"What do you mean that we're getting boarded?" Asked the pirate leader, sounding somewhat astonished. "We've got the best electromagnetic sensors that money could buy, and no entrance point to the ship except for the docking terminal. Unless you mean to say that someone built in an electromagnetic scrambler and is directly under us, that should be impossible."

"Sorry sir, it's just that we got a boarding request from seemingly out of nowhere. It appears to be coming from the docking terminal. What should we do?"

"Well we certainly can't accept the request." The pirate leader rationalized. "it very well could be someone aiming to take down our operation. Deny the request."

"Well, at least they can't say we didn't ask." CJ smiled as they got the return message. "Now I don't feel bad about breaking in the front door."

"Andrew, you in position?" CJ asked into the transponder that he held in his hand.

"I'm in position CJ." Andrew said from where he was watching. He had infiltrated the pirates' ship already and was sitting in the control room, overlooking the security cameras. He looked down at the bodies of the pirates that we in charge of security. "A little trouble getting here, but nothing too serious. It looks like the coast is clear guys, at least for another minute or so, the captain of this ship is sending reinforcements to the docking terminal, but they're taking a bit to set up so you should be good to go."

"Alright, let us know where to go once we break in." CJ said to the Salarian. "Come on Russell, let's show these losers who the boss around here is."

"You're talking about me right?" Russell asked sarcastically, lifting his pistol as if that made all the difference in the world.

"No, I'm talking about me," CJ laughed at his human friend. "You're just a lackey who's here for the shits and giggles. Now let's go!" And with that, CJ clipped his transponder to his armor and lifted his assault rifle as the Andrew opened the docking doors from the control room; allowing the two to rush onto the ship, ready for a fight if needed.

"Alright, so the ships halls are pretty straightforward from here," Andrew began, "you're in the hallway between the kitchen of the ship and the cargo hold, where these pirates keep all their stolen goods and supplies. Kitchen on left and Cargo on right. Currently there are two chefs in the kitchen, and three pirates in the cargo hold. The chefs don't appear to have any projectile weapons, but I would be wary about them coming at you from behind with knives, so I suggest you take them out first before going into the cargo hold to take out those thugs. There's a staircase in the cargo hold, where reinforcements will be coming from in a minute now, so get a move on."

"Gotcha man." CJ grunted out before he turned towards the kitchens and rushed in, catching the chefs by surprise as he shot them down in seconds. Russell kept a lookout from the doorway as the Krogan made one last sweep of the room, making sure it was clear of potential hostiles before they returned to the hallway and headed towards the cargo hold.

On entering the cargo hold, the two of them instantly noticed the increase in forces from three pirates to about eight. CJ put away his gun into its holster and pulled his warhammer off his back.

"Two snipers, off to each side, in vantage points high above you guys. Three others wielding guns, two without any weapons, and one fiddling with his omni tool, probably a tech guy. I suggest taking down the three without guns, they probably have biotic powers that'll be used for shielding allies; so taking them down will make this a faster fight and lead to you guys not having as many injuries." Andrew told them.

CJ used his biotic powers (Russell had been intrigued to find out that a Krogan could use biotics, but as long as CJ was using them on his enemies and not him, the human wasn't particularly apprehensive about it) to blink to the snipers, dispatching them with a quick knife to the throat for each of them. He then jumped down into the group of pirates below and slammed his Warhammer into two of them, instantly killing the tech pirate and one of the biotics.

Russell shot out from under cover from his position and aimed at the pirate near him; one with a gun and they began to shoot at one another. CJ grinned. The pirates around him scattered, not wanting to having to take down a Warhammer wielding Krogan warrior at close range, but with CJ's biotics, he caught all three of them in a matter of seconds.

CJ looked over to where Russell was still fighting the last pirate. Russell had some experience with a gun, but no real proper training and most of his shots were missing the pirate, going right passed his head. CJ took out his own pistol (He always had at least 3 of them on hand) and shot the pirate in the head, killing him.

"Come on kid, if you're gonna fight, at least do something." The Krogan joked, looking at the rest of the cargo hold. "I took all eight of those guys by myself and all you did was distract one of them!"

"It's not my fault that I'm useless!" The human joked back. In all honesty, it kind of was Russell's fault that he wasn't particularly useful in a firefight. He did in fact, have plenty of opportunities…

"Not completely useless, I think." Andrew mused over the transponder. "We can always use you as bait if it comes to it."

"Oh, that makes me feel so much better."

"Alright, we've got 5 more reinforcements coming down the staircase to your left, each of them have either grenade launchers or assault rifles. I'd recommend laying a trap for them at the bottom of the stairs."

