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"Talk."
"Telepathy"
"SHOUTING."
~Radio.~
Chapter 14, To Conquer a Continent Part 4
April 23, Friday / 2010
After suffering the greatest military defeat in its history, Brazil and its people were panicking more than ever. Even other countries surrounding brazil heard about the massive military defeat and deployed their own military's to protect and close their borders in fear of the zerg and to keep out the thousands of refugees that started migrating from Brazil to other countries as the rest of the world watched everything.
And even worse the aliens that many on the internet now simply identified as Zerg continued to spread throughout the state of amazon's and into two more of brazil's state's. The state of Mato grosso in the south, and the state of Para farther east, both of which are the two largest states in brazil after the state of Amazonas.
In a short span of time over half the human population and land area of both states of Roraima in the north of brazil, and the state of Rondonia in the south west were in a similar condition.
As the zerg were now mostly unopposed except for minor skirmishing with what few military forces brazil could spare since president Miquel instated a full martial law across brazil.
Partly because of the mass migration of people from the western half of brazil to the eastern half of the country and even to other country's. It's all brazil's remaining military forces can do to keep civil order, but some of the presser was lifted at least a little, when international aid organizations arrived from around the world and started helping out with the food, medical aid, and housing for the refugees fleeing from the western half of brazil.
And a full week after brazil's military defeat. The allies finally sent military aid, American help was the first to arrive with a fleet consisting of a aircraft carrier, the 'USS Ranger' along with a support fleet of a dozen other ships. They laid anchor off the coast of the city of Sao Paulo and started to off load thousands of US marines, and aid while other small fleet's from other country's arrived at other seaports around brazil.
Capital of brazil
Brasilia
Outside the national congress building hundreds of people from brazil and other country,s were gathered. Reporters, military personnel with the generals and admirals from the allied forces were lined up behind the podium as President Miquel stepped up to start his welcoming speech.
"My fellow brazilians and now friends from around the world," Miquel gesturing to the allied generals and admirals. "I can hardly express the sadness, I feel at the loss of so much. The destruction and loss of life of so many of our people, and the loss of our lands. But now with the help of our allies we can take back our country from these. invaders.
Arthur,s hotel room
The President continued his long winded speech as Arthur watched the TV from the edge of his bed holding a small glass cup full of alcohol.
"Talk all you want Miquel, I doubt it will help you from whats coming."
The former governor said as he took a sip of alcohol and someone knocked at the door.
"Come in," Arthur said as the door opened and general Rodrigo stepped in the room and closed the door behind himself.
"I'm here Arthur what do you want?" Rodrigo asked a little angry at being called away from being at the speech that was a good chance to get back on the president's good side.
Arthur stood up and faced the general.
"Well... first I have a few questions, and then a proposal for you." Arthur said as he walked to the dresser, placing his glass down and began pouring another glass of alcohol,and handing it to Rodrigo, who took the glass .
"Well... what do you want ask me" Rodrigo asked taking a sip.
A sub Hive cluster
Brazil's state of Mato Grosso
Ellen sat in a chair made of hardened chiten in the middle of the main chamber of the new hive cluster, with four hatchery's at the rooms corners.
Surrounding Ellen were larva and a few of the lion sized alpha zerglings. Her eyes glowed purple as she remotely commanded and monitored tens of thousands of zerg forces across the region simultaneously. Using a network of overlords and overseers, with the hatchery's as data processors and filters so the information that reaches her mind is as simple as possible and doesn't overwhelm and fry her brain.
After the last large scale battle with brazil's military, Ellen had opened two more front's in two other regions of brazil. Ellen sent her three pack queens to the one farther north, and went herself to the other in the south.
For the past week Every part of her swarm, has been working in overdrive multiplying, taking territory and killing humans and their livestock for biomass in preparation for the finale push in taking the continent by eliminating any and all military resistance.
Since brazil is the largest country and strongest military power in south-america the rest will be much easier to subjugate, especially now that the number of Ellen's swarm has reached one million and is still growing but with minimal damage to the amazon rain forest just as Swarm Empress Ellen has commanded her Swarm.
Ellen's mind shifted through vast amounts of date from hundreds of thousands of her zerg all of them hunting humans, pets and cattle while also building up hundreds more smaller hive clusters in all the region.
After checking on the progress of her invasion forces in the region, Ellen's eyes stopped glowing turning green again. Ellen blinked and stood up. she returned to her chambers and layed down on a creep bed to rest a bit.
6 hours later she woke up and stretched her body and sent a psi command to three overseers to fly into orbit so she could get a better view of the military forces that have gathered from around the world to help brazil fight against the swarm.
Minutes later the three overseers reached orbit over brazil their bodies pointed down to observe the planets surface. Ellen then connected with the overseers in orbit and from their many advanced senses scanned brazil's atlantic coastline and the ocean ports where the ships would be. After a few minutes of looking Ellen spotted an american aircraft carrier and its support fleet at the southern coast of brazil, and after a few more minutes of looking the zerg empress spotted the other small fleets from other country,s in other sea ports around brazil's eastern and northern coast line.
Ellen grinned as everything seemed to be progressing as she had predicted, at lest so far given her understanding of the political landscape of the world and her own understanding of human nature.
"Aa, found you, everything is mostly going as I had expected... although... the number of ships has me a little worried... I don't know how well the three brood strains will far against that many warships. But Solus has surprise and numbers on his side." Ellen mused and then contacted the behemoth.
"Yes my Empress, what are your orders" the behemoth replied from his main hive cluster in the pacific ocean.
"Solus, it's finally time for you to enter this war, your targets are these warships" the Swarm Empress said as she transmitted the overseers date of the humans navy fleets to Solus. "Also what's the number of your forces? " she asked.
Solus he sent his Empress the info.
From the what Solus showed her the behemoth commander now has 20 hive clusters scattered across the deepest parts pacific ocean floor well except one, the'Mariana Trench'.
Each hive cluster had the same layout as Solus's first hive clusters and each was guarded by hundreds of broodlings and Pranhalings with a handful of queens overlords and overseers, broodlisk, and broodlords. Solus,s forces interm's of numbers however mostly consisted of nearly ten thousand drones all mining the seafloor for minerals. Ellen had Solus focus his forces on supporting the rest of the swarm with biomass and bioenergy production. Ellen knew that it was almost impossible for the swarm to loss so long as they had the resources to multiply and it was Solus's job to maintain that flow of resources that was transported through the nydus network.
"Good, I think you can complete this mission easily, just don't be sloppy and give away your position before attacking." Ellen said voicing concerns about Solus losing the element of surprise.
"Understood my Empress, I while not fall you." Solus replied.
"Well... good luck, Solus, after I finish conquering this continent we can move on to the continent of Asia.
Just a moment later the three overseers spotted a high speed object ascending out of the atmosphere and heading for them.
"Huh? you got to be kidding me those overseers are 500 miles up, and someone is trying to shoot them down."
The overseers calculated the direction the missile had come from, which unsurprisingly must have been launched from one of the military ships off the coast of brazil but given the level of technology needed to hit something in orbit, Ellen knew it must have been the U.S. fleet that launched it.
"That missile is probably a satellite killer but there's only one so" Ellen thought as she ordered the three overseers to split up and scatter into three directions, as they did the missile only followed one of them.
CIA headquarters
langley virginia
In the main operations room of the CIA, large display screens showed the missile closing in on the target and impacted one of the three creatures in orbit.
"Target one down, confirmed kill," one of the operaters said.
"Now tell the sub to launch two more" CIA Director Alexander ordered as he stood in back of the room and watched.
After a few moments two more sat-killers missiles were launched from underwater by a american ballistic submarine equipped with satellite killer missiles. On screen the two new missiles headed out of the Earth's atmosphere and towards the other two creatures in orbit as they tried to reenter the atmosphere but were too slow and were intercepted by the missiles, the radar signals of the targets scattered into hundreds of fragments as their bodys were blasted to pieces.
