So first official chapter of this story hope you enjoy it, any questions, ideas or suggestions that you might have please PM or review to let me know.
The trip to the Batarian ship was a quiet one, just me looking over my limited equipment and basically non-existent armour...
At this it finally clicked and I started laughing hysterically. Going into battle with no armour, it really was victory or death.
"Hopefully they sent most of the combat able down to the planet." I muttered, checking the heat sink, looking around the shuttle cargo locker, for any mods that could be there.
With luck it seemed there was a few, armour piercing rounds, Heat sink efficiency among them.
The Batarian ship now able to see clearly, not as big as it could be, but still big enough to hold a few hundred slaves and their 'Masters'.
"Well the biggest weapons I have is my ten year old figure." I mutter, the silence and the lack of other people making me need something to keep me sane though talking to myself might not be considered sane.
Looking over everything one last time, I made sure everything was where it needed to be, I wanted make sure as much of it remained intact to sell later.
Having to find a way to get someone to buy from a ten year old kid, hopefully a gun would help.
The pilot happily had an omni-tool on him, it seemed to have a layout of the ship too.
The first step would be going to engineering to turn off the lights to make it harder to find me.
Heading for hangar the ship docked silently, the sound of prisoners, hoping and praying to whatever they believed in filled the ship.
Apparently the Batarian's liked the sound as it was clear as day to hear.
Walking off the ship, a Batarian was looking at a manifest, not seeing the child looking at him with a rifle.
Lining him up, I soon saw him look up at the noise, making me smile slightly, these slavers were going to get what they deserved.
Firing, the look of surprise on his face was priceless. Continuing on my to the engine room it seemed that I had to go through the hold/cells for their 'slaves'.
Opening the door the sound all the prisoners were making went silent, ignoring them for the time being.
Another door opened, much closer to the prisoners.
"Alright which one of you wants a turn before you get sold." A Batarian said making me disgusted at hearing the lust in his tone. The Batarian looking around the cages, before settling on one.
"You will be the lucky one." He said laughing, as he opened the cage holding a woman with white hair, and in a dishevelled state of dress.
"Please choose someone else." She pleaded, making the Batarian smile more.
Making up my mind I followed where he went, passing some cells on the way past, a few captives noticing the ten year old boy holding a assault rifle.
Smart enough though not to comment on it, making it to the centre of the cells I saw that they were all in a poor shape, they needed help medical and physiological too.
Walking to where the Batarian left I made my way hoping he would want to torment her first.
As I got closer to the end of the corridor I started to hear whimpering.
Opening the door I looked around, the slaver to preoccupied to notice my entrance.
"Now time to feel your ins..." He never got to finish the sentence as my pistol went off, silencing the scum.
The woman started to notice something different as she opened her eyes, the first a Batarian face down on the bed, a pool of blood growing around his head, the next a ten year old boy holding a pistol and finally she was still half naked.
"Aaghh." Crying she tried to jump up only to get stopped by the restraints he had put on her earlier.
"Hey." I call trying to get her to calm down. "It's alright, you are going to be fine." I said more soothingly moving to where she was bound.
Releasing her she then cautiously sat up looking at her saviour.
"Umm thank you Mr..." She started nervously.
Holding out my hand I said. "Call me Devil." as she extended her hand and gently shook mine. "And you are?" I now asked.
"Sayoka, my name is Sayoka Crystona." She said still nervous about what I would do.
"Well you can either go back to your cell or help me take this ship, cause I have plans and I need credits, selling this ship would be easiest." I said making her surprised.
"I think I'll go back to my cell then, I'm not a fighter." I nodded but then said "OK, But look at me." I said as she did. "I'm a ten year old boy, when you get off this ship, think about it if you put your mind to it there's not anything you can't accomplish." I said continuing my journey to the engine room.
Leaving the stunned girl behind.
Entering the engine room I found only four workers, looking at screens, and the drive core.
"Ah, we are nearly ready sir, the modifications are nearly complete." A worker said assuming I was someone else.
"Excellent then you won't be needed." I said making them look up in surprise, before falling to the ground dead as I looked at the controls available to me.
Looking for the hanger controls, I soon closed them before locking down the system so they couldn't open without my authorisation code.
Turning off the lights I then locked that system to.
Locking the start up of the FTL drive to so I could make sure they were where I wanted them.
Making my way to the ships cargo hold, I found a ton of weapons and armour. "Some people will need this when I drop them off." I muttered slightly annoyed as it was less credits for me.
Sighing I made my way to the bridge, hoping to find the rest of the crew.
When I got there I found it was quite chaotic, as with the light dimmed, people were having a hard time finding there way around.
