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Chapter 13: The heart of him
"How's freelance work treating you?" I asked as blood began filling up the inside of my mouth.
"Can't complain, although I do miss the dental policy." coolly answered the woman as she smashed me in the face with a round house kick. "You still working for synthetic insights?" the merc asked in friendly tones.
"Going on eight years now. Two more and I get a gold watch." I retorted as my fist slammed heavily into one side of the female figures form, sending blood and breath splattering all over the floor; but even this didn't seem to totally slow the adrenaline junky as she continued to unleash a furious attack on my lower body using everything at her disposal up to and including biotics.
"Ow, someone got an upgrade" chuckled the slightly unhinged individual as she grabbed hold of my inner thigh with a slender hand. "Very nice indeed." I scowled ever so slightly as I heard this.
"Hands off sweetheart." this particular statement was followed up by an uncompromising head butt to Gwin's face that echoed around the narrow space; understandably this didn't go down so well with my assailant, who elbowed me savagely in the ribs with a muscular arm, the sharp, sudden pain which accompanied this clearly brought home the unpleasant reminder of an earlier incident.
"Oh poor baby, did that hurt?" sweetly whispered the asari as she grabbed hold of my right side. "Let Mommy make it better" the world went monotone as a wave of nausea flooded throughout my bleeding body as almost unbearable pressure was applied to the area.
"Get off!" I snarled from in between gritted teeth as I spat the gore filled contents of my mouth into the alien's face, it had the desired effect as a split second late the woman staggered back in revulsion as I followed this up with a bone braking kick to her crotch.
"You should have stayed a stripper Gwin!" my voice reverberated off the surrounding surfaces as I grabbed hold of the back of the woman's head and slammed it repeatedly into any object in easy reach. "Because you suck as an agent!" my timing could have been better, because moments later a massive amount of biotic energy erupted from the female figure, which sent me thundering backwards into a nearby wall.
"I will destroy you!" screamed the enraged individual as churning balls of blue energy wrap themselves around her hands.
"I was just thinking the same thing" I whispered as my combat blades slowly slide out to greet the asari; silence slowly filtered into the narrow space as we squared off against each other, time seemed to slow until the only things that could be heard was the beating of our heart beats, the thundering of blood through veins and the tell-tale drip of sweat on stone as reality came crashing back with a vengeance.
"Shepard!" roared the bloodthirsty merc as she sent a chaotic wave of biotic power surging down the corridor towards me, as it hit I mentally activated built-in buffers which glowed white with the strain as I counter charged back down towards her, sparks flying all over the place as my weapons scraped along the walls behind me.
"Gwin!" I snarled coldly as we slammed into each over with ear splitting force, blades and biotics whipping all around as the two of us desperately attempted to kill one another.
"Why won't you die!" muttered the woman as one of her hands wrapped itself around my left wrist, which was in the process of trying to shove a piece of sharpened metal into the asari's face.
"You talk too much" I spat as we traded vicious words and hits with one another, blood and bile mixed together as the world began slurring at the edges as the damage built up for both of us.
"You're getting old cyborg." wearily chuckled my opponent from in between breathless gasps.
"Look who's talking" I retorted quietly "Your six hundred years my senior, and it shows; is it just me or are your breast starting to sag?" an unhappy scowl suddenly flashed across the woman's face as she heard this.
"I thought you humans didn't talk about a ladies age" snapped Gwin angrily.
"I don't see any ladies here, do you?" that was the final straw, something broke inside the alien's head and she let out an unearthly scream. No scratch that, it wasn't a scream. It was a shriek, like the old banshees of legend, which came close to tearing my eardrums.
"I'll kill you, I'll fucking kill you!" screeched the enraged alien as her hands tightened like a vice around my throat, but this time I had had enough and ended it by slamming an elbow into the woman's temple, this was savagely followed up with a body throw which sent her hurtling into a mountain of rubble; moments later my boot pressed down on the floored figure's airway.
