This is the shortest chapter in the set I have written out. I know I can publish these a lot faster than the rest, but that would ruin the surprises I have in store for you guys. Yah, I'm a dude who relates to James in some way's and I have a bro like him, sue me for pulling him a head of the pack. (Not really) So that's why he's the main char here.

A day after Mordin and Eve's death, the team had to rescue the ambassadors in the Citadel. Ceberus had taken over most of it, but with the help of Shepherd and her team, the Alliance took back control of the Citadel. A lot of lives were lost during the raid on the complex, but the people living there finally understood that the war was real.

The Normandy's crew had assisted with the clean-up and helped to repair damages, in turn the Normandy obtained the supplies and gear they needed. It had taken a while, but they had manage to restore most of the damage done. Only about 2 weeks had passed since then, the alliance had put them on forced leave for a week so that the Normandy could also have repairs done to it.

James and 18 sat on the grass at the bottom level of the Presidium in some gardens. James had managed to convince her that it wasn't her fault they died, but she still had a guilty look in her eyes whenever they talked to her. Garrus and even Shepherd had tried to ask her about it, but she refused to talk about it and no matter how hard James tried, she wouldn't tell him what was wrong.

"Crystal... I know it's barely been a month but I don't know what else it could be... I think I'm in love with you..."

"Do you really mean that Hulk?" She asked

"Yes, at first it was just a little crush, but over time I just couldn't think of anybody else except you, Muñeca."

She leaned towards him and lightly grazed his lips with her own, looking in his eyes while doing so. She kissed him softly, he responded by pulling her on top of him. She gasped, and he slipped his tongue into her mouth, exploring it. She retaliated with her tongue, but before long he pulled away, gasping for air. She smiled at him, knowing she had the advantage.

The rest of the evening she spent in his arms, kissing or feeding him some desserts. They enjoyed their time until their omni-tools sounded.

"James, Crystal please get back to the Normandy. We've got a request from Arai and Liara to help out a colony of Asari on a far off planet." Sheperd said.

"We're on our way Commander." James responded.

Without even picking up their picnic basket, they ran off towards the elevator to return to the Normandy as soon as possible. James hadn't realised it, but his and 18's hands were entwined as they made their way back to the ship.

"Is that everybody EDI?" Asked Shepherd.

"Yes Commander."

"Then let's go, we don't have time to waste. How long before we arrive?"

"We should be there in about 7 hours Commander."

Shepherd nodded. "James, I'm taking you and Liara with me to the planet. She might know more than we do, and I'll need your strength and firepower."

"'Kay Commander." James said and wanted to solute her but discovered 18's hand wrapped in his.

His eyes locked with hers for a second, before a smile spread across his face. 'I didn't even notice, but it feels so right having her hand in mine.' He thought before they went down the elevator.

"Jeff, why don't you take my hand like that?" Asked EDI

"Huh?"

"James and Crystal were holding hands, they seemed to like it."

"I think I heard Traynor saying Hackket's on com for me." Shepherd quickly said and beelines out of the cockpit.

"Traitor!" Joker yelled at her as she ran, earning a chuckle from Jane. 'No way in hell am I going to help explain that... Sorry Joker, that's your problem there.' Leaving the poor guy to explain why he doesn't hold hands with her like that. It had taken the most of the time flying toward the colony to explain this to her, leaving Joker exhausted when he set the Normandy on orbit around the planet.

Shepherd and her team set off to find out what went wrong on the planet. 18 was watching the live footage from helmet camera's, fearing for James' safety. That dreadful feeling had returned with avengence and she was starting to become paranoid with fear. She saw a banshee headed for James and warned them, but it was too late, the creature had impaled him with its claws, leaving him to bleed to death.

"No, no, no! I can't lose him too!" She shouted.

Without thinking, she ran from the screens in the cockpit towards the airlock, opening it and entering.

"Crystal, that's suicide!" Yelled Joker. "Edi, lock it!"

"It would not help, she already opened the door and left." EDI informed Joker.

Running towards the screen, they saw her enter the planet's atmosphere, a yellow glow of fire surrounding her body, but never touching it.

"Why's the fire not burning her?" Joker asked.

"There appears to be a high density shield surrounding her, repelling the flames caused by re-entering the planet's atmosphere." EDI said

"How come she never used those abilities?"

"Logic says she feared we might reject her and throw her out of the crew. She fears being rejected by James, her lover."

The two watches from the Monasteries camera's as she destroys the obstacles in her way to get to James. Joker slightly frightened by the way she just shredded the walls and doors that are designed to take damage from heat sinks...

