Hello. Although I have yet to even get half-way through my first Fanfic this idea was too good for me to ignore. All OCs, original species and universes/dimensions are mine. There will be another disclaimer at the bottom of this page, but it will not be a crossover story.
I'm sorry if there are any spelling mistakes and most spellings will be in British English. Pease tell me what you think through a review and enjoy the story.
I don't own Mass Effect.
An Unexpected Disturbance
Chapter 1 – All's quiet on the Normandy front
Commander John Shepard stood overlooking the galaxy map on the bridge of the Normandy SR-2. His mission so far was going along smoothly. His newest addition to the crew the master thief Kasumi Goto was stealing in well, even better now that he's helped her recover her former lovers graybox. "Joker, set a course for Purgatory."
"Aye-aye commander, bored of being alive already?"
Shepard shook off his comment and turned to the lift. It was late on the Normandy and most of the crew had headed to their quarters. The CIC was empty except for Yeoman Kelly Chambers and Joker, who almost never left his seat. He hit the button deck one and ascended slowly, he still has no idea why Cerberus didn't add faster lifts to this multi-billion credit star ship. His cabin was impressive in size, although he still thought the fish tank was too much. "EDI, wake me when were two hours from Purgatory."
"Yes Commander, goodnight." EDI monotone voice rang out.
His eyes slowly drifted open as a buzzing noise repeatedly rang in his ears. "Commander wake up, we've got a problem here." Joker's voice franticly called over the intercom.
"EDI, what's wrong?" Shepard asked as he stumbled out of bed and pulled on his uniform.
"Commander, I am detecting servile distortions in space around and in the Normandy."
"What does that mean?" he asked as he stepped into the lift and headed to the CIC.
"I am unsure commander, but it appears that converging on the hanger."
"Tell the team to assemble in engineering."
Shepard's team had gathered outside the lift in engineering all looked equally annoyed that there sleep was interrupted, except for Mordin who never seemed to sleep. "Shepard it appears that the anomalies are increasing in power and have converged into the centre of the hanger. Fascinating, must study more." He said.
"Do you have any idea what's wrong, will it harm the ship?" Shepard asked as they looked out into the hanger.
"Can't tell. Will be interesting to find…" Mordin was suddenly cut off at a strike of lightning crashed throughout the hanger, quickly followed by others that append to be originating from five different spots in the centre of the hanger. Five blue-black balls started to appear from the lightning. The crew watched on in shock and fear as the floating balls expanded. Before a blinding light flashed and rocked the ship.
"Is everyone ok?" Shepard asked, and was relieved to have reserved words and nods of affirmative form his dazed crew. "What was that?"
"From the data I gathered it appeared that five wormholes opened in our hanger. Shepard I and also receiving five unknown life signs in the hanger, only three are human the other two are unknown aliens." EDI said.
"Ok let's go and see if our guests are friendly. Get your weapons ready." Shepard ordered as the crew squeezed into the lift.
Privet Henry Smith's eyes struggled to open as he gasped a long berth of air. Something was wrong, he was lying down but the grown was hard, and metal. The air was fresh, clean, all the noises of war had disappeared and replaced by silence. The brushing over his face was cool but not the cold it had been. His whole body was sore. All he wanted to do was lie there and rest. This floor was fare more confortable then where he had been staying for the last year. It was dry and clean. 'Where am I?' He thought. Finally he opened his eyes to find himself staring up not at a clouded sky but a ceiling, a metal celling with electric lights illuminating the room the white light.
He panicked. Looking to his side he found his rifle. He grabbed it and dragged himself off the floor. His berthing and heart beat quickened. He nervously attached his bayonet to the end of his rifle and checked to see if all his rounds were still in the chamber. Herring movement, spinning around with his rifle snakingly pointed at the source off the sound.
There was another man lying on the strange metal floor. He wore a long white coat over blue trousers and a shirt. What appeared to be an identification card hung out of the coats pocket. Henry cautiously inched closer, still pointing his rifle. The man groaned and lifted himself up. He had short dark brown hair and a stubble beard.
He looked up at Henry. With a shriek of shock he started crawling away still facing henry. "S-stop, Stop or I'll shoot." Henry ordered, the man obeyed.
