:::Mindior:::
-12 Years Prior-
-Mindior spaceport-
"We have seven ships entering the atmosphere, going to make contact."
"They are transmitting an IFF used by pirates and slavers."
"They aren't responding, contacting the alliance, I think this is a slave raid."
-Outside the city-
John Shepard was just walking home from school. Even during the day he could clearly see seven ships entering the planet's orbit.
"Must be a supply run" he said to himself
Upon arriving at his house there was a loud crash. He turned to look at the city he had just left and saw explosions across the city. His parents forced him into the house where there was a news report of an ongoing slaver raid.
-Seven hours later-
"Doors locked. Hack it." Said one of the slavers
"Done"
Within seconds the slavers found Shepard and his parents. His mother screamed, and was shot in the head by a batarian. His father ran to her side and found that she was dead. He started cursing at the slavers, and then a human shot him in the chest and said,
"They weren't worth much; we could fetch a good bit for the boy though."
Shepard ran and punched one pirate in the head.
"You'll regret that." Stated the slaver as he shot John in the leg "Now do you want to go without a fight or end up like your parents?"
"Go to hell." He responded
"Then I guess we do this the hard way."
The last thing the slaver saw was Shepard look up, his eyes start glowing blue, and a biotic sword plunge into his chest. The rest of the slavers were shot into the wall by Shepard's biotics. Most of the slavers were killed by warps. The rest were killed by being shot into the wall by a second throw. The last one, the leader pulled a pistol and fired at Shepard twice. The first hit him in his left arm, the other in his stomach. Shepard re-extended the sword and sliced the batarian's head off. John's dad was against the wall watching. One of his arteries was shot and he had lost a lot of blood.
"John come here." He whispered
Shepard complied
"Son your special, you're going to survive this. You were born to do great things. Not just because of what you can do."
"We're both going to make it through this." He replied more to himself then his father
"If I die here, let me tell you this. You will make me proud; I know you'll make me proud."
And with that he faded away, leaving John alone in the house. It was 9 hours after that the alliance made it down to the planet. When they arrived at John's house they did not expect the ground to be littered with the corpses of slavers. They found John still next to his father's corpse, he had lost an ungodly amount of blood, but he was alive, barely.