Hi guys, ok so this is the last chapter for this year. As for the new project, Nation of Dogs is getting a remake. However, as I said in that announcement chapter, if the follows/ faves doesn't go over 40-50 then I'm likely to abandon it. In which case I would like to ask you all a second choice if NOD fails.

Other than that merry Christmas (or whatever you celebrate) and see you next year!

The Normandy was busy as mechs loaded crates of food and supplies on the ship while Zenna finished filling out the requisition forms for them. Being a spectre, meant that you could practically get whatever you want, within reason, and use it for their missions. Anderson and Udina, had set all of this up for her to use, and while she was pleased with it, she wasn't happy with all the red tape involved. After singing her name on the final form the doc worker said is thanks before walking off.

Shepard didn't even have time to catch her breath as Anderson and Udina walked up.

"Commander, we have the supply saturation sorted you should be able to be stocked up for a good three weeks," Anderson said with a smile.

"Good to hear," Zenna said before her mind drifted. "Ahhhh meattttt," she moaned and drooled as she thought of devouring a large fired ham joint.

"Yes well," Udina interrupted her train of thought. "We have some information about Matriarch Benezia, apparently she has a daughter. Dr Liara T'soni. She's a scientist who specializes in the Protheans. The information is questionable but she's somewhere in the Artemis Tau Cluster,"

"It sounds like a good idea to find her first," Shepard commented. "She may hold valuable Intel. Or at least be able to catch her mother off guard,"

"The choice is yours from here, Shepard; you don't answer to us anymore," the captain reminded.

"But remember that your actions reflect Humanity as a whole," Udina warned. "You make a mess and I get stuck cleaning it up,"

"I'll try not to make things harder for you," said in a sarcastic tone that the ambassador failed to pick up on.

"That's good to hear,"

"Good luck in your mission, Commander," Anderson then said shaking Zenna's hands before the two left.

Taking in a deep sigh she walked over to Joker. "We all set?" she asked looking over his shoulder.

"Yep, all our supplies are stored and systems are in check," he replied. "We're all set,"

"Good, set course for the Artemis Tau cluster. Start scanning the planets by size and habitability. We need to find one that could or can support life," she ordered.

"Will do commander," Joker replied and started up the engines.

"How long will that take?" she asked.

"Well, that's four systems with 19 planets between them," he began to calculate. "About 3 to 4 days, depending on the weather,"

"Sounds good to me, carry on," she said before walking off.

As she made her way into the CIC Kadian walked up next to her. "Commander," he said as he held up a tablet. "We managed to find places for out new team mates and food for them. But Tali seems a little, uncomfortable with Adams,"

"Slime?" she asked guessing what the problem could be but Kadian shook his head.

"The machine part of him," he responded making Zenna nodded.

"I'll go talk to her," she said making Kadian nod. "Anything else?"

"No commander, that's about it," he confirmed.

"Ok, continue," she said and the two broke off their conversation and she made her way to the lift.

As she did so her head began to ache once again. A thundering pain in her head that wouldn't go away, she pulled out a tub of tablets. Opening it she popped it into her mouth and swallowed. It would take the edge off, but not much. The lift door opened and she exited before rounding to the door next to the lift that lead to the engine room. Tali was working at one of the terminals but was taking sideways glances at Adams who was already at work.

Zenna walked up to the Quarrian. "Tali, I hear that you are unsettled," she said getting her attention.

"Commander," she said in slight surprise. "I wasn't expecting you,"

"Well, if my crew is having problems I'd like to know and try and sort it out," Zenna replied. "I heard from Kadian that you had problems,"

"It's just…" she trailed off looking at Adams. "… I didn't expect to see a slime here, let alone one with skeletal frames," she admitted.

Chief engineer Adams overheard and took a slight glance in their direction. This wasn't the first time he had problems. Adams was a blue slime, a collection of microbial cells controlled by a central nucleus. Slimes don't have a form that they can sustain for too long, so they use a skeletal frame that helps bind their mass together into a humanoid form. The device is attached to their nucleus so that they can control it and use it to talk.

