Sol System
2152
Outskirts of M15 Indominus holding facility
2100 hours' local time
25 years ago
"Watch out!"
"Concentrate your fire!"
"AHHHHH!"
"MEDIC!"
The panic screams and wails of dying Turians filled the air as a mass of black scales darted through the forest, blast of glowing biotic energy ripping through the undergrowth like artillery shells decimating all in its path.
The supersonic crack of mass accelerator fire danced in the air like music, while the deafening boom of detonating high explosives ripped the air like a brutal dubstep. Sending shockwaves of compressed air tumbling through the forest destroying more vegetation in the chaos of battle.
A battle that Lieutenant Adrien Victus knew his comrades could not win as the dark plated Turian dragged the limp and bloody form of a Turian named Saren Arterius to safety. The zealous young soldier had been one of the first casualties during the monsters ambush, he and his brother had taken point to check out an unusual heat signature amongst the vegetation.
A heat signature that had practically eaten young Desolas Arterius before biting the arm of his attacking brother and throwing him aside.
Nearby, more screaming filled the air and the sickening crunch of snapping jaws resonated through the forest. Signalling the end to another soldier's life and reminding the young Lieutenant that soon there would be no one left to stop this beast.
It was terrifying how clever this beast had been thus far, first it somehow tricked the security and medical staff back at M15 into thinking it was sedated. Then when everyone was close it managed to break free and claw out the biotic dampener imbedded in its hide, with no shackles or dampener. The terrifying beast known as an Indominus rex had blasted its way out of M15 like a siege tank. Leaving hundreds wounded or dead in its wake.
"Victus!" called out a voice snapping the Turian back to the present.
A tall blue skinned Asari with red face paint was sprinting towards him, her green camouflage armour was splattered with blue Turian blood and she was cradling a rocket launcher in her arms like a new born child.
Behind her staggering backwards with rifle blazing away, was the tall confident form of the Turian Spectre in training named Nihlus. The crimson armoured individual was brandishing his standard rifle towards the dark forest, the barrel glowing hot as it spat tiny projectiles the size of a grain of sand with the kinetic energy of a speeding car.
But these deadly projectiles were practically useless as they bounced harmlessly off a glowing bluish purple field of energy surrounding the black scaled Indominus casually strolling towards them. Cold amber red eyes glared down at the smaller aliens with murderous intent and blood soaked jaws parted to reveal the gaping abyss of the monsters throat.
With a swipe of its arm, the Indominus slapped Nihlus off his feet and into the air. Launching the young Turian flying through the air and into a tree with a sicking smack of braking armour and bone.
Giving the red Turian half a glance, the Indominus turned its head to regard the 3 helpless morsels standing in petrified fear before it. Nobody moved as the Indominus took a step forward, body glowing almost demonically as the beast recharged its kinetic barriers to fend off another attack from the outmatched aliens.
Victus had to act fast if he hand any hope to survive, dropping Sarens unconscious form, the Turian shot forward like a bullet and ripped the rocket launcher from the Asari's arms.
Flicking the weapon into firing position Victus took aim, held his breath and squeezed the trigger.
Sol System
2177
Earth
M15 Indominus holding facility
0700 hours' local time
Garrus wanted to pound his head against a wall as he begrudgingly strolled down a hallway with an assault rifle clinging to his back, the young Turian prison guard was pissed. Pissed because one of his friends had messed up tending to an Indominus rex earlier that morning and lost an arm as a result.
In the few months Garrus had been at the M15 Holding Facility, he'd learnt firsthand that the Indominus rex as a species were incredibly devious beast that were masters at hurting their security personal.
What Garrus found most unsettling about working with the massive predators, was that they could actually talk in a twisted form of human English. Mind you all they would say was muttering curses and sickening insane plotting of how each predator intended to kill his or her guards. The insane rambles were one of the reasons Garrus Omni tool had been fitted with the correct translation software. Everything the beast say is to be recorded as most of that rambling can actually be a complex escape plan or murder attempt by said predator.
Shuddering as he remembered various ways an Indominus wanted to cook him for lunch, Garrus waved a clearance card across the locking mechanism of a door and stepped out into a large open room.
