Forge World Drypso
Zalarus, Inquisition, Ordo hereticus
I walked alongside 6 squads of Guardsmen and 6 Commissars through the hab blocks. "Inquisitor no offense but the Space Marines already cleared this area of Traitors and Heretics" A Guardsman Sergeant. "Sergeant, Chaos is a too great a threat to allow for any mistakes when cleansing those who follow the Ruiness Powers" I said.
"The Inquisitor is correct sergeant and we will ensure none of you sway from your duty to the Emperor" A commissar said. Also with us was 2 of my 3 Interrogators "Inquisitor we should split our forces, we'll cover more ground that way" One of them said. "Yes but it will also make our forces smaller and when we engage the heretics and traitors i want us to be together as a bigger force" I said.
We continued on our way through the hab blocks and I noticed movement in some windows, to agile, careful, and graceful to be human. "Inquisitor I saw..." A guardsman began. "I know Guardsman Morris I spotted them as well a while ago" I said getting the others attention.
"What is it Inquisitor ?" The other Interrogator asked me. "Eldar a small group have been following us for sometime" I said to them. "Guardsmen get ready to engage the Eldar" A Sergeant said.
"No we will use this to our advantage" I said. "Inquisitor what do you mean 'our advantage' ?" A Commissar asked. "The Eldar could have attacked us at any moment and succeeded in defeating us since several of the locations we all went through would have been perfect points to slaughter us" I said.
"What are you getting at Inquisitor ?" A Interrogator asked. "Only thing this way is Chaos Heretics and Traitors, they know something that we don't about these chaos dogs" I said. "So a Human Scion is smarter then their soldiers are" A female voice said after a few seconds some Eldar appeared starting a stand off between our forces.
I studied the Eldar in front of me and by her clothing, her sword, and the connection to the warp i felt coming from her i determined she was a Farseer. "Speak your peace Eldar Witch, my patience is very low at the moment" I said as the Guardsmen and Interrogators aimed at random Eldar. "I am Farseer Sevara of the Craftworld Sevaris, I know why your here and offer the aid of my kin" She said.
I felt sceptical "Why would an Eldar care about helping with slaying a band of Traitors and Heretics ?" I asked her. "The ones you call 'Cultists' have slain dozens of my kin and plan to summon something, I wish to prevent this and avenge my kin" She said. "So you offer aid with slaying these Traitors, Heretics, and Cultists to prevent a Demon from being summoned and to avenge your kin" I said.
"Correct Human" She said, I looked from her to her forces and my force. "Fine, we accept your aid but the first sign of any deception and we will ensure you join those slain kin of yours" I said to her. We then began to walk again but this time with the Eldar, it wasn't long before we reached a few dead astartes "So there is the missing Space Marines we must be getting close to the Traitors" A Interrogator said.
"We split up, I'll take a squad of Guardsmen to flank them from the rear" I said gesturing for a squad to follow me. "I'll join them, as will several of my War Host" The Farseer said as she, a Banshee, a Ranger, and a Seer followed us. "Keep an eye on her Sergeant, I don't want a Farseer to get the jump on me" I whispered to the Sergeant Guardsman.
We continued and reached an overlook at the Chaos forces. "No Traitor Space Marines just Heretics and Cultists this will still be difficult though" I whispered to the combined force of Humans and Eldar with me. At that moment we the others stormed in and began to battle the Heretics and Cultists "Fools the Ritual has started killing the cultists won't stop it" Someone said as the battle began. I got up and used my connection to the warp and sent a cleansing flame at the cultists "Let's go Guardsmen, slay these rebels" The Sergeant said as his men rushed forward.
The Eldar kept their distance but did engage the Heretics and Cultists. I rushed forward with my sword as I engaged a Heretic, The one leading the Ritual. "Ah an Inquisitor, one of the finest slaves of the Corpse Emperor, You will make and excellent sacrifice to Tzeentch" He said. I avoided his swing of a Chainsword obviously empowered by the Ruiness Powers "No matter your power or stolen weapon, I will send you to meet the Gods you worship Heretic" I said swinging my sword at his chest to which he blocked with his stolen chainsword.
As I fought him the Eldar Farseer was fighting a Cultist the one who must have been the lead Cultist. "Slaanesh will reward me for slaying you Farseer" She said as she sent a blast of lightning at the Farseer. "I will prevent you from summoning anything with the souls of my slain kin Human" The Farseer said back sending her own blast of lightning at the Cultist. I could feel the power of the warp growing screaming all around us "You and the Farseer feel it don't you the Greater Demon of Tzeentch is almost upon us, soon you'll die Inqui..." He couldn't finish the sentence as a bayonet went into his back and as I stepped aside a las round went through his chest, as he collapsed I saw a Guardsman.
