Hey guys this is Hunter giving his chapter to this Collab story between Aria's afterlife's authors, I hope you like it, took me a while and it came out longer than I expected it to be.

2175 CSUMB Non-human studies classroom, Lecture about turian history

Maike was sitting in his classroom listening to a lecture about Turian history from his teacher who ironically was a human, and an old one at that so he knew that there would be a bad spin put on every single little detail, that's what people do when they grew up during the first contact war, "Mr. Ariasu are you listening to me?" Professor Hawkings asks.

"Yes sir, perfectly," Maike says as he switches his holographic display to show notes that he had taken from the book at the beginning of the semester.

"Good then I hope you don't mind repeating what I said," he glares at Maike, mostly because he was the youngest student in the classroom, and not by a few years either, the next youngest was a full decade older than him.

"No problem," Maike says as he gives a brief summary of the lecture, without the bad spin on events.

"Thank you Mr. Ariasu," he says as he continues the lecture.

Maike returns his holographic display to a book he was writing about a turian renegade, who saw the comic book vigilantes and was inspired by one in particular, the Batman, of course he called himself the Birdman.

At the end of the class Maike walks out of the classroom only to be approached by two men in alliance uniform, "Maike Ariasu?" a man asks with a gruff Russian accent.

"That's me," Maike says, "What do you need?"

"We are here to inform you that your application to the alliance academy on Arcturus has been accepted," the other man says with a distinctly southern accent says.

"You couldn't do that through the mail?" Maike asks confounded by the fact that they were telling him in person unless… "I'm being taken right now aren't I?"

"We already informed your family and gathered your things," the Russian says.

Not even a good bye? Maike asks himself as he follows the two men to a sky car.

As soon as they reach the spaceport Maike immediately sees the other accepted students waiting to board their shuttle.

"You're in the third line," the alliance member says as he gives Maike a single luggage bag.

Maike walks up to the third line and is greeted by a brown haired guy with a cheery attitude, "I can't wait to get to the alliance!" he all but shouts, "I'll get to see some action, fight a war and be a hero," he says as Maike looks at him like he's an idiot.

"Why are you so cheery?" Maike asks the dreamer.

"Because we have a chance to do so much," he says as he turns around, "I mean, like there are so many possibilities."

"You'll get yourself killed," Maike says, "be a realist, we are joining the military so start acting like it."

"He's right," says a kid from another line, "if we all die because we had our heads in the clouds who would be left to defend our families?"

"I won't die," he says.

"What's your name?" Maike asks the dreamer.

"Richard Jenkins," he says as he stands proud.

"You sound more like a dreamer to me," a muscular Hispanic man joins in as he turns, "so that's what I'll call you, Dreamer."

"Dreamer?" Jenkins asks as he looks at the man, "I like the sound of that."

"Jenkins you won't last," Maike says, as he face-palms, "my name is Maike Ariasu,"

"James Vega," the Hispanic man says, "What are your focuses?"

"I'm going to be a tactical advisor," Maike responds keeping his tone neutral

"Weapons specialist," Jenkins says, "You Vega?"

"Marine," James says, "seems like we are all going into different fields."

"Looks like it," Maike says with a sigh of relief as his line starts moving, "wish you luck," he says as he and Jenkins get into the shuttle.

"So why did you join the Alliance?" Jenkins asks.

Maike groans as he realizes it will be a long shuttle ride to the academy, "By the Eternal Dragon," he mutters to himself as Jenkins starts rambling on about his life.

When Maike's shuttle finally reaches Arcturus he practically jumps out of his seat to get away from Jenkins who only stopped talking for a few minutes because he had to go to the bathroom, "Thank the Eternal Dragon!" he yells out.

"You said that a lot on the shuttle ride," Jenkins says as he stretches his limbs, "any reason?"

Maike got into line and tried to ignore Jenkins as he is followed.

"Hey I'm talking to you," Jenkins says.

