Author's Note: Attention to all readers, from this point I will not continue to write this story for time being until December because I have to concentrate on my studies for the most important exam in my life that will determine the direction of my future.

But that does not mean I have the intention to abandon this story. I will continue to update once I've finished my examination. To show you all about how serious I am when it comes to promise, update and continuity of this story, here is the preview of the next chapter "Charlie Charlie Part II".

BE WARNED, SOME OF THE PREVIEWS BELOW CONTAIN SOME SIGNIFICANT SPOILERS. READERS DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

"One last thing, Miss vas Normandy. If I ever caught you or heard you showing a brazen attitude toward Lydia and other AIs in this station and try to compare them with HAL 9000, GLaDOS, SHODAN or Skynet, I swear that I will personally give you a first taste of Necrotizing Fasciitis to your fragile, immunodeficient dextro body. Do you make myself clear?" Dr. Phil warned her.

At this point, Tali became very frightened at the AARD's chief scientist's warning or threat if she wanted to interpret them in the other way around. From the look of his face and tone, Dr. Phil looked very serious in deliver the quarian girl a proper warning or threat when talk about AIs in the matter. But when Dr. Phil had told Tali about "give a first of taste of Necrotizing Fasciitis", she and the others (save a few) didn't know what kind of name of a thing that he had said to her. Whatever it was, it's name sounded very terrifying to her and other people in the room.

Dr. Phil noticed their nescience when he started to look at the others' faces. He then told the Mordin, "Professor, would you be so kind to enlighten our ignorant friends here about what I've said earlier? You know, the Necrotizing Fasciitis part?"

"Of course. Come near, I'll show you," Mordin instructed the people near the salarian scientist: Kasumi, Garrus, Jacob and Ashley, to came near him from both beside of his shoulders. Mordin activated his omni-tool and a rectangular-shaped holographic screen suddenly appeared from it. He then quickly tapping his fingers to the omni-tool's keys and a picture came out. It depicted three cell-like microorganisms in microscopic level which were looked like a cucumber covered with hair and three long tails that extend out from the body, almost like the tail of a sperm cell.

"This is the look of the Necrotizing Fasciitis bacteria," Mordin informed them. "And this is what will happen on the organic tissue," he added then started to tapping some keys on his omni-tool and several images began to appear on the screen. What they'd saw at the screen truly had shaken them into their very soul.

"WHOA!"

"Sir, can I please ask your permission to bring Jeffry onboard your ship? There's no one else on the station that are willingly to take good care of him," Imran asked the human Spectre as if in an appealing way.

"Jeffry? Who's Jeffry?" John asked. From what he heard and understand from Imran's words, he said as if he wanted to bring in some kind of a pet animal. Which was no surprise for the Commander because he had a pet hamster inside his Captain's Cabin which he had bought it from one of the shops on the Citadel after he had resolved of Garrus's revenge on Sidonis but in the end, Garrus let him go after he had learnt the truth from his former squad mate through John's actions.

"Well…, Jeffry is my…is my…," Imran sounded hesitant and worried to say something from his mouth.

"Come on, Imran. Straight to the point, it's not like I'm gonna eat ya." John asked with a smirk.

"Alright," the N5 operative exhaled slowly. "Jeffry is my Brachypelma smithi," he quickly finished his sentence.

"Jeffry is a WHAT?"

John didn't know how the albino batarian would reacted to him due to the Bahak Incident that had occurred several days ago if he told his true identity to him as he seems didn't realized who's the human in front of him. But in order to make sure he and his team was not the true enemy, he then introduced himself.

"My name is Commander John Shepard of the Alliance Special Forces and the Citadel Council's Spectre."

The albino batarian had his eyes wide open in shock after he heard his name very clearly and started to speechless. In a couple of seconds, he started to spoke.

"Co…Commander Shepard?" he asked with a gasp in his voice and John nodded his head with truth. After the batarian got the validation from the human Spectre, his face began to change slowly from a surprised look to an ecstatic one and smiled with a wide grin as if he just met the most revered person in his life.

"OH MAN! IT'S AN HONOR TO MEET YOU, DUDE!" the albino batarian exclaimed in full excitement and began to wrap both of his arms around his body tightly and lifted the human Spectre off the ground, or you can say he gave John a bear hug.

"Whoa, easy there!" John said with a shock in his tone.

Everybody was totally surprised from their savior's sudden action towards their Commander, who had saved the whole team recently from being killed by hundreds of husks. Instead of becoming very angry and odious to John who they had predicted that it will happen, he hugged him with his feelings full of joy and delighted. The albino batarian finally put John's feet on the ground.

"The name's Daneck Barithias but you can call me Dan or Danny! Former Batarian Hegemony's Special Intervention Unit, the best damn explosive expert in the whole galaxy! Ready to serve under your order and ready blow your foes into chunks and pieces, Sir!" Daneck stood upright and gave John a perfect human military salute with a wide grin along with showing his razor-sharp teeth to everybody.

There you go! I'm sorry that I cannot update this story for a long time. But I promise I will continue this update once I've finished my exam this November. See you guys later! :D