5 Years Later,Upper Market, Citadel.
"And in recent news, the colony known as Eden Prime was attack a few hours, devastating the colony and leaving hundreds dead. Reports coming in from the colony claim that those responsible for the attack are the Geth. We're not sure if these reports are true, but we'll keep you posted as they develop."
"Hmmm, so one of the human colonies got hit huh? Ehh, it doesn't surprise me." said a Turian Patron.
"Yeah I know what you mean. It's was only a matter of time before someone attacked them, but I don't believe it was the Geth that attacked them, my money's on the Batarians." said another Turian.
"You think it's a revenge attack?"
"What else would it be. I mean they blame the humans for taking their colonies from them, so why not."
"Good point. Ha, I almost feel sorry for them."
"Which one: Humans or Batarians?"
"Besides the eyes, what's the difference." said the Turian, who, along with his friend, started laughing uncontrollably, that is until a human dressed in black bumped into them as they were walking through the Market.
"hey watch it jerk!"
"Go screw yourself bird-face!" he yelled out as he walked away, but the Turian caught up to him and grabbed him by the shoulder.
"Hey! Who the hell do you think you are?" the Turian asked. The human grabbed by his arm, threw the turian onto the ground in front of him.
"A guy that doesn't tolerate people's bullshit."
"*gasp* your eyes!" the turian said, looking into the human's eyes, which glowed with a black and gold aura.
"Oh you like them too huh? Well you're not the first one." the Turian tried to get up, but the human threw his boot onto his chest. "Ohhh no no no no, you're not going anywhere."
"Get off of him you son of a bitch." the turian friend tried to pull the human off, but the human elbowed him in the jaw, and threw him across the floor using his biotics.
"You should've just let me walk away dude, that way I wouldn't have to knock you on your ass." Suddenly the human began to look annoyed, and started clutching his head. "Argh yeah I get it, but I needed to-" he stopped in mid sentence to clutch his head again.
"What the hell is his problem?" Said one patron.
"Is he having a stroke or something?"
"Oh come on, another god damn crazy human?!"
"Alright alright, i'm going." He said, then he grabbed the Turian by his mandibles. "You're lucky I have more important shit to deal, otherwise i'd beat the shit out of you." He let go of the turian's mandible, got up and resumed walking. "Oh and by the way, that little pun you made. This coming from the people who couldn't even hold ONE human colony." Then he walked away, mumbling to himself and clutching his head.
Ross's Pov, 10 Minutes Later, Back Alley.
"Oh my god, that was so embarrassing! Shade, what the hell!?" I yelled.
"Oh no, don't give me that crap Ross, you were the one who was going to walk away. I mean really, how could you just sit there and let them insult your own race. I mean yeah they were also insulting the batarians, but who really gives a damn."
"That doesn't give you permission to take control of my body whenever you damn well feel like it. Look, it's hard enough I gotta work for the Council in order keep myself a secret from the Alliance, but how the hell am I supposed to explain a second mind living inside of me?" *sigh* It's been like this for the last five years, ever since I escaped from the thresher maw horde back on Akuze. After that, I flew straight to the Citadel.
Flashback.
Now I found out right away that it wasn't as easy to find a massive space station created by the Protheans just by flying around, and even more difficult to find out which relay you need to hit in order to reach it. I think it took me about a week to reach it. When I began to approach the station, however, I was told to ID myself. Obviously I couldn't, so they ordered C-Sec to intercept my shuttle, and take me in. While I was sitting in holding, I asked one of the C-Sec officers if I could speak with the Council. When I did, he laughed.
"HAHAHA, you gotta be kidding me human. You seriously expect me to take you, a Human, to the Citadel Council?" said the Asari C-Sec , that shadow thing I was talking to before, wanted to take over my body and just snap their neck. "Oh goddess, you're not dying are you."
"No i'm not dying, I'm just really frustrated. You need to let me speak with Councilor Tevos so I notify the Asari Matriarchs i'm still alive." She shot me a look of suspicion, or maybe she was being cautious because she thought I was crazy. Luckily, it was the former.
"Why would you need to speak with the Asari Councilor? You're a human. How are you associated with her in any way?"
"I'm not, but I am with the Asari government, as you can tell by the mark on my chest." I said, showing the mark I had branded onto my chest. See, when the Asari Matriarchs accepted me in exchange for my cooperation in studying my unique abilities, I had them brand me with the symbol of the Asari on my chest. (It's basically the image of an Asari Dreadnought inside of a purple I know, it may seem crazy, but it was to prove my devotion to the Asari people.) She was shocked to see a human bearing the Asari symbol,and demanded that I tell her everything that I know. SO I told her how i've been working as an agent for the Asari, and that I was technically Asari myself. SHe didn't believe me, so I had to cut my hand open to show her my purple blood. After she stopped freaking out, she took me all the way to the Asari Councilor's chambers. I had to bribe some of the other officers in order to get out. Once I was out, the Asari Officer escorted me to the Councilor's office, as I could not find it myself. The officer explained the situation to Councilor Tevos. I showed her my brand to prove to her I was actually working for the Asari.