"Good work people, now we can show those monsters that they can't fly in our sky's and do as they please anymore" Alexander spoke more confident in the USA's ability to control their airspace.
Ellen's sub hive cluster
Brazil's state of Mato Grosso
Ellen watched as the three overseers were killed and felt quiet angry at the bold attack on her swarm in space as she thought the swarm would be unmatched in the void of outer space. Ellen breathed in and out for a moment and quickly got over it as she knows that anger makes one blind and arrogant.
"Sigh... well it seems the U.S. has stepped up their countermeasures against my swarm... guess I should do the same."
Ellen layed back down on her creep bed and crossed her arms and then connected with her primary hive cluster and ordered the queens she left in charge their to morph thousand's of more mutalisk and scourges from the now four spire chambers Ellen had the drone's construct in the past week, the three new Spire chambers were identical to the first.
Ellen then organized the hundred's of mutalisk and scourges she already had or had morphed in the past week, long with hundreds of overlords and overseers, Into 50 air raide packs comprised of 2 overseers, 20 overlords which were filled with drones, zerglings and hydralisk. Each air group also consisted of 10 scourges, and 12 mutalisk who Ellen had in the past week trained in flying together in pairs that cover and protect each other in air to air combat just like human fighter squadrons.
Ellen then scattered the fifty airborne hunting packs southward around the region to make quick hit and run raids on farms, towns, and rural communities in the countryside.
The zerglings and hydralisk would hunt and kill any humans and livestock in the area they landed at and the drones would load the biomass into the overlords, while the mutalisk and scourges act as escorts. When all the overlords were full the airborne hunting pack would return to the nearest hive cluster, off load the biomass and go back out.
In the space between Earth and Mars
Inside the protoss shuttle, the three templar sat in the rear hold their legs crossed in meditation like they have been for the past few days as the craft traveled as fast as possible to its destination when one of the three spoke.
"Ugh how much longer till we reach that planet." a impatient zealot named Kai'nok asked irritated at the boredom.
"The AI said it would be another quite some time before we arrived." another more patient zealot by the name of Zerion replied, still trying to meditate.
"Unfortunately this shuttle is going as fast as it can without a Gravitic drive upgrade, it would have taken too much time and materials to add them which is why none of the shuttles have any " Rolana explained why the shuttles are slow.
"Haaa... if I knew it was going to take this long I would have stayed at the settlement" Kai'nok complained again.
New york city
Richard schaefer drove through the streets of new york city past central park on his way to pick up his 10 year old son Josh at his elementary school. Dispite his career as a company man, Richard always tries to make time as a father by picking his son up from school every so often.
Richard turned a corner into the schools parking lot and found a empty spot and waited a few minutes listing to music on the car until Josh opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat.
"Hi dad" Josh said as he closed the door and put on his set belt.
"Hi Josh, how was your day in class."
"Oh it was fine, I got a A- on the test today," the boy said with a bit of pride as he handed his dad a report card.
"Well you've gotten better at some of your subjects from last time, keep studying and you'll get into college one day," Richard said as he felt a father's pride at how his son has improved from last year.
Richard put the car into reverse and pulled out from the parking lot and drove through the congested streets of the city, a few minutes later Nathan spotted a strange man on the sidewalk holding a sign that said [The end is nigh, the swarm shall devour the world, All hall the queen of blades].
"Dad are the aliens going to hurt us?" the young boy said with a worried face catching his dad off guard.
"No... Nathan, the military will protect us," were the only words Richard could say without showing his own fear and worry.
Richard knew that if CV1/Ellen really is controlling the aliens/zerg she had reason, a plan of some kind since she traveled all the way to brazil first before revealing her alien forces to the world, Richard also thought about how to eliminate CV1 if there was a need.
Richard talked a little more with his son about the aliens and trying to reassure his son. A half hour passed before they reached the rich neighborhood of the upper east side where their family condo house is.
Richard pulled into the underground parking lot connected to the condominium, then he and Nathan walked to their home in the building and Richard used his ID card to open the door. both of them walked inside and then smelled the aroma of home cooked food as they entered.
"Welcome home you two" Olivia called from the kitchen.
"Good to be back home dear" Richard spoke rounding the corner into the kitchen and giving is wife a hug.
Brazil
American carrier fleet 4 miles off the coast from brazil's southern state of Sao Paulo.
In the sky south of Sao Paulo a c-130 hercules transport plane approached the 'USS Ranger' and it's fleet. In the planes cargo hold Jacob william and Mason hawk sat in their set's along with ten other men all of them were either marines, rangers or other American special forces. And all of them were chosen for a new experimental anti zerg team. And in the other end of the cargo hold was two large weapons create's.
~We are on approach to the carrier, everyone brace for landing,~ the co pilot said over the onboard radio as they then prepared for the carrier landing and Jacob and mason both remembered their time away on leave after giving their last mission report.
*[Flash back a few months ago]*
The wind swept across the fields of the William's farm in the U.S state of Tennessee.
The two story house had a large food garden, a greenhouse and a few other building around it, one being a barn and beside it are two chicken coops.
A african american women around her late 30's in a blue jeans and a red shirt, feed the chickens all gathered around her feet clucking as they pek at the feed. After doing the last of her morning work the women walked back to the house to the large porch where her 9 year old daughter worked on pulling the shuck's off the corn from two large basket's on the porch.
They both heard and looked at a car driving down the drive way toward the house. The car pulled up to the house and Jacob stepped out wearing his military uniform and walked over to the house and his mother and younger sister.
"Jacob" his mother said as they both hugged. "What are you doing here, I thought you were on duty?" his mother Nora william asked.
"Well mama I got some leave for a while." Jacob answered as his sister ran up and jumped on him wanting a hug too.
"Wow!, easy Hannah," Jacob exclaimed as he picked his little sister up and gave her a good hug and placed her back down.
"It's about time you got back," the little girl spoke happy to see her big brother again, as the front door opened and a much older women in her mid 60s wearing glasses came out.
"Ha, little Jacob what you doing here?" the older women asked.
"Hi, grandma Bella ."
After the william family greeted each other they returned to their work now with Jacob helping his mom and sis with the corn. Afterward Jacob helped his grandma with hanging the clothes on the line's in back of the house. And after that Jacob helped fix dinner, and the family sat around the kitchen table with Jacob saying grace before they ate.
"So how long are you gonna stay for" Hannah asked before taking bite of her buttered corn cob.
"Well... I don't know, they just said for me to get some rest before my next deployment," Jacob replied as he started cutting in to a piece of steak, his family doesn't know about his job at the CIA because of the need to keep secrets.
"Well i'm just happy your back to spend some time with your family." Nora said happily as she cut into a piece of steak.
"So what happened to that blonde friend of yours... the one you brought with you last time you visited " grandma Bella asked.
"Well he said he would be visiting his own Family" Jacob answered as he took a bit out of his piece of steak.
"I think his name was Mason grandma." Hannah said now taking a bite of her own piece of steak.
"Oh... I didn't know he had a family" grandma Bella said.
"Mason... normally doesn't talk to much about himself" Jacob replied.
"I hope he has good visit with his family before both of you have to go back out and do whatever it is you do" Nora said.
As the William family ate their dinner; across the country in Arlington national cemetery in Washington DC. Mason wearing his military uniform and holding a bundle of flowers walked through the field white cross graves of soldiers who have lost their lives in America's wars and conflicts. Mason walked for minutes until he came to a certain grave and stopped, the head stone read. [Benjamin Smith, loving husband, happy father, loyal soldier].
"Well hello dad, i've already visited mom's grave and... now i'm here, things are getting really crazy dad... for one thing it turns out were not alone in the universe anymore, and aliens do exist but... their big ugly monsters that want to eat us... so I got to do my part and fight... just like you, only i'm not just gonna up and die on my family, even though i'm sure you probably thought the same thing as I am right now." Mason talked to his father's grave, remembering that he took his wife's last name as he kneeled down putting the flowers on his dad's grave.
