Shepard Quest Mk VII, Age of Revy (ME/MCU)
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Honestly, at this point I'm basically assuming everyone is looking at this and going "Okay, so we don't know where the Batarians got their Tech Upgrade package from. But we can be pretty sure whatever assembled that Tech Upgrade Package did so with the malicious intent of murdering anyone less advanced than the users on the conventional (Eezotech) tech-tree. Because god damn is it doing that."
, HOW long ago?! Oh god, I'm so old! DX
Turn 23.4 2175-Q3 For Shepard! (WAR! Part 3) April Fool's update
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Turn 23.4 2175-Q3 For Shepard! (WAR! Part 3)
Lt. Rico was the first to snap out of the collective shock everyone found themselves in at the impossibility in front of them. Shepard was here. Shepard their main inventor and a businesswoman was HERE on the front lines and the enemy no doubt knew she was here.
"Shepard get out of here!" He shouted at the mad woman who turned to look at him from her position in the sky. Her bulky power armor glowed with power along with her shoulder mounted guns and heavy weapon in her hands.
She seemed to be about to speak when suddenly a half a dozen yellow beams slammed into her side causing her shields to flare up brightly even as her shoulder mounted weapon automatically turned and unleashed what looked like a LASER in the direction of the incoming fire, sweeping its bright ruby red beam across the field cutting off the attack as soon as it started.
"Dammit, priority message to Command, Shepard is on the field, I repeat Shepard is on the field, we need immediate Evac!" Lt. Rico yelled into his comms hoping that the ships above could hear him uncaring about the Batarians potentially tapping into their comms as the object of discussion was floating above the battlefield in full view unleashing shots into the darkness. With her on the battlefield things were going to be insane as if he was the enemy he would not hesitate to do anything to get ahold of her or kill her.
"All surviving units gather at my position and bunker down, we got incoming and Shepard supporting us!" Lt Rico said as he peaked out of the trench he was in with several dozen other men and women and looked out at the land on both sides of the line. Towards the inner Batarian lines what he saw made his blood chill colder than the atmosphere on the moon as he witnessed dozens of the same power armored heavies that were taken down by Shepard followed along by thousands of the glowing blue eyed monsters behind them all charging towards their position. He looked behind him and to his relief there were only what seemed to be hundreds of regular Batarian troopers and explosive collared slave troopers and none of the monsters supporting them.
The Alliance and Paragon Security troops needed no command to immediately begin unleashing everything they had at the literal horde of enemies barreling down upon them letting loose with everything they had. Volleys of kinetic rounds poured like water while repulsor blasts focused on the larger targets or Batarian commanders seen commanding the slave forces. The enemy forces of course responded back with their own fire of kinetic rounds, yellow beams, and missiles which were mostly countered by a combination of the trench and Angel shield modules, though in truth it was the fact that Shepard was attracting most of the yellow beam weapons which probably allowed their defenses to hold against the fierce return fire. Shepard was flying through the skies, which was suspiciously not filled with anti air fire from the local defense points, and was unleashing a veritable tide of missiles from her suit while simultaneously dodging dozens of beams with sudden janky maneuvers which should be generating stress impossible for people to handle, though Shepard probably had some techno magic that solved that issue.
Her missile barrage meanwhile focused on the Batarian power armored troops as what was recognizable as Pilum fire accurately targeted their massive forms only for the cyber zombie like units to literally toss themselves in between them and the incoming missiles prematurely detonating the payloads leaving the power armor units intact. On the other hand the missile barrage using her micro missiles targeting the cyber zombies units arrived unimpeded and blasted the back of their front lines to pieces even as the twin shoulder laser gun reaped a toll upon them as well after several shots at the power armored units showed reduced effectiveness on their thick armor. That did not discourage her from turning her massive cannon of a hand held weapon onto the massive targets and punching through them with a bright beam of light which only caused the rest to focus fire on her even more preventing her from accurately aiming her deadly weapon thought it did keep them from focusing on the rest of them.
Lt Rico tossed his grenades at the front lines while firing behind him with his arm mounted smg when he noticed gunfire hitting the Batarians from the back. He smiled, seems the survivors were reaching his position, in a few minutes their several dozen had ballooned to over five hundred with several more similar sized groups bunkered down around other officers closer towards the front lines. Just when he thought they could actually hold and continue the mission while getting Shepard out Lt Rico heard a strange whine and looked up to realize they had to fall back. Approaching from deeper within Batarian lines were a trio of the same mechs which tore through their aerospace forces.
At that same moment he and every other soldier received a command to retreat and save Shepard with orbital support unavailable due to danger close. Lt. Rico cursed as he and everyone else began leaving the trenches and focusing fire on the Batarians and slave soldiers between them and the Batarian's front lines even as they kept another hand lobbing grenades, missiles, smg fire, and repulsor blasts behind them to slow down the still incoming horde which did not seem to care about their own casualties. They couldn't even bring the dead with them in their rush to fall back, with the only saving grace being the wounded retreating under their own power as their suits assisted them physically and medically.
"Shepard! We are falling back! You need to as well! Incoming mechs!" Lt Rico yelled at his comms hoping she could hear him as she killed another four power armored troops. She immediately turned to see the incoming threats and less loose another mind boggling amount of missiles like a one woman arsenal at the incoming mechs even as she began flying backwards with the rest of the troops below her.
Batarian hard suits were blasted opens as kinetic rounds pounded past their kinetic barriers and through their armor like it was not even their. Their armor nothing like the ones given to more senior members of their leadership as they were low ranking grunts. Still superior to the non four eyed lesser beings but even then their armor was still around the Citadel standards. A price they now paid as they fell like wheat before the harvester as they and their slaves were cut down en mass.
The Alliance and ParSec troops fell back in disciplined formation providing covering fire for each other with the enemies in the path of retreat melting before their combined focused fire power even as the ones behind were delayed. They began focusing fire on the cyber zombies' legs to cripple them rather than outright kill as the cyber zombies began to trip and fall over the ones in front of them. Unfortunately, things were not going as well in the air with Shepard as she unleashed another round of missiles and seemingly ran out as she kept firing her laser and energy cannon at the incoming mechs and Batarian power armored troops beneath her. Her lasers acting as point defense against the mechs' missile barrage even as she performed a dizzyingly display of maneuverability to dodge their return fire. Kinetic rounds and yellow beams rippling her shields while laser fire was dodged by mere inches to spare causing the sky to look like a strobe party.
