A/N: hi guys this is straight after the previous chapter, again, worked ass off... blah blah, you don't care about my problems, heck, I don't care about my problems most of the time! so lets ROCK!- go, go... I meant go... *sigh*
as Williams approached the beacon me and Shep took notice
he pulled her out of the way and began to levitate
"hold on Shep!" I shouted
"no! don't touch him! its to dangerous!" shouted Kaiden
I didn't care, I wanted to help my friend
"fuck that!" I replied
I grabbed his foot and my mind flooded with images...
-Kaiden's POV-
as Silver touched the Commander's foot he held his head and was thrown into a railing then the floor only to look like he was being helped up and then thrown at the beacon
he hit it and it exploded and he was hanging off a rail, he was half on half off, he was half on half off both ends, his head was facing the sheer drop before him while his legs were on the platform
~15 hrs later~
-Shepard's POV-
I stirred, my head was pounding
"Doctor! Doctor Chakwas! I think he's waking up!" shouted Williams
the good doc came running in
"you had us worried there Shepard, how are you feeling? are you all right?"
"pretty sure he's half left" mumbled a barely conscious Silver, a little dumbly
"I'm fine, but what about him?"
"I... don't know, he suffered massive head trauma, back trauma, two broken arms some broken ribs... and he could have sustained permanent damage... here" she tapped her head
"don't...count...on... it... doc" he strained as he got up, he looked like he was ready to faint and collapse off his feet
"you need to lie down!" she insisted
"you...think...that I'm...gonna stand... idly by... while some dick... destroys and conquers my universe? not... likely" he said, holding his head in his hand
"so, both your eye movement increased rapidly, a sign of intense dreaming usually"
"not... a dream... a vision...of, death, destruction, the end of the universe as we know it" he faintly spoke
"you have massive head trauma that could hav-"
"its true, a vision, maybe his was more clearer than mine" I said
"no, I just know what it means" he spoke a little more strongly
Chakwas checked the monitor she had hooked to him
"remarkable, he's made a full recovery..."
"nothing can keep me down, not even head trauma" he said
"it was my fault, I must have triggered some kind of security field when I approached it, you had to push me out of the way, then Silver tried to help you..."
"you had no way to know what would happen"
she smiled at that
"yeah, it's not as if it looked shady in ANY way" chuckled Silver
-Silver's POV-
"actually we don't even know if that's what set it off, unfortunately we'll never get the chance to find out"
"the beacon exploded, a system overload maybe, Silver, you were thrown around like a ragdoll, you were flung against railings-"
I was remembering like Alex Mercer, with a hint of a Drells perfect memory, except I wasn't speaking, although it was very vivid to the point where I could physically feel the pain
"stop, please" I said
"oh, sorry, the blast knocked you cold and the Lieutenant and I carried you back here to the ship, Commander Silver, you were VERY light it was weird, and your skin felt... wrong, no offence, and we couldn't get you out of that armour, at one point the Lieutenant peeled a bit off along with your skin! and it wasn't blood under there..."
"I'll explain later Williams" I said
"anyway, we appreciate it" said Shep
she smiled and blushed when he said that
"physically you're fine, now including you apparently Silver, other than the visions, I may need to include this in my re- Captain Anderson!" said Chakwas as Anderson entered the medical bay
"good, my two best fighters are back in action"
"barely captain, truthfully I don't even know how the Staff Commander is ok, or even alive, those injuries would have killed most people"
"well I need to speak to both of them in private"
"I'll be in the mess if you need me" said Williams as her and the dc walked out"sounds like the beacon hit you both hard Commanders, you sure you're ok?"
"will it get me some leave if I say no?" I said
"ha! you wish" replied Anderson
"I don't like soldiers dying under my command"
"me neither" I agreed
"Jenkins wasn't your fault, you did a good job, guys"
"if I'd gotten there sooner..." I started
"the Captain's right, let it go" said Shep
"I am not singing just so you know, and thanks"
"you said you needed to see us in private, Captain?"
"I won't lie to you, Shepard, things look bad, Nihlus is dead, the beacon was destroyed and geth are invading, the Council's going to want answers"
"I didn't do anything wrong, Captain, hopefully, the Council can see that"
"the Council can go f themselves in the a and have a nice day if they think we had anything to do with this"
"I'll stand behind you and your report, Shepard, Silver, you're both damned heroes in my book, that's not why I'm here, it's Saren, that other turian, Saren's a Spectre, one of the best, a living legend, but if he's working with the geth, it means he's gone rogue, a rogue Spectre's trouble, Saren's dangerous. and he hates humans"
"not true, he talked to me enough and he didn't hate me, although he did say I was more Turian than human"
"almost every Turian respects and/or fears you for Torfan, like a Spectre, you completed the mission at any cost"
"true..."
"why does he hate humans?"
"he thinks we're growing to fast, taking over the galaxy, a lot of aliens think that way, most of them don't do anything about it, but Saren has allied himself with the geth, I don't know how, I don't know why, I only know it had something to do with that beacon, you were both there before the beacon self-destructed, did you see anything? any clue that might tell us what Saren was after?"
"we both shared a vision, two halves, Silver got one half, I got the other"
I then made a decision
"ok, look you're both my best friends, my guess is this is something massive, I feel as if I should tell you my name, my real name" I said
they both looked at me
"Joey Il Uccisore(look on google translate for the pronunciation, Il-The, Uccisore-Slayer)"
"Joey?"
"it was a mess up on the birth certificate, it was supposed to be more Italian, its just Joe please, on the ship you can call me Joe, I remain Silver anywhere else however"
"why change your name?" asked Shep
"after a certain event that happened before I joined the military... it was life changing to say the least, I was never the same after that"
"understood... Joe... that's going to take some getting used to" chuckled Shep
"anyway what was the vision of?"