"You lose Gwin" I softly whispered as I squeezed the life out of the doomed opponent.
"Oh god their everywhere!" the wailing transmission blared across the static cutting short the finite moment. "Close the bloody door, close it!" unfortunately for the frantic speaker the order was never completed as the sounds of terrified screaming clearly indicated.
"That your crew?" I calmly enquired as I removed the offending limb from the defeated asari's neck.
"Not anymore by the sounds of it." harshly rasped the mercenary as she softly massaged the brushed section of flesh. "They worked for ExoGeni anyway, not me."
"Did they tell you what was going on?" the woman shook her head as she responded.
"I got a call from someone that I know on the citadel, ExoGeni wanted someone to lead one of their spec ops teams on a mission, the terms were good, double my usual rates so I accepted; I didn't ask too many questions, you know how it is"
"I know." I calmly replied as a hand moved towards my earpiece. "Miss Zorah do you copy?" there was a long pause as someone on the other end battled with the geth interference.
"Sheperd are you alright?" the worried voice of the young quarian echoed out brokenly from the implant. "We heard a lot of commotion from up above us and were about to investigate"
"I'm alright; did you take care of the sniper?" I looked down at Gwen as I said this.
"Yes, Liara and I managed to flush him out; he won't be shooting at us anymore" the hard edge that travelled over the airwaves quietly indicated that it hadn't been that easy.
"What about Vakarian, is he awake yet?" this time it was the turian's voice that answered.
"I'm alright Commander, just don't expect me to be do that again anytime soon."
"Roger that." I replied as my mind began churning out a particular idea. "Hold on, I'll be down in a minute." as the line went dead I glanced down at the battered and bruised merc beneath me. "What's the going rate for loyalty these days?" a calculate expression quickly made its way across the woman's features as she weighed up the available options.
"Double what ExoGeni were offering"
"I'll pay three times you're going rate, not a credit more." I watched as the figure mulled the idea over before replying.
"Alright, but you give me a lift off this forsaken world when all of this is over, agreed?"
"Agreed." I coldly stated as I offered the asari a metallic hand. "But no tricks." the warning seemed to fall on deaf ears as the two of us walked stiffly down a ruined corridor, back towards my waiting subordinates; understandably the sudden appearance of a total stranger didn't generate a positive response from individuals who mere moments ago were being shot at.
"Freeze!" Garrus's voice thundered around the empty space as Gwin stepped out into the room in front of me. "Hands above your head!"
"She's with me Vakarian." I firmly stated as the turian quietly threatened the woman with an assault rifle, this particular statement generated a slightly bemused look from nearly everyone one involved, well, excluding me and the mercenary of course.
"What's going on Commander?" softly asked Tali as she eyed the newcomer with disdain.
"Gwin Azuma, meet everyone, everyone, meet Gwin Azuma." I attempted to speed through with the formal introductions but the young quarian wasn't going to let it go.
"Where did she come from?" suspiciously enquired the teenager as her hand instinctively tightened around the grip of the un-slung weapon, at that exact moment I'd had enough and took the path of least resistance.
"She was the other assailant, the one that I chased after remember." the shocked horror that spread out from this revelation was understandable if not unwanted.
"We're teaming up with ExoGeni now?" snapped Garrus angrily as he began pacing up and down in frustration. "After everything they've done?" at that moment the individual in question decided to interrupt.
"I don't work for anyone, I'm freelance" this didn't really seem to have much of an impact on anyone.
"Oh that's make a world of difference." snapped the angry turian as he pointed a talon at the mercenary. "What's the going rate for loyalty these days?"
"About a hundred and fifty thousand credits an hour, give or take." I calmly replied as I glanced over at the figure next to me. "What were your exact orders Gwin, I need to know what I'm walking into." the woman paused in what appeared to be thought as she mulled the question over before answering.
