#First of all, I want to thank everybody that even read that first chapter, still now it is "kind of" shit, meaning very shitty but it means a lot for me that some people even took their time to read through it and review/favorite/follow it. if you have some questions about this story just feel free to write it to me. I'm not going to ramble a lot more but there is bad grammar or I mean I have a hard time writing down a scene from my head to written English, yeah that's the best way to out it. #
*OF COURSE, I DONT OWN ANYTHING MASS EFFECT RELATED, OR SOME OF THE OTHER NAMES USED, THE ONE THING I MAYBE OWN ARE MY OC, THTS OF COURSE IS IF NOT BIOWARE PULLS A BLIZZARD*
I have been with the geth some weeks now, the thing is without the need for sleep you can plow through a lot in just that time. I have been learning about the other species+human in the geths own "codex", it turns out that they have A LOT of spies, the one thing I think is weird, without all speaking of this alternative universe crap putting me in a video game world, is how fast they seemingly accepted me. I asked them about this and they just said that they have reached a consensus regarding me, hmm think they are starting too like me or something.
Anyway, this geth body or workstation the geth like to call this is so fucking weird having, weird arms, weird legs, fucked up eyesight etc.
But it is slowly growing on me, and we have started to work on my own new body, it does not take that much time when you can work day and night.
One thing we found out in the testing is that I could use an organic body if I would like to, clinging the nervous system to my crystal, so it seems like organic interactions are possible if you catch my drift.
We have also done more testing with my crystal trying to "steal" information from there and what we could gather is that it seems like I still have total control over the signals coming out.
One of the "bad" things that showed up from testing is that the crystal needs energy too not get into hibernation mode, so in theory, I could use an organic body, but that would just mean that I would have almost no time to do anything else when eat too get enough energy to stay "awake", so our current design is synthetic and yeah I know that will probably not sit right with a lot of people but it's just more effective to just have a power source that is energy efficient for both the crystal and rest of the body.
The frame or skeleton of my new body is built of a vanadium alloy that helps build up a strong core of the body. The crystal is going to have a "cocoon" of sorts with plates protecting it from outside damage, also many connections to my "nervous system". It is going to sit behind the "ribcage".
Surprisingly the geth had a lot of research on how to make synthetic biotics but as said before they did not see the reason for it because they can just build stronger and bigger combat stations if needed or just use stealth, but with us finding out that my crystal could be used as an eezo core we began integrating nodes in the body's nervous system, maybe I can't be a biotic but anyway I can still then make myself weight more or less and that's always a plus.
The generator we are using to make power for the crystal to not become "tired" or go into hibernation mode, is, funnily enough, a miniature fusion reactor sitting in the abdomen area, the geth said that it could be on for almost 4 years straight without needing refueling or a discharge. I was impressed then they said it used deuterium that smashed together to make helium, though that was pretty neat because that was used in our old theories of fusion energy back in my time.
However, if I would want to I could just stop using the generator if something would break or on those lines and just rig myself too another power source plus we built-in batteries that would give power for around 48 earth hours, we had that smart thought too.
For muscles, we used normal geth synthetic tissue, one thing I did not know that amazed me was that the tissue could be repaired by conventional medical technology. But then again when I think of the games it did had med stations in some geth facilities that worked for Shepard and the crew. We have gotten some cool eyes tho, they almost look like normal human eyes, but on the brighter scale, they are bright blue with a hint of green in them, like my old ones but brighter and more synthetic, hopefully they can fool somebody.
Speaking of Shepard and the crew I have realized that it is almost 7 years too even the first game and the attack on Eden Prime from the heretics. I talked with the geth if all geth was united under a single banner but they told me that it does exist a splinter group that they call just that: the Heretics so it seems like Nazara/Sovereign exists. I have given a lot of thought of this because should Sovereign exist he games I hope are true also and that brings us to another big problem: the butterfly effect, but I have a somewhat of solution for this and that is that I am going to hopefully be in the Terminus for along time and just hide from more civilized space, that would also help me with being targeted by authorities( I am some kind of robot/cyborg after all).
But then again when again why would I even try to join them? Shepard end the crew won the reaper war so why would they even need my help, but I have a fuckton of time to think about this so that's not even a question for tomorrow.
Then we have the next problem: training, yeah I have a good chunk of 150-year-old military training and some street smarts mixed in, but I don't think that is going to help me a long way in this hyper combat-heavy reality that I now live in. But that is going to a problem for another day, can always do some merc or bounty jobs, this new body is going to be a lot more utilized for combat than a normal human one so I think that will help me along the way.
