MASS MISCALCULATION
Episode 2- New crew
Aaron didn't know what to say. In fact, to say Aaron was keeping his cool at the moment would be an understatement. A Citadel… in space!? Was this lizard dude kidding!? 'How is this possible… unless… that cube I shot… teleported me here… man, Boss is so jealous right now…' Aaron thought as the lizard thing waved a three-fingered hand at him.
"Uh… hello? You-you okay? Hello?" he asked… at least Aaron assumed it was a he.
"Wha? Oh, yeah, uh… I'm fine… sorta. Hey, can I get out of here?" Aaron asked him.
"Well… on account of the geth attack, and… whatever that thing was, I'm pretty sure all space ways are closed. If you want, I can book you a flight for when they open. Just hold out your omni-tool, please" the lizard instructed, a orange hologram-thing appearing around his left arm.
"…My omni-what?" Aaron asked, confused by the hologram on the alien's arm.
"Your… Omni-tool… wait, it says here you don't have one… how do you not have an Omni-tool!?" the lizard yelled at him.
Aaron raised his hands in defense. "Whoa, chill, lizard dude! So what if I don't have one!?"
"Why I never… I'll have you know I'm a salarian, thank you very much!"
"…What's that?"
"You realize I can have you arrested right now for harassing me?"
"Yeah, dude, the last cop that tried to arrest me got his head shoved into a substation, I'd like to see any cop try to arrest me"
Tali was walking towards the shuttle bay, her head still shaking from the events that transpired. After her, Garrus, and Shepard had killed Saren… twice… they were getting ready to kill Sovereign… before it suddenly stopped upon seeing some random human in strange armor next to it. They all thought it was some crazy human at first… until he pulled out some strange, blue energy sword… and literally chopped the reaper to pieces in under five minutes, then had run off. Everyone wanted to meet the human that had slain the reaper. Something like that was supposed to be impossible. With a sword, no less, and some strange rocket launcher. And did they see how fast he moved? No-way did he NOT have some kind of augments. Or she. No-one really knew that, either. Shepard sure seemed eager to meet him/her. Anyone who can take down a reaper with a sword would be wanted on the Normandy. Said commander was talking with the council in the presidium. He was bent on his quest to scour space to stop the reaper's… and her and the rest of the crew were willing to follow him. She shook her head, and entered the bay… to see a human harassing a salarian. "You know, your really starting to piss me off, you know that? So what if I don't have a glowy thing?"
"Omni-tool! And I will NOT be harassed by some child!"
"Child!? Why I oughta…" the human she was looking at sure seemed strange. He had a sharp, handsome face, skinny build, she couldn't see his eyes on account of the glasses,, about sixteen years of age, and seemed to be about as tall as Shepard. The strangest thing was his hair. The way it was spiky like that… and blue none the less.
"That's it! I'm calling C-sec!" the salarian yelled. Aaron pulled the lazor razor out and held it to the salarian's head.
"Call whoever that is, and I start cutting horn thingy's!" Tali shook her head, can't believing this human, then her eyes widened. 'Wait… blue sword!' she thought-yelled, before running up to the two.
Aaron was about to chop the salarian's horns off when another strange alien ran up to them. She seemed human at first, then he saw her weird, bow-like legs, and the fact she had three fingers. She seemed to have a full-body suit on, with the helmet being a purple visor, two glowing, white eyes and a barely visible nose the only thing Aaron could see beyond the visor. She grabbed his arm and started pulling him away. "Oh, uh, sorry, sorry! Er… Bryan… always is like this! I'm really sorry, it won't happen again!" Tali yelled as she dragged Aaron away. He noticed her voice sounded a little garbled… probably thanks to the filter on her mask.
"What the- okay lady, I dunno who you are, but let me go!" he yelled. The salarian sputtered, then shrugged, returning to hiding under his desk. He'd had enough crazy in his life, what with the geth attack...
Tali pulled Aaron into an unoccupied hallway and let him go, Aaron deactivating and sheathing the razor and throwing his hands up. "Why? You couldn't let me cut one horn off? Just one?" he asked her.
"Okay, I don't know who you are, but you should know that I need to talk to you"
"Look, I don't even know what you are, so… no"
"What do you mean, 'I don't know what you are', you racist bosh'tet!?"
"I don't know what anything is! I don't even know what you just said!"
"I- wait, your serious? You don't know what a quarian is?"
"I don't know anything! All I know is this: I become a street gangster. Go into coma. Wake up. Save America. Get into another coma. Get abducted by aliens. Kill giant soda monster. Escape. Earth get's blown. Shoot weird-ass cube thing as I'm getting vaporized. Wind up here and kill giant robot octopus. That enough for you!?" Tali just stared at the most-likely crazy human. Half of what he said didn't make sense. But she only needed to know one thing. "So… you are the one that killed the reaper?"
"I don't remember killing a giant, hooded skeleton dude with a death scythe"
"No, I mean… the robot cuttlefish!"
"Oh, that. Yeah, I totaled it"
"Good. Can you please come with me?"
"Can I ask why?"
"You see, I'm part of a crew under the command of Commander Shepard"
"…Losing interest…"
"The thing you killed, a reaper, is part of a race that wants to annihilate all organics"
"…Interest back…"
"You see, it's almost impossible to kill them. The Citadel fleet couldn't kill one"
"Sounds like a pretty weak fleet…"
"You single-handedly killed one. With a sword"
"Yeah, well… I'm a boss like that"
"Yes, well… Shepard wants to kill all of the reapers. Or at least stop them"
"Noble goal to save all life, I suppose…"
"We could really use someone like you on the crew… would you rather have C-sec after you?"
"Yeah, uh, remind me, who are they?"
"Citadel security"
"Hm… get arrested… have space adventures… uh, hm… well… I guess I'll do it…"
"Really? Just like that?"
"Well, I'm not doing anything else… so yeah. I'd be bored otherwise"
"Well… okay then! Come on, we need to see Shepard" Tali said, prompting him to follow her as he lead her to an elevator and rode it down.
"…These elevators are really slow" Aaron said after five minutes. "Tell me about it…" Tali muttered as it came to a stop in the Presidium. The doors opened to reveal a man Tali immediately recognized. "Shepard! Uh… how did the council go?"
Shepard shrugged. "As good as it could get. Who's this?"
"He's… uh, I never really got your name"
"Aaron" he answered.
"Yeah. Anyway, Shepard, he's the one that killed that reaper" Tali said, gesturing to the Saint next to her.
Shepard looked dubious upon seeing Aaron. "Really…? This kid?" he really didn't see how he could have done anything.
