Well before we get on with the story. Let me just say that I'm very familiar of the kinetic barriers of Mass Effect goes around here (Well sort of lol) But when it comes to a Gears weapons they are the strongest ones out there really. And if you know the reason why for all you Gears fans then you can see why they would go through their shields quickly! Lol Now I never did a Cross FanFcition story ever so this will be my first! But for now I'm just starting this nice and slow and see how it goes from there, if its a good hit then I will continue this story if not then I'll just leave it there and work on my other stories I'm writing on right now but I really wanted to write a Gears story for a while now so why not Challenge my self with a bit more and add in my other favorite game Mass Effect!
So thats that and now readers stop with my yapping and on with the story!
Chapter 1 - What in the hell have I got myself into.
Carmine POV.
"Eat dirt and die, motherfucker!" I yelled out loud seeing the biggest and ugliest insect grub attacking my fellow delta team down there, and when I see a grub I don't hesitate to kill it! "Take that you bitch!" I kept on firing the turret inside the Raven; I kept on squeezing the trigger even if the turret overheated. But then everything turns bright as I felt a great heat ray hitting straight towards us, I felt the Raven shake hearing the emergency siren going off and I could see that the Raven was hit.
"Oh shit! Shit! We're on fire! We're on fire!" I hold on to my seat as I felt the Raven shake even more and feeling the moment going straight down. I could hear the pilot yelling too hold on but to me, honest truth I didn't care. Although I was panicking from the inside I felt my body relaxed as I closed my eyes and pictured the only one thing that came in my mind, my brothers. 'I hope I did you guys proud, I'll be joining you guys soon enough' Then everything went dark.
"Hey Clay when I get bigger I'll be just like you!" Squirt? Is, is that you? "Come on Clay why are you going to keep pampering him he should learn this on his own don't you think bro." Anthony? Can, can you guys hear me?
"I'll be come a COG just like you soon bro let's just hope our little baby brother joins as well."
"I will just you wait Anthony! I'll be as great and big as you and Clayton!" And you will Squirt, you will. You both were outstanding Gears soldiers, your brother couldn't be prouder "Hey Clay, have you ever wonder what's beyond the stars? I always thought the sky was fascinating but imagine what could be further into the stars."
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Normal POV.
Carmine gasped for air as he slung his upper body upwards feeling the pain on his chest and slight burn on his shoulder he looked around and saw the Raven he was in crashed and burn on the sand. 'A dream? But I saw them! I saw my brothers!' Catching his breath he got up from the ground and moved his body around feeling only the sand around him and only a few stings around his muscles shook it off and padded his head.
Feeling his fingers touching his hair knew that his helmet came off of him, and only looking at the ground for a short while he spotted his helmet quicky and walked straight towards it he reached down and wiped out the sand and placed it back where it belong. 'That's better.'
Hearing a crowed celebrating down ahead and the sound of Raven choppers hovering around he quickly waved his hands signaling to any of them to see him that he is down here he then saw one aprorching and looking to the side he spotted the fellow COG pilot on the ground still alive. Picking him up he began to walk towards the upcoming Raven and slowly and carefully placed him on the seat.
"Glad you guys are ok, I'll take him to the closes infirmary I guess you should go over there and celebrate Gear!" Carmine looked confused and asked the pilot.
"Of what?"
"Victory soldier! We have finally beaten the Locust!" 'We won? No more Locust?' Carmine just nodded his head to the pilot and saw him fly away, and he looked straight forward where the sound of cheers were and walked. Seeing a few Gears soldiers hugging and padding each other backs knowing that the war is over, seeing his Sergeant, Marcus Fenix walking towards the beach unclasping his COG Armor sitting down on the rock watching the ocean but was not alone for Anya Stroud follow right behind him.
Carmine looked around and spotted one of his fellow Delta team members, Damon Baird, Augustus Cole, and Samantha Byrne.
"Hey guys, so is it true that it's finally over?"
"Hey Carmine your alive, yeah as sad as it may seem it is over big guy. No more Locust going to pop out of the ground." Baird said as he kept on looking around Cole came and padded Carmine on his back as Sam gave him a hug knowing that his friend is alive and well.
"So what now then? What do we do?"
"We rebuild Carmine, we rebuild. It may take some years to recover of what the grubs done to us, but as longest I got my genius mind around, I'm pretty sure all of us can make it happen." Baird padded carmine on the shoulder and began to walk to a different location as everyone else did also. 'Rebuild? What is there to rebuild now?
