I don't own Naruto or Mass Effect. This is a fanfiction only.

Naruto kept blasting one husk after another and made him feel bad each time. These were once human bodies they had desecrated in an absolutely brutal and unethical way. Many of them were impaled while they were still alive. As they got to a storage shed they realized that the door was locked from the inside.

Alenko decided to try his luck with the door controls and that is when they heard a noise. They immediately held their weapons ready for the possibility of an ambush. "We are coming out, we are not armed. We mean you no harm."

As two men and a woman walked out, "Are we safe? Have you taken care of those monsters?" Naruto could tell this woman was scared. The other thing that he could tell was that they actually had something to hide from the way they moved.

"Yes, we took care of them. You should be pretty safe for now. I need to ask you a few questions, the more honest you are the more likely we can save this colony. So it's in your best interest to be as honest as you can so we can save this colony."

Naruto couldn't believe Ashley talking to them like this, it pretty much told them she thought of them as liars, and opportunist liars at that. Naruto decided that he would have a discussion with her about her trust issues.

"Look we don't know much, we are merely the ground crew that works in the spaceport. We saw them ship that thing they dug up, but we have no idea what that thing is or what it does. Most of the days we are just farmers. Not that I can remember much I am still trying to recover from that awful noise that mother-ship was emitting."

Nihlus looked at him and nodded his head, "It must have been trying to block communication channels to prevent aid and rescue from reaching you."

The man looked at him and touched his head as if he was still in pain, "I don't know about that, all I know it sounded like the shrieks of the damned, but they were coming from your own head. The pain made it impossible for us to even think. We ran for cover in the shed, I don't think the others made it out alive when those things came pouring out of that ship."

The woman looked at Naruto, "He doesn't know that some could have escaped like we did."

"You are mad, that thing landed on the platform, there was no way for the others to make it out of there alive."

Naruto couldn't fault her for being hopeful but there were things that simply were too dangerous to go and fight on blind faith. Something told him that the Geth may be using the technology to make the husk but they were something the Geth invented. If the Geth were just using the husk, then something else was using the Geth.

"Look, Jack, we better give them the stuff. They are soldiers and they would know how best to use it!"

One of the men hit the other and glared at him, "John you should really learn to keep your mouth shut!"

Naruto looked at Jack and he activated his eyes for good measure. This had the intended effect of causing the three to see he was not someone to mess with. "Is there something you want to tell me, Jack?"

Jack was sweating bullets as he looked at Naruto, "Look for a cut of the profits we let the guys in the spaceport run a small smuggling operation. It's nothing major, I though we could use some of the items in the shed to defend ourselves."

Alenko now looked like he wanted to punch them. "Going to find a safe place my eye! You three wanted to check on your merchandise and left the others in your little group to die!"

The woman was the only one that began to cry, "Look you don't know what we went through, do you think I would leave my brother, husband, and father to die? I came to get a weapon to save them!"

John put his hand on her shoulder and she leaned into his shoulder. "This is my cousin Marie, and I can vouch that she is telling you the truth. There is a guy named Paul that is our contact with the smuggling ring he might be able to tell you more if he is still alive."

Jack walked over to them dragging a large crate, "The only thing I got that would be of any use to you is these mods. They are experimental, top of the line. I was planning to sell them and retire, but it looks like you people will be able to put them to better use, take them I am sorry for hiding this from you."

Alenko took a mod for his handgun, Nihlus took one for his armor, Ashley took one for her machine gun. In the end, the only one that didn't use one was Naruto who when asked told them he didn't need them as much as they did.

As they fought through the husks and then the Geth they made their way to the platform. Naruto had kept his eyes active and so he was able to see someone hiding behind one of the crates. "I know you are back there, come on out with your hands where we can see them."

"Don't shoot I am human! Look sorry that I was hiding but how can you blame me after seeing what those monsters did to the others."

Alenko looked at him rather suspiciously, "So you are Paul, aren't you? The contact with the smuggler ring? So answer me this smuggler why were you able to hide when all your friends were not?"

He looked at us as if a mask had finally been set free and allowed to fall from his face, Paul actually looked happy as if a great weight had been lifted off his shoulders. "Yea, I am Paul now the only smuggler left of my crew. Where was I to be able to hide? That is simple, I work long hours and sometimes I sneak behind the crates to sneak a little nap to get me through my shift. I was behind the crates before the attack even began."

Ashley was not fuming mad, "So you are telling me the only reason you are alive is because you are lazy! I should kick your teeth in for even saying that out loud!"

Naruto and Nihlus looked at each other and nodded their heads as if they both understood the same idea, "Well it probably was lucky of you to take that nap when you did, but what we really want to know if you got anything we can use against the electrical zombies, and the mass murdering Geth."

He opened a crate and it was filled with military supplies. "We usually are able to take small items from the military supply crates, nobody is going to miss those considering how much the marines on this colony use and get."

Now Williams was really going rabid, "So we risk our lives to keep you safe, and you decided to rip us off!"

Paul looked like those zombies and the Geth actually looked more friendly than Williams was looking. "Look we are a pretty small farming colony, who in the world would attack us? The most valuable thing here is fruit and grain farms for crying out loud."