"Who are you, where am I?" The other man said.
"You don't know?"
"No, I'm Professor Harrison Johns. Please I'm unarmed and as lost as you are, now put the gun down."
Henry continued to look before lowering his rifle. "I'm Privet Henry Smith, 2nd Army." Harrison slowly got to his feet and winced in pain as he held the back of his head. "Do you know where we are?"
Harrison looked around the large room. "It appears to be some kind of hanger, that there looks like a transport shuttle and over there appears to be some kind of hover tank."
"That's all well and good, Professor, but the question remains, where the bloody hell are we?" A rough English voice asked. They turned with Henry razing his rifle towards the voice. There stood a man dressed in green and tan camouflage with equally camouflaged vest and helmet. His body was adorned with various weapons, ammunition and grenades. He was aiming an assault rifle at them. "I suggest you put the gun down lad. I'm on your side here."
Henry reluctantly nodded and lowered is weapon, the other man who could easily be twice his age lowered his weapon also. He was nothing like any solder Henry had seen. "Who are you? You're clearly not a Hun."
"Call me Knight. I'm a captain in 'A' Squadron 22 SAS. So tell me prof. where are we?"
"Why does everyone assume I know where we are, as I said this is clearly a hanger somewhere. Let me see." Harrison said as he raised his left arm. A blue and white hologram appeared over it. Knight and Henry jumped back at the sight. Knight was filled with caution and intrigue whilst Henry was fearful and curious at the sight. "No, this can't be right. Impossible, according to this were in deep space, on the other side of the galaxy from Earth."
"What are you suggesting prof. that Aliens adducted us?"
"W-we're in space, aliens like in the War of the Worlds?"
"I never suggested aliens, perhaps somehow a FTL test messed up and we were taken here."
"FTL? Speak English prof."
"I am. The Corporation has been conducting faster than light tests out of Gagarin Station for the last three years."
"What are you blabbing on about? What Corporation? What's Gagarin Station? And what's that thing on your arm?" Knight asked now starting to get angry.
Henry backed away his face still filled with shock and fear. He looked down at his muddy trench coat and from his pocket pulled his battered copy of the War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. It was his most prized possession. It was not only his favourite book but the last gift given to him by his farther. He had given it to him before he left for basic training, after his first weak on the front he received a letter from his mother said that he had died of a heart attack. Now he was here, somewhere with two strange men in an even stranger place with little hope of going home again.
Before Harrison could answer the questions there was a ding from a wall of the hanger. They turned to see the wall under a set of windows open to revile people armed with even more bizarre weapons directed at them. "Drop your weapons and put your hands in the air." The man in the centre demanded. Henry panicked and did as he was told. Knight who was aiming his gun back rolled his eyes and murmured something as he then complied.
To say that Commander Shepard was shocked at the sight of three drastically different individuals in front of him was an understatement. As that raised their arms he lowered his weapon and looked between them. Miranda and Jacob moved to his side and also had a look of shock and confusion.
"I'm Commander Shepard, and your on-board my ship the Normandy. We won't hurt you. Do you know how he got here?"
Harrison was the first to speak up. "I'm Professor Harrison Johns and no, I don't know what happened. One minute I was sitting overlooking results for Project EVE, when my chair slipped backwards and I fell and hit my head. When I opened my eyes I was here."
Knight was next. "Captain Knight, 22 SAS. I was on a classified mission. My team was compromised. I ordered them to fall back for e-vac. I stayed behind to finish the mission. I should be dead, but I'm here."
Henry was the last. "I-I am Privet Henry Smith, 2nd Army, BEF. I… we were ordered to go over the top and take Jerry's lines. Then a shell landed. When I opened my eyes I was here. We are we, are we really in space?"
"Yes, yes we are and I'm sorry for that. But we have no idea how or why this happened. I know this will be hard for you to take. The year is 2185, humanity has united under the Systems Alliance and is a galactic civilization and member of the Citadel Council which is an organization uniting many different spacefaring races." Shepard said.
