This chapter will be the discovery of the unusual eezo pulse and its secrets.

The Normandy came out of FTL and into what was an extremely dense asteroid field with the pulses coming from the centre, right by a Reaper destroyer. "Joker, what's our status" said the Commander in the shuttle bay with Javik and Garrus. "I'm picking up one Reaper Destroyer and about a dozen oculus fighters. They keep circling the large asteroid ahead." Joker moved the ship behind another asteroid to conceal them.

"Shepard, the eezo dark energy pulses seem to be coming from what appears to be a Reaper structure of some sort on that asteroid" EDI said, notifying the commander as their shuttle was departing. "Any idea why it's pulsing like a heartbeat" Garrus questioned. Shepard looked at his closest friend with equal disbelief, "I dunno, there's just one way to find out. Cortez, bring us under those fighters, use the field for cover". "Understood Commander."

The shuttle landed outside the structure without alerting the Reapers, The squad sealed their suits and headed for the building. "Alright guys, this is a Reaper structure, we can't stay long less we risk becoming husks." With weapons readied, Shepard, Garrus and Javik entered the base and headed for the pulse. The base was dark and cold, typical of a Reaper structure. This didn't phase the squad as they progressed through the base, however after a few minutes, Garrus started to notice several things.

Firstly, he noticed how their seemed to be nothing of interest if the base other than the signal they were tracking. Secondly, he noticed how their was an extremely thick security detail throughout the base. Thirdly, he wondered how a simple asteroid (even one as big as the one they were on) could give off more dark energy than a Mass Relay. He looked to his squad leader and best friend and said "Shepard, this seems off. All the Reapers outside, the remote location, even the way this place is laid out."

The commander looked at him. "What do you mean Garrus". He replied "I mean that this place is built like a prison". Javik looked at the two men. "That could be one explanation to the heartbeat we found. We found this pulse as well during our war. We believed it came from another race more than one cycle before mine. Ruins spoke of a race that nearly brought the Reapers down, that they were nearly unstoppable".

Shepard with the look of confusion said "Why would the Reapers take a prisoner, they indoctrinate everything in sight." The three were interrupted by EDI on the radio. "Shepard, the signal seems to be coming from the next room". Shepard thanked EDI and motioned his team to enter the heart of the base, thankful they hadn't run into any Reaper forces yet.

To their shock, Garrus was right. The three men entered a large round room with what was a single stasis tank in the centre. When they approached they noted that the silhouette in the tank had a sort of human appearance. They couldn't make out details as it was blurry, but then Javik who was on a nearby computer found something shocking. "Commander, I found something disturbing. If that prisoner has a human silhouette, then why has it been in that stasis pod for 500000 years."

Shepard walked over to Javik with complete disbelief. "WHAT?" Javik then moved over to the tank preparing to touch it and see what this being that was pulsing the eezo dark energy was. "Yes, according to the data, this pod has been active for 10 Reaper cycles." With one touch, he felt one emotion; Rage, directed at one thing, Harbinger and the Reapers. "There is incredible power in this being, enough for the Reapers to be afraid of it".

The other two were quiet, Shepard got closer to the pod to try see inside it when suddenly the tank pulsed with enough force to not only put the three men on the floor but to also set off all the base alarms.

Shepard looked up and saw two distinct features. One; the beings right arm was glowing an ominous blue with a sort of black scaly armour covering it, and two; the beings eyes were glowing an even more ominous crimson, staring at Shepard, Garrus and Javik. With a second pulse from the tank, the three men blacked out for a couple seconds, but in those seconds they saw the beings last moments before his capture.

Flashback sequence of 'the being'

He was looking out into a field of death and destruction. Reapers and his kin alike mixed in a pool of death, nothing was moving. He looks up and sees Harbinger and the Reaper re-enforcements approaching. He looks down to his hands and his body, and what was once confined to his right arm had spread to the rest of his body. He glowed bright blue and laughed as he looked to his left and saw the corpse of another of his kind. "Strange how sick irony has to be, that only I could kill you but the cost being my powers evolution."

The radio comes up, "Sir, we can't hold them without the fleet. We're being overrun." He replies "Order everyone to fall back to Namocron and enter stasis. it's gonna be a while before I join you guys. I'll hold here while you retreat, it's me the Reapers want, and pray they don't follow you out." All he heard was "Understood sir, Good luck. The Necris Empire will await your return.

He charged ahead right into the Reaper fleet shooting biotic bombs wildly while swinging his sword with perfect precision, killing countless Reapers until Harbinger and twenty other Reaper capital ships attacked at once.

End flashback

The squad woke up and saw the being still watching them even though he was in a stasis tank. Garrus turned and saw a wall of Brutes, Banshees and Ravagers coming down the tunnel they came from. "INCOMING!" Garrus and Javik took cover while Shepard with a quick decision shot out the stasis tank causing it to shatter, releasing the dark energy being.

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