Kerrigan's Two Lives Chapter 8: Of Broods and Bastards and 1 Bitch

Rethuny (reh-thoo-ni) 6, Rebel Capital

Bang! Crack! Bam! EYAHHHHH! The Rebels and the remainder of the Leviathan Brood were locked in mortal combat, neither side appearing to have the advantage. Both Magister and Raynor were extremely pissed at Aaron, a Vulture pilot, who allegedly forgot to program his spider mines to NOT explode on the Zerg (you remember what the Cerebrate in chapter 7 said, and I quote, "However, should they fire upon us, even if it's accidental, my brood shall spare no quarter to either Terran side, be they Dominion or Rebel." end quote.) Jim and his fellow Rebels fended off the Zerg with relative ease, but he was distracted as he wondered how to get the Swarm to stop slaughtering them. If this rate of attack kept up, there would be no more opposition toward the Dominion. "Minions, cease your attack!" The roar of Kerrigan's order as she suddenly appeared as though out of thin air sounded throughout the battlefield. All hell disappeared in an instant.

Tap, tap, tap tap clack click. File 934, Aaron Xenon. modification complete. Magister rose from the computer seat and headed out the door to the simulation room for training. Hissss went the door. "Jim! The files are changed and Aaron has been demoted." Magister barged in on Raynor and the Kerrigan's training session with the news. "By the way, what's the mineral and gas count?" Jim climbed out of his Vulture and responded to Magister's question with, " We have 978, 251 minerals and 1, 426, 913 gas." " I told you man; gas always gets collected faster than minerals. How are our two guests?" Magister asked as he climbed into his Goliath. " Both are making progress in combat. I believe our strategy in the fight will be that both will be cloaked and Sarah takes air units, while 'Queen' Kerrigan starts wiping out the ground forces, while some of our marines and science vessels keep on the look out for any detector and cloaked units and act as backup."

"Sounds good. Computer! Activate difficulty 12 program, extra Battle cruisers."

900 miles from Rethuny 6, Elite Mengsk Battalion

Edmund could hardly keep his eyes open as he did scan after scan after scan after scan after scan- Wait! Was that the detector finally going 'blip'? "Arcturus!" Mengsk walked over to Duke with a face of anxiety and anticipation and excitedly asked, "Have we found them?" Duke pointed at the dot on the radar that they were approaching. Edmund quickly pressed a few more buttons that activated the info scanner. The CPU Advisor came up on screen and monotonously said, "Planet identified as: Unknown, Life on the surface: Yes, Surface is 30 percent hills and mountains, 40 percent water, and 30 percent land, Air Status: Breathable. Scanner has located additional information of the life on the planet. Do you wish to see the information?" Arcturus replied simply, "Yes." "Scanners have located fugitive JR-445 and fugitive MC-187, otherwise known as James Raynor and Magister Chen. Current price on capture: 9000 credits for alive and 7500 for dead for James Raynor, 9000 credits for alive and 8000 for dead for Magister Chen. Scanners also detect large Hive Clusters and Terran bases upon the surface in grid sectors 43321, 48966; 5836, 6392; 192755, 37492 and 391730, 000865 in the southern, northern and western hemispheres of the planet. Suggested Landing Area: 111, 890 in the eastern hemisphere. Minerals will be plentiful, but we must create another base to collect gas. Preferably in 298, 100, but we run a high risk of being detected by Zerg Lurkers anywhere on the planet's surface." Mengsk just said, "That problem is easily solved," The computer whirred for a little while and piped up again, "Afraid not Emperor, Scanners have just now detected cloaked Wraiths and Science Vessel units; estimated number: approximately one million." Mengsk remained silent and headed out of the bridge of the cruiser and went to his chambers.

Back on the surface on Rethuny 6

Zerg Kerrigan, Terran Kerrigan, Magister, and Jim, all went inside the Command Center with many bloody wounds, bruises, and weapons out of ammo. "How could one Marine (Aaron) make 7 miniature wars break out in only 12 minutes?" Suddenly they heard, "DIE BASTARDS!!!!" "." They quickly refilled their ammo and patched up their wounds best they could, and went outside again to find Aaron firing on the Zerg again. All 4 of them sighed and went around calming everyone down for the eighth time in 15 minutes, completely unaware of the fireworks currently going of in the atmosphere

Atmosphere of Rethuny 6

Boom! Kra-ka-pow! Weird noise that Science Vessel makes when it explodes! A scientist on the Norad III bridge hurriedly prepared the 'Oblivious' and was about ready to fire when, "Stop! I want to save the charge for the Rebels." Mengsk appeared again to stop the firing just in time. The scientist said in panic, "But sir! Without the 'Oblivious' firing here and now, none of us will be getting out of here alive! We've already lost a third of our troops to them!" Mengsk snapped at the scientist, "Are you disobeying a direct command? I told you I want to save the charge! Besides, we haven't even unleashed our experimental unit yet." The scientist went silent for a while and finally spoke saying, "You don't mean the Valkyries. Do you?" Arcturus simply nodded and went down to the Norad III's hangar. ---- There ya go. Eighth chapter completed. Aaron seems suspicious doesn't he? Tell me what you think of him in the reviews if you like. I'll remind you again, I've got a second story, Bounty Hunted.

Signed, Magister