Mass Effect Shepard Rises.

Tali shed a tear as she watched as john fell to his knees in front of her "what do I do?" such a simple question under normal circumstances but the position he was in was hardly normal, slowly kneeling down in front of him she takes his hands "I-I don't know…." The look on his face was of pure desperation hope I never get put into a position like this she thought to herself, Wrex's voice snaps her out that thought "Shepard get up your better than this, you got a choice here to make, make it and let's get this done."

Shepard listened as Wrex spoke slowly standing on shaky legs he dusts himself off and opens his com "Garrus, Liara what's your position?" his com crackles with static and a voice behind him makes him spin round "we are here." He looks as Liara clutches her side blue blood running down her hand and onto the floor numerous cuts covering her face and arms, turning his attention to Garrus how's left arm in hanging loosely at his side his armour blackened and burnt a slow trickle of blood running out his mouth "Ashley told us to get to you," shaking his head "how are you two?" he asks "some minor blooding maybe a few internal injuries," nodding he opens his com to Ashley "ash you there?" over the com they all hear the sound of gun fire, a weak voice sounds over the com "I-I'm here" smiling he almost shouts down he com "hold on we are on our way" motioning for Tali and Wrex to follow he runs back towards the elevator.

Ashley lay on the ground by the nuke the water thinning out the blood pooled around her, her armour was torn and bloodied from bullets that eat into her flesh, her helmet was crushed onto her face from a Geth that punched her full throttle, after hearing Shepard over the com "hold on we are on our way." Struggling against the pain she checks the timer on the bomb 10 minutes left falling back onto the floor she spits out blood and says "no get away I'm in a bad way leave me, just please tell my sisters and mom that I love them."

Shepard stopped after hearing that "ash..." he never finished as Ashley cut him off "please I have to do this" shaking he nods "ok ash I'm sorry" he hears a small chuckle "don't be skipper I'm not" he turns and walks away from the elevator "Joker get us out of here." Over the com he barely hears his answer "aye commander on our way ETA 4 minutes." Nodding to himself he looks at Tali and smiles a sad smile and goes to speak when a salarian is violently throw into a crate with a sick crack looking round he sees Saren on a Geth hoover board glowing blue "ah Shepard brilliant diversion"

Shepard watched as a smug smile settled on Saren's face "you are proving to be a thorn in my side Shepard." Shaking with anger he shouts "yeah, well good you bastard get down here so I can kill you." Raising his rifle he fires at Saren watching a his barriers flare blue around his body, laughing Saren jumps off the hoover board "you have to do better than that primitive" smiling Shepard ran at Saren, as he ran he dodged to the left when a blue ball of biotic energy hit the ground where he was just standing raising a fist he pulls it back and slams it into the side of Saren's head watching as he flies backwards onto his back, "how's that good enough" watching as his taunt had the effect he wanted, he watched as Saren jumps up and snarls running towards him raising is fists he dodges to the left then right as Saren throws punches grabbing Saren's right hand as it flies above his head he grips it and throws a right punch at Saren's ribs hearing a satisfying crack, bending low he wipes his leg out and swipes Saren's feet out from under him, jumping up he places his legs either side of Saren's body and leans down throws lefts and right punches at the same time, a feeling a weightlessness washes over him as he realises he's flying through the air with a blue glow surrounding him.

Tali watched as at first it seemed like Shepard was beating Saren but as she watched him landing hard after Saren threw him of him she knew john was in trouble upon landing she watched as he staggered on his feet and spat blood on the floor meaning either he bite his tongue or he had internal bleeding, deciding on the worst she whips out her shotgun and runs at Saren blasting as he goes "get away from him," she watches as Saren looks down at Shepard his barriers absorbing her shoots easily "oh look a quarian I have always wondered what they looked like now I'm going to find out." She tries to dodge as Saren charges to her but fails as she feels his fully synthetic hand wrap around her throat and lift her up into the air "now suit rat shall we begin?" trying to break free she kicks him in the groin feeling his grip on her throat loosen she breaks free but Saren's left talons smash into her visor cracking it as she falls to the floor.

Shepard raises to his feet with gritted teeth rage flows through his veins, his whole body glows purple with pure biotic energy roaring in rage he leaps at Saren and uses his biotic power and cybernetics In a punch that whips Saren's head back, grabbing him in mid-air he throws his to the floor, grabbing his knife in one hand the other grabs Saren's face and slices a mandible as Saren's screaming in pain he jumps back "know how's primitive, you dare threaten me," he watches as Saren slowly stand up "you are powerful join me Shepard and together we can save countless lives from the reapers" panting in rage he answers "JOIN YOU NEVER, YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A PUPPET." He watches as Saren shakes his head "don't be stubborn human, there is no other way accept the reapers as gods." Walking towards Saren slowly his raises a glowing hand "never" he watches as Saren raises his hand and glows blue as well "fine human"

Powering his biotic's he throws his hand forward as a purple glow meets a blue glow in the centre a white ball of power forms, objects near the ball start to float around gritting his teeth he roars and charges forward meeting Saren head on, who gets hit head on and combined with his cybernetic strength and biotic power goes flying through the air and hits a wall with a crunch, falling to his knees as black spots appear in his vision, overhead he can just hear the noise of the Normandy comes in low near the landing pad, he barely feels as Kaidan grips his arm and pulls him up "come on commander we have to get out of here now." Looking at Kaidan he nods and then looks at were Saren was crumpled on the floor only to find him gone "Saren where is he?" he says tensing up in Kaidan's grip "we can't worry about him now let's go." He watches as Garrus carries Tali up the ramp of the Normandy, once on board he feels the hum of power as the Normandy rises in the air "joker quick we can still go get Ashley." He says shrugging of Kaidan's grip over the com he can just about hear a sob "we c-cant commander I'm sorry" shaking his head to fight of the black spots "no I don't believe that I can't" he feels his body drop onto his knees his vision getting blurry until it goes black and he falls to the floor.

Ash watched the Normandy grow smaller until it disappeared "thanks Shepard," she says to herself as the nuke gives out a warning sound she looks to the sky and closes her eyes as images of her and her sister as children standing around the grill with her mother and father cooking a juicy steak on it laughter fill the air, her youngest sister Sarah turns to her "ash this is one of the best days ever, dads finally come home" she grabs her in a hug "I love you sis" a smile forms on her face "I love you to." Ashley says as the world around her goes white, she doesn't feel the intense heat of the blast nor does she feel the life left in her body leave her all she feels is love and happiness.

Kaidan stood behind joker as they both watched an intense white light flare and the die as the nuke went off, they both shed silent tears for their lost team mate, Kaidan speaks first "I'm sorry ash." He turns to walk away when joker voice stops him "were should we go" he sighs and turns to look over his shoulder "go to the citadel we need proper medical attention, especially the commander he nearly died of exhaustion in his fight with Saren." Turning away he walks towards the CIC and down the steps heading towards the sleeper pods. Once locked up in his pod he cries himself to sleep.

there you go another chapter done if anyone had any problems with this please let me know