StarCraft: Kerrigan's Child
Chapter 36
KORHAL LOYALIST DOMINION FLEET
As the remainder of the fleet was positioned in orbit around Korhal they all know about how Valerian took ¾ of the entire fleet and yet they remained behind, "I have a feeling of impending doom" one officer spoke to another "Really? You got stop watching those late night horror movies" the other officer answered, "You two cut the chit chat and get back to your job" The Captain yelled at the two officers as they went back to their jobs, when a huge white flash appeared which left a wormhole behind, "Report!" the Captain said as this was the most that has happen in a week, "Sir subspace rift appeared, we have life forms coming out of the rift" the officer announced as the alarm was being sounded throughout the ship when he then went pale and in shock from looking at what the life forms were.
"Sir Zerg are coming out of the rift, there is hundreds no more" the Captain heard from the officer, "Put it on the screen" he commanded as they then saw thousands of Zerg along with four Levithians, Everyone on the bridge was staring in both shock and fear, "Oh sweet of mother of God" the Captain spoke with a sense of impending doom as he could see all of the Mutalisks, Overlords, Scourge, Brood lords and now a new zerg strain, "All hands to battle stations signal the other ships to prepare for combat" the Captain ordered which everyone went to do, "But Sir with what is left of the fleet we won't be able to defend Korhal against the Swarm at this size, in fact we would be wiped out" a crewmen spoke his opinion which got everyone to think about something special to them, as the silence was around them they heard the alarms again along with more white flashes outside the ship, "Sir more contacts, their Raynor's Raiders" everyone was now praying that they would survive this, "Just prepare now" the Captain ordered which everyone went to their job.
ZERG LEVITHIAN KING AND QUEEN'S CHAMBER
Sarah and Jim both saw what remained of the fleet after what Valerian had taken "This will be easy, the hard part is on the ground" Sarah spoke in a laid back tone as she ordered her forces to engage the Dominion loyalist fleet, Mutalisks flew ahead as they engaged the oncoming wraiths, predators and flight mode Vikings, "This won't take long" Jim spoke sounding certain that with the numbers of the swarm against the remains of the Dominion fleet they would fall.
Lilith watched as the swarm attacked the Dominion she couldn't help but be happy that soon her mother's inner demons and the one who caused them will dead, Lilith walked up to her mother from the mattress she slipped her hand into her mother's getting her attention, "What's wrong Sweetie?" Sarah spoke as she looked at her daughter with a soften look, "I'm wondering Mommy, will you finally not have your nightmares again?" Lilith asked hoping her mother would say yes, Sarah looked into the eyes of Lilith and could see her worry, "It will be ok Sweetie once this is finished I will never have nightmares again" Sarah said smiling at Lilith who was happy after hearing her mother's answer, "Now let's watch Sweetie, soon we will be on the ground and then me and your Father will need to do our part" Sarah said which got Lilith to think she will be alone for a while, "Sweetie one of us will always be with you" Jim said after hearing what his daughter was thinking.
"Ok Daddy" Lilith said with a smile as they turned to see explosions happening because of wraiths, predators and flight mode Vikings being shot by Mutalisk acid spore projectiles, or being kamikaze by the scourge, "A few more and this will be phase one completed" Sarah thought as she held Lilith in her arms watching as more Wraiths, Predators and flight mode Vikings were destroyed as her Levithians and overlords got closer to Korhal, while the Hyperion and Mira's Marauders were steadily behind the Swarm as they also approached the planet.
HYPERION BRIDGE
Everyone on the bridge watched as the Swarm was completely pushing forward with the weak blockade that the Dominion were trying to stop them, "My god" Matt said amazed as he watched the Zerg fight against the Dominion near their home world and yet he felt glad that he wasn't the target of Jim and Sarah's Vengeance, "Alright prepare our forces, by now the Dominion fleet would've alerted Augustgrad and defences and troops deployment would already be underway on the surface so let's get a move on people" Matt shouted his orders as everyone went to work as they knew either way Mengsk was going to die.
