A/N: I put in some new characters. I do like how the story has been progressing, and how many options I am given to write this story. I commonly write with music, sometimes it's ambient, other times it's random. I'll just say this, you can make some really good ambience with Audacity with Paulstretch and -19.20 pitch. This was originally supposed to be a 5,000 word chapter, but due to delays and resets, I ran into some problems.

Chapter 7:

Date: November 3rd, 2076.

Lyna had taken the Asari shuttle to head to Omega for levo-amino and dextro-amino foods. "I'll try to find Ithera, if I do not return with him, do not be disappointed. I am making a run for food supplies so we can all survive," she had said before departing.

We were in orbit of Aite, the planet where we would be living for several years. "We still would need Element Zero for most of our technologies," Daro'Xen and I had been talking about Faster Than Light travel without the use of Element Zero for quite awhile now. We were waiting for Lyna to return with our supplies needed to survive.

"But what if we made a hybrid of Element Zero? We could combine both a secondary means of FTL travel and Element Zero," I pondered along with Daro'Xen.

"We'd have a few things to worry about there, what if Element Zero was not compatible with our secondary element? Also, how would we even find a secondary Element to combine with Element Zero?" Xen asked while upgrading my Laptop.

I motioned in front of us, "We find something in other solar systems, if we can create a FTL drive that would render the most element zero based cores completely useless, imagine what could happen."

"Well, I could probably take back my homeworld. You could probably return to your people and uplift them," Xen theorized.

"That could be possible, even then we'd have to find complete blueprints to make a drive such as this."

"Kyle, didn't you say you had files of the Human EMDrive on your laptop?"

I looked towards my laptop that Xen was currently repairing. "I do, but that's pretty old technology."

Xen gazed at my laptop's hard drive. "Was it powered by Element Zero?"

"No, but-"

Xen interrupted my sentence, "If it wasn't powered by element zero, we can use it for testing when we get the materials to build it. If we combine it with materials from a Eezo core without the Eezo, we could invent a very powerful FTL drive."

"Alright, we'll view the EMDrive files when you finish repairing my laptop," I got up out of the co-pilot's chair and pulled out my phone. I had no connection to the internet, yet I didn't care. I stared at the Mass Effect wallpaper on my phone's activation screen. I didn't want Xen to become suspicious of my origins quite yet.

Daro'Xen is much smarter than Lyna, I know she'll confront me first about my origins. Just when she confronts me about it is the question. I do have to tell them both at some point, if I don't Samara will be very unhappy with me. If Xen doesn't figure it out in a year, I'll tell them both at the same time. If Daro does figure my origins out in under a year, then I'll tell Lyna after Xen confronts me.

"Do you mind if I fiddle with the smaller device, Kyle?" Xen asked while repairing my laptop.

I turned around to see Xen almost done with repairing my laptop. "Yeah, just give me a few minutes to change the settings around a bit."

"And it will take a few minutes for me to finish upgrading your laptop, go ahead and do what you have to do with that smaller device."

I deleted every Mass Effect Image that I had on my phone, with the exception of star maps. I stood there, looking at my old phone. "I'm done with your laptop, mind handing your smaller device over?"

I sighed and handed my phone to Xen. She inspected it for a solid fifteen seconds before saying, "This technology is crude, but very interesting. Since this has a flash feature, if could confuse any geth we might come across."

"So, you're saying that a simple flash would disable the geth?"

Xen shook her head, "No, not a simple flash, the intensity of the flashlight is eight times brighter than a standard Omni-tool light. This could potentially shut down the geth platform."

"Then we could extract the memory core?"

"Precisely, moving on, can you get your laptop to the EMDrive files?"

I moved over to my laptop, opened the screen and turned out my laptop. I loaded up windows explorer, started to browse the EMDrive files that I had on my computer. I pulled up the image that I had put little component files in. There were a ton of blueprints for the EMDrive. "I got the files up, are we absolutely sure we want to go through with this?" I asked.

Xen yanked my laptop out of my hands. "Perfect, all we need are the materials shown, right?"

"Yeah, that's it. You still haven't answered my question though, are you sure we want to try to create the EMDrive?" I repeated.

"Of course, why else would we be searching through your laptop for these blueprints?" Xen retorted. She was still inspecting the blueprints and the files that I had stored on my laptop.

I stood up from where I briefly sat in the co-pilot's chair, "We can probably find most of these materials on Aite, remember, we'll have about seven years to create the EMDrive."

"Seven years is a long time, Kyle. If the blueprints are true, this thing only travels 10% the speed of light. Give me some time to study this, and I'll see if I could improve upon the design."

I shrugged and sat back down. I started to fiddle with my omni-tool when a pop-up ad came up. And yet, with all this future technology… They still have pop-up advertisements.

