Corporal Richard Shawn sat on a crate he was using for cover from geth soldiers, earlier. For all means, he needed to catch his breath and recuperate from what has happened. After all, his unit was battling geth all day, separating him from his squad and now he's staring at his girlfriend who's wearing pink armor of all things.
Shepard looked at Richard Shawn and Ashley Williams,but he wanted to know what Richard knew. "So Corporal Richard, can you tell me what has happen here?"
"I'm sorry, not much I was separated from my friend when doing recon when those flash heads jumped me with that turian fucker." Richard said
"What are you talking about?" Shepard asked "What turian?"
"There was turian specter leading these things when I got here." Richard said. "He ordered the geth to kill off the remaining 232 and then marched to the camp probably going to the spaceport ."
"I can't see Nihlus could have been here so quickly." Kaiden said
"Nihlus? Richard said. "is that the name of the bare face one."
'Wait. what do you mean bare face?" Shepard asked. "Nihlus has white and blue tattoo?"
"I know what I saw commander and this turian didn't have any colonial tattoo's," Richard said. "He just took off after he sent his guard dogs at me."
"You just let some random turian get away." Kaiden added
"I was busy fighting for my life pretty boy, and besides you'r guys got a message that said 'a turian spectre was coming with alliance personnel.'" Richard activated his smart watch and showed the message.
"Where were you when the geth attacked?" Shepard asked
Richard stood up from the crate "I was returning from patrol, when suddenly the geth attacked. Colonel Thorn ordered us to mobilize most of our battalion then one of the geth ships destroyed the nearby orbital guns before they could even fire a shot and let me tell you it was massive. When we detected a big presence of geth in this area the Colonel chosen me to recon the place."
"Then what happen when you say this turian?" Shepard asked
"He ordered the geth to put the researchers on some kind of device the literally skewered the poor bastards just up that hill." he point seeing the smoke coming up. "Then he saw me using my cloak, almost got me too."
"Commander." Kaiden said. "We got to warn Nihlus about the other turian spectre."
"That means breaking radio silence." Shepard shrugged realizing that this was far more important than maintaing standard protocol.
"Richard, can you send a secure signal to Nihlus?"
"No can do," Richard said "Something is jamming all frequency's ours included. however, I can send something on a lowband signal. The only problem is we have to get close enough to him."
"I think he's heading through the port." Kaiden said.
"Richard," Shepard looks at him. "Care to come with us?"
"By your lead, Commander." Richard said as he places his helmet back on his head and whispered to Ashley "We'll talk when this over".
Shepard, Kaiden, Ashley, and Richard pushed on and followed the same path where Richard saw the turain went. They came across some prefabricated buildings that were used as labs by researches. Most of the buildings were destroyed or on fire.
"Looks like they hit the camp hard" Ashley exclaimed
"Its a good place for an ambush. Keep your guard up." Kaiden added
In front of the burning huts were the same spikes Ashley and Richard encountered. Until suddenly the spikes started carrying their victims down. their very bodies started twitching and stood up. body entirely changed to point it looked more alien even their cloths disappeared. Actually it didn't look human at all.
"Òh god! their still alive!" Kaiden said horrified
"What did the geth do to them?" Ashley said
It's skin was dark and bright bio-luminescent tone blue ran through its body. In place where the spike had impaled its victim. There was a type of node where a large gaping hole would've been. The creature let out a deep moan as it ran towards the four members.
"Light'm up!" Richard yelled out.
Not wasting time they opened fired at the collection of shambling blue corpses, taking many bullets to take one down but the other two got two close for comfort, dodging a hand swipe Richard shot it in the head and chest while Alenko used his biotices to tear the last one apart.
"What was that?!" Alenko said shocked to see such creatures
"I have no clue but I guess it has to be these things," Richard said kicking hit "But if I can guess these spike are meant to convert organics turning them into some kind of husk...I don't know."
As he was about to follow Shepard he stopped suddenly before turning his head towards one of the habitat modular "Commander!" he called out
"What is it Richard?" Shepard said seeing the ghost walk to one of the buildings "I got two life signs in this building, commander."
Ashley ran up and took look at the security system before speaking ""The door. It's closed. Security locks engaged."
"Not for long, ISAC can you override the door." Richard asked to his smart watch its orange outline pulsed when it Spoke back.
"Overriding security systems. Override complete."
