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"Dialogue"

"Dialogue in a language I can't understand."

Breaks…..

(So this is the second chapter in my rewrite.)

Chapter 2- Are new Beginnings?

Aboard the Frederick Douglass, August 9th, 2181

(Captain Cesar Greene)

When Captain Cesar Greene first joined the Alliance Navy out of University in Venezuela, he had started out as a navigator on an outdated frigate that fought during the first contact war. He rapidly made his way up the ladder up until he was due to get his own ship.

Then the Skyllian Blitz happened, thousands died and hundreds of thousands would have died if the Lioness of Elysium hadn't stopped their advance.

After the war, the Alliance decided that there needed to be away to combat slavers even if they are in the heart of the Terminus Systems. Thus the Corsairs were created. Corsairs were Alliance Marines serving under an "independent" starship captains to conduct autonomous missions outside of Alliance jurisdiction, giving the Alliance the ability to disavow any knowledge of them. Such operatives were often granted considerable liberty and autonomy in order to facilitate efficient operation, though it was even they were subjected to bureaucracy.

Cesar Greene was one of the first officers approached by Alliance Intelligence, he was offered command of the decommissioned Cruiser SSV Paltz. It was to be rearmed and renamed the Frederick Douglass. There were only two other ships given to the program, both of them frigates.

Since the creation of the Corsairs, two independent Captains have joined with an old Salarian corvette and a Batarian frigate.

The Corsairs are technically an independent private security company. Thus being able to legally move throughout Council space as long as they did not break any laws and Terminus space without sparking a galactic war.

Although the Corsairs do not have the resources to make a significant impact they have become a thorn in the side for many slavers and terrorists. Over the years the Corsairs had made a lot of enemies in the Terminus Systems but had made an ally or two as well. In fact they had made a deal with a Krogan warlord named Zatarok Dotacka, she let them use her planet Weyvik as a base in exchange for helping her defend her territory on occasion.

This was extremely useful because as Alliance support waned the Corsairs needed a safe place to sell equipment taken from their targets to support themselves. As time went on the Corsairs needed more personnel to supplement the trickle of ex-Alliance soldiers and they need a place to do additional training for some of the existing Corsairs, So a small training facility was built on Weyvik. The number of non-Alliance personnel was still less than 10 percent of the over 400 Corsairs.

…..

Currently the Frederick Douglas was searching systems on the edge of Terminus space and the Attican Traverse. They were looking for any possible slaver ships gathering for a raid, so far it has been a surprisingly quiet patrol.

The Captain's musings were interrupted by the Communications Officer. "Captain! We are getting an S.O.S. from an Asari mining vessel called the Ocean's Fortune!"

"Where are they?" he asked.

"They are just inside the Traverse Sir!" answers the Officer.

"Alright Ladies and gentlemen, we got a job to do. Ling! How long until we can get there?" Greene asked.

"We are 62 minutes out Sir!" replied Navigations Officer Ling.

"Not good enough. Taylor get us there in 45 minutes or shore leave is canceled!"

"SIR YES SIR!" said the perpetually nervous pilot Dan Taylor.

The captain pauses for a moment then says "Get Pope on the line, she should organize the boarding party."

Captain Greene sighed as he mentally prepared himself for battle.

…..

(42 minutes later)

When the Frederick Douglass arrived on the scene Greene observed the Asari ship that sent out the S.O.S. being pursued by a heavily modified Kowloon class freighter called the Mao Zedong.

"Charge the main cannon and ready the Archer missile pods!" ordered Cesar

As he sent the orders the Mao Zedong, noticing the Frederick Douglass's arrival started to turn around. They were trying to flee!

"Captain, the enemy ship is not answering our hails!" Comms Officer Figgis said. "Looks like they're running off with their tails between their legs, Captain!" Added Taylor.

Silently Greene thought about the situation, first why would a ship attack a mining vessel in the side of the Attican Traverse closest to Council space? And even though he could see that they are fleeing, they are moving at a speed far too slow for a ship modified to that degree.

"Well, we are not just going to let them go are we? Taylor, get us within missile range." ordered the Captain.

