Hey guys! Before the chapter begins I'd like to make a few announcements. First off, I have already chosen one OC to be added, so that leaves one slot left. Keep submitting. Secondly all new chapters I make from here onward will be at least 1k words or more. Anyway that's all I wanted to say, so enjoy the new chapter and I hope you like Jalean's future friend.
Jalean stood in the brig of his ship, Saving Hope, waiting for his captive, which 'graciously' gave Jalean his way onto the citadel, to wake. Jalean had felt guilty for filling the air with the toxin that knocked him out. He should have taken into account that the turian's were dextro-based. The toxin was deadly to dextro-based creatures. It's been a few hours since he knocked out the turian. Jalean was about to walk out the door when he heard the turian start to move around.
"Uhh… were am I," the turian spoke, rubbing its head. Jalean spun around on his heal and approached the cell the turian sat in,
"Ahh… good your awake" Jalean grinned, guilt removed from his conscience. The turian visibly jumped when he saw the last prothean stand before him.
Turians POV
What the hell is that thing, he's isn't any alien I've met before. Garrus Vakiran, the Csec agent that was currently sitting in the cell. Just my luck, the one time I ask for an easy job and I get captured by an unknown race. Garrus quickly had an idea,
"You know, kidnapping a member of a council race can get you executed," it was a lie, but hopefully the alien bought. Garrus was taken aback when the alien in front of him grinned wider, and laughed.
"Good to see that my people's predecessors have humor and spirit,"
Wait… predecessors… no… he couldn't,
"your… you're a prothean" Garrus was in awe. He was in the presence of one of the people whose species had built the citadel and mass relays. And with this the electrical bars deactivated.
"Now that you know the truth, I assume you won't try to threaten me with threats that have no meaning to me," the prothean then walked into my cell bent forward and outstretched his hand to help him up. Garrus grabbed it, but something unexpected happened. A great deal of pain shot through his head and he saw images he could barely process. More protheans running and screaming away from giant, synthetic squid things, that descended from the sky and shot beams of lasers that destroyed everything it connected to. Then he saw what he thought was the serpent nebula on a galaxy map that zoomed in to the asteroid belt on the far end of the system then zoomed in on a nod-descript asteroid that took Garrus a second to realize that there were walls and what looked like a hangar bay on one side. Then the throbbing stopped and he was back to sitting in front of the prothean.
"I'm sorry if you were in pain. My people once used touch to gather information from another's mind, it can be painful for those that have no experience with it," the prothean apologies and offered it to Garrus again. This time though, Garrus hesitantly grabbed it and thankfully there was no pain and he felt the prothean pull him back up to his feet. Once back on his feet, Garrus looked at the prothean and asked him a question,
"ok now that I'm out of that cell I have a question for you. Why did you knock me unconscious, then wait for me to get up and act all civil?" the prothean simply looked at him and spoke
"two things, first, call me Jalean, second, I did this so I could get your features into my holoprojector," the prothean then pulled out a pentagonal shaped device that looked it had a data crystal in the center. "With this, I should be able to turn into you, and walk around the citadel freely." Garrus nodded, I suppose that's understandable… wait, holoprojector, they were that advanced,
"and before you ask, no I won't let any of your people view the data on my ship or on my person," Jalean says, putting the piece of tech back on his belt.
Jalean's POV
2 Hours later
The turian that Jalean was following around was surprisingly helpful. Not only did the turian allow him to transform into it, he gave Jalean a mass accelerator weapon. Jalean found it funny that they had not developed any energy based weapons. When Jalean asked the turian (which later on told him his name was Garrus) why they had not produced any, he deadpanned and said that my people had not left designs to help with research on such weapons. The weapon Garrus gave Jalean was a Phalanx-5, or that was what the label on the side said, was a handgun that used explosive rounds. Currently, Garrus was showing Jalean the citadel, buildings like the embassies, the consort's chamber, and their last destination was the citadel tower that they were currently approaching the elevator to it. Funny how our two cycles are so different, yet are so similar. I guess the tower makes leaders feel important, seeing how both cycles used them as seats of power. As they neared the top, Garrus spoke into the yellow gauntlet (that he said was an Omni-Tool), trying to explain to his boss, another turian named Palin. From what Jalean over heard, Palin wasn't too happy Garrus abandoned his post, but accepted the fact an important diplomat asked him to be escorted to the council. After he finished his conservation, Jalean spoke,
"important diplomat huh… last time a security guard escorted me to the leaders of the galactic community, they called me the last of the Hunderron," Jalean said with a chuckle.
"What's a Hunderron, I thought you were prothean?" he said confusion in his voice.
"I am, but I'm a mix of Hunderron, which was a sub race of the prothean empire, and the main race of prothean. You see the prothean people were not one race, but many races under one name." Jalean finished explanation just in time for the elevator to stop on the top floor of the tower. And with that, Jalean began his approach to the council, walking up the stairs and onto the podium in front of three races that he last time saw making gunpowder weapons. He must have interrupted a meeting of theirs, because as he approached they stopped their conversation and stared at him. Jalean was thankful for the holoprojector because the three of them looking at him would make anyone nervous.
"Now who is this that you bring before us," the asari speaks.
Ok so a few things. First this chapter and the next, take place one year before the Eden Prime incident. Second we learned more about the amazing prothean, Jalean. And third we met the most amazing turian in the galaxy, GARRUS.
I hope all you amazing Mass Effect fans enjoyed, and please excuse any non lore friendly details, but if you notice any of these, be sure to let me know. Next chapter we'll meet Jaleans future BF. Till then, thanks for reading.
