The plan was to be executed on a Monday. Remember that.
The plan was to find Liara T'Soni and get out of this place, right? Well, certain things happened that made the mission parameters change slightly. For one, there were geth here...a whole lot of geth. And they weren't just the weak troopers that were fun to blast at, there were some juiced-up destroyers here with them. The snipers gave Jane a run for her money, if it wasn't for the fact that they were shooting to kill then she might've had a little fun. But no, she was stuck killing these things with Wrex and John while on the hunt for 'the prothean expert'. Oh, and speaking of killing geth with Wrex and John...
"You know Shepard, I'm not complaining or anything but, couldn't we have just...driven past most of these?" Wrex asked.
The question itself made Jane very upset. Reason being, she already knew this; in fact, she was the one who even hinted at this when they fought off the first few geth they encountered. And boy, were those first geth something else.
"Why would we do that?" John answered. "We're gonna show those geth bastards that we aren't afraid of them. Best way to do it would be by taking down the ones we come across."
"Is that really your thought process right now, John?" Jane asked. She was getting more upset by the moment, and if John didn't choose his next words very carefully, he was going to get shot.
"Hey, if we're gonna find that prothean doctor then we need to remove all enemies in our way."
"...No! We need to stay alive so we can find the doctor, not fight unnecessary battles like these!"
"Are you saying my methods are unnecessary?"
"Yes! That's exactly what I'm saying!"
"Settle down, children." Wrex said as he hopped back into the Mako. "You can fight later, right now we need to go find the asari doctor. And then you can argue aboard the Normandy."
"Whatever, I guess we can do it your way for now." John muttered before stepping inside the Mako, though it was obvious that he wasn't happy. Jane didn't care, as long as they followed her plan and not his, then maybe they'd actually live long enough to see the doctor. As they drove onward they passed any geth they happened to run into, and while the Mako's shields were holding, John was already getting antsy. As long as he didn't get Wrex to stop the Mako, Jane was content to let him be his weird and jerky self.
From that point on, they had only left the Mako twice; once to deal with a blockade problem, and because there was a spot which the Mako just couldn't fit through. So they continued on foot, and fought more geth on foot. John and Wrex were the front line, and Jane was in the back picking off any geth she was able to focus into her scope. Those damn snipers were good though, managed to bring her shields down quite a bit before she was able to take them out. Hell, one of them almost got a good shot at her had Wrex not spotted it. He took the sniper down with some handy biotic work, which Jane still could not believe he could use.
As they moved forward it seemed as if they had a clear shot at the ruins where T'Soni could be, but as usual, they were screwed over. A geth dropship had dropped off some more troops, and even before that there seemed to be geth in hiding that they couldn't find because...well, they were very good hiders. And that was surely one of the top ten firefights Jane had been in so far, for the simple fact that she nearly used up all of her medi-gel. That, and her shields got disabled...and she got shot in her left shoulder...and had gotten blasted by that geth cannon blaster and nearly died. But hey, John and Wrex weren't faring much better.
Lies, they were faring much better. Probably because they didn't need to stand like a statue to get a good shot. But eventually, they killed them all and proceeded inside of the ruins. After killing the first few geth inside of there, John thought it the perfect time to patronize Jane.
"You know, if you had been a little quicker on the draw you might've held your ground a little better."
"I got shot in the shoulder, blasted in the chest, nearly died...and that's all you can say?"
"Relax, I knew you'd be fine. This all could've been handled better though. Always keep an assault rifle, a little lesson for my little sister."
"You and me? We'll settle this later." Jane said as she brushed John's comments aside for the moment. There were more important things to attend to, and she didn't need any geth knowing about it. As they went down the elevator shafts the second one began to malfunction and seemingly cease to work. Oh well, no going back up that way. Though once they got off, they heard the calls of someone in need of help. If the trio were lucky, it would belong to their doctor.
And sure enough, it was her. Though as of the moment she seemed to be in a little predicament.
"Hello! Can you hear me out there? I am trapped, I need help!" She would call out. Not exactly the wisest course of action when there were geth crawling around here.
