Mass Effect Shepard Rises.
Shepard drove the Mako towards the Geth base on the planet Solcrum, so far they had encountered very little resistance Shepard looked to Tali sitting at his right monitoring the Mako's power levels "so Tali how far are we away from the base?" he asked and watched with a smile as she looked up and turned to him.
"About half hour drive maybe longer with your driving John." She said with a slight chuckle with he was more than happy to laugh to.
"Tell me again why we had to land so far away?" he asked in a slightly bored manner.
"You know why John the Geth would see us otherwise and prepare we would lose the element of surprise."
"Oh yeah, hey Wrex how's Betsey?" he said with a slight laugh.
"Like you care Shepard, but you will when we have the higher kill count." Wrex said in his usual deep voice.
"You know Wrex we should make a little bet?" Shepard said with a smile at the banter between the two.
"Yeah"
"Yeah if you win I will buy you drinks next shore leave, but if I win you buy me drinks."
"Ah commander what about me" Garrus said from the Mako gun seat.
"Ok how this winner gets free drinks loser pays are you in is?"
A serious of yes and definitely filled the cabin in the Mako. The rest of the ride was spent in silence until Tali's voice filled the cabin "pull over Shepard the base should be just over that rise."
Shepard and his team apart from Wrex lay on the ground on a hill to the left of the Geth complex, the complex itself was on top of a small mountain defence turrets were placed around the complex with Geth walking around on guard duty, there was a number of Geth fighters landed near a fuel station and strange pods with Geth standing perfectly still by, what surprised Shepard the most were the number of dragons teeth that were scattered around some still had blood on them from being used, Shepard turned to his team and signalled for them to crawl down the hill.
Once his team surrounded him he spoke "Ok here's the plan we call the Normandy in to take out the defence turrets, well the Geth are distracted we sneak into the compound any objections?"
If there was any no one spoke or voiced them all Shepard saw in their faces or mask in Tali's case was trust he nodded to himself and activated his com to the Normandy "Joker you read?" there was a slight hiss of static before Joker spoke.
"I'm here commander what you need?"
"Bring the Normandy in there are 4 defence turrets destroy them if you can if not don't worry we only need you for a distraction." He hated using the Normandy as bait but there was little other choice, he wait until he heard the familiar noise of the Normandy's engines before pulling out his assault rifle and knife before he motioned for his team to follow "Liara barrier as soon as we get over the rise everyone else do what you do best let's get in that facility quickly."
He and his team charged as the Normandy swopped down he watched as Joker expertly took out one turret and performed a spin to dodge the hail of fire, forcing himself to turn away and focus he glowed purple and lifted a Geth high into the air he spin his knife in his hand and threw it at another Geth trying to get into cover, the Geth returned fire but Liara's barrier stopped them he raised his rifle and shoot a Geth in the optic "come on were nearly there keep pushing." He watched with a smile as his team destroyed the Geth easily, in mid run he bent down and snatched his knife off the Geth and took up position outside the door with a nod Tali bent down and tried to hack the lock.
"Commander all turrets gone, going back into geo sync orbit,"
"Good job Joker we will call when we need pick up." He said as the door opened and he charged in using his rifle to smack a Geth in the face as it fell he charged his biotic's and crushed it with his foot.
The room they were in was lined with Geth terminals some were flickering on and off others had strange writing flashing across the screen up ahead were two doors "Ok Tali see if you can download a map of this place" he said "Ok Tali, Garrus your with me we will be going through the door on the right, Kaidan you take your team and go left,"
"Ok Shepard I got a map sending it to all your Omni-tools now"
Around him his team pulled up their Omni-tools and studied the map "Ok looks like those two corridors meet up good we will use that as a meeting point and then head to his room here" he said pointing to various corridors and rooms on the map "Ok let's go." He walked up to the door on the right and hit the interface "good luck" he nodded to Kaidan who nodded back "you to commander see you on the other side." The door opened with a hiss and he, Tali and Garrus stepped through.
The hallway was dark blue neon lights lit the path but not much else there was a room to the right of them he opened the door and found it oddly empty only odd shaped metals were scattered around the room he walked in slowly rifle raised for any Geth hiding, slowly he bent down and picked up a Geth rifle and looked over it in the dim light "looks like a shotgun" he said and turned to Tali and handed it her "here use this until we can get it back to the Normandy then you can dismantle it and have a look at what we got."
He exited the room and walked down the corridor again his team flanking him in the distance they heard a moan followed by a scraping noise he stopped and slowly looked up to find a husks staring back at him quickly he reached up and twisted the husks neck until it cracked and it fell to the floor with a thud behind him he heard shotguns fired and sniper rifles fired he turned and saw the roof filled with husks all jumping down and rushing towards their position, he flared purple with biotic power and roared as he threw his hands forward and a wall power was throw at the husks crushing them against the door "come on get through the door now" he said as more husks seemed to pour from the room they were just in, he walked back wards shooting his rifle until he was through the door and Tali slammed it shut with a flick of her Omni-tool.
He turned around and nearly dropped his rifle there in the room was a terminal but behind it was a large glowing storage device "Tali what the hell is that?" he asked.
"It looks like a storage device there must be millions of Geth inside waiting for bodies to be built"
As they stepped further into the room machines were welding together bits of metal and moving it around a production line at the far end of the room was a Geth colossus it's legs were missing and so was its siege cannon but small auto arms were welding metal to its frame, he watched as Tali walked slowly up to the terminal "S-Shepard come see this." He walked up to her and looked at the screen that showed pictures of all different kinds of Geth.
"Ok I can tell there Geth but I can't read the writing" he said with a small frown.
"What oh sorry its Quarian, this is a file on every Geth we seen and a few prototypes we haven't, Shepard this would make an amazing pilgrim gift for my people."
There was sadness in her voice they both knew that with this gift she would leave and that made his heart ache but he knew this was bigger than him "ok download two copies one for the alliance the other for you" he said with a hand on her shoulder. He watched as she inserted two small OSD cards and downloaded the information "Ok let's get out of here; the Normandy can bomb this place once we have left." He met up with Kaidan team and together they both left the base on the way out they met little resistance it was oddly quiet a little too quiet, he pulled up he com and spoke to Joker "Ok Joker we are leaving once we get back to the Mako light this place up"
"Oh goodie Joker saves the day again, just so you know I like my meddles in gold please." He chuckled at that but didn't reply.
As the Normandy was destroying the base Tali and Shepard stood away from the group and just looked at each other their arms wrapped around them holding each other close Tali spoke first "I'm not going to leave Shepard once this business with Saren is done I want to stay with you."
He smiled at that and held her closer "I don't want you to pick between me and the fleet." He didn't believe it but he didn't dare voice it in case it upset Tali he knew it was selfish but it's what he wanted.
"I have already decided" she said with a small smile.
so what you guys and girls think that's my spin on things a I know there wasn't much fighting in the base but I thought i'd do it the way I did when they reached the factory side of the base anyway any problems please PM me or review