Reunited

Author’s notes: This is the 24th chapter in my fanfic about Captain Megan Shepard and her beautiful lover, Miranda Lawson. My school project is becoming more and more of a big bitch, so those updates are gonna slow down quite a bit…so please bear with me. Thanks for all the reviews I’ve gotten so far, and do continue reviewing because there’s still a long road ahead for this fic. I felt Arrival’s levels were pretty crappy, so I took the liberty of shuffling some things around. Also, Miri ain’t gonna let her beloved Captain out of her sight anytime soon, and it’s ridiculous to have only one woman infiltrating a batarian camp. Captain Megan Shepard can be seen with Miranda Lawson in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVPIKd0LUQI

Lieutenant Commander Miranda Anne Lawson moaned softly at the throbbing headache wreaking havoc upon her senses as she instinctively gripped her aching head. “Ohh…where am I?”Miranda groaned as she tried to recall the memories. Arguing with her lover and captain, Captain Megan Cassandra Shepard, about letting Megan go rescue an Alliance scientist and intelligence agent from the batarians herself as requested by Admiral Hackett in the holoconference he had with Megan. Heading down to Aratoht, infiltrating and rescuing the scientist, Dr Amanda Kenson, with nobody else but Megan. Arriving at the asteroid base where they found out that the Reapers were just a week away from arriving in the galaxy and that Kenson was going to ram the asteroid into the system’s mass relay to destroy it and eliminate the system’s relay that served as a direct link to the other relays in the galaxy.

Both Megan and Miranda had seen the Reaper artifact that the science team had retrieved and as soon as Megan touched it, both women, having Reaper picotech ingrained in their DNA, had suddenly heard hundreds of voices calling them revered sisters of ascension and calling on them to safeguard the Reapers’ return to the galaxy and to rejoice for enlightenment was near, as well as seeing visions of them standing on the bridge of Harbinger. Both lovers were overwhelmed by the intensity of the images and voices and they had collapsed only to see that Kenson had already been indoctrinated by the device, and she tried to shoot them but Megan quickly threw a biotic throw field at her, flinging the indoctrinated scientist out of the room as she screamed for the security troops to deal with both the CO and XO of the Normandy.

They held out for quite awhile, but as they killed wave after wave of security troops, the Reaper device increased in power and it eventually blasted a powerful, horrific image through Megan’s mind and she collapsed, screaming in pain as she grasped at her head in agony. After holding out for five waves, the Reaper device finally overloaded, sending images of every single world being vaporized and every sentient being in the universe liquidified like the team had seen happen to some colonists in the Collector Base, and Miranda couldn’t take it and she collapsed too, screaming in agony as she was dimly aware of several guards coming in to capture her and Megan while she hit the button to transmit a distress signal to the Normandy-

I’ve been captured! Miranda thought with a start as she quickly sat up and heard a female scientist nearby saying “Lawson’s coming around. This can’t be right-security!”The scientist gasped in horror as she ran to the control room as two guards ran in. Before either could react, Miranda warped one into nothing and she quickly turned to the other, her body enveloped in a blue aura as she called upon her biotics and kicked the man’s rifle across the room, breaking his arm in the process as he roared in pain. The brunette Sentinel then hit him with a biotically enhanced uppercut that not only broke his jaw, but also snapped his neck, killing him outright. Miranda then turned on her heels to fin Megan, and found her girlfriend lying on an examination table identical to the one she’d just been lying in, clad in nothing but a thin hospital gown.

“Cassie! Cassie, wake up!”Miranda urged as she shook the unconscious redhead who still didn’t wake up. A strange instinct to lift Megan’s gown up and check for abnormalities overtook Miranda, and she gasped softly in dread when she saw a large stitch on Megan’s lower abdomen, and she looked up and glared at the female scientist who was looking at her with a smug, triumphant look. “Fuck you, bitch.”Miranda growled as she quickly made her way to a mech control console and she allowed herself a wicked, vengeful and triumphant smirk as the scientist panicked. “Step away from that console right now!”The scientist cried in fear as Miranda simply shot her the smirk she was still wearing and gave her the finger while guiding a mech to the power junction feeding the kinetic barrier blocking their escape.

Miranda’s mech had its advance temporarily halted by a trio of mechs that had been alerted to the incident, but Miranda quickly terminated them and continued on to the power junction. The brunette shot the junction out, blowing it up and cutting the power to the kinetic barrier. Miranda then activated the self destruct on the mech she’d been controlling, destroying it. She then ran over to the smoldering bits of what was the mech she’d been controlling and picked up the X4 Shuriken as she charged at the scientist, her eyes livid with rage. The scientist brought up a pistol and fired once at Miranda, but her biotic barrier fully absorbed the shot and she collided into the hapless scientist, knocking the pistol away.

Miranda pistol whipped the scientist, who fell back into a chair in a pained daze as Miranda stood right in front of her, the small machine pistol aimed right in between the terrified scientist’s eyes. “What did you people do to Captain Shepard?”Miranda seethed as her gun remained trained upon the scientist’s forehead. “J-j-just testing out some new technology that we were researching separately from Object Rho! She won’t be harmed!”The scientist pleaded as Miranda’s eyebrows furrowed just a little in puzzlement. “The last time I checked, all of the Alliance’s experiments with their new toys were conducted on Jump Zero.”The Lieutenant Commander scowled as the scientist shook her head fervently. “No-no-no, we were conducting some side experiments for ExoGeni. We needed the cash to fund the purchase and construction of everything on this rock.”The scientist sobbed.