A few more explosions was seen and heard as they saw more ships were destroyed before they saw a few Scourge flyers head towards a Battlecruiser, The Predators and Wraiths tried to shoot the Scourge down but were too busy with Mutalisks firing their acid spores at them. Matt saw as the Scourge kamikaze themselves at the Battlecruiser's engines, seeing the small explosions that happened which was then followed by one huge explosion that engulfed the ship destroying it completely, "There goes one Battlecruiser, now just need to finish off the rest of the fleet before the Dominion on the surface have time to prepare a defence" Matt thought as he looked over to the Levithians seeing as they were laying zerg cocoons which hatched into more Mutalisks and Scourge.
Matt saw as most of the crew on the bridge were staring in awe at the battle as they were praising their luck since they were not the target of the zerg, "Enough looking people prepare phase 2 of the plan" Matt announced as everyone went to prepare for the next part of the invasion.
KORHAL AUGUSTGRAD
Inside the city people were panicking as they ran in fear towards the nearest shelter bringing with them anything or anyone that was precious to them, Screams and shouting were all that was coming out of the civilian's mouths as they were all thinking that they were all going to die. While the civilians were running Dominion troops were taking up positions to defend the city should the Swarm make it planet side, "Get those Missile turrets up and running, Siege Tanks move to these positions and deploy into Siege Mode, Build those bunkers when need cover and get those Nukes ready" A Marine sent out his orders as he prepared for his squad for battle at defending the east side of the city, SCVs were busy constructing Missile turrets while the Nuke silos were arming their Nukes ready for a ghost marker and Thors walked with Vikings and Marines as they took their designated positions.
"East side this is West side sit rep?" The Marine Captain heard as he responded to the Captain of the West side of the city, "Defences are coming up now, arming our nukes and deploying our Siege Tanks what's your sit rep over?" The East side Captain explained, "Star ports are up, our Banshees, Wraiths and Battlecruisers have the sky and vultures have finished planting their mines over" The West side Captain responded, "West side, East side this is North Captain reporting in" the two Captains heard the North Captain speak, "Roger sit rep?" West side asked "Factories are operational, our Hellions, Diamond backs and Siege tanks are rolling out, Vikings and Thors are moving out over" North finished his explanation before the final Captain reported in, "This is South everything a go here, Barracks are set up, Marauders, Reapers, Firebats, Medics and Marines are all ready to go, Our ghost agent is ready to paint his nuke Over" South finished his report with all of the Captains now ready.
"Alright guys we have a job to do, we will push this invasion back and off our world or else humanity is doomed here" The North Captain which got the three other Captains to agree, "Now let's show those Zerg freaks what we a made of" he spoke now transmitting to every Dominion soldier in the city, "YEAH!" he heard a lot cries for moral. But little did they know a certain Ghost was standing at the centre of the city in front of the Palace waiting for the coming battle, If it wasn't for the fact that she had her blond hair tied into a pony tail or the fact that her eyes held so much suppressed in her soul, then the Ghost designation Agent X41822N would give away that Nova the Dominion's top assassin with a Psi Index of 10 was waiting for something, "I wonder how I would match up against the former Queen of Blades" Nova thought as she wanted to know how Sarah managed to make such a reputation from the old Confederacy, She held her Rifle in her right hand as she waited for the battle to come to the surface.
MENGSK'S PALACE
Mengsk stood facing out the window of his study watching as his forces prepared themselves to defend the city, he narrowed his gaze as he could see the nuke silos were finally arms and ready, at that moment rain started to fall down from the sky the same ominous clouds he had seen before were still looming over the city like a bad omen, he looked to the sky to see the first sparks of lighting that left the clouds and hit the ground.
It would seem that even the elements were against him as the hard rain would make the terrain wet and slippery for his troops and the lighting could hit any of his air forces, but over all his madness had taken away any thought of clear thinking in his head, he may present himself to seem he was in control but inside his head he was a shattered mad man, the door to his study was opened as two figures walked in each having their attention fixed on the emperor, "You two are to never leave my side" Mengsk spoke agitated and mad which the two Gestalts just nodded and stayed beside the door. "This will be the day that this all comes to an end" Mengsk thought as he was now thinking he should've killed Sarah when she had brought him the two assassins that murdered his mother, sister while she was the third assassin that killed his father instead of leaving her in New Gettysburg.