When the Frederick Douglass easily caught up with the Mao Zedong Captain Greene quickly considered his options.

"Fire an Archer missile at the engines." the command was instantly carried out and Greene felt the slight vibration of the ship when the missile was launched.

"Missile away… and hit confirmed."

"Sir, it appears that we knocked out their engines and primary power! They're completely dead in the water." Said Nav Officer Ling.

Captain Greene opened the line to Sergeant Pope "Pope, it looks like your men will need to board the ship, get ready."

"Bring us around and dock with the freighter and contact that Asari ship, ask them if they okay."

…..

(ex-N5 Lieutenant Lucia Pope docking bay)

The boarding party Lucia had set up consisted of two 5 man squads and one squad, she would personally lead with four ex-marines. They were all good soldiers that she had learned to trust with her life over the years.

She needed to finalize the plan for boarding the ship, so she called over the leaders of the marine squads. "Calrius, Zeigler get over here."

The Turian and the ex-marine walked over from their squads.

"Okay guys, we got ourselves a Kowloon class freighter. We will be entering through the port dock. We don't have to worry about clearing the engine room because anyone who was in there was killed by the archer missile, so that just leaves the main bay, the cockpit, and the two attached rooms to the left and right of the cockpit. You got that?"

"Yessir!" Replied the squad leaders.

"Good, so our plan of attack is all squads push through the doc, then into the main bay. Zeigler will take his squad and flank to the left, my squad will flank to the right, and Calrius you will find cover in the middle. After we clear the bay Calrius' squad will take the cockpit, my squad will head to the starboard room, and Zeigler will head to the port side room."

Zeigler and Calrius nodded their heads in understanding.

"Okay, let's go boys!" the captain said as she walked over to her squad.

After the boarding party had everything finalized, Pope ordered the door opened.

The airlock hissed from opening, all of the lights inside this ship were flickering, most likely due to the ship being on emergency power.

Lucia used a hand signal and one of her team made her way into the docking room of the Mao Zedong, once they were all in position she opened the door to the main bay and two of her squadmates threw flashbangs to the right towards the center of the bay.

Two loud explosions were followed by some screams and random spurts of gunfire.

When Lucia heard the flashbangs go off. She ordered the boarding party to press forward into the main bay. Calrius' squad sprinted into cover behind some crates in the center of the room, Zeigler heads to the left and Lucia takes cover to the right.

There are twelve enemy combatants. ten of them are wearing red armor with five golden stars in the center, the other two look like a Doctor and a pilot, both of them are wearing red and gold. They are all Humans.

She looks back as she hears a scream, one of the rookies in Calrius' squad has been hit, but a quick glance at her H.U.D. tells her that the kid is still alive. She can't afford to take any more time, she orders the advance.

As Pope is weaving through the crates her squad only comes across one combatant and he second in command Jacob dispatches him. There are more screams coming from the other side of the crate, thankfully it looks sounds like the screaming is coming from the enemy position.

Her squad comes out on the other side of the crates flanking the enemy position, Zeigler's squad isn't in position yet but there is no time to wait for them. She orders the attack.

"FIRE!"

When she orders the attack there are only six enemy soldiers left, the pilot, and the doctor. Calrius' squad has been doing well, even though they were a man down.

Pope uses a biotic attack to snap a neck, while a squad member disables the weapons of three more of them. The rest of the squad opens fire, killing another two, Calrius' squad kills two of the combatants with disabled guns.

Ziegler's squad finally joins the party and takes out the pilot and the doctor with shotguns.

Lucia and her squad take out the last 2 enemies with gunfire.

After the bay was cleared all of the squads move to their respective rooms and cleared them as well.

The firefight was over in less than 60 seconds.

"Everybody sound off!" Pope ordered.

When injuries had been accounted for 2 of Calrius' men were injured, with only one needing more than some medigel. Zeigler also has a man who needed to be stabilized. The wounded are brought to the Frederick Douglass's Medbay.

"Hey Zeigler, what took you so long?" asked Pope.

"Oh, you know, just three enemy soldiers hiding in those crates trying to ambush us." Zeigler replied, still out of breath from the firefight.

"Oh, well nicely done than" Said Pope, she ended the conversation from walking away from Zeigler and to Calrius.

