Born 12/1/2149

Nationality Japanese/altered genetically for survival in the womb

Admitted into a personal funded program to be super solider and permitted by the Alliance.

She was cyro frozen in 2163 to undergo biological and experimental procedures for the unknown program.

2157

The colony Shanxi it was not exceptional at least, it was militaristic feeling along with having a large technological base colonies. The outer one having farms or Alliance building warehouse and technological labs. It was a great deal having preparation dealt to have this planet ready for alien contact. I never knew why they wanted to rush out there and want to search for them. Ever since we found a data cache on Mars on 2148 by a prospectors, they unearthed Prothean ruins. It contained malfunctioning mass effect core and several starships. The fact they were studying us and no one knew the reason for it. Earth eighteen nations had ratified the Systems Alliance charter, establishing a representative political body to expand and defend human territory. Shortly thereafter, the various nations of Earth pooled their military resources to create the Systems Alliance Military. The same year, 2149, the Alliance discovered the Sol system's mass relay orbiting Pluto, previously thought to be a moon, Charon. The Charon Relay propelled them into space and the reach of humanity grew quickly. That's what everyone else thought; I disagreed in such a thing.

It was a cool crisp morning as I woke up, my grandmother forcing me through training, for traditional Japanese practices with sword, manners, and the how to cook. I hated such a thing, seeing I just love technology… the fact I was wearing the traditional kimono top and red hakama pants. The house was traditional Japanese setting having a normal pre-fab having a round dome. I walked up getting cleaned up. I walked to the kitchen seeing her take out ingredients out. I was a prodigy and hard pushed at it, having a master's degree Electrical Engineering from MIT School and a masters in theoretical physics' from Oxford I was supposed to be a sick and frail baby when I was conceived. It was the rise of genetic engineering and my mother signed up for it with my father. I'm didn't look Japanese at all, I looked American in since. I don't know why they would do such a thing. Doing an enhanced biological program my grandmother and grandfather paid for. I had short bobbed blonde hair and blue eyes, due to genetic response. My mother was a scientist and my father was a marine. I was teased about the fact I was blonde and had blue eyes. It was a project my mother came up to make me into something strong, fast, and smarter than the rest. Though it was through natural growth rather cheating it, she always did love to tinker around with things.

"Ohayo Oba-san, what are we learning to cook today…?" I asked her as she turned chuckling.

"Well nothing today, I was going to make some chocolate chip pancakes' instead since you love them so much. Your mother wanted to talk to you down in the science labs nearby so no making breakfast today. You learned everything you need to know, I even got a famous Ramen recipe from Ms. Goto back at home in Japan. I downloaded every recipe to your little tact-pad of yours. I don't want to forget such things. Ever since your grandpa died before you were born. He wanted you to be strong and smart, despite you don't look Japanese. I still love you Yoko-chan…" she said as I hugged her smiling.

"I love you to grandma and thank you for letting me go play with my tech…" I told her as she giggled patting my head. My grandmother Miya loved the traditional arts so much. She brought things from deep from the lineage from all who came into the family. We kept swords, armors, scrolls, and things most people can't keep anymore. I walked out of the house as I walked seeing the park filled with children. It was near a space port and crop field as the capital we lived in was next to center of Shanxi. I walked over seeing the kids giggling thinking my clothes were weird as I noticed our house was so in a nest. We were military and scientists community mostly as we had a lot of things at disposal. I heard my mother said that they found another relay and asked a scout team to look for it. I walked up seeing my mother's building; I had clearance to actually work here. Doing research on my own terms, as I pressed in a code on my tact-pad, it registered me as I walked seeing the scientists scurrying around with a happy looks on their face. I walked in as everyone noticed me as I walked up my mother Ayumi; she had short black hair having liquid chocolate brown eyes. She wore a scientist uniform as she was scurrying as well as she turned to me with a smile. She picked me up hugging me as she kissed my forehead as she spun me around.

"Hello my little angel, I'm glad to see you up this morning, but mommy has a lot of work to do. We lost our scout ships a while back; some people think it's a communication blackout. But before that we finished our little project together, I was just sure to make sure it ran safe." She told me as she placed to me the ground as I looked a 19.6 meter mech standing there it was grey still having an orange glowing head with a visor. It had a cockpit to fit people up to seven feet. It had pedals and keyboard with holographic. It was something a person in the past would think as a marvel.

