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When the Reapers hit Earth they decimated the Alliance. Human numbers dwindled greatly and many couldn't stay on Earth due to the constant reminder of the sentient race that had tried to reduce them to ashes, they moved on from planet to planet until one was found that could be colonized into a new world for the Humans. They named the planet Sera. Some of the other races (Quarians, Asari, Salarians, Turians, even Krogans) helped the Humans to build a new life on Sera and when they found Emulsion (a type of miracle fuel) it made living there seem like a great idea. Peace lasted for seventeen years. On the seventeenth year a species that could not be recognised rose out of the ground and launched an attack on all who lived on the surface, they are the Locusts. They were destroying everything, the habitants realised that the Alliance wouldn't be able to get them out of the trouble they were in and created a new army. Those who took up arms were recognised as Gears, the soldiers of the COG (Coalition of Ordered Governments)

Our story begins two years and 6 months after E-Day (emergence day)

Chapter 1 Breakout

The wretches never seemed to stop moving through the vents and hallways of the dilapidated cryogenic prison that held only one living convict, the only time they did stop was when they began to drool into the cryo chamber that held said person, the moment they were noticed by the out of date security system they were hit with an electric pulse which caused them to back into a ventilation fan that chopped them up into bite size pieces

'So annoying'

All went silent for a few more minutes until a loud scratching noise was heard at the large biotic-proof titanium door that had, for two years, blocked any possible escape route if the prisoner was ever accidentally awoken from the ice cold slumber.

'Breaking…?'

"Jack, rip that door and then cloak a few meters away." A naïve sounding female voice came from behind the cell door issuing the order to the small COG robot accompanying her.

'That voice is…familiar.'

"Cryo blast followed by Incineration should do the trick." She said to herself as she thought out loud.

'I recognise the unique harmonics underlying in the tone. Chi?'

The door suddenly exploded into tiny shards of ice spreading out across the floor of the cell, all of which fell short of the cryogenic capsule which was held in place by many connected pipes and a metal support structure. Chiyoko Vakarian stood behind the controlled explosion, although she looked mostly human her head spikes, reflective skin, more prominent hips and bowed legs gave away the fact that she was actually a Turian/Human hybrid.

Chiyoko stepped into the cell through the now inexistent door, with a grin on her face that showed just how satisfied she was of her destructive results, the pride that was hidden within her pale blue eyes began to show as she called to the now invisible robot floating just outside.

"As much confidence as I have in my technical abilities I think you should handle this one Jack. I don't want to accidentally kill my own cousin." She whispered the last part as she stepped aside just enough to let 'Jack' through.

Jack began to carefully yet surely unplug each of the outer tubes which continuously pumped liquid nitrogen into the outer layer of the capsule, after which he began to hack into the main control system and shut down the unneeded operations, thus leading to the opening of the capsule itself.

The capsule began to open sideways as an icy mist was purged from within, causing Chiyoko to shiver as the room dropped significantly in temperature.

She peered at the slim figure of her cryogenically frozen cousin Shiro Shepard and the metal restraints around his neck, wrists and ankles that strapped him firmly to the inside of the capsule. His body slowly began to regain its warmth as the blood flowed more freely than before with nothing slowing it down. His eyelids twitched followed by him slowly opening his glowing lime green eyes, he showed no expression and looked lifeless and dazed, his consciousness had not yet returned completely to his body which had been unmoving for the past two years.

The first thing Shiro saw, when his eyes focused and he became aware of his surroundings, was Chiyoko's nostalgic face peering back at him.

"Seriously? Cryo Shiro? You know us Turians hate the cold." She said as she rolled her eyes at him while grinning.

"Uhhhh…" He tried to speak but his mind and body were not yet in sync with each other and only a moan came as a reply.

It took a while for his eyes to adjust to the dimly lit cell but once they had his sight amplified tenfold. He began to clear his throat and coughed slightly before he tried to speak again this time the words came out but only as a whisper,

"Nobody asked you to break me out,'' Jack began to cut through the metal restraints with his built in laser.

As soon as Jack had finished cutting through the last restraint Shiro immediately collapsed under the weight of his own body, the small, floating Jack struggled to hold him up under the chest and sit him up next to the capsule to wait until he had his motor functions back.

"Thanks…um…Jack." Shiro struggled to get his words out the way he wanted and at the same time couldn't understand why this robot was named Jack in the first place. Shiro had always been slim and agile just like his father Thane Krios a drell assassin. His Drell traits were mostly hidden, but his skin reflected slightly green when the light hit it and he had deep green scales that had grown down his spine and across where his ribs would be like an outer skeleton. His white hair was a genetic trait called albino which his human mother Tsubasa Shepard had passed down to him and his illuminous green eyes paired together with the fact that his sclera are black like a drells caused many to be wary of him because of his slightly demonic appearance.

