Liara begins typing on her terminal, "I can tell you that Samara is on the planet, and recently spotted by Officer Dara. I believe she went to the Commercial District. As for Thane Krios, He contacted me to find Nassana Dantius." I arch my eyebrow, "Didn't we kill her sister?" Liara nodded, "Yes and she has done nothing of note, though rumors are that she is a slave master to her workers." I groan a little, "Should've put one between her eyes."
Liara made an agreement sound. "Now to start your Company, We'll need to start with something simple." I gesture for her to continue, "A name." I looked at her surprised, then I began to think of one. "Shepard Industries: Shepherding the Future!" She laughed at that, "The slogan is going to need some work. Do you have a product?" I sent a basic schematic of the Nano-Forge to her. She looked it over, I'm sure she doesn't know what she's looking at, But then again it's been two years.
"So as long as this has power it'll be able to make any material?" I nod, "Yes, and what you see there is just the first prototype. We're working on a more efficient and streamline version right now." She thinks for a moment, then begins typing again. "Shepard, what you have here is incredible. I'm going to talk to a few people to see if they can get you a few investors. If this goes off the way I think it will. You'll change the game for the next century or two."
"If we survive the Reapers that is." She nodded at that. "It'll take a week or two to get hold of the right people. And another week for them to contact their people." She types furiously, "Shepard I'll contact you in a day. Please enjoy your time here." I went the way of the Consumer. Within the next hour I bought everything. Until I ran into a familiar green-skinned Asari, "Shepard? I'm not sure you remember me, I'm Shiala." I nod, "I do remember, you're staying out of trouble I hope?"
She nods in a tired fashion. "Trying is the better word for it. I'm trying to get some contracts reformed. Baria Frontiers promised non-invasive testing however their contract, using clever word play, says the opposite. They would be able to just take us and do what they wished." I raised my hand, with a grimace. "Tell me whose skull I have to crack?" She shook her head, "I just need to convince the contractor to change it." She points over to the Racist Asari. I in turn nod and walk over.
"Hm, what do you want? Oh a human, I have nothing for you. Go back to being an upstart away from me." I decided to use the Inspire trick. "Can you tell me why you gave a bad contract to the Feros Colony survivors?" She looked like insulted her mother.
"I gave them an appropriate response to their begging. This galaxy would've been better off if the Asari were the only ones to drag themselves primordial soup. We can't go through one Asari lifetime without a dozen wars breaking out. Or without some great upheaval. My Wife and two daughters were killed because of aliens! One was on Rannoch when the Geth rose up. And my daughters on the Citadel when Saren led the Geth there. Why shouldn't I be angry at the Galaxy for taking my girls!"
She was breathing hard with tears in her eyes, I softened my stance, "What did they do?" She sat against the wall. "Lera was studying the Quarians not their culture but their music. And My girls work at the Presidium." She put her head in her hands, "I'm sorry, I'll give them a better contract. I need to get my head together. Please accept the discount on the kiosk." She got up and walked away. I bought the available Star Maps.
I went back to Shiala, who stood with excitement. "Shepard I just got a message about the contract being reformed." She hugged me, "Is this what it's like? Yesterday's problem became tomorrow's dream."
She let go but left a hand on my chest. "Thank you again Shepard, maybe when you're done you can visit Feros again. See what we did with the place." I grabbed her hand and kissed her knuckles. "I would be honored."
We went our separate ways. I called up Grunt, Garrus and Garret to help me with the Samara mission. When I saw them walking up, I saw Grunt with a small bag. "Grunt what's in the Bag?" He smiled and pulled out two things, a dinosaur and an action figure of Me.
Grunt smiles, "He has a Kung Fu grip." Then he held up the dinosaur, "His name bask. He's a kakliosaurs." I turn to Garrus and Garret. Garrus shrugged, Garret smiled, "Would you believe us if that is what he wanted the most?" I turned back to Grunt who smiled back, "I can actually. Come on my Gs lets kick some ass." I walked up to Officer Dara. She looks at us with some wariness. "Yes, what can I do for you?"
"I'm looking for Samara, do you know where she went?" She was alert now, nearly panicking. "What?! Why?! Did she kill someone?" I shrugged "How the hell am I supposed to know that?" She takes a deep breath and lets it out.