But slimes had a bit of a reputation for being jokers and general annoyances. Adams, however, wanted to change that perception. Being a slime, he had the unique ability to get into places where no one could and fix any problems that the ship had that people couldn't see or get to. He was good at it too. Many slimes shared his ideas, and were doing their best to try and change the general perspective. But it was easier said than done given the general perspective.

"I assume that it's due to the geth?" Adams asked in a synthesized male voice catching Tali off guard. "Don't worry, I understand the problem but think of me as… a cyborg. Or with cybernetics, at my core I'm still human. You don't need to worry," he smiled before turning back to work.

That made the Quarrian feel guilty about her prejudices and assumptions. She looked down apologetically.

"Sorry," she muttered. "I'm just not used to serving on human ship. Seeing all the other demi-humans, it's quite unnerving,"

"I'll bet. A lot of non-humans are a little weirded out by serving on human ships due to the different demi-human types," Zenna said rubbing the back of her neck. "We humans are a very diverse lot, and that tend to complicate matters with the other races,"

"Yeah I see that now," Tali said with a smile. "I'll try to keep and open mind,"

"Good to hear," the commander said. "If you have any problems, just come to me and I'll try to get it sorted,"

"Thank you, commander, I should get back to work," she said with the commander nodding and walking off.

OOOOO

About 3 days upon reaching Artemis Tau, they managed to find a Geth signal on one of the worlds. Therum, a wasteland of geothermal activity. According to intelligence, the planet had a small mining colony with outposts set a good distance apart from each other. Intel also showed a Prothean ruin at a mining site, and with the scans that was where most of the Geth activity was.

Picking out Ashley and Garrus for this mission, Zenna took the Mako and make it to the ruin quickly. Eventually they reached a bottleneck that forced the squad to move forward on foot. Going through they ran into a small patrol of Geth. Despite being spotted by Geth earlier in the Mako, this group didn't seem to be aware of them or were plotting an ambush.

"Something doesn't smell right," Ashley said and Zenna just nodded.

"I hate the fact that you can smell that," Garrus muttered.

"If it's any help, the ash in the air is blocking some of our senses," Ashley said as she took up a position behind a group of rocks with her assault rifle ready.

Shaking his head Garrus moved to the opposite side and readied his sniper rifle. Zenna however reminded at her position and drew her custom pistol. Unlike standard issue predators, this one was more along the lines of two predators slapped together. While it still had one barrel, the extra parts were there to allow it do all the features Zenna made the pistol for. Auto-fire, rapid ammo type selection and more. The problem was, it would overhead quickly and replacement parts were not available through normal military channels.

She had to use local weapon deals to get the parts she needed. But the weapon she used proved to be more than worth it's weight in gold. Switching to disrupter rounds she took aim and fired. The rapid fire of her weapon mixed with the electrified rounds took the first geth down quickly and with ease. As soon as it fell, Garrus and Ashley began to open fire. Guessing that they had been rumbled, the geth who waited in ambush moved out of cover and began to fire at the team.

Despite the geth intelligence, the team managed to outflank them and take the squad out before regrouping and moving onwards. They soon reached a large wide section that lead to the mine. They didn't take another step instead they took cover.

"It's a sniper alley. They are just waiting for us." Shepard said absentmindedly.

She didn't need to say it, it was pretty clear what it was to them. It was just a human trait to state the obvious. Garrus would never understand this trait, but he knew he would have to deal with it.

"What do you think?" Zenna then asked as she turned to Ash. "Think you can be bait?"

Ashley's ears twitched slightly as she looked over the at the clearing. It was a good wide-open area, a good pace to run in. Garrus however didn't understand what the two were on about. But the marine soon nodded.

"Yeah, I can be the bait," she said holstering her weapon.

"What's going on?" Garrus asked.

