt? Do you know how hard it was to get Selendis to sign a peace treaty with me because everyone is so damn used to betrayal?!"
"That's why Raynor and the others are fighting him! Y-you could join us! We can cure you and we can fight together while we find a way home!"
"He's working with Valerian!" Sweetie said, motioning wildly with her hooves. "What's the point of getting rid of a tyrant to replace him with its spawn?!"
Gallus chuckled. "Yeah, a lot of people in the ship had issues about that… but Raynor isn't here for glory or to pave the way to a new empire. What he cares about is saving people… and that's why he and Valerian are working together. He's not like his father."
Sweetie snorted. "So you say. But they have lied about a lot of things."
This time it was Gallus that advanced on her, taking off his helmet as he stared at her. "Yes. So I say. Since when am I not on your side? Since when don't I care or would lie to you? I want us to go home… together."
"It's now or never, General!" Raynor's voice buzzed from the helmet on the floor, making the pair of Equestrians look down at it, blinking. "Hit it!"
"Oh, shit…" Gallus gasped, turning to see the Xel'Naga artifact light up with much more strength than before, and then flashing with such intensity that all Zerg in its immediacy were evaporated. The energy blast hit Sweetie's shield like a battering ram, cracking it immediately.
Sweetie's eyes were wide with fear as the energy surge continued to break through her shields. She shook her head and with panicked speed, turned halfway and projected another spell within her shield dome, which somehow seemed to be holding.
Gallus recognized it. A teleportation portal, just like the one that Quartz had used to evacuate him and Zeratul through to safety. She was going to escape… but how—he gasped, as he realized all of the cracks in her shield coalesced into the portal.
He wasn't a magical genius, but he had been around enough unicorns to recognize transfer of energy. She really was going to escape.
He couldn't allow that. This was the one chance he had to cure her! "Sweetie!"
She barely had time to react as he tackled her, breaking her concentration enough for the shield to explode around them and the Xel'Naga Artifact's energy to envelop them. But that wasn't the only thing that exploded. The explosion of energy lit up the fuel that had spilled from his thrusters.
Selendis pondered again her agreement with Queen Sweetie Belle of the Zerg.
Already she had received various communications and argued back and forth with the other Protoss about her decision… but something in her resonated with Sweetie's intentions.
The Zerg had to be cleansed. But what if not all Zerg were the same? What if it became a matter of perspective, rather than aggression? What if that was possible? What if this world… Agria… was the bridge that would bring the Khala to its next level of evolution?
Order and chaos… Sweetie didn't seem to believe one had to destroy the other. It was an odd feeling, to consider those concepts again, and realizing that one could not exist without the other.
Could… Sweetie really achieve this balance?
As she stood on the bridge, she considered this. Here was a planet conquered by the Zerg, but its inhabitants not destroyed or absorbed into the Zerg collective. Here was a planet that had been abandoned by the Terran government, and had willingly joined forces with a Zerg Queen to survive.
The scans did not lie. Zerg were there… and she was not foolish or naive enough to believe that infestation was impossible, but… there was no indication of violence being used, past the remnants of the destruction brought upon the planet by the last battle.
After that… Terran children were still going to their educational institutions. Farmers were farming, the few small cities flourishing. Zerg were actively helping. Although Queen Sweetie Belle was gone, the Zerg acted as if they were receiving specific orders still, which meant that something down there had the potential to order them around, yet no sign of other queens, or even Overlords had emerged in their scanners.
"Executor, we're detecting a spike in energy on the bridge!"
Selendis turned around to where a circular portal had opened. Beyond it, she could see the surface of a world… The scent of ash and death came through immediately, followed by a flash of light that shook the entire bridge, and two creatures tumbling through as the portal imploded.
In less than a second, she and her troops had surrounded the pair, weapons at the ready. She had barely recognized the two creatures when Queen Sweetie Belle started screaming in pain.
"It hurts! Celestia… help, it hurts!"
Selendis moved forth and, gripping Gallus' shoulder, threw him off of the Zerg Queen. Or was she? Most of the armor and pincers were gone, as were the scythes, the chitin armor was thinner, lighter in color, and the gossamer wings seemed brittle, but that wasn't the worst part.
The young alien was screaming in pain, most likely because her horn had split in half almost to the root, and lost several pieces, exposing the soft interior where, if she were to guess, it was mostly made of nerves. The confident young queen was squirming in pain and screaming nonsensical names between whimpers.