"So you're the Matriarch's pet project? To be honest I was expecting someone a bit more muscular." said Councilor Tevos.
"Eh, you're not the first person to say that, and pretty sure you're not going to be the last. Glad to see the other Matriarch's kept you up to speed."
"You're welcome. I was a bit skeptical when I heard of a human embracing Asari culture, so to be sure, I asked them take video of you."
"Yeah well, Asari religion is more accepting than human religion. Hell, humans can't even figure out which one to follow, that's how screwed up it is."
"Well that's why we decided to help you: so you can set an example for what the rest of humanity needs to be."
"While I don't like forced change, I wouldn't pass up a chance to help mankind grow. Plus as your reports have stated, I am half Asari, so I had no problem assimilating into Asari culture."
"I have to ask , why come here and not go back to Thessia?"
"I didn't think it was safe. The Alliance would've also tracked down this shuttle and capture me, then the Asari would have a scandal on their hands. So I came here."
"...hmmm smart and cute? I like that" Ok ok, no need to listen to this next part.
End Of Flashback.
"Ugh, I didn't need to hear that shit. Sitting through you two doing it was bad enough as it is, I don't need to remember it." said Shadow.
"Yeah well you know what, it's my head, not may be able to control my bosy, but you can't control my mind." I said walking down the alley. I didn't know where I was going, just needed to kill time till my next mission. For the last five years i've been working with the Spectres to help them take down trafficking rings all over the Terminus Systems. And let me tell you, there are some fucked up people out there, way worse than what you would see back home, and that's all i'm going to say. I based myself within the Citadel for a couple reasons: One: Shepard is going to arrive here shortly to gather any evidence to prove Saren is a traitor to the Council. And two:
"Where's the Shadow Broker?" the source of that voice, she's the second reason. "Where's Fist?"
"He'll be here, where's the evidence?" asked the assassin.
"Shit, it's happening faster than I thought. Alright let's do this." I whispered to myself.
"Wait a minute, you planned this? Wait, did you expect me to take over your body and make a scene so you'd have a perfect excuse to duck into the alleys?"
"Well what'd you'd expect: That'd I just be walking through the market buying parts for weapons when all of a sudden the news pops up and I immediately know to run straight to where the story is supposed to unfold? No that is completely unrealistic. And quite frankly that makes no sense." I said.
"And a talking voice in your head taking over your body IS realistic?"...I wish you were a comforting voice. And wish I may, I wish I might, I can't focus on the voice in my head, especially since I'm hearing the explosions coming from.
"Kill that Quarian bitch, and bring me that evidence!" Hehehe, in your dreams pal. I cloaked and quietly snuck into the fray without anyone noticing. Here's the rundown: Tali's pinned behind a wall, trying to fire at the enemies, but they're not giving her a chance to do it. You've got three salarians, one turian with a bad paint job on his face. And then you got me, waiting for Shepard to come in any second now to help her save the quarian. I wait a few seconds for to show up, but didn't. I don't get it, she was supposed to show up as soon as they started firing.
"Oh for fuck's sake Ross, you shouldn't be expecting this to play out the same way it did when you played the game 20 times over." Shade said.
"But Shade-"
"But Shade nothing! You need to help her before they kill. Besides, wouldn't it look better for you if came strolling and saved from being killed my low life assassins?"...While I don't respect anything she says, I do love that idea, although i'm not sure if that makes me a bad person though. "It doesn't dumbass. You really need to stop it with that whole…..'I do something for myself so I'm a bad person' bullshit. It's getting a little annoying.Plus self-pity and self-loathing isn't desirable in a guy, so I would just quit your bitching" Ugh I hate it when you're right. Still cloaked, I got to my feet and drew a blade from my hip. Favorite of mine, tempered tungsten with a carbon fiber grip, and heavily modified with miniature biotic amps so it could channel my biotic energy. I snuck up behind one of the salarians and shoved my blade through his chest. That, unfortunately, caused my cloak to vanish, so now I was a big wide open target.
"Who the hell is this guy?" asked one of the salarian.
"Who care, kill him too!" the turian shouted. All three of them began firing at me, but I used the dead salarian to block their block their bullets.
"So who are you with? C-Sec? The Spectres? Or are you just some random merc trying to play hero?"
