Crazy trouble with love part 9
Serene and Shepard
Series: Mass Effect
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The Citadel was hard at work trying to rebuilt the destroyed parts of it, the parts that had been ruined by Saren's geth troops while any news or mention of Sovereign, Saren's 'ship' were pushed down about being a real Reaper and merely just called that by Saren to scare people.
In a more secluded part of the station is where several turians men with rifles and pistols were hard at work loading a large box onto a hovering cart for transportation, none of them looking like C-Sec.
"Oh man, the boss is gonna drool when she sees what we hauled up."
"IF we get it to her without C-Sec spotting us, move it." ordered one as they walked down a dark hall that lead down near an area put between C-Sec Academy and the Port itself, an area used for storage, at least that's what their boss marked it down as when she bought the space.
They entered the area with numerous other turians unpacking stuff that most would consider illegal, but to them they were profit.
"Hey boss! We got something to show you!"
A female turian, one with a pale silver exoskeleton with several scars on her slender and triangular face, walked out on a catwalk and frowned. "What is it?"
"We went out near one of the wrecks near the Presidium, and let us tell you, we scored." grinned one pushing a button on the side of the crate, letting it collapse outward to show what looked like a crater with several circuitry lines running across it, a lone opening in it that looked like an eye without any light to it, with several wires dangling from it, damaged and torn up.
"...what is this?" she crossed her arms. "It looks like some hunk of junk."
"Well that's because it is, but it's a hunk of junk we found inside that huge 'Reaper'." one of them air quoted. "We figured it must be worth something, or at least might hold some useful information if that thing really was a Reaper."
"Oh please. Reaper or not, this is probably just filled with stuff those geth have." scoffed one. "We could make a good deal on the data alone and just scrap the rest."
"I'll be the judge of that." spoke the boss as she made her way down, but tripped over her feet and went tumbling down, yelling out when she landed on her face with a small crack heard.
"Boss!"
"Ow!" she hissed in pain as they ran over, she rubbed her face while shuddering and gave a small smile hidden behind her hand.
"You alright?"
"Of course I'm alright you idiots, a small fall like that won't kill me." she scoffed. "Get that thing into the lab, I want the data from it uploaded into a disc and ready to be sold by the end of the day."
"Wait boss!" one of the turians, without a weapon, ran over panting. "Maybe we can make use of it some other way."
"What are you babbling about?"
"Remember that geth body we kept?"
"The one you begged to keep?"
"It wasn't begging, it was enc-never mind!" he shook his head as a few other turians chuckled. "It's finished. That project I've been working on? I got it complete."
"Wait, are you serious?"
He nodded with her turning to him completely.
"Show me. The rest of you bring that huge thing and DON'T bump it or I'll start selling your organs!"
"Yes boss."
The turians followed the new one down a hall, one filled with several monitors and disassembled machinery, before coming to a slab that had a reformed geth's body hooked up to it with the eye it had completely dark and several tubes hooked up to it.
"I've been working for weeks on this project, but I think I managed to finally get it right." the turian moved over to a console while the boss put a hand on her hip.
"You've said that before."
"But boss, this is for real. This the big one." he gripped his hands. "The nanomachines are ready to be implemented at a moment's notice."
"Excellent." she grinned and turned to the large hunk of metal. "Tell me, what would happen if we hooked it up to this?"
"Well, utilizing the geth's ability to link up with something if it has enough processing power, it could link into it without much trouble. If it has some defenses, then the geth could get through them without much fail."
"Good. I want as much data copied from that thing as possible. That thing might hold enough data to sell to just about any corrupt government official, pirate, mercenary, or even asari matriarch to set us up for a whole life time."
"But boss, isn't that kinda risky?"
"No, because if that tincan tries anything, it'll go straight to the scrap yard." she remarked while the other turians reloaded their rifles for emphasis. "Now get to it genius."
"Yes ma'am."
With that, they went to work on hooking wires up to the large piece of machinery and the geth, making sure there was a connection with numerous firewalls set up just in case.
"Alright, we ready?"
"Yes, we can start."
"Begin."
The turian began to start the process with the wires trying to access the large container, with the data slowly going into the geth body.
"So, getting anything?" one armed turian asked.
The main monitor was filled up with encrypted data, but parts of it were unprotected which let him access a little. "Yeah, and...holy shit! Some of this data are logs dating back centuries ago."
"Anything good or useful?"
"If you consider data logs of what seems like extinct species useful."
"Good, start making copies after you run it through the geth." she ordered. "And while you're at it, upload the nanomachines. I wanna make sure it goes without any problems and doesn't take up time."
"Uh, but boss, I'm not sure that's safe. I mean uploading the data through the geth and putting in the nanomachines seems-"
"Risky? I know, and that's why I said it." she frowned while squeezing her hands as she looked at the robot with what looked like eager.
"Alright boss, if you say so." he sighed before beginning the sequence for the nanomachines. 'Her and her damn fetish is gonna kill us one of these days.'
"With the data unlocked and the nanomachines in its system, this geth might be a useful bodyguard." she remarked walking towards the geth as silvery robots began to go through the tubes and into the body.
"Or it might blow up and break down like any other geth." remarked one of the armed turians with a chuckle.
"Keep that up and I might test it out on you to see how it works." she threatened and looked back at the geth, but that's when she saw it start to twitch with a sudden warning sound going off. "Hey, what's going on?"
"Oh no, the data being uploaded is running rampant!" the turian started typing away in panic. "It's not being filtered through the geth's processor properly, now it's starting to download right into it!"
"Cut the connection!"
"I can't! It won't respond!"
"Damn it!" she cursed, only for the geth's head to slowly rise up and look at her, the eye lit up as the nanomachines began to slowly move through its synthetic veins.
'Where...am I?' came a monotone voice inside the head, looking through the geth's eye and feeling groggy. What is this...place?'
The vision was hazy and hard to see, but what the voice did recognize was the scans via the eye.
'This body...it's too damaged...I need to repair it. I need new material...'
The command was heard by the nanomachines inside, all of whom began to bubble and rise to the surface of the geth, which the turian noticed right away.
