Chapter 5: The Specter meets The Dragon Born.

Time: 10 minutes after the Blue Suns member took Shepard, Jacob, and Zaeed to the place where the mercs had Arch-Angel pinned down.

Location: just up the first set of stairs away from the location the blue suns merc plans to drop Shepard and his team off, the stairs are only about 20 feet away from the drop off point.

Malen had arrived at the location where the mercs had Arch-Angel pinned down just 10 minutes ago since he had to search high and low, he couldn't ask the merc groups since Blood Pack had given a description of him to the other 2 merc groups. The message that went with the description was

"Do not fucking engage the Demon of Omega or else he will most certainly kill you, unless fighting is the only thing you can do."

Malen knew that in order to find an interesting crowd to join, you had to be where the action was, and with all 3 merc groups trying so very hard to kill just 1 turian named Arch-Angle, then this place was the best spot to meet and join a crowd or group of people that needed him to help them with exciting and dangerous things, after all he had nothing else to do and he wanted some adventure and action.

He was invisible with his invisibility spell and was still wearing his dragon bone armor and had Malen's wrath strapped to the left side of his hip. Malen had been waiting at the top of the steps for someone or some people that looked interesting to join this "party".

He was getting impatient and bored. Malen was about to considered just going through the makeshift staging area and murder all the mercs he could find so that Arch-Angel would have a much easier time surviving this ordeal, when suddenly he could see a small vehicle come close into view and was parking in the only open box area there was to park in. When the shuttle came to a complete stop, Malen saw a door open upwards and saw 3 individuals step out. The first one to step out looked like a white human male in his mid to late 50's. He had a scar across his left eye and his left eye looked like he was blind in it since it had a milky look to it, he was also wearing yellow armor, and had short black hair, he also had the look of a veteran merc. The next person to step out looked like a black human male in his late 20's early 30's with a bald head, he was wearing what looked like a tough looking black wet suit with a unusual symbol on his right shoulder, he had a strong and attractive looking face, and Malen thought he too looked like a good fighter. The last person to step out looked like a white human male in his mid to late 20's, his hair looked cut to the point where there was only a black coloring on his head to indicate that he still has some hair, he was also sporting some 5'o clock shadow on his face. He was wearing black armor with red strips on the shoulders; the armor also had "N7" in white on his armor's left breast. Out of the three Malen had guessed that this last man was the best fighter among them and there for probably the leader of the group. Malen noticed that they were approached by the blue suns merc that was stationed to wait there for the incoming freelancers. Based on what Malen could tell of the group of male soldiers that has just arrived, this was the "interesting" group he had been waiting for, though he did not know who they were, yet, though the supposed leader looked familiar to him, he thought that he might have seen him on one of the codex entries he read from his Omni tool.

With that Malen was feeling all excited and pumped like how a skydiver feels on one of his/her jumps when they are about to jump out of the plane. He decided that the blue suns merc who was about to converse with the 3 new arrivals was his next target and through the euthanizing of the merc is how he would make his entrance.

Malen:" all right then, show time!" he thought to himself as he stealthy crouch walked his way down the stairs towards his batarian target.

With Shepard and his team:

As they approached the stairs that were in view, they were approached by a batarian blue suns merc.

Blue Suns Merc:" it's about time they sent someone who looks like they can fight, did they tell you what we're up against?"

Shepard:" the recruiter was a little vague."

Merc:" we wouldn't get many recruits if they knew the truth. We have Arch-Angel pinned down, but we are having trouble finishing him off, he blasted all of the access tunnels to the 2 story structure, where he is pinned, shut, the only way to him are across a very exposed bridge and he has high ground advantage and is using a sniper to pick off anyone who tries to cross."

Zaeed:" that's goddamn suicide!"

