starcraft: dilation

new places, new ugly faces

I stand and look around as the sun is now beating the planet as the mud is quickly drying up and hardening. 'Nakara. Are you out there?' I've been at this for hours. She hasn't even tried to reach out. I don't even sense her zerg out there. "Anything?" I continue to look out as my visor folds up. "Nothing." I turn and look at the caption. "Are you sure it was a brood mother?" My visor folds down as a map comes up. "General, I'm detecting a small group if bio-signatures approuching your location." I turn around and lift my rifle. I look around as I can see some zerglings walking twords us. "What is it, Sheep?" I look through my scope as I zoom in and see a fremilier blue tint to the zerglings. "It's Nakara's brood." The zerglings look beat up to. The zerglings sew us as they start to rush to us. I lower my rifles as one of the zerglings trip and rook twords us as all of them are bearly alive. "What the hell?!" One of the zerglings look up at me. 'Terran!' Nakara? 'Do you hear me terran?!' It's about damn time. 'It's about damn time, nakara.' I can sense the fear and panic in the zerglings. 'My hive cluster is under attack by a massive zerg sworm! I am unable to hold it back! My brood is being slaughtered!' What the hell? 'I am forced to flee! Is your location secure?!' What? 'It is. What are you going to do?' The zerglings start to rush around as I whatch then run around. "What are they doing?" The ground starts to shake under me as the zerglings cercel around the caption as she starts to panic. "Sheep?! Whats going on?!" I look down as I'm lifted into the aid as I quickly start to fall to the ground. I turn and land on my back as I look to see nakara pull herself out of the ground as I can see claw marks and massive cuts in her carapace. "What the hell, sheep?! What's going on?!" Nakara slowly turns around as she drops a half dead drone. "My...my brood is defeated." She collapses. "My hive is no more terran." She's serius. "This another brood is far more powerful than I originally though." This isn't good. She's struggling just to keep her head up. I get up as I look and see the drone staring at nakara. "Can you move?" Nakara looks at me as I can sense her worry. She's defeated. She was confident she could hold it off but I can see she's reliving whatching her brood behind torn apart by different strains of zerg. Roaches that incinerate her zerglings and hydralisks, mutalisks that swoop in and just bombard her buildings and ultralisks that just don't go down. She threw everything at the attacking sworm and watched as her zerg didn't even put a dent into the onslaught. "My brood needs to rebuilt. We have been broken." I turn and look at the caption. "Take the zerglings and get back to the base. I'll make sure nakara gets back." She freezes. I look at nakara as she's cradling the drone. I see a healing beam rush back me as I turn and see the caption holding her right hand up. I look at nakara as she's gathering her strangth quickly as the drone also gathers itself quickly. "We'll try and get back fast." I look at the medic. "Thank you, terran." I turn and whatch as the caption turns and runs. "Let's get moving." I start to wall as nakara and her drone stay close. "It appears we must ally just to survive agenst the other brood." She's terrified or whatever is going on with the other brood. "Looks like it." She trying to deduce what kind of strain the feral brood is using. There's definitely diffrent strains but there's some new ones. The ultralisks didn't even get scratched. Normally a well placed shot would slow them down at least but nakara put everything into attacks and it didn't even flinch. "Stop wondering inside my mind terran." She blocks me off. "Just becuase I'm asking for aid, doesn't mean you can read my thoughts." She's smart. She also has very good control over her own thoughts. Normally queens don't have that much control whitch makes them easy to read. "Tell me terran." What's this? "Do you trust your allies?" Trust? What's that? "Do you trust the protoss and your suppierors?" Why is she asking this? "It doesn't matter." Her spiked feet pierce the ground as she moves. "What do you mean terran?" Trust...there's nothing worse than trusting someone. "It's doesn't matter who you fight with. As long as you get the job done, it doesn't matter." She's trying to keep her mind closed some some thoughts get out. She's confused. "That doesn't answer my question terran." She's pushing. Now she's trying to rummage through my mind. "No." She's still confused. "You tarrens have always confused me." We have to pick up the pace. I don't want to get cought out here. Now that nakara is on the run, the other zerg brood will be hunting all of us now. I don't even know if the base is safe anymore. Now that nakara is beaten and our outpost gone, not even the protoss will be able to hold off the zerg. Kalas is strong but the zerg have numbers and new strains. "You seem worried terran." How will warfield and nakara recover from these defeats. Nakara has nothing left and warfield bearly has a base. Most of it's probably busted up from that traitors sabotage. "What are you thinking terran? I know your thinking about your allies." I snap back. Damn. I really am worried. Haven't been like this for a while. "How long will it take for you to get a new hive up?" I look around as the planet seems to be dead. Good. "What do you mean?" She doesn't know alot of things for being a brood mother after the end war. "How long will it take for you're brood to recover?" Nakaras shocked that I even asked. "It will take some time. I have few strains left to use." That's one part. "How long? A few days, weeks?" I open my mind to nakara so she can understand. "It will take a few days terran. I will need resources to create a new hive cluster to aid you." Let's hope kalas and warfield are willing to share. "With what we're up agenst, we'll need all the help we can get." Now nakara is worried. "We must be swift. I will avenge my brood." Now she's getting angry. "We have to recover first. We can't fight head on without risking everything." She didn't like that. "I will recover my strains terran. I will ensure this planet is returned to all-mother zagaras control." She was here before warfield. "Don't worry. You'll get your chance but first we have to slow down and gather the man power to actually stand a chance." If we can calm down, we might have a chance to get through this. "I must warn you terran." Warn? What is she planning? "Once this other brood is eliminated, I will drive you from this planet. It belonged to the sworm long before you terrans came."
