Nexus Effect

Ch.38

After escorting the amorous lovers to the asari’s home and reluctantly refusing to join in for fun, we returned to the Normandy and I practically wept with relief to see the Mako being driven out and a Hammerhead being hovered in. I asked what was going to happen to the Mako and they told me they were scrapping it for being such hot garbage. I begged them to let me repurpose it as a hangar queen. Hot shit or not, it has good materials to use!

There wasn’t much space in the launch bay, but I assured them that with my assistant droids I’d be able to render it down to parts within a day. “I fly the beast made of steel! Then I can cut the night! Gas tank is filled with vengeance, Machine guns shooting spite! Can’t find the thing that makes this, Thing take a hard turn right! I follow where it leads me, By battered wings of might!” I sang as I rolled another of the tires to the corner of the launch bay while Dee and Daw used their omni-tools to cut apart the frame.

“How do you know about music from an ancient death metal band, Nora?” Penny asked and I squeaked as I bolted upright in surprise at her having snuck up on me.

“D-don’t do that! You almost made me pop a circuit!” I panted and patted my sternum to try and calm down. Yola had been the one to report our findings while I immediately got to work on dismantling the Mako. I have many plans for the damned thing’s parts~!

“Sorry, so how do you know?” Penny asked as she leaned on the wall of the hanger.

Thank goodness this was a slighter bigger Normandy since the SR-1 would have had half the crew down here for no reason if it was like the in-game model. It's similar to the SR-2 so a lot of stuff was not in the hanger or connected to it, which was good since the Engines weren’t directly connected to the hangar. That was asking for trouble from boarding actions. Also the armory is down here in place where the engines had been in the SR-1 game version. The engine room was up along with the crew, med bay and main gun, then the CIC was the top floor.

“Nora. Hey, you with me?” Penny gently shook my shoulder and I snapped out of my memory dive. Um, I haven’t done that before. It was like I was back on earth, playing the game, speaking to those characters that, back then, were just characters. “Nora? Are you okay?” She had both hands on my shoulders as she looked into my visor and I looked down at her.

“Sorry. I’m just a bit air-headed right now.” More like I have so much more on my mind at once that it’s debilitating. It was like when Yola lifted my restrictions and I was barely able to function as a person. I need to tell my unwanted program to limit my-.

“Nora, do you need to lie down again?” Penny worriedly asked and I shook myself.

“N-no! No. I’m fine. I’ll be fine at least. I...my processing power is so much higher now. Everything in real-time is so slow for me now. I think I have an inkling of how salarians feel. No wonder they lack the ability to make meaningful relationships.” I need to put a buffer in stat or I might be operating at such clock speeds I might go insane! “Anyway, the reason I know is because of how I came into being. I told you that I’m a Living Intelligence, right?”

“I remember something about that. Are you saying that you were a human? That you became an LI before humanity even came into contact with other species?” Penny astutely guessed and I nodded.

“Exactly. There are forces in this universe and beyond that defy scientific explanation. Not just religiously, but spiritually, magically. Magic exists Shepard. Things that most people would think are just fantasy are possible.” I put the brakes on my geeking out and took a steadying breath. I don’t need to breathe, but it helps. “Anyway. I’m what’s known to the Empire as a Displaced. I am a person from another reality that had my mind, body and soul ripped from my home and dropped somewhere else. Whoever Displaced me decided to stuff me into a Geth compiler server!”

“Was it painful?” Penny asked with surprising gentleness as she rubbed my shoulders and I sighed as I looked into her concerned gaze.

“No. It was instantaneous. One moment, I’m walking home to get ready for a date. Next, I’m in a void. Nothingness. No light, sound, touch, taste or scent. I was robbed of everything. It didn’t hurt physically, because I didn’t exist physically! I was-!” Why am I on my knees, why am I clutching Penny so tightly? Why am I crying? I thought I was over this! “S-sorry…”

“No, I’m sorry. It’s a sensitive subject for you.” Penny rocked me gently as she pressed my visor to her chest. “You need to go lie down now?”

“N-no...tinkering is a good distraction.” Don’t think of the nothingness. Don’t think about it. That’s the past. You aren’t some unformed instance of intriguing data for emotionless Geth to poke and prod and torment-. “S-so what was it you wanted to talk about, Shepard?” I suddenly deflected as I stood up and moved to help Dee and Daw with the hull of the Mako as their pet pyjak held some periphery tools for their omnis. Why it’s helping, I don’t want to understand.