"I think are little project, funneling all the spares in left over turn some heads lately. At least it was ablative plates we get from ships and other knickknacks. I was hoping you get to test it out for me. I managed to test it didn't run on mass effect relay tech and run by fusion core instead. So put this on ok." She told me handing a space suit to me as I slipped it on over my clothes as she placed me in the cockpit. She gave me my helmet as I sat touching the keyboard registering me and my password. I made its arms move as I made it push off the ground. It stood up as the cockpit closed on me as I checked everything as I saw my mother motion me. She took me through the docking station she led me to landing dock.

"Ok everything seems is ok and the motion sensors check are fine along with the cameras'. I want you to lift a crate by hand sweetie…" she told me as I motioned the controls to pick up the crate as she guided me to another spot to drop it off as she clapped her hands.

"Well done, so far so good, I just need to check the targeting system and thrusters…." She told me as she motioned to giant rifle on the wall. I made the mech pick it up as I saw the huge targets and small targets there. I aimed the gun as several scientists lined up with head gear to protect their gear. I lined up the shots with ease as I squeezed the trigger with ease as the aim system was help lock on to a target. Firing and hitting the dummies with ease as I even hit small holographic orbs as the rifle had overheated. It lowered its weapon as I turn hearing hand claps.

"Not bad junior scientist, with this we can actually help out the troops if we did run into some alien contact!" someone yelled out as I looked at him with my head camera. I looked up seeing something in the sky.

"There's something coming from the sky kaa-san, I see multiple things falling from the sky…" I said as all the scientists looked up at the sky as I zoomed in. I transferred the visual data as my mother looked up in shock.

"Someone please get General Williams on the radio, there are not our ships in orbitl!" My mother shouted as we heard the booming sounds overhead it was overhead orbital strike. As everyone scrambled to get to places as alarms were going off as I saw Drop ships coming down. I saw my rifle was finally cooled down.

"Shoot that one down Princess, that's an infantry vessel, and this is high priority target. We aren't we equipped to handle a firefight." One man shouted as my mother looked at him.

"She is just a kid; she can't go shooting and killing things…" My mother injected as I heard another voice on the radio.

"All hands prepare for battle this not a drill; if you can pick up a weapon shoot at anything not human r not Alliance… an order from me General Williams." He shouted as I aimed shooting it as it I hit the tank as it exploded into fire as pieces of bodies flew out. One body was intact as everyone moved over to take the picture of it. I looked over to see the body was scaly as I moved letting the rest of the equipment load on the mech. It grabbed another rifle as it walked boosting out to see the sky. There was fire in the distance, as I saw more ships coming down. The cannon on the back aimed as I pressed to fire it. The round blew right through it with ease as I fired another one trying to come down. Pieces of metal and flesh flew about as I looked to see my mother was frantic.

"I'm sorry sweetie; you are taking someone else's live even its alien. But it was the right call and I want you to know that. If this place fell the rest of the town would have fell easily. So I asked your father to come back home and several other soldiers to come. I have the defense turrets up and back up supplies and facilities online. So bring back our little project inside we need to discuss something…" She told me as the man second in charge.

"We have a problem already, the scout teams and ships sent were destroyed. Apparently it had to due to with the relay the team was trying to activate it. So it seems like we have no choice are capital city of New Edo is high priority target. So it seems like your daughter has to be in that thing a lot longer. We have several facilities that can power other towns around us. If this place fails the capital will be a sitting duck." He told her as they gave logistics' as my mother frowned seeing the global map of Shanxi was being rained down upon. We lost a great deal of satellites already as she shook her head.

"My goodness when is the second fleet coming…" she murmured.

"Three months from now, I sent a signal before communications went out. So we have to hold out until then…" he said as I stood guard in mech.

"I understand kaa-san, this time I will get to play dad's role in protecting everyone until someone gets here." I told them as she nodded smiling.

"Ok I can see that you're safer in there than being outside under buildings not protected by any open air fire." She told me as I moved out the base to watch the outside.