Naruto walked over to him and stopped a few inches from him, "Look, Paul, a lot of marines died today saving you and your colony. Don't you think that you should do something to apologize to those men?"

That is when he kicked the same crate and we found better and more effective weapons right beneath the section that had medical packs and grenades before. "Here take these, I am truly sorry. I swear I will never smuggle again. I just have a question? Didn't your friend Saren kill you?"

All the group looked at Nihlus and then at Naruto. "No, he killed a high tech decoy. Now would you kindly tell me where is that beacon they dug up?"

Paul seemed to realize the sooner he told them where the beacon was the sooner they would leave. "The beacon was moved to the platform and moved to the shipping platform this morning. It should still be there if you hurry, now excuse me I have to check if any of my people are alive."

Naruto saw them each take a weapon, but again he did not take any himself. "I wouldn't worry too much, over the hill you will find John, Jack, and Marie in the storage shed. You know the one. Now excuse us, we got a lot of killer monsters to deal with. The faster you get away from here the better we will deal with the enemy, the last thing we need if for you to get caught in the crossfire. Just think about the paperwork that would cause."

Paul felt a lot better as Naruto said that and began to run away from there as fast as his legs would carry him. As they took down the Geth they headed towards the platform. It was a simple cargo platform but Naruto couldn't help but to feel uneasy about it, something in him was making him feel like something was going to happen and it was not a pleasant surprise.

As the group reached the end of their trip on the platform he saw the Geth doing something on the ground. As soon as he saw the Geth stand up his view was unobstructed and he knew what these rogue AI were doing. They had planted demolition charges all over the place, their intent was made clear. They planned to destroy the entire colony.

Naruto made a single hand sign and a dozen shadow clones went towards the demolition charges as Naruto and the others took care of the Geth troopers guarding the charges. The demolition charges were taken care off as fast as the shadow clones could, but it was slow since sometimes one of the clones would dispel from being hit by a sniper shot.

The shadow clones focused on the demolition charges till the last one was deactivated and disarmed. As the last one was taken care off the remaining six shadow clones went towards the platform, clearly, they understood that Naruto wanted the platform cleared.

Nihlus looked at him and couldn't help but to shake his head and smile. "If there ever was a doubt that I should recommend you to the Specters it has been put to rest by your actions. If you told me a few months that a human could do what I seen you do, I would say that person was insane."

They also took care of the Geth troops near it, the real trouble was the husks. Their electrical discharges made some of the shadow clones dispell. Naruto didn't like it one bit, it meant that the husk or the thing controlling them could increase the amplitude of the electrical charges the husk released. This was not a good sign to Naruto it meant that these husks were the basic base units and that in the future they could be upgraded.

Naruto and the others took care of the husks never the less, a few fire Jutsu and a wind cutter Jutsu and the reanimated electrical zombies were down for the count. "Normandy we secured the landing point, and the location of the beacon, we are awaiting orders."

Naruto heard Ashley taking about how amazing it was to find working Prothean technology when he saw some unseen force dragging Ashley towards the beacon. Naruto had little time to respond he used a substitution Jutsu and replaced himself with Ashley.

The force finished dragging him towards the beacon and held him up in the air, that is when he could not see anything anymore, he was looking at images that were appearing in his mind, a lot of horrific and disturbing images, to him it looked like a person tapes what hell would look like. The images did not stop they kept coming, more and more disturbing and finally it proved too much for him and he lost consciousness.

He kept seeing the images like he was constantly being forced to view the same horrific scenes over and over again, the desperation in the aliens was easy to see, if anything it made him feel like they were screaming for someone to save them. Naruto did not feel so well when he opened his eyes.

"Awake and back to the land of the living are we? How are you feeling Commander? I need to note it in my report." Naruto looked at the doctor and smiled, "Nothing to write home about Karen. I feel like I had a bad hangover after a night on leave. How long was I out?"

I saw Ashley looking at me with an almost apologetic look on her face. "You been out for three days, we have not been able to wake you up, I did detect some rapid eye movement. Signs typically associated with dreaming." Good thing the doctor often told me things straight.

"Not dreaming, I was having a vision."

That is when David came into the room, "I will note it in my report then, Captain Anderson what can we do for you?"

He looked at me and the people near me, "How is my XO doctor?" Chakwas told him I was doing fine, other than a bit of dehydration I was fit for service.

"Very well I need all of you to leave, I need to speak with the commander in private."

Ashley and Chakwas stepped outside and I knew that he was not coming to see me simply because he was my friend.

"So that beacon hit you pretty hard Naruto any idea what was in that thing?"

I looked at him and began shaking my head, "Just before I lost consciousness I saw machines, they were killing people, butchering them. I think it's a warning of some kind, the last thing the Proteans sent before their empire went dark."

David and I always spoke with the truth with each other and we didn't sugar coat anything. We have been friends long enough to know that we wouldn't lie to each other. "I won't lie to you Naruto the beacon was destroyed and a colony were attacked. The council is going to want answers and they are not above to try and use this situation as a means to deny you the chance to become the first human spectre."

Naruto began shaking his head as to almost clear his mind and walked towards them. "I will not lie about what I saw, Saren was the one orchestrating the attack, he was after that beacon. We got Nihlus and he saw the Geth and the husks. He even heard that testimony from that smuggler. They want to try it, but we got evidence on our side."