Hell yeah! next chapter! I might modify this later...but I thought I should upload it already...this story is my baby after all! I'm going to write, upload, publish, read FEEDBACK aka REVIEWS and then edit it to its final form...I think I'll do complete revamp to whole series at some point...don't know when...
until then...Enjoy my baby!
Ch 5
As I stepped outside I noticed that Kaidan and Ashley were waiting for me already
"You ready kid?" Kaidan asked me.
I nodded and after quick detour to med-bay to get my things I followed Kaidan and Ashley to the boringly slow elevator.
Of course I have to comment on it "Why is this elevator so slow? Wouldn't it be more efficient to have another set of stairs instead of elevator? That would be more cost efficient."
They both shrug their shoulders in sign that they obviously don't know and don't care.
As we step out of the elevator to the hangar I quickly notice that Wrex is standing in the same place as in the game but Garrus is nowhere to be seen. We walk few steps and I finally pick up some sounds coming from MAKO.
Kaidan facepalms. "Garrus you are calibrating it again? You just did it an hour ago!"
I decide to play dumb and ask about it "I take it that he does that often?"
Ash answers instead of Kaidan "Often? Try all the time! We barely got out of citadel when he was already calibrating it!"
Garrus hears us and comes out of the MAKO "Hey someone got to do it!"
I hold up my hand to get attention "as interesting as this is, Shepard told me to get evaluated so she can take me to the next mission. So what I have to do?"
They stop and Kaidan nods.
"Okay Since we know you are biotic but you didn't use them when Shepard got you out of that place I have to teach you. Unless you want to try it yourself first?"
I ponder it for second "Well...I'm quick learner so show me some moves and I'll try to copy" I say.
Kaidan looks at me oddly and speaks to ashly who seems a bit reluctant at first but then she nods and moves a bit farther.
"Gunnery chief agreed to be guinea pig. So this is how I do throw." He says and proceeds to do it towards Ash , who stumbles a bit back.
I watch and memorize it.
"Okay kid now you though I think it would take a lot more than one time to" He says but as I do it perfectly one my first time he shuts up.
I smirk at him. "You were saying?"
"okay okay. You obviously had had previous experience but have just forgotten." he says to his defense
Nope, I just watched using my scanners what nodules you activated and activated corresponding ones on me...
Ashley had tumbled again but this time she cursed too...probably she didn't expect me to succeed on first time.
"I'm NOT going to be your guinea pig anymore! That hurt!"
"Chief...Remember that I outrank you so I could just order you but I think we should practice with inanimate objects...I just wanted him to see the effect on live target."
"So I can go?LT?" she asks voice filled with venom.
"Yes you can. Okay see those crates? Use pull to draw it closer."
"what? No demonstration?"
"*sigh* okay okay " he says and proceeds to do the pull. I again watch closely and after he is done I proceed to do it too. Perfectly with too much force. I accidentally send it over us
"ups...well I think I used to much power on that one."
"That you did but if that were geth or humanoid it would have gone perfectly. Okay so next is lift. Basically pull without the draw-in"
"I think I can do that." I say and proceed to lift the same crate.
Kaidan smiles and nods." I think that's it. Since you know how to hack already I'm not going to teach that. I've never seen Overload like yours..." Kaidan starts but is interrupted by resident quarian
Tali had come behind me and managed to scare shit out of me whe she started to speak."It's energy drain, drains energy , polat opposite of overload. It needs highly tuned Omnitool and it's signature of Quarians. I don't know how you learned it but I hope you don't spread it around " she says to us.
I look between them "ugh...I didn't know that...I just had it in my omnitool when I woke up there. But I had noticed that my omnitool is very different of others I saw in action there."
Tali looks at me "Yes it's very different. It's actually small hacking program that infiltrates enemy powersource's computers and makes them send the energy to your omnitool. To make omnitool capabe of it you have to take whole system apart and rebuilt it very differently from scratch. It also makes you unable to do Overload and it can absorb most overloads, boosting your shields instead of overloading them. Very handy but very difficult to make and maintain. It has been secret weapon of quarian people for centuries. Not even geth know of it." She says to me.
Wow that explains why she is a bit suspicious of me.
I scratch my head at that "well I don't know how I got it...anyway I think I should go to my next evaluation."
"of course." she says and goes to engineering.
"hey private! Over here!" ash yells at me from her place. I jog to there
"so what are we going to do cheif`?" I ask her as I get next to her.
She smiles and gives me my weapons one by one and I put them to their places without thinking.
