Chapter 2
After the bright flash Jake felt nauseous, and a little disoriented. He shook his head, trying to get himself in the right state of mind. 'Man, they never showed this on Atlantis. Feel like I've just gone through one of those spinning balls they train astronauts with' he complained to himself. After a while the feeling wore off, so he walked over to the view port in front of him. He could see Earth, just like he left it. But this Earth had some notable differences from his. The foremost being that there were dozens of ships flying around its orbit, like little bees scurrying around the hive. Suddenly he noticed a number of them heading right towards him, and they didn't look friendly either. They were in some sort of battle formation, they also had various guns sticking out of them but overall all they didn't look too threatening, at least compared to a 304 or a Hattak.
'Crap. This is not good' he thought. The navigation station beeped, most likely meaning that the ships were trying to contact him. He scurried over to the console and activated the holo screen. It seemed that they were attempting to contact him via radio waves. 'Guess they haven't figured out subspace communications yet' he thought. He flipped open the channel and immediately a voice broke through the speaker.
"Unknown vessel, you have entered Earth space illegally without the authorization of the Systems Alliance or Earth. Power down now and surrender," the voice ordered.
'Systems Alliance? So I'm in the ME universe eh, that's sooo coool!' he thought in excitement. Even with all this knowledge and power at his disposal he was still a kid at heart. Suddenly the ship's sensors detected a build of energy from one of the larger ships. Then it fired what Jake knew was a mass effect propelled slug at the Odyssey. It was just a warning shot, but unlike kinetic barriers in Mass Effect, the Asgard shields of the Odyssey were an elliptical bubble that covered the entire ship and a small portion around it, so the round actually ended up hitting the shield. Luckily the Asgard shield aboard the Odyssey was one of the most advanced ever, rivaled only by the shields of the Ori and Ancients, so the round harmlessly bounced off.
Of course Jake didn't know this, he thought they were really attacking them. "Shit!" he exclaimed. He ran to his chair and took control of the ship with his mind. He then pulled a 180 and started accelerating away from the Alliance ships. 'Why did they shoot at me? I didn't even get a chance to respond' he questioned to no one since it was just him in the ship. He pulled up the holo screen for the control chair and saw that ten Alliance ships were chasing him now, and they were gaining. Despite the sublight engines aboard the Odyssey being very fast, the mass effect engines had an advantage at being able to able to alter the mss of the ship and accelerate it to incredible speeds. It was only a matter of time before they caught up, and Jake wasn't looking to get into a fight today. 'Okay let me think. Oh, wait. The hyperdrive of course, what was I thinking' he realized that in his little panic he forgot the Asgard hyperdrive, despite having his intelligence and knowledge increased he was still getting used to all this. He focused his mind on the activating the hyperdrive, and a few moments later the Odyssey flew into the hyperspace window.
'Whew, that was a close one. I am not used to this at all yet' he said to himself.
He got up, now that the ship was in hyperspace, and walked back towards the holo table in the back of the bridge. He activated it, showing the galaxy in a 3d image. 'Now, what to do' he thought in his head. 'Well I'm guessing that the evil Athena was talking about has something to do with the Reapers, but there's no way to be sure. I wonder if I should head to the Citadel, or try talking to the Alliance. I'm definitely not going to Cerberus, they'll want to get their grimy little hands all over this ship the minute they see it' Jake thought as he was trying to figure out his next plan of action. Finally he decided to go to the Citadel, there he could find out what year it was, and try and get them to help fight the Reapers. He was a bit wary though, in every fanfic he ever read the Council always tries to get their hands on advanced tech, and he had no doubt that they would try with him. 'Well that's not going to happen. No way am I letting this ship go. Hey! Maybe if I'm lucky Shepard will be there, man that would be cool' he continued to think.
He walked over to his chair, sat down, and set coarse for the Citadel. Luckily Athena had been nice enough to plug in a lot of the planets and important places and their coordinates into the navigations systems. It would take about 7 minutes to reach the station, so Jake just leaned back in his chair and relaxed, figuring out what he was going to say when he got there.