"It's a common tactic to use huhounds as a distraction for snipers," Ashley said. "We move very fast and are a hard target to it," with that she prepared to jump and run.

"Wait," Garrus said as his mind buzzed. "I remember stories about this, Turian snipers couldn't get a kill on fast ground units. You're saying that those units were huhounds?"

"Yep," the marine said before jumping out and ran.

"Wish I had thrown a bone," Zenna moaned before she and Garrus began to take out the snips who were zeroed in on Ashley.

While he was focused on the snipers, Garrus watched as Ashely moved at speed dogging sniper fire. Watching her, he knew why the Turians lost First contact. They were up against an alien race who had multiple sub species who brought their advantages with them. The Turians didn't know what they were facing or how to deal with it. Even with time, he doubts that anyone could counter humans.

After dogging and moving with speed Ash stopped and looked around. The geth were down so she re-joined the rest of the team while Zenna checked her omni tool for the map.

"According to the layout of the area, the entrance to the ruins should be just up the hill," she said as she closed the map.

The two nodded and moved up the hill towards the compound. The abandoned station was in front of the ruin but something felt off. Zenna and Ashley scanned the area for any movement. Their instincts were screaming at them, this was a trap. Before they could do anything, a whirring noise met their ears. At that moment Geth hoppers dropped from a scaffold and bounced getting into sniping positions while a dropship flew by dropping troops and an armature.

"You have got to be kidding. Take cover!" Shepard yelled jumping behind a crate.

Garrus moved to a position for better cover to take them out with his sniper rifle while Ashley fired and moved. The Armature fired a blast at their location. The cover protected them, but the blast caused them to lose their hearing briefly. Ashley yelled in pain as he ringing echoed in her ears. Hearing was a problem for noise sensitive demi-humans like her.

"Aim for the eye!" Zenna yelled as she pulled out her shotgun.

This weapon, must like her pistol, was custom made. The large casing of the weapon showed what she did with it. This wasn't a shotgun; this was a punt gun. Switching to the explosive setting she fired. High explosive rounds flew though the air hitting the four-legged machine making it stagger. She then pulled the pump back injecting coolant into the weapon allowing to cool fast before she fired again.

A hopper then landed near her and fired a her. The impact took out her shields and made her stumble into the sight of the armature. The machine fired at her but her chimera DNA kicked in and she moved faster than a minotaur could move. Garrus just blinked, one Zenna was in one position but then the next she moved to the side. Her size, her muscles, her armour, everything about her screamed that she couldn't move fast. But she did and avoided the blast that the Armature fired at her.

Shaking his head, he aimed and fired at the hopper that tried to take her down. One shot to the spotlight took the machine down with ease. Zenna fired one more shot from her shotgun and took the four-legged machine down. The final hopper then tried to pounce on Shepard was stopped in mid air by Ashley who ripped his guts out before spitting out the metal innards.

A she got up Garrus joined them. "Remind me not to piss the two of you off," he said making them smile before they headed into the mine.

OOOOO

Trevos walked into Anderson's office with a datapad in hand. The captain wasn't expecting her to walk in but hid it well.

"Councillor," he greeted standing, "I wasn't expecting you,"

"While I would have alerted you, I would like to ask a few questions about the commander," she said taking a seat.

"Can I get you some tea or coffee?" he asked as he walked over to the kettle.

"Tea please, coffee is a little too strong for my liking," Anderson nodded and poured one coffee and one tea before walking back to his desk and sat down with the councillor. "Thank you," she said as she took a sip and gave a satisfied sigh.

"So, what would you like to know?" he asked with a smile.

"Well, the council has decided that if a Spectre is accused of going rouge, all of their activities should be known," she said. "Because of this, we are looking into the commander's history and noticed some black lines," she opened the page of the commanders file and showed the captain. "Is there anything you want to tell us?"

Furrowing his brow Anderson picked up the pad and looked at it. There were indeed black lines covering parts of the commander's profile. As he looked down, he noticed a watermark, Sec 31. A special branch of Alliance intel. Everyone knew about them, but no one knew what they did. But next to it was an icon he didn't recognise. He shook his head and looked to the politician.