Carmine was able to find a room to sleep in, he didn't want to celebrate any victory at this moment, and he just wanted some peace and time alone to himself. Closing the door he walked and placed his Mark 2 Lancer Assault Rifle besides the counter of the desk, pulling out his Boltok Pistol placed it on top of the desk, following his Longshot Sniper Rifle, Gnasher Shotgun, and last but not least his Toque Bow.
He explored his weapons; every weapon he used was special to him. The Lancer was one of his favorite, always loved to rip up his chainsaw and feeling the flest of the Locust cut right through them. The second was his Longshot he loved seeing the grubs heads explode from the single bullet going through their heads. And last although he it's an enemy weapon, liked the Torque Bow he earned that weapon by killing a few Theron guards, they were the so called Locust Elites 'Not so elites in my books' he slaughtered them like the animals they were, and he grinned at the memory.
Taking off his COG Armor he placed it on the chair and slowly took off his helmet, all of his equipment and weapons are now displayed in front of him, now knowing that he might never need to uses this weapons once more he sat on the bed and pulled out on his side pocket a COG Tags and a letter.
Looking at them, seeing that the Tags had his second oldest brother name on it and the letter knowing very well from who it was, placed them back on his pockets, laid his body back on the bed, looked up the ceiling of the room and slowly he closed his eyes and tried to sleep throughout the night.
Ten days later, every single remaining COG soldier was helping in any aid they can to rebuild Sera how it was once. Anya and Marcus worked together to grow their relationship once more, Hoffman and Bernie decided to help on to established order and the remaining COG soldiers to aid, Baird helping out with the engineering and architect.
Carmine helped out here and there but all he knew in his entire life was nothing but being a soldier, nothing else. Although he still kept on wearing his gear and his weapons, Sam as told him that he doesn't need that any more but he always waved it off.
Although today he decided to walk around the building today, not really knowing where he was going kept on wondering around looking around stranded civilians around men, woman, and children all enjoying the peaceful time they have now. 'Peace. Sounds so unreal. I have been fighting grubs as far as I can remember and now that the war is over what now.' Carmine thought and only sighed as he shook his head ignoring the thought bumped into a room that he was not familiar with, so with the hell of it he opens the door and walked inside room.
The room was massive, bunch of books everywhere, papers scattered around the floor, and a big ass electronic room around he would have thought this was actually Baird room, but he kept on looking around and spotted a paper on the desk and saw that it was Adam Fenix work. 'Damn, what could he have been working in here?' Looking around he saw the books on the bookshelves and not knowing why he decided to just look around the books, he kept on grabbing one by one not really knowing why or for what reason guess he was just bored. Then he grabbed a book that actually heard it click and then the book shelve started to open up revealing a secret door.
"Should I or not, should or not." Carmine said, he didn't look too surprised by the door but not knowing what's behind that door actually kept him curios. 'Oh what hell why not' Opening the door he walked inside and was amazed of the entire room full of computers and wires around not really knowing what this all meant. 'Holly bacon Baird is definitely going to have a fucking heart attack when he sees this!'
About to rush out the room to tell Baird stopped for he saw a thick paper on the ground and by picking it up he read out loud.
"Experiment Test Project Sera Freedom? What in the hell?" Carmine began to open up the pages and actually began to read out loud. "If things come to worse there is a possible way to saves the lives of humanity… by attempting some experiments to move one object to another I was successful of we might… so through this time I was able to build a dimensional portal to make contact in a different universe to escape the Locust hord."
Carmine set the paper work down and shook his head in disbelief of what he just able to read and understand what it read. 'Different universe, a different dimension? That's seems all bullshit if you ask me' Carmine decided it was time to just head on out until he spotted a weird device in the back of the room, so slowly walking towards it he can see the computers are still activated and he can see a artifact glowing blue around it.
"Wow that is soooo cool! But what the hell is it?" Carmine kept on walking towards it and for some reason he was lured to it and without knowing he actually grabbed it and was able to move it. "Well what do you know it's actually light, I thought it would be heavy?"
"Hey who is in here!" Carmine turned his head around and he could recognize that voice anywhere.
"Hey Baird check this out man I found something cool form Marcus's dad!" hearing the footsteps rushing towards his location Baird looked amazed at the scene around him but then turn towards Carmine and saw the artifact that he was holding.
"Carmine you big idiot put that back! Who knows what that thing can do!"
"Oh relax Baird its nothing serious, see nothing happened." Carmine placed the object back but as soon as it placed it back the computers began to turn bright red and his body began to feel something pulling him. Turning his head he began to see the object he just grabbed began to float around in mid air and began to turn into a dark sphere and growing bigger.
"Holy shit! Baird do something!"
"I'm trying just hold on Carmine!" Baird began to type in the computers to try at least to stop it but the sphere began to grow more and more until it reached at Carmines height and began to suck him in.
