I don't own the mass effect
1 Week after conversion to reaper
After entering this reaper body, What did I do the entire weekend after activating the reaper body ? It's really simple: I read the reaper manual.
After all, a reaper was made to function in his core with multiple minds, not only one; it was like a supercomputer with only one processor, a complete mess. Even with the help of being inside a computer and a sharp mind, I still have to read the manual. The robotic side stopped me from forgetting the info, but still, I have to read archive for archive
And yes inside a reaper I don't need to sleep, and I don't suffer for hunger, but to put it in perspective its was like have been having to pass the page of each single page of books of science, geometry, Physics, Biology, Math, and things like that, o don't get me wrong, the powerful brain computer make miracles to calculate things one I required, but only if I have that information inside my brain so still it's tired to read all the manuals, and the secondary system that try to kill me once his job was done of well activated the reaper and connect me to the reaper body turn back to his original program that be a simple IV of maintenance only telling me what was wrong in the reaper not helping me to fix it and also traducing the texts to read to english that is helpful at least
And why don't I make the information enter my brain at once ? After all, I am inside a computer. Well, first, I don't want to lose my personality because too much info at the same time can make a mess of my brain; second, it's extremely painful and I had enough with almost be erased by a glorified antivirus system , and third, the system don't let me because it has safety systems to not corrupt the core if not sufficient minds are activated at the same time to make the flow of information more smoothly, it will not guarantee the transference of information
But because i am just one mind in the entire core, only after I read all the basic information about the reaper will I be able to have more information. To make things worse, if my homework wasn't enough, my brain defintly don't have the muscular memory to move the body of nowhere, it was the right leg that advanced, making it confused to move the first two days, where a nightmare to only get out of the crater the reaper it was like I try to move the left frontal legs, and out of nowhere, it's the right leg that advanced, making it confused to move the first two days where a nightmare to only get out of the crater the reaper was buried
And the cherry on the cake ? well, remember the attack the reaper suffered from the Leviathan ? , well turns out that damage all the fucking system, The good news not all its critics much of it can be repaired with the help of repair drones its reaper's engine after all ifs can resist centuries of the void of space, bombardment of entire civilization, a crash would not destroy it , but the bad news are the problem was three things or systems that are in critical damages turns one is the cursed communication make it impossible to communicate with nobody out of the system and this was a barren system only the relay could reach and my emitter of signal is so weak that when a message makes it to the relay it's distorted to a point It's impossible to repeat, so no repeat message can be sent, and only notification can be received like the galaxy update, thanks to that i know the batarians didn't come to the system yet so that's s great relief
But only that was the only good news of that, because the second critical system that is broken is to stabilize system of the legs that makes the reaper in land be able to walk in a stable manner without worry about crash or fall because a leg fail in his job, with this system damage my novice intent of walk makes me look like a drunker reaper when I walk, if that was possible it takes me the entire fucking weekend, so I can walk without falling to the ground again, and three and final important problems and the answer to the question of why not simple fly, the fucking internal mass effect field that let a reaper do things like flying are critical damages or depleted for the hibernation time, so I am stuck in land walking barely the field is operating to make me capable of walking
In summary, I don't have a communication system to contact other creatures or even other reapers; my mass effect fields are damaged, so there is no flying, and to make my life even worse, there is no stabilizing system for the four legs, so not even i can walk properly in this land.
