"There you are Commander Hansen!" said General Wadup as he drove over in a Jeep, "What the hell is going on there's thousands of those alien robot things everywhere."
'Phew saved by the General,' I thought. I didn't quite know what to say at this point, but I did see a large one appear by the Citadel Hill, "Not sure sir but I see a bigger one heading at the Citadel Hill."
"Well grab some help and get there! Take my Jeep, I don't care what you do as long as the city is cleared with those things."
"Yes sir, understood." I said as I looked towards them, "Alenko, Liara, Edi care to join me?"
"Sure," said Alenko as I jumped into the Jeep starting it up. I was pretty sure I heard Alenko say as he and Liara when they used their biotics take off the Jeep's roof off was "Best day ever."
"Commander I'm afraid I can't connect to the wi-fi so I can find intel on the internet about Citadel Hill." began Edi. Just as I thought Edi can adapt to any tech regardless of time period.
"Right now Edi it's not required but once we're there you can connect to it's wi-fi, I'll need you to look up how to operate the cannons, I hope we won't have to." I said as I took my pistol and shot some husks down. "I hate Zombies... At least this is less gross."
"What is your plan?" asked Alenko.
"Well some of the new recruits train here during the summer the idea is to put their training to the test to bring the big guy down before more appear."
"I don't see how ancient human technology would work in a case like this."
"Believe me you'd be surprised by what I can pull off."
"She's not kidding either." said Alenko.
"I don't see how it would work." said Liara.
"You'll see."
We reached the Citadel gates as I saw the costumed volunteers and military fighting as we helped out with what we had. I stood up against a whole army of all sort of dark Reapers.
"Commander I've connected to the WiFi." said Edi.
"Good Edi, Liara find a Cannon and get the others to help out I'll distract them."
"What about me Commander," asked Alenko.
"Ah just cover my ass," I spoke as I glared at the enemy before us, "Just try not to get into my way and I'll do the same."
"Got it."
"You've been here before," I observed as we took cover.
"I was just a kid, my folks took me here once. I always wanted to use the cannons but everyone said no at the time."
"They said that to me too." I said with a chuckle as we headed up to the south part of the cannon tower. There was that Reaper, I went up to it, "I'll give you 3 seconds to get off my Planet or you're going to see what a True Pissed off Canadian looks like."
"You are not Shepard but you do have a similar DNA structure to Shepard." said the Harbinger.
I almost hesitated, 'My DNA is similar to Shepard's? This is not the time to Geek out.' I thought as I got my act together, " Well unlike Shepard I have all authority to kick your big fat ass right here right now if Diplomacy fails, so I ask once more leave the whole galaxy or we'll force you off." I yelled.
"You have Shepard's arrogance, you will be terminated."
I scowled, thinking 'Oh like as if that's going to happen,' As I then yelled on top of my lungs as angry as I was at these hybrid Reapers, "Everyone let yourself loose and Kick some ass! Let's send these Mo-Fo's Back to where they came from!"
I watched as cannon balls blew hitting it, making plenty of damage. I commanded Kaidan and Liara to use to use their biotics to grab the cannon balls that fell, so the guys can reload the cannons. Besides I had no idea how many cannonballs were but I knew we needed them. The Big Reaper took the hint as it rose up, not long soon so did the others. Earth was safe for now... But right now I had more questions than answers mainly about what the hell is happening to me?
My Apartment...
I didn't stay long to interact with the Normandy crew as we briefed the general on what transpired before our very eyes... Let's face it I figured they'd take over and solve this strange occurrences in space or time whatever the heck was going on. Then there was the strange stuff with me too on top of that was... well let's be real I wasn't sure what to make of it.
I had been barely home 15 minutes again when I came out of my bedroom from taking off my gear. Man I was tired and starving. There was a knock on my apartment door when I was looking in my fridge as I was debating on ordering a pizza or going out to get one to put in the oven.
"Who is it?" I called.
"It's just us Commander Hansen," said Williams, "Me and Skuttlebutt."
"Ashley!" said Alenko to her, "I asked you not to call me that around anyone else."
"You didn't say 'Please and thank you' like Commander Hansen does, Skuttlebutt." she teased back.
I snickered as I opened the door to see Kaidan and Ash in jeans, open hoodies with opposite tee shirts and different footwear on, "I suppose we should debrief a little more about the last minute mission."
