A/N: I own nothing, reviews are welcome, well unto the breech:
My name is Brandon Moreno a normal high school senior and avid video game player. School was out for the day but disappointingly the city bus had failed shown up at the bus stop, which meant I had to walk. Walking home from school isn't bad for me on most days except for today. Normally my walk would last about an hour and be two-point-five long not today, Being early February and the fact that the weather didn't know what wanted to be in southern California it rained and rained hard. Soaked and getting wetter my normal hour walk was reaching the fifty minuet mark and I was half way. I had two paths I could take home one was along the main street; the other was a bike path on the left. I've walked both paths since ninth grade and because the trees in the bike path offered more cover I decided to take it.
The gravel on the lanes was cracked, never to be repaired (probably) I always knew what I would see mably people jogging, some times gardeners cutting the grass to the left of the path, but no one was on or even near the paths today. Walking though the pouring rain nothing stood out except a glow off that started to appear on my right. It was within several bushes, which in turn were under some trees. Going towards it the thought 'curiosity killed the cat' came up but still how often do you see some thing glowing and not want to investigate right?
Originally I thought it was… Honestly I didn't know what to expect possibly a phone? Crouching down I saw that it was a diamond shaped crystal? It had a soft blue glow radiating from it not to mention the hum coming from it. Against my better judgment I picked it up, nothing happed so I placed it in my jacket pocket 'I'd investigate more at home' I thought as I walked out of the path and up to a cross walk hitting the button as I started to wait.
I waited until the walk signal light, about ten minuets later when it did I stepped on to the cross walk, the rain observing nearly every thing as I looked around, I was half way across when I heard a loud screech to my right turning I froze when I saw what was coming. It was a semi that was barreling down the hill still mostly obscured its breaks had to have failed as it hydroplaned towards me. I started to move but I knew I wouldn't make a difference before any thing happed a harsh blue glow filled coming from my pocket filled my vision then every thing turned black.
I started to hear parts of a conversation and opening my eyes I saw that the sky was a reddish color before I could stand up a face filled my vision, the woman was wearing a visor-equipped helmet that looked oddly familiar but I couldn't place from where.
"You alright?" She asked
I nodded "what's going on?"
"The colony is under attack, my name is Nirali Bhatia of the two tweith, we found you about a half click away near a crash site" she replied, when it clicked I was on Eden Prime but I was dead wasn't I, Wait mass effect? That shouldn't be possible?
Before I could continue the line of thought the Marine gave me a hand as I stood up looking down my backpack was gone and replacing my black jacket, jeans and shoes was a set of plain grey BDUs and boots oddly enough I was dry and with out my glasses.
"How is he?" a familiar voice asked
"He's good to go chief" Nirali responded "can you handle a gun?" she asked handing over her avenger. I nodded in truth I couldn't but as she handed it over a strange sense of familiarity came over as if I had used it before and shouldn't I be freaking out more but I seemed calm enough.
" Wait what about you" I replied griping the gun.
"Its not much use to me at the moment" Nirali replied that's when I was able to see her right arm its plating was shattered and what I assumed was medi-gel covering it.
We met up with a half dozen marines who were taking cover in a depression one of them motioned us towards her "What's your name kid" the marine asked "Brandon Moreno" I stated
"I'm Chief Williams, as you can tell the colony is under attack by what looks like geth, we are going to need all the help we can get" Ashley replied bluntly
"I don't have a kinetic barrier with me-" before I could finish she turned and asked out for one of her men to hand me a barrier.
Handing it over to me I placed it on my lower back, I felt like I was on auto pilot, no going crazy with were I was, just a state of calm, until the mechanical sound of geth filled the air.
"Ambush!" a marine sound as he was cut down, I dove to the bottom of the depression peaking my head over the cover I saw that there was about a eight of them I aimed my barrowed avenger and fired the rounds slammed it to the platform taking it down, but also forcing me to take cover when my own started to screech with it nearing failure, peaking back out I saw a armature emerging over the crest of a nearby hill along with more geth platforms.
