Shepard, Garrus, Zaeed, Drakus and Grunt got out of the tomka when it stopped followed closely by Darr, they were on the outskirts of the Kolvant capital and they could hear the charging Krogan from miles away, standing in front of them was about 500 Kolvant Krogan who immediately drew their guns the minute they saw Drakus and Grunt.
"Stand down, I never thought I'd say this about a member of Clan Urdnot, let alone two, but they are on our side." Darr shouted at the Krogan, they all exchanged uncertain looks before holstering their guns.
"You certainly know how to command respect." Shepard commented.
"I didn't get this far in the army without being able to do so." Darr answered before turning to one of his troops. "You, give us an update."
"Yes sir." The Krogan nodded. "Clan Yurock is nearing this position, the Blood Pack forces look formidable but even then this is a fool's battle as far as Clan Yurock is concerned."
"We have a ship in orbit; we could bombard the enemy troops." Drakus suggested but the Krogan shook his head.
"At any other time that would be a fine idea Drakus, however there is one fact that negates that option." The Krogan said with a frown. "They have our ambassador as a bargaining chip." Darr became enraged by the news.
"WHY WASN'T I TOLD SOONER?" Darr demanded.
"We only just found out this information ourselves." The Krogan said keeping his temper in check. "If we had found out sooner than you would have already found out." Darr growled before he started pacing.
"Is this going to be a problem?" Shepard asked. "I met an ambassador when I was last at Clan Urdnot's camp, from what I gathered they are pretty important."
"They are." Garr spoke up for the first time since arriving at the sight. "Normally what happens is that as they grow closer to retirement ambassadors train a protégé in combat and diplomacy in the hopes that, eventually, they will succeed them by defeating them in unarmed combat, that time is nearing for our ambassador, except..."
"He hasn't named one yet." Darr interrupted. "That is why the clan leader is so edgy lately."
"Then I'll make securing the ambassador's safety top priority." Shepard told them. "Well, top priority right alongside killing Nonthak and the Blood Pack leader."
"Leave the ambassador to me and my troops Shepard, you and your crew can deal with the leaders." Darr said.
"In that case I'll go after the Clan Leaders as well." Garr said drawing his gun. "Let's hope that you are as good as they say you are Shepard."
"I'm not, I'm better." Shepard said drawing his gun. The sounds of approaching Krogan where getting louder by the second. "We're too exposed out here, find cover!"
"He's right." Darr started shouting at the Krogan in his command in the Krogan's native language but once they got to cover Shepard as able to get the gist of what he was saying.
"Grunt, Drakus, Zaeed, Garr, Garrus, Grunt, your with me." Shepard ordered them to follow him to a large rock with a smooth top that could be used for sniping which Shepard intended to use for cover, tensions where high among the group as the enemy Krogan neared, Zaeed climbed on top of the rock with assistance from Drakus and got out his sniper rifle. "Good thinking Zaeed."
"Thanks Shepard, Garrus, up for joining me?" Zaeed asked but by that time Garrus was already on top of the rock with his sniper rifle out.
"I'm way ahead of you." Garrus said as he put the scope up to his eye. "I see them, and they are approaching fast." Garrus said into his earpiece.
"Any sign of the ambassador?" Garr asked.
"He stands out like a sore thumb." Garrus answered. "He's the only Kolvant clan member near them and they have him out in front with a few other prisoners, humans included and from the look of things they are slaves."
"Meat shields, the damn cowards are too scared to send out their own men." Drakus growled angrily. "What about the leaders of the two clans?"
"I see the Blood Pack leader; he's towards the back of the group." Zaeed answered. "I can't get a clear shot from this angle however."
"Garr, Darr, do either of you know what Nonthak looks like?" Garrus asked.
"He's around Drakus' size and is rarely seen out of his full body armour, he should be the only one in the group with full body armour." Garr answered, Garrus looked in his scope and quickly located the Krogan as he was towards the back.
"I see him but he's moving around too much for me to get a good shot." Garrus frowned. "I can snipe of his underlings however."
"Same here, I have a Vorcha with a bullet with its name on it." Zaeed added.