Merc:" pretty much, but you 3 look like you can handle yourselves, just go up the stairs and meee…"

the blue suns merc was about to continue his sentence when he was suddenly impaled through the back of his armor, through his spine, internal organs, chest, and out through the front portion of his armor, where the human sternum would be located, with what looked like a blood soaked hand sticking out a good 7 to 8 inches out of the mercs chest. Before the batarian could look down to see the hand that was thrust through him, it pulled out and chopped horizontally at his neck with such speed that to Shepard, Zaeed, and Jacob it looked like a red line going across the batarian's neck. It took several seconds for the batarians body to fully react to being impaled, then decapitated, but sure enough the batarian's legs gave way and fell on its knee caps, when that happened the batarian's head fell forwards and made 2 forward revolutions before coming to a stop at Shepard's feet, with the face looking upwards with open, emotionless eyes at Shepard, while the rest of the body fell to the ground with a thud, and a pool of blood started to flow out of the hole in the headless body and surrounded the body: the head was leaking blood from the neck at an alarming rate.

When the trio of soldiers finally stop looking at the head and body in a surprised and terrified manner (lasted about 15 seconds), they looked up to see what could have killed the merc in front of them. What they saw was an invisible hand covered in the red blood of the batarian that once stood before them. Zaeed hand pulled his assault rifle from his back and quickly pointed it at where he guessed the head of the invisible person was, Jacob had done the same thing Zaeed did with his submachine gun. Shepard was about to do the same thing with his shotgun, and when he had it half way raised to the point he intended it, he remembered the description that was given on the dossier Aria gave him, and how it said that he had killed mercs in brutal ways in order to send a message to the other mercs in the room to clear the fuck out, brutal death of a few so that he did not have to kill them all by making them lose their will to fight.

Shepard:" perhaps not the best way in terms of morality and ethics to defuse a combat situation, but I have to admit, if done correctly it could be very effective, and very useful if you didn't want to kill all of your enemies when you were originally going to have to, but I'm going to have a conversation with him about trying to find a less violent way to disarm enemies." Shepard thought to himself

He did not raise his weapon anymore and didn't motion to his team to lower their weapons until he could confirm his suspicions.

Shepard:" is that you Malen Katarn, aka "the Demon of Omega?"

when he asked this, the invisible figure shook its blood covered hand until his hand was completely invisible, after that the figure started becoming visible until all three soldiers could clearly see who was in front of them, though only Shepard and Jacob knew his name and the person who had the name.

Malen with a chuckle:" very astute of you, yes my name is indeed Malen Katarn, though it was the Blood Pack who gave me the name "Demon of Omega".

Zaeed:" you telling me that you scared a bunch of vorcha and krogan so shitless that they called you a demon?"

Jacob and Shepard at the same time:" it is true Zaeed."

Zaeed putting away his assault rifle:" fine, but I need to see what this lizard can do for myself before I buy that story."

Malen:" fair enough Zaeed, after all I'm an enigma to you, so I have to prove myself worthy of the title the Blood Pack gave me, but trust me when I say that you will not be disappointed." He said with a smile.

Zaeed:" we'll see about that."

Malen:" may I ask your names?" he says while pointing to Jacob and Shepard.

Shepard:" my name is Commander John Shepard of the Systems Alliance, the first human specter now currently former specter, I was presumed KIA 2 years ago but I'm now back to active duty when the Lazarus project rebuilt me."

Jacob:" My name is Jacob Taylor, former Alliance crosier, currently a Cerberus officer under the current command of Commander Shepard aboard the Normandy SR-2."

Shepard:" May I ask as to why you killed that batarian merc?"

Malen:" I do believe you and I are here to ensure Arch-Angel survives this, eventually he would have learned that you're here to help Arch-Angel and you would have to kill him eventually, so I decided to do it quick and quiet for you. I'll follow behind you unseen and undetectable while you make your way to Arch-Angel, when you engage the mercs I'll come out of cover and help you secure the perimeter. Sound like a plan?"

Shepard:" sure! But there is one thing I would like to ask of you before we begin, I will try to make it short since we are pressed for time."

Malen:" what do you wish to ask?"

Shepard:" I'm here recruiting members for a team to stop collectors from abducting human colonies throughout the Terminus Systems and I'm going to need all the help I can get. I've seen and heard great things about your combat abilities and could use your help. It is going to be one hell of a ride; the only question is you on board?"

Shepard knew that he reeled in the big one when he saw Malen's face light up with excitement.

Malen:" sign me up commander!" he said with a large smile on his face.

