The Capitan stared at the list of people assigned to the ship, his glossy orbs staring blankly at the data pad. He reached over for the mug of coffee he had siting on his desk, when his eyes caught on an interesting name. He quickly took a sip of the hot beverage and sat forward, clicking on the name.

Name: Shepard, Elizabeth.
Age: 24
Sex: Female
Blood Type: O-

Recommendation: Capitan David, Anderson.

The Capitan's eye brow raised high, his interest peeked as he began to look more into Shepard's file.

~~~ Crew Quarters ~~~

Shepard moved in as fast as she could, the element of surprise was to be hers. When the door to the room opened she froze, the sound of light snoring coming from her goal, she smiled to herself and moved in, her feet making only the slightest sounds when she snuck over to the bed. As she reached it, the sight of her teammate sleeping made her want to laugh he looked so at peace… too bad she's going to ruin it. As Shepard lifted her arms above her head her teammate turned and grabbed her waist, pulling her over his bed and on to the other side beside him. Shepard squealed at the sudden motion and started to laugh when she lay still on the bed.

"Fuck man. Why is it that I can never get you?"

Shepard looked over at her teammate as he stopped laughing and gave her an evil childish smile.

"Because I can see the future. Wooo-Ooooo."

Shepard gave him a funny look and started to laugh as he wiggles his fingers in her face as he tried his best imitation of a ghosts moaning. When they were done being child's Shepard let him get dressed and they started to make their way to the bridge.

"Come on Kurtis, how is it that you always know when I'm going to try to do something?"

"I don't know… guess you're getting predictable."

Shepard looked at him and her eye brows furrowed, the skin bunching together in the middle, she hated being predictable.

~~~ The Bridge ~~~

When the door opened the two were greeted by people running around and sitting at computers decrypting and exchanging messages with HQ and other various locations. The captain was hunched over a table with star charts, the data pads overlapping one another. When a young man sitting at one of the computers saw Shepard and Kurtis walk in he stood up and ran over to the Captain who shortly nodded after he finished whispering in his ear.

"Shepard, Kurtis, would you please join me up here."

The two straightened as their captain called out to them and ran over.

"Shepard, you oversee this next one, I hear you are highly recommended for it. We have just recently received information telling of a habitable planet in the Hades Gamma, I want you to compose a team of 10, get down there and find out if this intel is correct, report back within 24 hours."

Shepard and Kurtis saluted their captain and left the bridge to go collect gear and men. They were silent on their way to the armory, both lost in thought and preparing themselves for the task at hand.

~~~ The Armory ~~~

The team was made of 4 turian, 2 salarian, and 4 humans, including Shepard and Kurtis. The Alliance began flying missions with a mix of species on board, helping for a better balance of alliances between species.

"I don't like this, not one bit…"

The young corporal crossed his arms as he finished holstering the weapon on his thigh.

"What don't you like Steve? This mission or taking orders from a girl?"

The young human made a face as he turned over and looked at the Turian whom spoke.

"Both."

The turian turned, his mandibles flaring in what one could only assume was a grin, and began walking round the room with his hand on a hip and the other in the air.

"I'm your officer for this evening, I would like to let you know that I'll be judging your performance while I sit over there fixing my nails and hair OK?"

The turians of the squad started laughing, their understanding of the female role in human military greatly misunderstood, while the others simply smirked.

"I am so glad I can provide amusement for our Turian companions."

Everyone turned towards the voice and the laughing turians shut their mouths tightly at the sight of the squad leader. As she stalked inside the room, everyone stopped their preparations to watch, her posture straight as an arrow and professional. The piercing gaze of her emerald orbs sending shivers up their spines as she looked at every one of them individually, stray strands of crimson hair from the tight bun on top her head framed her face, and the prominent scar that lined her jaw proved that she was not someone who appreciated the type of joke held within the locker room.

"I believe that Turians are new to this ship, correct?"

She stood tall in front of the turian who had mocked her, his seven-foot stature almost shrinking to a mere 7 inches under her gaze.

"Y-yes Ma'am…"

She hummed softly at his answer.

"Well, I believe that you are not making the correct impression by starting off your time mocking your squad leader, hmm?"

"O-of course ma'am! Sorry Ma'am!"

Shepard laughed internally as she smiled up at the turian before spinning on her heels and walking towards her own locker and began to collect her gear. When she sat down on the bench and began to check her weapons before holstering them, she could hear people whispering to themselves about what had just happened.

"Impressive display, Shepard. Although, was it completely necessary?"

She giggled softly as her eyes lazily turned up to see a salarian staring down at her with a small grin on his face.

"Turians need to understand that just because the first contact wars are over, they can't mock us. We are all on fairly equal grounds now, Globin"

Her emerald orbs turned back over towards the mocking turian, a smug smirk forming on her ruby lips as she watched him fiddling nervously with his pistol.

"Alright… But you should be more careful. Please?"

Shepards grin only grew as she tilted her head back and closed her eyes, kicking her feet out much like a child would when bored of being lectured by their parents.

"Yes, moo~~om."

Globin blinked and stared at Shepard for a moment, his eyes widening a moment before he began to laugh.

