Recap: "ISAAAAACCCC!" Shepard screamed.
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After screaming his head off, he bolted to his ship's wreckage desperate to see if Isaac was still alive.
"ISAAC!" Shepard yelled out looking for anything that may tell him if Isaac was alive. Then all of the sudden he heard Isaac.
"Whew, that was close! Thought I wouldn't make it for a second there." He heard Isaac's voice but couldn't find him at all.
"Isaac where are you?" Shepard asked looking around for him.
"Look down." Isaac said. Shepard looked down and noticed his omni-tools were on.
"Isaac? Are you in my omni-tools?" Shepard asked cautiously.
"Yep. Right at the moment when that ship targeted the Judgment, I transferred myself to your omni-tools." Isaac explained
"Ship? What ship?" Shepard confused. He was sure it was a bomb that had detonated which had destroyed his ship.
"Shepard, look up." Isaac said in a… nervous voice? What would he be nervous about-
"What the fuck is that?!" Shepard exclaimed as he looked at enormous ship that had blocked out the sun. It was massive in scope. The metal had a violet tint to it and was shaped like a squid or a cuttlefish. It had lights going in a pattern all around it. The crazy part was it had geth ships flying around it! They had not been seen outside the veil in centuries!
"Shepard, I would advise that you suit up." Isaac said. Shepard immediately walked toward the armored crate that survived the ship's destruction. Last night Shepard had put his Ghost outfit along with all his guns. As he unlocked the crate he took out his onyx X medium armor with a shield modulator, energized weave, and a medical exoskeleton, all X class. He had all his weapons too: Kovalyov rifle X, Sokolov shotgun X with a spare, Volkov Sniper rifle, and a Karpov pistol X with a spare. He finally put on his Ghost mask and the cloak with the hood up. He loaded them all up with Tungsten rounds, VII series. He also equipped them all with kinetic coils X and frictionless materials X sohe could do more damage and shoot more. Now he was ready to take the fight to the geth now.
"Shepard, I've taken the liberty to giving your suit combat optics level X. The geth should not be able to jam your scanners now unless they were prepared to deal with commando units. I will monitor it and keep you informed of anything coming our way." Isaac informed him. Ghost could not help but grin. Isaac had been a blessing when he had created him. He had been a friend to him and was there for him when he started his crusades against the slavers.
"Well Isaac, let's go save some people." Ghost said as he took off in the direction of where the most smoke was coming from ready for anything.
A few minutes later
Ghost had arrived on a cliff overlooking the destruction when a strange ship had come overhead. It wasn't a geth ship obviously, it had the name Normandy SR-1 on the side. Suddenly the cargo bay opened up and two men jumped out pointing their guns at him. The one on the left, Ghost did not know. The one on the right he knew immediately.
"Alenko?!" Ghost said
"Ghost?! What the hell are you doing here?!" Alenko asked him
"I was on vacation until this happened. Who's the kid." Ghost explained a little happy. It was good to see a familiar face in a place like this. He was curious about the guy standing next to Alenko.
"This is Jenkins." Was all Alenko said. That was when Jenkins piped up.
"Wow! You are the Ghost! Now I know things are going to be awesome!" Jenkins said with an excitement of a 5 year old child seeing their hero for the first time.
"Hey Jenkins! Cool it! An overexcited mind gets killed in places like this!" Alenko chastised Jenkins.
"Sorry sir, just excited about proving myself here." Jenkins replied sheepish. That was when Ghost decided to calm the guy down.
"Jenkins the key to being successful in missions like this is to keep a cool head and a cooler trigger finger." Ghost said hoping that the boy would take his advice seriously.
"Easy for you to say Ghost. You proved yourself several times over on Elysium, Akuze and Torfan. Everyone knows what you can do. This is my big chance." Jenkins replied. That was when Ghost decided to makes things clear to him.
"Listen kid, all that stuff I did, it was never for a reputation. Each and every one of those battles cost a lot of lives especially on Torfan, ask Alenko here. He was there. Going into a fight while thinking of glory or honor will most likely get you killed before anyone else. If not then your squadmates will suffer then." Ghost told the boy what he needed him to hear. Jenkins got real quiet after that. He even looked a little ashamed of himself. Looking at the scene before him, Alenko couldn't help but sigh.
"Look, patch your radio into this channel and come with us you don't know what's out there." Alenko said. Ghost only patched into their channel then left to scout out ahead.
