Flight Of The Tentacles
Shepard was standing in one of the disassembled freighters on Feros with Garrus and Wrex.
They had been looking at a rather large pile of unconscious colonists for a while.
Shepard hadn't forgotten about the about the Thorian though, and motioned for her team to keep moving.
When they were about to walk out of the room, they heard rustling behind them. In the blink of an eye, the entire team had turned around and their weapons trained on a lone standing human.
The man was slightly chubby. He had blonde hair and dark brown eyes. Unlike all the other colonists, this man was wearing extremely outdated jeans and a T-Shirt.
Bob woke up under something heavy. He cursed whoever the asshole was that punched him in his face, and opened his eyes. He was right under a pile of unconscious humans.
"Just my goddamn luck," he commented. Then he wiggled out from under the knocked out people, stood up, and quickly wiped some dust off his clothes.
Bob heard something in front of him, and looked up only to see Shepard, Garrus and Wrex. They were aiming their weapons at him.
"Hands up, no sudden movements and we will not shoot," Shepard said calmly.
He instantly had his arms up in the air. Bob started babbling.
"Holy shit, Shepard, don't shoot me! I was just walking around in this colony, and heard a whistle! I came into this room, saw no one, but then suddenly some asshole comes out of nowhere and punches me in the face!"
Then Garrus cut in.
"Calm down. If you're friendly, we're not going to shoot you."
"Yeah, we can always use a meat-shield," Wrex added with amusement.
Bob frowned.
"Wait, what? No, Wrex! Isn't it enough that I got va..." "Enough, people! Now, what is your name?" Shepard cut him off with frustration.
"My name is Bob. I just got here a few hours ago only to be knocked out by some raging psychopath!"
"You can lower your arms at any time, by the way," Garrus said with an amused voice.
Bob slowly lowered his arms.
"Wait, you said you got knocked out by some raging psychopath?" Shepard asked.
Then Bob started yelling while making exaggerated hand gestures.
"Yeah, he just whistled and waited for me to walk in! Then he just punched me in the face! Where is he anyways, I wanna kill that motherfucker!"
"Calm down Bob," Shepard said soothingly. "That 'motherfucker' saved the entire colony. Thanks to all of them being knocked out here, none of those green Husk thingies found them."
Bob's mouth dropped open.
"Wait... So that guy..."
"Yep," said Garrus.
"If it wasn't for him, you would all be dead right now. Or worse, slaves to some plant living right under this colony."
That wasn't what astonished Bob, though. He was surprised by the fact that another 'Dimension Traveler' had saved every single colonist by delivering free sleep pills to everyone.
"Oh... Yeah, well alright then."
Shepard's team was about to walk out, when Bob suddenly called out.
"Shepard, I want to come with you! I'd like nothing more than to see that... Whatever it is, get killed!"
The team regarded him for a moment, and then Shepard spoke up: "You plan on going on some sort of revenge trip?"
"I guess... You could call it that."
Then Wrex spoke up.
"Shepard, sometimes nothing is better than a raging pyjack getting revenge for others fucking up his home. I say we take him with us."
When Shepard looked at Garrus, he only shrugged.
She looked at Bob again, and sighed.
"Alright. If you come with us, then I expect you to follow my orders to the letter. If you see an opportunity to take out an enemy, take it. But no heroics. Am I understood?"
Bob nodded frantically, unable to wait until they reach the Thorian.
They were about to move out, when suddenly Shepard turned around, lifted him up and slammed Bob into a wall, keeping him pinned.
"Now, how the fuck do you know our names?"
Bob shrugged in fear.
"I heard you talking to each other when you walked through the colony the first time."
Shepard stared at him for some time, but seemed to accept that answer at the moment, and let him go.
"Wrex, got any spare weapons?"
Wrex looked at Bob for a moment, and said: "Yep. Might have a few. Here kid, a pistol and a few grenades. This should keep you alive long enough to get in, kill the plant and get out."
Bob only nodded, and cocked his new pistol in what must have seemed like a bad ass move.
"Let's move."
Shepard didn't even find the decency to comment on it, and simply facepalmed.
They were walking down an extremely smelly stairwell. Parts of it was covered in pinkish vines and some strange green substance, as Bob found out very soon... By tripping and falling into a puddle. He was now trying to scrub the sticky stuff off with his arms.
"Jesus Christ... What the hell is this shit?"
Wrex was only irritated by his antics.
"Pyjack, the entire time you've been talking and screwing around, someone could have staged a nice little surprise for us at least a dozen times by now!"
Bob instantly quieted down.
Wrex seemed satisfied.
"Good. Now remember pyjack, all you need to do is be a meat-shield for us when we finally find this plant... Plant... Thing..."
The entire team was now looking at a giant creature hanging off the walls by some large tendrils.
Wrex nudged Shepard.
"Are you sure this is a plant of all things, Shepard?"
She didn't get to answer though, because suddenly the plant puked.
A green naked asari covered in fluids was now kneeling right under the creature. She suddenly stood up, slightly wobbling on her feet.
Then the asari spoke.
Bob wasn't paying attention to the dialogue going on between Shepard and the Thorian, but was sneaking past the Creepers on the upper floors already. He was planning on planting his grenade on the upper-most tendril the moment the fighting started.
Bob decided to take a look at Shepard and saw her talking a few floors down. Suddenly the asari attacked, but didn't get much of a chance, because Wrex simply kicked her off the platform they were standing on.
Suddenly, he heard moaning behind him. Bob turned around, only to see dozens of creepers slowly lumber towards him. He frantically threw his grenade at the tendril, blowing it to pieces. What he didn't account for, were the Thorian Creepers.
The grenade exploded right when one of them was about to puke on him. It stumbled towards Bob, accidentally pushing him off the railing.
He was screaming at the top of his lungs as he fell right on top of the Thorian. He noticed his new opportunity, and slowly crawled towards it's head section.
Bob stood up when he arrived at his destination, took out his pistol and started shooting the Thorian at the back of it's 'head'.
When it had a big enough hole to fit grenades in it, he stuck all of the remaining grenades in, and was about to jump down onto the platform, when the Thorian suddenly started shaking in an attempt to get Bob off it's back.
He slipped, and fell into the abyss below.
The thorian's head exploded.
Bob fell hundreds of meters, before finally diving into a large pool of water. All air was instantly pushed out of his lungs, and a lot of his bones were broken. He was about to swim out of the water, when suddenly one of the Thorian's tentacles slapped him in the face with enough force to knock him out.
He didn't wake up in time to save himself from drowning.
Shepard, Garrus and Wrex were standing on the platform, staring at each other. They were all completely covered in whatever the Thorian was made of.
They looked at the Thorian, and noticed that half of it's insides were hanging out of it's body.
Then Wrex looked Shepard straight in the eye.
"Told you he'd make a good meat-shield."
I hope you people like how I handled Feros!
I plan on having at least 2 chapters for each Main Mission. At least... That's the plan. We'll see how this goes.
I will see you all in the next chapter!