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Look upon the dawn…
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(Hey guys, well here's some awesome news! Halo 4 and Halo 1 remake, I've played all the halos since the first in 2001 and have lived to see it prosper, and I'll continue to play until who knows when, but I do have some problems with how there were inconsistencies in some of halo 4. Oh well, we're now heading to the next set of events!)
RVB Team will be back at the end, I just need to finish the main story line and I'll throw them back in, and also I need them for something special later on, but you'll get to see the more darker events in the future! And also a special chapter at the end reveals a new set of rules, so VOTE at the end, and please review!
And I need to RW in about another 3 months so, I won't be back after a long time, thus why I intend to finish this ASAP!
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Somewhere in the galaxy
The skies were clear, the skies were cold, and it looked so beautiful to look up to the sky, though Cortana couldn't figure out why. The endless sea of stars, suns, stellar pulsars, the endless waves of interstellar phenomenon's, she couldn't figure out why she took such an interest on such a dead world, it was empty here, it was cold.
"…the brightest burns the quickest, and so I burn, to nothing." She said to herself.
Here she stayed lying next to the armoured figure in the cryogenic tank, his sleep was undisturbed the frost cleared under her hand as she moved it over his scared armour, it heralded the many battles and the struggle. John had overcome so much and now he could rest.
"But nothing lasts forever…"
She looked to the skies once more from the window of the Cryo-bay, she knew what was coming.
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(READ THIS VERY CAREFULLY!)
Arcturus
Normandy
Deck 2- crew level
Daniel had to deal with more than just a few problems, he was dealing with more than ten problems, he had to deal with the teams new organisations, such as Anders and Garrus and him and Tali. The Spartans had had to also deal with their new armour, the MKVI had arrived the night before.
They were now at Arcturus space station, the station had been here at their disposal for their resupply, and also for their special package. Vinaya had been prepping the suits for the next mission and testing their combat capabilities and efficiency.
The testing had gone well; with only three MKVI the Spartan II could still probably kill everything within range and sight of themselves with ease. There was only ample amount of time before they needed to continue on their mission, with just one important thing that needed to be taken care of.
Daniel was looking for an engagement ring or something similar. But one that he could use for Tali, seeing as she was still partially restricted to her suit, but seeing as she had changed her suit once more with the elaborate Eva design he had been looking for something that would work well for her.
"So, platinum with iridium does that sound good?" He asked Jane.
"I wouldn't know Daniel honestly I'd think you should get Tali just a normal engagement ring, gold is still good." She suggested.
"Yes, in tradition, not with aliens." He replied.
"Yeah, but still Daniel I think an engagement ring should at least symbolise some tradition."
Ashley jumped in. "But come on scuttle butt, the Lt needs a ring, not a reminder, I'd say get her something fabulous, or shiny, it really depends on how you feel for her." She offered.
Liara also appeared and voiced her opinion. "I'd say that you should give her a necklace as a sign of your affection or a bracelet, they tend to be more visible on the outside of a suit."
"Good as that maybe how about a modified specialist Omni-tool? She loves tech and her skills as an engineer might benefit with a nice tool, and giving a quarian a piece of tech like that is as good as saying 'I love you'." Vinaya said popping about.
"I think you should you use a holo-pic, and have her with you for the picture, they tend to last longer." Alice 130 suggested.
Virana appeared and interjected. "Probably not, I think she deserves something special, like a biotic ring!"
"Man they gave those out a lot back at IHW (In Harm's Way – Indigo Hart's Works), besides this is Tali we're talking about, what kind of biotic ring would work for a techie?" Ash replied.
"Well dammit we better think of one I can order soon, because were on the mission in the next week and I don't have time to come back." He stated.
"So what will it be?"
(Choose and engagement ring or present for Tali!)
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Normandy
Once all the supplies and tools were set away, and the ship was restocked all members of the crew were ready for departure from Arcturus, the ship jerked away from the magnetic clamps of the dock and headed out, the frigate then made its way to the relay, and soon jumped out of system.
Down in the hold of the ship, Wrex examined his armour, Garrus was focused on calibrating the Ballista, and Ash was speaking to Shepard over some happier moments of their lives. Daniel B312 watched in humour as he saw them laugh over a joke about where to go next after the mission.
