Chapter 13:
Date: July 23rd, 2077.
Sirius FTL jumped out of system. I opened up my omni-tool as we were in transit to the Nariph Mass Relay. I had received one message from Daro'Xen, '[You're not going to take me with you?]'
'[No, I need to do this alone. I can't allow you to get in my way.]'
Date: July 24th, 2077.
I was in transit to the Nariph System, where I received a message from Samara. '[Did your meeting with both the Geth and the Quarians go well?]'
'[It went moderately well, though I have a strong feeling that one of the admirals, Ferryn'Artrem vas Moreh is indoctrinated. As well as an entire Turian colony.]' I replied.
'[I will schedule that later. Is there anything else that you want to tell me?]'
'[Daro'Xen already knows where I came from, I'm going to tell everyone else while you are there. You know, just in case anyone freaks out.]'
'[I'll see you then, Kyle Terrah.]'
Date: July 25th, 2077.
Sirius had piloted the Bermuda into the Tassrah system. After that, Sirius engaged the Bermuda's FTL drive. I had little to do during the trip back to Aite.
'I've put the engines at max speed, it is potentially dangerous if we are in FTL for over three days.'
So it won't be a problem?
'Not unless we are chased by Reapers.'
What is the likelyhood of that happening anytime before 2183?
'You forget, Sovereign is out there. It could target us at any time.'
I highly doubt that it has woken up from Hibernation yet.
'You never know when and where the Reapers will strike.'
Date: July 26th, 2077.
I didn't fully trust Sirius yet, even after all it had done for me. I knew that the AI could kill me at any moment. I was feeling very tired, and I didn't have time to have an internal argument with myself about an AI that could kill me if it wanted to. For the first time in about two days, I went to sleep.
I was running through a city of some sort, it looked familiar to me. I looked up, and the sky was filled with massive amounts of dust and ash. The city was in ruins, blood red magnetohydrodynamic beams flashed across the city. Some type of rifle was in my hands, it looked like the ASAPC, but I couldn't identify it.
I was running behind some Human, who definitely wasn't Vodnik. The Human was much slimmer, and seemed to be wearing Collector armor. I looked to my right and saw Lyna, who had her biotics activated. Her biotics were glowing a maroon color for some odd reason and purple blood dripped from her nose.
A beam of concentrated energy flashed above my head and I was shoved to the ground by a three fingered hand. I stared up and saw a Turian in blue and grey armor standing above me, he fired a few shots off at whoever shot above my head. "Commander, The Assassin is down," the Turian yelled to the woman in Collector armor.
The Human clad in Collector armor stopped in her tracks, then ran back over to me. She pulled me to my feet and pointed to a turned over M35 Mako. "Get into cover! The Reapers are closing in on us."
"Got it," I hoarsely replied. I was still shaken by almost having my head taken off by a subatomic particle beam.
A deafening Reaper horn was heard overhead and I watched in horror as a Sovereign Class Reaper broke through the ash-filled clouds. A bright ray of light temporarily blinded me, and a shockwave shook the area around me. Seconds later, a loud boom pierced my ears.
I nervously looked around me, and saw what had caused me to temporarily lose my sight and hearing abilities. A thermonuclear bomb had gone off on the far outskirts of the city I was in. It was about 75 kilometers away, but I was still shaking in my skin for being so close to the thermonuclear weapon going off.
The Reaper that was descending to my location was now in flames, and it was on a collision course with the planet's surface. The Reaper collided into the ruins of a nearby skyscraper, and a barely audible scream echoed throughout the destroyed cityscape.
The woman that had told me to get up was now lying on the ground bleeding from the neck. The Turian that had saved my life was standing over the woman's corpse with his head in his hands. I heard another explosion, and a horrified scream from Lyna.
I felt my skin start to boil as I was exposed to the extreme temperatures from the atomic bomb that a Geth fighter dropped over the city's ruins. I stared at Lyna as she was knocked to the ground by the shockwave. She started to burn up after a few seconds. I would have teared up at seeing this, but most, if not all of the water in my body had already been evaporated.
"You burn your own worlds in an attempt to eliminate us. We are immortal, and you will never be able to kill us."
Date: July 27th, 2077, 10:02 A.M.
We had entered the Typhon system one hour after Samara arrived. Sirius guided the Bermuda into the orbit of Aite, and I was finally able to set foot on land again. I did not like being in space for a prolonged period of time.
