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Salvation through Harmony

by Roran Dreamon

Chapter 6: Chapter 5: Selfless Sacrafice or Foolish Thought

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Memory Sequence Six


"Welcome home Delta." go fuck yourself Kei Leng.

His blade was mere inches from my throat when he pointed it at me, and in a few seconds it was almost right in my throat if I hadn't backed away at the last second and tripped over a dead trooper. That sword of his was literally an inch away from cutting my head off if I had not moved back and tripped.

Rolling to my right and than getting up I barely ducked in time to avoid another decapitating blow that would have left me a head shorter and bleeding all over the floor, and quickly jumping over the next swing until my team finally decides to open fire at the bastard ninja, making him do flips till he got to the ledge and jumped over it with ease.

"And that is how you say hello to your old Cerberus friends, they try to kill you by cutting your head off any questions?" I said sarcastically while brushing myself off. One hand was raised.

"Yea...let me guess...Kei Leng...did the Illusive Man send you to kill me or to possibly get me back...after all he did spend a couple million credits on my sorry ass..." I said while getting up, grabbing my big ass machine gun, turning the safety off and pointing at the edge.

There was only silence as I slowly moved forward until I felt a hand clamp down on my gun, rip it out of my grip, and another hand grab my should and threw me over the ledge, landing back first on a crate before rolling over and quickly getting up and looking up to see that Kei Leng jumped down and followed me. Pulling out my close combat weapon of choice, my monomolecular blade, just like his except that mine was slightly curved to give it an extra 'Fuck you' to anything that gets cut by it, straight blades are for stabbing, mine was slightly curved, cutting through shit that gets in its way.

Looking around I found out quickly that he planned this because the blizzard not only set in, the blizzard was raging and I can barely see anything as far as five meters, anything else and I might as well try to spot a person on Earth from the fucking moon.

"Come on out Kei Leng....let us settle this like men....first to kill the other bastard wins and gets to leave this rock in one piece...how does that sound?" I said while looking around, my visor is on the fritz and can't even lock onto any heat signatures, forcing me to rely on my own crappy eyes.

"No, we are going to settle this as we should have on our last mission together back on the Citadel. With my sword in your back and leave you drowning in a pool of your own blood." have it your way asshole.

As he spoke I turned to my left to see him quietly sneaking up only for him to take my left fist right in the face, knocking him off balance only to regain balance and nearly slice off my left arm....would have said again but that blasted building beat him to it. We swung, stabbed, slashed and sliced at each other for over two hours, both of us getting cuts, gashes and scrapes as we brawled it out, Cerberus troops were busy keeping my team busy and it looks like they are actually losing...gotta wrap this up fast.

"What is the matter Delta...afraid to lose your squad like you did the last time. You were held back as they were wiped out in front of you, and you just stood their scared for your life. You are pathetic and should not be allowed to live, the Illusive Man thanks you for your service." and when I thought I had him he manages to get out of my sight long enough to do what he was told to do, eliminate me. I heard the sound of the sword coming at me, I moved my right arm to take the hit but he was stabbing at me, the blade going into the forearm, and with enough momentum and force, shoved the blade into my chest cavity.

"Fuck....you....Shithead...McFucklips...." was all that escaped my lips as I pitched over and fell face first into the snow, my blood already leaking out of the crack in my armor and began to pool around me.

As he turned to go assist his forces in the raging battle above us I weakly grab his left leg, and yanked hard on it, sending him down to the floor and dropping his sword along the way, as he tried to reach for it I yanked his leg again, dragging him closer to me as I crawled near him and punched him in the ribs, forcing him to cough blood and grabbing his neck I threw him away from his sword as I was busy trying to get to his to use against him.

"Your move....McFucklips..." I said weakly as I took that sword of his and threw it over the ledge and pulling out my pistol and fired at him, which he took three of my five shots to the right leg as he fell over and moved behind a crate to avoid my last few shots before I pulled myself up on a different crate and sat there bleeding out, even an application of medi-gel would not entirely help with a punctured lung, punctured stomach and a few broken ribs.

