Ok guys question, is John having slaves a bad idea? I ask because I have a few idea's for this theme.
3 weeks earlier.
The Admiral, Ashley, Liara, Tali and Chackwas looked at the info on their holo-pads except for Liara. Ashley was the first to put her pad down before she stroked her tattoo. She breathed in heavily as Miranda walked in.
"This is bad." she moaned. "That bastard is moving in fast."
"He's taken over four planets in the past month." Liara said. "He may even become a master."
"That's bad..." Tali muttered as she put down her pad.
Hackett on the other hand roared in anger and threw the pad out the window and lean on the table. He was pissed because of this news. Every day one of the minor warlords by the mane of Zeno moved further and further towards them and they had nothing to stop them. Only a few cruisers, frigates, freighters and fighters. Not enough to fight against a Warlords commander's fleet. Especially this one, Capitan Zaieed Missarni, once was a Blue sun merc now a commander for one of the Warlords. He was ruthless and cunning preferring head on attacks then clever tactics.
People nicknamed him the, Blue Supernova, he left no survivors. He was bad news, especially since they had little more then militia to call on. Miranda picked up one of the pads and looked at it and sighed.
"If only Shepard where here." Ashley said as she looked out of the window with one hand resting on it.
Miranda froze in place while her eyes looked form each of the people around her. Each one of them was in some kind of anger and fear, not knowing what to do. But she did, she just didn't know what to say. Placing the pad on the table and looked up.
"Shepard is not dead." she said making all eyes in the room turn to her except for Ashley's.
"Don't lie, I saw him fall into the atmosphere." she said.
"You did but thanks to your friend we… recovered his body, then we rebuilt him."
Ashley turned to face Miranda. "Your telling me, telling all of us that commander Shepard, the man who I loved and died before my eyes is alive?"
"Well in cryo stasis."
Like a bullet the marine moved up fast to the Cerberus operative and pinned her to the wall. Her eyes filled with rage, happiness and sadness.
"When were planning to tell me?"
"Never." Miranda admitted. "Look when me and Jacob left him he wasn't ready to be woken. We put him in cryo. He should be ready but I have no idea."
Ash backed off turned and leaned on the table. "We cannot bring him back….." she finally said with tears coming from her eyes. "If he does he will not forgive me." she said as her hand clasped onto her eagle tattoo. "I… I killed so many and betrayed him…."
Tali looked down. "What I did to the fleet..."
Garrus just looked out of the window. "What I did to my team….."
Liara just closed her eyes. "What I did to Feron."
Hackett looked from face to face. Miranda rarely lied and they could tell from the seriousness in her voice that she was telling the truth. He knew what they where talking about, he had read the reports about each incident and knew what they were going through. Plus there was one thing that he had never told anyone, something that he needed to tell the Commander personally.
"We need to bring him back." he said making eyes turn to him. "Look I admit I have done things but when I talked about it my burden felt lifted. You have to do the same now. Shepard represents an idea, a symbol if we get him back we maybe able to get some order back to the galaxy."
"Make him a Warlord." Liara said. "Yes, if we make him a Warlord we can at least bring back some semblance of the old day's."
"We can use some of the old Cerberus armour and weapons to avoid all traces to us if we are found. The same can be said with the SR3, no distinctive markings and the make, practically all Warlords have human made ships as well. We can get him without drawing attention to us."
"Then let's do it, I'll come." Tali offered.
"No, I will." Ashley said turning to look at Miranda. "You, me, Joker, EDI, Chackwas and security officer will go. No one else."
"Agreed."
With that Ashley left.
OOOOO A week ago.
The Purgatory palace was little more then a large pleasure room as well as a place for governance. Queen Aria delegated the running of her empire to several ministers, who she could kill at any-time if they fail her and they knew it. Which is why they stayed on her good side. Even if she ruled an empire why did that mean she had to rule it as the humans say 24/7? as she watched dancers moving around a pole her comm system activated. She pressed it and a Batarrian soldier came up.
