Scourge B- Tomahawk
Next Scourge strain.
I don't own RWBY or Starcraft.
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The Leviathan went to the next destination. This world was composed of three or four large continents. As another note, Kerrigan could also sense another psionic-like power emitting strongly from the planet.
"Remnant," Abathur zoomed into the planet along with Kerrigan. Together, they found forest where black creatures with white masks roamed around, resembling wolves and bears. They fighting among each other and pounding the ground as if something irritated them.
"Terran civilization infested by Grimm, strong appetite for destruction."
A loud screech could be heard from less than a mile away. A huge black Grimm resembling a raven descended from the sky, shadowing the Grimm on the ground. The Beowolves and Ursas converged onto the huge bird as it flapped its wings gently above a tall rock. With its talons clinging onto two tall points, it rested its wings while facing the sky.
"Nevermore," Abathur identified the Grimm creature. "Large flying assault unit. Highly durable, swoops in to attack ground targets."
Two more Nevermores in equivalent size came in and landed on other rocks nearby. The leading turned right and screeched again, directing the ground Grimm. As the Nevermores rested, the Beowolves and Ursas slowly picked up movement towards the given direction. Kerrigan and Abathur focused on the same direction; a significant distance away were soldiers with white and metallic-grey armor. A troops outside appeared completely mechanical due to the black visors, but the ones inside with shown faces were clearly human.
Returning to where the Grimm were, the ground forces vanished into the forest. The Nevermores continued to rest, watching over the area.
"Automated Terran forces near, will distract lesser Grimm. Nevermores vulnerable."
A small leviathan descended into Remnant's atmosphere, spitting out many Scourges from its pods and orifices. The small flying Zerg got into formation, waiting for Kerrigan's orders.
"Kill the Nevermores quickly. Collect their essence."
The Scourge automatically went cruised through the skies with killing intent. The Nevermores nearby were clearly sensed by their emotions and behavior. Screeching at the quite distant intruders, the Nevermores took wing.
It was obvious that the Nevermores were little matched against the more functional Scourges. Even so, they picked up speed and went straight on against the explosive Zerg. One Nevermore struck the first Scourge with its beak in attempt to eat it. However, the Scourge merely exploded upon contact its beak, blinding the Nevermore and disfiguring its face. The Nevermore stopped as the the more Scourges blasted it apart before the Zerg went on against the other two. Two Scourges clipped both wings of one Nevermore, sending crashing onto the ground. The other evaded a direct assault, but the more nimble Scourges pursued it like heatseekers. One Scourge collided with the whipping tail and shattered its back legs. Another smashed into its body, sending the remaining wings and head drifting into the air.
While the remains of the Nevermores were still airborne, the Scourges attempted to collect its essence. However, it was quite difficult as they corpses started dissolving away. Some scourge barely had enough time to reach the larger pieces while the rest completely missed the smaller ones. Though aware due to work with the Protoss, Abathur was equally frustrated with the difficulty.
"Require additional Grimm essence. Acquired essence temporary, dissolves quickly."
Just then, a large creature was sensed. Incoming was an even bigger Nevermore coming to the area. It was unknown if it was a parent or not, but it was clearly not happy to see its brethren missing. Griffin-like creatures escorting the huge Grimm didn't look very friendly either.
"Great Nevermore located. Accompanied by Griffons. Eliminate."
The swarm of Scourges flew in towards the Nevermore and its escorts. Upon sight of their brethren's killers, they angrily charged against the Zerg forces.
The first clashes were with the Griffons, which were predictably explosive as they exploded upon contacting with the Scourges. Most of the Griffons behind the first line became aware of the danger and lifted up to avoid getting easily killed by the explosive flyers. Three of them tried catching them with their talons. The Scourges exploded anyway and blew off their feet, taking their wings and the Griffons themselves with them. Only one Griffon successfully got away by barely clipping a Scourge, causing it to explode long after it was far from distant. That one was only met with another Scourge that collided head-on.