“What was the tech you put into Shepard?”Miranda said menacingly as the scientist began to stammer in fear. The brunette spotted her lover stirring, clutching the area where the stitch was as she sat up, and she momentarily took her eyes off the scientist. The woman then leapt up and smacked Miranda’s gun away as both women collided onto the ground and rolled around trying to gain the upper hand. Miranda shrieked in pain as the scientist grabbed a large fistful of her luscious raven hair and yanked hard, but she managed to grab the scientist’s belt and her uniform collar and threw the scientist against a wall. The scientist crashed off the wall and onto a desk, crying out in pain as Miranda advanced on her. She snatched up a penknife and swung it viciously at Miranda, but the ex-Cerberus operative ducked before kneeing the would-be assailant and hitting her with a right hook.

“Bad idea, you fucking whore!”Miranda yelled in rage as she snatched a fistful of the scientist’s brown hair, causing the woman to scream in pain before Miranda smashed her forehead against the edge of the desk. “You should never have touched my woman, you bitch.”Miranda growled as the scientist tottered around in a daze before Mirada smashed the base of her palm into the scientist’s nose, driving the nose bone right into her brain, killing the woman instantly. “You go Miranda! That had to hurt…and speaking of hurt…”Megan croaked out painfully as she stumbled into the room, clutching her wound. “Hey babe, you okay?”Miranda smiled warmly at her redheaded girlfriend as she helped Megan along to the armor locker. “Other than the fact my lower tummy hurts and my head’s spinning, I’m great.”The Captain winced as Miranda opened the armor locker to reveal their armor and guns. “Feel like killing something?”The brunette smirked at her girlfriend.

Meanwhile, in the cargo hold of the Normandy, former N7 and ex-Cerberus operative Captain Thomas David Hansen was briefing the ground team who’d assembled around the 2 shuttles that were waiting to take them down to the asteroid where they’d received a distress call from Miranda. “Okay, so according to EDI’s scans, there are two landing pads. The main, albeit smaller, one leads right into the main entrance and some bloody massive Reaper thing, which is where we received Shepard’s SOS from. The second is a cargo dock, which is a bloody sight bigger than the main entrance. Now Lieutenant Taylor, you’ll take Garrus, Kasumi, Jentha, Samara, Jack, Verlus and Nyla and you’ll be hitting the front and going after Shepard and Lawson.”Thomas paused to sip his mug of tea and look around at the team for any sign of uncertainty, which was satisfactorily lacking in their eyes.

“Now, Legion, Chloe, Grunt, Erin, Mordin, and Ashley, you’ll be on me, and we’ll hit the secondary and hold the position while Mister Taylor and his team will make contact with Shepard and Lawson before we regroup at the cargo dock. That’s our extraction point, and we’ll contact Joker to bring the Normandy in once everyone’s in. Heinz, Rolston, you’ll take the lead Hammerhead and clear Taylor’s LZ before linking up with Hammer Two, which will be piloted by Podolski and Galantine. Both of you will provide fire support for my team as we hold off the bad lads. Any questions?”The British sniper asked as he finished his tea. “Two sir. How’d they get off the ship without any of us knowing till a few hours after they’d upped and left? Also, it’s been four days since the distress signal. How do we know they’re still there?”Ashley asked as Erin spoke up.

“According to my scans-okay…the computer’s scans, they’re still there, and they’re putting their armor back on as we speak.”Erin informed the crew. “How many hostiles are we up against?”Verlus asked as Thomas turned to Erin once more. “Going by my scans once again, we’re up against 486-scratch that, 482. They just took out four. Also, three dozen personnel have already left in 3 separate shuttles.”Erin replied as Thomas just raised an eyebrow. “Okay. Let’s go get our favorite girls back here, and don’t get killed okay? The paperwork you’ll cause me when you die will make me come after you in heaven, where I’ll spend the rest of eternity ramming my harp up your arse.”Thomas told the team as they chuckled and split up, boarding their shuttles as they readied up to go down to the asteroid to rescue Megan and Miranda.

In the meantime, Megan and Miranda ducked behind cover, their identical, hot pink armor clunking loudly against the desk they’d taken cover against. “Hey, any idea where our Arc Projectors are?”Megan panted as Miranda shook her head. “No, but I suspect that they’re probably lying in pieces on a lab table.”Miranda replied gaspingly as Megan just made an irritated expression as she adjusted her Collector Assault Rifle. “Well, I guess we can use these though.”The redhead muttered as she used her biotics to pull a ML77 rocket launcher dropped by a dead guard and a M100 grenade launcher that another dead guard had dropped. “So, which one do you want?”Megan asked, hefting one weapon in each hand. “I guess I’ll use the 100.”Miranda replied as she took the M100 from Megan.

