A/N: Yay, new chapter update. Hopefully everyone likes my choice of the Quarian name. Also, hopefully everyone likes the Dystopia Class Corvette's new name. Trust me, it was a pain to constantly write out 'Dystopia Class Corvette'.

Chapter 6:

Date: October 31st, 2076.

"Care to explain why you're on our ship, Quarian?" Lyna got up into the Quarian's face, effectively startling him.

The Quarian raised her hands in surrender. "I saw a shimmer in the air, I decided to follow it. I activated my cloak so I wouldn't be seen as well."

I shrugged, deciding to ask what the quarian's name was. "Hey, what's your name, Quarian?"

"I'll answer that when you tell me what species you are and why you're speaking Khelish."

I glanced at Lyna, then back to the Quarian. "I'm Human, a species with a current population of one. I'm speaking Khelish via an implant that was inserted into my head."

"Impossible, how did you wind up on Thessia? What took away you from the rest of your species?"

Lyna finally butted into the conversation. "His origins are too much to explain in a short conversation. I suggest you leave now, Quarian."

"I'm staying with you and your ship, Asari. You are the only way I can get back to the Migrant Fleet."

"We're under strict orders to head to an uncolonized planet by a Justicar, either you can find another ship, or wait a few years to return to the fleet."

"Well, you haven't thrown me off the ship yet, so I'm going with you, no matter how long it takes. Anyways, my name is Daro'Xen nar Episo."

Daro'Xen, that's impossible… Actually, no it isn't, there's been a lot of weird stuff that has happened since I got here. There's also a chance that Quarians have a much longer lifespan than mentioned in the games. Come to think of it, Quarian lifespans were never actually mentioned in the games. I'll have to ask Daro or Lyna how long Quarians live.

"Alright Daro, I guess you can come with us. I'm Kyle Terrah, a Human, my partner is Lyna Rilac, an Asari Commando." I addressed Daro'Xen while Lyna unlocked the Corvette's main airlock.

Lyna grabbed my arm while looking at me with eyes of steel. "I really don't think we should bring this thing along with us, the Quarians are beggars and thieves."

I stared into Lyna's eyes with a blank expression, the stare created an awkward silence between me and Lyna. I finally broke the silence after what seemed like an eternity. "Back at my world, we treated everyone with respect. I suggest you do the same with Daro'Xen nar Episo."

Lyna pushed my arm away and looked to the floor. "Whatever, Kyle."

"Tell me, what did Daro do to you, what did the Quarians ever do to you? Racism was heavily frowned upon back at Earth, in some parts of the world it would get you killed. Now, if we are to survive on this uncolonized world, we will need to trust each other." I made a little mini-speech, making me that much closer to Commander Shepard's personality.

"Well said, Kyle Terrah." Daro'Xen agreed with me.

Lyna gawked at me and Daro'Xen. "Alright Kyle, you're right, I'll give Daro a chance. We'll need all the help we can get. Daro, you're good with tech, right?"

"Yes I am, what do you need me to do?" Xen asked with a slight hint of hostility towards Lyna.

Lyna motioned her hands towards the bridge of the ship. "If you can pilot this we'll let you stay on the ship, as well as getting you a pilgrimage gift in a few years."

Daro walked into the bridge, her hands skimming the pilot's seat with fascination. she sat down into the pilot's seat and activated the holographic display. Daro'Xen panned the seat to where she was looking at both me and Lyna, she let out a long sigh, "I think you found yourself a new pilot, Lyna."

"Good, I'll be in the captain's quarters, setting all of my stuff up. Kyle, you and Daro focus on getting the ship to Aite," Lyna demanded. She then walked away without any further words.

I sat down in the co-pilot's seat to the left of Daro, where she simply nodded at me. She pressed a few buttons on the holographic display, unlatching the Corvette from its docking cradles. Suddenly, a voice came over the intercom of the ship. "Dystopia Class Corvette-1049, your departure is unscheduled. Turn around immediately or risk being shot down."

"Daro, please patch me into the signal that just contacted us," I requested, while formulating a plan.

Xen had no hesitation, she immediately patched me into the comm system without uttering a single word. "Hello, we were ordered to get off of Thessia by Justicar Samara. If you want to risk shooting us down, then you'll have a Justicar to deal with," I blindly threatened.

"You are free to go if what you say is true. Consequently, we will hunt you down if the information turns up as false."

