Well then, you made it past the prologue? How about a pat on the metaphorical back?
Anyway, here is 'Then is Now' Mine and Eclipse-Luna's SI Story in the Mass Effect Universe. Also, with a shaving of Halo sprinkled in to cause a bit of... well... carnage. Enjoy(!)
Then Is Now: The Journey Begins
Chapter 2: 2183: Dystron
Nathan Caineson
Location: Unknown
Date: Unknown
Nathan awoke with a headache, his head feeling like it was pounding against a brick wall, a groan escaped his lips as he slowly came back to consciousness.
Nathan looked around himself, noticing how everything seemed more defined, as if the colours had become more vibrant or his eyes sharper.
Only then did he notice that his surroundings were strange, no walls surround him, no ceiling above him, nothing that resembled his home.
"Where in the holy name of Lucifer am I?" He asked himself, bewildered by the strange location. Around him stood nothing but icy tundra, and beyond that, a blizzard, blocking his view of anything else.
Deciding to get up and search for civilization, Nathan stood up, his eyes screwed shut at the pain his body was going through.
When he finally rose to his feet, it had a knock on effect of making him feel dizzy as his body returned to the base of gravity. Nathan looked at the ground he once laid upon, but instead focused on his feet.
Gone were his shoes, replaced by heavy metal armoured plates. 'Damn, that looks so familiar...where have I seen it before?' Nathan thought to himself, eyes flickering all over the place with distress, and suddenly locking onto a shining blue object in the distance, giving out an eerie glow.
Walking towards it, Nathan became more and more shocked, as more and more of the strange, mystical object was revealed. There, in front of him, laid an energy sword, straight out of Halo! Bending down to pick up the mystical object, Nathan felt a sudden weight hit the back of his head, causing him to wince in pain. Unsure of what it might have been, he reached behind him, and moved his hand curiously over his back until he could safely reach the cause of his disorientation. Pulling it from his back, he held it in front of his face, the large barrel obscuring most of his view, abruptly ending in a cube, the part Nathan had a hold of was equally bulky. In his hands was his favourite weapon from Halo: Reach, the SRS-99 AM, or more commonly known as the Sniper Rifle. Still confused, he put the heavy weapon back in its place, promising himself to find out what was happening to him later. Nathan then remembered where he saw his armoured feet before, his feet were covered in Mjolnir armour, the same sage colour as the chief, Nathan looked at his hands to make sure that he was indeed wearing the armour.
He was. 'Either this is a dream, or this is a dream.' Nathan thought to himself, as he couldn't bring himself to think about this being real. It was too absurd. Wasn't it? 'I've had stranger dreams.' Nathan tried to rationalise. Suddenly, he remembered the pain he was in when he woke up.
He also saw, next to the energy sword, a Mark VI [B] Helmet buried in the snow, the original helmet worn by Noble 6. He quickly picked it up, and placed it on his head, the environmental seals sealing automaticly. He looked down the armour and deduced that it was a SPARTAN-III armour that he was wearing, not anywhere close to the Mark V that the Master Chief wore. His mind buzzed with the amount of sheer absurdity being thrown at him.
"This...This isn't a dream, is it?" Nathan said aloud, surprised by the sound of his voice, but quickly remembered that he was wearing a helmet. Wanting to make sure it was at least functional, he looked towards the corner of his vision, where the radar would be in the game, and sure as can be, there it was, clear as day. Nathan just stood, his mind boggled by this new revelation, not even taking in the single dot on his radar, painted red.
A rustle behind him snapped him out of his amazement, a groan followed shortly later, Nathan, fearing the worst, grabbed the only weapon he could easily reach, which happened to be the energy sword, pulling it out of the snow and looking towards the source of the noise, different creatures from the Halo-verse running through his mind.
'Flood? Brute? Elite?' Nathan tried to place the noise, but couldn't.
Seeing a faint shape move behind the haze of the approaching snow storm, Nathan panicked, and threw his newly claimed sword, missing the thing by a wide berth, and having it impale itself in the snow next to it.
A startled cry escaped from the now humanoid shape, the noise carrying a robotic tinge to it, again familiar to the new Spartan, but he couldn't pin it on anything from the Halo universe, when it suddenly clicked where he was, and what this creature was. His eyes widened at this revelation, and fear blossomed in his heart, spreading its way through his body, making his arms limp, and his legs shake.
Nathan was in deep trouble if he was right.