" I'll protect my country and my family" Mason said as he saluted. "Well i'm off."
As Mason got into his car he got a call from a hospital and then drove across D.C. to the George washington hospital where his wife Stella Hawk is. Mason walked into the Hospital lobby and talked with the man at the front desk asking which room his wife is in and then he walked to the elevator and hit the button to the third floor. Exiting as the doors opened Mason turned left and went to the room at the end of the hallway and knocked.
"Come in" a young women said form inside the room to which Mason entered seeing his wife sitting in the bed.
Stella hawk had black hair light brown eyes and wearing a hospital gown that was bulging in the midsection showing she's at least 7 months pregnant.
"Mason?" Stella said a little surprised.
"Hi, honey I heard you were in the hospital, is everything ok?" Mason asked as he walked to his wife's side with a concerned look on his face that only a soon to be father could make.
"Oh it's nothing, Mason, I just eat some bad food and got sick that's all, i'll be released in a few hours." Stella explained a little embarrassed she ate week old food.
"Ok but i'll drive you home." Mason said and his wife Stella nodding in agreement.
The days passed, and Jacob visited the William family graveyard and the graves of his dad and grand dad. The weeks passed and Mason went back to his normal job teaching hand to hand combat and self defenses classes and spending the rest of his time with his still pregnant wife. Over a month and a half passed and and on April 12th both Jacob and Mason with their family's watched along with the rest of the world as president Miquel made his speech that revealed the existence of the aliens/zerg and called for brazil's allies for aid. And shortly after both Mason and Jacob received calls to return to active duty. They both had to say good-by to their family's and return to langley virginia. Upon arriving both men were informed about the major military defeat of the brazil army and were given a mission to join a new experimental special forces team consisting of people director Alexander had chosen himself, the name of the group is delta team.
*[flash back end]*
As Jacob sat with the other members of delta team sent on this mission he got an uneasy feeling in his gut that this mission may be big trouble. The c-130 transport plane touched down on the 'USS Rangers' flight deck, the jolt rocked everyone as they came to a sudden stop and shortly after the pilot hit a button and the back of the plan dropped downward like a door ramp. All 12 of the men stood up and walked out on to the windy flight deck were a officer stood waiting for them, the man was in his 60s and had white hair light brown eyes and was wearing a camo green army uniform and hat.
"Delta team, i'm lieutenant Colonel Randolph I'll be your co."
"Yes sir." all 12 men responded and respectfully saluted their superior officer.
"At ease... follow me" Randolph said with a raised voice over all the other nose on the carriers flight deck.
The 13 men walked through the tunnel like hallways of the carrier avoiding all the other navy personnel going about their jobs as they moved through the small hallways of the carrier. Eventually the group reached the briefing room assigned to them where upon entering Jacob saw a woman sitting down at the other end of the room looking down at a laptop computer with a pair of glasses over her hazel green eyes and her auburn red hair tied into a ponytail, who Jacob recognized as Sarah Ava a old college friend.
"Sarah... what the heck are you doing here" Jacob asked with a surprised face as the others pushed behind him as they entered the room.
Sarah looked up to Jacob sighed she had read the recruitment file and was surprised herself to see an old college friend would be joining delta team.
Sarah Ava looked up from her laptop staring at Jacob.
"Well i'm the mission's comm officer and date analyst Jacob... and it's good to see you to." Sarah said as Mason walked up just behind Jacob.
"And who is the lovely lady Jacob, and how do you know her?" Mason asked with a inquisitive glare at Jacob as did some of the other men in the room.
"Umm... we met in college and-," Jacob said uncomfortably but was cut off by Sarah.
"And we dated for a few months, before he enlisted in the marine corps" Sarah explained taking her glasses off folding them into her shirt pocket.
Mason looked back to Jacob with a very interested look on his face.
"Really... he never told me... his best friend... that he had, such a beautiful girl in his life" Mason said in a teasing tone as Jacob rolled his eyes.
"Sarah, I mean why are you in the military?" Jacob asked still with a look of surprise.
"Well... I -," Sarah was cut off by Randolph.
"As much as I would like to her all about this... I believe... we have a briefing to move on to people." the spoke in a commanding tone.
"Yes sir" everyone said and sat down as the started the briefing.
"Now as i'm sure all of you have your questions as to what this mission is so i'll just be upfront... our mission has two objective's," the colonel gestured to sarah who taped on her lap top computer and turned on a large screen on the wall that showed a few overhead satellite pictures of a few zerg queens, and the ruined city of manaus now covered by 38 armored chitin domes and grey purple creep.
"Objective number one is to catch one of what we believe to be a leader type creature, dead or alive. This has been difficult because the other little monsters always protect them and others collect their dead. For the second objective command want's intel on what's on the inside of these domes." the said pointing to the domes on screen. "We know somewhere inside in where the monsters reproduce, but... we need solid info on what's really inside them. This will be the more dangers objective, but we'll have the support of the carrier group and the marine corps and lastly before the big wigs in washington officially begin the section 9 plan, which im sure all of you have been briefed on. They want to see some results and that's where we come in. Now any questions." the asked as one of the men raised his hand.
"Is it true that these aliens are zerg... like from that pc game?" asked Mark anderson a big muscular guy with a flat buzz cut on his black hair and stood at least 6 feet 11 inches.
Everyone in the room looked at him like he had said something stupid which was a little true and Mark put his arm down a little embarrassed he asked that question.
Randolph sighed and replied.
"Well son, I don't know anything about video games... so I guess you'll just have to see for yourself when you met the little monsters. Now anyone else with a less dumb question," the replied.
" I think we should continue with the briefing" Sarah spoke.
"Yes... of course miss Ava, Ea, hem, now moving on," the said getting everyone to refocus as Sarah taped on her lap top again changing the screen to a map of brazil showing the north-western states of Amazonas, Rondonia, Roraima, all in red indicating they have mostly been conquered and the north western halfe's of the states Mato Grosso and Para were also in red.
"As you can see mostly all of northern brazil is already under the aliens control. If left unchecked it's estimated to only take another month until the rest of south America is taken over... and who knows where the'll go from there. Our task, in addition to the mission objective's already stated before, is to aide the campaign against the aliens and take back brazil's lost territory. Our first mission will begin tomorrow, you have until then to prepare and get used to the new weapons, that were brought along with you on the plane, Miss Ave please explain." Randolph said handing the briefing to Sarah.
"Yes sir... Given the reports from the brazilian army's engagements with the... zerg... and date from our own satellites, we know that the armor of the zerg creatures is very strong. Normal caliber guns like the 5.56 nato rounds are not effective enough to kill them in one hit. But explosive's like grenades or mortars fare much better, as do armor piercing rounds. So i've selected a few weapon types that will, hopefully increase your chances of survival. The weapons should have already been moved into delta teams assigned armory. I suggest everyone go there and get acquainted with them," Sarah said ending her side of the briefing.
"All right... everyone dismissed" Randolph yelled and everyone started to file out of the room except Jacob and Sarah .
"So are you going to tell me how you ended up in the CIA."Jacob asked still sitting in his chair.
"Sigh, well there's not much to it" Sarah said as she folded her lap top computer up and stood up walking past Jacob and stopped at the door. "I guess... I just wanted to do my part... after 9,11," Sarah said looking at Jacob.
"Yeah... I guess," Jacob replied remembering the first time he saw the twin towers falling on the news when he was in college which was his reason for dropping out and joining the marine corps and then later the CIA.
In Delta teams armory the room is about 25 feet by 35 feet with two long tables on one side of the room with ammo boxes underneath them, some holding 20 round clips or 50 round drum mags of 7.62 caliber rounds, along with other boxes holding 40 mm grenades, with 12 weapons lockers along the other wall.
