A Close Encounter
Chapter 1 - Anger
"Commander Shepard is aboard, XO Pressly stands relieved." chimes the Normandy SR1's VI, there's muttering among the crew standing around the CIC, they are all wondering how the meeting with the council went. However as Commander Sophie Shepard makes her appearance all muttering soon stops. The Commander is clad in her Predator light armour and is walking with a mean intent and is showing no sign of stopping at the CIC, she heads through the left hand side door, terrifying the poor ensign on duty.
"I guess that something went wrong." states Pressly obviously. He looks to the others around the CIC "Occupy yourselves until we hear from the Commander", there's nods from each member of his team as they start to make themselves look busy.
Meanwhile, Sophie is standing in the ever so slow lift heading down to the Cargo bay, as the doors open she scans the immediate area to find it empty, bar the indestructible Mako, she has no time to think back on the times she'd recklessly driven the tank into enemy strongholds though as she spots the punching bag that had been set up by some of the ship's crew. She's glad that there's only a skeleton crew on board, she'd sent the others for shore leave while she went to speak to the Council. Sophie starts to relentlessly punch the bag, it swings violently after each hit. To say the Council and Udina had annoyed her with their decision to ground the Normandy was an understatement.