A/N: alright, last time I checked, this fic had over one-thousand hits just on June ( O.O ), but not over one-thousand reviews (that would be very weird). Never mind, having someone to read what I write, already means something for me (I'm still not quite sure about the reason behind the hits), I hope you enjoyed so far (otherwise, why are you reading this?). Here is the sixth chapter. Have a nice reading.
The nerazim space ship arrived at Char, not giving any sign of its arrival to the zergs. The crew, soon stepped on the volcanic surface of Char.
"Fine, we're heading towards that direction" the immortal worded as he pointed (somehow) at the direction of a zerg nest.
"We shall follow" a dark templar stated from behind the immortal, then, he and his brethren cloaked. Thanks to their shadow melding training, they were able to remain hidden from sight with ease, for as long as they wanted.
Thus, they began to walk towards their destiny. At simple sight (that means, without an overseer or a detector nearby ) the group seemed to be composed only by an immortal, but just to think that would be a huge mistake for anyone. Immortals are quite brave to stand against the biggest foes, indeed, but they're not stupid.
A while passed, and the group of protoss caught sight of a bunch of idle roaches.
"Hmpf!foul creatures I'll take care of them" the immortal worded.
The immortal began to walk towards the naive roaches, who didn't expect an attack, but a dark templar stopped the immortal "For some reason, I feel you're the only protoss strong enough to destroy that particular zerg you talked us about, hence you must avoid battle all you can until the moment comes" he stated.
"And miss my glory?" the immortal asked, angry by the dark templar's comment.
"Do not let your pride cloud your reason, brother" the dark templar worded.
When he heard the word brother coming from the dark templar, the immortal felt the urge to kill him, right there, right then, but he managed to suppress it "fine, what are you gonna do then?" he asked.
"You'll find out soon enough" the dark templar said, and then he made a gesture at his brethren to follow him. Thus the dark templars began to draw near the roaches, ready to do what they do best.
At the current location of the roaches...
"So...what do you guys thinkabout the new queen, pretty huh?" a roach said.
"Yeh, I was planning on asking her out" another roach worded.
"Lol, why should she hang out with such an ugly asshole like you?" a roach said.
"Hey, at least I'm not as ugly as those brood lords, am I?" another roach inquired.
"You're ri..." but the roach didn't manage to finish the sentence, because he felt something stabbing his back. He shrieked, then a couple of hits coming from nowhere finished his life.
"What's going on?" another roach squeaked as he backed off from the corpse of his dead friend, just to hit something invisible. The roach managed to see a couple of glowing eyes in the middle of the air, just like if someone was teasing him.
"Dark tem...!" another roach shouted, but then he got sliced by the half.
The rest of the roaches, completely forgetting they could burrow, tried to get away running. Nonetheless, their attackers had them surrounded, so there was no way they could manage to escape.
"The Void, claims what is its" a dark templar mumbled in a cold voice, his grim intentions could freeze anybody's blood.
The sound of warp blades and scythes filled the air along with the squeaks of the unlucky zergs. No wonder why the conclave wanted to kill these protoss, they were maybe the most merciless kind of protoss.
If the terrans were afraid of ghosts and specters, probably having dark templars chasing after them would freak the hell out of them to no end. The terran assassins had maybe three or two decades of training since their birth, but the dark templars, had centuries of training since their birth, not to mention their higher psionic signature.
The immortal knew those dark templars were on his side, but he couldn't help but to shudder slightly inside his shell, despite his previous training as a zealot. And to think there was a time in the story of his race when the rogue tribes were this merciless to other protoss...
Back at the ship of nerazim's current location...
Thirty-three stalkers were warped-in thanks to the help of a warp prism which was traveling along with the main nerazim ship, then, a small fleet of void rays arrived.
"Well, we're here" a stalker said "Let's settle a small base over here" he added.
So, a small base was settled, but soon the protoss caught sight of a nest of scourges nearby.
"We should go get rid of that nest" a protoss suggested within his void ray.
Thus, they flew towards the nest, and began to attack it with their prismatic beams, but soon, several scourges came out from the nests and started to fly towards the void ray fleet.
Once the commander of the fleet realized about the incoming wave of scourges, the protoss inside the main void ray commanded his brethren to retreat from that place, as fast as they could.
"With our new speed upgrades, we should be able to make enough time for the stalkers to bring down those scourges" the commander of the fleet said.
However, something quite odd happened in that moment. Suddenly the void rays slowed down, apparently, for no reason.
"What in Tassadar's name happened?" he shouted "Who is messing with our reality?" he demanded.
Somewhere, at Blizzard headquarters...
A man was smoking something "Ah, this is good shit" he said in a pleased tone, putting the cigarette away.
"Yeh" another guy said, also smoking.
"You guys think we're gonna get sued?" a member of the Blizzard staff inquired.
"For nerfing the porktoss?" a dude said "nah, who cares 'bout those?" He worded.
"It's protoss" another guy corrected.
"Whatever" another dude said.
Then a woman (who was part of Blizzard staff as well) stepped in the room where the guys were smoking.
"Oh my God! You guys are getting high again?" the woman exclaimed.
"Yo!" a dude shouted "doin' fine Alice?" he asked.
"Fine?" she yelled "You assholes! You just mass nerfed my favorite race!" she added, very upset.
"You mean the porktoss?" a man inquired.
"It's protoss, and yes, they are my favorite race. You guys nerfed the void rays and the poor mothership" Alice replied "Now fix that nerf! " she commanded.