The pop-up didn't turn out to be an advertisement, but rather a warning. 'Pay attention to your dreams. They could prove useful later.' I read through the text. I became creeped out, not by the crypticness of the message, but by the truth.

Two days prior to my journey into the Bermuda Triangle, I had a fairly odd night's rest. I didn't think much of it then. Now I know that what I saw was a vision of my future. In my sleep, I remember having a very vivid dream, I thought I was experiencing a lucid dream back then.

In the dream, I was in a silver hallway, I heard a scream in front of me, which I followed. A weapon was in my hands, one that I couldn't quite make out. All I knew was that it was of alien design. Something orange glowed on my wrist, a holographic screen followed.

'Kyle, you need to get out of there! It isn't safe!' A female voice yelled at me.

I will not leave without finding her! Save yourself while I find the rest! I yelled back.

'We all lose people in our life! Sacrificing yourself won't save that!'

Maybe it will, and maybe it won't. Either way, I will find her, even if I die.

I saw a star's explosion, it engulfed me, and everything along with it. I then woke up, very confused about what happened in the dream.

"Kyle? Lyna said she has the food, everything went alright on Omega, for once."

I turned my head over to where Daro'Xen sat. "I assume we'll be planetside soon?"

"That would be a correct assumption."

I received a ping on my Omni-tool, which wasn't powered up at the time. There was a message from Lyna. 'I have gotten the food and Quarian off of Omega, expect our arrival in a few days. Also, I found a little surprise in Omega. I've captured some asshole named Vodnik. He looks to be Human as well.'

Human? I'm not the only one? If this Vodnik is here, he probably has no idea what's going on.

I looked over to Xen who was still fiddling around with my phone. "Hey Xen, Lyna has picked up Ithera and is currently coming back to us."

"Ah, so she found and retrieved Ithera. Ithera can be a bit crazy at times, and he enjoys killing. Word of warning, do not get on his bad side."

It kind of makes sense that Xen would befriend another crazy person. If Ithera does enjoy killing, then I hope to god that he doesn't enjoy killing his own people.

(Lyna Rilac POV)

I arrived at Omega, one of the most dangerous places in the galaxy. I was having to remind myself that I was under orders of a Justicar, I had to get food to keep everyone alive. No one would be able to try and stop me.

I didn't like this place, too much crime for my liking. Though I did have to watch out for the Ithera Quarian, at request of Daro'Xen. I had just attached my shuttle to Omega, where I started on my journey for food. I knew this wouldn't take long without any problems. I had gone through a few stores in a matter of two hours. The levo-amino problem was settled. Now all I had to do was get the dextro-amino food for Daro'Xen.

When I left the last dextro-amino food store, I bumped into a Quarian who accidently dropped his pistol from our combined forces. "Why hello there, did you drop anything, Asari?" The Quarian addressed me.

"It's alright. By the way, do you know an Ithera'Lyik nar Vertilex?" I questioned the Quarian.

The Quarian nodded, "You're looking at him. Why do you ask?"

"I need you to come with me, I'm under a Justicar's order to take you onto my ship." I lied, using the threat of a Justicar to convince the Quarian to come with me.

"Why would I be of interest? Not that I'm complaining, but I could just be another Omega criminal. Why trust me?" Ithera retorted, pacing back and forth.

I sighed, "It's not me who trusts you. I'm under order of a Justicar to take you with me, as I said before."

Ithera shrugged and picked his pistol up off of the ground, "We should get moving if you are telling the truth. I do not want to spend another minute on this rock."

I said nothing, and started to jog back to my shuttle with Ithera following close behind. The jog was mostly peaceful, until another one of Kyle's species walked out of a hallway. The Human looked back into the hallway, where he took a small blade from his lower back. He then looked towards the rest of Omega, with a look of surprise on his face. He seemed to be in possession of a lot of primitive weaponry.

The Human pulled out a pistol, and checked it. He did this with everything he had on him, including his assault rifle. He took a few steps forwards and backwards, rebalancing himself. He then turned around and froze at the sight of Ithera and I.

"Ithera, do not move a muscle, we do not want to scare him."

The Human pulled out an assault rifle of some sorts. "Tell me what's happening right now, or I will not hesitate to shoot you! Where am I? What are you people?"

He did a double take on Ithera, and then looked back to where I was standing. "Aliens? This is not the job I signed up for."

Ithera pulled out his pistol and aimed it towards the unknown man wearing shorts and a t-shirt with black leather gloves. He ran behind a crate and Ithera started to approach where the dude was taking cover. When Ithera got too close, the Human rushed forwards, he took Ithera's wrists into his hands and twisted them. Making Ithera drop his pistol, the human then put Ithera in chokehold. Then held a blade to Ithera's throat. He pulled out his sidearm and aimed it directly at my head. "Speak now, tell me where I am, and why you have dared to raise your weapon at me."

