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Mass Effect: The Helldiver Saga, Alpha Origins	By : Veyron722skyhook Category: +M through R > Mass Effect Views: 6171 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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My apologies again that you had a to wait a while for this. It took a little bit longer to write than I thought it would. The end result though seems fine to me.

My college course will be ending in a few weeks, which should mean I'll have plenty of time on my hands. In the meantime, hope you enjoy. Apologies if it is a bit short, but the humour should make up for it.

YEAR 1, The Formation of Alpha

2173: 1 month after the battle of Elysium

15 Years Before the Battle of Arkadia

"So there we were. A new unlikely band of the best of the best. Looking back now, those missions were nothing compared to the way harder stuff. But at the time, things were very different. Helldiver technology wasn't on its proper feet yet, and we had much to learn about each other. Certainly one of our later mission that I think sticks out was when we were sent on a recon mission. That one was the first of the game changers."

Chapter 3

Invisible Predators

A week had passed since Alpha's first mission. That was all it had taken for the squad to become settled with each other. Most of them had a very basic friendship with each. Some were still a bit reclusive, but were at least now comfortable with woking with the others. Not perfect, but it was better than nothing.

Right now, Alpha had some free time on their hands. Austin, Alaara, Sandra and Dash were currently using the gym equipment while the others tended to some of their newest gear.

While Austin was doing pull ups, Alaara had Dash's legs pressed down while he tried to do sit ups. Sandra was simply using one of the two treadmills.

"Come on, Torres. Give me five more." Alaara demanded.

"I can't." Dash panted.

"Five more!"

"No."

"Five more, and I'll go naked." said Alaara.

To the Asari's amusement, that did the trick. Dash almsot immediately hauled himself up and resumed the sit ups.

"1… 2…" As he attempted their first one however, he only got halfway before stopping. "Two and a half…"

The tiredness, soarness of his muscles and pain eventually proved too much and he gave up, letting himself fall back onto his back.

"Okay, just flash me." Dash panted.

Alaara sighed and very briefly lifted up her half top, showing her breasts for a split second before hiding them again.

"Honestly. You're a scout who runs a lot, you ought to be pretty fit." said Alaara, still somewhat disappointed that Dash hadn't managed the target.

"I'm built for speed, not muscle." Dash panted as he sat up then got to his feet. "I'm not Shepard, that's for sure."

Austin had now changed to bench presses and was lifting the massive weights. His french cut had now gorwn out even more since last time. He always kept it neatly trimmed at exactly 3mms. After all, he didn't want a fully grown beard. Just a very faint one. He had to admit, it suited him rather well. It even fooled some into thinking he was much older.

As Austin continued to lift the weight, Alaara was uanble to deny that the sight of him hot and sweatign like that as his muscles flexed turned her on a lot.

"Oh, just the sight of those muscles turns me on." she sighed.

"You know he's gonna turn you down. He doesn't believe in sleeping with his own squad." Sandra panted as continued running.

"He slept with a female Turian. What's so wrong about me?" Alaara asked as stepped onto the treadmill next to Sandra's and started it up.

"Maybe he's just new to the whole flirting with aliens thing." Sandra shrugged.

"I guess."

Dash meanwhile took a moment to wipe some of the sweat from his brow using a towel.

"Is it just me, or have you gained some weight?" he asked as he watched Sandra run.

"It's called upper body strength, Dash. Get a girlfriend." Sandra sighed.

"Wish it were that easy."

The Scout decided he'd call it a day and went to joint he others who were mostly in their armour.

"She working you hard?" said Leena as she worked on incorporating some of the new tech into Kraan's armour.

"Like you wouldn't believe." Dash panted. He finally lay down and let a long loud sigh. "Ever since Shepard made Alaara second in command she's become a right…"

Before he could finish however, a light biotic warp suddenly hit him and caused him to fall of the bench he'd just been resting. Kraan almost immediately burst out laughing.

"Hey!" Dash yelled as he picked himself up.

"Don't make me force you to do more." said Alaara.

