I should stay here to give them medical attention. 54%
“Half of them won’t make it if we leave them now, I’m staying here to close up their wounds and apply antibiotics,” Fluttershy said as she made her decision. “Garrus, I need your backup reserve of medi-gel.”
Garrus immediately detached a canister from his armor and tossed it over the Fluttershy who caught it with her wing. Kal’Reegar did not really agree with Fluttershy’s assessment. “To hell with that! We can still fight!”
“Stand down squad leader, we can handle these geth. It’s not our first rodeo,” Shepard told him though, pulling the quarian back down into cover as he tried to pop out and take a shot. “We have no need for you to take one for the team!”
“Ahh, hell. We’ll do it your way,” Reegar grumbled. “Careful on your approach and keep your flanks safe, the bastards will protect that colossus with vigor.”
“We’ll keep that in mind,” Shepard thanked, turning to his own team as Fluttershy went to work patching up the quarians. “Rainbow, you’re with Garrus on the right, Luna you’re with me. No sword this time unless the geth come too close, the colossus won’t hesitate to get you out of the way, clear?”
“Crystal,” Luna said, pulling out her assault rifle. “Ready on your mark.”
“Good, let’s kill us a colossus!” Shepard grinned, vaulting over the cover they were hiding behind. Luna chased the commander over the left side bridge, knocking out a set of them as they crossed the bridge across a gorge on the left side of the structure. Garrus and Rainbow meanwhile crossed over on the higher overhang on the right out of sight of the colossus. The individual geth armatures stood no chance against the two pairs on either side, though the Colossus did its very best to slow down Shepard and Luna from advancing.
“Careful over there, you’ve got a prime incoming from your left,” Garrus warned from his elevated position as Shepard and Luna disappeared behind a large column that blocked their sight.
“Copy that. Luna that thing’s yours,” Shepard said, poking out and firing a long burst of fire at the Colossus to take down its shield.
Luna meanwhile sat in cover in the rear, listening carefully to the approaching metal footsteps. A smirk found itself onto Luna’s face as she lit up her sword and swung it right at the moment the large geth came around the corner. Sparks came off the machine’s shield as the sword glanced off, the geth immediately responded by trying to shoot Luna point-blank only for her to roll out of the way of the fire. Swinging again, Luna drove her sword into the rifle of the geth and wrenched it from his hands. The Prime didn’t take this laying down though, kicking Luna away before she was able to press her attack further sending her flying into a wall.
BANG!
The Geth’s armor exploded outward, sending it stumbling as well. “You okay, Luna?” Fluttershy asked from behind her anti-materiel rifle up at her position with the quarians. The Princess didn’t immediately answer as she first closed the distance and used the now weak point in the armor to pierce it and wreck its internals.
“Never been better!” Luna laughed now the big threat was gone. “It’s been a long time since I felt this alive!”
“That’s good but heads down everyone!” Shepard called out as he had his heavy weapon in his hands the end glowing brightly as a shining orb flew over to the colossus and detonated in an intensely bright flash. After the dust and smoke cleared all that was left of the massive geth platform was pieces of scrap and the main armature with a massive hole in it.
“Hot damn, can’t we use that weapon more often?” Dash said astonished as the remaining geth, now without their heavy support, fell relatively quickly.
“Ammo’s exceeding rare, I can also take one shot of this thing with me per mission at maximum,” Shepard said as he walked up to the closed blast door behind which Tali was located.
“Heh, I guess that makes sense,” Rainbow chuckled as she and Garrus joined up with the commander at the door.
“Give me a second, I locked the door to keep more geth out… There, that should do it.” The blast door slid open to reveal Tali standing a bit deeper typing on a console. “Give me a second to finish this download.”
Rainbow’s eyes fell on the fabrics that made up the quarian’s suit, the swirling white patterns on purple cloth reminding her of cloud patterns. “Are you okay, Tali?” Shepard asked as Luna checked all the geth in the room and stabbed them again for good measure.
“Only because of you, I don’t think I’d have ever left this room otherwise,” she said thankfully as she turned around, freezing a the sight of Rainbow and Luna.
