Chapters Mass Effect: New Beginnings
Chapter 1: New Beginnings
Standing there in my battle worn armour bleeding to death in fount of a small hologram of a child. With my pistol drawn I approached my choice. I pulled the trigger, with each shot I saw my life flashing before my eyes. Living on Earth as a child, coming home along after a raid witch almost cost me my life, defeating Saren, defeating the collectors and meeting my team.
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The cold wind washed over me, I was lying on something soft. I slowly opened my eyes to see it was night, good, I won’t go blind from the sun. I looked around me surroundings, I was in a field. Okay now to see if I still have my body parts, legs, check, arms, check, hands, crap, I lost my hands but it doesn’t hurt, come to think of it nothing hurts much but one of my legs. I pulled out my arm to look at my Omi-tool to see the damage but to my shock I saw a think pink hoof like limb. My eyes went wide as dinner plates. Soon after I screamed, wow, Commander Shepard, hero of the galaxy screaming at what her arm looked like.
I sat up and looked at my legs, ok, they are the hoof like things too. I went to feel my face and when I was a couple of inches away from it I bumped into what I guess is my nose. I screamed again, ok, I need to look at my Omi-tool. I pulled out my arm and turned on my Omi-tool. Okay, it looks like I’m a horse like thing. I almost fainted there and then. I checked to see if my Omi-blade still works to witch it did. I checked my biotics to witch I was greeted by a soft purple glow around me, okay, it wtill works as this horse thing. I find out that some things didn't change like my eyes teeth and red hair, my what guess is my coat is the same color as my skin used to be. I opened up my Omi-tool and brought up a comm link.
"This Commander Shepard, is anyone out there?" I was just met with static.
Ok so I'm lost on a planet I don't know as a species I have no clue about, this just great. Okay, I need to find a town or shelter soon or I might not last the night, I'll climb a tree to see. I look around and see a tree in the distance. Bingo, once I find shelter I need to find a place with information about this world.
I climbed the tree and saw a city off in the far off distance. Well better than nothing, I better head off now. I climbed down the tree and started walking in the direction of the city.
I soon arrived on the outskirts of the town with had a large sign. 'Manehatten' ok, that's an odd name.
I walked into the town, the moon floated overhead with a certain awe about it. Okay, I need to find a bar, they're the best places to get info.
I soon found a bar, 'The Old Goat', I thought the city's name was odd. I entered the bar and blushed when I saw everyone in the bar was naked, I was still warring my shredded N7 armor. Everyone looked at me when I entered, I little in-nerving when they were are naked. I started approaching the bar table but was stopped by and old looking geezer with gray hair and a brown coat.
"Hiya beautiful, how about we have a little fun" I could tell he was beyond drunk, that can't be healthy.
"No" I walked past him and felt slap agents my rear. "Oh, nice and firm that one is" he began to laugh.
I turned around, and did a good old 1,2 on him, he went flying out of the bar and landed on the street outside. I looked down and saw a small bag that jingled when I picked it up, okay now I had some money. "The alliance thanks you for your donation."
I went to the bar and sat on a stool. The bar tender very carefully approached me.
"M-may I help you?" He looked like he would piss himself if I wasn't careful.
"Give me the strongest thing you have" I need to relax a bit and when you've had Krogan ale nothing but the strongest works.
He came back with shot glass will with what looked like... Apple juice? "Here, it's on the house, sorry about Oldgeezer, he is a little drunk Is all" he passed over the shot glass, I smiled and when he saw my teeth he looked horrified. I took the shot and bearly tasted the alcohol. "Can I get ten of these?" I need a lot if I was going to get any kick.
He came back with a mug filled with the substance to which I drunk down in a couple of gulps. "Woah, I've never seen anypony drink that much and still be standing." He horror replaced with awe.
"Anyhow do you know anywhere I can stay?"
"Huh, oh, there's a continental hotel across the street, it's quite cheep to."
I thanked him for the drinks and payed him. I walked across the road the the hotel. 'The Sleeping Mare' do they know how to come up with good names? I walked in.
"How much for a room?"
"10 bits per night"
I put ten coins on the table and he passed over a key that had the number 12 on it. I walked up the stairs to my room, I went in and saw my bed room and the other horses bed room. I took off my N7 armor with a far bit of trouble then climbed into bed. I wonder where I am or what I am, I'll have to wait till tomorrow to find out.
Author's Note
A contenetle hotel is a hotel where you share a room with other guest, normally quite cheep.
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I wake before the sun rise’s very high, being in N7 you get used to getting up quite early. I was laying there thinking about what happened, the explosion that most likely cost me my life. I feel a light breeze between my legs, then it hit me, I’m spread out on the bed with all my legs spread out upon the whole bed. I quickly closed my legs together and used my fore hooves over my crotch, a heavy blush appeared on my face, I need to get my armor and I need to find out where I am. I put on my destroyed armor, just because they don’t wear cloths doesn't mean I won’t, after years of wearing my armor I've grown attached.
Wait, if they don’t have fingers how do they build things, write or pick stuff up? I should see if I can make breakfast, I don’t think this new body had any food in it at all when I came here.
I went into the kitchen and looked in the cupboard, okay so there’s oats and wait, hay and flowers? Aren't some flowers poisonous to horses? I won’t question it, I’m the one who’s been turned into an alien. How do I pick this up, I could use my hooves but how will I walk? I could use my mouth but I don’t know if that’s normal, screw it I’m using my mouth and if anyone looks at me funny I’ll just ignore them. How will I cook this, on the Normandy there were microwaves, but it seems here they don’t even have power or not that I can see anyway. I could try and boil it if that will work. I grabbed a saucepan with my mouth, the taste of metal entered my mouth, I’ll never get used to this. I put it under a sink and filled it with water, wait, if they don’t have power how do they have running water? I’m not going to question it, it’s too weird. I put the filled saucepan on the stove and poured in the oats. I saw some matches on a tabletop to the side, I turned on the gas and struck a match with help from my biotics, I small orange flame greeted me with its warm glow. So how long do I cook this for? I don’t know but as long as it isn't burnt I’m happy. I wonder if the horse in the other room wants any. I’ll just cook a little more. This is taking a while, on the Normandy it took 5 seconds or less.
I just stood there watching the water start to boil, the smell started to fill the room. God, how long is this going to cook, if it doesn't finish soon I’m just going to eat it half raw.
Author's Note
it's weird being a guy and writing a story about a girl. I hope you like this chapter, it will be a little while till i post another chapter. .
Mass Effect: New Beginnings
I walked over to the door but she stopped me by putting a hoof on my chest. "You might want to take off your armour."
I went to my room and took off my armour but left my dog tags on, I'll never take them off. I went back to the main room, Rainbow was standing in the door way with a cheesy grin on her face. She than looked at my rear and stared. If she going to say I have a nice ass I'll punch her in the face.
I followed her for some time, I was just looking at the sights while she was talking about these people called the Wonderbolts, we walked for about an hour and a half till we arrived at what looked like a bar. Really, it's like 11:30 in the morning, why get drinks at this time? "You know it's like 11 you know?"
Author's Note
Should Shepard go out with Rainbow or stop her where she is?
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I awoke in a cold sweat, wait, I only paid for 1 night. I looked around and I was in the hotel room I was in last night. I got out of bed and headed into the bathroom, I went over to the sink and turned it on. I got both my fore hooves and splashed my face with the cold stream of water, I looked at the mirror with shame. All I’ve done and I’ve been given a second chance, I got the council killed, I wasn't able to save more on Earth, I got half the galaxy killed in the fight ageist the reapers, I lost my first team in a Batarian raid and I left my crew and now I have no way to help them. I just stared at the disapproving face in the mirror for a while till I punched it. I hated that face, I don’t deserve a second chance at life. The broken pieces of the mirror cut up my hoof to the point it was covered in blood, I walked to the corner broke down and cried. How could I leave them, I was there for them but I’m not anymore.
Author's Note
Should Shepard 'Taste the Rainbow' as one of the comments said o should she go to her own room?
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“Alright, but don’t get too touchy, save it for the third date.”
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I was back in the Normandy, in my room, was that all a dream? I don’t know nor care, I’m back, I can help my crew. I got out my armor and put it on. I checked my weapon’s and biotics to witch I was happily greeted with them working perfectly.
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“SHEPARD WAKE UP!!” I opened my eyes to see Rainbow on top of me with tears swelling up in her eyes.
Author's Note
You know how awkward it is to write a kissing scene ? Also who thought i was going to had a clop section? I'm not doing that(yet) so don't bother asking.
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We headed off to the train stations, she was talking about Ponyville, and I still can't get over the name. There was one Pony I should avoid, Pinkie Pie, apparently she's crazy about party's.
I headed at to the park and started to do some sit ups to pass the time, I hear the flapping of wings behind me.
