——————Overmind POV——————

I had ordered Sasha to take the facility, the battle was time-consuming since she could not use most of the offensive breed without risking to damage delicate pieces of technology.

In space the battle was short-lived. No defense dedicated to anti-ship will ever stop the zerg and anti-swarm was not a concept that the UED was proficient in.

The major thing that happened that literally made me take charge was the discovery of the void seeker.

Zeratul is here on the maw.

What is that prophesy obsessed protoss doing here in the directorate space? , more importantly on the Maw, ain't no xel'naga temple here.

Looking for possible points of entry that Zeratul could have used to get inside and then just looked for missing zerg since right now it the only way to locate an invisible intruder.

One of the Zergling just had it heads chopped off, and found you, he was inside one of my experimental evolution labs.

Basically holding pen for stuff have made for fun that could not be used in a normal way for various reasons.

Like my version of the zerg wrecking ball, my tentative to create an original kaiju. It was spawned from a what-if scenario, an Ultralisk with a centipede body the size of a skyscraper. It was more an unstoppable land train with six Kaiser blades at the front.

The damn thing was so energy consuming that it needed to eat constantly but once it starts moving nothing would stop is feeding frenzy. It was armored everywhere with multiple backup organ systems in just in case.

I had a dozen of them locked in cocoons, even when sleeping, they were still feeded so I did not want them to wake up on the maw there since meat everywhere and I am sure those gluttons would try to eat it.

Zeratul was pretty much is doing the protoss version of « oh my god please don't wake up » constantly.

For his defense, he was alone inside of a place filled with billions of zerg plus there was a dozen monster that makes Ultralisk look like as threatening as a Zergling.

Looked like he did not want to be here longer than needed.

For now, I will only observe what he is doing, who knows, maybe I could gain something interesting from his intrusion.

He was moving from lab to lab until he reached the human city producing weapon, munitions and Armour.

I bet that was a surprise for him seeing human tech inside of the zerg world ship. But he seems to be determined to reach the deep end, the place he is heading now that I referred to as the pool of soul (mine), if psionic energy could be made physical it would probably look like that.

A great pool of liquid filled to the limits by my microbe glowing from the different energy that I had begun studying.

Jorium mineral deposits were scattered all over the pool, increasing its already considerable power.

A bridge like structure than was allowing a humanoid to move safely toward the center.

Zeratul was getting nervous since he had not seen a single zerg ever since I spotted him.

If did not order the internal defense to let him pass, the whole place would be crawling with detectors and combat units.

Still poor bastard, the maw is fucking big place so he will walk for a long time until he reaches his likely objective. Should I help him ?, I always like him in the game.

Nah he, not a guess so he can walk.

4 hour later

I still keep my eye on both Sasha and Zeratul.

Both are little boring, to be honest. Sasha is facing a cloned army that just keeps multiplying and Zeratul had catch on the fact I had ordered him to be left alone, he had dropped his invisibility and started to jog towards the pool, at his speed, it will take a week if not month of moving into the increasing complex labyrinthine tunnel networks.

This will take forever, so I will send an overlord to pick him off and his void seeker too will be transported.

———Zeratul POV——-_

I had arrived on the zerg worldship for a couple of days, the thing I had seen here were terrifying, he had never heard of so many zerg in one place, nor those giant breeds of zerg which he was able to sense their hunger, they were so hungry that his sense was affected.

The infested Terrans city was the biggest surprise on his trip and he was pretty sure he had not meant to see half the points yet, did this Overmind wanted his own version of Kerrigan or did he wanted to use technology? he couldn't imagine the zerg using the nuke that the Terran was so fond of.

As this trip processed the number of zerg he encounters dropped instead of rising, this had caused some major fear into the protoss.

While he was not a coward when it came to battle, fighting millions versus one is a different story so it had no shame in it if he would flee before it.

But nothing came to him, it was then he figured the sparks must have given the order to ignore him.

He waited for a while to see if the sparks would come to meet him but it seemed that he has to do the legwork himself.

4 hour of a jog at Templar pace, it been a long while since he had run so much in a day. And somehow the tunnel he was in keep multiplying.

While taking a break to rest an overlord had come from a tunnel and landed next to the protoss, he becomes a bit cautious, but still asked.

(Zeratul) are you here to take me to your master?

The overlord just opened it ventral sacs so looked like he only has two choices, by the leg or accepting the invitation.

Finally, he chooses to jump over the overlord and sit there, to the overlord displeasure, but it seems that whoever that had sent him this overlord had also chosen to make the overlord comply.

He was given a lift with a view, but what he saw from over the overlord was a nightmarish sea of larva ready to morphs at the command of a queen and other command breeds.

Cocoon full of pre-made combat zerg form, leviathans in titanic docking pool where thousands of drone would clean their surface and check for any faulty.

A great palace was in front of him, luxury was transferred inside of it, beautiful garden with master crafted statues of different zerg breeds.

He did feel a small amount of shame that his meeting would not be there.

But the overlord continued moving towards his destination, through a series of passageways made of crystalline matter.

When he saw the glowing lake his mind completely stopped, completely fixated on the sheer energy he felt. For a psionic race being near the pool was like looking at the sun, he once believed that the hybrids were powerful but if compared to this, they were more like burning city to the power of this star.