"Wait until they are a bit closer, that way we can take advantage of the confusion and storm them." Darr answered.
"Fine then, we wait." Garrus grunted keeping his scope up to his eye. "Tell us when they get close enough for us to take the shot." Garrus added, around ten minutes later Darr called back.
"My men are ready, take the shots." Darr announced, Shepard turned to Drakus, Garr and Grunt and motioned for them to follow him, they joined up with the Kolvant troops and Garrus and Zaeed zoomed in on their targets, Zaeed fired first taking the Vorcha's head clean off, whilst the Blood Pack members looked around for the shooter Garrus took the advantage and turned on Armour Piercing Ammo and fired at the Krogan twice both rounds hitting him in the head, the Krogan dropped like a sack of potatoes and before the Yurock members could react the Kolvant clan charged.
"IT'S AN AMBUSH!" The Blood Pack leader shouted as he drew his gun.
"Shepard, secure the civilians, we'll keep the bastards off your back." Darr shouted into his earpiece as he charged, Shepard didn't need to be told twice and he led the three Krogan and secured the civilians, some of the humans where too weak to walk any further so Drakus used his biotics to carry them to safety, the enemy Krogan tried firing at him but the Kolvant Krogan kept them busy and the fact that Garrus and Zaeed continued to snipe them was not helping matters, once the captives where behind the rock Shepard turned to them.
"Are you going to be safe here?" Shepard asked them after he used medigel on the slaves, the Kolvant ambassador nodded.
"I'm good to fight but the others, even with the medigel, aren't, if they get to close to us I'll fight them to the death." The Kolvant ambassador said confidently.
"How'd you get into this mess anyway?" Drakus asked.
"The humans and the Turian are slaves, brought off world for situations such as this." The Kolvant ambassador said with disgust clear in his voice. "Me? I was trying to reason with the clan leader, even Krogan know when a battle seems hopeless, next thing I knew the crazy bastard's personal guards shot me in the back enough times to knock me unconscious." The Krogan's eyes narrowed. "I survived obviously but when I woke up I was in the same cell as them."
"I'm not surprised." Drakus said before turning to Shepard. "Shepard, for the time being I'll stay with the ambassador, his wounds may have regenerated by then but I want to make sure he can fight when they get to close."
"Right, if things get to tough contact me on my radio." Shepard told him. "Grunt, Garr, let's kick some ass." Grunt pumped his fists enthusiastically and Shepard led the charge into battle guns a blazing, Grunt joined in with the Krogan attacking the Blood Pack whilst Shepard and Garr joined in the attack on Clan Yurock.
"This is outrageous!" The Blood Pack leader barked out as he witnessed his men drop from either sniper shots from Garrus and Zaeed or gunfire from the approaching Krogan. "This was supposed to be an easy raid Nonthak, if we get out of this alive I will skin you alive and feed your still bleeding corpse to my Varren..."
"I AM KROGAN!" The Blood Pack leader heard Grunt shout as he charged through Kolvants ranks and rammed right into him, he slammed him against the floor and drew his shotgun. "You talk too much." Grunt said before taking the Blood Pack leader's head off with a shotgun blast, the remaining Vorcha and Varren that weren't engaged in battle with the other Krogan charged at him, Garrus and Zaeed took out two Vorcha with simultaneous headshots and let the Kolvant clan members finish off the rest.
As the Kolvant members attacking the Blood pack finished off the last of the Blood Pack members and focussed on Clan Yurock, one Krogan quickly realized that they were overwhelmed and tried to run but Nonthak killed him with a shotgun blast to the back of the head. "WE STAND AND FIGHT AS ONE!" Nonthak shouted to the remaining troops.
"Then you die together." Garr said coldly as he marched alongside the Kolvant clan with Shepard and his crew behind the group, Nonthak started firing upon the enemy Krogan but was quickly overwhelmed and taken out by Garr with a shotgun blast to the head, Shepard turned to Garr as they walked away.
"Well, we've killed the clan leaders and stopped the invasion; can I count on you on the mission now?" Shepard asked and Garr nodded.
