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A/N: This is my first story posted onto this site and it will not be the last. This is only the first chapter and the rest are being made as we speak. I really hope you enjoy this story and thanks for taking the time to read it.
The citadel, shining beacon of hope for the universe. Multiple alien races flowed through the bustling space station. It was still being cleaned of bodies from the reaper invasion. Most of it had already been cleaned and sanitized and a massive statue had been erected in memory of the brave soldier who won the war, Commander Shepard, the first human specter.
Deep in the club known as Purgatory amidst a sea of bodies lay five living beings, each of which was a different race of alien. The first of the three to stand was a massive krogan, a M-55 Argus magnetically attached to the back of his deep sunset orange armor and a executioner pistol on its side. Stumbling and staggering, the krogan held its head with one hand as it groaned from the pain of its headache.
Not to far from the krogan, the second figure rose, a human wearing black armor with red patterns on it and the N7 logo on the right said of his chest. An M-99 Saber sat on his back as he stumbled to his feet, almost bumping into the krogan.
The third figure, another human, shakily stood in silver armor with purple pattern designs carrying two M-12 Locust attached to his sides. Shaking his head clear the human began to look around, starting to freak out a form all the piles of dead bodies. Calming down when he noticed he wasn't the only living soul in this horrid place.
The last two figures, a turian and drell, stood side by side, helping each other to stay stable. The turian wore black and blue armor, a cerberus harrier locked on his back. The drell wore black clothing and with green tint to it, carrying a tempest as he looked around at sea of dead.
The five figures all grouped together, all of the looking around lost. None of them new where they were nor how they got there, but they did know they didn't want to be here any longer than they had to. Starting to look themselves over, all of them were surprised, unsure if they had always look this way.
"Um, yeah... so anyone here got a clue where we are?" asked the turian, still a bit uncomfortable with his current surroundings.
All the others shrugged and shook their heads. "I think the real question we should be asking is who are all of you." Came the deep voice of the krogan.
"Well, I can't seem to remember much but, my name is Ra'merrius Lee." Everyone else just stared at him in shock. Ra'merrius just stared back, unsure of why these strangers were just staring at him. "What, why are you all just staring at me?..."
Looking around at the others before speaking, the krogan looked back to Lee. "Because It's me, Sertearion." stated the krogan, confused on everything.
"Wait, Ra'merrius, Sertearion? Its me, James, and let me guess, Jekerrian and Andreas, right?" came the turian, pointing to the last two strangers, receiving a nod in response. "Figures, of course it would be you guys."
"And what's that suppose to mean, hugh?" asked Ra'merrius, crossing his arms and jokingly glaring at his friend.
"Man, you know what I mean." The Turian lightly laughed.
Looking around, Sertearion nearly hurled from all of the dead and the foul stench in the air. It was too disgusting even for a krogan to endure. "ugh, maybe we should save the sappy reunion for after we get out of here." Spotting the exit, the krogan started off towards it, not even waiting up for his friends.
"Yeah, I'm with coz'o on this one, lets get out of this place." Said Andreas as he followed the krogan. Getting no sign of complaints from the others as they followed.
Walking swiftly outside covering his nostrils, Sertearion stopped dead in his tracks hearing a muffled groan. "Alright, so any ideas what to-"
"Shh, listen." The krogan listened carefully after silencing the others. "Is someone there. Hearing another muffled groan, the rest of the group was already trying to figue out where it came from.
"H-hello, is someone there?! please help me, I got pinned under all these bodies while trying to identify a few of them! That platform broke and thankfully the bodies broke my fall but pinned me down at the same time. Please help, it smells terrible under here." Pinpointing where the frantic and scared rambling was coming from, The group of friends looked over the edge of a the apparently broken platform to see a pile of bodies with a bit blue gloved hand trying desperately to pull the rest of its body out from under the disgusting pile of rotting flesh.
It wasn't a small fall, in fact, it looked almost fatal. "Quick, we have to find a way to her. We can't jump down because..." Ra'merrius trailed off as his krogan friend jumped down anyways, landing on a few dead bodies and painfully picking himself up.
Looking up to the others he yelled back up at them. "Yeah, I wouldn't try that if I were you, I may be able to take a fall like that but I'm not to sure the rest of you can, heck I got lucky just then." The other groaned and shook their heads.