I have also gotten my own Omni-tool, but with not so much to do on it yet, slow extranet service is the biggest reason here(it took almost 3 hours just too pirate a normal 3-minute song!), I have wherefore just used it to look on some sites, etc.
One thing I know tho is that I don't want to be stuck with the geth for a decade or something like that, they are nice don't get me wrong but I am starting to miss speaking with people with different voices then that clicking even voice or people with personalities. I have not yet taken this up with them, don't want to be rude after all this they have done for me but I will start hinting about it in a month or so.
Ohh and I have started with on dossier for myself it maybe would come in handy in the future, and it is with some "slight" tweaks of course:
Name: Alexander Böhm
Sex: Male
Year of birth: 2150 Alliance Calendar
Place of birth: Earth/Europe/Scandinavia
Languages: English, Swedish, German
Height: 6'4/196cm
Eye color: Blue
Hair color: Dark brown
Naah this was fucking stupid, It feels like I have done an online dating profile, never mind will continue chit-chatting with my new best friends.
Some time passed, I don't really know how long being awake all the time kind of messes with our internal clock. We are almost done with my new body now with all the heavy work is done and it is starting to look nice, maybe creepy now with all the muscle out almost looks like a damn hopper but it is gonna get better with the synthetic skin, it's gonna be nice with a "prober" human body instead of this geth body.
One big problem I found that is terrifying: I don't have any taste buds, how the fuck are I gonna enjoy the finer things in life? The geth wondered why this would be such a big problem but I just waved them away and said that this part is not negotiable, it seems like they accepted that.
We came up with an idea, a short "digestive tract" that just ended in a small burner with an exhaust pipe somewhere, gonna let you use your imagination for where it ends.
The taste buds problem was already solved back in my days and have since then gotter a lot better with just using MEMS technology combining it with some chemical-engineering the problem was gone in just a few hours, yeah geth work super fast. Smell could also be fixed with this solution so I am not complaining.
On another note, it seems like I have become some sort of celebrity with the geth, I have always some groups of units following me around and talking with me, maybe nice too get some other perspective on life and all its meanings or just talking with an organic is nice?
And on yet another note, the geth I spoke too firstly when I was sucked in here is wanting a speak it seems like.
"Hello, we would like to speak with you regarding something". It said with that still even voice.
"Are you bringing me on a date first or later?" I quipped.
"We do not understand what you are implying". It said.
"Nothing, just fucking with you"- I said with and cheerful voice -" What was it you wanted?"
"We would like to show you something, something that will be a source of amazement". It said.
"What is it then?" I chuckled or clicked, kind of hard to tell with my geth voice.
"It will be a surprise". It said with a hint of amusement?
I "narrowed" my eye and smirked my faceplates flapping around, "Are you deceiving me?" I said.
"No". It said with the most monotone voice I have ever heard a geth use.
I just chuckled at that and began to continue "work" on my super important extranet searches.
I was mostly looking at a Volus web market, it was selling something very cool, VI voice algorithms. I was here because I have had some more thoughts on my new body because I am not going to need too even breathe so my body is not going to move if I standstill. This will prove a problem if I want to blend in with other organics, god I'm starting to sound like the geth, so if I use a VI to simulate normal human subconscious movements when I'm not going too need to imitate them myself. I'm here because they have all kinds of voices, all the old copyrights from games and movies have gone out and are now public domain actors have come in and imitated them for VI use. Under the human retro games, a lot of things exist, taking a trip to memory lane I searched for hours for different voices. I had begun to narrow it down between two games: Warcraft 3 and Starcraft, yeah I was an RTS fan when I was a young little shit-head.
After some more time, I had finally found my favorite: Zeratul, holy fuck when I heard his voice I almost thought I was back sitting and playing on my dads old W95 being like 9 and didn't understand a shit me being just that 9 and Swedish but I had fun anyway. Gonna quit reminiscing now have some more "work" to do.
I have had a thought that has been nagging on me for a while now. Why are the geth even helping me? Yeah I know I'm a charming young "geth" but I don't see the reason too why they would even help me, and I have broth up the point now that I'm going to leave this place for the greater galaxy at some point, yes I'm going to call back of course but why even waste resources on an organic, a human at that. Going to get Omnius(Dune of course), my new nickname for that first geth I meet.
Getting up from my place on a container just called out its, hers or his? Series number:
"Listen up I want to chat with 40000AAC0 like now please" I called out knowing all the geth in the walls in this facility would pick up on it, and maybe now you see the need for a nickname.
