Arcturus Station/Arcturus Stream
The unknown young man known only as 'Ross' laid unconscious on a bed inside a cell in the System Alliance's main headquarters, battered, bruised, arms bound, one of them broken from his previous battle with the leader of a squad of batarians. Standing outside his cell stood three soldiers watching over the young lad, two guards branding assault rifles, and the soldier who arrested Ross: Commander Sam Shepard.
"Damn it, still nothing!" she cursed under her breath. For the past hour and a half, Shepard had been combing through every know network database, trying to locate any piece of information regarding the unconscious young man laying in his cell. However she had no luck in doing so. SHe had checked known birth records, dental records, biometrics, everything, but couldn't find one thing, and the harder she look, the angrier she got, "Widen the search parameters, go beyond the scope of human databases" She said into her omni-tool. She looked away from her omni-tool to look at Ross, who still laid unconscious. The recent events of the Skyllian Blitz are still burned are still burned into her head, the hours and hours she and her team had spent fighting off the invading batarians, but all she could focus on was that image of Ross killing that batarian.
"'EMBRACE THE GALAXY'S DARKNESS'", the way he said it, it didn't sound entirely human." she whispered to herself, when she heard her omni-tool beeping. She pulled up the screen again, hoping to discover something about the young man, but alas, it came up negative, "DAMN IT!" she yelled.
"Everything alright SHepard?" asked a voice. Shepard looked up from her omni-tool and noticed someone standing in front of her. Standing in front of her was an elderly gentleman, wearing an Alliance Admiral uniform, with a scar going down the right side of his face.
"Admiral Hackett!" said Shepard, jumping out of her seat to shake the man's hand, "Good to see your sir."
"Good to see you too SHepard" he said
"Are you here to ask me about the Skyllian Blitz? Because if so i've told everything I knew to the Brass. Well, almost everything." she said.
"Are you referring to him?" asked Hackett, turning his head towards the unconscious young man lying in his cell.
"I suppose you've heard about his unique abilities?" she asked.
"Exactly. Based on what they've heard from your report, some of the higher ups wanted to know what the full extent of his abilities are. If they meet up to their standards, they believe that with the proper training, he could become a great asset of the Alliance."
"Wait, the Alliance wants to …...'train' him?" asked Shepard, " I thought the plan was to investigate into his background to see if there was anything that could give us a link as to where his biotics came from."
"Well judging by the look on your face, that doesn't seem to be going well." he said
"No kidding" said Shepard raising her arm to show Hackett the screen on her omni-tool, "We ran his prints through AFIS, but no match. Then we we ran the DNA from his blood. Still nothing. Then we went through facial recognition, biometrics, we even widened the search parameters throughout every known database, and yet we still couldn't find ANYTHING. It's as if he didn't exist until a couple days ago." said Shepard.
"Either that's true, or someone's going to great lengths to erase any trace of this young man." said Hackett.
"Well hopefully we'll turn something up so-" she said before being interrupted by someone bumping into her as the two walked through the hall, "Oh sorry".
"Oh it's fine Shepard" said the figure, turning to to face her. Shepard turned to face the figure, but only managed to catch a quick glimpse of his face, more specifically, his eyes. They rather...unusual, they looked as though they were stars locked inside of two crystal balls. Suddenly a door hisses open, and the next thing she knew, SHepard was knocked onto the floor, with someone crying out.
"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, i'm so sorry Shepard." said a female voice. Shepard looked up to notice Alex was standing in front of her along with…..herself.
"Ok I think I hit my head when I fell cause now i'm seeing two of you Alex" she said.
"Well of course there's two of us" said Alex helping Shepard to her feet, "She's my twin" Shepard looked at her, surprised to hear that.
"Oh, oh my god. I mean I knew that you had a sister but I didn't think that she was your exact twin." she said.
"Well" said the twin, "We're not exactly alike. Alex here is a lez."
"A lez?" asked Shepard, apparently she doesn't get slang, and this is coming from someone who ran with a street gang until she was 18.
