Here it is…The fourth chapter...Quite late isn't it?
I am very sorry for the delay, I have been quite busy, first anniversaries in the family, Christmas, the New year's,9gag, Work, Family troubles,9gag then laziness…All of this combined is not a good thing to keep writing.
Furthermore, must say that I didn't really been very nice to my Beta Reader, gaara king of the sand ,I contacted him only last week for the updates, without taking the time to talk about of the story with him. Which isn't very…nice.
So, he still had corrected this story and it is now readable.
And the chapters are now becoming longer, it was one of the first thing that has been mentioned to me that they were too short.
I hope that you will enjoy it, just like you enjoyed the previous chapters
So here we are...
The sacred oath, chapter 4: New fight, news allies.
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Former Quarian Shipyard Tiy delaziyaa
Now belonging to the United Nations Space Command (UNSC)
Near the planet Arh-h458
"A little more to the left Chief …And-That's good, you can turn off the blowtorch and put it away now."
"Understood." He did what instructed, and put the tool in a toolbox that was lying beside him.
It has been four days since they took control of the shipyard and they did manage to do some good work on it. They had been able to restore pressure in almost every part of the station, and to repair all of the main systems, which gave to Cortana 98% of control, leaving only the unrepaired places out of control.
And just as Cortana predicted, the takeover to the station allowed them to gain a great flexibility. After docking the Dawn, Cortana began to use the maintenance drones to repair the ship. The station, by luck seemed to possess a good stock of Titanium, Cortana using machines and others metals from the station supply manage to create Titanium-A, which composed the armor plates used by all of the ship belonging to the UNSC. But even if they were lucky to have found those resources, it wouldn't be enough to restore this ship in its full integrity.
When they were cut down by the portal they had 61% of the ship left with them, and with the station local supply they should be able to put it to 76% or 78%.And additionally, of the repairs, Cortana continued to send probe to spy on the Galactic community.
This allowed them to keep an eye on potential enemies, while the repairing is still underway. They were after all in a delicate situation.
If a group with hostile intention found them, they had almost no way to fight back.117 had begun to check on their weapon and ammunition stock, and was pleased to see that even if they couldn't fight in space, they could still show their power on the ground.
The Forward unto Dawn had been over-packed with every weapon and their ammo that the UNSC could find in preparation of the Ark assault, and even if the human ground force did take a part of it, they still had enough of guns to form a battalion.
The best fact about the Forward unto Dawn, is a Charon-class light frigate, a type of frigate designed to deploy and support troops rather than fleet support.
Furthermore, before leaving Earth for the fight, the Elites and the Humans, in a show of good will for their newly formed alliance preceded to an exchange of weapons, giving to the betrayed aliens humans firearms while that the UNSC received quite a package of plasma weapons.
And a majority of these were still in the Dawn.
And it is without forgetting weapons that were stocked into the shipyard armory, and once restored, it would be about 300 mass-effect guns ready for use.
And even if they were about three hundred year's old's they could still be in use for study or battle.
As Chief began to walk toward the space station canteen to eat some of the UNSC rations, he couldn't help but worry about Cortana, feeling that she was actually hiding something to him, which wasn't like her.
When she wasn't busy repairing the station and the warship she kept sending probes to gain knowledge on this galaxy.
But two days ago, when one of the probes came back with a new package of data, right after she began to analyze this began to act strangely about her finding.
Something about: Reapers, Shepard, Alliance and destructions.
This wasn't really reassuring to him.
He didn't ask Cortana about as he trusted her, and knew that if it was really important that she would tell him about it.
So, it's with a determined pace that he got ready to eat some wonderful military rations.
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Cortana didn't know what to do after gaining those information's.
At first, she just wanted to know more about mankind gaining its seat on the Citadel Council and quickly learned of the reason for it.
It was Humanity quick action against a super Geth dreadnought that had launched a massive attack on the Citadel.
As the Flagship of the Citadel, the Destiny Ascension was heavily damaged by the Geths forces, the Alliance fleet choose to fight and protect the giant ship even though they got much causality, resulting in the saving of the three councilors and of ten thousand galactic citizens.
Then finally, the main ship of the Geth has been destroyed by the remaining galactic and alliance force, securing the victory for the Council and its allies.
And all of this wouldn't have been possible without a certain person, a human…
A woman with a will of steel, a passion for victory and a thirst for Justice…
The woman name was: Jane Shepard…Commander in the System Alliance Military and the first human to become a Specter, the arm of the Citadel Council.
