Freeman's Odyssey
Chapter: 102
Paragon Found
AN: Set during the events of Mass Effect: Paragon Lost and Mass Effect 2
What has transpired is that Fehl Prime has recovered in about two years after the blood pack attack and the Alliance has bolstered the colony's defenses with a heavy anti-ship cannon and military-grade kinetic barriers. Delta Squad, now a familiar presence to the colonists, is working to finish installing the defenses when Captain Toni orders them to investigate a strange jamming signal originating from the colony's outskirts.
The squad is accompanied by asari anthropologist Treeya and the colonist Messner, who lends them his M35 Mako. At the signal's location the squad discovers an unknown alien device is its cause; Essex destroys it with his biotics, much to Treeya's chagrin. Taking a fragment of the device, Treeya leads the group to the site of an ancient Prothean communication system, which she uses to contact her mentor, Liara T'Soni.
When asked what she thinks the device is, Liara reasons that it may be related to Reaper tech before the communication system is suddenly jammed. Treeya voices her doubts to the squad, explaining that Liara once worked with Commander Shepard and has since become obsessed with the myths about the Reapers. As the group begins to head back to the colony, the source of the new jamming is revealed: a Collector ship flies overhead toward the colony.
The Collector ship deploys Seeker Swarms to incapacitate Fehl Prime's colonists, including Captain Toni, Christine, and her daughter April, who looks up to Vega as a hero. Only Delta Squad, Treeya, and Messner remain free, having arrived at the colony after the initial attack. Unable to prevent the colonists' capture, Vega decides Delta Squad has to disable the Collector ship so the colonists can be saved.
They make their way to the colony's anti-ship cannon and begin charging it, but Treeya suggests that a low-power shot might be preferable in order to ensure that the colonists are not harmed. Vega agrees and the cannon are fired. Unfortunately, the shot is too weak and is deflected by the Collector ship's shields.
At the same time something else happen as an explosion occurred from within the ship that creates a hole along the side of the hull of the ship and the ship itself loses control and slowly makes a hard landing to the mountains nearby nearly avoiding the colony itself. It made a hard landing with a crash as it exploded into pieces. This came to the surprise of the remaining members of delta squad
"So what do you think happened," said Vega
"If I were to theorize," said Treeya "I would believe an explosion occurred inside the Collector ship itself,"
"What about the colonists," asked Messner "They were in there, wait I see something."
He takes looks through the scope and noticed swirling mass appeared nearby, then all of a sudden the colonists started to run out of the swirling mass, they kept on coming as thousands and thousands of people swarmed out. A lot more than expected until it was everyone followed by a man a man all three of them recognized and who helped Commander Shepard from previous news broadcasts Gordon Freeman alias the-one-free-man.
"By the goddess," said Treeya "Is that Gordon Freeman,"
"Yeah it's him," said Vega "And the rest of delta squad is ok,"
10 minutes later
The collector ship is very much in pieces on the landscape of the planet as the colonists, including another colony of colonists have been saved in which Gordon Freeman showed up in the nick of time, as he is greeted by Vega and the others.
"Damn you know how to make a dramatic entrance," said Vega
"It was the least I can do," said Gordon "I did sneaked abroad the collector ship, I did acquire a lot of information about these guys"
"How did you get on board in the first place," said Treeya
"Well it's a long story," said Gordon "And I hate to break it to you people, but there is more than one collector ship out there, here I am transferring information to you to get to the alliance,"
He uses his own omni-tool to transfer information to Vega and the others.
"Good, the alliance will put it to good use," said Vega "Now the story,"
Freedoms Progress: Terminus system
A portal opened up in one of the alley in Freedom's Progress and Gordon Freeman stepped out of the portal. He had the coordinates of this dimension, so he decided to visit once again and see how Shepard is doing. It appeared to be night time outside and he noticed a sign that read Freedom's Progress. He walked to a nearby building and found a computer console in which he wondered what has been going on since he has been gone from this dimension.
Using the holographic keyboard of his omni tool, he discovered human colonies were under attack by a strange force, also Shepard is dead. No details available about it and mostly politics. He turned it off and kept on walking around the colony as everything appears to be normal like humans, a few machines and a single Quarian wandering around as the Quarian noticed Gordon for a moment as he or it went elsewhere.
Gordon figured the Quarian must be on one of those pilgrimages as the one called Tali told him about. Suddenly a large shadow loomed over the sky as Gordon dropped out of sight for a moment in which swarms of bugs started to attack the colonists and froze people in their place. He activated his personal cloaking device to stay invisible for awhile and suddenly he spotted creatures he has never seen before as these creatures started to collect these people by taking them back to their ship.
He saw the Quarian had ran into one of the rooms and locked the door to keep himself safe, Gordon decided to follow these creatures as the ship is in a lower orbit above this freedoms progress and from the files he checked out there are over nine- hundred thousand people here and with quick efficiently they had all been taken away very easy. Rocking up there into the ship would attract too much attention.
