* NOTE: Hey Guys, usually I don't write fanfic, because I'd rather read them. However this is my first one and I hope it turns out okay. Mass Effect is a fantastic but complex story, and I wanted to continue this magnificent saga through a story like everyone else
However, I am trying my best not to let any romance become distracting from the main plot but the romance itself is somewhat inevitable. Anyways, enjoy!
Prologue
She ran, ran as fast as her legs could take her, as hard as her mind could push her. Around her was a grungy brown blur. Her surroundings melted like watercolour the faster she went. It wouldn't be long before her legs would buckle under the weight of her panic and fatigue. With one arm out-turned, she briskly squeezed the trigger on her M-4 Shuriken SMG. Her hand shook when she realized that she used her last clip.
Frantic, she threw the gun down and kept running until she reached a broad bronze wall. She was at the heart of the collector ship and she was all alone. She could hear the droning of the swarm in the distance, with the constant echo of harbinger within it. She faced a locked door.
I need to get through! She screamed in her mind. She summoned the control panel from standby and attempted to override the security systems. Access denied.
Shit! Her gloved fingers fumbled clumsily on the control panel. In sheer sweat and desperation, she placed her fingers on her comm.
"Joker! Come in Joker, I need EDI to help me override this damn door NOW!" she cried. She released the button. Static. The droning could be heard at her ears now. This was it. A bead of sweat streamed down her eyebrow and released itself on her lower eyelashes. She turned around. A massive insect-like head faced her armed with four large menacing yellow orbs.
"This is the end of you Commander Shepard." Harbinger's demonic voice rattled her bones and manifested itself into her brain.
"Your incompetent race and the others will perish now. Your time is over..." The alien began to grasp her body with its enormous appendages, crushing her bones. Shepard opened her mouth to speak, but she remained in stasis. Her body was being pulverized and Harbinger was glaring into her soul, destroying it along with the hope she had for mankind...