Most of delta teams members were already checking out the new weapons most of which were black M1A 7.62 caliber rifles, other M1A's were longer sniper rifle types and loaded 308 caliber ammo. Most of the team members already had their weapons over at the tables and were dismantling and reassembling the rifles loading empty mags and setting the gun sights on them as Sarah and Jacob walked into the room.
"M1A's huh" Jacob said as he saw the rest of his new team holding them.
"It's a good rifle with a higher caliber rounds,"Sarah said and explained the weapons. "Also all the ammo for them is all armor piercing, and there's 40mm grenade launchers, and a few of the new mk25 flamethrowers, and-" Sarah was cut of by a loud wow from Mark who one handed a minigun.
"WOW, all right everyone I get dibs on this," Mark exclaimed loudly as he pulled out a giant hand held M134 six barrel rotary gatling gun from one of the lockers.
Mason glanced over at the oversized man and equally over sized gun.
"Heh you can have it buddy, your probably the only one who can use it in combat anyway," Mason said as he cocked the hammer on his own M1A sniper type.
"I'm glad someone can use it" Sarah thought to herself as another member of delta team pulled a prototype flamethrower out from another locker.
"Sweet" Cooper said as he held the experimental weapon.
"That's, the new mk25 flamethrower, it was just a blueprint on a piece of paper until this whole alien/zerg thing went public, it's the only prototype, so please try and bring it back in one piece, mister Cooper," Sarah explained.
Cooper turned to look at her, the man had a balled head and blue eyes and a big grin on his face.
"I'll try ma'am." Cooper replied as he looked back at his new prototype flamethrower which was different than most.
The mk25 flamethrower had a long body and a handle on the upper middle of the body with a second forward handle and instead of a big backpack for fuel there was a large canister inside of a rod frame underneath and behind the main handle like a magazine the canister held two kinds of flammable liquid that would mix and ignite. There was a second canister inside the frame of the stock that held high pressure air that could temporally boost the flames range and intensity when a second trigger was pulled.
After delta team was finished checking out their new weapons Sara brought them to the ships shooting range where they trained with them.
Jacob put his ear guards on to muffle the noise of gun fire and aimed his M1a down the firing range and pulled the trigger their was a loud band and the 7.62 armor piercing round flew through air and hit the target on its lower left side. Jacob adjusted his aim and continued to shoot as did the rest of delta.
Mason braced his his M1a sniper type on the table that was in front of all the firing lanes and fired. The round zipped down the range and hit the target dead center.
Mark aimed his M134 minigun and pulled the trigger, the six barrels started to spin and then fire making a noise like paper tearing only set to ten as it spewed thousands of rounds down range from the six rotating barrels. The target was shredded to pieces from the three second burst. Mark let off the trigger and looked at his target or at least what was left of it.
Cooper scoffed at the ridicules amount of firepower Mark had and readyed his own weapon. Nomaly a flamethrower on a ship would be a really bad idea but this firing range had been treated with a fire resistant coating and their were extra fire extinguishers placed around the room.
Cooper aimed his mk25 flamer and pulled the trigger and the flame spewed forth from the barrel shooting searing hot fire but it only reached 30 feet then Cooper pulled the second trigger and the second canister of pressurised air instantly boosted the flames range and intensity. The flames shot out with farther range and heat and it consumed the target, turning it to ash.
Cooper made a grin at the literal firepower he had as the other ember's of delta looked at him after having felt the intense heat of the flamer.
After familiarizing themselves with the new weapons delta team started hand to hand combat training to keep their skills sharp and to get used to each others fighting style. After that Sarah and Randolph briefed them again on the battle tactics of the allied forces who would focus their air power on destroying the new zerg hives clusters that were being grown in brazil's states of Mato Grosso, and Para in-order to push the aliens farther back into their own territory. As this is going on delta team with support from the marine's will sneak into a small hive cluster that's at the edge of zerg territory and capture their primary target if it's there and then move to the extraction point.
April 24 saturday
The next morning delta team were in their weapons room checking gun sights, loading ammo, and getting ready for the operation as the USS 'Ranger' deployed two groups of f/a-18 Hornet jets, both squadrons were equipped with a mix of laser and gps guided bombs, and air to air missiles so they could handle airborn threats while also striking ground targets.
Jacob and the rest of delta team now in combat gear with their new weapons walked on to the USS Rangers flight deck. The engine's of the f/a-18 hornets screamed as they were launched off the carriers deck by the catapult.
In the rear part of the flight deck were four V-22 Ospreys equipped with a gatling gun on their nose and rocket pods under their wings ready for take off, as delta team walked onboard one V,22 , while three other teams of marines entered the other aircraft and all of them sat down on the folding set's and readied themselves for take off.
~Delta team this is a comm's check, do you read me over.~ Sarah's voice came over the teams helmet mounted radio's.
"Roger command we hear you loud and clear," Mason replied.
"Comm's are good command we're ready to go." Jacob said as he watched the rest of his team strapping themselves in.
USS 'Ranger '
Operations room deep inside the USS Ranger
"Roger delta team, we hear you," Sarah spoke into the radio as she watched the display screen showing satellite date while Randolph stood behind her.
Many other people were also in the room talking and working as well, over seeing the rest of the current large scale operation, of which delta team was just a small part.
The osprey pilots started the engines up and the four ospreys took off like helicopters, and flew north for a mile then they shifted into plane mode rotating their wings forward which allowed the to fly much faster like a plane.
Hour's later in the eastern part of the state of Mato Grosso, delta teams four ospreys meet up with a dozan marine chinook heavy transport helicopters that were deployed from one of Brazil's remaining air bases along with ten black hawk light transports plus six cobra light attack copters all from the marine corps. The flight of aircraft entered the combat air space that was spread all across the sky's of state Mato Grosso as hundreds of fighter jets of different types from different country's engaged hundreds of mutalisk in the sky's above.
The air battle was meant to weaken and distract the zerg air power. Buying time for delta team and their marine backup to reach their operation area which was a small town that had been evacuated a week before but the zerg had moved in a few days ago and already had built a armored dome.
The chinooks and cobras landed in the northern part of the town and off loaded their cargo of marines and a few striker ifvs and quickly established a beachhead.
The US marines made a foothold to distract the small hive clusters defender's giving delta team a better chance to complete their mission.
The four V22's holding delta team and their marine support touched down at the southern edge of town closer to the hive cluster. Delta team and most of the marine's with them quickly moved out to their objective while a few of the marines stayed behind to guard the Ospreys.
"This is delta leader to command we've touched down, the landing zone is all clear, and we're on the move to the target, copy command over," Jacob spoke over his radio as he and the rest of the team and the marines moved through the ruins of the town as zerg drones could be seen in the distance dismantling the buildings.
~Copy delta team,~ Sarah replied over the radio. ~The hive cluster is close by, but hold position until the rest of the marines engage the enemy defenders. That should give you a better chance to infiltrate the hive cluster. And the primary target may be inside as well so be careful,~ Sarah said concerned for the teams lives.
Meanwhile in the small hive cluster
The zerg queen in charge of the small hive cluster stood in the main chamber surrounded by the lone hatchery a few spawning pools and a hydralisk den, as she watched through the eyes of locust that were spying on the humans that had landed north of the hive cluster. The zerg queen also knew of the smaller group of humans that had landed to the south but did not think them threat and instead she focused on the larger force so the queen sent most of her forces north. Hundreds of zerglings and dozens of hydralisk charged out of the armored dome towards the larger human force in the north leaving only a small force to protect the hive cluster.
Operations room
USS 'Ranger'
Sarah's eyes widened as she saw a few hundred zerg a mix of zerglings and hydralisk rush out of the dome and quickly moved northward to engage the main force of marines. So far everything is going as planned.
"I hope everything go's well," Sarah said, with no small amount of worry in her voice.
"A leader can make plan's all they like but real war is not as predictable," Lt,col Randolph said.
