Chapter 6 - Virmire Part Two, Part One
Saren suddenly had what a human would call a "gut feeling". He turned to the geth platform. "What is the composition of the attacking force?"
Twelve salarian, four unknown, one human.
He slammed his fist down on the table. How could he have been so easily fooled? "Reinforce the rear of the base! Sound the intruder alarm!"
The matriarch stayed oddly silent, he noticed. She knew better than to antagonize him.
Slowly, Shepard advanced through the cell blocks, her team following behind her. They seemed to have moved into some sort of cell block. It was made of the same dark grey metal as the rest of the base and had the same insufficient lighting, giving the space a creepy feeling, one of dread. Filling the cells were Salarians. Most of them just sat in the cell, dazed, or mumbled nonsense.
"What do you want? I told you everything! You- who are you?" one of them said as they passed. He shoved his face up against the clear door of the cell. "Alliance, right? I knew somebody would come. They tried to break me but couldn't!"
Jane held up her hand to stop. "Slow down. I need to know where you came from."
"Private Menos Avot, of the third infiltration regiment STG, ma'am. Captured while on reconnaissance six days ago. Glad to answer, ma'am! Never any answers from those bastards. Just whispers, and poking, and cutting."
"What did they do to you?"
"Experiments, I don't know what for. The effect of incessant whispering on my short temper? Who knows, I just need out!"
"I don't know, Shepard," Garrus said, voicing his concern. "Something's not right. He sounds like he needs a psych ward."
"Yeah, and we don't exactly have one of those," Wrex added.
Liara voiced her own opinion. "We must give him a chance to escape! Otherwise, we would be no better than Saren."
Shepard thought about it for a long moment. Finally, she said, "Set him free. He could help us."
As soon as the door opened, he drew a pistol and pointed it at Shepard. With lightning speed, she brought up her own and fired three shots, one in the abdomen, one in the neck, and one in the head. Calmly, she said, "Guess that didn't work."
Seconds later, an alarm sounded and a dozen geth platforms flooded into the room from a door on the opposite end. The team scrambled for cover as accelerator rounds flooded toward them. From his position just inside the cell, Kaiden yelled, "I think they're on to us!"
"No shit, Sherlock!" Shepard replied, creeping above the shipping crate she was taking cover behind. She was able to take down one geth before the others forced her back down. "Wrex, Liara, Alenko, on my mark you hit them with your biotics. Everyone else, hammer them with everything you've got."
"Go!" she shouted, standing up and pouring rounds into the incoming geth. Beside her, the krogan battlemaster blew the head off of a geth with his shotgun while slamming another into the wall with biotics. The other geth found themselves either riddled with holes or smashed to pieces.
"Push forward! To the elevator, move!" It wasn't far, and the team slipped in just as more geth began entering the cell block. Ashley blasted one geth away from them as the doors shut.
It was a short ride to the top, and the doors opened automatically. Jane motioned for them to exit. The room was much larger, with a sloped wall along one side. Husks in some kind of scanning machine lined the room, with various tables and supply crates between them. Among them stood a krogan and and asari. Neither of them had noticed the team. She nodded toward the elevator. "Tali, shut it down."
"On it, Shepard."
"Williams, take the asari. I've got the krogan." Shepard aimed down the electronic sight, lining the crosshairs up with the large creature's hump. She depressed the trigger, brought the gun back down and fired three more bursts before the krogan finally dropped. Williams took out the asari in one burst.
"Oh, shit!" The scanning machines stopped, and the husks began to move toward them. From point-blank range, Williams ripped apart a husk with her assault rifle. Blood- if it could be called that- splattered all over her armour. The other husks rushed toward them. But they were exactly that- husks. Though still dangerous, the husks weren't particularly tough, and went down easily.
Jane surveyed the situation. Plenty of corpses, but nothing moving. There was a door on the other end of the space, which according to her map led toward their goal. "The geth are gonna figure the elevator out sooner or later. Let's keep moving."
/reach Sovereign's terminal
/save both... somehow
/nuke Virmire and done