"Alright everyone get back, wild Indominus coming through!" bellowed a Turian loudly, his red armour splattered with dried blue blood and his white painted face looking grim and dirty from time in the field.
Garrus instantly recognised the Turian as a General Adrien Victus. The Turian was partly famous around M15 for being the best Indominus hunter on the planet, having captured more than 30 of the carnivores in their natural habitat. No small feat considering Garrus himself had been fooled on multiple occasions by the Indominus's natural camouflage abilities.
Standing near the centre of the room, the General was perched beside the large scaly form of a brown Indominus rex locked in transport shackles. The shackles themselves being comprised of a large cage with various chains used to restrain the predator inside to make transport safer for the prison guards.
At first glance, Garrus was familiar enough between the species genders to recognise the Indominus as a female. A rather small female at that with a long slender body and row of pinkish purple quills running down its neck in a decorative manner.
For a moment Garrus couldn't help but admire the pretty colours, until the female predator in question began to thrash about violently against the shackles sending a guard standing to close to the cage flying across the room with a sicking snap of breaking bone and armour.
"Medic!" someone yelled as they rushed over to the downed guard, while everyone else including Garrus drew there weapons.
With over a dozen firearms pointed in her direction, the Indominus paused in her thrashing and glared murderously at the guards. Jagged blood soaked fangs parted to let loose a sinister hissing noise while chains rattled as the females tail slashed back and forth against the restraints.
It was a display Garrus saw a few times while playing body guard for research and medical crews attending to the imprisoned predators here, generally the predator was partly sedated to make handling them a little easier. Unlike the wild female who seemed to be running at full power as she cautiously examined her restraints and pulled against every one of them in a testing manner.
The action caught Garrus off guard, but only momentarily as he and another prison guard moved forward to shove their weapons in the Indominus's face causing her to pause momentarily.
Giving the guards a loud snort of amusement, the predator went back to examining her bindings with a thoughtful look in her eye. Like she was studying the cage for faults to exploit.
"General Sir, where did you find this one?" called out Garrus, his eyes not leaving the brown scaly skull of the Indominus.
General Victus looked away from the security officer he was speaking too, eyes flashing with irritation at the interruption.
"I found her camping out back" remarked the General sarcastically, a trait uncommon for a Turian of his stature.
Garrus shook his head at the sarcasm before noticing the Indominus had fixed him with an intense stare, or rather was staring at his arm.
Hesitantly, Garrus took a step to the side. The Indominus head turned to follow him, eyes still locked on his arm for some uncomfortable reason.
Suddenly the Turians Omni tool glowed to life with a loud buzzing sound from the micro audio projectors, confused Garrus raised his arm glaring at the device as it continued to make a ruckus of a sound.
"Your all dead"
General Victus paused in his conversation as a static filled feminine voice split the air. Turning slowly, Victus eyes zeroed in on the startled blue armoured Turian staring at his Omni tool in confusion.
"That wasn't me" stated Garrus slowly, eyes glancing to the side to see the Indominus was making a devious growling chuckle of amusement.
"Get back, she's smarter than she looks" called out Victus, hands pulling a pistol from his side as he almost ran towards the Indominus.
Garrus didn't move, his eyes were once more glued to his Omni tool as the device was flooded with raw data. Waving his device at the Indominus's head, Garrus stared up at the predator with a look of surprise on his face.
"She's got a chip in her head, some kind of cybernetic implant?" the Indominus tilted its head looking surprised at the Turians words.
Victus practically dragged Garrus away from the Indominus by the collar of his armour, the Turians pistol poised to fire the entire time earing a sinister snarl from the female as she registered the weapon.
Book was pretty confused at that moment, she'd thought it be funny to use her Tech priest skills to hack into the Turians device and project a message through it. What she didn't expect was for said Turian to use his device to virtually hack her in reply.
What stood out to her the most was what he said, there was something in her brain?
Book narrowed her eyes in thought, mind racing with possibilities as to why she would have something electronic in her brain. Was this cybernetic the reason why she could access machines, it would explain why there was only a few Tech priest in the world if you needed an implant in your skull.