Aaron sighed, then pressed the button on his glasses, forming his armor, and making the alien RPG and razor appear. "Yep. This kid" Aaron said. Shepard stepped back, shocked. "Oh, um… wow, it's an honor! My name is Commander Shepard, and I'm captain of the Normandy" he said, shaking Aaron's hand as he put the O.M.G away. "Uh, Aaron… former Saint, I guess" Aaron said, gesturing to the fleur symbol on his chest. "Saint… what kind of military are you?" Shepard asked. "Pfft, hahahah! Oh man, military! Oh… your serious. I'm not military"
"But… where did you get gear like that?"
"Gift from a friend"
"And the skill it required to kill the reaper…?"
"Another gift from another friend"
"…Well, in any case, we can swap stories later. I assume you wish to join the Normandy?"
"Yup" Aaron clapped his hands together. "I'm... just gonna assume that's a spaceship"
"…Right… we'll need someone with your skill if we're going to stop the reapers. You sure your in?"
"Sure as I'm ever gonna be"
"Alright, then it's settled. We should probably… keep your existence away from the council… for now. Come on" Shepard said, pressing the button to make the elevator go up, Aaron deactivating his armor.
"…Yeah, I'm not waiting around in this thing" Aaron said, using his razor to slice a hole in the elevator, jumping out and running up the shaft into the shuttle bay.
"Did he… just run up a wall…?" Tali asked.
"…Well, this should be an interesting crew member…" Shepard muttered.
When Aaron reached the top of the airshaft, he walked back to the shuttle bay. When he got there, he was approached by the angry salarian again. "You again! I swear, if you don't stop har-AHG!" he shouted as Aaron cut one of his horns off with the razor, then formed a stun gun, stunning him and hiding his convulsing body behind the counter. Shepard and Tali ran up to him.
"Hey Aaron! Wait up!" Tali called.
"Oh hey guys, what took ya?" Aaron asked. "What took us!? You ran up a wall! Care to explain that?" Shepard asked.
"Oh, uh… gift?" Aaron asked weakly.
Shepard crossed his arms. This one was starting to prove more troublesome than he was worth. "Really? I'd like to see a friend that gives biotics like that"
"Bi-what?"
"Biotics… you don't have any?"
"Don't even know what they are"
"That's impossible! You must have some implants!"
"Can we just go to your ship?" Aaron asked.
"Sure thing… but this isn't over…" Shepard said as they walked away. When they're backs were turned, Aaron saw the salarian try to climb over the counter, and shot him with the stun gun again, before holstering his weapons and walking after them.
"…Anyone else smell cooked salarian?" Shepard asked suddenly as the aroma hit his nose.
"Nah… must be in your head" Aaron smirked as the trio made their way to the ship.
When they reached the ship, Aaron was dubious of it. Shepard assured him the Normandy looked bigger on the inside, but it was smaller than most of the ships he had seen, having a sleek, elongated body, with four huge engines in the back. One of the bird things Aaron had seen walked up to them, clad in blue armor and some weird hologram over his eye. "Shepard, glad to see your back. Who's this?" a probably he asked.
Shepard put a warm smile on. "Hey, Garrus. This is Aaron… the soldier that killed the reaper"
Aaron held his hands up in defense. "Whoa whoa whoa, Shepard, I'm not a soldier"
"Your not?"
"Naw… more of a… freelancer, I guess"
"Well, you must be one hell of a freelancer to kill Sovereign. You wouldn't believe what we had to go through to kill just someone under his control… Garrus Vakarian" Garrus said, shaking Aaron's hand with a three-fingered one.
"You believe me that easily? It took me a whole whopping five seconds to convince Shepard…" Aaron mused.
"Well, I've been through a lot with him. If he believes you, I believe you. Shall we head into the Normandy?" Garrus asked.
"Yeah, cleared everything up with the council. We're set to go" Shepard said as they boarded the Normandy.
When they arrived in the CIC room, Aaron was a little shocked. There were crew members everywhere, manning orange terminals or just working on parts of the ship, all clad in similar uniforms that reminded Aaron too much of the suits his old crew wore on the stolen ship before he wound up here. "Jeez… you got a pretty big crew… where's the funny guy?" Aaron asked.
"What do you mean?" Shepard asked.
"Well… it's just I need someone with a high-optimistic spirit to pal around with. Please tell me you have one…"
"You'll definitely be looking for Joker"
"…Come again?"
"Our pilot, Jeff 'Joker" Moureau. I think you'll get along with him just fine" Shepard said.
"Oh… okay, different Joker, I'll be sure to give him a visit" Aaron sighed in relief.
Shepard frowned upon seeing Aaron's street cloths... and how ancient they were. "You want to get out of those cloths? They aren't exactly modern…" he noted.
"The cloths stay with me" Aaron snapped.
The commander shrugged. "Okay, fine. I'll let you familiarize yourself with the crew. You need me, I'll be in my cabin" he said, before getting in and disappearing in the elevator. Aaron shrugged and walked around the galaxy map, walking down a small corridor, terminals with people manning them waving to Aaron, which he waved back to. He eventually arrived in a very complicated-looking cockpit to see a normal-looking man with a hat and shaved beard sitting in a chair as they took off for space, seeing nothing but blackness and stars as they sped through space towards a weird, spinning thing.
"What's that?" Aaron asked.
The pilot swiveled in his metal chair and gazed at Aaron's sunglassed eyes with a confused look. "Your kidding? Really? No? Are you serious?… Your serious, aren't you?" Joker asked with a jovial-sounding voice.
"I'm kinda new here…" Aaron said.
"Jeez, I know you're the new guy, but you've been living under a rock? That's a mass relay"
"…What's it do?"
"Oh, you'll see. Hang on tight!" Joker shouted as the ship flew up to it, the relay seemingly engulfing them in blue electricity as it slingshot them through space. Aaron felt a little nauseous from the feeling. "Heh, first-time users always feel like that. Anyway… how do you not know what a mass relay is? They're kinda common knowledge" Joker asked.
"Oh, well… I don't get out much. I'm Aaron" Aaron said, shaking Joker's hand. He immediately winced in pain.
"Agh! Watch the arm!" Joker shouted, cringing and holding his arm.
"Ah jeez, what, do you have brittle bone disease?" Aaron questioned.
"Yes!"
"…Really? Ouch, sorry man, I didn't…" Aaron said sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck in a awkward manner.
"It's fine. You get used to your bones being made out of glass"
"Heh, I guess. Man, Killbane could have killed you with one finger, dude"
"Killbane? What's a Killbane?"
"Oh, Luchador dude I killed"
"Luchador? As in Mexican wrestler? Why'd you kill one of those?"