Sarah looked back at him then back to her screen.
"I know, I just can't help but be a little on edge, thats all, this is my first war with... 'aliens' after all," Sarah said.
"This is everyone's first war against aliens. I would think you, me and everyone else have the right to be a little nervous," Randolph said reassuring Sarah.
"Yeah your right," Sarah replied refocusing on her job. "This is operation command to marine captain Allen shane the enemy is approaching your location," Sarah warned over the radio.
Marine decoy group
Northern part of the ruined town
Allen shane captain of the main force of US marines heard the warning over the radio as he organized the troop formation from inside his Stryker IFV. The eight wheeled armored vehicle had a gatling gun and a mk47 auto grenade launcher like the other three strykers. The captain acted immediately organizing his troops into a defensive formation of three half circles with the ground troops in the outer two lines holding their m4 rifles and 40mm six shot revolver grenade launchers at the ready with the strykers behind them everyone was a little on edge at the coming battle.
"Roger command we're ready, just make sure delta team gets the job done" captain Allen replied as he heard the shrieking of the approaching zerg.
"Here they come" one marine called out as he and the others readied their weapons aiming them down the street.
A few minutes later
Delta teams location approaching the hive cluster.
The giant dome was in sight now, from where Jacob was it looked at least 400 feet wide and set in the in the middle of a field surrounded by three groups of grain silos with that gray purple stuff covering the whole area and was still spreading around the town.
More than a few members of the group had commented on how disgusting the stuff was and that it stuck to their boots like the world biggest wad of gum.
Jacob worried it would slow them down too much and would endanger the mission and their lives.
From what Jacob saw their were no sign of any zerg on guard, but they could be underground like in the reports that said they could quickly burrow and unburrow from the ground. Mason commented that they were like giant moles. Giant moles that have bullet proof armor and claws that can rip through steel.
Jacob thought they could be waiting for any intruders to walk into range and then ambush them. As he looked out from behind the steel wall of one of the silos he was hiding behind along with half of delta team and the marines behind him, while Mason and the other half of delta were on the opposite side of the dome hiding behind another group of silos.
Jacob had split delta and their marine backup into two teams Jacob lead red team and Mason lead blue team.
~So, what's the plan red leader ?~ Mason asked over the radio.
"One team distracts the guards and the other runs like hell to get inside the dome." Jacob explained.
"Yeah, I thought that's why you paired me with Mark," Mason said over the radio as he looked over his shoulder back at the big guy holding his minigun.
"Yeah and why I have cooper" Jacob replied looking back seeing Cooper holding his prototype mk25 flamethrower.
"Oh well lets get this over with," Mason said turning to the rest of blue team consisting of Mark, four other members of delta team and two dozen marines. "Ok everyone our job is to get the monsters attention so red team can get inside that dome. Delta team member's in the front, and marines split into two groups and protect flanks. Mark get ready," Mason said seeing everyone node their heads showing they heard the orders.
"All right everyone wait for blue team to clear the way then we charge in," Jacob said seeing red team consisting of Cooper and four other members of delta team and one dozen marines nod their heads.
After the two teams were done talking Mason and blue team charged at the dome a short way as their movement was slowed by the creep that was everywhere, and they reached a tractor that was in the field. Just as blue team reached the tractor two dozen zerglings and four hydralisk popped out from the ground near the dome and charged the invaders. Blue team aimed from behind the makeshift cover and opened fire. Mark climbed up onto the tractor and aimed his minigun at the charging zerglings as the six barrels spun and then fired a deafening hail of 7.62 armor piercing rounds.
The hail of bullets shredded the heads two zerglings and the bodies flopped to the ground. Then Mark swept his minigun side to side cutting down the other zerglings charging.
Mason and the other four members of delta team opened fire with their M1A's at the hydralisk most cracking their chitin armor some were deflected by the slanted armor on top of the heads or stopped by the shielded for arms. Then the hydralisk lowered their heads balancing on their for arms and opened the flaps on the side of their heads as they readied to return fire.
"HIT THE DECK, " Mason shouted as Mark and the other members of blue team dropped to the ground and ducked back behind the tractor as a hail of organic armor piercing spines flew through the air.
One spine pierced through the thin edge of the tractor and hit a member of blue team in the shoulder and another man was hit in the leg as the hydralisk continued firing. Then explosions detonated around the hydralisks the blast's cracked their armor and brushed the hydralisks organs stunning them long enough for a barrage of rifle fire and more explosion's from grenades explosions rocked them and diverted their fire.
The flanking attack killed one of the hydralisk and injured another as the others re-aimed at the new threat, which was the marines flanking red team.
"Mark now," Mason exclaimed as Mark stood back up and returned fire, giving cover fire for other members of blue team to gave medical aid to the two team members who were hit by the spins.
Mark continued to fire at the hydralisk as the hundreds of rounds fired from his minigun ate through their armor shredding two hydralisk into bloody skeletons. The combined fire quickly eliminated the remaining hydralisk but not before they killed two marines and wounded four others.
Inside the small hive cluster
As the queen commanded her main forces against the larger group of humans she was distracted by the mental screams of her guards she had left around the hive cluster. She then connected to some locust that were on top the dome and saw a small group of humans fighting the hive clusters guards after a short battle the zerglings and hydralisk on that side of the dome were all killed. Seeing this the queen ordered all the guards around the hive cluster to attack the humans.
Red team
Shortly after the gun fire from the other side of the hive cluster stopped, Jacob saw two dozen of zerglings and six hydralisk pop out of the ground and move around to the otherside of the dome.
"Good work Blue team, but now your stirred up a hornet's nest suggest you fall back." Jacob said over the radio warning blue team.
~Roger red team, but we have wounded and kia's, I suggest calling the V22's to give us air support at least for a short time,~ Mason replied over the radio as gun fire from the other side of the dome started again.
"This is delta leader to command Blue team need's air support immediately over." Jacob called over the radio with a tone of urgency.
~Roger delta lead, i'll call the osprey's over, eta two minute's.~ Sarah spoke over the radio as she then called the V'22 osprey's to give support to Mason and blue team.
"All right red team, support for blue team is on the way but we have our own job to do so let's go," Jacob yelled.
Red team ran as fast as they can to the now unguarded hive cluster, their movement speed slowed by the creep covering the ground but they still reached the entrance of the dome in just a minute of hard running. Then Jacob looked into the dark interior putting on his night vision goggles as did the rest of red team as they entered the domes tunnel like entrance they walked through the dark tunnel and exited into a large chamber with a few large organic structures.
"Ok keep you guard up, spread out and take as many pictures as you can," Jacob said as red team walked farther into the chamber taking out small camara's and taking pictures of the six organic structures. As red team gathered intal Jacob noticed a few dozen worm or slug like creatures squirming around the larger pyramid like structure that had five large claw like spikes coming from its foundation.
Jacob walked closer to the small creatures thinking that they must be larva of some kind and just as he took a step to close the ground in front of him exploded.
"ALL INTRUDER'S MUST DIE." the queen roared as she un-burrowed right in-front of Jacob and swiped at him with him with her claws.
Jacob was like the rest of red team surprised by the sudden appearance of the queen but also by the fact it talked and in english!.
Jacobs training kicked in and he ungracefully fell backwards but avoided the possibly lethal attack, as the claws cut small gashes into his chest armor. And the rest of red team aimed their weapons at the zerg queen. Two marine opened fire and their bullets struck the queens side piercing into the weaker armor, angered she charged at the humans holding her armored arms up over her face and midsection as she quickly approached the humans on her six legs.
The queen reached the two marines and grabbed them both by the head and unfolded her wing blades and impaled both men and threw their bodies across the room as she charged at again.
Jacob and the rest of red team opened fire the bullets cracked and chipped the queens armor but didn't penetrate as the queen was hit from all sides.
