Dexivea was once again back on a ship, this time a science ship called The Inquisitor, while small in size, the ship made up for it by being filled with the best minds the Hierarchy had to offer.
The Hierarchy while known for its strength in military matters also had quite the impressive science and research teams who had never had this much new material to work with.
Dexivea was in charge of treating the two humans since there was a level of trust there in fact even Nate wouldn't attack her on sight anymore, the only turian that could be in a cell with him without him being restrained and not be attacked.
Kurt had impressed the crew by walking calmly with Dexivea as if there was nothing strange about it at all, he was still scared around other turians though and would often hide behind Dexivea legs.
Of course Nate was still dangerous and Dexivea would have to count everything she took into his cell, he would try and steal anything he could get his hands on.
Nate was cooperating for now but Dexivea knew that he was just biding his time, he had been placed in a cell with his hands cuffed behind his back.
Dexivea had surprised him by throwing a human first aid kit that had been found, of course the medical gel humans were known to use had been removed from the kit for study.
Dexivea got him released from his cuffs and pointed to the first aid kit and then to his face "Being an soldier, you should know how to use this"
Nate looked at the first aid kit, that infernal whistling from his nose was getting annoying and after a moment and to Dexivea's relief he reached for the first aid kit.
The turians outside of his cell were watching him of course, they were surprised when he grabbed his nose and placed a thin stick up one side and with a twist and a sickening crunch his nose stopped whistling.
He then after blinking the tears from his eyes used the mirror to look at his purple and red eye which was quite colourful now before he moved onto a small cut he had on his head.
Dexivea knew right away what he was trying to do, asari and salarian stitching wounds was similar after all, Dexivea did not offer to help him though.
If Nate wanted her help, he would have to ask for it and after two painful attempts at stitching his head wound closed, which with one eye swollen he found it harder to stitch close than it normally would be.
With a sigh he looked at Dexivea and sighed "Please?" he asked.
Dexivea had started to understand what certain human words meant, even if she couldn't say some of them but she learnt most of the human language by playing with Kurt and being the sweet polite boy he is, please and thank you were among the first words she learnt.
Dexivea nodded "That was difficult for you wasn't it?" she asked with a laugh.
The other turians were in awe at how well this young medic was dealing with this alien.
Dexivea sat in front of him and begun to stitch the cut on his head closed, his bright red blood staining her talons.
Nate sat in silence before he quietly said "Thank you"
Dexivea was in shock, that was the nicest Nate had ever been, he asked for help and then thanked her for it.
"There might be hope for you yet" Dexivea told him with a laugh, before she looked at the kit and held her hand out.
Nate didn't move for a moment before he handed over a small scapel.
"That's better" Dexivea said with a chuckle.
Once she left, Kurt said something to Nate and the two started to fight again, the two humans also were arguing almost daily, Nate seemed to have a problem with Kurt spending so much time around Dexivea.
Dexivea stayed out of sight but just listened, Kurt kept saying her name, he sounded happy when she heard Nate yell something back.
"Dexi si tno oyur ufckngi efdnri! Alien sundretnad? Oyur a ept nda ew ened ot cpeaes" Nate told him.
Kurt's only reaction was to cry uncontrollably before she could hear a sigh and Nate trying to calm him down again.
Dexivea really wished she could understand what was being said and if she was honest with herself the sound of Kurt crying upset her.
Kurt despite the fight he had with Nate was back to wanting to spend every day with her and since Dexivea had other duties sometimes it would be quite awhile before she could see him.
"Dexi!" he would call as soon as he saw her, he was the only one she allowed to call her that as he couldn't say her full name anyway.
Despite herself Dexivea had come to enjoy being around the puer, he found her sub harmonics funny and would try to copy them, he would fail of course but it did help him win over the scientists.
Nate would often just stare at them, Dexivea could play mind games too, so Dexivea went out of her way to spend even more time with Kurt and would allow him to walk around outside of his cell, supervised of course.
Dexivea was also gaining quite the understanding of human language from her interaction with Kurt, as the puer was showing any other turian as well as the linguistics officer different words and letters.
While showing Kurt around the ship, Dexivea took him to a star map and showed him the galaxy, she used other races homeworlds but not Palaven just in case.