Not hearing a sound was bad news for me since he can still move unhindered and can easily find me because of my blood trail. Looking around slowly I had to keep my eyes peeled and my breathing slow if I wanted to get out of this shithole alive but taking a sword to the chest and bleeding out was never on my part of the deal when I rejoined the Alliance.

"Katherine...I'm done...fucking Kei Leng stabbed me...punctured lung and stomach at best...bled out a bit but sealed wound with medi-gel...how is your end up top?"

"We just saw Kei Leng a minute ago, looked like he was leaving...wait...he just took a shuttle out of here...Cerberus forces are retreating...."

"Wait for me by our shuttle if it wasn't shot down...I have a loose end to tie up...over and out."

After I turned off my channel I limped my way over to the ledge and saw that his sword was gone, sighing that I didn't get a trophy from this skirmish I turned and got off the lower landing pad, took the elevator up four floors until I was on the roof, spotting an ant-air battery I hobbled over to it and slammed on the controls, re-writing its purpose I saw that there was 10 shuttles flying out, and Kei Leng was somewhere on one of them.

"Burn you son of a bitch....burn...fucker burn..." I said as I slammed my fist on the panel, the first round fired off as one of the shuttles exploded, a dark grin spreading on my face as I finally couldn't keep my weight up and slumped over, falling on my ass on the ground.

"Alliance HQ...mission success...returning to base now....I am to tired for this shit..."


End of Memory Sequence


Everything hurts...my back hurts...my head hurts...my fucking chest hurts....hell if I still had arms and legs than they would be hurting right now as well. Opening my eyes I saw that my visor was cracked and that it was not even working, it was constantly turning on and off, and when it was working I only saw Husks pulling and clawing at me, trying to take off my armor but only give it scratches or small dents that would go unattended.

Barely moving my head I felt that my leg was being gripped tightly by a few of the Husks and being led down a long hallway, and by dragged I mean my ass was hitting skeletons and dead corpses, hell it even hit a table and the Husks didn't care, they just kept dragging me. as I was being dragged I saw the ghosts of those that died in this shithole and found out that all of them were blank eyed and looking down at the floor...indoctrinated and harvested....poor fuckers.

Ten minutes of dragging I slowly got my bearings and felt like shit...but than again fighting hundreds of Husks with only 75 rounds and stick with my back against the wall...getting my ass beat was bound to happen, no matter what I tried to do. After a while I finally started to get feeling back into the rest of my body until I noticed that I was in a large central room covered in ancient dried blood, bones, dust and in the center looked like chairs...until I saw three skeletons hanging from a nearly concealed pole....dragons teeth.

"Ah...fucking...hell..." I said through my mic, which came out all garbled and broken, they must have cracked and damaged my helmet alot worse than I thought it was originally. The bastards first ruined my helmet, beat the crap out of me, and now gonna turn me into a fucking Husk? Oh hell fucken no.

After seeing that they plan to turn me into a Husk like them, I made up my mind that dying and being turned into a mindless machine is not how I want to spend the rest of my existence, quickly searching myself for anything explosive I found my only grenade that didn't get dropped on my way here, I activated the damn thing, dropped it, and within three seconds, the bloody thing exploded, sending dead and wounded Husks everywhere, and leaving me going end over end until I landed right ontop of the death spike.

At that point in time, my life flashed before my eyes, my childhood: sucked ass, my teenage years: sucked major ass, my early adulthood: sucked ass again, my military career: amazed that I did not die yet, my sex life: probably the best in the galaxy, finding a way to redeem myself for failing myself: still searching for a proper response.

Yea...my ass is not dying here today.

