II Safety's loves arms

David felt weary. he made his way past a full deck of evacuees and pushed his way through the frantic crowd of people inside the ship's hull. He pushed through a door on the left side of the main deck and slid past even more people to one of the only empty seats on the end of the ship, right above the turbo engines. The seat was right beside a tinted visor that overlooked the whole area from the landing pad was situated in. Suddenly David looked up to see a safety harness plummet down on him, strapping him in tightly and securely, and also a bit uncomfortably! The harness (even though it was chocking him tightly) was quite plush for it was made of a foam base encased with rubber that made the tight chocking sensation not so horrible! He heard a calm female voice sound over the overhead com systems, David could barely hear the words for the noises echoing in his tortured mind but he could slightly make out the words. It said "please keep your hands and feat inside of the seat at all times during departure. thank you"! David made an odd expression with his face, this was supposed to be an emergency escape vehicle not a theme park ride. It was kind of silly to have a voice stating that over the com system. but, that was just the adrenaline talking.

He looked around to see a handful of unhappy people crying and blankly staring into space. Some had suffered death, some had suffered loss, either way they were tortured out of their minds!

Suddenly a the pilot's voice cam over the com system "cchh, we will be lifting off now, please prepare for some turbulence from and after departure, we also remind people that we shall do the best we can to help each and every one of you find injured or lost family members and friends. He said as the engines started to whine and people started to whine even more. "We also remind people that you are entering a tightly secured military operation's center and when we enter the evac center on command you shall be assigned a bunk and quarters into entering the command ship, that is all please prepare for lift off thank you" he explained as the ship finally started to rumble, for it was beginning to take off.

The engines started to scream, (as well as the people) the hull started to creek. David held on for dear life as the turbulent shaking transformed into a low shaking and advance as they proceeded. David began to fell his stomach drag down to his hips and felt a bit queasy. The engines were still warming as they began to touch the clouds, David looked down at the innocent meat below. For that was all the rest of the people were. meat, nothing more nothing less. David scolded himself for conjuring such a thought, he looked around and found the zerg were just beginning to breach the outer walls, his tank was under attack by three zerglings as well as David could make out, or maybe they were broods, he was far away and disoriented that he could make out just what they were but that none of his remaining companions would be left alive in there, the little devils were already burrowing their way through the steal of the vehicle, as suddenly a figure jump from the cockpit, right before he was engulfed in pure, bright flame!

David began think to himself again, he was very ashamed of himself, so much shame for one man was devastating to his self esteem. He was angry at himself for leaving his comrades to burn only because of his self indulgence in saving his own neck. He wondered a very puzzling thought. why would the zerg attack a civilian outpost on the outskirts of the planet? Of all places they could attack why that one spot in the whole of the world. It just didn't make any sense, the whole hive force was on the offence, and why did the hive send just basic infantry!? The confederates knew that their was a hive clustering around the cliff sides but they produced at an enormous rate! Either way it didn't make any sense to David and he didn't need any more confusing or aggressive thoughts right now, all he worried about was getting to the space station. intact! He was interrupted in mid consciousness by an annoying overhead com system yelling in his ear saying "we are exiting the atmosphere and will be in orbit within a matter of minutes, make sure you are securely fastened with in your safety harnesses, thank you" he explained.

At the very moment the pilot stopped talking, David's right became even more bumpy then it had began. A select number of people began to barf, some began to scream, and most of them were still staring off into space. The ride became immensely unbearable, and David started to feel his head beginning to explode! The shaking came to the breaking point until it immediately stopped like a pin hitting the ground. David's face was beat red, his eyes were bugging out as well as everyone else. He shook it off and turned his head slowly. The tinted visor that had been burning by bloodshed was shifted into an aqua blue. This caught David's attention very quickly as he quickly leaned forwards and breathed in the view.