Author's Note
Here's chapter 7. Shepard is finally in Ponyville, only good things good things can happen from here (Sarcastic tone)
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We entered her cloud house, the inside was just like the outside, white a fluffy. We headed up stairs and we arrived in her bed room, the bed like everything else was made out of clouds. I looked around, there were posters of the Wonderbolts and on a bedside table there was a picture of her, Twilight, that pink pony and 3 others, an orange one with blond hair and a cowboy hat, a yellow Pegasus with pink are and finally there was one with a white coat and purple hair. I guess she saw I was looking at the picture because she started to talk about it.
I just sat there reading some books I found on a shelf called ‘Daring Do’, it was an okay adventure novel, once you’ve lived it you don’t find it as impressive anymore. God, this is boring, I want to do something else, I could use my biotics to get down and I could then walk around town. Yea I’ll do that.
That was awkward. I walked into town, all the ponies walking around doing what they normally do. Wow, this place is peaceful, I never saw this when I was a human. I was walking down the peaceful street until I heard what sounded like glass braking. I turned my head and saw a black pony with a ski beanie running away from a store vendor.
Author's Note
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
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I picked up the thief and started carrying him towards the guard station (I don’t think they have police), he was crying the whole way there, pathetic, he threatened to stab me and robbed a vendor and he’s crying like a baby. We arrived at the station, the guards looked at us in confusion.
“Hello, you must be a friend of Bon Bon, It’s nice to meet you, I’m Lyra Heartstrings.” A light green mare appeared in front of me holding out a hoof.Her name was Commander Jane Shepard of the Normandy SR-2, she saved many lives from where I’m from, but she’s dead now.” I am sort of dead, I have a new life meaning my old one is dead.
We continued talking about our lives and stuff like that, she played the harp, how does that work?
I sat in the park under Rainbow’s house for what felt like an hour, why is she taking so long? I hope she didn’t get in trouble at work, I’ll just take a small power nap while I wait for her.
I awoke to having my nose tickled, wait what? My eyes shot open and I sneezed. When I recovered I saw Rainbow’s wing dangling over my face. She started to laugh.
Author's Note
Sorry if this chapter is crap, i made one because most of the idea's i have are for a lot later into the story.
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We landed onto the soft cloud porch almost an instant after taking off. I got off her back and headed to the door. “Soooo, what did you do today while I was out, besides falling of cause.”
Author's Note
I won't be writing for a while, I'll be a comic-con
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We walked through the town, the ponies wondering around doing what they do on an average day. Now that I think about it I never did that, for 18 years I lived in the slums and once I joined the Alliance I do anything when we were on shore leave, I had a couple of friends before I joined N7 but sadly most died during the Batarian raid many years ago. I can still remember some of their face’s, I was younger than, probably only around 20-ish, only about 2 years after I joined the Alliance. I can remember the team captain, he got on almost everyone’s nerves, and even though he acted like a total ass he took a shot for me, a shot that would sadly take his life. My whole team slowly got killed off, I was left alone until the reinforcements came. That’s how I caught the eye of N7, being the only survivor the team was disbanded. I went into a deep depression until I was forced to go into therapy if I wanted to join N7, I did it but I never got over the loss of my team.
Dash and I left the shop and started heading back to her house.
Author's Note
Finally a new chapter, I hope you guys like it and I would like to thank adamdwarf for helping me with ideas.
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We downed out liquor in a single gulp, the cold taste of vodka filled my mouth.
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I’m starting to get woozy, I and Dash started having a drinking contest after the second shot. I was still not drunk while Dash on the other hand totally lost it, I was surprised that she was still awake. After about f shots people started placing bets about who will win, by the time we took our twentieth shot the whole bar was cheering whenever we took a shot. We have taken about 27 shots each and I was starting to feel the strain, Dash looked totally wasted. Her hair was a mess, her eye’s looked like they didn’t focus on anything and she was slurring all her words.
Author's Note
I know this chapter's ending is a bit crappy, sorry about that.
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I awoke to the smell of cooking, for a moment I thought it was bacon but then I remembered that I can’t eat meat here, it frowned down upon. I opened my eyes and looked around, it still looked rather early, I wonder if I should wake Dash up? Nah, she need’s her rest after how wasted she was yesterday. I slowly began to get up when I felt a sharp stabbing pain in my head, dam, I hate hangovers. I began to massage my temples as I stood up, I need to get some water and maybe offer some help in the kitchen. I walked over to the door and open it just enough to see inside. I see Spike over by the stove cooking something, I could try and give him a scare, yea, I’ll do that. I quietly opened the door and snuck up to a wall behind him. I tried doing the most badass pose I could leaning on the wall about five meters behind him. “What’s cooking?” He froze in place when he heard me.
Author's Note
Here's another chapter and if you did'nt read in the last chapter i'm going to start switching perspective to other people in the story.
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I arrive under the cloud house hovering above me, the shadow still cold as before.
We walked over to the front porch and looked over the edge. “Do you want a lift over to the train station?”
I soon arrive at the train station and I see a small group of ponies near some guards, I guess they’re joining the guard too. I looked around for Dash and saw she was in a small group with what I guess were her friends, I walked up to her.
Author's Note
If you want your OC in this story send me a message telling me about them. What they look like, their personality and a small backstory
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Twilight
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Shepard’s train headed out towards Canterlot, it seems she was in a group of ponies that were also wearing different types of armor, they all looked more like recruits than actual guards.
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Shepard
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The recruit train cart wasn't that big, it was about as big as a couple of shipping containers. When I looked around I saw the other recruits, all of which were male and quite young, no more than 20, dam, I’m the old fart here. As I walked through the cart I got a better look at the other people with me, most of which seemed to know each other, I understand why, them all being from a small town and all. I saw most of them were wearing armor which looked rather old, I guess they all have guard member in the family. As I look around I see most have helmets, should I make one? I have some left over Kevlar and silk but I was going to use it for any repairs that I may need. I’ll get more if I need it, where should I go to make this? Ah ha, there’s a clear area over in the corner of the cart, I may need to borrow someone’s sword, my Omi-blade will most likely burn the fabric before I cut it. Who should I ask? Mmmmmm, would anyone want to lend me one? And also how will I compress the Kevlar? Dam, I’m going to need to get a unicorn to help me.
Author's Note
I won't be able to post as much as I do at the moment, school is coming back in three days so I'll try to do as much as i can before then.
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I wonder how many people will be trying to join the guard. And I hope I’m not the only girl there, if I am I’m never going to hear the end of it.
I wonder how long it takes to actually get into the guard. In the Alliance it took 6 months to pass training.
I think I’m going to try and catch a few z’s before we get to Canterlot. I go over to the war which I sit down and lean ageist the wall and close my eyes.
“Umm, excuse me?”
I open my eyes and tilt my head up, it was a normal pony with a white coat and a light blue mane and his cutie mark was a couple of icicles.
“Yea.” I still have my helmet on and the rest of my armour as well.
“I just wanted to ask were you the pony that stopped the robber the other day?”
“Huh, I’m surprised that you know who I am when you can’t see my face.”
“I recognised you from your cutie mark, what is it?”
“So you just admitted that you were staring at my flank?”
He blushed a bright shade of red. “Anyway, about your question it’s an Omi-blade, a very deadly weapon and if you don’t want to be on the other end of it I recommend you leave.” He swallowed nervously and walked off.
I leaned my head back down and closed my eyes again, I need to get some rest, I’ve done training for an army before and you need as much rest as you can get. And soon after closing my eyes I fell asleep.
I soon woke to the feeling of the jerk of the train stopping, I guess we’re at Canterlot now. I stand up and look around the train cart, everyone is getting off. We all wondered out onto the platform, I was staring at the castle, how did that thing even support its own weight?
“RECRUITS, FRONT AND CENTER!” I turned my head to face the voice.
It was a white unicorn with a multi-coloured mane. I guess he ether a drill instructor, captain or something like that. We all quickly ran towards the unicorn and made rows of five in front of him.
“OKAY RECRUITS, WE ARE GOING TO GO GET YOU TO THE REST OF YOU MAGGOTS!” Wow, this guys is much nicer that the drill instructors in the Alliance.
“SINGLE FILE!”
We all made a single file line in front of him, I was seventh from the front, and I was behind that creep white pervert. I wonder how many other recruits there are.
We followed the guard for some time till we reached to castle, I’m happy I had my helmet on to hide my jaw which would be agape and eyes wide. The castle was so awesome I had trouble to keep up with the rest of the group, the style reminded me of old timey Europe back on earth, I never saw many the museums while on earth so seeing stuff like this really stuck me in a state of awe.
We enter through the main gate and started to head to the far off side of the castle, I guess the guard barracks are on the castle grounds.