"What are you stupid or something?! You could have died!" Raged Ra'merrius.
"Yeah you idiot. Think things through next time." said Jekerrian, said drell starting back to looking for a way down to them.
"Whatever, I was thinking things through thank you very much. No telling how long she's been trapped down here. She could be just mere minutes to dying of starvation or something." The krogan defended himself before turning to the pile, not listening to the next few things his friends said.
Marching up to the pile of bodies, the krogan began tossing body after body to the side before unearthing a blood covered Asari. Helping her up, instead of receiving a thank you the first thing the Asari did was empty her stomach, the krogan spotting the signs and just barely stepping out of the way in time.
"S-sorry." The Asari seemed a bit awkward as she wiped her mouth, trying to keep from meeting the krogans gaze. "So,... um, thank you for rescuing me and now I'll just be..." Her words faded out as she turned to the sound of groaning and moaning and froze in fear.
Just ten feet away from them stood a blue zombie like creature known as a husk. Seeing them,the husk let out a blood freezing roar as it charge towards them.
The Asari not knowing what else to do, hid behind the krogan and waited for it all to be over. She wasn't a soldier so why did she constantly end up in these dangerous situations? Her job was supposed to be an easy, safe job, not a beacon for danger.
Grunting indignantly as the cries of his friends up top who had abandoned their search for a way down to them rushed back to the edge after hearing the roar. The moment the husk got close enough though, Sertearion reared his arm back before smacking the lunging monster with incredible force, a loud smack and cracking noise echoed through the place as the husk was sent soaring through the sky only to land limply 13 ft away.
Sertearion girated his arm and smirked, chuckling to himself. "Well he sure wasn't any-" His voice trailed off at the sound of more of the inhuman screams and whales that seemed to be getting closer.
"There are more of those things out there? But thats not possible!" The Asari seemed to be about ready to have a panic attack until the krogan grabbed her by the shoulder and lightly shook her.
"Snape out of it, this is no time to be freaking out, ok? We'll get through this, I promise." The Asari looked visibly more relaxed form the krogans reassurance, though she didn't know why. Not wasting any time, the krogan sprung into combat mode and began barking orders.
"Look, you guys stay there, We'll find a way up to you. Just make sure that elevator is working, if it isn't, make it work." With a nod from his friends, they began checking the elevator while at the same time keeping an eye out for any hostiles.
"Alright, looks like the elevator is working but the damn door is stuck. Maybe I could find a way to get it to open but it'll probably take a while." stated the turian as he began searching for anything he could use to get the door working again, or at least open.
"Will it be open by the time we make it up there?" hollered the krogan, already making his way to a passage way, the Asari close behind.
"With how slow you are, yeah, more than likely it'll be open long before you make it up here." said james jokingly, pulling off a panel and messing with a few wires. This earned a bit of laughter from the others.
"Ha ha, very funny, just have it open by the time we get there chuckles." growled the krogan as he stepped into the passageway."
"Are you sure he'll be able to fix that door?" Worry was very evident in the Asari's voice. Cautiously, she stepped over another dead husk, watching it until they were a reasonable distance from it.
Grunting, the krogan smirked as husk charged him only to be tossed to the ground and have its head crushed under his boot. "Don't you worry about that, focus on making sure you don't become a husk's hugging buddy. I wanna get you out of here alive if thats ok with you mam."
Nodding quickly, the Asari got closer, practically clinging to the krogan as her heart raced with fear from every little noise. "That sounds like a good plan."
"So, got a name?" At her silence the Krogan peered out into the room they were about to head into to see a few husks crouched in group over by another door, but the way to the door on the opposite side seemed clear for the most part, the bodies would make an excellent way to sneak through undetected by the husk.
"Um, my name? Well it's Anthia Te'sonia." she whispered, careful not to speak too loud and alert eh husk as they made their way to the next pile of bodies. Two more and they'd be home free. "What about you, what's your name?"
The krogan though a little, mulling her name over a bit before answering after making it past the last pile gap from which the husk could spot them, his boots barely making a sound which was surprising for someone as big and bulky as him.
"The name's Slag. And if you don't mind me saying, you have a beautiful name." The comment caused Anthia to blush lightly, her cheeks turning a soft purplish blue color. Noticing the warmth in her cheeks only made her blush harder.