"Please stop," Maike says as he looks for his dorm room and sees that he shares it with someone, "Wonder who it is?" he asks.

"Hey that's my room too," Jenkins says, and Maike groans, "Looks like we are roommates."

"Can't catch a break can I?" Maike asks himself as he enters the room and chooses the bed on the left, "Stay on your side and I won't have to kill you," he says with a serious face as he lays down on the bed after throwing his duffle bag on the floor.

Jenkins looks at Maike, "You don't like people very much do you?" He asks although it sounded more like a statement.

"No," Maike says as he looks at Jenkins, "I tend not to," he says flatly.

Jenkins smiles as he sits down at the desk in the room, "What you need is a friend," he says grinning like an idiot.

Maike's eyes widened at his words, Son of a Eternal Dragon forsaken bitch, he yells in his mind.

2 years after entrance to the academy, Navy dorms,

"Jenkins I don't want you throwing me a birthday party," Maike says as they walk to their dorm-room.

"Why not it will be fun," Jenkins wines, "remember mine?" he asks and immediately Maike groans.

Three months ago.

Maike had just gotten back from his class when he heard music coming from the common room, "Another party?" he asks, "they just had one last week," he goes out of his room and walks into the common room to see that there was happy birth-day signs everywhere, and they were all addressed to Jenkins, and as soon as he got in he got pushed from the doorway and into the crowd.

"Demente you made it!" Vega shouts with the obvious smell of beer on his breath, "join the party!"

Maike tried to get away from the hulk of a man, but was powerless to resist as Vega grabbed a can of beer and dumped the contents down Maike's throat, "Damn it that's disgusting!" Maike shouts as he is let go, slightly dizzy.

"You'll get used to it Demente!" Vega says as he takes his shirt off and starts dancing.

"I did not need to see that," Maike says as he looks away from the drunk idiot.

Jenkins sees his roommate and goes over to him, "Maike good to see you made it," he says as he trips and falls.

"I wasn't planning on coming," Maike responds as he feels the effects of the beer slipping in.

"Vega gave you some of the good stuff did he?" Jenkins asks as he gets up.

"I'm going to bed," Maike says as he walks back towards the door but bumps into a girl on the way spilling her drink all over her, "I am so sorry," he says as he grabs a napkin and starts wiping off some of the drink.

"Getting a little touchy there aren't we?" she asks as he realizes where he was wiping and immediately turns red, and takes his hand away, "Don't worry," she says, "names Saria," she says.

"Maike," he says, "it was...umm, nice to meet you," he says as he tries to walk away, but Saria grabs him.

"Don't think you can get away with that," she tells him, and he can see that she is drunk.

"Sorry, but I need to study," he says as he pulls his arm away and goes towards the door again but it becomes blurry, "Damn it Vega!" he shouts, "what the hell was in that stuff?" he asks as he barely manages to open the door,

Saria followed Maike to his room, and when he enters she is right behind him, "So this is your room?" she asks as Maike jumps, and turns around, "Hey handsome."

"Why are you here?" Maike asks her, as his blurry vision becomes increasingly blurry.

"I saw something I wanted," Saria says as she pushes Maike down to the bed.

"Umm..." Maike says but the damned Alchohol makes him think this is okay, and he can't think of anything to say.

Saria pulls her shirt off and throws off her bra, Maike could feel himself get turned on, and so could she apperantly, "Already?" She asks as she straddles Maike, "I was hoping that you could hold out a little longer," she comments.

Maike was too drunk to do anything but go with it, "Really?" He asks her as he turns her over and is on top now, "with how you were acting I'm surprised you didn't take my pants off."

Saria smiles as she unbuttons her pants, "Good you are getting it now." she tells him.

Maike leaned down and kisses Saria on the neck, and gradually makes his way down her body, and takes her pants off when he gets to her stomach, and her panties as well, revealing a hairless pussy, "Naturally hairless?" He asks as he kisses it.