Just then the door panel turned green. Surprising all of them except Richard who just smirked on how lucky they were to have this AI even if it is illegal.
"What did you just do?" Kaiden said turning to Richard
"Intelligent system Analytic computer or ISAC for short." Richard answered
"I thought A.I's are illegal by citadel conventions so is it a VI? " Shepard asked which resulted in the ghost giving him the look.
"Citadel conventions? Commander you Alliance boys really need get a better update on us big boys,no offence ash" he stated
"Non taken."
He smiled at her before continuing"ISAC is an A.I. created in 21st century, this guy was used by division agents during the great collapse of 2032. Look commander I'll tell you the rest after we get out here okay."
Shepard nodded slowly as he opened the door they were greeted by two researchers who seemed to be scared out of their minds. One of them is a male but by the looks of it he became mad in female on other hand looks still sane as she rube her hands together before saying" Humans! thank the maker!"
"Hurry! Close the door! Before they come back!" the man whispered
"Don't worry we'll to protect you" Shepard assured
"Thank you but I think we'll be okay look like everyone's gone" the female researcher said
"You'r doctor Warrien. The one in charge of the excavation do you know what happen to the beacon?" Ashley said in soft tone
"It was moved moved to the space port earlier this morning. Manuel and I stayed behind to back up the camp. When the attack came, the marines held them off long enough for us to hide. They gave their lives to save us." She said soberly
"No one is saved. The age of humanity is ended. Soon, only ruin and corpses will remain." Manuel whispered madness filled his voice.
"What else can you tell me about the attack?" Shepard questioned to confirm Richard story.
"It all happen so second we were gathering up our next we were hiding in the shed while the geth swarmed over the camp."Warrien said
"Agent of the destroyers Bringers of darkness, Healds of our extinction." Manuel spoke again making Richard think this guy is insane as Warrien continued.
"We could hear the battle outside. Gunfire, screams, I thought it would never end. Then, everything went quiet. We just sat there, too afraid to move. And again their was more gunfire then again silence,until you came along."
"Hey doc?" Richard spoke up making Warrien to look at him. "Yes."
"Did you notice a bare face turian in the area?" Richard asked
This time it was Manuel who answered "I saw him. The prophet. Leader of the enemy. He was here, before the attack."
"So their is another turian spectre and this one is leading the geth." Kaiden stated
"I'm sorry. Manuel's still a bit..unsettled. We haven't seen your turian. We've been hiding in here ever since the attack." Warrien explained
"Whats wrong with your assistant?" Shepard asked raising a single eyebrow.
"Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit...unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin." Warrien said
"Well, no shit lady" Richard commented.
"Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escca-" Manuel stop speaking when Ricahrd knocked him out with a his fist, making Doctor Warrien to recole.
"Oh my god! What did you do?"
"That might've been a little extreme, Richard." Kaiden exclaimed
"It's for the best, kaid." Richard said back "I rather have him unconscious then doing something insane besides his ramblings are getting annoying."
Sighing Dr. Warrien speak up "I suppose you're right. By the time he wakes up, the meds will have kicked in."
"Williams take us to the space port." Shepard ordered
As the four crossed the trail, Richard tried to home in on Nihlus's radio. "I think I got a signal."
Nihlus ducked behind a crate when he saw something moving around the sapce port's cargo platform. He inched his head around the corner of the box and pointed his rifle towards the potential target. He suddenly lowered his guard when he saw the familiar figure in front of him.
"Saren?" Nihlus said as he looked at the other turian.
Saren didn't have facial tattoos like many of his species like many of his species. He did however, have implants around his jaw. It was possible the result of an injury from his tour of eyes were a dark fluorescent blue without slits in his eyes. "Nihlus." he responds.
"This isn't your mission, Saren." Nihlus said. "What are you doing here?"
"The Council thought you could use some help on this one." Saren said as he puts on Nihlus's shoulder and calmly walks away from Nihlus's view.
"I wasn't expecting the geth here." Nihlus said. "The situation's bad."
"Don't wor-" Saren didn't finish what he was about to say, because Nihlus omni-tool cracked on with a distressed voice on the other end.
"Nihlus!" Shepard voice called.
"One moment, Saren." Nihlus took the call. "Shepard. We agreed only I can use radio commu-"
Shepard cut Nihlus off at mid sentence. "There's barface turian spectre who's leading the geth and took the beacon. Your walking into a trap!"
