Thank you for your reviews, and I expect you enjoy this chapter. Things get difficult for Marcus.

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And now that I think of it, the Councillors I am using, I can't use the same Salarian Councillor, because their short lifespan. The original councillor from the Mass Effect will appear in time, but for the moment the Salarian Councillor will be another one. And I am still seeking for someone to be the Beta Reader for this story, both for how I write this, and to check I don't make miss things

Marcus POV

When the song finished, Tevos had to go, leaving the office to leave me alone with Kardak. At the same time, we sighed heavily, trying to relax a bit after all of this. Maybe Tevos didn't say much things, but the implying of the results if I didn't live up to their expectations were clear enough.

- "Don't know how you take all of that, Grothnack. I would have shot her in the moment she annoyed me." – Kardak said, and I nodded at that. It was like I was in front of an exam, only that failing that exam would lead to the bad ending in a videogame with the wrong move.

- "I don't know it myself, Kardak… Now I am going to learn lot of things in a reduced time set… It's like going to a cram school all the time. Not going to lie, it's going to suck." – I said, before leaning more in my chair. At least it was comfy enough, because I was predicting I would stay in that chair a lot of my time there for the next stage of my life.

- "At least it's over…" - Kardak said, and I just put my hand in my eyes as I heard a "ping" from the computer.

- "I just jinxed it, right?" – Kardak said with of being embarrassed by jinxing my day even more. I sighed, as I just opened the email, trying to relax a bit before trying to kill Kardak on sight.

From: Councilor Sparatus
To: Ambassador Marcus
Message: I want more details about the weapon you presented yesterday on the meeting. Please, arrive at the Seg-C headquarters as soon as your schedule allows.

- "Yes, now we have to go to Seg-C… The Councilor Sparatus want more details about the RWBY weapons." – I said to Kardak, and he nodded. I just wished I had some chocolate to eat in between, as I needed something to recover from the meeting with Tevos. At least some things from Earth still applies on the rest of the galaxies or universe. The women are scary.

- "To think you would make them become interested in a weapon from a series. But… there are some that are impossible to recreate." – Kardak said, and I sighed at that. Maybe I could put forward the weapons of Ruby, Blake, even Phyrra maybe. But I really doubted I could put through the weapon of Coco… because how do you explain to them how can a handbag transform into a gatling gun?

- "I know… I will try to put only a selection of them. But before I do that, I will try to obtain a contract or something to give me a benefit." – I said, as I got up after I turned off the computer, and let Kardak lead me to the Seg-C… In the meantime, I just put some music to hear while walking, trying to relax myself a bit.

After a while and a Rapidtrans later

The first impression I got when I stepped out of the Rapidtrans, was that the Seg-C was similar to a police station. The only difference was the technological aspect and that I was the only human in there, as the rest were mostly turians and some asari and quarians maybe. I went to the reception, trying to stay calm, but I was wishing to have other type of clothing… having this two days in a row would make for bad first impressions after all.

- "Hello… I want to meet with Councilor Sparatus. He sent me a mail which said that I had to be here whenever my schedule allowed it." – I said to the receptionist; an asari, which started to check on a computer after giving me a nod. To her credit, she didn't stare at me a long time. I was still feeling the gazes ALL the Seg-C was giving me. I knew that I was a new species at the Citadel, but this was a bit… embarrassing.

- "Yes, please go to the Executor Kryik office. They are waiting for you." – She said, and a beep sound in my Omni-tool claimed my attention, showing me a map of the place, and a point where it told me where to go. I looked at Kardak, who at least looked a bit sheepish.

- "I forgot to tell you that function." – Kardak said, and I sighed, starting to move before a queue started forming. Kardak followed me, but it was clear to me that this setting was bad for us… in a way that if we did something that wasn't good in the book of Sparatus, we would end up in prison or things like that.

We reached the door, and I used the Omni-tool to call inside, giving a sign before entering myself. Proper courtesy and all that. I saw the Councilor Sparatus, waiting along another turian; this one in a uniform, but not less intimidating. At least I knew they were going to intimidate me, all this setting just smelled like that.

- "Good afternoon, Councilor Sparatus, Executor Kryik." – I said, extending my hand in greeting, and I received both hands of the turians before taking a seat. Now it was my turn to stay silent, while Kardak was waiting at the door, but again, with his hand maybe itching for the shotgun.

- "Now that we are here, I would like to obtain the most possible data for those weapon. Just sign them over, and we are finished." – Kryik said, pulling out a paper which appeared to be a contract of sorts. But I didn't make a move to sign anything.

(I recommend to put the OST Pursuit – Wanting to Question of Phoenix Wright xD)

- "Sorry, but I am not going to sign anything like that." – I said, after giving a look at it. It was simply a renounce for all the profits I could achieve with this. If I wanted to have at least more things to battle in the long way, I couldn't just give the only weapon I had at the moment.

- "Of course you are going to sign it. Or do you think that the medical attention you received is going to be free of charge? It cost supplies that could save another life." – Kryik said again, and I just had to bite my lip to stall for time. That was right, I just didn't factor the medical bill of all of this, nor the equipment of my office. If they wanted a repayment, they could make life my life more difficult.

