My Own Alternate what if I not specifically me but someone who could be me came entered Mass effect in some way or form and knowing I shouldn't be here.
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Lieutenant Commander John Shepard
Therum
Shepard and his team made touchdown on Therum nearly half an hour ago, yet it felt like hours during combat. Corporal Sheppard was on the Comm giving him some spot on Intel on enemy forces.
"That makes 4" Garrus shouted manning the main gun in the mako.
"Show off, open this door and I'll show you some real killing" Raider commented from the back seat of the mako. He was getting on edge, just wanting to kill something.
Shepard was cuurently driving the mako, Garrus was on the main gun, Kaidan sat next to Shepard , Raider and Wrex were in the back, complaining about not being able to fight themselves . Wrex had made a joke about wanting to set on top of the mako with his weapon. Which Raider said he gladly help with.
"Commander, that tunnel's were we need to go" Kaidan pointed out. Not that there was any other way to go. Corporal Sheppard did say that the path would be fairly linear.
"Contacts, dead ahead Shepard" Garrus shouted out again "If you stop the mako, I could get a clean shot" he added
"I got this one" Shepard increased the speed of the mako, running down the geth ground troops.
"I like your style Shepard" Wrex said with a slight laugh.
"Hell, I could drive crazy like that Wrex" Raider smirked next to him.
Now exiting the tunne,l Shepard was barely able to get the mako into a complete stop. They could see a geth blockade straight ahead.
"Garrus take them out" Shepard barked in his usual commanding tone.
While he was turning the main cannon, Shepard suddenly heard the main hatch open.
"Enough, it's my turn" Wrex charged outside the mako.
"Wrex stop" He completely ignored Shepard "damn it, Garrus delay my order. We need to back him up"
"Finnaly, now this is where the fun begins" Raider said, hoping out of the Mako with the rest of the team.
Exiting the mako, Wrex was on-top of a geth rocket trooper ripping his head off. Shepard jumped behind a nearby rock, giving Wrex covering fire. A geth was rushing from the side, catching Shepard off guard. Raider pulled something from a slot of his armor; it was some kind of knife. HE threw the knife directly into the geths flashlight like head. The geth looked confused as to what had just happened.
"Really? a knife. You know that won't kill that thing…." Shepard tried to comment, but before he could finish the Knife exploded destroying the geths upper half of its body. "Never mind" he added
Kaidan overloaded the last remaining trooper, as Garrus sniped him saving Wrex's life.
"What took you all so lon…." Wrex tried joking, but Shepard just punched him right in the face.
"You compromise the mission like that again, and I will put you down myself." Shepard was in rage like no one had seen before.
"Commander" Kaidan called out.
"WHAT!" Shepard shouted like a mad man.
"Sir, the path is too small for the mako. We will have to proceed the rest of the way on foot"
Shepard walked towards the path. Looking to see if there was any way to get the mako through, but there was none.
Shepard reached for his comm. "Corporal, are we on the right path"
"Yes, The LT is right you need to continue on foot" He replied back over the comm.
"What opposition can we expect?" Shepard asked
"The geth are dug in pretty good, watch out for snipers"
"Affirmative"
"One more thing commander" he added "Expect an ambush at the mine's entrance"
"Wait a minute; is this that armature you were talking about?" Shepard asked remembering is last discussion with the Corporal.
"And you thought I was joking" the corporal laughed
Shepard quickly turned off his comm.; he was starting to get tired of the corporal's humor. However his intelligence has been good so far.
"LT take point, let's move out" Shepard ordered, as all five of them aimed their weapons forward ready to take the heat.
Corporal Ryan Sheppard U.S. Army
Normandy CIC
Seeing Shepard outright punch Wrex like that, was just…something still wasn't right. Ryan figured Shepard was a renegade at this moment now, but how he was acting was just more. How he was treating Ashley, because of some personal matter that could never exist in the game. Ryan tried not to think of what else could be different, or what else might change.