Just as the spike began to activate I slowly began slide to the side, and right when it sharply rises and would have impaled me onto it, my helmet got stuck to it, ripping right off my head, and if anyone else saw that, they would have seen a helmet get skewered onto the metal spike and a body fall down from it. I rolled 3 feet before I got onto my own pair, and started to run, with no idea of the bunker layout I just fucken ran as if my ass was on fire, and if the timing was right it could have been.

Right behind me, I shit you not, a fucking hoard of Husks were chasing after my fat ass, and I know that if I trip, slow down, or overall fuck up, I know that my ass will be torn apart in such a way that if my remains are ever found I highly doubt they can even recognize what is what. Turning my head to look I saw an Abomination and with what power I have in my suit that wasn't used up and locked down to preserve as much as I can, I fire off an Overload on it, and from what Shepard said about them, that they explode when hit by an electrical charge or inferno rounds. He was fucking right, that thing just explodes into bits and gore, I could have sworn its head flew past mine as it was letting out a primal roar. If I can get out of here alive I am coming back to find that head and mount it on the wall.

Five minutes of running corners, dodging random Husks, and occasionally using whatever power my suit can snatch up from the dead mechanical corpses to kill them to make more bodies, turning to my left I ran into a room, closed that door and locked it, doing a quick scan of the room I placed a crate in front of the door, just enough to buy myself time to charge up my biotics since I turned it off when I opened the door thinking it would have been a quick burn-and-sweep job and find any weapons or anything but so far its more like run-my-ass-off-for-dear-life job and also a fuck-my-life moment.

Only two minutes catching my breath and I can hear the pounding on the door, the sounds of the Husks yelling and screeching on the other side, trying to claw their way in to get the fleshy prize inside, being me, but I have no intentions of going back to get spiked. My eyes dart back and forth, looking for anything to use, but on the wall was the fire-alarm, and to my right was an old Geth unit, a Geth Hunter model that has been modified with better power cells and armor plating but still looks like it had the crap kicked out of it and was no longer functioning. Will have a use for you later Geth....little fucker...

Hobbling over to the alarm I push down on it, hoping it works and knowing how my luck was running it would probably say 'No Water' or 'Requires Fire' or something stupid like 'No Water for You'...if it was that last one I will find the spirit of the engineer that built this system, and kick him in the balls so hard that they explode. Smirking at that I wait a few seconds until I felt something wet touching the back of my head, looking behind me I saw that the sprinklers were working but the water was dirty as hell and looked like someone threw mud into it, but doesn't matter for what I am going to do.

Opening the door just a crack four arms launch themselves into the room trying to claw at me, and with a quick prayer to anybody and a big middle finger to the first Husk I see, I used Overload on them, the slickness of the water on them and that it was now on the floor and the walls, electrocuted all of them, frying them and from the smoke, burning them to a nice gentle crispy metal parts and if they had any flesh that would have been turned into human bacon.

"Fucking Husks....at least I now have a weapon against them....get em wet and shock em...just hope my suit can hold on." I said to myself, seeing how my AI is still in the helmet, and since that spike just destroyed it...I am alone.

Removing any blockage from the door I kept my right arm pointed outward, an Overload at the ready, turning the closest corner I saw that the water was everywhere and that the swarm of Husks that were chasing me were now drenched and compacted together....the smell of burning metal and circuits was all I smelt for the next hour...

...until I got deked by a Husk and dragged off again...


Old London Ruins, Outside Harvest Bunker, 7 Hour Later


"It has been seven hours...he should have came back by now....why isn't he back? I thought he could easily handle a few dead things..." the solar princess said while waiting outside the ancient shelter in her private tent.

"Are you sounding worried for him....he said that he was a soldier and he has killed many of those creatures....I am sure he is doing fine." said the lunar princess, obviously thinking that her sister was overreacting over something like a missing lost race that was technologically advanced than them, still thinking that that human was a waste of time.

