Chapter 176

After resting and finishing some projects that the dragon god felt needed to be finished soon, Harry gathered the males of the squad and took them all to one of his instant dungeons, the dragon dungeon, even Joker joined in on the fun and was happily running around and shooting all kinds of dragons left and right, while the rest of the squad protected him.

Harry had even buffed him with spells and raised a bunch of defensive barriers around him to make sure nothing happened to him, the Normandy needs her pilot and Harry quite like Joker as well.

This little men's gathering was decided to be made by Harry, for two reasons, one, he needed to grind for money, between buying multiple big corporations and investing money on their projects, handing out money to the victims of the Batarians so they can have a good life after everything they went through, and buying the Normandy from the Alliance, had killed his wallet in a slow and gruesome way.

Harry was sure his wallet was cursing his name in hell for what he had done to it and the dragon god didn't blame his wallet really, but he didn't regret his choices, after all, he was making sure things change and grow better for this universe and for a lot more people.

Plus, this was also a bonding experience for all of the men in the squad, like the crazy ass krogan known as Wrex, who just jumped on top of a great dragon's head and began to shoot it point blank in the skull while laughing like a maniac, even though the great dragon was whipping its head to get him off, the krogan just kept shooting.

The calm and collected turian known as Garrus, was laying on the ground and sniping the wings off of dragons causing them to roar in pain and fall to their deaths, either by their fall or by Wrex who finished them off by stomping on their heads after he killed the great dragon.

The loyal and steadfast human known as Kaidan, who was enjoying the fact that he can now use his biotics without getting a migraine, the smile on his face let everyone know he was really having fun blasting and creating black holes as he killed any dragon in his way.

The goofball and hilarious human known as Joker was running around like a maniac and shooting dragons in their faces with Shepard's extra Harry-made pistol.

It says a lot about the Commander that he let Joker borrow one of his pistols, Shepard never let them out of his sight after all, in fact, rumor has it, that Shepard sleeps and bathes with them.

Harry really hopes that was an exaggeration though, he can't imagine Shepard actually doing that but you never know after all, speaking of the commander, he was the second reason that Harry had gathered the guys for a little bit of chaotic fun.

Harry was on a mission today, Kunou, Valerie, and Le Fay had told him about the fact that Ashley wanted to give forming a harem a try, something that really surprised Harry and made him pray for the poor bastard that is his friend Shepard.

But given how much Ashley has changed and the fact that she's trying to be more open-minded when it comes to aliens, it's not surprising that she's willing to try other kinds of stuff.

Both Ashley and Liara seemed to get along as well, it was a shaky relationship at first, but after what had happened with Benezia, Ashley got to see that Liara, really is a kind and strong woman.

And a bond between them was born, still, given how prone to jealousy Ashley used to be, Harry couldn't help but wonder why? Apparently, the girls had an answer to that.

According to them, Ashley had been inspired by how he and the girls treat each other, she saw how much they care and loved each other and that's something that inspired and showed Ashley, that forming a big family wasn't a bad idea.

Plus she didn't want to make Liara sad nor she wanted to give up on Shepard, so a harem was the only logical choice, or at least that's what Ashley believed.

So, the girls had asked Harry to speak to Shepard, the dragon god quickly agreed and decided that hanging out with guys was the best chance to speak with Shepard about all of this, so Harry walked up to the commander's side and watched as he was charging a light ammo charge shot and then shoot down a dragon with the light beam.

Shepard grinned as he watch the dragon fall to the ground with a hole in his chest, he turned his head towards Harry and then said "I can't believe you really took us dragonslaying, we were just joking you know?".

Harry chuckled and shook his head "Everyone seemed excited about fighting a dragon, not going to lie, the bloodthirsty look on all of your faces was a bit disturbing but at least, these dragons are just mindless beasts, nothing like me".

Both Shepard and Harry walked forward and to the front of a dragon that just landed on his back right in front of them, Shepard quickly shot it in the head and killed it before it could even try to thrash around.

