For the Swarm! (Zerg - Multicross SI)
- Thread starter Generic_Generica
- Start date
- Crossover
actually they can. so says the mighty Codex
Huh, now that's bullshit.
Also if Generica ever ends up in 40K land on either Catacha or or Varestus prime.
exactly, Vorcha are the ultimate in bullshit. not only can they adapte to ANYTHING but pass on those adaptions
yet nobody in the mass effect universe seems to realize this, Hell i dont even think bioware realizes it given how they ignore the vorcha
- Location
- Germany
- Pronouns
- He/Him
You mean - Kerrigan++ ?
- Location
- serbia
Generic_Generica
Notice me Senpai~
- Location
- Right behind you
Right right that's the one. And its prequel, Sudden Contact. Shameless advertising, I suppose.
- Location
- Germany
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Also on fanfiction.net ... and if I'm wrong about that, something very similar is there.
- Location
- serbia
no shameless advertising just me reminding you of the fanfics name you forgot
p.s
here are some universes you can put on where to go list
Knight Run Manga
Muv-Luv - Wikipedia
Sidonia no Kishi Manga
Prototype 2 - Wikipedia
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance - Wikipedia
Commande and Conquer (red alert/tiberium wars universes)
Grey Goo (video game) - Wikipedia
Destiny (video game) - Wikipedia
Last edited:
Uxion
The Slightly Less Depressed
- Location
- Personal Hell
It is probably because they die so quickly or something.
- Location
- California
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Gonna be honest, this sounds like the vorcha just have really mutable and inheritable epigenetics. To quote another site, "Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression [...] that does not involve changes to the underlying DNA sequence". And it's mostly influenced by your environment.
I'm pretty sure I'm interpreting this stuff correctly, but hey, I could be wrong. I'm not a biologist.
You can learn more here and here (although this one is a bit too basic in my opinion).
While it may not be Bioware's intention, it fits, in a way. The vorcha aren't quite as bullshit as you thought.
Chapter 18: In which Generic_Generica gets bored all too easily
Generic_Generica
Notice me Senpai~
- Location
- Right behind you
By the way still not dead.
Also going to go back and edit links at some point.
---
Chapter 18: In which Generic_Generica gets bored all too easily
Warp space is dull.
Okay that's the understatement of the century. Let me put it like this.
Warp space is fucking soul-crushingly mind-numbingly boring. On average. Sometimes it gets exciting.
And that's a bad thing.
But that's a story for another time.
I'd only traveled through the Warp one time, by accident. I remembered screaming and pain and lots of nasty fluids because I'd been ripped out of the ground.
This time when my unnamed Leviathan sailed through the screaming portal I'd conjured up with nothing but my brainmeats it was… Quiet.
No screaming, no pain, no messy Zergy fluids and random bits of crap that got sucked in with me.
Just silence and the whole "Endless streaks of light" thing. Sort of like travelling through the galaxy's longest most boring highly-lit tunnel except you entered by ripping reality a new asshole. It sounds awesome but Warp space was just so boring.
… Boring's good though. Boring is great. Boring is much better than Daemons or whatever the hell else might pop up. Even though boring's incredibly boring.
That was my experience with the Warp up to that point though. Just lots of glowy-cloudy-shiny things and not much else. Just me, my boat and some other guys and girls.
Yes, it was relaxing.
Totally relaxing.
"I really have to get around to naming this Leviathan one of these days." I thought to myself.
No one responded, of course. Moriarty was off in the Leviathan's 'Holds' doing… Something with those alien corpses that'd been packed into the Leviathan when I decided to leave. I didn't particularly want to see what he was doing with those corpses.
"But hey, there's nothing else to dooooo- Uh."
"Overmind. Am in the middle of analysis. Subject's skeleton is comprised of intriguing-"
I severed the telepathic connection. "Yeah, talk to you later."
That wasn't a body that was a bunch of tubes and- Ugh.
"I wonder what Sarah's doing." A quick once-over revealed that she was… Meditating. Floating while meditating, there was a faint violet glow surrounding her.
"… Psionics are fucking bullshit I swear to- Right. Better not. Disturb her then. Because that'd be rude. No, not rude. Awkward. Yes. Definitely not chickening out again. Oh wow you can feel the social awkward- And I'm just like. Okay. Yeah. Um. Yeah."
And I was sort of left to myself again.