“I was just checking in on you since Yola reported and Tali is working on the bridge since some of the navigation console’s circuits fried from trying to keep up with the ‘astrogation’ module you installed directly in the M.E.H Drive. She’s upgrading it to be a 1:1 system since it outshines the old navigation system anyway.” Penny answered as Dee and Daw split the front of the hull.

“Oh, sorry.” I sheepishly apologized while I rubbed the back of my helmet as Shepard looked over the dismantled remains of the Mako. Heh, it’s more useful as scrap for other things.

“So, what are you making?” Penny asked before HK-47 walked out of the Armory, covered in soot and carrying a tube in his hands. Apparently Shepard gave him the freedom to maintain the appropriated blaster weapons after a few were handed over for C-Sec and the ESA to study. The Empire may not be trading weaponry yet, but they said anything obtained otherwise wouldn’t be frowned upon. Something about their Goddess Wiatr demanding fair and balanced trade, which can’t happen when one party holds a monopoly.

“Nothing yet. I’m going to render it down to individual parts first, then I’m going to feed the parts too specialized to my matter processor to turn into Omni-gel.” At Penny’s curious brow raise I giggled. “I mean I eat it, then my, um...well, my, uh, breasts are what converts the matter into Omni-gel.” At my admission, Penny’s eyes looked down to my DD-cups. I’d milked myself this morning and it was afternoon. I’d also avoided eating much, so they didn’t have much to make milk from.

“That is...very interesting.” Penny said with a small smirk and cleared her throat. “Well, I hope you feel better. Sorry again for bringing up old wounds.”

“I’m just as surprised as you are Shepard. PTSD hits like a bitch at the worst times.” I need to talk this out with Yola. I’m scared that I have such a deep-seated fear of my own people. Are there Changeling or Unicorn shrinks? I’ll ask Marrow, he’ll know if there are any brain-divers or whatever if just talking isn’t enough for me.

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“Hah, unf~...” Her fingers dove into her quim desperately while her other hand groped her mocha-skinned left C-cup breast and tweaked her dark brown nipple as she writhed on her bed. “Oh~...Nora~...” The thought of that quirky mechanic, busty and jiggling as she fired a heavy machine gun-. “Ahn~!” Penny Inoue Shepard cried as she worked herself to orgasm at her dirty fantasies of the sexy suited woman.

“What was that Penny? You want me to be bigger?” Penny fantasized the woman purring as she took off her visor and began to fucking eat the gun. Her breasts surged forth, bursting through her suit-!

“Yes~!” Penny cried out as her body convulsed again before her door beeped.

“Commander? It’s Kaidan. Do you have a moment?” Penny bit her lip and yanked her fingers from her quim before she got up and rushed for the intercom.

“Yes Lieutenant, just let me straighten up.” Penny warned her crew at their first official meeting without superiors around that she slept nude when not on the battlefield, so they’d know why she needed a moment. It also made a convenient excuse for her to clean up when caught like this.

“Okay, commander.” Kaidan said as her fantasy kept going, the thought of drinking from those breasts in her head. That said, she was still hot and bothered and hoped the quick spray of deodorant would mask her feminine musk when she opened the door for her SiC once back in her usual black and gray bodysuit.

“Yes, Alenko? It’s fairly late in the day and we’re not leaving the Citadel until morning.” Penny asked him as she let him into her quarters and she sat down in her rotating chair at her desk.

“I’m just here to report on handling the C-Sec issue and that Hanar that wanted help to get a permit to preach.” Kaidan said as he held up the thumb drive and handed it over.

“Alright, any issues? Shootout? Injuries?” Commander Shepard asked while her cunt convulsed. Holy shit. She hasn’t had it this bad since that first same-sex encounter she had in the locker room showers after the first meeting with the Empire stoked her and Katrina’s lusts so much they needed a release then, not later.

“Of course there was a shootout when helping C-Sec investigate their missing informant, but the Hanar issue got political. Thankfully Liara’s got experience there due to her mother’s prominence in asari politics.” Kaidan reported and he looked Penny over. “Ma’am, are you alright?”

