Hey guys, I'm starting a new Mass Effect/Dead Space series and I hope I can get off to a good start. Please give any suggestions you think that will lead to a better story. This is my second story so far, so please don't get pissed off at me if I do something you think is wrong. But that second story I mentioned is still be written so I have to split my time between the two, so updates might have some amount of time between them. Also please don't rage at me for the character that appears to random in this story. There is a reason he is there, which will be explained in the other story of mine, The Lost Solider, if you want to find out more.

Lost Saviors

Chapter 1: A new nightmare

The Normandy started to gain distance from the exploding collector station. But they were running out of time, they needed to jump to FTL speed now!

"Get us out of here now Joker."

"Commander, I'm getting some strange readings from the FTL drive."

"We don't have time Joker, go now!"

"Jumping in 3...2...1... Jump!"

This wasn't like any jump she had gone through before. What you should see out a window during a jump is the black of space, but what she saw was a blood red color.

"Joker what is going on?"

But when the chair turned around she discovered something that should have been impossible. Ashley sat in the pilot's chair, but she was all mangled up. She stared at Shepard with dark red eyes and screamed "Make us whole!"

5 minutes ago Joker's POV

"Jumping in 3...2...1... Jump!"

Suddenly a noise burst out deafening Joker for a few moments. When he recovered he found that Shepard was on the floor, out cold.

"Someone get Shepard to the med-bay now."

All of the crew around him jumped into action while he alerted Chakwas.

"EDI what the hell was the noise?"

"Unknown but there is a signal embedded in the noise."

"What kind of signal?"

"Unknown. I am in the process of decoding it but I need about thirty hours to decode it, it will be faster if I am uninterrupted. In the interest of saving time I am disabling all my functions except for decoding the signal and emergency communication."

"I'm not sure that's a good idea EDI."

But there was no response from EDI. But as soon as Joker tried to take a break a siren started to wail. It was an alert tasked with only one function, to alert the pilot of an unknown ship broadcasting over unencrypted channels.

Joker then immediately patched it into the Normandy's systems so he could listen to and record it.

"USG Ishimura this is the emergency maintenance team of the USG Kellion responding to your distress call. Come in Ishimura."

Strange, what the hell did USG mean? It wasn't Alliance for sure, and he doubted it was pirates. Before he could ponder further the Normandy's sensors picked up an explosion.

"Shepard's team report to the briefing room immediately!"

15 minutes later Tali's POV

Things were getting worse and worse. First Shepard gets knocked out by that mysterious noise and now they were close to a possible hostile ship that clearly had firepower.

"EDI isn't available right now so I guess I'll run the briefing." Stated Joker

Strange, why wouldn't EDI be available?

"What do we know Joker?" asked Miranda

"About 15 minutes ago we intercepted this transmission. USG Ishimura this is the emergency maintenance team of the USG Kellion responding to your distress call. Come in Ishimura. About five minutes after that the smaller ship; presumably the USG Kellion was destroyed or damaged by an explosion. We didn't and still don't have a visual on the ships so we can't confirm anything yet."

"When do you think we might be able to find those ships?" asked the new second in command Garrus.

"I was able to triangulate the transmission's source, giving us an approximate location. We should get a visual in about a minute stand-by."

That minute was one of the longest in her life. Everyone in this room was exhausted and stressed out; they had just destroyed the Collector base. They all deserved a vacation at the very least, now they might have to go on a new mission.

"Guys I just got a visual on that USG Ishimura, it's massive. The ship itself is more than a mile long, but I'm only picking up minimal power signs; you would think that a ship that size would consume as much power as half the Alliance fleet."

"Sounds like the ship was raided and some of the power generators on board were damaged or destroyed. Explains why they sent out a distress signal, and why a repair ship came instead of a war ship." replied Garrus

"I agree, but we can't do anything without Shepard's approval. Joker how long until Shepard is ready to go?" asked Miranda

"Dr. Chakwas said that Shepard is conscious but they need ten more minutes to make sure that nothing else is wrong with the commander."

"How soon can we get within boarding range?"

"About ten minutes"

"Let's get going then."

Ten Minutes Later Shepard's POV

Shepard's felt like she was having one hell of a hangover. But as time passed on it gradually got better. The image of Ashley had shaken her, but she didn't feel like mentioning it. Figured it was just a massive amount of stress. Once she got the situation reports she snapped out of her nightmares. She had managed to run into another massive ship that seems to be completely powerless and deserted. The last time she ran into a ship like this half of her team had been beaten senseless and she had been captured by their newest teammate, Master Chief 117.

"Joker how long until we can start ferrying people over?" asked Shepard

"Well there is an airlock we can connect the ship to then we can get everyone off at once."

"Good idea Joker, make it happen."

"Aye aye Commander"

"Also see if you can hail someone, or hack into their computer systems. Just try and get us some information on what's in that ship."

"I'll try Shepard but I can't guarantee any results."

10 Minutes Later On the USG Ishimura

"Team 1 is Tali, Thane and I. Team 2 consists of Garrus, Legion, and Jack. Team 3 is Master Chief, Zaeed, and Jacob. Team 4 is Miranda, Mordin, and Kasumi. First person named in each team's two through four is in command of that team. Samara and Grunt you two stay here and guard the ship, you two are the only reason I'm letting the Normandy stayed docked. If for any reason we need you to leave, the Normandy has to undock immediately."

