Mass effect Demi-humas

Chapter 4

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.