Disclaimer: I do not own Mass Effect ,Eaware does, I mean Bioware...
anyway this is my,hopefully unique, self insert story into that game.
AN:those anonymous dudes who said something about me lacking some literary skills? just so you know I failed all my literary courses and I'm not natural english speaker. so taking those into consideration the fact I managed this much? a miracle. :D
Recap of what happened in last chapter:
I got email to questionnaire about what kind of ME universe I'd like to get into, I didn't take it seriously and answered 'surprise' to most of them. Bad Idea. End result was that I was broken to numbers and forced into AI controlled infiltration body, an human Android made by team of Salarian scientist per order of our very best friend Saren Arterius. I took control of it, sent distress signal to Alliance command and started to wreak havoc with my new body and powers that came with it. I made quick friends with STG lieutenant who worked undercover in the armory I hid, he gave me bad-ass weapon before he was executed by another salarian,whom I killed for killing him. I managed to get out of the room and kill squad of Geth before Shepard arrived.
That is where I stopped and where I now continue.
After seeing who came I can't help but to smile. Who would have thought I'd meet them before I get off this damn rock? Smiling even wider I send orders to open all doors leading them to me and lock down others. But before It happens I lose connection for reasons unknown.
"what the hell?" I mutter a loud and try again. Nothing. Naturally this makes me curious and I decide to venture to main control center, which happens to be in halfway to docking area from where I'm.
I ready my weapon and open the door right of me which leads to laboratory I first came to. I can't help but to cringe as I see the salarian who was my first kill. When I did it I felt nothing towards him but seeing it now makes me want to puke. I sigh and harden my resolve. No time to think about it, he worked for Saren, thus for the reapers and if their success has not been me but AI loyal to them, this reality would have been goner, though the STG guy might have been able to prevent it.
Just when I'm about to open the door opposite of where I came, it's opened. I stare at it in confusion for a bit until it clicks.
Someone must be at main control center (MCC). If it's so that means he, or she, will probably lead me to a trap. I smile inside my helmet and move on in full alert. The door leading in straight line to MCC is locked. I put my omnitool against it and try to crack it open. Seeing the estimate makes me decide otherwise. I move to next door that leads to crew quarters. It is green so I ready my weapon and move to the side. I open it and unsurprisingly I'm greeted with rockets and geth weaponry. I peek inside and hack the furthest in the back. I smile as it opens fire on its former friends. I then proceed to quickly snipe three normal troopers as rockets are easier to dodge before running in while y monster cools down. I manage to get to cover before they destroy the geth I hacked. I peek again and decide on risky maneuver. I cloak and run to the side where camera can't see me and two geth are in line. I take them out with one shot and Drain one . I shot two last geth quickly before they managed to hone their rockets at me. Seeing the room I can't help but smile.
"Damn I'm good." I say while jogging to the emergency ducts exit of that room. I climb down to it and head towards MCC. While crawling there I remember something I should have done the second Shepard showed up. I curse and send hail on main frequencies used by alliance
"Commander Shepard? I saw you coming but I was fighting for my life so I couldn't contact. I'm the one who send the distress signal to Alliance command telling about this place. I'm currently trying to get to Main Control Center. I send the map of the base with the initial SOS so you should know where it is. And I know it's you as according to the news on extra-net you're only N7 woman who has Krogan and Turian under your command." I wait few seconds and to my luck I get cdes that allow me on their comm channel.
"This is commander Shepard. We will meet you there but what kind of opposition we can expect? So far we haven't met anyone."
"This station is crawling with geth,salarians and krogans, so how come you haven't seen any? I've killed over 10 salarians, twice that amount of geth and five krogans! According to files on the database before I was blocked out ,this place has twice that many plus one asari! There are 10 areas and I have seen most of them. The rest have to be between you and main control center so be careful!"
in response I hear that they have engaged in fight already. I continue my crawling and just as I'm about to open the hatch to main control center Shepard contacts me again. "We just run into punch of salarians and krogans. They didn't listen and we had to kill them. So now it's only 20 geth and asari left if you're correct. How close are you? We are just about to come to room between us and main control center."
"I'm just about to open the hatch to the place. Should I come and help you instead?I'm in emergency ducts." I whisper in response.
"Well it seems we might be in big fight, Garrus counted 18 geth in the room when we opened the door. Wanna join? " Shepard says to me in happy tone, makes me think that she gets her kicks fighting against armies. I can't help but smile and shake my head at it. Better go help her just in case.
"I'm coming there. I have purple combat suit ,I can hack ,use energy drain and cloak .And I'm coming from emergency ducts in five seconds." I say and quickly crawl to the place. I cloak ,open the hatch and quickly roll to nearest cover. I then hack geth nearest to me, snipe the second nearest and then open the comm.