We continued walking through the castle grounds till we reached a large open field. It seemed that there were many other ponies in said field and half of which were a dark shade of gray. I want to get a better look, wait, I could use the zoom function on my visor, yea, I have my helmet on so no one will really notice. With a quick push of a button the visor turned on. All of the HUD entered my vision, I look at all the different icons in it. My barrier is down, I have no gun and the clock is blinking 12, so most of this is useless unless I get the time and power up my barrier which I have no use for at the moment. Ok, I'm getting side tracked, on to the task at hand, hoof, whatever. I allow my visor to zoom in onto the crowd in front of me, they’re a lot stallions here than mares, it seems to be about 20 to 1, I guess I'll be the only chick in my squad it seems. I also see as I'm looking through the crowd that most of the black ponies seem to look a bit like bats, Bat Ponies? You learn something new every day. They seem to have dagger like irises and webbed wings instead of feathered ones, they also had fangs, and if they try to drink my blood I’m shoving my blade right through their abdomen. Once I see all there is to see I un-zoom my visor going back to my normal vision, god, I need to use this thing more often, it seems so useful and all I now need is the time.
“Anyone got the time?” I asked looking behind me.
“Yea, it’s 5:27.” Great, I’ll put it into my visor and Omi-tool.
“Thanks.”
I hold my hoof up to my mouth to use the voice function on my Omi-tool, I don’t want them to see it.
“5:27.” I whispered into my arm.
The clock on my visor turned off then turned back on with the time instead of just blinking 12.
We soon got to the field where all the other ponies were, there are a lot more than I thought, around eleven hundred at best.
“ATTENION!” We all turned to face the front of the group where a small stage was set up.
“OKAY, RECRUITS THOSE WHO WANT TO JOIN THE NIGHT GUARD WALK TO THE LEFT AND EVERYPONY ELSE GO TO THE RIGHT!” Huh, so there’s a different faction of guard for night and day. I wonder if I should join night or day, if I join day I don’t think they’ll let me keep my armour, I’ll go night.
I walked off to the left with most of the bat ponies and a few normal ones like me. I turned my head to get a better look at the other recruits with me, I only see 7 other non-bat ponies here, I guess if their like bat’s they can see in the dark better. I have my night vision and heat vision on my visor to help with that.
We all went to the left of the field where we were told to go, there was another small stage which was a little larger than the one in the centre of the field.
We all lined up in front of the stage waiting for what will happen next. We stood there for a few moments until a bat-pony walked on stage, he was wearing what I guessed was the night guard armour.
“ALL RIGHT MAGGOTS, LET ME GET ONE THING STRAIT, MOST OF YOU ARE NOT WORTHY TO JOIN THE NIGHT GUARD!” She pursed for a moment to let it sink in.
“WE ONLY LET THE BEST OF THE BEST TO JOIN THE NIGHT GUARD SO IF YOU THINK YOU DON”T HAVE THE GUTS GO JOIN THOSE DAY GUARD WIMPS!” Wow, subtle.
To my surprise quite a few of the ponies in the group left to join the day guard, even some of the bat-ponies.
“OKAY, WE ARE GOING TO BRAKE UP INTO SMALLER GROUPS, AND THE WAY US NIGHT GUARDS CHOSE WHO GOING TO BE LEADING THE GROUP IS DECIED IN BATTLE!” I heard many a gulp behind me.
“ANYPONY WANTING TO LEAD A SQUAD STEP UP ON STAGE!”
I stepped up and got on the stage, about 20 other people hopped up as well.
“ALRIGHT MAGGOTS, BRAKE OFF INTO PAIRS!” Did he still have to yell?
I looked around to find a partner, I saw one, and he was a bat-pony who stood there looking around with a smirk on his face. I walked up to him to which he gave a chuckle. “You should just forfeit now, I’ll crush you like a bug.”
I want to seem as badass as possible so I won’t talk.
“ALRIGHT, NOW ON THE COUNT OF THREE, START FIGHTING TILL THE OTHER ONE FORFEIT’S OR GETS KNOCKED OUT!” Huh, this seems to be a lot nicer than the Alliance boot camp.
“ONE, TWO, THREE!”
And with that it started.
Author's Note
Okay first things first, i wanted to say thank you for 500-ish views, wow guys, thank you so much.
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Once all the fights were done there were only about ten of us left, we all where a little happy that we'll be able to lead our own squad.
Author's Note
Sorry this took a while, I had a paintball accedent and I ran into a writing block, I Reyes my hardest to make this a good fight but I don't know if it is, tell me if you like it or tell me how I can make it better for the future.
Mass Effect: New Beginnings
Shepard
========================================================================="Don't you think you should watch how he fights first?" "We'll of cause I have a point, why wouldn't I?" "Try using your biotics." and there's the voice back."Technically you didn't spend much of your life on a table, do you remember the fact that you were dead most of the time?" "You know if you don't at least put up your barrier you will be in a lot of pain?" "All in good time my friend, all in good time." "I don't think so." "You can't get rid of me that easily."
Author's Note
Okay here's a new chapter (happy face)
Mass Effect: New Beginnings
Shepard
========================================================================="You know that what you're saying is that your mind made me up, you're the reason I'm annoying." "I know you won't do that, and also there are no guns anywhere around here." "So you want me to go, even though I helped you in that fight?" "I can agree with two of them, the last one I can't promise that'll keep it" "I would like to see you try."
We were all lead towards a large three story building, it was made out of marble and polished to a shine, it had pullers decorating the outside, looked like the old Roman temples back on Earth. The guard leading us walked into the building and we all soon followed. There was a long, narrow corridor going along for about a 200 foot, at the far end of the hall I could see a stair case, I guess that's how we get to the higher levels.
Most of the recruits were going into the nearest room to settle in while I just wanted to go to the top floor. I walked up to the third floor and , shock horror, looks the exact same as the other two floors. I rolled my eyes and went to the farthest room. I hope there's enough room in the other rooms, I didn't exactly come here to make friends, I came here to do what I do best, killing shit.
I walked into the room and saw four bunk beds, a table and what I guess was a bath room. I walked over to the nearest bed and put my stuff down. Dash lent me one of her back packs, all I brought was extra silk and Kevlar, a bottle of apple juice the Dash gave me and paper and a quill, I did say I would write.
I put my bag into a foot locker at the end of the bed, it was rather big, bigger than the ones in the Alliance by far. Once my stuff was put away I took off my armor. It wasn't that hard but trying to take this stuff off with hooves was annoying, I couldn't grip anything that well. Once all my armor was off I put it in the foot lock and took out the quill and paper then headed to the table. I'm just going to write a letter saying about all the stuff that happened today. I sat by the table and started to write.
"Dear Rainbow Dash
One thing I want to say before I begin is that I may have lied a tincy little bit. I was never in the guard but I was in an army for 14 years, I didn't lie about that. I just wanted to say I was sorry, I did it because everything was new to me so the first thing my body did was dig me into a hole I'm trying to get out of. Anyway.
At the moment I am at boot camp for the night guard, the drill instructor is a push over to what I'm used to. He was using words like 'maggot' and 'wimps', where I'm from they had a much more colorful vocabulary. I bet this guy would be pissing himself in front of the guy I got trained by. Anyway I ended up getting into a jousting match with one of the actual night guards, I won of cause. You should have seen his face, priceless. Once that was all over we got sent to the barracks to unpack and that's where I am now. Other than that nothing has happens except some one staring at my ass. I'll be writing again tomorrow, also I don't know your address so Twilight will probably give this to you.
Till next time Recruit Jane Shepard, Specter, N7 operative, Hero of the Skillein blitz, Commander of the Normandy SV-2. I love all the titles I've earned, it makes it fun to sign off letters.
I put the finished letter into a envelope and had it addressed to the library due to the fact I never saw any indexation of Rainbow's address. I'll post this when I get the chance.
But there's only one way to find out.
Author's Note
Sorry this took a while, I haven't had as much as I would have liked.http://www.fimfiction.net/story/118916/fallout-equestria-tainted-soul
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"Dear Twilight Sparkle
I would like it if you could give the other letter to Dash, I don't know her address.
From Shepard"
Once I finish writing the letter I let out a sigh.
"What about me? I've done a lot too and I'm barely tired, grow some balls and stop being so lazy."
There are a few things wrong with that statement, firstly I'm a woman, or a mare as these ponies say so if I start growing balls I should find help, secondly there's nothing to do so I'm chilling. Also you said you'll tell me your name.
"Having balls isn't all bad, there's so many things good about them. Also you can just call me Night Springs."
Huh, odd name and as much as I would love to have a nice long talk about reproductive organs I want to relax, not talk with a voice in my head.
"We'll I hope you enjoy the few seconds you have of chillaxing because we have company."
The door in the far side of the room burst open and a couple on ponies walked in, all of who were guys. My brain was to busy thinking about the voice, how did it know they were coming, was it a coincidence, and is chillaxing a word? While a was thinking about how confusing the voice is that I barely heard what they were talking about.
