Chapter 6: Normandy crew and Dovahkiin.

EDI:" Shepard, I am detecting unknown DNA inside the decontamination area (EDI looks through the security cams and notices Malen. Using her quantum computing, she discovers that there are no records of any nature showing evidence of a previous encounter with a species that has Malen's appearance and DNA pattern), Shepard, you should be aware that both Cerberus and the Citadel Council has specific protocols when dealing with first encounter situations, one specifically is to not allow a new species access to our technology without a thorough examination of the subject's biology and intentions."

Malen was getting annoyed that the woman he heard over the intercom was speaking about him like he could not understand her and that he was not even there.

Malen:" Excuse me miss.."

EDI:" I'm the Normandy's Enhanced, Defense, Intelligence, but I am also called EDI for short. I 'am the Normandy's on board AI."

Malen:" yes EDI, I would appreciate it if you didn't refer to me like I'm not intelligent enough to understand what offensive comments you have made about my ability to grasp this "unique" circumstance. I also would appreciate if you didn't speak about me to Shepard like I am not even here. I find it VERY ironic that in a galaxy where AIs are treated as second rate living beings with the tone of most of the citadel races viewing AIs as illegal contraband instead of actual sentient beings to treat an actual living being with flesh, blood, and bone with the same stereotyping that most of the galaxy views towards AIs, which I believe not only insults me as a person but hurts your races image of trying to be seen as equals to any other race in the galaxy." Malen said in an annoyed and irritated voice.

EDI:" My deepest apologies Mr…."

Malen:" Malen Katarn:"

EDI:" yes Mr. Malen, I apologize for my lack of manners, and my rudeness."

Malen:" Apology accepted EDI. Thank you."

Shepard was surprised at how well Malen handled the situation, also that Malen had treated EDI like an actual person while still knowing what EDI was.

Shepard:" well said Malen, Welcome aboard the Normandy, though EDI does raise a point about you. Your species has never been discovered before, so before we can start on the next mission, we need to ask you a few questions about you and have you take a medical examination, will there be any problems with this?"

Malen:" No there won't be Commander, at least not for me anyway."

Shepard was confused by that last statement, but figured that Malen was referring to the consequences for delaying the next mission, but if he was going to use Malen on the next mission, there were things he would need to know about Malen. Shepard escorted Malen to the elevator and pushed the button for floor 3, this is where Malen would be seated across from Shepard at the dinner table to go over the question and answer part of the examination, though he won't ask Malen all the questions he wanted answered because he needs to get this done quickly so he can recruit Mordin Solus. Malen noticed how incredibly slow the elevator was.

When they finally reached the 3rd floor and were both seated, Shepard began his questions.

Shepard:" All right, I already know your name, can you tell me what species you are?"

Malen:" I am an Argonian Commander. As you probably have guessed, my kind is reptilian in nature though there are several differences. For one all argonians can breathe underwater. Another key difference is that while all argonians have strong resistances to poisons, some argonians are born with complete immunity to all poisons and diseases. Argonians have a very high natural regeneration rate, perhaps even greater than either Vorcha or Krogans."

Shepard was impressed by what his species can do, and wondered if he could unite his race against the reapers, but first he would need to know where they lived.

Shepard:" What planet are you from?"

Malen:" Me and my kind come from a planet called Nirn. No race from my world has achieved space travel yet, and also I don't think it is possible for you to reach my world since it does not have a mass relay that leads to it."

Malen had told Shepard half the truth since he thought that Shepard would not believe that a god had pulled him into a portal to this alternate reality, so Malen told him a more believable reason why that they have never encountered his kind before. Shepard was not quite believing Malen's explanation since it did not explain how he got to Omega if his home world had not reached space travel tech yet.

Shepard:" that does not explain how the hell you got to Omega when you had no ship or shuttle to dock with."

