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Chapter 2 - Scared?
Normal POV
Shepard, Miranda and now their new ally Carmine are going back on top of the stairs when they Shepard heard Garrus into the radio.
"Get back here, Shepard. They're coming in through the doors."
"On it Garrus heading back. Let's go double time!" Shepard yelled as they were going up the stairs Carmine was checking up on his Lancer knowing that he haves a new clip and his chainsaw couldn't have been better. They could hear gun shots going off a few more steps ahead of them as Shepard turn around the corner she spotted a Vorcha closed by the Krogan she shot him straight in the head dropping him dead.
"Miranda that's Garm he is heading towards Garrus, head on towards the left side to flank the Vorcha as for you Carmine you…" She stopped midsentence as she was to tell him he was already sprinting towards them.
Carmine started to aimed his Lancer as he killed one grub down, two, three, and more as he kept on sending bullet holes straight towards their bodies, seeing the blood splatter going around, Shepard was awed of this soldier she was seeing, bringing down their barriers like their nothing to him!
"Come on baby die for papa!" he kept on yelling as he then switched his Lancer to his Gnasher and blasted one of them grub in half from waist up. And Carmine was loving it, it was he was back on duty all over again, the same Grub Killer he is.
"Carmine! We need to help Garrus Miranda could take care of it lets go!" Shepard yelled at the tall blooded soldier in front of her, but he took him a minute to actually respond back to her, or actually to make him come back in reality again.
"Oh right yeah your friend let's go!" Shepard was a bit concern if she actually made a right choice to have him help her out, but for now she shook the thought of as she needed to save her friend.
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Shepard POV
'Hope he is alright in the head, I never seen weapons take down shields down that fast before! Specially ones that are that brutal.' I shook the thought of my mind as I had to aid my friend Garrus from Gram, heading up I took cover as I felt shotgun blast hitting towards my position as I peeked a look I saw two Krogan Blood Pack Warriors. 'Just great two Krogan'
"Carmine I need you to give cover and…" I stopped once again as I saw the big move towards them?! 'What the hell!' I tried to stop him but I felt an intense blood lust coming out of him, like he was not himself but another person. And the view that I saw brought that same tingling chill down my spine once more.
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Normal POV
Carmine charged on the two large upcoming grubs, as he felt shots grazing him from his shoulders and a little bit in his armor chest but he aimed his Lancer up and began to squeeze the trigger as he shot straight towards his chest making him drop his gun instantly and grab into his wound.
Seeing how the other grub is wounded he began to charge forward towards Carmine, and when they got close enough it was Carmines win since the very beginning. Instantly ripping up chainsaw Carmine managed to cut both of the grubs hands off clean seeing the grub scream in pain as he watched in horror how both of his hands where on the ground holding on to his shotgun. Then he turn his eyes towards the blue shining eyes coming from him Carmine helmet, he aligned the chainsaw straight towards the grubs' neck cutting it making the grub choke on his own blood.
"Carmine! Hey Carmine!" Shepard yelled out loud for him to hear but Carmine was in not actually paying attention towards her voice, he kept on eye on the grub laying in the ground before him seeing how he was crawling away from him, Carmine up walked up towards him gripping his Lancer.
Soon he got close towards the grub, Carmine looked down on him seeing him hold on into his wound trying to stop the bleeding. 'You think you can live grub!' Carmine saw the crack on his armor that he was holding on to, lifting his Lancer up he plunged it down straight towards the grubs armor piercing it through into his stomach. He can hear the loud screams coming out of his mouth as he spits blood, seeing his hands gripping onto the Lancer trying to pull it out, Carmine was not even close to finishing. As he ripped up his chainsaw once again he saw the fingers of the grub get sliced off of him and seeing the blood splattering all over his COG Armor and his Lancer seeing nothing but chunks of meat and body parts flying off of him.
"My god." Carmine turned his head and saw Shepard and Miranda right behind him but the one that said it was Miranda. 'Guess they never seen so much blood before?' He ignored them as he brought back his Lancer, seeing how the toad grub laying down dead in front of him had a big hole ripped through his stomach with a big pile of red blood around him.
Hearing more gun shots being fired over the door ahead of them Carmine began to walk up and saw yet another toad grub fighting one that look like a Kantus?
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Shepard POV
'I can't believe what I just saw, and I'm guessing also Miranda didn't see something like this either by the look on her face' I heard more gun shots being fired straight ahead where Garrus was and I looked up and saw Carmine walk inside the room. Following behind him I saw Garm shooting at Garrus behind cover but then I saw Carmine over towering the Krogan as he turned him around and head butted him with the back of his weapon.
