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Post by Edenecho on Feb 1, 2012 5:54:32 GMT -5
"If I ever have enough free time, and am ever in the mood at the same time, I'll check it out," Jack said, then smiled,"Who cares what the General says?" He asked, his voice quiet so no one else could hear him,"He said I could set the rules for you 'Xenos'."
"I'm in no way glad that Shepard is gone," Jack said, but in a lighthearted way."Good. We're going to need everything as good as it gets. Let's just hope it's enough when the time comes," He said, sighing. He seemed happy that the Centurian seemed pissed off. He snorted,"I hardly call that equal command, seeing as there's three 'Xenos' and way more humans. Does that mean you get to butt into the middle of my conversations with the crew whenever you feel like it?" He narrowed his eyes at him acting like the Xenos were trash, and he almost looked disgusted by the Centurian. "Ok," He said to Joker,"I guess we just fly around aimlessly until we get a job, then."
Orinia shrugged, clearly not caring that she kind of cared,"Good for you," She said. "Well, I've never been part of any culture, really, let alone a Turian one. I was raised by humans."
"It is a good ship," She said to Veetor,"Hey, do you believe in this 'Reaper' threat that everyone's talking about?" She asked, then nodded,"Yeah, you kinda do. But with any luck you'll get some over time."
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Post by Alan Haskayne on Feb 1, 2012 7:17:38 GMT -5
"Well if your in the mood for lighthearted comedy it is a treat." Tela said with a smile. She laughed slightly at him and said "My wallet cares, his boss Mr. Illusive offered me enough money to live around 5-6 hundred years on." she looked inquisitive and asked in a low tone "Are you saying what I think your saying commander?"
"Hey man I don't like it either but you said no douchebag commanders." Joker said in a lighthearted way. He shrugged and said "You might want to ask around, see if anyone can offer better equipment, bet that Quarian might have some good ideas. They seem to be good engineers, like Tali remember her?" The Centurian scoffed at him and said "You get to decide were we go, well your team anyway, but I actully can tell my crew not to fly the ship. Equal command." he shook his head "Flight officer Moreau is a human, I have authority over him." he then turned on his heal and said "I will be in the captain's cabin, wake me if I am needed." after he left Joker looked over his shoulder and asked "How long do you think the stick is? You know the one is his ass." he then shrugged and said "Sure it isn't like wasting Ezeo is a bad thing."
Tela seemed to have the same intrest in Orinia as she did in her. She shrugged and simply said "How weird, your parents are weird humans for wanting a Turian child." she then walked off, for real this time.
Veetor nodded and said "The best ship, it is an honour just to be part of the engineering team." he shrugged slightly and said "My people made the Geth 300 years ago, who is to say they didn't make a religion around a 'Reaper' and the Reaper being a ship of theirs." he nodded and said "Hopefully." then tried to change the subject "Have you seen Fleet and Flotila? It is a romance, and it got good reviews for Turian Quarian relationship portrayal."
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Post by Edenecho on Feb 1, 2012 21:58:29 GMT -5
Jack nodded,"Yeah, now and then a comedy is nice, with this job. Nice to get a break from all the seriousness," He said. He shrugged,"Would he ever know?" He smiled a slightly crooked smiled and chuckled quietly,"That would depend on what you think I'm saying," He said in a rather flirty way.
"Shepard wasn't a douchebag, if that's what you're saying," Jack said playful way. "That's probably a good idea." He said, then sighed and nodded,"Yeah, I remember Tali. I miss our old team. 'Specially Liara." He looked at the Centurian, and just stared for a bit, then shook his head and turned back to Joker, clearly ignoring the Centurian. When he left, Jack muttered,"I guess you get to sleep forever then." He snorted at what Joker said, then replied,"Veery long. To long." He shrugged,"Or I guess we could just sit here and wait for a mission."
"Whatever you say," Orinia said in a kind of douchy way as Tela left.
Orinia nodded,"You know, if some ways I think we're lucky to be Xenos here. I trust Jack to make better choices then any Cerberus racist, but unlucky in the way that there's a lot of people who are going to be asses to us," She sighed and said, half-jokingly,"Geth are very ungreatful to their creators, aren't they?" She smiled and nodded,"Yeah, I have. It was a good movie. I'm more into action movies, but it was good."
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Post by Alan Haskayne on Feb 2, 2012 4:15:00 GMT -5
Tela nodded and said "We could go see it together sometime if you wanted. I hope things don't get too serious, you know not like last time with Shepard." she smiled at him in a mischievous way and said "No one has to know anything." she smirked at him and said "Well because you are so flirty I can think of a few things you could mean, luckily they all require privacy."