Dash simply lay back down again and kept his mouth shut. As the running continued, Alaara found her clothes already starting to get sticky from the sweat. Eventually, she pulled off her top and took several breaths.

"Do you have too?" Sandra sighed.

The fact that Alaara wasn't afraid at all of being naked among her friends was sometimes a distracting issue, especially for the men. For the other two women, it was more embarrassing.

"I'm sweaty." Alaara shrugged. "Besides, you don't hear Shepard complaining."

"Alaara, put your top back on, now." Austin simply replied, not even lifting his head as he continued with his weightlifting.

"Spoilsport." Alaara muttered as she slid her top back on.

"I heard that!"

Back with the others meanwhile, Leena was just finishing up while Kraan and Ventra appeared to be having a little debate on a new gun int he market.

"Big gun, it's all I'm saying." said Kraan.

"I figure it's the better deal though with extra ammo and less recoil." Ventra shrugged, shifting his gaze back and forth between the Krogan and his bow as he made some small modifications.

"Packs less punch though. Not as fun."

"That should do it." said Leena as she finished her work.

"Don't need that extra ammo capacity." said Kraan as he slowly stood up.

"I'm just saying, she's the better deal." Ventra replied.

"Try it now." said Leena.

Within just a few seconds, Kraan seemed to vanish from sight.

Leena crossed her arms and nodded. Looked like it was working.

The Arkanes had long been trying to develop a cloaking device for their soldiers to use. Due to the huge amount of complications and challenges they'd run into while developing it, it had only recently been finished, and although it was stable it wasn't perfect.

At that moment, a woman suddenly walked in. She had platinum blonde hair and richly tanned skin. She was also dressed in a pilot's uniform, specifically the uniform of dropship pilots.

Austin noticed her just as he finished his last pull up.

"Commander Shepard?" she asked.

"Ah. You must be our new pilot." Austin panted as he grabbed a towel and wiped the sewat from hsi face.

"Alexa Brenin." said the woman as she extended her hand and Austin shook it.

"Good to meet you." he said. Alexa then handed him a datapad. "What's this?"

"New orders from the Council. They're deploying you to another slaver base. For now, it's just recon." Alex explained.

"Sounds like workout's over then." Austin shrugged.

Hearing this, Alaara and Sandra both turned off their treadmills.

"How long does your team need?" Alex asked.

"'Bout five minutes."

As Alex looked around, she was just able to make out the cloaked figures of some of Alpha as they tried out their new tech.

"So they actually got those working. Not bad." she said impressively.

"Yeah. Works fine until you try and move too fast in it." said Ventra, making a quick sharp movement to prove his point. His cloaked quickly deactivated and he appeared out of thin air.

"Who's this?" Leena asked.

"Our new dropship pilot."

"So this is Alpha? You certainly match what they say about you." said Alex.

"We became famous and I didn't know about it?" Dash joked.

"That's not what I meant."

"I know. I know."

"So, what've got today, boss?" Alaara asked.

"Another Batarian base. No slaves this time. For now, we simply recon the area. Details are in the briefs." Austin replied as he handed datapads to everyone.

"With this stuff? Walk in the park. The least they could do is give us a challenge." said Dash confidently.

"Wish I'd eaten sooner. I'm gonna get cranky while on this mission." Kraan groaned.

This time the Batrain base was right beside the sea of the planet they were on. Not a bad view since the sun had just come out. Too bad Alpha wasn't here for a holiday however. They had a job to do. No time to admire the view.

One lone Batarain sentry was stationed on the beach right next to the water, patrolling the area.

As he went about his business, a cloaked figure slowly broke the surface of the water. Just enough of a head slowly rose up so as not to be seen.

Ventra scanned the area from inside his helmet. For now, it was just the lone guard they needed to take care of. Once that was done, they could continue in.

Very gently, he lifted his cloaked bow out of the water and slowly drew an arrow from the quiver on his back. Sighting along the arrow, he slowly drew it back and released.

The moment the arrow fired, his cloak disabled. Fortunately, the arrow had already hit the Batarian straight int he head before he had a chance to notice.

