Dark Mind: characters Starcraft by TKHM Dark Mind: characters Disclaimer: Starcraft belongs to Blizzard Entertainment. Don't sue me please! ============================================================================= Ths followings are starcraft characters which I made up and post on a web page that is currently inactive (http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/starcraft9/) This short stories describes my characters, and I will write a formal fanfic for this if I have the time. You see most of my other fanfics are still in infancy stage. Warning: Some profanities involved. And these writings are my worst. I hope when I actually write a story to continue this, it would be better. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terran/Thomas Kerrgan: 8.8 (rating on homepage I posted/scale 1-10) Thomas was actually Sarah Kerrigan's long lost brother. When the Zergs captured their parents, and Sarah, he escaped by jumping off a cliff, and thus was believed to be dead. Then he joined the Confederacy and with his psionic abilities, which was genetic, he became a common ghost. During a battle with the Zergs on Taronis, he was ordered to destroy a Zerg Hive with a nuke with 5 other ghosts, after cloaking and sneaking into the Zerg base, they set up a place for the nuke. But when they were waiting for the nuke, an Overlord spotted them and soon the whole army of hydralisks were upon them. They wished to run away from the Overlord's sight, but the nuke was not there yet. Thomas, who set up the nuke, must stay in the place and the other ghosts must protect him. So they were stuck there for the hydralisks...... 20 seconds after, which seemed to be eternity to Thomas, the hydralisks cut down all his teammates and was coming towards him. All he could do was prayed, then all went black for his world. The nuke had arrived, and destroyed the Hive alongside the hydralisks, but Thomas was too closed to the explosion that he was severe damaged mentally and physically. Forturnately, a dropship arrived, picked him up, and put him to the hospital where he recovered, amazingly, in 3 days! The radioactived chemicals had given him the ability to create ionic blasts that does 300 splash damage(with 75 energy), to generate some kind of shield like the protoss (400 shield), to regenerate quickly like a Zerg, and the ability to detect cloaked objects with bare eyes.......all with the costs of greenish vision and epilepsy. Even though he quickly became the Confederacy's priced weapon, he never gave up searching for his family. Then one day, someone told him that his parents were killed and his sister had joined the rebels. He tried to reach out to his sister with his newfound powers, but failed. Upon learning the Confederacy saw him only as a weapon, not a human, he brought a group a army that was loyal to him and broke off the government. So, to this day, the Dominion never knew such aperson existed. Thomas Kerrigan soon learned his sister's fate and he vowed to save her, and seek revenge against the Zergs that had left him nothing. He used abandoned his old rifle and made a laser gun that does 50 damage with bonus, and he made a level 3 armor for himself, also, learning from his disaster with the nuke, he made a remote controlled nuclear bomb setter so he could get out of the place after setting a nuke. HP: 400 (with regenerating ability) Shield: 400 Level 3 armor laser gun: 50 damage with bonus ionic blast: takes 75 energy and deals 300 splash damage remote nuke: 500 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terran/Christine Dawson: 9.3 18 yrs old Christine Dawson was in an UED dropship, which was going straight for the currently insecured area of the Terran world. She had been trained since the age of 10 to be what she was now, a medic. This was UED's 1st attempt to send people to the Dominion world, and this particular dropship was filled with data collectors and of course Christine for medication. The jump, fortunately, didn't altered her physically appearance. She was one of the youngest Medic to be sent on a mission, and she was determined to prove herself worthy of the job. She never got the chance. A lone scourage which was patroling crashed into the dropship. Its occupants screamed in horror while the dropship began to dive nose first into the solid land that was getting nearer and nearer....... Blackness. Christine opened her eyes, and found herself in the middle of a desert. She blinked back the tears that was forming in her eyes as she saw the debris of her dropship. She was the only survivor. She painfully willed her limbs to function, stood up, and began to head for a random direction. It had been 4 days since she started her wandering. She knew she was going to die if she didn't find water soon. Her vision began to blur, and she collasped. She tried to stand back