Reunited

Author’s notes: This is the seventh chapter of my ongoing series between Commander Megan Shepard, her lover and XO Miranda Lawson, and the crew of the SSV Normandy. To prevent the feeling of being lost when reading this chapter, read my earlier chapters or you’ll be wondering how Megan and Miranda met during their childhood, when Ashley joined them, and how Ash and Jack met. Once again, enjoy, review, favorite and introduce to your friends and fellow authors.

The stillness of the verdant green pastures was interrupted by the ‘vroom’ of the Hammerhead as it raced across the plains of Aite at more than 200 kilometers per hours. It then plowed right through a pair of space cows, sending the hapless cows in all directions as they mooed their last. Inside the Hammerhead, Jack cackled loudly from the backseat as Commander Megan Shepard, who was driving the Hammerhead, burst into giggles of pure glee. Meanwhile, her lover and XO, Miranda Lawson, who was sitting in the copilot’s seat, and her former flame and former Alliance marine Ashley Williams who was at the back with Jack, simply facepalmed and groaned their disapproval as Megan killed another one with a missile from the Hammerhead’s missile launcher.

“Defense analysis: Defenseless herbivores are no match for guided missiles.” The Hammerhead’s VI intoned, causing all four women onboard to burst out into giggles. “Megan, that’s the fifth, sixth and seventh bloody cow you’ve run down since we’ve taken care of Vulcan and Prometheus station.” Miranda sighed as soon as she stopped laughing. However, that didn’t last long as Megan drove the Hammerhead straight through a small herd of three poor space cows that only had enough time to moo in surprise at the onrushing vehicle before they were run down. “The Galactic Humane Society would like to remind you that animals are people too.” The VI intoned seriously, causing all four women to giggle once again.

The Normandy and its crew had gone to Aite to investigate the ‘disappearance’ of a Cerberus cell in charge of a project known as Project Overlord, and had found that they were experimenting on fusing a human mind with the geth. “Another fucking retarded Cerberus crack-shit experiment,” as Jack had called the project before they went planetside. “Why do you enjoy killing these poor cows so much? They’re kind of cute!” Miranda continued. “What, Megan didn’t tell you?” Ashley piped up from the back. “Tell me what?”

“Okay, so two years ago, I was on a mission.” Megan started as the Hammerhead lurched downward sickeningly as Megan almost flew the Hammerhead off a cliff. “Imagine that…” Jack muttered, causing everyone to laugh once again, and the entire hovertank shuddered from the impact of colliding with an YMIR heavy mech which tried to fire at them, and it flew off the cliff edge and down hundreds of meters down into the valley and blew up upon hitting the valley floor. “And I took a couple of holos of one particular space cow, and then turned my back to it to capture the scenery with my omnitool.” “Trust her and me. It was damned beautiful. I couldn’t resist taking some holos either.” Ashley said wistfully as Megan accidentally crashed into a rocky outcrop. “Jesus skipper, drive properly!” The Chief yelled.

“And when I was done taking holos, guess what happened? I found myself more than 5gs poorer, and my goddamn shotgun went missing.” The Commander spat out, causing Miranda, Ashley and Jack to burst out into loud, uncontrollable laughter. Megan started to get angry at the very recollection of the first human Spectre being pick pocketed by a space cow, of all things, as she continued. “So I turn around, and I catch that little fucker in the act of stealing my stuff. Needless to say, it ended up as minced beef, courtesy of my Avenger rifle.” The redheaded Vanguard finished, her face red with anger and humiliation from having the damn cow steal right under her nose, literally. “Skipper, I think you’ve left something out!” Ashley said between guffaws. “Wha-Ashley Madeline Williams, don’t you fucking dare tell everyone what happened next!” Megan yelled in horror, but she was ignored by the Chief.

“Anyways, after she puts 3 heatsinks worth of rounds, which is 120 rounds since she used her Avenger, into the cow, she wasn’t done yet. Megan then walks over and starts kicking the poor, dead-as-hell cow while she screams at it.” Ashley giggled as the rest of the squad laughed. All save for Megan who would’ve gladly killed Ashley there and then, as she got increasingly pissed off with her past misdeeds being revealed to the squad, and most importantly, her best friend since childhood and current lover Miranda, who was laughing so hard she was clutching her taut, well toned stomach in pain.

“And she was screaming ‘give my shotgun and credits back you goddamn motherfucking cuntsucking piece of shit!’ over and over at the cow while she’s kicking its dead ass! Oh God that was a classic. And Garrus can back me up on that one, because he was there with me and Megan.” Ashley laughed with tears in her eyes, as everyone except for Megan burst out into fresh peals of laughter. “Holy shit Shepard, you put me to shame in the swearing department. And thanks for telling us, girlfriend.” Jack crowed, coughing as she tried to catch her breath while Ashley scowled at her. “Don’t call me that. I may have had sex with you a couple of times, but just don’t call me that.” Ashley huffed. “Would you prefer it if I called you ‘fuck buddy’?” Jack retorted.

“That’s it, Ashley Madeline Williams! Since you’ve aired my dirty laundry, I’ll air yours.” Megan huffed as they flew towards Atlas station, ignoring the exchange. “Oh no-no-no-I’m sorry skipper! Don’t…” Ashley pleaded, but to no avail. “So, did I ever tell anyone what Ashley goes to sleep with besides a gun? A really huge pink stuffed elephant! Haha!” Megan cackled triumphantly as she unleashed a salvo of missiles on an infected turret while she dodged its fire, destroying this turret. “What! Really!” Miranda laughed along with Jack as Ashley blushed with shame.