"But, the surveys say the people wanted those changes" a guy mentioned.
"Are you frigging kidding me? What surveys?" she asked "Just look at yourselves!" she shouted gesturing at the her work mates, who were very high "You got so high you even imagine stuff!" she yelled "I mean, come on! How high are you?" she added taking a cigarette.
"Yeh, that's it Alice, go ahead, give those cigarettes a shot" another guy said from the floor.
And Alice did so "I don't ge..." but she paused, because she got high right away "woah, this is good shit" she worded, nodding at the cigarette as she gestured at it.
The rest of the staff cheered Alice, and thus, nothing was done about the damn nerf.
Back to Char...
"Oh come on!" the protoss said within his vessel, trying to make it fly faster, then he caught sight of tens of scourges heading towards him and his brethren "...fuck..." he worded, completely forgetting that word was deemed inappropriate for a protoss, even if he or she learned it from a close terran.
The void rays opened fire against the tiny zergs, but it was no use. In a few seconds, the horde of scourges surrounded the protoss fleet, then, they suicidally attacked the unlucky protoss, destroying them quite fast.
A group of stalkers stared at the scene, dumfounded " O.O " was the look in their faces.
"Why they slowed down?" one of them asked.
"I don't know, but I don't like these odd events a bit" another one said.
"Zergling wave approaching!" a stalker announced.
"How many?" another one inquired.
"Just take a look" a stalker replied.
And so he did. He soon caught sight of the huge amount of zerglings darting towards them. The stalkers were thirty-three, but the zerglings were one-hundred and fifty.
"We don't stand a chance here, blink to high ground!" a stalker commanded, his brethren soon obeying.
Using their blink ability, the stalkers managed to reach a hill with ease. The incoming wave of zerglings, had no choice but to squander time and members looking for a highway. The stalkers managed to make quick work of a bunch of zerglings, but taking out the whole group of those little creatures would take a while. There was one highway to the high ground of the stalkers, and without anything blocking their path, it was just matter of time before the lings reached and surrounded (in the high ground) their target.
"Come on brothers! We almost have them!" a zerglings screeched.
The stalkers soon caught sight their enemies drawing even closer with each passing second in that strife.
"They are too many!" one of them yelled.
"Let's blink to somewhere else!" another one suggested. However his suggestion was quickly proven useless, since the hill was completely surrounded by lings, fact that took them a couple of seconds to realize.
"There is not much we can do now" a stalker stated once he caught sight of his environment "We'll return to The Void" he added.
"What are you talking about?" one of them inquired yelling.
The rest of them placed their looks one the stalker asking the question "What do you mean?" another one asked.
"Come on my brethren! There is enough space in this hill for us to micro against this zerg threat!" one of them stated.
"Micro?" another one asked.
"Yes, let's place the fully shield charged stalkers in the front, then, when they shields go off due to the attacks, they blink to the back of our group and keep shooting while they are there recharging their shields" one of them replied.
"Well, sounds like a plan, let's try" another one declared.
And so they did. They blocked the only high way to the hill using themselves as a wall, and whenever someone's shield depleted, he blinked to the back of the group. This went on during a few minutes, but the stalkers finally managed to decimate the entire group of zerglings, though the stalkers themselves suffered some damage, because not every stalker was fast enough to blink away without getting hit by the zerglings (well, those hits actually were a little bit more than just a scratch).
"We did it!" one of them said.
"Yes, and the best of all, we didn't lose a single one of our brethren here" another one stated "now, we should go back to Shakuras" he added.
"But... what about the immortal and the other dark templars?" some stalker inquired.
"I'm afraid we cannot help them" another one said "microing against zerglings having the advantage of the high ground is one thing, but having to face what they're gonna face is another thing" he added.
"So what do we do?" a stalker inquired "we're just gonna leave them alone?" he suggested.
"Don't be so emo, ok? What in The Void's name happened to your dark templar behavior?" another demanded.
"I'm not emo! I just care for them!" a stalker replied.
"Emo..." the rest of the group mumbled.
"I'm not!" a stalker shouted, now upset.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever emo" the rest of the stalkers said.
"You guys are just so cold..." a stalker worded.
"We're stalkers, remember?" another one inquired "That means we are part of the dark templars, therefore, we share plenty of their beliefs, individuality at some degree among such beliefs, not to mention being cold " another one stated.
The so-called "emo" stalker sighed "fine, let's go back to the ship" but before they left the towards their destiny, he uttered a question "Hmm, wait a minute, since when we talk like we know about emos ?" he inquired.
"Don't care, emo" the rest of the stalkers replied.
"..." was the reaction of the stalker who uttered the question.
There, that's it for now. So, now you know, my fellow readers. Why Blizzard removed the speed upgrade for the void rays? Why they reduced ground damage for thors? Why they removed the mothership's time bomb? The answer is quite simple: a bunch of people from Blizzard's staff got high and...well, they did what they did (yes, apparently the entire Blizzard staff got high as well later. Why else would they accept such nerfs?). Doing drugs is wrong! Spread the voice! . Someone else besides me thinks the dark templars are some really badass guys? Ah, I have another thing to say: two chapters left (without including the epilogue) , but, I'm likely going to write a sequel (dunno when though). Why I'm doing that? Because college is doing some terrible, terrible damage to my motivation, but fear not, for I will (well, I will likely) write a sequel. The review button is right there, if you wanna review. Thanks for reading. Have a nice day.