Chapter 3

The Suns

Ty's mind wandered for the hour he slept through many of his past memories until finally he woke up. He opened his eyes and started to shake the grogginess he had from his mind trying to get a feel of how his body was and how he was positioned. It didn't take very long to feel the extra arms on his body and the legs intertwining with his left leg. The bare skin that was touching him reminded him of the pleasurable few hours he had shared with Jessica.

He looked down at the woman who was wrapped on his side. Damn that was a great few hours, but I need to go and find Haley. I've already wasted too much time relaxing my body for an hour. He had been asleep only for an hour but had been with Jessica for three hours before that, he needed to get going.

The warrior ran his fingers along Jessica's arm gently not to wake her but just to feel the contact. Can't say I regret this yet but we'll see how it all plays out. Either way Jessica is going to make Haley a lucky woman. He moved Jessica's arm off gently so he didn't stir her then got out of the bed. Ty grabbed his tank top and clamdiggers off the ground and put them back on and then walked to his shelf and started putting all his gear on.

He grabbed his tomahawks and spun them in his hands then put them in their holders on his back so the handles were pointing up for him to grab easier then put his dual heavy pistols in his side holsters and his rifle horizontal on his back waist holster. Once he was done he picked his shoes off the ground and sat on the edge of the bed to put them on.

As he got his last one on he felt movement on the bed and then felt a set of hands on both of his shoulders that then ran down his chest. "That was awesome just so you know." Jessica said.

It was awesome, but it wasn't just his doing. It took both of them to make it as amazing as it was. "You were too. Make yourself at home around here, my dad and brother will probably be around also so don't be afraid to talk to them."

Her lips pressed butterfly light kisses on his shoulder then she rested her chin on it. "Be safe Ty and please bring her back safely."

Oh did he plan on bringing Haley back safely. If anyone had hurt her they were going to suffer. Ty was going to bring her back no matter what he had to do. He turned back to her to say something but he forgot because Jessica planted a slow kiss onto his lips. When they parted he spoke again. "I promise I will. Sleep a little longer, you need it."

Jessica smiled. "True. See you Ty."

Jessica let go of him and Ty got off the bed and walked out his door. The purple eyed man walked down into the docking area and saw his brother by his own space bike doing what looked like mechanic work. They looked similar but were different in their own ways. One thing they had that no one could take from them was their brotherhood. RBZ 4 Life was more than three letters a number and the word life, it meant Rhoddy Boyz for life, it meant that nothing, not women, not distance, not even time could break their bond that they shared. They could always rely on each other to be there no matter what shitstorm got in their way and no matter what they'd stand side by side with one another, to the death if they had to.

"Z!" Ty yelled.

His brother turned and, at the sight of him, opened his arms. "Well looky looky who we have here. What, you don't have any other place to bring your women?"

The younger brother smiled and gave his brother a hug as he got to him. "Nah, she needs my help. Remember Haley?"

Z nodded. "Yeah, I still have nightmares of hearing her moan as I walked by."

Ty slapped his brother in the chest as he chuckled. "Shut up asshole, well Haley and this girl Jessica are together and she hasn't heard from her in a while. Haley told her to contact me so now I'm going to Freedoms Progress to see if the Suns are behind it."

"Wait those two are dating? And you just shagged her?"

Ty shrugged on the outside but hearing his brother say it didn't help how he felt about it. He needed to focus on getting Haley then apologize to her if she cared, even if she didn't he felt the need to apologize. "Haley told her it was alright I guess so my conscious is clear…for the most part. Anyway, I have to go. Is Daddy still out killing?"

"Yeah he just called, told me to tell you if you left before he got back to stay safe and that he loves you."

"Okay. If I'm not back tonight tell him I love him and tell Jessica not to worry and that means I'm out finding Haley alright?"

Z nodded. "I got it. Stay safe out there, some colonies have been attacked out in the Terminus system so be on your guard. Love you."

Ty hugged him again. "Love you too. Kill more Suns when you go out."

Ty got on his bike and his mask activated allowing him to lift off and proceed in flying towards the relay without the worry of suffocating. "Plot destination please Mr. Rhoddy." The VI said.

"Freedoms Progress."

"Destination chosen prepare for mass jump." Ty hit the relay and jumped to Freedoms Progress then decelerated as he came out of it. "Jump successful."

Ty flew down to the planet and set down on the landing pad, he got off and his mask retracted as he took a look around at the colony. There wasn't a soul in sight. "Well no welcoming committee, not a soul in sight and it's about as quiet as a haunted house when something is about to jump out at you. Come on Haley, I know you left me a clue of what happened to you." He said to himself as he walked down the stairs. He walked through a food court area and saw plates with food still on them. "Slavers leave a bigger mess than this, nothing is even stirred...this is weird."