"She's gay. You know a bean flicker, rug muncher, a-" she said before Alex slammed her hand over her sister's mouth.
"Sally, if you don't shut up right now i'm gonna take your face and shove it up your ass. Pardon my language Admiral Hackett." said Alex, who took no offense to it.
"Shepard this is Sally Paxton. And I see that you've already met her sister Alex" said Hackett, pointing his hand to an now red faced Alex.
""Nice to meet you" said Shepard, reaching out to shake Sally's hand, "What brings you two to Arcturus Station?"
"Well Alex is here to examine your 'prisoner', Shepard. I'm here to make sure that she doesn't hurt herself doing it." said Sally.
"What she means to say is that i'm here to study Ross. The Alliance finds him very interesting" said Alex
"So i've heard."
"Shepard, these two here are two of the most exceptional recruits the Alliance has ever seen. Sally here is extremely proficient with tech, managed to repair a damaged FTL drive and managed to cut down the amount of dark energy required to get it to work. Alex is adept in combat, she's even managed to beat two of the Alliance's best combat trainer', and they've had years of experience." said Hackett
"Wow" said an overwhelmed SHepard, "You two sound incredibly smart."
"Really?" asked Sally in a sweet tone, "Thanks SHepard" Alex quickly took notice of this, which was obvious by the way her eyes widened.
"Wow Sally, this is a rare occasion. You actually look pretty happy." said Alex, poking her sister's side, causing Sally to grab and twist it. But seriously, wouldn't you be if one of the greatest soldiers in the galaxy gave you a compliment.
"Shut up Alex. Anyway, where is this guy Alex's here to examine? I wanna see if he actually has black and gold eyes."
"No you don't Sally." said Shepard, "Based on an observation I made a couple of days ago, if you see this guy with his eyes lit up, you better run." Sally was about to reply when suddenly, the sound of an explosion went off and the station's alarms began to go off.
"What was that?" asked Hackett
"I don't know, it sounds like it was coming from down the hall." said Alex, "Oh crap, he's trying to escape."
"No that's impossible, those cuffs I placed onto him prevent him from using his biotics. THere's no way he could-" That's when it hit her: That guy that bumped into her before, the one with the starry eyes, he was heading towards Ross's cell. Shepard reached for her pistol and armed it.
"Alex, Sally I know this is sudden, but I need you two to get Admiral Hackett out of here," said Shepard, running toward the source of the explosion, "NOW" that time she said it in a sharp tone. With Shepard's voice ringing in their ears, Alex and Sally escorted Admiral Hackett as far away from the scene as possible. THe halls quickly filled up with people running and screaming as the alarms are going off, so that didn't exactly help Shepard a lot. She pushed her way through the crowd of people who were now falling onto the ground and being trampled by the many other pairs of feet that are trying to escape immediate danger. FInally, SHepard emerged victorious and arrived at Ross's cell, only to find it empty and completely destroyed. The two guards were on lying on the ground, groaning in pain..
"Fuck, i'm too late." she cursed under her breath, approaching one of the injured men, "Hey, HEY! What the hell happened here?"
"Some guy approached the us and asked us to release your prisoner. When we told him no, he threatened us. I tried grabbing, but instead he grabbed me, twisted my arm and threw me across the room. Then George over there" he said ponting, "he started firing his weapon, but that guy managed to evade them. It's as if he was shooting the wind. Then he grabbed George's gun and shot him in the gut."
"Where did he take the kid?" asked Shepard. The injured used his remaining good hand and pointed to the door adjacent.
"He took off through there, said something about 'getting him home'." Shepard activated her omni-tool and radioed for help, that guy with the bullet in his gut wouldn't last too long unless he received immediate care. As soon as a medical team arrived, Shepard armed her gun and ran through the door.