The Nevermore and the remaining Griffons that circled it were in a bind, being surrounded by the explosive Zerg forces. The Griffons tried to act like shields to protect it from the living missiles as the huge Grimm tried strike one with its beak. Two Scourges it contacted with exploded, which only cracked beak and forced its head upward. With the remaining Griffons gone, the Scourges poured in onto the Nevermore. The massive Grimm responded by flapping with its wings, causing most of the Scourges to collide with one another in a huge chain reaction.
Surrounded by the huge display of Zerg exploding Zerg and the surrounding dust clouds, it made an Immelman to escape. However, a number of Scourges were still alive from the friendly fire and powered straight through the smoke. Before the Great Nevermore could react, the Scourges were already cruising towards it. Two of them exploded on its tail, pushing it down from its altitude. Three more Scourges then plunged into its belly, blasting it into many huge pieces, the majority of the remains being the wings and head.
A fresh swarm of following Scourges and the remaining ones up front quickly swooped in and started consuming the dissolving remains of the dead Grimm. This time, it was more successful and Abathur had time to analyze the essence before they faded from existence.
"Essence harvest successful. Returning to staging point for assimilation."
The Scourges followed orders after the Grimm remains disappeared. They all made a long trip back to the Leviathan, entering through the pores they came out.
As the Scourges were beginning metamorphosis, Abathur and Kerrigan sensed new forces on the ground below. Two groups.
"Special Terran forces incoming," Abathur started with the first, which looked like four young kids wandering aimlessly through the forest. "Hunters and Huntresses, highly proficient in killing Grimm." The other ground forces was a set of metallic gray robots with energy rifles, lead by ordinary soldiers, huge walkers, and VTOL aircraft. "Atlas Security, main military forces of Atlas. Large in number, standard killing efficiency against Grimm."
"Well then," Kerrigan eyed more on the Atlas forces and Grimm. "Let's how they fare against the Zerg."
Just then, the new Scourges bursted out the staging Leviathan.
"New strain ready for deployment. Seeker Scourges ready to strike."
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Walking through the forest were the four young Hunters and Huntresses. A short, blonde in knight's armor was staring at the map with two of his comrades. Will a read head girl was distracted elsewhere on the map while a taller man with short black hair went back to reality.
"Uhh, Jaune, I don't think we're going in the right direction."
"I swear, Ren. I know what I'm doing. I can tell you for sure that somewhere- not on this map- through the woods, over the mountains up ahead, and across a bridge that was never used twenty years ago, there's a shortcut where we can cut out some time...to Haven."
"Well," the red and black lolita girl tried to comment. "We're here. In the woods. So...where's the path to the mountains?"
"Why, I'm sure it's gotta be here around somewhere, Ruby. I've been on this road several times by now."
"More like we walked this place several times by now," Nora joked.
"You mean those mountains?" Lie Ren pointed to the mountains Jaune was mentioning.
"I-I guess," Jaune said in embarrassment. "Must've gotten carried away and went ahead too early."
And exploding then appeared right in front of them, shaking all four of them, though they easily regained balance. With everyone jerking to find where it was coming from, they could only look up to see flyers up above in a swarm. They could also see some gunfire in air as some more continued down blasted the land far away from them. What shocked them more, besides the exploding forces heading toward them, was how much they were NOT Grimm.
Jaune had the time to give a simple order.
"Take cover everyone?"
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A swarm of the evolved Scourges were making their way down a hail of gunfire coming from the Atlas forces below. These were purple in color and had additional talons on the bottom and top. As one of the new Scourges aimed its new talons down, they suddenly sprouted wings to begin descending. It additionally spit out a black exhaust that further increased its speed toward the planet's surface. Like a guided missile, it struck an Atlas Paladin walker, the nearby soldiers both human and robot sent flying.
The charging ground Grimm, now trying to run away, were also getting bombarded by the new weapons.
