I shall now be introducing the Necris. Any Necris speech will be normal underline.
James and Garrus took cover on separate ends of the hanger. James took cover in a piece of enclosed cover and mounted his typhoon ready to gun down any Collector roach he saw. Garrus took position in an elevated area with his Krysae sniper preparing for some of the most difficult indoctrinated forces he's fought. Both of them were at least thankful for the turrets that Reavus had spawned to cover them. James spotted the first drop ship, "Hey Garrus, 100 credits says I take down more than you". The turian sniper looked over and shouted "200 and you're on". With that, the first shuttle landed and the two men with the turrets opened up on their attackers.
Meanwhile Shepard and Reavus were working their way through the maze of corridors and warehouses of the factory. Shepard who was moving next to Reavus asked "Are you sure you know where you're going?". Without breaking his gaze ahead or his stride the Necris replied "Of course, I designed this beast. The comm room is left at the next intersection".
While they were walking Shepard noted something he noticed with his new friend. "I noticed you seem to have a sort of homicidal fixation on Harbinger and his race. What did Harbinger do to you in your cycle?". Reavus clenched his fists and his glow intensified on his memories, "Harbinger; yes. The rest of the Reapers; more of a disliking with a level of respect to their power. And we come back to the topic on why I won't turn back into my human form. You want to know Shepard, fine. I lead the Necris armies during my cycle and in those three years we cut the Reapers numbers in half. As Harbingers idea of payback he slaughtered my closest friends and my family right in front of me and indoctrinated my twin brother. They died because I wasn't strong enough and not fast enough, to save them. I buried all of them except my father who was never seen again. Turning back before Harbinger is dead will be an insult to them". Shepard nodded as the doors to the comm room opened.
As they entered the room Reavus placed his hand on the wall next to him and the room lit up with a facial silhouette appearing on the centre console. "CABAL online, welcome back Admiral Reavus. Timeframe established; 10 Reaper cycles have past". Reavus smiled upon the sight of the Stations organic based AI. "CABAL, good to see a familiar face, sorry it took so long for me to get back to you guys" he said with a smile.
Shepard was watching this and asked "Is this some kind of military AI?" Reavus looked back to the Commander and answered "Yes, the Computer Assisted Biologically Augmented Lifeform was one of the first things under Project Organid to work. He's basically a living AI". Reavus turned his attention back to the AI, "CABAL what's the status of our people and can you get the planetary cannons online to protect the station?" After a moment of humming and a buzzing CABAL looked up to Reavus, "Planetary cannons online but the Reaper capital ships are out of range, and 2 billion Necris are coming out of stasis. I am also bringing the factory online now".
Shepard and Reavus looked to each other and nodded in assurance when Shepard asked Reavus "What's this fighter of yours capable of?" Reavus only smiled, "The Stinger. It's got a minigun/railgun hybrid for anti-fighter and anti-infantry combat, a high explosive armour piercing railgun used for anti-ship combat which is not unlike your ships thanix cannon, Swarmer missiles which divide into ten more missiles for crowd control and for the cherry on the cake, the nova bomb. An antimatter bomb whereby anything it touches is instantly vapourised, regardless of what its made from".
They were interrupted by Garrus on the radio, "Commander, Garrus here. Collector boarding parties are breaking off and we can see the planet firing on them but we could use your help. We're pinned down by a pack of Praetorians and the turrets were taken down". The concerned Commander for his team headed for a now function elevator that went to the hanger but Reavus stayed. "You go Shepard, I've got to get to the fighter factory", Shepard nodded and left. Reavus turned back to the Necris AI, "CABAL, how long will it take to build my fighter?" The AI opened a door that lead to the factory and responded, "With Project Organid now ready for deployment, two minutes sir". With a wide grin and his sinister laugh he just replied "Perfect".
Shepard arrived in the hanger and saw James and Garrus both hunkered in the far corner with two Collector Captains sneaking up behind them. With a biotic charge he put them out of commission and landed next to his team. "What's the situation" The Commander asked Garrus. While James was keeping the squad of Collectors and four Praetorians suppressed with his Typhoon MG, Garrus gave the situation report, "The turrets got overrun when the Praetorians and Scions arrived. The turrets took out the Scions and three Praetorians but got destroyed. Where is Reavus?" Shepard threw a grenade and answered, "He's coming, we managed to get the factory online". James who wasn't letting up on the trigger said with some level of concern "Well he better hurry up loco, cus' we don't have the ammo for these things".
The three continued to hold off the Collectors taking a few of them down and hurting the one Praetorian until they were literally down to their last clips. Just when they thought they were about to be overrun, a huge cargo bay door opened up and a black fighter came out with two VTOL engines. "Someone hale a bringer of death", and upon saying that Reavus opened up on the remaining Collectors with his anti-infantry railgun, instantly killing the ground troops and remaining Praetorians. "DAMN, and now to take the rest of these babies out for a test run", Reavus said as he angled his ship to the Reapers and went for it.
The Reapers saw Reavus with his fighter and directed all their attention to him in their attempt to stop him. Reavus noticed the Reapers had sent all their available fighters to him and gladly responded with his Swarm missiles. He fired eight missiles which became eighty as each divided into ten, utterly obliterating the Reaper Oculus fighters. With them gone he directed his attention to the four Collector ships and readied his anti-ship railgun.
With the first two shots he fired, they went straight through the first two Collector ships like a hot knife through butter. The other two fired at the same time, missing as Reavus barrel rolled his fighter to the side dodging their beams. His barrel roll actually lined up the Collector ships together in his sights and with one more shot he killed both at the same time. "Now for the fun part" he said with a maniacal tone.
Reavus armed his Nova bombs and locked onto the Reapers capital ships who were too slow to turn and face Reavus. With a pull of the trigger the bomb launched. It was large and slow moving but impacted the Reaper on the forward part close to its arms. The bomb exploded with a bright blue flash as it expanded into a Large blue ball that took up two thirds of the Reaper and then suddenly imploded into nothing, leaving a perfect spherical void on what was left of the Reaper. "PAYBACKS A BITCH AIN'T IT YOU MOTHERFUCKERS". Reavus fired again and the other Reaper was despatched in the same way. "THATS RIGHT. YOUR WORST NIGHTMARES HAVE COME TO LIFE".
Reavus landed back in the same hanger that Shepard and his team were still in. The Commander and Admiral approached one another. "Damn Reavus, you really do not like Reapers, because there's nothing left out there". Reavus just smiled and the two shook hands. "Thank you Shepard, for everything. You saved me from that Reaper prison and you helped me here today, and you won't go unrewarded. When you give the call, the full might of the Necris armada will be there for you".
The Normandy was leaving Namocron and Shepard and the crew could already see massive warships coming out of the factory. Joker looked up to his Commander and said "Jeez, they really don't waste any time on getting to work do they. If one fighter did all that, imagine what their fleet could do". Shepard looked back with the expression of confidence and relief, "Yeah, and with them in the picture we might actually stand a chance of winning this war".
There's always that expression I love; "Overkill is underrated". If you want to know what the whole Necris organid fleet can do, stay tuned.
And for those of you with an astute eye; Yeas I got CABAL from C&C. I couldn't think of a name and that one fit.
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