In the year 2157 Humanity found itself trapped in a war with a race called Turians. They began looking for ways to win the war over the turians before the Citadel Council could intervene. The method they found led to an extensive investigation by a squad of turian soldiers into one of their hidden labs outside the war zone.
Saren Arterius watched from his place at his brothers side as the lab just beyond the war zone loomed closer. They had disturbing reports from the Turian Military of something going on in the lab. No one knew what but any turian that was captured rarely came back the only one that had was General Septimus Oraka. Oraka had informed Saren that they were experimenting on their people and three of their own. Only they weren't humans any longer. Oraka had admitted his DNA had been used on two of them, but he didn't know if they'd survived.
He slid his eyes to the side and studied Adrien Victus. He was a lieutenant who was attached to the squad that would be joining them. From his file Saren knew that Victus' father had been taken by the human military. He hadn't made it out of the lab. Saren was curious to see what the humans had been doing to their own inside that lab. The Hierarchy wanted the lab purged and destroyed, but they also wanted the experiments alive and intact.
The shuttle landed silently far enough from the lab that the alarms wouldn't trigger. However, they weren't far enough away that they would be unable to make out the lab in the dark. Humans as it turned out had very limited night vision. The squad departed the shuttle in silence and two infiltrators used silenced rifles and took down the guards that were patrolling without a sound. Desolus led the way into the building and from the ground up they began to eliminate guards and scientists alike.
Saren and Victus went ahead on his brothers orders to search for the experiments. They found them three floors up from where the squad was still on the first floor. They'd eliminated all the guards and scientists on the floor with the subjects but left the other floors alone so they could go unnoticed to their destination. Saren studied the woman currently laid out on the table. Even he could tell she was young even with her silvery white….hair? That's what humans called it right? Her skin was paler than the other humans he'd seen in the building and instead of the five fingers humans have on their hands, she had only three similar to a turians hands and she had long nails that looked sharp. Saren moved to the machine that was keeping her sedated and began to slowly bring the dosage down so as not to kill her. While he waited for her to wake up he moved to the terminals along the wall and began to look for any information they had on her. Saren began downloading the information to a stack of datapads while removing any tracing software on the files. While he worked he heard movement coming from behind him. Knowing that Victus had gone further to find the other subjects he drew his pistol and turned with his biotics coming into his hand ready to throw a warp.
Instead of a guard or scientist attempting to stop him he was greeted with the sight of the woman on her hands and knees by the table. She'd apparently attempted to get up. Saren holstered his pistol and walked to the woman and helped her stand up. As he sat her back down on the table he noted the many needle marks on her arms and legs and even some bruises suggesting she hadn't been a willing participant in the experiments. Saren removed his thermal blanket from its place in his compartment on his armor and wrapped it around her shoulders once he'd noticed her shivering. He noted a lack of a translation implant and doubted she'd be able to understand him. Letting his subvocals rumble soothingly to the woman to help her feel safe.
"Your safe now human they won't hurt you again." he said despite knowing she wouldn't understand him.
The womans head lifted at that and she looked him straight in the eye as she responded in perfect Palaveni. His mandibles spread and his jaw dropped in absolute shock. She even had subvocals!
"Thank you….And my name isn't 'Human' its Sarena Hackett Turian." she responded and he caught her subvocals rumbling in sarcasm on turian.
Saren gave her an amused subvocal response and saw humor and mischief fill her gaze. He went to retrieve the datapads and returned to the woman. 'No, Sarena not woman.' He thought. Helping her stand and find her balance before he led the way from the room to find Victus. They found him not far from the room Sarena was in being forced to remain in the cover of a doorway due to a larger contingent of guards than had been guarding the room she was held in. Saren readied his biotis as he drew his pistol only to see a large purple ball go flying through the air and explode in the center of the guards and kill them all even some scientists from what he could see. He turned to the woman behind him and caught the fading glow of biotics on her skin. Barely managing to holster his pistol before being forced to catch her as her body went weak from the power she had just displayed he couldn't help but feel awe toward her. She had just used an ability called flare something only Asari Matriarchs were known to be able to came close and gingerly swiped Saren's stack of datapads so he could carry the girl.
Victus read the top datapad as they made their way into the room and Saren used his biotics to finish clearing the scientists that remained.
Adrien read the file and stopped near the end and felt his heart stop as he read the section over and over again. "Subject 12 has shown a distinct form of kinship to the turian whose DNA we injected her with. She has been heard calling him Father Victus. We can only assume Victus is the name of the turian. Subject has attempted to escape today for the first time since she was brought in by the soldiers. We were forced to execute the turian in front of her. Before he died he told her to be strong and that help would come for her and the others. After he died however, killing him proved to be a fatal mistake as any who got too close she killed every guard and scientist that got close after that. We have been forced to keep her sedated for the remainder of the experiments done on her until we receive new orders." He set the datapads down gingerly on a table along the wall and turned to the woman being carried by Saren. Even knowing she was an experiment she still bore his father's DNA this made her his half-sister. From what he had read his father had begun to see the woman as his daughter. Adrien could see it the woman had the same green in her eyes her father had in his, but her eyes were predominantly blue. The way she had held herself before she collapsed was the same way his father had as well. Saren caught his eye and moved closer to him to pass the woman off to him. He HAD read the files before downloading them. Adrien cradled her against his chest piece and her head rolled into the the groove of carapace and shoulder despite the armor she seemed comfortable in her unconsciousness. He swallowed roughly. Humans were the enemy currently but she didn't act like a human would around turians.
Saren began downloading files on the other two while simultaneously scrubbing any tracking software and set to freeing the other two women from the tanks they were in. As he worked Desolus and the others arrived. Two soldiers moved toward Adrien while Desolus went to speak with Saren. Adrien began to give off a subvocal growl that warned the other two away, but they leveled their pistols on his head.
"Leave her be she is his half sister." Desolus ordered.
The soldiers looked startled but did as ordered. Another soldier gathered the datapads on the three women and two others carried the women. The squad left the building alone leaving the upper floors filled with scientists and guards, but as the shuttle flew away Desolus ordered the ship to fire on the building leaving no survivors behind. The ships Thanix cannon fired as the shuttle broke the atmosphere, and Adrien watched through the shuttle camera as the lab went up in flames. As the shuttle docked in the ship a medical team was waiting to assess the women's condition to make sure there was nothing severely wrong and to ensure there were no injuries.
"Get us back to the Hierarchy. They'll want to meet these girls." Desolus ordered.