Ice god here back and pimping with another chapter, I know many of you love my story so far and I appreciate all the feedback and I absolutely smile everytime I read a good review. It literally makes me smile so much that I constantly come back and write more as often as I possibly can. This chapter is the start of the true Gears Cross over…oh an incase your wounder this story will have a sequal that carries into mass effect 3 and ooooh boy do I have a massively epic ending that honestly makes me wish the guys at bio ware did something as awesome as what I have in mind. But I wont spoil it anyway im still trying to dicide who carmine should fall in love with options…jack, tali, Kelly, liara or even kasumi. Don't know. Heck I may even give him sam byrn from the gear universe again idk still working on that…I don't own mass effect or gears of war, also can anyone tell me if they still allow lemons? Wouldn't be mass effect without a little naughty business lol ;)
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Chapter 8: Gears of a feather kill together
Baird was struggling to work the mechanics of the consol after spending almost a month fixing the damn thing he was confident he finally had it fixed. Of course after he told everyone else what happened they weren't too happy about it, especially Sam. However after assuring he could fix the situation he set out to work, he actually enjoyed what he was doing though…working with tech always made him happy.
"Well Baird how's it looking?" Anya asked, bringing him a cup of coffee, Baird took the cup and took a sip before setting down a clipboard.
"Well in theory with all the components working it should send to Carmine's location no problem…of course that's that thing, I have no idea what exactly he's been doing or if he's even alive." Baird pointed at a screen above the console.
"See this?...this is carmine's last updated location. The professor was defiantly trying to see if this machine would work, and through a lot of tests it does work." He took a sip on the coffee.
"Only thing is theres only enough juice in the machine to send 3 people to go and get him, and even if we sent those people to get him…the blasted contraption would shut down and need to recharge for a week."
"Is there any way they could get back?"
"Well yeah…looking over the professors notes, I managed to make a small device that can be used to re-open the machine however since this side's machine would have to recharge I had to install a damn timer on the thing to let us know when it was all clear to make a jump."
Colonel Hoffman walked into the room along with Sam and Cole; the Colonel was pissed at Baird but forgave him when he said he could easily fix it. After all the man fixed the hammer of dawn when they needed it most, so he looked past the man's weird obsession to mess with anything mechanical.
"Well Baird I hope you've made some decent progress over these past month." Hoffman said in his usual gruff voice.
"Yeah I do, however there's a catch." Baird said finishing off his coffee.
"What kind of catch?"
"The machine since it got fired before can only sustain enough juice to transport a limited number of people to the locked in destination, after that the whole thing needs a week to charge…oh yeah and it only has enough juice to send 3 people so whoever we send, they have to be damn good." Baird said returning his gaze to the console.
Hoffman rubbed his chin thinking about who he could ask, he didn't know if Fenix would want to go, and he was already short on men as it was thanks to Myrrah.
"Were gonna need volunteers if we plan on launching this little rescue mission."
"actually you only need two people to volunteer because im already going." Baird said not even turning around, that surpised everyone in the room.
"Baird…that's not like you, why would you want to go through that thing?" Anya asked a little concerned.
"Well for one, you need a technical genius like me to work the thing from the other side and I don't trust the muscle heads the colonel woulda picked to work such delicate materials." Baird said with a hint of sarcasm. Cole walked forward holding with a big smile on his face.
"Well heck if Bairds going I'm going too…besides Baird wouldn't know what to do without me watchin his back."
"Well kind of figured you were gonna go Cole." Baird said with a smirk.
"Of course baby, nothing can stop the Cole train, not even some fancy shmancy portal thing."
"Alright I guess that just leaves one more volunteer…so who's it gonna be?" Baird asked looking around the room. For a while no one spoke up or moved up…the thought of going somewhere no one had been before was scary in itself. They didn't know what to expect and they didn't even know if they could handle it…Finally one lone female Voice spoke up.
"I'll go, you two would be nothing without me." Sam spoke up…Anya walked over to her with a motherly look on her face. She came to care for the woman like a sister.
"Sam you sure?...you don't know what you'd be up against on the other side…we would have no way of knowing how you guys were doing once your there." Sam took a deep breath and thought it over for a second before flashing Anya a smile.
"Yeah Anya im sure….I can't leave Carmine out there like that all alone without someone to watch his back. Besides I still owe him a beer for that time on the bridge, no thanks to Baird over there."
