Disclaimer: I'm serious here, I don't own Crysis or Mass Effect. Wish I did though. . .

Thanks again to DN7 for his work as a beta.

The Therum Crysis

Part 1

"Warning. Major user damage detected. Major lacerations detected. Major Fractures detected. Suit integrity 50%. Injecting emergency nanocells. Advanced healing engaged. Repairing systems."

I groaned as I slowly regained consciousness, I opened my eyes to see the Pheonix's medbay swim into view.

"Well well well. Look who decided to wake up."

I growled as I recognized the voice, "Shut it Nova. How long was I out?"

"Only an hour or so. I kept you sedated for the majority of the time. We only just arrived on the ship." This time it was Tigress who responded.

"So he's awake?" I looked towards the door to see Shepard walk between them. "Nice ship by the way."

"What are you doing here?" I asked surprised.

"It's good to see you too." She responded drily. "Viper invited me onboard and said that you would be up and kicking soon enough. I had my doubts, but seeing you now, I'm pretty surprised."

"What exactly happened?" I asked glancing at Tigress.

"You broke your leg in two places in the fall, and getting up and running right after didn't help matters. You sustained lacerations to your chest from the maw's plates and you almost lost your fingers on your right hand as well." Tigress looked at me exasperated "It's lucky that Shepard was able to hit the Maw with a Mako blast when she did or you would be in the stomach of a giant worm right now."

"So it was you who hit it... Thanks for that Shep. I was not looking forward to be monster chow." I glanced at my hand to see that the suit had already repaired itself, no sign of the gash visible. Clenching my fist I didn't feel any pain.

"Your lacerations have already been healed, you may however feel some discomfort, but that will soon fade." Tigress answered my unasked question. "Your leg has been set and is healing nicely. Another three hours should have it completely healed but you should be able to walk around already, since the suit will be keeping it set. So I expect that you will be completely healed and combat ready within four hours."

Deciding to get the Normandy underway as quickly as possible, I went to pack up all my gear to be transported to the Normandy. Shepard decided to help me as according to her I was 'too injured to be carrying heavy loads' and that she needed me combat ready as fast as possible. Reluctantly I let her and Nova carry everything to the VTOL.

The CSV-81 VTOL (Vanguard Tactical Operations Lander) is CryNet's standard shuttle. The VTOL is outfitted with state of the art stealth systems, allowing it to covertly insert or extract Phantom or Inquisitor teams.

With all my gear aboard the VTOL, I bid the rest of my team farewell, but not before telling them to stay alert for possible missions.

During the short flight over I discussed the thresher maw attack in great detail with Shepard. I shared my suspicions of it being a trap due to the conveniently placed distress beacon right in the middle of a thresher nest. I figured that a squad under attack by a bunch of thresher maw's would not have the time to set up a distress beacon like the one we found. While relatively easy and fast to set up, being under attack from giant worms could definitely make things difficult for even the most experienced of soldiers. Shepard had to agree, knowing first hand what it was like to be running from maw's. The news that it was a trap definitely worried Shepard, making her wonder exactly how many other such traps there could be. The unasked question was obvious. 'Was Akuze also one such trap?'

Upon arriving on the Normandy I was reintroduced to the squad as Shepard explained my purpose here "Wraith will be aiding us in whatever capacity he is capable and will also be acting as a liaison between myself and CryNet. I hope this won't lead to any problems. Wraith will be situated in the office on the crew deck, past the sleeper pods."

I could see that some people weren't completely happy about her announcement but they respected and trusted Shepard enough not to argue. It was quite amazing to see the loyalty and respect Shepard had already gained from the entire crew, in just the few hours she had been in command of the Normandy.

With introductions out of the way and after learning of our new heading, I headed into my office, to make sure everything was set, from my own equipment, to CARLA being set for my absence. Three hours later I was interrupted from reading a report from Serpent team by Shepard's voice over the intercom.

"Operative Wraith please report to the briefing room."

