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Mass Effect: The Requiem Saga: Genesis.
Volume 2.
Chapter 13.
The corpses on the spikes looked… different, now. They didn’t look human. It was covered in wires, tubes, technology that glowed with an odd blue energy, its eyes in particular. It looked like all oxygen had been sucked from its body. A husk of what it once was.
Kaidan: It’s a good place for an ambush. Keep your guard up.And then, almost a second after Kaidan said that, one of the spikes retracted, the husk moving off of the tripod with unnatural jerks and weird movements. It moaned as if it was in constant pain.
“Holy shit…”Kaidan: Oh, god! They’re still alive!Ashley: What did… what did the geth do to them?And then, with a rabid screech, the husk ran toward us like a wild animal. I nearly ran back, but when I saw the others were holding their positions, I did as well.But then I noticed… they weren’t moving. They were just kind of staying there. Almost as if they were hoping for it to stop.Kaidan: Stay back!Ashley: Hold it right there!But the husk kept moving. It didn’t understand. It didn’t know. I don’t think it knew what it was doing at all. And if it did… all it wanted was to kill.The husk lunged forward, but before it could grab either Kaidan or Ashley, I took a large step forward, whipping out my omniblade and stabbing it in the chest. I ripped the blade out, but before it completely died, it sent off a small shot of electricity, striking me and causing me to fall to my knees in pain.“Ggh…!”Kaidan: Commander!The other two husks had gotten off of their spikes, coming towards the squad. I could barely register that as my eyes were clenched shut in pain. Kaidan and Ashley let loose a barrage of gunfire, stopping the husks short in their path.Ashley: Are you okay?I grunted, getting up onto my feet.“Yeah… sorry. That hurt like a bitch.”Ashley: I could tell. We should move.And that we did. Toward the last building that looked relatively unscathed in comparison to the rest of the camp.“Check the building. Maybe there are some survivors.”Ashley: That door. It’s closed. Security lock’s engaged.“I’ll try and override it…”Kaidan and Ashley took cover on either side of the door as I went to work on this. While on leave, I had familiarized myself with the basic equipment of this new universe. Omnitools, omni-gel, most types of weapons, and how to fly a flying car. Which was particularly awesome.And then, the door opened.We burst into the room, our guns at the ready, but all we noticed were two people, a woman with short red hair and a man with brown hair. And one of them looked particularly glad to see us, her nametag read Dr. Warren, while the other one looked… not exactly here in the moment, and his nametag read Dr. Manuel.Dr. Warren: Humans! Thank the Maker!Maker? Isn’t that something from… Dragon Age? Agh. I don’t know. Whatever.Dr. Manuel: Hurry! Close the door! Before they come back!“It’s all right. You’re both safe now. We’ll take care of them if they try and come around.Dr. Warren: Thank you. I think we’ll be okay now. It looks like everyone’s gone.Ashley: Hey, I know you, you’re Dr. Warren, the one in charge of the excavation. Do you know what happened to the beacon?Dr. Warren: It was moved to the spaceport this morning. Manuel and I stayed behind to help pack up the camp. When the attack came, the marines held them off long enough for us to hide. They gave their lives to save us.Suddenly, the other doctor piped up.
Dr. Manuel: No one is saved! The age of humanity is ended. Soon, only ruin and corpses will remain.I looked at him as his eyes blinked repeatedly, almost uncontrollably. He must have broken under the circumstances… but there was something about what he was saying. Something that rung true to me. Like… a memory. A memory telling me he’s right.“What happened to him?”Dr. Warren: Manuel has a brilliant mind but he’s always been a bit… unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin.Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the detruction rushing toward us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I’m the only sane one left.Something is telling me you’re right, Dr. Manuel. I looked at him with a hard stare once again.What had he seen?Dr. Warren: I gave him an extra dose of his meds after the attack.I tore my gaze away from him to ask for more information.“What happened during the attack?”Dr. Warren sighed.Dr. Warren: It all happened so fast. One second we were gathering up our equipment. The next we were hiding in the shed while the geth swarmed the camp.Dr. Manuel: Agents of the destroyers. Bringers of darkness. Heralds of our extinction.Dr. Warren: We could hear the battle outside. Gunfire. Screams. I thought it would never end. Then, everything went quiet. We just sat there, too afraid to move. Until you came along.I scratched my cheek for a moment, thinking about what next to ask.“Any information on the beacon would be helpful.”Dr. Warren: It’s some type of data module from a galaxy-wide communications network. Remarkably well preserved. It could be the greatest scientific discovery of our lifetime! Miraculous new technologies. Groundbreaking medical advances. Who knows what secrets are locked inside?Something tells me I already know. But I can’t remember. Dammit.Dr. Manuel: We have unearthed the heart of evil. Awakened the beast. Unleashed the darkness.Dr. Warren: Manuel! Please! This isn’t the time.