A/N: I hope I got the first battle done rather well. It is short I gotta admit and in my opinion the worst chapter so far.

The start of the conflict

BlackQueen vs. WTD 41

Zerg vs Terrans

Strange reports came in the entire morning about oversized insect creatures. Video footage and multiple witness reports indicate this is not some kind of joke. One of Cornel Meyer's soldiers identified the creatures as Zerglings from a game called Star Craft. Despite the, to put it bluntly, sheer craziness of the situation, authorities already gave Cornel Meyer the order to send his troops and take care of the situation. Main objectives are to identity the alien source, if it really exists, keep the people from panicking and only if really necessary, use lethal force against the "threat".

Due to the popularity of the game Star Craft, it is only a matter of time until fans of the game try to get to see the Zerg for real. The game indicates the Zerg are lead by a higher authority, known as either the "Overmind" or "The Queen of Blades". Negotiations are not out of question.

WTD stands for Wehrtechnische Dienststelle für Kraftfahrzeuge, which means, roughly translated "Defensive Place for Vehicles". Poor choice of words on my side, sorry and xd. WTD 41 is the military bases name near the place I live. I figured for my first chapters I would use a place I know best, which is my home. I wasn't sure until now, but the first chapters officially take place in Germany. Not exactly the best starting point, considering the surrounding nations, not to mention we really do have an American Air Base still active left from the cold war.

I'm sorry if the reactions from the multiple governments will not be very accurate, but I'll give my best.

Okay, a few last things before the mission starts. The name of the chapter can also be considered the name of the mission. I'll try to think of better ones. Situation is like this: since we humans are not complete fools, they eventually noticed they were lurked somewhere and took position on a high hill. Almost all of Laura's troops are hidden inside a forest on an opposite hill, but without the bury upgrade it only does so much against watchers from the air.

Let's see how things play out.

The hills

Laura leaned herself against a tree, trying to think of every possible scenario the humans could attack them. At the same time she felt a little anxious, leaving her small hive cluster nearly defensless.

She wondered as to how effective the weapons would be against her Zerg the humans were using, but wondering wouldn't bring her anywhere. Only a fight would show just how effective the weapons would be. But the fight just wasn't starting.

They had been more or less staring at each other for over an hour without any of the parties moving even an inch. Just, waiting wasn't exactly the best strategy Laura could go with at the moment. Every wasted moment the humans could get reinforcements. On the other hand, attacking from the front would be suicide and aside from that, Laura didn't plan on attacking without being provoked. Maybe this was still possible to solve without conflict?

"Yeah right. Oh well, let's see how they'll react, when I show up?" She walked out of the woods without any kind of escort. The downside of that of course was that she didn't know her own limits at the time. Before she could make a final decision, the humans already made their move. Helicopters approached their side of the battlefield, a total of only 6. Raising an eyebrow, Laura ordered her Zerglings to stay alert, while she scanned the pilots with her own mind.

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Oh, SHIT! Everyone, get away!

She didn't realize that the pilots were hearing her too and five of them temporarily lost control over their helicopters for a few seconds. They were planning on throwing grenades from above, both lethal and stun grenades, in order to get the Zerg out of their hiding place.

"Not with me, bastards."

Seeing as how she had been able to distract the pilots, she would try out her little more lethal powers. Since time was short, she randomly chose one of two nearest helicopters and connected her mind with one of the pilots and started...yeah, she had never done that.

Her mind was racing on how to do this, when she felt the guidance of her Zerg Queen in her mind. Except for an explanation that would have taken too long, she...it was like guiding someone's hand as to how to handle something, like a tool. As for Laura, Arcana showed the inexperienced Queen of Blades as to how to put pressure on someone's brain to cause a quick and very big headache, which can also be deadly given time. Time that wasn't there, but the helicopters made up to the deadliness of the situation.

The pilot lost control over his flyer, because he held his head with both hands and his jerking somehow caused his leg to hit the control stick, which in return caused the entire helicopter to turn left and hit the other one. No one knows why they were flying so near to each other or even at the same height. The truth is the author just needed an excuse to throw in a double kill. (Not counting everyone inside, btw).

Both flying vehicles immediately came down, one bursting out in flames in the process. Ignoring the crash, Laura tried to get another one, as her Zerglings at the same time were splitting up and getting away on the other side of the hill. Seeing as the Zerg came out on the other side of the woods, the humans stopped their attack and were probably communicating with their commanding officer as to what to do. One of the pilots flew over the crashing side, trying to look for survivors, yet so far no one ran out of the wreckages.

