Minion of the Swarm

CHAPTER FIVE: Death From Below

"Private, what the hell are you doing?!"
One of the Marines stood up from where he had been digging.
"I thought I saw a Zerg sir." He answered.
The sergeant scoffed.
"Impossible! My perfect battle senses would tell me if there were any Zerg about!"
The Marine wasn't convinced.
"But what if they're burrowed?" He asked.
The sergeant threw his arms up in a hopeless gesture.
"Then we're all dead!" He joked. "Now come."
Turning to where the rest of the Marines were sitting the sergeant shouted out his orders.
"Alright you lazy dirtbags, break is over! GET MOVING!!!"
As the Marines all started to move off again the one who had been digging took one last look around him.
"Something just doesn't seem right." He said to himself.
As the Marines and tanks continued to march along the surface of Char, they stirred up ash and dust with every step they took. But more importantly, with every step they took they sent out small earth tremors and beneath the ground, something was just waiting for this sign to tell it that it's prey was on it's dinner plate.

Claw burst out of the ground along with ninety Zerglings and twenty Hydralisks. The first and last thing that most of the Marines felt was the claws and spines of the Zerg tearing though their armour and flesh. The tanks were useless at point blank range and the crews didn't live for long as the Zerg tore their way inside. Within a few short minutes, every Terran was dead. As Claw climbed out of one of the tanks covered in blood he felt a huge pulse of energy sweep across the plains of Char.
"Come... the crysalis is hatching!"
Claw leapt down from the tank and with the other Zerglings began to run back to the Hive Cluster. As Claw ran he wondered what he was about to see.

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Author's Note:
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Will get the next chapter out ASAP.