I nodded at him as the Farseer killed the cultist but it was too late, I felt the warp scream loudly around us. We turned to the circle of that the cultists once were at now had a portal. I turned and saw only 7 Guardsmen were left with only 1 Sergeant and none of my Interrogators or the Commissars remained, as I looked at the Eldar i saw there was only The Farseer, a Seer, 2 Rangers and a Banshee were all that remained us all. "Sergeant we don't have the troops to deal with a Greater Demon, but we can at least weaken it, send a Guardsman back to the base and alert them of this, We will stay and fight this abomination" I said to her.
"I'll have it no other way then to die in service to the Emperor" She said as she pointed to a Guardsman "You go" She said as that Guardsman ran off. I turned to the Eldar and saw the Seer was gone most likely to the webway to alert their Craftworld. The Demon exited the warp and stared at us, it looked to be a large humanoid Raven.
"I am Inquisitor Zana Zalarus of the Ordo Hereticus Demon, I will not allow you to remain in this realm" I said raising my sword as the Guardsmen raised the lasrifles. "I am Farseer Sevara of The Sevaris and I won't allow you to live with the souls of my kin" She said as her remain Force prepared for battle. The Demon just laughed at us and sent a blast of warp energy at us as we charged it.
2 more Guardsmen fell including the Sergeant as we reached the demon. The demon grabbed a Guardsman and threw her at the Eldar Ranger and as the Eldar Ranger dodged the flying corpse the demon sent a blast of warp energy at him killing him. We then began to fight the demon in melee as the Guardsmen fired their lasrifles when able to.
The battle began to die down with just me, The Farseer, a Ranger and a Guardsman were all that remained we were panting as the demon moved on us. As the demon was about to strike me and the Farseer sent blasts of warp energy at it as the Guardsman and Ranger fired their weapons at it. The demon staggered as we kept up the onslaught, we pushed it back to the very portal it came out of.
"If I can't stay in this realm neither will you !" The demon shouted sending a strange warp energy i had never felt before at us making us, I then blacked out.
Unknown Planet
Morris, Guardsman, Imperial Guard
I slowly got up as I came too "Any my head" I said as I looked around me. I saw the Inquisitor, the Eldar Farseer and the Eldar Ranger, and the fact we were near a ravine. It shocked me to see a ravine for two reasons, one we were supposed to be on a forge world, two I hadn't had decent water for a full month.
I headed to the ravine but stopped before drinking some of the water. "It might be toxic" I said to myself as I sadly went back to the Inquisitor and waited for her to wake up. I didn't have to wait long as she got up almost several seconds before the Eldar got up. "The Demon is dead Eldar now you can leave before I decide to slay you" She said to the Farseer and Ranger.
"Inquisitor we aren't on the forge world anymore" I said getting their attention. "The Human soldier is right, I don't even hear the sound of machinery in the distance it sounds more like a Wilderness would" The Ranger said. "And Inquisitor there are no worlds in the Sub-Sector that have a world with any wilderness left on it" I said.
"Scion I know you feel it as well, The Warp is calmer here almost hard to feel" The Farseer said. The Inquisitor looked to be thinking of something and so did the rest of us, thinking the same thing. "If I can't stay in this realm neither will you" The Demon said before we blacked out and woke up here.
"Inquisitor could a Greater Demon of Tzeentch send us out of our realm ?" I asked her. "I am not an Inquisitor of the Ordo Malleus but I don't believe one could" She said. "But yet here we are in a different realm Human" The Farseer said.
"Stranded on an unknown planet, with only one Guardsman, an Eldar Farseer, a Eldar Ranger, and cut off from reinforcements this is dangerous" The Inquisitor said. "My lasrifle and pistol can recharge Inquisitor but your Bolter Pistol will only have the Bolter rounds you have left" I said to her knowing the Eldar weapons probably could recharge as well since we never really studied Eldar Weapons. "Until further notice and better conditions, I can't believe I am saying this, I propose a temporary truce Eldar" The Inquisitor said.
By the looks on the Eldars faces they knew it was the only option rather then us fighting each other. "I agree Scion it would be in both our best interest to aid each other until we find a way back to our realm" The Farseer said. We stared at each other for a bit before the Ranger looked into the distance as if hearing something, the Farseer did the same, "We have company coming, by the sound it could be a transport" The Ranger said.
"We should take cover and observe" The Inquisitor said as she headed off to the tree line followed by the Farseer, me and the Ranger headed to the ravine and hid behind the rocks. We didn't wait long before I could hear the transport come towards us before it stayed at a certain volume. "Guardsman be advised 2 Humans, and a Xeno just got out and are checking where we were laying" The Inquisitor said over our vox.
I looked at the Ranger and told him the same thing the Inquisitor told me. I then heard foot steps come in our direction "...The water from the ravine, it's displaced Shepard" A female voice said. I looked at the Ranger and he nodded knowing what to do, as the foot steps got closer I gripped my lasrifle tightly as the Ranger got ready. Right as we saw the female come between us the Ranger grabbed her and I stood up and aimed my lasrifle at the other male and male Xeno.
