Birthworld

Note: The Voidseeker approaches the zerg Leviathan.

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Kerrigan is meditating and detects a familiar psionic presence. Her zergling pet reacts.

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Kerrigan: Zeratul.

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Note: Zeratul decloaks. Kerrigan rushes toward him with anger, and punches him in the chest, followed by a roundkick to the face which knocks him back violently.

Before Zeratul lands, Kerrigan telekinetically stops his body mid-air, and slams him against a pillar behind her.

Zeratul lands on his knees and hands.

Kerrigan jumps about 15 feet high like a superhero and her right fist flares up with telekinetic force slamming against Zeratul with such a strength his shield resonates as if hit by a sonic boom.

Kerrigan is pushed back with the momentum of her punch.

Kerrigan runs toward Zeratul and lands another telekinetic-powered punch on his chest, catapulting him clear through the pillar.

Zeratul’s body finally lands on the ground on his back.

Kerrigan grabs his chest piece and pulls him slightly off the ground.

Kerrigan: What do you want?

Note: Zeratul doesn’t respond. Kerrigan becomes frustrated and anger shoots through her spine, powering another telekinetic punch aimed at Zeratul’s face. Before she lands the punch, Zeratul’s right hand grabs her entire face to mindmeld.

Zeratul: Believe!

Note: The camera aims on Kerrigan’s right eye, and zooms in into her corneas, showing a point of view that warps in into an unknown space sector. Kerrigan is now seeing through the eyes of Zeratul aboard the Voidseeker.

A green planet appears before her.

Zeratul: Kerrigan … I have been to the beginning. Behold … Zerus! Birthplace of the zerg. Here the zerg evolved, and here the dark one altered them.

Those left behind are the primal zerg. They fight. They kill. They evolve.

Note: The scene shown is two primal zergs fighting each other. One wins, eats its contender and evolves in real-time growing new eyes, and other features throughout its body.

The scene zooms out into orbit and through Kerrigan’s right eye back to the here and now, while Zeratul’s hand rests on her face.

Zeratul: Just as you must … if you survive.

 

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