Lt Rico looked back as he cut down a Batarian trying to reach for his own grenade with his omni blade as he witnessed one of the shoulder generator on Shepard's armor spark and emit smoke before her barrier visibly dimmed in intensity. That was not good.
The troops continued to fall back, with reinforcements gained from the other groups of survivors joining up with them on their retreat adding their firepower to stemming the enemy pursuit forces while Shepard was still occupying the majority of the enemy heavy force's attention.
'Just how many of the cyber zombie things did the Batarians make?' Lt Rico thought as he let his smg cool down and switched to his repulsor again. The wave of glowing blue eyed monsters seemed endless, no matter how many of them they brought down there always seemed to be more to take their place with the massive forms of the power armored hulks behind them a ever present threat. If it wasn't for the fact that the enemy was focused on Shepard they would be suffering horrendous casualties from those deadly yellow beam weapons they carried.
They leapt over the next trench line filled with the still cooling corpses of the Batarian defenders that tried to stop their march. Their way out was basically cleared as the defenders had left their positions to charge them deeper inside their own lines leaving the outer defenses nearly unmanned.
A bang went off behind them with Lt Rico giving a quick glance back to seeing one of the mechs dropping from the sky trailing smoke like a meteor falling upon one of the power armored units causing a explosion that wiped them both out. Nice.
With the destruction of that mech the Batarian's quickly changed tactics. How could Lt Rico tell? Because the two other mech suits immediately disengaged from Shepard and instead began blasting off towards them, firing their deadly weapons and payloads into their retreating formations. The missiles, heavy kinetic rounds, and laser fire scythed through their ranks, even their enhanced legionary shields doing little than slow down the rate at which their shields broke and armor penetrated under such intense firepower. Their progress was stopped as they had to open fire to take down the giant mechs in their midst else they slaughter them all from behind as they ran. The mechs were a constant blur of death as they rocketed among them never stopping, allowing their automated laser weapons to cut them down, never allowing them to get a clear shot at them with their own repulsors and pilums to take them down with their shots either missing entirely or only winging them causing light damage that was slowly being repaired.
Shepard immediately went after them unleashing firing down at the two mechs with both her lasers and hand held cannon causing significant damage to the two. The purpose of such vulnerability quickly evident as the power armored Batarian troops managed to land dozens of strikes against Shepard's shield causing it to break, hitting the functional shield generator shoulder blowing it off and hitting her main weapon as well causing it to explode sending Shepard dropping to the ground.
Every Batarian force on the field immediately focused in on the falling form and as if they were all of one mind immediately began advancing upon her projected impact site.
Something that they not even allow her to do as the mechs opened fire on her with their lasers destroying her repulsors in her hands and feet causing her to lack the ability to fly and was now doomed to fall. Her body impacted the ground with a audible thud as the two mechs leapt on her to secure her.
The troopers tried their best to reach her to fight over to her position, to save her, but they were swiftly overwhelmed by the tide of cyber zombies once the large power armored Batarian troopers finally focused their heavy weapons on them and quickly targeted those wearing legionary armor with the support of one of the mechs who rained death on them from above with their laser weapons bypassing their shielding. Any that tried to run were quickly gunned down by the mech's missiles and heavy kinetic cannons.
Lt. Rico gasped as a laser cut off one of his arms even as his other kept firing his smg at the mech only for a missile to be launched at him blowing him into the ground, barely alive. A cyber zombie soon came into view of his cracked helmet with a large clawed arm raised to deal the killing blow. The last thing Lt. Rico saw was the sight of Shepard being cut/dragged out of her power armor and her pulling a pin on a grenade in her hand before darkness took him.
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AN: I have no excuse, my muse finally woke up for this chapter. Thank you all for following this for so long, but the Dice Gods have finally said enough and that it was time to end. So ends the tale of The Shepard's Quest
Batarian's focused on Revy = 66 + 90 = 156
Alliance defense roll = 39 + 25 = 64
Parsec defense roll = 45 + 45 = 90
Shepard defense roll = 96 + 100 = 196
Survivor Gathering Roll = 79 + 20 = 99
Opportunity to take out local anti air? = 13 No
Support from orbit? = 27 No, too close to fire on
Break out of the defenses outside of the Batarian lines? = 1 Yes.
Alliance defense roll = 39 + 25 = 64
Parsec defense roll = 45 + 45 = 90
Shepard defense roll = 96 + 100 = 196
Survivor Gathering Roll = 79 + 20 = 99
Opportunity to take out local anti air? = 13 No
Support from orbit? = 27 No, too close to fire on
Break out of the defenses outside of the Batarian lines? = 1 Yes.
Lt. Rico was the first to snap out of the collective shock everyone found themselves in at the impossibility in front of them. Shepard was here. Shepard their main inventor and a businesswoman was HERE on the front lines and the enemy no doubt knew she was here.
"Shepard get out of here!" He shouted at the mad woman who turned to look at him from her position in the sky. Her bulky power armor glowed with power along with her shoulder mounted guns and heavy weapon in her hands.
She seemed to be about to speak when suddenly a half a dozen yellow beams slammed into her side causing her shields to flare up brightly even as her shoulder mounted weapon automatically turned and unleashed what looked like a LASER in the direction of the incoming fire, sweeping its bright ruby red beam across the field cutting off the attack as soon as it started.
"Dammit, priority message to Command, Shepard is on the field, I repeat Shepard is on the field, we need immediate Evac!" Lt. Rico yelled into his comms hoping that the ships above could hear him uncaring about the Batarians potentially tapping into their comms as the object of discussion was floating above the battlefield in full view unleashing shots into the darkness. With her on the battlefield things were going to be insane as if he was the enemy he would not hesitate to do anything to get ahold of her or kill her.