"Hey lieutenant, I think I know why these guys died so quickly. Other than my skill and leadership of my squad of course." Calrius said as Pope came over.

"And why is that Calrius?" Pope asked.

"Well, it's their equipment, all of it is complete shit." Calrius answered.

"Really? It looks like Hahne-Kedar's stuff to me, I know it's not top of the line, but they are supposed to be reliable."

"Yeah, Hahne-Kedar is reliable, but this isn't them. These are all cheap Batarian knockoffs." Explains Calrius.

One of the marines runs over from one of the rooms near the cockpit.

"Lieutenant, you need to see this!"

…..

(Frederick Douglass Captain Cesar Greene)

Captain Greene was waiting for an update from the boarding team, he tapped his console impatiently waiting for news of Lieutenant Pope.

A few moments later his console chimed and Lucia Pope's voice came out over the Comms. "Captain, the boarding was successful all hostiles killed, three soldiers wounded, but are in stable condition. But we found something that you should see for yourself, sir, and you should bring the medical team with you."

The Captain signaled an officer to relay Lucia's request to the medbay, he got out of his chair and quickly made his way back to the ship.

…..

(Captain Greene aboard the Mao Zedong)

Captain Greene speed-walked through the docking bay of the freighter and into the main bay of the ship. He walked pass the bloody bodies of enemy combatants lined up in the corner, the pile of their weapons, and the bullet-scarred crates. The medical team followed close behind him with all of the equipment they could ever need, and a hospital bed.

He saw Lieutenant Pope as she motioned for him to follow her into the starboard room.

"What is it Lucia?" the Captain ordered as they walked into the room.

His question was answered when he saw that in the room was an ancient looking stasis pod with someone inside. If the vital signs on the side of it were anything to go by this person was barely alive.

"Never mind Lucia, you can tell me later. Doctors get that man out of that stasis pod and onto life support." He ordered.

The medical team quickly moved the hospital bed next to the stasis pod and opened the door. There was an audible hiss, but nothing happened. A doctor said that the door must be jammed so two marines helped pry it open.

Once the door is open they transfer the patient from the pod and onto the bed. They start rushing him back to the medbay.

As the doctors pass by Captain Greene gets a good look at the person in the pod.

The first thing the captain noticed is the massive red beard and long blonde hair that then man had that went well past his feet. Next he notices how emaciated he looked.

These were symptoms associated with a long time in stasis, but he had never heard of anyone having them to anywhere near this degree, considering the age of the pod and the condition of the patient he was probably in stasis for at least 100 years.

…

(Captain Greene Frederick Douglass)

After sending a report to Alliance High Command a ship was brought from a local colony to bring the Mao Zedong and the man from the stasis pod to the Citadel.

After the Alliance ship got to their position Captain Greene said "Well, it looks like our work here is done, let's get back to Weyvik for a resupply."

…..

(Admiral Mikhailovich, The Citadel, 8 days later)

Earlier that morning, Admiral Mikhailovich had been planning to inspect a new carrier called the SSV Tesla, But on his way there he had gotten an urgent message from Humanities ambassador to the Citadel Udina to me him at the embassy as soon as possible.

So now he was in a cramped flying fuckn' taxi he had to share with a stinking fuckn' Batarian to talk to an annoying fuckn' politician.

Of course the Admiral would act cordially towards Udina, but he would try to get out of there as quickly as humanly possible.

Once he got out of the cab, he briskly walked into the embassy building, up the stairs, and into the Human embassy.

When the door opened Mikhailovich saw Udina.

"Ambassador." Mikhailovich with a stiff nod of acknowledgment.

"Yes, hello admiral. Let's get down to business, I don't want to take up too much of your time."

(Udina explains what happened)

"That's all very interesting, but why am I here?" Mikhailovich asks.

"Because the people they were fighting were part of a terrorist group called the C.C.P. thought to be completely defeated decade ago." Udina paused, then added. "Also, I believed that you should know the details of how this man came to be put in a stasis pod."

Mikhailovich motions for Udina to continue.