Feel the pain.

The pilot screamed all of the sudden and started blabbering about voices in his head, until he begged whoever talked to him to stop. The crew was keeping him restraint, while the co-pilot had taken over the actual flying part.

Arcana, I need to know how to control them.

My queen, I'm afraid there is no time. One of the terrans has spotted you and they're readying to attack you.

Indeed, the helicopters were flying sideways and opening their doors, revealing soldiers who took aim at her.

It seems they already know about the amount of your strength from what I was able to gather.

Guess that was to be expected. Oh, oh, we gotta talk later.

Laura jumped deeper into the woods, as the soldiers opened fire on her. It sounded a little different from what she was used in video games, she noted to herself as she was running. At the same time she ordered her lings to get together in two groups and attack the enemy troops from two sides. The helicopters couldn't really track her down, but they started randomly throwing grenades into the small woods, trying to get a hit on her.

Would be nice to have this lightning attack thing now. She thought to herself as she was taking cover behind some trees, while explosions occurred every here and there. Laura weighed her options a bit and it seemed the best way to deal with this situation was to wait until they were out of grenades. Considering they only wanted to get the Zerg out of their hiding place this shouldn't take too long. A rather unsettling thought crossed Laura's mind, namely that she had no problem killing every soldier stationed in this region, actually she was looking forward to it. It was an unnerving thought and it was not the first time she felt that way, but now was seriously not the time thinking about morality.

In the meantime the humans took defensive positions against the approaching Zerg. WTD 41 was only a small base, thus resulting in the humans being outnumbered. Still they had the higher ground and long ranged weapons. To their horror, the humans noticed that as long as they didn't hit the weak spots of the Zerglings (I think it would be either the face or their stomachs), their weapons didn't do much damage on the chitin armor of the oversized insects. Sadly they weren't allowed to bring any rocket launchers (we Germans CAN be THAT reluctant in using weapons) into the mission or they might have done some serious damage.

The firs Zerglings jumped and put their teeth into the flesh of their victims. Screams of agony could be heard as the war was officially started and from there on out was unavoidable. It wasn't long until every ling was on that hill, some of them already lying on the ground, dead.

However, the humans of WTD 41 had now lost their advantage and were slaughtered by one after another. The helicopters finally came back and the soldiers inside started shooting down at the lings. Laura herself was running back with her inhuman speed, being the only one capable of shooting down air units.

As soon as she was on the hill, she could see how the battle was going. The foot soldiers were falling back, shooting everything on sight. Some of them used the jeeps they brought with them were used by them in order to get away. They were still shooting, though.

This is annoying. As long as the helicopters are in the air, we could actually lose the battle!

Laura also got a chance to see what her new armor could withstand, as bullets got repelled by contact with her skin. At least with the current rifles they were carrying they had a hard time harming her. While she was thinking as to how to get rid of the annoying fliers, she herself engaged the battle by cutting down a soldier with her bone wing. The good thing about being a Zerg was that multitasking became more than just second nature to Laura. She could slice up people, while at the same time thinking about the best way to get rid of the helicopters.

My Queen. Arcana spoke to Laura via their mind link. Please remember that your armor can only endure so much without proper growth. Your birth was rather hasty after all.

Someone could have told me that earlier. Laura replied annoyed, while grabbing multiple rifles with her telekinesis and throwing them behind her. She then shot the poor dudes with her fingernails and sadly I couldn't come up with a joke for that particular matter. I'm a little messed up, in case you didn't know. And I'm trying to describe this battle as interesting as possible, but sadly, the only dangerous things left on the field were the helicopters. Every food soldier had either already left or died or was severely injured.

The choppers shot down another few of her Zerglings, when Laura decided to hack herself in another pilots mind and gave him a full doze of pain. But didn't do really much, except making the heli flying in mid-air for a few seconds until the co-pilot took over. At this Laura got really mad. She was the strongest being on earth, probably the entire Milky Way, and she couldn't take down three helicopters?

Feeling the anger, Laura grabbed after the helicopter with her mind, like she did with the weapons earlier. Certainly the flying vehicle weighed much more than a bunch of weapons, but her anger was enough to make up for that. Not only was her pride hurt, but the Zerg were practically her children now. Have you guys ever seen a mad mother? You DON'T want to, word of advice.