"Sweetie!"
She interposed herself between Gallus and Sweetie. "What did you do?!" she demanded, glaring at the other alien.
"S-Selendis?" Gallus seemed to finally recognize her. "What?" He turned around, "How are—"
Sweetie's screams continued, and Selendis turned around just as a team of scientists, sent to her base to study the Zerg, arrived. "Anesthetize her, now!" she ordered them before she turned to face Gallus. "That damaged appendage… how important is it?"
"It's—" Gallus gulped. "It's how she uses her ma-psionics! I've heard that trauma to the horn can be deadly… and if not treated quickly could leave her stunted forever."
"He is correct, Executor," one of the scientists said, turning to face Selendis. "The… horn… from what I can tell from its composition… its potential is beyond even our own sensitivity to psionics!"
"How was it damaged?" Selendis asked, refraining from making any sort of comment over what the scientist had declared.
"Uh, I-I think it was when she opened the portal that we came through… it happened just as her shields were destroyed and the Xel'Naga artifact hit us."
"Executor," the scientist dared to speak up, drawing her attention. "I am unsure of the details, but it seems to me that this appendage, the damage done to it by the Xel'naga as well as clear previous trauma are potentially going to kill this… um, creature."
Selendis looked away for a moment, thoughts burning. The Kalah had no answers for this. There was no precedent. But there was also no precedent from what they could learn and she had promised to mutually protect and help each other… on the one hand, a Zerg. On the other, her honor. "Fix it."
The scientist gasped. "W—"
"What is your name?" Selendis interrupted.
"L-Lasarra, Executor."
Selendis nodded. "I remember you. You and two others were originally stationed to go to Kaldir to study the Zerg."
Lasarra nodded. "That is correct, Executor. With the… current arrangement, our expertise was deemed more useful here."
"Excellent. Then I am appointing you in charge of saving this Zerg. Queen Sweetie Belle's life is in your hands. She is an ally at this time, and we have a mutual agreement to protect each other. Do not make the Protoss into liars, Lasarra."
"This… is a zerg?" Lasarra asked, staring down at Sweetie as if seeing her for the first time. "I-I see."
"Can you save her horn?" Gallus asked, "she needs to be able to channel somehow… even (a shudder ran through his body) Tempest Shadow's horn wasn't so badly damaged."
"Is that what she used to open a portal?" Selendis asked. "Where were you before here?"
Gallus sat down. "Char." He let out a long sigh. "I think… we defeated the Queen of Blades."
Got to love every chapter since Sweety become a Zergling.
Hrm, the safety of a home she helped make.
YAY sweetie is staying zerg, its also nice to see the protos helping
now comes the pre log to heart of the swarm
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The Terrans of Mengsk experiments mutilated Sweety rather well. How mutch of her is left after the Xelnaga power hit her?!
my biggest gripe with stories liek these, having to wait for the next chapter, this is an amazing story, and everytiem i read it i want to go play SC2
Sweetie's argument isn't wrong... Except Kerrigan wanted to eat the universe. Tyranid style.
If Sweetie was in charge, it might be a different story.
This story will never stop being beautiful.
So... Sweetie Belle is still corrupted by Amon's influence? That's not a good thing.
Sweety Bell get her horn restored with a Protoss Crystal structure i guess?
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She got hit by the Keystone power and is in a bad shape because the Zerg growth on her horn was undone...
She is free of Amon but unlike Sarah Kerrigan has to suffer trough a maimed body...
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So true
Oh boy. This will be rough. Especially if the Agrian hive mind starts straying from Sweetie’s harmonious orders. We’ll have to see how it goes from here.
"and hands from an unfortunate solder, while the"
"and hands from an unfortunate soldier, while the"?
"There was no precedent. But there was also no precedent from what they could learn"
I'm not sure what the difference between these two is?
...Oooof, and that cliffhanger! I don't have time to keep reading right now even if there was more, but I want to anyway! :D
Well, thank you for writing. :)
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Well, regarding both Sweetie's own health and the situation on Agria, I suspect that she's about to receive fruit grown from the seed of friendship. She did, after all, delegate running the colony and its zerg to Ariel. With Ariel's medical knowledge and zerg resources added to what Selendis can provide, I think both Sweetie and the colony will be okay... even if the details remain to be worked out.