Unknown POV
It's such a shame, humans are so fragile. Determined, yes, but fragile. They way those two barked orders at me, and they expected me to obey? *chuckles* Humans have so very much to learn, even though they have accomplished a lot. But even with that, none of those humans compared to the one i'm carrying in my arms. I hadn't anticipated that these humans would arrest him, and I really didn't want to interfere with the affairs of this universe, but these are desperate times.
"Have you retrieved the human yet brother?" my sister's thoughts echoed through my head.
"I have, but I had to hurt a couple of people to do so. I'm surprised that these humans are panicking instead of trying to stop me."
"Sad isn't it, and they waste their time trying to understand something they cannot comprehend."
"Hopefully they'll learn that in time. But just incase this happens again, we might need to manipulate things even further."
"Are you insane!? We've already created enough of a disturbance by allowing you to to fetch this human from his captors. We cannot interfere any further than we have now."
"And if we don't, everything will be destroyed. We must do everything we can to save the Multiverse!"
"Freeze! Drop the kid, NOW!" shouted a voice. I turned to face the source, the scarlet haired source. She has arrived.
"It appears that the Shepard has arrived sister. Do we dispense with her, or should I just incapacitate her."
"I'd go with the latter, this story has no purpose without her. Plus without her, the Reapers cannot be defeated. Besides, she isn't much of a threat."
"Fair enough, this shouldn't take long."
"Hello Shepard."
"How do you know my name, and where the hell are you taking him?" Said the Shepard, aiming her gun at me.
"I know many things Shepard.I can tell you when a star is going to explode, or whether or not someone is going to commit a crime, blow up a buildi- *chuckles* oh why am I telling this, you're not going to believe a thing I say, let alone remember it."
"What are you talking about?"
"What i'm saying is that I know better than you, just like how I know that this young man that I hold in my arms is important, and quite frankly i'm disturbed that you would rather lock him up than try to help him."
"There's the possibility he's a threat to the galaxy, he killed a batarian-"
"A batarian that was trying to kidnap one of your fellow squad members. She would've been forced into slavery if it weren't for him, yet you would still lock him up?"
"How the hell did you know about that, you weren't there?" Simple minded human, still she cannot grasped the concept that she is unequipped to understand what is happening.
"I've wasted enough of my breath on you Shepard. I'll be taking my leave, and i'm taking him with me." As I started to walk away, I heard the Shepard running towards me. Just as she was about to reach me, I turned to raise my hand and lifted her up into the air, "You stand no chance in trying to beat me Shepard, I wouldn't even bother" With a quick flick of my wrist, I tossed the Shepard into the wall, instantly knocking her out, "A minor head injury, that should make you forget anything you saw here today." I said, before my body disappeared into thin air along with Ross.
Do not interfere with things you are not equipped to deal with Shepard
Writer's Notes-I can't wait to see how many people get pissed at me for writing this chapter.
Alex-Oh come on Ross, no one's gonna get butt hurt by reading this part of the story, you're overreacting.
Sally-I wouldn't be so sure of that sis. Some people can get pretty snobby over how some stories are written, especially after you decide rewrite an entire story from scratch.
Alex- *points at Ross* HA Burn, *gets punched in the face*
Ross-I swear to god you two drive me crazy, almost as much as Jen does.
Jen-Luckily it's the good type of crazy.
Alex-...wait when did she get here?
Ross-She's always been here…..ALWAYS! e_0
Jen-Not only that but Ross gave me control over how I write you two.
Sally and Alex-*turns to Ross* YOU DID WHAT?!
Ross-Yeah we talked about this, in fact Jen wrote about that in one of The Steel Beast chapters.
Jen-This is true, look it up. I can't wait for the viewers to read about the dirty stuff that i'm gonna have Alex and Miranda do.
Alex-*blushes* As fun and *shivers with delight* overwhelming as that sounds, i'm still gonna kick Ross's ass for for doing that without clearing it with me first.
Ross- *bolts out, leaving a message* Until Next Time, BYE BYE :)
P.S Please don't kill me, I have so much to live for.