"I'll scout ahead Alenko just watch my 6 ok?" Ghost said as he moved ahead. After moving through some trees and past burnt corpses he saw someone very familiar running from something. It was Ashley Williams of the 212 and she was running from geth drones. Ghost almost jumped in until he saw her shoot them down which cleared his line of sight to see 2 geth sticking a colonist on some metal pedestal. A second later the colonist was impaled by a giant spike shooting out of the pedestal.
'Jesus! What the hell are they doing that for?!' He could immediately tell why Ashley was afraid of them now. He noticed she had hidden behind a boulder and her rifle out. He then decided to kill the geth as quick as he could. He took his rifle out after using overload on both of them and gunned them without difficulty. After the little skirmish was over Ashley poked her head out and saw the same guy who had defended her a few nights ago.
"Gunnery Chief Ashley-" Ashley tried to say to Ghost.
"Look I know who you are, what I want to know is if you are alright, Ash." Ghost interrupted her. Ashley was a little thrown off by the way he addressed her.
"Do we know each other well enough for you talk to me like that?" Ashley asked him. Ghost froze for a minute at that.
"I did defend you a few days ago. That guy did after all blurt your name out. So are you okay?" Ghost replied.
"Yea I'm fine Ghost thanks." Ash said thankfully he had saved her. That was when Alenko came running up… alone.
"Alenko, what happened to Jenkins?" Ghost asked noticing that the boy wasn't with him. Alenko just shook his head.
"Drones shot right threw him and his shields." Alenko said sadly. Ghost felt sadness over the boy's death. He knew the second he saw him, he was green to battle and war. Poor kid. That's why he told him that stuff earlier.
"We'll be sure to give him a proper burial afterwards okay." Ghost said trying to lighten the situation if only a little. Kaiden just nodded. He was silently grateful that Ghost cared enough to say that, false or genuine.
"Okay you both come with me. We have to check if anyone is still alive in the colony." Ghost said already walking towards the colony.
"That's unlikely Ghost." Ashley said. Ghost stopped in his tracks. He slowly turned to her and said, "That doesn't mean you give up until you see for yourself Williams." Ashley looked at him shocked at how he had spoken to her. He then continued walking with them following at a distance. After moving a hundred feet they came in contact with several geth troopers. Ghost took out his assault rifle and command Ash and Alenko to take cover and start using their weapons. Ash started using her avenger rifle and kaiden used a pistol and his biotics. Ghost used overload on several of them while Kaiden attacked used pistol on them. Ghost then used warp on the ones Ash was shooting at. After taking care of the geth they walked to a structure of ruins or something. That was when Ash spoke up.
"The beacon was right here! I don't understand." She said
"Williams, you're not suppose to say that in front of him." Kaiden yelled at her.
"Beacon? What are you talking about?"Ghost asked. That was when they explained about the prothean beacon. Why Alenko and Jenkins were on the planet. Why that guy had come into the bar that night. Why Eden Prime was under attack.
"So that's what this is all about. Well doesn't matter now, let's go." Ghost stated. With that they trekked up the hill and came to see more of those spikes with people on them. Something was off about the people on them though. Unlike the other colonist these were shriveled, glowing and had what looked like implants or cybernetics. That was when the spikes came down with the bodies laying on the now flat pedestal. Ghost looked on as he watched.
'Why did the spikes suddenly go down? It obviously doesn't sense the colonist's heartbeats or anything obviously so what-' Ghost thought until he saw the bodies moving.
"Oh god! They're still alive!" Kaiden said as he saw them.
"What did the geth do to them?!" Ash yelled out.
"They're not alive, their bodies are being controlled! Gun them down!" Ghost yelled to them as he started shooting at them. Ash and Kaiden soon joined in. These things were scary but weaker than the geth were by a long shot. As long as you kept your distance from them they were not a threat. Then one got close to Ghost and it let loose something like an EMP burst. He responded with using warp on it to rip it to pieces. They continued on to some colony prefabs and noticed one of the doors was locked.
"Kaiden go unlock that door over there, Williams cover him! I'm going on ahead." Ghost said as he walked in the direction to the spaceport. They went over to the door and began to hack it. Ghost walked until he came to scene that was overlooked a tramstation to the port. He also noticed that giant ship starting to fly off into the space. He then looked over and saw two turians talking. Ghost took out his sniper rifle and looked at the two. One was wearing black and pink armor with spectre weapons. The other turian unsettled him. This one was white, had no markings, a synthetic arm and cybernetic implants. That was when he noticed the first one turn his back to the second. The white one then took out a pistol and aimed it at the first to the back of the head. Thinking fast he aimed his sniper at the gun in the white one's hand and fired. The shot dislodged the pistol from the white one's hand causing the first turian to turn around and look at what happened. Then the white one attacked the first one and the two duked it out until the white turian had used his synthetic arm to jab straight through the first one's armor. Ghost had tried to make it to the fight but was helped up by several geth as well as those things… those husks. The white turian looked on as the masked human fought several geth and husks and was winning. He then took off to the tram to where the beacon was.