Conner Caineson
Conner awoke to a very, very white view. A spark started in his brain and in an instant, his was fully awake. Laying there on his face, but he could feel nothing on his face. 'How odd' he thought as his numbness to the floor beneath him. He moved his arms and pushed up from the floor beneath him, moving himself to a kneeling position, looking out into the wilderness in front of him, a blizzard roaring in the distance, a white mist filling his vision, he moved up and felt something on the side of him, a block of some sort, but when he touched it, it unfolded into a gun like shape, a grip with a barrel pointing out from it. There is when a huge discovery was made by him. What he was.
He looked at his 'hands' and saw that they were covered in a black covering with a white and light blue fabric on top of it, the fabric wrapping round his hand and lacing its way up his arm, looking down, he saw that his chest was partially covered in the Blue and white fabric. But when he looked back at the gun, he saw that there was only three fingers on his hand. In his shock, he dropped the gun and looked at both of his hands, them both only having 3 fingers and covered in the fabric with a black underline to it, that also spread across his body.
"What the hell am I now? Am I even Human?" He said to himself and his hearing didn't pick up his voice as he knew it, it had a synthesised edge to it. He moved his new hands towards his mouth and they didn't get there as they hit a solid object, he felt to extent of what was in the way and it felt like a helmet of some sorts. 'Ok, one thing to check and then I am certain what I am.' He thought as he looked down and saw he legs were bowed at the knees and that he only had 3 toes. 'Oh God. No. I couldn't be? I am, shit.' He thought as he finally realised what he was finally, he was a Quarian in his enviro-suit. A very lacking eniro-suit, one that didn't look in very good condition.
After inspecting his suit over again, Conner leaned down and picked up his gun again, reholstering it to his magnetic belt on his waist. He moved out from where he was and found that the blizzard had moved fast and was upon his position, making vision next-to-none. He moved through the bushes that were in front of him and stop when he saw another shape in the blizzard, a tall humanoid, bearing armour, Conner relaxed back to watch the form move around, with a huge weapon on its back,
When Conner leaned back fully, he hit a sharp piece of rock, making him groan in pain, the form looked at him when it heard Conner, Conner made the rash decision to bolt, the figure trained onto him, throwing a blue light towards him, only missing him by a few centimetres, this light impaled the ground and sat there. "HOLY SHIT!" Was Conner's response as he caught his heart in his throat, the light almost catching him.
"What do you want?!" Conner shouted at his opposer, the form moving towards him deliberately.
"All I need is answers, then we can go on our peaceful ways." Said the form to Conner.
"What kind of answers? I know nothing of anything that would be relevant to you!" Conner retorted, he pulled his Predator out and held it steady, even though he didn't know how to fire a weapon properly (UK law prohibits Firearms), he still knew how to hold one and make a threat with it. "So? What do you want?" The figure quickly drew his sniper from his back in lightning fast pace, pointing straight at Conner's head
"Where are we would be the best place to start." Nathan said to the Quarian, who was shaking with the threat that had been established on his head.
"As I said, I have no clue where we are, why do you even want to know?!" The Quarian replied.
"How do you not know Quarian, you are suppose to know where you are going when you go on your pilgrimages."
'Wait… how does a Human know about Quarian Pilgrimages?' Conner thought to himself "How? How do you know that?"
"Call me knowledgable." Nathan started to get impatient with the Quarian in front of him. "Ok." Nathan lowered his Sniper and put his hand out to re-greet the Quarian. "My Name is Nathan Caineson. What is yours?"
'What? Nathan Caineson? Must be a coincidence. Might as well play along, if it really is him, he will recognise my name straight away. Might get a laugh out of it as well.' "My name is Conner'Eclipse. Nice to meet you Nath." Conner reaches out and takes the handshake in his own, three-fingered hand, the naturalness surprising Conner.
'Okay then… Conner? And the Surname is Eclipse, could be affiliated with the Mercs, but coincidence can happen. Lets see if he gets this joke, this will be the nail in the coffin' "Good, now lets make like the Sun, and rise from the shadow." Nathan said.
"And then the Moon will disappear….at….dawn" Conner continued fluidly. Taking in the shock of what he just said, but smiling behind his helmet, glad to have found his brother in this strange and desolate world. "Damn, it's good to see you, but I thought you were meant to be a good aim, judging by that sword you threw, you lost your touch." Conner insulted Nathan.