"Baird do something now!"
And within seconds the whole room was blown from the pressure as Baird was knocked down on the floor and quickly looking up where Carmine was no longer there.
"Ooohhh Shit!"
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Carmine POV
'What the hell my head hurts, and my body is tingling and not a good way either' slowly I started to feel my hands and legs to move properly, getting my vision back I started to blink my eyes slowly and leaning upwards, I felt like I just got tackled by Cole in a game of Thrash ball.
But I began to hear gun shots? Shaking my head I still trying to see if I heard right I slowly tried to get up. "Baird what in the fuck just happen to me…!" I stopped because I felt something under my boot, looking down I saw that the artifact I was holding before was now in pieces. 'Oh shit baird is going to kill me!' Shaking the thought off for now I just picked up the pieces and put them into my pockets, but soon as I turned around he was not there and the room that I was in was no longer there either.
Although in a situation where a man is in an unknown area the first thing I did was immediately reaching for my lancer. "Oh thank god!" I said as I felt my other weapons were indeed still equipped on me. Looking around my surrounding I looked around and spotted crates and vehicles that didn't actually seemed very familiar to me.
'What in the hell?' I then began to hear a noise loud enough coming from the behind me seeing a door opening up I see three ugly looking grubs walking out from there, but this where not Locust? No they were smaller than them. They had sharp teeth and red eyes and they were holding a weapon that look like a toy? And they began to point their toys at me and that's actually all I need from them.
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Normal POV
Without warning Carmine aimed his lancer up and squeezed the trigger sending multiple bullets into the grub in front of him seeing his chest burst blood out of him drops dead killing him instantly. Seeing as the other two grub creatures confused and terrified of him didn't know what to do, and then heard a loud noise coming from the gun in front of them.
Carmine charged straight at one of the grub and brought his chainsaw down piercing in from the grubs shoulder down to his abdomen, "Oh got some on me!" Carmine yelled as he heard the screams of the grub in front of him seeing his blood splattering on his armor and then saw him split in two looking at the last remaining grub shaking in fear and saw him run away from him.
Quickly reaching into his side Carmine pulled out his Boltok Pistol and aimed it at the runaway grub and send a bullet hitting him on his knees hitting the ground hard. He began to walk towards him and saw the grub grabbing his wound waving his hands at him pleading for mercy.
"Just die already!" lifting his boot up he brought it down with full force destroying his whole head feeling the blood splatter hitting on his boot looked up and saw a few more similar grubs like he just killed coming out the entrance and saw a bigger looking grub with heavy armor that looked like a toad or some sort.
"Just more grubs to kill!" as Carmine reloaded his Lancer the bigger grub pointed his fingers at him as the other grubs began to shoot at him. He quickly to cover behind a one of the crates and began to feel the bullets hitting his cover, lifting his Lancer up blind firing could hear some of the grubs yelling in pain as he hit some of them.
Getting out of cover he aimed his lancer and Carmine began to squeeze the trigger once more sending nothing but swarms of bullets in any of grubs he can see. His killing rage was at his peak and he was feeling the adrenaline kicking in already seeing how he drop four more of them creatures down he saw that they were still a few left, and the bigger grub seemed like he was the one in charge. 'And that's who I need to kill!' Putting away his Lancer he pulled out his Gnasher and pumped is weapon up as he charged forward.
Hearing them scream in anger as he thought he kept on moving and aimed to the closet grub and fired his Gnasher as it only left one giant hole in the grubs chest splattering his blood everywhere, one after another Carmine kept on dropping grubs dead in the floor seeing their head pop, or see giant holes piercing through them and he just kept on smiling.
Moving forward until he was closed to the leader, he was tackled by some sort of ugly looking dog creature on top of him, and Carmine can see the sharp teeth chomping close towards his face but he had the creature in a good hold on his head and quickly he snapped his neck feeling the creatures body slump dead on him.
Getting up from the ground Carmine looked up to the last remaining grub and he can tell he was furious, he also could tell h was not that tall, actually Carmine seemed taller than the grub and he didn't seem he had the muscles to take him either, no grub was. And this only made Carmine happier liking to piss off grubs in front of him.
"It seems its only you and me grub! So how do you want to end up dead!" Carmine taunted the grub but either if he understood or not the grub tossed his weapon on the ground and began to charge at him. 'You want to dance grub! Let's dance!'
Carmine charged straight at him also seeing how both of them clashed each other only having the grub stumble a few steps back putting a shocking expression, while Carmine kept on charging punching the grub in the face seeing some of his teeth fly out of him kept on punching. The grub was getting angrier and somehow he stopped Carmines punches and instantly head butt him square in the face of his helmet making Carmine a dazed.
