A/N: I'm guessing you guys thought I dropped off the face of the Earth huh? Well to be honest I'm just taking the fics I got and upgrading them, giving them more detail, better backgrounds, and making them more entertaining for you guys.
Demon's back folks!
Many of you probably remember this fic as 'DAT: Dimensional Assault Team'. I took it down for the sole purpose to make it a little better. After playing Mass Effect 3, Modern Warfare 3, and a barrage of other games I figured it'd be worth it.
Either way, let't get this shit started.
(I own nothing)
Have you ever thought that you were destined for something bigger than what you ever thought possible? To be honest such a thought was farther from my mind than the Earth was from the Sun. But like life itself, things can change in the blink of an eye. Washing you away in the sea of destiny.
The only thing you can do is fight with all of your strength...and pray you don't drown in the tides.
My journey started with a bang. It's only fitting that it go out with one too.
X
My vision slowly swam into focus as I let out a low groan as I started to come back to conciousness. "Prophet...where the hell are we?" I asked trying to get to my feet. "Location...unknown. Suit System rebooting."Spoke the sentient AI in the suit.
I slowly started to get back on my feet as the suit's systems came back online. The Nano suit really was all that Crysis made it out to be. Using it in real life was one hell of a thrill ride.
The name's Xero, and before you ask no it's not my real name. My life up to this point to anyone could consider one hell of an acid trip. But I'll give you a quick rundown.
I'm from what many would call the 'real world', that was before I died. I was involved in a car accident on my way back to college. When I woke up I found myself in the middle of an obliterated town . Turns out that I was shot into the Halo universe. Using quick thinking, I managed to get out of trouble and somehow wound up in the Spartan III program where I became the hyper lethal Spartan, Noble Six.
When I arrived on Reach, I fought along side the rest of Noble to fight off the Covenant invasion that ravaged the planet.
With my knowledge, I was able to help to a great extent. I even managed to keep Kat and Emile alive to the very end. Just when we were about to be overrun by the Covenant after the Pillar of Autumn took off, everything just exploded in a blind light.
When the three of us woke up, we were in a destroyed New York City, with me inside Nano Suit 2.0. After re-reading Prophet's message, I had to come clean to Kat and Emile about where I was from. After Emile nearly beat me to death about not giving them an early warning. The three of us fought the Ceph and helped take back the city.
After I had destroyed the Ceph's main pilon with the suit, I was thrown off of the levitated part of Central Park and into the ground like a missile. It took two hours before the rest of Noble found me, the Suit just barely starting to regenerate itself.
Before we knew it, we were encased in light again and found ourselves in another dimension where we picked up a few more travelers...and here we are now.
X
A groan to my left caught my attention. Moving to the sound, I found Kat laying facedown buried under a couple of metal crates. Grabbing onto her cybernetic arm, I helped her to her feet. "You alright Kat?" I asked. She dusted herself off, "Fine. Where are the others?" she asked in her Iranian-American accent. "Right here Kat." said Emile coming out of a nearby alley.
"We're still short three more." I said to them. "Right here mate." "Bloody hell, that was a messed up trip." I turned to a nearby staircase where our two other 'squadmates' joined us. Captain John 'Soap' MacTavish, Captain John Price, and Yuri. That's right folks, me and my fellow Spartans went through the Modern Warfare dimension. We had managed to save Soap's life and helped them put an end to Makarov's plans.
Unlike the rest of us, the three operatives weren't wearing armor. Mine being the most advanced out of all of them. It kinda gave me regrets.
"Where the hell are we comrads?" asked Yuri as we all looked around. "Seems to be a space station of some kind. Looks like a dump though." said Emile. I looked at a nearby doorway and headed for it. I brought up the M9 pistol I picked up from the last dimension and opened it.
The sight before me made me pause.
Behind the door, was a Krogan and three Vorcha. "Move it! Unless you want to face my wrath." said the Krogan glaring into my red visor. The nano suit gave me quite a bit of height, I was nearly towering over the alien.
Without pause, I lashed out striking the Krogan on the side of the head sending him crashing into a crate. Before the Vorcha could react I shot two in the head and snapped the last one's neck all in the span of four seconds.
I looked over at the downed Krogan and saw him surrounded by Soap, Emile, Yuri and Price. I walked over and grabbed the alien by the front of it's armor. "Now what were you saying about wrath?" I asked getting into his face. "Heh, tougher than I took you for." said the Krogan.