“Have you seen a turian around?”Dr. Manuel: I saw him! The prophet. Leader of the enemy. He was here, before the attack.Kaidan shook his head at the madman.Kaidan: That’s impossible. Nihlus was with us on The Normandy before the attack. He couldn’t have been here.Dr. Warren: I’m sorry. Manuel’s still a bit… unsettled. We haven’t seen your turian. We’ve been hiding in here since the attack.I ignored her and walked up to the doctor.“What did you see?”Dr. Warren: I assure you, he’s just-Dr. Manuel: Darkness… You don’t know… you’ll never know until it’s too late. Our lives are so fragile… we never knew it until now. You can’t stop it. Nobody can stop it. Night is falling. The darkness of eternity. You’re wasting your time. The age of humanity is over. Our extinction is inevitable. Can you hear them talking? They’re coming.Dr. Warren: Hush, Manuel. Go lie down. You’ll feel better once the medication kicks in.I looked at him as he began to mutter to himself, walking away from us. He knew something.Ashley: Come on, Commander. I’ll take us to the spaceport.~X~Nihlus took cover quickly at the spaceport, holding his assault rifle at the ready as he peeked out from the edge. He stayed put for a few moments, then burst out of cover. He leveled his gun at the figure he saw in front of him, but hesitated as he began to make its features out. It wasn’t a geth.Nihlus: Saren?A turian in faded white, grey, and silver armor with tubes and wires coming from here and there, as well as a cowl over his long fringe. A cybernetically grafted arm that looked like it had come off of a geth had replaced his entire left arm. He looked like he had cybernetic implants in his body. His plates were pale grey with white markings while his actual skin was also pale white, with searing blue eyes to top it all off. He casually turned to Nihlus.Saren: Nihlus.Nihlus let his guard down, talking to what appeared to be his old friend.Nihlus: This isn’t your mission, Saren. What are you doing here?Saren walked past Nihlus slowly, patting his shoulder lightly and reassuringly with his non-synthetic hand.Saren: The Council thought you could use some help on this one.Nihlus: I wasn’t expecting to find the geth here. The situation’s bad.Saren: Don’t worry.Saren turned around, drawing his gun silently and pointing it at the unsuspecting turian’s head.Saren: I’ve got it under control.~X~We walked up the top of the hill when we heard a loud machine roar.“Holy shit…”Kaidan: What is that? Off in the distance.Ashley: it a ship… Look at the size of it!There, behind the spaceport, stood the same ship we had seen on the distress call coming out of the clouds. The ship’s design resembled a mollusk of some sort. It glowed and pulsed with red energy, making that same roaring machine noise that had shook me to the core earlier. It stayed there, as if to watch us, attacking at something on the ground we couldn’t see. It… it was terrifying.And I still had that feeling of familiarity that I didn’t understand. I wanted to kill it... I knew it was dangerous, but not only because of what it did, but because of what I knew it could do.I know I know it from somewhere… but I had forgotten it. Damn it. Damn it!Kaidan: Commander? Are you all right?I was taken out of my own thoughts by Kaidan grabbing my arm.“Oh… uh… yeah Yeah, let’s go.”But suddenly, a laser shot past my head.“Whoa!”We all ducked down into cover, seeing that there were geth and husks moving in.“Defensive positions, don’t move forward. Just pick ‘em off from here!”Ashley began to shoot at the Geth soldiers who tried to make it up the hill, however, she had missed three husks that had come toward us. Kaidan was able to knock back one with a warp blast, but the last two got close enough to where I was in cover where it was in distance.So I sprang to my feet, using my assault rifle to wrap around the husk’s head, slamming it into the waist high cover. I raised the rifle above myself and then slammed it back down, caving the husk’s head in. I then jumped back as the electricity fired from it.The final one jumped at me again, but I fell to one knee, grabbed the husk by its shoulder, and shot a concussive shot into its chest, blowing it back into the air, killing it.By that time, the last of the enemies had been taken out, so we made it onto the spaceport to see someone familiar lying on the ground.Kaidan: That’s Nihlus, Commander…“Oh shit.”We ran up to the body on the ground and Kaidan immediately checked his pulse. I noticed a slight cut in the back of his head as well as one part of his fringe had broken off.Kaidan: Commander…I looked at Kaidan who was sighing in relief.Kaidan: He’s alive.To Be Continued…While AFF and its agents attempt to remove all illegal works from the site as quickly and thoroughly as possible, there is always the possibility that some submissions may be overlooked or dismissed in error. The AFF system includes a rigorous and complex abuse control system in order to prevent improper use of the AFF service, and we hope that its deployment indicates a good-faith effort to eliminate any illegal material on the site in a fair and unbiased manner. This abuse control system is run in accordance with the strict guidelines specified above.
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