"He was the leader of a Luchador gang I had to end that were causing problems"
"Right… and how'd you kill him?"
"Fire razor whip"
"Riiiight… and who are you again?"
"Aaron… the guy that killed the reaper…"
"Yeaaahhh… well, I gotta fly the ship, so… see ya around, Aaron" Joker said, waving him off as he swiveled back to the terminals. Aaron shrugged and walked to the elevator, intending to head to the floor under him to the mess hall, but accidentally hit the button to go to engineering, and shrugged as it went down. When the doors opened, Aaron walked out and explored the deck, finding Tali from before hard at work at one of the terminals. "'Sup… you?" Aaron asked.
Tali turned from her terminal and glanced at Aaron. "Hm? Oh, hey Aaron. It's Tali, by the way. Why'd you stop by?"
"Oh, I hit the wrong button on the elevator and decided to explore while I was down here. Why I every terminal here orange…?" Aaron asked. Ever since his encounter with Zinyak and the alien's love of the color red and orange, he hated both. Severely.
"Why does it matter?" she asked.
"I. hate. Red. And. Orange. Anyway, I was wondering… do you have like… I dunno… some book on alien species?"
"You mean the codex? Why?"
"…Well… I don't really know anything here…"
"Define 'anything'"
"I don't know what Garrus is"
"What the… he's a turian!"
"You see, I don't know what that is"
"…Hold on a second, hold this" Tali said, handing him a data pad and firing her Omni-tool up. "Okay, what's this?" Tali asked, causing an image of a blue alien chick to appear on the data pad.
"Uh… blue chick" Aaron guessed.
"Asari…Okay, and this?"
"Giant, scary lizard dude"
"Krogan…This…?"
"Man I don't know, short dude in a weird suit… okay, seriously, what the hell is that thing?"
"It's a volus. And this?"
"Male Kinzie"
"Who's that?"
"Scary hacker girl I know"
"Oh, how is she?"
"Probably dead" Aaron muttered. He'd be lying if he said he knew she was alive. For all he knew the Saints were dead, being captured by the hands of the zin. He knew Boss could handle himself, but... he didn't know...
On the other hand if what Boss said was true, Johnny Gat was supposedly still alive, so if the Saints had him and Boss helping out with the zin, they should be fine.
However there was still the point of Boss being gone in order to have been able to acquire Gat, leaving the Saints without them. He knew Pierce and Shaundie, and he didn't doubt King, but other than that all the other surviving Saints were new to him. He didn't know Asha, or Matt, Kinzie freaked him out... Keith David was a actor, so he didn't know what to say about him, plus he reminded Aaron too much of Julius... and as for CID, the robot Boss got from the simulation, he was absolutely useless being a floating metal ball. But... if Boss trusted them... Aaron shook his head. They would be fine... not that he could even do anything to help them anyway.
"…Oh… sorry" Tali murmured, twiddling her hands in nervousness.
"Eh, it's okay" Aaron assured, getting out of his thoughts. "She kinda scared me anyway"
After a long moment of silence, the mechanic continued. "Anywaaay… this is a batarian"
"Who the hell names these things?"
"Themselves. Do you know what this is?"
"I know I'm gonna kill one the second I see one"
"You probably shouldn't do that… it's a vorcha…"
"Jeez, even their names make me wanna kill them…"
"You know what, can I just see your Omni-tool?"
"Ah boy, not this again, I don't have a glowy thingy!" Aaron yelled in frustration.
"Wait… how do… you not… have an Omni-tool…?"
"They don't have them where I came from!"
"That's impossible… unless… keelah, you weren't kidding when you said you were from a different universe, were you?"
"Not really, no"
Tali's silver orbs widened. "This is amazing! I mean, there always were theories on cross-dimensional travel, but to see it for myself… how did you get here?"
"I shot a cube"
"That's it?… you shot a cube…?"
"Yep, that pretty much sums it up"
"…Wait, what year was your universe in?"
"I think it was… uh… 2018... Ish?"
"Wait… in this time period humans had very low tech at that time… what was yours like?"
"The most advanced thing we had at the time was a jet that shot lasers"
"Than how does that explain how you got here? And you powers and gear?"
"Getting to that. Everything was peaceful… sort of... until the zin came…"
"Zin?"
"Aliens who invaded us, and captured the best and the brightest of us, putting us in virtual simulations of our own hell's…"
"Keelah, that sounds horrible… what was your like?"
"It was horrible… a 1950's sitcom…" Aaron shuddered upon remembering the simulation.
"…Seriously?"
"Hey, don't judge! A place where my curses were bleeped with no violence and cheesy outfits. And it wasn't the worst. My friend Pierce was stuck in a world where giant soda cans were trying to kill him. Anyway, we escaped… then found out Earth was blown up"
"What…?"
"Yeah, atomized. Nothing left. Anyway, I hopped back into the simulation, hoping I could break it from the inside, where a friend of mine, Matt Miller, hooked me up with the gear and powers. I was in a simulation, so it wasn't real. But the zin found us, and digitized my body. Right before I was completely digitized, I shot the cube, a zin called it a trans-dimensional cube, and my digital dust was sucked into a wormhole thing. Then my simulation body reformed, and I wound up here"
"Wow… so, you know what it's like to lose your homeworld"
"Whatcha talking 'bout, Tali?"
"You see, we quarians used to have a home planet, until we built the geth… artificial constructs we could use as slaves… but they were becoming self-aware, and we decided to destroy them, but it was too late: in the resulting war, we lost our home planet to them. We wander in a fleet of ships, confined for our entire lives in these suits, due to our weakened immune system. A cold for us is a death sentence"
"Jeez, that's harsh… well, at least your planet isn't molten debris in space"
"Yeah… we're hoping to reclaim it someday, but from the looks of things… that won't happen for awhile" Tali didn't know what to think of Aaron anymore. She could tell a liar from someone telling the truth, and she knew he was telling the truth. And honestly, she felt sad for him. At least the quarians had hope of someday reclaiming their world, but Aaron... he didn't have one to return to. He wasn't even in the same world anymore...
"…So… awkward moment aside… you think you could hook me up with one of those Omni-things?" Aaron interrupted.
"Well, I'm sure their might be a spare one around somewhere. Ask Shepard. And… keep the date pad. You can read about the different species, and, well… everything else"
"Yeah, thanks… seeya, Tali" Aaron said as he waved off, Tali waving back, and smiling a little in her suit.
'Jeez, I didn't realize how serious everyone here is… ooh, there's Garrus. He better not be morbid too…' Aaron thought as he came to the mess hall, seeing Garrus sitting at a table, Aaron sitting down with him.
"Aaron" Garrus greeted.
