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I feel the need to put an AN but I don't know what to say. Wait I know
Since I can't think of anything to write to fill in the two years between Shepards death, and his return, so I'm just jumping to when Shepard recruits Thrax and his first mission.
Thrax was assaulting a Cerberus research base. Thankfully the planet wasn't poisonous like Bitheu. He had already taken care of the guards in front and was inside. Opening the door he entered a square room with two doors. One to the west and another to the north. Twelve Cerberus troops came pouring out of each door. Ever since Thrax blew up a space station of theirs every base he went to has had more and more security. It didn't matter to Thrax, more solders meant one thing, fewer people could be hurt by them once they were dead.
They surrounded him, coated in white armor. A final man came through the west door. He was wearing a white blazer with white pants and a shit load of metals on his left breast. His face had a beard and his hair was black.
"I must say krogan, you've left an impressive trail of destruction. Trillions of credits worth of research, hundreds of experiments kidnapped"
"Experiments!" Thrax roared, causing the solders to raise their weapons. "They were human children! Little boys, and girls who were taken from their homes! You claim to stand for humanity and yet you torture, kill, abduct, and experiment on your own kind!"
"Nothing can stand in the way of progress. A simple savage like you would never understand that" the human said snidely.
"Oh I understand perfectly! Your entire organization is hell-bent on gaining power no matter the cost!"
"Yes to stop threats like you from endangering the human race."
"You people are worse than the batarians!" Thrax yelled having enough of this and punched the ground, releasing a wave of biotic energy in every direction. Many of the solders staggered and a few fell over giving Thrax a perfect chance to raise some hell. He threw a ball of consecrated biotic energy that, just before impact with one of the solders split into another ball and shot off in another direction at another trooper.
Thrax reached down and grabbed one of the fallen trooper and pulled his arm off. Thrax was having no qualms with being brutal with these sick fucks. Leaving he now armless bastard screaming to on the ground, Thrax grabbed the fallen solders weapon Thrax flipped the gun from burst to auto and started mowing down the troopers and moved back towards the door. Grabbing an incendiary grenade from his belt he tossed it towards a group and he took a slightly sadistic pleasure in hearing the screams.
Running back out the door Thrax started to make his way back towards the ship. He really needed to relax after all this shit.
CITADEL
Thrax was sitting on a bench near the Consorts chambers. Ever since he'd saved her life two years ago he'd been a frequent visitor to her. He didn't go for sex, he went just to talk to her. He'd told her things he'd only told Cary, it was almost like she could compel him to speak to her. Walking away from her chamber he decided that he needed a drink. Before he could go however, he received a message. Pulling it up he saw it was a job meet up with the contact and perform any service asked.
"Payment" Thrax muttered to himself as he scrolled down "fifty million!" Thrax shouted earning him the stares of everyone around. A small growl from Thrax was more than enough to stop the gazing and he returned to the message meet on Omega "oh shit" Thrax said to himself.
"Well its been eight hundred years. Here's hoping she's forgiven" Thrax said before he thought on what he just said "or at least forgotten."
OMEGA
"Ok, so far so good, no one trying to deliver me to Aria." Thrax said as he pulled up the instructions on where to meet the contact.
"Afterlife? Oh fuck me." Thrax said before he started using every curse word he knew.
Making his way to Afterlife and taking great heed to not draw attention to himself. He walked past the bouncer "huh Aria got herself a new bouncer." Thrax thought as he walked past the elcor bouncer after giving him a thousand credit chit he walked into Afterlife for the first time in eight hundred years.
Looking around Thrax saw that eight hundred years didn't change a thing. Afterlife was still dark with neon lights flashing, nude asari, and even humans, dancing and the balcony AKA Aria's throne.
Walking over to the bar he ordered a ryncol and knocked it back in one gulp. Thrax just sat there fiddling with his omni-tool for an hour before he felt a hand touch his back. Turning around quickly he put his face an inch from the human who touched him and said "I don't know who you are but touch me again and your going to lose an arm."