"Hey I said I was sorry lighten up will ya…geeze, people just can't understand genius." Baird said muttering the last part to himself.
As the Group got themselves ready they took all the weapons they were going to take with them on the trip as well as enough ammo to supply a small platoon. Baird took with him the standard Lancer, with the sawed off shot gun and Gorgon sub machine pistol and several grenades. On his back was jack his personal pet and mascot of Delta team. Cole had with him his lancer, while taking the boom shot and regular pistol also taking with him he brought the One shot with enough ammo so he wouldn't run out anytime in the future.
Sam however chose weapons that would bring her the most satisfaction, she equipped her retro-lancer, boltok pistol, Long shot sniper rifle and for an added bonus took with her the Cleaver. She had a massive and evil grin on her face as she equipped the heavy blade onto her back.
"Alright we all ready to go?" Baird said as he put the device for the return home into one of his pockets, as well as a book. Sam noticed the book raising an eye brow.
"What's with the book Baird you plan on writing a diary?" She teased.
"No…I know it's a rescue mission and all but if we see anything that's even remotely alien I wanna be able to document it ya know." Sam just rolled her eyes thinking that baird was a nerd. And straightned up when Colonel Hoffman stood before them.
"I don't know what you'll face when you arrive out there, but I want you to know that you are going someplace no other gear has gone before. Make humanity proud and make sure you honor your uniform…now get out there and bring one our own home." Hoffman said in a gruff commanding voice
The group now called Delta 1 saluted as Anya fired up the machine electricity flying as the machine whirred and roared. The pad the group stood on soon lit up ready to take them to where carmine was, and they were determined to get their friend back. As the faint barrier surrounded them Baird decided to say the one thing he had always wanted to say.
"To infinity and beyond!" Almost on cue the machine fired and they vanished, Anya rubbed the bridge of her knows as got to work manning the console, as Hoffman went back to helping the cleanup crew begin to rebuild. Marcus walked past the Colonel and sat down next to Anya.
"So they really did it huh?" Marcus said softly
"Shame we couldn't have gone with them…but im glad just to be here now, alive." Anya said resting her head on Marcus' shoulder.
"They'll be fine…they've been through a lot worse than this remember?" Marcus said holding Anya's hand.
"Yeah…And when they come back well be waiting." Anya giving Marcus' hand a soft squeeze.
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PLANET Haestrom
A small bug stepping out into the sun begins to fry as its tiny squeaks die off fast as it bursts into flames, the Cerberus shuttle flies over head EDI calls shepard over her Radio.
"Shepard our data indicates that tali is somewhere in these ruins. There is considerable Geth activity and an environmental hazard, solar output has overwhelmed Haestrom's protective magnetosphere…Exposure to direct sunlight will damage your shealds." As the shuttle took off Shepard looked around, everything was stone and in ruins.
As soon as they stepped into the sun into the sun Shepard's suite computer beeped signaling her Sheilds were overheating, as they rushed back into the shade.
"Well that wasn't Pleasant, that sun fries my shields shepard." Kasumi said as her shields burst from overheating, beginning its cooldown phase. Carmine's doing the same.
"So our barriers go down, we'll just have to work up a small sweat when fighting no big deal…consider it a workout session." Carmine mused feeling the heat of the sun
"A workout session for YOU maybe, I'd prefer to stay the shade." Kasumi bantered back.
"Crybaby."
"oh please…I bet deep down under all that muscle your just a big ol teddy bear."
"Don't push it." Carmine joked back, as the crew made it to a road block. Shepard tried fooling with the panel but it read Kal-reegar was needed to authorize access. Heading to the control room she found inside a dead Quarian and a dead Geth Destroyer. It had to of been a terrible battle, on the Quarian she found an audio log that was set to auto play.
"Emergency log entry: The geth are here, I've stayed to buy the others some time. Anyone who gets this find Tali'Zorah. She and that data are all that matter…keelah se'lai." As the message began playing again. Shepard walked over and began to hack the controls opening the road block.
They group didn't even get a few feet before kasumi called out.
"Geth Drop ship incoming!" As the giant ship flew by dropping several pods, Carmine tilted his head a little as the small pods changed and morphed into humanoid robots.
"What are those things?" Carmine asked aiming his lancer and firing a few shots at one, the bullets cut through the Shields and blew off one of the limbs. Since the robot wasn't organic it didn't feel any pain and continued its approach only firing its rifle with one hand until clay finished it off.
