starcraft: dilation

honor, loyalty, and duty!

I stand  of the formation as the late ones showed up about an hour after I got infront of the formation. "You think I'm scared of you?! You really think just becuase I'm a medic doesn't mean can't fight?!" The medics patrol the formation as angry yelling can be heard from every angle. "I didn't tell you to stop private! You will keep going until I get tired of looking at you! You hear me?!" Kalas stands behind me as I carfully scan the formation. "I didn't say slow down! 1, 2, 3! 1, 2, 3! 1, 2, 3! I know I didn't stutter!" I walk up to one of the people in the front as he's laying on the ground. "I didn't day lay down! Your friends will keep going until you've done all 500 reps!" He pushes himself up as he hips don't even leave the ground. "Looks like someone forgot how to do a push-up!" I take a step back. "How could you forget how to do a push-up?!" One of the soldiers runs up as he gets down and gets in his face. Ironic that it's someone from his squad. "How could you forget something so simple?! You littarly lift your body off of the ground! HOW COULD YOU FORGET TO PUSH YOURSELF OFF OF THE GROUND?!" His voice cracks out of pure anger. "Get on your feet! Now!" The man takes his time to get off of the ground as one of the medics runs over with a vane popping out of her head. "I didn't say you could stand up! Get back down and give me the 500 reps!" The man raleases a dramatic sigh. "Get off of your hands and knees!" The man slowly straightens up. "Are you seriously disobeying a direct order from a officer?! I didn't say get up!" The man slowly gets on his knees. "Get up! You will not disobey your commanding sergeant! Get up now!" I look at kalas as he's enjoying this. "You will not disrespect me! You get that through your thick, empty skull! You will NOT disrespect any of us!" I can't help but smile as kalas is amused. "Having fun?" He keeps looking around at the bobbing bodies. "This reminds me of the lectures I once sat through as a young Templar. The lessons of combat with my first warp blade." I turn around as see someone accualy trying as a medic is screaming at him. "I am amazing so many don't take the commands of your medics with a heavy heart. They train and learn to save thier lives yet the disrespect they show leaves me astounded." I look at kalas as I let my arms fall. "Then can I use what you've told me?" He looks at me with curious eyes. "What does this mean, general?" I smile. "I'll use it to make a point, executer. I don't want to be emberissed infront of our allies who came to see who we strive to be." He nod. "You hear that 423rd?!" I turn around as I center myself to the formation. "Our protoss allies are astounded at the amount of disrespect your showing to the people who've trained to save your pathetic lives!" I get angry as I open my mind to thier thoughts. "Not only did you emberis yourselves infront of our friends but you embrised me infront of them!" The medic stop yelling as the pull out of the formation and start circling the formation. "Get on your feet! And don't take your sweet time! You will shoot up faster then your hormones when your drinking!" They don't move. "I said get up!" One of the medic comes up next to me. "YOU WILL FOLLOW THE GENERALS COMMAND! IF YOU THINK YOUR GOING TO DISOBAY HIM THEN YOUR GOING TO WISH YOU DIDNT EVEN THINK ABOUT JOINING!" Her voice echos through the court yard. Everyone shoots up as I see a few take thier time getting up. "What did I just say?! What the hell did I just say?!" The medics dive in and pull the ones who took thier time getting up and the ones who didn't go to attention when they did stand up. Non of them have even have a drop of sweet running down thier forheads. I'm seeing most of the formation gathering thier breaths as others have small pools of sweet under them. "Not only are you the ones who constantly harass these medics, you directly disobeyed an order." I go from angry to calm as I start to lash out phyoniclly. Thier minds are rampant with some of the most vile shit I've ever heard. "High executer kalas. I'd like to make a request." I turn to him as he eagerly waits for my request. "I ask that your elite guard show these deadweight the disopline the protoss are known for." I bow slightly to show him the proper respect he is owed. "It would be a pleaser to, general sheep." He begins to flought off of the ground as his own phyonic energy starts to lash out. "My breatheren, I ask for your assistance." I turn around as see the zealots bolt from the corner and form a perfect like infront of him. "General sheep has asked for you're aid in showing these terrans the disopline of the delaam. Would you honer his request?" The bow slightly. "It would be our honer to, high executer." The zealots face me as the quickly move thier line to infront of me. "What is your command, general sheep?" The zealots are quick as thier hardened looks strike instant fear into the formation behind me as I begin to feed