"Samara is a justicar, a sort of warrior-monks order. The only thing they follow is their Code. They're like Spectres only without Government oversight." I nodded, "I still need to find her." She types in her Tool and sends coordinates to mine. "Please be careful when speaking to her. We don't want to start a Diplomatic incident." I got in the air car and we left for the Commercial district. I turn back to Grunt and Garret. "What are your guys load outs?"
Grunt well grunts, "I got my claymore with me." I looked at Garret, "I brought my Locust and Carnifix." I then looked at Garrus. "I bought a new sniper. It's called the Incisor. Rapid fire sniper rifle. I'm going to see if it's worth the Credits."
They then looked at me, I shrugged. "I didn't bring anything other than light armor and my omni-tools. Not to mention the new amp that I have." My dear brother handed me his Carnifix. "I don't care how good you are, you'll need this."
I nod while holstering it, the next few minutes went by quickly. When we landed I went to the Detective. Who had just finished talking to the Volus. She sees us follow her into the precinct. "What can I do for four clearly armed and dangerous men?" I sat in front of her desk, "We're looking for Samara, We got a mission that needs her kind of expertise." She looks at me like I'm insane. "Does this kind of expertise follow the death and destruction kind?"
"It's for a suidice mission, against the Collector, they've been abducting human colonies and I aim to put a stop to them." She nods and sighs in relief. "Okay, I don't know what she is looking for exactly, but at the moment she is looking for the name of a ship." I nod in turn "So we get that name and she'll be up for negotiation." She held up her hands, "But first you need to help put a stop to her little rampage. I'm looking for some killers but I'm not willing to put my people at risk."
I nod again, "I'll help out the best I can." We got up and went to the police zone. Of course when we entered said Zone we were immediately fired on. I use my new Blink ability to pop in close to do more damage than normal. And with healthy helping omni-blades, they were finished off in mere moments. We moved on tearing through the Eclipse Sisters. We're going slowly to collect on the cash flow. Though 15 billion is more than enough to support my needs. It's still good to keep it flowing.
We came across a lock door when we got it open, we saw a sister fly and hit the wall next to the door. "You will tell me the name of the ship." The eclipse sister shakes her head, "You don't know what she'll do to me."
Samara is now visible, Deep V and all. "You have immediate problems. Now for the last time, the name?" She shakes her head again, "Go to hell!" She goes to raise her gun, only to get flown through glass and at my feet. She put her heeled boot to her neck. The sister struggles until Samara closes her eyes, then looks grimly at the sister. "Find the Embrace of the Goddess." With a twist of her foot she breaks the neck of the sister.
She turns to us, "I hunt these sisters for a dangerous creature, yet I find four armed men in front of me." She walks up to us, "Are you friend or foe?" I shake my head, "Neither at the moment. But I'm hoping to help you get a hold of the ship name so you can join my cause." She arches an eyeridge, "What cause will that be?" I gesture to follow me, "We're taking on the Collectors. They've been abducting human colonies. I aim to stop them." Garret snickers, Garrus did his own laughing. "You already said that line."
We went to Pitne For, "Huh? Oh the Justicar and her *gasp* new, very armed, friends." I lean down and flip out an omni-blade. "Let's settle a few things right now. 1. You sell to the eclipse. 2. You have a way into their base. 3. If you don't give me that pass I'll pop you like a balloon." He stood there for a good minute, then went to his Tool and gave me a pass. I stood up and smiled at him. "Glad you saw things my way." I turned to the previous barred door and into the elevator with my last image of the Volus falling over and passing out.
Samara looked at me with some interest now. "That was pretty quick, How did you figure he was working with the Eclipse Sisters?" I smirked, "I saw the detective talking to him. I work on that hunch." She nods in agreement, when the doors open two sisters playing on their Tools. They looked at the heavily armed group and scrambled to get their guns. We simply shot them. Soon we were bogged down with numerous gunfire and rockets.
I was blinking everywhere to pop heads and score credits. Then the fucking gunship came around launch missile at us. Talk about a buzz kill, "Samara can you snatch it from the air?" She nods, "Only for a moment." I smiled, "I only need one!" When it came for another pass she grabbed it with all her power. I blink up to the Cockpit where the pilot literally screams at me. I yelled back, "I'm here to talk about your vehicle extended warranty!" I then reached into her mind and made her land the gunship.
