Kyon looked at his phone again and read when the messages stopped coming, "Three years," he says, "that's how long it took her to give up on me," he silently cursed himself for the pain he must have caused her. "I took three years of her life," he repeated, not sure whether to feel sorry or angry at himself.
Kyon stood up and saw a work bench near the edge of the cargo bay, he moved towards it. The first thing he noticed was that there were several guns on the work bench, "Wonder what this does?" he asked aloud as he presses a button on the side of the gun. The large rifle collapsed to nearly half its size, "That's nice," he commented, pressing the button again to unfold it. "Let's see how this works," he reached up to grab his goggles, and noticed that they weren't there. He cursed himself for losing them, and shook his head. He took a deep breath, and then started taking the gun apart
Ashley knew the commander was awake after she saw Anderson walk into the med bay, She waited a few minutes when Anderson exited, followed by Shepard, "Hey commander," she says in a friendly voice.
"Williams why is Kaiden in the med bay?" she asks in a harsh tone.
"A guy we picked up was trying to leave but Kaiden wouldn't let him," Ashley says, "and threw him into the wall," she says.
Shepard looked furious, "Who and where is he?" she asks.
Ashley, surprised by her anger, hesitated for a moment, "Don't worry Shepard I talked to him already," she says, "I don't think he expected it to happen, and if you want we can just let him off on the citadel."
"Fine... but if I see him he will regret it," Shepard told her, then walked towards the bridge.
Ashley decided that it would be best to have a talk with Kyon again, and started towards the elevator.
Ashley walked out of the elevator to the cargo bay and saw Kyon working at the weapons bench, "What are you doing?" she asked walking up to him.
Kyon jumped, not noticing Ashley until she spoke up, and sent the parts everywhere, "Son of a Bitch!" he shouted after a barrel fell on his foot. He turned around only to see Ashley laughing silently, "Really?"
"I didn't expect that," she tells him as he takes his goggles off and looks at her, she immediately notices his emerald eyes, she made a mental note that his eyes looked nice.
"Something on your mind?" Kyon asked after noticing her staring at his eyes.
Ashley cursed herself, and turned away to hide her blush, "Clean the mess up," she ordered him, "I don't like it when people use my station and leave it a mess."
"Sure thing," Kyon says, "just wanted to see a few things," he picks up the pieces of the gun and puts them back together while Ashley turned back around and watched.
"How long have you been putting guns like that together?" she asked Kyon after he finished putting it together in 40 seconds.
"Today," Kyon replied as he put the tools he used back, and sat on a crate, and Ashley looked at him, and let her mouth drop open.
"It took me about 1 hour when I was a cadet," Ashley says, "how did you do that?"
Kyon laughed a little, "I have low latent inhibition," he replied, putting the gun back on the bench, "I see things that most people don't," he says.
"Well, we are about to hit the Citadel," she says, "we are going to drop you off there."
As soon as Ashley said the citadel, Kyon heard the word, Trap, in his head, "Sure thing," he says, as he stands up and heads to the elevator.
Ashley follows him and notices that each stride he makes is perfectly equal, "Did you train somewhere?" she asks him.
"I was in Kendo a while back," Kyon answered when they get into the elevator.
"Oh," Ashley says as the elevator goes up, "So what was your level?" she asks.
"I was only a month away from becoming a Nanadan level," Kyon told her and shrugged, "Then I got real busy and had to put up my gi. That was about a year ago."
"That sounds like quite an accomplishment," Ashley commented as the door opened up. The two of them walked out of the elevator
"nearly twenty years of my life," Kyon agreed as he rolled his neck, "I feel bad for having to stop, but it couldn't be helped," he walks to the cockpit of the Normandy and watches as the Citadel comes into view.
Ashley looks out the window with Shepard next to her while Kyon stood next to the pilot's seat, "Look at the size of that ship!" she exclaims.
Kaiden who is on the other side of the seat with a bandage around his head informs us, "The Ascension, flagship of the Citadel fleet."
The pilot doesn't look at it, "Well, size isn't everything," he says.
"Why so touchy Joker?" Ashley asked the pilot as she smirked.
"I'm just saying you need the power too," Joker said defensively.
"Look at that monster!" Ashley practically shouts, "Its main gun could rip through the barriers of any ship in the Alliance fleet."
"Doesn't matter if you can't hit the ship," Kyon comments as he looks at it, "doubt it could hit a group of fighters, have enough and they will be more dangerous than a dreadnought."
Everyone looks at Kyon and Shepard asks, "Who's this?" as she looks at the red-head.
"Kyon Salgrins," Kaiden answered for him, glaring at the red-headed man.
Shepard walks up to Kyon and grabs him by the collar, "You hurt my crew, then we have a problem," she says.
"Not my fault. Your boyfriend over there wouldn't leave me alone," Kyon told her in a matter-of-fact tone and. His comment results in Kaiden blushing, and the gunnery chief laughing at the comment.
Shepard glares at him, "You have some nerve," she says as she glows a faint blue.
Ashley looks at Kyon and Shepard their red hair, and emerald eyes matching, "If I didn't know any better I would say you two were brother and sister," she commented getting glares from both of the red-heads, and a laugh from Joker.
"Commander the Normandy has docked," Joker says when he stops laughing.
"Good," she says letting go of Kyon, "now you get off this ship," she says.
"Gladly," Kyon says as he heads towards the airlock, when an older man comes into the .
"Shepard I want you and the ground team to come with me," he says.
"Yes, sir," Shepard replied, saluting the higher officer, "Ashley, Kaiden, get ready," she goes to the cargo bay.
Ashley and Kaiden both follow Shepard, and Kyon exits through the air-lock.
A/N Arias here, Nice to see that, obviously I have Shepard as a female and is an adept, with default appearance, and I will have fun with their similar physical features.