Hello everyone, sorry for being so late to put this chapter, but I had a hell of a writer blocks for most of my stories. I am trying to unlock that block, and I think this chapter is good, not the best, but enough to give some more things to think about how to approach the council.

As always, I look for a Beta Reader for most of my stories, and soon I will try to make new chapters for the rest. Now, enjoy the chapter and as always, reviews are welcome!

Marcus POV

I awoke again, in the same bed, but now I was feeling alright to move. The medics in the room started to check-up again to make sure I was alright to go, and I was starting to feel a bit impatient about that quantity of check-up. I knew that I was a new species, but all that time checking up my body was making me feel uneasy. But then, Vyrnnus came to the med-bay and dragged me out of the reach of those medics; something that I was grateful. But then, I thought about a main problem I had, and it was my clothes. The clothes I was wearing when they helped me surely won't be helpful, since they were covered in blood and had some cuts in where I was hit with that knife…

- "Don't worry, when we reach the Citadel they are supposed to give you some clothes. Meanwhile, we are going to equip you with the basic supplies." – He said, while we were walking to some part of the ship. I couldn't avoid staring in awe how the ship was, even though I started to hide it a bit since the stares of the resto of the turians looking at me were evident that I was making a fuss over nothing. But I couldn't avoid that… I was flying in a goddam space ship! If someone told me before I was going to be travelling to space in the future, I would have said that he should leave me alone, but now I was receiving a new life, but with some conditions of course… It was going to be a living hell trying to convince every country to unify in one organization, which would be willing to do some diplomacy with the turians and another alien races in the galaxy.

Finally, we reached a place that seemed like a storage, where there were a lot of weapons and armours, with lots of boxes that I could guess that had more weapons or tools. At least, if something happened, this ship was ready to defend itself with a lot of weaponry, so I could say that the turians were mostly military, but that was only a guess since I was only seeing one ship in the inside. Then, one of those turians approached me, and started saying something that I couldn't understand. I raised an eyebrow, and I looked at Vyrnnus, that started to speak in the same language, being unable to understand a thing. After a while, the other turian went at one of those boxes, and got something like a bracelet, with some plugs that looked a bit strange, and approached me with that thing. I step back, not knowing what to do, but definitely not wanting to be an experiment.

- "Don't worry. We want to give you an omnitool, we all have it so don't worry. With it, you will be able to understand us better, and the same for us." – Vyrnnus said, grabbing my arm gently, but I flinched a bit, removing myself from the physical contact. Vyrnnus raised what I supposed an eyebrow, but I didn't care about it. – "Alright…" - I said without enthusiasm, as I approached the other turian, and extended my left arm, where he put the bracelet, and then he started to make the connexion, putting those plugs in some parts of my body, one of them in my neck. I flinched a bit from the pain as the plug entered inside, but then it healed quickly, and the omnitool shined, enveloping my left arm, before disappearing.

- "Well, do you understand me now?" – Said the other turian, and started laughing as I just opened my jaw in amazement. This was a gold mine, at least in Earth this would sell by millions, as it let people communicate without problems or language barriers. – "Okay, close your mouth before we have to glue it. My name is Mehkuri Pallin, the intendent of all this. One soldier need a weapon, I provide it, as I did with you on that omnitool. Vyrnnus already put the back-up from your computer back on Earth inside the omnitool, so you have all the data. But you won't be able to contact your planet yet, we need to build some way to contact to that system better. Now, let's start teaching you how to control it." – Said the turian, as I just sent a tiny smile. It seemed nice and surely he was using me to avoid getting bored in the ship, but that last part was for me too, if I didn't stay here learning I was sure I would be again in the hands of those doctors.

- "My name is Marcus. Glad to be able to communicate with you now, and with everybody for that fact." – I said, before he started to explain me step by step how to control it. It was more of focusing with my mind what I wanted more than controlling it with my own hand, except for some process that were necessary, and mostly for muscle memory to be able to control it better. It was a pain that there weren't any helmets for listening to music, but surely I would be able to obtain things in the place they were taking me. Mehkuri was funny sometimes, and was a good teacher and easy to talk a bit, but soon Vyrnnus was called, saying that the other turian, Septimus Talid if I remembered correctly that was the captain of the ship, calling me to speak with him.

- "See you." – I said, before turning off my omnitool, trying to avoid turning it on with an unconscious move. After a while, were in the travel I could start hearing exactly what they said and mostly was about me, but it was a different whisper that I was used to, it was curiosity in its finest, not menacing, not hostile… only plain curiosity. It was an improvement from the Earth to say the least. But I felt too strange only with the gown of the infirmary, and surely my old clothes were too damaged to be used again… When I reached the door of the captain's room, Vyrnnus retreated quickly, leaving me in front of the door without backup… And without knowledge of how to open the damn door, so I decided the typical part of knocking the door two times to see if that called him.