"Ahhh Capitan to what do I owe the honour?" she asked.
"My Queen me and my ship encountered an old Cerberus station. Of course we bordered and found a scavenger team. We took them hostage before we found a dead body, one of the scavengers."
"So?"
"So non of the scavengers we found where arrested where no were near the place. We checked the records and camera feed and found something take a look."
A video played before her. Three people in white uniforms, two where in armour while the other one was in a bodysuit. The two in armour separated and kept an eye out while the third moved up to a table and activated. A dome activated and opened up to show a man laying there. She stopped the video and zoomed in at the man's face. She had seen it before, but where?
"Captain, that room are there any records?"
"No, there are none, the entire database was purged of information. All we found was the name of what was taking place, Project Lazarus."
"Thank you, dismissed." she said before closing the screen.
She looked at the video screen for a moment before opening a radio channel. "Delross, look through the database for Cerberus and look for a project Lazarus. Find out what it was all about."
"Yes my queen."
As she screen closed Aria licked her lips something big was going to happen.
OOOOO Present day.
As the next day rolled around John was lead into a room where Ashley, Liara, Tali and Miranda where waiting. Ashley was standing next to the ex Cerberus operative to make sure she didn't do anything. As John walked in the door closed and the room fell silent for a few moments before Ashley began to talk.
"John look I think we need to get the out now." she said in a not so cheerful manner. "We, as in all of us in this room now, love you."
John just looked at her dumbfounded. "All four of you?" he asked.
"Well…." Liara said looking away while her cheeks went a little red. "Yeah, I had a bit of a crush on you when you rescued me. But after that, those times you came to check up on me and making sure I was ok… that made me fall for you completely."
"As for me, well just about the same but I didn't realise I loved you until yo died." Tali admitted. "I cannot tell you how many times I dreamed of confessing to you."
"I on the other hand had to remake you." Miranda said. "In that time I studied you, inside and out and I became attracted to who you are. Which is when I fell for you."
"John we all fell for you, one way or the other." Ashley said. "But while I don't want to share you…." she muttered glancing towards Miranda. "...in these times, some of the Warlords have harems. Among the people now, this makes them quite powerful. Aside from the army, planets and money they have is how many people they have in their harem. Kinda like old human feudal lords."
John took a seat. "Sooo, something like in Arabian nights?" he asked.
The two aliens looked from John to Miranda to Ash then back before Ashley spoke up.
"A series of stories based in the middle east from the past. Most of them about romance, few of them about harems." she said making them nod in response.
"More or less yes." Miranda said. "Just without the skimpy outfits and dancing."
"Thank god for that. I cannot see any of you in that." he said making Ashley blush due to the comment she made on the Normandy when Miranda first brought up the issue.
John sighed as he looked at them. "I don't have a choice in the matter do I?"
"No you don't." Miranda said firmly. "Your sperm is probably the most important resource we have now. Your children, your children's children, your line is the future of of all races. Your body is superior to all of us. You need people, human and non human to bare your children."
"I agree with Miranda." Liara spoke up. "Shepard you are the only one who can save us."
"Like it or not will mate with you willing or not." Miranda then said.
"I… I need to think about this." he said walking out of the room. "I'll tell you later if I agree or not."
Once he left the tension in the air could be cut through with a very sharp knife. The four looked at each other, for good moment before walking out before Liara stopped Ashley in her tracks.
"Ashley…." she tried to say but the marine spoke first.
"Liara I know I read the message as well."
"I'm here if you need me, but we need to think about Earth too. If worst comes to the worst….."
"I know, if it comes to that I'll go willingly, when I do I need John to be asleep. Zaieed is here for me, not Earth or Mars, me."
"I'll do what I can."
Ash nodded and walked off.
OOOOO
John found himself on the roof looking over London again, something just happened too fast for him now. He did like the idea of a harem in a twisted perverted way like most if not all men where. But he couldn't help but fell like he was cheating on Ashley if he agreed to it. Some things where never simple and he didn't like it, if only he could turn back time. He let a little chuckle out as the music number came into his head. His mother was always on the 20th – 21st classics with music with bands like Queen and others. He picked it all up from her, hell some night's he never got to sleep.