"What the?" she muttered, only to go wide eyed when they suddenly lashed out in a large glob that grabbed her. "Hey, let go!"
"Boss!" several turians took aim as she was pulled towards the geth. They started opening fire, but the shots went right through the cluster of machines and instead shot the technician, causing him to drop to the floor bleeding out from several holes.
"Shoot be-mphgm!" the female let out before the glob started to cover her mouth and restrain her movements, making her both terrified, and silently eager before finding herself engulfed completely, the geth itself as well, both of them being wrapped up in a cocoon.
"Get the boss out of there before she suffocates!"
Several of them ran over, but were shot back from a red bolt of power that surrounded the orb and made the machines malfunction and explode, causing them to shield their faces while the cocoon slowly glowed red entirely.
"What the hell did it do to the boss?!"
"I have no fucking idea."
The hired muscle all watched as the cocoon started to slowly shrink down in size, reshaping itself into a more realistic size. That's when a bright flash occurred making them close their eyes.
"Not again!"
The turians all slowly looked up after a minute to let the light die down and went wide eyed as the geth, or whatever it WAS, took a step forward and looked itself over.
"What...have I become?" it spoke with the leader's voice, with a more garbled tone to it. The figure retained the geth's lower portion, but the arms were now that of a turian's, with the head itself now resembling the same turian's face, except it had a total of three 'eyes', if the larger one right in the center of the forehead counted given it was less circular and more narrow and slanted going vertical. The armor also gave the once silver shine a more purple hue with sparks of red energy coming off it.
"B...Boss?" spoke one of them, making the figure turn to him with the eyes glowing red which made him get a cold chill.
"Do not address me as 'boss' you insignificant organic." the figure held out its hand, sparking with energy before the turian found himself dead before he knew it thanks to the blast going right through his body, disintegrating him completely.
The others started to panic before one took aim with his rifle.
"Fire you idiots!"
"All pointless." spoke the figure as it found itself pelted on all sides by the other scavengers, the blasts being neutralized when they got close due to the energy it was giving off. "Your attempts at survival are pitiful." it held up both hands before the screen went red followed by horrified screams.
(Later)
"To think I would find myself in a small and fragile body like this." remarked Sovereign, walking down the hall while the hideout was reduced to complete destruction. The Reaper flexed its new digits while giving a scowl, by turian standards. "A geth body is one thing, but for it to merge with another organic? I feel like it would have been better if my mind was gone for good while in that container."
Sovereign may have been feeling emotion, likely due to this organics body and whatever drove it, and it made Sovereign want to go back and crush those foolish turians again and again and again.
The chance it had to be free and accomplish what its race was made for, was now lost. It's massive size, its amazing power, and even though it had some power now, it was nothing in comparison to its original form.
Meaning sooner or later, it would be at risk of dying once again.
Sovereign slowly stopped and clenched its new hands and gave its new body another look over. Thanks to the geth scanners it could tell the synthetic female it absorbed was in decent health, minus a weakened liver, but the change had fixed that, and it seemed like it had no need to worry about nutrients like any other organic filth.
Sovereign resumed walking while going over plans in its, er, I mean her new head. She couldn't exactly get a signal out to dark space, not with the little power she had right now. She could try and steal one of the ships in the citadel, but knowing them they would be able to track her and hinder her plan. And even if she did try to draw on more power, again, she would be found out and have to deal with the organics by herself and possibly perish.
"These accursed organics. How did it come to this?" she muttered as she walked past a window that gave a beautiful view of the station, making her look out and feel loathing. If Saren had managed his mission like he should have, these pieces of flesh would already be harvested and indoctrinated. Not even with the geth at his command could he do something so simple."
That's when she saw something move past the window. A familiar ship. A ship that played a part in her own defeat.
The Normandy.
She saw it slowly pass by, obviously here to dock, and when she saw it something inside her body bubbled.
Not hunger, but anger. Anger at the sight of the organics ship. Anger at the person no doubt onboard. Anger for said organic making a fool of her and the Reaper species.
Her eyes glowed bright red, with the energy coming off her body spiking which was making the lights in the hall flicker and short out before breaking, darkening the walkway and only lit up by the energy.
"That...organic...human...SHEPAAAAAAAAAAARD!" she yelled out, causing it to echo while we cut over to Shepard himself getting off the ship followed by Tali and Wrex.
"Wrex, remind me to check in with the requisitions officer in C-Sec. I wanna see if he's gotten any new spectre gear."
"No problem. Maybe he'll have something with more kick to it." remarked Wrex as they got into the elevator. "It'd sure make the missions we've been getting way more interesting."
"I'm pretty sure the last one had you having the time of your life." remarked Tali. "You practically took down those mercenaries with barely a shot."
"I've been feeling soft lately, had to get my body moving, maybe get a few new scars."
"I'd just be happy with any new armor." remarked Shepard before they felt the elevator jolt to a sudden stop, catching their attention. "Seems like it might take longer than expected."
"Maybe it'll take a minute." guessed Tali before they felt another shake, followed by screams of terror. "What was that?"
"I don't know." spoke Shepard before they felt the elevator jolt again, only for it to suddenly start dropping, making them fly upward and hit the ceiling. "Gah!"
"We're going down!" cried Tali with Wrex grunting.
"And about to go flat!"
"Wrex! Do something!"
"On it!" Wrex tapped into his biotics and caused a barrier to form over the three of them, right as the elevator stopped and they crashed down on the bottom of it, alive, but definitely feeling the sudden crash.
"Ow...thanks." spoke Tali rubbing her mask as they picked themselves up, the barriers dissipating.
"Looks like we crashed all the way to C-Sec." spoke Shepard, walking out of the elevator and over the broken glass to see people running in terror and numerous turians running past with their rifles at the ready.
"Hey! What's going on?" asked Tali, making one of them stop.
"Some kind of turian is running amok, already gone and killed several officers."
"Point us in the way." ordered Shepard already with his pistol at the ready. "Maybe we can lend a hand."
"We're gonna need all the help we can get, whoever it is already wiped out a fourth of my bosses." he took off running with Wrex and Tali whipping out their shotguns.