Joker laughed and said "That's why they call me Joker." he nodded and said "That's why I'm here, to give out advice when needed." he sighed a little, and said "I agree, I mean I'm sure I will warm up to this new squad, but actually it isn't that different, Asari Biotic, Quarian Engineer, I wonder if that Turnian is a sniper, he looks like some kind of hard ass. Plus there is us from the last team." luckily the Centurian didn't hear him, he had read the files on the new Xeno squad and walked up behind the Quarian, and slammed his head into the console next to him, rather hard. Then proceeded to the elevator. Joker had watched and said "Jeez hard ass commander." he smirked and said "I will complete shakedown, then you can check with Mr. Man."
Veetor stood back up after the Cerbaus officer slammed his head into a console, he rubbed the front of his helmet and said "Owww." but didn't say anything else to the officer. He shrugged to her and said "Looks like the Centurian is an ass, but I hope some of the others are nicer to us, or at least me, I am sick of getting shoved around." he nodded, he didn't seem to like to think about the Geth uprising and said "No they aren't." it was clearly a bad subject for him. He smiled at what she said and said "The Turnian Quarian couple is cute isn't it?" he rubbed his hands together, it made him nervous to talk to a cute Turian about a Turian-Quarian relationship, he kinda thought about them, but he lacked the spine to say anything.
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Post by Edenecho on Feb 2, 2012 22:02:48 GMT -5
Jack smiled,"Sounds like a plan, if we get time," He said, then nodded,"Yeah...I still have a hard time believing what happened, sometime." He smiled back at her with his slightly crooked smile,"Good," He said,"Maybe later we should see if you are thinking correctly."
"And a fitting nickname it is, too," Jack said, smiling. "I thought you were here to fly the ship and answer my questions right this minute," He said jokingly, the last part referring to the Centurian telling Joker to answer his question earlier. He nodded,"Yeah. Still, their personalities are different. Like how Liara was quiet," He said, smiling faintly at the memory," Well, I'm guessing there's a reason for Orinia, I think her name is, to have a like, top of the line sniper riffle," He said, in a way that kind of said 'duh, of course she's a sniper', but in a playful way. "Yeah, just to bad there's not more of us. Or at least a Commander that knows what he's doing." He looked pissed when the Centurian shoved Veetor, but he didn't do anything for fear of getting himself fired or something. But in time his anger at racists might win out against his caution. To Joker he muttered, quietly,"I so want to shove him into something and see how he likes it." He nodded, then said,"Hopefully we can get going soon. Somewhere where my squad and I can get away from this bunch of racists."
Orinia looked about as pissed as Jack when the Centurian shoved Veetor. "That's why you need to stand up for yourself," She said to him,"Just, if you stand up to the Centurian, make sure you do it when Jack's around, so he can tell the Centurian that he has no command over us if he tries to fire you or something." It made since for him not to like to think about the Geth uprising, so she said nothing else about it. She nodded,"Yeah, they are," She said, not seeming to think about the fact that she was talking to a Quarian guy about a Turian-Quarian relationship.
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Post by Alan Haskayne on Feb 3, 2012 6:40:34 GMT -5
Tela smiled back and said "Sounds like a date, next shore leave." she nodded to the next thing he said and said "Yeah." she smiled and said, in a flirty way "That sounds good, you have the Executive Officer's cabin, I will meet you there tonight. I think you will be my first human male, if I'm right that is."
Joker laughed and said "Oh right away sir, just don't hit me with the sick up your ass as you turn around." he then made a mock salute to him. He smirked at the commander and asked "What did you get shy Liara to do things? She said she didn't like humans, aw damn." he said the last part jokingly. He looked at the Turian then back at Jack and asked "Wait that is a woman? Damn, remind me not to go to a strip club on Palaven." he then looked at her rifle and said "Hey I have a eye for starships commander, I leave the guns to you. I will take your word that she has a top of the line rifle, they all look similar to me." he nodded and said "Who knows who we might run into out there. We could get everyone back, or probably not. Hey that Centurian seemed like a good commander, though he acts like a Geth, but isn't as likable." he of course was pointing out how much the guy loved protocol, and how just he was hated. He looked at the Quarian and said "Geez as if the guy didn't have it hard enough living on a starship all his life, not that I would know, geez I just burned myself." he nodded and said "Well I will have the shakedown done in a few minutes, then I will be able to bring up the comms, maybe he has been trying to contact us."
