Mass Effect: Quantum Entanglements

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HAPPY EASTER EVERYBODY!

Fallout Universe in an Unidentified Military Base: Minnesota 2285ce

'it has been eight years since my father died, eight years, with my father fighting for President Eden over the Water Purification Plant in Washington D.C, Eight years since my father martyred himself and ordered that the last of the remaining Vertibird's be sent northwest to the last remaining frontier, this ice forsaken place to be the death bed of the once great Enclave. How did this happen?' thought Richard Chase before his thought process was interrupted when a presence entered his quarters

"Commander Chase, the Tribal's are causing trouble on our borders, what should we do?"

"Damn it Jones, that's the fifth incursion this month, pool our reserves together I want you to gather three Vertibird's with 5 men to a squad on each and have them take the flanks, whilst sending in simultaneously the Intelligent Deathclaws under Sargent Clawtooth, I've tried being reasonable but if these Tribal's don't respect a silver tongue, then we have to show them that we have the bigger spear and we will not tolerate this disruptive behaviour" Richard Chase paused momentarily to gather his breath before continuing his speech "I can't handle this shit anymore Jones, fetch me the communicator to Sargent Clawtooth"

Sargent Clawtooth was one of the newest breed of F.E.V induced Deathclaws that followed on with the 2244's Mariposa and Deathclaw testing. The results proved promising and caused dramatically increased intelligence and allowed F.E.V Injected Deathclaw subjects to learn to speak the English language within days, and several months before gaining fluency, in short the perfect warrior's to unleash on an enemy. However instead of fearing these intelligent Deathclaws like his predecessors, Richard saw a kind of Kinship with the new Deathclaws and began to see them as equals with humans and to co-exist peacefully.

"Yes Commander" Private Jones spoke before walking to the far wall and grabbing a small metal box that carried the communicator before returning to Richard's desk and handing the communicator to Richard before leaving the room behind him and closing the door

Richard fingered the device repeatedly then held it to his left ear before speaking "Sargent Clawtooth, it's those damn Tribal's again, I want you to meet me at the assembly room at 0900 hours"

"I told you you should have let us eaten those human Tribal's, they contribute not only nothing to society but they actively seek to disrupt it, but I digress, I will meet you at 0900 hours"

"Very well, also I heard your mate will be having another clutch soon, best of luck to your children" replied Richard cheerfully

"Yes, you know I was wondering if you will ever find a fine woman and procreate and settle down with" replied the Deathclaw playfully

Richard spluttered and blushed slightly before replying "You Wish, I am military for life, I am married to the military and I am semper fi to her!" Richard then hung up before Clawtooth could pitch in another joke clearly meant to tease the Sargent, as Richard did not handle teasing well.

Shortly after, Richard walked into his bathroom and began to pour water on his face when his eyes hit the mirror and he saw his reflection

'Richard Chase, great great great great great grandson of the Esteemed Constantine Chase. Oh greatness is obviously a hereditary trait huh, I am the clear descendant of Constantine Chase and the rest of the Enclave Remnants think I can turn this into an Alaskan Campaign, huh, very funny life, very funny!' Thought Richard Chase before running his fingers through his slightly scarred face then paused as he thought back to the event that earned him the scars but shook himself mentally before returning to the present

"I guess I better get ready to combat these Tribal's" spoke Richard calmly as he sighed softly and began to towel his face and beard slowly before stepping out of the room and heading towards Richard's own separate armoury before pulling out his hand held Pipboy 2500a

"Hello Pipboy 2500, let's see what you can carry for me today" spoke Richard sarcastically to himself as he scanned several different weapons and sets of ammunition bricks to carry within the Pipboy. First Richard reached for Small Arms and scanned his 14mm Sig Sauer Auto Pistol and its relevant ammo and His PPK12 Gauss Pistol with its 2mm EC rounds. He then scanned a Wattz 1000 Laser pistol and a AEP 9 Laser Pistol and gathered their SEC Cells

Richard then moved on to his collection of shotguns and began to scan the Bullpup 12Gauge Winchester City Killer urban combat shotgun and a Pancor Jackhammer Bullpup 12Gauge Automatic Shotgun and a large supply of 12Gauge Shotgun shells.