"Mind telling me where we are and what the date is?" I asked casually. The Krogan gave me a dumb expression. "Are you fucking stupid or something?" The knife built into the right wrist of my suit came out, and I could hear the others cock their weapons behind me. "Your on Omega. And it's 2183." I gave a nod before quickly slashing his throat and tossed the body aside.
"Omega? 2183? Just where in the hell are we?" asked Soap. I sighed, taking off my helmet exposing my shaved head and blood red eyes. "Have a seat, this'll take a while to explain."
While Emile and Kat stood guard, I explained to the three soldeirs what I knew and where the rest of Noble came from. "You've gotta be shitting me." said Soap. "Look around. Does it look like I'm shitting you?" I asked sarcastically.
"He's gotta point Soap. The real question is what do we all do from here?" asked Price. "Da, bring in the distant future where everything has changed gives us a bit of trouble." said Yuri.
"Xero, you mind telling us where we are? You seem to know this place." said Emile. "Were in another dimension called Mass Effect. And let me tell you, a lot of shits going to go down soon." I said getting up. "I'll explain more about this universe later. Right now we need to get supplies, weapons, and a ship."
"Where do we get all of that?" asked Soap holding up his silenced M4. "I know someone. Just try not to shoot any aliens unless they attack you first." I said slipping my helmet back on.
X
The trip to Afterlife was a tense one. I could feel Emile and Kat tense up whenever we passed an alien. Soap, Yuri and Price gripped their weapons waiting for an attack, but couldn't help but look in awe at all the shit around us.
I didn't know how I got elected leader. But after I had to help my fellow Spartans through the Crysis dimension I don't think they had an issue with me leading.
We walked up to the door to the club and stepped inside, the loud music hitting us as we walked in. "So what now?" asked Emile over the music. I motioned to the balcony, "The one who runs this place is up there. Just follow my lead." I said as we got closer.
Stepping up to the Turian guard he mearly motioned his head up the stairs allowing us up. When we reached the landing. The Queen of Omega stood with her back to us. "That's far enough." she said calmly. I paused, the others right behind me.
She turned and regarded all of us, "Interesting group you've got here. Though I can't tell if you three are human like your friends." I reached up and removed my helmet, Kat followed, Emile opted to keep his on. "We all are. And I was hoping the great Aria could give us a hand." I said with a smirk.
Aria looked into my red eyes and chuckled, "And why would I help a group of Humans, who apparently fell assbackwards into my station." she said sitting on her couch. I walked up and sat on the one next to her. "Simple, we'll help you. You help us." The Asari leader raised an eyebrow. "What is it exactly that you need?"
"A small ship that can take us to the Citadel. And enough supplies to last the trip." I said leaning back. Aria looked from me, to the others. "You all look like you could cause some damage. Alright, I'll help you out. And I have a job that will make it all even."
A Batarian guard handed her a datapad which she handed to me. "There is an illegal shipment of weapons being brought in three hours from now. If you deal with the smugglers, I'll let you have any weapons you want from the shipment and the ship too. The supplies you'll have to get on your own."
"Deal." I said standing up and putting my helmet back on. "Good luck, though I doubt you'll need it." Aria said as we all headed back to the club.
"So, we do this for the squid woman and we'll get out of this galactic shitter?" asked Yuri. "Exactly. But with the weapon systems that are avaliable in this universe, your flak vests won't save you. We'll have to fix that." I said leading them to the markets.
X
After two hours, I managed to get ahold of three pairs of medium Onyx armor for Price, Soap and Yuri. Now we were all in strategic positions around the docking area where the ship was suppose to arrive. I looked up at the rafters where I could see Price with his sniper rifle leveled on a low beam.
Kat was with me with two pistols at the ready. Emile, Yuri and Soap were inside the warehouse ready for a close-quarters fight.
It was at this point I realized our weapon sitiuation. Save for Soap, Yuri and Price's weapons which were more from the world I was from. Me, Kat and Emile all had weapons from Crysis. I could only hope that the bullets worked on the armor and shielding systems.
"Proximity Alert. Arial Craft Approaching." said Prophet inside my helmet. "Get ready guys." I said in my comm.
A small ship appeared and approached the docking area. After it was secured, a ramp lowered allowing a dozen men walking down moving large crates. "Accessing Memory...8 identifyed as Human. 4 identifyed as Turian. All lightly armed. Tactical Options Avaiable." "Ready Kat?" I asked taking out my rifle. She gave a thumbs. I looked back to the smugglers, "Cloak Engaged." I vanished into thin air only leaving a slight shimmer as I made my approach. Kat right behind moving from cover to cover.