He walked through a few empty areas getting really weirded out by the emptiness when he found mechs destroyed on the ground. The place should have been full of colonists, he should have met someone at the landing pad and the fact that there was no one here but nothing was stirred began to deflate his hope that Haley was indeed okay. The warrior knelt down next to the mech and checked it out. "The rounds that took this out are fresh for sure and this thing sure took a beating, but who the hell did it? No one is even here."

Only one way for me to find out. He closed his eyes and focused his mind on the mech. He felt the energy from it then opened his eyes. His eyes turned completely purple and as he looked around he saw the past unfold around him. A squad of Quarian's was blowing through the mechs each with an assault rifle or shotgun with what looked like a female leading them wearing a purple outfit and mask.

As the memory played out he stood up and looked around in his vision and saw the mechs getting destroyed by this squad. They were definitely either marines or special operations judging on the amount of firepower they had. Ty closed his eyes then opened them again disconnecting from the memory imprint around him and his vision became normal once again. "Well now I know a squad of Quarian's has been here, but why were they all the way out here on a human colony? This doesn't add up, Quarian's wouldn't just come with guns blazing for no reason and they obviously didn't take the colonists." He looked around at the emptiness. "Right, no one here with me. Explaining myself to the air."

Moving on from the mechs Ty found his way through more of the colony but still with no sight of any life at all. This brought his instincts that were telling him to get the hell out now to the forefront of his mind but he pushed on. He went through a door and as he looked around for people he saw the group of Quarian's that he saw in the memory sitting at a table. The sight made him stop and tilt his head to the side at how weird it was that there were living people on the colony besides him. When they saw him though they weren't as confused as him since they got up and aimed all their guns at him, not exactly the reaction he expected.

Instincts took over not allowing him to flinch as he pulled his pistols out and kept his guns trained on them. Standoff. As long as no one shoots we'll all survive. "Who are you?" The lead guy questioned.

"Prazza I'm the one in charge, I ask the questions." A Quarian woman said, pushing the lead Quarian's gun down. The female Quarian turned and put her hand out trying to stop Ty from shooting but when she saw him her voice became full of shock. "Ty? Is that you?"

Ty noticed her voice immediately. What the fuck? "Tali? What are you doing here? You look a bit diff-"

"We aren't standing down not until we know he's not a threat." Prazza interrupted.

Ty sighed inwardly, he hadn't seen Tali for a while and this guy was putting a wedge in-between them because he couldn't follow orders apparently. "I am a threat but not to you, or at least not as long as you don't pull your trigger." Ty said motioning to the Quarian's gun with his head.

Tali snorted in amusement. "You haven't changed at all. Everyone stand down, this man isn't a threat to us, trust me."

The Quarian's put their guns down and Ty spun his pistols in his hands then put them back in their holsters. Tali put her hands down and walked over to him and as she reached him she gave him a friendly hug which he reciprocated. He had missed Tali a lot, there weren't many people he could count on as friends anymore since most of his friends had been killed, but the ones he had left were true friends like her.

After they let go of each other Tali asked, "Ty did you just get here or have you been here the whole time?"

Ty shook his head and said "Just got here. I'm here looking for someone but this place looks like a neat group of slavers came through. What are you doing here and what's with your cool new outfit?"

"Oh! I finished my pilgrimage and got a new suit. It's tradition among my people. I'm glad you like it but as for why we are here, there is a Quarian here on his pilgrimage and we are here to get him out. Unfortunately he panicked when he saw our ship and activated the mechs to attack us."

Ty nodded, the Quarian was obviously scared out of his mind by whatever had caused this so his response was reasonable if not a little extreme since it was a Quarian ship coming to help. "Any idea what happened here?"

"Your guess is as good as mine but it's something bad that's for sure. There isn't anything stirred, but everyone is gone. It doesn't give me a good feeling at all."

The purple eyed man nodded in response as he started looking around. Some of the stuff was moved like if there was a struggle. "Did you guys touch that?"

"No, why?"

"Just making sure when I look at what happened I won't see you guys moving it."

Ty looked at it then closed his eyes and focused on the object feeling the energy from the memory with his mind. When he felt connected to it he opened his eyes again making them all purple allowing him to see the past unfold. Haley was sitting on the bench with a recorder in her hands, for him it was like watching a video with no sound because he wasn't looking to hear the voices; he was looking to see what happened. If he wanted to hear it he would've focused on the memory more but for now he was just content seeing what happened. "She looks fine here but she's recording herself."

"What?" Tali asked.

Haley's head jolted up then she got out from the seat and started talking faster into the recorder. "Hold on something is going on." His former girlfriend looked like she was worried but she also had on her tough face as she looked back at the area where Tali was standing. Ty followed the direction she was looking to where Tali and the others were standing but he saw Blue Suns aiming their guns at Haley. He looked back to her to see her throw the recorder at them and charge with her hand back. "Damn it woman, that's not how I taught you to take them on."