I got up out of the pilot's seat and started to walk over to the shuttle bay. I had about fourteen hours of sleep during the transit back to Aite. It was probably the most sleep that I had the privilege of having during my time in the Mass Effect Universe. I didn't have very good dreams to say the least.
I stepped into the shuttle, where I sat down inside of the Xer-21. Sirius knew exactly what to do, he opened the shuttle bay doors, and transferred himself to the shuttle's systems.
Sirius piloted the shuttle out of the Bermuda and gently guided it into Aite's atmosphere. I felt a fair bit of turbulence due to atmospheric re-entry. I held onto a nearby railing as the turbulence increased.
I saw overcast clouds over Aite, so I suspected that it would be raining on the surface.
The shuttle finally broke into atmosphere, and Sirius piloted the shuttle over to the colony. I stopped looking out of the window as we landed on Aite's surface, the shuttle doors opened and I was greeted by Samara.
"Good to see you again, Kyle Terrah." Samara calmly greeted me.
I smiled, "Yeah, good to see you as well. How's the hunt for Morinth going?"
"It is hard to locate her. I've only found her once since you left for Aite, and she evaded me."
"You found Morinth? Why didn't you inform me of this?"
"I believe that you know why I didn't inform you, I'm not going to let a civilian, let alone a species that hasn't even reached the galactic stage yet follow me around," Samara calmly told me.
I tilted my head, then slowly nodded it. "I understand, I wouldn't be much help seeing as I have not been trained yet. Perhaps in a few years I can actually help you."
"Even if you were one of the most powerful warriors in the galaxy, I would not bring you with me. It would be both a risk to my mission to kill the most powerful of my daughters, and a risk to you."
"We will discuss this later. For now, let's focus on telling Ithera, Lyna, and Vodnik about my true origins. I fear their reactions to this."
Samara let out a long sigh. "I wouldn't be afraid of their reactions, just keep calm and everything should be fine. You have the knowledge that Lyna isn't going to have the same reaction that I did. It is unpredictable what her exact reaction will be."
"That reason is exactly why I dreaded telling her. If she freaks out, put her in stasis. I don't feel like dying today." I shivered as I thought over the consequences.
"And that's only if she flips out on you. You have been training, right?"
I awkwardly looked to the side and shook my head. "No, I was either working on the EMDrive, gathering wood, or hunting. I didn't really have time to train in combat."
Samara glared at me. "Here's a better question, how many times have you fought against an enemy since I last saw you?"
"Twice."
Samara relaxed her shoulders and exhaled. "You need to start training."
I nodded my head and gestured to the house that Vodnik and I built a few months ago. "We should go inside and tell the others about my… origins."
"Lead the way, you know this planet better than I do."
I led Samara to the house, where Lyna was standing outside of it. "Good to see that you made it back in one piece, Kyle. Where's the Quarian girl?"
I scowled at Lyna. She had never really been nice to Ithera or Xen. "She's on route to Rannoch right now."
"Wait, what did you just say?" Lyna approached me and Samara with a very confused look on her face.
Samara glanced at me for a second, then turned her stare back to Lyna. "If you were not aware, Lyna Rilac, Kyle has brokered a treaty between the Quarians and Geth."
Lyna ceased approaching me and stopped when her nose was an inch away from mine. "Explain."
"I will once we are inside of the house, unless you want to be rained on." As I finished speaking, thunder was heard overhead.
I stepped to the side and passed right by Lyna. I entered the doorway and led Samara and Lyna back into the house. Vodnik was sitting on a makeshift chair, cleaning his AK and Ithera was checking his omni-tool at the other side of the room.
Ithera turned his gaze from his omni-tool over to me. "Welcome back to Aite, Kyle."
"Thanks Ithera. Now if everyone could please find a place to sit, this is going to be a very long explanation." I said, and pulled a chair over to the left of Vodnik who was keeping silent.
Ithera continued to sit on a makeshift bench in the corner of the room. Lyna took a seat to my left, and Samara did not bother to take a seat.
"As you all know, Vodnik and I came from Earth, we each arrived in different places. I arrived on Thessia, where I met Lyna, and Vodnik arrived on Omega. Truth is, Vodnik and I supposedly come from a different universe, a different dimension." I wasted no time to start the meeting.
"That's bullshit and you know it, Kyle." Lyna scoffed and glared at me.
I shook my head and Vodnik did the same. "Explain jumping 61 years into the future. Explain traveling 75,000 light years without an FTL drive."
