I just can't stay away from the keyboard. Or my concept of Reavus. So here's another Sci/fi-Mystery story people.
Disclaimer: I dont own any Mass Effect items. I own my idea, Reavus and my other OCs
You guys know the drill, Reavus is normal italics, Necris are normal underline and Archon (if i ever use him) is underline italics.
aaaaand on with the story.
It had been a full two years since that fateful day. Two years since the Necris began their war with the Prometheans. Two years since Reavus had killed that monstrous psychopath he called his father. Reavus avenged his people of the Necris-Reaper cycle 500000 years ago but most especially; he avenged his twin brother, who Reavus had to personally kill with his bare hands and watch his brother dissolve into nothingness before him.
In those two years, the Necris Empire had been continuing its onslaught in the Andromeda to completely defeat the Prometheans and liberate the people of the Andromeda from oppression. What made it esspecially difficult for the Prometheans was that because of the adaptive nature of the Necris organids, they could never gain a leg-up on any front in the galaxy. After every battle, the Necris ships would learn and adapt to what they encountered, making them more and more powerful with every passing battle. That and the fact that the 30 Necris organid factories back at Namocron went into overdrive. What was once a fleet of 97000 was now a fleet of 450000. It was one thing Reavus always made sure to put some real effort into; making sure that everyone knows not to fuck with the Necris.
The Necris had captured approximately 75% of the Andromeda. It was midnight on a jungle planet with some Necris Ghost teams doing their standerd datacentre smash-and-grab stealth missions to get intel on Promethean opperations in the sector. On a ridge next to the city were two Necris snipers providing overwatch for the Ghosts. The sniper had a clear view of the squad somewhere in the city and they were almost at the datacentre.
The snipers were scanning for Promethean patrols when the spotted some coming up from behind the Ghosts. "Major Bane, get to cover and hold position" the one sniper advised. The snipers lined up on the Promethean mechs and despatched them quickly and silently with perfect headshots. "You're clear. Move up to the datacentre" they said again. Bane and his team stealthily continued down the street to their target building.
The Ghost team finaly made their way to the datacentre when Bane was contacted by Commander Maya on The Nightmare Apex, "Bane, its Maya. You're gonna have to wrap your mission up quickly. The Promethean forces we're engaged with in the surrounding systems have been routed but they're heading in your direction. You have ten minutes before they show up". Bane protesteded and replied "That's a no-go Commander. It will take at least three minutes before we finally make it to the central terminal in the datacentre tower and another nine minutes to break their firewalls download ALL the data".
Just then, Admiral Reavus replied to that "Oh don't get your panties in a twist Major. I've taken my fighter out and I'll be on station in eleven. I trust my best Ghost team can survive 60 measly seconds" he joked. Bane just chuckled to himself and answered "Copy that sir. Alright team, lets get a move on to the datacentre".
Promethean datacentres were all built the same. Just like the datacentres back on the planet Reavus obliterated two years ago, it was vast yet easy to navigate. Bane and the Ghosts continued to make their way up the 100 story building. It wasn't long before they found the main elevator up and went to the top floor. The team of five then engaged their tacticle invisability cloaks while in the elevator so they could surprise the Promethean cyborgs once they got to the top floor.
The data hub had around a dozen Prometheans in it. Once the doors opened, the team quickly scattered around the room to get the best drop on the Prometheans. Once in position, Bane gave the order to attack. The team broke cover and camo whilst unloading their rifles on the cyborgs. In a matter of moments, the crossfire wasted the Prometheans and the team mechanic hastily got to work on the central console to upload the data to Necris Central Command. Bane was then contacted by one of the sniper teams who said "Sir! They've been put on alert. One of the borgs we dropped must have sent out a distress call". Bane looked out the tower window and replied "Copy that. Fall back to the shuttles and be prepared to pick us up".
As the data was transfering, Bane was contacted by the snipers on the city perimeter, "Major Bane, the retreating Prometheans have arrived. They're converging on the city. We don't have a clean path to the datacentre". Bane had no concern at all whilst looking out the window. Just then, five Promethean ships entered the city and deployed their ground troops to the plaza North of the datacentre. In fact, none of the other team members were at all concerned as they watched the Promethean ships closing in.
Bane just grinned and uttered "Wait for it...". A few moments after he mentioned that, night turned into day as the Ghosts, the city and the Prometheans bore witness to a fast approaching red comet coming down from the sky. "Alright, who ordered the one-man demolition team" was what Bane and his team heard on their radios in an all too familiar narcissistic tone.
In a flash, Admiral Reavus came down as his Dreadnaught form and impacted in the occupied plaza next to the datacentre. He landed with such a force that his energy sent out a super-charged biotic shockwave that purged the roads of all life in a five kilometer radius. The datacentre shook violently and groaned from the blast. Bane who was extremely concerned and not all too pleased with his superior shouted out on his radio "BOSS, WHAT THE HELL. ARE YOU TRYING TO GET US ALL KILLED". Reavus just looked up to the tower and replied with his usual grin "Oh RELAX Bane. The building still standing, isn't it? Hardly a scratch".
Not a moment after he said that, the building groaned again and a large crack went up the building side from it's foundations. Reavus fround slightly and said "Damn it Bane. I thought I told you to remind me to slow down on my approach speeds". Bane's jaw dropped like a rock as he shouted "WHAT. You didn't tell us shit. You were the one who came blazing in with your Dreadnaught like an ape. AGAIN". Reavus just snickered to himself and said back "Yeah yeah yeah. Just get the data out of there and exfil".
Reavus looked up to the five Promethean warships above the city. He immediatly charged up his wings and shot of the ground towards the first warship. With the power of his apex form backing him, he plunged straight through the first warship and took out its reactor on the way. With the gaping hole in it, the Promethean warship exploded and began crashing into the city.
