Chapter 6: A Noble Sacrifice.

"Well what did I get myself into this time?" Raynor thought.

He was surrounded with the odds against him. A marine named Peter, A firebat named Jack and a wraith pilot named Will surrounded him. They looked at Raynor preparing their move. Sweat ran down there face all the way down to their neck. The air was filled with the smell of cigarette smoke. Raynor knew he would have to make his move soon so he did. He raised his hand and slapped his cards on the table.

"HA! Four aces! I doubt you guys can beat that." Raynor said with a proud laughter.

"Ah shit! You got me." Peter said throwing his poker hand on the table.

"Fuck! And I thought my full house was gonna make me win." Will said slamming his hand down on the table.

"Ah! Well better pay up Jim." Jack said with a grin on his face.

"Ah come on man! Stop bluffing. You know you lost. Admit Defeat." Raynor said with a confident tone.

"Speak for yourself Boy!" Jack said as he put his hand on the table. "Royal Flush"

"WHAT!!! How the hell? Ah crap. I guess you win." Raynor said.

"Don't mess with the master." Jack said with a maniacal laugh. " I AM INVINCIBLE!!!" Jack then reached out and picked up all the chips.

"Whose deal?" Will asked.

"Yours." Peter answered back as he light a cigarette.

"Ok then" Will said as he reached to grab the deck. He then shuffled and started to pass the cards around. But as soon as he got all of the cards around the table a message was heard on the intercom.

"All personnel report to your stations. I repeat all personnel report to their station. Would captain Raynor please report to the bride." The voice said.

"AH man! Well see you next time then?" Will asked.

"Yeah! Tomorrow at noon ok guys?" Raynor said.

"Hell yeah!" Jack said.

All four got up from their chair and walked too the door.

"Hey jack" Raynor said before jack could walk through the door.

"What?" Jack asked.

"Where'd you get that fifth ace?" Raynor asked.

"HEY! Look at the time. Gotta go to my station before im in trouble." Jack said in a panicked voice. And he ran out of the door as fast as he could.

"Yep! That's Jack for you." Raynor said with a chuckle. "Well I better get to the bridge."

* Scene Switch: Bridge *

"Geez are you sure these censors are working well?" Raynor asked.

"Positive sir!" Said the officer. "There's a huge swarm of mutalisks and scourge heading this way. They'll be here in less than 10 minutes"

"Crap! Do the protoss know about this?" Raynor asked.

"Yes sir" The officer answered.

"All right then. Get all ships to Battle mode and get all our wraiths out there." Raynor said.

"Yes Sir! Huh..... There's another thing you might want to know Sir!"

"And what's that?"

"The cargo bay was robbed!"

"What? Which one"

"Cargo Bay B-1"

"And what was stolen!"

"The psi-emitter Sir"

"OH GOD!! Ain't this fucking great? Probably a zerg contact in this ship that got it. Make a full ship wide search after the ship is ready for battle."

"Aye Aye Sir!"

And after 6 minutes all wraiths,scout,corsairs,valkiries and corsairs were out ready for battle. And then the swarm appeared. But then the strangest thing happened. All of the swarm changed its course and headed for a shuttle far in the distance to the right of the fleet.

"Who the hell is in that shuttle?" Said a wraith pilot over the communication

"I would not know" Said a scout pilot.

"Shuttle pilot please identify yourself" Seradan asked.

"You really wanna know?" Said the shuttle pilot.

"HELL YES I DO!!! Identify yourself NOW" Raynor screamed at the top of his lungs.

"You should know more than anyone Raynor. You stupid moron" Said the shuttle pilot.

"KERAL!?!?! What are you doing???" Raynor said in a panicked voice.

"Well I saw the swarm of zerg coming on the radar and I knew you guys could never win. I'm the one who stole your psi-emitter and I stole a shuttle if you hadn't noticed. That's why the swarms coming at me. I'm using myself as bait. NOW GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN!" Keral ordered.

"LOOK. There is no way I'm letting you die out here." Raynor said

"Look if you don't leave. We'll all die. And please you gotta leave now. I d'ont care what happens to me. I am not going to let someone else in my family die again. I'm doing this for Seia."

"........"

"Please do it for her."

"..... But.."

"JUST DO IT!! This is the death truly deserved for a protoss. My father would have done the same thing."

"..Prepare for mass warp."

"But sir!" Said the officer behind Raynor.

"DO IT!!!" Raynor commanded.

"Yes sir! Prepare for mass warp." Said the officer over the communication line.

"Good luck! Keral. See you in the better place hey?" Raynor said before the warp.

"Yeah Yeah! Cut that shit out. I'll see you in a couple of years. At least some pieces of me anyway." Keral said before Raynor's and the protoss fleet disappeared in the mass warp.

"Note to self. Next time I do something this stupid think of an escape plan." Keral thought. He looked at the radar and saw two mutalisk directly behind his tail. Keral reached to the manual controls of the ship to try to dodge their attacks.

"Ah what's the use?" He thought out loudly. "I did what I wanted to do" May as well just end this fast.

And then a Glave wurm ripped through the hull and hit the psi-emitter. Keral's shuttle started to go out of control and he didn't bother to try to stabilize it. He heard the pounding of another glave wurm hitting the hull and a loud explosion from the back of the ship. Surprisingly enough the swarm turned around and left him alone. He looked at his radar and saw a planet was close-by and since the zerg were leaving him alone he decided to try to crash land his shuttle.

"Please let this planet be a Class-M*" he thought

He used what was left of his ships power and used the thrusters to direct him to the planet. He was able to align himself and direct his shuttle towards the planet. As soon as he entered the planets atmosphere his thrusters literally blew up.

"AH-SHIT!! Well no way I'm gonna make it out now. Well at least I tried" he said out loud.

And so he started his descent towards the bluish planet.

AUTHORS NOTE: Well what do you think? R&R plz. The next few chapters will switch from POV's to POV's. And a Class-M planet is a planet with the best elements to sustain life. And the most surprising thing is i already got the first chapter of a sequel done. (Am i anxious or what?) P.S. The rewrote version of chapter 2&3 will be up soon. Thx to chrono (Not surpiding hey?) ANd my best friend who will remain anonymous because I respect his privacy. Next chapter up in a week.