The Spawn of Shepard
Disclaimer: Mass Effect owned by EA and Bioware
Just to Clarify, This is an AU and i am altering the age of Shepard by roughly two or more years so that her son can be old enough for this Story
Inspired by Child Interrupted, The Sins of the Daughter (by Kelbear1717) and briefly inspired by Dark Messiah (by The Urban Spaceman)
Authors Note: I was listening to 'Cast Down' by Slayer for Alex's part since it fits in so well with what i hope to convey in the story.
'Words written like this in italic' means mental thoughts/thinking
Prologue:
'Nobody loves you'
"89"
'Nobody loves you'
"90"
'Nobody loves you...'
"91"
'What do you do...'
"92"
'what do you do... Alex'
"93"
'Nobody loves me... so i show the fucking world what i think of it... how much i 'love' it'
"94"
'And what do i think?'
"95"
'Fuck this world... the hurting, the god-damn violence... it makes me...'
"96"
'Makes me feel good, hurting others... makes me feel like i fucking matter...'
"97"
'Fuck the world and the people in it, they never fucking lived a life like mine...'
"98"
'The poverty, the fuck-up drug-users, the prostitutes and alley boys who line the fucking streets, the cardboard boxes that made up the homes of the homeless, the fly's attracted to the corpses of dead victims... that is what the Alliance does not see'
"99"
'I was looking at the truth at the age of eight... The fucking alliance is a farce'
"100!"
'The Alliance cares only about themselves and not the humanity they were supposed to look over!'
Alex erratically shook his thoughts from the Gutter, he mentally tortured and tormented himself each and everyday whenever he was doing his own exercise regimen, the reason as always was to push him further and further along through the rigorous exercises. The hundred's of daily push-ups, sit-ups and the hour or so of fast paced running (barely possible though being the metal box that was the Grissom academy) lent Alex a muscled physique. Alex survived through his turbulent early teenage years thanks largely in part to how strong he was when it came to street fights, yet their was an underlying intelligence about Alex that set him apart from the other strong kids whom usually lacked in the brain department.
Having such a built up body was something unusual on the Grissom academy which was filled with biotic students or genius's, or as Alex termed them, the pish-posh throwaway brats of the fucking rich. There was only one person on the whole station that Alex could personally relate with and that was some crazy bitch with the nick name of 'The psychotic biotic', however she was on the other side of the ship teaching the 'hoigty-toighty' biotics kids.
Alex did not like the biotic kids at all, what with their pathetic prancing around as if they were special kids, yakking on whinging and whining around that they all had a rough treatment in the alliance. Alex felt like calling them in on their bullshit but Alex was not about to stoop to their fucking pathetic level.
To add insult to injury, Alex's first day was not exactly a warm encounter. The first day he had to meet with the stingy Kahlee bitch, she eyed at him like he were some apish monster that was going to tear into her at any moment. Alex got used to that kind of treatment back on earth so that was not the bad bit.
The bad bit was what happened afterwards through the screening room. He had to endure a very boring tour and after that Alex was sent to the eating hall or whatever the room was called. Alex went to take a seat when some arrogant little shit felt the nerve to tip over his chosen chair.
Alex turned around with his tray of food still in his hands and spoke up to the arrogant prick. "Pick up my chair!"
The arrogant shit replied back in a indifferent tone. "Fuck no you pleb... you must have tripped over it"
Alex was not going to take that kind of treatment from anyone let alone some little bitch with a tongue.
Alex first lowered his tray of food down to the desk before he made to look like he was about to pick up the chair. That was when Alex struck against the teenager with a force to rival Hercules. The powerful punch against the teenager's ear caused him to stumble in a delirium as his face turned from smugness to dread and terror.
With a thud the teen then fell to the ground. Alex proceeded to deliver a kick to the downed teen's chest before grasping at the teenager's chair and delivering a blow to the teenager's shoulder.
"How bout you pick up your fucking chair up now... huh cunt!"
It was at that point that Alex felt the paralyzing pain that only biotic's could bring, a moment later Alex was knocked unconscious.
Later that day Alex awoke restrained to a bed inside a small room, his belly roared in hunger. Alex didn't even get to eat because of that arrogant shit.
It was a day later before he was let free of the room, but that event forever stained his reputation aboard the Grissom academy, nobody ever felt the need to mock or fuck around with Alex after that day.
Alex decided to stop reminiscing on past events before he would make himself depressed. Alex walked into his bathroom and turned on the water faucet with his left hand whilst he formed a cup with the palm of his right hand which he used to slather cool water on his face. Alex then craned his neck to the sides before he leaned into the sink and took a few sips of the cold water. After Alex had drunk enough he lifted his face to the mirror to gaze at his reflection.