Malen:" well, the truth of the matter would be very hard to believe considering how things work in the galaxy Commander, how am I to be truthful when the truth would not be believable to you?" Malen asked defending himself.

Shepard was taken aback at how well Malen had defended himself against Shepard's disbelief, and since Malen had performed things that Shepard has never seen before and would think of as impossible, he would give Malen the benefit of the doubt.

Shepard:" I see your point there, but if we are to work together, then I need the truth weather you think I will believe it or not." He said in a calmer and more receptive tone.

Malen just sighed and took in a deep breath, Shepard could tell that Malen was probably thinking "He is not going to fucking believe me" based on the expression he could read on Malen's face and how Malen sighed and took in a deep breath. Shepard was used to not being believed, especially from the citadel council casting aside Shepard's statements about the reapers as being nothing more than a fantasy, an elaborate lie from the rouge turian specter Saren to bend the geth ( a race of metal, bipedal networked AIs created by the quariens 300 years ago, and the reason why the galaxy has a law against creating AIs), which still pisses him off to no end, so seeing Malen with in a similar circumstance that Shepard has been in before, so he was willing to hear Malen out, no matter how ridiculous Malen sounded.

Malen:" I was fighting a being called Hermaeus Mora. I struck one of his appendages he used to try and kill me with. He was overwhelmed with agony from my sword strike. To prevent me from striking him again he opened an inter-dimensional portal that sucked me in and sent me to this galaxy near the asteroid field surrounding Omega." He said in a monotone voice.

Shepard tried to keep in his disbelief but couldn't hide it from his facial expressions, but Shepard was still going to give Malen the benefit of the doubt, but wanted some form of proof of Malen's claim.

Shepard:" do you have any proof of that?"

Malen:" yes I do."

Malen hands Shepard a data pad with a security recording on it. It was a security recording from the exterior cams of Omega. Malen had the insight to think of acquiring the security recordings of him appearing out of the portal and drift in space towards Omega. Malen had acquired these recordings shortly after obtaining his mods for his Omni tool, and used it to hack into the stations exterior security cams for the footage of him so that if he had to explain his appearance on Omega, being a member of a race that has not discovered space travel yet.

If it were not Shepard seeing in person what Malen could do on the battle field, he would think that Malen was doing an elaborate joke to fuck with him, but the vids did offer the evidence that at least Malen was telling the truth when it came to him arriving to Omega through a portal of some kind. Shepard was awestruck when he saw that Malen had survived in deep space without any gear quite well and wondered if after the mission on Omega that Malen could explain how he survived deep space with no gear, for that could be very useful information in the future in case he gets thrown into deep space again, hopefully not due to the Normandy blowing up like the last Normandy did.

Shepard:" Alright I think that will do it for the question portion of the examination, you should go see for the medical portion of the examination, she's in the room right behind you that has a window to view out of and into." He said while pointing his right index finger towards the room behind Malen.

Malen:" Thank you, I will go now."

Malen got out of his chair and walked into the med bay where Dr. Chakwas was stationed.

Dr. Chakwas:" you must be Malen Katarn, the person Shepard told me to expect for an examination."

Malen nods his head.

Dr. Chakwas:" very well, please remove your armor and weapons and place them on the table behind me. After that please put on this patient gown and lie down on the table to your left."

Malen does what he is asked to do and puts his armor and weapon on the table, which the table responds to by creaking and moaning under the weight put on it. Chakwas is surprised that the table would do that. She uses her Omni tool to scan the armor that Malen has put on the table; to her surprise her scans had shown that Malen's armor weighed about 6000 pounds (what Chakwas didn't know is that Malen's possessions were connected to his armor with the mean of a pocket dimension storage compartment attached to his armor, this helps explain why you can carry so much shit on your character without it actually showing on your character's person).