- "In first place, that is not possible, or the conditions made by the Councilor Tevos would have already said that I had to pay the amount necessary of the treatment. So you can't pull it now to make me sign this." – I countered, and I could hear a curse word from Kryik, and… maybe a chuckle from Sparatus? No, he was before like a dog with a bone in the Council meeting, so I was probably in a delirium about that.

- "What do you want?" – Kryik asked, giving me his worst glare. A growl was heard, and I glared at Kardak, that went a step back, as he was starting to perceive things going a bit dangerous. But the wrong move, and the deal will be off… This was what the weapon dealers had to do every time? I didn't want another repeat.

- "I want this to be standardised to my species when they come here. All the research made will be shared between us. Both will benefit from this." – I said, looking at the Councilor. He looked thoughtful, as he was considering the possibilities. And I was sweating right now, as I recalled that Nazarius just transferred everything from my computer to the omni-tool, and that he already looked through the files. It was a matter of time to check on those videos, and then the deal would be over.

- "You know that we have all these files, right?" – Sparatus said, and it was my turn to curse in my head. I had to reply quickly… why they wanted to make me sign a renounce of this? They could just have used it, but they wanted me to renounce the ownership of this. So… maybe it was because I made it public.

- "I know. And I know that if you did use them without my renounce of ownership, you could end up breaking a law of sorts, as this idea was put in front of the council as a human idea. That wouldn't end up well if you did it, so you want me to renounce this to exploit it for your species." – I answered, expecting some type of retaliation, and Kardak was near to just start opening the path by shooting the shotgun.

- "But how do you plan on making it a conjunct research, if only we would be able to research this? You are alone in here." – Sparatus continued pressing, and he hit in the weak point in my defence. I couldn't put a conjunct research because I am the only human here, and no doubt, I don't have the qualifications to do that type of research.

- "Yes, I am alone. But your people are working already on the communication array. I doubt it would be painful for you to wait until I contact them to do that." – I said, as that was my only route possible for the moment. I had to stall for time before they wanted to progress the project, and I had no doubt that they had me since the moment I stepped here. They knew that was my only option.

- "And what would you do to make us wait that time? It's not like you can offer much." – Sparatus said, condescending… That really pissed me off, but it's not like I can blow up in anger, that would only make things worse. And the worst fact is… that he is right. I can't just give anything at the moment.

- "I…" - I tried to say, but I couldn't say anything. I couldn't think of anything to get out of this mess. I couldn't offer anything useful to them, because I only had videos… videos that they were going to appropriate anyway.

- "What about a schematic for the weapon everyone saw?" – Kardak said in a grumble, and everyone looked at him in surprise, and slightly agape at that. I nearly forgot he was there… and that was saying something because he was huge and bound to make noise.

- "Come on, you know I am an engineer. You made me watch that show, and the weapon interested me, so I made a schematic prototype. Just enough to start trying to develop something else." – Kardak scoffed, and I just laughed weakly. The Councilor and the Executor recovered, and started talking between themselves. The translator on my omni-tool for some reason, didn't translate the whisperings…

- "We agree to wait to do the conjunct research in this matter, if we could research that schematic and you allow to the use of the material provided by said vid." – Sparatus said, with a glare in the direction of Kardak. It was clear that this was the best we could get out of this meeting, and I agreed to it immediately, accepting the talon offered; because turians had talons instead of hands, to seal the deal. Kardak turned on his omni-tool and sent the schematic to the Executor.

Turn OFF the OST here, please.

- "I will tell you the results from this schematic. If the results ends up in positive, we will speak again." – Sparatus said, dismissing us. I just nodded and went out of there, trying to relax a bit after all of that. The turians were… intense in the meaning of intimidation and pressing their points home. Ruthless maybe, but all the things made reason.

- "Kardak… you just saved my arse." – I said, when we were in route toward the Rapidtrans. I just wanted to relax a bit before trying to do anything else, because I doubted my mind could resist anything more in this moment.

- "Well, you saved me more than once. You are just trying to catch up to them, with few resources. Just give yourself time." – Kardak said, shrugging it off like it was nothing. I just wished to know in what situations I helped him… Because I spoke to him about a lot of things, and I couldn't remember what was he referring to.

- "I know… But the thing is that I need to obtain things to make "human". The weapons of that series is the only thing I have right now. And I don't want to sell my body to the salarian councillor for medical probes. And again, probably they already did when they treated me, so it's a moot point." – I said, wishing for something to help me in obtaining better results.

- "I am sure you will think of something." – Kardak said, and I sighed… Well, I supposed that I could ask the salarians to help me with the medical part of my body here, as I could end up in every sickness I could grab here, because I don't have the vaccines to avoid those things. And I needed to check up in how the biotic part could work.

- "I think I have something, but first I need to check up on my health and so on. I am supposed to have biotics, but I have to receive an operation first and so on… I don't think it's going to be pretty, and maybe I could make ground to put forward countermeasures to this…" - I said, as I picked my omni-tool, trying to type a message. It was a bit hard, but soon enough, I had the message ready.

Now it was time to see if it will be useful, or will explode in my face… but at least, I tried.