Hey everyone Faithless here, bringing you a new chapter in this wild adventure we're all on together because i can sure as shit tell you that i don't know where each step will take us
Now there's the people who would argue that it's important to have a well structured plot line to follow and to just develop it along the way and i say...kudos
but i'm not doing that because to me that's like smashing nails through my toes before a run, its gonna hurt and im gonna stop way before the end
Ok so not the best analogy but still the point applies now let's get started
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(Wilson)
"so where to now shepard"
"I'm not exactly sure, i've always been more of an in the now kind of guy"
"Well you better become an in tomorrow kind of guy fast because I'm not gonna sit around with my thumb up my ass"
"While i appreciate the imagery as much as the next guy i do have to say that's a pretty strange way to spend your time, something i should know about your alone time"
"Fuck off shepard it's just a saying"
"Oh i'm sure it is wilson, but just know i dont judge you"
"Grrrr shepard"
"Oh fine Wilson have it your way, i'll think of something, for now i'll just continue what i was doing and plan something out you just keep heading to the shuttle station"
"Fine but you'd better have a plan soon
'yeah i better, can't think of anything worse than just sitting in this station bored out of my mind and besides his other plans were not going to come in handy until the big stuff starts and luckily for him he could now multitask"
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(Alright guys time for a time skip, yes i know it's lazy writing but i don't really feel like writing out all the story from their time in the station before they get to where i want them to go)
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"Are you fucking kidding me, that's your plan"
"Why yes, yes it is"
"Your gonna get us killed, worst I'm going to die your just soup already"
"Hey no need to panic, believe in me alright I AM COMMANDER SHEPARD so give me some credit and take a breath"
"Grr damn it not i have any better ideas, alright setting course for the Aralakh system"
"Alright then, now if you'll excuse me i'm going to run some calibrations and weapons diagnostics"
"Damn it shepard you said it was going to be fine"
"It is going to be fine, thats why im going to run those tests, i make my own definitions and if anyone disagrees well…"
"God damn it why did i choose to help you"
"Because we both know that miranda was going to put a bullet in you for selling my body to the shadow broker"
"I don't know how she even began to find out I was so careful"
Wilson began slipping into introspection leaving shepard alone to remember how he played the situation into securing himself a window for freedom and by the gods he took it
While he was sorry about the civilian deaths in his defense they were cerberus and if what Shepard had seen in other labs he had raided in the past, cerberus scientist as some scummy people
So the guilt was crushed and shepard even secured himself a nifty little person to help him secure his escape, and while shepard didn't like Wilson all too much either, he still preferred to keep him around just in case
'Soon I'll be able to see an old friend'
After all they were heading to Tuchanka the home of his old friend Wrex
who he could hopefully convince to help him find some leads to possible places he could look into for a better body
aside from cerberus because He is Not going to make ANY deals with a scum sucking terrorist group like them
As for now Shepard was stuck making do with 2 cerberus shuttles, 6 Y-mecs stuffed with extra memory space instead of rockets not that he didn't have a few but still
Well that and a few dozen Loki's he had managed to fit inside the shuttles carrying all the weapons he looted from the stations armory
Was it a bit much sure but shepard wasn't known to succeed because he ran into battle like a drunken jackass, no Shepard was the definition of a Hoarder
Well that and a scavenger, throughout his hunt for Saren, Shepard meticulously picked apart every base and location they visited for any extra ammo, grenades, credits and even stuff to sell for money
Wrex always found it funny but it was just a trait he picked up from his time running around with the gangs back on earth
And it definitely carried over when he got his shit together and joined the alliance, in fact they encouraged it
after all what military doesn't like it when its soldiers came back from missions with more munitions than they went off with
Yes Shepard was a hoarder but damn if it wasn't useful to chuck grenades at all his problems and not have to worry about running out
Back then he had crates full of em in his hanger of all kinds and yields. Wrex had liked it, found it funny called it mighty Krogan of me to blow my enemies apart with their own weapons
