Well I won't have Thrax go on every mission. so I'm just skipping to the missions he is doing. This one is going to get Okeer.
Thrax was laying on the bed he had stolen from the crew quarters. The mattress was way to short for him. It cut off at the legs leaving them dangling. He was on his omni-tool when he heard the elevator arrive. Looking up he saw Shepard and the human he picked up after he knew Garrus was alright. This human, Zaeed Massani, was one of the best bounty hunters in the galaxy, member was already in the shuttle.
KORLUS
"Alright guys, when we land be ready were here to rescue a krogan warlord."
"Which one?"
"Warlord Okeer."
"I've heard of him. He's old, one of the few krogan alive who are veterans of the Krogan Rebellion. He's also a deranged psychopath, rumor has it he gave many krogan to the collectors for technology. It had something to do with the genophage but from what I heard he didn't want to cure it."
"They why would he want that tech?" Thrax just shrugged.
They landed and the first thing they heard was a woman's voice over an intercom "failure to perform means liquidation. Both legal and otherwise." "Someone need to shut this bitch up." Zaeed said.
"Agreed." Thrax said in agreement.
"Be on your guard. We're here for a krogan warlord, but we don't know if he's here by his own free will." Shepard said.
Making their way towards the nav-point they drew their weapons. Shepard's pistol ( a carnifex he got from the salarien doctor) Zaeed used an assault rifle avenger and Thrax using his claymore. Moving along a worn path the trio saw a ruin of scrap metal and four Blue Sun mercs in it. Thrax threw a singularity and Shepard tossed a warp causing an explosion. Zaeed took care of the ones that were the least affected.
They moved past the ruins and continued on their way. Ahead of them they could hear gun fire. Moving double time they saw a large group of mercenaries attacking one krogan in pink and white phoenix armor. Leaving the ones with in shotgun range to Thrax, Shepard and Zaeed took out the heavy weapon wielding mercs that were out of reach. Once they were all taken care of Thrax and the others went up to the krogan. The krogan approached Shepard and sniffed him before saying "you are different. You don't smell of this world. For seven night cycles I have felt only rage, the need to kill. But you, something make me speak."
Before Shepard could speak Thrax said "wait a minute whelp, your only seven days old?" Thrax asked in disbelief.
"They must breed them full-grown. Ready to kill, not much improvement over regular mercs if they need training." Shepard said
"Bread to kill? No. I kill because my blood tells me to, I kill because of the rage in me. But this is not why I was flushed from glass mother." The krogan said.
"What the hell are you talking about whelp?" The ancient krogan asked.
"Survival is all I hear in my head."
"Can you show us where the laboratory is?" Shepard asked.
"I can show you the way to where the glass mother resides." The krogan said.
Walking over to a large sheet of scrap metal the young krogan pushed it out-of-the-way and said "you fleshy things are slow when big things are in your way." Thrax couldn't help but chuckle at that.
"Can you show us the way? Fight with us to the lab?"
"No."
"A krogan refusing to fight" Zaeed said with surprise in his voice.
"I will fight if they come but I am not perfect." Then without another word he turned around and walked away.
"Believe me when I say, if this bitch manages to actually breed enough krogan that will obey her we are all fucked!"
"I know what you mean" Shepard said.
"No you don't you've never seen what a true krogan hoard was like and I pray you never do. But we're wasting time let's go."
Since they were now in close quarters Thrax took the lead with Zaeed and Shepard backing him up. At the bottom of the ramp they heard a scared voice say "they're all loose run for your fucking life.
Right as they turned the corner they were met with shotgun blasts from Thrax. Going around the corner they saw a krogan like the one they saw before walking slowly towards them. Thrax flared his biotics and made a horizontal sweep with his arm. They next thing Zaeed and Shepard knew the krogan was cut in half.
"Thrax! What the fuck did you do?"
"I used my biotics to make a blade then I used the blade. Unfortunately that uses a lot of energy."
Unfortunately Thrax didn't have time to rest as he felt a carnage attack hit him in the side. Quickly patting down the flames and quickly ran toward the krogan who fired the shot. He quickly overpowered him and proceeded to smash in the helmet and his face. Thrax turned and saw Shepard as Zaeed taking down theirs with no problem.
Moving through the big open area where they just fought three krogan They found that they were on a crashed ship. A cruiser by the looks of it. Shepard hacked through the door and went into a place set up like an office. Hearing an explosion from behind another door they went over and opened it. Standing their with their backs to them was an Eclipse merc.
Thrax not wanting to waste the biotic energy just picked him up and threw him over the railing before going to cover and letting Shepard and Zaeed take care of the ones across one another walkway attached to another crashed cruiser. Following the walkway the trio had to fight their way through another wave of solders including a vanguard before they reached the top of the crashed ship.
"There are three of them! THREE! Anyone can be killed if you do your damn jobs right!" The human female's voice shouted from an intercom that Zaeed shot.
"Someone shut that bitch up!" Zaeed shouted.
Mowing down any other Blue Sun mercenary's they eventually reached the lab. "It's about time. The batteries on these pods will not wait around while you play solder."
