answers to reviewers questions or statements:
kival737101: What can I say, Parker Luck at it's finest.
Issac LB: And she's gonna be with Peter, a certified man child to most given his personality. The bickering between those two can go on for days honestly.
Mr Guest: Sadly, Jack wont be joining his space crew anytime soon. At this point in time, she'll likely kill him and the others without a second thought. For the moment, Peter thinks that his suit simply responds to his thoughts, be they conscious or sub conscious but when he does realize it it's sentient, it'll be... intense.
Jebest4781: Very, very, very awkward.
psp reader: With Jack, that might not be possible, she seems to have a knack for bringing out the confrontational-ism in people.
Rougarou144: Yes Blasto is male, but you think genders really matter all that much to such an 'enlightened' race like those jellies? Poor Parker's about to find out the cost for Galactic fame, just like Shepard did with Conrad Verner.
Kalvernus: Not a bad idea.
DrOdd: Never got into Dragon Age, so I'm pretty in the dark on what it's about. Something about a portal to some other reality with demons or something I think.
Starlord Master: Well I haven't gotten to any actual pairings yet so I'm not sure which one would be a favorite.
Leman42x: Yes, she will be.
Fire: Here Peter's in his mid-twenties.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel, Overwatch, or Mass Effect characters seen, mentioned or used.
Peter's been in some rough spots over the years as Spider-man, there was no denying that.
From facing down common street thugs who were as smart as a block of wood to godlike beings that could wipe a galaxy away with a literal wave of the hand. From taking on the likes of Doctor Doom while he's half dead from exhaustion to having to sit through a boring college course on sixteen hundreds literature while he had a bullet logged into his shoulder along with several knife wounds on his back from the night before that were still healing.
Basically he's been through it all...
But being chased by a foul mouthed woman that was shooting blue energy at him on a alien world was a first... not the worse, but a first none the less.
'Hopefully this will be the worse I'll have to deal with' Peter thought as he swung through branches, doing his best to avoid the energy blasts from Jack.
She had to run out of juice eventually, she didn't strike him as the kind of person that could go toe to toe with the like of the Silver Surfer for days on end. Though knowing Peter's luck, she was, and eventually Peter will be too tired to dodge one of her energy blasts and he'll be dead, dying or both.
"Not sure how I can be both, but life shall find a way" Peter said as he landed on a tree branch before leaping off of it just as a ball of blue and black energy slammed into it and all but shredded the tree limb into hundreds of pieces.
"STAND STILL YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!" Jack yelled as she struggled to keep ace with Peter in the dense jungle brush, no matter how much she cleared it away with her Biotics.
"What are you crazy?!" Peter yelled back as he shot a line of webbing out and hung upside down from it as he watched Jack lean heavily against a alien tree root, panting heavily "Why the heck would I stand still so you, a person that's shown obvious interest in causing me serious bodily harm, can land an actual hit on me?!"
"Maybe I just want to knock you down here..." Jack said in between gasps of breath before she glared up at Peter "So I can make you a real man bitch... before I fucking kick your skull into a sun!"
"Well aren't you just the sweet talker" Peter said with a dramatic sigh "Fine, you've convinced m- whoa, hey!"
Peter dropped from his web line as a blast of blue and black energy raced past him. He made to shoot another before he saw another wave of energy coming for him and he simply let gravity do the work of moving him out of the way, even if said was down.
'Just wait until I'm lower to the ground, shoot a web line out, swing past little miss angry sunshine. Web her up and be on my marry way' Peter thought as he heard Jack let out a frustrated yell at missing him yet again.
Granted he'll have to stick around long enough to make sure that no weird alien monster came by and tried to eat Jack, that'd be awkward, but once that was done, Peter was certain he can find his way back to the lab he first appeared in and find a way back.
'Hopefully' Peter thought as he saw he was near the ground as his spider-sense began to go off.
He raised an arm to shoot off a web line before one of the ships Eclipse used to drop it's people off earlier tore through the foliage and used it's thrusters to send Peter flying down towards the ground.
"CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!" Peter yelled over the roar of the odd alien ship's thrusters before he slammed into several branches and a few vines before landing in a small clearing and skipped across the ground a few times before coming to a painful stop before a large tree.
Well... that was unexpected.
"Why universe... why?" Peter groaned as he could hear the ship landing as he slowly pushed himself back up.
He wasn't sure what was broken but he's willing to bet it was everything. He looked up to see Jack stumble into the clearing, her body drenched with sweat and blood leaking from her nose as she stumbled towards Peter while her body was bathed in blue and black energy.
"Gonna... fucking... kill..." she said in between breaths before she slumped to her knees "After... nap..."
"Take your time" Peter gasped as he made it to his feet as the ship that landed opened it's side doors and several Eclipse stepped out, led by one of the frog looking aliens.
"Uh... I surrender?" Peter said with a sheepish grin towards the odd frog like alien as it approached him before coming to a stop.
It's eyes blinked owlishly at him for a moment before it muttered something to the men behind it. Whatever it said seemed to tick Jack off as her head snapped up at this and she forced herself to her feet.
"The fuck... you will!" she gasped as she stumbled towards the group "He's... mine..."
The alien turned to her and said something else that again Peter couldn't understand before he turned his gaze back to Peter and his eyes narrowed as he made a hand gesture that seemed to signal his men to slowly begin surrounding Peter with their weapons raised and aimed at his person.
"Please don't probe me" Peter said nervously as he felt his spider-sense begin to grow haywire.
At this the alien frog like being seemed to smirk as they spoke in a very heavy accented English.
"No promises, human"
That was the last thing Peter heard before his body was struck by numerous electrical pulses and he fell tot he ground, withering in pain.
...
Elysium was for all intents and purposes, a alpine paradise to Humanity and with a number of other alien races as well.
Low gravity, tolerable climate, comfortable atmospheric pressure, descent planetary rotational hours and the fact the colony laid next to a major nexus of Primary and secondary Mass Relays made Elysium one of the most desirable planets in 'civilized space'. But these traits also made it a valuable target to many Pirates, slavers and Mercenary groups, such as the force led by Elanos Haliat, who were pushed back during what is now referred to as the 'Skyllian Blitz' six years earlier.
Several hundred thousand kilometers away from the planet sat the Alliance Carrier, SSV Einstein, the oldest Carrier in the Alliance Navy and arguably the most decorated warship currently within the Alliance thanks to it's actions at Mindoir thirteen years earlier and the siege of Aite two years later and the Skyllian blitz several years after that. It's size easily rivaled that of a dreadnought but lacked the firepower and armor that it's 'cousins' sported. Instead the warship was fitted with massive hanger bays to hold several squadrons worth of Trident-class fighters and Pitchfork Interceptors and dozens of Kodiak Drop Shuttles to ferry the ship's Marine detachment to either a planetary surface or in very rare cases, enemy warships or interstellar installations.
Within one of the rooms reserved for the massive warship's contingent of Marines, laid two women, their uniforms, with markings identifying them as officers, laid scattered about the room and the sheets to the bed tangled and covered with the results of their 'actions' the previous night. Next to the bed was a small desk with a holographic clock that read Seven fifty nine on it before it suddenly shifted to Eight.
Ping!
"Hrrr..." grumbled the woman closest to the clock, pulling a blanket over a mop of raven black hair. The bed's other female occupant made a grumbling sound, though much more reserved in comparison as she buried her head into her pillow, her face hidden by a curtain of dark brown hair.
Ping!
"Grrr..." the raven haired woman growled as she pulled the blanket down enough to show violet colored eyes glaring at the small orange colored 'clock'.
Ping-
"Shut... it... off..." the brunette behind the raven haired woman grumbled.
"Why'd you set it this early Ana?" the raven haired woman sighed tiredly as she reached out and tapped on the clock's 'snooze' setting to shut the alarm off "We're off today... finally"
It was why the two had celebrated so heavily last night, their first off day in almost two weeks. The Einstein had just returned from a five month deployment in the Attican Traverse, hunting a band of pirates with a small battle-group of five cruisers and twice as many frigate escorts and the two women were making the most of their well earned time off.
