Mass Effect 2: With a Twist

by the undeniable 1

It's not the same exact story as the game but the same plot line, with personal touches added on and things that I felt would be interesting. In this story Commander Shepard has an older brother who joins him in the fight against the collectors, and he pretty much creates his own waves with Miranda mainly. read, enjoy, feed back if you like it you like it if you dont you dont.

7. Chapter 7

Chapter 6

Purgatory Prison ship

"Raaaaaaggggghhhhhhh" Joe screamed out as he biotically slammed the impostor into the wall "What the fuck are you playing at Cerberus, you come in here wearing my brother's face, what do you want from me " he screamed as he headbutted the figure.
"Joseph its me" John croaked out a little stunned from the headbutt his brother had given him.
"Bullshit Johnny's dead, who the fuck are you speak now" Joseph yelled out holding the figure by the collar of his N7 armor, an exact replica if John's armor he thought to himself.
"Ok I'm gonna tell you something that only the real John Shepard would know, just let me go Joe damnt." John said staring his brother directly in the eye.
"Tell me our secret if your the real John" Joseph said releasing the figure, stepping away biotics still flaring.
John regained his composure standing up to his full height and looked his brother dead in the eye "you didn't kill that guy in the bar that night and the reason your in here right now is because of me." He said looking down away from his brother's eyes.
It took Joe a minute to take all this in, he looked at his brother tears slowly falling from his eyes. "Johnny, Jesus Christ what, how, Jesus come here" he said pulling his brother into a strong embrace "I'm sorry kiddo I didn't know, how the hell are you alive, did you really die? Joe asked still holding onto his brother
"Yeah I really died bro, Cerberus spent two years rebuilding me" John replied releasing from the embrace, rubbing the back of his neck.
"Stop that neck rubbing shit, I hate it when you do that, why the hell are you nervous" Joe scolded his younger brother
"No reason, but anyway let's get outta here we just gotta pick up one more of your jailhouse buddies then I'll explain everything to you about what's going on and why Cerberus wants you" John told his brother
"Alright Johnny I'm trusting you to do what's right, I'm still not sure about Cerberus though, " Joe said following John out of the cell "Which brings me back to what I wanted to tell you, its not your fault I ended up on this damn ship, its Cerberus' ".he told John
"Really, what the hell happened" John asked genuinely intrigued
"After I had my little grief stricken rampage on the island I ran into this beautiful woman in a-" he paused locking his eyes on Miranda as she locked hers on his "black and white catsuit... Johnny that's her the damn catsuit lady who got me stuck in this hell hole" Joe fumed following John towards Miranda and Jacob.
"Joey relax, Miranda's alright so far, she's responsible for my resurrection" John smoothly pleaded with his brother not to attack Miranda .
Joe thought about it for a few minutes as they kept walking towards the two Cerberus operatives "Damnt alright Johnny, I'll be nice for you, but you owe me big time" Joe said angrily relaxing " but I promise you, they try anything funny I'll reave the life out of both of em slowly".
"That's exactly why your here, I need somebody not Cerberus watching my back, somebody I trust" John told Joseph as they made it over to Jacob and Miranda.
"Jacob Miranda, this is Joseph Shepard my brother" John introduced "Joe, this is Jacob Taylor and Miranda Lawson, Miranda is the XO on board the Normandy and Jacob is the chief gunnery officer. " John explained
"Nice to meet you Jacob" Joe extended his hand which Jacob quickly shook ," Ms. Lawson plan on warping me through any rooms today" he addressed Miranda with a grin.
"Not as long as you do your job and keep your distance" she shot back at him, taking his extended hand, but instead of the firm handshake he gave Jacob he placed a kiss on Miranda's hand which she quickly snatched away and scoffed.
John and Jacob chuckled lightly until Miranda glared at both of them.
"Right then let's pick up Jack" John said walking in the direction the warden told them to take to get Jack.
"Jack whose Jack" Joe asked.
"You should know , you and her tore up the lower decks a few days ago according to the warden" John replied
"Ohhhhhhh tattoo girl, haha yeah good times" Joe said
Jacob and Miranda just stared at him for a moment before continuing on with John.
They made it to the out processing room after John convinced a few guards to stop beating a prisoner, after he and Joe argued for ten minutes over the guy deserving it and what not.
The door opened to an empty room as the wardens voice came through the speaker.
"Shepard I'm sorry but your more valuable as a prisoner than a customer, drop your weapons and proceed into this open cell"
"Damnt Johnny you call this a rescue" Joe said clearly not impressed at his brother's lack of foresight " You know your too damn trusting sometimes" Joe stated flaring his biotics.
The four of them fought through waves of guards, prisoners, and mechs after Joe 'accidentally' pushed the button to open all the cells. Finally reaching the crooked warden and literally disintegrating him with attacks from John's assault rifle, Joe and Miranda's biotics, and Jacob's moral support.

Jack was almost home free quickly dispatching the two guards blocking her exit, when she looked out and saw the Normandy "Cerberus agggghhhh " she spat out as she looked for another way off the station almost running into another guard who was killed by a headshot from John's pistol.
"Who the fuck are you" she addressed John "hey dickhead" she addressed Joe.
"I'm Commander Shepard and I'm here to rescue you"John said
"Shit you sound like a pussy" she shot back at him
"Hahahhahahhahahahah, you do kind of sound pussy like John" Joe interrupted
Jack smirked at her fellow convict.
"Listen this ship is going down, we're your only way off this death trap" John stated quite agitated
"We could just knock her out and take her" Miranda suggested seriously
"I'd like to see you try" Jack shot back
"We're not going to attack her" John said
Smart move, look you want me to come with you make it worth my while" Jack stated suggestively.
"What do ya want?" John asked
"I bet your ships got lots of databases, I wanna look at those files, see what Cerberus has got on me" she said
"I'll give you full access" John said
"Shepard your not authorized to do that" Miranda cut in aggravated
"Ohhh and it upsets the cheerleader, even better, you better be straight up with me" Jack said
"Hahahahaha cheerleader I like that, it suits you Lawson, hahahahaha" Joe laughed hysterically all the way back to the ship.