A krogan said from beside a tank with a fully grown krogan in it. Thrax took one look at him and he knew right away that this krogan was old. Maybe fifteen-sixteen hundred. "Do you even want to know who I am before you start insulting me?" Shepard asked clearly annoyed.
"I know you Shepard. The human who crawled back from the void its self. The one who stopped Saren and his pale hord." Shepard looked surprised at that last remark. Something Okeer picked up on.
"Surprised? All krogan should know you and what you did on Virmire."
"I'm sure your eager to tell the story."
"Shepard: the first human Spectre ordered to stop Saren and he followers of geth and krogan. You, along with a small team of salarien STG operatives invaded Sarens lab on Virmire where he was cloning krogan. Placing a nuclear bomb in the center of the fortress you escaped and ended Sarens false krogan. I like the nuclear part, it has weight."
"It was a difficult decision, but in the end I could have Saren running around with an unlimited number of krogan solders."
"But I approve. Those krogan of his were not true krogan. Numbers alone mean nothing."
"What the hell are you talking about Okeer? You were there during the rebellion. You know how effective krogan numbers are."
Okeer looked at him before recognition flashed on his face along with a sliver of something, fear maybe. "That's true but your forgetting one thing Gratlok Talz. Numbers alone do not win a battle. It's the skill behind the numbers, the strength. There is nothing wrong with the krogan I gave to this mercenary leader. She just lacks the strength to lead them. She grows impatient, it is time to take me out of here."
"That's your problem. We're here for the collectors." Thrax said.
Realization flashed in Okeers eyes "ah now I see. Yes collector attacks have increased. A human concern. My attention was focused elsewhere." He said as he looked at the krogan in the tank beside him.
"I acquired the knowledge to create one pure krogan. With him I can inflict the greatest insult to the genophage ever. To be ignored."
"No single krogan can cause the genophage to be ignored Okeer." Thrax said with more bite than was needed.
"You know what it was like before the genophage was deployed Talz the strong thrived and the weak were cast away. Ever since the genophage was deployed every single krogan child is considered sacred and coddled on." Thrax wanted to reply but in his hearts he knew he was right. Since the females couldn't reproduce fast enough any child was gives special privileges.
"What did you get from the collectors? Anything you know about them could help us?" Shepard asked.
"They are strange. So isolated, yet very available when you are willing to sacrifice so much. I gave them many krogan." He said without an ounce of remorse in his voice.
"I may have information for you. But all the tech I acquired was consumed in my prototype." Okeer started to say before the intercom blared to live with Jedore.
"Attention I have traced the krogan release. Okeer of course." Okeer walked to the window and saw Jedore. "I'm calling "blank slate" on this project. Flush the krogan, gas these commandos and and start over with Okeers data."
Just then gas started to spring out from around the room "she's that weak-willed? She'll kill my legacy with a damn valve! Shepard you want information on the collectors? Stop her. She'll try to access contaminants in the storage bay."
"Fine doctor, but the information you have better be worth it." Shepard said as he moved towards the door to the storage bay.
"It will be now go. I'll stay here and do what must be done." Okeer said cryptically.
Making their way down the ramps the entered a medium sized bay with pods along the other side of the room. "I don't care who they are. I want them dead. This is my world and I'll poison them all!" They could hear Jedore yelling into her omni-tool.
"Will someone shut this bitch up?" Zaeed said annoyed.
Then she typed a command onto her omni-tool and a YMIR mech activated with a deep, loud monotone "online."
She also sent out krogan from the pods who started making their way towards them. "Thrax you take care of the krogan we'll deal with the mech" Shepard spoke.
Nodding, Thrax grabbed his shotgun and shot a carnage shot right at one of the krogan and, because it was distracted by the flame, allowed to get up close and take it out with a shotgun blast to the face. Turning around he just barely saw another one of these krogan slam into him. Taken off guard, he stumbled back and tripped of a bent piece of metal and threw his shotgun. The krogan who managed to slam into him got on top of him and punched his face. "What ever Okeer did to make these krogan strong worked." Thrax thought very surprised that he was having trouble getting this krogan off him.
After three more hits to his face Thrax finally managed to get his hand free and sent the krogan sprawling back with as powerful of a punch as he could manage right now. Getting up Thrax swiped his arm in a slashing motion which bisected the krogan. Seeing that there were two more krogan Thrax threw a warp with each, which drew their attention to him before he charged. Hitting the first one, it fell on its stomach and Thrax reached around the hump grabbed the chin and violently pulled it towards him snapping its neck.
"Kill them, break them I'll just create more!"
That human bitch was really getting on his nerves. Setting his sights on the last krogan, Thrax charged at the same time as the tank born. Meeting in the middle Thrax was surprised to find out that not only was he being stopped from moving forward by this abomination. He was being pushed BACK. Not wanting to get cornered Thrax threw a quick jab to the quad and was glad when he got the reaction he was hoping for. Kneeling over slightly that left Thrax with a perfect opportunity to kick the knelt over krogan which sent it flying and landed on its back. Moving over to it Thrax stomped on its head twice before it lay still.