"Well Wrex, guess you got your wish."
"And it's not even the day of my birth." he grinned.
"Stay on guard." spoke Shepard before they followed the turian, going down the hall that passed by C-Sec headquarters, and passing by bodies of civilians and officers...or at least what was left of them. Be it body parts, legs, bodies with no head, while numerous holes in the walls that looked like they were melting.
The sound of firing could be heard as they saw other officers ahead firing wildly, only for them to jump to the side as a bright red blast flew past and disintegrated the officer they were just following, making them stop and see who it was.
"It's turian alright, but one heavily modified one." commented Tali as Sovereign himself swatted one officer away and easily stabbed its hand through another's chest. "I've never seen modifications that extreme."
"Whoever it is, we can't let them go free. Hit them with everything you've got." ordered Shepard taking aim with his pistol and started letting loose incendiary rounds.
Said rounds hit Sovereign, but they didn't do much as the Reaper let out a roar and energy wave, slamming the officers around her away and into the walls while scowling.
"Pathetic organics! I will slaughter every last one of you! Then I will make due with your bodies and rebuild my old one, even if I have to use every single one on this Citadel to do it!"
"Not on our watch!" called Tali, using her omni-tool to cause an overload, causing Sovereign to feel her body to seize up and let out a burst of power, making her stumble back since it actually felt painful.
As in, real pain!
Sovereign let out a growl, this one sounding more robotic and glared at the quarian, only to get knocked back from the hammerhead round Wrex let out.
"You wanna act tough? Then you're just wasting our time." mocked the krogan while Shepard chucked a grenade which exploded in a green burst, causing Sovereign to feel a burning sensation due to the acid eating into her body.
"Gah!" Sovereign was seething in more rage and leaped up, clinging onto the ceiling and crawling across it towards the commander with her eyes blazing. "INSOLENT ORGANIC!"
"Look out!" cried Tali as they opened fire, but Sovereign expertly evaded the shots before jumping with her claws out aimed at Shepard who kept a neutral face.
Time began to slow down to a crawl on the scene. Shepard moved towards the creation and raised up his arm, but palm out. When he got within arms reach, he used it to push the left arm back, while using his other arm to push the right one away, and that's when time resumed, with Sovereign finding herself knocked back from a firm headbutt right against the circle eye.
"Woah, where'd that come from?" asked Tali in surprise and awe. "I've never seen you do that before."
"Remember that momentary break after Sovereign got blown up? I talked to the C-Sec chief who showed me a few martial art tips. Figured they'd be useful if I ever had to fight using just my hands if fists didn't cut it."
"Wouldn't mind learning that." remarked Wrex before Sovereign groaned and held her forehead.
She could feel even more intense pain, and by the same human who caused all this, but...at the same time, there was a sensation that traveled down her back that was foreign.
A positive one mind you, a feeling of...what was it? Joy? No not that, more anger? Obviously not. It was...a content feeling.
"Alright, now are you gonna tell us who you are or do we put you down?" asked Shepard, deciding to be reasonable and give the turian a chance to speak.
Sovereign looked at the commander and scowled, getting back up on her feet. "You did it once before organic, and defied the natural order of things."
"No offense, but I'd remember fighting a turian like you." he replied, giving her another look. "Went a bit nutso on the upgrades."
"Oh please, if I had my way, I would still be in my towering form, which YOU are the reason I've lost it."
"Sorry to interrupt you while you're putting yourself on a pedestal, but you're coming with us."
"I don't think so organic." Sovereign raised her hand up and let out another blast, making Shepard narrowly avoid it with part of his armor singing from it before Tali made the body overload again, causing the reaper to stop her attack quickly right as Wrex came barreling over and slammed her against the wall. "Gah!"
"Shepard now!"
The marine commander rushed over and landed a sharp elbow strike to her face, making her head rear back and finding her body losing consciousness.
"That was a close one." spoke Tali lowering her gun while Wrex moved back and let the woman drop.
"This one's different than the others we've fought. Wish we met others like her, it really would have gotten the blood pumping."
"Good work you three." spoke Venari walking over with other C-Sec officers. "This...thing tore up some of my best men like they were nothing."
"We noticed." remarked Tali while several officers moved over to shackle the strange hybrid. "What exactly is she?"
"No idea, but we're gonna find out after a thorough interrogation."
"Mind if I chip in?" offered Shepard. "Whoever this person is, they've piqued my interest. Something they said is odd, and I intend to find out."
"Hmmm, well having you around might help in case things get hectic. Alright, let's see what you can do."
"Time to get answers from her, the fun way." chuckled Wrex as the C-Sec officers dragged the woman off in shackles.
(Later)
Sovereign didn't know how long he had been out for, this new body wasn't adept at telling him, but what he did know was he couldn't move, something was holding him down.
"Hey, wake up." came a voice before feeling something slap the reaper across the face. "Wakey wakey."
"Ugh..." Sovereign groaned in annoyance as the eyes opened, only to see he was in some sort of interrogation room, with her limbs all restrained, fingers included, and standing there was Shepard and his team.
"Sleep well? Good, because now you can start answering questions." he walked over to her and gave the best intimidating glare he had.
"Now talk, just WHO are you?" asked Shepard again while raising his fist up.
"..." she looked up at the human and scoffed. "Sovereign."
Shepard's eyes widened, Tali froze up, and Wrex raised up his gun.
"This woman sounds like she gets a kick out of jokes. Want me to get her to talk?"
"No Wrex." Shepard held up his hand and leaned down near the face. "So, the big bad Reaper somehow made it back huh? And in a small, tiny, weaker form."
"Oh you won't say that much longer you-GAH!" she let out, finding Shepard slamming his fist into her stomach, knocking the air out of her (Somehow), and making her cough when he pulled it back.
"See? One good punch and you're wheezing, just like any organic." he crossed his arms. "Which means chances are you'd drop dead with a good round to the head."
"I wouldn't mind doing that." spoke Tali cocking her shotgun.
