Lost Legacy(1){ReaderxMassEffect}

Commander Emma Shepard, Alliance soldier, powerful biotic, first human specter, the galaxy’s shinnying hero and lastly my mother. Hmm maybe that’s more of shock than you all can handle.

She was the galaxies savior but the last thing she would ever be was your mother. She didn’t know you existed (at least you thought she didn’t), none of the crew knew. It wasn’t until Joker crashed landed the Normandy that they discovered your tank in a hidden room. EDI didn’t even know you were there either.

They were stripping the ship for parts so they could begin their new lives. Your life support kicked in and alerts were sent through the ship. They found you, floating, resting but aware, you listened, you waited. They spoke amongst themselves on whether or not to release you. EDI interfaced with the tank to find out who you were in doing so she accidently tripped the auto eject failsafe.

“EDI what did you do?” Joker backing away from the tank.

“I must have trigger a failsafe. I am sorry.” EDI back up as well.

“Well we were going to have to face this sooner or later.” Garrus said gun at the ready.

“Yes, but let’s not be quick to assume it’s an enemy Garrus.” Liara touched his shoulder.

The water drained from the tank and the glass slid open, you fell out hitting the floor hard. You coughed up what water you swallowed unintentionally. You felt so weak and it annoyed you. You stood back on your knees and opened your eyes to see the lights above you.

“Shepard” You muttered.

“What did you say?” Liara came a little closer.

“My name is Shepard.” You looked directly at her.

“Could she be some kind of clone?” Garrus said pointing the gun at you.

“Where is Miranda?” You asked.

“Miranda? That makes sense…” EDI said crossing her arms.

“She doesn’t look like the Commander though.” Joker said.

“That’s because I’m not.” You shook you head with the sudden headache that set in.

“Miranda should have explained everything. Ugh why does my head hurt?” You rubbed your temples.

“I’ll have Dr. Chakwas look her over.” Liara lifted you from the floor.

Leaving the others to think about who you were and what was going on. You were lead by Liara to the med bay. Dr. Chakwas was doing inventory of her supplies. She stopped when she saw you and Liara.

“Oh…whose this?” She asked.

“We were hoping you could tell us? She says her name is Shepard…” Liara stopped once she saw the Doctors reaction.

“She can’t be…” Was all Dr. Chakwas said.

“She has a headache, I was wondering if you could look her over and run some blood work.” Liara said helping sit on the examination table.

Dr. Chakwas asked you to relax and then asked a few questions. You answered what you knew and then she drew blood. With in moments they would have their answers they were seeking.

Liara rejoined you and the Doctor as the others looked in through the window. News had spread quickly and you had drawn quiet a crowd. You sat up and waited for the results of your blood work.

Dr. Chakwas seemed to lose some color in her face as she read over the results, reaching for her seat so she could sit. Liara took the results from her and looked over at you.

“How is this possible?” Liara uttered.

“The Commander is gone and she turns up in her stead…” The doctor had tears rolling down her cheeks.

“What’s wrong?” You asked.

“Theses results confirm your not a clone but that you are…”

“What? Come on tell me?” You urged.

“You are Commander Shepard’s daughter…”

“I know” Was all you said.

“That’s just not possible…”

“Actually it is, I was tank bred. Simple really, Miranda said that the galaxy would always need a Shepard but instead of cloning, passing down the genes was easier.”

“Miranda made you as a safeguard?” Liara was taking in the information.

“She would have told you all about me at some point but I take it things got bad after the Reapers attacked…about that uh What happened?” You asked.

“Shepard…your mother managed to defeat the Reapers, or so we believe. All of us seemed to have evolved, our DNA is different.”

“So she’s…gone…”

“We don’t know…”

“Where’s my father?” You asked

“Father? I…uh Dr. Chakwas was there another DNA strand in the results.” Liara looked over the results.

“There is, it’s just the human DNA is the most prominent but I could try an isolated it. Although we know who the Commander gave her heart to.” Dr. Chakwas glazed out the Medical Bay.