Closing the report, I secured my office with advanced CryNet security protocols before exiting and heading up the stairs to the briefing room/comm room. Walking through the door I saw Shepard leaning up against the communications console examining a holographic display of a planet which I figured had to be Therum, the planet where Matriarch Benezia's daughter was on.

"Good, you're here." Shepard said looking up at me as the door slid closed behind me. "I wanted to go over the data we have and get a plan together with you. You know your capabilities much better than I do."

I nodded once as I turned my attention to the holo, "So what's the situation?"

Shepard activated her omni-tool and input a command, causing the holo to zoom in on a small area of Therum, with one area highlighted in red. "That is the dig site where Dr. T'soni is supposed to be. There are geth signatures all around the area however so landing the Normandy directly at the dig site is a no go. That means we have to drop in the Mako, at the closest drop zone five clicks away, here." Another spot was highlighted, this time in blue.

As I examined the entire map I noticed that while the drop zone was only two clicks away, it was more like five, as the road wound around large lava lakes until it finally reached the dig site. A single refinery was directly on the road to the dig site about a fourth of the way. There were also two tunnels that lead through the mountains directly to the dig site where there was a small canyon that the Mako might not fit through.

"Will the Mako fit through this canyon here?" I asked pointing at it.

"Unlikely. We're going to have to ditch the Mako there and continue on foot. We should be then able to clear out any weapons to allow the Normandy to pick it up while we go into the dig site itself." Shepard responded instantly.

I nodded to myself as I regarded the map. "Do we know where the largest groups of Geth are?"

"We only know that there is a large number of geth directly at the dig site and another at this refinery." Shepard responded "We also know that there is at least one drop ship in the area as well, so expect heavy resistance all along the road."

"I see. Do you already have a plan though?"

"I have one in the making yes. Can you keep up with the Mako on foot?"

"If you don't go at full speed I should be able to yes. If need be I can just hop on for a ride."

"Alright. Now do you think that you can drop in on this mountain here with your orbital drop thing?" She asked me indicating a location overlooking the refinery on the map.

"HALOM drop on that mountain? Yeah, I should be able to do that. You want me to give sniper support?" I asked.

"No. I want you to infiltrate the refinery and blow open the gates. With the gates open we can drive straight in with the Mako blasting everything as we go." As she was outlining her plan the holo changed to be a rotating model of the refinery, gates to be destroyed flashing red.

"Good plan. What kind of gates are we expecting here?" I asked having to know how much explosives to take.

"I'd expect standard compound gates. Two layers of reinforced concrete each approximately one meter thick." The holo zoomed in on the gates to show them in great detail.

"Shouldn't be a problem. A little AEC between the two layers should do the job." I said "Anything else I should know?"

"Don't think so. Everything else seems to be pretty much clear on what has to be done. Although I was doing some research on the geth combat units and we may want to watch out for Armatures and Colossus units, which are pretty much the walking tanks of the geth." Shepard told me showing me the respective models on the holo.

"Alright then. You want to tell the rest of the squad?" I asked.

"Of course." She said turning towards the communications console and speaking into it "Attention ground team, please report to the briefing room. I repeat ground team report to the briefing room."

Turning I sat down in a chair next to the door to await the rest of the squad to file in while Shepard leaned back against the communications console. When everyone had taken their seats Shepard started the briefing by outlining the objectives, proceeding into the plan and finishing with saying, "I'll be taking Wrex and Garrus on this op. The rest of you I want suited up and standing by. Any questions?" She asked, waiting for a moment then continuing when no questions came. "I want all of you in the cargo bay within the next half hour. Dismissed."