"None. I'm just a guy who enjoys killing like you." I said. I kicked the dead salarian's gun into my hand, and fired off a couple rounds, killing one of the other salarians, "especially guys like you who would hurt an innocent quarian."
"*scoff* oh please. None of these suit rats are innocent. In fact if she didn't have something of interest to me, I would still kill this bitch!"
…
"Oh now you're fucking dead you son of a bitch!" I dispatched the last salarian with a couple bullets to the chest, tossed the corpse I was using to the side, along with the gun I was using, and drew my blade, "You're not even worth the bullet. Racists like you never are." I charged towards the turian assassin, who began fire wildly at me as soon as I dropped my shield. I blocked his shots by throwing up a biotic field, as soon as I got close enough, I started swinging my blade. The fucker was quick though, dodging every swing I threw at him, started landing a couple blows on me.
"So you are just some idiot playing hero. Well you came to the wrong place pal." Out of nowhere, he pulls out a knife, and jabs it into my side. Then he pulls the knife out and tries to kick me in the chest, but I grabbed his leg and slammed my elbow into it with enough biotic force to break a concrete pillar. "AHH fuck!" he screamed.
"Nice move trying to jab me in the kidney, you know your stuff. But i'm going to tell you right now, that never works on me." I said.
"No, NO! I did hit your kidney, you shouldn't even be standing up!" he said, holding up his knife, decorated with a thin coat of my purple blood, too which he was very shocked to see.
"Oh no i'm not saying that you didn't" I said lifting him up by his broken leg and tossing him into the wall, "I'm just saying it won't work on me pal. Take a look." I crouched down to his level of sight, and showed him the wound he just made, which was now almost completely healed. "I'm a fast healer."
"How the hell-" He didn't get the chance to finish. the snapping of one's neck tends to do that to a person.
"Your biotics…" I turned around and saw Tali had gotten out of cover.
"Hmmm, she's shaking. She's probably afraid of you. Take it slow, and I don't mean the type of slow like in dating, that'll have to wait till the next story-*clears throat* I mean game."
"Different, I know. They also come regeneration abilities, if you umm couldn't tell." I said, in a bit of a nervous tone. It may sound unusual, but talking to girl is still more nerve racking to me than fighting off a bunch of thugs. "Oh ummm sorry, umm are you alright? Did they hurt you miss…./"
"Tali. Tali'Zorah Nar Rayya, and i'm fine. I'm surprised you're asking. Most humans that i've spoken to would rather just curse me out and threaten to kill me." said Tali.
"Yeah well, i'm not most fact i'm not sure if I am human for that matter."
"What do you mean by that? Are you saying you're not human?" she asked.
"Yes and know. Look I know how confusing that sounds right now, but right now is not the time. In a few moments a woman with red hair is going to show up and ask if you're alright. You tell her yes, and if she asks you, go with her to speak with the Council and present the evidence against Saren. I know how crazy this sounds, but trust me, nothing bad is going to happen to you."
"How do you know all of this? Did you know this was going to happen." Before I could say anything else, the door opens on the far side of the room, and footsteps running towards us.
"I was never here. You got that? You killed these men yourself." I placed my blade back into its sheathe, and ran in the opposite direction, Tali calling out for me to wait, but I didn't, I just kept running, mainly because I didn't want to see Shepard right now.
Unknown Location, Unknown Time.
"Looks like you made the right decision to send that kid to the Asari. He's even stronger than I thought he would be."
"Are you saying you were questioning my judgement?"
"Very much. Risking exposing yourself to the world to save one boy, that doesn't sound very smart brother."
"Enough with the insults you two, we enough to deal with as it is without the both of you yelling at each other."
"We're not yelling, just arguing."
"Well whatever it is, just cut it out. This kid's ready enough. What about the other two? The girls?"
"THose two? They're fine, a bit more messed up than before, but alright. After what happened to them, they should've killed themselves, but they didn't."
"They wanna fight, they want to live. Putting them in the universe of their favorite game has given them motivation for life. Plus we did promise them that they'd get their revenge against him."
"It never ceases to amaze me how powerful human emotions can be. They can drive someone to do good, or to drive them go crazy things. Most cases i've seen: It's both."
"That I can agree with. The other versions of this universe that i've seen tell the tale, and we have those people from their universe to thank for that. What do they call them again."
"Fan fiction writers. Some of them are good, some not so much. I would love to see these three succeed, so that they can visit these other worlds, to truly experience the gift of life."
"Well then, we'll see for ourselves, no won't we.?"
"Yes we will."
WN- Sorry it's been a while since I last posted….well anything. I've been dealing with some family issues, mainly with my dad. I know the last part sounds a bit cryptic, and doesn't explain much, but trust me, things will be clearer in the future. Keep reading if you want to know what happens next. TIll next time. BYE BYE!