*DONT OWN ANYTHING MASS EFFECT RELATED*

#Well here we are again, late again with this chapter so next time I'm not going to promise anything. Anyways I have been with away from home a week now and came home on Friday, forgot my laptop, and wasn't that keen on writing on my phone so couldn't really write that much under that time. Still, I'm fucking amazed how well the reception has been, especially on how my Highschool-dropout English arent that crappy.

Hopefully I will have another chapter done in 5 days, but no promises this time, we all saw how that turned out.

Anyways let's get back into my shitshow#

2176, November the 15th Alliance Calendar

Caleston Rift/ Balor/ Fuel Depot

"Who is Darak?". I shouted over the station alarm, I was starting to suit up again.

"The slaver trash that has been trying to take over our home". Emma shouted.

"Stop chit-chatting and man the barricades". Wiktor shouted.

Wiktor ran up to me and looked at me questioningly, "Are you with us in this?". He asked.

"Of course, have no love for slavers"- I said -" Can't really run away either". I said chuckling

Wiktor just nodded and activated his omnitool, "Here's our com-channel"- He said quickly, I joined the group but muted it instantly when I heard like 20 people speaking simultaneously -" yeah join a sub-channel", he said chuckling when he saw my expression.

"Should I just man the barricades?" I asked him.

"Yes, but let me do the talking with them". He answered.

"Talking? Thought this was a fight"- I said smiling under my helmet -" quite sad now that I don't get too throw away the trash". Wiktor chuckled at this.

"Oh a fight is going to happen"- He said -" Just wait on my mark, maybe the bastard has something important to say".

"Works for me"- I said chuckling, but soon thought about something -" Wait, what kind of ship does he have?" I asked.

"A frigate". He answered looking for my point.

"When he must have like 20 people tops, right?" I asked.

"Yeah and?" He still looked for my point.

"Then what's the problem?"- I stated more than asking -" We also have a good twenty people, I would also bet on that we have better gear, slavers aren't really that famous for their good gear. Just hear what he has to say, lock them inside here with us, and then give us the signal and we shred them". I said with a slight shrug.

"That's pretty cold, I like it". He said, giving a small chuckle.

"Well, we will be doing the slaver gene pool a favor killing these idiots"- I said -" Just say the word and I can show you something". I said with a small smile, 'This sounds like a good opportunity to properly test out this body' I thought.

We manned the barricade and stood there waiting for what would ensue, I looked to my right and saw Wiktor standing there still and calm, like he has done this multiple times in the past, 'And that he definitely has done' I thought. To his right, Jade was standing just as still and calm, same thing there both have been mercs and in Wiktors case military before that.

Nyx was standing ready on the far left with some weird looking gun, probably an asari one, Iza was nowhere to be seen but that's pretty obvious seeing that she is an Asari teen. Daniel and Javier chatted quietly but seemed quite confident in their body language, 'Probably hails from growing up on Omega' I thought. Emma was to my left, she passed back and forward and seemed anxious, well she is young and her parents have tried to keep the grim world that they surround themselves in away from her, probably good to talk with her to see what's bothering her.

"What's bothering you?". I asked her.

"Well, there is this nice new Omni-tool that I really like but can't afford"- She answered with a small chuckle -" And some bastard is trying to take away my home and maybe kill or enslave me". She said with a grim voice, 'Maybe was the wrong thing to ask, fuck that is dark".

"Sorry, was the wrong thing to ask"- I said -" Do you have any combat experience?". I asked her.

"A little, mum and dad have tried to hide me from all that shit, but I have been in some, there are always idiots that try to steal from us and here this deep in the Traverse you can't really call a cop, but before this shithead, nobody has really been that threatening for us". She answered with a small sign on the latter part.

"Good, so you know the basics: shot and cover strat?" I asked her.

"Well yeah, dad and mum have taught me a bit". She said looking confused.

"When what's the problem?"- I asked -" as your dad and I said there will be at most 20 ill-equipped idiots coming from that airlock any minute, but its more likely that the shithead is coming out with some guards to try to intimidate us with talk, when your dad gives us the signal they will be locked in here with us without any obvious cover and get shredded, It's simple".