Cortana was happy by learning that, she firstly thought that all humans of this galaxy were just push-overs but this damn soldier certainly proved her wrong. She, alongside a team composed of aliens has been able to show of what humanity was capable of (and the fact that a girl did it certainly made her a little happier about that).
But in the commander report, she mentioned that the Dreadnought was not Geth made but was in fact a giant-space robot who wanted to kill every sentient being in the galaxy by calling his buddy over! (Her own word in the report.)
Thankfully, she did write a more accurate report with all of her discoveries listed in from the beginning.
From the beacon found on Eden Prime and the fate of the Protheans and of the thousands of species before them. The Reapers and their cycles, the Geths being manipulated by those old machines to wage war against the organics and the soon returns of the Reaper.
At the end of the report, the commander asked the Council and every galactic power to abide the treaty of Farixen, and converge each possible resource in a galactic fleet of Dreadnoughts.
However, Shepard never got any answers for this, as she died one month later with the destruction of her ship, the Normandy by an unknown ship.
And with Shepard death, the council stopped its preparation for the upcoming war…A very grave mistake.
Furthermore, it seemed that Mankind had other threat to clears first.
Since months now, many humans' colonies were attacked by an unknown enemy and every of its citizens were abducted. And the System Alliance, as those weren't of its colonies didn't act to defend them, or at least try to relocate them in a more defended area of space.
But, it did seem that the Alliance wasn't the only one caring about the wellbeing of humanity.
A human-survivalist paramilitary group named Cerberus seemed to have taken some actions to protect the colonists and found the missing one.
To Cortana, that a group, labeled as a terrorist one is actually humanity best options was quite depressing.
But, Cerberus and the Alliance weren't humanity only hope anymore…Not since a failed space jumps.
Now, the humans could count on another group to protect them: The UNSC.
Everything in Cortana told her to do everything to protect those humans, even if they weren't from her galaxy, to know that billions of innocents live were in dangers was enough for her.
However, she would never act without the permission of her best friend, John. But she feared that he would refuse. Not that he wanted to see them die or didn't care about them. But because if they were actually fighting the reapers, then their return in their true space would be delayed by a long time.
Which is something that he would certainly not appreciate at all.
But as she would never act without him she needed to ask him…Now.
Cortana holographic form appeared on the panel situated inside the canteen and almost immediately after, John who was actually eating a lemon-flavored vitamin bars, spate it and quickly reached for his helmet who was resting beside him and put it on.
"Cortana!? What's going-"
"Chief! What did I say about paranoia? It's good only when you're at war! Or people find you weird."She mimicked a mom grounding her poor little boy.
"Cortana…"
"Right, right…Chief, I would like to update you on our situation here and…of a new development that occurred."
The Spartan titled his head on the side at confusion to her sentence but didn't do any sign to stop her.
"Well Spartan, you see, I just collected and checked DATA coming from our probes and…We may have to act."
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In a Cerberus facility
Unknown location
Jane Shepard wasn't having a very good day for now.
As soon as she woke, she got shouted at by an angry voice, who told her to grab a gun because her life was in danger.
Jane didn't forget about her thought when she was on the table and woke up. She was dead and now came back to life…Furthermore she remembered too well about choking in her space-suit when she was ejected from her crashing ship after being attacked by an unknown enemy ship.
They weren't agreeable thoughts and so after checking her newly found gun she began to search for an exit.
And what did she get? Killing robots, all over again…Luckily for her, it seemed that her aim and her biotic ability weren't diminished by her long sleep.
And when she finally did find another human being, who had for name Jacob Taylor, he quickly told her about her situation.
Cerberus…She was in a Cerberus station.
But her disbelief quickly disappeared as survival was the most important and with her unexpected ally managed to get into safety.
But that didn't mean that her surprises were over.
As she met Miranda Lawson, the one responsible for her revival, she shoots down one Cerberus scientist turned traitor right before her which did shock Shepard.
Then, while travelling into a super-secret-Cerberus place, she was given a quick psychological and memories check up by her two (for now) allies…Those who were actually working for terrorist and shot down in cold blood a human being were actually giving her a psychological test.
And now she was sitting on a bench in the space station that they landed in, trying to find her mark in this strange place.
She was holding her head with her hands as she thought about what happened to her recently…Well if two whole years can be counted as recently.