'The human will be killed along with any others when we detonate the bombs.' The white turian thought.
Back with Ghost
Ghost had finished mopping up the husks and geth as he made his way to the downed turian. The turian was still alive and looked at him.
"W-who a-are you?" the turian asked him as he gasped from the wound in his side.
"I'm Ghost." He said.
"Ah, Aria's spectre equivalent. What are you doing here? Aria send you after the beacon?" the turian asked him.
"No, in fact I just heard about it myself. Don't really have much interest in prothean tech. Who are you?" Ghost replied as he applied medi-gel to the wound.
"I'm Nihlus, council spectre. The turian I fought was Saren, a rouge council spectre." Nihlus explained.
"Never met a spectre before. Well stay here, two human soldiers will be on their way shortly they will provide assistance. When you can, come along with them and help. I'm going to say 'Hi' to this Saren guy." Ghost said leaving toward the tram. As he got on he came up against several geth. He quickly used his Sniper Rifle with his adrenaline rush and sniped them out as fast as he could then made his way to the tram.
With Saren
Saren stood in front of the activated beacon. He then turned to the geth beside him.
"Arm to bombs, destroy the colony, leave no trace we were here." He said to the geth. He then turned back to the beacon as the geth trooper went to arm the bombs. Saren stepped toward the beacon and was picked up by a force…
With Ghost
He had just arrived to the port and had started shooting geth left and right with his rifle as well as his pistol. He used his rifle on the groups of geth while he used the pistol to take out single geth units. After taking care of them he noticed the bombs. He quickly moved to disable them when Nihlus, Kaidan, and Ash had come. He told them to take care of the bombs as he moved to where Saren was. As he arrived to the loading zone he saw Saren be let down after hovering a little off the ground.
"So the human comes to fight me while ignoring the bombs?" Saren said as he turned around to face Ghost.
"Well I wouldn't say I ignored them. I just entrusted others with them. Besides I've never fought a Spectre before, could be fun." Ghost responded to the rouge spectre. They glared at each other for a few seconds. Suddenly, they ran at each other and clashed. Ghost used omni-tool fists while Saren used his talons covered in biotic energy. As they battled Ghost jumped and kicked Saren in mid-air, bouncing of him while doing a back flip and jumped forward this time back-handing the rouge spectre with his omni-tool right in the face sending Saren back a couple of feet. Then Ghost biotically leaped into the air with his omni-blade out ready to strike Saren down. Saren quickly shot a biotic throw at Ghost sending him flying back, crashing in to a pile of crates. Saren decided to retreat when he noticed the bomb signals go off. He quickly got on his hovercraft and flew towards where his ship was. Ghost quickly got out his pistol and ran toward Saren's direction firing until his pistol overheated. Saren had gotten away…for now. A few minutes later the others came to see what had happened.
"What happened to Saren?" Nihlus asked Ghost.
"He got away. He had some hovercraft thing that he rode to make his escape." Ghost explained pissed off. He had just faced off against someone who reminded him of the slavers who attacked his home, but worse. This guy had an army behind him this time.
"Why are you here then Ghost? Why are you really here?" Alenko asked him with Nihlus watching as well.
"Believe it or not I was here on vacation. Aria gave me some time off. I was suppose to go back today, but my ship was destroyed." Ghost explained why he was on Eden Prime. They seemed to accept this. That was when Ghost saw Ashley being pulled toward the beacon. He moved quickly, tackled her and threw her out of the way. Now he was caught in it.
"Ghost!" Ashley screamed as she tried to help him. Alenko held her back though.
"No don't touch him we can't do anything now!" Alenko said as he and Nihlus watched Ghost be taken by the unseen force.
Ghost was now feeling an intense burning in his head now as he levitated in front of the beacon. Now he was seeing visions, horrible visions. Of death, of genocide. People where running from something, they were strange, had four eyes and mushroom-like shaped heads. Then he saw metal being welded to flesh. He could hear the screams of pain, horror and despair. And then the beacon exploded sending him flying toward the ground and knocking him out.
As his consciousness faded he could hear Alenko going, "We have injured, need immediate evac." He could feel two three fingered hands hoist him up. He then heard Ash go, "Ghost don't you dare die on me!" She sounded pretty scared. Then he went unconscious. After that the visions started up again and replayed into an eternal loop.