"Well, if they attack right away then?" She asked.

"Then they will be in for a nasty surprise". I said pointedly.

Another voice could be heard from the back, "They are docking!" a female voice said.

"DON'T SPEAK THROUGH EXTERNAL SPEAKERS AND HELMETS ON PEOPLE!" Wiktor shouted, prompting the majority of the room, me included, to grab their helmets and put them on.

A strange silence ensued, no chatting between people on the com, just the breath of multiple people and the clattering of armor. Soon the silence was broken when the station shook a little and rustled, 'Seems like this Darak have arrived' I thought. The door they would arrive through hissed a little, meaning that they have started to get ready for their arrival.

"People, remember to keep quiet and wait for my signal"- Wiktor said through the com -" Understood?" This got him a lot of answers varying from "Yes sir" to a simple "Ok".

I was getting pretty restless, my right hand drumming on my Lancer, this will be my first confrontation in this universe, actually, this will be my first confrontation with hostiles that I have really prepared for, in my past life the fight we had there I died in we got ambushed, me on my third mission without the Armed Forces watching my back just having a handgun and light gear on.

But this time compared to then, I'm a fucking monster, maybe not mentally really, yeah have been in fights there knuckles and batons fly around, Somebody getting a bone broken or slashed, but that doesn't compare to getting into a genuine gunfight. I have been shooting since I was a small kid, parents on one side were hunters and shot some more illegal shit when I was a teen when being a shithead was cool in my eyes, and where I learned the most about all this were in Bootcamp. But if we don't take the last moments in my life to an account I have never been in a gunfight. We will see if my training is doing any good soon, if anything I can hopefully rely on this body to do some damage to these scum.

The airlock switched color from red to green, and a group of people stepped into our room, or maybe not people, sapient scum is a more fitting word.

The group consistent mostly by batarians, and fuck they were even more arrogant looking in real life, but the group had some turians and even a pair of salarians with them, who would have thought that my first real-life impression by both the salarians and turians species would be of some sleazy slavers/pirates, maybe that's what happens when you are this near the Terminus?

The pirates began to mumble and look at us, some of them giving me a weird look, when an even gruffer voice then Wiktors spoke up, "Well, isn't this the warm welcome I heard you humans talk about"- a batarian with an arrogant voice said, he had some sort of mat black armor, the idiot didn't even have a helmet on and I could see all his 4 eyes going over us, stopping time to time chuckling darkly, 'I think I have found out who Darak is' I thought -" I see you didn't accept my fair offer". He said locking his upper eyes with Wiktor and his other 2 eyes still tracing our line with people.

"Fair offer?"- Wiktor sneered -" Do you mean the "Get out or get flayed" offer was fair?"

"I was just putting it simple so your ape brain could understand it"- Darak said with distaste -" Still my fair offer stands, or are you all ready to die for this foolish human?" He said looking around the room.

"Can we just kill him now and be done with it?" A frustrated male voice said through the com.

"Would pay a hefty sum creds just for him to shut the fuck up". Nyx said, sounding irritated.

"Soon, Just wait for Wiktor so give the signal and we shut this idiot up for good". Jade said calmly.

I tuned out from the com chatter to take a closer look at our opposition, seemed like only Darak that had any notable gear, the other slavers/pirates had mismatching color schemes on their armor and different parts suggesting makeshift armor, their weapons wasn't the best either but still, their side had more assault rifles and shotguns than ours, most at our side just had a handgun or an smg. To be really honest, we weren't in the best spot, we had less "soldiers" and less firepower, but on the upside, we had good cover and my friends here had something to fight for, and that can be important in a fight, because without good motivation you will not fight as hard.

I took a good look again on Darak, his upper eyes were still locked with Wiktors but his lower eyes were on me now, 'The fuck is he doing?' I thought

"Krogan!"- He said -"What is your price for stepping out of the way?" He asked arrogantly, 'So he thinks I'm a krogan and doesn't really want to fight me, maybe hmmm' I thought, getting an idea.