Richard then continued onto the rifles section and began to scan his pick. He selected a Steyr Aug Bullpup 5.56mm assault rifle and an m4a1 5.56mm Rifle, and a G11 chambered for 4.75mm caseless rounds; he then scanned his 7.62mm chambered Sniper rifle, He then scanned his .308 FN FAL. He then gathered up the relevant ammunition and scanned them into his Pipboy. When he was done with the chemical based guns he then moved onto the energy weapons and selected a Winchester P94 Plasma rifle (known in Fallout New Vegas as the plasma caster), A Wattz 2000 Laser rifle, an AER 14 Prototype Laser Rifle and then finally his YK42B Pulse Rifle. He then gathered up several blocks of Micro fusion Cells. Then Richard grabbed the M72 2mm EC Gauss rifle and scanned it into his Pipboy and the weapon disappeared from Richard's hand

Richard then entered the far side of the armoury and began to smirk as he reached the 'big guns' section. He reached out and scanned a 5mm minigun, and then he scanned the Fatman nuclear Catapult and scanned several Fatman nukes and several Tiny Tot and Low Yield Mininukes. He then reached for the H&K L30 Gatling Laser and tested the charge of the Microfusion Brick before he scanned it into his Pipboy. Richard then reached for Unnamed Gatling Laser and sampled the Backpack for breaches before scanning them into the Pipboy. Richard then laughed shortly before setting his hands upon the Mk 2 Browning 50cal Machinegun and watched it disappear into the Pipboy. Richard then scanned several 50cal Ammunition Bricks full of different munition types.

Richard then walked to the Melee section and scanned in one of his Fisto's, then continued on to a Super Sledge, a Ripper and then finally he scanned his special 16th Century German Zweihander that he personally took from a derelict Museum. At that he had gathered all his weapons and was now headed on his way to his personal suit of Power armour.

Richards Power Armour sat on a stand on the furthest side of the Armoury, and with a sigh Richard began to gaze upon his armour as he began to remember the first time he saw it.

It was 2 years ago and it was Richard's 15th Birthday and as a birthday gift, the science division was proud to bequeath Richard with a special Duraframe reinforced suit of Heavy Power Armour. The Entire Suit was sheer Midnight Black and the Power Armour was based upon the older Enclave MkI and MkI.5 Power Armours but with a more angled chestplate and a more pronounced Shoulder Section that held a collection of tesla coils formed into sharp spikes which arched Electricity between the nodes. On the Back portion of the suit was a small Black Cape with The Enclave E symbol surrounded by the Stars of the Commonwealth. The Helmet Was shaped with the likeness of a Dire Wolf and had silvery metal highlights around the front to look like barred teeth and the Eye Slits were a Baleful glowing crimson red. It Took an hour of modifying and adjusting before it fit to Richard's Frame and when he first donned the Armour, Richard heard the suit power up for the first time in its life. But Richard's Favourite moment of this memory was when he heard the inbuilt suit A.I Speak for the first-time in a heavily Macho and Military fashion as it regarded the gathered crowds and then it spoke "Vengeance Suit Ready For Combat, LETS KICK ASS AND KILL FOR THE ENCLAVE!" at that moment the Crowd cheered and that event shall forever be remembered by Richard as the best gift in his life.

Slowly, Richard began to undress from his Enclave military trench coat and began to put on a skin-tight Insulated Under suit with specially built holes where oxygen canisters where stored. Richard then put on a specially designed jockstrap built to purify urine and convert it into liquid water for increased survival chances in hostile environments without fresh water sources. When that was secured he then put on a specially built superconductive mesh wire body frame over his under suit.

