Dr. Amanda walked by a squad of fifty marines and four goliaths and entered a relatively distant hallway. There, she met up with over seventy men. All of them were elite units, judging from their weapons, armors, and even the way they moved. There were six ghosts among them.
Amanda was well aware of what the situation was. All across the board Dominion forces were pushed back. Armies were destroyed. Admiral Henry tried his best, but the protoss were simply too much. The sea of yellow overwhelmed the army of red. These protoss didn’t care about casualties, and they charged forward ruthlessly.
As the battle went on, the landing parties grew more diverse than simple legionnaires. Adepts shaded into the field. Their glaive cannons, along with their psionic projections, cut Dominion marines into two from a short distance away. Sentries, or rather conservators, were warped in as well. Preservation fields were spread out and shielded the legionnaires from terran firing. Usually, a couple hundred bullets could take down a legionnaire. Now it took roughly a thousand. At places where the Dominion put up too much of a fight, a disruptor would moved forward, and after a loud bang, the defensive position would be no more.
Henry had no choice. As a high ranking Dominion officer, it was his duty to stand his ground. If he ordered a retreat and abandoned the battle station, Mengsk would not be happy. There was no doubt the admiral would be treated as a scapegoat. Most likely, he would be executed for either treason or something else.
Amanda was different. She was a Moebius research staff. Sure, she was in charge of the Moebius part of the station, but she wasn’t a military commander. If she fled, she would likely be fine.
However, Amanda was still slightly worried. If she lost all the research on the station, Doctor Narud wouldn’t be too glad. As the doctor’s right hand woman, Amanda knew how much Narud cared about the hybrids, and this station was one of the major research sites.
She had a modified shuttle at the back of the station. It was armed with a defensive matrix, a modified engine, and a modified warp drive with its coordinates already entered. It could likely get by the protoss fleet with the element of surprise. After all, the yellow protoss ship were focused on ravaging through what was left of the orbital defenses of the battle station.
All she needed to do was transport the research to the shuttle. The data on the computers was something she could easily transport, but there were some experiments that were in the line of fire.
Something like this was obviously something she couldn't ask Henry for help. He was sacrificing the life of him and his men against an unstoppable hostile threat and she wanted his help to run away? Amanda wouldn’t press her luck. As far as she knew the desperate admiral might shoot her in the head and make her an example of cowards who wanted to flee from their post.
Thankfully, as the head of Moebius Foundation on this battle station, she had her own armed forces. A battalion of mercenaries, nearly a thousand of them, was hired by the Moebius Foundation and placed under her direct command. A dozen Moebius ghosts, half of them mercenaries, were ready to do her bidding as well.
“Colonel.” She turned to the commander of the mercenaries. “Put your men into eight groups and deploy them to these locations.” She handed him a list of locations. “Move the projects there back to the shuttle. We rendezvous in twenty minutes. If you’re not back by then, we will abandon you.” She said coldly, knowing the mercenary wouldn’t bat an eye. It was an everyday thing to say to these professional killers.
“Yes sir.” The colonel nodded.
Mercenary marines and ghosts started moving. Amanda turned to the three dozen Moebius elite marines and the six Moebius ghosts. “Follow me.”
One of the experiments was at a location that was, as for the moment, untouched by the invading protoss forces. Amanda could send a squad of mercenaries there, just like what she did to the experiments, but she suddenly remembered that Narud placed an extra amount of attention on that particular experiment. He has personally worked on the experiment for countless times. This made Amanda’s head turn. If she could personally secure that piece of experiment and tell Dr. Narud what she did, she could likely get a promotion from this disastrous event.
Most of the times ambition was a good thing, but under this scenerio…
Amanda’s plan was good, but she has never been a soldier, and she doesn’t know the field of battle changes quicker than a traffic light. Just because she thought she would be going to a secured location didn’t mean that location was actually secured.
Amanda and her squad of Moebius forces ran quickly down the halls. They went around another corner and saw a Dominion defensive position in front. Go around another corner and they would reach the holding cell of the experiment.
“Make way!” Amanda yelled as the Dominion forces. Behind her, the Moebius forces were differentiated from the Dominion ones only be the yellow stripes on their armor. Both factions had red armors.
Suddenly, behind the Dominion lines, twenty light beams came down from the sky, piercing the ceiling.
“Shit!” A marine closed to the light beams cursed. A ranged marine should never be right next to a zealot. In fact he hoped he was light years away from the closest zealot. Desperate, he turned around and fired his gun and backed off at the same time, but the bullets merely bounced off the legionnaire’s plasma shield. The robotic warrior charged into the marine and jammed his psionic blades into the man’s body. Immediately, half of the marine was melted by the two half-a-meter-long blades, each with two separate layers.
“Open fire...ah!” The Dominion captain shouted desperately, but his orders were immediately cut off by a scream as the legionnaires overwhelmed the defensive position in just seconds. Marines and marauders in the open barely survived the first round of charge. Bunkers kept the units inside alive longer, but they were quickly toppled over and the units inside were dragged out and slaughtered.
The Moebius forces were just twenty steps away, but they were too late. The Dominion forces were gone before they could blink.
“What the…” Amanda’s mouth hung wide open. She has seen what protoss units were capable of doing on documents and reports, but she was fairly certainly even if a group of marines in bunkers couldn’t kill twenty Daelaam zealots, they could hold their ground for a while. They shouldn’t be dead in just seconds.