"Yeah, well, you don't normally get to throw a sword do you? Didn't think that you'd be complaining though, you survived, I can give it another go if you want?" Nathan asked nonchalantly.
"No, but thank you for the offer, it was very kind." Conner smiled behind his helmet.
"I could try with this one this time, I'm sure I wouldn't miss." Nathan moved his sniper, noting it's existence.
"No, lets see what we can do here instead, where are we anyway, nothing that I have ever seen before, but then again, we never see the whole of either universe." Conner stated and looked over to his right, seeing a hill that would give him better line of sight of the proceedings. He walked off and Nathan put his weapons back and walk on behind him.
"So what's your bet on the whole thing?" Nathan asked randomly.
"What kind of bet and on what said issue?"
"Which universe are we in? Judging by what I am seeing here, we could be in either, or in both, just merged somehow."
"I would check on my Omni-tool, but the issue is, I have no clue how to use the thing."
"Push some buttons, that got you so far in IT didn't it?"
"Ah, yeah, pushing buttons that could all but end my very life now. Then no, I'm going to have to learn or find someone who knows how to work it."
"That will be the first thing you will need to do. And get some training on how to shoot your guns." Nathan chuckled at Conner as the reached the top of the hill, looking over it and seeing nothing but a white haze of the blizzard that had rolled in.
"How do you even know how to shoot that thing, some sort of implant in your head." Conner said sarcastically as Nathan pulled out his sniper, laying down and looked down the scope, the scope illuminating the sightlines, Nathan, scanning the area, saw a figure moving, lining it up. The figure having a very long neck and the body had tubes flowing out of it and going up its neck to it's head.
"Oh, no. Bro, look here, I may have just found out where we are." Nathan said and moved out of the way of the scope, letting Conner look down it, seeing the figure, the HUD of Conner's mask identifying the entity. "See what I'm seeing?"
"Yes, and it is a whole lot worse, that thing is a Destroyer, you know what? Try and pop its head off, give you some training with it, prove me wrong." Conner moved away and Nathan took the sniper back into his grasp, lining up the scope with the shadowed head of the Destroyer, holding his breath and taking his shot, the bullet flying through the mist and hitting the Destroyer in the back of the head, the large shell obliterating it. Nathan, removing himself from his tunnel vision. Conner saw on his HUD that the geth had been killed and there was no 'health' left on the bar. "Not bad. Now, lets go and see what we have got. " Conner said as he started to walk down the hill carefully, the bowed legs giving him more support than he first thought. Nathan tailed him and as the reached their kill, some gunfire was heard, they ran to a nearby hill next to the departed geth. Nathan once again propped up and waited for anything to come into view, the blizzard had lightened since the last seen.
"Now, I wonder who we have here." Nathan muttered to himself and then saw three figures move from their hiding spot, all conversing on the Geth that Nathan had just killed. There was now 3 other Geth that had been killed. Nathan looked at them closer, seeing one that he sworn to have recognised. But putting all of them in the same category as Conner, Quarians. 'That explains why the geth are here' he thought. Then seeing a Turian, a Batarian and a Salarian moving on their position, guns at the ready and aiming at the group of Quarians. "Conner! Get down there, there are some people after this group, and there is one of them that I recognise in said group, I'll meet you down there when they are all safe." Nathan said as he kept his eyes trained on the group moving towards them.
"Remember, only warning shots on the guys that are near the Geth, no need to become a killer so soon."
Conner did as told and went down to the place where the group of Quarians were stationed. He arrived near and hid behind a rock, looking up towards where Nathan was and giving the thumbs up that he was okay. Conner then got out from his hiding spot and walked towards the Quarians, gun still at his side. The one in a blue suit to notice of him and aimed his weapon at him, the green one next to him following suit.
"Stay there, don't bloody move!" The one in the Blue suit said, Conner came to a stop and put his hands on his helmet. "What is your business here." He commanded.
Conner quickly replied. "We are lost, we got separated in the blizzard that cut our line of sight to our ship."
"We? Who is we?" The green one continued.
"I have a friend who is watching our every move."
"Rubbish! No-one will be able to see in this blizzard!" The blue one protested. Moving closer with his weapon trained at Conner's head.
"Get any closer with the intent that I think you have, and you will be sorry." Conner grinned behind the mask. Putting his hands down from his head. The Quarian made movement with his gun and just as he was about to pull the trigger, a bullet whizzed past and left a smoke trail, only centimetres from the visor of the Quarian. "See, now stop being so macho, and help us get off this planet."