After the last smuggler made it off the ship, I got inside and made a quick check before kneeling on the ramp still cloaked. "Alright guys. Lets get started." I heard loud cracks and saw two men go down. Before the others could respond I de-cloaked and emptied a whole clip into them.
The door to the warehouse blew open, Emile, Yuri and Soap lept out and opened fire with their weapons while Kat fired from her position. The whole fight took only 15 seconds.
With all of the smugglers dead, we began to go through the crates. "Damn, these guys got their hand's on some good hardware." said Price as he pulled an M8 Avenger assault rifle from a crate. Kat was looking over the bodies trying to find anything useful on them.
"So, that chick Aria gave us free reign on any weapons we want huh?" asked Emile as he hefted a Claymore shotgun. "Guess so." said Soap as he also looked over the weapons that were there.
"Xero, come take a look at this." said Kat. I walked over and saw that she was kneeling over a dead Human. She had pulled some kind of keycard out of his pocket which bore a diamond shaped symbol. "Cerberus...shit." I cursed. " "So I take it that this is bad." said Kat.
I looked at the others, "Gather up as many weapons and supplies as you can. We need to get outta here ASAP."
X
After we had gathered the weapons and supplies. Me and Kat took the time to search the whole ship and found several dozen bugs and tracking devices. After destroying them we were ready to go.
The ship, which was named Cold Dusk, was pretty spacious for just the six of them. A small CIC and mess hall, a cargo hold, a small medbay, and two personal quarters which could hold eight people each. It was perfect for us to make our getaway.
Kat was at the helm, piloting the pilfered ship out of Omega and out into space. I was in the cargo hold going over what we had gathered with Price. In all, we managed to gather enough food and other supplies to last us until we got to the Citadel, and we each had our own weapon kits.
I walked away with a M76 Revenant rifle, A Carnifex handcannon, a Mantis sniper rifle and an Eviserator shotgun. Kat had chosen just a Predator heavy pistol and a Locust SMG. Soap went with a Scimitar shotgun, M8 assault rifle, and a Predator pistol. Price had a Viper sniper rifle, a M96 Mattock rifle, and a Predator pistol. Yuri went with an M15 Vindicator battle rifle, a Scimitar shotgun and a Carnifex handcannonm. And lastly Emile, who had a Claymore shotgun, an M96 Mattock rifle and a Carnifex handcannon.
It was an impressive stockpile, and with the two crates full of heat sinks we were in pretty good shape.
"You know you, Soap and Yuri are adapting to the whole interdimensional travel thing well." I said to Price as we headed for the bridge. "Make do with what you have mate. Besides, me and the boys would have been labled war criminals back in our universe anyway. At least we might be able to do some good here." said the Captain.
They arrived on the bridge where everyone else was sitting around. "Now that we're all here. You mind filling us in on this universe Xero?" said Emile. I sighed, and removed my helmet and started from the beginning. I told them about the Mass Effect universe and all of the species that resided in the universe.
I told them about the Protheans, and their destruction from the Reapers. I also gave them a play by play of both Mass Effect games and the critical missions involved in each one. Everyone sat in silence as they listened to my every word, when I was finished Soap broke the ice.
"I don't think our training covered ancient machines capable of intergalactic extinction." "Be that as it may, were stuck here. So we might as well help where we can." said Price. "Agreed, so we head to the Citadel and find Commander Shepard." I said to them.
"Uh, guys?" We all looked out the main viewport and saw that we were approaching a mass relay. "It's all good Kat." I said taking the seat next to her and putting in the coordinates for Citadel space. "How does this work Xero? I can fly a carrier through slipspace, but I'm not sure about this."
We pulled up along side of the relay, and energy beam grabbing our ship as the console infront of me and Kat lit up. "You guys may wanna hold onto something." I said just as the ship was slingshotted through space.
X
Three days had passed since we first arrived in this dimension. And things had worked out pretty well. Soap, Price and Yuri got along well with me and the other Spartans. More often then naught I saw Emile swaping war stories with Price.
I was woken up when I heard Kat over the intercom. "Hay Xero. I just picked up a distress signal from a planet about an hour away from us." Getting up, I looked over at the corner where the pieces of the nano suit laid. To be honest, I had been inside the thing for so long it felt like a second skin. But even with the suit off, I could still feel the nanites from the Ceph inside my body.
After pulling on a black t-shirt and a pair of jeans, I walked out of the quarters I shared with Emile and headed to the bridge. Once I arrived, I saw Soap in a chair by a terminal asleep. "You paged?" I asked walking up behind Kat.