"All surviving units gather at my position and bunker down, we got incoming and Shepard supporting us!" Lt Rico said as he peaked out of the trench he was in with several dozen other men and women and looked out at the land on both sides of the line. Towards the inner Batarian lines what he saw made his blood chill colder than the atmosphere on the moon as he witnessed dozens of the same power armored heavies that were taken down by Shepard followed along by thousands of the glowing blue eyed monsters behind them all charging towards their position. He looked behind him and to his relief there were only what seemed to be hundreds of regular Batarian troopers and explosive collared slave troopers and none of the monsters supporting them.
The Alliance and Paragon Security troops needed no command to immediately begin unleashing everything they had at the literal horde of enemies barreling down upon them letting loose with everything they had. Volleys of kinetic rounds poured like water while repulsor blasts focused on the larger targets or Batarian commanders seen commanding the slave forces. The enemy forces of course responded back with their own fire of kinetic rounds, yellow beams, and missiles which were mostly countered by a combination of the trench and Angel shield modules, though in truth it was the fact that Shepard was attracting most of the yellow beam weapons which probably allowed their defenses to hold against the fierce return fire. Shepard was flying through the skies, which was suspiciously not filled with anti air fire from the local defense points, and was unleashing a veritable tide of missiles from her suit while simultaneously dodging dozens of beams with sudden janky maneuvers which should be generating stress impossible for people to handle, though Shepard probably had some techno magic that solved that issue.
Her missile barrage meanwhile focused on the Batarian power armored troops as what was recognizable as Pilum fire accurately targeted their massive forms only for the cyber zombie like units to literally toss themselves in between them and the incoming missiles prematurely detonating the payloads leaving the power armor units intact. On the other hand the missile barrage using her micro missiles targeting the cyber zombies units arrived unimpeded and blasted the back of their front lines to pieces even as the twin shoulder laser gun reaped a toll upon them as well after several shots at the power armored units showed reduced effectiveness on their thick armor. That did not discourage her from turning her massive cannon of a hand held weapon onto the massive targets and punching through them with a bright beam of light which only caused the rest to focus fire on her even more preventing her from accurately aiming her deadly weapon thought it did keep them from focusing on the rest of them.
Lt Rico tossed his grenades at the front lines while firing behind him with his arm mounted smg when he noticed gunfire hitting the Batarians from the back. He smiled, seems the survivors were reaching his position, in a few minutes their several dozen had ballooned to over five hundred with several more similar sized groups bunkered down around other officers closer towards the front lines. Just when he thought they could actually hold and continue the mission while getting Shepard out Lt Rico heard a strange whine and looked up to realize they had to fall back. Approaching from deeper within Batarian lines were a trio of the same mechs which tore through their aerospace forces.
At that same moment he and every other soldier received a command to retreat and save Shepard with orbital support unavailable due to danger close. Lt. Rico cursed as he and everyone else began leaving the trenches and focusing fire on the Batarians and slave soldiers between them and the Batarian's front lines even as they kept another hand lobbing grenades, missiles, smg fire, and repulsor blasts behind them to slow down the still incoming horde which did not seem to care about their own casualties. They couldn't even bring the dead with them in their rush to fall back, with the only saving grace being the wounded retreating under their own power as their suits assisted them physically and medically.
"Shepard! We are falling back! You need to as well! Incoming mechs!" Lt Rico yelled at his comms hoping she could hear him as she killed another four power armored troops. She immediately turned to see the incoming threats and less loose another mind boggling amount of missiles like a one woman arsenal at the incoming mechs even as she began flying backwards with the rest of the troops below her.
Parsec + Alliance = 90 + 45 = 135
Revy = 25 + 100 = 125
Batarians = 44 + 90 = 134
Evac 1/3
Revy Wound 1/3
Revy = 25 + 100 = 125
Batarians = 44 + 90 = 134
Evac 1/3
Revy Wound 1/3
Batarian hard suits were blasted opens as kinetic rounds pounded past their kinetic barriers and through their armor like it was not even their. Their armor nothing like the ones given to more senior members of their leadership as they were low ranking grunts. Still superior to the non four eyed lesser beings but even then their armor was still around the Citadel standards. A price they now paid as they fell like wheat before the harvester as they and their slaves were cut down en mass.
The Alliance and ParSec troops fell back in disciplined formation providing covering fire for each other with the enemies in the path of retreat melting before their combined focused fire power even as the ones behind were delayed. They began focusing fire on the cyber zombies' legs to cripple them rather than outright kill as the cyber zombies began to trip and fall over the ones in front of them. Unfortunately, things were not going as well in the air with Shepard as she unleashed another round of missiles and seemingly ran out as she kept firing her laser and energy cannon at the incoming mechs and Batarian power armored troops beneath her. Her lasers acting as point defense against the mechs' missile barrage even as she performed a dizzyingly display of maneuverability to dodge their return fire. Kinetic rounds and yellow beams rippling her shields while laser fire was dodged by mere inches to spare causing the sky to look like a strobe party.
Lt Rico looked back as he cut down a Batarian trying to reach for his own grenade with his omni blade as he witnessed one of the shoulder generator on Shepard's armor spark and emit smoke before her barrier visibly dimmed in intensity. That was not good.
Parsec + Alliance = 86 + 45 = 131
Revy = 27 + 100 = 127
Batarians = 40 + 80 = 120
Evac 2/3
Revy Wound 1/3
Revy = 27 + 100 = 127
Batarians = 40 + 80 = 120
Evac 2/3
Revy Wound 1/3
The troops continued to fall back, with reinforcements gained from the other groups of survivors joining up with them on their retreat adding their firepower to stemming the enemy pursuit forces while Shepard was still occupying the majority of the enemy heavy force's attention.
'Just how many of the cyber zombie things did the Batarians make?' Lt Rico thought as he let his smg cool down and switched to his repulsor again. The wave of glowing blue eyed monsters seemed endless, no matter how many of them they brought down there always seemed to be more to take their place with the massive forms of the power armored hulks behind them a ever present threat. If it wasn't for the fact that the enemy was focused on Shepard they would be suffering horrendous casualties from those deadly yellow beam weapons they carried.
They leapt over the next trench line filled with the still cooling corpses of the Batarian defenders that tried to stop their march. Their way out was basically cleared as the defenders had left their positions to charge them deeper inside their own lines leaving the outer defenses nearly unmanned.