When it landed, She crawled and looked quite woozy. "What do I do now?" As her head swings back and forth. I think about it for a moment. "Go forth and make a new sisterhood in my name." She nodded and walked away while shaking her head of any cobwebs. Garret comes up with a spare rifle, throwing it to me. "Did you seriously say that?" I shrugged, "Sure why not." We moved on, until we ran into the Asari Sister Elnora. I walked in and shot her point blank. Stole her data from her Tool and snatch the biotic upgrade.
Later we found the high-as-a-kite Volus who claims to be a god. "I AM A GREAT WIND THAT'LL SWEEP THE GALAXY CLEAN OF SIN AND EVIL!" I looked at everyone else and they all shrugged. "YES I'LL FEAST ON THE ASARI EEZOS RICH-BLOOD AND RISE TO EVER GREATER HEIGHTS!"
I kick him slightly to push him over, "What? But the great wind? I was going to *gasp* uh what was I doing again?" I turned him towards the way we came. "Go find the detective and take a nap." "Yes *gasp* nap *gasp* I'll do that. *gasp* Destroy the galaxy later." Grunt looks bored, "Should've popped him." Garret pats his shoulder plate. "We got bigger fish to fry brother." Grunts laugh at that.
I turned to the others. "We take out everyone, doors open, you shoot." Samara came up, "I still need the name of the ship." I nod, "I know but don't worry I guarantee that it is on a datapad. Or on the local gang leader's omni-tool." She nodded and we stormed the breach. A dozen or so mercs turn to fire. Only to get fired on in turn. The Leader lifted up four large crates and threw them at us. I threw a Flare at her, which exploded in a blinding flash.
With their leader dead, I could feel the willpower resolve. I touched their minds and they gave up and ran off with a final thought from me. Join the New Sisterhood. Samara looks at me as my purple pink sparkles fade away. "You have different abilities from normal biotics." I nodded and sat down for a moment. "Garrus, search the bodies, Grunt, you help out. Garret, contact Normandy to come pick up our new supplies."
I looked at Samara who was reading the datapad. "I have what I need, and you have held up your end of the bargain." She kneels down and begins to glow. "I, Samara of the Justicars, Hereby vow to fight by your side. Your will is my will, your cause is my cause." With that her glow goes bright then fades away.
She stood up and looked at me levelly. "If your path leads to darkness and causes unneeded suffering, I'll be forced to kill you at the end of this mission." I stood up and offered my hand. She took it, "Then allow me to be clear, As a member of my crew I'll do my best to make sure that we win."
We head back to the detective and hand over the data on Elnora and Pitne For. We got a nice bonus of 3000 credits for helping out. We called a shuttle only to find out that they are busy picking up the pile of supplies that we took. So I looked up transport services and got hold of a limousine air car. We flew back in style if nothing else. When we got back to the spaceport I went to Normandy to get changed into something new.
I went up to the cabin and found my room was covered in packages. "EDI?" A blue hologram pops up next to me. "Yes John?" I picked up one of the packages, "What even is all this?" "There is a card on your desk John" I had to move a dozen or so boxes but there it was. I picked it up and opened it.
We are of Glass and Syringe, more join us every day. We use our new skills to rise higher. Many claim that we are not Krogan. So we challenged them all and came out stronger. We are now one of the largest clans. We are Tankbourne. We belong to Chief Shepard. These gifts are from the greatest of chiefs we killed. They're yours now.
I opened one of the packages and picked up a huge dagger like Dragon Age huge. I then had a couple of the Mechs come up and take them down to storage. While categorizing them for better storage and selection. Though the one I did keep was a picture of the Krogan that I got riled up to lead this charge. I added it to the other picture of Ash, Kaidan and Jane. He gave himself a name, Glasrin Tankbourne, first son of Shepard.
After about an hour of clearing out the boxes, I took a shower and went to sleep. When I woke up and started to play with my powers, it was still purple pink and glittery. I then concentrated on it and when I opened my eyes it was Black and Red. I decided to play with the colors a bit more until I got an ethereal deep green. I went to my desk and checked my Emails. Several dozen emails, all of them are Investors. From the highest reaches of industries. I checked Liara's message.
