Mass Effect Shepard Rises.
It had been a few hours after his meeting with Admiral Kahoku the Normandy was already on the way to the Voyager Cluster a planet by the name of Binthu. Shepard sat in his cabin with Tali sitting on his lap her slender arms wrapped around her neck "John what's wrong I can feel that your all tense." Shaking his head he sighs "yes this Cerberus we are going after they according to Kahoku Intel they were behind Akuze." Tali's eyes went wide she knew what happened there and how it had affected Shepard she wrapped her arms around him tightly "I'm sorry john," she watched him smile "will you come down there with me?" she stared into his pleading eyes "of course I will be there Nihya try and stop me." Getting up she walks to the door swaying her hips and stops "I got work to do now so let me know when you are ready to go." With one final look over her shoulder she left him in his room.
Shepard sat looking at the door Tali just left through when she was with him she took his mind of the rage he felt but the moment the door shut it boiled to the surface with gritted teeth he rose and striped off and looked at himself in the mirror, standing there he just looked at himself until rage got the better of him and he threw his left fist through the mirror and into the hard wall behind it with gritted teeth he opened his hand and looked to the roof "Joker what's our ETA?" "2 hours commander" with a nod he puts on his armours underlay and his armour piece by piece.
Two hours later he found himself sitting in the Mako with Tali and the rest of the team "sorry people about the tight fit but I want all hands on deck for this one." Sitting in the driver's seat he watched as the cargo bay door opened and jokers voice came over the com "ok drop i mark" he hits the throttle and watches as the Mako drives off the Normandy and free falls to the planet below, after a few seconds the Mako smashed into the ground inside all they felt was the bouncing before it stopped he hit the throttle and drove to the Cerberus base.
After driving around for half an hour the team finally found the base hidden between to cliffs, jumping out the Mako Shepard pulls off his rifle and slowly walks to the door looking around for hostiles as he goes "ok here is the plan Kaidan you take Garrus and Liaraand find a secondary entrance." Without waiting for a reply he opens the door to the base and steps inside. Within the base it was silent as he moved through it and into what appeared to be a greeting area looking around he sees a man in a white and gold medical suit with his hand raised "yes sir the thresher maw acid is most effective when injected into the subjects blood stream" he slowly sneaks up on the unsuspecting man as he continues talking into his com "yes sir I understand we will try that in our next session with Toombs" at that name he stops as memories flash in his eyes of the young man laughing and joking, shaking off the memory he grits his teeth and jumps on the man grabbing his head "WERE IS TOOMBS" he snarls as his biotic's flare around his body "never you will have to kill me alliance dog" with a smile he twists the man's neck until it cracks.
Moving towards the door at the far end of the room he looks quickly at his team seeing wide eyes, turning back to the door he opens it and charges into the next room raising his rifle he shoots another man in the back of the head before he has a chance to turn around, running up to a wall support he looks out and spots a strange creature in a force field it looks like a giant spider with two tentacle's raised above his back its mouth is split into four pieces that when open form a star around razor sharp teeth gritting his teeth when he notices that there are six scientists running into a room at the far end and Cerberus soldiers in white and gold armour run out firing at his team, glowing purple he runs out and fires his rifle as he moves forward he staggers when he feels bullets hit his shield and barriers raising a glowing hand he picks up a create and throws it at a soldier not in cover he smiles when he sees said soldier crushed, he watches as his team finish off the rest of the with either biotic's or tech attacks, he walks through the door and into the room beyond.
So far Kaidan's team hadn't meet much resistant's only the odd guard here and there in the distance they could just make out the sound of gun fire echoing through the base, opening a door to his left his face drops at the sight of a man tied down to a metal bed he is completely naked save for under pants his body is a mess of scars some fresh and some old his skin is pale and bruised, but the most unnerving thing are the makes eye's his face has been wrapped in a metal helmet and his eyes are being forced to stay open with metal hooks one eye has been melted and is black with yellow puss oozing out of it the other is blood shot with sickly yellow pupils, the man opens his mouth and Kaidan notices his teeth are either missing or are black even the inside of his mouth is black and burnt Liara's voice bring him back to the present "what h-happened to him?" shaking his head "I don't know" he says as he slowly walks towards the man with his hand raised "sir I'm with the alliance we are here to help."
