Disclaimer: I don't own Mass Effect unless it's something I thought of, any tech or ocs I thought of will be marked by * * with a Codex entry to explain at the bottom when used for the 1st time. () with a number is something that will be explained for those who those don't understand what's going on.
Chapter 3: Eden Prime
"Engaging stealth systems." Joker told us as the ship went planet side. As they moved to the drop off points Joker said. "Somebody was doing some serious digging here Captain." "Listen up commander" Anderson told me. "Your team is the muscle of the op, commander. You are to go in heavy and head to the dig site." He told them. Kaiden asks. "What about survivors Captain?" "Helping survivors is a secondary objective. The beacon is your main priority." "Approaching drop point one." Joker told us. Jenkins asks Nihlus. "Nihlus? You're not going down us?" "I move faster on my own" He replied as he checked his Storm XII shotgun(1) before jumping off the ship."Nihlus will move on ahead and scout out any trouble ahead and feed you status reports throughout the mission. Other than that I want radio silence." Anderson said as they move to the next drop point. "He can count on us sir, we got his back." Shepard replied. "Approaching drop point two." Joker said. A minute after that they were there and Shepard and his team jumped off the ramp and landed on the ground.
"Let's move! Weapons up and down range. Keep your eyes open and call out contacts." Shepard ordered as they moved. "Yes sir!" Jenkins and Kaidan replied. They moved toward the spaceport. "Hold." Shepard said as they stopped at a opening that opens up to a path littered with rocks and boulders. "Move cover to cover. This place is a prime spot for a ambush." He said before they moved going from boulder to boulder when. "Whinee" a loud noise and then "Contacts!" Jenkins yelled before gunfire started. Shepard and Kaidan ran to Jenkins before seeing him under fire from unknown drones. They fired on the drones destroying 3 and forcing the rest to back off for a minute which Jenkins hiding in cover used to join in firing at the drones that had him pinned down a minute ago. After destroying the remaining 8 drones (2).
"Jenkins you all right?" "I'm fine sir my shields took it before I got to cover." "Good then. Let's move and get out of this death trap." Shepard order as they continued. They left the path and moved till. "Sir got a body on the ground one o'clock." Kaidan said. As they move towards the body they looked for any signs of a trap. There were none a side from some drag marks of where there were more bodies. They checked the body grabbing the dog tags. They also checked the mission recorder finding it intact so Kadian took out the chip and placed it in a hard case on his belt. They grab the pistol(Kaidan) and sniper rifle(Jenkins)(3). They moved on fighting and destroying another 2 groups of drones before coming to ridge overlooking a clearing where they saw a marine running from 3 drones before sliding on the ground turning backwards and shooting the drones and destroying them before Jenkins fired his sniper rifle at an unknown mech holding a civilian who moved as another mech tried to get it's weapon before it was fired on by all four soldiers.
Shepard and his squad walked to the civilian and the other soldier who was checking him for any injuries. "You two alright?" He asked them. "I'm fine and so is the civc, I don't remember seeing you three with the companies so that means you are reinforcements?" She asked him. "More like we are here for the beacon, we will take out many of those Mechs that we encounter as we can. And who are you?" Shepard said to her. "Ashley Williams sir. And I believe those mechs are Geth." "Sir, she is right about them being Geth." Kaidan said as he got up from scanning the mechs/Geth "The scans are showing that they are Geth. They are the same for the most part aside from a couple of differences from changes they to themselves over the past 300 years. and the only reason why they are here would be the beacon." He explained to us. "Shit this mission has just gotten a lot harder." I said aloud.
"Sir, you said you are here for the beacon it's at the dig site or the camp. I can take you there." William's said as she walked up.
"Alright here's what we are going to do. Jenkins I need you as rear guard and to keep an eye on the civc and till we can drop him off some place safe. Kaidan, Williams you two are with me up front. Understood?" He said to them. "Yes sir." They replied to him. "Good let's go and find that beacon before the Geth do and get it out of here." He said before they started moving to the beacon's last known location with Williams showing the way.
(1) He's a Spectre of course he's going to have high line equipment
(2) I have plans for him. That's all I'm going to say. And for why I didn't say the number of drones at first is because when you are in a firefight you never really know how many enemies there are in one and till they are dead or you where told ahead of time.
(3) The transmission came from a helmet so why not have a recorder built in as well, besides to make sure you are not being lied to by your men? The dog tags is so that the family of the guy is told what happened to him. And then the equipment being took I say that if he was alive he would have them take it anyway.
I would have had it up earlier but was distracted by a idea for another story and had to get it out of my head and get it started. Plus there is Collage however that will not be a problem in a couple of days.