Hey guys, I know you probably liked the last chapter but I feel like it could've been better. So I'm revising it, please enjoy. Sorry!

Ethan's POV

Ethan awoke with a start, sweat rolling down his forehead as he felt hands on his shoulders as two glowing eyes looked down at him.

"Where am I! What happen!?" Ethan hollered out, Benny pressing his hand to his mouth as he looked towards the door and then back to him.

"Ethan, calm down! It was just a nightmare, your okay." Benny said as Ethan sat up, gripping the sheets in his hands as Glyph hovered over and did a quick scan of his body.

"Blood pressure is abnormally high Mr. Morgan, as well as heart rate." Glyph said as Ethan looked over at the small hovering robotic and then back to Benny.

"I...I have to make a quick phone call. I'm sorry if I woke you...I'll be right back." Ethan said as he got out of bed and walked out of the room, leaving behind a worried looking Benny. Ethan noticed the hallway lights were dimmed down for sleeping recruits, gripping his side as he tried to steady his breath.

"Call Commander Shepard Glyph, mark the call as urgent." Ethan whispered as he tried to keep his voice down as to not wake any other recruits.

"Of course Mr. Morgan." Glyph said as it did a quick scan of Ethan's body for the holographic call, Ethan standing there before a hologram of Shepard popped up.

"Commander Shepard reporting...Ethan? What's wrong?" Shepard said, his voice tired and weak as Ethan watched him begin to yawn.

"Shepard...I...I didn't mean to wake you if I did. I had a nightmare...I'm so confused right now." Ethan admitted as he felt a few tears crease the edges of his eyes.

"Ethan, slow down and just talk to me. What's going on, are you okay?" Shepard asked, this time more awake as he looked at Ethan.

"I don't remember much...I could hear screaming though and gunfire. It was dark...I felt alone...scared." Ethan said as he wiped at his eyes, trying to brush the memory of the vivid screams away.

"Ethan...it's okay. It was just a nightmare...there's nothing to worry about. I'm sure your just homesick is all, something all the recruits are going through. When I was going through my first few weeks of training and had to leave my mother back on the Alliance ship, it was very hard on me. You'll be back here serving with us very soon. I've already cleared it Admiral Hackett, we dock to see you on the day you go on shore leave before being shipped to the Lunar Base." Shepard said, bringing a smile to Ethan's face as he chuckled at the thought.

"Thanks...I'm sorry if I woke you up though." Ethan said, feeling a bit dejected as he looked away momentarily before looking back to Shepard who was smiling now.

"Ethan, don't be sorry. You can contact me anytime you need anything, even if you just need to tell me about your day. I'm here for you now, I'm not going anywhere, none of us are." Shepard said as Ethan smiled back at him, wishing he could embrace Shepard at that moment and press his face into his warm chest.

"I've got to go now though..I've been told tomorrow's training exercise is going to be tough, gotta be well rested." Ethan said as he straighten his posture out as Shepard nodded his head in return.

"You'll do great, go out there and knock them on their asses. Make the Normandy proud, we are all cheering for you back here." Shepard said as Ethan giggled, his mood having improved dramatically as he stood up straight and saluted Shepard

"I'll do my best, Ethan out." Ethan said before the image of Shepard disconnected, standing there a minute before turning and walking back into the room to head back to sleep.

Later That Morning

Ethan sat there in the middle of the training field, stretching his arms to his feet as he closed his eyes and ignored the small pulses of pain shooting up his leg. He could feel the weeks of training beginning to take their toll, finally being able to do certain things while feeling less pain while doing so. Ethan raised his head as he saw Nareenia and Benny running through a physical strength course, scaling a wall as they jumped down from the top and continued to run. Ethan smiled to himself before he saw a few other recruits gathering over nearby.

"Gather up recruits!" came Lorir's voice as Ethan stood up and jogged over to the gathering, seeing the Turian Admiral standing there in front of two Kodiak Shuttle Cars, equipped with plasma turrets on the side.

"Today you all with be going into a replica battlefield. This test today will showcase your team workmanship and leadership skills, while putting pressure on getting a task done in a timely manner. In a real world battlefield, every second counts. Every second wasted costs lives, and the less lives taken the better. You'll be equipped with armor and plasma rifles for this test today. The rifles are not lethal, but they do shoot a plasma beam that knocks out the opposing players armor unit rendering them incapacitated. The object of the mission today is to get across the arena to the opposing teams base and take back one of your own. This will be a all day test, so be prepared for anything. Now get suited up recruits, do I make myself clear!" Lorir asked as he stopped pacing around to stare down the recruits.

"Yes sir!" Ethan said aloud with the rest of the recruits as they all saluted the admiral before splitting off into their designated teams and gearing up.

