9Avengers of mass effect
If you just want to read a story and not me talking about things, skip until the bold lettering.
This story will be a mix of mass effect and the marvel cinematic universe, with the story for marvel following the movie canon until shortly before infinity war starts, with the only change being that I do not know for sure if Loki was under mind control because of the glowing blue eyes in the first avengers movie, in here he was under mind control.
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For mass effect it will be changed up a bit, mostly following canon, but instead of leaving the civilians of new colonies nearly defenceless this time around they will have a bunker with a slightly below dreadnought level shield to house the population of an under attack colony, since after they found alien ruins any reasonable military commander would conclude that there was probably something out there that had killed the beings that had used the outpost that the ruins originally were, and that there was a small chance of either them or their descendants still being around.
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This also means that the systems alliance will have some more ships and a rapid response fleet, since they are actually trying to be as prepared as possible to a threat they are suspecting is out there. This is the first non-poem fanfiction story I have written in years, so if anyone has suggestions about better writing styles etc, please message me or post a review, just please use good arguments and do not just flame me.
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Edit 09-02-2019: I'm now rewriting the story and have finished with this chapter, I hope its better then before and if it isn't very good yet, please post either a review or send me a personal message giving me some tips on how to make it better, thank you for taking the time to read this.
Disclaimer: I do not own either mass effect or the marvel cinematic universe, if I did I would not be writing this story, but instead probably try to buy all the x-men movie rights and probably pull a Stan Lee and enter myself into every movie in some way, shape or form.
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Would also make it in mass effect that the player can actually get a cure for the Quarians low immune system by the end of mass effect 2. I always found it strange how they could essentially re-awaken the dead with all their memories and most if not all of their capabilities intact but somehow they couldn't simply mix up a medicine for low resistance to disease by researching into the resistances of another species?
I mean you could just hire a few hundred down on their luck Turians, use research into their immune systems to create a cure that would bring the Quarian ones up to roughly half-way through the current Quarian immune systems and that of the Turians, and you're done. Then give this and a small region of a planet you're not doing anything with anyways to the Quarians in exchange for them joining into a mutual defence pact and a research sharing pact with you.
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And bam, you have the loyalty of a race that managed to do the upkeep for a 50.000 ship navy for 300 years with barely any resources, no dockyards, not even a planet of their own. Meaning that you now have a militarily powerful ally that will come to back you up no matter what, large numbers of skilled engineers willing to work for not too high of a pay and lastly also the reputation as a saviour of people with anyone except for the Batarians. But who really cares about the Batarians they are a second rate power anyways.
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I would also change it so that every single named character that remains on the ship for multiple missions that doesn't have a good reason to not be interested in you (A: is already in a relationship, B: madly in love with somebody, C: is related to you, D: age difference is just way too large, E: you're not the gender they have interest in) can be romanced. Meaning that in Mass Effect 1 you could also romance Tali'Zorah or Garrus Vakarian, etc. However as said before this all isn't a thing and I do not own either the game or the movies.
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Summary: I do not own either marvel or mass effect, because I am a schoolteacher and not a good writer or businessman. Nor a major shareholder of whomever currently owns Mass Effect.
'' Talk'' is regular oral communication/talking out loud
'Talk'
Is mental communication such as telepathy, or mentally connected interfaces such as when seeing digital reports or long-range communication through the mind of an A.I.
'Talk'
Is mental communication in which one side is domination/commanding the other, such as Thanos with the Chitauri or people enslaved by the Infinity stones.
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''Talk'' Is oral communication performed by a being that is calling an large amounts of supernatural power at that moment or who's words are currently infused with such power (Loki casting a defensive spell requiring near all of his power to protect an entire city, somebody declaring something to enter a supernatural transformation, etc.)
