Fear Wars Chapter 6: Act 3, a mass effect fanfic

FEAR WARS

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Surface of the planet Altium III, 0730 hours, 3rd galactic cycle

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"Set up the EMDs fast, we can't waste any more time!" an engineer in a tight-fitting black suit, with light shoulder pads, heavy Meltex fiberglass gloves, knees and boots that fully cover his legs, helmets that fully cover the head, with a visor in the shape of two eyes and carrying a backpack, which is on the right side of it, with two robotic arms, which serve to help him manipulate technology and electronic devices.

This engineer was yelling at other combat engineers, who were helping to set up an EMD, which was uploaded to the ship to cover up the three cargo ships that are stationed on the ground of this planet.

The structure has a metal base of about 30 by 30 meters in radius. It has a bunker, in the shape of a circle. Which serves as a control center that manages the satellite it has the shape of a tower, with a height of about 60 meters high and an opening at the top of it, which reaches down, which has some containers, which inside have a nanorobot gas which will be subjected to the presence of Elxter particles, which will turn this nanorobot gas into a beam of energy, which will create a dome with a range of about 10 km away.

A dome whose main objective is to completely cover the ships, in a field known as CHIV (Visual Illusory Holographic Field) which will recreate a perfect image of the area in which it is surrounded. Recreating the area in perfect sync with the environment, to completely hide the presence of the allied forces in the area.

The building that was being moved by the thrusters that supported it, was still directed by the group of engineers, after a few more seconds, the engineers with holographic projections that were on their wrists, which are the Nanotools. They deactivated the thrusters that kept the structure afloat.

Allowing the EMD to plummet to the ground, kicking up dust on its heavy landing of over 120 tons, a structure made of Meltex steel, capable of withstanding as much damage as possible, with tinted windows made of crystallized Polrium, which is strong enough. resistant to withstand extreme temperatures of the hottest star, which is under the control of Arms Hyperionis, the star Dominus.

more resistant variant than Meltex. Destined for the creation of military bunkers, warships, and war machines.

Once the EMD was deployed, the engineers who are assigned to manage the structure, entered through the main entrance of the bunker, turned on the pre-placed devices inside the bunker, running to the tasks which were assigned. Two people are destined to manage the number of particles exposed to the nanorobots, two are in charge of creating the holograms in the field, to perfection, and one more is in charge of the distribution of the CHIV field, all being assisted by an IS in the process.

The CHIV Field Distributor tells the others to "Start Nanobot Cloud Acceleration Now"

Those in charge of handling the Élxter particles, instead of responding, went to work, typing the keys of the monitors that are in front of them, activating the Élxter reflector, those in charge of creating the hologram field, began to work on the activation of the nanorobots, which began to shine an intense blue color. Ready to be launched into the air at any time.

And the last of them began to type the monitor that is in the center of the room, outside the bunker, in a hidden compartment in the corners of the tower, they began to launch 4 squadrons of 4 drones into the air. Drones that were being controlled by the IS that is placed in the EMD

The drones in the shape of a sphere and being lifted into the air by a VOID thruster, began to take photos of the whole place, with the ocular eye that is in the center of the machine. Photos were sent to the field operator. Which with the help of the IS, began to generate an almost exact recreation of the place around it.

The IS designated as Ghost line told the person in charge of the distribution of the CHIV field "The creation of a complete CHIV field, ready to start the process at your order, sir"

"Start the process then, we can't waste any more time"

"Okay, starting CHIV field generation now." Outside the bunker the antenna began to glow blue, generating the field from within. A few seconds later a large beam of energy rose into the air, which carried on its way into the air the nanorobots that created the CHIV field.

Once these rose to a height of about 5 km, they completely dispersed over the entire area, creating perfect images that matched the area around them. and once the dome hit the ground, covering the ships in the process. Hiding all traces or marks of its existence from everyone.

Allowing the other ships to download the content they carried inside, as well as establish a camp

While this was happening, on the command bridge of the Midas 2, Darek who was standing from his seat, looking at a hologram of the area where they are, a large mountain covered in large red roots, with holes that seem to have been created by something He was in the southern area of his position. Around them could be seen a large forest of red leaves and large trunks, not enough to cover the ships.

Darek looks at everyone in this room, from the captains of the other ship, the security officers, the most senior marines among the freighters, and Korak himself, who is being escorted by his Enforcers. "Alex and Matías went out to explore the area in the one we landed, at this moment we can detect through the scanners that we have equipped, that several fragments or ships are descending to this planet at this moment "

A superior Officer, with combat armor different from that of the others, with a helmet with fins on both sides of the head that rise upwards, a wider shoulder pad that reaches up to the head, and a more armored vest. This officer tells him "We have already started to establish a perimeter around the landing zone of the ships, we will wait for a report from the N7, once they have returned, we have no idea if these SNI (unidentified beings) are hostile, but for the moment we will start taking precautionary measures in case something shows to be hostile"

Darek nods, then turns to see an engineer who tells him "Okay, we'll start placing all the EMDs we have at our disposal inside the freighters, we'll place the crafting EMDs, starting in the process of creating barracks and Viper sentry turrets, in case something else develops."

