Sarah stood atop of the luxury apartment building. She surveyed the palace which lay only a mile from where she stood. The streets were littered with Dominion troops that covered every single inch of the roads. Every several yards, a bunker or pair of them rested on the road with clusters of Marines entranced in sand bag pillboxes and in the buildings bearing down on the streets as well as several heavy vehicles that accompanied the infantry. Past the last of the buildings and narrow roads, the Palace courtyard stretched half of the distance from the Palace to where she stood and it was completely covered with the metal of dominion's weapons. This was Mengsk's last line of defense; no one else was coming to save him now.

It would be harder to get up the streets with the overlapping entrenchments and the perches in the buildings. And it would be harder because several of the streets had small psionic-disruptors much like the raiders had developed and used for their assault on her cluster on Char. But Sarah knew they would fail because their numbers were irreplaceable while here swarm was overflowing with thousands and thousands of fresh troops that could shred through anything when they came with everything on a full on charge. With the strength of her forces, Zagara's brood, Stukof's legion of infested Terrans, Dahaka's pack and Raynor's Raiders, they would come in burn everyone in their way.

"Move in," she said.

"As you command, my Queen," Zagara replied.

"Understood," Stukov replied.

"Their. Essence. Will. Be. Ours," Dahaka replied.

"Will do," Raynor replied.

Sarah leapt off the roof and floated to the ground. When she touched down, she ran with her advancing brood. On the eastern avenue, a heavy concentration of Zagara's brood fell in line with Dahaka's pack. More of Zagara's brood intersected with Kerrigan's primary Zerg force that she spearheaded up the middle. Her Brood overlapped with Stukof's legion that overlapped with Raynor's troops who were accompanied by more of her brood on the western side. Raynor's fleet spread out evenly over the approaches as well as the rest of his air force while Kerrigan's air force also spread all over the streets.

The initial assaults leading the charge on the streets were cut down quickly by the over saturated defenses but as more Zerg flowed in, they fire couldn't contain the advance. It was like trying to plug a leak with a toothpick. As Ultralisks, banelings and all the over Zerg moved up the streets, Raptors leapt up at the buildings that were occupied by the infantry firing down on the streets. In the tight corridors, the troops didn't last as the nasty little beasts leapt on them and tore them apart. Sarah's presence on the primary spearhead made the advance much more efficient. Her kinetic blasts tore apart the heavy weapons baring her path while her superior close combat skills made short work of the infantry standing around.

Dahaka's pack and Zagara's forces experienced about the same thing. The advantage they had was that Dahaka's pack was immune to the Psi-disruptors put up on the streets. With the aid of the primal guardians firing down on the Dominion, the advance was rather effective. Raynor's boys along with a number of Sarah's forces and Stukof's legion of infested Terrans advanced at much the same rate on the western side. The ordinary infested Terrans acted as the cannon fodder while the infested infantry would unload as much ordinance as they could before they were shredded by gun or cannon fire. The aberrations acted as tanks as well with their tough armor that absorbed a good amount of damage while they swatted their claws at the dominion lines before they expired. The Raider's took advantage of the diverted fire. The infantry fired on the pill boxes and MG emplacements while the Dominion was occupied by the hoards of human cannon fodder. The Raider's siege tanks set up from behind them and unloaded on the emplacements behind the current line of the Dominion while the other vehicles moved up with the infantry. The specter teams acted as the fire support using their ultrasonic pulses to stun the Dominion Forces. They also moved into the buildings to get rid of the forces firing on the streets and they used those perches for their purposes afterword. All the while, Shadow Four unloaded more and more rounds into any Dominion infantry out in the open. With the help of the Razor Hawks, Dust Wings, Star Screams, Hel's Angles and Sarah's Mutalisks and Vipers, the dominion lines were falling apart, inch-by-inch, foot-by-foot.

Sarah's advance was making the most progress with her help and was two thirds through the fortified streets, one third of the way to the palace, while the rest were half way through the streets, a fourth of the way to the palace. Like the last time when they were half way through the entire sector, she split her forces advancing up the road to flank the other positions so the others could gain ground faster. The slow advance continued down the streets until Kerrigan arrived at the edge of the courtyard. She halted her forces and awaited the rest of her allies to clear out the opposition on their paths. They caught up soon after with the help of her flanking forces. They stood at the edge of the last of the buildings on the street that was just across from the Palace court yard.

