Alright, now to continue the adventures of Commander Commander Shepard. Mass Effect 2 opens with the Normandy SR-1 in space, searching for "Reaper" and Geth stuff. Out of nowhere this bigass ship shows up and plants it's metaphorical boot up the Normandy's metaphorical ass. 20 people die and Shepard gets spaced saving the pilot, Joker. Then he dies. That's right. Shepard dies in the first 5 minutes of this game. But it's not game over quite yet. A "Human first" terrorist group known a Cerberus gets Shepard's body and with some science, they manage to bring him back from the dead. Now with some scars and no idea what the hell is going on, Shepard has to fight his way through the Cerberus lab that is being attacked by robots. Not Geth this time though. He meets Jacob Taylor, who looks like Kanye, and grills him for info. It turns out that Shepard has been dead for two years and Cerberus is currently the only group who is taking the "Reaper" threat seriously. After fighting through more oh the base Shepard and Jacob meet up with Miranda Lawson, the woman in charge of bringing Shepard back from the dead. With her help they all escape. After they touch down on another Cerberus base, Shepard speaks with The Illusive Man, the head of Cerberus. (aka Jack Harper, but we don't know that unless we read the comics) TIM tells Shepard that Cerberus is looking into attacks on human colonies and needs Shepards help because the "Reapers" are probably involved. Shepard doesn't trust TIM or Cerberus but he has nothing else to go on so he agrees to help. TIM sends Shepard, Jacob, and Miranda to unvestigate a colony that just went dark. Once there Shepard meets Tali, from the first game, and she is there to find a missing Quarian. Tali doesn't trust Cerberus but Shepard convinces her that they can work together. The rest of Tali's squad says "Fuck that," and moves on to get killed by a giant robot. After finding the missing Quarian and learning that aliens called "The Collectors" is responsible for the attacks, Shepard gives him to Tali for medical attention and leaves, going back to TIM. After debriefing, TIM gibe Shepard a ship, the Normandy SR-2, that is a remake of the original Normandy, and Joker showes up to pilot the thing. TIM taskes Shepard with finding and stopping the Collectors and gives him some info about people he should recruit. First Shepard recruits Mordin Slous, a Salarian doctor. Then Garrus from the first game, who has been masquerading as some kind of space batman who kills bad people. Then a dlc character who is a bounty hunter named Zaeed Masani. Next he recruits Jack, an extremely powerful and crazy female biotic (space magic.) After that he picks up another dlc character, the best human thief Kasumi Goto. And finally he picks up a tank-grown Krogan who names himself Grunt. After all the team building, Shepard gets a call from TIM. One of humanity's colonies, Horizon, is being attacked by the Collectors. So Shepard drops everything to go save them. Things don't go as planned as he only gets there in time to save half the colony. After a bigass fight against alot of collectors, Shepard meets Kaiden from the first game. Happy that Shepard is alive but pissed that he is working with Cerberus, Kaiden leaves, and Shepard doesn't know if they are still friends. Back to recruiting. First off this time Shepard recruits Tali. Next he gets an Asari Justicar (think knight errant mixed with samurai) named Samara. After her Shepard picks up Thane Krios, a drell assassin. Then the loyalty missions begin. Shepard goes about the galaxy to fix all of his team members issues so they can all begin focusing on the mission at hand. Jacob deals with his daddy issues. Miranda finds her sister and deals with her daddy issues. Mordin stops an old student from undoing the genophage with barbaric methods. Garrus tries to kill one of his old team mates who betrayed him. Zaeed tries to kill an old partner who shot him in the head. Jack blows up a science facility that she grew up in and was experimented on. Kasumi kills the douche bag who killed her boyfriend. Grunt becomes a man by killing giant monsters. Tali deals with being accused of treason. Samara kills her daughter, who was some kind of alien space vampire. Thane stops his son from becoming an assassin. Then I start the dlc's. First Shepard visits the wreck of the first Normandy, where he finds the 20 dogtags of the dead crew members from the first game, then places a monument on the site. Next was The Lair of the Shadow Broker. Shepard helps Liara from the first game rescue a friend from, then become, the Shadow Broker. Along the way Shepard drives a