Book wondered if Shepard knew about the chip in her brain, as the pack Alpha Shepard would need to know these things if she didn't already. Speaking of Shepard, Book was surprised it was taking her so long to get here, Shepard had made it pretty clear she was going to break her out after the Turians captured her.
Looking around the place, Book turned her attention to the locking mechanism on the cage. They were digitally controlled magnetic locks, a serious design flaw that the imprisoned predator planned to exploit immediately.
"Vakarian, run a scan over the Indominus and look for any more implants" shouted one of the Turians, causing Book to look down in amusement as the same blue armoured Turian from before strolled towards her with a device in hand.
For some reason, something about that Turian made Book curious. She wasn't sure if it was the way he looked at her, or just the way he acted but something about him was different to the other Turians.
With a sigh, Garrus hesitantly climbed onto the side of the large cage with scanner in hand. Victus had ordered him to look for more cybernetic implants after his accidental discovery of the one in her brain, according to the General the implant may mean they had a biotic talented Indominus on their hands.
Balancing himself against the thick cage bars, Garrus ran the scanner up and down a meter or so from the predators hide. All the while the beast herself just stared at him with curiosity, something that Garrus knew could change in a moment's notice if she had an opportunity to hurt him.
Garrus also couldn't help but notice a detail about the Indominus he found extremely unsettling, the female had a twinkle of intelligence in her eyes he wasn't used to seeing in the predatory species.
Garrus exchanged eye contact repeatedly with the predator as he scanned every inch of her hide, until finally he was back to her skull once more carefully waving the scanner to get a reading on her brain. A loud and distinct click filled the air as the cage lock in front of the Turian disengaged, for a moment Garrus found himself staring at a very triumphant looking predator. The next second Garrus felt claws wrap around his torso like a vice and startled yelling filled the air.
Book roared in triumph, her fingers curling tightly around her prize as she forced her way out of the horrid cage and into the open. Deep down the Indominus felt a sense of satisfaction watching the small pitiful aliens run about in fear at her display of power, Book knew she was the apex predator of this planet and no alien with fancy technology could ever truly beat her on the ground.
As rifles and missile launchers were raised in preparation to fire, Book snarled savagely and held the flailing Turian close to her chest. Glaring at the armed aliens, the predator practically taunted them to fire as she held Garrus in the air and directly in harm's way.
"Hold your fire it's got Vakarian" bellowed General Victus as he slapped the barrel of someone's weapon towards the ground.
Book mentally grinned in satisfaction as her hostage tactic worked, now all she needed to do was wait for Shepard to show up and she'd be free of this dark miserable place.
A siren began to howl into the air and lights flickered across the ceiling, alarms blared away with a warning just as the very earth itself seemed to shake with the force of an explosion somewhere in the facility.
"That would be Shepard" announced Book cheekily, unaware that all the Turians around her understood her words because of their translators.
Victus flinched upon hearing the name, a well-known name that the General had hoped to never hear again in his life.
Shepard was an old inmate from M15, nearly 30 years ago she had escaped from this very facility in a wave of destruction almost unmated by any Indominus in history.
Being classed as the 3rd strongest biotic talented organism in the galaxy, Victus remembered Shepard as a cold and calculative predator who killed over 60 guards in her escape from M15. Victus himself had been on the platoon sent after the biotic to hunt her down with lethal force, only 4 people out of an entire platoon made it back to base and Shepard all but disappeared from the face of the planet.
"EVERYONE GET BACK!" bellowed Victus.
The large blast doors leading into the room flew open in an explosion of blue energy that shook the air like thunder, smoke steamed from the jagged opening ripped into the room and prison guards turned their weapons to face the new danger.
A large black scaled foot stomped through the cloud of smoke, accompanied by a long fang filled jaws and burning amber red eyes that glowed in a demonic manner.
"Hold your fire!" shouted Victus, throwing his arms up in front of his men to prevent them discharging their weapons.
"Smart bird" sneered Shepard as she strolled into the room, her scaly hide glowing with a protective shield of biotic energy.
Strolling right up to Book, the large Alpha female sniffed Books face before glancing down at the hostage in her hands.
