Reclaiming the Citadel
After breaking into C-SEC Bailey used a computer to check on the communication channels. He opened a new one which was limited to C-SEC devices and blocked the Cerberus lines. "Oh now you look at that." "What is it?" Jane asked. "The salarian councilor Valern has an emergency meeting with the Executor. Some one important is going to be prosecuted." Bailey answered. While they talked the Cobras already proceeded down the corridor. Checking every room, even the stalls in the bathroom they found no survivor. "Deviss, this is Rex. We have reached C-SEC. What's your ETA?"
Deviss ran across the market. Thane knew shortcuts that took them around Cerberus. "Ten minutes out. We are taking the ventilation shafts to stay clear of hard contact." At the same time he coordinated his teams: "Tatty, take your girls and link up with Green at the docks. Block it and keep ships from leaving. Green, tell the 501st tanks to join you. Maybe call in the AT-TE." "Sir, yes, Sir!" both clones acknowledged the order.
Erik took down the Guardian by slamming into him and knocking him over. Using the shield he moved up the stairs and attacked the second guardian who staggered under the constant cover fore provided by Rex and Fives. Erik shoved his pistol through the slit in the Guardian's shield and fired it at point blank. A centurion jumped through the window but was knocked out by Jane's biotic charge. Liara placed a Singularity in the opening which caught the remaining Cerberus-Squad and pulled them out into the open. While the organics took care of the enemy EDI hacked the next set of doors. It took a while even for her to break through the firewall and find the trigger.
Entering a new corridor they met less resistance. Mainly a Cerberus-tech who sabotaged the elevator and two Guardians having their backs at them. The asari placed a stasis field around the engineer to hold him while EDI and Jane took out the Guardians. From the side Centurions attacked but were filled with holes by the clones.
"Eat laser!" Slice shouted as he fired the small Anti-Infantry blasters at the Cerberus group. The UT-AT blocked the main entrance to the refugee camp. The refugees had armed themselves with weapons from fallen C-SEC officers and Cerberus soldiers. Tactus lead the refugees into battle. It was a rare sight. Turians, asari, salarians, humans and even batarians were fighting side by side.
Kano kept track of where Cerberus came from. The battle had begun slowly. Two people had approached Kelly Chambers and asked her about her name. She replied and the two were about to shoot her when Slice intervened. Taking the shots with his armor he gave Boomer an opening to take the threat out while Kano readied the UT-AT. When Cerberus attacked the clones were prepared. Talon Squad, after helping C-SEC in retaking the control tower, joined them and fell into the enemies' flank. Hardcase, Jesse and Tup set their AT-AP onto a platform. From here they had excellent sniping opportunities with the main cannon. "Okay, let them have it!" Jesse shouted. Hardcase aimed the mass driver cannon and fired at the Cerberus shuttles that were about to deploy at the Presidium.
Echo checked the controlbox and rewired it. The elevator went back into service. So far they had encountered a lot of Cerberus. Calls came in from all over the Citadel. K-Company had successfully fought back on the other areas they were in. They were now locking the area down. They crossed the staff room on the way to the Executor's office. Erik tapped his helmet. "What's up Lieutenant?" Rex asked. "I have a strange interference on my sensors. It suddenly jammed when I entered this room." They reached the last door. Ahsoka forced it open as they stormed it. Jane looked around. Kix and Coric were already checking on the Executor. "All dead."
Jane forwarded the conclusion to Bailey. "If the councilor isn't there don't count him out yet."
The marine looked out of the window and suddenly discovered a chair moving. A cloak was deactivated. The councilor appeared and looked around. Jane was about to get down when she suddenly saw someone landing behind the salarian. The person looked like a Cerberus-Phantom.
She shot the glass and jumped down. The assassin jumped too and kept the councilor between them, taking her line of fire.
"You're not getting away with it."
"You're old Shepard. You will never beat me. I am the best that's why the illusive man replaced an old hag like you with me."
