TOM FROST

            It all came down to this battle.  After long time of running away Tom was finally ready to face the truth.  This would probably be the last battle he fought in.  They had just reached the city and Tom had decided to send Garg out first to scout.  He had chosen a wraith and began his search, if he found anything then they would find the civs and bring them back to the base where Yjar was on guard.  Maxha could not be left alone for a minute.  His cowardice at the base showed just how much he should be trusted.  Tom should have killed him for that stunt.  Now he was going with Tom and Kia. 

            "Corporal, this is Garg, I've spotted a civ, he's crawling into the subtram railway."

            "Ok we'll go get him."

            The subtram was an upgraded version of thousand year old subway.  It went much faster and was much more dangerous.  They weren't that far away.  It only took them a few minutes to reach it.  They eliminated a few zerglings while they went.  They reached the subtram and entered, they saw the civ. 

            "Civilian, what is your name?"

            "My… name is… Chris Hutton."  Tom could tell he was hurt, probably internal bleeding.  There were also a few needle spines sticking out of his skin.  Wait… those weren't needle spines, they were gauss needles!  Somebody had shot him.  Perhaps they weren't the only Terrans here.

            "Who shot you?"

            "I don't… know."  It wasn't… Dominion, or… Raider colors.  Their armor was colored with a deep… black… shade.

            Tom tried to think it over.  Who wore black armor?  No one Tom could think of.  Tika tika tika!  Tom heard bullets fly up above on the street.  Then he saw one of them sprint down the stairs.  He was clad in black!  Maxha raised his gun to shoot.  But the one clad in black came at him with incredible speed.  He slammed into Maxha, knocking the gun out of his hands.  Maxha swung at him with a punch, but the man grabbed it.  The man swung back into Maxhas facemask, shards of glass flew everywhere!  Maxha flew into a wall.

            "Who… are you" Maxha asked?"

            "I am a NATO.  You are Dominion, am I right?"
            "Yes" Maxha replied.

            "Tell me what you were doing here and I won't kill you."
            "The Dominion came to… draw… the Raiders out of hiding, for they only… have one… base here… on… Mar Sara."

            "Ok, I'll believe you."  The NATO then plugged Maxha in the stomach.

            "Hey!  You said you wouldn't kill him" Kia yelled!

            "I'll do as I please."

            "No you won't" Kia yelled as he sprinted at him.  He swung a hard punch into the NATO's stomach.  The NATO grabbed Kia's head and brought his knee up through the face mask!  Kia fell down, dead.

            Then the NATO spotted Tom and plugged him.  Tom's last thought was, what is NATO?

ERRIAL EISELE

            They landed on the outskirts of the creep, they injected the poison into the creep and ran for the vessel.  It seemed that they would get away with this until they saw three zerglings sniffing the science vessel.  They tore into the hull and started eating it.  They couldn't take out all three zerglings with just the one gauss rifle.  The ship was almost completely eaten away; they wouldn't be able to take off.  Luckily, Errial had not thrown her grenade back at the base.  She would kill all of them at the expense of the ship.  She pulled the pin and threw it.  All of the zerglings died.

            "What the hell!  You just destroyed our only way out of here!"

            "We wouldn't have been able to take off any way."

            "Ya, so, do you know how much attention that probably attracted?"

            "Well, I hadn't thought of that."

            "Well you just killed us!"

            "Look there's still time" Sam said.  "Maybe we can make a run for it.  It'd be tough but if we started now maybe we could get out of here."

            Errial knew she had just killed them, she had dug her and there own grave.  Now that she thought of it, they probably could have snuck by and gotten out of there easily.  Damnit, now they were as good as dead.  The only way was to get out now and sprint as fast as they could without any slowing down or stopping.  It was risky, very risky, but it was a risk that they would have to take in order to live.

            "Ok, we have to try and sprint out of here."

             That was it though, they never started sprinting.  Hydralisks found them at that second and killed all three of them, the hydralisks ate good that night.

ZOLTRAN

            Zoltran had been given specific orders by Daniel for him and three zealots to protect the fuel tank of the battlecruiser.  He had said that they had enough fuel to reach earth, but barely.  If the Zerg punctured the tank then they did not have enough fuel in reserve to get to earth.  Zoltran had not seen any Zerg yet but he could sense all of the darkness pouring into the ship.  There was a lot of it.  He had seen many Terran bodies but no Zerg.  Then he saw three zerglings coming for them.  Zoltran got into his fighters stance.  He swung a slash through the first ones head.  Two of the zealots double teamed a zergling, they slashed it to death.  The fuel tank would be ok if this was as bad as it would get.  Wait!  Zoltran never thought about the siution that way.  What if the fuel tank did leak?  Where would that leave them?  The Gantrithor II was back on Char assisting in the attack on the main Zerg hives.  What if they did not make it to Earth?  Would they just float aimlessly through space forever?  No, Zoltran could not think that way.  They were to close to Earth to give up hope.  All they had to do was land and ask for assistance.  With that question answered he got back to guarding the fuel tank, absolutely determined not to let one zergling get passed his defenses.

JOHN MALONE

            The battle had just begun and John was suffering from a bad case of goosebumps.  They had already shelled seven zerglings.  They had also already lost five marines.  Five lives lost, all on his head.  The mission objective was to destroy the cerebrate at the core of the hive cluster.

            "John I've got a ton of movement heading towards us from the north."

            "Then we better shell em before they get to close."

            The movement consisted of three hydralisks, two zerglings and an ultralisk.

            "Huy, aim for the ultra first."

            "Yep, I got'im on target."

            A shell exploded out of the siege mode cannon.  It killed all but the ultralisk and one zergling. 