Grumbling in amusement, Shepard turned her head to regard the Turians in the room with a murderous gaze.
"You honestly got caught by these birds?" growled Shepard casting Book a disappointed scowl, Book garbled in reply looking annoyed.
"I'm not a biotic like you they got me with a sleeping dart" garbled Book in embarrassment, Shepard shook her head before placing herself between Book and the Turians.
"I know you can understand me Turians, I'll only say this once" Shepard bared her fangs menacingly "If you try to follow us, I will eat you"
With those words, Shepard nudged Book with her nose towards the exit she secured. Complying too her Alpha's demand, Book strolled casually out of the room with the defeated form of Garrus hanging limply in her claws like a teddy bear.
"Oh and Victus, good to see you" remarked Shepard as she paused in the door way, eye glancing over her shoulder at the elderly Turian before she disappeared down the tunnel.
A moment passed when nothing happened, then with a furious roar Victus threw his pistol across the room and ordered his men to get to the battlements.
Fuming in silent frustration, General Victus rushed down a hallway towards the command centre of the facility. He needed to make a few calls immediately to high command on Palavan.
1100 hours local time
"Sooo a hostage or pet?" remarked Shepard casually as she thundered along through the forest undergrowth, behind her Book was hot on her tail with her precious cargo in hand.
Book looked a little embarrassed by the casual remark from her Alpha, claws tightening around Garrus's armoured chest causing his hard shell like suit to creek and groan beneath the intense pressure of her claws.
"Shepard I don't know anything about owning a pet, and he's got some piece of technology that can find the implants in my head" informed Book with a huff, causing Shepard to glance over her shoulder briefly.
"Implants? We'll discuss that later turn here" instructed Shepard, her massive hide suddenly lurching to the right and beneath the giant husk of a fallen tree that was bigger than a 3 story building.
Book swerved after her companion, feet pounding the earth violently with each step and propelling her to speeds of almost 30mph.
Poor Garrus clutched to Books claws with a death grip, eyes wide with fear as he dangled helplessly in the air by a ferocious predator that was incredibly fast for a beast of her size. The Turian wasn't sure which was more terrifying, being held in the air by a massive predator, or being in the claws of a 5 tonne monster moving at a sufficient velocity to crush him if she tripped.
"Get ready to jump" announced Shepard from the front of the group, making Garrus's stomach lurch with fear.
Charging through the forest, the vegetation gave way to gaping crack in the earth several meters wide. More than sufficient enough to swallow an Indominus whole if one wasn't careful.
A pulse of blue energy shot from Shepard's tail and into her trailing companion, resulting in both apex predators glowing brightly as their molecular mass was reduced to a fraction of its original weight. Garrus himself felt a wave of weightlessness wash over him, his claws grapping hard scales as Book pounced like a Varren into the air and sailed across the crack in the earth with ease.
Landing with a harsh jolt, the biotic energy dissipated as quickly as it appeared and Garrus felt his insides drop as gravity took hold once more. The young Turian hated the sensation of biotics being used against him, he found it a sicking and unnatural sensation to endure.
Stopping momentarily, both giant predators turned their heads to gaze back at the crack in the earth behind them. Both green and amber red eyes scanned the vegetation around them, muscles tense and tails lashing at the air in an agitated manner that didn't escape the young Turians attention.
"What's wrong?" Garrus called out, causing both Indominus's to jump slightly in surprise.
Shepard glared down at the Turian for startling her, but she supposed it was as good idea to warn the stupid alien to be quiet in enemy territory.
"Were trespassing in another packs territory, we got to move fast and quietly" growled Shepard, bringing her muzzle a mere meter away from the Turians face.
For a moment Garrus was confused, what did Shepard mean they were trespassing on someone's territory, whose territory was this to begin with?
Then Garrus noticed the word pack was used in Shepard's sentence, pack being the general term used to describe a group of Varren or other land predators.
"I bet you figured it out by now, us humans are pack creatures, now be silent" hissed Shepard harshly, puffing a blast of putrid breath in Garrus's face that made him want to gag from the stench of rotting meat.