Above them Fives and Erik aimed down at them. Rex, Coric and Kix kneed down behind a table and aimed at the assassin. EDI already calculated the best shot from her position while Liara prepared a stasis field to contain the attacker. Before the assassin could attack Thane appeared out of nothing. He kicked the man in the side so the clone commander could get past him. Commander Deviss grabbed the councilor and brought him behind the lines of clones. Thane fired at the assassin but his shots were blocked by a shield. The man readied his sword to attack again. Both jumped at each other. But the attack was a feint. The assassin dove under the attack and shoved his sword through Thane's chest. He tried to finish him off but shots against his shields stopped him. He turned around to retreat. Jane and Thane chased him to the pad and fired at the retreating assassin.
The drell collapsed bleeding from his wound. Kix and Coric immediately set to work on him. Ahsoka stayed behind to help him with force-healing. Rex wanted to go but didn't want to leave his girlfriend unprotected. Also his medics weren't good for combat while they worked on saving the drell. Luckily Erik made the call. "Rex, Stay here and protect them with Deviss. Echo, Fives, you come with me and the Commander. They got into the larger police car. While they followed the path the assassin took said man suddenly landed on their roof. The Cobras didn't wait and fired directly through the roof while Jane opened the door and fired. It was useless as the assassin used his shield and then killed their engine with his blade.
John sneaked on board the Geth dreadnought. While the star destroyers moved in for distraction they had used a small shuttle to get close. Aayla cut through the hull, clearing them a way to enter. She, Bly, Galle, Barr and Inc had offered to tag along while Shepard chose Tali due to her expertise and Garrus because of his marksman skills. Also it was because Javik didn't have a way to get through a vacuum safely. So far they didn't encounter any Geth.
As if she had read their mind Tali answered. "Geth are software. They exist within the ship. They can download themselves onto platforms to to the physical work."
They reached a gap in the walk way. John went for the button to activate the bridge but a hand stopped him. "Wait. If the Geth are in the ship's systems they will notice we use the bridge." Bly said.
Aayla hold her hand out to Bly. "Commander?" She used the force to lift the trooper to the other side. One after another levitated to the other side of the gap. Aayla went last, jumping across the gap and landing in Bly's arms. They proceeded down the corridor to the next console. A Geth stood a few meters down the path. Inc aimed at the Geth. He was the team's stealth specialist and carried a modified DC-19ASD. Different from the standard version from the GAR this UST-license production still had the same mag capacity and didn't overheat. Also it was a rifle, not a carbiner.
Inc crouched down and rested the weapon on the railing. He fired two shots which downed the Geth. The formed up and proceeded. Suddenly an explosion threw Bly back. He had stepped on a mine. Immediately Geth attacked from all sides.
Fives set his rifle on the strongest setting and fired at the Atlas. The shot was blocked by the shields and he had to take cover again before the mass driver cannon got him. Echo took a RPS-6 rocket launcher and fired at the Atlas. The first one killed the shields, creating an opening for EDI, Liara and Erik to tear through the armor and destroy it. They rushed forward but were blocked by more Cerberus soldiers. This time Two Nemesis and a Phantom tried to stop them. Echo nearly took a shot as he dove behind a skycar. Erik was less lucky as he got to face the phantom. He blocked the sword with his rifle before she could impale him. Using his foot he kicked her in the chest and threw her off him. He grabbed his sidearm and fired shots at her. Three wore down her barrier. As she tried to turn invisible he stood up.
He now had two options to detect her. Using the sonar, the radar or the thermal imaging. He went for the sonar as the radar could be fooled and the thermal was limited to his view. Sonar was one of the last someone would expect in a ground battle. He leaned to the side. The blade cut the air where he had been seconds before. Turning around he back handed her. The Cerberus-bitch flew across the railing and plunged to her death. Fives flanked around the skycar and looked around the corner. As he saw one nemesis and took the shot. Just as he got her a red dot appeared on his chest. A shot was heard. Fives looked up from his fallen position. Jane had shoved him down and caught the shot with her barrier. Pulling the Nemesis to her with her biotics she smashed her into the ground with a nova-enhanced punch.