Planet: Earth, Location: Wakanda, date: unknown
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The battle for earth had begun, but even with all the preparation they had done, it just wasn't enough. The Chitauri and pirates that Thanos had brought with him were slowly overwhelming Earth's defenders, especially since what few space based defences the earth had, were long since destroyed, with only a few mutants, the last remaining anti-orbital guns and less than a dozen space capable Iron Legion suits still able to keep the fight in space going, however to little effect and with extreme difficulty.
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While planet-side the more capable and motivated defenders were killing 5 or 6 attackers for every single one of their own even with the disadvantage of having little to no air coverage because of the enemies control of the orbit, it just wouldn't be enough, not when the Chitauri alone already outnumbered the defenders 7 to 1, let alone with the added pirates, mercenaries and many others that had flocked to join Thanos's invasion force.
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Governments and other organisations everywhere were pulling every single last one of their tricks out into the open, with tanks with laser canons, wet-water ships with Railguns installed on them, Nuclear Weapons launchers sized down enough to be used by foot-soldiers, plasma anti-tank rifles, super powered mutant teams, elite soldiers wearing power armour suits and A.I. Commanded drone legions all being thrown against the waves of enemies.
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Though Thanos's forces were feeling it badly with their losses numbering at well over 100 million by now, it was just never enough and nearly every place where the Earth's defenders had anti-orbital weapons installed had been destroyed by this point, either through orbital fire or just by the enemy dropping millions of soldiers on the location and having them swarm the local defenders.
The only area were the defenders were truly winning had been Wakanda, were the attackers were met by a defence far stronger than they had ever expected, including anti-orbital weapons far more advanced than those on the remainder of the planet. However, this only lasted until Thanos personally came to lead the attack force against them, using the partially completed infinity gauntlet to weaken the defenders, which got worse after he took the mind-stone from Vision by force.
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Steve POV
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We had stood here with all this power, this army beyond anything I had ever seen before, and it was still not enough. All around me Wakandan soldiers were dying, most of the avengers were heavily injured or dead, with only me, Bucky, T'challa and Tony still able to fight in the nearby area, Vision had died from having his forehead ripped off when Thanos took the mind-stone from him.
Bruce/Hulk had lost an arm and a leg when holding off hundreds of attackers while the medics tried to get the injured behind him to safety, Wanda was down from losing a battle of minds when she tried to invade Thanos's head, Natasha had been forced to retreat from her position to rescue and defend a group of civilians that the invaders had captured somehow, Thor was unconscious and possible dying after attempting to face Thanos and a small army on his own to give Asgardian civilians the time to retreat.
All others fates besides that of Sam were unknown to him, due to them having been in other areas of the war, and Sam had been shot down and killed while he was trying to give Natalia's group some air coverage. He needed to do something, needed to take Thanos away from this battle, then they would stand a chance... wait Thanos was extremely prideful, he would never refuse a challenge to his skills, and if he could get the monster to move the fight to an area where the infinity gauntlet had little to no power, the defenders here would truly stand a chance against the invaders.
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But how would he get Thanos to commit to that? This all went through his mind in barely more than a second while he was fighting his way towards Thanos, slicing his enemies open or slamming them away with the vibranium semi-shields that had been gifted to him by T'Challa's research team.
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Bucky was moving towards Thanos, seemingly having an idea similar to mine, Tony was currently giving a group of heavy Wakandan mechanized infantry some air support by raining down energy blasts on a group of pirates. I sent a com signal to both them, and T'Challa who was somewhere I couldn't see, but still commanding his personal bodyguards as far as I know.
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''Bucky, Stark, Panther, I might have an idea that would remove Thanos from this battle, and give the army time to overcome his army, which will degrade into a un-organised rabble again once he's out of the picture'' Tony replied ''Anything would be better then what we have now, we will lose most certainly if we continue fighting like this.'' An ''It would assist us greatly.'' from T'Challa and ''Cutting of the head of the snake will only work for a while punk, but something is better than nothing'' from Bucky.
