Hey everyone, I am back to with another chapter to the Shepard Sisters story and I left off with the girls getting to start their first mission as Spectres. They have to chase after Saren for what he did on Eden Prime. Well, I am not going to bore you all with the details of this chapter and I don't own none of the Mass Effect character except for my Max and Alex Shepard.
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First Mission, Find LiaraT'soni
Alex and Max was sitting around the kitchen and they was playing cards but this time they were playing for money. Ashley was walking around and she noticed that the both of them was playing together and she knew that she wasn't going to interrupted a sisters bonding and she turned around to head back to the docking bay. Max saw her for a moment and she stopped playing for a moment and she knew that Ashley needed someone to play.
"Hey chief, do you want to play with us or are you chicken." said Max
"I don't feel like taking both of your money but if someone called a Williams chicken, all bets are off." said Ashley.
"Set them up, sis." said Alex
Alex started to deal the deck and she started to passed out the cards to both Max and Ashley their cards. Then she got her cards and they were ready to play and they started to credits on the table. Max was thinking up a strategy to win those credits and noticed that Alex had the smile on his face. She knew that she was going to win this game.
"What's with the look, Alex?" Max asked.
"I going to add twenty more credits to the pile." said Alex
"I see your twenty and raise to fifty." said Max
Alex knew that this was going to be easy for her because max is still a little bit new to the game but she looked over at Ashley for a moment and she noticed that she had added eighty more credit to it. She was going to to play her hands and she knew that she had won their credits. She had played her hands and Max threw because she had just lost fifty credits to her sister. Alex was getting ready to grabbed her winnings, but Ashley stopped her and she had played her hands which cause both Alex and Max to looked at her with shock in her eyes.
"I believed that I have won, commander." said Ashley
"Damn!" said Alex
Max started laughing at her sister because she had just witness that Ashley had won the game. Alex started pouting because she had lost to the chief and Ashley gave Max her fifty credits back. Max just smile at her and she got up and head to the engine room to see the engineers but she wanted to see the drive core for herself. Alex started to head up to the bridge to check on their destination. Max was looking at awe at the core and it was huge and she had met with the engineers and she noticed that Tali was here.
"Hey, Commander." said Tali.
"No, no, I am the Lieutenant Commander. My sister is the commander and I don't think I am ready to lead a team of my own just yet." said Max
"I am sorry, I just got confuse because of the hair." said Tali
"Well, we were born at the same time on earth but my mom told me that I have my dad's hair instead of her hair." said Max
"So, both you and your sister are biotic." said Tali
"Yes, we both were expose to element zero and our power started to developed after the incident with our father." said Max
"What happened?" said Tali
"I don't want to talk about it." said Max
Max started to head out and she noticed that Ashley was listening to their conversation and she was curious about their father. She was going to have to wait to get to know Max more in order for her to ask about it. She started to head back to her station to clean her weapons. Max started walking towards the elevator and she was trying to fight her tears. She knew that the image of the incident was trying to come back to her mind. She needed to get her mind off of it. Then the thought was got because she heard her Omni tool beep and she noticed that Alex had called her.
"Yes, Alex." said Max
"Hey, we have arrive to the Artemis Tau Cluster and our scanners had picked up on where our doctor is located." said Alex
"What kind of readings?" said Max
"magma readings. I guessing that the doctor is looking for something in that type of heat and that is where we are going. I am grabbing Kaidan and we will meet you and the others in theMako." said Alex
"You all heard her, we have a mission with the Doctor on this planet." said Max
Ashley, Wex, Tail, Garrus, and Max started to grabbed their gear and they started to head into the Mako. They was waiting for both Kaidan and Alex to arrive and they both did. Alex got in and put her seat belt on her. Kaidan knew that there was no room for him which Max put herself up in the driver seat. She knew that she had her license on both Mako lessons and pilot lessons. The Normandy arrive to the Artemis Tau Cluster and they headed towards the towards a hot planet called Therum to started their search. When the Normandy enter the atmosphere, the mako started to dissent from the hanger bay of the Normandy. Max activate the Mako's thrusters to land perfectly.
