A/N in case anyone was wondering the biotic blade power isn't mine. The creator of that and a whole lot of other moves that I'll show later goes by the name of LogicalPremise. I encourage all of you who read this story, to check out his stories. Also check out Mass Effect Helldiver Saga by veryon722skyhook. Also I've started writing a new Dragon Age story called Dragon Age the Elf's Quest (I know the name sucks) the pairing is going to be M City Elf/Leliana. So please check it out. Now without further delay here is the collectors.
It was finally time to meet there enemy head on. According to Shepard intel from Cerberus the collectors were attacking on of the human colonys out in the Terminus. Shepard, not knowing what to expect was taking him, the salarian Mordin, and had just landed and were making their way towards the center of the colony, where they could see a huge ship that looked somewhat organic. Moving towards the ship Thrax said "hey salarien, you sure these fancy armor upgrades of yours will work?"
"Certainty impossible. But in limited numbers should confuse seekers, make us invisible to the swarm, in theory."
"In theory? Oh that's comforting." Garrus said sarcastically.
"Man up Vakarian!" Thrax said.
"Stay focused." Shepard said.
Moving forward they saw human sized, bugs flying, actually flying, down and started firring at the four. Thrax charged at the nearest on and knocked it down before it could react and stomped on its head. Ducking behind a square plant holder that was big enough to cover his entire body, Thrax grabbed his pistol and quickly ducked out of cover and shot two more collectors in the head before launching a singularity and yelled at Shepard "Shepard! Warp!" Shepard launched a warp at the singularity and caused a biotic explosion that took out the rest of the collectors. "Whoo!" Thrax cheered. "Feels great to finally be fighting the enemy!" He roared.
"Take it down a notch Thrax." Shepard said even though he was grinning. They made their way towards the center of the colony when they saw some Collectors moving some kind of pod, thing. They didn't have time to think about it, well maybe the salarian did, before they were spotted. Thrax seeing two Collectors close together swung his arm horizontal and cut both of the collectors heads off. "Thrax!" Shepard called over the sound of the gun fire.
"What?" Thrax answered.
"You have got to teach me that biotic blade!"
"You don't have the power level!" Thrax said as he jumped out of cover and launched two biotic energy balls that send two of the collectors flying into a wall at lethal velocity.
"Says who?" Shepard said as he threw a warp at the last collector before Garrus shot it in the head.
"Well talk about it later." Thrax said before he turned a corner and was grabbed by something that started clawing at his face. He grabbed the thing somewhere threw it to the ground and shot it. "What the fuck is!" Thrax said before he got a good look at it. He'd seen these things before. On the citadel when the geth attacked.
"Husks, humans that are killed and have tech implanted. The geth used them on Eden prime." "This is what the collectors are doing to the colonists?" Thrax asked. "No. To make a husk they have to be impaled on a long metal spike." Shepard said.
"Dragon's teeth your people called them." Garrus added.
"Let's get moving." Shepard said. Moving on, the squad got the jump on some collectors, Shepard and Garrus both took out there sniper rifles and fired killing two collectors before they could react, then Thrax began moving through an empty house to his right and flanked the new collectors that flew down. With enemies on both sides the collectors didn't stand a chance. They moved forward and saw something that puzzled even the salarian.
There was one colonist that was kneeling over to help another colonist that had fallen. But it was like they were stuck in time. The pair was perfectly still. "Interesting. Completely immobile, and yet fully aware."
"They can see what's going on?" Shepard asked.
"Yes." Mordin replied.
Shepard looked at both of the colonist's and said in a calming voice "don't worry. I'm Commander Shepard and I'm here to save you."
Moving away from the colonists more collectors flew down, but this time one of them was glowing yellow and spoke in a booming voice "WE ARE HARBINGER!" Before it launched a yellow warp at the four. Thrax reacted with his own warp but to his and everyone else's surprise, Thrax's warp was over powered and dissolved, and the collectors warp hit Thrax causing him to stumble back.
Once he had his footing back Thrax cut the biotic collector in half with his blade. Thrax over came his surprise and went towards a giant door that Garrus was trying to open. Once he finally managed to they were greeted with a small storage shed. Shepard said "company." And the squad all pulled out there weapons. "Get out here now!" Shepard yelled.
Coming out from behind a giant machine was a shaking human man with his hands up who said "oh thank god! Your human!" Then he looked at Thrax then Mordin, then Garrus and said "kind of."
"This guy was hiding? Pathetic he should have been trying to save his home from the collectors." Thrax growled.
"Those things are collectors? I thought they were just a myth made up by the council to keep us in Alliance Space. Look if your here to save us then please do it. They've got Lilith, Sten, and who knows how many others?"