"There called Geth, there synthetics created by the Quarians…and now they're well….running rampant even drove the Quarian's from their home world." Shepard said as she quickly cut down a few more geth using disruptor rounds.
"Sucks to be them then."
"Carmine well chit chat later, let's focus now." Shepard said finishing their conversation.
As they unleashed their bullets Carmine decided to try out the electrified tipped Rounds Jacob made for him, if his hunch was right they'd be perfect for taking down robots. Lining up his shot Carmine fired his hail of large bullets connecting with a much larger geth, as the bullets connected to their Target the Geth simply exploded in a giant ball of electricity.
"Damn…I gotta remember to thank Jacob later, guy keeps finding ways to make my bullets even more distructive." Carmine said to himself. All that remained were a few Geth who instantly cloaked themselves from their eyes.
"Shepard watch yourself they've gone stealth." Kasumi called out holding her pistol up on guard. She and shepard managed to kill two of the stealthed Geth however one remained as the Group looked around, Carmine looking to his left noticed a shimmer on something reflective in the sun…grabbing his jungle knife which to everyone else might as well have been a short sword, Threw it as hard as he could hitting the last remaining Geth square in its face as it fired a few random shots then died.
Kicking the dead Geth Carmine looked around, there were plenty of shady spots to fight from but the sun was making things very hot, he was working up a very good sweat at this point and was going to need a good shower once this mission was over. He didn't know who Tali'Zorah was but she was apparently an important technical specialist that Shepard needed.
"Shepard I am picking up a massive energy pulse directly behind you…I would advice a cautionary defense position." EDI called over the radios. Carmine started backing up as the wind suddenly picked up as sparks of electricity started flying through the air. A small white sphere began to form as it steadily began to grow larger.
"Shepard….whats going on?" Kasumi asked a little worried about what was happening, Carmine had a hunch but kept his mouth shut.
As the sphere grew to a large enough size to look like a giant blob, three screams were heard as several people were spat out of the sphere along with a lot of weapons, the heaviest one landing on the last ones head. Carmine's eyes grew wide as the orb disappeared, on the ground before him was Delta squad…well most of Delta squad anyway. Cole, Sam, and Baird had all come through the portal.
"GUYS!" Carmine called out quickly rushing over. Leaving the Shepard and Kasumi baffled
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Delta squad 2 minutes earlier
Sam was embarrassed by Baird's lame exit, Cole only seemed to laugh. This portal hurt though…The group felt as if they were being pulled apart even though they weren't. Their bodies and guns staying in tacked during the entire trip. Looking over at Baird Sam hollered out.
"BAIRD, HOW MUCH LONGER THIS PAIN IS BEGINNING TO BECOME UNBEARBLE!" She felt like something was constricting her entire body making it hard to breath, and she didn't like it.
"I…have no idea, but think of it like this…pretend its child birth it'll be over soon." Baird managed to crack a joke even though they were all in massive agony.
"If we survive this Baird…I'm kicking you in the nads!" Sam yelled back
As the tunnel of light stretched onward Baird looked up and noticed the tunnel coming to an end, trying to take a deep breath he closed his eyes and steadied himself for certain doom. Only to find himself being thrown onto a hot stony ground as Sam and Cole landed on him, the equipment they brought with them following behind them as jack was the last through the portal falling and landing on Baird's head.
As the group slowly got off each other Baird stood upright popping his back, his vision was a little blurry but overall he felt fine, until he heard an all too familiar voice that he was hoping to hear.
"GUYS!" it was carmine and he looked to be in okay condition.
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Normal POV
"I can't believe it…you actually managed to find me!" Carmine said in a cheery tone.
"Ohooo, come now Carmine who loves ya baby!" Cole shouted as him and Carmine butted their rifles against each other happy to see each other again. Sam couldn't think of anything to say instead ran up and gave the man a bear hug happy to see someone she cared about again, and not dead.
"Well you are part of Delta squad Carmine, and well you know I couldn't pass up the opportunity to ya know…find new life and junk." Baird said coughing a bit.
"HAHA, oh what is it Baird? Too embarrassed to admit you missed me?" Carmine said walking over and slapping Baird on the arm.
"Yeah yeah yeah group hug." Baird finally looked around after all the pleasantries were out of the way.
