Recap: "I need someone to teach me biotics, someone competent at least." He said shocking both her and Liselle. By all the reports and rumors Ghost never used biotics. Why now? Aria then thought 'Doesn't matter, this is perfect for getting him under my thumb.' She then went on to say "Well then as this is personal favor from one to another then I will tech you. I will warn you though my training will make you wish you were dead." She said freaking everyone out. Aria training someone who wasn't her daughter? Inconceivable! What freaked everyone out, even Aria was what Ghost said, "It won't be different from my other training and my life then. When do we get started teach?"

Now

And so the training began, it was excruciating for him since it was Aria teaching him. Now she was wrong about him wanting to die, he wanted to kill her though. The only thing that stopped him was Liselle holding him back. Seriously, she was always there every time when he tried! Though the training was incredibly difficult, Aria taught him all the moves he could currently use: Throw, Lift, Warp, Singularity, Barrier, and Stasis. The training took the remainder of the year. Both he and the mother-daughter duo was shocked when they noticed his biotics were on par with Aria's in terms of power and cool down. Ghost chalked it up to being natural with a mix of his amp. He did not really care that much. Aria on the other hand was now wary of him because there was someone on her station that could match her in combat now. Sure she had experience over him, but that didn't mean he could be a threat. When the year ended the training was complete. When it was over he decided to keep in touch with Liselle and Aria. Over the training, he had grown close to them if only a little. Liselle was a friend, he didn't tell her identity but still, and Aria was like a contact of sorts. Isaac had scrounged over the data during the training and although he did not find the main base he did find several other high ranking bases across space. Ghost then decided with his training in biotics over with, it was time to combine his talents and fighting style again. With this he had learned a new ability, Neural Shock. Ghost could now fit into all of the classes the Alliance military used for its forces. He did not belong to single one of them though and while vanguard is close for a name of his class it was already taken.

'What to call my class? Sentinel doesn't work either, Soldier is to simple, adept is to singular, I was already an infiltrator, engineer is like a soldier. What could I call it?' Ghost thought to himself. Then it came to him.

'I'll call my class Juggernaut! It's perfect! I fit all the criteria for all the classes!' Ghost thought to himself happy that he figured it out. Since Isaac's discovery of the new bases, Ghost knew he needed to be more prepared, more deadly. Also over the year he had established various information networks to try to find the base, nothing so far. Now though one of his contacts had dropped out of contact and he was going to investigate. The planet the contact was on was Akuze.

Year 2177, Akuze

Ghost had just landed on Akuze only to find an empty colony. He started looking and ordered Isaac to take ship out to somewhere out of sight in case any came looking around.

"What happened here? There would usually be more people here, they wouldn't just leave it empty like this." Ghost said aloud to himself. After a few minutes of walking around he began to notice pits on the outside of the colony. Feeling very nervous, he decided to scan the surrounding areas. That was when he saw a ship land nearby. As soon as the hangar door opened, a whole marine unit came out with guns aimed at him. They had surrounded him in seconds. Some were looking around others were looking at him. Then one guy, must have been the leader came up to him.

"Who are you and what happened here?" The man asked in strict tone of voice.

"I don't know what happened here, but my name is Ghost." Ghost answered. When he said his name, every marine stopped and stared at him.

'Why are they staring at me?' Ghost wondered. The marine in front of him looked shocked.

"You said your name was Ghost? As in the guy who singlehandedly saved Elysium and repelled the slaver invasion, Ghost?" the man asked.

"I don't know if I singlehandedly repelled all of that, but I was on Elysium and I did participate in the fighting." Ghost said casually. He was then shocked when they all surrounded him and the man in front of him grabbed his hand and started shaking it.

"I apologize for my behavior before, I am Corporal Toombs, its an honor to meet you sir." The now named Corporal told him. That was when he noticed all the other marines saying things like it was honor to meet him, thanks for saving everyone on Elysium, could you sign my gun? All he could say was no problem to them all. Now he did not expect anyone to know him.

"How do you know about me exactly?" Ghost asked. Toombs was the one to reply.

