My Little Pony: Zerg Invasion (Rewrite)
Chapter 10: 10. Chapter 10
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The Queen of Blades sat on a rock, while it may not have been the most comfortable seat, it provided her rest. On her way from confronting the group who were determined to reclaim the Mysterious Artifacts, she had encountered a large group of Timber Wolves, which was not easy to destroy. A Zergling sat next to her, while she ran her hand down its carapace, gently the Zergling made a low growling that almost sounded like a cat's purr, it looked at her and the Broken-Horn Zergling jumped down before running and disappearing into the thick brush of the forest. However this rest would not be long as she sensed a Hive Cluster being attacked. "The group of ponies are attempting to collect the final Artifact, if they obtain it they may be able to use their power. I am sensing an energy similar to that of the Xel'Naga Artifact that the Terran Jim Raynor used to return you to your human form. However I believe that it cannot alter your current form, you have grown far too powerful my Queen." Izsha spoke to the Queen. "We cannot allow them to reclaim the Artifact! Kill them all!" The Queen of Blades shouted, and Izsha's voice soon filled her head. "It shall be done my Queen."
The Zerg rushed forward in an attempt to cease the attack on their Hive Cluster. (Insert badass battle music here) The Hydralisk holding the Artifact began to do what the Zerg had never done before: Flee. It was an order from the Queen of Blades to return the Artifact to her in order to keep it from falling into their hooves, and assuring the Swarm's survival. The crown was draped from the Hydralisks large scythe like talons and it moved towards the Leviathan to complete its mission. However it would never return the crown to the Queen for a spear pierced its skull, spraying blood in a mist. The crown fell to the ground and landed with several soft sounds. Plink, plink, plink. Twilight saw her crown and quickly rushed past the Zerg in order to reclaim it, but it was scooped up by a Zergling who continued the Hydralisk's mission to bring this back to the Queen. Twilight chased after the small Zerg creature but it was faster than she was, so she began to lift the Element with Magic and it floated upwards taking the Zergling with it. The Zerglings swiped at the air trying to find any form of ground for it to stand upon, but it found none and it slipped off and fell to the dirt.
A Mutalisk attempted to grab the crown and startled the unicorn causing her to drop it, the crown once again fell onto the creep covered ground, but it bounced towards the battle and between the fighting forces. Several guards and Zerg rushed forward in an attempt to collect the crown, and were only met with death and doom. Rainbow Dash managed to avoid attacks and grab the Element with her hooves shouting "I got it! I got it!" However it was knocked away from her grasp as a Hydralisk fired a spine at her, and hit the crown. It was caught by Applejack who threw it to Twilight. The Zerg began to charge forward and attack while one of the guards shouted "Zerg Rush!" They prepared to fight and in a bloody mess the Zerg fell and the Hive Cluster was destroyed. "We need to return to Canterlot quickly, before the Zerg send more after us." Celestia said and the group rushed back towards Canterlot where they would prepare for the final battle.
The Queen of Blades stood outside of Canterlot, this battle would decide whether the Swarm or the Defense was victorious. This would either drive out the Swarm or wipe out the Defense. "My Queen your Broodmothers are sending their Broods to assist in the fight, however it will take some time for the Nydus Worms to reach your location. You will need to defend the Hive Cluster and push back their forces simultaneously. I will alert you when the Nydus Worms are near." Izsha said to the Queen while Zagara, Dehaka, and Stukov waited with her. "Listen I have a plan. Stukov you attack the western part of the city, Dehaka you attack the eastern part, and Zagara your Brood will attack the northern part of the city while I attack the southern part. Understood?" She asked and got nods from each one. The group once again split up on order to attack the city and claim victory for the Swarm.
Twilight waited inside the castle, she looked back at her friends, her brother, her sister-in-law, Princess Luna, and at her teacher. This battle would decide the fate of Equestria as they knew it, and their own fate as well. They would wait in the castle for the Queen of Blades to fight her way in then use the Elements to defeat and hopefully destroy her. While it was not preferable it may be the only choice they have.
The Zerg began to flood the city, which had been evacuated hours beforehand, and all that remained were soldiers and those who refused to leave. Nevertheless the Zerg invaded and were battle ready. The Zerg had been mutated to be as dangerous as possible. As the Zerg progressed Hatcheries were placed around in various locations, Primal Hives began to place themselves in the streets, Infested began to place Command Centers at corners of streets. Each section was being led by those chosen, Zagara, Dehaka, and Stukov. They each knew that this was serious, that if they failed the Queen of Blades would kill them. However in a sense they knew that there was no way for the ponies to win this fight. So they continued to march on. Eventually they made their way to the gates of the castle and began to attack. The Queen of Blades had joined in the slaughter and was standing outside of the gates as well. Before she could give the order to destroy them, she heard Abathur's voice go through her head. "Sending Brutalisks. Destroy gate. Assure victory for Swarm." Nydus Worms broke through the surface of the city's streets, and they began to cough and hack as the Brutalisks move out from their mouths and began to destroy the large gate that protected the castle from the Swarm.