"Carmine where are we and what the hell have you even been up to man, and what with the shiny new duds?" Baird asked looking at how shiny Carmine's armor was. Carmine shook his head and shrugged.
"Man Baird, you are not gonna believe the crazy crap I've gotten into lately…hell even I don't believe it sometimes." Carmine said, Sam and Cole looked behind him.
"Hey Carmine who are the kids?...you been picking up chicks while I've been away huh?" Sam said teasingly pointing over at Shepard and Kasumi.
Carmine quickly cut the friendly chatter remembering what he was originally here to do, and motioned for the group to follow him.
"Guys, as much as I enjoy seeing you guys again I'm gonna need your help…I need you guys to trust me on this one and follow my lead alright as soon as I'm done doing what I'm doing here I'll explain everything alright." The others were confused but if Carmine was being serious then it had to be important.
"Alright Carmine we'll go with you since we won't be going home anytime soon anyway." Baird added getting a nod from Carmine, Following him back to the two girls Carmine began introducing them.
"Commander Shepard, these are my friends as well as my squad from where I come from…going from the left Agustus cole…we just call him cole, Samantha Byrne or Sam…and Finally the genius who got me here in the first place..Daimond Baird." The group nodded to the two.
Shepard was in awe at the people that just appeared, not only were they bigger than them their guns were just like Carmine's which meant a lot more dead bodies, if she played her cards right she could have them help her stop the collectors. Shaking their hands they all smiled making her feel a little more comfortable.
"Carmine your friends showing up is great and all but were here for a specific mission, so let's keep moving…once we get back to the ship Ill answer any questions anyone has and hopefully get some answers as well." Shepard said before moving forward again. The rest of the group following behind her, as they rounded a corner Shepard spotted more Geth after having just executing several Quarians.
"What the fuck are those things?" Sam called out drawing her gun.
"Robots called geth, and they are very very easy to kill…trust me on this Sam." Carmine called to her as the group unloaded their rounds into the synthetics, their bodies not even getting the chance to turn around before they fell. Shepard and Kasumi were shocked…they didn't even have to fire their own weapons and had basicly just stood still and watched the entire thing. Shaking her head out of her thoughts she heard someone calling out to anyone on a radio that had been dropped by a Quarian.
"Break-break-break op-1, this is squad leader Kal'Reegar, do you copy? The geth sent a drop ship towards OP-2. Tali'Zorah's secure but we need back up…were bunkered up here can you send support?" Reegar called, but was getting no response…Shepard picked up the Radio as Kal'Reegar called again.
"Squad leader kal'reegar come in OP-1, do you copy come in!" Shepard decided to answer.
"This is Commander Shepard of the Normandy, can we provide assistance?"
"Patch your radio into 617 Theta, we were on a stealth mission. High risk…we found what we were after but the Geth found us. They've got us pinned down, Can't get to our ship, cant transmit data through the solar radiation."
"How are you holding up we can be there in a few minutes." Shepard continued her conversation with the Quarian as Carmine motioned for Cole to follow him as he pointed to a giant flying slug thing.
"Hey Cole I saw you brought the one shot with you…how much ammo did you bring anyway?" Carmine asked.
"Heh, the Colonel said we could bring as much as we want so we brought enough to supply two platoons."
"Let me borrow the one shot for a sec, I wanna see how itll do against that Slug thing coming towards us." Cole nodded handing Carmine the giant elephant gun, Kasumi was trying to focus on what Shepard was doing but her curiosity peeked when she saw what Carmine was doing, walking over she saw he had an even larger gun than before. Looking at what he was aiming at she was about to voice her concern when Carmine Fired the giant slug…as it barreled towards the Geth drop ship the massive bullet impacted the ship destroy a very large portion of the ship as it began to sway and instead of flying to destroy the remaining quarians the ship flew over the group and landed behind Shepard and her team exploding on impact.
Shepard looked at Delta team mortified when Kal'Reegar came over the radio again.
"Damn Shepard did you bring a tank with you?...that round knocked that ship outta the sky, thanks for the support Ill meet you over here when you're ready…hurry more Geth are bound to show up. Reegar out." Quickly walking up to carmine she almost yelled out not from anger but from sheer overwhelming curiosity.
"What the hell was that thing you just fired?"
"An elephant gun mam" Sam said as Carmine simply nodded in agreement, Rubbing the bridge of her nose Shepard shook her head. Carmine was just full of surprised and she had a feeling she'd be suffering gray hairs before she was even old.
