Wassup ya all, Tomce795 here with another chapter of As Time Unfolds!

Oh boy, this was a bit hard to write. But hell wasn't it fun. Hard, but fun.

Anyways here's the chapter, we will talk down below after you finish reading, alright?


December 20th, Unknown time
Omega, Eclipse compound

'Painful pain is painful and should be avoided to reduce the amount of pain.' Is a good rule to live by.

Avoid pain, avoid death and all that good stuff.

Did I avoid death? Maybe. But did I avoid pain?

Nope on a big stack of nopes.

Waking up in a small confined room, sitting on a small uncomfortable chair is not fun.

Oh yeah, I do not see my armor anywhere, cause I'm currently stripped down to my t-shirt and pants. And since I had to leave my shoes behind to put on my armor, I feel nothing, but the cold metal ground.

I don't see my guns. And my cheek hurts.

Swoosh. I hear a door open behind me. Quickly standing up and looking behind me I see an Eclipse female officer come in with two soldiers behind. And all of them have helmets on… Probably for the scare factor.

"Your finally awake." Is not a good sentence to hear from a baddie who probably wants to gut ya.

"Should I be scared?" I blurt out.

"Very." She responds as she turns to the two people behind her. "Leave us alone." And the two do just that.

"This is not good, is it?" I ask.

"Depends how you look at it." She responds as she begins to fiddle with her helmet. After a bit she took it off and I was presented with a freaking copy of the default female Shepard's face.

"Uhhh… And you are?"

"Kate." She response as she begins to fiddle with her omni-tool,

Now that I see the face of the default Shepard, I started thinking. Is this actually Shepard? Who is the badass Shepard that flicks off Reapers and punches reporters in the face?

"No last name?" I ask again.

No response. "So… what are you doing with your omni-tool there." I inquire.

"This." She says as she presses a button and I start feeling a sort of electrical shock go down my body.

"AHHH!" I exclaim as I start getting zapped repeatedly. "MOTHER FUCKING, PISS, COCK!" I swear as it finally stops. "The hell, woman?!"

"Shut up. I'm going to try and save you, but it's going to take some time." She dryly responds.

Save me?

"Why the hell would you save me." I ask.

"Because one person deemed you important and sadly, I own that person a favour." She said, and I already knew the answer.

"It's freaking Tim, isn't it?" I asked.

I only received a nod in response. "Now I gotta go, but expect a rescue in a few days." She says as she starts walking away.

"Wait!" I shout as she nears the door. "Three questions: Why the hell am I not in restraints?"

"Because this door," She points the only door in the room. "Is locked up all the time and," She opens up her omni-tool. "Almost every higher rank person has the ability to shock you."

"Alright, second question… Why the hell did you shock me?" I ask.

"To keep up with my reputation and to show that I was actually interrogating you." She responds.

"Wait, why the hell am I being interrogated?" I blurt out.

"Apparently, the Eclipse thinks it can pinpoint your other two associates." Ah damn, they mean Nikolai and Emallia. Of course I'm the one who gets captured.

"Third question," I start, but quickly get interrupted.

"You already asked the third question. I'll see you tomorrow." She said and left.

And just like that… I was left alone in a cramped room with nothing, but a chair. Not even a toilet. Where the hell am I supposed to shit myself? Cause I ain't ruining my jeans. One of the only things I got left from my other world.

After a bit of looking around, see a camera. "Shit." I mutter. Our conversation was probably recorded. And that's bad.

The door is completely locked. Red circle and everything. Why can't I bypass it, Mass Effect 2 style? I don't got an omni-tool.

I sit down on the chair and start muttering. "There's fifty bottles of beer on the wall, fifty bottles of bear. Take one down, pass it around, there's forty-nine bottles of beer on the wall. There's forty-nine bottles of beer on the wall, forty-nine bottles of beer…"

*line break*

Half an hour later.

This escalated quickly. As in me walking around the whole room shouting the bottle thing.

"THERE'S THREE BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL, THREE BOTTLES OF BEER! TAKE ONE DOWN, PASS IT AROUND, THERE'S TWO BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL!"

I'm pretty sure everyone already gave up on listening to me. Positive, that no one is inside a 200-meter radius of this room.

That doesn't stop me though.

"THERE'S TWO BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL, TWO BOTTLES OF BEER! TAKE ONE DOWN, PASS IT-ZAP!-SON OF A GUN!" Through my yelling I didn't notice an asari enter the room and freaking shock me.

Then I'm pretty sure she said some kind of insult, but I couldn't tell my omni-tool is gone, so is my translator.

"Yeah… Well screw you too." I mutter, but I was positive she heard that, because I was flinged to the nearest wall, because of her biotics. She muttered something and promptly left the room.