Shepard:" Welcome aboard Malen, I'm sure you will make an excellent addition to the team, now let's go save Arch-Angel."

Malen:" Roger that commander."

And with that Shepard and his team of 4 now, including Malen Katarn ( a funny thing right now, which Malen knew and was laughing his ass off in his mind was that Shepard has no idea that he just hit the biggest jackpot he could ever hope for when he recruited Malen for his mission) went up the stairs, passed all the mercs that didn't give a shit about them, rewriting a heavy mech to attack anything that moves when its activated, and killing the mechanic for the gunship/leader of the freelancer operation. Shepard, Jacob, Zaeed, and Malen (still cloaked but was getting ready for a blood bath) jumped over the small divided that blocked the path to the very exposed bridge that led to the compound that Arch-Angel was pinned down in. as the freelancers proceeded to the compound, Arch-Angel shoot a couple of them in the head with his sniper while Shepard thought that now was the time to unleash hell upon the mercs and freelancers.

Shepard:" all right everyone, let's give these mercs a surprise of our own!"

And with that Shepard, Jacob, and Zaeed pulled out their weapons and were about to shoot the freelancers that were ahead of them, but noticed that 4 of the freelancers who were still supposed to be alive on the bridge had already been killed in brutal ways ranging from a freelancer being thrown over the side of the bridge into the abyss below, a merc whose spine was ripped out of him and used as a projectile to impale another freelancer through his exposed head, the last of the 4 freelancers still on the bridge had his still beating heart ripped from his chest and shoved down his own throat.

When Shepard realized that it was Malen who killed the 4 on the bridge he heard Malen Shout" Wuld Nah Kest" and with that Malen shot forward at the same blurring and astonishing speeds that Shepard had seen him do on the security vids on the dossier and in less than a second had reached the 2 freelancers who had reached the compound and killed both of them with a simple decapitation. Malen had done this all with his bare hands, and he was now proceeding upstairs to kill the two freelancers who were hacking the door.

Jacob and Shepard were bolted to the floor to say the least when they realized based on what they just witnessed Malen do that maybe the security vids they both looked at were not altered at all. While they were temporarily stunned, they saw Zaeed proceed forward with a grin on his face.

Zaeed:" come on you 2 slow asses, I want to see what our lizard friend does to the unlucky bastards upstairs, if it's anything like what happened down here then I expect there to be pieces of them all over the walls."

And with that Shepard and Jacob found their legs again and followed Zaeed into the compound. Malen had proceeded up the stairs with a sinister posture. The two freelancers in the compound were busy trying to hack the door that led to Arch-Angel's sniping look out open, but were having slow progress, but progress none the less. The freelancer who was on the lookout to guard the one hacking the door started franticly taping the shoulder of his "friend"

Freelance hacker:" Yes what is it?! I'm trying to get this damn door open so we can kill that Arch-Angel bastard and get paid! Now what can be so damn more important than that hmm? Can't do your job of protecting my ass yourself?"

Freelance lookout:" you probably should tttturn around."

The freelancer lookout was stuttering because he recognized the man that was walking towards them with hands held on each of his sides with the back of his hands facing forward in a stance that looked like they were ready to tear through anything that got in his way, and both hands were drenched in red blood that the freelancer knew was not his own, and was terrified beyond belief because he knew that if the rumors were true, which it started looking that way, then he was going to die. He laid his assault rifle on the ground and laid himself on the ground in a statement of surrender.

Hacker:" what are you doing jackass, get the hell up, do your job, and kill that intruderrrr..."

he himself started to stutter when he turned his head to point at the one he could now hear approaching them, but as he saw the face of the man who was now 12 feet away, he too put his gun on the ground and laid on the ground in a statement of surrender.

Hacker and Lookout:" We surrender, please don't kill us Demon of Omega!"

Malen responded to this by getting within just a few inches between the 2 freelancers and gave them a death glare that would have made batman proud.

Malen:" BOO!"

with that, the freelancers got up as quickly as their terrified legs would let them and ran down the stairs, only to be gunned down by Zaeed, but between that or getting eviscerated by Malen, they would choose Zaeed every time.