Veetor rubbed the front of his helmet again, his head still hurt from hitting the front of his helmet when it impacted the console. He sighed and said "Yeah your right." he then looked over at Jack then back at Orinia and said "That is a good idea." he smiled slightly when she didn't mention the Geth again. He completely missinterpreted what she ment, he assumed with his stupidly inept social skills that she might like some kind of relationship like that. He then decided that he was going to impress her slightly by standing up for himself like she said he should. He glanced at Jack then walked over to the Centurian and tapped his shoulder, and started to say "What were you thinking sh-" he was cut off by the Centurian turning around and hitting him in the gut. Veetor leaned over reflexively from the blow, and Kai kicked his legs out from under him, causing him to fall to the deck. He then leaned over, and ripped one of the hoses out from the back of his helmet. Veetor seemed kind of stunned and was just starting to stumble with his hose and said, or more cried out "Ahhh, what did you do? Your going to give me an infection!" Kai just smirked and said "Don't touch me Quarian, that goes for the rest of the Xenos too." he then walked back toward the elevator.
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Post by Edenecho on Feb 4, 2012 7:35:56 GMT -5
"Alright," Jack said, smiling. He sighed slightly and said,"Such a good, strong commander, just gone." He smiled back at her, and nodded,"Alright, see you there," He said in a flirty voice.
Jack laughed at what Joker said,"I'll try not to," He replied, smiling. He then shook his head,"Not really, but we were going to go on our first date when the first Normandy was blown up. She's probably the only person I've taken it slow with." He followed Joker's gaze to Orinia, then looked back at Joker,"Yeah, she's a woman. She's got a kind of smaller head the male Turians," He said. "Well, sometime you can tell just because they look nicer. But then, I'm sure there's crappy guns that look nice." He shrugged, then said,"There'll always be someone missing," He said, referring to Shepard. "Must be very likable then," He said sarcastically,"He's certainly show how likeable he is to the Xenos." He shook his head and sighed,"I wonder why that asshole seems to be more interested in abusing Veetor so far. Maybe he's worried that Orinia and Tela will just kick his butt for it." He nodded,"Alright."
Orinia look surprised when Veetor actually went to stand up against the Centurian. She then looked as pissed as a Turian can when the Centurian beat up Veetor. She walked up to him, but before she could do anything, Jack got in the way.
When Jack saw the Centurian pretty much attack Veetor, he lost and caution he had. He cut off the Centurian before he could get to the elevator,"What the fuck do you think you're doing? I'm in charge of the Xeno's and I'm telling you to keep your filthy racist hands off of them," He said, his eyes clearly showing his anger.
Orinia went to help Veetor, and said to 'Kai',"He DIDN'T touch you, you racist bastard," She snapped,"Don't YOU touch HIM again."
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Post by Alan Haskayne on Feb 4, 2012 16:47:49 GMT -5
Joker shook his head and said "Shame, you should have gone strait for the Asari man, how often do you get a blue girl?" he looked at the Turian's head and said "Yeah actually I can see that. So I'm imagining that their strip clubs are like 'Smallest heads on Palaven' or something, Turians are weird." he shrugged and said "Well it isn't always true, like some of those Quarian ships look modern and nice but are really like 300 years old. You know what I mean, it could be a gun that looks nice because it is old." he nodded somberly and said "Indeed, and he will be missed dearly." he nodded and rolled his eyes saying "Oh yeah I'm sure every non human just loves him, I mean he is just a horrible racist who killed a Krogan with a knife just because." he shrugged and asked "Between a biotic, a soldier and an engineer I'm assuming you would go after the engineer, they would probably beat up the nerdy engineer." he nodded and started pressing buttons on his control panel.
Kai (Centurian) looked at Jack and said "A Quarian touched me, how am I supposed to react? If you have a problem take it up with the general, he will side with me." he then added "Plus keep your crew away from me, and we will have no problems. Got it?" he looked at the Turian and asked "Awwww did I hurt your Quarian boyfriend? Call me a bastard again and I will spit in your mouth, your species is allergic to our superior amino acids."
Veetor reached behind him and managed to plug the hose back into his helmet, he still was breathing hard, he was scared of getting infected.
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Post by Edenecho on Feb 4, 2012 18:00:55 GMT -5
"She was shy, I don't think she's like me trying to get into a relationship with her to fast," Jack said. He looked at Orinia as well, and said,"It's not just that her heads smaller, there's just something more feminine about the way she looks. I can't place what it is." He looked thoughtful and said,"I wonder why the Reapers seem to be coming after the Humans. It seems like we're slower at getting better technology then the other races. Maybe it has to with that maybe we've had less time to get where we are then the other races," He shrugged. He sighed and nodded,"Let's hope we can finish what he started," He said. He snorted and shook his head,"I can't believe that he was put on a ship with three non-human," He said. He shook his head again,"He's probably not brave enough to go after anyone else."
