It had been a couple hours since I had made my way back to the mountain and I now found myself walking towards the back of a cave. It had been a few minutes since I had entered and I was quickly coming up on the back of the cave as it opened up into a large closed off chamber that didn’t seem to go any further.

‘Hm, not that damp, light enough to see, Smooth stone floor other than the occasional stalagmite.’ I said while looking around at my new temporary base. Not bad. Well, as far as caves go that is.

On instinct, I started searching in my mind for what zerg strands I had. Guess it comes with being a broodmother.

What I found was... disheartening to say the least, for some reason I only had the strands for the Larva, Drone, & Hatchery/Lair/Hive along with the Overlord. I guess we’ll have to do this the old fashioned way. I could sense how much resources my body had. Right now I only have enough for two drones. So calling on the strands I felt something course through me and looking behind me two eggs the size of beach balls popped out of my abdomen.

After just a little while of waiting the eggs hatched and out popped to newborn Drones as I felt the tingling sensation of my hive mind connecting me to them, then I heard them.

“What is preferred designation leader?” Blinking and shaking my head i realized this must have been the telepathic communication of the zerg hive mind. Thinking on what they said ‘I guess they’re asking what I want to be called? John isn’t exactly a fitting name for a zerg leader let’s see… OH I KNOW!’ “You my children may call me Davara.”

“Understood, leader will now be referred to as Davara. What are your orders?” The most important part was getting the base up.

“You!” I pointed to the Drone on my left. “Begin morphing into a Hatchery over there.” I said while pointing to the back of the cave where it would be safest.

As it went off I turned to the other one. “What do we gather for resources.”

After a moment it responded “We require biomass. They may be gathered from nearly anything, they are usually found in greater concentration in crystals and various metals along with living creatures."

“I want you to begin harvesting resources from the immediate vicinity once the Hatchery is finished, do not stray far the cave entrance."

“Understood."

*One week later*

‘There, I’m finally finished.’ I thought while wiping my head with my claws to mimic wiping off sweat.

“Abatha, what is the rejection chance of this batch of improved Hyper-evolutionary virus?"

“Rejection chance is less than 0.046% my queen.” Abatha replied in an almost auto-tuned voice.

Abatha was my first creation here to help with manipulating and storing different strains while I was busy directing the hive. Sorta like an A.I assistant as she unlike Abathur who inspired my creation of her, did not possess an actual body and existed solely in the hive mind to aid me personally.

“Good, we can’t let this fail.” I said while admiring my handy work. In the center of the cave now stood an opened chrysalis, surrounded by small pools of the Hyper-evolutionary virus ready to pour into the chrysalis when it’s occupant was put into it.

Over the past several days I had been refining the virus to give it a low as possible chance of failure since we were only going to get one shot at this, Since if it failed it would turn her into a mindless zerg zombie and we wouldn’t want that.

“Okay, it’s time then. We need to do this before anyone notices our presence.” As I approached the entrance of the cave I passed a few Drones dragging in felled trees to the Hatchery.

So far things had gone well, we had only lost one Drone to a manticore and now we had a dozen bringing in fallen trees.

Making my way out of the cave, I turned towards Twilight’s castle in the distance, since it was my only major landmark besides the mountains that dotted the area. Fortunately I knew It only takes an hour or two to reach the town because of my previous walk.

Since Twilight’s toyetic castle was here, that means she must have beaten Tirek by now which means there aren't any major threats that require the elements. Heh. Well, that is if you don’t include me. I thought jokingly for a few seconds. Well I'm not going to be Idle, I have the chance to create my own Zerg strains and I'm not going to squander the chance to make them.

“My Queen, I am curious. Why are we going after this “mare” named Fluttershy?” Abatha asked not really knowing much about her other than the basics that I told her.

“Because Abatha, she is the element of kindness and while the elements are with the tree of harmony, they still posses great power. It’s because of this very reason I’m bringing her to our side so I don’t get blasted with the orbital friendship cannon."

“I’m afraid i’m not familiar with this orbital friend ship cannon, what caliber is it?"

*sigh* “Its nothing Abatha, don’t worry about it."

Enjoying the rest of my walk to the edge of the Everfree in silence was quickly coming to an end, as the trees started to become less dense and it became easier to walk through the forest. Being six feet wide really has its drawbacks.

As I made it to the treeline, I saw the iconic cottage of best pony, In fact i even saw her outback tending to her animals. When I saw her, She looked better than I expected.

