Sorry it took me so long to update –grins sheepishly-
Well there visit to Nos Astra plays out like the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC
And yes this is a time skip of about six months, so roughly were Mass Effect 3 is supposed to begin.
Well hope you guys and gals enjoy this chapter.
ON WITH THE SHOW
Chapter 3: Escape from Earth…
For years Shepard had been trying to warn the galaxy of the Reaper invasion, for years he had been making preparations to protect the Earth from it, and here he was getting court martialed for God knows what, and to top it off Udina was sitting in the crowd smirking, while Shepard's crew, which had now dwindled down to only Rawlings, Naruto, Hinata, Joker, and Matsumoto. Sighing Shepard stood up tall and steeled himself for the barrage of accusations that was about to volleyed his way, as three admirals walked in and took their seats at an elevated dais.
"Commander Jason Shepard," announced the Admiral on the left, "you are here by charged with treason for aiding and abetting the geth. How do you plead?"
"If trying to protect the earth is now a crime then I plead," Shepard answered, staring the admirals down the whole time, "guilty."
After that the "trial" began, and about an hour later, right as they were about to hand down the verdict, a massive explosion shook the building the trial proceedings were being held in, just before a loud scream echoed throughout the building. Turning, and looking out the window, everyone saw giant, squid like machines attacking the city.
"What are those things," asked one of the soldiers present, the fear evident in his voice.
"Oh I'm sorry you've never seen one of those before," Shepard stated sarcastically, "those are Reapers."
With that one sentence everyone panicked, seizing the opportunity Shepard and company made a break for the docking bays. However after getting about three blocks from the proceedings a bunch of transport vehicles slammed down out of the sky and blocked the group off from each other. (A/N: For how Shepard escapes go to YouTube and type in Mass Effect 3 E3 demo.)
"Shit," Naruto shouted, as several mechanical zombies, known as husks, charged them. Quickly grabbing an assault rifle from a downed soldier Naruto opened fire on the mechanical undead. Once Naruto dropped the last of them the others quickly began searching the dead marines for any other weapons they could use.
"This place has just gone to hell hasn't it," Naruto asked, while they were running and gunning against some new husks, that looked liked krogan.
"It sure looks that way," Rawlings said, after shooting down skinny little beam, that was somehow holding up a massive amount of rubble, buying them a few minutes of rest, until they heard a loud metallic screech that seemed to come from inside their skulls. With hands over their ears they began frantically looking for the impound dock the Normandy was at. After five minutes of desperate searching, they found the impound dock and ran for it as fast as possible. Upon arriving at the impound dock, they found the ship in it's start up sequences, with some hot chick dressed in what appeared to be a skin tight blue jump suit, she had brown eyes, and brown hair that went past her shoulders. Quickly running past her Naruto, Hinata, and Matsumoto,all jumped aboard the Normandy, when they turned and looked they saw the girl they saw coming in and Rawlings with their weapons trained on the entrance to the impound dock.
"What ain't you guys coming," Naruto asked, worrying more for his friend than anything else.
"We're buying you guys time," Rawlings answered, and then he began firing on a group of husks that were running straight for them. Immediately afterward Naruto felt the Normandy begin to rise steadily. Worrying he still saw Rawlings standing between the Husks and them, firing off round after round at the husks, dropping one husk for every round that left the barrel of his rifle.
"Come on man we're taking off," Naruto shouted, but Rawlings didn't move until he hit his last round. Once that last round left the chamber Rawlings jumped and climbed on board the Normandy, the female they saw earlier following closely after.
"Joker," Rawlings called out, "lets go get the boss man."
"Roger that," Joker said, with a smile on his face. After taking a few minutes to relax the Normandy slowly descended and ascended again, with Shepard on board.
"Joker get us out of here," Shepard ordered, causing everyone there to stare at him in shock, before Joker piloted the Normandy away from earth.
After spending a good hour exploring the new Normandy, Shepard called up his wife Tali.
"Hey Tali," Shepard greeted lovingly.
"Shepard," Tali answered, the relief evidence in her voice, " are you alright, I saw what happened on the Holonet, are the others OK?"
"Yeah Tali," Shepard answered, "we're all OK, a little shaken up, but OK."
"Thank kee'lah," Tali said, sighing in relief, "I'm glad you're alright."
"Me too," Shepard replied, the smile still on his face as he cut the call. To find Ashley and the four other humans of his faithful crew, standing their looking at him. Sighing in defeat Shepard was ready for the barrage of questions that would follow, only to be smacked in the face by Ashley and to then be knocked to the floor in a hug by her.
"OK, what in the galaxy was that for," Shepard asked, the confusion evident in his voice. Ashley didn't answer, she just kept hugging him, as if he'd disappear the moment she let go. After trying to work his way out for twenty minutes, he gave up and just sat there. When Ashley let him go he noticed that Naruto and Hinata had left, Matsumoto smiled sadly, and Rawlings was looking at a picture inside a locket he was holding. Deciding now wasn't the time to ask he began thinking on a way to get the Reapers off of Earth, before they did any truly lasting damage. Sighing he went to his quarters and sat on his bed, shedding a tear for all the lives that might be lost from the coming war.
With Rawlings, down in the cargo hold...