I sent a ping to Jade for a private channel, she answered fast.

"What?" She asked quickly.

"I have a plan"- I said still having my head still to not seem suspicious -" Tell Wiktor I will talk with Darak and consider his offer, when I walk towards my ship attack them, ooh and act angry because I'm abandoning you".

"Are you sure?"- She asked -" That will put you out of cover and if you are unlucky: crossfire".

"Well, it has the chance to make a diversion and I have better armor than you people". I said.

"But your mannerism isn't like a krogans, your legs and all, but firstly do you even speak Krestnock?" She asked.

"Well, let's hope they're not that familiar with krogans, but the speaking part isn't a problem," I said signaling my VI named Zeratul.

The thing with a soundbox like the one I have in my throat to let me speak is that I can just change my voice easily and if I have the right language installed Zeratul can just auto-translate it before it comes out from my armor.

"Well krogan what's your answer?" Darak said impatiently.

"Whelp"- I said with a deep booming voice -" What's your offer?" I added dismissively, Darak looked a little taken back from this, but worse were the reactions from my side, peoples eyes were instantly on me, but soon it seemed like Jade had told the plan and it somewhat faltered. It took some moments for Darak to come up with a response.

"What do you want?" He said.

"Creds and then I won't butcher you pyjaks". I said with a booming voice and chuckled darkly.

Darak narrowed his eyes at the latter statement but didn't comment on it, 'Well seems like it's working this far'.

"5000". Darak said which made me huff.

"This whelp here"- I said, angling my shoulder against Wiktor -"Is paying me 10,000".

"Well, you aren't fighting for my creds". Darak said.

"And that's the problem, this fucking shithole for a depot have made me restless"- I growled -"15000 and I don't rip off your head right here and now". Darak was starting to get angry at my shit-talk, but soon a small grin crept across on his face.

"Deal"- He said -" After I have dealt with these apes". So he wants to backstab the backstabber, I chuckled darkly.

"So you can shoot me in the back?"- I said, still chuckling -" Creds now or ill will stay with the pyjak". I said pointing to Wiktor.

"Very well, then, come here and you will get your Pillars-damned creds". Darak said, slightly irritated. I began to walk slumped to the opening in the makeshift barricade which was up to the stomach of an average human or batarian but ending at my hip, getting the odd look from my side, meaning the depot people.

"So you are just going to leave us?" Wiktor shouted angrily, 'well hope he is acting, don't really wanna get gangbanged' I thought.

"Move". I said still with my booming voice trying to sound dismissive.

I muted my external speakers and quickly changed back to my normal voice, "After I walk away from the barricade you have a good 3 seconds of surprise before even a person that has just seen a krogan on vids can see that I'm faking". I said through the com, 'Shit, soon it comes' I thought.

"Understood". Jade called out into the com.

I came out from the opening and began to walk besides the left wall looking at Darak, it was then I saw a flashing blue disc flying 6 feet from me in the direction of the slavers, 'Shit, that's a signal' I thought beginning to dash to the nearest cover which was a doorframe simultaneously drawing my Executioner from my hip. The Overload hit the center mass of the slaver to Daraks left and I started to throw lead downrange, just shooting into the direction of Darak.

Chaos ensued, I don't really know what I did, the one thing I know is that people of both sides started shooting and a few tech attacks flying from both sides, but still it seemed like our side was the first to start shooting so my diversion seemed to work.

My Executioner started to glow red, and for a moment I just looked at it but soon realized it needed to vent, ducking to cover I drew my Lancer and I got a view of our lines, people ducking into cover and others standing up shooting, I don't really know how long I just sat there, gun in hand and a thumb up my ass, was too shocked to even register that somebody was calling out to me.

"ALEXANDER"- I could hear Nyx shouting -" ALEXANDER I COULD USE SOME HELP"- she added -" Well seems like you gotta do everything yourself". I could hear Nyx mutter through the com, this prompted me to get out of my shocked state and I peeked out from cover, sending some pebbles against a pair of slavers a little to close for my own comfort.