Jack looked at Kai steadily,"The same way you would react to a human touching you," He said, his voice filled with venom,"Yeah, because he's just as racist. I'M in charge of MY squad, and I'm telling you to leave them the fuck alone. We have equal command, as you, said, so you can't tell me, or my squad to do anything."
Orinia looked at Kai, and held her head high,"He's not my boyfriend, and I'm merely stating the truth. I'm sorry if it's to much for you to handle."
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Post by Alan Haskayne on Feb 4, 2012 19:11:46 GMT -5
"Oh that makes sense, so you never got a chance to taste the blue, sucks for you commander." Joker then examined the female Turian and said "I guess they are slightly more feminine, but their armour probably hides most of what makes them look female. You know what I'm looking it up later." he shrugged and said "I would bet it is because we killed one of them. I mean if they wiped out a human world we would attack them wouldn't we?" he nodded to the next thing and said "Don't worry I'm sure we will commander." he sighed and said "He is like the Shepard of Cerbarus, he took down a god damn Krogan with a knife, I mean even Shepard needed a gun. He is an incredibly good soldier. " he shrugged and said "Doubt it, again Krogan, knife."
Kai spit in the general direction of the Quarian, probably hitting the Turian and said "I would never want a Xeno to touch me. They are sickening." he then pointed his finger at Jack's chest and said "You are still supposed to follow your higher ups in Cerbarus, like the General and the Illusive man." he smirked slightly and said "Well it is only a suggestion, though things like what happened to Veetor will happen to the other two." he looked at the Turian and said "Uh huh, I know how you Xenos are. It isn't the truth, and you should be worried about my threat." he then moved to kick Veetor
The intercom chimed in a voice that clearly held authority "Kai, you are confined to quarters, attacking my prized engineer like that. I will speak to you about this later." Kai quickly hurried away, looking humiliated. The voice then said "Jack, I want to see you and your squad in the conference room at once."
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Post by Edenecho on Feb 4, 2012 19:50:21 GMT -5
Glancing at Tela, Jack said,"I may get a chance at some sort of relationship with a Asari tonight," He said, smiling crookedly. "Probably," He said,"What exactly are you going to look up?" He shook his head,"Do you mean Sovereign? Because this started before he came, I mean, that's WHY he came. If you could call it a 'he'." He nodded, trying to be optimistic. "He's nothing like Shepard," He said." He just sighed at the rest.
Jack crossed his arms,"Not as sickening as you," He growled. When Kai pointed at him, he just gazed steadily at him,"I am," He replied,"I was put in charge of the Squad by the General, and so I will do my job. I shall protect them, from the crew if I have to," He still didn't seem intimidated, "Are you threatening to hurt my squad, and perhaps cause the failure of missions due to the fact that SOMEONE injured the team?"
"You touch me and you'll see how worried I am about your so called 'threat'," Orinia replied, her arms crossed.
Jack smirked when Kai got in trouble, and he gave him the middle finger behind Kai's back as he left,"How's that for following our 'higher ups'?" He asked, shaking his head. He then looked at his team,"Alright, you heard him," He said, heading for the conference room.
Orinia followed Jack.
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Post by Alan Haskayne on Feb 6, 2012 3:10:19 GMT -5
Joker looked at Tela and said "Nice one commander, you really know how to woo the blue. You should see if she has any interest in a pilot, would ya do that for me?" he chuckled and thought "Something with nude Turian girls in it probably." he nodded and said "Yeah, I don't think they picked out humans first, I think we were really just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sovereign might have just hated Shepard though, you never know. He seems as good a word as any." he nodded and said "I ment in terms of being good at fighting."
Kai looked annoyed and said "He will understand, he is more like me than you. After all the Quarian is just a tool for Cerbaus, and you can only get so mad at someone for hurting a tool." he then turned on a heal and head for his quarters, the commanders quarters.
Veetor quickly got up again, though there was considerable pain in his gut still. He looked at Jack and said "Thank you commander, I am very glad you stood up to him." he then looked at Orinia and said "And thank you particularly, you could have got hurt yet you stood up for me. Thank you." he felt he really liked this Turian, though he was afraid she didn't feel the same.