“Hi.” Rainbow waved with a sheepish smile.
“Well, this is a new development. Did Fluttershy finally find her home?” Tali asked as she got out of her stupor.
“Not really, they used the same relay I used to get here,” Fluttershy said as she supported the three injured quarians and Kal’Reegar to get into the room.
“Reegar! You made it!” Tali exclaimed at the sight of the quarian marine.
“Heh, can’t get me down that easily. Your old captain’s as good as you said. Damn Colossus never stood a chance,” he told them.
“We can give you guys a lift with the Normandy if you need it?” Shepard offered.
“Geth didn’t damage our ship, as long as we get out of here before reinforcements we’ll be fine,” Reegar respectfully declined.
“I’m going with Shepard, Reegar. This mission was a mess and if the admiralty board has issues with that then they can go to hell,” Tali growled.
“I’ll pass it along to them,” Reegar chuckled. “Keelah se’lai Tali’Zorah.”
With that the two groups split up from each other, the quarians headed for their own ship while Tali and Shepard’s group got picked up with the Normandy’s shuttle. Fluttershy took a seat on Garrus’ lap to save some space in the crew bay of the shuttle. “So, the two of you are still together then?” Tali asked, a suggestive undertone in her voice.
“We’ve been around, yes,” Fluttershy responded, with a smile as she pulled her hood down. Tali gasping as she saw the scarring covering Shy’s face.
“Where did you take her Garrus?” Tali growled, shooting a piercing glare at the turian.
“We may have spent about a year on Omega,” Garrus sheepishly said.
“Don’t blame him, I was the one who agreed to it in the end,” Fluttershy defended her boyfriend. Tali kept her glowing eyes locked on Garrus’ for a moment longer before her body visibly relaxed.
“Alright, I’ll take your word for it.” Tali then turned and nudged Rainbow on the shoulder. “So this is one of the friends you told me about back on the original Normandy?”
“The one and only,” Fluttershy smirked, a playful glint in her eyes. “Fastest flier in Equestria!”
Tali chuckled, Rainbow blushing faintly as Fluttershy stole her line. “So you've told. Nice to meet you, miss Dash.”
“Just call me Rainbow,” the blue pegasus said, Tali nodding and looking over to Luna.
“I don't think Fluttershy ever told me about you. What's your name?”
“Luna Morningstar. Princess of the night, diarch of Equestria, title title, bla bla bla,” Luna said, smirking. “Just keep it at Luna.”
“Alright, sounds good Luna,” Tali snickered as the shuttle came to a halt in the Normandy's hangar, Shepard emerging from the cockpit.
“If you'd follow me, Tali, I'll get you a short briefing after which you can check out engineering,” the Commander told the quarian who followed him out into the ship.
“Well, I’m going to check up on the Thanix. See you girls around,” Garrus said, leaving for the cannon soon to be followed by the others. Fluttershy had some more adjustments to make to the dampeners in her new rifle while Luna had to take care of some business arrangements. That left Rainbow who didn’t necessarily had anything to do herself.
Well, I could go find Tali after she’s done with the Commander to maybe get some advice on my… issue. Though Luna could definitely use some more pointers on that assault rifle as well… I could also go to that justicar, Samara, to see if she can help me out with biotics...
1. Go to Tali for advice.
2. Find Luna after she’s done with her tasks.
3. Head to Samara for tips on biotics.
Luna Morningstar? Now why do I suddenly have visions of a crossover between Lucifer and My Little Pony?
Chloe Decker: "So... What's with the pony in cosplay? I mean, this is you here, so I can totally believe just about anything here."
Lucifer: <Smirks at Chloe's insinuation and ignores Luna's huff.> "Chloe, Luna Morningstar. Luna Morningstar, Detective Chloe Decker."
Chloe Decker: <Blinks several times.> "Wait... Morningstar? What the hell, Lucifer?"
Lucifer: <Smirking even more.> "Oh, that's not even the best part, Detective."
Chloe Decker: <Deep breath, knowing she's about to regret asking.> "And that is...?"
--Cut to opening credits right as Lucifer starts to speak.--
I can only imagine what Tali would have done to Garrus if not for Fluttershy.