Me i just liked it cause it was cheap and because shopping was always a pain in my ass
So the trip went by fairly quickly for them, Wilson didn't have to share the rations and Shepard didn't have a restless body to move around anymore
Soon they started entering Tuchankas atmosphere heading straight for their landing site and began to hear a radio contact them
"Halt you are entering Clan Urdnot controlled airspace, respond and give me a reason we shouldn't blow your shit out of the sky"
"This is Commander Shepard an old friend of your Clan chief, tell him to meet me if he remembers the debt he owes me"
"Shepards dead everyone knows that, imma blow your shit up"
"Do you really want to find out if Wrex won't rip off your quad for fucking around instead of just sending him the message"
"HAHAHA you have some balls to say that to someone who's got guns big enough to blow your shit up for days, alright I'll send your message along"
"Alright well be waiting Shepard out"
"Shepard what the hell we almost died"
"Calm down their Krogan they always do this shit"
"It's exactly because their krogan that worries me"
"Yeah no shit, but just because their known for that doesn't you can't make some good friends"
"You don't make any goddamn sense shepard, i'm starting to worry I've gone crazy for sticking with you for so long"
"Calm your shit wilson i've got this"
"You better, i didn't survive getting my shit shot by miranda just to die here"
"He keep that up and you might just make some friends down there"
"Hello, Shelard respond"
"Yeah im still here"
"Alright Clan chiefs agreed to meet with you, head to the landing coordinates, if you stray i've got permission to blow your shit up"
"You love your job don't you"
"Fuck yeah i do hehehe"
Shepard didn't bother to respond merely commanding the Loki mech he he had at the controls to land them at the correct position
"Shepard so what's the plan"
"i've got this"
"That's what you said just before you rammed the the other 2 shuttles into the cerberus ship"
"Hey it worked didn't it"
"Those shuttles were filled with all the spare parts we had for the mechs"
"Meh i'll just raid an eclipse base and steal some more"
"That's where we're headed next isnt it"
"Hehehe you read my mind wilson, you read my mind"
"Goddamnit how did i get myself into this mess"
"You got greedy myboy but don't you worry, once we got ourselves a ship you'll just sit back and relax maybe fix some stuff from time to time but i've got the rest handled"
Wilson just sighed, Accepting that he was screwed anyway, cerberus wasn't the kind of organization that you could try to double cross without getting your head blown off
A few minutes later the shuttle carrying Wilson and the 2 main Y-mechs Shepard was using for this mission landed
The door popped open and were greeted by 4 clan Urdnot Krogan standing around with guns to secure the entry point in case of an attack
"Where is the one known as Shepard"
Shepard deciding to leave the Y's to guard the shuttle hopped out in a experimental Loki that he had supped up with extra armor plates on the way over
Just one of those little goodies that cerberus had lying around on their research station, wouldn't have even found it if shepard wasn't so determined to loot every inch of the station
In fact they took more than those 4 shuttles but the others were programmed with a flight path into locations that Shepard visited while still alive while on their hunt for Saren
After all he did visit quite a few lonely worlds just begging to be used for something, oh and boy did shepard have plans for those
But first he needed some credits for his future plans and where better to start than the 'land' of opportunity
But first he needed to build up a foundation and that's what he was working on
"I am commander shepard or rather i am controlling this mech, seemed smarter to come in with a mech first than risk wrex blowing my ass way before i could explain how i survived"
"Hahahaha a good idea human, the Clan Chief isn't one to tolerate shit that pisses him off, having someone claiming to be shepards already put him in a bad mood"
Wilson shrank back wanting more than becord go just stick around inside the shuttle but shepards already made it clear that if he wanted a free ride and his protection then he has to help him explain to Wrex what they had done
"Come on wilson the faster we get through this and get Wrex's support the faster we can get to raiding that Eclipse base"
"Ha i like you human, if you succeed and get the Chiefs approval you can count me in"
"Then welcome aboard"
The krogan merely grinned displaying the grin shepard was familiar with, his time around Wrex taught him that krogan didn't so much as smile as they did grin
So to know if they were smiling or grinning well that came down to the level of bloodthirst oozing from that grin.