"… I am so bored. Bored, bored bored. Bum be bum be bum. Do lee la lee la. Maybe… No. Not enough Drones. How about… Nah, did that on that hellhole of a desert planet. How about… No, no, I don't even know how this body works. Maybe I could go through some of the Overmind's memories.
…
Yeaaaaaah no.
What about those Ethereal asshole's memories? That'd… Probably be terrible. Because we're in the Warp and if I go crazy that'd end horribly. Also because the asshole did his best to get rid of his memories to the point where iunno why the assholes're doing what they're doing.
I have nothing better to do though
But it'd end horribly.
I've done stupider things before.
But it'd end horribly.
I'm have nothing better to do.
But that's just a fuckstupid idea, yeah, later. Preferably never. Because Ethereals are assholes."
I 'sighed.' A Zergling near my immobile form idly scratched itself with its hindleg.
"I'm so bored."
The Leviathan rumbled slightly.
"You know I think I'll call you Steve. Steve the Leviathan. You like that? Yeah, Steve. Steve's a mighty name for a mighty ship. Er. Creature. Ship-creature. Thing. Yes, Steve.
…
That's got to be the worst name for a ship. Ever.
Eh, my naming sense is fucking awful and I don't give a fuck. Steve it is."
Steve groaned again, a low wailing noise a space-whale might make. Except Steve was armed with spore cannons and combat tentacles and heavy armor plating and her bones were nigh indestructible so you know, she was infinitely more badass than some measly space-whale.
"Yep. I guess you like your name, don't you Steve? Wait are you a him or a her.
Meh I'll go with a her, more amusing.
God I'm bored."
---
Honestly I had no idea how the original Overmind didn't go batshit crazy from the sheer boredom.
Well the original Overmind was mindcontrolled so that's probably why. The original Overmind was probably so mind-whammied it didn't even know what boredom was.
Eventually the Leviathan popped out of Warp Space over Mars, in a trip that was honestly a lot shorter than I was expecting for all I whined about boredom. And that's when things got... interesting.
"Overmind." Moriarty rumbled, clacking his mandibles in a manner I'd honestly grown accustomed to.
"Yeah I feel it too." I'd recognize that greasy psionic presence anywhere. If a mind could stink, their minds'd smell of rotting fish and stinky diapers.
Ethereals.
Well. Looks like I caught up to their fleet.
But this time I could take em.
I sent a command to my flock of Zerg that were actually capable of fighting in space. Corruptors and Mutalisks popped out of my Leviathan like pus from a pimple. Yes, this'd work, I'd just swarm them with numbers. Steve was ten kilometers long and fully armed and operational. I just had to ready the Scourge Nests and that'd be the larger ships gone, and then I'd just have to board them. Luckily Steve had combat tentacles that'd hook in those smaller saucers real easily, to say nothing of the psionic fuckery I was ready to unleash.
"Sarah, get ready to do the thing. You know, that one thing those assholes tried to pull except-"
"I understand Overmind."
Now what were my least favorite assholes doing…
…
"That's a fucking Xel'Naga Warpgate." I deadpanned.
One of the big ones too. This one was in space and it was fucking enormous, just a giant golden circle with a big red swirly glowing portal in the middle. How the fuc- oh. Buried on Mars beneath all that red dirt. I could see the giant indentation.
How the fuck did the Ethereals activate a fucking- Wait…
"They're doing a runner?" The one eye I had blinked. Some of my tentacles writhed in confusion. "No they can't do a runner that's not fair! They're cheating!"
Yes I fully realize the hypocrisy in calling the Ethereals cheaters but it's only cheating when the other guy's doing it.
I had so many questions, and not enough goddamn answers. Why the fuck did they attack me? Why the fuck did they try dropping a rock on my head and then doing a runner? How long must it have taken to dig up that gate from fucking Mars of all places. Why was there a Xel'Naga gate on Mars. Why'd they decide to just keep on fucking running?
Oh shit they're running.
Oh shit they're gone.
"Oh shit." I swore as the Warp Gate began to power down. "Fu- After them!"
"Overmind-"
"Dammit to hell and back, after them! We can't let them escape!"
In hindsight that was a dumb decision. I honestly should have built up a bit more. Maybe started a colony on Mars. Macroed up and grown some more Leviathans, hatched a few more Broodlords and Corruptors. Given Moriarty some more time to tear apart corpses.
Anything but pulling a Leeroy Jenkins.
