Just short piece that came to mind while playing ME3. Nothing really special, mostly dialogue taken directly from the game with my own little addition at the end :P Written more for the sake of my own giggling than anything else.
Note: Anthem taken directly from wikipedia. I do not speak russian so if its wrong in anyway, blame wiki.
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Commander Shepard felt herself relaxing as she walked toward the cockpit, the familiar weight of her armour calming her. Calm was good, especially if she was about to walk into the middle of epic space battle between the quarians and the geth.
Wasn't anything simple anymore?
She came to a stop behind Joker, watching through the Normandy's bow windows as the blue light of FTL travel flashed past at blinding speed.
"We're approaching the quarian home system." Joker said, turning in his seat to look back at the Commander. "ETA to Rannoch: five minutes."
Shepard felt the little calm she had felt just moments before fizzle away as her muscles began to tense in anticipation. Five minutes to go…
"What've you got from the comm buoys?"
Joker turned back to the haptic interface with a sigh, "Pretty much a big ol' shitstorm, Commander."
"I have detected several hundred unique ship signatures engaged in active combat." EDI added from her seat.
Shepard tensed even more. Well… shit.
Joker rubbed his eyes briefly, "Yeah, like I said."
A small part of her wondered why the hell did she keep doing this? Throwing herself into life or death situations; putting her ass on the line to help fix up whatever mess someone else had gotten themselves into. By the time she actually got to face the reapers she was going to have a lot of pent up frustration that would need to be released.
"Take us in, Joker." she commanded. It was time the face the music.
The pilot smiled and stretched his fingers before doing his magic. His fingers began to dance elegantly across the interface in a way that made up for his disability.
"Stealth drive engaged. Only way they'll detect us is if you all start singing the Russian national anthem."
Shepard smiled under her helmet as she began to turn away, singing under her breath as she retreated from the cockpit. "Rossiya – svyashchennaya nasha derzhava. Rossiya – lyubimaya nasha strana. Moguchaya volya, velikaya slava – Tvoyo dostoyanye na vse vremena!"