"Alright let's keep moving we got to get Tali and get off this planet." The group nodded and followed as they reached the base camp the Quarians gave shepard their thanks but were especially cautious of Carmine and his friends. They had never seen humans so big before, Baird was especially excited a little nervous but excited none the less he had so many questions he pulled out his journal and began taking notes about everything that was going on around him. Carmine knew his hunch was right, Baird was acting like a kid in a candy store.
"Hello?...Shepard is that you?" A hologram of a female Quarian called out to shepard as she went to answer.
"Tali…this is Shepard me and my squad, well a friend's of mine squad stopped a Geth drop ship from killing the rest of your team…there safe but they don't look like they could handle another go at a fire fight."
"I'm just glad their safe…we knew this mission was high risk, damn it. And what are you doing here Shepard?...were in the middle of Geth space." Baird was inching closer at the words space…he didn't want to look like he was eaves dropping but he couldn't help himself. He continued listening.
"I was in the neighborhood I thought you might need a hand." Shepard said smiling.
"Thanks for coming Shepard it means a lot to hear your voice. Kal'Reegar and whats left of the Marines, got me into the Observatory…From where you are its through the door and across the field. I got the data we needed and I'm safe for now, but I've got a lot of Geth outside."
"Hey uh…Shepard mam." Baird said gaining her attention.
"This door is jammed and whatever these controls are there pretty fucked up, how are we supposed to get through the door?" Baird asked
"We could always blow it." Sam answered holding one of her grenades. Tali shook her head no.
"I can get the door open from my end give me a second….there is should be open now." The group heard the door unlock and slide open.
"Do what you can Shepard and please be carefull, do what you can to keep Kal'Reegar alive." Tali's hologram ended as Shepard headed out the door her large squad following close behind. Sam decided to pull Carmine back a bit wanting to know why he was following this woman.
"Carmine I understand fighting our way to safety but we exactly are we following shorties orders?"
"Sam it's a long story but heres the short version, a really ugly group of grubs are kidnapping humans for really sick experiments and Im helping her stop them…because I don't wanna end up getting fucked over like the people who were kidnapped." Carmine said with a quiet tone.
"I see well if humanity in this dimensions in trouble it's normally the duty of the COG to help, but we don't know a thing about this place mate."
"Trust me Sam…if you saw what I saw, it wouldn't mean jack if we were under orders from the COG or not, I'm helping so no more families are hurt like mine was back home." Carmine ended the conversation keeping forward until they were stopped by a small platoon of Geth with two Geth primes at the rear.
"Flashbulbs!" Carmine called out drawing his weapon, an appropriate name by gear standard, as the group open fired. Shepard hid behind some cover trying to keep her shields from dying unlike carmine and his group who didn't care about the sun, although Sam made a comment about how Carmine needed a good shower from all his sweating. Shepard couldn't even pick a target because whichever target she picked two seconds later it was already destroyed by Carmine's gun or one of his friend's guns. She wasn't usually the jealous type but was beginning to feel like all she had to do was not do anything this mission, and it sucked. All that was left at this point were the two large Geth primes. Carmine, Sam and Baird fired at it but the much larger metallic beings were much tougher than there smaller counter parts only damaging a bit from the bullets as they slowly walked forward.
"Look out baby the Cole train's got this one!" Cole yelled out pulling out his Boom shot taking aim, he pulled the trigger as the grenade launcher fired its massive round. As the round met its target the large explosion destroyed the Prime blasting it to pieces, if Kasumi's jaw could drop any further it would look like a cartoon.
"Need to reload…Cover me!" Cole called out as Carmine and the others stood in front of Cole firing their bullets at the large prime, giving Cole time to load the boom shot again. Shepard was impressed but also felt a little weird, she had worked with plenty of squads both human and alien alike…but these four worked so well as a team that they made anything the Alliance had to offer look like teddy bears. When Cole finished reloading he called out again.
"Primed and ready…eat it ya over grown flashlight." Firing his weapon again hitting the Prime with the same result, massive chunks of metal flying everywhere.
When their path was clear Shepard again took point leading the squad again…she had to know what kind of training these people had because they were completely destroying her N7 training. Nearing a window unit Shepard pressed a few of the controls to open the door, however as the shades flew open she looked out only to see A massive colossus rear up. As it turned its gaze towards them it stiffened its body up charging its particle shot before firing.