up, but couldn't and, thus, she waited for her death. Then she heard voices. "Hey, look here Harley." "What?" "We got a girl over here." "You are kidding me Tom, it's a friggin desert out here....Holy cow it IS a girl." Christine was only dimly aware of her surroundings as her saviors put her in a dropship, which in turn delivered her to a hospital. _____________________________________________________________________________________ It had been 4 yrs since her arrival to the Terran world. She had been saved by two ghosts: Thomas Kerrigan and Harley Swift. She was quickly made a Confederate Lieutenant since she was the only medic around. She would go to the battlefield and heal people. It was a tiresome work, but she was grateful as her skill was used. Sometimes she would wonder if she's a traitor for leaving the UED, but else what could she do? Both her saviors were good people. Harley was also so full of life.* He would go around chasing girls all over the place.* thought Christine as she giggled slightly. Harley had asked her out 3 times already, but she liked someone else, her other savior, Thomas Kerrigan. Everytime she looked at him, he would have a somewhat sad expression on his face. One day, she gathered up her courage and asked Thomas why he's always so sad Thomas looked at her strangely, sighed, and began to told her how his family was literally destroyed by the Zerg. He told her how his parent were killed and how his sister joined the rebel forces and eventually got captured by the Zerg. She cried softly as he talked, she was emotionally touched. One week later Thomas Kerrigan was ordered to nuke a Zerg Hive. Harley wanted to join the 'excitement' as he called it but he was still recovering from a recent wound he got on his left arm. Thomas bid her farewell and left with his fellow ghosts. 5 hours passed without any news from the group. A rescuing party was formed and of course Christine was in there. They arrived at the scene and her heart sunk as she saw bits of human flesh all over the place. Then, she found him. He was lying in his own blood puddle. He looked more dead than alive with all his burns and cuts. His arm was twisted in an unusual angle and it was barely attached to the torso. She fought back the urge to vomit and she carefully put him on the dropship, she was a medic afterall. Just then a SWARM of zerg came matching in. Everyone quickly boarded the dropship, but they saw they didn't have enough time, the swarm was upon them. Christine got off the dropship and told the others to run. "how about you? Lieutenant." "I will hold them back, now GO!" The crews obeyed their higher authority and drove the dropship away. She waited for the swarm to get near her. "For my love," she whispered. She triggered her 'Ultiminate Flare' and watch in fascination as the Zerg began to be disintergrated. She felt her body burning, but that was expected. She looked up at the dropship. It was at a safe distance away now. She lay on the ground and waited for the end as a lone zergling approached her now broken body. ________________________________________________________________________________ Lieutenant Dawson had a automatic pistol that dealed 20 damage per shot with the rate of a Marine's machine gun. She never used it though I wondered why. She had 3 special abilities, the uaual optic flare and heal, and the 'Ultimate Flare' that works like a nuke, but will not damage Team units, allied units were screwed if they were too close. Anyway it would drain all her energy/mp and leave her with 1hp. She has 400 hp and 3 armors with bonus of 2 for both weapon and armor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terran/Harley Swift: 9.2 Harley was annoyed. Because of his wound on the left arm, he was forced to stay in the hospital. He wondered what happened to Thomas Kerrigan since his friend never visited him since his last mission. But when he asked where was his friend, people would avoid the question and changed the subject. Harley suspected that something really bad had happened. One day, he decided he had enough, and he grabbed with his good arm a doctor who was checking his wound. He threatened to break his neck if he didn't tell him the truth. The frightened doctor quickly poured out the whole story. Thomas Kerrigan never returned to the base so Christine Dawson (cool huh? too first names stuck together is a full name.) went to rescue him with her crews. They got Thomas back, but Christine sacrificed her life for it. "So, are you saying Christine is DEAD?!?" Harley started shaking the poor doctor "Um, you see" the doctor said, "We don't really know. She's...um...missing in action." Harley hid his depression and asked another question. "What happened to Tom then?" "He left you this." the doctor handed him an envelope. Harley quickly opened it and read the note. Harley, This