Finally Richard could begin to put on his Power Armour

"Vengeance, Power up, initialise dress up procedure, unlock the micro stabilisers and loosen the tightness by a small amount"

"Vengeance is happy to serve you master; I hope we get to KILL SOME TRIBALS TODAY!"

Richard smiled slightly at his bloodthirsty Armour and began to place on the boots, then the leg and shin guards, then the back and chestplate, the arm armour, and then the gauntlets and then finally Richard held the helmet above his head and lowered it down slowly. When that was done Richard finally began to tighten the nozzles on his oxygen hose. At Last Richard now saw the world through a faint red haze.

"Vengeance, Tighten the armour plates to a tight fit, then prepare a test walking pace 10 metres forward"

"I'll make it as tight as a Nun, and then you'll be walking fine Today, and THEN WE GET TO KILLING!" replied Vengeance haughtily

but Before Richard could reply to his armour, a Roaring Klaxon resounded throughout the Base

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"Vengeance, Patch in to Enclave Network, I want to know what is going on"

"CALLING THOSE SISSIE EGGHEADS NOW COMMANDER!"

"This is Commander Chase, What is going on?" spoke Richard loudly into his Helmet

"Commander, the Quantum Device is reading high levels of energy, someone needs to shut it down manually before it blows up the base" replied a concerned scientist

"I got this, alert the rest of the station and tell them that I will solve this personally" replied Richard, when the transmission cut Richard began to speak to vengeance. "Vengeance, can you patch into Santa Claw's communicator"

Santa Claws is Clawtooth's nickname

"AGH YES, TELL THAT ADORABLE SON OF A BITCH I WANT HIM TO SEND ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME!" replied Vengeance

"Santa Claws, change of plans, lets meet up at the abandoned Quantum Device, oh and Vengeance says the next time I am sent on a mission without my power armour he's going to skin your ass!"

"I Thought the world had Enough of Smart ass Commanders" replied Clawtooth

"Very Funny Santa Claws, laugh it up"

"Watch it Tracer Chaser" replied Clawtooth jokingly

Tracer Chaser was Richards first nickname, he earned it when he was on his first mission at the age of twelve on board a Vertibird as he continuously drained the side mounted m 134 minigun using tracer rounds on neighbouring mountainsides for no reason at all aside from his own amusement

"Enough Meet me at the Quantum device" Richard replied in the tone that meant seriousness

"Over and out" replied the Deathclaw seriously

(I hate explaining scenarios on how the characters somehow get teleported into another universe, so I will let you guess how they teleported, thus saving me time writing and letting you come up with a plausible explanation)

MEANWHILE ABOARD THE NORMANDY SSV2

Natalie Shepard was standing against the railing of the CIC Room tapping her finger's idly waiting for her ship to reach Omega which was about a day away when she suddenly heard a Comm call throughout the ship.

"Agh Shepard, were getting some weird signals from the QEC, apparently were receiving a Call from something Called the Enclave" Joker Spoke awkwardly

"What the Hell is that?" Replied Natalie Shepard

"Agghh Commander, here's the weird thing, the call just stopped, but now EDI's is registering Movement coming from within the QEC Room" replied Joker

"What the Hell!" Natalie Shepard turned from the railing and began to run towards the armoury and began to grab an avenger before yelling to Jacob "JACOB Get your ass up and grab a gun and follow me" turning from Jacob, Natalie then began speaking to the Normandy's AI

"EDI Call Miranda and have her meet up with us In the QEC Room!"

"Already Done Commander" replied EDI Nonchalantly

Shepard and Jacob waited anxiously for Miranda to arrive

'Trust Cerberus to build a state of the art ship yet have a super fucking slow elevator installed' Thought Natalie but was halted as she heard fast footsteps approach

"Miranda, finally, let's see what's got Joker's bones in a twist" replied Shepard as she anxiously approached to open the door, and what she saw inside baffled her.