Ithera jumped into the conversation. "That's easy, the theory of wormholes. Perhaps one existed on your world."
"Wormholes don't exist jackass, they are an object thought up by science fiction, nothing more. The closest thing to them would be a black hole." Vodnik replied to Ithera.
"As I was saying, Vodnik and I come from a different universe. The world that we came from had a 'fictional' series called Mass Effect. At least, I thought it was fictional." I told everyone.
Samara looked at Lyna and Ithera. "I can confirm what he is saying. In our meld back on Thessia, he showed me the memories of his world, his origins."
"This truth may surprise you, as it surprised me when I came into this dimension. I was in Colorado when I decided to fly into the Bermuda Triangle, Colorado was my home state back on Earth. I booked a flight on a Boeing 737 that took me to Miami, Florida. I then rented a car to drive to Dean International Airport, where I would take off in a single engine aircraft and pilot it into the Bermuda Triangle."
"I've had enough of this, you have buddied up with a Justicar. You have turned against me, turned against all of us!" Lyna flared her biotics and started to approach me.
Vodnik stood up and dropped the rag he was cleaning his AK with to the floor. He quickly aimed his AK-74 right at Lyna. She rushed at Vodnik, punched him in the abdomen, then yanked to AK-74 out of his hands. Lyna threw it against a nearby wall, and the AK clattered to the floor.
Vodnik readied himself in a stance. "Asari, stop this immediately. I do not want to hurt you."
Samara activated her biotics and put Lyna into a stasis. "You have caused enough trouble by trying to harm the other Human. You will keep your emotions in order, or I will take defensive action."
The stasis quickly wore off of Lyna, an
Lyna rushed at me and her eyes turned into a black abyss. "EMBRACE ETERNITY!"
'Intrusion detected.'
Allow her through, Sirius.
'You sure about that? I mean, she just broke out of the Justicar's stasis.'
I wouldn't be requesting you to allow her through if I was unsure of it.
"Who are you talking to Kyle? Who is in here with us?"
No one of major importance.
"I want you to tell the truth."
Fine, you can see my information.
"Information? No… I want to see your memories."
That's not going to happen.
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Name: Kyle Jonathan Terrah.
Born: August 20th, 1991. Skyridge Medical Hospital, Colorado.
Raised: Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
May 14th, 2005: Father passed away.
November 20th 2007: Mass Effect was released on the PC.
November 25th, 2007: Beat Mass Effect on Insanity, gained knowledge of events of 2183.
January 26th, 2010: Mass Effect 2 released.
February 14th, 2010: Mother passed away, leaving him with no parents at the age of 19.
March 6th, 2012: Mass Effect 3 released.
July 12th, 2012: Kyle had extensive knowledge of the Mass Effect Universe.
December 13th, 2013: Kyle gained his pilot's license.
May 1st, 2014: Kyle was in a camping accident, two of his closest friends died, Josh Hart and Victor Liton.
October 30th, 2015: Kyle flew to Florida, where he borrowed a Cessna 172 Skyhawk from Dave Hevin, and piloted it into the Bermuda Triangle.
Unknown Date: An Inusannon experiment on Kyle Terrah took place at this time, little information is known about this. It is believed that Vodnik would provide a better explanation of the process.
October 30th, 2076: Kyle Terrah arrived upon Thessia, where he met Lyna Rilac.
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Turbulence, lightning, humming. That's all I remember from October 30th.
"I didn't want information. I want to know your memories, and the events that you claim to know."
I can't allow you to see those memories.
"Why not? Are you scared that I might find something that you do not want to see?"
'He may not want to relive those memories that he buried long ago.'
"Kyle, who said that, is there someone else here?"
'Hello, Lyna Rilac. I am Sirius-928 Inusannon Artificial Intelligence. I was in charge of the Latem-Tarik Research Facility on this planet.'
"Artificial INTELLIGENCE? You allowed an AI into your head?!"
It has proven to be useful in the little time that I have had it.
"That doesn't change the fact that you allowed a damned Artificial Intelligence into your very being."
Sirius has increased my lifespan by 200%. If anything, it's making me stronger.
"You're crazy, not only is the AI interfering with your body you're letting it do so."
You're crazy for freaking out about it! It is my body, you shouldn't be worried about it.
"It may be your body, but I don't want this AI taking control of you and turning against us."
'I am incapable of doing that, it is quite impossible unless I am granted access.'
"Whatever you are, I want you out of Kyle immediately."