"Tomahawk strain. Dive bombs into enemy, capable of hitting ground targets. Area of effect given."
The Atlas soldiers continued to fight back against the hailstorms live fusion missiles coming at them. Another Paladin nearby got destroyed with the Atlesian Knight-200s in close proximity being ripped apart by the blast. An Atlesian solder fired upon another descending Tomahawk; it was enough for it destroy it before hitting its target, but the resulting was still able to blind him and shatter his helmet. Another set of troops got annihilated by another missile as did another Paladin. Three of the nearby gunships got shellacked by the Tomahawks that used their normal way of attacking.
The Grimm ended up getting sandwiched between not only the Zerg, but the four young Huntsmen team nearby. The four young warriors were somewhat running as well, trying to avoid being targeted by the sudden Zerg forces. But that didn't mean they could take their eyes off the Grimm in pursuit. Only Jaune had his eyes away, searching for trees or rocks useful enough to protect them from the alien dive bombers.
"Ren," he pointed towards a huge tree. "Take Nora up there and keep the Grimm off! I'll go with Ruby!"
"What are these flying...exploding buggy thingys!?" Ruby tilted to the Zerg overhead.
"I don't know, but they sure aren't Grimm! Now get to cover!"
The two duos went off to two respective trees; Ren and Ruby used their weapons to grapple onto one thick branch before pulling up their allies. They then ducked as they focused on the Grimm trying to climb up.
The bombardment from the exploding Zerg already crept up to thin out the Grimm's numbers from behind. It wasn't long before the Huntsman team managed to sweep up the remains. Just as Ruby took out the last Beowolf Grimm with her converted rifle, she turned to the evolved Scourges above them.
Firing a couple rounds, the red-hooded girl destroyed a number of Zerg before they figured out where they were hiding. Several Tomahawks that were in line-of-sight coordinated an attack on the tree and overwhelmed them. Having only three destroyed before impact, Jaune took the defensive use with his shield. Pulling Ruby behind his shield, they hid from the inevitable impact of three more Tomahawks that bombarded the area.
"Jaune! Ruby!" Nora called out upon the sight. The other two were being distracted by three Tomahawk cruising after them. Using her grenade launcher, she got a lucky hit and destroy all three of them in a chain reaction.
Just to be sure, Ren fired another hail of bullets through the smoke to ensure no ambushes. His assumptions were correct as two more chain reactions of explosions occurred. Nora stepped in for a strike where Ren's attacks missed, switching her weapon into a hammer. As expected, a final Tomahawk burst through the smoke and Nora swung her hammer...only to miss...as it was not aimed after them. Quickly reacting, the two shielded themselves as the Tomahawk collided with the tree trunk, blowing them off onto the ground.
Kerrigan could still sense their vital signs. But with her regulations, which Abathur was aware of by her instruction, their test over with them. The Tomahawks left over pulled away just as the remaining Atlas forces were finished off; the last couple gunships and concentration of Atlesian soldiers eliminated by the Tomahawks. With no more enemies left worth facing, all the Zerg regrouped to the Leviathan as it took off for orbit.
"Special Terran forces defeated. Scourge experiments ended. Preparing sequences for Swarm integration. Returning to evolution pit."
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Reviewing Strains:
Volley Strain- Deriving from mitoscarab essence, originally for banelings. Decentralized nervous system now integrated into Scourge.
Volley now composed of three lesser spawn attached to core, separate prematurely upon detonation. Increases chances of successful assault. Maximum attack power doubled. Effective countermeasure against area-of-effect spells, reactive armor, reactive weaponry.
Tomahawk Strain- Study from avis-class specimens. Provides Scourge diving ability, hits ground targets with blast radius.
Tomahawk origin, Grimm Nevermore, strong appetite for destruction. Attracted to negative emotions, anger, violence. Killing intent and aggressiveness inherited by Grimm assimilation. Tomahawk more fierce, damage increased, instability increased. Must keep distance to avoid unnecessary casualty.
