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Into the Unknown	By : Spiritwolf71 Category: +M through R > Mass Effect Views: 6761 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I own none of this universe the concept all belongs to Bioware, and Mass Effect I am in no way making a profit from this.

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OOC: Quick edit in the second chapter cause one of my valued readers pointed out that there are indeed Turian Biotic, and if anyone read the first chapter early on, I changed it alot

The war had left its mark on everyone. Keith did not believe that there was not a person out there that had not lost someone to the damn Reapers, except maybe the Salarians. He had lost the only person he had ever loved and cared about; he had lost the woman he was going to marry.
Casey had been a beautiful woman, inside and out. He had never forgotten how lucky he was to have found her; she made him a better person. They had met while racing for a taxi when they both opened different doors to get in. Keith’s usually response would have been to just jump and tell the other person to get out. He never really played well with others. However as he turned to do that he paused as he looked into her face.
It was not just her stunning emerald green eyes, or her beautiful shapely lips that had drawn his attention but it was something in the way she smiled at him as she sat down despite him already being in the back.
“It’s a tie,” she said with a little giggle. He had raised a brow but had been speechless, “You don’t mind?”
He recovered quickly though and looked straight ahead, “That depends on where you’re going,” he responded.
“I was heading to the Winter Garden,” She said and he turned to look at her again. That was when he realised she was wearing a lovely red dress with a single strap reaching over her left shoulder, Her blonde hair was tied up in some cute looking style he would never know the name of. That was the second he knew he wanted to know more about this woman. He could never explain why except that it was a feeling deep down. He was going in the opposite direction of the Winter garden and it was actually quite a bit out of his way.
“Sure, not a problem,” he said and smiled back to her he had instantly regretted not shaving that morning. In contrast to the lovely lady he was dressed no better than a bum, wearing a green army jacket and black pants. He had last washed his hair two days ago and he was suddenly self-conscious about how it looked. He had been drinking the night before and had planned on repeating the experience this night as well. A deter to some stuffy Theatre really would not hurt him.
She smiled again and turned to the driver. “Winter garden,” she said and activated her Omni to pay the fare. “So hi, my name is Casey.”
“Keith,” he said simply and leaned a bit away from her.
“Keith, I like that name,” she said looking at him. “Has anyone ever told you, you have wonderful eyes?”
Keith would never forget that day, or any of the days after as they got to know each other. He had never been able to figure out what a classy woman like her ever saw in a lowly grunt like him. She liked to tease him and tell him it was all about the sex, but he knew she loved him. She always made sure she told him that, as often as possible.
Keith looked to the ground now as he jammed the shovel into it, throwing the dirt onto a pile just beyond the edge. He had no idea what this planet was, but right now it was hot. He paused for a second to stretch his back and his eyes rested on the Asari he was digging the hole for. He had no idea of what her name was but she had been kind to him. She had gotten him to open up slightly while waiting for the shuttle to depart.
He hated the Asari; as a matter of fact he was not the biggest fan of anything alien. As far as he was concerned he wished that Earth had never found the Mass Effect relay. He blamed the whole relay thing for all of his family’s problems. If Humans had not found the relays his parents would not have moved to a colony planet. His father would not have been lost in the Eezo factory explosion that had pretty much wiped out a large number of his colony. His mother would not have been exposed and he would have been born a normal child.
Instead Keith had never known his parents. His father had been working in the factory that exploded and his mother died shortly after he was born. He was shipped off to some facility for the children that had survived. There he had watched as many of the other children got sick and eventually died. By he was finished his “home schooling” there had only been eight of them left. The colony had over a thousand people in it at one point.
He was only eleven when his biotics first manifested. The Alliance had started training him how to use and control them immediately. When he was eighteen he left the “School for Gifted Youngsters” and moved out into the real world. He joined the Alliance but only lasted a year before he grew tired of how the other races treated the Humans. When the alliance didn’t do anything about that he moved on to Cerberus. They had no problems taking him under their wings. They quickly set him up with level five implants and when he was ready he became one of their top agents.