"Ha, you couldn't even if you had a thousand of those." mocked Sovereign. "I survived your first feeble attempt to kill me, this will be nothing compared to that."
Tali pressed the barrel up against her forehead with her fingers on the trigger. "Then hold still, this won't take long."
"Tali no." spoke Shepard stepping over in between them. "We can't kill...her."
"And why not?" asked Wrex with a huff. "That lousy Reaper is the one behind a lot of people dying."
"Believe me, I haven't forgotten, but think of it like this. The one who helped Saren nearly wipe out everyone on here, and who tried to bring the Reapers back, is weak, just look at her." he looked down at Sovereign who frowned, but didn't speak up. "It wouldn't take much to end her life for good, not with a body like this, but she's worth a lot more alive than dead."
"How?" asked Tali.
"With Sovereign as a prisoner, we can force as much info as we can out of her in regards to the Reapers. Think about it, we might have a chance to discover a weakness to them, how they fight, where they would go first since they can't use the Citadel to start. Even better, have Sovereign here 'help' us track down and take them out one by one."
Wrex and Tali looked at him, admitting it DID make sense, while Shepard turned to Sovereign who glared.
"You're mad and delusional if you think-GAH!" she let out, getting another punch to the cheek, snapping her head to the side and hissing in pain, but not getting riled up from it.
"No, I'm just real. You either stick around longer to make up for what you started, or I take my time to show you what us 'organics' have felt for centuries. Pain sure sucks doesn't it?" he asked while rubbing his knuckle.
"Do your worst human." She spoke up definitely.
"Don't mind if I do. I'd feel bad hitting a lady, but since you can take it, I'll get over it. Wrex, Tali, go let the others know what I'm doing, but try to go easy on telling them who we found. I wanna explain the plan myself."
"Don't hog all the fun." remarked Wrex before the two left the cell, leaving just Shepard and Sovereign.
"Do your worst Shepard." spoke the Reaper, only to reel back when she got a left fist to the jaw, snapping her head back the other way and hissed since it felt like part of her lower jaw cracked.
"Oh I plan to." he nodded before giving a sudden kick to the side, making her yell out and grit her mandible s together and winced.
'Damn him! If this body wasn't successive to pain, this would be nothing!'
Of course she also couldn't let out that with each new sharp sensation of pain, it made her want him to keep on going. Purely to prove she wouldn't break of course.
(Normandy)
"And that's what Shepard is doing right now." finished Tali to Joker, Garrus, Ashley, and Liara.
"Wouldn't C-Sec take care of something like that?" asked Garrus with a raised...whatever a Turian's equivalent to an eyebrow is.
"Considering who it is and what they did, I'd say Shepard would find a way to get involved." chuckled Wrex shaking his head. "And let me tell you, it's not some two-bit thief or rogue Spectre."
"Then who is it?" asked Liara curiously.
"Shepard wants to tell you himself." spoke Tali while holding her hands together. "But let me tell you this, it's someone that I would love to throw in the center of a sun and watch them burn."
"Why? Someone who make a pass at you?" joked Joker making the quarian give what seemed like a glare.
"I wish it were that simple, but no."
"Well then what do we do while waiting?" asked Garrus.
"I'll be getting my guns ready, just in case." remarked Wrex.
"I'll be looking over the engines and giving them a little tune up, in the event we need a quick get away."
The others watched the two walk off and looked at the others.
"Something's wrong." frowned Garrus. "They act like they're ready to go to war. Even after we narrowly avoided death."
"Perhaps they are being prepared." spoke Liara. "Dealing with one Reaper was hard enough, but we still have more to fight in the coming future."
"I'm more curious on just who Shepard is interrogating." spoke Ashley rubbing her chin. "I hope he tells us soon."
"Relax, the captain is probably already on his way back. Considering who he is, not like anyone around here could last too long without spilling the beans." remarked Joker.
(Shepard)
"You gonna spill the beans yet?" asked Shepard, taking a moment to catch his breath, looking down at Sovereign who was banged up, him going nuts with his hits. Her body had numerous dents across it, with several ones to her head, but she was still coherent and together.
"Ha...is that a human saying you use? Even your ludicrous phrases mimic the ridiculousness of your race?" she mocked, her head looking at the ceiling with a smirk, her body tingling all over.
"Your body's gonna reach a limit, and when it does, let's see how quick you are keep up the act." he walked over and made Sovereign turn to him.
Sovereign grinned, but not an arrogant one. It was the kind of grin that showed the Reaper was actually having a good time, which made Shepard think she was mocking him still.
"If fists won't do, guess I'll have to use something with more kick to it."
"Do your worse." laughed Sovereign as Shepard walked over to where his weapons lay and picked up his pistol and tinkered with it. "What? Are you going to try and end me?"
"No, but this is gonna hurt more than my punches." he remarked walking back over and aimed the weapon at her. He pulled the trigger, leading to a near point blank shot hitting Sovereign in the leg, making her yelp out feeling the sting and hissed.
"Damn organic!" she growled while shivering as he shot at her other leg. "I'll end you!"
"Relax, these won't hurt you. They're special rounds I picked up. Ones made of a high quality rubber to help take down criminals without actually injuring them. I heard law enforcement on Earth used to use beanbags hundreds of years ago, so these are like those. Just smaller and more painful when they hit. So, you gonna tell me what I wanna know?"
"I will take on a hundred of those, and still not talk." spoke the Reaper with a smirk, feeling antsy as the pain lessened. "Do your worse."
"Gladly." Shepard set the pistol for automatic and let out several more shots up the body, making her groan and yell as she struggled in the holds, throwing her head back and feeling her body tingle all over.
'I need to get a grip on myself! This accursed body is making me feel foreign!' thought the Reaper, only to let out a gasp when one hit near her body's chest, and when another one hit her right below the belt, she let out a loud gasp and opened her mouth with her eyes rolling back in her head.
Shepard held his pistol back and saw her pant and shake, before noticing a clear liquid dripping down the seat she was on.
"Ah...ah...ah..." Sovereign panted while feeling a euphoric sensation as Shepard rubbed his fingers against the liquid and between them.