Xen shut off the intercom before I could say farewell. "It's better to get out of Asari Space before we are questioned, I'm sure you don't want to be caught by the authorities," Xen commented on her actions, and returned to the holographic panels.

As soon as we got 900 kilometers away from Thessia, Xen initiated a short FTL jump to the nearest mass relay. As we approached the Mass Relay, I pulled out my laptop that was currently at 32% battery. Mass Effect was still open, and my Shepard was still standing at Port Hanshan. I saved my game yet again, and exited out of Mass Effect.

Xen took notice of my laptop and its battery level. "Is that something from where you came from? It's look is fairly unique." Xen inquired while we waited to arrive at the mass relay.

"Yeah, it's running out of battery life though. In an hour or so, it'll be out of juice," I muttered.

Xen was happy that she would have the chance to look at newer technology, "I'm sure you wouldn't mind if I took a look at it, besides, I could try to modify the battery to be similar to an omni-tool's."

"You can do that?" I asked, I was surprised that Daro'Xen would decide to help me so soon.

Xen nodded, so I closed Origin and turned off my laptop. I opened up my laptop's case, took out the battery, and handed it to Daro. She took the battery from me and started scanning over it with her omni-tool. "Damn this is primitive, lucky for you it will be very easy to improve due to its simplicity. Also, are you sure you just want me to fix the battery, I could improve many other components too," Daro said.

"I think we should give it a shot," I murmured, happy that my laptop was finally getting an upgrade. I handed Daro my laptop, which she took from my hands and started to examine.

I stared at her for a few seconds, waiting for her to speak. "Kyle, this piece of machinery is amazing. I could virtually connect it to the Corvette's systems, making it to where I could control the ship from a very far distance. With a few upgrades, of course."

I grinned, but my happiness was cut short as we arrived at the Athena Nebula Mass Relay. Daro'Xen put my laptop on the floor and turned to the pilot's holographic display. She panned her head towards me, "So, do you know where we're going?"

"Yeah, we're headed to the Typhon System in The Phoenix Massing. On June 20th, 2083, a certain Justicar will visit us." I informed Daro of our destination.

"A Justicar? Why would a Justicar seek you out?" Xen asked.

I sighed, "She's coming because of my species."

Daro turned her head back to the controls and headed straight for the relay. I watched as the ship was engulfed in a blue electrical charge and we were shot off into the Serpent Nebula. Five seconds later, we cleared the relay system heading to The Phoenix Massing. It was a very bumpy flight heading from one corner of the Galaxy to another. All I knew was it was going to be a very long trip from the Tassrah system to the Typhon system.

"Well, now it's a journey to the Typhon system. This is going to take a few days to get to the Typhon System, you know that right?" Daro said while picking my laptop off of the floor

I shrugged, "I know it's going to take a while, though a few days is much better than 88 years."

"Why 88 years?" Xen inquired. I remembered that this was a different timeframe, and even a different universe than my own.

"Back at my world, the most advanced ship drive my people had was theorized to be an EMDrive. The EMDrive was an electromagnetic ship drive that generated small amounts of propulsion. If we can upgrade my laptop without wiping the hard drive, I can show you a video of it," I responded to Xen's question, which still probably made no sense to her.

Daro'Xen was silent for a few seconds before saying a word, "You are a very confusing person, Kyle Terrah. I'm going to be flying the ship for the next few hours until we get out of the system, then I'll put it on auto-pilot to work on your 'laptop'."

We should really give the Corvette a name.

"Hey Daro, before I leave, do you want to decide upon a name for the Corvette?"

She nodded while focusing on the holographic panels, "I really don't care what we name it. It's up to you."

"How about, 'Bermuda'?"

Xen shrugged, "I think that'll work, nice idea. We'll just have to see if Rilac likes it, that is, if Lyna likes anything."

"Sounds good, I'm going to go see what Lyna is up to. Keep doing what you're doing Daro, and hopefully we'll make it to Aite in one piece," I finished the conversation with Daro'Xen.

"Bye."

I walked away from where Xen was piloting our ship. It seemed that the ship was much larger on the outside rather than the inside. I walked over to where Lyna was setting up her room. "Yes, I'm taking the Captain's quarters. I bought this ship, I get to have it. You can sleep on the sofa in this room, or in the crew quarters with Xen."

"I wasn't going to say anything, but this is quite spacious. I mean, you could fit four people in here and still have room for two more," I said while calmly entering the Captain's quarters.