Chakwas didn't know too much on armor construction since she was a military doctor so that was not her field of expertise so she didn't ask questions about why Malen's armor weighed 3 tons, but this did give her an idea about how physically fit Malen was, considering that he could carry a armor that weighed 3 tons and move around like it was nothing. She typed on the computer console that she uses to write and file her medical reports and wrote down that Malen so far shows signs of "super human" strength. Chakwas then pulls out a needle to take a sample of Malen's blood and run it through machines that would scan for abnormalities, unique qualities, possible illnesses, and age. When Chakwas approached Malen with the needle, Malen laughed out loud and held out his right arm while still laughing."

Chakwas:" what is so funny?" she asks curiously and a bit annoyed.

Malen:" I don't think that you will be able to extract my blood that way." He said with a smile.

Chakwas:" I assure you I know what I am doing, but thank you for your input, now just relax, this will only take a second."

As Chakwas stabbed under Malen's elbow where the arm bends, Chakwas was taken aback when she noticed that her needle, which could puncher a krogan's tough hide, had shattered from a millimeter from the base of the needle. Chakwas wiped the sweat from her forehead from the shock of the needle breaking and opted for a mass accelerated scalpel. While the scalpel was indeed more effective at cutting into skin the result; however, was the same with the needle. Chakwas resorted to actually using her pistol to just shoot a minor wound into Malen and get the blood that way. To say that she was alarmed when the pistol she used was torn to shreds by the bullet she fired to make a minor wound in Malen's skin to turn out that his skin actually made the bullet bounce off his skin (the shot was flattened due to the force of the bullets velocity crushing it when Malen's skin did not budge a single nanometer) would be a monumental understatement.

Chakwas dropped the pistol on reflex when she felt the bullet bouncing inside her pistol and making the pistol inoperable. After what must have seemed like hours, Chakwas finally managed to collect herself from something she thought impossible, apparently Malen's skin is impermeable to any hand held weapon in the galaxy (the reason why she concluded this is that she fired the pistol point blank on top of Malen's right forearm, and since that did nothing, it would stand to reason that not even a sniper round point blank in Malen's face would do anything to Malen either) Chakwas typed down that Malen's body was immune to arms fire, to what extent Malen's skin was impermeable she did not have the space, resources, or expertise to test that. Chakwas is getting a bit frustrated with her lack of progress; she really didn't want to disappoint Shepard to say to him that she couldn't extract even a single red blood cell from Malen.

Dr. Chakwas:" do you have any ideas on how I am to get a blood sample from you." She says preparing to hear an "I told you so!" statement.

Malen:" yes, but it's a bit embarrassing."

Chakwas:" what is it then? You don't need to worry, if it is that embarrassing then I won't tell anyone, promise." She says in a reassuring tone.

Malen:" I can only bleed from my noes if I watch something *cough* pornographic *cough*"

Chakwas just face palms herself knowing where on the ship she could get access to such material. She opens up a comlink with Joker on her Omni tool.

Chakwas:" Joker. This is Dr. Chakwas requesting that you send Malen some of your "inappropriate extranet activities."

Joker:" Wait the lizard guy watches porn?! Well at least I'm not the only one on this sip that does then. What kind does he want?" he says with a chuckle.

Malen talking through Chakwas' Omni tool:" what do you think moron? You and I both don't like to see men naked." He said in an irritated and slight joking manner.

Joker:" true that, true that!"

Joker types a few things into his Omni tool.

"There you go Malen, the "package" is away, enjoy, but please don't share it with anyone else."

Malen:" unless it happens to be a pretty woman who wants to watch it with me." He says with a smirk on his face and laughing.

Joker was laughing as well at the comment that Malen had made, and couldn't agree more with him.

Joker:" I'm starting to like you already."

Malen:" like wise."

And with that Malen pulled up the file Joker sent him and Chakwas handed him a cup to hold under his nose. Evidently the "package" Joker sent was girl on girl of asari and human females with rather well-endowed chests. After Malen had gotten into 5 minutes of the 15 minute vid his nose started bleed profusely and due to Malen's unimaginable regeneration rate, he could not pass out due to blood loss because as soon as any blood left Malen's body, his body would have already replaced all the blood lost. Malen stopped watching the vid after 7 minutes because the cup was full.

