So this one is quiet a bit longer, I started out wanting them to be about the same length but this one just kept growning... giggity... ... ...
ANNNYYYYYYWAYS... Here's the second of the two prologues for Angel's Lament ao figure it out yet? Hmmmmmmmmm come on I know you guys know what's going on...
ON WITH THE SHOW!
Mass Effect: An Angel's Lament
Prologue II: Commander Jane Margret Shepard
This was not Jane Shepard's day… at all… by any means… she could feel it in her bones as she woke up in the med bay after saving that stupid Bastard Alenko from a fuckin' ten thousand year old artifact… whoa there marine… taking a breath she calmed herself before continuing . Then there was the damn nightmare from hell and now oh look here comes DOC!
"Commander are you alright?" the woman's voice was motherly, well what she assumed a motherly voice would sound like, orphan on earth, and her only blood relative was gone, and once she found him she would beat his ass into the pavement for leaving her alone for FIVE YEARS… moving on.
"I'm fine Doc," she was about to continue when she heard a voice from behind her.
"Are you sure about that Commander?" Of course why just have mother when Daddy-Dearest would be right behind her.
"I'm fine Captain." Then it all came rushing back about Eden Prime, oh god Nihlus… turning over in the bed she started dry heaving into a bucket.
"Uh-ha… what happened down there Commander we have no Beacon, a destroyed colony and a dead Turian Specter, due to the transmission issues the suit coms and cameras were down." The father figure she respected, one of the few men… people… … sentient beings that she respected sounded concerned.
"It was Geth sir…"
Jane punched a nearby wall outside the Presidium's entrance, of course she was more than happy to scan the Keepers hell she would have done it without the pay just because it would help with her figuring out the layout of this damned lump of metal, but then again who was she to turn down creds willingly given. That and the wonder twins behind her were becoming a pain in the ass, she needed help.
"Come on Wrex." Jane looked towards the voice and noticed five C-Sec, according to her missing brother useless bastards besides filling up on coffee and whatever the specie equivalent to donuts were. But more impressive was the Red-Eyed super Croc in between the five officers. That was the biggest damn Krogan that she had ever seen in her life. She noticed his nostrils widen for a moment before he locked eyes with her and grinned… damn those were big teeth… and a lot of them too. The Krogan made a dismissive gesture before walking over to her.
"Have we met somewhere before human?" his voice was deep and gravely then a spark of recognition crossed his eyes, followed by a deep throaty chuckle. "I know who you are Shepard… be careful, Citadel is dangerous for pups."
Before Jane could even open her mouth the Krogan was walking away…
"That was weird…" thank you Captain Alanko the Obvious. With an eye roll she went to find her way to Chorra's den to find this Harkin fellow, then she'd run by Barla Von… see what he had to say. Wait was that Emi, she hadn't seen her since High School…
"Williams go to the ship. I think we'll have enough heavy weapons with the big guy here." Williams saluted before making her way back to the Normandy. She was eyeing the Krogan carefully as she went around him. The trio started to walk towards the Elevators at C-Sec, at this point JAne was starting to agree with her brother's point... damn him...
"Alright so let's hit Chora's Den… again... yay more Asari strippers… Not a word Alenko." Shooting a glare at the man the trio of them set off deciding to take the market Route, besides she needed to pick up a fresh incendiary mod, a girls gotta accessorizes. What with four guns to make her own it was a wonder that she didn't own stock in the big three arms manufacturers, well them and of course Devlon she loved her little Stingers plus they were one of the few armor makers that actually made affordable armor that fit right... she was due for the next in the Explorer line anyways she had some dents and dings from Eden Prime still to worry about… Oh look a Volus was waiving her over...
Slipping the Incendiary mod into place on her Tornado IV Shepard led the two men down the steps, nice Volus, chatty, decent guy. Her eyes narrowed as she thought she saw the blue markings of… focus gotta get to the damned strip club. Crossing the bridge she noticed the distinct lack of music.
"They know we're coming," the rumble of the Krogan was right and it implied a leak at C-Sec, gritting her teeth Shepard unhooked her Tornado and let a hand fall to one of the disks on her belt ready to draw and toss in an instant. She heard the soft click of a weapon coming from Wrex and looking over her jaw dropped slightly, she wanted one, she didn't care if the ugly lump was as big as her arm.
That wasn't just a shotgun that was a damn Claymore, the symbol of a Battlemaster each one was handmade by the Battlemaster and odds were that it would break her shoulder if she ever pulled the trigger on it... but she didn't care, she wanted one. Using hand signals she motioned that she would take left cover and Alenko would take right with Wrex taking point. The Doors slid open to a hail of bullets as the two humans dove for cover Kaiden throwing up a barrier to cover Wrex while both the Battlemaster and Shepard released Warps the boom of shotguns filled the air of the club.
I'll be damned the Bartender had a shotgun stored under there… Shepard made the motion and they broke formation herself heading left and Alenko heading right with Wrex rushing forward and over the bar shooting a throw upward on instinct the Krogan sent the "hidden" gunman on the top of the bar into the high ceiling, hard. The three of them made quick work of the men stopping at two human males who were currently in their way.
"Get out of here before I feed you to the Krogan." The two men dropped their pistols mumbling about how they weren't paid enough for this shit.
"Killing would have been faster." Shepard nodded her head at the krogan's words.
