Thank you for reviewing so quickly, I'll make the pairing Ben/Tali, if you have anything you might want to happen later just tell me. I'll try to work it in. I fixed some of the errors, I've been double spacing between sentences, let me know if I missed something.
It was dark, Carmine couldn't open his eyes. He could here voices, strange voices. Some were human while others were a language he had never encountered before in his life. He feared Locust, but the voices were to smooth. He tried to move, but his arms wouldn't comply, nor would his legs. He felt useless.
He felt his helmet being lifted off of his head as he was laid out on a table of some sort. Light shined on his eye lids as they were pried open, a light being shined in his eye. He tried to close his eyes, or turn his head, resulting in the person jolting from him. He heard the strange voices again, a man in the background saying something. Carmine blacked out again as a wave of cool and warm spread through him.
Mordin's POV
Mordin watched as the man was carried in by a Turian and a Batarian. The man was easily two and a half meters tall, very strong looking. Mordin guessed the man was dead because of the smell of burning flesh that come from him. His weapons were strange, looked very primitive, looked very effective.
" Daniel, remove his helmet. We need to identify what species he is, and to determine if he is alive." Mordin said to his waiting assistant. Daniel nodded and slowly pulled off the large humanoids helmet, revealing the scarred face of a young man. A flurry of tribal tattoos covered the left side of his face, their purpose unknown. The man had scars on the right side of his face where ever the veins got close to the surface. They looked like electrical burns, they had fused his mouth shut.
" Hmm, very interesting." Mordin pulled out a scalpel and approached the body. " Human Male, roughly in his early twenties. His mouth has been sealed by being burned together. His hair is brown, hasn't shaved recently, thin brown beard. Eyes are sealed as well." Mordin took the scalpel and cut the eyelids open. Mordin jumped as he noticed the eyes of the man moving
" Quickly, get me some medi-gel, this man is still alive!" Mordin quickly applied the medi-gel and noticed the man go slack. He had fallen into unconsciousness. It was likely for the best, Mordin continued to cut open the mouth, allowing the man to breath more clearly.
" Dr. Solus, I'm going to go to search for more people that are infected with the plague." Daniel left the room, leaving Mordin to deal with the giant lying on his operating table.
His head was aching, his body sore, but he could move. He lifted his arm to his head to wipe the sweat from his brow. His helmet was missing, but he was alive at least. He sat up and opened his eyes, taking in the surroundings. It looked like a storage room filled with medical equipment. His body was sore, his skin felt like leather. He just sat on the table, he didn't know where he was, or if he was even still in the same dimension as before. Carmine looked at his feet resting on the ground, his armor was still blue, but it looked like he had just been set on fire, scorch marks covered his armor. He noticed his helmet laying on a table next to the back wall, so he got up and walked over to it.
Carmine knew it was fried before he even picked it up. The optics were cracked and one was actually busted out. He looked inside the helmet and sure enough, the liner was burnt and the electronics were fried. He placed the helmet on the table and picked up his lancer. His lancer had taken a beating, but it was still in operational condition, so he placed it on his back. He picked up the long shot rifle and looked through the scope, the rifle was fine, he placed it on is back as well. He picked up the ammunitions for his weapons on the table and placed them in respective pouches and webbings around his armor. He gripped the COG standard issue jungle knife and gave it a few practice swings before placing back on his shoulder.
He heard voices coming from the next room, he pulled the revolver he usually kept at his side from his thigh, and slowly approached the doorway. Leaning out he noticed, robots? Robots with guns were walking around guarding the area. He waited for a group to go by before he walked to the room across from him, barely being able to stand straight up and walk through the door.
He rushed into the room and hid behind the crates next to the door, peaking out to observe the what was in the room. He noticed a man in the middle of a group of creatures! But they weren't trying to kill him? In fact, it looked like they were friends, except for the frog like one. The man had short buzzed hair and gave off an aura of confidence. To his left was a tall, reptilian looking being, most likely male. He was shorter then him, but so were the rest of them. He was grey and looked kind of like a grasshopper. The frog man was talking fast, didn't understand him, but he talked like he was full on caffeine supplements. Finally was a woman, human, and very attractive. She had black hair and wore a very tight white outfit. Carmine was respectful though and turned his full attention back to the group as a whole.
He slowly walked out of cover with his revolver pointed at the group and slowly walked towards them. He stopped about five feet from them and raised his voice.