The queen turned to her left bringing up one armored arms up to protect her face and using the other she fired spines from her lower for arm hitting a marine's and another member of red team as Jacob just then spotted a gap in the zerg queens armor.
Jacob then did something crazy he charged at the monster from her exposed back and jumped on the queens armored back surprising everyone who had to cease fire because he was now in the line of fire.
"Get off me human" The queen roared as she thrashed about and trying to impale the human with her wing blades but they were not meant to hit something in her blind spot.
Jacob quickly avoided being knocked off the zerg queens back by getting right between the two wing blades and pulled out his custom combat knife as the queen tried bucked him off. Jacob then jammed his knife up underneath the softer skin of the queens armpit and pushed a button on the end of the handle sending a charge of electricity through the queen's body which made her to jerk, convulse and roar in pain.
"Aaah, haaa I'll kkill yoou lit little bugg. The queen stuttered as a electrical current discharged through her body.
"COOPER NOW." Jacob screamed as Cooper ran forwards and aimed at the queen.
Seeing Cooper aim his mk25 flame thrower, Jacob jumped off the queens back leaving his knife in to keep the queen stunned for as long as possible, Cooper then shot a stream of fire at the queen point-blank.
"AAAAHH, AH HA AAAAH" the queen shrieked as she was taken off guard bringing her arm's and wing blades up to try and block the heat of the flame as best she could with the knife still shooting electricity into her body that was now being cooked her in her own armor as she was forced backwards by the pain of both the flame and the electricity made it so the queen could not think of anything else but to get away, the queen stumbled backwards against the wall of the chamber as Cooper's flame tank went dry and the battery in the knife died.
"Open fire" Jacob ordered as the surviving members of red team fired upon the queen, now focusing their fire this time, chipping away at the armor until the gun fire got through to the organs, the shocked, burned, and bullet riddled queen slumped down breathing heavy with her arm's still up over her face.
"Hold fire... good work everyone," Jacob ordered as everyone reloaded. "Cooper keep guard of this thing..., and you two" Jacob pointing to two marines. " Both of you get outside and radio blue team and check if their all right, if they are, tell them to meet us in here, and then get back here, and the rest of you check the wounded," Jacob said as red team followed his orders, the two marines ran outside taking off their night vision goggles as they exited the dome.
"BLUE TEAM, BLUE TEAM, DO YOU COPY." one marine yelled over the radio.
~Copy red team, huh, we're fine over her, what's your states?~ Mason replied sounding worn-out.
*[Flashback]*
Bullets and spines criss crossed through the air as grenades exploded all over. Blue team was fighting for their lives as zerglings charged at them, but luckily Mark and his minigun them cut down while everyone else was focusing their fire on the hydralisk. One of the zerglings somehow got past Mark's hail of bullets and leaped onto a member of delta team and was about to cleave his head off with the blade arms on it back, when Mason unloaded his clip of 308. ammo into the little monsters side and head killing it just in time. The other delta team member kicked the zergling off of himself and continued shooting at the rest of the charging zerg.
Mason reloaded his rifle and looked to his right seeing two more marines fall to spine fire piercing their heads and chests. Just then the field erupted into explosion's and tracer fire from the sky as two V-22 ospreys made a strafing run with their gatling guns and rocket pod's as they flew overhead much to the relief of blue team. The surviving hydralisk aimed at the V-22s as they flew away but then the field once again erupted into more explosion's and tracer fire as the second pair of V-22's started their strafing run, blue team continued shooting and after another minute all the zerg were dead.
*[Flashback end]*
"We've taken some casualty's but we secured the primary objective, and delta lead wants everyone to regroup inside" the marine replied.
"Roger, we'll be there in a minute" Mason replied, After a few minutes Mason and the surviving members of blue team entered the dome and helped red team to hull the severally injured zerg queen now restrained with a steel wire outside and loaded her into one of the V-22 ospreys with Mark and Mason guarding the prisoner as the dead and wounded were loaded into the other three osprey's.
"Command this is delta lead, we have the package, returning to base now," Jacob reported over the radio.
Sarah and Randolph both breathed a sigh of relief from the transmission.
~Roger delta, all marine forces this is command mission complete return to base.~ Sarah said to the main marine forces that distracted the main zerg forces.
"Roger command, we're returning now," captain Allen replied over the radio as he looked around seeing the pile's of corpses of both zerg his troops and a few crashed cobra attack helicopters.
The captain was thankful for it to all be over and to the fact the enemy just attacked head on instead of flanking his forces that were now only 60% of what he started with. Allen then organized his surviving men. Recovering the dead or wounded and moving them into the chinook transport copters that were luckily spared any damage during the battle.
After which the surviving cobra light attack copters that gave air to ground support for the captain and his men, returned to the brazil airfield they deployed from seeing as they were low on ammo and fuel. Shortly after the captain and all his surviving men were done loading the dead and wounded into the chinooks. The surviving marines took off and returned to the carrier getting a mid-air refueling during the trip back.
Ellen's primary hive cluster
Ellen sat in front of the lair with her three pack queens waiting behind her, as she thought on the major battles that took place today.
59% of the few hundred mutalisk and scourges she had at the time were gone, overwhelmed by the number of jet fighters and carrier bombers. The number of aircraft the humans deployed was around 840 allied aircraft all hitting her network of hive clusters all over the eastern half of zerg territory resulting in the destruction of over 82 hive clusters and hundreds of mutalisks and scourges and over two hundred overlords and overseers along with many other strains of zerg on the ground.
Most of the damaged, as Ellen had expected and feared came from bunker buster bombs that were able to penetrate the armored dome's and detonated inside killing many zerg and destroying many of the young hives clusters that still did not have deeper levels, which is why Ellen and her three pack queens retreated through the nydus network before the bombs hit.
The loss of so many hive clusters greatly damaged the swarm's production and presence in the south and east at least for a short time until the hive clusters can be rebuilt which does not take very long.
Ellen thought and hoped the humans bunker buster bombs were only able to penetrate the armored dome's of the younger hive clusters because they were not as thick and dense as the older and much bigger hive clusters like her primary hive cluster.
"Zavara, Na'kool," Ellen said in a commanding tone to her two hive queens.
"Yes our Empress," both hive queens responded from each of their main hive's.
"I want both of you to start building four new spire chambers each, for the production of mutalisk and scourges... immediately," Ellen commanded, also sending to both hive queens the design's of the spire chamber.
"We will begin construction at once, my Empress," Zavara replied.
"Yes my sister, but we must morph one of our hatchery's into a lair first," Na'kool pointed out reminding her sister of the need to have a lair first.
"Get started you two, we're going to need that air power and soon... understand."
"I have already commanded my drone's to begin construction of the necessary chamber's," Na'kool replied having just sent the order.
"As have I my Empress."
"Good, now I just hope Solus mission is going well," Ellen said as she disconnected from the two hive queens stood up and connected with the behemoth commander.
"Yes my Empress," Solus responded feeling his Empress connecting to him in the hive mind.
"Where are you now Solus," Ellen asked wanting to know how far along Solus and his fleet are on their journey.
"My fleet and I have just passed by a group of large island, east of the southern tip of south america," Solus replied.
Ellen made a mental image of that area, from what she remembers the island must have been the Falkland island a few hundred miles off the southeastern tip of Argentina the southern_most country in south america.
"I see, have you been spotted by any human ships."
"No, and I have diverted my armada twice to avoid contact with any human ships that were passing the tip of the continent." Solus explained why his armada is being slow in reaching their targets.
"Solus, I want you to contact you hive clusters and morph more strain's to replace the force's you took with you and then continue on your course," Ellen ordered.
"Understood my Empress, I will begin at once" Solus replied ending the psi communication and then he sent a command to his hive clusters to morph hundreds of more broodlings, piranhalings, overlords, overseers, and queens.
Then Solus and his armada of 60 broodlords, 240 broodlisk, 600 broodling's, 50 overlords, 50 overseer's continued on their way north.
