Author's note: I don't own MASS EFFECT (all though I should. I mean I could have made a way better ending. And by the way why couldn't they have had a happy one.) This story is biased on the way I played Mass Effect and the choices I made. John Sheppard was colony born, a war hero and a super paragon. In the first one he loved Liara, and in the next two of coarse Tali. The ending I choose to stay with when I played Mass Effect 3 last (7-14-12) was the one where Sheppard destroyed all AI. Why, because at the end of all he lives (maybe.) And through all the games my favorite team up was always Sheppard, Tali, and Liara. I hope you guys like it. This is set to be only a couple of chapters. I'm just writing this more for me than anything else to give myself some type of closer. Anyway hope you like it please rate but don't go overboard on the critic of spelling. Remember I write for free and you guys read for free. Thanks.
THE SEARCH FOR LIFE
"I don't know what I thought would happen. We were in the mist of hell, death and damnation, and then in a blink of an eye it was over. I stood on the bridge of the Normandy, my teammates, my brothers and sisters at arms waiting hoping for the sound of our leader's voice. The catalyst was activated the Prothean weapon fired, and Sheppard was gone."
"It all seemed so anticlimactic. This war, this war to end all wars ended, and the man who stood at the forefront of the battle simply vanished without so much as a word. No one saw him, no one heard him, he was just gone. We, the crew of the Normandy, we the brave few that banded around this man, this titian of legend were left with nothing more than a backwards glance of the battle, and instead of hearing our leader's voice, all we heard was a crackling on the radio and the order to withdraw. Silence, disbelief and terror was the only thing left to us. The war is over, Sheppard is gone and the universe is on the brink of destruction. The universe needs Commander Sheppard, we, I need him to still be alive, or, what the Reapers could not do, the universe will do for them."
"My name is Liara T'Soni, I am a scientist, and I am the Shadow Broker, I will find out what happened to Sheppard. I will bridge this gap of silence. For I fear that the fate of the universe still hangs in the balance, and the commander's mission is not yet finished."
"It is not fair. How can this have happened? I was free, I had my home world. I stood on the planet of my ancestors, breathed its air, felt its sun warm my face, and held him in my arms. The man who saved me, who saved the whole Quarian race, loved me, he loved me! How could this have happened, how is this even remotely fair? Why wasn't he more protected, why wasn't he with me? Why did it always have to be him to solve the problems?"
"I hate Joker. I hate that broken little pilot. He mourns EDI, he mourns for a construct that can be rebuilt. I hate that little man. He who has never held her the way John has held me. EDI never saved him, never redeemed his race, never saved a world. Joker left him to die. We should have been with him. I should have been with him. Was this what was distend, was he to unite all, just to vanish? Was this the price to survive the Reapers purge?"
"My name is Tali vas Normandy. I am an admiral of the Quarian people, I will not stand by and allow fate, destiny, or what ever shapes this universe to take him away from me. Sheppard died once and came back, and if he has fallen again I will bring him back."
Crew Deck, EDI CPU Room, Normandy
"This is fucken ridicules." Joker said as he turned the next circuit board of EDI's cpu. "You'd think that this big weapon that was built would know the difference between a big bug like space ship and, and EDI." He shouted punching the bay door.
"I would watch out what you say man." Jon Strokan said as he looked out the door. "Tali's is freaking out on you leaving the Citadel the way you did."
"What was I suppose to DO! That big weapon thing was about to fire. Reapers where clamoring around us. Admiral Hacket gave the fucken order man, and, and then EDI just, just…."
"I'm not saying I don't see where you're coming from. It's just that…"
"No fuck you, fuck her. I was there before anyone. I was with him from the start to the end. I was the only, THE ONLY ONE who was always with him. Me, not her, not Garrus, not Ashley, not Liara not anyone, it was ME, JUST FUCKEN ME. Do you understand." Joker yelled as he grabbed Airman Strokan. "When everyone turned their backs on him I was there. I joined fucken Cerberus when they contacted me and told me Sheppard was back. Me not Tali, me. I was there I had his back, so if Tali has a problem she can shove it up her wide hipped ass." Joker stood up and stretched his back, "This heavy arm sucks, the price you pay to walk I guess."