Running up to the elevators they spotted the assassin again. This time he had a Phantom escort.
"Bailey! The assassin is going up in the elevator." Jane relayed to her fellow Commander. "I know I'm stopping his cab in every level. Take the elevator next to it." Bailey replied.
EDI stemmed the door open. The jumped on top of it. "Hold on. This going to be one hell of a ride."
Deviss kept watch over the councilor even after they were inside the gunship. "What is so important you wanted to talk to the Executor." Bailey asked. The councilor looked around. "It's Udina. He is in league with Cerberus. They are going to kill the council." he explained. "Fuck!" Bailey exclaimed. "I have to warn them."
Before the commander could run off Deviss stopped him. "Wait. You are still injured and need to operate the computers. Where is the council now? Rex and I can get there. We are better prepared than you are."
Bailey opened his omni-tool. "Landing Pad THX1138. I'll imform Shepard, if I can reach her."
After they dropped out a few blocks away from the pad Rex tried to reach Echo or Fives. Only static. "Only hard lines or close-range-comms work." He said.
Ashley escorted the council to their landing pad. Bo-Katan and her NightOwl squad were covering them. Suddenly they heard something landing on their roof. "Cerberus!" Ashley shouted as she pulled out her Carnifex and fired through the roof. "OUT!" Bo went first but stopped when she discovered the destroyed shuttle. When they turned around they met Shepard, his squad and three Cobras. "Shepard is blocking our escape route. She's with Cerberus!" Udina exclaimed. Echo looked at Bo. "Cuyir aruteii. Al'vedre Bailey jor'lekir. Aruteii sheb'urcyin. Sushir: Traat'aliit gar besbe'trayc" [There is a traitor. Commander Bailey confirmed. Traitor has powerful friends. Listen: Your squad is your weapon.] Bo nodded. She understood. As a regular clone Echo might not be fluent in mando'a but he managed to make himself understandable. Making subtle signs her three girls slowly surrounded the council. Ashley aimed at her best friend she considered a sister. "Cerberus is right behind us in the elevator shaft. We go back there we all die. Udina is a traitor. Councilor Valern confirmed it." Udina looked at her. "I have video material. He opened his omni-tool. "Shepard and her collaborators killed the salarian councilor." he showed them the video. Then he went to the next terminal. "We are going to die if we stay out here. I will overwrite the lock so we can escape." Jane aimed at him. "Get away from that terminal!" Ashley stepped into the line of fire. "Everyone calm down. Lower your weapon and let us talk this out like civilized people." she tried to act diplomatically. "Ash. You know me. Would I use a weapon if I weren't sure?" Jane asked. "We mistrusted Shepard before and that did nit help us. What she says is unlikely but still possible." The asari councilor said.
Ashley looked at Jane. "I hope I wont regret this." She turned around and aimed at Udina who was arguing with Tevos. "Councilor Udina, please step away from there."
Instead Udina took a pistol and held the asari councilor hostage. "Let me go!" The Cobras reacted instantly. They grabbed the turian councilor and pulled him behind their protective armor.
Udina stepped back towards the landing pad where a Cerberus shuttle appeared. He shoved the councilor away and turned to make a break for the vehicle only to crash into a wall of white armor. Looking up through the armored legs he could see the shuttle flying off tailing fire from where the suddenly appearing gunship had hit it. "NO! DON'T LEAVE ME!" Looking further up he went face to face with the business end of a blaster.
"Got you, dirtbag." Rex said while Deviss hold the man down.
In a shuttle the Cerberus-assassin contacted the illusive man. "Udina failed. They captured him. Also this Republic Dogs prevented me from taking the trash out. Hard to believe that they are humans."
"Still we have to acquire one of the Republic to dissect their technology and use it to advance humanity."