"The ExoGeni team had orders to secure or destroy all vital intelligence linking the company to any questionable activities going on at the promises" I nodded in silence as I heard this; it was standard procedure after all. "I wasn't told anything else, just get the squad in and then get them out." the asari glanced over at the rest of my team as she continued talking. "I didn't even know the geth were involved until they started shooting at the ship."
"Was it yours?" I asked quietly.
"No, one of ExoGeni's, they were rather ardent on that fact actually as I recall." Vakarian decided to reengage with the conversation at this point.
"They probably wanted everything kept quiet," Muttered the turian as he checked his assault rifle on impulse. "Small chances of that happening now." this particular revelation didn't go down so well with everyone and for good reason.
"Keelah I can't believe we're even talking about this!" snapped the teenage quarian, who moments later stormed off towards a flickering computer terminal that was set into a far wall.
"Garrus go with her for Christ's sake." I snapped as my female Tech expert disappeared from view.
"Nice people you've got here." chuckled Gwin sarcastically as she watched the unplanned chaos unfold around her. "Do they do this often?" the remark slipped past without comment from me as I turned my mind back to the task at hand.
"Did your team manage to complete their mission?" the woman shook laughed out loud before replying.
"You've got to be joking, I lost half of my team just clearing the landing zone; two more fighting the geth in this command and control centre" she jerked a thumb over her shoulder towards a ruined stairway that arched up from the floor. "It's on the other side if you want a look" I nodded in silent agreement upon hearing this. "I'm pretty sure that I spied a number of terminals and the like, it might be worth checking out"
"Noted." I muttered as out of the corner of my vision I caught sight of the two wayward members of the ground team coming loping back towards me at a noticeable place.
"What's the matter?" my voice echoed around the open space as the due came to a screeching halt in front of me.
"I think you should see this Commander" whispered Vakarian as he lent in next to me. "It's important."
"Alright" I quietly replied as I hastily followed the pair back across the room towards a fully functional workstation that was blaring out date onto a plastic screen. "What did you find?"
At this point Tali took over the conversation as she began to explain the situation.
"I was fiddling around with this geth console when it just started spewing out information" the quarian began to pull up reams of data as she continued talking. "From what I can gather the synthetics are amassing significant forces in the Armstrong cluster"
"Theories?" I interjected.
"Could be a staging point for raids into citadel space" stated Garrus as he ran a talon down one side of his face "Or even an indicator of imminent invasion." the later statement filled everyone with dread as they heard this.
"We'll worry about that later" I muttered as I continued to glance around at my surroundings with building up frustration. "Our first priority is to find a way to disable the enemy troop ship, ideas?" Tali looked over at a large block of computers before replying.
"I had a look at that control system over there; it regulates the pressure for the blast shutters, if we can tweak it then it should be up to the task of cutting through one of the metal legs"
"Do it!" I firmly ordered as my mind starts to finalize a crude outline of a plan. "Vakarian!"
"Commander?" retorted the turain who was half way through the process of double checking his equipment.
"I want you to take Gwin and check the bodies; I don't want any surprises, understand?"
"Yes sir!" grunted the alien as he began retracing his steps back across the open hall.
"How's it coming with those hydraulics Miss Zorah?" the question snapped the girl's attention away from the delicate task in front of her.
"I wouldn't be having such a problem if you left me to get on with it." the firmness of the reply took me slightly by surprise as it didn't seem to be in the quarian's nature, fortunately for me my professional instincts took hold and acted on their own accorded
"Can I have a moment?" I forcefully growled as I dragged the teenager out of site, behind a pile of rubble. "Explain yourself, now!" My voice coldly demanded as I studied the woman's shrouded features that could just be seen underneath the tinted screen.
"I don't know what you're talking about" Stammered Tali as she desperately attempted to avoid my gaze.