"'Sup, Garrus?" Aaron asked. "Oh, nothing much. You know, the usual: drinking away my sorrows and calibrations"
"Calibrations?" Aaron asked, a confused look on his face.
"Yeah, the guns on the Normandy always need to be calibrated. It's a time passer" he said, his mandibles flaring in what Aaron assumed was a dreamy fashion.
"…I have a feeling you have a weird fetish with calibrations…" Aaron muttered.
"Do not!" Garrus yelled, a flustered look on his face.
"Uh-huh, yeah, anyway, I was bored, so… wanna talk?"
"Actually, I was wondering, can I see your sword?"
"Huh?"
"Well, it's just that a sword that can cut a reaper apart… well, the implications are endless. New mining tools, new knives, possible upgrade and more calibrations to the cannons…"
"Jesus, here, just look at it!" Aaron yelled, activating and giving him the blade. Garrus's eyes widened as he studied the blade, chuckling in his gravelly-like voice.
"Spirits, what did it take to get a blade like this?" he asked in awe. "It was kinda just given to me"
"What anyone wouldn't do for a blade like this… is this blade made of pure plasma?"
"Hell if I know, could be made of plasma, could be made a blue saints flow, why?"
"It's just that the entire Citadel fleet couldn't even scratch the damn reaper… and you cut it apart in minutes. I was just wondering what substance in this universe could actually do that"
"Uh… computer code?"
"Alright, stop kidding around, I was wondering… would you care if I borrowed this"
"Very"
"Oh… it's just… turian labs would be very interested in this…"
"If you think your taking the only lazor razor in the universe to be experimented on and turned into super weapons, your sorely mistaken"
"The only in the universe… where did thing even come from?"
"Friend made it"
"Must be a pretty high-up friend… this thing is amazing…" Garrus said, handing the sword back. "If you think this is amazing, I got this cube that turns into a bunch of other guns"
"…Show me…" Aaron complied, taking the O.M.G out and turning it into various guns, Garrus not moving.
"You okay…?" Aaron asked, concerned.
"….So many calibrations must have been made to that gun…" Garrus muttered.
"And you believe this guy?" Shepard asked Tali as they waited in the elevator.
"Well, it makes sense, Shepard. I mean, look at everything from the way he speaks to what he wears to his weapons: he acts like people from that time, dresses in cloths no-one even sells anymore, and has tech beyond what we have: face it, he's not from this dimension"
"Don't forget the fact he can run up walls… yeah, you're right, that kind of tech is hard to keep under wraps, and I think that if swords like that were made here, we would have seen them" Shepard said in defeat as the elevator arrived at it's destination, and they walked into the messhall to see a discomforted Aaron and a dreamy-looking Garrus.
"Uh, Shepard… I think I broke Garrus…" Aaron said weakly.
"What did you do…?" Shepard demanded.
"Nothing! I just showed him my O.M.G and he flipped on about calibrations"
"The O.M.G?" Tali asked. Aaron sighed, holding the cube out and turning it into the all-rapid fire cyborg pistol, a rapid-fire, sleek, black small machine of death.
"…You showed him a cube that turns into a gun?" Shepard deadpanned.
"Oh, it's much more than that! Do you have a firing range of sorts?"
"Right this way" Shepard smiled, beckoning for Aaron, Tali, and Garrus to follow him to the elevator.
After an incredibly long elevator ride, they arrived at a targeting range, a dozen virtual human-shaped targets appearing. "Okay, let's see what you got" Shepard said.
"Well, I got my cyborg pistol…" Aaron said, shooting all the targets with the extremely rapid-fire gun while more targets spawned.
"Whoa, wait, is that an old projectile human gun? With gunpowder?" Tali asked.
"What? They still kill" Aaron defended.
"Good luck finding ammo for that here"
"Actually, I think Matt designed this so it has unlimited ammo. Must be a simulation hack he did"
"Is there something I'm missing here?" Garrus asked.
"I'll tell you later" Shepard said.
"Anyway, I also got the disintegrator gun, which vaporizes any target with one shot" Aaron said, forming said gun and vaporizing the targets. "There's a bunch others, but my personal favorite, and great and parties, is the dubstep gun!" Aaron said, forming a back gun that looked like a advanced techno-radio of sorts.
"Wait, dubstep gun?" Tali asked, sounding incredulous.
"Yep- industrial dubstep with the power of explosive wubs"
"Okay, there's no way that thing shoots explosive music"
"Just watch me" Aaron said, charging up the gun and firing it, industrial dubstep music coming from the gun as purple and blue streams and projectiles flew out of the gun with each beat, each one exploding when they connected with a target. They all looked at the gun in shock- Tali actually liking the music, reminding her a little bit of the music at Flux. He powered the gun down and turned it back into a cube, smiling coyly at them. "So… what do you think?" Aaron asked.
"…I can't even see how that's possible…" Tali gasped.
"You think that's amazing, wait 'till you see me shoot fireballs out of my hands"
"What?" she asked as he shot a fire blast at the targets, setting them aflame.
"What kind of biotics are those?" Garrus asked in amazement as Aaron patted said turian on the back as he walked away.
"I think Tali can fill you in, I got some reading to do on this data pad here, so we can talk later" Aaron said as he went inside of the elevator, pressing a button to send it upwards.
Aaron was in the messhall again, sitting at the table while reading the data pad to find out what the history, species, and current technology was, and had to say, was surprised. Based on what he had read from the reapers, they were machines from millions… billions… possibly trillions of years ago… coming back when organic life was at it's pinnacle, only to exterminate them. It seemed sick. It seemed like what the zin had done to humans from his old universe… only this was on a galactic scale instead of a planetary one. Hell, Zinyak most likely destroyed other planets before he got to Earth. But still, these reapers… they needed to die, and Aaron was happy he had shown them he can easily cut apart one of them. Based on what he read, it was theorized no race had ever killed one reaper. He took out one single-handedly without breaking a sweat. Aaron, Shepard… hell, everyone on the Normandy were the only ones in the entire galaxy taking this seriously. They were literally all of the galaxy's only hope. '…I failed to save my Earth… I won't fail this one' Aaron thought as Shepard approached him.
"So, what do you think?" Shepard asked.
"I say… I can't wait 'till I get to cut apart another reaper" Aaron said with a sick smirk.
"Hah, that's the spirit!" Shepard chortled, then said, "Hey, if it's not too much to ask, can you… come to the med bay with me?"
"Why? I'm not injured or sick"
"Well, you obviously have some implants that make you the way you are. I just want to the good doctor to analyze you, see what makes you so strong"
"So what? You can make everyone on this ship like me? That's kinda selfish, Shepard"
"If everyone had implants like you, we could decimate the reapers"
"It won't work anyway- I don't have implants, these powers were downloaded into me"
"Can you just come with me anyway?"
