"President Liberty," an aid said to the aging journalist turned politician, "A mister Darkelyn is requesting a meeting."

Daniel blinked twice and gulped, "Show him into my office immediately."

She nodded and headed down to the lobby as Daniel Liberty headed to his office with a part of him worried about what this was about.

He already was having a bad day, Jimmy had contacted him about the seemingly complete destruction of the Twenty-First fleet, not to mention Admiral Alexander mentioninf a new convoy of homeless refugees already dealing with the new hostiles.

"Mike," he heard the familiar voice say and he turned to see the scout entering from the far entrance to his office, "One of my probes found something."

"Well," the Republic president responded as both men sat in the plush chairs, "What is it?"

"You know Mike," Javen Darkelyn, "You've come up in the world since we first met."

"I've come a long way in the world since I was a struggling reporter against the Confeds," came the response, "You don't seem that much different though."

"We all have our secrets," came the response with a smirk, "But back on topic, I found some information about how Azrael got so powerful."

"What do you mean?"

"I had one of my caches computers working on decoding the ghost files the RI uncovered from the facility that trained him," Javen said with a grimace, "I tracked down his family, the listed parents don't exist, he was an orphan, but that is when it gets really wierd.

The man paused for a moment before continuing.

"The man running the facility was a Doctor Lucas Rumm."

"You mean as in..."

"Not quite, he's the older brother of Major Rumm, the bastard who trained Kerrigan," Javen interrupted, "And he was even less ethical than his brother, the man also had a connection to Alan Schezar and liked playing god with genetics."

"So the Vladimir family never existed?"

"Yes, but you missed the comment about Schezar, you see Kerrigan wasn't the first human hybrid to exist, Azrael was the first, though he wasn't part Zerg," came the response as realization crossed Liberty's lips, "Doctor Rumm made him a Human/Protoss hybrid."

"My god," Daniel whispered, "So that's why he was so strong."

"That's not the half of it, his human parts, while the majority, come from a spliced mixture of dozens of different Ghosts," continued the spook, "He wanted a perfect psion, one who had nearly unlimited power, unfortunately Azrael manifested his power in public."

"And got forced into one of the Confed Ghost training facilities."

"Yes, but it didn't end there, he'd gotten his hands on some of Kerrigans DNA after she became the Queen of Blades," the other continued.

"He didnn't," whispered Liberty as he stood up and walked to the window and brushed back his thinning hair, "Please tell me he didn't."

"The bastard compared the DNA to an illegal sample he got from his brother and added both sequences into a sample from Az and grew something that could best be considered to be Azrael's son."

"Have you told this to James yet?"

"No I came here first because there's more," sighed Javen Darkelyn, "The child attracted a small Zerg brood to him when Tassadar sacrificed himself to kill the Overmind, Doctor Rumm lost control of the child and recorded more, the creature seems to be a more megomaniacal than his mother, he declared himself a god and found a race of machines he could easily convince of his divinity."

"How could anyone related to Azrael act like that?"

"You said the same sort of thing when we discovered Sarah after her transformation," came the response, "The Doctors last statement on the logs before he was terminated by the boy stated that he'd declared war on all life but his own and his followers, he's created a bunch of zealots out to kill everything but those he deems worthy."

"So if nothing else the Zerg are back?"

"You always knew they would be, and they have evolved into something much worse, and their new leader, named Iblis, has a race of unwitting pawns who have never seen his true face.

"Anything else I sould be aware of?"

"The Doctor referred to the machines as Cylons..."

"We're already fighting them," Liberty whispered, "I'll inform Jimmy."

"I know, and the Rangers are getting involved as well," Javen said as he turned to leave before turning once more for a moment, "Iblis has another name, like his father did, he's taken the codename Lucifer."

And then the Ranger was gone.

"I really need a drink," Daniel Liberty muttered to himself as he closed the blinds and sat back down to read the reports.

Wolf smirked slightly as he perched atop a rooftop on Caprica with his canister rifle braced and ready. Colonal Bren had given him permission to start the hostilities as recent communications with command had stated that these machines had already struck at several Republic forces.

He flicked the selector switch on his weapon and heard a familiar voice from the communications array.

"Nuclear Launch Detected.

AN: I've tied another thread into this and more plots to be unraveled. Liberty has some prominance in this chapter and several things are somewhat explained in it. Took me forever to get this chapter written, I also tied more about Azrael into this.

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darkfinder: The several threads of this story are ones that tie togather to work more out. One of the mysterious figures is explained. I'm tying several of the threads togather.

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The Sithspawn: This chapter introduces a bit of the Zerg into this fic.