AEON EFFECT (Mass Effect / Trinity Crossover)

"Goddamn it," you whisper under your breath, your own helmet blowing the air back gently against you. Okay, everyone on me.

You started forward with the steady, loping pace of someone who was trained to move and fight in variable gravity. Bullseye wasn't earthlike - and that'd be a problem for a few minutes, but once you were within range of the domes and their gravity nets, you would be okay. That meant for now, the main goal was covering distance while not making yourself an obvious target. The shifting colors of your adaptive camo made you a shimmering, flickering shadow as you darted from minimal cover to minimal cover - keeping pace with Nihilus as he loped towards the spaceport.

What are you-

We're not about to split up, you cut him off, turning Nihilus' thoughts into a buzzing static in the background of Kaiden's network.

The four of you reached the edge of the starport at about the same time Nihilus having slowed slightly by your unexpected following. The spaceport itself was a rectangular structure that had been placed to the side of one of the major habitation domes - the dome itself was a sleek, biotech structure that looked more grown than built. The tendrils that sank into the surrounding dirt and soil were broad and fanned outwards again and again and again and again, bifurcating each time until they had become as diffuse and thin as angel hair. You knew from the specs that the dome was essentially a bigger, stupider version of Normandy's guts, tricked into being transparent by the biotechs in Orgotek and the Sirta Foundation - so those tendrils were really roots, trying to draw what nutrients they could from the lifeless world around them.

Or.

Mostly lifeless.

It looks like the dome's been breached... Nihilus thought, pulling a silvery orb that vanished the instant it was in his three fingered palm. He tossed it with an expert flick of his wrist and you saw a blur of motion - but then lost track of it. Nothing but bodies in there. No movement.

What about that, sir? Kaiden asked, painting something on each of your HUDs with a tightbeam pulse. It took an embarrassingly large amount of training to get people to stop pointing, even with adaptive camo, and you knew veteran Legionaries who still fucked it up. All of you turned your heads, peeking, and saw that the spaceport had movement. They were sleek, humanoid figures...gray at this distance, with curved heads that looked almost like helmets. Their limbs were oddly articulated and they were working in tandem, six of them dragging something heavy out of the dome ruins and to the spaceport itself, while four others flanked around them.

You frowned. I don't recognize that species, you thought, zooming your HUD in using your tactical scope. The looked oddly organic - but also, not. Their muscles had the look of synthetic cable, twined and bunched, flexing and moving.

I do, Nihilus thought. They're Geth.

Geth? Kaiden asked.

Nihilus nodded, then turned to look at the three of you, even if it was a bit of a wasted gesture, considering how each of you were nearly invisible in the dim light and shifting shadows that were cast by the Geth and their lights. They were...are...a species of rogue synthetics, created by the Quarians - a non-council species. They turned on their creators and the Quarians have been fleeing from them ever since. But the Geth mostly stay beyond the Perseus Veil - they haven't been seen in the Terminus systems for two centuries. He shook his head.

Quarians... Private Rolston thought. Why are they so familiar?

Oh shit, you thought. I know where I've heard of them before. They-

The air beside the device the Geth were dragging rippled, twisted, and puckered open as if it was being torn apart from within. The purple light that shone from the tear was entirely sickly, and stepping from it came a figure that you didn't recognize - but you didn't have to. The woman had purple skin, six eyes, and four arachnoid limbs that jutted from a back that seemed to have burst apart like the skin was peeling and the bones were fracturing. Her lower jaws were a spider's mandible, and she walked about in Bullseye's thin atmosphere without a spacesuit. Or clothes, actually. The rift behind her snapped shut and she turned to face the thing that the Geth were setting down, and began to adjust and manipulate it.

Well, this just got more complicated, Nihilus thought.

You pulled the kitten that wasn't a kitten out of your pocket, hooking your IAD to its belly. Your Mako's abberscope was still active and by angling the kittens face around the corner of your cover, you could see the woman on the HUD. She glowed with the faint edge of a Divergent class.

So.

She wasn't the paltry sub-aberrant goons that had made up the majority of the bastards you'd fought on Khantz Lu Ge - she was one of the middle tier of the Aberrants. Probably a recent mutant, who had only been inducted into the dubious honor of having quantum powers within the past few years at most, few months at minimum. Back on KLG, your buddies had called Divergents 'Slots' - because you never knew. Were you gonna pull the arm and get the jackpot of a superintelligent squishy who's main power was in logistic support shit like turning air into laser rifles for the sub-aberrant shock troops? Or were you going to get fucked over and run into a Divergent who had erupted with superstrength, flight, laser eye vision, and a fucking cape to go with it all.

Too many of your buddies had pulled the slot...and died bleeding out with their VARG's ripped to pieces by claws, or glowing blades of pure force, or beams of light fired from eyes or tentacles or palms, or...in one horrible case, disembowled by sentient, living candy.

You pushed all those thoughts out of your head and focused on what the Divergent was doing.

Looks like some kind of Quantum Tech, Kaiden says.

I'm not seeing any gadgets I recognize, Rolston added.

In my experience, it's all bad news if it turns on, you and Nihilus thought at the exact same time. You and he exchanged a glance and through visor, shimmering adaptive camouflage, and across species lines, you swore you could tell that he was blushing.

The Divergent was not working with the blurring super-speed of some Aberrants. So, at least she didn't have super-speed!

...or she was just being lazy...

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What do you do?
[ ] Aberrants don't work with lesser beings without a reason. Lets wait and see why this one is teaming up with a Geth - gather intelligence before we start shooting.
[ ] Kaiden, whammy her with a telepathic compulsion to not warp away, we'll open fire and take them down, textbook style with the VARG on standby if she has nastier powers than just brains and warping.
[ ] You know what we need right now? A time on target smart-programmed long ranged thermobaric warhead tipped missile. You know what my VARG has? A time on target smart-programmed long ranged thermobaric warhead tipped missile!
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