I stood up amidst a flurry of activity and headed out the door to get my gear from my office. Arriving in my office I opened my equipment locker and pulled out everything I would need. First I strapped on a utility vest followed by the HALOM onto my back and connected it to the Nanosuit. The AEC's went into a pouch on my waist. Taking the ammunition block out of my SCAR I found that it would be fine for a few more missions and slid it back in. Pulling out a grenade launcher attachment, I slid it into the under slung rail and locked it into place. Done with my SCAR, I attached it to my back. The ammo block of my DSG-1 was also satisfactory and I slid it back into place before pulling out a box of specialized ammunition that went into a pouch on my vest. My Nova pistol went on my right hip while I attached my dagger to my left thigh. After grabbing a couple of frag grenades I attached my JAW horizontally across my lower back. Lastly I linked my weapons with my suit for targeting and various other commands, including the ability to switch the SCAR's modes. With the link established I imputed a command to modify my ammo into the anti-synthetic disruptor rounds. Finally, I stood up, double checked myself making sure that I had everything and exited my office to head down to the cargo bay.

I exited the elevator to find everyone finalizing their preparations. Shepard and Garrus were checking the Mako while Wrex looked on, seeming almost bored. Everyone else were standing or sitting off to the side. Shepard looked up as I approached.

"All set?" She asked taking a step back.

"Yep. You told Joker where to drop me off?"

"Of course." She smirked "Wouldn't want you to land in a lake of lava now would we?"

I snorted as she turned and addressed the squad "Alright, everything is set. Everyone not being dropped, strap yourselves into your harnesses. Garrus, Wrex into the Mako, and try not to tear it to pieces before I get in there." She ordered and everyone headed to the sides of the cargo bay to strap themselves into the harnesses there so that they wouldn't fall out of the Normandy when the Mako was dropped. "Alright Wraith! I'll see you groundside!" Shepard called out as she got in the drivers seat of the Mako.

"Roger that commander. Don't take too long getting to the refinery! I don't want to have to wait on you again." I shouted back.

"You wish Wraith!" She retorted as the Mako door swung shut. A second later and I heard her over the radio "Comm check. Everyone hear me?"

"I hear ya." I said followed by everyone else.

"Alright then. Joker, you may begin your approach."

"Copy that Commander. Good luck."

The cargo bay ramp opened giving me a view of the lava planet as the Normandy was in a shallow dive. At the end of the dive Shepard hit the gas and the Mako plunged out of the Normandy. Right after the Mako cleared the ramp, Joker pulled the Normandy up from its dive and circled around to where I would jump. Unstrapping myself from my seat I stood up and made my way past the rest of the squad to the ramp. When I passed Ashley she said "Good luck down there sir. I'm glad its not me jumping out of the Normandy from 40 kilometers up."

I smirked under my mask, "Luck has various names. For me its called the Nanosuit." I said continuing past her to stand at the beginning of the ramp waiting for the now red light to turn green.

"Alright Wraith, I'm beginning my approach. Try not to repaint the ground down there. Its got enough red." Joker quipped.

"Got it Joker. I'll repaint the ground with geth oil. How about that?" I asked as SECOND reported being ready for drop.

"Sounds good Wraith. Off ya go!" Joker responded as the light turned green.

Without a second thought I sprinted along the ramp and jumped out of the Normandy. Immediately I could feel myself accelerating, speeding up in the near vacuum. I reached a max speed of 417m/s and smashed through the sound barrier. I then started to be slowed down by air resistance. I then could feel the Nanosuit starting to compensate for wind turbulence. I kept my eyes glued to my HUD as I watched my speed, altitude and time until my HALOM would activate. All the data had been calculated by SECOND before I jumped. I would be falling for 3 minutes until my HALOM would activate in which time I would have five seconds to right myself and land feet first on the ground.

I tensed as the countdown reached zero and a moment before the HALOM started slowing me down I snapped my arms out to my side, keeping my legs tight together. At the same time the nanosuit changed the outer layer of my arms and torso to become more air resistant causing my legs to fall faster than my body, righting me for landing. Two seconds later and I hit the ground with a dull thud, sinking into a crouch while stabilizing myself with my fist. And to think, that phantoms are the only ones to drop from such a high altitude even though the first human to jump from 39km was way back in 2012. I thought wryly thinking back to the jump performed by Felix Baumgartner one hundred and seventy one years ago that had given us the idea of dropping from high altitudes to quickly and covertly infiltrate enemy positions.

