A/N Well I'm back And I'll probably be doing an update every day or two, but they'll be shorter chapter's, about 1500 words or so, atleast at first. Now that I've received a review for chapter 2, I have come to a decision:
I will continue updating, unless I get a lot of reviews that tell me to just stop, and as long as I get a review every once in awhile, I'll just assume you guys like it.
To random reviewer, who posted
really ridiculous actions but all considered i love the fic just becasue its awesomely ridiculous cant wait for the next chapter
thank you, that's what I was going for. I was almost done with this chapter, and I thought you should get a shout out, and if you like it so far, wait until we get to the part where Mattias enters mass effect 2,
now shout out to kingslops for the first review on chapter two, your review tells me that I'm doing something right so I'll do what I've been doing.
Now if anyone would like to see certain encounters between Mattias and other characters, feel free to leave it in a review, don't worry this story will make it to mass effect 2 at the least.
THE NAME WILL BE CHANGING FROM "RETREAT HELL" TO "Through the Gates of Hell" within a day of this chapter's release.
mass effect belongs to bioware
halo belongs to 343 industries
Mercs belongs to EA
One horizontal line = change in perspective
2 horizontal lines= small time change
"Commander, what should we do?" Tali spoke first.
"Tali, contact the Normandy, and get Dr. Chalkwas on standby, " Shepard finally spoke, her trance finally broken from staring at the enraged human in front of her
"Yes Shepard," replied the quarian girl. beginning to tap something on her omnitool.
"Liara, stay back, be ready to use stasis if this turns bad," with those words Shepard began to walk towards the now standing man.
Mattias was standing over his latest victim breathing heavily. The spike that was his weapon still sticking out of the optic of the unfamiliar drone's optic. Well that was fun to bad it fucking COLD.
Mattias suddenly clutched his chest, pain breaking through the haze of adrenaline, and intensified with his breathing. Shit, Bastard hear must have nicked my lung through the hole in my armor.
As Mattias pulled his hand away and stared at the steaming blood in his hand, vision beginning to fade.
"Sir, I'm Commander Shepard, are you alright?" Mattias' vision snapped back as soon as he heard the soft voice in front of him. At least I'm not dead, that is NOT the devil's voice.
The figure in front of Shepard looked up from his now shaking hand and stared at her, gasping. "Sir, can you hear me?"
Mattias could see the woman in front of him beginning to move closer. Come on mouth, say something.
The figure in front of Shepard took a shambling step towards her, then collapsed to the ground.
"Liara! Stasis NOW!" Shepard ordered, using her own biotics as well, in an attempt to stabilize the now bloody figure before her.
"Shepard," Tali finally spoke,"Doctor Chalkwas will be in the cargo bay along with Kaiden and Ashley!"
"Good work, Tali," responded Shepard, not even looking as she said so,"Keep an eye on our new friends vitals."
skipping the part of how they load him into the Normandy's cargo bay because of obvious reasons
As Kaiden Alenko and Ashley Williams put down wounded soldier on the ground next to Dr. Chalkwas, Ashley stepped back to let the doctor have room.
By now the entire ground team had begun to gather around their new guest. Everyone, save Wrex with concern for his health.
"Kaiden he's having a pulmonary hemorrhage, hold down his shoulders," ordered the doctor with complete calm, "Tali, get over here and monitor his vitals."
With those words, the doctor began to work in silence, the first thing she did was grab a syringe of adrenaline mixed with morphine and injected it into the figure in front of her. That should keep him out of shock.
After that she put a syringe filled with medigel and injected it into the blood filled lung. The doctor then grabbed an artificial blood IV and put into the charred flesh that was exposed through the melted armor on his right forearm.
Next she grabbed a long needle and attached it to a length of surgical tubing that had a hand pump on it, and inserted it into the lung. She then began to use the pump to remove the displaced blood.
"Doctor!" Tali shouted, "His pulse is gone"
"Use overload on him," replied the gray haired women without hesitating, "It should restart the heart!"
Mattias was going through hell, his body proving to be weaker than his will to live. Well, looks like this is it, who knew I'd die from a lucky shot from a flashlight, He thought, content to let the darkness around him to finally sweep in.
Shepard just watched as the doctor worked, every move made with practiced precision. Shepard was surprised at quick decision to use an overload like a defibrillator.
"CLEAR!" shouted the quarian pushing a button on her omnitool, sending an arc of electricity through the limp form before them.
"PuuuUUH," gasped the formerly lifeless figure, eyes snapping open, which immediately locked onto a now blood spattered Kaiden still holding his shoulders down, leaning over him.
