Normandy SR-2 Inventory item #7456 E-427 – Datapad recovered 11-05-2185.

Entries on pad suggest previous owner was Jacqueline Nought AKA Jack AKA Subject Zero. Request for property transfer from Grissom Academy Director Kahlee Sanders on hold pending further review. Classified information redacted.

Unredacted entries:

Entry #01 - Ok, so at some point these Cerberus lackeys are going to try to sell me to another prison, probably after we finish whatever this mission is. I figure they'll try to mindwipe me to cover up whatever they're doing. So I'm going to record everything I see and hear on this datapad and keep it stashed away. That way if they do get a drop on me I'll at least I'll have a record of what happened on board to remind myself with.

Entry #02 – Got a decent spot on the ship—underneath the engine room. Quiet but not too quiet. Can always hear the engines hum. Dark too. Only one way in or out. Nobody's gonna fucking sneak up on me without getting a bullet between the eyes. Two engineers working above me. Nerds. There's some geezer down the hall but he'd break a hip if he'd tried make a move at me. Also got a fucking krogan on this level but he just hangs around in the other cargo area. You can smell him about 100 yards away so no way he can sneak up on me either.

Entry #03 – Fucking unbelievable but Shepard actually gave me full access to the Cerberus files. Why? What's the fucking angle that's being used on me? Whatever it is, the data is in there. So much nasty dirt. Not just Pragia either. I'm downloading copies of the files and I'll post them all on the extranet as soon as I know Cerberus isn't watching me.

Entry #07 – Shepard keeps coming by. "Just checking up on you." Yeah, right. Obviously just trying to get in my pants. Too uptight to straight up make a move though. When I suggested using the ship to go pirate, got this totally constipated look in response. Almost laughed at 'em.

Loser.

Entry #09 – That fucking krogan came by today. Just said he was bored. Told him to get the fuck out or else. Grinned and said he'd love to fight but he promised Shepard he wouldn't kill the other crew. Probably meant it. I gotta be careful. I can take most of the others on this ship but that overgrown turtle would make me work for it.

Entry #10 – Been down here days and only just now found a bug Cerberus had planted here. Goddammit. Hope you enjoyed the show bastards.

Entry #11 – The krogan showed up again. Out of nowhere starts talking about seeing me bust out of the cryo containment room on Purgatory. "You were tearing everything up! It was great!" Says he tried to follow me but got side-tracked as things went apeshit on the station. Didn't realize that he and Shepard had killed Warden Kuril before they caught up with me. Good to know that that evil fucker got his.

Entry #15 – That fucking krogan is back. Asked me what I'd done to get into Purgatory in the first place. No secret, so I told him.

When I finish, he says, "Tell me more."

Told the scaly lump that was the story, that was it.

Looks at me and says, "Got any others?"

Other what? I ask.

"Stories," he says.

Finally left when I told him to get the fuck out.

Entry #18 – Just figured out that the krogan has a name – Grunt. That's it. Just Grunt. Why not "Belch," or "Fart"? I asked. He says something about some other krogan he knew never having suggested those as names.

Unbelievable. Too stupid to even get a joke that obvious.

Anyway, Grunt stops by about once a day now. Just wants to hear my stories from when I was a pirate or on the run. I'm fucking bored too, so I tell 'em. There are worse ways to kill the time between missions. He's too dumb to be working an angle and the krogan aren't into human women, so I know he doesn't want anything more. Fairly sure, anyway…

Entry #19 - Asked Grunt what he was getting out of the mission. Pointed out to the dummy that he's an alien and Cerberus hates aliens. What gives? He said he's loyal to Shepard only.

"I follow my commander. I kill when I'm ordered to. Doesn't matter who."

And if Shepard orders you to kill me?

He shrugs. "Then you die," he says.

At least I know where I stand. Only honest person on the ship.

Entry #21 - Asked Grunt to tell me some of his stories for a change. He got quiet for a while, then said I already knew them all – All he had was the stuff he had done with Shepard.

Forgot that though he's full-grown he was only let out of that tank a little while ago.

"I hope someday to be able to tell stories like you can," he says.

Entry #24 – Grunt has stopped coming by. He's just staying in his part of the cargo bay now. I can hear him pace around, growl, headbutt the walls. What the fuck is wrong with him? Shepard came by and says we're taking a detour to his home planet to find a krogan witchdoctor or something. This had better work.

Entry #25 - Shepard got Grunt into some krogan gang or something or other on his home planet. Seems to have done the trick. He's back under control. Has started coming by again.

Gotta admit it's not bad. I tell him about capers I committed, stuff I stole, destroyed, people who got what was coming to them.

He never gives me shit about anything I did. He just sits there, nods, sometimes laughs. First person ever to just listen to me. Goddam highlight of my day, in fact.

Fuck my life.

Entry #29 - Grunt asked me why I was part of "Clan Normandy." Took me a minute to realize he meant Shepard's crew. Told him I was doing it to get revenge on Cerberus.

Same people paying for the ship? He asks.

Yeah, dumbass, I tell him.

He nods, says, "If Shepard okays it, I'll help."

Pretty sure he meant it.

Entry #33 – Shepard found out that Grunt has been hanging around with me. The commander starts giving me shit about how Grunt was coming by for "story time." Asks if I was tucking him in at night too.

Asshole.

Anyhow, says we're finally going to Pragia to turn that place into a crater. Took 'em fucking long enough.

Site's probably deserted but there's a lot of wild varren on the planet surface. Gonna ask Grunt to come along. Might need him as a meat shield in case things get hairy.

Entry #34 – Shoulda been simple. Just get to Pragia, plant the bomb in that fucking Cerberus facility and bug out. And then the universe steps in and says, "Fuck you again, bitch. Nothing's ever easy for you. Why should this be any different?"

First, Shepard finds all of these recordings that show things at the facility weren't exactly as I thought. They were torturing the other kids too. Then we find out that a bunch of krogan and vorcha mercs are there scavenging the place. I figure Shepard & I are dead 'cause Grunt's just gonna switch sides and join them. I mean, we're just humans. Those are his people, right?

He doesn't. The grinning idiot sticks by us when the mercs make their move, even charges a krogan who tries to flank us. Doesn't make a big deal out of it afterwards either.

Then we find out that the mercs were working for a human biotic who had been at the facility back when I was there. He has some fucked up idea about getting it up and running again. Almost capped him but Shepard makes me realize he isn't worth it. We finally plant the bomb and head out.

I'm still turning all of this shit over in my head as we fly out. Without really thinking about I hit the detonator before we're clear of the blastzone. Shepard sees this and pounds the cockpit door to tell the shuttle pilot to speed up. We get clear – barely. The commander chews me out for the rest of the trip.

Grunt just laughs and says, "Let's do it again!"

Entry #36 – Whole ground team goes off to do planning exercises for the Omega Four Relay mission and the fucking collectors decide to show up and take everybody while we're away. Got everyone but the pilot. Asshole's jokes are so bad even the collectors won't take him I guess.

Never seen Shepard this angry. Says we're doing the mission into the relay in two hours. "The collectors are about to find out what happens when you piss me off!"

Got just enough time to check weapons, gear and the rest.

Gonna go make sure Grunt's shotgun is cleaned and working. I don't think he does it right 'cause he's only got three thick fingers on each hand. Need to make sure that that grinning idiot makes it back ok.