The Door opened and she was greeted to the sight of an enormous beast with claws the size of small machetes, the beings hide looked thick and tough and had a brown colouration, it had a large head that was adorned with two large white horns and featured huge sharp teeth. Shepard thought inwardly at the sight 'what the fuck is that, this is the kinda shit that would have religious fantasists twisting their pants for years, it's like a textbook demon from a biblical show'

Suddenly she heard a voice creek out from the being in what she understood to be perfect English

"Commander Contacts at three o'clock" the voice alerting the baffled commander who was awkwardly examining the Normandy's hull. Natalie followed the creatures gaze to an armoured being who stood about 6'8ft high and was glancing at Shepard and her crew until the being miraculously pulled out a huge Rifle with a lot of ball shaped objects coming out the barrel of the gun. The armoured man then held out his rifle defensively aiming at Natalie then spoke in clear English "Drop your weapons or you will be fired upon!". A few seconds after that a third voice entered the room "THAT'S RIGHT, YOU SHOOT AND WE SPLATTER YOUR BRAINS ALL OVER THE FUCKING WALLS!"

After hearing that voice, Natalie looked throughout the room for a third person but couldn't find them. The Demonic Being caught her searching gaze and lifted his hand to his head in a way not to dissimilar to someone showing mild discomfort like when your friends joke goes too far, then after a second, the armoured being took notice and then let out a slight laugh

Natalie Shepard and her team members looked at each other awkwardly and then Shepard spoke what was on everyone's mind "Who said that?"

The armoured being turned his face to the Demon and they nodded their heads before the armoured being returned his gaze to the team and he pointed his thumb to his armour and said "That would be Vengeance, my On-board Armour's A.I System" shortly after that the armour then began to reply Haughtily "I Am Vengeance, the Bat Shit Craziest Suit of Armor IN THIS FUCKING GALAXY!"

Shepard and crew looked at each other then looked at the armoured being again, only to have the armour reply again "That's Right People, Look on my Work's Ye Mighty and Despair, I AM THE KIND OF ARMOUR THAT WOULD MAKE THOR'S HAMMER TAKE A RAIN CHECK!" The Armoured being then cleared his throat and began to speak "Yeah, My armour gets a little Over-Zealous at Times" only to have the armour reply back "OVERZEALOUS, WHO ARE YOU CALLING OVERZEALOUS, YOU'RE THE PERSON WHOS BEST FRIEND LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF SATANS PLAYGROUND"

The Demonic being then returned his gaze to the armoured being and said jokingly "And this is why we don't Bring You out on Missions Anymore" only to have the Armour reply again "FUCK YOU… YOU ADORABLY EVIL SON OF A BITCH!" only to have the Armoured Being Shout Out "Enough, Vengeance, Be Quiet or I will Shoot you With a Pulse Rifle like last Time!"

The AI Whined for a second before replying back "Shutting up now sir"

Shepard thought inwardly again 'Jesus that suit of armour is like Joker Mixed with R Lee Ermey on super steroids'

Shepard then began to straighten up and assume Commander Shepard pose, then began to speak in a calm and clear voice "Who Are you and what are you doing aboard the Normandy?" the armoured being then turned to his demonic companion and began to take of his helmet as he handed it to the demon, afterward he returned to straighten out his weapon and replied clearly and calmly "I Am Commander Richard Chase of The Enclave Remnants Minnesota Military Division"

Shepard took a look at the man's face and saw that it was scarred slightly on the left part of his face, he had an unkempt reddish beard and had slightly blondish reddish hair done in a military style crew cut. The man seemed young but he had the eyes of a veteran, his blue eyes where slightly hard and he had a gaze that made it look like he was searching your body for any signs of weakness. Shepard then said what came first in her mind "How old are you?" to which the man replied "I am 17 and three months or thereabouts old, why?" That realisation stunned her and she began to speak again "how long have you been on active combat service?" to which the armoured man replied "5 years, I was twelve when I started fighting"