Looking he saw Shepard shoot that bitch in the face, silencing her forever. But then they could hear alarms coming from the lab from where Okeer was. Before any of them could speak the Normandy's A.I that calls its self EDI said to Shepard that the room was flooded with toxins and that Okeers life signs were fading rapidly.
Running back up to the lab the heard a synthesized voice say ventilation in progress. Going into the lab they saw Okeer on the ground. A closer examination showed that he was dead. Zaeed saw a flashing button on the terminal that Okeer was using before they went to fight that human bitch, and pressed it.
Then Okeer's voice spoke "you gave me time Shepard. If I knew why the collectors wanted humans I would tell you. But everything is in my prototype. My legacy is pure. This one solder, this grunt. Perfect."
"He sacrificed hundreds of these other krogan like it was nothing but he sacrificed himself for this one?" Thrax said in disbelief.
" I say we take this krogan. You saw how tough those ones back down there were." Zaeed said with a nod towards the storage bay.
Shepard didn't say anything until for a few seconds before he spoke into his comm piece. "Normandy. Okeers a no-go but we have a package that needs retrieval."
NORMANDY
Shepard asked Thrax to watch the tank that the krogan was in while he, Miranda, and Jacob decided what to do with it. Deciding to see what he could find out he said "uh hello, ship computer thing?"
"Are you refering to me Mr. Thrax?"
"Yeah, what can you tell me about this krogan? Anything unusual?"
"This krogan is an exceptional example of your own species. With fully functional primary, secondary, and tertiary organs where applicable. The only abnormality I can detect is the genophage that is present in all krogan."
"Thank you ship." Thrax said as he looked closer at the krogan.
The plates on his head isn't fully formed yet into the rock-looking plate of an adult krogan like him. They were usually only like that in the case of newborns. Other than that he could see nothing unusual about this krogan.
"See something you like?" A voice said.
Thrax not thinking, backhanded the welder of the voice sending it flying across the cargo bay. Turning around he saw that it was Shepard and Thrax said "sorry Shepard but never sneak up on me."
Going over to help him up he stuck out his hand and Shepard grabbed it and hauled himself up. "So what are you doing with it?" Thrax said talking about the krogan in the tank.
"I'm letting it out. Be ready for trouble but if he does attack don't kill him." Shepard said starting to release the krogan once Thrax nodded.
"Cerberus protocol is very clear in regards to untested alien technology."
"This krogan is either a powerful ally or a ticking time bomb. Either way best to get it over with now." Shepard said leaving no room for argument.
"Very well Shepard, the controls are online. The switch and consequences are yours." The A.I said sounding a little miffed.
Shepard flipped the switch and they both watched as the liquid in the tank drained out and the tank door opened. The tank born fell to his knees and let out a cough that spat up some of the liquid that was in the tank before standing up to face Shepard. Growling and charging towards Shepard, Thrax grabbed the tank born's arm and slammed it against the wall and pushed its arms up against its back pinning it there. "Human, male, krogan male, before I kill you both I need a name." It said calmly despite the fact that there was no way he was breaking Thrax's hold on him.
"I'm Commander Shepard, this is Thrax and you don't seem to killing anyone from where you are."
"Not your names, mine. I'm trained, I know things, but the tank- Okeer couldn't implant connection. His words are hollow." He said before he started to mumble "warlord, legacy, grunt. Grunt was among the last, it has no meaning, it'll do. I am Grunt. Now since you've defeated me you must kill me." Thrax looked at Shepard, wanting to know what he should do.
Shepard then said " do you want Thrax to kill you?"
"Want? I do what I was meant to do. Fight and reveal the strongest. Nothing in the tank ever asked me what I want. I feel nothing for Okeer or his clan. He failed, I am failed. Without a reason that's mine one fights as good as the other. Might as well start with you."
Then taking Thrax by surprise he slammed the back of his head into Thrax's face. Letting him got Thrax felt himself be grabbed by the collar of his armor and was thrown into the crate of boxes behind the now vacant tank. Shepard stepped in front of Grunt stopping his advancement and put a hand up to calm Thrax down. "I have a strong ship and a strong team, a strong clan, we're fighting against an enemy that might be stronger than us. We could sure use your strength."
"What enemy are you talking about?"
"The collectors." Thrax said now calm.
"I see blurry ships, guesses about number, and strength, nothing of any important use."
They all stood there for a moment one small human keeping two giant krogan from killing each other. "Very well Shepard, I will fight for you. But know this if your weak or the enemies you fight are weak, I may have to kill you." Shepard nodded.
Grunt moved away so Thrax could get through. When he moved past Grunt he quickly head butted the young krogan causing him to stumble back. Shepard looked at him confusion and anger all on his face. Thrax just shrugged and said "he started it."
Well that's it for Grunt now we're just getting Jack (or maybe I'll just skip that one) and then we face the collectors for the first time. Anyway review, read, follow, favorite, or anything else you can think of. also I want you to tell me who you think Shepard should be in a romance with Ashley, Tali, Liara, Jack, or Miranda. Also sorry about the block story. I got a new computer and I'm still getting use to it.