Garm then managed to drop Carmines weapon off from him and punched him straight into his helmet 'Ouch not even a human would live from that…' But my thought was wrong as I saw Garm being punched in the face by Carmine?!
"Shepard who is the big friend you brought up here." Garrus asked me as I turned and saw that him and Jacob where fine. "I don't know Garrus, I really have no idea." As I turned my head back into the fight I was amazed that we didn't actually lift a finger to help him, actually it was the state of shock that we were in, we never seen such a brutal fight between a Krogan and well a human by the looks of it!
"Is that all you got!" Carmine taunted the Krogan I couldn't believe it, right in front of me I saw a Krogan being defeated and not only that but he started to back away from him! "What are you! You are no human! No human can give punches like that!" Garm yelled at Carmine but by the looks of it, Carmine didn't seem to understand him, or actually he just didn't care.
He gave him another punch in the face seeing Garm go down in one knee but Carmine grabbed the back of his head and kneed him straight towards his face, seeing how the Krogan was no longer able to fight back I took a step forward to him.
"Carmine its over he is defeated let him go." I said to him but he didn't seem to listen, I saw him lift up the Krogan up to his feet, thinking that he might have heard me now but I was wrong. The next thing I saw was Carmine tossing Garm out the window hearing a loud 'thud' coming down.
As I stood there in shock, and I believe everyone behind me I was also, I was about to yell at Carmine until I heard Garrus say.
"Thanks, Shepard. They hardly got through to me. And well it looks like he took out Garm and we took out the Blood Pack. This day just gets better and better. He was one tough Son…"
"Garrus whats wrong why are you…" As I turned around I saw Carmine aiming at Garrus what look like some sort of large pistol! Grabbing his hands to make him put down his gun I yelled at him.
"Carmine stand down! Lower your weapon Carmine!"
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Carmine POV
'Lower my weapon is she fucking crazy! There is a grub right behind her!' As I tried to aim my Boltok at him again I saw also that the group behind her had their toys aiming at me also. Seeing how the Commander is despratly trying to lower my pistol I had no choice but to obey what she said.
"Alright, alright I get it geez could you tell them to lower their fucking weapons too!" Seeing how I put away my Boltok Shepard turned around and orders them to do the same. But I kept my eyes looking at that ugly looking blue armored Kantus. No way is he friendly!
"What the hell did you try to do Carmine!" I looked down at Shepard and was literally confused of what she meant so I answered her honestly. "I tried to kill that grub over there behind you. Why you ask?"
"I Just want to make this clear here, but did he just say he was trying to kill me?" Somehow I was able to understand what he said, scratch that. I did understand what he said! "Can that grub speak our language?"
I was confused but I can see that Shepard was a bit confused also by the way I just reacted, she slowly and carefully let go of my arm as she looked at me. "You don't have an Omni-tool with you?
"A Ovni what?" I didn't understand what she meant as I saw her right hand showing a bright orange blinking thing on her as she showed it to me. "This is an Omni-tool it helps us in battlefield task just like, hacking, decryption, repair, and other available things in it just as speaking with different umm… 'Grubs' by your standards."
'Speak to grubs! Ha that's just fucking crazy, but yet again everything I'm seeing is crazy' Taking in a deep breath I looked at the Commander and said.
"Is that grub trust worthy Shepard?" I pointed at him as I saw Shepard nod her head and replied back. "Yes Carmine he is trust worthy he is a good friend of mine and one hell of a sniper, his name is Garrus Vakarian."
I looked at this Garrus fellow across from me, I still didn't seem to trust him, hell as far as I know he can aim his toy at me but if he is fast enough. Rubbing the back of my neck I just sighed. 'Guess I just have to go along with it until I get some answers' I looked back at Shepard and nodded my head to her agreeing to her judgment.
"Glad you understand big guy, So Garrus can I trust you not to shoot at him?" I turned my head towards Garrus and saw him shrug his shoulders and replied back. "Taking out a Krogan bare handed I think I know my limits Shepard. Yeah I can trust him for now."
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Normal POV
Now that everything seemed to calmed down a bit Shepard looked at Garrus. "Only the Blue Suns are left. I say we take our chances and fight our way out of here."
"I think you right. Tarak's got the toughest group, but nothing we haven't faced before. Besides, he won't be expecting us to meet him head on…" Garrus said shortly as he heard a loud engine coming out from the window across from them.
