Fem Mass Effect Harem x Shy Male Reader

Chapter 4: To Save the One You Care Most

(Y/N)'s POV

After telling James the story about me and Liara, well at least the introduction of it, I rub the back of my neck and lean against the passenger side. "A-And...t-that's the gist of it." I tell him. James chuckles and put his feet up on the dashboard of the pilot side. "That's it? Come on, there's got to be more to the story than what you're letting on!" He exclaimed. I shake my head. "T-That's how we met! I-If you were e-expecting more, t-than I'm sorry." I say, crossing my arms. James chuckles again and take his feet off the dashboard, turning his body to me. "Well, either way...I cannot help but notice these women looking at you with that look in their eyes." He says, smirking. I blink my eyes and look at him oddly. "What look in their eyes?" I ask him.

Before I could get an answer from him, however, we both hear something from the radio that are attached to our armor. It sounded really distorted but we could tell that it sounded like Jane. "Jam-...(Y/N)...we n-.........shuttle..." That is all we were able to catch. "W-What was that about?" I ask. Suddenly, another shuttle flew right above us and is heading right for the facility. "We're about to find out! Buckle up!" James exclaimed as he immediately starts up the shuttle and fly us up before I could even get a chance to even fasten my seat belt. I held onto something as James flies recklessly to try to keep with the other shuttle.

When we fly close to the facility and where we see the other shuttle beginning to land on the roof, I got a better connection on the radio where I can hear Jane on the other end, calling out to us if we're anywhere. I answer back to let her know we are here but it seems that she couldn't hear me. "James, she's not getting anything from me!" I tell him as I notice someone running for the shuttle. "Down there! Someone's trying to escape!" I say. I look at James and his face looks...odd. "I recommend you hang on tight." He says. "W-Why is THAAAAAAAAT!?" As I was about to finish asking, he immediately takes the shuttle up as high as possible before plummeting it down to shuttle. "JAMES!? YOU ARE OFFICIALLY INSANE!" I exclaimed before James ram the escaping shuttle, bringing us down along with it to the roof upon impact. Me and James breathe hard after making a crash landing and I look at him, still shaken up. "I'm...not...driving...with you again..." I say in between breaths.

I get up from my seat then leave the shuttle through the side door, opening it for the Commander and the others to get on. Before that, I wore my helmet so I don't breathe the toxic air and made sure James had his on for his safety before opening the door. Upon walking out of the shuttle, Jane walks over to me with an angry march. I can already tell where this is going. "When I said I want someone covering their exits, this is NOT what I had in mind!" She exclaimed angrily at me. I gasp at her sudden reaction and put my hands up. "B-But but..." I begin to stutter before James jumps in. "He did nothing wrong, Commander." He says, "I was the one who did the idea. He was the one that wanted to stop me. But hey, luckily no one escaped." He points over to the burning shuttle that he rammed into. I blink my eyes and look over at James. I wasn't expecting him to back me up but boy, did I not expect the attitude he displayed. Jane sighs and shake her head. "You and I are gonna have a long talk about this, Vega." She says before looking at me. Sighing again, she walks away from me to call the Normandy. "Aye aye, Commander..." James sighed and look at me. "Thanks...y-you didn't have to do that." I say. James shakes his head and pat my shoulder. "It's nothing, really. Besides, it'd be wrong to pin the blame on you. Now...I should go check on our shuttle and make sure it's still set to go." He says before heading over to our shuttle.

Ashley and Liara approaches me with a look of concern. "That was quite an explosive entrance you've made in there." Ashley says. "Hope you didn't get any bruises from that joyride." I shake my head. "N-No...I-I'm alright. Shaken up but fine." I say, waving my hand a bit. Ashley nods and walked off, looking around the place while keeping her distance from the fire. Since Liara's mask is only covering her mouth and nose, it was easier to see her expression and she looks a lot more concerned than the others. "Thank the goddess that you are alive." She says before hugging me. I blush behind my helmet, thank goodness...but I hug her back and gently rub her back. "T-Trust me...i-it would take a lot more than that to take me out." I say as a joke to try to lighten the mood up. Liara did a slight scoff and shoved me a bit. I look down at her and she gives me a soft smile as if she liked it but still shows concern. "Well, that is true. You did take on a rogue Spectre and the Collectors." She says, also trying to lighten the mood. I chuckle softly and rub my neck. "Y-Yeah..."

