A/N: That took longer than I thought, but now we have even more crew. Come on and review already!
I woke up seeing everyone but me sleeping. Even Mordin was sleeping now. I could've sworn that I saw some orange omni-tool light coming from under his blanket till three o'clock in the morning. This "Galaxy of Fantasy" must be a real good game if people play it so much.
I rose from my bed and checked the package-shaft. There were three sniper rifles, a shotgun, five heavy pistols and a SMG. There were also brand new omni-tool's there. I took myself an omni-tool, a shining and fresh-looking sniper rifle along with a Heavy Pistol. I invited Legion to come and without waking the others we went towards the rebuilt council tower. It wasn't as pretty as it used to be with big holes in it, but it was still a magnificient sight. I stepped quickly towards the elevator and "enjoyed" the muzak in there. Legion seemed to like the music though, because he danced "the Robot" all the time.
I finally stepped out of the elevator and headed towards the council's stands. There were too many stairs there in my opinion. I also failed to get the point of a cherry three there. But it wasn't mine to decide so I simply climbed up the stairs and joined Legion, who apparently had better muscles in his legs than… a Human spectre who appeared out of nowhere two days ago. We continued towards the platform where you had to stand to speak to the council. I was a bit surprised that the Turian councilor was nowhere to be seen. After exchanging formalities, lying about surviving the crash and living with space-monkeys as well as being reinstated as a spectre I asked the Asari where the Turian was.
To my surprise instead the Salarian replied: "there was a… problem. We discovered that the Asari councilor is an Ardat-Yakshi too late as she had already melded with the other councilor."
"Thank you for keeping the secret," the Asari snapped back angrily leaving Anderson finally free to talk. He had interesting news: Joker hadn't left the Alliance, but he only flew in Combat-Sims or taught the other pilots tips and tricks about piloting. In fact, Joker was on the Citadel currently and after Anderson called him, Joker rolled out of seemingly nowhere. Yup, that's right. He was in a wheelchair now, but seemed to be pretty proficient with it.
He grinned and greeted me in his usual sarcastic manner. He then proceeded to ask me about Legion and I also told him the story of my origins, but before telling him I instinctively checked for bugs and recording devices. If there were any, they were propably deactivated by Legion earlier. We talked for hours with Joker and didn't stop until I saw a hanar floating towards the council. We watched the hanar for quite some time and noticed a weird thing: the talk they had going on reminded me of my Spectre auguration. Realization hit me a second later. It was Blasto! The First Hanar Spectre! Awesome! I thought he was just a movie in the ME universe. After ummm.… what gender are hanar? Okay HE. After floating down the podium he greeted me in his "this one" form. It took a lot of convincing, but I managed to get Blasto into my squad. This was going to be awesome, especially with "the Tupari Addict" killing reapers with it's Mega-Gardians. The problem was that we did not have any real weapons that could be depended on yet. To be honest, we only had a single mass accelerator cannon. No Gardians yet. It was enough for Garrus to calibrate, but it was fairly useless because of it's three minute charge time.
I was caught in my thoughts by Blasto, who suggested catching up with the others. As I hurried towards the taxy stand a huge krogan stopped me. "This is my cab, weaklings." he sayed in his deep voice.
This krogan reminded me of Wrex, but Wrex didn't have a sniper rifle usable as a light-machinegun on his back and neither did he have what looked like two huge and very sharp knives that couldve cut trough any armor.
To show that I weren't a total weakling I headbutted the krogan. He tried to answer with the same, but he probably wasn't ready for a geth smashing it's head against his back and most of all, he was not ready to be headbutted by a hanar shouting about being a Spectre. As we beat the krogan with our heads he started showing signs of tiredness. No krogan could last fifteen minutes of headbutting. "So you are not total weaklings," he said. "I've heard of you and Wrex. If you can respect me as you did with him, I will join you. There is a problem though: I am clanless, because I exited clan Weyrloc when they started joining Blood Pack. For that reason, I ain't respected by other krogan." He took in a big breath and suggested that we could go to the ship already. The same moment my omni-tool beeped. It was a message from Tali. She was in the ship and aside from Garrus's calibration guides they hadn't bought anything. I took the cab that was still patiently waiting for me like it had been programmed and entered the docking bay as the destination.
Joker was in shock seeing the "Addict" in its full glory. "She looks four times as big as the Normandy SR-1!" I replied: "She's 400 metres in length and 200 in heigth, plus everybody has got huge quarters and private terminals. Actually, Legion I do not believe that you bought it for 25 million creds. It looks like at least over 200 million credits to me." Legion talked uncharacteristically slowly: " We… lied about it. We did not buy this ship. We stole it from T'Loak. It was supposed to be her fleet's flagship. We hacked the controls and brought it to you, Shepard-Commander." I cursed quietly, realising that we propably had the whole Terminus chasing us. "Where to, Commander?" Joker asked. I replied: "To Illium. We got one volus to pick up. Calls himself a biotic god."
***In a galaxy far-far away, a long time ago...***
Naah, just kidding.
Aria sat on her chair in "The Afterlife" and was really angry. Everybody smart or lucky enough to get away from her did it. Her ship had been stolen for three days and noone had done anything. Unfortunately, "The Tupari Addict had been last seen entering Citadel space. But she was not going to let it go unanswered. She made sure that once her flagship had returned to Terminus, it wouldn't leave anytine soon.
A/N: This was definitely a bit longer than usually, but it took me two days to write so... I still write about as fast. As you may have noticed the chapter headlines are some kinds of previews for the next chapter. Until next time!