"I forgot Jane..." Ana mumbled as she pulled herself close to her bed-mate and pulled her front against her lover's shapely form, moaning at the feel of Jane's rear pressed against her groin.
Jane let out a moan of her own at the light humping from Ana and the feel of the woman's hands roaming her sides before she looked over her shoulder and into her commanding officer's chocolate brown eyes and grinned.
"Was I that good, Captain?" she whispered before she planted a kick but heated kiss on Ana's Horus tattoo, just below her eye.
"Very, LC" Ana giggled back as Jane turned fully towards her and pushed her front against her own.
Just as the two woman began to hit their stride, Ana's omni-tool began to go off. Ana stopped and frowned as she sat up and reached over Jane, giving the raven haired woman direct access to her breasts, for the damned little device. Jane wasted no time in attacking her superior's chest with her mouth and tongue while Ana had to suppress a moan as she slid her omni-tool on and answered whoever the hell was calling her now of all times.
"C-Commander Amari..." Ana said as she but her lip to prevent a gasp from escaping from her as her XO latched on to one of her erect nipples and began to suck on it like a eager babe.
"Amari, it's Gregor"
Ana's eyes widened as did Jane who released Ana's tit from her mouth at the sound of the Einstein's commanding officer, Captain Gregor.
"Sir, what can I help you with?" Ana said as she sat upright while Jane remained where she was, watching Ana speak to the Carrier's Captain with a sense of unease.
"Amari, do you know where Lieutenant Commander Shepard is?" Gregor asked with curiosity in his voice.
"I, I do not sir..." Ana said with her face paling while Jane quickly and quietly climbed out of the bed and began to rush around the room for her clothes "Is something wrong?"
"No, but I need to speak with you and I want Shepard and whatever senior officers and NCO's you have present" Gregor said with a sigh of annoyance "Just received word from Command, we're cutting Shore Leave early and heading back out to the Traverse"
Ana closed her eyes and let out a silent prayer of thanks that her and Jane's worse fear had, for the moment, been avoided. After a few seconds, she opened her eyes and responded "Of course sir. I'll call and let Shepard and the others know. What time's the briefing?"
"Twelve hundred. Give our people a few more hours of rest before dragging them back into the thick of it" Gregor answered.
"Understood sir" Ana said before the call ended and she deactivated her Omni-tool and let out a breath she didn't realize she was holding "By Allah... feels like I'm about to have a heart attack"
"Yeah, same here" Jane said with a snort as she sat on the edge of Ana's bed, only a pair of black panties on and the rest of her clothes lying in a small pile by her feet, next to her boots "What do you think's happening?"
"Probably another Pirate gang found" Ana said with a shrug as she ran a hand over her face before she brought her omni-tool back on and quickly compiled a message to her staff to report to the command briefing room at noon and to call back all personnel Planet-side ASAP.
"Oh joy..." Jane said with a shake of her head "God I hope we don't run into anymore Krogan on this one. My leg's still sore from where my knee was shattered"
"I told you to not try and grapple with a Krogan going through a Blood Rage" Ana said with a snort.
Jane hummed at this before she gave Ana a sly smile as she began to climb back on to the bed, stopping only for a moment to remove her panties and toss them aside as she straddled Ana's hips and grinned. Ana gave her XO a amused grin as she began to run her hands up Jane's body, tracing a few faded scars from the woman's previous deployments and cupped her breasts, causing the raven haired beauty to moan and have her body briefly glow blue from her biotics.
"G-Good thing we have a few hours to kill" Jane panted as she began to grind her now wet slit against her lover's still covered lower half.
"Probably the last for a while" Ana agreed as she released Jane's breasts and reached for the covers and push them down so her lower half could finally be exposed to her lover's own "Now hurry it up. I want to cum at least twice before we have to get ready"
Jane grinned coyly at Ana as she climbed off the Egyptian beauty's hips and slid down to her legs and part them, exposing her pussy.
"Yes ma'am" Jane winked before she dived in.
...
When Jane was a little girl, she used to think that life in the Alliance Navy would be a never ending adventure.