A captain of the Midas 3 cargo ship, said "I have at my disposal about 200 soldiers, if we put them together with the rest of ours, that gives us a total of 600 marines, with which we can defend ourselves against whatever comes."

"If you allow me to interrupt gentlemen" the sudden voice of Jaime Korak interrupted the planning that was taking place. Everyone's eyes turned to Korak's mechanical body. "I'd like to request your men, the N7. I would like them to be able to bring back, if possible, the bodies of the SIN that have landed on this planet."

Darek being the cautious man against Korak, ask him with total seriousness "And why should they bring you the body of one of the SNI that landed on the planet? is it But why should I even consider your request?"

"It's very simple my dear Darek, to discover what the anatomy of these beings is like and to know what their weaknesses are" The digital smile on Korak's face turned sinisterly " I mean, what happens if our SNI is hostile What if this is nothing more than an invasion force against humanity?

" After all, we can't face an enemy without knowing what we're really up against, we can't fight them properly, without knowing where to hit them where it hurts, right, Captain?" everyone's eyes involuntarily turned to Darek, who with narrowed eyes is looking intently at Korak. Trying to find some lie behind Korak's virtual face.

But after several seconds without finding anything, which caused an uncomfortable silence in the control room. Darek sighs and says "Midas"

Midas's hologram suddenly appears on the side of the "yes captain" hologram

"Contact Shepard and Matías, and tell them that if they find anybody from any SIN they extract it for future investigation"

"As you order sir" Suddenly the Midas hologram disappears.

Korak, seeing that his request was accepted, couldn't help but smile widely and clap with both metallic hands, "Perfect! I will prepare the laboratory for the study of the first intelligent SNI that we find, this will be something wonderful" Korak then started to leave the command bridge, leaving all the other officers of the Star Alliance alone in the command room of the Midas 2.

Darek sighs, knowing he'll regret this in the future, but this is a desperate time. If the SNI prove to be hostile like Korak said, then they should know all they can about them. From their damn biology, to what is the most common damn disease they have.

If raping the body of one of the SNI helps them find those answers, then so be it. Later they can beg God for forgiveness.

He turned to see the hologram, asking M01DF4S "Midas, where are the N7s"

An area of the hologram suddenly glows red, at a distance of about 10 kilometers away from them "Sir, Alex and Matías are currently about 10 kilometers away from our position, it seems that they are still entering the forest... they still want to that informs you of the extraction and recovery of SNI bodies? asked as low as Midas could. Knowing that this is something Darek is not happy with.

"...yes, inform them, now," Darek said, now determined to make this happen. He turns to see the rest and tells them "We have to start working gentlemen, we have 62 galactic hours, for the 20th fleet of the Alliance to arrive"

"20th fleet sir? Are we going to war now? " asked the captain of the Midas 1.

Darek shook his head "No…not yet, in case we don't make any hostile contact with the SNI, then there will be no need to go to war against them…but in case they have started hostilities, then you can be damn well sure that we will go to war against these SNI"

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10 kilometers from Alpha 1 landing zone, 0738 Galactic hours, 3rd Galactic cycle

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In the alien forest of reddish-green leaves, with the trunks of these glowing slightly golden and the yellow, green, and reddish bushes of different shapes covered the ground from anyone who walked through the place. Some of the golden specks inside the trees began to float in the air, illuminating the darkness that had just fallen on this part of the planet.

Plants of unknown shapes rose from the bushes on the ground, one of these having the shape of something resembling a green pineapple. About 12 meters tall and 8 meters wide, with sharp spikes which point at whatever comes close to the plant. At the top of the plant, long leaves of a gray color rose and hung under their weight, bending slightly with the tips downwards, in the center of the upper part you could see a beautiful flower similar to a rose, but scarlet red.

The small particles are tiny beings, so small that they would be confused with some kind of dust. These arthropod-like beings are lifted into the air by gas which inflates a small chamber of the three-eyed black arthropod, which has the secondary effect of illuminating these beings yellow in the process.

Harmless beings that feed on the atmosphere of this planet, were disturbed by the dark figure with silver plates on his armor that was walking quickly through the place. With a weapon in hand, while navigating through this dark forest that was being illuminated by the light of these little beings.

Alex, who was walking at a slow pace, quickly caught a glimpse of Matías about 2 meters to his right, giving him the necessary space to cover him in case something went wrong. The great trees that towered like skyscrapers provided the necessary cover to take cover from anyone who tried to see them from above.