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Ok then, let's hope this works out. ''The plan is for either me, Bucky or Stark to challenge Thanos to a 3 versus 3 duel in a location where the gauntlet will have less power, and get this to happen by heavily suggesting the fact that he needs the gauntlet because of his weakness, have his pride overtake his capability to think strategically.
This should allow us to hold him off long enough for the higher quality, morale and organisation of our army here to turn the tide against his army, potentially forcing him to retreat when he returns and giving troops all around the continent a defendable fall-back area.''
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''You do know that this will be a suicide mission Captain.'' I sigh, thinking of the woman I love, but deciding that if I don't do this, then she won't have a future anyways so I will have to do it. ''I do, and if either of you want to back out you can, but it is the only way I see that can give everyone an actual chance against Thanos.''
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I heard Bucky say ''With you till the end of the line punk'', and Tony's reaction ''Let's go out with a show old man.'' I nod to them gratefully as best as I can while also still fighting the enemy and start moving towards Thanos's position while saying ''Even with all that has happened these past years, I wanted you to know it's been an honour serving with you gentlemen and all others that were here. Let's do this.''
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Thanos POV
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Hmm this is more difficult than I had expected, even now that I already have the mind stone they are still fighting back very strongly and taking down more of my troops then the other way around. Good, I want them to fight, to be strong enough to challenge me. If I came here without the gauntlet, as I had originally planned, they might even have killed me and my army before long.
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I truly need to keep some of them around as slave soldiers, even if I can use the gauntlet to erase things from existence, there are beings that cannot be harmed by its power, and I would need soldiers like these Avengers to fight those to keep the Universe in balance. Hmm might need to show them properly how strong I am, so that after this is over they will not keep resisting until the end, but instead after I bring proper balance to life across the universe some of them will join me.
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Hmm but how to go about this... ''Thanos you coward! Face me like the warrior God you claim to be, and not by hiding behind lines and using that gauntlet of yours to even the odds even while having dozens at your side against one of ours!''. I sense an opportunity here. ''That is an interesting challenge, you what did my minion call you again when the two of you first met? Man out of time? Still that does sound like a wonderful opportunity, what do you suggest?''
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If I actually want this to work I should probably have my forces withdraw a bit through a mental command and create some space between the groups. 'All forces disengage from combat and do a fighting withdrawal to 15 local meters away from the enemy main line. I am going to face the champions of our enemies in personal combat to demoralize them.'
Steve POV
Ok so far so good. '' You pride yourself on being the strongest there is right? You see yourself as some kind of warrior God of destruction or death right? And you are trying to court a being that thinks of itself as being death made into flesh? Then should you not, while invading us, challenge our champions to a one on one fight with yourself, and have the fight somewhere were the gauntlet doesn't do all the fighting for you, but you instead actually have to fight us?''
I hope that wasn't laying it on too much, this is pretty much our only chance to win this war and it needed to go just right. ''I accept your proposal human, though I would like to make it a bit more interesting, 3 against 3, you and two soldiers of your choice against me and two of my soldiers in a pocket dimension, is that a deal man out of time?'' Oh how did I hate that title, but still it was good enough.
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''You have yourself a deal Mad Titan.'' Shit shouldn't have said that, he might get too angry now, instead he seemed to, wait was that an amused look, a smile? What? ''I hope that whatever is left of your population after this war will be a bit like you, that might keep things interesting.''
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Ok that was most certainly not what I expected from a being that had come here to gather the parts of a device that enables him to kill half of all living beings in the universe at once. On the other hand I probably should have expected something like that otherwise he would have simply bombarded us from space and taken the gems from our dead bodies.
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''I will fight you with Tony Stark and James Buchanan Barnes by my side.'' Thanos seemed to smile at that ''And I will be joined by Corvus Glave and the ever nicely mind controlled prince Loki Odinsson. By the way, shouldn't his brother be one of the people facing me now? Oh wait, now I remember, I killed him already.''
