Disclaimer: Forgot to add one in my first chapter so here it is, I don't own anything from Blizzard that is listed in my story. O right, and it probably is Sons of Korhal, so I'll change that.

Chapter 2

Operation Retaliation

3 Years Later

"Brola we need you at frontline PRONTO, the Terran Dominion have breached the first line of defense!" exclaimed Cyrus who was dripping in cold sweat.

"Right on it, give me a second... Hey private! Get back to your post damnit! I'll be there in a sec Cyrus." Brola replied hastily.

"You better hurry man, were losing men left and right, the second line won't hold out for long!"

"DAMNIT I SAID I'LL BE THERE IN A SEC." he yelled.

"Alright alright," Cryrus stated, quivering. He quickly left the area before Brola could get enraged any further.

"This is terrible." Brola muttered, before running up full speed towards a line of bunkers. "Hopefully those bunkers will hold up for a few minutes, those siege tanks are gonna waste them all too soon." Brola stared at the bunkers, there were about 12 of them lined up in a large semi circle, and behind each bunker was positioned a missile turret.

Brola quickly ran up to the second line, forcing the red sand into the air. He quickly entered a bunker and started killing marines randomly in a bloody feud. Just suddenly, the bunker next to him blew up, sending pieces of metal flying, which served as deadly sharp shrapnel. The metal pieces ripped through a few marines and shredded some in half. Blood was flaying everywhere.

"Damn it," Brola breathed, "WE NEED BACKUP, NOW!" He screamed into his COM system.

The two-way radio replied with its regular static, "On its way sir, please hold up for a few min…"

"WE DON'T HAVE A FEW MINUTES DAMNIT" Brola roared, he ran out of the bunker and dragged a marine out with him, just after the following seconds, the bunker was blown to pieces, and a piece of shrapnel killed the marine Brola had just saved. Brola attempted to wipe off the blood that splattered onto his helm, he only smeared it. He once again yelled into the radio, "MEN, TAKE OUT THOSE SEIGE TANKS, GET THE FIREBATS OUT HERE, MARINES FRONT LINE AND BACK US UP WITH A FEW OF OUR OWN SIEGE TANKS. GO GO GO."

A marine replied, "Sir! Yes!…"

"JUST GO" Brola cried, cutting off the private, who was momentarily stunned.. In the following minutes, everyone was at the third line of defense, enemy and ally alike. But the Terran Dominion forces were thinning out slowly. The siege tanks finally rolled in, but waited as the Char marines distracted the Dominion marines and as the firebats torched the tanks. As the Dominion tanks started to un-siege hastily, the Char tanks in turn, started to siege, and send a reign of explosions over the bloody red sand, even though the red sand couldn't get any redder.

"Sir, we're starting to push the enemy forces back, what is your course of action?" a marine asked.

Brola replied, "Have the wraith fleet, Aerial Star kill off the remaining marines, spare no one. Move it!"

"Yes sir!"

56 hours earlier

"Emperor Mengsk sir! We have detected life forms on the planet of Char, your plan to kill off the Zerg and expand is void. The life signs are human… I can't determine how long they've been there, but they have quite a formidable army." A worker saluted.

Mengsk replied with his deep rusty voice, "Very well, destroy their air fleets and invade, launch operation wipeout. Take no prisoners, destroy them all and expand, I need to expand if I want more power."

"Right away sir!" the worker saluted once again and left the room, while the maniacal laugh of Mengsk echoed through the halls.

The following 26 hours

A worker ran into the command centre and entered the conference room, "Sir!" he addressed Brola, out of breath. "We have detected multiple life signs of the Terran Dominion forces heading towards our planet, and worse. They've destroyed our fleets! It's that cursed Ion cannon. They're invading, with only partial forces though, sir!"

Brola was shocked, "What! They must have finally discovered us on Char, you said he's only sending partial forces? He's testing us! Damn… this is bad, but we still have one chance. He is underestimating the Fleets of Char, I won't let him destroy us like they did the U.E.D. Launch our latest project dropship from the other side of Char. Send Invoken Squad out, I'm initiating operation Retaliation. Have the squad launched into Korhal, in our new device, the De-pod. They'll know what to do then, now MOVE IT!"

"Right away sir!"

Back to present time

Brola sat at a table in the command centre, "We've won, and better yet, my plan is working, the ghosts should be nearing Korhal any moment soon."

Just out of range of Korhal

Six ghosts sat inside a specialized dropship, it was contained within a specially designed shell, made to look like a piece of space debris. While the Planetary Radar couldn't detect the life signs within, the missile turrets on Korhal could. But the craft was just out of range, floating around.

A ghost spoke up, breaking the silence, "Well men, we're here. Time to do what we were assigned to do. Everyone, get inside your De-pods, and get ready for launch."

There was a moment of shuffling, then everyone entered into their each individual pod. The De-pod was cylindrical, designed to fit only one man. While the shuttle would be easily seen, these De-pods were designed with tiny little mirrors on every inch of the pod. These mirrors were specially made to deflect any wave signals that could detect them out into space, including missile turrets, but they also reflected surroundings, so they seemed practically invisible. And better yet, it was nighttime. The ghosts waited for the signal, in the following five seconds, a green light flashed, and the dropship automatically launched the pods into Korhal with only a trail of frosty air left behind.