Deciding to make my appearance I started shooting all the Batarian's I could see noticing a few figures lying on the ground looking naked, but it was hard to tell in the poor light.
A few seconds later all the slavers were dead except for the captain, walking up to him I asked. "How many more crew members are there?" He looked about to resist.
"If you don't tell me truthfully or at all I have no use for you." I said raising my rifle.
"Alright, there is only ten of us, five here, four in engineering and two in cargo." He said making me pull the trigger.
"I told you not to lie to me slaver." I said walking over to pick up his omni-tool.
The figures I saw on the ground started to speak.
"Who are you?" One asked sounding familiar from somewhere.
I stay silent figuring out how many are left on the ship, when the sensors start to light up, apparently the shuttles were getting closer to us.
"Can you help us." The figures call again.
I then notice something a button near the captains chair was flashing, when the door started to groan.
"Open up, come out with your hands up." A voice calls out making me sigh.
The list of crew members showed only five more people were still on the ship, the five right out side the door.
Walking over to the figures, I grab and move them behind a console, gasping as I touch them, the skin feeling foreign, withing seconds the door burst open, revealing five Batarian's in combat gear... very poor gear.
The lights still off giving me my only advantage.
Lining up the first one I noticed that they had mismatched armour, combining different armour and different protections of armour.
Starting my assault quickly bringing down the shields of two of them, filling their chest with mass accelerated rounds.
The third one looking from where my shots came from found too late as I tore through him too.
The final two however seemed to have some combat experience, ducking behind the nearest console.
Standing up I failed to notice one lying on the ground, giving me the reward of two rounds to the left side of my chest, making me grunt.
Jumping over my cover I soon found him watching the angle I had previously appeared.
Surprising him by landing on him, filling his back with rounds.
My instincts flaring to life I turned my head to the right and back, making the round meant for my brain to graze my eye, making me cry out, quickly regaining my bearings.
Lifting my hand I see a blue glow appear through my good eye, pushing my hand forward I create a circular field of energy in front of me.
Standing up, walking to where the round was shot, the shield following me, I found the attacker, firing into my shield in desperation did nothing as my shield barely flickered.
Dropping it when his weapon overheated, filling him with rounds.
Now with all the crew dead I made my way to a console that had survived the firefight, and turned the lights on again.
Looking to where the figures I had grabbed were I was greatly surprised.
They were Asari, And naked Asari too, walking over to them, I saw them looking away slightly in fear for some reason.
"Um, hello?" I spoke to them making them look at me.
Surprise flickering through their eyes.
"Your not Batarian." One says, making me roll me eyes.
"Why are you telling me that." I point out making them look away in embarrassment.
"Who are you?" The one that spoke first asked.
"You can call me Devil for the time being." I said as I release them, giving them a proper chance to look at me.
Before looking for too long I cough, removing my hand I saw something that made me growl.
"Do you know where any medigel is?" I ask, they look about to ask why when they see two bloody holes in my shirt and some blood forming in me left eye.
"What's your name?" I ask the first Asari.
"Tela Vasir." Making me freeze slightly.
"Mind telling me why a spectre and probably Asari commandos are doing being prisoners on this ship then." I said realising why the voice sounded familiar.
"You know who we are." One asks, Looking at me more closely.
"How old are you?" One asks, as my vision starts going black.
"Around ten or so." My vision soon starting to fade.
Collapsing to me hands and knees I call out. "Take me anywhere, anywhere but the citadel and the alliance and humans. And this is my ship now." I get out before fading into blackness.
(POV Tela Vasir)
When the ten year old boy collapsed it was quite worrying, one thing was for sure though, he was not the average boy.
Quickly checking on him, we found he had been shot in the chest and a round apparently grazing his eye.
For some reason he didn't want to go back to humans, alliance and the citadel, he didn't seem to be a criminal, so what was he running from.
Giving him the ship as his was quite easy as he had rescued them and dealt with all the slavers apparently.
One of my fellow Asari commandos sent to help me with my mission alerted me to something interesting.
"Spectre, the FTL drive is offline and reactivating it has been locked out by a code." She said making me after checking on the boy come over.
"It looks like our saviour could be the cause of this." They said making me look at the boy again, his omni-tool lighting up.
Looking at it it showed the code used.
Live, live to fight another day.
When looking at the message it seemed as though he expected this to be a suicide task, I could see why too, he appeared to have no armour, and only was ten, he shouldn't of been able to win.
'For a ten year old boy he doesn't look that bad.' She thought for a second making her cheeks turn more blue, the other commandos doing the same.
Inputting the code the FTL lockout, went off making it able to use it.
