"No."
A raised eyebrow is the only indication that the Star Child took notice.
"No?"
"You're giving me a choice. My answer is 'no'."
Shepard turns around, to face the Star Child, his face grim with determination.
"You're giving me a choice, you say. But it's a false choice. All of your options are based on the same notion: Namely, that synthetics and organics cannot exist as equals. And I don't believe that. I refuse to accept that as a truth. Maybe one is born from flesh, and the other comes from silocon. But where it counts, organics and synthetics are the same: we are selfaware. We want to be free."
"Free from tyranny. Free to find our own path. And, yes, maybe we will make mistakes. Maybe we will disagree, and maybe we will wage war against eachother. Organic against organic, synthetic against synthetic, and organic against synthetic. But we will grow. We will learn. And, maybe, just maybe, we will find a better solution. But we can't, not when you take that choice away from us."
Optonal: "I see EDI and Jeff together, not as master and servant, but as equals.
Optional: "I see the Quarians and the Geth, organic and synthetic, preparing to create a new homeworld for the both of them, together.
Optional: I can see the Rachni, once feared throughout the galaxy, stand with us, as equals.
Optional: I can see it's possible.
"So, no. I won't make that choice. And neither should you. Instead, allow us to find our own way. Let us go. Send the Reapers back to the space between galaxies. Let us make our own mistakes. Let us be free. And believe in us. Believe that we might find a better way. A better way than this...."
The Star Child scans Shepard's face.
"Do you truly belive that is possible?"
"Yes, "says Shepard, without hesitation. "I believe we're owed that chance."
A few moments pass, as the Star Child keeps looking at Shepard. One could almost say as if it was contemplating something, if that wasn't a far too human interpretation of its actions. Then, suddenly, the avatar of the Catalyst disappears. The ground begins to shake, as the Citadel begins preperations to depart. The wards are starting to rise up in the distance. Looking for a way off, Shepard moves as fast as his aching body carries him, to the edge of the platform. Looking across the vast Vista of Sol space, he sees the Reaper Fleet move away from Earth, persued by the Galaxy's forces. Seeing no way off, he prepares for his death...
...when, suddenly, a shuttle appears, with open doors, with the two comrades he left on the way to the Conduit, their arms stretched towards him. But, having expended all his strength, he falls down. While the Crucible/Citadel combination prepares to close, the shuttle lands, and his two comrades step out, pick him up, and carry him inside. As the Citadel closes its wards, the shuttle escapes just in time.
Optional: Shepard lays on the ground, unclear whether he is dead or alive.
Optional: Shepards lays in the arms of his loved one, unclear whether he is dead or alive, whle his partner is talking to him, yelling to stay alive.
As the Citadel and the Reapers leave, the credits begin to roll.
Optional: If at high enough EMS and paragon points, after the credits, we see Shepard opening his eyes.
Renegade version:
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Modifié par Samuel_Valkyrie, 30 mai 2012 - 10:13 .
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