For three years Keith led several different units and was involved in more acts of sabotage and espionage then he cared to even admit. It wore him down quickly. It was during his time with Cerberus he had met Casey.
He had been happy with his life and job until the Reapers showed. The whole universe had found out what the Illusive Man had been up to. Then he realized the Cerberus was not joining the Allies, they were actually working against them. This disgusted him and he and several other Cerberus officer left to join the war.
When the Asari had sat beside him he had been tempted to stand up and walk away. She turned and smiled at him and asked him if he had the time. From there they went on to discuss quite a few thing that surprised him. He was usually a more private person but talking to this woman felt so natural. He almost felt as though he was talking to Casey. He had not even known what she had done until they separated and moved onto the shuttle. It was too bad she had been killed, not that he would ever admit that to anyone.
He continued to dig in the hot sun as the others moved to empty the shuttle and take stock of what they had. He listened as they discussed the amount of food and the issue with dextro amino food. How they would have to plant more.
The Krogan seemed to be the only other one doing any of the real physical labour. He lifted the whole vending machines outside of the shuttle and ripped them open. Keith wondered what a Krogan was doing on the shuttle. They had all become scarce since the genophage was cured. He figured they were all on Tuchunka mating like bunnies. He figured it must be one hell of an orgy on the planet of Krogan.
The large alien approached him and handed him a bottle of water. He paused in his digging to take a drink.
“That hole’s only big enough for one person,” the Krogan said.
“That’s right,” Keith replied and looked up to him.
“There’s a lot more people inside the shuttle needing to be buried.”
“I really don’t give a rat’s ass about the rest of the people inside,” he replied, took another drink and set the bottle on the opposite side of the dirt pile and continued to dig. He was almost around the four foot mark.
“I don’t either human,” the Krogan said, “but we have need of the shuttle right now and it’s very hot on this planet. We don’t get them buried then it’s going to start to smell something awful.”
“Then build a fire and burn them. It might smell for a little bit but then we won’t have to worry about it.”
“And her,” He nodded to the Asari.
“I’m going to bury her, if you don’t mind.”
The Krogan looked at him for a long while longer. Usually, of all the different races he minded the Krogan the least. They were blunt and to the point and took no shit from anyone. He could admire that. They had the strength and size to back them up. This Krogan was getting on his nerves. The whole trip the large alien kept looking at him as if he wanted to kill him and Keith had done nothing to the creature. Well, he had eventually started to glare.
“Fine,” the Krogan said finally, “I like the fire idea; we’ll work on that.”
Keith looked up from the hole at the alien and nodded. He bit his lip and waited then watched as the Krogan moved off to the others. He climbed out of the hole and moved toward the deceased woman and knelt down beside her.
“Well, I guess I never got the chance to tell you just how much I hate Aliens,” He said as he picked her up and returned to the hole. “But you were different, I liked you and if you see Casey in your heaven, you remind her how much I loved her.” Gently he laid her on the earth and crossed her arms over her chest.
He looked to her for a long time, he felt as though he should do more or say more but the sad fact was all he knew was her name, Mian, not even a last name. He knew she had just entered her Matron years and that she had two children.
He would have said a prayer but he most certainly did not believe in his God let alone hers. He simply sighed, took another long drink of water, and then climbed out of the hole. He set on shoveling the dirt back into the grave, which was decidedly easier then digging it out. As he did he could see the remaining Turian and Asari starting to collect wood to build a fire. The Krogan was making some sort of housing for the blaze.
Well, he had crashed with a particularly busy little group. Too bad they were all aliens. He shook his head and moved over to one of the vending machine the Krogan had brought out and pulled out a beer. He downed it quickly and gathered another and looked over to the large body of water. Being human he thought of Earth’s lakes and oceans and wondered which this was. It certainly did look refreshing after digging for the last couple of hours.
He moved to his luggage and grabbed his duty belt and pistol. He started walking.