off of it. "I would like to learn some of the disopline that is instill into worriers of your caliber. I ask you show me by teaching these 'marines' the lesson they refuse to learn." The bow slightly. "It would be our honer to, general." I bow slightly as all three of us straighten up. I step to the side as the zealots turn thier hardened look onto the much smaller formation as some of them are instantly consumes by fear. They approuch the front line as they look down at the half sized terrans to show how much more power they wield simply just by standing infront of them. "You will remain straight as a blade. You remain as quite as a corpse. You will remain as still as tree. Disobey these orders and you will suffer." Some of the marines scoff as one of the zealots pick out one of them and start to approuch them as the ones who do start to comply try thier damndest to stay still and at attention. The zealot stops infront of one of the marines who scoffed. "You. Step out." The marine doesn't move. "Obey the command Terran. Step out." The marine starts to move as the zealot stares at him. The zealot follows him as he pushes the man out of the formation as he instantly fixes himself and walks up to the zealot who doesn't even stop walking. The marine is run over as he quickly gathers himself as the zealot stops then turns around to look at the marine. "You will now face the consequences of your actions, terran." The man starts snarl. "You bear your teeth as if you were a animal. A true worrier does not bear thier fangs agenst another worrier. Aspecialy when that worrier outclasses them in every way." Then man takes a step forward as the zealot takes a step and mimics his movement to mock him. He's starting to think about how to take him on. "If you choose this fight, it will not end well." The zealots voice gets darker as the man balls his fists. I hear some of the medics start to chatter. "I'm not scared of you." The zealot tilts his head a little bit. "That is where your failure will lead to your death." Zealot bashes to him with a blink of an eye as the man instantly takes a step back as he struggles to process what just happened. "You will do as your told by your elders. Any disrespect will NOT be tolerated." The zealot takes another step forward as the marines mind is consumed in fear as his instincts scream at him to straighten up and follow his commands. The zealot takes another step twords him as he backs up and stiffens up like a straight razor. "Your failure to know that there is always someone stronger than you will be burned into your mind." The marines breathing starts to shake. "Return to your formation." The man turns and bolts back to his place and straightens up as the zealots warning works on the others. The zealots start to walk around them as thier fear consumes all of them as ones who are formed up behind then start to thank God that they started to lision. Some of the medics start to talk with a few of the marines as they instinctively changing the positions when they are spoken to. "I see one who fails to obey our commands." I look and instantly spot Simon as she staring directly at me. The zealot starts to walk through the formation as he stops next to Simon who dosent straighten up. The zealot slowly tracks his gaze as he looks at me then quickly looks back at him. "Your focus should not be on general sheep." Simon doesn't react as I start to approuch the formation. Everyone but Simon locks thier muscles in place as the darkness starts to slowly swallow the formations. "Revert your gaze." The order is met with no response. "Remove your gaze." The zealots command doesn't faze him. I look to the right a little bit as I see some of the medics gathering behind the formation. I look back as Simon as he's still staring at me. The zealot stands between him and me as Simon's thoughts are filled with anger. "Sir!" I look to my right as one of the medics stops infront of me. Her rank shows that she's a private. Her battle armer also looks new. The paint isent even scuffed. "General Warfield is here. He's asking for you." I look back at the zealots. Thier huddled around Simon who's started complying with them now. "That's enough." The zealot look back at me. Simon's mind is filled with fear. Whatever they said to him, it's got him tense. "I think he gets the point now. Thank you for your demonstration elites." They nod as the turn to kalas as they approuch him. "Well done my worriers." I look at the medic as she's inamered at the protoss. "Where's general Warfield?" She snaps back quickly. "I'm here sheep." Warfield comes up from behind the medic as she jumps a little bit. She turns around and jumps again as he walks up to me. "Sorry about that. I didn't mean to scare you." She chuckles a little bit. "I-its alright sir." He stops and looks at her with a smile. "Please help the others. It looks like some of the marines didn't take this to well." She salutes him and rushes to the back of the formation. He turns