The footage from the Normandy on how the Nano-forge works. Shock many of them, and many more are hoping to outright buy the designs. Luckily I managed to patent and trademark the Nano-Forge to your name. We already have the groundwork for a major company to rise up. I'll give you options to where you would like to build your first company building.
Noveria, Feros, Horizon, Eden Prime, New Rannoch, Illium, Earth, Terra Nova, Tuchanka (More names continue after)
Once we have a location we can begin hiring. I recommend a world close to an allied group.
Signed Liara T'soni
I began typing a response to her, only to be bombarded again with another series of Emails. More investors and now job applications. It got so problematic that my terminal crashed. "EDI? Please order a VI secretary.. Or two." "Of course John. Would you like it if I was your secretary?" I rolled my eyes, "You're too important for that. Besides, I would rather just have V.I.s sort through this. I don't want another crash." "Of course John"
I got onto my Omni-Tool and sent a quick message to Liara. Your investors crash my Terminal. A few minutes later I got I'm sorry, I'll try to hold them back. I got dressed and armored as I was heading out, I called up Miranda, Samara and Jack. Miranda comes walking in a new outfit deck out in the latest gear. Jack was the same way. Only she was carrying an Asari Huntress sword. She looked at me, "Ya turn on Boy Scout?" I smirked, "We'll see till you use it."
I looked at Samara who's now sporting the new Biotic armor. Along with a Revenant and Locust. Then I hear them again. God I wish he just ram my guts in. Look at him confident in his own power and skills. He has great power, he would make a good mate. "Let's go, we need to find Thane Krios who is storming Dantius Towers." We got to a shuttle that was completed with the new armor plates. We lifted up and headed towards the two towers.
We landed at the tower's lower helipad. And a squad of mechs came our way. I look at Jack, "Well? Show us what you got." Her helmet came down and she pulled her blade off her back. With a flash she did multiple blink jumps and sliced through the Mechs. We rushed after her, taking care of those she missed. Surprisingly we haven't run into any Eclipse mercs. Just a huge number of mechs and the one Salarian. "Please help me. I-I can't feel my legs." I gave him a dose of medi-gel
"Thank you, who are you?" I helped him up, "That doesn't matter right now. Are there others?" He nodded, "Yes we tried to leave as fast as possible till Dantius sent the Mercs. They just started shooting everyone." I pat him on the back, "It's safe the way we came. Head to the nearest elevator and we'll take care of her." He nods weakly and heads off. I pulled off my Mattock, "Okay Jack I need you to stay here with the squad."
I can hear her glee, Fuck yeah, you like that! I charged forwards, popping foreheads and dispensing my own form of biotic justice. Samara threw shockwave after shockwave. While Miranda threw Warps into a crowd of mechs. Jack still showed off her blade work, using her biotics to speed her body up to cut through them like a hot knife to butter. Soon we came up to an elevator and took it up to the next level. More mechs came at us.
We take them out pretty easily, Miranda and Samara creating a singularity fusion combo. Jack at that moment launches her own warp. The whole thing created an explosion similar to my own biotic/pcionic combos. When we had a moment of reprieve, Jack opened her helmet, she was panting. "Fuck yeah this is fucking awesome!" She looked at me with a flushed face. "I haven't had a work out like that in.. Ever!"
I chuckled at her enthusiasm, I pulled a ration out of my pocket. She takes it and tears into it, Miranda looks a bit flustered as well. She was eating her own Food Bar. Samara looks amused at them. I did a small patrol where I found the salarians. "Please we'll go just don't hurt us." One tilts his head, "Hey you're not an eclipse. What are you doing here?" I shrugged, "Checking out the area for spare credits and ammo." I look at the dead merc on the ground.
"You didn't kill him, did you?" They shook their heads, "No, he came in and started shouting for us to move, then his head exploded." I nodded, "There is an elevator back the way we came. It should be safe." They nodded and ran the way we came. I went back to the rest of the squad, I looked at the Elevator. "How much do you girls want to bet that they'll be loaded with mechs?" Jack snorts, "Suckers bet." The doors open and we fire on the Eclipse Mechs and the Krogan Bounty Hunter.
