Chapter 6: Major advances

So they gave me what remained of my suit, some supplies, and a vulture that they found abandoned. A vulture is a bit like the motorcycle, but it has a grenade launcher, and it hovers (only on land) with photon engines to make it go fast. When I arrived back at base, which had bunkers all over the place, a lot of Supply depots, some barracks and a command centre everyone was busy packing up, until some one noticed me.

"Hey, its Alex, everyone, Alex is back." Said a nearby marine.

Everyone crowded around me as I tried to understand why they were leaving.

"I guess that you are puzzled why we are running around in circles eh?"

"Yeah, I've been in my own world."

He started to explain while I helped him pack some crates in a Dropship. He said that the data that we stole from the Jacobs installation back on Mar Sara was designs for a Psyonic Waveform Emitter or Psi Emitters. Its purpose was that it emanates the Psyonic waveform of a Ghost (a bit like a secret agent but can turn invisible and has psychic abilities) x100. Apparently the Zerg would swarm around it like flies to garbage. A large Confederate base was constructed on the planet, so Lieutenant Kerrigan planted a Psi Emitter right in the middle of it. So we are high tailing it out of here to escape the Zerg.

My presence was required in the Command Centre to report about my disappearance. The Command Centre, it was a circle building with a communications array up the top. Inside it had a whole bunch of corridors, rooms and armoury's. The officers' quarters were in the centre of this building.

"Ah, Private Alex Walker, I have here that the Dropship that you were on was hit and took a nose dive down to the sea, how did you survive?"

"Uhh…well it's a long story…"

I told him everything except the dropping into the Protoss, I just said that it was some locals. They were amazed on how I survived.

"So your saying that you fell into a locals waste pit and they nursed you back to health?"

"Yes sir, but where are we going to now?"

"Tarsonis, where we will call in for a visit to the confederates, heh heh heh…you can go back to your duties soldier."

"Yes sir."

So I exited the Command Centre and went to the sergeant for orders. We packed up and left Antiga Prime, with the Antigan people coming along as well. The ride was long and hard, with me missing Angel and all. But I was glad that Caleb had survived and was still there to help me along. During some nights I had strange dreams, and I had slight headaches in the mornings, but nothing serious. Amazingly the trip was short and fast, for Antiga Prime was not that far from Tarsonis.

Before we landed we were all briefed.

"Ok people, the ground is the central space platform, and the situation is that the base that is already there is under attack. So we are the ones that are to help them out. We have to go down there and reinforce them and then attack with the nukes supplied by the silos. The Ghosts will launch them. While the rest of the crew (10 Goliaths, 26 Marines, 6 Firebats, and 2 Siege Tanks) will be clean up duty for afterwards."

When we started to land, I could see the Space Platforms. It was like an endless sea of metal, with endless battles and buildings spread across it. There were Environ Domes, many different stores, lower brown platforms, high light grey platforms, steel catwalks, and much debris from many battles against Tarsonis. But I have a feeling that we are going to be the ones to bring the Confederacy to its knees.

The View from the Battlefield was very different, Remains of Missile Towers (these are like SAM sites, but way more powerful, and they can detect Ghosts and other invisible objects.) dot the landscape. Many of the Bunkers surrounding the entrance to our Lower platform were on fire with SCV's (practically the thing that builds/repairs/collects stuff) trying to repair them.

As I shot from my Gauss Rifle I could see many of the Delta Squadron (Confederate) Marines get shot into a million pieces, as it happened to many of our own. The smell of death surrounded me as I tried to stay alive, until something strange happened…for some reason I knew that a bullet was about to hit me so I moved left, and by my surprise a bullet went right past me where I was standing. I could not explain it, nor did I care, for my mind was to kill the S.O.B. who tried to kill me. The battle lasted for a few minutes before the Delta Squadron started to retreat, and as the smoke cleared I could see pock marks where many Goliaths had exploded, and some of the wounded and dead scattered across these killing fields.

After that our Morale was increased dramatically. The Nukes were built, and the Ghosts were prepped and ready to drop a little sunshine. So they set off and we waited for the final battle.

"Nuclear Launch Detected." We all heard in our helmets, then we all saw a bright light and then BOOOOOMMMCRAASSSSHH. After that we were all sent on clean up duty. We needed not worry about the radiation, for our suits had anti-radiation armour build in to our existing armour.