Both of them with the help of their standard Praetor combat suits were able to move silently through this terrain. Leaving very few footprints wherever they walked.

Suddenly Alex's and Matías's helmets rang, causing them to stop, Matías answers the call to the Nano Communicators attached to the sides of their helmets "This is N7-Romeo 2, go ahead Alpha Base, over"

Midas's voice sounded in the Nano communicator of both "This is Alpha Base, Captain Darek has just ordered me to inform you of an extra objective in the exploration task, the extraction, and recovery of any SNI body that is found has been ordered. find change on the way"

Alex puzzled, turns to see Matías, no words were needed to know that they were both puzzled by the sudden new orders. Alex then uses his Nano Communicator asking puzzled "This is N7-Romeo 1, can you repeat this new order? "

"I repeat, you are ordered that any dead bodies of any SNI found to be secured and the bodies removed for further analysis within the Alpha base." The new orders are certainly puzzling. They may be soldiers, but even they know that if these SNI find them dismembering and studying the bodies of their own in this place, they will certainly be furious.

Of course, if the SNI cares about their fallen. Alex quickly responds for Matías "Alpha Base received, N7-Romeo 1 out" he cut the communication after concluding. Then he turned to Matías and asked through a channel depriving his helmets of their suits "Now we are collectors of bodies"

"You can say it out loud," said Matías resuming the walk that had been interrupted recently "If they gave us the order, it will be because the SNI must already be landing on the planet, most likely they have identified ships similar to some type of escape pod with the scanners of the ships"

"Maybe it 's that," says Shepard as he passed over the branches of what is a big tree "Or who knows the truth, maybe for us, it's a capsule, but for them, it could be a GAOD that is carrying out exploration tasks " (Deployable Orbital Assault group)

" Right now we don't know about that Alex, for now, you have to keep a low profile, shoot only if it's really necessary to shoot the gray men," Matías said as he followed Shepard's step. Once they both passed the tree, they both saw what appears to be a bare valley with no trees present to cover them.

But the most impressive of this view were not the trees that created a view out of old fairy tales. What was shocking was the large metallic object that created a ground line that is currently parked on the ground.

helmet's integrated holographic sight, which is connected to his MX-35's scope, aims at what appears to be an escape pod or GAOD, trying to see if he can see anything inside. capsule.

What he sees is an empty capsule, with no trace of life. Only stains of what appears to be a blood of a crimson color. Blood is the same as theirs.

Alex turns to Matías, waving to the capsule, informing him that it is empty, but that traces of what appears to be blood are inside.

Matías responds by asking through gestures if he saw anything other than the capsule.

Alex shook his head.

Matías looks back at the capsule, they are still hidden by the tree that works as a cover for them, considering the option of leaving their cover and going to investigate the capsule.

But before he did that, Alex says "damn! Hide! " he says as he runs to hide again behind the branches that he just recently climbed, Matías without asking goes to where Shepard went, getting an idea of what he just saw.

Alex points his rifle in the air, in the direction of a sound that is heard coming from above, just above the trees. The cause of this sound was revealed before them, in the form of a rectangular-shaped ship, with four fins which are on the sides of the ship.

It rose to a meter in the air before landing silently on the ground, parking right next to the pod, the ship suddenly opened a hatch that was on the right side of that ship. Revealing the fear of Matías and Alex, a whole group of about 27 SNI.

All are fully equipped with what appear to be combat suits and weapons of an unknown caliber. Seeing that several SNIs were surrounding the capsule, Shepard couldn't avoid making the call to the Alpha base "Alpha Base this is N7-Romeo 1, we have visual on a large group of SNI, I repeat, we have visual contact on a large group of SNI, all armed and equipped

"Received N7-Romeo 1, what is the exact number of SNI in the area," asked Midas.

"I count about 27 SNIs, but there is a bigger problem than that," said Shepard, while watching with Matías as the SNIs began to explore the perimeter and check the interior of the capsule. As if they were looking for something right now.

"Which is it?" Midas asked.

Matías replied "They are armed, with weapons of unknown power, combat suits and it seems that they are different species" he saw how the SNI seemed to be arguing about something. But in completely different languages.

The group that Alex and Matias are looking at right now, is made up of about 8 Turians, 8 Batarians, 4 Salarians, 3 Asaris, 2 Varrens, and 2 Krogans, each one of them wearing standard pirate gear.

"Well, they have already made contact with you," asked Midas, who was beginning the process of transferring himself through the nano-communicators to Matías and Alex's helmets.

"Negative, we have not made contact yet, we will maintain the established position, in case hostilities start, we will open fire back. Change," said Matías, who was pointing his MX-35 through a hole in the roots. Directly at the head of a Salarian, that appears to be, who is equipped with a sniper-like weapon.

