Emerald Huntress Chronicles
ARC 1: Koprulu Hunts
Chapter 1
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"Allright boys, keep an eye out for more of those creatures. With any luck, we just need to kill large pack around Backwater Station," the commander of the militia forces says just before he spots a girl wearing a strange helmet and alien looking bracers. The hair sticking out from the helmet is black with emerald green tips braided into knee length dreadlocks and decorated with a pair of what look like compact rifles. "Hey young lady. Who are you and what are you doing here? You should be in the camp a mile behind us where it is safe," the commander says only to have the nearly naked girl smirk and reply with clicks and chirps that almost sound like an alien language while she does something with her left bracer.
"My name is Emerald Death and I'm on this planet to hunt. I was going to hunt you oomans, but the swarm of Kainde Amedha imitations make for better sport," the now named girl replies once she is done with her bracer. Before the commander or anyone else can say anything about how she doesn't consider herself a Terran, she grabs one of her compact rifles out of her dreadlocks and triple taps the trigger. Almost instantly, the militia sees three of the creatures that had been terrorizing the planet drop to the ground headless.
"James Raynor, the Marshal around these parts. Since you seem to be able to handle yourself, I suppose you can join us in rescuing Backwater Station if we can reach it in time," the commander says as he and the militia forces stare in shock at how easily Emerald killed three of the hostile critters that seemed to give everyone else trouble. A short time later, Emerald clears out a group of serpentine critters that appear to be allied with the canine types from earlier. With the immediate threat cleared out, a pair of engineers in SCVs emerge from a Bunker and thank the militia forces while identifying the hostile critters (of both varieties) as Zerg.
About a mile north of the Bunker, the militia and the SCVs tagging along encounter a nearly abandoned base with an Academy and five Firebat soldiers who decide to join the militia force in investigating Backwater Station. About three miles east of the now abandoned base, the Zerg hit the militia forces with a sizable force of their own. Outnumbered by the canine Zerg by at least 20-1, the Marines among the militia would have been overrun were it not for the literal firepower of the Firebats. But even that wouldn't have been enough to stop the Zerg if Emerald hadn't revealed her compact rifles not only could be dual wielded, but also transformed into massive scythes for melee fighting just as devastating as the Firebats' flamethrowers.
"What in hell did they do to that Command Center," Raynor says when Backwater Station enters the view of the militia forces. The entire station is clearly covered in biomatter created by the Zerg and appears to be a staging ground for the creatures. While Emerald uses her sniper-scythes to pin down the Zerg, Raynor and his militia forces destroy Backwater Station, completing their task just in time for Confederate forces led by an Edmund Duke to show up and arrest the militia for 'violating standing colonial law' by 'destroying a vital Confederate installation'. "I guess you wouldn't be a Confederate if you weren't a complete pain in the ass," Raynor says as he is arrested even after pointing out the station had been infected and become a threat to the safety of the colony.
"Odd, I don't remember Duke giving me anal, Raynor," Emerald says as she vanishes beneath a cloaking field and evades detection by the Confederates.
Two weeks later, Evac site, 30 minutes before Sons of Korhal Dropship arrival...
"Hey this Bunker's on fire! Get an SCV over to repair it. And fix up my bike too while you're at it," a Vulture pilot says over the comm. as Emerald and the Magister look over the defenses to see how they can protect the Mar Sara refugees until the Dropships arrive. While the Magister coordinates the defenses, Emerald walks over to the north window and starts sniping Zerglings and Hydralisks. Nearly half a month in the company of the refugees means the nearly nude female is ignored in favor of camp defense and training in weapons after the trained militia was rounded up by the Confederates while the Zerg over run the planet one outpost or city at a time.
After repairing the Bunker and tuning the Vulture Hoverbike, one of the SCVs built a few Missile Turrets just in time for a flock of Zerg known as Mutalisks to show up while the rest of the SCVs are mining mineral crystals and vespene gas. As the Firebats in the Bunkers start panicking, Emerald sweeps the skies clear with precision shots from her dual sniper-scythes. After checking that the Magister has the defenses under control, Emerald exits the Command Center and leaves the evac site through the north entrance to do a little hunting. Countless Mutalisks, Zerglings and Hydralisks later, Emerald signals her personal ship as the refugees leave in the Sons of Korhal Dropships.
Only a few hours later, Emerald, Raynor and a handful of Marines are back on the surface of Mar Sara about two miles from a Confederate facility known as the Jacobs Installation. "What's the plan to get past the door guards without attracting too much attention?" a marine asks Raynor only for Emerald to fire six shots from her sniper-scythes. Checking the door with a pair of binoculars, Raynor confirms that the six door guards are a head short each and there is no sign any alarms were tripped. "Glad the nearly naked chick is on our side," the marine says quietly as the twelve enter the base and catch a few Confederate Marines and scientists by surprise.
