In this chapter, shepards team infiltrate the cave, and find what they where looking for
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Lets get going and surprise these bastards before they have any idea what happened with their friends' Ashley said.
Shepard nodded and they made their way across the rocky formation to the top, leaving behind the bodies of the four bandits they had just killed.
The encounter had only taken less then a minute, but you could never be to carefull.
'Javik, take the left flank with Ashley, wrex you take the middle, and I'll take the right flank with Tali' Shepard said as they reached the top.
He was panting.
It was over a year ago since he destroyed the reapers, and his physical condition had somewhat declined.
'What now?' Wrex asked.
'We approach them stealthily, make sure we don't get spotted, then we try to take as many out as we can before we go in' Shepard said.
'Why not doing it the other way around?' Wrex said.
'You'll have plenty to shoot Wrex, don't worry' Shepard said, smirking.
The group divided themselves like shepard had said.
After half a minute or so, everyone was in position, and awaited instructions.
Shepard moved his right hand up and down, urging them to hide behind the rocks.
He peeked over the edge, and looked at the camp below him.
It was over fifty meters away, ideal distance for sniper rifles.
Shepard switched to the group's com, declaring:
'I'll take the krogan with the shotgun, ash you take the one with the assault rifle, Tali and Javik, just shoot whatever you can get your sights on, mark your targets and try to kill everyone with a single shot.
'What about me?' Wrex asked.
'You'll have to wait before I give the signal' Shepard said.
'Why should all of you guys get all the fun?' Wrex said, slightly upset.
'Don't worry, I'll use my secret krogan card' Shepard said.
It took some moments before Wrex realized what he said, and he laughed.
'Alright everyone, wait for my signal' Shepard said and he once again peeked over the edge, holding his black widow sniper rifle in his left hand.
He was waiting for the majority of the guards to turn their backs to them.
It took some time, but shepard and his team waited patiently.
Eventually it happened.
'Now!' Shepard said over the com, immediately thereafter, four shots where fired.
To shepards surprise, the shot he fired at the krogan did not penetrate the very though headplate, but thanks to the widow's reload speed, the krogan was dead before he could even feel the pain of the first hit.
Ashleys shot did kill the krogan in a single hit, her shot penetrated a tiny weakhole in the krogans forehead, just above its eyes, turning his brains into mush.
Javik and Tali hid their mark, both clean headshots.
The bandits didn't know what was happening.
Pure panic took a hold of them.
They started to run wild like chickens in a coop.
But there was nowhere to hide for them.
The combined sniper rifle fire cut them down before they even located where the shots where coming from.
'Dammit leave some for me!' Wrex said.
Out of seventeen bandits that they could see, only four where still alive after only twenty seconds.
They finally managed to locate where the shots came from, and returned fire, but only hitting the rocks around shepard and his team, not even close to hitting them.
In a last desperate move, the remaining bandits went back inside the cave, losing another two of them on the way.
'Everyone get inside the cave and finish them of!' Shepard said.
Wrex was to first to rush over their cover, leaving shepard, tali, Ashley and Javik to follow him.
They made their way down the slope, and reached the front of the cave.
A few shots came from inside, only hitting the corpses of their friends outside.
'If anyone wants another kill, try to keep up with me' Wrex said, and he stormed into the cave.
'What the hell?' A few voices yelled from inside the cave.
'Dammit he's fast' Shepard said as he tried to keep up with Wrex.
Wrex was surprisingly fast for someone so large.
Everytime Shepard thought he was close, Wrex finished off the bandits with a shotgun shell.
Even though the bandits outnumbered them, it wasn't a fair fight.
Shepard and his team had already killed the majority of them outside the cave.
And on top of all of that, shepard had a krogan.
A very deadly krogan.
Everything the bandits did to stop him, was futile.
There wasn't really anything you could do to stop an eight hundred pound battering ram.
They got deeper inside the cave, discovering what the bandits had been up to.
The place was used to mainfacture drugs, loads of different kinds, all illegal under the counsil law.
'Perfect place to hide' Shepard said to himself.