"Okay, stay put and don't shoot first, if we get into hostilities at least let them shoot first. So at least we will have the excuse that they started the hostilities" said Midas, cutting off communications but being present with them. Shepard already had the rifle ready, pointing it at who seemed to be the leader of that entire group, a Batarian with a yellow paint mark on his right shoulder pad and the side of his helmet.

Matías who could see the icon of Midas appearing in the upper left corner suddenly appear, Midas asked him "Hey, do you think you can hack them from here"

"I can try, but it will take at least 5 minutes to do it discreetly, do not shoot for the moment while that happens, we do not want the SNI to know that we are watching them," said Midas.

Alex, who had been listening to everything through his private channel, told Matías "Fine, do it then." Matías saw how the icon of Midas disappeared. Surely now you must be within the technological equipment of the SNI, or at least trying to be.

They kept looking for a while, seeing how these beings seemed to be searching the place. Seeing the ground for a specific footprint mark, Alex and Shepard have no idea what these beings are trying to do. but they can say with total certainty that they are looking for something very specific.

Alex noticing this tells Matías "Hey, you see his behavior Matías"

"Yes, I can see it, patterns of almost human behavior, you could say, looking for any trace or any specific trace of the terrain. As if they were looking for something" replied Matías, as he saw how the Leader of that group seemed to be yelling at whoever was in front of him.

Specifically another young Batarian, who was cringing from all the shouting he was getting from this leader.

Alex then says "I think they were looking for something that was inside this pod, maybe someone important or some kind of escaped prisoner. "

"I don't know, we don't know anything and now we can't make assumptions, for now, let's keep watching and see if something changes," said Matías.

They kept watching the SNI, seeing how they kept patrolling the place, looking at every part of their surroundings and glimpsing every little detail they could find. Suddenly the one they identified as the leader generated an orange hologram of his left wrist.

It seemed that he had communicated with someone, perhaps the pilot of that ship that is still parked next to that capsule, the screams of that being increased. After about 2 minutes of pure screaming of what seemed to be annoyance, the ship turned on again rising into the air again, and then disappeared in the direction of another place.

The leader turned to the rest of his group, barking something that Alex and Matías couldn't understand, but they all started to follow the leader. Surely to look for whatever was inside that capsule.

Once they left, Matías suddenly asked "Midas, did you manage to get what you wanted" In Matías ' helmet the image of Midas appeared again.

"That's right, I was able to translate a large part of the language of these beings, it was not a difficult task, compared to that of the Daemons," said Midas who appeared again on the screen.

"Well, I need you to pass everything you discovered to our helmets then, information, language, culture. Everything" Alex who was listening to all this suddenly felt that he was being watched from somewhere.

Thanks to his senses which were amplified by the helmet of his Praetor armor, he was able to hear the sound of small footsteps coming from behind them. Footsteps seemed to go at a brisk pace, possibly some animal from the fauna of this planet.

Or the other option is that it is one of the SINs that they have not yet identified or seen from that group has been deployed in a position further away from theirs. A possibility that put Alex on full alert.

The feeling of him and Matias being watched by whatever this thing is made Alex ready for any eventuality. And just when he heard that he was about 5 feet behind them, that was when Alex acted. Quick and efficient, he turned around and pointed the weapon at the head of the possible SNI that was behind them.

A little Quarian girl was hidden behind the branches of one of the trees in the area. The sudden and rapid movement of the MX-35 that was aimed at her head instantly startled the girl. Causing her to scream in fright, lose her balance, and fall toward the place where she came from.

Matías could only turn around in time to see how the Quariana girl got scared and fell backward, due to the weapon that was pointed at him. I blink several times to see if that's what just happened "...I guess that was a child SNI...right?"

"... yes, I think that was it" Saying those words, Alex gets up quickly, running towards where they saw what they think is a girl. Once they surrounded the branch from which the girl fell, they could have a better image of it.

A small Quariana, about 80 centimeters tall, wearing a black outfit, with a kind of purple flock on her head and waist, which are tightly sealed to protect her from bacteria and contaminants that could be lethal to her...

Alex and Matías could see through the purple polarized visor, small white eyes coming from inside the helmet, showing various emotions that Matías and Alex could identify. Something completely baffling for both of them.

How come they can read the expression of this SNI? Is it perhaps that this SNI has almost human features? If so, then will more beings will be easier to decipher?

The Quariana girl began to back away, scared of what Matías and Alex could do to her with their weapons in hand. Alex, seeing this reaction, pointed to the ground, dropping the weapon and allowing it to hang from him by a belt that was connected to the stock. and side rail of his MX-35, showing his hands to the SNI "Hey guys" he said through the private channel inside his helmet "you have all the information you got from that SNI, isn't it"

"Affirmative Alex, I have all the information on that SNI group that we just saw, apparently this being is known by others as Quarians" Midas said to the two, while they watched as it got up from the ground.