IN ORBIT AROUND KORHAL
The battle between the defending loyalist Dominion fleet against the reunited and stronger Zerg Swarm was turning in favour of the Swarm, two more Battlecruisers had been destroyed with the Levithian's getting ever closer to the planet so they can start dropping Zerg meteorites down to begin the battle on the surface, a few Battlecruisers managed to fire their Yamato cannons at a Levithian but even they proved to be no more than useless as these Levithian's were near fully matured as their carapaces was thick enough with age to withstand 4 simultaneous Yamato Cannon blasts at the same point.
Another group of Scourge came flying towards another Battlecruiser while the Mutalisks made sure that the Scourge would not be shot down by any Wraith, Predators and Vikings, As this was going on the Hyperion and Mira's Marauders were preparing to break through the atmosphere once the last Battlecruiser had been destroyed.
ZERG LEVITHIAN JIM & SARAH'S CHAMBER
As both of them watched the battle that was happening in front of them they couldn't help but think that this was the right thing to do, No matter how many of the Zerg flyers were killed the Levithian's would just lay more cocoons which would hatch into more, Jim was checking his Rifle making sure it was ready and loaded and that he be ready for what he would be facing on the ground, placing his Rifle on his back so that it was easy for him to reach and grab it he pulled out the Balisong that Tosh had provided with his Spectre suit, he had been taught by Sarah how to handle and use one in case he couldn't get to his Rifle or that he was saving his strength to use his Psionic powers on a better target then some marine.
Sarah on the other hand was telling her daughter exactly what she should do at all times when they move to the surface of Korhal, "You must always stay inside the Hive, one of us will be with you at all times when the other is out fighting ok Sweetie?" Sarah spoke using a tone of voice that made Lilith respect her mother's authority, but what Lilith didn't pick up in the tone of voice was the small bit of fear if she didn't follow what her mother asked of her, "Ok Mommy" Lilith answered happily and smiling which always made Sarah's heart melt. Sarah turned to see Jim place away the Balisong on his waist belt and then pick her Rifle up and brought it over to her, She began to check her own weapon while Jim began to talk to Lilith, "Lilith when this starts can you stay safe inside the Hive should both me and your mother need to go at the same time?" Jim asked seeing his daughter sitting on the mattress looking at him which she then began to worry.
"If only both of you promise that you will come back, I know this is all for mommy's revenge but still" Lilith asked sounding worried which made both Jim and Sarah look at their daughter with concern, "We promise if you promise to stay safe aright?" Jim said softly as he saw Lilith nod her head. The sound of another explosion was heard as all three of them saw the last Battlecruiser was destroyed, Jim brought his wrist up to his face and contacted the Hyperion, "Matt phase two is a go" Jim spoke which he then closed of the communication.
HYPERION BRIDGE
Matt heard Jim's message and began his part in phase two of the plan "Alright people phase two is a go, prepare for atmospheric entry, have our troops be ready to hot drop" Matt said his orders as he watched everyone began doing their jobs. Matt watched as everyone was now preparing for the Hyperion to break through the atmosphere, Mira's Marauders were following suit as their ships were already readying themselves since they didn't participate in the battle against the blockade they were still fully ready for the surface defenders.
As they all went through the procedures for atmospheric entry Matt saw as the Levithian's were now preparing to shoot their Zerg meteorites down, among the other parts of phase two Matt's forces had to find a suitable location to which Jim and Sarah's Hive can be placed as they would not join the battle until everything is done, as once the Spore Cannons were built around the Hive along with the Spine and Spore crawler then Jim and Sarah would come down to the surface with Lilith, while the Brood mothers and their broods would provide pressure on the City defenders while the Raiders and Mercenaries would set themselves up.
Tosh was standing around with his Spectres as he gave out information on the targets that Jim and Sarah had agreed upon, "Ok now, I want two squads to sabotages any kind of supply route that could be used by the Dominion to transport resources" Tosh spoke before he had hands up for volunteers, "Now I want one squad to check if the Dominion have access to nukes if so I want you to destroy the silos" Tosh said again hands went up before recognising one of his Spectres, "Shadow Hawk you're in charge of the squad" Tosh stated with the Spectre accepting it from his leader. "Now I will be taking an elite team with me to destroy any of the Dominion's factories" Tosh asked again for volunteers who raised their hands up for him to choose.
