Suits
Chapter 129
Suits
I should ask Tali for advice 78%
Luna will make do with that sword of her for the mission on the reaper, I'd rather ask how the quarians can tolerate living in their suits.
With her mind made up Dash only took the elevator on floor up to engineering where she had a chat with the two humans and little griffin that worked there. Eventually one of the two doors into engineering slid open again and Tali walked in, done with the Commander's briefing.
“Well hello there lass, I hear ya going ta be our new colleague,” Ken smiled as Tali joined them, holding out his hand, “Kenneth Donnelly, power management engineer.”
“Tali'Zorah, good to meet you.” Tali shook his hand, though she seemed reserved in her emotions. Both Gabby the human and Gabby the griffin shook her hand too after they introduced themselves. “So what are you doing here Rainbow? Are you part of the engineering team?”
“Nah that lass just likes ta get her butt kicked in our poker sessions,” Ken grinned.
“Hey! I actually won a couple rounds last time!” Rainbow tried to counter but quickly remembered that she lost the gains immediately after.
“Keep dreamin’ Rainbow,” Ken smirked as Rainbow looked back over to Tali.
“Well, I wanted to ask you a few things...” She glanced over to the others, “...Preferably in private.”
“Alright?” Tali said unsure of what to make of Dash's behaviour but going along with it regardless as they stepped away towards the mass effect core. “What is it you want to talk about?”
“I just…” Dash though for a moment about how she could start the conversation. “How can you be comfortable in your suit all the time?”
“Well, we wear them nearly all our lives. At some point you don't really think about it anymore,” Tali explained, curiously looking at Rainbow as to why the pegasus would care. “There are some reasons to get out of them in ‘clean rooms’ but those acts are usually of the more… intimate sort.” Rainbow blushed lightly after hearing that, Tali sitting down to get on the same eye level as Rainbow. “But I have to ask, why do you want to know about this?”
“I… had an accident. Well, more like I got hurt on a mission,” Dash admitted, pointing at the slight scarring visible around the edge of the undersuit. “I can’t take this thing off.”
“Keelah...” Tali gasped, Rainbow allowing her to run her hand over the scarring. “That’s horrible.”
“There might be some way to get out of it but nothing any time soon,” Dash sighed.
“I can give your armor a software upgrade to the one used in quarian suits but most additional functions would only work with the appropriate cybernetic implants,” Tali told her, typing some commands into her omni-tool which prompted a download on Dash's.
“Thanks, I really started to feel down about this stuff,” Rainbow admitted, briefly smiling in appreciation. The two sat in silence for a moment while the files transferred until Dash broke it again. “I read up on some stuff about quarians on the extranet, though there seems to not be a lot of information out there about the fleet your kind travels in.”
“Well, that comes with the isolation and the fact we don't allow many outsiders in. Most of us prefer to keep to our own and the galaxy at large seems to be content with that sentiment,” Tali sighed as the omni-tool beeped, indicating a complete transfer. “I may be able to arrange for you to stay on the fleet for a couple of weeks after the collector mission is over if you want to get the cybernetics?”
Rainbow's eyes widened slightly as, in the context of what she'd just heard, realized that was a pretty generous offer. “I… I'll need to think about it.”
“Of course, no rush on the answer. We should try surviving the collector mission first,” Tali chuckled. “But what was it you want to know about my people?”
“Well…” Rainbow thought for a moment, “The fleet consists of a lot of space ships, right? How do you keep them all running? They can't all be over three hundred years old, can they?”
“Of course not,” Tali laughed, “Most have been added over the course of the last three centuries but the liveships and some of the cruisers are still the original vessels used after the fall of Rannoch.”
“That's still insane,” Rainbow pointed out, in awe that they could keep any ship running like that. “I mean, it takes a bunch of really awesome mechanics to keep something like a ship working for that long.”
“Well thanks, my kind have become some of the best engineers due to their work on the fleet.” Tali typed some commands into her omni-tool, Rainbow seeing a lot of new values about her body showing up on hers though some remained blank due to no value being able to be measured. Tali quietly hummed as Rainbow allowed her to work in peace to install the software properly, gazing at her absent mindedly.
I wonder what they look like under those masks, though not that the suit looks ugly or anything. The swirling pattern are like the ones pegasi use at home...
Rainbow suddenly felt a slight wave of homesickness come over her but quickly squashed it, no use in being sick about something she wouldn't be able to do anything about as she returned to dreamily staring at Tali.
She's pretty good with that omni-tool...
“There, that's all I can do with software alone… Rainbow?”
And those eyes, I wonder how it it they glow like that… maybe something the helmet does?
1. Your eyes are beautiful.
2. Huh? Oh! What do all these numbers mean?
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I'd say they're well suited for each other.
I'm a simple man.
I see a Tali romance, I ship.
1 damn it! 1, I say!
I've seen plenty of Twidash fics out there. I can imagine Dash being shipped with an egghead like Tali. I'd vote 1.
...it may be the time I'm reading this or that I've seen artwork of Fluttershy as a Quarian and I ship her with Rainbow but...
The possibility of all that time alone with Tali isolated from teh rest of the galaxy on a remote fleet?
Dash is always number 1, she can ask about the numbers when less distracted. That, and maybe ajust the level caps on some of those sensors, like maximum air speed.
Thats what I was trying to thin of beforehand. Unfortunately its too late for this run.
Can Fluttershy teach Luna how to do the Wing Wave Singularity Canon trick, so that Lucan can then practice casting with wings, horn, and all four hooves?
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I suddenly have an image of Discord holding up a claw, and causing the orange sphere of the Blackstorm Singularity to appear. He waggles his eyebrows suggestively at the Reaper enemies in front of him and adds, "Now... Let's see what this does, shall we?"
Vote on the romance.
Gah! I can't remember if Tali can be romanced by FemShep or not. Voting 1, but not sure if it will pan out.
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Not in the game but there are files in ME2 that show Femshep*Tali was thought of, just never fully developed.
I don't really see Rainbow and Tali being romantically compatible.
No!
Spritz Spritz.
Bad rainbow.
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Too late~
Uh oh I don't feel like forcing romance on Rainbow at this moment.
Lesbian Dash is a cliche at this point...
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oh gods if discord was added to MEEK, then the whole story would end up just being a deusxmechina (butchered the word but meh) but it would be amusing to see what he would do in the end
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wait...... could engineering be considered a nerd thing, if so does it kind of also make it a cliche that she ends up with a nerdy pony/person?
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Engineers are cool nerds.
O Yeah! RD romance! Wait... Who is Shepard romance option?!
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Hahaaa... Brilliant pun you horrible brony. I like you
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But who is Shepards +1 ?!
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Romance
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Nerrrd-gasm
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Well Tali don't mind a threesome with Garrus and FemShepard ♡
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Really? Sweet!
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It's in their suit
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A juicy one ~♡
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Especially in spaccce!
Who is Shepards romance? Liara? Hm...
If Tali is simple we need to get her hooked as soon as possible! Forget the Reapers, this is a shipping emergency!!!