Mattias snapped awake to see the blurry figure, somewhat resembling the doctor from the Sparta. Blood immediately rushed through his veins, the pain somewhat dulled, but supplemented with rage.
"Jag ska spöa dig!" shouted the figure laying on the hull, and without missing a beat, punched Kaiden square in the face with a sickening crack, which simultaneously ripped the IV out of his arm.
"What the hell man?" Kaiden yelled clutching nose.
"Kaiden, are you alright?" Shepard said with conflicting emotions of concern and worry.
"I'll be fine Shepard" replied Kaiden, blood beginning to run through his fingers.
Mattias realized that the man he had punched was not the man he thought it was. He realized it when he didn't get suckerpunched in return. Something isn't right.
As he began to stand up, the ringing in his ears began to dissipate as his hearing returned to him.
"For a guy who just died, you sure can throw a punch." said the voice that he heard before he passed out, this time the voice sounding slightly agitated, but still filled with concern.
Shepard noted the steely eyes that had been so filled with rage settled on her, flickering with recognition. "We're your friends, Not Your enemies."
At the sound of her voice, she noted that once again those eyes filled with recognition. instead of returning to rage, they filled with loss. As he took a step towards her, he grabbed the spike in his upper torso, slowly pulling it out with a pained grunt.
"Natalia?" was all he said before he lost consciousness being caught by Kaiden with his biotics, hand still on the spike in his chest, empty syringe in his neck.
"Doctor," Shepard said after they moved him onto a gurney and headed for the elevator, "When did you sedate him?"
The doctor glanced up from her omni tool, "About the same time he broke the Lieutenant's nose, it should have knocked him out before he stood up."
"Interesting," Shepard responded, before the elevator door closed. That guy should have been in a morgue, not falling from orbit.
"Garrus," Shepard said turning to the turian repairing the mako
"Need something?"
"Yeah," She responded, " See if you can get that pod in here with the Mako's loading crane."
"I'm on it."
It was then that Shepard saw the damaged helmet, noticing the words The 4th Norseman painted along the top edge of the visor. Turning the helmet over, she saw the blood, human and otherwise, that dotted the interior. That's when she noticed what looked like an old usb port along the bottom edge.
"Hey Ashley," Shepard said to the women on the workbench next to her. "want to learn more about our newest nutcase?"
"Hell yeah," replied the gung ho marine, "At least then we'll know why he likes to break noses"
After a few minutes of trial and error, along with with a few snide comments about it smelling like burnt electronics and flesh, courtesy of Ashley, they managed to set up a crude link between the helmet and the computer on the workbench.
"All right, I hope you brought popcorn," Shepard said, pressing play.
The video began by showing showing what looked like a squad in the same armor as their guest, rushing down the hall on a space station
I'm going to write this from Mattias' view, this will be a flashback type thing
Mattias and his squad had just put their armor on, and were on their way out of the armory. The window that ran the length of the room giving a view of earth , with a view of several covenant ships that had made it through the defence grid.
"Shit sarge, is it true?" Came the voice of their newest squadmate, Shiner
"well considering I told you we were under attack, and the rather large explosion, I'm just gonna hafta say," Mattias responded, very annoyed,"YES DUMBASS! Now, Rico, Mikey, you're on point. Jethro, change Shiner's diaper. Lt. Dunn needs us at the atrium, his squad's pinned down by sniper and they're being suppressed by 4 brutes, each leading a squad of grunts. Double Time it!"
As his squad moved down the hall, they stacked up on the opened door to the atrium. Closest to the door was Rico, then Mikey, both holding M7S's( silenced smg). Then Mattias, holding an assault rifle, followed by Shiner, holding an M7S smg. Farthest from the door was Jethro, their medics and marksman, holding a battle rifle.
"GO!" was all Mattias said, and they quickly entered, each one giving suppressing fire as they rounded the corner, heading to the toppled pillar that several ODST's were hiding behind
"Lieutenant," Mattias said once he was crouching behind a knocked down pillar, "Echo squad awaiting orders."
"Sergeant," Dunn said, putting a fresh clip in smg, " What's left of Alpha and Bravo are in bad shape. You and Delta need to hold this position while we move the wounded back to the infirmary."
"Sir, what about Natalia?" Mattias asked, standing back up to empty his clip into a brute , perforating its skull
"Mattias," Dunn said, tossing a grenade into a group of grunts, " I sent Bravo through the rec area to to try hit them from behind, Corporal Jenner was dragged back with a shattered femur, Jenner said that she they got separated when Covvey reinforcements showed showed up, said he heard her screaming. I'm sorry."