"Spectre where should we go?" The commando asked
"Head to Nevos, We can see what this boy wants to do then." She said after thinking of his request.
(POV Ryvern)
The pain in my chest that I felt was now just a dull throb, the pain in my eye a slight sting every so often.
Opening my eyes, which my left one felt kinda weird, I saw white, sitting up I saw I was in what looked liked a hospital.
Looking around I saw a couple of Asari speaking to each other when they noticed me looking at them.
"Ah good you're awake." The first one says walking over to me.
"Where am I?" I ask stretching my arms.
"You're on Nevos." The second one says, as I go over all the planets I could remember.
Nodding I ask "How long was I out." "Only a few days" came the first ones response.
"Since you seem to be fine, we were told to put you in a shuttle to take you to a destination, from someone who called them T.V." One says making me suspicious until I hear the initials.
"Anything else I need to be aware of?" I wondered as my left eye felt slightly weird.
"Your eye was damaged and would've been blind in that eye." They said making me slightly surprised.
"Okay, well lead on." I said standing up much to their surprise.
"You know, you are a strange ten year old." One says as they lead me to the shuttle.
"So I have been told." As I climbed in, hitting the controls taking off, leaving the surprised Asari doctors.
Walking back to their stations they then received a message.
Thank you for helping me, if you ever need help let me know.
Devil.
An link to a my omni-tool popped up
Making them smile slightly.
Looking at the pre-programmed route taking me out to the outskirts of the city.
A few minutes later I saw what could be described as a mansion, come into view, nothing else in the immediate area.
Landing out the back of it, I soon saw a figure appear from a door, as I got out of the shuttle.
"Hello, I assume that this is the residence for Tela Vasir." I say making one of the commandos I saw on the ship blink in surprise.
"Yes but what are you doing here, the damage you sustained should have kept you in bed for at least another week." The surprised Asari said slightly sad.
"You sound sad, don't get to touch me without me knowing?" I ask jokingly only to have my jaw plant on the ground when the Asari nods slightly, blushes and looks away.
"Okay then, I wasn't being serious but I guess... Err, whatever let's just go meet Tela." I said thinking it best just to continue this at another time.
On the way a thought occurred to me.
"Why were you touching a ten year old's body anyway, that is slightly weird." Making the Commando blush harder turning her cheeks and neck an interesting purple colour.
"..."
"Okay then guess we'll talk about this later, you were the only one right?" I ask hopefully.
"..."
Well this day just got more complicated.
Apparently they were all still sleeping, the commando I met took me to the room where they had all collapsed before joining them.
Sighing I spoke to myself something that had been happening lately. "Guess I'll wait for morning then." As I opened my omni-tool and started playing with things.
The time flew by as I perfected my programs both legal and illegal after looking up some laws.
Of course that doesn't matter unless someone catches you hehe.
About five hours later the sound of groaning Asari filled the room making me watch in amusement as they looked around where they were.
Tela Vasir soon spotted me, judging by the way she looked she didn't expect to see me either.
"Well hello Tela." I said laughing at the expression on her face, my laughing waking the other Asari.
"So how many of you 'touched' me while I was asleep and injured then." I said knowing that at least two did hopefully that was all.
Unfortunately or fortunately depending on your point of view all of them blushed and looked away.
"Okay, first things first, one how do you know I'm not a xenophobe or whatever the term is." I say making some of them look worried.
"Secondly I expected... well no I didn't but if I did the commandos sure maybe but the Asari spectre." Making her look down sadly sort of. The commandos looking slightly insulted.
"Thirdly why would you touch a ten year old kid." I said making a few of them hide their faces. The looks they were doing was providing me with no end of amusement.
"We're..." Tela starts only to be interrupted by my laughing.
"Ok stop right there with that apology." I said after calming down making them look at me in shock as I smile.
"I was only being half serious." I said "I'm not xenophobe, two I really wasn't expecting anyone caring about me at all even if it was touching me so... thanks and third if you want to touch me just hug me alright." I said making me the centre of a group hug.
My voice muffled I spoke again with some difficulty. "I still didn't expect this behaviour from a Spectre." Making said Asari blush again while the commandos laugh.
After the group hug the interrogation, I mean worried for my well being questioning begun.
"Ok so what were you doing on that ship?" Tela asked as I sighed.
"Well they were attacking Mindoir, I was on it when I decided to hijack the ship." I said plainly getting a few surprised looks.
"Are you really ten years old, you sound much more knowledgeable." A commando called Lyilnea V'doala asked.
"As far as I know." I said.
