Death is only yesterday
Chapter:5
Part.1 Citadel Memories
Normandy: On route to the Citadel
With everyone loaded aboard, the Normandy with Joker piloting set a course for the Citadel, and it will take a day or two before they arrive. The objective is to convince the council to help Earth. Shepard knows it won't be easy.
It was reported that Arcturus station was destroyed, so a couple of Earth fleets had to flee when the Reapers had come to Earth. So James is left in position to lead the alliance and that is alot of power.
Shepard knows he will have to deal with that Jackass Udina, James never really liked him that much either in which the man is too ambitious for his own good, but he has his uses.
Shepard talked to the crew for a bit and had a sparing session with James Vega, who has issues of his own regarding to an incident a few years ago on Fhel Prime in matters of the collectors and he along with an Asari named Treeya Nuwani were heroes.
After Shepard's long pep talk to Vega, he wondered where the Commodore had gone to and finally found him standing in the middle of the observation deck and holding a drink in hand at the nearby bar.
"Sir, you mentioned before you been to the Citadel" said Shepard "Does the council know of your presence"
"Only the senior members do" said Bond "And of course that idiot, Udina, bit he has his uses"
Shepard chuckled "I know that from experience"
"I can still feel her presence in the room" said Bond "A left over imprint"
"Samara did meditate alot in this room" said Shepard "She shared stories with me and mentioned she visited Earth"
"She did visit Earth more than once that was true" said Bond "We were enemies at first and became something more over time...I do recall when the first time she took me to the Citadel, of course I was curious about her species"
"When was this?" Asked Shepard
'The year was 1994" said Bond
'What" said Shepard "Your that..."
"Yes," said Bond "It was a few days after a mission, destroying a super weapon, saving the girl and a former friends betrayal, my story begins as this."
London, England the United Kingdom
Year: 1994
The building that overlooked Regent's Park was commonly known to outsiders as the headquarters for Universal Exports. To the people who worked inside, though, it was known as the Secret Intelligence Service headquarters, formerly known as Military Intelligence Division 6, or MI-6.
Universal Exports is known locally as Babylon-on-Thames due to its resemblance to an ancient Babylonian ziggurat. It is located at 85 Albert Embankment in the south western part of central London, at Vauxhall Cross on the South Bank of the Thames
James Bond drove in his sleek, charcoal-metallic Aston Martin V12 vanquish it has all the modifications Q branch had to offer, with, all point's radar, stinger missiles, machine guns, and all wheel drive. As he parked his car and stepped out, James strolled inside, locking his car he is dressed in his blue three piece suit, silk red tie, and black shined shoes.
James Bond walked quickly through the open office area, his feet felt constricted within the leather shoes; and the noise of the busy departments new found sense of calm, listening to the operators talking to field agents around the world.
It had only been a few days ago, in which Golden eye was destroyed. He was recalled back to London for some reason by M or who Tanner calls the evil queen of all numbers. Of course he wanted to spend some time with Natalya Simonova.
However she decided to defect to the Americans, that was not a problem at all and she is in capable hands of Jack Wade a CIA agent, Felix is still recovering from his injuries several years ago. It made him ponder a bit on his former friend Alec Trevelyan.
He had never felt betrayal of that magnitude before, but in time he will get over it like he did with his late wife Tracy. He recalled the words from Alec.
"Oh, please James, spare me the Freud. I might add well ask you for the vodka martinis that have silenced the screams of all the men you've killed...or if you find forgiveness in the arms of all those willing women, for all the dead ones you failed to protect."
He sighed in which he wasn't going to dwell on picked up more than ten different languages being offended his spoken during the twenty seconds it took him to cross the office as he headed inside one room.
The office seems empty in which it looks like Miss Money Penny has stepped out of the office and so he made his way into the inner office of M and by the looks of it she isn't alone. Another woman and turned around to see him. He blinked. it's Samara Asari.
He did remembered, on the other hand Samara liked the new look of James and wasn't fooled a bit. James new boss is rather stern, but fair considering she was once an agent herself at one time.
"I see you two know each other" said M
"Yes," said Bond "Did you read the old file"
"I did" said M "I am having a hard time understanding it, but Mycroft convinced me other wise."
"I like to borrow your man for awhile" said Samara
"You may as he is due for a holiday anyway" said M
"From what I heard he needs one" said Samara
"Very well you may go now" said M
Both Bond and Samara headed out of the office and went to the balcony to enjoy a rare sunny day.
"So is something you need help with" said Bond
"No, but from what I heard you need a vacation" said Samara "Like away from Earth."
"Like where" said Bond
"A space station called the Citadel" said Samara
"I am going to stick out like a sore thumb a human in a space station full of aliens" said Bond
"I suspect you have an idea or two" said Samara
"I do" said Bond "Follow me"
Q branch lab
About twenty minutes later James Bond with Samara rode the elevator all the way down, to the lowest levels of the building, underground. Where the realms of conception were regularly broken, where the boundaries of science were often thwarted and upgrades happened everyday.
The elevator doors slid open and both walked out. The usual shenanigans were afoot in the lab, rocket launchers being put into umbrellas lasers being attached to arm chairs and a ceramic garden gnome in a microwave.
Bond spotted Q the Quartermaster of the Q-branch, to a select few he is known as Horace Boothryd the 3rd, the grandson of Major Boothryd the original Q who died several years ago in a car accident.
Q instantly saw Bond as he left the elevator and sprang into action! The technicians in the lab who regularly help Q with gadgets and test them, they noticed the secret agent as well.
Q said "Look what I've got for you this time, you ungrateful idiots!" he continued "This umbrella will fire 4 explosive rounds per minute or more if you've got any-"
Bond interrupted him. "Guess I won't have to worry about it getting blown away in the wind then."
Q realized that this would be an uphill struggle to argue with Bond he said "And this is a chair with a built in laser that-"
He is interrupted by James Bond once again "Not so much a lazy boy as a laser boy, eh Q?"
Q sighed deeply in which he said "And this is a garden gnome in a microwave"
Bond paused and looked puzzled "I…uh…why would you do that?"
"I was going to make soup!" Q smiled at that
"Right..." Said Bond Slowly "Q I need to have that disguise I mentioned before"
"You mean the one that looks like your lady friend. An Asari I think it was" said Q
"That's the one" said Bond
"It won't take you long to put it on" said Q "Are you planning on going on a trip"
"Yes he is" said Samara "I will make sure your friend stays out of trouble"
"I certainly hope so" said Q "Now go get ready 007"
Outside of London
Samara had taken off her disguise in which she is an Asari again and in a empty field her ship is cloaked and waited for James to show up. Then a Aston Martin showed up and someone cloaked stepped out of the vehicle.
"So what do you think," said Bond
He took off the cloak and Samara is amazed at how Asari he looks from head to toe, it almost made her giggle at him looking so female like, but there are no male Asari.
"Q did excellent work" said Samara "I have given you a cover, ready to go"
"I always wanted to go where no one has gone before" said Bond
"Was that Star trek" said Samara
"Maybe" said Bond
Wordlessly then they boarded Samara ship, in which she used the controls to leave the planet and then in space heading to some object in which jumped their ship into something.
The Citadel
"Is that is" said Bond "I am lost for words"
"This is it" said Samara
Well here we go to OZ" said Bond
What he sees is a very large place floating in space a place called the Citadel and then the ship heads inside.
To be continued?