That Realisation stunned Natalie Shepard and her crew as they visibly shrunk back for a moment before returning their eyes to the being as he began to clear his throat and said "this entire thing is a misunderstanding, you see me and Santa Claws here" Richard pointed out his thumb to the Demon and then continued his speech "where manually fixing up some Quantum entanglement thingy ma jig when we were teleported here, so I take it we were teleported to some other galaxy or an alternate universe or something like that, I am very tired so if I just surrender my stuff over, will you let me rest?"

The Tension in the room suddenly lowered and Natalie Shepard and her companions visibly loosened as everyone in the room lowered their weapons (or claws in Clawtooth's case)

Shepard finally began to say what she wanted to say "Where do you come from" to which the armoured being known as Richard replied "Earth, me and Clawtooth here come from the American Wasteland"

Shepard shot back almost immediately "Wasteland, what is that"

Richard laughed slightly then looked to the floor for a second before turning his head up to address Shepard and her crew. "The Wasteland is the Result of the Great War between the Commonwealth of America and The Communist Army of China, Right up to 2055 the world was running out of oil and china needed fuel to support her burgeoning empire, we Americans had the last reserves of it up in Alaska and there was some in India, Shit went raw and the European Union and Indians Went no hold barred fighting each other, the fighting literally stopped only because the fuel just dried up and the land wasn't worth shit anymore . cars began to stop moving for the first time in centuries across all of Europe and Asia…" Richard paused for a second to catch his breath "and then we American's were left holding the last of the world's reserves of oil, When the U.N demanded we trade our oil we gave them the proverbial finger and said Fuck No and out we waltzed, of course at the same time we reformed our national borders to form a commonwealth of 13 states to better enforce our laws on the nations and to better ration of supplies. of course to add insult to injury, at the same time we left the United Nations, our scientists developed man portable Fission reactors that could power cars, the problem is that it was new shit and it was expensive as hell at first, but then the shit got proverbial, enter 2066 and China has invaded Alaska for the Oil reserves, in return we annex Canada from the Canadians so that we can transport our troops over, at that same time Chinese Scientists invent a type of stealth suit which renders people invisible for a long amount of time, and so to combat that our scientist's decided to create a revolutionary kind of armour, the idea of turning a man into a portable tank , Power Armour, and on the eve of 2067 our first suits of T-45d Power armour are steamrolled out of production, and from this we get a revolutionary fuel source, Fusion cells the size of my fingernail, an unquantifiable source of power, from this we created the first laser weapons. From our research the Chinese developed a new tank with laser weaponry and ship them out and our attack at anchorage turns to a long drawn out battle of trench warfare. by 2076 things change, a new kind of Powerarmour is shoved of the shelves, t-51b Powerarmour, 10 microns of ablative silver plating, ceramic casings and hardened metal chassis powered by a Fusion Reactor, that year a new product hits the shelves, man portable Gatling lasers and high powered plasma weaponry. In the first month of these things getting shipped to Alaska and we kick the Chinese out. However shit gets raw in 2077, super high oil prices and a horrible bad weather kills out half the crops in America and people starve, martial law is declared and Americans kill each other for the first time since Lincoln. In Canada an American general orders the public execution of convicted communist sympathisers are shot on national television, a few months later Canadian Communist's capture an American Missile silo and launch a Nuke to China. China Launches Their Nukes and We Launch Ours, 47 seconds later The European Union Launches there stockpiles into China and India Launches theirs on the European Union. Anything after that is what we call a wasteland"