Daniel went down to engineering, not speaking to any crew either than a usual nod or wave, he arrived to see Tali, working away at the console for the engines, she was humming to a song that was playing inside of her suit, though it didn't mean she couldn't tell that someone was on approach.
She turned about as Daniel met her face to face, or in this case, visor to face.
"So, how're you Tali?" He asked.
"Good, just finishing the usual maintenance checks on all functions of the fusion drive, just curious when we might see an actual slip-space drive." She replied.
"Well not too long, from what I hear, Serina and Dot have been working full tilt to get the new slip-space drive ready in the week, we'll see it when we get over to the citadel after the mission. By the way, how was the geth data?" He asked with apt curiosity.
"It was useful, to say the least, it was everything that my people may need in the long run, well either than our home, but nonetheless it will help, thanks Daniel."
"You should probably be thanking Shepard; she went downwards and over her head to get that data, along with me trying to punch my way out of an entire squad." He chuckled.
"So, why did you come down here to talk about, I'm sure that there's more than just a friendly chat?" She enquired.
"Well true, our mission to Virmire is soon and I need to ask you, if you could stay with Jorge and Virana, they'd be the best form of support for the mission and also because they're the last team."
"Wait, you're putting me in the rear lines?"
"It's for the best, the assault on Saren's base of operations isn't going to be easy or simple, from what I heard the mission alone is going to be hazy, Shepard agreed to put you in the rear as well, we need you to help in case we need support, and besides you'll be safer with Jorge."
"But why do I need to be away from you?"
"Because of the risks, I don't want to risk you in the battle."
She seemed to understand, but she wasn't happy that Daniel wouldn't take her along, she sighed.
"Fine, but promise me you'll meet me afterwards."
"I promise." He smiled.
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Daniel made his way to the room that had Red team preparing with the MKVI, he opened the door and entered, he was greeted by the older Spartan who saluted.
"Commander on deck!"
The others saluted as well as Jorge.
"At ease soldiers, I may be an officer here, but I'm still a Spartan."
They dropped their hands to their sides and nodded.
"How are the new suits running?" He asked.
Douglas replied.
"Fine sir, all suits are operational, some minor implications, but nothing that Dot or Vinaya had been capable of fixing, and all suits are prepared for use."
"Good to hear, I need to go over some details with you before we land."
They all huddled in as Daniel activated his omni tool and showed them what he planned.
"Recent scans of the region state our safest route is to drop onto a coastline nearby from orbit, I'll be going down with Shepard and Garrus' team first, the rest of you will be sent along to the 3rd gate via HEVs, and Jorge will come down with the Normandy to secure the beach once all the AA batteries are disabled, any questions?" He asked.
"No sir." They all replied.
"Good, we're all in this to the end, dismissed." He said with a salute and then departure.
Daniel headed to his work bench, the additions to all the teams needed to be completed, all the suits that he had previously adjusted and shaped for all members of the mission had been compiled and completed, he was now ready for just about anything.
He walked past the mess hall where Kaiden was working on fixing one of the vents, and where Virana was drinking coffee, then he walked past Liara who had just exited the med bay and was headed off to get a late lunch.
Daniel arrived in the CIC via the lift, he still couldn't believe that the things were still slow even after improving them; he either believed that the lifts had something against him or they had a serious problem with the programming.
Once on the CIC he walked to the holographic display, and checked the galaxy map for the arrival point for Virmire. Another 3 hours and they'd be there. He just couldn't shake the feeling as things were going to be worse than just this mission.
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Virmire
Orbit-2.5 hours later
Daniel had a short rest and then a quick over view of equipment, he made sure to double check his gear, his DMR carbine was in order, and his dual SMGs, and enough ammunition to blast his way out from a covenant cruiser.
Walking down to the hangar he was greeted by Red team which had already prepared for their HEV descent and the Ballista which had been fully loaded and prepped for the combat drop. The Warthogs had all been suited and ready for the mission and Shepard was currently amassing her teams.
Shepard had her JFO armour still on, she had no qualms about it, she hefted another ammo case to the Ballista and made sure to load the vehicle with spare cases, she had Garrus who was in scout armour and then Liara nearby who had her EVA, and then to Ash and Kaiden, who were both prepared for their part.