'I'm afraid that's not going to happen, see his implants and I keep him alive. Without my assistance, he would have a higher possibility of dying before the Reaper war.'
"Reaper? What the hell is a Reaper?"
A Reaper is a killing machine. Every 50,000 years, the Reapers start a cycle in the galaxy, this cycle is an extinction event. They kill all space-faring life in the galaxy.
'That is a true statement. With Kyle's knowledge, he can stop the cycle once and for all.'
"Kyle… Please, you must have some sense in you. These Reapers that you speak of are not real. They are fiction."
Explain what happened to the Protheans and every civilization before them. The Reapers are a galactic threat which will come to life in 2183.
'Lyna Rilac, you and everyone else in this galaxy must acknowledge this fact. The Quarians and the Geth have allied against the Reapers already.'
Lyna, I don't like this fact any more than you do, but it is real. They are coming, and they are building an army that no one will be able to oppose. The end is near, and it will swallow us all if we do not prepare.
"Why are you lying to me?"
I'm not lying, you're just refusing to accept the truth. Do you want to know when the rest of my species enters the galactic stage? 2157, they will come into contact with a Turian patrol, and as a result of that, a war will break out between my people and the Turian Hierarchy. 2183 will be the start of the galactic apocalypse if we don't find a way to stop it.
"You continue to tell me false information, tell me the truth and I will not intrude further."
'It's not like you could anyways.'
"Try me."
I felt my memories being accessed by Lyna, and Sirius trying to stop her. I felt a sharp pain in the back of my skull, unlike anything I had seen before.
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Date: November 20th, 2008, 5:45 A.M.
"Kyle! It's been installed, we can play now."
I turned around to face my computer screen, where my friend Josh was sitting at it. "Josh, you know that it still has to go through the first-time setup. That will take about an hour with my internet."
Josh got up out of my chair and playfully hit me on my arm. "Come on man, don't be such a downer. It'll launch in a second."
I walked over to my computer and sat down in the chair. I stared at the screen where I saw Mass Effect launch right in front of my eyes. "Well, maybe you were right."
"You always doubt me, and when you do, I'm right." Josh laughed and sat down next to me.
"Yeah, yeah, laugh it up, smartass." I chuckled and waited for Mass Effect to start up.
I popped my knuckles and put my hand onto my mouse. "Woah, what the heck is that thing!" Josh exclaimed as he saw the Mass Relay loading screen.
"No idea, it looks sinister though." I finished as the main menu screen popped up. I hit the button to start a new game, and my speakers turned on.
"Welcome to the Alliance Military Database, classified information requested." I clicked the button that said to connect to the database. "Establishing secure connection. Secure connection confirmed."
I was immediately presented with a guy whose name was John Shepard. "Kyle, select 'Enter New ID'."
I followed Josh's order, and selected the button. "Do we want to be a male or a female?"
"Dude, go with male, if your mom walks in, there will be less questions." Josh answered, and looked around my room.
I nodded, "Yeah, I should have thought of that beforehand."
"That's why you have me!"
"Screw off, let's just make this character and get into the game already!"
I tweaked around a bit with the appearance, making Shepard look like a cross between Josh and I. Eventually we got to the screen where we had to pick a class. I scrolled over the Adept and Vanguard, which Josh responded positively to. "Choose Vanguard! It has a shotgun, and a glowy character!"
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Date: January 26th, 2010, 2:15 P.M.
"Hey Josh, you ready for Mass Effect 2?"
"Yeah, I'll pick up Victor on the way over!"
I set down my phone and blankly looked at my new computer's HD screen. I thought it was time to upgrade it so it could run Mass Effect 2 and look good in the process. I had spent about $1,400 to build it, and it took about five hours to transfer everything from my old HDD to my new computer.
It took 15 minutes for Josh and Victor to arrive at my house. Once they arrived, I booted up my computer and launched Mass Effect 2. I imported my most successful character, Athena Shepard, a female Infiltrator.
"It's starting, shut up Victor." Josh said, and turned to the screen.
Victor hit Josh on his shoulder and Josh gave Victor the evil eye. "Both of you shut up." I said, and gestured at the screen.
"Shepard did everything right. More than we could of hoped for." My speakers activated, and everyone became quiet.
"Commander Shepard uncovered the truth."
"...and still, it's not enough."
"We're at war. No one wants to admit it, but humanity is under attack."
"But they're sending her to fight Geth. Geth! We both know they're not the real threat. The Reapers are still out there."
"And it's up to us to stop them."
