Questioning the Past is Never a good thing.

Arcturus Station, 2184 CE, Two years before Reaper Invasion

"So any real reason as to why I am wearing this god forsaken collar and this bloody uniform? Last time I checked I hated these damn things...the collar on the other hand is just to damn kinky for me...unless were in my bedroom and and I brought a pair of handcuffs." I said grinning at my liaison officer which in return scoffed in annoyance at my antics and gave me my own one-finger salute before throwing me a data-pad at my head which thankfully caught the pad with my teeth like a well trained dog, would be wagging my tail if I had one, and be begging for a treat but knowing what would happen I rather keep my perfect number of teeth intact and still in my head. Returning the salute back to her I look at the pad and what I saw made me wish it was Christmas day and that what I was holding in my hands was the greatest gift I have ever received.

Requisitioned per Orders of Admiral Hacket:

x5 Crates of Thermal Clips (Bulk)

x5 Crates of M.R.E. (Bulk)

x5 Crates of Grenades (Bulk and Variety)

x5 Crates of Medi-Gel (Bulk and Variety)

x1 Old Earth iPod Charger Station (Micro station) (Give to Zidane)

x1 Polycrystalline-Composite Combat Shield (Give to Zidane)

x2 N7 Valkyrie Assault Rifles

x1 N7 Typhoon Light Machine Gun 'I call Dibs'

x2 M-15 Vindicator Assault Rifles

x5 M-4 Shuriken Machine Pistol

x3 M-3 Predator Heavy Pistol

x2 M-6 Carnifex Hand Cannon 'Also Dibs'

x4 M-23 Katana Shotgun

x1 N7 Piranha Assault Shotgun 'And also Dibs'

x2 M-92 Mantis Sniper Rifle

x2 M-97 Viper Semi-Automatic Sniper Rifle

x1 M-98 Widow Anti-Material Sniper Rifle 'Aka Widow Maker, Also Dibs'

After staring over the list of arms and supplies I nearly squeed in joy for half the crap me and my 'squad' were going to be retrieving and using when out in the field, but when I saw that M-98 on the data-pad I literally squeed out in joy and bear hugged my liaison for giving me the best gift ever. "Oh thank you for this gift Mrs. Sanders I will never doubt your word or your incredibly crude sense of humor ever again! Unless of course you plan to leave me to dry than you can take that data-pad of yours and sho-" before I have a chance to finish my verbal threat of stuffing that pad up her ass, my body seizes up and falls over in a heap of withering flesh and the occasional curse word flying out of my mouth.

"It is best if you keep quiet Zidane, you are already on thin ice and anymore of your shenanigans and I will keep a hold on this button until you pass out from both exhaustion and electrocution, do you understand me?"

"Oh go shove that switch up your-" and once again before I finish my threat of taking that button and placing up the hole that never sees the light of day, I get shocked but this time I start rolling around the metal grating in pain. And on another note, rolling on the floor made of metal while getting shocked is never the smartest idea ever.

"Are we done acting like a bastard that hates everything?" said Khalee Sanders, my answer was a middle finger as soon as she stops pushing the button, her response was a deep sigh before walking out of my cramp room leaving me alone to my thoughts.

'Owwww......owwwwww........owwwwwwwww.......owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...ow....hate you...'

And before I have a chance to get off the floor and finally get some rest after being shocked twice and dragged here, Sanders returns back to my room and drops another data-pad onto my head which I fail to catch it only for it to land squarely on my face, inflicting no pain but causing a great amount of annoyance to me.

"Read this and get ready to move out in 15 minutes, you might as well put your armor on, and by the way don't get yourself killed now, hate to bring you back only for you to die to earlier."

"Oh fuck you....bitch...ugh I hate you so much now..." I said while pulling myself off the floor and towards my armor rack which is currently hanging by my bed, seems perfect enough place for it to be stored since it will be the first thing I see next time my ass needs to be alerted for a mission...perfect...