"That fight was awesome, I can't believe he didn't get hurt from that blow." A smaller than average bat pony said as he was walking into the room. He had dark blues and a purple mane with tints of gold in it.
"We know Moon, we were there too." Said a deeper voice walking into the room. He was taller than me by about half a head, he had a think build and green eyes and his mane was just a plain dark purple.
"Yea Brick, but you have to admit that that was pretty cool, did you see the way he blocked that blow?" If the tall pony's name is Brick Wall I'm going to face palm, hoof, what ever.
The knew pony walked in, he was about the same height as me and had gray eyes and a normal dark purple like his friend.
"Oh hay look, we got a room mate." The small one who's name I think is called Moon said pointing a hoof at me.
"Hello to you too short stack." I said looking at Moon.
"Oh where are our manners, I'm Starry Night, this is Clay Brick and the little one's Dark Moon." The medium sized pony pointed at a pony as he was saying a name.
"Hi, I'm Jane, but my friends call me Shepard." I said hopping off my bed and walking over to the group who just entered.
"We'll it's nice to meet you, say, I didn't see you in the group of recruits, are you in the day guard? Because they stay on the other side of the hall." Brink said tilting his head to the side.
"Nah, I'm trying to get in the night guard, I'm surprised you didn't see me." I said with a dismissing hoof gesture.
“Should we have?” Dark said with a raised eye brow.
“I suppose not, I was covered up after all.” I said with a small shrug.
After a few moments of an awkward silence I took a look around at the room and saw a clock in the side of the room, it read 6:50.
“Crap, it’s almost time for dinner, let’s start to head over.” I said walking past them and out the door.
“Oh you’re right, let’s go.” Starry said following after me.
“Before we go can I ask a question?” I asked turning my head to look at them.
“Shoot.”
“Is chillaxing a word?”
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We walked through the building trying to find the cafeteria with little luck.
”You can just ask someone.”
We’ll find where we need to go soon enough, it won’t take much longer.
”Suuuuuuuuure.” he said with sarcasm in his tone.
Well then who am I going to ask then?
”*sigh* Take the next left, head down the corridor and take the third right and it will be on the right.”
How do you know that? I’ve never been here so how do you know where it is? And how were you able to sigh in my head?
I didn’t get a reply. “*sigh*, Come on guys, I know the way.” I said taking the left and following down the hall.
“Why didn’t you say anything earlier?” Dark said with annoyance in his tone.
“Because Night Springs told me.”
“Who?” Dark said.
“Just someone I recently met.”
We soon reached the cafeteria exactly where Night said it’ll be. Okay next time Night talks to me there’s going to be a lot of questions.
”Who ever said I left?”
Really? Now that I’m about to eat you talk again?
”What? Aren’t I aloud to have a break too?”
Fine, once I get my food we can have a NICE long talk.
Author's Note
Sorry for a few things.
I didn't have much time during last week.
Mass Effect: New Beginnings
Rainbow Dash
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Why don’t they trust her? So yea she may have not told them much, she may be a bit mysterious sure, she does have that weird magic as well and have weird teeth but why don’t they trust her.
I’m lying on my bed in my cloud house staring up at the roof, thinking about my friends and Shepard.
I know my friends are just worried about me but don’t they know I can handle myself.
Also Shepard is in the Royal Guard, she wouldn't do anything bad if she could help it. She did help Bon Bon with that robber and asked nothing in return.
But I can't tell them about the weird stuff, then they definitely won't trust her.
The egghead in me wants to know how she can use magic or biotics as she called it without a horn. I want to ask Twi if that's even possible. I think she said it had something to do with radiation before she was born. Isn't radiation deadly if you get enough of it? And why haven't I ever heard about something like this before? Ugh, all this thinking is making my brain hurt. I'm going to get some fresh air.
I got off of my bed and headed outside. Looking down towards Ponyville always made me feel better. Getting to admire everything from a distance.
I jumped off my front porch and started to plummet towards the dirt road below me. Wings firmly strapped to my sides as I decened made my heart beat furiously in my ears. The feeling of adenine rushing through my blood made me feel..... Excited is the best thing I can describe it as.
As I was about to hit the ground I unfolded my wings and pulled up. Wind rushing through my mane as all the G's were applied to my body.
I flew for a good hour before I heard somepony yelling my name.
I made my way down to my friend and landed with a soft thud in front of her.
"Oh, there you are. I got a letter from Shepard." Twilight said pulling out a letter from her saddle bag.
That puzzled me. "Really, it's not even been a day yet, what happened? Please tell me nothing bad happened." I said starting to panic.
"She just sent me a letter asking me to give this to you, I think it might be her saying she's O.K." Twilight reassured me with a small smile.
Twilight floated the letter over to me. I held out my hoof and the letter felling into my grasp. I starred at for a few moment until I opened it to which it read.
"Dear Rainbow Dash
One thing I want to say before I begin is that I may have lied a tincy little bit. I was never in the guard but I was in an army for 14 years, I didn't lie about that. I just wanted to say I was sorry, I did it because everything was new to me so the first thing my body did was dig me into a hole I'm trying to get out of. Anyway.
At the moment I am at boot camp for the night guard, the drill instructor is a push over to what I'm used to. He was using words like 'maggot' and 'wimps', where I'm from they had a much more colorful vocabulary. I bet this guy would be pissing himself in front of the guy I got trained by.
Anyway I ended up getting into a jousting match with one of the actual night guards, I won of cause. You should have seen his face, priceless.
Once that was all over we got sent to the barracks to unpack and that's where I am now. Other than that nothing has happens except some one staring at my ass. I'll be writing again tomorrow, also I don't know your address so Twilight will probably give this to you.
Till next time Recruit Jane Shepard, Specter, N7 operative, Hero of the Skillein blitz, Commander of the Normandy SV-2. I love all the titles I've earned, it makes it fun to sign off letters."
Firstly. Why didn't she tell me she wasn't in the guard? I wouldn't think any less of her if she wasn't in the guard. But it still seems like she was in some type of army then.
Secondly. Woah, that's a lot of titles, what are mine? There's winning the 'Best Young Flyers Competition'. Fasted flyer in Equestria. Most awesome pony in Ponyville. If I have more time I could think of hundreds.
Also I didn't know her name was Jane, I just presumed it was just Shepard. She must prefer being called that if that's how she introduces herself. Come to think of it my friends do call me Dash and it IS my last name.
Also she seems to be doing quite well with how she wrote her letter.
But a few things seemed a little odd, and I may need a egghead to help answer it.
"Twi? Have you ever heard of something called 'The Skillein Blitz'?" I asked tilting my head to the side a bit.
"Never heard of it, you might have to ask her next time we see her." Twilight answered with a reassuring smile.
"Also I hate to say this but you were right. Shepard wasn't in the guard." I said lowering my head.
"Oh? What do you mean?" She asked looking confused, I didn't blame her.
"She said that she was never in the guard but still says she was apart of this 'N7' thing." I said looking back up.
"Don't worry Dash, I'm sure she had her reasons on why she didn't tell you at first. She is rather mysterious after all."
"Yea, I hope your right, but right now I'm heading back home, my wings are killing me." I said stretching out my wings.
"Than I'll be on my way, bye." She said walking off with a smile.
"Bye Twi, thanks for delivering the letter for me." I said with a wave.
Once Twilight was out of sight I flew back home, to write a letter of my own.
Author's Note
Ok, two things.
1: sorry about not writing as much as I used to, I've had a lot of homework at the moment.
2: Thank you guys sooooooo much, +1000 views and +65 faves. I never thought that this story would get this much love in all my life. I just wanted to leg you all know that none of this would be here without you guys.
Sleepyted
Mass Effect: New Beginnings
Shepard
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Being the commander of one of the most advance ships ever made meant that we didn’t have much shore leave. And in turn we missed out on quite a lot that other ship’s crew get, such as getting to see their friends and family, getting to relax and one of the biggest, good food.
Because the Normandy would be out almost years at a time meant that most of the food we had was almost entirely made out of fake ingredients.
Only about once a month did we get REAL food on ours travels and that would be fruits and meats we found on planets and bought on stations and most of which was still fake.
I must have sat there for at least ten minutes staring wide eyed at the bowl of macaroni and cheese. I’m surprised that my brain hasn’t melted from the flavor of the dish. Just one mouth full of it was enough to put me in a comatose state. I can’t tell if I’m getting looks or not because I’m just sitting there, jaw hanging open, looking at a bowl of food.
“Dude, you okay?” I was knocked out of my trance by Starry nudging me on the shoulder.
“Huh, oh yea, I’m fine.” I said blinking a couple of times.
“Are you sure, you look a little out of it.” He said raising an eye brow.
“It’s nothing to get worried about.” I said with a small chuckle.
“Still doesn’t mean it’s nothing.” Moon said narrowing his eyes and leaning towards me a bit.