Nihlus froze for a moment and realize that he might have just walked that trap. Nihlus dove and grabbed his sidearm, pointing it at Saren. When he pointed his weapon at Saren, Saren pointed his sidearm at him.
"You treacherous, bastard!" Nihlus barked at Saren. "You did this! Why?!"
"Because I was offered something more that what the Council could ever offer." Saren said with a smirk but it would be short lived as his entire arm suddenly was torn off by a 12.7x99m round. Immediately grabbing his bloody stomp Saren yelled out in pain as for Nihlus, this gave him an opening he needed to apprehending the rouge spectre but soon even his luck ran out as Saren threw a strong biotic throw. Hitting Nihlus causing him to fly back impacting into a couple of crates.
Glaring at his student he quickly ran to the tram avoiding more sniper rounds that was whizzing past him. Some got close to him activating his personal shields, passing couple more geth and husks he finally got on one of the trams, his robotic arm to access the controls.
Looks like you get to live to see the reapers return after all, old friend. Saren thought
A couple minutes earlier
"Nihlus!" Shepard called his name again. "Nihlus!"Then he heard a volley of gunfire echoing over the hill. surprisingly with all the could only hope if Nihlus was still alive."We have to get to him and hurry."
Shepard and his group came around the corner of the hill, only to see the massive back arthropod ship in the distance red lighting coming out of the thing like some kind of overgrown tesla coil. Then it gave out the loudest sound that could be heard for miles, Richard tried to plug his ears as it was so loud.
"What is that? Off in the distance." Kaiden pointed shocked to see the super carrier size ships.
"It's a ship. Look at the size of it!" Ashley yelled out
"Fuck that's the ship that destroyed out defences." Richard called out seeing the massive ship going into space hopping that thing would be destroyed by relief fleet.
Warning: hostiles detected
The warning knocked the group out of their stupor, seeing down the hill a group of geth standing guard or husks walking around like zombies but Nihlus is nowhere to be seen but another shot rang out hitting one husk in causing it to explode in gore. The Geth tried to find where the shot came from until another shot rang out taking out a geth unit by its head exploding.
"Anyone saw where that shot came from?" Shepard said and on cue after a third shot the sniper answered.
"About time you got here Shawn." Stich called out through their coms
"Stich is that you?" Rchard said surprised that his friend made it
"Yeah its me, but how about we talk 'after' we kill all these sick undead, machine fucks ."
knowing he was right, since the geth and husks began running towards them firing while they cover behind a bunch of stones they returned fire taking down the group of geth with easy but the husks on the other hand were more difficult to deal with since those walking corpses can souk up ammo like no tomorrow, pieces of blue flesh began tearing off with each hit.
Richard shot a husk in the chest two times before going down but unfortunately one of the husks got a little too close. As he pointed his gun at the zombie it discharged some type of electricity attack shutting down his shields causing hell with his hud. Cursing out loud he fired full ato at it taking it down.
"Richard!" Ashley cried out seeing the whole thing happen.
"I'm alright," Richard responded " I think it was an electric pulse." looking at the blue corps again not believing something that already dead could generate such energy but here it is a walking EMP. Killing another geth Richard's hud started to go back to normal in few minutes but the geth have another trick up up their synthetic sleeves. When Stitch fired another round a geth suddenly put up a shield blocking it but at the same time change color.
What the hell Richard thought
"Did that geth create a shield for cover?" Kaiden said
Shepard fired at the shield destroying and killing the geth behind it. "It did but it seems if you keep on firing at it would disappear."
It took them about several minutes as the last of the husks and geth were dealt with Stitch came out of hiding, jogging he stopped before Shepard and his team. Thanks to JSF stealth tech he was able to hide himself with his weapon.
"It's good to see you alive man." Stich said grasping Richards forearm pulling him into brotherly hug. Seeing this Shepard interrupt the brotherly reunion.
"Richard you now this man?" Shepard asked looking at Richard who responded
"Commander this is my partner Private Stich Alejandro I was talking about, but other then that how the hell did you escape?"
Stich gave out a tired sigh and answered "It wasn't easy I tell ya. Those geth drones weren't easy to hid from but when I finally made to the space port I saw two turians talking to each other. But when that son of bich pointed gun at his friends back head I knew which one to shoot."