"From the documents recovered from the ship we determined that this man's name is Jon**** ***** and in the year 2017 the C.C.P. captured this man and several others to make some sort of biotic super soldier using eezo from an asteroid. All of the subjects died from their experiments except for Jon****. After the experiment he was put in a stasis pod and largely forgotten about for the next 50 years. We all know that the Chinese Communist Party was overthrown in 2067 and many pieces of advanced equipment were stolen by the C.C.P. as they went into hiding, the stasis pod was one of those stolen items. Over the years the C.C.P. was responsible for several terrorist attacks, but since they received little to no support we believed them to be completely defunct 7 years before the first contact war. It looks like the last remnants of them went into hiding again with their last artifact. With the last of their funds they tried modifying a freighter into a high end ship to surprise merchant vessel, and take their valuables. With these funds they would try to plan their return. But they ran into two problems, one they ran out of funds before they could upgrade the engine and armor hull in the area around the engine room, our engineers believe that's why it was disabled with one missile. The second problem is that they had almost no money for weapons and armor, that's why their armor and weapons were cheap Batarian knockoffs."

"Wow, this Jon**** ***** is probably the oldest human in history." Mikhailovich commented.

"Technically he is, he is 184 years old, although physically he is 20." Udina clarified.

Mikhailovich's eyes light up as he gets an idea "If we finish the upgrades to that ship it would be perfect for the Corsairs!"

Udina speaks up again "Well, that actually brings up Jon***** again, you see the ship actually belongs to him now."

"What! Why?" asks Mikhailovich.

"The ship doesn't count as salvage because Jon***** is technically a living crewmember of the ship. And we can't seize it because Jon***** was being held against his will and not committing any crimes. It's a little known loophole in Citadel law." Udina answered.

Mikhailovich lets out a disappointed sigh and looks out the window.

"Wait, weren't there a bunch of reparations paid out using the liquidated finances of communist party members after the Chinese civil war? Do you think there is any funds left?" asks Mikhailovich.

"That's true, I seriously doubt there is anything left but sometimes funds get lost in bureaucracy. I will get my secretary to look into it." Udina says.

"Well, that's all you had to know Admiral, you can leave now." Udina said.

Admiral Mikhailovich leaves the embassy.

"I should also tell my secretary to notify me when Jon**** ***** wakes up." Udina thinks aloud.

…..

(Huerta Memorial hospital, Doctor Kim Schmitt)

With over 30 years of medical experience Dr. Schmitt had never seen a patient in such a bizarre situation. That being said the operations done so far had been a complete success and he was completely stable.

As she is walking into the break room her omnitool gives her a notification.

The patient is awake.

…..

(Jon POV, Hospital room, another 2 days later)

"Snughgugh Herrhem!" is the sound I made when I woke up, to describe it, just imagine a half cough, followed by a groan, followed by clearing my throat. Pretty gross. That's because unbeknownst to me, I haven't used my lungs in over 150 years.

I try to open my eyes, but the lights are just completely blinding me, My head is still foggy, and i'm trying to remember where I am.

That's when it starts to come back to me.

Oh yeah.

I was abducted.

Crap.

Well, now or never.

I bolt upwards still half blind, but trying to escape anyway. I don't feel any restraints so that's a plus.

Someone tries to grab me, to hold me down. I hear some sort of echoing chirping noise.

(Please calm down! Everything's okay!) - Turian Nurse

I try to struggle, but for some reason I feel very weak and tired. Whoever is holding me down is basically manhandling me!

That's when my vision finally clears up, and I see a fucking Turian right in my face.

I jerk back and yell "Holy shit!"

I see my arms and can't help but notice that I look like a goddamn skeleton.

This is where I start to hyperventilate, i've never had a panic attack before, but to be honest now seems like an appropriate time to freak out.

The Turian brings up an omnitool and says something into into it. (I need help, patient 81 is awake and is freaking out!)

My face goes numb, blood starts rushing in my ears, I'm angry. I'm not thinking clearly and i'm not sure what's going on but boy am I angry.

I start to glow blue, it feels like I have lighting, shooting through my veins. I send a wave of biotic force out knocking the nurse back a few feet, knocking over a table, and causing a few machines to go haywire.