"Wait...is this..." he looked at the strange hybrid before standing up and went wide eyed. "You've been getting off on all this."
"W...W...What are you...talking about?"
"See this?" he held his fingers up to her eyes as she saw the liquid. "You just let this out."
"That...is not possible." she shook her head. "My body is incapable of producing fluids...not with the Geth being part of it."
"Well it sure looks possible to me." he lowered his hand and looked her dead in the eyes. "Your organic side, the Turian part? Seems like she gets off on pain."
"Ridiculous." scoffed Sovereign, before getting a swift elbow to the cheek, making her gasp and moan even louder. "Ahhh~"
"See? You just climaxed, which means your body is sensitive. That little moan is all the proof I need. Who would have guessed, the big bad Reaper is now a Geth-Turian masochist."
Sovereign scowled at Shepard and wanted to blast him to nothing, but...her body felt weak and helpless. Especially when he leaned in near her face and cupped it.
"Guess I know your weakness." he smirked before pulling back and turned away from her. "My work here is done."
"What?" Sovereign watched him go over and grab his weapons. "What are you babbling about?"
"Simple, you're not gonna talk, so I guess this means I'll leave you be." he remarked calmly. "I'll let C-Sec know you won't comply, and they'll probably just toss you in a cell by yourself."
"Is that all?" she scoffed. "I'll get out with ease."
"True, and you could probably end all their lives, but I'll make sure to tell them to handle you with extreme care. Don't harm you in any shape or form." he remarked while fastening his pistol back on his back before looking at her. "After all, you can take anything, so there's no point in hitting you, kicking you, shooting you, or anything. They'll probably just try to keep you in a stasis field so you won't get hurt, ever."
"So you surrender." scoffed Sovereign. "Out of all the times to give up, you choose now? Seems you fleshbags can only go so far when there's numerous of you around."
"You're no different. After all I'll bet your numbers make all of us look like a two bit math problem." he shrugged and moved to the door, which made her unnerved.
"Where was this attitude before? You've barely even started!" she snapped.
"You're right." he looked at her over his shoulder. "I could do worse. Much, much worse. I've been around the galaxy, dealt with some real scumbags who don't think twice about manipulating and killing those they want. I'll bet some of the things they did could put some real dents in that body of yours."
Sovereign made what felt like a gulp, at least compared to regular bodies, and pondered on what kind of methods he meant, especially since she knew all sorts from her long life. "Like what?"
He opened his mouth to say, but closed it and shook his head. "Nah, I've wasted too much time as it is. I'll leave you alone Sovereign. Let's hope C-Sec doesn't go off and rip your head off, otherwise you'd lose your new chance to experience what I've got in store for you, but then again, they'd probably get sloppy and do things halfway. Bye."
"Wait! You can't leave!" she spoke up without thinking as the door opened and he moved to walk out. She started to shake and growl with the binds holding her. "Get back here organic!"
"See ya around." he waved as the doors closed and she shook her head.
"You can't stop all of us!" she yelled out and huffed with anger. "Our numbers will wipe you and every organic in existence to nothing!"
It was silent for a few seconds before the doors opened and Shepard popped his head back in. "Oh really?"
"Yes! Our numbers have existed so long, we don't need to function together as an army, for each of us together ARE an army!" she spat while the marine walked back in and crossed his arms. "You have yet to feel the full blunt of the Reapers power."
Shepard shook his head and walked over till he was standing in front of her and looked down at her. "I find that highly unlikely."
"Just what an organic would say. Too small minded and deluded to-" she was cut off and found herself kicked in the gut, knocked backwards on the floor with the chair and gasping for air, shivering and clenching her hands. "Gah...ha...ha..."
"Care to repeat that? Or do you wanna explain?"
Sovereign looked at Shepard looking down at her, and for the first time ever in her existence, she felt...small. Like she could literally die by this human's hands if he wanted.
"Now talk. Tell me what I want to know, and I think we can come to an agreement, what do you say?"
Sovereign tried to glare at him, but felt her unclench her hands, close her eyes, and let out a resigned sigh. "Fine. Speak what it is you want to know exactly."
Shepard gave a grin and lifted the chair with her in it back up, and took his own seat across from her. "Well, a number would be nice. Like how many of you there are in total."
"Thousands." she remarked flatly. "Our numbers have increased with each cycle. So much so that trying to keep track is futile and pointless. What I can tell you is that there are so many of us, that even if ever organic were to fight us at once, we would still be standing from their smoking remains."
"Why did they need to use the Citadel? If they wanted to use a Mass Relay to invade, why not use one closer to them?"
"By using the Citadel, it would have made our mission so much quicker and easier. It would have been a shortcut to reach the systems and to wipe our all organic life to harvest for ourselves.
"What would they have done had they reached the Citadel with your help?"
"Had the plan worked, then it would have been a simple matter of spreading out using the relay connections, and destroying the races from other planets before they learned of what happened. It would have been what you humans call, a divide and conquer strategy."
"Sounds like it would have worked too. What with the council and everyone else oblivious or just not willing to believe you guys were real." he admitted while she looked at the floor. "So tell me, now that you've been beaten, what'll happen now?"
"I...will not say."
"Oh really?" Shepard raised an eyebrow, which unnerved Sovereign. "Sounds to me like maybe we should end this talk."
"What for? Scared?" she taunted, which made him turn his head away with her inwardly panicking. 'He wouldn't leave, not when he's making me reveal all this.'
"No, not really." he shook his head. "Right now you've given me plenty to work with. I could tell Anderson all this and we could figure out a plan on our own. Thanks Sovereign, I'd say this is it." he stood up making her tense up.
"You truly think you and your useless race can win with that? Ha!" she scoffed while watching him walk out of the room and frowned. "Get back here!"
Silence.
"Feh, it doesn't matter. I'll be free and ready to annihilate you Shepard!" she yelled out while trying to gather up power in her fingers to destroy the chair.
But given how this body was still sensitive made it hard, especially since it was craving more.
'This damn body is a nuisance. Once I get free I'll get to work on harvesting as many organics as it takes to remove the pain receptors.'