Shepard walked down the crumbled path stepping over shattered stone and bombed out steel
Wilson wasn't far behind but he was having trouble walking, the sharp and jagged stones were playing hell with his footwork
A few krogan looked at him stumbling around and barked a laugh, Wilson normally would have gotten pissed and told people to piss off but he wasn't about to screw with Krogan
Finally they got the main chamber, Shepard could see a throne mounted upon a pile of crumbled stone
"Stop right there"
Shepard stopped where he stood merely gazing towards Wrex, shepards katana shotgun mag locked to his back, wilson the bumbling idiot nearly tripped when he heard Wrexs voice snap out
"Good to see you again Wrex, such a nice welcome you've got prepared for us"
Wrex's 'smile' was strained, that smartass reply was right along the lines of what Shepard would have said but he wasn't going to trust what he saw was clearly a Mech
"So tell me, who dares to come here to my clans home claiming to be Shepard because all i see is a tin can and some human looking like he's about to piss his pants"
"Come on Wrex give me a the time to explain before you have you men behind me blow me up"
Hearing that wilson turned slightly to see all the krogan they passed standing around them watching or...worst waiting
"You come here, to my home claiming to be Shepard my friend and yet your going to be nothing more than a scrap heap for wasting my time"
"Damn it Wrex stop being a dick I don't have time to fuck around, now I came here to claim a debt you owe me"
Wrex's face aportes a grin again but this one oozed death
"Well then tell me, why do you think I Owe You anything, because i saw Shepard die and that could be any damn mech sporting his voice"
"If i was just any mech you'd have ripped me apart, besides as i said i'm here to claim a debt"
"I don't believe you to be shepard and I dont give favors to just any pile of pyjak shit that wanders in"
"Fine..if that's how you want to play this then give me a task"
Wrex's bloodlust lessened, he was honestly intrigued to hear what the mech had to say
"We both know that when i take a mission i dont fail, so here's what we're going to do, you give me a mission and I'm going to blow that shit away and when im done you will listen to what i have to say"
"And why would i trust you to return when i can just kill you now"
"Because you can hold onto Wilson here as a guarantee"
To that Wilson almost pissed himself barely holding back a shriek until he got angry to mask his fear
"Damn it Shepard what the fuck are you doing, you said you would keep me around"
"I am, now it's time you pulled your own weight"
"This is bullshit, you wouldn't even be capable of so much as twitching in your broken ass shell if it hadn't been for me saving your mind"
"Yes and then you tried to sell my body, you see where i could be holding a grudge"
Wilson groaned knowing shepard wasn't going to budge, Wilson had no room to argue he was screwed into going along with shepards crazy plans
"So Wrex what's it going to be , you gonna shoot us or are you going to pull your head out of your ass and listen up"
"Bahahaha you've got balls for a can opener, alright i'll accept your deal but know I'm not going to make it easy"
"Come on Wrex, I'm Commander Shepard when have i Ever done things the easy way"
Wrexs response was a menacing grin, Wilson started swearing under his breath sure he was going to die but shepard didn't have a moment of doubt
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"Damn it Wrex!"
Shepard was hauling ass as fast as the mech could move, every step of his was followed by a chorus from behind him
It was in moments like these that he really missed his body, he would have used biotics to blow these little bastards away or just shot up high into a perch from where to gun them down but no instead cerberus decided to take his mind and make it into a quasi A.I.