The Turian Helldiver waited for several seconds on the off chance that another guard suddenly rung the alarm or noticed the Batarian he'd just killed. Nothing of the sort came.

Confident that the area was clear, he made a gentle follow motion with his hand, giving the all clear to the rest of his teammates.

The cloaked heads of the rest of Alpha soon joined him as they too rose out of the water ever so slowly and gently made their way onto the beach, keeping crouched down as they did so.

"Okay, everyone. Spread out and search the area. Stay out of sight and don't kill anyone out in the open." said Austin.

"Understood, Shepard."

All of Alpha went in seprate directions and began scouting out different areas of the base.

As Austin fished his sweep, he took cover behind some crates.

"What've you got for me, guys?" he asked into his comm

"18 hostiles." Sandra replied as the highlighted silhouette images appeared in everyone's helmets. "Wait, 19."

One more soon joined. This Batarian looked different to the others.

"Possible person of interest here. Run his face through the database." said Austin.

"On it." said Sandra.

Hundreds of images appeared and disappeared as the Batarian's face was matched with any known to the Arkanes. Within a few seconds, a match quickly appeared.

"Got it. Drago. One of the Batarian's leading salvers. Runs hundreds of the main operations."

"Change of plans. We're taking this guy. Alive this time, Kraan." said Austin.

"Understood." Kraan simply replied gruffly.

"Alaara, clear the path." Austin ordered.

Alaara briefly took cover behind a nearby crate to avoid the eyes of another Batarian. Despite how many of these stealth missions she'd done, she still had to try and keep her heartbeat down. Sometimes it was easy for one to forget that they were invisible.

Once the Batarain was clear, the Asari gently lined up her sights with the one in the tower. Aiming directly for the head, she quickly took the shot. The sniper fell instantly.

"Sniper down." she whispered.

She quickly continued as she followed Drago's path. All around her, her team-mates were moving slowly and silently through other areas, taking down any in the sight.

"50 Cal in sight." Ventra warned.

Alaara saw it. The large gun would indeed create problems for them if they didn't take it out.

"Alaara, take him." Austin ordered.

"Roger that." the Asari replied.

Alaara began thinking of the many ways she could handle this. The easiest and quickest way would be to simply get behind him. As the Asari made her move however, she quickly noticed something about the Batarian.

"Heads up. He's got thermals." she quickly said into her comm as she retreated back into cover. She could see the cloaked figures of the rest of Alpha also stop. Despite the cloak, that only hid Helldivers from the naked eye. Scanners and thermals could still pick them up as their suits weren't yet designed to hide body heat and pheremones. This didn't mean they were screwed of course, it only meant they would need to be more careful to avoid being spotted.

"Wait until he looks away." Austin advised.

Alaara waited, gently controlling her breathing so that she was ready to move. Once she did, she would need to be fast. One mistake and she could cost them the entire mission. After several tense seconds, the Batarian looked away.

Alaara moved swiftly. She gently snuck up behind her target and then positioned herself behind him. She aimed her rifle at his head, and pulled the trigger. The headshot did it's trick and the Batrain fell. Alaara quickly pulled the body out of sight as her cloak reengaged after it had temporarily stopped when she fired.

"You're all clear. Move up." she said.

"Good work, T'onrack." said Austin.

Drago rounded a corner and began talking to one of the guards. Alaara took cover just out of sight.

"I count 3 hostiles." she said.

"Hold your fire." Austin quickly ordered.

"Double the watch tonight. I want everything to go smoothly tonight. We've already lost a lot of slaves to the Helldivers. My superiors will have ours heads if we lose anymore tonight." Drago ordered.

"Yes, sir." the guard simply nodded.

"You guys catch that?" Sandra asked.

"Yeah. Sounds like we don't have much time." said Leena.

Drago continued his walk through the base.

"Follow him, Alaara." said Austin.

Alaara waited for a few seconds until her teammates had taken down the guards, therefore allowing her to continue after Drago. Soon the Batarain was in a wide open area. Very few guards and more than enough spots for everyone to get clear shots.