"They got footage, eye witness reports and the admirals that you met with confirmed all of it. To everyone in the Alliance you are a hero and inspiration." Okay now he was freaked out. People saw him? He was a hero to others in a government he had no part of? That was when Toombs continued, "Well mostly everyone, some people like Mikhailovich think you are a loose cannon that needs to be stopped and imprisoned." Well so much for that, he wasn't going to prison anytime soon, he hoped.

"So sir, why are you here?" Toombs questioned.

"I have a contact who went silent here. Decided to see if everything was alright." Ghost said truthfully. There was no reason to lie for now.

"Hmm well we won't mess with your business if you won't mess with ours." Toombs said. Ghost just nodded his head in affirmative.

Later that night

The marines and Ghost were setting up camp for the night. It had been a long day of searching for people or any reason why they were not home. Ghost had been thinking it had something to do with those pits he found. He showed them to the marines and they scanned it saying it might be a mine of sorts since goes so deep. Ghost wasn't so sure. He was positive that wasn't manmade and if it were a mine than why straight down and not slopewise? It didn't make sense. That was when he felt something in his feet. It was subtle at first then it became violent tremors almost as if…. That was it!

He turned toward everyone else and screamed, "THRESER MAW!" Then it happened. Three gigantic worm heads exploded out of the ground and began attacking everything that moved. In 10 minutes nearly half the company was wiped out, they were putting up a brave fight, but when the opponent is gigantic, heavily armored, uses highly corrosive acid, and all you have is a rifle to fight with you run, not fight. Ghost and Toombs knew that right away. 2 more minutes later everyone but them was gone, dead. He and Toombs kept running though as fast as their legs could carry them. Then a threser maw got Toombs and started to pull him under. Ghost tried, he really did, but he couldn't save Toombs as he screamed from being pulled under by the maw. That was when he was surrounded by the other 2 with the third shortly joining them.

'Oh God! This is it! I'm going to die after running from them. Wait. I ran from them! I'm not dying like a coward! I'm going to go down swinging!' Ghost thought with his fear turning into determination. All 3 thresher maws lunged at him with the intent to kill. Ghost's biotic aura flared and he performed a mid-air biotic field repulse, sending back the thresher maws and startling them. Quickly using the moment of surprise he looked at the one in front of him and performed a singularity into its maw. After that he used warp on the singularity causing the competing fields to destabilize and created a biotic explosion inside the maw's mouth. It harmed the maw and caused it to retreat having not expected an attack like that. The other 2 maws were already attacking Ghost who used a combination of his adrenal rush and his biotic abilities to move out of the way in time causing the maws to hit the ground. Still on the rush, he through a flashbang grenade in front of the maws blinding them as it went off. He then used incinerate on the maw on the left causing it took freak out and go underground to escape the flames, leaving the battle. Now there was only Ghost and the maw, which was meanest one if the acid dripping down from its mouth was any indication. It started firing spittle at fast rate causing Ghost to dodge for dear life with his biotics since barrier + tech armor wouldn't work against it. He then moved back taking his shotgun out and changing the settings to high on it. Then he ran away from the maw. With adrenaline pumping through his veins, he could see that maw was closing in on him with its shadow in the moonlight getting bigger over him. He then jumped and turned around with his shotgun facing an open maw. The thresher maw then engulfed Ghost for a split second, then its head exploded with gore flying all around the area. Where the thresher maw's head was, was an unconscious Ghost holding his shotgun tightly in his hands.

The next day

Ghost woke up to the feeling of someone nudging him with their foot. He looked and saw it was the Captain from the debriefing from Elysium, Anderson.

"What the hell happened here Ghost?" Anderson asked. His voice modulator was out so his voice was back to normal.

"Thresher maws attacked everyone, I'm the only one who made it." Ghost said monotone. Anderson was a little startled at how dead the guy sounded. The feeling left when he realized that it was only natural when you see that many people die in one night.

"Are you alright?" Anderson asked out of concern.

"I'm alive aren't I?" Ghost said with sarcasm. He then got up and gave Anderson the footage his onboard camera had in his suite and started walking away. As he did so he explained, "That is the footage of the attack that happened last night, and don't worry I will still contact you guys when I find the base."

"Take care of yourself, Ghost." Was all Anderson said.

"You too, Anderson." Ghost replied as walked to his ships direction ready to continue on his crusade on the slavers.

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