Chapter 2: The Normandy
The Normandy shook as if an earthquake just happened, luckily, with the ship's enhanced exterior hull, no systems were damaged, but the shaking was enough to wake up anyone sleeping on board. One of the crewmen who was abruptly awoken, was Commander Jane Shepard, she got out of bed and activated the intercom, "Joker, what was that?" she demanded and shortly after, her pilot Jeff "Joker" Moreau, responded,
"I have no idea Shep, something hit the port side thrusters, but nothing was damaged. Maybe we hit a satellite or something, whatever it was, it must have been pretty dense to shake us like that." he said.
Shepard wanting to know what hit them, said, "Scan the area around us and see what it was." she then went to go get dressed in her casual wear, a black shirt, blue jeans, sneakers, and a black leather jacket with the N7 logo on it. As soon as she was finished dressing, Joker contacted her,
"Shepard, I found what hit us." he said, sounding a bit confused with what he was seeing.
"What is it Joker?" Shepard asked.
Joker then said, "Uhh… It's a wooden box..." Joker was clearly confused and did not know what to do.
Shepard, thinking he was trying to make a joke, said, "That's really funny Joker, now tell me what really hit us."
Joker, feeling a little irritated said, "I'm not kidding you Shep, I scanned the area three times because I thought the sensors were buggy. There is a wooden box floating in space and it didn't shatter into splinters when it hit us. I must be dreaming or something because that some of the weirdest shit I've ever…" Joker didn't finish his sentence, causing Shepard to be a little worried, so she said,
"Joker? Jeff? Did something happen?" she said as she headed towards the elevator to go check up on him, just before she pressed the button to call the elevator, Joker spoke up saying,
"Okay, now I know I'm dreaming, the box just vanished into thin air, or thin space. Alright now where's EDI with cocktails and Tali taking off her helmet and her head is a smiley face balloon?" Joker was about to have a laughing fit until Shepard spoke up,
"Get a hold of yourself Joker! You're not dreaming. Now the box just disappeared? I've got to see those scanner reports myself, I'll be up there soon Joker." Shepard said, she was a bit confused like Joker, she went to her desk to grab a pistol and then went back to elevator to see Joker and check the scanner records to see if he was really telling the truth, but before she pressed the button to call the elevator, suddenly a loud voice spoke through the intercom,
"Commander, a strange blue box had just appeared in my quarters and then two humans walked out of it!" The voice other end of the intercom was Javik, the last Prothean, "I demanded that they tell me who they were, but they keep saying that they don't understand me! The older looking human had a strange device and tried to do something with my computers, I stopped him and managed to subdue them both. I suggest you come down here and sort them out, before I do." Javik said.
Shepard put her hand to forehead and thought to herself, "It's going to be a long day." She then spoke to Javik and said, "Okay, I'll be there soon, just don't hurt them Javik." Shepard then heard a different voice come from the intercom, this one sounded older, scottish and shouting from the other side of the room from the sound of it.
"Hey, hello! That sounded like english! Can you tell your friend to let us go?" The older man said, he also sounded a little angry from the sound of his voice.
Shepard then said, "You and your friend are not going anywhere, not until I prove that you're not a threat to anyone here. Just wait there, I'll be there soon enough." Shepard then deactivated the intercom connecting her to Javik, then went to the elevator and pressed the button that goes to the cargo hold.
While in the elevator, Shepard said to Joker, "Hey Joker, you were right, there was a box floating in space and when it vanished, somehow it reappeared in Javik's quarters."
Joker laughed for a few seconds before saying, "I'm not going crazy then, good. Well, I'm going to let you deal with whatever's happening, you know where to find me if you need me." The intercom then closed and Shepard was silent for the rest of the elevator ride.
It was a shorter elevator ride down to the cargo hold than it was on the old Normandy and Shepard immediately went to Javik's quarters. Shepard was surprised to see a large blue box in the corner, she then looked to the right and saw an old looking man and young girl standing against the wall with their hands up, and Javik pointing a pistol at them with one hand and holding a strange device in the other.
The old man spoke as soon as he saw Shepard and said, "Hello, I'm the Doctor and this is my friend, Clara Oswald. It's nice to meet you." The Doctor put his hand out for a handshake and tried to approach Shepard, but Javik sneered a bit and pointed the pistol at him, the Doctor then backed into the corner again with his hands back in the air and asked, "Could you tell your friend to stop pointing the gun at us?"
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