Hey thanks for the reviews and favourite and alerts and what not, also answering a question
Kane: how did James squad survive their first encounter with the Flood?
Frank: James did, the rest died, either via the flood or the carpet bombing
Anyway blah blah dont own mass effect or halo blah
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Afghanistan 2006
Peters I need you to calm down, try and shut out the pain and tell me what happened!" the sergeant told the quivering youth "I-It was a-a m-monster, I swear it was. It looked exactly like a boy but when he turned... Oh god..." peters cried out. The sergeant sighed and put a reassuring hand on the 18 year old's shoulder.
"sergeant somethings coming up the well!" Grayson said as he cocked his rifle. "get the crowd away from the well!" the sergeant yelled as fear started to trickle through his veins. They formed a perimeter around the well, all of their rifles pointed at the well.
"peters what are we shooting at?" Grayson asked "peters!". The young man simply pointed to the well. Grayson slowly turned to see a small child getting out of the well. In an instant his rifles iron sights were lined up with the boy. A woman broke from the crown and ran to the child. The child pulled himself up revealing a yellow growth on his chest. T
he woman stopped and screamed as she was bisected by one of the child's arms, which were made of horrible mutated tentacles. the child roared in an inhuman gurgling noise, and the sergeant yelled "DUST THAT FUCKER".
SSV Normandy 2183
James awoke with a start. He looked around until he saw an ageing woman with grey shoulder length hair. "ah I see your awake." the woman said. "yeah... Where am I?" James asked "aboard the Normandy, sergeant, how are you feeling?" she asked "okay, just too much death for me to cope with. I had PTSD, And was in a mental hospital for 2 years, in am still on meds.
"yes I read your file, at least the parts I was authorized to read... Oh captain Anderson." she said as a dark skinned man wearing what looked to be a naval uniform walked in. "how's our guest holding up doctor? "well everything checks out, the only outstanding issue is his biotics, namely, how could he have gotten them a century before element zero was discovered.".
"hmm yes, is the sergeant up to talking." Anderson asked. "ask him yourself" the doctor said. In response to this, James sat up on the bed and said "what about?". Anderson nodded to the doctor and she left. "I'm sorry about what happened down there." Anderson said "this was supposed to be a clean pickup, in and out..." he continued "it never goes according to plan don't be sorry sir"
"true enough, I learned that the hard way myself" Anderson said "you wanted to speak with me?" James said as he stood up, testing his leg. "yes, i was wondering, just what happened in that cave in 2010?" Anderson asked.
"well We went into the cave because it wasn't on the GPS or maps, shortly after, I was wounded in the chest... They looked completely alien but they were robots or something. We met a strange man it there..." James looked right into Anderson's eyes and said "...he...it was Prothean.". "do you mean a holo or a video?" Anderson asked. "no he was alive, I shook his hand, he referred to himself as the avatar of memory.
When he shook my hand he transferred his knowledge to me, I can't access the knowledge, I don't even know what he gave me... But once I saw certain things on Eden prime, some of the knowledge was unlocked, it's like I knew already..." James explained. "...a living Prothean? On earth no less!" Anderson said, shocked "not anymore he killed himself before I fell in the stasis pod, saying "that is for you to find out... Avatar."" James said "the council will want to hear this when we get to the citadel." Anderson said, deep in thought "I'll need to be brought up to speed sir, I mean, aliens, faster than light travel, I've missed quite a bit." James said "yes of course, here, it's an omnitool, you'll find it has a codex that should give you all of the information you need, as well as access to the extranet." Anderson said, handing him a white box. He opened the box and found a clear glove, with a slight blue sheen in it. "thank you captain."
"one last thing, I know you have just recovered from your episode but, would you be interested in joining the systems alliance military?". "I'd rather not go through basic again, the first time was hard enough." James said smirking "if you join I will personally promote you to the rank of lieutenant, that is, as long as you want to join I won't force you." Anderson said "why the special treatment sir?" James asked.
"because I want you here on the Normandy, as the commander of our marine detachment." Anderson explained " I would figure Alenko or Shepard could serve that purpose" James said. "Alenko is inexperienced and is distracted by migraines, and Shepard is already my XO, she has her hands full as it is, besides, your a veteran, you've seen shit that, quite frankly, I couldn't stand to watch, not only that, you spat in the face of the NATO spooks when you survived that carpet bombing in Afghanistan, then rejoined two years later almost as if nothing had happened, your the best candidate for the job."