They stood in stunned silence for a while, thinking over what they been told. "Shepard, I've found the non-humans. You may what to see them." Garrus called from across the hanger.
"Jacob, Miranda, take our guests to deck three, get them something to eat, and take there weapons to the armoury." The two nodded in agreement and lead the three towards the lift. Shepard turned and walked towards Garrus.
Suries Te'un was lost, confused and relived to be alive. She had woken in the hanger of a strange ship, she felt four other aliens she never encountered nearby. Three were the same species and had converged in the centre of the hanger. The other was still unconscious near her. The ship had a full crew. Most of them were the same as the three strangers in the centre of the hanger however she sensed three other species amongst the crew. Eight people were descending in a lift on the far side of the hanger. She couldn't tell if they would be hostile or not.
Slowly she snuck around the containers towards the unconscious alien. The three strangers were as lost as she was, her mined quickly translated for her. "W-we're in space, aliens like in the War of the Worlds?" said the youngest.
She rounded a corner and set eyes upon the unconscious alien. It was enchased in full grey and black body armour. Like here it had four fingers on each hand and double-kneed legs. It had three talon toes and a platform from the rear of the foot. It's most notable features were a long tail and head elongated forward. The face was hidden behind a helmet with a grey-blue tinted visor. On its armours chest plat were white markings that
She sensed it stirring. Looking around she grabbed a large gun to its side and pushed it out of reach. Its eyes opened. She sensed its shock and confusion and the fear. It lashed out with a kick towards Suries. She dogged back and stood firm. Even though she could kill it before it even knew she was a threat she knew better than that. "Came down, I'm not going to hurt you." She said as the alien reached to a sidearm on its leg and aimed it at her.
"What are you, where are we?" It asked and to her astonishment in the same language as the three other aliens.
"My name's Suries Te'un. I'm a sapris, and just like you I woke up here."
"This ship looks of raptam design. But I have never heard off or seen a sapris, how can I trust you?"
"Because we have a better chance of finding out what's going on if we work together. There are three others hear who like us were unconscious and just as scared and confused as us. However this ship is filled with the same species as them, we are on our own."
There were two aliens approaching, bough had their weapons drawn. "Someone's coming, they may be friendly but if they're not then we'll have to fight. Can I trust you not to shoot me in the back?"
"Only if you don't shoot me, by the way, the names Marvek Kavares." And he extended a hand to shake. She took it briefly before her other hand glowed white and his weapon flew back to him."
"Wait, how did you do that?"
"It's called Gro'tane. It's a telepathic ability all my species possess. It's also how I'm speaking to you in your language even though I don't have a mouth or ears."
Garrus cautiously moved through the crates, Shepard had already met the humans, he and Kasumi took the port side of the hanger in search of the unknown aliens. They rounded a corner, stopped and looked in shock and surprise at an alien in front of them. It was wearing golden armour that flowed across her body and lower legs as if they were golden leaves raping around her. Below she wore white robes with golden trims over her light grey skin. Two glowing eyes looked out of a mouth less face on a head that starched back in a rounded diamond shape with two antenna like parts that proudly hung behind her.
Despite never seeing this alien before Garrus and Kasumi could tell from her stance and aura that she was someone to be feared and respected. They were engrossed at the sight of Suries that they didn't notice Marvek behind them. "Drop you weapons and raise your hands slowly."
Garrus and Kasumi soon complied. They were under orders not to be hostile after all. "You understand me?" Marvek asked rising an eyebrow under his helmet.
Garrus and Kasumi were confused at the question. He must have a translator or they wouldn't have been able to understand him. "Yes, we understand you. We come in peace." Kasumi responded.
"You speak Japanese?" Again Garrus and Kasumi were confused at this question. They understood him but he didn't understand them.
"Perhaps I could translate for you." Suries said, or Garrus and Kasumi thought she said it. "I'm Suries Te'un, A High librarian of the Sapris Empire. My friend there is Marvek Kavares, a raptam I believe."
"That's Gunnery Sergeant Marvek Kavares, and yes my species are the raptam."
"My name is Garrus Vakarian, I'm a turian. This is Kasumi Goto, she's a human. We mean you no harm, all we know is that you somehow appeared our ship and were ordered to find you and peacefully bring you to the Commander."