We took up the elevator after we carried the bodies out. Luckily biotics made that easier. Of course the Eclipse Merc was there. He was carrying a SMG and a Shield. Cerberus ME3 style. "Yeah don't worry, no one is getting up here. The bounty hunter just went down." We looked at each other, and quietly walked up behind him. "Yeah everything is fine now." He ended the call and turned around to see us just behind him. "Uh…" I put a gun to his head, "If I don't get the answers I like, I'll send you down the expressway." He looked back at the window.
"I don't know what you want?" I pull the gun back, "I'm looking for Thane Krios." He shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know who that is. I just know that the Boss wants to find everyone and get rid of them." I grimaced. "Okay you can leave." He goes to leave till I kick him through the Window behind him. "Scumbag." On the way out of the room I picked up the Gene-library and saw the next battle ground.
Me and Jack began popping in to kill the guards and mechs. When we were done we opened up the Salarians only to get shot. Luckily my Shields, Barriers, fortifications and Psionic barriers stop the shot clean. The scared Salarian looked at me in horror before passing out. Another Salarian ran up, "Please don't hurt him, he didn't mean it." I gave him a medi-gel pulse to wake him back up. "Did we die?" I kneel down to get close to his face.
"Don't do that again." I got up and helped him up again. "Now get the hell out of here!" They ran for the hills or stairs. "Let's go find our wayward assassin." I cracked my knuckles and then called the Normandy. "EDI Send in the Mech troopers and the M7s to collect everything we passed on the way up." "Of course John, I would also like to add that the Gunships are ready for deployment." I grinned viciously.
"Let's party then, Send them in." We waited for a few minutes till two gunships that were painted all black, with the N7 stripe on the sides. They opened fire the moment they were in range. We came from the back while they were occupied. It was chaos, plain and simple. No one could stop the assault. One guy got blown off the bridge and then was blown to pieces by a stray rocket. Eventually the Survivors(3) put their hands up and kick over their weapons.
Jack sounded disappointed, "I was hoping that they would fight till the end." They were all Asari, I reached into their minds and repeated my message to them. Join the New Sisterhood "I think you girls should get the hell out while you still can." They nodded, bolted for the other side of the bridge. I walk in the doors, Nassana turns around in horror. "Shepard? But you're dead!" I shrugged and pulled up a chair. "I got better, Lets talk for a bit."
"Who put out the hit? Whoever it was I'll triple it for the name and again for you to do the same to them." I smirked, "SB needs you out of the way." She looks even more horrified now, "Fuck what did I do to deserve this?" "Killing your sister was probably a good indicator that you're not a good person." She sat down and pulled out a bottle of blue liquid. "Who is in this damned galaxy?" She poured two glasses and drank one.
She coughs a bit, "I can hear you thinking of a way for me to get out alive." With a bit of my psionic power I made her more susceptible to my suggestions. "I managed to convince the Broker that if I can get ahold of your towers and put them in my name, he'll call off the kill." She poured another glass and drank it down. "It's been nothing but a money drain. I had to go cheap on both security and work force. What will you do with it?" I shrugged, "Shepard Industries needs a plot of land here on Illium."
She drinks from the bottle again and then pulls up her company holdings and signs them off to me. I look at my email to see it come in. I smirked, nodded to her. "We'll he call it off?" I nod, "I'll make sure of it." She sighs and then passes out face first. I scanned the glass of my drink and found it was poisoned. Thane uncloaks from the corner praying. He then looks at me, "How did you know It was poisoned?" I shrugged, "I figured either you did it or she did to get me to drink it with her having the antidote."
He looks at her then back to me, "Do you really work for the Broker?" I shake my head, "No, I'm gathering the best of the best to take down the Collectors." He turns to look at the rising sun, "Taking on the Collectors requires crossing the Omega 4 Relay. No one has ever returned." I crossed my arms, "They also said that I couldn't go find the Conduit on Ilos." He breathes deeply, "You do make a habit of doing the impossible. This was supposed to be my final mission."