Zaeed:" decided to scare the shit out of them did you? Good thing I was here to make sure they didn't do something stupid."

Malen:" I don't like fighting or kill those who have lost the will to fight back."

Shepard and Jacob had finally caught up to Zaeed and all three were walking to the door that Malen was now leaning against. Shepard heard Malen explain to Zaeed why he didn't kill the last to freelancers and was feeling better about having recruited Malen

Shepard:" so he has a strong code of honor. He is more and more reminding me of Wrex, and I really got along with that krogan, though we did not see eye to eye on a lot of things." Shepard thought to himself.

Shepard:" good job Malen, though next time warn me when you're going to make a move, I know you can hold your own in a fight, but that does not mean that everyone else with you can, you need to stick with the team and be more trusting and trustworthy like warning your teammates when you're going to make a push so that they will now how to react, understood?"

Malen:" well stated Shepard, and your right, what is the point of me getting to the objective if everyone else gets killed because I was not there to protect them. I understand commander."

Shepard with a sigh of relief and a small smile on his face:" good now let's meet our next recruit."

With that Shepard walked up to the door, waved his hand that then glowed with an orange light that signified that his Omni tool was unlocking the door, the door opened and the 3 human soldiers and their new Argonian recruit walked in.

Meanwhile Arch-Angel, AKA Garrus Vakarian, was still processing in his mind the carnage that he just witnessed a single man, who looked like a lizard humanoid, unleash on 4 freelancers with his bare hands, ripping through their armor like a gun shot through wet tissue paper.

Arch-Angel:" so this is the infamous "Demon of Omega" I thought that the word "demon" was used as an exaggeration perhaps to lessen the shame that the Blood Pack members who faced and lost to this man felt, but now looking at this, maybe it really wasn't an exaggeration at all."

Said to himself, and that brought another thought to his mind.

"Shepard is really great at bringing together some of the galaxies strongest, strangest, and most dangerous individuals. He especially got himself a "find" when he probably recruited "The Demon of Omega", though something tells me that he is hiding a lot more of what he is capable of than what meets the eye, that's if you could keep track of him, and on that note; note to self, don't get on that guy's bad side."

And with that, Arch-Angel heard the door open and the footsteps of 4 individuals walk casually towards him. He held up his hand to motion to the people approaching behind him to wait a moment, he was lining up his sights on the last freelancers who was a part of the infiltration team (the reason why Malen didn't kill this one is that the freelancer was not on the bridge yet, lucky him!). When the lucky freelancer raised his head just a few inches above his cover, Arch-Angel put a sniper round in his head which killed the "lucky" freelancer instantly. Arch-Angel then got up from his crouching position, put his sniper rifle down, leaning it against a table, putting his blue helmet on the same table, and sat on said table.

Arch-Angel:" Shepard, I thought you were dead." He said in a tired voice while slowly panting.

Shepard:" Garrus! What are you doing here?" he said happily as if he was reunited with an old friend, which it was.

Garrus:" well, after you were presumed KIA, I started getting tired of the bureaucratic crap on the Citadel, thought I could do better on my own, so I jumped ship and came here to Omega. No shortage of criminals here, all I have to do is point my gun and shot."

Shepard:" how did you manage to piss off every major merc group on Omega?"

Garrus:" it wasn't easy, I reaaally had to work at it; I'm surprised that they are teaming up just to kill me. They must reeaally hate me."

Garrus then looks over Shepard's team and notices Malen.

Garrus:" so you're the "Demon of Omega" I've had so much about from the Blood Pack."

Malen:" indeed, I am, though the name is Malen Katarn. I assume that you are Arch-Angel?"

Garrus chuckling in an embarrassed fashion:" When I started taking out criminals on Omega, some of the locals gave me that name and it kind of stuck, though uuhh if your with Shepard then its aa (cough) just Garrus to you."

Malen chuckling a little at Garrus' expense:" Fair enough Garrus."

Shepard:" so how did you get yourself cornered like this?"

Garrus:" I was betrayed by one of my own, look Shepard, you get me out of here alive then I tell you the whole damn thing, deal?"

Shepard:" deal. What are we up against?"

