Miranda watched them both enter the lift. Once the doors closed, she brisklywalkeed over to the Lt.'s quarters. Once inside she saw that his armor was laid out neatly and professionally in the farthest area of the room. She noticed the large duffle bag on one table. She approached it then quickly turned around to see Jacob standing at the door with his arms crossed. "Jacob?" She asked startled "You shouldn't be in here" she continued. "the same can be said for you." He answered simply. "How did you know I was here?" "EDI had notified me when you started waiting for an opportunity to get in here, said she was worried of the actions you might do." "Is this true EDI" Miranda asked the A.I. "Yes, you seemed to have had a noticeable change in your personality ever since the commander brought aboard the Lt."
"So you brought it upon yourself to notify Jacob and not speak to me about it?" Miranda seemed to be irritated at this revelation. "would you have preferred if I had spoken to the Commander instead?" EDI asked calmly. Miranda stayed silent and looked at Jacob with a clearly agitated look on her face. "So what exactly are you looking for Miranda?" He asked as he stepped into the room. She turned to the bag on the table. "he is unlike anything we have encountered" she started. "He has unknown technology that he uses. On top of that he claims he's human, but no human is that big...ever." "So? Just cause he's different doesn't mean he can't be trusted." Miranda turned around abruptly "Damn it Jacob, can't you see? If we can figure out what made him who he is we can push humanity to a degree of power greater than that of the Turians, Krogan, or even the Asari. He took on Grunt head on and beat him."
"This isn't right Miranda, you can't just go through someone's stuff, especially when they just got aboard the ship." He stated. "well" Miranda said as she turned back to the bag "You're welcome to leave." She said cooly. She started to unzip the bag. It was as long as her leg and part of her torso. Jacob walked up next to her and inspected it contents.
They were really surprised to see the items inside. "Jacob these are..." Her voice trailed off. "Gas powered rifles. These are bullets." Jacob finished "Alright Miranda I can see your point. Whoever this guy is he is unlike anything we've encountered." The both took out a long sniper type rifle that has been clearly modified. They took out two identical compact weapons that seemed to be held in each hand and there was one side arm. Underneath there were eight pouches of blue liquid. "What do you think this stuff is?" Jacob asked as he lifted one of the pouches and put it up to the light. "I haven't the slightest idea, but it could be toxic so I wouldn't recommend opening it." "Yeah" he replied and set it aside.
"Wait what's this?" Miranda asked she pulled out a blue, single handed object. It was much different to the design of the other weapons they took out. It was very curved and had no barrel but was split from the handle. It was similar to the structure to the Avenger assault rifle but was built for something Much bigger than them. Miranda inspected the object closely when it suddenly went off an a blue blob of light shot out and hit the wall. Miranda instantly put down the rifle. "Miranda what did you do?" Jacob asked. "Apparently it's some kind of firearm." "Yeah I figured that since it almost hit me." "But..." Miranda continued "What exactly did it fire?" She walked toward the spot the shot hit and noticed that the wall was sizzling as if the part hit was boiling. "What could have done this?" She whispered.
"Initial analysis indicate a high temperature projectile was fired by the object. Most likely a high yielding gas introduced to a high voltage current creating a 28000 degree Celsius (50,000 °F for people that don't know metric system) bolt of plasma." EDI explained. Miranda stared at the still sizzling wall. "A plasma based weapon? Would our shields even be able to defend against it?" She whispered in shock. Jacob walked up to her "What are saying? Our shields can withstand plenty of things. This thing seems to shoot a little slower than our guns." Miranda faced Jacob "Our shields are Kinetic barriers, they are designed to stop projectiles traveling at high velocities. Not only would it most likely not trigger our shields to activate, the shear temperature of it would not be altered any bit by the barriers. This technology is far more deadly than any common weapon at our disposable."
Miranda looked over to the Lt.'s armor "That would explain why his armor is so heavy. It would protect him from projectiles like our weapons and the density it has would protect him from the heat and splash damage." She paused as she continued to process this information. Jacob stared at her, it was clear she was intrigued but also somewhat worried. "Whoever.." She started "...or whatever he was fighting is something we wouldn't compete against." She had a stern expression on her face. "Jacob do you think it's possible his people were already fighting Reapers?" "What? I don't know. This is a lot to take in." He answered "Hell there's still more weapons in that bag of his." He motioned to the pile of weapons. "Speaking which, EDI how much time do you think we have left before he comes back?" "You have approximately five minutes before he returns." EDI answered
Miranda quickly reacted "Why didn't you say anything? God, Jacob help me put all of this back." They both quickly rushed to put everything back. "No, the rifles go on top of the blue pouches." Miranda said. Once finished she zipped up the bag and started towards the door. "The Lieutenant is approaching." EDI stated. "Hurry Jacob." Miranda said. They both exited and saw the Lt. Rounding the corner. Miranda quickly pushed Jacob into the bathroom next to them.