This is my Second chapter, this is where the fun begins we are in Mass Effect!
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BTW this fic will be a light AU scenario so I am sorry if people don't like those but I've read too many follow the game fanfics so I wanted to spice it up but don't worry we will still see main chars from the universe just differently and in different events so Enjoy and review give me criticism it'll help me improve thank
Chapter 2 = Omega's Newest Brutes (A new Journey)
Garraius stood expectantly, he opened his eyes and saw a large building with stairs leading to a large door with the name Afterlife at the top in front of him in large neon red letters and a crowd of beings standing around him, and he looked to his left and saw the Elite Sira free of his chains. Garraius Reacted by drawing his hammer, Sira turned to see the Brute and drew his concealed Energy sword also a golden hued blade one the Brutes had failed to secure or didn't care enough to find, they turned to face each other
"Get back in your chains heretic for that is all you deserve!" Garraius Shouted causing the crowd to disperse slightly and getting Sira's attention, Sira Entered a Duel stance but seemed focussed on other things
"Garraius do you not see we are not within a forerunner structure or is your mind bent on ignoring this fact!" Sira shot back, both of them stared into the others eyes
'I must destroy this filth for what he has done to my Brothers, but alas we are no longer anywhere I recognise and these beings these aliens are strange' Sira thought, he kept his gaze locked with Garraius but he knew this couldn't last
'Make your Move Heretic I will destroy you for Corrupting our great journey' Garraius thought but he too could feel something strange, he could see in his Wide gaze different humanoid creatures even some humans and that's what infuriated him
"How dare you Humans defile a Forerunner site you are all heretics and will be destroyed!" Garraius zealously shouted causing the crows to move further back and causing some humans to run, he could see that Sira had craned his neck left to look up at the entrance. Garraius gave in and turned his gaze to the right to look up to the entrance, standing there were 3 humanoid creatures with what appeared to be four eyes wielding some unknown weaponry and a larger humanoid with scaly skin and mandibles the same kind as a Sangheili it was also wielding an unknown weapon they were all wearing what seemed to be light armour, each Creature walked down the stairs wearily and the larger one began to speak
"Lower your weapons you are to meet with Aria T'Loak if you do not comply we will be forced to take Unwanted action" the one with the mandibles said in a commanding obviously male voice due to the deepness and there was a hint of harshness in there as well, the crowd began to move further back from the confrontation
"Damn you Turian I wanted to kill something not talk to something" one of the four eyed creatures complained, the larger creature a 'Turian' as it was called turned and struck the offending four eyed creature
"Keep your mouth shut Prans your here for muscle not brains!" the large Turian shouted as the four eyed creature Prans hit the ground with a thud and groaned in pain.
Garraius looked back over to Sira who was now standing at full height with his energy sword to his side obviously ready to meet this Aria, Garraius wouldn't have it
"Heretic ready your weapon!" Garraius Shouted, Sira turned his head to meet the War Chieftains gaze but stood at ease then turned to face him
"Garraius you must see the futility of our conflict as you can see we are not within the grounds of a Forerunner site we are inside of a new space station one we have never encountered before with species we have never encountered and I for one wish to know more about these new races whether you do or not does not concern me but I do not wish to kill you" Sira explained but in his mind he chastised himself for not wanting to kill the Brute, Garraius felt his adrenaline peak within him he was itching for a fight and this was bolstered by the fact that he had beaten the elite once before but even Garraius could see Sira's Renewed purpose and would be a fool to get in his way.
Sira could see that Garraius was calming and to further his goal of calming the behemoth he depowered his sword, Garraius responded in kind by lowering his hammer to hid side
"Our battle is not done heretic but as you say we must find out more about this place and I must find my fellow Jirahanae, Sira nodded before turning back to the Turian and his group who now only loosely held their weapons in the direction of the two giants and he noticed that Prans was now standing but rubbed the side of his head.
"Apologies my companion and I do not see eye to eye but we will go with you to this Aria" Sira Explained
"Not like you had much choice" The one called Prans remarked, at this statement the Turian and Garraius glared at him but neither of them moved to strike him so he appeared to be fine
"Right, now that that's out of the way follow me please" The Turian Politely ordered, Sira moved first and Garraius reluctantly made his way after the Sangheili
Unbeknownst to them deep inside the market area of omega three Brutes awake to find themselves in a strange location.