Garrus:" Eclipse, Blue Suns, Blood Pack. They will probably send in Eclipse mercs and mechs first."

Garrus looks through his sniper's scope.

"Hmmm looks like the scouts have learned that the infiltration team has failed. Shepard, get ready! Eclipse reading to storm the bridge."

Shepard:" roger that!"

Malen:" Garrus, you said that they have mechs, those are "beings" made of metal right?"

Garrus:" not exactly "beings" but close enough, yes why do you ask?"

Malen with a devilish grin on his face:" you will see, you're gonna love it!"

Garrus:" Hope so, incoming!"

A group of small mechs were charging forward with eclipse mercs close behind them. When they were on the bridge Garrus, Shepard, Jacob, and Zaeed heard Malen shout "Dwiin Aam Aar" with that the mechs stopped their advance turned around and began firing on the eclipse mercs that deployed them.

-Side note: Since Malen knows the ancient dragon language, I have decided to make up some shouts based on words from the dragon language that would sound like they would create the effect that I desire; for example, "Dwiin Aam Aar": Steal (could not find a word that just meant metal), Serve, Slave: a shout that enslaves beings/animate objects made of metal.

When Shepard, Garrus, Jacob, and Zaeed noticed that Malen had used that strange language to somehow to control the eclipse mechs and send them against the eclipse mercs they each had a different reaction.

Garrus merely stated:" Impressive!"

Jacob and Shepard both stated:" Damn Malen, how many things can your strange language do?"

Zaeed looked amused and perplexed

Zaeed:" well I didn't understand any of that shit, but I must admit what it can do is pretty goddamn impressive!"

Malen:" thank you Garrus and Zaeed, and to answer your question Jacob and Shepard, lots, but those mechs won't last long, stay alert."

Rest of team:" understood."

The mechs that Malen had taken control of through the power of his shout were being quickly decimated until there were none left, but not before taking out 6 of the eclipse mercs (all of them being unarmored). While the mechs were being destroyed Malen had time to look at his teammates' weapons and ponder about something.

Malen:" I wonder if that shout would work on guns, hmmm aahh fuck it let's see what happens." He thought to himself.

After making up his mind Malen began in a whisper that no one could hear or pickup "Mid Vur Shaan". Then Malen watched his allies to see if his shout did anything for them.

Meanwhile Shepard and Zaeed were picking off eclipse mercs 1 by 1 with their assault rifles, taking at least 3 seconds each for the unarmored ones, and 8 seconds for the armored ones. Garrus was picking off mercs with head shots with his sniper, having to reload every shot, which took about 2 seconds to do. Jacob was using is SMG to pick off unarmored targets at a rate of 1 per 3 seconds, his reloading takes 2 seconds to do, Jacob was also occasionally using the biotic power "pull" to lift unarmored targets off the ground so they could be easily shot at.

When Garrus, Shepard, Jacob, and Zaeed had to reload their weapons, they noticed that their guns were covered in what looked like a cold wind, when they tried to reload their weapons, they were startled and amazed by how fast their hands were now moving to reload, and how there was absolutely no friction in the process. When they started firing, they noticed that their weapons were firing at a ridiculously higher rate of fire and were now killing mercs 5 times faster than they were before, and one by one they each asked this in a very surprised but very pleased tone of voice while chuckling in excitement and Amazement

"What the hell is going on with my gun? I'm not complaining, but whatever did this to my weapon I want to know so I can keep my weapon performing this BADASS!"

Malen didn't have to think to hard that his shout had worked beautifully with what he saw from his teammates and their weapons.

Malen with a hole hearted laugh:" You're Welcome!"

Now all 4 stared at Malen in confusion and amazement.

"You did this?!" they all asked at the same time.

Malen still laughing:" yes I did. You did not hear me but I spoke in the strange language you know that I use in order to significantly decrease your reload time and significantly increase your weapons' rate of fire."

Garrus laughed out loud in a mixture of delight and intrigue.

Garrus:" hey Malen, how many times can you do that and how often can you use it?" he said with fixed eyes on Malen with a hopeful glint in them.