"That's why we heard gun fire." Kaiden stated
"Yeah, the second turian wasn't that lucky though getting a biotic throw into couple of heavy crates. I was keeping those things away from him until you showed up." Stich continued
Hearing this shepard spoke "Thank you for your help private."
"Your welcome,but before you go I say a couple of civilians hiding in the nearby buildings can you check up on them I'll help check the turian." Stich exclaimed
As Shepard group went down the hill they stopped before a house with a couple crates one of them on fire it must've had something flammable, the windows were closed shut. Thanks to ISAC they were able to confirm their was three life signs shepard called out "We now your in their so come on out!"
In response three people came two male, one female. The man who seems to be the leader spoke. "Everybody stay calm out there. We're coming out. We're not armed."
"Is it safe? Are they gone?" the women said afraid that more geth would pope out somewhere.
"You're okay now. Nobody's going to hurt you." Shepard assured.
"Those things were crawling all around the shed. They would have found us for sure. We owe you our lives." The male farmer said
"I-I still can't believe it. When we saw that ship I thought it was over!" the women said scratching her head
"It showed up right before the attack. Knew it was trouble the second I saw it. So we made a break for the sheds."The male farmer added.
"Tell me everything you remember about the attack." Shepard asked
"The three of us were working the crops when that ship showed up." the farmer said nervously rubbing his hands together. "We just saw it and ran. I don't know what happened to the rest of the crew."
"They were by the garage. One near the spaceport. Right where the ship came down, no way they survived." the second male famer pointed but the female farmer didn't believe it.
"You don't know that!" the female farmer yelled out "We survived. If they made it to the garage, they could've had a fighting chance!"
"What about this prothean beacon they dug up?" Richard questioned "Now anything about that?"
"Were just farmers. We heard they found something out there, but it never really mattered to us. Not until now."
"What else can you tell me about the ship you saw?" Shepard said wanting get their point of view.
"I was too busy running to get a clear look at it. I think it landed over near the spaceport." the male farmer said but the female farmer interrupted.
"Tell them about that awful noise, Cole."
The famer named Cole continued on"It was emitting some kind of signal as it descended. Sounded like the shriek of the damned. Only it was coming from inside your own head."
"No kidding I heard that damn shrink all the way to base" Richard complemented
"It was probably trying to block communications." Shepard suggested
Cole shrugged before answering "Whatever it was, felt like it was tearing right through my skull. Almost made it impossible to think."
Shepard nodded wasting enough time he was about to leave but one of the farmers decided to speak up "Hey,Cole. We're just a bunch of farmers, these guys are soldiers. Maybe we should give them the stuff."
"Geez, Blake . You gotta learn when to shut up!" Cole said angry at him for spilling the beans on the other hand Shepard got interested
"You have something to tell me ,Cole?"
Like child who got his hand stuck in a cookie jar Cole began telling them the truths "Some guys at the spaceport were running a small smuggling ring. Nothing major. In exchange for a cut of the profits, we let them store packages in our sheds."
Richard shook his head when he first joined up with the JSF he was raiding smuggling dens and some them start out as small operations turn large selling small product before selling artifacts or drugs and weaponry that belongs to an armory.
"Your breaking the law, Cole " Shepard said stating a fact
"We're not hurting anybody! Hell, most of the time, I don't even know what's in the packages. I just thought there might be something we could use. I found a pistol. Figured it would come in handy if those things came back. But you'll probably get more use of it than we wil" Cole explained but Shepard has other ideas if this is a small time smuggling operation he needs how far it goes.
"We'er risking our lives to save this colony. You sure there's nothing else in here that could help us out?" Shepard asked
Scratching his neck Cole before responding "Yeah,there's one more thing. I was going to sell it after this was over. But you probably deserve it more than I do."
"Who's your contact at the spaceport,Cole? What's his name?" Ashley demanded
"Ash," Richard said putting a hand on her shoulder "Don't blame the guy, what I now about the alliance they never help colonists."
"Your friends right, he's not bad guy. I don't want to get him in trouble, besides, I'm not a snich!" Cole responded crossing his arms but Shepard finaly got to him.
"He might have something to do with this whole attack,Cole. We need a name. Its important." Shepard said asking more softly.
by the looks of it did the trick as Cole because he's started talking "Yeah,okay. his name's Powell. Works the docks at the spaceport. If he's still alive."