Alex stretched out his right hand and scratched at the scar tissue on his right cheek, the ragged scar of which he had earned in his First ever 'Bop Action' where Alex hesitated to strike an enemy Tenth Street Reddie, whom sensed his weakness and struck him with the razor-wire wrapped rebar cudgel that he wielded. The blow really prettied up Alex's face for weeks afterwards and almost broke Alex's jaw.
Alex in his adrenaline and rage fueled anger proceeded to wrestle the bastard down to the ground. Alex bit into the kid's left ear and teared it open before he reigned down several strong blows to the face and cheeks of his opponent. blow after blow of hate filled fury and a broken right hand later Alex had killed his first person. Members of the 'Grim Devils' who where present during the fight observed the young child beating the student to death and felt that he would make a good addition to their ranks. Thus they let Alex join the grim devils. It was easy work and they gave him a small amount of money which Alex spent on food and school fees. The orphanage paid for the water and electricity but could not afford to send the children to school which was pretty pathetic. Later on though street fights progressed into drug running, drug running meant even greater danger and thus Alex was given a gun and told to distribute the drugs. With the better pay that Alex earned himself he visited Iron-ass tully whom taught him how to use guns with skill and precision and how to maintain and clean mass accelerator's of assorted types from hand-guns to sniper rifles, it was actually pretty fun learning how to shoot a gun.
Alex lowered his right hand down to his thickly growing brown beard, he fingered through several strands then moved his right hand over the faucet before turning off the cool water. The stupid bitch Kahlee ensured that Alex would never have a razorblade anywhere near him, so he had to sport a beard... but he did draw the looks of some of the teenage girls on board the vessel. If they were eyeing him down like an ape or in lust Alex could not tell, nor would he fucking care either way.
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Alex shook at the sound of a klaxon, so Alex held out his left wrist and with his right hand he opened up his omni-tool before turning on to Kahlee's frequency.
"This is Kahlee Sanders here... We are under attack by unknown forces, please report to your nearest teachers or CO's"
Alex quickly rushed out of his bathroom and put on a shirt. Alex overturned his bed and grabbed a nearby chair and exerted force and leverage on the frame of the bed until one of the metal legs fell off from the bed. Alex knew that it would make for a decent cudgel, it was quite yieldy and had some heft to it. It was made from solid metal and was not very hollow so it was less likely to bend or break under duress.
Alex didn't exactly like nor trust Kahlee Sanders and he certainly wasn't sure about her ability to keep him safe. It was for this reason that Alex made his cudgel in the first place. The same could be said of Kahlee Sanders attitude towards Alex, she didn't exactly lay out a red-carpet for Alex but she did not say another word when she heard the Human Councillor Anderson waived him in.
Alex actually had no clue why he was even allowed to such a prestigious academy since he had no biotics. He did have some knowledge about Chemistry (After all he had to make some drugs in the drug running business) but when compared to the geniuses, Alex's knowledge where for naught, although several of the students and teachers where surprised by Alex's display of knowledge on the subject of chemistry and thus he scored moderately well.
Alex opened up his door and with well practiced steps he quickly and stealthily made his way towards the biotic bloc. Alex disdained the Biotics however he believed that they were the most likely to actually have the ability to defend themselves with their 'space magic' and what not.
A minute into his trek and Alex had spotted an odd fellow wearing an all white uniform with some accents of gold and black. Alex had no idea of the meaning or of the affiliated group, however he did notice that the being he was was viewing had his back to Alex and that was an especially dangerous thing and presented Alex with an irresistible target. A target that wore only a hard suit chest plate which had a circular shaped backpack with an antennae. Alex saw that the man had an exposed neck that was covered by the standard cloth armour and padding common on all hard-suits but it would not be enough to withstand the force from a strike of Alex's cudgel.
Whilst the odd figure was fiddling with his omni-tool, Alex sneaked up behind the figure and made sure to be within a metre of the being so that his swing would not trigger any slow-triggering kinetic barriers.
Alex slowly stood up and with both hands on the handle of his cudgel which was facing his shoulder much like one would hold a baseball bat, and with barely the flick of a hat, Alex exerted leverage and strength into his wrists and hefted the Cudgel through the air... and barely half a second later the Cudgel landed with devastating effect as the mans neck was distorted from the blow. He fell to the ground but Alex was not just going to leave it at that. Alex reigned down three brutal strikes to the back of the mans head that did little damage to the helmet but Alex knew that the blunt force trauma that the man would have received would have definitely killed a human, hell those blows would have killed a Turian.
Alex then cautiously scrounged through the mans corpse and he carefully undid the man's kinetic barrier belt and placed it around his hips before picking up the mans pistol.
Alex observed the sides of the weapon and spotted a letter and a number.
