Hey and welcome to a new story. So read a lot of green lantern and I love Mass effect. I figured "Hey, I'll make my own Version of the Red Lantern Corps and see where this goes." And so what you're about to read is just that, this is also an SI/Tali story as well. I hope you enjoy.
And yes I understand that this probably belongs in the crossover section, but to me this is only a slight crossover. Like the story 'Users' (use-ers). Anyway enough rambling just go ahead and read.
Disclaimer: I own nothing except the story
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I'm in the middle of either a limbo or a void, there's small moments of darkness and trees would appear and disappear. And I'm walking straight forward into nothing. My name is Nick, I'm almost in my twenties, 6'1ft and not all skinny but have some muscle on me.
I continued walking until a table appeared in front of me, along with a women in a white dress with silver hair. I looked at her in surprise at how she just appeared out of no-where, she giggled at my quizzical expression and began explaining her self.
"Greetings, I am Diana, Mistress of the Limbo." She said introducing herself with a smile, "You are here because you were in an accident and now in a coma. One that I'm afraid you won't be able to come back from." She said sadly, I continue looking at her in shock, so she shows me a vision of what happed on a portal looking thing and I finally understood what she meant.
"So what do I do now?" I asked her, she smiled again. "Lucky for you, you'll be given a new life, but in a different universe and some powers." She explained, I wondered what she meant by new powers. Suddenly a jar rose up from the table and opened.
And out came a Red Lantern Ring.
"You'll be living in the Mass effect universe, where you'll be the leader of the Red Lantern Corps. What you do is entirely up to you." She explained, then a red battery showed up as well. "First up, since this the beginning of it and you're leader, you recite your own Oath and it'll be that forever." I had made an audible 'Uh' but I shook it off and put on the ring on my right hand
Two fire red ropes shot out and wrapped themselves around me, once I was covered the ropes peeled away and my uniform was made. It was skin tight, light armored along with black Gloves and boots with the red lantern symbol on my chest, everything else was all red.
I looked at the Battery and knew whatever I said would be the oath to charge the ring forever. I raised my ring hand, and recited an oath I knew from a GLTAS episode, and the battery grew bright with every word I said.
"The power of the crimson red
Can lead your soul away from dread
And heal the deepest wounds of hate
Let no one else decide your fate"
The light dimmed as I finished reciting, and my ring said in a feminine robotic voice, "Ring power level: 100 Percent." I looked back Diana for what I think is the last time and ask, "Before I go in my absolute favorite universe ever, I want to know just how long before the games I'll be from." She answered almost immediately. "Just about five years, so the year 2178." I grab the battery, and I walk into a portal she opened for me.
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As I stepped out of the Portal my suits shield turns on, as it so happens I walk straight into outer space. I look around and see an orange planet with a red out line on it. I take this moment to enjoy my new powers. I fly through the asteroid belt that circles the Orange plant and Blast some asteroids into dust with my ring. As I got closer and closer to the planet, my ring began detecting something.
"Anomaly Detected on planet's surface; scans detect the same energy signature as the Red lantern ring." It said, I stopped my joyride and flew down to the surface.
When I got to the surface, it was a sight to see. It almost looked like Mars, except that this one had some fauna on it. I checked my suit and saw the shield had gone down so at least it has a breathable atmosphere. When I looked at what was in front of me, I was amazed to see a temple of an ancient kind.
It was all old looking, and had grey flags, and right at the center was a big red Battery that still had energy in it. I walk up to the steps, and started to climb them. I was surprised when I planted my foot on the first step that red energy sprang from the step, or me. The energy flowed from the steps and onward to the temple.
The flags turned red with red lantern colors, and the battery had gotten more energy than it originally had, and the ancient look wore off and it looked brand new even. When I had gotten to the top of the steps, I saw that a black box awaited me. I picked it up and opened it to see thousands of red power rings waiting for owners.
An idea popped in my head, grabbing three of the rings and closing the box I ordered, "Find and recruit Tali'Zorah, Urdnot Wrex and Garrus Vakarian." With that the rings took off from my hand and up into space.
I could only wonder where they would go to find them.
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"But father, you don't understand!" cried a distressed Tali'Zorah, her father Rael raised a shaking fist at her. "No! I understand perfectly well, and you are never to be in contact with that Damn boy again!" he yelled as he walked out the door, closing right after he left.
Before their fight, Tali had been hanging out with a distressed young Quarian man named Veetor. They started hanging out as kids when Veetor would get bullied because he was different mentally. They were never in love or anything, they were just really close. Her father noticed this and did not like it one bit, so he separated the two and we saw where that ended up.
Now Tali sits on her cot, sobbing silently and sniffling cursing her father for his Authoritarian personality. She was about to go to sleep when she caught a glimpse of something red in her room, when she turned to see what it was, she saw a floating ring with a symbol on it, and it was a mixture of dark/bright red.
It floated to her and said to her surprise. "TALI'ZORAH OF THE RAYA!" it said, with a commanding male voice. "YOU HAVE GREAT SPIRIT AND GREAT ANGER IN YOUR HEART!" she raised her hand to grab it, but the ring snapped itself onto the middle finger of her three fingered hand. Red energy spewed out and covered her entire body, and peeled away revealing her new suit.
It was the same as her old suit, but red and black, and had the same symbol as the ring did. "YOU BELONG TO THE RED LANTERN CORPS!" it said to her, she felt the power of the anger flow through her and she liked it. Looking to an air vent she went in and cut through the metal and was in space. She saw in the shield and was home free. She flew away at top speed not knowing where this ring would take her but she trusted it as it was her new life.