Moment's Later

Ethan held his helmet in one hand as the Kodiak flew over the battlefield, a recruit at the plasma turret shooting as plasma beams hit the vessel. Ethan looked out over the arena, a urban city in ruins. Buildings with smoke lingering from gaping holes in them, walkways and some skyscrapers having been knocked out. He could see cars and buses overturned in the road as smoke billowed from them, opponents from both teams already on the ground fighting.

"Alright team, I've been appointed leader for today's test!" came a voice as Ethan turned his head to see a Quarian male standing there holding onto a bar from the ceiling to steady himself. Ethan stepped forward as the Quarian pulled out a device and pressed a button, a holographic map of the battlefield coming into view as the rest of the recruits looked on diligently.

"The drop off point is here guys! We've got to make our way across the city and free our fellow recruit, Meno's is being held in this abandoned building over by the river, it will be heavily guarded. We are breaking up into two teams, I'll be the head of Team One. Ethan Morgan, I want you to be the head of Team Two, you'll be in constant radio communication with me throughout today. We can't afford to lose this test guys, no laps tonight!" the Quarian said as the rest of the recruits began to cheer before they all began to put on their helmets. Ethan put his on and secured it as the helmet interface came up across the visual screen, seeing past it as the Kodiak came in for a drop off. Ethan watched as a few recruits ran forward and jumped out, rifles at the ready as the recruit kept the fire off of them temporarily with the plasma turret. Ethan ran forward as he jumped out, falling through the air before his feet met the ground with a loud thud. He ran forward as he dove behind a overturned car, the Kodiak hovering up as it flew out of the area. Ethan looked around at the devastation of the city, rubble laying everywhere in the street with large holes having been blown into the road itself.

"Ethan, do you come in?" came the leaders voice in Ethan's helmet as he pressed a button on his helmet, turning on the comm system.

"I'm here, where are you?" Ethan asked, his breaths quick and ragged as he tried to steady out his breathing.

"I'm in a building not far from your location, I'm pinned down by a opposing sniper. I need you to take him out so I can meet up with my team, he's in the burned out building down the street to your right." the Quarian said as Ethan peeked his head over the edge before a plasma beam struck the metal of the car near his face, causing him to lurch back. Ethan looked around before noticing a piece of glass laying next to him, grabbing it and holding it slightly above the car as he got a better view. He could see the other team's sniper held up in the building behind a blasted out window. Ethan watched as the sniper took a moment to pop in another plasma clip. He stood up as he took aim, taking the shot at the unprepared sniper as he watched the beam streak through the air before striking the player in the neck. Ethan silently cheered to himself as he watched the person fall off to the left, their armor glowing a stark white before turning black. Ethan watched as the Quarian came running out of the building to his left, running up to him with haste.

"It looks like the rest of our team had to be dropped off a few blocks away, enemy fire was too great. It's just me and you, we need to meet up with them as soon as we can." the Quarian said as Ethan looked off down the road, wreckage and rubble strewn everywhere.

"I've got a plan that may work, but you've got to put a little trust in me. The enemy team will be on this location when they can't get hold of their sniper anymore, we've got to act fast!" Ethan said as he looked down the road once more.

Moments Later

Ethan crouched down behind a collapsed street sign as he looked up at a building window, seeing his leader duck down behind a window. Ethan could hear radio chatter not far off, his heart beating quickly as he threw down his rifle and stood up, watching as a few enemy scouts spotted him and raised their rifles at him. Ethan held his hands up in the air as he stood still, the two scouts looking at each other before jogging forward towards him. One of the scouts took his arms and pinned them to his back, slapping on a holographic binding chain as Ethan felt them push him forward. He turned his head around to look back the building, the Quarian gone now as he felt one of the scouts slap his helmet as he looked forward once more. He saw a hover car not far ahead with a few more opposing players standing at the ready. Ethan walked over to the car with one of his arms securely in the grip of one of the other players as they shoved him forward, another player hoisting him up into the car as he felt it begin to take off. Ethan looked out of his visual screen as the shuttle moved over the city towards the river, he could hear and see recruits fighting in the streets everywhere. Ethan sighed to himself, he knew all of this was just a overly graphic battle arena, yet it felt so real to him. He could only imagine what the real thing would be, when his life would come to be in real danger. He closed his eyes as he felt that small ounce of doubt and fear rise up in his chest, but smiled to himself when he thought of the Normandy and it's crew, knowing they would be there right beside him during it all. Ethan opened his eyes once more as the shuttle came down near a camp, the red flag of the opposing team draped against a half standing building. Ethan looked over at one of the opposing players, a female Turian with a stern look on her face as she looked over at him.

"Your lucky we didn't take you down on the spot!" the Turian said as Ethan looked away, standing up as he felt the other player hoist him up and push him out of the ship. Ethan fell to his knee's as he looked up and saw another player walking towards him, their helmet still on.

"This one was caught surrendering out in Sector Five sir, we brought him here to join the other prisoners." the female Turian said as the leader looked between them both.