" Turn around slowly, and keep your hands where I can see them." Carmine ordered, his voice was deep and rough, not like his usual voice. The people turned around slowly and kept their hands from their weapons. The man in the middle decided to speak to him.
" Who are you? And can you please put the gun down, sir?" He seemed like a good guy, his eyes didn't lie at least. Carmine kept the gun up and stood firmly in place.
" Not until I get some answers." The man nodded and motioned for me to continue. " Where am I and why can't I understand those two next to you?" Carmine said as he pointed with his left hand to the two aliens. The man looked at him and got a serious look on his face. He put his hands down and crossed them.
" Your on Omega, a space station in the terminus systems. As to why you can't understand Professor Solus or Garrus? I'm guessing you lost your Omni-tool, here take these," The man threw him a chip on a wrist band and an earpiece. He placed the chip around his wrist and noticed a large orange array of panels cover his arm briefly before fading. He placed the earpiece and noticed he could understand the aliens.
" -ay, so would you please put that gun down?" The grasshopper asked. He nodded and put the pistol into he side holster. I looked down at them, raising an eyebrow. The man in the middle of the group nodded again.
" Hi, I'm Commander John Sheppard of the Normandy." He nodded at him and looked to the Grasshopper.
" Names Garrus Vakarian, I advise that you don't point that gun at me again." Carmine nodded again, looking towards the woman and waited patiently. She looked to Shepard an rolled her eyes.
" My name is Miranda Lawson of the Normandy." He nodded again and looked to the frog man, he nodded quickly and started to speak.
" Hello, name is Mordin Solus. I'm the one who helped you when you were brought here." He extended a hand, Carmine shook it.
" Alright, we told you, now you tell us, who are you?" asked Shepard. Carmine just stood there and nodded his head once.
" Alright, I'll give you that much. Private Benjamin Carmine, sir." Carmine saluted and straightened up. " I was hoping that you could explain how I -" the lights and air vents shut down, emergency power came back up, drowning the room in a red glow. He looked to the group for an answer.
" what's going on?" Carmine asked, the doctor looked to the rest of the group and started to look a little frantic.
" Vorcha have shut down environmental systems. Trying to kill everyone. Need to get power back on before district suffocates." said Mordin as he checked his Omni-tool. " Here, take plague cure. Also, bonus in good faith. Weapon from dead Blue suns mercs. May come in handy against Vorcha." He handed Shepard a large pistol. " One more thing. Daniel. One of my assistants. Went into Vorcha territory. Looking for victims. Hasn't come back."
" Alright, let's get to the environmental systems." Shepard said, turning to leave.
" Let me come with you, I can help you guys with these 'Vorcha', but can you at least tell me what they are? " said Carmine. He was wanting to get a look around anyways, besides, Shepard was probably his only way off of this station. Shepard looked thoughtful for a few moments. Carmine watched intently, hoping that the man would let him come along.
" Can you fight? Because I don't want you coming along and dieing, I've got enough blood on my hands." Shepard looked Ben straight in his eyes. Carmine nodded his head.
" Yes sir, I was trained by some of the best soldiers on my planet." Carmine stood tall and kept a straight face. Shepard nodded, and we headed out of the room. We were in what looked like a medical clinic. He noticed a lot of different species in the room, humans, People like Garrus, and something with four eyes that looked human.
" The Vorcha are a race of strange insect like beings, they only live about twenty years and they have faces only a mother could love. Alright, let's go get those controls back online." We rushed out of the door, heading to the environmental control district.
They had walked out of the clinic and straight into a massive group of enemies. Carmine had his Lancer out and ran to cover.
" Vorcha!" Shepard yelled whilst diving behind a crate. He held what looked like a sniper rifle in his hands, Garrus doing the same. Miranda had a machine pistol out and ready to fire. Carmine guessed that these were the Vorcha, besides the fact that Shepard had yelled it out. Carmine stood up and unleashed lancer fire at the Vorcha in front of him. The rounds unleashed from the Lancer tore through the bodies, shredding off limbs and decapitating Vorcha. The steel rounds of the lancer tore through the leather armors of the Vorcha troops, igniting the fuel tanks of flamethrower wielding Vorcha, causing them to explode and spread their contents onto their comrades.
Shepard couldn't believe it, that giants rifle was shredding the Vorcha, it was terrifying. Shepard leaned out to see what was ahead, when he spotted a large Krogan barreling towards Carmine.