"That was fun. Can we do that again?" said Max
"No, we are on a mission, Max." said Alex
Max started to drive the mako towards their destination and they was looking high and low. Tali was reading the scanners to see if they could picked up on some readings but she only picked up on lava readings. Max was looking out the window and to see the planet of her own eyes. She was awe because of the place was too hot for her taste and she was making a smooth driving towards their destination. Then suddenly, Tali started to pick up something on their tank's sensor and it was big.
"We have a unidentified ship entering the atmosphere?" said Tali
"What is it." said Max
Everyone started looking out the windows and they all saw a geth ship. It started to drop off some friends to keep them busy. It was some type of Consensus and they started shooting shockwaves at the mako but activate the thrusters to make the Mako to jump to avoid the shockwaves.
"Max, how did you know that would work?" said Alex
"Uh, let's just say I didn't know." said Max
"What do you mean you didn't know." said Alex
"I didn't know." said Max
The consensus started to charge up their attack once again and everyone started to use this time to returned fire. They manage to take down one of them and they launch some rockets at the next Consensus. Max started to driving towards the lab which they and it was smooth driving but they all saw a huge gun turret and it started shooting at the mako. Max had manage to take a detour to a path and she manage to avoid the rockets. They was sigh with relief because they all avoid the mean route.
"Hey Max, how about a heads up next time." said Alex
"Sure. How about that gun turret in front of us." said Max
"You're being an ass are you." said Alex
"No, there is another gun turret in front of us." said Max
She pointed at the gun turret in front of them and everyone started to look out the window to see the gun turret. They all got out of the mako while they gave max some time to move around with the Mako. Kaidan, Alex, Garrus, and Tali use their Omni tool to overload the shields of the gun turret and Wex use his biotic to strength his shields. He started to charge towards the gun turret like a madman while max turned the rocket launcher to aim at the turret. She waited until wex was out of the way. Alex noticed that the rockets was getting ready to launch at wex and she started to head towards the Krogan to pull him out of the range.
Max started to launch the rocket and it started to fly towards the turret. When the rocket hit it target, the gun turret started to explode to pieces and Wex started laughing. Then he gave Max a thumbs up for a job well done and Max just smile at him, Everyone started to load up in the mako once again which max started to drive through the path that they took. When they saw an openly, they all saw that thedy had arrive into the geth camp. Max knew that this was going to be hard for the Mako to withstand the whole assault from the Geth. She started to dropped everyone off and she pulled the Mako to a safe place to get out of the geth sight. Then she came out of the Mako and she grabbed guns.
"Hey sis, I think that we have our job cut out for us." said Max, using her biotics to knocked some of the geth.
"Yeah, I know what you mean." said Alex. she shoot the geth in the head and she grabbed her some the shotguns.
Wex was charging that some of the geth and he was excited to see some many geth around. He started to unleashed a lot of shot at them and Ashley use her assault to provide backup. Kaidan use his bioitc ability to ripped some of the geth apart while Tali use her Omni tool to call upon her helper droid to aid her and Garrus just her his sniper skills to take the rest of the geth out. Alex went inside of the building that will lower the door to let them all pass. Max ran back to the Mako and she drove the Mako into the campsite. Then everyone got inside the Mako and they all waited for alex to lower the door.
Alex started to look around for a lever to lower the door and she saw the lever. She was about to use it but she stop for a moment because she saw a geth. If she didn't notice the geth, she would get shot in the head. She pulled out her pistol and shot the geth in the face. Then she started to pull the lever and the door started to lower and she ran outside to meet with the other. Max started to drive the move the Mako to the location. Ashley was looking at Max for a moment and she was curious about her being good at driving. It was smooth driving towards to find the doctor and Max was trying her hardest to avoid the magma that was popping out of the ground.
"Man, this is more harder than it look." said Max, she was turning the wheel to mvoe the tank and everyone was hitting their face on the metal.
"Max, what are you doing?!" said Alex
"What?! I am trying to avoid the lava that keeps popping out like a popcorn." said Max
"Just steady the Mako. I will tell when you move." said Ashley.
Max looked at Ashley and she nodded her head to her. Ashley timed the exact moment when the lava popped up. Max move the Mako and they continue their routine to get everyone to safety. They both was able to get out of the lava zone and Max started to drive pass some of the geth that was waiting for them. Max use the guns to find their path. Then the Mako had made it to a path that it can't get through.