Saria moans a little, "Yes," she says as she feels Maike start licking her pussy lightly, and can barely suppress a moan.

Maike took his clothes off not long after that, and then fingered Saria's pussy, "Does it feel good?" Maike asks her as she moans louder, but the music outside meant that no one would hear them.

"Stop teasing," she says as she pulls him closer to her, "if you're going to do it, then do it."

"All right," Maike says as he enters her, everything after that was a blur.

The next morning.

Maike woke up with a massive headache and no clothes on, "When did I start sleeping naked?" he asks as he sees Saria next to him, "Oh, that's when," he says.

Saria wakes up when Maike moves and looks at him, "Hey handsome," she says as she kisses him, "how did you sleep?"

Maike considered telling her that he didn't remember much of the night before, only the major details, her name, what they did, and the fact that they were still in his room, "Pretty good," he tells her.

"Good," she says, "wouldn't want to think that I'm not good enough for you," she tells him as she gets up and puts her clothes on.

Maike stays in his bed and watches her, What the hell was I doing last night? he asks himself, oh that's right, Vega's damned drink, I'll get him back for that, he watches Saria put something into his data-pad, "What's that?" he asks her.

"My contact info," she says, "call me," she then walks out of the room, leaving Maike with a headache.

After she leaves Maike gets his clothes on, "I am never going to another party again," he says to himself when he finishes putting his clothes on, then opens the door to see Jenkins standing in the hallway, "what do you want?"

"So," he says with a smirk, "how'd you sleep?"

Maike face-palms, "I'm never telling you," he says,

Present day.

"So how are thing between you and Saria?" Jenkins asks.

"Pretty good," Maike answers, "still not telling,"

"Come on!" Jenkins whines, "it's been three months."

Maike smiles, the only reason he didn't tell Jenkins was because he couldn't remember that first night, although he was pretty sure the nights after might have been a replay, "You'll never know," he says.

4 year after entrance to the academy, Alliance academy football superbowl.

It was the last play of the game, the Navy were down by 5 and were on the 50 yard line,

"Maike I think we need a hail mary," Vega says in his usual tone, "we don't have any other options," Maike considered his words, they had five seconds left and a hail mary would be expected, but Maike wasn't one to do what was expected, and James knew that, "What are you planning Demente?" he asks.

"He always has a plan," Jenkins says as he smiles.

Maike had finished planning, "alright here is the plan..." he tells them something that would make a Krogan look sane.

"Are you sure Dreamer is up for it?" Vega asks and all the men look around

"Hell yeah," Jenkins says, "this is my shot at glory," everyone looks at Maike worried.

"He can do it," Maike says as he breaks the huddle.

Everyone gets into their positions Vega at TE, and Jenkins at RB, "Set Set, Hike!" Maike says as the ball is hiked and he drops back to pass and as he suspected all the DBs had dropped back into the red zone, and Maike used a lateral to get the ball to Jenkins.

Jenkins caught the ball and started to run with Maike right behind him and Vega in front, Vega was able to hold off two of the defenders that were on him but couldn't stop the third one, and right before he had hit Jenkins, he had thrown a lateral to Maike making sure that the defender would be out of play.

Maike caught the lateral and jumped over Jenkins and the guy he had taken out of play and past Vega and his two who were now on the floor. "The 25," Maike says as he sees an almost open field.

The announcers start going crazy, if Maike gets past this last defender then it would be the first time the Navy team has won since Anderson.

Jenkins gets back up and starts running towards the goal line as fast as he can, "Maike don't screw up," he says as he is about 10 yards behind him.

Maike knows he can't change his direction so he runs at full speed at the final defender who is also running at him, the difference being the guy was built like Vega, Maike was fit, but he had nothing on Vega, or this guy.

Jenkins was still behind Maike when he saw him get hit.

Maike saw the hit coming and threw the ball back and up into the air, knowing it would land right when Jenkins got under it, as long as his calculations were correct.