KORHAL AUGUSTGRAD
As the sky continued to be darkened as rain and lighting was falling over the city all of the Dominion were waiting for battle that would either wipe them out or they would win, "Sir the fleet in orbit has been destroyed, we have ships breaking through the atmosphere and as well as meteorites" a marine reported to the west side Captain, "Alright then" he thought before he turned his transmitter on to communicate with the other Captains, "East, South, North this is West Enemy forces have destroyed the fleet in orbit prepare for battle, enemy is now breaking through the atmosphere, unknown estimated count of forces" the west Captain announced, "Roger that West" he heard three voices from his communicator before he terminated the connection.
As a few minutes went by everyone saw the ships of the Raiders and Mercenaries broke through the dark clouds over the city, "Prepare for combat, everyone get to your positions" everyone heard the orders from their Captain as they obeyed them.
HYPERION
Once the Hyperion had broken through the dark clouds it began to launch the drop pods sending the Raiders onto the ground with Mira's Marauders doing the same, "Let's go, Quickly we need a base operational" a marine ordered as SCVs began to follow his orders, "We need a perimeter establish while the SCVs build up the defences so that we can stand against the Dominion" the marine ordered his squad as they began to spread out.
Mira's Marauders began to position themselves so that they were bolstering the defences that the Raider's had begun to build, "Ok Spectre teams go" Tosh said as he watched the teams all go out to their assignments, "Roger" Tosh heard the words of the squad leaders as they took their squads and cloaked vanishing for sight, Tosh saw as a SCV had finished building a Nuke silo and needed that armed "Begin arming that Nuke" Tosh ordered as the Silo prepared the Nuke, "Now all we need now is the Zerg" Tosh thought before the sudden shower of Zerg Meteorites started to fall around the city.
Tosh could feel the psionic signatures that belonged to the 5 brood mothers had landed and began to have their drones mutate into their hatcheries, Tosh then connected his transmitter to the recon team that was searching for suitable location for Jim and Sarah's Hive cluster, "Recon teams report have you found a location?" Tosh spoke wanting to hurry up and move into his part of the plan which would led into phase 3 of the invasion.
"Recon alpha reporting in no go on locations" Tosh heard from team alpha, "Team beta same" Tosh frowned before hearing from the final recon team, "Team Delta location found and marked transmitting the location to the Hyperion now" Tosh heard and smiled.
HYPERION BRIDGE
Matt received the coordinates from the recon team and began to transmit them to Jim, "Ok how is construction of the base proceeding?" Matt asked which he saw a officer turned around to tell him, "Command center is up, Barracks, Factory and Star port are being constructed as we speak and Nuke silo one is operational and armed" Matt heard and nodded his head so that the officer went back to his work.
"What of the Zerg?" Mira asked which the officers did a quick scan over the areas where the brood mothers were, "Zerg Broods are nearly finished building their clusters and readying themselves to attack the City" another officer spoke before they saw a lot of zerg Meteorites began falling to the location marked for Jim and Sarah's hive cluster. From what they saw is a lot of Hunter Killers along with Hydralisks, Zerglings and Roaches had came out of the craters, the drones then began to mutate near mineral field while the Hunter Killers stayed near the mutating Hatchery.
"What are those mutating to?" Matt pointed to four large pulsing mass of zerg flesh which Stetmen then appeared in window near the live footage, "Sir those would be the Spore Cannons, looks like they are taking no chances" Stetmen said which Matt understand as the hulking masses of flesh exploded revealing the new Spore Cannons, Everyone saw more Drones began to move out and mutate into other zerg structures around the still mutating hatchery.
The alarm suddenly sounded as they saw a Dominion attack group approaching the base, "We have incoming approaching, just a small team of marines with marauders and medics, I say this is just a scouting team coming to determine the strength of our forces" Matt heard an officer speak as he saw from the star map, "Have our forces engage the scout team, quickly get our defences up and make sure that our Missile turret sensor net, the last thing we need is a Nuke being painted to our command centre" Matt said as he then heard a collective answer of agreement.