First, she dies; Two she wakes up two damn years later; Three she destroys robots and finally Four; she will meet the Leader of the terrorist organization Cerberus, who rebuilt her: The Illusive Man.
He was the most wanted human in the whole galaxy; a prime of forty millions of Credits was given for the location of his operating base. He was the leader of one of the most feared organization in the whole galaxy and didn't hesitate to annihilate his enemy.
And that guy did pay to rebuild her?
She never really has been on a mission against Cerberus, but she did have killed a few of his guys and put down a few of their experiments. Which mean that normally he shouldn't really like her…So why?
She thought back of her travel toward this station, Miranda has mentioned that Humanity was under attack.
"I do really hope that this is not what I think…. The reapers!"
Jane tried to convince herself that after Sovereign, the Galactic Government took the necessary measure against this threat…But doubt existed within her which wasn't the greatest things to have right now.
She felt eyes on hers and raised her head, some strand of hair covered her eyes as she did that but she did manage to spot the spies…
The spies being two Cerberus guards who looked nervously at her and by seeing her moves turned their back and whispered not so quietly to each other.
"It's really her? It's Jane Shepard?"
"It seems so. Damn, she looks so dangerous."
"Now, we have a change to fight. Mankind shall prevail."
A small smile appeared on Jane face, she did kill some of their colleague but they still viewed her as a hero…
"Weir-doooo!"
"Shepard!" A feminine but strict voice interpellated the commander who looked back.
"Yes, Miranda?"
The Illusive Man is ready to receive you, follow me please.
And with that she goes up and followed her newfound ally…for now.
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Cortana didn't like it.
It has been one half-hour since she told the Chief about the reaper menace on this version of their galaxy, and just as she finished her long rant, he immediately got up and grabbed his MA5C that was lying on a table beside him.
As soon he had the powerful assault rifle in his hand, he began to dismount and remount the weapon, just like he usually does when he is bored and that there is no room to train, at first he did it the fasted he could and trying to beat his record...but rapidly he became slower, the objective of beating his records quickly forgotten.
On the contrary, he took all of his time place the different component of the AR, to the point where it took him five whole minutes to do it.
An unimaginable time for a Spartan II.
Cortana watches him do this for quite a long time, she wanted to interrupt him but she knew that he was actually processing the whole thing and judged good to not bother him.
She just hoped that he would come down to a decision soon...
John-117 was well immersed within his thought, focused both on the decision he had to make and of the firearm that was actually dancing within his hands.
"To fight or to flee? That is if I do choose to flee then; the inhabitant of this universe would lose something that could be very useful in the war effort against those genocidal machines."
"But...if I choose to stay, then it would be betraying the UNSC, and the people I left behind on their own, the war against the covenant is certainly over, but rebellions has probably erupted in every human-controlled colonies, the UEG will have a lot of trouble to maintain order, furthermore even if they now have an alliance with the Elites, that don't mean that some aliens factions would not stop their fight against mankind."
He saissied another components
"No, I simply cannot let them fight alone..."
He inserted it, a small click signifying that it was locked.
"But another matter should be considered...the mean of simply going home."
He grabbed a long piece of titanium.
"By what Cortana told me, the Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine has been greatly damaged by the jump, furthermore the control center of the Dawn had been cut off, even if Cortana does have the schematics to build a new Shaw-Fujikawa and able to restore the Dawn in its integrity, it would take months and a considerable amount of resources to complete it."
And inserted it.
"And that was only the beginning of the jouney, because even if we gained a perfectly working Translight Engine, then we would need to recreate the same type of portal that the Ark used created to jump through dimension and find our own..."
There it would take years to achieve that...and from what his AI told him, they didn't have that much time with them.
Cortana estimation for the Return of the reapers are between six to 36 months...which means that they had work to do estimated to at the least five years to three years at best and six months at worst...No, time was certainly not on their side.
"But another option could be made...Cortana estimation was that this cycle, by the state the galaxy is in, shouldn't be too long, from Ten to twenty years...During that time, after having repaired the Dawn in some effective manner, I could go in a cryo-sleep, going in an unmapped sector of the galaxy, wait until the end of the cycle, before finally taking over the resources that would be to their disposition and then-"
John got up abruptly off the table, letting the pieces of the weapon that he was assembling, fall on it.
