This was written a long time ago, as one of my first attempts. I held off on publishing it because I wanted to edit the earlier chapters as my writing style developed throughout, but life took over and I lost time to do it, so here is the original version of events. Please leave me a review! Any constructive criticism is welcome at this stage. Thanks for reading!

Mission 1 – Arvuna

"This place called Firebase Hydra, what do we know about it?" asked Delta.
"Not much," started Eta, "just that it's s-s-swarming with Cerberus infiltrators, they're after some b-b-blueprints that may or may not have found their way to the F-firebase itself."
"It's a mining facility, but it's been out of action for months now. ASA believed it was inactive, and then heard about this," Kappa said, "So we're going to sort out any trouble."
"And to obtain the blueprints," Zeta added.
"Anything Cerberus gets involved in is usually bad news," Mu said.
The team were cruising down though the atmosphere. This was their first mission together. All of them were supposed to be the 'Alliance best' singly, as each one had usually operated alone in the past. Recent reports on extensive Cerberus activity had however forced the ASA (Alliance Secret Agency) to form this team to extract information and clear up any mess.
"Name's Delta, I'm a Sentinel," he wore a sort of gold tinted armour.
"Kappa, Engineer," was dressed in black armour.
"Eta, I'm the world's b-best adept!" said a woman who covered her face with a hood that seemed to offer limited protection.
"Mu, infiltrator," said the only other woman. She wore a white suit of armour, and had a sword strapped to her back.
"Zeta, I'm the vanguard," replied a man in light-ish blue armour.
The last one, a tall, bulky and intimidating thing of a man didn't speak.
"Oh, he doesn't talk much, not at all really, I call him Alpha," said Delta.
"I'm guessing he's our soldier," Kappa said with a sigh.
The team reverted to an awkward silence, with nothing else left to say to each other.
"So, what's with the swords?" Kappa asked, looking at Zeta and Mu.
Zeta gave him a stare, Mu didn't turn.
"You'll see," was all he said.
Turbulence caused them all to look outside the windows, they were nearing.
"E.T.A 1 minute," said the pilot.
"Ok guys, here's the plan," started Delta, "I can handle myself against Cerberus, done it before. You guys find some cover and a way inside the base; I'll keep them off your back."
"You might d-d-die," giggled Eta.
"You think you can take on a whole squad of Cerberus troops by yourself?" Kappa asked, "You're crazy, kid."
Delta didn't reply; he looked out of the window and the oncoming facility. The ship quickly decelerated and started spinning around.
"Well, I'll get started!" Zeta said.
Before anyone could reply he vanished in a puff of what looked like liquid biotic, and reappeared outside the window, running off.
"What the hell!" Delta shouted.
The doors opened and the team jumped down. At once Mu took cover behind some small crates, Eta flexed herself and dark tendril like clouds emerged from somewhere inside of her.
"That could take some getting used to," Delta said.
"I'm gonna set up a safe point over there by the crates!" Kappa said.
Alpha stood there, unfazed and unmoving.
"Alpha! Get moving, there're Cerberus troops to kill!" Delta said.
Alpha merely started jogging off the way Zeta had gone earlier, Delta nodded and went a different route, to a small room with a lot of controls in it.
"I think I've found the main computers," he said over the inter-com.
No one replied.
"Fine, I'll look through these later," he said.
Suddenly a bullet shot straight past his face.
"Woah!" he stumbled back, turned and saw Mu reload a small handgun. He turned the other way to find a dead Cerberus guard on the floor.
"Keep your eyes open, rookie," Mu said.
"I'm not a rookie!" he shouted back.
Mu however, turned invisible. Almost instantly Delta heard a slash behind him, and another dead guard lay on the ground next to the first, with Mu and her sword standing behind them. She shook her head and moved off.
Delta picked up his vindicator and shook his head, "Keep it together!" he whispered to himself.

Zeta turned another corner and found another guard. This one hadn't noticed him yet.
He tried to sneak up on him, but some twisted fate turned the guard around. Zeta took a deep breath, closed his eyes and charged straight into him; killing him.
"Flashy move," said a voice behind him.
He turned to see Eta.
"Biotic charge takes care of the smaller ones easily enough," he replied.
She moved her hand and an orb of biotic power flashed past him, into another trooper who had unfortunately stepped into view. He went flying down the stairs.
"What are we even looking for?" Zeta asked.
"An upload point, Cerberus has to be using one to get what they want across," replied Kappa over the intercom.
Zeta nodded and ran off, Eta went the other direction.

Elsewhere, Kappa placed a small circular object on the floor behind some crates. It opened up and a large pole folded out. The supply pylon sat there and dropped a few thermal clips and grenades. Kappa took out his sniper rifle, loaded up and positioned it where he had a good enough view of the field below him. He could see Eta flashing biotic orbs around and attacking Cerberus troopers. She didn't have a gun, which seemed strange to Kappa, but he reasoned she need not be weighed down. Elsewhere, Mu was flashing her sword around and decapitating the troopers, whilst Delta was slowly following her but was under the floor, in the pipework.
"Delta! I don't think we're going to find an upload point between too many electrical pipes are we? Too much interference," he hissed.
"Cerberus is sneaky, if they can afford the time, they will."
A flash of red light showed he had incinerated a poor trooper.
Kappa saw a patrol guard on a ledge higher than usual, so he silently shot him off.
"Found it," said Mu.
"Rally to Mu!" Kappa said.
"Oh, are you the leader n-n-now?" Eta asked.
"We didn't sign up to follow someone, Kappa," Zeta protested.
Kappa just shook his head and started to make his way down again.
At the base of the ladder, he was surrounded by 4 troopers and a Centurion.
"Freeze!" the Centurion ordered.
"Damn, you got me," Kappa replied, but under the helmet he was smiling.
He removed his hands from behind his back, in them were four grenades. None had noticed, he looked around and dropped them to the ground.
"Too bad," he said, and they erupted into life, shocking the Centurion and killing two of the troopers on impact. He rolled around and smashed another with his gun, kicked the other one to the ground before he could react, and riddled the recovering Centurion with bullets.