"Sir the 1 first Brood mother that has finished building up her hive cluster is moving forward with her Zerg, she heading to the east side city defenders" Matt's attention was instantly switched towards what the officer announced, "Show me" Matt asked was he saw live video feed was displayed on the screen showing the Brood Mother moving towards the outer city walls with her Hydralisks, Zerglings, Roaches and two Infestors.
EAST SIDE DOMINION DEFENDERS
"Sir we have incoming, large of group zerg hostiles along with a power Zerg Queen leading them" the Captain heard one of his spotters say as he then loaded his Gauss rifle, "All right men prepare for contact, Siege Tanks fire on them as soon as they are in range" he commanded hearing a collective "Yes sir" from his men as he took his own position inside a bunker near his command center, while others took cover inside bunkers or grouped together to concentrate fire power.
The sounds of roars were starting to be heard by the defenders as they now saw the incoming zerg, "GO!" the Captain said as the Siege tanks fired their rounds at the oncoming Zerg killing at least 3 Zerglings and 1 Hydralisk in their first shot, While the marines and marauders inside the bunkers began shot at the rest of the zerg group, "Now" everyone heard the Brood Mother say as the Infestors started to spit their eggs out which hatched into infested marines who began to join in the battle with the Zerg against the Dominion defenders.
The Brood mother saw how the defenders were holding up against her attack but then if the Zerg wanted to overwhelm the defenders on all sides then they would've done it already, but that decision was left up to Jim and Sarah as they were sure that Mengsk had some under handed tricks at his disposal, the idea of this attack was to put pressure and the feeling of fear in the troops of the Dominion to lower their morale and in affect they combat effectiveness.
A few marines got killed by the Hydralisk's spines as the Zerglings tried to stop the Medics from administering any form of treatment but the Marauders stopped their efforts, the Roaches were spitting their acid on the Marauders trying to make sure the Zerglings could kill the Medics without being killed by the Marauders. Mixture of blood and water from the rain was being thrown around Dominion killed Zerg, Zerg killed Dominion they ignored the harsh elements as this invasion was more important to either side.
The Brood Mother saw the effects that her attack had done and concluded that she should retreat for now as part of the plan with the Brood mothers was an alternating turn of one Brood Mother would lead an attack on one side of the city while the others prepared for their turn, "Let's go" the Brood Mother commanded as she burrowed away while her zerg began to retreat towards their hive.
"Let's pursue them Captain?" a younger marine shouted which the Captain disagreed with, "No if we were to pursue them then we would be running right into their hive cluster which make this situation reversed, they would have the advantaged of their Spine crawlers and Spore crawlers while we only have what we've got now" the Captain explained to the marine knowing their orders are to defend the city and to not move from their location.
Captain then heard senor net alarm "WARNING ZERG FORCES ARE MOVING TO AN OUTLYING MINERAL FIELD!" the Adjutant that was assigned to the east side, "Damn it, if their build an outpost their it will give them a closer foot hold to the city" the Captain thought before he turned around to see the Ghost that was assigned to the east side, "Somebody call for an exterminator" the Ghost announced after reading the problem from the Captain's mind, "Perfect I want you to paint your nuke on the Zerg outpost that is being built and quickly" the Captain ordered, "I'm gone" he said as he cloaked and moved towards his objective.
Never noticing that four cloaked figures were staying just outside the Missile turret detection range and under cover from the falling rain, "Command this is Shadow Hawk requesting status on the progress of the other Spectre teams over" Shadow spoke into his communicator while his squad was waiting on confirmation, "Shadow Hawk this command Spectre teams Beta and Zeta have secured the supply routes over" Shadow Hawk heard the answer as he then signalled his squad they have to wait, "Roger Command we have sighted a Nuke silo, permission to plant explosives over" Shadow Hawk requested as the Nuke silo is a threat considering all the Brood mothers and the Raiders are outside the city walls, "You are to plant explosives when the first nuke is launched, Captain Horner has ordered it, Because the Spore Cannons can take care of any Nukes over" Shadow Hawk heard before understanding his orders, "Roger Command over and out" he spoke before the communicator went silent. "Now we wait" he thought as he knew their now reports of Ravens being deployed inside the city so there was no threat of being detected by them, it was only the Missile turrets that were the threat.