A bang went off behind them with Lt Rico giving a quick glance back to seeing one of the mechs dropping from the sky trailing smoke like a meteor falling upon one of the power armored units causing a explosion that wiped them both out. Nice.
Parsec + Alliance = 76 + 45 = 121
Revy = 41 + 100 = 141
Batarians = 90 + 60 = 150
Evac 2/3
Revy Wound 2/3
Revy = 41 + 100 = 141
Batarians = 90 + 60 = 150
Evac 2/3
Revy Wound 2/3
With the destruction of that mech the Batarian's quickly changed tactics. How could Lt Rico tell? Because the two other mech suits immediately disengaged from Shepard and instead began blasting off towards them, firing their deadly weapons and payloads into their retreating formations. The missiles, heavy kinetic rounds, and laser fire scythed through their ranks, even their enhanced legionary shields doing little than slow down the rate at which their shields broke and armor penetrated under such intense firepower. Their progress was stopped as they had to open fire to take down the giant mechs in their midst else they slaughter them all from behind as they ran. The mechs were a constant blur of death as they rocketed among them never stopping, allowing their automated laser weapons to cut them down, never allowing them to get a clear shot at them with their own repulsors and pilums to take them down with their shots either missing entirely or only winging them causing light damage that was slowly being repaired.
Shepard immediately went after them unleashing firing down at the two mechs with both her lasers and hand held cannon causing significant damage to the two. The purpose of such vulnerability quickly evident as the power armored Batarian troops managed to land dozens of strikes against Shepard's shield causing it to break, hitting the functional shield generator shoulder blowing it off and hitting her main weapon as well causing it to explode sending Shepard dropping to the ground.
Every Batarian force on the field immediately focused in on the falling form and as if they were all of one mind immediately began advancing upon her projected impact site.
Parsec + Alliance = 2 + 45 = 47
Revy = 1 + 100 = 101
Batarians = 100 + 60 = 160
Evac 2/3
Revy Wound 3/3
Revy = 1 + 100 = 101
Batarians = 100 + 60 = 160
Evac 2/3
Revy Wound 3/3
Something that they not even allow her to do as the mechs opened fire on her with their lasers destroying her repulsors in her hands and feet causing her to lack the ability to fly and was now doomed to fall. Her body impacted the ground with a audible thud as the two mechs leapt on her to secure her.
The troopers tried their best to reach her to fight over to her position, to save her, but they were swiftly overwhelmed by the tide of cyber zombies once the large power armored Batarian troopers finally focused their heavy weapons on them and quickly targeted those wearing legionary armor with the support of one of the mechs who rained death on them from above with their laser weapons bypassing their shielding. Any that tried to run were quickly gunned down by the mech's missiles and heavy kinetic cannons.
Lt. Rico gasped as a laser cut off one of his arms even as his other kept firing his smg at the mech only for a missile to be launched at him blowing him into the ground, barely alive. A cyber zombie soon came into view of his cracked helmet with a large clawed arm raised to deal the killing blow. The last thing Lt. Rico saw was the sight of Shepard being cut/dragged out of her power armor and her pulling a pin on a grenade in her hand before darkness took him.
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AN: I have no excuse, my muse finally woke up for this chapter. Thank you all for following this for so long, but the Dice Gods have finally said enough and that it was time to end. So ends the tale of The Shepard's Quest
This got to be a April fools prank
- Location
- Australia
....are you serious?
Edit: Oh April 1st.
Edit: Oh April 1st.
Had me for a second.
Still, looks like we need to step up our game because it almost looked like we didn't have Overwhelming Technological Advantage against our foes and that, gentlefolk, does not jive with me.
[jk] Divert Warhammer mini painting money towards research.
Turn 23.4 2175-Q3 For Shepard! (WAR! Part 3) True Update
- Location
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Turn 23.4 2175-Q3 For Shepard! (WAR! Part 3)
APRIL FOOLS! TRUE UPDATE HERE! (Only Difference in the Round 4 and Author's Notes)
Lt. Rico was the first to snap out of the collective shock everyone found themselves in at the impossibility in front of them. Shepard was here. Shepard their main inventor and a businesswoman was HERE on the front lines and the enemy no doubt knew she was here.
"Shepard get out of here!" He shouted at the mad woman who turned to look at him from her position in the sky. Her bulky power armor glowed with power along with her shoulder mounted guns and heavy weapon in her hands.
She seemed to be about to speak when suddenly a half a dozen yellow beams slammed into her side causing her shields to flare up brightly even as her shoulder mounted weapon automatically turned and unleashed what looked like a LASER in the direction of the incoming fire, sweeping its bright ruby red beam across the field cutting off the attack as soon as it started.
"Dammit, priority message to Command, Shepard is on the field, I repeat Shepard is on the field, we need immediate Evac!" Lt. Rico yelled into his comms hoping that the ships above could hear him uncaring about the Batarians potentially tapping into their comms as the object of discussion was floating above the battlefield in full view unleashing shots into the darkness. With her on the battlefield things were going to be insane as if he was the enemy he would not hesitate to do anything to get ahold of her or kill her.
"All surviving units gather at my position and bunker down, we got incoming and Shepard supporting us!" Lt Rico said as he peaked out of the trench he was in with several dozen other men and women and looked out at the land on both sides of the line. Towards the inner Batarian lines what he saw made his blood chill colder than the atmosphere on the moon as he witnessed dozens of the same power armored heavies that were taken down by Shepard followed along by thousands of the glowing blue eyed monsters behind them all charging towards their position. He looked behind him and to his relief there were only what seemed to be hundreds of regular Batarian troopers and explosive collared slave troopers and none of the monsters supporting them.
The Alliance and Paragon Security troops needed no command to immediately begin unleashing everything they had at the literal horde of enemies barreling down upon them letting loose with everything they had. Volleys of kinetic rounds poured like water while repulsor blasts focused on the larger targets or Batarian commanders seen commanding the slave forces. The enemy forces of course responded back with their own fire of kinetic rounds, yellow beams, and missiles which were mostly countered by a combination of the trench and Angel shield modules, though in truth it was the fact that Shepard was attracting most of the yellow beam weapons which probably allowed their defenses to hold against the fierce return fire. Shepard was flying through the skies, which was suspiciously not filled with anti air fire from the local defense points, and was unleashing a veritable tide of missiles from her suit while simultaneously dodging dozens of beams with sudden janky maneuvers which should be generating stress impossible for people to handle, though Shepard probably had some techno magic that solved that issue.
