"Well... that... um... I... I... bu..bu...wha.. never mind." Matt said as he tried to comprehend what Raynor had just told him.
Little kid's coloring book made into a TV show made into... some fantasy world setting... thing? That totally made sense. For a good portion of the time, Matt would be wondering if the crash hit Jim really hard to the point he had begun to hallucinate things. His story was just... so...
Matt was lost for words. He just couldn't describe what he wanted to say verbally, and perhaps, mentally, his brains would probably be turned inside out as he began to think about everything Jim had told him. From the mercanary that called himself "Deathstroke" to the crazy doctor that somehow was living about 500 years in the past yet had medical technologies that were on par, if not superior to the ones they had at their current given date.
What really caught his attention however, were the so-called "elements of harmony". The pair had seen more than their fair share of Protoss Khaydarin crystals but... this seemed to be a little bit something else. Magic... hmmm...
Magic. Was it truly magic? Or just some glorified versions of psionic powers that were dime a dozen in the 26th century within the galaxy? Natrually... when a witch had been involved in Jim's story... and they were discussing about "magic" and "psionic abilities" the conversation would turn to Sanya.
"So... how old was she again?"
"Twelve... or thirteen... I can't remember. But too damn young to be fighting. And you know what scares me? She's been doing it for a while too now. Same goes for her companions, not a single one of them is older than twenty. That's... that's just messed up. Child soldiers? Used to fight ALIENS?!"
"That... that sounds terrible..." Matt commented. "But you know... if we look at it another way Jim, there might be a reason for that... now I am not justifying anything here but..."
"I know... I know... and when I look at it another way... it makes sense. Apparently only people under the age of twenty have their abilities." He said as he sat down, looking at the ground. "And we thought Korprulu was an awful place."
"Maybe one day... how you managed to get there, we can go in and help?" Matt asked.
"Maybe." Jim said as he took a drink of his coffee. "But the thing is Matt, I got this huge gut feeling... that this all isn't over."
"What do you mean?"
"You believe what I've been telling you? I wouldn't blame you if you didn't. I probably told you some pretty crazy things."
"I do believe you...." Horner said slowly, really unsure of what to make of what Jim ha dbeen telling him. Either he'd been hit REALLY hard on the head or something. Something about what Jim was telling him just... just seemed almost too crazy to be false. The above sentence probably would have made no sense to Matt if he had said it to himself yesterday.
"But... what do you mean by this not being over?" Matt asked as he thought of what Raynor had said.
"Something tells me... just this gut feeling... that I didn't end up there by coincidence..." Raynor said. He wouldn't get to finish his train of thought as the alarms began to blare from all corners of the Hyperion.
Zerg.
[Gravel pits of dustbowl, U.S.A]
"Mornin, Doc." A Texan said as he entered the Medic's laboratory. "Whatcha doing here now?"
"Research Engineer! Research! A breakthrough in SCIENCE!" The German replied as he fiddled around with many colorful fluids within the flasks and test tubes of his laboratory. Many unlucky lab rats would be on the receiving ends of these chemicals. Above him, perched upon the lamp were dozens of doves that watched as the crazed doctor mixed and heated chemicals, chuckling and muttering to himself as he looked over a massive, aged book that looked thick enough and heavy enough for him to bludgeon someone to death with.
"What kind of breakthrough doc?"
"A new Medi-gun! Longer ubers! Faster healing!" Medic cackled as he seized Engineer by the collar. "Do you know vhat this means Engineer?! We could have ze power of ze gods right here with us! I am a genius!"
"Well... that's mighty sweet doc." Engineer said as he took a quite glance at Medic's notes. Wat....
"Ja! It is... Engie... I tink I may need your help."
"Well... okay doc. Just tell me what we're working on." Engineer said as Medic gave him a fairly brief explanation to what he was experimenting on.
[About two hours later]
"Vell... I guess ve did enough." Medic said as he took a look at the results that included a fire in the sink, several broken bottles, acid on one of the counters, a huge mess on the floor and... of course, a new device that allowed the medi-gun to bring someone back from the dead... a work of gods truly.
"Alright... I am going to take this down and test it." Medic said as he grabbed the device and left the lab, leaving engineer within the mess of a room.
"Well... okay." Engie said as he sat down. Something caught his eye.... besides from the massive... textbook? That medic had been using, it was something else. Looked like a journal or diary of some kind. Along with that were three blood bags. Only one of them actually had blood however. Said bag was labeled.
Litvyak
The other two bags were labeled, both of which had been empty.
Wilson
Rogers
Grabbing the journal, Engineer flipped through it.
You can kind of imagine his reaction when it talked nothing about magical ponies, Equestria, dragons, an eighty year old master assassin, an one hundred year old master soldier, a guy from five hundred years in the future, a witch with cat ears and tail and some boy from back then where he would have to put up with man-eating giants.
Maybe Medic was even crazier than they all initially thought him to be. The thing that really caught the attention of the Texan however, was the mention that all the things they had been experimenting with from the past hours, had come from this land of magical ponies known as "Equestria".
Okay?
But what else was... that the bag labeled "Litvyak" apparently contained the blood of a witch...
Okay. So was Medic now practicing the occult now? And...
Without warning. The alarm bells within the base rang.
It was Soldier's roommate.
Merasmus...
Who was a wizard...
And I think we can all guess what he was looking for....