The dragon exploded into black ash and left a big amount of money and an assortment of items, things Shepard hadn't seen before, Harry smiled and quickly put everything the dragon dropped into his inventory, loot was always welcome after all.

Shepard chuckled and shook his head "I still can't believe they really drop money and things, your life is just plain crazy Harry, you know that?".

Harry just grinned and shrugged "You get used to it after a while but listen, I wanted to talk to you about something".

Shepard raised an eyebrow intrigued about what Harry would want to speak with him about, so he nodded and Harry began to explain "You see, the girls had a very curious conversation with Ashley yesterday".

He nodded, he had heard how the girls had a little get-together sometime yesterday but didn't know any details about what they talked about, he figured it was gossip or whatnot "Yeah? What about?".

Harry sighed and scratched his head, while he thought about how to start this conversation, but eventually began to speak "Well, she was asking about my harem and our relationships, not going to lie to you Shepard, but I think Ashley plans to hit you with that sometime soon?".

Shepard scrunched up his brow but seemed very surprised as well, it didn't surprise Harry though, after all, what are the chances that Ashley would ever decide on something like forming a harem of all things "Ashley? But that's not like her".

Harry nodded "I agree, but well, Ashley and Liara had been getting along lately and they had seen how the girls and I interact with each other, seems like that piqued Ashley's curiosity.

I think both know you like them and not wanting to have to give up on you if you chose the other, they came to the conclusion that they could share, their concern is, how you would take the news?".

Shepard scratched his head, a mannerism Harry had not seen the commander do often, it showed him just how perplexed Shepard is about all of this right now "How would I take the news? Well, I'm damn well surprised.

You know I like both Ashley and Liara, but I was leaning towards Liara more than Ashley, but she then pulls this off, I sort of feel like she pulled the rug right from underneath my feet...".

Suddenly everyone else began to walk back to Harry and Shepard but soon noticed the lost look on Shepard's face and decided to ask what was wrong, so Harry quickly explained the situation to them.

They would have found out at some point anyways, it's hard to hide something like a three-way relationship in a ship like the Normandy, plus Harry was sure that Shepard, Liara, and Ashley wouldn't really attempt to hide such a thing.

After Harry explained the situation, everyone had a reaction, Joker grinned and shrugged "It doesn't seem like a bad thing to me Commander, though I guess having two girls can't be easy.

Harry is a dragon so I'm sure that's why it's easy for him to survive and take it as well!".

Harry rolled his eyes at Joker, who just chuckled, Kaidan rubbed his chin and hummed for a few seconds "It is quite a unique predicament, but it's not one that doesn't happen often.

I've heard of plenty of three-way relationships, though most don't last long, or if they do, it's under some very special conditions".

Garrus crossed his arms and tilted his head "Can't really comment on something like this, that sort of thing is frowned upon by turians, though I've heard that asari do sometimes get multiple partners".

Wrex just shrugged and grunted "Harems are normal on Tuchanka, though it's usually around one female krogan.

But, sometimes there are harems that form around a male krogan, especially those that have been shown to be able to procreate easily, or at least compare to the rest, so I don't really see a problem here".

Shepard sighed, everyone had some useful comments about this and he appreciated his friends voicing their thoughts on the matter "It's not a problem per se, but a relationship like this comes with its own set of problems, can't say it will be accepted on planet Earth too".

Joker just scoffed "So what? You can just retire to the off-world home you won, or even get one on another planet, this galaxy is huge Shepard, how is Earth or humanity going to stop you? Plus, you really don't care about their opinions anyways".

Garrus nodded "Yeah, I don't really see a problem with you going through this, you do deserve some happiness after what you've done for the galaxy Shepard, besides, Harry here has experience with all of this, just ask him for advice".

Harry scoffed and chuckled a bit "You make it sound like I had a choice in all of this, the girls decided to do this, I had no decision in that besides just nodding".

Everyone shared a laugh with Harry, at the absurdity of what he just said, Joker then grinned "Hah! Mr. Dragon God whipped by his girlfriends!".

