SO how are you guys? I'm doing well; still kind of mad at bioware over the endings, but still love the rest of the game; Even though they stole my hopes of a happy ending with Tali and completely boned us all by not giving us a look at her face outside of a picture. If you can't tell I'm a Talimancer. This chapter introduces several new advancements made by the Wastelander/Normandy crew team. Now on to the story
Tali looked at the screens in front of her with growing worry; the reapers had six capitol ship class reapers controlling a force of thirty processor and seventy troop transport reapers; As well as several hundred destroyer class reapers. The fleet, now closely guarding the perimeter of Phoenix, was holding their own against the reaper attack and taking out hundreds of destroyer class ships at a time while suffering very little damage. The problem was that the reapers kept brining in reinforcements before the fleet could move in on the capitol ships and forcing the ships to retreat back to their fortified positions.
Tali wearing the uniform of an admiral of Phoenix's fleet, a deep red and black skintight suit that looked a lot like her old suit; excluding one thing, the face mask and gloves. Rex had worked for years with Mordin and the Think Tank to develop a treatment that would restore the Quarian's ruined immune system, and they had succeeded. The process modified her Quarian DNA to produce powerful antibodies that eviscerated any harmful bacteria; making the immune system nigh impenetrable. Tali had been desperately trying to relay the info to her people but the reapers attacks have been disrupting all communications except for the quantum communicators Rex built that links Phoenix with Rex. Rex had last checked in three hours before saying he was heading to Palaven and then heading back with the help needed to break the siege. Tali hoped that he would come back soon for her sake, and thanks to the genetic alterations of the procedure, the new life forming inside her.
Rex sat in the Normandy's Med-Bay as Chakwas scanned him; as he had been felling searing pain all over his body.
"Interesting" Chakwas said as she finished the scan.
"What's interesting?" Rex asked.
"You seem to be developing natural eezo nodules throughout your nervous system" The seasoned doctor explained "You wouldn't know anything about that would you" Chakwas was against most of Rex's experiments because they always tended to be dangerous.
"Well, Mordin and I tried to develop biotic abilities in people without said abilities with no implants needed" Rex said.
"I thought you two were years away from anything usable" Shepard said as he walked into the room.
"Well we had a breakthrough and I just had to test it" Rex said as his entire body started to glow dark red "And it would seem it was a success".
The energy dissipated and Shepard asked "Feeling better?"
"Yes, Don't worry I'll get the hang of it" Rex said.
"Well get used to it sooner rather than later we land on Palaven in thirty minutes" Shepard said wondering not for the first time exactly how sane his friend was.
On Palaven's moon Rex, Shepard, James, and Liara (No Ashley because I don't like her) dropped down into a Turian camp that was being overrun by husks. Rex drew his plasma pistol and took down six while Shepard and the team mopped up the rest.
"We're here for the Primarch" Shepard told a Turian on the wall.
"You'll have to speak to General Corinthus at the main camp" the Turian told them as he fired at a group of husks. The group of husks thinned out but there were still at least twenty; Shepard and the others raised their weapons but Rex waved them down and said "I got this". Rex's body glowed red before a burst of energy shot out from his body ripping the Husks to shreds.
"Wow" James said.
"I call that the shredder ball" Rex said as his body stopped glowing.
"You've done that before?" Shepard asked.
"No, but everything sounds better with a name" Rex said.
As the group made their way to the main camp they couldn't help but notice Palaven burning in the sky.
"That looks familiar" Rex said frowning.
When they reached the main camp the sentry lowered the gate and approached the General's command center "Shepard I've been expecting you" the General said as he looked at several readouts of the battles.
"Really" Shepard asked.
"I told him you were coming" Garrus said as he walked out of a corner.
"Garrus, I was wondering where you went" Rex said after clapping the Turian on the back.
"The Turian military hired me as a reaper consultant; even with my help the reapers are hitting us hard" Garrus replied.
"Shepard, my communication has been cut off to high command and I can't restore contact until the com tower is repaired" The General said.
"I can fix it" Rex said.
"If you could it would be appreciated" The general said as he went back to his screens.
As they headed out of the camp towards the com-tower several of the Turians saluted Garrus. When they reached the com-tower Rex drew several tools from his pack and a mini-welding torch.
"This is going to take a minute; cover me" Rex said as he went to work repairing the circuits and removing bits of husks.
As Rex worked he thought about Tali and not for the first time wished he was with her; he missed her especially now that he was far from home on a very hostile planet. Before he left Phoenix Tali gave him a good luck charm; a piece of her bubble she occupied when she was a child that was merged with a fragment of the hull of the Normandy SR-1 and the Reya. She had told him that she made the charm shortly after the SR-1 was destroyed and believed that it contained the strength that ship gave her. It also contained a small holographic quantum communicator that connected Rex to her on Phoenix; the same one he had used three hours earlier to report the situation with the council; after several minutes of her using several Quarian curse words that Rex wasn't familiar with Tali finally calmed down and told him of the reaper threat just outside their system. Rex was angry; compared to the reapers all of his old enemies could barely hold a candle to them. If he didn't figure out a way to enhance the teleportation tech from the alien ship soon Phoenix would be no more. Rex had entrusted Mordin with that and he had hopefully made a breakthrough; Mordin hadn't been seen in at least a month after returning to his home world though and there had been no communications from him either. Rex's thoughts and work was interrupted by a husk running at him; Rex grabbed the welding torch and shoved it into the husks mouth before firing a bolt of biotic energy at it; flinging it across the cliff where it collided with several other husks before exploding.
I could get used to this Rex thought.
As the others took down husks left and right Shepard yelled "Are you done yet?"
"Almost I just need to re-activate the power core" He replied as the com tower began to hum. The group made their way back to the camp
When they got back to the camp the general was speaking to a holographic image of a Turian. As the group approached the general gestured for them to approach "Well I have good news and bad news".
"What's the bad news?" Shepard asked.
"The Primarch is dead"
"God dammit" Shepard said.
"The good news is I know who the new Primarch is; his name is general Victus" Corinthus explained his last known position was a few miles from here at a forward base".
"Thank you general" Shepard said before a screeching howl came from the east.
A Turian soldier came running towards them "General, a massive reaper offensive coming our way".
The team ran to a nearby wall where several hundred husks were storming it. The group fired into the horde taking out dozens at a time. Rex summoned up his biotic energy and thought of the things that angered him the most: Super mutants in dresses, war, blood, his friends in pain, and most of all when Grunt took the last Nuca-Cola, and fired a massive wave biotic energy at the horde. The husks were ripped to pieces and flung back several hundred feet while the wave continued shredding several boulders along the way; Rex smiled and said "Damn" before passing out.
Rex woke on his cot in the cargo bay feeling like he just sparred with grunt and Fawkes. He found a note pinned to his chest that read:
Come to the meeting room
When Rex got into the meeting room a Salarian, a Krogan, and a Turian were all standing around the table glaring at each other. Shepard walked into the room from the war room and waved Rex over.
"What happened on Palaven?" Rex asked.
"After you destroyed several hundred husks and passed out we sent you back to the ship and grabbed the Primarch" Shepard explained "Now we have to arrange an alliance between these three".
"Well, that should be easy" Rex said as he entered the room.