“Yep. Go check her footlocker if you don’t believe me.” Megan smirked as she danced around its sister turret, firing at it with the Hammerhead’s missiles, destroying it. A few minutes later, they finally reached the entrance of Atlas station, and the massive doors opened to let the Hammerhead in. As soon as they landed, they disembarked. Miranda stumbled and fell out as she wasn’t accustomed to the armor that Megan insisted that she wear. The redhead had her wear a Sentry Interface, a Kassa Fabrications Aegis vest, a pair of Asymmetric Defense Layer shoulder pads, a pair of Stabilization Gauntlets, and N7 Greaves completed the armor. The worst part for Miranda was that the color scheme was all hot pink with dapples of fire-engine red here and there, from the visor to the greaves.

The couple had gotten into an argument 2 weeks earlier about whether Miranda should wear armor. Miranda had protested, saying that it would restrict her mobility, and that there wasn’t any armor in her size. “Oh...so no armor has enough room to cram your delectable ass and tits into? No worries.” Megan smiled as she finally got a brainwave, and she told Miranda that she would custom make a set for her. “No! I mean...thanks Cassie honey but my uniform’s good enough!” Miranda protested, referring to her skintight black latex uniforms and her equally skintight white cotton and spandex uniforms, all of which had the Cerberus patch ripped off since she and Jacob quit Cerberus immediately after coming back from the now-destroyed Collector base 2 months ago.

“You mean those kinky madam uniforms? Hell no! They always get destroyed even when I just rip them off when I’m in a hurry to fuck you! What makes you think they can withstand gunfire? No, you’re wearing armor.” Megan insisted, shaking her head. “Megan! Don’t you dare make a set for me behind my back!” Miranda almost shouted. “Miranda Anne Lawson, you are going to wear that armor on all missions or I’m leaving you on the ship permanently, and there’s not going to be any sex for you for a year!” Megan threatened as she spun on her heels and strode out of the captain’s quarters which they now shared. “Damn bitch. She’s got me there.” Miranda muttered resignedly, shaking her head in dismay as she sat on the edge of their bed in her white bustier.

And when Megan gave Miranda her armor, Miranda was horrified. “What... it’s all fucking pink?” Miranda spluttered at her girlfriend, who was smirking triumphantly. “I, Miranda Anne Lawson, am not wearing this armor!” Miranda huffed, but she stopped when she saw Megan’s expression harden. “Fine. No sex for you for a year starting-“ “Okay okay! I’ll wear it!” Miranda quickly said, causing the redhead to smile triumphantly once again. “Great. I purposely got the armor made in the exact same shade of pink as mine. So that our armor matches. And don’t worry; I know your bust and ass measurements, so it’s the right size.” The Commander giggled happily as Miranda glared at her.

Jack stumbled out and fell atop Miranda, thanks to her being unaccustomed to wearing the light Titan armor Megan had insisted she wear on all missions. As Megan had eloquently put it, “You can’t be wearing a fucking biker jacket and trousers if you’re gonna fight dozens of people. So you wear a set of armor that you choose, or you wear a dress that I choose into missions everytime.” Jack had just scowled at Megan, as she knew there was no way around it. Thank God Jack didn’t try and threaten me, or I really would’ve had to kick her ass around. Megan thought as she strode out of the engineering sub-level.

Ashley, who was clad in her customary medium Phoenix armor, helped Jack onto her feet while Megan, who was wearing the exact same N7 armor as Miranda, pulled Miranda off her feet. “I told you these would restrict my movement!” Miranda complained. “Come on Miranda, quit bitching and get movin’.” Jack grumbled as she deployed her S22 Eviscerator shotgun and followed Megan, who had her Geth Pulse Rifle at the ready, into the entrance connecting the garage to the main wing. Damn, now Jack’s actually talking to Miri and calling her ‘Miranda’ instead of ‘bitch’. Looks like Miranda’s apology last week really softened Jack up. Megan though as she walked through the main door, a small smile tugging at her lips.

“Jack? You there?” Miranda called out as she walked into the engineering sub-level uncertainly. “What the fuck you want bitch?” Jack said, not even looking up when Miranda stood right in front of her nervously. “Look Jack, I wanted to...apologize...about everything.” Miranda stammered. “I really didn’t mean...what I said about you...being a mistake. I was so blinded by my loyalty to Cerberus and the Illusive Man back then that I made…so many mistakes.” “Really? You mean it?” Jack said in a small, childlike tone as she looked up at Miranda. “I meant everything I said. I’m...sorry. I was such a bitch.” Miranda finished humbly. Jack stood up, regarding Miranda warily.

“Did Shepard fucking put you up to this shit? I don’t-““No Jack, I wanted to apologize on my own free will. But Megan did encourage me to do so.” Miranda interrupted. “Well...thanks. I really appreciate it.” Jack said with a truly happy smile on her face. “Wow. Never seen you smile like this before. You should smile more often, you look so much better when you do that.” Miranda smiled. “You’re one to talk about smiling. And are you hitting on me, Lawson?” Jack cackled. “You want me to?” Miranda chuckled, raising an eyebrow. The two women then spent more than an hour chatting and joking down in the sub-deck.

