AN: Howdy y'all. Welcome to Shepard, The Eldritch Slayer. Its an loose sequel to another fan fic called Unto a Thousand Planets, Unto a thousand stars. Um, special thanks to AiSard and Nobody Smurf for all their constructive criticism on the last story I wrote. I'm a new author so I really appreciate that. I mean, I appreciate constructive criticism. I hate letting down readers. Sorry. Also TheElephantInThePrideParade came up with allot of the idea's in this story. If you see a world building detail that's cool or interesting, its probably stolen- I mean borrowed from her work.
Oh, and this Fanfic is based off of Cthulhu tech, Sailor Moon, and the original Mass effect trilogy. I'm a bit new to all of them so if I get something wrong please tell me. Also all of those stories belong to their original owners. I don't own anything. That reminds me, I should probably also admit that the name Mnesia is from Call of Duty Black Ops: Zombies. It's the name of the M14 rifle after you throw it in the Pack a Punch Machine. My cousin lets me play on their X Box whenever I visit them. And I thought that the name Mnesia was pretty.
If you want to read a good Cthulhutech/Mass effect cross over then check out Mythos Effect by Omniscent1. And if you want to check out a good Sailor Moon fan fic then read Age of Aquarius by TheElephantInThePrideParade. Her work is AMAZING!
Himalayan Lab complex, Earth
There were two beings inside the room. One of them had short blue hair. The other was lying on a table. One of them was nervously tapping a hand held devise. The other was butt naked.
"That's strange. According to these readings . . ."
Shepard took a deep sudden breath. Their lungs burned. Everything hurt. They opened their eyes. They Looked around. They were in a white sparse room that smelled like Iodine. There was a girl in the room. This girl had short hair and a face that Shepard simply did not recognize. Finally, Shepard took in a few uncomfortable details. Like their own decidedly masculine pecks. They experimentally squeezed their legs together. There was sensation coming from a place that-"What the Fuck?"
Shepard's voice had always been baritone. Now it was baritone baritone.
It kind of reminded Shepard of the audio messages she'd receive from her mother whenever she got sick. Her mother would record herself reading an passage from the SA treatise on Dreadnaughts, and she'd try to sound like Admiral Hackett to cheer her little girl up. Sometimes Rear Admiral Kahoku would get in on the fun too. His deep voice was a bit more convincing. But he just couldn't growl like her mother could.
"You're commander Shepard, right?"
The commander stared at the girl. They had short blue hair, and they were wearing some kind of uniform. Most of the uniform was blue. And they had blue eyes, blue eyes that regarded Shepard with something along the lines of clinical curiosity.
"Are you Tsukino Usagi?", the girl asked in a sharper tone.
Again the commander responded with Silence. The young girl franticly tapped something out on the device she was holding. Then, she tapped on one of her earrings, and a clear blue visor appeared.
"You're a chimera. Interesting. The right soul but your body-", the uniformed figure shook her head, "another set back."
There was an ear splitting wail in the distance. The blue eyed girl grimaced.
"Maybe you are what I need after all. Otherwise, they wouldn't be here. Come on. Get on your feat. We'll find you some clothes after I take care of them"
Shepard rolled off of the table. They landed on their feet. The new body felt strange. Center of gravity was a little off. They were the same height. A little lighter then they used to be. Hands were a little more calloused.
Shepard took a breath. They looked forwards. There was a door. A heavy steel door that looked quite antiquated. There was rust on the hinges. The blue girl was to their right, table to their left, and the floor was beneath them- until it gave out.
Shepard tumbled into the darkness. Long grasping slimy appendages reached out towards them.
"Hold on", cried a voice from above.
Something grasped the commander's foot and there was a sickening crunch. They couldn't feel their leg. And now their mind was starting to fog over. They could hear whispers from deep deep bellow.
Shepard was jerked lower. Towards the darkness, and then a voice called from above "Shabon Spray Freezing!".
Blue light raced downwards. A Moment before the magic impacted Shepard could see everything. The long bone white tentacle that was wrapped around their ankle, the other dozen or so tentacles racing up towards them, and the wide gaping maws of the multi eyed fleshly lumps who were so far down bellow.
The magic struck. There was another flash of light. Then more wailing followed by a thud. Then a voice from below roared "Shabon Spray Freezing".
Silence.
Now, the blue eye girl was at the bottom of the impossibly large cavern. The non-friendly chimera specimens were now frozen sold. She could see this because of her visor. She could see in darkness better then a cat. The Chimera she made however seemed to be staring into the darkness without purpose. Perhaps they couldn't see the bottom of the cavern. According to her visor their heart rate was steady. How fascinating.
She yelled at the subject, "I'm going to get you down", and she tried to figure out a method that would let her follow through with said promise.
The cavern was wide, impossibly wide, and its walls were smooth. There wasn't a single point were the wet grayish-blackish rock gave any sort of purchase. She thought about freezing bits of the rock and then bashing those areas in to create her own hand holds. Such an approach would at the very least be obstructively time consuming.
Next, she thought about breaking the frozen tentacle that held up her prey and trying to catch them before they hit the ground. Seemed like a reasonable approach. She began her calculations.
"Hello?", Shepard Cried into the darkness.
They received an answer of sorts. There was an audible snap. They fell towards the darkness. Some large entity rose up to meet them half way into their descent. There was a bit of movement as they fell down down down. Shepard was now lying on their back. There were two powerful limbs beneath them. They could feel that. And far far above them they could see a faint cascade of light eschewing from the hole they fell through. Every moment, every second, that light became dimmer until it was only a pinprick in the distance. A solitary lonely star trapped in a sea of darkness.
That was what Shepard perceived. Her rescuer however viewed this ordeal from an entirely different perspective. To her this was just another calculated risk.
And as they came closer and closer to the ground she could see the final conclusion to the sharp parabolic arc she had engineered.
The Blue haired girl landed with a jolt. Her feet didn't hit the flat stone floor. They struck down on the still Frozen Chimera's who weren't quite dead yet. Crash. Ice fragments flew into the air. Carrying with them bits and pieces of her foe. Some of them were dark. Many of them contained bits of warped flesh. Some did not. These clear shards caught a few distant rays of light. This created a radiance that even Shepard could see.
For a few fleeting moments their reflected after glow lit up the space around the Commander. They could see the decimated monsters around them. They could see the cold blue eyes of the Blue haired girl that held them. Shepard noted, to her chagrin, that the blue haired was holding them in a bridal carry.
"You can call me Mnesia", the blue haired girl suggested.
Darkness.
"We should be at the lower quarantine facility in an hour or so", she continued, "I recommend that you try to get some rest. If that's possible"
"Pains a little much", responded the commander with a worn down smile.
"Understood"
The Blue haired girl leapt through the darkness. Each bound covered an impossibly large swathe of rugged earth. The second that one-foot touched down she would leap again. Between the leaps, to the Commander at least, it felt like they were flying.
And as they flew through this impossibly large chamber Commander Shepard made a concerning discovery. The monsters were dead. But in the back of her mind she could still hear whispers. Coming from somewhere deep deep below.