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Matriarch Lidanya was walking around the bridge of the Destiny Ascension, the largest Dreadnought built to date and pride of the Asari fleet. She had been its commander for years, but she missed her commando days, running around the galaxy with a weapon in hand. It was a lot more exciting than just sitting on a ship all day, but it didn't have as many benefits as she would like. Which is why she had put up with being the commander of the Ascension. 'I just wish something more exciting would happen every now and then' she thought to herself.
Suddenly her navigation officer spoke up. "Ma'am, I'm reading a... strange energy signature a few kilometers out from the Citadel," she said.
Lidanya walked over to her station, "Get me a visual image if that area," she ordered.
The other Asari nodded, and punched a few commands into her station. A few seconds later a vid screen popped up and showed the space surrounding the Citadel, and at first there was nothing unusual about it. Then suddenly it looked as though a hole was being torn in space. The crew of the Ascension, the other ships in the defense fleet, and the inhabitants of the Citadel itself watched as a ship shot from the hole at impossible speeds. It was a small ship, just under 300 meters in length, bigger than most frigates but smaller than a cruiser. It had a very sleek, silver colored hull that looked like a cross between an Asari and Turian design, due to the angular shape of the ship. One could also see many weapons platforms littering the hull. This was obviously a first contact scenario.
"Ma'am! That ship is heading this way, towards the Citadel!" exclaimed Lidanya's navigational officer.
Lidanya headed to her command chair and activated the ship's comm system. "All ships, form a defensive line between that ship and the Citadel," she ordered the rest of the fleet. She saw all the ships follow her orders on the LADAR as they got into formation. Still, the ship kept coming. She decided to contact it on the comm. 'Well you wanted more excitement Lidanya' she told herself. "Attention unknown vessel, This is Matriarch Lidanya commander of the Destiny Ascension. You are entering Citadel space illegally and without notification. Cease and desist all activity or we will use deadly force."
At first there was silence, then a voice came on the radio. "Uhh Hi, I um sorry. I didn't mean to break whatever rules you guys have. Uh what is it you want me to do exactly?" the voice asked, it was male obviously and sounded human. It was also very nervous sounding, which amused Lidanya a bit.
"Standby while I contact my government, and see what they want to do," Lidanya replied.
"Ok, I'll just uh chill here I guess," the voice responded. It was strange how human, and young, the voice sounded. And just how it got its hands on the translation software that the Citadel used.
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Jake sat in his chair, waiting to hear back from Lidanya. 'Well at least they didn't shoot at me' he thought. Then he realized that he was probably going to have to meet the Council, and they were gona wonder why a human had such advanced tech, and why he was so young. 'Crap, I should have thought of that. Now I'm gona have to come up with some half assed story that they probably won't believe.' He sat there trying to think of a somewhat believable story to tell the Council and Alliance. 'Okay, we were testing the new reality drive when it malfunctioned and sent me here. I had just enough time to get the crew off before the ship jumped which will explain why it's just me. Okay, I hope they believe that' he continued to think when the comm started beeping.
"We are sending coordinates for where you should send a shuttle. Our delegates will meet you there," Lidanya said over the comm.
"Uhh thanks, ya I'll be there. Um bye," Jake replied in his nervousness. How could he not be, despite everything that's happened in the last few days he had never met a 'real' alien, nor talk to the 3 most powerful representatives of three different species. So ya, needless to say he was a bit nervous.
He brought the Odyssey in a bit closer now that he didn't need to worry about being shot at. Then he got up and walked over to the small armory down the hall. He figured he should grab a weapon or two to defend himself should anything happen. He opened the door and his inner gun nut and shooter fan nearly exploded in excitement. All over the walls were weapons: from standard US military to Staff weapons and different kinds of armor. As much as he wanted to grab a mobile staff cannon like the one Teal'c used he knew that would be way too much fire power. So instead he went with putting on some of the Kull warrior under layer that they wore under the main armor that would offer him a lot of protection while remaining extremely light and maneuverable. He then put some standard black BDU's over that, some combat boots, and a tactical vest that had naquadah/trinium plates in it. He figured he didn't need that much fire power so he grabbed a Particle Magnum, he had always loved that gun. Of course he hoped he wouldn't have to use it, while he has all the knowledge and ability to shoot and fight, he had never actually fired a gun or killed someone. And he wasn't sure how well he was going to be doing it.