She was an anthro pony like Rainbow Dash, standing upright like a human along with her human hands, but her back legs still had hooves. She was wearing a light green turtleneck along with what looked like cotton jeans. She was currently hovering above the ground throwing bird seed to feed some of her pet birds.

Good it seems like she'll be taking care of her animals all day. When I finished my thoughts I started burrowing into the ground at the treeline.

And now we play the waiting game.

*Several boredom filled hours later*

‘OOOOOOOOOOHHHH THANK GOD FINALLY!’ I thought as I finally burst from the ground. That was without the doubt the worst thing I have ever had to do! After the sun had set a few hours ago I had to wait even longer doing nothing to make sure she had fallen asleep so she wouldn’t alert anyone.

I begun making my way to her cottage after making sure the coast was clear. The only sound was the soft thuds of my legs.

“My Queen, it appears that she keeps many animals. What will we do with them?"

“I put aside a few cocoons for some of them on the far wall so I can take them back and subject them to the virus. This way she gets to keep her friends and I get to add their essence to the swarm. Win win.” I knew Fluttershy wouldn’t like what I was going to do, but I needed to start aggressive strains of zerg and I couldn’t think of another way to get around them, they might tell someone I was here If they saw me. Besides, the zerg can store the essences of successful zerg, so I’ll just file them under successful so she can stay with her animal friends. You know, except zergified.

When I reached her door, it was thankfully large enough for me to be able to fit through. Probably because she even takes care of bears, I doubt I could fit through a normal ponies door.

I pushed open the door and entered. In the right corner of the room was Fluttershy’s bear Harry, with the other animals sleeping In the various corners of the room, birds sleeping In little houses, ferrets lying about lazily. I slowly made my way past him towards the stairs as quietly as I could. The little noise that my steps did make was muffled by sound of well over two dozen animals snoring.

I ascended the stairs and there sleeping in her bed in pink pajamas, peacefully unaware of what had happened downstairs moments ago. Then what I saw sleeping next to her in a small bed on her dresser made me scowl.

“Angel.”

Walking over to the evil little furball, I started thinking of what I should do with him. I don't want to Infest him and even If I did, I don't trust myself to not make him retarded by messing with the process somehow. If I killed him It would probably piss off Fluttershy or comeback to bite me In the ass In someway.

So for now I would leave him here. Walking over to his little bed I hit him In the back of the head with a *THUMP* after making sure he was still breathing In case I hit him too hard.

Then I walked over to Fluttershy and raised my claw hitting her in the side of her head with a thud, hard enough to knock her out but not hard enough to kill her.

With nothing else to do, I flung her body over my right shoulder and carefully descended the stairs making sure not to wake up her animals. Then I made my way back to the cave.

As I entered the cave that held our Hatchery, Abatha decided to speak up. “My Queen, are you sure this is a smart idea?”

“What do you mean?"

“Well from what you have told me my Queen, the leaders of these equines are comparable to living gods. Is making this country our first target really such a smart idea.” She asked as I finally entered the chamber.

“Hold that thought Abatha. I’ve some ideas for new zerg with the essence we’ve acquired, do you think you can make them? Since I will be preoccupied for the next seven days with guiding Fluttershy’s transformation.” I said while sending her mental pictures and thoughts about the ideas for new zerg I came up with.

“Interesting, the Hopper strain will take approximately four hours to make. The Rageling should take four days while the watcher will take two weeks.”

“Excellent get on it then!” I said aloud as I set the unconscious Fluttershy down in the chrysalis before weaving the opening closed completing it. Sending a command through the hive, mind the pools of the virus started emptying into the chrysalis causing her to float in the middle.

I made my way towards the cave exit to go collect the remaining animals. I probably wouldn't be able to grab them all but I can at least grab one of each. Harry will probably take his own trip. Fortunately my amazing luck seemed to stick with me

the closest call I had was when harry turned over and almost woke up.

I think because they were so tame their senses had dulled. Cause If I had tried that with wild animals they would have spooked the moment I got near them. On the bright side, I was able to scoop them up In my arms without them waking them up.

After I had sealed them up in their cocoons on the far side of the left wall, I decided to respond to Abatha's earlier question now that my hands were free.

“Now Abatha, for what you were asking earlier. Equestria will not be our first target, it will be last If at all In fact! We only did this to get rid of the threat the Elements of Harmony posed.”

“Then what shall it be?”

A grin started to grace my nonexistent lips at the thought.

“The Changelings.”

Author's Note

So yeah there was some mild gore in this chapter.

Now for some news this will probably be the last chapter of this I wright until I can find a Displaced author willing to collab.

Edit: I changed things a little so it goes better with the rewrite.