I walked up beside him, "I'm dying. Keplar Syndrome." I nodded, "How long?" He smiles and turns to me, "give or take a year or two. With healthy eating and exercise." He raised his hand and I accepted it. "Glad to have you on board." Several days later I was standing in front of three holograms in my new tower. They all looked like EDI only they were wearing different outfits. I turned to the actual EDI. "You're doing I presume?"
She nodded, "Yes though they are only V.I.s they've been upgraded by me to help with the workload." I looked at their outfits, they were all wearing short skirts and white button up shirts with ties. The difference was the colors of said outfits. I turned back to EDI, "Please give them professional dresses." She nodded and the holograms shimmered before looking like they are wearing the regular dresses you see in the game. "Okay what do we have for the company?"
"Thanks to the acquisition of Dantius's holdings, We had to cut out the decay that she had in her Company. Not only that she was in the red for a better part of 2 years, just barely holding on. So now with the added bonus of your holdings we are now buying actual reliable workers." A bunch of holograms popped up, showing the steady rise and fall of our credit income. "The investors are now helping us build our new Forges to increase product avenues. And thanks to Miss T'soni we are hiring a better security force. The New Sisterhood of Shepard is one of them."
A new image pops up, with a group of Asari wearing black armor and N7 stripe down their arms and faces. "Along with the Reformed Blue Suns, and the army of Mechs that both are bringing to the table. The New Forges are also supplying much of the needed materials to build any and all who join on permanently."
I put a hand up to make her pause for a minute, "I want to be able to hire any quarian that I can if not outright buy their contracts." She nodded before her eyes began to light up and I saw the steady rise of income take a dip before returning back to normal. She showed a number of files that were gathered, "There are 37 quarians on the planet that are currently contracted by other companies. We have now just bought their contracts." I nodded, "Why so few? I would've expected those to be in the hundreds if not in the hundred range."
She nods in turn, "Yes it would've been 2 years ago, but since they became a client of the System Alliance, they have called for legal help. To get most of them off-world, the ones here are the ones that were just hired." I got up from my desk and walked over to the Elevator and headed down to the newly installed Docking station. As I was heading down I got a call from Miranda. "Captain I got the call, We need to meet up at the spaceports bar."
I nodded and headed to the Armory to suit up, only to find that my regular Souped Up Defender Armor was gone. Replace with the Cerberus Assault armor. I did a quick scan of it and found something glorious.
A message popped up..
From Ken/Gab
Your Favorite Engineers!
We manage to make an armor with the Silaris Heavy armor, hoverpack and with enough tech and biotic boosters to take down anyone that comes your way. We know that you loved your Defender so we are working on that next in between shifts.
Sincerely Ken and Gab
P.S. From Gabberilla
Can't wait to see you in action. ;)
"EDI? Give them a raise if you can." "Of course John." I suited up and after syncing up, changing its colors and giving it my best looking decals. I went to the shuttle and flew back to the port. The decals were the fusion of paragon and renegade signs. With the N7 stripe down the arm.
My weapons were different too, My Mattock now had three modes, single shot, semi-shot and full auto. My sniper was the newly designed M-90 Indra. SMG was the fully optimized Locust with the Heavy Pistol M-77 Paladin. As for my shotgun, another optimized Claymore.
When I walked out of the shuttle my whole squad was there waiting. They all looked at the New King of the Galaxy. Or at the least, the beginning of one. I told everyone to get the shuttle while me and Miranda head to the meeting point.
We passed an Asari complaining about a guy in the Bar. I went in and straight to Conrad. "I know there is Red Sand here. I got a tip about it." The Matriarch that's totally not Liara's dad was getting fed up. "You don't know what I can do, I stood up against Commander Shepard!"
I tapped his shoulder, He turns and shouts, a bit high pitched too. "Commander! You're alive!?" I arch and eyebrow. "Yes Conrad, I am alive. Please stop harassing this woman." He starts to stutter, "I don't care Conrad, It's legal here if you have a permit. Why aren't you home with your wife?"
He rubs the back of his head. "I wanted to make a difference like you did. But I couldn't do the training and get into the Spectres. But I could act like you. You wouldn't believe how many people need help out here. And I help as best I can." I looked at the armor he was wearing. He looks at it too, "Oh Darlean help with it. She's pretty good with tools, that's my wife. Though I had to pay for the shielding." I looked at him for a moment. "Have you been shot at?"
