“Ah, the simple pleasures in life,” said a woman as she sat in a chair that she warped in from her command starship.

On the surface of a world inhabited by colorful talking ponies and other creatures that originally only existed in human imagination, a blue-furred rabbit girl sat in a chair and drank raspberry mint tea. While she could drink just about anything without consequence, including poison or acid, she had a particular fondness for sweet drinks.

The woman wore a blue military jacket with long sleeves and went down to her midriff. Underneath the jacket was a black form-sitting skinsuit that covered everything except her head, hands and feet. A pair of white gloves fit over her hands. Her blue skirt covered her thighs and her black boots were reinforced with experimental living metal, painted to fit the boots' design.

Sophia, Grand Admiral of the Starcraft Intergalactic Federation, Hierarch of one of the first races to achieve sentience in the cosmos, known as the Protoss, and Overqueen of the innumerable Swarm, the macro species known as the Zerg, witnessed the battle unfold between her forces and a race of mysterious reptile-like creatures.

While she felt like she could handle the creatures herself, what gave her pause was a powerful psionic signature that would give her no end of trouble.

Knowing the presence of the being, she decided to learn more about the creatures who accompanied him instead of rushing in. To that end, she summoned her Zerg from an underground colony to do battle with them.

While the lizards appeared able to handle a decent number of Zerg at a time, the small squads that they travelled in were soon overwhelmed by the sheer number of Zerglings.

“They appear quite strong on an individual level, but even they have a limit to how many they can take on at a time,” Sophia thought.

“My Queen, some of the lizard men appear to be breaking off from the main group. They appear intent on raiding the nearby villages,” said Zagara, Prime Broodmother of the Swarm, through the hivemind.

“Annoying little gnats,” Sophia mumbled. “Send the Nydus Worms after them, no one gets a free pass off the battlefield,” she commanded through the hivemind.

“As you command.”

She prepared to activate the communicator to get in touch with her stealth force that had just reported back.

However, her senses picked up on a weak psionic signature from behind her. She frowned, “Rude...”

Extending a finger and pointing in the direction of the signature, her finger became hard and chitinous before it extended a long distance in a matter of seconds. A feeling of resistance told her that she hit her target.

Turning around, she saw one of the lizard men impaled on her extended finger. Her frown disappeared and she gave the dying lizard man a sultry look.

“What have we here? Have you come to volunteer your essence to the Swarm?”

The creature used the remainder of its energy to point its weapon at Sophia. She wasn’t having that so she instantly appeared behind the creature and jabbed it in the back of the head with two fingers, releasing a small wave of psionic energy into the creature’s medulla which caused it to drop its weapon and grab its neck in a desperate attempt to breathe, but it was all in vain as the creature suffocated to death.

“Naughty, naughty…” Sophia admonished the dead lizard.

Sophia poured herself another cup of tea while she got her appetite ready. With ravenous fervor, she tore the flesh from and devoured the lizard while her body began to examine the creature’s DNA for anything useful.

Once her body had finished analyzing the lizard, she learned of some interesting things. For one, the creatures were capable of magic but that trait was rare as it was an atrophied trait most of the time. Sophia also learned how the creatures reproduced and there was a trait for increased physical maturity rates and one for extremely durable skin. Those could prove useful. There was also a genetic trait that overwrote the contributing factors of one genetic donor with that of the lizard’s.

She would have to experiment at some point on the effectiveness of the Zerg Virus against their genetics. They could prove to be valuable test subjects to help her learn where to improve her virus.

In the meantime, she returned to the communication crystal. The image of a tall female alien who had no facial features whatsoever and her head was around one and a half feet long.

“Vorazun, what is your report?” Sophia requested.

“It is difficult to make out what technology they are capable of. We could not discern the level of craftsmanship as their technology was of many different styles.”

“I see, so either their designers cannot agree on one design or they have a habit of pilfering from other cultures. Anything else to report?”

“While my brethren were able to infiltrate their ranks, some were discovered when one of their higher ranked officers was able to detect their presence. They fought to the bitter end.”

Sophia solemnly nodded, not needing to say anymore as the two shared a moment of silence for their fallen comrades.

“Do you have the reports from Tosh and Nova?”

“Yes, and it’s not good. The creatures are numerous and the standing forces from your hive will not be enough to repel them from this world.”

“Damn, these things are turning into a real nuisance,” Sophia grumbled to herself. “Have the denizens been evacuated to the flagship?”

“Only the ones who have not chosen to stay back and fight.”

“Are they informed of the situation?”

“Yes Hierarch, they are prepared to fall with this world.”

“I see, I shall not deny them their final requests. How are the enemy numbers?”

“From the report, there were hundreds of millions of them. Those numbers have likely increased since then.”

“Thank you, Matriarch Vorazun.”

“Do you have a plan, Hierarch?”

Sophia closed her eyes for a moment as she considered her options. With the enemy numbers showing no signs of plateauing anytime soon, the situation was turning into a repeat of the Nerazim homeworld of Shakuras. The tribe of Dark Templar still mourn the loss of their home after they had to destroy it to deal a significant blow to the feral Zerg controlled by the fallen Xel’naga, Amon.

