Freeman's Odyssey
Chapter: 103
Trouble on Haestrom
The news of what happened on Fehl Prime spreads like wildfire throughout the galaxy as Gordon Freeman helped saved the lives of the colony along with Freedom's progress as well, but after that the One-Free-Man vanished or did he really left this dimension.
The One-Free-man had borrowed a small alliance ship from the colony on Fehl Prime in which he knows they won't notice it missing anyway as he decided to explore this dimensions space, however his suit picked up strange readings coming from a planet deep in space that originated near a planet called Haestrom.
According the Omi-tool Gordon has, it is a former Quarian colony until the Geth drove them out and the Quarian's wandered the stars upon their flotilla of ships they called home as people call it the Migrant Fleet. Gordon listened in on the omni-tool's audio understanding of the planet.
"Before the geth revolt 300 years ago, the quarians colonized Haestrom to study the mysterious instability of its sun, which threatened premature eruption into a red giant. As a scientific outpost of minimal military value, Haestrom was ill-equipped to repel geth forces during the insurrection and fell quickly under their control."
"Captured geth planetary survey data indicates that despite sustaining damage, Haestrom's architecture remains as it was before the war, preserving a quarian architectural style that no longer exists anywhere else in the galaxy."
"Because Haestrom's sun has overwhelmed the planet's protective magnetosphere, humans foolhardy enough to venture into geth-controlled Haestrom must exercise extreme caution. Minutes of radiation exposure will overload shields and hours of exposure will kill. Furthermore, solar output renders surface-to-orbit communication nearly impossible."
Gordon is wearing an adaptable hazmat suit that can handle all environments; his suit did pick up something from the sun, but what remains a mystery. He was about to do a log until the alarms go off in the ship and then BAM! As the ship is rocked by explosions in which the engines are damaged and the small ship itself is spiraling out of control down to the planet below as he had raised his own shields.
Then the Alliance comes in for a hard landing upon the surface as Gordon is bounced around a bit until finally stopped as the one-free-man gathered him self and knows he is alright thanks to his shields and hazmat suit. He blasted his way out of what is left of the ship itself and came upon the surface of Haestrom, his suit adapted to the harsh environment here and wondered who could have shot him down the Geth or something else.
Not wanting to stand around and figure things out Gordon used his scanners to pick of the source is affecting the sun of this planet and wandered off to go investigate. It felt rather cold on this world and the sun is fully bright perhaps a little too bright. According to the travel guide the Geth are suppose to occupy this world, however all he can see is Quarian structures all around as it does look beautiful, but in ruins as well.
For about an hour or so he kept on wandering until he found the source of what or who is affecting the sun of this planet. He took covered and spotted what it is doing to the sun. Two large black spires like a Combine Citadel, using is advanced binoculars he also saw what he has seen many times before. The Combine or what appears to be a small expedition force guarding the spires and energy is being taken from the sun to power these spires.
Overwatch elite and Hunters are guarding this place followed by a single combine gunship. Whatever they are doing it does not look good as Gordon theorized the spires are acting as tuning forks in creating a super portal so the Combine can invade and the sun is the power source to do it.
We'll see about that thought Gordon
He knows what to do as in putting a stop to this and stop it he will. Using the weapon selection program from his suit he brought forth a rocket launcher and quickly armed it. He aimed at the Combine gunship and fired as the missile streaked hard as the missile slammed into the gunship causing it to spiral out of control and crash into the Hunters as those machines were destroyed and that leaves the overwatch elite to contend with.
Not a problem for him as Gordon switched weapons and now is using a Combine pulse rifle as he mowed down one by one as they never had a change of firing back at Gordon considering they were quickly taken by surprise.
Now all there is, are these two black spires. What do to? What to do? Then he has an idea why not simply overload them and decided to check if there are any consoles at the spires. After searching he had found them and had the spires set to overload.
He does just that as he makes a run for it as the spires explode that almost felt nuclear in which Gordon found cover and the explosion can be seen miles around even from space. After the dust had settled as the spires were gone leaving nothing but a large crater of where they once were. With the job done as he decided to check out the rest of this planet and found one of the Combine's vehicles that they left behind. Using it he set's off to explore this world some more.
Elsewhere on Haestrom
At that very moment four people are under heavy fire from Geth forces and a Geth colossus, three of them are male and one of them is female in tight fitting clothing. The leader of this squad told the Quarian to keep cover as the three of them fired back upon the charging geth forces and the Geth colossus fired its beam cannon in which this squad took cover.
Then the Geth colossus moved closer until suddenly a large piece of debris landed on top of the colossus crushing it and an explosion occurred from being crushed.
Who are these people?
The one firing the sniper rifle and is wearing blue armor is a turian who goes by the name of Garrus or formally known as Archangel of Omega who did waged a one-man war upon the gangs of Omega.
The other one firing the pistol is wearing a skin tight white and black clothing with large size breasts and black hair. A symbol shows the Cerberus sign, for she is known as Miranda Lawson.
The leader is a man who supposes to be dead after two years and he is the commander of the Normandy two, he is Commander John Shepard.
All of them were relieved that the colossus was destroyed by a piece of debris that came out of no where and they continued to fire upon the remaining Geth forces until there are none left as the four of them headed to where an old ship mate Tail is stationed at until Joker came on the communications line.
"Commander something weird just happened," said Joker
"Define weird Joker," said Shepard
"An explosion occurred west from your position and according to the readings the sun is back to normal," said Joker "Also I discovered a crashed alliance craft not to far away from where the explosion occurred,"
"Really we'll we will figure that one out later," said Shepard "Tali is here, so be ready for evacuation soon."
"The piece of debris must have came from the explosion," said Miranda
"We could have done that no problem at all," said Garrus
Then all of them headed to where Tali is located and after a conversation, like catching up it was decided it was time to leave and headed back outside until a Geth battalion appeared in which they know it is another fight fire will happened as all of them took cover until a loud sound is heard and spot a Geth gunship spiraling out of control as it slammed into the geth battalion as their metallic parts are flung in all directions, along with dust and debris. It was only then they spotted someone walking from out of all of that as they have their weapons primed until they spot someone they never expected to see again Gordon Freeman.
"Gordon," said Shepard "Now that was a dramatic entrance,"
"It's not so bad," said Gordon "I thought you were dead,"
"Long story," said Shepard "Another time."
"Still kicking ass like always Gordon," said Garrus
"In a way yes, wow what happened to you Garrus," said Gordon "Did the misses finally dump you,"
"Heh, not really," said Garrus
"Doctor Freeman it is an honor to meet you, Cerberus could use your experience and expertise in this situation," said Miranda
"I don't work for fanatics like Cerberus," said Gordon "Or a leader who is connected to Saren,"
"Wait the Illusive man knows Saren," said Tail "And Gordon it is good to see you again,"
"You've grown up a bit Tail," said Gordon "You have been taking your vitamins,"
"We'll chat more aboard the Normandy," said Shepard "Time for us to leave, Joker we need a pick-up and Gordon is here,"
"Damn really," said Joker "Pick-up will be there shortly"
One the shuttle arrived all of them got in and headed to the Normandy two to talk a bit more of what has been going on and what will go on.
Chapter: 104
Just like old times