A/N Disclaimer: I own nothing except OC characters and plot line. All others belong to rightful owners.
Part I
The Voice and Face of all Evil.
Chapter 20: The Last Reclaimer.
"Lets do this boys." Shepard called out as the Shuttle came to a sudden halt, AA fire sodding out everywhere. The doors of the shuttle slide open, and the group of five jumped out. The terrain was a bouldery, lightly forested area. They had plenty of cover but so did the enemy. The door they needed to reach was around a kilometer and a half away in the side of a mountain. Right behind all the enemy troops.
The shuttle lifted away at top speed barely avoiding AA fire.
Instantly they were greeted with enemy fire, plasma blue, red lasers, mass effect rounds, and bullets. Lots of bullets.
"Cover!" Shepard yelled, diving behind the nearest boulder she could find.
She could here Wrex grunt as the Korgan was forced to dive behind cover. The Arbiter on her other side had activated his camouflage. Garrus was hiding behind a tree and Javik was behind a boulder far away form the group.
Shepard popped up over her boulder and fired a few rounds off. A few mass effect rounds hit her shields, draining them and a plasma blast bypassed her shields and him her arm straight on. She yelped, ducking down and team her armor off as the plasma ate away at the metal.
"Shit! Guys kinetic barriers don't work against the blue and purple stuff! Probably plasma!" She called out to her team.
"Correct but worry not Commander my shields can hold." The Arbiter replied.
"Yeah but only yours." Garrus retorted.
"How many do we have out there Arbiter?" Shepard asked reloading her weapon.
"Hundreds commander. They are blocking the entrance to the installation below." The Arbiter confirmed, his camouflage allowing him to sneak closer to the enemy while the others were pinned down.
"Great." Shepard hissed. The enemy had predicted their move and now here they were. Their fleet outnumbered and outgunned. Their ground teams outnumbered and outgunned.
Garrus hopped over his cover and fire a few rounds, knocking out a canibal before diving behind a boulder. A few bullets scratched the top of his cover.
Javik used his superior biotic abilities managed to send a few singularities at the hordes before them. He managed to pick off a few but was forced back into cover.
"These monstrosities have advanced weaponry." The Prothean spat.
"The Flood have the ability to leaner and use weaponry from any race they assimilate." The Arbiter informed as he ripped a Flood form in half with his sword.
Wrex moved from cover firing his shotgun at random before rolling to cover. His aim was perfect but the range his enemies were at made his shots almost useless.
Shepard peaked out of cover and fired a few times, knocking out a husk or two. She used her biotic abilities to create a barrier and charged for the cover Garrus was at. Her shields flared and failed as mass effect round and bullets bounced off them.
A red laser and plasma blast missed her by inches. She slid to cover next to garrus.
"Told you this would be one for the books." The Turian laughed. He stepped out of cover, took aim with his sniper and blasted a flood form to bits, then slid back into cover before his shields failed.
"Not the time Vakarian." Shepard said. She stood up and fired of a few shots accompanied by a warp before ducking back into cover. Another plasma blast missing her by inches.
Javik again moved to cover but was unable to get a shot off. A green plasma blast slicing his arm.
"Damn their weaponry." The Prothean cursed.
"Its hurts don't it?" Wrex commented throwing off a part of his arm armor. It had been melted through by a plasma blast.
"Joker whats the situation upstairs?" Shepard asked firing off a few rounds, missing the marauder by inches before diving behind a nearby tree for cover.
"Not good Shepard. We've already lost thirty ships. Thran's trying to form a perimeter around our ships. Our ships just can't take this kind of fire power. Our dreadnoughts are holding out but the other ships, especially the frigates, are getting blown to bits. We've taken down at least twenty of their own but damn Shepard theres too many of them." Joker replied.
The Commander let out a frustrated sigh as she tried to make a move for another boulder further up but jumped back as a few plasma rounds burnt the ground in front of her.
"At this rate the fleet will be destroyed before we even get to the door." Shepard stated trying to take down a few Flood forms. The forms noticed and manage to evade her shots.