Malen:" I can use it as many times as I want, and I can use it whenever you need it." He said with a smile and closed eyes.

Garrus' body language and facial expressions on his face spoke out loud about what he felt about that news "Sweetness!" while the other 3 soldiers just voiced out what they felt about it.

Shepard:" Kick Ass!"

Jacob:" Awesome!"

Zaeed:" OOO Hell YA!"

With Malen constantly enchanting the teams' guns whenever the effects wore off.: Shepard, Jacob, Zaeed, and Garrus mowed down over 200 eclipse mercs and mechs, including the big mech that Shepard sabotaged, into swiss cheese.

Garrus:" You're kicking ass Shepard, the barely touched me and we cleared out all the eclipse mercs in the process."

Shepard:" who is left to deal with?"

Garrus:" well, without eclipse, they lost their mech support which leaves Blood Pack and Blue Suns. I say we hold this position, take our chances. Let me take a look."

Garrus walks to the ledge, using the scope of his sniper as binoculars.

Garrus:" they stopped coming over the bridge and are reinforcing the left side heavily. What are they up to?"

Not a moment after Garrus had whispered this to himself did the team of 5 hear what sounded like a loud crash coming from below them. Garrus looked over his Omni tool to see what just happened.

Garrus:" damn, they breach the low levels. Guess they had to start using their brains sometime. Shepard take your team into the lower levels and make sure they don't get in here. Shut the 3 emergency doors to stop them. I hold my ground here but be quick about it."

Shepard:" Garrus, you are going to need someone up here with you."

Garrus:" you sure about that Shepard? Who knows what you will find down there."

Shepard:" I'm sure, Jacob, Zaeed you stay here with Garrus and make sure he stays alive. Malen, you're with me."

Malen: "Why just me Shepard?"

Shepard:" I want to see more of your combat prowess for myself, and the more help Garrus gets the better the odds he lives, and I'm sure you will be enough based on what I've seen so far."

Malen:" ok then Commander."

So Malen and Shepard walked down the stairs and headed to the door behind the stairs, while Jacob and Zaeed remained with Garrus to give Garrus fire support. As Shepard and Malen walked through the door to the lower levels, Malen could see multiple hostile life forces in three different directions.

Malen:" Commander, I am sensing multiple hostile life signatures in three different areas: north, east, and west. North has the least amount of hostiles, I can only see what appear to be a krogan and a vorcha. To the west I can see 2 vorcha that seem to be blocking a path along with a krogan, vorcha, and varen proceeding down a hallway. To the east I can see at least a dozen hostiles ranging from krogan, vorcha, and varens."

Shepard and Malen were still walking down the flight of stairs that lead to the lower levels when Malen made that comment to which Shepard gave Malen a skeptical look to Malen.

Shepard:" I know that your abilities seem weird and unnatural, but come on, "sensing hostiles", you have got to be screwing with me."

Malen senses an opportunity for a profit and a chance to laugh at Shepard's expense. They also finally reached the bottom step and were proceeding to the closest hallway that led to the stairs they just descended.

Malen:" Care to make a wager on that Commander?" he said with a cocky grin on his face, trying to hold back a laugh.

Shepard:" I don't really like to gamble with credits but I'll make a wager, if you're right then I'll let you go on the next mission, but if you are wrong then I would like answers to all the questions I will have for you, no holding back."

Malen still having a cocky grin on his face:" deal! I hope your next mission involves me rescuing a hot woman in distress, o did I say in distress, I mean in heat!"

Malen says while patting Shepard on the back and laughing loud enough for the krogan and vorcha in the hallway north of them to notice them. Shepard just face palming himself with embarrassment that Malen would say that to him and say it in a situation that called for possible bloodletting.

Krogan:" hey, doesn't that look like…?" the krogan asked to his vorcha partner in crime.

The vorcha squints his eyes trying to see who it was, when he did he turned around and walked nonchalantly trying not to draw attention to himself, but on the inside he was sweating bullets.

Vorcha in a whisper loud enough for the Krogan to hear:

"let's get the fuck out of here, that's the demon, seal the door behind us, permanently, I don't care if we get shot in the head for being cowards, it's either a shot in the head or being ripped asunder."

