Chapter 7: The Queen
The insects behind the door have begun to scream, and more and more insects are pouring in from all directions.
"We are surrounded sir"
"I see, damn it, it seems that the only way to break through is in front of me, heavy machine guns ready, grenades ready, destroy it for me" Renault pointed to the net door.
With a bang, the road cleared, and the insects in front of them disappeared a lot due to the explosion, and there was blood and debris everywhere. He can't control so much, and the more they block, the more urgent the situation is.
"Follow me, the goal is close at hand"
They rushed through the open area behind the door to a passage with three forks, and the team was on guard, and Renault knew that he had to choose a passage as soon as possible. He closed his eyes again, and the dream came again without incident, but this time the foreboding was even more desperate, and a meatball-like brain worm happily communicated with him, "Welcome, the swarm blesses your coming"
"Go this way," he gestured to the road to the left, and walked briskly inside, his team following closely behind.
The road was even darker, and they had to be wary of insects that stood out of nowhere, which invisibly delayed their time. Reynolds was anxious, he knew that the change that Kerrigan was trying to avoid or resist was irreversibly approaching, and once it was done, then...
After 10 minutes, they came to the end, and there was a huge insect hatchery in the middle, with a giant cocoon in the middle, and the square was full of insect swarms.
"Stop them, the ritual is almost complete, and they can't be disrupted," Zasz ordered
The other brain worm ordered its swarm to protect the cocoon more closely.
Renaud took a deep breath, he knew that success or failure was in one fell swoop, "Warriors, the final goal is already in front of us, let me destroy them, open the passage, we will destroy this cocoon"
The Rangers gathered their weapons and equipment with courage and speed, no one thinking about what would happen to defeat, they trusted their heads, and as they had always done, they followed Renault's march and fought the insects with all their might.
The alien insects encountered this time are more difficult than those encountered in the previous waves, with larger sizes, faster reaction speeds, and the constant command of brain worms, and there are so many that almost every attack has the fall of the rangers. However, when they fell, they did not make their enemies any better, and knowing that they were going to die, they did their best to detonate their grenades in the hope of killing more insects.
Renault's heart was like a knife, he didn't dare to face these people he brought, but at this time, he couldn't think too much, the road had been opened
"Sir, let's go"
Renault walked to the cocoon, it emitted a faint green light, and the wriggling figure inside could be faintly seen outside, could it be her, he suddenly suffered a little bit of gain and loss. "Kerrigan, is that you? Answer me", his hand touched the outer layer, and there was a slight electric current, causing a slight tingling.
He saw that the things inside shook more violently than just now, twisted hard, and scraped the shell with his limbs, as if he wanted to figure it out, but with such a big body, it couldn't be her, could it be that he was wrong?
What happened next shattered all illusions.
The shell was pierced by something resembling a limb, followed by one, two, three until it completely held the tear, and then tore to the sides. The cocoon was torn and deformed, then twisted more and more, eventually falling apart, splintering all over the ground and spraying green liquid.
However, Renault did not have time to pay attention to this, he was already stunned by what appeared, and he looked intently at what hatched from the so-called chrysalis of this strange worm, remembering as much as possible Kerrigan's smile.
Kerrigan has long fiery red hair, she always likes to tie it behind her head, her body is slender and plump, her eyes are bright, so perfect, in line with all male aesthetics, and it also makes people who see her for the first time have some dirty thoughts, Renault is no exception, so she has always been called a fool. And what is in front of you now? She had the perfect face of Kerrigan, but the faint psionic lines hidden under her skin and the hard purple and green shell on her body reminded Renault that she was no longer human. She has a pair of unusually sharp wings on her back, which is said to be sharp because there are no feathers on it at all, and it must have broken the shackles of the chrysalis just now.
This thing in front of him is definitely not Kerrigan, he refuses to admit it, she is a demon crawling out of a nightmare, this damn dream, wake up quickly! Renault slapped his head hard. He was stunned, the gun in his hand had already slipped to the ground, and he had forgotten about the battle behind him, and he had forgotten about the rangers. But fortunately, since the appearance of Kerrigan, the insect has temporarily stopped attacking, and everyone looks at her blankly, the difference is that the insect cheers from the heart.