After that my breathing starts to slow down a bit. I'm starting to feel a little dizzy.

I slip into unconsciousness again.

…

(Doctor Schmitt)

She was standing over the patient's bed, examining his vital signs. His vitals are all good. After checking his vitals Dr. Schmitt realizes that it was probably a bad idea to have an alien nurse wait for a patient to wake up when the patient is from over 100 years in the past.

Turning to a nurse she says "Tell Udina he can be waked up now, also get some restraints this time."

What a weird day.

…..

(Jon POV)

As I wake up again, I come to the realization that I get knocked unconscious WAY too often. This time I decide to take the calm route.

I look down at my arms again, they are still skinny as hell, but I notice something else about them. I can see that the tattoos are completely healed, and I notice that my arms are completely hairless. That last part is just weird.

Touching the top of my head and my face I can't help but notice that my head and face have also been shaved, that's also pretty weird.

I look up and I am pleasantly surprised to see that there is someone I actually recognize, Udina, and a human woman that I'm guessing is a Doctor.

Udina, seeing that I am awake, says "Hello Jon***** *****, my name is Donnel Udina, and this is Doctor Schitt and I am here to welcome you to the Citadel."

Seeing as I'm from the past, I should probably play the role of the ignorant caveman.

I should say something.

"Please, just call me Jon." I say.

Udina pauses then says "Ok, Jon, this is going to be difficult to believe,l but let me explain the situation…"

(Udina gives a 30 minute summary of what happened to me, where I am, and what has happened in the last 160 years.)

I really just listen to what happened to me and how I got to be here, the rest I just kinda space out and nod. I have to at least pretend that I'm paying attention.

When Udina stops talking, he looks at me expecting me to say something.

"Well, uh… that's a pretty crazy story man, I probably wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen an alien a few minutes ago." I say.

"Yes, quite…" Udina says.

I'm pretty surprised by the Corsairs saving me, they were only mentioned once in Mass Effect 2 as part of Jacob's backstory. I once looked them up in the Mass Effect Wiki and there was barely anything about them.

"Oh, that reminds me, I just have a few things to mention. Before I leave, then the doctor can tell you of your medical information." Udina says.

"Okay, what's up?" I ask.

"The ship we found you in actually is now legally yours. as well as all the equipment found on-board. Also like I mentioned there were reparations left for people after the Chinese Civil War, well it turns out that 57 million credits were left over hidden under a pile of bureaucracy for decades." Udina explains.

With a slight grin I say "Well, I guess if you're gonna get abducted into the future, you might as well get rich from it."

"You're taking this remarkably well for someone in your situation" Udina says.

"Well, have you ever met anyone in my position before?" I ask.

Udina with a tight-lipped smile says "I suppose I have not."

Well, this conversation is going on way too long, time to speed it along. "Well anyway, I'm sure you're a very busy man, what with being the representative of humanity and all. Thank you for taking time to see me."

Udina nods, then says "Yes, thank you Jon, I will leave the rest to Dr. Schmitt, have a nice day"

Udina leaves the room, and Dr, Schmitt steps forward

Before the doctor speaks I say "So doctor, why the hell do I look like a bald skeleton, and why I can move stuff with my mind?"

Dr. Schmitt pauses, then says "Well the telekinesis is from the medical documents we found out that surgery done to you was to create a biotic super soldier, so basically that tube they put in your was eezo. Since you had no previous contact with the element before, and you have a rare genetic sequence you were able to get biotics later on in life, if you would like I could have a summary of the documents sent to you. Also the stasis pod was extremely experimental technology at that time, in fact, it's a miracle that you lasted this long, the skinniness is due to malnutrition while inside the pod, and the reason for you being completely bald is because we had to remove all of your hair because a lot of your skin was damaged from frostbite, so we had to do several regimens of removing many layers of skin and then applying medigel to replace the skin."

"Well, that all sounds very expensive, I don't know if i will still be rich after all those bills" I joke.

Dr. Schitt chuckles and says "Don't worry, most of it is covered by the insurance given to all alliance citizens, so you will just have to pay the deductible."

"Okay, so what else is going on with my body." I ask.

