And now I introduce Commander Shepard. Her first name is Rem.
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Darkness. All she saw was darkness. The last thing that she remembered was exploding, and when her eyes finally opened she found herself in total darkness. Then the Wolf showed up.
Rem Shepard found herself in total darkness with a pair of giant yellow eyes staring at down at her. In this dark place she stood in there was no sense of time, the Wolf had been talking to her since she had arrived. It was the only thing here, and it tormented her.
"You may have destroyed the Reapers, but you've doomed your own kind in the process." It spoke in it's monstrous .
"Shut up!" She yelled. She tried to cover her ears with her hands, but the Wolf's words tore through her like a knife.
"Stop fighting what you already know. You've failed."
It felt like weeks, or even years. The Wolf had been torturing her with it's words nonstop. It wasn't anything new though. The Wolf had been there since she was born. It was that voice at the back of her mind telling her that she wasn't good enough, that no matter what she did she would have already been to late. And now it was right there next to her, it's words more powerful then ever.
"Their all dead because of you." The Wolf said in it's booming voice. "The Quarian, the Asari, the pilot, their all dead."
"No, stop it!" She yelled at, clutching her ears even harder. She had been fighting it for what seemed like weeks, but it had gotten to the point where she was breaking down. And she was starting to cry.
"And the Turian." The Wolf continued. "Garrus." The massive yellow eyes moved closer to her. The beaming yellow eyes shining like a spot light over her. "How does it feel to know that you killed the man you love." She couldn't take anymore. Tears broke through her eyes as she stopped resisting. And the Wolf was enjoying it. It laughed. "So you've finally excepted your failure. You're such a weak host."
She was trapped here with this creature, in this dark place. She was in some kind of hell, and she wanted out. If she thought killing herself was possible she would do it, but that wouldn't work.
And just as she was just at her darkest, a light broke through the darkness and hit the Wolf. The light burned it, made it scream and made it back away from her. Before she knew what was happening, a hand came out from the light and it pulled her in. The darkness begun to fade.
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Hey. She heard. The darkness was replaced with a different kind of darkness, one that was much lighter. She suddenly felt herself in pain, it was small but there. It meant that she was alive. She found the darkness that she was now in was her own eye lids.
"He kid." She heard. She struggled to open her eyes, the light was bright, very bright. Her purple eyes opened slowly so the light wouldn't blind her. In the light she saw a blurry figure. "Come on girl wake up." The figure said in it's calm voice. It was only then that she heard the low hum of hospital equipment. The blurry figure begun to come into focus, she recognized his spiky brown hair and his crystal blue eyes. It was her father.
"Dad?" She questioned weakly. She tried to sit up but sharp pains prevented from doing so.
He gently pushed her back down. "Take easy." He said. "You haven't recovered from the trauma."
She found breathing to be difficult, talking more so. "What happened?"
Her father smiled his million dollar smile. "You did what you set out to do."
"The Reapers?"
"All dead. With a few consequences, but that can wait." He answered, pushing some of her black hair out of her face. "The explosion you caused knocked you into a coma. The doctors said you'd never wake up, but they've never met one of us." That was one of the reasons that she loved being in her family, the ability to defy the odds and survive. "You know how death doesn't agree with us."
For the next minute she was silent. She looked around the white hospital room, a large window replaced the wall in front of her bed. It showed a city filled with buildings, most were completed but there were still some under construction. "How long has it been?" She finally asked.
He hesitated. "About four years, not to bad if you think about it."
"Four years." She said more then asked.
"Like I said, it's worse then it sounds."
"You mentioned consequences. What kind?"
He hesitated again, she hated when he did that. "The destruction of every piece of technology that ran off a mass effect core."
"Everything?"
"Everything. That fleet you assembled started falling out of the sky, millions of those aliens are trapped here on Earth. But luckily most of them survived."
"What about the Normandy?" She asked, looking out of the window.
"Now that I don't know." He responded, much to her disappointment. "It went missing after the blast, like a lot of other ships. Witness' claim to have seen it trying to escape the shock-wave, but it moved to fast. There's no way to be sure exactly what happened." He paused. "Well you could always ask you mother, she has that whole 'cosmic awareness' thing."
Rem was silent for another few minutes. "Do you have anything to drink?" She finally asked. He presented her with a water bottle. "I was hoping for something stronger."
"Now Rem, this is a hospital. They're not going to allow alcoholic drinks in here." He said unscrewing the cap and placing it under her nose to smell it. It was actually a clear brandy that he brought in disguised as water. "Now drink up." He said smiling. She complied and drank the warm liquid...
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Thank you for your time. Hope you enjoyed.
They'll be a couple more M.E. characters the next chapter. Thank you .