Pulling on my old armor I recognize it as the prototype T5-V Battlesuit, except I painted over its normal colors with my own signature colors, Primary and Secondary White with Silver Camouflage, and just for added fun I tuned the lights of my armor to whatever I am currently feeling, which is currently red for pissed off.

Earth Systems Alliance Reaper Squad Delta

Name: Roran Zidane

Rank: Lt. Commander

Squad Position: Meat Shield

Species: Human

Class: Guardian

Status: Alive: Traitor/Criminal

Gender: Male

Name: Katherine Jerricho

Rank: Sgt. Second Class

Squad Position: Sniper/Spotter

Species: Human

Class: Infiltrator

Status: Alive: Recent Recovery from Geth Ambush

Gender: Female

Name: Liselle Keo'Mennau

Rank: Lt. Grade Two

Squad Position: Biotic Reaver

Species: Asari

Class: Adept

Status: Alive: Hates Anything that tries to kill her.

Gender: ?

Name: Hilo'Jaa vas Idenna

Rank: Chief Engineer

Squad Position: Hacker/ Sapper

Species: Quarian

Class: Engineer

Status: Alive: Tech Savant

Gender: Female

Name: Krusk Brahat

Rank: Private

Squad Position: Riflemen

Species: Batarian

Class: Soldier

Status: Alive: Criminal

Gender: Male

After looking it over while strapping on my old armor, which still fits like a latex glove to me, I scramble out of my room and towards what I hoped was the squad meeting room, I was partially right.

"Good to see you here Operative Zidane, we have been waiting a while for your presence and now that you are here we can begin with Operation: Snowblind. Zidane I want you and your squad to infiltrate the Cerberus facility and retrieve any and all reaper artifacts that they have in the research labs. The location of this mission is on Noveria. Good luck." Admiral Hacket said before giving me a salute, myself giving him one back before turning around and heading toward the shuttle bay, my day keeps going from bad to worse, and soon to total shitstorm.

Canterlot Palace, Main Hall, Midnight

It has been only two hours since I shield slapped Shining Armor and what came after that was funny as hell for me. Discord was laughing his ass off, the party guests were shocked that a statue came to life and slapped the captain of the guard, and basically shook off a dozen arrows as if it was nothing. But more importantly was the fact that I still heard Discord laughing in my head as I thought I would lose that crazy bastards laughter as soon as I turned to a meatbag again. After I slapped him I gave him my real half-assed apology and he didn't understand a few words that I said to him, that being that half the things I said was in German and it was funny as hell to see me talk like a crazy German. After our little detour and talk I was led away not in chains but in a magic bubble that lifted me off the ground and off we went into the palace.

In retrospect I expected everything to be exploding with colors since everything I see now is beyond color to me, it seems like someone took the color contrast on an old television set and cranked that shit to full blast, even the softest of colors were slightly blinding to me, but thankfully my visor was enough to dull everything down to grey scale. Thank god for polarized visors or else I would have been blinded by these colors, or worse started to enjoy the frilly colors.

'So tell me again Roran why you are going to be willingly talking about your past to the same ponies that locked me up in this statue? I mean look at them! They are barely come up to your chest let alone be able to do anything to you!'

'Well they are ponies and when I was alive last time I checked ponies were somewhat small...but this is just fucking crazy. Techno-colored ponies is one thing, but ponies with wings, horns, ponies with wings and horns, what the hell have I done to deserve this insanity?'

'*cough cough*'

'Oh yea...I had to deal with the god of insanity for four thousand years....that makes perfect sense.'

'You still didn't answer my question as to why you willingly going with them and answering their questions.'

'Yea and? It's not like they are gonna understand anything that I am going to be telling them, and lord forbid that they do understand it what could possibly happen? The pink one is fucking crazy and looks like she drank an entire canister of Hallex, the yellow one is so fucking afraid of me that if I just wave at her she would faint, the white small one is just eying me...and I wish she wasn't..., the purple one is staring at me and seems to be taking notes so no harm no foul, the orange and cyan pair are just watching me for any sign of danger. Like those two will detect the ten grenades strapped to my side canisters, the pistol on my right hip pocket, the machine pistol on my left hip pocket, hell I doubt they even think I have any weapons besides my fucking Typhoon that the large white one is levitating beside her...'

