Chapter2:

1000 years later.....

"Hey Ryan why don't you get your little marine ass back here boy."

"Hey jackass why don't you mind your own business?"

Ryan and Lenny had been friends ever since they were small boys; they both had seen the marines on television and had imagined themselves fighting the zerg. Once they had both turned eighteen they had enrolled into the marine program. They qualified with flying marks. After spending five years in the force they had both seen their share of action. Ryan with about 127 kills and Lenny with 130 kills, they had kept track of score. One day they were both thrown with a Terran colonization caravan. After a full week's of travel they had arrived at their designated spot.

Upon their arrival, they had been sent out as scouts to explore the area. They had stumbled upon a few zerglings but nothing big.

"Whoa look at this. What in the name of god is this?"

"What, what, what? What the fuck is that?"

"I have absolutely no idea. I think its part of a zealot's weapon."

"Funny, how would a zealot get here?"

"Don't ask me. I thought you were the expert on history."

"There was a lost settlement in this area, no one knows exactly where, but just in this area. There are a few theories on how they had disappeared; most people think that they were attacked by zerg."

"Funny, I CLAIM THE WEAPON I FOUND IT FIRST," bellowed Ryan.

"Ok, ok man, Christ, stupid jackass......"

"What was that?"

"Nothing, nothing,"

They started to head back to the base camp. They headed into Joe's, their leader, building and reported to him. Lenny had noticed how Ryan left out the part about finding the zealots psionic blade. After a dinner of mutton and cornbread, they headed back to their own cabins and immediately fell asleep.

A few miles out, a dark templar watched the terran camp with his far range night-vision binoculars. After watching the two scouting marines go back to their cabins, he decided to head back to his base, when suddenly a rustle behind him grabbed his attention. He put away the binoculars and fired up his warp blades and slashed around the bushes behind him. Few seconds later, a body of a terran firebat fell out. He immediately ran thinking someone heard his weapon.

The next day Ryan and Lenny got up and washed up and put on their battle gear. That's when Joe came up to them and asked them to scout for one more day. They knew that they couldn't argue with Joe, considering he was a lieutenant and they were sergeants. Even though most marines were privates, and goliath drivers were sergeants, they asked to keep their gear and stay with marine gear except with a better gun. Standard issue marine gauss rifles did five damage according to the weapons board, their modified gauss rifles did around thirty damage. After eating a hearty breakfast of stale oatmeal, they set off on their exploration expedition.

"Man this sucks ass, why do we always have to do the damn exploring," whined Ryan.

"Because Joe is a hater and he's scared we'll take his job."

"Oh I see. Well in that case, this is the mission I will get myself promoted."

"Good luck......."

The same dark templar watched them nearby behind a bush. He pitied them; all they talked about was their jobs and their bastard superior. All of a sudden they looked his way and started his way. He immediately took off and headed back to his base, knowing they couldn't see him, he wasn't too worried.

"Hey, HEY, Ryan come here look at these footprints."

"Hmmmmm, look like dark templar to me, but what would a dark templar be doing here?"

"Beats me, looks like the tracks our fresh, I was wondering if we should report back to Joe?"

"I saw fuck him; let's follow these prints and find where they lead to."

"Ok your idea, your blame."

They followed the tracks wherever they went. Following the tracks for about thirty minutes, Ryan started to get tired of doing it, but he wouldn't give up unless Lenny gave up first. A couple minutes later they came upon a huge crevasse, and the tracks just ended, no direction, just disappeared.

"I know this place," Lenny said.

"This crevasse used to be filled with huge gigantic rocks; a recent earthquake had shifted them down slope. Supposedly the shards of Kerrigan's Crystal are in this area, but it was never confirmed."

"Ok, Ok, who the hell cares about no crystal?"

"The crystal can give anyone infinite power and it can power the mythical sonorious protoss shield."

"Ok I care...."

"Hehe thought you would."

"Hey what's that red thing down there? The little thing poking out under that rock."

"By god, I think you have just found a shard of the crystal."

"Damn I'm good, let's go down there and take a look. Unless you're too much of a pussy and won't go down?

"Fuck you, race you down. Loser gives up ice cream at dinner."

"You're on bitch."

As they raced down, the dark templar reemerged from his hiding place. He watched them and as he feared they had discovered the shards. He immediately crept back into the cavernous underground room.

"Sir they've found the shards," the dark templar told him with apprehension.

"Yes, they have, we shall just wait and see, this should be interesting, no terran has ever held the crystal."

"Yes sir, what would you have me do now?"

"Just follow them and make sure they don't see you," replied Zeratul.

Back on top, Ryan and Lenny had finally made it down to the bottom and were arguing who had gotten down first.

"Since we can't settle this, we race to the shards, whoever gets there first, wins. Ok?"

"Fine," replied Lenny

"1."

"2."

"3," they shouted in unison.

They took off and sprinted towards the shards, neither was very quick considering they had ninety pound suits on. Ryan had outrun Lenny with an obvious lead. Lenny knew he couldn't argue so he shut up.

"You sure you want to pick that up?"

"No I'm not," answered Ryan.
"See there are more than one shard, we pick one up at the same time."

"Fine then, on three."

"1."

"2."

"3."

They both picked up an equal sized shard, a red light burst out of their body with the force of a thousand suns. The light lasted for a minute, after the light had disappeared, a large aftershock rippled through the air with immense force. Both Ryan and Lenny were blasted backwards and awoken with a start.

"Well, that was somewhat odd," said a very startled Lenny.
"True, but I feel different, somehow like I'm more powerful than anybody in the whole world."

Ryan picked up a rock and crushed it with unbelievable ease.

"What the fuck....."

Lenny walked over the largest boulder he could find and picked it up with his right hand and threw it a hundred meters out.

A minute later, a deep rumbling within the earth shook them both back to reality, a massive yellow object was rising out of the ground along with many others. As they watched with awe, they were both wondering what in the name of god these buildings were. They ran back to the base and they immediately collapsed.