TOM FROST
They reached the refinery and reloaded all of their weapons. Tom had to think fast, the Zerg would smell them soon and they would be surrounded.
"So what now Corporal" asked Maxha?
Tom looked out the window with bleak hope and came back with a burst of hope!
"In a few minutes we're going to sprint for that base up there, it looks deserted so we shouldn't have much trouble getting in. But it is a long run, at least a mile or two; I had to use the zoom on my HUD to see it. But none the less we're going." Do I make myself clear."
Everyone but Maxha yelled a resounding sir yes sir.
"Maxha, I don't believe I heard you, why not?"
"Well Corporal that's because we are locked down in this refinery and there is no way out without becoming a meal for the Zerg" Maxha screamed!
"Maxha! What kind of marine are you? It's a sad day in hell when a marine hides under his desk! Now you can either follow me and have a chance of surviving or stay here and get eaten by the Zerg! I know neither of those are very good choices, but that's all you get! So what's it gonna be?"
"I'm in," said Juyt "might as well take the chance."
"I'm in," said the civilian.
"Well then civ, I am promoting you to private, when we reach the base I'll get you suited up."
"Sir yes sir" said the new private.
"I'm up for the challenge," said Garg.
"Ya, me to" said Yjar.
"Are all of you crazy? It's suicide to go out there," said Maxha! They all stared at him. "Fine, damnit, I'm in."
"Good then we'll leave in five minutes."
Five minutes later they started their suicide dash towards the base.
"Sir, we've got Zerg on our asses" said Garg over the COM.
"Just keep moving as fast as you can, when we reach the base we'll jump in the bunkers and shoot them all down."
"Aahhh" yelled Juyt "I'm down sir."
"Damn" said Tom. "We have to reach that base quick, otherwise we'll all be chow."
"Sir, just a mile to the base now."
"Good Garg, just keep going."
They were coming up on the base now, just a few hundred feet away. The remaining reached the base and immediately jumped in bunkers.
"Ok marines, just cover your side and hold off the Zerg, we need to take this attack out, if we do then we have a really good chance at surviving."
The Zerg were now closing in on the base. Maxha and Garg covered the left side, Yjar and Kia covered the middle, and Tom covered the right all-alone. The base was constructed in a typical Terran fashion. It was built against a cliff; the Command Center was in the middle, bunkers and missile turrets, the Starport, the factory and barracks stood beside each other on the left side of the Command Center, surrounded it. On the right side stood the Engineering bay, the Armory, the Science Facility, and the Academy. Tom had all ready shot down three hydralisks, and he was ready for more. He knew they could take out this force of Zerg, but soon they would send more and Tom and the platoon would have to flee back to the city. They had just finished off the last of the Zerg.
"Ok private Kia go to the Supply Depot over there and suit up, Yjar start up that factory, if we can get vehicles we may have a better chance of survival. Uhhh, Garg you can fly right?"
"Sir yes sir."
"Good then get over to the Starport and take your pick of air assault. Maxha get in an SCV and start repairs on the bunkers."
"Question sir" Maxha said.
"What is it private?"
"Why are we going back to the city if you want us to live, and why repair the bunkers if we're going back?"
"Because there are still civs out there, and one of us will stay back at the base because this is where we will be bringing the civs Maxha!"
I've had it Maxha thought. I've got to get out of here, that's when he saw a vulture over in a deserted part of the base. That was his way out! He would just live and fight another day. He just wished Frost would live so he would be punished for not following orders. He opened up the hatch and saw keys in the ignition! He was as good as gone!
"Going somewhere Maxha" Tom said
"Ya, I'm leaving!"
"Uh, no, I don't think so. Everyone come here now," Tom said over the COM. Three marines came running toward him.
"What is it Corporal" Yjar asked?
"Well Maxha here wanted out, but I aint lettin him leave, Garg have you picked out a flyer yet?"
"Sir yes sir."
"Ok, good then I need you to do a little baby-sitting for me, make sure Maxha don't leave."
"Sir yes sir."
"No" Maxha yelled pulling a gun to Gargs head! "Either you let me leave or Garg dies!" Maxha dropped him and sprinted for the vulture.
Tom shot the fuel line and the vulture went up in flames.
"Now, none of us are deserting, we're leaving for the city right now."
ERRIAL EISELE
The group zoomed in on the colony, all they had to do was inject the poison into the creep and eventually the entire hive would die.
"How the hell are we supposed to take out an entire hive with just a science vessel" Harris asked?
"I have a poison to help with that problem, we just inject it into the creep and it will kill buildings. We need to inject it or we'll never make it through the hive."
"What! That's crazy talk."
"Maybe so but we have to test it in battle some time."
"True, but this is suicide! Even with that stuff I'm only one marine! I can't save all of our asses if this goes wrong! Even if it did work, how long would it need to take effect?"