"Thinking about something." a voice asked making the commander turn to see Hackett coming up and sitting next him.
"Sir, or should I say Steven?" John asked.
"Steven when we're alone." the Admiral said as he handed the commander some water.
John took a swing of it before looking around. "Life sucks doesn't it?"
"You have no idea." he replied as he took out a silver whisky bottle and took a swig of it before offering it to the commander who refused. "Still not a drinker are you?"
"Nah, I find it distracting." he said. "Mom is dead isn't she?"
Hackett looked to the young commander before looking down, he was as sharp as ever. "Yeah she is, she… ugh she was trying to protect a planet that was building the Crucible. She tried to save as many people as she could but died, unable to see that her efforts where in vain."
John looked down and nodded unable to shed a single tear. "Hasn't hit me yet." he muttered. "She had always told me not to cry over her when she dies. She was always the hard ass of the family."
"Tell me about it, she was always the hard ass admiral." taking a swing he then looked at the commander before looking down. "Did you ever find out who your father was?"
"No I never did, but given how close the Admirals where to her I always figured it was always one of them."
"I did some DNA test's myself. John it appears that I am your father." John turned to face the Admiral who took another swig. "When I found out that Hannah was pregnant I always suspected that I was the father but she never told any of us. When you joined and your blood-work came in I handed it to the doctors and ordered a test. The DNA matches, you are my son."
John just shook head in disbelieve with a smile on his face. "You hound." was all he said.
"Yeah, but your an even bigger one." the Admiral shot back.
The two laughed out loud for a good few moments.
OOOOO
The city of Neos was devastated since the Reaper war. Building where destroyed and cars overturned. Because of this people salvaged what they could and brought it back to a new settlement outside city limits. Scrap, wood, rubber… whatever they could find for shelter and food. The people managed to get some farming area's ready but had limited technology at hand. Most of them weren't even farmers, they where shopkeepers, police and office workers.
But then they came, a blue white Turrian cruiser landed in the field with two more in the sky with five human frigates also painted blue white. After it landed soldiers came pouring out and rounded up everyone. Men, women and children, all of them where brought in front of the ship and an old grizzled man in yellow armour but a blue cloak covering his left arm stepped onto the ramp.
"Ok listen up all of you." he said in a thick British accent. "You are under the rule of High commander Zeno, Leader of New Olympus. You are now all new Olympians are there any objections?"
A Turian man raised his hand but as he did a gunshot rang out. The Turian fell down dead, making people scream in panic. No one else would oppose them now. Smiling the leader walked back onto the ship as one of his soldiers began to speak out about the new laws that Olympus would enforce. The leader then took his place on his chair and picked up some whisky as he looked at his holo screen. A message was waiting for him from the High commander. He opened the message and read it.
Zaieed just god word that she's on earth. I don't care about territory or anything. Just bring her back to me. It read.
"The bitch ran from you and you still want her back?" he asked. "Not surprising. After all we are back in the middle ages." he turned to his comms officer. "Send a ship to Mars as fast as you can. If I know her she'll be there waiting for us."
"Sir." the officer said as he gave the order.
OOOOO
Liara looked at the communication information that one of her contacts gave her. She stroked her forehead, this was more then worrying to her. She knew what Ashley would do with this news, and she couldn't let that happen. Who knows how Shepard would react, probably pretty badly given how he is. Hell he might even destroy a planet to get her back. Rule one when you deal with the Commander 'don't ever piss him off because you won't live long enough to regret it'.
If Zeno was going to get her in one way or the other, she couldn't imagine what Shepard would do to the poor bastard. She pinched the bridge of her nose in response to her thoughts. At that moment Ashley walked in.
"Liara you wanted me." she said.
"Yeah I did, New Olympus is heading to Mars." Liara responded.