"Wraith is on the ground, moving on to the objective." I said over the comm.

"Copy that Wraith. We're making good progress. ETA fifteen minutes."

"Roger that Shepard. Gates will be down. Wraith out." I broke off the comm channel and made my way to the edge of the cliff overlooking the refinery. Looking down, I saw a small boulder sticking out fifteen meters down the cliff. Taking a step back I cloaked and jumped down to said boulder. From there I jumped down another ten meters on another boulder where I dropped on my stomach and uncloaked, allowing my energy reserves to recharge. My energy reserves recharged quickly due to the large amount of thermal energy around and once full I cloaked again and dropped down onto the roof of a building inside the compound.

Unfortunately as I dropped down I dislodged a few rocks which came tumbling down the cliff with loud clacks. Swearing silently as I heard the sounds of geth language below me, I dropped to my stomach once again and uncloaked so that I could make my move once my reserves filled up again. I was quickly reviewing the location of the gates in comparison to me by checking my map when I was suddenly, pulled from my thoughts by something grabbing my ankle. Flinching I looked behind me to see a geth that looked leaner than the normal geth troopers and had round balls on the end of its fingers, holding onto my ankle while its eye glowed red.

"Maximum Power."

Not even waiting to see what would happen when the geth finished charging its weapon, I kicked it away with all the strength my nanosuit could muster. The kick caused the geth to be thrown away from me at least twenty feet. This caused a massive growl to break out all around the building I was on as all the geth reacted angrily to my actions. Even before I could do more than scramble to my legs and draw my SCAR another geth, looking exactly like the one I had just kicked away, jumped up onto the roof with me.

As I released a burst from my SCAR it jumped away before I could even bring its shields down. I watched as it landed on the side of an antennae tower and climbed up the tower like it was crawling along the ground. I now knew what those balls on its fingers and I'd bet on its toes as well were. Suction cups. "Its like a damn frog." I muttered to myself as the geth suddenly decided that now would be a good time to demolish the building I was standing on with high explosive rockets. I staggered as the first rockets hit the building. Deciding that I didn't want to be part of a building demolition, I sprinted off the building. I landed on a geth trooper that, if geth could be surprised, definitely looked surprised as it crumpled beneath my weight.

Quickly unloading a couple of rounds into it at point blank range I took off running, putting another building between me and the army of pissed of robots. Here I quickly cloaked and ran on behind yet another building sliding behind it just as my suit reserves depleted. As I waited for my energy to recharge I asked "SECOND, whats the shortest route to the gates with the most cover from here."

"Route displayed. Waypoints updated."

"Alright thanks." I muttered as my energy finished recharging and I cloaked, making my way along the path given to me by SECOND. The path took me through the refinery compound without being detected. The geth were however spreading out, looking for me with a precision that only synthetics could achieve. Just as I neared the gatehouses Shepard spoke up over the comms.

"Wraith, this is Shepard. We are in position. Are the gates down yet?" She asked. Normally talking over the comm during a covert operation would be fine, not many had the technology to detect our radios. Even had the geth not known I was here, chances are they wouldn't have detected me. However since they did know I was here and they had tech to locate comm traffic I heard another who symphony of geth sounds coming from behind me.

"No. Not yet. I ran into a little situation here." I said activating power mode and jumping up onto the gatehouse.

"What kind of situation?" Shepard asked me, almost exasperated.

"The hot kind." I said jumping down between the two layers of the gate from the gatehouse roof.

"You were detected, weren't you?" Shepard asked flatly as I pulled out my three AEC charges and planted them all along the gate.

"Its not my fault the geth have jumping frogs with laser eyes!" I exclaimed jumping up on the other gatehouse and cloaking.

"Jumping... Frogs?."

"Pretty much." I said as I jumped down from the gatehouse and quickly made my way away from the gates.

"Just get those gates open." Shepard sighed over the radio.