Ignoring the small wounds she was slowly but surely getting, she used all the strength of her mind and crashed the thing into the ground. Not even bothering to see if anyone survived, since her Zerglings would take care of any possible survivor, she redirected her mind towards the second one and redid the process. Since that thing was way higher into the air, she had some problems as the pilot struggled keeping his machine in the air. In the end Laura was able to pull the thing down and let it crash into the side of the hill. Poor cow by the way.

Secretly exhausted, the leader of the swarm prepared herself to take down the last one, only to notice that it took off towards their base. The battle was over. Laura gave order for every ling to stop at what he was doing and looked around the battlefield. Zerglings were lying on the ground, but so were even more humans. The smell of blood and whatever was inside the systems of the Zerg filled her nose. "Wow." she said with no emotion in her voice. "I...should be sad. I didn't want...whatever. No use reminiscing about the What Ifs. Let's...huh?"

A sudden movement caught her attention. One of the soldiers was still alive and aiming his weapon at her head. "Leave him be." Laura ordered her Zerglings. The next moment she sent his weapon flying and approached him. He had been bitten on his leg and was losing blood. The poor man started whimpering as she stood above him. The queen knew a thing or two about first aid and she knew that soldiers had practically everything stuffed in their backpacks. So while two lings secured him, Laura searched for everything she needed, but before she started aiding him, she took his walkie-talkie and used it.

"Today was unnecessary." she spoke in, not letting go of the button. "I knew you planned on attacking us with those helicopters. Some of you might already know about my mind reading abilities, so none of you can say I didn't act on self defense." She made a little pause. "Today I have been holding back. Next time I won't be so merciful. There's an easy way to avoid something like this happening again. You leave me alone and I let you alone. By the way, you left a survivor here."

Laura threw the thing away and started ripping the clothes apart in order to get a good look at the wound. "Wh-what are you doing?" the soldier stammered, struggling.

"*sigh*. Knock him out."

One of the lings head butted him and lights out for the man. The wound was deep, as to be expected from a Zergling bite, but not deep enough for the leg being needed to be cut off. Laura tried to remember all her knowledge about first aid, while wrapping the bandages around the leg of the man. She was done after a few minutes.

"Let's leave. We take a little detour, so they have a harder time finding our home."

XIII

Ray's home

The TV was running once again with a life report about the remnants of the battlefield. The military already had told all helicopters to get down, at least from the report stations, so a loop was running in the background of the studio.

The city was in fear now. Everyone Raymond had met today was on edge. No one had been really listening to the professors today after the news were out about the battle between aliens or the Zerg as now everyone knew and the soldiers of the nearby barracks.

Ray kept a look on all forums he thought were relevant. Two of them had already collapsed for a short amount of time, but were now back online. "Oh Laura, if you don't come up with a plan soon, I'm afraid it is over rather sooner than later."

His cell phone rang. He and Jake bought themselves some throwaway cell phones, since Laura kept borrowing their own phones. "Sorry to bother you." Jake came from the other line "But I lost the paper with your number."

"What?! How?!"

"It fell down the drain after I got tackled by a dog."

Oh yeah, Jake has a thing for animals. Most of them really like him for some reason.

"It's 6809."

"Thanks bro. I guess I better get everything for...the barbecue. Hey, what's the damage anyway?"

"I don't know." Ray replied looking over to his TV. "The man in charge, a colonel Meyer, didn't give out any details. He just said, yes there had been losses, like he could cover that up, and that they will be doing everything they can to stop the thread. That's it. Oh, almost forgot, they plan on locking down a certain area around the hills. Although..." he trailed off.

"Yeah, they don't even know where the cluster is. Not to mention a lot of villages will be as good as isolated." Jake mentioned. "I know a few other routes than the main one, but...the dude is pushing his luck a little. People won't respond all too well in case they do get isolated. What about politics?"

"There has yet to be made an official statement. Merkel is coming back right now, but most likely she'll only say something tomorrow. As for the other ministers, a press conference is fully prepared. They're just waiting for them at the moment to show up."

"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow I guess. Keep an eye on the box for me."

"Will do. See you around."

