Persona Effect
Whatever I was expecting when I got sucked into my TV while playing Mass Effect, being confronted by my dark half was not it. I also wasn't expecting to get spat out into the Mass Effect world with powers I thought were fiction. I really should have stayed in bed. OC-insert, slight Persona crossover.
And we're back. I have decided, after much deliberation, to have Lock return to the TV world and have any character who is a party member in at least two games gain a Persona. That means that the ones with who will be gaining Persona are as follows: Shepard, Tali, Ashley, Liara and Garrus. I already have some Personas in mind for them, but am open to suggestions. Anyway, thats enough gabbling, on with the show!
Chapter 2
"That could have gone so much better," I grumbled as I tugged at the Omni-cuffs that held me chained to the table.
I had woken up a few minutes ago to find that the squads had cuffed me to the table leg and buggered off, likely under the impression that I was going no where. Unfortunately for them, I had no intention of sticking around chained to a desk and so was currently in the process of attempting to saw through the cuffs with my sword that they had, rather foolishly, left within my reach. I was pretty sure that this sword was not normal by any stretch of the imagination considering it was making short work of the metallic substance, not to mention the fact it had been able to cut through steel when fired from the TV.
Eventually, the cuffs fell away and I got to my feet, stretching the kinks out of my muscles and rubbing my wrists.
"Alright, now I'm out of that little situation, lets see what we got."
I grabbed my sword and sheath that had been propped up against a closed locker. As soon as I moved the sheath, the locker opened and revealed that it contained a long, black coat that looked a lot like the one my Shadow had been wearing. And looked very good doing so I might add. I hummed for a moment, before shrugging.
"Ah, what the hell. Its not like the owner still needs it and I don't really want to be running around in just my tshirt."
I reached into the locker and grabbed the coat, before putting it on and examining myself in the full length mirror attached to the inside of the door.
"Hmm, this coat looks familiar," I muttered, before an explosion sounded outside.
I turned away from the mirror and shut the locker.
"Not the time to be narcissistic, Lock," I muttered as I dashed through the door and in the direction of the explosion, "Nows the time to help out!"
Tali POV
I ducked behind a stack of crates as the YMIR mech that had wiped out my team opened fire towards me. I cursed in my head as I felt the mass accelerator rounds hit my rather flimsy cover, even as the shouts could be heard on the other side of the field as Shepard ordered her team to open fire.
Keelah, I could hardly believe that Shepard was back after I saw her get spaced, and with Cerberus of all people. Still, I knew Shepard and it was more likely that she was simply working with the organization and intended to break away at the first opportunity.
The sound of a rocket exploding a few inches to my left reminded me that now really wasn't the time to be daydreaming. I listened as the Mass Accelerator fire let up and popped out from behind cover, unleashing and Overload at the huge Walker mech. The Mech stumbled slightly and turned around from where it had been strafing Shepards cover, its rocket arm already primed. My eyes widened behind my helmet as I dived to the side, just barely avoiding the rocket as it slammed into the crates I had been taking cover behind, destroying them. I rolled back to my feet, intending to run to the next piece of cover, only to find that I was now out in the open with the nearest cover being nearly 100 meters away. I turned to look at the YMIR as the huge robot powered up its gun. Those rounds would rip through my shields, suit and body in seconds without some cover and there was no way I could make it there before it fired, especially not with my body frozen in fear as it was. I stared into the blank, glowing face of the mech, even as its gun fired.
Suddenly, there was a shout and a bright flash of blue light and I found myself flying through the air in someones arms as the YMIR turned the ground where I was into mulch. The air around me seemed to distort as a strange tingling feeling covered my skin. An instant later and the odd feeling stopped as whoever was holding me vaulted over a stack of crates and took cover.
"Phew, that was a close one," said my savior, "You OK?"
My head snap around as I recognised the voice as the strange human with a sword. I immediately shoved him away and shot to my feet, aiming my trusty shotgun at him. Before I could say or do anything though, he leaped forwards and tackled me down, just in time to avoid another missile.
"You can kill me all you want later," he said as he rolled off me before I could smack him, "Right now, lets just focus on destroying that thing."
He gripped the sword that was strapped at his side and closed his eyes, his form lighting up with a blue biotic glow.
"Alright, lets see if I can do this again," he muttered, before snapping his eyes open and vanishing.
I peaked out from behind the stack of crates and watched as the strange human appeared on the field on top of the boxes Shepards squad was hiding behind, much to their surprise if the yelps were anything to go by, his sword out and held to the side as if he had cut something and his coat flapping in the light breeze. The YMIR seemed to have frozen and the glowing rings that were its eyes had gone out. I blinked in confusion as the human flicked his sword to remove the black liquid that clung to it, before sheathing it. The click seemed to echo around the area before the YMIR seemed to fall apart, sliced neatly in half from top to bottom.
"Alright, that clinches it, there is no way this sword is normal," said the human looking down at his weapon with awe on his face.
Locks POV
I hopped down of the crate I ended on, ignoring the incredibles looks from the two Cerberus operatives and Shepard in favor of examining the mirror smooth finish that came from the cut I dealt to the YMIR.