Stepping back Thrax could see that this human was wearing N7 armor. He asked "you the one who's hired me?"
"That depends on who you are." The human said.
Thrax took a look at the humans face and he saw his eyes. One was a calming blue. The other was a deep molten red. "Shepard? You died."
Shepard just shrugged and said "I got better."
They both just stared at each other for a minute before Thrax threw his head back and let out a loud laugh Shepard couldn't help but chuckle too.
Once they both calmed down Shepard said "so Thrax tell me what details were you given?"
"Nothing all that I care about is that I get fifty million credits, and since you hate Cerberus probably blow up some Cerberus bases."
Shepard rubbed the back of his neck and looked worried before he spoke and said "you are not going to like this."
"What are you talking about?" Thrax asked puzzled.
"Cerberus is the one funding this mission." Shepard said sheeply. Walking up behind his was another human wearing a skin-tight suit.
"I remember you!" Thrax said as he pulled out his pistol and pointed it at her head. To his surprise she didn't cower of show any emotion at all. To his even greater surprise Shepard took out his sub machine gun and pointed it at him.
"Shepard what the fuck is going on!" The entire club was silent as the stand-off was taking place.
"This is Miranda. She spent two years bringing me back from death." Shepard said.
"No she's the one who kidnapped me after Elysium and tried to dissect me!"
Shepard looked at the human and said "is this true?"
"Yes. If we could have duplicated his fantastic regeneration ability that could give humans an extreme edge in warfare."
"Now tell me, why you don't want me to kill this bitch?"
"She's my XO. Please put the gun down."
Thrax though about it for a moment. He knew he could beat Shepard and this bitch easily but even he can't survive a shot, point-blank to the head, not that he wanted to test that theory.
"Alright fine I'll work for you Shepard but if any Cerberus ass hat come anywhere close to me I'll rip their arms off, deal?"
"Deal." Shepard said holstering his gun, and Thrax did the same.
"Now Shepard since I'm working for these fuck heads I want to know everything."
"I promise I'll tell you everything on the Normandy."
"Heard the ship was destroyed." Thrax grunted.
"It was Cerberus rebuilt it."
"Fine let's go." Thrax said standing up before he looked around and noticed for the first time that everything was quiet and they were getting stares and shouted "WHAT?!" Which caused the music to resume and the strippers to keep dancing.
"Alright Shepard let's go."
"Actually first I have to talk to Aria."
It seemed that he was destined to see Aria again. Following Shepard and the Cerberus bitch up the stairs and to Aria.
Walking toward Aria, Shepard was stopped by a batarian. "Wait a moment."
"Shepard grabbed the batarian and said "try it and you'll be scanning the inside of your own ass!" He threatened.
"I'd almost pay to see that, but its non negotiable." Aria said from behind the batarian.
"You could have just asked" Shepard said as he released the batarian and let himself be scanned.
"I don't ask." Aria said as she turned around and looked at the trio.
Thrax despite his best attempts to not let her see his face knew she recognized him "well, well Thrax. I haven't seen you since you got my sister killed."
"That wasn't me Aria and you know it" he said calmly.
She sat down on the couch and said "what do you need?"
Shepard spoke up and said " I need to find Archangel."
Aria gave a small laugh and said "you and half of Omega. You want him dead to?"
"What do you mean half of Omega?" Shepard asked.
"He and his little team have been running around Omega, blowing shit up, and killing gang members. They've been such an annoyance that the three big players on Omega. Jaroth of the Eclipse, Tarak of the Blue Suns, and Garm with the Blood Pack.
"Wait the blood pack are a major power on Omega? Last time I was here the Blood Pack was nothing more than a krogan with a few vorcha ass heads."
"A lot can happen in eight hundred years." Aria said with a sneer.
Looking back at Shepard she said "if you want a chance at him there's a merc recruiting station down the steps to your right."
"Thanks." Shepard said.
Shepard turned and left the queen of Omega and Thrax followed but first he turned and said "its great to see you again Aria." Before he turned and followed Shepard.