Harry huffed and shook his head "Fuck off Joker".

Everyone laughed again, after that little bit of laughing, the guys began to speak about Shepard's situation and try to help him come to a decision, in the end, the commander decided to give it a try.

One, because both Ashley and Liara were important people to him now and two, because he had seen how happy Harry and the girls usually are, it was hard not to desire to have a relationship like that with someone you love.

So, Shepard would soon speak with Liara and Ashley, talk about all of this and together they will decide what to do from there, he quite liked the idea of forming a big family after all.

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Sometime later, after Harry and the guys finished grinding for money in Harry's instant dungeons, they all went back to the Normandy and went to get some rest, though Shepard was intercepted by Liara and Ashley.

Both women then dragged Shepard away to have a talk and Harry sent a small prayer to Death to protect his friend, hoping he would get out of this alive, so with the last thing done Harry went back to his workshop to finish some other things that he has in his hands.

Hours passed as Harry worked on helping Talitha's mind recover as well as Benezia's, he was almost done with Talitha, which made him very happy, the poor girl will soon be able to live in peace, and Benezia still had some more to go before she would be fine.

The mind control and manipulation that she had been put through, really damaged her psyche, so Harry had to take things slowly, though thanks to his power over the mind, he had no worries about causing further damage, Benezia would soon be okay, and ready to start a new life.

Eventually, Shepard showed up and Harry smiled as he saw him looking mighty happy right now "So I take it, that you have two beautiful girlfriends now huh?".

Shepard sheepishly rubbed the back of his head and gave Harry a nod of confirmation "Well, we're going to give it a try and see how it goes, we three are very busy people but were willing to make it work, at least we have a good example to follow"

Harry chuckled and nodded "We're not really the best example to follow in this scenario, we are pretty chaotic, even in our relationship, but I'm happy for you,

You do seem happier and more relaxed now, just take it easy and if you need anything, don't hesitate to ask us, we're here to help you and your loved ones in any way we can".

Shepard nodded, Harry then decided to ask Shepard what was next on the agenda "So what's next Shepard?".

Shepard, looked up at the ceiling and began to explain "Well, Garrus asked me for a favor, hunting down someone known as Dr. R, Heart or rather Doctor Saleon, he has a history with this guy, apparently, he got off scot-free after he did some very horrible shit when Garrus was a C-Sec Officer, now Garrus wants to bring justice to him".

Harry raised an eyebrow in curiosity, whoever Doctor Saleon is, must have been a right bastard for Garrus to want to go hunt him down, but soon enough, Harry shrugged and then said, "Well let's go, I'm always down for helping my friends hunt someone down".

Shepard grinned and then nodded to Harry, he knew Harry would agree to help without even an in-depth explanation of the situation, not that there was much to explain, Garrus wanted to catch Dr. Saleon and make sure he pays for what he's done.

As a friend Shepard would help Garrus get the justice he seeks, especially because they also had Harry coming along as well, things will be relatively easy, and catching Dr. Saleon will be done quickly enough.

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Shepard quickly ordered Joker to take them towards the location of MSV Fedele, a Kowloon class modular conveyer, a ship owned by Dr. Heart, this is actually how they found him too, the ship is registered to him so it was easy to get his location.

Joker wasted no time in taking the Normandy to the MSV Fedele's current location, once he docked, Shepard, Harry, and Garrus boarded the Fedele and got ready.

According to Garrus, they should expect biological experiments to attack them, and soon enough, he was proven right when the squad of three got deeper into the Fedele and got rushed by a few biological experiments.

Shepard, Garrus, and Harry put them out of their misery quickly and moved forward, to Harry though, these biological abominations reminded him of the creatures Morgan and Hope had described to him a while back.

Biological weapons that were created by a corporation named Umbrella, given what the girls told him about those creatures, Harry was now very determined to stop whoever had created these things.

It didn't take long for him to find the culprit, the squad of three found a sole salarian on the ship, which made it obvious for them to see that the salarian was the person they were looking for, the Salarian suddenly sighed when he saw them approach them and then said, "Thank you, thank you for saving me from those things".