Now, as for how she'll feel about things after that... I expect her relations with the protoss will improve. Things with Agria, still fine. Her feelings towards the Dominion, and Raynor's forces... mixed. On the one hand, she already had concerns with what Kerrigan was doing, and now that's been stopped, with Sweetie free to build her own swarm, her way. On the other... if Gallus hadn't jumped her, she'd have probably just fled back to Agria safely. She'd be in a much better position to take care of her people, and she wouldn't have been through so much pain. And she'd be in a better position to fight the Dominion, which is, after all, still out there, in part thanks to Raynor's help, now.
...Though I am now wondering if the near future will see a Selendis's forces standing off a Dominion force sent to "try to reclaim" (read: purge and bury the evidence of the truth on) Agria.
Anyway, lots of interesting ways this story could go! :D
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Agreed that this is full of potencial. Only story i read ever go trough the entire saga is Xarmar13 Sc series.
Sweety is free of Amon influence but should still be pretty awesome if Aria and Selenes can fix her up.
Only three problems:
- Sweety no longer is a one Zergling army
- Sweety need to recover what cost time that she don't really have and even if... How mutch can she recover?
- Sweety has drive but is no Kerrigan... Can't she her accend to Primal Zerg Queen like Kerrigan and become the bitch queen of the universe...
Excellent chapter. Gallus... kinda shit the bed here. I mean, as a soldier of Raynor's he did well, but if he was trying to salvage a relationship with Sweetie, he probably couldn't have fucked up more if he tried. Looking forward to more!
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Were any zerg other than Kerrigan and the Overmind actually directly under Amon's influence to begin with? That's a point of lore I'm not clear on, but I thought it was just those two.
Either way, though, yeah, Sweetie should be free of it now.
Regarding the problems you list:
-Fortunately, she has a many-many-more-zerglings army. :D
(After all, Kerrigan could still control other zerg -- and she was much more opposed to being or working with zerg than Sweetie likely will be. For Kerrigan, being the Queen of Blades was forced on her by the zerg; her humanity, what all the people she cares about have, was stolen from her by them, and she was forced to fight and kill people she wouldn't have wanted to. For Sweetie, the zerg rescued her, and she's the only one of her species left in this universe anyway. She's used to friendships between different species, though, while the terrans are mostly just used to war, and she's already proven that zerg can peacefully coexist with both terrans and protoss.
Kerrigan, as I interpret it (though, note, while I played Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm, I haven't played Legacy of the Void and might be missing some information from other sources too; still, the early parts of Heart of the Swarm seem most relevant here), didn't see a way forward for herself as a person and a zerg, and only started delving back into the latter part of herself when she felt like she had no other choice. Sweetie I'm expecting to come out of recovery still identifying as zerg, because in her self-conception, she can be that and still be Sweetie Bell, and I expect that that will make a significant difference in both how she relates to other zerg and how she proceeds regarding her own biology.)
-Yeah, that's an issue. She does have a protoss fleet to guard her during her recovery, though, at least for now.
(...Which I'd not be surprised to find, in Dominion propaganda, turned into something about how you can't trust any aliens, and the protoss and zerg are now either working together to wipe out the terrans or the protoss are experimenting with zerg bioweapons or something. And probably throw in something about associations with the notorious traitor Jim Raynor, too.)
-...I mean, I don't think either of them is interested in being bitch king of the universe? Kind of confused by your wording there.
Anyway, though, I'm not sure she needs to; regular zerg might be sufficient for her. If she does, though... Well, then I wonder whether she and Kerrigan are doing that separately, or together. Because presumably they're going to meet again eventually, but there's the question of when. If Kerrigan goes to gather up Sweetie along with the other queens she approaches... how does she react to someone still enthusiastically zerg, but also very and successfully friendly to non-zerg? :D
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Yeeeeah. Sweetie's probably going to have some level of understanding of what he did, buuut also a lot of anger about it that understanding would have to fight past.
(And I'm not sure he actually did that well as soldier of Raynor's. He kept Sweetie occupied during the last bit of the battle, so that was good, yes -- but he lost to her and was only left alive because she didn't want to kill him, he failed to stop her escaping to a place of safety and power for her and instead just went MIA among at least semi-hostiles himself, and he gravely injured the one zerg leader (not counting Ariel, at least yet, for zerg off Agria, and there's probably some limit even there) independently friendly to and willing to negotiate and coexist with aliens. Oh, right, and his jetpack blew up.