Her missile barrage meanwhile focused on the Batarian power armored troops as what was recognizable as Pilum fire accurately targeted their massive forms only for the cyber zombie like units to literally toss themselves in between them and the incoming missiles prematurely detonating the payloads leaving the power armor units intact. On the other hand the missile barrage using her micro missiles targeting the cyber zombies units arrived unimpeded and blasted the back of their front lines to pieces even as the twin shoulder laser gun reaped a toll upon them as well after several shots at the power armored units showed reduced effectiveness on their thick armor. That did not discourage her from turning her massive cannon of a hand held weapon onto the massive targets and punching through them with a bright beam of light which only caused the rest to focus fire on her even more preventing her from accurately aiming her deadly weapon thought it did keep them from focusing on the rest of them.
Lt Rico tossed his grenades at the front lines while firing behind him with his arm mounted smg when he noticed gunfire hitting the Batarians from the back. He smiled, seems the survivors were reaching his position, in a few minutes their several dozen had ballooned to over five hundred with several more similar sized groups bunkered down around other officers closer towards the front lines. Just when he thought they could actually hold and continue the mission while getting Shepard out Lt Rico heard a strange whine and looked up to realize they had to fall back. Approaching from deeper within Batarian lines were a trio of the same mechs which tore through their aerospace forces.
At that same moment he and every other soldier received a command to retreat and save Shepard with orbital support unavailable due to danger close. Lt. Rico cursed as he and everyone else began leaving the trenches and focusing fire on the Batarians and slave soldiers between them and the Batarian's front lines even as they kept another hand lobbing grenades, missiles, smg fire, and repulsor blasts behind them to slow down the still incoming horde which did not seem to care about their own casualties. They couldn't even bring the dead with them in their rush to fall back, with the only saving grace being the wounded retreating under their own power as their suits assisted them physically and medically.
"Shepard! We are falling back! You need to as well! Incoming mechs!" Lt Rico yelled at his comms hoping she could hear him as she killed another four power armored troops. She immediately turned to see the incoming threats and less loose another mind boggling amount of missiles like a one woman arsenal at the incoming mechs even as she began flying backwards with the rest of the troops below her.
Batarian hard suits were blasted opens as kinetic rounds pounded past their kinetic barriers and through their armor like it was not even their. Their armor nothing like the ones given to more senior members of their leadership as they were low ranking grunts. Still superior to the non four eyed lesser beings but even then their armor was still around the Citadel standards. A price they now paid as they fell like wheat before the harvester as they and their slaves were cut down en mass.
The Alliance and ParSec troops fell back in disciplined formation providing covering fire for each other with the enemies in the path of retreat melting before their combined focused fire power even as the ones behind were delayed. They began focusing fire on the cyber zombies' legs to cripple them rather than outright kill as the cyber zombies began to trip and fall over the ones in front of them. Unfortunately, things were not going as well in the air with Shepard as she unleashed another round of missiles and seemingly ran out as she kept firing her laser and energy cannon at the incoming mechs and Batarian power armored troops beneath her. Her lasers acting as point defense against the mechs' missile barrage even as she performed a dizzyingly display of maneuverability to dodge their return fire. Kinetic rounds and yellow beams rippling her shields while laser fire was dodged by mere inches to spare causing the sky to look like a strobe party.
Lt Rico looked back as he cut down a Batarian trying to reach for his own grenade with his omni blade as he witnessed one of the shoulder generator on Shepard's armor spark and emit smoke before her barrier visibly dimmed in intensity. That was not good.
The troops continued to fall back, with reinforcements gained from the other groups of survivors joining up with them on their retreat adding their firepower to stemming the enemy pursuit forces while Shepard was still occupying the majority of the enemy heavy force's attention.
'Just how many of the cyber zombie things did the Batarians make?' Lt Rico thought as he let his smg cool down and switched to his repulsor again. The wave of glowing blue eyed monsters seemed endless, no matter how many of them they brought down there always seemed to be more to take their place with the massive forms of the power armored hulks behind them a ever present threat. If it wasn't for the fact that the enemy was focused on Shepard they would be suffering horrendous casualties from those deadly yellow beam weapons they carried.
They leapt over the next trench line filled with the still cooling corpses of the Batarian defenders that tried to stop their march. Their way out was basically cleared as the defenders had left their positions to charge them deeper inside their own lines leaving the outer defenses nearly unmanned.
A bang went off behind them with Lt Rico giving a quick glance back to seeing one of the mechs dropping from the sky trailing smoke like a meteor falling upon one of the power armored units causing a explosion that wiped them both out. Nice.
With the destruction of that mech the Batarian's quickly changed tactics. How could Lt Rico tell? Because the two other mech suits immediately disengaged from Shepard and instead began blasting off towards them, firing their deadly weapons and payloads into their retreating formations. The missiles, heavy kinetic rounds, and laser fire scythed through their ranks, even their enhanced legionary shields doing little than slow down the rate at which their shields broke and armor penetrated under such intense firepower. Their progress was stopped as they had to open fire to take down the giant mechs in their midst else they slaughter them all from behind as they ran. The mechs were a constant blur of death as they rocketed among them never stopping, allowing their automated laser weapons to cut them down, never allowing them to get a clear shot at them with their own repulsors and pilums to take them down with their shots either missing entirely or only winging them causing light damage that was slowly being repaired.
Shepard immediately went after them unleashing firing down at the two mechs with both her lasers and hand held cannon causing significant damage to the two. The purpose of such vulnerability quickly evident as the power armored Batarian troops managed to land dozens of strikes against Shepard's shield causing it to break, hitting the functional shield generator shoulder blowing it off and hitting her main weapon as well causing it to explode sending Shepard dropping to the ground.
Every Batarian force on the field immediately focused in on the falling form and as if they were all of one mind immediately began advancing upon her projected impact site.
