My Own Alternate what if I not specifically me but someone who could be me came entered Mass effect in some way or form and knowing I shouldn't be here.

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Staff Sergeant Mark Hamilton

Virmire, Prisoner of Saren

The sergeant had been tortured for the better part of a week now. He couldn't let up, however the damn alien had gotten the information he wanted out of him. The sergeant had once been captured before, back in Iraq. He knew how to take the situation, but this was different. From what he could tell, he was no longer on earth. He wondered if he had been abducted, and if so were Sheppard and Jackson the two he originally searched for that brought him in this mess also abducted.

Mark suddenly heard someone walking in the hallway. His cell opened as some kind of robotic looking guards threw someone in the cell, and then quickly closed the cell back up. Mark could see the man wearing an Army BDU, so he figured was probably also abducted.

Mark quickly went to his aid, seeing his rank as a specialist He turned to soldier over to see he had been severely beaten. The soldier opened his eyes, gazing on marks rank.

"S...Staff sergeant" he barely was able to talk, as he started coughing blood "I told them nothing"

Mark finally recognized the specialist as one of his own, Who Mark had ordered to leave him behind, if he didn't return from finding Sheppard and Jackson. "Where's the rest of the squad?" mark asked, curious if they were all taken.

"I…..I don't now sergeant everyone is gone except, I saw them taking the LT in, after they were done with me. Everyone else was taken away"

Mark had served with the LT on his last few tours. The LT wasn't even on the front with his squad. If they had him, they probably had the whole damn platoon. He tried to remember the events that happened in the caverns they were all captured, but those events were still all fuzzy to him.

"Rest now specialist, we will get out of this"

The specialist didn't say anything, he just faded away. Mark couldn't even imagine what he just went through.

Mark managed to get on his feet, he looked around. Trying to find some way out, but there was none. The cell was basically a metal box. All he could do was wait and hope for the cell to once again open. Suddenly mark heard explosions going off outside. The facility was under attack, as alarms were going off all around.

Corporal Ryan Sheppard

Normandy

Flying over Virmire

Commander Shepard had reached the last gate house. The Normandy was about to make its landing at the stg campsite. Jackson and Ryan both went down below deck to suit up. Ashley was already waiting for them.

"You ready for this" she asked as she coming beside Ryan, while he was still clipping his armor on.

"I'm Oscar Mike ash"

She took a quick look at Jackson; he just nodded and walked to the other side of the cargo bay.

Ashley placed her hand on his shoulder "Ryan, I don't want you to get hurt again"

She was worried, and he didn't blame her. However, if anyone should be worried it should be him. He knew Ashley could die here if he screwed up. He had to make sure Shepard knew about his choice to come. And find some way to stop the choice from happening in the first place.

"I'll be fine ash, we all will. Just trust me"

She seemed reassured at what Ryan said. Walking away Ryan pulled her back towards Him, giving her a gripping hug, as he held her close. Before they could say anything else, the Normandy came to a stop making its landing, the hatch startedopening. We both nodded towards each other, as we walked are way next to Jackson.

"You ready Jackson" Ryan said, placing his Avenger in his hands.

"Hooah Sheppard" Jackson yelped back.

"Hooah" Ryan replied smiling.

. "Ok now, you guys just lost me" Ashley blurted out with that same smirk she always gave them.

"Come on ash, you can't tell me the army changed their battle cry"

"I'm a marine, Ryan"

"I prefer the Marine one any day" Raider commented behind them, which had startled Ryan.

The hatch finished opening, and they all walked outside to be met up by the STG members.

They were met by the salarian captain and a few other STG members as they came out.

"I'm captain Kirrahe 3rd infiltration unit STG. Your ship just landed in a hot zone, explain yourselves"

Everyone kind of looked at Ryan for some reason, so he answered. "Were here to stop saren, and yes I already know he is here"

"I asked the council for a fleet"

"The council couldn't understand your transmission. So they sent us to investigate."

After that commander Shepard and his team finally made it.

"What's going on here, why is my ship grounded" Shepard barked walking into the group.

"You want the long version or the short version" Raider smirked, and Ryan found it funny that this so called merc knew what he was also going to say.

The commander just gave the merc a blank stare, like he wanted nothing more than to shoot him. Ryan could see Jackson and Ashley were also very tense in this situation. Shepard Saw the other two gaze, and just shrugged it off for now.

"This is Sarens base of operation and he is breeding an army of Krogan, We must stop him" the captain said.

