When I died, I thought I'd finally get some rest. My red-haired, green-eyed, beautiful self wasn't being realistic enough (or unrealistic enough?), and I was back on my feet and saving the galaxy in two years. I'm Commander Lily Shepard, and I'm on Omega, an asteroid that is the evil answer to the Citadel, to find my next crewmate: a Infiltrator named Dylan. He, supposedly, has an 'unique personality.'
"Unique, as in crazy. I thought we had enough crazy here, Commander." Joker said.
"We only have Miranda, Jacob, Mordin, Grunt, Jack, and Garrus." I said.
"Yeah. Lots of crazy." Joker said.
My team, composed of Jacob and Garrus, went straight to the Afterlife nightclub after we landed, needing to ask Aria where we could find Dylan.
"The sniper? I've had him do some work. He's a psycho. A great shot, but a psycho." Aria said. "He's doing a job over on a bridge."
"Thanks." I said.
"Just listen for the guy with the sniper rifle and maroon armor." Aria said. We went to the bridge, and found him.
"Dylan? I need to rec-" I began, but Dylan he put his left hand up and lifted his index finger. He was wearing maroon armor, and a death mask. Some criminals were talking, and he was aimed at one.
"Watch." Dylan said, and turned on music in his helmet, blowing off one of the criminal's heads. "Strangers in the night, exchanging glances." Dylan sang, killing the guards by shooting an exploding crate. "Wondering in the night what were the chances." Dylan kept singing, blowing every target's head off, the guards that were hiding running out and trying to kill him. As the final target fell, he wasn't finished with the song. "I never get to finish my Sinatra." Dylan said, standing up. "What was it you wanted?"
"What a weird human." Garrus muttered.
"Are you insane?" Jacob asked.
"Do you want me to keep singing? I was going to go with something else, but we are strangers, and it is night. Sort of." Dylan said. "I need to go down there and take some data off of one of those guys for some information broker on Illium, but first, tell me what you want."
"We're on an important mission, and I want you on my team." I said. "Collectors are abducting human colonies. I'm going to stop them.
"Okay, but I don't want a paycheck. Unless we survive, then I want paid." Dylan said.
"Why?" Garrus asked.
"I want you to know I'm loyal to more than my next paycheck. The best way to do that is to eliminate the next paycheck." Dylan said, getting in a shuttle. "I imagine that you want to follow me? Your Cerberus buddy doesn't trust me."
"How did you know?" Jacob asked.
"You look at me like I'm going to shoot Ms. Shepard." Dylan said. "Be right back."
"Commander, do you trust him to not fly off?" Jacob asked.
"Yeah." I said. "The best way to be trusted is to trust others."
"I like you." Dylan said, and flew down to where the corpses were. He walked over to one of the guys who was talking, the one he shot first, and took something off his body. He waved at us, Jacob stiffening and reaching for his gun, but I grabbed his wrist.
"He's not waving goodbye, Jacob. He's waving to show he's got the data." I said, and sure enough, Dylan came back to us, messing around with his omni-tool.
"Aaaaaaand done." Dylan said. "To your ship?"
On the ship, Dylan looked around in awe. "Nice ship, Commander."
"On this ship, we follow orders. I am Miranda Lawson, second-in-command." Miranda said.
"I was in the Alliance, if only for a little. I can follow orders." Dylan said. "Do you have anywhere I can get this armor off? Maybe some actual clothes I can wear?"
"EDI, tell him where he can stay." I said, and Dylan took his helmet off, revealing his close-cropped light-brown hair, blue eyes, scar tissue where his left ear used to be, a small scar on his left eyebrow, and a small end of a tattoo on the left side of his neck.
"There is a small room in the Engineering deck." EDI said.
"An AI? Cerberus is going all out, aren't they? Can't blame them, though." Dylan said. "Thank you, EDI."
"You are welcome." EDI said.
"Polite too." Dylan smiled, then walked out of the room, whistling that song he had sung killing those guys.
"Commander, are you sure about recruiting him?" Miranda asked.
"You should've seen what he did." I said. "Although the singing is odd."
"Singing?" Miranda asked.
"He was killing people singing some old music." I said.
"Uh, Commander?" Joker asked.
"Yes?" I asked.
"Why did some guy just walk by, singing love songs?" Joker asked.
"That is Dylan. Our new recruit." I said.
"Craaaaaazeeeeee." Joker said.
"He's not crazy, just...eccentric." I said.
"Defensive, are we?" Joker asked.
"I can walk over there and hit you, you know." I growled.
"Just go marry hi-"
"Joker." I said. "I will break your shins."
"Sorry. Jeez." Joker said.
Sometimes, threats are necessary.
"I'll go make sure that Dylan got to his room." Miranda said.
"Thanks." I said. "I need to get some food, then some shut-eye. Does Cerberus have anything about Dylan's past?"
"Not much more than a few sentences about him. Even then, it was just a bare outline about his honorable discharge from the Alliance. Not one single sentence about his...habits." Miranda said.
"Hmm." I muttered. "I'll talk to him later."
"The Illusive Man wants to speak to you." Kelly said as I got into the elevator.
"Crap." I sighed. "Can this wait?"
"It's not like he's going to haul you away." Kelly smiled, annoyingly optimistic.