"Are all teams ready to begin?" He asked.
They nodded, he nodded back and hit the switch, the rear hangar bay doors opened, and they were staring out into the atmosphere of Virmire, it looked more or less like a tropical paradise rather than a threatening base.
"All teams to your stations!" He yelled over the coms.
They hurried, the Ballista was loaded by Daniel's team, and the warthogs manned by Garrus and Shepard's. The HEVs were set and ready for departure, once the position was marked all their vehicles were running hot, the atmospheric re-entry packs for the hogs were attached and the Ballista.
Once they were over the DZ, Joker signalled for the descent.
"All passengers going to hell, here's your stop…"
The green light filtered in and the Ballista and the hogs exited the rear bay, the HEVs followed suit and descended into the atmosphere at ultra-velocity speeds. The plan was fool proof, it just needed to hit them hard and hit them fast.
The Ballista curved through the atmosphere at staggering speeds, Daniel and Shepard both waiting as they punched through the atmosphere at high speeds, the descent gradually lessened as they made the last 200m free fall.
"Okay, here we go, head straight and get through the defences, look out for any Colossus types and combat drones; this should be a straight run." Daniel stated.
The Ballista hit the ground with all four treads; the descent was lessened with gravity buffers and inertial dampeners. Daniel was still unused to the sudden lack of actual impacts, but he never bothered to notice, it must be melancholy thoughts of the war…
"Geth Walker at 100 meters Daniel." Shepard alerted.
Daniel swerved the massive 120mm turret at the walker, the shell loaded and fired a standard Mass Accelerator Armour Piercing round, the 120mm shell tipped with a ionic composition punctured the geth shields and tore a hole into the lower section of the machine.
The Armature was destroyed in the blink of an eye, the Ballista continued on its path of destruction as it drove over the smoking hulk. Daniel and Shepard knew that this was nothing easy, the geth might be capable of only having the worst walking machines, but they made that up in staggering numbers.
"Drones at 12 o'clock, bring out the AAs." Shepard ordered.
The warthogs trailing behind fired off their compliment of HEATs, the drones scattered to pieces as the hogs blew past. The teams went on in a direct beeline to the gate, facing only some resistance and more numbers.
As they reached the first gate, Shepard and Garrus disembarked and headed to work, they cleared the large gate security compliment of geth drones and juggernauts. They disabled the first AA battery with ease and opened the doors for Daniel to proceed.
"Okay, this should be simple enough, I'll go on, Shepard meet me at the cross point at the open area, and we'll break through to gate 2 from there." Daniel said.
"Roger that."
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Red team hit the ground at gate 3, the impact was softened by the sand and water, but not enough to avoid detection from the geth, and they held back the enemy and punched through to the main doors.
Once there they waited for the rest of the convoy to arrive.
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At the second gate the two teams had regrouped after taking on 4 armatures and one colossus, the battle had been fierce, with Garrus sporting over a dozen injuries and Wrex losing sight in one eye and the Ballista raking in most of the heavy stuff.
They had the second gate, at which Daniel com called ahead.
"Sit rep Red Team, is gate 3 ready?"
"Yes sir, the gate is prepared, we'll link with once you arrive, though be on the lookout for any stragglers." Douglas replied.
"Right, we're on our way, just keep the doors open and we'll be at our objective in no time."
The com switched off, turning about he signalled for the convoy to head on, the warthogs to stay in the rear and he'd take the forward approach, that was what the Ballista was made for and what he planned to do.
Once they reached the corridor of canyons and turns they were ambushed by geth drones and swarms of stragglers. The geth had still significant forces, even if he had managed to run them down with the oversized steamroller.
The tank crushed any resistance, and Shepard and her team helped keep the roads clear, they reached the end of their trip where they were faced by the open gates and pockmarked area where Red Team had a field day.
They were greeted as Red Team came from cover and linked up with them, they jumped aboard the tank and continued on through to the last checkpoint.
That was when Joker reported.
"Commander we've landed, but we're grounded…"
"What why?"
"You better come here and see for yourself."
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The tank arrived at the sight of a dozen or more Salarians and Jorge with Tali on the beach with Virana. The teams disembarked from their vehicles and approached the STG squads, all were wearing reflective armour plates, the same manufactured when Vinaya had given disclosure to their existence.
