As night finally settled in everything went slowly quiet in the hive. The hydralisks burrowed in the ground trying got get some shuteye. The drones stopped harvesting crystals and proceeded to run night errands. These included taking care of the larvae, and setting up new creep colonies to extend the hive. Z looked around him and thought about all that had happened in his first day in this world. He stopped thinking about how he had been bait, he only thought of the Overmind, that powerful entity that resided within him, that connected him will all his brothers and sisters. He was happy to be alive, he was happy to serve the colony.
In the middle of the night a lizard caught a fly. It looked curiously as the air shifted, molded over two silhouettes making their way through the desert. The two-man team was nearing the Zerg hive; soon they would be in the outer perimeter of it. "Piece of cake, they don't even have spore colonies." Anderson said over the com link. "Noob did they ever teach you that the overlords act as detectors and if you don't shut up we are going to be zerg food?" Sergeant Mifune whispered back. They stopped talking as they came into contact with the creep. Anderson almost puked at the smell of it. "At ease soldier." The last thing Mifune wanted was his mission jeopardized by an incompetent newbie puking because of a little zerg shit. He remembered now when he had received the mission back at the command center.
"Mifune I have a task for you." Said Commander Noah. Noah and Mifune had been friends since childhood. They had played in Tarsonis and now they shared this little outpost in Menaroch. Child's play had turned into Man's war.
"We have been given two nukes through the grace of our emperor Mengsk." Noah said with a smirk on his face.
"They now reside in our silo and believe me they can't wait to get some action. Take a new recruit and go to these coordinates." The commander said pointing to a point on the map which lay between the on the table.
"There are Zerg here, you and I know it. Luckily, for us it's a young hive, so there shouldn't be too much resistance. So I want you to scan the area. Make sure the situation is controllable; the last thing we want is a bunch of angry zerg pouring into this base." The commander said with a slight shudder.
"Are there any questions?"
"Sir no sir." Mifune answered with a smile and headed out to find a recruit dumb enough to go act as target.
He walked up to the Barracks. As he steeped inside everyone stood up. It was engraved in their minds to salute an officer no matter the situation. Even if they were getting chomped by the Zerg they'd still salute with their free hand. "Thank goodness for the wonders of science." Mifune thought to himself bitterly smiling. "At ease" he said "I need a volunteer to go as Ghost on a scouting mission." Most of the men and women in the barracks were either marines or firebats, but three slender soldiers stepped forward. "Now listen you're going to go as target so…" The sergeant did not need to finish the sentence two soldiers stepped back. They knew that this mission had a very low probability of returning them alive. Mifune looked at the remaining officer. "What's your name soldier?" "Sir, Anderson, sir." The soldier snapped. "Very well Mr. Anderson I want you prepped and ready on five." With that, the sergeant left and everyone returned to their beds in the barracks. Anderson got his gear ready