is Tom. I have no reason to stay in here anymore. The Confederacy thinks of me as some kind of secret weapon, not a human. And I am probably a monster to you now. A monster.......... Harley couldn't read on. He tore the note up. "Damn you Tom! We still care for you!" he yelled at the top of his lung. Thomas didn't know Christine's missing in action because of him, Harley realized. In a matter of days he had lost two close friends. __________________________________________________________________________ Flashback: A 12 yrs old Harley was in a covert 'ghost' training center. He watched at the officials brought in a boy around his age. He approached him and said 'Hi' to him. "Go away." The boy simply replied. Harley fought down the urge to smack him on the nose when he noticed something strange about the boy. It took a second before he realized the boy was in a deep depression. Harley held up his hand to offer a hand shake. "Hi, I am Harley Swift. What's your name?" Thomas stared at the hand for a moment, as in expecting zerglings to pop out. Then he held up his own hand and they shake hands. "Thomas," he paused. "Thomas Kerrigan. Nice to meet you." __________________________________________________________________________________ 16 yrs old Harley was very excited. Today was his and his friend's first real battle. It was fun, until Thomas stared over his shoulders wide eyes. "Harley! Watch out!" Harley spun around a saw a zergling behind him with it's claws crashing down to him. It was too fast, Harley couldn't possible avoid the claws in time. He raised his arms over his head as if they could protect him Time slowed as Thomas pushed Harley out of the way, and the the claws ripped into Thomas's waist. Thomas screamed in pain and sunk to the ground. "Tom! CLOAK!" Harley yelled as he cloaked himself. Tom painfully did the same. The zergling, not seeing them, got shot into submission by Harley's rifle. "Tom! Tom! Are you okay?" Thomas nodded weakly and fainted. "TOM!!" ________________________________________________________________ 23 yrs old Harley was now a ghost veteran with his friend Thomas. They were sent to a scouting mission to look for zerg forces. "They just need to send us to a desert don't they?" Harley asked, irritated. "Yeah." Thomas replied. "Well, nothing strange in here, so we should go back now." "Finally....." Harley mumbled. Just then Thomas spotted something. He walked closer to get a look. A girl. A girl was lying unconsious in the middle of the desert. He called Harley over and together they put her into a dropship. Harley couldn't help noticing how beautiful the unconsious girl was. Thomas caught his eyes and playfully hit his back. "She's beautiful isn't she?"Thomas asked. "Yeah." Harley replied. "Too bad Harley, you're way too old." "Hey! You are even older than me!" Thomas just chuckled and the two friends got on the dropship. Something dropped from the girl's armor. It was an ID card, it reads: Christine Dawson, 1st Lieutenant of UED, Medic. ___________________________________________________________________________ Two years later, Harley gathered up his courage and asked the girl on a date, for the third time. And this time, unlike the previous two, she accepted! Heaven must be smiling upon him, he looked up, and saw a battle-cruiser. Harley took her to a nice restaurant for dinner. He was dressed in a neat suit, unlike his usual casual T-shirt and jeans. And Christine was dressed in a straight, elegant black dress. She was gorgeous. He had to constantly kick himself mentally to prevent the mind from wandering into some inappropiate thoughts. After they had dinner, Christine smiled at him. He smiled back. Then her face turned serious. "Harley, I have something to tell you." "Hmm?" Harley didn't notice Christine's facial expression. "You see, the reason I go out with you today is to tell you the truth." Harley froze. And Christine continued her speech. "I...I.. love...someone else." She lowered her head. "I'm sorry." Harley's world turned upside down. Tears began to roll down his face as he continued to stare at her wideeyed. She noticed the tears and she quickly grabbed his hands into her own. "Don't cry Harley. You are a man remember?" Christine gave him a sad smile. "Besides, you will always be my best friend." Best friends. That's it. Nothing more. Harley took out the tickets of the movie he had planned. "Want to watch a movie before this last date ends?" Harley asked. She nodded. They went for a movie, and it was a date movie. But both of them watched in silence while they let their depressions overwhelm them. _____________________________________________________________________________ After the disastrous date, Harley spent his limited free time working on a weapon he had made for himself Thomas and Christine looked worrily as Harley was simply