Mass Effect Shepard Rises.
Shepard stood by the airlock with Tali and Wrex as the Normandy glided slowly into the alliance dock "cant this tin can go any faster pilot?" he looks over at Wrex "this tin-can is state of the art grumpy." he watches as Wrex red eyes narrow then into laughing "you got quad Shepard." he nods "bet your ass I do, now lets go," they step into the decontamination chamber.
The team step out the Normandy to be meet by C-sec armed guards "SPECTRE the council wishes to speak to you, please follow me?" he nods and turns to Tali "here take this credit chit go round a few stores and find some upgrades for us or the Normandy Wrex make sure she doesn't get into any trouble." he watches as Wrex nods and walks off "come on Quarian." he turns back to Tali and grabs her hands and pulls her close he watches as her eyes go wide and dart to the C-sec agents watching them "hey ignore them I'm not ashamed of you ok not go with Wrex Nihya." he see's her eyes narrow in a smile as he hugs her and walks towards the agents "lets go." he says as they walk to a air car.
He sits in the back of the car as it speeds to the council tower, he raises his arm and opens his Omni-tool selects his mothers connect details and starts to write a letter, Hi mum sorry it's taken me this long to contact you been busy with SPECTRE business, how are you when you next get leave let me know I've met someone mum I'd like you to me until then be safe love john.
Reading the message again he nods to himself and send it with that he closes his Omni-tool and looks out the window at the citadel watching as air cars fly about like flies, he watches as the Destiny Ascension glides through space gracefully.
He snapped out his thoughts by a voice "sir we have arrived captain Anderson is here to greet you." the door opens and he climbs out "thanks guys." with that he closes the door and turns and walks up to a smiling Anderson "Shepard glad you could come." he stops and salutes "come on son really?" Anderson asks upon seeing the salute which he returns "what's this about Anderson?" he says, Anderson shrugs "don't know, I'm only here as Udina's adviser anyway lets go best not keep them waiting." he nods and follows Anderson into the tower.
After leaving John, Tali had found a few items for the Normandy and the ground team to help improve shields, weapon damage she also found a knife that she would improve and give to john as a present, at the minute her and Wrex were sitting in Flux enjoying a drink she turns to Wrex to find him watching her closely "so Quarian you favour shotguns do you?" he asked in his deep voice "yes Wrex I do and will you please call me Tali." she narrows her eyes "now your with Shepard as your mate you got quad Tali." her eyes widen "w-what." she watches him chuckle "oh don't worry your secrets safe with me, now how about we get out of here and find a shooting range I got a few things to teach you." she watches as he stands up and starts to walk away before she jumps up after him "w-wait why are you doing this?" she says "well males respect strength and while your good with that gun I can make you better, plus I will show you how to kill a Krogan with just a knife."
Shepard now stood in front of the council with Anderson to his left and Udina to his right the asari councillor started the meeting first "commander we thank you for coming we have news about Saren." he looks at Udina who shrugged "why wasn't I told before hand" he asks to which the salarian answered "we couldn't trust this information on secure channels. We had an STG group sent out to find any trace of Saren and his Geth, we received word from said group that Saren's base of operations has been found on Virmire?" he nods "ok once the Normandy is refuelled and stocks filled I will go there straight away anything else?" "no commander this meeting is adjourned." he nods and turns to walk down the steps. He barely got to the bottom when an admiral waves him over "commander Shepard I am admiral Kahoku." he salutes "at ease commander I have a favour to ask if I may." he nods and gestures for the admiral to continue "well my survey team have gone missing, I have tried going through official channels but I have hit a brick wall. I know you are on an important mission but please can you look into it." he nods "yes sir I will if you upload any Intel you have to the Normandy I will check it out." "thanks commander do humanity proud." with that the admiral salutes and walks away.
Shepard stood outside the Normandy his Omni-tool active looking at Tali's position on the map far as he could tell her and Wrex were at a shooting range, he clicked on Tali's flashing icon and called her "hello John." he smiled at the image of Tali helmet on his screen "hi Tali how's Wrex treating you?" he asks and watches as her head looks to the left "he's fine we wont be long got to go bye John." "wow wait Tali hello." he looks at his Omni-tool as it flashes red connection lost shrugging he makes his way into the airlock. Upon entering the Normandy he turns to Joker "Joker when we have refuelled and re stocked set a course for Virmire max speed." joker turns in his chair "you got it commander we should be done here within the hour." he nods and walks off towards his cabin.
He enters his cabin and strips off his armour he walks over to the mirror and sighs as he flexes his arms and legs as a memory washes over him.
A young Shepard lies on his hospital bed staring at the doctor he had long since blocked the doctors voice out after he was told he wouldn't be fit for the alliance anymore and that because of the damage to his arms and legs he would never really have full control of them again, his mothers sobs snapped him out his thoughts he looks at her "hey it's ok." he watches as she lifts her face her eyes are red from tears and her cheeks have black lines running from her eyes were her make up has run, the doctor in question says "there is a way, as you know cybernetics are quiet popular these days we could use that to repair and rebuild or in your case replace damaged ones it not cheap but its well worth it." he looks at the doctor "do it" he says as the doctor walks off he turns back to his mother but her face is that of a thresher maw he screams and shakes as he forces his will to move his arms he watches as the thresher maw gets up and comes towards him mouth open saliva dripping from its mouth at the edge of his hearing he can hear a rapid beeping and then blackness over takes him.
He remembers waking up after seeing the concerned faces of Anderson and his mom "hey john how you feeling now?" his eyes try to focus on Andersons face but can't he bears his teeth and hisses at the blurry image in front of him "kill me NOW" he roars and thrashes against his restraints "john son please calm down" he looks at his mother "arrrrr" he pulls and pulls until his badly damaged arms snap and he blacks out.
He shudders at the memory and shakes his head jokers voice over the com sounds in his cabin "commander everyone's on board setting course for Virmire ETA 6 hours." he sighs and walks to his bed and falls onto it "ok joker" he says before he lies down and closes his eyes.
sorry for the short chapter hopefully you all liked it anyway thanks also thanks to my partner in crime Phil.