"Good." she says and starts taking out her pistol. But since I see it in slow motion thanks to my new...brain...
I immediately take out my pistol as I use my other hand to hold her pistol. She is obviously surprised to see me draw so fast.
"wow! Well you passed the first test with that! Though I was going to just see how you'd react when people point their guns at you unexpectedly. I thought that you'd not notice it before it would be pointed at your face. Perfect score. You not only prevented me from pointing my weapon at you but also took out your own weapon." she says with smile.
"So what's the next test?"I ask as I put my pistol away.
Ashley looks at me before moving towards elevator and motioning me to follow. So I follow.
We go down one level damn I didn't know normandy had level after this one!
There we go to odd machine.
Ashely goes to input something and then motions me to go in "This is simulator. Take out your ammo block and step in. I want you to survive 5 minutes."
I do as told and boy am I surprised to see that I'm apparently on Omega. Mission objective: kill 10 waves of enemies or survive 5 minutes.
I grin and take out my Mattock.
"5 minutes? No thanks! I'm going to beat them all!" I yell so loud that I'm sure Ash hears.
Then I proceed to fight.
5 minutes later I'm out and I'm a little bit drenched in sweat.
"Damn! Just two waves were left! I should have used biotics and shotgun!" I say to Ash as I get out.
She grins and throws me towel and motions to showers.
"Just for record, that is average with the squad. Only Wrex and Shepard beat the thing on first time. Though Shepard did it with only assault rifle and pistol and in 4 minutes. Which in theory should be impossible."
I scoff at that "figures." I say and move towards the shower until notice something horrible.
I look at Ash with terror written all over my face (I will never admit my face was red from embarrassment)"Co-ed showers?"
Ashley looks at me oddly"Something wrong with that? It's efficient..."
"Efficient maybe but I am not used to Co-ed showers."I say as I go in. Grin on her face promises I'm going to be in BIG trouble from now on.
5 minutes later I'm out of shower and fully armored.
I decide that since I have three and half hours left I should get some sleep and I look around the deck until I find crew quarters and empty bunk. Without second thought I put alarm and just go to sleep.
But since I'm not human anymore and my brain doesn't need any sleep anymore I spend my time designing weapon that uses tech that is possible NOW but wasn't possible BACK THEN. (advances in computing systems,materials and mass effect field!)
The weapon I design is COIL GUN sniper rifle instead of norm Rail Guns they use here. I download some basic info needed for it and then spend 2 hours running simulations in my head until I finally have few models good enough for practical use. One Sniper rifle, one cannon to replace MAKO's cannon and one for my secret plan.
Advantages: LOWER HEAT PRODUCTION, lower energy consumption
Disadvantages: velocity/length of gun ratio
just the idea makes me giddy. Something THIS EASY has been completely overlooked in favor of Rail guns? sure they are more effective as handheld small arms but for sniper rifles and weapons where HEAT is INCONVENIENT and LENGTH of barrel not an issue? Coil guns win. At least with technology available here. damn those idiots! I can't help but chuckle at it.
just 30 minutes before it's estimated time we arrive to the system Therum is in I go to Ashley's workplace. She of course is there working with something.
"Hey chief! Is is possible to built weapon like this here?" I ask her as I arrive next to her.
She of course looks at me in surprise before looking at the schematics
"Well it should be possible...though I wonder why would you want to build such a weapon...it is long and inconvenient to carry...and needs a lot of calibrating " she says as she goes over the schematics
I smirk "Well it does deliver same power as that sniper rifle of yours without building even fraction of heat it does..." I say with my confident smug face and voice.
She looks at me in surprise and goes over the designs of my idea and her weapon. I watch in amusement as her eyes widen the more she compares them.
"What the hell? how is this possible? why has no one ever even suggested this? Your concept could revolutionize everything!" she says but that is when Garrus speaks up.
He had apparently come over at some point and was looking over the same thing as us
"Except that your weapon needs a lot more calibrating, is hell of a lot more complex , needs small charge up period and has other problems. But in correct hands your gun is hell of a lot deadlier than most of our weapons. No way it would replace Rail guns that every military uses but it sure could be used by us. I would take this design any day to other weapons we have." he says and goes back to the MAKO
Me and Ashley watch silently as he walks to it. As he arrives to it he apparently gets an idea and guips from there
"Oh and I think we should ask if we could instal one to MAKO. It could fire a lot more often than this thing."
That wakes me from my trance "actually I have design for that too..." I say and send the design to him. I watch as his eyes and mandibles widen.