Anderson explained James paused to think then sighed and said "I'll accept sir." saluting sharply "here, take these" said Anderson smiling warmly, in his hand were dog tags. "thank you, sir!" James said as he went to leave the sickbay. " before you go... I'd just like to say... If you need to talk with someone, you know about the incident in 2006, Shepard is the one to talk to, she saw her parents killed in front of her right before slavers blinded and tortured her and left her to die on Mindoir. She also saw her unit die in front of her on Akuze, I'm still not authorized to know what attacked them but she was in a mental hospital for nearly three years. Just if you think it will help, she will be up in a few hours according to Dr Chakwas." Anderson finished "I'll think about it sir." James said as he left.
"hey, how are you feeling?" Kadian asked as he walked out of the sickbay. "could be better, to be honest." James said "i don't blame you, back when I was BAaT I saw too many breakdowns, I know yours was far worse but anyway Just thought I'd say that.". "bAat? What's that? James asked "just call it brain camp, we all did, it was a school for biotics." Kadian said "I see, what are biotic s anyway?" James asked. Kadian smirked, and said " follow me"
Andersen's pov
Anderson sat down at his desk in the captains quarters. He was in a bad mood, nilhis was dead, the beacon was destroyed and his XO was injured. He was about to pour some coffee when his private terminal blinked, indicating a secure communication. He tapped in his security code and a picture of admiral Hacket appeared
"captain, I hear Grayson signed up for service on the Normandy, are you sure he that was wise, he has some serious mental scars." Hacket said "every veteran does, you brought this up when we were selecting Shepard as our candidate for the spectres, and my position hasn't changed, sir" Anderson said back
"good because we have a major situation developing on Terra Nova." Hacket said "how bad?" Anderson quickly said "the Tet directive has been enacted, and the entire fifth fleet is en route" Hacket said "I'm not familiar with that admiral" Anderson said
"first contact is generally thought to have occurred in 2157 with the turians, that isn't true, in 1968 we came in contact with what we call "the flood". They are a race of parasitic life forms that, through means we do not know, change their hosts body into a variety of forms ranging from combat to incubation of the infection forms, we consider them the most dangerous foes we have ever faced amplified by the fact that they are sentient." Hacket explained "why was I never informed if this?" Anderson asked "information about this is all on a strictly need to know basis, until today, you didn't need to know.".
"I see, is that what happened on Akuze." Anderson asked "yes." was Hacket's answer. "I see... I assume you want us to change course to link up with the fleet?" Anderson asked "no I want you to tell the council, Terra Nova is too important to lose, and we need all of the help we can get to save it, even if all they send is one frigate, or a squad of troops, we need it.".
"I see, no promises admiral but I'll try my best." Anderson said "I hope so, because the flood can use our weapons, if they learn to use our ships... We may never stop them.". Hacket said just before he cut the comm
"joker! How long until we get to the citadel?" he said into a comm panel "about two hours captain." a voice said over the comm. "good keep me updated" Anderson said.
Meanwhile, in the cargo hold
"OK, the point behind the implants is to amplify and focus the element zero in your body so the power of whatever your doing is increased, yea your not getting those, because... Well you punched the head off a geth destroyer, which is something even Me with L2 implants can't do." Kadian said as he demonstrated his powers, using them to toss a crate around. "
"so how do I use it?" James asked "at first you gotta find it, usually it happens when emotions are high, that's what happened with you down on Eden prime, now try to mimic that feeling." Kadian said as he let the crate down. James closed his eyes and brought himself back to Eden prime, the destroyer, the barrel of a gun in his face. It wasn't working but then again he didn't expect it to develop overnight, so he sat down and searched. There was only one way he was getting that feeling of imminent doom, only one time where forcing himself into a flashback.
Afghanistan 2006
Bullets ripped into the child as orange blood splattered everywhere and the creature slumped forward. "Johnson move up and make sure that thing is dead." the Sargent ordered, then he turned to Grayson "what the fuck was that thing?" Grayson shook his head and said "I don't know, there isn't anything I've seen like that, to a child no less." "we've gotta report this now, from what I se-" a wizz flew passed Grayson's ear and the sergeants head exploded in a mess of blood and skull fragments.