“Hey skipper, looks like Miranda and Jack over there are gal pals now. You must’ve had quite an impact on both Miranda and Jack.” Ashley chuckled, pointing to the two women who were following Megan and were commenting to each other on the drab surroundings as Miranda poked at a damaged vending machine with the butt of her X8 Avenger assault rifle. Megan headed over to locked door and was about to hack it when then holo display turned from red to green, and it slid open. Walking through the endless corridors that were strewn with dead Cerberus staff and some dead geth warily with their guns raised, they finally arrived at the main lift lobby that would take them down to the server room.

Megan called up the lift, but as soon it arrived on her level, something started to cut through the door in a hail of sparks. “Get behind cover. We’ve got company.” Megan growled as her squad complied wordlessly, taking cover behind a long table in front of the lift with Megan joining them. “Oh hey there’s salvage over here!” Megan announced with glee as she ran over to another table and scanned the objects while Miranda, Ashley and Jack all shook their heads in dismay. “Goddamn, Shepard’s a whore for credits, medigel and whatnot.” Jack grumbled as Megan rushed back to join them at the table with a satisfied grin on her face. Soon, the door opened and a geth prime and two geth troopers spilled out.

Miranda and Ashley simultaneously hit the prime’s shields with their heavy overload pulses, taking it down as Megan severely damaged its armor with a reave field she flung from her outstretched hand. Jack used her biotics to pull the accompanying soldiers towards her, and they floated in the air helplessly as Jack blasted them with her S22. Megan, Ashley and Miranda were simultaneously firing at the geth prime with their rifles, and Miranda delivered the coup de grace with a clean headshot to its ‘flashlight head’ using her X8, and she grinned happily at killing a geth prime with a headshot as Ashley clapped her on the back, making sure to avoid hitting the ML77 missile launcher folded up on Miranda’s back.

The frozen geth prime fell to the floor and shattered into shards of burning ice, thanks to Megan’s inferno ammo on her Geth Pulse Rifle, and the cryo ammo on all the weapons of the other three women, courtesy of Megan who’d learned how to activate special ammo types on all of her squadmate’s weapons. They then hurried into the lift and Miranda hit the floor for the server room, and they headed down. However, the lift stopped abruptly at the 4th floor, and headed all the way back up to the 7th floor where they had got onto the lift. The VI appeared again and let out an unintelligible howl before the lift dropped like a stone down four floors, where it came to a teeth jarring stop.

The team noticed smoke billowing through the gaps in the lift doors before an automated announcement came on. “Smoke detected. Please extinguish all cigarettes. This is a no smoking facility.” The four of the women chuckled lightly at that. “Heh. Don’t think that smoke is from a cig… it’s more likely from a huge fire.” Ashley chuckled as Miranda added on with her wry British humor. “Actually, the Illusive Man may be here. That’s why there’s so much smoke.” All four women had a good laugh at that as the lift went up to the 5th level and dropped all the way down to level 1 at a high speed, knocking all four women off their feet.

They got up, grunting and swearing at the rogue VI that was screwing around with anything electronic as they walked into a room with dormant geth everywhere. The four women fired at the geth, taking all of them down. As soon as the last geth fell to the ground and shattered into shards of ice due to Ashley shooting it in the head with her X15 Vindicator battle rifle, Megan squealed with un-Commander-like glee as she ran around the room salvaging medigel, credits and palladium. “For fucks sakes Shepard, the hell d’you need more medigel for? You’re already at max capacity!” Jack grumbled as Megan hacked a terminal for a grand total of 2250 credits. “Do you know I get 100 credits everytime I convert medigel into omnigel? It’s awesome!” Megan enthused as she scanned a half-taken apart geth that was lying in pieces on a table with her omnitool.

“Sweet! I just got the schematics for an improved skin weave!” Megan said happily as she trotted over to join her squad, who were standing at the door shaking their heads in disbelief. “Megan, I think you’re seriously spending too much bloody time with Tali. You’re scavenging for stuff like she always does.” Miranda sighed in disbelief as Ashley and Jack laughed. Tali was the resident scavenger on both the first Normandy and the current one. Whenever they went out on missions, Tali was usually searching for crates that contained credits or some mechanical parts, resources, and consoles for schematics when she wasn’t shooting the enemy.

They then went through the door, and carefully walked over to the door in front of them, which was the only one out of the two available doors that had the holo interface on it, signifying that it could be opened. As Megan got closer, she noticed that there were some green streaks running up and down the holopad. Activating it, the holopad then eerily slid over and affixed itself on the door on the left side of the corridor. “Creepy…” Ashley whispered before she was shushed by the other three women.

Tentatively opening the door, the four women stormed into the room with their weapons raised, and they found that they were in the server room, and they could finally shut down the rogue VI. “Stay sharp, girls. I won’t be surprised if this summoned a Reaper.” Megan warned as she tapped the kill switch on a large console, eliciting a nervous chuckle from the other three. Suddenly, a tide of green light flowed into Megan’s omnitool when she pressed the kill switch, sending a burning pain up her right arm and into her head as she screamed in agony, her back arched and head tilted back in pain.