"Heads up!" Miranda yelled as she took cover as also did everyone in the group. Carmine took a peek and was surprised that it was some sort of Raven Chopper but this one looked different. "Damn it! I thought I took that thing down already!" Garrus yelled as he fired his Sniper rifle.
"Grubs!" Carmine yelled out as he saw some troops being unloaded from the front window across from them and Carmine was able to see a new grub that had four eyes? And a few that looked liked Garrus but also human beings?
Garrus and everyone began to shoot back and as Carmine was still confused of the situation he shook it off because he knows one thing for sure if he is being shot at then he is a dead grub. Pulling out his Lancer he aimed his rifle and sends the upcoming bullets to one of the troops shooting his brains out.
"Shepard they're rappelling down the side wall. Ground floor!" Garrus said to Shepard as she looked down the floor started to see the Blue Suns heading towards the stairs. "Carmine take care of the ground floor quickly! Jacob help him out too!"
Carmine didn't have time to respond back to her or actually even wait for Jacob he was out the door already reloading his Lancer as he saw more grubs down bellow shooting at him, Seeing blue beam lights passing him he took cover quickly as he saw what sort of looked liked and RPG.
"Damn this grubs are packing!" Carmine yelled behind cover as he saw what expected to be Jacob behind cover through the hallway. Griping his Lancer Carmine got out of cover and charged down the stairs aiming his Lancer feeling some grazes of the bullets hitting him around didn't even flinch as he began sending some bullets towards one of the grubs torso and head seeing their blood splatter all over the floor.
"Die motherfuckers!" Carmine kept on yelling as he came close to one of the four eyed grubs and quickly elbowed him in the face turning his back towards him and Carmine gripped his hand on his neck and brought him close to his chest pulling out his Boltok Pistol. "You don't mind taking a few bullets now do you!"
Carmine can see that neither of the grubs didn't want to shoot at his fellow grub, and he grind wider under his helmet. Squeezing the Boltok Pistol sends one bullet straight towards one of the grubs that looked like Garrus exploding his head completely seeing the blood splatter spray everywhere. 'Well would you look at that its raining blue blood Ha!'
Carmine kept on shooting at the grubs around him giving them big holes into their chest and popping their heads open as they totally forgotten about their ally friend captured began to shoot at him also trying to get into the big fellow before them.
After a couple of minutes actually, Carmine saw a few wounded grubs on the ground still breathing he looked down at the meat shield he had seeing that he was barely breathing, putting his Boltok away he snapped his neck killing him instantly looked around him in the pool of blood he just caused. 'What only three wounded survivors I'm getting sloppy'
Carmine pulled out his Lancer and walked up to one of the wounded grubs sees that it was a human male lifting his hands up for mercy but he shot him straight to his head seeing half of his face now gone. Walking towards the second one he saw that it was one that looked like Garrus and he lift up his boot as he saw the grub lift his hands up to make him stop but only ended twitching his hands as he slumps dead as Carmine brutally stomped on his head destroying it. Seeing the last grub before him he saw that he was wound from his shoulder and was leaning behind a wall trying to patch it up, Carmine walked towards him but gripped his hand on his neck and squeezed as he lift him up in mid air. "Now what did you think you were going to do."
Jacob was amazed of what h just witness not only was he able to at least get a kill from the Blue Suns but the big guy in front of him took out the entire squad all to himself and right now was choking the leader of the squad to death.
"Look at me grub!" Carmine yelled as it startle Jacob a bit took a step back as he just saw Carmine continue to squeezed the life out of him, the Batarian tried to hit his hands off of him but it was futile slowly and carefully he felt his throat being crushed as he began to spit out blood out of his mouth and then felt his whole body turning cold.
Carmine just saw how the grub just slump his arms down and dangle there for a second knowing that he was now dead lets him go and see him drop on the ground dead as any other grub he can remember turns his head towards Jacob and could tell he was afraid of him?
"Hey you alright there Jacob?" Carmine said as Jacob snapped out of his thoughts and looked up to him and nodded his head as he said.
"Yeah, just I never seen someone fight like that before."
"What this? This is normal to me like any other day Jacob, you guys don't kill grubs like this?" Before Jacob could answer his question they heard a loud explosion going off in the upper floor where Shepard was.
Both of them rushing straight up to the stairs Carmine saw Shepard pulling Garrus into cover as he was badly injured. Taking cover he saw the same Raven thing again swarming the whole room in bullets Shepard began to shoot back as everyone around began to shoot back and making him fly away from the window.