“It’s the food.” I said with a confused expression.
“What, we know it’s bad but that’s no need to go all comatose about it.” Moon said leaning back to the position he was in before.
“BAD?” I was quite taken aback by this. “This is some of the best food I’ve had.” I said digging back into my meal.
“Wha? If this is what you call good than I don’t want to know what you’ve been eating before.” Moon said with a surprised expression.
“When you’re on a ship for near years on end you don’t have a large choice of foods.” I said reminiscing about the old rations on the Normandy.
“What did you eat then?” Starry said looking curious.
“I had it good. I had officer previsions while my crew had even crappier rations.” I said with a roll of my eyes.
“That still doesn’t answer the question.” Moon said narrowing his eyes again.
“I had what is called Saith which is made of processed proteins, vitamins and minerals with a tiny amount of artificial flavors but not enough to make the food go off too soon and my crew got what was called Cachu and it was like what I got but with no flavors at all making it taste like cardboard. But after a while of crappy food I ended up using my own salary to buy high grade previsions, it cost a few thousand but it helped boost morale.” I said getting another spoon full of my meal.
“Wow, now I can sort of understand where you’re coming from.” Starry said going back to his meal.
“Officer previsions? Wait, you’re an officer?” Moon said looking around uneasily.
“I was a Commander in the Navy and among other things.” I said nonchalantly continuing my dish.
They all dropped their cutlery and went wide eyed, and all stared at me.
“Are you telling us we’ve been with an officer the whole time?” Brick said finally speaking up.
“I was a Commander of a different Army, I have no command here.” I said.
“Oh, Ummm, this is awkward.” Moon said rubbing the back of his neck.
“What army were you apart of?” Brick asked.
“The Systems Alliance.”
“Sorry if I may seem rude but I’ve never heard of it.” Brick said.
“Don’t blame you, probably no one here has, We’re located far up north.” This macaroni and cheese is amazing.
"You also said among others, what does that mean?" Starry asked raising an eye brow.
"I was a part of a group called N7 which only the best of the best get into, I was also part of a group called Spectres which means Special Tactics and Reconnaissance, and that's even harder to get into, the perks of which are once you're a Spectre you are conceded above the law meaning back where I'm from I can go around burning down houses and blowing up buildings if I had reason that would be for the greater good." I said.
"How do you become a Spectre?" Moon asked looking intrested.
"There's a saying 'Spectres are not trained, but chosen. Individuals forged in the fire of service and battle—those whose actions elevate them above the rank and file'. Unlike N7 where they train you, Spectres get chosen by our counsil. I was the first of my species to get chosen."
"If you where the first pony to get picked does that mean this council is made out of Griffins and stuff?" Moon said.
"Nope, totally different species altogether, there was the Asari, the Salarians and the Turians, and after a tonne of work from me hopefully another race called the Krogan will join them."
They looked at me with confused expressions. I mentally face palmed. They don't know anything about the Counsil, I might not even be in the Milky Way anymore.
"If you're with a lady such as myself and have no idea what they're talking about just nod up and down to at least seem like you understand." I said in a deadpan tone.
And like a bunch of knuckle heads they all slowly nodded their heads up and down.
Soon my face became friend with the table in front of me. Luckily my food was to the side when the happened otherwise I would have a face full of cheesy pasta. I stayed like for a few moments until I pulled my head up.
We ate in an awkword silence for the rest of our meals until I finished.
"Whelp, I'm going to burn some calories, I'll see you guys later." I said getting up from my seat.
"Why? It was only a small meal." Moon said eyeing me curiously.
"How do you think I got so ripped?" I said lifting up up an arm and tencing my mussels and let out a small chuckle.
Moon looked at his own arm for a second before he looked back up to me. "Ok, see you later Shepard." He said with a small wave.
Author's Note
Hi guys, as you can see I finally posted another chapter. Yay.
Sorry for the delay of about two months. Over here in the land down under school was finishing up for the term so I had a lot of tests to study for and once that was done I just wanted time to relax, so I played video games and read other fanfics.
You can see I was really busy on the second half of the delay.
I also wanted to say *clears throat, picks up piece of paper and pushes small lenses glasses up nose.* HOLY S**T, 1400+ VEIWS!!! I never thought any of my story's would get this big. Just think about how many people that is. That would be more than whole sky scrapers here in Aus
I wanted to say a HUGE thank you to all you guys. Also expet to see chapter coming out a lot soon than before, now that my brake is over I can work more on this story.
Mass Effect: New Beginnings
Shepard
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The fresh, cold air of night felt relaxing against my week old face.
I had my eyes closed facing up towards to starry sky, a small smile on my face. To think that not long ago I was up there, racing through the infinite expanse of space. I can still remember just sitting in the Normandy, looking off into the dark abyss. The seamlessly peace expanses of the stars twinkling in the distance.
I let out a sigh and tilt my head down to face the ground. I need to forget about being Commander Shepard the Human and start anew as Shepard the Pony. Most would say that’s a step down and I would have to agree with them. I was Commander Shepard, first Human Spectre and savour of the galaxy thrice and now I am a pony, a simple pony sort of like the ones that used to live on Earth. But I think the worst thing is the fact I don't know if everything I did payed off.
Did the Crucible? Did everyone make it? Did my friends survive?
All I hope is that if they did that they're not grieving over me. They all deserve to be happy. I couldn't have done anything without them, I'm as much of a hero as they are.
I let out another drawn out sigh and opened my eyes to once again look up into the inky blackness of space. The night sky as never looked more amazing. Before I never got the chance to just sit back and watch.
The last time was my final moments with Anderson.
I felt a tear roll down my cheek as I reminisced about my old friend. Without him I would have been executed for all I did.
I was soon cut off from my daydreaming by a sound of hooves clopping on the stone path in the garden I sat in. "Is anypony here?" I heard a voice, I couldn’t quite place it but it seemed to make me feel a little better.
"Y-yea." I said in a weak voice, sniffling my nose and wiping my years away.
I turned and was met with an odd sight. There standing behind me was a deep blue pony with hair that looked like the night sky, little light twinkling like the stars above. She was also a good three feet taller than me but the thing that stood out the most was that she had both a horn and wings. I haven't seen something like this before.
"H-hi." Is all I managed to get out before I sighed and looked back into the night sky.
"Shouldn't you be inside? It's awfully late to be out, you could just wait till morning." She said starting to approach me.
"There are no stars in the day." I replied.
She seemed taken aback. I heard her drop dead in her tracks before she said "y-you like the stars?"
"Yea, one of my favourite things."
She walked right up next to me. "Do you mind if I join you?" She asked.
"Not at all." I said.
She sat down next to me and looked up into the night sky. "Not many watch the night anymore, it's sad really." I could sense some sadness in her words.
I let out an 'MMMmmm' in response.
We sat there for some time just looking up into the cold night sky. The stars twinkling up above, seeming to have a life of their own.
“Why were you crying?” my companion asked turning her head to look at me.
“You saw that did you?” I replied looking down with a faint smile.
“Yes.”
“It’s nothing to worry about.” I said trying to shrug it off.
“But the best way to help is to tell somepony.” She said continuing pushing.
“*sigh* I’m just thinking about an old friend.” I said closing my eyes.
“What happened to them?” She asked.
“He died.” I said letting a tear fall from my eye.
“Oh, what happened?” She asked before saying. “That’s if you want to.”
“W-we were trying to help everyone from where I live, we were at where we were meant to be but nothing is that easy.” I said letting out a sigh.
“Waiting for us was once someone I followed orders from, I don’t know what he did but he somehow controlled me. I was made to point my weapon at my friend and made to fire it. *swallow* but it wasn’t quick, it wasn’t painless. He lasted minutes before his injuries caught up with him. We sat there looking up to the stars like we are now. I think he would have wanted it that way.” By now my cheeks where drenched by my tears.
We sat there in a long, drawn out silence while she let me cry my heart out about a good friend. “I know what it’s like to lose a friend, it’s not something you get used to.” She said looking to the ground as well.
“But it doesn’t mean it’s the end of the world, there are many more ponies out there who will be your friends. You just need to know the right place to look.” She said looking back up to the sky.
I returned my focus back up to the sky to see a shooting star fly past. “Thank you.” I managed to get out in a low voice.
We sat there looking up into the sky. It felt like a massive weight has been lifted from my chest. “What’s your name?” I quietly asked tuning to her.
“You don’t know who I am?” she asked raising an eyebrow.
“I’m sorry if it’s rude but I don’t I only got to Equestria about a week ago, I barely know anyone.
“No, it’s fine. My name is Luna. What’s your?” Luna asked.
“My name is Shepard.”
We sat there for a good hour after that just looking for peace up into the cold abyss of the night sky.
“It’s been a nice night but I have to get to sleep if I want any energy for training tomorrow.” I said getting up.
“You’re training for the guard?”