"We need reinforcements down here." Garrus replied. "No way us five can take this whole army on our own."
"Even I have to agree on that one." Wrex stated. He blasted away a husk that got to close for comfort.
"No way we're gonna get any now though. That AA fire if starting to pick up." Garrus sighed.
Shepard looked up. A few fighters had come down to clear a landing for the Commander and her team but now the fighters were being picked off by the heavy gunfire. Theres no a transport would get down in one piece.
"Commander this is Thran'." A new voice said on the Comm channel.
"Thran'? Whats up?" Shepard grunted rolling to a nearby tree, gunning down a Flood form that had tried charging them.
"Commander I heard you need reinforcements. I have several Special ops teams that can help. Their on their way now."
"Thran' its suicide trying to send them down here! There to much AA fire!" Shepard yelled over a nearby by explosion of green.
"They should be arriving soon. good luck Commander. We have a battle to win." The elite stated before cutting off the communications.
"Cocky bastard." Wrex huffed. He stood up, charged a husk, blasted away a marauder and threw a flood form over his shoulder before having to duck behind cover as his shields failed. "What does he think he is? Krogan?" The bitter alien stated before blasting away another husk.
"Don't know why he'd want to be a smelly brute." Garrus called out over the comm. He rolled out of cover, blasted off the head of a marauder and rolled to cover again.
"Can it you two." Shepard stated. She charged out of cover heading to where Javik was. She took down another Flood form with her rifle, and a warp tore another one to pieces.
"But I agree with Garrus." Katherine finished, blowing a husks head off.
"These things disgust me." Javik commented blasting a husk away.
"You're telling me." Shepard said throwing another warp at the Flood. She was finding biotics to be effective against the corpses of rotting flesh.
"Incoming!" Garrus stated.
Shepard looked up. She saw pods flying down towards them, flying down very fast. The whistled down towards the earth. She followed them as they crashed down in front of her team at separate intervals, some smashing enemy troops to pieces.
The front of the pods burst open, and a war cry followed.
Elites and a few grunts hoped out from their respective pods. Elites blasted away any nearby attacks before taking cover, while grunts set up turrets or opened fire with their fuel rod guns.
"Thank the spirits." Garrus stated.
The Commander agreed and made her way to the nearest pod. She made sure to try and stay low. At least two dozen of the enemies in front of her had been killed off but there was still hundreds more before them.
A black armored elite kneeled down next to her, as she took cover behind a large boulder.
"Commander. Captain Rasul Sordem of the Fifth Battalion. Special ops team." The elites greeted standing up. He took aim with his carbine and took down a husk that was trying to sneak up on one of his elites then ducked down next to Shepard.
"How many of you are there Captain?" Shepard asked reloading her weapon again.
"Ten in my squad right here. Thirty more spread out over the area. They're going to knock out those AA guns and allow our transports to land. Once they do are troops are going to create a base and try to give they enemy something else to shout while we get to the door and get inside." Rasul stated heavily.
"Sounds like a plan, but a lot of men are going to die." Shepard stated, both of them standing up together and taking down there marauders before getting back into cover.
"They will die with honor. They will die stopping the parasite from destroying the Galaxy once again." the elite stated with a nod.
"Thens lets make sure we stop them."
"Sir Shields at seventy two percent! The humans just lost another frigate!"
"Squadron 10 just went dark sir."
"Asari reporting one of their ships has been boarded!"
Thran' stared at the screen showing the battle raging out side. His ships had tried to create a barrier of protection for the weaker ship but they couldn't protect all of them.
"Tell the Asari to detonate their ships engine. They will die either way." Thran ordered.
"Put all power to the starboard shields. Make sure nothing gets through them. Fire all starboard weapons on the nearest enemy ship. Tell the humans to fire their dreadnought at the nearest ship as well." the elite stated walking back to his seat and sitting down.
