Chapter 2: a rift in the warp

Nathanar glared out of the craftworlds window at the fire fight that was blazing outside. Humans so primitive, so short sighted and arrogant. Nathanar was suddenly bombarded with physic power, a bright flash in the void opened releasing warp energy's into the material plane. Nathanar staggered to his feet and slowly hobbled to his farseers chambers.

"farseer, the humans summon daemons to combat us" nathanar sneerd, his voice laced with disgust and venom

The farseer turned to him and shock her head; her face was one of concern.

"No nathanar, something far more malevolent was the cause of this" she turned to her view port and gazed at the rift in space. Something far more powerful than humans were behind this. The 'portal' was becoming increasingly unstable and violent, striking out at close ships with arcs of purple lightning. Her eyes widened as images of what to come flooded her mind.

"nathanar, prepare for impact, get all eldar ships close to us" she turned to face him "make sure they are within docking range" nathanar bowed

"it shall be done farseer" nathanar replied, turning on his heel and rushing to various command centers. The farseer turned back towards the warp rift.

"Come then warp spawn, let us do battle" and with that the swirling purple vortex swallowed the eldar whole.

*back to mass effect world!*

Shepard had been confined to the medi-bay for days now and it was starting to drive him insane, sure chakwas was nice but being confined to one room for days was starting to aggravate him. Tali and most of the others had visited but he pinned for the Normandy again(he also wanted to see his hamster and fish). Shepard sat up and slowly lowered himself to his feet causing a spike of pain to arc up his legs all the way to his neck, he grunted and started to walk out of the medi bay.

"were do you think you're going?" chakwas said, not even bothering to look up from her desk.

"I'm leaving the medi-bay"shepard replied, it coming out more of a question that an answer. Chakwas sighed and walked over to him, waving her omni-tool in front of him, she glared at her omni-tool for a second then shrugged.

"medically speaking you have almost made a full recovery and thus I will discharge you, but don't do anything overly energetic or straining, so no re-entry without the assistance of a shuttle" she said, sitting down at her desk again. Shepard smiled.

"cheers doc" Shepard said as he shambled out of the medi-bay. He walked over to the elevator and hit the button signalling for the shuttle bay. When he arrived a solider saluted and beckoned the commander to enter the shuttle, which he did without arguing, the alliance solider followed him in and sat down.

"were to sir" he asked, seemingly bored out of his mind.

"Normandy if you will" Shepard said, grinning at the face joker will make when he sees Shepard. The shuttle jerked up, causing Shepard to grunt in pain and clutch at his side. The ride to the Normandy was an incredibly painful journey for Shepard as every shake, jerk or movement caused his still healing body to thrash about. Shepard breathed a sigh of relief and slowly hobbled to his feet and walked out, the familiar sight of the Normandy's shuttle bay was a welcome sight compared to the drab colours of the medi-bay. Games and cortez were there and they greeted him and told him that tali wished to see him, and that she had looked after his hamster. Shepard thanked them and took the elevator to the engine room. She wasn't there, or in his room or in the mess hall. He went to ask joker where tali was but his eyes were drawn to the congregation around the cockpit, he walked over to the group and looked at tali.

"What's going on?" he asked, gazing at her, almost being captured by her masked beauty. Tali just pointed out of the window. He moved his head to see where she was pointing and he saw, he had no fucking idea what he was looking at. A lightning storm…in space. Shepard rubbed his eyes.

"Someone's fucking with me aren't they" Shepard looked around "anyone? No? Fuck" the storm in space intensified until it spewed forth a massive ship? No it was way too large to be a ship, maybe a space station? Shepard had no idea what it was or what it was going to do. Jokers eyes widened and EDI's voice boomed over the speakers.

"Commander, the unidentified crafts are diverting power to what seem to be weapon systems"

Shepard glared back to the craft in space

"well" he said "shit"