'So do you even have a plan than?'

'Come back to me in like ten minutes, if I don't have a plan distract them.'

'You do know that I am still in the statue right?'

'Yeah I know...I just wanted to say that in case you somehow got free.'

While me and Discord were talking about how to go through this half-assed plan of mine all of them seem to be looking at me at the same time when I walked into the door head first. All of them seem to be thinking that I am having trouble adjusting to being alive again except that Celestia was listening in to my private mind chat with Discord and he didn't even bother to tell me that she was tuning in on us.

"So when were you going to tell me Sir Roran that you were still armed?"

'Oh shit how did she find out?'

'I can read minds Sir Roran, and it is within your best interests that you hand those over while you still can.'

'Fine...but I want those back when we are done, I still have to go back into those caves to clear out any other Reaper forces that are still alive. I am positive that Banshee was not alone done there.'

'Alright, you have a deal, but you must tell us everything than.'

'Yea....everything.....perfect.'

"Well...ladies. I was not not entirely true about being disarmed by Captain Shining fool over there. And since your princess here found out I was still carrying my tools of the trade with me, I will now disarm myself now." as I said that I took off my grenade bandolier and tossed it over to a guard standing near the door who was messing with one of the pins who earned himself a slap upside the head by me.

"Don't play with that grenade guard, if you had pulled that pin than everything within eight meters would have been killed or maimed by the explosive blast and shrapnel." He got a stern glare by Celestia for nearly killing all of them and a slight chuckle from me since I knew that would have just drained my shields by 50%, everyone else would be dead if I hadn't had stopped it.

Taking off my Talon pistol I handed it to another guard as he gripped the trigger guard with his teeth and the barrel was pointing at his neck to which I just sighed loudly through my helmet's speaker system as I took out my Tempest SMG and handed that to the same guard holding my grenades, he simply took it and placed it on his back. Moving my hands behind my back they all took a step back and was prepared for the worst as I pulled out my Piranha and placed it near Celestia who simply took it within her strange wavering mane along with my Javelin sniper rifle, I will surely miss that piece of lethal Geth equipment and the last thing to be taken from me was my monomolecular sword that I kept in its sheath on my left hip, and that was being examined by Shining Armor who has taken a quick liking to it as he saw the designs on the blade and sheath.

"Just don't cut yourself with that blade Shining otherwise that wound won't close and you will bleed out." He ignored me completely when he accidentally tried to grip it with magic and he fumbled it as the blade cut deep into his right fore hoof and he was bleeding out like a fish that was freshly gutted. "Told you idiot...now I got to patch you up."

Rushing to his side I quickly apply a layer of medi-gel over his wound and let it attach itself to his fur as the bleeding stopped, and with a sigh I get back to the door and opened it with a quick push of my hands as everything within the throne room went gravely silent as everyone inside turned to look at me. "Oh...shit..." those two words sent everything into chaos as I clearly heard Discord laughing again inside my head. 'Shut it Discord before I break my foot off in your ass.'

"Everypony calm down please, this person is a guest of honor here so treat him as one and not as a monster. So please go back to what you were previously doing and continue on." At least this princess has authority over her people otherwise I would have been met with a fate of an angry mob or worse a massive ass witch hunt. The loud shuffling of hooves on tile was my only warning as I saw a white unicorn with blonde hair along with two guards stormed into the room and all three stared up at me, expecting a pony to be the one causing the disturbance not a giant.

"Okay before this gets out of hand I am not a threat to any of you ponies as long as you don't try to threaten me in any way...as of that go on to your duties." Waving my hand at them some of them immediately ran off as a few stayed to watch me as I strode by them with liquid grace with an occasional stumble as I try to get used to walking after years of being stiff as hell.

"My little ponies I wish we can talk not but it is late into the night and I need to rest for tomorrow morning will be a very busy day for all of us. Twilight please lead your friends to their rooms for the night, it is in the same wing where you used to stay when you were my private student, as for you Roran..."

