On the battlefield

Jack’s heart stopped. Or at least it felt like it as she raced around the reaper battlefield on Earth. She had a feeling of dread. “Miranda!” Jack yelled. “Please… please… MIRANDA!”

She saw corpses all over the fucking Earth. She saw reapers, humans, asari, turians… it was a fucking bloodbath. But she couldn’t find Miranda. She found herself looking at every body.

“Miranda please…” Jack cried.

She saw a small camp with an infirmary of asari and salarians trying to treat the wounded. But Miranda wasn’t there.

She raced around **** to find her. “Why did I leave her side dammit! All to save my fucking students,” Jack cried as she had witnessed some of her closest students get impaled by a banshee. “Damn Prangley. I told him a thousand times not to play a goddamn hero.”

Finally, Jack found a batarian camp. It was small since they had been wiped out… but Jack went to them. She recognized Balak as the former leader to a well known terrorist group. “Human…” Balak said. “You’re with Shepard… right?”

Jack nodded. “Yeah…”

“We have another one of Shepard… in here,” Balak gestured to their infirmary. “Got to her before the brutes could.”

Jack’s eyes widened as she raced inside. She saw Miranda laying on a stretcher bruised and badly wounded, but alive. “Miranda…” Jack cried.

She raced to her side. Miranda’s eyes were closed, a breathing mask had been put on her. “She’ll be okay,” Balak said. “We have a human medic… knew who she was immediately.”

“Who?” Jack said as she looked around.

Balak gestured to a human woman Jack almost didn’t recognize. “Kelly? Kelly Chambers?” Jack said.

Kelly smiled. “Good to see you, Jack,” she said. “My private lessons with Chakwas are really paying off.”

Jack wrapped her arms around Kelly. “Thank you… for saving her.”

“Of course,” Kelly said. “She’s been awake. I told her to rest her eyes. It was… intense. I saw the added ring… I guessed it was from you, congrats.”

“Thanks,” Jack said. “I just hope…”

Suddenly a loud broadcast played. “Someone has made it to the Citadel! I repeat someone has made it to the Citadel! The crucible can be activated! Hope is on the horizon people!” Admiral Hackett said.

Jack’s eyes widened. She turned to Miranda and held her hand tightly. “We’re making it, cheerleader… we’re fucking making it…” she said.