"I am worried for him...he is the last of his kind...being held captive by the undead of his kind...what part of this should I not be worried about? The fact that it has been seven hours or the fact that we have not heard the sounds of fighting from within." she retorted until the loud sound of an explosion behind the tent, sending a burning Husk corpse right into the tent, landing right between the two. "See what I mean...." she sighs a bit before levitating the still burning corpse and throwing it out of the tent.

"Fine than....get Cadence and a few of the royal guards...we are going in after him, and getting him out.


Inside the Harvest Bunker


Sitting in the center of the main room, surrounded by dragons teeth, and around those teeth, are piles of burning, melted, and still boiling piles of Husks and Abominations, and I was covered in my own blood, whatever blood those Husks have, and my armor was cracked and damaged, my shield generator was damaged, my body damaged all to hell, and I was busy coughing up blood like there was no tomorrow.

"Fuck...Turians...fuck Krogans.....fuck Asari...........especially the Quarians.....the Geth, Batarains and the Vorcha can go fuck themselves....Volus....nope...good in my books...hehehehe....handled my money real good...hope it is still in the bank..." I was talking to myself, after planning for an hour I routed all the gas lines in the bunker to the central chamber, and blew that thing all to hell.

"I swear if I die here than I am going to haunt the shit out of those ponies and diamond bitchs....hell...haunt the crap out of everyone!" I said while injecting into myself a dose of Hallex, and thanks to good old Discord, he did something to the vial so it would constantly refill itself.

"Ohhhhhhh yea....thats the ticket...hehe...." and in that moment of time, I thought it would be totally worth it to give myself that shot....it was the worst fucking idea I ever had in my entire life...right next to challenging that one krogan to a drinking contest, losing, and later fucking her in my room, and later doing the walk of shame while drunk as hell....ya...way worse than that.

10 seconds after I took that injection, the world went from a hellish ruins to a fucking god damn nightmare that even made me nearly shit myself out of fear. The walls began to melt and I saw the ghosts began to be all deformed, they all started to reach out to me as I began to flail my limbs at them, trying to swat them away. The burned and burning Husks were dead but began to move again, all of them moving about on the ceiling and walls, I was tripping out so bad that I could see my spirit leave my body, give me the middle finger and just fly off.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HOLY FUCK! KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE! FUCKING KILL THE FUCKING FUCK! HOLY FUCK JUST FUCKING KILL IT!" I yelled as I was tripping beyond normal bounds.

Worst.Day.Ever.


Outside the Harvest Bunker


"You ready everypony, we must get him back alive." Celestia said while wearing her full combat armor, which appeared to be tighter than normal.

"But what if he is dead? That explosion was probably something extremely dangerous, for all we know it can still be in there!" one of the guards said, his voice shaking.

"Than we go in there protected, my sister and I shall surround us in a shield to protect us from harm. We will find him and bring him back....that is final." said Celestia, giving a reassuring smile to the guard before her sister Luna and herself braced themselves near the two doors, and very slowly pulled it open, revealing another pile of corpses except that these were metallic and were burned to a crisp, any metal was boiling out and any dedicates were smoldering and ruined.

The guards had their jaws dropped, not sure what to make of it or even if they were once human or something, Celestia and Luna wore worried expressions, thinking that I was dead and burned like they were.

"Now...once we are in, those left will close the doors, we have exactly one hour to find him...and bring him back. Any questions?" Luna said, not entirely sure why they had to bring my sorry ass out of there.

Not one pony raised a hoof, afraid that if they do find me I might be dead or on a murderous killing spree, they even fear that if they do find me that I might not be willing to come back or even be so fucked up that moving me might be a mistake.

As they all slowly marched into the bunker, they found dead Husks, a few blown up parts, a deactivated Geth unit which they took since it was not scratched, only dirty and wet, and found a few piles of crates that were quickly taken to the doors, and even data tower that was slightly damaged and burnt which they took as well. 10 minutes into their search they all stumbled into the main chamber and what they saw only made the lot of them gag in disgust, a few actually vomited, and one passed out from how horrible it was.

