Dr. Essex awoke with a huge headache. He scanned the area around him and saw that he was inside some kind of ship but filled with a purple substance of some kind.
"Where am I?" he asked but the voice didn't seem like his own.
"It seems you have awoken, Dr. Essex. I am the Queen of Blades, I am your Queen." replied the Queen of Blades who was now magically in front of him.
"I am not Dr. Essex. I am something more... I wish no longer to be called Dr. Essex for I am everything he wished to be. I am the more evil side of him, manifested by your Arachnid Brood-keeper. I am... Sinister!" shouted the Infested Terran scientist.
"Well it seems you have... changed." replied a surprised Queen of Blades.
"Yes I have, I wish to see my former superior, the Admiral." said Sinister.
"Why of course, we left him alive."
The Queen of Blades led Sinister out of the med lab and took him to the bridge. On their way they had to jump over dead corpses and carcasses. Sinister would have thrown up if he were his old self but not now, he was no longer Dr. Essex.
He saw one of his comrades, a marine, his body parts were strewn all across the area. His head was hanging on the ceiling.
"It seems the lights are working, my Queen." said Sinister.
"Yes, we had to go through a lot of work though. Many of our drones were electrocuted, those idiots, but we got the lights moving." replied the Queen of Blades.
"Just to get the lights? If only I had awoken earlier."
They arrived to the bridge and saw the admiral, the old man who had the hard face and white beard was now no more than a frightened child with a fake beard.
"You should of listened to me, oh great Admiral." Sinister said aloud.
"Who... are.. you?" asked the scared admiral.
"Aw.. you don't remember my light-hearted side, I am Nathaniel Essex, you tried to silence me, but now I will silence you." Sinister replied angrily. He began to remember all the old times when the Admiral had always silenced him, and now it was his turn.
He punched the admiral in the face and the admiral soon had a bruise on his cheek. Sinister laughed and grabbed the admiral by the throat and lifted him up high in the air.
The admiral, in response, tried to get the grip off his throat but failed as he heard a crack in his throat and soon lost vision. Sinister had broken the admiral's throat.
The Queen of Blades eyed the infested Terran. He was incredibly different from his former version. She really wanted to interrogate the admiral but now things had to change.
"My Queen, we have succeeded in destroying the Protoss fleet, but I fear that they will--" Samir Duran was cut off by the Queen of Blades.
"Good, let's leave this ship, it stinks like hell."
Sinister threw the dead body of the admiral into a wall and followed after the Queen of Blades.
"We have also gotten a few prisoners. Artanis, the new Praetor that caused us much trouble and some of his men, including another scout pilot, named Mojo, who was wearing some kind of Terran medal." Duran said while following the Queen of Blades.
"A Terran medal? Funny..." she replied.
"Mojo... He got that medal of honor when he helped stop Alan Schezar. The Terran Dominion kept it a secret. If anyone found out then they would have been humiliated." Sinister added
They all boarded the Overlord and left towards the planet. Other Overlords came back to pick up the various Zerg that were still onboard.
* * *
Back to Dalomir... (Keep up with me here, I know there's a lot of back and forth but keep up!)
"So what you're saying is that you've seen the Zerg here before?" asked Edwarg.
"Yes, they searched this temple for this secret place continuously. One day they just got up and left." Nak'Talagos replied tiredly.
"The final assault..." Edwarg murmured.
"I see the Zerg have done some damage. How bad is it?" asked Nak'Talagos.
"They've won basically. Zeratul signed an armistice (stand-off) at this point so we can still survive. But now all of a sudden they're attacking us to get to this planet. What is this place anyway?" asked Edwarg.
"What is this place? This is the Xel'Naga's most prized possessions, statues of their creations, crystals to destroy an entire planet, things you cannot imagine subside here." Nak'Talagos replied. The temple shook violently and the whole temple lighted up and a gust of wind blew past both the warriors.
"What is going on?" asked Edwarg.
Nak'Talagos sat still for a moment then replied, "We are under attack. It seems the Zerg are here. I hope they do not find the stick that leads here."
"The stick! That's it! I threw the stick in here, if I can find it then I can trace it back outside." Edwarg stated as he got up.
"I shall help." said Nak'Tagalos.
They both got up and started searching for the stick.
* * *
Meanwhile not far off at Antioch, Auir... (Yes, we are going back to Auir!)
Ardarriss sat still looking at the other members of his Tribunal. Across from him sat... Raszagal. Around him were other high ranking Protoss.
"Then are you all with me on this?" asked Ardarriss.
"Yes." They all replied.
"Good. Raszagal is supposedly dead at the moment, soon with her reappearance... our brethren will go into another civil dispute, templar against dark templar." Ardarriss stated.
"But how did she survive in the first place?" asked one of the templar.
"I created a hallucination of course. Zeratul destroyed it, Raszagal and I enjoyed it." Ardarriss said happily.
The others laughed inside their heads. "When will we attack Shakuras?" asked one of the other Templar.
"Ah... that. That is why I brought you all here. I want you all to meet someone. Raszagal, if you will..."
Raszagal got up from her seat and opened the door. A Terran walked in, wearing some kind of new armor. A darkish-blue/black suit with a matching helmet and a long visor that went across his helmet to see through.