As they chased Wrex, the only bandits they found where already dead, wrex's shotgun didn't settle for halfwork.
'Dammit, I think we got all of them' Wrex said suddenly.
The team reached up to Wrex, and found that he was right.
He had killed the final bandit with a shotgun shell to the face, and he was looking around to see if there was any other hallway the bandits could hide in.
'It doesn't seem like there are any left' Tali said.
'Next time, I'll leave some for you' Wrex said.
Before the assault on the bandits base had really begun, it was already over.
'What now shepard, we took down the bandits, so what next?' Ashley asked.
Shepard looked at Javik.
'Where are the stone tablets located?' He asked.
Javik nodded his head.
'They aren't stone tablets, but memory shards' Javik said.
Shepard looked at him in surprise.
'That shouldn't be possible, every memory shard I know of is the same, all of them are extremely high tech' Shepard said.
'That's because you're not a prothean' Javik said.
'You know where they are?' Shepard asked.
Javik shook his head.
'I feel they are inside the cave, but I don't know exactly where'
The team followed him as he strolled around inside the cave.
Javik turned everything upside down, trying to find the memory shards.
'Any idea what we're looking for' Tali asked.
'I don't know, they could be anything' Javik said.
The team tried to help Javik find the shards, but it didn't help.
As the minutes went by, and nothing was found, shepard sat down for a moment.
Tali joined him.
'I hope he finds them quickly, I don't like this place, it feels so weird' Tali said to him.
'Lets search through the trash' Ashley said.
'I give up' Wrex said after half an hour had passed.
'Dammit, don't you primitives have any patience?' Javik exclaimed.
'Be thankful we where willing to come with you' Ashley said.
'I am' Javik said.
'Then fucking act like it' Ashley said.
Five minutes later.
'You're really sure its in this cave?' Ashley asked Javik.
'I have never been so certain' Javik said.
'Well if you're so damn certain, why haven't we found it yet?' Wrex said, and he grabbed a random rock from the floor, and threw it against the left wall of the cave.
Immediately as he did that, Javik followed the stone.
'Really?' Wrex said in surprise.
'A random rock?' Ashley said.
Javik grabbed the rock from the floor, sat down on a stool and removed his handgloves.
'Watch out, the air is toxic' Shepard said.
'I don't really care' Javik said, and he touched the rock with his bare skin.
A few seconds went by, but nothing happened.
Then Javik closed his eyes, and started to mumble in a language no one had heard before.
'You ever seen him act like that?' Wrex asked.
'Never' Shepard said.
After two minutes Javik reopened his eyes, and looked at them.
'What did you see?' Shepard asked.
'The final moments of Kalinea before the bomb exploded, but I found out who did it, and they weren't indoctrinated' Javik said.
'You sure about that?' Tali asked.
'Yes, it was difficult to see, but possible' Javik said.
'Who detonated the bomb?' Ashley asked.
Javik was silent for a few moments as he thought about it.
'A group of people, they did it out of desperation, one single prothean had caught word of what they where trying to do, and had left them to alert other protheans' Javik said.
'So they killed hundredths of thousands to simply hide what they were doing?' Tali asked in surprise.
'I didn't find out exactly what they were doing, but I know where they went after the bomb exploded' Javik said.
'Tell me' Shepard said.
'The titan nebula, on a planet my people called: 'Pherth 185' Javik said.
'Never heard of that planet before' Shepard said, and he looked at the others in the group.
But everyone shook their heads.
Javik also shook his head.
No one had any idea where the planet was located.
It was a complete mistery.
'Are you completely sure you don't know where it is?' Shepard asked to Javik.
He once again shook his head.
'No, as I already said, the shard was very vague, the person who made it probably didn't have enough time' Javik said.
'It seems like we reached a dead end' Ashley said.
Shepard thought for a moment before he got an idea.
If the information of the planets whereabouts still exist, there was only one person who could come up with it.
The shadow broker.
'We have to get in touch with Liara, she is probably the only one who can find out the location of the planet' Shepard said.
Javik nodded in agreement.
