Chapter 3:
Serenity looked at the audience and spoke to everyone - she was very nervous but did her best.
"No one said it was going to be easy to destroy a big threatening empire all in one go." She said rubbing her neck as she was sweating nervously amongst everyone looking at her.
Fern sighed looking at his brother and looked at Serenity holding his hand out and using his power to try to make her look at him, once her head turned to look at him he mouthed to her, "Deep breath, think of your father."
Serenity took his words to heart and Qrow beside him was impressed and put an arm around Fern who tried to shake it off annoyed.
Serenity did think of her father and closed her eyes imagining he'd be there and suddenly her eyes opened realizing what to say and looked at the audience in a serious expression.
"Look at one another, look at people you know and do not know. Look at one another." She said as everyone did and a bit confused doing so.
"You see those people beside you and around you? Those are your comrades, they are your family. I and my sisters was taught a very important thing in our life by our dad when we were just little girls. We was taught to learn together, play together, fight together, protect each other, love each other, and be there for one another. In a way, we are all family. We all are alive and breathing aren't we? I know that some of you may not like one another or hold a grudge or whatever but we need to put that aside and concentrate on the one thing that matters. Our future. Our own family and friends, our children and ourselves. Look at one another again." Serenity told them.
Everyone looked at one another again but this time with a more worried expression and giving one another nods and those next to one another side hugs.
"I want all of you to fight not for yourselves, but for everyone for you and their future. This is going to be the making of history for what we do. Damn it if we loose then at least he left our mark across the entire universe that we tried. That is why we are going to win. We are going to keep leaving marks in our history. So together we are going to stand up against the enemy that wishes to control us through a supernatural power. I may not understand how it works, or none of us may not understand. But what we know is that they cannot control it." She told everyone
Mira and Wrex was sitting at the audience and looked at one another with a nod and looked back at Serenity.
"So what say all of you! Are you ready to stand together!" Serenity shouted.
Everyone soon stood up cheering at her, even at the holocoms in the ships and broadcasting through the planet of cheers of the Alliance members and random citizens.
"For Hearth and Home!" Serenity shouted. Her reference was that of what all her family says to one another and like a battle cry.
Everyone cheered and clapped and some people hugging another.
Hackett clapped nodding at Serenity and stood up approaching her and both shook hands.
"I have watched you grown. I am impressed. I want you to take your family and your friends in your division and lead the attack. Can I trust you with this?" He asked her.
Serenity without a second thought gave him a nod. "Just as long as the rest of you back me up." She asked him.
"I will be giving orders out from our command ship. Your division will be ahead leading the main attack." He told her and then looked to the side seeing her family waiting.
"Head to them. I will contact you with further instructions." Hackett said.
Serenity walked off to her family and into the back stage.
"You did good kid!" Qrow said patting her head.
Fern patted her head next making Serenity frown at him and smacked him across the face.
"I deserved that." Fern said.
Suddenly Maychiro appeared and punched Fern across the face and went to punch him again only for Qrow to pull her back.
"One is enough!" Qrow said trying to hold her back.
"Heh, I deserved that too." Fern said rubbing his jaw spitting some blood to the side.
"So you managed to survive the fall how?" Serenity asked.
"More like almost managed. Remember our blood can slowly regenerate any wounds. Let's just say laying in there sure made me think for about a day or two. Got hungry of course and to my luck found some humans. Well then in an hour became just one human but I let him live if he took me to the nearest spaceport on that damn planet." Fern told them.
"And you think that because you are back that no one will forget? You're going to be thrown in prison." Qrow told him.
"Yet I told everyone what I learned." Fern told them.
"Uncle Fern is right, he did tell us what we needed to know but I want to know why? Why did you tell us our enemies plans?" Serenity asked.
"Because if I don't I'll die too? Duh?" Fern laughed and noticed them about ready to hurt him again. "Hey hey! The other reason is I understand what I did was a dick move, and well you guys need help. Look all of you I am sorry okay." Fern said to them.
Then Medusa walked in surprising Fern.
"Mom..." Fern said and suddenly he was punched by her as well.
"It's going to be a nasty bruise." Fern said rubbing his face.
"You son of a- me!" Medusa yelled at him.
"How did you survive?" Fern asked.
"I wonder who else survived as of recently. I heard Noctis was found and in the med lab, and now." Serenity said putting a hand on her hip.
"Listen! I am trying to help all of you okay? There is no gimic here I swear." Fern told them.
Qrow just looked at him and then to Medusa.
"I don't sense deception from him. And I believe what he said. I really think our enemy knows what we are planning, but it also could be obvious given they have spies watching us." Qrow told her.
Medusa looked at Fern and Qrow and suddenly hugged them both. Both of them looked at their mother and hugged her back. Fern himself finally loosened up and hugged her tightly.
