Mass Effect: Reunited (Arkaniel and DrMurdockKawfi)
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				Title: <strong>Mass Effect: Reunited (Arkaniel and DrMurdockKawfi)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Scaly</strong> on <strong>26-11-2014, 20:31:02</strong>
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				"Commander Shepard, wake up." Tess heard a woman's voice echoing in the room around her, and she began to stir, squinting. Her eyes cracked open, but the light was blinding. "Where am I?" she asked with a groan. The last thing she remembered was the Normandy blowing up, her and her brother both shot out into space. Mark... she hoped he had survived too. Shepard didn't have much in the way of family left, she had been separated from them at a young age and grew up in the huge cities of earth. Her and her brother had not been reunited until she had joined the Alliance. <br>What a wonderful day that was, when she saw him again for the first time. They were close in age, though he was a year or two older than she was, and she remembered when they were little that they had been inseparable. <br>And now as adults they saved the galaxy together, strong and completely unstoppable, because they were fighting side by side with one another, and neither could bare to lose the other again. What would she do, if he was gone? <br>"Mark?" she asked, her voice strained. She tried to sit up<br><br>"Lie still," A woman came into her field of vision and set her hand on Shepard's shoulder. "You're not ready to get up yet." She had a posh brittish accent and snowy white skin that stood out again Tess's ebony. "Where's Mark?" She asked, grunting in pain. Her whole body ached something terrible. <br>"He's here," The woman answered. "Now lie still." <br>Tess let out a breath and just settled down, relaxing against the gurney that she was laying on. <br><br>The woman turned and made her way over to where Mark Shepard was lying, "Shepard, wake up," She said, setting a hand on his shoulder to wake him slowly. The brother-sister team had been badly injured, and definitely killed. It was a miracle things had gone as well as they had. <br>He hadn't responded as readily as his sister, perhaps a heavier sleeper, but Miranda had a hint of worry in her voice. If she hadn't been successful, humanity's entire future could be compromised. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Mass Effect: Reunited (Arkaniel and DrMurdockKawfi)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Arkaniel</strong> on <strong>27-11-2014, 22:48:38</strong>
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				He blinked and black faded to brightly lit medical white and steel grey. Clear blue eyes, always described as piercing to the soul and very inquisitive, focused on the beautiful, dark haired woman leaning over him, shaking him to wakefulness. She was pale, betraying a life spent mostly aboard space ships, space stations or underground bases, while her curvaceous body was outlined sensually in a functional black and orange bodysuit.<br><br>"I'm awake." He groused, voice cracking from dehydration.<br><br>He pushed himself up. It should have gone difficultly, painfully, but it didn't. His movement was smooth, smoother than ever before. He blinked again and glanced down. He was nude. Completely nude, from his powerful muscles to his long legs and his large manhood. His eyes scanned over the tattoos in blackish ink with an odd blue glowing hue that covered almost every edge and ridge of his body in thin lines of programming code, it looked like. Or were they a sort of serial number? <br><br>He didn't know, but he felt physically impossibly great and strong, so he easily got up and stood out of the healing pod, next to the woman with black hair. He then glanced around, frantically looking for his adoptive sister, who he thought had perished with him when the&nbsp; Normandy was destroyed. His eyes settled on her black skinned form.<br><br>"Tess!" He called, striding closer swiftly, no matter that this other woman hung from his arm to restrain him however slightly. She weighed nothing to him now.<br><br>"Are you all right?" He asked his sister. <br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Mass Effect: Reunited (Arkaniel and DrMurdockKawfi)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Scaly</strong> on <strong>28-11-2014, 18:58:53</strong>