Liara followed her gaze and it landed on Garrus, the turian. You were part turian and he was the only close link to your mother that you had.

“I’ll bring him in.” Liara stepped out.

“What do you know about the Commander and the events that occurred?” Dr. Chakwas asked.

You didn’t answer because the question went right through you as you stared out the med bay to look at Liara talking with Garrus. His expression changed and then he looked at you. You don’t know what made you jump off the table and run but you felt you needed to. Through the corridors, up the elevator and out the ship, an unknown world but you didn’t care you just kept running. You collapsed after running forever and held yourself as you rocked back and forth.

You held your breath as memories flashed through your mind, voices whispered in your ears and your vision blurred. The headache came back in full force. Faces came in and out of focus.

~Miranda, Garrus won’t know about her until after the war? Right?~
~Shepard, I made sure that she will not be discovered. EDI does not have access to this room, it simply doesn’t exist.~

~Why a girl, Miranda?~

~There’s enough stupid strong men in this galaxy, a females punch burns more, the idea of the great Commander Shepard having a daughter instead of son sounds better to. Especially if your daughter grows to be just like you.~

~You going to increase her growth rate, she’ll be an adult when the crew find her.~

~Yes, functional and memories of everyone and everything in this galaxy.~

~At least we are sparing her a terrible childhood during the Reaper invasion.~

~You want to say anything to her before you go, this maybe be the last chance you get to she her.~

~Never give up, stand up for want you believe in…take care of Garrus for me…~

The memories flooded your mind, images of earth, collectors, reapers, every species in the galaxy, all at once and it hurt. You went to get up but slipped and rolled down a steep hill, it began to rain. The wind was knocked out of you and your head felt heavy, you saw a flicker of lights from where you fell. You shifted your eyes to something standing near you. Dawning N7 armor, her hair pulled back in a ponytail, she placed a hand on your shoulder and that was all you saw before closing your eyes.

~~Back on the Normandy~~

“I don’t understand why would Miranda would hide this from us, Shepard brought us all together and trust everyone of us.” Liara said sitting in the mess hall.

“Miranda was always thinking 20 steps ahead, so she had this plan from the start.” Jacob crossed his arms leaning on the wall.

“That’s not important at the moment, I didn’t know turains could go into shock.” James nodded over to the med bay.

“You would be shocked to if the only thing left of the woman you loved was a child you didn’t know existed.” Kaidan looked down at his mug.

“The search party should be back by now…” Tali said getting up from the table.

The elevator opened and Grunt came out carrying you over his shoulder. James and Kaidan rushed over to get you off of him and brought you into the med bay. Garrus looked up quickly as they brought you in.

“What happened?!” He jumped off the table and rushed to your side.

“She was unconscious when I found her, she fell down a hill. The Commander was never that fragile…”

“Grunt now is not the time. Dr. Chakwas can you look her over please.” Garrus urged.

Your eyes shot open and you grabbed Garrus’s arm.

“Mom says Hi…” then you collapsed back on the table.

“What was that?” Garrus asked looking at Chakwas.

“I don’t know but I will take good care of her Garrus. I need everyone to leave…now please.”

~~Back out in the Mess Hall~~

“Is she going to be okay?” Joker asked.

“I don’t know…” Garrus sighed.

“She spoke to you, what did she say?” Tali asked.

“Mom says Hi…” Garrus crossed his arms and leaded against the hull.

“Mom? She means the Commander…” James stop himself.

~~Time Skip 1 week~~

“Your overall health is perfect, your minor scrapes from you fall are healing rather quickly.” Dr. Chakwas said scanning you with her omni tool.

“I still feel weird Doctor.”

“Ah that’s because you physical signs of your Turian side are starting to show. I believe Miranda was suppressing the DNA with some strong enhancers. Now that you’re not in the tank you are developing on your own with no help or suppressants.”

“So am I going to get Turian features?” You asked.

“You may or may not get some features but only time will tell. And it also may cause you some discomfort.” Dr. Chakwas warned.

“Thank you Doctor.” You jumped off the table.

“You Welcome Shep…” Chakwas stopped herself.