Going into the small room with the two humans. There was a batarian in Blue Sun armor "you three look like you could do some damage. You here to sign up?"
"If this is the place to get us a shot at Archangel then yes." Shepard said.
"Well you're in luck. Standard fee is five hundred credits, you must provide your own weapons," the batarian looked at the three and said "looks like you'll have no problem with that, and no this does not make you a member of the Blue Suns, Eclipse, or Blood Pack, understand?" The batarian finished.
Shepard nodded and paid the credits and turned listened to what the batarian said about where to go.
As they turned to leave they spotted a young man who couldn't be more than twenty.
"Hey is this the place to sign up?" He asked the trio.
"If your after Archangel yeah. But this is no picnic kid." Thrax said.
"I can take care of myself. I grew up on Omega, I know how to handle a gun."
"So does Archangel." The Cerberus bitch said.
"Besides I just spent fifty credits on this gun and I want to test it out."
Shepard grabbed the gun and slammed his palm against the stock. Ignoring his the kids cries of outrage he gave it back and said "get your money back."
Thrax chuckled at the kids expression as they left.
They arrived at a sky car parking lot and saw a batarian with Blue Sun armor and approached. "You the three Baris set word about?"
"If Baris is the one at the recruiting station then yes."
"Yep that's him." He motioned for the three to get in the sky car. Thrax sat in the front with Shepard and Miranda in the back.
"You three know what you're in for?" The batarian asked.
Shepard spoke "just that you guys have recruited anyone with a gun to throw at Archangel."
"Yeah that's because of the set up. You'll see when you get there." He sank into silence again for the rest of the ride.
They arrived at the place, an apartment district, and followed their drivers instruction.
Walking into the bottom level of a house they saw that it was infested with Eclipse mercs. Moving past them Thrax saw a data pad and discreetly pocketed it as Shepard was talking to the salarien Eclipse leader.
Walking out the back door the were in an alley and went to the door across from them and were greeted by a krogan almost as big as Thrax sitting next to a vorcha.
"You're in the wrong room freelancer." He said in an extremely deep voice looking at Thrax he said "what are you doing with these humans?"
"You have no idea how much I'm getting paid."
"Money is good and all but do these soft things respect you. Do you put fear in their hearts?"
"I've seen this human do that and more." Thrax said indicating Shepard.
"Humans don't know anything about fear." He said as he grabbed his pistol and pointed it at a vorchas head. "How to create fear and how to inspire it." He said finishing by blowing the head off a vorcha causing it to fly and land on a table to the left.
Turning to leave they went stumbled into what must have been the Eclipse mech storehouse. Along the walls security mechs were stacked but against the back wall was a YMIR mech.
"Once they realize that were here to rescue Archangel they're going to send all their forces against us. We should hack that YMIR mech, fuck up its friend/foe targeting system."
"Great idea." Shepard said and turned to Miranda and said "do it."
A minute later she announced that she was done. Leaving the storehouse they made their way towards Cathka. Arriving at the gun ship garage they went up to a human and Shepard asked "Cathka?"
The human shook his head and pointed at the person working on the gun ship. Moving past them Shepard spoke to Cathka. Thrax didn't really care about what they were saying, what got his attention was the gun ship, it had obviously seen battle against a strong opponent. It had been repaired only slightly. While Thrax was thinking of ways to sabotage the ship, he heard a loud scream and looked over and saw Cathka with a welding rod in his back. He looked at Shepard who simply shrugged and said "he was working to hard."
They moved toward the barricade that separated the bridge from the rest of the district. They saw that many of the freelancers had already been killed, all head shots. Thrax didn't know who this guy/girl was but he already liked him/her.
Shepard took point pulling out his assault rifle and said "come on let's give him a hand." As he used his biotics to throw several freelancers off the side of the bridge.
Miranda overloaded the shields of the freelancers who had them and shot them with her weapon.
Thrax forgot his weapons and biotics and simply tore into the group with his bare hands. Crushing skulls, stomping on torsos, removing limbs, and throwing them over the edge of the bridge.
