Warp Commander – Prologue

James Raynor sat in the bar of the Hyperion depressed, once again he found him self waking up with a headache. It had been about a year since brood war happened and Raynor was still haunted by the images of New Gettysburg, Char and Fenix's death on Tarsonis how Kerrigan had betrayed them. He wanted to hate Kerrigan for what she had done but for some reason he couldn't bring himself to hate her. Now year later he decided to break the promise he made he was going to get the Kerrigan he knew back the zerg had twisted her mind and she was going to put it right. But then came the other thing Arcturus was still in power. Raynor had gained over 6000 men with which to fight against Mengsk but he lacked a direction he didn't know what to do should he concetrate on Kerrigan or Mengsk. On top of all that Raynor was still near the edge of despair and slowly but surely the freedom fighter who had lost so much and had always wanted to fight the good fight had started to fade away.

Suddenly communications lit up and Matt Horner spoke over the coms, "Commander we are detecting 5 kilometers long ship in our sensors it's not zerg, terran or protoss i haven't seen anything like it." Jim got up, "ok Matt i heading to the bridge now." Ship 5 kilometers long only ships Raynor could think of was the gigantic super carriers of the protoss and the gargantuan Leviathans of the zerg. When he got to the bridge he saw it a ship 5 kilometers long, it wasn't a terran like Matt said but looked so human like. "Sir, the unidentified ship is almost completely unpowered and nothing seems to be alive inside it," said Matt. Jim pondered for a moment then made said, "Tell all our ships to move next to the big one. I'm going in with the boarding party," Matt pondered for a second was it wise that the commander would go but decided to just drop it.

The ship was massive not only from the outside but sometimes also on the inside and it had almost jaw dropping aesthetic. Raiders had moved through the ship and had not found a single living soul, at on point there was a plating that read something, "what does this say?" Stetmann soon answered Jim's question clearly surprised, "it's latin it says 'For terra, for the imperium and for the Emperor'," Jim wondered was this a UED ship but he discarded that thought quickly, Dugaule's Alexander that came from earth was very more advanced than Behemoths but nothing like this.

"Sir we have detected an odd anomaly appearing infront of the ship – wait it's a wormhole," Jim was on the ships bridge when he heard Matt's update and looked through the window to see what was out there. What he and his squad saw made them freeze on the spot as they watched the red, blue, pink and purple coloured energies swirling from the wormhole. The whole ship shook and there was a distressed communication from Matt, "Sir, that wormhole it… it's sucking us in," Jim cursed and asked, "Can you warp out," to which Matt answered, "no our systems are jammed," jim's face became grimm and as the ships were swallowed by the swirling energies of the immaterium there was a flash of light and then the only thing Jim saw was darkness.

Immaterium

Jim woke up wondering where he was and to his shock noticed that he didn't have his suit. Then he realized that he was still inside that ship, he stood up and turned towards the window and was frozen still by what he saw. What he saw was a realm so beautiful but so hellish that he started sweating right there and soon emptied the contents of his stomach on the floor. For the first time in many years Jim felt like he wanted to curl into a ball, shiver and cry but he didn't he wasn't going to. "What's this a foolish mortal who dared enter the warp with out Gellar fields on?" Jim was surprised to hear a voice. "Who are you?" asked Jim still sweating. "Hahaha, I am Tabes the daemon of the warp James Raynor," answered the voice. Jim became even more scared and who wouldn't be if they were talking with a daemon. Jim could only wonder what did it want from him "what do i want from you?" there was a pause and then an answer," your body." Jim didn't need to guess what this demon was going to do to him. It was going to possess him. "No, i will not let you do that," was Jim's defiant answer. The demon only laughed, "Hahahaa, did you think you had a choice." Suddenly a foreign sensation filled him and he started seeing visions, visions of slaughter, death, pain, suffering and destruction as he started to feel a pain spreading through his body, a pain likes of which he had never felt before. Jim was not going to give up and could only hope that the demon would give up quickly.

Sometime later

Jim didn't know how long he had fought against the demon and was starting to lose hope. Who knows how long he had held out with demon taunting him every minute, "You little pathetic mortal you can't save anybody, you have lead your men to their doom and failed your friends, you weak pathetic fool." Jim had heard that before and was crushed when hearing that and seeing the visions of all those who he couldn't save and had failed: Matt, Swann, Fenix, the Heavens Devils, Liddy and Johnny Tychus, his Parents and also Sarah, then he remembered something, he promised that he would get Sarah back and he wasn't going to leave Swann and Matt here to suffer, the thought of what would happen to them, the happy memories he had of his friends and remembering them made Jim realize there was still reason for him to keep fighting. Suddenly a new found strenght and confidence coursed through him, he was going to save all those that remained and there wasn't a damn thing this daemon could do to stop him. "Get out," said Jim, the daemon asked, "what?" "Get out," said Jim louder. "Do you really think you can-," "GET OUT!" Jim interrupted the daemon and suddenly the Tabes felt his control upon Jim's mind slipping, "no this can not be!" The daemon said alarmed and shocked, to think this mortal had the power to banish him from his mind, "GET OUT!" was heard again and the daemon had almost lost his grip on Jim's mind "NO no nooooooooooooo," shouted the daemon. "GET OUT," and with that last shout the daemon lost his grip on Jim's mind and was splintered into a thousand pieces with in the warp.

Jim collapsed on the floor of the ship crying hoping that it would be finally over. "It isn't over unfortunately," said a man's voice that sounded like it belonged to an angel, it was calming and comforting. Jim asked only one question from it, "Who are you?"

The voice answered, "i have been know with many names in my life time but now people know me as 'The Emperor'."

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