Matías, who lowered the rifle, pointing it at the ground, asked Midas "Can you modify our voices so that they sound like our language?"

"I can try, it will take me 2 minutes to create a program that contains the Quarian language, but it's nothing I can't handle" Midas replies

"Do it then, while we try to make the little gray girl not pee in her pants," Alex said, watching as the girl trembled in fear for both of them.

The Quarian got up now, still looking with fear at the two unknown beings that are in front of him, she has no idea what these beings are they were something she had never seen.

They have the form of the Batarians, but you see them very differently from them, she does not have the same form as them, the armor is one of the main aspects that she can see of these strange beings.

Several questions were going through the Quarian's fearful head, the possibility that she had made the first contact at this moment runs through the girl's racing mind, something completely terrifying for her. The idea of being in charge of a new race with which you had not yet made contact was downright terrifying. And now he is living it.

Possibly being the first Quarian at this time in front of these strange beings, it is something that she is wishing would never happen, in fact, she never wanted any of this.

But now it is here, possibly to be captured by these unknown beings. He was already planning to run as far away from these two unknown beings. Get away from these beings as quickly as possible.

But the gravity of this planet makes that impossible, she can feel how the force of gravity of this planet is falling under her shoulders, crushing her little by little with each passing minute. It hurts so much that she wants to scream and cry from the pain that is overwhelming her.

He just wants to go home to his dad, that's too much to ask for.

And when the girl's hopes were at their limit to accept the coming end, Alex who already received the Quarian language program suddenly said through his helmet "Hey are you alright?"

The Quarian's eyes widened instantly when she heard the native language of her race, coming from one of the beings, the one who had dropped his weapon and opened his hands to show that he had nothing, came a little closer. Surely seeing the surprise in the Quarian's eyes. Trying to take a more peaceful approach against the being.

The Quarian momentarily frozen by what she just heard, didn't complain when the alien approached. more, but this one recovered quickly. And asking in his native language the being in front of him "Wh-Stay there!" the Quarian screamed.

Alex upon hearing the words of the SNI, stood still, understanding the words of this being, thanks to the program that Midas had created to speak, understand and listen to the language of these beings. And from what he could hear from the SNI, this seems to be a girl.

A girl who seemed to be suffering from the effects of not being adapted to the gravity of this planet. She could see that she was suffering from pain, the gravity that this planet exerts on her hurts her. He has to calm her down and take her back to the Alpha base.

With that in mind he says "It's okay, I'm okay, I'm not moving" he said staying still, while he watched the Quarian continue to suffer from the gravity of this planet "You're suffering from the gravity of the planet, let us help you, you won't be able to take much If you don't adapt to the gravity of this planet, you might die from gravity in about 2 hours" Alex said, trying to sound as calm and reasonable as possible.

The Quarian being paranoid about all this, asked "Wh-why should I believe you? For all I know, you might as well give me false hope and then kill me!"

"I don't believe me, my teammates and I are confused about what is happening right now, please... let us help you," said Alex, who offered his hand, to show that he is not hostile.

The doubtful Quarian of this can't help but think that this is a trap, a lie so that she will later be kidnapped and experimented on by these unknown beings. But what other options does she have? The girl currently has no one to take care of her.

She is alone now, in this alien forest completely unknown to them, which is being invaded by pirates, and where now it seems that she encountered a species that seems, or not, to be native to this planet.

And just as this strange being said, she is suffering from the consequences of being on a planet with a gravity that is gradually crushing her. His whole body aches right now, gravity will soon crush him under his weight.

She just wants her dad to be here with her, they had separated when they were running away from those Vot pirates, and now she doesn't know where this is. But if he manages to get these beings to somehow help him save his father, then they can be together again.

But before that could happen, the other companion of the alien in front of her quickly raises her weapon, towards something behind her. The Quarian turns. His stomach dropped as he saw that the pirates were now in front of them.

Matías who quickly raised the rifle took the lead, adopting a firing position against the group of pirates that just came out of some tall bushes that were behind that SNI girl, the first to come out were the SNI that look like a dog. But with a head similar to that of an electric eel. Then 4 Turians followed him, which raised their weapons, pointing at Matías and Alex.

Alex quickly gets in front of the girl, raising the MX-35 against the Turians, but neither side opened fire. The Turians because they are not sure who these beings are. Alex and Matías to avoid any action that could trigger a war against this SNI conglomerate.

Matías said to Alex through gritted teeth "damn, this is the last thing we want right now"

"Yeah, I agree with you, if they try to do something funny, I'm going to use one of the flash grenades I carry with me, that will give us a 2-minute window to run from these SNIs. Or at least kill some" Alex said now in his language casually.

