Chapter 2

Sam goes on collecting ashes as the rest of the ghosts burn the bodies of
the wounded and dead. Hearing what sounded like a foot step, The Death Knight
looked up from his work and down the tunnel. Hearing what sounded like the
sound of a Vulture he sounded to his comrades to boot up there cloaks.

Before anyone could react how ever, a group of 3 vultures was down apon them,
grenades firing.

"Cloaks u...", screamed the officer in command as a grenade tore into his back
blowing his rib cage right out the front of his body.

"We're being over run! Aim for the pilots not for the vultures! SCREW IT!
FIRE IN THE HOLE!", screamed Sam as he threw a hand nuke under a vulture.

The remaining ghosts ran to try to hide behind everything they could, as the
nuke blew the 3 vultures to pieces sending a wave of blood over the tunnel.

"Everyone out now! They've got us cornered in here, they'll be attacking again
soon! MOVE", screamed a ghost from the back of the tunnel.

After running for what seemed hours, Sam and his comrades arrived at the tunnel enterance
to see the Norad II hovering over head.

"Holy! Thats the drop ship they sent!?", said a ghost in a bewildered tone.

"Something must be happening for the Norad to leave space, they might be
thinking of attacking korhal", Sam said this in a matter of fact tone.

"Wait a second, theres a order for all units to pull off the Korhal, something
big might be happening", said a alarmingly tall Ghost.

"I dont know, nor do I care, im just no sticking around to find out", Sam
moved towards the Norad to board it.


Later that day upon the Norad, Sam heard that the Korhal had been nuked to the
floor by Confederate missiles.

"WHY!? We were doing fine in our campaign against the rebels!", shouted Sam
as he heard the news.

"Reason unknown sir, could be because the Confederates are running low on Ghosts
though", answered his assisstant who was so stimmed on stimpacks she could run
a mile in a minute.

"Ugh, and now they want me to head to Mar Sara to figure out what wierd creatures
are growing there, they can do it themselves!", shouted Sam, throwing the
paper with his new orders on it out the door.

"Sam you must reconsider, they will have you destroyed if you dont listen to them"

"Fine. Ill go to Mar Sara, but dont expec-", Sam's words were cut short as a fleet
of rebel star ships opened fire upon the Norad as it moved out of Korhal orbit.

"All crews to combat stations, all departing crew's to Mar Sara to drop ship's
now!"

"Well thats my bus, gotta catch it."

"Good luck sir."

"Thanks, I think I'll need it.", said Sam as he walked down the hall to the
drop ship bay.



After hours of travelling Sam finally arrives upon the world of Mar Sara.
In the starport where he arrived he hears screams and gun fire come from a long
hallway down to his right. He and a group of his friends decided to investigate and
went down the hallway to a door at the end. The saw what appeared to be a bunch of
students lined against the wall. He heard a conversation between two as rebels shot
away at others.

"Right about now that dream of yours should be happening if it would", said the
younger of the two.

"Well it might... but i doubt it, I can feel in the air this isnt going to be a good
day", replied a young beautiful lady, who Sam recongized from his ghost accademy named
Val.

"Right, well this doesnt look like its going to be a painless day too", said the
one unknown to Sam.

"But Bianca, you've got to remember, I was trained as a ghost, I dont think we'll be killed",
said Val as her friend Sarah was shot in the stomach over and over.

Feeling her pain through her Psychic outlet, and everything seemed to slow down, as she
watched in horor as each individual bullet tore through her friends stomach with a blood
spewing effect.

The Marine Reble then pointed his gun to Bianca and just as he was about to pull the trigger
to shoot her in the back and C-10 canister rifle blasted out from the shadows in a corner.
The bullet flying through the air, hitting the Marine in the head with a deadly effect.

"Now! We'll clean up these rebel scum!" Screamed Sam as he shot a blast from his rifle aiming
it towards the second Marine's back, nearly blasting him into two peices.

With his fellow ghosts running down the hallway cleaning up the remaining Marine's, Sam ran
towards Bianca and Val to make sure they were ok.

"Im fine", said Val with a glare. "But she took one of your C-10's bullets into the shoulder".

After examining Biancas wound he turned to Val and replied, "She will be fine, But I
know you."

"Yes and I know you", said Val. "Your that lonewolf from the accademy, Im surprized you
survived."

"Well I did...", while saying these last words he turned around and blasted a shot from his
rifle as a Marine, severly wounded, let his rifle off into Bianca's body, his spike like
bullets tearing her flesh from the bone.

"... Son of a BITCH", yelled Sam as he blasted the Marines face open with a bloody
effect.

"Thats all of them", said one of the Ghosts who travelled with Sam. "I think we best go
and report this to the Squad Commander."

"Right... well Val, Im surprized to see you made it, to this world Mar Sara", said Sam turning
to Val.

"Well I did, and this is the last you'll see of me, I've got more important things to do
then to talk to useless ghosts like yourself."

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"Well wasnt she a fiesty one", Said one of the ghosts to Sam, as they were walking away
from the shoot out.

"Well I've known her for a while, but thats the worst I've ever seen her... something
must be wrong with her..." said Sam with a look of sorrow in his eyes.

"Well Forget about her!, women only weaken the heart, and you wont get anywhere without that!"

After finishing the report with the squad commander, Sam was free to go explore the towns
of Mar Sara for a little while.

Buying the supplies he needed he went back to his quaters to find a big surprize waiting for him.

Val was standing there waiting for him to return with a evil look in her eye. She lifted
a gun from under her coat and pointed it towards Sam's head. She let off a single bullet,
just missing Sam's face and hitting something behind him, which replied with a huge
screach of terror. Turning around with his rifle pointed high he saw what looked like
a serpent creature, standing tall above him, blood dripping from its claws. It opened its
mouth to either bite him or spit on him when he blasted a hole right through the roof
of its mouth.

"What was that thing?" shouted Sam as he stubbled away from the creatures dead corpse.

"That 'thing' is called a Hydralisk. Ive been hunting this wierd creatures for years now,
this is the first one of this kind I've found, alive." Said Val.

"Wait, you mean to tell me this is one of those monsters im supposed to investigate on this
god damn planet!?"

"Yes, and now that I know you'll be my partner, I decided I'll make sure that you, unlike
all my other partners, aren't killed on the first day."

"Killed on the first day, what are you talking about?"

"All my other partners have been eaten alive or slaughtered by these monsters, I dont know
where they've come from but I dont want them to stay around any longer."

"Well since I'm your partner then I guess you have nothing to worry about. After all, I did
have a winning campaign against the rebels on Korhal."

"Oh is that so, well then, before you go and not get killed, you might want to get rid
of that parasite trying to bury its self in the back of your neck."

Pulling a knife from under his sleeve, he dug it into the back of his neck, tearing out a
parasite, of a insect looking creature, that was trying to dig it's self into his skin.

"Oh boy this is going to be a long campaign." remarked Sam as Val walked out the door.

"That it will be my friend, that it will be."