A/N: This is my first fanfic, so please constructive reviews, k?
Disclaimer: I don't own Mass effect or Halo :(
Chapter 1 - Reveille
"Hey, wake up!" a voice said.
"Well, He doesn't has any physical injuries and his vital signs are normal Commander", another voice said.
The Soldier stirred. He slowly opened his eyes and saw three people bent over, looking at him two women and a man.
"You okay?" A woman in black armor said offering a hand to him. Rookie took her hand and stood up feeling dizziness over his head, he slowly stood up looking at the three people who woke him up and then to his surroundings...Red sky, rocky landscape, a few buildings in the distance...there is an eerie silence in this place.
'What the hell?' the Soldier thought, 'How did I end up here?'
"Do you know him Williams?" the man asked to a white armored woman.
The white armored woman shook her head and said, "No, I don't recognize him...and I don't remember anyone wearing that kind of armor in my squad".
"Who are you?", asked the woman who helped him up.
"Lance Corporal J**** D**** ODST"
"I am Commander Shepard, this is Staff Lieutenant Kaidan Alenko and Gunnery chief Ashley Williams", the black armored woman introduced him to the two others, "Where is the rest of your squad?"
"I don't think they're here", he replied.
"...Wait, what's an OD-"
"Take cover!" he interrupted as he saw five humanoid machine like beings pointing what looked like Rifles at their direction from a distance. Everyone dived to their nearest cover and the he prepared to fire upon the Androids when he realized he didn't had any weapons.
"Hey! I need a gun!" he shouted over the gunshots. Williams nodded and handed what looked like a pistol to him. He didn't waste any time studying the gun as he began firing rapidly towards the new hostiles, he managed to drop two of the…..Robots with energy shields, while the other three took care of the rest.
When the firefight was over, the commander walked up to him, "Damn Corporal! Perfect headshots from fifty meters with a pistol?"
He shrugged and looked at his pistol, his HUD read 'Overheated'.
'Overheated? What does that mean? Is this covenant tech? But I don't see any ammo count on my HUD, just a bar that fills up and empties as I fire the gun'
He realized he was staring at the pistol for too long.
"I think he's traumatized Commander", Lieutenant said. "Do you know where you are? And do you remember what happened to you before you were knocked unconscious?"
He shook his head.
"You are on a colony in Eden Prime and we rescued you when we saw you being carried towards one of those spikes to be impaled like rest of them by those two", the Lieutenant pointed at two dead Robots.
"What are those?" Commander Shepard asked.
"I think they're the geth", Chief Williams replied.
"The geth haven't been seen outside the Persius veil in three hundred years, what are they doing here now?" Lt. Alenko asked.
"I think they're here for the beacon", Williams replied.
"Then we can talk along the way, Right now we need to get to the beacon before the geth take it away, how are you holding up? Can you handle yourself?" Commander Shepard asked him.
The Corporal nodded.
"And Corporal? No offence, but your name is kind of hard to pronounce. Got a Nickname?" The Commander asked.
"Rookie"
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They arrived to what looked like an architectural dig site when they spotted three geth troopers. The commander ordered to stop and nodded to Lt. Alenko who nodded back. They stood up, suddenly surrounded by a bright blue aura and made an upward action with their hands. Rookie looked at the two geth wide eyed as both of them were launched in the air also surrounded by a blue aura.
'Either this is a really messed up dream or I've gone insane', Rookie thought.
"Rookie! What are you doing? Get down!" he heard Chief Williams shout.
But before he could react he felt his shoulder and arm burn as he realized he was shot and quickly dived for the nearest cover.
'Ugh! Definitely not a dream!' He thought as he sat there clutching his shoulders, he saw rest of his team gun down the remaining geth.
Chief Williams ran up to him to investigate his wounds. She stared wide eyed at Rookie as Commander Shepard walked up behind her.
"Something wrong Williams?" asked the Commander as Williams applied medi gel to Rookie's wounds.
"That geth fired a burst at him and only two shots made it through his armor….and he does not has a Kinetic barrier on him", Williams replied. At this Commander Shepard bent on him to examine him.
"You don't have a Kinetic barrier generator? Are you asking to get killed?" The Commander asked incredulously.
"Turn around, I have a spare kinetic barrier generator, and I'll install it to your suit", Williams said.
Rookie did as he was told, in about twenty seconds it was done.
"Alright, step back"
He did as he was told and-
BANG!
Williams fired a shot at him with a pistol, Rookie visibly flinched but realized that the round has bounced off some kind of barrier.
"Not really strong but it'll do for now", Williams stated.
'Huh, so a kinetic barrier is some kind of overshield, like the ones those Spartans use', Rookie thought. He started integrating it with his HUD and smiled as a blue bar appeared on it.