"Someone woke up"- Nyx said chuckling -" Next time can you please sleep when you are off the battlefield?".

"Ha ha"- I said rolling my eyes and dove back into cover -" Why does it feel like I would have been better off taking the shitstains offer?". I added waiting for my shields to recharge to full.

"Don't say that"- Nyx said -" Would you, the big bad krogan leave a scared little maiden on her own with some puny humans for protection?" She added, I just chuckled at her nonsense and peaked again out from cover to send some shots.

"I can definitely see that you aren't a little scared maiden at least". I said, getting a chuckle in response.

"Can the lovers quarrel wait to after the fight?" Emma said over the com.

"Lovers quarrel?"- Nyx said -" Nonsense, me and Alexander here are just chatting". She said and I could feel her smile from her words.

"3 PUSHING LEFT SIDE". Wiktor shouted, prompted me to tune out from our previous conversations, and peak out from cover, seeing just that, 3 people coming my way.

I took my Lancer and suppressed fire, making them stop and start to try to find some sort of cover, some of my bullets found their mark and one of the hostiles fell backward with a cloud of red coming from his throat. Now my 2 close enemies started to shoot my way and forced me back into cover.

A scream of pain could be heard over both the room and the com, with a shout from another person following soon after, "JAVIER!"- Daniel shouted, prompting my to look in their direction, seeing a hunched down Daniel sitting on top of Javier trying to stop some bleeding from his chest, suddenly Daniel stood up, gun in hand and screamed -"FUCK YOU SQUI.." his scream was stopped by a whiplash of his neck and blood flying out from the backside of his head.

'FUCK' I thought looking in shock at his body tumbling down to the floor.

"DANIEL"- Emma shouted and ran hunched down to him, -" FUCK" she said when she "finally" saw his state, somewhere here I started to tune out from all this shit happening around me, what the actual fuck Am I doing? Me, a fucking smalltown ex-con with some damn 150-year-old military training, being here in a firefight, with some fucking alien slavers for that matter in the Fucking Mass Effect universe of all places, why the fuck is this actually happening to me? Is this actually real? To this point I have had doubts about all of this, why me? There must have been more suitable people for this, NO there definitely exists or existed more suitable people for this than me, and that's is one of the reasons why I have still doubts about all of this, besides how fucking crazy all of this is. I have even now killed some damn slaver shitstain, but still, he was a sentient fucking being.

And what the actual fuck did I think with when I thought this little firefight would be clean and easy, that I would fucking carry this like some damn one-man army? Fuck, maybe in some years I will be some badass but not now, now I'm just a damn grunt with some better equipment and a fucking robot body to go with it.

Last time and the first time I fought like this I was fucking dead 10 seconds in so that doesn't really count for the battlefield.

Still, with my existential crisis and how fucking crazy all of this is, I still could hear the gunfire and shouts/screams of either pain or anger.

"Sleeping again?" I heard Nyx ask me, I looked up to her position and saw her shot towards the right side.

"Sorry, I'm kind of green to all of this big firefight stuff, personally I prefer to fight up close". I said sheepishly, remembering to send some shoots to our enemies.

"Green?"- She asked -" what does color have to do with all of this?"

"Oh Right, well it means that I'm new to this"- I said, shooting some more to show what I mean -" Haven't fought with so many before, I usually just fight alone". I said lying on the last part.

"Well, you aren't completely worthless"- She said chuckling -" Well, at least you are a good distraction".

"So the cougar is still checking me out?"- I said chuckling -" Am I going to have to run away or something to save myself?"

"If you say cougar one more time I'm going to show you what they teach you in huntress school". She said with some edge on her voice, simultaneously she sent some more shoots, which prompted me to do the same.

"Almost worth it then"- I began -" To see what all this hype is about". I finished chuckling.

"Well try it, but don't come to me after and cry about how I whooped your ass". She said with a smile through her words.

"Will reconsider my words when"- I said chuckling -"Still, haven't had a good fistfight in a while, you up?" I asked, grinning inside my helmet.