"Off course you can Shepard." Garr nodded, Shepard put a hand to his earpiece.
"Joker, send the shuttle, we're on our way back." Shepard told the pilot as Zaeed, Drakus and Garrus rejoined them, Drakus was carrying the slaves via his biotics and the Kolvant ambassador returned to his clan. "Send the Hammerhead as well; we have some slaves that I intend to return to council space for treatment."
"You got it Commander." Joker said. "Oh and Jenny and Andrea started an argument whilst you where away, Jenny's pretty upset about it." Shepard frowned.
"I'll address it when we're on board, where are they now?" Shepard asked.
"Both are on the crew deck, there's one thing you should know though, Jenny punched Andrea over some comment she made, the argument started from there." Joker added and Shepard frowned, a few minutes later the shuttle and Hammerhead showed up and Drakus loaded the slaves onto the Hammerhead and the crew plus Garr got in the shuttle.
"You leave the ship for ten minutes and a biotic catfight breaks out." Garrus muttered under his breath.
"Just be glad Jack wasn't involved, there wouldn't be a ship to return too." Zaeed responded. "What are we going to do with the slaves Shepard?"
"We'll drop them off on the Citadel for treatment, I'm sure the council would be interested in any info on the slave ring they were brought from." Shepard answered as the two ships took off for the Normandy. "In the meantime I'll leave them in Dr. Chakwas' care."
"What do you want to do about the catfight?" Drakus asked.
"I'll keep them separated for the time being, even if it means Rupert delivering their food to their rooms at dinner time, once we're on the Normandy I'll talk to both of them." Shepard answered.
"If you want help with Andrea give me a shout." Drakus said shifting his weight. "I've known her longer than anyone else on the Normandy, well besides Jenny but something tells me that her presence would make things worse."
"Thanks Drakus." Shepard nodded as the two shuttles boarded the SR2."EDI, where are Andrea and Jenny?" Shepard asked the AI once he was off the shuttle.
"Crewmember Andrea McKenzie is in the medbay being treated by Dr. Chakwas for teeth being knocked lose by Jenny's punch, Private Jenny McKansa is in her quarters with Tali, and she is quite distressed by the argument." EDI said before her avatar disappeared.
"No prizes for guessing why Tali's with her." Garrus said folding his arms. "If Andrea's in the medbay then there won't be enough room for them."
"We'll keep them down here; Drakus transport them to the medbay once I radio you to let you know when to transport them." Shepard told the old Krogan who nodded, Shepard made his way up to the crew's quarters and true to EDI's word he saw Andrea in the medbay sitting on a bed and wearing a black tanktop and jeans, he entered the medbay and turned to Andrea. "How's the tooth?"
"EDI told you huh?" Andrea asked but didn't wait for an answer. "I've suffered worse."
"Good to know but what was the argument about?" Shepard asked and Andrea sighed in annoyance.
"All I did was make an offhand comment to Jack about Jenny's grandfather belonging in the loony bin, I didn't even realize that was she behind me." Andrea said before adding. "Yes, I know how horribly offensive a comment that is so don't bother bringing that up."
"Regardless I'm siding with Jenny here." Shepard said and Andrea frowned.
"Do you really? You want to know what she followed the punch with. She called me a STD infected slut who didn't get hugged enough growing up, if it weren't for Marcus' timely intervention she would have suffered a lot worse than a punch." Andrea grunted. "But hey, if you're going to side with Little Ms. Perfect then I don't need this." Andrea said before jumping off the bed and storming off to her quarters.
"I knew it was a matter of time." Shepard muttered under his breath. "You didn't stop her?"
"Her injury wasn't that severe, she could've left whenever she wanted." Chakwas told him.
"Right, I'll talk to them both later when they've had time to cool off, we picked up some slaves on Tuchanka and I'll be leaving them in your care until we stop off on the Citadel." Shepard said before radioing Drakus to bring the slaves up, he left the medbay and turned to EDI'S avatar. "EDI, tell Joker to set a course for the Citadel and Ilium in that order."
"Off course I will Commander." EDI said before her avatar disappeared.