"Acting like that would be inhuman and cowardly, I would rather fire a bullet through my head then to let the Earth burn with her people on it and-"There again, he stopped his train of through, and concentrate back on only one in particularly.
"Earth..."
He quickly, got toward a panel that stood near the one Cortana appeared on and quickly activated it.
"Cortana!"
"Yes, John?"
"I want every data that you collected on Earth, the system Alliance force and of all human colonies, even the one who aren't under the UEG control...And I want the most recent picture of the Earth that you got too."
"On it soldier."
He waited for a few second before that files began to appears on the holographic screen.
Report of the agricultural from the colonies, numbers of warship in the Alliance, galactic map of their patrols...
Then it appeared one of the most beautiful things he had ever seen.
A planet.
A blue planet...
A blue planet that was actually the home world of his species...
The Earth.
The data that Cortana sent to him was actually an holographic picture in 3d showing the blue world...And with tender movement, the Spartan, put his armored finger under the globe, the interaction making the world move upward.
He continued to check on this blue sphere with wonder for a long moment.
"This is not my Earth..."
Then, words from a distant memory came back
"I swear to protect Earth and her colonies."
He looked at it again.
"But I will fight for her."
"Cortana, send me everything we know about those Reapers, I want to know everything about them, their strengths, weakness, and how they can control living beings."
The smart AI smiled to the decision that her partner in crime choose.
But still she couldn't resist teasing him a little bit.
"And why that? My dear little soldier?" He walked to the table where he left his unfinished business, and then he grabbed the remaining piece of the MA5C and reassembled his weapon.
"We are going to war, Cortana, and I want to know everything about our enemies."
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"I brought you back. It's up to you to do the rest." As soon TIM finished this sentence, his holographic representation began to fade and Jane Shepard walked out of the room.
"Here we go, again…Giant robotic-squids are coming to destroy every sentient life in the galaxy and it seems that no one batters an eye and tries to find a solution…"
The commander was actually very confused, the Illusive Man just told her the reason why he did bring her back from the dead, and this reason was quite;
Mankind was in danger…once again.
Even though she knew she couldn't really trust someone like TIM, she was pretty worried about what he said.
"Entire human colonies are disappearing and the Alliance is doing nothing? And the Citadel Council? Couldn't they just send patrols to protect those colonies…No…If what TIM said is true and that they are Terminus colonies then the council will never act as they aren't under their jurisdiction."
She walked back to the stairs toward where she left her companions.
"But the Alliance…they must know that something is wrong with those disappearances, even if they aren't Reapers related, they are still a threat to civilians, they are surely preparing something for that."
As she arrived on the desired level, her eyes met with their reflection as she was beside a reflective glass.
"But, if they aren't…then I must act, I can stay with Cerberus for some time, check if they are right, if not then I will leave to find Anderson, he will surely listen to me, him."
This reflection brought a smile back on her face, before a frown came back.
"Still, Cerberus brought me back…It wouldn't hurt to not show teeth at them for a short time."
She saw Miranda came toward her and stopping not even a meter from her.
"The shuttle is ready for Freedom's Progress; we should be there in not even one hour."
"Understood."
Shepard followed Miranda toward the docking bay, but even the new mission that was dropped upon her couldn't stop her mind to swirl with questions about her entourage…
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Chief looked back, staring at the emptiness of space through the observation window of the hallway he was actually crossing, repair material carried by his powerful hands.
He couldn't help but feel attracted toward this particular point in space, like if someone was giving him a sign...
He waited for a few minutes, waiting for something that he knew wouldn't appear when his friend voice appeared on his com.
"Chief, to the control room, quick!"
She hadn't even finished her sentence that the Spartan was already running thought the station toward the desired location.
Once there, a worried looking Cortana was staring at him.
"Chief, I just picked up two signals not that far, it's-"
"-The Quarians ? Did the Fleet find us?"The Spartan" grimaced, even if the Dawn still had a few usable weapons, it was not sufficient to fight off an enemy that could deploy one thousand battleships with ease.
And the station armament had not been maintained for the last three hundred years and so not in conditions to be used in a space battle.
But Cortana quickly put a term to his worries.
"It is not the Fleet Chief, but its Quarian made...It seem that i have managed to pick two distress signals."
"Distress signal? A trap?"
"I don't think so... I think more that its coming from two pilgrims...The area the signals are coming from, is under pirates control, a small group, named Ortasis...They are probably in need against those bad boys."
"Did the Fleet receive it?"
