Chapter 7: Garrus
Garrus Vakarian stood on the deck of the Normandy trying desperately not to think of Faith Shepard. How they had left her on the Citadel. How that very construct had exploded. How it was more than likely that the human woman that made his heart beat extra fast could possibly be dead, once again. He dared not think of any of this because the moment he began to he wouldn't be able to survive. He barely was capable of functioning when she died the first time. He knew he'd die if she did. Taking a deep breath he looked through the reports EDI was giving him. How the AI had survived when every other SO had died was beyond him, though Tali had some theories that she was working on, most of which the AI had just shaken her head at.
Liara and Javik along with a few others had vanished several hours ago to place satellite in orbit. EDI had already connected a VI to the device and they were just starting to get Intel on the planet. It was one of eight that orbited around a helium based blue planet. The system had ten planets in the system, four rock based, three helium based and two that were ice planets at the very edge of the system. It also had one large Sun and a brown dwarf in its system. The brown dwarf orbited very closely to the main Sun. Around the helium based planet were moons, though from what they could tell from the long range probes that the satellite sent out, the moon they were on was the only one that could support life. The scans of the planet itself showed no signs of having intelligent life on it, however there was an unknown structure not too far from where they were.
The comms suddenly came online. "Joker to Vakarian; do you read big guy?" The pilot's voice came over the speakers gaining the turian's attention.
Garrus clicked his lower jaw in irritation and cursed in his natural tongue as the pilot had interrupted his thoughts. "What is it Joker?" He asked as his irritation came back at the pilot.
Joker chuckled. "Whoa there big guy, did you just curse at me in some other language?"
Garrus frowned. Had he? He shook his head. "Sorry. What is it?"
"Just doing some test runs." He stated. "EDI says that engineering has seventy percent of the damages already fix down there. Unfortunately we have to wait until the others return with the shuttle because we will need that to go pick up one of our begins that we lost upon re-entry."
Garrus sighed. "I understand." He pushed himself away from the holo. "Contact me when they return." He stated as he headed down the stairs to go to engineering. Perhaps I'll be of better use down there.
Several hours passed before Garrus felt a tap on his shoulder. Turning he saw the ever kind eyes of the human doctor Chakwas. She looked as tired as he felt. "Doctor?" He questioned wondering why she was down here when she'd be of better use back in medbay.
"You never came for a check up after we crashed." She stated he voice filled with worry.
Garrus waved his hand dismissively at her, something he'd picked up from Shepard. "I'm fine."
"And pigs can fly." She said not believing him. He gave her a questioning look, having not heard that human saying before. "It means I don't believe you." She clarified.
"Humans have too many sayings that mean the simplest of things." He mumbled as he sat down on a metal box to allow the doctor to do a quick check up.
"You've got some spreading going on." She stated as she looked at his mandible. "Cerberus gave us reaper tech to repair your jaw, it didn't look like this before."
"It started itching a week or so ago before the final battles." He stated. Honestly he wasn't worried. Faith did say she liked a man with scars.
"Hm." She hummed as she thought for a moment. Taking a step back she typed something into her omni-tool. "Once we get back to earth or perhaps the Archerus System, as it might be closer, I was to do a scan and make sure there's no active VI in there.
Once again Garrus found himself cursing in his natural tonguei and gave the doctor an apologttic look. Just what I need now. He scratched his jaw before pulling his talons away. "Alright doctor."
"I want you to find somewhere to rest for awhile. I'm reading high stress patteres in you That weren't there a week ago." She looked at him with a look that reminded him of his mother scolding him as a child. He gave a nod. "Good." She turned away and left. A moment later he heard Tali saying she was fine and smirked as the doctor had found another victim to play with.
Sleep hadn't come easy for the turian. No mater how he tried to sleep he just couldn't shut his mind down. He looked across the bay and spotted ruble from the upper decks. Deciding to fix this problem he stood up and began to move piece of broken wires and metal. As he did so he heard the clink, click of metal footsteps that were made by one creature only. Turning he found a geth centurian standing there with metal rods in its hands. "Officer Vakarian, I believe Doctor Chakwas has ordered you to rest."
Garrus raised a brow. "EDI?" He questioned the geth.
"Yes Vakarian?" The AI asked clocking the geths head to the side.
"Why are you in a geth unit?" He inquired, now quite curious.
"I've acquitged twenty such units to help with fixing the Normandy. Each is equipped with a VI version of myself. When they shut down the VI consciousness returns to my original self." She replied. "I've taken all safety precautions to ensure none will go rampant and begin killing the crew."
Garrus felt a headache coming on and sighed. "Very well." He turned to return working.
"Vakarian." EDI began causing him to look at her. "Please rest. I will tend to this area."
Garrus moved out of the way and with a defeated look, left the room. Perhaps there's some liqure I can drink in the mess hall. Leaving EDI to her job he went to find solice somewhere else.
M-Angel: Another chapter has been put out for this month. So who should I do next? Only a couple of chapters are left!