"How is that possible" Shepard replied.

"He has a cure to the genophage, we must destroy it along with this facility"

"Destroy our peoples cure, I don't think so" Wrex said startling the group, Ryan was starting to get frustrated with people somehow sneaking up behind him.

"If that cure leaves this planet the krogan will be unstoppable, we can't make the same mistake again"

Wrex stepped forward "We are not a mistake" he barked with a threatening voice. And then he walked off.

"Is he going to be a problem?" the captain asked

"I've had enough of him, I'll take care of it" Shepard replied.

Nobody, especially Ryan liked the sound of that. Shepard had punch Wrex once for standing in the way of the mission. There was no telling what he would do now. No,Ryan knew exactly what he was going to do.

"Commander Wait" Ryan stopped Shepard.

"What do you want corporal"

"Don't kill him Shepard, we need him. Just talk some sense into him"

"Out of my way Corporal" Shepard yelled pushing me aside.

"WAIT!" Ryan tried to yelped, but it was too late.

Before he could even hear his plea he took care of him, like he said. Shepard didn't even talk to Wrex. He just plainly shot him in the back of the head, like the rat Shepard was. Ryan then realized the pure evil in Shepard's face. There would be no talking since into him. There was no way he could convince that mad man to save Ashley and Kaidan. Ryan finally realized he was on his own, or was he.

"Bastard" Raider cursed next to Ryan. Looking into the mercs eyes Ryan could see something about the merc that he had been trying to figure out. He still couldn't figure out where he knew this guy form, but it was starting to become somewhat clear for him.

When Shepard was going over the mission plan with the captain, Ryan had Jackson come over to talk privately.

"The commanders lost it Jackson"

"He never had it Sheppard, so what's up"

"I'm going to need you on this one" Ryan said and Jackson nodded showing him his support. "I'll convince him to let us with the shadow team. The commander will have to make a choice between Kaidan and Ashley. We need to make sure both can be saved"

"If he does anything rash Sheppard, I'll frag his ass"

Ryan had no idea where this was coming from. Fragging an officer or a spectre for that matter is not something to take likely. The idea reminded him of one of his old favorite war movies he watched with his dad. The Siege of Firebase Gloria, where they fragged the CO of the base, because he lost his marbles. However Ryan was afraid that might turn out to be the only option they would have.

"Alright Man, let's do this"

Shepard, Kaidan and Ashley walked towards us, as the other two walked to them.

"Alright corporal, you, Jackson, Garrus, Raider, and the chief are with me. Sounds like we're going to need all the support we can get."

That was a sign of relief for Ryan; at least he didn't have to convince him. "What about Kaidan" Ryan asked, although he already knew the answer though.

"He is going to help coordinate the STG, now saddle up we move out in five"

The whole team followed Shepard In the back way; Jackson was keeping an eye on the Commander with every move. Ryan was a little worried he was going to try something.

"Shadow is in, I repeat shadow is in" they all heard the captain over the comm.

The team was now in the back of the facility. Ryan took notice that everything here looked exactly like the game.

"Get down!" Ashley barked shoving Ryan to the ground dogging a sniper shot.

Raider took sight on the sniper taking him out, Garrus and Shepard went to flank the rest of the geth forces at the structure ahead, while Jackson waited for Ryan.

"Thanks ash"

"I told you to be careful Ryan"

"Yeah sorry about that, didn't mean to take in the scenery" Ryan mused.

"Come on you idiot"

That firefight didn't last too long, while Ryan got up off of the ground. Shepard and the others already cleared the area. Ryan, Jackson, and Ashley managed to catch up with them.

"Man Sheppard, if it wasn't for the chief, you have a new hole in your head" Jackson said trying to lighten the mood of the fight.

"Shut it Private"

"Screw you man, don't see why you need to pull rank"

"Will you two shut it, or ill pull rank" Ashley said pushing us to keep up with the commander.

"Can she do that?" Jackson stupidly asked.

"Do you want to find out?"

"Good point Sheppard"

Ryan could swear he heard Raider muttering something of him being able to pull rank on all of them. That got Ryan's attention for a second, but just only a second. He decided to drop the thought for now.

They ran up towards the others, just in time too, the next firefight was starting. And this was the first time Ryan and Jackson were fighting real Krogan. They were currently at the entrance of the facility, and there was a good amount of geth and Krogan between them.

Shepard and garrus went on the right, pinning down the geth forces. Jackson, Raider, and Ryan took the left.