Garrus actually scowled at the Salarian and then said "Commander, that's him, that's Dr. Saleon".

The salarian shook his head in denial, which was pretty telling, and then said "What? My name is Dr. Heart, please get me out of here!".

Shepard frowned towards the salarian, while Harry narrowed his eyes as he looked within the salarian's heart and saw nothing but darkness and lies "He's lying...".

Shepard gave a nod to Harry letting him know that he heard him, he then turned his head towards Garrus and decided to make sure "So this is him?".

Garrus nodded confirming that the salarian is Doctor Saleon "Yes, there's no escape this time Doctor, I'd harvest your organs, but we don't have the time".

The salarian shook his head and glared at Garrus, though no one knew why he looked angry "You're crazy, he's crazy! Please don't let him do this to me!".

Shepard frowned and then nodded to Garrus "Put him out of his misery so we can get going, we have more important things to do besides wasting time with this monster".

Garrus grinned and nodded "Gladly" Garrus turned his head towards the so-called Dr. Heart and then coldly spoke to him "Your days of butchering are over, Doctor".

Doctor Saleon shook his head and began to loudly plea for his life "No! Please... please!".

Seeing no mercy in the faces of the three-man squad, the doctor suddenly turned around and tried to run, but Garrus took his Harry-made pistol and shot him in the back of his knee, the doctor dropped to the ground screaming in pain, while Garrus walked over to him and once he was right up to him, Garrus aimed his pistol at the back of his head.

Doctor Saleon only had time to whimper in pain before Garrus shot his entire head off with his pistol, after that he sighed and smiled "That was... satisfying".

Shepard nodded and then said, "We're done here, let's get out here, Harry, please destroy this ship, I rather not have anyone get a hold of the data of whatever that so-called doctor was doing here".

With that said, the three-man squad boarded the Normandy and then left the Fedele, once the Normandy was far away from the other ship, Harry blasted it with a massive ki blast.

A massive explosion lit up the dark empty space for a few seconds before, silence and darkness, returned, the Fedele was completely done and with a job well done, the Normandy left the system.

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Garrus, Shepard, and Harry walked together towards the galaxy map, as they arrived, Garrus suddenly said "Thank you guys, I've been after that guys for a long time... I hated that I couldn't bring him in as a C-Sec officer.

After all the things he's done, I was never able to bring him to justice, but today I finally got to do it".

Shepard nodded, while Harry hummed for a few seconds before speaking "I see, so that was what this was all about, well I'm glad you were able to get justice Garrus, and that I was able to accompany you".

Garrus nodded, Shepard then said, "Your welcome Garrus, I'm glad to help you in anyways I can".

Garrus was definitely happy to have great friends in Shepard and Harry, he had offhandedly told Shepard about his regrets, more specifically about Doctor Saleon and he immediately offered to help him catch him.

Garrus had been very surprised, after all, it was something he just spoke about during lunch, he never expected the commander to go ahead and help him like that, in fact, Shepard finished his lunch and immediately set out to find Dr. Saleon.

To his surprise, Shepard had quickly found him, now the commander knew that Garrus wanted to kill the doctor, not hand him over to the authorities, so he asked Harry to help.

The dragon god didn't even hesitate to agree and joined them on the quick mission to kill Dr. Saleon to make him pay for his horrific experiments and deeds, Harry didn't even need an explanation.

He was just told they were helping Garrus and bam, he joined them, so Garrus was definitely feeling rather happy right now, so he decided to ask Shepard what was their next move "So Shepard, where to next? I'm feeling good for a good long mission".

Shepard turned his head towards Harry and decided to ask him a question "That depends, Harry, are you done with the preparation for Virmire?".

Harry nodded and then grinned "Yes, I finished the rings, everyone has a set of armor, a main weapon, and a sidearm, so we're pretty much set now".

Shepard nodded and then turned towards the galaxy map "Then we prepare to go Virmire, it's time to go check out what's happening there".