And so Russell and CJ waited at the bottom of the staircase for about thirty seconds before the men came down and were completely demolished by a Krogan Warhammer and Russell's omni blade.

"Good job kid, that was a nice sucker punch there." CJ praised.

"Thanks." If there was one thing that Russell could do in a fight, it was throw a good punch, and with an omni blade on his arm, that meant a dead enemy in close quarters.

The two headed up the stairs slowly, waiting for a prompt from Andrew, and when none came, they rushed up the stairs to find the Salarian waiting for them in a hallway of dead pirates.

"There're only four guys left on the ship, and they're located in the navigation room and observation deck. I'll take the navigation deck and snipe out the two up there, you guys head to the observation deck and take out the leader and his right hand man."

The two nodded at Andrew's plan and headed down the opposite side of the hallway towards where the Pirate Leader was. He had his back turned to them, and they saw the other man standing off to the side.

"So this is where it ends." The Pirate Leader said, letting out a sigh. "You've taken out all of my men, and for what reason? I don't remember stealing from you or causing you issues."

CJ gave a dangerous grin. "You're stealing from the Quarians, and I've got some prize money to collect off your head. You've got a bounty of twenty two thousand credits, Moz'ru Jetai, and I intend on collecting."

Moz'ru turned around, revealing his face. A Turian, he had red warpaint over his eyes, striping down to his chin.

"Well then, get it over with; clearly I'm not going to win this fight." The Pirate Leader said, barely hiding his smirk as CJ approached. Russell, however saw it and activated a power that he hadn't needed to use in a long while.

A concussive blast resounded as a grenade blew up the spot around where CJ was located, however he was perfectly safe, because Russell had erected a biotic barrier just in time to absorb the damage.

"Nice blast, now it's my turn said the angry Krogan as he swung his Warhammer at the pirate leader, crushing his ribs and slamming him into the other pirate, who had come running at them. Russell dropped his barrier around his ally, utterly exhausted with the amount of energy that he had used to protect CJ.

"All good here," Andrew said, "Are you guys alright? I heard an explosion coming from the other room."

"Yeah, Russell came in clutch with a biotic shield for me, nice going kid."

Russell smiled bashfully. "it was nothing, I just saw the Turian grin as you approached and I knew something was up."

"Anyways, let's get the loot off this ship and send a message to the Quarian fleet, letting them know the pirates raiding their supply drops have stopped." CJ said with a grin.

"And so we took down the Turian Pirate Moz're Tekai, he had been the one stealing from your supply ships. We've got his ship on lockdown here the Pylos Nebula with a bunch of food and other things that I think you guys should be happy to have back. Send a supply ship and we'll be happy to help load it up for you guys." Andrew said over their ship's vid-comm.

A Quarian looked back through their vid-comm, acknowledging the help. "Thank you Andrew Lanor vas Poseidon. For your services, we shall compensate you for your aid to the Fleet."

Andrew gave a slight bow to the Quarian in front of him. "We shall await you here, Supplies Requisition Officer Fero'Shura vas Maagro." Fero'Shura nodded and cut the comm-link, leaving Andrew alone in the comm room. As he exited the room he encountered Russell and CJ talking about Russell's ability.

"Why didn't you tell us that you can create biotic barriers?" CJ inquired, "It would've been a huge help top know about things like that, now I know I can get more aggressive with you backing me up!"

"Hold up," Russell said, raising his hands in defense. "I'm not a strong biotic at all, my barrier could barely withstand the single grenade that the pirate had thrown. And even now, hours later I feel the drain of it. I can really only create a strong barrier once every couple of days, I have no real training with it."

"Most impressive, still, that you were able to create one so fast and block all of the damage from a grenade. Most Biotics, with the exception of course of the truly talented can react so quickly and harness the element zero inside them. Do you have an implant to help you control your power?" Andrew noted and asked the human.

Russell looked down for a moment before responding. "Yeah, my father paid for the surgery when I was seven years old. But that was over twelve years ago, and the implant drains too much energy if I use it consistently, so I try to use my biotics as little as possible."

"Understandable, that must mean, you were born in 2163, right when the starship failures caused a bunch of new human babies to have biotic potential… given your shielding potential, and no other biotic abilities yet to be shown, you probably have the Sirta Foundation Unity Amp, which lines up with when you got the implant, Sirta was pretty popular around that time." Andrew mused.

"Anyways, like I said, I can't exactly use my shields very often. I got exhausted more and more depending on how often and long I use my abilities, believe me I've tried." Russell said to the pair of them.

"Regardless, this could be a failsafe in case things go wrong for us. Just goes to show you aren't totally useless, like you said Russell!" CJ laughed out, clapping his hand on the human's back. "This adventure is actually looking to be a little fun!"