"Where did you get your combat experience then, you didn't have any armour and you took down the slavers easily." a commando called Le'nosa Vatora asked, one of the question a lot of them wondered on.
"Video games." I replied shrugging, it was true never been in anything except a fist fight before coming to Mass Effect.
"Oh kay." She said not sounding like she believed me.
"It's true never held a gun before then." I said.
"Why did you say that you wanted to go away from the Citadel, the Alliance and humans?" Tela asked again.
"Because I well..." I pause.
"Well?" She asked again.
"I wanted to go to Omega, and if my parents found me they probably wouldn't want me going there." I said making all the Asari stare at me in shock.
"You a ten year old child wanted to go to Omega, voluntarily." She stated incredulously.
"Eh pretty much." Making them all looked shocked.
"What about why you wanted the ship?" Another commando asked after a few minutes of processing my answer.
"Well I need some way of getting credits." I spoke I mean how else would I live in a place like Omega without a few credits to bribe a few people.
"Why do you want to go Omega specifically." The commando called Kashyxma D'kyro I believe asked.
At this I hesitated, not sure I could trust them.
"That depends..." I said finally making the Asari look at me.
"On what?"
"If I can trust you guys." I said carefully.
"... Do you promise you won't tell anyone who isn't in this room then." I spoke after a few seconds of thought.
"We do." They said as one making me jump slightly.
"Very well, You know how you have that Prothean beacon on Thessia?" I said making Tela's eyes widen.
"In around 17 years a new enemy will appear, greater than any thing ever before." I pause taking in the looks of all the others, from shock and anger to disbelief present on all of them.
"They are called the Reapers, a race of Biological and synthetic hybrids, their goal, erasing each advanced civilisation every 50,000 years, that time will be upon us again." I finished.
"I plan to stop that." I said making the Asari go quiet.
"How do we know that it is true what you say." Moli V'moria spoke making the others nod.
"Well I know that there was a beacon on Thessia, besides if I'm right do you want to test it?" I asked them shaking their heads.
"I guess now that you know what I'm asking is will you join me in my quest." I say shakily not use in putting trust in other people.
After looking at each other for a second they nodded with Tela speaking for the group. "Okay." At this I fall to the ground holding myself.
"What's wrong Devil." They ask.
Looking up I reply by just hugging them.
"I... I've never really had anyone there with or for me." Making them look at me in sympathy we just staying there for a while.
"Ryvern." I say making Tela look at me.
"What's that?" She asks.
"That's... My name." I say after a few more minutes we finally separate.
"So what do we do now?" Kashyxma asked now putting us in professional mode.
"Well despite my apparent ability against Batarian slavers that were taken by surprise, I guess I could use some training." I said looking towards Tela pointedly.
"That sounds reasonable, after that if it is as bad as you say then we need some more people and resources." She said making me nod.
"I know, part of the reason why I wanted to go to Omega, I want to recruit Aria T'Loak." Making the others look surprised.
"Why, and what could she help us with?" Lyilnea asked confused, quite understandable.
"Because I have an incentive, She's the queen of Omega right." I asked getting nods.
"Well how about expanding into the Shadow Broker's network." I said making their jaws fall to the ground in surprise, the inside me laughing at how funny it looked.
"I also know where and who he is, so we can prepare for a hostile takeover, think that's enough to convince her to leave Omega?" I asked still getting shocked expressions.
"Cool." I said smiling.
"Also can we go meet Councillor Tevos." I said Standing up, The Asari friends I made apparently lost the ability to look surprised anymore as they called for the shuttle to take us to the Batarian ship.
(POV Councillor or Tevos)
"Councillor, You have Spectre Tela wanting to meet with you privately at some point." Her assistant said, making her look up from the datapad in her hands.
"Did she say what about?" I wondered looking ta my now slightly nervous assistant.
"She said that it was urgent, that's all and that she had to make sure it was completely confidential." She said leaving when the councillor dismissed her.
"I spose I could do that, it has been a while since we chat." She muttered to herself, calling her assistant on her omni-tool.
"Tell her to meet me at my residence was soon as she gets back on the Citadel, She'll know where it is" I said going back to my work waiting to hear of her arrival.
(POV Ryvern)
When we arrived at the Citadel, we were instantly told to halt our progress due to the fact that it used to be a Batarian slave trading vessel.
We were going to have to go through C-sec customs but thanks to having a spectre the process was quickly resolved.
Now the only problem was how to get me to the meeting with the councillor without anyone I didn't want seeing me.
"What about you dress up in some armour?" Moli suggested the first good idea I had heard all today. Some previous ones were just attempts to 'Protect' me but in reality let me have my body touching them. The mind of a 20 year old in the body of a ten year old, the only reason why I didn't tell them off in the first place.