“Megan! Are you all right? What happened?” Miranda shouted, worried for her girlfriend as she held onto the redhead’s arm. Megan turned to look at Miranda, and she was about to smile at the raven haired woman when her vision suddenly gave way to green pixels and orange server lines, and her entire team looked like fuzzy images, and she recognized Ashley as she ran over to help her. No longer in control of her body, Megan stumbled forward and was halfway out of the room when she fell to her knees. Miranda was very concerned for Megan, and when she saw the Commander’s beautiful honey green eyes glow a sickly green, she knew something was terribly wrong.

Megan then picked herself up and headed back out into the corridor, where she saw fuzzy images of Dr Archer walking down the corridor with his brother and volunteer for Project Overlord, David. Still under the AI’s influence, she followed the images before she regained control of her mind and body. She whirled around to the server room where her team was in, but it was too late. The door was shut, and Miranda, Ashley and Jack were frantically pounding on the door before their shouts were cut short by their screams of agony. “Oh God, Miri!” Megan cried, running to the door and trying to force it open, but to no avail.

As soon as Megan had stepped out of the room, the door had slammed shut on Miranda, Ashley and Jack. “Megan!” Ashley and Miranda cried out, joining Jack in her frantic pounding on the door. The rogue VI then sent an electrical charge, large enough to incapacitate but not kill, through the door. The trio screamed in agony as the electricity coursed through their bodies, and they slumped to the ground, their bodies convulsing uncontrollably due to the electric shock as they looked at each other helplessly as they spasmed on the floor.

“Dammit.” Megan cursed, and decided to follow the images wherever they went in the hopes that destroying the VI would free her team, and most importantly, her Miri, from the room they were trapped in. Oh shit…Miri, I hope you’re okay. Megan thought worriedly as she hurried down a corridor which was full of geth. She blasted through them, and they died in an explosion of green pixels. “Weird.” The redhead muttered to herself as she blew away the last geth trooper with her Geth Pulse Rifle. Running into a room filled with the VI’s memories and three geth, Megan made short work of the three geth before she watched a memory unfold.

Goddammit, Archer said his brother volunteered! That lying cunt! Megan thought angrily as she ran into the next room, grabbing more medigel and some credits from a wall safe before she ran down an empty corridor. When she saw a strange ball of blue light, which her HUD had indicated as a VI connection, blocking the door and the path to the service elevator leading to the VI’s core, she didn’t even break stride. Instead, she opened fire as she charged forward, destroying the connection before she got to the door. The door hissed open, and she entered a break room that contained the service elevator, a medkit, a heavy weapon ammo crate and some salvageable computer parts.

Megan grabbed the medigel, the heavy weapon ammo and the computer parts and converted it all into omnigel for 1700 credits before she summoned the service elevator, which triggered an announcement about it carrying too much weight. Megan quickly ducked behind a pillar, and just in time, as the lift appeared, carrying two geth rocket troops and a hunter, which immediately cloaked and tried to get close to Megan to use its shotgun on her. Megan quickly killed the hunter before it could get in range with her Geth Pulse Rifle, and she didn’t even bother reloading to take on the two rocket troops.

Instead, she whipped out her S22 shotgun and used her biotics to charge straight into one, sending it flying as she gunned the other one down with her Eviscerator. Quickly reloading, she turned back to the trooper she’d hit and was currently getting back to its feet, and capped it with a single shot to its head. She ran onto the lift and activated it, getting increasingly worried for her Miri, who was trapped inside the room and was apparently injured. As soon as the left reached the core, Megan swopped her shotgun for her rifle and reloaded it as the VI played its memories out. As soon as it’d finished playing one part, an ominous announcement came over the speakers. “Normandy SR2 in range. Attempting to establish upload link.” A calm synthesized voice announced.

“Oh shit.” Megan groaned as she spotted the ball of blue light that originated from the VI’s core trying to get to an uplink node. She fired at it and quickly took it down, and the shield surrounding the armored core dissipated. Megan shot at it while she simultaneously hurled a reave field at it, damaging the armor. Two more hits ought to do it, Megan thought as she glanced at the armor status on her Sentry Interface. However, the shield came back online, and two connections appeared, forcing Megan to destroy those two while she was attacked by geth that spawned out of literally nowhere. Her shields were overwhelmed by the combined assault of the four geth that spawned, and they dropped.

Megan spun around to take on the geth, but one of them hit her in her stomach a few times, and two rounds penetrated her armor and lodged in her abdomen. “Bastard!” Megan yelled in anger and pain, clutching her wounded abdomen as she killed all four with short bursts of gunfire. Turning back to the last connection, she destroyed it and then the memories started again, and they appeared to have finished as they exposed the armored core for the last time. Megan switched to her Arc Projector, which was one of her favorite Cerberus inventions, second only to the M920 Cain, and zapped the core three times, and she hit it once more with another reave field.

Finally, the connecting wires that connected the VI to the geth network overloaded, and the energy rushed downwards and blew away the kinetic shield when the armor was destroyed. Megan’s vision changed from a series of flowing green and orange lines back to normal. She looked up at the man that was supposedly David, and she was disgusted at what Cerberus had done to him. He hung there completely naked, suspended by a series of metal restraints and wires that were pierced through both of his arms, and two large tubes were placed in his mouth.