"Midas, go to the Alpha base, tell Captain Darek that we are in possible hostile contact with the SNI, to prepare the defenses in case they follow us," said Matías.

"Whatever you say, good luck guys. They'll need her," Midas said, before disconnecting from Alex and Matias' headsets, leaving the two alone with the little Quariana they now seem to be guarding.

Alex could see by a radar that is integrated into his helmet screen, that more unknown contacts are behind them, slowly beginning to surround them. Surely thinking that they would not be noticed as they moved silently through the foliage. Too bad they don't know the sonar they have equipped can locate them.

Suddenly, in the middle of the 4 Turians that had just appeared, the figure that seemed to be the leader of that group they had just seen a while ago, the Batarian with the purple mark on his armor, comes out. He stopped when he saw the two unknown armored beings.

The Batarian's mind froze instantly upon seeing these beings, the armor they wear, unlike anything he has seen from any of the other races in the citadel. They seemed to be Batarians. But they are not.

It's more they seem similar to the Drells in a certain sense, but they are not.

This is to the horror of the Batarian leader, a first contact situation, with a newly discovered race.

The Batarian seeing the Turians yelled at them "Stop you fools! don't shoot them! This seems to be a first-contact situation! " Immediately at the Batarian's words, everyone looked at each other in complete surprise at the newly developed that had just occurred.

But one of the Turians who was to the right of the Batarian asks him "Sir...then we'll let them go"

The Batarian turned to the Turian and said "No fool! Act as if we were a rescue group, these beings still can't understand us, let's take advantage of that and capture them, maybe we can get extra credits from this" The Turian, upon hearing his boss's plan, couldn't help but smile slightly at the idea of his superior.

Alex and Matías see how the bird-like being and the other four-eyed ugly were discussing something between them "Get ready, in case they try to do something, shoot the four-eyed ugly in the middle of his damn sockets if he raises that rifle," Alex said pointing a Krysae sniper rifle at a Turian.

"Consider it an honor Alex, keep an eye on those who are surrounding us right now," Matías said, watching as the Quariana girl moved closer to Alex's legs, trembling in fear at the sight of this group of armed SNI that had just arrived. I take note of this.

"I'm already on it"

Suddenly the Batarian walks towards them, raising his hands and storing the weapon on his back, magnetically tethering it to prevent it from falling off. The Batarian, seeing the two, begins to make signs of peace, to convey that he has no intention of harming them.

But the Quarian, seeing this, told Alex "Don't believe what he does! That Bosh'tet is a pirate! They assaulted our people while we were fleeing to another planet! "

The Batarian, understanding the Quarian girl, yelled something in her language, something that Matías and Alex could understand perfectly. The words that caught his ears were "Shut up you fucking rat suit!"

Alex, who still had the language program that Midas had created, said to the Batarian in his native language "Listen calmly okay" The Batarian turned and looked at Alex with wide eyes "This is a warning, stay away from us now, or we will see each other to take defensive action against you." The Varren grunted and snapped eagerly.

The Batarian recovers and says "Well, it seems that we can understand each other"

"That's right, now tell your men to move away and lower their weapons, or we will defend ourselves against you as a result of not complying with what was ordered," Matías said suddenly, pointing his weapon at the Batarian's eyes.

The pirate leader of the group, almost losing his temper at the threats that are thrown at him, says regaining control of his emotions "I'm sorry, but as you can see, we are a rescue group and we have come for that Quarian girl that you have behind you." you, so please, hand her over and we won't open fire on you" the Batarian returned the threat, the four Turians behind the Batarian still kept their sights on Alex and Matías.

"rescue party? so then Why does your rescue group need more than 27 of you to save a girl? Alex asked, looking the Batarian in the eye, then glancing sideways, seeing through his visor the bushes moving around the three of them.

"23?" asked the Batarian, as if he was confused by this "No. You are wrong, all this you see is my group"

"Oh yeah? So then Why did we detect 23 of yours surrounding us?" The Batarian's eyes widened upon hearing Matías's words. To then turn into eyes of fury, accompanied by a smile, eager to spill blood.

"Well, it seems I can drop the act now right?" suddenly, around Matthias and Alex, the rest of the group of pirates appeared, the rest of the Turians, Batarians, Asaris, Salarians, and the two large Krogans, each one of them pointing their weapons at Alex, Matias, and Alex . the Quarian.

"Damn," Alex said seeing that they were instantly surrounded in the shape of a semi-circle, Alex pointed his MX-35 to the right while Matías pointed to the left. Trying to cover all flanks. But in this situation being surrounded and with the numbers on the side of the SNI. Things look bleak for them.

The Quarian girl had stepped between them, to at least try to protect herself from what was about to happen.