"Looks like we have to get out and walk from here." said Max
"Yup. Activate the homing beacon to signal the Normandy to pick up the Mako" said Alex
Max had done as she was told and got out of the Mako. Everyone had their weapons for anything. Max was looking around to the planet and she started to get a bad feeling. She had always trust in her feelings and Alex had place Max in front of the team. They started to take out some of the geth that was waiting for them and they all worked together. The geth tried their hardest to stop them but they were overpowered by their stronger teamwork. When the geth was defeated, Max use her Omni tool to scan the area and her scanners had picked up on a underground place.
"Hey, I think that the doctor might be a mile ahead." said Max
They all started to head towards the doctor's whereabouts and they was walking towards the place that will take them to the underground bunker. They all had their guns out to be very careful until a ship started to head towards them. They all had their guns pointed at the sky and they take cover to wait for the battle to start. Then there was another consensus geth but this time is more like a consensual geth and more geth join the fight. Everyone was shooting at each other and wex use his biotic shield to block incoming shot. Max duck and roll to a nearby pillar to avoid being hit. She use her biotic warp to tried to knocked some of the shields down on the Consensual Geth.
Ashley was taking down some of the geth squads along with garrus and kaidan backing her up. Alex and Tali was helping Max taking down the Consensual Geth and they both use their Omni tool to overload the shields and Wex use his shotgun to take down some of the consensual legs. Max use the grenade to take out the other legs while Alex use her biotic warp to take out the other. Everyone else took out the rest of the legs and they all put every ounce of their terminal clips that they had on them. Then the consensual geth couldn't withstand the entire power everyone and it exploded into parts. They all started to head into the tunnel to head into the underground bunker.
"I can get this door open in a good moment." said Max
"Tali, help her to get this door open." said Alex
"Yes ma'am." said Tali
Both Max and Tali started to use their Omni tool to unlock the door and it took them three second to open the door. Then they all started working into the tunnel and they all turned on their flashlights to see where they were going. Max was getting nervous because of being down in close space wasn't going to help her nerves. Ashley place her hand on her shoulder just to calm her down for a moment which it work.
"Thank you, I needed that." said Max
"You're welcome, LC." said Ashley
They continue to walk down the tunnel and they use an elevator to go down to the second floor of the bunker. When they all walk out of the elevator, they all saw some flying droids that they saw at Chora's den and they all took them out. They use the other elevator the last floor, but it automatic. Everyone was trapped inside of the elevator and Wex use his strength to open the door to the elevator. Then they all started to jump down from the elevator. They all heard something that soundly like a woman endanger.
"Uh hello, is someone out there. I need help. Please, I need someone to help me."
"I think that is the doctor that we've been looking for." said Max
"Okay everyone, we need to stay low." said Alex
Alex looked down for a moment and she saw a beautiful Aseri woman that was troubled inside. She jumped down which scare the aseri woman for a moment and then Max and the others jump down. Max just looked at her sister with a angry look on her face.
"What the hell, Alex. You told use to stay low." said Max
"I know that I said that and couldn't help myself." said Alex
"Uh, I am going to be rude but can you two get me out of here, please."
"Are you doctor LiaraT'soni." said Max
"Yes, I am. Who are you." said Liara
"Alexandra Shepard, but call me Alex." said Alex
"Maine Shepard, but I like to be call Max." said Max. "What is this that got you trapped."
"This is a prothean ruin and I was trying to hide until I activate something that I wasn't suppose to. That is why that you have to get me out of here." said laira
"We will get you out of there okay." said Alex
"Okay, but be careful there is a krogan that is looking for me." said Liara
Alex and the others started to leave to find a way in and they all started to duck out of the way because the geth was here as well. They started shooting that the geth and they took out some of them. Max use her biotic to lift the objects that the geth was hiding while Ashley use her assault rifle to kill some of them. Garrus use his sniper skill to out some of the others. Kaidan use his biotic to put some of the geth in stasis while Tali and wex use their shotguns to shoot them in the head. When they were done, Max and tali took a look at the a mining laser for a good moment.
"Hey sis, Tali and I have talked about using this mining laser to get us to the other side of the barrier, but it will trigger a something that we will regret later." said Max
"Do it." said Alex
Both Tali and Max nodded their heads and they both started to use their Omni tools to get activate the mining laser. Max adjust the aim for the laser while Tali was getting ready to fire when max was done. Everyone else took cover for a moment while they do their magic. Then the laser fired off a beam which created them a path to get to the doctor. Both max and tali dusted themselves off from the dirt. Alex just smiled at their work and she gave max a hug. They all started walk in and they all saw a elevator that leads to the top. Alex set the elevator to the third floor where liara was. The elevator arrived to the third floor.