"While true sometimes you need to level out the Karma. They had yet to do anything against me, they weren't hired to do so, so why not make the offer, let someone live for once." It was the Krogan's turn to nod. The door opened with a kick from the pissed off Krogan who simply walked in and sent two blasts of his Claymore at each turret turning them to scrap as he continued walking up and headbutted the human slime in the head making him sprawl into the ground. Shepard walked into Wrex having a boot on Fisk's chest and the barrel of his monstrous shotgun pointed at gangster's left eye.
"Down Wrex I still need answers." The growl of the Krogan as he lifted his foot sent a shiver down her spine, this was the evolutionary answer to badass and it was listening to her. Fisk made his way over to her only to have her own shotgun and Alenko's pistol pointed at him, not quiet the same message as the Claymore but the point was made. Fisk stopped his hands up in the air. His eye's went wide as the woman in front of him held up a hand five fingers splayed."Where's the Quarian Girl."
And then finger's started to drop, five, four, three, two. Fisk opened his mouth realizing what was going on.
"She's in the alley by the lower Ward Markets, it was business nothing personal, if you hurry you might be able to stop Fang from getting to her. It was just business I swear." Jane sneered as she lowered her hand and walked around him spotting a data disk on the ground, old school, clever. The Commander bent over and picked it up flipping it over she saw that it was unmarked… remembering the trick her brother showed her she tilted it in the light and noticed the color difference, hmmm document files most likely judging by the disk. Slipping it into a pocket she simply motioned Alenko out of possible harm's way. The Retort of the Claymore ended the life of the Dirtiest non-politician on the Citadel.
She took off at a run towards the market ignoring the reinforcement of guards as she pulled out her pair of Stingers and went akimbo using her biotics on herself to increases her already gymnast dexterity and flexibility. She hadn't done this in a while it felt good to let loose again.
Wrex watched shaking his head, that was a Shepard alright hell one can rival an Asari Commando Squad by himself and this one can put a Drell Deathdealer to shame, had the mother of these two been swimming in Eezo when she was pregnant with them, hell how did she survive the boy-child... could they have been... well it would be interesting to see.
Alenko simply watched his jaw dropped he heard about this but he had never seen it before. So this was the Lioness of Eylsium there was another rumor of a Lion that was also there but went AWOL shortly after and that the Lion was the scary one. Wrex shouldered the human and the two of them took off after the Commander.
Turning a corner Jane thought again about how today wasn't her day. She heard the sound of gunfire and an explosion of some sort. The Automatic door opened revealing a Turian with his back to her the black suit fit him well but then again she knew his crest anywhere, slipping behind him silently she pointed one of her pistols at the back of his head and prepped the trigger. Down bellow another turian, this one with darker plates and white clannmarkings was decapated by the Biotic blade of a human male, only one man could do that. Her gaze shifted to the soft sub-harmonics of the Turian's voice.
"Janey, what a pleasure to see you again, how are you doing," he sighed as she dug the barrel into the soft spot on the back of his neck, sometimes she hated being short. Looking down at the man down below she put force behind her voice.
"Freeze." She motioned for Wrex to go alive the man down there of his pistol as she pushed the Turian forwad slightly. She was whispering up to the damn bird."Oh, I'm fine Garrus, I love it when I go to meet my big brother, ready to talk to him about how his best friend and I wanted to date but to my shock he never shows up for lunch, then I try to call my soon to be boyfriend and he doesn't pick up either… you know what Vakarian, we'll talk about this later."
Knocking him hard on the back of the head with the butt of her pistol the 107 kg pile of Turian collapsed into the arms of a waiting Wrex. Seething mad she slipped her pistols back in their holsters before taking a breath and focusing down on the man in front of her, years she had waited for this moment.
"Turn around…" She saw the smirk, the blue eyes, the face of a man who disappeared on her, left her alone to the world without any damn family. Then he had to open his big damn mouth.
"Hey little Sis, How ya…" She couldn't take it anymore with a frustrated yell her hands glowed blue as she flicked her arm forward sending her brother off a wall and into another.
"YOU FUCKIN' BASTARD!," she took a minute calming herself before she walked over to the scared Quarian girl, "Are you ok?"
"Wh-What do you people want?" the poor girl sounded terrified what had her idiot done now. She noticed the girl reach behind herself a little nervously. "Why would you attack them they saved my life."
Jane's eyes went wide for a second her eyes flicking to the headless turian and two other bodies on the ground… shit this couldn't look good.
"That man who saved you is my brother sweetie, he… he was a bastard who left without telling me, I realize he saved you and don't worry he's coming with us, him and the Turian. We want to help you too, my name is Jane Shepard and I hear you could be my key to help bringing down a rouge SPECTRE." Jane smiled as she held out a hand.
"… Tali, Tali'Zorah and I think I might be able to help you so long as you don't hurt him again… he did save my life."
"Of course Tali I just needed to get that out of my system he left a few years ago… and today had been a bad day, I'd be more worried about the Turian if I were you." She walked over to Wrex and made a 'give it here' motion for the knocked out Turian. Wrex shrugged and dropped the Turian and walked over to the Human and poked him with the steel of a heavy Krogan armor boot. Jane took off her helmet releasing her red hair and smirked as she flashed back to a memory."Alenko go back and tell Chakwas that we can finally roast the fatted calf…" Hoisting the Turian up she pinched him right under his crest causing him to wake instantly.
"GAH," Wide eyed the Turian looked down at the pissed off woman and his eyes softened. "Hey Janey."
The biotic fueled gut punch dropped the Turian to his knees.
"Get up Garrus we're heading to the Human embassy and you are staying in my sight the entire time."
"You're mad aren't you?"
The sound of a laughing krogan filled the entierty of the Wards.
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