We now enter the year of 2183, the year when the Mass effect games start. I hope you enjoy.
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Flying throughout the system enjoying a little free time, was Tali'Zorah. She had been sent on leave because she had started her pilgrimage, she had been using the most of her first four months gathering data on planets to see if there was a suitable one for her people. But unfortunately no such luck.
Suddenly her ring beeped, "Anomaly detected: Anomaly shows to be a large Geth vessel approaching Eden prime at an exponential pace." Tali took immediate action to this. "Inform the Alliance that an attack is supposed to happen." Her ring beeped, and flied towards the said anomaly.
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A man known as Commander Shepard walks through the hallways and corridors, heading towards the bridge of the Normandy. "The Arcturus Relay prime is in range: initiating transmission sequence." Said the pilot of the Normandy, Joker. "We are connected." Within seconds the ships lurched forward, and returned to a normal pace as soon as it entered hyperspace.
"Drift…just under fifteen hundred K." said Joker as Commander Shepard showed up next to the Turian Spectre named Nihlus. "Fifteen hundred is good, your captain will be pleased." Nihlus said as he walked away, when Nihlus was out of earshot Joker stated, "I hate that guy."
Kaiden, fellow soldier and co-pilot argued, "Nihlus just gave you a compliment, so…you hate him." Joker looked at him for a second than looked back at the controls. "Hey you remember to zip up your jumpsuit when you get out of the bathroom that's good, but I just jumped us halfway across the galaxy hitting a target the size of a pin-head, so that's incredible." Joker explained.
"Besides Spectres are trouble, call me paranoid." He said casually, "You're paranoid?" Kaiden asked, "The council funded this project, the council has a right to send someone out to keep an eye on their investment." Kaiden argued, but Joker only sighed in annoyance. "Yeah, that is the official story, but only an idiot believes the official story." Commander Shepard took this moment to interject in the conversation.
"They don't send spectre's on shake down runs, Joker is probably right for once." Shepard said with a smirk, "so there's more than the captains letting on. And what is that supposed to mean." Joker said, before anyone was able to make another statement, the captain spoke through the intercom.
"Joker, status report!" the captain said, "Just hit the Mass Relay captain, we'll be at our destination within the hour." Joker said. "Good, let Shepard know to head to comms for briefing." Anderson asked, to which joker nodded before answering. "You got it captain, be careful though I think Nihlus is heading your way." He said, to which the captain deadpanned. "He's already here, Joker." And with that the intercom shut off, and the commander went off the communications room.
(Inside the Comm room)
Shepard walked in to see that Nihlus was the only one in the room, Nihlus turned around to see him and said. "Ah Commander, I was hoping you'd get here first. Gives us time to talk." He said, "I'm interested in this world we're going to 'Eden Prime', I've heard it's quite beautiful" Nihlus said, to which the commander replied, "I've heard it's a paradise, but I wouldn't know." He said.
Nihlus gave a quick nod, "Yes a paradise, Eden prime is a symbol to your people. Not only establishing colonies across the stars but also protect them." Nihlus listed off in explanation. "But how safe is it really?" He concluded, Shepard raised an eyebrow before asking. "Do you know something?" Nihlus turned from the screen to face Shepard.
"You're people are still new to the galaxy, and some people don't exactly like your species. Is the Alliance truly ready for this?" Nihlus asked, just then Captain Anderson came in. "Ah good you're here, now it's time we told you the truth." Anderson said as Nihlus stood next to him. "This far more than a simple shake down run." Nihlus stated.
The look they saw on Shepard's face told them that he already knew, "alright I guess you already knew that, okay so about four to five hours we received a tip from the Red Lantern Corps." Anderson said beginning the briefing. "The Red Lantern Corps?" Shepard asked, "Those guys that wear some kind of super powered Jewelry on their hands right." Shepard asked, "Yes those guys, anyway we received a tip from them an attack is coming towards Eden prime. Their scans showed Geth signatures, but we're not exactly sure yet." Anderson said.
"Also we're going on Eden Prime to make a covert pick up, the Scientists on the surface unearthed a prothean beacon." Anderson continued, Shepard nodded knowing that the Protheans were an advanced species that vanished fifty-thousand years ago.
"Okay that part I get, but why did the council send a spectre with us." Shepard asked, to which Nihlus answered. "I'm here to evaluate you, since I put your name forward." This shocked Shepard for a minute, but gave a slight nod for not knowing what to say.
"Well with that out of the way, we should just about be ten minutes out of our-." "Captain we just got a distress from Eden Prime, you gotta see this." Joker said over the intercom playing the video.
What they saw were some soldiers getting mowed down by an unknown foe, and another soldier asking for help into the camera, one loud boom and all the soldiers in the video looked up at something when the camera panned up they saw what looked like a giant hand. Then another loud boom sounded and the video cut out.