After strapping the launchers to their backs, Megan and Miranda began running again, but another patrol spotted them and opened fire on them. Megan’s biotic barrier shimmered as it successfully stopped the incoming fire and both women ducked behind a barrier and returned fire with their Collector Assault Rifles, immediately dropping 3 of the 10 guards before they ducked back in to avoid incoming fire. The firefight went on for less than a minute as a biotic shockwave from Megan sent them flying out of cover, allowing Miranda to warp a couple easily as precise gunfire from both lovers, and a reave from Megan, killed off the patrol. “C’mon. Let’s go, we’ve got a galaxy to save.”Megan grunted as she bolted to her feet from cover as Miranda followed suit and they ran for a service elevator that would lead to the central control room.

Megan and Miranda entered a massive hall filled with guards, and the couple found themselves staring down the barrels of too many weapons. “Oh, fuck.”The redhead groaned as she lit up in a biotic corona and charged straight into a cluster of guards, sending 4 of them flying as she quickly brought her rifle to bear on the rest and opened fire. Behind her, Miranda sprinted and quickly slid behind a wall and took cover before leaning out to kill a few guards before she overloaded the shields of a female engineer, allowing a reave field from Megan to kill the engineer and two rifleman unlucky enough to be standing right next to the engineer. Megan quickly ducked to reload, but not before sending a shockwave that sent a half dozen guards flying as Miranda quickly ensnared them in a biotic field before crushing them against the ground with her biotics.

Megan finished reloading and she blindfired from her position, drawing the attention of the hostiles and allowing Miranda to toss a grenade which wiped out one barricade and the 5 guards taking cover behind it as she fired at another barricade, adding her own volume of fire to Megan’s volume of fire. The guards fell and soon, there were none left. Megan and Miranda carefully emerged from behind their cover as they moved up to the door tactically while the raven-haired beauty reloaded. They opened the door and dashed out into a tube corridor before they spotted a Hammerhead as well as a Kodiak flying towards the entrance where they had first come into this facility from. “Look! That’s ours!”The Sentinel exclaimed as she pointed at the two spacecraft which had now disappeared. “They found us!”Megan sighed in relief as they opened another door.

“Sounds like it. Thank God.”Miranda nodded in reply as both women swung into an empty platform that led down to a few more platforms via a series of stairs. “Looks clear. Be careful though.”Megan muttered to Miranda as the brunette nodded as they scanned the area carefully as they moved from platform to platform till they reached a door at the end of it. They opened it and it was the control room for the entire asteroid, and the guidance systems were at the opposite end of the massive room they stood in. However, at least 150 guards stood between them and their objective. “Dammit!”Miranda yelled as both she and Megan quickly dove behind a barricade as the guards opened fire upon them. They fired out of their cover, trying to at least suppress some of the incoming fire.

Suddenly, they heard explosions everywhere and the distinctive whine of a Hammerhead’s chaingun in the distance as the hostiles started to get confused, and the women used this to their advantage as Miranda ensnared a couple of guards, biotically slamming them against the ground and killing them as Megan pulled a cluster of guards towards where she and her lover were as both opened fire on the helplessly floating guards, killing them and leaving their burning corpses floating around in the air until Megan released the corpses from her biotic hold and they fell to the ground. The rest of the huge contingent of guards, bearing witness to seeing a few of their comrades get killed, snapped out of their stupor and opened fire upon the two women. “Goddammit! We can’t last for long like this!”Megan screamed over the deafening sounds of gunfire as she blindfired her rocket launcher around the corner as Miranda did the same with her grenade launcher.

“This is LTC Miranda Lawson requesting assistance from the SSV Normandy’s ground team! We’re under heavy fire and are badly outnumbered! Does anyone read me?”Miranda screamed into her radio as she huddled up against her redheaded girlfriend, who was reloading. “Copy that, we read you loud and clear. Go-go-go-fucking hell, it’s a bloody zoo out here! Hammer Lead, Hammer 2, suppress the bastards already! Taylor, get your arse double-timing it and get to the Captain and XO! ”Captain Thomas Hansen’s yelled reply came back over their radios as he zapped an engineer’s shields with an overload pulse, and both Megan and Miranda heard a few more explosions. “Copy! We’re moving as fast as we can…whoa, looks like they did a pretty good job of leaving a trail for us.”Jacob muttered into his radio as he led his team through the long, winding corridors.

There was a massive firefight at the landing docks as Thomas and his team hopped off the Kodiak, which immediately flew off once everyone had disembarked. All of them rushed behind cover before firing at the assembled guards, who numbered in the two hundreds according to EDI’s scans, and that was not inclusive of the 107 LOKI mechs and the ten YMIR heavy mechs that were there. Legion had dismantled an X134 mounted machinegun from its turret and was now wielding it and laying down some serious fire upon the guards as everyone fired at the guards. “This is Hammer Lead going in for a gun run. Keep your panties on!”Heinz guffawed as he brought the Hammerhead to bear at the guards as he sped up, flying right at them while firing the chaingun and rockets. The effect of his gun run was truly devastating. A few dozen guards were either blown up or gunned down alongside 2 YMIRs and approximately 30 LOKIs, and there was smoke and debris everywhere.