In seconds the freelancers were head and they made their way in. Thrax remembering he had weapons pulled out his claymore and they cleared out the bottom level of the base. Going into the top-level of the base, the saw a figure in blue armor with a helmet on.
"Archangel?" Shepard called. The being raised a hand and raised his finger as a gesture for silence. He aimed his sniper rifle and shot a freelancer that they somehow missed.
"Heh he's efficient. I'll give him that" Thrax chuckled.
Getting to his feet Archangel walked over to the trio and took off his helmet and dropped in on a couch before sitting on the arm of the couch.
"Garrus?" Shepard said with surprise laced in his voice.
"Shepard. I thought you were dead."
"Technically I was. But that's not important now. What is important is why the hell you thought pissing off three of the biggest gangs on Omega was a good idea."
The turian, Garrus, Thrax remembered opened his mouth to speak but was interrupted. There were mechs climbing over the barricade. Obviously Jaroth and his Eclipse ass hats were trying to take out Archangel and his new allies.
"I tell you what if we survive this I'll tell you everything, but I will want to know why your working with someone wearing a Cerberus logo." Obviously talking about Miranda.
"Done. Now" Shepard took out his own sniper rifle and said "hundred credits says I take out more Eclipse mercs than you."
"Your on!" Garrus said.
Shepard, while firing his sniper rifle he said "Thrax, Miranda, head down to the bottom level and take out any mercs that get close.
"I can take care of it on my own!" Thrax said.
"Follow orders Thrax!" Shepard said as he hit one asari vanguard.
"Fuck, fine. Archangel!" The turian turned and looked at him "I'm taking this you won't have it back." He said indicating the assault rifle that was sitting on the couch.
Grabbing the assault rifle he ran down the stairs and aimed the assault rifle and fired a burst of three shots. Any Eclipse mercs that actually managed to avoid the sniper fire from both Garrus and Shepard were met with the biotics and weapons of Thrax and Miranda. Eventually Jaroth sent out the YMIR mech. Instead of opening fire on the base the YMIR turned around and started firing at the barricade and the mercs who were trying to climb back over it to escape the rapid fire machine gun. Thrax not seeing any reason for him to stay vigilant dropped his new vindicator assault rifle, pulled out a type of human food called a chocolate bar and started to eat it.
Miranda saw what he was doing and said "are you serious? Your eating a chocolate bar now?"
Thrax just looked at her and said "yes" while watching the YMIR tear through the Eclipse mercs until a salarien, Thrax saw it was Jaroth shot a fireball from his omni-tool, causing the hulking mech to explode. Running towards the base was Jaroth and a few mercs and mechs by the time he reached Miranda and Thrax he was alone with no shields. On shot from Miranda's pistol and he was gone.
Shepard shouted at the two to get back to the top-level. When they got up they saw something that would even give Thrax nightmares.
Shepard. Was. Dancing
Thrax has seen people melted from thresher maw acid, has fed little babies to starved varren, made a father murder his children, but all those fail to measure up to the horror that was Shepard dancing.
"Shepard if you don't stop that now I will kill you." Thrax warned.
Before Shepard could come up with a cleaver comeback there was an explosion that rocked the entire two-story house.
"What the hell was that?" Miranda asked out loud.
"An explosion dumb ass." Thrax mocked.
"Alright enough both of you." Shepard said to the two. "Garrus what the hell was that."
"I might know give me a second." He pulled up his omni-tool and looked at it for a second before he let out a string of turian curses. "Well those idiots in the Blood Pack actually have brains. they managed to blow their way into the sub-basement."
"That can't be good." Thrax said stating the obvious.
"If we don't close the main shutters, then we'll be swarmed with vorcha, varren, and other krogan, from one side and Blue Sun from the other." Garrus said.
"I'll go shut those shutters." Shepard said.
"I'll go with you" Thrax said.
Shepard nodded and looked at Miranda and said "Miranda keep him alive."
"Will do." She replied.
