Kaidan walked past me as I headed back to the cockpit and I nodded politely, which he replied with a small grin.
Okay... I wonder what the grin was about.
"Hey Joker," I said as I sat back in my chair on his left.
"Just sent the Captain an.. interesting video, Commander. You might wanna see it."
I got a little nervous. "Does it make things harder for Jane?" I asked, keeping my voice neutral.
He hesitated. "More than you would like."
"Show it to me." I replied far too quickly and with more authority than I had ever used before, causing him to look at me in shock before playing the video.
The sound of gunfire appeared before the video appeared, which showed a woman in white armour with red stripes shooting at an enemy off-screen while various other people were shooting in the same direction that she was.
The woman ran towards whoever was holding the camera and shouted for them to get down as a small blue-flamed explosion scorched the ground where she was just standing.
"Get down!" She shouted, pushing the camera-person to the floor, giving the camera another view of the woman shooting more enemies off-screen before more blue-flamed explosions showed as the camera was moved around.
"Shit.." I whispered, fear clutching my heart as I realized that Jane had to go down there.
A man ran to the camera, shouting: "We are under attack!" The fear in his voice was evident but he still kept his slight tone of authority, leading me to assume he was an officer.
"Taking heavy casualties! I repeat: Heavy casualties! We can't.." A heavy explosion set off behind him and he grunted, protecting his head with his arms before continuing. "-Eed evac! They came out of nowhere.. We need-"
The man suddenly tensed and a trickle of blood escaped his mouth before his face went slack and he collapsed to the ground.
Suddenly everyone stopped fighting and looked up in horror while the enemy still fired at them.
Then the camera turned to see a huge metal object descending to the planet.
"Ships like that can't land though, right Joker?" I asked in horror as the ship got even lower.
Suddenly the person holding the camera started shooting and the camera was moved about quickly, making it impossible to see much of anything until the video suddenly cut out.
"After that, the video just cuts out. There's nothing. No comm traffic at all."
I stared at Joker in horror. "We can't let them go down there."
"The captain thought you might react like that and so has ordered you directly to stay here unless ordered otherwise by him alone. Failure to follow this order and you will be assigned to another ship." Joker shook his head. "I'm sorry, Andrew."
I looked down, feeling both rage and sorrow battling under the surface of my skin.
Then suddenly Joker had his arm around my shoulders.
"I know how much you care for her, but she's a good fighter and will be fine, especially with Kaidan and Jenkins down there with her."
I nodded slowly. "They're good men, amazing in a fight," I said slowly.
"They're down, opening video transmition now."
My eyes shot open and I glared at the screen until Jane, Kaidan and Jenkins appeared on the screen, pausing before Jane gave the signal and Jenkins walked out before he was suddenly getting shot by what looked like some small synthetic flying droid.
"Jenkins!" Jane and I both shouted at the exact same time.
I sat back in my chair as Jenkins collapsed to the ground and Jane drew her pistol, running out into what was now a small battlefield and shot at one of the droids while Kaidan threw one backwards and held another in stasis to protect Jane while she dealt with the first one.
Kaidan pointed at a droid and hit it with another throw while shooting at it and Jane nodded, decimating the remaining droid with a warp, leaving three now smoking wreckages lying on the floor.
Jane wasted no time and ran to where Jenkins had fallen, feeling for a pulse with shaky fingers.
"I got something!" She shouted in triumph.
She instantly got a hold of us over radio and said that Jenkins was alive but in no condition to fight.
"Fuck it," I growled. "I should be down there.."
"Yes. You should." Captain Anderson walked up behind us and folded his arms.
"Commander, I need you to suit up and meet Jane down there, I will have Jenkins brought back up here and taken to the medbay.
"Yes, thank you Captain!" I said hastily before running down the length of the ship and took the elevator down to the armoury.
"Don't worry Jane, I'll be there soon.."
(Really sorry about my stupid lack of posting, I'll post more tomorrow :/)