Grayson rolled behind some cover as he franticly reloaded his rifle He peeked out and he saw Johnson with a smoking rifle in hand, there was some sort of yellow pulsating bag dug into his chest, spreading yellow corruption throughout his body. Johnson's head fell back, unneeded and the creature made a deep guttural roar.
The five other soldiers left all fired at it to bring it down when they saw a swarm of the yellow pulsating bags leap from the well right at the crowd of people who were now trying to run. "Fall back, we need to get the fuck out of here!" Grayson yelled, assuming command of the squad. Screams of pain and terror echoed through the streets of the village as the infection spread as the soldiers could do nothing but defend themselves. "get the radio!" Grayson yelled to one of the soldiers, who nodded and ran to grab it. "this is blue five, were under attack by... An unknown enemy! We need immediate support!" Grayson yelled into the radio set that was handed to him, unaware that command was already aware of the situation.
SSV Normandy 2183
James eyes snapped open, a pure biotic blue,he roared and sent a massive biotic pulse flying out of his hands, right into the crate, sending it slamming into the bay door, crushing the empty crate. "holy shit!" alenko yelled as James was covered by a blue aura panting in exertion. "well I'm not going to ask how in the name of god you managed a push that big but hell if I were to gauge that I'd say you could give an asari matriarch a run for her money." Kadian said looking at the crate.
"could of warned me before you made that crate your bitch." ash said as she continued to work on the weapons set out before her. "oh yeah, the weapon techs got a hold of your guns, I think you'll like what they've done with them." ash said "okay let's see them" James said.
A man carrying two cases walked up and said "alright LT here's what we got, first we'll start off with the C-6. "we changed out you ACOG with something that can see in all spectrums, and packed in a special ammo plug in so you can change ammo types quickly, we also gave you the standard ammo block system that guns use now, which means you don't really have to reload, just watch the heat. Now me and the guys thought this would be a nice addition if we added this, he said pointing to a module on the bolt. "what is that" James said as he looked at the device "it's a coil for a micro coil gun, it'll launch the projectile at Mach fourteen, and hit with the force of a satchel charge. Just watch when you use it, it'll cause the gun to over heat." the man stopped to take a breath as James looked at the gun though the sights.
"alright now for the good shit, your M-14 was beaten up by the time we got it, looked like someone dragged the inside of the barrel though sand paper." the tech said "well i need to change the barrel every time i shoot one of the SABOT rounds. James replied "well the quartermaster got his hands on some rare hardware." the tech said as he held up what looked like a dart "do you know what this?" he said. James cocked an eyebrow and the tech said "sorry, this is a prototype APAA-154, it creates random mass effect fields to rip through shields and positively charged eezo to make it go through damn near anything, its basicly like a disruptor torpedo just in bullet form, well we desired to implement this into your rifle, if you fire this it will kill it, no matter what., and because due to its relatively low velocity, we dusted this off, a laser designator, you can paint targets and send a round down range and as long as you aim reasonably close to the target, it'll hit the laser." the tech said, smiling as he saw James' features light up "draw backs?" James asked, half hoping there was none. "yea, these rounds are really expensive... like nine thousand creds a pop so use them sparingly" "i see." James said
all of a sudden their omni tools beeped and Dr Chakwas voice sounded out throughout the cargo hold. "the commanders brain activity has spiked and she may be waking up you might want to come up here." the transmission ended. " shall we?" James said and the others nodded.
Moments later
"doc... doctor Chakwas, shes waking up!" James said as Shepard groaned "you had us worried commander, how are you feeling?". Dr. Chakwas said "like the morning after shore leave, what happened" she said groggily. "from what i hear the beacon exploded while you were standing right in front of it, and to think that i thought my Xbox giving me the red ring of death was bad." James said smirking at his own joke.
"yeah but in all honesty i should of been more on guard for that sort of thing, after all it is tech that quite frankly, we have no idea does." Shepard said. "hey don't blame yourself, how the hell were you supposed to know, not to mention your little worse for the wear." James said shrugging his shoulders. "yes i agree, physically your fine, although i did pick up abnormally high amounts of rapid eye movement, signs typically associated with dreaming." Dr Chakwas said. "i was dreaming, i saw synthetics, geth maybe, slaughtering people, just butchering them." Shepard said . "come to think of it i had a similar dream, once i saw the beacon... synthetics butchering people then it was gone" James added. "i better add this to my report... oh hello again captain Anderson.