"Shepard, I've detected that there are dozens of hull breaches throughout the ship, keep your oxygen harnesses close at hand just in case. Also I'm detecting minimal life signs onboard the ship, forty at most. But there is massive amounts of movement, watch your back." Warned Joker

"Got it Joker, thanks for the tip." Replied Shepard

"Okay your harnesses have two hours worth of oxygen in them. Let's move out, I want to get this over with."

"Roger" replied all the teams

Once the airlock doors opened they realized how big this ship was. The door led into some kind of hangar. It was almost big enough to let the Normandy land. But on one side of the hangar was some kind of damaged shuttle.

"Team 4, stay here and see what you can learn about that ship."

"Shepard, this ship doesn't appear to be normal human design, possible that a human splinter group built it but unlikely." Mordin exclaimed

"What makes you say that Mordin?"

"This shuttle seems to have been built by the same group that built the Ishimura. The chance of a splinter group having the resources to build the Ishimura is almost impossible."

"Tell me later, the rest of us need to move on."

"We'll contact you over the comm. if we have anything to report." Miranda said as Shepard started to walk away .

Shepard prayed they could find a few answers, she really needed information. This ship was massive and she had no idea where they were going or what they could expect to find. It would take a week to properly search this ship with the amount of people she had with her.

As teams 1-3 moved to the end of the long flight deck they discovered a door with a white hologram on.

"Tali, can you get us through this door?"

"Yeah sure Shepard, just give me a minute or two."

As Tali started working on the door, Shepard took some time to look around the room. Luggage was scattered everywhere, several people were obviously in a hurry. But as Shepard looked closer she noticed that hidden under a few of the bags was blood. There had been some sort of fight and it seems someone was trying to cover it up.

"Got it"

The doors opened and a after a few seconds the ceiling lights turned on.

"Shepard look in the corners." Said Zaeed

What Shepard found there was not pleasant. Two large pools of blood on opposite sides of the rooms greeted her.

"There is no way someone hadn't died already, that's a lot of blood." Jacob remarked

"What fuck did this though can't be too far though, the blood hasn't even dried yet. Plus, where are the bodies." Asked Jack

"As much as I don't like this, I have to agree. Shepard, I think something more deadly on this ship than just some pirates." remarked Garrus

"Why?"

"In this next room over here there is even more blood plus a lot of smashed vent guarders."

"Vent guarders, sounds like someone or something attacked using the vents. Lets split up, Team one is going to take the right hallway. Team 3; take that door to the left over there. Team 2, follow team 3 until they run into a fork in the road, and take the path they don't. One of our teams needs to find the Bridge. Once there we can download all the logs and schematics. Then we can regroup for evac." Shepard remarked

Everyone nodded and went to go carry out their assignments, but Shepard couldn't shake the feeling that they shouldn't be here, and that they were being watched. Shepard tried to blame her feelings on her stress. After all they had just finished a mission everyone believed to be a suicide mission. But the hope that thought brought didn't stick for long. As they passed through what was most likely some sort of flight lounge they noticed that there was a trail of vent guarder pieces that continued down the hallway.

"Shepard, it seems someone was chased down the hallway and a least six enemies dropped in from the vents. But there is no blood so far so it seems our mystery person got away." Commented Tali

"How do you know that?" Asked Shepard

"By the foot prints, look they are all made with blood but only one of them looks like it was made from boots. I don't know what made the others, plus they all appear to be recent based on how none of them are dried." Tali explained

"Someone must have had a lucky day." Shepard sarcastically replied

After what felt like an eternity walking they found that at the end of the hallway was an elevator.

"The other end of this elevator would be a great place for an ambush. Once the doors opened if there is anyone on the other side they would kill us easily." Thane noted

"I know Thane but I don't see any other way of doing this."

When they got inside they had to wait a minute for Tali to hack the controls. But when the elevator started to slow down an all too familiar smell assaulted her noise.

"It smells like we have a body or two in the next room, be ready for anything."

But when the doors opened she almost jumped back after finding what appeared to be some sort of creature lying near the only other exit.

"What is that thing Shepard?" yelled Tali

"I don't know but keep your voice down, who knows what else is nearby." Shepard replied

"Shepard we have a dead crew member over here." Called Thane

"Strange it seems that something ripped, or chewed, through almost all of his flesh." Remarked Shepard

But just as disturbing as that was the message he seemed to have written on the mirror in his own blood, CUT OFF THEIR LIMBS.

"Shepard, its John, my team and I seem to be on the other side of a door that leads to a tram. But a lockdown is in effect and we can't get through the door. Can you see if you can remove the lockdown from your part of the ship?"

"I'll see what I can do, is Team 2 with you?"

"No, they went to see if they could find an override of some sort. But they have been gone for about 15 minutes now."

"Ok Chief, I'll contact you if we make any progress."

"Talk to you soon then Ma'am."

Tali then gasped and yelled, "Where the Hell is the other body?"

Shepard turned to the exit to discover that Tali was right, the creature they had found was gone. Shepard stared at the ceiling.

Well hello there readers, if you have read this story before you may notice that it seems a bit different. That is because it is, I have decided to overhaul this story because I read it and I was thinking WTF, why are there so many things I missed grammar wise. So I will be improving it, the first chapter however is largely the same. I can't guarantee that the other two will though.