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				Tess had sat up, contrary to the woman's instructions, and was watching with bated breath to see if her brother would wake. She was nude, too, but she hardly cared about that. Her brother was her closest friend in her whole life, and they had lived in barracks together for long enough to not be shy about such a trivial detail. Her skin was cracked all over with tiny, hairline cracks, and through them an orange light poured out- even from behind her eyes. <br>"Mark," she gave him a small smile that didn't show her teeth. Aside from the glowing cracks in her skin, she looked the same as she always had, dark skin so black it seemed to draw the eye for lack of light, and dark brown eyes to accompany it, with a fleck of gold in the left iris. Her scars were mostly gone, although her deepest one, which ran across the bridge of her nose, was still visible. Her hair had been cut short, as had Mark's, for the healing process. No doubt she would let it grow out into an afro again, as she preferred it that way. <br><br>She got to her feet to hug her brother, glad to see him. "You're okay," She sighed. Over Mark's shoulder, her eyes fell to the woman who had woke them. "What about everyone else? Did they get out okay?" <br>Miranda nodded and said, "Shepard," addressing both of them, "You need to rest. There are a lot of tests we have to do, to make sure that you've made a full recovery. You were both badly injured in the attack on the Normandy." <br>She gave up trying to restrain Mark and began to walk toward the side of the room. "There are clothes for you both on the table over here," She said. "Get dressed and meet me in the room down the hall, to your left." There was the clicking of her heeled boots as she left. <br><br>Tess released her brother from the hug, and noticed that his skin had tiny cracks just like hers, even in his eyes. "You look like hell," She teased him with a snotty smile.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Mass Effect: Reunited (Arkaniel and DrMurdockKawfi)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Arkaniel</strong> on <strong>01-12-2014, 08:46:46</strong>
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				"Well, at least, I, unlike you, will look better once I get some proper rest." He teased her right back with the same cheek he had always used in the past. He loved riling his adoptive sister up to the point she was annoyed in a fiery and fun way. He chuckled at her facial expression, before he let go. He, too, had noticed the tiny cracks in her skin and eyes that seemed to leak some kind of unearthly energy. It was actually quite cool an effect to see. He could feel that energy thrumming inside of him, coursing through his veins and muscles, healing him, regenerating him and empowering to be better than before.<br><br>He got dressed, but as he slid on the skin tight black bodysuit that went under his light armour, he couldn't help but glancing at the woman's swaying hips and arse.<br><br>"Wouldn't mind tapping that." He joked. His sister, by now, should know he had quite a pervy mind and that he was a born flirter, though he rarely actually did anything with anyone. He was too dutiful to indulge much in things like that. His love for shapely, tight asses on slender women with a still undeniably attractive bust was well known. Yet, only his sister knew that he considered the untouchable Tali to possess all those traits to Jack's satisfaction. Still, this Miranda woman hadn't been bad on the eyes, either.<br><br>He so loved a pretty face, too.<br><br>"Well, let's go. We've got to track our friends down, let them know we are still alive... And find out just why people went through the bother of resurrecting us. Believe me, the Normandy exploded with us and the crew on it. We were not alive when they found us, much less in any recognisable shape. Besides, I think you wouldn't mind... Reconnecting... With a certain Krogan, would you?" He teased her.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Mass Effect: Reunited (Arkaniel and DrMurdockKawfi)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Scaly</strong> on <strong>01-12-2014, 09:25:36</strong>
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				She leveled him a look and set one hand on her hip. There were certain things about being siblings that never went away, even though she had been adopted into his family rather late. She had spent her young childhood on earth as an orphan, in and out of foster care systems, until Mark and his family had adopted her officially when she was eleven. They were very close to the same age, almost a year apart, and she had enlisted with the military just after he did, insisting he would die without her there to save his ass. They hadn't always served together, but when they did they were an unstopable team. <br><br>She reached out and set her dark hand on one of the uniforms, which were white and black with orange accents. She spotted a symbol that she recognized, and her eyes narrowed a little bit as she ran her fingers over it. She couldn't place where she had seen it before, but she had. Tess was distracted, though, by her brother's comment. She was a soldier, and she was more than used to a certain level of crassness from her fellows. She participated in it. <br><br>"Heh, me either," She said. This was the modern age, and she'd dated women same as men. "That suit does something great for her ass," She laughed a little bit, and then picked up her own carbon fiber underarmor and slipped it on. It was slow to go on, fitting like a wetsuit. When it was finished, she looked at the armor that had been supplied for