"We would have to see, we are here helping a pilgrim, are you on yours?" He asked as he put back his guns
"Goddamn bosh'tet of a machine, could have gotten a lot move if someone didn't shoot the thing before I could hack it." A female voice shouted, presumably, to herself as she got herself up off the floor and looked at Conner and the Green Quarian who was close to him. "Who are you? You didn't come with us, did you?" She asked and Conner immediately knew who that was, Tali'Zorah nar Rayya.
"My name is Conner'Caineson. I have a human friend along with me, he should be down here shortly." As soon as he finished his statement, Nathan appeared behind him. Tapping him on the shoulder, then moving next to him, all of the Quarians looked at him with slightly odd looks, all taking into the fact that he was wearing completely different armour to what they were use to.
"Er, what is he wearing?" Tali asked.
"Some Alliance prototype, he has had it for a while, he just hasn't returned to Earth since I had met him on my travels."
"OK, but that still doesn't answer to why both of you are out here? This is a remote planet off the grid and it is full with Geth apparently." Nathan moved suddenly as he saw movement behind the group of Quarians. "What? What is so interesting that is behind me?" The Green one asked.
"Don't move, we are being watched." Nathan said flatly as he zoomed in on his target, firing at the Batarian who was hiding in the snow, his glint giving him away very easily. "Do you have any transport? We need to move now, it won't be long before the others that were following him, track that sound to here."
"Yes, we have a ship not to far away from here." The Blue Quarian stated as he moved through the gap that was between Conner and Nathan and the whole group turned around and followed him. He led them to a old-looking ship, worse for wear, then gunshots rang out as the group were hammered by mass accelerator slugs, Nathan turning around and locking on his target, taking him out, but his clip ran dry, the next shot resulted in a click. Nathan worried as he wouldn't have enough time to reload, so did the next stupidest idea.
"Conner, take my handgun, I need to retreat, meet you on the ship." Nathan said as he threw the Magnum at Conner, which he caught fluidly. Clicking the safety off 'Now this is a proper gun' he thought as he aimed carefully and took his shot, the bullet landed in the target and in it's leg, making the target fall to the floor, giving Conner enough time to run up the ramp of the ship and fall as the ramp lifted up as he was running up them. "Conner? You alright?"
"Yeah….just a few bruises, nothing that will show, literally." He said as he got up and sat down next to Nathan, who was reloading his Sniper, one bullet at a time, into the magazine. Conner tilted his head in confusing, Nathan responded with opening up the release and showing him the jam.
"Thing jammed up on me, I'm combating it with manual slotting, but the setback is that I can only fire 3 rounds before the slow process has to be repeated again." Nathan looked back at his gun, slotting the last bullet into it. "Gun please." He simply said. Conner gave Nathan back his magnum and moved back to where he was, before he was confronted by Tali.
"Look, I know I have just given you a free ride off the planet, but need to know I trust you Conner."
"Damn, you already know his name, I call that trusting." Was all that Nathan said before he was pushed by Conner, making his sniper fall out of his lap. "Okay, okay, I was joking." He picked it back up and started to clean it out.
"Sorry about him, yeah, you can trust us, but I can tell that you are not at the moment, so tell me, what would convince you?"
Tali sat down next to Conner and answered his question. "What birthship are you from, you said your name, but never where from, I would like to know."
Conner looked down at his wrist before looking back at Tali. "If you can help me with my Omni-tool, I can tell you everything." He motioned his arm at her, the tool not activating. Tali took his arm and fiddled with something on his suit, the Tool popping up and glowing a bright orange. Conner moved his hand back and used his hand as a mouse of some sorts. It worked, but the issue was that he couldn't read it, it was all in Keehlish. He thought of a way out of it. "Er, Tali, its all showing up in Human English, do you have a translator to help me?"
"Yeah, here try it now." She said and Conner plan had worked the translator had worked backwards as well, now letting him see it in English. Scrolling through, he saw his birth ship the Helash. His parents and his age, him only aging at 23, a 4 year difference to what he was back in 2014. He quickly looked at the date and saw it was 2183. 'So it was the Mass Effect Universe after all' "I'm born on the Helash in 2160. I went on my pilgrimage 8 month ago and have not returned since." He motioned to Nathan.