"Ithera, you idiot!" I yelled, but was unable to move out of fear that this Human may have the ability to shoot and kill me.

"Any more hostilities and both of you will cease to exist. Does the alien scum want to speak for your hostile actions?" The man in grey and white asked, speaking in an accent completely different from Kyle's.

I stepped forwards, tempted to flare my biotics. "Yeah. I'll speak to you alright. Ithera doesn't know your species, hell no one does. I've encountered one other Human, he's under my command right now."

The man kept Ithera in a chokehold, nearly breaking Ithera's bones. "Who is this other Human in existence?"

"Someone named Kyle Terrah," I said as I took a few steps forward.

The Human frowned, "Terrah... I was hired by a man to find and apprehend him. None the less, where am I?"

"You're on a space station, 18,000 light years away from the Galactic Core."

"Far away from home, huh? What year is it anyways?"

"November 7th, 2076."

"Considering the circumstances right now, the contract that I was hired to do is now irrelevant. Anyways, I would like to meet Kyle Terrah, see how he arrived here. Now, Ithera… I will release you if you promise not to be hostile towards me."

Ithera struggled and tried to get out of the Human's grip. Eventually Ithera gave up. "Fine, I promise."

The Human brutally pushed Ithera to the floor, and walked towards me. "Lead the way, blue lady."

I decided to bring him with me. "Alright, try not to kill anyone along the way. Also, what should I call you?"

"I am known as Vodnik, and I don't try to kill."

I walked over to Ithera, and helped him up. Ithera glared at Vodnik and said, "You know, in my culture, it's pretty damn rude to try to kill a complete stranger."

"You presented yourself as hostile, so I disabled you."

Ithera scoffed, and Vodnik shot a glare towards Ithera that would scare off a Krogan. Clearly Vodnik was not supposed to be a person to mess with, but a very valuable ally. "So, do you two want to keep arguing, or do you want to follow me?"

"I'll follow you, Alien, but do not expect me to act as if nothing has happened. I'm watching you two."

"Good, now any other arguments can be settled on the way back to Bermuda," I said. I really feel like I'm in care of children right now.

We started to walk back to the shuttle after the small dispute was dealt with, I couldn't help but wonder about the origins of this man. I decided I shouldn't ask for a while, because he didn't seem to trust anyone at the moment.

I noticed someone and two other people standing near my shuttle as I approached it. A purple Asari and two Turian bodyguards. I stopped in my tracks, knowing exactly who the purple Asari was. "Aria…" I breathed, and started to nervously walk towards Aria.

Aria turned around at the sound of my footsteps, I remained outwardly calm.
Even though I was more nervous than a Varren encountering a Yahg on the inside. "Lyna Rilac, you show up at the weirdest of times," Aria smirked

"I get that a lot," I spoke with masked confidence.

"Do you mind explaining what the hell that thing is?" Aria asked, letting her two bodyguards approach Vodnik with raised weapons.

I took a step back, and looked at Vodnik, pleading for him not to start anything. "He's Human, a species a Justicar told me to pick up."

"Which Justicar? Also, does someone mind telling me how I never got word of this Human?"

"Justicar Samara sent me, and how the Human avoided your sensors is beyond me."

Aria narrowed her eyes. "And? What do you know of this species? I don't exactly like encountering vagabonds that have avoided detection."

"All I know is that if you threaten them, you'll be killed instantly. My suggestion is to call your guards off."

"I don't have time to deal with this Justicar you speak of."

I stared at Aria, the deadliest criminal on Omega. "Noted."

"Before I let you go, whatever secret that you and your crew are hiding. The information will come to me eventually, whether you like it or not," Aria pushed past me along with her two bodyguards.

Ithera let out a disappointed sigh. "Sorry about that, but it's a shame there wasn't any shooting involved. I really was wanting to test the Cryo Blast that came with my new Bluewire II omni-tool."

"I agree with this… Quarian. Their weapons were getting a bit too close for my liking."

I stared at Ithera and Vodnik with my mouth agape for a good 20 seconds. "Let's just get into my shuttle."

Ithera motioned towards the airlock with his Kessler I Pistol, where we then boarded my shuttle. I undocked the shuttle, and headed to the Omega Nebula Mass Relay, for a direct route to The Phoenix Massing. I contacted Kyle via Omni-tool, and told him of what I found.

His reaction was less than surprising. 'You really found another Human? Good to know I'm not the only one. Anyways, Xen and I have been working on blueprints for an FTL drive that doesn't utilize Element Zero. If our theory is correct, with the best engineering, we'll be able to invent a FTL drive that will be better than any current FTL if it works. See you on Aite.'

A/N: Hopefully everyone will like Vodnik and Ithera.