A/N NOW we get to Mass Effect 3!
Four weeks, they had been on Mars for four damn weeks! "Why did I agree to come here?" Thrax complained.
"Because you were determined to look out for me." Liara said not looking up from her terminal. Dealing with Thrax's complaints had become an old hat to her.
"And why the hell did I agree to give them my shotgun?" Thrax complained again.
"We were lucky enough for them to allow you onto the planet." She countered.
"So help me if they get so much as a scratch on that claymore I'll rip the heads of everyone of them off."
"Its just a shotgun." Liara said somewhat curious. Thrax didn't seem like the type of person to get attached to something.
"That shotgun is older that you. I had that gun during the Rebellion, and the very end of the rachni wars." Thrax said.
"Just how old are you anyway?" Liara asked sounding very interested.
"Not really sure, I think I'm close to two thousand, I might even be older."
Thrax chuckled at the look on her face. "Your the oldest living being in the galaxy?!" She exclaimed.
"Careful T'soni, your looking at me like I'm a fossil." Thrax said.
"Well... Oh Goddess!" She shouted.
"What?" Thrax got ready for an attack but he saw on the monitor giant ships landing on Earth. "Oh no, Shepard!" She said tears now in her eyes.
"Don't worry kid, if there's anyone who could survive that its him." He put a hand gently on her small shoulder. Just then an alarm started blaring. "Oh fuck! Now what?" Thrax yelled.
"Reapers?" Liara said.
"Who knows? Let's go see." Thrax said and he opened the door and saw several humans wearing white, carrying small sub machine guns and a few mattlock assault rifles all aimed at him and said "alright alien give us the asari bitch and maybe you'll live." One said is a mechanical voice.
"Oh well it that case NO!" Thrax shouted and he jumped and punched the ground, creating a nova that knocked every soldier back.
"Thrax what's going on." Liara asked as she used her biotics to pull one of the sub machine gun to her.
"Look at the logo on the shoulder." He said as he showed her the logo.
"Cerberus?" She said.
"Yep, bout time I hated being nice to them." Thrax said.
Thrax grabbed the mattlock and turned it to full auto and they moved on and said "kid what would Cerberus be here for?" Thrax asked as he cleared a corner.
"The Archives! I meant to tell you, we've found the blue prints for a prothean device capable of incalculable levels of destruction."
"And you waited to tell me until now to tell me WHY?!" He said as he looked at her.
"I was going to but then the news about earth and worrying about Shepard made me forget." Liara defended herself.
They got to a door to a small garage and on the other side they could both hear a familiar voice "Ash, please just trust me." Forcing the door opened Thrax ran and jumped over the railing to see Shepard a male human with dark skin and a female human that looked somewhat familiar. "Shepard!" Thrax said with outstretched arms and was rewarded with a shot to the gut.
"Stand down Lieutenant!" Shepard shouted.
"Why is it that every human with dark skin I meet always shoots me is the stomach?" Thrax said wincing in pain.
"Sorry, but you jump out from nowhere and start shouting what am I suppose to think?" The dark human asked.
"Thrax what are you doing here? This is an Alliance research facility." Shepard said.
"I'm here looking after the kid." Thrax said as Liara levitated down.
"Shepard." Liara said with a warm smile.
"Liara." Shepard smiled back and hugged her, which she returned.
"So is anyone going to apologize for this idiot shooting me." Thrax said being a pain and interrupting a moment.
"Thrax its already healed." Shepard said.
"Commander who's the krogan." The female asked.
"Ah now I remember you. The ungrateful human. We saved your ass from collectors and you go and call Shepard a traitor." Thrax said as he towered over her.
She looked away, either out of shame or fear, Thrax wasn't sure. Just then they could see a light coming from a locked door on the second level and Thrax said "company!"
"Let's do this." The male human said.
"Not this time James." Shepard said "I need you to keep the shuttle safe in case we need to make an exit."
"Yes Commander." James said and went back to the elevator.
Once James was gone the door opened and reveled several Cerberus troops. Thrax pulled them down and once they were in arms reach tore them apart. "Ah its good to be killing Cerberus again." Thrax said.
"I know. Did they even pay you?" Shepard said.
"I'm an alien bounty hunter who's been destroying Cerberus operations whenever I could. What do you think?" Thrax said.
They climbed back up to the second level and moved through the door that Cerberus opened and they came to an armory and.
"My shotgun!" Thrax shouted and dropped his stolen assault rifle and ran and picked up his shotgun. "Thrax is that the hammer from the Broker base?" Shepard said noticing the hammer that was too large for a human to wield, or even move.
"Yep, learned that even salariens can't figure out how to make these babies." Thrax said as he picked up the hammer threw it in the air and caught it. "Now I've got my stuff let's go kill some of these ass hats." They moved past the armory door and walked right into a long corridor and saw several Cerberus troops. Before they could do anything Thrax's fist glowed blue and grabbed his hammer and ran forward and slammed it right on a trooper and caused a giant explosion that killed the rest of the Cerberus troopers. "Come on princesses!" Thrax said laughing at finally being able to kill something after four damn weeks. They walked through a door and started getting shot at by an automated turret. "Fuck! What kind of research base is this?" Thrax shouted.
"Standard Alliance defenses," the female said.
"You Alliance ass hats are more paranoid then the damn batarians!" Thrax said before he quickly turned and tried to fire, but was rewarded with his barriers being overwhelmed and felt two slugs hit his armor. "Alright! Fuck This!" Thrax yelled and launched a huge biotic sphere right at the turret, causing it to explode and the hail of bullets to stop. The four ran forward and they went into the control room which quickly turned into a gore room thanks to Thrax's shotgun. "Damn! I can't get the tram across!" Thrax said.
