A/N: This chapter will be the start of the day/week/month/year skips. I also screwed up with the months, I skipped the month of October for some reason. Chapters will be fixed accordingly.

Chapter 9:

Date: November 23rd, 2076.

Eleven days after the Geth incident, everything was getting better. Vodnik still didn't trust Lyna, Ithera, and Xen. Though he did have a small bit of trust in me, seeing as he let me keep his AK for defence. Vodnik and I were in progress of building a house, we had the base flooring completed on the 22nd.

Everyone else slept in the shuttle.

Date: December 4th, 2076.

Vodnik and I finished the first set of walls for the lodge we were building. Ithera went out from our colony late at night, he said he would return in the morning, as he was hunting for wildlife. The wildlife of Aite wasn't the most friendly, so Vodnik returned with many scratches on his body.

On December 5th, Ithera returned, dragging a space cow corpse behind him. The Dextro-Amino foods were running out due to Ithera's presence. Lyna and I both knew we would have to go back to Omega soon.

Date: January 1st, 2077.

About two months after we landed on Aite, we had a house that served as our primary shelter. Vodnik still had divide the house into rooms, letting us sleep in separate rooms. On January 11th, we created a showering system that utilized water from a nearby river for Vodnik, Lyna, and I. Before we built the showering system, we all used that nearby river to bathe.

Lyna went back up to the Bermuda with Vodnik. They scanned the area for any Geth, but they found nothing except a comm buoy.

Date: February 29th, 2077.

I was sent a direct message to my omni-tool from Samara. 'Have you told Lyna about yourself yet?'

'No, I have not. She seems suspicious of me, though. I must tell her soon. Also, we have a few new people. Two Quarians, and another Human.' I sent a message back.

'I see. This new Human, does he know the things you know?'

I typed a message back to Samara. 'I don't believe so. If he does, he hasn't shown it yet. He's quite the racist towards aliens due to memories similar to mind that you saw in the meld.'

'Alright. Keep in contact. Message me every week or so.'

'Goodbye, Samara.'

Date: March 3rd, 2077.

Lyna was injured by a small animal. According to her, she was out looking for water when the small animal attacked her. The animal was about the size of a cat, Lyna had scratches all over her arms. She apparently called the animal a Pirie. I made the unfortunate joke of Lyna being bad with animals, she slapped me after that.

That night, we had Piries for dinner. Vodnik still refused to have a social conversation with anyone but me. I don't blame him though, he's probably been through more than me. He says his slovakian accent might compromise his identity to these aliens.

Date: July 15th, 2077, 6:23 A.M.

I woke up to a slap in the face, Xen stood beside where I was laying in a makeshift cot. "We need to go back up to the Bermuda, I have a few things I want to talk to you about while we're there."

"You know, it's pretty damn rude to wake someone up by slapping them," I sarcastically replied to Xen.

"It's important. Lyna's awake, and she knows we'll be leaving." Xen gestured to the door.

I rubbed my eyes and slowly got out of my makeshift cot. "Fine."

Xen led me out of the house and into the Xer-21 shuttle. She then closed the shuttle's doors, and silently pushed me into the co-pilot's seat. "I'll explain my actions when we get on the Bermuda."

The whole shuttle ride was quiet, giving me the feeling that something bad was going to happen. When the shuttle automatically docked into the Bermuda, Xen pulled me out of the shuttle by force.

She took my laptop from where it sat on one of the seats and turned it on. I saw her click through a few folders, where she eventually got to my pictures folder. She pulled up a picture which was of a Quarian. "Do you mind explaining to me why this picture is on your laptop?"

Oh shit… I didn't delete them from the recycle bin. She must have found these while I allowed her to try to create a tether between my laptop and my omni-tool. "Yes, but you'll probably think I'm insane."

"I want you to explain to me why you have so many pictures of Quarians, Asari, and Turians on your laptop. I also want to know how long you planned to hide them from me."

I took a step back, only for Xen to get right up in my face. "I know more than I should."

Xen glared at me and started to reach for her modified Carnifex Pistol. She pointed the Carnifex directly at my forehead. "I will give you one last chance to explain. I don't care if it makes you sound insane. I want the truth."

