starcraft: dilation

Raiders For The Win

I whatch as dozens of Medivac's land as dozens of Marines, Moruaders, Medics...everything we need to push back and win this war. One of them lands infront of me as the door lowers, revealing the Vice Admiral and two spector guards. They walk down and approuch me as Hillgan smiles. "Guess youve seen better days." He stops infront of me and salutes me. I return the salute as he looks around. "Either way, we need the help. Thanks for swinging by, Admiral." He nods. "No man gets left behind. Mind telling me whats going on with this ceribrate?" I turn and start leading him to the command center. "From what Nekara said, Amon revived this one, the oldest ceribrate, Daggoth, and tricked it into thinking he was the Overmind trying to reclaim the universe. Its stronger then the ones back in the brood war and its swarm holds very dangerous mutations that injured her badly." I look over and see Nekara approuching us as i stop. "Speak of the devil." She stops a few feet away from us and looks at Hillgan. "This is Broodmother Nekara. She's been on this planet longer than any of us. Thankfully she agreed to help us take the Ceribrate in exchange of leaving and leaving the planet to her." I look at Hillgan as he isnt even flinching. "Glad to see the swarm is still on our side." Nekara nods. "For now we share the same enemy. Tell me, have you come to remove me and my brood?" I pause for a second. "We're not here to kick anybody out, Broodmother. We're here to help our guys complete thier mission and get them out. If Sheep says your going to get the planet after were done, im not going to step in the way or try and play games. If the planet is your reward then im just happy to help get our boys safely off." She nods. "Very well. So long as you do not turn on my brood, I will not harm you or your allies." Good. "Hows your brood doing anyway? You managing to recover?" She straightens up. "With your protection and the newly found resources, my brood grows once again. The feral zerg will not withstand our might when we launch our attack." I nod. "Good. As long as we stay on track, we'll be getting our revenge soon enough. After that, we're out of here." She nods. "I cannot argue. Dispite our hardships, you have proven to be a good ally. Much like the your predecessor, you have shown great loyalty, resourcefulness and courage. Allmother Zegara will be pleased to hear of our mission and soon to be victory over Amon's fleeting influence." I nod. "Lets kill that thing first then tell our stories. We'll be relying on you here really soon." I look at Hillgan. "I will not fail. My brood will end the ceribrate and its foolish designs of ensuring Amon's influence lives on." Hillgan nods. "Looks like you got quite the team here." Hillgan looks at me and smiles. "Ill get you reinforced and deploy our new SCV's. Since your in command of this operation, we fall under you. My boys are ready to take on anything so just tell us where you need us and we wont disappoint." I nod. "See if you can help get our factories up and running. We need siege tanks on our defensive line and our bunkers havent been placed yet. We're holding out until we get attacked then after that, we're going all in on that hive and wiping it off the face of this planet." He nods. "Leave it to me commander." I nod and look at his spector guards. "You two the only spectors here?" The one on the right shakes his head. "We're apart of a small detachment assigned to Admiral Hillgan's army." Some spectors may be exactly was i need for one of my plans. I look at Hillgan. I lower my visor and open a channel. "Flowers, you read me?" His portrait comes up. "Loude and clear, General. Need something blasted?" Hes a moruader through and through. "I need you to get three of your buddies and report to the command center. Ive got an idea and I want you boy to tag along." I look at Hillgan. "Can i get a squad of spectors?" Hillgan nods. "Ill get a squad down here now. They'll be at the command center in 2 minutes." I nod. "Be there 5. Finally going to be able to blast something. This is going to be good." I turn around and start walking to the command center. "Salion, you read me?" I stop before entering the command center. "I do my friend." This time, ill get to see what those blood hunters can do when thier attacking with me. "Can you get your blood hunters to the command center? I have need of thier blades once more." I get a chill down my spine as I turn around and see the same group from before. "You require our blades once more?" I nod. "Never mind. Thier already here." My visor lifts. "I do. I require worriers who are willing to brave a mission thats extremely dangerous." He grips onto his staff and lifts his head. "We will not shy away from a challenge. Me and my brothers will face this challange and be victorious." Good. I knew they wouldnt back down. I look past them and see a team of 4 spectors approuching us. The hunter turns and looks at the spectors as they stop infront of me. "We were told you needed us. Whats the mission?" Just one more group. "Please tell me it requires something being blown up. Ive been itching to have some fun." I look and see the moruader squad. "If you call pissing off the zerg having fun then yes." Flowers stops infront of me. "Now thats what im talking about. Whatchya got for us, General?" I lift my hand and tap on my wrist device and bring up the main hive of the ceribrate.