- "Its open" – Said the voice of Septimus Talid, but the problem is that I didn't know how to open it, but there was in the centre of the door a green circle… I activated the omnitool and approached it to the circle, making some type of recognition before opening it. The chamber was spacious, as had even its own bathroom, and a workplace with some things. It was definitely an improvement of what I supposed would be the rest of the rest chambers with the soldiers and other crew of the ship.

- "Well, we will reach in half an hour the Citadel, and I wanted to speak with you about some things we will do. First, you will go to the hospital Huerta Memorial for a full check-up and vaccines. After that, you will receive some clothes that will be adapted from the asari, and will go to the council to speak with them about some things, mostly about your placement in here and how will things go." – He said, while making a sign for me to sit in one of the chairs, so I sat, while trying to process how I would do everything. I was at clearly disadvantage, because I didn't had anything to offer, but they had every right and things I would need. And surely, they would expect someone with experience, not a kid that only had the basic education to go to university, and that education possibly was outdated right now.

- "I understand, but… I feel at disadvantage. I have to speak representing all my planet, and I don't even know what they will expect me to do. And don't get me started to convince my own home-world…" - I said, pinching my nose a bit to clear a bit the headache I was feeling right now. I expected that more headaches would come in some moments, and wouldn't go away until the situation settled in one way or another. But one thing I got right, is that I wouldn't be like every damn politician in my home-world, always saying lies after lies. Hell, if I got some honesty and sincerity from someone in my damn life back on Earth I wouldn't be there at the moment, and I doubted that everyone would be rescued by an explorer turian ship like myself.

- "One step at a time. First, the first meeting I don't think that you will do much, surely they will ask questions, but won't be anything like asking your people to do something as you don't have the support. They are already informed of everything about you." – He said, making my blood feel cold inside my body. More people pitying me, alright… well, it was going to last for a while, and after that surely I won't have to worry about that part until much later, and better clear the air before they discovered, and if they knew it wouldn't be that bad to try to strike a deal of cooperation for a while. I sighed, trying to avoid thinking it too much, but I would gladly do something else, to make busy my mind.

- "Ok… Can I ask you some questions? I want to know a bit of the space here, how is the government, what species are here… You know, to avoid my face being stuck in surprise every damn time, I doubt that they would like someone whose mouth is always hanging." – I said, trying to make a joke by the end but not receiving a laugh from that was enough to stop trying… I needed to do better, my social expertise is next to none, if you don't count chatting with the people on internet, but then they couldn't see you.

- "Good try, but not the moment. About your questions, I will try to explain briefly. The government as you call it, is the Council, made by the turians; as you know by now all the crew of this ship except you is turian, the asari; who are similar to you but all females, blue and mostly diplomatic, and the salarians, whose you might think that are similar to amphibians but are extremely intelligent and logical. The three species decide their representative and is named councillor, and they decide the laws in the Citadel and some common rules, but our planets have their own form of government and laws."- He started explaining, and I had the impulse of activating my omnitool to start making notes, adding my thoughts about those races, surely coming in handy later when I had the time to review them. Septimus continued explaining, without worrying about what I seemed to write in a note in my omnitool.

- "There are more races, like the krogan or the batarians, but they are far less common in the Citadel. The krogans are usually violent, pretty much the same of the batarians, but the hanar and volus are fairly sociable, and the volus are very good managing resources and money, while the hanars are mostly peaceful." – He said, and was about to continue when the intercom of the ship started to say that we were reaching to the Citadel, and Septimus chuckled a bit. – "Come with me, you will enjoy your first glimpse of the Citadel." – He said, getting up, and I made the same, following him to the place the pilot was doing his way. As soon as I reached, a conjunct laugh of Septimus and the pilot was made, as I had my mouth open in awe as I saw the Citadel. - "Holly shit, this is awesome!" – Was the only thought I could have at the moment. If I didn't knew that the turians would get me to the hospital for a complete check-up I would have started running through all the Citadel like a kid trying to see everything… Hell, I could do it later in my free time either way!

- "I think that they will find that mouth open either way, but nice try." – Septimus said, making me to close my mouth and send him a glare as he laughed. I sighed, but I couldn't stop smiling at the view of the Citadel, which was going to be my new home for a good time… or all my life for that matter if I think it well enough. I started using my omnitool trying to find something remotely to helmets, and then I saw how it unplugged what it seemed some of those helmets that I used to have for listening music, so I put them quickly in my ears and put one of the songs of Lindsey Stirling; which was called Roundtable Rival, and I started to relax a bit when the violin started to play in my ears, but I couldn't not notice how Septimus was looking at me, a bit surprised.

