The alarms sounded through the building and cells as the convicts and criminals killed the guards. Shepard was the one who had started it all, now her body was flaring with biotics.
"Thanks to Jack for showing me how she started so many riots." Lili whispered, throwing anybody who got in her way. She cut off their limbs and smashed them into walls. Multiple people told her to stop, but she stopped them, waving her twin katanas through the air. She kept muttering curse words under her breath as she ran. She charged at some, shockwaved others but always used her swords the most.
Soon she ran into the cargo bay, ships were destroyed but she managed to find a small one that was still usable. Lili got in and laid her katanas down. She eased it out of the cargo bay and to the nearest mass relay. She had to find somebody to help, just somebody she knew she could trust. Thoughts and memories flew through her mind.
~x~X~x~
"Joker, have the ship go to the Citadel. It's high time the people who needed to leave, left." Lili ordered.
"Yes ma'am." the pilot replied. Lili turned and walked into the debriefing room. She leaned on the table.
"The ship's headed to the Citadel. After anybody has left that needs to, it's Omega. I wish you all the best of luck. Tali, you don't have to worry. The Normandy will head to the fleet for you. As well as Tuchanka for Grunt, make Urdnot proud. I have something for everyone, some credits that should help. Not much, but with no ties to Cerberus or the Alliance, it's the best I could do. Liara did help a bit, so here you all are." she said, handing them each a credit shit.
"It was an honor serving with you." Miranda thanked, taking her credits. Lili had been surprised the woman was leaving, but her sister was almost all she had. Miranda gave a salute.
"Yes." Mordin agreed.
"This unit is in agreement." Legion's metallic voice chided.
"When ever you need me, I will come. Remember that, Commander." Samara reminded.
"I think we all will." Kasumi's soft voice said, the thief wasn't leaving but she just had to agree.
''Of course. You can always count on us." Tali cried. The Quarian needed to go back to the fleet to help them.
"Battlemaster, don't think you've seen the last of me." Grunt roared.
"I'd never think that, of any of you. If you're leaving, I wish you luck and happiness." Lili whispered, her voice firm but soft. "When ever you get a chance, message me or something." she added, the assembled people just nodded. "Dismissed, get your things and be ready."
~x~X~x~
After that, she had helped each and everyone of them to where they were off to.
"I have to find the Normandy, or at the least get to Omega." she murmured to herself. She had to change her looks just a bit, maybe even her name. Hell, just somewhere after being locked away for a couple years. Some people she had known would be dead, but she had to find one she knew she could always trust, the one who had always had her back, one she loved and knew would help her and one of the people who had tried to help her when she had gotten arrested.
~x~X~x~
"Commander, the cops are here. Don't know who but they say your under arrest." Joker reported. Lili took her katanas and her pistol then let her biotics surround her.
"Let them in, but have them waiting in the mess." Lili ordered, leaving her cabin.
When she exited, the cops were waiting. She swung her katanas in front of them.
"Is there a problem?" she asked, glaring.
"Your under arrest, Commander Shepard of the Normandy." one spoke up, taking out a pair of hand cuffs. Lili cut of his arm from the shoulder. She spat and hissed.
"Over my dead body." she snarled, but something hit her and she fell to her knees, losing the grip on her weapons.
"We need you alive." one guard replied. Lili's heard her name called, such a famiiar voice, then there were gun shots and blood. She felt arms close around her limp body and a radio crackle.
"Back up." were the words of one of the dying guards but her was silenced by another gunshot.
"Is she all right?" one voice asked.
"Just going under. Like asleep." the other responded. Lili opened her eyes wide enough to see her two best friends over her.
"K-Kasumi." Lili whispered, trying to stay awake. "G-Garrus." she whispered again but then her whole world went black.
~x~X~x~
Lili made the ship enter the relay to the Omega Nebula. She knew where she could find one of her friends, if her went there once, he might just be there again.
She waited as the station came into view then docked and stepped out of the ship. She noticed it hadn't changed for the better. The first thing she saw was a man beating a vorcha.
"Zaeed, is that you again?" Lii called. The man shot the vorcha and turned.
