Normandy was silent. Joker and EDI argued at the cockpit, Liara and Javik spent time as Liara wanted to find more about protheans, Veetor was trying to get to know the crew better so he was at the shuttle bay, Tali and Garrus were… they took their relationship seriously. Only Legion was roaming around the Normandy's deck and wondered when will Daniel come back. He was depending on Daniel and his presence so he could learn from him the habits of organics. Except for that, Legion sensed that there was something missing in his almost complete relationship with Daniel.
One single piece of the puzzle that Legion needed to know was how to reach absolute happiness. Whenever he could hug Daniel, hold his hand or just simply touch him, Legion processed this information as happiness. However, there was more and Legion knew that if he wanted to reach absolute happiness, he had to find the way how organics obtain that feeling. Then he remembered how he interrupted Shepard and Liara after they had sex and so he was thinking if this wasn't that way.
Legion got positive answer about his question if sex makes them feel happy. Can I even find absolute happiness together with Daniel if my anatomy is not the same? I am synthetic, I am Geth… yes, but I am Geth with feelings and that means there is way to reach absolute happiness. Legion thought and was about to use elevator from the third deck to shuttle bay to talk to Cortez, suddenly as he opened the door from Star observatory room, he heard sounds. They were coming not far from the center of crew deck from the large table.
These sounds weren't bad or calling for help, it was something that Legion didn't know so he rather peeked from around the corner to see what was happening. Legion's faceplates opened wide to what he saw. On the table, there was Tali without her mask and down part of her uniform and above her was Garrus without the upper part of his armor. Both of them were caught in the middle of intensive loving each other. Tali's knees were up, feet rested on the table and she had arms wrapped around the turian who was entering her from above.
"Ga-Garrus! Oh! Don't slow down! Faster, Garrus, faster!" She begged and Garrus intensified his force, hearing how their skins flapped against each other.
"Shit… Damn! Oh it feels so good… hah…!" Garrus moaned as he thrusted in Tali. Wild breathing of each other could be heard by Legion who thought at first that it was some kind of violence, then he saw how they kissed. Legion processed this information and carefully walked to the elevator. In the elevator, he had time to think. Normally it would leave him intact but he saw sex between organics for the first time and sort of he liked it. This might be it? He thought and grasped his own crotch with hand. If I can feel Daniel on and inside me… I will do it for us.
When Legion went out of the elevator on the second deck, he heard Joker talking as the airlock opened.
"Good to see you again, commander!" Joker said and Legion thought that Daniel was with him. He ran to the cockpit but almost rushed in Grunt when he appeared from the corner out of airlock.
"Shepard-commander you… Grunt?" Legion stopped and Grunt grabbed his shotgun.
"You better watch where you run, Geth."
"Calm down, Grunt. He's not dangerous… well not entirely I mean." Shepard said and Legion bowed his head thinking about Shepard's broken jaw.
"Shepard-commander? Where is Daniel?"
"He's fine, Legion. The doctor applied him the antidote but it needs Daniel's energy so he is resting right now."
"Shepard, there's no time to talk! We must move!" Grunt said and Legion wondered.
"Where are we going, Shepard-commander?"
"There's a problem with krogans getting lethally ill on Tuchanka. The Citadel keeps accepting incoming masses of krogans with hemorrhagic fever but nobody knows how long can the capacity of hospital take it." Shepard said.
"You'll see Tuchanka, Geth bastard. If you're lucky, other krogans are ill so they won't shoot you off once they see you." Grunt told him with evil snicker.
"Shepard-commander! I ask for permission to stay on the Citadel!"
"Negative. You'll be assisting on this mission along with Grunt. Whether you like it or not, I need you on this mission since you cannot get infected."
"But Shepard-commander…"
"That was my last word, Legion. Now get ready. We're leaving on Tuchanka." Shepard said and went deeper in Normandy to the galaxy map. Grunt went behind him but poked Legion with his shoulder.
"Looks like you're not gonna see your human anytime soon." Grunt snorted, "Shepard needs you ready on this mission and I recommend you that as well. Tuchanka is no place for personal problems, Geth!" as he said that, he went towards the elevator and Legion watched Grunt leaving. He had to accept the fact that there was no possibility of talking to Daniel at the moment. Normandy set off to Tuchanka soon. Legion's concern was even bigger when he thought of for what Daniel asked him to do.
