Chapter 3:
Royal Canada Plaza
System Alliance Military HQ
Court room 79:
"Please all rise for the judges." spoke corporal Mason court bailiff.
And as everybody rose to wait for the judges the five judges entered the courtroom and sat down for the trial.
"Commander Neso Shepard please rise." admiral Deveraux spoke.
Neso rose up with his lawyer and waited.
" As to the charges of war crimes against you for the death over 300,000 batarian colonists we do not have any case to sustain those charges since we officially were not at war, dismissed. As to the charges of over 300,000 murder charges in the first degree, there is no evidence to prove that this was a first degree murder, since it was done to prevent reaper arrival, murder charges dismissed, how ever there is sufficient evidence to proceed with manslaughter charges." Deveraux mentioned.
"Your honours prosecution will need one month to prepare for the charges of manslaughter, due to amount of paperwork that needs to be changed." Spoke Mark Dennis .
"Court is so adjourned for 30 days, Commander Shepard your Commission is still suspended and you are ordered to remain here on earth." said commodore Stavros.
" My client will do so your honours." Alice said.
" All rise, court is dismissed." bailiff thundered.
Neso and alice were left alone in the courtroom.
"Well looks like you got a break." alice smiled.
"Not really it only prolongs the process and prevents me from being out there preparing to fight reapers." Neso replied.
" Looks like they believe you, but still." alice commented.
"They better believe it or lot of people are going to die." neso responded.
Meanwhile in the arcturus station LT commander Ashley M. Williams was preparing SSV Normandy SR-2 for it's maiden voyage as new alliance ship. She missed shepard and after all this was his ship.
" Lt, commander we are ready to depart, sir." Joker called from bridge.
"I just got our new orders, we are to investigate why our two colonies in the outer reaches of Alliance space have gone silent. So we will proceed first to Tersine system and colony of Tarsus." ashley spoke over the com.
And with that normandy left for its first mission as alliance ship. CIC was ripe with activities of its alliance crew. There were not traces cerberus stuff on the ship and all it's former crew except joker, gabby and ken remained with normandy all other cerberus crew was on Illium waiting for the news of Shepard's trial. Ashley was wandering how Neso was doing and what the hell was alliance thinking of trying the hero of Alliance and Savior of Citadel. First human spectre deserved better than this political farce of trial. Let batarian Hegemony stew in anger they were not going to start a war that they were going to lose.
Neso was on earth I n his quarters in the detention level, wandering on how was ashley handling her new command. He was happy that his ship was in her hands. She was the only person who he know will take care of his ship like he would. He just hoped that the trial will be over in couple months so he can start planning to fight reapers before they arrive on earth and start their cycle of destruction again. He did not want to be groundside when they attacked, He wanted to be in space where he knew he can beat them like he beat sovereign and the geth fleet. But he will also0 need to gather other races to help humanity, because Alliance could not beat reapers on it's own.
Alice Krieger was smiling at the stupidity of prosecution for not including manslaughter charges in the first place. In one month there will be official confirmation that reapers have arrived in galaxy and the whole trial will end because shepard is only person who has fought them and knows how to beat them. She just had to wait 30 days and shepard will be free to do what he does best. But she also wandered if there is a chance of her and Neso getting back together as a couple. She was going to try to get him back.
SSV Normandy arrived in the tarsine system, only to find debris.
"Lt Commander Williams, Tarsus trading station is not there." Tactical yeoman Charles Sevoi spoke.
"Tactical initiate system wide scan, now, joker activate stealth field." Ashley commanded.
SSV normandy cloaked and scanned to see the cause of why Tarsus trading station was destroyed.
"No communications from Tarsus colony." Communication yeoman spoke.
" Scan the planet for life signs." Ashley spoke
" No life signs on planet and scan indicate that colony is destroyed, there is only rubble." Scanning offices spoke.
"Oh my god there were 6500 colonists in that colony." Ashley said.
"Scans are clear no threat detected." Yeoman Sevoi spoke.
" Colony wa destroyed by orbital bombardment, reapers have arrived, alert Alliance command and file report, Joker get us to the relay and go to Seville system." Ashley ordered.
SSV Normandy left the Tersine system and left for Seville system. Ashley was afraid that she will find the same thing there but she also knew that two alliance cruisers were in Seville system, so one ship might be able to report situation if computer core survived with scan results of those cruisers.
Author Note:
Sorry it took me so long to post another chapter but have been busy with ME 3 Demo. More than likely I will put up three more chapters in this story line and close it to prepare my self for writing of ME 3 story line in my next fanfic, please review and let me know how I am doing so far. I did intend for this story to be short due to fact it is tie in to ME 3 from my first fanfic Hunt for Commander shepard, and will continue if Mass effect 3: Shepard's war my next fanfic of Neso Shepard's adventures in Mass effect is all for now.
I do not own Bioware but do very well whish that I did. It is definitely fun to play and write in this universe.