"The council will never trust Cerberus, they'll never accept our help. Even after everything humanity has accomplished. But Shepard… they'll follow her. She's a hero, a bloody icon. But she's just one woman. If we lose Shepard, humanity might well follow."
"Then see to it that we don't lose her."
The screen faded to black, and Victor was the first to speak. "What the hell was up with that guy's eyes?"
"Bro, how many times did we tell you to shut up?" Josh said.
"Two," Victor honestly replied.
I looked behind me. "The music is starting up again, be quiet you two."
The Normandy exited FTL and sped past the camera. Pressley tapped a few things onto his datapad, and the camera panned past the FTL map. "Disengaging FTL drives," Joker's voice came out of the speakers.
Chakwas was handed a datapad by one of the crew members. "Emission sinks active."
"Board is green... we are running silent."
"We're wasting our time. Four days searching up, and down this sector and we haven't found any signs of Geth activity."
"Three ships went missing here in the past month. Something happened to them."
"My money's on slavers, the Terminus system is crawling with them."
"Picking up something on the long range scanner. Unidentified vessel. Looks like a cruiser."
"Doesn't match any known signatures."
"Cruiser is changing course. Now on intercept trajectory."
"Can't be. Stealth systems are engaged. There's no way a Geth ship could-"
"It's not the Geth. Brace for evasive maneuvers!"
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'Kyle, to prevent her from accessing any more of your memories, I'm going to force both of you out of the meld.'
Fine by me.
"That's not poss-"
'I'm ending the meld now. She could mimic the effects of intoxication as a side effect of me forcing her out of the meld. I'd recommend limiting hostile action when you both wake up.'
Wait, we're sleeping?
'No, you'll be knocked out when I force you both out of the meld.'
Why are we being knocked out? Is there another way to exit the meld without being knocked out?
'No, but it's certainly a lot better than hemorrhaging your brains.'
"Hold up, that's not possible."
What do you mea-
'Don't ever doubt the power of an Inusynthetic life-form.'
I felt a sting in my skull, similar to what I experienced during the Geth/Quarian diplomatic meeting. I felt my entire body shutdown, and I was forced to go unconscious. Sirius's 'solution' was not a gentle one.
I was able to return to consciousness much quicker than Lyna could. My implants in my body must have reset themselves, and forced a restart of my body.
I looked around, trying to get a feel for my surroundings. I noticed that Vodnik had his AK-74 pointed at Lyna's abdomen. Samara had her biotics activated, and Ithera was still sitting on the makeshift bench, doing absolutely nothing.
I weakly pushed the AK's barrel away from Lyna's still unconscious form. "What are you doing? She has proved to us that she cannot be trusted," Vodnik trailed off, confused as to what I was doing in Lyna's defense.
"I can handle this, please leave the room. I want to be alone with Lyna and Samara for a bit," I told Ithera and Vodnik.
Vodnik raised an eyebrow, and gave me a questioning look. "I do not believe that is a good idea, Kyle."
"Do not worry about me, I think it would be best if you and Ithera just left us now," I spoke as my voice started to get a bit stronger.
Vodnik sighed, then left the room with Ithera silently following behind him. I turned my attention back to Lyna and noticed that her biotics were activated and her skin was slowly turning purple instead of its normal blue. "That's strange," Samara mumbled to herself and stood over Lyna.
"Do you know why her skin color has changed?" I asked Samara and took a knee over Lyna's unconscious body.
"Usually when an Asari's skin color changes, it means that they've suffered a fatal injury, or have consumed Ryncol in the past 24 hours. Unless you've magically made her intoxicated in the last four minutes, this shouldn't be possible."
I paused for a second, then put one of my hands onto Lyna's shoulder. I glanced at Samara out of the corner of my eye. "All I did was force her out of a meld."
"You forced her out of the meld? How did you accomplish that?" Samara kneeled beside Lyna's unconscious body to the left of me, putting two fingers onto the side of Lyna's neck to check her pulse.
I looked down to Lyna's body, then back up to Samara. "Well, I'm not necessarily the one that forced her out of the meld," I nervously admitted, fearing the worst.
"What do you mean you're not the one that forced her out of the meld?" Samara calmly inquired.
"Uh, you know how I said that Daro'Xen and I were attacked by Geth?" Samara nodded, "I know that I didn't exactly specify where we were. She was injured inside of an Inusannon research facility."
"What is an Inusannon?" Samara inquired while I studied Lyna's unconscious form.