“Commander! Wait! I’m begging you, don’t do anything rash.” Dr. Gavin Archer, project lead of Project Overlord and David’s brother, shouted breathlessly as he ran towards Megan as soon as the service lift stopped. Swiveling around to face him while she clutched her wound, Megan unleashed her disgust on him. “You said David fucking volunteered!” She growled angrily. “I had no choice! If I told you the truth, you’d shut me down and not him.” Archer offered lamely. “It’s not how I planned this...it was an accident. Seeing David communicate with the geth...it all seemed harmless.” “And before you knew it, you were running your own private hell.” Megan hissed as she applied medigel to the wound to stop the bleeding.

“I had no choice! The demands were incredible! The Illusive Man doesn’t broker failure! Any war we fight with the geth will be bloody. I was tasked to try and prevent that.” Archer said defensively as Megan winced and hissed softly from the burning sensation of the medigel disinfecting, stopping the bleeding and closing the wound. “And how many have already died needlessly?” Megan asked, her tone deadly as she fixed the doctor with a glare that could’ve frozen a Krogan in mid-charge. “More souls than will ever forgive me. But I won’t apologize for radical ideas.” Archer said sadly.

“If my work spares a million mothers mourning the loss of a million sons, my conscience will rest easy.” “So you’ll sacrifice your own brother’s happiness for your own ambition?” Megan scowled. As Archer struggled to form a reply, David said something. “Square root of 906.01 equals...”“30.1. What I’ve done to David is unethical. If he dies, it’s unforgivable. Let me take care of him. Please.” Archer finished. “Quiet...please make it stop...” David begged, and that made Megan tear up as she turned to face the doctor.

“Fuck that. I’ve seen enough of your cruelty to know he’ll never be free from it here. I’m taking him to Grissom Academy, where they can help special people like David. Minus the torture.” Megan growled as Archer pulled an X4 Shuriken machine pistol on her. “No! Leave him! He’s too valuable!” Archer yelled as he fired a 3 round burst at Megan, who ducked and drew her own S6 Carnifex and pistol-whipped Archer with it. “You even fucking think about coming after your brother, and this shot will be waiting for you. We’ll see who’s goddamn valuable then.” Megan hissed, her wound smarting from her ducking as she radioed Joker.

“Joker, contact Grissom Academy and let them know we’ve got someone who needs their help.” Megan ordered. “Aye aye Commander.” Joker replied before Megan cut off the comm channel. “You, help me get my team out of the server room.” Megan barked at Archer, who had his head hung low in shame at what he’d done while she undid David’s restraints. “Square root of 912.04 is 30.2...it all seemed harmless...” David repeated several times as Megan lowered him to the ground and set him free from his restraints, causing hot tears of pity and sadness to flow down her exquisite face.

“Here David. Put these on.” Megan said to David gently as she wiped away her tears, handing him a pair of trousers and a shirt. He quickly dressed himself, and huddled close to Megan. “Let’s go get my team, asshole. Move.” Megan snapped at Archer as the trio headed back to the server room. As soon as they reached, David stood even closer to Megan, as if afraid of what was in the room. Archer unlocked the door with his access code, and Megan rushed in with the brothers to find that her team was unscathed. “Thank God you’re all right!” Megan exclaimed in relief as she hugged Miranda tightly. “We’re just a little shaken up.” Miranda reassured Megan, but Jack chimed in. “You fucking call that ‘a little shaken up’ Miranda? We damn near got electrocuted!”“Shush. Let’s hear what Megan has to tell us about what happened.” Ashley said firmly to the two women.

Megan related the entire story, and when she told of David’s heart wrenching plea to ‘make it stop’, Miranda and Ashley teared up and Jack looked even angrier, but she also had tears in her eyes. They walked right up to the doctor, who had his head hung low, and they glared at him for a few silent minutes. “Archer?” Miranda asked, but it was more of a statement than a question. Dr Archer looked up, and all three women punched him on his face hard simultaneously. “Oh...ohh.” Archer groaned as he wiped his bloody, broken nose and looked at the blood on his hand. His eyes then rolled to the back of his head and he slumped to the floor like a sack of potatoes as Megan and her team regarded his unconscious form with disgust. “You have no idea how much I wanted to do that to the Illusive Man, and I’m so glad I quit Cerberus.” Miranda growled, causing the other three to laugh.

“Let’s get out of here. We’re sending David to Grissom Academy, while Archer can fucking rot here with the space cows for all I care.” Megan scowled as she gently led David away by his shoulder back to the Hammerhead. “Megan, are you injured? Oh my God...you’re gonna have to see Chakwas.” Miranda said with concern etched on her beautiful face as she noticed Megan’s wound. “It’ll be fine...don’t need the doc.” Megan waved Miranda away. “No! You’re going to see the doctor about the wound, or there not going to be any sex for you for the next 6 months. Provided you even survive.” Miranda insisted angrily with a scowl on her face as Megan glared at her, while Ashley and Jack chuckled at the couple. “Bitch. Why do I love her so much?” Megan muttered under her breath as they headed back to the Hammerhead. She’s so hot when she’s angry, Megan thought when she saw Miranda still scowling at her.