"Just place me far from everyone...I prefer solitude and silence." I usually slept alone when I was with my squad or with my group of soldiers in the war, I always slept far from the group or in the wrecked remains of a sentry tower since I was always the first one to wake up on the drop of a pin or a tip of a hat.

"...you will be staying with me in my royal chambers except that you will be sleeping in the study chambers." 'Oh shit...erm....uhh...brain think of something quick! I can not sleep in the same room as royalty, especially if that royalty is a pony...hell...I slept with alot of different alien races but this...this is....aww fuck what was that word again...'

"And do not object to it or I would have you placed in the dungeons until the sun rises. Those are your options."

"Than you should know my answer...I will be heading to the dungeons alone." I said through my helmet and if she could see into it I was giving her a smug grin of victory as I could barely see her lips twitch as she was defeated. I may be a soldier but my past life was pretty fucking crazy as hell cause I got around with the ladies of the galaxy...I knew exactly what to say or what to do to gain their respect and trust...except for Katherine that bitch be crazy.

With what I said alone I was quickly escorted to the dungeons and locked within one of the large cells that were meant for something large like a Brute or an Atlas but at least I was alone now. Taking a look at my room I saw that it was mostly empty except for a bucket, a hammock made of moldy hay and torn cloth, and from my suit's exterior sensors it was cold as fuck. "At least they gave me a bed to sleep in..but I rather keep my armor on...fucking 30degrees in here."

Canterlot Palace, Dungeons, Morning

The very next morning the sun shone brightly into my cell as the light entered my visor and with how high I polarized that shit it was like someone took my face and placed it over a roaring fire trying to melt it off. Turning in my hammock I heard someone knocking on my cell and turning around I saw the purple unicorn from last night waiting for me to get up, in which I did but in a slow manner since they still hold almost all of my weapons beside my omni-blade, omni-shield, and my biotic and tech powers.

"So...Mr. Zidane...before we go to the dinning hall I have a question to ask you...if you would be so kindly to answer it." she said timidly since she saw that I was capable of moving extremely fast within short distances and being able to also teleport to my targets within visual range.

"Yea...since I am in a cage and all of my arms currently being held god knows where being looked over which is a very terrible idea."

"And why is it a bad idea to look over your weapons?" my god is this girl daft or just terrible with ancient tools?

"Because I rigged all of them to explode if someone kept tampering with it to many times trying to get it to work properly that is why. I can't trust any of you as far as I can throw you...and since I haven't been able to throw any of you I can't trust any of you. So it is within your peoples best interest to leave my weapons alone before they end up as burning cinders or with missing limbs." By hearing of what I just said of what could possibly happen to whoever was looking over my guns and grenades she gasped loudly and galloped of to Satan knows where. "So I guess I just stay in here all morning than? Alright that's just cool than.......fucking ponies..."

After ten minutes of sitting in the cell playing a game of minesweeper I heard the sounds of more hooves on cobblestone before the cell was thrown open and that I was levitated out by a pissed off pega-corn...thing...whatever the fuck they are. "They tampered with my guns didn't they?" My answer was a deep sigh before getting dropped onto the floor.

"You should be glad that they listened to Twilight Sparkle before they tried to take them apart, maybe a little warning of what would happen with your weapons before anything else alright?"

"Yea right, serves them right for messing with them, I did not give them permission to tamper and dis-assemble them did I know? No I did not so if you tried that again I will not tell of what could happen, and if you try to take my armor off without my permission this will get ugly real fast so just take me to the dinning hall already before I start talking to Discord again since he is the only company that seems to listen to me." I said while flicking my right hand at her and creating a biotic field around myself as the two guards accompanying Celestia were shocked that I was capable of creating a force field with little concentration while Celestia herself was somewhat grinning at me...that grin scares the shit out of me.

After convincing the guards that I was not a threat they let me go and we approached the dinning hall an hour late as most ponies has started to eat without us but as soon as we entered they all stopped and bowed before her. I simply watched and laughed at one of their servants as he fell over with a bucket filled with cold water fell over him and ruined his attire and it was a good thing I turned off my speaker system or otherwise everyone would have heard that loud ass laughter. "What is so funny Roran?"

