*Warning!!! Spoilers!!!*
So this is my first actual game fanfic.... Pray that I got the characters right... It will be a Fem Shep X Garrus later on just had to get the prologue going^^
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The alarms blared, crimson lights flooding her vision as she stood in full armor staring at the failing ships schematics while sending a message to the Alliance. Normandy shuddered violently as all around the ship's crew fled into the escape shuttles. Sparks flew; fires roared all around, Commander Shepard turning on her heel, ice cold blue eyes calculating the situation, began to walk forward through the raining of sparks, wires and smoke.
A surprise attack when they had tempted to enter a system from reports of ships entering but never returning. From the schematics she had viewed, the Commander knew the ship that had aided her and her team in stopping Saren and Sovereign was on its last legs. The metal groaning as it was giving into its death wails. The ear piece crackled within Shepard's ear as Kaiden's frantic broken voice spilled out. "Commander! Hurry… ship…. Apart… Please!"
Her heart shuddering with the ships rumbles, Shepard forced her way through the heart of the ship where space was exposed above her. Corpses of her crew that failed to escape were adrift in the wreckage as she stepping through the flickering barrier was engulfed with heat from the fires touch and Joker yelling into the communications trying to yell for anyone to provide aid.
"Come on Joker. We have to get out of here!" She yelled coming right up to his side as he was still trying to steer the dying vessel out of harms way. Eyes wide with fear Joke shook his head "No! I will not abadon the Normandy! I can still save her!" He cried, Shepard with a annoyed cry grabbed his shoulder "the Normandy is dead just like us if we do not get out of here!"
"No we just have to- Oh no." Joker's eyes went wide as he spoke in a hushed tone, his vision locked on the scanners before him. "They are coming around for another attack…"
As soon as he had spoke, the ship shook violently as the lazer gun thrashed through the Normandy's mangled haul. Shepard had enough! Grabbing Joker she threw him into the escape pod as another attack struck. The shudder was so sever Shepered struggling lost her ground and was pulled back from the escape pod's safety. "Shepard!!!" Joker screamed as the door slammed shut and was jettisoned into space. The Normandy screamed just like her pilot as she exploded all around Shepard sending her adrift into space.
Breathing hard and trying to calm her racing heart, the Commander looked around to see nothing but the cruiser that had attacked and the destroyed wreckage of her ship. Breath suddenly became labored and she felt the air escaping from the back of her suit. Panicked the Commander tried to grasp the flailing oxygen tube as she fell towards the planet below. Vision blurred, panic faded to failure… as her life slipped away to the icy hold of space… Commander Shepard allowed the tear to slip down her face as she knew within her failing heart; She had failed not only herself, but her people and the very galaxy.
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The surviving shaken and injured crew looked up with eager fearful eyes as the final escape shuttle landed with the others, covered in ash and debris from the destroyed Normandy. As the door hissed open a very distraught Joker stumbled out, his left hand loosely holding his helmet that collapsed to the ground as he trembling stood there, his bleak dead eyes avoiding all others as he looked to the ground.
Kaiden pushing past Garrus and Wrex went right up to Joker grabbing the man's collar forcing the pilot to meet his panicked eyes. "Where is she?! Where is Commander Shepard?!" He yelled, tears brimming his eyes his mind wracked as he already knew the answer…. They all did.
Joker with unshed tears brightening his eyes looked past Kaiden to the entire crew, allowing his sorrow to fall down his soot covered face. "She's gone… she's gone… and it was… my entire fault…" he whispered weakly, voice trembling as he hung his head. Kaiden releasing Joker gave a loud anguished wail as he collapsed to his knees, weeping loudly through the silence of the crew.
Wrex looking at the entire crew he had been with for so long, gave a deep grumble and turning faced the Turian. Eyes dead, filled with anguish, the Turian looked at the Krogon who was rolling his neck "So this is it. This is how it ends. Farewell Garrus." Wrex rumbled as he turning without any more looks at the crew members, walked away heading to the nearby spaceport upon the planet.
"So that's it?! We are all just going to split up like none of this ever happened or mattered?! Like Shepard never existed?!" Anguished, Liara T'Soni watched as other crew members began to drift towards the nearby spaceport. Tali'Zorah nar Rayya looked at the crew that began to leave and with a bitter sound, looked at Liara's tear stained face. "She was what kept us together… without her… how can we expect to keep going on? She was capable of doing the impossible… how can we achieve what we never thought possible?" with that the quarian looking to the weeping Kaiden and to the turian who stared at the final escape shuttle.
Shaking her head as unseen tears slipped down her face beneath her mask, Tali turned and began to walk off as Liara with a sad noise turned and rubbing her eyes upon her arm, walked off.
Joker looking at the final escape shuttle he had been forced onto, bowed his head slightly in respect for her sacrifice as he turning his back for good to the remnants of Normandy, began to hobble off, his mind dull and consumed with shock of the entire loss he had witnessed.
All that remained was the Turian and the human. "Shepard…" Garrus whispered looking from the shuttle up to the darkening sky where somewhere she was, frozen. Kaiden shaking his head, threw his face to the sky and parting his lips.
"SHEPARD!!!!!"
Shaking his head, the Turian turned sharply on his heels and began to swiftly walk from it all as the tears slipped down his rough skin. She was gone… and his heart felt broken.
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R & R if you could... I shall post more once more is written!