"I saw synthetics, geth maybe, slaughtering people, butchering them" said Shep
"Silv- Joe?" said Anderson
"the Reapers, they killed the Protheans, drove them to extinction and will do the same to us if we don't stop them"
"Reapers?"
"an ancient race of highly advanced, highly intelligent cuttlefish- I mean ships, of massive size"
"we need to report this to the Council"
"seriously? accuse their top Spectre of going rogue with little to zero proof and on top of that say 'oh btw I had a vision burned into my brain from that Prothean beacon, you know the one on Eden Prime, the one that was unstable and that we exploded by accident?' and oh yeah, giant robots are coming to kill us all and murder our faces"
"yeah, I mean what will we say, 'we had some bad dreams'?"
"we don't know what information was stored in that beacon, lost Prothean technology? blueprints for some ancient weapon of mass destruction? whatever it was Saren took it, but I know Saren I know his reputation, his politics he believes humans are a blight on the galaxy, this attack was an act of war!"
"war! war! what is it good for?! absolutely nothin'!" I sang
"and he has the secrets of the beacon, he has an army of geth at his command, and he won't stop until he's wiped humanity from the face of the galaxy!"
"thats... a little extreme"
"we'll find some way to take him down" said Shep
"I find bullets work" I said
"you know what I mean"
"it's not that easy, he's a Spectre, he can go anywhere, do almost anything, that's why we need the Council on our side"
"We prove Saren's gone rogue and the Council will revoke his Spectre status" said Shep as if he'd had some, life changing revelation
"I doubt it'll be that easy, nothing ever is" I said
"I'll contact the ambassador and see if he can get us an audience with the Council, he'll want to see us as soon as we reach the Citadel, we should be getting close, head up to the bridge and tell Joker to bring us into dock"
"come on Shep" I said
we walked out and Shep stopped to talk to Ashley
"I'm glad you're okay, Commanders, the crew could use some good news after what happened to Jenkins"
I looked down as I remembered every little detail
"sorry for bringing that memory back" she said
"it's ok, it'll be good to have you Williams" I said
"he was a valuable part of this crew"
"part of me feels guilty over what happened, if Jenkins was still alive, I might not be here" she said and hung her head
"you're a good soldier, Williams, you belong on the Normandy"
"yeah, welcome to paradise, soldier"
"thanks, Commanders, I that means a lot from you two, I've never met anyone, let alone two who've been awarded the Star of Terra"
"it's nothing, anyway, how're you?" I asked, avoiding the subject, I don't want another trip down memory lane
"yeah, it was rough, how are you holding up?"
"I've seen friends die before, comes with being a marine, but to see my whole unit wiped out..." she started
I slipped into a Drell's perfect memory, complete with talking!
"I look down, contemplating, 'why is Akuze so familiar?' the ground rumbles 'thresher maws!' I bellow, the crew scatters as half are engulfed, we run, and run, looking for shelter, we find it..." I trailed off and held my head
"are you ok?" asked Shep
"yeah, sorry, continue Ash" I said 'Ash' without meaning it
"I've never got used to seeing dead civilians but things would have been a lot worse if you hadn't shown up, and 'Ash?' really?"
"sorry to get so informal, Chief" I smiled
"we couldn't have done it without you Williams" said Shep
"yeah, you were a big help" I smiled
"thanks Commanders, I have to admit I was nervous about being assigned to the Normandy, its nice when two of the most decorated soldiers on the ship make you feel welcome"
"I think you're going to fit in juuuust fine Williams" said Shep
"yeah, you'll do great, find a post, get settled you'll be a-ok"
"thanks Commanders"
we moved to the stairs and headed up to the door
-5 seconds later(and a story later)-
the door opened and we lingered for a second
"then the guy begged for his life but I was on orders to kill him, so I shot him in the torso and left the rest to fate"
"damn, thats cold" said Shep
"it got the job done, he died a few minutes later"
we walked through and Pressly addressed us
"glad to see you're ok Commanders, losing Jenkins was hard enough on the crew"
I nodded and we kept walking
we came up behind Joker and I put my finger on my lips, signalling Shepard to not say anything
I pulled out a megaphone out of my ass (hey if Michael, Franklin and Trevor can pull an rpg out of their ass why can't I pull a megaphone?)
"would a Mr. Cripple please dock, I repeat, would a Mr. Crippled Pilot please dock the ship?" I said suddenly down his ear
he jumped and almost broke his leg, and then his hand trying to hit me
"I could have crashed us then!"
"into what? we're in the middle of ssssssspppppppaaaaaaaccccccceeeeee!" I yelled(Markplier reference, love you Mark! I might have overdone it though...)
"point taken... and hey! cripple jokes get old after a while, anyway I was already about to bring us into dry dock, BEFORE you gave me a heart attack, time to see that taxpayer money at work"
we looked out the window to see the Citadel from the outside...
TO BE CONTINUED...
A/N: don't worry, it hasn't blown up, I just needed to break up the chapters, I've had an ear infection the last few days, it's bad, the pain's gone but I can't hear properly unless I wear headphones, and I hear people even less :( it's not fun constantly having white noise in my ears and not being able to hear properly, I'm also working on an offshoot story, which will shed light on Silver's adventures in C-Sec, I'm planning on 6 chapters(including prologue) one for each year except the prologue, it's going to be a crime story (don't worry not a traditional crime story like complete mystery, it's going to be Silver+Garrus, working to take down corruption in the hierarchy of C-Sec itself... ohhhhhh... what do you think?) anyway, please review!