Crazy Christmas
Part 4
Legion was having a civil conversation with the crews vending machine (getting all the hot gossip about the other electrical appliances aboard the ship) when Tali - in an exosuit that was way too colourful to be her own - walked up to stand beside him. Pardoning himself for a moment from the talk with the food dispenser, he looked to see the Quarian holding to him a present in her hands.
If a geth had eyebrows to frown, then at that moment the unit would have been doing so.
"Creator Zorah? This system does not understand the purpose of giving him anti-flammable aluminium strips. Our systems are fully fire, water and custard-proof." The Quarian sighed, and pulled the foil off of a small spaceship which she gave to him. What species could fit in this?
"Merry Christmas Legion!" She said with a laugh.
"The geth do not understand what you mean by 'Christmas'."
"We explained what that was to you before we did the secret Santa draw." She paused speaking for a second, which was long enough for him to scan the universes web and find out all he could about Christmas, and unicorns (since he had the time spare). "Ooh," Understanding lit up the Quarian's mask like lights. "So that's why Thane got me a present."
"Creator Zorah?" She looked back to him. "We now understand the meaning of Christmas. Would it be appropriate to happily embrace you now?"
"NO! I'm mean uh-That's quite alright Legion. The flotilla still haven't calmed down after the last time I walked in with 'geth machinery traces' on me." Legion - at this - silenced the vending machine, who was laughing at him for being denied basic social interaction by an organic. He saw that Tali was still holding out the spaceship towards him, so he assumed the correct reaction would be to smash the object in her hands.
"NO LEGION DON'T!" She screamed as she finally noticed his intentions. He stopped a trillionth of a second after Tali began screaming at him. Interesting. Being around organics had appeared to have slowed his reactions down considerably.
He slowly took the small spaceship, and was unhappy when it didn't respond to his friendly communications. Maybe it didn't speak in numbers. Or maybe it was just shy.
"Creator Zorah, this machine does not function correctly." To emphasis his point; he shook it around. Nothing happened. A normal unit would have complained of a headache or feeling sick if it was being shook about. The Quarian sighed as she watched him continue to shake his gift around.
"That's because it's a toy Legion, it's not supposed to have a function."
"Then why have you given this to us?"
"It's a present." His flashlight head twisted as he stared at Tali. If he was an organic he would have looked confused, but the tilting of his head was merely to allow the circuits in the left side of his being to run faster.
It still didn't help him to understand though.
"We thought the object was a toy. Is it now a present?"
"No it's both."
"Are there two separate hardware's performing different functions inside of it?" Tali sighed. Again.
"No, it doesn't have a function. It's a toy."
"Hadn't we established that it was a present?" She stared at him for a long moment before finally groaning, smacking her hand to her mask and walking away. He assumed that meant it wasn't a present then.
Legion set about straight away fixing this 'toy' to have a function. It was too small for him to fit inside, but perhaps he could give it a purpose. Seeing such a beautiful piece of machinery left to do nothing but rust brought a particle of condensed gas to his eye. He needed to do something.
Besides, he did need ideas for his secret Santa as well.
Author's Note.
I'm pretty sure these chapters are getting weirder and more random by the day, hahaha.
Hope you enjoyed this one (personally this was by far my favourite chapter to write so far) and hope it amused you a little.
Thank you very much for all the support, it's always nice to know there are people appreciating the story.
Thank you and enjoy! :))