Hammer Two continued flying sideways, orbiting the landing docks as it continually poured short bursts of chaingun fire at the defenders and occasionally firing a rocket at an entrenched MG nest to take out the defenders. Suddenly, a hostile Kodiak flew out of a hidden shuttle platform. “Don’t let that one get away!”Thomas yelled into his mic as Rolston answered. “Wilco. Acquiring target lock…” “Ach. Target locked! Fire!”Heinz cut in as the Hammerhead unleashed a barrage of rockets which ripped through the shuttle’s shields and blew the shuttle up. “Target down! Resuming overwatch.”The German pilot chimed in as Thomas’ team got up and began advancing while firing their weapons. Ashley took a couple of targets down with her X15 Vindicator while Chloe and Erin got a few each with their X9 Tempests. Legion mowed down a few guards with its re-appropriated HMG while Thomas killed a half dozen with his Geth Pulse Rifle as he threw a warp field which killed another one.

Grunt charged through the smoke as he poured it on the mercs with his X76 Revenant as Mordin kept behind him, killing a few guards with his Geth Pulse Rifle and his incinerate tech. Soon, the entire team formed a line behind cover and they slowly began to eliminate the last of the guards and mechs with support from the Hammerheads. Thomas pulled out his Arc Projector and aimed it at the nearest heavy mech and began firing at it, and soon it was destroyed along with a few LOKI mechs and two guards. Finally, the last guard died thanks to a few rounds from Legion’s machine gun. “That’s the last of them.”Erin panted as she popped another thermal clip from her X9 as Thomas stood up from the crate he’d been hiding behind. “Okay, Legion and Erin stay here and hold this position! Everyone else on me! We’re going to assist Taylor and Shepard!”Thomas commanded as everyone complied.

“Wait! Why do I have to stay here with Legion?”Erin asked as Thomas grinned. “Well sweetie, that’s because you’re dependable.”The British sniper grinned before running after his team as the blonde woman let out a laugh. Meanwhile, Jacob and his team arrived in the central control room where Megan and Miranda were still pinned down. “Jacob! You have no idea how glad we are to see you!”Megan smiled wanly as she sat and leaned against the cover she shared with Miranda. “Aw shit, you’re both wounded! Nyla, tend to them!”Jacob yelled as he suppressed some hostiles with his X76 as everyone else spread out, firing at and killing the guards. Jack tossed a shockwave, tossing a few guards about and killing two while Samara produced a singularity which sucked in a few mercs, allowing Garrus and Verlus to pick them off easily with their X29 Incisor sniper rifles. Jentha began killing a few mercs with her grenade launcher as Kasumi snuck behind the guards with her tactical cloak before tossing a grenade at a group of them, killing all of them as she fired on the rest with her X12 Locust from behind cover.

Samara fired at a few guards with her Collector Assault Rifle, taking them down as Jacob pulled a few into the air with his biotics before gunning them down with his X76. At the back, Nyla was busy tending to Megan and Miranda’s wounds. “Ouch, this looks quite painful.”Nyla winced in sympathy as she examined the wound on Megan’s muscled abdomen before applying some more medigel to the wound, adding it to the amount already administered by both the redhead herself and Miranda. The asari Spectre then bandaged Megan’s wound, leaving the Captain to deal with another wound on her shin by herself before moving on to a nasty wound that Miranda received on her left shoulder. “Okay Miss Lawson, this may hurt a bit…”Nyla murmured comfortingly as she extracted the round in Miranda’s shoulder, making the brunette shriek in pain involuntarily before applying medigel and bandaging the wound before moving on to another on Miranda’s outer right thigh.

Thomas’ team arrived in the opposite end of control room after fighting through some token resistance. “Hey Dr. Michel! I need help here!”Nyla yelled into her mic as Thomas cut in. “Don’t worry Chloe, we’ve got you covered! Move!”Thomas yelled as he tossed a warp field at an engineer whose shields were down, vaporizing her before he began to fire upon the hostiles, who were now surrounded, with his Geth Pulse Rifle while Ashley and Mordin did the same. Grunt, however, had decided to charge right through the enemy lines while spraying rounds with his X76. “I-am-krogan!”Grunt roared as he charged through, causing mass panic as they tried to avoid the young krogan, but this left them vulnerable to the rest of the team. Mordin overloaded an engineer’s shields before a burst from Verlus’ X29 blew her head open, and Samara destroyed a Vanguard’s biotic barriers with a reave field, allowing Jentha to kill him with a few shots from her X96 Mattock.

Chloe finally reached Megan and Miranda, and began to work on Megan’s wound that was on her left arm. “Sacre bleu…you girls are really badly beat up.”The French doctor sighed in sympathy as she extracted the round from Megan’s arm, making the Vanguard screech involuntarily in pain before she hissed at the medigel that was being applied. Soon, under the constant gunfire and biotic and tech attacks from the Normandy’s squad, all of the guards lay dead. “Whew that’s it. About bloody time.”Thomas inhaled deeply as everyone rushed over to Megan and Miranda. “Thomas, get someone on those navigational controls over there! And warn the batarians that they need to get the fuck outta here right now!”Megan winced, pointing at it as Thomas nodded. “Mordin! Drive this big wanker and Nyla, go warn them! They’ll be more likely to believe you than any of us!”Thomas snapped as both simply nodded and ran for the navigation centre.