Sequences ready for integration. Await decision.
I don't own RWBY or Starcraft.
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The Leviathan went to the next destination. This world was composed of three or four large continents. As another note, Kerrigan could also sense another psionic-like power emitting strongly from the planet.
"Remnant," Abathur zoomed into the planet along with Kerrigan. Together, they found forest where black creatures with white masks roamed around, resembling wolves and bears. They fighting among each other and pounding the ground as if something irritated them.
"Terran civilization infested by Grimm, strong appetite for destruction."
A loud screech could be heard from less than a mile away. A huge black Grimm resembling a raven descended from the sky, shadowing the Grimm on the ground. The Beowolves and Ursas converged onto the huge bird as it flapped its wings gently above a tall rock. With its talons clinging onto two tall points, it rested its wings while facing the sky.
"Nevermore," Abathur identified the Grimm creature. "Large flying assault unit. Highly durable, swoops in to attack ground targets."
Two more Nevermores in equivalent size came in and landed on other rocks nearby. The leading turned right and screeched again, directing the ground Grimm. As the Nevermores rested, the Beowolves and Ursas slowly picked up movement towards the given direction. Kerrigan and Abathur focused on the same direction; a significant distance away were soldiers with white and metallic-grey armor. A troops outside appeared completely mechanical due to the black visors, but the ones inside with shown faces were clearly human.
Returning to where the Grimm were, the ground forces vanished into the forest. The Nevermores continued to rest, watching over the area.
"Automated Terran forces near, will distract lesser Grimm. Nevermores vulnerable."
A small leviathan descended into Remnant's atmosphere, spitting out many Scourges from its pods and orifices. The small flying Zerg got into formation, waiting for Kerrigan's orders.
"Kill the Nevermores quickly. Collect their essence."
The Scourge automatically went cruised through the skies with killing intent. The Nevermores nearby were clearly sensed by their emotions and behavior. Screeching at the quite distant intruders, the Nevermores took wing.
It was obvious that the Nevermores were little matched against the more functional Scourges. Even so, they picked up speed and went straight on against the explosive Zerg. One Nevermore struck the first Scourge with its beak in attempt to eat it. However, the Scourge merely exploded upon contact its beak, blinding the Nevermore and disfiguring its face. The Nevermore stopped as the the more Scourges blasted it apart before the Zerg went on against the other two. Two Scourges clipped both wings of one Nevermore, sending crashing onto the ground. The other evaded a direct assault, but the more nimble Scourges pursued it like heatseekers. One Scourge collided with the whipping tail and shattered its back legs. Another smashed into its body, sending the remaining wings and head drifting into the air.
While the remains of the Nevermores were still airborne, the Scourges attempted to collect its essence. However, it was quite difficult as they corpses started dissolving away. Some scourge barely had enough time to reach the larger pieces while the rest completely missed the smaller ones. Though aware due to work with the Protoss, Abathur was equally frustrated with the difficulty.
"Require additional Grimm essence. Acquired essence temporary, dissolves quickly."
Just then, a large creature was sensed. Incoming was an even bigger Nevermore coming to the area. It was unknown if it was a parent or not, but it was clearly not happy to see its brethren missing. Griffin-like creatures escorting the huge Grimm didn't look very friendly either.
"Great Nevermore located. Accompanied by Griffons. Eliminate."
The swarm of Scourges flew in towards the Nevermore and its escorts. Upon sight of their brethren's killers, they angrily charged against the Zerg forces.
The first clashes were with the Griffons, which were predictably explosive as they exploded upon contacting with the Scourges. Most of the Griffons behind the first line became aware of the danger and lifted up to avoid getting easily killed by the explosive flyers. Three of them tried catching them with their talons. The Scourges exploded anyway and blew off their feet, taking their wings and the Griffons themselves with them. Only one Griffon successfully got away by barely clipping a Scourge, causing it to explode long after it was far from distant. That one was only met with another Scourge that collided head-on.