"Here we have the life of luxury, but when we get to this Aite… We will be tested to the best of our abilities. I hope that you know one or two things about survival, and I hope our Quarian knows how to cook her own food. Because things could get messy down there, and if you die, our Justicar will kill me too. Then that Quarin will take our ship and return it as a 'pilgrimage gift'." Lyna ranted, neither of us knowing of the hardships to come.

I cracked my knuckles, "I was a scout back at Earth, trust me, I know more than a few things about survival. I just want you to know that whatever happens to me or Xen, we will make it. We will survive through the harshest of conditions. I will make sure of that."

"Huh, I see you've already bonded with that Quarian. Don't even think about going into a relationship with her," Lyna put her hand onto my shoulder and gave it a light push.

"I wasn't planning on starting a relationship with anyone, not yet at least," I said, pushing Lyna back a bit.

Lyna scoffed and turned around, "Yeah, soon enough you'll be sleeping together."

I grabbed Lyna's shoulder and turned her body towards me, "You know that's not true, even if we developed a relationship, I doubt she'd be up for it. Besides, what does it matter to you?"

Lyna pushed herself away from me, "I'm going to bed, you're probably tired as well. The Quarian can sleep in the crew quarters. Put your stuff where you want it, this is our room now."

I put my backpack and suitcase onto a ledge and sat down on the sofa. "You know Lyna, I was speculating over the day's events. Compared to my old life back at Earth, I've done so much more in two days than an entire year," I commented, and continued watching Lyna unpack her bags.

"I don't know if you knew this Kyle, but it's pretty creepy to stare at someone in silence."

"I know that Lyna, I'm not staring, I'm thinking. You just happen to be where I am looking at," I coyly said. I laid down on the couch and yawned.

"Still, try not to stare at me like a creep."

"As I said, I was not staring at you, I was simply thinking," I insisted and started to close my eyes.

Lyna sighed, "Whatever, goodnight, Kyle."

"Night Lyna."

Soon enough, I was taken into a very dark dream.

I saw a white light flash, then a light red liquid splattered onto my body. Lyna's body laid in front of me, a fresh bullet wound gazed across her shoulder. An army of indoctrinated humans approached me, and took me and Lyna away to a facility. I saw my life flash before my eyes as Lyna and I were dragged on the ground to the facility. As we approached the entrance of the facility, an indoctrinated trooper dropped dead.

"You should be more careful, Terrah."

I was thrust out of my dream, and into the land of the living. I got up off of the sofa, deciding to head towards the bridge of the ship. I saw Daro'Xen, still flying the ship. I walked my way over to the copilot's seat and sat down, "Hey Daro, how are you doing?"

"Well, we're almost to Aite, I figured that you'd be up soon, seeing as it's early in the morning right now. You know that you slept for two days, right?" Xen mentioned.

I was shocked that I slept for two days, "Oh great, you know that I'm a hard sleeper now. Let's just say that I could sleep through anything, even a gunshot a few meters away."

"Oh? I'll be sure to try to wake you up with a gunshot next time you go to sleep. I'm sure your reaction would be priceless," Daro mused with a little chuckle following the end of her sentence.

"I've been meaning to ask this, but where are we going to find food?" I asked.

Xen stopped tapping at the holographic display for a second, "We don't have any dextro food, do we?"

"I don't even know if we have levo-amino foods."

"We could go to Omega if this planet doesn't have both levo-amino and dextro-amino foods. Though, I really don't want to go to Omega, though I do believe that I have an old friend there."

"Who is your old friend?"

"His name was Ithera'Lyik nar Vertilex, not sure if he's still alive, though." Daro'Xen said.

I put my hand on Xen's shoulder to comfort her, "We'll head to Omega soon, get the supplies and find your friend. Right now, I don't care if anyone knows who I am. What species I am, or how I got here. We need to help each other out, not ignore the most basic of problems."

A/N: I'm going to have to end the chapter there. Originally I was going to make Zaal'Koris the Quarian we found. Also, if this wasn't already known, I'm making the Quarians have a lifespan of around 200-300 years, similar to my character's. I figured with all the cybernetic enhancements that the Quarians have, their lifespan would be increased. Also, I finally hit 10,000 words, that's a nice milestone to have, also, I try to retain as much realism in this story as possible, so it actually makes a little bit of sense.