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"I can talk to animals but I don't think that's very useful," Fluttershy said trying to avert her gaze once again.
"You mean as in having a conversation with them?" Garrus asked skeptically, "Like we're doing right now?" Fluttershy cringed a bit and nodded.
"That's... amazing!" Tali said as she lit up the hologram around her arm and tapped a few buttons on it, "Commander look at this." She gasped as she held out her arm to show him.
"D-did I do anything wrong?" Fluttershy whimpered as everyone was looking at the hologram.
"So that's what I've been feeling all this time," Wrex chuckled, Fluttershy looked up at the krogan with a confused expression before turning to Shepard for an explanation.
"There's a biotic signature interfering with the translator every time you speak." He told her looking amazed at the pegasus in front of him, "I think you might have natural biotic abilities that are causing this but that kind of control is even beyond what an asari matriarch could do. Is that everything you can do?"
Does Fluttershy reveal the stare? No
"N-no nothing! nope!" Shepard raised his eyebrow at Fluttershy's remark but decided to let it slide to be discussed at a later date.
"Okay then, doctor Chakwas is going to have a field day figuring out your biology." The commander chuckled, "We should be getting up to the tower since I think the council would like to see the evidence implicating one of their Spectres."
With that, the group left the embassy and moved towards the elevator that lead into the citadel tower. Fluttershy freezing for a moment as she saw the statue of a Mass Relay across from the entrance to the elevator, a hand on her withers snapping her out of it. Looking up Fluttershy could see Tali looking down at her, a faint smile visible through the shroud of her helmet encouraging her to go on.
After finally having reached the elevator Fluttershy's anxiety spiked again, she had entered elevators in manehattan before and that experience had already lurched her stomach as the device had carried her up a building, she shuddered at the idea of the speed an alien elevator would be going at. The moments the door closed Fluttershy closed her eyes and gulped, waiting for the acceleration to start...
and waited...
and waited even longer...
Opening her eyes the pegasus could see that the elevator was moving but she couldn't feel the speed it was moving at, the others seemed to be standing still or leaning against the wall with bored expressions waiting for the doors to finally open. After a couple more minutes Garrus started asking Tali about how the quarians endangered the galaxy by building the Geth, Tali shooting back a comment about how the Turians had nearly sterilized the krogan with a virus. The moment Garrus stated that that wasn't an accident Wrex got involved. Luckily before the situation could escalate the doors finally opened and the group could move up the stairs in the direction of the Councilors.
It didn't take long for the ambassador to show up and motion them to follow him to the platform where the council gave their audiences. when they arrived they found a turian, an asari, and a salarian standing across from them, the recording from the turian Spectre already playing as the group arrived shortly after ambassador Udina.
"You wanted proof? there it is." He told the councilors, getting a response from the Turian councilor.
"This evidence is irrefutable, ambassador. Saren will be stripped of his Spectre status and all efforts will be made to bring him in and answer for his crimes." Fluttershy saw Shepard shift a little at hearing that news, the sides of his lips curling up a bit as he tried suppressing an all-out smile.
"I recognized the other voice, the one speaking with Saren. Matriarch Benezia." The asari councilor said, Shepard raising an eyebrow.
"Who's that?" He asked.
"A matriarch is an asari in the final stage of their lives, they are revered for their experience and wisdom among my people." The asari councilor answered, "Benezia is a powerful biotic with a substantial following, she'll be a formidable ally to Saren."
"I'm more interested in these 'Reapers'," The salarian councilor asked after the asari finished speaking, "What do you know about them?"
Captain Anderson stepped forward to answer the question, "Only what we found in the geth data core, they're a race of advanced AI that wiped out the protheans fifty-thousand years ago."
"The geth revere them as gods and Saren is the prophet of their return," Shepard added.
"And this conduit, presumably, is what is going to bring these 'Reapers' back?" The salarian councilor asked, the commander and Captain nodding.
"Listen to yourselves, a mysterious race of machines that wiped out all life in the galaxy? Impossible! It has to be," The turian councilor said, "Where did these 'Reapers' go? Why did they vanish? How come we've found no evidence of their existence? If they were real we would've found something!"