The Nevermore and the remaining Griffons that circled it were in a bind, being surrounded by the explosive Zerg forces. The Griffons tried to act like shields to protect it from the living missiles as the huge Grimm tried strike one with its beak. Two Scourges it contacted with exploded, which only cracked beak and forced its head upward. With the remaining Griffons gone, the Scourges poured in onto the Nevermore. The massive Grimm responded by flapping with its wings, causing most of the Scourges to collide with one another in a huge chain reaction.
Surrounded by the huge display of Zerg exploding Zerg and the surrounding dust clouds, it made an Immelman to escape. However, a number of Scourges were still alive from the friendly fire and powered straight through the smoke. Before the Great Nevermore could react, the Scourges were already cruising towards it. Two of them exploded on its tail, pushing it down from its altitude. Three more Scourges then plunged into its belly, blasting it into many huge pieces, the majority of the remains being the wings and head.
A fresh swarm of following Scourges and the remaining ones up front quickly swooped in and started consuming the dissolving remains of the dead Grimm. This time, it was more successful and Abathur had time to analyze the essence before they faded from existence.
"Essence harvest successful. Returning to staging point for assimilation."
The Scourges followed orders after the Grimm remains disappeared. They all made a long trip back to the Leviathan, entering through the pores they came out.
As the Scourges were beginning metamorphosis, Abathur and Kerrigan sensed new forces on the ground below. Two groups.
"Special Terran forces incoming," Abathur started with the first, which looked like four young kids wandering aimlessly through the forest. "Hunters and Huntresses, highly proficient in killing Grimm." The other ground forces was a set of metallic gray robots with energy rifles, lead by ordinary soldiers, huge walkers, and VTOL aircraft. "Atlas Security, main military forces of Atlas. Large in number, standard killing efficiency against Grimm."
"Well then," Kerrigan eyed more on the Atlas forces and Grimm. "Let's how they fare against the Zerg."
Just then, the new Scourges bursted out the staging Leviathan.
"New strain ready for deployment. Seeker Scourges ready to strike."
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Walking through the forest were the four young Hunters and Huntresses. A short, blonde in knight's armor was staring at the map with two of his comrades. Will a read head girl was distracted elsewhere on the map while a taller man with short black hair went back to reality.
"Uhh, Jaune, I don't think we're going in the right direction."
"I swear, Ren. I know what I'm doing. I can tell you for sure that somewhere- not on this map- through the woods, over the mountains up ahead, and across a bridge that was never used twenty years ago, there's a shortcut where we can cut out some time...to Haven."
"Well," the red and black lolita girl tried to comment. "We're here. In the woods. So...where's the path to the mountains?"
"Why, I'm sure it's gotta be here around somewhere, Ruby. I've been on this road several times by now."
"More like we walked this place several times by now," Nora joked.
"You mean those mountains?" Lie Ren pointed to the mountains Jaune was mentioning.
"I-I guess," Jaune said in embarrassment. "Must've gotten carried away and went ahead too early."
And exploding then appeared right in front of them, shaking all four of them, though they easily regained balance. With everyone jerking to find where it was coming from, they could only look up to see flyers up above in a swarm. They could also see some gunfire in air as some more continued down blasted the land far away from them. What shocked them more, besides the exploding forces heading toward them, was how much they were NOT Grimm.
Jaune had the time to give a simple order.
"Take cover everyone?"
-----
A swarm of the evolved Scourges were making their way down a hail of gunfire coming from the Atlas forces below. These were purple in color and had additional talons on the bottom and top. As one of the new Scourges aimed its new talons down, they suddenly sprouted wings to begin descending. It additionally spit out a black exhaust that further increased its speed toward the planet's surface. Like a guided missile, it struck an Atlas Paladin walker, the nearby soldiers both human and robot sent flying.
The charging ground Grimm, now trying to run away, were also getting bombarded by the new weapons.
"Tomahawk strain. Dive bombs into enemy, capable of hitting ground targets. Area of effect given."
