Priority Mission: Eden Prime

If anyone ever said that going into a colony to fight off some unknown foe, they would be wrong. Eve knew it was never easy to see the death of civilians so seeing the bodies all around the landing spot gave her a strange familiarity. It reminded her of the Blitz just a few years back and how many died around her then.

"Shepard, I'm going on ahead meet me in the colony," Nihlus said arming his rifle stepping off the ship.

Eve looked after him knowing this would bring his end but she knew her commands wouldn't mean a thing to him. She watched as he walked off barely listening to Jenkins and Alenko's conversation behind her.

"Come on you two we will go the other way and meet him at the colony," Eve said glancing back to the two in her squad as she armed the rifle in her hands as well before heading off the shuttle into the firefight.

"Stay close and alert," Eve commanded hoping to at least save the member of her squad if nothing else. She stayed down her rifle out as she walked the path toward the dig sight.

Ahead of them were gas filled floating creatures, that would pop from any bullet that hit them. Alenko looked at them with disgust asking, "What the hell are those?"

"Gas bags, harmless really," Jenkins replied as they headed past them up the trail into the mountains.

They quickly got to more open area and before she could say a thing Jenkins ran ahead to scout a bit to suddenly be shot down by some flying turrets.

"Damn it Jenkins," Eve murmured aiming her rifle shooting the turrets down rapidly before running over to Jenkins.

Alenko knelt using his Omni-tool to feel for life looking back up to her sadly stating, "He's dead, Commander."

He slowly stood up looking at her dead on asking, "What were those things?"

"Geth," Eve answered simply, knowing well that Kaiden wouldn't understand the word Heretics related to this, hating to see a man die again wondering silently if she could change anything from that vision.

"I thought they never came out of the veil," Alenko asked surprised knowing very little about the AI beings.

"They don't normally," Eve said as she started to walk ahead, "Anyway come on Lieutenant, I'll make sure Jenkins gets a proper funeral after the mission is done."

"Aye aye, Commander," he said following after her quickly toward the dig site.

They traveled a bit with very little sight of the enemy or bodies around them, she figured this wasn't a common trail to take. Her thoughts were already running over that vision trying to pick out anything she could to give them the advantage.

Her thoughts were interrupted as she activated her barrier hearing the grind of the Geth before her. She knew the enemy well from whatever that vision was but she expected Alenko wouldn't. She glanced back to him asking, "Stay close, only break away to take cover. Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes Commander," Alenko stated as they headed into a small opening him quickly taking cover behind a rock and her behind a tree.

They peaked out long enough to shoot and use their biotics. The final geth trooper she grabbed with her biotics throwing it hard into a tree to the side of the area. She got up slowly motioning for Alenko to fall in line as they went ahead seeing the ruins and the dig site ahead of them.

She was quick in bringing her rifle up and aiming it shooting the geth their swiftly dodging the attacks by ducking behind ruined pillars. Once complete with destroying them with Alenko she came out seeing a woman soldier in white armor come out looking at them.

"Commander, are you the ground team from the Normandy?" the woman asked looking at them at attention her helmet's visor hiding her face.

Eve looked at the woman knowing this was Ashley, the woman who she started out hating but turned into semi-friends with in just a few years time. She remembered the hatred though that would spill from this woman's mouth toward her as well. She looked into the woman's face asking, "Yes we are, where is the rest of your squad?"

"They were all slayed, ma'am, when the attack happened we were over ran, the 212 unit didn't stand a chance," Ashley responded, "I'm Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams."

"Commander Eve Shepard and this is Lieutenant Kaiden Alenko," Eve said motioning over her shoulder to the soldier behind her.

"Williams, do you know where the beacon is?" Eve asked simply knowing this was the same conversation they had before. Nothing changed even with her knowing what would happen, she was still on the same mission.

"It was here, but it must have been moved," Ashley said looking at Eve looking to them, "I'll aide you in anyway I can, Commander."

"Thank you Williams," Eve said going motioning for them to move out.

"I see a space port ahead, Shepard, I'll meet you there," Nihlus said over the communicator in their helmets.

Eve rushed with them from the dig site up the hill knowing they had to hurry, she knew that they were going to find Nihlus dead unless they did. She ignored the rambling of the two behind her missing Tali and Garrus's voices from her vision at the moment. She wasn't going to let another die under her watch not now.

They saw the space port in the distance and she cringed hearing the familiar sound of a shot gun going off. She didn't remember that sound from before, had they been faster but still to late. She ran toward the space port seeing the tram heading off from them and the sight of the spectre's body on the cement. She couldn't save him, couldn't change the destiny of someones death. At least not this time, the vision was becoming more true.

"Commander, it's Nihlus," Alenko said looking down at the Turian before looking back to her.

Eve nodded slowly avoiding to look at the body as she went over to the crates saying, "I know your there...come out. We won't hurt you."

A man came out, rubbing the back of his name saying, "Names Powell, I was just hiding behind these crates from those monsters. I saw who killed that Turian too."

"And who is that?" Williams asked knowing this man from a few run ins in the colony, "Did you see where he went?"

"Yes it was another turian, I think this one knew him since he called him Saren," the man said looking at them, "He went to where we took the beacon on the tram."

"You better be telling the truth," Alenko said looking over to Shepard who had already started to take the geth on near the tram.

"Commander, wait up," he said going with Ashley quickly after the woman in charge. Watching Shepard rid the geth off the platform so easily shouldn't have been as much of a shock as it was.

Eve got onto the tram looking at them as they got on behind her, she wanted to get going knowing if they wanted to catch Saren this could be their only chance for awhile. She also knew though that they would still to late, Saren would escape just like in the vision and everything would be set in stone. She hated that thought, was it really going to end just like the vision. She hoped it wouldn't knowing she had to come back for Garrus at the end. She saw geth ahead of them setting up bombs to slow them down, gritting her teeth as they rushed off the tram.

"Alenko, Williams, we need to disable these bombs now," Eve commanded going over to the first bomb near by using her omni-tool to disable the connections. She couldn't think of Garrus and her relationship right now, if everything was set in stone then this first mission would hurt talking with him knowing at the moment he didn't feel a thing for him. She shook her head to clear her mind as she finished the disabling rushing to the next wanting to get this done quickly shooting any Geth that got in her way.

She finished the bombs with the aide of the two soldiers that followed her keeping the Geth off her back. She headed down the ramp seeing the tall glowing beacon to the side of them.

"It sure wasn't doing that before, something must have activated it," Ashley said looking at Shepard with a nod.

"We need to get this out of here now," Eve said in response pressing the button on her helmet, "Normandy, we have recovered the beacon. Send the shuttle and a recovery team, we need to br- damn it Alenko."

She saw Kaiden being drawn to it just like before rushing past Ashley grabbing him around the waist tossing him back toward Ashley. She struggled as the beacon pulled her close making her levitate into the sky. She images came rapidly of the Reapers and the destruction of the Protheans. She had seen it all before so it was clearer then it had ever been. The images brought other images from the vision of the destruction they caused her own time in just a few years. She felt her body growing weak as she was dropped the beacon shattering and her mind going dark.