Writer's . .DA:I. *puts down controller* Sorry bout that, been glued to my new PS4 for a couple days, and it took a lot of time, but somehow I managed to finish the next chapter to the story. *yawn* alrighty let's get this show on the roll, here's the next chapter in GC:The Steel Beast, where two sisters battle each other while battling alongside Shepard, and where a ton of crazy shit happens in between missions. Now if you'll excuse me Thedas isn't going to save itself.
Alex' POV, Massacred Cerberus Facility
Dear god this place is disgusting. Everywhere I looked there was nothing but blood and gore. Every single body here was mutilated to the point where they didn't even look like they were human. Some were impaled to the wall with their own bones, some had their eyes gouged out, *disgusted noise* it was fucking disgusting. Body after body was filled out, most of the soldiers couldn't even take one look at these things without puking. WHoever did this must've really hated Cerberus. But how can I be complaining, somehow i've seen things so much worse than this, so much so a normal body looks strange to me.
"HEY" I yelled, freaking everyone out, "Did any of you happen to find something that isn't dead?" Everyone was too scared to answer, not because of carnage, it's because everyone is afraid of me. See, everyone in Cerberus has a nickname for me, they call me 'The Ripper', cause whenever someone heard me scream they knew I was about to rip them a new one, well that and one other thing.
"Sorry ma'am, but it looks like everybody here is dead. Whatever attacked this facility, didn't want to leave anyone to see it." said one of my soldiers
"Wait a minute, we got a live over here" said another of my he came rushing towards me, carrying someone with them. The guy was white as a ghost, his clothes were covered in blood, that explains why we weren't able to notice him before.
"Where'd you find him?" I asked.
"One of the research labs, found him impaled to the wall by a pair of metal spikes" That last detail caught my attention.
"Metal spikes, what did they look like?" I asked. He handed the injured man over to the others and carried him off to the shuttle. He then held out a couple of metal spikes.
"Damnit, it striked again" I've seen these spikes before. They were seen at a few other attacks on other Cerberus facilities. But that's not what scares me, it's who was using them that scared me. But how could she have attacked our facilities, she's dead. "Did he say anything to you about who did this?" I asked.
"Nope, he didn't say a thing. Although he kept saying something about the perp having black and red-orange eyes, and having an unquenchable thirst for Cerberus blood." he said.
"For fuck's sake. She's alive" i said
"Who's alive ma'am?"
"My sister, Sally." My soldier looked shocked, and he had every reason the time Shepard, and no doubt Ross, were on their crusade to stop Saren, The Illusive Man decided to send Sally to subdue and capture Ross, by herself. I was opposed to the idea though, she wasn't qualified to fight a soldier of Ross's Caliber. She typically fights with a lot of anger, and people who fight with anger are sloppy, she's been like this for as long as we've been here. Ugh, she is the epitome of headcases, everyday she was at Cerberus, she'd pick a fight with anyone and everyone in her daily routine, but at least she had that damnable Scopolamine mask on, trust me you don't wanna fight her when she isn't wearing it, it's like fighting a tasmanian devil hopped up on coffee, then multiply it by ten. She was regarded as one of Cerberus's most dangerous, and valuable soldiers. Anyway, the last time there was any sign of her was when she was finally deployed to that secret part of Saren's base underneath Virmire's ocean.
(flashback TIME!)
"Remember Sally, be careful, you know how Ross is when he's using his biotics" I said from the security of the shuttle in space. Sally didn't respond, well at least no to me, she was too busy trying to beat the crap out of Ross.
"Oh don't worry Cohen" said Sally "You're Involvement is for a good cause, yo shoul-"
"GOTCHA BITCH" Then suddenly her comm went dark. I tried to tap back into her signal but it was no use, nothing worked. I ordered the pilot to take us back down to the planet's surface, just as I was preparing to dive into the ocean.
'Uh Paxton, I wouldn't bother going in." said my pilot
"WHat, why the hell not?"
"Because there isn't anything left there"The pilot pulled the monitor to show that part of Saren's facility had begun sinking into the ocean. I waited for someone, or something or some form of life to surface, prayed to god that Sally was there alive and well…...but she didn't come up. I knew that she wasn't coming back up, but I was still denying it. I started pounding on the board in front of me, yelling out into the window screaming my sister's name. THe pilot tried to calm me down, but I elbowed him in the face, broke his nose doing it. My anger quickly passed, then it was replaced with complete and utter despair. I had lost my sister, the only person I had left in this world, the only person I had to help me go through life, the only person that helped us both survive in this universe...was dead. I had never been so sad, so depressed, then I was full of hate: At Ross for causing her death by doing whatever it was he did, my father for raping and kill us and sending us to this universe. And at myself, I should've gone down there with her, I knew that she wasn't strong enough to beat him, but I let her go. I was scared for my life, I wanted to oppose the Illusive Man's choice to send her alone, but he can make you disappear without a second thought, he was a monster. The only reason that we stayed is because me and Sally felt like we owed him for saving our lives.
(End of flashback)
"I took a recovery team back to what remained of that building as soon as Shepard left." I said, "We checked every nook, every cranny, every square inch of that pile ou rubble, and we never found her body. We even searched parts of the oceans, but The Illusive Man wouldn't let me continue ."
"Why Not?"
"Waste of resources. Said that Sally was expendable. He also said she was a flight risk, put everyone in Cerberus at risk." I said leaning against the blood soaked wall, freaking uhh
*looks at nameplate* Curley out a little bit, looks at me like enjoy the touch of blood, "What, blood doesn't bother me anymore, seen too much of it."
