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Chapter 10

Five moved towards the craft, allowing himself to marvel at it's design.

"My creators managed to create such things of beauty" he though as he took in the streamlined and slim designs. As he approached a beam came from the ship, it was orange and spread wide.

"DNA scanned. Chozo DNA recognised, enquiry, unknown DNA present, enquiry Metroid DNA present"

He sighed. When he had created this body he had intentionally given it part of his creators DNA so he could interface with their technology. He had also given himself Metroid DNA to make himself immune to any remaining X-parasites. He had planned to give the rest of the creatures on the station the same alterations.

"Damn it if only I had more time" he thought.

"Authorisation: AU 005 recognised" the ship registered

"Finally"

He moved to the underside of the ship. A platform came down and he stepped on. The platform began to rise until he was inside the ship. The lift was encased in a glass cylinder.

"Beginning decontamination"

A hiss signalled that gasses were being vented into the cylinder. Five stayed calm and breathed.

He thought about everything that had happened. The death and destruction that he was about to cause to destroy the corruption in the Alliance. Was he becoming like Mother Brain, feeling he was superior to other species?

As he continued to ponder on the issue, the decontamination cycle ended and the tube opened.

The inside of the ship was vast with the cockpit straight ahead of the lift. As Five stepped out he looked around. Beside the left on each side was a door the left was to the cargo bay and the right to the med-bay. He approached the cockpit and sat in the seat.

It began to rotate round and Five examined the controls. He was familiar with all Chozo ship designs and operations. This has a Hawk class runabout. It was once the main Chozo interceptor before they chose the ways of peace. Then it became one of the most used class of ships for it's manoeuvrability, used by Chozo who wished to see more of the galaxy.

"Beginning pre ignition sequence" he heard the ship come to life. The engine started to fire up and he checked the thrusters and weapons systems. Thankfully the saviour hadn't removed them yet.

The hanger doors opened and the ship moved out. Sailing gracefully into space.

–

Shepard was running, her team around her moving towards the SSV Enterprise.

"Shit, if Five gets off this station.." she stopped she didn't want to think about it and hoped that Five would be open to reason.

Tali ran up next to her and Shepard turned to look at the Quarian.

"Shepard I noticed that you called Five a he. It's an AI a programme, why call it a he?"

Great. She may be seconds away from making her very unhappy.

"He's more than an AI Tali, I know you don't want to believe it, but he has evolved. He could teach us a lot. The Chozo's technology could help us take on Soverign"

Here we go.

"Shepard are you serious?, learn from an AI?. It would probably destroy us the first chance it got"

Shepard sighed.

"We could argue Tali, but right now we have to make sure that Five doesn't leave this station

They continued down the hallway and they turned a corner. Something lunged at them and Shepard was knocked over by one of the chameleons. She opened fire with her pistol as another appeared beside Wrex who bashed it away and fired his shotgun. The second chameleon wrapped it's tail around Garrus' rifle and yanked it out of his hands.

"Son of a bitch" he yelled before pulling out his assault rifle and opening fire on it, while Kaiden hit it with a bitoic throw, throwing it across the corridor.

Shepard was on her feat and continued firing at the first chameleon. Wrex finished it off with another blast from his shotgun. The creature fell and didn't rise again.

Shepard looked over to see Tali and Liara help to put the last one down.

"Bastard put a scratch in my rifle" Garrus growled as he recovered it. Checking every inch of it for damage.

"You seriously need a girl friend" Shepard joked.

The regrouped and continued along the corridor. They found several Alliance marines, their bodies scattered and bloody around a console on the wall. As they checked for weapons and ammo. Tali called Shepard over.

"They were trying to establish communications with their ships outside. They never finished" she said as she examined the console.

"Could you use it to contact the Normandy?"

"Give me a minute while it finish it. I might be able to get through but with the levels of radiation from the planet, I wouldn't hope for much"

"Do your best Tali" Shepard turned back and looked at one of the bodies. She bent down and inspected it. A private. She wondered if Volensky was being genuine about wanting to make sure that human casualties were minimal. Or was he covering some kind of bigger motive.

Kaiden approached her and lowered himself next to her.

"Shepard. Ash knew what she was doing when she joined the Alliance. I bet she would still have signed up for the Alliance even with these bio-weapons"

She sighed

"I can't allow this to continue. As a council spectre, it is my duty to make sure that council space isn't threatened"

She stood and turned towards Tali.

"Anything?"

"Almost..."

–

"Playing a game of cat and mouse great"

Joker leant back in his chair. The Normandy was holding back, hiding behind one of Cylosis' moons. They had no way to communicate with Shepard. No way to tell her of the danger.

"We're getting something" one of the crewman called out.

"It's a signal, very weak"

"Where's it coming from?" Pressley called from the CIC.

"The station, yet it's on our frequency"

Pressley stood for a moment. An uncomfortable silence drew out.

"Let's hear it"

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Sorry to leave it there. Took me a while to write this. But as always reviews are welcome.

I would like to thank all commenter's and followers for their support on my first fic. It's been a rough ride but thank you for staying with me.

This story is only one mission, but this won't be the only story in this series. However after this I may take a break. Settle with work and decide on a new story to write. There are a few ideas in my head but I am unsure if some are entirely do able.

Once again thanks.