"Already done." I said pressing the detonator.

The gate blew apart, debris being thrown halfway across the compound. Just as the thunder from the explosion faded away I heard the sound of the Mako engine as it came barreling through the remains of the gate guns blazing. Smirking I pulled out my SCAR, let it switch into SCARE mode and started taking potshots at any geth that could pose a threat to the Mako. After having blown the heads off of two geth rocket troopers I was busy trying to snipe one of those frog's which kept jumping around keeping me from getting a shot off at it when suddenly the frog was engulfed in a big fireball.

"Really?" I asked exasperated as I started to jog towards the Mako. "You just had to steal my kill with a giant cannon?"

Wrex, who obviously was on the cannon, chuckled "You were taking your sweet time and Shepard was getting impatient."

"I'll admit it was funny watching you try to hit that thing." Shepard said "But we really need to get moving."

I sighed as I pulled off my HALOM and put it into a container hanging off of the Mako "Stealing my kills, stealing my fun. I'll have to watch myself. I'm with a bunch of thieves."

"Oh don't exaggerate. Now if you'd be so kind," Shepard commanded, slipping into her commander role, "Scout the area ahead. We will finish up here and head out. Be sure to keep in radio contact."

"Got it, moving out." I turned and started running towards the other gate.

"Maximum Power"

As I neared the gate I put on a big boost of power and jumped over the gate. Right before I hit the ground, SECOND activated armor mode to absorb the impact. After I landed, SECOND reengaged power mode to help ease the strain of running. I soon came to a large lake of lava. On the bank there was a pipeline hugging the side of a cliff. I was running along the bank when SECOND highlighted something on my visor. I slowed to a stop and zoomed my visor in on the target. I saw two large quadruped walkers which I quickly realized were the geth Armatures or Colossus that Shepard had told me about. SECOND confirmed my thoughts a second later.

"Warning. Threat detected. Threat identified: Geth Armature. Proceed with caution."

Damn. That could be problematic. Viewing the area ahead I noticed another armature on the other side of the lava lake. SECOND highlighted that one as well. "Shepard, hold back. There are two armatures along the road and another on the other side of the lake."

"Copy that Wraith. Any thing else?" Shepard asked.

"Uh, yeah four geth troopers. Judging by their color schemes I'd say two snipers and two rocket troopers."

"Think you can deal with the troopers while we take care of the armatures?"

"Of course I can Shepard. Let me just get in position." I said and quickly ran underneath the pipeline as it came out of the mountain. Slowing down I went prone as I took out my DSG-1, putting my SCARE on the ground next to me, within reach. "I'm in position Shepard."

"Got it. Moving in now."

I sighted my rifle at one of the snipers as they posed the biggest threat to me. As soon as I heard the Mako fire I pulled the trigger watching in satisfaction as the sniper fell to the ground missing its head, its shields not having been up. Swiveling, I sighted down at the next sniper and fired off my next shot. That shot tore through the shields of the next sniper also removing its head. Switching targets I aimed at a rocket trooper and fired off my shot which tore through the geth's shields but barely missed, having been knocked off course by the kinetic barrier. Taking another quick shot I dispatched that trooper before grabbing my SCARE due to my DSG-1 having overheated. Sighting down at the last trooper I fired twice bringing its shields down and finishing it off with a quick third shot to the head. Looking up I saw the Mako ramming the second armature sending it flying into the lava where it quickly sunk with a screech.

My attention was drawn to the Mako when something hit it. Looking over to the other armature I zoomed in with my visor and saw geth rocket troopers aiming another shot at the Mako. Grabbing my DSG-1 and activating its high powered zoom function, I aimed and was about to take a shot at a rocket trooper when the armature reared up, its head glowing white tinged with blue. Barely a second later a white orb blasted out from the Armature and sped towards the Mako. Luckily Shepard was able to dodge out of the way as Wrex returned fire. His first shot missed, instead hitting a rocket trooper next to it. I quickly took aim and took out the next rocket trooper with two quick shots. During this time Shepard was driving the Mako around the lake in an attempt to not get hit and get closer to the armature. Wrex was also able to score a hit on the armature causing its shields to flare brightly in my scope as I went to take out the last rocket trooper with another quick double tap.