"No, the Fleet is too far away to pick it up, and even if they did, it will be too late for those young adventurers..."
"What are the options?"
"Well, I do see three options:
The first one, we ignore it and simply go away.
The second, we redirect the signal toward the Migrant Fleet or a Turian patrol, but in the first case they will surely get too late and the second would probably just ignore it."
"And the last option?"
Cortana face, now adorned a brilliant smile.
"Well, you hadn't been active for quite a time now...Don't you think it's time for you to do some real work."
She couldn't see his face thought the visor, but knew that he was smiling.
"Direct us toward those signal, while that I get a Pelican ready to fly."
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Planet C35-42 NAO
Ortasis base on the planet
"So, suit rats, how does it feel to be in the true galaxy? And not in some shit-vessel made of trash."
Talo vas drumi, simply glanced to his Batarian captor through his visor, the four-eyed alien simply walked away with rash laugh.
Once out of vision, the captured Quarian turned his head to check on his fellow Quarian that was attached to a pipe.
"Well, it doesn't look very good for us..."
"You're right Jori...it does seem that the fleet will be short of two Quarians ..."
Both of them have been on the same colony when they have been captured, they worked together as mechanics for a salarian who repaired ships, in exchange of some food and then, after six months of labors, two repaired ships for their pilgrim gifts.
But as their contract came to an end, their employer didn't seem to be interested in giving two ships as promised.
So, he did like a very civilized being would do when confronted with a hard choice...He sold them to a gang of slave traffickers for one thousand credits each.
"Do you think that they will exchange us for money?"
"No, I don't think so...it does seem that instead they will keep us as slave to repair their machines"
"Slaves...-"repeated Jori slowly" -are we actually losing our freedom to some shitty pirates..."
"Well, there may be another way." Responded Talo.
"That is?"
Talo put his hand under a fold of his suit and showed a small hidden knife...
"You want us to try to escape?"
"No, there are too many of them and they are too much armed...I was more thinking about us..."
The realization those words came to Jori like a wave, but strangely enough he did not have any disgust toward it.
Killing themselves seemed like a good choice...after all, as long they were captive, they were a threat to the Migrant Fleet, and none of them were okay with that.
Talo then heard voices coming their way and quickly hide the knife into his suit; the same batarian as before arrived in the room while being in an argument with some of his soldier in his com.
"How is there an intrusion? Stop drinking you idiot! Our Eezo scanner didn't detect anything. Just stop f*** around and go back to your post!"
He turned off his com link and turned around to face the duo of Quarians, :"Excuse me for making you wait that long, I had to discuss with my stupid subordinate, so...where were we?"
He advanced toward them, before advancing toward Jori.
"So, you wanted to visit the galaxy…to become real men. To get back home proud and victorious against adversity, to show that you were worth of existing. That's it?"
Both migrants send him glance filled with venom.
The captor chuckled on this pitiful display of courage and kneeled down near them.
"You know, there something that I have always desired...I have this strange fetish on Quarian since some time now..."
He let one of his fingers; slowly slide on Jori's helmet.
"Since I saw pictures of your females, I have always wanted to make one them squirm under my touch..."
His hand was now on Jori's waist...the Quarian respiration became faster.
"But I have never managed to get one...but, I must say, that even your males look quite feminine."
His hand was now fully grabbing Jori's legs that flinched under the pressure on him; Talo was ready to sort out his knife to kill their captor and defend his friend.
But something stopped all of their action, as the intercom of the base came to life:" alert, there is an intruder in the base, everyone, grab your guns and -AAAAAH!"
The line got cut.
The batarian, quickly got up, going toward the room entrance when three other pirates came from the door situated on the other side of the room.
"What the f*** is going?!" Asked a Turian.
"Some fu***rs intruded the base, and killed our men in the controls room, ready and point your damn guns on the door. The control room is not that far and so, they will come here!"
Totally ignored, the Quarians watched as the four pirates put themselves in a small demi circle, with their weapon pointed toward the door.
The group was composed of two batarians, one turian and one salarian, this one being the only engineers among the soldiers.
Whoever intruded this base was doomed as they saw those hardened pirates, prepared for battle.
However, as seconds passed, they grow a little more nervous as loud gunfire could be heard being shoot, they could not identify the weapon used but it seemed to be pretty powerful if the noise made was of any indication.