"Clark try and get a distress call out now" Ashley ordered, what came next was a blur 'Clark' was hit and killed by the armature when he tried to get the call out forcing the broad casting marine down. When a familiar sound roared over the area and the fighting as suddenly as it started stopped, I looked up and had my first good look at sovereign the reaper which meant that the Normandy was only fifteen minuets out and I was about twenty five minuets from meeting Shepard, I just need to survive I thought.
With Shepard hopefully minuets away things really started to FUBAR, Ashley and I were all that was left we managed to escape the Armature but no one else made it out alive, the roar of a explosion brought me back to reality, I ducked behind another rectangular shaped rock that seemed to be almost every were convenient in Mass Effect, popping out I fired a burst that hit a geth in the face taking out its shields before Williams finished it off with a burst from her own assault rifle.
"Fall back" she ordered as a pair of geth drones came out, we made a run for it sprinting for the rock Ash would be behind when she meets Shepard.
Being lighter by not wearing armor I reached the cover first my back slammed into the rock face looking out of cover I saw Ashley fall and take out the two drones that were following her shortly afterwards she was behind the cover as well but I also saw two other geth impale the colonist with the dragons teeth, in the game its just him going up and blood also spraying upwards here its much gorier and real.
"Status?" she asked her face pale
"I'm still a little shaken up but I'm good to go"
She drew her assault rifle as the geth advanced but before we could open fire the geth were hit by a flurry of biotic warping and lifting the two geth.
Turning around I saw a woman in black armor with a red stripe on one arm and was none other than the Female Shepard, which solved that question, but lead to a few others was she renegade or paragon, and what class was she? But she wasn't alone following her was a man wearing a grey light armor who had to be Kaidan. Getting off of the face of the boulder Ashley and I walked towards Shepard, I saw the Commander keep her gaze on me before turning to face Ashley.
"Status" Shepard ordered
"Ashley Williams of the two twelfth Ma'am, we… we lost every one else at the dig site" Ash replied
Shepard turned towards you" "and me s
I froze up, what was I going to say 'I'm from a different universe' and I was still shaken up from being transported here, caught in combat but before a second even passed Ash interjected.
"His name is Brandon Moreno, Ma'am he's still a little shaken up from a shuttle crash but he can hold his own"
"Lieutenant Alenko and I are here about the beacon can you lead the way Williams" Shepard stated, as we set off, being unarmored I was placed in the rear as we headed to the dig site.
Fifteen minuets later we were at the bottom of the hill that was near the spaceport between my position in the group and Shepard's biotic which made me convinced that she was in fact a adept I had taken down perhaps two geth, but to be fair I didn't have armor which meant Shepard could be paragon which was only a good thing later on.
We crowded around the body of Nihlus who for me was the first dead alien or alien for that matter that I have seen and its like the game the area at least as I looked around.
We hardly lingered as we moved to the tram that would take us to the spaceport but first we needed to deal with the geth that occupied the tram. It wasn't hard I was placed in the rear again which I hoped to change when we got out of here. The ride was silent. I remembered that bombs were ahead and not only do I not have an Omni tool on hand but also I don't have a clue on how to disable the bombs anyways. Within five minutes the bombs were disabled but my kinetic barrier a taken a slug that all but destroyed it but it wasn't a loss.
I walked down the now cleared platform. Ashley, Kaidan, Shepard walked towards beacon while I walked to and sat on a near by crate to check on my avenger as it had been jammed it previous fight the thought of gaining the beacon crossed my mind but a brewing headache prevented most thought, then it happen Kaidan was lifted into the air by the beacon Shepard sprinted to him throwing him out of the field only for herself to be lifted up and thrown back from the explosion seconds later I heard Kaidan radio for medevac but It sounded hollow as I heard the all to familiar sound of a geth was emitted behind me. I never head the gunshot go off as my chest felt like it was on fire forcing me to stagger forward then the damaged white plated floor came up towards me as every thing once again turned black.
A/N: I bad at writing action scenes if any one could give advice on how to write them that would be appreciated, and before anyone asks there will not going to be any romancing Tali in this fanfic.