"Activating Tactical Cloack", said Shepard through the comm links. In hindsight, it probably wasn't a good idea to bring Garrus to board the Alerai. The turian sniper was now knocked out from a blow to the head by an Geth Hunter. Grunt would have been a better choice, he could have charged through the wall of bullets like a bipedal tank. "Tali, deploy a combat drone and get out of their line of fire, you can't hack through their shields!". Shepard had resorted to shouting now. They were in deep doodoo. He didn't expect this many geth, after all Tali said she had sent only 'a few inactive geth parts' to her father. These were fully functioning ones. Shepard hid behind a pipe, pulling Garrus along with him.
Tali popped out of cover and sent a full blast from her shotgun towards the nearest geth. She.. missed? They were advancing now, every few steps was worth a heatsink wasted. They were synthetics though, probably kept their supply up where their arses should be. The firefight was getting intense. ""Go for the optics, Chiktikka! Go for the optics!" shouted Tali. That should buy her a few more minutes to regain composure. Shields recharged, she swiftly turned on a heel and shot at a nearby hunter. Shields weakened by the quarian's combat drone, the slugs pierced it's chest, deactivating it for good.
Tali quickly aimed at another geth, but the geth was faster. A single slug pierced the side of her suit, with too team mates down there was only one path left for Shepard to take. He pulled out his grenade launcher and fired three of them into the crowd of geth. Carnage. His anger at the geth and worry for his teammates was suddenly overridden by an intense and powerful smell permeating throughout the room. "What.. what is that smell?" said he. It was like a mixture of the manure his family had used back on Mindoir and burnt Vorcha flesh he had incinerated on Omega. He switched his helmet to the built-in oxygen tank in his suit and walked up to Tali. "Tali, do you know what smell is?". She seemed to avert his gaze, and spoke in a nervous tone.
"Well, Shepard, you know how we quarians live in these suits? Have you ever hear the term 'poop suit'...?"