"Oh nothing...nothing its just that I realized that none of you know anything about me and since I had time to study you nine somewhat with ease since being a statue means that nobody would expect a statue to be watching and listening. I know that you Twilight Sparkle....from what I heard and saw that you are a top student for Celestia, you Applejack are a hard working apple farmer, Rainbow Dash I can guess is some sort of...stunt devil? Fluttershy hmmmmm an animal doctor perhaps. Pinkie Pie I can guess is a party planner of all kinds as Rarity you are a fashion designer. Am I not correct?" I said while acting like I was cleaning out my finger nails.

The looks on their faces was beyond fucking priceless, their jaws hanging as I said each of their profession with ease and that I knew all of their names, even more shocking was that I knew about them because of the way they carry themselves, the way they talk, and the way the sound.

The next person...well pony to speak was the white unicorn named Rarity who was eying my armor with a stare that means that she was rather intrigued about it or was wondering what it was made out of. "Mr. Zidane, I am sure that you are wondering about so many things but I have to ask you, what are you wearing and what is it made out of?" Oh boy, she had to ask about my armor...

"Well...I am wearing body armor, and what it is made out of is classified ma'am." I said while standing at attention with my arms behind my back. She gave me the stare that said 'Oh no you didn't just pass my question' and in response I slightly lowered the tint on my visor so they all can see my eyes and to them all they saw that my eyes were nothing more than two red orbs staring back at them with malice and boredom. "Anyone else have a question to ask me?"

"Yea I have one!" my god the pink demon that can defy gravity is talking..."Do you like parties?" Oh thank god...I thought she was gonna ask if she can have some of that purple liquid that I have stored on my hip. Note to self: Do not give pink pony any Hallex, fear for what she will do once she has it in her system could mean end of the world again.

"Yes, I do like parties, and it all depends on the party and the mood I currently am in." I saw her hair and tail deflate to complete straightness before going back to its poofy norm, another thing to ask her when I get the spare time...

Next up was Rainbow Dash "So...how awesome are you Zidane?" Oh yea, I am loving this pegasus already, I can just tell we are going to be the best of friends already. "Awesome enough to do this." as I said that I grabbed the nearest potted plant and chucked that fucker into the air while hitting it with incineration tech and as it was on fire I than hit it with a cryo blast and the resulting tech explosion was pretty to me but to the ponies that saw that thought that I just used magic and made it explode by the two opposite elemental's tearing each other apart. The faces that all of them had was beyond amusing as it was like teaching a krogan how to properly kill a geth trooper by blowing its head off with disruption rounds. Basically it was pretty easy and I didn't have to worry about getting chucked out of a window for disappointing them. The only sound I heard was a certain cyan pegasus going "Wow" and I smirked under the helmet and said "Told you I am awesome."

"Anybody else have a question to ask me?" I asked while raising a small ass tea cup to my helmet, placed a straw into the tea, placed that straw into an emergency induction port, and took cautious sips of the drink until I realized that it was herbal green tea, a tea that reminds of me of my past on Luna Base that I rather want to forget. As I was taking a sip I swore that every single pony was looking at me to see if I would remove my helmet to drink but alot of them sighed in disappointment as they saw the straw and the small opening in my helmet, their sad sighs brought smiles to my heart, if it wasn't already destroyed and replaced with an augmented one.

After a while of them staring at me as if I just broke some sort of universal law by drinking tea with a straw while wearing a helmet was over, and oddly the silence was enough for me to make a coughing sound to get them to stop staring until finally the yellow one seemed to finally have the guts to speak up. "Umm...Mr. ....Mr. Zidane....do..do you like animals?" really now? She was that nervous to ask a simple question like that? My god if she met my sister those two would have been the best of friends without even asking each other to be friends. With a deep sigh that might have meant 'fuck off and leave me alone' she lowered her head and hid behind her mane but she stopped when I waved a hand at her "Yes, I do like animals, I prefer the company of a cat or dog since both are loyal and adorable...next to birds." In truth I love cats, those cute eyes, the soft fur, the fact that they purr loud enough from one room to be heard into the next one is amazing enough, but the fact that they can jump from the floor to the kitchen counter was what really got me to love them, besides the fact that they kept eating all the rats and mice that tried to eat my cheese that I left in the box near my rifle rack.