"I'm sorry but I cannot help you, the watermark is by Sec 31, Alliance intelligence's highest branch of intel. Whatever they covered up, it must be big," he said pushing the pad back to her. "This is one area, that is best left alone,"

"Is that a threat?" she asked.

"No, a warning. Anyone who looks into Sec 31 doesn't return," he said making the eyes of the asari widen slightly. "We all have our secrets councillor, some of them are best remined berried,"

OOOOO

The Prothean ruin seemed like a space station that was made out an asteroid. But thankfully there was a small Geth presence that made itself known as the squad moved down two levels. It seemed that they didn't expect anyone to make it but left the odd trooper behind. As shtye moved further down they then found a blue forcefield with an Asari surrounded by some form of blue energy.

"Oh, thank the goddess!" she exclaimed. "Someone who isn't Geth. Are-Are you here to get me out of here?"

Shepard walked up to the blue barrier looking around as she tried to figure out how to disable it. "Yes," she replied. "Thing is though, your mother is working for a rogue Spectre. Saren Arterius. What is your role in this situation?"

"I- What?" she muttered but from the look in her eyes it seemed that she was stuck there for a time and low on energy. "I haven't spoken to my mother in years,"

It sounded like there was some truth to the words, but Zenna wasn't sure. She needed to get the Asari back to the Normandy and find out. "Is there a way past this energy field?"

"I don't know," she answered. The Geth have been trying to get through for a while now. I'm not sure there is a way,"

Zenna nodded. "We'll figure something out,"

"I'll be right here," she said in a joking tone.

Shepard and the squad moved down to the ground floor and looked around on alert in case of an ambush. As they moved forward Garrus noticed a large machine. Walking up to it he examined it.

"Commander an energy drill," he yelled as she looked at the machine.

"Good we can use it to make a way to T'Soni." Zenna said as she moved up and began to look at it. "Not good," she muttered as she opened up several panels.

"Something wrong?" Ashley asked as she joined the two.

"Yeah," the minotaur as she looked at the controls, wires and circuits. "Some of the circuits are fired, others are fused. I need to bypass it. It's all combat damage and overheating, someone tied to use this thing without knowing how it works,"

Just then trademark stuttering sound of the Geth met their ears. The team looked to each other with a knowing look.

"Cover fire while get the drill working," Zenna then ordered.

The team nodded and took up cover fire positions while Shepard got to work on trying to bypass the main systems. It was tricky as she was shot at but her mind focused on the bypass. This sort of thing was her bread and butter. Aukze came to mind as she worked, those Threasher maws killing her squad with no evac for at least 2 weeks. She worked hard to survive in that killer environment. This was no different, as she rewired the drill as fast as possible. If Threashers couldn't distract her from her work, the neither could the geth.

'Come on...come on... got it!' the laser roared to life and blasted a hole under the barrier curtain. "YES! I'll lay down cover go through the hole," she yelled as she grabbed her assault rifle and began to fire.

The cover fire allowed squad fall back into the hole as the Geth advanced and fired on their position. The hole led to an internal elevator but Zenna stopped before they got on and threw three high explosive grenades at the hole sealing it off.

"That should buy us some time," she said before walking onto the lift and activating it.

The lift moved up one level that made it so that they were behind Liara who glanced back as best she could give her position. "How did you get up here?"

"We used a mining laser to create an alternate route," Shepard answered.

"Yes, of course. That console should free me," she said nodding to a console.

Zenna approached the console and typed in a few commands. The energy field dissipated letting Liara to drop to the ground.

The commander then walked over to her and helped her to her feet. "Are you okay?" she asked.

"I'm fine," she muttered but just then the area shook making them all fall down.

"What the hell was that?" Garrus asked out loud looking around before he got up with the rest of the team.