and faces me as his smile quickly disopears. "Looks like you've been busy." I can't help but chuckle a little bit. "Doesn't take much to straighten a few lose ends up." He chuckles as his smile quickly returns. "Not bad for your first day as general." He turns to the formation as he's impressed that this company quickly learned thier lesson. "Guess I can't help myself sometimes." General Warfield chuckles. "At least now they'll stop horrassing the medics. I have some idea of what these gals have gone through so thanks for straightening things out." He turns to me as kalas comes up to my right. "It's the least I can do. I just wish the dominion would do more training to enforce this kinda shit." He chuckles. "I do to. After my father was killed, I've been trying to lead by his example but it's getting harder now that we're not at war anymore." I look at Simon. "The people who are joining aren't exactly to smart anymore. Most of the marine corps is still convicted convicts to whitch doesn't help the situation." I look back at Warfield. "It's why Emperor Valerian is trying to witch to volunteer like what the raiders do." He gives me a grim look. "It wasn't instant. Thankfully valerian's trying to reestablish trust with his people instead of forcing them under his boot." Warfield gives me a bit of a stern look. "That kind of stain doesn't wipe away easily." I revert my gaze. "Believe me, I know how hard that is." I look at kalas. "But learning from those mistakes is how we can get stronger and make allies like our protoss friends here." Kalas looks at me as I can tell he's pleased. "That reminds me." We both look at Warfield. "Before I came down here, I received a few reports from out reaper squats that the feral zerg hives 5 clicks west of us have picked up thier movements. Some of the squads were attacked in some amushed to so we've already lost a few guys out there." Shit. "Does this mean this brood is coordinated?" I look at kalas as his contempt quickly turns to worry. "That's the thing. The survivers reported they attacked minutes after they got to the positions. They attacked becuase they were frenzied by a few charges they placed on some rock formations to try and block thier paths that lead directly to this post." I look at Warfield as I breath a sigh of raleaf. "If they were cordinated, they would only have sent a few to prevent them but after the changes went off, they sent everything they had within a 20 mile radius to hunt them down." That means they'll be following the scouts the whole way back to the base. "Have they returned from thier tasks?" Warfield shakes his head. "No. They were smart enough to pull them away from the instalation but they ran into your outpost, executor. Unfortunately that means we lead them straight to your people without relizing it." I look at kalas. "I'm terribly sorry about that executor. We didn't know you uad set up a base near the zerg hive clusters. Thankfully they had some medical supplies so those who got injured have the supplies to recover quickly." Kalas gives a nod. "It is I who should be apologizing general Warfield. I had assumed the worriers we sent before we came had arrived and alerted you about our position." I shake my head a little bit. "That means they were attacked on their way here." I look at Warfield. "Or the people who brought them in didn't tell me about them if they got here." I look at the zealots. One of them has thier eyes closed. "I fear they have not survived. I do not want any of my people to suffer a horrible fate before we strike the hives." The zealot opens is eyes as he looks at the other one as the some of the medics start talking with them. "It looks like we may have gotten lucky on this one." The zealots and medics start to approuch us.  Kalas and Warfield turn and look at the approuching zealots as they seem to be panicked. "High executor. I have received a report from the high Templar who we sent to alert general Warfield about our plans." The zealots stop infront of kalas. "I fear only two of the six worriers we dispatched have arrived. They were attacked shortly after the terran reaper squad arrived at the outpost." I look at Warfield as he's worried. "They should have arrived hours before the reapers have. What could have happened to cuase them such a delay?" The zealot looks grimly at the executor. "It appears they were moving slow due to some unidentified zerg flyers that constantly patrolled the area we oeginally though was clear." Damnit. "That means we'll have to send a viking escort if we're going to get you guys back to your base." Warfield gives me a grim look. "You know what this means right?" He nods slowly. "Yeah...I've got a bad feeling about this." I look at kalas. "It looks like the situation just went from bad to worse." Kalas looks at me. I look at the zealot as he faces me. "Where's the high Templar now? Are they going to be alright?" The zealot pouses for a second. "Yes. The swarms that attackes left them exhausted