Overlord Effect: Battle for the Milky Way

Chapter 4: Is it wrong to roast the council on a spire?

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Shepard was confused once again, she had been left here by Esdeath, stating before she left that "I'll be back later" then disappearing, just like that vanishing before her eyes. She couldn't even object as she had been left like a gaping fish!

Looking around a little bit better, she had found herself in what seemed to be a typical Captain's quarters. It had a nice large double bed in the centre of the room with a night stand either side and a wooden desk with some kind of terminal in the far left corner of the room.

Until now everything was completely normal - well, as normal as in Shepard' case people consider things "normal" - what confused her was the thick metal door above her? That didn't seem right...

Yet, after everything she had been through during the past week this didn't even seem that odd... and considering the weird situations she had found herself before, this almost seemed oddly normal.

Summing things up, she had quite enjoyed the past week. It had been years since she had such a relaxing vacation - not since this whole Reaper ordeal started and the woman finished her N7 training at least.

Besides the odd scare when Esdeath was working on the Normandy... like when she literally tore the core out of the ship through the armor - using some invisible telekinetic powers - causing it to explode there and then, it was quite quiet.

Back then when the core exploded Shepard thought she was going to die - figures it did not happen, she couldn't even imagine why she was worried one little bit. It was weird and confusing, when the explosive reaction started, it simply stopped, and like a recording rewound itself, restoring the core to an intact state. In the end, the pale girl was completely fine, with not so much as a hair out of place, smiling and waving at them.

Once she got to their home planet where her crew was staying she was stunned by what she saw. It was right out of a fantasy novel, a giant tree with small stars floating around it off in the distance.

Said tree was so huge that it made modern skyscrapers seem like ant hills in comparison, apparently it was a fully functional city inhabited by mostly elves and humans. Under it, whole cities spanned with infrastructure that could beat Earth to hell and back. Filled with balanced green and modern architecture. Mixing them into a perfect balance.

The palace her crew were staying in was also one of Esdeath's smaller homes, when her people had asked if it was really okay to use it the ashen haired girl replied with "sure... haven't used this place in a hundred years should be fine just don't go into the basement can't remember what I left down there... good luck." Some people, including her looked around and the place was spotless, there wasn't a spec of dust anywhere.... Must be the staff keeping the place clean, as during her passing she saw a few maids, and butlers passing around.

"..."

Just as she rested on the bed for what felt like hours, recalling what happened in the past week. The commander was brought back to reality when a knock came from the door... above her.

"Ah... come in, I guess." She said after getting up from the comfortable bed, angling her head upward.

'Shiis'

As if on cue the door slid open, revealing a lizard man slightly smaller than the one she met on Zoran station, but instead of the station usual dark uniform, her visitor donned a deep navy blue military esk uniform.

He was followed by those Angel looking things in dark armour either side of him. He bowed his head slightly and started speaking. It looked like he was going to fall in through the door and join her on the floor. Still, the man stood still, like it was completely normal to hang from the wall just like that. Though, Shepard had a guess already as to how it was possible.