Sikerlis opened his eyes and got to a seated position and looked around himself, to his right he could see one of his brothers in a Kneeling position staring forwards further down the hall then to his right he saw the unconscious form of another of his brothers due to the colour of his armour Sikerlis believed him to be a Stealth Stalker. He stood to his full height or at least tried to before hitting his head on the ceiling; he looked around for his Hammer of which he found right next to the downed stalker.
'Where is Garraius?' Sikerlis asked himself in thought as he picked up his hammer while watching the stalker come to
"What is your name Brother?" Sikerlis asked the stalker also catching the attention of the Brute at the other end of the hallway who now began moving towards them
"My name is Pykeus my lord" The stalker replied to the chieftain, Sikerlis helped him up and waited for him to Retrieve his mauler shot pistols before turning to face the other Brute
"Ah Gerlihis you have made it through with us" Sikerlis greeted the brute, Gerlihis Nodding in approval
"I still have a mission to defend the War" Gerlihis explained to the lesser chieftain, which caused both Pykeus and Sikerlis to look left and right for their Chieftain
"Save yourselves the time I have already done a thorough recon of the area but stayed with you to guard you until you awoke, he is not here" Gerlihis explained, Sikerlis did not say anything more instead he began to ponder what he should do until an idea made itself known
"Have you attempted Radio communication Gerlihis?" Sikerlis asked the Bodyguard, Gerlihis shook his head but just to dash his hopes he spoke
"I have not for when we arrived our Communicators were inoperable and yes I tried to use both of yours" Gerlihis Explained in a voice Sikerlis only just placed as very monotone and deep
"Then we must search" Pykeus the stalker said receiving nods form the other two they made their way through their new environment to find their Chieftain.
Sira was in a very deep conversation with Aria over a topic that Garraius didn't much care for so he tuned out but every so often he looked to see two Turians just staring at him obviously thinking him the one to watch over the Elite, it was fine for the first 10 minutes but as it went on it began to infuriate him
"Miss T'loak if you wish to keep your men in a reasonable condition tell them to STOP STARING AT ME!" he started but ended in a loud shout followed by a feral roar all but stopping proceedings in the club below
Aria stared at the brute locking eyes but quickly realising that Garraius was very serious she waved the guards to move further down the stairs to safety it seemed
"May I ask MR?" Aria asked but then paused waiting for a name, as Garraius was about to speak Sira beat him to the punch
"His name is Garraius Miss T'Loak" Sira interjected Angering Garraius to no end
"I can speak for Myself Heretic!" Garraius bellowed at the sitting Sangheili and gave him a stare that would make even a Spartan flinch (maybe).
"Mr Garraius I have some advice for you while you are here on Omega" She said in mock politeness, while locking her gaze with the Brute once more "it's pretty simple and easy to learn, Don't Fuck with Aria" She finished triumphantly
"Threats will do you no good against me you filth I am above you" Garraius Shot back, that angered her beyond the point of no return she began glowing purple before hurling a purple sphere at the Brute thinking she could knock some sense into it but before the ball connected Sira got in the way taking the full hit.
After a few seconds Sira recovered and began "It would be unwise Miss T'Loak to anger Garraius as he is prone to bouts of extreme savagery the same as the rest of his kind, you would do well even if you are as powerful as you say to not incur the wrath of a Jirahanae" Sira Explained. Before sitting back down Aria once again locked eyes with Garraius then continuing her conversation with Sira who was once again seated.