"Hay, where'd ash go?" Ryan yelled over the sound of gunfire.

The gunfire started to die down, and Ryan poked his head out to see the enemy had been taken out. But he knew they didn't do it.

"Hay, you boys coming or what" Ash said over thier comm.

Taking a closer look Ryan could see that she by herself flanked the geth. Everyone got out of cover meeting up with her.

"How did you get them all?" Ryan asked catching his breath.

"Nothing a few grenades can't do" she joked

Shepard just walked by, not even giving a thank you. Cold heart bastard Ryan thought to himself. Jackson and Raider however gave a slight 'thank you' nod.

Everyone stacked up on the entrance. Shepard in front entered the facility first. Everyone else followed. Watching each other's backs, and checking their corners. It was an empty hallway looking place, with a few doors leading the same way. Shepard headed for the nearby terminal.

"I'm triggering some alarms, the Lt can take the heat" The commander said, not even thinking of the other choice.

"Are you sure that's a good idea Commander, it might be too much for him" Ashley debated

"If I want your insight chief, I'll ask for it." Shepard said with his usual officer's voice. He opened the door signaling us all in.

Ryan then remembered, it was possible other men of thiercompany might be here. Knowing the mission took priority he decided to suggest something to the commander.

"Commander" Ryan called out

"What is it corporal?"

"We should split up, so we can cover more ground"

"Are you sure, what do you have in mind"

"Jackson, Ashley and I can search one side, while you, Raider and garrus can search the other"

"Just you and Jackson, The chief will be in my team"

"Commander, my order to bodyguard him overrules yours" Ashley argued, but Ryan stepped in not wanting to hear the Commanders usual reply to her.

"Don't worry ash its fine. Jackson and I can look out for ourselves."

"Just….Don't do anything stupid"

Raider however came into to the conversation. The merc had been really quiet in this op until now. "I'll keep an eye on him Chief"

Ryan gave a slight nod while Shepard and his team went to their door, when Jackson, Raider and Ryan took theirs. They advanced cautiously, not taking any chances. Entering a room up ahead, Ryan could see the room was filled with a handful of krogan. Thankfully they hadn't seen them yet, so Ryan reached in one of his old army pooches grabbing a surprise. Motioning his hand out, he grabbed two flash bangs. One of the few things he still had with him when he entered this reality.

Jackson saw what was in Ryan's hand; he knew exactly what he was thinking. Ryan didn't think one flash bang would paralyze the krogans long enough, so two might just do the trick. He pulled the pin and quickly threw the pair of grenades in the room. Jackson, Raider, and Ryan rushed in holding down their triggers with pure accuracy. Just as Ryan thought, the Krogans took quiet the beating. But the Flash bangs gave them the edge they needed.

"Nice, there's nothing some good old fashion twenty first century gear can't do" Raider praised with his thumbs up.

"Don't take it you got any more of them Sheppard?" Jackson asked checking the bodies.

"Sorry man, that's a onetime deal"

"Pity, well then should we head down those stairs" he pointed towards the far side of the room.

They headed down the stairs, opening the door ahead. Inside was a place Ryan knew he never saw in the game. It was a massive security block, filed with prison cells. The area was similar to that one place you found those salarin prisoners, but much bigger.

"Damn, this is the biggest prison I've ever seen"

"What do you mean by that, how many prisons have you been too" Ryan joked

"Screw you man, I was talking about seeing them on tv, and what not"

Although there were many cells, they were all empty. Like they had been occupied but recently emptied.

"Come on, there has to be someone left here" Raider mentioned trying to walk ahead.

"Sure thing…Jeremy" Jackson blurted out stopping.

'God damn you Jackson why now' Ryan thought to himself. When Jackson called out the name the Merc stopped in his tracks. He turned to look at the two soldiers.

"I knew it was you, why did you tell us you were from our past" Jackson asked, but remained still awaiting what conversation to come.

The Merc sighed before talking. "What do you want me to say private; I've been stuck here for the past five years." That got the twos attentions. "If it wasn't for my knowledge of the Mass effect series I wouldn't have been able to find the Commander in the first place"

'Oh no' Ryan thought, the cat was out of the bag now. "Mass effect?" Jackson question. "What the hell is that?"

"You do know this whole place, is form a game…Right"

"Bullshit" Jackson cursed out. "You're the LT here, I didn't think for you to go wakko on us"

'Why don't you ask your friend, I'm sure he has played the game, after all how would he know everything he says he knows?"