But even with all of that I walk with a simile in my face or what a reaper have for face for the planet, why ? , because its beautiful it's a complete alien planet obviously its a magnificent land to see extravagant sights only be able to see it in earth in paintings of old or by IA art where before me as i walk it was
The manuals of the reaper turn out to have a repairing system in case of being alone in case i was a vanguard like sovereign or probably the escort of one, so I have now too only to find some little and irrelevant things like Samarium for fixing the mass effect reactors, Holmium to fix the stabilize system, Gadolinium to fix the breach in the hulls to make space travel feasible again, and Europium for the fucking laser system, which don't sound bad because hey i am in a fucking reaper and i can produce little microbots to fix the problem with the minerals at hand, but just a little tiny problem
And thats take us back to the present auto diary here i am walking for the surface of the planet to
Slowly and steady feeling the pressure of the planet and my reaper body the cracks in the broken hulls, feeling how the atmosphere of the planet was leaking inside my techno organic body making palpate with even feeling ghost sensation like a chill in my back, and spiky of the nonexistent hair
But out of that, it was a magic sensation what I have right now, a week ago I was just a twenty-one university student called Alex, and now I am a fucking reaper, yeah it's a damage destroyer but still being in an alien world in control with one of the most powerful body that this galaxy has to offer knowing what will happen in the greater things of the galaxy at least
It's like a fantasy of every child have with enter the books that they love and be part of the adventure, seeing sci-fi worlds, new races, with new environment that someone usually see inside a screen of a TV or a computer but here I was walking in an alien planet not only seeing it but feel it was a total new experience and I love or well I begin to see its goods side 4 hours before
Four hours before
If only I was capable of say goodbye for ones I love i wasn't of that great independent boy in my teenage with only my mother and my older brother caring for me as my prick of a father left me, my mother and my brother alone out of nowhere when I was eight, my mother made the best of efforts to take care of me and my brother and thanks of maternal family
Especially my grandpa, he … , I prefer tell him father that my biological father he takes care of me teach me stories of his old time as a builder of the town where we live, thanks to him, I have my passion for story no matter if it's a video game or an old building, it shows me how even a broken table cubers with mug have a story behind how was broken, his quality of the time that was broken and still there how taking note of little things to different a rock for a diamond
It still hurts when he died when I was eighteen, it was devastated one day he was there as any other day and the next it was as just dead only because a drunken idiot crash his car, and now I feel even worse yet because I lost the rest of my family my brother, my grandma, and specially my mother it was just out of nowhere one night i was in my bed ready to start other day and the next was here
It's take me the entire week to process this my mind hast to discriminate between my old life memory , and the information that this body gave it me it was awful, crying for the first day, latter came illusion and that's when I say the goodbye of the old life thinking that this was a dream, and after illusion came shattering when I finally process that this was not a dream but very, very real that I will not come back to my home and never again see anything of what I knew and love, coming the next part of my emotional train and the more complicated, despair
Because not only I lost everything i love and care, but also the pressure that have my position right now because I am a reaper, and reaper are specially good in indoctrination only below his old overlords the leviathans so, how I will know when my minds begin to been tainted by the indoctrination process ?, or perhaps I will not be affected because I am inside the reaper body, but that I don't know and the knowledge that I have of this universe make the things worse
I know the great context of mass effect story and if this information fall in hands of others could be catastrophic, to imagine if the catalyst knows that a human named Shepard will be the cause of the destruction of the entire reaper race ? , probably will just launch a bombardment in a young humanity and kill them before even Shepard was born, or that the assari have a prothean beacon with they, sounds drastic, but it's to let it know how changing it might be the knowledge I have its lore general not specific but still it's vital Intel of the future of this galaxy
And while I break my mind in desperately trying to formulate a plan to well live in this body in this wild galaxy I remember something , I am not the only thinking thing in this machine and definitely have more answers than i over this situation
Computer, are you here ?
It's take you a week to call me core, what happened ?
Wait, he believes that I am the entire core and not the glitch ? , could be useful to obtain information
Yeah, I had problems to fix internally and I have a question to make you
What it is ?
Can I be indoctrinated ?
You probably are talking about your conscience, well no because you are the sources of the indoctrinated pulse that slowly influence the organic inside you so you can't be affected by the same field , are you ok, or the crash make you damages in your memory system ?
Yeah, yeah something like that, and wait you said I am the source of the indoctrination process? , how's that works ?
Clearly you have damage that more of that only one answer will be enough to satisfy you, if you forget something basic I will reactivate the manuals to read it again and regain that knowledge core
Wow, this IV read fast the situation and have a solution that have more effectiveness that the organics well I will have to read the manually how much could it be
5 minutes latter
How many books are, they are hundreds, how to move the body, how to use the biotechnology components of the reaper, communication system and IF the reaper transmit, how modified bio and metallic signals of living and metal beings to indoctrinated them, and much more books are being entering inside my system
Computer ?
Yes core ?
Why are you transferred the data in books and not only send me inside of me ?
The scanner indicate that your inner system are not ready for so much information at the same time
So I have to read all the books one by one ?
Correct
Great, so now I have an existential crisis and homework better , but hey at least it's funny homework, like how to arm a laser canon , how to take controls the mind of others and wait a minute repair protocols ? , well this looks promising lets see if i can continue my stuggle later when my body doesn't have holes for all sides
Present
And thats take us back to the present auto diary here i am walking for the surface of the planet like i can waiting for detect a local deposit of minerals that can help...
Beeeep Beeep Beeep
And thats the signals i was waiting i will let the register to this point to focus on this Alex wait no i need a new name to make it more interesting this tipe of registers like some enigmatic name to make it more mysterious and besides Alex it's a name to human...
I got it Xarek it will be the code name i will use
Xarek out
Notes
Thats the second episode of this fanfict so Alex or Xarek , to make it more easy to make fluid the narrative will have an audio diary that he well talks his thinkings because solitude so if its looks like its talking to the reader its because its talking to the auto diary
After all the first chapters will be ablut Xarek , latter for the five or sext i hope i will take it for the galaxy scale
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