A/N: Hello! It's been a super long time, I have been super busy but I have been waiting to write this chapter! I do hope I still have you all with me if you guys were following this one. Thank you for the support for those of you who supported this one. Please enjoy~
The injured man who was carried in hit the ground with a soft thump and Ashley's eyes fell to him and her heart started pounding in her chest. "Shepard!" she wanted to run over to his side and hold him, but now they were both being held at gunpoint.
Adam looked up at her in disbelief, his face now covered in blue and purple blotches. "Ash?" he tried to sit himself up to look at her, but it appeared by his struggling that he was too weak to do so.
"I finally found you." Both Shepard and Ashley turned to look over at the man - Mochi, who was still standing on the other side of them with a frightening smirk on his face. "they said that you were dead, nut I knew better then to believe that you were killed off in such a stupid way." the man spoke earning Ashley's ire instantly. It was very real for her, one second Shepard was there and the next he was gone never to be seen again.
Ashley glared at Mochi as Adam furrowed his eyebrows, seemingly trying to remember who this man was. "Do I know you?" he was questioning him, but there was a feeling of doubt that was tugging at the female marine. Both of these men looked very similar to each other, the only contrast was that Mochi was younger then both of them.
The person who I am suspecting is behind this is linked to the commander. Finch's words reached Ashley for the first time and it finally hit her. "Shepard. We are in a really fucked up situation. I need you to really think about this right now. Was there anyone you left behind before you joined the alliance all those years ago?" she asked him.
Shepard remained silent and his face fell for a short second like he thought of something. "No, I didn't leave anything or anyone behind." he stated confidently, although Ashley could tell that he wasn't telling the whole truth.
Mochi fell completely silent now. Ashley couldn't tell what his next moves were going to be, but she could tell by the change in his already-dead eyes, that he was going to do something.
"Of course! You're the great commander Shepard!" The man scoffed as he slowly approached the commander with the bloody spiked baseball bat in hand. "You did better for yourself - you got out of these gangs and saved the galaxy and never thought about any of us again."
Once he got close enough to Shepard, he stood above him with an evil smirk. "Since you're so great now, I bet you forgot about this place, including the little boy who depended on you for survival." At those words, the baseball bat landed in Shepard's chest - the armor he was normally wearing was removed on purpose.
Shepard grunted in pain only for the spiked bat to slowly be removed and make contact with the skin below the fresh wound.
Ashley cried his name attempting to run over to his side only for the German doctor to stop her with a machete in his hand. "no, no, mien herz it's not your turn yet!" the doctor cackled evily as the marine could only watch the scene helplessly. She was still being held at gunpoint, after all.
"Jayden!" Adam finally shouted a name - one that she did not recognize - and the man stopped the bat in mid swing for the third time. "I..know you."
To be continued.