Reina and Rey went on walking together towards the central room and the elevators leading to the CIC, receiving many curious glances, especially at Reina with her attire.

Rey's POV. 3rd person.

'Keelah she is….is so attractive. Especially with her new suit, or I think it's new, I've never seen it before.'

Reina still had her arms in front of her, holding both of her hands as she walked next to Rey. Rey took notice of her nervous attitude.

'I should at least ask about that attitude. If she's okay.'

Reina's POV. 3rd person.

'Dammit, I want him NOW!' Reina roared in her head. 'How do you do it Rey? How do you make me feel so vulnerable?'

"Hey Reina."

Reina Jumped.

"Y-yes?"

"I know I've asked this before but….Is everything alright?" asked Rey.

'Just play it cool Reina.'

"Yes….Why do you ask?" Asked Reina as she turned towards Rey.

"Well, it's just that lately you've been trying to avoid me and I don't know why. Have I done something wrong?"

Reina felt sadness in her heart. 'I don't want him to think that I hate him, damn, I'm just not cut out for romance. But I mustn't give up; It will kill me if I let him go.'

"You didn't do anything wrong Rey, It's…just a personal matter." Said Reina as she looked at Rey's feet with a nervous attitude.

Rey then put his hand on her shoulder. She jumped at his touch. "Look Reina, you always act this way in front of me, so it has to do with me." He then squeezed her shoulder to which she let out a soundless moan. "But you don't have to tell me anything if you don't want to, or if you feel uncomfortable."

Reina just stared at the little white dots behind his visor through her sunglasses and smiled.

"Believe me Rey; you haven't done anything to upset me."

Reina was lost in his eyes and had the inconceivable urge to rub her body against his, slowly removing her uniform-

"Ejem."

Reina and Rey jumped at the sound of…

"Syndal!" Stuttered Rey. "What are you doing here?" said Rey as he scratched the back of his neck.

Reina was messing with her feet and staring at the ground with a Raging blush on her face.

Syndal just looked at the two and smirked. "Waiting for you two lovebirds."

Rey was shaking slightly and Reina completely froze with her blush growing. 'How did-?'

Syndal was enjoying their reactions and was grinning like an idiot. Rey took notice of that.

"Something funny Virgam?" asked Rey in an irritated voice.

Syndal raised his hands in defeat. "No, don't worry about me."

He then said in a more serious tone. "The meeting's about to begin on what we should do about Ethan. We better hurry up."

Reina looked up and nodded. And the three commanders stepped on the elevator towards the CIC.

Ethan's POV.

'Well, here we go.'

I opened the door to the doctor's office and looked around for Saya. "Hello?" I said.

Saya popped out from behind one of the machines. "Yes who is it?" She then saw me.

"Oh Ethan."

"How's it going?" I replied.

"Not that bad." She replied with a smile. "But I got Gunner's Message, congratulations on joining."

"Thanks, he also said that you might have something for me?"

"Follow me and we'll get started." She said as she walked towards the back of the room.

"Please sit down on this chair." She said. "Okay then."

She then opened her Omni tool and placed it in front of my face.

"Look into the small green flashing dot, there will be a small flash so try not to blink."

"Okay?" I said with uncertainty.

I looked into the dot and sure enough there was a flash, after that I was seeing things through a negative filter for about 5 seconds. I rubbed my eyes and shook my head.

"What was that for?" I asked while trying to regain my vision.

"You will see later." She said. "But for now you need to lie down on this bed and try to sleep."

I raised an eyebrow. "Huh?"

"I will explain it later, don't worry." She said with a smile.

I shrugged. "You're the Doc." I then proceeded to lay on the bed staring up at the ceiling which had a very bright light. Fortunately Saya turned it off.

Then something weird happened, I felt very tired and groggy but then I blinked once and felt fine.

"What the-?"

"Welcome back." Said Saya.

"Huh?" I looked at her in confusion. "What happened?"

"We implanted the S Chip into your neck. You slept for about three hours."

I rubbed my neck and got up from the bed. "But I only blinked."

Saya chuckled. "That's what anesthesia will do to you. As soon as you closed your eyes you were immediately taken by the anesthesia and we did the procedure that took about two hours and you slept during the rest, when the drug wore off you opened your eyes, and here you are."

"That still was quick." I said rubbing the sore spot on my neck, just below my right ear.

