Chapter 3:
Zerg in the base!
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Fenix dodged a sudden hydralisk attack, and gutted the creature, who screeched in pain and fell back, only to be replaced by three more. To the Praetor, things looked hopeless. The zerg had come in around the back of the base and broken through, engaging the small forces that had stayed behind.
A zergling leapt onto Fenix's arms. And Fenix stumbled, but didn't fall down. He jumped to the right as a hydralisk fired a needle spine, and broke the zergling's neck. He used the zergling as a shield for another needle spine, and then ran at the hydralisk who was sniping at him.
Fenix dove under a scythe attack from the zerg, rolled forward, and shoved his plasma blades up through its abdomen, feeling resistance when he reached the spine. He slid his blades back out, blood spurting from the chest of the zerg.
He ignored the sounds of squealing zerg and the howls and roars of pain from the dying or wounded protoss. Any scrap of hope seemed lost, until the archons came.
They made a path through the zerg, their psionic energy blasting holes in hydralisks and zerglngs as easily as poking a toothpick through Styrofoam. One archon grabbed an ultralisk by the tusks and snapped it's neck with it's powerful arms.
Fenix ducked as a mutilated zergling was flung away by an archon and passed over him. Fenix and the other zealots grabbed plasma rifles and covered the archons by firing at the zerg trying to sneak up on the archons. The shield batteries recharged the protoss shields, and the defenders went to the offensive.
Dragoons leapt off the battlements, crushing zerg and opening fire with their plasma ball, which vaporized the insect-like creatures. Scouts rained lasers down on the hydralisks and fired missiles at the mutalisks and scourges.
An overlord dropped down four hydralisks near Fenix before being blown up by scouts and dragoons. Fenix and three zealots dropped their rifles; one picked up a pistol, like Fenix, and ran at the zerg. Two were downed by pistol fire, and one was tackled by the two zealots that were using their plasma blades to slash and stab at it.
Meanwhile, Fenix and the other zealot were fighting the remaining hydralisk, who was firing needle spines at the zealot and using its claws to combat Fenix. A needle spine caught the zealot in the stomach, and he stumbled, immediately being hit by four more.
The hydralisk charged at Fenix, who blocked a jab from one of its claws but was tripped by its tail. Fenix rolled out of the way, looking for an opportunity to counter the attacks. Suddenly the hydralisk jerked and collapsed, and Fenix saw the wounded zealot holding a smoking pistol, plucking needle spines from his body, and grimacing in pain.
The other two zealots had finished off the hydralisk, and joined Fenix.
"Check out this wounded soldier," Fenix told one of the zealots, who rushed over to the fallen zealot, and started stanching his wound with a rag.
Then, for no apparent reason, the wounded zealot shoved the medic out of the way. A split second later, a glave wurm from a mutalisk tore through his ribs, and he died. The glave wurm rebounded off the ground and Fenix deflected it with his blades.
Fenix ran behind a tree, along with the other zealots, and pulled out his rifle, firing at the approaching mutalisk. Then a group of zerglings jumped out of the trees and attacked Fenix. A stray rifle shot knocked a tree branch loose and it fell and hit a zealot.
The zealot was knocked unconscious, and the zerg fell upon, laying waste to his armor and body with their ferocious attack. Fenix knocked a zergling off of the body and stabbed another, withdrawing his arm just in time to parry another blow.
The last zealot got back to back with Fenix, and for a while, they held their ground very well. Fenix and the zealot, in their almost certain victory, were separating a bit. There were a half dozen zergling left, but there was now enough space for them to fit in the gap between Fenix and the zealot.
A zergling clawed Fenix in the back of his head and everything went black.