Mattias went silent, unable to handle this bit of news. "Sir, permission to advance."
"Permission denied, I need your bastards here you'll just lose another man."
"SHIT GET IT OFF!" Shiner , who had been returning fire, had suddenly took an overcharged plasma burst to the helmet.
Without a second thought Mattias hooked his arm around Shiner's neck, pulling him to the ground and quickly removed the helmet before the plasma began to eat away at the inside. He then took the now half melted helmet and shoved it back on Shiner's head.
"Next time you take a plasma hit to the helmet you're on your own!"Mattias shouted inches from the now partly helmeted ODST. Mattias then punched the young soldier in the stomach. "Now stay down, you've done enough Shiner."
Mattias then stood up to kill the grunt that had hit shiner, when flash of light zipped into the edge of his helmet, gouging long hole through the side of his helmet. Mattias ducked back down, avoiding the follow up shot. After touching the newly exposed and cooked flesh, he turned back to the lieutenant, "Sir, my squad will hold position as ordered!"
Mattias then grabbed shiner's smg and put it on his back. "Jethro take out the sniper, Mikey, Rico, you're on grunt duty. On my mark" Mattias double checked his ammo counter. "MARK!"
The moment those words were uttered, all four soldiers popped up taking out their assigned targets, Mattias finishing off the Brute Shiner had wounded. He then took a spike to his shoulder which had knocked him onto the ground. Jethro, however having taken his target out, finished off the other brute.
"Alright boys, hold this position!" Mattias ordered sliding another magazine into his pistol, then reloading his rifle, "Shiner, grab a helmet from the wounded."
"Y-yes sir!"
"Jethro, Biofoam, 2 cans. You're in charge"
"Sir, don't leave Nat behind," Jethro responded, putting the two cans on Mattias' equipment pack.
" I won't "
Turning to Mikey, he tossed Shiner's smg, who promptly caught it. "Mikey, teach Shiner what end to point at the Covenant."
"I'll try, but no promises."
"Rico, If I die, kick my ass."
"Gladly, sir!"
"Lieutenant, I am going to recon Bravo's last position, and will recover any survivors SIR." Without waiting for an acknowledgment, Mattias quickly headed to down the hallway the Covenant had come through.
As the video turned to static, Shepard stood there dumbstruck. So that's his name, Mattias.
"Hey, Shepard?"
"Yeah, Ash?"
"That planet in the background, I think it was earth." Ashley deadpanned, pale faced.
" Yeah..." Shepard responded, still digesting what she had just seen. " Come on. I want to get a good look at him before he wakes up."
"Aye aye, ma'am."
Walking into the Normandy's medbay, the two women weren't greeted by a welcome sight. On the far end of the room , Mattias was laying on a operating table, the armor that had once been on his upper torso lay on another. Evidently it had been cut off by plasma cutter, given the matching jagged line on both the armor and down Mattias' sides.
"Hey LT," Ash said, giving a whistle, " Even with half his muscle burned off, he's more ripped than you."
"Uh huh," replied Kaiden, leaning over Mattias, waiting for him to wake up, nose now popped back in place, cotton ball in each nostril. "Why do you think his wrists are restrained. Besides, I want to see the look on his face when he wakes up."
"Dr. Chalkwas," Shepard said, ignoring the back and forth between her two friends, " How long until he wakes up?"
" Should be any moment now," the doctor replied, preparing for the surgery that would follow. "The pulse rounds that nicked his lung have logged into the back of his armor, so all I have to do is apply a local anesthetic and remove that spike in his shoulder." On cue, Mattias eyes snapped open, instantly locking on to Kaiden.
Not you again, Mattias thought, readying his arm to strike, only to strain against the shackles now on him.
"Not so tough now are you?" asked the familiar silhouette above him, leaning in so he was about six inches above his face.
Mattias responded with a headbutt that resulted in a satisfying crack.
"Son of a!" shouted the figure, sending a punch back, which Mattias dodged by cocking his head to the side, followed by another headbutt.
Ashley, who had set her omni tool to record, watched kaiden walk over to the first aid station by the door. Now she was struggling to hold in her laughter. Joker's gonna love this!
Doctor Chalkwas , who until now had been silent, now spoke: "Young man, you don't realize the extent of your injuries do you?"
Chalkwas turned around to ready her tools. As she grabbed a container of medi gel, The room filled with the sound of a wet pop, Ashley then saw Mattias slip out of the wrist restraint, then undid the other.