"Sir we just lost one of the frigates!" An elite cried. "The frigates left a hole in the perimeter! enemy ships are trying to get through!"
"Tell the Ascendant Justice and the Resurrection to close up the whole. Send squadrons one and two to reinforce them." Thran' stated. the one advantage of being outnumbered so badly was that not all the enemy ships could fire on him at once. It gave them the smallest chance of fighting back.
He watched as a ship belonging to the Salarian went up in flames from a MAC round.
"Tell the Salarians to focus their fire on the ship with the MAC cannon. Bring it down before it an do anymore damage." Thran' ordered. He watched as an old, flood covered, UNSC ship went up in flames.
"Good are there any forerunner vessels in the fleet?"
"Negative sir! Strongest vessels in their fleet are old covenant warships." One of his officer reported. The elite wondered why the Flood wouldn't send stronger ships to protect a planet they didn't want them on.
"Sir you have one of those turians on the com."
"Let him through."
"Commander Thran! I am captain Ventures." The turian stumbled as his ship was hit by another enemy attack.
"Our ships are taking to much damage! We cant hold out forever!" The Turian stated.
"I know but we must hold till the Commander ship can get out safely. If not the fleet will bare down on them." Thran' replied
"Call for reinforcements!" The Turian pleaded.
"Even with reinforcements they would out number us. We must hold." the elite stated through grit teeth.
"Alright. Lets hope that Commander knows what she's doing."
"I have no idea what I'm doing." Shepard muttered as she drove her omni blade down a flood forms throat and blasted a husk away with her biotics. "how the heck are we supposed to get over there?" She groaned rolling back behind a boulder.
"Just give it time Commander. The teams will have those AA's down soon." Rasul replied over the com.
"Dang it sometimes these things just won't stay dead." Garrus hissed over the com as he brought his foot don on a Flood form that had tried getting back up.
Shepard spun around as a husk lunged at her. She kicked it in the chest and shot it a few times before spinning back towards the door and throwing a warp at a nearby marauder.
She noticed how the left side of the battlefield had suddenly grown quitter. She looked up and saw now AA fire from that side.
"Looks like your men got the job done." Shepard complimented as the rest of the AA fire soon died down.
"Yes. Phantoms inbound. Lets keep pushing forward! We'll have artillery soon enough." The elite stated.
Shepard nodded in agreement.
Katherine moved ahead, gun at the ready. She fire off a few rounds putting down a husk, a few mass effect rounds hitting her before the attacker was out down by a quick shot form Garrus. She counted down her current path, dodging enemy fire, rolling to cover, firing at the enemy. She sent a shockwave out obliterating a few husks that got to close for comfort.
A flood form managed to catch her off guard and tackled the Commander. This time though she wasn't tired or wounded.
Placing her legs on its gut, the commander kicked the beast off her. With a burst of energy she hoped to her feet and drew her omni blade. Not bothering to give the monster a chance to get up, she drove the blade through its gut and upwards.
"You know what I've been wondering how did the Flood know we were coming?" Garrus stated as he shot another marauder through the head.
"Maybe we have a traitor." Javik stated nonchalantly.
"Can the gravemind control people this far away?" Shepard asked reloading.
"No at least not form such a distance." The Arbiter replied as he slashed two flood forms in half with skilled and nimble moves.
"See no worries guys." Shepard stated with a smile. It was just small talk.
"Unless he has someone infected." The Elite retorted.
"But then they'd look like ugly here. Yuck." Garrus stated wiping a piece of rotten flesh off him. "Remind me not to shoot them at point blank with a sniper. You gets guts all over you."
Shepard smirked and continued firing when fear struck her.
"Wait Arbiter you remember that marine back in the subway on Earth? He didn't turn till we were underground in the subway."
"So?" Garrus asked.
"What the Commander means is someone among us could be infected and we wouldn't even know it." The Arbiter stated.
"At least its not one of us." Wrex grumbled ramming an older pure form head on.
"Then who?" Garrus asked his voice starting to become serious. The likely hood of a traitor was all to possible now that he though about it.
