Mass Effect Refugee:
The Boy : spacer background
Prologue
The year was 2186 and a young boy around six or seven was sitting on a black leather couch with a cream stripe running lengthways was watching the vid-screen, the boy was just like most kids his age was wearing dark jeans with a white hoody, the boy's face was a bit pale but did go with his dark blue eyes and short light brown hair.
The boy was looking for cartoons by flicking through the channels when he stopped on the Alliance News Network, the only thing that made him stop was a photo of his older cousin with the title
"Is this the end of all life as we know it? Or is it?!" the boy was intrigued by the photo of the person was the same as the photo of his dead cousin on the wall next to his older brother.
"Welcome to the Alliance News Network, today we will show the public of the Alliance and other Galactic communities the outcome of the commander Shepard trial." The man on the vid-screen was saying
"Commander Shepard the first human spectre has been stripped of his rank of Commander and put under house arrest for blowing up a mass relay." The man spoke emphatically as he said this.
"The former commander's excuse for blowing up a mass relay is to prevent a mass invasion from ancient mystical machines that come every fifty-thousand years to wipe out all life in the galaxy, with is announcement the Alliance military is under a lot of heat from Shepard's former Squad mates should as Garrus Vakarian, Tali'Zorah vas Neema, Jeff "Joker" Moreau, Dr. Karin Chakwas and someone whom wishes not to be named." The man on the vid-screen was saying without taking a breath.
"Who all claim that ancient mystical machines are coming back to wipe all life from the galaxy, as we are concerned is just ludicrous." The man spoke in a sarcastic manner that addressed this was a personal joke to him.
The boy was in horror, the man on the vid-screen was now just start to say that the Batarian military was looking as if it was going start a war, as the boy got up and ran to his mother.
"MOM, MOM, MOM" the young boy was in tears as he pushed the door open. His mother looked around.
His mother was having a conversation with her older sisters Captain Hannah Shepard. Hannah Shepard was a bit older than his mother and wearing military dress blues; she has neck length red hair which surprisingly was her natural hair colour which was a rarity because red haired people are a rarity, and she has emerald green eyes that matched her skin which was beginning to wrinkle, Hannah Shepard does not look it but she was going into her early 50's.
The boy's mother on the other hand was the opposite she looks as if she was in her twenties likes most people in the 22nd Century but just like her older sister was going into her late 40's, she was almost exactly like her older sister in appearance except for her hair. Her hair was the same colour as her son, light brown with it going all the way down to her lower back and she was dressed in the most common style of clothes of the time.
"MOM, MOM a man on the vid-screen said that that my cousin blew up a mass relay and that his is crazy." The boy is in tears now; his mother came down next to him and picks him up.
"It ok, it ok we know me and your aunty are just taking about it." His mother was saying in a calm voice
"Just calm down your cousin's never been the same since the battle of the citadel" still in a calm voice
"Hold on just a minute my child is not crazy" Hannah Shepard blurted out as she came up to the young boy "now you listen to me your cousin is not crazy they are just scared that he could be right."
His mother snorted "it sounds like you're going crazy too sis"
Hannah looked up at her younger sister with something more like pity than hate "are you saying that my child is having problems"
The boy's mother looked like Hannah has just bitch slapped her. "Get out!"
"what?" Hannah knew that her sister was not kidding
"GET OUT!" the boy's mother was shouting now "GET OUT AND DON'T TIHNK THAT YOUR WELCOME HERE AGAIN."
Hannah Shepard backed out of the room just before she said "you be sorry" and went out of the apartment with fire in her emerald green eyes.
The boy's mother turned around "Don't trust anything your cousin's say or do you get me?" the boy look up at his mother and said "Yes Mommy."