This is bullshit. How the hell could this happen. Clearly Saren is at fault for what happened on Eden Prime. Jane was pissed as Ashley, Kaidan and her walked out of the Citadel tower. She wanted to punch something to get her mind off of that stupid meeting. Wait a sec… She thought for a moment.
Jane had an idea, finding the turian she ran into before the meeting. She needed to know what kind of evidence he had against him. Maybe he would be a valued asset.
They started at the presidium, hopefully there would be some clues as to where he might be.
Shepard and her crew walked and walked. The Citadel was huge, he could be anywhere. They passed by shops of all kinds, restaurants, even a club or two. Jane even looked over in C-Sec, there were no signs of him.
So much wondering around just to find one turian. How hard could it be. Big blue turian guy.
This was harder than she thought.
Shepard and her team arrived at what seemed to be a medical area on the Citadel. She opened the door hoping to find some extra medi-gel laying around but instead she found Garrus crouched against a wall.
Ah-ha there he is!
Through the window she could see a small group of thugs surrounding a doctor. They were getting closer to the doctor guns drawn, trying to get her to give them something. The supposed leader of the group noticed Jane walk in.
"WHO ARE YOU!" the thug barked.
Shepard drew her gun, keeping her eyes on the thug who had pulled the doctor in as a human shield. "Let her go and this will be easy."
Garrus peeked around the wall and shot him in the head, releasing the doctor. She ran for cover. It turned into a shoot out. Who the hell were these guys. One by one they were picked off until they were all down.
Garrus looked over to Shepard, "Ah perfect timing Shepard, you gave me the perfect shot."
Shepard threw her arms up, "What the hell were you thinking? You could of hit her!"
"I, uh, I wasn't thinking I just wanted to get her out of there. Uh, Dr. Michel, are you hurt?"
The doctor, still in a bit of shock, looked over, "No, no. I'm fine thanks to you guys."
Dr. Michel explained that the thugs were there to keep her quiet about a quarian. Apparently she had been shot but wouldn't tell her who did it. The thugs were also Fist's minions. For some reason the quarian had information she wanted to trade for a safe place to hide. Long story short, they needed to find the quarian and get that information. Also this info, may be something that could be used against Saren.
Garrus walked up to Shepard and asked to join her team. If it was to put Saren in his place, he was game.
"Welcome to the team, Garrus. Glad to have you with us, hopefully you can keep up with the head count." Shepard giggled.
Kaidan shook his head, "You and that head count. She has yet to be beaten or kept up with for that matter."
Garrus looked over to Jane, "So I notice you use a pistol, is that it?"
"Of coarse not, I have this beauty." Jane pulls out her one of a kind sniper rifle. "This was a present from my mom. It's one of the best there is out there."
Garrus smirked, "Well actually there's one that could possibly top that but only top Spectres can get access to it. So if your lucky you might be able to get it."
To think, there was a better rifle than hers? She must get her hands on it. Even though her rifle was a special present, anything that could help improve her skills would be amazing.
"Anyway, hey Ashley I need you to head back to the ship. Get things ready to head out. It'll be soon."
Ashley nodded to Shepard, "Aye aye."
They said their good-byes to the doctor and headed out to find Wrex, a mercenary that was hired to take out Fist.
Off to C-Sec yet again!
As they arrive there was a huge red krogan. There were a few C-Sec officers harassing him. Ugh hopefully it's no because he is a krogan… Anyway, Jane was able to get his attention as he was walking out.
They talked for a bit. Explaining that they needed to take out Fist and they heard that he was the guy who wanted to tag along.
Wrex joined in on the hunt. Shepard sent Kaidan back to the Normandy to prep for the next mission. It was strange walking around with 2 aliens and a human. Well even with a turian and a krogan, their species hated each other, all because of the genophage.
After finding some information they finally found Fist. Not only did they get the location of where the quarian was but Wrex was able to get a good hit in.
They walked into a room where a turian and two other alien body guards were, surrounding the supposed quarian. The quarian threw a flash by the alien and ran off to take cover. Shepard, Wrex and Garrus opened fire and cleared the room. The quarian, soon to be know as Tali'Zorah, Tali for short, came out of hiding. She knew that she was being set up but she needed to get that information out there.
Shepard got her out of there and back to Udina's office.