XIII

Jake hung up. Raymond had given him his bank card, so Jake could actually spare his own account for once. He was walking inside the supermarket, mostly strolling around and enjoying the cool air inside the store. Since he wasn't getting much sleep anyway, he might as well try to relax. Unfortunately, his thoughts drifted off to what happened today. He shook his head multiple times, but couldn't help but feel uneasy about the situation.

He was worried Laura might turn into a real second Queen of Blades.

What are you thinking, dude?! You haven't heard her side of the story yet. Urrgh, but that won't count much for the rest, even if somebody would be screwed up enough to try and ask her.

The cashier lady looked quite surprised as Jake showed up with the rest of meat their refrigerators and freezers had to offer, but didn't ask any questions. Instead, they took quite a long time getting everything under the scanner, since Jake didn't trouble himself with as to how much he had of each product. It took them a total of fifteen minutes to count everything and get the paying done.

Afterwards he still had to put everything in the trunk of his car. Luckily he didn't need to worry of keeping it cool, since it would be used pretty soon anyway. Now he needed to use his navigation system, which sadly hadn't been updated in quite some time. So putting some rock music into the CD-player, he hoped he would find the way soon. Knowing his navigational skills, this would take a while.

XIII

He sure is taking his time. Am I even on the right road? Laura thought to herself. She had to get treated by her Queen Unit earlier, who also reassured her that her armor would adapt really soon and finally be completed. As for her psi-powers, they had started some training in order to speed up the process of developing them.

But at the moment, Laura wanted to have those damn Hydralisks. She pushed her Zerglings to their limits, so they would hunt down enough animals for the Hydralisk Den. The poor dudes were now resting after having had to run so far and for so long away from the creep area which kept them up. There had been no more incidence so far, but Laura also didn't dare into sending a scouting party right now, not wanting to appear anymore aggressive. Hopefully Jake would come with some answers.

One of the Lings that were not back at home suddenly spotted his car a little off from where Laura currently was on a totally different road. A little angry about that fact, Laura ran as fast as possible towards the location and arrived there within 12 minutes. Jake was already unloading his stuff and waited for the Drones to arrive.

It was pretty dark, so Laura used the moment to sneak up on him and tapped him on his shoulder.

"WHOA! Don't scare me like that! You gave me a heart attack."

"Yeah right, don't be so overdramatic." Laura smirked in return.

"Yeah..." the boy calmed down after a few seconds. "So where are the drones?"

"They're on their way. You know, they're not as fast as I am. Thanks by the way and sorry for the trouble."

"Speaking of trouble, what was that all about today? You're alright, right?" he asked. "Yeah, I'm fine. I only noticed after the battle all these little cuts I had gotten from the rifles. As it turned out, my skin needs a little bit more time to be fully adapted and even then, in theory, you can kill me with like ten million bullets of that small caliber."

"Uh huh. Welp, good to see you're alright, but what actually happened? The news isn't exactly saying anything and according to Ray the internet is bursting with rumors and "prophecies" about judgment day. Heck, the first crazy shit-heads have already declared that they want to be infested."

Laura raised an amused eyebrow after this statement. "Too bad we found the larva. And the posts for my right and left hand are already taken. I just tell them they can't become commanders after they're transformed. They'll understand it." she winked.

The drones finally arrived and Jake and Laura helped them getting the stuff on their backs. "You still haven't told me how it came to the actual fight."

The girl sighed. "I lured them away from the cluster, just like you said I should. It worked for some time, but eventually they wouldn't come anymore. We were besieging each other more or less, waiting for the other party to make a move. Just when I thought I might be able to talk to them, they send their helicopters. I connected my mind to one of their pilots and found out they had the task of driving us out of the woods, as if we were just some animals. I used my psi abilities on the one pilot and somehow caused him to crash into another heli. And then, well, attacked from two sides and I took care of the fliers. Minimal losses on my side."

"Oh dude." the boy sighed after hearing the story. "What's done is done, I guess. Before I forget, you should probably expand your army as fast as you can. They plan on locking down a certain area, although we have no idea where exactly and how big it is going to be."

"Hmm." Laura put a hand under her chin, thinking. "The only thing I really can do is expending my army. I also thought about relocating the main base somewhere safer."

"You're on T2. Doesn't that mean you can build Infestors?"

An evil grin appeared on the young queen's face after she heard the question. A plan started forming in her head, an evil plan.

Why did I say anything? Jake thought to himself.