But a few moments later, the holographic panel in the room turned green, sign that someone was actually pushing the opening button on the other side of the door.
But it didn't open, the panel still green colored indicated that someone was still pushing the button and didn't release it, keeping the door from getting opened.
The lead batarian murmured a damn coward and made a quick sign to the engineer who quickly nodded.
With a flick, he activated his Omni-tool then after poking a few buttons opened the door.
The first sight they got as the door was finally open was a human member of their crew, who had his throat sliced; his body has been positioned so that his hand was actually pushing the holographic panel.
But with the opening of the door, whatever was keeping him from collapsing disappeared and felled face down toward the dirty floor.
But what the remaining pirate didn't see in time were the two grenades that were attached to the former pirate belt and just got liberated.
"GRENAAADEES!- "Shouter the turian soldier but the high explosive grenades detonated ,sending their murderous shrapnel away.
Talo and Jori, being far enough of the explosion managed to get away unharmed, but that wasn't the case of their captors.
To their joy, the batarian leader had half of his face blow away, each of his remaining eyes have been busted. The second batarian , has been propelled away by the explosion, and his back and neck has met the wall breaking them straight away.
The salarian, had a better shield and armor and had been able to get away alive somehow in good state...if losing your left hand is a good state.
The turian, by being the first to see the grenade is able to jump up, with his rifle leveled and walking toward his screaming companion, who clutched his wound with his other hand.
"Damn, what the f*** is happening he-" but he never got to finish his sentence as a figure came from the other side of the door.
The pirate aimed his rifle toward his target but wasn't fast enough. As the form leveled up his own weapon and fired in a record time.
To John-117 it was pretty slow, he just got inside the room, located the enemies, raised his MA5C and fired five shots.
He has already experimented on the others pirates of the base, the majority of the armor is in a bad state and weak shielding as they weren't part of a great pirate organization like the Blue sun or Eclipse.
He only needed two bullets to disactivate the shield, two for the armor and one for the killing.
"It seems that the MA5C wasn't getting outdated any time soon as if used well a single magazine could kill four to six targets."
He saw movement on his motion tracker that alerted him of the salarian attempting to shoot at him as he pulled out a secondary gun, but the Spartan acted just as expected of him, he apprehends the remaining hand of his adversary and squished it with his armored one.
The pirate hurled in pain and felled to his knees, but he managed to raise his head, truly facing his enemy for the first time.
And the vision of and gigantic armored soldier only send a message to him.
"De-Demon!"
A burst of 7,62mm was his only response.
"It's already the third that called you like that, it seems that this surname will stick around, isn't it?" Said Cortana to her partner in crime in their private com.
"Stop joking around; we are on a rescue mission." The Behemoth saw movement on his Motion Tracker and found a presence behind him and quickly turns around, the canon of his assault rifle, facing two frightened Quarians, who if they could, would raise their hands.
The Spartan would have lowered his weapon, but, the he couldn't rest yet, he as he picked up fast movement coming to his direction with his movement tracker, the running sound seemed to confirm it.
He checked his remaining ammo on the magazine:
16
Or three enemies…
But the motion tracker showed that at least five enemies were coming this way.
"Time for a more appropriate answer." He switched the assault rifle for the shotgun that was waiting on his back.
The M90A CAWS held firmly in his hands, he got back into the room he just left and waited for his foes to come…And they came right after him.
The first adversary that showed up was one of those blue aliens' ladies, that Cortana referred as an Asari, they could use biotic powers that if, underestimated could cause a lot of damages.
"Lucky for me that Cortana briefed me on them."
The mighty Spartan stood his ground and let the Asari take the first strike.
She readied her weapon, a sort of glowing sword and suddenly propelled herself in a blue flash and unleashed her sword against him.
And even if she looked like and experienced combatant, she didn't though about meeting a warrior that had a shield that could hold up to her strike.
To her defense, the energetic shield of the Mjolnir Armor did go down about one fifth.
However, her Kinetic Barriers hadn't resisted the shell of 8 Gauge fired by her opponent, sending her flying three meters away, the torso filled with pellets and a face that showed her surprise in her last moments alive.
As she fell, the Master Chief, readied another shell and faced another enemy.
Meanwhile the two imprisoned quarian were actively trying to break free from their restraints.
"Come on, come on I feel it." Talo had put his knife into the magnetic lock, trying to break it.
"Come, the fighting seems to be intensifying, it could be our only chance to get out."