"Do we have any, small enough?" Tela then pointed out.
"We should if not you can go get some Tela." Le'nosa said making a valid point, and so we begun our search looking through the cargo the slaver's had accumulated.
"Here we go." Le'nosa called out holding a set of armour, mostly black, with a white stripe here and there.
"Perfect." I said walking over to her to put on the armour.
(Time skip 25 minutes)
When we finally got everything ready we made quite the sight, the four commandos, with the spectre leading and me in the middle. If we wanted attention then this is what to do.
The whole way to the shuttle car that we would take to the councillor's residence people watched with mixed thoughts, some of fear, lust, hatred and some of curosity.
(POV Tevos)
This morning I soon got word of a Batarian ship with spectre Tela on board having relieved it from the the slavers.
Making my way to my home, it was only another two hours before a shuttle approached.
Walking outside to the landing pad, I saw Tela get out of the shuttle.
"Tela good to see you again." I said greeting her warmly, when the grim look that appeared on her face after what was previously a small smile.
"Yes it is, but I may have mislead you a bit." She said as more figures appeared from the shuttle.
What really surprised her was the small figure in black armour. "What's going on?" I asked worried as they were all armed.
"Let's go inside first." Tela said as the group moved inside.
Once inside all the people still wearing helmets removed them except the smallest one.
"It's good to see you again in a setting like this." Tela greeted her warmly as the small one brought up his omni-tool.
"Yes it is, but what happened that made you bring back some commandos?" I asked confused.
"Last I knew you were taking down a Batarian slave ring." I said again, she looked at the small figure as it tapped their omni-tool and sounds of small explosions greeted my ears.
"What did you do." I ask at them standing up when Tela stands in front of me.
"Tevos, he was just getting rid of any bugs in the room so it is completely confidential." She said making me think that this place wasn't as secure as it could.
"Now I was dealing with the slaving ring, I still am, but was set back by being caught unaware by them leading me to be prisoner on that ship we arrived in along with the commandos that had joined me." She started nodding to the small figure to remove his helmet.
When he took it off, I was given a shock of my life, seeing about a ten year old human under the helmet with black and purple hair.
"Hello Councillor Tevos." He greeted, his voice sounding quite mature.
"This for the time being is Devil Tevos." Tela continued making me look at her in surprise.
"Continuing on, Devil here is the reason why we were able to return here today, taking on the Batarian's with no armour and no real life combat experience." She said making me look at the boy again with some respect.
"I see then thank you for saving her Devil." I said making him smile slightly.
"Ah that's fine." he said looking down nervously.
"What's wrong?" I asked worried I said something wrong.
"Oh don't worry about it, I'm still getting used to receiving praise, usually I'm just ignored and taken for granted." He said making me look at him.
"Anyway." He continued breaking me out of my pondering "I'm here to give you a proposition." He said making me look at him surprised.
"There is a threat coming, one that will either be stopped or erase every sentient thing and structure that has been built by them." He said making me look at him in shock.
"How I know this is the same way I know there is a Prothean beacon on Thessia." He said making my jaw drop to the floor.
"How, how... do you know." I stuttered, making everyone else laugh.
"In time I will divulge, but first I need to know whether you will join my cause to stop it." He said making me think what would I have to do.
"What would I have to do if I did?" I asked voicing my thoughts I didn't want to kill innocents.
"Ah well, we are going to be working in the dark, no one outside our group will even know, your role in this is to help us with the council we'll be ghosts, we need to get resources but that will be taken care of in a few years after taking over the Shadow Broker." He said making my jaw plant itself in the ground.
"So we wouldn't do anything like murder?" I asked if I was going to support him I wanted to make sure it was for good.
"Only those that need it like slavers and pirates." He said making sigh, if Tela agreed then it can't be too bad.
"I'll help." I said making him smile again, making me feel slightly weird.
"Excellent, now that we have sorted this all out." He held out his hand. "Call me Ryvern." I smiled at that, it showed that he trusted me, something I would be happy to reciprocate.
"Well then we need a place where we can meet without anyone, caring, knowing or finding out." He continued.
"Well me being a councillor and Tela being a spectre should help with the secrecy." I said him nodding in agreement.
"Good then officially the Council of Wraith rise." He said, me now invested in this plan of his.
Well the first official chapter hope you enjoyed it, another chapter might come out in a week or two.
If anyone is against the part where he was being 'touched' it will be cleared up in the next chapter, he has the mind of a 20 year old before he died, so them touching him is not so much a problem... at least in my mind.
Through Death I Get My Silence...