Garraius could sense that Sira would be doing all the talking and do he made his way down the stairs and up to the place he heard the four eyed ones call a bar where one could order intoxicating liquids or in human terms Alcohol. He looked down at the measly stool and believed himself better and so he walked over to a booth and began the arduous process of ripping a chair out of the floor, it didn't occur to him that he could sit at his unoccupied booth. Once he had the seat he placed it in front of the bar sat down and demanded a drink a strong one the four eyed bartender as the humans call them walked over and began listing drinks but Garraius wanted something insanely strong one that packed a punch
"Well we do have some Krogan Ryncol but be warned big guy it has a tendency of putting people on their ass in record time you can have it pure or cocktail your choice" the bartender explained
"The strongest you have" Garraius said with a huge apparent grin that showed his savage teeth, unknown to him he was being watched but not by the Turians this time but by something larger, Garraius took the drink and devoured the pure %100 Ryncol then he asked for another which the bartender happily obliged. After his 6th drink he came to the conclusion that the liquid wasn't strong enough and slammed his fist into the table hard shattering that section of the bar
"Get something stronger NOW!" Garraius Commanded, which almost made the four eyed one soil himself and then mumble something incoherent
"Enough of you, I will see for myself somewhere else with drinks worthy of a chieftain, as he turned he came face to 'face' with two hulking saurian creatures, they had to look up at him slightly to match his gaze
"Come with us big guy we have someone that wants to meet you" one of the Hulking Creatures Garraius could only guess was one of those Krogans he'd been hearing about asked so he decided to follow them they seemed to want to take him to someone seemingly important to them and this intrigued Garraius to no end.
They made their way to an under lounge where 2 even larger Krogans were lounging on a long sofa chatting to each other one with a full helmet and a large back hump, the other with no helmet and a smaller back hump
"So you're the one that makes some my kind look like Volus" a voice boomed from Garraius' right, he turned to see a huge Krogan easily his height walk over to him and stretch out a hand for a shake, instead of shaking his hand Garraius decided to test the Krogans endurance to see if they were as Legendary as the humans said so he took the hand and then delivered a massive headbutt staggering the Krogan and making the other 2 and jump to their feet and brandish their shotguns all the while the two by Garraius' side attempted to restrain him but were failing miserably.
"Hahahahaha!" the larger Krogan laughed "I like you already my name's Warlord Ral Gukara and I think me and you'll be good friends in no time Hahaha" Ral finished
"Your kind are weak in comparison to mine your two 'men' were unable to restrain me" Garraius said in a mocking tone while making quick glances at the two Krogan's to test their and Gukara's temperament
"Your strong there's no denying that but Brawn isn't everything" Ral said but within his own mind he was laughing at himself after he said those words "You need strategy and tactics" Ral continued
"Yes I know of the components of battle I have been fighting for thirty years against three different foes, one must adapt or die" Garraius returned all the while gauging what Gukara's reaction would be to his knowledge of strategies and tactics
"To be honest I doubted at first because of your look I thought of you as just a Savage beast that relentlessly charges your enemies but know I see it, a spark in your eyes tells me that you're a lot smarter than you let on" Gukara explained while pacing back and forth on front of Garraius. Garraius let Gukara finish his talk before he turned to look at the other two large Krogan, Gukara spotted this and but waited for Garraius to have his fill of Studying them before moving to introduce them, Gukara walked over to the other Krogan and was now illuminated in Light. Garraius studied Gukara's face noting he had a stout scaly face with a blue head crest and dark black armour, Gukara now stood in between the two larger Krogans
"This Monster to my left is Ral Bigafa my Battlemaster and Brood brother" Gukara explained which was accompanied by a nod from Bigafa "and this stout fellow to my right is Ral Shaman Gruru" Gukara explained as a nod from Gruru made itself known "We were once part of a long renowned clan known as the Ral, you see the Clan Ral owned a lot of land on our Homeworld therefore we were made targets by other clans so we fought as all Krogans do but in the end with Defeat staring us in the face and vengeance burning within our hearts we left the smouldering ruins of our dead clan and fled to the stars and made our way to the safety of omega" Gukara finished just before Bigafa burst into laughter
"Hahahahah brother you truly believe us safe from those hounds in this Varren sty of a station?" Bigafa asked Gukara in a laughter laced voice, Gukara turned to look at his brother and Nodded sternly causing the laughter to end abruptly. The Ral shaman walked forwards and began glaring at Garraius intently as the other two Krogan watched on
"I sense an internal conflict within your heart and an inner burning rage to match even the most savage of the Krogan, but I also see intelligence and cunning and those are signs of a true warrior signs that some Krogan have all but forgotten" The Shaman explained
"What do you mean?" Garraius asked confusedly
"We Krogan are under threat of extinction thanks to our reward for saving the galaxy from an advanced Insect-like race known as the Rachni; we were uplifted form our own nuclear ravaged planet and brought in to act as heavy infantry because the damn citadel races couldn't win their war themselves" The Shaman explained
"We chased them down into their own nests and squeezed their life out of them and crushed them like the bugs they really were" Bigafa added
"We were then awarded colonisable worlds and recognition as the galaxies saviours as payment for our services but we grew too quickly in population and scared the living hell out of the citadel council which caused them to use their lap dogs the damn Turians to take us down HA!, but they were losing ground fast but that's where it changed" Gukara explained "the council had the Salarians an amphibious race create a disease known as the Genophage and use the Turians to distribute it amongst all Krogan population centres slowly but surely pushing us back to Tuchanka and making us very infertile only one in one thousand offspring ever survive" Gukara finished sadly.