Ashley and Ryan were both watching the live head came feed on the bridge next to joker. Joker hasn't said much to Ryan, however he could still tell he was him same self. He could only guess that some things change, while others stayed the same.
"The commanders being a real hard head today" Joker commented to himself
Watching the feed Shepard and the others were using the rocks for cover fighting about a dozen or so geth. Shepard signaled Garrus and Kaidan for overload, while He, Raider and Wrex mowed them down. Without their shields the geth were becoming easy pickings.
Shepard was still a good leader, in combat at least. Shepard had just finished the last geth off in the canyon. They were about to enter next area that was filled with snipers.
"Shepard watch out, snipers ahead" Ryan quickly called out reminding the commander.
"Copy that" was all he relied.
Shepard went for a rushing maneuver rather than a cautious one. He signaled Garrus to stay behind, while he, Kaidan, Raider, and Wrex rushed out to draw out the snipers.
The plan had worked; thankfully Garrus was a crack shot. Shepard and the others had successfully drawled out the snipers for him.
Wrex and Raider rushed the few geth troopers left in the canyon; they took them down with Their combo of shotgun and explosive knifes, barely breaking a sweat. They then started to move their way uphill now that the area was clear. Shepard and his team were about to run into the armature.
"Commander, ambush is dead ahead" Ryan quickly acted, cursing himself for almost forgetting about that part again.
Shepard didn't respond, although Ryan knew he got the message. Looking over his shoulder he saw the uneasiness with Ashley.
"You ok" Ryan whispered to her, making sure no one else could overhear.
"I should be there; I'm a marine so I don't underst…"
"Don't dwell on it ash, I know he will eventually see how useful you are as a soldier." Ryan wanted to reassure her. As he was still going to figure out what was bothering Shepard about her, and put a stop to it for good.
"What?"Ryan asked noticing a smirk on her face.
"So you're calling me ash now" Ashley mentioned with a hint of a smile on her face.
"Uh…yeah...Well it is short for Ashley isn't it" Ryan hadn't even notice that calling her by ash was be such a big deal.
"Relax Sheppard its fine, and I guess I could consider you a friend by now"
Looking back at the feed they notice that the ambush had just started.
"Crap, everyone in cover" hearing Shepard order his team over the comm.
Lieutenant Commander John Shepard
Back on Therum
Hand signaling his team forward, Shepard had them all move in line formation towards the mines entrance. Everything seemed calm, at that moment a geth drop-ship just came in dropping an armature that was surrounded by a handful of geth troops.
"Crap, everyone in cover" Shepard ordered over the comm.
His team split in two groups behind the surrounding crates. There was a few of what looked like geth bouncing there ways between walls. Before he could get a good look it fired some kind a beam, Shepard was barely able to dodge the shot back in cover.
"Too hell with h this" Shepard cursed to himself "Wrex, Raider draw their fire. Garrus, Alenko overload that thing."
His team did as he ordered; as soon as the armatures shields were down Shepard tossed a few grenades to finish the armature off.
"Concentrate on the unknowns" Shepard now ordered, wanting does bouncing geth things taken care of.
Once again Garrus being a crack shot helped in this situation. He had taken them all out, before the rest of his team could even get their sights on them. Wrex had already charged the geth troops that were surrounding the now down armature, while Raider was backing him up. Shepard noticed those two had become a deadly pair.
The area was now clear, so Shepard signaled his team to form back up on him. "Alright Alenko and Garrus on me, Wrex, Raider I want you covering our exit." Shepard didn't want Wrex to ruin the mission again. Raider seemed to take orders well, so he decided to leave them both behind, however he could see Wrex didn't like the sound of that. Luckily he just shrugged it off not even looking at Shepard, and Raider just gave a mock salute.
"Corporal, were exactly is the Doctor down here?" Shepard asked over the comm. Again.