Shepard and her squad are stunned by the explanation

"Jesus Christ" says Jacob

"That is Fucked Up" says Miranda

"It's not all that bad, I mean its shit and all, but after 200 years people are finally rebuilding, then again the wasteland is not exactly the safest of places, but what is bad is that one of the first nuclear bombs to hit America Hit WestTek, the holding facility of something call F.E.V, Forced Evolutionary Virus, a mutagenic material that was released into the atmosphere and combined with the fallout to cause huge mutageous creatures the size of shit you wouldn't believe, Infact that big Hulking Clawrosaur back there is a result, but when we injected the Deathclaws with a more advanced F.E.V these awesome creatures learned to talk and me and him became best friends"

Shepard turned to look at the Demon and noticed that he did the same, he then held out a hand to Shepard and said "My Name is Clawtooth and I am a Deathclaw" and began to shake hands with Natalie, although she felt uncomfortable shaking hands with a hand full of machete sized claws

"I am Natalie Shepard; I am on a mission to destroy the collectors"

Richard turned his head to look at Shepard and replied "who are these collectors, perhaps I can help you?"

Over a period of several minutes Shepard explained the story of the reapers and how the collectors were probably aiding the reapers. "Hell that sounds like a fairy-tale, though I've seen some horrible shit that you will never believe, if it is worth it though, my friend here and i are behind you all the way" said Richard

Jacob leaned over the side of Richard then spoke up "if you are on this mission I am going to need to see your weapons and armour, I am the ships master-at-arms, speaking of which, what is that on your shoulder" Richard pointed his thumb to his M72 2mm EC Gauss Rifle and pulled it out and showed it to Jacob and said in an enthusiastic tone "This here is the M72 2mm EC Gauss Rifle" Richard pointed to the ball shaped objects and spoke again "These here are the coil array's, when you pull that trigger, you send out a 2mm ball into the chamber, when it reaches the chamber, electromagnetic force's hurl the projectile hurtling through the barrel at near the speed of light, when it impacts it tears through most things except anything above t-45d Powerarmour" Jacob then replied "is that the only weapon you have?" Richard nodded his head side by side then pulled out a metal object in his palm and began to scan the M72 2mm EC Gauss Rifle, Jacob then stood stunned as the weapon in his hand took a white glow and just vanished. Richard Pulled out his Wattz 2000 rifle and pressed it into Jacob's Hand and said "This is the Wattz 2000 Laser Rifle, it is the first in a line of Laser Rifles, powerful enough to be sold in a civilian market but lacking the punch it needed to kick through ceramic body armours it never really saw any military use, Although it lacks the power to kick through body armour, it has decent range, extremely good accuracy and is extremely tough and hard wearing, it is like to the laser weapons what the ak-47 was to the Chinese, reliable as all hell, accurate but it couldn't punch through Ceramic body armours"

"Alright then, Just place the weapons you have in the armoury and I will look them over" Jacob replied

Richard Entered the Armoury and unloaded all his weapons on the bench then exited to see Natalie Shepard walking towards Him. Richard stood at attention and waited for what Natalie had to say

"Richard, in order for you to join the Normandy, you will have to get a check-up from Dr Chakwas, I have already briefed her on your background, she will be expecting you, she will be on deck 3, if you lose your way ask for EDI to show you your way" Richard nodded his head then said "right away Shepard"

Richard walked into the Elevator and signalled for Deck 3, the elevator slowly descended to deck 3 where a large proportion of the crew were dining and grumbling, Richard dismissed looking at the crew and immediately went straight for the med bay. Upon arriving he was shocked to see that Clawtooth was already getting examined. Clawtooth let out a yelp as Dr Chakwas stabbed a needle into his shoulder and withdrew some blood, after that Chakwas was done and said "come on its not that bad, your done here for now"

Richard began to walk up to Dr Chakwas and spoke "My name is Richard Chase, I am supposed to be here to be examined" "Yes, I'm going to need you to take your clothes off and stand over there when you are done" replied Chakwas