"My daughter, the whole swarm is celebrating your birth, you will be my greatest masterpiece, stand up and accept the cheers of the swarm" The will of the Lord came, its words resounded throughout the hatchery, and Renault also heard the voice from the bottom of his heart. He was so uncomfortable and desperate that what he had been refusing to happen had become a reality, which made his heart ache more than he had known that Kerrigan had died. She's no longer her.
"Yes, Master!" She walked gracefully and straightened up, right next to Renault, but ignored him.
"From this day forward, I am the Queen of Blades!" She unleashed unleashed psionic fluctuations that almost resounded across the galaxy. The excited roar from the swarm intensified, and Zasz's brainworm became more jealous, and the brainworm that had been guarding Kerrigan admired her more and more.
Renault watched all this, he should have hated and hostile, but looking at her more proud and confident posture than before, and the strength contained in her body, he found that he was more fascinated than before, and this was undoubtedly dangerous, "Damn, you have to wake up, James Renault, you can't sink" He frantically reminded himself, clinging to the last trace of clarity.
The Queen of Blades looked around at what was happening in the field, "Let these rebels taste the price of the swarm", and ordered, the swarm went berserk, and the Rangers' resistance was even more precarious.
The team members were quickly killed and wounded, and the swarm without worries liberated their combat power, and Renault became the only human in the field.
"Well done, Kerrigan, I created you, and you obviously didn't disappoint me" seemed to turn in Renault's direction, "Now, leave no one alive"
Damn, Renault finally came to his senses, but it shouldn't be too late, he didn't want to sit still, even if there was a huge disparity in strength. He picked up his gun, drew his grenade, and quickly backed away, but the surrounding swarm declared it in vain.
Just as the swarm was about to pounce on him, it stopped strangely, as if there was some kind of quarrel, and a fleshball brain worm glared at Kerrigan, "He was asked to be killed by the Juggernaut, this is the order"
"This man belongs to me," said Kerrigan, or the Queen of Blades, in an unquestionable tone, "I will dispose of him as I wish, now, you all get out of here" The surrounding swarm didn't know what to do, Kerrigan felt offended, so he became even more furious, and his hair turned into bone spurs was flying in the wind, "Get out of here"
The brain worm succumbed and the swarm dispersed, but Renault's heart was getting colder and colder. He lowered his spear and raised a hand, wanting to touch her, but flinched, "Kerrigan, is that you?"
"Stronger, more perfect me," she replied proudly, looking down at her whole body with a look of satisfaction. "I'm better than I used to be, Jimmy. You shouldn't be here."
"But those dreams, you called me"
"I used to call you, Actulos, but I found out that I was wrong, I actively embraced this gift and change, and finally became the strong me I am now, the perfect me"
"But here I am, right here, you're here, let's go back, we'll start over," Renault urged urging.
"It's too late, Jimmy, I'm part of the swarm now, it's all gone," she stretched, "it's wonderful, isn't it?" I don't feel as lonely as I used to, they need me"
"You still have me, Kerrigan"
"Don't continue to confuse my will, James Reynolds, I know what I want"
Renault was desperate, and he showed a relieved smile, also a sad smile, "So, what are you going to do now?" Kill me? ”
"No" Kerrigan hovered her wings over Renault's throat, and Renault believed that if she had the intention, the next moment, he would be impaled to death, which was undoubtedly terrible.
"You don't matter, don't try to go against me, against the swarm, be smart, now, take the rest of your poor worm outside, get out of here, before I change my mind"
He took one last look at her, as if he wanted to bury her appearance in his heart, and for a moment, he wanted to die with her with his gun, but reason finally curbed this dangerous thought, and it would certainly not be the other party who died.
Eventually, he turned away, and from this day forward, she was the Queen of the Blades of the Swarm.