A shot bouned off the slightly burned armor. Bly used his makrobinokular to spot the Geth hunter. Dismantling the robot he gave Tali and John valuable time to hack into the ship. Now the two engineers tried to localize the source of the signal. Their plan to board the ship was good especially when during the boarding Yularen noticed that the shields are strong. Nonetheless the Defender kept on firing to keep the Geth occupied.
Galle and Barr covered the sides while Inc used his stealth to take out more geth. Bly reloaded his rifle. A plasma bolt hit his cover, leaving burned metal behind. He rolled over behind a pillar and fired at another Hunter. The four clones held the geth back while Tali and John hacked the emergency system.
Sirens filled the air. Warnings of a fire and the gun overheating filled the corridors as they retreated through a maintenance shaft. The shaft ended at a lift. Instead of using it they sent it up with no one on board. Luckily they were right. Two Geth came out of hiding and destroyed the platform wth their rocket launchers. Why they didn't simply shut it down was beyond logic but which living being could understand a machine? Apart from David Archer. Inc checked his minigun. He hated war. As far as he understood the morning war the quarians simply got afraid from the Geth's advance that they wanted to destroy them. The Geth simply defended themselves. The two groupes co-existed peacefully until the quarians attacked again.
Erik threw Udina into the interrogation room. Bailey and Jane would interrogate him in the good cop, bad cop manner. Erik shook his head. Udina was definitely a power-hungry selfish human. So petting his ego and threatening him would most likely lead to results.
In another part of the Citadel Deviss and the K-platoons began investigations of left over Cerberus-tech and help the people. He overheard two people talking about a rouge C-SEC officer.
"Distract C-SEC. I will then go for the kill." Deviss stopped the woman before she could reply. "Don't." His voice left no room for arguments. It probably helped that he wore his full intimidating armor. His way took him to the next C-SEC office. He looked around. Two officers were arguing about the way they should handle the war. The officer on duty sat at his desk. The only man not fitting in was an old man sitting in the waiting corner. "Captain Aaron Sommers?" Deviss asked after his facial recognition program gave him the profile.
"A clone. You are famous across the galaxy by now, commander." The captain replied after looking at the rank sign on the clone's chest. For better recognition the Cobras decided to openly wear their ranks when they are not on the battlefield.
"Now I know what happened to my back-up." Deviss folded his arms across the chest plate. "Assume I don't know what you plan. Care to elaborate?"
"A C-SEC officer has collaborated with Cerberus. He backstabbed a lot of his colleagues to get Cerberus on board the Citadel undetected. Now he exchanges information for a lighter sentence. As a former alliance member he has dishonored the uniform. I am only going to rectify that."
Deviss hold a hand out to stop him. "No. What sentence he earns is not for us to decide. We need an unbiased opinion to do that. I don't say that I like it but if we go on killing everyone we deem guilty wouldn't that make us just as bad as Cerberus? Captain. From a fellow officer to officer. You are better than that. Don't dishonor the uniform yourself to rectify another's wrongdoing."
The clone could see that his words changed something in the alliance veteran. "Yes. I see. Well I will take my leave then. Commander, you should go into politics."
Deviss shook his head. Leaving the area he met a woman. "Commander? Officer Jordan Noles. E-Crimes division."
Coric and Kix were helping at the Huerta-Hospital. Some nasty cases were not treated due to the lack of experience by the doctors. The clone medics introduced bacta to them. It was not as fast aas medi-gel but it covered a larger range of injuries. They treated a woman with chemical burns. Two Pelta-ships were ordered back so the Bacta-tanks on board could be used.
Both clones kept their helmets on as they worked on the wounded so no one could see their desperate faces. They had lost a lot of patients but had saved others. Thane was one of them. His condition was critical. Ahsoka's force healing had repaired his respiration system but the wound was deep and had cut through his spine. Even if he survived he would probably never walk again. However a doctor named Michel was enthusiastic. An implant could relay the neural signals. It was still an experimental project but with nothing else Thane had agreed to be the guinea pig.