"We were expecting to hear from the council, but this wasn't what we expected as a response." A green skinned salarian expressed.
"Well the council got your call, they were just running short on people, so we're your backup whether you like it or not."
"You're our back up? Huh, the council must be desperate."
"Well are you just as desperate?" Daniel replied.
"Good at wit, let's see you keep that when we try taking that base out, Saren's cloned an army of krogans."
Wrex bumped in.
"Cloned krogans? Saren has cloned my people from the genophage?"
"If you mean cloned, as in created an army to fight for him and beat the living hell out us then yes. That complex must be destroyed, or this could turn far ugly than those things."
"We are not things!" Wrex said offended.
He stomped off, Kirrahae asked.
"Is he going to be a problem?"
Shepard replied.
"No he just needs some time."
"Well you better think of something to get him on his feet again, this is going to hamper the mission more than it should."
"We'll deal with that, just get the teams ready." Daniel replied.
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Daniel faced the grumpy krogan.
"My people were not a mistake, we may have caused infractions in the past, but we aren't mistakes."
"I can understand that you're frustrated, but I don't think you realise what those krogans are like, if Saren is cloning them, they are only loyal to him, because he'd tell them what they should do and what they should be like, you think that you're people would be better being controlled?" Daniel asked.
"No, but this isn't right, why can't we save what we can, at least to get our people safe from what we've become." He replied angrily.
The krogan turned his shotgun on Daniel, who reacted fast enough to draw his M6 and aim it right at his eye socket.
"I wouldn't have it any other way."
Wrex replied.
"Likewise commander…"
Wrex lowered his weapon.
"If we're going in there to destroy that facility I'll be happy to see it to the end, and see that smug face of that skeleton bastard go in flames."
Daniel smiled.
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Once the matter had been settled, Daniel went to see Tali, who had prepared something special for the base of operations. She had brought out the big guns from Nova Corp. An N.1 Mini NOVA from the schematics from the Reach Database that Vinaya had scavenged for him had been replicated.
"Where do you think you're going?" He asked.
Tali turned about, her visor depolarised, her face clear as day, she replied.
"Just taking this down for the deployment, I thought that this would be useful. And besides, you have Vinaya accompanying you to the base."
"I know, I just hope the defences go down long enough for you to get that thing safely and get out before anything happens." He replied.
"You know it's me Daniel." Tali replied.
"Yeah, I guess it's just you for the more technical bits, where's Vinaya by the way?"
Another voice replied.
"I'm here."
Daniel cocked his head to the side as Vinaya appeared, her suit just recently attached, her AA-MKV suited on, she smiled behind the visor and said.
"Joker agreed that I should deal with things on the ground, Dot has everything set up, and you need a tech expert who knows her way around a system."
Daniel couldn't help but feel someone's ego just go up a notch.
"Okay, but keep close to the group please. No need to get lost and left once we blow the place."
He replied.
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Kirrahae had finished his speech and was selecting his teams for the attack, he asked one of Shepard's to lead the attack; Ashley had been selected while Kaiden had been selected to help plant the bomb at its location.
Daniel had got Vinaya to plan the entrance into Saren's compound; Shepard was going with him and Vinaya seeing as they'd be most effective along with Wrex. Red Team was sent along with the combat effort in dealing with the defences.
And now the operation began, Shepard brought something out of the blue.
"When this is all over, do you think you'll marry her?"
"If I get that engagement promise here on time, hell I'd marry her on any day." He replied with a smile.
Shadow team landed.
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Beachhead 1: Virmire
Shepard and Daniel rushed the beach defences; the geth drones and shock troopers guarded the length of the beach to the facility. Shepard and Daniel split away, Wrex following her and Vinaya taking the right flank with him.
As they approached from the outposts, they removed any defences and allowed the teams a reprieve from danger, some satellite networks that were active; Vinaya disabled the defences, Shepard heading off along to disable the other defences.
The two teams headed on to disable the main defences, the geth battling and krogan killing. They arrived at the approach to the rear entrance, Shepard ran into a few krogan clones, while Daniel dealt with the geth destroyers and juggernauts, rifles blaring Daniel tackled the nearest destroyer and clambered onto it and knifed it in the optics.
