The Smiling Terror
Ch: 1 Infiltrating the compound.
It was a ominous night on the ashy planet of char as a lone black-skinned figure quietly slithered across the ground, using its talons to help pull it along occasionally,all the while slowly creeping up on it's unsuspecting prey.
"So did u catch Joe staring at that medic in compound C?".
"Yea, she's hot as all hell man not to mention really smart, did you know that she actually a fully licensed geneticist?".
"No, I didn't".
"well if anyone deserves her it will definitely be Joe".
"Indeed".
The creature stopped.
a geneticist?
His queen happened to be looking for special cases among the species like her!
Knowing what needed to be done, the creature stealthily came up behind the two and brought its multi-sectioned jaw together to form a sickly looking and glowing white smile, eyes pulsing white with barely restrained excitement, the creature came up and took one of it's pointed talons and stabbed it into it's prey head, then quickly whirled around and launched a spine into the other head through it's helmet.
Moving on its grabbed the fallen man's map and observed its destination, then left without making a single sound, for their would be many more targets that would become prey that night.
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Sierra Whitesnow awoke in a cold sweat in the middle of the night with a intense sense of terror and dread, there was something... something coming... for her!
Quickly rushing to get dressed she threw her pure white hair over her face and donned her clothes over her lean and fit body and then her medic suit before rushing out of her room towards the command center of compound C, she had things to get done before that Thing could get here.
Finally inside compound C, Venator the hydralisk quickly burrowed to avoid yet another patrol before quickly resurfacing and moving on, he was nearly to this compounds command center when he stopped and turned to the right as he sensed something, moving towards the back-end of some supply depots he saw a small squad of three ghosts that appeared to be standing around waiting for something. "Thissss will not do" Venator spoke before dissapearing and becoming one with the night.
"what is taking that woman so long?" Charles said. "well you know her she loves to make sure he hair looks nice." Bernie said. "Ugh, cmon if she doesn't get here soon then well be penalized for not getting our training done by the wranglers again!" Carlos said.
"I'm sure she won't be much longer, after all the wranglers aren't going to be supervising this training so we can finally have some fun again!" said Bernie.
"Indeed, It's been a while since we have been out, ya know just us four as family." said Carlos.
Suddenly the three felt the ground beneath them shift. "What the hell was that?" said Bernie.
Almost immediately the ground exploded as a hydralisk emerged from the ground. "greetingssss, I am Venator, now be sssilent".
Rushing forward Venator stabbed both Bernie and Carlos through the chest with his talons before raking them downward and out, roughly bisecting them from the chest downward and killing them instantly, then following up on the element of surprise he had he turned to the left and brought both of his talons up before swiftly bringing them back down in a X shaped manner thus easily killing Charles who was still shocked that the hydralisk talked.
If anyone were watching they wouldn't have seen anything except two glowing eyes and a sick white smile along with flashes of movement.
"now then I mussst hurry along for they will surely find these bodies, my Queen gave me a mission after all...But firssst that ssstraange psssionic sssignature." Venator said before swiftly and silently slithering away.
Meanwhile...
As Sierra entered the hospital ward of the barracks near the command center she was greeted by the sight of her coworkers among the usual chaos of the hospital.
since it was a operation on char of all places where zerg were plentiful there were ALWAYS hurt people.
moving forward towards her work station she gazed upon some new arrivals that came in yesterday, so far she was not impressed all it was were 3 new nurses who were essentially walking around like chickens with their heads cut off and a black-haired doctor who kept saying "SHUT UP NURSE!".
Arriving at her work station she unlocked her computer and accessed the data drives on her research.
she had been slowly but surely mapping out the zerg genome, NOT an easy challenge as the zerg genome is in a state of near constant atomic mutation...But as many patrols often encountered zerg and most came back covered in all kinds of zerg gore it was not that hard to find samples of any and all kinds, she had been at it for over a year now and to be honest she probably would have been done if not for the medical director of the char operation severely downplaying her skills and continuously giving her shit equipment.
Extracting her research data onto her suit drive was not hard but doing it without alerting the system admins would be very difficult and she was no hacker, so she was hoping that whatever was coming for her wouldn't kill her and she could escape in the chaos that she knew was to come.
As she took a deep breath to finish strategizing how she would get out of the compound she felt that sense of terror and dread slowly crawl up her spine again but this time it was stronger and near the end she had a vision.
She saw a flash of red, three dead corpses, two glowing eyes and a sickeningly sweet white smile. As the vision ended Sierra dropped to the floor gasping for air while in shock.
Giving herself a moment to collect her thoughts..."ok, FUCK THIS". Instantly pressing the Download button she stole the data and hurried out of the barracks and towards the shipyards.
Stepping out of her team's supply depot Nova Terra in her tactical stealth suit made her way around the back looking for her teammates, but she didn't see them anywhere "Guys? Charles? Carlos? Bernie?" as she walked forward she tripped on something soft and fell into a puddle of liquid.
"ugh what the hell did I trip on? And what the hell is this?".
Turning on her night vision she shrieked and shoved off oh the dead corpse of Charles, his face and it's look of pure terror and shock forever burned into her mind looking around she also saw the dead body of Carlos and the mutilated body of Bernie.
Nova began hyperventilating as she struggled to keep control of herself.
"why... why them... they were all I had... THEY WERE MY FAMILY!".
With a psionic roar she grabbed her anger as she was taught in ghost training and focused her power looking around and spotting a small trail that quickly faded, she had seen trails like this before only 2 things could make trails like that and they were hydralisks and defilers and defilers are not made for killing, not to mention defilers are not trained in stealth whereas her team had seen multiple hydra killteams stealthily sneak up on marine patrols to ambush them before dissapearing and covering their tracks.
"so a hydralisk! Wait their audio logs! There always on before a mission!".
Quickly accessing their teams audio logs she heard the whole encounter which only served to refuel her anger, "Venator? They can talk?... it doesn't matter ill capture him and torture him until it screams its apologies.".
"IM COMING FOR YOU VENATOR!"
Hiya guys, The Hierarch is among you! Just another chapter (made it longer this time! :/ ) anyway in this scene nova lost her team (remind your selves that ghost go through very cruel and grueling training and the only people they can really trust is their teams as they are around each other all the time thus they become their family as ghost never actually see their real family ever again after they enter ghost training!) and Sierra trying the get the hell out of dodge( but how does she know that Venator is coming for her?) well that will be answered later! Also I named our hydralisk Venator(meaning Hunter in Latin) as I thought it fit him as a character! Till next time! R&R! Hierarch out!