Coric was washing the bood off his chest plate when a call came in. The caller ID was Deviss. "Commander?"
"Sergeant. E-Crime has asked for our assistance. Batarian codes are being used. However there are no authorization. I'm sending you a file. Check the terminals in your vicinity and look of you find something."
At the same time Hardcase got the same message. His team was patrolling through the embassies.
Apart from a C-SEC officer who needed the newest encryption from Cerberus and an Asari who looked for a Reaper code to calculate their next target they had nothing. While Jesse controlled a terminal Tup found blood on the ground. It was volus blood. With Hardcase he entered the room. While he used the terminal he found out that the Volus Korlack collaborated with Cerberus. Remembering a report he accessed the spectre terminal again. Since their heroic actions the Council had voted to give the Cobras access as they were a neutral party but not the rank of spectres.
A mission was logged in to investigate Korlack as he was linked to an ambush on a turian cruiser by Cerberus.
Hardcase found a bug and had Jesse hack into the frequency.
Talon squad was still in the refugee camp. They were repairing the medi-gel dispensers. Some one had sabotaged them. Behind them Doctor Chakwas negotiated a deal with Tactus, the new leader of the refugees. After fighting with the clones the turian agreed to the deal and had two of his men transport the military goods to the Normandy and take medical supplies back to help the doctors. Some humans from the Citadel arrived to help claiming to have been sent down by Commander Jane Shepard.
Sergeant Green was repairing the last medi-gel dispenser when he noticed a batarian using a nearby terminal. He remembered the log Deviss sent to all units. Batarian codes were used illegally.
He lifted his rifle. "Hey, you there. Hands in the air and one step back from the console. The batarian slowly turned around and aimed his pistol at the clone. "I am Ka'hairal Balak. I am the last of the batarian hegemony. We batarians were practically destroyed by the Reaper. I had to hack the council's communication to at least know how to save my fleet."
"Yeah. Look. We don't know what your problem is but you could have asked us nicely. We Cobras don't leave anyone behind."
"I will personally see that support gets to the batarians." a new voice said. Green looked around and saw Lieutenant James Vega. He and Kaidan were pulled out from the Republican fleets as they were familiar enough with this galaxy. Kaidan was away down in the rooms and stepped in for Shepard who went for a stroll in the Presidium. [Always bugged me in the game: Shepard is threatened by a batarian, and James who is just sitting about five meters away doesn't notice]
Jane walked down the area. She had spoken to an officer about Cerberus turrets. She overheard a salarian looking for a way to help the krogans by cloning an ancient race of war animals when someone called her over the comm. "Commander Shepard? EDI here. Clones have tracked a volus ambassador who was linked to Cerberus to an apartment close to you. Verbal recognition revealed Zaeed as one of the bounty hunters. I hacked the line and tricked them into believing that you were already looking for the volus and would be knocking at their door."
Jane rolled her eyes. "Next time just tell me."
She went to the apartment EDI pointed out. Opening the door she found Zaeed, two knocked out bounty hunters and a frightened volus.
"Zaeed. I didn't know you were still kicking."
"Shepard. You should know me. Everything that hurts Cerberus is my thing." the old bounty hunter greeted her.
"Still the bad cop?" she joked.
Kaidan looked down at Udina. Apparently Jane had played bad cop with him and know the councilor was on the brink of breaking down.
"Now. Who was your contact? Answer or I will see if I can get Shepard back here while Major Alenko and I get us a coffee." Bailey said as he got closer to the door and opened them.
Udina flinched. "NO! DON'T! I WILL TELL YOU EVERYTHING!" The two men turned towards him. "The assassin is Kai Leng. He said that the key for victory would be on the Citadel but Cerberus had no means to get here. Not with Shepard and their crew going in and out. They wanted a moment where they were away for a longer term and then attack. But we didn't count on the one clone unit being here. They were stronger than we expected." Udina confessed.
"Well. You should have expected that especially from people bred to fight." Kaidan said.