"General Wadup was nice enough to locate a place to hide the Normandy until nightfall." said Alenko.
"Well," I began, "He does know how to get sneaky."
"He said you're on shore leave."
"Yeah, I was in need of a Vacation/shore leave. It's been rough the last few months of fighting... I needed this badly."
"I hope you don't mind but General Wadup pulled a few strings to let us investigate this strange phenomenon." Said Williams.
"So I take it he gave you permission to borrow my contacts?"
"Ah not quite, we wanted to recruit you to help us out once you're ready." said Alenko.
My stomach growled, "Um I don't know, I don't think well about stuff on a empty stomach. How about I order a pizza? I'm not in the mood for cooking right now."
"Sure," said Williams, "I'm getting a little hungry, what about you Skuttlebutt?"
Alenko crossed his arms, "Yeah sure."
"Could be worst one of my Aunts nicknames both my twin brothers 'Frank' as I nickname them Numbnuts and Numbskull for a laugh sometimes," said I grabbing my home phone.
Williams burst into laughter, and it looked as if that was going to kill her.
"Ash are you going to be ok?" asked Alenko.
"And I thought it was hard for me to stop laughing," I said as she settled down.
"Thanks I so needed that." she said giggling.
"You're welcome. I'm thinking a works pizza? Any objections?"
"No objections here, Commander. " said Williams.
"Ah I how about some garlic fingers and Donairs?" suggested Kaidan, "I've always wanted to try them."
"Ok sure, a medium sized garlic finger and 3 donairs." I said as I finished the call, "Please everyone call me Mel."
"Sure Mel, oh and call me Ash if you like." She smiled.
"Kaidan is good with me Commander, er Mel." Kaidan said, as I noticed he was nervous, which didn't last long before he noticed the Mass Effect games that were still on my coffee table as he then added as he picked them up, "So this is how you know about us."
"Yeah it's one of my all time favorites." I admitted trying not to blush up, considering I romanced Alenko in every playthrough... I just wished Kaidan had more humor like the rest of us Canucks.
"You don't strike me as a gamer girl..." began Ashley, " then again you pet peeve is labeling people as certain stereotypes."
"I'm not offended by you calling me a gamer girl, Ashley, it's one of the only shooter related games I play, besides Tomb Raider." I spoke, "ah sorry I'm still a little shocked that well everyone except Shepard is here on the Earth I know."
"Mind if we take a look?"
"Ah sure," I said, "I'll just wash my hands and clean the table up before our pizza arrives."
In the bathroom I began to think as I washed up a bit. I was glad my hobby stuff was still in my room for once I wasn't sure how they'd react. I stopped as I looked at myself in the mirror, 'Now wait a goddamn minute Mel you don't judge a person until you get to know them, then why the hell are you acting as if you're on blind double date for?'
Kaidan didn't take long to figure out the Pc version of as he booted up the logs of Mel's of the last game, he saw three files one MaleShep, two FemShep files. He wasn't surprised at the first two (Default Shepards) as he overlooked the details of the logs until he saw the romance areas when he checked the second FemShep. Her custom FemShep looked exactly like her.
"She romanced you with her own Shepard?" said Ashley, quietly.
"The Nickname is FemShep, I read up on it when I went on the internet."
"And how to work this terminal?"
"The term is 'PC' personal computer, this was able to do almost everything before Omni Tools and Terminals came in." Kaidan explained, "Dad had some retro systems of computers, but never this old, errr new I guess."
"So you read up on old tech?"
"Well I figured it wouldn't hurt before we got here. I'm good but I'm sure Commander Hansen has a similar knowledge of the tech here."
"She said to call her Mel," reminded Ash.
"That might take me a while to process that Ash for me to call her that."
"Yeah like it did before on Shepard's side."
"True but both of them chose Liara."
"Don't remind me, it just feels weird that we're both here. Now I guess I understand how Mel feels about this strange situation we're all in."
"I can agree to that."
Once I was done washing up I went out to the kitchen to get clean dishes ready and some hot beverages made. I remembered Kaidan liked coffee as I was happy I had some Tim Horton's coffee left, not much but enough for a few cups.
"Hey Kaidan does the Tim Horton's coffee still exist in your world?"
"Yeah but I'm sure the coffee is slightly different."
"I'd like some tea Mel."
"Coming right up."