"We have to go." Shepard said leaving with his group to the spaceport where Stich is. Passing more of those spike devises and a couple debris but as they came up the stairs they saw Richards friend trying to lift couple of heavy crates which by the looks of it fell with something under it. Stich turned his to their direction calling out to them.
"Richard, Shepard give me hand with this!" Stich called out throwing another crates off of the turian specter
Kaiden being a biotic used lift to get most of the craites off of Nihlus. Seeing this Stich and Richard grabbed the turian to a safe distance before the lift weared off making the craites fall with loud bang to ground. Inspecting if the turian had an injuries. Giving out a 'tisk' Stich shook his head before speaking " This guy is in bad shape but he'll live if you don't mind being in a coma."
Ashley suddenly saw something and pointed her gun at it "Something's moving! Over behind those crates!"
In response everyone pointed their guns in the direction Ashley pointed. Each of them positioned themselves to take out the target if it is the geth then the synthetic will be full of sand and lead before it could fire a shot. But instead of a synthetic killing machine it was dock worker who seems to be scared out of his mind raising his hands up in the air emphasizing he isn't a threat.
"Wait!Don't-Don't shoot! I'm one of you! I'm human." A dockworker cried out
"Sneaking up on us that nearly got you killed!" Shepard said putting his weapon down
"I...I'm sorry. I was hiding, from those creatures." he said before continuing " My names Powell.I saw what happen to the other one tired to kill him."
"Let me guess it was a turian with no colonial tattoos?" Richard discrabed
"Yeah, that was him. He was here first, he was waiting when your friend showed up. He called him Saren. I think they knew each other."Powell said "Your friend seemed to relax. Then your friend heard someone warning him on the radio." He pointed to where Saren was standing. "Saren would've shot him in the back of the head if he didn't get that warning. But as they were about to duke it out Sarens arm was severed off." He looks at Nihlus." He would've took him down if Saren hadn't used biotics on him."
"We were told a Prothean beacon was brought to the spaceport. What happened to it?" Shepard asked
"It's over on the other platform." He pointed to where the tram is "Probably where that guy Saren was headed. He hopped on the cargo train when his arm was shot off. I knew that beacon was trouble. Everything's gone to hell since we found it. First that damn mother ship showed up, then the attack."Shaking his head in despair " They killed everyone. Everyone! If I hadn't been behind the craites I'd be dead too!"
" How come you're the only one who survived? while ever one else didn't just,hid behind a crate like you?" Richard questioned making Powell look guilty as he responded.
"They never had a chance. I..I was already behind the crates when the attack started." Powell said making him look sad that he's alive
"Wait a minute. You were hiding behind the crates before the attack?" Kaiden said not believing the man story.
"I...Sometimes I need a nap to get through my shift. I sneak off behind the crates to grab forty winks where the supervisor can't find me." Powell explained
Ashley couldn't believe this guy. "You survived because your lazy?!"
"If he hadn't snuck off for that nap you'd probably be dead just like all the others." Shepard exclaimed but it didn't make Powel feel any better
"Yeah. Yeah, I guess. I don't really want too think about it." Powell responded but Shepard wasn't done yet.
"You're Cole's contact here on the docks. For the smuggling ring." He stated.
Powell begins to panicked before responded "What? No!I mean..What does it matter now? So I'm a smuggler? Who cares? My supervisor's dead. The entire crew's dead. It doesn't matter now,does it."
"It does matter Powell but if got any hidden nearby that could we could use against the geth? We might let this slide." Stated Richard. He's not like the SGB who use smugglers for their merchant dice hell the russians find pretty nice antics if you look hard enough.
"A shipment grenades came though last week. Nobody notices if a few small pieces go missing from the military orders." Powell said but Ashley on the other hand was pissed off at the guy.
"You greedy son of bitch!We're out of here trying to protect your sorry ass and all you think is about is how you can ripe us off?!" Ashley said disgusted of this mans greed she almost pulled her pistol if Richard hadn't grabbed her wrist calming her down.
"I never thought you'd actually need those grenades! Who'd want attack Eden Prime?We're just a bunch of farmers! How was I supposed toke know?" Powell cried out making shepard to decided to between hitting the selfish son of a bitch to a pulp or let him go. Taking a deep breather he spoke out his anwer.
"Forget about him. He's not worth it." Shepard said to Ashley who pointed her finger at Powell
"You're lucky the commander's here, Powell. Now hand over those grenades." She growled out
Nodding Powell quickly gave them the grenades "They're yours. Take them. My smuggling days are over I swear."