obsessed with his creation. Luckily, it only took him half a year to finish the final testing of the weapon. And Harley slowly recovered from the date. ______________________________________________________________________________ Harley was back in his hospital bed. Damnit, if he didn't got injured, he could go along his friend and this would never happen! Just then the doctor finished his check on his wound. "Mr. Swift. Your wound is healed now. You may check out from the hospital anytime you want." Ten minutes later Harley walked out of the hospital in his cloak suit and his insanely long barrel particle beam rifle. He was alone, the first time in 15 years. _________________________________________________________________________________ Ghost unit Harley Swift's weapon is a particle beam rifle, which deals 150 SPLASH damage like the reavers (hurt ally units, not team units) But the weapon needed to cool down after the burst or it would explode, so the firing rate is roughly the same as a sieged tank. He could shoot at air units though. Also, he had perfected the skill of lockdown and could lock down ALL units in an area as big as a stasis field. It drains 200 of his energy though Also, he NEEDS energy to cloak. 400 HP 250 MP like ALL units 3 build-in armor 150 air/ground damage with bonus of 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zerg/Ultraspit: 8.3 It's a pleasant night. Thomas Kerrigan was asleep in his command center, just like most people in his detachment base. The base was well secured, with siege tanks and bunkers and turrents with a Science Vessel patroling around the base. Some SCV were rebuilding the razed buildings caused by the last Zerg attack. It was peaceful, TOO peaceful. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Infested Kerrigan was pleased, VERY pleased. At last, the swarm's ultimate weapon was born. "My slave, your name is UltraSpit, you shall be the finest of my servants. And the leader of the Invincadrones." "Ueh Idk Kikd ee Ie (eh? what? I am just a drone!)" "not anymore.....not anymore...." Flashback : a defiler plagued the drone, then the celebrate ordered it to morph into a creep colony but told it to morph back into a drone right after he started. "You shall attack the terran base 3 miles to the south, now, go" There was no point arguing with the Queen of blades so it obeyed. _________________________________________________________________ Thomas Kerrigan woke up at the terrified cries of his men. He quickly grabbed his trusty laser gun, cloaked, and ran to the source of the screams. He arrived at the scene and saw nothing but dust flying around from the bombardment of the human weapons, so he concentrated a bit to see through the dust. A marine next to him "eeped" as he saw the commander's eyes flashed a bright green light. What Thomas saw puzzled him, as he realized all the siege tanks, bunkers, marine...etc were all firing at......a zerg drone? Then he saw the drone spit at a marine, killing him, and started to move toward Thomas. Thomas raised his laser gun and fired.....the laser beam sliced cleanly through the drone, but it kept advancing. Thomas shot 3 more times, not doing any good. He glanced at his laser gun, and thought,"may be it's not working." so he aimed it at a missule turrent and shot 3 times, blowing it into pieces (50 damage per hit) . He focused back on the drone before him and realized the drone was only 4 yard from him, so he back away a little bit, right before all the stupid siege tanks fired in synchronization and splash-destroyed a starport and the marine right next to him. "Hurry, call HELP! WE NEED TO EVAC NOW!" Thomas commanded his crews. Just as dozen Invincadrones entered for battlefield, which in turn was followed by lots of hydralisks "WHERE ARE THE DROPSHIPS?!?!?!?" "Uh, we don't have them remember? You said they are too slow and crappy and expensive." ................. ___________________________________________ "Captain Raynor," the computer called."we receive a first-priority distress call from someone on Char." *WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE TO RESCUE SOMEONE? FIRST DUKE, THEN THIS...*Raynor thought,*And right after we defeated the Overmind too, don't we deserve a rest?* "Replay it." "Anyone who receive this.....help! We are hit hard by the zerg...we need some dropships for EVAC!..." "Who's that?" "He didn't reveal his name so he's anonymous." "Great. We have to rescue an anonymous idiot who doesn't build dropships. Let get this over with." Raynor then prepared 10 dropships and sent them with some wraiths and his battle cruiser. ____________________________________________ Thomas looked at the sky, and finally, the DROPSHIPS! "Hurry! Evac! Everyone into the dropships!" All the surviving LAND crews (The air ones were long gone by then) ran for the dropships, but a shockwave hit 5 marines and 2 siege tanks, and they turned around and started shooting at UltraSpit. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!?!? GET IN THERE!" No response. Little did Thomas know that those units were under the infamous 'AI attracting Shockwave' and will not do anything but shoot at it. The hydralisks just walk in the slice them apart. Thomas saw the hydralisks coming, and quickly boarded the nearest dropship and the air force flew away before the hydralisks finish them up. ____________________________________________ Captain Raynor came to greet the rescued hero. "Hello, this is Captain Raynor....." "CAPTAIN RAYNOR?!?" "Yes this is Captain Ray...." "YOU!!! You and your stupid Sons of Kordal left her with the Zergs! YOU BASTARDS!!!!!" "Are you referring to Sarah Kerrigan?" Raynor asked, saddened as he remembered Kerrigan's speech right before her capture. Flashback: "Jim, drop the knight in shinning armor routine...........I don't need to be rescued." She had said. "Who are you?" Raynor asked the ghost before him. Thomas was suddenly under his epilepsy seizure and dropped to the ground. Raynor looked closer, found an ID card, and read out aloud. "Thomas Kerrigan. ghost unit of the Confederate. Rank: none........KERRIGAN?" Raynor's troop continued to fly to the zerg hive cluster in Char. Raynor sweared he would rescue Sarah in the oncoming brood war. But, as we know, it would take the hand of God "blizzard" to patch the bug so no invincadrones would be maded. But until then, the immortal drones were gods. The invincadrones and Ultraspit are IDENTICAL to the normal drones except the fact that they have 0 hp and can't be killed by anything except spawn brooding, but since zerg would never fight against zerg that would not happen. (unlike Terran) They do 5 normal ground damage. Ultraspit, being the leader, has a spell though, it can cast the 'AI attracting Shockwave' which would cause all the enemy units/buildings in the area to shoot at it only. It works best with him shocking the enemy and the other members of the troop came in for the kill (muta, hydra, guardian) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terran/Henry Mckinny: 8.8 (I got some name problem here, but I fixed it.) Henry came out of his Barrack, the training hall which had imprisoned him for the last few years. Today would be the day of glory. Today would be his first day in battle. He glanced around and saw a ghost unit talking to two other people. He overhearded their conversation after stretching his neck and sneaking as close as he could. The three people were sitted and seemed to have just finished their lunch. "Harley, what's that in your arms?" Ghost A said. "It's my new weapon." "Oh." The girl in some kind of armor spoke. "Good luck Harley." "Hey! It's not like I am going to die or something, I've been gone to more than 50 missions....right Christine?." "Well.....It's hard to explain. But I have a feeling that it might.....it might......." the girl paused. "Oh SHIT look at the time I am suppose to go now." Harley hurried off before she could finish. Ghost A said good bye and walked away. The girl look back and forth between the two retreating figures, and finished her sentence in a low whisper. Henry could barely hear it. "It might be the last time all three of us have a pleasant meal together......" Henry regarded that remark as superstitious and moved to his group's rallying place. As he walked he realized he never once looked at her face. __________________________________________________________________________________- Henry's eyes bulched out as he realized that it would be 'Harley' leading them to battle. Harley was so busy checking his weapon to notice him though. They matched into a forest to find zergs to destroy. Henry looked at his fellow marines and started a conversation with them. "You big guys scared?" "We scared? Hell no." "Ok." Henry paused for a second before saying."It's so great to be in war. It's so much like the medieval heroes fighting demons and dragons and stuff." "Yea. We will get glory all right." Henry noticed Harley was looked at him with a 'you don't know a thing' look. He decided to ignore it. _____________________________________________________________________ They marched for another 30 minutes before reaching a lake. After partroling around the lake for a while, Harley ordered the troops to march back. "So much for a glorious first battle." Henry thought. Fortunately/unfortunately, he got his wish! 40 Hydralisks popped up from the ground suddenly and started spitting green liquid at the men. "Well we got 40 people so this is a fair fight....."he dropped this thought as he realized marines can't match hydras in even numbers. He quickly started unloading his bullets on the hydras, but not doing any good. He tried Stim Pack, and managed to kill 2 hydras. Then, from his left side a red beam shot through and punched through 3 hydralisks before hitting a group of hydra caused an explosion. When the smoke cleared he saw 4 dead hydralisks. *Wow, 7 hydralisks dead in one shot.