"... You expect us to believe you?" for the fifth time in an hour was said.
The guy called Tyler asked of Commander Shepard. Jake noticed that Tyler was 6'3" tall with short light brown hair with green eyes he was quite thin and clean shaved but had faint show of muscles that let you know he was stronger than what he looked. Jake wasn't paying attention to the arguments as farfetched as it sounded no one could pull off this kind of hoax and all 6 of the 'captured' people had no reason for this prank to continue as long as it did, especially since he got shot at.
So he drifted his eyes to look out the window but he caught his own reflection Jake was 5'8" tall with blue/grey eyes and dark brown hair he hadn't shaven for a few days so he had a little stubble around his chin but still he looked youthful for his age he also had a toned body after all the exercise he had been doing he then decided to look around the room again getting a glimpse of the others.
It told Jake he was the oldest with Tyler been 17, Emily 15 Jake was 24. The other 3 he couldn't quite tell exactly but he knew the others were about 16-22. Jake decided to take a closer look at the other 3 people that had kept to themselves out of shock mainly just nodding agreement to what Tyler was saying.
He then noticed that 2 of them were quite simular in appearance but they looked the same age so he just put them down as twin girls who he had heard were called Julia and Charleigh both had dark blonde hair and light blue eyes that closly resembled Shepards they were fairly small about 5'3" . The other guy was clearly smart he just let off an aura of intelligence he had Light blond hair and hazel brown eyes he didn't know his name cause he kept to himself.
After Tyler had finished another little rant he was then brought back to reality when Shepard, who was getting quite annoyed at having to repeat himself to the stubborn of youths, asked someone called EDI to enter the room.
"You wanted to see me Shepard?" EDI asked of the Commander a woman came in with shoulder length black hair who was quite attractive to the right kind of guy.
"Yes thank you EDI can you please tell and show these people your true form please?"
"Ofcourse Commander" When the transformation had been completed she went on to say "I am EDI ,Enhanced Defense Intelligence, an AI designed for this very ship you are currently residing on".
"An AI as in ... Artifical Intelligence?" Jake looked over where the question had come from and found it was the guy who hadn't really said a word until now.
"Sorry my names Dan, but what you are saying ,if true, is not possible from our time"
"That is correct ... Dan, i was built and designed by Ceberus for almost a decade spanning from 2175-2184"
The room was silent as this new information had sunk in to which Dan could only respond with after a minute was "Intresting".
Tyler was getting ready to start another argument but Joker cut him off.
"Commander, i have Admiral's Anderson and Hackett on the holo-com for you"
"Thank you Joker tell them i'll be right there ... how about you 6 join me and we'll pick up this little debate another time"
With that the Commander left the room while the 6 just sat there stunned Jake looked around at them and was the first to stand up and with a jog caught up to Shepard.
"I thought you'd be the more reasonable 1 of the group" he said to Jake without turning round. Jake fell in step just behind Shepard.
"They are kids afterall, hell even i'm not that old this is quite unbelievable, but i can see your telling the truth the others are in shock you hit them hard and fast with too much information time travel, biotic powers, AI's and Earths getting decimated it is alot to take in over a short period of time"
"Your right i'm sorry but time isn't something we have alot of right now i'm trying to find ways to help win this war and i can't do that while i'm babysitting"
"I'm not saying you had alot of options i'm just telling you that if you got transported 180 years into the future and hit with all this, would you belive it?"
All Shepard did was smile and say "I guess not".
They walked into the 'Holo room' as Joker had said over the intercom but the room was empty.
"Where's the screens?" Jake asked of Shepard.
"We don't use them we use something alittle more ... advandced"
With that a man with blue eyes and white hair seemed to step out of nowhere taking Jake by surprise. Jake also noticed he had a scar on his face probably from a recent fight he thought.
"Commander i gave you orders and you disobeyed them, I told you to destroy that base no matter the cost yet you assulted that base which could have cost us that ship"
"That was something Shepard had left out" Jake thought to himself.
"I had diffrent orders Admiral"
"On who's authority?!"
"Mine Steven" Just then another person stepped onto the pad who Jake took to be Admiral Anderson.
"That was a very risky move David i hope you know what your doing" was all Hackett had said before he disapeared again.
"You did the right thing Shepard, saving those Civilians was the right decision have you told them whats been happening?"
"Yes Anderson, I have informed them all of whats been going on and what's at stake"
"And? Whats their decision?"
"Excuse me?" Jake interupted "Sorry my names Jake Thompson, What are you exactly asking from us?"
"Shepard i didn't expect 1 of them to be listening in on our call"
"Sorry Admiral, i thought it was for the best as they still don't believe us of whats happening"
"I see, well Mr Thompson as the Commander has alread told you we are at war he was under my orders to rescue and extract you and the others so we can ask for your help in the battle for humanity"
"Wait, wait, wait ... you want to implant us with your biotic tech?" Jake asked a bit forcefully then he intended but it got his point across "I suppose you'll force us into it if we say no"
"We won't do that, we aren't Cerberus this is your choice we won't influence your choice especially this" Anderson replied quite calmly after he had nearly been shouted at.
Jake relaxed at this and breathed out in relief "Good, Shepard i take it you have crew quarters or some place to crash if you tell me where i'll get the others a place to sleep so we have time to talk and discuss ... all this"
"Sure Crew quarters is on 3rd deck i'll have Kaidan Alenko show you where you can set up"
"Thank with that he turned and left the Com romm.
"Commander i need you to visit Anhur in the Amun System to pick up supplies we'll inform you when you have the supplies and Commander try and get those people on our side i think we'll need them in this war"
"Yes Sir Shepard out, Joker set a course for Anhur in the Amun System"
"Yes Commander"