So basically, I went ahead and made Karass a Executor of the Protoss. Looking at his wiki, he doesn't seem to be a Executor, but he kinda went there on his own, you know? Plus, the highest ranking Protoss automatically becomes a Executor upon the battlefield in case there isn't one, as he will be commanding the forces. The way I currently understand it is the Praetor handles battle strategies, but the Executor commands the army as a whole, taking into account the words of the Praetor.

Anyway, enjoy the story :D

"I can...Understand your issue with using the darker of our brethren in our armies. But I assure you, Karass, they are good warriors, and uphold their honor and traditions just as we do," for the last hour Alitar had been trying to convince Karass to use the Nerazim in their ranks. Many of them were stationed on the Carriers above, hungering for battle.

"You know as well as I do Alitar, that the Dark Prelate Zeratul caused the downfall of Aiur. I'm sure we both treat it that the information the Overmind got from his mind was no accident. He knew what would happen!" Karass retorted back at Alitar. Alitar was trying to convince him that they were good warriors, but he was having none of it.

They came to a stop in front of the newly established nexus, which was already busy building probes to work the minerals and vespene geyser nearby. Probes floated about and created pylons and gateways. They went down to the ramp that led to the established beachhead, which already had a gauntlet of cannons, keeping watch in the sand in case any more zerg decided to show up.

"We need the stalkers though Karass. We have almost no Anti-Air capabilities currently. Trust me, I don't like working with them either, but ever since Artanis was installed as hierarch, we just have to work with them and learn to trust them," Alitar just gave off a mental sigh.

"Very well Alitar. You have swayed me, but trust me, I do not like working with these...Nerazim," he nodded to a probe that went to go make a Dark shrine, which would give the warp gates the abilities to call in the Nerazim.

"And what of our defense? I trust the zerg have not tried to retaliate yet?" Karass was most concerned with the fact that the zerg just stopped coming. Ever since Kerrigan was integrated into the swarm, and became its main ruler she made the zerg more independent in their thoughts, being able to know when they would lose instead of just charging headlong into the enemy, which was much stronger and getting obliterated because of it. It could also have to do with the fact the Queen of Blades herself was there too. But either way, they should have attacked by now.

"No Karass. No zerg have dared to show their faces around here. It makes me worried as well though. Something isn't right on this planet." Alitar glanced around the area they were in. It had only dirt, and sand, and it was all so...blue. Constant clouds covered the sky, making the planet appear dark, even though sunlight was just trying to glare through the clouds. The reason Kerrigan would come here of all places? No Protoss knew.

Alitar walked down the ramp which led to the Beachhead, as well as Karass just...floating like all High Templar do.

As they came to the beginning of the gauntlet of cannons, legions of zealots awaited, and in front of them stood a warrior who has been watching progress in Alitar's absence.

"No zerg yet?"

"No Praetor. No zerg have been seen since the mighty Colossi have beaten them back. The zealots are restless to get moving. We have located the first of many of Kerrigans Hive clusters. Only a few miles away by the looks of it as well. It is fairly guarded, but only zerglings and Hydralisks guard the hive."

"Understood. Well done, warrior." Alitar turned to Karass. "Well Karass, what is the plan?"

"Charge the Hive Cluster and Obliterate them all," he said with slight disgust in his tone. Of all the species the Protoss have had to deal with, zerg was easily their least favorite.

Alitar turned to his warriors and gave the signal through the Khala. The zealots then began to make a beeline for where the Hive cluster was located. Around twenty stalkers came down from the ramp and joined the zealots charge. Warp Prisms flew by the zealots in case of reinforcements, and three colossi went as well.

Karass always enjoyed the way the Protoss race showed their might, this would be a truly glorious battle.

One of Kerrigans overseers had picked up a large amount of moving bodies, and when she looked at what it was, she was less then pleased. It looked like legions of zealots were charging one of her main Hive clusters with support from artillery. These Protoss were going to be annoying until they would be put down...

She commanded various of the Hive queens to begin injecting Larvae en masse, which they did. Soon enough, hundreds of larvae were awaiting her command, and made them all morph to roaches. Roaches were the bane of zealots, and she giggled as she imagined hundreds of them being cut down swiftly by the quick eating acid the roaches could shoot out.

As they were nearing the Hive cluster, the roaches were ready and she moved them all to the Hive cluster. All she had to do was wait for the slaughter to begin.

Things weren't going well for the Protoss. Apparently, they were misinformed, as the observer reports said the Hive cluster was fairly guarded by zerglings and Hydralisks. But when they got there it was a different story entirely.

Instead of zerglings and Hydralisks, they fount what could be described as the terror of every Zealot. Hundreds of roaches were lined up snarling, with saliva dripping from their mouths, ready to chew through all the Protoss could throw at them. The Protoss warriors that did charge were quickly cut down by the quick eating acid.

As Karass finally got closer to the battle he heard the voices of many of his brethren through the Khala, calling out to use maneuvers and watch for acid...