Vinaya over-rid the destroyers and made them fight each other, her cool down time rapidly recharged and sent EMP blasts to what remained, the geth went down with ease, they continued in a straight line, the drones not stopping their progress.
Shepard finished the last krogan by jumping on to its back and deftly slicing its throat with her combat knife, she dropped the corpse and joined Wrex, who was pummelling his way through the remaining lines.
"Now this is a battle to remember!" Wrex laughed.
"Sure is, we need to join with Daniel at the next intersection, come on."
They continued to rush the defences.
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As they regrouped on the facility entry, the teams had a decision to make; Vinaya was checking the systems planning on what to do and how to get into the facility. She fiddled through the system and cleared the network and planned to enter the base.
"So we have 2 options, we can alert the alarms in different parts of base or we can deal with what's inside by ourselves." She stated.
Daniel was ready to hit the base, as was Shepard, and Wrex. "Let em come." Wrex chuckled.
"Okay, but your death wish, opening the doors."
The doors slid open, and they entered, inside the room was seemingly empty, the teams checked their sights all areas cleared. That was until they went around the corner and into a new threat, a large 4 legged machine, no neck, except for its optics.
"Move!" Daniel yelled.
The team jumped away as the turrets activated and fired on the team, dozens of pulse rounds peppered the walls. This drone was more than just an average geth, this was a geth strider, with four kinetic legs and a lot of armour, this thing was a bit tougher than your average tin.
And that was the problem, the Spartan hadn't even known on what the thing was until Vinaya had seen the thing, she named it and tagged it as soon as they saw the thing. She had her way with naming things, including the massive walking... better not ruin it yet.
"Vinaya how do we take this thing down?" He asked.
"A plasma grenade at any joint of the strider will bring it down, but not destroy it, it's essentially a mini scarab, just don't get hit by those pulse blasts, you'll be having to take more than just medi gel to patch you back together."
"Duly noted Vinaya, distract it when I signal and I'll deal with the legs, Shepard aim for the joints as well, I'll get the core." Daniel planned.
"Roger that, awaiting your orders." She replied.
The others nodded, Daniel waved to Vinaya and she blasted the crawler with a EMP blast, the unit lost shields for a moment and allowed him an open window to strike the unit. Its optics re-alinged and then began to fire as he made the jump. His weight crashing into the heavy plate, he hauled himself onto the strider and began to fire.
A few rounds and the machine was trying to knock him off, which was when he primed a plasma grenade, the grenade fused itself into the armour. Daniel jumped off and ran into cover. The plasma grenade blasted a hole into the machine which was when the others added firing power at the attack.
A mass of rounds chewed into the plate armour, and some into the optics, the suit went down finally as Daniel charged once more, but had his bayonet out, the knife edge of his MA7C. The rifle burst the plating with the bayonet and the machine finally went down.
They regrouped at the front of the destroyed strider.
"So, anything else that you detected out of place?" He asked Vinaya.
"Nothing, not yet anyway, come on, we need to head to the next point." She gestured to the lift.
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The battle outside had reached the main complex, the left section had been taken down by Ash and Red team, they pummelled their way through the flanks of the geth and were bearing their weapons on the AA battery in this section of the wing.
Ash had successfully disabled the generator and had helped carry an injured Kirrahae, the salarian being shot by a stray round. All the teams now converged on the main entrance, Red and the STG breaking the main gates and attacking the facility.
However there were a few problems, or about half a dozen, a bunch of new geth units had appeared, walking over the place, the drones firing on them and these new killing machines. They couldn't imagine where in hell someone could possibly create an army of armoured crawlers out of thin air.
But no time to think, there was a problem and a hitch in a plan wasn't good, especially for Spartans.
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Another hitch in their plans, the systems had been disabled for a bridge and now they were stranded on the other side, but that didn't mean that they were completely hopeless of reaching the other side.
They followed an alternate route, and found themselves in an open office, and a strange sound. An asari secretary was hiding behind the desk.
"Please don't hurt me, they had me work here as a client I swear, I had nothing to do with all those fornax pics." She said.
"Fornax?" Daniel asked absolutely confounded.