Suddenly, sounds of something banging on metal is heard from somewhere. We all turn to the direction of the sound it's coming from and turns out something or someone is trying to get out of the burning shuttle. The side door gets punched off by a feminine android. "You got to be kidding...she's alive!?" Ashley exclaimed. So wait, this was the person that had what they need? She looks like someone to not mess with but we need that data. Ashley was the first to run at her with her assault rifle, firing a couple of shots at her but the gynoid disarmed her, punched her a few times then toss her aside. Liara and James went to attack as well but the gynoid pushed Liara really hard to which Liara's body takes down James. Seeing how much she is doing to them, I didn't want Jane to be the next to get hurt or have everyone die from the hands of her so I grab my pistol from my holster and start firing. "Keep your hands off of them!" I screamed as I run to her while firing more shots. But as if my luck couldn't get any worse, despite getting some shots on her, she managed to stay standing and grab me by the helmet. And she has a good grip on me as I struggle to break free. I could hear Jane from behind telling her to let me go. The gynoid looks a bit away from me and talks into an earpiece, asking "How should I proceed?" I continue to try and release her grip on me but then I got thrown to the shuttle, her hand still gripping onto my helmet then rams the back of my head against it a couple of times until I feel a tear in the tube that enables oxygen. I begin gasping for as much air as I can before any of the toxic air could get in but it seems late as I slowly feel faint.

Shepard's POV

"(Y/N)!" I screamed as I watch Dr. Eva slam him against the Cerberus shuttle the drop him. She quickly turns around and runs towards me as I start firing at her to stop her. It felt like everything is in slow motion while firing my gun with this robot still charging at me. It's like anything could happen at this point but luckily, the last shot finally took her down. I don't think she's completely dead but I do believe she is disabled. I think it'd be a good idea to bring her in especially since she has the data we need. I look towards James, who was getting up from the ground and helping Liara up. "James, take her with us." I tell him before running over to (Y/N). I look through the visor of his helmet and see there are still some light in his eyes, knowing that he is still alive. "Ashley! Help me out here!" I exclaimed as I lift (Y/N)'s arm over my shoulder as Ashley went over and do the same thing. We both lift him up to his feet and we hurry over to our shuttle to take him back to the Normandy.

After a few minutes of getting to the Normandy while also monitoring (Y/N) closely, we take him and Eva's body to the med bay on the Normandy. Me and Ashley carefully set him down on the table before we hear James simply dropping Eva's body onto another table hard. Ashley looks over at James and sighed. "Careful with that thing! You don't know what else she got stored in there." She says, walking away. James rub the back of his neck. "Sorry...if I had known that we were going up against some AI..."

I ignore the two as I carefully take off (Y/N)'s helmet and check on his breathing. I could hear very slight breaths from him while passed out but I can tell that he is fighting to stay alive while in that state. I sadly look down at him quietly before Liara comes to me and gently place her hand on my shoulder. "Shepard, (Y/N) needs immediate medical attention." She tells me. "We need to leave the Sol system." I nod softly while not breaking my focus from him. "I know..." Liara moves to the other side of the table and gently stroke the top of his head worriedly. "The Citadel is our best solution. He can get help there." She says softly. I nod then look up at the ceiling. "Joker, make a quick trip to the Citadel as fast as possible." I tell him through the intercom. "You got it, Commander." Joker says. I look back down at (Y/N) and gently place my hand on his face with Liara's hand still on top of his head. "Stay with us, (Y/N)..." I say quietly to myself.