"Your hair got long." Shiro stated as he looked at Chiyoko's auburn hair that now reached her shoulders, no emotion appeared on his face.

"I need to get you a mirror!" She giggled "Yours is the same length as mine but other than that nothing else has changed, you're still as emotionless as ever. My hair could have been longer but the ends keep getting singed off in the middle of fire fights. It sucks!" Chiyoko complained.

Shiro flexed his muscles one by one and slowly reached for the side of the capsule, it took him a while but he managed to pull himself onto his feet, long enough for his legs to give way as he ended up back on the floor again.

Chiyoko slightly grinned as Shiro tripped up again "I hate to rush you…"

Shiro looked at her as he dragged himself up again this time managing to retain his balance "I was technically a vegetable for two years… You are not rushing me."

Chiyoko placed some black combat trousers, a black and blue tinted, metal plated hoodie and a metal mask on top of Jack, along with some knee high combat boots with lightweight metal plating and straps on each one and a pair of fingerless gloves to complete the set.

"I don't think I'll be the one rushing you, but the locust outside the cryo prison might…aha...ha…" She peered at Shiro as he took hold of the armour Jack had taken to him. "It's all there. Every piece you gave to me to hold on to. I thought now was the best time to give them back to you."

Shiro turned his armour over to reveal the COG and N7 symbols on the fabric and with a slight sigh gripped it tighter between his fingers. "I didn't think I'd ever be wearing these again."

He began to slide the trousers over his legs and then pulled the hoodie around his back which sported a long green tinted scar where a few scales were now missing. He pulled the armour over and around his shoulders with a grunt as though his muscles themselves were creaking, the armour melded and interlinked as it reached his chest. Shiro looked at Jack with an awkward expression on his face and waved him over with slight discontent. Jack fluttered closer to Shiro and held fast as Shiro leant against him and began struggling to stay balanced while strapping his boots to his legs with his right hand.

Chiyoko turned to talk to Shiro only to see his composure slowly breaking down, she couldn't stop her laughter from becoming audible as he tried to grip one of the straps only to find his muscles decided otherwise.

As soon as he heard Chiyoko's laughter he looked up and his eyes shot her a glare that could have killed someone in an instant.

"You like watching me suffer, don't you?" He commented while stretching his back out and standing up straight, he was 6ft tall when he managed to gain his balance.

"It is-something I don't get to see very often!" Chiyoko chuckled and then turned to the door upon seeing Shiro's illuminous blue biotics flare up around his shoulders, to her surprise Shiro did naught but brush it off sluggishly as he placed the metal mask against his face as it attached to the inside of his hood.

"That armour of yours is as unique as ever and um…your hair is showing from under your hood." Chiyoko commented as she took hold of a longer strand of his white hair, "Do you want me to cut it?" she asked as she removed her gloves to reveal five sharp talons that grew like nails from her fingers.

Shiro contemplated her suggestion for only a moment before replying "Just be careful not to cut my skin while you're at it." He said as he removed his hood and mask once again.

"Pfft, I'm not that clumsy." She pouted and began to cut away at the longer pieces of his hair, "Y'know, everybody thinks you wear a mask because you have a deformed face or something. I wonder how shocked they'd be if they saw how handsome you actually are?" she giggled gleefully as she thought about it.

"I guess you will never know." Shiro said as he looked at her sideways.

"I've finished, now your hair shouldn't show." Chiyoko stated as she pulled on her glove and watched Shiro put on his mask and replaced his hood. "I might have a career as a hairdresser after this war."

"Let's go." Those were the only words Shiro had time to say before Chiyoko grabbed him around the waist and picked him up over her shoulder with a huff.

"Put… Me… Down." He growled in his low monotone voice, his muscles starting to go limp as his blood slowly rushed to his head.

"It's faster this way, plus both you and your muscles are tired aren't they?" she retorted with a matter of fact tone that showed how much confidence she had in her actions.

"I'm fine, I can…" Chiyoko listened for the rest of what Shiro was going to say but only heard a deep sigh as he lost consciousness.

"We're gonna need you at full power if we want to win this war." Chiyoko stated as she stepped into a long hallway where lights flickered on and off at their own leisure. She took her helmet with built in voice changer that Jack supplied her with and casually fitted it over her head and carried on walking, she then drew her Lancer Assault Rifle and revved the chainsaw bayonet that was built into all the original models.