Oh, yes, she’s just fine. She just has a fucking ladyboner the size of the Citadel for an alien woman who isn’t even organic and-. “I’m fine, Kaidan, just tired. Rear Admiral Michailovich was as tiring to host as ever.” He was known to be exhausting for his energetic eagerness to get things done, but at least he was preferable to the hard-asses a good number of officers tended to be. Penny swore to never become a jackass, fuck, she still needed to get her mohawk back.

“Well, alright ma’am. I also have to say that I’m reprimanding Gunnery Chief Williams for some of her behavior on the Citadel while on duty. Her biased views of aliens had hampered the Hanar situation and her behavior towards Garrus was inexcusable. I can understand her family's feelings due to her Grandfather's actions during the First Contact war, but that was over twenty years ago and most of the military has moved on from Shanxi.” Kaiden reported with a sneer on his lip that caused Penny to put her face in her hands.

“Damn it. I had hoped...I’ll have a talk with her. Her family’s suffered descrimination for that, so now it makes sense the Williams family has an ingrained dislike or hatred for aliens, but I’ll be sure to let her know that if she can’t work past her prejudices, that she’s not welcome on this ship.” Penny believed in giving people chances. She had to or otherwise she’d be a hypocrite. She was a no-name thug on the streets when she went to the navy recruiter and he signed her up even if she had to plead for it. Look at her now.

Well, not now, now. She’s a horny mess trying to get rid of her SiC so she can fucking masturbate in peace. “That’s all I had. Good night ma’am.” Kaidan bid her farewell and left. Penny couldn’t lock the door and fish in her drawer for her vibrating large dildo fast enough. Fuck, is this her biggest one? She really needed a good-guh! It’ll do!

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“Are you okay, Commander?” Garrus asked when everyone had sat in the meeting room, going over the latest data on a lead. They had a spotting of the rogue B1s at the human colony of Feros before it went dark and they got a request by its sponsor company ExoGeni to investigate the settlement of Zhu’s Hope.

“I’m fine, Garrus.” Penny deflected, worried that if Garrus, perhaps the most perceptive of her group could tell she was still harried from going at herself like mad last night, then Nora might notice...

“Well, okay. So what do we have on Zhu’s Hope?” Garrus asked from where Yola was sitting on his lap. It was frustrating to see Nora’s twin sister sitting in his lap. Sure, it was just a raunchy running gag and nobody was offended, but now it was bothering her for a whole other reason.

“It's settled on top of protected Prothean Archaeology; a City World, set up for research and to see if we could settle on a world composed of construction and steel. There’s life on all of the ancient arcology towers and vines growing everywhere between them, but nobody settled on these worlds before due to fear of the towers collapsing.” Kaidan explained for the benefit of those who weren’t human, which was most of the attending ground crew.

“Along the way we’re helping Admiral Kahoku to find his missing troopers.” Penny added, marking the system of Sparta to the world of Edolus in the holographic display with her omni.

“Why are we stopping there first?” Liara asked.

“Because someone needs help, they asked for it, I agreed to help. I’m not turning away someone in need.” Shepard announced as she looked over her ground crew, lingering her gaze on Ashley, who looked away in shame for how she’d been dressed down for mistreating a citizen and her fireteam the other day.

“And it's a request from a Superior in the ESA. It takes current priority over Feros and should only take us a day of exploration.” Kiaden added and Wrex huffed.

“So we’re ignoring an ESA colony with a confirmed enemy presence to look for men on a backwater?” Wrex asked incredulously and Commander Shepard looked at him intently. “Bah, you humans, some of you have such a strong sense of morality. Alright, let’s go. The sooner we get it done, the sooner we can shoot some dumb robots.”

“And capture some for scrap. If I get enough of them, I could have every station of the Normandy manned in an emergency or have a deployable fireteam ready for boarders.” Nora suggested and Penny immediately fell cunt-first into a gutter at imagining that scrap going to the woman’s tits instead-.

“Alright everyone! The Normandy will arrive soon with the M.E.H-Drive getting us there far sooner than anticipated. Dismissed.” Penny hurried out, hoping she didn’t smell strongly enough as her quim soaked her panties. Fuck~ she needs her vibrator!