The Batarian, seeing that he has these two new beings surrounded and outnumbered, cannot help but mock "Well, well... that happens for getting into things that do not concern you... now what do you think if both of you drop your weapons and we take them as slaves" a shitty grin plastered the Batarian's face.

Matías seeing that they are being outnumbered, tells Alex through the private channel in his helmet "You have the flash grenade ready"

"Yes, I have it right now" Alex who was holding his MX-35 with one hand, had the other holding a grenade, shaped like a cylinder, with glowing lines running from top to bottom, pressing a button on top of it. . Alex then tells Matías "5"

Matías, seeing that the grenade countdown is beginning, says "4"

Little by little, the pirates began to approach the three "3" says Alex

The girl Quariana now holds Alex's right leg, a youthful instinct to protect herself from what is about to happen "2" says Matías who looked down to avoid being mowed down by the grenade.

"1" Alex without further ado threw the grenade into the air, everyone saw that the grenade was lifted into the air, spinning rapidly as it rose above Alex and Matías.

And finally, the grenade activated, and the glowing lines that were from the grenade lit up like the sun, creating a light so strong that it turned night into day instantly.

All those unfortunate enough to look at the raised grenade were blinded by it, seeing nothing but darkness for a range of 5 minutes.

The Batarian yelled "KRA'TASH! I CAN NOT SEE!" he said as he closed all four eyes.

Alex quickly aims at the head of a Batarian, and as natural as it is to breathe air. Pull the trigger. The projectile which came out of the muzzle is similar to a laser, but it is a whitish blue. Traveling at extreme speeds against the pirate's head.

The projectile found no problem destroying the Batarian's kinetic shields, fragments of the semi-solid power battery's laser passing through the shield without issue, penetrating the shield's hull at high temperatures, melting hull and flesh with terrifying ease.

The second shot only destroyed the head even more of what was left, creating a perfect hole in the middle of the Batarian's four eyes.

Matías raised his rifle and shot at a Turian, penetrating its chest without much trouble, to then shoot at the head of an Asari and where its heart would be, to then shoot a Salarian twice in the head. Killing everyone instantly.

Alex fired into the abdomen and leg of one of the Krogans, causing it to scream in pain and drop to its knees from the extreme pain and heat it felt in the parts where it was shot. Alex then turns around, putting his rifle on his back and lifting Quariana off the ground, he turned to Matías saying "MATÍAS LET'S GO!"

Matías shooting at one of the Varrens who went blind, turned to Alex and shouted "GO THE WAY WE TAKE! WE WILL AMBUSH THEM!" starting to follow Alex, he ran at high speed.

The suits of both glowed white, for the same segments as before, propelling them both to a great speed, superior to that of any of the pirates could reach.

The Batarian cursed, recovering his sight, seeing how several of his people lay dead on the ground and how Alex and Matías began to run the furthest away from them, he cursed and shouted at his people "FOOLS DON'T STAND STANDING! FOLLOW THEM AND KILL THOSE DAMNED!" he said as he started to chase Alex and Matias. The other pirates began to chase them.

And the wounded Krogan began to keep up with them as well, limping as he ran from the damage from the semi-solid battery laser that ripped holes through his body. Swearing revenge on that shit I shot at him.

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10 kilometers from landing zone Alpha 1, 0750 Galactic hours, 3rd Galactic cycle

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Alex and Matías continued running for about 2 minutes, through this alien forest. Alex still kept his tight grip on the Quarian girl, holding her so as not to leave her with those unknown SNIs.

They kept running until Matías pointed to a big tree, bigger than a skyscraper 60 meters high and 55 meters wide "Let's go to that tree! We will use it to combat the SNI! "

"good!" Alex responded, turning towards that big tree, and with the help of his Praetor suit, he made a strong jump that shook the leaves around him, a jump that raised him to about 13 meters high. Using one of his hands, he grabbed onto the branches, hanging from them.

Even with the Quarian in her arms, and who is holding her with great strength, Alex tells her in her language "Hey, calm down Esan, everything will be fine."

The Quarian looks at Alex and asks "B-but how? Are they much more than you? How are we going to be okay?"

"Well Esan, all you need is to have a little faith, okay" Alex watches out of the corner of his eye as Matías began to climb the tree, without missing a beat he began to climb the tree with Matías, reaching a series of intertwined branches. if to form a large branch, bright phosphorescent yellow with red, greenish-yellow leaves.

Once they saw that the branch is strong and long enough, they began to climb on it, until they reached the tip of the branch, depositing the Quarian girl on the branch.

Matías preparing his MX-35, asks Alex "Do you still have more grenades with you?"

"I do still have the necessary grenades with me, two exo-thermal grenades," Alex said, pulling out large ones, which are shaped like conventional grenades, with blue-colored hexagons that expand a bit from the shape of the grenade.

