"Kill them!" The Captain yelled, before flying into the wall behind him and breaking his back. A guard shot at the intruders, but a Krogan charged from his cover and tackled him full-force, breaking his ribs and causing him to drown in his own blood.
"All clear, child." Old said, looking on the bodies for anything of value. "Heat-sinks, credits, and a new trophy. Nice." Old said, the 'trophy' a helmet.
"We're all clear here." Enigma said on the radio, leading team B through the other half of the facility.
"Thank you for letting me help." Kendra said.
"I still don't trust you. Just to make sure you know." Old said.
"You had no trouble eating the food I cooked last night. Three helpings, if I remember correctly." Kendra said, a small smile on her face.
"You try eating Mick's cooking every night. He doesn't know how to cook anything but Turian food, and even then he's only slightly better than a corpse!" Old said.
"What was this facility-" I began, before we opened the door to what the guards were protecting. A Drell in a tank with tubes in the back of his hands, the back of his head, and down his spine. The Drell was floating in a fetal position with a breather on his mouth and his eyes closed. Both the water and the Drell were blue.
"We need to get him out of there!" Kendra said, running over to the tank. As soon as she got near the Drell's eyes shot open and he began to scream, the breather falling off as he hit the glass and broke through it. He fell to the floor, coughing the blue liquid out over the floor. Kendra touched his shoulder when the Drell stopped coughing.
"Are you okay?" Kendra asked.
The Drell looked at her and slowly shook his head. "No."
Back on the Allure, Mick was doing a check-up on the Drell.
"He's fine, kind of. He has amnesia and his skin is blue." Mick said.
"They probably experimented on him." Old said.
"There were open holes all over his body. Where did they go?" I asked.
"Healed on their own." Mick said.
"My name is...Ronin." The Drell said.
"A ronin was a samurai with no master in Feudal Japan." Enigma said.
"I know how to kill people with years of training. I could kill every one of you if I so desired." Ronin said. "There are flashes of memories...places I've never been, people I know nothing of. It makes no sense. I wish to join, if only to learn my past."
"If you can fight, you can join." I said.
"How about you just recruit everyone we meet?" Old asked.
"I can hear you, Krogan." Ronin said.
"I wish someone else would. A traitor, now this freak? Why didn't I get the memo where Rey told everyone the ship would go to hell?" Old said.
"Old, you're wearing out your welcome." Enigma said.
"I've been on this ship longer! I've been alive longer! You have no right to say that!" Old yelled.
"I can do as I please, Old." Enigma said. "People want you dead, and you need people to watch your back. No one will protect you if you talk down to them!"
"Nobody can stop me!" Old yelled.
"Bullshit! There's thousands that want to kill you, and I can't keep taking the bounties off of your head." Enigma said.
"What do you mean by that, Human?" Old asked.
"I look out for us by taking down bounties being sent out on the extranet. I'm thinking of letting some for Old slip." Enigma said.
"Why didn't you take the bounties from Hercules down?" Kendra asked.
"I tried, but they had extremely advance anti-hacker defenses." Enigma said.
"Why didn't we know about this?" I asked.
"I figured it best not to tell everyone how many toes we step on." Enigma said.
"We'll talk later...there's been some crazy things going on today. Dismissed!" I said.
"Captain, I need to talk." Ronin said. "I've been contemplating my existence, and, if it comes down to it, I want you to sacrifice me."
"What? Why are you thinking about things like that?" I asked.
"I believe the galaxy is like a giant pond; every person a stone. Every time someone does something, they cause ripples in the pond. Some ripples are bigger, others barely make a ripple. Inaction is the wind: it causes ripples, though no one did anything to cause it. Though some ripples can go over some, ripples still happen, and the dirt below-history, memory, the afterlife-records it. I am a boulder because of my creation. If found out, I will be tested on and experimented on until I die." Ronin said.
"I think you need to ponder existence more. My top priority isn't finding a suicide mission or getting you killed: it's topping Hercules." I said.
"That may very well be a suicide mission." Ronin said as I left.