It was ten days later as I sat at my table as I ate breakfast, we were lucky to have such a thing. Every other capital city was out of power, water, and electricity. The aliens sent down ten days ago were infantry team designed to take out this base. For ten days they rained down fire on our colony demoralizing populations of people. Refugees were coming in and fire was breaking out. My father Isamu came here with his troops to restore order to the capital. General Williams surrendered for the people, but people were still fighting. My father was one of the ones left fighting. We had only two hundred soldiers to defend this capital. We were outnumbered, but the fact we had the most sophisticated technology to help the troops. Drones, mines, tanks, and VI's supporting them, but we couldn't take anyone else into the city. I saw a man in N7 armor looking at me, I turned seeing it was my father… he had same brown hair and brown eyes. He picked me as he tickled me and giggled.

"So has my little warrior princess doing, you were so brave in helping protect the base when I was away…" he told me as he hugged me.

"I just hope I didn't hurt anyone's feeling or…" I said as he patted my head.

"Don't worry Princess you did what you had to do, otherwise we wouldn't have the things to protect ourselves and keep people from going crazy. I really liked the mech you built its wonderful creation it really helps daddy out a lot. Especially with the defending against armored enemies and infantry…" he told me as he carried me around as I saw everyone looking glum and depressed. Several kids were playing around with balls as I saw my mother checking the equipment.

"So how goes the ship my lovable wife, is there a way to at least strike back and relieve the people." He asked her as she sigh, nodding no.

"No matter what we do, we don't have the facilities or the supplies to do a proper strike… We only have enough supplies to keep everyone on the ground…" she said as my father turned over to the mech we built.

"What about our killing machine here, can this be sent into space with energy type weapons…" my father asked as she looked at it as she saw turned back.

"Well the fact we run a VI to help the troops, it doesn't have the capabilities yet…" she told him.

"The problem is the pilot isn't it, no one can use it because the none-relay tech…" he told her as she nodded.

"The only one to actually know how to pilot such a thing is our dear daughter…" she told him as he scratched his head a bit.

"Well we need to teach someone to do it, why not our daughter…?" he asked her as the look of shock in anger went on her face. She pulled me away sitting on the ground as she pulled him into a private area.

"Are you nuts' Isamu this is our daughter here, we can't spare her like the soldiers around this base. It's completely out and we are sending her up there to get killed." Ayumi protested as he nodded sitting down.

"True she isn't like out soldiers and we even have volunteers fighting with us to stay alive. If we can relieve the tension from above we can win the ground battle. I believe it's a risk we should take you know that in the old videos. It's the pilot that make the way not the machine. If we have person not able to use it properly, you know we really need this badly. So I came up with a solution that can make us all happy and her come out alive. We have rigged up rocket with an EMP burst enough to knock out the drone support they have and their ships defenses. For a total of three minutes and it will be shot up with her. Soon as the rocket goes, her systems come on and she will be free to reign of terror on them… we just need the heavy cruisers off our back with the dreadnought badly. People are dying and general Williams can't help us…" he told her as she sighed pointing a finger into his chest and then hug him.

"You just thinking of the other we can't help I know, but if something goes wrong I will shoot you know…" she told him as he hugged his wife.

"Come on, even the scientists in the group and the soldiers think she can do this… have some faith ok. As soon as she gets into trouble she can descend back up here where it's safe. Plus we are linked having cameras feed to help her does it…" he told her as she nodded as they came back to their daughter who waited for them as they picked her up.

"Hey princess, I have a huge favor that your mommy thinks is too much for you…" he told Yoko. "I can do anything like adults can I have two degrees compared to your daddy…" Yoko told him as he chuckled as he turned to his wife.

"So you see the mech you built, we actually want you to pilot and take out the enemy ships overhead. It can really help daddy and everyone else if they really stopped firing above." Isamu told his daughter as she nodded happily.

"If it's to help someone in trouble it's not wrong…" Yoko told them as he nodded as he ruffled her hair.

"That's my little girl, we will get you set up with your own little debriefing too…" he told her as he walked carrying him.

"We will have this up running at least two more weeks to fly up and down between the planet and space. I can't believe I'm even doing this such a thing, we may have to convert it a bit to handle high pressured G-forces. So she will play around in the simulation for pilots we have still…" she murmured.