"Commander Shepard, I thought you were in prison." the merc said.
"I was, I thank Jack for some riot skills. How you been, Massani?"
"Fine. Made some money in this hell hole of a station. Jack's here too, as well as some other people."
"Please tell me the Turian is here."
"You mean Vakrian? Yeah, he is. Don't know where, but he's here."
"Listen, I need some armor and weapons. I got my katanas, and a pistol with the clothes on my back. If I can get some new stuff, I'm going to find Vakarian. So, you going to help me?"
"I guess I could. Fallow me, and we can go to my place. Jack already's there, she's staying until her shotgun is fixed, and she got a nasty wound from fighting the other day."
"Lead the way." Lili ended the conversation and fallowed the older man out of the docking bay and to the slums.
~x~X~x~
"Zaeed, thanks for the equipment. Jack, feel better. I'll say this right now, I'll see you guys again at some point." Lili thanked, putting the armor and weapons on then heading out the door. She thought she also had figured where Garrus might be.
"Yeah, well, Shepard good luck. Your a hell of a woman to make it out. Jack replied. "Fuck it, I made more of a riot but your alright."
"Thanks, bye." Lili said, walking off into the slums. Garrus once showed her around Omega because she had asked him to, so she knew where he liked to go. She figured he might be in his old base and headed in that direction.
She passed mercs and pirates and slavers and all kinds of other scum until she came to a small area. Ducking down to miss the I-beams she made her way through the wreckage and a door then slid past a couple security measures. Then she noticed the familiar blue armor and widow sniper of her friend.
"Garrus Vakarian. It's been a while, hasn't it." she greeted, smiling. The Turian slowly turned around to face her.
"Lili Shepard, Commander of the Normandy." he replied. "It has been to long. Good to see your all right"
"A little battered but all right. Yeah, how have you been? Go back to Archangel? Either way, I'm a convict like Jack is. Started a riot, too. I'm so dead after this."
"I've been better, and no, I'm not Archangel again." he sighed. He offered Lili a hug and she let him caress her.
"Good, I don't have time to save your ass again and we don't have the supplies to fix you again if a fucking gunship fires a missile at you face again." she laughed. "Hell, my scars are still there, I have new ones from being in jail, but hell...it's complicated. Shit, I'm no good at this. Either way, I missed you."
"No, it's fine. I missed you as well, it's harder knowing somebody is alive and gone then dead. I mean your funeral was bad, but when the news hit you were arrested...god it was horrible. I came back here thinking it'd be better then the Citadel. Oh, and Thane and Mordin are dead. Thane's lungs finally gave, right before the Hanar came up with a cure. Kolyat's taking it hard from what Miranda said. Her sister became quite good friends with him and Ashley's sister. Mordin got to old and died, but he came up with many brilliant things before he did die. And his cousin is taking over, he's just as smart and won't shut up either. Liara still sends me data about these things, and the Quarians live with the Geth on their homeworld. Tali and Kal'Reegar ended up together, and Legion is with them." he reported but Lili didn't let him finish before she kissed him.
"Shut up and tell me later. Just, please. I've been away from here for a couple years. Maybe stuff has changed, but one thing that hasn't is how much I love you." she whispered. "I can always talk with Ms. Shadow Broker about the stuff I missed. You, however, need to relax. I'm back, but I need too know if you feel the same way as years ago. Tell me, do you?" she whispered.
"Yes, Lili. Of course I do." her replied, pulling her into a tighter embrace.
"Well then, that's good to hear. I need to talk with Joker and see if he can drive us over to Liara's ship. I can't go many places, so I need a new identity from her. I'll still be your Lili Shepard the one who killed the Reapers and Collectors and Saren, but I'll be able to find the others and talk to them. I need my friends, my family. Tell me, you don't mind, do you?"
"It's fine. I'm okay with that if you need it. Joker still has the same omni-tool number and the Normandy, I don't know how the hell he managed it, but he still has it."
"Good, I'll give him a call. Get your things, Mr. Vakarian. We have a visit to pay and a call to make." she said. Garrus let her go and left her alone to make her call.