Shepard fell to the floor as her growth tube opened and ejected her. She coughed as her lungs fought to eject the nutrition filled water from them. Shepard groaned as she rubbed her eyes slowly emerging from the floor. Her vision seemed hazy and her limbs felt tight and unused. She tried taking a few steps before she fell against the wall and slid back to the floor. Shepard breathed haggardly her lungs continuing try and adjust to the inflating effect oxygen had on them. Shepard groaned as she stood back up taking in her surroundings. She recognized her room as the inside of an escape pod. But she couldn't remember why she was inside one to begin with. Reaching behind her back for a pistol Shepard then came to the realization that not only was she was without her weapons she was also without her armor or any clothing to be precise. Shepard only began to feel a prickle of fear when she tried to muster her biotic power and even though she could feel the tingle there was no blue aura around her. She reached to the back of her neck and felt that the usual lump of an implant was missing. She was for all intents and purposes defenseless even her limbs did not seem to be in complete working order. Shepard walked slowly leaning against the structure of the pod for support as she made her way to the door of the shuttle. She was apprehensive opening the door, she did not know any of the worlds conditions. For all she knew she was walking into an enemies vessel with no weapon, armor, or biotic ability. Shepard said a silent prayer to any entity that was listening that if she was on a planet the air would not be toxic. She hit the button that opened the door for her but the door jammed half way through opening. Shepard groaned as she knelt down and crawled out of her pod. She stood up slowly and looked over the pod. It had the scorch marks that seemed like it came within kissing distance of an asteroid or comet. Shepard looked around at the lush planet around her and noticed there were no other pods on the ground. Her escape pod being knocked off course could have been an explanation on why she was alone but it still did not explain what she was doing in an enviro-tube like Grunt was when she found him. Shepard crawled back into the pod her body no longer limber protesting her every movement. She sighed happily as she found a compartment near the door containing a sealed jumpsuit. Shepard quickly pulled it on, sure it wasn't her N7 armor she was used to but it was sure better than running around in her birthday suit. Shepard yanked a slim metal bar from the side of the pod gasping as her body rebelled against the strenuous task.
"Get your shit together, Shepard." She reprimanded herself.
"You've been through worse. You are strong your body is strong it just needs to remember it." Shepard told herself sliding back out of the pod dressed and armed with her newly acquired metal stick.
'Should get some food.' Shepard thought to herself as she walked to some nearby vegetation but then thought otherwise remembering when she had come upon Jacob's dad and his deranged crew.
"Right now would be a really good time to have access to EDI." Shepard mumbled to herself kicking the grass softly.
"I need shelter." Shepard spoke to herself as she made her way back to the pod and grasped the doors grunting her face contouring with pain as she strained to push the door up all the way.
'A little bit of pain now and you won't have to keep crawling in and out.' Shepard spoke to herself mentally, willing herself to have the strength to do what needed to be done. She gasped and slid to the floor not knowing whether she should grasp her arms or her sides.
"Why am I all alone? Where is my team, the council, the alliance, or anybody?" Shepard sighed frustrated.
"I hate being left in the dark." Shepard groaned as she hoisted herself back up.
"There is no time for a pity party Elizabeth; you keep yourself alive that is all that matters. Things were worse during Akuze no time to be a little bitch about it now." Shepard went about the edge of the tropical trees looking for any raw material that could be of any use to her. She tried not to think about the fact that her pod lacked her ability to get back up into the sky. She refused to let her morale be lowered by those dark thoughts that she could spend her final days alone on this planet. She just hoped that whoever put her in the pod cared enough to come and retrieve her. But the thought of retrieval left her to think of the possibility of the wrong team coming to get her. Shepard needed to get her body back into fighting condition. She decided that after a night of rest she would resume military training to the best of her ability without any equipment to work with. Shepard tried to her keep her thoughts from thinking about her crew. To keep herself sane she continued to tell herself that they were all okay. They were in different escape pods, ones that did not get knocked out of space by space debris and they were currently getting patched up before coming on their mission of finding their commander. Shepard in particularly hoped this was true for Kaidan. Shepard had lost people under her command but she found a part of her thinking that if Kaidan was not okay that she would rather die alone on this planet than have to find out the truth and then die alone on a planet where the memories of her husband haunted her on every corner.
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