While she worked out how many she would need, her mind stayed focused on the pain, how helpless she felt under Shepard, which made her click her jaw in annoyance.
'Stay focus! You've existed longer than his species was even pondered, so don't get distracted by some mundane euphoric sensation all because of this organic half!'
The more she kept telling herself this though, the more it was finally setting in.
The fact of the matter being she was no Reaper anymore. She was just a weird fusion of Turian and Geth with a Reaper's mind. She couldn't do as much disintegration as she was use to, and feeling...what was it organics called it? Pleasure? Yes that.
Feeling this sensation and the feeling of being smaller than Shepard was making the Reaper actually start to lose the huge stick up her ass, metaphorically that is, and made her stare at the doors.
Which also meant to all her other fellow Reapers, she would be nothing but a disgrace. Which means chances are even if she could contact them, they would want her destroyed and harvested like any other organic.
Just thinking of that made her body shake and tense up in something she never knew possible for her.
Fear.
'I...I'm...feeling fear.' thought the Reaper, noting her body tensing up and fingers shaking. 'It's...the first time...'
As that happened, Shepard was waiting right outside near the doors with his arms crossed as he counted in his head.
'A minute should be enough before she-'
"SHEPARD!"
'There we go.' he turned and let the doors open before he walked in, looking at Sovereign who had what appeared to be, at least in his eyes, desperation. "You called?"
"You...insufferable...sack of flesh..." she seethe before gritting her teeth and closed her eyes. "Win."
"Oh? Win what? Might wanna be specific."
"You win...I'll tell you more." she sighed while he sat down.
"Alright, then answer my last question. Now that your plan failed, what happens now?"
"At best, I would assume they would make their way here on their own. It won't take long. I estimate about 3 to 4 years, but to us, that is nothing."
"Not to us humans." Shepard let that sink in, feeling the weight of that time frame land on him. That was pretty short by human standards.
"So...what will you do?" asked Sovereign. "You can't hope to defeat them. It'll end like all the other times. All organic life being-"
"Quiet." Shepard cut her off with a glare, making her shut up. "All those times you Reapers had the element of surprise. They had no way to prepare for you when you attacked all of them, but now? We do." he stood up. "And that means we can get ready."
"What? Did you not hear? There are thousands of Reapers!"
"Yeah, I know what you said, but I'm not backing down." he pointed at her right in the face. "We humans have a say: What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger. You failed to kill us, which means we're already stronger than before, and with the right info, we're damn near unbeatable."
"You're...mad!" Sovereign spoke, staring at the marine with shock and bewilderment. "What sense is there to this? Fighting will only prolong the outcome! You have a better chance just running and hiding on some barren planet!"
"I'm not that kind of person. Besides, it won't be just us humans fighting, it's gonna be everyone." he turned away from her. "You sit tight here, I'll be back after I make some calls."
"Wait! Don't go again!" she yelled out quickly. "Don't leave me here!"
"I can actually. You killed several people, including C-Sec officers while going on your little rampage." he pointed out. "You won't get away with a slap on the wrist."
"I can be of more use!" she spoke up with a firm tone. "You've seen what I can do in this body, so you know I can fight."
"I also know you'd take any chance to get free and save yourself." remarked Shepard pointedly. "I'd have to go through a lot of hoops just to get them to let you go, but why should I?"
"I will fight for you." she spoke quickly with a serious tone. "I will help you fight the other Reapers."
Shepard looked her in the eyes, at least two of them, and saw she was serious. He wanted to say it wasn't gonna happen, but he looked back down at the puddle near her and the desperate glint in the eyes, and started to get a rather renegade thought in mind.
"Alright, you wanna help?"
"Yes."
"Alright, I'll see what I can do to get you out of here, but lets make one thing clear. You follow my orders, don't question them, or put any of my crew or civilians in danger." he ordered walking over to look down at her making her shiver, but not in fear.
"Very well, Shepard." she nodded before finding her face grabbed and made to look him in the eyes, getting a stronger surge go through her body as he frowned.
"That's CAPTAIN to you, maggot."
Sovereign made another 'gulp' hearing that, and merely nodded her head as Shepard let go and walked off. She watched the doors close as he vanished and wanted to yell, but held it back in case Shepard would hear.
(Later)
Joker was humming to himself as he looked over the systems of the Normandy, trying to keep himself busy and NOT grab something to drink given how long Shepard had been gone for. At this point he was wondering if the person he was interrogating was some high class Asari matriarch and he was showing her the Citadel personally.
"Joker? You hear me?"
"I hear ya captain." responded Joker on the com frequency. "So, I take it you finished your business?"
"Yeah, just wanted to let you know that I'm on my way back, with a rookie."
"Rookie?" Joker was surprised. "A new crew member? I didn't hear anything about someone getting assigned to us."
"I managed to get Captain Anderson to hear me out on this. Besides, this newbie is something, just try not to stare."
"Gotcha, I'll let the others know."
"Good, Shepard out."
Joker turned the com for the whole ship on. "Alright everyone, I just got told by Shepard he's on his way and he'll be having a rookie with him, so that means fresh meat."
Hearing this made Shepard's squadmates glance at each other, other than Liara and Tali given their different stations.
"Did either of you hear about this?" asked Ashley.
"It's news to me." remarked Garrus. "But given how Shepard recruited us without much warning, he must have found someone good."
"As long as they don't get in the way when I'm busting heads, we should be fine." grunted Wrex.
"It better not be who I think it is." muttered Tali in annoyance while Liara felt a sinking feeling in her gut.
'I wonder who it might be?'
(Shepard)
The marine and Reaper stood in the elevator, the former hoping bullets didn't start flying and the latter irked at the idea of having to work alongside numerous organics.
"Remember, step out of line, and your butt goes out the airlock." reminded Shepard in a firm tone.
"You may try." replied Sovereign with a smug tone, which made Shepard slap the back of her head and look down, hiding a smile.
"You're trying to annoy me on purpose, aren't you?"
"Is it that obvious?"
"One thing you'll need to learn about us organics is how to be subtle."
"We Reapers did not care much for subtlety."