I mean, maybe eventually this will work out better -- Sweetie's good relations with the protoss can be expected to strengthen, at least -- but in the short term, his performance is not looking great.)
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Yes, the hole Swarms Hivemind is the corruption. Only Queen and similiar can even think for themself other than: kill, eat & repeat.
I could imagen Sweety help clear Ajur of Zerg until Amon makes his turn...
That would be giving Sweety a huge army by adding Ajurs Zerg to her army and decrease Amons brood later on.
I wonder if Sweety can become stronger like a Primal Zerg by eating other Zerg like Dahaka is doing. The raw potencial is there.
Can't see her using the first spawning pool... It would destroy her young mind... Unless Amon forces her to defend what she loves and cares for...
The power one obtains by having the deepest desire to protect. That is how wars are won...
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... I'm quite certain that a successful cleansing requires that it isn't interrupted before it finishes.
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She was hit, why interrupted? Kerrigan was still Zerg in Hos at the start. Just free of Amon and looking human (mostly)
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No? The only Zerg part of Pre-Zerus Kerrigan was having tendrils for hair. That's it.
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Yes of course, because only her hair remain Zerg allow her to:
- Control Zerg
- Use powerful abilitys supassing terran Ghosts
- Growing a lot stronger if Zerus is made the latest possible in the campain
- Get seen as Zerg by Izsha and Abathur
- Regenerate from deadly wounds by burrow herself across the battlefield to the Main Hive building of the battlefield
- Being able to create from scratch a parasite that grow into a full evolved Zerg Queen with enough biomass!
Yes absolutly only her hair remains Zerg and allows for all of this and more
How silly of me to not know the power of Zerg hair!
If we could all upgrade our hair than we could become accended beings i am sure of it
Thanks you, you open my eyes with the detailed and well researched comment. I feel really bad about being so wrong.
Excuse me, i have to call for my Haircutting service and ask for some extra to be included.
Perhaps if i use anti age cream on my hair i become younger
Awesome
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"Yes, the hole Swarms Hivemind is the corruption."
...Really? Huh. But then how exactly did zapping Kerrigan help with the corruption, beyond her personal piece of it, if all the other zerg still had it?
"Only Queen and similiar can even think for themself other than: kill, eat & repeat."
I don't think I follow here. I mean, the meaning, yes, but how does that relate to the previous sentence?
"I could imagen Sweety help clear Ajur of Zerg until Amon makes his turn...
That would be giving Sweety a huge army by adding Ajurs Zerg to her army and decrease Amons brood later on."
This one sounds like it draws on bits of Starcraft I didn't get to, so I don't have much to say, sorry.
"I wonder if Sweety can become stronger like a Primal Zerg by eating other Zerg like Dahaka is doing. The raw potencial is there."
I'm guessing she'd prefer to become stronger without eating other beings, though.
"Can't see her using the first spawning pool... It would destroy her young mind... Unless Amon forces her to defend what she loves and cares for..."
And I'm guessing either I'm forgetting something from Heart of the Swarm, or there was something about that not revealed until later.
"The power one obtains by having the deepest desire to protect. That is how wars are won..."
Maybe? Though I still feel like this is somewhat far outside what I know and remember of the events of Starcraft II, sorry.
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you are right that its only The Hivemind and Kerrigan (though she was only half corrupted despite the hiveminds best efforts) were corrupted due to the fact the other zerg could just be taken so long as the hivemind, kerrigan or something equal powerful/wilful wasnt in charge
so Sweetie may have not even been corrupted by the Amon especially since it seems the place she was experimented on wasn't a place even remotely important enough for narud
that being said and completely unrelated i dont think sweetie is even fully freed from the zerg transformation to me it sounds like that what ever the humans did may have made it so now she is 50% zerg 50% pony that or because she was half way through teleporting magic shenanigans are a hoof and now she is going to become a weird super pony zerg that no one could have ever foreseen coming though we more then likely wouldnt see that full power till the end of legacy of the void when they take the battle to amon himself
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Because she is the Leader. And once Amon was defeated the backdoor to the Hivemind become mute.
Izsha & Abathur already explained it rather well, the Overmind created her for this very purpose. Freedom to chose, making decisions outside the intend of the highest leader of the Swarm.
Zagara was the best choice availabel at the campaign end. Sweety is now the best one and Leagues better!