The krogan nodded his head in agreement and also started to turn around and walk nonchalantly to the nearest door way, shuts it, and blasts the controls to make the door inoperable from that side. Malen had noticed what the Krogan and vorcha did and chuckled loudly, and made a check mark on an "invisible piece of paper".

Malen:" strike one Commander!" he says with a mocking grin on his face.

Shepard:" lucky guess, still got 2 more doors to shut."

They then went to the steel barriers that were partially blocking ( think of them as a high road bump, they don't actually block off the path, but you still have to vault or climb over them.) the path leading to the next door they need to shut

Malen:" Commander, I think there are 2 vorcha flamers on this path, I advise letting me deal with them."

Shepard:" go for it."

Shepard says not quite believing Malen, but since the first door that Malen had been correct. Shepard didn't want to leave it up to chance for him to look like an even bigger ass (dumb ass that is).

Malen jumped over the first 2 steel dividers and landed on the shoulders of the vorcha flamer that was crouch down, waiting for someone to get close enough so he could burn them alive. With a twist of his legs, Malen twisted the vorcha flamer's head 180 degrees, killing the vorcha instantly. Shepard heard a crackling sound that he knew all too well, the sound of someone's neck being snapped to the point of instant death. Looking over the first steel divider he saw Malen standing on top of something that apparently fell backwards, and that's when Shepard put 2 and 2 together.

Shepard:" that's strike 2 I bet" he said with a sheepish look on his face that is to likeness of a student getting a question wrong and someone younger than them getting it right.

Malen:" you can move forward now." He said as he jumped off the vorcha's falling body, jumping sideways doing a cartwheel in the air.

Malen jumped over the next 2 dividers in a single, cartwheel jump and landing on the shoulders of the other vorcha flamer, only this time Malen landed only with his left foot, his right foot was cocked back like he was preparing to kick a football, which he was but instead of a football, it's this vorcha's head. With a swift kick, Malen punted the vorcha's head into the control panel of the emergency door controls. Malen was moving forward while doing a backflip off the decapitated vorcha.

Malen saw a krogan and vorcha running down the hallway to get through to the door way. Malen thought that now would be a good time to test one of his refined biotic powers, in this case, stasis bubble. When Malen landed, he charged his hand with dark energy that was a deep crimson red color. When he released it, there formed in a choke point in the hallway that the krogan and vorcha have to proceed through in order to reach their objective, a large, red bubble of energy that suspended both the krogan and vorcha in stasis.

Shepard had reached the divider that Malen had killed the other vorcha flamer, and was surprised to say the least that not only was Malen using biotics, but that his biotics were red, a color for biotics that has never been seen before. Out of curiosity and suspicion, Shepard scanned Malen with his Omni tool when he was still glowing with a refined red colored biotic field. To his amazement he found no element zero emissions coming from Malen. So Shepard decided to ask Malen about that when the emergency doors closed (10 seconds after the vorcha head smashed into the controls)

Shepard:" I didn't know you could also use biotics, but your biotics are colored red, most if not all biotics are either blue or purple. My Omni tool also detected no element zero emissions from you when you were using your biotics. Care to explain?"

Malen:" I had modified a biotic amp I bought here on Omega to make my biotics red, but before you ask or think so, no I was not born with nodules in my brain: I was able to increase the biotic amps effects to compensate for the lack of those adaptations in my biology. As for why you detected no ezzo emissions is that I was not using element zero to power the biotic amps effects, I also made it to where I no longer need the amp to use biotics at the same effectiveness that the improved amp gave me."

Shepard with amazement and a little doubt in his voice:" how the hell did you do that?"

Malen:" I'll tell you later, for now we need focus on closing the last door, then returning upstairs to assist Garrus."

Shepard:" you're right, let's moves."

And with that Shepard and Malen climbed back over the dividers, into the middle room, and entered what looked like a cargo bay to the east of the stairs they went down earlier. Shepard noticed that there indeed were at least a dozen members of blood pack that included krogans, vorchas, and varens. Shepard knew this was strike 3 and now he had to pay up, Malen would be chosen to help him recruit Mordin Solus.

