Maikeru stood at the entrance to what was once Project Olympus, his eyes were glowing red as he watched the hollowed out building. It had been years since he destroyed it all, years since he made his point clear. He was a true reaper, all the others were pretending, and now? Now he was the only one left. It had been three years since the Cruicible pulse went off, and three years since Maikeru lost all the voices in his head. He felt surprise at the fact that he was still alive, by all calculations, he should have been dead.
Something was calling him, but he couldn't hear a voice. There was something on the wind, but it wasn't discernible to his senses. Maikeru looked to the sky, and saw a ship falling... no, not a ship. A reaper. Maikeru smiled at the fallen brother, and knew that it was time to show the galaxy what a true reaper was.
Maikeru stood up, and walked over to the reaper corpse, no that term wasn't right. A reaper could never die, it was just asleep. He pressed his hand to it, and felt the many voices trapped inside. It was invigorating, the data and knowledge of an entire race. He wanted to understand all of it, and eventually he would.
Reapers were organic and synthetic, but without the synthetic parts, the organic could not control the body. Maikeru climbed the reaper's body, and knew he could bring the reaper to life. It felt like it was his destiny. He eventually found an opening, and dropped inside.
There were hundreds of reaper husks and corpses inside, but none of them were active. These 'reapers' were dead, but they could be reactivated. Maikeru walked through the darkness, the glowing scars that covered his body lighting the way. He eventually came to the Reaper's core room, and saw what the crucible did. The Reaper's core was completely deactivated, and without the proper energy source would never activate again. Luckily for it, Maikeru had the proper power needed to jump-start it.
The human activated his biotics, a red aura glowing around him, and jumped to the core. "Awaken pretender!" he commanded as he used his biotics to jump-start the Eezo core.
Soon the lights in the machine started lighting up, and the eezo core was glowing. Maikeru started laughing, but soon stopped when the core sent out a pulse, and threw him off. Maikeru was able to flip in the air, and hit the wall feet first. He pushed off, and landed on his feet. "What has become of my brothers?" the reaper asked, its systems were slowly coming online, and it was more than Maikeru could handle.
"Your brothers are asleep, but you, pretender were lucky enough to crash on this planet." Maikeru walked up to the core, his eyes glowing brighter, "Pretender, you will obey me as if I were the Catalyst."
"What shall I call you?" Pretender asked.
"I am your Master," he looked at his tattered clothing, and knew that he should get more appropriate equipment. "How long until you can fly Pretender?"
"As soon as you want me to, Master," Pretender answered, and his core started glowing brighter.
"Take us to the Citadel." Maikeru felt the Reaper begin to rise, and started walking through the reaper's body. He looked through the clothing of the human corpses on the floor, but couldn't find anything that fit him. After what felt like hours, he finally settled on a black button up shirt, and a vest to go over it. He also wore a visor to cover his red eyes. His pants though, they were crimson red, and a bit loose on his body. After all the searching, Michael wasn't able to find any boots, but decided it wouldn't matter.
"Master, the citadel is in sight, and it looks like some of my brothers have awakened from their slumber," Pretender announced as his hologram appeared in front of Maikeru.
Maikeru was completely surprised by this turn of events, and confusion spread across his mind when he realized he couldn't hear the reaper's voices. "No, they haven't." Maikeru realized that these reapers weren't alive at all, "get me an interior scan of their hulls." Within seconds a hologram appeared in front of him, and what he suspected was proven true. "Thy have desecrated these pretenders... While I do not like it, it does give me an interesting idea. Send out the Citadel fleet IFF."
"As you wish Master."
Maikeru knew he would be able to bypass the Citadel fleet's defenses with his new slave, and started planning how to make the Citadel the greatest flagship in the galaxy. Without raising a single suspicion, the reaper flew through the fleet, that was until they were in the middle.
"Master, they are ordering us to stop."
"Then oblige them of their request," Maikeru laughed, knowing full well what the Citadel fleet wanted to do.
Humanity's councillor office
"Councilor Shepard, a situation has come up." An asari secretary entered the room, and put the data-pad she was carrying on Shepard's desk.
John Shepard looked at the pad, and his eyes widened with fear, "Why isn't this reaper registered, and how did it get here?"
"We are trying to figure that out, but we don't detect an indoctrination field around the reaper, but according to our scanners, there is only one life form on it."
"Have you discovered what species they are?"
"According to the reading we received, we assume it is human."
"Assume?"
"Well, it is the closest known species that the vital signs resemble, but there are some differences."
"Like what?" Shepard face filled with bewilderment. Was this a new species that could control the reapers, or was it something else entirely?
"I don't know the details, but the gist is that the being, whatever it is, is releasing enough dark energy from its body to power a dreadnought."
"How is that even possible, that would mean we are dealing with a sentient Eezo reactor. Send in a team with anti-indoctrination gear. See what this unknown life-form is."
"Yes Councilor, I will see to it right away. Should I send Spectre Urdnot Grunt to lead the team?" the asari asked as she bowed.
"Yes, have Grunt lead the team, he'll be ready for anything." Shepard stood up and looked out the window, he stroked his unshaven face, and wondered what this meant. Whatever it was, it wasn't good.
I think I'll end this here, it seems like a good place to end it, and leaves a bit of a cliffhanger for everyone who decided to read this. So if you have any questions, or see something wrong, leave it in the reviews.