Mass Effect: Rise of The No More Hero
chapter 1: Memories of past days
Author's notes: Welcome to my little shop of fanfictions. Today, we're going to explore a Mass Effect 2/No More Heroes crossover. I wanted to try this eventually, and I found two amazing games that I love very much. For the most part, it will be Travis Touchdown ( main character from No More Heroes) getting into the storyline of Mass Effect 2 and going along the story as a recruit in Shepard's crew. I will write through the whole story of ME2 from the part where Travis joins the team. I'll use the looks of the weapons from the games, so if you don't know how they look, chek them out on google. I will try to answer most questions in the story, but if you have any things unexplained, let me know in a review. Have fun.
Disclaimer: I don't own No More Heroes, ME2 or anything related to them ( except for this story ).
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2012. Dec. 14. somewhere, over Sierra Nevada mountains, California
Some people say, that before you die, you see your life being played in front of you like a movie. You see the mistakes you made, the good things you did and of course, the things you have long since forgotten. For Travis Touchdown, this movie slowly started to play.
It was a month ago, that he defeated Jasper Batt Jr., the head of the Santa Destroy mafia, owner of Pizza Batt co. and last but not least, number one assassin on the planet. Their battle was epic, ended with a dead Jasper, an avenged death of a friend and a happy Travis. It even brought him and his brother, Henry, closer to each other, considering the fact that it was Henry, who helped Travis when Jasper almost defeated him.
After the fight, Travis spent his days in low profile, concentrating on his relationship with Shinobu, the african american ninja girl he met in one of the ranking fights. Although Travis still felt something for Sylvia, the woman who pulled him into the ranking fights in the first place, (and do not forget that she was the wife of Henry), she made a choice at the end of his battle with Jasper, and he chose Henry. He was finally able to focus on the one person he really could count among his few 'loved ones'. They went out on dates, some of them ending at Travis's apartment in the motel, and spent their days as a perfect couple.
On one day however, everything changed.
He was in his motel room, getting ready for their next date, when he received a phone call, from a number he couldn't recognize. It was one of the members of the mafia. He told Travis, that they had Shinobu in the old prison of Santa Destroy and demanded that he would be there in one hour, if he wanted to see his girlfriend alive. He sat on his motorcycle, and sped off in the direction of the prison.
He knew the place like the back of his hand. He had to sneak in once, when he had to fight an assassin behind the bars. Let's just say, she's in more pieces now, than she was before. He quietly got into the room he once fought in, he still remembered the nightmares he got after the fight with that woman. He shuddered, as he looked around the room. He remembered the small cell she was in when Travis approached her, opened the door and let the woman out, just to face the most horrible foe of his entire life. There was something in that woman. Something behind that straight red hair, behind that pale face and green eyes that he found simply animalistic. The way she looked at him, the look in her eyes, hungry for a kill.
As he looked around, he saw someone in one of the cells. He quickly got inside, turned the lights on and checked the person he saw.
It turned out to be none other than Shinobu herself, tied to a chair and possibly unconcious. He started to untie her, when she woke up and started muttering through the cloth tied around her mouth. – „Mmmmph." – was all she could say.
„Ssh. Calm down Shinobu, it's me, Travis." – he told her – „I'm getting you out of here, don't worry." – he tried to calm her down, but to no awail, she kept mumbling through the cloth, trying to tell him something, but right now, he was more focused on rescuing her, than to listen to what he thought she might had to say.
When the cloth somehow fell from her mouth, however, she screamed at him. – „It's a TRAP! Run while you still can!" – But it was too late. The lights turned back on through the whole corridor, and Travis saw five people approaching, with guns in their hands, clearly not to ask for his autographs. He got up andcracked his knuckles, getting ready for the fight. He had killed many before, he should be able to do it again.
As he walked out of the cell to face them, he unstrapped his trusty beam katana, „Blood Berry" from his belt. She was the first beam katana he got through his career as an assassin, after he won it in an online auction. He had many others now, thanks to Naomi, the weapon designer, but in his eyes, Blood Berry was the oldest, and most precious to his heart. If he was to die, then he would do it with his closest friend at his side.
„Don't do it Travis!" – Shinobu pleaded – „Just leave me here and run! There's no reason for you to die in here because of me. Please!" – she begged him to leave. She didn't want to see those men murdering him because of her. She continued to beg, but he didn't listen. He decided long ago, that this time, he would stay with her. He fought his way to the top once, and then just walked away, which turned out to be a huge payed a big price for his absence last time, and he wasn't going to make that mistake again.
As he slowly walked towards them, the beam conductors,which made the beam katana's blade appear, slid to their respectful places and Travis turned the katana on, making a beam of blue energy form between the conductors.