"Shush! Geth are here, and you need to be quiet." John told her. "Now, how do we get you out?"
And then she told the group her story, how she had been there studying when geth and a krogan arrived. She kept herself safe behind the barriers, but she seemingly pressed a wrong button and gotten herself stuck. To top it all off, you couldn't get in from the outside, so they had to find some way inside. How exciting...
They began looking around when Wrex spotted a geth shock trooper closing in on them and began firing, which resulted in all geth firing on him, then Jane and John responded by firing on all of the other geth.
It was pretty sweet from John's perspective, Wrex thought it was blood-boiling fun, and Jane? Jane just wanted to go home at this point.
But in the end, the group came out on top, though Jane wasn't too thrilled she had to eventually resort to using her pistol. It was nice and all, but it just wasn't the same. There was a mining laser positioned in such a way that if they shot it, it could potentially give them a way inside to rescue Liara. And yet again, the tech savvy Jane had to come to the rescue. It took her a while, but once she understood the controls she was able to get it up and working in no time. After the laser was done doing its' thing, they rushed up to get Liara free of her bubble thing. The obvious question came up wondering if she was working with her mother or not, and when she denied it everyone just said 'okay' and were on their way. Just as they were about to leave, some seismic activity began to happen, mainly caused by the mining laser. So now they had to leave as soon as possible before the place collapsed on them...great. Just...great. To add to that, Joker's ETA was about eight minutes, and the group seemed to have mainly negative feelings about that.
"Today is Monday, right? Figures." Jane said with a sigh.
The elevator then took them up until it came to a complete stop. And wouldn't you know it, more enemies! Didn't they kill everyone already? In front of them were about a dozen geth, and one krogan; said krogan began to walk towards them with a few geth following behind him. With a shotgun in his hands, Jane was pretty sure this guy was not about to just let them leave without a fight, so as soon as he opened his mouth, she shot him in it. That was a clear signal to everyone else to fire, and yet again another shootout commenced. This time was shorter however, as there were fewer hiding places for the geth to run away to.
Then Liara opened the barrier near the walkway that Jane and the others had come through, and the race was on! Literally. The place started to come down around them, there was no time to lose. As everyone began to run for their lives Jane's mind took this very serious time and turned it into a game of sorts. A game of speed, in which she would've been winning had she been able to properly swing her left arm. John was ahead of her, Liara was ahead of her, and Wrex was probably close to her in case she fell or something, though she doubted that. At this point, she was simply as fast as a non-charging krogan was, so...she didn't know how to take that.
"Damn it Lieutenant, hurry it up will ya!?" She had heard Wrex yell.
"I'm trying my best, lizard-boy!" Was her response. The situation was getting tense, and she did not need someone to remind her that she wasn't exactly being a great sprinter. And then it happened, that thing she would from this point forward remember as 'one of those things that we don't talk about'. She fell...during a time in which falling typically meant death. But that wasn't even the worst part! Okay, it really was, but not to her anyway. The worst part was when Wrex grabbed her by the collar of her armor and charged out of mine. It wasn't so bad, the only thing hurt was her pride. But at least she was alive...and thanks to Wrex again, no less.
"Stand tall Shepard, we've still got to get off of this rock." He told her as he let go of her collar an began to walk towards the Normandy. He couldn't at least help her up? No 'You okay down there, Shepard?' talk? Whatever, he was probably hoping for her to thank him, which would not be happening anytime soon.
"I could've made it on my own...but since you were such a gentleman, good job." She said. Well, it was as close to a thank you as he was gonna get. As she stood back on her own two feet she quickly glanced back at the now destroyed prothean dig site, and muttered under her breath that finding this T'Soni chick had better have been worth it. Once she turned back around she walked towards the Normandy as well, the last one to do so. This place was nothing short of a headache: hordes of geth, a krogan with a shotgun, the other krogan with a shotgun, John's 'kill or be killed' mentality, and this doctor getting herself stuck in some trap she would've probably never escaped from had it not been for them.
"I hate Mondays."
