Hello peoples, I'm back to continue this work of art that has received so many flames.
Disclaimer: while I don't claim to own Starcraft, or any of its Characters, I can honestly say that Khaled is mine and mine alone. So is his family, and some concepts. Therefore, if you recognise it, I don't own it
At last, the real story is now beginning. At some point, Khaled will permanently change his name. So, since I have no naming taste, I would like you to post suggestions in your reviews. Also, I will soon be creating a fic page called names, where I describe a new character, and you give name suggestions. Anyway, I'd better stop talking before that man over there shoots me, so farewell
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I was carrying a package, about the size of a shoebox. I opened a garage, and walked in to my customised Vulture. Opening the box, I took out what a cloaking device. However, it was nothing more than a decorated, hollow box, being added to my Vulture for the sole purpose of giving me an excuse to cloak. I am Khaled, an undiscovered, undampered psychic, and I intend to make sure that nobody ever finds out about that
I had just finished modifying the vulture so that it could be driven with foot motions alone, when the com-link sitting on my bed started to beep. Picking it up, I saw that I was being given a mission call. I picked it up, expecting to see one of the subordinates of Mengsk, commander of earth and the galaxies greatest idiot. It was fairly surprising to see the Tyrant himself.
"Uh," I said, "you have some job for me to do?"
"Yes." Replied Mengsk. "Nearby this base is a city containing roughly 3 million people. The Queen of Blades has set up a base in the hopes of infesting every single member of the city. The base is too well defended to attack with an army of any size. However, it only has minimal sensing devises, and could quickly be infiltrated. I am aware that you have recently installed a cloaking device onto your Vulture, so you have been chosen to head this mission. Do you accept?"
"Yeah, ok," I answered, "but why ask me? I'm just a common solider."
"Why you? Because you have an extraordinary ability to comprehend orders, and a seemingly infallible sense of where the zerg are. Now move!"
As I ran to my vulture, I thought about the mission. Though Megnsk always did a big hero act, pretty much everybody knew that he was responsible for the creation of the monstrosity in charge of the Zerg army, and I knew that he really didn't care about anything but staying in power. I jumped on to my vulture, revved the engines and drove through a teleporter set to my mission location.
Standing in front of me was a force consisting of 40 ghosts, 20 Wraiths and 10 modified siege tanks. Looking over a map of the base taken by a observer captured from the Protoss, I reviewed my strategy.
"Ok." I said. "The zerg have a line of sunken and spore colonies 4 colonies deep. I've managed to get us 6 nukes, so heres our plan. We'll send six ghosts to drop the nukes in these locations. This shall knock out enough colonies to let us pass through undetected. However, the Zerg could easily send overlords to find us, so the remaining ghosts shall spread out to knock out any and all overlords who come within range of detecting us. Once the colonies have been destroyed, the Wraiths will move in and start blasting up the Cerebrate. The siege tanks shall surround the hive and destroy it. Any questions? Good. Now move out!"
As the forces got into position, I ran over to where I parked my vulture and hopped on. Then, I pressed a fake button and cloaked myself. As I arrived back, I decided to check the nukes on my com-link. It showed me that they were already flying to their destinations. The Zerg realised this and sent off some Overminds towards the colonies. However, the base hadn't upgraded their speed, and they died before they could get within detection range. Looking up, I realised that the nukes were within metres of their targets. I sent a message, telling the Ghosts to pull back or die with the colonies. Most did, but the 6 who were aiming the nukes couldn't move in time, and got hit by the radioactive explosion. Then, the wraiths flew over the destroyed colonies and started to shoot the cerebrate, while the siege tanks surrounded the central hive and entered siege mode. The ghost spread out between the two groups and started to shoot down any and all Overminds in their range. I looked at the two attack forces and decided that the wraiths would need more help. I revved up my engine and headed towards the Cerebrate.
As I neared the Cerebrate, I realised that it was already taking heavy damage. As I headed towards it, I pressed a few buttons with my feet and prepared for battle. Just because I installed a few fake controls, it didn't mean the whole thing was a normal vulture. I had replaced the grenade launcher with twin flamethrowers, and had added a device to hold, release and help to aim two gauss rifles, giving me the offensive power of 4 standard soldiers. I released the rifles and started pounding the Cerebrate with both bullets and flames. Suddenly, I noticed something flying out of the hive. I turned, and saw a Zerg queen soaring to the city.
I charged up my engine and raced towards the queen at full speed. When I reached it, it was already beginning to send the tendrils that would change an innocent civilian into a murdering tool of the Zerg. I quickly shot 5 rounds into the Queen, just as it was starting to infest a terrified woman. Then, I raced back to the Cerebrate at full speed. I then shot it until it exploded in a mass of guts. However, I could feel that part of it still existed, and would enter into the physical world any second. I then took careful aim with one of my rifles, and shot of a psychic blast in the disguise of a bullet. As it made contact, the Zerg started to go crazy. They attacked everything that move, removing the Zerg threat better than any army could. Soon, only one zergling remained, and it was easily eliminated. All the soldiers decloaked, and started heading back to base. I was about to do the same, when I felt the mind of one of the Ghosts minds casually brushing against mine. I knew there was nothing I could do. If I shielded my thoughts, he would know of my capacities. Same if I let him rummage around my head. Suddenly, the mind withdrew. I turned around and saw one of the ghosts calling for a force to dampen me, effectively reducing any mental capacities I had to almost nothing.