* Henry thought. He looked at the ghost veteran, expecting him to blow the other 31 into little molecules when he realized the long barrel gun had smoke coming out of it and Harley was busy trying to cool it down. The 31 hydralisks are not stupid enough to wait for another blast. All of them went for Harley. Harley raised his weapon and 6 more hydralisks rested in peace. The hydralisks surrounded the ghost, which quickly cloaked, but an overlord was there. Harley was really busy trying to take minimal damage from the mob and cool the weapon down at the same time. He was hurt, Henry realized. Harley's left arm was tangling useless on his side. A scream turned Henry's attention back to his fellow men. Another marine was killed by some acid on his face. He saw the marines shooting, yelling, and cursing while they began to get mowed down. The whole place was surrounded with cries, shrieks, screams, machine gun sounds, spitting sounds........Something was awaken in Henry's mind, the savage nature that was inherited in human for thousands of years. He couldn't sense direction, his location, and his mind while he let out a scream and started beating back the enemy. The enemy! Yes! The enemy! He needed to kill them kill them kill them! Now! Now! All he could see now was the enemy. The ENEMY!!!!! Something knocked him out of his 'battle sleep'. An arm. A bloody human arm got sliced off and flew into him. He looked at his clothes, it was covered with blood. Human blood. *War,* Henry realized. *is not hero's tales. War is hell.* Some acid on his right side cut him off. It was painful. He panicked and ran for his dear life in a random direction, leaving Harley and the marines fighting off the hydralisks. Harley Swift was the only survivor in the battle, besides the 'missing in action' Henry McKinny. left arm was severely injured by the acid of the hydralisks. This injury eventually prevented him from helping Thomas Kerrigan in his nuking mission. And the rest is history. ___________________________________________________________________________- Henry didn't know where he was going, he ran as fast as he could before he was too tired. He found a cave and decided it was a good place to sleep. He was sound asleep in it seconds later. He woke up and tried his communication kit to contact the base, but failed. He was lost in a forest. He lived by fruits he picked from trees. (Not very smart move but he's hungry). His arm was swelling and hurting but he could do nothing about it except waiting for it to go away. *Shit!* he thought as he bented over in pain. He felt like somebody had stabbed his stomach with a sword. *This fruit is poisonous!* Blackness overwhelmed him. He opened his eyes and looked around him. He's still in the same cave so he's still alive. He looked at his arm and saw it was bandaged up. He scratched his head in confusion until a voice greeted him. "Hello." It was a female voice. "Um, hi" Henry answered. He looked at the young woman in front of him. *The voice sounds so familiar...* "Who are you?" Henry asked. "I....I don't know......" she replied. "I woke up and found myself in the middle of nowhere." "You lost your memory?" Henry suddenly became unusually bright. "y.....yes." The young woman stammered. Henry looked at the woman more carefully and realized she's really beautiful. She caught him staring and frowned. Henry quickly changed the subject. "So you fixed me up?" "Yes." "but you lost your memory...." "I remember my life up to the point I boarded a.....a...." The woman paused."a dropship. I got on a dropship." "But you said you don't know your name." "I don't know my name then okay?"The woman replied angrily, "stop double-crossing me!!" "Okay okay, calm down. Where do you live?" "Why.....Earth of course!" Henry nearly choked at that. They continued their conversation for a while longer before turning in. ___________________________________________________________________________ Private Henry Mckinny as the followings: 200hp 18 damage machine gun 3 layers of armor bonus for armor/weapon = 2 He had the typical stim pack and when too much infantry in his own troop was killed around him, he would go berserk and would be invulnerable for 1 minute, after he calmed down he would not be willing to fight for the next one hour. (No attack option) He would be too busy thinking how human lives were low in value. Who cares if his comrades are dying left and right beside him? =) =========================================================================== End of Character mini-stories. Pathetic huh? They were written earlier in my life so spare me the flames.