Shepard ducked down behind a large boulder, elites moving up on her side as she thought. Her mind raced with possibilities. She wondered how the Flood would have gotten the information so quickly. Reluctant Promise had intercepted an encrypted signal from one of their forerunner cruisers in Turian space headed towards the fleet in Quarian space. If he had told the Flood then why would he tell them the Flood were on their way? No its wasn't him.
The red head stood up and blasted away a maunder with biotic blast. She leaped over the boulder firing a few shots as purple airships, fast and small bombe the Flood forces with green plasma. Using her momentum she rolled behind a nearby tree to reload as her team and the elites pushed forward.
Liara? No Liara had been unconscious and in a wheel chair. Besides that she had been with Shepard or Dr. Diaz almost every moment since they had gotten aboard the Normandy. Garrus? No. She would've seen it. Wrex? Maybe. He had seemed quiet but only during the meeting. Maybe it was him.
Katherine looked over to where he was and saw the all to familiar smirk of a Krogan enjoying the battle.
No not him she concluded. Then it hit her. Lithyia. The Councilor who had let the information of the Arbiter slip so the whole Council, Shepard, and her team would end up in the room under the Galactic trade Center. The Asari who for some reason just wanted to be aboard the Normandy when they left Earth.
"Shit!" Shepard cried both from the revelation and from blasting away a flood form that had gotten the jump on her.
"Its Lithyia!" she yelled over the com. Not waiting for a reply she radioed Joker.
"Joker come in!" She yelled. No response.
"Shit! Joker!"
Lithyia smiled at the body of the unconscious pilot. Him and the AI had been easy enough to take care of. Legion was out as well. Liara locked in her room. Traynor dead and straggled. The rest of the crew? Shot or left alone to believe their pilot was still in charge.
She had been so glad when all the fighters had gone down. Legion was alone, and Liara was injured. It had been to easy.
Her eyes glowed a vicious green as did her biotics. She walked around to the front of the pilot chair and sat down. She checked the instruments and made sure everything was ready. Once it was, she pulled the Normandy out of the planets atmosphere and shot towards the battle.
I have taken the ship…
Good… Now we have fun…
"Communications are blocked with the Normandy Shepard!" Garrus stated.
Shepard slammed her rifle into a husks hard as she could. She couldn't believe it. The Gravemind had Lithyia. The councilor who was her friend.
Shepard heard something. A high pitched whining. she looked up as a shadow fell over the battlefield and the Flood and Reapers forces began to pull back.
With a thud, the earth shaking beneath it, A Reaper destroyer landed right over the door to the instillation.
It thundered its massive horn and its beam powered up.
"Everyone down!" Shepard yelled. A red flash blinded her and a resonating of the Earth is all she felt. She flew back and hit a tree, her ears ringing and her eyes hazy from the explosion.
Blinking her eyes, Katherine slowly got to her feet only to see the red beam powering up again.
A with another Earth shattering thud three more machines fell from the sky, except these ones stood facing the Reapers, on four legs, with dark purple armor and were one hundred meters in height themselves two thirds of the Reapers height.
"Scarabs!" A random elite cried out.
Before the Reaper could retaliate the three walking platforms opened fire with their main guns. A pure beam of super heated plasma firing at almost half the speed of light. The bright white light was a contrast to the Destroyers red.
The Reapers groaned and stepped backwards away form te assaulters before returning fire. Its red beam glanced off one of the scarabs new armor and obliterated nearby landscape instead.
"Thats the last of the reinforcements I can send you Shepard." Thran' informed though his voice was riddled with static.
"Thrna'! Do you know where the normandy is?" The commander yelled as she ran. dozens of other Covenant ground troops hoped out of the scarab and aided the advancing ground teams. Hunters included.
"I…. Norm… Wh…. s…. Comm…. Losing….con…. go… ck…." thran's voice finally clippe dout.
"Damn lost contact. Garrus keep trying to reach them. We have to warn Joker." Shepard ordered as she helped a nearby grunt deal with a husk.