Shepard and Thrax took off down the stairs and went behind them to the basement entrance. They saw a long and wide hallway at the end of it was an opened door that had Blood Pack members crawling out. Grabbing his vindicator Thrax fired a few bursts killing a few and the two moved forward. They took up positions on each side of the door and Shepard hit the switch. They both held off a swarm of krogan, vorcha, and varren. Once the door sealed they both ran to the left while heading to the second shutter Garrus's voice came on their comm units "Garrus here. We're holding our own theirs not to many, yet."
"Just hold tight we've almost got the second one" Shepard said reassuringly.
They opened the door and found themselves in a narrow hallway. Thrax swapped his vindicator for his claymore. Going to cover behind a large pipe he waited for their shooting to light up before he and Shepard fired.
Leaping over that pipe and another Thrax turned a corner first and got a body full of flames.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Thrax yelled at the top of his lungs. Shepard shot the flamethrower wielding vorcha as Thrax got back up and walked over to another vorcha and gave it a bear hug while he was on fire.
The vorcha disintegrated in his arms. The fire soon died down and they approached the door. Hitting the switch they held their ground until the shudder doors were sealed.
Shepard was panting but the first thing he asked "that must have been painful. You ok?"
"Fine skins already growing back." He indicated to the side of his face that had caught fire and it was indeed already regenerating.
"I've never seen a krogan regenerate like that."
"Yeah well I'm what you might call a mutant. My natural krogan healing was kicked into overdrive. No one can explain why. Anyway we're waiting time." Thrax said shrugging.
"Good point let's go."
They leapt back over the pipes and mad their way to the right to the last one. "Garrus how you holding?"
"If you could hurry up it'd be appreciated." He said with strain in his voice.
They opened the door to find another krogan only a few inches from them. Not wasting a second Thrax fired his claymore one handed from the hip. The shot went right in his face. Grabbing his gun with his other hand Thrax charged at a nearby vorcha, crushing his head against a crate with his shoulder.
Turning he saw Shepard had taken the other side of the room. Thrax ran toward the shutter, knocking any vorcha down and stomping their heads or kicking the varren. Reaching the door he sent a wide shockwave towards cluster of vorcha. When the door slammed shut both Shepard and Thrax took a moment to catch their breath before Thrax started to laugh. "I have to tell you Shepard I haven't had this much fun since the citadel was invaded by geth.
"You were there?" Shepard asked sounding surprised.
"Yep. Ask me again later and maybe I'll tell you about it. Probably not but it couldn't hurt to ask."
"Get up here Shepard there breaking in."
"Shit ,we're coming Garrus." Shepard said as he took off with Thrax right behind him.
They reached the main floor and saw a big group of Blood Pack ass hats. Shepard not waiting time shot one of the vorcha drawing attention to them instead of Garrus and Miranda.
"Deal with them I'll handle Archangel" the leader said as he and another krogan went up the stairs. Thrax thinking fast grabbed Shepard by the collar of his armor and threw him up into one of the windows that lead to the turians sniper's perch. Down on the bottom floor Thrax had four vorcha and two krogan to deal with.
He shot the two of the vorcha with his shotgun before he jumped and slammed the butt of his gun down on the top of the third vorchas head, then turned quickly and, using his bayonet on his shotgun, decapitated the last vorcha.
Turning towards the two krogan one charged him, which he countered with his own charge. When they met they were both struggling to knock the other down. Thrax remembering the third krogan could just shoot him while he's trying to push this whelp over, slid his leg out and tripped the krogan then he jabbed the bayonet right into his face. Forgoing the shotgun, Thrax just got up and charged the last krogan and, with one biotic charged punched, shoved his fist right through his head. Panting from the exhaustion Thrax pulled his fist from the krogans head and, remembering the humans who had to deal with two other krogan. Ran up the stairs and used his biotics to pull his shotgun to him.
He entered the room and saw Shepard standing over Garm with his pistol in his hand his other arm was hanging limply.
"Shepard you alright?"
"Why the hell did you throw me?"
"You had to get up quickly."
"I could have used the stairs!"
Thrax waved his hand and said "details."