"A lot of marines died here, Powel. Those grenades could have come in handy. If I were you, I'd think of some way to make it up to them." Shepard exclaimed
Powell lowered his head before responding "Yeah. Okay. There is something else I was saving. Could be worth a fortune, Experimental technology top. Top of the line. Take it. I don't need it. I didn't want anyone to get hurt. Really. I'm sorry. "
Richard on the other hand just stared at Powell like he had a second head before speaking; pure scepticism in his voice "Wait second. How the hell did you get experimental tech?"
Powell looked nervous but the hard stares made him talk "I got from a world called Noveria okay. It wasn't easy to get because of security but I got lucky. So is that all"
"Not quite," Shepard exclaimed "How do we get to the second platform?"
"Take the cargo train. That's where the other turian went." Powel explained
The four hurried towards the cargo train leaving behind Stich to look after they came near the platforms Richard pulled Ashley back behind a a craite when a plasma round missed her by inches. "Take cover!" Kaiden yelled out as he fired his avenger at one of the geth killing it. But more geth suddenly appeared out of nowhere charging at them, with reckless abandon hoping to kill one of them.
Tilting his head he saw several geth out in the open getting a good look at his targets, he turned to shepard and nodded before getting out cover to fire his weapon hitting one on the head. Shepard took down ones shield before putting more sand grains in it, shutting it down before moving forward, they made it to the cargo train but with one problem.
A dozen geth were on the train. Richard grunted in annoyance before jumping over the rail to get to the bottom floor while Shepards squad took the stairs down to the platform; boarding the train the ghost was already killed his fifth geth, before moving to cover to cover firing his weapon as he went as Shepard's squad finally caught up.
Changing his meg he tilted his head over his cover to see the biggest geth he ever seen. It was twelve feet high, a white giant with materialistic muscles which could break a organics head like mellon and face a krogan head on. Its head glowing its blue light at them before firing its miniature cannon at them. Getting his head out of the line of fire he saw shepard, Kaiden and Ashley taking cover as well behind the cargo trains thick small walls.
The giant geth kept on firing at them suppressing when thirteen other geth could get in close to kill them but it soon prove futile as Shepard threw a grenade at its feet before exploding sending synthetic parts everywhere but the ones who were out of range kept on firing and its starting to get on his nerves.
The's things just don't now when to quit!? Richard thought firing his Scare A2 at full auto
Kaiden threw a biotic throw hitting the geth so hard it flew of the train, Richard gave the sentinel a raise eyebrow but quickly return to the fighting at hand. Ashley being marine fired her avenger with a vengeance ignoring the plasma bolts whizzing past her, more focused in getting back at the geth who killed her squad.
Richard saw this and curses giving his girlfriend covering fire as she slides into cover but not before the large geth hits in the shoulder, grunting in pain he check his shoulder to see his shields stopped it relieved but know he's pissed. To show how angry he is Richard got right up and fired his grenade launcher. The grenade hits the tall geth squarely in the chest instantly incinerating it.
Those who remained were soon finished off but them before running to the trains computer which is unfortunately encoded as Kaiden tried to get the train moving only for it deny him access.
"Damn." Kaiden said. "Someone put a code on this thing so only the Saren or the geth could operate it."
"Let ISAC take care of this." Richard said as he pulled out his smart-watch over the panel. In just a matter of seconds the train started moving. "Thanks ISAC."
"Alright, how did you do that?" Kaiden asked
"You heard me when we met lieutenant I'll explain when this is over and besides my government didn't give this high tech for no reason." Richard said
"Lets go get Saren." Shepard said. As the train picked up speed to the second platform.
It was quite ride on the cargo train as it was mostly fields and hills. No one spoke as they recheck their equipment. More so then Richard as he still felt the effect of the plasma bolt that hit him, feeling some pain in his left shoulder he grabbed a nano sedative and stabbed himself with it.
He sighed in relief as the pain gone away thanking god for the creation of the nano sedatives; not good a omi-gel but it close enough. Getting up on his two feet he walked to Ashley Williams who standing next to the commander. He got a good look at their armor and internally shake his head in disgust at the armor to him it was little more like plastic unlike the chinese commandos who's armor is like alliance's but with key difference.
There armor was stronger because it made from nanofabricators something that the Council races are trying to get hold of for while but everytime they asked the chinese would say no. But their products on the other hand is different story, but rumor has'st that the systems alliance bought some in the 2130's and were trying replicate it.