"First calm down, second there should have been an Alliance Representative here."
"The rep? Yeah she was here. Officially it was just an outreach PR shit, but then Sten looked her up. She's a big deal. Helped stop the geth attack on the citadel a few years back."
"Most colony's have Guardian batteries right?" Thrax said to Shepard.
"Yeah, so" Shepard said before catching on "I see what your saying."
"Yeah there's just one problem the targeting systems all bugged up, we were about to fix it when those things attacked."
"EDI should be able to handle it." Garrus said.
"Let's go." Shepard said before he asked the human "can you open the doors?"
After a gentle growl from Thrax the human mechanic was only to happy to open the doors. They moved ahead and saw some new kind of husk. It was big, bigger than Thrax even, ,blue like the regular husks, and it had a giant gun for a right arm, and it had sacks on its back. As soon as it saw them it fired it gun. It was slow but it hit Garrus and took his shields right out. Thrax pulled him down before it could get a second hit.
Leaping over Thrax fired a carnage attack right at the thing before he shot both rounds of his claymore and used the bayonet to decapitate a husk that got to close to him and backhanding another before he stabbed it in the face. Going through a door opposite the door that lead to the storage shed. The four were finally at the Guardian batteries. Shepard went to upload the ship thing to the guns while the rest of them checked the area.
Once the ship was connected Shepard said Shepard started spouting off orders "Mordin lay down cover fire and if you get the chance launch a few fireballs. Garrus stay back and pick off any husks or collectors with your sniper rifle, and Thrax" Thrax turned and looked at him and he said "smash!"
Grinning like an idiot he charged right toward a group of collectors and that had appeared and, dropping his weapon along the way he followed orders and smashed. Grabbing the necks of two collectors he smashed them against the nearby crate until they leaked some kind of green blood. Before he launched a snockwave at a clustered group of husks and pulled his weapon to him and took care of some new collector arrivals. He was about to kill the last one but was stopped when he suddenly grew yellow cracks along its skin and said "WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE!"
Thrax not giving it time to react threw his most powerful warp the same time this "Harbinger" did. This time neither one overpowered the other so Thrax launched a shockwave at it which Harbinger dodged by flying the air before it l started to launch concentrated biotic spheres that exploded on impact. Thrax, not one to be out done managed to catch one before it exploded by keeping it in a biotic field that held the entire thing together before throwing it back. Harbinger not expecting that, took it directly to the face and fell. Thrax ran to it and shot it in the face, just to be sure.
Seeing that most of the collectors were dead Thrax walked back to the rest of the team and said "yeah! wo hoo! Who's ready for round two?!" He said as he punched Garrus's shoulder.
Just the the guardian batteries came online and started firing at the collector ship. Before they could start celebrating they saw something fly towards them from the collector ship. It could hover but had four legs and an armored body and it looked like it had barriers. Seeing it Thrax and Shepard both launched four warps at it, two each, while Garrus switched to his assault rifle and started firing full auto, and Mordin did the same only with a sub machine gun. Once its barriers were down the biotics threw warps at it and Mordin launched a few incendiary attacks. It was eventually over and the monstrosity was dead. They killed it just in time to see that the ship had taken a lot of damage, but was still capable of space travel and started to take off. With the Normandy being no match for a ship that size, and the only defenses being these anti-space craft guns, there was little that anyone could do to stop the collector ship. "No!" A voice yelled causing everyone to pull out their weapons and point them at the owner of the voice. But dropped them when they saw it was that mechanic. "Don't let them get away! They got Lilith and and Mark, and Sten!"
"What the hell do you want us to do? Start flapping our arms and try to fly?" Thrax said chuckling.
"That's enough Thrax!" Shepard snapped.
"Hey we did all we could Shepard." Thrax said.
"Shepard? I know that name." The mechanic said.
"Commander Shepard, the hero of Elysieum, the first human Spectre, and the savior of the Citadel. Your in the presents of a god Delan, and a ghost."
"All the good people we lost and you get left behind." Delan said before Shepard knocked him out and walked towards the human female.
She pulled her gauntlet off and touched his cheek with her bare hand. Thrax could see tears starting to form in her eyes before they both hugged. "I'm so glad your safe Ash." Shepard said the relief evident in his voice.
"I thought you were dead Shepard." She sounded angry and Thrax deciding that the pair needed some alone time he said to Shepard
"Shepard we're gonna request the shuttle so you can talk." Being oddly sensitive before he started pushing the turian and salarian away.
Well after some deliberation and punching myself in the head. I've decided that Shepard's romance is going to be Ashley.
Most people hate her and I don't see why. (Although me favorite romance option is a tie between Thane, and Garrus).
Well until we meet again
Jaffa3 OUT