"Well technically speaking you're not a Reaper anymore now are you?"
"In a body sense, no."
"Keep that in mind, 'cause I'll make sure to remind you every time you step out of line." he warned firmly which made Sovereign shiver.
"I will, captain."
Eventually the two boarded the Normandy with Sovereign looking around the rather small ship and got several odd looks from the crew before they quickly looked away as Shepard walked towards the map with her following.
"Captain, glad you're back." spoke Charles Pressly with a salute to Shepard while noting Sovereign and tried to not stare. "And you've brought a new face aboard."
"Yeah, this is...Serene." fibbed Shepard with the fake name. "She's going to be helping us onboard and will be part of my squad when we take on missions."
"Well if you feel she's up to the task, then I'll trust your word and gut captain. Which reminds me, Joker and the rest of your squadmates are waiting down in the cargo hold and said they wanted to talk to you."
"Good, this'll save me time. Come on, Serene."
"Coming captain." she followed him into the elevator and stood still as it started to go down. "Serene?"
"You need a name we can use onboard without everyone freaking out. I can trust the others to keep it down on the truth, but the others are more likely to try and take you out the moment your guard is down."
"My guard is never...almost never down." she corrected as the elevator stopped and opened.
They walked out and spotted Shepard's squadmates, all minus Tali and Wrex who gave some notice at spotting Serene and her...appearance.
"Uh, greetings captain." spoke Ashley with a salute. "We weren't expecting...uh..."
"A new face onboard?"
"Yes." spoke Garrus while noting the familiar parts of his own species, but the other? He was silently questioning if it was what he was thinking.
"Well everyone, I'm glad you're all together. This here is Serene, she'll be part of the squad from here on out."
"Greetings, organics."
That made all of them stare at her, getting a dreading sense with Shepard shaking his head.
"What I'm about to tell you has to stay within this group. Which means the rest of the crew can't find out."
"But why?" asked Ashley while looking at Serene with a frown. "Why not tell all of them?"
"Because if they knew the truth about Serene here, they might do something crazy and we can't have that, not when she can provide us with plenty of info on how to beat the Reapers."
That made all their eyes widen considerably, with Serene stepping forward.
"It's no surprise given how you all know me."
"Serene here is Sovereign."
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Click
And cue the sound of several rifles aimed right at her head, due to Garrus, Ashley, and Liara.
"Hold your fire!" ordered Shepard quickly getting in between them. "Lower your weapons."
"Commander do you know what you're saying? You just said this is Sovereign! The bastard who tried to take over the Citadel and used Saren as a puppet to do it!" spoke Ashley.
"Shepard, I don't know why you would bring...it aboard, but we can't let Sovereign try what it tried again." spoke Garrus.
"Garrus is right Shepard. I find this choice very...questionable." admitted Liara without coming across as too disrespectful.
"I know, I don't blame you all, but let me show you something to help you calm down." Shepard turned to Sovereign before slamming his fist against her gut, making her wheeze and drop to her knees and hold the spot before he turned to the others. "Her body can feel pain like all of us. Which means she can die like us too."
"We thought he died before too." Ashley reminded.
"That's true, but with her body like this, she can't use as much power as she could before." Shepard crossed his arms as Sovereign panted and tried to get back up with a glare at him which he returned. "I already made it clear who's in charge here, and I want all of you to know because I can trust each of you to take her out if she tries anything suspicious."
"How do we know what she's saying is true?" asked Ashley. "How do we know what she told you wasn't a bunch of lies?"
"Because if it isn't, I won't reward her."
His squad looked confused with Sovereign getting back up, getting her breath back and frowned.
"I will give info to destroy my fellow Reapers, and assist Shepard, but that will not mean I can enjoy tolerating you organics."
"Feelings mutual." replied Garrus lowering his rifle, followed by Liara, with Ashley hesitating before she did so begrudgingly.
With that settled Shepard and 'Serene' went back to the elevator to go up, leaving the squad on their own with Ashley turning to Wrex.
"How quick were you to kill her?"
"If Shepard wasn't there? I'd have ripped her head off."
"You still can if she tries anything." remarked Garrus.
"If Shepard feels having her onboard will help our cause, then...we have to believe in him." Liara spoke up reluctantly, clenching her hand at the memory of her mother before walking off. 'Even though I'd rather not.'
(Timeskip)
After that day, things had turned out quite eventful for the Normandy crew.
With Sove-I mean, Serene's info and insight, they had not only managed to locate the other Reapers, but had come across a shit ton of minerals on numerous planets which lead to a lot of hours of mining to get, and something Wrex in particular was annoyed about.
The time needed to get the minerals lead them to using them to help upgrade the ship with better equipment, especially a Thanx Cannon which was apparently strong enough to one shot a Reaper, especially with some tinkering on Serene's part.
This lead to them getting Anderson to install these cannons to other ships, and managed to lead an assault on the giant alien ships, albeit not all at once. They instead used guerilla tactics to lure so many into a trap while getting other races to help, which helped mow them down in no time.
Granted the ones who were alive DID grow to see this and tried their own ambush, which nearly wiped out the human fleet, until Serene got on one of the Reapers themselves before doing tinkering that would make most quarians green with envy.
All she had to do was mess around with its main core, tweaking it here and there, allowing them to use it to cover the traces of the fleet beside it go unnoticed by any other Reapers, leading them to slowly take out more at a quicker pace given how they had no idea one of their own had been used as a puppet.
It took quite a while to hunt them all down, along with running into Cerberus which tried to give them trouble and almost blew the Normandy up one time, but with Serene there to scramble their systems, they were stopped and brought to the Citadel holding areas.
After what felt like a year, the reaper threat had been taken care of with the people all cheering for Commander Shepard and his crew, several of whom had split apart to go their own separate ways.
Garrus had gone back to the citadel and was given the rank of spectre for his help, with him leading his own squad to take out any problems to their way of life their own way. Thanks to the experience he got from a certain human.
Wrex had gone back to his home planet of Tuchanka to help bring the clans together under him and to hopefully work on getting their numbers up.
