starcraft: dilation

highway through hell

I continue walking as I hold onto my rifle tightly. I can sense them out there. The zerg. "I assume you can sense that to." I stop as I look to my left. We're not clocked so they can see us. "We're being whatched." I've got a bad feeling. A very bad feeling. Something Strongs close by. "We areat close to the hive yet. How is there something this powerful out here with us?" I focus on whatevers out there. It's moving erratically. Why do I have the feeling it's more dangerous feral? "We have to keep moving." I start walking again as we haven't felt that pulse in a while. "Do you think we're far enough away?" I lower my visor and pull up the map. We're on the outskirts of the main search area for the hive. "General, I'm detecting some overseers overhead. They must be eliminated before you proceed." I look up as I didn't even sense them. There's one little above our heads. Thier feral right now witch is a good thing. I lift my rifle and aim for it's nerve center and fire. The fat balloon starts to fall down as it hits the ground a few feet away from us. I feel the pulse flaring again. "Clock! Now!" I activate my clock as I kneel down. The dark Templar quickly follow suit as the pulse explodes as I sense a massive amount of movement close by. "This power. We're very close to our prey." Bloodhunters. They do love a good hunt. Luckily for them, I do to. "Keep your eyes open. Overseers are nearby." I look to my left as that powerful...thing is moving away from us. "That beast is going for our nexus point." Damn. "General warfield, do you read me?" Be quick. "We read you, Sheep. What's your 20?" I look at the bloodhunters. "You've got something big comming your way." I start to hear chatter through all radio stations. "What is it?" More movement. "We've got zerg forces comming for us." It's a small group. "I don't know but it's big, mean, and pissed off." I look up as my visor picks up the incoming zerg. No detectors. "Well it's a good thing our tanks are running now. What about that hive? We've almost got a nuke ready." Good. "We're close. One of us will let you know if we find it soon." I look to see the bloodhunters are spreading out. "Time for a hunt, brothers." I lift my rifle and get ready for a fight. "Damn it. Let me get back to you. Get those tanks set up now!" I can hear explosions at the base. "If it has more than two legs, big sharp teeth, and a hungry look, kill it. Kill them all." I stand up. "I believe I'm beginning to like you terran." I start to walk forward as I start shooting at anything I can see as the bloodhunters rush forward. "Forcus the hydralisks terran. We will handle the rest." I aim for the biggest targets as I can see blood spurts. I spot something else that's bigger as I kneel down and aim for it's soft spot. I take in a deep breath and take the shot as the bullet looks like it bounces off its armer. I take in another breath as I shoot three more times as I see the blood spurt out as it falls and flips as it's scream echos. I look around as everything else is dead. "This was to small to be a attack force." I stand up and walk over as I'm seeing more zerglings than anything else. "Scouting party." Good. That's means we have thier attention. "Sheep, you still with us?" Wierd. The attacks last longer than that. "I'm here." The chatter dies down. "Whatever that thing was, it's dead now. Nearly took our heads off though." Sounds like it was an elite unit. "Any ideas on what it is?" We gather up as the bloodhunters are covered in blood now. Their reveling in it. "Looks like some sort of lurker or roach. We couldn't see it until is killed 3 other guys." Great. "Noted. We'll keep an eye out for anymore of them." This doesn't bode well. "We are not far from the hive cluster. We must keep moving." I pouse for a moment. "What is it?" I keep my eyes fixed on the small path that's going between two of the hunters. I follow it down as I'm standing in the path. I kneel down as I don't recinize this pattern. "Does this look like any zerg prints to you?" I reach down as it's...cold? "Why are you concerned about zerg claw marks?" I look to my right as I can see a path where a hydralisk slithered through. To my left, wholes where zerglings ran through. I look back at this path. "What are you thinking, general?" I place my hand fully onto the ground as it's cold. Very cold. I can feel it through my body suit. "The ground. It's cold." I follow the path as it curves as I can see small claw marks on the side. "the ground cannot be cold. Not with this heat." He's right but..."Whatever came through here...maybe it's what's watching us." I stand back up as I grab my rifle. "These tracks do look strange compared to other zerg abominations." I lower my visor and activate my thermal vision. The ground around us it hot but the curving path is cold. I can clearly see it. I take a few steps forward and follow the path up as I can see the path turn sharply and go around. I can see a second path go straight twords the base but the other one circles us. I get the feeling were being whatched again as I look around and spot something that clearly stands out. "Get down!" I lift my rifle as the blood hunters duck as I shoot at the thing as it roars then jumps to the right. I try to follow it as I jumps around frantically as I can't get a clear shoot. It charges us as one of the blood hunters blades cleaves it as half of the corpse hits me as fall back. I push it off and get back up quickly as now I'm starting to cool off quickly. My visor lifts up as I look at the green blood that's covering my armer. "Are you alright General?" I look at the Whatever hit me as it's a strange zerg that I've never seen before. It has wings, long thin claws and I was able to push it off easily. It charged with alot of force though. "What is that?" We huddle around the corpse as it bleeds profusely as we can see the steam rising from the freezing blood. "Is that...steam?" I look down at my armer as the blood is evaporating quickly. It hasent even been a minute as my armer just looks like it got a bad paint job. I look back at the corpse as I reach down and grab one of irs claws and lift it up easily. I can bearly even feel the weight. "It's light." I can feel the intensity on the muscles though. It's twitching as a claw comes up and hits the bottom of my brest plate as I drop it. I felt my army shift from it. I don't sense anything else nearby though. I don't have the feeling of being whatched either. I didn't get the feeling while we were cloaked but as soon as we weren't, I got the feeling instantly. "Cloak. Now." I activate my cloak as the hunters quickly cloak to. "It can't detect us like this." I turn and look at the hunters. "We have to stay like this from now on. I lower my visor so I can see them better. "Let us delay our mission. The main hive cluster is close. Let us be in our way finish this." I couldn't agree more. "Agreed. I can feel the psyonic pulses growing in strangth." I can feel them to. There's something strange about them though. "Let's move. I don't want to be anywhere near here longer than we have to." We start running twords the pulses as I start to feel a push and my mind being shut down as I stay focused and push through.