Going out into space, seeing new worlds and meeting all kinds of new and exciting aliens and occasionally face down the evil alien warlord and get either the guy or girl, or both. Her mother, Hannah Shepard and currently the XO aboard the Dreadnought, Kilimanjaro, used to always have this little grin on her face when she told her this growing up while her 'father' would look at her with the barest hints of pity in his eyes.
'Finally realized the meaning behind those looks twenty years too late' Jane thought a little dryly as she stood before a mirror in her own room, looking over her appearance before she headed to the briefing.
It wouldn't do for her to show up looking like she spent the previous night and part of the morning having sex...
After giving her uniform another quick inspection to make sure it was clean, she grabbed a hair tie and took her shoulder blade length hair and quickly arranged it into a tight bun before securing it. She gave her face one last look to make sure it was clean before nodding and made her way to the door, stopping only for a moment as the door opened to shut off the lights and stepped into a somewhat busy hallway. Crewmen, pilots, and a handful of Marines moved back and forth to wherever their duty required them to be. Jane waited against her door for a moment before she stepped into the heavy flow of foot traffic and headed for the conference rooms that were used to hold her team's briefings.
She was still a bit annoyed that her and Ana's morning was interrupted by Captain Gregor's call but she supposed it was better than him coming straight to Ana's room to tell her in person like he's done in the past.
Jane casted a brief glance up at the bulkheads to see that she was coming up on the intersection that she'd have to take a left at before she felt someone grab her shoulder. The N7 froze mid-step and looked over her shoulder with a scowl to see one of her squad leaders, Lieutenant Arkon, standing there with a grin.
He wasn't a very tall man, only five eight to her five six and possessed a slim build compared to most of the other men under her command. He was descent in at Biotics and a good tech specialist, but Jane could think of about six men in her unit that were too, better even.
"Arkon" Jane said as she shrugged the man's hand off her shoulder and continued on her way.
"Ma'am" the man said as he matched Jane's stride as they made their way through the Einstein's halls "So, any idea why our hard earned leave was just canceled, again?"
"No idea Lieutenant" Jane said.
"Someone getting a promotion or award?" Arkon asked.
"No idea Lieutenant" Jane repeated.
"We about to see a public mass?" the man said with a thoughtful look on his face.
Jane's brow twitched at "Again, no idea Lieutenant"
"Is it-" Arkon started before Jane stopped and turned right towards the man with a violet eyed glare.
"I told you Lieutenant, I don't know. Take a fucking hint" Jane snapped at the man, causing him to snap to attention while several men and women around them flinched and quickly moved away from the two spec ops operatives less they somehow earn Jane's ire as well.
"Yes ma'a, I apologize ma'am" Arkon said.
Jane glared at the man for another moment before she nodded and turned on her heel and resumed her pace. She didn't need to look behind her to know that Arkon was going to give her a few moments before following after her, at a much more respectable distance. After passing through another several halls, Jane finally arrived at the conference room and saw that several others had already taken their seats around the room's large oval shaped metal table.
"Ma'am" Staff Sergeant Hayrick stood up and gave her a nod as did his fellow Staff NCO's Muller and Trim.
"Have a nice night off LC?"
Jane glanced over to the other end of the room to see Lieutenant Commander Allen, a man built like a tank with the manners to match, leaning back in his seat with his feet propped up on the table. Like herself, Allen was a fellow N7 though where's Jane's talents lie in frontal assault base operations, Allen's were more reserved for intelligence gathering and espionage. His eyes were a little red, likely from the lack of a proper night of sleep or heavy drinking, or both given the man's history of borderline alcohol abuse. Jane grunted at the thickly built man as she made her way towards a seat next to him and sat down with a huff.
"It was nice, thank you for asking Allen. You almost sound like you give a damn for a change. What's the occasion?" Jane said as she folded her arms across her chest.
"You know me Shepard, always the caring one" Allen said with a snort before he let out a loud yawn that caused Jane to glare in annoyance at him.
"You you have to yawn as loud as a fucking cannon?" Jane asked.
