Shepard gazed around the battlefield. Corpses of mutated husks and cannibals strewn haphazardly around the place. The Commander pressed a finger to his helmet radio.
"Joker. We could use a ride here."
"Roger that. ETA five minutes." Joker's voice crackled over the speak. Shepard let his hand drop, collapsed his rifle and pressed it into its proper clasp on his back.
"I guess this means it was a bust." Ashley said, absently kicking a piece of debris across a few feet. Her hands placed on her hips.
"Another mission gone, another day wasted." Shepard muttered, looking around at the wreak that had once been a magnificent towering metropolis.
"You're really anxious, aren't you?" Ashley asked, though it was more of an obvservation than an actual question.
"What kind of question is that?" Shepard sounded more cold than he would have liked, but to his credit, he managed to hide most of his frustation and anger. He turned to her with his brows furrowing into a frown.
"Earth is being attacked, people are dying by the tens of thousands, and I'm being jerked around doing grunt work for some selfish, lazy son of a -" Shepard managed to hold the rest of his rant back. It wasn't like him to mouth off, especially at old allies, but he felt that nothing seemed to be going his way since they left earth.
"Yes. I get it. Earth is burning, and you want to go back there and save it. By the seven hells, I know I do. But we can't. We - humanity - simply cannot do this on our own." Shepard nods, agreeing whole heartedly,
"No, I know. But what absolutely pisses me off is that I warned them and in the time they could have spent building fleets, all the other races conituned their daliy business, ignoring the very real, very apparent threat of an intergalactic apocolypse."
"I know, Shepard. But think about it. Humanity is still a new player remember, and all of a suddenly some human guy is made SpecTRe and all of a sudden he's got the right to proclaim doomsday? Even though its true, it's like I told you before, the other races will always consider members of their spieces in higher regard than others." Ashley signed, letting her left hand fall and favouring a leg.
"Even though it's happening now, It's not like they're going to agree to band together like that." She snapped her fingers to prove her point, then her face changed slightly. From one of mild annoyance to a look of shock.
"Ashley?" Shepard tested, his eyes followed down a trail to her stomach, where red began flowing freely. The sudden lack of bloodpressure caused Ashley to stumble and lose her balance.
"Ashley!"
And I'm going to have to finish this tomorrow. It's my bed time now.
Modifié par Aurora313, 23 janvier 2012 - 02:41 .
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just wanna say this Ashley thread is awesome! also wanted to ask what any of you think what will happen at the start of ME3 when you meet Ashley after romancing her compared to the one in the beta when you didn't ?