That turned out be a mistake as apparently Shepard has been hampering herself with her initial loadout of that bulky energy weapon as she deployed her hand repulsors and began flying away towards us while the repulsors' golden beams destroyed the Batarians beneath her like leaves hit by a hurricane as she swept the beams behind her. That also meant all the enemies were no longer near any of their forces and were now currently all grouped up staring at Shepard with their meat shields out of position to guard them.
As one everyone instantly raised their weapons and unleashed all their pilums and repulsors towards the mechs and power armored enemies. The missiles slamming dead onto them and blowing out their center mass with repulsors slamming them back and sometimes smashing through their armor from the combined strikes. Under so much firepower they were swiftly destroyed and the remaining cyber zombies were quickly pushed back much to everyone's relief. However, a quick look back at the Batarian lines showed another wave of enemies approaching with even more power armor among them.
They had to go. Luckily, the enemies were now too far to catch up to them and whatever left overs remaining in the front lines could no longer stop them from escaping. Unfortunately they could not retrieve their dead and judging from the new enemies that appeared that is going to be a mistake and a regret.
Lt. Rico let out a sigh of relief as they finally got out of range of the Batarian's defenses and all basically collapsed while a few took up guard duty just in case the enemies tried to sortie out after them. A quick look at Shepard showed an ugly sight. Her armor was burned, pocked marked, and damaged all over with her shoulders completely blown out. She was made of tougher stuff than he thought given she wasn't complaining about the bruises she was no doubt having under that armor or she had made some better meds which was not out of the question.
That was until one of her shoulders let out a small boom and the entire arm fell off attracting everyone's attention and panic. Lt. Rico quickly began calling for a evac ship to be sent down in a hurry until he realized that Shepard was still not panicking and that the shoulder area of the armor just revealed more machine and no flesh.
She bent down and picked up her own arm and waved it about "Don't worry guys, it's just a flesh wound!"
That raised even more questions from those around them and to top it all off now was when the Admiral finally connected to ask for a report from whoever was in command with everyone just turning to look at him.
"Why me?"
"You were the highest ranked officer in the area fighting in the beginning till now, you're intel is most complete for a quick debrief." Came the agreement from the other surviving officers higher ranked than him.
Lt. Rico wished he could take his helmet off right now so he could face palm.
*Back in Batarian Lines*
Over the dusty gray surface of the moon a Batarian walked among the dead as many of the Converted swarmed around him going towards the dead left behind by the Lesser Beings who dared to strike at their Betters. He stared down at one of the new Legionary suits now with its user dead beneath him and grinned a savage grin with his blue augmetic eyes glowing just a bit brighter.
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AN: I have no excuse, my muse finally woke up for this chapter. Sorry for the lackluster fight scenes, not really good at those still. My head is killing me and sorry for the lack of voting options, there will be some next update. you guys are so lucky I had to redo my rolls due to wrong combat mods I had initially put down or else the Batarians would have outright steamrolled over everyone, roll 90+ for everything and a nat 100 at the end against Shepard. Only reason it was not a insta loss was because they wanted Shepard alive.
APRIL FOOLS! TRUE UPDATE HERE! (Only Difference in the Round 4 and Author's Notes)
Batarian's focused on Revy = 66 + 90 = 156
Alliance defense roll = 39 + 25 = 64
Parsec defense roll = 45 + 45 = 90
Shepard defense roll = 96 + 100 = 196
Survivor Gathering Roll = 79 + 20 = 99
Opportunity to take out local anti air? = 13 No
Support from orbit? = 27 No, too close to fire on
Break out of the defenses outside of the Batarian lines? = 1 Yes.
Alliance defense roll = 39 + 25 = 64
Parsec defense roll = 45 + 45 = 90
Shepard defense roll = 96 + 100 = 196
Survivor Gathering Roll = 79 + 20 = 99
Opportunity to take out local anti air? = 13 No
Support from orbit? = 27 No, too close to fire on
Break out of the defenses outside of the Batarian lines? = 1 Yes.
Lt. Rico was the first to snap out of the collective shock everyone found themselves in at the impossibility in front of them. Shepard was here. Shepard their main inventor and a businesswoman was HERE on the front lines and the enemy no doubt knew she was here.
"Shepard get out of here!" He shouted at the mad woman who turned to look at him from her position in the sky. Her bulky power armor glowed with power along with her shoulder mounted guns and heavy weapon in her hands.
She seemed to be about to speak when suddenly a half a dozen yellow beams slammed into her side causing her shields to flare up brightly even as her shoulder mounted weapon automatically turned and unleashed what looked like a LASER in the direction of the incoming fire, sweeping its bright ruby red beam across the field cutting off the attack as soon as it started.
"Dammit, priority message to Command, Shepard is on the field, I repeat Shepard is on the field, we need immediate Evac!" Lt. Rico yelled into his comms hoping that the ships above could hear him uncaring about the Batarians potentially tapping into their comms as the object of discussion was floating above the battlefield in full view unleashing shots into the darkness. With her on the battlefield things were going to be insane as if he was the enemy he would not hesitate to do anything to get ahold of her or kill her.
"All surviving units gather at my position and bunker down, we got incoming and Shepard supporting us!" Lt Rico said as he peaked out of the trench he was in with several dozen other men and women and looked out at the land on both sides of the line. Towards the inner Batarian lines what he saw made his blood chill colder than the atmosphere on the moon as he witnessed dozens of the same power armored heavies that were taken down by Shepard followed along by thousands of the glowing blue eyed monsters behind them all charging towards their position. He looked behind him and to his relief there were only what seemed to be hundreds of regular Batarian troopers and explosive collared slave troopers and none of the monsters supporting them.
The Alliance and Paragon Security troops needed no command to immediately begin unleashing everything they had at the literal horde of enemies barreling down upon them letting loose with everything they had. Volleys of kinetic rounds poured like water while repulsor blasts focused on the larger targets or Batarian commanders seen commanding the slave forces. The enemy forces of course responded back with their own fire of kinetic rounds, yellow beams, and missiles which were mostly countered by a combination of the trench and Angel shield modules, though in truth it was the fact that Shepard was attracting most of the yellow beam weapons which probably allowed their defenses to hold against the fierce return fire. Shepard was flying through the skies, which was suspiciously not filled with anti air fire from the local defense points, and was unleashing a veritable tide of missiles from her suit while simultaneously dodging dozens of beams with sudden janky maneuvers which should be generating stress impossible for people to handle, though Shepard probably had some techno magic that solved that issue.