"How did you get loose?" demanded Tali, stepping out from behind her cover and pointing her shotgun at me, "Those Omni-cuffs could have held a Krogan!"
In answer I held up my sword.
"This thing can apparently cut through steel with no problem," I said, "It took about ten seconds to cut through those cuffs. But you know it wasn't really necessary to cuff me to the table."
"Not... You took me hostage!" yelled the irate Quarian.
I made to retort, only to stop and sigh.
"Yeah, I can't really think if a retort for that," I said, rubbing the back of my head in embarrassment, "I apologise for that. I shouldnt have done it and knew it was a bad idea from the start, but in my defence I had no idea where I was and had a bunch of people pointing guns at me."
"And that makes it OK?" growled Tali, her eyes visibly narrowing.
"Not at all," I quipped, "That's just my reason. Take it or leave it, I don't care."
"Please take it, please take it!"
Talis only response was to glare at me harder. Before we could continue arguing though, Shepard suddenly appeared between us and held out her arms. The version in this world was the default fem-shep with red hair and violet eyes for some odd reason.
"Whoa, thats enough," she said, "Tali, Saber, stop fighting! We're here for a reason, you can kill each other later!"
I stared at Shepard for a moment, wondering where in the hell she'd gotten Saber from.
"My names Lock," I said, "And this is a Katana."
"Saber sounds better," said the hero, before turning to Tali, "You know, you never did tell me what he did to make you chain him to the table."
"He took me hostage," growled Tali.
"Oh really?" asked Shepard, turning back to me, "Is this true Saber?"
"Lock," I growled, although I somehow knew the name was going to stick, "And yes, although in my defence, they did point their guns at me first."
"You appeared out of nowhere and slammed into me!" yelled Tali, only for Shepard to once more put herself between us.
"ENOUGH!" she yelled, "You can kill each other later, but for now we have a scared Quarian to find."
"Oh, Keelah, I almost forgot about Veetor!" exclaimed the engineer, throwing another glare my way as if it was my fault.
I crossed my arms with a harumph and followed Shepard towards the bunker, stopping just outside.
"So who exactly are you?" asked Maranda, looking me up and down, "I don't think I've ever seen anyone use a sword quite like you."
"Yeah, I'm pretty unique," I said, "Anyway, my name is Lock Magnus."
"Thats an unusual name," said Miranda, "I'm Miranda and this is Jacob."
She indicated to said Biotic who saluted.
"You know if your interested, my organization is always looking for skilled individuals. If your interested I could put in a good word."
"Yeah, no," I said, "I have no interest in working for a pro-human terrorist organization."
"Cerberus is not a terrorist organization," said Miranda.
"Yeah, and I'm not a human with a sword," I muttered.
"So where did you learn to use a sword like that?" asked Jacob in an attempt to steer the conversation away from Cerberus.
"I've been learning since I was six," I said, clenching my fist, "There was an old man in my apartment building who was a master. Was my escape when the shouting started."
Jacob snapped his mouth shut at that and looked a little awkward. Fortunately, Shepard and Tali came out of the bunker at that moment, accompanied by a jittery looking Veetor.
"Alright, lets get back to base so I can give my report to the Illusive Wanker," said Shepard, making me snort at her description, even as Miranda looked disapproving, "Tali will forward the contents of Veetors Omni-tool to me once the Quarians make sure hes OK.
"What?" asked Miranda, "But the Quarians are not to be trusted! We should just take him with us and see what he knows."
"What? but Veetors sick," retorted Tali, "He needs rest, not an interrogation!"
"Girls got a point," I said, "I bet you wouldn't want to be questioned after going through what the poor guy has."
Miranda grumbled as Tali gave me a surprised look.
"What?"
The purple suited alien turned away with a huff as she led her charge back to there shuttle.
"So, what now?" I asked.
"Well, we need to get back to base and you're coming with us," said Shepard.
I blinked.
"I am?"
"Yep, I've seen what you can do and want your help with a very important mission!"
I looked at the commander with an incredulous expression as she struck a pose that wouldn't look out of place in a Magical Girl anime.
"O….K?" I said, "Better than waiting around here for the Alliance to show up I suppose."
"Wait commander, you can't be serious?" asked Miranda, "We know nothing about this person. For all we know he could be a Collector spy!"
"Hmm, nope," said Shepard, "Hes trustworthy, I can tell."
The three of us glanced at each other, a little confused.
"And how can you tell?" asked Jacob.
"Well, anyone who risks there life to save someone they took hostage can't be bad," was the answer.
And so it was that, a few hours later saw me stood on the Normandy wondering what in the hell I was getting myself in for.
And Im gonna end it there. A rather weak ending, but hey. If you want to know what Locks coat looks like, just picture Kiritos from SAO. I admit to not having seen much of the series, but the coat looks so damned cool!
As you can probably tell, I'm going for a slightly quirky Shepard, something that will become increasingly obvious as the series progresses. Now, please leave me a review on the way out! see ya!