It was beautiful, so beautiful he could cry, the barren planet that had been taken through David's eyes melded from a scorched basin to a smooth aqua exterior. The atmosphere of the planet was radiating with all it's glory as 3 blinding fast wraiths quickly caught up to the slow moving shuttle and formed a protective triangle formation around it. The flat surface of the planet was rounding out by the second and David could see a makeshift planet suddenly dotted with tens of other evacuating shuttles, also accompanied by the dog fighting wraiths of the confederacy.

The shuttle turned a 180 in mid space as so they could latch on to the evac center. David's face was pulled to his right side as the ship turned around to see yet another amazing and aw inspiring site. The huge space station, as big as his imagination itself, it was a huge rough steal area, larger than a valley. It had a huge circular surface, based with massive turbo lift engines, it completed with 4 large steal arms protruding from the base formed in a circle. It was like nothing he had ever seen before, alienating in all respects, inhuman and immensely large! He took his eyes off of the enormous spectre, and noticed an indent in the lower part of the ship, they were entering the docking areas, it was all apart of the huge bottom part of the vessel that was used for military deployment and storage. The huge arms were used for quarters and rec, and the middle of the ship was military operations and research. they never tell personnel what goes on behind those closed doors. The space station looked as if it was half the size of Texas, but it was really only about the size of a large city, even so, it was massive. David hadn't seen it for he departed from a class 1 battle cruiser coming out of hyper space just before the battle had begun. The cruiser was holding millions of troops and vehicles. He was dropped directly out of the cruiser and landed on Antiga 4.

David came out of his rain of thought and centred his attention on the young girl across from him. If David wasn't mistaken. this could have been the young girl he saw for a brief second earlier. She was very beautiful, brown hair blue eyes, and a straight chin. He realized that the boy she was yelling at was no where in site and wondered what had happened down there. He was just about to say something to her, but he stopped in mid thought for he didn't want to make an aqward scene. He then heard the annoying voice over the com system yet again. "Alright people, thank you for your co-operation. We shall be docking shortly and we asked you to prepare for a slight jolt as we attach to the transport lift. I remind people again that if anyone is injured and needs medical attention, that there will be several medics on stand by before you enter the facility. To your right side there is the med center, to your left there will be civilian registration, and in the middle is all military personal. I repeat again med center is to your right and civilian is to your left and military is straight down the hall. You shall be assigned to your quarters by your quadrant regiment. That is all". Finally he shut up as David already knew the workings of a military space centre!

"5.4.3.2.1, we have attachment" the voice said over the com as David felt a slight jolt for they had attached to the command ship. He heard a psssd sound, that was the air pressure tanks sucking on to the latches. His, along with all other evacuees' safety harnesses were lifted up and everyone began to rush to the back of the shuttle. David was pushed around several times, he cursed at many of the people in anger saying "watch where you're going" and "piss off". Of course know one paid attention too his mindless jabbering as they continued on to the back. The voice explained the instructions saying "please proceed to the back of the ship and enter into the turbo lifts, 4 at a time in an orderly fashion please, you will be brought to the ready room and assigned to your quarters, please obey the rules and enjoy your stay, thank you".

Enjoy your stay, nice try buddy David thought to himself you might as well say thanks for being the main coarse in a zerg buffet, come again! David entered the turbo lift and was about the 4th group to go up, but it wasn't orderly! Everyone was crowding, trying to get in. As he ascended, he saw 2 parents with what looked like a 5 year old boy that hadn't been hurt, a little dirty but no major damage. The boy's mother was crying and it took a long time for her to shut up. But it wasn't al that bad for it only took 15 seconds for him to reach the designated ready room, were a whole load of other people from four other drop ships were awaiting accommodations! There could have been 100 to 200 hundred people in that room, David didn't care he just wanted to get the wait over with. After what seamed like an hour another female voice sounded over the speakers (sounded robotic). It explained yet again the boring rules and regulations, as well as instructions on the locations! That voice finally shut up as the huge blast door in front of the people whooshed up and the mob of people flooded in to the halls. Some were running, some were limping as they each entered different corridors!