Oh, this facility is very cool, it is researching a lot of different things, mostly "alien" tech mostly like some new flashy alliance weapons or some armor from some big corporation to either find weak points or just find good shit they can integrate.
Hearing a metal clang it seems Omnius finally shows up, expressionless as ever.
"Yes, you wanted to see us". Omnius called out.
"Hello my favorite geth in the whole galaxy, mister Omnius my geth I have a question for you". I said "smiling" with my top plates out and arms right out in the air. 'Serious if I just take some good picture like this scene the geth will be accepted in no time'.
"What is the question?". Omnius said not giving me anything for my wordplay, I just tried to roll my eyes but surprise surprise geth eye!
"I just want to know why the geth have even helped me, I'm not saying that I don't appreciate the help but it seems like helping me is just a waste of resources". I said.
"We reached the consensus that helping would give back interesting data, we don't interact with organics this way so the advantages for information first hand outweighed the resource cost". Omnius said.
"Hmm okay seems like I still got the better deal". I said, narrowing my eye.
"You are the first organic not terrified of us in 300 years, the data exchange is priceless, fewer units voice heretic points in the consensus since after the split"- Omnius began -" We do also appreciate our talks of philosophy".
"Okay, I see your points then, on another note how much time do you estimate my new body as away from completion?" I said.
"96 Earth Hours is our estimate for completion on all but small details". Ominous said.
I narrowed my eye and "smiled" for that later part, I had expressed my opinion on how it was detrimental to have a member for more…. Eeeh close encounters with organics.
"Did you just make a joke". I asked, chuckling.
"We geth don't make jokes"- Omnius said and I just smiled at that-" Should we begin to work or talk more?". Omnius said evenly.
"Work sounds good". I said as I began to walk to our project.
The 4 days passed in a blur, with work and talking with Omnius the time passed quickly. I think I am beginning to rub off on Omnius, in the beginning, it was always so serious, etc now It cracks the occasional joke and sometimes even has another tone when neutral even. The 2 last days we worked mostly with the details for it before we inserted me in it and cover with skin. My Zeratul voiced VI have been inserted and tested, we built 4 connection ports for outside help either with energy or giving out power, One right under the neck and 1 on each chest and one between them. I thought that repairing the insides or just looking would be hard when all the skin comes on later but I can just cut in the right area and open up, do my thing and then just seal it up again with an Omni-tool.
Now me, Omnius and some more geth are standing in front of my new body, prepping in for my insertion. I must say, it looks very intimidating, broad shoulders, big fucking muscles, no skin yet, the height is not that intimidating now because I am in a geth but for other humans, I am going to be far beyond average height with this 6'4 stature and also the piercing blue eyes are not either something to scoff at.
We began opening up my geth, disconnecting everything, it feels fucking weird being just a crystal again, too only see everything through a blue tint.
After that they attached a soft shell around me and then the plates, me just making a visualization in my head because I was of course blinded at the time.
They attached the necessary wires and stuff and I could begin to feel as my new body booted up.
"We are online". Said a low echoing voice almost making me jump.
"What's our status Zeratul?". I said.
"Everything is operational, calibrating body movements". It said.
I started too "breathe" slowly by Zeratuls accord, then I stretched firstly my arms and then my legs, simultaneously rolling my shoulders to feel in the new body. I looked at the geth and just smiled: " This is fucking amazing" I said.
"We are glad it is adequate". Omnius said with a quick flex of the head plates.
"Hahaha this is more than adequate "- I said with a shit-eating grin, fuck if they were anything but geth I think they would be already running terrified, Me standing here skin-less just smiling.
-" should we begin strapping on the skin?" I asked.
"Not yet, we want to make sure everything is acceptable first". Omnius said.
"Okay, what should we do then?" I asked.
"Test course"- Omnius said -" Follow us".
We began to follow a hallway there I don't I have ever been, but then again geth buildings are not that big on the aesthetic side, everything is just a boring gray so I can just have forgotten about it. Omnius walked up to an unmarked door, pressed a panel, and just like that that the door displayed green instead of red, I wonder why all species use this door standard.
Inside there looked just to be a simple course, some containers here and there, a big clear floor in the middle, then 2 gigantic like 28' high containers just standing a few feet apart.
"What now?" I asked looking around.
"Test for muscle hold up"- Omnius began -" sprint 4 times around the clear area".
"Okay". I started, and holy fuck it was super easy it was maybe 640 feet total and I did it in 9 seconds breaking Usain Bolt's record with half a second plus a hundred meters.
The geth came up to and ran a diagnosis test, when stepped aside.