Garraius for the first time in his life seemed to understand what the humans went through during the war but quickly pushed those Heretical thoughts aside and got back to the conversation "I am sorry for your Species Gukara" Garraius said is as compassionate a voice as he would let himself utter which was still laced with his usual hate and deepness.
Gukara Stared briefly at Garraius before speaking "I still don't know your name" he said
"I am Covenant War Chieftain Garraius" Garraius said proudly to which Gukara nodded obviously guessing there must be more of Garraius' kind due to the Title Garraius Proclaimed he has
"Garraius are there more of your kind on Omega?" Gukara asked
"I hope so Gukara or else I will be left with him" Garraius responded much to the confusion of the five Krogans. Gukara and Bigafa were about to Question Garraius before a large Reptilian exited cloak shocking causing the Krogans to take a cautious step back. Garraius glares daggers at the Elite waiting for him to speak
"Garraius Aria has granted us a ship" Sira stated much to the shock of all the Krogans and Garraius Himself
"How did you accomplish this Heretic?" Garraius asked, Sira briefly looked away but then looked back to begin speaking
"I acquired the head of the wanted Mercenary Leader of the blue suns Tarak" Sira explained Gukara went wide eyed at how this unknown even got close to Tarak let alone take his head
"How did you get to Tarak he has the biggest group on Omega?" Gukara asked this alien who Garraius calls a heretic
"Stealth is how I accomplished this, not only has Aria given us a ship but she also uploaded a codex of the galaxy to the ship computers as well as giving us a supply of These" Sira ended by pulling up his arm and revealing an orange glowing holopiece "She says this will allow us to activate systems unknown to us and we can modify them" Sira explained, Bigafa looked unimpressed
"It's Just an Omnitool Lizard Man" he said which caused Sira to look up sharply and stare at the battlemaster but then motioned for Garraius to follow and the Krogans decided to follow their new friend. They made it to the Docking arm holding Aria's gifted ship; they all made it through the door and began walking down the hall when the door opened again with another brute charging through
"My Lord!" the first brute called and was then followed by two more, Garraius knew who they were was and knew they were in trouble so he grabbed his hammer and turned to face Gukara "Ready to fight Krogan" he asked to which Gukara and his men nodded and drew their weapons, the two smaller Krogan and Gruru the Shaman pulled out smaller shotguns while Bigafa brought out a huge Shotgun and Gukara Unhooked his own hammer and one handed it and his custom shotgun. The brutes formed up into the group Gerlihis bringing up his Brute shot, Sikerlis Raising his hammer and Pykeus stealthing with his mauler shot pistols even Sira drew his energy sword and prepared to fight.
The Docking door opened again letting in a group of 20 of red armoured Krogan and smaller humanoids pile in, a large Krogan with cylinders sticking out of his hump and a skull on his shoulder makes his way to the front and speaks
"You Stole something from the blood pack and we want it back without your consent" He barks, Garraius Sees the challenge this Krogan is outing forth and doesn't hesitate he doesn't even ask what his men stole he just lets out a loud Feral roar followed by his brute brethren and charges forwards hammer in hand. The larger Krogan seemed only slightly shocked at Garraius' action and began ordering his troops to take what little cover they could find so they could avoid that giant annoying grenade launching ape and its friends.
