This story follows an AU where Shepard survived the "Destroy Ending" and is helping repair Earth with his wife, Ashley. Rated T for swearing and gore.

I can't believe it's been 4 years since the Repears were destroyed. I still remember the day my parents died...the day I lost everything that mattered to me. Now I must protect the humans that survived the attack.

"Sir, it's time to wake up," said a voice outside my room. I was drinking the all night and now I felt like shit.

"Come on...a few more minutes. Please."

"No sir, we need to meet the commander in a 30 minutes."

"Fuck the commander...wait never mind! Please don't tell him I said that," I quickly said as I fully awoke. I opened the door as I finished putting on my uniform and Serviceman Zash entered inspecting the room. I then realized that I had stolen a bottle of wine when I was drunk. Shit! I'm going to be in a bunch of trouble. Instead he ignored it. What he did notice was that there was throw up on the floor.

"Oh wow,"he said shaking his head.

"I can explain," I quickly said. I knew I was going to be in big trouble

"So you were partying last night and you didn't invite? You should invite me for a drink sometime."

"Ok," I replied with gratitude. Zash just saved me from the wrath of Commander Davis.

I decided to go to the marketplace. We had stopped at a city in Africa. It had been thriving before the Reapers, but now it was just a bunch of rusted sheds. It looked like the aftermath of a nuclear fallout. The marketplace was full of stands and fullof rusted ship parts. Everything looked shitty.

As I was walking past the biggest shop in the marketplace, a huge rusty shed painted red full of spare parts, a woman crashed into me.

"Shit!" I yelled as I fell. I landed hard on my back. The woman fell, but at the last second she rolled and kept running.

"Hey! Watch where you're going," I yelled as two guards also bumped into me. They were chasing the woman. I saw a sort've of weapon I had never seen. It looked like some sort of grenade. The woman dropped it as she jumped on a shed and the two guards went flying! What the hell does that? What kind of energy can do that? I decided to go after her. She was good at jumping from shack to shack. I was losing her. I wasn't going to stop. I was curious about the grenades and I wasn't going to let a criminal escape.

"Stop right there! I am an Alliance officer!" I yelled as I chased her. She didn't she turned around and she fired two pistols she had, but I rolled to the side. One of the shots past dangerously past my head. It was too late when I got up. The woman had disappeared. I was pissed as fuck. How am I a soldier when I can't even catch a petty thief?

I got to the ship 10 minutes late.

"Hey asshole, have you thought of being early once in a while?" said Daniel Salizar, one of the engineers aboard the SS Fritz BB-1. I wasn't in the mood.

"Fuck off,"I told him as I passed him. He whispered something to another engineer.

"What's your excuse this time?" asked Commander Davis as I approached the meeting room.

"Sorry, I was helping the security out."

"What happened out there?"

"Some lady decided to shoplift."

"Was she arrested?"

"No sir, she escaped."

"Commander, we need you to confirm," said a familiar voice. I turned around and saw my mentor, Admiral Wattson.

"What's going on here?"I asked."Confirm what?"

The commander just frowned thinking.

Two new chapters coming next week. Thank you for reading.