A/N; here you go, chapter two.
Location Unknown
Date Unknown
Sam watched the three people—scratch that, two people and an alien come out of cover, the leader of the group, a woman with dark red hair and pale green eyes wore an almost skin tight armour piece, the dark colours made it look similar to an ODST BDU. The second person, a man, wore bulky armour that looked almost like the standard Marine BDU although it wasn't quite. The last one, the alien, was the tallest of the group and wore bulky camouflaged armour; its face had a nasty looking scar that ran from the side of its face and down its neck and below the armour, Sam guessed it went on down its barrelled chest.
"Listen, were on the same side here and I really need to get a move on and finish my mission," the woman said, her voice was demanding but not overly so,
"So? Who are you, where are we and what is your 'mission'?" Sam asked, the woman barely hesitated in answering, apparently she was either a good liar or she trusted people one hundred per cent all of the time, neither of which seemed like a good way to live life to Sam.
"I'm Commander Shepard, this is Lieutenant Vega," she said pointing to herself and then the other human, "and this is Garrus Vakarian," she finished by pointing the alien who was eyeing Sam cautiously, Sam noted the alien, Garrus, stood a little closer to the Commander than the Lieutenant.
"We're on Tuchanka, the Krogan home world and we're here to cure the Genophage," she said, there was so many thing that weren't adding up that it made Sam's head spin but he decided he needed information, the way she spoke about those things, the 'Genophage' and 'Krogan', made it seem like he was meant to know what she meant, so he decided to wing it.
"Right, fine but I want to join you," he said, he noted the look of surprise flash on all three faces, the Lieutenant seemed highly against the idea but said nothing, the alien looked slightly anxious while the Commander kept a straight face, it took a moment before she answered, Sam, Garrus and the Lieutenant were all looking at her, waiting.
"Okay, fine. But, only until we get off of Tuchanka, after that I'll let Admiral Hackett decide what to with you," she said finally,
"Commander!" the Lieutenant said indignantly, "Stow it James," she replied quickly.
XX
Location- Tuchanka, Aralakh system,
Date-July 28, 2186
Meredith studied the large green figure, its voice was deep but it had a certain youth to it that couldn't be faked, whoever it was beneath all that armour was one hell of a soldier, the type of soldier that Admiral Hackett would need on the front lines against Cerberus and the Reapers.
She agreed to have him tag along simply because of the way he had easily dispatched of the reaper forces, plus against Cerberus his size alone would add a certain amount of psychological effect that would work in his favour.
"What's your name? After all you know ours so what do we call you?" she asked, the man's golden visor turned to face her and she found herself staring at her own reflection,
"Petty Officer Second Class- 034, sir," he replied, offering nothing else.
"Well than, let's go Petty Officer," she motioned towards the path that would take them to the Reaper Destroyer, the four of them made quick progress although Shepard could tell her companions were cautious around him, their eyes kept darting to make sure he wasn't about to shoot them in the back. Although she had to admit that she was a little nervous herself.
When they made it to the final stretch things got dicey, more reaper forces appeared to stop them, the Petty Officer, 034, used his odd weapon to tear them apart, he only hesitated for the briefest of moments when he first saw the Reaper. He said nothing during the trip, only replying to orders with a quick 'yes sir', he didn't make any comments throughout the run.
As they approached their final obstacle, a weak looking bridge, the Reaper let out an earth shattering mechanical roar, just as Shepard and her team jumped over the weak spot in the bridge the Destroyer fired, a red beam of liquid metal struck the ground beneath the bridge, the resulting explosion caused the team and their cling on to fly through the air, landing on the smouldering rubble that had been a bridge.
"Everyone okay?" she asked, Garrus was fine he had a few more scars to add to the collection but was no worse for wear,
"I just got shot by a Reaper, I'm fantastic!" James called out, surprisingly enthusiastic,
"Reminds me of that time in basic where the Chief booby trapped the playground," 034 said as he stood up again, not a single scratch on his armour that wasn't already there.