"Pfft, whatever, man…" Aaron sighed as he was led to the medbay across from them. They entered and Aaron saw an aged woman with white hair working on a terminal, who saw them enter and smile.
"Oh, you must be Aaron! I'm Dr. Chakwas, and I'm the Normandy's med officer. Shepard expressed his concerns with your apparent augments, now, if you would just please sit down here…" the doctor said, gesturing to a operating bed, to which Aaron shrugged and sat down at, his legs dangling over the edge. Chakwas nodded, pulling her Omni-tool up and scanning him, then frowned. "Hm, that's strange… it's saying that your not even… wait, let me just try to…" she said, wheeling an medical instrument in front of him, the machine humming as it scanned him, Chakwas wearing a now shocked face. "This… this can't be… Aaron, can I see you arm…?" she asked. Aaron shrugged, giving her his arm as she took a scalpel.
"Hey, what are you- ow, that kinda hur- WHAT THE HELL!?" Aaron shouted as she cut his arm, and instead of blood flowing out, blue light leaked out of the slit she made in his forearm, hundreds of small, blue, square pixels leaking out of the cut, before the pixels sealed the wound, the cut seemingly regenerated.
"…Aaron… what was that…?" Chakwas asked with a shaky voice.
"What was that!? That's what I want to know!" Aaron yelled. He looked over at Shepard, who looked to be in heavy thinking, before he activated his Omni-tool.
"Hey, Tali, can you come up here?" Shepard asked the Omni-tool.
"Uh, sure, why?" the voice of Tali said through the Omni-tool.
"Just… we have a situation with Aaron… can you just come up?"
"Yeah, just give me a minute" she answered. Ten minutes later, Tali walked in, Garrus tailing her.
"Garrus wanted to see what was wrong too. So what's the problem?" she asked.
"This!" Aaron yelled, slashing his arm with the scalpel, blue pixels leaking out, then the wound healing.
"Spirits…" Garrus gasped.
"Keelah… Aaron, what is this?" Tali asked.
"That's what I want to know!" Aaron yelled.
"Chakwas, what did you see on the bio-monitors?" Shepard asked. Chakwas was silent for a moment, with a stunned look on her face, before she answered,
"…W-well, it was like… he didn't have anything organic in him… it was like I was looking at the anatomy of a hologram…" Tali put a gloved hand and rubbed the place on her helmet where her chin was, before she spoke up,
"Aaron, you said the aliens that attacked you, they said they… 'digitized' you before you came here. Exactly what happened?"
"They turned my body into blue pixels, hoping to trap me in the simulation… and the pixels were sucked into that vortex, forming this body and dumped me here…"
"I have a guess I'd like to throw out: Perhaps… when you were digitized, they were already forming your body in the simulation, and when your… let's say, 'essence' was swept in, your simulation body formed due to what you were going to turn into. I don't know- it's just theory and speculation, but without having the technology they had, there's no way to be certain. But one thing is clear- you're a digital body, Aaron"
"Say wha?"
"Your body is nothing but digital code it seems. Your… quite literally a physical manifestation of digitation"
"Wait wait wait, hold up, that doesn't make any sense. How is it I function like a normal human and have thought if I'm just made of pixels"
"Have you eaten anything since you've came here? Or drunken anything?"
"Well… no…"
"Have you had the urge to… well, go to the bathroom, or any other organic need?"
"Uh…"
"Have you even been breathing?"
"On habit, but… I don't think I need to… but I'm still confused"
"Well, think of it like this: Basically, you function the same way you would in the simulation, but in the real world. In another dimension, I might add"
"Anyone mind filling me in?" Garrus asked, raising a three-taloned hand.
"I'll tell you later, Garrus. Aaron, are you okay?" Tali asked upon seeing Aaron hold his head in his hands.
"Yeah, yeah… it's just weird… you know, knowing you're a computer program… look, I'm just gonna… go to my room, hit the sack, just try to cope with all this. See y'all later" Aaron said, waving and walking out of the medbay into his room.
"You think he'll be okay?" Tali asked Shepard, concern written in her voice.
"Well, personally, I don't know what his life was like before this happened, but he seems like a tough kid"
"He does seem young, doesn't he? He almost looks sixteen" Garrus remarked.
"I'll… try to talk to him later, I guess. I need to work in engineering, see you all later" Tali said, walking out.
Aaron was sleeping in his bed, half of his body hanging off of it. Tali was right- he didn't need to breath, or ever got exhausted, hungry or thirsty, ect. But he still slept and breathed out of habit. He snapped awake and tumbled out of bed when a knock at his door woke him up. "…Yeah…" Aaron called from inside.
"Aaron, it's Tali. You've been asleep for three weeks"
"The hell- you serious!?" Aaron yelled, jumping from the bed and immediately opening the door.
"Yeah, we all thought you needed time to cope… then we were worried that you had died of shock, so I went to get you. Plus Wrex wanted to see the 'Man who chopped the reaper apart with a sword'"
"Who's Wrex?"
"A krogan battle master, honestly, he scares me sometimes. He wanted to fight you"
"Is he suicidal?"
"You know krogan- he's old, and always looking for worthy people to fight him. He'll be in the lower deck if you want him" she said, walking away. Aaron shook his head, shrugging, and heading towards the elevator. When it arrived at the lower deck, it opened to a makeshift sparring area of sports, a scarred krogan clad in red body armor minus a helmet waiting for him, pounding his fists together.
"You must be the gut they keep yapping about. I'm Wrex" the krogan said, smiling smugly.
"Aaron. You wanted to fight?" he asked, stepping into the ring.
Shepard, Tali, Garrus, Ashley, Pressly, Joker, and a few other crew members were in the cockpit, watching through the cameras as the two beings on the monitors circled each-other. "This guy suicidal or something?" Joker asked.
"All I know, someone's gonna die…" Garrus mumbled.
"Hey, shut up, they're starting! Man, they better not trash my baby…" Joker moaned.
"You know it's impossible for you to win, right?" Aaron asked Wrex. Said being chuckled.
"We shall see. No biotics" he said as he rushed the virtual being. Aaron shook his head, then in a blurry motion, hit the krogan in the face… causing him to fly backwards, hitting the wall behind him. '
"And… it's over" Aaron remarked.
The crew members in the cockpit stared in disbelief at what just happened. "…Did he just… punch him into a wall…?" Tali asked, stunned.