Then he charged once more and began to truck over Carmine pushing him backwards, and this is something Carmine would not take, stomping his feet in the ground catching his balance he wrapped the grub around him and somehow in pure rage he lift him up the ground body slamming the grub on the ground. 'Damn this grub was heavy!'
Seeing how the toad grub was dazed Carmine got on top of him slowly trying to catch his breath didn't took him long enough as he then brought down his right fist down towards his face and then the left, he kept on repeating and repeating the same routine until he can see the grubs eye water hearing him say something that only Carmine knew that he was asking for mercy, but in Carmines state there is no such thing in his mind but only carnage.
Lifting his last fist up he saw the face of the toad grub all disfigured probably long dead but he wanted to make sure as he brought it down once more feeling his fist go through his cranium and brain splatter going to his fist and out of him sees his head was now long gone.
"You weren't so tough!" Carmine yelled as he began to wipe the blood off of his hands and then heard another door opening in the opposite side of him. Turning around slowly he saw two females from a far walking out of there, one was wearing a tight white suite brunette hair, and the other one had short red hair and was wearing an armor that had N7?
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Shepard POV
Well everything seemed to work out fine, just found out the Archangel was no other then my friend Garrus, although he pissed off every major merc in the organization of the Terminuses System didn't matter now for I had to seal off all the doors from the basement.
"Shepard just one more shutter. Hurry!"
"On it Garrus, let's go Miranda!"
As me and Miranda open the last door the scene that I just saw send chills down my spine. Seeing dead Vorcha on the ground but the way they were killed seemed un human like, having giant holes into their chest and heads. Most of them decapitated from shoulder up to their lower waist.
"Shepard, this, this looks like a slaughter house!"
I was about to respond back to her but she stopped for I heard loud footsteps coming towards us, and I aimed my rifle up as Miranda aimed her pistol, and when the footsteps got closer I managed to see one tall and big figure in front of us holding some sort of alien rifle that I never seen before.
"Hold it I'm Commander Shepard from the Alliance marines stand down!" I said, but now that I got a good look at him he was wearing a helmet that was covering his face, but beyond that he was tall and well he was big really cut up! His armor was not something I ever seen also, and by the blood splatter around him it made me realize that this was probably his work.
"Shepard I don't think he understands you." Miranda said to me as I still had my rifle aimed at him not knowing if he really understands but he seems human though?
"Well what should we say to him he might…"
"Hey! I can understand what you two are saying alright so stop looking at me if I'm fucking dumb!"
He yelled out startling me a bit and that's hardly rare for me to be startled shaking the thought off I said.
"Alright if you can understand us would you mind telling me if this is your doing?" He looked around the area and then looked back at me.
"Yeah I killed this grubs, mostly this little grubs over there counted like twelve of them and then one ugly looking dog or some sort, and the last one that looks like a toad or something he was actually bigger than them, killed that bastard with my bare hands."
He laughed at that last remark as he shows one of his bloody hands towards me as proof and not understanding why he calls them Grub? I looked beside and saw that the bigger 'grub' he was talking about was no other then a Krogan! And he said he killed him with his bare hands!
"Alright I believe you, so mind telling me your name?"
"My name is Clay… Calyton Carmine, but mostly everyone one calls me Carmine."
"Alright Carmine, I got tons of questions still to ask of you but right now I'm bit of a hurry, I got a friend that needs my help and it seems you don't know what's going on right now so can I ask you to help me out and when this is all over I'm willing to take you on my ship on the Normandy to talk more, deal?"
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Carmine POV
'Ship? Normandy? What the hell!' I shook my head not really understanding what's really going on, first I'm appearing in an unknown area and then I end up killing some grubs that are new to me, and now I see this 'Commander?' asking me to aid her.
Seeing that I really have no fucking clue what is going on, not knowing if she is an enemy or ally but one thing for now I know she is no enemy because she hasn't started shooting at me with them weird toys again, but her friend though I can see her glares really starting to annoy me. 'Leap of faith I guess'
"Alright Shepard, you got a deal but you or your friend over there try something funny won't expect any sort of mercy from me even if you are woman." I intimidated her but for some reason she didn't seem bothered by it seeing her put a smile she extended her hand as I extended mine and we both shake on it.
"Alright Carmine follow me we got to get out of here." She said as she begins to walk out towards the door, as I looked at my Lancer and back at them.
"What in the hell have I got myself into now."
Well thats my first Chapter so tell me how it went i would really would like to see your reviews of how it went down, and also if you spotted somethign wrong with the Mass Effect layout please let me know it's been so long i played Mass Effect not going to lie lol