It took seconds to destroy the gate, for it was made with the intention of keeping out smaller threats, not massive beasts such as the Ultralisk or the Brutalisk, both of which had begun to destroy random buildings to assure that there were no survivors. The Queen of Blades planned to wipe the pony race out and to wipe out every miserable race on this planet. "Leave those who reclaimed the Artifacts to me. I want to enjoy this." She said before entering the building. She moved down the long halls, and had not encountered a single guard or soldier, meaning that they either were all outside fighting, or waiting for her to pass in order to create an ambush. However no ambush came and she found herself at a large and elegant looking door, which she took as being the main throne room. She forced the door open with her bone like wings, and entered to see the ones who had stolen the Artifacts from her. "So this is it. Whoever wins gains Equestria?" Celestia said. "It would seem so, but even if I die, the Swarm is under orders to wipe out all of you." The Queen of Blades replied and rolled her neck. "Who are you? Who were you?" Twilight asked, this question having been burning in the back of her mind. "None of that matters now. For you will not survive to remember it!" The Queen shouted rushing forward while slashing at them with her razor tipped wings.
Celestia and Luna began to fight and protect the Elements while they prepared to use them. They began to float into the air, their eyes had gone pure white and glowed. The Queen knocked the two royal sisters away and began to charge up as much of Zerus' power as she could. The six ponies were soon wrapped in a rainbow and began to unleash one towards the Queen, but she released the energy that she had been storing and made her own attack. The two masses of energy collided and resulted in a massive explosion that launched the ten ponies out of the castle and towards the city streets. The Queen had been stronger and was pleased with her work. She knew that she had to continue onto her journey to the Void where she would fight her true enemy, and she left, the leviathan had flown off into space where they would travel until the fallen Xel'Naga was found and killed.
Twilight woke up gasping for air and with aching pains all over her body. She whipped her head left and right searching for her friends, who were also waking with the same thirst for air and bruises. She waited to wake up a smaller amount more before taking in her surroundings, what she saw amazed her, she was in some form of large cylinder, the floors and walls were made of gold and had no architectural similarities to pony works, meaning that something else had recovered them. She noticed what appeared to be glass blocking her from studying the walls and floors further to find out just where they were, however upon closer inspection it appeared to be some form of an energy shield.
She was confused and dazed, with nothing making sense, but it would get stranger as mysterious creatures approached them. There were bipedal and had blue skin. They were human like, except their feet resembled paws of an animal. Their hands were clawed and their eyes glowed either blue or green, and they wore golden armor with cloth in certain locations. What stood out most of all was that they lacked mouths, but could still speak, as for what they were saying Twilight couldn't make it out fully. "Found them… Unnamed planet… Zerg… Lost… No others… Located…" Those were the only words she could make out of the approaching creatures, and they seemed shocked to see her awake. Twilight was now frightened and began to back away from the creatures. The others upon noticing these strange creatures began to grow frightened as well, but Luna was the first to approach them. "It can't be… They hadn't been seen in over ten thousand years…" She muttered as the creature's eye's widened at the sight of her. "The creature of legends…" One of them muttered. While the other simply stared. It was easy to tell that one was male and the other was female, for one had a curvier body compared to other. After what seemed like several hours, Rainbow Dash finally asked "Would anypony like to fill us in on what's going on?" Luna sighed before saying "These creatures are not new to ponies, for they had encountered each other many years ago, before our parents were born, and their parents before them. They had found Equestria and shared their knowledge of the universe with the inhabitants. One of which was Starswirl the Bearded. They are known as Protoss, a highly advanced race of creatures." With the exception of Celestia, they were all shocked. None of them had heard of this meeting before and it confused them further. "Get the High Executor! She needs to know of this!" The male Protoss shouted while the female rushed off to find someone. It was at this point that Twilight knew their troubles had not ended, but rather they had just begun.
The End…?
I hope you enjoyed this rewrite, I thought this ending would have led to more suspense and I have a sequel planned, however it will not be written until after I finish my other two stories, Chaos and Discord: Infection, and Dark Samus Returns. So look forward to it coming out! Thank you for reading and that's all I've got right now so see you later!