Book remained silent, eyes staring down at the Turian nestled between her claws with a neutral expression. The Indominus was started to get a little hungry from all the running they were doing, instincts urged her to find something to eat and she conveniently had a little snack in her claws just ripe for the taking.
But Book didn't want to eat the Turian, she wanted the alien to scan her for more implants so she knew just what was inside her body. Staring at the small Turian, Books unconsciously began to salivate and her stomach growled loudly demanding food.
Thankfully for Garrus, Shepard noticed the hungry stare her companion was giving their hostage and decided to intervene.
"Book, toss the bird head onto my back" ordered Shepard sternly.
Instantly Book hugged the small Turian against her chest in a possessive manner, an aggressive growl flew between the Tech priest fangs as she glared at Shepard for daring to try take away her new play thing. Shepard only rolled her eyes at Books' instinctive reaction to the situation, all Indominus's were possessive of their belongings. And apparently Book had claimed the Turian as hers.
"Book we don't have time for this, you'll need both tooth and claw to defend yourself if were discovered" Book stopped snarling and snapped her head to the side for a moment, eyes staring into oblivion before hesitantly she approached her Alpha.
Gentle placing Garrus on Shepard's back, the Turian quickly discovered an Indominus's hide is a lot harder than it appears and very uncomfortable. Hands grasping the spiky armour covering the beast back, Garrus didn't get a word of warning as the massive predator strolled forwards and nearly dislodge him from his spot.
Feeling the Turian almost fall from her back, Shepard snarled at Garrus to hold on while she cautiously shoved her massive frame through the light vegetation of the forest undergrowth.
Book trailed along behind her, head snapping left and right as she looked about for any signs of other Indominus rexes lurking in the vicinity.
For a while nothing happened as the two apex predators and their alien hostage strolled through enemy territory, occasionally the group would stop to check the path behind them for pursuers.
Garrus felt a little disheartened when no squad of M15 guards came flying out of the undergrowth to rescue him, the others probably thought him to be dead by now. Likely eaten by his unusually smart captors who were displaying an intelligence never before recorded in an Indominus rex.
It was a little concerning how smart these predators were compared to the M15 inmates, there was an awareness in their movements. Reptilian eyes looked around the forest not with cold savagery but cold calculative logic and perception.
Sitting on the Shepard's back, the small Turian found himself staring across the black hide. Eyes taking in the scars that covered the scaly armoured surface, Garrus was reminded of just how old these creatures were. There was the chance that both Shepard and Book had witnessed the Dark Matter War first hand, it was possible that these two predators were just humble civilians once upon a time that suffered the same fate as the rest of the human species.
"You looked troubled Gahrus" said Book suddenly, her brown scaly muzzle rising up beside him without warning and fixing him with her forest green eyes.
"Its Garrus" grumbled the Turian in reply, Book seemed to literary chew on the name for a moment before shaking her head.
"You're troubled what's wrong…. Apart from being well kidnapped by us" added Book a little meekly shocking Garrus even more.
Since when did an Indominus rex sound meek?
Garrus carefully thought out his next works, mind formulating a plan of attack to address the questions swirling away in his brain.
"Why are you so, different from the Indominus's in M15?" asked Garrus slowly, causing Shepard to stop abruptly and almost throw the Turian from her back in the process.
Shepard turned her head, eye glaring over her shoulder at the Turian while Book look a little uneasy as she considered how best to reply to that question.
"Were kind of special Gahrus" Book said with a shrug of her shoulders, or the closest equivalent of a shrug a predator like herself could muster.
"Special?" asked Garrus, looking between both predators in confusion.
"Were wild Indominus kid, your definition of normal is irrelevant when applied to us" stated Shepard bluntly as she looked away and resumed walking.
"I'm not a kid" muttered Garrus in reply.
Garrus wants sure how to process this new information, were these Indominus just an anomaly the General accidently discovered. Or where there more smart Indominus with enough control of their instincts to not kill everything on sight, if so where were they hiding, and what should his people do about it?
"I'm over a century old kid, by Indominus standards your still child" announced Shepard confidently as she walked under a massive log the size of a small building.