"That mining laser must have destabilized the ruins," Zenna replied mentally kicking herself before opened the comm link. "Joker, lock onto our position. We need evacuation ASAP,"

"Aye, aye Commander," Joker confirmed over the comm.

Shepard and the team then moved as fast as they could to the elevator and hit the controls. The ruins rumbled as the elevator rose making it hard for the team to keep their balance. As they reached the top, they were greeted by a Krogan warlord and several Geth. Immediately Ashley and Garrus grabbed their weapons.

"Hand over the Asari or don't that would be more fun," the warlord said cocking his shotgun

"This place is falling apart and you're trying to stop us?" Zenna asked as she drew her pistol.

"Makes the fight more interesting," the Korgan laughed.

"Yes, it does," Shepard said before firing her pistol at the Korgan making him take cover from the unexpected attack. "I've got the Krogan. Garrus keep an eye on T'Soni! Ash, time to play fetch,"

Garrus then grabbed Liara's arm and pulled her behind a pillar. "You know how to use those biotics?" he asked with he nodding. "Don't be afrid to use them," he said before taking aim and firing at the geth.

Liara took a deep breath and threw a singularity at a group of geth taking shots at them. Two exploded but one still fired. Before she could do anything else, she watched with fascination and shock as Ashley tore into the geth ripping its arm off before unloading several rounds into its head. This was the first time she had seen demi-humans in combat and was surprised by their tactics.

Shepard charged at the warlord and was about to punch him. But warlord moved too quickly making the attack useless but Zenna recovered and fired a few rounds into him. In return he shot at her with his shotgun taking out her shields. She moved in fast and slammed her fist onto his head making him stagger back. She followed with a kick to the back but he turned and fired at her. Again, her DNA kicked in moved out of the way fast, but not fast enough as part of the slugs that the shotgun fired entered her arm.

As she winced in pain as blood flowed from the wound while the Krogan recovered and charged at Shepard. He managed to tackle the minotaur in a wall and slammed his fist into her but she managed to kick him in the gut knocking him back. The Krogan then roared as he then tired to headbutt her, but this time she managed to move out of the way before she finished him off with a shotgun blast that bypassed his shields. He fell in a slump against the wall.

Zenna looked to his squad and around seeing that all of the geth had been taken out, "Move it!" she then

The squad ran down the walkways as they made their way to the mine's entrance. Rocks were falling all over the place. John made sure everyone was escaping. One rock fell near Ashley and Liara.

Ashley pushed the Asari out of the way as she fell. Liara got to her feet as fast as she could and ran out while the huhound moved as fast as she could as well. They just managed to leaving the mine just as it collapsed. The Normandy was just above them.

OOOOO

Everyone was gathered in the briefing room ready to make a report and discuss their plans for the next mission. But the pilot wasn't too impressed with the way the Normandy was almost eaten by the lava.

"Too close, Commander," Joker scolded. "Ten more seconds we would be swimming in molten sulfur. The Normandy isn't equipped to land in active volcanoes. They tend to fry our sensors and melt our hull,"

"We almost die out there and your pilot is making jokes?" Liara questioned being upset about the whole situation.

"Joker pulled us out of there," Shepard said. "He's earned the right to a few jokes. As long as he doesn't push it,"

"Must be a Human thing," she muttered. "I'm not used to dealing with your race, Commander let alone your subspecies," that made the few humans in the room wince. "Did I say something?" she asked worried about insulting her saviours.

"We don't use the term subspecies," Kadian advised. "It's largely insulting to us, we prefer the term demi-human,"

"Oh, sorry," she quickly apologised, "Though thank you for saving my life down there. Not just from the volcano, but against the Geth,"

"What did Saren want with you?" Ashley inquired. "Do you know something about the Conduit?"

"Only that it was somehow connected to the Prothean extinction." She said thinking about what she knew. "That is my area of expertise. I've spent the past fifty years trying to figure out what's happen to them,"

"I think I know what happened to them," Zenna commented as she rubbed her bandaged arm.

