The super mutant behemoth charged, its weapon, a giant street lamp looked like a giant golf club.
"Spread out, cherry tap him!", Mizore yelled. The team scattered into the South Vegas ruins. The group spent the next half hour taking various potshots then running for cover in the concrete and waiting for another team member to draw its attention. Holographic cubes hit the wall the behemoth was standing next to, Alan had missed, he then proceeded to miss three more times as it drew closer to him, his aim was always atrocious, even with V.A.T.S. helping him, which he had once again forgotten to use. Just as it had gotten within a hundred feet of him came a sonic bark from Roxie, the soundwaves slamming into its back and causing burns. The super mutant changed his target and chased the dog that was luckily able to easily outmaneuver it in the ruins. As it ran between the skeletal buildings, laser beams shot from one of the windows, the mutant began pounding on the concrete in an attempt to tear the building itself down to get to Hac inside. Mizore stepped out into its path 300 feet away, the ground beneath its feet rapidly cooled and encased them in thick ice. As it stood stuck she peppered it with hits from her Maliwan Artic Frostfire. The behemoth screamed in pain from the cold and tore at its feet, breaking them from the ice, but losing several toes in the process, and continued to bleed rapidly. It charged at Mizore screaming more manically as it went, and passed in front of an alley where Huey was waiting. Huey held two Uzis, one in each hand, each had been modded to hold a magazine four and a half feet long, and he unlike Alan had remembered to use V.A.T.S., he shot a perfect stream of bullets straight into the behemoth's center of mass, unfortunately, these bullets were not very big, and did not leave as much damage as one might imagine, the behemoth, now chasing down Huey, easily caught up and swung his club right at his sending him a good 150 feet. It was at this point Zone, jumping from the rooftops keysword in hand, stuck the landing, cleaving the behemoth's head in half and putting the beast down for good. She jumped off the falling giant's soldiers and ran over to Huey where the rest of the team already was. Mizore was applying a stimpack.
"I'm alright guys really", he was saying as she ran up.
"Are you sure, you got hit pretty dang hard?", Alan asked. A beam of light from Hac's eye washed over him.
"No damage to biological functions found he is lucky", Hac said.
"My aura took most of the blow, but my pip-boy is smashed", he held up his left arm to show his Pimp-boy 3 Billion model, was completely fubar, with a shattered screen, broken off dials, and completely busted open casing, exposing several wires some of which were now torn, and computer boards, thankfully undamaged.
"Well, you guys know what this means?", there was a long pause, as it was quite evident, none of them did, "We're, going on a shopping trip, TO THE CITADEL!", he shouted.
It was a long journey, travelling across the wasteland to the rift that led to the Franchia rift, from there they had to take a tram car back to M-E-Earth gate, from there, it was a shuttle ride to the citadel, finally docking and exiting the craft. From there they had to go through Zakera Ward security screening, they were going to be stopped and questioned, they all knew it.
"You guys can't bring those weapons in here, and we don't allow dogs", the C-Sec officer said blankly.
"Check my security clearance", Alan said, "I am Alan Mist, serial number 06-200m here is the paperwork for myself, and here is the paper work for my team.
"This says you were a member of Commander Shepard's team, how come I've never heard of you?", he asked skeptically, and with a hint of snark.
"I joined her crew after the Reapers had already been defeated, I was also only part of her crew for six months; you won't see me in me history books, at least none in this universal plane, I still work very closely with the crew of the Normandy."
"Interlopers from other worlds now need additional verification, paperwork, you don't have it. And what you do have says nothing about carrying weapons, and as I said dogs", the C-Sec officer was cut off.
"Check my security clearance.", Alan said.
"Yes, it says Spectre-level, but they have no such clearance", he said in regards to the other five team members.
"Spectres can arm their crew mem", now it was Alan's turn to be cut off.
"You are not a Spectre, you have "Spectre-level" clearance and that applies only to you", his face was becoming more stern. Alan shrugged and motioned to his teammates.
"Weapon systems can not be re moved from my suit plat form", Hac said, only partially lying as the tools and maintenance necessary to customize his shell were back at base.
"It is an inalienable right to arm oneself, for personal defense against threats to body and liberty", came Huey who had the had number of weapons in his jacket alone.
"I physically cannot leave my key, it just kinda follows me", Zone said in reference to her key sword that was now shrunk down into the palm of her hand.
"I honestly couldn't give less of a shit, I could kill everyone in this room using only my ice powers", this statement by Mizore caused everyone in the room, even her teammates to look at her, "hypothetically", she finished.
"Look, rules are rules, and If I break them for you, everybody will want me to break the rules for them", he said exasperated.
"Everyone already does, the difference is we aren't just talk", Zone interjected,
"What sort of business are you five up to?", he asked.
"We're here on pleasure actually, and there's six", Alan corrected.
"I will once again remind you that dogs are not allowed on Zakera Ward", the C-Sec officer was growing more exasperated.
"She's a service dog", Huey said.
"Oh yeah, and which of you is blind?", he asked feeling that he had finally found some grain of leverage.
"She's saved thousands of lives and even stopped even more terrorists, is that not enough of a service for you?", Zone asked. The C-Sec officer was getting more and more annoyed, he laid his head on his desk. By this point a small crowd of other C-Sec officers had gathered to witness what was unfolding, a junior officer walked over to him.
"Sir, they've been cleared, I received word from the Tower clerks' office", without even lifting his head, he made the waving motion for them to go through, past security. They all walked past the scanners.
"Every time", Alan sighed.
"We do attract a lot of attention, he was just doing his job", Zone said, Roxie barked in response.
"You're right, he must have been a cat person", Huey responded to Roxie, understanding what her she meant in the way only members of team control could.
"I do not truust cat people", Hac commented.
"Also, you were kinda scary Mi", Zone said referring to ice powers comment. Mizore only shrugged in response.
"I guess I'll take Huey to Saronis Applications, we'll meet back here after we've finished, y'all have fun", Alan and Huey began walking away leaving the other four which then all parted their separate ways.