car and kills another Specter who was a bitch. After that Shepard investigates Project Overlord, a Cerberus project that went wrong. A man named Gavin Archer tried to use his autistic brother David to speak with the Geth. After finding the horrible experiment that David is trapped in, Shepard pistol whips Gavin and threatens him with death. He takes David to Grissom Academy, where he can get treatment and help. Finally Shepard breaks an Alliance doctor, Dr. Kenson out of a Batarian prison to help stop another "Reaper" invasion. Unfortunately, her and her entire team have been indoctrinated and they attack Shepard. After stomping their shit in for five waves, a "Reaper" artifact turns on god mode and knocks out Shepard. He wakes up with only two hours before the invasion and single handedly fights his way through the base to start up the project to stop the invasion: ram an asteroid into a Mass Relay, destroying it and the surrounding star system to delay the "Reapers" for as long as possible. Shepard tries to inform the Batarian colony near by but is interrupted by Kenson. Shepard tries to convince her that she is indoctrinated but she blows herself up instead. This knocks out Shepard until only 15 minutes from the invasion. After fighting through whats left of the indoctrinated crew, Shepard has a conversation with Harbinger, the leader of the "Reapers" who basiclly tells Shepard to quit it. Shepard gets off the asteroid right before it hits the Relay and watches as the system is destroyed. In a debriefing with Admiral Hacket, the one who gave him the mission, Shepard promises to turn himself in to the Alliance for whatwas essentially terrorism. Hacket believes it when Shepard tells him that it was necessary to save the galaxy as a whole. Back to the base game. Miranda, Jack, and Tali all want to get into Shepard's pants but he is having none of that shit. He has a suicide mission to go on and doesn't have time for relationship bullshit. Anyway Shepard needs a "Reaper" IFF to go after the Collectors, who have been found. They are on the other side of a Relay that no one has come back from. So to get the IFF Shepard goes to a dead "Reaper" that should gave one. Once there he meets a non-hostile Geth who helps him in getting the IFF and destroying the not-completely-dead "Reaper." The Geth gets knocked out but back on the Normandy Shepard revives it. After naming it Legion, due to it having over 1000 Geth programs inside it, EDI, the ship AI, begins installing the IFF. Legion then tells Shepard about some Geth heretics that it can rewrite or destroy so that the "Reapers" can't use them a soldiers. Shepard decides to rewrite them so they are more like Legion and willing to work with organics. Then the crew of the Normandy, except Joker, get taken by the Collectors. Not wasting any time, Shepard begins the suicide mission. Because waiting would cause them to die. And Shepard saves everyone he can dammit! After going through the Relay the Normandy is attacked, but because Shepard bought all the upgrades for the ship, none of his team members die. Landing on the Collector base, Shepard has to split the team into his squad, 1 tech specialist, and everyone else. He has Garrus lead the second team and has Kasumi act as the tech specialist. After fighting through a bunch of Collectors, and saving Kasumi from lava death, the two teams meet up for the second split. This time he needs a biotic specialist, someone to escort his crew that he just rescued, and another team leader. Jack is chosen to be the biotic specialist, Mordin is the escort, and Garrus leads the second team again. Jack creates a barrier and keeps Shepard's squad for a huge room full of bigass bugs. Mordin checks in with no casualties. Garrus leads his team to victory. At the last meet up Shepard takes Tali and Jack with him to blow up the base while everyone else holds the line against the Collectors, because Tali and Jack are both useless at holding the line and may die if they don't have Shepard there to hold their hands. At the heart of the base Shepard finds the reason why the Collectors are kidnapping humans: they are being melted down and turned into a new "Reaper!" Deciding that this abomination should be destroyed, Shepard and co. blow it the fuck up. Then they set up the base to blow up as well, all the while giving The Illusive Man a big middle finger and wearing sunglasses. The Collector base blows up and everyone of Shepard's team gets out alive. Credits roll. The end.
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Requested by me, Commander Commander Shepard
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