I DO NOT OWN MASS EFFECT NOR DO I OWN ELFEN LIED.
Else I'd have money… Don't let this stop you from giving me any though… Just putting it out there.
Also I don't know how to edit submitted chapters so when it said could block a bullet, it was supposed to say a bullet. Infact a little more then that meaning that weakness is all but elminated. Sorry but that was driving me up the wall. it would be nice if someone told me how to edit though -_- Thanks in advance if you do.
Chapter 2 Awakening
Many years passed since he climbed into the pod many forgetting diclonious used to even exist his body being preserved, but not shutting down completely given his … unique structure. Plenty of things happened during this time mainly the first contact war and humans becoming a part of the galactic community. During this the research ship that the cryo pod was loaded aboard has been through much, and was eventually destroyed somewhere along the outer rim once the war was over by batarian slavers after the ship fought back, and was eventually overran. Miraculously the diclonious didn't die, nor did the pod break. Instead it just drifted the low hum of its battery the only thing breaking the silence. You see the batteries for this were to be tested for long term space travels and are meant to last an extremely long time and the pod takes about as much as having lets say… a cell phone on. So it just laid their in space faint cracks and smudges on it, the X-39 emblem barley recognizable, floating in the dark space around the outer rim.
Years, decades passed before anything of note happened.
The year is now 2175 and the pod is floating along the outer rim in an asteroid cluster, it seems fate has decided its time to act. And not a moment to soon as the cryo pod flickered for a few seconds before restabalizing.
"Ugh where am I" His voice echoes around him as he stands up looking for something, anything familiar.
Failing to see anything except for blackness all around, he almost falls down again a little queasy from abruptly standing up like that.
Blinking the nausea out and standing once more stretching his arms and back he said, "Well this is interesting where's the resident psychopath here?"
Of course what he means by that is his innerself, or more of the part of him that hates all humans (You've seen lucy's if you watched the show. Remembur the chick with the bandages on the head? That's what his is like except it has no eyes. Tattered skin, blood mucus, and puss dripping down the sockets, they'd talk to each other sometimes when things got a little… Heavy with the tests being run on him. Or more like psychotically rant at him but same thing kind of…)
Getting annoyed at the lack of response he started walking a few steps and yelled "HEY I KNOW YOU'RE HERE YOU JACKASS SHOW YOURSELF! WHAT DO YOU WANT THIS TIME?" A little nervous from the lack of response he started walking off in a random direction trying to shake off the fact that, 'something' very powerful is watching him.
After walking for what roughly felt like 5-10 minutes the 'ground' as it seemed started trembling before he fell on his back startling him. As this happened he was looking around for the threat preparing his vectors before realizing he couldn't.
"This is like that time when the man drugged me… but how?" He was broken from this train of thought by a whisper, yet he couldn't hear it.
Eventually he was about to give up before it sounded like more voices where joining the whispers until they picked up more and more until it was so loud he is on his knees back hunched and his hands on his ears.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH ME?" The boy yelled frantic to stop the noise.
Strangely enough it stopped, looking up blinking tears out of his eye he tried standing again only to be knocked back down by a loud and commanding voice.
"We have chosen to lead the next cycle, and you will submit!"
Confused the boy replied warily, "What cycle… and why should I trust you!"
"It's not a matter of 'Trust', it's a matter of having no choice you will submit or we will make you!"
Thousands of visions flooded his mind showing him ruthlessly killing humans as they were, processed by some blurred machinery, switching from various scenes of blood shed each more gruesome then the next before he finally yelled.
"ENOUGH! I will not help you with whatever you want me to do! NO ONE OWNS ME, NOT ANYMORE SO FUCK YOU!"
Their was a long pause of silence before the being spoke once more sounding more amused then anything.
"So you don't want to destroy the race that ended yours? Get revenge that you pathetic organics care so much for? You know you want it yet your stopping yourself, why is that?"
Thinking hard on it, he knew their was more enough truth in what it stated that he should be jumping at the opportunity, but something kept him hesitant.
"Why should I trust you, give me a good reason." He asked once more. He knew what it was like to be manipulated, as it's happened to him many times before, each time that it happened he got this feeling, like a warning in the back of his mind telling him that it's a bad idea, and never has he felt it stronger then now. In fact, every fiber of his being was telling him to escape this 'thing' and never look back.
Glaring at whatever direction he thought the voice was at (in front of him for those with low imagination.) he declared boldly "I don't care what you say I'm not falling for it, not any more!"
Another long silence passed before everything shook once more the voice so loud he tried to cover his ears again in a vain attempt to block its voice as he collapsed on his knees.