They saw piles upon piles of dead Husks, all of them appeared to be climbing over each other trying to get to the center, a few were crushed under their bid to get to that center area. As they got closer to the center they saw that the piles got larger and more thicker, the bottom of the pile the Husks look like pancakes, even in the back near the walls the bodies were crushed. After only a minute of skirting over the corpses and pushing a few of them aside, they found the center to be empty except for a single body, a badly burned, fucked up all to hell, left eye hanging out of its socket, and chewed to shit body.

"Oh..sweet...Celestia...princess....Princess Celestia! I found him! But...but I think he is dead....he isn't moving...or appears to be breathing...oh...oh" the guard says as he pukes ontop of a barely functioning Husk before it dies from power loss. The guard that found my body was busy trying not to lose whatever was left in his gut all over the floor by looking at the ceiling, and even that was fucked up by what I did earlier.

As the guards moved back from the badly mangled and fucked up body of mine, I let out the lowest groan my body could muster, which at the time sounds like a zombie moaning out for brains. My very groan was enough for the guards to concentrate there weapons at me, each and every single one point their swords and spears towards my general direction, and let me tell you, if I could see properly at that moment, I would laugh at them but in my current state I only want to just take a large drink of hard Vodka, and just drench it over my wounds for it to do what the lord have intended alcohol to do. To burn wounds and sting like a motherfucker.

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhh.......fuck...me.....to tears......" was all I can manage before I fall over and my left eye just falls out of my socket, the wiring holding it together just snaps and it rolls around till it is staring back up at me. I am a fucking wreck and I put my body on the line many times, and every time my body gets fucked up it always gets better but this was beyond what these ponies can fix, and I do not want to be buried to look like a fucking mess.

"Quickly get him out of here. Whatever we are taking with us take them as well. We are getting out of these caves and ruins immediately." Celestia said and all the guards even Luna herself made a happy sigh, finally knowing they are getting out of my ruined home and these blasted caves.

The last thing I can remember before my body told me to sleep and also to not pay attention to the fact that I am now a cyclops with a shitload of issues.


Canterlot Palace, Medical Wing, 2 Weeks Later


My body slowly kicks my ass to wakeful status, my eye couldn't open and when I realized I have only one eye I was mentally yelling at the top of my lungs till a ghostly looking Discord shoves a wad of cotton candy into my mouth to silence me.

"It has been two weeks princess...he has not shown any sign of movement or life....for all we know he is in a deep coma that even your magic did nothing to stir him...let us just hope for the best." my lord....if that is Doctor Quaker I am gonna stab a bitch.

"I know it has been two weeks....I just worry for his safety...we don't know if he has contracted any diseases of any kind or anything...I just wish he would wake up." Katherine is that you? I swear to god I am going to fucking fuck you up, maybe in both ways if I am lucky.

Jesus...if I am in heaven I am going to kick your ass for sending me here...I have a poker game with my team in hell and I am in the wrong fucking place at the wrong fucking time...send my ass back to hell, this shit is boring up here.

This isn't heaven and I am not this 'Jesus', Roran...your in a coma.

Oh....god damn it, I blame you than Satan for fucking with me like that....now get me the hell out of here for all the souls I sent you, and for shooting that one Cerberus officer in the face with that shotgun upclose blowing his bloody head off.

Not Satan either...and sounds brutal to do to another living being.

Bite me.

"Princess...he moved a bit...I think he is coming to."

I slowly began to stir and barely cracking open my right eye I saw a happy Celestia, a slightly confused pony wearing the full doctors uniform, and a Geth unit that is still turned off and probably collecting dust.

Looking down at myself I saw that I was not in my armor, hell I wasn't even wearing my uniform that was underneath it, and I knew I had a set of it on because I felt that shit.

"Where the flying fuck is my clothes? And why the motherfucking hell am I naked?"

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