"This is Nathan Caine, my Human friend who I befriended a month after leaving the Helash, We travel together, he backs me up at times with his suit that he is wearing. It is not an Envirosuit though, he can live outside of it, he just chooses not to as he is socially awkward."
"I am not socially awkward." Nathan scoffed.
"Whatever, we boarded a ship out to here as we heard there were some Prothean ruins of some sort and wanted to investigate. We got left on the planet as we lost the ship in the blizzard. And now we are here. That's all I got, enough for you?"
"Yeah, that is fine by me, just seeing another Quarian out here randomly is just weird so I wanted the information that I needed."
"Who are you and your friends then? I think we deserve to know who you are, after we did save you from the people on the planet." Conner stated and Tali shifted nervously.
"My name is Tali, Tali'Zorah nar Rayya, I'm the daughter to Admiral Zorah. The one in the blue is Keenah'Breizh and the one in Green is Florah'Cazel, They are part of the crew who brought me out here after seeing Geth activity on the Planet's surface. We had noticed that there was activity but I never thought it would be hostile, thanks for the save by the way Nathan." She nodded her head towards him.
"Hey, It wasn't a hard shot at all, he showed himself too much, I don't think he was ready for a tungsten round going through his head." Nathan mused.
"Tali! We have arrived at Ilium's airspace…. and they are not letting us land." Keenah said as the Asari on the other end argued with Florah.
"Quarian vessel Honorata, We….Uh." The first asari said
A second asari cut in. "Our platforms are backed up. Hold your pattern and we'll let you know when we see an opening."
The first asari continued. "Could be a while for you Honorata, may want to look for a different port to dock." The comm went dead.
"I'm guessing they are not the friendliest to Quarians around here?" Nathan said.
"Ilium is not the best for Race equality, last I heard of it, they have Quarians as 'indentured servants.'" Tali pointed out.
"Slaves basically?"
"They like to call them 'indentured servants.'"
"If they don't like us, why don't you just land there." Nathan pointed out the window. "If we run into resistance, I can form a pretty good wall."
"No, they will just shoot us out the sky if we get too close to the port." Keenah stated.
"So, go there and see what happens."
"Maybe not the best idea Nath, I see pretty big weapons pointing at us right now."
"Well, going against what I do, we're going to have to wait it out then."
About an hour later…
"Honorata, you are cleared for landing at landing bay C31 please hurry, we have a queue forming behind you." The asari finally responded.
Nathan got up from his seat and readied his pistol. "I'll go first, make sure no-one is waiting for us at the bay." He moved to the start of the landing ramp.
Conner followed suit and ushered everyone to get ready. There were more crew on the ship that didn't want anything to do with the task at hand now. "Come on everyone, ready up behind me, all crew that want to leave, spread out and don't follow each other, go underground if you have to. Tali, Florah, Keenah. Follow me and Nathan, we will try and find a good spot to hide from anyone dangerous."
The landing bay door opened and Nathan made his way down it, scanning the area around the ship, seeing no-one who could be a threat, he motioned for the others to come out and make their way out of the port. All but the ground crew made their way down and spread out into the streets behind the doors. Conner, Nathan, Tali, Keenah and Florah made their way out of the ship and to safety. Going into a warehouse across the street.
"Right, we need to find someone who will help us, anything that we can use to bargain with?" Keenah said.
Conner simply stated. "Not from our end."
"Nope. All the data I had was on the ship." Florah added
The whole group looked at Tali expectantly. Nathan and Conner knew that she had the data from the Geth. She stammered. "Well, I had a look over the cache I got from the Geth and found an audio file in it."
"Well what did it say then?" Pressured Kennah. Tali opened up her Omni-tool and played the message.
"Eden Prime was a major victory! The beacon has brought us one step further to finding the conduit" The notorious Spectre Saren Arterius said over the slight static in the background.
Nathan and Conner expected to hear Benezia at the end of it, but it just went silent. "Anything else on it, that couldn't be the only thing that you got." Conner said.
"I could have gotten more if I got to the Geth earlier. But someone killed it before I could get a ping from it." Conner looked at Nathan and Nathan knew that he was pissed.
"Hey, in my defense, it was your idea." Nathan retorted.
"Anyway, I'm sure we can get some protection as from what the pickup says, It was Saren Arterius. He is a council Spectre, he is the highest class they have, this could be a huge blow if a Turian is working with the Geth, I'm sure that don't want this to be released."