That is when Ashley breaks from her trance "Okay when did you design these? I saw you sleep peacefully!"
Shit! quick! excuse excuse...where to find...aaah! The lab I was found.
"as I was walking here I happened to find design to them from files I took from that place. but anyway...how long would it take to build one?" I ask ,diverting her attention from it.
"oh right...about 20 minutes with this baby but it would still need to be calibrated..."
"do it. I can calibrate it and if I can't, Garrus probably can." I say.
She nods and sends the schematics to the manufacturing unit under her table (not seen in the game heh heh...something I added)
I set clock to wake up and go to grab some food.
20 minutes later I come back. luckily or unluckily I had avoided everyone.
As I step out of elevator I hear barely audible bang going of and string of curses. I jump in surprise and look at the place ashley is. now there is every member of the squad and few else. and Garrus had just shot at box next to elevator.
They all notice me and garrus angrily stomps to me with gun that looks very much like I wanted it to.
"This thing is shittier than any other thing I've had honor to use! I knew it was too good to be true!" he says and throws the gun at me.
I catch it and immediately scan it. I notice that coils aren't synced properly. The differences were so fine that they were barely noticeable , but in coil gun they were lethal mistakes. I scoff at Garrus as I calibrate to gun as we walk to others.
"Garrus...YOu should have checked it. It was not calibrated properly...now it is. okay what can I use as target?" I ask Shepard. she points at the box that Garrus had shot.
I thank and take aim.
BOOOM!
and the box blows up like it would with Mantis. I watch expressions on everyone's face. They certainly were not expecting that.
Garrus is first to speak up " how? I was so sure I had calibrated it correctly! how the difference is so HUGE? what did you do?"
"I take you calibrated it with 0.01 point accuracy? well I used 0.0000001 point accuracy. For coil gun such as this, the difference between those two is like toy gun and dreadnought. " I say and he immediately looks at readings on his omnitool and then at the readings on my gun. Then he curses.
"Of course! I forgot how much that would affect it. that means that almost third of the coils were slowing down the projectile instead of propelling it forward! damn it! amateurish mistake!" he says and then he takes the gun from me and fiddles with it. then he takes aim at another box.
BOOOOOM!
the box blows to smithereens...like it would with WIDOW.
"SHIT! how the heck you did that? I was so sure I had maxed it out!" I yell as I take it from him. He looks at me smugly.
"Well lets just say I'm genius and leave it at that. I think you should save that setting. my own gun should be ready in a minute." he says and leaves to MAKO where he apparently has his own manufacturing machine working.
I just stand there looking through the schematics over and over again until I give up and just save the settings.
"ugh I can't find out what he did to this thing." I say and take aim at yet another grate. It blows up like his second shot but with unpleasant side-effects.
"Oh you mother fucker! you disabled the safety settings! I almost broke my arm! Damn I wish I would have exoskeleton like turians..." I say as I rub my aching shoulder. The gun had kicked back with so much force that it would have broken my bones if they were normal...but thanks to whoever I now had skeleton that could take a lot more punishment.
Wrex chuckles as he takes the weapon and shoots too. then he shoots again and again and again and again until shepard finally stops him
"hrmph! just when I was about to start shooting at something else than the crates...that thing kicks nicely...it's almost like krogan weapons. I haven't felt my weapons kick back since leaving Tuchanka and starting to use weapons that rest of the galaxy uses. If you can make Shotgun with that much force and kick I'd like that " he says before walking back to his place
Shepard takes the gun from him and hands it to me.
"well since you have skeleton that can take that kickback and you designed that monster I think you should take it." she says and then she starts walking toward the elevator with Kaidan and the random crew members.
As they start the elevator Ash turns to me "Take care of that thing. I don't have enough brain to maintain it so I'm sticking with conventional weapons" she says and goes to her workbench.
Just then I hear boom from MAKO.
Garrus looks more than happy with the results of his newly made gun"hahaa! I love this! I think I'm going to call her July!" he says and apparently kisses it.
Ash and I look at each other before facepalming.
"damn...I should give it a name before he does..." I say and quickly think something. I smile as name pops in my head.
"I think I got it...Boomstick! heheheheheee..."I say and before Ashley can facepalm I send her the actual name, 'Gauss rifle M01' (yes it is rifled)
"OKAY LETS SEE HIS PROGRESS...
NEW GUN? SO NOTHING SERIOUS...GOOD...
Ooooh! I am useful?
A MIRACLE!
Next up...THERUM! YAY! this next chapter will be LOOOONG compared to other chapters...