ZERG OUTPOST
As the Hatchery was being mutated the Ghost saw his opportunity as he watched carefully for any overlords which after a few minutes there were none, the rain from the clouds was beginning to get a little worse he didn't paint the nuke then the water would form an outline on his cloak alerting the outpost to his presence "Ok" he aimed his Rifle at the still mutating Hatchery and beamed his laser sight on it, "East side Target is painted" he spoke to his Captain.
EAST SIDE DOMINION DEFENDERS
"Roger that Ghost XX0239" the Captain spoke as the Nuke silo near his Command centre began to launch its nuke, as it shot the Nuke high into the sky he couldn't help but wonder if they use more of these then Korhal would be reduced back to what it was before it was restored enough to not be a nuclear desert, "This is for Humanity" he changed his line of thought as then prepared for what was going to come next for his men.
HYPERION
"NUCLEAR LAUNCH DETECTED" Matt heard the Adjutant announced as the live feed was changed to the Nuke that flying high above the City before dropping over to the Zerg Outpost still being grown, "They are in for a rude awakening" Matt said which Mira became confused before more alarms were sounded, "Sir Zerg Spore Cannons are targeting the Nuke" an officer spoke as he brought an image of all four Spore Cannons aiming in the direction of the falling Nuke, it took a second before the Spore Cannons fired their sickly green acid projectiles at the Nuke which collided with two, making an huge explosion which managed to make a small dent in the black cloud cover but not enough to make a hole for sunshine, as even the Sun refused to shine over the Dominion either by some greater power or by a soul wanting for her revenge against the Emperor.
ZERG LEVITHIAN JIM AND SARAH'S CHAMBERS
Jim and Sarah watched how the invasion was going and so far it was going according to plan, the Brood mothers had set their Hive clusters up and had begun to put pressure on the city and Matt and Mira's forces had started their objectives as well, Jim then looked towards the location of where their Hive cluster was being built and could see that it was now ready, He turned to Sarah looking at her before she nodded at him reading his mind and knowing that now was the time to make a appearance, "Time to go" he spoke as Sarah walked over to Lilith who sitting on the mattress swinging her legs over the edge before looking up at her mother, "Time for us to go now Sweetie" Sarah spoke softly to which Lilith nodded before outstretching her arms to her mother wanting her to pick her up.
Sarah bent down and took hold of her daughter and pulled her up holding her daughter in her arms, "lets go" she said as she and Jim walked out of the chamber with Jim carrying Sarah's rifle for her.
KORHAL EAST SIDE DOMINION DEFENDERS
The Captain was shock he just saw his Nuke just got shot down by two out of four sickly green projectiles, "Damn it, Ghost XX0239 fall back to here, we need to rethink how we are going to use our Nuke" the captain said now feeling a slight bit of fear as one of the trump cards and its advantages are now useless, "I hear that" he heard the Ghost reply as then to think of something when he alarms were being sounded all over the city, "East side this is West side our psionic readers are going off the scales what is going?" East heard West's demand when both North and South joined in, "East what is going on over" East heard both North and South in unison until all of them heard their adjutants announce as the alarms were now sounding the loudest.
"WARNING CLASS 12 PSIONIC WAVE FORM DETECTED AND A CLASS 11 PSIONIC WAFE FORM DETECTED" the Adjutants said as they detected the psionic signatures inside the meteorite while both the occupants had used their power to mask the third completely, all the Captains looked towards see a huge Zerg Meteorite was dropping from the atmosphere along with other smaller Meteorites.
JIM AND SARAH'S HIVE CLUSTER
As the huge hit the ground breaking apart Jim and Sarah stood up while Sarah cloaked herself along with Lilith as she walked inside the hive quickly so that no one can could see her, "Alright let's go" Jim thought as the other meteorites landed around him breaking apart for Hunter Killers and Raznoth got to quickly gather around Jim, "Spread out and guard my Daughter, Raznoth you are not to Lilith is not leave the room she is in" Jim mentally commanded the Hunter killers to which they obeyed with Raznoth and Jim walking inside the Hive.