Her missile barrage meanwhile focused on the Batarian power armored troops as what was recognizable as Pilum fire accurately targeted their massive forms only for the cyber zombie like units to literally toss themselves in between them and the incoming missiles prematurely detonating the payloads leaving the power armor units intact. On the other hand the missile barrage using her micro missiles targeting the cyber zombies units arrived unimpeded and blasted the back of their front lines to pieces even as the twin shoulder laser gun reaped a toll upon them as well after several shots at the power armored units showed reduced effectiveness on their thick armor. That did not discourage her from turning her massive cannon of a hand held weapon onto the massive targets and punching through them with a bright beam of light which only caused the rest to focus fire on her even more preventing her from accurately aiming her deadly weapon thought it did keep them from focusing on the rest of them.
Lt Rico tossed his grenades at the front lines while firing behind him with his arm mounted smg when he noticed gunfire hitting the Batarians from the back. He smiled, seems the survivors were reaching his position, in a few minutes their several dozen had ballooned to over five hundred with several more similar sized groups bunkered down around other officers closer towards the front lines. Just when he thought they could actually hold and continue the mission while getting Shepard out Lt Rico heard a strange whine and looked up to realize they had to fall back. Approaching from deeper within Batarian lines were a trio of the same mechs which tore through their aerospace forces.
At that same moment he and every other soldier received a command to retreat and save Shepard with orbital support unavailable due to danger close. Lt. Rico cursed as he and everyone else began leaving the trenches and focusing fire on the Batarians and slave soldiers between them and the Batarian's front lines even as they kept another hand lobbing grenades, missiles, smg fire, and repulsor blasts behind them to slow down the still incoming horde which did not seem to care about their own casualties. They couldn't even bring the dead with them in their rush to fall back, with the only saving grace being the wounded retreating under their own power as their suits assisted them physically and medically.
"Shepard! We are falling back! You need to as well! Incoming mechs!" Lt Rico yelled at his comms hoping she could hear him as she killed another four power armored troops. She immediately turned to see the incoming threats and less loose another mind boggling amount of missiles like a one woman arsenal at the incoming mechs even as she began flying backwards with the rest of the troops below her.
Parsec + Alliance = 90 + 45 = 135
Revy = 25 + 100 = 125
Batarians = 44 + 90 = 134
Evac 1/3
Revy Wound 1/3
Revy = 25 + 100 = 125
Batarians = 44 + 90 = 134
Evac 1/3
Revy Wound 1/3
Batarian hard suits were blasted opens as kinetic rounds pounded past their kinetic barriers and through their armor like it was not even their. Their armor nothing like the ones given to more senior members of their leadership as they were low ranking grunts. Still superior to the non four eyed lesser beings but even then their armor was still around the Citadel standards. A price they now paid as they fell like wheat before the harvester as they and their slaves were cut down en mass.
The Alliance and ParSec troops fell back in disciplined formation providing covering fire for each other with the enemies in the path of retreat melting before their combined focused fire power even as the ones behind were delayed. They began focusing fire on the cyber zombies' legs to cripple them rather than outright kill as the cyber zombies began to trip and fall over the ones in front of them. Unfortunately, things were not going as well in the air with Shepard as she unleashed another round of missiles and seemingly ran out as she kept firing her laser and energy cannon at the incoming mechs and Batarian power armored troops beneath her. Her lasers acting as point defense against the mechs' missile barrage even as she performed a dizzyingly display of maneuverability to dodge their return fire. Kinetic rounds and yellow beams rippling her shields while laser fire was dodged by mere inches to spare causing the sky to look like a strobe party.
Lt Rico looked back as he cut down a Batarian trying to reach for his own grenade with his omni blade as he witnessed one of the shoulder generator on Shepard's armor spark and emit smoke before her barrier visibly dimmed in intensity. That was not good.
Parsec + Alliance = 86 + 45 = 131
Revy = 27 + 100 = 127
Batarians = 40 + 80 = 120
Evac 2/3
Revy Wound 1/3
Revy = 27 + 100 = 127
Batarians = 40 + 80 = 120
Evac 2/3
Revy Wound 1/3
The troops continued to fall back, with reinforcements gained from the other groups of survivors joining up with them on their retreat adding their firepower to stemming the enemy pursuit forces while Shepard was still occupying the majority of the enemy heavy force's attention.
'Just how many of the cyber zombie things did the Batarians make?' Lt Rico thought as he let his smg cool down and switched to his repulsor again. The wave of glowing blue eyed monsters seemed endless, no matter how many of them they brought down there always seemed to be more to take their place with the massive forms of the power armored hulks behind them a ever present threat. If it wasn't for the fact that the enemy was focused on Shepard they would be suffering horrendous casualties from those deadly yellow beam weapons they carried.
They leapt over the next trench line filled with the still cooling corpses of the Batarian defenders that tried to stop their march. Their way out was basically cleared as the defenders had left their positions to charge them deeper inside their own lines leaving the outer defenses nearly unmanned.
A bang went off behind them with Lt Rico giving a quick glance back to seeing one of the mechs dropping from the sky trailing smoke like a meteor falling upon one of the power armored units causing a explosion that wiped them both out. Nice.
Parsec + Alliance = 76 + 45 = 121
Revy = 41 + 100 = 141
Batarians = 90 + 60 = 150
Evac 2/3
Revy Wound 2/3
Revy = 41 + 100 = 141
Batarians = 90 + 60 = 150
Evac 2/3
Revy Wound 2/3
With the destruction of that mech the Batarian's quickly changed tactics. How could Lt Rico tell? Because the two other mech suits immediately disengaged from Shepard and instead began blasting off towards them, firing their deadly weapons and payloads into their retreating formations. The missiles, heavy kinetic rounds, and laser fire scythed through their ranks, even their enhanced legionary shields doing little than slow down the rate at which their shields broke and armor penetrated under such intense firepower. Their progress was stopped as they had to open fire to take down the giant mechs in their midst else they slaughter them all from behind as they ran. The mechs were a constant blur of death as they rocketed among them never stopping, allowing their automated laser weapons to cut them down, never allowing them to get a clear shot at them with their own repulsors and pilums to take them down with their shots either missing entirely or only winging them causing light damage that was slowly being repaired.