"Yes, yes I do" Allen said with a chuckle as he looked towards the door to see Arkon enter "There's the Amari's little kiss ass"
"He was trying to kiss mine this morning on the way here" Jane said with a shrug.
"Hoping you'll put in a good word for him if, and I mean if he gets accepted into N-School" Allen said with a grin.
"Please, he'd break during orientation" Jane said with a eye roll.
"Can you blame him?" Allen said with a chuckle "Those instructors are like Thresher Maws, big, mean and loud"
"...So I've noticed" Jane said after a few moments as she and Allen watched two more officers enter, all ensigns, before Ana herself stepped into the room and loudly cleared her throat.
"Attention on deck!"
Jane and everyone else in the room stood up and snapped to attention as Captain Gregor entered the room, flanked by his XO, Commander Santiago.
"As you were ladies and gentlemen" Gregor said with a wave as he made his way to the head of the table.
Captain Thaddeus Gregor was a tall, thin man with a full head of grey hair and a small but thick mustache of equal color and a voice that could stop a company in it's tracks. Most of his career from what Jane heard was spent aboard Destroyers and a Dreadnaught where he operated the warships' primary weapons systems. Compared to most CO's that Jane's had in the past, Gregor was decent if a little anal about little things but he didn't outright stick his nose in your business so long as you did your job well like many other commanding officers would. Something that Jane and Ana both found reassuring, they were both smart enough to know that their relationship wouldn't have lasted this long if Gregor had actually decided to look into possible fraternization among his crew.
Commander Henry Santiago was of a similar mindset though the man's views on other alien races rubbed Jane the wrong way. Some of the comments she's heard the man make over the months she's been assigned to the Einstein were damn right xenophobic. Jane would bet a year's worth of pay that the man either had ties or was a member of Terra Firma.
"I'm sorry for having to cut your well earned shore leave short, but this is important" Captain Gregor said as he brought up his Omni-tool and typed in a few commands before a projection built into the conference table displayed a detailed map of the Shadow Sea Star Cluster out in the Attican Traverse. Jane's brow furrowed as she stared at the map along with a few others while Captain Gregor continued "Several days ago, a band of Batarian and Krogan pirates, backed by Eclipse owned mechs had attacked the colony of Horizon's capital city, Discovery and took up to two thousand people before they were driven off by a passing Turian patrol fleet"
"Point in the birds court..." Allen whispered towards Jane who glared at him.
"Shh!" she snapped, causing the man to chuckle quietly.
The map than changed into one that showed the entirety of the Attican Traverse with a line stretching from the Shadow Sea Cluster to the Nubian Expanse "One of the Turians frigates had proceeded to shadow the fleet as it fled the system all the way to here, the Nubian Expanse. After they arrived, they headed for Yamm where most of the fleet's ships, filled to the brim with their captured colonists, touched down on a small island near the planet's equator. Command wants us to head there and recover those colonists and wipe these sons of bitches out while we're at it"
It was than that Jane saw Staff Sergeant Trim raised his hand, causing Gregor to nod towards him.
"Sir? If the Turians know where these guys are, why can't their fleet go in and take them out?" the man asked with a frown "Seems kind of stupid to have us go all the way out there when their literally right there to blow them to hell and back and get those people out of there"
Several others, including Jane, all nodded in agreement or made a comment that the recently promoted Marine was right.
Captain Gregor sighed as he reached up to pinch the ridge of his nose "Your correct Staff Sergeant, but what kind of colony was hit?"
This took the man back a little "Uh, sir?"
"What kind of colony was it Trim?" Gregor asked again, looking straight at the younger man.
"A colony in the Terminus systems, sir?" the man said.
"Yes, but what kind specifically?" the Captain said.
"A... human colony, sir?" Trim said, confused with the Captain's line of questioning.
"Correct Staff Sergeant" Gregor said with a sigh "And what do you think will look better to the people back on Earth? That a bunch of Turians saved these poor human colonists, or human Alliance soldiers? Personally, I can care less if the Turians saved those people. Their closer and are more than competent for the job, but Alliance Command thinks that we need to send a message to any slavers or pirates in the Galaxy that if you attack a human colony, be they part of the Alliance or not, expect retribution from the Alliance Navy"
"Fucking politics... by the time we get there half of those people will either be dead or carted off to some other planet out in the Terminus System" Allen muttered with a shake of his head.