The asari realised her mistake and restated what she was supposed to say.
"Oops, no not Fornax, I meant I was here as a formal assistant to the labs, I didn't want this position."
"Where is Saren?" Daniel asked.
"He left, saying something about discussing something with his final plan, I don't know much but he says that he'd be leaving soon." She stammered.
"Okay, so why should we let you go? From what you said, you're here as a client…" Daniel pointed his M6 at her head.
"Please no, I know other things, like Saren's lab, I just…" She pushed a key on her console and the doors opened to a lift.
"Couldn't we have just hacked that?" Shepard asked.
"Yeah, but this is quicker, okay, you've got about 30 minutes or more before this place gets lit u like the 4th of July." He said.
"Wait, you're going to blow the…"
She ran and screamed at the same time.
"You did that on purpose." Shepard chuckled.
"Hey, can't stop this now can I?"
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Opening to the atrium of a large room, they were greeted by many lights and cold metal floors, this was a place that seemed to omit a grave presence, and in the back an obelisk of a shape stood firm. It was another beacon, and one that seemed to be working.
"Okay Shepard make this quick, we don't have much time." Daniel said.
As if to emphasis his point a massive explosion shook the base, possibly from the ballista firing its main cannon nearby. Shepard stood on the front and hit some keys in for the controls, she waited as the lights grew and she was encompassed by light.
Daniel could only watch in curiosity as she was lifted up and then back down, she made a heavy thud and then turned about, her eyes glowed a bit brighter, and that was then a red light made the room really ominous.
"Looks like we have a guest…"
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"So you are the beings who stumble in my mind, ignorant of what you seek, and amongst you, one who stands above all. You are no threat to our kind as you were, your kind should never have returned, reclaimer." Sovereign stated.
"Reclaimer? Is that what I am to you? Or is this all of humanity that is the threat?" He asked.
"You need not know, for I am still the bane of light and life, and you shall fall as you did over those great millennia before."
The building shook and Joker yelled over the coms.
"Commander and commander, we've got company, large Cthullu with angry red lasers heading right for you, and I mean period!"
"Okay, Joker, don't worry, we'll be out soon, just get the ship on the ground as soon as the AA goes down, all teams Phase 2 and change to plan B."
"Plan B?" Shepard asked.
"Yeah, just something I had in case of this situation came about.
Plan B, the Ballista changed to a heavy firing platform and blew apart all of the AA from a safe range and allowed for the teams to rush the base and regroup, which probably brings us to this checkpoint or kill point.
"Commander they're overrunning our position here." Ash yelled.
"Commander they've gotten us down by the bomb site." Kaiden yelled.
"Well I am so glad I don't have your job." Joker Yelled.
"I'm sorry Kaiden, but Ash, she needs Shepard's help, we can't comeback for you once we've extracted her, there's no time." Daniel said.
"I understand, I'll hold them back for as long as I can, get them out of here commander." He said.
Running to the top of the platform lift the team was prepared and armed, they exited the lift to be showered by oncoming debris and metal, Daniel fired at the nearest geth and Shepard did the same, they engaged the enemy in CQC and drove them back.
It was then that Saren appeared, and with him, a brown armoured robot, which everyone kept forgetting.
"Lopez, make mincemeat of these scum I have not time, and I like my hover board not scratched."
(ESP) "Fuck you, you lazy prick, you know how hard it was to escape that mess you left me in?"
"And also make sure to clean up that oil spill its giving me a rash." He said absently not listening to the robot.
(ESP) "Fuck My Life." He said.
It was then that the fight against the robot was quick and rather annoying, with a lot of bullet spraying and missile firing the whole place was like a circus, the only difference was the missiles and lasers and the odd bolt flying by.
That was when Tali showed up and smacked the unfortunate robot on his ass with an overload.
"Well who didn't see that coming?" Saren asked.
Everyone nodded and then he threw a grenade and knocked Shepard and Daniel down he walked into the very thick smoke and he picked up Tali and said.
"Oops, I thought you were Shepard, looked heavy enough." He then realised his statement.
"CRACK" Tali was grappling his face and mauling it with her knife she had on her breastplate, and he happened to be rather unhappy with the outcome. He ran about until all the alarms went off and they paused. And as soon as Tali was distracted by the noise. He chucked her off and made a mental note.
