2183 ONE YEAR AFTER AWAKEING

PEAK 15, NOVERIA

JAYDEN DANTE

Jayden leaned on the railing near his guard post reading galactic news on his Omni-tool, things where starting to get interesting in the galaxy from what he'd been reading: spectre Saren Arteries gone rogue after leading attack on systems alliance colony Eden Prime with the synthetic species the Geth. Colony was saved by commander Shepard later announced the first human spectre. In other news 1,000,000 credit bounty for who ever can bring in Saren Arteries, or matriarch benezia who has been confirmed to be working for Arteries.

" Well my jobs going to become more interesting." Jayden said to himself, in the year he had at the base undercover he had confirmed that Arteries was giving large amounts of funding towards what ever the people where doing here which all he could find was that they where experimenting with something they found on a ship.

" Dante report down to F wing the bosses right hand man is coming for an exception of our progress we need you down there just increase security so we make sure something doesn't happen happens they'll be here in five minutes." The voice of Captain Ventralis the head of security at peak 15 said to him. Jayden didn't acknowledge but he still went to F wing, it was about time he called admiral Hacket to tell him to send someone to help deal with Sarens right hand man.

" Come in alliance command, I have conformation that sarens right hand man is arriving at peck 15, requesting back up to bring benezia in ASAP, I … what the hell." He stopped talking as energy projectiles began shooting at him from what matched the description of geth. Jayden unholstered M-3 predator pistol and dived into cover behind a shipping crate then got back onto the radio letting off a shot at he geth every time there was a break in the firing lines.

" Command I am under heavy fire by the geth ill try to hold on as long as I can but I need back up, how are there so many geth here?" he said as the popped the head off another geth soldier and ran away from his cover running out of the room he was in into the hallway seeing more people in the security force engaged with the geth, he turned another corner running inside of a room with two dead bodies one salarian and one turian both with large claw marks in multiple places.

" Dam this reminds me of the…" he stoped as a giant big thing fell from the surface trying the land on jayden which didn't work, jayden drew out his plasma blade and sliced the bug across the face then shot it three times where he just shot it making it fall to the floor dead.

" Fuck, it's the rachni…"

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4 DAYS LATER

THREE KILOMETRES FROM PEAK 15

COMMANDER JANE SHEPARD

The mako came roaring around the corner taking out two geth troopers as it did and opening up a clear shot at a geth juggernaut then kept on driving the mako into the geth covered tunnel.

" By the goddess, how did they get this many geth onto the planet?" the asari in the passenger seat of the mako said and was soon answered by the krogan manning the main cannon replied

"Liara, I'm still wondering who gave Shepard her licence to drive this thing," he joked as he took down another geth armature, then was quickly replayed by the woman in the drivers seat.

"Laugh it up wrex, but try to focus we lost contact with the alliance infiltrator four days ago right after he confirmed that benezia was at peak 15, we have a secondary objective to find him." They continued up the mountain path not encountering any geth at all until they reached the main entry point.

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20 MINUTES LATER

PEAK 15/RIFT STATION

LIEUTENANT JAYDEN DANTE

"Captain Ventralis, I've finished scouting out the area there has been no major reporting's of the 'bugs', but onto another topic I need permission to head into the hot labs to see what the heck matriarch benezia is doing it doesn't seem right to me," Dante finished asking request knowing that he needed to get to benezia now time was running short and he needed to find out what was happening now.

" We need you here Dante but you've done a lot for us these past few days, ill send a message ahead telling them to let you in good luck in what ever you are doing down there." Jayden was surprised by Ventralis response but didn't hinder himself and made his way to the elevator, which headed right down to the hot labs and benezia.

" God damn it why do these elevator take so long, the USFC had space elevators that took five minutes the transport cargo from the surface of a planet to a space station and this thin takes twenty minutes to go down about nine floors." He said to himself, checking if his weapons where still working or not, he still had his predator pistol but he had also found a terminator assault rifle, which where both in good condition.

The door opened suddenly revealing a large room with a large tank in the centre with what it looked like the largest rachni he had ever seen. Around that there was a large catwalks circling around it. But the thing that caught his eyes the most was the asari standing next to the tank. She was wearing a long full body dress and a crown/ helmet thing on her head, she saw Jayden walking into the door way by himself, she began walking over to where Jayden was walking blocking off his path towards the tank with the rachni inside.

" After you escaped that slaver attack last year Saren has been looking non-stop for months searching through out the traverse trying to get revenge for you cutting off his arm, and here you are right in front of me." Benezia taunted thinking that she had him in her reach, well I guess she's going to work for it.

" I'm disappointed benezia, I thought someone like Saren would do a better job to keep people like me out, by the way how's his arm doing last time I checked living with one arm is hard… is that why he didn't come in person." Jayden taunted back, he really shouldn't be pissing off the super biotic, lady, man, alien. Yea he hasn't had the best experiences with biotics in his lifetime.

" Have you ever faced an asari commando unit before, few humans have" was she trying to scare him, I guess it would work if I knew what a commando unit could do.