Richard knew the chinese was not going to like these types of armor if they see it but on the other hand, the alliance armor Ashley is wearing shows a lot of her...best parts but sadly it show any skin probably for the up he could see three squadrons of F-36 thunderbolts flying by probably running air support.
Feeling the train slowing down, the could see they finally arrived at the other cargo platform, but this time it was different. Looking more closely Richard could see one of the geth working on something and he quickly realize what it is so when the train stopped he spoke his mind and he wasn't the only one.
"Demolition charges!The geth must have planted them." Kaiden called out. Luckily they were standing in front of one the cylinder bombs.
"Richard get this thing defused on the double! Ash,Kaiden move up!" Ordered the commander. With speed he took to his new task while the rest of the squad moved onward to find and disarm the geth once again tired to ambush them but were quickly disposed off and started to work on the others.
As Richard began disarming it his ISAC called out " Radiation detected" making his eyes widen with fear
"Oh shit! commander we have major problem." Richard spoke, through his comms as he began to disarm it more carefully.
"What is it?" Asked Shepard while he fired back.
"This thing is not a regular bomb. Its a nuclear bomb?!"
"WHAT!" Yelled the commander who took out another large geth.
"The Geth activated a nuclear bomb. Probable wanted to wipe the colony off the map and if my ISAC is right theirs five of them at this platform." Richard called out finally figuring out how to disarm it even though it is geth technology.
"Then we have to hurry- and find them all and shut them down!" Ashley yelled
Ah shit I'm not pioneer or dragoon but...their!? he thought as he disarmed one of the bombes
"I got one down, four to go!"
"We need to do this faster. Ash go with Richard find the bombs on the north deck, Kaiden and I will disarm the other bombs on the south decks." Shepard ordered
"Yes sir!" Ashley said complying with the order as she went to cover Richard who was already on second bomb but he was taking fire from the geth, who're trying to him from deactivating the bomb. Seeing this Ashley fired at the synthetics drawing their attention away from him.
After he finished he stood up to help Ashley but stopped when he saw Ashley kicked one when going over a craite and shot at it before dodging another who tired tackling her instead Ashley slapped a grenade on its back so when Ashley turned around an explosion appeared behind her like some celebrities in a action movie.
Richard who saw all of it has his mouth open at his girlfriend as she knock her out of his stupor by speaking up "Come on, ghost boy we're not done yet."
"Richard, we disarmed the one
Quikly shaking his head Richard followed Ashley to get the last bomb which is guarded by five geth like the rest they easily took them out before finally disabling the bomb he saw the timer to see it was on a 10 or what looks like a ten because it was in ancient quarian dialect.
"Phew! That too close." Richard muttered wiping the sweat of his head feeling a hand on his shoulder he turned to see Ashley with the same expression as his, pure relief that the four stopped a much bigger catastrophe from happening.
"Richard I'm so lucky to have guy like you around." Ashley exclaimed
"Thanks," Richard said "you're no rookie yourself. The way you put that grenade on that giants back, I bet you would fit right in with us ghosts."
The comment put smile of her face but the moment was short lived when they heard gunfire from the cargo platform. Hearing the gunfire the two immediately ran where Kaiden and shepard were dealing with group of husks after finishing whats left another group of of those husks was about to lunge at the commander until the corps body abruptly hit the ground when ten bullets hits its body.
"You better watch your back, commander or next time I won't be able to save you." Richard said walking up to him until his eyes laid on the becoan
It was strange to say at least to see working prothean tech, it also had a green aura around it like magic but he knew something was wrong. The beacon was here but where is this Saren? and why didn't he take this thing with him? It just created more questions then answers.
Shepard on the other hand began to call in the normandy for pick up but fate on the other hand has other ideas.
"This is amazing. Actual working Prothean technology. Unbelievable!" Kaiden excalemed
"It wasn't doing anything like that when they dug it up," Ashley said "Something must have activated it."
"You sure, chief." Richard added to the comments. " Because this thing is already giving me the hebe jebes."
As Kaiden and Richard walked over to Shepard to find out what the next plan was, Ashley curiously moved a little closer to the alien artifact. As she adjusts her eyes to the bright green light, an explosive flash rippled her body. The force of the beacon was drawing her like a magnet. The light of the beacon was illuminating a bright green light creating a force of energy and she tried desperately to resist the force, but couldn't.