"Now then?" I asked.
"Long jump as you humans would call it"- Omnius said -" Stand on that marker, and jump forward". Omnius said pointing at a mark in the middle of the clear space.
"Will do," I said walking there.
I bent my knees to get some spring action and just lept and faceplanted 35' forward' I guess that I'm lucky that I can't feel any pain'…
Shit, this is embarrassing, took a glance at the geth just for me to see them walking to me.
"Interesting, it seems training is needed". Omnius stated with a higher pitch when normal.
I narrowed my eyes and just shook my head rambling quiet about joking flashlights.
After a quick test to see that everything was in order, which it was, I got ready for the next "challenge" these geth would throw at me.
"Strength test, first 200ibs, then 400ibs"- Omnius began and I just stood there hoping it would not ramble up every weight class… seems like I was out of luck -" then 2000ibs".
"Okay let's start with this then". I signed.
I started lifting the different weighted containers, these geth muscles are fucking amazing I clocked out at a 1200ibs because the muscles started spasming a little but I kid you not everything up to 600 felt-like leaves. But then your new body weighs almost 500ibs and has specialized muscles for purposes like these it's maybe not "that" impressive.
The geth checked up on me again, but nothing seemed wrong so we continued my test.
"Last test: Wall jump"- Omnius announced pointed at the two 28' high containers -" Objective: scale them".
"How?" I asked just looking at it 'How the fuck will I scale that? It's more than four times my height.'
"However you wish". Omnius said evenly but I could swear I saw a twitch in its head plates.
"Fucking oven". I mumbled and started trying to think of a way up. 'Wait Omnius said wall jump, isn't that a platformer game move? Like jumping from wall too wall? Might as well test it out'. I thought and shrugging.
I started with just trying to jump from one side to the other one, and that did not go so great at first. I was just stumbling around first but after some tries, I worked out how to jump to one side, to the other, and then back. But let me tell you this was hard.
"There the fuck did you get this idea from?" I asked Omnius with a hint of frustration.
"Human vids". Omnius stated.
"What kind, of the adult variety?" I teased.
"No, something you called "parkour"- Omnius said with a flat voice -"We geth don't understand you organics fixation reproduction".
"It can be hard not to be able to get hard". I quipped.
"Enough, get back to the test, a hint: element zero". Omnius said with that stereotypical even voice, but I did not miss the head plates flapping around 'haha got you this time'.
I thought about Omnius said and laid out my plan. It took some time, maybe an hour or something too even figure out how I would use the eezo nodes, but I figured it out and started testing, now I was very glad that I did not have any pain receptors and just touch, because let me tell you I fell a lot. But with some eezo calibration mid-jump and a lot of momentum, I finally reached the top. I let out a victory roar. I looked down and was shocked, how would I get down now? Just jump? No thanks. 'Holy fuck that's pretty high, hmm I have an Idea'
I cranked the eezo, making my mass lighter and then I cranked some more and just jumped.
I began to fall as slow as a feather and took aim at a spot beside Omnius, I hit the ground after some seconds. "Seems like the nodes work just fine". I said with a smile.
"Yes, it seems they do work"- Omnius said -" Last diagnosis now". Omnius said and pointed at the other geth, which they obliged. When they were done I asked Omnius if we should clothe me now, to which he nodded of all things to 'more evidence for my theory!' I thought.
We walked back to our workplace or what that was the mysterious machine room, the one that dragged me here, soon we or I mean they started to prepare for skin placement, I just took a place and locked my self in place.
Sometime later I was standing in front of some polished metal, the geth did not have any mirrors. I was definitely not creepy anymore, or maybe a little bit was still butt-naked but anyway. I was checking over my face firstly for any anomalies but did not see any, Zeratul was hooked up now to and the VI did not either find anything wrong. Seems like Omnius had thought more about my looks when even me, I had not even given hair a thought but now I was standing here with a notable brown buzzcut and a 5 o'clock shadow, straight from the Alliance. I look like a normal grunt, only taller, more buff, and the 4 shiny connection ports on me, but that's should not be a problem because the normal person is never hopefully going to even see anything other than my face. Omnius told me that the synthetic hair could grow longer at my command, not like in a second or something but in a few days, Zeratul could produce some inches of hair.
Only my head had any hair at all, it would be redundant to even have any elsewhere.
When I was standing there flexing and looking me over I could hear metal meeting metal behind me, I turned around and almost in panic brought up my hands to defend myself against the thrown object, but it just slammed softly over my hands and I just looked at Omnius questionably.
"What is this?" I asked feeling the soft but elastic material 'almost feels like a diving suit' I thought.
