Quarian Hybrids found Part two

Zaal'Koris vas Qwib-Qwib watched as the lab loomed closer the building was massive in size, but it looked like it had been bombarded long before they discovered it. The windows were shattered and there were corpses lying around some scientists and some soldiers. However, there was no sign of what had done all the damage. He exited the shuttle followed by the marines that accompanied him. His pistol held in a loose but firm grip.

"Be on guard we don't know what killed all these people." He ordered.

Making their way through the building they saw broken instruments and shattered consoles. They also saw biotic scorch marks on the floor, ceiling and walls. He noticed several shattered tanks lining the walls of a lab on the second floor.

"Fan out and find what broke out of those tanks." He ordered.

The marines separated and began to search the adjoining rooms while Zaal headed for the stairs to the next level. As soon as he reached the top of the stairs he heard a sound off to his right that sounded like an infant's wail. He brought his pistol around and slowly approached the door the sound came from. Opening his omni-tool Zaal began to hack into the security network. He heard movement behind the door like someone trying to quiet down another. As the door slid open he turned his flashlight on as soon as he realized the room was dark.

In the room he found four young quarians one of which was a toddler. He quietly put his pistol down and strapped it into place on his hip and crouched down holding his hands up slightly when the older ones pulled the younger two back.

"Easy I mean you no harm. My name is Zaal'Koris vas Qwib-Qwib. What are your names?" he said gently.

The one that looked like the oldest of the four glanced at the other three before staring back at him defiantly. He could see she was maturing into adulthood and was at the age to be sent on her pilgrimage and she was the one the wariest. A born soldier.

"My name is Katherine. This is Kaitlyn, Zara, and Veronica" said the oldest.

She motioned to the second oldest in a pale blue suit when she said the first name. The third eldest wore a dark green suit and he assumed she was Zara. That made the youngest one the littlest wearing a light purple suit Veronica.

"It's nice to meet you all. Are there any others?" he asked Katherine.

She hesitated a moment before nodding. Katherine led him and the other children to the next floor and he saw two more tanks with little boys in them. Zara moved to one of the tanks and pressed her hand against the glass while Veronica stared at the second boy who is just as small as she is.

"This is my twin brother Zorok. The other one is Veronica's twin brother Voron." Zara informed him.

He called over his comm link to the marines two levels below and informed them of his location and told them to join him and to have their guns put away.

"Do you know what killed all the people here?" he asked the children as he examined the undamaged monitors.

Kaitlyn hesitated before she approached him.

"We did…." she said.

It surprised him. They were just four young girls and they had taken down grown adults as if they were nothing. At least he had assumed they were ordinary children until he saw Katherines biotics flare up at the sight of the marines.

"Wait a minute Katherine they're with me. We came to investigate this place because our fleet is nearby and the organization those people belonged to are known terrorists." He said.

Katherines biotics calmed and she nodded slowly.

"Can you get our brothers out…?" a small voice suddenly asked.

Zaal turned his attention to Veronica and knelt down so he was eye level with her and informed her. "We can and after we free them we're going to take you children back to our people and we'll find you families to stay with."

One marine approached a computer terminal and began to type a sequence into it and the tanks opened and the two boys fell out coughing. Two other marines caught them and carefully lowered the boys to the ground. Zaal ordered the others to begin looking for the files Cerberus had on these children in an attempt to find out what they were doing to them.

One Marine trained as an infiltrator called out to him that he'd found something. Zaal walked over to him and began to review what had been found and he exhaled loudly. He ordered the marine to download everything in their files and make sure there were no tracing software's hidden in the files. A marine approached him after the children were put into the shuttle.

"Admiral I'd like to request to be allowed to adopt one of the children found here or even one of the twins." He said.

Zaal eyed the man and nodded. He knew he was a good man that never found the right woman among the fleet. In his opinion the marine deserved to have a child even if that child wasn't his own.

"I will consider it and speak with the other admirals about it." He told him.

The marine nodded and boarded the shuttle after Zaal had. The shuttle lifted into the air and they left the planets atmosphere. Zaal pressed the detonator switch and they watched as the lab was destroyed. The shuttle flew back to the flotilla and docked with the Rayya. The children stayed close to Zaal and the marines that found them while they tried to avoid the stares from the others.

Zaal led them to the meeting room he and the other Admirals used for private talks. He noticed that Han'Gerrel had returned as well and with a woman that was dressed like a Quarian but looked human. Admiral's Shala'Raan vas Tonbay, Rael'Zorah vas Alarei and Daro'Xen vas Moreh were there as well. Han'Gerrel dismissed the marines that accompanied them and Zaal told the children to take a seat and watched as they did staying close together and close to where he would sit.

"Admirals I found these six children in the lab I was sent to investigate. I found the four girls hidden in a room together and when I asked if there were any others they led me to the two boys who were sealed within tanks. Upon our arrival to the lab we noticed the bodies of the staff everywhere and when I asked who killed them the girl Kaitlyn in the pale blue suit admitted that they did. All of them are biotics and strong ones." He said.

"The lab I was sent to was abandoned my team searched logs as we went. Eventually we came to a room full of tanks where we found this young woman who calls herself Jasmine. She admitted to me that she is the daughter of Cerberus' Illusive Man, but she was used in the experiments because she discovered something she shouldn't have and has been summarily disowned by her father. She informed me that she does have a twin brother who is being manipulated by her father." Han said.

Rael spoke up for the first time since the meeting began. "And how do we know Cerberus can't reach out to manipulate these children into destroying our fleet?"

Zaal and Han both slid data pads toward him and the other two admirals with the information they needed for the children. The two men waited while the others read through the information. Admiral Shala'Raan was the first to put down her data pad. She looked the children over with a kind look in her eyes.

"My husband and I can take one of them in as we have no children of our own." She said.

Rael spoke next. "What has been done to them should never have happened I am willing to allow them to remain with the fleet."

Daro'Xen was the only one who remained silent. She wouldn't voice agreement or disagreement. But they could tell she disagreed with them.

"A marine made a request before we left the lab he requested to adopt one of them as well or one of the two sets of twins. It would be cruel to separate either of the twins." Zaal said.

The other admirals minus Xen agreed with him and by the end of their first day within the fleet the five younger children were adopted by families. The two elder children were taught and prepared for their pilgrimage over the following week. What came next during their pilgrimages surprised everyone in the fleet.