"You want a fight I'm happy to oblige" he raised his gun taking aim at benezia, but before he could he saw five asari come out of a door on the far side of the room. 'Shit' he thought to himself, the asari started to shoot at him before he could pull off his shot at benezia which caused himself to be pushed back by a biotic push.

'Now this is why I hate biotics' jayden thought to himself as he ducked behind a crate and started to take shots at the closest asari commando he could see dropping its shields and hitting it the head killing her instantly. 'One down five more to go… great'. He went to take another shot at the next asari but all he got back was the click of his gun, he through it aside and drew his handgun, he went to lean out of cover to take another shot but he heard gunfire on the other side of the room.

He saw that now was his chance to use the distraction to his advantage, he dived out of cover killing one of the asari still firing at him with multiple shots to the head. He picked up the asari's pistol and held it in his left hand, now duel wielding both of the handguns he started to take shots at the last asari shooting him taking down her shields but before he could kill her another bullet shot through her head.

He looked over to where the shot came from and saw three figures walking towards him at the front was a female human with dark brown hair tied up in a ponytail, she was wearing black body armour with a red stripe running down her right arm and she was holding a sniper rifle. Flanking her was a krogan wearing large red armour holding a shotgun and next to him was an asari wearing a black body suit and holding an assault rifle.

To Jayden's right he could still see benezia standing in front of the rachni tank unmarked from the fight, jayden could tell by the way that benezia looked at the new comer that he knew that they where going to turn up but not so soon, well since the new people are here benezia is going to start to monologue about sarens evil plan or how she's going to destroy us all.

"You do not know the privilege of being a mother, there is power in creation, to shape an life, to turn it towards happiness or disperse, her children where to be ours raised the hunt and slay sarens enemy's" she began to talk to the new arrivals maybe hinting something he didn't know, "I wont be moved by sympathy no matter who you bring into this confrontation" her eyes moved to the asari standing next to the female human, so she must be the daughter or something. Then the human spoke up.

"Liara is here because she wants to be not because I told her to" damn these people talk a lot with the people they're trying to defeat.

"Indeed what have you told them about me Liara." Benezia replied back trying to make her attackers angry and attack from emotions.

"What could I tell them, tell them how to kill you what was I meant to say." The young asari called Liara called back clearly distraught that her mother is trying to kill them

" Have you ever faced an asari commando unit before few humans have." This shit again, jayden looked over to a door on the far side of the room seeing it open and asari and geth walking through it taking positions around the walkways. 'Ok now I need to end this now'.

"You wont look so smug with a hole through your head" jayden spoke up trying to stop the conversation, which ended up working because the geth and asari that where holding positions opened fire. It caught everyone off guard and all four people ended up diving to cover in different sides of the tank. The krogan and asari on one side and jayden and the female human. Both had already recovered from getting into the cover and started to take shots at the geth and asari, which both jayden had already taken one geth down with his dual pistols and the female with her sniper.

"I'm commander Shepard of the SSV Normandy, are you the infiltrator that Hacket sent in.," she said after taking the head off an asari.

"Yea that's me, lieutenant Jayden Dante and I'm glad you got here when you did but no offence you like to take you're time." Jayden joked trying to lighten the mood while still firing at the attackers.

" Don't blame me this place is a mess someone had to clean it up, by the way lieutenant you got any idea how to deal with the rest of these guys quickly." Shepard replied while ejecting a thermal clip from her sniper.

"I got one but it requires you shooting anything that pops its head out of cover." And with that jayden pulled his body over the cover firing both of his guns at anyone you would move there body above the cover which where shot by one of Jayden's pistols or by Shepard's sniper. Eventually they where all dead and Shepard and Jayden went over to help the over members of Shepard's crew who where nearly done.

"Wrex stay here with Jayden and guard this door we don't want anyone else sneaking up on us, Liara and I will go and interrogate benezia get to it." Shepard finished giving orders and Wrex and Jayden rushed to the door they where to guard, they got there and both of them pointed there guns right at it, they both just stood there until Wrex spoke.

" so where did you get that armour human looks expensive" wrex said to him.

"Why is that the thing people always ask me first, why not how is you day going or what was the last thing you ate… nah im just joking it I got it at…" Jayden was interrupted by the door opening and a bunch of asari commandos charged through the door firing there rifles right at them. Wrex fired his shotgun right into the middle of the pack killing one and injuring another which jayden quickly ended up shooting with his pistols

Shepard and liara ran down the side walkway obviously they had already dealt with benezia and needed to clear out the rest of these people to move on with the mission. They where doing pretty good at holding them back then something happened that made jayden's heart jump a beat, a red dot appeared on Shepard's head.

Without thinking he jumped in front of the commander as the high powered sniper bullet came crashing down upon his chest taking down his shields and digging into his chest.

Jayden's vision started to grow dark as he looked up to the sky as he fell to the floor. The last thing he saw before he fell unconscious was the commander looking over him checking to see if he was still alive.

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A/N

Im going to leave you on a cliffhanger what will happen to jayden?

Next chapter backstory into the life of jayden Dante.

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