Okay, this is the first chapter of my story. I just wanted to say that I won't be able to upload very fast or often since I've got a lot of work to do. So, I hope you enjoy and I'll try to make the next chapters long as well but I can't promise.

Disclaimer: I still don't own StarCraft or StarCraft: Ghost, otherwise I wouldn't have stopped it's production.

Four years after the BroodWar shook the Koprulu Sector Emperor Arcturus Mengsk I. has rebuilt his Terran Dominion and is preparing for the upcoming war against the Queen of Blades, Sarah Kerrigan. For this case the Dominion is developing new weapons and technology. It is also two years after Agent 12-862 graduated from Ghost Academy.

-Chapter 1: Advancing and Landing-

Arcturus Mengsk sat behind a large mahagoni desk. In front of him was an open file containing the information about the mission for the person wearing skin-tight white body-suit with several cables and attachments on it in front of him.

"I want you to act mainly as an back-up force with the Black-ops team and Delta- and Epsilon-Squadron on this mission. You are to support Captain Bock in any way possible and get him out of any kind of mess he is most likely going to get himself in."

At this a knowing smirk appeared on the face of the Emperor.

"And as far as I know him that is going to happen faster then I'm comfortable with so I advice you to get ready as soon as possible and head out to Mar Sara."

The emperor handed the silent figure the file.

"These are additional mission objectives which you will carry out as soon as the Refinery has been secured. I can count on you for keeping this information top-secret, right?"

The figure nodded once in agreement while taking the file and then left the leader of the Terran Dominion without a word alone in his bureau. Arcturus Mengsk rose from his chair behind the desk and, taking another file from the heavy desk, turned around to gaze out of the giant window upon the rebuilding city on the center of the Dominion, Korhal IV.

A loud knocking was soon after heard from the large wooden door on the opposite side of Arcturus' office. It was not loud enough to appear intriguing but clearly showed that the person knocking was used to giving orders and had a lot of self-confidence.

"Come on in, General Warfield," Arcturus said with a small smile on his lips. The door was opened and the person standing on the other side slowly took a step into the room.

"I still don't get how you always know it's me, Mr. Emperor," General Warfield said a bit annoyed. At this the Emperor let out a small chuckle and turned around to his visitor.

"Didn't you know that I was a psychic myself, Horace?" he said with a grin.

"Speaking of psychics," Horace Warfield cut in, " was it really a wise decision to sent..."

However, he was cut short when the Emperor's grin faded and he interrupted with a darker voice: "I haven't changed my mind about that matter, Horace, and I am aware of the risks. But with the situation as critical as it is I am willing to take them. After all, where would I be if I hadn't taken any risks?" He paused and then continued: "If that is all, General Warfield, then I advice that you leave now since the Dominion doesn't run itself after all." With that said he dropped the folder onto his desk and walked past the General out of the room. Almost unbeknownst to the General the Emperors personal ghost followed him on his heels. Horace Warfield took a quick glance at the folder which had "Project: Shadow Blade" imprinted on the top and then followed after the mightiest human in the Koprulu Sector.

Koprulu Sector

Mar Sara

73 hours after the infection of a Vespene Refinery 1138 through the Zerg.

It was a magnificent view: hundreds of marines, firebats and Goliath-walkers were marching through the Mar Sara wastelands toward the infected Vespene Refinery. Captain Bock stood in the middle of his soldiers and with a flick of his hand he opened his visor. A satisfied grin was plastered on his face as he watched the last dropships leave the planets surface.

"Lieutenant Haggs! Status report!"

The marine approached his captain and answered: "No signs of the Zerg, sir. Maybe they retreated."

The captain let out a grunt: "Maybe? There are no 'maybes' here, Lieutenant! They turned their spiny tails and ran away before the first dropships even set down."

He continued walking toward the refinery: "I want all of the men assembled and ready to move up to the refinery. We're gonna take that objective and go home!" At the last words he slammed his fist into his palm, all the while the lieutenant was following him.

"Um... but, sir, shouldn't we... sent out a scout team to..." Lieutenant Haggs wasn't able to finish his sentence as Captain Bock turned around and gave him a death glare. Instead he saluted half-halfheartedly and said: "Yes, sir."

Captain Bock watched his lieutenant walk off then he turned to the refinery on top of the hill, visible in the distance, and muttered to himself: "Hell... my grandma's sewing circle coulda handled this mission."

Above the clouds of Mar Sara's atmosphere three Terran dropships made their way toward the planets surface. Inside one of them a small squad of marines were buckled in their seats. Soft country music filled the cabin and the marines were chatting with each other.

"So, anybody know the ex-sol down there?" One of the marines asked into the round. The others simply looked at each other until one of them spoke up: "Captain Bock... He's an idiot." This caused some quite laughter throughout the cabin and the soldiers agreeing with him. One of the marines lent over to his sergeant and asked:

"Hey sarge. What's with the ghost?"

They both looked over to the end of the cabin farthest away from the entrance ramp where in the shadows a sitting figure was visible due to the pulsing, blue energy running through the attachments of it's body-suit.

"You got me", answered the sergeant his soldier who responded:

"Don't say much." The sergeant replied with a grin: "They never do."

An idea was forming in the soldiers head. Let's see if I can make a bit of fun of him or at least get him to say something.