"Agreed, but how do we get to the Citadel, we have no trans-" Florah was cut off by gunfire that emanated from the other side of the wherehouse. Nathan was the first with his lightning fast reflexes, seeing a Turian in Blue and orange armour 'That can't be Garrus. No.' He thought but that was removed as he saw two batarians behind the Turian. He raised his magnum and landed two shots into the chest of the Batarian easily, the shields not detecting the rounds, being to slow to activate the shields, the Batarian dropped to the floor. Then throwing his sword from his hip and it flew through the air and landed in the abdomen of the other batarian., making the stomach acid leak out.
"Everyone, go! I will regroup will you there. Just got to retrieve something." Nathan ordered and the others bolted from the position, leaving Nathan to take on the Turian.
"So, Human, you ready for your friends to get killed?" Nathan didn't respond. "No? Well, of course, because you are not going to be living by the time I get there."
"You're not very good at this intimidation stuff, are you Split-Jaws?" Nathan finally spoke, hoping to get the larger alien angry. This apparently had the desired effect as the Turian sprinted at Nathan, not even bothering to shoulder his rifle.
"You pathetic piece of filth! You dare insult a Turian?!" The Turian yelled as he threw a fist at Nathan, who ducked below the attack, clenching his fist and ramming it into the Turian's sides, and delivering a quick punch to the aliens head with his free hand.
"Oh, I didn't know that Turians take offense to that. Stupid me…."
Using the momentum Nathan had given him, the un-named Turian rolled with the punch, spinning around, and landing a solid fist against Nathan's head. The force of the punch left Nathan slightly disorientated, staggering him. The Turian went in with a Talon swipe at Nathan's neck, but didn't expect Nathan's lighting fast reflexes, the murky cloud quickly fading from Nathan's view, his head clearing from his confusion. Nathan latched onto the Turians wrist, stopping the Turian dead, Nathan pulled, dragging the Turian closer, and rammed his helmet into the Turians exposed plates. Nathan grinned at hearing some of the teeth in the Turians jaw break. The blood trickled down the Turians mandible, enraging him.
"Doesn't feel too good, does it?" Nathan taunted, as the Turian lost all common sense and charged Nathan, full sprint. Nathan simply let fly with a fist, catching the Turian straight in the face, knocking him unconscious, his body falling to the floor in a heap, a pained cry escaping his mouth. Nathan's smile faded as he felt a throbbing in his hand, slowly becoming more predominant as the adrenaline wore off.
"Best not be punching metal again, hurts like mad." Nathan said to himself, making a mental note that he just knew that the note would be lost amidst his forgetful mind.
Nathan crouched down and pulled the left arm up and pulled the wristband off it, putting it on his own arm. "Also, thanks for the tool." He said before pulling out the sword from the Batarians abdomen, the acid still on the blade but falling off when he deactivated it then running off and to the rendezvous point.
Conner and the Other Quarians were hiding in an alley, the way back to the Honorata had been blocked by Batarians and Turians, no way that they were going to get back on the ship. "So what are we suppose to do now?" Asked Tali, Conner looking at the group of enemies that blocked the path.
"We wait for Nathan." He simply responded.
"When will he get here, we will be found before he gets here."
"There he is." Is all Conner said as he saw Nathan sneaking behind one of the guards, stabbing him with his sword, his hand over the guard mouth, muffling him, then sneaking over to where Conner was. "What took you?"
"Dealing with Jacobus, I got this off him as well." Nathan showed Conner his Omni-tool, glowing in his face.
"Good, right, we need to find a way over there, we should stow away on that cargo ship, then get out and speak to the Council." Conner knew that speaking to the Council wouldn't work but the plan still had to go ahead.
"There, a path to it is highlighted, take it and we should avoid any enemies." Florah stated and started to move towards the cargo ship, but she moved too unnaturally, her movements too stiff, making the Batarians spot her easily. Taking aim and landing a shot straight in her torso, dropping her. The shot made everyone else hesitate before they moved into the streets.
They group had made it the ship and got aboard it without anymore incidents, Tali and Keenah sitting down against the crate.
Tali breathed a sigh. "I hope that the data is worth all the trouble that we have just been through."
"It should be, as long as the Council listens, ah, I see we have a issue there." Conner chuckled.
"Too right." Nathan added.
"It's going to be a long ride to the Citadel, better get some sleep." Keenah said as he leant up against the crate as well.