Now that there was a little time, Legion went on the crew deck to talk to others. When he got there, he didn't expect James and Garrus to talk to him at once. The Geth was walking through the bigger space on the third deck when James and Garrus looked at him so he stopped.
"Is there something wrong?" Legion asked them.
"Not a big deal. We were just thinking of how Loco told you nicely to fuck off." James started.
"I don't understand." Legion answered.
"Here James means that Shepard didn't let you stay on the Citadel."
"Yes. He said he needs me on this mission because of my synthetic advantage not getting infected."
"Yeah. That's what I and James are thinking about now…"
"What do you mean, Garrus?"
"Pretty much, we all know that you have feelings… sort of. It kinda makes us feel bad because if you have feelings, then you must be organic and so you can be infected."
"That is a… logical assumption, Garrus but… I don't think I can get infected."
"If you are so sure, then what's with the feelings?" James asked.
"Yeah, it's actually big paradox when you think about it, Legion. How can you feel and at the same time be synthetic?" Garrus asked.
"I think I… I don't know…" Legion bowed his head because he didn't know how to justify his behavior, "I stopped finding answer to this paradox some time ago…"
"Oh… why then?"
"Because there is no data available to this problem. I gathered data from Shepard-commander and from other sources. The only logical answer to this problem is love. And love is irrational so there is no sufficient answer to your question, Garrus."
"Maybe it's some sort of virus. Who knows what Cerberus did to your people before!" James said.
"Negative. I've ran memory diagnostics, complete antivirus scan, registry defragments. There was no discrepancy, virus infection or hardware damage at all. Besides, the Geth are free once Cerberus was destroyed. We have built the consensus."
"Sounds like you're special, Legion… but why Daniel?" Garrus asked, his question remained unanswered.
"No data available."
"Just give up, Garrus. There's nothing we can get out of him."
"Not yet… Legion, why are you so eager to have Daniel on board?"
"I… there are some things we have to accomplish together."
"Like sex? Come on, Legion. You know that Geth can't do it."
"Well maybe you'll be surprised once, Garrus!" James laughed.
"That's not… that's not the entire thing. I promised something to Daniel and if we miss our chance we will both regret it."
"What did you promise?" Garrus asked and Legion turned around as to leave.
"Classified information…" Legion said and Garrus grabbed his arm.
"Hey… it's not gonna hurt you if you tell us." Garrus said and Legion stopped resisting, "We will not tell anyone…" Garrus said and looked at James who nodded. Legion saw it and thought there was no other option. He turned back to face Garrus and James, pulling out blueprints.
"Hey, aren't these the blueprints that were supposed to be destroyed?" James asked.
"Yes. These are blueprints about project Soma. Daniel entrusted them to me for one particular reason."
"And that is…?" Garrus asked.
"In case that something happened to Daniel as we know him, he wanted me to be happy even after that. He was supposed to destroy these blueprints. However, he gave them to me instead. He told me to contact the other Geth so they could build the scanning device."
"So, Daniel wants to stay immortal, I understand?"
"Pretty much, but only so he can stay with me."
"Ah… that's sweet. I need to do a work out!" James said and left the room, leaving Garrus and Legion alone.
"You know it can cause problems, Legion."
"I know it can, but as soon as the process is done, we will destroy the device and blueprints as well. Garrus, normally I wouldn't do this before if I didn't feel anything but… please, I beg you for not telling Shepard-commander and now that even James knows, make sure this will stay as secret." Legion said, his faceplates adjusting in sign of concern. Garrus sighed and didn't know what to say, "Garrus?" Legion asked.
"Legion, tell me why should I keep this in secret?" Garrus asked and Legion sensed a threat out of this so he had to start threatening him back.
"This is an inappropriate information to stay in secret, I know Garrus, but if you will not help me, I'll inform Shepard-commander about practicing your sexual activities with creator Tali'Zorah on this table." Legion said and pointed at the table.
"How do you…?!" Garrus opened his mouth and widened his eyes but then calmed down, "Fine, you want to play a bad guy here, huh? Then let's make a deal. I'll keep this crappy information for myself and you won't tell anyone about… well you know!" Garrus said and offered Legion his talon. Legion grabbed it and they shook their hands.
It took few hours before Normandy was nearing towards Tuchanka and everyone was getting to descent. Legion and Grunt sat in the shuttle. Legion and Grunt stared at each other, Grunt almost with murderous look, not trusting this Geth.