"Ty what's with your eyes? They are completely purple."

Ty saw the Blue Suns beat Haley and then begin taking her away which infuriated him but he stayed calm seeing them leave the recorder on the floor. He closed his eyes disconnecting from the memory then opened them to find it still on the floor. "I knew she would leave something."

The former mercenary walked over and picked up the recorder, this held the answer to some of his questions but he wasn't sure what exactly those answers would bring him. No answers he gained anymore made sense but he knew he had to find her so he began to set out but as he did he felt Tali's hand grab his bicep gently as she stopped him. "Hold on Ty before you do…well whatever you are doing, why did your eyes turn purple completely?"

How to explain this lovely rare condition…hmm this could be difficult. He rolled around his thoughts as he placed the recorder in his pocket trying to figure out exactly how to explain it. "You know like how humans and aliens can have biotic powers?" Tali nodded and he continued. "Well I developed some rare case of powers but it isn't a biotic ability. If I see something, for example I saw a destroyed mech out there before I came in here if I close my eyes and take all my focus and put it into the mech my eyes will turn completely purple as you saw and I can see what happened to it. The mech got annihilated by all of you with assault rifles and shotguns, I can't hold it forever but I can hold it for enough time to see everything that happened to what I'm focusing on. Everything leaves an imprint of memory and through that I can see what happened."

Ty couldn't read what his friend was thinking due to the mask and she wasn't giving off any body language that gave him a definitive answer but he figured her thoughts were along the lines of that he was crazy. "That's an amazing talent Ty. How come you never shared that with me before?"

"What was I supposed to say during the time we knew each other and when I was your prisoner 'hey I can see past events.' You'd just call me crazy anyway. I have to go though and find who I'm looking for, she's in grave danger."

Tali chuckled. "Still chasing after girls I see."

"Only when they are in distress otherwise they come to me for help. It's nice seeing you again Tali, I hope we meet again sometime when neither of us are busy or being a prisoner."

"Me too Ty. Stay safe okay."

"I'll stay as safe as I can but you do the same."

She nodded and as Ty walked out the way he came she said, "If we get any more visitors, I'll handle it Prazza. Understood?"

As he was walking back he heard gun shots going off. Great more company. He hit his cloak and hurried his pace up trying to get back to his space bike as quickly as possible. As he got closer he saw two familiar faces, not friendly faces but familiar. Miranda and Jacob, what an unpleasant surprise. I could kill them silen- Ty's train of thought was stopped by what he assumed at first was a ghost. Shepard…but she wasn't supposed to be done for a while.

They were headed the way he just left and were taking out anything in their way. Guess it was who I ran into before on the Citadel. Well Shepard will soon meet a ghost from her past when she sees Tali...I hope Cerberus hasn't done anything to make Shepard kill her otherwise I'll kill her in return, a life for a life.

Ty walked hastily to his space bike after he passed Shepard and took off his cloak. When he reached his bike he pulled out the recording that Haley left and started it. "Ty, if your hearing this then that means Jessica found you and Tarak's Blue Suns found me and took me away. I don't know what he wants from me but they are here right now tearing this colony apart looking for me. Please hurry and find me, I don't want them to kill me…shit, there almost in here. Ty please hurry and if anything happens to me look after Jessica she's my-" There was a slam then it continued. "Shit, hey assholes looking for someone!"

There was another slam then the recorder went dead. He put the recorder in his pocket feeling a fire lit in him to get her back safely and kill Tarak once and for all but then he looked at his bike. They undoubtedly saw it and placed a tracker on it. Let's see if we can find it. Ty closed his eyes feeling a new memory around it so he focused on it then reopened his eyes. Miranda, Jacob and Shepard were all around his bike checking it out.

He walked around and saw Miranda sneakily stick something on the side of his bike so he closed his eyes and opened them and looked at the spot on his bike. There was a new piece on his bike that wasn't there before. He bent down and looked at it. That's not a new accessory that's for sure. Better not break it since they are obviously looking for me, but it's not staying on my bike.

Ty picked it off and put it in his pocket then got on his bike. They were searching for him for some reason and if they wanted to see him they were going to see him, but it was going to be on his terms, not theirs. Alliance and Cerberus members had been trying to find him and his family for years, now they found him and he was the only one they were going to find.

The former mercenary started his bike up and his mask activated. He checked his dash for his fuel level and to see if there was any tampering but he was good so he lifted off and decided to go where he knew Tarak would be. The place where they first met and the place where he ordered the deaths of all his friends. This is a ballsy move, but it's the only way I can find Haley. "Plot destination please, Mr. Rhoddy." The VI said.

He sighed. "Omega."

"Destination set, prepare for mass jump."

Tarak isn't going to take any more lives and if Shepard and Cerberus get in the way then I'll put them down too…they'll all pay one by one for the pain they caused.