Both Harry and Garrus nodded to Shepard and quickly left to prepare for the next mission, meanwhile, Shepard ordered Joker to take them to the Hoc System and then to the planet known as Virmire.

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~Sometime later~

Joker had arrived in open space just outside of Virmire, however, he suddenly began to get some signals coming from the planet so he quickly let Shepard know via comms "Commander, I'm reading some signals, must be our salarian infiltration team".

Everyone then walked over to the helms room and looked out the window to see Virmire, Kaidan suddenly pointed out at something on the planet "Check out those defense towers".

Shepard nodded and issued an order to Joker "Drop the Mako, we'll go in hot and take them out".

Joker nodded "I'll get in underneath their radar Commander".

Everyone walked away from the cockpit and went to get ready to be dropped, for this mission, Shepard chose to take Tali and Wrex, while Le Fay and Harry would be going with them.

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Joker successfully dropped the Mako onto Virmire with Harry and Le Fay flying by its side, Harry looked around as soon as they landed and smiled as he admire the view of the planet "Oh, we're on a beach planet this time, this place looks clean and beautiful".

Le Fay landed by Harry's side and nodded "Yeah! It's like the perfect vacation spot~" Shepard, Wrex, and Tali quickly got out of the Mako and looked around, soon enough, Shepard walked away from the Mako to send a communication to Joker, while Tali and Wrex walked to Harry and Le Fay.

Wrex chuckled, while Tali smiled as they saw both Harry and Le Fay staring in awe at the beach they found themselves on, Tali then nodded as she took in the scenery, her new armor didn't have a mask nor helmet, instead, her face was left free and her hair allowed to hang on her shoulders, her armor's shield extended to her head so she didn't even need to worry about anything getting to her head.

So for the first time, she was allowed to enjoy the sun on her face and the wind on her skin, it felt amazing to her, suddenly she was splashed with cold water, which made her squeak because the water was cold and she was caught by surprise.

She turned to glare at the culprits, only to be met by grins from Le Fay and Harry, Tali widen her eyes and shook her head when she noticed their intentions "Ah! Don't you guys dare!".

But it was too late, both Harry and Le Fay splashed Tali as hard as they could with seawater, the poor quarian was thrown onto the ground by the splash of water that sent her away while sputtering.

Wrex just looked at all of this in amusement, meanwhile, Shepard was looking around, he then got a communication from Joker "We got a clean drop Commander".

Shepard immediately responded, "Stay out of range and continue evasive maneuvers until I bring the AA towers down, I know that Harry's wards on the ship will protect the Normandy by a lot, but let's not risk it".

Joker quickly responded, "I know the drill, meet you at the camp once those towers are offline, Joker out".

Shepard then turned around and chuckled in amusement as he saw Tali, Harry, and Le Fay splashing in the water, they somehow even got Wrex to play as well.

But, they were on a mission and they needed to get going, so Shepard called out to them "Alright guys, we need to get going and take down those AA towers".

Everyone stopped playing on the water and then nodded to Shepard, the squad then quickly ran to the Mako and boarded it, Shepard, Tali, and Wrex inside the Mako, while Le Fay and Harry sat on top of the Mako on the outside.

With everyone on the Mako, Shepard immediately drove off towards the towers however, they were immediately attacked by geth of all shapes and sizes, Wrex and Tali instantly attacked back with the Mako's weapons, while Harry and Le Fay rained down elemental spells at the geth.

No geth was even able to touch the Mako, as everyone, by this point, knew how to best deal with the geth, they had been fighting them for a long while by now, enough that they now knew how the geth moved and attacked.

Explosions, blasts, and other loud sounds echoed throughout the beach of Virmire, as Shepard and squad destroyed geth after geth without any mercy, that is until they reached one of the towers.

Shepard drove over a group of geth and then parked the Mako right outside the tower, the squad quickly jumped down and began to head into the tower.