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We switch to see Wrex on a shuttle, leaving Tuchunka for the last time. The last time he left was after that issue he had with his father, the only thing he had left to do now was curse his entire species and the Turians and Salarians for the hard times, and the Genophage
His thoughts were interrupted by a red light shining in the room. The Krogan turned to see what was going on, only to see a bright red ring hover in front of him.
"URDNOT WREX OF TUCHUNKA!" it said to him, he was startled by this but didn't show it. "YOU HAVE GREAT SPIRIT AND GREAT ANGER IN YOUR HEART!" just as the ring said that, Wrex felt compelled to reach for it. So he did and the ring latched onto his finger. Red energy sprawled out and covered everything except the head and the energy peeled away. Revealing his new uniform, that really didn't change the outfit except the Red and Black and symbol.
A blast of red energy shot out from the ring and blasted his shuttle in two. Instead of being sucked out in space, he was covered in a shield and began flying off into who knows where. "YOU BELONG TO THE RED LANTERN CORPS!" it said finally as he was flying through the cosmos, laughing like a mad man as he enjoying this a bit too much.
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"Sir, with all due respect we had Dr. Heart right there. We can still get him if we're quick." Garrus exclaimed to his boss, Executive Pallin, he had heard that C-sec just gave up on the search. And this infuriated the Turian, "Yes Garrus, I know but we've been over this about three times now, and the fourth time is not something I have time for. Good day Garrus." And with that, Executive Pallin walked away.
After the door closed, Garrus slammed his fist into the desk, nearly putting a hole in it. As he was calming down he noticed a bright red ring coming through the window giving off a red light. It slowly flew up to him until it was only mere inches away from him. Just hovering there, the ring said. "GARRUS VAKARIAN OF PALAVEN!" Garrus stood there in shock, mouth agape, he had just heard a ring talk. "YOU HAVE GREAT SPIRIT AND GRAET ANGER IN YOUR HEART!" Garrus tried to reach for the thing, but it slid itself onto his finger.
Red energy engulfed him, and slowly peeled away showing him in his new uniform. The torso was red and the arms and legs were black. He also had a red and black helmet on his head along with the symbol as well. "YOU BELONG TO THE RED LANTERN CORPS!" it said at last
Then, as if he were a puppet, the ring lifted him up and out the window he went. No glass broke since it was open. And he left the Citadel and off to where ever this ring was taking him.
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Three streaks of red light fly across the stars, coming towards an Orange planet. First was the Quarian, then the Krogan and then the Turian. "It's beautiful." Said Tali, Wrex looked at her for a moment then huffed. "yeah I guess, if you're into that. To me planet's are nothing more than rocks you live on." The Turian looked at Wrex for a moment, but looked back at the planet. "while that may be true, I'm still just trying to figure out why we were given these things." Garrus said, "I mean so much power in such a little thing, and the fact we be in space without a breathing mask. Well… except for you miss." He finished, looking at Tali. "it's Tali, no offence taken." She said, all there rings beeped for a second before saying.
"The Leader of the Red Lantern corps is on the planet below, he is waiting." They beeped again before going silent, they all looked at each other before heading to the surface.
When they reached the surface they saw a huge landscape with Fauna and animal life all over. What had caught their attention when it came into view was a temple of some kind, it looked new and had the same symbols and landed on the steps.
When they climbed the steps they saw someone in front of some huge power source. Human to be exact, Wrex coughed loudly to get his attention. When the human turned around, he smiled slightly and walked towards them to greet them.
"Hello I am Nick, Leader of the Red lantern Corps." He said introducing himself, "And us four my friends, are the only red lanterns in the galaxy." He stated, to which Garrus spoke up. "wait a minute, we just flew half-way across the galaxy and you think we'll just up and join you when we're the only ones." He said, as he was annoyed.
"well my friend, big things come from small beginnings." Nick stated, "I started the Corps when a red ring chose me, and I found this temple here. This we'll be our home base." He continued, Wrex stepped up a bit so he was a few inches from him.
"what the Turian said, what makes you think we'll just join." The Krogan asked, Nick smirked. "well I'm trying to fight for everyone in the galaxy. The whole point of me making this corps is to help the oppressed fight the oppressors." Nick explained.
"you may think it's for nothing, but sometimes people have to step up to the people who use their power unjustly, who else is going to do that. The rings chose you, because they're programmed to find the people with the most spirit and the most anger in their hearts. And you guys have that, and besides all you krogan do is fight anyway, I'm just giving you a reason to." He preached, this seemed to bode well with all them.
"if you're fighting to protect those who can't without red tape, then count me in." Garrus said proudly, "count me in as well." Tali said. Wrex looked at both of them and thought for a moment before finally saying, "Ah what the hell, could be fun. Count me in as well."
Just then three red lantern batteries floated past nick and to each of their respected owners. "Ah good, your batteries are here, I think now's a good time to learn your Oath to the corps." Nick said, "Not only will this show you will be loyal to the red lantern cause, it'll also be what you do in order to charge your rings. Now hold your rings to the lens, and repeat after me." Nick explained, everyone did just so.
"The power of the crimson red
Can lead your soul away from dread
And heal the deepest wounds of hate
Let no one else decide your Fate."
Once they were done reciting the Oath, their rings informed that power levels are at one-hundred percent.
"Hmm, touching oath there. Almost ironic in that last part." Wrex said, Nick giggled slightly and said he thought the same thing, Tali decided to speak up. "So… what do we do now." "We patrol the galaxy for injustice, and we stop it. I'll send more rings out to find a bearer, while you're out there stay out of sight if you can." Nick said, everyone gave a quick nod and headed back out towards the stars.
And one could only wonder where their adventures would take them as this was the start of something awesome.
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A/N: well there you have it, like I said this is my own rendition of it. So no flames on how I didn't get anything right. Hope you liked it, be sure to Fav, follow and review if you can. Bye.