"Drop the weapon and let her go" The woman said. "Not a chance we don't know who you are and definitely don't know what she will do" I said back. At that moment the Inquisitor and Farseer exited the treeline. "We will release her when we know what's going on and who you are" The Inquisitor said to them.
The woman and xeno looked at each other obviously showing they've known each other for sometime, probably a few years or so. "I am Commander Jane Shepard, this is Garrus Vakarian and the woman he's holding is Miranda Lawson now who are you ?" 'Shepard' asked. "I am Inquisitor Zana Zalarus, the man with the lasrifle aimed at you is Guardsman Richard Morris of the 501st Imperial Guard Regiment" The Inquisitor said. "I am Farseer Sevara and this is Ranger Conon we're from the Sevaris Craftworld" The Farseer said to them.
"Well we mean you no harm so can you release ?" Shepard asked. The Ranger released her and grabbed his rifle and aimed at them like I was doing with my lasrifle. Shepard looked at us and apparently had an idea and spoke with 'Lawson' and 'Vakarian' and turned to us after a few minutes of silent arguing "We are gathering some allies to fight a threat to human colonies and I'd like to ask if you'd be willing to join" Shepard said.
I looked to the Inquisitor and she thought the same thing "Our loyalty is only to Humanity, if humans are in danger we will aid them" The Inquisitor said gesturing to me to lower my weapon. She looked at the Eldar and undoubtedly the Eldar knew what was best for her and the Ranger "We will join you as well Human" She said as they came toward me and the Ranger.
"We will not reveal everything to them only what we have to and what won't endanger the Imperium, or Eldar" She added the last part staring at the Farseer as we all nodded. We approached them and entered the transport which appeared to be a shuttle and headed into orbit. We went towards a small ship and landed in it's hanger "I'll show you to some free areas you can use as quarters" Shepard said.
As we went through the ship the Eldar chose an isolated room as their quarters and me and the Inquisitor chose the cargo hold. "Inquisitor why did you want the cargo hold as our quarters ?" I asked her. "I prefer us to have some privacy so we can do our daily duties without having to explain ourselves to them or being disturbed" She replied.
"Yes Inquisitor, I must say though the Emperor must have some plan for allowing us to be transported to this realm" I said. "That Shepard said that human colonies are in danger so that must be the reason, The Emperor protects all of Humanity, Guardsman Morris, in his eyes these Humans need protection, the Eldar I'm not sure of" She said with a bit of anger, showing she didn't like unknowns.
I look at my pendent i wear around my neck and a small scar beneath it of the eight pointed star, this did not go unnoticed by the Inquisitor. "From what I've seen while fighting alongside you Morris you are not a Heretic like your forefathers" She said getting my attention. "Thank you Inquisitor" I said to her with sadness of my forefathers being chaos worshippers.
"Perhaps this is a chance for you to redeem your family in the Emperor's eyes" She said. "Yes Inquisitor, that is one of the lesser reason I fight" I said. "And the main reason ?" She asked me. "I mainly fight since it's my duty to the Emperor and the Imperium" I said to her.
'Normandy', Eldar Quarters
Sevara, Farseer, Craftworld Sevaris
I sat and tried to see the potential futures for me and Ranger Conon. In all the futures I saw included the Imperial Humans that were brought here with us. "Farseer what have you foreseen ?" Conon asked me, I opened my eyes.
"Every possible future I have seen has involved the Imperials" I said to him. "What does this mean Farseer Sevara ?" He asked me. "Our future and their future are crossed and together and has been since before we battled the Humans who summoned that demon with the souls of our kin" I said to him.
I looked out at the stars as they passed by "I also don't feel the presence of She Who Thirsts" I said. "You mean we are safe now Farseer ?" He asked me. "Yes Conon we are safe from She Who Thirsts but that means something happened to the Eldar of this realm" I said.
"Then what shall we do Farseer ?" Conon asked me. "We stay with the Imperials, they are the closest thing we have to allies with the same experiences" I said to him. "So I take it we maybe the last of not just our Craftworld but the last of the Eldar in this realm" Conon said.
I thought back to several of the many futures i saw and remembered seeing me having young with the human soldier and Conon having young with the human scion. I wondered what could have lead to these potential futures and will that one be our future, I then realized that maybe the best future I saw since it may bring the Eldar back, although not fully Eldar, still they would have Eldar blood. "What of the Humans we just joined Farseer ?" Conon asked me with curiosity and wonder.
"I don't know it may take some time to see if they are a threat to us" I said. "I don't know about you Farseer but I need some rest" Conon said. "I feel the same way" I replied to him.
Authors Note:
I only played the demo for Mass Effect 2 so I may be wrong if Garrus was the first non human crew member Shepard got during that game. I also was inspired by the fanfic Xover Mission Stays the Same. I may be accepting ideas for how this fanfic will go and what could happen in later chapters if your all interested.
I am also going to be typing up the second chapter as soon as I am done typing this one. So expect the next chapter to be up today or tomorrow.