The Next Great Adventure New Beginnings
Ch 9
Selection and worry
This chapter is unbetaed.
The morning sun was rising over Thessia casting its rays of light throughout the eezo rich world. In a magnificent house on the outskirts of the Asari city of Sericy Harry was sitting in his study in T'Soni manor on Thessia looking through a variety of dossiers for various humans from the System Alliance military. The reason for Harry's search was because of the pressure that the Alliance was putting on the council to get a human accepted into the Spectres. Harry had been appointed by Councilor Tevos to choose a second human to be made a spectre. The first three hundred dossiers were filed with medal wining soldiers that did not catch the eye of the seasoned spectre. He was near the end of the potential choices when he spotted an interesting candidate. She was a recently promoted Commander named Grace Shepard who had been made an N7 commando only three years ago. She was born on the colony of Mindoir and had survived the Batarian raid on the colony. Her service record was incredible. But what drew Harry's eyes was a mission report that placed Shepard on the planet of Akuze. On Akuze Shepard had survived for two weeks on and near a Thresher Maw colony. Harry had high hopes for this candidate and had continued looking over her service record. Satisfied with his choice Harry contacted the council and put Grace Shepard's name forward as a spectre. After sending the message off to the council Harry left his desk and went over to his Pensieve that was on a window seal near his desk and withdrew from his head a single memory. So focused in his own thoughts Harry did not notice when Benezia approached him.
"Harry what is troubling you my love?"
Harry was surprised by the intrusion and turned to face his bondmate.
"Nezy. I am just thinking about something that has been bothering me for the last couple of years."
"Explain it to me."
Harry took Benezia's hand and guided her to the Pensieve and together the couple entered into the stone basin. Benezia found herself and her bondmate in a natural cave with a tall object sitting in the middle of the natural formation; the object was shaped like a metal spike pushed skywards. On the spike was a Turian body that seemed to be more synthetic than organic. Surrounding the spike were the bodies of other synthetic Turians each unmoving in the throes of death. Harry was standing next to her silent.
"That spike is the reason for my unrest."
"What is so important about the spike?"
"My love that spike is far older than any other artifact that has been found to date."
"How old is the spike?"
"About sixty million years old."
The number stunned Benezia. She was unable to form any words because of her shock. But after a few minutes she spoke her mind on the device.
"That is far older than any Prothean artifacts found on record. Where did you see this?"
"On the planet of Shanxi during the relay 314 incident. A pair of humans working for the resistance found the device in a Turian dig site."
"Why were the Turians digging up this artifact?"
"From what I have been able to dig up it appears that a similar device was found on Palaven. The general in charge of the dig site wanted to compare the devices. Other than that I could find little else about this project from the Turian military. Once I had taken my scan of the device to find its age I contacted the council and destroyed the device."
"Why did you choose to destroy the device? The Citadel races could have learned a lot from such a find."
"Nezy, that thing had only one purpose. To turn organic flesh into synthetic parts for some sort of abomination. The dead things that you see around the room were once Turians but once they were impaled upon the device they turned into these monstrosities. What is disturbing is that I have a feeling that something dark and ancient was and is behind these artifacts.
"What do you mean by behind this Harry you are not making sense."
"Something out there is responsible for making this device. Something that is far older than the Protheans. Nezy I have recently received a disturbing report from Batarian space. A giant dreadnought that is bigger than any known vessel was discovered. The STG discovered something there what they are now calling the Leviathan of Dis. Nezy the preliminary scans from the ship match my scans of the device. Whoever made that ship made the spike."
"Whatever it is Harry the galaxy will be ready for it."
"I sure hope so Nezy. If we aren't then something terrible might happen to all of us."
The memory from the Pensieve abruptly ended and the pair found themselves back in Harry's study. They had spent longer than inside the memory sharing bowel then they thought the Thessian moon was shining brightly into the room from the studies window. The pair sat on a couch in the study and watched the night sky until the break of dawn.
Hey fans sorry for slacking off for a month but I was busy with some important stuff. I hope you liked this short chapter that finishes off part one of my epic. Part two which is the first mass effect game will be started in about four weeks. This because i am getting a new computer and i want to put all my next story copies on that one. I hope that I receive as much support for that story as I have for this one. I spend some of my time each day to check out other stories on fanfiction archive but here are my recommendations for some awesome stories.
The Unforeseen Variable by FractiousDay a Skyrim/Harry Potter crossover that is very well done in the lore of both universes and character building.
New Beginnings by AntonCheckOn a very cool Mass Effect/ Stargate SG-1 story with a good amount of chapters and other great twist and turns.
Now I have a question for you guys. I had an idea pop into my head a few days ago picture it Asari in Skyrim. Sound cool give me your feedback on this idea. Tell me if it is worth doing or not.