"T-thank you, thats very kind of you to say. Slag also sounds very... um... fitting for you" Her blush intensified from embarrassment due to her inability to complement his name as he had done. Her blushing only confused her as she couldn't figure out why she was doing so.
"Fitting hugh, thanks, picked it myself." Slag smiled at Anthia causing her to smile back before remembering her blush and trying to avert her gaze. She didn't understand why she was acting like this, but it was obvious that it wasn't going to end anytime soon. Anthia could also tell one other thing, it was a gonna be long trip to that elevator.
Back at eh elevator...
Ra'merrius grunted as he hefted yet another body to add to barricade of bodies. With husk about, he had a sneaking suspicion that they weren't the only things here to try and end them and made a barricade just incase he was right, which he sincerely hoped he was wrong.
"Hey, are you almost done?" Whinned the drell known as Jekerrian earning him a death glare from the turian. Instead of being intimidated he only found the fact that he was annoying him to be amusing.
"Tell ya what, you keep a look out and shut up and I'll work on the damn door. That sounds like a decent plan if I've ever heard one." growled the annoyed turian. An hour had passed and the drell only seemed to get more annoying with each passing second as he became bored.
Again, finding the turian's annoyance with him rather amusing he laughed to himself. His laughter was cut short sadly as he swore he spotted something duck behind a pile of bodies in the doorway to the club.
"Yeah, hurry up, and I mean right now." he said, motioning for Andreas and Ra'merrius to come over to him. They had spotted the movement as well and already had their guns out and trained on the doorway.
"Look, rushing me isn't going to get this door open any faster alright." james huffed, getting fed up with being constantly bothered by the drell.
"Yeah, well how about a few marauders preparing to storm us form the club, would that work?" Andreas asked as he shot biotic throw, his eyes widening in fear as it hit a random marauder rushing by the entrance. A large guttural roar came from the club as the group could see a large figure start to make its way to the entrance.
"Marauders and a brute? Yeah, I think thats enough incentive to work faster." Hearing another roar before his comrades had to duck behind the barricade to avoid being shot by the barrage of rounds from the marauders, the turian began working as fast as he could to get the door open. If marauders, husks, and brutes were here, the all shivered to think which of the last two of the reaper ground forces would show up next, an even larger shudder came upon them at the thought of both of them showing up.
Popping up from behind cover, Ra'merrius was the first to pop off with a few rounds from his saber, his skilled marksmanship only made more terrifying by the power of the gun he wielded easily downed two marauders and lowered a thirds shields, Andreas coming up next with singularity that caught the third marauder and a few husk in its pull. Seeing his opportunity, Jekerrian set off a powerful biotic explosion killing all that were trapped in the singularity with a smirk.
"Shit, where the hell's a krogan when you need one?!" shouted James, getting more and more frustrated with the door. Ducking from bullet hitting overhead, james had had enough and stood taking out his cerberus harrier and emptying his clip into a few enemies, taking down at least five marauders and a feasting cannibal, taking out a grenade and tossing it at the dead cannibal's body killing three more that were just about to chow down on their fallen comrades.
All of his friends just stared in shock before slowly turning to him. Slowly turning back to look at each other Ra'merrius was the first to speak. "Oook, Jekerrian maybe you should lay off for a while, just sayin." This was all that was said before the unloading of guns was continued.
Just when it seemed as if the flow of enemies was slowing down after the second brute finally went down, A terrible high pitched whale pierced the air, freezing the blood of the four friends. "Well great, the big blue biotic bitch is on her way." groaned Andreas.
"Look, we just have to hold this place till Sertearion and that Asari can make it back here. If the door is open when they get here we're dippin the fuck up out of here!" Ra'merrius' words were heard by all of his teammates and received a round of nods as they continued to mow down as many enemies as possible. Though were outnumbered and partially outgunned they seemed to be making major headway in the number of enemies still left standing, soon dropping their numbers to just a few cannibals left.
"Hey, wait a second. Did I miss something or did the banshee just decide to run away?" This question got everyones attention, none of them remeber seen the damn thing ever come out, but another banshee whale told them it was still around somewhere, then it hit them as they all shared a moment of realization. "Sertearion!" they all shouted in unison.
