AMBUSHED

THE STORY OF THE BATTLE ON AMBSH-8

This is a story I am writing about Starcraft. The planet and the characters are all made up. Anything or anyone related to them is a pure coincidence. Now please sit back and enjoy the story.

12:01 AM

PLANET CONCORD, 9 DAYS BEFORE WAR

"Fuck man, nothing ever happens on this planet. Some days I just WISH that some Zerg would show up lookin' for a fight!"

"Yeah?"

Two marines were standing a few miles away from the colonist's town. They were on guard duty. Planet Concord was small. It was a desert-like planet. It had a small town overlooking the mountains, and the rest of it was miles and miles of endless plane. The planet was unknown to the Confederacy. Concord had a small local militia. If a horde of Zerg happened to come, they would have to call in the Confederacy for the first time.

The Zerg doesn't even know of this planet… or so we thought.

The people on Concord were rather happy with their private lives. They had the clothes, the food, and the stores. Some would wonder how a small town like this was able to have stuff. Well, Concord was richened with Minerals and Gas. They also had many helpful people in town to make supplies out of natural things.

Back in town, everyone was sleeping. The only people who weren't sleeping at twelve in the morning were two members of the militia on guard duty. Everyone wondered why the hell they would need to have two people stand around all night for nothing, but the governor of this town was always a think-safe type of person.

"Dude… I'm beat. I don't think I could stay awake for more than a few minutes," said Rob, a 19 year old boy.

"Sigh… Fine, you sleep in the god damn jeep and I'll drive it around for the rest of the guard duty….you fucking pussy…"

"…What…"

"Just wait here and I'll be back in a minute with the fucking jeep!"

Mike was used to this behavior from Rob. Mike was 21 years old. He had been on guard duty with Rob once a week for more than a year. Mike walked down to the garage, which was up on a hill above where the two marines were. Mike's armor suit was heavy to walk with, but he was used to it. He held his C-14 Gauss Rifle with one hand. It dragged along on the sand with him. The only way for these two to see at this time was with the night vision goggles they were wearing under their transparent helmets that were attached to their armor suit. After a few minutes of walking, Mike arrived on top of the hill. He pressed the red button on the building, and the garage door slid open. He pulled the keys from his pocket, and opened the door to the patrol jeep. The jeep had automatic rifles built on the top. The rifles had a special AI system built into them, and they fired at any not human life forms. He got in, and shut the door behind him. In less than thirty seconds, he was back down to Rob….who was sleeping on the ground. Mike grinned. He beeped the horn and Rob screamed an ear-piercing scream. The kid jumped up and stared right at the jeep. Mike let his hand go off the horn after five seconds. He rolled down the window and stuck his head out.

"How'd you like that? Shows you not to sleep on the job, dumb fuck! Hah!"

"Thanks a lot asshole! Now I'm not tired anymore! Grr…"

Rob and Mike sat around talking and driving for a few minutes. They joked around and just had fun. At 6:00 AM, they were free to go back home and sleep. It was now 1:00 AM. Five hours would go quick when you are riding around in the desert talking to your friend.

"Yeah, I almost have enough money for a couple shirts from that expensive store down the street from my house. The chicks dig that shit."

"Hah, kid, I have enough money to buy ten shirts there! That's what you can do when you work everyday, and not just work guard duty once a week."

Rob grinned, and looked out the window to the right of him. The grin quickly went off his face.

"Wait a minute, stop the car, stop it!"

The car jerked to a stop. Rob looked as if he had just seen a ghost. Mike was actually starting to get a bit freaked out. He always knew Rob as a fun, no-worries type of person.

"W-what's wrong…."

Rob stared at Mike for what seemed like all eternity, his eyes bloodshot and bulging out. The sun wasn't out yet, thank god. If it was out, Rob would be as pale as a piece of paper right now.

"I think I saw something out there… it looked like a"

The automatic machineguns on top of the patrol jeep went off. The two boy's quickly got down involuntarily. They had their rifles gripped in their hands for dear life. They were both shaking uncontrollably. They heard sounds of acid burning the auto guns, and after a few acid shooting sounds, the four auto guns stopped firing.

"Are we g-g-going t-to die?" whispered Rob, his voice was shrill from fear.

Mike couldn't speak. His voice was trapped. He used all his brain to listen to the pattering outside of the jeep.

"Lets check it out…" Mike tried to sound as calm as possible, but it miserably failed.

He opened the door and stepped out. Rob did too and quickly walked over right next to Mike.

"Nothing… what the fuck is going on."

They looked around, rifles up circling around in complete sync with their eyes.

"AHH!"

Mike turned around as Rob was lifted on top of the truck by a creature with two big claws for arms.

"DIE MOTHER FUCKER!"

Mike shot at this huge beast, but his bullets did nearly nothing. The creature, known as a Hydralisk, took his other pincer and stabbed it deep in Rob's heart. The kid's eyes rolled back in his head, then he was thrown twenty feet to the left of the Hydralisk.

Mike ran out of ammo. He dropped his gun and stared at the alien with fear in his heart. The bastard was grinning! Mike could hear quick steps behind him. More aliens were coming, Mike didn't bother looking. They were about 50 feet away, but coming towards him.

"Look, can you spare me? Do that and I'll tell all my friends not to kill your bitch ass when they see you."

The Hydralisk raised his pincer, and quickly let it down on Mike. Blood was splattered all over the jeep. The headlights flickered a few times then died out. The Zerg quickly went back in hiding. Everything was quiet again.