"Are you sure you aren't a krogan? Playing with death isn't something humans usually do"- She said chuckling -" And no thanks, I would just hurt your ego when". She said, still chuckling.

"Last time I checked I wasn't one at least"- I answered -" And are you sure about that? There I got some good experience at least".

"Okay, ask me again after all of this and maybe I will take you up on your offer"- She said, but in an instant, her voice changed to a more professional tone -" They are starting to push, behind you".

"Seems like I got my wish then". I said peeking fast seeing the 2 enemies from before starting to push against me with some support a few meters behind them. I started shooting against them with my Lancer but found out pretty quickly it was overheated.

Suddenly I saw a flash of blue light coming my way, and just like that my shields were eaten by a fucking overload, ducking back into cover and muttering some not so flattering things.

"WATCH OUT". Nyx shouted, I peeked quickly but was met by a gun to my face.

"FUCK YOU KR..". A masculine voice began to say but before he could finish his statement I threw a wild haymaker at his head, expecting it just to stun him.

Well, imagine my surprise when I expected a low "thump" but was rewarded with a sound that somewhat resembles if you would smash a watermelon with a baseball bat, with a low wet gurgle sprinkled into the end.

I didn't have time to even look at my kill because the other enemy snapped quite quickly out of his horrified shock, but his reaction gave me some precious moments to draw my Executioner and fire a shot into his stomach, making him hunch down in pain. I pressed the gun to his head and fired, his neck threw back and he hit the floor. I stood there confused, because I didn't really think all that much under those few moments, only relying on instinct.

"You don't have to ask me to spar anymore". Nyx said in awe, 'I know for a fact I couldn't have done a punch like that in my past' I thought disturbed by what I did moments earlier.

A bullet grazed my shoulder, effectively snapping me out of my shocked state, quickly I threw myself back into cover.

"Nyx how many?" I asked, waiting for my shields to recharge, 'Shock and self-disgust can wait until after this shit is over with'. I thought.

"Yea.."- She began -" What? Didn't really hear you". She said slightly embarrassed.

"4 batarians"- Emma said over the com, but moments later a deep crack could be heard -" Well three now, seems like mum has some fun". She said.

A ping on my Omni-tool indicated that another person joined our sub-channel, "Well she may be old, but she is reliable". Jade said.

"That harsh, speaking about yourself that way". Emma quipped.

"Was speaking about my Mattock, but kid where did you get air from?". Jade said with a tone of mock hurt.

"Anyways"- I said to try to steer the direction of the conversation to a different path -" Could you ladies be so nice and suppress those 3 idiots and so I can dash for them?" I asked.

"What are you going to do?" Jade asked.

"You see the guy here?" I said pointing to the batarian with a cracked helmet, the one that I had punched -" Seems like just dunking them works just fine, will also make a great distraction". I said casually, 'With all the shit going down, a good distraction from our side could help us a fuck ton' I thought, and yeah I do like to get up and personal, have a lot more experience hand to hand than fighting gun to gun.

"You sure?" Jade asked which I just nodded, moments later Jade started to pepper them with sand grain-sized led, or what those small shots actually are made of, but not long after Jade started both Emma and Nyx started to shoot against them too.

'Here I come' I thought simultaneously drawing my Executioner and getting ready, I jumped out from cover quickly and ran directly against their cover, which was just like what I had used this whole time, a big cargo doorway. Someone must have told them about the big fucking krogan thing running against them because when I was just a few feet from them a rusty assault rifle and a just as gruff looking batarian peeked out from cover.

But alas, I was ready with my hand cannon and had time to squeeze out a shot at him, scattering his shields. I reached for his neck and grabbing him by it, with my robot body and momentum I had from my sprint it was pretty easy to smash him into the wall, resulting in a cracking sound, if the sound was from his armor or body I didn't really know, and didn't really want to think so much about it either. But my arrival and the subsequent demise of their friend/ally left the two batarians left here "pretty" shocked, so a shot first to scatter one of thems shields and another one to pierce his chest made short work of one of them.