In the meantime, both Erin and Legion were still holding position at the landing docks behind a C-shaped arrangement of crates. “Dammit…it’s so quiet-”Erin stopped herself in mid-tirade as she and Legion opened fire upon a random guard who attempted to sprint across the docks but failed. “Jesus! That thing’s really loud. Don’t fire it so near to me Legion. I can barely hear as it is.”Erin grumbled as Legion looked at her, and she stared back at it before the geth replied. “Affirmative, Iverson-Lieutenant. We will minimize discomfort inflicted upon you as of this moment.”The robot intoned as Erin just smiled thinly. Suddenly, Legion spotted a cluster of guards on Erin’s left running towards them with their weapons aimed at the duo and shoved Erin down to the ground. “Take cover Iverson-Lieutenant!”Legion blared in warning as he fired his machinegun right above the unfortunate blonde’s head, taking the half dozen guards down before they could fire a shot.

“ARGH! WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST TELL YOU? !”Erin screamed at the geth sniper as she clutched at her ears as Legion bleeped loudly in warning, spraying down another trio of guards that had emerged from the same entrance as the first 6 with a very long burst of fire. Erin screamed in pain, still clutching her ears. Legion immediately knelt down next to the blonde pilot and rolled her over so he could examine her. “Are you all right?”Legion asked as Erin stared at him blankly. “What?”She screamed as Legion tried again. “Are you injured in any way, Iverson-Lieutenant?” “What? !”Erin screamed louder this time as the geth concluded that she had hearing damage. “We apologize for causing you a significant amount of discomfort Iverson-Lieutenant.”Legion apologized, still staring at Erin intently. “What? No I’m not hungry! Thanks for offering me the rhubarb pie but no thanks!”Erin screamed back as Legion just bleeped in resignation. “Never mind, we shall not inquire further.”

Meanwhile, Mordin managed to get the asteroid moving at full speed towards the relay as instructed by Megan as he ignored the automated warning that there would be 305,000 deaths if Mordin continued, and Nyla made contact with the batarians. “This is Spectre agent Nyla T’Lokk! I and my team have just neutralized a multi-racial terrorist group attempting to destroy the Alpha Relay, but we couldn’t stop them from activating the asteroid. Please evacuate this area immediately! You have about 2 hours to do so! Please evacuate now!”Nyla pleaded before Dr. Amanda Kenson cut in. “Shepard no! Do you have any idea what you’ve done? You leave me no choice. If we can’t stop this asteroid, it must be destroyed!”Kenson railed at Shepard as Miranda spoke up. “Tell me where to find this bitch called Dr. Amanda Kenson.”The brunette Sentinel groaned as the VI chimed in. “Doctor Kenson is traveling to the reactor core module.”It informed as it helpfully displayed a map.

“An eezo core meltdown should do it. Because of you, everyone on this rock will be obliterated!”Kenson spat in rage as Megan flashed her the finger. “Not if I get to you first, bitch.”The redhead grunted as she stood up. “Okay people. Nyla, Kasumi, escort Megan and Miranda and link up with Erin and Legion. Everyone else follow me, we’re going to kill this crazy bitch. Before I go…any particular reason why we’re destroying this relay and killing over 300,000 squints?”Thomas asked as Megan helped her lover up gently. “Firstly, I’m coming along with you guys because I’m gonna finish this. Secondly, this is the relay that serves as a shortcut for the Reapers to every single relay in the Milky Way, so we’ve gotta deny them that.”Megan breathed as she pulled her Collector Assault Rifle out. “Everyone on me! We’re gonna end this.”Megan yelled as everyone replied with an enthusiastic “Yes ma’am!”

They all headed towards the engine core room, and went into it via an elevator. They spotted the indoctrinated scientist the minute they entered the room, but Kenson didn’t notice them. “Kenson! Stop right there!”Megan yelled as Kenson spun around to face them. “Don’t try to stop me Shepard! I have to do this.”Kenson said, pointing accusingly at Megan. “Stop now, Kenson. I don’t give a damn if you’re Admiral Hackett’s fuck buddy or not, I will kill you.”The Spectre growled. “You’re forcing my hand Shepard! You know that! There is no escape. There’s no redemption for what you’ve done. I will die never having seen the Reapers’ blessings. And you will just die!”The scientist hissed back purposefully walking away as Thomas just rolled his eyes. “What a load of bollocks.”The British sniper grumbled as he kept his rifle leveled at Kenson, even though there was a thick pane of Plexiglas separating the team from her. “Dammit you stupid bitch!”Miranda hissed in frustration.

“Okay, there are three routes to get into the core room. Chloe, Mordin, I need you guys to stay here and monitor everything the stupid whore does. Miri, Verlus, Grunt, you’ll be with me. Tom, you take Nyla, Jentha and Kasumi and head down left. Jacob, you take Garrus, Jack and Ashley and go right. Now let’s move!” But before they could get to the doors, guards had sealed all of them shut. “Bloody fucking hell! We’ve got no time for this shit!”Thomas bellowed in frustration as the team opened fire on the guards and killed them all very quickly. “Damn! We’ve only got slightly more than an hour!”Garrus warned the team as he looked at the timer which read ’01:09:44’. “Okay everyone! Get to work hacking those doors and get them open!”Miranda ordered as everyone hustled to it, and she and her team rushed over to their door. “Ah shit…this looks bad…”Miranda muttered when she saw that their door had been badly damaged by a blown-up fuel canister mounted right next to the door.

