A quote appears on the screen.
"Scathing eyes ask that we be symmetrical, one sided and easily processed. Yet every misshapen spark's unseen beauty is greater than its would be judgment"
"That's different," Garrus said with a bit of confusion. "What does that mean?"
"I believe it's another way to say to believe in yourself," Liara said. Quite interested in the quote. "That everyone is beautiful in their own way and shouldn't think what others think of you as long as you are happy."
"Wow. That's deep," Joker said, with a few others nodding in agreement.
Yang is shown riding her motorcycle through the streets of Vale. She eventually stops in front of a club that is blasting music. A raven flies off an elevated road as she walks towards the club.
"That's a Raven!" Admiral Anderson pointed at the bird. "What is a native bird to Earth doing on that planet?"
"Another question to add to the list." Summer responded.
Her yellow silhouette is shown and fully viewed as she enters the door. As she walks towards the bar, the music starts playing lyrics.
"Red like roses fills my dreams and brings me to the place you rest."
"The music from Shepherd's Kid? Does this girl not have her own theme song," Jeff asked.
"Really, Joker?"
"What? That's plagiarism." The others shook their heads and kept watching.
As she walks to the bar, Roman Torchwick converses with a big man at the bar but soon leaves.
No one spoke about it, but Garrus made a mental note to watch for that red-haired human. Something about him set off his detective instincts.
At the bar, Yang decides to stand next to the big man, who then waves off the two girls standing on the other side of him.
"Strawberry Sunrise. No ice." Yang tells the bartender, "Oh, and one of those little umbrellas."
"She's a little young to be drinking?" Anderson looks at the teen with disapproval.
"Ah, let her have it. Not like she's there for drinking anyway," Wrex waved off the human admiral's concerns.
"What makes you so certain, Wrex?" Tail asked.
"It's in her eyes. The girl is not there to relax. She's hunting."
"Aren't you a little young to be in this club, Blondie?" the big man says, turning to Yang.
Yang giggles. "Aren't you a little old to have a name like Junior?"
"OOOOHHH!" Summer, Jeff, and Garrus shouted together at the teen's burn. Everyone else either smiled or laughed at the dumb moment.
"Junior? What kind of human name is that?" Tail innocently asked.
"It's a human concept of naming your child after another family member. If that is done, they would have a number behind it for record's sake to not confuse anybody," Summer explained.
"I see. Thanks, Shepard."
"So, you know who I am. You got a name, sweetheart?" Junior asked.
"Yes, Junior, I've got several. But instead of sweetheart, you can just call me sir." Yang responds as she grabs his groin and squeezes it painfully, causing Junior to cry out in pain comically.
Every male in the audience cringed or flinched in some manner. While the women looked pleased by this action.
"Lord, I can hear his balls being smushed," Joker cried as he quickly covered his family jewels.
"He certainly would need an ice pack for that later," Doctor Chakwas commented.
"People say you know everything," Yang interrogates, bringing up her scroll with a picture of someone with long black hair. "Tell me where I can find her, and I'll let you go."
"I've never seen her before, I swear," Junior responds in a high-pitched and pained voice.
"Excuse me?" Yang snaps and puts an extra squeeze on the man.
"I swear, sir!"
"Spirits, he may be a scum bag, but no guy deserves that," Garrus said with a wince.
"Much rather have a bullet," Wrex agreed.
"Really?" Ashly challenged the two, to which they both nodded.
Yang noticed the man's henchmen had begun to surround them and continued confidently speaking in her voice. "Hmm, looks like we have an audience. This must be kind of embarrassing for you, huh? Awkward..."
"Ha! I like this welp. She's got spunk," Wrex says before devouring another kabob.
"She reminds me of one of my sisters when she was in high school. A heartbreaker she was," Ashley said with a smirk.
"Listen. Blondie, sir. If you want to make it out of this club alive, I suggest you let me go. Now!" Junior threatens with his voice still high-pitched.
"Not a very good idea to threaten someone who's literally got you by the balls," Summer advised.
"Guys like him don't really think in that position," Garrus told her.
Yang decides to release Junior, who immediately gives a sigh of relief. "You'll pay for that!" He says before putting on a pair of red sunglasses and walking towards the dance floor.
"Sunglasses indoors and night? So unoriginal," Joker dismissed.
"Oh, Junior, I was just playing with you! Don't be so sensitive!" Yang follows behind him. "Come on, let's kiss and make up, okay?"