"I know. We didn't know but once this over, we're not sticking around any longer than we have to." Even i don't want to be on this rock anymore. After this, it won't even be worth it to stay with what little is left. We'll have to spend years just getting the mines safe. "At least your more sensible than your companions." That's something we both can agree on. Let's just hope we can get out of here soon. I'd glass this planet with nukes if I could. We keep pushing on as my radio keeps acting up. It's all a gumbled mess. Nakara stops as I can sense it to. It's strong. It's attacking kalas. "I fear it may be to late terran." Knowing warfield...it's long from over. "Keep moving. We're not going down this easy." I start to run as nakara is close behind as the radios start to clesd up. "On the right! On the right!" The outer defenses are getting attack. "Sheep! Where the hell were you?!" I keep running as I can see the flairs. "I got is some help. Don't shoot her." I glance back and see nakara is struggling to keep up. "Get behind the defenses. I'll make sure your not shot at." I stim myself as the rush of adrenaline let's me bolt to the others. "Multipule contacts! Keep shelling them!" I look to my right and see the attacking zerg. I shot and kneel down as I lift my rifle and aim. "Heres another wave! Focus fire!" It's a small group. Looks like a scouting force. I aim as the hydralisks and start shooting as I change targets as quickly as I can. I hear a roar behind me as I turn and see a hydralisk as spines pierce it's back. It falls down as I see nakara standing behind it. "We have more behind us terran. We must move quickly." Nakara goes underground as I feel the ground shake under me. "I'm safer underground. I'll meet you at your base." I look and see another wave rushing twords me. "Sheep to all hands, do not shoot the broodmother, I repeat, do NOT shoot the broodmother!" I turn and start running again. "What?! A broodmother?! What the hell is he talking about?!" I see nakara burst out of the ground infront of a photon cannon as it aims at her. I feel the stim wear off as use what's left in my system to get between them. "Hold your fire! She with me!" I look around as everyone is aiming at nakara. "What the hell is this sheep?!" I look and see warfield looking at nakara. "I'll explain later! Just get her inside!" Warfield hesitates but lowers her guess rifle. "Find but if she does anything, I'm personally killing her!" I look at nakara. "Get in and get your hive started! We'll hold them off for as long as we can!" Nakara nods. "I'll join as soon as I'm able." Nakara walks past the cannon as I turn and aim at the next wave of zerg berroling twords us. I can see them. The clouds have gone away to. "I've got every unit that's able to fight comming here. This 'plan' of your better be worth it." I hope so go. Helping nakara is a massive gamble but it might just be what we need. "Commanded warfield. My forces are here." Kalas. Good timing. "I had a feeling it was you who let that brood mother in, general sheep." He comes up to my left. "I don't much like aiding the zerg but I fear we have no choice at this time." At least he's cool headed. "General, the zerg have halted thier advance." What? "Show me." My visor glows as a top down view comes up. "It appears they are gathering." Looks like it. I get on one knee and lift my rifle. I zoom in as much as I can as I can see the line of zerg. Their eyes are flickering. "What's going out there sheep? Why did they stop?" I can't sense anything put there. Somethings blocking me. It's strong but...I can still sense something. It's not to strong but it's blocking me. It's knows something. "I don't know." Something tells me it's not just us here. I whatch as the hoard slowly turns around and roams away. "Their pulling back." I lift my head. "It appears we've warn down their numbers a great deal." I look at the top down view as they aren't just pulling back. Their dispersing. Their movements are erratic. Like they've gone feral. Put on autopilot and just want to survive. "No...that's not it." Zerg. You never really know what their up to. "What do you mean?" I lift my head. The wall of fleash and meat isn't there anymore. I can sense them again. Their not being Contorled. "What the hell?" I stand up as this doesn't bode well. "What is it, Sheep?" Kalas doesn't sense that? That passive wave of energy. It's chaotic. It's fighting something. "I...I don't know." What the hell is going on here? "I've got a bad feeling about this." I lift my visor as we're not in danger at the moment. "We're in the clear for now." I face warfield as she isn't happy. "Between the brood mother and the feral zerg, I don't think we're safe at all." I sense a something bug spring up. Nakara's got her hive started. 'Where are you nakara?' She's not to far. 'What is it this time terran?' I look at kalas. "We've got work to do." I walk past the cannon as warfield and kalas follow closely behind. 'We're comming to you.' I've got a very bad feeling about what's going to happen. Whatevers out there control the feral zerg, it's unstable. It's not a brood mother. It's can't be mobius since they were wiped out. "Where are you going? We still have to talk about that brood mother you let in here." At least we're on the same page. "That's where we're going. Nakara has alot to explain and I intend to get as much out of her as possible." I know she heard that. "Good." Kalas is oddly silent. The protoss and zerg don't have a good history but maybe one last team up will help. At least...I hope so.