Disclaimers: I do not own Mass Effect or Bioware.
A/N: SO! I'm dumping the Overlord DLC idea I had for something far better. Something fresh, new, and nothing seen in the game. Or at least not yet anyways. Who knows what they plan to do for ME3 right?
Anyways, I hope what I have planned will turn out, the way it sounded in my head was like epic so.. xD Hopefully!
Also I apologize this is meant to be a short chapter. It's meant merely to set up what's to come. It is important despite the short read.
Chapter 10
A week flew by, and finally, for the first time in what seemed like ages, Katelyn Shepard didn't feel sore at all. She laid on her stomach, face buried in her pillow on her bed, the lights in her room dim. She breathed slowly, feeling absolutely relaxed. It was amazing how feeling no worries for the first time in a long time could relax someone so much.
With the Collectors out of the way, Liara's Shadow Broker vengeance over, and everything going absolutely quiet Shepard felt... so at peace. She was even about to just fall sleep as her shift was long over and having been lying there for some time sleep just wanted to take over.
That was until she heard a little chirp close to her cabin door, indicating Edi's presence... So to speak.
"Commander, I've been able to decode the information you retrieved." Edi said with her electronic voice. Kate groaned into her pillow. "What information?" She grumbled with a tired voice. She honestly couldn't remember when she asked for Edi to decode anything. "The information you had sent back to the Normandy after discovering the dead Cerberus agent." Edi clarified for the human.
Shepard turned her head to the side as she tried to remember what Edi was talking about. Finally it dawned on her. It was the mission the Illusive Man sent her on to retrieve some data an agent had collected. Apparently it was of some importance. But instead of sending it back to the Illusive Man she decided to keep the data for herself. She had a feeling it'd be something useful in the future.
"I thought you said it would take a year or longer to figure out what the information was?" Shepard question as she finally sat up and onto the edge of her bed. She stood up as she stretched her limbs out before padding across her room with her socked feet. "I decoded it faster then I anticipated. Shepard, this information could be of great importance to you mission against the Reapers." Edi actually sounded somewhat excited to give the human such news. She had a right to be.
"Edi, send the information to my personal terminal!" Shepard commanded as she quickly bounded up the three steps to her office area before she turned on the desk light. "Done." Edi said simply. Shepard was quickly keying in her personal passcodes as before she opened up her message inbox. She quickly opened the link, ignoring anything else.
Her brown eyes quickly took in the information displayed before her. Her eyes grew wide in a near instant. This was big. It was bigger then big. It could turn the course of history altogether. "Edi! Assemble the team in the briefing room asap!" Shepard yelled as she quickly copied the info onto an OSD. "Aye-aye, Commander. Logging you out." Edi said sounding particularly pleased with herself.
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The crew had waited in the briefing room for no more then five minutes before Shepard came marching through the door, a look of determination and confidence plastered on her face, though a huge smile was also present. "What's going on, Commander?" Miranda asked for everyone as they stood around the center table, most looked like they had just been woken up. It was rather late.
"Edi, project the info on this OSD." Shepard said as she slipped the little data storage drive into a slot at the end of the table. "Of course, Shepard." She replied as her usual hologram came out of it's own storage drive to join the rest of the crew. A large holographic screen appeared as it began streaming it's contents. "We may have a way to stop the Reapers." Shepard said with a satisfying grin.
She knew keeping this information from Cerberus would turn out to be a good idea.
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I apologize, but I wanted to make this chapter into something short, but to get my idea going. I also figured it'd add some suspense ^.~
Anyways, keep an eye out, I'm about to go light speed with this, if my schedual doesn't keep me too busy. Sitting around at work for 12 hours and only working 5 has a way to make you day dream, and this daydream lasted all freaking day. So I have it all worked out in my head, it's only a matter of writing it.