"Very well, let's get this over with" replied Richard hesitatingly as he lowered down his power Armour. "Vengeance, Quick Combat Suit Withdrawal Procedure please" after the words had been said the suit bits began to fall off of Richards body whilst he worked through getting the several layers of under suit off, it took five minutes all in all. when Richard had taken off all his clothing he stood in front of Dr Chakwas who gasped in shock at the numbers of injuries, she then took her finger and pointed to the scar on my face and I replied "Machete swing, luckily It missed my eye by millimetres, I was thirteen at the time when I received that injury, It was my third ever ground mission. Dr Chakwas then pointed to a bite mark between my third and fourth finger on my left hand and I replied "Caused by some slave kid who I tried to keep quiet whilst my team and I evacuated, the damn kid just chomped down and I struggled hard to stop him… but I hit him too damn hard and he died, I was twelve at the time and the kid must have been about seven or eight…"

'Severe injuries, multiple gunshot and cauterising wounds, bite-marks and sword wounds all at a young age, my patient must be quite mentally scarred, I am surprised that this Teenager can even stand at all despite the amount of wounds he has endured, I must get a blood sample immediately' thought Dr Chakwas as she grabbed a Hypodermic needle and began to press it into Richard's shoulder. Richard Winced slightly but that was it.

"So tell me doctor, am I certified for ground combat?" asked Richard whilst Chakwas was putting his blood sample into a mechanical device.

"Yes…Physically you are fine, mentally however I am afraid I am not so sure, I would suggest you go to Yeoman Kelly for Psychiatric Therapy" "so long as it's a heart to heart talk and not looking at inkblots all day sure, why not it might help get some stuff of my chest" replied Richard

"I would also suggest you come see me in future for several things such as inoculations and other things that you might ne…" Richard cut her off with the wave of his hand as he quickly spoke "Whatever it is doctor if you think I need It then tell me and I will come immediately, I will not endanger the mission by carelessly putting my health at risk" Dr Chakwas soon replied "So if you were injured and I told you to stay in bed for a week, you would stay there?" to which Richard replied "Yes, I have seen full well what happens to people who don't follow the good doctor's orders… let's just say losing a limb to gangrene because one didn't exercise hygiene isn't a pretty sight and leave it at that Ms Chakwas" Chakwas was surprised at that statement but chose not to question Richard. Richard pulled out his Pipboy and began to choose his Enclave military Uniform as he was too tired to re-equip his armour and then he began to dress up, after a few moments he stood up and began to scan his power armour whilst Chakwas watched stunned as she saw the Armour disappear. Chakwas than looked at Richard and said "how the hell did you do that" all she got was a shrug as he pointed towards a device and said "This here is my Pipboy 2500, with this I can mess around with the laws of quantum mechanics or something like that and make things disappear and reappear at my whim" Chakwas shook her head at that and continued to work.

Richard began to leave when Chakwas turned around from her chair to face him and said "Talk to Gardener to set you up a meal" "I Will thank you" replied Richard as he bowed to Chakwas and left to join the mess hall

Richard walked slowly in front of the Chef and stood at attention as he began to speak "Chef Gardener, may I have some food please" to which he responded with sarcasm "Sure, here's a well prepared Ration, enjoy" "I will thank you" replied Richard kindly as he began to pick a seat and began to sit and was ready to grab a fork when he noticed someone about to sit next to him, it was a female with red hair, she said "do you mind if I sit here?" to which Richard responded with "sure, by all means Ms…?" "Kelly… Yeoman Kelly Chambers" replied the female called Kelly. "Agh sure, as long as you don't talk about inkblots or Oedipus complex or about Freudian slips or creepy stuff like that sure" Richard laid out a seat for Kelly to sit which made Kelly laugh cheerfully then she sat down and said "I wouldn't dream of it" Kelly then reached for her fork and began to taste the food and squealed at how disgusting the meal was, however she noticed that Richard ate like a beast as he devoured his meal and was about to get up to ask for seconds when Kelly spoke to him "how can anyone eat that disgusting stuff" to which Richard replied "it's better than some two hundred year old Salisbury steak or Blanco's mac and cheese, at least this stuff is fresher than that crap" Kelly looked in shock at what Richard had said but looking at the profiling that Shepard and Chakwas had provided her with She was not that surprised 'To live in a post Nuclear environment must be very traumatic, it must be like living on Tuchanka, I wonder to what moral extremes that Richard has gone through' thought Kelly as Richard began to walk back to chef Gardener

