A/N: So just a quick intro here guys. This is an alternate take on the mass effect story. I will be changing some things, some small, others huge. This story follows a young man who journeys with Commander Shepard and learns what it means to be a hero along the way. He is young and reckless, and will take stupid chances that should get him killed. This story will encompass the first Mass Effect game no matter what and if I get good feedback then I will continue through the entire trilogy. Anyway please post a review, even if its only a couple of words, I am new to this and need all the feedback I can get both positive and negative. Enjoy!
A young man laying in a med-tent on Eden Prime was woken up by the sound of gunfire and horrendous screams of pain, He quickly jumped out of bed and ran to the door to see what was happening outside while evaluating his condition.
*Legs, good. Arms, moving, Breath, easy, neck, a little cramped. All in all I'm good to go.* He put up a barrier and stepped outside, to his left was a scattered line of marines quickly falling back as they desperately tried to fill the holes left by their freshly killed brothers-in-arms only to be shot down themselves. Looking to his right he saw a perfectly formed line of steadily advancing white and grey synthetic troopers led by a giant red machine easily 3 times the size of the others.
*Geth! What are they doing here? They-* His train of thought was cut off as one of the advancing Geth opened fire, his barriers easily absorbing the plasma rounds *No time to think, need to act!* The young mystery man threw a singularity at the center Geth line which managed to lift up just over half the Geth, not including the Prime.
"Hey tin-heads, catch!" He shouted at the Geth while preparing a biotic charge aiming for the prime.
BOOM! The charge resulted in a massive biotic and wiped out all the floating Geth while knocking the rest of the troopers to the ground and leaving the prime off balance. Focusing energy into his fist he launched a right hook into the Primes abdomen followed by a biotic warp and a second charge for good measure.
"Eat this you piece of shit." He whispered dangerously while shoving his fist up and grabbing the large cord located in the Geth Primes neck than yanking downwards, pulling it out and toppling the robotic monstrosity while the marines managed to reform some semblance of a line and shot down the remaining Geth troopers.
"You guys alright?" He asked
"Yeah, that was... something else. You that guy that Williams found passed out in the middle of nowhere?"
"I- I'm not sure. I heard the shooting and figured I should see what was going on."
"You'll hear no arguments from us son. What's your name?" The marines saviour looked at the grizzled old man before me and panicked; he didn't know!
*How can I not know my name? I am… I am, I don't know. I can't show weakness. I can't let them know!*
"You can call me Tyler sir, Tyler Alpha."
"Well Tyler I'm lieutenant commander Maes, commanding officer of the 212th. We would appreciate it if you help us out some more."
"My pleasure sir." Alpha replied with a grin on his face. *I may not know who I was before or what I did but it doesn't matter now; I am a warrior!* He grabbed some weapons from the dead marine on the ground and readied for battle.
"SUPRESSIVE FIRE SOLDIERS! WILLIAMS, BAHTIA, ALPHA, TAKE THE LEFT FLANK!" The LC was shouting out orders left and right, trying to hold back the indomitable Geth and failing, all they could do was buy time and hope for reinforcements.
"YES SIR!" all three shouted in reply." Alpha holstered his salvaged Assault Rifle and opted for a Shotgun predicting some major close quarters combat.
"So should I charge in while you two cover me?"
"You don't even have armor Alpha." Bhatia scolded while Ashley just let out an exasperated sigh and shook her head.
"Bhatia, you and Alpha will hit them hard with your Shotguns and Biotics; I'll lay down supressing fire to keep you from getting overwhelmed. Be careful, get in and get out. We don't need to destroy all of them just take some pressure off of the LC" ordered Ashley
"Yes sir" replied the serviceman as she switched out to her shotgun as well and took point moving forward. Ashley set up behind a large rock and readied herself while Bhatia and Alpha stealthily crept forward as all the Geth focused there fire on the rest of the 212th. He prepped his weapon for a carnage shot while preparing for a biotic charge. Moments later the young amnesiac was flying towards a rocket trooper, the resulting impact caused it to blow into several pieces and knocked all the Geth in a 5 foot radius on their asses, quickly aiming his shotgun at the closest standing Geth Alpha completely demolishing the top half of a nearby platform. Alpha casually tossed a singularity into the air to pick up the nearby recovering Geth allowing Bhatia to take them out with her own shotgun as she ran to catch up to me.