“XO Lawson, this isn’t salvageable! We’re wasting our time here!”Verlus growled as he held up a series of fried wires that were still sparking from the console. “Dammit, you’re right! Forget this!”Miranda snarled through clenched teeth. “Grunt, Verlus, you’ll join Thomas’ team! Miri, we’ll join Jacob!”Megan directed as her team nodded and split up. When Megan and Miranda got to Jacob’s door, Garrus and Ashley had already hacked the doors open. “C’mon, let’s go!”Jacob beckoned as everyone rushed onto a small service elevator onto another floor, where they saw a couple of guards who didn’t stand a chance against their biotics and gunfire. “Shepard! We have a problem! Kenson is disengaging safety protocols!”Mordin warned the team over the comnet as Jack piped up. “Well, what the holy fucking hell is that supposed to do?”

“Basically put, that destabilizes the reactor core by overheating it!”Chloe interrupted as the VI’s automated warned started blaring loudly. “Safety protocols disengaged. Core temperature rising.” “Bloody hell. So how do we stabilize the bugger?”The sniper asked as Mordin came back on. “Okay. I’m sending you the schematics. Cooling rod rooms are highlighted in green. You need to insert the rods into their receptacles to stabilize.”The salarian genius advised. “Okay, Jack, Jacob, Ashley, you guys go to the reactor core room while me, Miranda and Garrus will continue after Kenson!”Megan instructed as she heard Thomas doing the same. Megan and her team ran through a series of corridors and killed a few guards and a couple of engineers as they pursued Kenson through the labyrinth-like corridors. “Okay, we’ve got cooling rod B!”Kasumi notified everyone else as Megan caught sight of Kenson.

“I’ve got eyes on the target! Dammit, we’re cut off by the plasma venting room!”Megan cursed as Mordin cut in. “Go directly ahead. The plasma venting controls are in that room.”The salarian advised Megan as they did just that. However, three guards came from behind and opened fire on them. “Contact!”Garrus yelled as he overloaded a guard’s shields with an overload pulse before firing back, killing the guard with a few bursts from his Incisor. Megan and Miranda did the same, and Miranda killed one with a warp bolt before Megan finished the last one with a reave field. “Let’s move! We’ve got 55 minutes!”Miranda barked as the trio ran through the plasma venting area and into the one of the boiler rooms, where they were ambushed by a platoon of guards mixed with engineers.

Garrus fired off a concussive shot at nothing in particular so that there was some smoke to cover the little fireteam. Miranda dove behind a huge pipe and as soon as she did, she was reminded of the wound in her shoulder and she hissed in pain. Megan had ducked behind a barricade and was firing at the guards, and Garrus jumped right next to Miranda and kept his head down. The brunette then leaned out of cover to toss a biotic warp which ripped apart a Vanguard’s biotic barriers, allowing Megan and Garrus to kill him with a few shots from their rifles. The last two guards were also easily disposed of, and the trio quickly rushed into the security station where they deactivated the security lockdown, enabling Thomas’ team to get into the engine core where Kenson was making her last stand. “We’re in! There some resistance here, so proceed with caution over!”Thomas’ warned over the comnet as he and his team rushed into the core room.

“Copy that! Move it people, we’ve gotta kill that bitch before she blows the reactor!”Megan barked as Miranda and Garrus nodded and fell in line behind the redhead, racing to the engine core. In the meantime, Thomas, Nyla, Jentha and Grunt faced down Kenson, who was brandishing the detonator to the explosives rigged around the eezo core. “All of you people have ruined everything! I can’t hear the whispers anymore!”The indoctrinated scientist wailed as she smashed her palms against the control console. “Boo hoo, now shut up and turn around.”Thomas warned as Kenson did as told. “You’ve taken them away from me! I will never see the Reapers’ arrival! All you people had to do was just to mind your own business. None of this would’ve happened.”Kenson lamented as she whipped out a detonator, but as soon as she did, both Grunt and Jentha shot her. The scientist slumped to the metal deck, dead. Unfortunately, she managed to arm the detonator before she died.

A loud beep sounded from the core just as Megan, Miranda and Garrus arrived in the room. “Ah shit-”Thomas yelled before he was knocked off his feet by the blast, which knocked out Jentha and Nyla. Garrus ran over to Grunt and helped him up while Megan and Miranda rushed over to revive Jentha and Nyla respectively. “Damn it, we failed.”Thomas growled as he picked himself off the floor as Megan turned to him while Jentha regained her bearings. “Don’t worry about it; we’re still going to complete our objective. Everybody to the landing docks, now!”Megan hollered into her radio as a chorus of affirmatives came on. “Okay people we gotta go! We’ve only got 26 minutes left, so let’s double time it!”Miranda barked as she supported Nyla, who was suffering from a twisted ankle as everyone started running to the landing docks.

“Warning: Collision imminent. Evacuation protocols in effect. All personnel report to escape shuttles.”The project VI blared over the PA system as they all ran for the landing docks, and soon they reached the docks where Legion and Erin were holding out against some resistance. The entire squad regrouped at the sat dish, and they held out there as Megan established contact with Joker. “Hey Erin, what the fuck is wrong witchu?”Jacob hissed at Erin, who was standing idly as she stuck her tongue out and made funny noises. “The sustained fire from this platform’s weapon has deafened Iverson-Lieutenant temporarily.”Legion informed Jacob as it casually blew the head off a guard with its X98 Widow. “For fucks sakes…hey! Dumb bimbo!”Jacob said frantically as he shook Erin, knowing full well the blonde couldn’t hear him as he signaled to Erin where he wanted her to take cover. “Oh okay got it! I’m moving!”Erin screamed at the top of her lungs as she began running.

