Mass Effect - Agent of the Reaper, Mass Effect from another point of view

[Husk]

This is a story I wrote from the viewpoint of my OC Husk, the Agent of Sovereign. I'm not very skilled in writing stories in english, but I gave my best and hope you like it =D

Mass Effect – Agent of the Reaper

Prologue


"I was in pain... . Never remembered what was before that time.... . I stopped thinking to much about it... . Wanted to die.... . Every muscle was nothing more than a weight on my broken mind... . I tasted blood....and death alike... . My eyes shown me nothing more than the darkness...slicing through my skin.... . I wondered.... . Was death really like this...? Endless nights...., pain in your chest... . Like a spear through the flesh?.... . Tasting like iron and long rotten flesh... . Burning the eyes, which stopped to see... . Screaming...., but the ears can't catch the sound anymore.... . Silence.... . I wondered..... . Until his voice reached out to me... . He filled me with strange desires... . I wanted to obey..., to kill for him.... without hesitation... . I wanted....to live...again... . Only....for him... ."

"We're nation.... . We have no beginning.... . We have no end.... . All life shall wander the path we choose for them. And all life will perish for we demand it. We're Nazara.... . We're the Sovereign. Move, servants. Chosen slaves of flesh. You're our indoctrinated vassals. Our eyes and ears... . One of you shall be our agent... . Our spy and slayer... . One of you... . Only one of you thousand... . All of you contain will and mind... . Mortal qualities, so you'll can't get discovered to fast... . Move, servants... . Creations... . For we, your new nation and master, demand it.... ."

[Husk]

Chapter 1 – The way of loyalty – Trial One

Walls of steel. Darkness and silence. Until spears dug back into the metal, releasing thousands of corpses, raining onto the floor. Each of them a different kind. Covered with electric lines, sleeves and metal parts. Their skins were colored cold. Bleached blue and violet. Turians, Salarians, Asari, Humans and even Drell. They all stared up to the dark walls, listening to the whispers between the metal plates and tried to understand. One of the human alike of these creatures, a young man, sat on the floor holding his face. His hair was shining white on the right side and pitch black on the other. His skin was bleached purple and his hands big, armed with sharp claws. He wore a pair of dirty gloves. The claws had already sliced their way through the leather. Sleeves covered his strong muscled shoulders and well cared upper body. His torso was steeled, but his belly thin and hungered. A big hole, encircled by metal was inside it's middle, just shortly over the belt line. He wore soldiers pants, decorated with the symbol of the alliance, the military force of the humans. His boots are dusty and worn of. Two big boned fangs grown out of the edge of them. He crushed his teeth against each other in pain, hoping to be released from it. Slowly he moved his paws from the face. It was covered in scars, electric lines and his right eyes replaced by a mechanical optic, glowing red. Blue sparks rushed over the path lines on his skin. The fleshed eyes center was small and pointy, the iris light brown and surrounded by black veils. He stared up. Listening to the emotionless voice, just like the others. One of his ears was replaced by an audio receiver. He tried to concentrate on just this single voice coming from the walls, but he mentioned that there were more than one.

"Stand up, servants. Brace yourself, for you all shall undergo a test of your use. Failures are unacceptable and will be exterminated. One of you shall prove worthy to obey our commands. Only one of you shall remain and become irreplaceable. So show to us your will to obey, to follow, to kill when we demand it. Move, Servants. Onward to your place or your extermination."