"I'm not a kid" said Garrus again, earning an almost childish giggle from the brown Indominus behind him.
"And I'm 9 tonnes of predatory awesomeness, your argument is invalid" said Shepard smugly, this time Book burst out with gleeful laughter.
Garrus looked like a flustered Turian as he sat there on Shepard's back, right up until something pounced onto a large bolder ahead of them with a savage war cry that chilled the Garrus to his bones.
Snarling savagely on top of the bolder stood a strange fur covered theropod like creature, but unlike the massive form of Shepard and Book. This creature was just a little larger than a Krogan, with a large sickle claw adoring both feet and long talon tipped hands that looked as deadly as a combat knife.
The beast head was adorned with a pair of pointed ears that were pressed tightly against its skull as black lips pulled back to reveal sickly yellow fangs as large as a Turians thumb.
Whatever this creature was, it made both apex predators pause in hesitation and alarm. Sensing danger on the air, Garrus drew the assault rifle from his back which until that point had been practically useless to him. Such a low calibre weapon was only good for distracting a predator as large as an Indominus, but against a creature roughly Krogan size the weapon may still have its uses.
"Viper raptors…. I hope you can fight kid things are about to get ugly" growled Shepard through partly opened jaws.
Book let out a menacing hiss at the beast ahead of them and Garrus noticed more of the fur covered predators emerge from the shadows to surround them on all sides.
Elsewhere….
M15 Indominus holding facility
Communication room
"Are you sure it was her Victus?" growled the holographic form of Council Spectre Nihlus Kryik, the renowned and deadly Turian agent who built his career on completing the most suicidal of missions seemed to glare through the holograph at the elderly General sitting in the room.
Sighing softly and dropping a data pad from his claws, General Victus turned his head to regard his agitated companion with a tired, yet calm manner as he spoke to him.
"She remembered my name Nihlus, it was her alright… no other Indominus can blast a hole through a 3 meter wall with a single attack" said Victus slowly, his eyes glancing to the side at the data pad displaying a damage report of M15.
Shepard hadn't been playing around when she broke into the fortified prison, the predator literary carved a path straight into the facility and right into the room he was keeping the brown Indominus female being designated as 'Asset 00' by the facilities commander.
Nihlus gave Victus a troubled look, like one being told of something shockingly disturbing for the first time. Victus couldn't blame the Spectre, it was a long time ago but the scars Shepard inflicted that one night would stay with both Turians for the duration of their life, both physically and mentally.
"You and I both know what this means" said Nihlus cautiously.
Victus raised a glass to his mandibles in reply, slowly tipping the cups blue contents down his throat to sooth his nerves. Lowering the glass, Victus mandibles twitched with agitation.
"I don't care about the Councils kill capture orders for her, I'm going after Shepard…. I need answers" said Victus slowly, Nihlus jaw fell open in disbelief at what he was hearing.
"She'll eat you on sight Victus, no matter what you think an Indominus rex is a predator, a predator that have a taste for Turian flesh" reminded Nihlus, his holographic form pointing a claw in Victus direction.
"You mean like how she ate us nearly 30 years ago?" retorted Victus sharply, causing the Spectre to freeze on the spot.
A moment of silence passed between both Turians which was only silenced when Victus rose from his chair.
"You were wounded at the time, but she spoke to us Nihlus that night. For a moment she wasn't an Indominus rex but a scared and confused human looking for comfort" Victus exclaimed loudly, making sure the Spectre heard every word.
"When she left that night, when she spared our lives. Shepard was crying, Nihlus just how many humans like her were turned into Indominus rexes?" questioned Victus.
Standing there stoically, Nihlus didn't hesitate to reply to a well-known fact amongst anyone working at a holding facility.
"3 Billion"
"That's 3 billion humans just waiting to wake up Nihlus, I'm not sure if you ever remember the history classes but humanity and its military were hero's before the Dark matter war" Victus stated as he walked towards a large glass window overlooking the vast expanse that was M15.
"And I bet if given the chance, humanity and Indominus alike could be hero's once more" stated Victus as he leaned against the wall beside the window, his eyes staring past the cold walls and towards the dark deadly forest surrounding the infamous prison.
