Chapter 15: Family gets bigger again
“Children and you are mutants.”
Those were the few words that Mordin had told Rick when he ca to the family ho to give the results from the tests the children and the man had done. Jane, Ashley and of course Miranda and Jennifer were present as it concerns them too.
“Okay…” Rick said, waiting for more and a bit worried.
“What do you an my girl is a mutant?!” Jennifer asked angrily.
“Genes had mutated.” replied the Salarian.
“Mordin, please, get to the point. What kind of mutation are you talking about here? Are the children's lives in danger? Do I have to be a guinea pig for them to be alright?”
“Noooooo! Everything fine. Good mutation.” quickly dismissed Mordin.
“aning?” Miranda asked, getting impatient.
“Rick natural biotic, like Asari. Children inherited genes.”
That revelation shocked everyone around the coffee table. Even Rick himself. The idea that had crossed his mind was that Sandra had sohow inherited his biotics, that’s why he had taken the test too. Never in a million years did he think that it would be because he was a natural biotic.
“Wait, that makes no sense. I can’t be a natural biotic, I was exposed to eezo because my mom was working on a ship.”
“Your mother exposed before you. Shepard proof of that. Eezo must have changed mother’s womb. Mutated DNA. Miracle.”
“... Are there any side effects? Others…”
“None detected so far.”
“... And all my descendants would be natural biotic too?”
“Yes.”
“Holy shit.” he said as he brought his hand to his mouth.
“Isn’t it good?” Asked Ashley.
“For humanity, yes. Family no.” replied Mordin.
“What do you an?”
“People would kidnap them for experintation or to breed biotics, Ash. Can you imagine what a man like TIM would do with this information?” answered Rick.
“Like hell that would…”
“I know, lover! I know. No way in hell. But we need to keep quiet about this… Mordin are you sure all my descendants will be biotics?”
“Of course. Offended you think otherwise.”
“Why didn’t Arianna and Adam have any display of their biotics then? Why only Sandra?” questioned Jane.
“Situation perhaps? Protected herself from water on reflex.” offered the Salarian as an explanation.
“Since we’re natural biotics. We don’t need a bio amp, right?” Rick asked and Mordin nodded in affirmation. “What about ? I have an L5n.”
“Possibly limits true biotics capabilities. Also explains fast adaptability of it.”
“Shut up, so Dickhead is even more powerful in reality?” Jennifer wondered aloud.
“Yes.”
“Is that… Is that why I survived when we escaped the Collector’s base?”
“Probably. L3 overloaded, Natural ability took over.”
No one knew what to say. That was such a big revelation that they didn’t know quite what to think.
“What if… I get my implant removed?”
“Dangerous. In case of success, significant increase in biotic capabilities. Rehabilitation required though.”
“You’re not seriously thinking about it?” Jane asked in worry.
“I am. How would they learn to...”
“Liara is a natural biotic, she could…”
“But an Asari. Not a human.”
“There is one thing I don’t understand. How can it be hereditary? Eezo is not sothing organic.” said Ashley.
“No idea.” replied the Salarian.
“Can’t it be both? Organic and non-organic? I an the Eezo nodules grow, if they were purely non-organic, that wouldn’t be possible, no?” Rick ventured.
“True. Further tests required.”
“...Okay… I’ll…I’ll get my business in order and I’ll do those tests.”
“Are you really going to do it?” asked Jane.
“I can’t let an unknown like that alone. Not when the children are concerned.”
Raising up from his seat, Rick went towards the children’s playroom to indulge the urge he had to hug them.
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Like the previous year, the first Saturday of the second sester was the day of the season finale of Mass Effect. Once again Kahlee allowed the student to use all the theater room and communal room to watch the episode. The difference this ti was the food available for them.
Just as Rick expected, the popularity of the crew mbers were even more divided. Jane was still in the lead by a wide margin but second place was disputed between Garrus and Jennifer. What wasn’t expected was his raise in popularity reaching fourth place. The only explanation he had was the way he had dealt with his nightmares, showing that he wasn’t just an asshole but a broken man not coping very well. That and both his show of loyalty towards Tali and working together with Jennifer despite the rocky start. After that everyone was more or less even. The most hilarious scenes so far was Jane waking up naked on top of Rick, Jane Cracking Rick’s helt when he fed her and at the very top Jane training her biotic for the very first ti. The best action scenes were the mission on Horizon, then on the derelict Reaper and finally in first position, the Collector’s ship.
Rick knew that the Collector’s ship would take first place at this point since that’s when he revealed the use of biotics with legs. The situation was the most dire and he nearly died. It was also a mont of growth for Jennifer. After tonight however, the first place would go to the Collector’s base mission. He was sure of that.
The first episode was about the rescue of Act!Helena and her N7 team. It was a really gory episode and the public for the first ti had seen Act!Rick at his worst because of the captured children. That was because of them that plenty of people in the chat cheered Act!Rick when he completely and ruthlessly destroyed the slavers. His fury for the innocent kids had resonated with the public and he earned so more fans. They saw a new side of him that they had never witnessed before. A ‘good bad side’ was the term employed by a user on the chat. There were more cheers when Act!Samara told about hers and Act!Rick’s last mission together to Act!Jane. Raping children was a big no no, no matter the species you belong to. Finally the episode ended with Act!Rick dropping a drunken Act!Jane like a potato sack on her bed.
“That’s not how I rember it.” Jennifer said.
“You weren’t there, the hell you rember.” replied Rick.
“I don’t rember you going back to your room afterwards. So, did you two fuck or not?”
“Not your business. And even if it was, I wouldn’t tell you and I wouldn’t show it on screen. I didn’t show my ti with your wife nor my ti with Tali. there was no reason to show my ti with Jane if ti there was.”
“Party pooper.”
“Want to show our ti in the next season?”
“...”
“That’s what I thought.”
Profiting from the bathroom break, Rick looked at the chat. People were not indifferent about a free EDI. They were either horrified of her or loved her humor. From ti to ti, the with Joker’s face popped up as a response to a post soone made and Rick got the impression that the will not die anyti soon. That wasn’t the only one that had been created. EDI’s ‘That was a joke’ had already beco a and had begun to trend. The most popular so far was Jane’s ‘This is Commander Shepard and this is my favorite store of the Citadel’ embarrassing her to no end.
With the break over, the season finale began with the briefing of the mission where Act!Rick’s intellect is shown. The subsequents scenes were pure action between Act!Joker piloting the Normandy (in a way that made the people realize that he was the best pilot around), the fight with a drone and finally the one-shooting of a Collector ship. The infiltration of the Collector’s base was split between Act!Jane’s side and the rest of the crew.
Rick couldn’t just show Act!Jane’s side, not when everyone fought like mad to create a diversion. He did the sa thing when the crew was splitted again. The fast paced orchestral music (one for the infiltration phase and one for the diversion after the teams reunited) had chard the viewers and many were already asking for the title of the tracks, too impatient to wait for Rick to release it.
“[°Rick
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