"Extermination... .", he whispered to himself, "....irreplaceable.... ." He stood up and was still unsteady on his legs, enduring the pain. His eyes gazed upon a single door opening in front of the crowd of mindless creatures. Most of them rushed through it without hesitation, but he waited and spied around. He listened to the voice of his memory. The voice of the one called Sovereign. He embraced himself and kept thinking with silence and without recognizing the others going. "Sovereign.... . Sovereign.... . ….irreplaceable....servant....of Sovereign.... ." He took his first step, entering the pain engulfing his body. His eyes opened wide and he crushed his teeth again. "I will....be...irreplaceable.......loyal.... .", he muttered and walked toward the door, "I will....kill...for....Sovereign... ." After he passed the door, he spotted a shining console on his left side. He investigated it. Again Sovereign's voice scratched through every line of his head, like a thunder strike. The human like creature looked into the first room were some of his kind still tried to figure out what to do. "Useless... .", he said and began to type something on the machine. The console turned from orange into red and back to orange, circling around green and yellow too. He smiled deeply while the door next to him began to close. Only a few moments later the gate crushed closed itself and the remaining creatures were stuck in the first chamber. "Now....only twenty....left.... ." He moved on and tried to gain some ground. He seem to instinctively knew that he must be the first. "Move my servants... . Your bodies were made for movements and we've regenerated and raised your muscles strength, so you can overcome mortal exhaustion... . Move fast...like the beasts you are... ." He looked up. Stared at the top of the endless hall. Thin..., but yet endless. He tried to run forward, but the pain still lingered in his legs. "Moving... . I must.....move... ." The plates in his back flesh crumbled, while he lifted his shoulders. "I must....move....like a beast... . Run...like....the beast....I am.... ." He crawled on his hands and moved like an animal on his four limbs. He jumped forward and started to run . "I must be first! … ."

The hall continued in one way forward. His eye and optic glowed in the dark. On a turn, he struck his claws into the metal ground and changed the direction. Suddenly the road ended. He looked around. Sovereign's voice sounded in his head again. "You're claws are used for more than just the destruction of your foes." The human like creature stared at his hands. Wondering... . He still listened to Sovereign's voice. "Use them...to reach higher places... . They will carry your weight and open yourself new opportunities.... . Your not longer bound to the ground...like the kind you've been born into... ." The boy clutched at the wall in front of him and began slowly on his way. The screech of tearing metal walls, had his hair stand on end. But somehow it amused him. He stared up, but the walls seemed to stretch itself endlessly into the blackness. The creature fed itself at Sovereign' s voice. It drove it faster the steel walls up. Soon it had reached a slope. He crested it and saw three latecomers before himself, who stared helpless a further pit up. " Three... . Still seventeen to go... ." He slowly approaches the three confused monsters. "I... .", he thought and hid in the shadow of the hall, "I...will be... Sovereign's... ...servant... ." "You can hide inside the dark for short... . If you keep all movements down...you'll be invisible for mortal eyes... ." Sovereign explained throughout his head. Wondering and enraged that the three not hear the voice of the master, he rushed out of his hideout and grabbed the head of one. Trapped in a wave of rampage and rage, he torn apart the flesh and metal parts. His teeth forced their way through the back of it's neck and crushed it's spine. The blood spilled over his entire face, while his claws continued to dance through his fellow kind. Breaking their skulls and tearing apart eyes and skin likewise. Their screams filled the dark hallway and broke through the silence. After he was finished killing, he licked the blood from his hands, delighted by the view of the dead bodies before him. "Your violence amuses us, servant.", Sovereign's voice came back to his mind, "But you still have much more to do. Much more to accomplish....before we declare you....our eyes and ears.... ." "I will do anything! I will kill! I will die! Command me, Sovereign! Command me!"

[Husk]

Chapter 1 – The way of loyalty – Trial Two

... "I will do anything! I will kill! I will die! Command me, Sovereign! Command me!" ....