Tali had returned to the Migrant fleet and brought some stuff from the now deceased Reapers, hoping the technology could help improve the ships and work on setting up a system to help their bodies adjust to modern germs and diseases so they didn't need to worry about infections.
Liara had gone on to return to her studies with archeology, hoping to uncover more age old Prothean secrets around the universe, while using notes found within the CPU of the reaper's to assist in finding out where to go first.
The Geth had been freed of the reapers control and were now working on setting up a more stable relationship with other species, starting with the quarians, leading to many debates, mostly on the quarians side, on whether or not they could trust the Geth after so many years.
Ashley had gone ahead and taken up a job at C-Sec given Shepard's suggestion of trying to get use to working around other aliens. Last time he saw her, she had been dating one of the officers and seemed a little more upbeat.
As for Shepard himself? Well right now he was on his way to his own apartment, located in the presidium surprisingly given his title as hero of the universe, something he didn't like to brag and got a bit shy about when people stopped him to ask for an autograph.
He took the elevator, which felt weird given he didn't have two people standing behind his sides, leading to him just casually rubbing his hands together, especially since he had left Serene with a few things to help spice up the night. He promised to give her a huge reward.
Much bigger than the ones he gave her while on the Normandy. Over and over and over again.
That's when he got a message and brought out his omni-tool and saw it was from Joker.
"Hey Joker, what's up?"
"Hey there commander, sorry for the sudden call, but I thought I'd go ahead and give you a call, give you an update on what's happening."
"Is there an urgent mission?"
"No, just wanted to tell you the ships' been given a...upgrade, kinda. See, Anderson found something from one of the reaper's remains. An AI program."
"An AI?" Shepard looked surprised, but with a suspicious tone. "Do they have an idea on what it's like?"
"From what they found, it's actually harmless. Not like the Reapers, which is what really threw me for a loop. They wanna try and give it a test run, see how it holds up, but limit what it can actually do so it doesn't run wild."
"Let me guess, they wanna put it in the Normandy?"
"Yeah, how'd you-"
"If it was in any other ship, I doubt you'd call to tell me, right?"
"Given how they wanna put a foreign AI in my baby, you're spot on."
"Well maybe the geth could help." joked Shepard.
"Funny commander, real funny." remarked Joker sarcastically with a grin on his side. "Just wanted you to know ahead of time, that way on the next mission you don't go and send a few rounds in the wall when she speaks up and makes you jump."
"She? Sounds like someone's already bonding with it." remarked Shepard as the elevator stopped and he stepped out and walked down the hall. "Does she have a name?"
"Yeah, EDI."
"EDI?"
"I didn't name her."
"It was Captain Anderson who did." spoke up a new voice, female in a monotone voice. "Greetings Commander Shepard, it is good to hear you for the first time."
"Good to meet you EDI, always happy to have a new crew member."
"I look forward to helping in any way I can given my limited actions on the Normandy."
"Alright you, no need to hog the chatting."
"I am not hogging, I am merely engaging in conversation with the officer in charge."
"Anyways commander, how are you and Serene doing? Hopefully keeping the volume down?" he teased with Shepard smirking.
"Can't really say that for her, I'm the quieter one around here."
"With your records? Somehow I doubt that."
"His records show a long list of numerous achievements-"
"I don't need you to tell me, I already know them." Joker shook his head. "Anyways commander, I'll let you go so you can get back to your girlfriend, I gotta show EDI here the ropes."
"The Normandy has no need for them."
"That's not what I-ugh."
"Have fun you two." Shepard ended the call and reached his room, swiped his tool across the pad, and stepped inside as the door opened up. "Serene, I'm home."
"Mmmmm!" let out a muffled voice from the bedroom making Shepard follow it and smirk when he reached it. There on the bed was Serene, but her limbs were all bound together behind her by extremely strong ropes. There was some of it tightly wrapped around her breasts and even between her legs pressing up against her snatch with a ball gag in her mouth.
Together, it looked like she got jumped and was restrained by burglars who were ready to turn her into a fuck toy.
"Sorry I kept you waiting, had to deal with some reporters, miss me?"
"Mmmm hmmm." she let out with a nod as Shepard walked over to the side and started getting to work on removing his armor.
"Turns out the Normandy is getting an AI installed in her, and Joker's not too keen on it." he remarked casually while Serene squirmed as she watched him, getting antsy seeing his casual clothes underneath.
"Mmmphm!"
"And they got it from a Reaper's body, so I'm curious, you got any ideas what might happen?" he asked, moving over and undoing the gag as she gasped and panted.
"If it was strictly the Reaper itself, I'd say don't give it much power and freedom, but if your friend is lucky, it will be harmless compared to what a full fledged AI born of a Reaper could do."
"They're way ahead of you." remarked Shepard before reaching out to her chest and gave one of her breasts a firm slap, making her jump with a moan. "I'll bet you upped your body on how sensitive it was so this would be intense."
"Y-You're spot on." she panted with a smile before yelping when Shepard gave her nipples a hard pinch making her jump. "Oh fuck it Shepard! Stop teasing me and give me what you promised."
"Ah ah, that's not how you ask." he shook his head with a smirk as he got up and began to take his clothes off. "If you don't ask properly, then I might leave you like that all night."
"Oooh! You humans are more sadistic than I thought." she grumbled while watching as his chest came into view which made her stare with growing hunger, and swore she saw a huge tent in his pants already making her try and rub her legs together.
"Well if you don't wanna say it, I'll just-"
"No no! I'll say it! I'll say it!" she spoke up panicky. "Please fuck me commander Shepard, I NEED sweet sweet release or I'll go mad!"
"See? That wasn't so bad." joked Shepard as he worked on getting his pants off, showing he went full commando as his girth popped right out, making Serene stare at it with desire as her cunt was growing more and more moist. "Since I'm on shore leave for a while, you and I won't be getting interrupted any time soon."
"Oh don't worry, I'll make sure you're plenty busy."
As the commander crawled over to her, the camera itself panned away and out the window to give them some privacy, thus concluding on one important aspect.
Even a Reaper in a female's body is no match for the one and only motherfucking Commander Shepard.
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