Overlord Effect: Battle for the Milky Way

Chapter 2: Upgrades?

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As they exited the swirling mass of space-time Shepard had felt confused and dizzy like she had just be tossed across the ship by an Asari commando, the rest of the ship' crew seemed to be feeling the same thing as they got off the ground holding their hands against their heads trying to stabilise themselves and there still spinning brains.

It wasn't a normal kind of dizzy it was like her internal clock had stopped working and was going haywire but she had other things to worry about than her sense of time, she needed to figure out where they were hopefully the galaxy map could help with that.

She walked over to it with unsteady steps asking if everyone was alright for which she received week nods of the head, As she got to the it map seemed to be acting like they felt. It was freaking out, glitching in and out of existence and showing the ships location appearing in several locations at once.

She was about to call EDI to try and discern their location but then she got worried. If the holo projectors for the galaxy map was acting like this what had happened to the on board AI, Feeling the need to check the main AI core she turned around to go to the elevator only to find the cause of all this standing there with a neutral smile on her face.

"Why the long face Shepard you look like you're having a shit day." Esdeath said with a now sarcastic tone.

"Like you would care you're the cause of all this, and were are we?" Shepard asked looking down at the pale girl with her arms crossed.

"Well I do care evidently I wouldn't be here if I didn't and as to where we are, we are currently in centre the Boötes void about 700 million light years from the milky way and 30 million light years from the closest star system, you can go have a look if you want." she said pointing to the ships cockpit.

Shepard wasn't as stunned as she should be, you could say she was getting used to this sort of thing in the past few hours. But the Boötes void was to far away to comprehend. The fact that they moved 700 million light years in the span of a few seconds was.... She didn't know what to think.

Still the fact that her ship was rendered to this state by simply moving through the portal that transported them here worried her. As if reading her thoughts Esdeath said...

"Man this ship was not meant to do that, hope EDI is okay."

As though she had just remembered it Shepard shot straight for the elevator ignoring the girl, she had other things to worry about besides staring at empty space, she would see it later. She got in and went to deck 3. It was better to go straight to the core instead of trying to talk to EDI over the com system if it was acting the same as everything else on the ship.

When the elevator doors opened, there, standing just in front of her was the girl she just left on deck 2.

"You need to stop doing that, use the elevator like a normal person." Shepard said walking passed the girl.

"Na. I get to see all the weird faces you people make, some of them are quite amusing especially Salarians because sometimes they try to figure out how I did it." The pale girl said with a snicker walking behind Shepard as they passed through the med bay, ignoring the doctor on the way through.

"Well I'm glad someone is having fun because EDI definitely isn't."

And she was right, the red head could smell the melting silicon from outside the bulkhead door. Opening the door they could see the main quantum processing unit was smoking profusely. The core data banks seemed to be in pristine condition through the smoke and the secondary processor seemed to be working as intended.