Shepard was now curious as to how Malen could tell not just where the enemies were, but also what species they were, but he would have to ask that question later since they were now being shot at by said blood pack mercs. When the varens started charging at them, Shepard noticed Malen started smiling and then shout "Raan Mir Tah". The charging varen now stopped their charge, turned around, and then started to charge at the vorcha and krogan.

The vorcha were too dull witted to adapt to this sudden change and were ripped to shreds by the varen they once fought beside. The krogan; however, were able to adapt and started killing the varen with their shotguns. While the krogan were distracted by the varen that were slowly pushing them back past the archway that held the emergency doors, Malen rushed forward and when he had caught up to the krogan he shouted " FUS RO DAH!" he said with a voice like thunder. The krogan and varen that were arriving behind them were suddenly thrown back violently by an invisible force that threw them backwards a good 15 feet or more, or at least it would had if it were not for the back wall past the arch way being only 13 feet away.

The vorcha that hit the back wall impacted with enough force to smashed their skulls into their brains, killing them instantly, the krogan who hit the back wall managed to live, but were not paralyzed from the neck down. Malen took this time to hit the controls for the emergency doors to close and create another stasis bubble to block any hostiles from moving past a choke point that led to the small open room just past the archway.

When all the remaining hostiles in the cargo bay were killed Shepard and Malen walked out of the room and back upstairs where Garrus was. Before they got to the door at the top of the steps Malen tapped Shepard on the shoulder.

Malen:" Commander, I'm sensing 3 krogan, at least 2 vorcha and 2 varens in the compound."

Shepard nodded his head, while Shepard now believed that Malen could somehow sense life forms because of the overwhelming evidence he witnessed not long ago, but he still wanted to know how Malen can do this.

Shepard:" It could come quite handy for detecting stealth and hidden enemies as well as foil any attempts of an ambush or surprise attack against us." He thought to himself.

When they entered the compound they attacked the remaining group of blood pack, including its leader on Omega. Malen killed the krogan, each with a single slash of his personal dragon bone sword that cleaved their bodies in half, 2 horizontally, and one vertically, all three krogan bodies then glowed with multiple colors until violet remained and seemed to ebb out of the krogan like thick smoke which made Malen glow a darker shade of violet along with emitting a chiming and crashing sound. Shepard killed the 3 vorcha and 2 varens each with a blast from his shotgun at close range. After all the blood pack mercs were dead, Shepard and Malen went upstairs and rejoined Garrus.

Garrus:" they hardly got through to me Shepard, and we took out the blood pack in the process."

Shepard:" Now all that is left is the Blue Suns, I say we take our chances and make a break for it."

Garrus:" you're right, Blue Suns is the toughest group but are nothing that we have not handled before."

As soon as Garrus was finished speaking a gunship flew to and hovered within view of a window that was to the right of Garrus' sniping spot. The Blue Suns leader on Omega was the one piloting it.

Blue Suns leader:" Arch-Angel!" he said with anger

He fired his gunship's 2 machine Garrus as Garrus dived for cover behind a small garden platform.

Before Garrus could peer around a corner of his cover to look for a chance to return fire, he saw the gunship being crushed into a ball the size of a soccer ball. Garrus looked around to see what caused the gunship to be crushed so violently, that's when he spotted Malen with his left arm extended and his left hand in a griping pose.

Garrus asks with surprise and curiosity:" Did you do that Malen?"

Malen:" Yes I did Garrus, I saw that the gunship was targeting you specifically so I decided to crush it before it could ruin your ever so charming complexion." He said while laughing.

Garrus:" I didn't know I was charming enough for people to crush gunships for me, your losing your touch Shepard, It seems I'm getting more and more popular by the minute!" he said with a chuckle and shit eating grin on his face.

Shepard decided it was time to head back to the Normandy, so he called the team and they headed out to the port and entered the Normandy's airlock. Before the inner door of the ship opened to let Shepard and company aboard, a grid began to pass over the shore party to scan them for any abnormalities or deadly diseases. When the scanning grid passed over Malen, EDI (The Enhanced, Defense, Intelligence. The Normandy's on board AI) spoke over the intercom.