"So Have I, but I still can't stand the sight of it Ma'am" said Curley.
"Well, i'm not like you soldier" I got up off the wall and tapped him lightly on the face, my hand stained with a bit of blood, "I've seen some nasty shit, some nasty shit was done to me and my sister, then the exact opposite of that happened, and honey, it eventually breaks you" I walked by him.
A Few Hours Later, UNknow Cerberus facility.
"It was dark, I didn't really get a good look at the perp, but I do now that it was a girl." said ummmm, oh yeah, Jace, obviously suffering from trauma. "Anyone who got anywhere close to her were….mangled. Twisted. She hates Cerberus" Well if that wasn't obvious by the PEOPLE GO TO PRISON, DOGS GET PUT DOWN signs written in blood all over the place, then I don't know what is. Jace said that the perp crunched his two fellow soldiers without remorse, taunted him, then grabbed him and impaled him to the wall. I rubbed the metallic side of my head, I can't believe Sally would actually go this far and attack Cerberus facilities. "Then she took off her mask, and I saw her eyes. They were dark, cold, full of rage, she wanted to kill me."
"But then why didn't she Jace?" said the doctor examining him.
"She said she got what she had came for. *sniffles*, she said she was going grind every person affiliated with Cerberus into meat paste."
"That does sound like your sister Sally" Oh dear god not her. I turn around and who do I find of all people? MIranda Lawson, high ranking Cerberus official, personal favorite of the Illusive Man, and head of the Lazarus Project.
"What he just said, or what he told the doctor about Sally directly identifying herself when he pinned her to the wall?" I asked
"Calm down I didn't mean to offend"
"You didn't, i'm just pissed." I said, pushing myself by her. She followed after me, with the impression that I actually wanted to talk to her.
"Look, I understand why you're upset, if it was my sister I would be just as upset as you are now, but she's still your sister"
"You know, that actually shocks me to hear you say that Miranda. Usually you think anyone who says anything bad about Cerberus needs to be eliminated."
"Usually yes, but unlike most cases, your sister was, and seems to still be-"
"If you so much as say what I think you're going to say, i'll rip your fucking face off." I said to her face.
"With what?" she asked. Bad response, as I raised my hand to her face to her face and showed her my now Vorcha like claw. Yep, that's right, i'm part Vorcha. I began noticing it around a year after Sally and I arrived at Cerberus. Remember how I said there was another reason why i'm called "the Ripper"? THis is that other reason. Now you may be asking, why the hell would Cerberus keep someone- -or something- that has any trace of alien in her? I don't know, but frankly, I don't care I just go with it.
"With these, make you meat, make you bloody." i said vorcha like, its a side effect that comes with it. Immediately I came to my sense and stopped before I got the chance to carve Miranda up, knowing that doing so would damage the canon of ME2. "Sorry bout that, I got a little pissed." Even after that episode, she continued to follow me.
"Look, you don't want Cerberus to kill her, I get that, but you know I have to report this straight to the Illusive Man, and he'll order a manhunt on her."
"Then let me talk to him, see if I can convince him to change his mind."
"You're kidding right? She is a threat to Cerberus operations, she stole valuable technology from one of the many facilities she has already decimated in the past few months, what makes you think he'll say otherwise?" She asked. I stopped to open the door to my quarters, nicely furnished, with a great view of the deep endless void of space with a galay adjacent, well lit. Sorry that has nothing to with this, I Just love bragging about what I have, it's a problem.
"It's no secret that you're working on that project to bring Shepard back to life" her eyes widened with surprise, "Ok it's no secret to ME, don't ask. Something tells me that Sally knows something that we don't."
"What would that be?" Asked Miranda.
"I. Don't. Know. That's why I said 'something that we don't know'. Looks like your father couldn't make your hearing perfect." SHe shot me a sneer, who didn't see that coming. "You set yourself up for that one Miranda"
"SNotty, Condescending, generally unprofessional, complains about everything, no wonder people don't take you seriously." I'll remember that bitch.
"And I kinda deserved that one" I said
"Suppose your sister does know something, AND, she actually knows something what makes you think the Illusive man will let what she did slide?" she asked.
"And that's something I don't need to tell you! SO please get the hell out of my quarters" I said pushing Miranda out of my quarters, "Have a nice day" Then I promptly slammed the door right in her perfect little face. I just sighed and laid down on my bed.
"*sigh* goddamnit what the hell was she thinking? I'm surprised she hasn't been caught at this point" I said to myself
"She may be incredibly volatile, but she isn't stupid Alex" Oh great it's her. There's this voice in my head that i've been stuck with ever since A year ago. I don't know how, and I don't know why, all I know is that it's a woman's voice.
"What do you want from me now? Can't you see i'm blowing off some steam?"
"You're laying down on a bed how's that help you blow off steam"
"Trust me, you don't want to know"
"Ok that I know, i've been in your head long enough to see that"
"So what do you want from me anyway?"
"Ugh you humans are so rude no matter who you are. I wanted to let you know that your sister is alive and well."
"That doesn't shock me, someone identified her from when she raided one of Cerberus's facilities, is that all?"
"That's only part of it. didn't your victim say that she stole something from the facility?"
….. "Keep going voice" i said
"I'm saying that your sister is using what she took from that facility to help combat the Collectors." Goddamnit Sally, what are you planning, and for the love oh god , it better not be something over top.
Writer's NOtes- Obviously Alex has never met me, otherwise she'll know that this story is already WAAAAAAAYYYYY over the top, or maybe it isn't and i'm fooling myself. Oh god I sound insane, or am I confused? I'm gonna go have myself checked out, so until next time BYE BYE.