“Where you going human?” the Krogan called out to him
“Where ever I damn well please, Krogan,” he replied.
“You know there is work to be done.”
Keith smiled slightly to himself, “I sure do, Captain, I just really don’t care. I’m hot and tired and I’m going to go and cool myself in that big old body of water down there. Then I’m going to check out those trees over there and see if the fruit hanging from it is edible and won’t kill us because really, I don’t want to get stuck eating paste like that poor bastard,” He pointed to Laius. “Also there’s a big chunk of the satellite down there,” He squinted and pointed. “It forced us here we might as well get a good look at it.”
Tanith looked down to the water then glared at him. He could see there was going to be no love lost between them, he really did not care. Without saying any more he walked down the hill to the water.
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The water was refreshing and salty so he guessed it would be like an ocean. Which meant their water supply was now limited until they found some fresh water, maybe a river or a small lake. He was more than certain there would be at least a river somewhere. The shuttle should have water purifiers; they just needed to work on finding a water supply.
He had swum naked not worring about the others, they were either all working diligently on burning the dead or scouting. He had no towel to dry off with so instead he took a walk to the piece of the satellite he had spoken of. He strapped his gun belt on just in case and carried his clothes.
It was a large piece, larger than he had thought from where he had spotted it on the hill. It was even still smoking slightly. He reached out with a finger and touched it; it was warm but not too hot to touch. He nodded slightly; well it was certainly a piece of a satellite. He used the barrel of his pistol to move a few things around. He spotted a small black box. He knew what that was, it was the data recorder.
“Well, I bet that will catch me a pretty sum of cash if I ever get off this rock,” he said and started to work on digging it out. He used damaged parts as tools as best her could. It took a bit of time and imagination but he eventually pulled it out. It looked unharmed and he could not help but wonder what kind of information was even on it.
“Did you find something, Keith?” came Dharti’s voice. Keith stood up straight and looked to her, barely seven feet from where he stood. His mouth hung open for a bit and he looked down to his nakedness. He smiled slightly.
“No, but apparently you did,” He said all cocky, he knew he was in good shape and he knew just how endowed he was, no one said modesty was his fine trait. He leaned against the satellite.
Dharti smiled back at him “Perhaps if I was looking it would be quite a find, but as it is I am not much of a small treasure hunter.”
All he heard was small, “What, wait, small,” his anger raised quickly as he grabbed his pants and started to put them on. “I’ll have you know that I have impressed many a woman with this treasure, lady.”
“I do not doubt that,” Dharti laughed slightly, “I meant no insult.”
“Yeah well, none taken,” he retorted. When he was half dressed he looked to her as she handled the box. “Just remember who found that.”
“I am sure that would actually mean something as well if we were not all stranded on some uncharted planet together.”
“I’m not going to get anywhere being all macho with you am I?” he asked. She smiled and moved around the satellite.
“There’s a symbol here, I wonder what it means,” She said pushing at the hunk of metal. Keith thought about letting her struggle and walking away with his find.
He took a deep breath and moved to help her. “Don’t you have some sort of magical biotic traits to move this?” He asked as they both strained.
“Not all of us are adept with biotics, I’m about at the parlour trick level,” she replied. They both pushed together and the hunk of metal finally turned. Keith’s eyes widened.
“It’s kind of pretty, I wonder what kind of people made this?” Dharti said her fingers tracing over the swirling design that spread into wings.
Humans, Keith thought to himself. He knew that symbol; he had worked for that symbol. It was Alpha protocol, a research company that was only slightly better than Cerberus in their morals. He grabbed the data recorder up.
“Yeah, I wonder,” Keith echoed and took her wrist. “Come on, we should get back up with the others.”
“You’re right, it will certainly be interesting to see what kind of data is in that recorder,” the Asari said and smiled. Keith forced himself to smile back and could not help but look around, expecting to see armed troops flying out from all over at any moment.
“Yeah, no kidding,” He said simply as they made their way back to camp.
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