As Shepard closed in on the armature, Wrex was able to score another direct hit with the main cannon bringing the armatures shields down and severely damaging it. Wrex then let loose with a massive barrage from the machine gun which finally brought the armature crashing down.

"Area looks clear. Get over here Wraith." Shepard ordered.

"Copy that." I holstered both of my weapons and got up, activating power mode to increase my speed. I finally reached the Mako and climbed on top of it, settling down next to the cannon's barrel "Don't move the gun Wrex, or you will knock me off." I warned to which Wrex only chuckled.

Shepard hit the gas and the Mako rolled around a bend in the road to show the first tunnel that we would have to go through. This tunnel would bring us to a small valley on the other side of which would be the second tunnel leading us to the dig site. The only problem was that there was another armature standing in our way. At least I thought it was an armature, but as I compared it to the tunnel itself I realized that it was a Colossus, which dwarfed the armatures.

"Shepard we have a problem."

"Understatement of the decade." She muttered in response as she slowed to a halt. "I don't suppose you have any anti-armor weapons with you?"

"As a matter of fact I do." I said.

"Is there anything you don't have, Wraith?" Garrus asked me amused.

"I don't have a jetpack." I said.

"So what do you have Wraith?" Shepard asked me.

"A JAW anti-tank rocket launcher. I however think that it wouldn't do much to the armor of that Colossus unfortunately." I said.

"Single JAW missile to the base of the head will destroy or severely damage Colossus."

I stayed silent as a model of the Colossus appeared on my visor indicating the target in question. It was a small gap in its armor right where the head met the neck where if a shot would hit should blast the Colossus's head clean off. The trick would be hitting that gap.

"How am I going to hit that tiny gap in its armor?" I muttered "I'll need to get a perfect lock on the gap which will take time."

"We should be able to keep it occupied while you get the lock and make the shot." Shepard said.

"It could take a while though Commander. The lock has to be perfect, and I only have two missiles." I said.

"Then make it perfect."

"Will do. After all perfect is what I do best."

"Just get it done. Wrex keep that things attention on us. Lets do this." Shepard said hitting the gas as I jumped off of the Mako and pulled out the JAW.

"Alright you geth sons of bitches let's do this." I muttered engaging power mode and running towards the Colossus to get in range. Just as I got in range the Mako started engaging the Colossus and I raised my JAW's scope to my visor and started to lock on.

Shepard and Wrex were doing a good job of keeping the Colossus occupied and not shooting at me, allowing me to lock on without interruption.

"25%"

The Colossus reared up, it's eye glowing a bluish while. Seconds later it fired a massive blast of plasma at the Mako which just barely dodged it.

"Hurry up Wraith!" Shepard shouted "I don't think that the Mako can take one of those hits!"

"I'm going as fast as I can!" I shouted back.

"50%"

"Half way there!" I said.

"Make it faster!"

A flurry of machine gun bullets from the Colossus impacted on the Mako's shields.

"75%"

"Almost there" I muttered as the Mako dodged yet another blast of plasma. "Come on!"

Just as the Colossus reared up for another plasma blast I heard the beep signaling that I had locked on.

"100% Fire when Ready"

I quickly pulled the trigger before the Colossus could fire off its next plasma blast. Time seemed to slow down as the missile sped towards the Colossus. I was prepared to see the towering walker fall to the ground missing its head when suddenly its shields flared up and the missile detonated harmlessly right before it hit its weak spot, leaving the Colossus unscathed, even as it fired its plasma at the Mako once more.

"We forgot about the shields didn't we?" Shepard asked me, rather calmly as she maneuvered her way around the plasma.

"Fuck!" I swore "How could I forget about its shields? I only have one missile left Shepard! You have to take its shields down before I can make the next shot!"

