Disclaimer: I don't own Mass Effect, if I did ME3 would have had a better ending. I do own the OC's that will be appearing in this story. It is rated M of Language and the occasional smut scene between two women. If you don't like that then you might as well go back now, because I don't care what you think about, this is my story, so *sticks out tongue*. To those who read this and like please read and review.
A/N: This story starts after all the Loyalty Missions but Jack's are done and Before the Reaper IFF is retrieved.
Losa136
Chapter 1: Finally Found Her.
It's begins as it always does. I'm there in the middle of open space, drifting waiting to fall unconscious from the lack of air. Then I hear it, see it again, I'm back at the place where we last saw you. I watch as they carry you down the hallway with me running after them but no matter how fast I run, they still climb into that shuttle and take you away from us. I hear you cry out reaching out of me, and my baby sister crying in my arms as I'm running. In the end it doesn't matter you're in the shuttle, kidnapped, stolen from your mother's arms. I scream out "I'll find you Jack, I swear by the Goddess that I will find you. I love you Jack." then I feel myself get pulled in by the nearby planet. I wake up as I collide with the planet's surface.
I jump awake gasping for breath, when I feel a hand on my shoulder. I look to the side and see black and white fabric. Looking up I see it's my XO Miranda Lawson, her eyes filled with worry about my nightmare. I slowly raise my hand to cover hers. My breathing has slowed finally just by the simple touch she was giving me, this small amount of comfort. I squeezed her hand gently before returning mine to my lap, she squeezes my shoulder in return and sits down by my legs so that she was facing me. "Was it that dream again?" she asks soothingly in her aussie accent. I sigh and nod, looking at her silently. She nods and runs her hand through my sweat-soaked hair.
"How long until we get to Pragia?" I ask hoarsely.
"In another five hours." She replies.
I sigh again, I have only gotten five hours of sleep, don't get me wrong that was enough but it wasn't restful at all. "What was it you needed?" I ask.
"I got the results back from that test we ran and..."
"And, what?"
"It was a match."
"But, I feel there's a but."
She wrings her hands, she only does this when she's afraid to tell me something. I place my hands over hers stilling them. "Miri just tell me."
"They, Cerberus, altered her DNA. They put Ardi-Yakshi DNA into it."
Scowling I ask "Whose?"
"Morinth's."
I gasped and swore under my breath, "Are you absolutely sure?" she nodded.
"Shit. We will have to tell Samara. There is no way I'm keeping this from her." Miranda sighed but agreed. I spoke again, "I had hoped I wouldn't have to bring them into this but Rila and Falere will need to know about this as well. Damnmit!"
Miranda could see I was getting upset so she reached around to the back of my head, to the base of my skull where my abnormality is hidden by my hair and strokes it. Instantly it turns me into a puddle of goo, damn her for finding that spot when we were kids. "Calm down Amari, it will be all right." she says quietly as she continues to stroke my weak spot.
"You suck." I mumble childishly. She giggles at that, but laughs when I pout. I smile when she laughs, she knows I can't stay mad at her as she lets me go. My smile turns serious and she stops falling silent again. "I'm going to tear TIM to pieces when I find him. You know that, right?" she nods solemnly. I sigh and get out of bed, I walk over to my closet and grab my uniform with disgust. I turn to Miranda and see that her eyes begin to water. Dropping my clothes I wrap my arms around her neck as she begins it sob into my covered stomach. My fingers run through her long raven hair and up and down her back as my shirt catches her tears. An hour later she slowly stops sobbing but the tears are still falling. She leans back and I bend down to place a kiss on her head before releasing her from my embrace.
"I can't believe he allowed this to happen, I will be right beside you when you take him down." she says determinedly. I nod and hand her some tissues to blow her nose and wipe away the rest of her tears.
Picking up my clothes from where I dropped them, I said, "I'm going to take a shower I will meet you in the conference room in an hour." she nods as she gets up to leave, "Miri?" she turns, "Thank you. For everything." she nods and walks out the door. I sigh once more and rub my forehead as I walk to my bathroom. Some time later I walk out dressed and ready to get this over with. Grabbing my Omni-tool, I sent a message to Falere telling her to wait for my call because there was something I needed to talk to her, her sister, and my grandmother about. She replied that she would and asked if it was something to worry about. I told her maybe but that I didn't know. She said okay and that she would inform them as well. I head out to the elevator and down to the CIC, once there I made my way to the conference room through the armory. When I got there, I saw Miranda, Jack, Samara, and Kasumi waiting.
"Okay since everyone is here let's get down to business, EDI bring up the layout of the facility." The middle of the table lit up showing the floor plan of the Teltin facility. "We will land here on the pad and make our way through the front entrance, after that all of us but Kasumi will make our way to Jack's cell, place the bomb, and rendezvous back at the shuttle. Kasumi, I want you to cloak and make your way to the projects director's office to retrieve any and all the data it may contain. Then report back to the shuttle and wait if you get there before we do." I finished. "Does everyone understand the plan." they nodded, "Alright dismissed."
I watched everyone walk out but I call out to Kasumi to stay for a few more minutes. She stopped, turned around and walked back to me.
"What's up Shep?" she asked.
"I need you find something while you're collecting that data." she nodded. I brought up a picture of a locket."This locket is special, I need you find it and bring it back to me."
"What is in it?"
"It's much like your greybox and it stores memories with data encrypted into them."
"Alright Shep, I'll look for it."
"Thank you Kasumi."
"No problem Commander." she replied as she left. I returned to my quarters to change into my armor then headed back to the armory and grabbed my weapons, a Black Widow sniper rifle, my favorite assault rifle, a Predator pistol, and the Collect beam heavy weapon. Once I place them on their proper clips, I made my way down to cargo hold and to the shuttle. Miranda was the first to arrive, followed by Samara and Kasumi, then finally Jack. We climbed into the Kodiak, and when Joker gave the all clear I felt the shuttle begin making its way planetside.