That night as Megan and Miranda were cuddling each other in their bed, they talked about poor David, whom they had dropped off at Grissom Academy. “I can’t believe anyone could do something so horrible to their own brother.” Miranda said as she stroked Megan’s now patched up wound through the silk nightgown Megan was wearing. As soon as they had gotten aboard the Normandy earlier on, Miranda had virtually dragged Megan to the medbay, where Chakwas had removed the shards of metal from her body and stitched up the wound while Megan was under local anesthesia. “Neither can I. It’s just unbelievable.” Megan murmured as she hugged Miranda closer to herself before she kissed Miranda on her forehead.

“Does it still hurt?” Miranda asked Megan as she slid her left hand into Megan’s nightgown and gently caressed the wound. “Not anymore, now that a beautiful woman is here stroking it.” Megan grinned as Miranda laughed softly. “You’re really terrible. You say that to every woman you fancy?” Miranda giggled, giving her girlfriend a peck on the cheek. “Nope. I only say that to one very special lady.” Megan said with a grin, waggling her eyebrows suggestively at Miranda. “Well...since you appear to have made a full recovery...I think it’s time for me to...de-stress.” Miranda purred throatily as she slid her right hand into Megan’s nightgown and stroked Megan’s warm sex, while her left hand slid further up and cupped Megan’s full, firm B cup breast, causing the redhead to sigh in delight.

“Ooh, I love the fact that you sleep commando style every night.” Miranda teased with a lecherous smirk as she continued stroking Megan’s sex and kneading her breast. She continued with her teasing for a few minutes as the Commander moaned softly at her treatments before Miranda slid off the bed and sashayed over to the wardrobe with a seductive sway to her hips. She opened her ‘magic box’ filled with her assorted sex toys and pulled out an 8 inch strap-on. “Jeez Miri, do you seriously intend to kill me with sex?” Megan said as Miranda stripped naked and strapped the toy on with a lecherous smirk.

“Oh yeah, I wanna kill you with my sex. Don’t you wanna die happy?” Miranda purred, while the Commander slid her own nightgown off as the raven haired woman lowered her herself in front of Megan’s crotch and began to flick her tongue over Megan’s sensitive clit, making the redhead gasp and moan loudly in pleasure. She ran her hands up Megan’s side, grasping the Vanguard’s pert, full breasts and she started to knead them, increasing the pleasure coursing through Megan’s shapely body as she bit on her own finger in a vain attempt to soften her moans while she continued to moan and gasp loudly. Miranda then started fingering her girlfriend with her middle finger as she continued to perform cunnilingus on Megan.

“Mmh fuck yeah Miri! Keep going!” Megan cried as Miranda kept up her treatments for more than 5 minutes. “Oh my God yes Miri I’m about to-ooh!” Megan moaned loudly as she almost came to her climax. However, before she could cum, Miranda abruptly pulled her finger out of Megan’s dripping wet vagina and she stopped teasing the redhead’s clit. “What the...Miri, don’t be a fucking tease...stop it.” Megan gasped weakly as her orgasm threatened to spill over. Miranda then slid her dildo up and down Megan’s silken folds, teasing her as it brushed against her clit tantalizingly, causing Megan to gasp and mewl in delight.

Miranda continued teasing Megan like that for a while as the redhead pleaded with Miranda to stop her teasing and just make her achieve orgasm as she lay flat on the bed. “Come on Miri! Stop being a cheap teasing whore and just fuck me!” Megan moaned, and finally Miranda had enough of Megan’s insults. “I am not a cheap teasing whore, and you’re going to regret insulting me Cassie.” Miranda said breathily with a hint of malice as she rammed her plastic penis into Megan’s tight, slick heat until the hilt was pressing against Megan’s pussy lips. Megan let loose a series of loud, wordless cries of sheer pleasure as Miranda held her down to the bed by her shoulders and repeatedly slammed the toy deep into her, rubbing against her g-spot roughly.

Miranda smiled with perverted satisfaction as she saw her redheaded lover thrash about and moan in ecstasy while she almost pulled all the way out, before she rammed the toy deep into Megan’s womanhood once more and repeated the process several times, making sure to hit the Vanguard’s g-spot with every thrust. Soon, under Miranda’s relentless fucking, Megan finally came to an earth shattering orgasm. “UUUHH SHIT MIRI I’M CUMMING! OH MIRRIII FUUUUCK MEEEE!” Megan screamed, clutching the bed sheets tightly as Miranda roughly pulled out of her and squirted her delectable female essence all over the bed and on Miranda’s crotch. She gasped, kneading her own breasts as Miranda bent back down and started gleaning her juices with a salacious smirk, the ex-Cerberus agent’s tongue dancing around her dripping wet folds skillfully, sensuously moaning against Megan’s pussy.

Megan just lay there panting as Miranda nibbled and sucked on her neck lightly, waiting for her redheaded lover to come down from her cloud nine. When Megan reached out to embrace Miranda, Miranda kissed her passionately before broke off and leant in to spit on her tight ass. The raven haired woman then teased Megan’s anus for a while, before she thrust in hard and slow. “Aah take me Miri!” Megan moaned as Miranda leaned down and played with the redhead’s breasts. “Don’t worry honey, you’re mine. And you’ll always be mine.” Miranda whispered throatily over Megan’s loud moans and gasps, thrusting deep into Megan’s even tighter hole.