"Its on a separate circuit only accessible from the archives." Liara explained.
"Maybe what if we got one of the communicators from one of the helmets?" The human, Ashley said.
"And?" Shepard said.
"And we convince the other side to sent the tram." Ashley finished.
"Good plan, get to it Ash." Shepard said with a smile which caused her to smile.
"That is her right Shepard?" Thrax asked and was rewarded with a nod. "What ever you do, don't let her go. You don't what to know what its like to lose the one you love because of something out of your control." Thrax said. Shepard nodded but was called away from Ashley. Thrax turned his head and saw Liara was looking at him with those big sad eyes. During the six months Thrax stayed with Liara she looked him up and was both terrified and greatly saddened. "Liara, don't." Thrax said gently.
"Its just," she started but Thrax just hugged her and said "I've made my peace with what happened kid."
Once Shepard and Ashley came back Shepard spoke into the com unit and said "this is Delta squad requesting the tram."
"Delta squad? Where the hell have you been? Never-mind, what happened to those intruders?" A oddly mechanical voice said.
"Dead." Shepard lied.
"Alright we'll send the tram over." The voice said.
"Think they bought it?" Ashley said.
"We'll soon find out. Ash stay back and give us sniper support, Liara and Thrax cause hell with some shockwaves and singularity's, and I'll flank them from the side." Shepard ordered. Liara and Thrax got into cover in front of the door and into cover as Ashley stayed back and switched to her sniper, Shepard went forward and knelt to the side waiting for the chance to flank them. Once the tram arrived they saw it was flooded with Cerberus ass hats. Thrax and Liara turned and quickly used there biotics to send a singularity and shockwave separately, which managed to take out several of the troops.
Once Shepard came out he started taking out the troopers thanks to the surprise it caused and one trooper said "shit that's Shepard!" The mechanical voice said with a hint of fear.
Thrax ran forward and delivered a punch to one of the troops that broke apart the face plate and what he saw disgusted him. There was a blue tint on the face and several blue ports on the face. "What the fuck he looks like a husk!" Thrax yelled ignoring the bullets hitting his barriers and armor. Thrax shook his giant head and turned and fired at another trooper right in the head and started to move forward but was struck in the face and stumbled back. When he regained his focus he saw that it was a cerberus trooper carrying a shield. Thrax holstered his shotgun and ran forward and grabbed the shield and started to crush it with his hands before he delivered a brutal headbutt to the troopers face. "Did you see there faces?" Thrax asked.
"They looked like husks!" Ashley said.
"Not quite but something been done to them." Shepard said.
"Is this what Cerberus stands for now? Turning there soldiers into monsters?" Ashley said.
"I always said we should have just spaced all the cerberus ass hats on the Normandy and started hunting them down at the same time as the collectors." Thrax said.
"Is this what they did to you?" Ashley said accusingly to Shepard.
"How can you equate me with that thing?" Shepard said sounding hurt.
"I don't know what you are now. Just tell me something, is the man I love still in there?" She asked sounding a little frantic. Shepard walked forward and hugged her and whispered something in her ear which seamed to calm her down, she said "I'm sorry Shepard, I still have to get use to the fact your still alive." She said looking slightly happier.
Thrax coughed and said "not to interrupt this touching moment but can we move on? There are more Cerberus weakling to kill." Thrax said interrupting them.
"Yeah, Thrax is right." Shepard said as he let go of Ashley, albeit unwillingly. They put on there oxygen masks and activated the tram line and started moving. Unfortunately when they were about half way across the whole tram shook with an explosion and on the other side they could see another tram, filled with Cerberus troops coming toward them. One biotics explosion, curtsy of Shepard and Liara, later they were on the other tram and moving ever closer to the archives. Once they go into the main area outside of the archives they were attacked by more troops. "Shit they have a krogan!" One yelled.
"Got that right weaklings!" Thrax said as he ran towards one and delivered a brutal punch to the face, and stomped on the head on the trooper after he fell. "Come on!" Thrax roared before he fired his shotgun and removed the head of one of troops before he threw a powerful shockwave, plowing its way through the soldiers. Once they were all dead they walked into the archives. A giant room with glowing prothian ruins in the middle. Shepard motioned for Ashley and Thrax to clear the room while he and Liara moved towards the prothien ruins. Thrax slowly moved around the room making sure there wasn't anyone in the room when he heard Ashley grunt and saw a woman running faster than possible for a human run away and head for the exit. The four all followed her until they saw her jump onto a Cerberus shuttle. Thrax thinking quick managed to grab the shuttle with his biotics, however the pilot started to push the thrusters and made it harder for Thrax to hold on, soon Thrax saw out of the corner of his eye a blue alliance shuttle come and slam into the cerberus shuttle. Thrax quickly pushed Liara,Ashley, and Shepard out of the way before he dived out of the way himself. When he looked up he saw that the dark skin human,James had been piloting the shuttle. Before he could go over and kill him, Thrax saw something move in the flaming wreckage that was the Cerberus shuttle. Thrax saw an android walk out with silver skin and start running towards him. Thrax had braced himself but before the android had even reached him he saw Shepard standing beside him, weapon drawn and aiming at the fallen body of the android.
"Bring that thing!" Shepard said as he helped James up.
"Commander we've got Reaper signatures in orbit!" Thrax heard Joker say into the com.
"Alright let's go double time it." Shepard yelled as they all entered the shuttle.
And behind them Reapers started to descend on the red planet.
A/N- in case I didnt make it clear Ashley wasnt hurt by the android she's still there.
Now since i can't think of anything else to say
Jaffa3 out