"NO MORE GAMES, YOU WILL SUBMIT OR I WILL BREAK YOU!"
The being yelled with more might then ever before and assaulting his mind with more images, doubts, hallucinations to make him doubt himself, and the fate that became of his species before he was frozen.
His father turning him in to be experimented on, people gathering around to have him burn on a cross, even being flayed in the middle of the street at night while tied upside down from a telephone pole.
Eventually his will started to break, right before he was about to give up he heard a woman's voice yell
"NO!"
looking up he noticed the mental attack stopped and sees a woman with pink hair and red eyes looking at him worriedly.
"Wha-what are you?" He slurs out as the attack nearly destroyed his mind.
As he continues to stare at her he notices the woman has horns just like him before she embraces him and holds him tightly cradling him while she does, finding him shaking uncontrollably as his body spasms.
After a minute she whispers to him "Please never give up, the humans might have been bad to you but please realize something, where you meet one bad human there are three good ones out their. Not every one is as evil as you believe them to be, please give them a chance. Also please know that I love you, my son."
While she says this the spasms begin to let up.
Staring at nothing she continues to hold him he whispers "Mommy, Is that you?"
His voice horse from hours of screaming, as she grips him tighter she repeats one more time.
"Please remember, that people are out their who will accept you, I wish you luck"
Her voice growing more distant as she faded away, the boy yelled frantically
"MOMMY PLEASE NO, DON'T LEAVE ME AGAIN!" Trying to stand up only to fall back down once more on his stomach his head turned on his side staring blanking as his eyes started shutting, as darkness claimed him, hearing her voice once more. "Don't worry you will be found by people who will see you for who you are, my sweet baby boy."
But before he was out completely he could have swore he faintly heard the words "You WILL be mine, or you will die like the rest."
MIGRANT FLEET DEEP SPACE TRAINING EXERCISE
"COME ON MOVE IT YOU LITTLE BOSH'TET, AND QUIT LAGGING BEHIND!" Was heard as a intimidating Quarian woman with a white suit and black stripes stared down another more younger then her if one would look at her at glance she would be a regular teenage girl. (Trainee outfit by the way is purple like tali's) The girl in question was currently wheezing obviously out of breath as she tried jumping from asteroid to asteroid.
"I'm so tired though!" The girl yelled obviously not used to this kind of exertion.
"OH YEAH! Look at the many fucks I give girley! If you don't move I'll move you! How could you be ready for you pilgrimage if you can't pass your basic deep space exercises?" The woman yelled once more as this seemed to do the trick as the girl started moving frantically at a more hurried pace.
Finally catching up to her co-partner and out of breath she said "Tali, how do you put up with this..., torture so easily!" Said girl looking about the same age as her counterpart replied with mild surprise. "Keelah, you can't be serious, if this is a big problem for you then you probably should have prepared more, I mean really."
"WELL IT'S NOT MY FAULT I DON'T LIKE TO EXCERCISE!" The girl yelled as she was sparta kicked in the back by what seemed to be her drill instructor.
Said woman was scrutinizing the young trainee while before yelling at her "Fine! We will call it a day and you can get your act togather then, if you don't then I don't want to see you here for your training tomorrow!"
Seeing a particularly hazardous problem the girl dubbed 'Tali' started to interject. "Mam, please give her a brea" before she was abruptly cut off..
"ALSO, you may have done well but you could have helped her, Instead you left her! In the flotilla we watch over each other you understand that! We are one family and one community! We are all we've got, do I make myself clear!"
"But mam," she tried to interject again before the woman finally said "DO I MAKE MY SELF CLEAR TALI'ZORAH!"
Clearly scared and wanting to live for at least a few more minutes the girl in question stammered a quick yes mam and was about to head back to her ship the Rayya before she noticed what looked like some sort of rectangular pod in the distance that was stuck in a crevice of what of the asteroids.
Looking behind her to see the sergeant was still yelling at her friend she decided to make a quick trip to see what it was.
Jumping skillfully from each asteroid to avoid being stuck in space and needing a hand hold or rescue she made her way to aforementioned object of interest.
Staring deeply at what looked to be a minor cracked glass casing she noticed frost and a faint handprint on the glass that seemed to be made from the inside.
"Keelah was someone inside this thing." she thought for a second before her sergeants' yell scared her from the thought. "TALI'ZORAH, WHAT ARE YOU DOING OVER THERE!"
Quick to not be punished by the dubbed 'scary lady' or 'sergeant' as we shall know her, she quickly stammered out through her suits com as yelling was well, more suited for 'brutish' people like the sarge. "WAIT, before you keep yelling at me I think I found something interesting, maybe the fleet can use it?" she finished knowing her sarge would buy that considering how much she loved to help the fleet whenever possible.