"Hows our XO holding up doctor?". Anderson said " as we were just saying, shes fine physically but she was having intense dreams.". "what about?" Anderson asked turning to Shepard.. "i saw machines killing these people, just decimating them." Shepard said "we need to tell the council about this ." Anderson said " what are we going to tell them? That she had a bad dream?" James said crossing his arms. "i don't know but ill stand by you and your reports, your both heroes in my books." Anderson said "now i need to speak to you both, in private..." Anderson said
SSV Everest
in high orbit over Terra Nova
"sir we don't even know if they can do the job, they've never been tested!" a man said "i don't care, there the only ones who can reinforce quickly enough and there presence itself would be a massive morale boost for our troops, and when fighting an enemy like the flood morale is everything" Hacket said "but..." the man started " no buts! The flood have already taken thirteen percent of the planet. We cannot afford the loss of any more ground, no you tell the office of naval intelligence to pull there head out of there ass or i will come down there with a squad of marines and force you."Hacket nearly yelled "besideds its not your choice, the tet directive has been inacted and i am demanding the, orbital drop shock troops be deployed, experimental or not!"Hacket demanded. "very well I'll make the call to ONI, tell them to pull the company together." the ONI agent said. "wait, you have only one company."Hacket said distraught "of course, if they preform to expectations, a company is all we need"
SSV Normandy
en route to the citadel
What I'm about to tell you is top secret, only admirals, and those who it concerns know about this, Terra Nova has come under attack by the flood." Anderson said to his two officers "sir, I'm not familiar with the flood.". Shepard said "actually yes... both of you are, in 1968 during the Vietnam war, artifacts were found that were from an unknown race of beings. What ever the relic was has been lost to history but it was made of some super dense alloy of metals. When we were excavating we opened up a new area and the flood escaped. What followed is better known as the Tet offensive, because it coincided with the Vietnamese new year. We barely made it out of that one and lost around one hundred thousand people... then in 2006 they attacked a village in Afghanistan" Anderson said turning to Grayson "so you know then..." James said grinding his teeth. "yes i do." Anderson said "oh well..." James said.
"Then they attacked a prospecting colony on Akuze in 2177... it was bad, we sent 50 marines and only one lived, Shepard. Was that marine, that's why i chose her for the N7 special operations regiment. What she has survived though... what both of you have survived, is amazing, I've seen the satiable feed from both of those battles and let me tell you, it was some of the most amazing, heroic crap I've ever seen, too bad NATO Intel... later known as the office of naval intelligence were too stuck on keeping the existence of the flood a secret or you two would been more decorated then me." Anderson went on to explain
"Thank you sir" Shepard and Grayson both said simultaneously. "now I'm not here just to pump your tires, we are going to the citadel to inform them of what happened on Eden Prime, if its true that Saren has gone rogue, then he could have something to do with the crisis on Terra Nova, the attacks are too close together, and the targets are too important." Anderson said. "what kind of planet is Terra Nova?" James asked "its the most populated colony that we have, its also one of the biggest suppliers of platinum, which we use to line starship engines." Anderson said "shit... that's... how many people?" James asked "four million." Anderson said "Sir i understand we cant just destroy the planet, but cant we evacuate the people so the flood have no one to infect? James said
"We cant risk it, if even one infection form gets on a ship, then we will have a crisis the alliance has never seen before, it just cant be done." Anderson said shaking his head "so its total war against them then, have the restrictions on orbital bombardment been revoked." Shepard asked "they have." Anderson said. "we are two hours out from the citadel, and i want you two to work on what your going to say to the council, dismissed." Anderson said as he walked out of the room. "so shall we." James said to Shepard. "yea lets start working on it" Shepard said "fun fun..." James said rolling his eyes
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yep that's chapter 2, Im thinking about how i can get this into the halo time period but the mass effect universe basicly requires Shepard to be there or Bam everyone's screwed, so I'm open to ideas and the constructive criticism always helps. So read, review and I'm going to start ch3
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