"OOOOHHH, THE PAIN! WHY DO YOU CURSE ME, LIKE SO?!" I started rambling. Look at that, I'm already going crazy and it's haven't even been a day.

Oh yeah, and biotics feel weird. It's like your body suddenly loses all it's weight and gets flicked off into the nearest wall, as your body immediately regains it's weight.

After another fifty seconds of nothing. I sat down back on the chair.

"Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily. Life is but a dream."

*line break*

December 21th, Unknown time
Omega, Eclipse compound

The last thing I remember from yesterday is me singing and suddenly falling asleep. While I was sleeping someone left a bit of food.

It was not good food.

I believe nutrient paste would be better. That was just… nothing. Bland and disgusting. Grey goo of nothingness.

Oh yeah, someone brought a bucket. You can only guess what was filled in that bucket after a few minutes.

I'll leave the details out.

"What other songs do I know?" I ask myself. "Oh yeah… You put the lime in the coconut and drink it all down. You put the lime in the coconut and drink it all down. You put the lime in the…"

Needless to say, this is how my day went.

A few hours later

I was sitting on my ass all day. Not that I had anything better to do… I literally got nothing to do. Usually when I'm bored I just eat… While that is an option, It's not a good one.

So I was talking.

"So then my friend said, Tom, what the hell are you doing? And as I put a Mentos in the Coke I responded, This. Needless to say we ran. The whole freaking bottle went kaboom. Those we're good times."

Hopefully the camera records all of this. I wanna see the crazy me in action.

Swoosh! I heard the door open and I saw Kate walk in.

"You've already developed a reputation around here." She started.

"I did? Wow, I work fast." I said. "So what's my nickname? The talker? Tom, The annoying?"

"You don't have one, people just call you 'that annoying human prisoner'." Kate said.

"Huh… ain't that lovely?" I joke. "So is it my escape time now?"

"No, I'm here to interrogate you." Kate says.

"What? I though you we're the good guy?" I exclaim.

"I am your designated interrogator." She says. "Now act along." She pressed a few buttons on her omni-tool. "Interrogation one, Prisoner number 253. Name?"

"Uhhh…" I exclaim as I got no idea what the hell is going on.

"I SAID NAME?" She says again as she freaking sucker punches me in the stomach, naturally, I immediately fall down to the ground.

"TOM! Tom, Tom, Tom, Tom…" I mutter away as I hold my stomach.

"Who we're your associates?" She asked.

"If you freaking think I'd give that away, your dead wrong." I say as I was trying to get up.

Kate pressed a few buttons on her omni-tool and immediately I got shocked.

"SCREW YOU!" I shouted as I fell back into the cold metal ground.

"Who we're your associates?" She asked again.

"How about this? FREAKING ARIA!" I snapped.

She kicked me in the leg. I grunted in pain

"Alright, then. How did you know about the weapons?" She asked.

"The… weapons?" I asked.

"Yes." She simply said.

"We didn't know they we're weapons… We thought it was red sand." I respond.

"Good to know." She said as she released another kick.

"OW!" I exclaimed as the kick reached my leg.

"Interrogation one complete." She said as she pressed a button on her omni-tool. "Good acting." She commended.

"Acting? You think that shit was acting… Man, fuck you!" I snap.

"I'll leave you to your own devices." She said and left the room.

"Ow… Ow… Pain…" I exclaim as I start getting up.

After a few minutes of trial and error, I get up with the help of the chair.

"That freaking sucker punch though…" I said, clutching my stomach.

And this was the harsh reality. This was going to happen every day, until I break out.

It does help a bit to know that Kate is on my side, but she sure doesn't show it. I would understand, but it's hard to when you're getting knocked around like a freaking ragdoll.

I was stuck in here… Until I break out. And that will probably take a while.

But I'm pretty sure Christmas will be soon… That be great… Santa could bring me a nuke or two… or ten. I would like to blow some stuff up in Omega… A lot of stuff actually.

Hopefully, I get out, before Christmas…

Chances are I won't.

*line break*

*INTERCEPTED TRANSMISSION*

*ALLIANCE SECURITY SYSTEM DETECTED*

*DECODING*

*DECODING COMPLETE*

From: Captain Anderson
To: Ambassador Donnel Udina
Subject: Re: Commander Shepard

I trust Shepard with my life. I know he can do this and a bit of guilt won't stop him. We need the best on that ship and Shepard is one of the best.


And there!

Now I'm pretty sure I will update the story at least once a week. Depends on my wish to write and how busy I am... or how lazy I am.

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And that's it. Oh yeah the author notes we're easy today. I had no idea what the hell to write here and I still don't.

Anyway's, I'll see ya all later.