"Well, go up a little higher, use the camouflage system you have equipped, when I say, use the grenades and blow up all the wretches you can," said Matías, as he prepared his rifle.

"Okay, let's go then." With that said, Alex heads back the way he climbed, grabbing the branches to lift himself higher.

The Quarian, then fearful of what they are about to do, asks "What, what, what's going to happen now?"

Matías looking askance at the Quariana says "That's easy Esan, we fight back, and we live to die another day"

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Location Unknown, 0759 Galactic hours, 3rd Galactic cycle.

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You see the dark again.

A complete emptiness filled the gaze of Cael's eyes, unable to see a bottom, any end of this damned emptiness that he is seeing right now.

All the pain that overwhelmed him before, seemed to have been treated or alleviated in some way, the fractures that he could feel before in his extremities and ribs no longer hurt so much, he feels relief in those parts that are hurting in those places. As if some kind of unknown medical application had been applied to it.

But one thing is sure of what he was feeling at this moment, wherever he is, he feels soft, and padded and his neck seems to be being reloaded on something soft and comfortable at the same time. And a scent that he can't discover runs through his nostrils.

wait ? _

Why can you feel as if some kind of soft, relaxing, and delicious aroma is running through your nostrils, your helmet that you have on is supposed to prevent any bacteria or germs from infecting them.

Cael's eyes suddenly opened, before his eyes he could see something that seemed to be a ceiling, made of what seemed to be branches of some kind of tree, several objects hanging from the ceiling, glowing in a peculiar yellow tone.

Cael got up, panicking but failing miserably in the process, looking back, and seeing that it looked like he was hanging in some kind of hammock, which was attached to two large logs that served as the base. It is large enough to house an adult Krogan.

Cael forgot about that and focused on the main problem, he doesn't have his helmet on. He could feel how the air touched his face, possibly now he began to suffocate from the different bacteria or germs that are in the air.

He closed his eyes, hoping that at least the suffering wouldn't be prolonged, that at least he wouldn't have to feel the agony of dying poisoned by this planet.

…

But as the seconds passed, things were not like that, he did not feel any of that, he did not feel that he was drowning in the air on this planet. It's more that it feels calmly good.

He touched his face for a moment, and what he felt still baffled him. more. He could feel that he was covered with some kind of thick liquid, he looked at his fingers and saw that it had a golden yellow color.

"...but what Vot, is it happening right now," he said, completely disconcerted, while he looked at his surroundings.

"BLASRK KARG'ON NZAR'K" a strong voice, intoning a language completely unknown to Cael's ears was heard behind him, fear flooded Cael's body. Even with all the fear coursing through his body, Cael turned away. Slowly and with great fear, to see whose voice it was.

What he saw was something massive, a being a few magnitudes larger than the Krogans. A being that is easily two heads larger than a Krogan. A reptilian-looking being, with thick golden scales on its shoulders, head, and legs.

A being with a ferocious head, with large lipless jaws with sharp, pointy teeth protruding from its short, wide, and powerful reptilian jaws. The large, piercing red eyes stared at him with something he could identify as an annoyance. Scales that protruded above the head of this being, of a red color also gave it a rather intimidating appearance.

The broad shoulders of this being are twice as muscular as a Krogan can be, with a hand with four large fingers, which can grasp a Krogan's head with no problem. And such big feet with two huge toes, which could crush him without much trouble.

The chest of the creature has softer scales of a white color, but which still reveal the enormous muscles that this being still possessed, black marks adorned the chest and face of the creature. As if it were some kind of badge. Marks that resemble claw marks were on both sides of the waist.

The garments of this being, though primitive in appearance, appear heavy enough to make a Krogan struggle to carry them. They consisted of a toga made of leather, edged with different colors, ranging from blue, yellow, and red. Wearing a necklace, made of different bones and shiny things that Cael can't identify.

On her wrists were bracelets made of metal, the one on the right completely smooth, with no sign of any imperfection, and the one on the right, with what appears to be. Feathers of some kind of purple color.

This primitive creature just looked at me with those piercing red eyes of his. And with that mouth full of teeth, capable of crushing bones with absolute ease, he said "KRO'GH NOESMAK'TARK PHOLG NUIM"

Cael could only wonder one thing in his head.

On what kind of planet have they landed on?

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TO BE CONTINUE

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Hey people, how have you been?

If I apologize for not posting earlier, in any of the stories I have on my profile.

But lately, I have been overloaded with university work and projects that have been commissioned from us.

And now I'm dealing with every college boy's nightmare.

The thesis.

So don't be surprised that there aren't updates more often.

But leaving aside the headaches, I have to tell you, that the description of the last being they saw. It is inspired by one of the characters from the old classic Xbox video game.

Brute force, look for a character called Brutus, and you will see that he tried to make a description that resembled his race.

With nothing more to say, see you next time.

: V