- "It helps me relax listening music. I will pass some songs if you want." – I said, while the song was still playing, feeling better right now. Always listening to music let me relax a bit, and now it continued to help me. At least it was something precious to me, like a companion… Wait… this could become an advantage, at least in the cultural part. And I should revise my carpet of downloads in the omnitool, to check if I had those mangas… not, better delete them quickly… again, it's too late if they already checked them and better don't say anything about those manga… I checked quickly the download carpet, and saw that the manga weren't there… I sighed relaxing a bit that none of those manga went out to the public. Soon, the ship went to the hangar, and a stretcher was there, and Septimus smiled at me…

- "Again no, please…" – I said, but soon I was being almost forced to comply with rest in that stretcher, being transported to the hospital without a say in the matter. It wasn't something bad, they cared for my health, but I didn't like that they forced me to turn off the omnitool and stop listening to my music. And it didn't help that most of the time in the stretcher what I could see was an elevator that was so slow that I nearly found myself sleeping. But soon, I was in the hospital, and I could get a glimpse of what were the asari and salarians… I had to close my mouth myself again to avoid being offensive in a way, mostly because all the asari had a gorgeous body that put some of the human models to shame, and the salarians were strange to the view. Soon, I was transported to a room that had a bed, with two people inside already, what I supposed to be doctors.

- "Hello, now we will be doing the check-up, and will add the vaccines and repair in few hours what we can. My name is Seryna Dantius, and this is my colleague Ledra." – The asari said with a reassuring smile, before resuming looking at the data she had in what was a notebook but a bit more advanced for what I could guess. Then, the salarian called Ledra went directly to guide me to the bed, making me sit in there and start seeing my wounds, now treated, before going to a table in the room, that contained what I supposed the medical tools needed for the check-up and what Seryna said to heal me up.

– "High grade wounds, now treated. Got in a fight? Probably, but some of them old, not signs of self-defence. A type of punishment? High probability. Malnourishment present, but only for a few months, not presence of growth stunt. Not sign of sexual abuse too, probably check for metal scars, but he seems by the data alright." – He said in a quick pace, making me feel a bit lost but scared at the precision of those statements, and that was only with a damn quick look at my body without touching my skin, nor using the omnitool for the check-up. Then, he looked at Seryna, and nodded.

- "What we will do is heal some things, like your eyesight, and repairing some of bad healed ribs or cavities, nothing too complicated nor painful. After that, we will add the vaccines and you will have to eat this nutrient supplement for a month while following a diet, which is not strict as it seemed since you have a good diet already. After that, you will have to come once a week to follow your progress and react if something react badly. You already have my contact in your omnitool, if you need to ask me anything. But before we start, do you have any type of genetic problem or health problem apart from the wounds and the malnourishment?" – She said with a polite tone, and everything seemed reasonable, but at the perspective of the needles I wasn't so sure about everything right now. At least, they are not taking samples of my body without my consent.

- "Well, I don't have allergies that I know of, and probably a bit of a headache, but nothing too problematic." – I said, trying to avoid it being a problem, but then Seryna started to do some checks with her omnitool, and gasped in surprise, and as Ledra approached he looked surprised too. – "What happen? Is bad?" – I asked, a bit scared that I already got something problematic in my body. I only expected that what happen to me was something like the common flu of this place, or I would have problems.

- "It's not bad, in fact it's good but you will have to go by surgery." – Seryna said with a smile, but I frowned at the perspective of going by an operation already. – "How can it be good if I have to go by surgery?" – I asked, feeling confused a bit. Maybe their hobby was making people go through surgery, but then, I wouldn't be able to do anything by that at the moment. She smiled, while a silence was made, and the silence broke when Vyrnnus entered in the room.

- "Ey, what happen? Something wrong with the boy?" – He said, a bit worried, but then Seryna let him look at that analysis and he opened his mouth in surprise, hanging it while looking at me for a moment. – "Are you sure about this?" – He asked, only for Seryna nodding in affirmation. I was feeling distressed by now, and I wanted answers soon.

- "What is going to happen to me?" – I asked, feeling scared, but then, Vyrnnus laughed. – Marcus, congratulations on being the first human with biotic powers. – He said, making me incline my head without understanding what he was saying.

- "What?" – I said, don't feeling like I understood completely… But one thing was sure, apparently I got powers and I didn't know until now… That was something really strange and it was only the beginning.