"Roran I have a few questions if you are willing to answer them" Oh great...the egghead...and I didn't even need to figure that one out when Twilight pulled out a pair of glasses and was levitating a large empty notebook and a quill and ink next to her. This was gonna be a long ass day of questions for me and I know some of my thoughts can be heard by Celestia or Discord...at least Discord is not an asshole with my thoughts...except for the time I told him about my 72 hour Hallex trip...that shit was intense.

"Ask away but if you ask certain questions I will not answer them...so ask away." I crossed my arms after cracking an apple in half and sliding the halves into the mouthpiece and sealed it shut.

"Where were you born?"

"I was born on the moon, in the Hospital 'Pale Hope'." My answer was greeted by looks of disbelief, blank stares, and one pony had the balls to cough horseapples. "If you don't believe me than I guess I have to show you my birth certificate than." And with that I tapped my omni-tool open and scrolled to my profile and pulled up a hologram of my self and it showed of exactly where I was born. The looks on their face that I just proved them wrong and the fact that they are looking at something that appeared out of a glove was even more mind blowing.

"Okay than..." *scribbling down notes* "You said you were a soldier...of what nation?" Oh fuck. 'Damn it mare why did you have to ask that question!'

"Well...if you must ask that...I would have said no and kept on going but since I made an agreement with your princess here...I have to answer all of them that I am comfortable with." 'Don't even think about digging into my head for the truth.' "I was a soldier for the Earth Systems Alliance which was at the time my peoples military arm."

"Okay..." *more scribbling* "What did you do as a soldier?"

"Simple question gets a simple answer." She huffed at my answer. "What I did was easy and simple, protect the civilian population from raiders and pirates, serve the people, and fight any hostile forces that would attack us."

"Your people weren't unified?" 'My god this girl needs to be quiet...'

"Yes our people was unified but we were also splintered at times since we all have different points of view and most of the time they are not very agreeing so yea you can say that were weren't. But as we colonized different worlds we sorta came together under one banner but sometimes we still had outcasts that wanted to be free...we allowed it until they fell to raiders or pirates and we come in to clean up the mess."

"Are their actually aliens out their?" 'Oh this mare is gonna get it real good.'

"Yes their were aliens out there in the galaxy but since the Reapers came back and started a war of extinction I doubt that any of the ones I know of are still alive. Hell I doubt that we won the war since I am here and not back in the barracks."

"What do you mean?" 'Here it comes hehe.'

"What I mean is that me and my people, and every other species that fought against the Reapers are dead and gone. For all I know I am all that is left of my people. I am the Last of my Line." As soon as I said the Last of my kind they all gasped and I think Fluttershy was it, she let out a gasp and fainted right on the spot. I am sort of guessing that is a defense mechanism for her.

As soon as she tried to say that she was sorry or something I raised my hand to stop her. "Don't even say anything lass, I do not care for apologies or anything anymore. Of all the things I want now are signs of pity or signs of sadness for me for I do not care about it." Yea...one point for being a cold heartless mechanized asshole. "Let us just keep going with the questions while I still have some manners and my rage is still in check." They all nodded and agreed to it before they saw what a fully pissed off biotic and tech master can do to soft squishy ponies.

"Before we keep asking questions I have a riddle for you ponies, and if you can answer it correctly you will all get to answer one question that I usually keep to myself." They all brightened up and even Shining Armor seemed to smile when I said that, a winged unicorn was next to him at the moment which sorta scared me a bit since when I last saw him he was alone...these ponies are masters of popping up at the strangest of times. Turning to my right I saw that princess Luna was also here and was giving me a cold stare, my guess is that she is still angry with me and Discord for scaring her last night.

With a grin I said the riddle in a creepy ghost like voice "What is the color of night?"