Before Jane could tell the man to be quiet, Commander Santiago turned towards the two and raised a row at them "Something you wish to add, Lieutenant Commander Allen?"
"Oh, no sir" Allen said with a shrug "Not a thing"
Commander Santiago narrowed his eyes at the man before his gaze flickered to Jane "What about you Shepard? Anything you wish to add?"
Jane shot Allen an annoyed look before she sighed and stood up and turned her attention towards the Carrier's XO "Sir, with all do respect, I think this is ridiculous. The time it'll take for us to get there is time for those slavers and pirates to ship those people off to another planet, or planets. By the time we arrive, half of them may be gone. Command should've let the Turians handle it rather than try to send a message that honestly, I doubt half the gangs in the Terminus Systems will even bother to know exist"
"I agree..." Gregor said with a nod before Santiago could say anything as he glanced at the map and did a few mental calculations "Sadly though, I've been told to politely go fuck myself and get my ship and her escorts over to that damn planet and free those people by any means necessary by people that make a lot more money than me. So that's exactly what I'm gonna do... even if I hate it"
"Yes sir" Jane said as she went to sit back down before the Captain spoke again.
"Oh and Shepard?" Gregor said as he glanced towards the woman.
"Sir?" Jane said as her back straightened a little.
"Congratulations, you'll be leading the ground team" Gregor said with a grim smile that caused Jane to internally sigh.
'Oh joy...'
...
Thirteen hours later Jane was sitting in a UT-47 Kodiak Drop Shuttle with over ten other men and women, all clad in black Onyx armor.
Jane's armor was the only one with any distinguishing feature on it, a blood red stripe down the right arm and a 'N7' over the right breast. Strapped to her back was an Avenger Assault Rifle, fitted with shredder rounds, a Katana Shotgun modded with incendiary rounds for any 'close encounters' and a striker Pistol with armor piercing. The rest of her squad was fitted with a similar armament with only the team's resident sniper, Sergeant Hoplin, armed with a Equalizer instead of a assault Rifle.
They also had a few heavy weapons, mainly missile launchers and about four grenade launchers, but Jane doubted they'll need to break them out.
'Long as their aren't any Thresher Maws, we should be fine' Jane thought with a frown before she heard a snort from her squad's XO, Gunnery Chief Laden. She glanced at the man with a raised brow "Something funny Chief?"
The man's face was covered by his helmet but Jane knew he was grinning like an idiot under that thing as he turned towards her and shook his head "No ma'am. Just find this kind of funny is all"
"Oh, in what way?" Jane asked.
"I was planning to hit the beaches on Elysium for leave. Introduce myself to the lovely locals of the female variety" Laden said with a chuckle "Now I'm on my way to a planet dotted with tropical beaches and the only locals are a bunch of Krogan, Batarians and fuck knows what else"
"That's the dream man!" someone from the other part of the shuttle chuckled.
"Yeah... a goddamn nightmare" Laden said with a sigh "Well, could be worse... could be doing just another run of the mill drill. Least here, I get to shoot something for once"
Jane rolled her eyes at this while she switched on her Omni-tool and brought up a brief summary of the planet she and her team were being dropped on.
Yamm's surface was over ninety percent oceans with scattered tropical island chains, several hundred mile long coral reefs that make the Great Barrier Reef back on Earth look like a rocky sandbar in comparison and category five hurricanes running rampant across the planet's surface. Than there was the giant arthropods, toxic allege that stretch for hundreds of kilometers and ship sized carnivorous sea creatures.
'Sounds like a wonderful place to take leave' Jane thought dryly as she shut off her Omni-tool and leaned back against the shuttle's seat and closed her eyes as her shuttle slowly entered Yamm's atmosphere.
This wasn't exactly how she planned to enjoy the end of her tour.
...
And done.
Next chapter, Sand, surf, and a horde of Pirates and Slavers...