"How... How did you all get in here?" said Liara
"We need to get you out of there." said Alex
"Wait a minute, sis." said Max
"She's right, commander. This is Benezia's daughter. Can we trust her." said Kaidan
"I agree with Lt, because her mother is working Saren and the geth." said Ashley
"What?! I am not my mother! I don't want anything do with that turian bastard!" said Liara
"Well, I believe her because if she was working with the geth and Saren, then they shouldn't tried to kill her." said Alex
"You are too trusting, sis." said Max
"I could say the exact same thing to you, max." said Alex
Max just huff because Alex remember a time that Max trusted someone and she watched as she let Liara down. Alex started to look at the aseri's round ass for a moment and she started to blush. Max hit her in the back of the head because she was being rude. Liara dust herself off and she turned around to looked at Alex in the eye. Liara's eyes was like ocean blue and she was smiling at Alex.
"Thank you for freeing me." said Liara
"Would like to explain why that the geth and Sarenwas after you in the first place." said Alex
"I don't know but you said that my mother was working with him. I just wanted to know why did he had to come after me." said Liara
"Maybe that you know about the Conduit." said Max
"The Conduit? I never heard of it before." said Liara
Then the ground started to shake and everyone was trying to keep their balance. Max almost fall on her face when Ashley caught and she smiled at Ashley. Alex hold Liara in place for a moment until the ground stop shaking. Liara looked at Alex with a confuse look on her face. Alex let go after the ground stopped shaking.
"What the hell was that?" said Ashley
"I think that mining laser that you all use must have triggered a earthquake that make this place unstable." said Liara
"I told you that we might regret it." said Max
"What can I say, you were right." said Alex, reach for her comlink to call the Normandy to them. "Joker, lock on my coordinate and get us out of here, no the double Mr. "
"Aye, aye, commander. ETA in a few minutes." said Joker
"He needs to hurry!" said Tali
"If we don't make it out of here, I'll kill him." said Wex
"How if you are dead." said Max
"I'll have away to do it." said Wex
They use the elevator to get to the top of the cavern but they saw a krogan with some geth walking through the force field. They all had their gun pointed at each other. The krogan just smiled at the sight of a battle that he was going to experience.
"Surrender! If not, this will be fun." said Krogan mercenary
"In case you didn't noticed that this going to come down on top of us." said Max
"Worry much? Now, hand over the doctor." said Krogan mercenary
"I rather die before I serve Saren." said Liara
"So with the doctor's words, kiss my shiny blue ass." said Alex
"Not my type of language but yes kiss my shiny blue ass." said Liara
Everyone started laughing so hard which cause the krogan mercenary just got angry because they were laughing at him. He just looked at them because there was going to be away out but it was going to through him. Then the krogan mercenary told his troops to up fire on the enemy except for the doctor which max use her smoke grenade to give them some time to come up with a plan of action. The geth was shooting through the smoke trying to hit their target. Max and the others took cover behind the crates. Shepard teams returned fire on the geth while Liara just took cover because she didn't have a gun to defend herself.
"Hey doc, do you know how to use one of these?" said Alex, holding out a pistol for liara to use.
"Yes, I do." said Liara
Liara took the pistol and she help everyone to fight the geth. They all was able to kill the geth and the krogan mercenary. They all started running towards he force field which they all shielded their eyes as the force field went down. Liara tipped on a rock and both max and alex went to help her up. Then Alex turned around to see that the everything was falling from the ceiling.
"Move! Move! Move! MOVE!' said Alex
They started to run for their lives because of the ruins was falling apart. Ashley was leading everyone out while max wax behind them which alex remain at the back to make sure that no one didn't get left behind. They all was able to get out of there and they all saw that the Normandy had arrive just like joker say that he would. Alex was looking at the entrance to the ruins was block by so many of the rocks. She knew that they all had lost a lot importance for Prothean history. Everyone was panting from exhaustion because they were all tired from the mission.