"And that's it, it's just cuts out there, no anything." He said, Anderson thought for a moment before saying, "Reverse and hold at 38.5" Joker did such, to show the giant hand shape looking object coming from the sky.
"Get geared up and prepped, we're going on the ground." Anderson said as he and Nihlus went out of the room.
(Back with Tali on the surface of Eden Prime)
As I landed on a small platform, I quickly hid behind some crates nearby to begin my reconnaissance. After about ten minutes of nothing out of the Ordinary, a giant ship landed and explosions and gunfire could be heard from miles away.
I got up from my hiding spot and headed towards the battle. I could see a small group of Alliance soldiers, fighting what appeared to be…GETH! I shot down towards the ground, creating a small shockwave as I landed.
Making an energy whip, I lash it out on the nearest Geth I see decapitating the machine instantly. Turning towards another Geth, I make a war hammer and smashed it to bit. Not even lifting it, I drag the hammer construct, smashing the Geth that stood in its way. With one last Geth standing, I just shot a charged energy blast at it destroying it instantly, with the head landing next me.
I turn to see some visibly shaken soldiers, one walked out to me saluting me when she got to me. "Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams of the 212 Ma'am, it's good to have a red lantern here. I honestly don't care if you're Alien right now, just glad someone got here to save us." She said, I saluted back to her in respect.
"At ease chief, just doing my job. Do you have any idea why the Geth are here?" I asked, the Gunnery chief just shook her head in response. "Not a clue, but the others think it has to do with that Beacon we digged up." She explained, I nodded letting my Ring scan the surrounding area. "Well, I need to continue my mission, thank you for the Intel. I'm sure there are more people that need help." I said, I took off in the air again and began to help the colonists fight.
I saw a small conglomerate of Geth with what looked to be a Turian, a heavily upgraded one at that. I landed behind a destroyed pillar and tried to listen on what the Turian was saying, but with the slight clatters and clicks of the Geth it was hard to hear. I saw that the Turian was talking to someone on a hologram, Asari to be exact. The communication was turned off as he went to what I believe to be the Beacon that soldier was talking about.
I went to sneak up to one of the Geth that was closer to the Turian, staying under cover I used an energy whip to pull the Geth towards me. Putting it in a headlock, I placed my ring on its face,
"Downloading information." I waited a few seconds before it beeped again and the Geth 'died' from lack of power, "Download complete."
"WARNING: Power level at: 50 percent. You are outnumbered, please retreat!" My ring said, quite loudly the Geth and Turian turned towards my direction. "Get her! Do not let her escape!" I immediately thought, 'you little energy powered Bosh'tet!' I flew up in the air to gain the advantage and blasted a few of them before shooting up into space.
When I was at safe orbital distance I looked at my ring and said, "Now what was all that fuss about? Ring show the information that was in the Geth's memory core." The ring beeped for a second before giving a description of the downloaded information.
"Immediate analysis shows that only an Audio file was downloaded: Playing Audio file now." It said.
"Eden Prime was a major Victory. The Beacon brought us one step closer to the conduit." I guess that must be the turians voice, then what I think was the Asari spoke to. "And one step closer to the return of the Reapers."
"End audio recording. Do you require anything Else?" "No that'll be all thank you." I said before flying towards the Citadel, maybe this'll be useful to someone there.
(Back with Shepard on the ground, an Hour later)
Shepard and Kaiden just fought a Group of drones, now they're looking over a dead comrade. "Tore right through his Shield's, never stood a chance." Kaiden said mournfully, as he closed his friend's eyes. "We'll see that he gets a proper service, but right now I need you focused." With a quick yes sir, they continued their mission. Fought through more drones until they caught sight of a small clearing, where they saw a lone soldier fight her way to survive as drones chased her.
They turned their attention to see that some robots were laying a person on some contraption, shocking them when a large spike drove through the chest of the person. After a few minutes of fighting fighting came up to the Commander and introduced herself. "Gunnery chief Ashley Williams of the 212, thank you for coming by when you did. You're the second person to save me so far, a red lantern was here an hour ago." She said.
"Red Lantern huh? Any idea where she went." With a quick shake, further conversation and explanations were shared. Then went on their way to find the Beacon.
(Skipping to beacon info transfer part because I just can.)
As the last of the Husks and Geth were mowed down, Ashley walked towards the beacon looking and looked at it with wonder-filled eyes. "It wasn't doing anything like that when they dug it up." She said, the beacon glowed brighter and Ashley was being pulled towards it. But not before Commander Shepard jumped in and pulled her from the Beacon and let himself be succumbed the Beacons influence.
Images of blood and death came through his minds, lush blue skies turned to clouds of Crimson red, and cities turned to burned piles rubble. With that, Shepard past out.
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A/N: well I have nothing more to say, I'm just writing from the beginning of each chapter and just going with it and so far it's working. Don't forget to Favorite, review, and follow.