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The Hammerhead stopped after they reached the signal they detected on the planet and Shepard looked on with a grim leer at seeing destroyed Grizzlies, along with stripped corpses.

“This looks like an ambush site.” Wrex voiced his observation as the ground team looked at the aftermath. “These men were lured here before their base was hit. Williams, what group did you say the attack on the base was implicated?”

“Cerberus.” Ashley hissed as she got out of her seat and went to the hatch of the Hammerhead. “I think they lured most of the forces here with this false S.O.S beacon and slaughtered them before storming the base and taking what they could.”

“Sounds like their MO, but would the goons of supposed trillionaires do this?” Garrus asked after deactivating the main gun and following her out towards the nearest Grizzly. “Also, I never read about humans using acid as a weapon and even if Cerberus used it; why did we not see any in the base? It also stinks that a human supremacist group would murder humans.”

“Maybe they didn’t want to damage any equipment?” Ashley countered before she stumbled and Garrus caught her as the ground began to heave.

“Aw Void yeah! I recognize this anywhere!” Wrex got a huge smile on his face as he pulled out his shotgun. “Thresher Maw!” He yelled as the gigantic space worm erupted from the earth, making the two humans and one turian gawk in fear as it rose fouty feet into the air before it’s blue-green maw opened to spit acid at them.

“Fall back!” Shepard ordered before she saw Wrex running towards the Thresher Maw while the rest of the squad ran for the Hammerhead. “Damn it, Wrex!”

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“Yeah, now that was a fight!” Wrex declared as he stood on the head of the Thresher Maw. “What did you guys think?”

“I think, that you’re a fucking crazy battle junky! We could’ve used the Hammerhead to kite and kill it! Instead, we had to fucking save your ass while you kept screaming ‘rawr, I’m krogan’ and kept shooting it instead of running away!” Ashley panted as she stormed up to Wrex, grabbed the collar of his red armor and yanked him down to her height. “If I have to fucking deal with shit like that again, it will be my gun up your ass! Got it?!”

“...First of all, it’s a cloaca. Second of all, you sound like a krogan female.” Wrex huffed and nodded when it was obvious Ashley wasn’t going to release his collar until he agreed.

“I wouldn’t put it so violently, but I’m with Ash on this one. That was just stupid, Wrex.” Garrus shook his head and Shepard was looking at her soldier with her arms crossed and an eyebrow raised.

Secretly, she found that battle really arousing, but seriously, the way Wrex went about it was all balls and no brains. “We’re going to have words about tactics, Wrex. Let’s all get back to the Normandy, I have bad news to deliver to the Brass.” Shepard sighed as she climbed into the Hammerhead.

“It’s not like I passed my rite by killing a Thresher Maw on foot before.” Wrex grumbled.

“Gun. Up. Cloaca.” Ashley fumed as she strapped into her chair.

“Like a krogan female, I swear.” Wrex muttered as he strapped in too.

“I need to tell the Admiral about this Cerberus attack.” Shepard muttered as the Hammerhead zipped away from the site of the battle.

“I don’t know, Shepard. I stand by my suspicions from before. It doesn’t make sense for a human supremacist group to murder human military or humans at all. There aren’t even other species on this planet, it’s entirely a human venture. What would Cerberus gain from spitting in the face of their mission statement?” Garrus asked from his seat in the turret.

“Terrorists tend not to care about their long-term goals when it comes to short-term gains. It’s why so many terrorist groups tend to splinter themselves with infighting or mismanagement.” Shepard replied, yet couldn’t help but agree. This was too fishy, too outside of Cerberus’ usual targets. They often assaulted alien military, only stealing human equipment in low-risk heists.

“They could have been getting data on how you guys deal with Thresher Maws.” Wrex commented, which again seemed unlikely. Those soldiers back there were slaughtered. They didn’t expect the Thresher Maw. Hell, Shepard didn’t even think the worms were on this planet. More the fool her, for expecting a galaxy-wide parasite to not be somewhere.

Shepard’s eyes narrowed as she considered the implications of this and then resolved to speak with Nora and Yola when she got back. They’re information specialists. Maybe they’ll have more insight. Also...maybe she could get Nora alone…

Unf, those tits, by Wiatr...wait, who is Wiatr and why was she swearing to her?