"Not for me." She said. "I want you to come over here and stand in front of this mirror."

I got up and walked over to the mirror. "Okay, now what?" I asked.

"Look at your neck, specifically around the sore area." She said.

I did that and noticed a small Blue square glowing on my neck. "What the hell is that?" I asked Saya.

"You remember the flash that I did to you at the beginning of the procedure?"

I nodded. "Well that flash reprogrammed a very small part of the occipital lobe so you can actually see the S Chip."

"But why?" I asked in confusion.

She smiled. "Sit down and I will explain. Oh and would you like something to drink?"

"Yes please." I said before sitting on a chair next to her desk.

She passed me a container of juice, which I eagerly drank.

"Let me first explain what an S Chip does. An S chip basically forms two purposes, a communicator and an identification device."

"Okay?" I asked in confusion. "Why not just use my Omni tool to talk with people?"

"Oh you will use your Omni tool to communicate with people but you will use the S-Chip to communicate with GOD personnel only. Because you will sometimes be in places with many strangers around you, and if you are on a mission that requires blending in with your scenery you wouldn't want any unwanted attention directed towards you if you suddenly opened your Omni tool in like a dark room for instance. How the S-Chip works is that it's connected to your Temporal and Frontal lobes of your brain and basically hardwires a permanent communicator to your body."

I nodded and sort of understood. "So what you mean is that there could be some spies working for the Shadow broker and if they see me with my Omni tool open and talking with GOD operatives, I could ruin the mission and possibly compromise the safety of GOD."

Saya just laughed. "I didn't really say much of that, but you are right."

"You mentioned that this S-chip also worked as an identification device. How?"

"I'll show you." Saya turned her head and there was also a blue glowing square on her neck but it also had a black cross on it.

"Basically….." She said. "….everybody who works for GOD has a speech chip and only the people who work for GOD can see them. So you can tell if a stranger on the street is actually a GOD operative just by looking at their necks, including Quarians with their suits and vice versa with you."

"Oh, okay that makes sense I guess. But what does the little black cross mean?" I said pointing at her S-Chip.

"It signifies what your 'Expertise' is. New operatives such as yourself have a blank S-Chip because you haven't figured out what you are good at yet."

With that I got up and stretched. "Well thank you Doc. Is there anything else I should do?" I asked.

"No, you're fine, go and take a walk around the base and ask questions or just rest before you start on your physical training due to some leftover anesthetics in your bloodstream. Okay?"

"Fine, Thanks a bunch Doc." I left the Medical bay with a slight tinge of badassness for some reason.

"And that's basically my game plan for now." Said Gunner to all of his Captains.

"I don't understand Gunner! Why don't you want to act NOW?" argued Pez.

"Because he has yet to tell us anything about what will happen. And when he does tell us we still might not do anything until it happens two years from now." Explained Gunner.

"But what if we are destined to be destroyed by the Reapers." Said Kega with a low voice.

"If that's the case then I will begin immediate action." Said Gunner. "But for now we wait."

Gunner pushed himself up from the table.

"And I will be contacting V about this."

Everybody shot their looks at Gunner almost instantly.

"Is that necessary?" asked Syndal.

"We found a mysterious signal that leads us to a human with tech around one hundred plus years old, no medical enhancements and knowledge about when the Reapers should arrive."

Gunner glanced at everyone at the table. "….So yes…it is necessary. V told me and all of the Commanders to inform information about ANYTHING we deem necessary. And this is necessary."

Gunner walked over to the window and opened it.

"I could tell that he wasn't lying. The way he speaks, his body language. He has nothing to hide and everything to tell as far as I'm concerned." Explained Gunner as he looked at his Captains again.

The room was silent.

"Okay Boss." Said Pez.

"Now then Ethan needs somebody to show around the base. Anybody want to do that?" asked Gunner.

"Why not put somebody in a lower position to show him around?" asked Syndal.

"Because I want him to think that his superiors aren't evil, get to know him, chat with him, and make him feel welcome. And don't go all mysterious and illusive man on him." said Gunner with a smile.

"Yes sir." Everybody said.

"I haven't done that yet sir." Said Rey.

Reina smiled at him.

"May I show him around?" asked Kega. "I barely got to speak with him."

"That's fine with me Kega." Said Gunner. "Everybody is dismissed."

And with that said the Captains left the room.