Ever since that night when Shepard nearly killed him, Victus had spent part of his life researching the Indominus species and humanity alike. He'd learnt early on that humanity were as vicious as krogan, as disciplined as the Turian and more cunning than the Salarians.
During the dark matter war, humanity was only just over 8 billion in total across the galaxy and had a few hundred warships against a galaxy of over a hundred thousand vessels. Yet the human Alliance, Humanities military arm had held the Council races back for over 5 long and bloody years before crumbling into ruin, leaving nothing of value in its wake.
The Turian Hierarchy, the mightiest military in the galaxy. Had been virtually brought to a deadlock with a race of primitives who were still using sticks and stones to fight when the Turians achieved space flight, yet here was a race that had challenged the galaxy and shown the Council fear the likes of which had not been seen since the Krogan rebellion.
Victus couldn't help but wonder what if Humanity hadn't been crushed and imprisoned like they were today, he wondered about the possibility of bringing humanities wisdom of warfare and technology back into the universe on a different footing. One where people wouldn't react in fear but in hope.
Despite the peace between galactic powers of the galaxy, the universe was still one bristling with crime and despair. The lawless Terminus system was still its own private warzone of criminals while Batarian slavers still pillages colonies of both people and technology and the Council was helpless to act without sparking a war with the Terminus system.
Unless Victus could bring humanity back into the picture, Victus had research how the Alliance had responded to Batarian and pirate raids when they first began settling colonies.
The Alliance was so brutal in its defence and retaliation strikes. That for several years some of the safest planets in the galaxy were those with a human patrol fleet in the system or a garrison of troops nestled near the colonies.
Victus wished his own people could bring such fear into the criminal organisations leaching off the Council races, the problem was Human methods were messy and seen as barbaric in some manner, a manner that any honourable Turian would shake his head at in person.
The Generals thoughts were interrupted as the Spectres voice once more punctured the air like a knife, bringing Victus back to the world of reality and the present.
"How do you intend to find her, she disappeared for several decades and she'll no doubt do so again" questioned Nihlus bluntly.
"There a Salarian scientist at M12 who's conducting a special behavioural research project with the inmates, he has a peculiar friend who may be able to track Shepard down" informed Victus as he turned around to face the Spectre once more.
"His name is Mordin Solus, and his peculiar friend just happens to be this planets apex land predator"
To be continued…..
Authors Note...sss?
First off thanks to all the people who faved and followed the story thus far, I do hope your enjoying the story and its contents and I hope you enjoy the chapters to come.
Secondly I got to give special thanks to my Friend 'WhenBooksFly101' who is the proud owner of Book who I'm using in this story, she is a brilliant artist and you should really check out her works on here and on her Deviant art page she's really good!
Now to the people making sure I don't # this story up, thank you Ghostleader119 for being my current Beta for this story. Its thanks to this guy that my story isn't full of typos and I don't care what anyone says I'll spell Colour Armour etc the Australian way! I also want to thank the FluffyDwagy for brainstorming some ideas with me the last few days I gotten a few ideas from him and refined aspects of the story.
I do hope people are enjoying this story! If for some reason your reviews wont post on this story, please just PM to me some reason this story didn't reset when I changed the story contents *shrugs*
Onto a different matter, I've had a few people PM me about issue with size so far and weight not being to spec, my reason for that being is no two Indominus are the same. Like people each Indominus will be different weight and size according to diet and growth, so don't follow the charts too much as some of the characters are even larger than Shepard and she bigger than a T-rex. Also I made the Indominus slightly longer in my stories to allow them to stand upright in a more humanlike manner at times etc etc..
Specs:
Book
Length: 41 feet long
Height: 12 feet at the hip
Weight: 8.7 tonnes
Shepard
Length: 53 feet long
Height: 15 feet at the hip
Weight: 9 tonnes
Miranda
Length: 49 feet long
Height: 15 feet at the hip
Weight: 8.8 tonnes
And quick note on Viper Raptors, they are practically wolves that have been mutated to resemble a velociraptor in some manner... Enjoy the story!
Take care everyone