"Shut up! What do you think that I am-" he got interrupted by the snapping sound of the lock. He quickly discarded his restrain before he began to work on his companion handcuff.
"Ok, I will-"But he was again interrupted. Only this time it was by a very loud sound coming from behind him.
The sound coming from a heavy object landing at fast speed.
He turned back and saw the green armored soldier that came earlier, on the ground, but he did manage to get back up surprisingly fast…Just in time to dodge a raging krogan.
The krogan seemed to have entered into a bloodlust as he kept charging toward his foe while roaring.
The human warrior him reacted by giving to the giant-sized lizard a kick with the butt of his weapon straight to the face.
But even if that did slow down the pirate, that didn't deter his determination at all he engaged the green soldier in close combat.
Now that the two fighting Titans were so closer, Talo could see blood all over the krogan body, coming from many little wounds that was probably obtained by a very powerful shotgun.
But even that didn't suffice to erase the wrecked smile on the Krogan face that seemed to be having the time of his life by fighting a mighty opponent.
But something else surprised and scared Talo at the same time, the Krogan was actually losing this fight.
A krogan pirate, an experienced soldier who possessed one of the best bodies with great capacity in the whole galaxy, was actually losing a hand to hand fight…
Unbelievable.
Talo was out from his stupor as he heard a clicking sound behind him.
As he turned he saw something that didn't seemed good at all.
A turian pirate had arrived from the other entrance and was actually aiming a rocket launcher toward the two fighters, apparently not caring that he would blow up an ally.
Talo, knew that the warrior on green apparently was on their side, as he didn't mean any harm to him or Jori as he didn't shoot them when he could and was actually fighting their enemies.
Furthermore he was their only hope of freedom and survival in this base.
But while he was certainly strong, he couldn't resist to a rocket.
So Talo acted.
The pirate was aiming toward the big lizard and his opponent, ready to fire.
Don't move that much or I will not be able to-
He felt something interrupt his some internal rant, a quarian who throw himself at him, making him let go of the explosive weapon.
"You damn suit rat!" He punched the migrant in the guts, making him kneel in pain.
"You are nothing but a waste of space!" He grabbed the Quarian by the throat to make him stand at his level, and then he revealed a big combat knife from his back.
"It's time to put a term to that." He pushed the knife deep into the Quarian's belly.
"AAAAAAAAAHHH!"
The turian smirked before retiring his weapon slowly, and as he was on the point to repeat the procedure, something interrupted him.
A bullet of 12,7x40mm, type semi-armor piercing goes through his head.
As the pirate felled, Talo send a glance to his right, there, was standing over a beaten to death Krogan, the green armored soldier who looked at him, a fuming pistol within his left hand.
The two of them, glance at each other behind their respective visor for a few moment when pain finally kicked in.
The wounded Quarian felled on his back, the world around getting blurrier by the seconds, he could he running noise, and then after what seemed eternity, Jori's visor appeared in front of him, apparently, he did manage to break that damn lock, and now troubled word were accompanying him.
"No, stay awake! Stay focused on my voice, keep your damn eyes open and stare at me Damnit!"
Talo could hear another voice, not that far away, but this time it was his translator that did the work for him.
"Cortana, we have a wounded, get a sterile room ready on the station, we will evacuate now."
Then darkness enveloped his whole world.
End of the Chapter 4
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And so, the fourth came to an end... That's sad isn't it?
Well as you can see, the first contact between the UNSC and the council species did go pretty well, an intense exchange of culture has happened, which will lead only to better thing in the future, lie bigger firefight, bigger explosion and bigger warship…and all of that in the name of peace…
As you could see, and Shepard will finally have some actions soon, just let her some time to wake up.
She just got back from a sleep that lasted for two years, and she is quite destabilized for now.
I'm sorry that MC has more of the time of the show, but it should be more equitable in a few chapter, but first I want to show the two aliens arrival and adaptations in this new universe, while that for Shepard ,we already know in which general direction it go.
By the way, does anybody know why, during MASS EFFECT 2, when questioned by the Alliance, the Council and even some of his/her friends, ask Shepard where he was during this time he respond that he was sleeping for two years or in a comatose state…But he rarely say that he was dead?
Generally, people cannot get angry at you if when you couldn't show you were dead…So …Why?
With my best regard, and my thanks for reading this story
Imp45
Next update: Well last time I said 15 days and it took three months so…But normally during April…2029