Tela was already in the room when the others walked in. The holo projector turned on and the leader of Cerbaus stood, or sat rather, in front of them. He looked at Jack and said "Thank you for standing up for the Engineer for me, Kai can get out of hand at times." he took a long drag on his cigarette and then said "Mr. Nara, do you know Omega station well, and do you feel well enough for a mission?" Veetor quietly and shyly stammered "Yes sssir Mr. Uh Man, I ccan llead the team through iiit." the man looked disappointed at the Quarian's nervousness, but nodded and said "Commander, I want you to take your team to Omega, there is a doctor that I believe can make something to counteract certain effects of 'collector' swarms." he then picked up a drink and said "Any questions?" and took a sip of the drink.
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Post by Edenecho on Feb 6, 2012 18:03:43 GMT -5
"She's a lot less shy then Liara," Jack replied, shrugging, he then snorted in a good-natured way,"Ask her yourself," He said. He blinked slightly, then said,"I think you've changed since I last saw you." He shrugged,"Maybe, maybe not, who knows. It kind of seems like Sovereign said something about how humanity's growing to fast, or something." He nodded,"I know what you meant."
"Then I guess I'd just have to remind him that he put me in charge of them, not you, won't I?" He looked disgusted at the next thing Kai said,"I can get fucking pissed at you for hurting a 'tool'. If he's a tool, I guess we're all just tools."
"Maybe you should go see Dr. Chakwas," He said to Veetor,"No problem. I look out for my squad, weather it's against Reapers, Geth or assholes.
Orinia smiled,"You are welcome. I'd like to see him try to hurt me," She said, but her overconfidence seemed kind of like she was joking around in a 'I'm awesome' way.
Jack nodded to the Illusive Man, faintly wondering if he ever stood up. "My pleasure, Sir," He replied. He also wondered if the Illusive man ever stopped smoking. When Veetor stammered, Jack smiled at him reassuringly, "Relax," He said. He nodded to the Illusive Man again, then said,"Yes, sir." He hoped they had time to stop by the Afterlife club while they were there, He'd heard a lot of good stuff about that place. "Um, who exactly are we looking for? We can't really go around asking, 'Hey, do you know where this dude we're looking for is? He's a doctor, we can't give you any more information then that.'," He pointed out jokingly.
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Post by Alan Haskayne on Feb 6, 2012 21:08:49 GMT -5
"Yeah I bet so." Joker said bluntly. He laughed and said "Yeah let me just get up on my hollow bones, limp over and ask." he shrugged and said "Well people change commander, and it has been two years." he shrugged and said "Your the one who talked to a starship commander, not me."
Kai shrugged and said "Tell him what you want Xeno lover." he smirked slightly and said "No we aren't tools. The Quarian, Turian, and Asari are tools, we are people. We were hired by Cerbaus, they are just to be used and tossed away."
Veetor shook his head at Jack and said "I think I will be fine, unless I get an infection." he smiled slightly and said "Thank you very much commander."
Veetor smiled shyly, not that it mattered because of his helmet and said "I'm sure you could have hurt him if you had wanted." he wanted to say she was cute, but didn't have the guts for it.
The Illusive man slowly tapped the ashes off the end of his cigarette and said "You are looking for a Scientist named Mordin Solus, he has set up a small clinic on Omega. I want you to go there and recruit him for the team, without him you will lack necessary countermeasures." he then looked over the team and said "I trust you can get it done." he then said "Joker finished his shakedown, I think you can proceed at once." there was no disguiseing that he ment 'get to it'
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Post by Edenecho on Feb 6, 2012 21:23:53 GMT -5
He laughed at what Joker said about limping over and asking, then shrugged and said,"Call her up here. Or ask her on the way to the bathroom or something, since you'd be up anyway." He shrugged again,"You changed in a way I didn't expect." He nodded slowly,"You make me sound kind of insane, saying it like that," He said jokingly."
Jack shook his head at Kai,"Whatever. Just shut the fuck up, will you? All I hear coming out of your mouth is 'I'm a big fat, racist asshole who thinks I can treat Xenos like shit and get away with it'," He said, clearly very pissed off.
"Let's hope you don't," He said, referring to him saying 'unless I get an infection'. He smiled and nodded when Veetor said 'thank you very much', and he seemed like he didn't really know what to say in responce. He was apparently one of those people who don't know how to respond to people thanking them.
"That would be fun, getting myself kicked out before we even leave the station," Orinia said jokingly.
Jack listened to what The Illusive Man said, then nodded,"Yes, Sir," He said, in response to pretty much everything that the Illusive man had just said. "Anything else, Sir?" He asked, just to make sure he didn't leave before the conversation was over.
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