her. Light armor to suit her biotic talents, in a wine red color she rather liked. She finished getting the gloves fitted as her brother spoke about their friends- but neither of them knew just yet that they had been dead for two whole years. Tess figured a couple months at most. <br><br>The mention of Wrex made her give him a look with one slender brow raised. "I suppose I wouldn't" she said. "And I can think of a certain quarian that you wouldn't mind seeing again either." She had never outright told her brother about her relationship, but he had come into their shared room on the Normandy just as Wrex was leaving, the night they went to Ilos, and Shepard had broken out in hives under her suit during that mission, and gotten a fever, because of improper precautions when dealing with mixing body fluids with the krogan. There were simple supplements and ointments that she could use, but they hadn't been available at the time. <br><br>She patted her hips, disappointed that they had not been issued weapons, and turned to head down the hall, leading her brother along the path Miranda had specified for them.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Mass Effect: Reunited (Arkaniel and DrMurdockKawfi)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Arkaniel</strong> on <strong>01-12-2014, 15:27:48</strong>
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				"Come on, Tess. You know Tali and I would be impossible. Besides, I think she wouldn't be interested in someone like me, anyway. I'm the complete opposite of her, physically, mentally and morally." He replied. It was the truth. Yet, at the same time, they just fit together in a weird way. They complemented each other and they always had a fun time together. Except for the fact she would be allergic to him or get infected if she even thought about taking off any part of her suit. Besides, he was a warrior. A soldier. A Spectre. Someone that would die in the line of duty within the next decade, someone that would never be accepted by her race or society. Their relationship taboo.<br><br>He shook those thoughts off.<br><br>"Yeah, let's go and see how they fucked the galaxy up while we were being regenerated by... Cerberus. Better be on our guard." He said. Noticing her gesture for lacking weaponry, he handed her a scalpel he had confiscated, while he kept the one he had for himself hidden as well. He, like his sister, hated to be unarmed, especially when dealing with organisations like this one.<br><br>The left the medical wing and found themselves aboard a large space ship, one off the books, acting more like a mobile space station for the black books organisation. He felt himself tense as he always did in an unknown situation. Besides,he didn't like these orange hued light armours, either. He preferred the heavier. Black models with decent shields and protection, not this lightweight space marine stuff.<br><br>"So, what are we going to do when it turns out this is a trap or they want us for nefarious purposes? Will we kill them all and keep the Miranda girl as our sex slave? We can share her, you know. While I would never touch you, we aren't related enough to have to be in separate rooms." He teased his sister crassly.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Mass Effect: Reunited (Arkaniel and DrMurdockKawfi)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Scaly</strong> on <strong>01-12-2014, 20:38:41</strong>
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				“It wouldn't be as impossible as you think,” She said to him, leaving it at that. Tali liked him, that was obvious to her, at least, and humans and quarians had been together before. She had heard about it. She rather wanted to see Tali again too, anyway. The kid was one of her best friends. Her thoughts were complete interrupted, though, when she heard her brother's next words. <br><br>“Cerberus!” She said, and then groaned. A cold dread filled her, gripping her heart and making her fingers and toes go slightly numb. “I knew I recognized that symbol,” She said, her eyes narrowing. The orange light from the cybernetics behind them flashed a little bit, emphasizing the pure frustration and rage that she felt. They'd had her and brother completely at their mercy for at least a few weeks. They could have done anything to them. She dreaded the thought. <br><br>It made her want a weapon even more, and so she accepted the scalpel when it was offered to her, even though she would mostly rely on her biotics for battle, if it came to that. She let her biotic field appear around her, on her guard and rather wanting to stretch her mind a little bit. <br>“Come on,” She said, leading him out onto the ship. There was only one way for them to go, and that was the way Miranda had asked them to. Everything else was blocked off to them, so that they couldn't wander. <br><br>Tess glared at her brother when he spoke, “Don't joke about stuff like that,” She said, rolling her eyes. “We should get any information we can from that woman, before we decide what to do. But something tells me this isn't a trap. I mean... why not just let us die? Why go through all that effort if they just wanted us out of the way?” Their own nefarious purposes, he had said. She wondered what those might be. <br><br>They reached the door Miranda had specified and stepped inside of it. The woman was standing at a computer terminal, typing something. “Nice of you to join me, Shepard,” She said coolly. “Have a seat,” She motioned with one hand to the table off to her left, which had chairs around it for them all to sit, “I'll join you in a moment.” 