Jenkins yells, "Hell Yes!" as he catches the ball at the ten yard line, and past Maike and the final defender, and into the touchdown. All of the crowd that was cheering for the Navy roared as Jenkins got the winning touchdown.

Maike laid on the ground as he heard the crowd roaring, and chanting, "Navy," until Jenkins and Vega went over to him and picked him up.

"Good job Demente," Vega says with a pat on the back then looked at Jenkins, "you too Dreamer."

"Thanks Vega," Jenkins says as he looks at Maike, "You too, couldn't have done it without either of you two."

Maike smiles for the first time since entering the academy, "It's good to know I have someone behind me all the way," he says.

"Look at that, Demente smiled," Vega says with a chuckle, "come on let's go get cleaned up, we have one hell of an after-party."

Three hours later, Navy dorms

Maike had just turned 21 a few weeks ago and was enjoying the after-party, quite well, of course he did have at least 5 cans of beer, "Whoo hoo," he shouts, "To my good friends, Jenkins, and Vega," he raises his can, "two of the best damned people I know!" most people were surprised that Maike had even shown up, mostly because he was in his room studying, but now he is letting loose and having fun.

Jenkins and Vega laughed as they were drunk off their asses as well and shouted in unison, "Here, here," and downed their next can of beer with Maike.

Much after that last can of beer was a blur.

5 years after entrance to the academy, Arcturus station, Alliance academy graduation.

"And with that I give you the 2180," The Alliance Admiral, who was headmaster of this school says as all the students stand up at military attention and give a salute to the admiral, then pull a right face and walk off in perfect unison towards their families.

Maike was the only one who stood at the edge of the audience area, after all his family couldn't care less about him, he remembered the letter he had gotten a few weeks after he had arrived, "They don't care," he says as Jenkins walks up to him, "Need anything?" he asks.

"Have you got your assignment yet?" Jenkins asks as Maike turns to him, "I got mine, but it says that it's classified," he frowns.

"Yeah got mine with the diploma," Maike says, "I'm going to be stationed in the fifth fleet," he says as he holds out his hand, "It was good knowing you," he says.

Jenkins takes Maike's hand, "You as well," then gives a wave and leaves.

Maike waves back, "See you next leave got it?" he calls after him.

"Sure thing," Jenkins says, "don't forget to invite Saria," he says.

"You got it," Maike says, even though Saria and Maike were dating for the past three years, they were still going strong.

Saria came up behind Maike and hugged him, "Hey handsome," she says.

"What's up beautiful?" Maike asks smiling.

Saria was glad that she had found Maike, and dragged him over to meet her parents, "Oh, nothing," she says as she smiles, "just thought you should meet the folks," Saria tells him.

"Really?" Maike asks nervously, Give me the chance to win the superbowl for the Navy, no problem, make Jenkins my roommate, sure thing, meeting my girlfriends parents, where's the nearest rock? Maike thinks as she stops in front of an elderly man and woman.

"Mom, Dad," she says, "This is Maike," she tells them as she pushes me in front of her.

"We've heard so much about you Maike," Saria's mom says.

"Thank you," Maike responds as he holds out his hand, "Maike Ariasu," he tells them, "a pleasure to meet you."

"My name is Naren," came the gruff voice of her father as he takes Maike's hand, Maike giving a firm grip, "a strong grip there son," he comments with a small smile.

"Always been told the grip tells a lot about a man," Maike responds.

"I believe that isn't taken as seriously as it should anymore," Naren responds as he releases the grip.

Maike puts his hand behind his back, and stands in parade rest, "No, it's not," he agrees.

"Why don't you join us for dinner?" her mother asks.

"I don't see why not," Maike says

Saria wraps her arm around Maike's and smiles, "That would be awesome," she says.

They all walk towards Naren's skycar, to go to one of the more classy restaurants in Arcturus.