~~~ The Shuttle ~~~

"The intel tells that the best place to colonization is... Here."

Shepard typed in a few keys on the keyboard at the front of the shuttle and a hologram of the planet's surface. Shepard moved her finger across the screen to an area that looked like a creator.

"We'll be landing here, 3 kilometers away, we´ll walk from there to avoid any detection just in case something is down there."

The boys in the back nudged each other in the sides when their officer turned around.

"Hey Kurtis, you tap that yet?"

Kurtis´s face turned a bright red color after his team mates made the cocky joke, and he shook his head angrily.

"NO! I don't know about you guys, but I treasure my friendship with her. I don't need more."

Steve let out a chuckle.

"So, you haven't even thought about it?"

"No, I've thought of it but trust me but what I have with her is good enough for me."

As Kurtis spoke he turned his head back to look at Shepard, to his surprise she was standing right next to him and the group talking to him.

"Something interesting going on boys?"

All the men's face turned bright red.

"No ma'am, we were just… talking about the mission."

"Oh? What about it?"

Shepard smiled as every one of the guys couldn't think of anything to cover up what they were talking about. Suddenly without warning the shuttle started to bounce and the interior lights turned red.

"What just happened?!"

Shepard made her way to the driver's seat as fast as she could.

"Something's throwing off the thrusters, we're hitting serious turbulence that is knocking off our coordinate drop. I suggest we all buckle ourselves in for an extremely bouncing ride."

"Noted. Everyone buckle up this is going to be a bumpy crash!"

Shepard grinned and laughed as people in the squad almost screamed.

"Crash!?"

"What the hell do you mean crash!?"

Shepard laughed again as she moved back to her seat to start buckling herself in, some of the men however did not manage to get their seats fastened in time. The shuttle suddenly went into a freefall, those whose seat belts weren't done up in time flew round the cabin as the shuttle was tossed around, some people tried to grab their teammates and hold them down, Shepard saw Globin as one of the ones flying around and grabbed his arm. In return he grabbed her arm and she pulled him in so that he may wrap his arms around her waist for his body to stop flying round, others saw the display and tried to do it with the rest of the men flying around. Shepard wrapped her arms around globin when he tightened his grip on her, she knew he was scared, his large eyes were closed and his head down and pushing into Shepard's chest. She wasn't about to let him die, globin was one of her closest friends. When Kurtis saw Shepard holding globin he shot out his and the next chance he got and grabbed a man flying round, pulling him close provided difficult but when he did, he managed to get him close to his body before the shuttle suddenly slammed into the ground and stopped moving.

"Globin, you alright?"

Shepard moved her head, so she could see her friends face better, when his eyes opened her heart lifted.

"Yea… do me a favor?"

"Anything for you, dear."

"Never make me do that again."

Shepard looked at Globin and laughed out loud, soon he followed and others as well. Nodding went around the cabin as some men undid their seat belts to check others that didn't manage to buckle up.

"Everyone out if the shuttle, let's see what the damage is…"