"His armor is to strong! We need a plan!" Miranda yelled out as she looked at Shepard but she was busy trying to see if Garrus was alive, Carmine didn't understand but when he saw Shepard trying to aid his fellow friend reminded him of something important. 'Either they are not Gears, like it or not you got to protect your brothers in arms!' Carmine put back his Lancer as he began to pull out an even longer weapon that could definitely go through thick armor, the Longshot.
He grabbed a single large bullet and placed it into the barrel of the chamber and bolted it in and aimed his scopes down seeing how the weird chopper hovering over in front of them Carmine squeezed the trigger sending the loud shot coming out of his Longshot . Seeing it go through the window of the screen and then saw the blood splatter go everywhere inside the cockpit, seeing that thing go down instantly.
"Taken care of." Carmine said as everyone in the group got out of cover Shepard walked over to Garrus and kneeled down to see if he was alive but then heard a loud gasp coming out of him surprising everyone that he was still alive.
"Garrus! We're getting you out of here, Garrus just hold on." Carmine looked down at Garrus and could tell he was in a very bad shape, but he noticed that he was still holding on to his weapon still. "Radio Joker. Make sure they're ready for us."
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Normandy
Carmine POV
'So this is a ship huh. It's fucking huge! Also we are out in space! It all looks so unreal.' I shook my head as I looked around the room I was in, seeing a large orange hologram of the ship, and the walls, but the doors seemed a bit too small for me though. As I looked around I was not alone inside here, no around me was Shepard, Jacob, and Miranda that she just keeps glaring at me!'What's her fucking problem?'
"Commander. We've done what we could for Garrus, but he took a bad hit." I can see that Shepard was worried about his friend. "The docs corrected with surgical procedures and some cybernetics. Best we can tell, he'll have full functionality, but…"
Jacob stopped, as I saw the doors swung open and saw that it was no other then Garrus walking inside.
"Shepard." I got to admit I was surprised myself that a small skinny grub could walk up already having a bad wound like that. "Tough son of a bitch. Didn't think he'd be up yet." But I could see that Shepard was relieved that he was up and walking again so I got to give him credit for that.
"Nobody would give me a mirror. How bad is it? Shepard crossed her arms and replied back to him. "Hell, Garrus you were always ugly. Slap some face paint and no one would even notice." 'She must be joking right because there is just no way to fixed that fucked up face'
Garrus just laughed but quickly stopped as it seemed that he still was injured shaking the thought of they began to talk and I just kept on looking ahead of me. 'What now? I'm pretty sure they going to want to talk to me after Garrus is done. But yet again I need answers too so I just have to go with the flow on this one' Giving up I shook my head and saw Garrus leave the room, looking around then I saw all eyes on me. Just great.
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Normal POV
"Ok Clayton what do we do with you." Miranda said to him but Carmine didn't actually like that he used his first name and responded back to her. "It's Carmine to you and for everyone else around here, only my family and friends can call me by my first name. And seriously I have no idea of whom or what you people do here so I think questions would be needed don't you think?"
Carmine said as everyone in the room agreed not trying to piss of the giant guy in front of them. So Shepard said.
"Alright Carmine, let's just start off with introduction again, name and rank."
"Ok, my name is Clayton, Private Clayton Carmine."
"Ok Carmine can you tell me where you from because I hardly believe you are in the system alliance, so what are you?"
Carmine stood quiet for moment he knew that sooner or later they had to find out so without of thought he said.
"Ok, but what I'm about to tell you guys, might think I'm crazy. But I'm telling the truth here ok so you just have to trust my word on this."
Everyone in the room was concern of what he was talking about but they nodded their heads agreeing to his terms and heard him continue.
"OK look I think I'm not anywhere from this universe as you can see, I'm from a plant called Sera and we are indeed human."
Shepard, Mirand, and even Jacob looked dumbfounded as if he was playing them a joke, Shepard not really conviced decided to ask more questions.
"Look Carmine it's really hard for us to believe your story, really. Saying that you from a different universe are not common around here you know. Can you really proof your theory is true?"
Carmine sighed knowing that this was coming so taking out the broken artifact he crushed when he landed here he showed it to them.
"Look this is the thing that brought me here in the first place; this was created from a scientist named in my planet Adam Fenix. I managed to read a bit of his script of how he managed to build this thing to make a portal to a different dimension. I as I touched the damn thing it sucked me up and brought me here where you found me."