Kurt had his eyes wide open and looked up at her "ehrew is Earth?" he asked.
Dexivea paused, this while was her goal she was hoping he would know but he didn't instead she asked him "Earth is your homeworld?"
Kurt just stared at her with confusion so with a sigh she continued her tour.
Human homeworld possibly called Earth, unknown location.
They made their way to the engine room which Kurt was excited for, he didn't touch anything but he was looking around with his eyes wide.
"Nate ltles me, I oclud ivle on a ishp ikle isht" he said excitedly "sujt ikle mum did......." Kurt went quiet suddenly.
Dexivea didn't understand everything he said of course but she did understand he was talking about the ship before he said something else, he sounded upset.
Dexivea looked down at the small human wondered what the Hierarchy would do if humans didn't surrender, Kurt was such a sweet boy that it was hard to believe that he would one day be capable of all the horrifying ways that his people cripple and kill.
With a heavy heart she realized that Nate was likely the only family the puer had left. From blood tests, Dexivea knew they were fraten which would explain the protective behavior of Nate and would explain the fighting between the two.
Dexivea tried to put herself in Nate's position, as difficult as that was. If she was looking after a younger fraten and aliens attacked she had to admit she would likely act the same.
She couldn't imagine the stress of that, not knowing what the aliens wanted and Dexivea also realized that while turians were honorable for the most part, Nate and Kurt had no reason to believe that.
The battle for Shanxi had now reached a fever pitch, the fleet above Shannxi had started to bomb entire city blocks from orbit.
The xeno psychologist suggested getting Nate's reaction to it, his response was not what they were hoping for and it bothered Dexivea.
"Human hurt turian now" he slowly said sadly.
A few days later his words came true, when humans retaliated by using chlorine to gas a turian base camp, killing over two hundred turians.
One Week Later
They had finally reached the Citadel and by now the Council was well aware of this new race that was fighting to the death over some irrelevant planet.
The Citadel was a massive ancient space station that was originally found by the asari before the salarians came much later and while there was many races in Council space only three species made up the Council.
The asari who were the diplomatic and had the most advanced but lacked the physical size and strength to fight on front lines and instead focused on commando teams who had hundreds of years experience and powerful biotics which every asari was capable of.
The salarians who also lacked the size and strength of other races but made up for it with intelligence and used espionage and the most complex intelligence network out of any other species.
And finally the turians who had the most powerful military in the galaxy. From fleet numbers and ground troops, only the krogan rebellions had given them any form of challenge. Until now.
What surprised all of them though was the humans were now using any thing available that would injure, cripple or kill turians, including their own bodily fluids to cause infections.
For the first time in galactic history, feces was used as a chemical weapon against another species by using the cities plumbing against the invading turians.
They turned their already sadistic traps and made them even worse and had now learnt enough about turians to use tactics and weapons designed for turian biology.
From high frequency sounds that deafened turians, to lights that was like looking into the sun, blinding any turian unlucky enough to be caught in it.
Turians were reporting that some humans were trying to fight them with whatever weapons they could find, from farming equipment, to in one case a human using nothing but turian equipment stolen from the dead.
There was also reports of a human, skinning turians of their carapace and wearing it, like a suit. This had two effects, recon equipment showed only human or turian not if a human was wearing a turian.
The other effect was this scared the turians on the ground to the point of calling them the vastator, this one human had caused so much chaos and death that there was a blackwatch unit hunting a sole human.
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There was also the unconfirmed reports of a 'forest of the dead' where turian and even some humans corpses hung from the trees
The Hierarchy had never faced a foe like this, they fought like impatient salarians who liked using asari commando like tactics and fighting on the front lines like turians.
The Hierarchy was struggling to understand this new race. These "humans" used anything at all that worked and tactics that had never been seen before.
Nate didn't resist getting out if his cell when they came to get him, he came quietly, after all he had no where to go and he knew it.
C-Sec had a team put together to escort the two humans and due to the nature of the event of first contact being made, C-Sec couldn't keep it quiet.
The docks were flooded with reporters and civilians all trying to get a look at the newcomers and a collective gasp came from the crowds when they saw the asari looking aliens.
Kurt was not restrained as such, instead he was being carried by Dexivea and would even hide his face into her neck.