“You miss her don’t you?”

“Not a day goes by I don’t think about the Commander, your mother. She was an amazing woman and the galaxy owns her a great deal what everything she did to protect it.”

You left the med bay and headed to the elevator. Vega happened to be on it when te door opened.

“Hey Shepard. How’d the medical exam go?” Vega started the conversation.

“It was fine, might start developing some Turian features but that’s the least my worries right?” You stepped in the elevator.

“Well at least your okay. We still haven’t given you a first name? Think everyone is a awkward calling you Shepard.”

“Yeah I can tell when someone says my “name”. Sorry for the awkwardness.” You crossed your arms.

“You don’t have to be sorry for anything Lola.” Vega shut up real quick.

“Lola?”

“I use to call the Commander that, told her she looked like a Lola. You kinda do to” He gave you a smile.

“Hmm interesting.” You smiled back.

The door opens to the CIC and you stepped out with Vega.

“Where you headed?”

“Outside, need so air.” You walked to the airlock.

~~~Outside the Normandy~~~

“Lola hmm…” You said the name again.

You heard people talking and went to see what was going on

“Even with our new DNA we can still use our Biotics. They’re a bit stronger to.” Kaidan spoke to Liara.

“That will make taking the Normandy apart much easier and quick.” She replied.

“First though we have to clear all this foliage, if we wish to make a settle hear.” EDI said looking around.

“That would take a couple of days.” Joker was standing next to EDI.

You walked up to the group.

“No it won’t.” You piped up.

They turned to look at you.

“You under estimate the lack of man power we have to accomplish such a large task.” EDI said raising an eyebrow.

“No you just under estimate me.” You targeted a few trees in the area.

You had not used your biotics yet but you knew how to use them.

“Shepard! Wait!” Liara tried to stop you.

You closed you fists and threw them up in the air, the trees ripped from the ground. You walked forward and arranged them neatly in the air.

“Where do you want them?” You looked back at the shocked group.

Kaidan pointed off to the side, you maneuvered the bunch over to the spot and dropped them.

“It seems I under estimated the power and determination of the Commanders daughters. I apologize.” EDI tilted her head towards you.

“It’s nice to know the some of the Commander rubbed off on her.” Joker joked.

“Shepard, you can’t just rip things out like that.” Liara said sternly.

“They were in your way and you wanted them gone, right. So I got them out of your way.”

“That’s not the point she’s trying to make.” Another voice joined them

“Oh and what point is that?” You snapped back at Garrus.

“You should act before you think, and biotics have limits as well.” He said staring you down.

“I don’t have limits, Miranda saw to that. Nor am I child just figuring this out.” You shot back.

“Miranda may have created you but she is not your mother. Shepard knew she had limits and always had a plan. She never went into something blindly.”

“Blindly huh? Well that’s what happened in the end. She should have had a better plan then to die…” You raised your voice.

“Don’t you dare talk about her like that!” Garrus yelled back.

“Guys I think we need to calm down.” Kaidan stepped in between you to.

“Stay out of this.” Garrus growled.

“I will say what I want about her! If she had a plan she would be here wouldn’t she! She wouldn’t have left you, all of you! The great Commander Shepard…” You were breathing heavy.

Liara came over and without a word slapped you. Holding you face you let silent tears run down your cheeks.

“Liara…” Kaidan pulled her back from you.

Kaidan came to your side and went to check you. You shoved him off.

“Don’t touch me!” You snapped.

You looked at everyone and your angrier just built up.

“Screw this…” You walked away headed for the forest.

“Where are you going!?” Garrus grabbed you arm.

“As far away from you all as I can be. Let go of me “Dad”…” You spat.

He let go and you stormed off blasting a tree that was in your way.

“I’m sorry Garrus I didn’t mean to hit her…”

“It’s alright, she needs to cool off…we all do.” Garrus looked back to where you disappeared.

“You sure it was okay for her to go off on her own like that?” Joker asked.

“She’ll be back, you guys heard her she isn’t a child.” Garrus went back inside the Normandy.