"You know exactly what I'm talking about." I whispered as I lent in towards her until my breath was visible on her visor. "Ever since I got back you've been noticeably hostile, now what's going on?" the ice cold undertone of the question was not missed by my young associate, who glanced down at her booted feet in stubborn embarrassment; time seemed to slowly slip by before she work up the courage to reply. "Can you repeat that" I snapped as the sentence dissipated on the surrounding air.
"I said that I don't trust her!" quietly muttered the tech expert as I silently allowed her to trundle back across the stone floor towards the flickering computer display. "And I don't think we should work with her." I openly sighed before snapping off a firm response.
"It's my decision, if you can't handle that then you can stay on the ship for the foreseeable future, am I clear?" there was no answer. "I said, am I clear?"
"Crystal Commander." inaudibly replied the teenager as she got back to the task at hand.
"Good" I snapped as my feet carried me away from her and towards the frantically busy trio on the other side of the area. "Report!" I thundered as my team glanced up form what they were doing.
"We've had a look around" Garrus spluttered as he quickly scrambled upright. "Most of the geth equipment is fried, some kind of self-defence mechanism we think, but I did manage to salvage some equipment from ExoGeni"
"What exactly?" I firmly enquired.
"Mostly grenades, but some general medical supplies, which will probably come in handy later." but before anyone could add to the conversation there came a high-pitched shrieking from across the open space as a foot thick shutter tore down through an exposed landing leg; moments later the whole building shuddered as power cables were torn from their foundations and the drop-ship toppled backwards into the awaiting abyss below.
"By the spirits." Whispered the turian as he carefully let go of a nearby pillar. "I wasn't expecting that"
"You weren't the only one." I muttered as a dust covered figure came staggering out of haze towards us.
"Goddess Tali, are you alright?" nervously spluttered Liara as she quickly rush towards her dazed companion.
"I'm fine, really" quietly replied the teenager as dirt was hurriedly brushed from the dented helmet. "I just wasn't expecting it to act without a command confirmation." I ran a cold hand over the front of my face as I heard this.
"Will at least the power down now" I grumbled and if to emphasise this point they came a burst of crackly static as Joker's voice came blaring over the airwaves.
"I repeat Normandy to shore party, are you reading, anyone there?" their came yet another burst of interference as the pilot adjusted the feed. "Normandy to shore party, come on Commander, talk to me!" the manner of the man's voice was noticeably raised and that sent alarm bells ringing in my head.
"This is Shepard, what's the situation?" I could have sworn that the alliance officer breathed an audible sigh of relief before replying.
"We're in lock down here Commander, something happened to the colonists; they're banging on the hull, trying to claw their way into the ship" I interrupted at that exact point.
"What about the rest of the ground team?" I snapped in an authoritative tone.
"They all made it back okay, Wrex made sure of that." chuckled the pilot as he remembered something.
"Keep those colonists away from the Normandy, gun them down if you have to." this particular statement seemed to generate a multitude of mixed feelings from my subordinates as they heard this, but I brushed their worried concerns aside with a wave of my hand "I repeat the colonists are infected with unknown alien matter do not let them onto the ship."
"Roger that Commander Normandy out." the man's voice was hesitant and I made a mental note to have a word with him when we got back; but this would have to wait as I turned my mind to the task at hand. "We're leaving!" the order reverberated of the surrounding stonework as everyone sprinted madly towards the nearest exit "Move!" I snapped as I roughly pushed Tali in front of me as the building began to come crumbling down all around us.
"We're not going to make it!" Shouted T'soni as a lump of concrete the size of the woman's head came smashing down mere feet away.
"Keep moving!" I roared as we throw ourselves down a winding staircase, three steps at a time. "Don't stop!" the un-blocked entrance homed into view as we rounded a corner, just in time to see an all too familiar outline of Lizbeth Baynham, who was milling about in abject terror. "Move!" I bellowed as I throw myself into the uncertain individual, the force of the impact sent the two of us sprawling out on the building and into the relative safety of the parking lot.
"Oh god my arm!" wailed the woman as I forcefully dragged her of the ground. "What's wrong with you?" My limited patience finally ran out.