“Yea, I’m trying to join the night guard.” I said with a slight chuckle.
“Why are you training for the royal guard?” she asked.
“I was once a Commander in a different army, I guess it’s just in my nature to want to help people.”
“You were a Commander?” she asked.
“For several years. Had my own ship and everything.”
“Well good night to you Shepard, I hope we can see each other again sometime.”
“Thank you for the company Luna.” I said with a smile.
And with that I headed back to my room to rest up for the night.
Author's Note
Yay, a new chapter within a week unlike before which took near two months.
A half shout out to TheFantasyFear for getting half of my last challenge he got it right.
If any of you guys have ideas for the story don't feel scared to tell me, if i think it's good I'll add it and put out a shout out for them.
Mass Effect: New Beginnings
Chapter 25: Day 1 (Part 1)
Shepard
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My eyes slowly cracked open to the feel of warm sunlight hitting against my eye lids.
I let out a groan as I fight with my fatigue to get up. Today is the first day of boot camp. We got told to get up at 0600 hours and get back to the field that we first arrived at with all our gear.
I clicked on my visor and checked the time, 5:13 Am. Well I guess this is a good time to get up, get ready and get breakfast.
As I get out of bed I see the other three are fast asleep and one thing popped into my head.
What is the most annoying way I can wake them?
I’ll just do the most common one I know, I’ll bang on the door as hard as I can when I’m ready.
I look out the door to see none of the doors open or have any sign of anyone being up.
I suck in a deep breath and bring my arm back for a hard knock on the door. A small smile spreads on my face under my mask.
‘KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK’ “Wake up girls, you have to get up!” My voice gets muffled a bit by my mask.
I heard groan come from my roommates and see lumps on their beds move around in discomfort. I let out a small chuckle as I see Dark fall out from under one of the covers.
“But muuuum, it’s not time for school yet.” He mumbled on the floor.
I walked up to him, lightly grabbed his wing and tickled his nose with it.
He let out a massive sneeze and lurched up. “What was that for?” He asked rubbing his eyes.
“If here’s like anything like where I’m from you would want to get up early for some hot food.” I said leaning back a bit.
“Shepard? What even is the time?” he said getting up.
“Around five thirty-ish.” I said with a shrug.
He continued rubbing his eyes as he stood up. “It’s too early, wake me up lat-“ He stopped when he saw me and did the closest thing to dropping your jaw on the floor.
“What are you doing here?” He asked with a shocked expression.
“Waking you up, what does it look like?” I said with a raised brow but he probably didn’t see it due to the helmet.
“Shepard? Was that you yesterday?” He asked going wide eyed.
“Oh cause, did you really think I was lying about being trained?” I asked.
I let out a frustrated sigh. “Once you’ve done admiring me can you wake up the other the girls?”
That seemed to kick him out of whatever state he was in.
“U-um sure.” He said with a small forced smile.
And with that I left him to wake up the others. I wondered down the hallway, not hearing any noises beside the occasional snore coming from a room or two. If this place is like the Alliance boot camp they will all be chewed out if they turn up late for training, I know from firsthand experience.
I soon arrived at the cafeteria and when I entered, GASP, no one was there. Besides the lack of life I also noticed the mouth watering smell. Seems like it’s always like this. Well, I hope so anyway.
I got my meal and sat at a table in the corner of the room, not that I was a loner or anything, because what’s the point of sitting in the middle of the room?
The meal I chose was a salad, yea I know. I felt really tempted by the steaming hot plate of what I think were pancakes but just because I can eat food I wouldn’t normally eat doesn’t mean I fatten up on them, I still need to keep my body fit and healthy. I already feel myself growing a muffin top.
I take off my mask and dig in. The salad I chose had a lot of greens such as lettuce, spinach and rocket but sometimes there were stuff lie carrots and tomatoes. And to top it off, literary, it had a salad dressing which I had no idea of what is was.
Once they got their means they came over to me. Night let out I load yawn. “Why did you have moon wake us up this early in the morning? I don’t even think Celestia is up yet.”
“This early? At this rate we’ll have like five minutes of spare time before training starts.” I said scooping up another mouth full of salad.
“What time is it anyway?” He asked.
They sat down at the table, Brick next to me and Moon and Night on the other side of it.
“It’s around 5:35-ish.” I said with a shrug.
“And what time are we due?” Brick spoke up.
“At six.”
I finished my meal about five minutes later.
“Whelp, I’m done, I’ll see you guys later then.” I said putting on my mask.
I saw Brick’s and Night’s eyes go wide as I got up. “THAT WAS YOU YESTERDAY?!” I Night near yelled.
“I thought you saw my armour when you got here?” I said with a raised eye brow.
“Momma always said to look a mare in the eyes, more polite that way.” Brick said going back to his meal.
“Flattery is nice but it won’t get you anywhere.” I said smiling.
His cheeks turned a faint shade of red which cause a small chuckle from the others at the table.
“We are due at the field that we first arrived at yesterday in about twenty minutes, see you then.”
And with that I for the field.
Author's Note
Yay, another chapter!
The reason why this took a while I explained in my blog so if you want to know just read that.
Mass Effect: New Beginnings
Chapter 26: Day 1 (Part 2)
Shepard
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Trees were scattered all around the castle, the enormous flora towering above all with only multi story buildings being higher.
It’s sort of weird seeing all this, it reminds me of sixteenth century buildings back on Earth, hell, and even trees on Earth are rare.
I've seen trees on my travels mind you but on planets home planets of species there’s little to no trees, well except for Sur’Kesh which had whole forests.
I can see the field I needed to head to only a little bit ahead of where I am. I tap the on button on the side of my visor turning it on. Half my vision suddenly had a slight blue tint to it and a start up screen greeted me.
Once the loading was done I was on the field. There were only around twenty other people there before me. Good, I didn’t want to train with a WHOLE group of slackers.
I looked up into the right and saw it was 5:55, five more minutes I guess.
For the next five minutes most of the other recruits came out running trying to not be late.
By the time the five minutes were up I was standing next to Brick, Dark and Night.
We were standing there, in the group of recruits. Only about two thirds of the recruits were here, I guess I should get comfortable. There will be a MASSIVE scold to all those who came late.
The drill instructor from the previous day came out into the field, flanked by two other guards who wore what I presumed was the uniform for the night guard.
It was a dark blue, almost purple, with light purple highlights. The chest plate looked like two wings out stretched across their chest and in the centre there was a blue gem with a black slit going down through the middle making it look like an eye of a snake. The helmet covered the hole back of the head and segments when it starts to go down the neck. On the back of the helmet is a frill like most old fashioned but this one looked more closely to one of the bat ponies wings. On the back was an armoured, segmented back plate. Over that was a dark blue saddle with light blue highlights on the edges. And to finish it all off they had boots which went a third of the way up their shins.
But one thing that stood out for me was that they both looked exactly the same. And I mean EXACTLY the same, height, build and all, even eye colour.
The drill instructor and his flanking guards walked to the front of us all.
All three of them had blank expressions. The drill instructor step forward from the two guards and took a deep inhale.
“ATTENTION!” he yelled out.
All who were talking stopped and quickly turned to look at the instructor.
The instructor still kept his blank, expressionless state as he looked over out group.
“WHERE ARE THE REST OF YOU MAGGOTS?!” he yelled out to us.
I just stood there in the crowd, at attention waiting for the next thing to happen.
The drill instructor looked over us, he hung his head a bit and let out a sighed.
He muttered something under his breath then looked back up to us. “ALRIGHT, I GUESS WE HAVE TO START WITHOUT HALF YOU SLACKERS!” He yelled to us
Everyone started to run around trying to get into groups while Brick, Dark, Night and I just stood there looking around as everyone else ran around like headless Pyjaks.
I looked over my shoulder to look at them. “I don’t suppose you guys want to team up?” I asked tilting my head to the side.
“Really? You want to go with us?” Night asked looking at the friends ether side of him.
"Sure, unless you're secret serial killers." I said with a shrug.
"No, it's just that, uhh, we aren't really that good." He said rubbing the back of his neck with a force smile on his face.
"Don't you want to be with the better ponies?" Dark stepped in.
"The people who think their better than everyone else tend to be more cocky making them more prone to accidents while people who aren't as good tend to be more careful because they don't think about showing off." I know there's probably a flaw in my logic but unless someone point it out I'm fine.
We stood there in a silence for a little while. "So do you want to group up or what?" I said with a sigh.
"S-sure." Night said walking over to me.
"Hell yea." Dark said hopping over to me.
"Ok" is all brick said.
"Awesome, but there's one problem, we need five but we just have four." I said looking around.
"Ok, we could always look for one more?" Night suggested.
"Ok, I'll look around for a final member, you guys stay here." I said walking off.
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Starry Night
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As Shepard walked off into the crowd I turned and looked towards my friends. “Did that really just happen?” I asked slightly tilting my head.