Chef Gardner saw Richard walk up to him so Gardner spoke "I'm sorry I can't do anything good with the rations that Cerberus gave us, you'll have to eat it until Shepard gets us better food at the Citadel" Richard stared at Gardner for a while then spoke "Hell no, I want more, this food is good" to which just about everyone turned around to stare at the Teenager who said that, whilst Gardner was about to Explode with appreciation. "HELL YEAH, Someone agrees with me, I can turn Ration's into Food!" Yelled out Gardner to the Crowd.

Richard turned to his seat next to Kelly and began to sit down, this time Richard was eating slower than before when Kelly turned to Richard and spoke to him "I am going to have to schedule you for a psychiatric assessment after your first mission, does that sound fine" to which Richard swallowed his food then spoke "yes, that's fine so long as it is a heart to heart talk and not looking at ink Splotches, I've done that crap a thousand times before and I'm not a looney, I'm fine, but having someone to talk to about my problems would be great, thank you" Kelly smiled honestly, she had originally thought that Richard would be stubborn just like half the ship's crew when it came to psychological evaluations, But Richard actually seemed to care that people were concerned for his safety which brought a warm spark to Kelly's heart

Natalie Shepard had been looking all over the ship for Richard until finally she summoned up the courage to ask the AI Edi "Edi where Is Richard currently located" a few seconds later the voice of Edi pinged through the ship "Richard is currently talking with Kelly Chambers in the Mess Hall, would you like me to call them up?" "No I will go to him myself" replied Shepard "Signing out" replied Edi

After a long elevator ride she finally spotted Richard chatting amongst Kelly Chamber's. Personally Shepard did not like Kelly's cheerful attitude but here she was laughing with Richard about some subject or other, and she had to admit this scene had changed Shepard's view of Kelly Chamber's drastically 'maybe I should attend at least one psychiatric assessment at least once' thought Shepard before she removed the image from her mind and began to step towards Richard and spoke out "Richard, can you come here please" to which he replied "Certainly, what do you need" to which Shepard replied "You don't need to do anything, here catch" as Shepard threw a thin Chip to Richard who caught it in his left hand and Shepard caught sight of the bite mark across the middle of his hand "What do I do with this" he replied whilst studying the device "here, hold it against your arm and press the middle button. Richard did as she said and his arm began to glow in a torrent of yellow around his arm as he replied "What the hell is this, this device is awesome, how do I use it?" to which Shepard replied "It is better if you learn how to use the Omni-tool Yourself, now you should be able to speak with aliens and vice versa. Also I am here to help you find an available bed" to which Richard replied "Where is Clawtooth sleeping" "He has chosen the lower level of the engineering deck" to which Richard said "Then I chose to sleep near his room in the Lower Level Engineering deck" replied Richard as he begun to take the elevator down a level when suddenly his Omni-tool blinked on his arm, he pressed the button and apparently he had received a message from Commander Shepard and it said for him and Clawtooth to meet in full armour (except for Clawtooth) in the docking bay by 0900 hours. He then checked the time and realised it was about 10 o clock at night and began to set up his bed in time for sleep, When he saw Clawtooth he said "Santa Claws, we have a meeting with Natalie Shepard at 0900 hours tomorrow morning at the docking bay, we better be ready by then" to which Richard's trusty companion replied "definitely, it would be bad for you to lose to a women now wouldn't it", at that they both laughed and set about their beds for the night…

TO BE CONTINUED