'Never make a comment about a female quarians weight.'
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Back aboard the ship everyone braced for the blast, on the planet, Kaiden sat in a pool of water and blood and said.
"Yippy Kai Yay… you sons of bitches…" He said to the heavens and waited for a response.
All his thoughts and memories, his life did seem to freeze and go into the abyss and then drive him to realise, nothing could have prevented all this, one way or another, it had to be like this.
That was the last statement as he was engulfed in fire, and was then vaporised into oblivion, though his body was gone, his soul would remain, and that was something that all of them would remember, especially in the coming aftermath.
The crew of the Normandy headed on, back to citadel space and back to their rendezvous point with the spirit.
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"Can't believe that he's gone, can you?" Daniel asked.
Shepard looked at him and with a sorrowful expression replied.
"Yeah I can't, and that's why we shouldn't wait any longer."
She walked away down to the lower holds of the ship, probably to talk to Liara and Ashley, there was many more things like this to come, and Daniel knew it, but she probably didn't. He had seen many die in war and many lost in the fight, but he knew how to hold his heart.
Daniel walked to his room and planned for what came next, if anything, there was still an enemy to face, and one that the crew had no idea about.
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Now I do owe some people a good number of things, such as what happened to Greg and Alan and etc. And then to the crew of the RVB cast. Well, all is to be revealed in the coming chapters and with the RVB crew I'll fill you guys in for this part.
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Operation: Freelance
The Reds and Blues had once again come together, by the accident of mishaps and what not, but there was one goal in mind, to save the archive that Tex and Wash had and save the human race and all galactic species before a new and terrifying enemy killed them all.
Church loaded his MA5C [V] Carbine, the assault rifle he was given by an old friend who worked at Nova Corps. All affiliated persons were now subsequently armed, except Caboose, and Donut. But hey there was the Revenant that Tucker hijacked back on Tyr and a lot of munitions that the reds carried, so nothing was completely wrong.
Either than the fact that the shuttle was on fire and they were going to crash into the station, all the lasers stuck out, hundreds of robots firing at their targets as much as possible.
And one merc commander ordered.
"Fire at maximum power, we can't let them arrive, or crash." He yelled.
One robot turned about and said.
"What? I can't hear you over the lasers."
And of course the lasers were still firing and the officers all ducked. And the first was joined by the second and third.
"What did he say?"
"I don't know."
"Hey guys, what are we shooting at?"
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It was then that the shuttle crashed into the deck and sent sparks and a lot of crap flying all over the place and subsequently tore the largest hole in the station and crashed as Tex and Wash with their Cerberus pals were surrounded.
Wash only commented.
"That had to be the worse landing, ever, in the history of landings." He deadpanned.
Sarge appeared and yelled.
"Hey you try and land this piece of crap; it ain't easy trying to get good working tools and machines that aren't second hand."
Church popped past and knocked the red over and ran to Tex.
"Tex, I thought you were on Horizon?" He said.
"I was. Now what the hell are all of you doing here?"
"We got drafted." Simmons stated picking up his rocket launcher and SMG.
"Yeah, we all came when Church told us about you and the collectors. By the way where are they?"
That was when a large blast of energy revealed a very infuriated enemy.
"Fools, I shall show you no mercy."
And that was when finally after all these years; the worst of problems came back from the grave.
"Heheh."
"Oh come on, you have got to be fucking kidding us!" Church yelled.
The cold helmet visor and large armour, the biggest walking mass of titanium and armour put together once more, the Meta stood out.
The reds and blues and all of the others armed up, this was the Meta, and now it had more than just an upgrade, Tex brought out her knife and pistol while the others got their weapons at the ready, and Donut had a locust…
"What the fuck, where did you get that?" Wash asked.
"Let's just say, that I have a way with women." Tucker replied.
They looked back at their foes, hundreds of collectors and a lot of firepower to throw at them, all that was missing would be Lopez, who was still nowhere to be found and Sheila, who was in for a surprise.
"Time to kick ass."
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Oh! I'm not telling you who's going to die!
So yeah, one main character is to die, one is to end up crippled and one is to end up with Verner in the future, and another is part of Cerberus? SO who shall it be?
