Chapter 11: Feros pt.1
The team docked at the colony on the planet Feros, the two teams went out ahead leaving the reserve encase something happened and they needed someone to come in guns blazing. The colony was acting odd enough to put Eris and Odysseus on edge, when the geth attacked the team split into their usual battle formation with the twins cloaking and finding high cover to fire from.
With two combat drones covering the snipers up high and Wrex keeping Garrus safe while he sniper from the back Ashley and Wrex kept the larger and hard to hack targets busy while the Odysseus and Tali hacked the regular troopers and Eris and Garrus fried the weapons of the med class and jumper level geth.
Odysseus cursed as the last trooper fell without the geth actively jamming the signal he picked up a beacon that was transmitting to the geth. The team rallied at the colony to figure out their next move. With the knowledge that there was a beacon in the pipes some where the team's decided the best course of action would be to split up. They called the reserve team in to help bolster the colony's defences and then the two teams went into the pipes under the colony.
The alpha team was responsible for finding and dealing with the beacon while the beta team was to work on repairing the fixing any issues they could for the colony while they were down there. Odysseus was unhappy with the discovery of the beacon after dealing with the enemies via a grenade launcher that he had the back-up team bring in, his team move to the beacon. He knelt before it and jacked in his Omni-tool.
after a few moments he stood up. "While that is everything I could pull from the beacon at least we have an idea of what they wanted here let's move to meet up with the team then call the group together." Odysseus ordered.
before tossing Tali and Ashley each a packet of binary Omni-explosives. Once they exited the room and sealed it he pushed a button on his Omni-tool and a dull roar reached their ears as the room behind the door was decimated by a blast that tore everything apart.
Eris's team moved through the pipes reconnecting the water supply, Killing a large amount of angry varren that event caused Wrex to laugh as the alpha had tried to get it jaws around Eris arm only to have Eris thrust a bioticly charged fist through its head leaving it dangling off her arm and requiring Garrus's help to pull it off.
"Great it will take forever to get the stains of varren brain of my armor." She complained.
After finding the power cells from an old vehicle the team met a strange man, after talking for a bit Eris scanned the man with her med grade Omni-tool and found to her shock that something was tapping into the man's nerves.
"Odysseus will want to know about this badly. Not only for the mission but if we can find the source of this condition it might just make his own pet project complete and may offer an improvement on ours Garrus." Eris said she body language showing she supreme shock at the readings.
"Really you want to stick something that is hurting that man into my mother?" Garrus asked horrified.
"What!? No of course not what I would do is study the source and see if something similar could be produced to control the body's immune response to lower the risk of rejection and heighten the chance at it accepting the treatment I would never stick something like the readings I am getting into your mother." Eris exclaimed.
Appalled that Garrus would even suggest something like that as it went against her personal code of ethics to uses something that use positive punishment. Garrus seemed to calm after that and the group moved to meet up with the alpha team.
When all three teams meet back up and shared their findings it made for an odd picture. The back-up team told them that the colony seemed to work so well that there was no need to talk amongst themselves but their defences all forces around a point that seemed unimportant.
"Alright hear is the game plan. I want the back-up team to head back to the Normandy and lift off and enter orbit for now I don't trust what the colonists will do when we leave, the main ground teams will take the grizzly and the mako that is on the sky way and head for the exogeni building and hopefully find out why the geth wanted to seize the colony, because based on the beacon data they want whatever is under that ship and I don't want to go in there blind."Odysseus stated.
When everyone signaled that the under stood the game plan the teams broke up and moved out the Beta team was in the mako with Garrus driving and Wrex on the main guns and Eris on Comms the alpha team to the grizzly with Ashley driving and Tali on Coms and Odysseus on the guns, when asked why the twins went driving they explained if it flew then they could fly it but if it drove they had a massive problem as they tended to nearly flip the vehicle often.
The sky way was crawling with the geth troopers but with the two tanks the team made short work of them. The team was advancing when they picked up Comm chatter after final locating the source they found a group of workers. Odysseus and Eris started vid messaging each other while the head scientist rant at them about not being allowed to go in as there was company secrets there.
"Listen here you two bit whining coward we are both specters and data we got from the geth beacon at the colony told us the data and info we need is in that building so attempting to stop us is an act against the interest of galactic security by order of the council we are here so unless you want to spend the rest of your natural existence in prison for obstructing a pair of specters I suggest you sit down and shut up." Odysseus snapped at the man.
At that the man turn pale and backed down, as the team was leaving a woman told them that her daughter was still in the building. Odysseus and Eris both winced on the inside at the worried tone of the mother, they promised the mother if they had time they would look for her but told her to prepare herself for the worst.
The team continued on their path and when they reached a point where they would have to abandon the tanks Odysseus used a modded round for the tank to launch a series of arc grenades to fry any geth in range, after searching the main room and a side room where they found a large geth colossus.
When they saw the geth Odysseus and Eris cloaked and split up some explosives Odysseus made from the geth they had run over on the way there, Odysseus took an almost sick pleasure from killing things with bombs made from the targets former allies and weapons. When the charges were set they released a massive shock frying the geth's circuits.
After dropping down into a tunnel they advanced into the lower levels and met the daughter. As they talked Eris's mask was scanning the daughter measuring the vitals, when asked if she knew anything else she said no Eris's mask said yes.
"Your lying about something and that is not a good an idea if you want to stay alive with holding information in regards to a specters investigation is a crime that we would be within our right to kill you for just so you know." Eris said in a cold voice with all the emotion of a computer reporting the weather.
Lizbeth paled at the strange woman's words and realized that exo-geni would not save her from a specter. "Alright I will tell you everything I know please just don't hurt me." She begged and told them everything she knew about the thorian and the colony Zhu's hope. After she told them everything the group left with her pass telling her to stay hidden and they would pick her up on the way out.