One of those "breds" was currently informing the doctor in the refugee camp of the repaired dispensers. "Thank you. I will immediately have the critical patients treated. It's a shame we didn't catch the saboteur. It must have happened during that damn cerberus propagandist."
Jane entered. After the interrogation of the volus she felt like visiting the refugees especially when there were talks about a wounded batarian terrorist. Promising the reporter Solik Vass to get pictures she entered the camp. She overheard what the doctor said to the clone and knew what it was about. "I will take care of it." She assured them. She asked Green of he had some pictures from the fight to give to the reporter. The clone promised to speak to the salarian. He offered to take of the batarian since he knew of one hooked up to a machine to keep him alive.
She spotted the person she was looking for in a corner. "Conrad Verner. The most real Shepard imposter in this galaxy." "Commander Shepard! It's a pleasure to meet you again. I hope you and your brother are doing well?"
"John is fine. I am fine, too. Listen. I heard you work for Cerberus?" Jane answered.
"Yes. I mean its what you did when we last met. My contact told me to try to gain followers here."
Jane shook her head. "Do you even know what happened here? Cerberus attacked the Citadel. This whole chaos is their doing." She showed him the pictures of Cerberus during the fight and other recordings from earlier like the Mars Archive.
Conrad shook his head. "No. What have I done?" He placed his head in his hands and sobbed. "I just wanted to help."
Jane grabbed him. "Only if you happen to know about a dark-energy device?" she asked annoyed. "Well, I did write my doctoral dissertation on xenotechnology and dark energy integration." While Jane and Conrad worked on deciphering the old schematics Green talked to the salarian reporter. "Commander Shepard sent me. She told me you needed footage from the fight?" "Yes, yes. People need to know that even the refugees take part in this war. That will show them how close the war already got and that they need to do something."
The clone sergeant gave him a datapad. "Here. Take these. It's a collection which do not contain classified information." The salarian copied the pictures and videos and handed the pad back. "Thank you. This will make my job easier." Green looked after the salarian. It remembered him of the Gungans. Turning back to the camp he spotted the shuttle pilot of the Normandy, Steve Cortez, at the memorial wall.
"Cortez?" Steve ignored the voice and listened to Robert's last words. For the last time. Tears rolled down. He placed the picture on the wall. "I will always remember you, Robert. I will live for us both." He stepped back and turned around. "Sergeant Green." he asked the clone. "You okay, man?" the clone asked worried about a fellow soldier. "I will. Thanks to you all here supporting me."
"Wait, that's him! That's my Cerberus contact. Hey, you! You lied to me! You told me Cerberus would protect the Citadel!" The man looked at him. "What are you talking about. I don't even know you."
"Commander Shepard is here to arrest you!" Conrad shouted sure of himself. The man pulled a gun and aimed for Jane. As he fired Conrad jumped in front of her. Two clones from the Talon squad, Jane didn't catch their names, knocked the Cerberus man down and restrained him.
She kneed next to Conrad. "Shepard..."He coughed. "Shepard... Did I help?"
Jane checked him for wounds. "Yes, Conrad. You helped."
"I don't feel anything." A woman turned to them. "Actually I sabotaged his gun. It looked like it fired but that was actually the thermal clip overheating." Jane looked up. "Remember me? I'm Jenna. Learned a few tricks while I was undercover."
"See Shepard, I told you thermal clips would be a step back." Conrad complained again. Jane smiled. "I know. The clones have already introduced new tech: Thermal clips that cool down."
But Conrad wasn't listening to her anymore. He and Jenna were talking about things they had in common.
"Commander Shepard?" a voice asked her. "Yes?"
"It's me, Kasumi." Shepard slowly walked towards the elevator. "How are you doing?" she asked her friend. "Quite well. Do you remember Kenji's box?" Jane nodded. "Go to the embassies. The femtroopers are helping me. Funny girls. I met them in the Purgatory. They surely know how to drink.