Amon has billion of Zergs at the start if his War, the Protoss blow up Sakuras because of it. If Sweety liberates a few hundred millions for herself on Ajur she would still be comicaly outnumbered when Amon starts his War. Still to have them is better than to not have them.
A knife in a firefight with gun range is better than using fists... You can throw a knife
Agreed, it was rather a shortcut in HoS for getting Kerrigan the power the Primal Zerg horded for many millenia of killing honed evolution.
Zerus is a undiscovered secret by others. The only that know if it are Amon, Duran/Narud & Zeratul who is currently on Zerus or already searching for Kerrigan to lead her there...
Simpel actually, for Kerrigan it is hate and the unbreakable thirst for vengance. All Sweety Bell has is her unbending wish and unwilling mind to stray from Harmony trough cooperation.
I think:
Kindness
breeds
Laughter
Gives birth to
Generousity
brings
Honest desire for
Loyalty
For the friendship let it bloom in
MAGIC!
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Zagara will be obsolete when Sweety Bell becomes a option. After all Zagara was the only option in the original.
The plot of General Carolina Davis after the Amon campaign in LoV will fall rather fast with Sweety Bell being on speaking terms with Valerian.
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Ah, thanks!
Though I thought the Overmind (which I assume is what you mean) was trying to do a "flawed" job with her, to the extent it could get around its own compulsions?
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"Because she is the Leader. And once Amon was defeated the backdoor to the Hivemind become mute."
...But what would it matter if she's the leader, if all the other zerg have a backdoor? Before Amon was defeated, couldn't he have just used that to get around her being leader?
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Your right for what the overmind wanted
As to your second part he could only use it on feral Zerg due to Kerrigans own psychic power and her incredibly strong will that blocked off the back door to her Zerg
Sweetie also being a powerful psychic and also having a strong will would mean her and her Zerg would be fine too
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Thanks for the clarification and the further information.
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Did you ever watch the campaign being played? All this get explained. Basicly first he reduced all Zerg in the swarm by binding them to the Hivemind. The leader get controlled by him and that is how he controls the swarm via Overmind. The Overmind was a placeholder to merge later on, giving him a body. The Hybrids are like Zerg Queens, they can emulate the Hive control signal/mind pattern.
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No, I think most of what I know of Legacy of the Void comes from bits of wiki-reading, or happening to hear things, or the like. I did read the origin of the zerg in the Starcraft I manual, back in the day... but they retconned some of that in Starcraft II.
And thank you for the information, though... now it sounds like you're saying it was only the Overmind -- Oh! Oh, wait, are you counting the hivemind itself as corruption, its mere existence?
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nuh the corruption is what the Zerg are rather then what they were meant to be which is what they are on zerus, primal zerg are so god dame cool
now the protoss's the khala is more of a corruption in the form of a hivemind just no one including the protoss know it, though the protoss that would become the Nerazim kind sorta knew but didnt know just how bad it was till legacy of the void
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The Eldest Zerg alive Zurvan stated it himself:
It is a terrible fate to be reduced from independent individuals to a slave race.
The avarage Zerg is after all just a wild animal. Abathur is going as far as stating that he is not Zerg in his eyes unless someone dominates his mind and makes him part of a swarm.
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They dodged quite a bullet there and they are the only free Protoss alongside the on the Arch from Ajur fleed faction under Artemis leadership.
I am surprised with Youtube at everyones disposal one do not enjoy the hours of glorious Cinematics alone of all 4 Starcraft campaign's.
What is your favorit?
Terran , Zerg or Protoss
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I think I'm understanding the two of you? Thanks for the information.
We should hope not, but I think you meant overlords.
11239187 Indeed! Thanks!
So either we get a chapter or two of denouement or we going into Heart of the Swarm now.
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Thanks! I feel like writing (and art as a whole) is one of those fields where people know what's good and bad, but not why.
It reminds me of software development, where sometimes adding a single button to do a simple action can't be feasible done, because doing so would require restructuring everything else around it.
and then people say 'it's so simple why can't you do it' and you just want to shove the blueprints in their face.😄
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'Honor' a long lost virtue of many...
But the Protoss have it still
As maimed as
SweetylingSweety Belle is i wonder if she can even life without the healing Zerus can offer her. Sweetybell seem to be of need of the first Spawning pool by nessesity...Happy ending is just another beginning 👍♡