Thrax took a glance at the other two. Garrus was bleeding blue blood from some cuts on his face but nothing to serious. Miranda had cuts all along her stripper suit. One nasty one on her arm that had a lot of blood. "Hey princess. Put some medi-gel on that."
"All out. I had to use it to fix Shepard's broken arm."
Thrax without thinking threw a pack he kept on his belt to her. Before she could say anything he turned to Garrus and Shepard. "So theirs only the Blue Suns left. Who's up for a charge?"
"That's not how I would have put it but that's a good idea. Tarak's got the toughest group but I'm sure the three of us have faced worse."
At the exact same moment both Shepard and Thrax said "Thresher Maw."
They both looked at each other but before anything could be said Thrax saw the gunship Cathka was working on flying behind Shepard. Thrax grabbed Shepard and pushed him down before yelling "DOWN!"
They all hit the deck as Garrus swore "dammit I thought I took that thing out already."
"They fixed it but not completely. I made sure about that." Shepard said.
The gunship flew over the building to the window near the beds and started to drop troops. Thrax quickly used his biotics to quickly toss them out the window.
"There dropping on the bottom floor." Garrus warned.
Thrax quickly grabbed his vindicator and took aim. He aimed for the un shielded grunts first because they were easy to take down. Miranda was using overload on the shielded ones and Shepard and Garrus were picking them off.
Once the last merc dropped the gunship flew up again, without knowing where it would come down they just waited each one covering a window. They Thrax turned and saw Garrus getting hit from the gunships machine gun while he was on his knees, Tarak fired a missile which hit Garrus in the face sending him flying across the room and slamming into the wall. Seeing this Shepard order all three of them throw a warp at the gunship, with three simultaneous warps the gunship lurched violently, and they three opened fire, Shepard with his assault rifle, Thrax with his claymore and Miranda with her sub machine gun. In seconds the gunship spiraled out of control and fell out of sight. Moments later they heard a very satisfying explosion.
Running over to Garrus Shepard ordered a shuttle to be sent to their location Thrax grabbed the small medi-gel he had left and used it on Garrus.
"He's not going to make it Shepard." Thrax said is a monotone voice.
"He'll make it." Shepard said.
They arrived back at the Normandy and Thrax had to say he was impressed. He'd been on a salarien dreadnought before and that wasn't even half as cool as this ship.
Shepard lead him through the armory where a dark-skinned human was working on an avenger assault rifle and into what must have been a conference room. Thrax leaned against the nearby wall and listened to Shepard talk " I promised you the reason I need so many people. Have you heard about all the missing colony's?"
"Yeah, all human, all in the Terminus or the very edge of the Attican Traverse. Is your government stacked with idiots?"
Shepard ignored the last remark and said "we have reasonable evidence that the collectors are behind the attacks."
Thrax whistled "damn. Finally something I haven't done yet. Get in a fight with the collectors. So when do we hit their base?"
"Not until this team is built up a bit. Right now its just us two, Jacob the one you saw in the armory, and Miranda."
Thrax nodded and said "fair enough. If you need me I'll be in the shuttle bay. Keep that Cerberus bitch, and for that matter any Cerberus ass hats away from me or I'll rip their arms off."
"I would recommend against that Mr. Thrax, agent Lawson, and Taylor are depended on both their arms for combat purposes. The loss of an arm would hamper their ability to successfully aid Commander Shepard." A voice said.
"Who the fuck is that Shepard?"
An icon popped up on the table and Shepard said "this is EDI the ships AI."
Thrax chuckled and said "Cerberus working with aliens and using AI's. Damn if I knew they were this despite I'd have held out for one hundred million." Thrax turned and left Shepard in the conference room.
"Walking past a galaxy map Thrax saw a human with red hair sneak a glance at him. Before he went to the elevator and went down to the fifth level.
"Well this should be fun."
AN- Done! I finished this at 1:23 AM. So this was Thrax getting recruited and helping out Archangel. I'm not sure if I should have him do a loyalty mission or not. If you can think of a good one. PM me or write it in a review.
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