So instead he teleported into the ship by using his personal teleport program and finally beaming aboard he found himself in a whole new world as he could see the people were being put in pods. These creatures are not the Combine, however he will do whatever he can to help, however with too many people inside this ship it would cause a problem and has no idea what he is up against. He moved quietly until he found a display console.
Let's see what we have here, thought Gordon
Using the omni-tool he downloaded the data and examined it himself. Hmmm! Collectors that is their name, dark space is where they are from and not much information as in why they are collecting humans. Also the information stored as a reference to another ship. He had found what he is looking for and discovered a dead one of these collectors; he used the omni-tool to do a DNA scan and cross-referenced it to any other species.
A match was found as these collectors were Protheans the one's that disappeared over fifty thousand years ago; however Gordon was there when the Reaper A.I spoke so he suspected the Reapers wiped out the Protheans. More important now is to save the people and saving this man would attract too much attention as the Collectors would kill colonists. He formulated several theories as in how as he felt the ship has now left Freedoms Progress and used the Mass Rely. Then it hit him as he has an idea.
"Time to do what I do best," muttered Gordon
He simply used a narrow beam teleportation program to create a milti-dimensional teleport as in a way to teleport all nine-hundred thousand people at once to another dimension. He is a warrior/scientist who is also a genius and it worked in which he had never done this before until now. He'll save the praise for later and he'll need to bring the ship down as he went to look around for an ammo depot on board the collector ship, also he secretly planted some explosives on board.
Also from the computer he got the layout of the ship as it can prove useful later and suddenly he felt the ship coming out of the mass rely in which he understands the Collector ship must be near another human colony. For these collectors haven't noticed his presence and went on to doing what they are doing before by collecting humans from another human colony. He noticed the bugs are seeker swarms to incapacitate people. Then the collectors started to take people away. Oh no not this time.
He simply used his multi-dimension teleportation program to simply teleport the people away into another dimension. The collectors despite having no facial features were amazed in people simply just vanishing, just like that. Who could have done this and why? Then one of them is acting fun and a loud booming voice is heard in the background.
"WE ARE HABRINGER," said the enhanced collector "WHO DARES INTERFER IN WHAT WE HAVE HARVISTED."
Gordon uncloaked himself as the Collectors readied their weapons.
"Hey stupid don't mess with humanity," said Gordon "See you in hell,"
"WHAT-"bellowed the enhanced collector
Gordon teleported away and then an explosion rocked the ship in which it is out of control.
"So the rest of these people are from Freedoms progress," said Vega
"That's correct," said Gordon "I used a multi-dimensional portal to teleport people to another dimension to keep them safe and you saw the rest as this is everybody,"
"Most impressive," said Treeya "I wish you didn't had to damage the ship, oh well what is done is done,"
"Thanks," said Vega "Saves us the trouble of kicking their asses,"
"It was the least I can do," said Gordon "Perhaps we will see each other again someday,"
"I would like that," said Vega
Gordon then walked away as he'll explore this dimension some more.
Elsewhere prior to events
A middle-aged man is sitting in his seat and is smoking, while looking at a large screen of a red sun and a beautiful black haired woman with medium sized breasts, athletic and tight fitting clothing stands besides him.
"We need a leader. And surround him with the brightest, the toughest, the deadliest allies we can find." said the man
"Shepard did everything right. More than we could've hoped for," said the woman
"We're at war. No one wants to admit it, but humanity is under attack." said the man
"The Council will never trust Cerberus, they'll never accept our help. Even after everything humanity has accomplished. But Shepard...they'll follow him. He's a hero, a bloody icon...but he's just one man," said the woman
"What concerns me is there is not just one threat humanity has to deal with," said the man "A dimensional empire bent on conquering other dimensions….The Combine."
"The One-free-man," said the woman "Gordon Freeman, will he be able to help us."
"That remains to be seen," said the man
Freedoms progress after the mission
Shepard, Miranda and Jacob had finished the mission in which they met up with the Quarian Tali and got the information they needed from a unstable Quarian in which Shepard decided to hand over to Tali, much to the chagrin of Miranda. Veetor pondered on this for a moment.
"There is also something else," said Veetor "A stranger I have never seen before,"
"Who," asked Shepard
Veetor showed the footage of Gordon being there.
"Well I'll be dammed Gordon is back," said Shepard
"You think the collectors captured him," said Jacob
"No, he is too smart for that," said Miranda "But where did he go to, Cerberus has been trying to find him."
"Never mind that now," said Shepard "Let's move out we got what we came for, nice to see you again Tali,"
"You too," said Tail "I wonder what Gordon has been up to,"
Cerberus space station
After a long talk between Shepard and the Illusive man there is a pause as the Illusive man is handed a report as he looked at it for a moment in which Shepard wondered what is going on as the man just smirked a little bit.
"It seems your old friend Gordon has been busy," said man
"How so," asked Shepard
"He saved the Freedom progress colonists, and then saved the colonists on Fehl Prime," said IM "Also destroyed a collector ship and gave intelligence on them to the Alliance,"
"Damn he's been busy," said Shepard "You want me to recruit him,"
"Yes of course," said IM "Now get on with your mission,"
Chapter: 103
Trouble on Haestrom