Nate on the other hand, had his hands cuffed in front of him and was staring back at the floating camera's and flashing lights and of course more aliens than he had been around so far.
"Keri T'Vessa, Citadel news can I ask you some questions?" one reporter yelled out to Dexivea who ignored the question and moved past the reporters and civilians all trying to get a look.
They were led into C-Sec holding cells but this time Kurt didn't want to let go, in fact he had such a grip on her she was worried she would hurt him dislodging him.
"Dexi t'dno go please!" Kurt begged he kept looking at the other aliens watching him and was getting more and more upset.
"Let me try with the little one" came a warm voice.
Dexivea turned and saw a delegation of asari being led by Matriarch Benezia herself.
A well known asari leader who close to eight hundred years old didn't look a day over a hundred. She was known for being extremely powerful and influential.
"He is very scared and doesn't want me to leave" Dexivea explained as she stroked his head and ignored his tears wetting her neck.
Benezia smiled warmly "It would be very frightening" she said as she walked around behind Dexivea and looked into Kurt's eyes.
Dexivea looked over at Nate "Please Matriarch, his fraten is very protective and I fear this might damage the trust I have gained"
Nate at this point was going berserk, thrashing so hard and screaming, Dexivea knew enough of human language to know that he was threatening all of them if they hurt Kurt.
Benezia smiled again "I understand" she said and patted Kurt's head gently before she moved towards Nate "can he be reasoned with?" she asked.
Dexivea looked at Nate while still holding Kurt "Yes but I think he will attack anyone who goes into that cell now"
Benezia nodded, her earlier warm expression was gone and was now replaced with a determined look "Just how dangerous is he?"
Dexivea paused for a moment as Kurt was being loud near her ear "No biotics to speak of, strength greater than an asari and just as fast moving and agile, they fight with a ferocity as well" Dexivea looked at the Matriarch "he will break bones if he catches you"
Benezia nodded "I believe I can understand his distress. I wish to speak with him" she said calmly "please remove his restraints"
Dexivea paused for a moment, she had seen first hand how fast Nate could move but she never questioned those orders and opened the door.
Benezia stepped inside and stood with her hands behind her back, looking as regal as only a matriarch could and with a click the cuffs came off.
Immediately Nate rushed Benezia with a roar of rage, he had gotten halfway accross the cell before he was lifted up by biotics, this shocked him but he was still being defiant.
"I only wish to speak with you" Benezia said as she stepped closer to him "I can understand your distress, but we mean you or your fraten no harm" she said calmly as she placed a hand on his cheek "embrace eternity"
Dexivea watched as the mind meld happened, he went limb for a moment before he opened his eyes again and he was lowered to the ground.
Benezia smiled warmly at him before she started talking in that human language and it seemed like there was a debate before Benezia sighed.
"I think Nate here needs to talk to a volus for a start" she said rubbing her forehead as she left the cell "I only know the language, I did not force more information out of his mind. I am not a viloatli"
Dexivea was now very confused, even more so based on how Nate was acting which was calm but staring at them still "Why would he need to talk to a volus?" she asked.
Benezia had now walked in front of Kurt and was talking to him like he was her own pahir and just like that Kurt let go and followed Benezia into the cell.
"He thinks turians are slavers and that's why the turians attacked and why you wanted Kurt" Benezia replied as she waved goodbye to the tiny human.
To say that Dexivea was insulted was an understatement "What? Why would they think that?"
Benezia smiled sadly "Because of the orbit bombardments. They see themselves as minding their own business before being attacked by an alien race that is now trying to bomb them into surrender"
Dexivea thought about that "We just want the fighting to stop"
Benezia smiled warmly "My dear, the Hierarchy started this fight"
Dexivea couldn't believe this "I don't understand, they were trying to open a relay, that is against Council law"
Benezia shook her head "They had no way of knowing the laws and my dear you wouldn't shoot a 'puer' if it reached for a gun"
Dexivea sighed "So they won't surrender?"
Benezia smiled "Of course they will. They just need to know of the wider galactic community first"
Dexivea couldn't believe this, of course the asari would take that view "The Hierarchy wants them as a client race" she admitted quietly.
