It's like a leech.
He knows that some people like to say soul mate while others like to say other half, but it's really all the same to Rlixt. Like everyone else, there was a name on his wrist telling him the name of his own life partner. It was neat and delicate, spelling out a name in a language he didn't understand until one day, Rousi had looked at his wrist after learning all she could on the alien languages, writing ad whatever else, telling him the name spelled out Tali in qurian, telling him that she would be his partner in many things.
When he was a child and he and Rousi looked at their names and would say something, he remembers her giving him a bright grin at the age of ten when he was only nine and saying, It's the name of someone who will be with me forever, when the letters were finally beginning to take their own shape and become letters. Someone who will understand me. And he can't help but think it would have been right, at such a young age.
But that was then, before Cerberus took them away from their home for experiments.
When he hears the scientists come over, talking to each other and talking about the Illusive Man's plans and how he intends to send Rousi along with Shepard as a precaution-they all knew Shepard wasn't as invincible as everyone liked to think-and help protect her, he shares a look with her through the glass wall they used to separate the three siblings when they were going to be taken out, a fear for their own health and a precaution as they had an incident that had happened when the three had tried to escape before.
Their youngest sibling, Delmonti on Rousi's left and him on her right, the three tuning into their conversation with their advanced hearing from the tests.
Interest enters his eyes when he hears the name Tali'Zorah pass one red haired scientists lips as they start to unlock Rousi's door, but froze when he noticed neither he nor Del were going to be released along with their sister.
"No!" Rousi roars, a snarl on her face and revealing her sharp fangs, six in total, as she easily tosses the two scientists away. "I'm not leaving them! You can't make me leave them unprotected!" she cries, desperation in her eyes before she's forcibly subdued by an appearance from the Illusive Man himself.
"Now, now, Ross. They'll be perfectly taken care of while you're gone," there's a malicious, evil shine in his eyes that he masks from everyone else as he stares Rousi down. "That is, if you cooperate." he says easily, watching as Rousi stops instantly, a pleased look in his strange eyes and on his wicked face. "Because if you don't cooperate, then we'll just have to kill them, won't we?" Rlixt watches as his older sister gazes at the ground for a long time before jerkily nodding her consent to the Illusive man.
The scientists, body guards and doctors all the while simply watched the exchange, afraid or respecting as Rousi complies with them as they lead her away to get ready for Shepard's arrival and her departure.
He and Del stare down the hallway the Illusive Man went down and mourns the lost chance to kill him.
Shepard won't realize he's here, that he'd be right under her nose until they're far enough away for him to leave and even if Shepard did, she wouldn't be able to do anything about it because it would be the Illusive Man helping her in fighting the Reapers, and it was something he knew was more important then they were. Because if she stops them, then she saves millions of billions of lives, instead of the small number of ten of them that had survived the excruciating tests done on them.
Cerberus, everyone should know or suspect, is willing to do anything to further along humanity's power and capabilities at any cost. Even if it meant mixing alien DNA with human DNA to try and have certain…abilities, he supposed the word was, that whatever species had and convert it so that a human could have it.
Needless to say, it was a success.
Kind of.
While the surviving ten, he and his siblings included, had successfully accepted the foreign DNA and started to show signs of whatever species they had been altered with, there were side affects that had all the doctors and scientists cringing and shying away from them all, the Illusive Man deeming them more of a failure then an actual success and proceeding to lock them up in a laboratory.
Rousi had grown claws, while the 'fangs' she had as a human grew in length and turning into actual fangs, four on the bottom and two on top. Her skin had also hardened, but while not being visible to the eye unless her skin caught the light in a certain way, there were scales much like a turians covering her body. The thing was, it was forcibly stopped before it could change her appearance anymore so it was just her covered in the tan scales with speckles of sandy brown that replaced scars and freckles, and the strange thing was with her was the fact that she had been complaining about her jaw hurting, which had the scientist develop a 'serum' for her to stop whatever process was going on with her. And her eyes had changed, the white had turned to black and if seen incorrectly, her eyes could seem totally black instead of the stormy grey irises surrounded by black.
He, on the other hand, had been mixed with krogan DNA. So he towered over everyone in the facility, which frightened the staff even if he hadn't lost his temper in a while now. But like all krogan, there was an itching underneath his skin, something telling him to start a fight or get into a battle because his blood called for the spilled blood of enemies. Which was the cause of his short temper, though he was getting better at controlling his anger now. And just like Rousi but unlike Rousi at the same time, he was covered in scales that the scientists had been scared of until it just seemed to stop and settle. His own grey eyes had turned catlike, to his delight.
Their little brother had drell DNA mixed inside him. So he was flexible, lean and fast, just like their older sister. And his skin had changed from tan to a forest green with hints of a blue-green here and there, slightly large eyes having turned into a drell's strange ones not long after being given the DNA. He also lost his nails, since drell didn't have any and it was painful to watch. Especially as he collapsed on his floor in pain as the changes happened to his body, crying and pleading for the change, the pain, to simply stop while he and Rousi were forced to watch helplessly as their little brother went through the ordeal alone. His own name on his wrist turning into a dark blue that blended into his new skin tones, only seen if it tilted it just so, spelling the name Kolyat.
Rlixt wondered what Shepard would think of the things the Illusive Man did to them but pushed the thought aside. He needed to look after Del now, since Rousi was gone.
At least for the time being, anyways. Rousi always had a plan.
I already have another idea for the next chapter so it should be up later or tomorrow.
No idea. We'll see.
Also, I realize their names are a mouth full so I'll try to make it easy on you. Rlixt: the L in the name is silent, so you don't need to add it in when you're going to say his name. It's Rixt, which actually sounds a lot like Risk except with a hard T at the end instead of a K. Delmonti is just that, Del-Mon-Tee(I took it from the fruit box, *shifty eyes*) and Rousi has a full name, it's Rousselloti which is pronounced with a hard R like when you're going to do a mock mrrow or when a cat mrrows: Rows-Seh-Lot-Tee which is a real mouth full, I know but I like the name.
Which is also why Rlixt and Del call her Rousi which is pronounced Rowshi.
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