"Commander, I have heard every theory there is, the problem is finding evidence to explain what happened. The Protheans left little behind. It was like someone wiped away all evidence of what happened. Now here's the incredible part. According to my findings the Protheans were not the first Galactic civilization to mysteriously vanish. This cycle of extinction has begun long before them," Liara explained with some hint of offence.

Part of what she said caught Zenna's attention. "If they weren't the first... Who were?" she asked.

"I don't know. There is little information on the Protheans and even less on those before them," she explained knowing how doubtful this seemed.

"Yes, from what I've been able to understand there was something that happened I am sure of my theory of the cycle of extinction. Every generation of life advance to a point and is then violently struck down. I have dedicated my life to finding out why,"

"They were wiped out by a race of sentient machines, the Reapers," Shepard answered rubbing her head as her memories came back.

"T-The Reapers? But I've never heard of- How do you know this? What evidence do you have?" Liara asked as her mind began to buzz with the implications of this revelation.

"We ran into a Prothean beacon on Eden Prime and it implanted a vision into my head. I'm still trying to sort it all out," Zenna answered as the headache came in full force.

"Visions? Of course. Those beacons would be designed to transmit information directly into the mind of the user. No wonder the Geth attacked Eden Prime. A working beacon, even a badly damaged one, would have been worth any cost to get. But they were made to interact with Prothean physiology. Whatever information you received would have been confused, unclear. I am amazed that you can make any sense of it at all. A lesser mind would have been utterly destroyed..." she tailed off with an idea coming to mind and she stood. "Commander, I have an idea. We asari have the ability to join minds, to see the memories of people, if I can mind meld with you, I'm sure we can see more,"

Zenna nodded and walked to the middle of the room. "Well let's try at least, we have nothing better to go on,"

"Wait," Ashley then said, "How do we know we can trust you and not fry the commander's brain?"

"If she could kill us, she would have already done so," the minotaur scolded before looking at the Asari. "Ok let's go for it,"

Liara nodded and approached. "Relax commander, clear your mind and embrace eternity!" her eyes turned black as they began to share their minds.

Death, machines, the prothean extinction filled both of their minds as Liara's mind meld did its work. But soon those images stopped, replaced by a small minotaur, tortured, experimented upon. Screams of pain and torment filled both of their minds. Suddenly a loud siren like screak broke the meld. Liara backed up from the disconnect. She fell into Garrus to grabbed her while all eyes where on Zenna.

"NO! PLEASE NO!" she shrieked grabbing her head.

"Commander!" Kadian yelled as he stood along with Ashley but they were pushed away.

"NO! PLEASE! NOT THE INJECTIONS PLEASE! NO!" she continued to yell while Kadain sent a message to Chackwas. "DON'T HURT ME PLEASE!"

Ashley then moved up to Liara and grabbed her by the collar, "What did you do to her?" she practically yelled.

"I don't know," she said in response terrified.

The commander stopped screaming before collapsing curing up into a ball muttering to herself. Ashley let go of Liara as Chackwas moved into the room fast. The room fell silent as the Lamia moved up to the commander. She picked her up and used her tail as a makeshift bed examining the minotaur. Her mind racing as to how tis could have happened

"What happened?" she asked not looking away from the commander.

"I tried to mind meld with the commander," Liara said standing up. "To see what she saw from the prothean beacon," she was panicked, in her mind this would affect her credibility with the humans

Chackwas nodded as she then scanned the commander. The silence was so thick that you could cut it with a knife as the team watched as the doctor worked her magic. After what left like an age the doctor she sighed and close her omni-tool.