“Sir?” One of the Moebius ghosts demanded. There wasn’t time to be amazed or shocked. Already the legionnaires were turning their eyes on them. They need to make their mind of whether they should moved forward or fall back.
Amanda bit her lips. All of a sudden, her mind went back to her days as a lower leveled secretary of one of the Moebius ranking officers. She was still a naive little girl at that time. Her parents passed away in a zerg attack, leaving her by herself. She joined Moebius because she wanted to fight for humanity. She wanted to make sure what happened to her wouldn’t happen again. No human should ever suffer a the hand of alien filth.
But reality gave her a blow to the head. One day, the reputable, honorable official she worked for called her into his office and told her to strip down. At first, she said no, but the man told her if she refused, he would announce that she was suspicious for being a spy for the Kel-Morian. The Moebius Foundation was a key research organization for the Terran Dominion. Dominion units patrol the facilities and Dominion intelligence officers investigate the background of Moebius employees. The man didn’t have any proof that she was a spy, but she knew the Dominion wouldn’t take the risk in exchange for a random, useless woman. She would either be suicided or be accidented. As far as the Dominion was concerned, she could be replaced, and there was no need to take the extra risk. This was the way of the Dominion. Cruel yet efficient.
So Amanda submitted. She stripped down and allowed the man to climb onto her and do whatever he wished. She could feel tears streaming down her face.
Ever since then, the innocent girl was gone, and Amanda used everything she had to rise in the Moebius chain of command. She realized grand words and the concept of honor didn’t matter in real life. The only thing that mattered was power. Whoever holds absolute power is righteous.
A few days after the rape happened, she sneaked onto the man’s bed once again. Only this time, she was as his mistress, and she did it voluntarily.
For several years, Amanda played the part of a loyal servant of that man. Of course, that was until one day Amanda went directly to Narud and handed him the evidence suggesting that the Moebius official was an agent of the Umojan Protectorate and a traitor to the Dominion.
The result was brutal. That man was arrested, tortured, and executed. In reward for her loyalty and because she has shown quite the talent, Amanda was given the position of the commander of a distant research post. She was given command over thousands of people. Essentially, she was turned from nobody to somebody who led an army of nobodies.
This opened up the way for further advancement. Eventually, Amanda found herself in command of the Skygeirr Station, one of Narud’s top secret sites.
But she never forgot how she got there. If she didn’t do what had to be done, if she didn’t take some risk, she would likely be dead by now.
And here, once again, she must do what has to be done. If she fled, she might lose all the power she suffered so much to gain, and she couldn’t allow that. She couldn’t even think about the feeling of losing control of her life.
“Advance.” She whispered, quietly but steadily. “Move forward. Take out the protoss at all cost.”
“Go go go!” The Moebius troopers acted. A ghost fired a around of EMP at the legionnaires and knocked one third of them off their feet. Marines and marauders opened fire. Their modified rifles did much more damage than the rifles of the normal Dominion marines.
A legionnaire charged at a ghost. The ghost took a deep breath, calmed himself, and aimed his sniper rifle at the zealot’s head. He has been on several missions before that involved hunting protoss and bringing them back for experimentation, and he was aware these aliens had a similar weakness to the terran. One shot to their head and they would be gone beyond salvation. Even their emergency warping systems couldn’t save them in time.
He pulled the trigger, and the legionnaire’s head exploded.
The ghost smirked a second before seeing the legionnaire kept charging. The ghost was caught by surprise, and when he realized the legionnaire was still alive it was already too late. The legionnaire’s psionic blades cut across his body and slashed him into two. Being a ghost didn’t mean invincible. Cut in half and he would still die.
“Chris!” Another ghost groaned. She has fought side by side with the dead ghost for years and the sudden death shocked her, but the neural inhibitor in her brain immediately crushed that emotion. She was quickly returned to the cold, efficient ghost operative. “Hostile units don’t share protoss weakness. Don’t go for snipes. Aim for their limbs and disable them.”
Bullets continued to fly, but the terran was gaining an upper hand. EMPs were shot out like they were free, and these EMPs did massive damage to the robotic zealots, not only clearing their shields but also weakening their circuits and making them much more vulnerable. Gauss bullets chased after the weakened legionnaires, taking them out one by one.
Finally, all the legionnaires were either dead or too maimed to keep on fighting. Half the marines and two of the six ghosts were in pieces.
“Move!” Amanda yelled. She has seen the protoss’ ability to deploy their units to practically anywhere on the station. It wouldn’t take long before they could realize what happened here and send reinforcements. This time it would be much more than a dozen or so legionnaires. In fact, even if it was just a dozen legionnaires, Amanda’s team would be too damaged to fight them off.
Delta had the Purifier data web and incredible calculation capabilities, but at the moment her attention was occupied by a major conflict between dozens of immortals and nearly a thousand legionnaire and Admiral Henry’s personal guards. One of the purifier armies has reached the Dominion command center, and the Dominion mobilized everything they had in an attempt to hold their ground.
The overall situation was good for the Purifiers, but it wasn’t an impossible thing for a squad of twenty legionnaires to fall. Losses came in front all across the station. What happened here wasn’t an instant attention getter for Delta.
This meant Amanda was able to reach the piece of experiment Narud cared about so much.
The woman walked to in front of the cell. Inside the cell was a certain infested terran.
