Prologue – The colony kid
"Where are we going daddy?" Asked the 6 year old boy.
"Sorry Derrick, Daddy is just speaking to the nice lady who is helping us," Said the boy's mother.
"Where are we going mommy?" the child asked his mother.
"To a place called Mindoir honey, Daddy bought us some land and we're going to have a lot of fun there," His mother said with love and affection in her voice.
"Mr. Shepard, your booking is confirmed and you can head out to the take off platform, have a safe journey," The booking agent behind the counter said to the boy's father.
"Thank you so much," He replied.
"Hannah, Derrick, let's go. The shuttle is waiting for us," The man called to his wife and son.
The boy and his mother joined him as they walked out the doors unto the shuttle platform bathed in the brilliant sunset of Terra Nova.
They loaded their luggage on the shuttle which would transport them to the space station orbiting the planet. Once they arrived they would await their flight to Mindoir.
As the Shuttle dusted off from the platform, Derrick looked out the window with an awed expression; he had never been to space before.
"James," Hannah said.
"Yes honey?"
"Are we doing the right thing James?" She asked in a worried tone.
"We've talked about this. They say Mindoir is the perfect place for farming, save, fertile. It will be great," He replied confidently with a smile on his face.
"I hope you're right," She replied as she laid her head on his shoulder.
"Don't worry so much." He leaned over and kissed her forehead.
The shuttle left the planet of Terra Nova and sped off towards it's destination.
Author notes: Please take note that my first language is not English.
I thought the other day that writing a story about how Shepard and Miranda grew up would be cool, so I decided to write it. This will be my first creative work as my previous work was a weak attempt at novelising Mass Effect 2, which I concluded would be better left to LuxDragon.
I traditionally choose the colony/ hero background and thus chose that background for this story. I will attempt to write this FF up to the point where Shepard becomes a Spectre or up intill Lazarus, we will see how it goes.
Hope you enjoy it, and please remember to review this chapter.
