Unseen War

Chapter Three



It had been two months since Cords men had secured the base. Since then they had landed Cords Battle Cruiser, so that the wraiths would have a docking bay to launch from incase they were attacked from the air, and they had impressed the seven prisoners into the group. With the ex-confederates in the group Cord was shown an entire layout of the surrounding area for miles on out.

The out post itself was an unusual one. Instead of being several different structures grouped together, it was one big structure with everything integrated almost like a space station. On the outside of the compound instead of bunkers there were mini-guns installed on the outside. Also the turrets were imbedded into the compound. The only open part in the whole base was the courtyard where the men would meet for recreation. This is where Colonel Cord was standing now.

"Kiefer what are our current stats. unit wise?" Cord asked while looking at a game of football being played by some of the off duty soldiers.

"We are currently at fifty-six elite marines in the rangers, eighteen Special Forces men, and two squads of wraith in the landed battle cruiser. We also have the eight siege tanks that are guarding the base. We have three battle cruisers with an additional three squads of wraith behind the nearest moon. Why do you ask John?"

"I just got off the horn with Raynor, he wants us to take out a new dominion base that's being built near here. I think its time we sent our Alpha team into the cities. Can you head that while I take care of this base?"

Kiefer looked surprised, and immediately said, "Yes sir, but why do you want me to go in with them? I'm sure that there squad leader would be plenty able to head the operation."

"I just need people that I can trust out there, and right now you're the only capable leader I know of within this group of ours. I know other people, but they are not capable leaders, besides, as I understand it you grew up on this planet. So I would figure these people would be more willing to work with someone they can relate to.

"Yes I did. I suppose it's a good reason to send me on this. When do you want us to leave?"

"Tomorrow morning at 0800 hours. Go gather your men, and tell them they have the rest the day off, and that they need to get there gear ready for this operation. But until then let's finish watching this game.

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"In a press release today Emperor Mengsk revealed his plans for a complete retake of the planet Tarsonis, and in other news-." The TV turned off in mid-sentence of the reporter. General Robertson of the dominion had traded over to the dominion after the U.E.D's defeat to Kerrigan. He had destroyed the best of the dominions defenses and now he was working to restore them. After General Duke's death he was the natural choice to head the dominion military.

He was sitting in his quarters on board the dominion flagship, The Avery. He had heard rumors of a rebellion starting on Braxis, and he had been pondering over this for quite some time now. He had started to rub his temples when a message came in for him. His adjutant came online and started the basic process of opening the message for him.

"Hello General, you have nine messages. One of them is a top priority message from the Emperor. I am opening it for you now."

A picture of the Emperor appeared of his screen. "Hello General Robertson, I hope your day has been good so far. Well Ill get right down to the point with you. I'm sure you have already heard the rumors of rebellion on Braxis? Well if you haven't you now know. I have started a new base on the planet at these coordinates." At that time a slurry of text appeared of the screen that Robertson could go back over later. "As you guessed I want you to be there. Once you have the base in working order you are to train as many marines as possible, and ship them out to the main cities. This should just be a baby sitting job so don't worry about anything. Mengsk out." With that the screen flickered off, and the General was off to start his journey to Braxis.

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A Ranger came running into the war room, where the Colonel was. "Sir I think you better come and see this. The solider escorted Cord outside and pointed into the sky. "Sir you see that?" He was pointing at five dropships that were entering the atmosphere. "Here look through this." The Marine gave him a scope.

"What am I exactly looking at here solider?"

"Well sir those are not normal dropships. See how they have modified engines? That's a dominion A-Class Dropship, and those are only used by the Emperor and his top Generals." The young man looked at Cord with a small bit of fear in his eyes.

"Don't worry son. I already have my battle plan ready so that we can take out that base." With that Cord walked back into the command portion of the base.

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Night had enveloped the sky, and a lone figure stood in the middle of the dominion base. He slowly walked over towards the command centers communications room, making sure no one saw him. He went in the room for just one second and came back out. He made his way out of the command center, and ducked and rolled off the command centers ramp. He rolled back under the ramp just it time for a marine patrol to miss him. He slowly got out from his hiding spot, making sure no one saw him. He made his way to the armory, where there was a lone marine on guard duty. He activated his cloaking device and walked right past the marine, into the armory.

He looked around slowly making sure there was no one in sight. He walked over to the firebrat suits, and activated something on all of them. He then walked out of the armory and walked out of the base.