"Only about two hours. After all it is only a prototype formula."
"Only! By then we'll be dead!"
"Then I hope St. Peters is ready for us."
ZOLTRAN
"So you say that the first planet that we need to find is called Pluto?"
"Correct, it is the first planet that we will encounter entering our solar system."
"Praetor! We have an incoming transmission from the battlecruiser Galactian."
"Bring them up on screen."
"Battlecruiser state your allegiance."
"This is General Daniel Jacobs of the Earth expeditionary group, returning home from mission."
"You're not in charge, where is Admiral DuGalle?"
"Admiral DuGalle is dead, we thought that earth received his suicide note by now."
"Well we haven't, you're still not in charge where is Vice Admiral Stukov?"
"Vice Admiral Stukov was killed in"… Daniel hesitated at first so Zoltran picked up.
"An accident" Zoltran said.
"What?! You brought aliens with you, I'm afraid in the name of earth that we will have to destroy you, we cannot allow you to bring those… things to earth with you."
"Fine then if you want to fight then we will fight, Corporal Hyert charge the Yamato cannon."
"Sir yes sir."
It took the cannon a few seconds to charge then boom! It hit the ship with extreme energy. Then the enemy fired the cannon right back! They were hurt bad now. A quick laser fight followed but the Earthbound ended up winning with hardly anything left, they were in really big trouble now. Zoltran wasn't an expert on Terran mechanics but it looked pretty bad, alarms were going off and the lights turned red, so Zoltran figured it was pretty bad.
"Get an SCV out there now" shouted Daniel. "We need those repairs done now and we need them done quickly, before we have to fight again."
A few minutes later the ship seemed a bit better.
"Well this is bad" said Daniel.
"What is it" asked Zoltran?
"We lost a lot of fuel, we can't take any chances at getting to earth, and we have to make sure that we don't waste any more fuel."
"That is really bad."
JOHN MALONE
John was always ready for any battle but Jim had forgotten to mention the seriousness of this one until they were ten miles from the base. They were to go to a hive just located on a plateau just a mile north of the Terran base. If they failed then it was believed that the Zerg would rush the base within an hour, they would have enough forces to totally wipe out the base by then. It was up to John and a special squad of marines and wraiths to destroy the base. All the pressure was on, Jim left all the choices in John's hands. John was leading the group, he and Huy would make all of the choices, if there was a question on tactics he and Huy would take it, this was going to be rough. That was his last thought before he was less than a mile from the hive.
SLIZARUS
It was time, the defenses had fallen, and he would now go to Aiur to claim his boon. The Protoss would fall and Slizarus would have his own planet. Soon he would no longer be considered the leader of a renegade brood. He would kill Kerrigan and take her place as the ruler of all broods. He would rule all of the broods with an iron claw and there would be no food for the worthless. He would start an entire new training program for his armies. They would be unbeatable. He was now entering Aiurs atmosphere at about three thousand miles per hour, he was already at the surface of Aiur. There he saw the ruins of the defense systems, the thousands of bodies littering the ground, some his, some Protoss. That was when he saw an army sprinting towards him, made of zealots, dragoons, and dark templars.
"Charge" one of the zealots yelled!
"Ha, this will be fun."
Slizarus glowed a bright green and charged. Five seconds later he unleashed an attack so powerful that nothing has been discovered to counter it. This charged energy was channeled into all of the bodies of the army, they literally exploded with the surge of power. Hundreds of screams rang out, he killed them all. He saw more coming, this time thousands! He would have to call in his army for this.
"CRAW!" He screamed calling his troops, he only had a few hundred left. All he needed was time to charge and he would kill them all. He started charging and saw his troops being killed by the dozens. He was almost fully charged. The army would not survive the fight, and that was when Slizarus made his decision, he wouldn't either. He had a leader to fill his place. He ordered all of the drones to go five miles from here. Now he was charged as far as he could go, then he charged a little more and BOOM! He exploded to keep Aiur for the new Zerg colony. A very heroic move for the selfish race he lived in. The Zerg colony on Aiur would live on, but with a new leader. Perhaps the new leader of the Zerg colony; Yggdrisal, the overlord would carry out Slizarus' noble plan. Little did anyone know, the explosion ripped open a rip in time and space somewhere in a Zerg hive cluster on Korhal…
DARGON
They were fighting the Zerg, he was the one who convinced Jim to invade this base, for in this base lied a bounty for Dargon to kill, Kit Herf, the brood leader. Of course, Jim didn't know about this, he didn't even know he was a bounty hunter again. Wally's death was still shrouded in mystery for them. Dargon had told them he had died in a crash. That was actually not to far from the truth. Dargons original plan was for Wally to die after Dargon had shot his fuel tank. That had not happened, so Dargon had to shoot Wally right there. He had to watch him die. It was the hardest thing he had ever done. That's when he saw him. He recognized him as almost human. It was Kit Herf. Dargon lunged for him. He threw him against the wall of a spawning pool.