“Goddammit not so fucking loud!”Jacob hissed as Erin took cover and Megan managed to call Joker in for an extraction. Suddenly, a holographic image of a Reaper appeared out of thin air and addressed Megan as the entire squad turned towards it. “Shepard. Lawson. You two have become an annoyance with your idiocy and complete failure to understand that you are the chosen priestesses of our race. You are fighting against inevitability. Dust struggling against cosmic winds.”Harbinger boomed as Megan’s jaw tightened. “This seems like a victory to you. A star system sacrificed to delay us, your brethren. But even now, your greatest civilizations are doomed to fall. Your leaders will beg to serve us.” “Yes people will die. Maybe we’ll lose half the galaxy, possibly more. But I will do whatever it takes to rid the galaxy of the Reaper threat. However insignificant we may be, we will fight you till the bitter end and we will find a way. That’s what humans do.”Megan replied dangerously.

“You are truly foolish, for you are fighting against us, your own brethren, your own kin. Know this as you die in vain sister: Your time will come. Your species will fall. Prepare yourselves for our arrival.”Harbinger threatened as its hologram disappeared and in its place was the Normandy swooping in for a pickup. “Everybody on board now! Go-go-go!”Megan and Thomas yelled as they stood aside, counting off their team as they boarded. Finally when everyone else was onboard the Normandy, Megan and Thomas got aboard and ran for the CIC, where Miranda was already at. “The Hammerheads are locked down! Good to go! Schnell Joker, macht schnell!”Heinz reported over the shipwide intercom as Joker piloted the Normandy towards the relay at full speed. “Looks like a lot of batarians are bailing, but that doesn’t look like a fleet that’ll hold 300,000 batarians.”Joker reported.

They then flew right up to the relay and there was the familiar charging sound of the relay interfacing with the Normandy’s hull, and the Normandy entered relay-FTL speeds and was teleported into the Arcturus system just as the asteroid impacted the relay, destroying the relay and causing a massive supernova which wiped out the entire system, and Megan, Miranda and Thomas watched as the relay’s signal disappeared from the galaxy map. “We did it. Joker, head to Arcturus Station.”Megan croaked out as she hung her head low, still trying to grasp the fact that she’d just killed 300,000 batarians. “Hey honey, let’s go to the medbay and get treated, alright?”Miranda asked softly, although her grip on Megan’s arm left no room for protest. The redheaded Spectre just nodded as she went down to the medbay to get her wounds treated, and while she was patched up, Hackett boarded the ship and debriefed Megan.

As soon as Hackett left, Megan slowly contemplated the fact that she would be imprisoned to appease the batarians and how it would affect her relationship with Miranda as she made her way to the mess while she, where the crew was already. Miranda’s left arm was in a sling due to her shoulder wound, and her right thigh was swathed in a bandage. She sat there with the rest of the crew and they all looked at Megan expectantly. “I’m going to be on trial for genocide soon. Hackett and Anderson can’t protect me anymore, so I’m basically the sacrificial lamb.”Megan sighed in defeat as she slumped into the seat next to Miranda’s as the squad broke out into enraged muttering. As Miranda hugged her and nuzzled into the crook of her neck, Megan felt her pocket for the box and found it. She deftly pulled it out of her pocket without Miranda noticing and she took a deep breath. It’s now or never.

“Miranda, I really love you, and I’m so sorry that I can’t be with you for awhile. But before they put me away, I want to ask you something I should’ve asked a long time ago.”Megan said loudly as she knelt down in front of her raven haired lover as she took the 2 carat diamond platinum ring she’d bought 2 months ago for this very purpose. “I’ve loved you so very much from the first time we met, and I’ve never stopped loving you ever since. Now that we’re together but we’re about to be separated again, I want to ask you this. Will you marry me, Miss Miranda Anne Lawson?”Megan asked, her eyes pleading with Miranda’s as the brunette covered her mouth in utter surprise, and the entire mess hall fell silent. “C’mon Miranda, say yes! Go on!”Thomas gently encouraged the brunette, whose captivating blue eyes returned to the sweet green eyes of her Captain and lover.

“Yes, yes! I will marry you, Miss Megan Cassandra Shepard!”Miranda exclaimed in jubilation, her voice quavering with emotion as Megan smiled, her eyes brimming with overjoyed tears as she stood up and slid the ring around Miranda’s left ring finger before they embraced and captured each other’s lips and tongue in a fiery kiss of passion while the rest of the crew cheered and clapped. They then broke away from each other reluctantly and stared lovingly into each other’s eyes as they held the loving embrace. “I love you so very much Miri.”Megan whispered tenderly into Miranda’s ear as Miranda smiled, her eyes filling up with tears of joy and contentment. “I love you just as dearly Cassie.”The brunette beauty whispered back as the crew celebrated their engagement.