"Great job everyone." said Alex
Everyone started to get on board the Normandy get some well rest after they do a little debriefing from the mission and both Max and Alex need to give their report to the council. Joker was going over the detail on how that he was saving them in a bad joke.
"Heycommander, the next time that we land here, remind me to park the ship by hot lava. It getting into our scanner and melt our hold. Just for future references." said Joker
"We almost risk our live while your pilot making jokes." said Liara
"Joker saved our asses and I think he is entitle for a few bad jokes." said Alex
"Even though his face is for funnier than his jokes." said Max
"I heard that!" said Joker
"You were meant to hear it." said Max
"Wow LC got some jokes on her." said Ashley
"I guess this a human thing. Again, I would like to thank you for saving my life. I don't know what I would do if they have taken me to Saren." said Liara
"Do you know why that Saren wanted you." said Alex
"Didn't captain Anderson mention that she has knowledge of the Prothean? Maybe that is the reason why saren is after her in the first place." said Max
"True that my knowledge of the Prothean might be some help to him but I wouldn't work for him. I know that the Protheans are remarkable species and I have spent my life on finding the truth on their disappearance." said Liara
"I have my own theory." said Alex
"How old are you, if you don't mind me asking?" said Max
"I don't at all, commander. I am only a hundred and six years old." said Liara
"Damn! I wish look that good when I'm that old." said Ashley
"Well, aseri children live for hundred of years and so I barely more of child." said Liara
"So, what is the conduit anyway?" said Kaidan
"I believe that it some kind of weapon that the Prothean use before they disappeared. I wanted to know that an entire species just up and vanshin just like that." siad Liara
"They were wiped out advance machine that called themselves the Reapers. " said Alex
"The reapers? I have never heard that name. How do you know?" said Liara
"We uncover a beacon on Eden prime, the beacon shot a vision in both me and my sister." said Alex
Liara looked at the both of them and she was shocked to see that both of them had survived the ordeal. Max was blushing because this was the first time that she had experience an aseri staring at her. Alex just looked at the woman and she continue to explain the reason on those vision that both max and her had shared.
"I see, a lesser mind would have been kill from knowing all the visions. You and your sister must have a strong will to withstand the beacon." said Liara
"This is not getting nowhere why do the saren need the conduit?" said Kaidan
"I do not know at the moment. Maybe that he has plan for it when he find it. But for now-" said liara.
"Either way, you are safe here with us for the time being." said Alex
"We could use her biotics during our missions." said Wex
"Great idea, Wex." said Max
"Thank you, Commander. I give you the knowledge of the Prothean." said Liara, she started to collapse to her knees. "Whoa, I am sorry about that. Knowing the about the Prothean beacon got me too excited."
"When was the last time you eaten or slept for that matter?" said Kaidan
"I am fine, but I have been working on dig sites for a long time." said Liara
"With all do respect, you need to see our doctor for some treatment. everyone else except for max are dismissed." said alex
Everyone started to leave the debriefing room and max was standing next to Alex. Joker had told them that the council of races wanted to hear their mission report. Then the council appeared in front of them as holograms and they were not happy at all that Alex
"Commander, we have the mission report. Good job on recruit Liara T'soni to your side." said Aseri councilor
"Are you sure that it was wise for you to recruit the daughter of benezia?" said Turian councilor
"The geth was trying to kill. I thought that this was the best place for her to be safe." said Alex
"And what about you, lieutenant commander, do you agree with this?" said Turian councilor
"Hey, if my sister says that she can trust and I've see no reason to disagree." said Max
"Thanks, Max." said Alex
"We will be waiting for your next mission report." said Salarian councilor.
The mission was ended and both Max and Alex started to head to their rooms to get some well rest, but Alex went to check on Liara in the medical room. Dr. Chaksaw was looking over her results of Liara's records. He knew that she wasn't getting food into her system.
"Ah, commander. Are you here to see our guest?" said Dr. Chaksaw
"Yes, I am." said Alex
"I have place her in the back room." said Dr. Chaksaw.
"Thank you." said Alex
Well, there you have it forks another chapter successful completed like that. I will have more on the way and I am going to be adding more stories to my list while I work on the old stories at the same time because I have some help with the story this time. I have a good that had came back into town and he has been working on his writing skill for the last two years and he had agreed to help me out. If you all have questions don't hestiate to ask or shoot me a Pm. I got to go bye for now.
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