Udina was skeptical about this information that the quarian had to offer. She started at the beginning.
After explaining how she was able to salvage an audio file from a salvaged memory core from a geth unit, they were able to hear that Saren was not just doing a mission but on the attack. Not only did they have Saren's voice but there was a female voice on there too. Reapers. She brought that up. No idea what they were but it was a super advanced mechanical race.
Udina urged that the evidence be shown to the Council immediately. Shepard complied. Tali stopped Shepard and asked her to join her team. Jane did see her quick action in that alley way.
"Sure why not, you seem like you can handle your own." Shepard smiled at the quarian.
Tali was overjoyed, "Thank you Commander!"
She could tell they were going to be good friends.
Shepard sent Wrex to the ship, "Make yourself comfortable there. Don't let the humans scare you."
"Hah, humans, scare me? I'd like to see the day." Wrex punched Shepard in the arm, "I'll see ya on the ship, heh, Commander."
They all headed out of Udina's office. Wrex wondered off towards the docks, while Shepard, Tali'zorah and Garrus headed toward the Citadel Tower.
"Seems we've acquired and interesting bunch, huh, Shepard?" Garrus looked over to Jane.
"Yeah, seems so. So nice being able to work together with so many races." Shepard smiled at him.
It was interesting to Garrus, the human smile. A simple gesture that means so much. She did it a lot, it suit her very well. A smile that could knock someone on their knees. He enjoyed it, it was very soothing to him. Being in her presence made him feel focused on the task ahead.
They arrived at the Citadel Tower to reveal what they had discovered from the quarian's information. The Council was a bit shocked to see Shepard back in such a short notice.
"Council, I have some evidence I wish to share with you to prove what Saren had done." Shepard stood below them on the platform, proud of what she had found.
"This is an audio recording with Saren's voice on it. I'd like you three to hear it." Jane played the recording from her omni-tool.
Saren's voice could be heard through out the Council's chambers, "Eden Prime was a major victory! The beacon has brought us one step closer to finding the conduit."
"And one step closer to the return of the Reapers." It was the female voice that the crew couldn't decipher.
The Council was baffled. This evidence was the one thing that could bring Saren down, and Jane had found it. They denounced Saren from the Spectres. The Council knew who the other voice was on the recording. It was Matriarch Benezia, a powerful biotic, she had many followers and had somehow formed an alliance with Saren. This was bad. The Reapers even, Jane's crew wasn't too sure as to what they were but Saren and the Matriarch wanted to bring them back.
The Council knew a thing or two about the Reapers. They were ancient machines that wiped out life on multiple planets and when they were finished, they vanished. No one knew when they would be back or if they would do it again.
Shepard saw them in her dream or vision, whatever it was. They were slaughtering people left and right. The Council wasn't buying her it though. They wouldn't come back. It's been ages since they were last heard of, until now.
If Saren wanted to bring these things back, the whole universe was in for a ride.
Jane told them to believe her, they messed up once by not believing in her about Saren. This time they had to. She told them that she could take down Saren and not let him brings those Reapers back. The asari council member had an idea, yes Shepard could take him down without and fleets or having to stir up a war. The turian council member hesitated about what she had brought up, he didn't think she was ready for it, her race even. They bickered for a bit. Then it happened. Lt. Commander Jane Shepard, granted the position of Spectre by the Council. The first ever human Spectre.
Garrus and Tali congratulated Jane on her new title.
"That's great the first human to join the Spectres. Tali i believe we just saw history in the making." Garrus gave a strong pat to Shepard's shoulder.
"I believe we did Garrus. Oh this is amazing, traveling around with a Spectre. We can finally take down Saren!" Tali giggled from excitement.
Shepard looked at her crew and laughed, "Oh guys. I have a feeling that we will have a lot of fun together. Well granted the dangerous missions we will be going on to stop this crazy guy. But, there will always be a little bit of free time."
She was happy, making new friends with all kinds of different aliens. Who knew that most of her personal crew would be made up of them. Most people did think it was odd to see other races together, well unless it was a gang. Shepard didn't care about the weird looks they were giving her and her crew as they walked around the Citadel. These were her new friends, companions, to travel through space to get the bad guy.
She wondered if the rest of her new recruits made it safely to the ship...