"Got it Shepard I'll keep trying." the tyrian replied as he reloaded and fired an overload at a group of marauders.
Katherine stumbled as the four behemoths above her continued to trade fire.
"Commander!" A voice called over to her. She looked and saw Rasul waving her over to him. she ran over to him, avoiding what enemy rounds flew her way and safely made behind the large boulders the Captain was behind. Several other elites an grunts were there standing around.
"What going on captain?" She asked walking up to the group.
"Commander these are the squad leaders sent down here. I gathered them and over here to inform of progress on the battle in space and here. According to what communications I have received the fleet only has an hour or two before they are completely overwhelmed. We must move quicker. Now commander, the squads will set up defensive perimeters and once that Reaper is destroyed we will set up a small base of operations over the doorway. Commander you'll only have an hour. I can only guarantee that. We are mighty but not enough to hold the parasite back forever. Hurry and get the human. I will send several of my quad with you. Raaz and Litz!" The elite called. To other elites ran over to him form a nearby boulder. they both had red armor.
"You and your grunts will accompany the Commander down in the installation. Make sure they get in and out at all costs." Rasul ordered.
"Sir." the two elites nodded.
"Go commander!" The elite roared. The others roared as well and together the group charged back into the battle.
Shepard shot the last husk in the head four times before moving on. It had cut her pretty badly on the check. Thats what she got for spending to much time on that brute who had charged her.
"Shepard there you are. I was worried you got lost." Wrex said as she walked up to the group next to the large metallic door sticking into the side of mountain. The two elites groups were there with Captain Rasul along with her own.
They could hear the massive steps of the two remaining scarabs. One had been destroyed but they had brought down the destroyer at least.
"Im fine thanks for worrying but we have bigger problems. We have an hour to find this guy before we have to get out of here. The Captain assured me they could hold this position for that long but any longer hes not sure." She informed them reloading her rifle.
"Then lets get this done." Javik said walking up to the door.
"Now how do we open this?" The Prothean asked.
"Commander!" A far off voice called, high pitched and annoying.
The group looked around
"Commander!" the voice called out again. It was Garrus who spotted the owner, up in the sky, flying down towards them.
"Well if it isn't lightbulb." He chuckled, earning a confused glance from the elites around, except the Arbiter who knew the nickname.
Reluctant Promise floated down to them in a matter of seconds huffing and puffing as if he was out of breath.
"Promise what are you doing down here?" Shepard asked.
"Lithyia… Killed Traynor… Joker unconscious… control over Normandy." The monitor stated.
Flashback
Reluctant Promise whistled lowly to himself as he floated through the halls headed to CSC room. He couldn't help but wonder about the Forerunner fleet. His creators were dead weren't they? Then how could there still be a fleet?
He shook himself and continued don his path when he heard voices. Agitated and strained. He hovered around the corner and froze in place.
There was the blue Asari councilor, holding the young human named Traynor by the throat and up in the air. Traynors face was bloodied and her nose obviously broken. The rest of the crew? dead. Shot or thrown about with biotic abilities.
"Poor specialist Traynor. Never getting to admit her feelings for the Commander." The Asari hissed though her voice was mixed with another. One that paralyzed him with fear even though he was an AI and he shouldn't feel fear.
"She'll stop you…" Traynor managed to state, blood leaking form her mouth.
"Please. She can barely handle one of those Flood forms. Like she's a challenge for me."
"Fuck you." Tryanor said spiting blood onto the Asaris face.
"You'd like to wouldn't you?" Lithyia laughed, her eyes glowing a violent green. She clenched her hand, her biotic power surging through her and she gathered a warp in her free hand.
"Goodbye Specialist." She laughed and plunged the warp into her gut. A manic deep laugh echoing through the room.
Before the monitor could do anything, he was grabbed form behind and pulled back into the hallway.
It was the Geth named Legion who had grabbed them.
