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ECE2k1 Starcraft Chronicles: Scyth’s Revenge

Prologue

“Ready” the officer shouted and the Fire bats aimed their nozzles at Alexis.

Alexis stood in the middle of a sandy ground. Her bloodied face stared at orange sky above as she awaits her flaming end. Her once self healing feet which she got as a human-protoss hybrid are now blackened and have almost died. Her hands have some fingers cut-off from torture. She then moved her face in the direction of a creature in red suit and forced a sad smile as if to say good bye.

“Burn”, commanded the officer. Immediately, a large fireball engulved her. No one even heard her scream. She was turned to a black figure in instant. Then the wind blew, the black figure turned into a lump in the ground.

The creature in a red suit closed his eyes for a moment. Then he opened it and stared into oblivion without betraying any emotion.

“Name and Serial Number!” screamed the officer.

The creature did not respond. His eyes fixated towards the horizon of this flat and desert planet. Into the horizon he can only see the smoke of the refineries. “Vespene”, he thought to himself. “Alexis is dead because of Vespene”.

“Name and serial number you subhuman!” the officer again yelled.

He did not respond. He looked instead at the officer’s uniform stared at its name tag as if to memorize it. It read Lt. Stephen Moi, 1st Division, Peertian Marine Corps”

“What you lookin’ at punk?. Give me your name and serial number or I’ll cut your freakin feet of! “ insisted the officer.

“Scyth”, the creature softly murmured.

“Yeah right! I know you are from the pathetic Scyth Forces. Those human-protoss idiots who think they are invincible because they are hybrids.You morons!”

“What I’m fucking asking is, what is your name and serial number! If your half human brain can understand that, tell me now. Do you think you’re the exoskeleton in your feet can help you punk? I promise you, if I squeeze this machine gun, those ain’t growing back!”

The creature in a red over-alls took a deep breath. His fiery red eyes stared again at the lieutenant. His humanoid hands tied on his back. He then politely replied, “I am Scyth and and I have no serial number.”

The angry lieutenant switch his machine gun to laser mode. He did pointed it towards the creature’s feet and was ready to fire.

“Enough”

An authoritative voice reprimanded the officer. He is a human being about 5 feet 2 inches tall. He wears dark circular glasses. He wore a special uniform, some kind of an ancient human military attire. He is Peert, supreme leader of the Peertian Empire.

The Peertian Empire is the largest mining operation of this sector of the galaxy. Largely , composed of protoss slaves , it used to hire mercenaries to protect its operations and keep the slaves in check. That is, keep them as slaves. Overtime its able to maintain two military forces for its operations , the Peertian Marine Corpse and the Peertian Space Fleet.

“What do we have here Lt Moi? “, Peert questioned the officer.

“We captured this bogey commander. Our Fleet up there spotted a Protoss Transporter orbiting this mining colony. Apparently they shot ‘em down cause it crash landed not far from here.”

“I believe he is spying on the colony sir”, continued the lieutenant.

“And by the way, he has a companion.Probably a navigator. A female navigator. We already took care of her. The mark on the ship says they are from the Scyth Forces sir”

“Scyth,hmmmmm. Don’t finish this poor creature” replied Peert.

“We need to send a message to my old friend up there. He’ll probably tail me no more!” continued the commander.

Peert softly spoke to the lieutenant as if to give instructions. The lieutenant nodded and as the commander walked away, he did what was instructed.

The lieutenant took his machine gun and switched a green button. It is the stun gun mode. He fired a shot at the creature that immediately fell down out of shock.

He took a knife and opened the red over-all suit the creature is wearing. His front torso is Protoss exoskeleton and scales but its back is soft human skin. Lieutenant Moi wrote a phrase out of wounds by a knife on the creature’s back. It read” To Scyth, Do not Spy on us again or you will have the same fate as this one - from Peertians”

The Lt. then carried the unconscious creature to a Protoss Scout Ship.He entered the known coordinates of the Scyth base ,got out and closed the spacecraft. Moments later, the ships engine roared and it went up into the orange sky .

The lieutenant remarked” I think the Scyth’s wouldn’t dare get near us again”.
An entire Company of Marines and Firebats burst into laughter.

But they are wrong. They are dead wrong.

The creature and his companion weren’t spying on a Peertian Mine Colony. They are orbiting what they call planet Freedom. Named so, because this is the place the Great Scyth , founder and leader of the Scyth Forces , first arrived when he escaped Aiur.

It is a well known revered site for the Scyth that they never established a military base there. They wanted to maintain the planet’s natural state –a huge desert – as a memorial of the founding of their Force.

A month ago, Vespene was discovered and the Peertians came.

They are also mistaken to ask the creature his name and serial number. For he has no serial number.

They are wrong to send Scyth a message written on the creature’s back.

How can someone read something on his back? For the creature is the Great Scyth himself! The woman they torched is the love of his life.

And soon, he will get his revenge.