"Enough!" I japed a finger into the shock scientists' chest. "I want answers and I want them now!"
"What?" spluttered the terrified figure as she began to nervously back away from me.
"You said that you didn't know anything about the Thorian, you lied!" as I said this I mentally sent a PDF file screaming across the extranet to Miss Baynham's omni-tool.
"Explain yourself!" the atmosphere grew tense as the corned individual slowly glanced down at the intimating evidence in front of her.
"I...I was afraid, I wanted to stop the tests, but they threatened me; told me I'd be next" the weak excuse cut no mustard with me and my face showed this. "When the geth attack, I stayed behind to send a message to colonial affairs" a frustrated expression suddenly materialised upon the woman's features as she said this. "I tried to tell them where to find the Thorian, but the power cut before I could send the message" the young research allowed her head to drop as the words reverberated around the open space. "I...I never meant for this to happen" unfortunately I'd experienced too much in my professional career to be so easily swayed by the mere emotional outpourings of a nervous girl.
"Well what you wanted and what actually happened are two different things" I snapped as my gaze drifted over towards the silhouetted outline of the colony which could be seen squatting on the horizon. "I just want to know where the bloody thing is" the response came nearly before the question had left my lips.
"It's underneath Zhu's hope, but the entrance is blocked, I think the colonists must have covered it with a freighter just before the geth attacked" I ran a cold hand over my face as I heard this.
"What I want to know" I muttered "Is why the geth are after this creature in the first place" Lizbeth Baynham jumped at the chance to redeem herself in the current situation.
"Well, it does have unique mind control capabilities" this sudden announcement went down like a ton of bricks with my subordinates.
"You got to be kidding me!" growled Vakarian as he stomped off towards the waiting mako; I glanced over at Tali who was frantically tapping away on her omni-tool in what I assumed was an attempt to prevent future exposure to the unwanted pathogen.
"It's already too late for that." I stated as the suited teenager tore her attention away from the futile task to stare at me. "We've really been exposed for several hours." but inwardly I began running an internal scan to look for any potential evidence of infection; unfortunately this activity was put on hold as the comm line crackled into life.
"Normandy to shore party."
"What is it helmsman?" I firmly enquired as I placed a finger to my ear.
"We're getting a lot of geth radio chatter" Stated the pilot. "Looks like they're heading your way" I spat out a silent curse as I heard this.
"Roger, we're on the move" I snapped my head around to glare forcefully at everyone as the line went dead. "I want everyone in the mako, now!" the order reverberated off the surrounding surfaces as one the ground team thundered towards the waiting vehicle. "Garrus with me" I roared as the rest of the squad threw themselves into the back of the silent troop transport.
"Roger Commander" retorted the turian in a focused tone as he heaved back the armoured door with a clawed hand, as I slammed the drivers hatch closed with a noticeable thud the internal speakers blared into life.
"All secure back here Robo, let's go!" I allowed the insulting remark to slide this time as my left hand slammed the APC into reverse.
"Hold on!" I bellowed as the weighty vehicle did a near neck breaking hundred and eighty degree turn before storming of towards the front entrance.
"Spirits Shepard, watch what you're doing!" Spluttered my mildly terrified co-driver as we crashed our way through the enemy vanguard, who were attempting to block off the nearby skyway.
"Just keep your eyes on the readouts." I coldly retorted as a geth storm trooper was sent somersaulting through the air in a shower of oily rain. "And let me worry about the driving" a split second later an all too familiar voice blurted out of the overhead speakers.
"Anybody, is there anyone picking this up?" Doctor Baynham's frantic broadcast was suddenly interrupted by her co-worker Jeong's agitated shouting, just before the line went dead.
"What was that all about?" nervously enquired Lizbeth Baynham as her concerned tones echoed out over the intercom, I exchanged a silent looked with the C-sec officer, before closing the two way community from our end.