Malen:" will that be enough?"

Chakwas who had turned around to give Malen some privacy:" more than enough, let me just put this through the scanner."

Chakwas pored some of the blood into a glass vile and ran it through the scanner, after 11 minutes the results were displayed in the medical room's computer. This is it what the test results were.

-Name of patient: Malen Katarn

-Age: unable to calculate precise age. Regeneration rate of patient makes indicating exact age impossible. Blood work shows patient to be of at least 36 years of age.

- Blood type: unknown.

-Unique characteristics: immune system's efficiency on unclassifiable levels. Appears to be immune to all poisons, diseases, and toxins, even plutonium oxide. Regeneration rate of cellular structures also on unclassifiable levels, suggests that patient will never age.

End of report.

Chakwas couldn't even begin to comprehend how any of this was possible, but the test results did not lie. Malen was a marvel of organic efficiency, the apex of health, something that humans have ever only dreamed of achieving, and right behind her was a being who has this very concept flowing in his veins as she typed, but she would only use the blood samples that she got from Malen, she would not ask him to do anything he did not agree to.

While this would put the fear of death of natural causes into extinction if they could adapt Malen's regenerative attributes and the effectiveness of his immune system to work for the human anatomy, she would never do something monstrous to achieve this, she is after all a respected doctor, and a kind one at that. After double checking the results for possible errors, she forwarded the results to Shepard.

Chakwas:" All right Malen that's all I need, you can now retrieve your belongings, and thank you for your cooperation."

Malen nods his head and leaves the room.

Shepard was in his Captain's cabin on the first floor, waiting for the test results from Chakwas about Malen's medical examination. When he got it as a message on his Omni tool, he looked over the test results and was amazed to say the least.

Shepard:" Malen's regeneration rate puts krogans to great shame. I'm glad I recruited him; he will make a very powerful ally against both the collectors and reapers. " He thought to himself.

Shepard then entered the elevator and went down to the second floor to exit the Normandy's airlock and proceed with recruiting Mordin Solus.

Shepard over the ship wide intercom:" Garrus, Malen; gear up, we are heading to the quarantine zone to recruit Mordin Solus."

Malen was in the Cargo bay doing some experiments with his sword "Malen's Wrath" he wanted to put in another enchantment to it based on the type of power that the sword "Bloodskal Blade". Malen wanted to take the enchantment on the blade, learn it, and put a greatly improved version of it on his blade. Malen had asked for several requisitions in order to make himself a work bench, which was very easy to do, and an arcane table, which was a bit harder, but fortunately Malen already had all the materials needed that EDI could not acquire for him. ( the heat source and forging needs could all be done with his Omni tool, though Malen had to get EDI to program in a hard light hammer function into the Omni tool so Malen could still make Godly weapons and armor whenever he needed to).

After 10 minutes of experimenting, Malen succeeded in enchanting his already enchanted sword with an improved version of the "Bloodskal Blade" enchantment. "Malen's Wrath" could now send a ranged magical strike that contained all the effects of the blade into the beam (to explain a bit, if someone were to get cut in half by the beam, then they would suffer fire, frost, shock, and health damage as well as health drain, and soul trap at the same godly level of power the sword already has, but now can do ranged damage with its power. Malen can also change the size and range of the beam to a RIDICULOS degree, whether it is for cutting the antennas off an ant or to cut a reaper in half.). Malen was grinning evilly at his success when he heard Shepard call over the intercom. Malen put his sword to the left side of his hip, went to the elevator and ascended to the 2ed floor to meet Shepard for the recruiting mission.

You can probably guess as to what Garrus was doing before he heard Shepard call for him to join him for the recruiting mission *cough* calibrations *cough*