The battle goes on, a mass effect/40k fanfiction, destroy ending.
Falling
Shepard's eyes were barely open as he plummeted towards earths ground. His Armor would withstand Re-entry and the impact, but re-entry sucks even in a shuttle and his Armor would be decimated by the forces thrown at it. he sighed and closed his eyes, he had been batted and even spaced before and the only reason he ever panicked at it was the thought of dyeing and leaving tali behind . his back started to heat up rapidly, signalling re-entry and his impending crash into earth's surface.
It had been hours since the crucible fired, wiping out the reapers yet still, Shepard had yet to report in and tali's overly morbid mind was wandering to morbid places. What if he's dead? She cursed herself for even thinking that, he had made a promise to her when she had been injured and Shepard didn't break his promises. tali was part of a search team looking for him in the ruins of London, they had been looking for over 4 hours and found nothing. His life sign transmitter was broadcasting from somewhere in here. Tali sat on some of the rubble and gazed around, this was hopeless, so much destruction. As she gazed a slight sparkle drew her attention, a glove. She moved over to it and started to remove the rocks and concrete. The Armor revealed was a dark blue and golden trim. She gasped, the dark blue and gold was Shepard's family colours and the only person she knew that wore them were john. With tears in her eyes she shoved a huge chunk of rubble revelling the battered and blooded body of john Shepard, tali fumbled with her omni tool bringing up her comms
"Joker it's tali, I found him!" tali practically cried into her comms
"what?" jokers voice was barely audible over tali's sobs
"just get here you bosh'tet!" tali screamed into her comms, her tears spilling down her cheaks more and more
Shepard's eyes barely opened and was bombarded with light, he grunted and slowly opened his eyes and gazed around the bright white room, it was clearly a ships medi-bay, and he moaned.
"this heaven sucks you know" he said, and chuckled to himself.
Shepard felt a slight weight on his chest, it was causing a slight pain, but upon moving his head to see what it was he was bombarded with pain, arching from his neck and into his spine. Shepard grunted and rested his head on the pillow behind him. With great effort and a remarkable ability to ignore pain, john moved ever so slightly to gaze at the weight on his chest. When he saw the familiar mask of his most prized quarrian, his eyes filled with tears at the sight of tali and a broad grin split upon his face at the sight of her fast asleep on his chest.
"you know, there are plenty of louder places to sleep you know" he said, causing tali's head to rapidly rise "oh, and I'm still alive"
"that's for surviving" she said removing her mask and pressing her lips to shepard's "and this is for scaring me" shepard saw her fist then felt it connect to his chest
"thanks for that" he gasped winded by the punch and also astounded at her strength.
Tali just threw her arms around his neck and embraced him in a hug. After a while of this silent embrace ,Shepard looked down at tali to see tears streaming from her cheeks.
"I thought I lost you" she sobbed and he pulled her close
" I couldn't die then" Shepard said, his own eyes filling with tears "I made a promise"