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Sarah Kerrigan took a few breaths. they were unneeded for her biology before, but had seemed to return to her now.
Experimentally stretching her wings out to their full breadth, she felt the stiffness in the joints. She did not feel as fast, and yet, without that things chokehold over her psyche, she felt her psionic abilities fully return to her. She flexed her claws next, the limbs returning their normal input. She must have undergone some damage in the change between dimensions - and her body showed it, seeming locked up and unwilling to respond to commands. contrary to her old speed, her muscles currently felt immense pain.
But pain was different for a zerg's psyche, irritation, but not distraction, and Kerrigan focused her mind on the new world around her. She was underground - within some forgotten cave system that had very little resemblance to Karl Jaks' Death-race.
"It seems Omni was smart enough to get rid of me before I brought his little kingdom tumbling down around him. How thoughtful." The Queen said with a smile. "How wise. How utterly futile." The Queen of Blades finished with a smirk.
Instead of focusing on the old - and there were several reasons on Kerrigan's mind for why focusing on the old was a bad idea -she had to focus on the here and now, first.
With a single breath, she took in the details of the cave before her. Her eyes saw well enough in the dark to give her a basic idea of what was around her. the rocks in this area were dark, grey, almost seeming like the life itself had been drained out of them.
What's more, there seemed to be... something else about this place. Telepathic humming that had no true purpose to it. Like a mind reaching out to all corners with strength but no intent. simply force and hate.
The Queen of Blades put a hand to her temples. This seemed to be enveloping even her in its grasp, and in her weakened state, the idea of being subjected to another's will - to be enslaved to the whimes of another Overmind - washed over her with a raw wave of fear.
But Kerrigan was no Terran, to shake or quail at the thought. She was zerg, and zerg found solutions and efficiently brought them forth. For now, she would find a way to the surface. This was not a place for her - at least, not now.
The thought did not distract her from her immediate surroundings, but did manage to keep her from noticing something else important as she wandered the caverns.The queen of blades turned only now, as the slightest sound of metal slapping against flesh alerted her to a new opponent, a creature that held a human profile but little else to link the two.
Kerrigan held up a hand instinctively as the scaly being Pulled the trigger on it's gun, and a hail of bullets fired, the beast emptying it's entire clip... only to see it's full salvo stop in mid-air, the bullets forced to a halt.
The Queen of Blades gave a wry smile at the creature. She wasn't sure if the primitive weapons would have been able to fully penetrate her carapace, even weakened. the shots were powerful for a rifle, she supposed, and better than the blasters she'd seen in action in the omniverse - but they were no C-14 impaler, either.
"...A bold move." The queen of blades finally admitted. "Or you might simply be foolish."
The Creature in question had already jumped to cover, and Kerrigan considered simply flipping the bullets around, killing him with his own salvo in an appropriate fashion, but as she heard the Drone reloading, she thought better of it. Instead, the queen of blades simply gave a grin as she held out a hand.
Frustratingly, this new creature's mind was foreign to her. completely dead from a psionic perspective. But that only disappointed her for a moment as the freakish creature jumped out of cover with a gun pointed straight at her.
That grin grew broad and sadistic as the locust's body refused to find the trigger, and the gun's barrel slowly pointed up, muscles straining but unable to fight off the psionic pull.
Kerrigan walked up to the Locust with a smile. "I shall reward you with a painless death, but I think you should think over what you've done." The Infested queen told her psychic prisoner with a smile, as the barrel found it's way below it's neck. "At least, if your brain is where it's mean to be. Perhaps I'll need to take a few extra shots to make sure?"
With the proclamation came a slow, inexorable inching of the barrel to the Locusts head. The sadist made sure to miss anything vital for the first shot, letting the creature howl for a second before taking a second and third. It was only truly dead by the seventh, and Kerrigan mercifully allowed the twitching corpse to fall, the barrel still contained in it's mouth, to the floor.
Well... now she felt a little better.
Experimentally stretching her wings out to their full breadth, she felt the stiffness in the joints. She did not feel as fast, and yet, without that things chokehold over her psyche, she felt her psionic abilities fully return to her. She flexed her claws next, the limbs returning their normal input. She must have undergone some damage in the change between dimensions - and her body showed it, seeming locked up and unwilling to respond to commands. contrary to her old speed, her muscles currently felt immense pain.
But pain was different for a zerg's psyche, irritation, but not distraction, and Kerrigan focused her mind on the new world around her. She was underground - within some forgotten cave system that had very little resemblance to Karl Jaks' Death-race.
"It seems Omni was smart enough to get rid of me before I brought his little kingdom tumbling down around him. How thoughtful." The Queen said with a smile. "How wise. How utterly futile." The Queen of Blades finished with a smirk.
Instead of focusing on the old - and there were several reasons on Kerrigan's mind for why focusing on the old was a bad idea -she had to focus on the here and now, first.
With a single breath, she took in the details of the cave before her. Her eyes saw well enough in the dark to give her a basic idea of what was around her. the rocks in this area were dark, grey, almost seeming like the life itself had been drained out of them.
What's more, there seemed to be... something else about this place. Telepathic humming that had no true purpose to it. Like a mind reaching out to all corners with strength but no intent. simply force and hate.
The Queen of Blades put a hand to her temples. This seemed to be enveloping even her in its grasp, and in her weakened state, the idea of being subjected to another's will - to be enslaved to the whimes of another Overmind - washed over her with a raw wave of fear.
But Kerrigan was no Terran, to shake or quail at the thought. She was zerg, and zerg found solutions and efficiently brought them forth. For now, she would find a way to the surface. This was not a place for her - at least, not now.
The thought did not distract her from her immediate surroundings, but did manage to keep her from noticing something else important as she wandered the caverns.The queen of blades turned only now, as the slightest sound of metal slapping against flesh alerted her to a new opponent, a creature that held a human profile but little else to link the two.
Kerrigan held up a hand instinctively as the scaly being Pulled the trigger on it's gun, and a hail of bullets fired, the beast emptying it's entire clip... only to see it's full salvo stop in mid-air, the bullets forced to a halt.
The Queen of Blades gave a wry smile at the creature. She wasn't sure if the primitive weapons would have been able to fully penetrate her carapace, even weakened. the shots were powerful for a rifle, she supposed, and better than the blasters she'd seen in action in the omniverse - but they were no C-14 impaler, either.
"...A bold move." The queen of blades finally admitted. "Or you might simply be foolish."
The Creature in question had already jumped to cover, and Kerrigan considered simply flipping the bullets around, killing him with his own salvo in an appropriate fashion, but as she heard the Drone reloading, she thought better of it. Instead, the queen of blades simply gave a grin as she held out a hand.
Frustratingly, this new creature's mind was foreign to her. completely dead from a psionic perspective. But that only disappointed her for a moment as the freakish creature jumped out of cover with a gun pointed straight at her.
That grin grew broad and sadistic as the locust's body refused to find the trigger, and the gun's barrel slowly pointed up, muscles straining but unable to fight off the psionic pull.
Kerrigan walked up to the Locust with a smile. "I shall reward you with a painless death, but I think you should think over what you've done." The Infested queen told her psychic prisoner with a smile, as the barrel found it's way below it's neck. "At least, if your brain is where it's mean to be. Perhaps I'll need to take a few extra shots to make sure?"
With the proclamation came a slow, inexorable inching of the barrel to the Locusts head. The sadist made sure to miss anything vital for the first shot, letting the creature howl for a second before taking a second and third. It was only truly dead by the seventh, and Kerrigan mercifully allowed the twitching corpse to fall, the barrel still contained in it's mouth, to the floor.
Well... now she felt a little better.