"I'm yours to command ma'am!" I say over the comm and wave my hand towards where Shepard is.
"stay safe and kick some geth ass." She says back.
"roger that."I answer and dutifully snipe three geth and energy drain 4th as they managed to deplete my shields.
I then go back to cover and hear some more geth dying under combined assault of Shepards team.
Few minutes later the room is clear. Cafeteria is nice place to kill some geth.
I then sit down to place nearest the door to main control center after setting up a hack program to open it.
"I set up a hack program to open the door, shouldn't take more than a minute." Shepard nods and comes to sit opposite of me weapons ready.
She decides it's good time to ask some questions.
"Okay now it's good time as any. Explain this situation. In your distress call you said you're human experiment that got free enough to SOS,schematics of this place and that it's owned by Saren Arterius."
I wince at that. I should have explained better.
"This is research station that tries to make perfect infiltration AI's. They try to Flash educate AI's and put them in control of organic bodies. I was their first success. Subject 801.I'm an AI in control of this human body." I say in perfect poker face.
Garrus quickly points his gun at me but Wrex and Shepard bursts to laughter. They laugh nearly a minute before they manage to get a hold of themselves.
"This one's funny, can we keep him?"Wrex asks Shepard. She almost starts laughing again.
"I was thinking the same. You" she points at me" are funny. No way you are an AI. I scanned you and you're as human as human can be,with exception of your bones that seem to be made of something that prevents scanning. So I couldn't scan your brain but I doubt AI could, or would do what you've done."
I keep my poker face but add some frustration to my face.
"You're serious? Damn you must be delusional. Anyway the door's open." Shepard says. I turn around and sure, it's green.
I ready my weapon and we move to the door as group and open it. Sure enough there is the Asari behind the main computer. The two geth on the other hand die quickly as I shoot other and Garrus overloads other.
"Damn you subject 801! you were supposed to be ultimate unit! " she yells at me as she throws us back to the cafe.
This irritates me so I yell back as I go to cover "F*ck you! I might be ultimate unit but I sure as hell don't want destruction of all organics like your boss!"
"You Dare to insult his highness! I won't forgive you for that!" she rages and sends shockwave towards me. I cloak and move to another cover. I then shoot three most powerful shots at her but her barrier holds.
"Hah! you think that can stop me? take this!" She says and charges in middle of us and puts as all on stasis. the effort makes her pass out. she was probably too delusional to notice that she took bigger bite than she could swallow. The stasis ends quickly after her passing out and we move next her.
but before shepard manages to put her on handguffs that block her powers Wrex shoots her dead with his shotgun. This makes Shepard angry.
"Damn you wrex! First Fisk and now her! We could have taken her in and gotten some useful information from her!"she yells at him.
Wrex just looks at her and replies in his usual manner "She attacked me so I killed her. Like I always do. You should have said it before I killed her." then he turns to leave.
"Wait! She didn't erase all the data! I managed to piece together some videos...and I think you might want to see this commander." I say to shepard from the main console I had gone to while she raged to Wrex. She comes over and I press play.
The video details construction of 801, me. It shows how they put very brain looking but clearly synthetic construct inside skull made of some shiny thing. Then they put it to some hydraulic press that makes two halves click together. It goes on to show how they put together the skeleton and add organic parts to it until it's very human looking. Except that the head is separate and right lung is open.
Then it shows as no one is looking how lighting strikes at the head. That's when the researcher in charge starts yelling exact same words as I first heard. I pause the video."That's the first thing I heard after getting struck by lighting so I guess that lighting no one saw was me entering the head, which housed the unique blue box. I remember only intense pain between lighting strike and waking up. I can't describe it better. When he says calming down it's what I call awakening." I press it on and it continues to show up until they say that I contacted Alliance.
After watching that Shepard looks at me.
"Well you're unique at least. But I have a feeling I can trust you. And your skills are formidable. Want to join up with us to beat Saren and save the galaxy?"
Hearing Shepard say this makes me feel happier than I was when I got my first hole in one in frisbeegolf (and it was awesome,just like few next ones)
"You bet! But I think I need something to eat first" I say and my stomach growls to that. It gets laugh out of Shepard and we start leaving , I quickly snatch few protein bars from the kitchen and eat them while running to catch others. As I catch up to them Shepard asks me question that stops me on my tracks.
"by the way...what should we call you?"
AN: hey yeah I did this faster than I thought I would. And yeah I'll tell my new name in the beginning of NEXT CHAPTER. (and it's funny...at least I think it's funny. And it is not my real name.)