The three kids scrambled around the room looking for a place to hide.
Kaidan was it and counting to 20.
"20…19…18…17…" Kaidan counted down. Shepard hid behind a closet in the far side of the room, and James hid in the cabinets. The closet was dark and crammed with barely enough room to maneuver her arms.
"Ugh this closet is a lot tighter than I imagined!" Shepard whined to herself. There was some shuffling around and a grunt.
"Ugh! You're telling me!" a harmonic voice said. Shepard screamed in terror and clamped a hand over hers and this creature… Mouth...? The creature kicked and muffled yells of anger, he flailed his arms around violently! Shepard thought he was going to hit her in the face!
"Shh! You'll give my position away!" Shepard whispered. The strange creature seemed to loosen up a bit, but continued to struggle. Its head shook vigorously. Once its mouth was loosened of Sherpard's grasp, it clamped its jaws down on her hand.
"Ow! What was that for?!" Shepard yelled. Forget the game; this thing bit her!
"Couldn't you tell I couldn't breathe?! Just who-"The creature stopped its sentence and leaned closer, it poked her cheek and looked thoughtful.
"What are you? What's your name? And what are you doing here?" it asked. Shepard's eyes widened at the question, was this person- err- thing stupid?! She slapped away his three-fingered hand and glared at the creature.
"What do you mean what am I? I'm a human! Are you stupid or something?!" She yelled. How could this person not know what she was?!
"I'm not stupid! Humans are stupid! My dad says they're too fleshy and squishy! No wonder why they always wear heavy armor!" The animal remarked back.
"So what, are you a daddy's boy?"
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Nuh uh!"
The two children argued for a few minutes, throwing comments, remarks, and fighting fire with fire!
"Well then what are you?!" Shepard asked finally. The creature crossed its arms and glared at Shepard with piercing blue eyes.
"I'm a Turian! Wow, Humans are stupid!" It snapped.
Shepard's eyes snapped wide. She let a growl of anger and barreled into the scaly creature and fought with all of her might. It had a boney structure on the back of its head that Shepard pulled and jerked.
"Take that back!
"Never! I'll never take it-ahh!" The Turian screeched and elbowed Shepard in the face.
"Challenge accepted! Combat initiated!" The Turian yelled and plunged itself into Shepard's guts, making her groan and pound on his head.
"Take it back, take it back, take it back!" Shepard demanded.
"You'll have to beat me first!" The Turian yelled as it scratched Shepard's face. Shepard screamed in pain. She finally got loose of the creatures grasp and got to her feet. The Turian was about to tackle her again when a blue blast came rocketing into his face, knocking him backwards making it land against the wall and fall to the floor with a thud. Shepard whipped around see Kaidan breathing heavily and his fists fizzing a blue spark.
"Kaidan! Help me!" Shepard yelled. Kaidan did as he was told and stood by Shepard's side. The Turian got back on his feet and growled with anger! He stormed towards Kaidan and tackled him, making the two boys scratch and claw at each other.
"Kaidan!" Shepard yelled. She ran the two raging boys and pulled on the Turian boys boney structure on the back of his head. He rounded and grabbed a handful of Shepard red hair.
"Ow! Let go!" Shepard demanded. The Turian boy was about to punch her, she caught his fist and for the first time actually got a good look at him. He had piercing blue eyes surrounded by a black void. They looked strange but oddly attractive. Shepard snapped back into reality and kicked off the ground and started beating the hell out of the boy who attacked her friend.
It wasn't long before the two ravaging children were separated by a biotic field; it was too strong to be Kaidan's. Shepard turned her head to see a rather angry and disappointed Assari. Her hands on her hips and her face looked like she had eaten something sour.
"What is going on here?" She yelled. The children floated there in air staring at the mad Assari.
"He started! He called Humans stupid!" Shepard said pointing at the Turian.
"She said I was a daddy's boy, whatever that means!"
"It means you're stupid and you do whatever your daddy says!" Shepard remarked.
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Enough! Shepard, do you know how your mother is going to react when she hears about this?!" The Assari had a point. Her mother would be pissed if she found out about this.
"And Garrus, your father works too hard to keep you out of trouble! How do you think he'd react when he finds out about this?!" Shepard saw the little Turian lower his head in submission.
"Pretty mad, I guess…" He said, ashamed.