John Strokan sighed, "I'm just saying man you should be helping with repairs on the Normandy so we can get out of here man."
"You know what?" Joker yelled as he grabbed John by the shirt, "You can tell everyone on this ship, everyone waiting to get off this rat hole, that fixing EDI is fixing the ship, and maybe just maybe." Shaking his head Joker let John go and turned back to the cpu.
"Maybe what man?"
"The last thing EDI said before she blinked out, the last thing that was….. She said Sheppard had vanished."
"What, vanished what?"
"Sheppard had a lot of hardware in him don't you see. When they brought him back he was brain dead. He had synthetic parts running him. Electronic circuits that helped reestablished the links in his brain to promote function. Sheppard was practically the first cyborg ever created, and EDI….. One of EDI's jobs was to monitor Sheppard's functions." John stood opened mouthed starring at Joker, "So you tell Tali, you tell them all, that fixing EDI, IS finding the commander."
Commander John Sheppard's Room, Normandy
"Can it be done!" Tali vas Normandy yelled slamming her hand on the table.
"I don't know." Liara T'Soni calmly replied as she starred at the giant aquarium.
"You, you don't want to know. You're glad he's dead, You never could get over him loving me. Don't forget it was you who.." Tali's words froze as a stasis field slammed into her.
"How dare you speak like that. How dare you open your mouth and spew that filth to me. I love him, not loved, I love him, and I will find him ALIVE." Liara turned as a bright orange orb materialized to her back.
"Please, release your hold on Tali vas Normandy, or lethal action will be taken." The combat droid spewed in a mechanical voice.
"Is this what we have come to, Tali vas Normandy. Have we survived annihilation only to hold the knife to our own throats?" Liara waved her hand and the stasis field dropped. Tali tapped a few keys on her containment suits hand and the combat droid faded away. "Remember Tali, when all this first started, it was you and me who accompanied John the most on his missions. We three were quite the team." Liara said as she sat down on the couch.
Tali looked at Liara for a moment and then nodded her head. "We were searching for Saren," Tali laughed, "We all thought he was the biggest threat in the galaxy."
"And through it all, your tech, my biotics, Sheppards leadership and skill, we blazed a path through the universe." Liara smiled reflecting on the past. "We were all so young."
"Ha, I was on my pilgrimage." Tali remarked laughing, "I remember being so scared. I have never been outside the Flotilla before. Humans, Asari, Turians they were all so big and bold, but he, he changed it all. Sheppard didn't see us as species or aliens he saw us as living beings, people."
"He took us all in at face value. Helping us through our own difficulties."
"For a man who saved the universe," Tali said slowly reaching for the face shield of her containment suit, "He sure saved a lot of individuals at the same time." Slowly Tali removed her face shield and allowed the containment suit's hood to fall from her head. Long flowing black hair fell in waves over her shoulders as her golden eyes glowed in the dim lighting of the room. "What made him great, what makes him great is that the small, the few are just as important as the many."
Liara moved a crystal glass in-front of Tali and poured a bluish liquid into the glass, "This is Asari crystal wine a rare vintage, even before the Reapers." Handing the glass to Tali and filling one for herself Liara lifted the glass, "I swear to you Tali vas Normandy, I will use everything in my power to find him."
Tali's eyes grew wide as she starred at Liara, "You're pregnant."
"Yes, but not as you think." Liara said quickly trying to stave off an outburst of rage from Tali, "Asari don't reproduce the way you think. I, I took a piece of Sheppard from a mind mild, I didn't mean to, but it, it happened."
"Did he know?"
"I didn't know, until we crashed on this planet." Liara said with her head bowed.
"A daughter should know her father." Liara finished.
"Just remember," Tali said lifting the glass to Liara, "He is mine."
"Yes," Liara bowed her head in agreement, "That he is."