Jackson just looked at Ryan, looking for an answer. Ryan could only nod that he was right, which got him Jackson's hard right hook.

"I deserved that" Ryan replied, recovering from Jackson outburst. "But you had to believe me; you know it would have sounded crazy"

"Next time put a little faith in me" Jackson replied before looking back at this Jeremy guy. "So LT I know this isn't the time, so I want an explanation when we get back" Jeremy nodded in reply, and Jackson continued. "So what's the order LT?"

"First don't call me LT, to you guys I'm just a simple merc along for the ride, so we follow the Corporals original plan, and search these cells"

"We've been down this road for twenty minutes now, don't you think we should head back" Jackson complained.

Ryan zoned out of his complaining, when he caught his gaze in one particular cell.

"What is it?" Jackson asked

"You spoke to soon"

Ryan saw two humans, not just any human's, soldiers, and American soldiers at that. He quickly tried opening the door.

"Give me a hand" Ryan shouted towards Jackson and Jeremy.

The two also noticed them, and they rushed to help. While Ryan was struggling with the door, Jackson and Jeremy forced it open with little effort at all. With the door opened, Ryan rushed inside to the first man lying on the ground face down.

Before Ryan could do anything, the man quickly threw Ryan over his back, as he must have been faking injured the whole time. Before the man reached to beat Ryan's face in, he noticed who he was.

"Sergeant Hamilton?" Ryan said in shock

"Corporal, is that really you"

Jackson rushed in, to try and throw the sarge off Ryan, but the sarge was just too quick for him.

"Woo woo easy Jackson" Ryan shouted trying to ease the sergeant before he killed him or something worse. Make Jackson do push-ups again. Jeremy was just standing at the door, shaking his head at the whole ordeal, probably thinking of us as bad excuse for soldiers

"Shit, sarge is that you" Jackson said now understanding the situation.

"Man I never thought I be happy to see you grunts" Hamilton said holding us both.

"Umm…Sarge…I can't breathe"

"Crap, sorry corporal" he said finally letting the two go.

"So how did you find us, and what in god's name are you two wearing." Hamilton also notice Jeremy in his merc armor."And who's that"

Ryan was indeed relived to see the sarge "that's a long story, who's that sarge"

The sarge went over to help the other soldier up "Specialist..." the sarge said his rank, but couldn't remember his name.

"Killian, specialist Killian" the specialist spoke up "I can walk on my own" he said shrugging Jackson off.

Static started coming in over the comm., as Ryan could finally patch in with the commander.

"Commander…..commander do your read me" Ryan tried saying over the comm., but got no answer in reply.

"Ther…are…ge…all over….bomb…ite…..Im activating the nuk.." Ryan didn't need to fully understand that to know exactly what was happening. He could see Jeremy understood what was happening as well. They both knew they had been searching the cells for a while, but not this long.

Ryan kept messing with my comm until he could finally get the damn thing to work. "Ash, hold the nuke off. We're coming for you"

"Ryan is that you thank god, I thought we lost you" she replied over the comm.

"I'm fine, we're all fine. Now please hold off that nuke for just a little longer. You're not sacrificing yourself"

"But the commander he….."

"I know exactly what he's doing, trust me on this ash"

"Ok Ryan, I'm counting on you with this one"

"Corporal, what the hell do you think you're doing? You have no authority over this matter" Shepard cut in our comm. Chatter.

Ryan has had enough of him, no more. The commander purposely wants her do die on this. He was going to fragg his ass himself if he has to. "Commander, Kiss my ass" Ryan said shutting off his comm.

'That's the best insult you can come up with for that shit head" Jeremy commented, but Ryan ignored him for now.

Looking back behind him Ryan could see that grin on Jackson's face. "I think I could have said better Sheppard" Jackson added in as well. It seemed everyone had something better to say to that so called commander then him.

"What's going on?" Hamilton asked

"Just trust us on this sarge, do you guys think you can handle a weapon" Ryan asked handing the two their spare side arms.

"He'll give me that gun, and I'll blow there asses back were they came from" The sarge replied while the specialist simply nodded.

"Good just keep your heads down, you don't have armor like us. Before we go is there anyone else here."

"There were, but they were all taken away. Expect for the LT. but I don't know where he is now" the specialist Replied, looking like he was having trouble remembering.

They all knew there was a possibility of others being here, but they didn't have anymore time. So Ryan signaled everyone to follow him to moved out. "Just follow Jackson, this merc, and my lead guys"