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Command Bridge
Galaxy, 2:48, 2732 P.T.
Ganthrithor, Protoss Battleship

De'rkon left as soon as he entered, heading toward the P-Matrix Generator, the core power engine room. Praetor Tassadar watched as fearless zealot vanished behind the energy door, then announced mentally Two minutes before Phase ANNEKS.

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Outter Tunnel
Protoss Colony, 2:48, 2732 P.T.
Behemoth1, Protoss Battleship

All appointed unites aboard Space Shuttles, Praetor. Tumulssius the Dragoonrider reported

Space Shuttles ready to launch

Outter Tunnel clear

Jump into Phase ANNEKS in .... 10, 9, 8, 7, 6.... 2, 1 Launching.

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Outter Tunnel
Protoss Colony, 2:50, 2732 P.T.
Behemoth1, Protoss Battleship

Four beatleshaped Space Shuttles silently levitated into the air. Blue flames shot through the back end of the gigantic protoss transporting ships. Lighting flashed on one shuttle's surface, the flare leaped and danced on the shuttle, then traveled around the spaceship from top to bottom then to top again. The flare disappeared as an invisible energy shield covered the shuttle completely. Then the second shuttle's surface flashed lighting, then the third, then the last one.

The entrance of Outter Tunnel slowly waved and waggered as the surface changed into transparent waterlike surface, then it disappeared, showing the dark space. The first shuttle leaned forward, its head bent low, then the blue flames tensified. With a great roar, the shuttle shot out into the deepening darkness....

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Command Bridge
Galaxy, 2:50, 2732 P.T.
Ganthrithor, Protoss Battleship

"Praetor Tassadar, Phase ANNEKS complete" Praetor Fenix informed. "The Space Shuttles will arrive shortly"

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New Francis, Mars
Galaxy, 2:55, 2732 P.T.
?????

Something began to roam beneath the now swam-like land. An area of fifteen ft began to expan verticlely. Brownish and greenish liquid boiled and leaked, acid smoke danced wildly in the air. The surface continued to raise, a huge 10 stories high mushroom took shape in the air. Its surface sticky and moisture, filled with aweful odor. Then something else moved beneath the Spire skin. The thing pushed and stretched underneath the mushroom's skin, until the skin became so thin and transparent. With a shivering howl, the thing climbed out the Spire. Finally, it let go the hold on the Spire and flew into the air.

Soon, the sky is filled with 'dark clouds', twisting and changing. It is starting...

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Command Bridge
Galaxy, 2:50, 2732 P.T.
?????

"All wraiths ready to launch, sir" a heavely armored soldier announced

"Any news from the Queen yet?"

"No sir."

"Send them to designated areas, waiting for delivery"

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Galaxy, 3:00, 2732 P.T.
Mars Outer Space

Swams of scourges soared into the orange Mars' sky. Soon, they pierced through the atmosphere. With New Francis Scanner Station destroyed, the swams surpassed Planetary Confederate Defense unnoticed.

Awaiting them are two sqauds of Wraith Fighters. The versatile one man killing machine form two triangles. Every fighter is in radio-silence phase. As they spotted the dark clouds lifting through the Mars atmosphere, they started quietly, meeting the scourges head on.

The groups of wraith and the scourges began to emerge their flying directions. The black, unmarked wraiths and the white, wingbeating scourges mixed into one group. A dozen scourges quietly landed on one wraith's wings and surfaces. This process continued for five minutes until the white flying thing settled down. Finally, two squads of wraiths, now white instead of black, took a sharp turn and began to pick up speed. They descended into dark space, one after another, left no trace of what just happened, and certainly not what is about to undergo.

The Wraith Fighters vanished, completely.

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