"Black?" 'Nope' "Dark Blue?" 'No' "Black?" 'No' "Black?" 'My god No!' "Blue?" 'Now you are just silly' "Dark Grey?" 'Nope again' "Grey?" 'Hopeless' "Silver?" 'Wrong Answer Celestia.' "Dark Purple?" 'Not even close Shiny' "Sanguine my bipedal friend." 'Oh fuck me she is right? What the fuck how did she know?'

"Erm...uhh....Princess Luna...how did you know that riddle?" I was honest to fucking god confused as hell, hell I almost forget the answer to that riddle since Discord keeps getting it wrong whenever I bring it up.

"Because my bipedal friend we have dealt with a cult of vamponies before and that was the correct answer to them." 'I call bullshit on that, vampires are not real.' "Oh but they are real Zidane for I keep them all in line." 'Oh damn, recluse of a princess rules over vampires...good thing that can't open my armor.' "Oh don't worry about that, if you anger me or my sister than we will find a way." 'Hah! Good luck with that!'

"So what is this question you wish to ask me princess since all nine of you got it wrong and really Blueblood? Blue? When was the sky ever blue?" His answer was a snort as he sat their eating what was left of his meal before waiting to hear my questions about myself.

"My question is, Have you ever killed somepony before?" Silence filled the room.

"Uhhh....no shit? I killed almost three thousand Reaper soldiers and nearly two hundred batarian, vorcha, krogan, turian, asari, and human raiders and pirates, I almost forgot my kill count on total amount of lives I have ended but last time I checked in was close to four thousand bodies now lie motionless out on some random planet, some cargo ship that is now floating debris, or on the Citadel. Either way I killed so many organics and synthetics that I no longer feel anything anymore. I think I need some help with that...eh..." The way I was talking to the royalty was enough to make Rarity to overly act out and faint on a randomly appeared couch, the pink winged unicorn was just staring at me as if I was the evilest thing on the planet, everyone else just looked at me before assuming defensive positions around Celestia and Luna while Shining Armor tried to move around to protect the other one, I just laughed at their advances. "Anything else you ponies want to know? I have to go visit the only burial site of my people that I know of..."

"Actually yes, I do have a few questions to ask you." 'Damn it!'

Celestia was next on the line of ponies. "I wanted to ask you this...Do you ever regret the people that you have killed?" I laughed a bit "No I don't regret killing them because it was them or me and since those bastards choose to break the law at the time, and besides I also do not regret it because it fills me with joy to kill raiders and pirates. Getting attacked by raiders is like opening a birthday present, you might never know what you are going to get."

"Roran, I have to ask you something since I first heard you speak at the Gala..." 'Come on Cel, if it is about my love for fine wine and cheese than good luck finding me a cheese wheel or a bottle of white wine.' "What does N7 mean?" 'Fuck...'

"Well N7 is a vocational code in the Systems Alliance military. The 'N' designates special forces and the '7' refers to the highest level of proficiency. It applies to marines who have graduated from the Interplanetary Combative Training program at Rio De Janeiro. The ICT program is by all means a cruel and grueling training program that breaks the weak willed and those that are strong enough to advance on." as I said the basics of N7 I was standing at attention with my arms behind my back and was staring at the wall on the far side of the room.

"My next question is something rather private but I think that all of us should know..." 'Just say it than, no need to beat around the bushes for it.' " Why were you underground when we found you?" 'Oh that....'