He nods sadly, "Yeah a bunch of times. I don't know what I did wrong that time." I shake my head, "Conrad, you can't act like someone else. You are you for a reason. What do you do for a living when not doing this?" Oh looks a bit surprised at the question. "Oh I do research on Dark Matter and Relay technologies. Though I got fired recently, because they don't want someone who wants to travel a lot."
I smiled, "Well you're in luck Conrad I recently managed to create a new company on the planet. I need someone for the Research Department." He looked at me like I just made his day. "Really? You want me to join your new Company?"
I nodded, "Yeah and to be honest I wasn't going to but since you do that I'll need someone to help out with that." He smiles widely, "When do I start?" I sent him the coordinates to the new Towers. I stopped him before he ran off, "Call your wife first? I'm sure she'll be overjoyed that you get to work for your hero."
He nods and hurries off to the cabs. "Did you really give that idiot a job?" I turned back to the Matriarch. "Yeah, he was a fan back when I started out as a Spectre. He's harmless, don't worry about him." She shrugged. I went back to Miranda who is just finishing up with her meeting. "Shepard, my friend Niket is in danger. He's helping Oriana and her family move. But there were some complications with the eclipse mercs."
I pull up coms, "Squad up everyone eclipses on the horizon." We made it back to the shuttle and flew off. A few minutes later we're at the location to find Niket and Orianas family. The Merc leader was walking up to do the 'Get the out of here or I'll kill you' thing. I, on the other hand, pull my Pal out and start shooting. My whole squad mowed down any and all Eclipse that got in our way. Within a few minutes we were on the elevator up to the main Arena. Unfortunately the elevator is small so I can only bring a few people with me.
Jack and Samara got the draw, so they came up with us. When the doors opened up I immediately put a round in the Eclipse Asari. Miranda put a gun to Nikets head. "I trusted you, why would you betray me?" "You kidnapped a baby girl from a life of luxury so you could get back at your father." She shakes her head, "I didn't kidnap her, I saved her! She would've been used just like I was." I pulled her pistol down. "Shepard?"
I looked at Niket, "It's a bit late to send her back to her Biological Father when she's been with this family her whole life." He nods, "Mr. Lawson would have given them a place to live while he would get to know her." I shake my head, "From what I've heard he'd kill them in the backroom while lying about it. If he knows where she is he'll probably have them killed" He sighs, "He doesn't know that she's here. I didn't tell him where she was."
I turned to Mirianda, "We just need to transfer them to a new place." She nods and points her gun at Niket, "You're the only loose in Niket, I wished that I didn't have to do this." I stopped her again. "For fucks sake Shepard! Let me finish this."
I shake my head, "No you'll regret it for the rest of your life." I turn back to Niket, "Get out of here, and never return." He nods and leaves. Miranda walked to the elevator and I picked up the locket on the way out. She watches Oriana talk to her family. "She's safe, we can leave now." I shrugged, "You should go talk to her." She shakes her head, "I don't want to complicate her life anymore then it already is." I put a hand on her shoulder and turned her towards her sister.
"It won't complicate things if she knows that she has a sister that is looking out for her." With a slight push she starts walking off to her. A few hours later we are on the Normandy and we are heading towards Tali for the sweet engineer bonus. Surprisingly we aren't heading to Haestrom, but to New Rannoch. Jacob is worried why they haven't responded to our calls. I went to talk to Miranda but when I entered I saw both Miranda and Jack sitting together on the couch.
Their arms are locked around each other's waist while they watch videos on the net. They looked up at me. Jack smirks, "Hey boy scout. We were just watching our favorite videos on Extra-Tube." He turned on isn't he. That sounded like Miranda. Miranda takes a sip of the wine she was drinking. "Jack has great taste in music, Shepard. You should hear this one." A song started playing, "You can fight like a Krogan, run like a leopard But you'll never be better than Commander Shepard!"
I started laughing out loud, "They have a song about me?! That's awesome!" They then looked at each other then scooted aside with Miranda patting the seat between them. I took the invite and we watched funny videos for the rest of the ride to the Colony. Their arms wrap around my waist.