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An Unexpected Salarian
I wake up the next day an alarm with soft music playing.
I get up walk to the bathroom and take a shower.
I then brush my teeth and head to the crews living quarters to get food.
The elevator door opens and i'm greeted by the crew.
"Hey hows it going"
"Good morning"
"Welcome aboard"
and several other things from other people.
"Good morning everyone" I respond.
"HEY OVER HERE"! I hear Mel call me.
I look at a table in which I see Mel, the captain,and To my Surprise Alex.
He usually sleeps for a long time so its weird so see him up so early.
"Ah good to see you up" says the captain.
"Please sit with us"
"Yes sir" I respond.
I then whisper to Alex.
"Why are you up so early today"? I ask.
"Because if I didn't I would have died of starvation" he responds.
"I knew It would catch up to you eventually" I say.
I then get my plate of food some bacon with eggs
We then finish the meal.
"well ts time to head out,EVERYONE TO YOUR STATIONS"! says the captain.
and so in no time the crew cleans up and heads to their respective stations.
Mel,Alex,captain,and I are now in the first floor in front of the galaxy map.
the captain begins to explain the mission
"Alright Ms. Mel were heading to a mining colony on the desert planet soreet in the Hades gamma cluster"
Mel then walks to the front of the ship.
"Now this is where you both come in"
"There's a salarian doctor named Keis on this planet."
He shows us a picture of a pale salarian
"Your mission is to recruit him he's a great medic and works fine in combat".
"Alright" Alex says
we hear the voice of Mel.
"Everyone prepare for take off"
I feel the ship shaking.
"Now please follow me to the weapon room"
we enter the room.
"Now You will be wearing this light onyx armor with shields for protection from the atmosphere of the planet"
"Now just in case you run into danger here's some standard pistols and assault rifles"
"Understood sir we hope we won't need these" responds Alex.
And so some time passes and we are now above the planet.
"Alright are you ready" The captain asks.
"Yes" Alex and I say.
we then hear Mel.
we are now entering the atmosphere.
Mel's pov:
"Station permission to land"
I don't hear anything.
"Station do you copy"
nothing
"Station"
nothing
I call on the speaker.
"Captain we have a situation".
the captain,Alex and Ripley arrive.
"What is it"? asks the captain.
"I'm not getting a response from the station".
"What"?
suddenly the ship shakes
"WE'VE BEEN HIT"! I yell.
Outside i see several shuttles with what seem to be mercs shooting at us with rocket launchers.
"MERCS" I yell
"Take us a further from here" the captain exclaims.
"You two take the shuttle located in the engine room you'll have some backup with you".
"Mel move us a bit back". The captain commands
"Yes sir". I respond.
Ripley pov:
we then rush to the engine room and see a bottom floor with a small shuttle.
"Alright bro you ready"? I ask Alex.
"Yeah" he responds.
we head into the ship
there are 3 other people inside the ship with us not including the pilot.
"ok everyone hold on to something". says the shuttle pilot.
The ship then exits the ship.
we then land near a small canyon.
"ok I landed us about 2 miles from the base" the shuttle pilot says.
we exit the shuttle.
I see a plant with a vast bright empty dry land with the sky being blue
without our shields we would probably become human jerky
"Good luck" the pilot says.
the shuttle then takes off.
"Alright looks like stealth will be our best chance now" Alex says.
Then we hear the captain.
"Ground team do you copy"?
"Yes sir we copy" I respond.
"I've sent you a map of the mine".
We check our omni tools.
"Thank you sir" Alex says.
"Good luck Fredrick out".
"Ok so the plan is to sneak into these tunnels and go inside rescue any survivors and leave the same way". I say.
"Remember make sure you stay as quiet as possible. says Alex.
We then finally get close to the base.
we see the tunnels they give a good view of the base
"The tunnels are over there the hard part is not being seen there's nowhere to hide. Alex says.
we run as fast as we can to the tunnels one at a time.
I then hear Alex call me.
"Ripley wait"
"What is it"
"look".
He points inside the base
I look around to see some small structures and a big structure in he middle but To my surprise i don't see any guards.
I then hear one of the soldiers speak
"That's odd the shuttles are hear"
"But nobody in sight" responds another soldier.
we get closer to the base.
we still don't see anything.
"Wait look over there" Alex exclaims.
we see a dead body.
not of a worker but instead a mercenary.
"What the hell happened here" A Soldier asks worryingly.
"I don't know but look there"
I point to the body of a worker.
"I'm thinking it was a firefight" says Alex.
"The question is who won" I respond.
we get inside the base
I see more bodies.
"Alright lets split up and look inside the small buildings don't let your guard down" I command.
Everyone nods their heads.
I look inside the structures in some i find some dead bodies from the workers in some rooms I don't
I decide to investigate some computers to see if I could find any information.
But I found nothing important.
we then round up.
"Anything" I ask.
They all shook their heads.
"Well we should probably go inside the mine" Alex suggests.
we then enter and we see more dead bodies.
The mine is enormous drills everywhere and at the bottom of a giant hole I can see some minerals.
some tunnels reinforced by steel that connected rooms.
we search about 15 rooms and nothing.