            "Hit em again" John yelled.

            Another shell jumped out of the cannon.  This time killing both of them.

            "Huy, how close is that cerebrate from here?"

            "About have a mile in, think we can make it?"

            "Hell, it's worth a try."

            They zoomed inward toward the cerebrate.  When I get back I am getting so drunk I'll have a hangover for a week John thought.

            "John, this is corporal James Datery, my squad has reached the cerebrate, we'll start firing now."

            "Go ahead corporal, me and Huy will be there in just a minute to give you guys some support, Malone over and out."

            They reached the cerebrate and immediately went into siege mode. 

            "John, we've got movement everywhere!"
            "Looks like there gonna protect that cerebrate with everything that they got left."

            "Bzzzzzz, Jonh this is corporal Datery again, on our scanners we've got movement coming from everywhere, do ya think you could take care of it while we finish off the cerebrate?"

            "Ya we gotcha covered Datery."

            They saw the first line coming toward them.  It consisted of six zerglings.  They shot a shell out at them, it killed them all.  Then six marines and a firebat appeared and joined the battle.

            "Where do ya want us Sarge?"

            "Go ahead and back up Datery and his platoon on the cerebrate, we'll keep giving you guys protection."

            More Zerg were coming now, three hydralisks stormed toward the group.  They shelled them, but not before they got a few hits on the tank.

            "Sir we've killed the cerebrate!"

            "Whewee, ya!"

            "Good job today boys, let's get outta here and signal that the place is ready to be nuked."

DARGON

            Dargon had just arrived at the Slinky Rat cantina and was waiting for his employer to show up.

            "Hello, you are Dragons Outcast, am I right?"
            "Yes, are you the guy I've been killing for?"
            "No but he sent me."

            "Who employed me?"
            "I'm sorry but I'm sworn to secrecy."

            "Well I'm sorry but if you don't tell me I'll make swear myself, a swear to kick your ass."

            "Oh ya, I'd like to see you try, I'm a marine damnit and I can't be beat."

            "Oh ya well I'm a ghost and we're even better."

            The marine lunged for Dargons throat, but Dargon threw a punch into his face.  The marine tumbled backwards, Dargon stated mudhole stomping him against a wall.  The marine drew his last breath as Dargon stomped him.  Dargon stooped and picked up the marines wallet.  There was way more then fifty thousand in there, but Dargon took all of it.  The guy wouldn't need it anyways.  A thousand more was sort of weird.  But Dargon figured the marine was just going to get a few more lap dances.

GENERAL DANIEL JACOBS

            Daniel sprinted down the hall toward his room.  A zergling was right on his tail.  Sure it was just one zergling but this part of the ship was deserted and he was weaponless.  He jumped into his room and locked the door behind him.  It wouldn't hold if the zergling rammed against it, but it would buy him some time.  He looked around the room, luckily he always kept a gauss rifle fully loaded in here.  He looked to the gun case, but it was gone!  He would need another weapon.  He looked but all he saw was an antique sword.  It would have to do.  BAM!  BAM!  BAM!  The zergling rammed his head against the door.  He didn't have much time so he readied himself.  BAM!  BAM!  BAM!  BAM!  The door started to cave in, one more hit and he would be through the door.  BAM!  The zergling burst through the door.  Daniel went for a quick stab into the zerglings head but missed.  He went for another but the zergling bit his hand. 

            "Ahh" Daniel yelled in pain as blood streamed down his arm.  Daniel had dropped the sword!

            He tried grabbing for it but was bit again, this time in the arm.  He let out another yelp of pain.  If he didn't get that sword back the zergling would most definitely claim his life tonight.

HEX'VALA

            Hex'vala readied himself to strike again.  The blood from this man tasted good.  He decided to read the Terran print the best he could, since he was a Deavouring One he could read Terran print.  The name tag said General Daniel Jacobs.  The man was reaching for his pointy stick but Hex'vala denied him everytime, biting him each time he reached for it.  The Terran reached out his hand again but this time he kicked Hex'vala in the nose!

            "Reek!"  The pain was terrible.

            That hurt Hex'vala thought!  He would rip and mangle him for that.  But the Terran had taken the pointy stick back!  Hex'vala was not incredibly smart but he knew if he got slashed with that it would hurt more than a kick in the face.  He jumped for the Terrans leg and bit it.

            "Ahh" the Terran yelped in pain.

            Hex'vala got another taste of that blood and loved it even more than the first two times.  This blood was rich and very filling.  This human had eaten many good things to make his body taste so good.  The Terran slashed Hex'vala across the chest with the pointy stick!

            "Reeeek!"  The pain was unbearable but he would heal if he could buy himself enough time.

            But he could not, the Terran brough the pointy stick down through Hex'vala's head.

GENERAL DANIEL JACOBS

            Daniel limped toward the infirmary.  They fixed his wounds and informed him they were entering Earths atmosphere.  Finally he would be home.

            "Uhhh, sir" the navigator said, "I think you'd better have a look at this.

            Daniel limped toward the window and looked out, there Zerg everywhere!  Marines were shooting at the Zerg but the Zerg were clearly winning.

            "Um, sir, do you want to check that message now?"

            "Yes, ok."

            "Bzzzzzz, battlecruiser Earthbound, this is President Yerphit of Earth.  We received a distress signal from the Galactian saying you were coming.  If you get this message, please do not return to Earth.  The Zerg have landed and are taking the planet, I repeat stay away from Earth, for it is lost.  This is President Yerphit, over and out."

            So whatcha think of the story?  I will start bloodlines 2 as soon as I finish this sentence.