Well, here is something that I wasn't quite expecting to do...
Mass Effect
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ShepardXTali
Chapter: One and Final.
If by any means, you read this Joe; yes i'm talking to you, Henson, then you know. XD
In a universe of war and death, few can find redemption and survive.
His heart beating at incredible speeds, yet, he was going nowhere; at least nowhere in his seat. He was a Captain of the Human army, inside of a universe at war, but, he was trying to escape; he had seen too much death and had killed too many innocent people. Too much blood upon the hands of his own; it was too much to bear.
The very first moment that he could, he stole a ship, one with the name of Normandy. He knew that they would follow him at some point. He decided to take the relay out of the galaxy. In truth, he didn't care where he was going, as long conflict did not occur.
He hated the fact that this war even started. Why it started? It started when the human race discovered the ruins on Mars and traveled out into depths unknown to them. Soon, they found themselves in a war. An endless war that begun with a simple disagreement with the Quarians. Soon, everyone else begun to disagree with everyone and people stood up for their ideals, by fighting, destroying, and killing all those who didn't agree.
A pointless war, nonetheless. Not one worth fighting and dying for, which billions were from the races.
His ship entered the relay and he was suddenly billions of light years away from where he once was. Blue light surrounded him as he traveled along the mass relay. A few moments later, he emerged from a second one, in a small solar system, which, according to the ship's AI, had no reference of yet.
This did scare him; after all, he was traveling in unknown space, where it could be inhabited by another race that was in war, or, if he was lucky, friendly life on plants that were habitatable. The man didn't want to die, not yet at least, so little things done.
He scoured around the 'undiscovered' solar system for many hours. Only one planet seemed like it could hold some type of life in it. That was his best guess. He sent a probe down to search for any anomalies, before he risked going down there; plus the fact that he needed to know if there was enough oxygen to support his own life.
About a minute later, the probe sent the results out. He looked at them.
Info:
Oxygen level: 43%
Carbon Dioxide level: 47%
Anomaly: False
Carbon Monoxide: 0.01%
Hydrogen: 8.99%
Gravitational Force: 9.7 m/s^2
Fresh Water: True
Stable for Human life: True
He sighed at that report, there was nothing unordinary there, or at least that the probe could detect. He prepared to land, strapping himself in and preparing for entry in the atmosphere of this 'new' planet.
He pressed a button on his omni-tool and the ship begun to rumble, as fire, from the friction of reentry, begun to show itself all around the ship. He knew that this was risky, especially since the Normandy was a small ship.
The heat inside of the ship steadily increased as he became closer to the planet's sea level. He pressed another button on his omni-tool, in turn making the bow of the spacecraft cover itself with a thick sheet of old school, TPS tiles. "Here we go." he said, bracing himself for the inevitable impact.
Dear everyone, I know that this is a short chapter, but it was kinda late when I wrote this so... Yea...