The man awakened suddenly. He felt extreme pain but could not scream because there was something in his mouth that kept him from doing so. He could see where he was. The was scientists rushing around outside of the pod that contained him. They were afraid for their lives, somehow he could tell.
A man with a Demented face approached him. It looked like he had poured burning hot metal on his face and it had cooled there. His eyes were a detailed blue, as if it were made that color. The man spoke to him with a bold powerful voice.
"Hello there."the man said. "How do you feel?" the man asked sympathetically. But the man in the pod knew that he wasn't really sympathetic of him. His instincts told him not to trust him.
"You don't need to pretend to care about me, I know not to trust you." This was the first time he heard his voice, or at least he thought it was. It was a nice voice, the voice of a hero, but he didn't feel like one. He struggled to escape from his restraints.
"Don't worry, here, I'll let you out." the man outside said. He walked over to a console from the outside of the pod and began the procedure to release him.
The restraints began to unlock. Soon the pod door opened and he was free. He knew that he should probably kill the man but something was telling him it would be wrong to kill him. Suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his head and began seeing flashes of a man and the man that had released him speaking angrily.
"You don't know what your doing Shepard! This technology could advance humanity years ahead of the rest of the galaxy!" said the demented man.
"It isn't worth all these lives. Goodbye Illusive Man." said Shepard.
The Illusive Man and Shepard. Why did he see this? Was it a vision? A memory? If it was, why did he remember it? He wasn't any of them? Was he?
"Who am I?" he asked. The Illusive man looked at him somewhat disappointed then answered.
"You are a clone of the Alliances Commander Shepard. You were made to be an exact copy of him including memories, feelings, and physical appearance. It appears that the physical aspect of the project has been a success, but I assume the memories part has been a failure."
"No it hasn't." the clone answered. "I remember everything now. I remember my spacer mother, the Normandy, the reapers, Ashley Williams, Liara T'soni, Kaidan Alenko, Tali Zorah vas Normandy. All of it. But most of all, I remember you. I remember all the times that you tried to kill me."
"I tried to kill Commander Shepard. You my friend are not him. You are nothing but an exact copy of that person. If it weren't for us, you wouldn't exist." the Illusive Man answered.
"You got one thing right. I am not Commander Shepard. But what you obviously didn't anticipate was that I would feel the same way about you. I still don't trust you and you are still my enemy. I suppose you expect me to help you. But I will not. You will not control me." the clone replied in confidence.
"Well that is a shame." replied the Illusive Man this time with an equal amount of anger as disappointment. He once again activate the console and locked the clone inside.
"Well this shouldn't surprise me but I suppose it is the first time you've betrayed me." the clone said.
"You are to dangerous to be left alive. Now I will leave you to the fate of this station. We cannot afford two hostile Shepards." the Illusive Man said as he walked away. The clone was done speaking to him anyway. The clone quickly remembered his biotic powers. He summoned all the power he could and threw the pod door open. His restraints were fairly easy to escape from after the door had been opened.
All the scientists had cleared from the station by now. It was a clear shot to the shuttle bay now. He followed the directions on the walls towards the shuttles. He spotted a Cerberus trooper ahead and quickly dispatched him with his biotics.
He began to move along when he heard a radio inside the troopers helmet.
"Commander Shepard and his team have began their assault on the station all remaining forces to the Shuttle bay!" the radio said. The clone could not be seen by himself. Not yet. He started towards the Illusive mans private office, hoping there would be an escape pod there. When he arrived he spotted the assassin Kai Leng speaking to the Illusive Man on vid comm.
"Let him speak to the V.I., but do not let him escape." the Illusive man said.
"As you command." Kai Leng replied. The clone hid behind a stack of crates just in time to see Kai Leng leave the room. Just as the clone began to leave believing the coast was clear, Commander Shepard entered with his team. Tali was with him.
He remembered Tali. Shepard loved her and he felt all those feelings rushing into him. He could not let Shepard be killed. He had to do something. Not yet though, it is to soon for Shepard to discover his clones existence.
The Illusive man appeared on the vid comm. He spoke to Shepard and the clone listened. The Illusive Man was lying and he was far to good at it. After the Illusive Man lost the comm channel, the Prothean VI appeared and began revealing the location of the catalyst to the Commander. The Citadel? He didn't know if Commander Shepard knew it but he knew that it'd be a one way trip for anyone who went up there. This is what he was made for.
Kai Leng approached them from behind.
"He said don't overstay your welcome." said Leng. They began fighting. The clone debated wether or not to intervene but he was confident that Shepard would prevail. And so he did.
Shepard and his team left the room in a hurry realizing that the station would be destroyed soon. The clone followed them to the shuttle bay and commandeered a Fighter. He waited until they had been picked up by the Normandy and jumped through the mass relay behind them.
When the clone realized that Shepard was going to Earth he flew in towards the conduit luckily undetected by the Reaper blocking it. When Shepard had arrived him and his team including a large squadron of Alliance Troops. Harbinger descended to defend the conduit and began firing on Shepard and his team. Tali got wounded by one of the beams. The clone began towards her but hesitated seeing that Shepard was already attending to her. Shepard called the Normandy for an emergency pickup of the wounded. When it arrived Tali protested wishing that Shepard would leave with them but Shepard denied it and insisted that they go without him.
There were few troops left alive now, this was the time the clone had to move. He ran towards Shepard, looking to knock him unconscious from behind. He struck him and pulled him away and into the fighter that he had arrived in. He set the ship on Auto-pilot and set the destination to orbit around the moon. He then proceeded to sprint towards the conduit.
He was very quickly hit by one of Harbingers beams and knocked unconscious. But he knew what he had to do, what he must do. He had to save the galaxy and Shepard for him and Tali's sake. Even if it took his life.