"He's in the clear. If I may be so bold, I don't think we'll get a better opportunity than this." she said.

"Agreed. Everyone, line up for sync shots. Alaara, get behind him and bag him." said Austin.

Alaara kept calm as she waited. She had little reason to be nervous about this. After all, she'd done many things like this back before she'd become a Helldiver. Things had been very different for her back then. But then they often were when one worked for the Eclipse mercs.

Alaara quickly cast these thoughts from her mind. She didn't want to think about those times. To this day, she still regretted having been one of those mercs and strived to make a difference, perhaps even hope the goddess could forgive her. Sometimes it did bother her that she never shared this with anyone, but why should she? If her tea mates suddenly found out about this, there was a good chance their trust in her would be shaken.

"Stand by to execute on my mark."

Austin's voice through the comm suddenly brought the Asari back to the task at hand. She quickly regained her composure and made her way closer to Drago, going into cover to avoid eyesight. From inside she could see the holographic lines from each of Alpha's weapons as they lined up shots.

"In position."

"In position."

"Ready."

"Standing by."

With everyone locked on, Austin began the countdown and Alaara slowly snuck up behind her target.

"3… 2… 1."

As soon as the one left Austin's mouth, everyone fired simultaneously. The second each shot hit the guards, Alaara grabbed Drago from behind and smashed his face against the wall, disorienting him before she pinned him to the ground.

"Target secure." she said, pausing quickly to check the area.

Everyone else leapt down to ground level and secured the area, keeping an eye out for more guards that might come patrolling while they secured the Batarian.

"Now... how do we get out of here without being seen?" Austin contemplated. Having Drago complicated things. They could sneak through the camp and come back the way they came. That was out of the question. The Commander's thoughts however were interrupted by Sandra.

"Shepard, I just intercepted a comm between the base and a convoy. Drago failed to report in and they know something's up. We're not gonna be able to leave with that many hostiles looking for us." she said.

"Sounds like we're going out with a big bang." said Kraan, his mode brightened now that he knew he'd get to do some heavy fighting.

"Okay. Alaara, stash him somewhere safe. Everyone else, form up on me. We'll thin out their ranks as best we can." Austin ordred. "Leena, Ventra, I want you up in that tower. Kraan, heavy weapons, Alaara biotic barriers, Dash and Sandra, you're with me."

Everyone nodded and went their separate ways.

While Leena worked on setting up a turret, Ventra scanned the area.

"So... some of the Best Batarian soldiers vs some of the best Helldivers. Who's gonna win?"

"Not them, that's for sure." said Leena coldly.

"Do you ever lighten up?" Ventra asked.

"I'm doing my job, not playing nice." said Leena.

Ventra simply sighed. It did worry him as to why Leena often acted like this. Had something happened to her in the past? He was about to ask, but the sudden arrival of two dropships interrupted him.

Some soldiers hopped out of one, while the others appears to be carrying a large folded up piece of tech.

"I have a visual on the dropships." he said.

"Looks like two squads, and... they've got a heavy mech." said said Sandra.

"Ventra, take the one the mech. Leena, you've got the other one." said Austin.

The two Helldivers lined up for their synch shots and waited for Austin's order to fire.

"Stand by to execute on my mark." said Austin. "3… 2… 1… Execute."

Both of them fired at the same time, each shot taking out it's intended target. The dropship that had already landed reamined stationary, but the one that was int he process of dropping off the heavy mech started fly and spin out of of control as the shot hit it's pilot straight in the head.

"Nicely done." Austin smiled behind his helmet as the dropship and mech crashed causing an explosion that took out at least 5 Batarians. They knew they were under attack now.

"Showtime." said Kraan.

"Silencers off everyone. This is it."

Everyone quickly unscrewed the suppressors on their weapons, except for Ventra who didn't need one because of his bow.

The whole base soon turned into a small war zone as the Batarians opened fire on Alpha. Although the Helldivers were corned, this actually worked to their advantage. They fought well as a team and every Helldiver would rather die fighting than be imprisoned.