Seeing that Megan was about to cum from the raven haired woman anally pleasuring her for ten relentless minutes, Miranda whispered one last thing to Megan before she could climax again. “Cassie sweetie, do you love me?” “GAAAAAHHH I’M CUMMING AGAIN! YEESS MIRI I LOVE YOU! FUCK!” Megan shrieked in response as her back arched up into the air, her entire body jerking uncontrollably once again as the pleasure overwhelmed her senses, squirting her cum all over Miranda’s toy.

Miranda kissed Megan passionately once more as Megan barely managed to reciprocate the fervor of which Miranda’s tongue was ravaging her mouth, all the while staring dreamily into space. Megan then shoved Miranda off her and pinned her by her arms down onto the bed, earning a squeal of excitement from the ex-Cerberus officer. Keeping Miranda pinned down with one hand, Megan then proceeded to unstrap the dildo and strap it onto herself, and she yanked the raven haired beauty off the bed, positioning Miranda’s perfect ass right in front of her a-la doggystyle while she stood behind her girlfriend with a salacious grin

“Oh you’re going to be my dirty little whore tonight Miri. I guarantee you that.” Megan purred as she began to flit her tongue across Miranda’s sensitive ‘pink pearl’ while she assaulted Miranda’s maddeningly warm and wet womanhood with her middle finger, relishing her raven haired lover’s sensuous moans of arousal and the way Miri’s tightness constricted and squeezed all around her finger tightly as she pushed in deeper into Miranda’s vagina. “Uuh yes Cassie…I love it…I want you to fuck me like this for the rest of our lives…” Miranda moaned as she bucked her hips, trying to get Megan’s finger and tongue deeper into her.

Before Miranda could achieve orgasm, Megan stopped. “Please, don’t tease me…I promise I won’t tease you ever again…just fuck me Cassie sweetie!” Miranda begged as the redhead slid her strap-on up and down, parting Miranda’s folds to reveal more of her wet, pink pussy and teasingly touching the base of Miranda’s clit, sending waves of pleasure and want up the raven haired woman’s spine. “I don’t think so Miri baby…you tease me all the time and you expect me to show you mercy?” Megan answered breathily while she continued teasing Miranda. Finally, Megan decided that Miranda was pitiful enough as she constantly begged Megan to fuck her hard and give her that elusive orgasm, and she took pity on the raven haired woman.

Megan grabbed Miranda’s perfectly curved waist as she rammed her fake dick deep into Miranda’s tight pussy, moaning sensuously to heighten both Miranda’s arousal while the raven haired woman gripped the bedsheets tightly. “Oh yes-yes-yes keep fucking me like that Megan!” Miranda cried out in pleasure and sheer delight as Megan took her, repeatedly pulling almost all the way out, leaving only part of the head in Miranda’s warm, dripping wet sex, before shoving the entire length all the way into Miranda once again, brusquely rubbing against Miranda’s g-spot in the process. “Aah shit you’re nailing my sweet spot honey! Keep pounding me like this!” Miranda moaned, letting Megan know she was doing it right.

The redhead’s left hand reached down to cusp Miranda full left breast which was bouncing around as Megan fucked her relentlessly, and she started kneading it and flicking the nipple while she grasped Miranda’s waist tightly with her right hand while she continued to fuck Miranda mercilessly with the dildo as the raven haired woman moaned loudly in pleasure. As such, Miranda only lasted slightly more than 5 minutes before she was driven straight into pure ecstasy by Megan’s skillful ‘plowing’, as Miranda liked to jokingly call it, and the Commander’s hand and fingers playing with her breast she screamed out her orgasm. “MMH FUCK YES MEGAN HONEY I’M CUUUUUMMMMINGG!! OOOHH GOD YEAH I LOVE IT!” Miranda shrieked at the top of her voice, nearly going hoarse as she shot her pussy juices that had been building up deep within her most intimate organ as Megan pulled out of her roughly.

Her tasty fluids squirted out of her vagina and onto the floor, wetting the floor and Megan’s legs. Eagerly gathering up her lover’s nectar from her inner thighs with her right hand, Megan licked some of it off before she sensually rubbed the remainder off on the entrance to Miranda’s tighter hole, making Miranda mewl loudly in approval and excitement as she continued to lubricate the ex-Cerberus agent’s asshole. Satisfied that Miranda’s other orifice was well lubricated with her own juices, she then thrust the toy deep into Miranda’s anus, making the woman scream loudly in sheer pleasure. “Ooh yes bang my arse! Faster Megan! Please, faster!” Miranda moaned as Megan thrust in and out of her ass slowly, unable to grant Miranda’s plea due to the unbelievable tightness of her tighter orifice.

“Sorry Miri honey…can’t go any faster…your ass is too damn tight…” Megan groaned, beads of sweat forming on her forehead due to the exertion of trying to grant Miranda’s wish, despite the fact the air-conditioning in the room was set at 20 degrees Celsius. Megan let go of Miranda’s waist and grabbed both of Miranda’s magnificent D cup breasts which were swaying temptingly as its owner rocked back and forth, constantly moaning and occasionally screaming out her arousal. “You’re enjoying it aren’t you, you dirty little whore? Admit that you’re a dirty little whore Miri!” Megan hissed sensuously to Miranda over her cries and moans of pleasure.