So Shepard had to make do, with a slight toss shepard passed a grenade over his shoulder and kept moving
The loud bang and thumps followed by yelps made him feel much better
Still he wasn't done, the horde of Varren only chased him into a Klixen nest meaning he traded one pain in the ass for another
Shepard popped out his katana and blasted the first one to screech and rush him, its armor blocked the majority of the attack so sheppard double tapped finally piercing the armor
Shepard prepared to fire a third blast but seeing the fire rushing of our the klixens mouth shepard jumped to his left sliding into a roll and then turned to shoot again
What he hadn't seen was the varren currently biting the klixens face
And he wasn't the only one, klixen and Varren were fighting each other all over the room, the two may live on the same world but they sure as shit didn't get along
Shepard seeing a chance decided to get some distance and jogged over to a broken pillar and got climbing
Once he got to the top he looked over the battles all over, it was pure chaos, Klixen exploding and breathing fire on the mad Verran
Shepard was only glad to see it because they were the problem Wrex sent him to solve, apparently some jackass decided that super varren were the next big ticket black market item
so he messed around with the Varren Genome and created a massive beast which was too wild to be domesticated even by krogan so he released it hoping the future generations were more receptive to domestication
This of course led to a massive varren pack running around Tuchanka pissing off the clans who lost men and food to their growing hunger
Shepard had already killed the alpha with a few quick slaps of grenades to its face but that alerted every varren in their giant hoard meaning Shepard ran his ass out of there
Just because he had multiple mechs to use didn't mean he liked to be wasteful…... plus he really liked the color scheme on the Loki Mech, say what you will about cerberus but black and gold was stylish
Shepard seeing an opportunity began picking off all the beasts that tried to escape or stopped fighting
It took a while and shepard was almost out of thermal clips but by the time he was done the room was covered in bodies and charcoaled remains
Shepard hopped off the pillar and walked through the sea of bodies looking for any still alive, it wouldn't do for him to work this hard only for them breed their numbers back up
'It's times like these that I'm happy i don't have a sense of smell anymore-
A nearby klixen exploded splashing the varren blood from the nearby bodies all over shepard
-or a mouth'
With that splash as his cue that he was done here shepard started his march back to clan Urdnot territory and hopefully this time get the opportunity to explain
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Shepard arrived back at Wrex's throne, his sleek metal shell covered in patches of klixen guts and varren blood
"Hey wrex i'm done with my chores, any chance we can have that chat now"
"So i see you survived, cant say im too happy part of me hoped we could get to eat your little friend but let it never be said the chief of clan Urdnot is a liar so i will listen now speak"
Wilson having stayed quiet throughout the brief exchange quickly stepped over to shepard and almost fell over when wrex said they were hoping to eat him
"Good then now that we have a chance to talk let me start off by saying that it is good to see you again"
Wrex did not respond verbally and he didn't need to, after having fought alongside shepard for the entire hunt for Saren, Shepard could read Wrex's moods even when he tries to hide it
And even though Wrex had a great poker face Shepard knew him too well
"Stop with the resting bitch face Wrex"
"Bahahahahah on you have ever had the quad to say that to a krogan Shepard, alright then i'll listen"
"Well i'm glad to see that i finally got through to you"
"Eh in all my years ive met dozens of fools stupid enough to believe what they see or hear no its best to be skeptical, better than a bullet in the back of your skull"
"Ah well if only Nihlus had heard your speech he might still have his face"
"Hehehe you continue to convince me more and more, not many know about shepherds sense of humor, he was kind of an asshole"
"Good to know i haven't changed, anyway i'm here because this moron back here, his names wilson by the way he did a project for Cerberus he decided that sends they couldn't revive me after you know I got spaced and hit a goddamn planet that they were going to put me in a machine and then before I knew it that that piece of me that they put inside a machine which was really just my mind I guess well it started growing and then I began to become aware"
"Of course they thought it was a bright idea to enslave me which they should have known not to say to me if they knew anything about me but between me and you cerberus are Dicks so of course I broke outs and you know blew it up and now I'm here"
"Bahahahaha only you Shepard, most people run out of creds or get shot but only you would lose your body and keep on walking like nothing happened"
"Well I'm here to tell you that I need a ship because I'm planning on continuing my War with the Reapers, we both know their coming.. and before you say no know that I'm not recruiting you because come on Wrex we both know that you're not leaving Tuchanka"
" you're going to watch out for your people that's why I know you don't turn your back on your friends so imma take that ship if you can get me a goddamn ship and I am going to go build an army and then I'm going to save this goddamn Galaxy"
"Hehehe your right Shepard i dont turn my back on my friends but what you ask isn't so easy to give, im a clan chief yes but ships aren't something Krogan have many of so that's a tall order"
"Damn it..well if you can't give me a ship, do you happen to know where i could hypothetically take one"