Austin quickly risked running out int he lien of fire as he went for better cover. One shot did manage to hi him int he shoulder, but it hardly made any injury. His armour plating saw to that and at best it simply caused him to stumble for a minute.

The Helldiver quickly returned fire, cleverly taking out another dropship in the process.

Another one soon came into view. This one though looked like it was carrying something. Kraan attempted to fire some grenades at it, but they didn't' have the desired effect. The dropship's clamps quickly unlocked and dropped the large white folded top mech it had been carrying just before it retreated front he fight.

"Watch out! They just dropped off another heavy mech." said Ventra.

The mech quickly activated as it landed and unfolded.

"ONLINE!"

"This won't be easy." Sandra muttered.

"About time we got a challenge." said Dash more enthusiastically.

"We're a team, Alpha. We can take this thing." said Austin.

Many shots from Alpha simply impacted harmlessly on the mech's heavy armour plating while it opened fire on the Helldivers, forcing them all to take cover.

"ENGAGING TARGETS!"

The constant fire of the mech's guns nearly tore apart Austin's cover. He was just fortunate enough that Alaara threw up a abiotic barrier in front of him just in time, allowing him the chance he needed to fall back. Despite several more shots however, the mech still wasn't going down.

"Keep it distracted." said Leena.

The others didn't bother asking why and simply did it while the Quarian activated her cloak and very carefully snuck up behind the mech.

A sudden hit from a greened caused the mech to stagger backwards slightly, forcing Leena to back away too far. In doing so, her cloak suddenly deactivating allowing the mech to catch sight of her.

The Quarian quickly rolled to the side as the mech took a swipe at her and then tried to crush her with it's foot. Leena though was able to use this to her advantage. As the mech's foot landed, she used it to spring herself up until she'd landed on the mech's back. As the robot struggled to shake her off, she managed to cut off some of it's plating and began trying to hack it with her omni tool. Very quickly, she found what she was looking for.

"Lights out, Boshtet!" she said as she smashed her charged overlaid in to the mech's circuitry, causing it to short circuit and fall to the floor.

"Nice work, Leena." Austin panted as he gunned down the last Batarian.

"See? I..." she went to say, but was suddenly interrupted when the mech started to spark and fizz violently. "That isn't supposed to happen."

"It's gonna blow!" Dash yelled as he instantly broke into a sprint with everyone else quickly doing the same.

When the explosion finally did come, I swept everyone off their feet, literally. The explosion could only be described as essentially a miniature nuculer explosion, complete with a mushroom cloud.

Only Kraan was still on his feet due to howe heavy he was. However as he continued running, he failed to notice a large piece of metal heading right at him.

"Kraan, look out!" Ventra yelled, managing to grab hold of something to stop his rolling.

The warning came too late though. The metal hit Kraan int eh face and landed on top of pinning.

"Ouch, that had to hurt." said Alaara.

When the explosions finally died down, everyone quickly hauled the metal off of their Krogan conrad. For the moment, he just lay there, motionless.

"Is he dead?" Sandra asked with concern.

"Let's poke him and find out." Dash suggested

"Good idea." said Austin. "Dash, poke him."

Dash, having more meant it as a joke of course did not react well to this.

"WHAAA?!"

"That's an order." said Austin.

"Can't we put it to a vote?" Dash argued.

"Okay. We'll put it to a vote."

"Dash." everyone said simultaneously.

"I want a recount." Dash argued again.

Austin simply folded his arms. Despite that his helmet hid his expression, Dash could clearly tell what look the Helldiver was giving him. Austin was being serious.

With a deep sigh he very slowly and gently moved up to the unconscious Kraan. He cautiously poked the Krogan a few times. No reaction. This time he poked him even more. Still nothing.

"Yep. He's alive, but is totally out of it." the Scout sighed with relief.

"That complicates things. None of us can move him 'cause he's too heavy." said Alaara.

"Everyone, work on gathering up the bodies. We leave no evidence that we were here. Dash, try and see if you can wake him up." Austin ordered.

"You want me to wake a sleeping Krogan?" said Dash

"You want to be one trying to get him into the dropship?" Austin simply replied.