"I heard that," Emerald chuckles as she tidily decapitates the Confederate Marines before they can react. Ignoring the scientists, Emerald, Raynor and the ex-militia Marines continue deeper into the base only losing a few Marines to automated defenses before Emerald links her bracer comp to the mainframe and copies all of the data. Just to make sure no one else can get the data, she also triggers a self-destruct with a ten-minute irreversible timer. Docking her own ship aboard a Sons of Korhal Battlecruiser, Emerald shows off a little by using precision shots from her sniper-scythes to cripple the Confederate Battlecruisers and destroy the Confederate Wraiths and Valkyries. After a few random jumps to avoid being tracked by the Confederates, the Sons of Korhal hide with the Mar Sara refugees in the Antiga system.
After HQ begins analysis of the stolen data at a secret staging area on the second moon, Emerald, Raynor and a small group of Marines drops a few miles outside of the military base on Antiga Prime. "Let's find Lieutenant Kerrigan so we can finish this mission," Raynor says once everyone leaves their drop pods.
"Shouldn't we just snipe the Confederates guarding the Antigan base?" Emerald questions as she uses her helmet optics to identify the locations of all forty Confederates, including the Officers in the Antigan Command Center.
"Sounds good to me. Lieutenant Kerrigan reporting. I've finished scouting out the area and... You pig!" Kerrigan says as she decloaks a few feet south of the group.
"What? I haven't even said anything!" Raynor replies as Emerald snipes three Confederate Wraiths out of the sky.
"Yeah, but you were thinking it," Kerrigan responds. "Emerald, you should probably snipe the sensor module of the missile turrets if you want to use stealth to get in range of the Officers."
"Ah, you're a telepath. Despite her skimpy wardrobe, Emerald is quite possibly a better sniper than you are," Raynor says as Emerald rejects Kerrigan's advice by sniping the Confederate Officers from her current position. About an hour later, Raynor, Emerald and Kerrigan enter the Antigan base alongside their squad of marines to cheers from the Antigan soldiers. Before the party can get started, the base Adjutant warns of a large Confederate force across the water to the south. Taking a look with her masks optics, Emerald spots a handful of Goliaths and a squadron of Wraiths defending a base that includes Missile Turrets, a Refinery, a Barracks and a Starport. At her suggestion, a few SCVs construct a line of Missile Turrets along the shore to stop the Confederates from sending Dropships or Wraiths while the Antigan Starport constructs a squadron of Wraiths and Emerald herself snipes the Confederate SCVs gathering vespene gas from the Confederate Refinery.
Twenty-four hours later, the delayed victory party starts as the Antigan Wraith squadron wipes out the Confederate base. "I may not be a telepath like Kerrigan, but I doubt your thoughts are what most would call clean considering I'm good as nude. Care to act out a few of your fantasies involving me as long as there's no penetration?" Emerald comments as most of the soldiers head to the local cantina for a drink.
"Now why would I turn down an offer like that," Raynor replies before guiding her to a bed where he places her face down. After undressing, Raynor lays on top of Emerald's back and reaches around to massage her breasts while sliding his genitals between her lower cheeks. Minutes later, Emerald feels ropes of ejaculate cover her back and she gets up to wash it off both herself and her weapons with a quick shower.
Two weeks later, the leader of the Sons of Korhal, Arcturus Mensk informs Raynor, Kerrigan and the former Magister that the data from Mar Sara was for a weapon that lures the Zerg. Kerrigan is assigned a mission to take an SCV carrying one of these lures to the center of the main Confederate base on Antiga Prime and activate it so the Zerg will destroy the base and every soldier in it. After a little convincing, the ex-Magister places Raynor in charge of overseeing the mission to provide Kerrigan with support and Emerald providing cover fire. Instead of doing any real work however, Raynor plays out his fantasies involving Emerald again while Emerald herself provides inhuman levels of cover fire and distraction to the point where she has to provide cover fire against the Zerg while the Sons of Korhal flee the planet.
Just as the fleet reaches orbit, one of the Adjutants intercepts a distress signal from General Duke aboard the Confederate Battlecruiser Norad II now stranded in the middle of a Zerg Hive Cluster. "Raynor, you're going down to rescue the General. Do it, and despite your opinion of him he will belong to us," Arcturus Mensk says when Raynor suggests Duke should be left to die.
"We can minimize casualties by focusing on defending our fleet. Raynor, take three dropships to carry Duke and his crew while I provide cover fire from my ship. Drop directly on Duke's location to minimize mission duration," Emerald comments before heading to her ship to provide the promised cover fire for the retrieval mission. Thanks to Emerald's plan, Duke is recruited along with Alpha Squadron without any major issues.
Over the next months, Alpha Squadron plays a major role in sweeping away Confederate resistance and Emerald sticks to mop up duty until the day she overhears what many consider to be the inner council discussing the defenses of Tarsonis, the Confederate capital world. "I'll admit my ship can't create a blast radius like a Battlecruiser's Yamato Cannon, but if you hold position just outside the range of the defense platform I can use my primary weapon to slice through every weapon on the platform and maybe even hit a few choice targets on Tarsonis itself," Emerald comments to the deriding laughter of General Duke.
Just five hours later, Raynor curses up a storm as he and Kerrigan flee aboard the Hyperion having been abandoned by Mensk and the Sons of Korhal while on the surface of Tarsonis, Emerald loses consciousness after Hydralisk spines remove a leg and both arms.
AN: Thanks for reading and please review. I'll probably have each chapter of the Koprulu arc be a full campaign.