Thanos POV
Ah how nice it is to see those looks of surprise and anger on the faces of my enemies. ''It is always nice to have him by my side, even if he did eventually fail me the first time around. Though that might have been intentional on his part, since I found out yesterday that he's been trying to throw off my control over him for a while and he eventually succeeded.
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Quite talented in the mystic arts indeed to be able to throw off the continued influence of having an artefact containing the mind-stone stabbed into you for half an hour, instead of completely succumbing to it.'' I meant this, it really was a thing worthy of great praise for him to be able to throw that off of himself.
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Though it is a shame he couldn't see reason behind my plan, then again he is from a world that didn't have to worry about resources for a long period of time due to its ability to draw upon others for those things they couldn't produce themselves.
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And Corvus, oh well, if he dies then not much would be lost. While a valuable asset currently, I am close enough to my goal that an single independently skilled soldier isn't what I require most, instead it is larger armies or weapons strong enough to fight those that are able to bend the laws of the universe in a way that protects them from the might of the Infinity Stones.
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I thought about where I wanted this fight to truly happen... maybe instead of using a pocket dimension like I had just said, using an actually different dimension? So that I can trap them there if I win and maybe go back later on to fight them again? Depending on how good they truly were in comparison to me it could be somewhat fun or even just a way to train myself to fight even greater threats.
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Especially that so called 'Captain', since I can feel a nearly emerging power in him similar to the one I get from those that worship me as a God of destruction and rebirth, but a bit different, probably formed around being a shield for something or some group, or a defender of some kind.
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Now that I think about it, activating that power inside of him with the gauntlet will both strengthen him to make this fight even more interesting, but it will also heavily demoralize the enemy armies around the globe, since they would see how much power he gained, how close to a god he became, and he would still lose against my might.
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Yes, I should do that, since even without the stones working at full power I will still be way more powerful then him since I've had hundreds of millions of worshippers for centuries, while he probably isn't even a full century of age. Hmm so lets see what dimension do I want? This one? No, the locals are too likely to try to interfere with the fight.
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That one? No, if they ask for assistance from that government they might actually be able to challenge me even if I have the stones, simply because beings from another dimension won't be anywhere near as badly affected by its direct powers. Indirect powers would work against them, for sure, but I'd rather not try to fight a version of humanity with over 40 billion people and the resources and experience of a multi planetary empire that has just fought and eventually won a 30 year long war to draw upon to destroy what they would see as another attempt to wipe out their species by some powerful alien.
Also those Spartan's they have remind me somewhat of slightly different versions of the 'Captain' here, and while 1 of those would be a nice way to train my ability to fight other powerful beings in one on ones against, a dozen or possibly even more of them that I cannot affect with my gauntlet at all would be little more than a death wish. Ah no, this dimension, its perfect for my purposes.
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Humanity in it is while strong not strong enough to contest me even with only the secondary effects the full gauntlet will give me and there is pretty much nobody else that would be either willing or capable of actually mounting a cross dimensional offensive to take me out. Meanwhile they would also have to deal with the problems in that dimension if I leave them behind there. Yes, let's use this one.
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Tony POV
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Damn it, now whoever keeps Loki busy cannot go full out, but on the other hand Loki will probably be fighting it so he also will not be at his strongest. Wait a second ''Rogers, I have an idea, what if we put Barnes against him, with their mutual experience in being mind-controlled maybe he can break through to him?''
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Rogers affirmed, and Barnes replied ''I'll do what I can, from what I heard he and Thor cared a lot more about each other than most people thought and so if I focus on that and the remaining still alive Asgardian civilians, I might be able to get him to break the mind control even if only for a short amount of time.''
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I sighed, it was the best option we currently had as far as I could see ''Ok, who takes on Thanos and who fights the other guy?'' Rogers replied ''I'll fight Thanos, I'm the only one of us with both most of my equipment still intact and the actual capability to face him in direct combat for lengthy periods of time, one hit from him and your suit will be scrap metal Stark, and we need the firepower of that suit if we want to have any chance of actually winning this fight.'' Hopefully this will work.