"Well I guess I should tell you how I got there....as you can see that I was a statue at some point hint the dust and rock fragments, and at the time...me and my squad were clearing a path for Hammer squads to move in and place the Thanix Missiles in the correct placements to take out the Reaper guarding the only path into the Citadel and activate the Crucible. During the fight we were ambushed by hostile forces, my squad was taking cover behind anything that will shelter them from hostile fire while I used my shield to serve as a distraction. I took the brunt of the attacks and as we were turning the battle around we were shot at by one of the Reapers that were still planetside...I lost Private Krusk Brahat to falling debris...we began to evade and strike out at any Reaper patrols we ran into but we were growing desperate as we began to take injuries at a rapid pace...eventually we made a last stand in the back allies of South London...the enemy kept pouring from all sides...we were being torn apart as Ravagers...Banshees...Brutes and Marauders kept hammering away at us....eventually Lt. Liselle Keo'Mennau died from her injuries...she lost to much blood...before she died she told me that she finally saw the truth within the webs of lies..." I sighed deeply as I clenched my fists together, my biotics flaring up as my anger grew to the boiling point. "We had been fighting for three hours now and the Reapers didn't stop sending their soldiers after us...we were eventually saved by a passing group of roving M35 Mako's but we were barely breathing by the time they got to us..."

"Eventually we got patched up with quick applications of medi-gel, the same one I used on Shining Armor for nearly cutting his hoof off with my sword...idiot." He snorts in my direction as I give him the middle finger, everyone in the room is confused by it. "Anyways me and the last two members of my squad got back into the fight and resumed our current objective which was to clear a path towards the Conduit and get inside the Citadel...with only the three of us that was more of a suicide mission but since the stakes were so high we agreed to do it to till the end. We got as close to the Conduit as we could but than their was the open field that lead to it....'No-Man's Land'....before we even had a chance to run it we were attacked from all sides...my second in command Katherine was killed by a Banshee...she was impaled on its left arm...I cut it above the elbow with my blade...she didn't make it. I blew that Banshee all to hell with everything I had. It was just me and my only friend...Hilo'Jaa vas Idenna. Me and her were like the best of friends....hell we even watched each other get drunk in public once after a mission we did together on Caleston...when the Reaper showed up we both got engulfed by the energy beam and that was when I was giving my last rallying cry since I knew that we were all going to die, everyone in Hammer Company knew that we were all going to die that day." they all could hear my voice slowly breaking down as I began to lose my posture and started to revert back to my old ways of slouching while standing and not really caring about appearance.

"After getting hit by that laser I was turned to stone somehow and was kept alive...not really caring at the moment but I was watching everything happen around me...the Crucible didn't fire, the Reapers came back in full force, and from what I heard of a barely functioning radio that the Reapers were winning on all fronts of the war until finally I only heard the voice of a Reaper say that they just claimed the last bastion of the resistance...the war was over...we lost...but I am all that is left..." I finally caved in and just slumped onto the floor pulling out an old photo (Thank you God for keeping this piece of colored paper intact) of my squad....'I miss you all...except you Brahat you still didn't pay me the 10,000 credits you lost to me at a match of poker...'

Looking back at them all, they all just looked at me with eyes of sadness, the yellow one, Fluttershy was crying alongside the hyperactive pink one, Pinkie Pie (Duh...that makes sense...hmm...pie....I could go for a pumpkin pie about now), and by the sounds of hooves approaching I barely looked up to see Shining Armor and the other princess...a slightly smaller than Luna...don't even know her name is, approached me and when I sense that one of them tried to give me a 'hug of pity' I created a barrier in front of me to prevent such an approach.

"No. Don't even think about it...I just want to be alone..." I said quietly as I got off the floor and approached a stain glass window that was emblazed with the picture of six ponies shooting a ray beam of sorts to a certain Princess Luna. Odd how she is still here not in chains or being watched by any guards. As I approached the mirror I felt a hoof on my side trying to get my attention, turning my head I saw that it was Shining again but this time giving me a stern look. "Don't even try to act all tough little pony...I killed things larger than this room alone, so if you want to stay in one piece than you would take that hoof and place it back on the ground. I am in no mood to be talked to, I only want to be alone for a while..."

"I am sorry but I can not do that, Princesses Celestia and Luna has ordered me to watch over you, I am no matter what under any circumstance to leave you alone." he said while trying to be the overseer of the prison watch.

"Well than...I guess I can always do this than." and with that I do do a back flip and warped outside the window hoping that it would lead back to the gardens...I was wrong.

It lead me to a cliffside in which I overshot and was now falling down.

"FUCK!"

Not even two days alive and I inadvertently jumped off a cliff...how quaint.