Serenity walked off to leave them to talk knowing they needed a moment to themselves and smiled glad to sense that her uncle was on their side. But she couldn't shake the feeling that they had to do something. She wondered how they could do it if the enemy was going to be ready for them.
That night, Serenity was sleeping in her room on the Normandy and she was turning left to right mumbling to herself.
At the same time, Adam was in his cot somewhere either on earth or one of the Star Cerberus starships. He was turning as well.
Suddenly both of them was in a dream realm together and both looked at each other.
Adam went to grab his weapon but it wasn't there, same with Serenity and both looked at each other in confusion.
"Where are we, what sort of psychic magic is this." Adam asked approaching her.
Serenity took a step back ready to attack.
"I thought this was your doing." She told him.
Adam approached her and suddenly Serenity went to kick him in the chest only for her foot to go through him in a ghostly matter.
Adam waved his hand at her leg as it just went through it and she lowered her foot and both looked around at this place they were in.
"What the hell is this?" Adam said looking around now showing some fear in front of Serenity, but at the same time, Serenity was scared as well trying to figure out what was going on.
"I was asleep." She told him.
"So was I." He replied to her looking at her.
"You sleep with that mask on?" Serenity asked confused.
"Psh, trust me I'd rather keep it on." He told her.
Suddenly both of them had flashbacks of when they were children, and in one scene they seen together was when they first met. As very young children. Serenity was lost one day on Earth when she and her family visited, but her father was on a mission and brought them with him and to see them train. At that moment they saw Serenity at a very young child age and she was lost and scared wandering into a Faunus village and walked into a young Adam. She began to cry wondering where her family was asking him for help. Adam gave her two kyber crystals that was mint green and soon she calmed down and looked at them and at how pretty they were. Then her father found her a moment later. Serenity tried to give the crystals back to him but he said she looked as if she needed something nice. And both before she walked away with her father asked each other's names and received them.
Serenity and Adam both stopped seeing that flashback and looked at one another in shock.
"Your that girl..." Adam said calmly and tried to process what he saw.
Serenity looked at him and crossed her arms. "Why those crystals if I might ask."
"Huh? Well because I found them that day in a cave. I tried to look for some food after some, well some humans came into our camp and beat up two of our elders. I went into the nearby cave to find food and instead found the crystal. I tried to get it out and it broke in two, so I took both pieces. Then that day I met you. I didn't need them so I gave them to you. I guess well, I didn't like to see you cry and I didn't know what to do." He told her and turned his head with a gruffing sound. "But that's the past."
"You have a soul and emotions." She simply said.
"I'm a monster, just like what your species say." He told her.
"First I'm not really all human, just some human. Second I understand how humans degrade your species. But not all humans are like that. Please believe me when I say that. The people your working for will soon discard you." She told him
"And I'm to listen to you? A traitor?" He growled.
"Did I or my father that day try to hurt you?" She said.
Adam paused looking at her and then turned his head again away from her and walked to the side a few steps.
Serenity looked at him and then looked around. "We need to figure out how to get out of this." She said to him.
Adam looked at her and nodded. "Fine. Then we go to killing one another." He said.
"Uh no. First off you and I are not going to kill one another. I can sense the conflict in you already." She told him.
Adam stumbled a bit in his words. "You- you don't know that."
"I know you let that family go on Telos." She told him making Adam speechless and soon getting angry.
"I don't see you as evil, I see you as misguided. If you join the Illusive Man all your going to become is his pawn! He is going to only help the human race! He will discard your race immediately!" Serenity yelled.
"He promised to make the human race change and no longer do no harm to my race!" Adam yelled back.
"He lied to our lost sisters too. And one of them killed my father!" Serenity yelled.
Adam took a breath looking at Serenity and Serenity took a breath herself looking right back at him.
Serenity then looked at him and walked up to him slowly as he just stood there looking at her.
"I wished you didn't wear that to cover up your eyes. Your eyes are-" Serenity started.
"Don't finish that sentence." Adam warned.
"Very beautiful in aquatic blue shade that they are." Serenity finished daring him.
Adam made a fist and turned around again. "How do we get out of this mess of a place!" Adam yelled.
Suddenly Adam woke up yelling and spun onto the floor and laid there realizing he was back to reality.
Two Star Cerberus soldiers came in.
"Whats the problem?" One asked.
"Yeah, whats the problem! I am trying to brew toxins before the damned war, you idiot!" Pendrak yelled walking in.
"It's nothing, all of you back to your duties. Now!" Adam yelled.
The two soldiers left first and Pendrak just shook his head.
"For god sakes put some boxers on." Pendrak remarked and walked off leaving Adam staring at the open doorway thinking before getting up and shutting it. He slumped down on the door and banged on it with his fist. "She's... beautiful." He said to himself.