"That doesn't sound good" Muttered Garrus as he began scanning the surrounding area.
"No it didn't" I softly replied as I noticeably pressed my foot down hard onto the accelerator; but it seemed that the world hadn't finished screwing us over, of as we raced towards the bottom of the ramp the airwaves once more roared back into life.
"This is Juliana Baynham of Feros colony" the line was interrupted by a burst of static before continuing. "Please help us." the tension inside the vehicle was a ramped up another gear as everyone heard the concern in the speaker's voice.
"What are we going to do Commander?" Tali's voice snapped me out of my focused contemplation as it crawled out of the earpiece.
"I'm working on it." I snapped as the APC screeched round the next corner, unhappily for me the woman's daughter had other ideas as she slammed a open palm down onto the emergency brake next to her head.
"What the hell is going on!" I bellowed as the vehicle spun out of control in a clouded dust and debris.
"That crazy bitch just jumped ship!" came the enraged retorted from Gwin as the over passengers leaped out after her.
"Damn it all!" I muttered as I throw open the driver's door. "Go after her!" the order reverberated around the enclosed space as everyone sprinted after the rapidly disappearing figure; it turned out to be just as bad as I thought it would be.
"Hah, Shepard, damn it, I knew it was too much to hope the geth would kill you!" the man's nervous tones echoed up towards me as I strolled out of cover towards him; this wouldn't have been how I would have wanted it to go down but the naive actions of an enraged teenager had scuttled whatever contingency plans I had; stupid moron. "I found some interesting facts about you in the ExoGeni database." a smug expression momentarily appeared on the administrators face. "I thought you looked familiar." the nervous figure glanced over at his trigger-happy subordinates before continuing. "I should have recognized one of Synthetic Insights personal lapdogs." the insulting comment was rewarded by me calmly pulling my pistol from its holster and shoving it in his face, understandably the security guards won't too happy about this as the threatening gun barrels clearly indicated.
"I wouldn't if I were you" Stated Gwin evenly as she levelled a shotgun at the closest opponent; the asari's sudden appearance didn't go down so well with her one time employers.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" snapped a flustered Jeong as he amateurishly waved a weapon in the woman's general direction. "You're working for us!"
"I was offered a better deal. And as far as I was concerned your contract became void as soon as my team was killed." steadily replied the mercenary as she gave the man the finger This particular revelation was unwanted and only added to the tension as we squared off against the opposing force.
"Everyone just stop!" everyone looked over towards doctor Baynham, who was wearing a particularly unpleasant expression upon her face. "Do you want to end up dead Ethan, is that what you want?" the man was become noticeably twitchy, which wasn't a good thing in my experience.
"You don't understand it's not that easy" wailed the bureaucrat as he began rubbing the side of his face uncontrollably. "Communications are back up, the company wants this place purged!" it wasn't an unexpected request considering, but from the looks that this announcement generated it came as a bit of a shock for several people including a couple of my own team.
"This is a human colony Jeong, you can't just re-purpose us!" I snorted loudly as I heard the teenage Baynham's statement.
"Is that what you call murder these days?" my remark obviously made some people uncomfortable but I wasn't in the mood for childish handholding at this point
"Don't you get do you, these something here far more valuable than a few colonists"
"You mean the Thorian." I stated coldly"
"The what?" the doctor's surprised response was a clear indicator of her lack of involvement, unfortunately what her daughter said next wasn't.
"It's a telepathic life-form living underneath Zhu's hope" the arrogant teenager pointed a finger at the now terrified man. "It's taking control of the colonists and ExoGeni knew all along."
"So did you" I muttered as my patience started to run out with the self-conceited woman in front of me and it seemed to have an impact as the figure fell silent almost instantaneously upon hearing this.
"You won't get away with this Jeong." heatedly snapped the elder Baynham as she took a step towards the company administrator.
"So you keep saying." retorted the strangely calm man as he glanced over at the irate woman.