"Okaaay, let's get his helmet off!" said Dash, quickly changing his mind.

"Alex, we're ready for pickup." Austin spoke into his comm as Dash managed to deactivate Kraan's armour lockdown remove his helmet. "Be advised, we have a target as prisoner."

"Copy that. I'm on my way." Alex replied.

"Ohhhhhhh, Kranneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Time to wake uuuuuuuuuuuuupppp!" Dash called as he knelt over Kraan.

He then slapped Kraan across the face, pausing to speak in-between each slap.

"Rise and shine, Stubby!"

"Wake up!"

"Up and at'em!"

"Fine then."

"THAT'S for all the clown jokes!"

"THAT'S for never calling just to say "Hi!"

"THAT'S because I get aroused when I slap people! Haha!"

"THAT'S because I feel like it!"

"WHY!"

"WON'T!"

"YOU!"

"WAKE!"

"UP!"

"WAKE UP!"

"THAT'S because someone keeps reading these paragraphs!"

"Is it just me or as Dash sounding all the more insane these days?" Leena asked, completely dumbfounded

"THAT'S because I like slapping fleshy things with this hand!"

"THAT'S for getting more kills than me!"

"THAT'S for making me love you!"

"THAT'S for making me hate you!"

"THAT'S for never taking us to the prom!"

"THAT'S for always working late!"

"THAT'S for being tall!"

"THAT'S for being the worst gunman in bro-mance history!"

"THAT'S because I want to see if everyone will keep reading this!"

"THAT'S for all the hot gamer girls out there! Hey call me!"

"THAT'S for being a total douche!"

"THAT'S for never washing the dishes!"

"THAT'S for last year's white elephant gift! Who wants a white elephant?!"

"AND finally..."

"THAT'S because the whole setup just added five minutes of bonus reading to the best story ever devised by alien or man!"

"What the hell is he talking about?" said Ventra.

"No idea and it's probably better not to care." Austin replied.

"I guess he's not waking up." Dash shrugged.

Right as he got back up onto hsi feet however, a light goran came from Kraan and he regained consciousness. Dash quickly backed away and tried to look innocent.

"I stand corrected." he added.

"What happened? Why is my helmet off.. OW! AND WHO'S BEEN SLAPPING ME?!" said Kraan crossly.

"It was Alaara's idea!" Dash said quickly as he pointed acusedly as Alaara.

"WHAT?!" said the Asari defensively.

To everyone's surprise, Kraan simply shurgged.

"What?! You're not angry?! Okay, I confess it was me!" said Dash.

That however did not have the desired reaction from Kraan.

"Okay, Torres. I've got a new game for you. It's called "Does a human bend that way?" said Kraan as he cracked his knuckles hard. "COME HERE, YOU!"

Dash almost immeditealy took off with Kraan chasing after him

"SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!"

Austin noticed that some of the others were trying hard not to laugh at this. Sandra and Alaara especially.

"It's not funny." said Austin, trying himself to also not laugh.

"Sorry, Sir." Alaara giggled, trying to suppress her laughter.

In the end though, everyone except Austin burst out laughing. Austin did snigger though, usually his way of saying "that was very very funny."

Finally as the dropship approached, everyone regained their composure and Austin felt it best to break up the argument.

"Alright, you two. That's enough." he said sternly.

Kraan reluctantly stood down much to Dash's relief.

"We're not finished, Torres." said the Krogan through gritted teeth.

"I said I was sorry." said Dash apologetically.

This however was only met with a hard punch to the face which knocked Dash out. Kraan simply picked the unconscious scout up and carried him into the dropship as the others climbed aboard, Alaara even had to knock Drago out as well to stop his frantic struggling.

Austin simply sighed to himself as he stab back in his seat. Despite some of the drawbacks, and the fact that Kraan and Dash now had a somewhat heated rivalry, they had captured a war criminal and cleared the base. Overall, not bad.

My apologies about the Deadpool scene. Couldn't' resist the opportunity. ;)

Right, next chapter will be partly based off a film I've seen, so it should take a lot less time.

See ya soon. :)
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