"Hey", he whispered to his sergeant, "check this out."

He lent forward and shouted over to the lone figure:

"Hey, tough guy! What's with the loner crap?" After a little pause he added: "Why don't you come back here and sit with the real men?" Now how are you going to react?

The figure which had been sitting still with its legs crossed uncrossed them and slowly bent over so that its head was in the light. The other marines now had a clear view of the blond hair and the piercing green eyes of the woman who sat at the end of the cabin.

Most of the marines weren't able to stifle their laughter while the marine who had taunted the ghost cringed. "Uhh... " Shit, that's a woman! After one last glance into the round the female ghost sat back into the shadows to leave the marines alone to their mockering of their comrade. "Real smooth, Loster." One commented. "Shut up", came the grumpy reply.

Mar Sara surface

Captain Bock was walking through his ranks of marines when Lieutenant Haggs came running up to him. "Captain Bock! I got word from HQ that three dropships are en route with reinforcements. ETA is in..." Here he was cut off by Captain Bock.

"Reinforcements?"

"Yes sir. Two squads and a black-ops unit."

"Black-ops? Pegs! All we need here is: blood, sweat and the fire-power of my Terran Marine Corp." By now they had advanced further through the rows of marines.

"Shall I call HQ to cancel..."

"HELL, YES Lieutenant!!! I've got this... operation..." Captain Bock was looking around.

"You hear that?"

"What?"

"Who called in siege tanks?!?" Bock was starting to get irritated by the trembling of the ground and the rumbling in the air.

"I want to know who called siege tanks onto MY battle-field lieutenant!" He was shouting now.

Lieutenant Haggs answered calmly while the other marines continued to advance:

"We ain't got no battle-tanks here, sir."

A look of complete shock on his face Captain Bock gazed to the Vespene Refinery and whispered when the trembling had gotten so strong that the other marines, firebats and goliath-walkers noticed: "Mother mercy..."

The marines were starting to get nervous until one of them readied his C-14 Impaler and shouted into the suit come-link: "ZERG!!!"

Captain Bock was only able to whisper: "Pull back..."

Then louder: "Pull back!"

Until he shouted:"PULL BACK!!!"

The marines started shouting orders at each other for retreat when on the nearby hills coming from the refinery hordes of zerglings and hydralisks swarmed towards them.

The marines closest to the advancing forces wasted no time and opened fire from their gauss guns but they failed to notice the Zerg who dug themselves out of the ground between them. By now most squads started firing as more and more Zerglings emerged from the ground. However, the sheer number of foes forced the marines to pull back but the Zerglings were much faster and started tearing the stranglers to shreds. Two marines who were covering each other were pushed aside by a firebat who immeadetly started torching the incoming Zerglings with his plasma fire. He was rather successful until one of them managed to latch itself onto his arm which caught his attention long enough for him to be covered by a blanket of Zerg bodies.

Elsewhere marines were gathering in order to take down the Ultralisk who had joined the battle. They were shouting at each other to take it to which it responded by smashing all the marines around it away with its two blade-like arms.

In the center of the original army Captain Bock was encouraging his men to held their grounds while he shot several Zerglings with his P1000. He turned to Lieutenant Haggs and shouted:

"I want those reinforcements! And I want them NOW! NOW!!!"

In the skies

The three dropships were passing through the clouds at full speed while their pilots spoke to each other:

"So, Captain Bock called in the cavalry."

"Now that's a first."

"He didn't even say 'please'."

"This is serious boys! This sounds hard and their getting their asses full there."

"Keep your eyes peeled. It's waaay to quiet up here..."

The dropships passed through some heavy storm clouds and inside of them two Mutalisks appeared and followed them.

"We've got company!"

"Hostiles on our six."

"Pull the pedal to the metal!"

While they continued their descend the Mutalisks started spitting out their acid spore-parasites, trying to shoot them down.

"Taking fire!"

The dropships started evasion maneuvres until one parasite latched onto the thrusters of one dropship and started melting the hull away until it reached the core engine and the thruster erupted in flames.

"I'm HIT!!!" And he lost control. "Aaaiiiiiieeeeeeuuuuuurgh!!!!"

The dropship spun around uncontrollable and threated to crash into its comrades.

"Pull up!" However, it came to late and the two dropships collided with each other causing them both to explode. The last one barely made it out of the explosion radius.

Inside the green standby lights turned to red alert when the ship was shuck by the shockwave and the music ceased. The marines looked around confused before closing their visors in order to activate the internal oxygen tanks and make their CMC Power-Suits combat ready. The voice of the pilot crackled through the speakers:

"Twomanner and Lightbringer are down and I've got bugs everywhere. We're not gonna make it to the LZ so I'm gonna bring us in as close as possible.... Hold on tight, boys and girls, we're going in... Hard and fast!" At these words the female ghost started checking her equipment, especially her C-10 Canisterrifle. While the dropship approached the surface the marines checked that their Power-Suits were running at full energy. All of them were pressed into their seats when the pilot decreased their speed and set down on the planet.

"I'll land here but I won't stick around for very long, so don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out." At this the marines buckled out and the sergeant shouted:

"Let's roll!" He then looked over to the only female in the squad who just re-inserted her munition clip into her rifle. She looked up and nodded once before the marines set foot on Mar Sara's charred soil.