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Chapter 6: Damn Spectre

Point of View: Kaidan Alenko

It had been 14 hours, earth hours, since Shepard had been knocked out, she hadn't been harmed physically though.

I knew she had survived worse but was still worried, though it was the first time he had seen her being knocked out.

She was the strongest biotic I had ever seen, my own biotics not even close to matching hers, I sighed and finished the Report.

I did read it through a final time, not finding anything wrong, then I did forward it to Anderson then I walked to the Mess Hall to get something to eat.

Point of View: Ashley Williams

I took apart my Pistol, adding an Incendiary Ammunition Mod to it calm then I put it back together again.

Even though my Pistol was a secondary weapon, I wanted it to work with maximum efficiency if I ever were to meet more Infected which I was sure I would.

I sighed a bit and looked around myself, no one from the crew was around so I didn't have anyone to talk with.

I thought about the mission, I had been lucky but I wished I had been able to save my Unit, it felt bad to be the sole survivor out of the entire unit.

I sighed but continued to work on my weapons.

(1 hour later)

Point of View: Jane Shepard

I woke up, with a large headache, I sat up slowly and heard Kaidan's voice, talking to Chakwas apparently "Doctor? Doctor Chakwas? I think she's finally waking up!"

I sat at the edge of where I had been unconscious, I looked around and saw that I was in the Med Bay of the Normandy.

Chakwas walked past me slowly, soon beginning to talk as she faced me "You had us worried there, Shepard. How are you feeling?"

I replied slowly as he held my head in my hand "I feel like I've been drinking too much again...how long was I unconscious?"

Chakwas smiled slightly noting that I was calm and she replied calm "About fifteen hours. Something happened down there with the beacon, I think..."

Kaidan interrupted worriedly "It's my fault, I must have triggered some kind of security field when I approached it. You had to push me out of the way seconds before the beacon exploded."

I nodded and said calm "You were reckless, Kaidan...I thought that you would help on this mission, instead you made the beacon self destruct..."

Kaidan was about to say something but Chakwas cut him off and said "Actually, we don't know if that is what set it off. Unfortunately, we'll never get the chance to find out... "

Kaidan said calm "As I mentioned the beacon exploded, maybe an system overload. The blast knocked you out and Ashley and I had to carry you back to the ship..."

I looked at Chakwas calm and asked "Is something broken?"

Chakwas said calm "Physical you're fine. But I have detected unusual brain activity, abnormal beta waves..." I looked in front of myself, thinking of what had happened and listened as she continued "I also noticed an increase in your rapid eye movement, signs typically associated with intense dreaming"

I said as I stood up and leaned against the bed "I saw..." I thought of what I had seen quickly but couldn't make any sense out of it and continued calm "I saw death, destruction. Nothing is clear actually..."

Chakwas said calm "I better add this to my report, it may..." I heard the door open and she said calm, dropping the current subject, "...Captain Anderson"

Anderson asked Chakwas calmly, no signs of stress on him really, "How is our XO holding up, Doctor?"

She replied quickly "All the readings look normal, I'd say the commander is going to be fine."

Anderson said still calm "Glad to hear it, Jane, I need to speak with you in private"

Kaidan said as he saluted "Aye, aye, Captain. I'll be in the mess if you need me." then he walked away.

Anderson asked me, I could hear that he was worried in his voice but only slightly, "Sounds like the beacon hit you pretty hard, Commander. You sure you're okay?"

I said casually "I'm okay, apart from this damn headache..."

Anderson said seriously as he looked at me "I won't lie to you, Commander. Things look bad, Nihlus is dead. The Beacon was destroyed, Geth are invading and Infected have spread to Eden Prime without the Alliance noticing...The Council's going to want answers"

I said annoyed "I don't care what they think, I did my job..."

Anderson said seriously "I'll stand behind you and your report, Shepard. You're a damned hero in my books. That is not why I'm here. It's Saren, that other turian..." Anderson turned right and took a few steps forward before continuing "Saren's a spectre, on of the best. A living legend. But if he is working with the Geth, it means he's gone rogue..." He turned to face me, he looked calm but sounded a bit worried "A rogue spectre's trouble. Saren's dangerous and he hates humans."

I asked "Why do he hate humans?"

Anderson replied "He thinks we're growing too fast, taking over the galaxy. A lot of aliens think that way and most of them doesn't do anything about it."

He continued calm "But Saren has allied himself with the Geth. I don't know how. I don't know why. I only know it had something to do with that beacon."

He asked me calm "Before the Beacon Self-destructed. did you see anything? Any clue that might tell us what Saren was after?"

I answered honestly "Just before I lost consciousness, I had some kind of a vision." He asked me as I finished my sentence "A Vision. A vision of what?"

I said calm "I saw synthetics, not Geth though. Slaughtering people. Butchering them..."

Anderson said seriously "We got to report this to the Council!" I asked "What are we going to tell them? I had a bad dream?"

Anderson sounded calm as ever "We don't know what information was stored in that beacon. Lost Prothean Technology? Blueprints for some ancient weapon of mass destruction? Whatever it was, Saren took it..." He walked up to me and stood next to me as he said "But I know Saren. I know his reputation, his politics. He believes humans is a blight on the galaxy. This was an act of war!...He has the secrets from the beacon. He has an army of Geth at his command and he won't stop until he has wiped humanity from the face of the galaxy."

I said confident "He won't live long enough to use the secrets..." Anderson said calm "It's not that easy, Jane. He's a Spectre. He can go anywhere, do almost anything. That's why we need the council on our side..." I said confident as never before "I can go anywhere and do anything without anyone capable of stopping me!" Anderson shock his head calm and he said "You will one day too be defeated, let's try to make it another day than today..."

Anderson then said calm "I'll contact the ambassador and see if he can get us an audience with the council. He'll want to see us as soon as we reach the citadel...though we should be getting close. Head up to the bridge and tell Joker to bring us in to dock." As he finished his sentence he walked out of the med bay.

As he walked out of the room I groaned and said to myself annoyed "Everything today could have been avoided if Saren just had left us alone..." I smiled a bit as a thought crossed my mind "I'll enjoy breaking every bone in his body, slowly and painfully..."

That was the end of this Chapter but too make up for the shortness I'll make a longer next week!

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