The abomination rises

by James1007

The Reapers are dead, Cerberus is defeated and a new peace rains over the galaxy but Shepard know's this is not the end. Before he planned to destroy the Reapers the star boy spoke to him about an impending doom that will fall upon the galaxy and will stop at nothing until all sentient life will be consumed by the endless horde that will feast upon their bones.

3. Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Invaders

Hey guys sorry it took me a while to make this chapter this week was kind of rough but I'm still gonna finish this so let's get to it please review I would love to hear what you think, Biowhare and 343 industries owns content not me.

On a peaceful batarian planet Arvecth, somewhere in the terminus systems was an alpine mountainous planet that had a population of thirteen million people. The Gravemind saw this as a potential planet to raise a hive. The ship it commandeered however wasn't as big as the old covenant corvette and seems to lack the necessary requirements to transport a large army. The Gravemind did notice though that some of these sentient beings have the capability to repair a vessel but didn't know anything about the corvette but that could be arranged. Soon the former batarian crew started to scrap the salvage ship and repairing the corvette and giving some armor from the salvage ship. The Gravemind anxious to eat its new meal; it has not tasted fear in so long; the salvage crew was just an appetizer, the real main course will be this strange galaxy. Just before they could set off against their enemy the Gravemind kept himself with current events on this galaxy; he learned from the codex on one dead guard and learned about every little detail of history, every tactic, every mistake, every battle, every race and the Reapers' failure but it wasn't conventional that defeated them. It was this weapon called the catalyst but this device is long gone, there was hope for these creatures this flood for there was no such thing to kill the flood as the Reapers were equivalent to the flood.

It was time to attack to bring the hell these sentient beings deserve, the hell they always feared. The Gravemind ordered his devouring horde to invade the planet Arvetch. Thirteen million wasn't mush for the Gravemind but it was a start for their intelligence to grow and spread, after all they are like an ocean that is endless.

On a sunny Friday afternoon a batarian communications officer had a report to send to high command about strange readings coming from the mass relay about an hour ago. The comms officer enters the room with a militia general speaking to a batarian Special Forces lieutenant. The general sees the comms officer and says. "What do you want?" with a displeased voice, walking up to the general the comms officer replies. "Sir we got strange energy signature coming from the relay." The general at loss for words and making a guess to what this would mean as the comms officer continues. "We think it could be the reapers but it could be highly unlikely that they could return." The general in disbelief of his words he replies. "No that's impossible there can't be any more of them we destroyed them." The lieutenant comes up to the general and puts a hand on his shoulder. "Relax general I'll take care of it and its probably nothing but just a weird anomaly." The general looks at him for a moment and sighs then says. "Alright just get it done Bardus I don't want to start a panic you got it?" Bardus salutes and replies "I'll get it done sir."

The lieutenant walks out of the governor's courthouse and whips out his omni tool to contact his squad. Out of nowhere a derelict ship comes into orbit and crashes into the metropolis city as screams erupt around Bardus. He contacts his squad with haste and says "Sergeant Crarek get the team ready some came out of nowhere and smashed right into the city." Sergeant replied "You got it sir, ok people you heard the man let's move." The lieutenant waited until his team arrived then they moved into the ruined city to look for survivors and to see who was behind this. Bardus' team moves through the ruined city cautiously as they began seeing ripped up civilians and some also had bullet wounds through their bodies; Bardus knew that these civilians weren't killed by the crash. It was more like an animal had torn them apart. As they walk down the side walk one soldier spots a figure in the mist down an ally way. "Hey I found one, don't worry we here to help." The figure raises what looks like a gun, the soldier in response but doesn't fire. Then gunfire erupts from the mist, quickly the soldier dashes to the left for cover, still alive but has a nasty gash in his right thigh. Bardus and the rest of the squad rush to the soldier's aid, three go to the right of the ally to provide covering fire while the other two go to heal the wounded warrior. Bardus returns fire putting ten rounds in the figure with short controlled bursts, soon the mist began to dissipate and the figure turns out to be a grotesque creature with green decaying skin that is or what was left of a batarian engineer. Bardus freezes in disbelief as the creature still standing and howling in anger at its target. Crarek grabs Bardus by the arm and pulls him to safety just before the creature could release another hail of bullets. "Hey lieutenant are you ok?" the sergeant said, Bardus nods and then orders the team to fire, once more all six soldiers unleash a flurry of rounds into the creatures head and chest.

The creature was finally down; Bardus gets out of cover and walks up to this beast and just for safe measures he shoots it in the chest two times with his sidearm. "What the hell is this thing?" One soldier said "I have no idea but it looks like something just turned its guts inside out." Another replied and then one soldier holding a necklace comes to his fellow teammates and said "They say this is the ends times that these beings will bring fire and death to all of us worse than the Reapers, it is said in the holy book that will happen and I think the end of days is upon us." Just before one soldier can make a disrespectful remark to the religious one, more of the creatures come from the street, some that are made purely from that green growth, others look like former batarian soldiers and civilians and some look like small grenades that have tentacles on the bottom and three red tentacles on the front. Bardus quickly told the troops to block the entrance of the ally way and form a line to funnel them in, they started killing the little parasites then going for the pure forms and combat forms, one big brute starts breeding more of the little ones throwing them up as they come for the troops. Crarek spots more parasites coming from behind them and orders two soldiers to cover their flank with him; they were trapped and soon one little parasite got through and attached itself on one soldier, right in front of him he saw one of his own men turn change and morph into one of those things then quickly turn to the man to its right and shoot him directly in the face point blank range. Bardus threw his grenade to the creature and killed it and a few in the process clearing a path for them. "Crarek we are leaving through here." Bardus yelled to Crarek then turned to run, the others followed but soon were surrounded by the parasites. Bardus looks to Crarek and says "It's been an honor serving with you." Crarek nods and replies "And you as well." In a blaze of glory the four soldiers fought like hell as they used every means to take down their enemy and when they ran out of ammo they used their weapons for melee combat.

They fought until the bitter end but it seemed that their sacrifice was for nothing as their bodies were used to spread across the planet. In a matter of days the planet was infested with the flood and nothing was left, the Gravemind found that this was an easy task and saw plenty of ships to travel to the next star system. Now it was time for them to fester and breed for an even bigger army, and an envious feeling swept over the Gravemind as he saw how weak this race was and can see how the others are.