"MOVE!" Shepard called out as they all ducked out of the way avoiding the huge explosion. Sticking to the right they rushed out the door and into cover, however they stumbled upon a lone Quarian with a rocket launcher, as he turned to see the group he called out to them.
"Get into cover before it sees you!" As they all ducked behind the heavy stone walls Shepard was nearest to the Quarian with the others behind her.
"Squad leader Kal'Reegar, Migrant fleet marines…we talked on the Radio before you shot that drop ship out of the sky…I still have no idea why you're here, but this aint the time to be picky." Another explosion from the Colossus as the geth with it kept on their suppressive fire.
"Tali's inside over there. The geth killed the rest of my men, and they're trying to get to her…best I've been able to do is draw their attention."
"Are you sure she's still alive?" Shepard asked
"The observatory is reinforced; even the geth will need time to get through it. And its hard to hack a door when someone's firing rockets at you. The geth are near platoon streangth but that Colossus is the worst part. It's got a repair protocol…huddles up and fixes itself. I can't get a clear shot while it's down like that. I tried to move in closer, and one of the bastards punched a shot clean through my suite."
"How bad is your suite damage?"
"Combat seals clamped down to isolate contamination, and I'm swimming in anti-biotic. The geth might get but I'm not gonna die from an infection in the middle of a battle that's just insulting."
"Any ideas on how to deal with the colossus?" Carmine over heard her and decided to interrupt.
"Shepard I have an idea but we'll need to split up into two teams, while someone stays behind here."
Shepard looked over at Carmine open to any suggestions.
"What did you have in mind Carmine?"
"We've got the one shot elephant gun with us and if we can get on both sides of that thing we can lower its shields enough and distract it long enough that one of my guys can line up a clear shot and take it out." Kal'Reegar liked that idea and he still had a rocket launcher good to go.
"Alright lets finish that bastard off…I may not be moving so well but I can still pull a trigger." He added in, shepard shook her head.
"You've done enough reegar, you don't need to through your life away."
"Wasn't asking your permission, my job is to keep Tali safe…this is our best shot."
Shepard pulled him to the side yelling at him.
"We don't have enough people on our side for you to take one for the team!" Quickly getting back into cover.
"Im not gonna stand there while you run into enemy fire…they killed my entire squad."
"And if you wanna honor your squad you'll watch our backs…I need you here incase more Geth show up!" Reegar seemed to be conflicted with himself but finally nodded.
"Alright Shepard we'll do it your way…hit em for me, Keelah se'lai!" Shepard turned to her side and motioned for Carmine to take his group left while she went right to the sniper point…Cole stayed behind with the One shot ready to take his shot as Carmine and Baird went left while Shepard, Kasumi and Sam went right. Carmine and Baird were instantly under fire but kept on with their attack killing Geth after Geth. One tried to get close but Carmine smashed its legs out before smashing in its head, they were doing well.
Shepard on the other hand was being forced into cover as was Kasumi…Sam didn't care and kept on firing at the Geth taking them down one by one. The cat walk filtered them into a single line and she was able to easily mow them down, the final one managed to get a hit on her its bullet grazing her arm.
"Ah…you song of bitch that hurt, now you're dead!" Lowering her Retro-Lancer she charged the geth as fast as she could impaling it on its blade tossing it aside she pushed forward. Shepard had to catch up with her occasionally ducking into cover to recharge her over heated shields. As team one ducked into cover Carmine and Baird aimed and fired…their bullets dented the Colossus' armor but didn't manage to penetrate much, On shepard's side they unleashed their own hail of ammo, hurting it as much as possible. The Colossus kept moving its head from left to right to lay down fire but everytime it looked in one direction, it would have to aim in a different direction to stop the fire from hitting it.
Carmine signaled Cole who brought up the heavy elephant gun and looked down the sights, Pulling the trigger the recoil was stopped a little thanks to the cover he was in. As the bullet impaled the large Geth punching a hole straight through and sending it sliding back into the wall before it exploded. As the Dust cleared Cole holstered the one shot and slowly caught up with the group. They were all waiting outside the door, Cole getting several nods of good work from his group where as he got stares of awe from Shepard and Kasumi.
Tali radioed Shepard when she heard the gun fire stopped.
"Just a second I locked the door so the geth couldn't get inside…there that should do it."