„Well, well, well, Travis Touchdown. What a pleasant surprise, we've been waiting for you all day." – started one of the thugs – „The kind lady here almost got seriously bored, because it took you so long to drag your ass here and find her." – his voice was filled with mockery and smugness. Travis's fingers clenched around the handle of Blood Berry. 'Yeah, right!' – he thought – 'Tonight, heads gonna roll!' – As the thug saw his expression, he smirked – „How long had it been? A month? Yes, that's right, it was a month since you killed the boss!" – they quickly aimed and opened fire from their machineguns, raining bullets at Travis, who just had enough time to duck into one of the cells and avoid being shot.
„Oh come on Travis! We kill you fast, rape your pretty girlfriend, kill her too and everyone's happy. Except for you, of course, since you'll be dead." – at that sentence, something snapped inside Travis's mind. He waited for them to run out of shots, and when they finally did, Hell was unleashed.
He jumped out of his cover, slashing the first thug through the stomach, releasing a river of blood and stomach acid to the floor. As the second thug tried to run away from him, he raised Blood Berry, and cut down through the man's body, slicing him in two, from head to crotch. He quickly cut off the heads of the third and fourth thugs, who were unfortunate enough to stand in one line.
As he approached the final thug, the one who made comnments about them raping Shinobu, he roared at him – „Really? You're going to rape her? That's funny, because I think I'm right now unnervingly close to killing you." – he said, before stabbing Blood Berry throught the man's chest, killing him instantly. He turned his beam katana off and walked back to Shinobu, continuing the struggle with the ropes around her arms.
„I told you I'll never leave you." – he told the girl, gently kissing her on the lips – „I'll always be with you. No matter what happens." – He looked into the eyes of the african girl, and quickly noticed something was wrong. Shinobu was not looking at him, rather above him. He tried to turn around to face whoever was behind him, but a quick blow to the head knocked him out cold.
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Several hours later, Travis woke up with a nasty headache. He looked around, to find that his hands were cuffed together and he was in some kind of vechicle.
„Shinobu?!" – he called out.
„Travis?!" – he heard from somewhere in the dark. He checked his belt for his beam katanas and found that each single sword was still strapped to it. He carefully picked Blood Berry and turned it ont o cut off his wrist cuffs. The blade went through the chain easily, setting him free. As he stood up, he used the glow of the katana's blade as a flashlight to find Shinobu. He found her quickly, sitting in the corner with her arms cuffed behind her back and her legs cuffed together. He also found out that they were in some kind of helicopter. He freed her and started looking for an exit.
„Found one!" – came Shinobu's voice after a few minutes. She found a door on one side of the small room they were in – „Hope this leads to the cockpit." – with an impressive kick, the girl kicked the door, breaking it off of it's hinges.
On the other side was a small cockpit, with two startled pilots inside. While they reached for their guns, Travis had the time to glance out one of the windows. He saw snow, he saw the top of a mountain. This was not good. Not the least bit.
With one quick motion, Shinobu kicked one of the pilots in the stomach, sending him to the floor, immediately took his gun from him and shot the other pilot with it. Travis sat in one of the seats, taking the rod control into his hands, trying to turn the helicopter around and head back in the direction of Santa Destroy. – „ Now, let's take this bird home, shall we?" – he asked Shinobu, smiling – „I bet the neighbours will go crazy if they see us landing a thing like this in the parking lot." – he joked.
„ They'll most likely do." – answered Shinobu with slight concern in her voice – „Are you sure, you can drive things like this?"
„ Sure, I controlled a huge robot once, this can't be too much harder than that." – Travis answered with a slight chuckle – „Just sit down and enjoy the view."
The girl was about to sit down, when suddenly, the pilot she kicked earlier woke up. He grabbed his partners gun and shot a few bullets at Travis. He immediately jumped out of the pilot seat, turned Blood Berry on and cut the man to pieces. – „ See? No worries." - he said, but when he looked back at the controlls, his face went pale. The bullets hit the main controls of the helicopter and there was no chance they could use them again. He looked out the window, seeing that they headed straight into the mountain, Shinobu also noticed this and realised that they had no chance to survive.
He hugged the girl tightly, whispering in her ear – „Everything's gonna be alright, everything's gonna be alright." – he whispered. Shinobu hugged him tightly, sobbing into his shoulder – „Everything's gonna be alright." – Travis continued.
Some people say, that before we die, we see our life, being played in front of us like a movie. We see our mistakes, see what good things we had managed to do and most importantly, we see things that we have long since forgotten.
At that moment, Travis Touchdown began seeing these kinds of things. He saw pictures, memories of his life as an assassin. He saw the day he met Sylvia, his fight with Shinobu, his unfortunate first meeting with Henry, the final fight with Jeane and so on. He saw Bishop's death, himself fighting several assassins. All of them, dead at the end.
He saw himself and Shinobu, after the ranking fights, sitting on his sofa, kissing. He saw Sylvia leaving, going back to Henry. At that time, he was furious. He was mad at the bitch for playing him and then leaving him to rot in his apartment. But now, he found peace. He found peace when he was in arm reach to death, embraced by the one he truly loved, and the one that truly loved him. He closed his eyes, kissed Shinobu one last time, and waited for death to come.