"I picked up a signal from a distress beacon from some planet. It's about an hour out of our way." I thought for a minute. "Then we'll swing by and help." Kat nodded, "Alright." I looked back at my fellow Spartan. "Kat? You okay?" She paused before looking up at me, "It's a lot to take in. Everything we went through up to this point. Why didn't you tell us about everything?"
I sighed, "Even if I tried, It wouldn't had been enough to save Reach. I tried my hardest to change events where I could." "What did you change?" asked Kat. I began to walk away. "You, and Emile were suppose to die." I walked out of the bridge, but I knew there was a shocked look on Kat's face.
X
We had arrived at the planet where Kat picked up the signal. It wasn't anything impressive, considering that it resembled a desert. Price, Emile and Yuri were with me as we got off the ship and headed toward the signal. "So what are we looking for?" asked Price adjusting his hat when a gust picked up. "Something that looks in distress." Emile said with a chuckle.
"Smartass." the Captain muttered. We started to treck through the jagged foot hills, keeping a close eye out for anything out of the ordinary. "How you holding up Price?" I asked as we made it to the top of the ridge. The Captain took his hat off and wipped his forhead. "Been on a lot of missions. But being on a completely different planet is definately something different."
"It is definately a change of pace from old missions." said Yuri as he mounted over a cluster of rocks as we reached the top of the hills.
Emile looked out over the landscape when he bumped my arm. "Down there." I looked to where he was pointing. "Vision Enhanced." Through the magnified vision, I caught sight of a large cluster of robots firing on a small shuttle. "Geth." I said returning my vision to normal.
"Those synthetic things built by the Quarians? What the hell are they doing out here?" asked Yuri. "Doesn't matter why their out here. What matters is the poor bastard they got pinned down by that ship." said Price looking through his sniper scope.
I looked at what we were up against. "Prophet, tactical options." The area infront of me lit up and was outlined. All of the Geth were highlighted red, and the shuttle they were attacking was green. "Alright, we got mostly Troopers and a Juggernaut. Shit, this looks easy." I said grinning.
"So what's the plan?" asked Emile. I drew my assault rifle, "We take them out."
X
The Geth closed in on their target, but the last thing they expected were four hardened soldiers dropping into their midst and dealing death bullet by bullet.
Emile fired his Claymore which reduced any Geth infront of him to instant scrap metal. His armor and enhanced strength made sure that the heavy shotgun didn't cause any bodily harm. Price and Yuri were firing accurate shots with their rifles, striking each Geth right in the optic before they could fire a shot at them.
The Juggernaut charged us, but I sprang forward at enhanced speed and stopped it dead when I slammed into it. The large Geth got up and charged it's main weapon, "Maximum Armor." the weapon fired, but the enhanced nano suit absorbed the shot and took little damage. Whipping out my shotgun, I slammed it into the Juggernaut's chest and fired. The shredding round blew a large hole in the back of the Geth, dropping it to the ground dead.
"Well...that really was easy." said Price injecting another heatsink into his rifle. "We got lucky, it's a good thing the bastards didn't have reinforcements." I said while heading to the shuttle.
The thing was banged up pretty bad. Whatever landed their the Geth really wanted dead. I searched through the shuttle's wreckage and found nothing but spent heatsinks. I was about to head to the cockpit when I heard a groan on the other side of the shuttle.
Leaping out the hatch, I jogged to the other side and saw a form crumpled on the ground. "I found a survivor!" I called out kneeling down to their level.
It was then that I got a good look at the one the Geth were after. A Quarian. A female Quarian...with a familiar purple visor.
"Tali..." I breathed. The others joined me as I patched up her wounds and the suit tears she had. "Prophet, what's her status?" The AI scanned Tali's body and gave me a rundown. "Fever of 107.4 degrees. Slight blood loss. Severe exhaustion. Chances of survival without medical treament...64.3%" "Not good enough." I said picking up her small form in my arms. "We need to get her back to the ship. Kat, have the medbay preped. We have a wounded guest coming in."
A/N: If you think adding Yuri is the only thing that I'm doing than you'd be sorely mistaken. I'm just getting started.
I also know all about the 'Witch-Hunt' against the so called MA-rated fics. I'm telling you guys that I've been doing what I can in the fight to show the guys running this site that just because a story is a little graphic doesn't give them a right to shit on our 1st Amendment rights as Authors! They made this site for people like us to express our selves and make our favorite Games, Books, Movies, etc. And making them the way we want them to go.
This site says in bold print "Unleash Your Imagination", To say that and take down thousands of storys because they are considered 'upsetting for some' is fucking wrong. And I'm backing anyone and everyone fighting this 110%!
This is Demon Spartan, And I don't back down from any fight!