Gukara saw this display and not to be outdone entered the Krogan blood rage and charged, as he moved he saw two beams of purple shoot past him as his Brother and the Shaman slammed into the front row of Krogans and began tearing them apart. after 3 short seconds the combined forces of the Krogans, the Brutes and Sira smashed into the Blood pack group shredding them ripping them in half, as the battle continued three of the smaller humanoids began placing down a mounted turret but soon found two mauler pistols massacring them from nowhere and in no time flat the gun was 'Repurposed as Pykeus picked it up and opened fire on the remaining Blood pack mercs Pykeus wasn't like other covenant that thought using other species technology was heretical a philosophy also held by Garraius and the other Brutes but they still proffered the familiar brute of Covenant weapons.
Garraius found himself fighting the larger Krogan, as the battle progressed he lost his hammer and grappled with the Large Krogan fighting for every advantage but the large Krogan seemed stronger than normal and glowed a bright purple the same colour Aria had glowed when she tried to strike him, Garraius had to think fast if he wanted to turn his losing fight into a winning one so quickly he glance around the Krogan studying him quickly and then decided the only thing he could was to knock this monster base out from underneath him. With an unnatural burst of strength he pushed the Krogan back and straightened himself before letting go of the Krogan and ducking beneath him trying to get behind, the large Krogan reacted to this change by Disposing of his glowing shield barrier in a miniature explosion causing Garraius to stumble backwards but he kept his balance thanks to his experience
'got to do have something that can bring this guy down, that explosion seemed to have been his purple barrier he was hoping to take me down so he could capitalise well jokes on him' he knew what to do, he drew his Modified Spiker one that had a Titanium spike protruding out of the front and began a sprint to try and capitalise on the large Krogan as he was trying to get his barrier back and as he got closer he used the explosive power only a Brute would have in his kegs to launch himself forwards and rammed into the large Krogan in a huge tackle taking him down, moving with Purpose Garraius turned the Krogan over and brought it down into the Krogans face through its eye trying to end this quickly. He realised that the Krogan was still fighting so he tried another stab but this time another blast of purple energy threw him backwards down the corridor making him drop his Spiker and he landed on his back but quickly got back up, he looked around for more solutions until his gaze rested upon the Sangheili Sira - the Heretic but within Garraius' mind he was no longer he was a brother in arms a comrade whether Sira felt the same was not Garraius' concern. He continued to look and found his hammer sitting metres away from the downed Krogan, with a feral and Guttural Roar which was answered by his fellow Brutes he charged forwards.
once he was around halfway he slide crouched to grab his hammer and then raised it and brought it down on the still downed large Krogan, he thought it was over until he realised that he was being force back he looked down to see the large Krogan still fighting back by pushing the hammer back with all of its massive strength. Garraius knew that if he let this Krogan get back up he was in trouble so he pushed with all his savage bloodthirsty might bring the hammer down and activate the gravity pulse, he was being pushed back until he felt himself slowly lowering Garraius notice that the Krogan had one arm holding the hammer grip surrounded by a purple aura while his other arm was bringing up a huge shotgun to his chest, moving as quickly as he could Garraius released his grip on the hammer and slapped the shotgun to the side only milliseconds before the Krogan could fire saving himself.
Now Garraius found himself wrestling to remove the Krogan's grip on the shotgun whilst receiving heavy punches to the back of his head but he kept fighting hoping his helmet would absorb the heavy impacts, their fight came to its climax as the Krogan's hand lost its grip on the gun allowing Garraius to get to a knee and prepare to fire.
He wanted this shot to end the Krogan so he was taking care with the precious milliseconds he had to aim but before he could pull the trigger in a last bout of defiance the Krogan wrapped his arm in purple energy and threw Garraius down the corridor slamming him into the wall hard, the Krogan got to his feet and made break past the carnage out of the docking arm to safety. Garraius watched as the giant red behemoth escaped from him.
'next time you won't be so lucky' he thought to himself as he removed himself off of the wall and made his way over to his allies who were mopping up the Remains of this 'Blood pack', he glanced at Sira who glanced back and they exchanged nods before Garraius made his way over to Gukara who was flanked by his Krogans and surrounded by bodies
"Gukara your men and yourself are excellent fighters would you like to join my brothers and I?" Garraius asked, without hesitation they all nodded and so Garraius Motioned for them to head to the ship as he gathered his brute brothers and then made the way down to the ship himself.