"Time to die Herf" Dargon said.
"My brood will live on, you cannot stop the power of the swarm."
Dargon took aim and… didn't get the shot off before a blast came in front of him. He saw space through the hole. There was a rip in time and space! Space was a vacuum and was sucking everything in. It had all ready sucked in Herf, but Dargon grabbed hold of the spawning pool. It sucked in all of the Zerg and some Terrans to.
"We won" a marine asked?
"Ya, I guess we did" said a firebat.
This was so surprising because of the numbers being played against them. It was like a marine fighting against an ultralisk with his bare hands. The numbers were against them but they still won. They were lucky, very lucky. And Dargon was richer, a lot richer. He just hoped his employer came in person this time. Dargon was starting to get pissed about him not coming in person.
GENERAL DANIEL JACOBS
They were in deep trouble. They were low on fuel, and still had an entire solar system to go. Suddenly there was a giant flash about three miles in front of the ship. He saw Zerg coming through the hole spiraling through space.
"What the hell is that?!"
"Sir we've got a piece missing from the map where the Zerg are coming from."
"Sir we've got a breach! The Zerg are pouring in!"
"Damn! Ready the marines and zealots! Fight them off!"
"Full speed we need to get in sight of an earth battlecruiser, or dropship, or something to help us out, otherwise we're royally fucked."
This made matters even worse. If the Zerg found them and sent numbers they could get take earth to easily. Earth wasn't exactly prepared for an invasion.
"Sir we've got an incoming message."
"Fuck it, we've got bigger problems, grab a gun and kill some Zerg, kill as many as you can."
"Sir don't
you think that we should at least check the message first?"
"No! Just grab a gun and kill some Zerg."
"Sir yes sir."
This was probably the worst thing that could have happened to them at this time. If the Zerg got to the fuel tanks and punctured them, then they would not have enough fuel to reach earth.
"I want the fuel tanks guarded heavily, at least seven men there."
"Sir yes sir" they yelled in unison.
FLARE
Phase three was about to happen. She had all ready done her part of using a web over the cannons. They flew in to initiate phase three. She was zooming toward the base now. Watching phase three through an observers eyes.
"The Disruption begins now" a high templar said.
The archons led the high templars out of the base. It was all happening now. The Dark Templar era ended now. No Dark Templars had any idea what was going on. All of the high templars were filing onto Mount Qwertyuiop, the highest point on Shakuras. The archons filed into the mountain where the pillar of Khaydarian Crystal was. There was just enough room on the five rings around the mountain. Then the oldest and wisest high templar went to the peak where to pedestals stood. There was still room for three high templars to stand. There they came. Each held a sacred crystal. One held the Khalis, one held the Uraj. They set them on their respective pedestals and went to the remaining two spaces. There was but one space left. The Dark Templar still had no idea what was going on.
"Archons, fuel the crystal" yelled the old templar Juristic.
The archons obeyed and shot their psionic shockwaves into the pillar. Energy surged through it, a crystal spouted out of the mountain one in front of each templar.
"Grasp your crystals and add to the surge with your power, we must resurrect the great one."
Each templar took hold of their crystal and let loose the surge. The Dark ones still did not have any idea of what was happening. Juristic grasped the Khalis in his left hand and the Uraj in his right and let loose his part of the surge. Energy flowed everywhere.
"Feru, kuli frotop myfer, junet, garen, alaf dickturion, arise from your grave great one" Juristic yelled the incantation knowing the end of the Dark era was soon.
Then a flash of blue light came and formed into a shape, a Protoss shape, the shape of a high templar well known to every race, arising from the grave was the great one, Tassadar.
"Tassadar" yelled numerous voices!
"Thank you Juristic, now I will finish the ceremony, please take your place."
Juristic nodded and went to the empty space and grasped a crystal.
"Now, we all must power up the pillar to kill the Dark ones that have tainted our worlds."
They charged all of their power into the pillar and blue lightning spouted everywhere, guided. It killed everyone of them. All of the Dark ones on the planet. Flare laughed but did not see the mountain she zoomed into.
HEX'VALA
Hex'vala was confused. He was fighting against a small Terran invasion in his hive on Korhal, but now he was inside what seemed to be a Terran warship. Where was his squad? Where was he? He looked out and only saw space. He had an alarming ringing in his head. Wait… that was the ship not his head. Could there be some sort of emergency? Then he saw a marine corner a zergling and kill it. Then it hit him, they were the emergency. He came up behind the marine and killed him. This would be fun to kill all of the Terrans, he would eat so much tonight.
Well that was chapter three. The next chapter will be my last unfortunately. Then I will start Starcraft Bloodlines 2.