"Well, we implanted the language translators, gave you a whole host of vaccines, and removed your tonsils because they can be easily infected with alien bacteria." the doctor adds.

Huh, that's an odd bit of information, who would have thought of Tonsils would matter in 2181?

"Are there any more surgeries that you think I need?"

"There are many additional procedures that are technically unnecessary, so we did not do them without your consent, these include eye surgery to bring you to 20 20 vision, putting in implants that would be necessary for you to be a fully functioning biotic, and since your muscle mass has degraded to such a drastic degree we can get approval from the alliance to get top of the line military grade gene mods to speed up your recovery." Dr. Schmitt answers.

"Alright, let's do it, when can I get the procedures?" I ask.

"4 hours from now we will be able to do all of that in a 6 hour block."

"Okay, sounds good."

"Oh, before I go, there is also something you should know, after this you will still need to see a physical therapist to make sure you recover, this will help speed up your muscle growth and use those new gene mods to their full potential. Also, you should probably get a tutor to help you control those new biotic abilities. Both of these are partially covered by the alliance as well." the doctor says.

Wow, back in my day insurance was this huge dysfunctional thing, glad to see they finally got their act together. "I have two more questions Dr. Schmitt."

"What is todays date and how do I get one of those omnitools?" I ask

"Today's date is August 17th, 2181. Also here you go (hands me a small box) this is the best omni tool from the people who captured you, it's considered a little outdated, but it should work well enough until you get a better one."

"Thank you Doctor!"

"You're welcome again, see you in 4 hours."

She walks out the door.

…

It takes me about an hour to understand the basics of the omnitool, there is a very helpful tutorial. If that wasn't there I would be completely lost.

I setup my omni tool to give me alerts whenever there is something on the extranet about Commander Shepard. From research I found out that she is a femshep with the red hair and green eyes, she is a spacer, and that she was the hero of Elysium. that's good because that probably means she is paragon Shepard. I also set up alerts for all future Normandy crewmembers, and pretty much all of the characters from the series I can remember just in case.

I need to formulate my plans, from the date the doctor gave me, I have around a year and a half until 2183, and sometime that year Eden Prime gets attacked.

Looking at my credits and see that have about 56.7 million credits after all of the hospital deductibles, a nice ship, and whatever crappy equipment my captors left, so i'm good financially.

First, I need to get back into shape, before my ice nap, I wasn't in the greatest shape, but I was very strong so that was something. But now I have to start from scratch considering I am walking twig now.

While I'm looking at the ads for physical therapists I see that one named Roland Kang who has high ratings and from his bio it looks like he was once an N4, . I send him a message asking if he would like to set up a meeting.

Next I look at biotic teachers, as I'm looking through the list I get a message. I select it and it and I see it's from a biotic teacher, I open it and see a picture of Miranda. She is using an alias, but it's definitely her.

Well, shit, no way I'm getting involved with Cerberus this early, I'm going to just delete this message. Let's just hope they leave me be until I'm strong enough to fend for myself.

I keep on looking through the messages and see an Asari commando named Siadia Jaora, I also send her a message asking if she would like a meeting.

After a few more minutes Dr. Schmitt walks back in and asks if I ready to do the other procedures.

I say yes and a nurse walks over and sedates me.

(So this was the second chapter in my rewrite, the reason I added the Corsairs was that there is nothing known about them, they are just a concept that was completly ignored by the creators of Mass Effect. So that means I can basically do whatever I want with them.)

Well guys this was my second chapter in my first fanfiction, I really hope you all liked it.

Please feel free to leave reviews, questions, criticisms and suggestions. I would really like some feedback.

Also I am planning on writing a lot of different SI fanfics, and I will always be looking for new and interesting ways to travel to these other worlds (I don't want to just use portals)

Eryak- No promises, I'm still debating :D

Zeezersxo- Yeah, the first chapter was really fast. I think that I just wanted to get to the main story.

Hey guys i'm considering Liara X Tali X SI as a romance option, my thoughts behind this are the following. Okay so I like both Liara and Tali, We know Liara is into male humans and we can probably assume she likes female quarians because she is an Asari. We know Tali likes human males and maybe likes Asari? Please review.