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While we were talking, most of Thanos's army had retreated, and our forces were happy with this moment to pull the wounded behind the lines towards medical units and to reload/rearm themselves. Quick repairs to vehicles slightly behind the front lines were also happening to get them back into fighting condition while finally safe from bombardment new improvised defensive works could be set-up.
Thanos was concentrating heavily on something with the infinity gauntlet glowing, mainly the stone he gained from the tesseract, after a minute or so of him doing so a portal with blue edges appeared. Then he seemed to think for a moment before he created some kind of recording device?
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''I took the opportunity to create a camera made out of energy, this will record everything that happens and send it to view-screens all over the world. This way the entire planet will see how their champions fought bravely, but ultimately failed none the less. Also man out of time, you do know about the fact that you ultimately have the same potential to power as dear Loki here, or his late brother Thor had? The power to be what people refer to as a God?''
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Ok can he just stop calling Rogers the whole 'man out of time' thing, it seems to be turning into little more than an almost childish attempt to insult him. I had expected better of a man who considers himself the saviour that the Universe needs to keep living on. I mean really that gauntlet could give him the power to literally create infinite resources if necessary, why not just do that when the Universe has too little resources left to sustain itself for a lengthy period of time.
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Also, why is he calling Rogers a 'God'? Does he consider himself such a thing and now gives Steven, no Rogers, the same designation just because Rogers has this charisma and inner strength about him that allows him to gather people by his side even when they dislike him or want nothing to do with him? Or is he talking about 'God' in the way that Thor and Loki were considered Gods, as extremely powerful near immortal beings?
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And the end. Will be continued in the next chapter, this was the first chapter of this series. Anyways, I'll also explain here what I meant when I had Thanos basically say 'Steve, you can become a god'. It always sounded odd to me that 1940's tech somehow created super-soldiers far superior to what the most advanced of modern technology can even try to do, seen to by the fact that in raw strength the Captain has everyone outside of Thanos, Hulk and some more well-known Asgardians beaten.
I then had the following idea: what if it was because of the fact that Red Skull and Captain America were both pretty much believed in as if they were some kind of Gods by some of the people on their respective sides of the war? With Red Skull, the entirety of Hydra were pretty much cultists that praised him as their God.
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With Captain America, many Americans started to see him as their defender, their shield, the 'man with a plan'. And some of them probably went to more extreme things and at the very least in their minds started seeing him as either some kind of champion from whatever God or Goddess the religion they were part of believed in, or even more extreme than that, one of the Gods of said religion themselves given flesh.
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This in turn would cause them to gain the more physical strength the higher the number of people that believed in them for longer periods of time, especially if those people that believed in them actually had a mental image of the 'God' that matched up to the actual person.
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The reason why this would work for them and not say, Hitler, who was seen by some of his followers as a God, is the fact that you need a certain level of physical capabilities to be able to actually use the faith that those people have in you and turn it into some kind of power in combat situations.
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After them, most of the so called 'super-soldier projects' were state-secrets with very few people actually truly knowing they existed at all, which caused them to not have this advantage. It is also part of the reason why some Asgardians have so much more raw physical strength than the others.
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This will become a very important part of the story later on, so if you hate it already, I apologize but the story will probably not be the best for you. Also as described by Thanos, Steve hasn't fully unlocked the abilities it would give him yet and will not unlock the full potential of most of them for some time.
The main reason behind this is because well… who wants to see a piece of fiction were all that happens is one soldier being dropped that then bitch-slaps entire interstellar empires into submission in seconds? I don't know about you guys but I find that less interesting then a powerful person that still has boundaries trying to force their body to push past said boundaries and put their own lives on the line to save others.
Edit 11-02-2019: So for now I hope that this is better then the version I put online the first time around, but once again if any of you people have additions you think will make it a better story, please send them to me and I will look them over before trying to integrate them into it if they actually do make it better.