I closed my eyes and deeply breathed. "The Inusannon were the species that came before the Protheans. In that Inusannon structure, I encountered an Artificial Intelligence."
Samara blinked when I hinted that I found Sirius by calling the Inusynthetic an AI, which it technically was. "You know that most Artificial Intelligences are incredibly dangerous, and very hard to contain, right?" Samara asked, still not getting the hints that I gave her.
"I know that, as I was saying, I found the AI in the structure. To say the least, I let the AI interface with my cybernetic implants, and well… The AI is now a part of me. It calls itself an Inusynthetic, rather than an Artificial Intelligence."
"You let an artificial intelligence into your body? Kyle, you've put us all in danger by making that decision." Samara flared her biotics, ready to attack me. I knew I couldn't face a Justicar, so I raised my hands above my head in surrender.
I quickly stood up and backed away from Samara. "You must understand, I did this for the greater good. The AI is an Inusynthetic, it comes from a time where AIs were not feared."
"What about the Reapers? Aren't they Artificial Intelligence as well? What makes you think that this AI is different?" Samara approached me and thrusted her hand out. "I'm sorry about this, Kyle, but I will not stand around and let you be a security risk to all of us."
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Lyna rise up off of the floor. Lyna looked over to Samara, then towards me. Lyna activated her biotics and let out a yell, and Samara turned to Lyna, readying to attack the other Asari. "Don't you dare touch him," I saw Samara freeze up before my eyes, and a brighter glow surrounded her body, indicating that she was put into a Stasis by Lyna.
Lyna then looked over to me and deactivated her biotics. She approached me as Samara was beginning to break free of Stasis, "Kyle, I am sorry for not believing you before. Your AI told me everything as it forced us out of the meld."
"What did it tell you?" I asked, and gazed at Samara who was still in stasis.
Lyna shrugged and looked back over to Samara. "The AI that you have put a few of your memories into my head, as well as putting files onto my omni-tool."
Samara broke free of stasis and looked directly at me. She pushed Lyna out of the way and activated her biotics, "I did not want to do this, but both of you have forced my hand!"
"Embrace eternity!"
Come on, two times in one day. Are you people trying to kill me, or get in my pants?
'If they were trying to kill you, they would have succeeded already. I'm not even going to comment on that last response.'
I was being serious, usually people don't experience two Asari melds in one day.
'There's many people who have done six a day. You can handle two.'
They were probably a Krogan.
'No, it was a volus that survived six in a day.'
A volus… What the heck?
'I'm going to be insanely disappointed in you if you pass out from two melds.'
"Who was that talking, Kyle?"
'Hello, Justicar Samara, I am Sirius-928, Inusannon Artificial Intelligence/Inusynthetic. You can call me Sirius.'
"So you're the AI that Kyle found… Do you have any intent on killing anyone?"
'I prefer the term, 'Inusynthetic'. As I said before, I'm Sirius-928 IAI/Inusynthetic. I've interfaced with Kyle Terrah's augmentations and cybernetic enhancements. To answer your second question, I am not able to kill anyone at this time.'
"Ah, that is a good thing to hear. Do you mind explaining to me what an Inusynthetic is?"
'In basic terms, we coexisted with the Inusannon 100,000 years ago. I was an Inusynthetic which specialized in research against Reaper technology. We were trying to find a way to defeat them conventionally, we got close, but things started to look grim nearing the end of our cycle.'
"Were you wiped out like the Protheans?"
'No, though the Reapers got closer than my people would have liked. We were at 2000 people, so we jumped to a system that the Reapers could not reach. That's about as far as my memory goes.'
"You are an odd Artificial Intelligence. You actually have emotion, unlike the Geth."
'Of course I have emotion, I'm not a simple network of many Artificial Intelligences like the Geth are.'
"I know, he told me."
That's enough, I'm ending the meld now. You can have your little chit-chat later.
I disconnected the link with Sirius, and forcing Samara out of the meld in the process. I knocked myself out in the process, and a sharp pain entered my brain right before I was forced into unconsciousness. I felt as if I was going to die from the pain, but the pain was nulled as I fell into a deep sleep.
A/N: I checked the length of this chapter, and it was 4.5K words. I'm satisfied with that, as this was a good place to end it. Things are heating up, Kyle has been exposed, and Sirius has been found out.
I really like writing these chapters, and expanding the Mass Effect universe. Perhaps I will share some ideas that I have for Mass Effect Alternate Universes once ME: B ends.