He lifts his head up and hears bones pop in it. He moves his head around in a circular motion so he can stretch out his neck. "How long have I been out?"
He looks around in front of him to see that he is in a dark grey room. The only light in the room was coming from a unidentified source behind him and the blue outline of the panel he was hovering over.
Gabriel starts to notice the sore feelings in his arms, as if they were stretched out. He looks to his right and sees that his arm is stretched out and that it was covered from his elbow to his hand with a large, sleek, plastic, egg shape, casing that was attached to some kind of rope to the ceiling. He looks to the left and sees the same with his other arm. He looks down and sees the same has happened to his legs from his knees to his feet. He made a human X in the air over the panel.
Gabriel starts to struggle, trying to get out of the contraption. After a few moments of struggling, a small but effective electrical current is felt in his hands and feet that travels to the center of his body. He clenches his teeth as the currents continue until his muscles relax.
He then looks up at the white casings around his limbs and notices there is a less than an inch gap on the sides of each of them. "How about biotics?" He closes his eyes and reaches out to one of the casings with his mind. He tries to wedge it open until another set of currents start rolling through his body again, this one more painful than the last. The electricity stops and his muscles relax again. He's breathing heavily until he hears a familiar voice.
"Finally awake Commander Shepard?"
The woman walked in to his view.
"Hello Miranda. I wouldn't of taken you for the BSM type..." Gabriel says before he looks at her outfit. "Actually scratch that. So where's the whip?"
Miranda laughs to herself a little and a little red shows in her cheeks. "This isn't an interogation Shepard, especially not that kind."
"Damn...I"ve seen vids but never my cup of tea. Though I would prefer it over electrical torture." Shepard says.
"Just a safety procaution Shepard. After two dead, three injured, five wounded, and one traumatized you can never be to careful."
Shepard laughs out loud. "Traumatized? Which one was that?"
"The engineer."
"That bullet was just inches from his head. He should just be happy he's alive..." Gabriel then jets his body forward to where he's face to face with Miranda. "As you should be."
The casings around Gabriels limbs force his body back to where it was before the currents start traveling again. He smiles at Miranda as his teeth clenches. Miranda lifts up her omni-tool and presses a button. A model of a male body appears over the omni-tool.
"What are you doing?" Shepard asks.
"Scanning your implants. I'm making sure you didn't damage any of them during your little temper tantrum." Miranda answers.
"I feel fine."
"Well after two years and millions upon millions of credits, I would rather be sure. It looks like your fine. From your little demonstration at the station, it seems your combat ability is still there if not advanced quite a bit, especially your biotics..."
"Yeah...I even have to admit that was a bit unexpected. Was it not part of my upgrades?" Shepard says.
"No... but you used it as if you always had it." Miranda says
Suddenly, the image of the long metal chair appears in Shepards mind again along with the screams. Shepard shakes his head. "I don't know. It felt familiar and foreign at the same time...if that makes any sense."
"I'll have to add that to my notes and I'll do some research on it. For now...my boss would like to speak with you, Shepard."
"The Illusive Man? Where is he?"
"You'll see him in a moment." The image of the male body disappears from Mirandas omni-tool. "He's ready for you."
Miranda walks out of the room. Suddenly a orange, circular, holograph comes out of the panel below Gabriel and circles around him. Now he is looking at a dark room with a window that goes almost the entire northern wall. Beyond the window, is a gas giant that has mainly red flames shooting from it but with a bit of blue in the middle. Also in the room, in front of the window, are orange screens. Shepard can't tell whats on them, but he can see faces on them. One of them looks like a Krogan. Then sitting in a chair in front of the screens and the window, there's a man sitting in a chair wearing a black and white suit. He has dark brown hair that is combed to the left. A few white streaks are seen in it. He's smoking a cigarette and holding a glass with brown liquid inside it. The thing that stood out most to Shepard were the eyes. "Those blue...cybernetic like eyes...they seem kind of famil..."
"Commander Shepard..." The man finally says.
"So...You must be The Illusive Man..."