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The Ringing in my ears…I don't think they will ever stop. As I start to get up from the ground, I hear what sounds like someone trying to get up off the ground just in a lot of pain. As I am almost in a standing position my knees give out, as I fall forward my vision goes black, About 2 minutes later I feel someone shaking me, I then feel myself being lifted off the ground.
(Later on that day)
My Vision starts to clear, I can see things but they are just blurry, My Ears are still ringing and I don't even know how much time has passed, as my vision clears more I see what looks like a ceiling, was I brought to the medical center.
I try sitting up but suddenly get pushed down by the doctor on duty. The Doctor try's saying something but the deafening ringing is still going on.
"What is going on?" I try to say to the doctor. The doctor just shakes her head and walks away. Suddenly in my field of vision, a monitor of some type lights up and words start appearing on it. The words on the screen are. Ah you are awake. The Ringing is probably not permanent but there is a small chance it won't be. When your hearing returns the Captain wants to have a word with you.
(2 days later)
Captain Morgan called me in to the briefing room.
"How are you feeling Lieutenant?" The Captain asks.
"The Ringing finally stopped." I say in response.
"Lieutenant, we salvaged all the audio and visual footage from the incident, everyone infected deleted their footage, however we found something interesting on your footage." The Captain says as a switch is pressed and audio tape get played."
"Hey Buddy you hear about what happened to the 2nd fleet?"
"Haven't managed to catch up yet on the news."
"A ship of unknown design was found in their patrol zone. After failing to respond to all messages, security forces boarded the ship and managed to gain control of it."
"Ha! Go figure, Those Protoss never took us seriously. Can't wait till we blow them up with the rest of this so called Alliance."
"Rumor has it the ship wasn't Protoss, Something else entirely,"
"Really now? That's surprising, have any of our boys figured out what exactly it is?"
"Nah dude but whatever it is it's defiantly a warship of some type, had enough armaments to destroy an entire Planet will at the same time fighting back an entire fleet."
The Audio suddenly ends and the Captain hits another button.
"We looked into this, and what we found was quite disturbing, now what I am about to show you stays in this room, got it?" The Captain says with a serious expression.
"I understand." I understand.
On the screen appears a picture of a giant ship which looked like it was made to destroy everything.
"Any idea what this is?" The Captain asks me?
"Is it…No way…" I say hoping my guess is wrong.
"This Ship. It has been identified as the HCS Thanatos." The Captain says.
"HCS?" I ask fearing the worst.
"Hybrid Cleanup Ship" The Captain says confirming it.
"Are the Hybrids invading us?" I ask.
"No, this was just the vanguard. However soon, we will be at total war with them." The Captain answers.
"I see" I say lost for words.
There is silence for a good minute before I break the silence.
"Things look grim for The Dominion don't they sir?"
There is no answer right away then I hear softly.
"When the time comes we will need all the luck and skill we have, double your efforts. If we go to war with the hybrids the estimates are a 2% chance to successfully fight them back." The Captain responds
"I understand sir." I say.
"Dismissed." I hear as I stand up and leave the room.
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Alright this is it for Dominion Artifact, this is not how I originally planned for this story to go but for now it will work, I might write an expanded version of how I was going to write this originally, but up next in the series is the final and extremely, extremely long story Dominion Ghost. The War against the Hybrids. (With Dominion Ghost being so long I decided to cut back Academy and Artifact. Stay tuned to see if The New Terran Dominion can successfully win the war.
Shadow of Darkness 78 until next time.