Reavus then grabbed the rear section of the ship that was still falling and chucked it to the next Promethean ship. The massive piece of debris hit the ship and severly damaged it. It wasn't destroyed but it was majorly crippled. Just then, the next Promethean ship fired it's main cannon on Reavus. Just as two years ago, Reavus smiled as he caught and deflected the energy projectile. He deflected the round towards the ship he had just damaged and the round went perfectly down the main barrel of the damaged ship. This resulted in the second ship being utterly vapourised with little effort. "Ah DAMN, it's a hole-in-one" Reavus said to himself as the second ship blew up.
Ships four and five began to withdraw from the fight as they knew full well they would not hold out against Reavus' apex evolution. Reavus however doesn't take kindly to those who attack him, and turned his attention to ship three. He unsheathed his prized possession; The Ripper and channelled his power into it. He took a swipe at the Promethean warship and discharged the energy in his sword, releasing a tsunami of dark energy that cut the Promethean ship cleanly in half.
Reavus didn't bother with the remaining two as a Necris advance fleet of several Destroyers had arrived and would deal with the remaining Promethean ships still in orbit and the two Reavus left out. Reavus then brought up his omni-tool and said "Ghost sniper teams, the path is clear. Bring in the shuttle to the datacentre. CABAL, cover them with The Stinger and pick-off any straggling fighters you find". "You got it boss" and "Affermitive" were the replies.
Reavus landed at the datacentre plaza when he was called by Bane, saying "Sir, slight delay. The last part of the data is highly encrypted and we need an extra minute to bypass it". Reavus entered the datacentres lobby and casually replied "It's fine. Just make sure your team is ready to go by the time the shuttle arrives". As Reavus approached the elevators, he noticed some Promethean ground teams trying to access the elevator to the data hub.
Reavus reverted to his more basic Phantom transformation as he knew that if he used the Dreadnaughts power inside the building, it would collapse. That was the trade-off between his Phantom and Dreadnaught forms. The Phantom was more subtle, delicate and precise with its power, whilst the Dreadnaught was nothing but pure brutality.
Now in his Phantom, he unsheathed The Ripper and began charging the Prometheans. When he got to the first two, he reversed the angle of his sword so it pointed behind him. He swiped at the first cyborg and went straight through its neck. Not a second later, he spun around and impaled another one behind him through the heart. After that one, he removed his sword and attacked the third Promethean, cutting off his arms and stabbing him in the throat.
Reavus then quickly retracted his sword and swung it to the side to clean the blood off it. The three Promethean soldiers however didn't fall over, yet at the same time they couldn't move. Reavus then slowly resheathed The Ripper into the sheath on his left arm and savoured that final moment of sheathing. With the sound of *TING* of the sword, the three soldiers fell over. Ones head fell off, ones chest opened up, and the lasts arms fell off and his throat opened up.
He looked over to his left and saw an additional few soldiers come for him. The first one jumped at him trying to execute an overhead attack but Reavus extended his one bat-like wing and impaled the cyborg on the spike at the end. It didn't die however, but it was stunned. Reavus fired Warps at the other two Prometheans which quickly despatched them. As he killed them, he was contacted by Bane, "Reavus, we got the data. We're leaving on the shuttle now".
Thinking it was time to finish this, Reavus shot the Promethean on his wing off with one of his explosive spikes that come from his wings. It got impaled to the wall and started to stuggle to get the spike out. Reavus smiled and laughed as he shouted "RELAX ASSHOLE. It's only a flesh wound". Two seconds later, the spike exploded, not only vapourising the cyborg, but causing the building to come down.
Reavus quickly escaped the collapsing building and rendezvoused with his fighter. When Bane saw the building collapse, he just said on the radio "Why is it that anything you touch just crumbles into dogshit". Reavus snickered and replied "Call it a gift". With the mission on the planet complete, he went into space to dock with The Nightmare Apex which had just come out of hyper-space.
10 minutes later on The Nightmare Apex information centre
Reavus had some of his best hackers decrypting the data. It consisted of the usual data they find; enemy locations in the local sectors, enemy numbers and planetary information. It wasn't long before the hackers broke past the encyption on the last bit of data Bane and the Ghosts were downloading. Reavus looked at his hackers and asked "Well boys? What was so special that they put extra encrytions on it". The one hacker answered "This data seems to be how the Prometheans build their armies. Their soldiers are all clones. One they complete the clone, they put him through a session of brain washing before turning him into the cybernetic mosters we fight dayly". "Interesting" Reavus thought to himself before he left.
The Next day
Reavus was working in his own private office in his cabin on fleet logistics. Maya was simply relaxing in his cabins lounge. Reavus was planning to find as many Promethean cloning facilites as possible and permanently shut them down to give the Necris another edge in the war.
However as he was working, he suddenly got a strange tingling in his head that caused him a level of disorientation and groaning. Maya heard him and quickly rushed over to see what was wrong. She found Reavus in his chair clutching his head and a MASSIVE look of confusion of his face. "Reavus, what's wrong" she asked. Reavus looked up to her and replied "I... I'm not sure. I.. I can feel something, almost like.. I don't know. Almost like I'm tuning into something. Like when I took control of the Reapers last century".
Maya was equaly confused as she said "What do you mean? Is this something with the Reapers". Reavus shook his head at the same moment the 'tuning' subsided. He looked up to her and said "No. Not like the Reapers. But this mind, it feels familiar". Just then, Reavus' eye's went wide as he realised something. He said again "By familiar, I mean the last time I had this sensation of knowing anothers mind was" he paused for a moment, bringing a look of "WHAT" on Maya's face. "Was 500000 ago before I killed my brother".
So for ten points, can any of you guess what I'm planning?
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