Shepard chuckled. "Well, he did cut a reaper apart. You have to be pretty strong to do that"
"I'm pretty sure the sword did most of the work. I'm pretty sure that thing is made of pure plasma"
"You realize that thing was made in a simulation? It's made of whatever Aaron's made of"
"Still, it's a pretty nice sword"
Aaron was walking away when he heard a chuckle from behind him. He turned his head as Wrex got up, blue-purple energy flaring over his body. "Huh, so those are biotics, eh? I thought you said no biotics?"
"I'll use mine if you use yours" he said, firing a ball of energy at Aaron, who caught the ball, absorbing the energy inside of him. Wrex, the crew in the cockpit, and even Aaron looked at his hand in shock.
"Okaaay… I dunno what that was… but I feel… better…" Aaron said as he fired a fire blast at wrex, knocking him back to the floor. The krogan tried to get back up, he used telekinesis to pick him up, electricity arcing around his body as Aaron threw Wrex around, ending with Aaron bashing him into the wall and throwing him on the ground, then shaking his head as he went to the elevator, hitting the button to go to his room.
When someone knocked at his door, he put his data pad down and went to it, opening the door to reveal Tali and Shepard. "You know you put Wrex in a concussion, right? I didn't even know it was possible for a krogan to get a concussion" Shepard remarked, crossing his arms. "Well, the guy wanted a fight, and I gave him a fight"
"And what was that when you absorbed his biotic attack? You absorbed pure eezo, you know" Tali said.
"I dunno. When I was on the ship in my old universe, Boss said that he absorbed the code of some 'wardens' and got their powers. Maybe that's what I'm doing- eezo is like real-world code, and I'm absorbing it, gaining more power"
"Can you use it?" Shepard asked.
"Yeah, but just barely. The most I can do is send a small bullet-sized ball out that's about as fast as a feather falling, and even that takes a lot of that weird black energy out of me"
"Black energy?" Tali asked. "Yeah, it seems that when my body uses eezo, it turns it from a blue-purple energy to pure black energy, with a cyan hue"
"And you can't use much?"
"I think it's like this: when I absorb people's biotic energy, I think it permanently increases my gauge of dark energy. I can use it up, but it has to… er, 'regenerate', as it is, to my current gauge level. I don't think it can go down, just up"
"That's… amazing, you can just absorb and use eezo like that?" Tali asked.
"Yeah, I think. It's weird, it's like… it's like when I use telekinesis, my brain tingles, like it's burning a bit… I know I don't have a brain, sort of, but that's what it feels like, but across my entire body. Not burning, just… tingling. It's pretty awesome. I can't do much now, but absorb more of this biotic stuff, and I think it can strip me up with all kinds of neat tricks"
"…Well, I'm sure you'll have plenty of opportunities, but for now-" he was interrupted when the ship shuddered, and alarms started blaring, red emergency lights lighting up across the ship.
"What the hell's happening!?" Aaron yelled over the blaring.
"The ship is taking a beating! Everyone evacuate! Evacuate now!" Joker's voice said from over the loudspeakers as the ship shook again.
"Damn, I gotta go get Joker, there's no-way he'll leave this ship that easily, just go, now!" Shepard yelled as he ran away in order to get Joker.
"Oh shit, ship's on fire yo, we gotta bounce!" Aaron yelled at Tali as an explosion went off besides them. She nodded as they headed towards the lower levels. An explosion was heard above them as debris fell towards Tali. "Damn, watch out!" Aaron yelled as he took the lazor razor out and slashed the debris away and grabbed her arm and pulled her towards the escape pods.
"Ow! Aaron, you don't have to pull so hard, I know we're in a hurry!"
"Oh I'm sorry, would you like me to wait 'till the ship stops exploding? Get in the damn pod, woman!" he yelled as he shoved her in, and saw Garrus run from a hallway, and beckoned him into the pod as a few more crew members filled it, causing everyone but Aaron to strap in and the pod to close, the ship shooting it into space. When Aaron looked through the viewport, he saw what looked like a giant, almost organic and insect-looking ship shooting yellow beams into the Normandy, setting it aflame.
"Spirits… Aaron, did you see Shepard make it out?" Garrus asked said virtual being, shock and worry laced in his voice.
"He had to get Joker, hang on" he answered the turian, turning the O.M.G and turned it into a sniper rifle, looking through the scope at the wrecked ship. He saw Shepard throw an injured Joker into an escape pod and launch it… right before the ship exploded, launching Shepard's body into the planet below, his body burning in the atmosphere, and also saw air escape his suit. Whether he died from the heat or lack of oxygen, Aaron didn't know. Either way, Aaron came to one conclusion: Even if he survived the heat and oxygen, the landing would kill him. In short: Shepard was a dead man now. "Okay, I see him… ship exploded… he's falling… falling… and he's running out of oxygen… heading towards the planet… burning up in atmosphere... yeah, he's dead" Aaron said, turning to the crew members. They all had either grim or sad looks on their faces. He couldn't see Tali's, but he swore he could see a tear go down her face. "So, uh… anyone know what that ship was?" Aaron asked, trying to change the topic.
"I've never seen anything like it… what the hell was that thing?" Garrus asked.
"I dunno, it looked like a giant, legless ant shooting lasers… wish I had a pet that cool…" Aaron said, then winced when he saw the cold stairs the crew members gave him. He saw other escape pods full of the other crew fly past them, then banged his head on the window. "So… any idea how long 'till we hit the next colony?" Aaron asked.
"Could be a couple days…" Tali said glumly.
"…Son of a bitch!" Aaron yelled as the pod flew away into space.
Two years later
In an ally on Omega, an asari commando was running for her life, away from the madman chasing her. She was part of Eclipse, one of the main mercenary gangs, and she and her squad had been assigned the mission of taking out a prime target said to be hiding on Omega, so she and four human mercs had tracked him down and shot him. Problem was, when they shot him, he just seemed to shrug the bullets off. Then he froze one human merc, set another on fire, then picked the other two up by the throat and threw them to god-knows where, and now she was cornered, nothing but wall ahead of her, her only exit blocked by a man with sparking black electricity hued cyan, chuckling darkly. "You look tasty… by you, I mean your eezo… eh?" he said as he heard footsteps behind him, and turned his head to see two more commando's behind him.
"Damn, what is this guy?" one asari asked.
"He looks like a child, almost… whatever, just kill him so we can get paid" the other said, both firing actual revenants at hit. He turned his body and held his arms out, causing a circular ripple to form in the air around his hands, hued by black electricity, the shield catching the bullets and turning them into warp shots, firing the bullets back at one commando, killing her. The other sent a warp biotic at him, which he actually caught, the blue-purple ball turning into his signature black and blue, throwing the warp back at her, the ball exploding and killing her. He turned to the original commando and chuckled, the asari suddenly floating in the air as her body shot forwards towards him, his hand grasping her face as black and blue electricity arced around her body, blue and purple energy flooding from the asari into the electric man. When he was done, the commando's body was shriveled and dead, and he tossed it away.