"Kasumi!" "Okay, okay. Focusing. Remember the incident of alliance attacking a batarian lab because of reaper tech from the levithan of Dis? According to Keji's greybox the hanar stole the tech and disappeared. I believe that they are indoctrinated. I sent a copy of the thoughts to Bau."
"You sent?" Jane asked. Kasumi giggled. "More like dropped it when he was behind me."
She suddenly engaged her cloak while Jane stepped out. In the corner by the hanar embassy a salarian was talking to a female clone.
The clone turned around as Jane approached him. "Commander Shepard? F-666. I am called Devil. This is Jondum Bau. Spectre.
We believe that the Hanar Zymandis is responsible for this. You don't happen to have your prothean here, do you?"
Jane thought about it when she heard a familiar voice behind her. "Most will probably die. But you all are alive and that counts. You are a live and can fight back. You can show the reaper that we cannot be treated like they want. Show them that fate can be changed."
She knew that voice. Javik was talking to the crowd. A pair of clones consisting of F-007 "Bond" and CT-3899 "Slice" was right behind him. Jane stepped close to him. "Commander Shepard, how is it to work with a prothean?" an asari asked. "It can be very view-changing. Javik is a very experienced fighter. The mix between old and new is a good surprise for the reaper."
Bond talked to Bau about the other information they extracted. Zymandis was uploading something that was why she borrowed Slice from the recon squad.
The clones prepared to barge in while Shepard filled Javik in. Shepard opened the door and went in. Two humans were leaning against the wall while a hanar was using a terminal.
"Zymandis?" Jane asked. "Or should I say, Regards the Works of the Enkindlers in Despair? You are under arrest. You are under suspicion of being indoctrinated." Bau added.
"Why are you doing this?" "As you know we hanar worship the protheans. The protheans turned into the collectors who again served the reaper. As a servant of the protheans I also have to serve the reaper in the long run."
Kasumi whispered to Shepard. "You know, I support religious freedom for all species, but that's just crazy!"
"The hanar homeworld defense are mostly automated and can be shut down by a single virus which I have just up loaded." Zymandis explained.
"Wait. A virus can only be uploaded undetected on unimportant lines and those have a delay. Maybe I can..." Bau couldn't continue as a human strangled him.
"Help him, I'm on it!" Kasumi shouted as she jumped over the table and began to hack the terminal.
"Damn. There's a fail safe. I need another one on that terminal." Kasumi shouted as he pointed at the console next to hers. Slice reacted immediately and accessed the terminal. While he delayed the virus further by sending it across unused grids Kasumi worked on deleting it. The two humans Shepard shot Zymandis while Bond and Devil knocked the human attackers out. Bond restrained the one attacking Bau while Devil wrestled the second one onto the ground and sat onto him.
"Just because I'm a woman doesn't mean you can have your way with me."
"Okay, it is done." Kasumi said as she finished hacking. Suddenly Slice knocked her down. "BOMB!"
The detonation shook the office. Bau stood up again and looked at the prone form of Kasumi and Slice. "She was here all the time."
"You are not going to arrest her. She just saved the hanar homeworld."
Bau seemed to think about it. "We are at war. I think I can overlook her crimes if she agrees to help in the war."
"I am not going on another suicide mission for you, Shepard!" Kasumi shouted as Slice helped her up.
"Well the crucible needs tech experts like you. On the other hand I think Slice here would like to have you with him on his missions."
Kasumi didn't know what Shepard meant until she noticed that her hand was still in Slice's. She felt that he had already released her but she was still holding onto him. "Okay. I will help. Give my a squad and I will see what tech I can get you can't reach." Kasumi sighed.
"Just talk it out with Captain Rex. It is his squad you're taking." Shepard replied.
Just had to get the clones to do more. These sidemissions bugged me. It was like "Shepard do this, Shepard do that". I mean there are more capable people to deal with it. Like James and the Balak-Problem. Ashley/Kaidan are also around and Spectres. Please tell me your opinions on my chaps. Reviews halp to improve.