"Oh, I see where this is going," Ashly smiles devilishly.
"Is he really going to fall for that?" Tail said in slight disbelief.
Junior turns around to face her. "Huh? Uh, okay." As he leans in, he suddenly gets punched in the face and is sent flying through a glass column, crashing into a wall.
"Whoa!" Summer, Joker, and Ashly shouted in surprise at the same time. They were not expecting such a feat of strength.
"Ha! A good hit!" Wrex cheered.
"Such strength from a single punch. How strong is she?" Liara deduced.
The audience is frightened by this sudden act of violence and begins to scatter in fear. Junior is shown on the verge of unconsciousness when a bottle falls on his head and knocks him out.
"Serves him right," Garrus gives a turian smile of approval.
The surrounding henchmen respond by charging at Yang, who deployed Ember Celica, changing the gold bracelets into gauntlets, ejecting a shotgun shell, and jumping up into the air, readying a fist, which appeared to be on fire.
"Yellow beauty burns..."
And slamming the fiery punch into the ground, sending a ripple through the dance floor that knocked the incoming henchmen off their feet.
"Gold."
"Holy crap, how strong is this kid!?" Joker asked no one.
"By that feat alone, she's the strongest of the four we've seen," Anderson pointed out. Paying close attention to the teen's unknown power.
"And her weapons. Some kind shotguns in wrist-mounted gauntlets," Tail said in awe.
"That power reminds me of how Semara and Jack use their heavy biotic attacks," Summer summed up in comparison.
"I like it! I'm going to have to pass this idea off to the clan to see about recreating that thing," Wrex said with giddy anticipation. All this fighting was making him feel two centuries younger.
The entire room changes color to red, and Yang is shown with fire behind her as she charges in to attack Junior's associates.
"Mirror, tell me something…"
As Yang faced her attackers, she swiftly shot at the first one in front of her and kicked another behind her. A henchman tried to attack her from the rear, but she quickly swept his legs out from under him and punched him into the air before slamming him onto the ground. She then leaped off an oncoming henchman, delivering a flying punch to another. Yang rushed forward and took down another opponent before the fallen henchman collapsed onto the henchman behind him, causing him to stumble back. Despite his efforts to block, Yang broke through her opponent's guard and delivered a powerful uppercut.
"Now, this is a bar fight!" Wrex said with glee.
"She fights and moves like a professional kickboxer. Combined with her powerful strength and weapons, she's a deadly foe to face in close quarters," Anderson deduced and praised.
"Could have used her help on a few missions," Summer commented. Thinking about the few times a group of Husks got in too close.
Yang quickly spotted several more assailants closing in from behind and took immediate action by firing a shot. With the recoil, she propelled herself toward yet another group of enemies. She swiftly elbowed the first henchman and kicked him away, blocking another who tried to swing at her before shooting him in the face. Yang then expertly swung around under his arm and landed a forceful punch. She continued to attack with a series of kicks and punches, delivering the final blow that sent him flying backward into a glass pillar.
Garrus lifted a talon at the screen. "Okay, one, ouch. Two, what kind of training did she receive to do that? Those were some impressive moves."
"I don't know, but I really want to get a set of those gauntlets for myself," Ashly said.
"Way ahead of you, Williams," Tail responded. Already making mental notes to write up schematics for later.
Upon clearing the dance floor, Yang spotted the DJ pulling out a machine gun before firing down at her from his booth. Yang charged towards the booth, dashing from side to side in order to avoid the incoming fire. Once close enough, she jumped up, firing her shotgun gauntlets at the floor for additional propulsion. As she landed, she placed a hand on the mixing desk before swinging her legs around, kicking the DJ in the face. This sent him stumbling back. Yang then spun and landed with her back facing him, only to fire once more to elbow him in the face. She then slammed his face into the table, picked him up, and launched him off by firing. He landed at Melanie and Miltia Malachite's feet, unconscious, with his "helmet" rolling away. The two girls walk up to the dance floor, and one asks, "Melanie, who is this girl?"
"I dunno, Miltia, but we should teach her a lesson." The other girl, apparently called Melanie, responds.
"Oh great, valley girls," Ashly said with slight annoyance.
"Who?" Liara, Garrus, and Tail asked together.
"Later, fight now!" Wrex said in suspense.
Yang loads another ammunition belt into her gauntlets and takes on the twins.