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Mass Effect: Reunited (Arkaniel and DrMurdockKawfi)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Arkaniel</strong> on <strong>03-12-2014, 10:45:05</strong>
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				He just shrugged and followed the command of the cool but pretty woman. He moved over to the table and sat down. Still, it was obvious from his pose and his every move that he was on guard. The way he placed the chair, there was only a wall at his back and he could watch both Miranda and the doorway. He also could quickly draw his scalpel, poor and small weapon as it was, in case of an attack or something else suspicious happening. Where Tess was the biotic, he was the special forces soldier, one of the best in the business, capable of wielding any weapon with deathly efficiency.<br><br>"So, what are we here for? There must be a reason your organisation chose to regenerate to resurrect us or whatever happened. What's going on?" He asked her boldly. He was also the crass and direct one of the team, easily taking charge when a clear goal was set and now, his goal was to get information.<br><br>Miranda joined them at the table, looking quite grave.<br><br>"Tow years ago, you defeated the Reapers... But something else is out there, now. Something or someone threatening the fragile peace between the races and tensions are already rising now the Quarians and Krogan are finally recovering thanks to their alliance. This project, the two of you, also isn't Cerberus sanctioned. I arranged this by myself and soon, they will find out, gunning for the three of us. Sheppards... I... We... Need your help again."<br><br>"Sounds like fun... But did it reallyhave to take two years? And are we actually resurrected or do we have to fear our bodies giving out on us at any moment due to whatever procedure you used?" He asked her plainly.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Mass Effect: Reunited (Arkaniel and DrMurdockKawfi)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Scaly</strong> on <strong>04-12-2014, 08:36:29</strong>
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				Tess was just as strong a commander, capable of quick thinking, brilliant decisions, but her and her brother worked as a team, they tended to discuss things before making plans, rather than fight for the lead. So she let him barrage Miranda with the questions they both wanted answers to. She was really just as blunt and crass, but she preferred to size people up first, study the way the behaved, and in that way she was glad that her brother tended to charge right into asking questions. She leaned back in her seat and folded her arms, watching her every movement carefully, just as guarded as Mark. <br><br>Two years was a long time. Her brow furrowed, and she shook her head, "I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around that." She said. <br>"I don't doubt it," Miranda replied. She sat down, "I am Operator Lawson, formerly with Cerberus." She actually still <em>was</em> with Cerberus, but she didn't intend on telling them that. They were unlikely to cooperate if they knew that she was still involved with the organization, and that they were pulling the strings. Her boss, the Illusive Man as he was called, he prohibited any kind of control chip from being implanted in either of them. It was decided that this was the best way to manipulate them, to lead them on into thinking Cerberus wasn't involved. <br><br>"I was in charge of an operation which required most of Cerberus's funding, and I decided that this project would be a better use of my time." She said. She did not blink, she was completely calm and there was no indication that she might be lying. "The signals you two were tracking when the Normandy was attacked and destroyed came from uncharted space. Attack on the Normandy is considered an act of war against humanity, but we don't know anything about this enemy. The only ones who could track them down, and destroy them, are you." <br><br>Tess snorted. "Why should we trust you?" She asked her. <br>Miranda set one hand on her hip, and shifted her weight onto that leg, giving them a look. "You don't have to," she said, "But more ships are being attacked, even some colonies. The Alliance keeps dismissing things as being random, without a pattern, but the pattern is there. Innocent people are dying, Shepard." 
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