"AI Promise. Leave and find Shepard. I will distract and fool the organic traitor. Quick go. Make sure Shepard knows of this." The Geth stated drawing his gun and moving past the monitor an into the room with Lithyia.
And thats what the AI had done. He hacked his way int the systems and fled through one of the escape pods, making sure the systems read that the escape pod had never left. He didn't know it but it had worked in fooling the Asari, especially once Legion had lied to her about the AI being rampant and him being forced to 'knock out' the monitor.
End Flashback
"So Lithyia has the normandy?" Shepard said her voice soft and cold.
"Yes."
"Crap!" the Commander yelled glowing blue with her biotics.
"Great one more problem to add to the list." Garrus sighed.
"I will inform Thran' about the Normandy. You need to get down there." Ralus stated.
"Agreed. Now how do we open this thing." She questioned.
"Oh allow me!" The monitor stated happily.
"And hes back…" Garrus chuckled.
The group slowly made their way down the pristine and smooth metallic halls of the Forerunner shield world. It was dark besides their own flashlights and the light blue lining of the walls.
"Well its just nice and peachy in here isn't it?" Garrus sighed.
"Shut up Turian." Wrex retorted.
Shepard moved around a corner, gun at the ready.
"Where to Promise?"
"Forward Commander. We are near." The AI replied. Apparently the Arbiter only knew where the door and planet where, not the exact location of where the Reclaimer was. Fortunately Reluctant was a Forerunner AI and was able to hack the systems and find out where the Reclaimer was.
The group continued. Their footsteps were heavy as they half jogged down the halls. Time was running and they didn't have a lot of it.
Shepard heard something. Footsteps, but not from her group.
"Hold it!" she ordered throwing up a fist.
A split second later a squeal filled the air as a grunt in the back died.
"Flood!" an elite yelled.
Shepard looked back. It was one of those monster Pure forms she and the Arbiter had fought, except now there were two.
"Run!" She yelled as the group opened fire, the Pure forms healing almost instantly as they charged after them.
"How did they get in here!" Garrus yelled.
"Unknown!" Promise stated, floating backwards and blasting one of the beasts back with his own beam.
They sprinted around another corner, the beasts still after them.
"Commander find the Reclaimer! We will hold them off!" The elite named Raaz called out, him and the other elite dropping back, drawing their energy swords. They ordered their grunts to stay with the Commander and the few grunts willing obeyed though one stayed behind with them drawing his plasma pistol along side his fellow soldiers.
Shepard didn't have time to argue as the others continued down the hall. All she could tell them was a thank you before following the group.
Wrex however had other ideas.
"Go Commander!" He yelled turning around and standing with the elites.
"Wait Wrex!" She yelled stopping only to be grabbed by Garrus.
"Come on Shepard. He knows what he's doing." The tyrian stated.
The two beasts stopped before the red armored Elites and Korgan. They roared and beat on their chests, ready for their next kill.
"Today we die with honor." Raaz growled as he twirled his energy sword. The grunt yelled something in his own language. A battle cry of his own.
"Today we die like Korgan!" Wrex roared cocking his shotgun.
Roars filled the air and the four charged at the Flood forms.
Shepard ran into a room. The Arbiter and the other had been caught up in a firefight with a few flood forms but she had managed to slip through and follow the monitors directions.
She looked around the room and like Promise had said there was only one thing in the large room. At the very end was a cryo tube. Similar to the one she had seen the Arbiter in.
The red head checked the room before moving in any further but with only the cryo tube in there she didn't find anything.
Slowly the Commander made her way towards the cryo tube. She studied the room and wondered briefly what the Forerunner were like in their prime. They seemed even more advanced than the Prothean. More elegant.
Finally she made it to the cryo tube. She could barely see inside it. A large human in green armor, a golden visor. His armor was bulkier than any Alliance marines. She wondered if all the soldiers of his time wore armor like that.
She wondered if Reluctant was sure in his directions. He had told her to poke the glass and a certain series of symbols would pop up. The Arbiter then informed her that she would be pressing the one shaped like a planet to the left, the triangular symbol in the middle and to the right she would press one looking like a swords.