The door unlocked and slowly tried to open before it fell over from the explosion caused by the one shot. As the group walked in Shepard saw Tali working fast at a computer panel.
"Thank you shepard, I never would have made it out of this room if it wasn't for you." She wasn't turned around yet. Finally turning around she stepped back looking at all the large humans in the room, in shock.
"Shepard you know there are giant humans behind you." Tali whispered to Shepard.
"Tali, this is Carmine and his friends…they helped me take out the Geth that were trying to get in here." Tali walked up to Carmine and his group nervously rubbing her hands together.
"Thank you…I owe you my life, I'm glad you're on our side if your helping Shepard." She said in a soft town. Baird walked up examining the small girl, with a fascinated look.
"Amazing…and you're an alien, wow this is the first time im seeing one…suit. Is it a hazard suite?" Baird asked making the young quarian blush a bit under her helmet.
"Um…it's an environmental suite, because my race has a weak immune system." Baird rubbed his chin in thought for a second.
"Funny, I wounder what kind of filter's the suite uses or if theres some kind of way to maybe boost your immune system in some way. God theres just so many theories and ways to do it I wouldn't know where to start." Baird said talking beginning to talk to himself making the girl embarrassed.
"Uh Baird…were here for a reason remember?" Carmine reminded him shaking the man from his thoughts.
"Shepard you certainly have picked up a strange bunch of people." Tali said looking back at Shepard.
"You have no idea tali…you have no idea. A lot of quarians lost their lives here was the data you were getting worth it?" she asked
"I don't know shepard it wasn't my call. The admiralty board believed the information here was worth all our lives for, I have to believe they know best."
"I didn't ask what the admiralty board thought I asked for your opinion not theirs." Shepard said in a matter of fact tone.
"A lot of people died here some of them were my friends, all of them were good at their jobs…That damn data better be worth it, the price was too high."
"What can you tell me about your research here?"
"Haestrom's start is destabilizing, back when this was a Quarian colony it was a normal star. It shouldn't change that quickly." Baird decided to interrupt his curious intellect getting the better of him.
"umm miss…Tali was it?...do you have any idea why that sun is doing what its doing?"
"If I had to guess I'd say it was dark energy effecting the interior of the star."
"Makes sense, a lot of stars act in a similar matter by blowing steam when they're about to enter into a red giant phase."
"Right but Haestroms sun is far too young for that to be natural." Tali was impressed at this man's knowledge. Shepard decided to interrupt this science fair before everyone got distracted with the real mission.
"Whatever the reason, I'm glad we could help. Once you deliver that data I could use you on the Normandy."
"I promised to see this mission through and I did, I can leave with you and send the data to the fleet. And if the admirals have a problem with it they can go to hell…I just watched my entire team get slaughtered." Tali said sadly.
"Not your entire team mam." A voice came out as the group looked back to see Kal'Reegar limping towards the group along with a few more Quarians behind him.
"Reegar…everyone you made it!" Tali yelled happily.
"Your old captain's as good as you said, damn colossus never stood a chance."
"Actually that would be..ugh!" Baird was about to say they were responsible when Sam elbowed him to shut him up.
"If need be the Normandy can get you out of Reegar." Shepard said.
"nah…the geth didn't damage our ship, so long as we get out of here before reinforcements show up, we'll be fine."
"Actually I won't be going with you I'm joining commander Shepard." Tali told reegar.
"Ill pass the data to the Admiralty board and let em know what happened…shes all yours now Shepard keep her safe." Shepard nodded before hailing for the Normandy for pick up.
"Normandy come in…we need a pick up for two, we have a lot of people with us…I want Miranda and Jacob in the Briefing room."
"Aye commander." Shepard turned to Carmine.
"Carmine when we get to the Normandy take your friends to the Briefing room…this is going to be a long talking session I can already tell." She said rubbing the bridge of her nose.
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And end of Chapter 8…so what did you think? Was it too weak? Was it not brutal enough by all means let me know…and Im leaning on having Sam and Kasumi fight over Carmine thought Im not sure…I still need to figure out if I wanna throw jack in that interaction as well don't know, but the chapters to come are going to be good even loyalty mission will be action packed though Carmine wont be on all of them. Anyway ill be updating again either tomarrow or the next day depending on my work schedual…Stay tuned my valued readers. Also can anyone answer my question about the lemons…cuz that would be great to know. Anyway let me know about pairing ideas im interested to know
