Sowing The Seeds of Victory | By : NakedOwlMan Category: +M through R > Mass Effect Views: 19416 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Six months into her investigation, and Gianna felt no closer to an answer than when she began.
It had been surprisingly easy to catch up to the Normandy and have a tracking beacon planted. She had followed the ship as it went from port to port, keeping tabs on as many of the male members of the crew as she could, seeing if their paths intercepted with any female employees of Binary Helix.
At first, Gianna had focused her attention on Grunt, the genetically-engineered krogan. It made the most sense, that the scientist that had created him might have come up with some way to allow him to spread his superior krogan genes on to other species.
But no, the young krogan rarely left the ship, and on those occasions when he wasn't in the company of Shepard, he spent most of his time downing half the food supply of local all-you-can-eat restaurants in the area. Scratch that one.
Jacob Taylor was the next potential suspect, Gianna thinking that if Cerberus could bring Shepard back from whatever fate had supposedly killed her, they could fiddle with the young soldier's DNA enough to allow him to plant his seed across the galaxy. But while Taylor did occasionally spend some time in the presence of women at the port stops, none of them were Binary Helix employees.
After that, Gianna wasn't sure who could possibly be her serial impregnator. She trailed Mordin Solus for a bit, thinking maybe the scientist was conducting some sort of experiment that was causing this, but the doctor spent any time off the ship simply purchasing new medical and chemical supplies. Garrus Vakarian, Thane Krios, Zaeed Massani... none of their actions fit the profile.
The one thing Gianna had learned in her surveillance of the Normandy crew: whoever it was had been busy on the Normandy as well. A good portion of the female crew members she had seen during her observations sported swollen bellies under their uniforms. Even those that weren't currently pregnant spent most of their time off the ship either visiting day-care facilities or the homes of relatives who suddenly had a new niece, nephew, or grandchild to look after while the child's mother adventured across the galaxy with Commander Shepard.
"Damn, does this guy ever stop fucking?" Gianna muttered to herself from the expensive hotel room she was currently staying in on Illium. Looking over her notes again, she did a search for "Normandy" in her databanks. When the record pulled up, she groaned in annoyance, and went to hit the back button. She always forgot to put the "SR-2" at the end, and her systems kept bringing up information on the original Normandy SR-1.
Just as she was about to redo her search, something gave her pause. Looking over the crew manifest of the Normandy SR-1, a creeping suspicion came to her.
Pressing a button, she narrowed down the list to show only female crewmembers. The list repopulated, with Commander Shepard at the top and her subordinates below. Frowning, Gianna compiled a new search, cross-referencing the list of female crewmembers with reports of births.
And when the results came back, Gianna slapped the table. Dammit, it was right there in front of her all this time.
Ashley Williams. Alliance military records showed her giving birth to a child soon after the Battle of the Citadel, a girl currently being raised in an Alliance facility.
Liara T'Soni. A news story concerning her rise in power in the information trade on Illium, and discussing how she manages to balance her work with caring for her two-year-old daughter.
Tali'Zorah nar Rayya. A series of memos from a Citadel hospital discussing a "miracle baby:" A quarian recently born with no apparent immune system deficiencies. No doctor at the facility could explain the reason behind Ms. nar Rayya's amazing offspring, or why the quarian child had traces of human DNA in its system.
Dr. Carolyn Chakwas. A notice of resignation from the Alliance military, with a sentence indicating that she had to do right by her and her son.
It was a lead, the first solid one she'd had in the months she'd started this mission. Opening a new window, Gianna immediately began a search, making a cross-section of crew members in common between the SR-1 and SR-2.
As soon as she started the search, Gianna got annoyed with herself again. She forgot to specify that only the male members of the crew in common should be included in the results. But in the end, it didn't really matter much, as the list of crew members in common between the two ships, both male and female, wasn't that long at all.
Gianna scrolled through the handful of names. Garrus Vakarian, she had already followed and eliminated as a suspect. Jeff Moreau could barely walk without crutches, she doubted the guy could go around impregnating hundreds of women in his condition. A few other male names, none of which spent enough time on shore leave to have possibly been the culprit.
"Dammit," Gianna muttered. She thought she had been on to something there for a second. Just as she was about to turn in for the night, though, she looked at the list again.
Right at the top, just as it had been on her previous list, was Commander Shepard.
"Gianna, honey, you're losing it," she said to herself, even as she started typing away again.
But even as she started working, something about it started to make an odd sort of sense. Just by the fact that different alien species had been impregnated, she knew she was dealing with something bigger than some guy who liked to screw around a bit.
So with that in mind, who said it had to be a guy at all?
All the other women on the list of crewmembers who served on both the SR-1 and SR-2 had also become pregnant during their tenures on the ship. All of them except her. All except Commander Shepard.
Gianna smiled to herself. "Well, well, Shepard," she said to herself, "Looks like there's more to you than meets the eye, after all."
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