however. I fear they will need to recover for some before before making the venture back." I look Warfield. "Are the air defenses up?" Warfield gets serius. "Yes. We've been tracking a pack of mutalishes that have been flying around the hive but we have no idea if there's something else out there. That means whatevers flying around out there is in low orbit, out of our current radar range." Damnit. "Don't we have a sensor tower up?" Warfield gets pissed. "We should unless those lazy dirt bags aren't doing thier job." I fold my arms. "It's a manual sensor tower?" Warfield raleases a big frustrated sigh. "Yeah. Those assholes that supplied us didn't give us the right parts to have my adjutant to connect to it." It's always something. I look at one of the medics. "Any chance you have some spare parts to get that tower upgraded?" She looks at the medic to her left as she shrugs. "Yeah but we don't know how many." She looks at me. "But we have some schematics to build some of those high tech ravens. We can put some of the parts in that but it won't be able to deploy defensive drones." I look at Warfield. "We have a few ravens on standby. Luckily we had a resupply today and we got a few wraith squads too." I look at kalas. "My outpost has warp prisisms as well." We both look at Warfield. "If you can power those ravens of yours general, they can lock onto the power source and warp here to supplement some of your forces if you wish to move out quickly." Warfield gives us a smile. "If that's the case then we can get a few of our vikings up so we can have a sizable escort that can move quickly." The zealots take a step forward. "Higb executor, our carriers are still in low orbit and have purifier merages ready for activation." We look at kalas. "Good. If you can get one of your warp prisisms here, we can send a few medivacs with you guys to help supplements your attack on the main hives. I've wanted to take out those hive clusters for a while now so if your already planning on attacking them, I'll supply you some of my men so you can have some support." I look at Warfield. "We've got a Hercules class ship to. We can carry some heavy weapons and supplies to so if shit hits the fan, we can fall back and bolster kalas's defenses to hold out for a few days." Warfield gives me a focused look. "We might as well just move to kalas's position and set up a base there. We can leave the structure here to distract the zerg insteed of splitting up our defenses." I let my arms fall. "Do we even have the ship to do that? Hell, do we even have enough SCV's to make a new base?" Warfield chuckles. "We've got enough supplies to rebuilt this small outpost five times, kid. We can also salvage some of the structures to. The worst part is since we've built up here, we'll need some time to suit up before moving out." I look at kalas. "There are mineral fields close to our base so you can build up your base under our protection for some time. However, such a migration will alert the zerg and they will most likely attack our consolidated forces."
"Ha, we won't have to worry about that." We both look at Warfield. "We've got a small squadron of battlecrusers on the other side of the planet." I'm suprised we even have that kind of support. "We've had battlecrusors this whole time?" Warfield smiles. "How do you think we got our supplies? Hell, we won't even need to lift off our buildings. We cab just evacuate into the battlecrusers and we can just do a short range 'jump' to get there. The hard part will be evacuating all of our equipment here." I look at kalas as he's focused. "I have alerted my carrier about our plan. We will have support if those flying zerg wish to attack while we evacuate your people." Warfield luaghs. "That's appreciated executor." Kalas bows his head. "It is our honer friend Warfield. All we ask in return is your aid in destroying the zerg on this world."
"I'll do you one better kalas! After this, we'll tag along with you on your next mission while we get situated in leaving this Rock." Kalas seems to be pleased by this. "Then it is a sound plan. I'll have my honer guard alert the executor that is currently commanding our base about our plan." Kalas starts to focus. "We better get moving fast. I'll get suited up and see if I can't get one of those ravens fitted with a sensor array so we don't get cought with our pants down." Warfield gives me a smile. "If your taking point then I'll leave all command to you while I get suited up and get word to the battlecrusers. It'll take a bit but when they get here, we have to pick up what we have and go the second they arrive." To easy. "I'll have everything ready, sir. Just make sure your going to be good of the zerg figure out what we're doing before those cursers get here." He luaghs. "Spoken like a good general! Now let's stop wasting time. We've got a long night ahead of us." I look kalas and his elites. "Let's rock and roll so we can killed whatever queen bitch is trying to take over this rock."