Chapter 1: Exploding Beacons
The group of soldiers march past the dead husks and geth to the Prothean beacon. The leader, Commander Shepard gazes up into green glowing light that streams up into the clouded sky, her bright blue eyes examining the 50 century old technology. The two other squad members, Kaidan Alenko and Ashley Williams, walk up closer to the beacon to study it.
"This is amazing. Actual working Prothean technology. Unbelievable!" Kaidan Alenko boasts.
"It wasn't doing anything like that when they dug it up." Ashley Williams replies, before walking even closer. "Something must have activated it." But as she steps closer towards the beacon, a strange force grabs a hold of her, pulling her even closer to the beacon. Shepard turns around as Kaidan approaches her, noticing the strange events and pushing him out of her way, charging to help Ashley. But as she reaches the solider, all the Commander can think of is throwing her as far as she can from the beacon. Ashley slams to the ground, rolling to the stop, and looking up to see the Commander lifted up into the air by an invisible force. She reaches out to the leader, but is held back by Kaidan. "No, don't touch her! It's too dangerous."
The solider bites her lip as the Commander is held in the air for a minute, before falling to the ground with a loud thud. She lies there motionless on the ground, not moving. Filled with concern, Ashley pushes Kaidan away from her, and rushes to Shepard's side. "Shepard?"