"Really now, let me take a look, I'm sure you wont mind." She said not fully believing what she thought was an excuse the girl made to save her a lecture.
Heading that way finally seeing what the girl was so intent on noticing she was looking at it again. "I think someone was in here." She muttered a little saddening thinking how terrible it must be to die in the loneliness of space.
The sergeant looking at the pod before looking back at the girl and did the Quarian equivalent of a smile clapping her on the shoulder while saying. "Good find Tali we make be able to use this after all."
Switching frequencies she called out "This is drill instructor for the Rayya reporting in a discovery here and would like a transport to report here to help carry it."
After a few seconds a feminine voice replied, "Roger we understand and are sending a shuttle to come pick you up please wait."
Looking back at the pod she couldn't help but feel as if something was watching her making her a little uneasy as her combat experience started kicking in and she started looking for enemy ships. She was so intent on this she hardly noticed that she Tali and her friend if that's what she is started talking to each other.
"Mam, you getting onboard or what?" the trainee asked questioningly breaking the sergeant out of her trance as she replied. "Uh, yeah sure lets load it up."
"We already did that a few minutes ago." Tali replied a little worried for her C.O.
Little embarrassed she simply says "Right my bad thinking to hard I guess."
SHIP-RAYYA-QUARINTINE ROOM
Off in a white room with a few computers and scientific equipment was the decontamination room where those visiting the Quarians can stay without their suit or items from the outside are taken in to be decontaminated.
Standing in a line side by side were the trio of Quarians while scientists looked over the new found discovery with interests along with the ships captain Kar'Danna vas'Rayya (Shall be called in regular conversation Danna for convenience.) "Sergeant what exactly is this." Questioned the aforementioned Quarian slight interest in her voice, as she walked over to the three, while glancing at the object.
"That is unknown mam' it was one of the cadets, Tali'Zorah who found this at first but if I was to guess looks like some sort of stasis pod." She said straightening her posture as she is talking to a commanding officer.
"So you mean someone is dead in their, after all space is a big place, it may be working but someone would have died years ago most likely." Danna asked a little perturbed standing beside the sarge and watching the scientists work on analyzing.
"That is unknown but it is a possibility, why?" she asked as she found it to be quite obvious what it was by looking at it.
"Wonder what it's made for, storage perhapse?" She thought a little worried that it could contain geth or something dangerous before dismissing it as unlikely "and if there is one I can handle it, or anything else that comes out" she thought with a predatory smile disturbing the cadets as they read her body language.
Broken out of her train of thought she saw her captain get a serious look before stating "I want you postpone what your doing and scan for life this immediately someone could be in their right now and need our help and this is the perfect place to cause it's created for decontaminating so the sooner the better!" Although doubting anything would come up but knowing an order is an order a series of yes mam's were heard throughout the room as they got to work.
A minute later the head scientist gasped before saying "Captain we got a heartbeat, I think we'll need a medical team in here, along with tools to get this opened!"
15 MINUTE LATER
Now in the room were two squads of marines, a few medics as well as engineer that is cutting open the sides of the hatch along with the captain the trio that started this bit of excitement many looking seriously at the pod and some concerned for whatever poor soul has been trapped inside.
Just as the engineer finished cutting a robotic voice obviously been through a lot of wear and tear started to say "B-B—BE –BEGINNING THAWING PROCESS PLEASE STA—A-A-A-ND –B-BY."
Everyone waited for about thirty seconds as the voice cut in once more a few sparks flying from the speaker.
"C-C-C—CY-CLE COMPLE-T-TED Y-Y-Y-OU MAY NOW OPEN THE X-39 CR-RYO POD."
Seeing that as their cue, four Quarian marines went to each side of the hatch and lifted it off to the left.
Much to the shock of everyone was a human, or at least what they thought to be until they realized the test said the DNA was different from the records of the average humans DNA, namely it having more chromazomes along with many other abnormalities.
Puzzled Danna walked up to it and knelt beside the edge looking at the sleeping figure with worry. "Odd, looks human but isn't and… is that horns sticking out of it's head?" As she walked up and felt them slightly intrested after a few seconds she then backed off realizing it is an unknown and could be dangerous.
Realizing she was right sergeant simply asked what was on everyone's mind.
"Well if the kid isn't human what is he?"
What she didn't expect was an answer by someone other than the captain,
"That's what I'd like to know about you."
Causing everyone to look at the boy in slight shock and wariness, causing the captain to idly think "Keelah, why can't anything ever be simple...?"