Carefully, Katherine pressed on the glass and was intrigued how dozens of different blue symbols appeared on the glass.
The Commander checked behind her, wary of anyone trying to ambush her.
It took her a few minutes but Shepard managed to get all the right symbols. When she finished the symbols all disappeared.
The glass door hissed and Shepard backed away.
Fog leaked out of the cryo tube. However, this was not going to be like the Arbiters awakening.
Before she knew it, a fist was in her gut and she flew back hard into the ground.
Her shields had failed and her armor was slightly indented. She heaved for air and sat up only to see the green armored human charging her.
The Commander rolled away as his fist slammed into the floor where she had been, the metal denting slightly.
She threw a singularity at her attacker and spared a glance at the cryo tube hoping the Reclaimer was awake and would help her. When she saw it empty was when she realized the Reclaimer was the one attacking her.
The green armored man spun around her attack and continued on his sprint at her.
Shepard rolled to her feet, firing her pistol before being tackled to the ground.
She kneed her attacker in the gut but was unsuccessful at getting him off like that. Instead she, at point blank range blasted out a shockwave. That did the job and sent her attacker flying off her.
Katherine climbed to her feet just in time to avoid another charge.
Now it was a fist fight.
Shepard blocked a hit to her face, twirled around and blocked another punch to her gut. She returned the favor with several jabs to her attackers gut but all were effortlessly blocked.
A hard punch sent her reeling back and she threw out a biotic punch in retaliation.
Her hand was caught and twisted the wrong way, her arm popping out of its socket instantly.
She cried out in pain and was knocked to the ground with a hard kick to the gut.
A knee on her chest and a knife to her throat.
"Where am I?" the green, what she could now tell was a man, asked. His voice was deep and scratchy. It also sounded tired. As if its bearer had seen to much for a lifetime.
"In some Forerunner installation!" Shepard coughed. Her lungs were being crushed under his massive weight.
"And who are you?"
"Commander Shepard. Systems Alliance." She stated trying to catch her breath and push the knee off but to no avail.
"And how did I get here?" The man asked pressing the knife against her throat.
"I don't know! But the…" She started.
"Demon!" Another voice interrupted. The two looked towards the door. Shepard group, minus two grunts were standing there.
"Arbiter?" The man asked hesitantly.
"Shepard!" Garrus yelled raising his rifle. The Arbiter grabbed it a forcefully lowered it. He could tell the Demon was not well.
"Yes. Its me friend. We have come to get you. We need your help." The elite calmly stated slowly walking over to the two.
"And she?" The green armored man asked looking at Shepard.
"A friend. A trustworthy one like Lasky." The Arbiter explained.
Slowly the green armored man released the Commander who exploded into gasps of air and a few coughs.
"And who exactly are you?" Garrus asked glaring at the man.
"Sierra 117 or…" The man started.
"The Master Chief."
ARRRRRGGGHHHH!
They have awakened the fourth!
No!
Stop them!
Kill them all!
They shall perish under the might of the Reaper!
Enough! We are not done yet. Have the ship arrived at the planet with the two girls?
They are only hours away sir. The first one may be challenging but the other? HA! That planet is weak. To innocent to do anything or have anything than can harm us!
Make sure they are destroyed embodiment.
I will.
Good. Now Gravemind?
Don't worry.. I will take care of them.
A/N Whooooo! And we have a chief! Now it had to be different cause well what ME/HALO vic doesn't have a fight scene between Commander Shepard and the Master Chief? Finally we have a chief. Dont worry next chapter he'll show off some moves and what not. The plot thickens and more... 'heroes' are going to appear now but well it won't be what you expect At least for a bit. But everything makes sense and ties together Now our heroes They still have to get back up top so the Chief can show off some. And what about Lithyia? Can they save the Normandy and her surviving crew? Read next time to find out! Thanks for reading! Please Review and God Bless you all!