"Alright guys, are we all set to go." Says a man in a dark suit behind a secured console.
"Yeah." I replied, "I'm about as ready as I'll ever be."
My brother responded similarly, "same here."
"Alright just step into the pods and we'll get you all hooked up."
We stepped step into the pods and I received an injection of a very powerful anesthetic. I was nervous, I didn't know when they were gonna wake us up all I know is that when they did all the people in this room, our family, our loved ones, everyone we know aside from us would all be long dead. After a few minutes, the anesthetic started to set hit me hard as shit, the techs could see it on there face. I was drifting in and out, I could kind of make out what the head of the project was saying.
"Commencing stasis program test Omega. Time and date July 21, 2012. Subjects Seth Anders, age 24 and Connor Anders, age 23. Subjects are in cryo pods and have undergone preliminary stasis prep. Waiting for full anesthetic effect before proceeding any further." At least that's what I remember as far as I know. The last thing I remember seeing before I finally drifted off was the emblem on the wall, a long black diamond flanked by two yellow lines. I thought to myself before it all went black, "What the hell did you get yourself into, Seth?" And then….nothing.
And as if I had just fallen asleep as I normally did, you know without the anesthetic and the deep freezing, I woke up. My brothers pod was already empty. I could hear the sound of explosions and gunfire in the background, but something sounded different about it. I couldn't figure out what. I was wondering what the hell was going on, so I went off to find out. I came across a window, and man was I shocked, the Los Angeles skyline that I saw before I was frozen was replaced by a massive black void with what looked like a massive gas-giant planet. Then it hit me…I'M ON A FUCKING SPACE STATION! I didn't have much time to have it sink in, because then an explosion blew the door open and I saw this weird hunchback looking creature come through. It had black skin four eyes, at least I think those were eyes and it's mouth was open, as if that wasn't strange enough it looked like it was half mechanical-half biological, and everything was glowing. I didn't have to wait too long to assume it wasn't friendly, so I did what any other guy would do, I broke the hell out of there. I ran into a hall when I found a dead body that had the same logo on his armor that I saw before I went to sleep. Lucky for me there was a gun next to it. It looked like a pistol, but it seemed pretty big for one, but hey, a weapon's a weapon.
I ran all around that station until I saw some people looking like they we're fighting those things. I decided to follow them, they might have known a way out.
"Who the hell is he?"
"I don't fucking know, for all I know he could be one of them."
"Do I look like one of those freaks to you? My gun's pointing at them and from the looks of things you know a way out of here." I told him.
"How do you not know where the hell you're going?" one of them said to me.
"Does it look like I have the time to explain right now?"
"Alright just stick with us, after that you better give us some damn answers"
"As long as I get out of here in one piece." I said as I was shooting more of those freaks.
"No guarantees on that one."
As if through some miracle we reached some sort of craft, It was safe to assume it was the one they used to get here. I didn't know what the hell just went on, but I had a pretty good idea. These guys must be some sort of military judging by what looked like the armor they were wearing. One of them wore a black one with a red stripe going down the right arm. I saw "N7" on the chest plate. The other was wearing a one that was blue and had some sort of symbol that look like the letter A on the chest straddling a picture of Earth. The other wore a similar blue suit of armor, but it was larger on the back and the helmet was longer. All three of them were wearing helmets so I couldn't see there faces.
Then the all took off their helmets, first the one in black, then the one in blue closest to me. "Good their human" I though to myself….then the other one followed suit. My eyes widened to the size of goddamn dinner plates at the site of him…her…it…whatever it was.
"Y-you….you're…" I said, shocked.
"Not human, yeah, I get that a lot."
"What's the matter, never seen a Turian before?" said the human in blue.
"I haven't even HEARD of a Turian before!" I replied.
"Relax Kaiden, let's get him back to the Normandy, give him some time before we start probing him with questions." Said the one in black.
"Sure thing commander."
After about ten minutes or so, we stopped. I heard hissing and mechanical whirring, then I heard a door slamming shut. Then the door on the shuttle opened and I was onboard what this "Commander" calls the Normandy. Took me a while to have everything sink in. But they brought me up into the elevator onto another deck of the ship marked "crew deck." They then brought me to what was designated the "Med bay" where I found a bed and just laid there for a few minutes. Luckily there was another person in the room I could talk to. An older lady by the looks of things, she must've been the ship's doctor.
"Ma'am, I really don't mean to be rude. But could you please explain to me what the hell is going on here?"
"That's not the most polite introduction, but I guess I'll oblige. I am Dr. Chakwas and you are on board the SSV Normandy in the medical bay. Judging from what I've heard you've been found on a Cerberus space station that our away team was on. They got wind of some sort of experiment they were performing and went to investigate."
I just sat there with a blank look on my face. Now that was a lot to take in. I regained my focus as best I could. "Alright, now the big question. What's the date?"
She looked at me, puzzled that I should ask such a question. "August 15th, 2185"
Great another shock to my system. I've been in that tube, a human popsicle, for 173 years. "Excuse me," I replied before falling backwards on the bed I was sitting on.