Chiyoko jogged through the prison block as though Shiro weighed nothing at all. Her blue and purple, metal plated armour made her look more male than female because of the fact that it was almost two sizes too big, added together with her Turian structure-though smaller than most-brought her to just an inch over 6ft. As she kicked open a rusted door that led out of the prison a line of burned and massacred bodies swung towards her on hooks that had been hanging them from the ceiling, Chiyoko squealed-her voice now manlier due to her helmet-and jumped back slightly in shock and began to breathe slower in an attempt to ease her heartbeat back to its normal pace as she carried on through the last building. A small platoon of locust were waiting to ambush her when she got into a more open area but she casually dispatched them one by one with only a few bullets from her lancer. Only once the last locust had fallen she ran through the courtyard while relaying a voice message to the captain of her squad, only to hear a reply that a Raven gunship was inbound and would be at their location in minutes. As the armed helicopter landed a rumble spread through the ground and Chiyoko dashed forward as fast as her legs could carry her. One of her teammates jumped down from the side seat in the back and held out his arms as Chiyoko passed Shiro down to him.

"Help me get him in the Raven." She told him as he nodded his head that was hidden beneath a standard COG helmet. He took hold of Shiro under the arms and placed him in the seat opposite the captain of the squad, he was about to sit back in his own seat but stumbled and tripped as the ground once again began to rumble. The whole gunship tilted slightly as the ground shifted underneath it. Chiyoko had been too busy trying to get her gear and Shiro into the Raven that she was still stood next to it as the ground opened up behind her and a fully grown Corpser emerged from the dirt. The Corpser screeched as loud as it could in such a high pitch that it threw Chiyoko's balance off and made her weary, the Gear with the helmet began trying to pull her into the gunship but because of her half Turian body structure combined with the heavy duty armour she wore, she was heavier than she looked and he struggled to move her more than a few inches. Chiyoko began to regain her balance and gripped the metal railing that ran along the top of the gunship as it rose into the air in an attempt to avoid being destroyed by the Corpser that was about to start screeching again.

"Ugh so annoying," The entire team turned their attention to Shiro who had until now been slumped in his chair in utter silence, he cracked his neck and stood up in the moving gunship so easily that it seemed as though something was holding him in place. His body radiated an illuminous blue glow as he lifted his head which was still covered by his mask, the two who until now had ignored his presence sat back in their chairs and moved themselves slightly further away from him. Shiro leisurely jumped out of the gunship down towards the Corpser that was still screeching at him in an attempt to make him falter. Shiro didn't seem to care at all that it was trying to kill him and began focusing all of his biotic power beneath his feet as he fell. As soon as he made contact with the Corpser's head his biotic power forced a shockwave through its muscles and made it go limp, its screeching seized as it slunk back into the hole it had crawled out of.

Shiro stretched his body out and yawned as though he had not a care in the world and biotically levitated himself back into the gunship, he was quickly reminded this was not the case when Chiyoko shouted his name.

"Shiro…A little help would be nice now that you're awake!" She pouted as he peered out and realised she had been hanging outside the gunship for quite some time. Shiro pulled her nonchalantly into her seat and sat back in his own chair with his head down as Chiyoko began to introduce the two team members that were shaking in their armour.

" The one in the helmet is Carmine and the other is Delta team's Captain, Kim."

Shiro looked at them both but all they could see were the glowing white lights of his mask that portrayed emotionless eyes.

"If there's nothing else you want me for then I'm going back to sleep," Shiro tilted his head towards Chiyoko, "I'll repay you fully for daring to pick me up." He grumbled and she knew he wasn't joking.

Captain Kim began to talk before Shiro had time to close his eyes, "Welcome to Delta Squad Shepard." Shiro turned to face him but gave no reply, after seeing his reaction he started talking again this time with a more mocking tone to his voice. "We are going to meet up with Colonel Hoffman, this should be fun for you." He smirked at Shiro who had been ignoring everything he had said except the name Colonel Hoffman.

Chiyoko giggled "This is gonna be awesome." The only person who wasn't listening was Carmine who had been repeatedly shooting out of the side of the Raven until he turned to talk to Shiro.

"You're Shiro Shepard? The Shiro Shepard?" he questioned in a childish voice.

Shiro answered with a sigh "Yeah"

"Wow that's so cool, I've heard so much about you and about what you did-" He rushed through his sentence but was interrupted by Chiyoko who had now removed her helmet. She glared at him with an irritated look on her face,

"Shouldn't you go back to shooting at nothing." She grumbled.

He retorted with "You're just jealous that you aren't famous."

She glowered at him "What do you want an action figure? Shut up Carmine." The debate ended as the Raven began to slowly lower itself to the ground.

Hey guys just wanted to point out that Tsubasa Shepard is sister to Commander Maiyu Shepard who are both in a story written by kittykittychan999 about the three Mass Effect Games. link here - s/10717092/1/The-Tiny-Commander-and-the-Giant-Turian