RP: Shepard, Kaiden & Ashley

[keelah_selai]

Down the stairs to the lower deck. Around the base of the drive core to the maintenance shaft entrance. Up a ladder, and into the duct tunnel. Up a second ladder and turn to the left. Crawl for a sixth of the ship's body and another left turn. Up a short ladder, and out into the room housing the AI Core...

The AI Core was dark and silent, just like the Engineering deck. Tali had never spent much time here - both Legion and EDI frightened Tali a little. She'd been trying to make amends, for Shepard's sake, ever since her argument with Legion, but it was hard work, overcoming years of ingrained prejudice. There was something...off about the room, though. Tali couldn't quite put her finger on what was wrong or different. It must be the lack of noise, she thought, and moved quickly to the electrical panel on the doors.

Just a few moments, and the doors to the Medbay sparked and slid open with a metallic groan.

Comments

[kaidanmod]

"I...no," Kaidan said slowly, looking between the three of them. "Shepard has always been Shepard. I know I had some doubts on Horizon, but... No, this is Shepard. We joined him to fight Sovreign. Ash, don't you remember?"

[cmdr_shepard]

Shepard stared at Ashley. For once in his entire life, speechless. A thousand different thoughts ran through his head. Were they dead? Was this some kind of strange hallucination? The entire thing was too bizarre. Possibly more bizarre than anything Shepard had seen to date and that was saying a lot.

"... What happened on Virmire? What do you remember?" Was it possible that this wasn't his Ashley? That this woman was from... Some other universe, maybe? Where he was a woman and she'd survived Virmire? It didn't explain how she'd ended up here or where here was, but....

[keelah_selai]

Tali listened with half an ear as she began organizing the necessary medical supplies and applying them to Ashley's impressive array of injuries. She paused at the question of Shepard's gender, and starred at Ashley. With a note of horror in her voice, Tali spoke. "This is like one of those strange fantasy stories you humans tell, with clones and changes in the timelines..."