"M5 huh... i wonder if you are any good"
Alex pressed a button on the side of the gun with his left index finger, the button caused the gun to unfold itself and within two seconds the weapon was fully deployed.
Alex searched the corpse of the man again before taking the man's omni-tool. Alex did a quick search through it's database and he found only one thing of interest... it was a document titled clearly.
High-Priority Target
Student ID: 18-82B Alex Leinrough
Capture priority Alpha. Bring back alive at all costs.
The Illusive Man believes this Teenager is the only known biological Son of Adelle Shepard. He is to be considered dangerous as he has a previous background as a medium-level gang member in a gang known as the 'Grim Devils'
It is best to retrieve the subject and transport him back to the Cerberus Headquarters where he may be used as a hostage by which to subdue Shepard from entering the war
Shock and surprise and anger fought for dominance over Alex.
"Fucking bullshit... fucking bullshit... this cannot be true, i cannot be the son of Adelle fucking Shepard"
Alex did not know how to handle the situation.
'Is this even probable... where the Fuck was this Bitch when i fucking needed her!'
Alex was not exactly happy at this moment. Alex gripped his gun extra tight and began to stand up straight again, readying himself to continue his trek further. One thought carrying him through... the search for answers.
'Shepard, if i find you... you are going to have a lot to fucking EXPLAIN!'
Chapter 1: An Explanation
Adelle Shepard tapped her fingers idly against the metal post whilst gazing into the galaxy map that made up a large proportion of the CIC room of the Normandy, suddenly however a slight electronic pinging noise sounded from a device which Shepard instantaneously recognized as an omni-tool receiving a message.
Samantha Traynor reached out her hand towards her omni-tool held on her left wrist before reading the message that she had received.
"Shepard... i have just found something while scanning Alliance channels... Grissom academy is requesting help"
Adelle Shepard's heart and mind siezed upon hearing the word Grissom academy. her mind quickly swayed to thoughts about the very son that she had never raised... or seen in her entire life, the Son that she hoped to see as soon as the war was over. The Son that she had kept tabs over to keep him safe, the Son that was sent to Grissom academy by Admiral Anderson's strict orders to keep her son away from the violence on earth... away from the gangs and crime, The very son that might now be endangered.
"Shepard are you listening to me?"
Shepard shook her head from her thoughts and replied back to Traynor.
"Yes i heard you... tell Joker to set course for Grissom academy... Now!"
Samantha Traynor saluted back before speaking her affirmative.
"Aye Aye ma'am"
Shepard quickly lifted herself off the metal pole that she had lain against and rushed for the elevator which she reached in record time and fingered for the commander's cabin, her own room.
When she arrived she immediately suited up in her N7 gear and slapped on her selected weapons to the back of her suit where they attached onto the magnetic seal and clanged with a light 'clack'.
Shepard paced herself carefully over the stairs and stepped a few more steps until she stood over her personal terminal before placing the palm of her left hand over her head and calmly contemplating what she was going to say to Garrus... her lover. How was she going to explain this, how was she going to explain that Garrus was a father.
After about a minute she gathered up the courage to press the button and called out to Samantha Taylor whom replied to the speaker.
"ma'am"
"Taylor... i want you to send Garrus up to my office right this moment, tell him it is important"
Garrus arrived up about four minutes later, he was in his distinctive chrome and blue Hard suit and he was frowning out of worry in that Turian way of his.
"Shepard"
Adelle blurted out words that were barely formed in her head in an attempt to explain the situation... and her son to Garrus, she was afraid of how he would react.
"Garrus... do you remember when i told you about my life on earth?"
Garrus stood up straight and replied back.
"Yes... about you and the Tenth Street Reds and how you joined the Alliance to escape"
Shepard sighed before revealing more of the information in little packets.
"Garrus... i didn't tell you everything so just be quiet and let me explain everything..."
Garrus's mandibles flexed for a moment before going back to their normal place. Garrus remained silent and waited for Shepard to continue talking.
"Alright... so when i was fifteen i made a foolish mistake and fell in love with someone... and nine months later i had a child Garrus"
Garrus's Mandible's moved in shock but he remained silent.
Shepard looked at Garrus and gestured to the sides with her hands and spoke back.
"Well Garrus?"
Garrus stood up even straighter then he knew he ever could before speaking back.
"What happened to the Baby?"
Shepard palmed her head with both her hands before shouting.
"I FUCKING ORPHANED HIM"
Garrus rushed over to Console his lover.
"I am a terrible fucking mother"
Garrus spoke into her ears.
"No you are not, sure you made a bad choice but that does not make you a bad mother"
Shepard looked up into Garrus's eyes before asserting her new-found confidence.
"No i am not... i am taking back my son!... thank you Garrus"
Rewritten on 12:00 AM 30/03/2015