At the time I didn't particularly want to give the Ethereals time to build up as well but charging dick-first into the unknown never works out unless your ship is named Enterprise and you're Jim Kirk or Jean-Luc Picard.
As I'd learn much to my chagrin.
"… Acknowledged." Moriarty sent back.
Steve sailed through the void of space, attended to by a cloud of Zerg flyers. She flew right into the Xel'Naga Warpgate and promptly vanished from the solar system without a trace. The Warpgate powered down shortly afterwards and it hung in orbit.
---
The transition to another universe was smoother than I remembered it being. For a split second after Steve went through the Warpgate everything was calm. Too calm.
That's when I felt the Ethereals hurriedly open another Warpspace portal, one of those screaming ruptures in reality tearing itself open right in front of my eyes. Well, Steve's eyes.
"No they don't get to do another runner. After the-"
And that's when a whole bunch of ships I hadn't noticed before started shooting at Steve. Blocky, grey, soulless sterile ships, firing what appeared to be some kind of directed-energy weapon, blue beams lancing out and biting into Steve's armor. Three of the massive buggers, and they truly were massive. They must've been- About the same size as Steve?! And- were those windows?! Who'd be dumb enough to put windows on a- Oh, dammit where're those Ethereals.
I idly noticed that they were also firing on the Ethereals. One scout ship promptly melted under the barrage, then two, then three and four but-
"Overmind. Ethereal vessels have disappeared. Recommend we focus fire on new contacts."
Fuck.
"Rgh fucking dammit- Grah! Alright, Sarah? Do the thing." No, I really wasn't in a good mood. At all. Time to ruin some people's day.
"By your command."
And then everything turned purple.
---
Yeah got no excuse for the delay. Honestly for the longest time I wasn't sure how I wanted to do this so this is probably substandard even by this fic's pretty low standards but like, I had to get something out.
So here we go.
Hopefully people're still reading this thing.
Also going to go back and edit links at some point.
---
Chapter 18: In which Generic_Generica gets bored all too easily
Warp space is dull.
Okay that's the understatement of the century. Let me put it like this.
Warp space is fucking soul-crushingly mind-numbingly boring. On average. Sometimes it gets exciting.
And that's a bad thing.
But that's a story for another time.
I'd only traveled through the Warp one time, by accident. I remembered screaming and pain and lots of nasty fluids because I'd been ripped out of the ground.
This time when my unnamed Leviathan sailed through the screaming portal I'd conjured up with nothing but my brainmeats it was… Quiet.
No screaming, no pain, no messy Zergy fluids and random bits of crap that got sucked in with me.
Just silence and the whole "Endless streaks of light" thing. Sort of like travelling through the galaxy's longest most boring highly-lit tunnel except you entered by ripping reality a new asshole. It sounds awesome but Warp space was just so boring.
… Boring's good though. Boring is great. Boring is much better than Daemons or whatever the hell else might pop up. Even though boring's incredibly boring.
That was my experience with the Warp up to that point though. Just lots of glowy-cloudy-shiny things and not much else. Just me, my boat and some other guys and girls.
Yes, it was relaxing.
Totally relaxing.
"I really have to get around to naming this Leviathan one of these days." I thought to myself.
No one responded, of course. Moriarty was off in the Leviathan's 'Holds' doing… Something with those alien corpses that'd been packed into the Leviathan when I decided to leave. I didn't particularly want to see what he was doing with those corpses.
"But hey, there's nothing else to dooooo- Uh."
"Overmind. Am in the middle of analysis. Subject's skeleton is comprised of intriguing-"
I severed the telepathic connection. "Yeah, talk to you later."
That wasn't a body that was a bunch of tubes and- Ugh.
"I wonder what Sarah's doing." A quick once-over revealed that she was… Meditating. Floating while meditating, there was a faint violet glow surrounding her.
"… Psionics are fucking bullshit I swear to- Right. Better not. Disturb her then. Because that'd be rude. No, not rude. Awkward. Yes. Definitely not chickening out again. Oh wow you can feel the social awkward- And I'm just like. Okay. Yeah. Um. Yeah."
And I was sort of left to myself again.
"… I am so bored. Bored, bored bored. Bum be bum be bum. Do lee la lee la. Maybe… No. Not enough Drones. How about… Nah, did that on that hellhole of a desert planet. How about… No, no, I don't even know how this body works. Maybe I could go through some of the Overmind's memories.
…
Yeaaaaaah no.