...yeah, I could see Luna being more relaxed when away from the nobles of Equestria.
Also, with regards to the Blackstorm Singularity Projector...
Let's see... buff Dash, buff Luna, or therapy. I'm going to need to mull this over for a few hours.
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...we need a Luna version of this emoji:
Fix yourself before fixing others if you want to be around long enough to help them.
World Smallest Nuke is a lot cleaner than I remember.
Uh.. Singularity projector? And theyre having problems with Reapers, how?
How are Reapers and exploding planets, stars, mass relays and their hulls being compacted into zero point objects?
If she still got an issue with her issue, better take 1 and go talk to Tali, otherwise Id say 3, get better with what she has.
Morningstar?
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Heh. Name notwithstanding, the game says in the lore section that the Blackstorm is a mass effect weapon similar to a biotic's Singularity field. How it warps spacetime when it collapses, considering a biotic's field doesn't do that... "Meh." That's really all I can add to that one. :) It just is.
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Good point. Tali it is.
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It takes far too much out of Fluttershy to fire hers off, even in traning, and Dash doesnt have the slowness to wait for it to build?
What if Dash goes for Warthog style? Lots of littler pulses?
Better to ease Rainbow's mind and get advice/solution to her situation. So Tali it is.
Is the Tali loyalty mission still happening?
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I agree.
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The author has corrected himself in the comments, stating that there were more missions that he needed to do than he remembered. This may or may not include Miranda's LM, given her father's involvement with Sanctuary in ME3. I mean, it can happen off screen if our pov pony is on a mission without Shep while said mission happens, and we get the deets after the fact, but that is up to the author.
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Ah, crud. There is also Mordin, Thane, and Samara. Alongside Miranda, Tali and Legion, these are the character arcs that have payoffs in ME3. (Plus Garrus, but his LM has already been taken care of by Deus ex Pony. Jack's LM is more therapy than anything that actually influences her part of ME3.) Mordin's LM is tied in with his history with the Genophange. Thane's LM is needed to add an extra gut punch to his fate in ME3. Samara's complicated relationship with her three children gets a payoff in ME3 as well. Miranda's own family issues is mixed in with ME3's main questline. And Tali's LM is instrumental in preventing the extinction of an entire race. Of all of them, ironically, only Legion's LM has absolutely no barring on ME3's story beyond being an arbitrary requirement for the aforementioned preventing genocide. Maybe send a B team with Legion while Shep and the ponies do something else.
That is 5 missions right there, plus the "dead" Reaper where we recruit Legion and anything I may have missed.
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Some of the LM were taken off screen because doing them all on screen would take at least 20k more words.
Mordin and Grunt LM taken care of right before the Horizon mission, I mentioned Shepard picking them up as they passed the Citadel when coming from Tuchanka.
Shepard had a lot of off screen for Illium too so Miranda's LM's done as well.
Thane's got done while the Normandy took a break for armor upgrades.
Jack's got done sometime too, can't remember where exactly I mentally filed that one anymore.
Samara's might be covered too, though probably off screen since that mission is one Shepard goes alone.
That obviously leaves Tali and Legion but those are future events I will not talk about yet
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Also Legion's LM is actually really important in me3
Destroying the heretics will make resolving the conflict above Rannoch much easier to resolve since you need to make various choices to even be able to do that, not just a paragon/renegade score.
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Destroy? Not reprogram? You're saying that I have been making that section of ME3 harder on myself? Over a mission that even Legion notes has no moral right or wrong outcome?
...yeah, that tracks.
hmmm i dont know why, but i feel like Tali x Dash will be a thing.... hopefully
Tali makes the most sense do to her health issues with the fused in suit...
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Tease...
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Refreshing not to have Nobel trying to reach the brown head status...
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Exacly
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Yep, many 'heros' forget that one until it is to late...
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Yeah i know... Fit Celestia better...
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Tali won't become a herd member of Fluttershy?
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It better... Tali is best Mass Effect Waifu after all.
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Both are forced to live in suits sooo yeah...
Samara would be the most experienced Biotic user.
That plus Pony Biotic Amp? Mindblowing results