"Take him to the holding cells, make sure to take his helmet away." the leader said, his voice muffled by the helmet's comm system as the other player grabbed him by the arm and hoisted him back up to his feet. Ethan felt was he was tugged along towards a holding area where a few of his fellow team members sat, Meno's among them. He felt as the Turian slapped him alongside the back of the head as she undid his arm links before he reached up and unfasten his helmet, taking it off as he handed it to her. Ethan felt as she shoved him into the holding cell before she shut the door, locking it and walking off as Ethan turned around to see a few Asari, another male Quarian, and Meno's sitting there looking dejected.

"How did they get you Morgan?" Meno's asked as Ethan walked over and took a seat next to him, smiling as he discreetly took out a small plasma pistol he had hidden on himself.

"I've got a plan, but we've got to wait for my team to create a distraction before it can take place. It'll be awhile, so might as well sit back and wait." Ethan said as he hid the pistol once more before watching as a opposing Asari played walked by, eyeballing them all before pacing back the other way. Ethan smiled to himself, happy that the first part of the plan was over with.

"Did you plan all of this?" Meno's asked as Ethan nodded his head, a smug smile on his face as he crossed his arms and leaned against the wall behind him. He knew it would be awhile, and he knew he would need his strength to pull everything off, finally deciding to close his eyes for a while as they waited.

Ethan's eyes opened as he sat up in bed, noticing he was back in his old room as he smiled to himself before looking around. Everything was how he had left it, as if he had never even left in the first place. He gripped his bed sheets as he looked down at the soft blue fabric, everything felt so real. Ethan got out of bed as he walked over to his computer desk, looking down at his collection of comics sprawled out over the desk and floor around it. He looked out of his window, night time in full effect as the street lights illuminated the street.

"Ethan." came a familiar voice as Ethan turned around to see Shadow hovering there, now a ice white glow as Shadow hovered over to his side.

"Shadow...what are you doing here?" Ethan asked, watching as the spirit figure turned to face him before it turned a grayish color.

"I've come to warn you Ethan...something is coming, something powerful. Your new home is in danger, and it's something that even surpasses the power of the Creators themselves." Shadow said as Ethan quirked a eyebrow at the spirit figure before frowning.

"What do you mean something is coming? I thought you said you weren't allowed to tell others of the future, it messed with their destined path?" Ethan asked as Shadow turned a ice white color once more, hovering over by the window.

"You don't understand...whatever this is...it's more powerful than anything we've ever seen. If not stopped, we fear it will tear through the dimensional rift separating all parallel universes, going on a unending quest of death, fear, and destruction. Ethan, you've got a power about you that you've yet to tap into. Something inside you, something able to stand up to whatever this is. I was sent as a warning, because we have foreseen all possible outcomes, all possible futures and every possible decision, and you are the only one in every single one that stands a chance at defeating this evil. If you do not stop it, it will eventually tear the rift between the realm of the living and dead, thrusting itself into my own world." Shadow said as Ethan swatted the comics off of his computer chair, taking a seat as he watched Shadow turn to look at him.

"So the only reason your coming to me now is to save your own realm, is that right? Because when it was myself that needed help, you refused to answer any of my questions!" Ethan said, angry as he remembered being left in the dark in his time being dead. Ethan watched as Shadow raised a hand, before he began to hear screams in his mind. Terrible and vivid screams of innocent people, the anguished cries of the many.

"Those are the screams of the innocents in which it means to destroy, I don't think you quite understand. Everything you hold dear, everything you've come to see and know, every person you've come to love, will be destroyed if you don't heed my warning. Cities will fall, whole nations and planets will crumble! The very foundation of life itself...will be destroyed." Shadow said as Ethan held his hands to his ears, trying to ignore the screams of the people. Ethan looked up, the screams stopping suddenly only to see Shadow gone once more.

That Night

Ethan opened his eyes as he heard yelling from the camp, watching as a few recruits ran around shouting at one another. Ethan smiled to himself as he gripped his pistol before two shuttle cars blew over the camp area, his leader at the plasma turret as he shot off everywhere, sending the camp scrambling. Ethan jumped up as he shot the lock to the cell three times, smiling as it finally blasted open. He looked behind him as the rest of the recruits cheered him on, smiling as he opened the door and let them run through before they all grabbed their guns set aside on the wall nearby. Ethan jogged behind Meno's as the Salarian ran up to the shuttle car, hopping on as Ethan turned around and provided covering fire. He backed up slowly as he took a few pot shots at another enemy player before bumping up against the shuttle car, climbing into the shuttle as they all began to cheer to one another.

"Ethan, you did it!" the Quarian said as he slapped a hand onto Ethan's back, Ethan looking out over the arena as it got smaller as the shuttle got higher. He couldn't seem to get the screams out of his head as London came back into view, finally deciding to brush it all off as a stupid fear induced nightmare.

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