Chell went to the armoury and got her gear ready, she didn't have armour since that wasn't required for scouts but Alex made it quite clear he wouldn't let her run if she didn't have armour. She approached the terminal and typed up her order, she didn't have to use Alliance credits either because she was so heavily paid that she used her own.
She let her hair out and it went down her back, though she didn't take off the contacts. When Alex first saw her real eye color after they first met and not the grey contacts, he said they were beautiful and she said that they made her confusing. So she still wore the contacts because she felt accepted with grey ones and he approved of it because Chell was comfortable.
"Hm..let's see, I want the Kuwashii Visor, Kassa Fabrication Chestplate, N7 shoulder plates, Serrice Council guantlets and Rosenkov Materials for pants all in white as primary and secondary bases" she pressed in the order, her gear was being placed together and painted at the same time, Chell stood back and watched.
"Do scouts normally use that gear? Or even those colors?" someone behind her asked.
"Garrus, right?" she asked. The turian with many scars on his face. Chell respected the fact she was lucky had none there, though Alex had seen the arms, she hadn't exactly been proud but had shown him the ones on her back and stomach caused by Maia and Three hunting her and some of the others were from...a few unhappy people along the way, mostly in a bar.
"No they don't. I usually never wear armour, slows down the feet and gets you clumsy. And usually that results in falling on or off you ass covered in bruises that make you look as blue as an asari" She got a small laugh from him.
"And the colors? I thought scouts blended into their environment? Isn't that the job, they are paid for?" He asked all at once.
Chell smiled at him shaking her head. "First off, the gear generally depends on the person. Most guards look for the thing that blends in and sticks out the most on any terrain, I chose white because it helps blend into anything, literally!" She sat on top of a bench and the turian asked for an example.
"My instructor took us out to a forest purely green everywhere. He went off and we had to spot him and he had to find us, if we found him we won and got an hours extra sleep which was dearly needed! He found a group of boys and girls who decided to stay together and were wondering around, trying to pick up noises that sort of thing. He snuck up on them and was in orange armour which scared the hell out of them and he gave them advice 'stay to plain terrain colors that make you not the armour blend in" She wisely said pulling her legs up to her chest feeling comfortable.
"One problem if he was talking to them and not you, how did you know that? Did he find you?" Garrus asked.
Chell blushed a little, she finally answered. "I was in a tree above watching the whole thing, and the branch snapped I landed on the instructor and said 'found you' I was bloody lucky I didn't break his back or get dropped from the group" she shrugged and he laughed at her.
"Lt Ramirez your gear is ready" EDI said over the PA.
Chell nodded, "My cue to go" she said grabbing a box and shoving her gear into it before leaving. She heard Garrus mumble "Strange girl..." causing her to laugh.
She grabbed the box and headed to her bunk placing it under there and checking her stuff once more. Chell stood up but felt dizzy and nearly fell over, "But you promised me you'd stay the same, you promised me!" Chell looked around no one else was iin the crew quaters at the moment.
"Jayde, my name is Jayde. Nice to meet you this is Three, he's going to look after you" Chell stopped, that was her voice? She clutched her head as it throbbed in pain.
"I want her to be my child! Not hunted by him because I love someone else" It went again making her head feel like it was exploding.
"Stop! Pease stop!" She begged her head. "Leave me alone!"
"So she'll be like me in image wise and personality, except programmed to think she's human?" Even though she's alien? Chell felt everything get dizzy as her head hit the floor, she blinked a little and kept trying to push herself up off the floor. So blurry and dizzy!
"Does she have a name?" She need's a pretty name?" Was the last thing she heard.
Tali entered the crew quarters looking for Garrus and saw Chell on the floor unconscious but looked like she was having a hell of a nightmare. Tali ran over "Keelah!" She swore under her breath. "EDI get Dr Chakwas down here fast!" She yelled.
"Dr Chakwas is on her way" EDI responded.
Chell bent her head a little and kept shaking and muttering. "Make them stop!" she screamed frightening Tali, this woman had only been on th ship for two days and was having bad dreams! What was she going to be like after a month?
Dr Chakwas entered th room and rushed to Tali's side, they carried Chell down to the medical bay. Chell was extremely light for her age probably the eating habit Shepard told them about. They lay her down on a bed and the Doctor examined Chell, no cuts bruises that were visible. Chakwas turned to Tali, "Get Shepard now!" she said Tali ran out of the room quickly.
Dr Chakwas saw the scars that Chell had on her arms, they were small and few that weren't everywhere. She had two on her left on her shoulder bending like the curves she had drawn in her sketch and three on the other side on her wrist elbow and shoulder. Interested Dr Chakwas moved Chell's shirt up a bit and saw everything on the young woman. She didn't know how these happened but the scars and bruises were big enough to have killed anyone!
Alex entered the room with Tali and saw the scars on her body saying one word only. "Ouch!" he noticed them all staring at him. "What? I've seen those before. She got some of them from bar fights" He answered.
"A person in a bar did this much damage commander?" Chakwas asked daring him to answer.
"Well...only if you flirt with a guy and kick him in the nuts in front of his girlfriend and mates and happen to be her" he retorted.
"How is this helping?" Tali bluntly asked.
"It isn't, look this has happened to her before. Chell has what you might call hallucination memories or Hypnagogia except instead of think it's a vision she hears voices. She'll just sleep it off" Alex assured them.
"You let her on a ship and this could happen!" Tali who was rather outraged screamed at him.
"She doesn't usually let it happen!" Alex calmly said back. "She usually can control it, sometimes though it gets out of hand. It rarely happens she'll be fine" He looked at Chell and sighed. "First time she did it was after we came home from a restaurant and were celebrating that she was adopted into our family, hold off questions and yes she is my little sister" he waved at Tali and the doctor. "Scared the living crap out of us! But she'll be fine she always is" he said. "I bet you both five hundred credits she will by tomorrow she will be running around" he said.
She slept for four days straight before getting back up and Tali along with Dr Chakwas won over a thousand credits together, sat down and had a long conversation on why Chell was so odd.