"But nobody is going to miss a few colonists."
"Or a mother and daughter for that matter." I added loudly; that was the tipping point, the administrators eyes seemed to dilate as he realised what I was talking about and I instinctively triggered my combat stimulants; the world slurred as everyone went for their weapons, it was short, it was sharp, it was bloody, but my team cut down the surrounding security personnel nonetheless and as the silence fell it was obvious who had won
"As if we didn't have enough problems, now we're shooting each over in the back." muttered doctor Baynham as she knelt next to the gore covered corpse that had once been her co-worker, right up to the point when I'd blasted a tangerine sized hole out the back of the man's head.
"One less now." I replied in an uncaring tone as I unconsciously wiped a blood soaked hand on a coat breast.
"It's my fault, I knew what was going on and I didn't do anything." I glanced other at the frustrating teenager as she said this.
"Congratulations on stating the obvious." my voice retorted as my mind began working out an action plan for the unavoidable outcome that awaited us.
"Don't you start, she did good work and you know it." the mothers protective voice did nothing to soothe my already building frustration at the duo as I kept having to confronting an uncomfortable truth.
"Commander" Garrus's voice knocked me out of my silent contemplation.
"What?" I muttered as the alien lent in close.
"It's been bothering me but why are the geth after the Thorian?" it was a good question and one I wished I had an answer to.
"One hurdle at time Vakarian" I softly whispered as I slowly closed my eyes to give them a moment rest, unfortunately someone had other ideas.
"You won't be able to even get close to the life-form." said doctor Baynham as she gave me a hard stare. "The colonist won't let you, they'll die first."
"Their dead anyway." I coldly stated; the horrified looks that washed across the waiting listeners faces was to be expected, but I couldn't allow emotions to get in the way of the objective and I let everyone know it. "You know what must be done" firmly ordered as I turned to walk away.
"There's got to be another way" pleaded Lizbeth as she took a step towards me, her mother joined in at this point.
"We could use a nerve agent to neutralize the colonists."
"Enough!" the bellow reverberated off every angled surface as I rounded on the two women.
"Will the nerve agent destroy all traces of the pathogen?" I pulled my sunglasses from my face to glare heatedly at the elder Baynman "Will it!"
"I don't know." Spluttered the shocked scientist as she slowly backed away from me, the answer didn't go down too well.
"You don't know?" my voice was so sharp that it could cut through ore like an industrial laser. "You don't know!" I japed a finger in the direction of the colony. "Do you have any idea what will happen if those spores get off world?" I angrily placed my eyewear back so to hide the emotions churning behind my features. "We can't take the risk!" once more I turned to leave but this time I felt a hand desperately clampdown on my shoulder.
""How can it hurt to try commander, these people are our friends!" my patience finally reached its limit as I spun to face the emotional doctor.
"You don't get it do you!" I coldly stated as I took a determined step towards the trembling figure. "They're no longer people, they're things!" the atmosphere of the room changed as everyone heard this. "The moment ExoGeni exposed them they became nothing but test subjects; experiments." I calmly pulled my sidearm out of its holster. "And I have no problems killing experiments." the look upon my face must of been terrifying because the colour drained from the woman's face.
"How can you so heartless!" vehemently spat Lizbeth as she placed herself between her mother and me.
"Look who's talking." I evenly responded as I fixed the teenage figure with a cold expression.
"What?" stammered the girl as she began to nervously sweat.
"The moment you put your self-interest before the colonists' lives you became no different to those who were experimenting upon them." I leant down until my face was mere millimetres from hers "I've met people who would and did risk everything for what they believed in." My breath could be seen condensing in the cold air as it wrapped itself around her. "You're nothing but a damned hypocrite." a split second later I indicated for the rest of my team to fallout as I turned towards the exit. "And in the end its left to people like me to clean up your mess." the departing comment hung heavy in the air as we trumped up the access ramp towards the waiting vehicle.
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