"Hehehe now your talking that i can do there's an outpost there's an outpost nearby run by the blue Suns it should be one of the surrounding systems"
" the blood pack brought it to my attention, I've gained some influence with them because of my pacts with the females to repopulate, so their problem looks like it'll be your benefit so here's what I'm thinking you hitch a ride when they attack the Outpost if let's say some ships happen to go missing belonging to the blue Suns well that's not our problem they should have known better than to encroach onto Tuchanka's territory and well let's see if there's anyone stupid enough to pick a fight"
"Well sounds simple enough send me the information and i'll take care of the rest"
"Have a good hunt Shepard, and do be sure to let me know how well you do in the future it's not every day an old friend comes back from the dead in a tin can"
"I'll be sure to do that, do try not to get a hole blown in your ass, your dad already tried to kill you on sacred ground, any jackass could do the same"
"Bah i'd like to see them try"
"Ha well then old friend if you need help be sure to let me know, anytime you need someone dead I'll be happy to accommodate"
"That's a nice offer Shepard one i'll be sure to keep in mind"
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"What the hell Shepard, you were supposed to get a ship not plan an attack on a mercenary base"
"Calm your shit Wilson you'll stay behind i've got this so just sit back and focus on keeping my memory cores from glitching because if i forget how to talk just because of a glitch Im going to be pissed"
"Bah your impossible"
Wilson walked away back to the shuttle, i hurried along to the one i loaded with a generator to recharge the batteries in this body before the battle with the blue suns comes around
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Timeskip to the attack
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Shepard was controlling a heavy mech seeing blue sun's coming at him he turned to face them, his shields were holding while firing off burst after burst of fire, finding his first target his machine gun mowed down the first on the right taking down another target but the fire keeps coming down at him
His heavy mech wasn't able to go take cover being too large, he loaded up a rocket to take a shot blowing up another target
The Krogan at his back, the blood pack bastards were being crazy and wanted the blue Suns dead, spread between them were some of shepards Loki mechs each loaded up with shield emitters he had scavenged from the dead mercs that they had already dealt with earlier in their attack
The Krogan tried telling him to wait till the end of the battle before he scavenged but when a rocket launcher he collected saved them from a hidden heavy turret they shut up
With a resounding blast the last of the defenders were blown down
as per the agreement shepards shuttles all began touching down into the base and releasing the dozens of mechs he had stored aboard
Each began scouring every inch of the facility and cataloging the contents found to create a manifest that shepard would use to see what to gift wrex as thanks for the krogan troops that brought him here
Overall shepard had only lost a few mechs, turns out when you have an N7 veteran spread out across dozens of bodies you get quite the fearsome battlegroup, of course the krogan carried their weight and broke the enemy lines everytime the battles started stalling
It had taken some hours but a couple hundred blue suns were dead now, turned out the 'outpost' was actually a base for blue sun activities in the surrounding systems
But of course the blood pack being made up of Krogan they diluted the problem and just saw it as a minor threat
Shepard was sure they would have suffered some losses if not for his..intervention
The battles had been intense and the blue suns were ambushed and killed by Shepards mechs, being an N7 and an experienced commander allowed his to guide his bodies with a nimble efficiency
Well that and shepard taking the time to program each mech with combat software worth a damn, turned out if he concentrated hard enough he was able to install his combat experience into the mechs
But while that sounded impressive all it really did was teach the lokis to act like decent soldiers at worst and veteran soldiers at best when shepard really took the time to lead them
The blue suns were freaked out seeing loki's pop into cover and taking pop shots before moving into new territory, well that and watching through their security cams as the mechs looted their dead by stripping them down and taking their armors only to slap them on over the mechs bodies
It was crude but effective, shepard planned to take the time to modify and adjust the armors he collected to be more fitted to the loki mechs well that an a new paint job
Those armors well too blue for him, well that and the fact that donning merc colors was disgusting to him
He was doing what he had to do for humanity, the council would never listen to him now that he was a machine, and the involvement of Cerberus meant that the alliance wouldn't believe him either
'How did things go to shit so quickly'
Shepard having so little time to really stop and question all that he was doing was filled with doubts at times but he was a soldier a man of action and he easily chose to continue marching on for the sake of humanities survival over questioning the implications of his current state
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Faithless here, hey guys so here's another chapter, honestly i had it written for the last few weeks but then i got swept up writing For the Horde and forgot to post it, so here you go enjoy and if anyone wants to hop on the bandwagon and help me out with my stories let me know, anyways bye for now