Consider this a bonus chapter, I want to play ME: Andromeda for a while so I won't be updating until I'm done on the game. So because it came out, and well been playing it this is just a bonus about the Initiative in the Warlord timeline. Enjoy :)
Liara was finish up the last of the intel reports from her agents as John walked in.
"Liara, I couldn't help but notice that that Ashley wanted to get off the topic of Andromeda. Care to explain." John said.
Liara looked to him then looked away and sighed. "After we got the Normandy SR-3 Ryder paid us a visit, but back then the Initiative was called the 'Andromeda Evacuation' because they where escaping the war….."
OOOOO 6 months after Arrival
Ashley picked up a crate of food and brought it on board the London as she did she noticed an N7 soldier walk up. He looked old, grizzled and scared. She set down the crate and walked up to meet him.
"Commander Ashley Williams?" he asked.
"Yeah, who are you?" she asked.
"My name is Alec Ryder, I'm the Pathfinder for the human Ark Hyperion." he said. "I'm here, to ask you if you or any of your be interested in joining us."
Ash just looked at him then turned to look at the Normandy then look at Alec.
"I appreciate the offer, but I must turn it down." she said before then turning to her crew. "Does anyone want to join the Andromeda Initiative?" she asked.
"What? Go to Andromeda? No chance!" Joker said as he moved up the London ramp.
"Not a chance!" Garrus said.
"Same." Liara and Tali called.
Alec looked at them surprised as Ashley turned to him. "We won't leave, you know what they say about people who have nothing to lose."
"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose." he said.
"Yes but in this case, we're a family. We have nothing to lose but each other. Besides, I cannot leave not until I have avenged Shepard. You have your duty we have ours." Ashley said before turning back to the ship.
"Don't we all." Alec said before turning and walking off.
OOOOO present
"...we all had nothing to lose and that made us more dangerous then any soldier the Citadel could get. We wanted revenge, we got it now we are here. Funny how things turned out." Liara said with a smile.
"Yeah, 600 years from here to there. Wonder if they're ok?" John asked as he looked out the window.
OOOOO The Nexus 634 years later.
The tram speeded off to operations, as it did Kandros looked at the three. They seemed shaken, not from the aliens or the cloud but something else.
"Are ok?" he asked.
Sara, Cora and Liam looked at each other before Sara looked down and spoke. "We need to talk to the leadership, in privet." she said.
Kandros looked at her with a curious eye. Minutes later Sara and Cora where in Tann's office with the four main leaders of the Initiative.
"Ok, so I called you all in here today for a simple reason to tell you what happened in the Milky way before we left." Sara said causing the leaders to be on edge. "You know the Reapers?"
"Yeah, a so called race of sentient machines bent on the destruction of civilisation every 50,000 years." Addison said in a sarcastic tone. "It was nonsense."
"Then why are they talking about it?" Kandros asked making the Colonial affairs officer close her mouth.
"Yeah, let's show you what happened in London." Cora said bring her ommi-tool up and a vid played.
Kandros, Tann, Addison and Kesh looked on as machines the size of skyscrapers decided from the sky and into London. They didn't say anything as the vid changed to other worlds, even Palaven and Surkesh before the video stopped.
"Shepard was right, Sovereign was just the first." Sara said.
"This… this is..." Addison said. "Why show us this?"
"To show you, we maybe the last of our species Andromeda cannot fail." the Pathfinder said.