Shepard immediately went after them unleashing firing down at the two mechs with both her lasers and hand held cannon causing significant damage to the two. The purpose of such vulnerability quickly evident as the power armored Batarian troops managed to land dozens of strikes against Shepard's shield causing it to break, hitting the functional shield generator shoulder blowing it off and hitting her main weapon as well causing it to explode sending Shepard dropping to the ground.
Every Batarian force on the field immediately focused in on the falling form and as if they were all of one mind immediately began advancing upon her projected impact site.
Parsec + Alliance = 86 + 45 = 121
Revy = 49 + 100 = 149
Batarians = 7 + 60 = 67
Evac 3/3
Revy Wound 2/3
Revy = 49 + 100 = 149
Batarians = 7 + 60 = 67
Evac 3/3
Revy Wound 2/3
That turned out be a mistake as apparently Shepard has been hampering herself with her initial loadout of that bulky energy weapon as she deployed her hand repulsors and began flying away towards us while the repulsors' golden beams destroyed the Batarians beneath her like leaves hit by a hurricane as she swept the beams behind her. That also meant all the enemies were no longer near any of their forces and were now currently all grouped up staring at Shepard with their meat shields out of position to guard them.
As one everyone instantly raised their weapons and unleashed all their pilums and repulsors towards the mechs and power armored enemies. The missiles slamming dead onto them and blowing out their center mass with repulsors slamming them back and sometimes smashing through their armor from the combined strikes. Under so much firepower they were swiftly destroyed and the remaining cyber zombies were quickly pushed back much to everyone's relief. However, a quick look back at the Batarian lines showed another wave of enemies approaching with even more power armor among them.
They had to go. Luckily, the enemies were now too far to catch up to them and whatever left overs remaining in the front lines could no longer stop them from escaping. Unfortunately they could not retrieve their dead and judging from the new enemies that appeared that is going to be a mistake and a regret.
Lt. Rico let out a sigh of relief as they finally got out of range of the Batarian's defenses and all basically collapsed while a few took up guard duty just in case the enemies tried to sortie out after them. A quick look at Shepard showed an ugly sight. Her armor was burned, pocked marked, and damaged all over with her shoulders completely blown out. She was made of tougher stuff than he thought given she wasn't complaining about the bruises she was no doubt having under that armor or she had made some better meds which was not out of the question.
That was until one of her shoulders let out a small boom and the entire arm fell off attracting everyone's attention and panic. Lt. Rico quickly began calling for a evac ship to be sent down in a hurry until he realized that Shepard was still not panicking and that the shoulder area of the armor just revealed more machine and no flesh.
She bent down and picked up her own arm and waved it about "Don't worry guys, it's just a flesh wound!"
That raised even more questions from those around them and to top it all off now was when the Admiral finally connected to ask for a report from whoever was in command with everyone just turning to look at him.
"Why me?"
"You were the highest ranked officer in the area fighting in the beginning till now, you're intel is most complete for a quick debrief." Came the agreement from the other surviving officers higher ranked than him.
Lt. Rico wished he could take his helmet off right now so he could face palm.
*Back in Batarian Lines*
Over the dusty gray surface of the moon a Batarian walked among the dead as many of the Converted swarmed around him going towards the dead left behind by the Lesser Beings who dared to strike at their Betters. He stared down at one of the new Legionary suits now with its user dead beneath him and grinned a savage grin with his blue augmetic eyes glowing just a bit brighter.
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AN: I have no excuse, my muse finally woke up for this chapter. Sorry for the lackluster fight scenes, not really good at those still. My head is killing me and sorry for the lack of voting options, there will be some next update. you guys are so lucky I had to redo my rolls due to wrong combat mods I had initially put down or else the Batarians would have outright steamrolled over everyone, roll 90+ for everything and a nat 100 at the end against Shepard. Only reason it was not a insta loss was because they wanted Shepard alive.
roll for bringing back the dead = 27
roll for Batarians recovering Brian's body = 93 + 10 = 103
DUN DUN DUNNNNN!
roll for Batarians recovering Brian's body = 93 + 10 = 103
DUN DUN DUNNNNN!
- Location
- Tel'aran'rhiod
What this tells me is it is time for warcrime o'clock, planet crackers, virus bombs, shit like that. No peace with the batarians
Oh shit they are going to use our tech now
- Location
- Australia
We blackboxed the shit out of our stuff so them reverse engineering it is easier said then done.
- Location
- U.S.
they may not be able to directly reverse engineer them but there are other ways to utilize them, no forced idiot balls and incompetent villains here no siree
They better do that. It is only getting worse for them at this point. Great Chapter though!
Yeah blackboxing is just that; turning your technology into a black box*. The Batarians have no idea how or why our technology works just that it does. While that does mean creating new examples of it is impossible it does nothing to stop them from using still functional captured versions of it. After all the average person has no idea how their phone actually works or how to create more of them but still has no issues in actually using it.
*For those unfamiliar with the term a black box, in this context, is a metaphorical box into which you insert inputs and receive outputs. It being black, as opposed to a white (or perhaps more accurately clear) box, means you can't see or know what is going on inside and all you have access to are the inputs and outputs of the system.
- Location
- Germany
I am not sure how any of the captured gear would help the batarians in a big way, if they can not replicate it in any amount of time to matter thanks to blackboxing. Power armor suits would have locked themself out when the user is dead and even if they can use the few infantry weapons and armor, how would that make them resist better? Even if there is no "idiot ball", they would need the reapers help and you would have to make those able to meddle with the stuff in a way they should not be able to thanks to security features and the fact that reapers are advanced but not godlike, like they pretend to be. You would have to buff the reapers way above canon levels into Xeelee/Precursor levels which is the opposite of the "idiot ball" and not a better way of story telling.
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