Shepard nodded and said, "Patch your radio to this frequency". Rookie looked as some kind of orange holographic interface activated on Shepard's hands, she tinkered her fingers on and looked up, "You don't have an omni tool do you?"
Rookie shook his head, not even bothering to ask what an omni tool was.
Shepard sighed and said,"Do you at least have a radio on that helmet?"
Rookie nodded and she held her omni tool closer to his helmet, Rookie watched in shock as his radio's frequency auto adjusted.
"Done", Shepard said
He nodded to Williams and they moved out. As they arrived at the dig site, Chief Williams ran up and examined the area.
"This is the dig site, the beacon was right here, it must have been moved", Williams said.
"By whom? Our side or the geth?" Lt. Alenko asked.
"Hard to say, maybe we should check out the research camp, it's just up ahead past the ramps", Williams replied.
"You think anyone survived the attacks?" Shepard asked.
"I dunno, maybe we should go and check it out", Williams replied.
The com crackled, "Shepard, this place got hit hard, lot of dead bodies, I'm going to investigate a spaceport up ahead meet you there"
Rookie looked at Shepard. Knowing what he meant she explained "That's Nihlus, a turian spectre, he's with us"
He hadn't understood a single word of what the 'Turian' had said over the comm.
'First the Elites, now a Turian?, Some kind of new alien?, With us?, Heh, I'm definitely going to go insane'
Shepard took point. The rest of them followed her up the ramps and they arrived at the camp.
"This place got hit hard", stated Williams.
"This is a good place for an ambush, keep your guard up", warned Alenko.
The Rookie scanned the area when he heard a metal screeching sound…and saw the corpses stand up on their own from the metal spikes.
"Oh god! They're still alive!" exclaimed Alenko.
"What did the geth do to them?" asked Williams.
Three husks started charging towards them, two were quickly gunned down but the third one managed to get close enough to rookie and sent out an electric charge, then prepared to punch him, but the Rookie was faster. He kicked the husk in the guts then fired at point blank range. He went for a closer examination of the corpse. It looked as if the organs have been replaced by synthetic machinery.
"Now we know what are those things for, turning our own dead against us", Alenko commented.
'That could have been me', he thought. 'That thing messed up my VISR!' Rookie thought and rebooted his VISR to find his mission video recorder busted.
"You okay?" asked Shepard.
He sighed and nodded to Shepard who took point again.
A single gunshot went somewhere in the distance.
"That sounded ominous", said Williams.
They took a route across the research camp when they came across an opening which Williams told that led to the spaceport.
"What is that? Off in the distance", said Alenko pointing.
"It's a ship! Look at the size of it!" exclaimed Williams.
Even the Rookie was surprised, it wasn't the biggest ship that he'd seen…but big enough that it shouldn't be that close to the ground…or hovering vertically like that.
The four soldiers saw as the giant squid like ship took off the ground and disappeared into the thick clouds. More metal screeches shook him out of his distraction as he saw more husks running at their direction and two geth troopers at a distance. He wasted no time and did short work of the husks with precision shots as the other three took out the two geth troopers. They went further towards the docks they came across a dead alien.
"Commander, it's Nihlus", said Alenko.
Rookie went closer for a better look. The new…dead alien's face had avian features, complete with some facial markings and was at least seven feet in height, it had a hole on the back on its head.
"Something's moving, over behind those crates!" said Williams pointing at some crates.
Everyone pointed their guns at its general direction.
"Wait! Don't-don't shoot! I'm one of you, I'm human!", said a man panicking as he came out of his hiding.
"Sneaking up on us like that nearly got you killed", said Shepard coolly.
"I…I hid from those creatures", said the man. "My name is Powell, I saw what happened to the turian, the other one shot him".
"I need to know how Nihlus died", said Shepard.
"The other one got here first, he was waiting when your friend showed up. He called him Saren, I think they knew each other.", said Powell. "Your friend seemed to relax, he let his guard down…and Saren killed him, shot him right in the back. I'm just lucky he didn't see me behind the crates".
"We were told that the Prothean beacon was brought here on the spaceport", said Shepard.
"It must be on the other platform, where Saren was headed", replied Powell. "I knew the beacon was trouble. Everything's gone to hell since we found it. First that damn mother ship showed up, then the attack and then this weird guy appeared out of nowhere".
"What guy?" asked Williams.
"He wore black armor and-", Powell looked wide eyed behind Shepard, "-It's HIM! The one bent over by the turian!"
Rookie just finished taking pictures of the dead turian when he realized everyone was looking at him.