" Carmine! Krogan coming your way!" Carmine looked straight ahead, noticing a very locust like lizard running towards him. He aimed his lancer at the Krogan, firing off the rest of his clip. The rounds only dented and chipped the armor, the ones that did make it through not having any affect, he wasn't going to be able to reload in time. Carmine flipped Lancer over so that the chainsaw was facing up, and revved it up. He charged at the Krogan with a loud yell, the two met in the middle of the room, and he jammed the saw into the gut of the Krogan. The chainsaw revved and screamed as Carmine yelled and pulled the chainsaw up through the Krogan, cutting the him in half, orange blood and ooze covering Carmine, orange blood pouring to the ground. The room was covered in the blood of the Vorcha and the Krogan, Carmine reloaded his Lancer without problem.
" What the hell was that? Think you can teach me? " Asked Garrus with a smirk on his face. Carmine turned to face them, blood and chunks of Krogan covering his body. He looked like he cut his way out of hell.
" Guess that answers the question of if you can fight or not, come on, we need to keep moving. " Shepard jogged ahead of the group, leading them through the doors.
Carmine had fallen to the back of the group, leaving the three ahead alone in silence. The walk to the control station was coming to a close. Carmine had been tearing through more Vorcha and Krogan. Miranda walked up next to Shepard.
" Shepard, we need to talk." She stated. Shepard gave her a look and returned his gaze forward.
" About what, exactly?" asked Shepard. He was getting used to having that giant Carmine around. The man grew on you.
" We need talk about the eight foot tall behemoth behind us that was sawing Krogans in half a few moments ago. You know when I report this to Cerberus, they'll want to study him." Miranda was her usual cold self, seemingly not caring about what happened to Carmine.
" They won't get the chance." said Shepard.
" Is that right? How do you plan on doing that Commander?" Miranda was being sarcastic. She walked around a corner that led into a hall with two doors. The Commander walked up to a door on the left.
" By adding him to the team. We could use his firepower and his skills. " He said, then pulled out his heavy pistol.
" You can't be serious, not after what you just watched. He cut a Krogan in two Shepard! " Miranda was getting angry. Shepard gave her one last look, telling her he didn't want to hear it. Carmine put his Lancer on his back, and pulled out the heavy revolver on his side. He had been conserving ammunition, maybe he could find a way to get ammunition manufactured at some point. He brought the pistol up with one hand, aiming at the door.
Shepard opened the door, and walked in on the four eyed things again, this time they looked like they were gonna kill a human.
" Please…I'm telling you the truth. I work for Mordin at the clinic. I came here to help you." said the man, he was being held up by the four eyed thing. His Omni-tool said that they were Batarians.
" We know you're spreading the plague virus. We saw the vials in your bag." The Batarian looked like he was getting mad, his grip was tightening on the collar of the mans jacket.
" No! Those vials contain the cure. Please…you have to believe me." The man was getting frightened. He was shaking his head side to side.
" Maybe we should cut off your fingers. That should loosen your-"
" Look out!" yelled a Batarian, warning the group to the teams arrival.
" Don't move! One more step, and we kill your friend!" The Batarian pulled out a pistol and aimed it at the man. Carmine decided to speak to them before Shepard could.
" Listen, you don't want to do this. Besides the fact that you could end up dead, man isn't to blame for the spread of the plague. If he was spreading the virus, why would he come here. It's full of Vorcha that are immune to the virus. " Carmine kept his pistol aimed for the leader.
" That giant is right, it doesn't make any sense." said the Batarian that had yelled about them. The leader looked up at Carmine, taking him as the leader of the group.
" If we release the prisoner, we can go?" He looked like he was desperate. Carmine nodded his head.
" You have my word." Carmine was hoping this worked, the man looked innocent.
" Alright, let him go. " The leader told the other Batarian. The Batarian let his shotgun fall to his waist. " Ok, you got what you wanted human, can we go? " He asked Carmine. Carmine nodded his head.
" Human nobility, I didn't know such a thing existed. " The Batarians left on that last set of words. The team looked at carmine questionably, he just shrugged and turned his attention back to the man. The man turned towards Shepard.
" Thank you. I thought they were going to… to kill me. " The man started rubbing his hands together. " Did Mordin send you to find me?" Shepard smiled a little.
" The Professor could use your help right now. He's got too many patients and not enough volunteers." The man nodded to them.
" Ok, thank you. I owe you, well, everything." He walked out the door and headed to Mordin's Clinic.
The team walked out the door and headed for the environmental controls.
That ends this chapter of the journey to the control room. Next is the big fight and then, off to the Normandy! R/R and give some suggestions if you want.