Just as the Reaper was about to fire again several Turian fighters flew overhead and started to distract the Reaper, their light weapons doing little to no damage but they kept it busy as Shepard, her two friends and their new giant acquaintance made a mad run at the Destroyer, stopping only to take out the odd reaper Brute that got too close for comfort.
"Garrus, you take three four and get the other hammer, me and James will hit the first target," she yelled as they ran directly beneath the six hundred meter tall sentient warship that was dropping Brutes on them left and right.
"Got it!" the Turian sharpshooter replied, the Petty Officer followed him closely, but far enough away to show he didn't trust the alien.
XX
Location- 'Tuchanka'
Date-Unknown
Sam followed the alien through a heap of large synthetic monsters, the alien, Garrus, was a pretty good shot with his rifle, although at close quarters he had switched to and assault rifle of some description, a large monster thing, a Brute Shepard had called it, tried to take a swing at Garrus, Sam had a feeling that the Commander would not appreciate one of her friends being hurt or possibly killed. Sam grabbed the claw of the Brute just as Garrus turned to see it, the Brute was strong, incredibly so, but Sam was stronger and pushed the monster away, primed an M9 grenade and punched the large synthetic in its chest, lodging the grenade in its chest he quickly pushed it back again and jumped away. The brute roared defiantly before the grenade exploded, leaving nothing but small bits of armour that rained down upon the duo.
"Uhh... thanks," Garrus said as he backed away slightly, they headed towards the second hammer only to see the activation switch was some sort of box,
"Garrus, how's it going? You done it yet?" Shepard asked over the radio, although Sam couldn't hear her through his own he did hear it from Garrus' headset.
"We're on it Shepard," Garrus replied as he activated the odd box switch, a large hammer crashed down on the ground, the force of the hammer striking the ground caused a minor tremor, seconds later another hammer hit the ground, adding to the effect. The tremors grew more and more powerful as the Reaper stomped about and the hammers kept striking the ground. Off in the distance Sam saw what looked like a giant worm heading towards them,
"We've got something coming in!" Sam warned, Garrus looked at where he was pointing,
"That's Kalros!" he said, "Shepard, Kalros is on her way and she looks angry," he said into the radio, Shepard ordered everyone back to the trucks, wherever the trucks were. He followed Garrus to the trucks and saw a large six wheeled truck surrounded by more aliens, these ones were large toad like creatures with humps on their backs, their faces reminded Sam of the bats found in the caves on Reach.
The Lieutenant arrived just seconds after him and Garrus, Shepard nowhere in sight, "Wrex, where's Mordin?" Garrus asked as he trotted up to the largest alien in the group, Sam took note of the red crust on its head, blood red eyes and three massive scars running down his face.
"The Salarian went to the shroud facility, Eve's okay as well," it replied, its deep voice leading Sam to believe it was a 'he'.
"Who's the big guy?" Wrex asked, eying Sam up, studying him with a trained eye, "just someone the Commander picked up on the way," Garrus replied as they all piled up in the massive truck. Sam was confused at their behaviour but said nothing.
Once they reached a safe distance they all piled out again, Sam watched with amazement as the giant worm from earlier erupted from the ground and took out the Reaper, it was a sight to behold. Shortly after Sam saw a small dot moving up the tower they had been running towards, he guessed it was an elevator. He had been doing a lot of guessing lately.
Barely seconds after the elevator reached the top of the tower, the upper most floors exploded, whoever was in there was almost certainly dead. He watched as an orange mist started to pour out of the tower, it spread far and wide, depositing some sort of molecule around the globe. He kept his distance from everyone as they went to pick up Shepard, Wrex and Garrus were talking to Shepard, although he stood away from everyone he could still hear their conversation. Once they were done Shepard walked right up to him and placed her index finger in his chest and looked straight up at his faceplate,
"When we get aboard the Normandy me and you are going to have a nice little chat, understood?" she said, her tone left no room for argument, although he didn't have to, he agreed simply out of the need of information.