But this snapped the batarian left out of his shock and he began fumbling for his pistol, but his struggle was in vain because I threw a push kick to his chest, sending him against the wall and then grabbing his shoulders and throwing him to the floor. But before I could end him a dull crack threw his neck backward and red blood began pouring out.

"Ohh sorry". Nyx said with mock pity, 'So we have resorted to kill stealing?' I thought.

"You can do something else now instead of checking my ass". I said that to all three of them, but mostly to Nyx.

"Not much to look at with all that armor on". Nyx said, but moments after this our good old slavers started to notice the big bad me being a good 20 feet from them. I had to find cover really fucking quick or I would become swiss cheese in a few seconds. A shower of grains started to hail against my position and I did the most logical thing to me and just jumped to the ground with my hands over my head, but on some goddamn luck an incinerate from somewhere on our lines hit the center of the slavers shooting at me.

This gave me some time to find proper cover, and that was provided by some crates stacked in the corner of the room, so I dashed for them and hoped that my shields would hold.

I just turned the corner of the crates when I got shot in the back and my shields turned to 11 percent, 'Didn't go so bad at least'. I thought.

The following was just me being suppressed into a corner and some screams of pain from their side, or I hope at least they were bad guys.

The sound of rifles started to minimize, and the hail of fire to my position also started to falter, so I took this as my cue and peeked with my Lancer right in hand, but was met by a dead group of slavers and burn marks in their armor and floor.

I looked beyond them and saw Darak and his last men taking turns to shoot and recharge shields. I activated my Omni-tool and joined the main-channel, voices and gunfire assaulted my ears but I endured as the good boy I am.

"I'm flanking from the left, please don't shoot me". Was my great speech before I jumped back into the sub-channel.

I began to rapidly move against them, gun in hand, trying simultaneously to suppress them or get an easy kill.

I was rewarded by a raving mad Darak shooting a big glowing shot against me, 'Well fuck' and then the Carnage round slammed into me, have I told you about how glad I'm with not having any pain receptors? Because between Zeratul's now frantic voice and my backward tumble are of any indication, that would have hurt like a bitch.

I rolled out of direct fire into another peculiarly placed doorway and tried to stand up and access the damage I took from that.

When it just seemed like I got some dents and a shattered shield I was left happy to just take some potshots at them.

This took a while, maybe just 2 minutes but on the battlefield that is an eternity. We couldn't really push them with their now pretty good cover and rethought to just do the same as most of us: shoot and cover. And they couldn't really do anything more than try to rethink any direct attack of our part.

But being just five left against 16 people in fighting condition with superior terrain are just a losing battle

But if the orange tech attack flying in their direction is of any indication, I do think my first fight in this universe will be won shortly.

#Writing a Fight scene: CHECK, was fucking hard tho and still feels shitty after I rewrote parts of it. Still, hopefully this will get better/easier with time.

I'm not going to promise anything bout when the next chapter is coming.

Ohh and on another note, something cool happened: fucking Tusken1602 wrote a reply, Tusken1602 and Kat-2V was the main reason why I even started to write this shit down so that's pretty fucking cool. But if we push past the fangirling(fanboying?) the last chapter gave me a good confidence boost from all the nice feedback I got so thanks! :D

sglenn3232: I will! :)

Devon18: That's the plan at least!

ArchAngel319: She will hopefully be a recurring character ;) Anyways thanks, it means a lot for me!

SaintSmut: Thanks, can't really agree on the beautiful part of the start, still feels very shallow for me. But anyway can always come back to those parts if I feel the need to do so. Thanks a lot, I still must use google translate sometimes to translate a word I'm looking for in English, but it has gotten easier to write now and I try to write as good as I can, and that takes some time sometimes.

Cullen Walsh: Maybe

006Sam: Well they are at least possible lore-wise, if a toothbrush can use mass effect fields, a robot should also be able to use one. And well I'm western and yeah that was pretty cringe, it was my cringe at least.

Tusken1602: Thanks! :D

atchoum35: Will do!
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