An hour later, both Megan and Miranda were in their cabin, tenderly making out on the bed due to their wounds. Megan leaned in and captured the perfect, dusty pink erect nipple of her fiancée between her pouty lips and suckled on it, making the raven haired woman moan softly in pleasure at the sensation. Miranda then gently took Megan’s un-bandaged arm and put the hand upon her wet pussy and the redheaded beauty began stroking her folds softly as Miranda reciprocated upon Megan’s pussy. Soon, the pleasured moans and sighs of both women filled the cabin, and Megan pulled away, making her fiancée whine in disappointment. “Don’t worry baby, we’re going to consummate our engagement.”Megan purred huskily as she strapped the artificial penis onto herself and activated it before walking over to the bed.

“Then how are we gonna consummate our marriage later on honey?”Miranda husked back at her fiancée as the redhead broke into a wicked smirk. “Well, we’ll just have another consummation later on.” The brunette laughed softly before she grasped the penis gently and stroked it while flicking her delicate pink tongue against the head of the dildo, making Megan moan in sheer pleasure. The redhead’s pants and gasps grew louder a few minutes later when Miranda began to suck on her cock. “Oh yes Miri sweetie keep sucking my cock…”Megan moaned, her eyes shut as she put a gentle hand on the back of Miranda’s head, tenderly guiding the brunette as she fellated her. Miranda kept it up for a good 10 minutes before she began to deepthroat Megan’s length and it was barely 2 minutes of deepthroating before Megan came.

“Mmh fuck yes Miri keep sucking…imma cum soon-OOOOHHH FUCK YEEESS MIRI I’M CUMMING! OH MY GOD!”The redhead screamed as she squirted her juices in Miranda’s mouth, and the XO drank up Megan’s sweet nectar for a while before Megan stopped gushing. “Oh yeah…”Megan panted as she lay against Miranda and caught her breath while the brunette hugged her from behind. After a couple of minutes, Megan stood up and winked randily at her fiancée, and Miranda responded by licking her lips seductively and gently spreading her long, elegant legs so Megan could kneel in between them. The Vanguard rubbed the tip of her cock against Miranda’s wet, willing entrance, sending shivers of delight up their spines. After a few rubs, she penetrated Miranda and both women let out a long, low, keening moan.

“Oh Cassie…make love to me…make me yours!”Miranda gasped as her fiancée began thrusting into her slow and deep. “I will my love. I will, and I want to be yours.”Megan moaned in reply as she slowly increased the speed of her thrusts until their hips were softly slapping against each other’s. “Oh fuck I’m going to cum Megan babe! Keep fucking me-oh! Right there!”Miranda moaned, her eyes lidded as Megan moaned and did as requested, and soon both climaxed. “I-I-I-I-I’m gonna-UUUUHHH I’M CUMMING CASSIE! FUUCCK MEEE!”Miranda screamed as her cunt contracted wildly, her feminine cum shooting out around the penis that was pleasuring her and her soft walls clamped down on Megan’s dick, milking the redhead for everything she had as she came with a loud, wordless shriek of intense ecstasy as she pumped her orgasm fluids into her fiancée’s womanhood and womb.

Megan flopped back onto the bed beside Miranda as a stream of fluids, the combination of both Megan and Miranda’s cum, trickled out of Miranda’s pussy and onto the bed as soon as Megan’s dildo was extracted from her womanhood. They rested on the bed, tenderly kissing each other before they felt that they could go at it again. Megan sat up against the headboard of the bed and crossed her toned legs as Miranda smiled and positioned herself above her fiancée’s phallus, grabbing it as she guided her ass down onto it. “Aah that’s right honey, fuck my arse! Fuck it hard!”Miranda moaned in ecstasy, her head thrown back as she let out sexy gasps and moans as she bounced up and down on Megan’s dick, getting it deeper into her anus with every bounce while she feverishly rubbed her own erect clit. “You know I’ll do that just for you sweetie.”Megan gasped as she savored the tightness of her fiancée’s ass while gently kneading the brunette’s breasts and nipples.

They continued their frenetic fucking for a few more minutes before Megan came hard. “UUUUHHH YEEEESS MIRI I’M CUMMING IN YOUR ASS! OOHHH I’M CUMMING! FUCK!” Megan screamed as she began to fill Miranda’s ass with her own feminine juices, and Miranda came as well from the pounding her fiancée was giving her ass and the stimulation her clit was taking. “OOOOHHH I’M CUMMING TOO! FUCK ME CASSIE!”The brunette beauty shrieked as she squirted her own juices onto their bed as she leaned back into Megan’s warm embrace, mewling as the warm, ticklish sensation of Megan’s cum draining out of her ass as Megan pulled out. Both women then lay back down on the bed as Megan detached the dick before they embraced each other lovingly as they smiled at each other. “I love you Miri. I love you with all my heart.”Megan smiled as Miranda giggled. “I love you with all of my being Cassie. I love you, and I’ll gladly say it all day long.”The brunette beamed as they nuzzled together, holding hands as the drifted to sleep.

Final notes: About damn time they get married you say? I agree with you guys 150%. So yep, they’re going to declare their inseparable bond before Megan has to be a scapegoat for the Alliance…(bullshit, I know. WTF were the Bioware writers thinking when they came up with that crap? Or drinking? Or smoking?) Once again, REVIEW, and I hope you guys enjoyed this immensely. Peace out!