I thought for a half a second for what I should do, I decided not to attack Xen, and instead solve the solution calmly. "There's more than one reason that Samara ordered us to go to Aite. I'm technically not supposed to be here, or even living right now. I made a dumb mistake, and now I'm paying the price for it. I know events that will happen in many years."

"What are you saying, Human?" Xen spoke through gritted teeth as she aimed her gun right at my forehead.

"I'm saying that I may have jumped dimensions. I know that you know I traveled through a dangerous place on my world and ended up on Thessia. That's half of the truth. If you'll allow me, I'll pull something up on my laptop."

Xen handed me my laptop with her gun still pointed at me. I turned on my laptop and opened Origin. I launched Mass Effect 2, which I stupidly forgot to delete, and loaded a previous save. One that put me directly onto Haestrom, I turned my laptop around and showed Xen the screen. "This right here is where I got my information. On my screen is Haestrom, somewhere in Geth operated space."

"You say that this is Haestrom. Tell me the year of this."

"The thing that is on my screen is based in 2185. In 2186, the whole galaxy will be destroyed if we do not prepare. That's why I'm here, to prevent mass extinction from happening."

"You're lying. There is no way that you have foreknowledge of galactic extinction events." Xen denied my knowledge.

"Oh it's quite possible. The Protheans were not the first to vanish. Neither did they create the mass relays, or the Citadel. In honesty, the Citadel is a giant mass relay that leads to dark space." I frowned.

Daro'Xen opened her omni-tool and started to scan through Aite. Eventually she looked over to me. "If my scanner is correct, there's an unknown ruin a few hundred kilometers from our colony. If there is information there, I'm taking it."

I shrugged and Xen put her gun away and walked back into the shuttle. I followed her, ready to start preparing for the Reaper War. Xen started up the shuttle, letting us exit the Bermuda once again. Apparently when Xen suspects something, she finds the proof almost immediately.

"Xen, you know why I have to hide this stuff, right?" I was stressed out, Xen said nothing, and kept piloting the shuttle. "I have to hide this due to intergalactic security. If someone outside of our group gets this information, the results could prove catastrophic," Xen still wasn't speaking. "Daro, I know you're mad at me right now. I didn't want to hide this information, but I needed to make sure I could trust you."

"Trust? This isn't about trust, Kyle! I wanted to know why you lied to me, why you lied to all of us!"

"You think I like being taken from my world against my will?! Do you think I like being experimented on?! In 109 years, a war that will end all wars will take place! Trillions of people will die!"

"Then trillions of people need to know, trillions of people need to start preparing."

I was pissed off. "I'm not going to release this information. One Reaper is already out here, it's preparing for the arrival of the Reaper fleet. It probably has the Heretic Geth on it's side already."

"Heretic Geth? Kyle, what the hell are you talking about?"

I slipped up, great. "There's two types of Geth. One being the Heretic Geth, the ones that want to wipe out all life, and Geth that want peace with the Quarians."

Xen stared at me. "All Geth are killers nonetheless."

"You want proof, don't you? Tell you what, I'll go to Rannoch, bring a 'Friendly Geth' back."

Xen turned back to the control panels. "You want to take back the homeworld by constructing the treaty with the Geth?"

"I won't be taking you, for both of our safety."

Xen slapped me. "You're going to take me."

"Can you please stop slapping me! We're almost at this unknown site you speak of."

Xen shifted her focus back to the control panels, and started to prepare for the landing. When we landed, I heard a small pulsating hum outside of the shuttle. "This must be the place, open the shuttle's door." I said, moving towards the shuttle's doors.

Xen silently opened the doors, allowing me to exit the shuttle. I walked outside and immediately saw a large metallic structure an estimated kilometer away from where I stood.

Xen came out of the shuttle. "You lead the way, if there's any Heretic Geth inside of that structure, I'll provide combat support."

"Then what the hell do I do?" I asked.

Xen shrugged and pulled another pistol from a magnetic clamp on her suit. "You'll take point with this Phalanx."

I took the Phalanx from Xen, then started to plan walk into the brush. As I advanced towards the structure with Xen, the got louder.

"Yes, it's pretty annoying."