Day thirty of the first contact in the second month

I was dressed up in a white protected hard suit. It was made for me as I was getting sent into space. From my father's perspective they couldn't bomb anymore and armors couldn't infiltrate the city now. It made it for infantry to take down a lot of them seeing they have to go on foot. They didn't know all the points of the city below unlike them. I sat there in the cockpit as the modified my mech to at least go into space and out of space. The goal was simple destroy as many ships in three minutes. It took a while to get out resources together to make this possible. The fleet was supposed to be coming anytime soon. I saw everyone getting ready as the attached rockets EMP to the system. It took me a while to train under flying scenarios seeing I never actually drove anything. I looked on my screen as I saw my father.

"So here goes the operation my princesses, a lot of people are calling you brave… and people are praying for this to go well. We have problems with the dreadnought, it needs to go. We have EMP rocket system that will go off and you will have three minutes to destroy them. We have a nuke tied to the back of the mech and it needs to be detached after you arm it. It was a modified jury rig drive core with enough power to damage to redo the bombing in Hiroshima. So we are counting on you to cause so much disarray. The sips can only fire forward which can give you an advantage already. Seeing you can any direction you please. So be careful out there and come back if something goes wrong ok. It's not worth your life ok…" He told me as I nodded.

"I promise I will come back…." I told him as he nodded cutting the feed. I fell back as I strapped in as I had a VI to assist me. I looked to see the countdown go as I heard rockets going off into the sky. I rested myself as I saw the blue sky as my systems were prepped to turn on. The blue sky dissipating as I saw space… the first thing I saw was ten ships in the sky. I flipped the switch as the EMP went off. A pulse went off as the ships were down, as I clicked on the switch starting it. I pressed a pedal forward as I programmed the VI to prep the bomb. I sped off towards the dreadnought as I lowered my cannon. I landed on the front do the ship as I looked to see them in terror and fear as I clicked to fire the cannon. It blew them away as bodies flew up. I disconnected the bomb as I flew away towards the next ship blasting the windows from it as I fired a round into the center of the ship. I boosted away as I saw the cruisers' explode as moved to see a frigate as I fired down hitting it exhaust and fuel line it exploded. It destroyed parts of the ship as it looked distorted as I heard the VI say something.

"Two minutes until their systems are up…" it said as I boosted off shooing another grenade round into a hull of another cruiser as I pushed away as it blew off. I saw some fighters come out as I dodged some rounds as I aimed my machine gun shooting them down as I shot the frigates command center I moved around shooting up another one outside the blast zone. I heard fire going on as I looked to see their systems came on. I saw a cruiser fire at me as I boosted away spinning away from main fire as I heard radio chatter come on.

"By the spirit, it's taken out high command that quickly and destroyed this many. What type of monster did humanity make, we can't even fire overhead. Send out the fighters to distract it so we can reestablish control…." Someone shouted as he got a reply back.

"I can't sir, some of our systems are still down and I'm seeing a big energy source near the bulk of our fleet. No they have a bomb there sitting on the dreadnought. They ships are trying to recover the ship for supplies and men. They don't know…" he said as I let the over boost come on as I pushed away from the blast zone as I unload what's left as I saw a giant cloud going off as the ships were engulfed. I shot down the last cruiser to freedom as it was soon about to be engulfed. I heard the VI turn on.

"We are outside the blast zone… total destruction of enemy forces. Sending out small satellite probes by via requested command." The VI announced a small probe flew out as I sat back in my seat as I raised the visor from my helmet. I pulled up a water bottle as I drank hearing connection being established as I hear cheering over it.

"That was my little girl, blowing up a whole damn fleet!" my father shouted as I saw my screen come on as I saw him smiling.

"You helped saved a lot of lives today and we managed to capture a lot of the enemy. Pull out before the main fleet comes back ok. It will take a while for them to get here, by then our fleet will have it under control. So we will let the program send you back down to Shanxi ok…" my father told me as I nodded.

"I will be home back in a bit… I already start up tou-san…" I told him as I clicked the programs to start as I pushed down as it began my descent.

"I'm proud of you sweetie come back home…" he told me as I fell back to Shanxi, as I sat back letting it take me all the way back to Shanxi.