The tower was heavily guarded by geth, but Harry quickly used the water on the beach to use water-style ninjutsu, a few high-speed hand signs, and five water Asian Dragons flew out of the water and headed toward the geth.

Le Fay jumped onto the head of one of the water dragons and smiled in fun as she rained down magic spells at the geth, while the water dragons went through the tower and destroyed as many geth as the water constructs could reach.

Meanwhile, Shepard, Wrex, and Tali ran into the tower, while Harry's water-style ninjutsu and Le Fay cleaned the geth outside of the tower, the squad quickly began to destroy the geth protecting the tower from the inside.

Tali was really enjoying her new shotgun and armor, nothing could hurt her, and her shotgun shredded through anything, it was really fun and she now knew why Wrex loved to cause so much destruction, she inwardly began to wonder if she had been corrupted by the squad? Not that she really cares though.

Soon enough the squad made it to the tower's terminal and turned it off, one quick shotgun blast from Wrex ensured that the geth wouldn't be turning the tower back on again.

After that, the squad ran outside only to see Harry on top of the Mako and pointing Oblivion towards a massive geth colossus, Oblivion glowed with darkness and Harry then fired a purple and black fireball.

The dark firaga flew through the air and crashed into the geth colossus, in a second it melted into red-hot metal that was steaming from the seawater it landed on.

Le Fay flew down to their side and said "Is the tower down?".

Shepard nodded, Le Fay smiled and then said "Then let's go, Harry says there's more geth coming this way, he thinks they're trying to slow us down with numbers.

So, we're going to start pulling out the big guns, so watch out, okay guys?".

Shepard nodded, Tali looked curious about what Harry and Le Fay's big guns were and Wrex just grinned in excitement, anything that guaranteed massive amounts of destruction, was always welcome in his book.

The squad then ran towards the Mako, while Le Fay flew towards the top and landed right beside Harry, Shepard soon took off towards the next tower.

Driving past the melted geth colossus, the group continued to head forward, a big group of geth armatures suddenly appeared and began to shoot at the Mako.

Harry raised a hand a created a barrier around the Mako that absorb the shot fired by the geth armatures, while Le Fay took her Clarent out and pointed towards the big group of geth, she quickly began to chant "'Wielder of the flame, reduce these evil souls to ashes... Explosion!'".

A magic circle formed above the big group of geth and suddenly dropped a small fireball ball into the geth, only to detonate on impact and cause a massive fiery explosion that shook the area.

Tali was awed at the high-level fire spell, Wrex cackled like a maniac, while Shepard curse out while trying to keep control of the Mako while the ground shook.

Soon enough, the explosion subsided and there was nothing left of the army of geth armatures, Shepard however, just continued driving forward, Le Fay smiled at a job well done, while Harry let up the barrier around the Mako.

Shepard continued to drive fast towards the next tower, while Harry and Le Fay blasted geth with high-level spells of all sorts of elements, eventually, they made it to the next tower and everyone jumped down the Mako, Harry and Le Fay took off flying and once they were high into the air they began to shoot at the geth with quick cast spells, like firaga and blizzaga.

They didn't use thundaga though, they were on a beach, with lots of water and that wouldn't be safe for Shepard and the squad, the group quickly headed to the tower and took care of the geth inside, they were even blasted at point blank by a rocket from a geth, but all that did was take out itself and other geth, while Shepard, Tali, and Wrex just kept going.

Eventually, they made it to the terminal of the tower, Tali shut it down immediately and then shot the terminal with her shotgun, so the Geth couldn't activate it again.

As soon as the tower powered down, Joker sent a communication to Shepard "I'm reading that the grid is down, Commander, on approach to the salarian base now, out".

Wrex grinned and then said, "Let's go then, we have more geth to destroy!".

Tali lightly laughed "I'm starting to get why your so gung ho about fighting Wrex, this is pretty fun, well when you don't have to worry about getting shot that is".

Wrex just chuckled while Shepard smiled, after that, they headed outside and met with Harry and Le Fay who were already waiting for them on top of the Mako, seems like they were done with all the geth outside.