"Well, she didn't have much in her… probably shouldn't have killed hose other two…" the man said as he let the black and blue lightning arc around his , he decided his tome here was done, and turned around to leave.
"Aaron" said a voice from behind him.
"…Eh…?" Aaron said, shutting his dark eezo off and turning, only to be shocked by who was behind him. There were three of them. One was a salarian he didn't recognize with a horn missing. Another was a woman wearing a skintight black and white outfit he also didn't recognize. The last he definitely did recognize. The familiar stock form, black armor and red N7 insignia on his shoulder. In the middle of the group was Commander Shepard. Aaron chuckled and shook his head, walking up to them. "Don't tell me I'm seeing ghosts now, I saw you die right through my scope" Aaron said, holding his hand out.
"Cerberus revived me" Shepard said simply, shaking the virtual being's hand.
Aaron pulled his hand away instantly. "That's it? Two effin' years, and all you have to say is, 'Cerberus revived me?' Man, the hell's wrong with you? Also, Cerberus?" Aaron asked upon seeing the yellow insignia on the woman's shoulder.
"Problem?" she asked.
"Yeah, I'm wondering why Shepard is hanging around with a terrorist organization"
"What are you implying? Cerberus is not a terrorist organization" she said in a disgusted tone.
"Okay, first of all, I think I've killed enough terrorists to know what makes one. I used to run with the Saints, who many thought were terrorists… 'till we saved America… plus, you guys have been gunning for me for two years, I should kill you right now"
"Cerberus is only looking out for what's best of humanity. Your unique powers were a prime candidate for our research, we were only asking for a few blood samples"
"I don't even have blood! And you asked me while pointing guns at me"
"I beg to differ"
"Oh really? 'Cause the first memory I have of you guys is a fire team blowing my apartment on the citadel up"
"As I recall, that apartment wasn't even yours!"
"Bitch, I don't care! I even tracked down some of your research labs! Shepard, you should have seen the torture their test subjects were going through! They can't be trusted!"
"That's a lie! Cerberus would never do that! And don't you dare call me 'bitch!'"
"Oh, I'll call you what I want! I saw this one girl, cute girl… 'till I saw her tied to a operating bed, a machine shooting thousands of needles into her face. What was her name, Inali I think…?"
"You don't know anything!" the woman said through clenched teeth, biotics flaring around her body.
"Bitch, your trippin' if you think you can take me" Aaron said, turning his O.M.G into a black .45 Fletcher pistol and pointing it at her face.
"Shepard. You didn't mention he had such a temper. Very… unsettling" the salarian said very rapidly.
"Aaron, stand down!" Shepard yelled.
"You don't have any authority over me, Shepard"
"I thought you wanted to destroy the reapers"
"Not with Cerberus! Besides, no-one has seen one single reaper. What could you possibly want my help with?"
"You know about the human colonies that have been disappearing?"
"Yeah, why?"
"We know who's been taking them" Aaron immediately holstered his O.M.G and looked Shepard dead in the eye. "You better not be lying, Shepard"
"I'm not. Cerberus is the only one taking the disappearances seriously, and I'm working with them to figure out who's taking them, and stop them"
"…Heh, Shepard… I still think I should kill the Illusive Man… but I guess I can put it off for now. Fine, I'll join ya… but you better keep her in line" Aaron said, gesturing to the woman. "It's nice to meet you to, Aaron. I'm Miranda Lawson"
"Ah, Jack's little pet project"
"…Jack…?"
"Jack Harper, the Illusive Man's real name. You'd be surprised how busy I've been the last two years" he saw Miranda sputter, and she raised a hand to slap him. He shook his head in pity as he telepathically lifted her into the air.
"Hey, put me down!" she yelled.
"Say your sorry for pathetically trying to slap me"
"I will not!"
"Aw, come on, don't be such a sourpuss…"
"Aaron, do you think you could put her down…?"
"Shepard, shut up, I'm getting my apology"
"AARON!" Shepard yelled, causing him to drop Miranda.
"Alright, alright, sorry, jeez… anyway!" Aaron said, clapping his hands together. "So, exactly what's the plan? I mean, what are we doing?"
"Before I say that, what were you doing to those asari?"
"Oh, them? You know how I absorb eezo to increase my own supply? Well, I've been hunting asari mercs for awhile, sapping their energy. I apparently can also absorb my dark energy from any eezo source. And… well, the religious hierarchy apparently put it in the 'code' to kill me on sight, so now I got justicar's hunting me down, trying to kill me. Not that they ever have. Or ever could. Plus it's no skin off my back, justicar's have a lot of eezo, so it's a nice boost. Although, I don't know who wants to kill me enough that they're sending mercs with fucking revenants after me, not even Cerberus pulled that much funding to bag me, and pretty much everyone in the galaxy wants me dead, so your guess is as good as mine"
"Everyone?"
"Yep, everyone: Blue suns, Eclipse, Asari code thing, salarian STG wanting to study me, that blood pack or whatever, Cerberus, fifth fleet, shadow broker, Alliance, all of the PMC's, bounty hunters, pretty much every security agency on every colony, every krogan, spectr agency, so yeah, everyone"
"-whistle- man, Aaron, you've been busy. What have you been doing?"
"Pretty much what I always did in my old, er... place" Aaron corrected upoin glancing Miranda, "but across the galaxy. You know, thievery, insurance fraud, gang hits, pyrotechnic crimes, political assassination, blowin' shit up, kidnapping, ransom, war crimes, reckless driving, grand theft auto of mostly dreadnaught ships, acquiring sensitive information the council has tried to get me killed for knowing, piracy, A LOT of murder, threatening to kill the council, don't really know if this is a crime but absorption of eezo, illegal mining for eezo, killing miners when I didn't feel like paying them… some of those I didn't do in my old place, but most of it I did" Everyone's jaw was hanging open upon hearing all of the atrocities he had committed. "…Wha?" he asked. "Um… Aaron… um… I'm starting to regret finding you if I didn't need your help…"
"What? I only kill people everyone wants dead anyway. So, I'll ask again, what are we doing?"
"We're gathering up the old gang so we can fight the collectors"
"…Who…?"
"Right, forgot you aren't informative in these things, I'll explain later, right now, we need to get a guy by the name of archangel"
"Oh, I've heard of him, wanted to meet him, probably make a homie of him… anyway, where to?"