Benezia laughed "My dear, the humans are too individualistic, some may join the Hierarchy, others will not. They are not the volus, they are quite capable of defending themselves and you have not defeated their main fleet"
That news shocked Dexivea "How.....?"
Benezia smiled sadly again "Nate thinks help is on the way, when I told him their fleet was already defeated he replied with laughter"
Dexivea didn't like the sound of that "If that's the case why haven't we seen their reinforcements yet?"
Benezia shook her head "That I do not know"
Dexivea looked over at Kurt "Why was he so scared?"
Benezia looked down at her feet "He thinks your going to either sell him or get rid of him"
Dexivea could feel herself getting angry "Why would he think that?"
Benezia looked Dexivea in the eyes "Nate has been trying to get Kurt not to be so attached to you. He told him that you are not his friend and that crying you heard from Kurt, was him asking you why he can't be your friend"
Dexivea was stunned and felt a rage building at Nate, Dexivea had been nothing but professional and kind to both of them.
Benezia placed a hand on her shoulder "Some thoughts can not remain hidden, his fear for his brother is one of them, Nate is terrified he has been the sole guardian of Kurt for three years and he is only nineteen raising a six year old now thinks he failed his brother and that both of them are going to die"
Dexivea looked at her feet "So there is nothing I can do?" she couldn't understand why she hated them looking at her like that.
Benezia smiled warmly "Just keep doing what your doing Nate will learn the truth in time"
After Benezia left, Dexivea found herself sitting at a bar drinking alone.
The thought of little Kurt being so scared of losing her when he had already lost so much bothered her, she remembers when she first saw him terrified throwing bottles at her and now he was so scared of losing her he didn't want to let her go.
She was still thinking about the little noises he made trying to copy her sub harmonics when she got a call.
C-Sec had been broken into and Kurt was gone.
Dexivea ran as fast as her legs would carry her, she never should have left for a break. She knew they were safer around her and now Kurt was missing.
"What happened?" she asked.
"Worried about your pet pyjak?" a younger turian said.
Dexivea snarled loudly with her sub harmonics before looking away from that turian who backed away after that display.
Dexivea had become quite agitated by the term pyjak when referring to humans. It seemed like such a harsh racial insult to her as humans were evolved primates and calling them a pyjak diminished them in her eyes.
"A batarian broke in here and messed with the controls, both cells opened and the smaller alien was taken, the bigger one had batarian blood on it's hands" another C-Sec guard explained.
Dexivea looked at the cells and saw a spot of red blood in Kurt's cell, Dexivea made a vow then and there that this batarian would feel her talons.
"Nate would not have gone down without a fight" Dexivea explained.
"The bigger one? Yeah that's why we know what happened in here" the asari C-Sec guard said pointing to Nate's cell "he managed to get the fire alarms sounded, before he was knocked out. He is going to be like a enraged krogan when he wakes up"
Dexivea looked down at Logan whose face was now black and blue "I will find him, I swear it"
Dexivea had a few favors in C-Sec and other elements around the Citadel, she was on the right track, after she blackmailed a hacker she knew, her silence for his aid in tracking down Kurt.
C-Sec was in a full panic, this was a diplomatic relations worst case scenario so every C-Sec agent was now looking for the batarian and the human child.
Batarians were sometimes seen as criminals and raiders who were always looking for new slaves, preferably from other species.
The hacker had found them in the wards, the batarian had struggling and lost his grip on Kurt who ran as fast as he could screaming for Dexivea, failing that he ran straight to the most familiar what he thought was a dinosaur was in fact a massive krogan.
The krogan stood over seven foot tall and weighed over six hundred pounds of solid muscle and could survive almost anything thrown at him, while not invincible they could regenerate from wounds that would kill other species in seconds.
The krogan looked down at the whelp before looking back up at the batarian "I don't think the pup wants to go anywhere with you"
The batarian snarled at the krogan "Not your fight krogan"
The old krogan stood up from the bench he was sitting on and gently pushed Kurt behind him "It is now" he said simply.
The batarian didn't know when to quit and reached for his gun "I am Drethar Ramkoros and you are just some Council mistake"
The krogan snarled "And I am Urdnot Wrex and the pup is going nowhere with you. Council calls krogan monsters but still let's scum like you stay here"
Kurt saw Dexivea running towards them and screaming "Dexi!"