The asari councilor sighed, "My colleague is right, you've proven that Saren has betrayed the council and we all agree that he's using the geth to search for the conduit, but we really don't know why."
"I also agree that the 'Reapers' are just a myth that Saren uses to bend the geth to his will, nothing more than a useful legend." The salarian councilor added, Shepard stepping forward to say his piece.
"So you're going to do nothing and ignore the obvious threat?!" He snarled.
"Saren is a rogue agent on the run for his life. He no longer has the rights or resources of a Spectre. The council has stripped him from his position." The turian councilor dismissed, something ambassador Udina didn't take too kindly.
"That is not good enough! He's hiding somewhere in the Traverse! Send your fleet in!"
"That could trigger a war with the Terminus systems! We won't be dragged into a galactic confrontation over a few dozen Human colonies." The turian councilor snarled back at him, Fluttershy suddenly forgot all her shyness as she heard what the turian said.
Only a dozen human colonies?! Doesn't he care about the creatures living there?!
Before anyone could react Fluttershy was hovering in front of the turian councilor looking him straight in the eyes, "How DARE YOU! Listen up mister, just because you're sitting up here in this tower doesn't mean you can just ignore the lives of all those humans and say that their lives aren't important!" She shouted into his face, "Now what do you have to say for yourself?!"
The turian councilor staggered back as the pegasus finished, Fluttershy pupils shrank as she realized what she had done.
Oh no, I used the Stare on one of the councilors!
It was as if ice had suddenly filled her veins and as fast as she had appeared before the turian she now vanished, hiding behind Tali. "If you don't want to that's okay as well." She whimpered.
"That was... interesting." The salarian councilor said as he looked at Fluttershy who was doing her best to disappear, "I must say that I'm pretty sure your species has never been encountered before, where are you from?"
"E-Equestria" Fluttershy softly said, re-telling her story with help from Shepard. The turian councilor staying suspiciously silent throughout the story.
"That is a most interesting story, though I find it hard to believe that the monument in the Presidium is a real mass relay. It has been studied many times and we've found no evidence that it functions." The asari councilor said, her Salarian colleague agreeing.
"It could be the protheans were working on a way to travel straight to the citadel before their demise and the prototype was built on your homeworld but the one on the Presidium is most definitely not functional." He told the group, "Though travel by means of only one relay is fascinating, speculation isn't going to give us any answers. For that, we are going to have to find the homeworld of the pony."
"I agree and I think I know of a way how to find that and stop Saren without having to send fleets or armies which will satisfy both the humans and the Council," The asari councilor proposed looking to her left and right at her colleagues. The turian seemed to want to object to this proposal but kept his mouth shut as he glanced at Fluttershy. The three councilors tapped something into the consoles in front of them, "Commander Shepard, please step forward."
"It is the decision of the Council that you be granted all the powers and privileges of the Special Tactics and Reconnaissance branch of the Citadel." The asari councilor started followed by the salarian one.
"Spectres are not trained but chosen. Individuals forged in the fire of service and battle; those whose actions elevate them above the rank and file."
"Spectres are an ideal, a symbol. The embodiment of courage, determination, and self-reliance. They are the right hand of the Council, instruments of our will." The asari Councilor continued again this time followed by the turian councilor who had found his voice once again.
"Spectres bear a great burden. They are protectors of galactic peace, both our first and last line of defense. The safety of the galaxy is theirs to uphold."
"You are the first human Spectre, Commander. This is a great accomplishment for you and your entire species." The asari finished.
"I'm honored councilors," Shepard told the three aliens.
"We're sending you into the traverse after Saren. He's a fugitive from justice, so you are authorized to use any means necessary to apprehend or eliminate him, we will forward any relevant files to ambassador Udina." The salarian councilor told Shepard.
"This meeting of the Council is adjourned," The asari councilor said, the group leaving the platform that was used for council meetings.
"That was incredibly reckless, Miss Fluttershy. What would we have done if the Council had thrown us out on the spot?!" The ambassador asked angrily, waiting for Fluttershy to answer...
1. I wasn't going to stand by and say nothing!
2. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done what I did
3. You weren't doing your job right!