TO KEEP A PROMISE
A/N ok here's chapter 2, thanks' to the people who responded to the first chapter, this is my interpretation of the reapers beginning, again no BETA so advice and comments are still very welcome. Hope you enjoy
Chapter 2-truth
"Honey are you there? If you can still hear me I will survive for you, promise" Shepard all but vowed into her com-link, but the only reply was static white noise. Shepard singed and slumped to the floor with her back against the controls she used to end the seemingly never ending nightmare that was the reapers.
Shepard looked over at the bodies of her would-be father, David Anderson, and the poor deluded indoctrinated fool, the illusive man. She felt sorrow for them both, both wanted to end the conflict, in their own way, but both paid the ultimate price for their goals.
As Shepard thought about the loss the reapers had caused everyone in the galaxy, a bright light appeared in the spot where the illusive man had tried to convince her that control of the reaper forces was in the best interest of humanity, and had ended up causing her to shoot Anderson to prove his point. But she was able to convince him that he was indoctrinated and which ended with him taking his own life as his final act of defiance in the face of the reaper's cruel fate. The light started to take form; it strangely looked like a keeper, only bigger and it was only a translucent white hologram so no real details of its features could be made out. A new voice, far softer and much more pleasant filled the large room.
"ARE YOU THE ONE, THE ONE WHO ACTIVATED THE DEVICE?"
"Y-yes, I-I'm the one who trued the crucible on" she stumbled with her words to answer.
"who in hells name are you?" she asked with only a hint of irritation in her voice.
"WE ARE A ECO OF WHAT WAS ONCE THE CREATER, YOU AWOKE US WHEN THIS 'CRUCIBLE' FIRED AND WE WANT TO THANK YOU" the hologram replied
"y-you want to thank me?" she could hear the shock in her voice
"YES, YES YOU HAVE ENDED THE MOST TRAGIC MISTAKE WE MADE"
"Wait; hold up, you created those monstrosities, the reapers?"
"UNFORTANATLY, A MISTAKE ON ARE PART, WE CRAEATED THESE 'REAPERS' AS YOU CALL THEM, THEY WERE MENT TO BRING A PEACFUL END TO A WAR OF ARE OWN MAKING"
As the voice paused Shepard asked a question she had to know the answer to;
"What war are you talking about?"
"WE WERE THE FIRST RACE; WE WERE ALONE IN THE GALAXY AT THAT TIME, EVENTALY WE DISCOVERED THE UNTOLED POWER OF DARK ENERGY.
AND WITH THAT KNOWLEDGE WE BUILT THE MASS REALYS AND SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE STARS; TO COPE WITH OUR NUMBERS WE BUILT PURELY SYNTHETICS BEINGS TO TAKE CARE OF US,
THEY WERE ONLY SERPOSED TO BE MINDLESS WORKERS" the hologram replied to her question.
Shepard signed "let me guess, they became self-aware, didn't like the way they were treated and rebelled, am I about right, of cause I'm right organics never treat synthetics with common decency"
The voice replied,
"YES, YOU ARE RIGHT, WE WERE PEACFULL, WE HAD NOT EXPIREANCE WAR FOR MILLENNIA,WE DID NOT KNOW HOW TO FIGHT.
WE ONLY COULD CREATE, SO WE CREATED THE 'REAPERS' A COMBINATION OF ORGANIC AND SYNTHETIC TO BRIGE THE GAP BEWEEN THE TWO SIDES. BUT AGAIN WE FAILED THE 'REAPERS' DECIDED THAT THE TWO SIDES COULD CO-EXIST.
SO THEY DESTROYED OUR SYNTHETIC CHILDERN AND AFTER THEY FINISHED THERE DESTRUCTION, THEY TURED TEHRE ATENTION TO US AND USING THERE ABILITY OF INDOCTRINATION, THEY ENSLAVED US, DESTROYED US.
IN ARE FINAL DESPERAT MOMMENTS WE DESINGED THE 'CRUCIBLE' TO PERMINENNTALY DEACTIVAT THE 'REAPERS' MINDS FROM THERE CENTRAL CONTROL HUB USING THE MASS RELAY TO SEND THE SIGNAL TO EVERY CORNER OF THE GALAXY.
WE WERE NEVER ABLE TO FINISH THE WEAPON, WE NEW THE 'REAPERS' PLAGE THE GALAXY FOREVER BECAUSE THERE LOGIC WAS FLORED, SO WE LEFT THE DESIGNS FOR THE NEXT RACE."
Shepard was furious and shouted at the image "Do you know how many live have been lost to these abominations, hundred maybe thousands of independent races, with trillions of individual people, all because of your stupidity"
"YES, WE ARE BEYOND SORRY FOR ARE MISTAKE, WE CAN NOT ASK FOR FORGIVNES, BUT WE DESIDED THAT BECAUSE YOU ENDED THE NIGHTMERE YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW IT STARTED, AGAIN THANK YOU, GOODBYE" with that the image faded to nothingness.
Shepard was left with so many questions she spoke aloud to herself "ha-ha, well fuck me sideways that was confusing!" Felling tired Shepard internally thought (I hope Liara gets here soon, she'll be mad if I bleed out here).
As she was thinking this she could swear she could her Liara's voice getting close, and then the goddess of her heart appeared at the entrance to the accursed room.
"LEXI" Liara's angelic voice reached Alexis's ears, as Liara bolted across the room and drew the commander into a tight hug and planted a soulfully deep kiss on her lips that they both hoped would never.
As the kiss ended far too soon for them both Alexis rested her forehead Liara's and breathed out passionately
"Hi honey, I'm home"