Episode 3: Liara
"I'm Garrus Vakarian, and this is my favorite story about the Corpse Bride!" The marauder sang, but Shepard didn't wait for him to stop, he escaped. Unfortunately for him, the banshee saw him, and went after him. "Yeah!"
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"John, darling, where are you?" The banshee asked loudly. She was on the streets, crowded with different species and former reaper husks.
"Your boyfriend… Jumpy; probably not a good sign. Should run more tests, while here." The salarian inside the banshee's head said.
"He's not my boyfriend. He's my husband." The banshee screamed, while showing herself the ring on her finger. "John? Where've you gone?"
"Found his omni-tool number. Running a scan, should take a moment." The salarian said, while popping out the banshee's eye. After a couple of seconds, the salarian's own omni-tool beeped, signaling that Shepard's is here, too. Quickly looking around he find him, "There he goes! Getting away, recommending immediate action!"
"John!" The banshee popped her eye back, and then screamed, then started teleporting after Shepard, who went past an omni-tool shop.
The omni-tools flashed online, showing where Shepard just went; giving directions to the banshee. "Thank you," she said to the omni-tools as they were living, breathing objects, thanks to the event.
"John?" She kept asking. Shepard was inside a small street, which had collector-styled coffins. Thinking quickly, Shepard jumped into one, and pretended dead. "Where are you?" The banshee kept asking.
"John?" The banshee said as she passed Shepard in the coffin. After Shepard opened his eyes, a rachni approached him, and talked through a husk.
"She sings your… name… You… married? I'm… a breeder." It said. Shepard got scared, and then ran away. For the best of his knowledge, he destroyed the breeder during the Reaper War. "He went that way!" The breeder said loud enough, so the banshee can hear it.
Shepard ran on Omega's small, dead-ended streets. He looked around to see where the banshee is, and he saw her to the left hand side. Shepard continued to run forward on the dirty, cold metallic floor.
After a minute or so, he bumped into another dead-end, but now, he heard the banshee's characteristic teleporting sound coming closer and closer to him. Not seeing any other option, he began to climb Afterlife's building.
He was about half through, when he looked down. He felt losing his balance, but somebody got a hold of him. Shepard looked up, and saw the banshee's two black eye, looking back at him. "What the…"
The banshee helped him get up to the roof of Afterlife with her claws. She released him, and turned around, and started slowly walking. "Isn't the view terrific?" She asked.
"I'd call it terrible." Shepard said not loud enough for the banshee to hear.
"It takes my breath away," she said, while taking a deep breath, then adding, "Umm, it would, if I have any," then laughed.
She sat down to a bench, and signaled to John to do the same. Shepard carefully sat down, still shaking and confused of what happened.
"Look… I'm terribly sorry of what's happened to you, but I really need to go home." He tried to say.
"This is your home now!" The banshee said. She looked at the vista of the space station below them, glowing in the fifty shades of red.
"But… I don't even know your name!" Shepard said, trying not to look into the banshee's eyes or at the banshee at all.
"Asking questions… Great start to a bonding. Never understood aliens." The voice from the banshee's head was heard again.
"Ssshhh, shut up!" The banshee said, covering her eyes, ears and other holes on her head at the same time with her giant claws, and then let out a nervous laugh.
Shepard just looked at her confused, quizzically and tired.
"It's Liara." The banshee already said.
"Liara…" Shepard repeated. They looked at each other for a minute. Shepard still didn't understand why he got here, why this banshee is thinks he's married to her. He hoped that in the real world, his Miranda still waits for him.
"Oh, I almost forgot," Liara said, and then handed over a present to Shepard. "It's a wedding gift!" She says.
Shepard shakes it a little, and heard little things colliding within the box. Liara looked at him frightened. When Shepard opened the box, he found metallic parts in it – being a biotic, he didn't knew anything about engineering, so this present was just as useless as Oriana's wedding gift, toilet cleaner with mass effect fields. She said it's good because you don't have to touch it when you clean the toilet.
Suddenly the box in Shepard's hand started to shake; Shepard accidentally dropped it, throwing the metal parts on the floor. But seconds later, the metal parts were pulled together by Liara's biotic field. With a little electricity, it became a living mech dog, similar to what Shepard had during the Reaper War.
"This can't be… Sophie?" He asked. The mech dog tilted its head, then ran to the human's feet.
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