I shrugged and pulled out my phone, quickly taking a small video of the area to show the others. I put my phone back into my pocket, and signaled Xen to move forwards.

Ten minutes after walking, we arrived at the Prothean structure. "Xen, can you hack through this door?" I inquired.

"You act like I'm some novice at this. I'll be able to hack through it in five minutes. Until then, do whatever Humans do to pass time."

Some time later, Xen passed through the firewalls of the Prothean technology. "It's open, give me a moment to scan the area for any Geth Platforms."

Xen finished scanning the area with her omni-tool, and looked over to me. "I've found a synthetic life-form inside the structure. It doesn't look like a Geth, though."

"What else could it be?" I wondered, then a realization hit me. The synthetic life-form could be a Prothean Artificial Intelligence, "Xen, before we head in there, if it isn't a Geth, don't shoot it until proven hostile."

"Fine."

I walked into the structure, unsure of what I would find. I saw a few electronic panels as I passed through a hallway. The hallways were enormous, everything was dark as well. "Xen, do you have a light?"

"A light? I assume you mean a flashlight, not a lighter." Xen commented.

I silently glared at Xen for a few seconds. "Yes, I mean a flashlight."

"Yeah, I have a flashlight."

"Good."

I turned to one of the many electronic panels, and walked up to it. I started to type away on the paneling, and sorted through some data on what the archive contained.

Inusannon Homeworld. (Trivon)

Location of Beacons. (Eden Prime, Feros, Noveria, Zafe, etc)

Inusannon Relics. (Cher-43L, Veram, Retribution, Bira, etc.)

Feros Armory.

Inusannon Commanders, Scientists, and Civilian cryo location. (Luxentar.)

Artificial Intelligence research facility (Aite)

Reaper War Intel (Aite, Mars, Thessia, Palaven)

Supposed Location of Reaper Creation (Dark Space, 2181 Despoina)

I waved Xen over to where I was typing on the console. "Here's some information."

"Reaper War Intel? What's that?" Xen asked, ignorant of the Reapers.

"The force that will wipe out all life in the galaxy if we don't find a way to stop it."

Xen started to say something, but was tuned out by the lights mysteriously turning on at the end of my sentence. "Well, that's odd," Xen mused, I could practically hear her smile.

"You don't say?" I sarcastically replied, then I started to head down the newly lit hallway.

The lights were colored purple. Every footstep I took echoed down the hallway, revealing more and more to me as a I went on. I came up on a large room, one with a console embedded into the wall. I stared at the console for a few seconds before walking up to it.

I activated my omni-tool, something which I hadn't done in a while. The omni-tool started to change from orange to yellow-green. The change alarmed me, but information was transferring to my omni-tool as I watched it happen. I saw a light activate through my peripheral, unsure of what it was, I turned to it. The light appeared to be a hologram of a supposed Inusannon wearing civilian clothes. The holographic Inusannon took a few steps towards me. "Human, you've reached out from your home planet so early. My creators estimated that you would leave 70 years from now." The Inusannon spoke in a way that boggled my mind.

"I was taken from my world by an unknown anomaly. I was experimented on by god knows what, and the same thing happened another of my kind. In 2015, I flew into the Bermuda Triangle on Earth. I most likely flew through a wormhole which took me from my world, but whatever it was, it sent me to Thessia of all places. Now I'm here," I growled as I circled the Inusannon hologram.

The Inusannon hologram blankly looked at me. "You are one of the few we encountered that phased into this dimension. When an unlikely occurrence happens in another universe, they are sent here for whatever reason. Your story matches someone's that came into this galaxy many years ago. She too compiled a team, her current location is unknown. Last documented sighting, three years ago."

"Then how the hell did she avoid being caught? Why are there no documented cases of Humanity if she was here before me?" I was confused, due to there being other Humans in the galaxy.

"There were few that found her, she had no knowledge of this universe. Where as you have been much more successful. She mainly was on one planet."

I was starting to loose my patience. "What was her name? Hell, what is your name?"

"Her name was Tiryn, Tiryn's last name was unknown. My designation is Sirius-928 Prothean Artificial Intelligence. You may call me Sirius."

Huh, the AI was named after the brightest star in the Earth's night sky.