A few miles behind Solus and his armada was a hidden submarine near the edge of the falkland islands, the russian submarine was completely silent the crew knowing if they were detected it would mean certain death from the massive and vary silent fleet of unknown vessel's.
It must have been divine luck that the russian sub detected them first and that it wasn't the other way around which is what captain Anton thought as he wiped the sweet from his for head as he looked around the darkened bridge his face shadowed like the rest of the bridge officers he stood with. Anton looked around at the rest of his crew they were on edge after nearly being detected and passed, by the massive unknown fleet .
"Is their course unchanged?" Captain Anton whispered to the sonar operator who had her eyes closed listening intently to the sonar.
"Course is the same, north by northeast," the sonar operator whispered back.
Anton then started thinking about what was north of them, he spent a full five minutes in thought until a very troubling thought crossed his mind. The only reason a large force like that one would be deployed is to hit a major military target. And that the only military target's Anton could think of that was in the atlantic was the allied fleets gathered to fight against the alien's that were invading Brazil. The thought sent a cold streak down Anton's spine.
Ellen's Primary hive cluster,
April 25 sunday
It had been just a day but Na'kool and Zavara had completed one spire chamber each in their main hives and were already starting to morph the drone's into spire's, it would only take another day before they begin production of mutalisk and scourges.
Meanwhile Ellen and her three personnel pack queens were busy coordinating a army of thousands of drones in rebuilding of all the hive's clusters that were destroyed in the first allied attack, even Swarm Empress Ellen was surprised by the speed the zerg can recover, as all the destroyed hive clusters were mostly restored with in a few days but the battles in the air continued as the allied forces continued sending attack aircraft along with cruise missiles that were mostly intercepted by ether scourges or mutalisk.
Ellen stood in front of the lair as she monitored all the progress of her swarm is making.
Ellen had also continued production of mutalisk and scourge's from her primary hive clusters, four spire chambers all four of which are now almost bursting with mutalisk and scourge's even though she had a few more side chambers added.
Ellen smiled as everything was now in place as Solus and his fleet had just reached the allied fleet just off the northeastern coast of brazil and Ellen herself has amassed all the airpower she need to end this war and any resistance in south america. Well on this continent anyway.
Ellen's plans for Arthur Méndez has also going according to plane as Arthur had convinced Rodrigo to help him get a meeting with President Miquel and then a locust Arthur smuggled into the meeting implanted the brazilian president with a zerg parasite and then it was a simple matter for Ellen to 'convince' Miquel to do what she wants which includes giving Arthur everything he needs to complete his side of the plane which includes the construction of a hydrogen production facility which the zerg will provide a means to make functional and cheap. So long as President Miquel keeps to the cover story of how they got the ability to cheaply produce hydrogen Ellen promised to leave Brazil and the rest of south america alone, at least after her final attack on every military on the continent.
It will be harder for the allied forces to mount a attack on Ellen's swarm if every military base on the continent is destroyed.
Ellen smiled to herself as the nations of the world have done almost exactly what she had expected and predicted them to do. Ellen based her predictions of how humanity would react to the zerg on human nature as well as political and economic motivations.
Ellen then gave three orders. The first for Solus to begin his attack on the allied navy's off the north-eastern coast of brazil. She wanted Solus to start with the human navy farthest north and then move back southward and chase the remaining fleets into the pacific which was meant to make the military's of the world behave the way Ellen wanted which would make predicting what they do next easier.
The Swarm Empress then gave a second order to all the mutalisk and scourges in and around her primary hive cluster to take to the air.
Within ten thousands of mutalisk and scourges gathered into a massive dark cloud blocking out the sun as the air was filled with their shrieks. And then they scattered, flying in all directions towards their target's that consisted of almost every military air bases on the continent that Ellen has found thus far with the overseer's she's continued sending into orbit most of which died from the anti obitial attacks by the americans.
The third order was for a drone to travel through the nydus network to a recently repurposed facility along the north eastern coast of brazil which was the facility Arthur will use to begin his hydrogen company thats apart of Ellen long term plans for humanity.
Ellen then turned her attention to a certain queen that had been captured by the american's .
American carrier fleet
off the coast of the brazil state of Sao paulo
Sarah sat in delta teams briefing room typing on her laptop. Writing a report on the successful mission to the pentagon and the about the casualty's suffered. Sarah stopped and rubbed her eyes then hit the send key.
Having finished Sarah stood up and walked to the cafeteria where she got a cup of coffee and then walked to a cargo hold where the captured alien queen was being kept.
Upon entering the room Sarah saw Mason, Cooper and four other member's of delta team standing around with their weapons at the ready as they guarded the zerg queen inside the cage which looked like a alien insect centaur with six legs and armored plating and what looked like armored dreadlocks on the back and sides of it's head, as Sarah looked could see that the damage the creature suffered had mostly healed already.
"Has it done anything," Sara asked.
"Nope, ever since we got it in there it's just sat there watching us through the bars, hasn't even tried to attack when one of us got close," Mason explained.
"Hmm, and it hasn't talked," Sarah asked.
"No it hasn't, I guess it just doesn't have anything to say to us," a member of delta said.
While the humans talked Ellen listened to their conversation through the queen and then she took control of the queens body.
"Well I wouldn't say that human." the zerg queen spoke in a raspy and somewhat feminine voice getting everyone's attention and the members of delta aimed their weapons at the cage that Sarah and Mason now turned to see the alien queen looking at them it with its eyes glowing purple.
"Uh Umm... what are you?" Sarah asked shakingly a little startled now seeing the alien flexing and stretching it's head and arm's.
"Mmm i'm surprised you were able to capture one of my servant's," the zerg spoke as it looked around the room as Sarah, Mason and the delta members in the room to wondered why it said that. But just then Mark burst in to the room making everyone jump and look at him standing in the doorway.
"Mark what is it," Mason asked wondering why he would just barge in.
"Big trouble, our allies are under attack." Max answered.
*[Flashback]*
In the USS 'Rangers' bridge captain Adamson sat in his chair in the rear of the room with Lt,col Randolph, first Lieutenant Jacob, and Mark standing to his side.
"I hear your mission was a success Lt,col," captain Adamson asked.
"Yes it was, but we lost a lot of good soldiers just for the one prisoner and some pictures." Randolph answered his voice full of regret at the loss of life.
"Well i'm sure you understand that information can win wars. Adamson spoke trying to ease Randolph's guilt at losing so many of his soldiers,
Then on of his bridge crew called out.
"Sir we've got a sonar contact bearing south by southwest, sound's like it's a Russian submarine, but it's... on the surface," the bridge crew man reported making the captain a little worried at the reasons why a russian sub would show its-self.
"Try to hail it," Adamson ordered.
"Um sir we're actually being hailed by them," the comm officer reported making everyone on the bridge more curious and wondered just what's going on.
"Well what do they have to say," captain adamson asked as the comm officer connected the two vessels comm's.
~Hello to the american carrier group, I am captain Anton of the russian navy, we are friendly do not fire, we urgently need to talk to you,~ a voice over the radio urgently spoke with a russian accent .
"Captain Anton this is captain Adams of the USS Ranger, what's this important thing you need to tell us," Adamson asked getting to the point,
~Captain Adamson I must warn you that a massive fleet of the... alien creature's past us by yesterday. And we've been following them northward. Since they have not attacked you already I believe they intend to attack your allies farther north,~ Anton warned making the blood of everyone on the carriers bridge run cold.
"Are you sure about this Captain Anton, " Captain Adamson asked in a grave tone.
~Yes I am, we were just lucky to be in full stealth mode when they came into range of our passive sonar. At first we thought they were a pod of whales but their numbers were far too big. And we just observed as they passed over our heads and could see their true numbers which had to be over two hundred,~ Captain Anton explained making everyone on the carriers bridge started to look at each other in more worry.