She may have no choice but to repeat the same tragedy for this world as well.

"I hate to order this, but we are likely going to repeat the Shakuras incident."

Vorazun said nothing for a moment as her mind attempted to regain the composure it lost from her Hierarch's suggestion. Once she regained control of her emotions, she simply nodded, "Understood." The transmission ended.

“I have obtained all of the data that I could from this battle,” said a deep, masculine and cultured voice from behind the Admiral. Sophia already knew he was there as it was nearly impossible to conceal one’s mental signature without being completely brain dead. “I will analyze the data once we are off this doomed slab of a planet.”

Sophia turned around to acknowledge the voice behind her. The voice belonged to a male anthropomorphic rabbit who was fond of wearing a Victorian Era suit with a monocle. Her nephew, Ingram, while a cultured person and one of the most brilliant inventors around, had a mind that worked like a supercomputer. He had enhanced his mental processing power greatly using a controlled version of lycanthropy which had also improved his speed in combat to rival her own. One of his most prized inventions was a cluster of nanomachines that could transmute matter from any form.

“Head back to the flagship Ingram, my forces will be retreating shortly.”

Ingram nodded before he used his personal teleporter pinned to his jacket to head back.

Sophia sighed in resignation before she gave the order to her forces through her psionic link. “All units, this is your Admiral. We are now in full retreat. Collect everything not bolted down and burn the rest. Set the pylons to overload. Leave nothing to salvage.”

Sophia was leaving nothing to chance. She wasn’t going to risk the possibility that these lizards were capable of deep space salvage operations. Only useless scrap and depleted crystals would remain.

While her forces were retreating to the flagship, she would give the lizard people one last present before she left.

Once the non-expendable forces had fled the area, leaving the Zerg fodder to hold off the invaders before her, she unslung her personal customized rifle and activated its targeting mode. The enhancements on her rifle allowed her to target numerous areas at once.

Sophia pointed her rifle at the battlefield and painted the entire field in red light. Her alert systems let her know that numerous nuclear missiles had just been launched.

The skies above the battlefield were bathed in a blue light as a salvo of missiles emerged from the portals above. The lizard people had little time to realize what was about to happen before the area was showered in nuclear explosions that decimated the battlefield.

In the aftermath of the explosions, Sophia could sense few of the creatures remained in the area bathed in nuclear explosions. The one powerful signature remained unscathed though but Sophia expected that. She was going to need some more quality fighters like herself beside her before she could take on such a creature.

Also as expected, the explosions had also angered the powerful creature in the distance. Sophia had decided that she had worn out her welcome and teleported back to her ship.

Sophia appeared in between her ship and the doomed planet Equus in the void of space. Her personal shields and Zerg adaptations allowed her to survive in the void. She gave one last sad look at the fallen world that would soon be overrun with the lizards.

Holding her hands out with her palms facing upward, Sophia concentrated a massive amount of psionic power into her palms before the energy coalesced into a pair of blue stars, each with an energy output of an actual star. She then willed the stars to orbit each other as the two stars began to build up a massive surge of energy between them. The stars merged, the two sources of psionic energy built up to cosmic proportions and the energy output now equivalent to a supernova.

With the attack ready, Sophia focused the energy toward the planet’s surface and bathed the planet in massive amounts of psionic energy that the world began to break apart and become incinerated. The blast continued until the entire planet was charred and fragmented rocks in space.

Her grim task done, Sophia teleported to the bridge of her flagship.

On the bridge, Sophia addressed her science officer. “Do we have any information on those lizard creatures?”

“Yes ma’am, their information matches a race called the Anziek, a race of militaristic reptile-like beings with a complex that leads them to believe that they must wipe out all life in the multiverse. They are known to plunder technology from their conquered foes while using their large numbers and magical abilities to destroy entire realities.”

“I see, this multiverse cluster is in bad shape.” Sophia then thought to herself, “Good thing the damage is only limited to this multiverse. If the infestation of these Anziek reached other multiverses, ol’ Voidaren wouldn’t take kindly to that and start reaping them left and right to end their existence, giving his sister, Constellas, no end of headaches as she worked to recreate the multiverses he erased.”

Sophia was also glad that the omniverse siblings placed protections around her home multiverse to ensure that no outside influence could invade and endanger her family.

“Ma’am? Our sensors are picking up a convergence of energies from multiple universes. They seem to be meeting at one universe,” the science officer informed.

“Any info on the universe?” Sophia asked.

“It appears to be another MLP type world. There are multiple power signatures coming from it; strong ones. They don’t appear to be Anziek though.”

Sophia smirked, “This might be something interesting to look into. It’s always nice to make some friends. Ensign, set course for the convergence point.”

“Prepping multiverse drive now, ma’am.”

Author's Note

Some may wonder why I didn't put the Human tag up. That will be answered later. Of course, if the other authors of this project have human OCs, then I may consider putting up the Human tag after all.

Also, I didn't put up the crossover tag because while there is a lot of content that relates to the Starcraft universe, this is pretty much set up as a post-Starcraft timeline, many years after the events of that saga.

This is also the first time I have ever written something that involves my OCs so I'm more nervous about this one than my previous stories.