What about those Ethereal asshole's memories? That'd… Probably be terrible. Because we're in the Warp and if I go crazy that'd end horribly. Also because the asshole did his best to get rid of his memories to the point where iunno why the assholes're doing what they're doing.
I have nothing better to do though
But it'd end horribly.
I've done stupider things before.
But it'd end horribly.
I'm have nothing better to do.
But that's just a fuckstupid idea, yeah, later. Preferably never. Because Ethereals are assholes."
I 'sighed.' A Zergling near my immobile form idly scratched itself with its hindleg.
"I'm so bored."
The Leviathan rumbled slightly.
"You know I think I'll call you Steve. Steve the Leviathan. You like that? Yeah, Steve. Steve's a mighty name for a mighty ship. Er. Creature. Ship-creature. Thing. Yes, Steve.
…
That's got to be the worst name for a ship. Ever.
Eh, my naming sense is fucking awful and I don't give a fuck. Steve it is."
Steve groaned again, a low wailing noise a space-whale might make. Except Steve was armed with spore cannons and combat tentacles and heavy armor plating and her bones were nigh indestructible so you know, she was infinitely more badass than some measly space-whale.
"Yep. I guess you like your name, don't you Steve? Wait are you a him or a her.
Meh I'll go with a her, more amusing.
God I'm bored."
---
Honestly I had no idea how the original Overmind didn't go batshit crazy from the sheer boredom.
Well the original Overmind was mindcontrolled so that's probably why. The original Overmind was probably so mind-whammied it didn't even know what boredom was.
Eventually the Leviathan popped out of Warp Space over Mars, in a trip that was honestly a lot shorter than I was expecting for all I whined about boredom. And that's when things got... interesting.
"Overmind." Moriarty rumbled, clacking his mandibles in a manner I'd honestly grown accustomed to.
"Yeah I feel it too." I'd recognize that greasy psionic presence anywhere. If a mind could stink, their minds'd smell of rotting fish and stinky diapers.
Ethereals.
Well. Looks like I caught up to their fleet.
But this time I could take em.
I sent a command to my flock of Zerg that were actually capable of fighting in space. Corruptors and Mutalisks popped out of my Leviathan like pus from a pimple. Yes, this'd work, I'd just swarm them with numbers. Steve was ten kilometers long and fully armed and operational. I just had to ready the Scourge Nests and that'd be the larger ships gone, and then I'd just have to board them. Luckily Steve had combat tentacles that'd hook in those smaller saucers real easily, to say nothing of the psionic fuckery I was ready to unleash.
"Sarah, get ready to do the thing. You know, that one thing those assholes tried to pull except-"
"I understand Overmind."
Now what were my least favorite assholes doing…
…
"That's a fucking Xel'Naga Warpgate." I deadpanned.
One of the big ones too. This one was in space and it was fucking enormous, just a giant golden circle with a big red swirly glowing portal in the middle. How the fuc- oh. Buried on Mars beneath all that red dirt. I could see the giant indentation.
How the fuck did the Ethereals activate a fucking- Wait…
"They're doing a runner?" The one eye I had blinked. Some of my tentacles writhed in confusion. "No they can't do a runner that's not fair! They're cheating!"
Yes I fully realize the hypocrisy in calling the Ethereals cheaters but it's only cheating when the other guy's doing it.
I had so many questions, and not enough goddamn answers. Why the fuck did they attack me? Why the fuck did they try dropping a rock on my head and then doing a runner? How long must it have taken to dig up that gate from fucking Mars of all places. Why was there a Xel'Naga gate on Mars. Why'd they decide to just keep on fucking running?
Oh shit they're running.
Oh shit they're gone.
"Oh shit." I swore as the Warp Gate began to power down. "Fu- After them!"
"Overmind-"
"Dammit to hell and back, after them! We can't let them escape!"
In hindsight that was a dumb decision. I honestly should have built up a bit more. Maybe started a colony on Mars. Macroed up and grown some more Leviathans, hatched a few more Broodlords and Corruptors. Given Moriarty some more time to tear apart corpses.
Anything but pulling a Leeroy Jenkins.
At the time I didn't particularly want to give the Ethereals time to build up as well but charging dick-first into the unknown never works out unless your ship is named Enterprise and you're Jim Kirk or Jean-Luc Picard.
As I'd learn much to my chagrin.
"… Acknowledged." Moriarty sent back.