Eta popped her head over the metal box and sent flying another throw.
She was, however, outnumbered. She recovered some strength and sent out an annihilation field, it would slowly eat away at one and jump to the next.
"This is w-why we b-bring weapons Eta," she said to herself.
Someone skidded down next to her; Zeta had found his way back.
"You're trapped too?" he asked.
"F-first time for everything my d-dear vanguard," she said, almost too happily.
He tilted is head a little, but then looked around.
"Well, I guess there's nothing for it," he took out his sword and ran his hand down the blade. It ignited in a biotic smoke; he got up, twisted around and sent out a jet of power that overran everything in front of him.
Eta jumped over the cover and attacked with throw, causing a biotic explosion that sent the others falling to the ground. Zeta grabbed his Phaeston and finished them off.
"A Phaeston?" she asked.
"It's light. Come on, we'd best get back to the others."

Soon it was only Eta and Zeta to arrive. The others had cleared the area around the currently uploading device.
"How do we stop this then?" Kappa asked.
"Shoot it," said Delta.
"We don't, we redirect it to Alliance, or upload it to our omni-tools," said Zeta as he and Eta ran inside, he looked at Mu, "Can you do it?"
She nodded and got to work.
Delta sat down on the ground in a heap and sighed, "I thought it'd be more exciting than this."
"What do you mean exciting? There's nothing exciting about fighting!" Zeta shouted.
"Back when I was on assignment as a freelance, I once saved an entire squad from trouble," Delta replied.
"And yet, you've done nothing but get in trouble today?" Mu asked.
"It's all about adapting to your environment," Delta said, "I haven't adapted well today, too m-."
The window suddenly smashed and Cerberus troopers poured in and around them; the team, excluding Alpha, who was nowhere in sight, created a circle, and fought back instantly.
"Make for the exit!" Kappa shouted.
"It's not done!" Zeta protested.
"Everyone, behind me!" Delta said. He had gotten to the exit and had somehow formed a large shield out of his omni-blade.
Eta threw biotics and Kappa tossed grenades, one aimed directly for the upload point. It exploded and the upload stopped. Mu turned invisible and ran back, got behind the door and resumed shooting. Zeta started blinking in and out of existence, slashing his sword around, but the troops kept coming.
"Close the door!" Zeta said.
"But you'll be trapped!" Delta shouted back, he was still holding the shield, protecting the others.
"Do it!" the flashing vanguard ordered.
They complied and closed the door; it was a straight path back to the landing sight. As soon as they had closed it, Zeta flashed in existence again.
"Didn't realise you could teleport through things," Kappa said.
Zeta was about to reply when they heard a large bang, and screams behind them, over the sound of rapid firing.
It stopped abruptly and Delta opened the door to find Alpha, with a Typhoon, in the middle of a smoking room surrounded by dead bodies.
"Let's get out of here," Kappa said.
"You broke the upload point!" Mu complained.
"We had to evacuate, and if we'd failed, who knows what they'd have gotten! I knew what I was doing!" Kappa protested.
"Did you?" Zeta replied, "You acted instinctively and may have lost us the mission. Our objective was to secure whatever data Cerberus wanted, and now, whatever it was has probably been lost."
"We kept it out of Cerberus hands, that's all that matters kid," Kappa said.
"Don't call me a kid, what do you think you're some war veteran who knows every nook and cranny of this galaxy?" Zeta said.
"You're a hot headed one, aren't you? Landing pad's just ahead, we'll wait for evac to pick us up," Kappa said.
Delta was already there, holding his shield on the ground again, "Don't worry, any Cerberus troops'll have to get through me first."
Zeta shook his head and got his gun ready, as did the others.
"We're ready," Mu said on the intercom.
"You got it?" asked the pilot.
She looked at Kappa, "Not exactly."

The team arrived back to headquarters a few hours later. At once, Alpha and Delta strolled away, not waiting for a report. Eta took off too, but Kappa remained to collect his payment.
"Mission failure, you get nothing," said the payment officer. He tapped a few things on screen and walked to the back of the room, busying himself with other priorities.
Kappa shook his head and walked away, barging Zeta as he went.
"Mu, how have you been?" he asked.
But the woman just looked at him.
"Look I'm sorry how it ended, I haven't seen you in so long; where'd you go?" he asked.
"Sorry Zeta, I… can't," she said, and ran off.
Taken aback, Zeta walked through the crowds of people behind him. All freelancers, looking for work. ASA had supposedly assembled the galaxy's best into one team, but he certainly didn't feel like they'd done a good job today. It would be a few days before their next assignment, assuming none of the team left before that, so he headed home.