18 was so lost in her storm of emotions, she destroyed anything and everything in her path towards James. When she made it to the room near him she ran directly towards him, three large wounds in his stomach. Her seething rage flared upon noticing this, guided by these emotions, she used her speed, leaving an afterimage where she stood. Firing a single energy blast at point blank range, she annihilated the monstrosity, before turning her attention towards the one that wounded her James.

She fired concentrated beams similar to Frieza's death-beams at the Banshee, each hit making a whole in one of the limbs. The final beam went straight thru the things heart, after which she fell to the floor and cried.

Shepherd ran over to James and applied medi-gel to the wounds on his back, but she didn't think it would help. "He's not dead yet! Crystal help me!"

With the spark of hope, she put a hand on her chest but something was in her way, a canister to be exact. Her eyes widened and she ran to James, ripping the canister from her neck and breaking open the cap she threw the liquid into his wounds. After 30 seconds the wounds started to close, leaving no trace or even scars on his body.

"What the hell?" Asked Shepherd

"Something from my world. The doctor that created me wanted to leave another legacy, not just his evil one. He created nanites that repairs damaged tissue and strengthens it's host." She said.

After a few more seconds, all of James' wounds were healed, but he was unconscious. With the help of 18 they completed the mission and returned to the Normandy. James Ki went back to normal, but she felt that it had somehow gotten an underlying depth. They ran in and saw her staring at James with wide eyes, tears starting to fill them. She suddenly hugged James.

James awoke being hugged by 18, a smile made it across his face. "Muñeca, I'm alright."

Shepherd and the rest let them have their moment in peace, but she went to Liara and talked to her.

"Shepherd, that solution is quite effective." Liara commented

"Yah, but did you notice the way those wounds healed? Didn't even leave a trace."

"She did say that was a nanite solution." Liara reasoned

18 told James she had to go talk with Shepherd, she kissed him before she left. Walking straight to Liara's lab, the door opened and let her in.

"Shepherd, I know I have some explaining to do. So let me start from the beginning."

"Fine, try anything and I'll kill you." She said

"I don't think you could, even if you tried Shepherd." She said. "It was a few years ago, a man named Dr Gero kidnapped me and my brother. He was a brilliant scientist, but his goals were less than ideal..."

She explained Dr Gero's plans and how Goku thwarted that plans, how he created androids to kill Goku over and over again, but each time Goku proved to be too strong. She explained what Goku and his son was, and how strong they were, how Gohan had dominated Cell. Then she explained how Cell spat her out, after which she lost account of everything that happened around her.

"So either the planet blew up and I ended up in a black whole, or I was blasted along with Cell off the planet." 18 concluded

"So, your basically a biotic... That nanites you gave James, did it have the DNA Gero sought?" Asked Shepherd.

"Yes, I checked. I think it took Gohan's DNA since he's the most powerful Saiyan." 18 informed them.

Liara looked concerned and Shepherd contemplated everything. Then something's started to make sense to her, Crystal was the source of the shield on Tuchunka.

"You created a shield on Tuchunka to protect us, didn't you?" Asked Jane asked

"Yes..."

"YOU COULD HAVE DESTROYED THAT REAPER!" Shouted the now livid Shepherd. "WHY DIDN'T YOU?"

"I was scared you might look down on me." 18 replied, her gaze cast downwards. "I'm sorry, I didn't want to upset you, but I realized I made a bigger mistake not acting. Today, when I nearly lost James, I could take it. I had to save him, so I rushed down to you guys."

Shepherd calmed down, realising she was right. Had they known about her, they would likely have handed her over to the alliance. "No, it's okay, would have happened like this weather or not you did anything."

Laira sat down, if she could get her hands on those nanites, she could save a lot of lives. She could reverse engineer the nanites and possibly create similar nanites that would be able to simply restore flesh wounds.

"Crystal, would you by any chance have some of that serum left?" Asked Laira

"No, but I have this." On the bottom of the container she removed a micro-chip. "Plans for the nanites."

"C-can I have those?" She asked, giddy to have the plans.

"Sure."

18 felt a spike in James' Ki and ran out the door towards him, he was screaming in pain and panting heavily. She tried to calm him, but his pain was too much for him to handle. There was a tearing sound and then James slumped, a furry brown tail became visible from behind James.

"Shit..."

Shepherd entered just in time to hear her mutter it. Jane quirks an eyebrow when she sees the tail behind James. 'It actually suites him... Monkeyman... Or maybe Gorrillaboy' She thought, then chuckles at her thoughts.

ANybody got any thoughts on nicknames for the James of the jungle? Hehe I have to add it to the story, I dont have one! the person who comes up with the coolest one gets to have it in the next chapter. oh, gimme 10 reviews and the Next chapter might appear sooner than you think!