Everyone stared as they watched Mattias swung his legs around and stood up.
Mattias stood up, grimacing as he popped his dislocated thumb back in place.
"Ma'am, I've suffered a bayonet wound from a Spiker, both perforating my solar plexus, and lacerating my small intestine, successfully stabilized with bio foam." Mattias stated casually, then continued, "I've also received 4th and 5th degree burns to both the upper torso and and my right forearm, both requiring extensive skin and muscle grafts." Mattias paused for a breath, then went on "I also have minor shrapnel throughout my body, no treatment necessary. Not to mention the 2nd degree burns that are all over my body. Not to mention a nasty concussion."
When Mattias had finished, he noticed the shocked looks on everyone, except for the gray haired women in sterile scrubs. Something is not right here.
" And yet here you are," the women began, "In My medbay, in a state most are only found dead, adding to my work load," she said nodding to the man putting a salve on his nose.
"Ma'am, considering I'm not in shock," replied Mattias, " I'd say I'm walking wounded. Ask Corporal Bennette if you disagree."
"Well there's no Corporal Bennette on this ship," the women replied back before turning to the younger red haired woman behind her, " Commander, can you do something about this? I doubt the Lieutenant here will be able to assist without further injury to himself"
Shit, I just broke a superior officer's nose. Repeatedly. Mattias thought, before coming to attention, snapping a crisp salute.
Shepard was analyzing the figure before her, arm still raised. Interesting, she noted, He respects rank, but from his helmet's video, he must value this 'Natalia' more, I'll have to figure out who this is.
"At ease," Shepard said after about a minute, his face giving just a glimmer of pain while moving to parade rest. That spike must be in the muscle. "Sergeant, what was the last order you received from an officer before engaging enemy forces planetside?"
"Ma'am, to Deploy via Gopher to an unknown Covenant ship and provide support to Sierra 1-1-7," Mattias stated, staring into the distance, "However, the ship engaged an in system slipspace jump, however my pod was inside it's envelope, sending me into a textbook orbital drop. Ma'am"
"Who was it who issued you this order?" Shepard continued
"Fleet Admiral Hood. Relayed through Captain Cooper, commander of the Sparta orbital defence platform."
"What's the current date?"
"November 3rd 2552," stated Mattias,
"Sergeant, are you aware that the current year is 2183?" Shepard replied, holding back her shock, unlike Kaiden and Dr. Chalkwas, their eyes widening. Mattias however, relaxed, going from ramrod straight, to leaning against the bed behind him.
"Well shit, ma'am," Mattias began, "I could use an explanation, like why there were friendly aliens around me when I punched your lieutenant" Mattias was now staring at Kaiden, who just seemed to shrink into himself."
"What was it you said about Slipspace?" Kaiden now spoke, still holding a tissued over his nose.
"All I can tell you is that it's the UNSC's method of FTL," Mattias answered, "Works by ripping into another dimension, then spits you out after awhile. Hell, That's probably what happened, it just spat me out in the wrong place."
"What are you saying?" Ashley asked, somewhat accusingly.
"What I'm trying to say," Mattias replied, " Is that instead of going to oblivion, I was spit out in the wrong universe."
Now it was Shepards turn to ask a question. "So you're telling us that you're from another dimension?"
"Yup, Master Gunnery Sergeant Mattias Nilson, ODST and interdimensional puke," Mattias humorously deadpanned, earning a snicker from Ashley and an amused smile from Dr. Chalkwas.
"I'm Commander Jesse Shepard" Shepard began, gesturing to each crewmember respectively, "That's Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams, Lieutenant Kaiden Alenko, and this is Dr. Chalkwas," she finished, offering her hand, "Welcome aboard."
Mattias then responded with a pained grunt as he pulled the spike out of his shoulder and jammed the bloody end in into the bed he was leaning on. He then took her hand "Ah, what the hell."
Mattias turned to the doctor after Shepard left. "Alright Doc what you got for me?"
"Well Master Gunnery Sergeant," she began, "Would you care to tell me how you're still breathing?"
"What do you mean Doc?"Mattias somewhat coyly responded, "Surprised I have a mechanical lung?"
A/N: a cliff hanger, because I got tired of typing, yes this is a really long chapter(relativley) but now since I got the merge done, It should be much easier to follow the story.
Now I will give a quick description of Mattias:
He looks like Mattias Nilson from Mercenaries 1: playground of destruction property of EA, but with a goatee. He's 6"6" and built like Vin Diesel.
Okay well probably another update by saturday.
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