“Do you mean the fact that we are in a team with probably the best pony here and that she’s a good looking mare? Yea that just happened.” I felt a blush hit my face as Dark said that.
“I recommend not saying that to her face.” Brick said.
“I know, but you can’t deny that she’s a looker.” He said with a cheesy smile.
“Keep your perverted mind to yourself while she’s here or you might get a hard buck to the face.” I said feeling my blush lesion.
“*sigh*Let’s just hope she’s single.” He said suppression a chuckle.
I quickly gave him a swift kick to the side just where his armor didn’t cover.
“W-worth it.” He painfully said clutching his side.
We all let out a collective laugh as Dark recovered.
“Excuse me.” I heard coming from behind us.
We turned my head looking behind us.
Standing there was a bat pony mare. She had a dark gray coat with a light purple mane, her mane was style so that it was spiked down covering one of her eyes. Her eyes were a soft gold colour with deep black irises. And to top it all off she was wearing an old set of night guard armour.
“Yes.” I heard Brick say from beside me.
I felt a slight jab to the side. I turned to look at Dark who was wiggling his right eye brown at me. I let out a sigh, slightly shook my head and turned back to the mare.
“I haven’t been able to find a group and seeing as you have three members I was wondering if I can join you?” She said fluttering her one visible eyelid.
“S-sure, but we’re a group of four, our last member is trying to look for the last, Brick, can you go get her?” I said.
He gave a single nod and then went into the crowd.
“Well the name’s Raven.” She said sticking her hoof out.
I stuck out my hoof to meet hers and shook it. “My name is Starry Night, this is Dark Moon and the one who just left was Clay Brick.” I said letting go of her hoof.
“Who’s the last one?” she asked.
“I think it will be better if I let her to introduce herself.” If her reaction was anything like ours I need to hold in the laughter.
“Found her.” I heard brick say from behind us.
We turned our heads to look over to Brick and trailing close behind him was Shepard.
“I heard you guys found the last member before me.” She said letting out a slight chuckle.
“Wait, HE’S your last member?” Raven asked pointing a hoof at Shepard and her eyes growing to the size of dinner plates.
“It’s SHE I should have you know.” She said.
“Wait, you’re a mare?” Raven asked Shepard.
“Do you think any of the block heads around us could be as good as any woman here?” She said sticking out a hoof.
Raven let out a chuckle and returned the brohoof. “I hear you sister.”
“Shepard.”
“Raven.”
“Well Raven I guess you’re stuck with us.” Shepard let out a slight chuckle.
“Let’s hope it’s for the best.”
Author's Note
HELLO READERS!
Ted here and I wanted to say sorry for the three week delay (I fee like I'm doing this a lot now days)
Also I have a question for all you guys.
What's you favourite race in the Mass Effect universe?
So till next time
Mass Effect: New Beginnings
Chapter 27: Day 1 (Part 3)
Shepard
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So our group of five stood there in the middle of the crowd waiting for everyone else to find their own. I looked to the corner for the time and saw that we’ve been here for almost ten minutes already.
“What’s taking them so long?” Dark said from my right.
I turned my head to face him. “Just wait, do you really want to be shouted at sooner?” I asked with a faint smirk.
“*Sigh* I’m just board out of my mi-”
“ALRIGHT! THAT’S LONG ENOUGH, IF YOU AREN’T IN A GROUP ALREADY THAN YOU BETTER HURRY UP!” The drill instructor cut in.
“Speak of the devil.” I commented.
There was a little bit of quick shuffling but that soon faded away along with any talking.
“THERE SHOULD BE THIRTY-SIX GROUPS OF YOU!” He shouted out.
“THIS IS YOUR GROUP FOR THE REST OF TRAINING; I RECOMMEND THAT YOU LEARN TO GET ALONG!” That’s one thing that I’ve never heard from a drill instructor before.
“NOW, TODAY WE’LL BE WORKING ON FITNESS, LET’S START WITH FIFTY LAPS AROUND THE FIELD!”
“MOVE OUT!!” He shouted to us throwing his arm out.
And with that the flood gates opened. Many of the recruits sprinted for all their worth while others like me kept a steady pace. Dark and Night were one of those people who just ran off till they saw that the others and I were a little behind them.
“What’s with all the slowness?” Dark said tilting his head.
“How many people do you think can keep up a non-stop sprint for what looks like around fifty miles?” I said.
I could see the gears working in his head till his eyes widened. “ooooOOOOO, I get it, we’re pacing.” He said as Starry and he as they slowed down to match our own speed.
“Also he never said it was a race so there’s no need to rush.” I said keeping up a good pace.
We were jogging around seeing other groups start to show signs of fatigue but only a few, not everyone would tire already. Everyone had done at least twenty or so laps by now.
“Shepard? *Pant*” I heard Dark ask.
“Yea?” I asked not turning to look at him.
“You said *Pant* that you’ve *Pant* done something like this *Pant* before, right?” He asked sounding exhausted.
“Winded already?” I asked with a slight chuckle.
“Shut up *Pant*”
“Well yea, I’ve done this before, and don’t worry, after about a month you get used to it.”
“Only a month?” He panted out sarcastically.
“Would you prefer to do a couple a hundred laps instead?”
"But what's the *Pant* best thing to *Pant* do?" He asked.
"Pretty much what we're doing now, you need to keep up a steady pace so you don't get exhausted." I replyed.
We kept running laps around the field, even though I've done this sort of thing before does not mean I have to enjoy it. At least in the Alliance we ran around a ship deck so we could see different stars and planets each week or so.
“Well, Brick, Night and I have known each *Pant* other since high school while we meet Shepard barely *Pant* twenty four hours ago.” Dark said.
“What about you Raven? Do you have any friends here?” Night spoke up, sounding like fatigue is starting to affect him.
“There are some ponies I know here but none of them I would call friends.”
“Bummer, do you have any friends or family back home?” Night asked.
“Yea, my parents are the reason I’m training for the guard. There’s also my younger sister, I also have a ton of friends.”
We continued doing laps, by now I wanted to hit my head against a wall. Even though I was amazed by all the greens around me before, now it’s starting to get repetitive.
“Really now? Don’t you like the beauty of this place?”
Oh great, your back, I thought you might have gone and died in a hole by now.
“Oh please, even with the amount of empty space in here it’s still hard to do anything like that when you’re in a mind.”
Go jump off a cliff.
“I don’t think you’ve relised by now but I don’t have legs to go and do that unless you want to help.”
I would think my Schizophrenic personality wouldn’t want to encourage suicide.
“But I know you won’t do it to prove a point.”
*Sigh* Just go away for a few hours, I don’t want a headache today.
“Fine, but if you need me I won’t be there.”
Like there ever is a time I need to talk to a voice in my head.
“Sheeeeepard? You there?” I was brought out of my internal talk when Dark bumped my side.
“Huh, what?” I asked turning to him.
“We just asked you if you had any friend or family” He asked.
“I don’t have any family and currently only have a few friends.” I answered off handedly.
“You don’t have a family? What does that mean?” He asked.
I gave him a deadpan expression which he probably couldn’t see with my mask being on. “It means that I’m an orphan and unless you want a broken noise I would drop the issue.” I recommended.
I guess he got the message because he didn’t bring it up through the rest of the run.
We weren’t the first group to finish but far from the last. Once we finished we had to wait for all the other people from the other groups to finish the run.
By the time the last of the people made it most of the first arrivals had caught their breath and were ready for anything that the drill instructor had for them. I was glad my group was one of them.
“OKAY, NOW THAT WE’VE FINISHED THAT WARM UP LET’S GET TO THE NEXT DRILL!” The instructor yelled.
“CRACKED HOOF COURSE!"
Author's Note
A CHAPTER WITHOUT A MONTH LONG WAIT!?!?
Sooo furthermore. I wanted to remind you that if you see anything wrong or doesn't make sense just put a comment down below and I'll try and fix it.
Sleepyted signing out
Mass Effect: New Beginnings
Shepard
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We were taken to ‘Cracked Hoof Cause’ by the drill instructor. In front of us was an obstacle cause which looked like it was pulled right out of the N7 training program.
At the start was a climbing wall which went around twenty-five feet up with only a few ropes dangling on it. Next was a tight rope walk which went for about fifty feet at the top of the wall to a platform built in a tree. Next was a rope swing which had four different ropes which I presume that you have to swing from one to another with a ten foot gap between them, all of the high up parts had a deep looking mud pit which would hopefully stop any serious injuries if you fell. After that is leap of faith from the fifty feet into a small artificial lake at the bottom. Next it looks like you swim about seventy feet till you reach a platform which you climb onto. Next you hop from small platform to small platform which are held above the water by wooden poles. Next you jump back onto dry land and crawl under a wire net suspended about twenty inches high with mud under it. Next is just a mud pit which I guess you have to run through. And to finish it all off there’s a hundred metre run to the end.