"What do you know about the Reaper War? Where do I find your artifacts?" I continued circling Sirius as Xen entered the room.

Sirius blinked, "The Reaper War… You must start preparing for it. As for the artifacts, that information will come at a later date."

I crossed my arms. "I can't convince a council of idiots that an immortal doom is hiding behind the citadel relay. They'll probably deny the Reaper's existence when I would have solid evidence."

"Then allow me to transfer myself onto your omni-tool. I'm more than solid evidence. I will be able to help you along your journey, and perhaps convince this council of the Reaper threat." Sirius advised me.

I glared at Sirius, "The Council would execute me for even being Human. They'd shoot me on the spot if I took an AI with me, let alone a Inusannon one."

Sirius roamed over to a computer panel. "I can give you locations for Prothean and Inusannon artifacts throughout the galaxy. Artificial Intelligence, beacons, Citadel entry points, and much more if you allow me to come with you."

"I will not lie, having you beside me would prove to be an advantage. Tell you what, if the locations you give me turn out to be false. I will delete you." I had lost my patience with the AI.

"Kyle, is this what you found? An AI?" Xen came up to me, and gestured at the hologram with her pistol.

"Yeah, an 'AI. It's name is Sirius. It was created by a species that came before the Protheans, Xen. It wants to help us."

Xen put her pistol to my head. "You know damn well what my people experienced with Artificial Intelligence did to us. No AI is safe."

"Geth: Artificial intelligence made by Quarians to serve as slaves. Gained self conscious, scared the Quarians. Geth wiped the Quarians off their homeworld after a provoked attack." The Inusannon hologram butted in.

I slowly turned around to face Xen. "I'd appreciate you not putting a pistol to my head every five minutes, Xen."

"Do not trust this thing, it will wipe everything out just like the Geth. If it's Prothean, it could wipe out the entire Galaxy."

I laughed right at Xen's mask. Her ignorance was something I had never encountered, and it was quite funny. "The Inusannon didn't have that power. As I said before, they did not forge the Mass Relays, nor did they create the Citadel. Both the Relays and the Citadel are Reaper Technology. The worst the Inusannon could do is supernova a star, the Reapers on the other hand…"

"The Reapers will destroy everyone and everything in their path if we do not prepare." Sirius spoke for me, surprising Xen.

Xen lowered her pistol from my head, but she did not fully let go of it. Xen shifted her aim to Sirius. "Give me information on these Reapers," Xen demanded.

"Nazara, or Sovereign is in the galaxy gathering an army of Heretic Geth right now. When the time is right, it will attack the Citadel, and allow the Reapers to return from dark space." I added in for Sirius.

Sirius's hologram nodded. "The same thing happened to my people. If we do not prepare, everyone will suffer the same fate as every species before us."

Daro'Xen looked to me, then back to Sirius. "You must be joking."

"I'm not joking, these Reapers are more powerful than us. We must make a treaty with the Geth, we have to create other types of Artificial Intelligence. We'll take back Rannoch. We'll unite everyone in the galaxy if we have to."

And we must find alternate means of utilizing Element Zero. The EMDrive will allow us to eventually go faster than light. If we combine it with an Element Zero Drive, the results will triumph the Reapers.

Sirius put his holographic hand to my Nexus IV omni-tool. "I'm transferring my programming to your omni-tool. Expected time to completion: twenty seconds."

"Fine, have it your way, Kyle. Do not whine to me when that thing kills us all." Xen stepped back from Sirius and I.

I shrugged and turned my head back to Sirius. "Do not mind Xen, she can get a bit rude at times."

"Are you seriously talking bad about me to an AI?" Xen growled at me, she was losing her temper.

As I said that, Sirius's hologram faded away. My omni-tool let out a few orange flashes, and a bunch of warnings suddenly flashed up on it's holographic screen.

Intrusion detected. Allow intrusion; Y/N?

Yes, allow it.

Artificial Intelligence detected. Unknown Origin.

It's a Prothean AI. Stop freaking out.

Artificial Intelligence attempting to fuse with cybernetic implants on multiple internal organs including frontal lobe cybernetics. Cybernetic enhancements for mitochondria and aging process: Upgrading, 200% functionality as of July 15th, 9:22 A.M.