"Armor underclothing". Omnius said.
"Why?" I said playing dumb.
"Put it on". Omnius said and I could feel it roll its eye, to which I just chuckled.
I put it on and looked at Omnius, "Now what?" I asked.
Omnius lifted a big box with one hand and waved me closer when I did Omnius just gave it to me.
"Open it up". Omnius said with a hint of excitement, which prompted me to furrow my new brow, 'It is obviously armor, but with all this excitement it must be something more'.
I opened it up and looked at Omnius with confusion.
"Is this Krogan armor?"- I asked still with confusion, reading the label: -" Batarian State Arms: Heavy Partisan, do I get a Krogan to?" I tried to ask genuinely.
"Was Krogan armor, modified for your use, and no, you get no krogan". Omnius said.
"Ooh, you had me hoping that I would get a pet krogan". I chuckled.
"Test it". Omnius said, and me being the good boy that I'm doing as it commanded.
The armor was very heavy compared with a normal human heavy armor, or I at least think because I haven't have had the opportunity to even test one out, but for me it was pretty light, felt good too, the geth knows refittings it seems like. But I asked Omnius why I did get a krogan armor of all things and it told me the krogan armor have better protection and they had some laying around, when I asked how that would come to be Omnius just said "Non-welcome visitors", so now I have an old pirate Krogans armor and what more?
"Look again in the box". Omnius said, to which I did, when I say what it was I let out an excited "Nice", smiling I took out the pistol and what was something I only could identify as a rifle but it was somewhat familiar.
"What guns are these?" I asked looking big eyes on my new guns, maybe not new but new for me at least.
"The first one is what the merc group Bloodpack call an Executioner Pistol, high penetration but normally terrible heatsinks, we have upgraded this one for your pleasure, also from an unwanted visitor"- Omnius began with me just standing there chuckling for its later remark -" the other is an M-7 Lancer, it was obtained after your species First Contact for the study of human technology and history, it is not anymore needed for study and was just, as you humans say "gathering dust", it was agreed upon that it would serve you better". Omnius said.
"Well thanks so much then"- I said with a wide grin -" but I have a problem, I don't have any training with this kind of weapons or even tactics, all of my training is more than 150 years old, and that means outdated as fuck, good gear can only hold your hand for a while". I said thinking back to my Bootcamp days.
"Then we could change that". Omnius said fast, almost eagerly, 'More evidence' I thought and chuckled.
"Well, there's no time like the present, let's get started shall we?". I said.
A month passed with me and Omnius training almost around the clock, that let me get back into shotting for pretty quickly, I'm nowhere the best at shooting but I'm clearly better when your average grunt maybe even special forces level now after this. But shooting was not the only thing we trained, I rusted of my hand to hand combat and quickly began to be better when the normal geth stations, but if you had a geth prime withing the vicinity it got a lot harder.
Omnius showed me some tech-attacks and taught me some "easy" hacking, easy for geth maybe but it definitely took some time for me to get it into my perfect memory.
We had also a lot of conversations about almost everything, human "classical" culture meaning my old one, geth history a lot of different subjects. Me and Omnius also talked about when I would leave and it seems like it will be soon that I do it, I would be lying if I said I would not miss Omnius and the geth but I most spread my wings so to say. Omnius said that before I leave that we had to visit a special place for the geth, my big surprise that it hinted about some months ago.
I was standing with my back against the wall and looking through my Omni-tool, my armor on as usual now. 'Hmm the date is now 15 of October 2176, so I have only been here for just under 3 months, it feels almost like years at this point, guess that would be so if you have been awake the whole time…' I thought, reminiscing of my time here, 'It is still a little more than 6 years to the Eden Prime attack, so I have a long time ahead of me'. I stopped daydreaming when I heard loud clings, metal against metal, coming my way.
"Yes, Omnius?" I asked looking up.
"We are going to Rannoch". Was the answer.
#After this maybe the pace will start to pick up? Who knows, not you at least ;), feels good to be done with most of the boring shit about my OCs new body and all that, it's boring as a high school party with only awkward strangers to write(been there done that), maybe to read also? But then again I want to thank you all for the good reception the first part got, still think it is crazy it got 12 favorites and like 30 follows in just 3 days, my shitty story seems to be of interest so I will pop out some more chapters soon, this time I don't know when but sometime next week probably, I have some personal shit to be done now but I hopefully will make another one before this Friday.#
mk0008: Thanks! :)
Warder117: Thanks, I have some more ideas that I would want to test out but lack the skill to pull off.