The overlord was visibly uncomfortable being here, he too felt the power in this place.

It landed near the bridge like structure, clearly not going any farther, I jumped on the ground, the energy surrounding me were disorienting. But I steel myself and marched towards the bridge.

As he walked the memory came surfacing, visions of his past were shown to the world to see as mist gathered replaying the event of his life, the good, the bad, the things better forgotten and the things he will never forget.

Watching his ghost kill his beloved matriarch over and over, him killing the cerebrate and so many more.

At the end of the bridge right in the center of this pool of psionic energy, a ghost waited for him, it was not one from his memory, but someone he had never seen before, an archon, a purple one, this psionic entity was hovering just over the edge of the platform.

A deep voice reverberated all around him dispelling my past.

(Overmind) dark prelate, what a Nerazim is doing so far from Shakuras?

I was surprised, took a step back to steeling myself then responded.

(Zeratul) I came for the spark that shows me to here, and from what I guess so far it could be you, and for why I find you, I came to give you a warning from the future.

(Overmind) Amon, yes…. Know of him and his plan.

I was taken by surprise again but if he knows of Amon, could he be one of his servants? , then the future would be the greater danger.

(Overmind) I am no pawn of him! And besides there worse pass him.

(Zeratul) Worse !?!

(Overmind) Oh yes, but first let me show you a vision of the future, one where am not there, it will answer all your questions and let you Intervene in a more appropriate way than simply running after the clue Ouros left behind.

(Zeratul) Ouros?

As I said the name vision of events dating back to the creation of the protoss to the void war was shown, hidden actors, being revealed like “Duran” or “Narud” as he is called now, the birth of the original overmind, the xel'naga fighting over the sky of Zerus, the dead of Amon physical form, where he resides in the void, his prisoner Ouros or as I know him as Tassadar, the clue he had left behind.

The recent event like his meeting with Raynor, in this speech he never mentioned the second spark.

The event at char and the follow up where Mengsk had hounded Kerrigan and his friends Raynor.

The assault on the research facility, the news broadcast of the death of Raynor, Kerrigan vow of revenge, his meeting on the Leviathan, Zerus where a newly infested Kerrigan was born.

Then the future event like Amon rebirth, the khala corruption, his death at the hand of a possessed Artanis.

Then the vision stopped, he found himself covered in sweat, shaking like a leaf to the wind.

Unsure and scared he gathered what was left of his will and asked with a trembling voice.

(Zeratul) Is there more?

The being in front of him looked like he was wondering something.

(Overmind) Yes, there is a future beyond that but it is not your fate to know, but to live it, if you make the appropriate measure.

Still remembering his fate in the vision he had time to make a difference, he needed to make sure Kerrigan go to Zerus and gather a force to stop Amon rebirth. He had made friends over the years so some of them might be willing to help him.

Then the Overmind spoke again this time he felt that it is more important than Amon.

(Overmind) Amon may be a threat to all living being but there worse out there and soon this universe will end no matter what we choose to do.

This crushed hope from the old protoss heart, knowing that death will come no matters what you do was soul crushing.

(Overmind) but life always finds a way.

He had said this in a knowing way, a huge smirk plastered on the face of the purple archon.

This time new vision came to him of other universes, the good, the bad and the ugly all came to him, and he knew that the being in front of him, the Overmind had a plan to leave this universe and go to this other new universe.

Then a pulse of energy could be felt, in this place of raw power, his sense was many time sharper so that normal, something had happened.

The Overmind looks at a distant place seeing the event had it happened, he must have seen my curious look because he told me.

(Overmind) kerrigan has become uninfected if you want to help you better hurry to her side.

As prepare myself for the long walk to my ship, saw a warp portal open before me and on the other side of the portal, void seeker laid there on a launching platform.

The Overmind behind me spoke anew.

(Overmind) before you leave, a gift and a warning.

I stopped and turn myself to look upon him, the Overmind was holding two zerg larvas.

(Overmind) take those child's with you, it will allow me to speak to you if needed, and for the warning even if you convince the golden armada to destroy the rebirth site, Amon will come again so it is inevitable, fate work that way but what you can do is to save as many as you can to assist the recapture of Aiur and have dark Templar ready to cut the cord of as many you can, Amon will not be able to control them as effectively when he just take possession. Who knows, maybe your actions will be for the betterment of your kind for once.

I was shocked, did he read my mind or did he see a new future.

I took the two larvae who placed themselves on my shoulder and jumped through the portals.

This meeting was nothing like I believed, it looked like I am a pawn in some game, a sacrificial pawn too if my fate was as shown, for now, the spark was right and should send Kerrigan to Zerus.

—————-Overmind POV———-

I hope had given the proper motivation to convince him to do as I said.

But for the other news the queen of blade is no more, her swarm has split into different factions.

The loyalist who would still follow her will even after her transformation.

The succession faction who wanted one of them to become the new ruler.

The independent who would stay neutral and continue to evolve themselves.

And a faction who wanted to join my swarm not wanting to be rulerless. From them a large fleet of multiple broods was on there way here to pledge themselves to my swarm. I can't wait to meet them.