A sense of nostalgia hit me, reminding me of my time as a greeny, training to fight for my race. I felt a small smile cross my face.
“Is he really going to make us do that?” I heard Dark whisper from behind me.
I turn to look at him. “Why else would he bring us here?” I whispered back.
“THE PONY FROM YESTERDAY WITH THE STUPID ARMOR COME FORWARD!” The instructor yelled into the crowd.
“I think he means you Shepard.” Night said nudging me in the side.
I walked forward so that I was in front of the crowd and stood at attention and put hoof to my forehead in a salute like I used to do while I was in N7.
The instructor looked infuriated by this. “I WANT YOU TO GO AND SHOW EVERYPONY HOW NOT TO DO THIS! ONLY COME BACK ONCE YOU’RE DONE!” He yelled into my face.
“Sir yes sir.” I said running off to the start.
I took my position at a line painted into the ground.
“READY!”
I took a deep breath.
“SET!”
I lowered down my upper half.
“GO!”
And with that I took off to the climbing wall.
When I arrived the first thing that was in my head was how will I get up the wall? When I was a human I could just grab the rope and climb up but now that I don’t have hands that’s going to be near impossible now. Then an idea hit me.
I made my front hoofs into hook shapes then slipped the rope into my hooves. And once I knew I had a good grip I put my back hooves up ageist the wooden climbing wall and started to walk and pull myself up. After about twenty seconds I was finally at the top.
Now it’s time for the tight rope. The wire was made from metal twisted up like rope. I had a sinking feeling in my stomach when I looked down. If I were to fall I wouldn’t be able to use Biotic Charge without breaking most of my limbs with all the armor on. I start to cross it carefully by putting one hoof in front of the other. Once I was about a third of the way across a gust of wind blew past and made the wire wobble making my slip and fall chest first into the wire. But just before I fell into the mud below I hooked my front hooves catching me. I hear a few gasp from behind me as I hang there, daggling by a wire. I start to move my hooves down the wire, it won’t be as fast as walking across it but it’s better than falling all the way down. Once I was at the platform I climbed up.
The rope swing was made out of a thick rope with knots at the bottom. I took a small run up and jumped off the platform with my front hooves hooked. When I hit the rope I made sure that my bottom hooves land on the knot while my front ones hook onto the rope. I swing forward from the momentum of the jump but I wait until I swing back over before I jump to know that I was ready. I jump off the rope when it came back from the swing and land the same way I did with the other rope on this one. Once I land on the last rope I start swinging up higher for the final jump into the water. I need to get as much air as I can unless I want to land in the mud and no the water. On one final swing I jump off the rope and sail off in the air towards the water.
I land in the water with one large splash. I open my eyes once I land in the water to see the surface was a fair bit up. I start pushing downwards in the water, propelling me up. With my now water clogged armor it was a fair bit difficult. Once I break the surface I take a deep breath of fresh air. Once I got my bearings I started swimming to the platform.
I swim up to the side of the platform to see a small ladder. I climb up the ladder and that’s when I start to feel the burn of all of today’s training.
Once I’m upon the platform I look at the small platforms suspended by wooden poles and the thing that struck me about them was that they looked bigger up close.
I take a few deep breaths and then took a run up. With a large bound I jump onto the first platform. I land with all my hooves on the platform and with the momentum I already have I jumped to the next one, and then the next one, then the next one and before I knew it I landed on solid ground.
With the momentum I have I dive forwards and land on my stomach just in front of the next and slid about five feet. I start to commando crawl under the net and through the mud as fast as I could. Once I finished the net crawl my entire front was covered in my. I stood up and started to run my way through the mud after the net but it was about as fast as the crawl with how deep the mud was. It came up to my neck.
Before I could wipe any mud off myself I started the hundred metre sprint. Along the way a lot of the mud fell off but it didn’t do anything for my speed.
I cross the finish line to see an infuriated drill instructor. By this point I was breathing quite heavily. I look to the rest of the recruits to see most of them look either scared of what was to come or jealous of what I was able to do.
“NOW YOU SHALL STAY HERE UNTIL EVERYPONY ELSE HAS FINISHED!” He yelled right into my face.
I walk back over to my team and stand next to them.
“How hard was it?” I looked over to Night.
“The instructor was right about the run being a warm up.” I said heaving.
And now I get to see all the others try and do the obstacle course.
Author's Note
HAIL TURTLE!
I'm sorry that I was away for so long but my Grandfather died and I wasn't in the mood for writing. Then there was the end of year test and stuff for school so I had no time to write with all the studying.
But I'm back and I hope you enjoy this chapter, I feel like this is one of my better ones.
So for now.
Sleepyted Out.
Mass Effect: New Beginnings
"I guess, but I haven’t been in a relationship with a girl."
After she finished her lunch we set off towards the library, she told me about how she lives in a town called Ponyville. Really, do all the names have to be pony puns? She also asked me if I wanted a place to stay till I go back to the guard, though I’m not in the guard I might as well go along with that.
“Hey, do you want to make a bet?” I wonder what type of bet she’s talking about.
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The hard stone floor didn’t give me any comfort, I opened my eyes and stood up. I looked down and saw I was a human again but where am I? I looked around and realised that I was on Earth before the reaper attack. I saw a playground with little children running around it. I was watching the children play for about ten minutes. Wow, I thought that I would never see this again.
Author's Note
Here's the next chapter, also i wanted to say THANK YOU!! Wow guys 180 views, thank you soo much. Also i wanted to say I'm going to do more of those chose what happens next.
Mass Effect: New Beginnings
Chapter 21: Macaroni and cheese
Shepard
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The cafeteria.
In the alliance it was just an area where we ate tinny amounts of crap food ever seven hours. We used to sit around eating processed ‘food’ that tasted like cardboard, wait, cardboard would be tastier. There were only two times when I had REAL food was when I bought provisions from the citadel or when I was court-martialled.
As I looked around I saw a mailbox by the door, huh, handy. I walked over and put in my letters, there was a small florescent yellow sign above the box which read.
”WARNING DO NOT PLACE HOOVES INTO BOX.”
Well guess what the first thing I wanted to do was? Although I wanted to put a hand in I didn’t want to see the repercussion of my curiosity.Macaroni and cheese , Salad, Sandwich-.”WAIT, GO BACK!” ”Shut up Shepard, just go back a few stalls.” ”STOP!” ”Just get it before I annoy you until you go insane.”
Silence
I let out a sigh and walked up to the stall. The smell of cheese was now all I smelt, never really liked cheese. I grabbed a small bowl of the steaming meal and walked over to an empty table and sat down.” Now eat it.” ”I wouldn’t be surprised if that were true but sadly that’s not the case, your brain controls you and your mind controls your brain.” ”But I know you don’t know that.” ”*sigh* Fine, what do you want to know.”
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Twilight
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Sitting in the locked up library is an odd experience to say the least. We were all (except Rainbow Dash) in the library, sitting in a circle.
We all sat there in an awkward silence.
KNOCK KNOCK NNOCK
Pinkie’s mane inflated itself back to its poufy state and a wide smile appeared on her face. “I’ll get it.” She said as she bounced over to the door.very bad mouth writing.” I said tearing open the top and pulling out the note.
"Dear Twilight Sparkle
I would like it if you could give the other letter to Dash, I don't know her address.
From Shepard"
“It’s from Shepard, she doesn’t know Dash’s address so she asked me to give her this other letter.” I said lifting up the other letter.
“Well, are you going to open it? Pinkie said bouncing up and down.
“We can’t pry into her mail, it’s un-ladylike.” Rarity said putting a hoof to her chest and sticking her muzzle up in the air. “Go on open it.” She added.
“But what if Dash finds out that we opened it though?” I said looking at the closed letter.
“We can put it in a new envelope once we’re done, no harm done.” Pinkie said with a shrug.
“Fine, but make sure Dash never finds out, we don’t want to lose her trust.” I said opening the second letter.
“Okay let’s see. She says she lied about being in the guard, that of which I expected. She joined the night guard, she won a small jousting match, she also talked about how ‘soft’ her drill instructor is compared to her old one. She also listed her titles with her name, Huh, her first name isn’t Shepard, its Jane, also have any of you girls heard of something called ‘The Skillein blitz’?” I said looking at all the others.
They all shook their heads.
“Oh well, I guess we have to seal this back up and give it to Dash.”
Author's Note
Sorry for the long wait, I got caught up with the horrible addiction of video games.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/118916/fallout-equestria-tainted-soul
Enjoy
Mass Effect: New Beginnings
So, been a while since I touched this.
A absolute mad lad by the name of Lighting_Spark wanted to continue this story and ask for me blessing. I agreed so I wanted to give a shout out for him to all you guys to check out the continuation of this story along with error corrections and the like!
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/489543/mass-effect-new-beginnings-remastered