Drethar had enough time to turn his head and saw something that made his blood run cold, a enraged turian running towards him, mandibles open and leaning forward as the enraged female turian ran accross the docks.
Wrex gently picked up Kurt and turned his face away from the carnage that was about to unfold "You don't need to see this pup"
With a roar Dexivea tackled the batarian into the water fountain, landing on top of him and while she screeched like a madwoman she tore into the batarian with her somewhat blunted talons.
It took five C-Sec agents to drag her from the batarians body, Dexivea and the shallow water in the fountain was filled with batarian blood.
Dexivea was panting and snarling like a wild animal, still staring at the corpse as if daring it to move again when she felt tiny arms wrap around her leg, looking down she saw Kurt, unbothered by the blood covering her.
Kurt was now hugging Dexivea as hard as he could "Dexi, glyu alien reitd to akte me ywaa" he said crying loudly.
Dexivea lifted him up and rested her forehead against Kurt's before she used her sub harmonics to soothe him and while he couldn't understand what she was saying but the rumbling sound in his chest relaxed him and would often even put him to sleep.
"Dino asvde me" he said pointing to Wrex and looking at him.
Dexivea looked over at Wrex "He says thank you"
"Your welcome pup" Wrex said before seeing C-Sec rushing towards them "I better go, a krogan around a corpse raises more questions than I care to answer right now"
Dexivea thanked him again herself and carried Kurt back to C-Sec who were now securing the area.
Dexivea was glad she was able to find him and when Nate saw Kurt he ran to the edge of his cell.
Dexivea placed Kurt into Nate's cell, which was against the rules but she knew they needed it. The two fraten hugged each other while Nate checked Kurt for injuries.
"Thank you Dexivea" Nate said and held out his hand before he must of realized that Dexivea probably wouldn't know what it meant so he grabbed her hand and shook it "human rgetegin" he explained.
Few days later.
Dexivea was sitting in Nate's cell just chatting with him, the two had gained a respect for each other and by now due to the work of Benezia and other asari with other human prisoners, translators now could translate english although humans on Shanxi just used a different dialect to stop spies.
Nate was going to see a volus later in the day, Dexivea had organized that since he needed a clearer picture of the Hierarchy.
It was then, the news came in that General Williams had surrendered and Dexivea looked over at Nate "You think this will end the fighting?"
Nate was in shock and he shook his head "Better to die on your feet than live on your knees"
Dexivea paused before she asked her next question "What would make humans accept the Hierarchy?"
Nate looked back at her "What would it take for my species to be what? Slaves? Pets for some alien empire? Second class citizens at best"
Dexivea slammed her fist into the table "We are not slavers"
Nate sighed softly and looked at her "I can't think of any reason why turians would be kind to humans even if we were to join, we would be at best second class citizens"
Dexivea was puzzled "Why do you think turians would mistreat your kind if you were to join the Hierarchy?"
Nate laughed out loud at that "Because we have been kicking your ass for weeks now and when the fleet gets here from Earth is when the real show begins"
Dexivea wanted to argue but find she couldn't find the energy to debate that point.
The fighting did slow down with only pockets of resistance although the resistance was now far more savage and ruthless than before.
Turian news shows with so called experts were now claiming humans on Shanxi were now joining the Hierarchy and that with time humans would be a excellent client race after training of course and they even had some ceremony welcoming those who did join.
Dexivea was watching the ceremony with Nate who looked disgusted with the humans "Traitors every one of them" Nate had told her more than once.
While Nate no longer viewed turians as slavers he claimed the Hierarchy reminds him of ancient Rome, Dexivea was not able to get an answer to that has the vid screen with the so called experts claiming victory over humanity.
"Human fleet has been spotted at the human colony of Shanxi, the reports indicate the turian fleet in orbit has..... been killed in action" the reporter was in shock, his panel of guests who were just moments ago claiming victory.
"Reports indicate the humans used a large fleet with ships that have never been seen before" the reporter was at a loss for words "this is a dark day for the Hierarchy"
Nate however was jumping for joy and laughing "Guess these pyjaks still have some things to teach you huh?"