Kaidan watches as the man raises his head and opens his mouth but only a gurgling sound comes out and a wet cough Liara steps besides him "Kaidan I don't think he can talk" he looks from her to the man "is this true sir?" feeling guilt when the man's mouth drips with blood as he coughs "it ok sir don't speak let's get you out of there." As his opens the man's restraints and pulls out the number of IV stuck in his body, he watches as the man falls into Garrus's arms and he lays him onto the floor and injects him with medi-gel, turning and walking to the far end of the room he opens his com to Shepard "commander are you there?"
Shepard came to a halt at Kaidan's voice "yes I'm here what's up?" over the com he can hear Kaidan take a shaky breathe "sir we found a survivor he's in bad shape really bad shape" motioning for Tali and Wrex to cover the door he replies "ok look after him we will be there shortly" closing the com he walks towards the door and opens it, inside is the barracks a number of scientist's are cowering behind lockers, walking to the closest scientist he grabs him by the neck and hold him in the air "do you work for Cerberus?" he asks with gritted teeth "y-yes" a smile forms on his face as he crushes the man's life from his body, turning to his shocked team mates well except for Wrex how looked bored "I will handle this stay here until I'm done" with that he turns and rushes towards the next scientist and punches his stomach and as the man leans forward he twists his neck at a unnatural angle with a snarl he throws a biotic punch at another scientist and feels the man's rib cage shatter up the force.
Shepard feels nothing as he moves from person to person utterly killing them without mercy with a snarl he raises his hand and forms a mass effect bubble to form around the neck of a man visibly shaking and sobbing for his life he squeezes his fingers together and hears a snap, memories of Akuze flash before his eyes as he launches himself at a young woman trying to claw her way out the room he uses his strength to pin her to the wall as he grips her arms in both hands and glows with biotic power as he rips her arms out there sockets and with a scream of rage throws her far across the room with a wet splash as she hit the wall, looking around he notices a door to his left walking to it he opens it to find a man typing at a terminal, running towards him he spins the man around "w-wait your Shepard aint you?" gripping the man round the throat he looks into his eyes "yes what of it" he says watching as the man swallows "we have Toombs I know where he is let me go and I will tell you." Shepard snarls "NO DEAL NOW DIE YOU PIECE OF SHIT" he says as he crushes the man's neck.
Tali finally snaps out her scared state and rushes after Shepard, she find him in the next room sitting on the floor his knee pushed up to his chest and his body shaking with sobs slowly reaching a shaky hand out to him she opens her mouth but no words come out so she kneels down and wraps her arms around him instead, she looks down at him as he pushes his head off her chest "go have a look on the terminal she what you can find please." She nods and gets up walking towards the terminal after hacking into the network her eyes go wide and she takes a step back "S-Shepard you might want to see this?"
Shepard slowly got to his feet and walked to the terminal and read the message on the screen test results thresher maw acid very effective when injected into the subject's blood stream Corporal Toombs was recovered from our trap on Akuze and subjected to this treatment, information has been sent to the illusive man for review. Also Rachni test show that when separated from their queen they become more dangerous so far tests have shown that they are uncontrollable more research required "Tali try to download more information off the hard drive please" he steps back trying to keep his rage in check. A few minutes later Tali's voice snaps him out of his thoughts "I have done what I can Shepard." He nods "ok well done Tali, now people lets go see Kaidan."
Shepard found Kaidan and his team kneeled on the ground around a pale white body, Kaidan notices him approach and gets up and walks toward him "Shepard wait listen he's not going to make it we have tried to make him comfortable but…." He looks at Kaidan and nods "ok I will be brief" with that he walks towards the man on the ground and falls to his knees eyes wide in shock "Toombs." the man looks at him and nods and smiles "t-thank y-you" Toombs says as he watches him shake in pain as a screech exits his mouth and fall silent as death takes him. He looks at the man the man and sobs "I'm sorry Toombs please forgive me if I had known I would have come back for you I swear"
The group watch helplessly as there commander and friend openly sobs knowing there nothing they can do Tali walks forward and wraps him in a hug followed by the rest of the team even Wrex got in on the hug however quick it was as Shepard stands up and picks up Toombs body "let's go"
there you go right I feel I should explain I have never agreed with finding Toombs in a cerburus base that wasn't related to Kahoku well that's my point of view sorry if its not in line with die hard fans