"First, Miranda, I think this might work better if you weren't on this mission, can you go back to the ship"
"Sure thing, Shepard…" she said, shooting Aaron a nasty glare as she walked away.
"Anyway, we have to go to the Afterlife to talk to the apparent 'ruler of Omega', come on" he said, leading them to the club. When they arrived, he pointed to the top of the club, where a asari with bodyguards surrounding her were located.
"I'll take care of this" Aaron said, walking to the stairs.
"We need her alive, Aaron" Shepard warned.
"Yeah, yeah…" Aaron waved off as he ascended the stairs. He was about to walk up to the asari, but a batarian bodyguard stopped him. "Out of the way, four eyes" Aaron warned. The asari in the chair chuckled.
"You don't say that to my personal bodyguard. Make no mistake, he'll throw you out the nearest airlock"
"Oh, really?" Aaron said, grabbing the batarian by the neck, much to his protest, and chucking him across the club, causing the loud music in the club to stop and everyone to stare. Aaron walked up to the asari, stabbing a turian guard with his sword, and shooting another with his O.M.G pistol.
"…I guess your new around here. There's one rule, ONE rule everyone around here needs to follow. Nobody. Fucks. With. Aria" she said, biotics flaring around her.
"Except me" Aaron said, dark eezo flaring around his body.
"What?" Aria spat.
"Well, you see, nobody but me fucks with you. You see, I'm kinda the guy everyone in the galaxy wants to kill, and you think I don't have the power to stay alive this long? There is no-one in this galaxy more powerful than me, I'm more than a match against a reaper! If I wanna ask you a damn question, I'm gonna ask you one, bitch" she chuckled darkly, before saying,
"Well, I'd like to prove you wrong" she said before sending a shockwave of eezo energy at him… Aaron quickly absorbing the eezo.
"What the-!" Aria gasped, before Aaron stomped on the ground, causing the ground to shake as Aria was flung to the other side of the club, Aaron slowly walking over towards her.
"Aria, Aria, Aria... the first thing you need to learn about me is that I absorb eezo like vitamin D, so biotics don't do shit against me. And since you most likely don't know what the hell that is considering you probably didn't get a good education considering you're a pirate queen of one of the worst scum holes in the galaxy, vitamin D is the stuff your skin absorbs through the suns rays. Now, for the rest of you at this party, I know for a fact that there's at least ONE Cerberus plant here tailing me, I'm not an idiot, so if anyone tries to leave, I'm gonna shoot them. Now, Aria- what the fuck did I just say!?" Aaron suddenly shouted, shooting a partygoer that tried to sneak out, a Cerberus insignia on his shoulder. "Okay, barring that interruption, Aria, I would like to know the whereabouts of a certain archangel. Now, whether you tell me of your own will or I have to absorb all of the eezo out of your body while frying your brains, that's up to you. Or I could freeze one of your limbs off, I've never just frozen body parts, and I could actually use the practice-"
"Aaron, stop!" Shepard shouted, pulling him away.
"What? I was mostly kidding… sorta…"
"Look, just let me talk to her, alright? Talk to Mordin" he said, pointing to the salarian in their group while he tried to talk to Aria. Aaron shrugged, walking to the corner of the club with him, before shouting,
"Well, what are the rest of you waiting for? Intrusions over, might as well turn the music back on" Everyone shrugged as the music turned back on, Mordin the salarian grinning at him.
"What, I learned from the best crime boss where I'm from, I mean, the guy became flipping president… Shepard told you about my dimension thing, right?"
"Oh yes, Shepard told me about your predicament, find it quite interesting, especially your absorption of element zero and turning it into dark energy, especially being able to control it so well… no wonder STG wishes to acquire you"
"Jeez, you always talk this fast? Wait, Mordin, Mordin… your last name wouldn't happen to be Solus, would it?"
"Yes, it would be, why?"
"So, you were part of the STG taskforce that developed the genophage? The virus that sterilized the krogan?"
"Modified and upgraded. How would you know that? Thought those documents were destroyed…"
"Yeah, you wouldn't BELIEVE what I had to go through to get those files, it was a mess… me breaking into that research facility is the reason STG wants me anyway…"
Mordin's large insect-like eyes widened. "Who hired you to get those files? Bloodpack? Krogan warlords? Alliance?"
"Nah, I did that for fun, I was kinda bored at the time"
"…You consider infiltrating a STG research facility and stealing sensitive information while risking your own life fun?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Nothing, just things I need to consider…" Mordin finished, turning away and muttering to himself. Aaron turned around and saw Shepard approach them.
"Hey, Aria gave me a location. You busy?"
"Nah, let me just get the nutty professor here…" Aaron said, tapping on Mordin's ovular shoulder blade and pointing to Shepard.
"Anyway, he's hold up on a bridge. All of the major merc gangs are after him: Blue suns, Eclipse, and Bloodpack" Aaron raised a hand.
"Um, Shepard… you realize once those gangs see me, they'll forget archangel altogether and gun for me?"
"Oh, damn, yeah… ideas?"
"Um… okay, I'll sprint along the rooftops and meet with Archangel, while you pretend to be with one of the gangs, or a private gunman, or something. I'll protect Archy while he figures a way out, you buying time be sneaking behind enemy lines and sabotaging them or some military tactical nonsense like that, sound good?"
"That… actually sounds like it might work"
"Yep!… what do I do again?"
"Are you serious!? You came up with the plan!"
"Well… I mean, yeah… I'll remember on the way, just go, I'll get Archangel"
"You don't where he is, though…"
"I'll just look for a bridge that people are shooting a turian sniper on, how hard could it be?" Aaron asked as he ran out of the club, hopping on the buildings in the airway, sprinting from building to building, on his search for archangel.
A/N- Yeppers, I know, kinda late and a little short, but holidays and family stuff like that, you know, plus this seems like a good place to stop. And I don't really like this fic as much as the other ones I'm making. Anyway, I'm short on stuff, so anyone wants me to do a crossover on something, I'll do it. Like, I already got the main characters, I just need a different dimension to put them in, something like that. So, I'll try to write this faster without the holidays distracting me, but… out of all my fics, this one has the less motivation for me to write, I got others I've written that I haven't posted, I just need suggestions for different universes I could put them in you guys would like to see. Also, concerning Aaron and his dark eezo powers, I'm giving him a few powers from inFamous, but… well, I got something good planned, and I figured I needed to jack him up with better powers that he already had for it. And I'm always open to suggestions for anything, no matter what it is, even for the other fics I have, and the others I'm writing, anything at all would help, so I implore you, suggest your thoughts, brutally criticize me, suggest things, I need it. So without further ado, I'ma be going now. Cya!
