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Chapter 4

Sidonis followed the blood, it continued on for a couple of miles. He stopped when he came across a large building, which was obviously masked somehow since his Omnitool scanner didn't pick it up until he was 25 yards away. He snuck around in the brush, until he had a clear line of sight on the building.

He saw 4 sentries posted on the balcony on the 3rd floor of the building, wearing white and gold-orange armor. Then he saw it. The infamous logo painted large and proud on the wall he was facing. It consisted of a large black hexagon, supported by 2 larger L-shaped pieces colored a gold-orange like the troop's armor.

"Cerberus", Sidonis spat quietly. He turned and started proceeding back.

Sidonis ran back to the Alliance outpost where he and Kate were currently living. He found the Major's station, and ran to talk to him.

"Major Anderson,", Sidonis panted as he ran in. The Major was sitting at his desk, working on what looked like reports.

"What is it Lantar?", Anderson asked perplexed, as Sidonis caught his breath.

"There is a large Cerberus outpost 5 kilometers west of here!"

"What!? There is a Cerberus base that close, and we didn't know?", Anderson asked, thoroughly amazed, and frankly, angry that his army of techs and scouts hadn't seen it.

"I took some pictures of the building when I was over outside it—" Sidonis started, but was cut off by Anderson

"Why were you there?"

"I was on a morning walk, I found what looked to be a large ship's wreckage, with blood dripping in a clear trail in the soil away from the rubble. I decided to follow it. It went for a ways into the forest and led to the Cerberus base. It must've had some type of cloaking to it, because it still didn't appear on my scanner until I could clearly see it. It was a large base, atlas 3 stories tall, manned by a 50 soldier contingent", Sidonis explained.

"50 men! This is a problem. I need you to lead us to the site. Are you in?", Anderson said.

"Absolutely, let me go tell Kate."

"Alright, we'll be ready in 2 hours, meet us on the west gate of the camp."

Daniel worked as carefully as he could, it wasn't easy to fix this significant of a wound without any assistance or any technology besides what Cerberus offered in this dungeon.

The Centurion, who had since taken his helmet off, was a middle aged man, with short cropped black hair. Something about him made Daniel feel like he should know the man, but he couldn't quite put a finger on it.

The assault troopers had since moved Ellie into the room with him, 'as added incentive', as the Centurion put it.

He had successfully set all of the bones in Shepard's feet and legs, but she had long since fallen into a coma from the sheer pain of her injuries. It Still baffled Daniel how she stayed semi-conscience for the 2 days before he started working.

He noticed something when he set her right radius in her forearm. She started bleeding, which wasn't all to surprising, but it was the color of the blood that made him wonder. It wasn't red. It was purple. Daniel was perplexed. In his 8 years of medicine he had never seen a human with blood that wasn't red. He just needed to keep this information on the down low, no need to give the Cerberus asshats information.

Kate was a woman slight of build, measuring at 5'4". She had light brown hair and she was the most beautiful woman Sidonis had ever seen. If he were human, he'd've pinched himself.

She was running around, from patient to patient, helping however she could.

"We found a Cerberus base, and I'm heading up the Alliance team to take it down, so I'll probably be back to the room later tonight," Sidonis stated.

"What do you think you'll find?", Kate asked.

"I'm not sure. If I had to guess, I'd say either high value hostages, or a local training camp."

"I'll keep a bed open here at the hospital in case someone needs medical help. Please be careful. I love you." Kate said.

"I love you too, Kate." I don't know what I did to deserve a woman this perfect. If I ever see Shepard again, I'll need to repay her for saving my life. Sidonis thought to himself. Maybe in an enclosed space, with Garrus on another planet. Just in case.

It took 12 hours of operating, but Daniel had done it. He had set every single bone it Shepard's body, and, as he'd expected, she stayed locked in her coma. He hoped for her first sake that she stayed that way, by the looks of it, Cerberus was going to publicly execute her.

He attended to his wife's bullet wound now, finally, after 36 hours and a nasty cauterization job, he could treat her.

"How are you doing honey?", he asked, generally worrying, since their Cerberus hadn't fed them or gave them more than a glass of water.

What will they do to us once they kill Shepard? They wouldn't have any use for us, and why would they let us go? He thought about that and he chilled. So much has he not done in his life. He'd always wanted a child to carry on his family, he had no siblings and his parents had died a few years before. Even if he died, his wife didn't deserve to die, she was just a civilian, she hadn't harmed a fly in her life, he, on the other hand, had. He was in the Alliance Navy and had killed in his life, both humans and aliens, he was impulsive, and he didn't think of the consequence before he acted, thats why he shot the assault trooper back at the Crucible wreckage. If his act first, think later attitude cost his wife her life, he would never forgive himself.

"My leg hurts, but given the situation we find ourselves in, I can't complain." Ellie said, "I know we'll get out of this, and then you'll fix up my leg, family discount of course", she added wit ha laugh.

"I'm glad you're in such good spirits. I'm sorry about your leg, it was my fault that you got shot, if I hadn't—", Daniel started.

"Stop, this isn't your fault!", Ellie proclaimed. "You did what you thought was right, and that was trying to save the woman who was unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time."

As Ellie finished her sentence, Daniel perked up at the sound of a gunshot outside the outpost, after that, another, and another. The Cerberus guards rushed outside, and the door on the other side of the medical room burst open and a fully armored turian strode in holding an assault rifle. He quickly dispatched the 2 assault troopers that were about to go outside. He removed his helmet to reveal a turian male with purple clan markings on his mandibles.

"Are you two alright?", Sidonis asked.

"For the most part. Commander Shepard is lying on the operating table, we were on a walk in the forest looking for survivors, we knew the Crucible and the Citadel wreckage landed in these woods.", Daniel explained.

"Wait… did you say Commander Shepard?", Sidonis asked with utter disbelief at the coincidence. Daniel pointed to the operating table, where an unconscious Shepard lied.

"She saved my life 7 months back", Sidonis explained, "It's time I start repaying the favor." "Major Anderson, you need to come look at this", Sidonis called over the comm unit.

"What is it Lantar?", Anderson asked as he ran in a second later. Sidonis pointed at Shepard's body. "Tell me she isn't dead, please God tell me the savior of humanity isn't dead.."

"No sir, she is unconscious", Daniel said from the corner where he and Ellie sat, "Cerberus kidnapped us when we were looking for people to help, they shot my wife and forced me to fix Shepard's body."

"Alright, we are clear. Get MEDEVAC here ASAP!", Anderson barked to his men.

He opened up his Omnitool and made a call to Admiral Hackett.

"Give me an update Major, I've been briefed on your operation on the Cerberus base in our backyard.", Hackett said as he answered the call.

"Sir, we raided the Cerberus base, killed 55 operatives and captured what seems to be the ranking officer, we are taking him back to base to interrogate him."

"Use whatever means necessary to extract your information Major. Anything else to report?"

"Yes sir, we recovered 2 civilians who seem to have been taken by Cerberus to repair a high value target."

"And who would that be?," Hackett asked, intrigued on what person would make a Cerberus cell break cover to find.

"Commander Shepard."

Thats it guys. Sidonis is caught up, one more chapter for Garrus. I have a question, should I make Hackett be bad or good? I'll let you guys decide, but hurry and give me a review or a PM telling me.