This is it.

The last of Mengsk's futile defenses lay between her and him. It almost seemed pointless for the soldiers to stand and fight with their numbers all but diminished. But like Mengsk's pride, they wouldn't abandon their duties when it came to defending the one person that kept the whole empire together.

Sarah made the first step forward.

"Men, stop the Queen of Blades! For Humanity!"

The battle that followed was what observers of the battle would call poetic while others could simply call it epic. Kerrigan and her allies moved from their positions and converged on the palace. The overlapping Dominion positions opened up with everything they had, but it wasn't enough. Sarah smashed, sliced and blasted through anything that stood in her way as her swarm spread out and torn into the lines with their organic weaponry.

As the Swarm and Primal packs leapt ahead out in the open, the Raiders set up their tanks and their infantry and mechs marched forward blasting away at the entrenchments in their way. Since most of the Dominion's fire was concentrated on the Swarm, Raynor's men suffered relatively low casualties. The battle in the air was just as exciting as the Raiders' Banshees and the swarms Mutalisks unloaded everything they had into the Dominion lines while the rest of the Raiders' fighters took on the last of the Dominion's aircraft including three Battle Cruisers. Vikings and Wraiths unleashed their salvos on the fighters and ships while the four Raider cruisers fired both on the Dominion ground forces as well as the bogies in the air. One of the Raiders' cruisers was put out of commission and they managed a crash landing west of the courtyard. But every Dominion wing in the air was put out of action quickly as the ground forces continued to push forward and depleted the Dominion of the last of their forces. It was a heroic moment for the Raiders and for Kerrigan; being on the frontline seeing the last of the tools of corruption and tyranny crumble by their hands.

The last row of defenders fired what they could into the advancing forces. But their actions were just as those whom the swarm had trampled over. The swarm tore through the last line of defenders leading the gap between the Palace gates and the swarm open and bare. Sarah stepped forward while her swarm stood by her side. She channeled her energy through her body and concentrated it into her hands. She tightened her fists and curled her body slightly before she opened her eyes. She unleashed another large blast but this one was concentrated all at the Gates. The Energy that shot out of her impacted the extremely thick steel door. The metal warped in where the blast impacted and the entire door blew apart leaving a wide entrance into the palace.

"Zegara," Sarah said when she composed herself. "Take command. I have an appointment with the Emperor."

"Long live the Queen." Zagara replied.

Sarah strode forward to the entrance taking the moments of how she finally made it to where she wanted to be for so long; every step she took to get to this place. And now she was finally here. As she entered the Palace, Zagara did as Sarah had instructed. She organized the swarm to set up defensive positions in front of and around the palace. The Terran forces that aided them for the entire assault set themselves up in defensive positions as well. Sarah ordered her swarm not to harm them throughout the assault and Zagara followed through when the swarm fell under her control.


Raynor exited the drop ship when it landed in the courtyard of the palace where his men had set themselves up in defensive positions in case of improbable counter attack. Several of the Zerg scurried around them obviously in defensive patters.

Something didn't feel right. Mengsk was cornered and no one was coming to pull him out. When the UED conquered Korhal, Mengsk fled to his flagship and attempted to escape but the UED fleet intercepted him before he could get away. The only reason he managed to escape with his life was for Jim and his Protoss friends to come in and bail him out.

"Soldier," Raynor said to one of his troops. "Did she enter the palace alone?"

"It looked like she didn't want anyone to follow for her meeting with that son of a bitch at the top sir," the Raider replied.

Raynor looked back up at the palace with his eyes a little wider. The thought came to him with bad feeling he had. He closed his helmet visor and marched double time into the palace.


Zagara sensed the Terran in black amour march toward the front gates. She was ordered to keep the area secure and that meant keeping anyone from entering the palace. But Zagara saw that the Terran running into the palace was Jim Raynor whom the queen rescued before the invasion. He seemed to be very important to the queen even though the rest of the swarm, including Zagara herself, saw no value in the life of this particular Terran. But Zagara told the swarm to allow the Terran to pass into the palace because the queen valued him for whatever reason she had.