I landed all the way back down as I saw the base. I landed the mech as it landed with a thud as the boosters cut off as I walked around to hear cheering going off. The initial invasion units have been slowed to a crawl. Yet it wasn't the whole fleet apparently they thought it was the only thing we can amount too. I let the mech go off line as I bend down as I saw my father sitting there with my mother. She pulled me out hugging me as I looked to see it had lost some armor plating and had holes in it.

"Thank god your safe, I just hope your father knows that he appreciates this…" my mother said as my father carried me now hugging me.

"By the time this is over I will make sure you get a medal for this sweetie…" he said as I was tired letting the adrenaline kick in as I slept now.

"Ayumi even if we do survive this we might be subjugated to a galaxy full of aliens…. Humanity will say we made big strides, but we haven't made any at all. Just look and see around and the aliens that have the same technology. It's not milestones at least; well my daughter did make something that is unique. We need to prepare for a future where she needs to be stronger…." Isamu said to his wife.

"Do you mean that program we talked about with the other scientists…?" she asked him as he nodded.

"I get the feeling the future will need my daughter; I will have to cover up her involvement in this. But I know everyone was supporting me and her so we have no problems. Seeing we have the supplies and tech here. They will support this idea before anything happens in the war. To make a super solider that can handle intense conflicts and to save lives. That's what she always wanted to do, even you know that my dear wife…" he told her as she sighed.

"Do you know what this can do to our daughter? It can do a lot of things mentally as well physically. I know we placed her in harm's way, but I know you couldn't spare men to go up and do such a thing. I know she is smart and know what happens. What would the brass think about such a thing happening. She would have to be in cryo for periods of time operated during sleep. At most we would have to do this when puberty is setting in, plus she is eight now so it's really close." She told him as they walked into the building.

"I know, but let's explain this to her first before we do it. We can tell the brass its top experimental packages to you know. Help with disfigurations in birth and later process of life. She will be our little project that we can take care of with care. We can start soon and I know the brass would do it because they don't want to be unprepared for such a thing. I know we did seeing the fact that no one couldn't help our daughter live even if she was birthed, so let's explore the avenues what's' worse they can say." He told his wife.

For a month after Shanxi was liberated, the Turian Hierarchy prepared for full scale war against the Systems Alliance. The Citadel Council became aware of this and intervened before hostilities escalated. As a result, humanity had been introduced to the galactic community and struck a peace treaty with the Council and the Turians. Humanity was put into a galactic stage where they were seen as bullies and warmongers by other races but were also well received by the galactic community. In order to quell this reputation, they decided to begin colonizing other systems in order to gain some political power with the Council. Since the First Contact War, humanity and the Turians had a cold peace with neither side showing any trust in the other despite the peace treaty in place. The proposition of genetic experiments was on the rise after the war, due to the proposition of Ayumi Minamoto.

It was accepted and she became a top scientist for the Alliance, risking her daughter's life to prove her methods were safe. The secret about an unnamed mech pilot in the war taking out ten ships was asked to be decommissioned by the Turian hierarchy. Naming it a 'Nightmare of Shanxi' it was forced to be decommissioned. It internal components was taken out to keep the secret and made into the statue so show humans can stand up for themselves. The pilot was left unnamed for not being a part of the Alliance volunteered was left out of it, but awarded the Star of Terra for being underage in the war.

General Williams was court marshaled for surrendering the garrison at Shanxi. He quietly retired and worked construction in the colonies for the rest of his life. Isamu Minamoto was promoted and handed a Star of Terra with his men holding the last capital of Shanxi and his men recognized for their service. He rose to rank of commander and asked to honorably discharge. He enrolled at the school his mother and enrolled at Harvard University and graduated in B.A. in Galactic politics. He furthered his education and graduated in MIT program as his family under with Electrical engineering.

No one has taken the Capital of New Edo as the mech stood there as the memorials to the men who died and served helping protect the last independent capital. Stating that no politician or historians came imagine what went through their mines. Unlike hate what most felt, that was not our job, it was our job to save lives and that's what we did.

After that a party called Terra Firma rose and emails about human dominance needs to step up. The man was never caught at all and the pilot of the mech was rumored to be the little girl of Minamoto was the pilot. Which many dismiss and only a few know the real truth about the pilot that day…