“I-oh fuck-fuck-fuck- am not a dirty little-mmh yes!-whore!” Miranda managed to moan out as she clutched the bedsheets in a death grip. “Just admit it Miri! I might have mercy on you.” Megan breathed against Miranda’s ear, her hot and sweet smelling breath heightening Miranda’s arousal. “No- oh fuck yes!-I won’t because I’m not a dirty little whore…uuuhh!” Miranda screamed out as she felt herself nearing climax yet again. “Fine. The hard way it is then.” Megan purred, stopping her massage of Miranda’s left breast as she lowered her left hand to her own pussy, and she started stroking her own clit while she fingered herself and she let out sweet, sexy moans of pleasure while she continued anally assaulting Miranda.

“Oh God…I think I’m going to cum!” Miranda cried out, feeling a familiar white hot spark starting to manifest in her lower abdomen and spread itself in her pussy. Megan then pulled out abruptly, causing Miranda’s impending orgasm to be delayed. “Megan, please stop your games and just make me cum!” Miranda moaned to the redhead, who was still playing with herself. “Then admit you’re a dirty little whore. I know you are, Miri. Don’t deny it.” Megan retorted throatily as she started teasing Miranda’s ass with the dildo, tantalizingly pushing in a little before she pulled away repeatedly.

“Fine, I’m a dirty-OOH YEAH!-little whore! Fuck me and make me cum you bitch!” Miranda shrieked as Megan slammed the dildo deep into Miranda’s anus. “What’s that?” Megan moaned, almost achieving orgasm from playing with herself while she fucked her girlfriend. “I’m a dirty little whore! I’m a dirty little whore like you said! Now make me cum bitch!” Miranda cried out, her orgasm finally about to happen. Barely a few seconds after Miranda insulted Megan, both of them climaxed.

“MMH I’M CUUUMMMINGG CASSIE! OH JESUS I’M CUUUMMMING!” Miranda shrieked, squirting her feminine cum all over Megan’s legs and groin, while some squirted onto the floor as she yanked and twisted the sheets as she tried in vain to stop her entire body from convulsing in orgasmic bliss. “Oh I’m-ma cCCUUUMMMINGG! FUCK YES MIRI! UUUHH!” Megan screamed almost simultaneously as she squirted her own fluids onto her hand and fingers, and the overflow flowed to the floor where it mixed with Miranda’s cum while she pulled out of Miranda’s ass. Megan then collapsed onto Miranda, who was still bent over the bed, knocking her onto it and just lay atop the raven haired beauty, pinning her to the bed.

Both of them just lay there in that position, Megan lying on top of Miranda’s back, breasts pressed tightly against Miranda’s spine and Miranda laying flat on her chest, for a few minutes as they waited for the stars in their vision to clear while they panted and gasped with their limbs twitching erratically. Finally, Megan mustered enough strength to lift herself off Miranda, and she flopped onto her back with her legs still dangling off the bed while she pulled Miranda in for an embrace. Miranda gladly melted into her girlfriend’s embrace, and she kissed Megan passionately, their tongues dancing around in their mouths as they savored each other’s flavors.

“God, that was amazing. But now my wound hurts again.” Megan finally managed to gasp out, interrupting the sound of heavy breathing. “Are you ok? Do you need the doctor?” Miranda panted softly, stroking Megan’s stitched up wound, which was now a scar, on her well toned stomach. “Nah. But I do need some food. I’m starving. What about you?” Megan asked as she leaned over to pick up her discarded nightgown, quickly putting it on while Miranda stared at her. “What! You had dinner barely 3 hours ago!” Miranda chided in disbelief as she caught her navy blue bustier and her panties of the same color which Megan had tossed to her.

“But we’ve been humping each other so hard that now my tummy’s growling! Go down to the mess and eat with me please?” Megan pleaded, playfully doing the impression of a teary and large eyed beagle that always got Miranda to say yes. “Please?” “All right you pig. Put on some panties, and let me put on a nightrobe before we go.” Miranda conceded with a sigh as Megan squealed uncharacteristically in delight as she jumped off the bed and tossed Miranda a white nightrobe, before she slipped on a pair of frilly green panties. The both of them limped out of the cabin to the lift, wincing as they were reminded of the extreme tenderness of their pussies and asses from their frivolous lovemaking session.

They then stood there, and Megan French kissed Miranda passionately once again as they waited for the lift. “Love you, you dirty little whore.” Megan giggled when she broke off the kiss as she winked suggestively at Miranda. “One last thing. I’m only a dirty little whore for you.” Miranda playfully scoffed. “You’d better be. Otherwise I’d kill you for being unfaithful.” Megan growled playfully as she scooped Miranda up and carried her in her arms, eliciting a squeal of delight from Miranda as she playfully slapped Megan on her chest a few times, pretending to fight against the Vanguard when the lift finally arrived. Megan only let Miranda down when they reached the crew deck, and the both of them were still laughing and giggling like schoolgirls.

Final notes: Sorry for the late update people, polytechnic term started again. I’ll try my best to get in 2 chapters a month, but no promises as I just got a major architecture project thrown into my lap (I’m pursuing my diploma in architecture). Hope you enjoyed the story nonetheless, and yes, I’m poking fun at Mass Effect’s constant encouragement to players to scavenge for minerals and credits. So once again, review, and if you have any ideas for future chapters, drop ‘em in your review or email them to me. Oh, and don’t forget to subscribe, favorite and introduce to your friends and fellow authors! Hasta la vista, and till next time people!