Sarah strode through the corridors of the palace. Dominion guards and auto gun defenses were stationed at every section and they opened up when they saw her. It was almost laughable to think they could think they could stop her with a handful of infantry after seeing the grand dominion army crushed before their eyes outside. But that was all a part of the pride of the Dominion: death for what they believed was the greater good in the name of the Emperor. After demolishing several lines on every level leading up to the top, Sarah encountered another line of troops accompanied by a walker mode Viking. They opened up on the entryway of the corridor when they saw the first sight of the Queen. The bullets kicked up dust and smoke from the walls clouding the area around where Sarah stood. The rounds kept hurling into the cloud of dust until the Sarah leapt clear of the cloud high into the air.. With the force of gravity and her primal powers, she darted down on top of the Viking and her entire body tore through the machine. The wires and cables clung to her body until her feet touch back down to the ground. She opened her eyes and focused her energy around her. Before the troopers could put their rifles on her, they were lifted off their feet and suspended in the air. Sarah then pushed her hands out and all the guards were launched in all directions slamming into the walls.

Floor by floor, Sarah tore through every barricade set up through the palace with ease. But it did take time to head up floor by floor taking out the guards stationed at each section of each floor. But after thirty minutes of fighting the guards and traveling up the nearly mile high Pyramid, Sarah was only several more rooms away from the Emperor's chamber. This was probably where Mengsk would have saved the best for last. She strode down the hall way focusing her senses to see and thing that the naked eye couldn't. And sure enough, the surprise was waiting for her. Sarah raised her hand in front of her just as several bullets came her way. The bullets diverted their directions away from here and slammed into the walls. Afterword, Sarah concentrated her energy and dispersed a pulse of energy from here mind. Several voices screamed in agony. In front of her, four ghosts decloaked and fell to the ground with blood spewing out between the gaps of their optic goggles. Fitting that the last of Mengsk's defenders would be what the things that she was once. But the four weren't the only ones, several of the other ghosts were still around. They must have managed to resist the psionic blast and saved their minds from being melted inside their heads.

Some of them declocked just as they channeled their psyonic energy. Tosh's specters learned to unleash concentrated psyonic attacks called psyonic lashes. The people running the ghost academy had learned a thing or two and trained their most gifted to handle the ability. But Sarah, being a class twelve psyonic had learned to resist attacks like that, both the mental damage on the brain and the bone crushing physical effects it had on the body. The lashes felt like being hit in the head by a baseball thrown at a professional pitcher. But with the fortitude she possessed, she shrugged off the impact and collected some of the energy thrown against her and threw it right back at the ghosts. Because the three ghosts weren't trained hard enough to resist a full direct lash, they got a really big dose of their own medicine. All three ghost's heads popped like corks off bottles of champagne having their blood be the substitute for the liquor.

All Kerrigan could do after she disposed of the rest of the ghosts was the futileness as well as the sadness of seeing people who were like her lay dead for the man who had manipulated them into becoming merciless killing machines. But Kerrigan shrugged off the feeling before it could take hold of anything in her mind. Mangsk was only several corridors away. Her task was now within arm's reach.

But there was one last surprise obstacle waiting for her. She turned to a corridor that lead into a wide open room that bore a large gold and red door at the end. She suddenly heard a buzz in her head. She stopped and looked around. The buzzing started to grow louder and louder until it sounded like a piercing screech that pierced her mind like a tiny needle. She cringed only slightly and brought her and to her left side of her forehead. Sarah knew what it was. It was a psy-screen. The nasty little device that disrupted psyonic life form's minds making it hard to concentrate and even cause severe and crippling pain to those who didn't know how to resist it. Fortunately, Sarah's class 12 rating and her primal powers allowed her to resist the screen just enough to only have it feel like a light migraine.

Just then Sarah sensed something coming behind her through the fog in her mind. She swiftly moved to her side and swung her hand with her razor sharp nails radiating with energy behind her.