Shepard saw what was going on and he quickly darted towards her. He grabbed Ashley and pulled her away, but now shepard was caught in the Beacons pull. Shepard was suddenly levitated off the floor. Richard saw this and not believing what hes seeing.
"Shepard!?" Ashley called out trying to get up but Kaiden stopped her
"No! Don't touch him! Its too dangerous!" Kaiden stated holding her
In just few minutes before they could do anything the beacon exploded in front of them throwing Shepard to the ground. Richard was the first who got to him inspecting him for any injures but found none on the outside but the inside is a different story.
"Is he okay?" Ashley said as she was came to Richards side who's looking as the the commander with a silent expression.
"His brain waves are going off the charts. we have to get him on the Normandy." Kaiden said as he began to call the stealth frigate to pick them up.
Three hours later since shepards encounter with beacon. Kaiden, Richard, and Ashley helped their commander on board. He was still unconscious, but Dr, Chakwas assured that he is fine, however he needed constant monitoring. Also Nihlus still unconscious is on the next bed beside him. Ashley sat on a bed next to Shepard's, while Kaiden and Richard examined the man. but Richard walked to Ashley and put a hand on her shoulder. But it wasn't just that, the defence fleet that was suppose to protect the colony was wiped out by that strange ship including forty percent of the relife fleet.
As to why he's here commander Anderson brought him along as a witness when they get to the Citadel. It took awhile in a heated debate with his commanding officer but since he saw Saren he couldn't say no. But still he had feeling that the council deny such accusations.
"Hey Ash can we talk outside it'll just be second." Richard asked
Saying nothing she nodded; getting of the bed Ashley and Richard walked out the med-bay when they were out of site he spoke to her "So Ash how you holding up?"
"My commanding officer is in the medical bay what do you think?" Ashley growled making Richard raise his hands in peace.
"I think you blame yourself for being in that situation in the first place." Richard stated "but Shepard is tough bastard if I know their types then he'll live." he added quickly.
He could see his words calmed Ashley a bit "But still I can't but feel responsible for his condition. If I didn't get so close to the beacon he wouldn't-"
'Hey. Nobody knew that beacon would do that in the first place, Ash. Besides I bet my credits that bareface turian mother fucker activeted the thing." Richard said
It made sense in his mind this Saren must've activated the beacon somehow and downloaded the information it has before they got there. Still it just gave him no true answer and how the hell did the geth follow him like that? and where did that turian fuck get ship that big it was huge as the Super carrier was tall. Such of ship was geth design has to be impossible, right?
Ashley just shook her head"You're such an idiot sometimes."
Richard then wrapped his hands around her waist making Ashley to turn her face to his. "Hey. I'm lovable idiot who has a hot kick ass girlfriend."
Ashley gave seductive smile as they were about to kiss a cough suddenly interrupted them separating Richard and Ash turned to see Kaiden looking at them with wide eyes before speaking "Did I come at a wrong time?"
"Lieutenant, if you tell commander Anderson about this then I will turn you inside out and shove your manhood down your throat ." Ashley threatened making Kaiden nodded a little too quickly before leaving. Alone again they suddenly both laughed seeing the LM2's face.
"Ha! ha! hu! hoo! Did you see that poor bastards face. He looks like gold fish for second." Richard said
"I now Rich," Ashley responded finally calming down "Its good to have you back ghost boy."
"You too Ash but how about we do our 'private activities' later, Okay." Richard said making her smile as she nodded
"Okay but you better be outside after he wakes up." she said
"Aye, aye, chief." He joked by impersonating as a pirate when he saw her walking back to medbay to apologize to the commander.
Alliance Navy- The Alliance Navy is a branch of the systems Alliance responsible for naval operations. The Alliance marines, the ground operations Branch of the Alliance ground forces. It is known to number about as least ten thousand ships when the four factions added they fleets together and counting, gaining a reputation of having a large number of battleships, destroyers and carriers to some super carriers. The four hydra powers had ship yards on there colonies that doesn't have any mass relays since they have warp drives giving humanity much needed advantage.
Also fighter designs raised many eyebrows to the Council races like Hailstorm which has the direct energy weapon to multirole fighters intriguing them and lastly the introduction of strategic bombers came with mixed reactions since the russians use WMD's to erase entire cities from excitance.
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