"Show us....your willpower... . Find the way....between death and despair.... ." The creature looked around. There was no way before him, nor beneath or above. He thought the words of Sovereign through. Trying to find a clue. "...between....death.... . Despair... . Between... ."He looked up again, seeing nothing but spikes and needles on the wall. He walked up and down, facing the walls in hope of finding a way. In all his anger he hit the metal and pierced his claws through it. Suddenly he discovered a small break before him, where gentle winds streamed out. He tried to spy through it, but the wind was stinging his eye. He shook the head and began to tear the wall apart. His strong claws buried themselves into the plates and opened an unseen pathway toward a ventilation trunk. Somehow his mind forced him to smile over his success. "Found it... .", he mumbled and ripped open the shaft. The creature took a good look inside the dark hole. Sure to have found what Sovereign was talking about, he laid on ground and crawled inside the dark ventilation trunk. He smelled smoke, sulfur and other unpleasant stenches. "Very good....servant... . Use your mortal instincts and mechanical upgrades to find, what others may not... ." He crawled through the dust, scratching alongside the iron walls. After the long dark tunnel ended, the indoctrinated boy stared down into a giant ventilation shaft. A door was on the other side of the room. In the center a bridge. The only way across a giant ventilation mosaic. Thousand of little ventilators covering the way done. The blades made the wind sing cruel melodies. "Gigantic... .", he mumbled and grabbed the wall above the exit of his tunnel, dragging himself out. Like a dead cow hanging on the hook, he gazed upon the three entrances on his side of the wall. A group of twelve indoctrinated monsters passed under his feet. They all rushed to the door, but suddenly the gate disappeared before their eyes. The boy came down and Sovereign started speaking to all of them: "You all....are slow... . Servants... . Most of you will be worthless to us.... . So we decide....that only one will pass the gate... . Fight....slaughter.... . Survive.... ." A red lightning gushed out of the electric veins on his face. "As you....command.... ." As he started to attack his own kind, Sovereign reached out to his mind alone. "You're one....we accept as valuable..., slave... . Your mind is stronger....and more fitting for complicated actions... ." The boy was listening well, while he slashed appart the other indoctrinated beasts. One he throws over the bridge and into the rotor blades. "Know that you have the ability to redirect your shields energy in melee... ." "I got a shield? … ." He was confused by Sovereign's words, but still aware of the enemies around him. One approached from behind and he hit him down the bridge, with a strike of his elbow. "Yes..., but it's useless for defense in close combat.... . It only protects you properly from ranged attacks.... . Use the energy of your shield to boost your speed... . You can use it also to create shock waves... . Now go....and defeat them all... ." His curiosity demanded the young indoctrinated to try out his new learned abilities. First of all the shock wave. Red lightnings gathered around his hands. He crushed his fists to the ground. In a blink of a moment the lightnings swirled around him and smashed the surrounding enemies with a strong electric wave over the bridge. The blades sliced them into pieces merciless. Still one big Krogan indoctrinated wasn't hit enough it seem. "Still one left... . Good... .", the boy thought, "So I can see...what the boost may cause... ." He redirected the energy flow again. A sudden electric impulse hit his chest and his eye opened wide. The world became grey colored and all sound seem to have slowed down. And so are the movements too. He tried to run forward to attack the Krogan. His heart was racing, but the breath stands still. Everything moved in slow motion expect himself. He was in normal manner of movement. He pierced his claws through the face of his opponent more than once. Afterward he send him flying over the bridge as well. The grey vanished as the Krogan was hit by a rotor blade. It couldn't get through the flesh bag and stopped spinning, while the corpse bleed out. The indoctrinated boy collapsed on his knees, gasping for breath. His heart was still drumming against his chest. He felt the energy floating inside his veins, electric lines and pipes. "Hrgh! Huh....what....happened... ?! My....skin....burns.... . Hrgh... . My head hurts.... . I feel....like I'm about.....to explode.... ." "You used to much.... .", Sovereign's voice explained, "You're shield was to weak to give you energy for the boost.... . To activate the ability anyway....your body offered parts of your life energy... . Foolish servant... . Learn to use these gifts of us with care.... . You were made to serve....not for self-destruction.... . We give the command for that.... . Never forget.... ." "I....understand... ." The gate appeared again on the end of the bridge. "Nevertheless... . You have proven yourself worthy of passing on... . But there are still three much more experienced on the way ahead.... ." "Three....? My information calculated five more.... ." He stood up, still struggled by the pain, but determined to keep on. "Anyway... . I won't fail you....master Sovereign... . I will kill them all... . I will kill.....and destroy....until I reach....my place... ."