"The commander is unconscious," the doctor finally said. "The stress of her memories coming back had just knocked her out,"

"Memories?" Wrex asked. "They must be quite bad to do something like this,"

"When she was younger, she was experimented upon by and anti-demi-human group," Chackwas explained. "The experimentation was traumatic to the point that she had to see multiple physiatrists a day to get her to a good mental state. I think she also saw a hypnotherapist to hide most of the memories. But this was likely done by the mind meld itself. In order to meld with another an asari must attune their nervous system to make it easier to see their memories. But because the commander is a Chimera, he altered DNA created a unique nervous frequency that countered Liara's. But because it seemed like an attack, but wasn't it requested signals from her mind to figure out what happened and brought back her memories,"

"So, I did cause it," Liara said as guilt filled her.

"You couldn't have known what would happen," Chackwas defended. "This was something that we couldn't foresee,"

"How long will she be out?" Tali asked with concern.

"A week maybe more, but I get the feeling that we may need that mind melding ability of yours…" Chackwas said looking towards Liara. "… maybe necessary for the mission at hand,"

"So, what do we do?" Garrus asked eager to help.

"That's where the problem comes in," the doctor sighed. "The commander is a Chimera: they are not a natural product. They are a result of trying to remove the bacterium from demi-humans to turn them back to baseline humans. However, the bacterium, being reactivated, sees this as an attack and activates causing more change to the DNA in defence. If I want to retune her nervous system to be normal, I need the research on her. But that was destroyed due to the Human protection Act,"

The room fell silent but Kadian then remembered something. The commander occasionally talked in her sleep. What she said, it was a longshot but at the moment they had little choice.

"I think I know who might have done it," he then said. "It's a long-shot, they are rumoured to be little more then myth,"

Ash and Chackwas looked to him while the non-humans looked at him confused.

"Them?" Ashley asked in confusion and surprise. "But they don't exist,"

"It's better than nothing, plus when she talks in her sleep she always mutters 'protect' or foundation," he countered. "There is no other group who uses words like those,"

"But even if you are right…" Chackwas muttered.

"We have nothing else to go on," Kadain insisted. "This is the best we have," that made her nod.

"Ok for all of those who are not human here," Tali then interrupted. "Who or what are you talking about?"

"The people who experimented on the commander, and who likely have records of her experimentation, is the SCP Foundation," the huhoud said.

OOOOO

Codex:

Slimes:

Slimes are a long lived demi-human species. Similar to jellyfish, slimes are made out of a similar like substance with a central nucleus which controls the movement of the slime. Coming in many colours, green and blue are the most common while ones like red and purple are rare. Due to how they are made up, they are incredibly hard to kill unless someone takes out the nucleus. But due to the lack of form they have, it makes them next to useless as soldiers.

Because they have little to no form, they use something like a suit of armour or something similar to hold that form together. In modern times they use a skeletal frame that holds their form to something similar to that of a human. These frames have an in-built translation system as they have no vocal cords but they can vibrate as a way of communication.

Mischievous, they like to play pranks on others and are normally employed as clowns or jokers at fairs or circuses. But most are trying to counter this image by working in many fields such as doctor or engineer. In terms of combat, slimes make poor soldiers but good ambush attackers as they can alter the makeup of their slime into something acidic.

One particular tactic used is 'slime bombs', this is when three or more slimes are loaded into a bomb before being dropped on the enemy to cause havoc with their troops, weapons and systems. This was one of the main reasons why the turians lost the war as they couldn't find an effective countermeasure to slimes.

Human protection Act:

After the second world war and the atrocities uncovered, questions began to arise about the use of experimentation of demi-humans. Hitler had ordered demi-humans to be exterminated along with all the undesirables, the only exception to this was the huhounds. During this time, many Chimera's were made in an attempt to remove the bacterium form the human genome. But after the war and all of this came to light, the world was shocked.

As such the Human protection Act was born in 1949 to ensure that something similar could never happen again. From then on, removal, experimentation or alteration of the bacterium was outlawed without approval from the heads of a global medical institution and the head of state of which it is to take place.

In modern times, three signatures from the Alliance medical council and the president have to sign before any experiment can be done. Any unauthorised experimentation leads to life in prison and the destruction of all material found.

SCP Foundation:

[CLASSIFED: AUTHORISED PERSONNEL ONLY]