"Nice!" Summer said, with Anderson nodding in approval.
"Showoff!" Ashly called out.
"Born with, no life. Into subjugation…"
One of the twins uses her heels as a weapon, and the other uses claws, but despite this, their teamwork is for naught as Yang eventually takes them both out.
Everyone seemed impressed at the girl fighting off the entire club and those two girls. Her skill was nothing to scoff at," Garrus summarised from his observations.
"The girl has major skills and is very good at hand-to-hand combat. If it wasn't for that crazy strength of hers, I'd like to go a few sparing rounds with her," Ashly said.
"But that's half the fun!" Wrex said with a laugh.
The holograms in the club suddenly turn off, new music starts playing, and a spotlight shines on Junior. Recovered from the hit he took earlier, he brings out his bazooka. "You're gonna pay for this."
"A bazooka in a nightclub..." Joker said with a deadpan look.
"For some reason, I feel like that just fits his personality," Ashly said with the same tone. "I wonder if it can transform like the others?"
The music starts playing an unfamiliar tune.
"Oh, new song!" Tail said in excitement. The sight amused a few of her teammates.
Junior fires, causing multiple rockets to come at Yang from various angles, but she dodges them all. Sometimes, she even shoots out of the air with her shotguns. Detonating outwards sum few feet away.
That move set Joker off. "Okay, that's it. I'm calling bullshit! "
"He's calling that now after everything he's watched," Garus said in a deadpan tone.
"Come at me, and you'll see. I'm more than meets the eye."
Junior changes the Bazooka into a big baseball bat and attempts to clobber her.
"And now it's a club. You were right, Williams," Tail stated to the Marine.
After taking some damage, Yang rushes back into the action and hits him repeatedly, each hit stronger than the last until Junior is once again sent flying back.
"I burn! Can't hold me now; you got nothing that can stop me."
Junior recovers much faster this time, but his weapon is broken, and he is holding a wad of yellow hair in his other hand.
"Oh snap, he's dead now!" Shepard said at the sight of her pulled hair.
"No getting up after this," Ashly agreed.
"Those who are about to die, salute you," the ship's doctor playfully joins in. All the non-humans in the room who didn't have any hair were just confused by this as they did not understand the cultural significance.
When Yang sees this, she becomes so angry her eyes turn red, and the energy shatters all the glass columns in the club.
"AH! She-Demon!" Joker shouts at the glowing red eyes.
"Must be related to her power," Anderson deduced.
She runs up to Junior and hits him so hard this time he's sent out the window of the club and lays on the ground unconscious.
Wrex laughed out in enjoyment. "Ha! I like this one. She knows how to have a proper fight."
Garris shakes his head in amusement. "Of course, you like the young human that can punch people out of bars. Wrex."
"What can I say? She may be part Krogan like Shepard."
The said human huffed in amusement at the compliment. "I'll remember that next time I'm on your war camp and another warlord wants to fight me for being Grunt's battle master again."
Yang jumps after him but finds a red-cloaked girl she didn't expect to see.
"Hey, look, it's mini Shep."
"Yeah, thanks for pointing her out; we can see her, Joker," Ashley responded with a deadpan tone.
"I wonder what she's doing outside a bar?" Summer wounders
"Yang?" Ruby asks, "Is that you?"
"Oh! Hey, sis!" Yang replies, her eyes turning back to normal.
"What?! They're sisters!" Several crewmen shouted.
"What a twist!" Joker shouts!
Shepard was stunned again. "Sisters? Then that means..."
"What are you doing here?" Ruby asks.
Yang sighs. "It's a long story."
The silhouettes appear again, except there are no silhouettes this time, and all the characters are in full view.
"Welp, that's all the trailers," Tali announced.
"Ha! If those were the preview, I'm going to love the main event! Let's get started." Wrex said before going back to the snack stand.
While the others talked, a few noticed the Commanders still stunned. Anderson went to his long-time friend.
"Commander? You alright?" Anderson asked.
"Shepard? You still with us?" Garrus asked his friend.
The small commotion gathered the others' attention, and they witnessed something unbelievable. They gathered around and watched the woman they considered an unflinching force; someone who could claim they'd been to hell and back. Shed tears.
"Summer..." Tali tested out her friend's first name. "Are you okay?" She said, knowing that she wasn't.
"No... No, I'm not Tali. It just hit me that I'm a horrible mother."
A surprise chapter is here. 6_6 - 0-0