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"speech"

thoughts

"telepathy"

CHAPTER 2: Arrival

Meanwhile a battle was raging on the ground. The zerg had already morphed a sizable hive cluster, and were going to, eventually, overrun the defenses.

"Sir, the zerg have broken through the southern barricade!"

"Thank you lieutenant. Adjutant, tell squads 5 and 7 to reinforce the location immediately!"

Damn. If those reinforcements don't get here, were doomed.. At least they sent a ghost as well..

"Sir!"

"Yes, what now?!"the aging admiral grumbled.

I'm getting old for this shit...

"Reinforcement's showed up on the radar! 15 wraiths and 7 dropships!"

Thank god..

"Good. Continue your work."

Unfortunately, the dropships and wraiths were being shot down y the zerg. By the time they got there only 6 wraiths and 3 dropships remained.

"Let's get outta this ship! I wanna blast those zerg!" shouted Charles.

"Wait up you.."started Rob.

"Ah glad you boys are here, the admiral wants to speak with you." said some random marine. By the looks of him, he was still a rookie who just signed up for the local militia.

"I'm sergeant Emerson, where is the admiral?"

"The admiral is in that command center over there. I'll take you there."

After a short walk, people staring at the extremely young looking ghost and some whining from Charles, they got to the command center where an older veteran greeted them and took them to meet the admiral. On the way there they took a good look at the base, the part that they were walking through of course. There were three barracks, two factories and two starports for unit production. There was also an engineering bay and an armory near the command center, which was in the middle of the base.

They walked along a corridor, went up a lift ad walked to an other room. Apparently this was where the admiral was. The door was slightly larger than the ones before, and clearly stated: NO ANAUTHORISED PERSONNEL. They were told to wait outside, while the veteran (who's mind the ghost did not search for the name because he didn't give a shit about every single marine's name)

"So remember your name, what should we call you?" asked the sergeant, who didn't want to call him ghost or you.

"My old teammates used to call me Zero, so I guess that works."

"OK."

The door opened and they were told to go in by an officer. They went in and took a look around the room. There was a large window, so that meant this was the top, a bunch of consoles around the sides, many of them with maps which were showing parts of the battlefield. A large map of all explored areas put together was in the middle of the room. It also marked key things like their buildings, units, mineral lines and a few zerg buildings which were in the darker area of the map.

The admiral looked up from the map and told an officer to take care of stuff for a moment.

"And you are?"

"Sergeant Emerson, sir. I was sent with the reinforcements"

"Very good. Any news?"

"They can't spare any more reinforcements for now. We'll have to do with what we have. How many dropships made it?"

"Only three. One exploded in the air, the other two crash landed. We could get contact with one of them. The other was static. The one we know about has a goliath and 4 marines. The goliath is damaged and the marines are wounded."

"We need to get them out of there. We need all the forces we can get."

"We can't get through. There's too many of them."

"Any spotters?" cut in Zero.

"Ah a ghost! Good you made it! That makes things easier. No spotters, yet. We have an experimental cloaking field here. It's one of the two that exist. The other is on Tarsonis. It requires a lot of energy so you can only maintain it for 3 minutes. I suggest you get to the dropship we have contact with, K-32"

"Yes sir! By the way do you have any nukes?"

"Not yet. We started building the silo as soon as we heard we'd have a ghost." And thank god or whatever is up there for the tech to build things on the field in a short time! "Now get to work! The device is in the armory."

"Immediately."

Good.

SO? How did you like this chapter? Please review! Just click that small button down there! Thanks for all that do beforehand. For anyone interested, this battle will go on a few chapters longer, and no, this story won't be a bunch of missions of these guys. Anything else I forgot? No. Good. Oh wait! There is! I won't have a proper update time, but I'll try weekly. Have a nice day (or night, morning, whatever it is!)