"Right now the ceribrate has its entire army huddles in its hive. It hasnt sent out a single unit in hours witch means its struggling to do something." They all look and see the sparatic and strange movements of the hive. "Its hive would have been rebuilt. We should have faced its swarm by now." I nod. "Theres something going on in there and I want to find out what its doing. I also want to lure the army out and goad it to attack us before we launch our attack and finish it off." The Ravens cant get details so we dont know how big the swarm is or what units are there. "We should strike now and scatter the swarm. If we weaken it now, the rest will be easy to slay." I shake my head. "We already saw what its going to do if we do that. We wont get close enough to attack it, let alone land a single strike." I zoom out. "Then why provoke it into a fight? We cant take down the army by ourselves and our defenses aren't up yet. Getting its attention now will just get everyone killed." I nod. "Whitch is why ive assembled this team." I lower my hand as the map disopates. "We're going to head out early and see whats going on. If we get lucky, we can scout out the hive and get good Intel. If we dont get lucky, we'll still see how big its standing army is and distract it for a little bit while our defenses get up." Its high risk high reward but with what we have now, im willing to take that risk. Most of us have been out there for a while and with the spectors, we can at least get something done and confuse it for a while. If im sensitive enough to hear that thing, their sensitive enough to confuse it more than I ever could. "Drawing out the swarm will only put us at risk. Why go out now while we still recover?" Shocking. A bloodhunter asks about risking our lives. "By the time we get out there, our defenses will be up to 80%. All we have to do and backtrack and lead them into a trap. They won't know whats going on until our defenses start shelling them. The base wont be in the dark either. Im going to order everything we have to the defensive line before we go out. Either way, when we come back, all hell is going to break loose and that army is going down." Flowers nods. "Thats what im talking about. After that army is blown to smithereens, the hive will be wide open. We can blow that shit up and off we go, getting some R and R." I nod. "Bold. The sparks of victory are showing." The bloodhunters are rearing up for this. "You have our blades. Soon, our enemies blood will coat these grounds. Ah...I can already smell it. Our prey will no longer hide and our blades will cleave them." Good. "Get geared up and meet at the defense line in 6 hours. We're going to be out there for a while so make sure your ready. I dont want anyone to fall behind. All of us are comming back so dont get carried away." Everyone nods. "Flowers, youll be our support. If any scouts are wondering around, your going to distract them. Turn em back or blow em up. Hunters, your the vanguard. Youll be with me leading the charge. Anything that can spot us, itll be up to you to disable it or distroy it. Spectors, youll our eyes and ears. Any overseers or overlords that look like thier trying to whatch us, you take em out before they even have the chance to spot us." This better go exactly as i hope. "These people are counting us to give them the time to get set up. Let's make sure they get it." Everyone nods. "Ill ensure my hunters are ready. We have not failed before, we will not fail now." Good. "The spectors have been beaten down by Amon and his minions. We will prove we aren't just puppets. We will show we can be trusted." Great. "Oh yeah! This is what we've been waiting for! Time to show that bug it messed with the wrong people! Let's get loaded up so we can blast that thing to smithereens!" Perfect. "Lets get moving." Everyone disperses as its almost time. This is going to be good. For the first time, im excited to go out there and play around.