He was pissed off, why he couldn't tell you why, so he decided to take it out on anything that had the misfortune of being in the cargo hold. After demolishing most everything in the cargo hold, he slumped against a wall and pulled the locket out again. The locket didn't look like much, just a simple gold square, attached to chain, and with a clasp keeping it shut. Opening the locket he saw a picture of, his probably dead, girlfriend Maria Rodriguez, with her ebony black hair, soft chocolate brown eyes, and beautiful, smiling face she was beautiful in every way he could think of. After staring at the picture for a few minutes he furiously shut the locket, then hurled it across the cargo hold.
"Last time I saw you do that," said a feminine voice, "you were trying to figure out how to propose to her."
Looking up he saw Matsumoto standing over him, with the locket in hand. Holding it out to him, Matsumoto expected him to take it, only for him to slap the hand that was holding it away.
"You forget not only did she reject the proposal," Rawlings reminded her, "but that was also the night I found out she was cheating on me."
Looking down, realizing that she exhausted her only means of getting him to stop tearing the ship, she began to walk away, only to hear him cry. Turning around in shock she saw that he was in fact crying. Walking over to him she got down on her knees, so she was level with him, and wrapped him in a hug, something she hadn't done in while. Rawlings didn't stop crying, but he returned the hug, crying into Matsumoto's shoulder.
With Naruto and Hinata...
Naruto and Hinata laid in bed, after about a hour of making love to each other, curled up together. Smiling Naruto held Hinata close and stroked her hair softly, Hinata just laid their relishing the attention she had lacked from him since they were thawed from the cryo pods.
"You think the others are alright," Naruto asked questioningly.
"I don't know," Hinata answered, snuggling close to Naruto.
"I wonder if our children hate us," Naruto wondered aloud, now clinging to Hinata, like she was a lifeline. Sighing Hinata knew she was getting to get him to stop thinking like that, and just let him hold her.
A hour later...
Joker was sitting in the pilot seat of the new and improved Normandy, when Shepard walked in.
"Joker," Shepard called.
"What's up commander," Joker replied.
"I need you to take us," Shepard answered, before sighing in defeat, " the Citadel, I need to speak with the council face to face."
Nodding Joker set a course for the nearest mass relay and then put them on a course for the Citadel. Upon arriving at the Citadel, Shepard went ashore, with Ashley and Naruto, and went to see the council.
"Any hopes for this meeting Shepard," Ashley asked curiously.
"I'm hoping to get earth some help," Shepard replied, the sigh following afterward evidenced what he thought the outcome would be. After getting stopped by numerous news reporters, all wanting to know what happened on earth, and taking a hover taxi, Shepard stood face to face with the council.
Back on the Normandy...
Rawlings was laying on one of the bunks in the crew quarters, when he got off the bunk and went to go see what made the Citadel, so great. After walking for five minutes he was thankful for the omni-tool and it's built in translator. Stopping at a booth he sighed and just ordered some varren steak. He was about to get started eating when he felt someone sit next to him. Looking out of the corner his eye he spotted a human, dressed in a brown top, earth brown cargo pants, with blonde hair, green eyes, and she looked about 22 years old.
Acting like he hadn't noticed her, he began eating his varren steak.
"Ahhh," the owner of the booth said, "Amy how are my dear."
"Doing good Serkesh," the girl greeted, " give me the usual will you."
"One bowl steaming hot ramen and a extra spicy taco," the booth owner said, not missing a beat, " coming right up."
Smiling the girl turned and looked at Rawlings, who appeared to not have looked up from his varren steak since the girl entered. Amy looked at him, as if she was supposed to remember who he was, only to shrug and eat her food once it arrived. Once Amy finished, she began her walk to her apartment, which was located in the bad part of the Citadel. Now normally most of the bad people in this part of the Citadel left her alone, mostly because they knew she would kick their asses hard if they didn't, and any other people who would mess with her were in another part of the Citadel. So it came as a surprised when she got slammed into a wall, with her hands held firmly behind her back.
"You know I'm getting tired of waiting for you to open your legs voluntarily," the voice said, sounding husky. Now Amy had been raised to be a fighter since she had been a child raised in the slums of earth, but when she went to kick the offender between the legs her legs refused to move. She could almost hear the smirk play across the offender's face as she felt him begin to cut her top, sighing in defeat she was about to just give up, when the cutting stopped barely an inch from where it started, looking she saw the guy she had seen at the booth, pounding the guy who had just tried to rape her, in to the next millennium. When he stopped the rapist had both his arms, two ribs, one leg, and his nose, all broken.
"You alright," the man asked, looking at her with dark blue eyes.
"Yeah," Amy said suspiciously, eying the male before her, he was obviously human, with black hair, that looked like it had just started growing back out, a black top, black pants, and black boots, he looked like he was 22 years old. After she said she was alright the man nodded and ran right past her, but not before something metallic fell out of his shirt. Picking it up she was going to return it to him, when she realized he was gone. Shrugging she finished walking the rest of the to her apartment, when she got to her apartment,, she quickly engaged the mag seal locks. When she sat on the couch she looked down at the metallic object in her hands she saw that it wasn't even a inch length wise and barely a half an inch width wise, and upon closer inspection she saw a single name: RAWLINGS. Shocked she looked up the name and quickly realized why she thought she should remember him.
So here's my first update in a long while.
It's probably not up to standard with the rest of my writings.
But hey I hope u guys enjoy.