Foreword

This story will follow the story line mostly, with some differences. It will follow the point of view most of the time of a woman by the name of Jo Midori, a warrior from another universe that through a unfortunate turn of events, winds up in the ME universe. Midori (Jo being her last name, following traditional Japanese naming) is a original character of mine from a board I used to write on. As time goes on in the story more will be revealed about her!

Thanks for reading! I welcome any and all feedback from anyone, and if anyone wants a hand in writing, please send me a pm and I'll get to answering anything I can.

On with the show!

"Datenshi, Midori! Get moving now! You two need to get on the ship before we can get out of here!"

A growl came over the headset before a annoyed voice chirped into the bridge of the ship.

"It's kinda hard to outrun a FUCKING BLACK HOLE!"

"It doesn't matter, move it both of you!"

It sucked, but there they were, two pilots fighting against the gravitational pull of a black hole. Their suits wouldn't last forever, and with the FTL capabilities gone because of the subspace missiles breaking down their suit's systems, they were stuck in a fight with a black hole. The two pilots struggled with all they had, pushing themselves to the limit of their suits, before the one in the back had a brilliant idea, at least for the lead suit.

Opening the missile pods on the leg of her suit, the read pilot opened fire into the back of the suit in front of her. With mere yards separating the two, the explosion of countermeasure missiles was perfect, rocketing the lead suit forward with just enough speed to escape. The downside? The explosion went both ways.

The blinding light of the explosion made the pilot wince in pain as her leg was thrown backwards, twisting her body and pushing her back, further into the hole. All momentum lost, her chances of escape quickly evaporated as she was flung off to the chorus of shouts coming over her suit's intercoms, all calling out her name as her body was stretched and torn into the hole. In the blink of a eye, the suit was gone, it's pilot...gone...

"Normandy this is ground team! We need medical evac immediately, Shepard is down I repeat Shepard is down!"

Pandora Shepard lay prone on the ground, the visions ripping through her mind with a vicious intensity, threatening her sanity with the metallic screeches and images of death and destruction, of organs exposed to the air, and of twisted abominations running free. She had seen those abominations today, but as the vision intensified she blissfully passed out, unable to remain conscious as a voice replied to the two marines at her side.

"Copy Alenko, sending evac down now. We have-..." The comm cut out, the voice in shock as the Normandy picked something up on sensors. A figure, humanoid in apperance came rocketing down to the surface of Eden Prime, and as it made contact, the line blared back to Life in Kaidan's helmet.

"Lieutenant Alenko, you have a new objective. Recover whatever just landed."

"But sir! We need to get out of here and re-" Kaidan started before he was cut off.

"Recover the object. We don't know if this is tied to it or not, but we won't know until we recover. Once Shepard is aboard, move out to the navpoint I sent you, and take Chief Williams with you. Anderson out."

The line went dead as Kaidan looked to Ashley, who gave him a nod as she heard the orders already. As the shuttle came down to pick Shepard up, Kaidan and Ashley were already on the move headed toward whatever had crashed onto the planet.

The pilot let out a screech of pain that seemed to drag on as she was hurtled through the black hole. Oddly though, it seemed to end. Thrown from darkness into a sudden bright environment, the pilot realized a moment later that she was in a atmosphere, hurtling to the ground. Hitting her suits systems to try and come back online a few times, she was read various error messages and damage reports, most notably to the power generator on the back.

Twisting and flipping, never sure which side was up in between the flashes of green and blue, she was finally able to slow herself down a little she was able to right herself just a little, enough to get bearings for all the good it did her. As she laid eyes on land, she saw just how close it was and seconds before impact she was able to curl into a ball to protect herself. It wasn't a moment to soon as she impacted the ground hard, knocking her out instantly.

Alenko and Williams were on the impact sight in around a half an hour, fighting light resistance from the odd abominations and what Williams was calling Geth. Shuffling down into the hole a little they were both shocked to say the least at what they saw. It was robotic looking in nature, covered completely in metal from head to toe and supporting a gun beside it. Williams instantly brought he rifle to bear, aiming right for the creature, but Alenko stopped her from firing.

"Stand down, we have orders to retrieve, not destroy."

"But that's a Geth, just like all the rest! We need to destroy it or it might wake up!" Williams retorted.

"Look at it, it looks nothing like the others." Alenko replied. He was right as he dragged the body out. Roughly humanoid in shape, it had oddly formed...ears on the top of the head, the face blank and passive save for two mock eyes. The rest of the body looked much the same save for scorch marks and pitting in the metal, as if the being had been in a huge fight. The legs had compartments on the thighs, one of which was still wide open and empty.

Eventually with some grumbling, Williams helped Alenko drag the body out and called for a evac, even as Williams began to tie the body up with rope. When on the Normandy she would switch to chains, though neither marines knew just what was inside...

End chapter 1

Prologue

Woo finally started writing! If anyone has any questions or reviews, please send them! This may have been a bit shorter of a chapter, just becuase of it being a intro chapter, but I plan to eventually have longer chapters start forming as more and more characters join.

Next chapter we get to the reveal of the pilot, and the first face to face meeting with Pandora Shepard, along with some interactions and explanations, and even a little confusion!