Mass Effect 1 Retold
(I don't own Mass Effect just copies of the games)
The shuttle taking us to Eden Prime was one of the first trips to planet I'll ever take. My friend Mike and I joined the alliance military at the same time and were assigned to the same unit and headed for or first assignment. Our job was help existing marine forces on the ground to guard a new artifact recently discovered. A beacon, but not just any type, a Prothean beacon. My gunnery Sergeant quickly began briefing us on our mission.
"Alright marines this our first mission as a unit of the Alliance Marines. Our job is to help current marine units already deployed to guard a recently unearthed Prothean beacon. A lot of people would kill just to get their hands on one of these things. Which means pirates, Mercenaries and on the slim side Geth. Now I'll tell this, an Alliance stealth ship's is enroute to pick up this package. This is the first stealth ship in existence, we are working in coordination with the council in this one as well. So don't botch this, you hear me marines?" said the sergeant.
"SIR, YES, SIR, WE GET YOU SIR!" we all shouted in unison.
"Good get ready, we're about to hit the atmo, now get ready and stay frosty," said our staff sergeant. The shuttle quickly landed as we made sure our clips were loaded and safeties on. Or I was at least, I was the only one on the damn shuttle with a weapon that had to be reloaded after a certain amount of bullets were fired. Mike had one the new HMWA Advanced Assault Rifles. My dad got us the best weapons since A, he was an admiral and B, I was his son.
The shuttle doors opened and we all filed out. "Alright ladies, lets go. Line up and we'll get you in two man teams. Then you'll be assigned a garrison to report to for patrol. Serviceman first class Thompson and Serviceman second class Jones, you are going with the 212. You will report to Gunnery Chief Williams. Move it Out marines," said the chief.
"Sir, yes, sir," Andrew and I said. We ran over to the 212 garrison headquarters and reported in. Williams was already at the patrol site when we showed up at the space port. Off to the left was the Prothean beacon being guarded by several marines from our company.
"Well better find our squad. We're already lost some time for patrol," I said.
"Come on Tex we got some time to admire this beacon," said Mike. Suddenly we heard a massive boom and saw an odd ship begin to land nearby. "Or in this case defend it from attack," said Mike. We watched as several drop ships headed out towards our position. But seeing no landing site they flew further and landed in the nearby forest.
"Um I think we are royally screwed," I said.
"Yeah and on our first day too," said Mike. Several odd looking soldiers began to head our way we took up positions alongside our fellow marines. "Lets hope that stealth ship gets here and off loads an entire battalion," Mike said.
"Or a couple spectres in lieu through of," I said. We opened fire once we saw a friendly get shot in the head. These new enemies weren't human though. Nor were they Krogan, Asari, Batarian, Turian, or even Quarian. They were some type of robot. I looked closely at their flash light heads and realized who they were, Geth. "Hey Mac! I think I know who these buggers are!" I said over the sound of my rifle.
"Who are they then?" Mike asked.
"Geth!! They're rutting Geth!!!" I shouted.
"What? No way. The Geth haven't been seen outside the Perseus Veil in like three hundred years," said Mike.
"Then who else has flashlights for heads?" I asked. Mike peeked over our cover and nearly got his head shoot of. He was able to see the enemy though.
"Okay you're right about that. But what are they here for? Eden Prime's got no valuable resources," said Mike. I quickly slapped him on the helmet. "Ow the crap?" he said.
"You moron the beacon. That's what they're after. They want the bloody beacon," I said.
"How'd they know of the beacon? I thought this was a classified operation?" Mike said.
"Who knows?" I said. I peeked over cover and fired off a few rounds. "Maybe they got one of our guys to squeal about it and killed him after they got the info," I said.
"Nay they'd have to have been seen at one point. No way they'd be able to do that without someone seeing them," said Mike.
"Good point. Bet this some type of training exercise then. Something to get us up to snuff," I said.
"Seems pretty real though," said Mike.
"Bet it was a Russian general who thought this up. You know how those guys are when it comes to war," I said.
"Good point. To them the best training comes from real life situations, like this.
"All we need as a spectre to top this training mission off," I said.
"Hey! Got word that the Spectre Saren landed north of here, hold til he gets here," said the captain.
"Great now I now this isn't your everyday graduations mission," I said.
"Too right man," said Mike. I popped up and Mike saw my whole body light up blue and throw my arm in such a way that a force of energy slammed one of the robots into a wall.
"Man that whole biotic crap just constantly freaks me out," said Andrew.
"Yeah how do you think I took when my dad told me I was a biotic," I said.
"I gotta stop hanging out with you, always creeping me out with your weird powers," said Mike.
"I'll mull it over after we survive this mission," I said. We continued to fight for awhile and were successfully holding our position. Not to bad for a bunch rookies, as my dad would say. That little while had actually been nearly an entire hour. We got word that the Geth were mainly focusing on the spaceport and surrounding forest region. Also the 212's only remaining existence at the spaceport was us and a currently M.I.A. Gunnery chief Ashley Williams. In short Eden Prime's main point of transport was overrun by Geth. The only hope we had was a small strike team making their way to us now.
Our hopes were raised as we saw Saren step off the cargo train and we immediately began fighting back even harder. Amazing on how a single soldier could make all the difference in a battle.
"Marines! We got us a spectre in the house lets give him some covering fire," said our sergeant.
"Yee haw! Let's light 'em up!" shouted everyone. Our lone fifty .cal began tearing everything that didn't bleed blood to pieces. Saren looked around as lots of Geth began to fall all around him. But what got me concerned was the fact on how he was just walking rather than running. Plus the Geth had eyes on him during the entire fight and not one took a shot at him.
"Captain Saren's walking through this massacre without a hit. Why hasn't the enemy taken a shot at him?" I said.
"Maybe their focused mainly on the beacon. They are machines you know," said the captain.
"Why isn't he running? If I were in his shoes I'd be running like hell," I said.
"Marine he's a spectre he's seen more action than half the alliance put together. Just cause he's not running doesn't mean he's-" said the captain. He was cut off when Saren got close to us and shot him. I tried to use my biotic powers on him and failed too stop him. Saren shot my C.O. in the head and got me in the gut. He turned his weapon on our machine gunners and killed them with ease. Mike tried to wrestle the gun from Saren and save the rest of our squad. Saren knocked him to the ground and shot him twice, leg and gut.
Within minutes our position was filled with dead marines and live Geth. A couple teams of other marines followed up and while one three man team went ahead, the other stayed to check for survivors. Our Captain was gone. Jamie and Rodriguez were also dead. Kaylee and Manny were among the dead. All the people I had to the honor of fighting with and going through boot camp aside from Andrew were dead. Jamie and Rodriguez were the best of friends and were actually going to join their dads in a restaurant business. Kaylee and Manny were the oddest of couples who met during boot camp. Planned to get married and Manny wanted me and Andrew to be grooms. Mainly cause he owed us for helping him with passing the camps rigorous physical part. Especially since our D.I. kinda hated his guts. Now they died in each others arms, they way they wanted I guess. We were transferred to an Alliance hospital on the citadel after the fight on Eden Prime.
We eventually got word of a Commander Shepard saving Eden Prime from the Geth and how the guy was petitioning for Saren to be revoked of his spectre status. Council rejected it due to lack of evidence. Then we got a visit from shepard and our supposed C.O. about another attempt to get Saren booted. Had to come sometime I guess