Steve sailed through the void of space, attended to by a cloud of Zerg flyers. She flew right into the Xel'Naga Warpgate and promptly vanished from the solar system without a trace. The Warpgate powered down shortly afterwards and it hung in orbit.
---
The transition to another universe was smoother than I remembered it being. For a split second after Steve went through the Warpgate everything was calm. Too calm.
That's when I felt the Ethereals hurriedly open another Warpspace portal, one of those screaming ruptures in reality tearing itself open right in front of my eyes. Well, Steve's eyes.
"No they don't get to do another runner. After the-"
And that's when a whole bunch of ships I hadn't noticed before started shooting at Steve. Blocky, grey, soulless sterile ships, firing what appeared to be some kind of directed-energy weapon, blue beams lancing out and biting into Steve's armor. Three of the massive buggers, and they truly were massive. They must've been- About the same size as Steve?! And- were those windows?! Who'd be dumb enough to put windows on a- Oh, dammit where're those Ethereals.
I idly noticed that they were also firing on the Ethereals. One scout ship promptly melted under the barrage, then two, then three and four but-
"Overmind. Ethereal vessels have disappeared. Recommend we focus fire on new contacts."
Fuck.
"Rgh fucking dammit- Grah! Alright, Sarah? Do the thing." No, I really wasn't in a good mood. At all. Time to ruin some people's day.
"By your command."
And then everything turned purple.
---
Yeah got no excuse for the delay. Honestly for the longest time I wasn't sure how I wanted to do this so this is probably substandard even by this fic's pretty low standards but like, I had to get something out.
So here we go.
Hopefully people're still reading this thing.
Last edited:
Index
Generic_Generica
Notice me Senpai~
- Location
- Right behind you
Also I need to put up a page for Omake or something so here's an index I guess. Need to fix threadmarks. Mmph.
- Location
- Germany
Not sure if this is funny or sad - naming conventions in stories like this truly always tend to swing between the totally overblown, the horrible cliche, the mundane or the Steve. Can't say I find that particularly funny anymore after this has really become a trope...well at least its not Bob, that would be even more dull.
Maybe its just me, but every-time people are going "Ohh! Windows on a starship" - I'm stuck thinking of Stargate. Blue beam lances would also fit to that...
- Location
- Pale Blue Dot
...
Perception as a dump stat may not be the best idea...
Kind of curious how the grey fleet is seeing this. "Evil Xenos! Fire!" "There are other Xenos hot on the heels of the first Xenos!" "Fire at them too! Burn the Unclean!" Something like this, maybe?
Omake: What happened during Chapter 18
Generic_Generica
Notice me Senpai~
- Location
- Right behind you
"Hey John, you ever wonder why we're here?"
"Iunno, that's a deep question to be asking about life Joe."
"No, like, why we're here in the middle of space."
"Because we were ordered to be here."
"That's stupid."
"You're stupid- oh hey there's some ships."
"Isn't this a restricted area? Tell them to fuck off."
"Hey look another shi- OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT?!"
"HOLY SHIT IT'S THE FLOOD I mean THE INFESTED."
"FIRE EVERYTHING CODE RED GAME OVER MAN GAME OVER."
---
And that's what happened.
Last edited:
Krazyfan1
Worrying for the future.
- Location
- Australia
BRILLIANT as usual
well worth the wait!
BOB!!!
i mean REALLY!
you can't top that...
well worth the wait!
PLANET
BOB!!!
i mean REALLY!
you can't top that...
- Location
- Pale Blue Dot
This whole snippet needs to be in a chapter!
Generic_Generica
Notice me Senpai~
- Location
- Right behind you
Oh that's canon. And what happened.
Going to edit the chapter tomorrow because like, there's definitely not enough detail and I'll definitely do links as well. Just wanted to clear this fucking arc and get it over with.
Last edited:
- Location
- The Outer Plane Of Munchkinry.
the end of this one sums up the entire story.
Well, he could have gone even more meta and ended up in XSGCOM verse. Combination of Stargate and XCOM UFO Defence at its finest.
The Stormbringer
Worm Fanfic & Crack Connoisseur
- Location
- Spaaaaace~!
The true question is, however... did everything also taste purple? 
HUGEIFY!
HUGEIFY!
I wonder if the other ships think you;re with the Ethereals?
Wobulator
Within 1 AU of you!
- Location
- Mars
- Pronouns
- She/Her
It's meant to be a cliffhanger. We'll probably learn next chapter.