Shepard eyeing the artifact did indeed look like something she never seen before, and by the looks of Miranda and Jacob they don't know either.
"Ok, I sort of believe you, but tell me why did this person would create such a portal, what was it necessary for?"
Carmine looked at them for a brief moment not really knowing if he should answer her question, but in these circumstances he really had no choice if he was going to get anywhere.
"You heard me say the phrase 'Grub'?"
"Yes."
"Look I say grub because back in my home world named Sera we were at war against an alien race named Locust that they were living underground all this time. So this crazy queen named Myrrah exclaimed that she own all of Sera and had the right to rule it, so she began to invade our lands and kill anything in their path. We the Coalition of Ordered Governments, COG for short, tried to push them were they came from, but they were too strong and too many... They began to push us back close enough to extinct us. That's why he created something like that alright!"
Carmine finished didn't want to continue any further; just thinking of the past was boiling his blood even more in sensed it too so decided to change the subject.
"Ok I believe you Carmine, I can tell, seeing different alien species is all new to you, but can you tell me what that emblem means?"
"This is a COG Tag representing that I am a Gears Soldier."
"So you're Gears then?"
Carmine nodded his head as he stood tall proud of being a Gear and Shepard said one last thing.
"Ok Carmine, I believe your whole story but can I ask you one last thing."
"Shoot."
"Are you willing to join my crew to defeat this race called the Collectors?"
Carmine was thinking hard on this one, one thing for sure he just wanted to go home, but that seemed impossible at this point. Seeing that he haves no choice could end up agreeing to her terms but he was no fool, so he said.
"Look Shepard, first up I don't know who are this collectors you are talking about, and secondly I would like to know what is this crew and their purpose of their object is before I make a decision."
Shepard nodded her head seeing that it was fair enough for him to know.
"Ok Carmine I'm originally from the Alliance Marine's but this guys over there work for a group called Cerberus. I can show you the details later what this group does when you have time to talk, right now this Collectors, are a race of aliens that been kidnapping human colonies throughout the system not knowing their purpose, but I'm here to stop them."
Carmine didn't even think twice, if there is a grub kidnapping human families or killing them he would do anything to stop them.
"Alright Shepard I'll join you only because I can tell you have being telling me the truth."
Shepard put a smile on her face as she extended her hand as he did also they both shake on it and she said.
"Glad to have you on board Carmine, now I just need you to go to deck three and get checked up with one of our doctors alright just to make sure you are ok. EDI can you escort Carmine towards the medical bay."
"Certainly Shepard, if you would just follow my instruction Carmine I'll take you to Doctor Chakwas."
Carmine was surprised of the blue sphere hologram showed in front of him but looked at himself and did noticed a few bullet wounds around him so taking up her offer he nods his head and waves his hand walking out of the room.
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Shepard POV
Seeing Carmine walk out debriefing room I looked at Jacob and Miranda and said.
"Well now that he is gone do you guys have something to say?"
"It's not that I don't believe half of his story Commander, it's just the way he… well…"Jacob seemed like he didn't know what else to say but then Miranda finished the sentence for him.
"He is a barbarian, psychopath, and a freak of nature Shepard! You had seen what he did over there, not in all of my years seen so much… Carnage!" I was surprised that Miranda exclaimed like that, but yet again I was also surprised. Not in my Alliance career seen such brutality and death in a single man. But he was indeed strong, no, not strong, he was powerful. And I need that strength if I'm going to defeat the Collectors.
"Look Miranda I know Carmine does what he does is wrong but can you blame the guy. He just said that his people were close to extinction by this race called the Locust, and have you ever met a Locust before?" I can see that she stood quiet now, I never seen one in person either hell, I never even heard from it. But whatever Carmine experienced back in his world, it sure seemed he was living in hell.
"Miranda I'll try to talk to him and see if he will you know 'cooperate' with us not be a loose canon you know, besides he just like well… A Krogan but much, much stronger and scarier."
"He definitely is no Krogan that's for sure. But one thing I do agree with you Shepard, is that he is indeed a scary opponent." Miranda said as she walked out of the room and Jacob saluted as he also walked out. 'Can I even trust him? Hell I talked about the Reapers and the council thought I was crazy'
"I'll worry about that later for now let's go to the medical bay and see how our big guy is doing."
This is the end of this chapter yes I'll try to think of something for the next hahaha.
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Hazzamo - The carnage is barely begging my friend it is barely begging hahahaha but hope you liked this one!
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