Commander Shepard, Alliance Navy CH. 7: And One For Shepard
Maybe it was his curiosity, or maybe it was his shameless xenophilia. or perhaps he was just an idiot. ' **probably the last one.'** none of it mattered however, as he was already in too deep to escape now.
Wonderland
"Eli, is... is there anything I can do to help?" The turtle-crab had raised an eyebrow quizzically at her. "To help with what?" Mano hadn't known how to broach the topic. "Have you ever thought about seeing someone? About everything that happened, I...
Driftwood
_'I hate this.'_ Afternoon. Skyscrapers concealed what was left of the setting sun's light with hard lines, cold stone and sharp angles. Mano missed the reassuring ocean depths and iron hull wrapped around her like a protective cocoon. The swarming...
Personal Space
Brazil hadn't been an easy place to live for the people who already lived there. It hadn't been going to be easy for them having moved there either. Slavery may have been gone but it had left its marks, as the street urchins roaming the favelas...
Worship
Klein had been a weird kid. He hadn't paid enough attention in class, even though he'd done well enough overall. He'd never cared for team sports. The other kids had made fun of him for being a skunk a lot. His parents hadn't been quite as bad as...
Battle Bot
The bat had pretty much laughed in his face. "Are you sure you're supposed to be here?" With the crowd already cheering for them from around the ring as they sized each other up after the bell had just rang, it seemed a little late to the skunk for...
Oasis
'_It's a good thing that I've already read this before_,' she groaned inwardly as the shaking bus rudely closed the book she was re-reading in her hands yet again, _'Or there's no way I'd be able to keep up with it otherwise.'_ The cephalopod had...
Showtime
"Now you're going to see a real fight," Rakim told Klein on their way to their seats as they saw the next contestants on their way to take their place in the ring. But what did a real fight look like? The otter climbed up on the rope, using it like a...
Milgram
The chimera moved between the spaced out bamboo poles as seamlessly as a performer would've spun on a dance floor. Any misstep would've landed him in the water below him, and he \*was\* deathly afraid of water. Thinking about how Rakim had had to...
Before A Fall
Things weren't going so bad for Soma - it wasn't even a tournament month. He'd been getting a few patients he'd needed to take care of here and there, but just the right amount, not so much that it was proving overwhelming for him to keep up. It's...
Still Life
Although it would've probably been considered a controversial approach to therapy at best by a lot of his peers, after having given it some thought, Mandrake had decided that it could've been a great idea to bring Diaz to the Bolgia. Then again, most...
Bellerophon
Diaz knew that the chimera, having trounced him soundly, and with there being only one fight left, wasn't going to have to leave the ring until the tournament would be over. He certainly didn't expect to see the monster get out of the ring where the...