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Cord was standing on top of the near by mountain with his binoculars. He pulled them back up to his face, and looked far into the distance where he had 30 of his elite marines waiting to unless havoc on the unsuspecting dominion base.

John turned around to see his two escorts standing at attention. They had their vultures ready and prepped to leave at any time. These two young men were the two alpha team men he had kept from leavening with Kiefer. He had officially named them his personal guards. The short one was Lieutenant Allen Stone, and the taller one was Lieutenant Clint Miller.

"Stone radio in and tell the two fighter squads to hold a perimeter around the dominion base but do not engage. Only take down any ships trying to escape. Miller tell Sergeant Hanes to commence with the attack at exactly 0900." Cord turned back to look at the base while his two guards went to do his orders. John whispered to himself under his breath. "I hope that merc we hired did his job last night or this mission is a no go."



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Sergeant Hanes looked at the time, which was displayed on the inside of his helmet. "Men prepare to attack, lock and load." All men radioed in giving an affirmative. "One minute till we commence with the attack." He kept looking at the little green numbers that were displayed on his visor count down. He looked at the small scanner on his visor and it showed a strong defense inside the base they were about to try and take. "Men may god be looking over your backs. attack!

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A corporal was sitting in his bunker playing a game of poker with the marine that was also in the bunker with him. "Ok show your cards," said the corporal. The marine smiled and showed his cards, he had a straight. He started to grab for the money when the corporal stopped him. He laid down his cards with a royal flush. "How the hell. Damnit I always loose at this stupid game."

"Don't worry you were playing against the best firebrat in the dominion that's all." The man smiled and picked up the money. Suddenly a red alert light came on. "Oh shit, get to your post private!" He looked out into the small whole he had in the bunker. A voice came on over the horn.

"Firebrats hold your fire until you hear them fire!" The mass of men that were charging at them were getting closer and closer every moment. He heard gunfire, and so with all the other firebrats in the other bunkers he pulled his flamethrower trigger.

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Sergeant Hanes continued to run forward, and the bunkers erupted into a brilliant flash of fire. "I guess that mercenary we hired did do his job," he thought to himself as he ran past the bunkers. He looked into the main base and he could see a small squad of marines forming up to attempt and kill the invaders. "Rangers one through nine come with me." As he said that nine marines followed him. They ran behind a nearby supply depot. "Ok there is a small squad of marines forming about 100 yards that way. Now how many of you have armor piercing rifles?" Two of them raised their hands, and the rest shrugged and looked down at their regular issued CM-100 spike rifles. "Ok then you two take out the firebrats and medics. The rest of us will take out the marines, and remember to aim for their armors weak points. Lets go!"

They ran 50 yards to a burning wreck of a tank, and prepared to engage. "Ok you two start taking out your assigned units. When they start running over here the rest of you start firing." The two marines popped up and both shot, and they both took out two firebrats. Hanes popped his head out and noticed that there were many more marines now. Too many for them to take out, and there were about five more firebrats now. "You two start aiming for the firebrats' gas tanks!" They changed their aims to the tanks and fired.

A large explosion came from the group of enemies. The rest of the men came out from hiding and started pumping out round after round of hot led into the enemies. They kept running towards, but were shot and fell back onto their backs. The ground around where the enemy marines had been was now dyed red.

Hanes looked up around the rest of the base, and saw that the rangers had completely taken half of the base already. He looked on the readout of his visor to see that they had lost five marines. Suddenly an explosion came from the enemy command center. After the explosion a number of marines came out of the command center, and then a high-ranking official came out. The officer ran towards a dropship, and the marines provided him with cover fire. "One through six go take out those marines by the command center! Seven through nine stay with me." A few marines ran off towards the command center, and then the sergeant turned on his radio. "First fighter squadron stay on your toes we got enemy dropships coming out." He turned the radio off and looked around the devastated base. All enemy units were loading into dropships and attempting to escape. He got back on the communications link, and started giving orders to the marines. "Boys load the explosives onto all intact enemy structures. Good job boys, you will be rewarded for this.

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Cord was watching the battle, and had been very pleased with Sergeant Hanes command over his men. Miller tapped Cord on the shoulder, and cord looked at him. "Sir two of the wraith squadrons stopped a dropship. I think you may want to meet our newest prisoner." With that the three men that were on top of the mountain got onto their vultures and drove of towards their base.