"I understood that."
"That's because I was translating for you Marvek." Suries responded "What you are saying is true. We do not know how we came to be here but we'll go peacefully to your Commander."
After Commander Shepard finished introductions with the non-humans he asked the last thing they remembered. Suries started. "I was defending the last stronghold of my race in the Grate library of Karassos II from an attack by a race of sentient star ships called the Reapers."
"Wait, you were fighting the Reapers?"
"Yes, they come in a cycle of extinction every fifty thousand years. By the time we knew this our race and our prothean allies had all but died. I was among the last three hundred sapris in existence. We knew it would be our last stand, it was. By the time our numbers had dwindled to a few we had destroyed five Reapers and thousands of their husks and indoctrinated protheans. It was then a Reaper who called itself Nazara finely fired on us. Everything went dark but I woke up here."
"So your species lived and died with the protheans?" Shepard asked
"Yes."
"The Reapers are still a threat to the galaxy. Thanks to the protheans we… I had a warning about them. Also they shut down the Citadel relay so we have more time to prepare. Not that any civilization believes in them."
"We must warn them Commander. I just watched my species die. I should be dead, but now I'm here and I will not stand by and let the Reapers destroy all life again."
"Then we have the same goal. Suries I will be honoured to have you join my crew to fight the Reapers and there Collector minions."
"It would be my pleasure commander."
"So Marvek, what's your story."
"Well it's not as interesting as that. I'm an ODST, an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, one of the Special Forces of the United Nations Space Command, UNSC for short. My race has been fighting an alien collective called the Covenant who declared a war of genocide on us for no reason other then we supposedly defiled artefacts of their gods." This received collective gasps of shock and horror from the surrounding crew. "The covenant glassed many of our worlds and murdered billions indiscriminately. We were losing. They had reached our home planet of Earth…"
"Earth! Earth is our home planet."
"No it ours, its located in the Sole system in the Orion arm of the Milky Way."
"So's our Earth."
"That's confusing. So if were from the same planet then I must be very far from home. I should have guessed with the whole 'I'm from the future where none of this existed part.'" Marvek said as he removed his helmet to revile an avian head. It looked like that of a dinosaur but unlike turians it had scales and feathers. "I was born in the city of Cape Town, South Africa."
"Yeha, we have Cape Town."
"Who lost World War Two?"
"The Axis, Germany, Japan…"
"And who dropped the nukes Shep." Kasumi said with a hint of sarcasm.
"The United States." Marvek replayed.
"Yes, so it seems that we have the same history until the year two-thousand at least. And Kasumi I'm of Canadian decent."
"I know, I was only kidding."
"So what happened then?" Shepard asked.
"I was doing an orbital drop over the city of New Mombasa. We were going to land on a Covenant carrier that had broken through our defences and stopped over the city. A Covenant leader, the Prophet of Regret was on-board. It was our job to assault the ship and capture or kill him. The Carrier however made a Slipspace jump over the city. Me and the other ODSTs were hit by the wave and sent off course. The last thing I remember though was another pod heading towards me as we fell. Then I was here."
After that was over they agreed to follow Shepard to the Crew deck. The lift however slowed them. "Why is this thing so slow? The UNSC would never allow elevators this slowly on their ships."
"Sapris lifts weren't this slow either. Although the Citadel ones where."
"They still are. I sometimes wonder why they didn't speed this thing up. I'll see if my engineers can do anything about it."
When the doors finally opened Shepard and the others stepped out and turned to see Miranda, Jacob, Doctor Chakwas, Henry, Harrison and Knight sitting around a table. Chakwas was scanning a nervous Henry who was now out of his trench coat but still in his mud drenched olive uniform. Miranda was talking to Harrison, whist Jacob with Knight. They suddenly stopped and looked up in shock and in especially in the time traveling human's cases disbelief. 'I'm too tired for this' Shepard thought and groaned.
A/N: I don't own Halo. Mavrics background and equipment are taken from Halo. If you haven't guessed he's from an alternative universe were the events of Halo happed only the humans are raptam. I still have no idea what gives me these ideas.