The origins are probably Inusannon, allow this.

Error. Internal components of omni-tool have been compromised. Artificial Intelligence has entered breached. Firewalls against Artificial Intelligence, unsuccessful. Probability of user death: 67.82%.

You're annoying. I'm allowing all of this to happen, shut the hell up.

'Interesting implants, with my help I can repair them when they stop working. Your lifespan should be max out around 400 years, 100 years less than a Prothean's life-span. Your reaction time has been increased. Previously, it took you 200 milliseconds to react to certain events. I've had the implants cut that time in half.'

That's useful, can you edit programs on my omni-tool?

'Yes, I can add programs as well. Overload, Incinerate, Sabotage, you name it.'

That is great. Add overload to my omni-tool when you get the chance.

'I can add Incinerate, Overload, Innusannon Shield Boost, and Sabotage right now.'

I will accept these gifts as they come, but if you try to implement biotics into me, I will not accept that. I am perfectly fine as a normal human being.

'I wasn't planning on adding biotics to your person.'

Good, I do not want to be modified to where I'm not a Human anymore.

'Even if I tried activating the Eezo nodes in your brain, you wouldn't be able to learn how to use biotics. Due to you being above age of biotic manifestation, of course. If you're really curious, the average age one has to be for biotic manifestation to occur is seven earth years.'

Can you just transfer any codex files that you find to my omni-tool? I may get bored one day and start reading through them.

'I have hundreds of codex files in my directory. I'll start the transfer when your omni-tool is offline.'

Alright, can we finish this process? I'm assuming that Xen would start to panic if I stood still too long

'Ending main communication. Every thought you have is now shared with me through cybernetics installed on your brain.'

Woah woah woah, every single thought? That's a bit creepy.

'That is the only way everything will work, don't worry, I won't judge you for your opinions on things. Just think of me like a friend, who is always around you.'

That's not any less creepy, in fact, that's even more creepy. Having another brain inside your brain.

'Deal with it. Anyways, ending main sequence.'

My omni-tool was now glowing bright green instead of the previous yellow-green. I looked over to Xen and smiled. "The process went well, when we get the chance, I'd suggest we hunt for Prothean artifacts."

"Yes, and I suggest you tell everyone about your true origins when we get back to the colony. Along with the fact that you now have a damned AI implanted into your omni-tool." Xen stressed her words out.

I shuffled in place. "Sirius isn't just in my omni-tool, it's in my cybernetics as well. I've officially been fused with Prothean technology."

"You let that thing fuse into your cybernetics? Are you insane, Kyle?!" Xen yelled at me.

"I could say the same thing about you. You're not exactly stable either." I insulted Daro'Xen, which was something that I wanted to do for quite a while.

"What you view as insane may be another person's definition for intelligent. In my book, you are the definition of insane."

I simply shrugged and sat down on the flooring. "You opinions are your own, and I will not contradict them. What I will contradict, is if you treat me differently because of my decisions."

"Too much has happened in a short amount of time. I just wish you would have told me of your true origins sooner." Xen sat down next to me.

I chuckled, "Not telling you was a hard decision to make. To be honest, I'm surprised you didn't find out in 2076 while repairing my laptop."

"I saw a picture of a ship called the Normandy SR-2 orbiting a garden world on your laptop. I didn't think much of it until now."

"Anyways, we should probably get back to the colony now. The others are probably worried," I said. I stood up from where I sat, and then helped Daro'Xen up.

'Warning: Five synthetic platforms approaching our location. Recommend preparation for contact.'

I stared Daro'Xen right in the eyes. "Sirius just said that five Geth platforms are approaching this room, we have to leave now."

A Geth platform entered the doorway and took aim at Daro'Xen. Time seemed to slow down for me just like the last time I was fighting a Geth. The Geth platform seemed to be holding a modified Geth Pulse Rifle. The Geth shot a few rounds out of it's Pulse Rifle, which headed directly at Xen. I tried to pull her out of the path of the incoming projectiles, but I was too late. Her kinetic barriers blocked all of the rounds but one. The single round tore through her suit, impacting her thigh, and making her cry out in pain.

"XEN!"

A/N: I didn't want this chapter to end peacefully, since it was such a hard chapter to write.