When he finally got there, he saw the full horror. Dozens of zealots were being murdered instantly in cold blood by the zerg. Acid chewed through one of the legs of the Colossi, and it lost it's footing, slamming like a domino into the Colossi next to it, both exploding violently, killing a few zealots that were directly under them.

High Templar were unloaded from the Warp Prisms, and began to quickly use their psionic storms upon the enemy. While it had high effect, more roaches kept coming, reminding Karass of the clifftop scenario, only ten times as worse.

It didn't help any of the warriors that the way to get to the hive was enclosed by cliffs. Making it even harder to maneuver in, and with this many Zerg in one place, there was almost no way to move in further.

Not only were the cliffs a constant problem, but the zerg were constantly being reinforced by Zerglings, and Hydralisks, which made a fighting force that many of the Protoss warriors could not stand against when included with the large cliffs.

Alitar quickly saw this was a downhill battle as he fought with three Zerglings at once, they were trying to chew through his armor to get to his arms, and legs, but he sliced their heads off which killed all three. He focused his thoughts to the Executor.

"Karass, we need to retreat, we are going to get killed fighting a downhill battle."

"Fool! We are Protoss, we will never run from the enemy!"

Alitar kicked a Zergling angrily with his suit legs. Would the Executor ever listen to him? The Executor's pride would get the Protoss killed on this blighted world!

The battle would soon change though, as the Dark Shrine at the nexus finally finished.

Warp Prisms began to move over the battlefield, and switch to their pylon like state, the warp gates began to warp in several of the Dark Templar underneath the Prisms. The Hydralisks moved to stop them, but couldn't take them all out before a Swarm of Templar rammed into the force of Zerg, Psyblades ready.

"Adun Toridas, Executor. We will cleave straight through the enemy, and to the heart of this hive!" declared a Dark Templar prelate.

And quickly, the battle course changed. The Dark Templar quickly started cutting through the ranks, any overlords that dared to get near were shocked by psionic storms. The Protoss once again, became a force to be reckoned with.

They cut through the Hydralisks and zerglings like they were made of plastic. Roaches quickly fell as well. Between the endless onslaught of Green and Yellow blades, all that opposed the oncoming force of Protoss were quickly crushed. This victory, would go to the Protoss.

Kerrigan was once again left seething at the Protoss. Not only did they not stop at the first hive, but they went and obliterated five more Hive clusters before she could actually get any overseers over to them, or Mutalisks. She was quickly being outmatched by the Protoss.

She knew she needed to change her strategy, the last Prophecy Fragment was almost hers. It would tell her the final part that she desperately needed to know. But the Protoss were to fast. Her numbers were thinning to quickly.

She then smiled Maliciously to herself. She thought of one of the old projects used back in the brood war. Due to her victories after Brood war without using them, she decided they were a unneeded form of Hydralisk.

She quickly relayed her commands to the remaining hives, as well as commanding Drones to make even more. Then, she made the Hydralisk dens evolve.

Smiling as she petted her pet Hunter killer, she said out loud "These Protoss will once again learn to fear me..."

"Forward!"

"For adun!"

"En taro Artanis!"

That was all the confident Zealots could say. Ever since the Dark Templar were added to their ranks, they were a never stopping force of death against the zerg.

Karass started to see their uses, as Alitar had tried to point out. More stalkers were being added to the ranks as well. They had already purged six Hive clusters, and from the Observer reports, there only remained twelve more, at this rate they would all be purged by the next day, and Kerrigan would be in there hands for vengeance.

And then a Zealot made a sound, which could only be described as a scream. And the entire line of charging zealots stopped.

Karass and Alitar made their way to the front of the line, and they saw what had happened. A few Zealot corpses lay on the ground. They were riddled with at least a dozen holes going down the length of their bodies, and then they slowly evaporated to dust.

Karass could feel Alitar was just as stunned as him. "I have never seen anything like this...not since...the brood war.," Alitar looked to his friend quickly. Alitar hadn't really fought against the broods, but he had seen reports of this type of casualty.

"Lurkers...Kerrigan decided to use them against us, knowing even if she couldn't have overlords in the area, it would have stopped the Dark Templar due to the spikes going straight."

"Yes, it seems so Alitar. Where is our nearest observer?"

"It will take them a few hours to get here at least. We had the other observers scout the rest of the world looking for hives."

"Then we will wait until then. Set up Fortifications in case Kerrigan dares to strike us."

"Understood."

Kerrigan was grinning wickedly, everything was going according to plan. Now the next phase needed to be initiated, and hundreds of Zealots with the Dark Templar would fall at once.

So Lurkers were the bane of my existence in brood war when I was playing Protoss. so many warriors lost...

Yes, I decided to include them, and try my best to make Kerrigan seem more evil overall. She just isn't like she was when she was in brood war and sc1, and I felt like it was a odd change to her, especially since she was still the same character and all. I tried.

Anyway, cya in the next chapter if you continue to read :D