Serenity woke up screaming and suddenly the alarm went off. To which she didn't know there was an alarm.
"Die, rapist!" Mangle yelled jumping onto the bed from crawling out of a vent.
Serenity and Mangle both in the dark wrestled and suddenly Kisame ran in in nothing but a towel.
"Oh no! Someones got Serenity! Help someone anyone!" Kisame yelled- even though he could help.
Haurchefant ran in drawing his blade aiming it at the bed.
"Alright, you sick fuck! Get off miss Serenity now and prepare to die! I do not wish to bloody her sheets!" Haurchefant said going toward the bed.
Suddenly Mangle is flung right out of the bed and knocked into Haurchefant who was surprised to see Mangle.
"Ugh she hurt me..." Mangle said.
Prompto ran in with his gun ready.
"I'm here babe! Did you get him!" Prompto asked.
Suddenly Serenity popped her head out from the sheets glaring at everyone and had the blankets held over her and holding them to cover her chest.
"Get out!" She screamed.
"Who was trying to attack you!?" Mangle yelled.
"No one! I had an odd dream now get out!" She yelled.
"Bitch I was trying to save your life! You fucking bitch!" Mangle yelled.
"You little fuck, come here and let me end your life!" Serenity growled.
Haurchefant grabbed Mangle. "You heard her, let us leave!" He said to them.
Haurchefant looked back at Serenity. "I will lock the door for you and prepare you breakfast when morning comes." He told her and shut and typed on the console locking her room for her before he walked out and away from the door and into the elevator with Mangle, Kisame, and Prompto.
"I should have figured it was Serenity under those sheets when I felt up her body." Mangle said simply and everyone looked down at her a bit speechless.
Serenity huffed and put the blankets back over her feeling embarrassed. She then uncovered her head looking at the ceiling. The ceiling having an open space view and she looked at the stars and thought of Adam and what was going to happen. A lot of things rushed in her mind but she had to stay focused. She closed her eyes and soon fell back to sleep.
Soon morning came and some of the crew was at the mess hall in the Normandy. James was there talking to Umbreon and Espeon fixing them some sort of human meat of meal.
"Thanks for doing this for us. I hope it doesn't gross you out." Umbreon said.
"Yeah! Thank you! See? Humans are so wonderful!" Espeon said clapping giggling.
"Heh-hey, anything for my friends, you know?" James said while concentrating on what he was preparing and near him was a skillet with scrambled eggs and bacon beside it.
Haurchefant was beside him at the other stove and prepared a human flesh type of meal as well.
"So uh who are you feeding that too?" James asked him.
"Miss Serenity of course." Haurchefant said with a smile.
James looked at him and so did Umbreon who had a smirk across her face hearing that.
James looked at Umbreon who stuck her tongue out still grinning.
Espeon wasn't really paying attention and was counting the strains of her hair until Umbreon had to quickly stop her, or that'd go on forever.
Serenity walked in and Haurchefant quickly walked toward her carrying the plate in one hand.
"As I said I prepared your breakfast for you. A raw human flesh but with a bit of color around it. I got you some sprite because I heard from your sister Absol that you girls can handle Sprite but nothing else, oddly. And Coffee in case you want any." He said pouring her a cup of coffee.
Serenity looked at him having messy bed head hair and looked down at the plate then back at him.
"Enjoy." Haurchefant said giving a polite bow and walked away looking back at her with a smile.
James had his arms crossed after handing Umbreon and Espeon their human flesh- which was the bacon looking meat.
"So. He has the hots for you Serenity." James said just like that.
Serenity coughed on her coffee and Umbreon literally burst into laughter.
Espeon blinked and had to laugh as well and tilted her head as she did and probably wondering why they were laughing not really getting what it meant.
"If he does well, too bad I am... single! Single right here. Dad doesn't ever want any of us with anyone. So single. Single Single." Serenity kept saying.
"Dad's gone and I'm with Sam and he knew about it so." Umbreon said.
"Shut up." Serenity replied eating on the flesh.
"I heard that mmm sound when you bit into it. You like it alright." Umbreon teased.
Serenity glared at her and then Mangle walked in with Prompto.
"Hello, little migraine." Serenity replied.
Mangle just grinned. "Only action you ever got in your life in bed I take it." Mangle teased as Serenity while holding the dinner knife pointed it at Mangle in a threatening way.
"Well, I hope you all get enough to eat, because soon we are deploying." James told them and even though he was serious he still cracked a smirk.
"And I know one thing, the enemy is going to eat crow." He said laughing.
"Why would they eat uncle Qrow?" Espeon asked
Everyone in the room just sighed and Umbreon had to explain to her what it meant.