"You don't have to tell me Wraith. I saw the first one hit its shields too you know." Shepard told me. Just then the colossus turned to face me, obviously having figured out where I was, what I was shooting at it and that at the moment I was the bigger threat. It immediately started unleashing a hailstorm of bullets at me as I was forced to run as fast as the suit would allow behind a small rock. "Fuck! I can't move its got me pinned down!"

"Don't worry about that. We'll get its shields down and get its attention again. You just worry about making sure the missile hits it next time." Shepard ordered "Wrex, open fire. Get that things shields down!"

"With pleasure."

I heard the loud blast from the Mako's cannon ring out once more, accompanied by the explosion from the Colossus's shields. The colossus however ignored the Mako, most likely having realized that I had cloaking from the refinery attack and was making sure that I couldn't cloak away. The Colossus seemed to be able to keep firing indefinitely as it never seemed to overheat. This however left the Mako free to hammer tit with round after round until finally, with the sound of breaking glass, its shields broke. Now it finally realised that it would be destroyed if it kept ignoring the Mako and finally let up on keeping me pinned down. And turned once more towards the Mako.

Cloaking I popped up from behind the rock, and aimed the JAW at the colossus once more. This time I achieved the lock much quicker, due to me having the data from the last lock and after a few seconds SECOND indicated that I was ready to fire. I however still had a problem. While the colossus had stopped firing at me it kept its head angled in such a way that it covered the weak point while firing its machine gun at the Mako. Realizing that I would have to wait for it to move I stayed still, conserving my suit energy as much as I could to prolong my cloak.

After almost a minute of waiting and just as my Cloak was about to fail the colossus finally slipped up. Rearing up it aimed its head towards the Mako as its "eye" glowed white. Taking my chance I pulled the trigger, spitting out the missile which after a split second hit the the colossus directly in the base of its head. The explosion snapped its head back where another round from the Mako connected blowing its head off completely.

"Nice shot Wraith, and good follow up Wrex. Took that Colossus out no problem." Shepard congratulated us.

"One problem Shepard. I don't have any more JAW missiles. That means that if we come across another colossus we will have to deal with it another way."

"Then lets hope we won't have to. Now hop on."

"Yes ma'am." I jogged over to the Mako and climbed on top of it, settling down on my previous seat next to the cannon. "Alright Shep. Punch it."

The ride through the tunnel went interrupted, save for the two geth troopers that I gunned down as we drove past. The tunnel opened up to show a small valley where I was surprised to see no geth waiting for us at all. "Anyone else find it strange that there are no geth waiting for us here?" I asked.

"Strange? Yes. But is that really a bad thing?" Garrus asked.

"Well, it could be a good or a bad thing." I said "It would be good if they just don't have enough geth to throw at us anymore."

"And how would it be a bad thing?"

"If they learned that sending geth against a tank is stupid and are waiting for us where we can't go with the tank." Wrex answered for me.

"Oh, right." Garrus muttered.

"So keep your guard up people. We don't want them catching us off guard." I said.

As we continued along the road it became more and more apparent that the geth weren't going to be attacking us while in the Mako. Shepard parked the Mako right in front of the canyon before announcing "It's time to ditch the Mako. We'll continue on foot."

A/N: Alright, so first part of Therum is done. Next up, the squad goes up against the geth troops on foot and meet up with Dr. Liara T'soni. Looks like the next update will be in 2013. So look out for it on the 5th!

As an answer to a review left to me by a guest so I couldn't PM you directly:

Gillespie, the events of Crysis canon have not happened in NE. There was no Tunguska, no Ling Shan, no New York events involving the Ceph. Alkatraz was not born in Crysis canon time, rather he was born in ME times so that he isn't that old. And Alkatraz will not be joining Shepard's squad in NE especially as at the moment he doesn't have a Nanosuit, only GHOST armor. Hope that cleared things up. Thanks for reviewing anyway!

P.S. World didn't end. That's good I guess.