"…So he just appeared out of nowhere, that's it?" asked Shepard.
"Yeah, Saren looked very interested and ordered his geth to 'store' him somewhere else", said Powell pointing at Rookie. "This is all crazy! I gotta get the hell outta here!" saying this, Powell ran away.
"You'll explain everything to me once we're done here", Commander said, "For now, we have to get to the beacon quickly, let's move out"
Shepard took point as rookie and the others followed her down the ramp to see the train station filled with geth. Rookie ran for the nearest cover and took potshots at the nearest geth trooper. When suddenly he saw a giant geth fire what looked like red hot carnage from his shotgun, the shot impacted his shield and threw him backwards. His HUD showed his shields empty.
'That's a life saver', he thought. He saw the giant geth charge towards Chief Williams. He fired his pistol at it, to the point of overheating, it didn't even take out its shields.
'This is gonna hurt', he thought as he took out his combat knife and charged towards the incoming geth. He tackled it to the ground before it reached Chief Williams. He dodged its first swing as it desperately tried to get him off itself, then it tried to ram the butt of its shotgun at his face, he blocked it with his elbow and used the other hand it to stab it in the optics. He clutched his arm as he realized he reopened his gunshot wound. Alenko walked up to him to check his wound.
Apparently, these Androids suck at CQB.
"Nice moves kid", said Alenko smiling.
"Damn…Thanks Rookie, You okay?" asked Chief Williams as she walked up to him.
Rookie nodded.
Shepard activated the train which started to move across the station. When they arrived at the last platform, they heard beeping sounds. They got off the train and came across the source of the beeping sounds – a bomb.
"Demolition charges! The geth must have planted them", said Alenko.
"Hurry - we need to find them all and shut them down!" said Williams.
Shepard nodded and said, "Rookie and Alenko, go ahead and disable the other charges I'll disable this one and regroup".
Rookie and Kaiden proceeded up the ramps towards the next demolition charge. The upper ramp was guarded by five geth troopers. Kaiden used his biotics to lift two geth from their cover, rookie took down, then kaiden pointed his omni tool at the other geth taking their shields down, rookie took them down with precision headshots. Kaiden began to disarm the nearest demo charge, Shepard and Ashley ran up ahead of them to disarm other charges, rookie proceeded to clear the last demo charge, he took out the remaining geth on the ramp.
"All clear", Rookie called on the comm.
Kaiden began to disarm the last bomb, Shepard and Ashley regrouped with them.
"All charges disabled Commander", said Kaiden as he finished disarming the bomb.
"Alright, let's get the beacon and call in the Normandy", Shepard said as she took point again.
The four soldiers proceeded towards the beacon, as they came down the ramp, they heard more metal screeches, they readied their weapons and made short work of the incoming husks.
"Beacon is secured, All clear", Ashley declared.
Rookie took a seat on one of the crates. Shepard began to call the Normandy on her comm.
"Actual working Prothean technology, unbelievable!" Kaidan exclaimed as he walked closer to the beacon.
"It didn't do anything like that when they dug it up", said Ashley and walked away.
The Prothean beacon, as those three called it was a long metal structure with green mist surrounding it. Suddenly the beacon started to pull the Lieutenant towards itself. Shepard saw this ran towards Alenko, she pulled him out of the way…and began to be pulled by the beacon herself.
Rookie started to go towards the Commander when Ashley pulled him away and said, "Don't touch her, it's too dangerous".
Rookie saw as Shepard began soaring in mid air in front of the beacon and started shaking, a moment later the beacon exploded throwing Shepard's limp body away. Rookie ran towards her to check her vitals. Her pulse was there…barely, Rookie examined and lifted her up, bridal style. He nodded to Ashley and Kaidan. He saw Kaidan frown at him.
'He's…jealous?' Rookie thought and smirked under his helmet. He walked up to them and offered Shepard's limp body to Kaidan.
Kaidan's Cheeks went red, "Oh…uh…um…You carry her", he said to Rookie who shrugged. Kaidan swore he heard Rookie and Ashley snicker under their breaths at this.
They saw The Normandy as it began to descend to their location.
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A\N: Yes, I know Rookie talked a lot in this first chapter, well he WAS kinda traumatized. This will be explained in the next chapter as soon as our Commander wakes up. Rookie will have a lot to explain to Shepard. I'll try to bring to bring him to his character ASAP i.e. the badass silent character.
And yes, Rookie's armor is superior to most, if not all the armor available in ME universe. ODST Battle armor kicks ass and most of the armor types in ME 1 look like they're made up of…well, plastic.
I haven't thought of his romance though (If he'll even have one)
Please let me know on how I can improve my writing.
Spellings, grammar and whatnot.