"She is trapped behind a shield. To get to her you need to reach the bottom, and use a mining laser in order to reach her."
Shepard shut off the comm., now moving into the mine with his team.
They all entered the mine, but before Shepard could even think the geth were already firing on them. Shepard, who was in rage fired controlled burst into the enemies below. He had grown tired of all these geth in the way, yet there was little he could do about that besides kill them of course.
Shepard and his team came towards a series of elevators, and used them to reach the bottom. They came up to the shield the corporal had mentioned; however there was no one there at all.
"Corporal, are you sure she's suppose to be in this spot?" Shepard asked on the comm. Getting a confirmation on his Intel.
"Positive" the corporal answered back quickly.
It wasn't just the fact that the doctor wasn't here. All of the geth the corporal had warned him about were also nowhere to be seen. This place was empty, so Shepard was wondering why the geth would still be guarding the mine so damn hard.
"Damn it, everyone back to the surface. We've hit a dead in." Shepard ordered as they all went back on the elevator. "Joker bring the Normandy in"
"Aye aye Commander" Joker replied over the comm.
Exiting the mine Shepard saw Wrex standing over a few dead geth, and Raider pulling one of his knifes out of a dead Krogan.
"Shepard, good thing you left me here. Otherwise we wouldn't have had so much fun." Wrex Smirked as Shepard and his team exited the mine.
"I take it you learned something from that krogan?" Shepard asked towards Raider, figuring he was the clear minded of the two.
"As in matter a fact I did. He said Dr T'soni was just recently taken to her mother." Raider replied as the Normandy flew in over them.
Corporal Ryan Sheppard U.S. Army
Normandy Cargo Hold
Ashley and Ryan came into the cargo hold to meet up with the commander and his team. He still couldn't understand why Liara wasn't there. No matter what happened in the game she always been there. Maybe this future or alternate reality whatever it may be doesn't exactly follow the rules of the game. That could explain Shepard's behavior, or maybe being here changed more than Ryan thought. He still wanted to learn the origins of this so called Raider. Ryan still couldn't place where, but he knew he seen that man somewhere before. However, before Ryan could keep thinking Jackson ran towards him.
"So how everything go?" Jackson asked
"Not so good"
"It could have been worse Sheppard" Ashley Commented.
The cargo door opened and Shepard came in nearly running his way towards them. Before Ryan could say a word the commander grabbed a hold of him.
"We just wasted our time on a wild goose chase corporal" the Commander shouted in his face.
Jackson tried to get him off the commander, but a few of the Normandy's Marines forced him back away.
"She was suppose to be there Commander, I don't quite understand"
"Commander he can't be right about everything, his Intel on enemy deployment was still spot on in the mission" Ashley mentioned coming in on the argument.
"That will be enough from you Chief" The Commander shouted towards her while letting Ryan go
"Now T'soni was taken to her mother, so you better be right this time. Where is she?" The commander asked, pointing his figure at the Corporal.
"Noveria" Ryan answered knowing that if she was taken to her mother, it would more than likely be there.
"Commander what about Feros, the colony could be in danger" Kaidan asked as he and the others finally caught up with Shepard.
"Corporal will they be fine if we come to them later?" Shepard asked, looking back at the Corporal.
"Yes" Ryan answered, but in honesty with everything changing he didn't truly know anymore. Although, Ryan knew he needed to fix this mess before they started another. After all, Liara could be dead if we don't get to her soon.
"Joker set a course for Noveria" Shepard barked through his comm. He then turned back towards Ryan again."If you're wrong again, I will make damn sure to have you off my ship" The commander said in a threatening tone
Ryan knew if Jackson and he were forced off, then he could also remove Ashley. Her being their body guard is the only reason Shepard can't remove her in the first place. Then it hit Ryan in the face. He knew should be more worried about himself and Jackson rather than Ashley. For some reason Ryan Couldn't stop thinking this way.