"Hmm, comm officer, contact the allied fleet that's farthest north," captain Adamson ordered, as the comm officer opened a communication line with the british royal navy which is the allied fleet farthest north.
"Calling the Ark royal, this is the US carrier Ranger, Ark royal please come in," the comm officer spoke into the radio.
There was a pause before one of the allied fleets responded.
~This is the british carrier Ark royal, to USS carrier Ranger what is your inquiry, over,~ a man with a british accent replied over the radio.
"British carrier Ark Royal this is Captain Adamson we believe there to be a sea based threat to the allied fleet's."
~A sea born threat... are you sure?~ the captain of the ark royal asked as his sonar officer cut in with in a panicked voice.
~Sir we have sonar contacts hundreds of them!~ the man said in a panicked tone.
The Ranger's bridge crew heard this over the commes and the three delta team members looked at each other with worried looks.
"Mark I want you to go tell the rest of delta whats going on," Mark nodded and left the bridge moving through the carrier to the cargo hold where Mason was guarding the alien prisoner.
*[FLASHBACK END]*
In the waters 10 miles off the coast of the brazil state or Para. Solus and his armada began their attack. Hundreds of broodlings quickly rushed forwards and swarmed around the humans ships cutting and slicing through the metal hulls and flooding the ship's lower levels.
The british navy fired barrages of of torpedo's and depth charges at the attacking alien armada. The depth charges dropped into the water by the dozens and detonated killing broodlings as they approached while the the torpedos swiftly moved through the water detonated against the bodies of 10 of the broodlords.
The broodlords armored bodys cracked under the pressure of the blasts but ultimately did little and the broodlords started to regenerate as the torpedos warheads were meant to damage a metal hull not a organic body let alone a heavily armored one's.
Solus then sent in the broodlisk. By then many of the ships were already sinking and the crew's evacuating as dozens of life rafts were now floating around in the water around the sinking ships.
As they approached the broodlisk easily dodged any torpedos the ships fired but a few were injured by the detonations of the depth charges drifting through the water. But the broodlisk and reached their targets and started ripping through the ships hulls. Where the broodlings made small cuts into the metal hulls the broodlisk's completely ripped through multiply levels of the human ship's and after just a half hour of combat most of the remaining ships were almost cut in half or had one hole side ripped open by the blades of the Broodlisks.
Solus watched as his armada easily destroyed the first human fleet and without too many losses. All the human ships were sunk, but a few hundred humans were still alive floating on hundreds of the orange life rafts.
Solus thought about having the broodlings kill them but wanted to know what his Empress thought he should do.
"My Empress. I have destroyed the first human fleet. But what of the human's themselfs," the behemoth asked.
"Don't kill them Solus. The humans are no threat without their technology. Just move on to the next fleet."
"Understood my Empress," Solus replied as he moved on to the next fleet with his armada.
U.S. carrier Rangers support fleet and remaining allied fleets/ 5 hours later
After the news spread about not only how fast the zerg armada destroyed the british royal navy's fleet, but also about the swarm of thousands of Zerg mutalisk now assaulting military bases in almost every nation in south america. The rest of the allied fleets went on high alert and moved south gathering around the US navy fleet, but not before a second allied fleet was lost, leaving only three fleets left.
The leaders of the allied fleets fleets convirst over radio trying to reach a decision on their next move.
"I've already called for reinforcements from the U.S. pacific fleets but it will take at least another day for them to arrive," captain Adamson spoke with a voice full of fear and frustration to the other fleet leader's over the radio.
~We understand captain Adams, but given the loss of two allied fleets so... quickly, and the thousands of new enemy air-craf... um units that are, as we speak, attacking many of the military's of countries throughout south america, we are just going to get our men killed if we continue waiting, around,~ one fleet leader spoke out.
~Yes given the current situation it would be best if we retreated for now and... regrouped in the pacific,~ the leader of the other fleet added.
Even Captain Adamson hand to admit the current situation does not favor them winning. Even with all their advanced technology the great military powers of the world are being bested by a horde of monsters from outer space. Mostly because new forms of zerg keep showing up right at the worst possible times for the human military's fighting them, as if a higher leader of the aliens is not only anticipating how the human military's are going to react to them, but forming intelligent counter strategies and timing them near perfectly.
"All right, well retreat back to the pacific for now," Adams admitted, after all three fleet leaders agreed.
A few minutes later in delta teams briefing room Randolph, Sarah, Mason, Cooper, Mark, Jacob and the rest of delta team were gathered thinking about the current situation and what the alien queen said, or rather what the aliens Empress said through the prisoner.
*[Flashback]*
" Max what is it," Mason asked the man why he barged in.
" Um well there's a zerg fleet attacking one of our allied fleets farther north." Mark explained to everyone's shock.
"It has begun then," zerg queen spoke as everyone looked at her.
"What do you mean," Mason asked in a threatening tone but the alien queen just stared at him not affected by his attempt at intimidation.
"First of all, I... am the Empress of the zerg swarm. I am talking through the body of this queen you have captured. And second... your allied fleets are going to die... and your going to die, if you remain in the atlantic. I've instructed another of my servant's commanding the armada to destroy any and all military vessels beginning with the one's in the far north and then moving southward. And thirdly my Swarm has spread its wings and will destroy the military powers of south-america." the alien's Empress explained through the captive queen, getting shocked looks from all the humans in the room.
*[Flashback end]*
"Are your sure it said that " Randolph asked wanting to confirm what Sarah and Mason said about what happened .
"Well given what's happened in the past 5 hours, were sure," Mason replied.
"Dame, just when we get a victory, we get shot down again," one member of delta team spoke.
"And the queen... or rather the Empress... stopped talking after that," Sarah added.
"Well we are heading to the pacific right now, so the captain is probably going to make port some wear along the U.S. west coast or at Pearl harbor." Jacob said.
"Yes and it will give us the chance to off load the prisoner so the lab techs in the states can have a better look at how these... zerg work and hopefully find better weapons to fight them with," said Randolph a little hopeful.
All across the world people watched and heard the news of the events in south america. The destruction of two of the allied fleets and the retreat of the surviving fleets.
The spread of a massive swarm of thousands of mutalisk all over south-america that systematically destroyed many military bases belonging not only to Brazil but also Argentina, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela, which were the other major military powers on the continent.
This news caused even more wide-spread panic to spread across the earth, even the global stock market's started to crash again, and the crazy end of the world cults and alien freaks also started showing up and making more noise on the internet and all over world.
Even the starcraft players started calling the government's trying to give tips and advice on how to at least handle the zerg better.
In orbit of earth's moon
Having finally arrived Rolana, and Kai'nok sat in the shuttle's control chairs.
"Finally we've arrived." Kai'nok said sounding like he was about to loss his composure.
"Yes it's also time we activated the stealth system,"Rolana added as she hit a button to her left. Outside the ship looked the same but an invisible energy field covered the craft as the light wave frequency's that would allow human radar and inferred sensor tech to see the protoss craft was being refracted so the shuttle was invisible to them.
Rolana then started a scan of the moon and picked up trace amounts of zerg DNA inside a crater on the dark side.
"The hostile xenoforms have been here. Their probably wreaking havoc on the planet just like they did on A'rul.
"But where do we look first. It is still a big planet," Kai'nok asked looking at his commander as Zerion walked in from the cargo bay.
"I know where to look" Zerion said as Kai'nok and Rolana glanced back at him.
"And how do you know where we should look." Kai'nok asked half mocking half curious.
"As I meditated I could sense two very strong psionic force's," Zerion explained, to which Rolana closed her eyes and focused for a few moments before sensing both the strong psionic force's that Zerion spoke of.
"I can sense them," Rolana said as she input the coordinates that showed on the holo screen two continent's, one of the psi signature's was in the southern hemisphere and the other was in northern on another continent.
"Well... we know where to look now, but which one do we go to first " Kai'nok asked as Rolana thought.
Chapter End