After grabbing his gear he was about to walk out when something caught his eye. On the ordnance table he saw some kind of wrist computer, kind of like the pipboy from fallout. He reached for it and put it on. It lit up and a holo screen emerged from it; it had the same screen layout as an Asgard computer. 'So it's like the Asgard equivalent to an Omni-tool, sweet' he thought with a smile as he played around with it for a while.
After having a good time figuring out some of things it could do, he walked back up to the bridge. He looked out of the view port towards the Citadel. He took a deep breath, exhaled, and activated a command on his Asgard wrist computer. Moments later he was consumed by a bright blue light, and then he was gone.
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Executer Pallin was awaiting the arrival of the new species' ambassador. He, along with 12 C-SEC officers, were anxiously awaiting their arrival in docking bay S-24. Frankly he was a little peeved at their sudden appearance: showing up to the Citadel unannounced and uninvited, scaring the citizens of the Citadel and making his whole day a nightmare with everyone panicking. He was gona have some things to say to whoever was in charge of that ship when they got here.
Suddenly a bright flash filled the docking area, and everyone shut their eyes to shield themselves from the blinding light. Then it ended almost as quickly as it came. Everyone turned their attention to the source of the light, only to find a young human with strange armor standing there. All 12 C-SEC officers raised their weapons on the human, who intern raised his hands over his head for the universal sign of surrender. Pallin walked up to the human, who he noticed was quite a bit larger than most he'd seen.
"Human, what are you doing here? This area is off limits to civilians, we are awaiting the arrival of the people of that ship out there," he asked the human.
The human looked at him, a nervous look in his eye. "Um, ya I was the one on the radio who talked to Matriarch Lidanya. I'm the commander of that ship."
No one said anything, then everyone started to chuckle a little bit. Pallin spoke again.
"Hahaha, you really expect us to believe that you came from that ship just now. How did you get here? I don't see any shuttles around. And besides that ship is clearly not human," Pallin pointed out.
"Well it's not Alliance built, no. But it is mine. And as for how I got here my ship is equipped with point-to-point matter transportation," the human replied, losing the nervousness in his voice and gaining a bit of an edge. Several Asari and Salarian officers scoffed at the human when he mentioned the matter transportation, muttering something about scientific impossibility.
Pallin looked at the young human, right into his eyes trying to find even a hint of lying. He found none. "Alright human, prove to us that you really are from that ship," he challenged.
The human looked like he was in deep thought for a bit, then he reached down to his side and pulled out what looked like a large pistol. But it was unlike any Pallin had seen, and it seemed to glow red and made a strange humming noise when the human held it. The human pointed it at a wall a few meters away from the Executer, and fired. But instead of a mass effect propelled slug coming out of the chamber, a bright red ball of.. some kind of energy emerged and hit the wall. It burned a nearly 12 foot hole in the wall.
The officers and Pallin stared at the human, mouths open in shock. They all looked to each other with some uncertainty in their eyes, then to the human and Pallin. Pallin looked at the human, who now had a small smirk on his face. Pallin narrowed his gaze and walked up to the human again.
"Please hand over your weapon and any other you might have, and follow us to C-SEC headquarters for screening and checkups. We need to be sure you don't have any diseases on you," Pallin said.
The human looked like he was debating on whether or not to try and resist, but nodded and handed the strange and amazing weapon over, but not before doing something to it that seemed to turn it off. As the human walked off with the other officers forming a wall around him, Pallin tried to shoot the gun again, but found he couldn't. He sighed and followed, figuring the brainiacs down at C-SEC labs could figure this weapon out, and how this human came to posses it.
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