The Atlas soldiers continued to fight back against the hailstorms live fusion missiles coming at them. Another Paladin nearby got destroyed with the Atlesian Knight-200s in close proximity being ripped apart by the blast. An Atlesian solder fired upon another descending Tomahawk; it was enough for it destroy it before hitting its target, but the resulting was still able to blind him and shatter his helmet. Another set of troops got annihilated by another missile as did another Paladin. Three of the nearby gunships got shellacked by the Tomahawks that used their normal way of attacking.
The Grimm ended up getting sandwiched between not only the Zerg, but the four young Huntsmen team nearby. The four young warriors were somewhat running as well, trying to avoid being targeted by the sudden Zerg forces. But that didn't mean they could take their eyes off the Grimm in pursuit. Only Jaune had his eyes away, searching for trees or rocks useful enough to protect them from the alien dive bombers.
"Ren," he pointed towards a huge tree. "Take Nora up there and keep the Grimm off! I'll go with Ruby!"
"What are these flying...exploding buggy thingys!?" Ruby tilted to the Zerg overhead.
"I don't know, but they sure aren't Grimm! Now get to cover!"
The two duos went off to two respective trees; Ren and Ruby used their weapons to grapple onto one thick branch before pulling up their allies. They then ducked as they focused on the Grimm trying to climb up.
The bombardment from the exploding Zerg already crept up to thin out the Grimm's numbers from behind. It wasn't long before the Huntsman team managed to sweep up the remains. Just as Ruby took out the last Beowolf Grimm with her converted rifle, she turned to the evolved Scourges above them.
Firing a couple rounds, the red-hooded girl destroyed a number of Zerg before they figured out where they were hiding. Several Tomahawks that were in line-of-sight coordinated an attack on the tree and overwhelmed them. Having only three destroyed before impact, Jaune took the defensive use with his shield. Pulling Ruby behind his shield, they hid from the inevitable impact of three more Tomahawks that bombarded the area.
"Jaune! Ruby!" Nora called out upon the sight. The other two were being distracted by three Tomahawk cruising after them. Using her grenade launcher, she got a lucky hit and destroy all three of them in a chain reaction.
Just to be sure, Ren fired another hail of bullets through the smoke to ensure no ambushes. His assumptions were correct as two more chain reactions of explosions occurred. Nora stepped in for a strike where Ren's attacks missed, switching her weapon into a hammer. As expected, a final Tomahawk burst through the smoke and Nora swung her hammer...only to miss...as it was not aimed after them. Quickly reacting, the two shielded themselves as the Tomahawk collided with the tree trunk, blowing them off onto the ground.
Kerrigan could still sense their vital signs. But with her regulations, which Abathur was aware of by her instruction, their test over with them. The Tomahawks left over pulled away just as the remaining Atlas forces were finished off; the last couple gunships and concentration of Atlesian soldiers eliminated by the Tomahawks. With no more enemies left worth facing, all the Zerg regrouped to the Leviathan as it took off for orbit.
"Special Terran forces defeated. Scourge experiments ended. Preparing sequences for Swarm integration. Returning to evolution pit."
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Reviewing Strains:
Volley Strain- Deriving from mitoscarab essence, originally for banelings. Decentralized nervous system now integrated into Scourge.
Volley now composed of three lesser spawn attached to core, separate prematurely upon detonation. Increases chances of successful assault. Maximum attack power doubled. Effective countermeasure against area-of-effect spells, reactive armor, reactive weaponry.
Tomahawk Strain- Study from avis-class specimens. Provides Scourge diving ability, hits ground targets with blast radius.
Tomahawk origin, Grimm Nevermore, strong appetite for destruction. Attracted to negative emotions, anger, violence. Killing intent and aggressiveness inherited by Grimm assimilation. Tomahawk more fierce, damage increased, instability increased. Must keep distance to avoid unnecessary casualty.
Sequences ready for integration. Await decision.