The pods landed way down into a forest of bushes and trees, causing small meteor-like explosions, dirt clouds floated up. No one noticed them. The doors to the pods opened, and a mass of steam floated out, fogging up the metal. The ghosts quietly stepped out, and looked around in their night-vision visors. As they stepped out, the pods immediately liquidized into a shiny yellowy substance, and then the liquid evaporated, erasing all evidence of ever landing. Slowly, the ghosts stalked through the forest, pushing branches and giant leaves aside, stepping on the undergrowth beneath them. Just suddenly, they saw a shadow whip through the trees, and they heard a twig snap. All the ghosts immediately turned around and look through around the trees, searching with cold penetrating eyes.

"Just a wild animal…" one of the ghosts stated. Suddenly, the elite ghosts heard muffling, then a few voices.

"… Yeah, hehehe, maybe we should join the rebels eh! Hahaha!" a patrol marine was laughing along with a few others. The ghosts immediately separated and hid behind a few trees. The marines walked slowly and leisurely unaware of the squad. As they neared a large dirty pond, they turned around and started walking back. A frog croaked.

"Damn, and I was looking forward to some action." One of the ghosts whispered.

"We can't risk the chance of letting the Terran Dominion know we're here John."

"Let's get moving already…" another ghost stated, resuming his silent stalking.

While the ghosts are walking, I might as well tell you their names. Their names are, John, Logan, James, Tancred, Charlie, and Ezekial.

A few minutes later, the marines returned, and the ghosts hid once again, but this time, the marines turned off to a different direction. In the following seconds, a voice was heard.

"What the hell? REBELS! They're in there! Quick, get them!"

"Kuai kuai kuai!" One Chinese rebel yelled. Soon after, the sound of a gauss rifle fired. That was followed with a loud scream. Another deep voiced yell was heard. Then the same Chinese man said, "Kuai zou le!" the sound of light footfalls followed, then silence. The ghosts had heard the whole thing while slowly walking. They assumed that the Chinese man and his allies had killed the marines. Ezekial stated, "Looks like the Terran Dominion has some rebels of its own, heheheh."

Not soon after, the ghosts saw a bright light shine through the trees; they assumed that more marines were coming to catch the rebels. Quickly, they sidestepped into the darkness of the trees once more. After the synchronized stomping of the marines passed, they finally exited the gloomy forest.

Back at the Char Terran Base

Cyrus was walking along a long corridor inside a barrack, he looked around, it was a messy hall and it was also empty. All the marines were probably sleeping. He turned a corner and then suddenly bumped into a girl, or more a woman that was rather a bit on the short side, but very beautiful. She has flowing black hair and the same blue eyes that Cyrus had. Cyrus was momentarily stunned, party from the collision and party from her looks. She was also dazed.

"Oh, I'm very sorry oh um I…" She stammered.

"It's alright," Cyrus said, "but may I ask why your not in the proper dorm?"

"Oh, um uh I'm uhr new… SORRY!" she stuttered, before scurrying away awkwardly.

"Hmm, what a strange girl…pretty cute too! Hehehe. She seemed pretty nervous…oh well, back to my peaceful walk." Cyrus said to himself, before continuing his slow pace.

The Planet of Korhal

The Ghosts were standing just far enough as to not be seen by any detectors that happened to sweep across the barren sand. They timed the detection, and moved during intervals. Slowly and expertly, they crept around a large long wall that surrounded the ion cannon.

"Thank god for detectors, without'em we'd never find this Ion cannon…" John whispered lightly.

They quickly cloaked and ran through 2 marines and a siege tank when the gate opened to let them out. They then climbed up onto a wall, uncloaked and snuck along a shadowy wall, concealing themselves, without needing to cloak and waste their energy.

"Time to initiate operation retaliation, hehe." Tancred smirked.

They looked around. The Ion cannon was heavily guarded, marines marched around the cannon, while siege tanks were positioned at every corner of the square shaped fencing. The ghosts had managed to break into any missile turret that happened to be in the area, and mess it up so that it wouldn't detect any of the ghosts during the intervals. Now they were just sitting beside a siege tank, waiting for a few seconds, a few moments to think about how horrible things would turn out if they messed. Firebats were looking around, waiting for any thing they could torch to come out. 2 Battlecruisers hovered above the cannon, and a small fleet of 6 wraiths patrolled, the wraiths came to the cannon, made sharp turns, and zoomed away.

"Let's do this thing. Now's are chance, the wraiths have left" Charlie stated solemnly.

In the following seconds, the marines saw silver projectiles come out of thin air. They hit the tanks and the battlecruisers, locking them down.

"What's going on here!" A marine cried out confused.

Another one answered, "GHOSTS! GET THE SCIENCE VESSELS HERE A.S.A..."

He was cut off as Logan fired with expert aim and shot the man through the head. More shots were heard, as Firebats exploded in frenzy and marines were shredded.

In a few seconds, the area was clear-for the following minutes.

"Move it men!" Ezekial commanded.

The ghosts immediately jumped down from the catwalk and ran towards the ion cannon, they planted satchel charges around the base of the cannon, and ran out of the little area. They hid behind the shadows of the forest once again, and John opened a device, and pressed a red button that ended it all. A loud bang was heard, and the ion cannon blew into bits. The mechanical units were all blown up in the fire frenzy and the whole area was charred.

"Mission complete," James sighed; "let's go home."

James pressed a button on his belt, and so did the others, after a few seconds, they started to fade away, and then they reappeared inside their dropship, just as the reinforcements came.

"Good work men, let's head home." Ezekial stated proudly.

"Damn that line is overused…" One of them muttered.

Well, that's the end of that chapter; if you want me to continue…review, REVIEW!

And sorry if that chapter wasn't as good and as long as the first, I'm just a bit tired, so I promise that next one will be better. Just to give you a hint, it's about Cyrus and the girl…