"Are you crazy? You should have waited for me!"
"If we got any closer the Geth would have detected us Bhatia! I got the drop on them and now-" I quickly shut up as my barriers absorbed several shots and I dived for cover, dragging my unwilling partner with me.
"Pull back guys, you're about to be swarmed" Ashley radioed over the comms.
"Roger that, why don't I just stroll on over? It's not like there's a small army of Geth shooting at my face or anything."
"Well maybe if you started shooting back instead of being a smartass that small army might get a bit smaller!"
"Well if I wasted time shooting them how would I be able to do this?" Alpha asked as he summoned a gigantic throw field that made half the Geth fly back ten feet and the other half trip and fall on their asses." Bhatia grabbed his arm and dragged Alpha along as she sprinted back to Ashley firing blind shots over her shoulder at the same time.
Bhatia and Alpha fell back while Ashley gave us covering fire until we felt that we had gotten far enough away to catch our breaths, and sat down on one of the many rocks protruding from the ground.
"Don't sit just yet Alpha, we've got a little ways to go still, plus you never know what's around the next corner." Bhatia said while she looked at the space around them.
"Stop being so paranoid Bhatia. We left those terminator-wannabes in the dust! There's no way-" I was cut off as a rocket flew into the ground beside me, the concussive force knocking everyone to the ground.
"RRRWAAAAA!" Alpha let loose a roar and activated a gigantic barrier encompassing himself and his allies simply for a Geth Prime to shatter it while charging straight for the young Biotic.
"MOVE KID!" Bahtia grunted as she tackled Alpha out of the Primes path and opened fire with her shotgun in a futile attempt to stop the seemingly enraged machine.
"BHATIAAA!" Alpha wailed as his savior was picked up by her head and roasted by the Primes flamethrower. "You. Fucking. BASTARDS! I WILL KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU! I'M GOING TO TEAR YOU LIMB FROM MOTHERFUCKING LIMB! YOU BLOODY ROBOTS ARE DEAD! YOU HEAR ME! DEEAAD! Alpha shouted with all of his might as he biotically charged over and over leaving behind a massive dark blue trail behind him as he zipped towards the rocket trooper and hitting the Prime tight into a rock formation and continuing to charge until the Geth ambush party was mere scrap metal and the surrounding terrain was unrecognizable.
"You filthy fucking bastards. She wasn't supposed to die. I was supposed to protect her... Why?" Alpha fell to his knees in front of Bahtia's charred corpse grieving his one-time hero. Ashley walked up behind him, grabbed his shoulder and pulled him into a understanding embrace with tears in her eyes.
"We need to go kid, we can mourn when we're safe but we need to go and make her sacrifice worthwhile." She whispered into the young man's ear. "Now pull yourself together and let's move."
"... Yes sir." Alpha returned to his feet and followed Ashley to the predetermined rendezvous with the rest of the 212th.
"Williams! About time you three got back. Your distraction worked perfectly, we were able to safely pull back to the hill thanks to you." the sergeant remarked wearily. "Wait... Where's Bahtia?"
"We were ambushed by the Geth sir. Alpha was able to raise a barrier quickly enough to give us a fighting chance but, Bahtia didn't make it sir."
"Dammit. She was a fine soldier, but we do have good news. Backup is only a few minutes out, Commander Shepard picked up our distress beacon." said the sergeant with a glimmer of hope in his eyes.
"Wait, you mean THE Commander Shepard? Hero of the skyllian blitz? The one man army Commander Shepard? The-" Alpha quickly cut her off
"Who's Commander Shepard? And how is one soldier going to change the fact that we are still outnumbered 20-1?" Alpha questioned dubiously.
A/N
So after getting some questions about Alpha let me clear a few things up, he can still use biotics without training the same way he can shoot fight run or even walk, muscle memory. It is common for soldiers and fighters to repeat a technique over and over until it's becomes a natural movement for them, especially in self-defense. As for why he can use biotics the way he can everything will be explained eventually as we explore his origin so just accept it for now knowing that there is an explanation for how. Anyway, thanks for the response so far guys.