"We've been looking for a while now how do we even know the're alive" A solider comments.
"Until we find their bodies we wont leave" Alex responds
we split to look in the other rooms.
I still didn't find anything.
I then hear a solider call.
"Hey look at this"!
we go into the room where the solider is.
we see many workers on the floor dead.
"Then I see a certain body.
"look its doctor Keis" I say shocked.
"Ill call the captain" Alex says.
"Sir Keis was killed by the mercs the mission failed"
"Dammit, the shuttle will pick you up"
"Yes sir" Alex responds.
"Lets go" I say.
But before i turn around I hear a voice.
"Don't move now drop your weapons" says the voice with a fast talking high piched voice.
We turn around and see the face of a gray skin salarian.
"Who are you" I ask.
"You don't need to know now drop your weapons" He demands.
"I don't think so, NOW" I yell.
but before we could put our fingers on the trigger.
He knocks our weapons to the ground.
"What the...how did..."
as I look up I see him holding 2 black sub-machine guns.
"Do you have a way off this planet" the salarian asks.
we nod our heads.
"Good" he says happily.
"Do you know what happened hear" i ask.
He then explain.
"Yes I was on the run from some mercs because of a deal gone bad and well this seemed like a good place to hide".
"I hid hear, they killed everyone and then I slaughtered all the mercs."
"ALL ON YOUR OWN BUT THERE WERE MORE THAN 30" I say surprised.
"Yes" he responds.
"Then why did you run in the first place if you could take on so many" Alex asks.
"well because that was hundreds and I didn't have enough ammo"
"Now we should probably hurry more mercs are on the way" He says
"WHAT" we all say shocked.
"Of course no contact from the shuttle means that the'll come and see what happened.
"How can we trust you" Alex asks.
"Well I haven't killed you yet"
"What if you kill us when you get to the ship"
"Well lets see if I do or don't
"Wait how good are you with medicine" I ask.
"Not my strong suit but i am well versed in healing wounds"
"Well how would you like to join us you'll get well paid"
"I don't like to work for the alliance I hate the restrictions" he responds.
"We don't have those restrictions our missions require outside the government tactics"
"Hm what do you need me to do"? He asks.
"Just don't hurt anyone on the ship and follow the mission objective".
"I can do that,fine Ill do it"
"Good we found our doctor" Alex says happily.
We then shake hands.
"By the way my name is Reimor"
"Welcome to the team" Alex says.
suddenly we hear an explosion.
"There hear" Reimor says calmly.
We then get a call.
"Ground team This is shuttle 1 hurry were under attack"
"Ok lets hurry" I say.
we then pick up our wepons.
we run as fast as possible we go outside and the first thing we see is an explosion.
suddenly multiple mercs start fireing.
"Leave them to me" Reimor exclaims.
He grabs his sub-machine guns and begins to fire.
I see that he has perfect accuracy and takes them all out in less than 15 seconds.
we keep running and avoiding explosions.
One of the mercs shots on of the soldiers in the knee.
Alex quickly takes out the merc.
I then pick up the soldier and carry him.
The shuttle then arrives and we hurry inside.
"Is everyone ok" the pilot asks
"Yes but one is injured" I exclaim
we then leave blasting distance.
"Let me see Reimor asks.
He then activates his omni tool.
He then begins too look more carefully at the injury
"His leg has taken some damage but it will heal"
"I need a bandage hand me that first aid kit" He asks.
I pick it up and hand it to him he then wraps the leg with a bandage.
In My mind:
Amazing he has prefect fireing and good medical skills.
End thought
We finally make it back to the ship.
Some of the crew was waiting for us in the hanger.
"Hear take him to a bed" I tell the soldiers.
they then take the injured marine.
Me, Alex,and Reimor get in the elevator and head to the first floor.
The captain then greets us.
"Good you made it ba... wait who is this" he asks.
"This is Reimor a salarian medic and combat specialist" I explain
"I can be helpful for pay of course" Reimor says with a smug in his face.
"Hmm well you are a doctor but I don't think we can trust you" the captain responds.
"Well just pay me and ill follow you to the end of the universe".
"Fine However If you don't follow the objective these two will shoot you immediately"
"Fine" Reimor responds.
"Good were heading back to the citadel for repairs so you should rest".
"Yes sir we respond".
we start to walk to the elevator.
we walk into our quarters.
"Well i assume one of the empty ones is mine Reimor asks.
I then point at our rooms.
"except those those our ours"
"Understood".
He walks into one of the rooms
I hear him talking in the room.
"Yes Yes this could work,oh yes definitely yes.
"I think this is enough" He says.
He then closes the door
Alex and I go to our rooms.
I lay in bed beginning to close My eyes falling asleep.
Author's note: This part was hard for me to do because i had to introduce a new character,make a planet and give them all new names. I know that Alex didn't do much but that's because I have big plans for him most likely staring next chapter. Now with this chapter I tried to do some pov change which i might start doing more often. Well that's it this time please review Thank you and goodbye.